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#SGGQA 037: Smartphone Buttons are BETTER than Gestures! GEEK DEBATE with Joshua Vergara and TK Bay!

#SGGQA 037: Smartphone Buttons are BETTER than Gestures! GEEK DEBATE with Joshua Vergara and TK Bay!

Phone manufacturers are desperately working towards “all screen” handsets, going so far as to cut into the screen just to fit hardware like the selfie camera. While this is an aggressive trend, many consumers still prefer buttons. Keyboards, programmable short cuts, camera shutter buttons. In this modern age, can hardware beat software? It’s time for a debate! A GEEK DEBATE! Joshua and TK will…

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#SGGQA 035: Google vs the Right to Forget, Russian Bots on the Rise, Samsung’s Notch, Facebook Tracks Non-Users

#SGGQA 035: Google vs the Right to Forget, Russian Bots on the Rise, Samsung’s Notch, Facebook Tracks Non-Users

Get your tech week started off right!

Google loses “Right to Forget” case in the UK. Facebook extensively tracks non-users through cookies. Pentagon issues advisory on Russian trolls increasing activity. Sony unveils XPERIA XZ2 Premium. Will Sprint and T-Mobile FINALLY tie the knot?

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Are Smartphones Creating a Deaf Generation? Dr. Alison Grimes, Director of Audiology, UCLA

Are Smartphones Creating a Deaf Generation? Dr. Alison Grimes, Director of Audiology, UCLA

Are smartphones making you deaf? The modern smartphone has only been in existence for ten years, too brief a time to properly study all of the behavioral and physiological effects of such a new technology, especially for how quickly it changes and evolves. Yet over this window of time, from the Walkman to the iPod, and through the reign of the iPhone, we are starting to see increasing rates of…

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#SGGQA 034: China's Social Rank System, Homeland Security Blogger List, Facebook Causes Stress, FCC Investigating Ajit Pai - Monday Tech Chat

#SGGQA 034: China’s Social Rank System, Homeland Security Blogger List, Facebook Causes Stress, FCC Investigating Ajit Pai – Monday Tech Chat

Snapchat returns to chronological view. China ranks citizens on a public social media score. Homeland Security looks to create a journalist data base, and apparently using Facebook raises your cortisol and stress levels.

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Stories this week: Snapchat revives chronological feed https://www.engadget.com/2018/04/08/s… China ranks citizens with “social credit”…

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#SGGQA 030: Net Neutrality Fights Back, Trump on Video Games, and California Right to Repair - Monday Tech Chat

#SGGQA 030: Net Neutrality Fights Back, Trump on Video Games, and California Right to Repair – Monday Tech Chat

Get your week started off right with a tasty tech podcast!

Comcast throttles Paypal and Steam? What does the White House have to say about video game violence? California fights for your Right to Repair! The FCC is sued again, and Mayors are fighting for Net Neutrality!

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Geek Book Club 002 - The Three-Body Problem

Geek Book Club 002 – The Three-Body Problem

An incredible undertaking in science fiction, and a fantastic translation. The Three-Body Problem is a unique take on the classic alien “first contact” story told from a Chinese perspective. What would Earth look like if we knew extra-terrestrials were on their way to our planet?

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Geek Book Club 001 - The Man From Earth

Geek Book Club 001 – The Man From Earth

Jerome Bixby is most known for his work as a TV writer, penning four episodes of the original Star Trek, an episode of the Twilight Zone, and co-wrote the story which Isaac Asimov would later adapt into ‘Fantastic Voyage’. His last work was an intimate screenplay about a man claiming to be an immortal caveman. A story almost forty years in the making, here’s our look at The Man From Earth! Shop…

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Geek Book Club 000 - Superman: Red Son

Geek Book Club 000 – Superman: Red Son

A HUGE “what if” story that we’re embarrassed to say, Juan has never fully read in one sitting. Andrew and Juan take a look at an alternate universe story featuring the most iconic superhero of all time. What if Superman grew up in the USSR instead of Smallville? Shop for ‘Superman: Red Son’ on Amazon: http://amzn.to/2vu8R1U

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