{"id":9038,"date":"2016-10-03T12:22:54","date_gmt":"2016-10-03T16:22:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.nccomputertech.com\/?p=9038"},"modified":"2016-10-03T12:22:54","modified_gmt":"2016-10-03T16:22:54","slug":"this-week-in-tech-582-whos-capping-who","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nccomputertech.com\/techtalk\/2016\/10\/03\/this-week-in-tech-582-whos-capping-who\/","title":{"rendered":"This Week in Tech 582: Who&#8217;s Capping Who?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PySBYqZ9RLk?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>With Leo on Vacation, Becky Worley takes the big chair. We discuss predictions about Google&#8217;s big event next week, Samsung&#8217;s exploding washing machines, Elon Musk&#8217;s plans for getting to Mars, women in tech, who should buy Twitter, and the next wave in DDOS attacks.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022On October 4th, Google will (hopefully) announce two new Pixel-branded phones, their new Andromeda OS, the Echo-competitor Google Home, and more.<br \/>\n\u2022Samsung&#8217;s PR image goes from bad to worse &#8211; just as new, non-exploding versions of the Galaxy Note 7are coming out, Samsung washing machines are apparently exploding.<br \/>\n\u2022Elon Musk detailed his plans to send people to Mars in the next 6 years. This may be a bit far-fetched, and Owen JJ Stone has a few suggestions of where Mr. Musk&#8217;s money and energy might be better spent.<br \/>\n\u2022The Wall Street Journal published an editorial advising women to hide their gender to improve their chances of getting hired for Silicon Valley firms. Our panel has a few choice words to say about that.<br \/>\n\u2022Does it make sense for Disney to buy Twitter? Becky thinks so, but Jason thinks someone else would be a better fit.<br \/>\n\u2022As many as a million IoT devices were part of a DDOS attack on security expert&#8217;s Brian Krebs&#8217; website. Is this the future of hacking?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Leo on Vacation, Becky Worley takes the big chair. We discuss predictions about Google&#8217;s big event next week, Samsung&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[610,1109],"class_list":["post-9038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-leo-laporte","tag-twit"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/papNkV-2lM","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9297,"url":"https:\/\/nccomputertech.com\/techtalk\/2018\/02\/11\/this-week-in-tech-653-x-stands-for-nothing\/","url_meta":{"origin":9038,"position":0},"title":"This Week in Tech 653: X Stands for Nothing","author":"NCCT","date":"February 11, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/9vdjtG9ozeQ HomePod should have been delayed longer. 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