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Verizon has bought AOL in a big media push by the telco giant. Google’s self driving cars drive 1.7M miles & get in 11 wrecks… But there is a twist!

Plus Ubuntu, GE & Microsoft team of for Network connect fridges & more!

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In Big Media Push, Verizon Buys AOL For $4.4B [Memo From AOL CEO Tim Armstrong] | TechCrunch

AOL will become a subsidiary of Verizon as part of the deal, overseeing a bigger push into content and mobile video by Verizon.

“Verizon’s acquisition further drives its LTE wireless video and OTT (over-the-top video) strategy,” the carrier said in a statement.

In addition to original content across different platforms like video and written word, and desktop and mobile, there are other assets that could be interesting fits for Verizon.

For starters, AOL has been building up a programmatic advertising business to build up how AOL monetizes alongside newer formats like video and mobile. Currently that business — which is the fastest growing operation at AOL in terms of revenues — is split between ads on AOL-owned sites and third-party sites. Verizon picking this up could potentially further build out both, with the company partnering with the likes of ESPN to develop content and also giving the AOL-owned properties potentially much bigger audiences.

Google’s self-driving car head says after 1.7M miles, just 11 minor accidents have resulted, none Google’s fault

Over the 6 years since we started the project, we’ve been involved in 11 minor accidents (light damage, no injuries) during those 1.7 million miles of autonomous and manual driving with our safety drivers behind the wheel, and not once was the self-driving car the cause of the accident.

Google Confirms Cops Can Wiretap Your Hangouts

Hangouts is encrypted “in transit” and that “there are legal authorities that allow the government to wiretap communications.”

Microsoft Investing In Submarine Cables In Support Of Cloud

Microsoft is investing in several submarine cables to connect data centers globally and in support of growing data network needs.

​Ubuntu jumps into Internet of Things with Acer, GE, and Microsoft | ZDNet

Old enemies are becoming new allies as technology shifts from the PC/desktop model to first mobile computing and now the Internet of Things (IoT). Canonical, Ubuntu Linux’s parent company, is partnering with Acer, DataArt, and Microsoft.

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Wireless providers double down on slicing up the internet into marketing packages, and we’ll explain why we feel this is very bad for future innovation on the web.

Plus has Google just taken another major step away from G+, why BitTorrent’s new Bleep chat might fall short, and the amazing story of Popcorn Time and it’s new features.

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Sprint Will Sell a $12 Wireless Plan that Only Connects to Facebook or Twitter – Digits – WSJ

For about $12, will soon let subscribers buy a wireless plan that only connects to Facebook.

For that same price, they could choose instead to connect only with Twitter, Instagram or Pinterest—or for $10 more, enjoy unlimited use of all four. Another $5 gets them unlimited streaming of a music app of their choice.

The plan, offered under the company’s Virgin Mobile brand of prepaid service, comes as wireless carriers are experimenting with ways to make wireless Internet access more affordable for the poorest consumers by offering special deals on slices of the Web.

In the process, however, they are testing the long-held principle that all Internet traffic should be treated equally by creating strong incentives for subscribers to use already dominant services.

In June, T-Mobile US Inc. said it would allow customers unlimited use of mobile streaming music that doesn’t count against their data plans when they use services like Pandora and Spotify. Earlier this year, AT&T Inc. created a program allowing companies to foot the bill for data used by their customers on mobile apps.

Sprint said the plan—called Virgin Mobile Custom—was aimed at giving consumers more choices.

The new plan is only available at Wal-Mart and the base offering covers just 20 minutes of talk time and 20 texts. Subscribers can customize the plan by buying up to unlimited talk or text or both, and by choosing among data packages.

Ubuntu for Phones to Integrate Nokia HERE Maps

“HERE will provide a hybrid solution integrating an A-GPS and WiFi positioning system. Although Ubuntu already features GPS-based location, GPS on its own is not sufficient to support the location services that run on the OS with a rapid and efficient location positioning capability. This fully integrated solution will also be available to the many thousands of application developers currently using Ubuntu OS on their own hardware.”

Hangouts Now Works Without Google+ Account

Until now, you had to have a Google+ account to use Hangouts if you were a Google Apps user. Starting today, that requirement is gone. Anybody with a Google Apps account will now be able to start or join a meeting from their desktop or their dedicated Chromebox for Meetings device. For now, however, the requirement is still in place on mobile, but Google says that’s going away soon, too.

The only other restriction for those who want to use Hangouts without a Google+ account is that they won’t be able to use Hangout apps other than Screenshare or Chat and that they won’t be able to use Hangouts on Air to broadcast their chats to a larger audience.

BitTorrent’s new Bleep chat client doesn’t rely on any central servers to find and manage contacts. Instead, the company is using Distributed Hash Tables, also known as DHT, which are basically decentralized sets of data that can be queried by any connected client.

The company touts the absence of a central server or directory as a safeguard against government wiretapping and other kind of snooping, and it also promises better security for the actual messages. Bittorrent’s Senior Director of Product Development Farid Fadaie explained it this way on the company’s engineering blog:

“We are using secure encryption protocols such as curve25519, ed25519 , salsa20, poly1305, and others. Links between nodes are encrypted. All communication is end to end encrypted. This should be the new normal in the post-Snowden era.”

BitTorrent starts testing Bleep, its new P2P messaging platform

BitTorrent is slowly starting to take the wraps off its upcoming P2P chat initiative: The company started an invite-only pre-alpha test of a new Windows chat client dubbed “Bleep” on Wednesday, and it also revealed that it plans to make the underlying peer-to-peer technology available to other chat apps and messaging service providers as well.

• Bleep… BitTorrent Unveils Serverless & Encrypted Chat Client | TorrentFreak

Popcorn Time Adds Apple TV Support, iOS App Coming Soon | TorrentFreak

While the original app was shut down by the developers after a few weeks, the project was quickly picked up by others. This resulted in several popular forks that have gained millions of users in recent months.

Today one of the most popular Popcorn Time forks releases a highly anticipated feature. The developers inform TorrentFreak that the latest version now has Airplay support, making it possible to stream movies directly to Apple TVs and other supported devices.

Ironically, Airplay support is currently limited to the Windows release, but a Mac version is due early next week and the Linux release will follow shortly after.

The latest feature follows the addition of Chromecast support a few weeks ago.

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Angela and Chris go over some of the latest G+ changes from the Google I/O and show of a few of their favorite new features. Plus a few of the changes that took us by surprise, and a big mail sack!

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• Google+ completely redesigned, now automatically enhances photos and highlights your best shots | The Verge

The redesign doesn’t just feature a new layout for your Google+ stream — the company has also worked to turn the website into more of a proper app instead of a website.

• Google gives Google+ a facelift, enhances photo features – latimes.com

The highlight of the new features may be Google+’s new photo editing and uploading tools. One of them will automatically sift through a bunch of photos taken during a vacation, for instance, and create a themed album to share with friends. Using the company’s technology, Google+ will choose the best pictures based on a variety of factors, including whether they feature people or important landmarks.

• Google Unveils New Music Streaming, Hangout App, Photo Features – ABC News

Google announced today it jumped on the online music streaming bandwagon with a new service through its Google Play – its Android store for apps, music, movies and other multimedia.

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Mike writes: How do you run freenas from cd rom. Not install but run freenas from or on cd rom

Jeff writes:

While watching your last episode of LAS you guys didn’t think too much about Ubuntu Phone spins! I completely disagree and think that there will/should be tons of spins! You forgot to think about custom Android roms. Every phone has more roms than we can keep track of. As a user, we don’t want to be locked into a venders “way”. We want to break out into different ways, new interfaces, faster systems, and more user customization. I for one am only excited about what spins may come because I am honestly not a fan of Canonical, and fear that they will take a mac approach with there Ubuntu phone OS.

Love the show, keep on rocken!

Andrew writes:

I would like to complain, about your Ting advertising. You keep telling us about how fantastic Ting is and how you can mix and match your voice and data components and only pay for what you use. I continually hear it throughout your shows and it makes me look at my phone, and cry! Because Ting is not in Australia. And without Ting in Australia, I cannot sign up to a Ting plan. And without a Ting plan I am stuck paying for hundreds of minutes of voice I will never use
The next time you are talking to your guy at Ting, please tell him Ting needs to start doing business in Australia.

Cal writes:

This is just a general comment…. I don’t support this “Unfiltered” or any show by JB, individually. But I do go out of my way to support JB as a whole because I take something beneficial from each show I watch. My concern is, in supporting one show I would be neglecting another which I gain benefit from. Please do not view your podcasts as simple podcasts, they are the best I have seen on the internet and truly are a culmination of a network. Specific to your case, the “unflitered” news channel, if it is to remain only your bias and not that of commercial interest, then please keep it part of an important piece of the network. Unaffected by anything else.
To be noted – I do not share yor views on a lot but do on some – still nice to here current event with out bs….right?

Pradeep:

I have been a big fan of your Linux Action Show & Coder Radio for the past one year. I am an indepent game developer and I have just released my game Zenania on Google Play for Androids. All the tools used to make it were open source/ free software like gimp…etc. After listening to your shows about the awesome tech in open source, I decided to try open tools for game developement and now I have release my very first indepent game. Thank you for inspiring me take the effort. If it was not for your show I would not have tried those tools (open source)…. Cheers.

Here is a link to my game.

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