Summary: On this week’s episode. El Kaiser shares his thoughts after a binge of <a href="http://www.cbs.com/shows/star-trek-discovery/">Star Trek: Discovery</a> and J.D. explores a new way to find things that interest you on Instagram. A roundup of the week’s tech news includes a discussion of Twitter’s fake-followers problem, Amazon looking for new ways to provide employee healthcare and Google’s attempts to root out — and boot out — bad apps from its online Android store. All this AND porgs on Episode 261 of PopTech Jam!<br> Links to Stories Mentioned On This Week’s Show<br> <br> * <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/01/31/technology/social-media-bots-investigations.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Twitter Followers Vanish Amid Inquiries Into Fake Accounts</a> (The New York Times)<br> * <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/01/27/technology/social-media-bots.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">The Follower Factory</a> (The New York Times)<br> * <a href="https://www.buzzfeed.com/alexkantrowitz/twitter-now-says-14-million-people-interacted-with-kremlin?utm_term=.ooyn8rVOA#.chw7lPJOL" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Twitter Doubles The Amount Of People It Says Interacted With Kremlin-Linked Trolls</a> (Buzzfeed)<br> * <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/30/amazon-berkshire-hathaway-and-jpmorgan-chase-to-partner-on-us-employee-health-care.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Amazon, Berkshire and JPMorgan Chase to partner on health care</a> (CNBC)<br> * <a href="https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/01/windows-defender-to-start-removing-optimizer-scareware/?amp=1" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Windows Defender to start removing “optimizer” scareware</a> (Ars Technica)<br> * <a href="https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/01/california-senate-approves-net-neutrality-law-in-defiance-of-fcc/?amp=1" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">California Senate defies FCC, approves net neutrality law</a> (Ars Technica)<br> * <a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-42892380" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Samsung enters crypto-currency chips business</a> (BBC News)<br> * <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-30/u-s-said-to-probe-apple-over-updates-that-slow-older-iphones-jd1yahj7" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">U.S. Probes Apple Over Updates That Slow Older iPhones</a> (Bloomberg)<br> * <a href="https://www.wired.com/story/apple-podcast-analytics-first-month/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Podcast Listeners Really Are the Holy Grail Advertisers Hoped They’d Be</a> (Wired)<br> * <a href="https://www.blog.google/topics/travel/get-help-cheaper-flights-and-potential-flight-delays-winter/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Get help with cheaper flights and potential flight delays this winter</a> (Google blog)<br> * <a href="https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2018/01/how-we-fought-bad-apps-and-malicious.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">How we fought bad apps and malicious developers in 2017</a> (Android Developers blog)<br> * <a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-42885805" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Google backs ‘universal stylus’ campaign</a> (BBC News)<br> * <a href="https://blog.google/products/search/reintroduction-googles-featured-snippets/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">A reintroduction to Google’s featured snippets</a> (Google Keyword blog)<br> * <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-01-31/facebook-really-wants-you-to-come-back" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Facebook Really Wants You to Come Back</a> (Bloomberg)<br> * <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/31/technology/facebook-news-feed.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Facebook Aims to Soothe Wall Street Over News Feed Changes</a> (The New York Times)<br> * <a href="http://www.bbc."></a>
