Dec 18, 2016 - Episode 458 - Show Notes

Dec 18, 2016 - Episode 458

Sunday Dec 18, 2016 (01:36:22)

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This week, California wants special behavior by Uber, gamers want additional gameplay from Nintendo and Facebook begrudgingly creates special processing for websites.

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Scott Ertz

Host

Scott is a developer who has worked on projects of varying sizes, including all of the PLUGHITZ Corporation properties. He is also known in the gaming world for his time supporting the rhythm game community, through DDRLover and hosting tournaments throughout the Tampa Bay Area. Currently, when he is not working on software projects or hosting F5 Live: Refreshing Technology, Scott can often be found returning to his high school days working with the Foundation for Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST), mentoring teams and helping with ROBOTICON Tampa Bay. He has also helped found a student software learning group, the ASCII Warriors, currently housed at AMRoC Fab Lab.

Avram Piltch

Host

Avram's been in love with PCs since he played original Castle Wolfenstein on an Apple II+. Before joining Tom's Hardware, for 10 years, he served as Online Editorial Director for sister sites Tom's Guide and Laptop Mag, where he programmed the CMS and many of the benchmarks. When he's not editing, writing or stumbling around trade show halls, you'll find him building Arduino robots with his son and watching every single superhero show on the CW.

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In Defiance of California Law, Uber Tests Self-Driving Cars

The idea of self-driving cars is still a fairly new one, and governments all over are scrambling to both understand and regulate their existence. California, one of the earliest states to accept them as an inevitability, is one of the states having the hardest time creating their regulations and apply them evenly and fairly. For example, are driver-supported vehicles, like Tesla, the same as vehicles that have no human onboard, and if not, should they be treated differently?

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Super Mario Run is Full of Love and Hate

After showing off Super Mario Run at Apple's iPhone event, the anticipation for the release of the game has been high. Being another Nintendo-related, though the first Nintendo owned and operated, mobile game brought about the obvious comparisons to Pokémon GO, the game thought to be the clear winner for most popular mobile game of 2016. With the game finally on the market, let's start with the games' comparisons.

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Facebook Wants to Thwart 'Fake News' With New 'Head of News'

After the election, a surprisingly high number of people blamed Trump's win on social media and what is currently being called "fake news" shared, particularly, on Facebook. The complaining has been enough that Facebook has been forced to respond to the issue, continuously reminding people that they neither create nor promote this content, and it is, instead, brought to them care of their friends.

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Following Live Theater is a Live Movie Streamed to Theater

The usage of live video has grown rapidly in the past 2 years. Between specialty services like Livestream and Twitch, and general services like Periscope and Facebook Live, consumers have encouraged the growth of the medium. The addition of professionally produced content, like NBC's Hairspray Live and FOX's Grease: Live on television have brought attention from producers and Rifftrax Live has brought the idea of live content to movie theaters.

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