Go Rift Yourself

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Mark, Wes, & SteveO at a secret location in Oakland, CA.

Sites of Interest:

• Oculus Rift Review: VR’s Rising Star Isn’t Ready for the Mainstream
  The first totally immersive home virtual reality rig is a pricey, awkward, isolating—and occasionally brilliant—glimpse of the future of computing.

• SoundCloud Launches Its Subscription Service, Go
  SoundCloud is launching a subscription service. It's called Go. It's $9.99 a month, with a 30-day-free demo. It's ad-free. But most importantly, it has nearly 100 million more tracks (give or take five million... but who's counting) than Spotify.

• FBI vs. Apple: How both sides were winners and losers
  In a dramatic turn of events Monday, the FBI dropped its case against Apple Inc. after the federal agency said it found a way to gain access to Syed Rizwan Farook's iPhone 5c without the tech giant's help. That ended a heated faceoff that highlighted the growing tensions between law enforcement...

• Automat
  An automat is a fast food restaurant where simple foods and drink are served by vending machines.

• Microsoft accidentally revives Nazi AI chatbot Tay, then kills it again
  A week after Tay's first disaster, the bot briefly came back to life today.

• Google has also been Ordered to Unlock 9 Android Phones
  It's not just Apple, Google Has Also Been Ordered to Unlock 9 Android Phones since 2012.

• Microsoft Build: the 10 most important announcements
  Every year, Microsoft holds a developer event called "Build." And recently, those events have gone from snoozers to exciting showcases. Microsoft has a winner with Windows 10 (as long as you ignore...

• Microsoft knows we will lose in robot war, argues for coexistence
  Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, a respected leader of one of the world's largest and most important technology companies, speaks as if humanity lives on the cusp of science-fiction. At today's...

• Giant remote-controlled beetles and 'biobot' insects could replace drones

• After the Tesla Model 3 launches this week, the world will know if Elon Musk called the electric-car future correctly
  It is Elon Musk’s moment of truth.
  Over the last dozen years, the serial entrepreneur and inventor has built a buzzing fervor from Wall Street to Silicon Valley by accomplishing the improbable—erecting a globe-spanning automobile company from scratch. His Tesla Motors is the only such success in at least a half-century. In that time, scores of automaking ventures with global ambition have brightly launched, only to stall, fail, and, in the best cases, get picked over at pennies on the dollar.

I'm Tay

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Mark, Wes, & SteveO at a secret location in Oakland, CA.

Sites of Interest:

• Microsoft says it's making 'adjustments' to Tay chatbot after Internet 'abuse'
  Microsoft's 'social experiment' revealed a lot about Internet culture.

• FBI director says fight with Apple about terrorism, not setting precedent
  "You are simply wrong to assert that the FBI and the Justice Department lied...."

• Apple is boring now
  At a lightning-fast press event yesterday (March 21), Apple announced a spate of product updates. A year ago, it unveiled the new MacBook laptop and told us when the Apple Watch—its first entirely new product in five years—would be available. At yesterday’s event, Apple’s big reveal was a smaller iPhone and iPad.

• Once thought safe, DDR4 memory shown to be vulnerable to “Rowhammer”
  New research finds "bitflipping" attacks may pose more risk than many admit.

• Israeli Firm Reportedly Helping FBI Crack San Bernardino Phone (Updated)
  Cellebrite is a firm that specializes in mobile forensics.

• U.S. Says It May Not Need Apple’s Help to Unlock iPhone
  A court hearing set for Tuesday was canceled in the Justice Department’s bid to gain access to phone data in the San Bernardino mass shooting inquiry.

• Apple announces four-inch iPhone SE and smaller iPad Pro
  Apple unveiled a new, smaller iPhone SE and iPad as well as new Watch bands on Monday.

• Regulators Are Woefully Underprepared for A.I. They Could Learn From Go Champion Lee Sedol.
  This article is part of Future Tense, a collaboration among Arizona State University, New America, and Slate. On Thursday, March 24, Future Tense, New

• A victim of the dot-com bust shares five pieces of advice for startups caught in today's 'bubble'
  As someone who did it wrong the first time, here's here biggest advice for today's startups:

• Google Puts Boston Dynamics Up for Sale in Robotics Retreat
  The video, published to YouTube on Feb. 23, was awe-inspiring and scary. A two-legged humanoid robot trudges through the snow, somehow maintaining its balance. Another robot with two arms and pads for hands crouches down and lifts a brown box and delicately places it on a shelf -- then somehow stays upright while a human tries to push it over with a hockey stick. A third robot topples over and clambers back to its feet with ease.

BART Idiot Hall of Fame

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Mark, Wes, & SteveO at a secret location in Oakland, CA.

Sites of Interest:

• Google I/O 2016 is Fast Approaching: Android N, Nexus 7 (2016) and More - Neurogadget
  Android is the most used mobile operating system in the world. For this group, there is nothing that excites them more than the annual Google I/O. Usually, the company uses this event to unveil its newest hardware and software developments. As a result, industry experts are already up and running, trying to figure out what

• Text-To-Speech in 1846 Involved a Talking Robotic Head With Ringlets
  Meet the Euphonia, a machine that boasted the ability to replicate human speech.

• The Voder - Homer Dudley (Bell Labs) 1939

• FCC to propose monthly broadband subsidy for the poor
  The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on Tuesday will announce a monthly subsidy for broadband internet access in low-income households, The New York Times reports, in an effort to narrow a d...

• Apple exec: FBI could make us spy on Americans with iPhone cameras or microphones
  He argued that providing the FBI with the so-called back door to a user's iPhone data would be a slippery slope that could create a dangerous precedent.

• ISS Astronauts Test Out Microsoft HoloLens in Space
  And they got a little distracted when they found the Alien Invaders game.

• Star Wars meets The Princess Bride - The Chatty Duelists

• Ultimate List of Free Essential Software | Money Tip Central
  Free software can save you hundreds and possibly thousands of dollars. The software listed below is completely free, is completely legal, and...