Out of Commission

Iowa’s Democratic Party App to tally votes crashes during the party's caucus. Paper ballots saved the day but why did the App fail and what can be learned from this incident?  Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Patrick Beja, Justin Robert Young, Joe  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Tech companies are feeling the impact of the coronavirus with Foxconn declaring a "big" production impact, while Airbnb has activated its extenuating circumstances policy to help deal with the issue. Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Nate Lanxon  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Apple's has proposed a standardize format for one-time passcodes sent over SMS, used in two factor authentication, while Google launched OpenSK, an open source Rust-based firmware to turn Nordic chip dongles into FIDO U2F and FIDO2-compliant security keys. What will this mean for 2FA and online security? Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Shannon Morse, Roger Chang, Len Peralta  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Facebook's Zuckerberg wants his company to be understood not liked, Microsoft wants to spend $40 million for AI on health research, and what does Canalys smartphone metrics for 2019 mean for the industry. Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Apple's valued net worth is greater than Germany DAX's. We sift through Apple's earning results and see what's working and what isn't. Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Ars Technica's Lee Hutchinson describes how the site functions without a physical office. How does it work and what types of things are needed for it work for the company. Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Patrick Beja, Roger Chang.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

A recent post from WhiteSource identifies the trends in Open Source software licensing and makes predictions on what shape Open Source software will take down the road. Starring Tom Merritt, Richard Stroffolino, Roger Chang   See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

If you plan on getting a new gaming PC should you build or buy it? Lamarr Wilson shares his thoughts. Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Len Peralta, Lamarr Wilson  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Google tweaks how it delivers paid search results, new safety features for dating apps and scientists listen to voices from the grave! Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang.   See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

UN looks into Amazon's Jeff Bezo's phone hacking, GM shows off its new driver-less car, and voters in King County Washington will make US history by being able to vote from their personal web connected devices.  Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

We discuss the civil liberty issues and actual effectiveness of facial recognition based surveillance tools. Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Google CEO Sundar Pichai calls for AI regulation in a Financial Times op-ed, ByteDance reportedly put together a gaming division, and TomTom closes a deal with Huawei for map tech.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Scientists from Tufts University, the University of Vermont, and the Wyss Institute at Harvard published early research in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences about robots made from heart and skin cells derived from frog embryo stem cells that they call xenobots. What does this mean for robotics and what are the ethical issues at play? Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Len Peralta, Roger Chang, Annalee Newitz  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The Iowa Caucus takes place February 3 and Democratic Party will be using an in-house smartphone app to send out results. Justin shares hits thoughts the party's latest attempt to leverage smartphone technology. Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Justin Robert Young  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

When asked about an edit feature for Twitter, company CEO Jack Dorsey said "We'll probably never do it." What's the logic behind his statement and would an edit feature add or detract from the platform? Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Scott Johnson  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.