TechByter Worldwide 2016.03.27: FBI Overreach Nipped, How Much Is That Disk Drive in the Window? Short Circuits, and Spare Parts.




TechByter Worldwide (formerly Technology Corner) with Bill Blinn show

Summary: Apple seems to have prevailed in the first round of its battle with the FBI over an encrypted phone, but nobody is really a winner. Disk drives with moving parts may be dead, but they don't know it yet. In Short Circuits: Hospitals are being attacked by malware. Longtime Intel CEO Andy Grove has died.The surprise from Adobe that wasn't a surprise. A warning from the US Treasury that wasn't. In Spare Parts (only on the website): Marketing pros may be replaced by robots, trying to make tech support more personable, fand a plan to make genetic research more accessible.