After another brief hiatus (Sam was under the weather last week), Sam and Donovan are back to talk about some tech news, TV shows, video games and more.  From CES, LiFi — secure WiFi style connections from LEDS; Western Digital NAS drives have a backdoor, so patch them!  Snapchat’s not doing so well; would you ride in a car that had no steering wheel or petals?  Hawaii’s misguided missile alert (and why hasn’t this happened before?); more spectre/meltdown news from Google, AMD and Intel; Skype is testing encrypted one on one communications; chromecast or Google home could be screwing up your WiFi; the history of Age of Empires; Nintendo’s strange direct message and what’s coming next; the history of the Internet’s first “viral” video; Donovan talks Travelers and Sam talks The Greatest Showman!

Resources

• https://www.engadget.com/2018/01/08/lifi-lamp-mylifi-led-internet-broadband/
• https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/backdoor-account-removed-from-western-digital-nas-hard-drives/
• https://techcrunch.com/2018/01/09/the-ever-ending-story/
• https://www.cbsnews.com/news/gm-is-dropping-the-steering-wheel-pedals-in-autonomous-cars/
• https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2018/01/14/hawaii-missile-alert-how-one-employee-pushed-the-wrong-button-and-caused-a-wave-of-panic/?utm_term=.c5c7a60ac73b
• http://www.zdnet.com/article/google-our-brilliant-spectre-fix-dodges-performance-hit-so-you-should-all-use-it/
• http://www.techtimes.com/articles/218592/20180112/its-official-skype-is-getting-end-to-end-encryption.htm
• http://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/01/11/cisco_sniff_malware_inside_encrypted_traffic/
• https://gizmodo.com/your-chromecast-or-google-home-might-be-screwing-up-you-1822112926
• https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/01/good-newsbad-news-in-quest-to-get-meltdown-and-spectre-patched/
• https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2018/01/the-age-of-age-of-empires-as-told-by-the-devs-who-built-it/?mbid=synd_digg&utm_source=digg&utm_medium=email
• https://kotaku.com/well-that-was-a-weird-way-to-do-a-nintendo-direct-1821993207
• https://www.gamespot.com/articles/nintendo-switch-port-of-donkey-kong-country-tropic/1100-6456037/
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travelers_(TV_series)
• https://www.wired.com/story/history-of-the-first-viral-video?mbid=synd_digg&utm_source=digg&utm_medium=email
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Greatest_Showman

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Donovan Adkisson

Samuel Lewis

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Iron is Laughter by Twin Musicom is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
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8-Bit March by Twin Musicom is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
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