John Donabie Show, CFRB Toronto, 15 Dec 2007

I joined John Donabie Saturday morning, as I do most Saturdays, to talk about the hot tech news. Top stories for this week:

Leo’s Micro.blog

Untitled 10 October 2018

And this is why I love living in Petaluma.

Untitled 3 October 2018

Definitely confused.

Noon In Valencia Spain 2 September 2018

Outside the beautiful cathedral. They hit the bell with a massive hammer.

Untitled 30 August 2018

And off we go to Barcelona.

Untitled 25 August 2018

Oops. letsrobot.tv/robocaste…

Untitled 25 August 2018

Come control robots in our studio live. letsrobot.tv/robocaste… Watch from the other end live on the New Screensavers. TWiT.tv/live

Untitled 25 August 2018

Am I misunderstanding something @manton? Leo.micro.blog has everything I post. Micro.blog/Leo does not.

Micro.blog Conundrum 25 August 2018

I’m setting things up for my vacation but some of my posts aren’t appearing in the timeline. They DO appear at Leo.social which is my micro.blog site. Maybe there’s a lag?

Untitled 25 August 2018

Triple threat: toot, tweet, and micro.blog… all from my Apple Watch. Technology, what a concept.

Untitled 25 August 2018

Let’s try this again. Drafts ➡️ micro.blog.

Leo’s News Links

Opinion | If 5G Is So Important, Why Isn’t It Secure? - The New York Times 23 January 2019

Leadership in 5G technology is not just about building a network, but also about whether that network will be secure enough for the innovations it promises. And the 5G “race” is more complex and dangerous than industry and the Trump administration portray. When 5G enables autonomous vehicles, do we want those cars and trucks crashing […]

Dutch surgeon wins landmark 'right to be forgotten' case | Technology | The Guardian 22 January 2019

However, in what is said to be the first right to be forgotten case involving medical negligence by a doctor, the district court of Amsterdam subsequently ruled the surgeon had “an interest in not indicating that every time someone enters their full name in Google’s search engine, (almost) immediately the mention of her name appears […]

China confirms birth of gene-edited babies, blames scientist He Jiankui for breaking rules | South China Morning Post 22 January 2019

A team of investigators told the official Xinhua news agency on Monday that a preliminary investigation had concluded that He had “organised a project team that included foreign staff, which intentionally avoided surveillance and used technology of uncertain safety and effectiveness to perform human embryo gene-editing activity with the purpose of reproduction, which is officially […]

Do you know you are training Google self-driving cars so they don’t kill people? Yes, by solving captcha - Technology News 22 January 2019

increasingly the Captcha that you are solving on file-sharing websites involves identifying cars in tiny pixelated images, or recognising fire hose, or store fronts, or bicycles, or buses? This is not random. It's by design because Google wants you to identify these images so that its artificial intelligent systems can learn from your knowledge.

Google must pay €50 million for GDPR violations, France says | Ars Technica 21 January 2019

The two complaints were filed jointly on the day the law went into effect by the French digital advocacy group La Quadrature du Net and the group Noyb.eu, a watchdog organization started by Max Schrems. The young Austrian privacy activist has been tangling with Silicon Valley giants—notably Google and Facebook—for years.

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