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On this week’s episode. El Kaiser shares his thoughts after a binge of Star Trek: Discovery and J.D. explores a new way to find things that interest you on Instagram. A roundup of the week’s tech news includes a discussion of Twitter’s fake-followers problem, Amazon looking for new ways to provide employee healthcare and Google’s attempts to root out — and boot out — bad apps from its online Android store. All this AND porgs on Episode 261 of PopTech Jam!

Links to Stories Mentioned On This Week’s Show

Twitter Followers Vanish Amid Inquiries Into Fake Accounts (The New York Times)
The Follower Factory (The New York Times)
Twitter Doubles The Amount Of People It Says Interacted With Kremlin-Linked Trolls (Buzzfeed)
Amazon, Berkshire and JPMorgan Chase to partner on health care (CNBC)
Windows Defender to start removing “optimizer” scareware (Ars Technica)
California Senate defies FCC, approves net neutrality law (Ars Technica)
Samsung enters crypto-currency chips business (BBC News)
U.S. Probes Apple Over Updates That Slow Older iPhones (Bloomberg)
Podcast Listeners Really Are the Holy Grail Advertisers Hoped They’d Be (Wired)
Get help with cheaper flights and potential flight delays this winter (Google blog)
How we fought bad apps and malicious developers in 2017 (Android Developers blog)
Google backs ‘universal stylus’ campaign (BBC News)
A reintroduction to Google’s featured snippets (Google Keyword blog)
Facebook Really Wants You to Come Back (Bloomberg)
Facebook Aims to Soothe Wall Street Over News Feed Changes (The New York Times)
Nintendo Switch overtakes the Wii U (BBC)
The Official Star Wars app (StarWars.com)

(Hopefully) Helpful Hint

Following Along on Instagram (The New York Times)

On a supersized episode of everybody’s favorite geek-culture podcast El Kaiser takes a turn at hopefully being helpful by detailing the steps to avoid a malware infection. With social networks making spoilers a legitimate concern for all TV watchers, J.D. introduces us to some apps that can help keep second screens from spoiling what’s on the first. In the news, more of the world gets online access and some companies help bring less expensive Internet access to developing countries; the Gold Master of OS X Mavericks is made available to developers; rumors point to Amazon releasing a set top box to compete with the Apple TV and Roku devices; Google and Hewlett Packard announce the HP Chromebook 11; and Yahoo gets to blow out 16 candles.

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