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Topics from this week’s show
- We talk robotics with members of the Pleasant Valley High School Robotics Team along with faculty sponsor Adam Goosby.
- Keep up and Follow Raider Robotics
- Support Raider Robotics through GoFundMe
- STEM… Science Technology Engineering and Math.
- VEX Robotics Competition
- Visual Edge
- REC Foundation
- VEX IQ
- VEX Robotics Control System
- Facebook Friends could change your credit score
- 225,000 Apple iPhone accounts hacked
- Google’s new logo as it prepared to join Alphabet
- Apple Store stocking professional drones (and they can reach altitudes of 18,000 feet!)
- Amazon Prime Video to offer offline playback
- Amazon, Netflix, Google, and others partner to create next gen video format
- HP cuts more workers
- FCC is considering a proposal to require manufacturers to lock down devices to prevent modification if they have a “modular wireless radio”
Rumors
- What we know about the upcoming iPad Pro
- Similar to iPad Air 2 and ipad Mini just bigger 12” x 9” x 7mm thin
- 12.9” screen 2732×2048 264ppi
- Force Touch Screen
- Force Touch Enabled Stylus
- Microphone and Speakers at top and bottom to improve listening experience
- TouchID
- A9 Processor 2GB RAM
- USB-C Support
- NFC
- November 2015 release
- Next Generation Apple TV to launch in October with $149-$199 price
- Apple TV rumored to have motion sensing remote control targeted at gamers
Overclocked Stack
- Android Wear (or what we sometimes call Andrew Wear) smartwatches to work with iPhones
- University of Oklahoma is first school to accept Apple Pay across campus
- Surface Pro 3 Mobile Payments
- Alabama DA warns about hidden photo app
- Hacking Mannequins
- Comcast charges capped users if they want unlimited data
This Week in Tech History
September 3, 1993 – 22 Years Ago
The world’s first primitive search engine is started. This search engine was known as the W3 Catalog or the CUI WWW Catalog.
Picks of the Week (We Didn’t Cover These On-Air)
- Michael – REC Foundation http://www.roboticseducation.org/
- The Guru – Send your name on NASA’s Insight Mission to Mars http://mars.nasa.gov/participate/send-your-name/insight/