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Silicon Valley visionless; Samsung on fire; Comcast caught; Facebook's Workplace; Inept IoT; social media surveillance; Airmail, Pzizz & Trumpwalling; Rogue One, Says You!, Fraggle Rock & the Grand Tour, your vacuum attachments; facepalm facecradle. Show notes at http://grumpyoldgeeks.com/181

Fridges are heating up; Coolest investigation; Ewww Apron; digital rights; Facebook gets local; Google unveils hardware; Yahoo surveillance; Prime reading; bloated apps; superheroes, robots & Mr Robot; bad passengers; the web's past; R2, get my coffee. Show notes at http://grumpyoldgeeks.com/180

Uber trucking, vertical take-off planes; Google Express hits New England; Amazon starts own delivery service; Elon delivers to Mars; Snap brings Spectacles; Blackberry is done; DOS attacks get bigger; Meerkat's Houseparty; Netflix Tax; watch out for Schumer. Show notes at http://grumpyoldgeeks.com/179

Soylent but not deadly; YouTube Heroes; because science; Tesla for California; Amazon's screw you algorithm; dark-web design; ransomware everywhere; Ello, Allo; Star Trek, Delayed; McAffee, Gringo; smart candles; 2 ferns and a candidate; Sullivan unplugs. Show notes at http://grumpyoldgeeks.com/178

Zane Lamprey drops in; iOS 10; cookies everywhere; the tech bubble; elephant charts; exploding batteries; Facebook annoys Norway; stank cyber hygiene; stream ripping; Penn, King & Tolhurst; laser tag backpack; ethical hacking; Sherlock & the Grand Tour. Show notes at http://grumpyoldgeeks.com/177

Apple's premature tweet; exploding Samsungs; Airbnb's "constitutional rights"; costly cord-cutting; Americans not into self-driving cars, ride-sharing; Attack of Things!; slogging through the Gunslinger; baby apps; the build team & the triplets are back. Show notes at http://grumpyoldgeeks.com/176

Paternity leave is over; psychology on the ropes; Ireland doesn't want Apple's taxes; Olds & Emojis; dark forests & Dresden bombing; big ol' TVs; pinch & zoom & knuckle drag; unbundling gets pricey; Mac Sabbath; putting on the ritz. This episode is sponsored by Freshbooks! To claim your free month, go to FreshBooks.com/GRUMPY and, this is REALLY IMPORTANT, enter GRUMPY OLD GEEKS in the "How Did You Hear About Us?" section. Show notes at http://grumpyoldgeeks.com/175

DNS is Ok; Uber still sucks; Facebook WTF; Pokemon Plateau; WiFi is tracking you; Sleep Rules; The Monkees are back; Kanye loves fries; Baltimore No-Fly Zone; Jason and Brian need sleep. Show notes at http://grumpyoldgeeks.com/174

1 Drone, 2 Drone, Red Drone, Blue Drone; R2D2's final beep; No Hyperloop for us; Uber's shoe drops; the Great Con; NASA research free; phishing ain't just for suckers; IoPoop; tin foil hat news; revisiting Gopher; Dune in Emoji; Scum & Villainy Cantina. Show notes at http://grumpyoldgeeks.com/173

Social network fails; your friends don't like you; flawed design; FTC crackdown on sponsored posts; ad-block wars; data-fusion; Golden Key; read for health; Meat is Murder 8bit; Mr. Robot FTW; Stranger Things; WTF America; the other Solo; Electric Mayhem! Show notes at http://grumpyoldgeeks.com/172

Peak app; elevated buses; Pokemon mind control; Faraday caged bars; stupid chip payments; uber mapping; Netflix tax; IoT disasters; hacking autonomous vehicles; Australia moving; emoji political correctness; Mr. Robot back on track, stand ups; Matt Damon. Show notes at http://grumpyoldgeeks.com/171

CEOs paid to be average; Pono down; Yahoo deconstructed; Facebook value rising; 7-11 wins the drone race; Apple's billionth iPhone; DNC hack & treason; IoT code audits; Star Wars drones; Star Trek; Moby; Lucy; drink beer for cash; meet the Allens. Show notes at http://grumpyoldgeeks.com/170

Power surges; suing the government over the DMCA; storing biometrics; Musk's Master Plan 2.0; mesh Guifi; the Disobedience Award; Pokeman robot societies; hacking the RNC; music rivalries; Stranger Things; winter is delaying; Bezos dons a redshirt. Show notes at http://grumpyoldgeeks.com/169

Addressing the Pikachu in the room; Silicon Valley solving the wrong problems; disrupting truth; breaking the 1st law; Sharding your passwords; 360 degree Prisma content; bionic internet of poop; Apollo 11 code; not another social network! Show notes at http://grumpyoldgeeks.com/168

The world's news is bleak & Facebook is sorta reporting it; smart pirates; music sales tank; burn, Google, burn; fair & balanced email scandals; a load of cameras; bye, bye Blackberry; watch us eat; endless wine; Disney obsessions; because Calendars. Show notes at http://grumpyoldgeeks.com/167