{"id":7169,"date":"2018-04-15T17:00:49","date_gmt":"2018-04-15T07:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/?p=7169"},"modified":"2018-04-15T12:54:02","modified_gmt":"2018-04-15T02:54:02","slug":"twtw-april-8th-april-14th-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/twtw\/twtw-april-8th-april-14th-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"TWTW: April 8th &#8211; April 14th, 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The week that was<\/em> (<strong>TWTW<\/strong>) takes a look back at the week&#8217;s most prominent tech stories from around the world.<\/p>\n<p>Video versions of TWTW appear on our website as well as our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCcvRPYt_D5D6HgOzTBKyXxw\">YouTube channel<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/reckonerAU\/\">Facebook page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For those that prefer an audio only version, you can subscribe to the TWTW podcast feed <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/au\/podcast\/reckoners-the-week-that-was\/id1348928612?mt=2\">on iTunes<\/a> or by add <a href=\"https:\/\/feedpress.me\/reckonerau-twtw\">this feed<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/feedpress.me\/reckonerau-twtw\">https:\/\/feedpress.me\/reckonerau-twtw<\/a>) to your favourite podcast app.<\/p>\n<p>You can also listen to TWTW via the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/anchor.fm\/reckonerAU\">Anchor.fm<\/a>\u00a0app or online at <a href=\"http:\/\/anchor.fm\/reckonerAU\">http:\/\/anchor.fm\/reckonerAU<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lastly you can find a full transcript of this week&#8217;s episode below.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Week That Was: Apr 8th - Apr 14th, 2018\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tHmgI4YREmc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In the week that was April 8th to April 14th, 2018:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/2018\/04\/all-the-interesting-bits-from-zuckerbergs-facebook-senate-testimony\/\">Mark Zuckerberg &amp; Facebook\u2019s US Senate hearings<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/2018\/04\/leap-motion-teases-a-new-open-source-wide-fov-ar-headset\/\">Leap Motion announce new AR headset for &lt; US$100<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/2018\/04\/god-of-war-receives-rave-reviews-ahead-of-april-20th-release\/\">The new God of War reviews hit<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Cisco switches hacked around the world<\/li>\n<li>NBN turns on FTTC<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h2 id=\"intro\">Intro<\/h2>\n<p>Hey everyone, Raj Deut here for Reckoner with a look back at the tech news in the week that was:<\/p>\n<p>April 8th to April 14th, 2018.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"stories\">Stories<\/h2>\n<p>It feels like it wouldn&#8217;t be an episode without some more Facebook news lately. This week it&#8217;s Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg appearing for a two day series of senate hearings.<\/p>\n<p>The first and larger went on for nearly five hours where Zuckerberg answered a series of questions from US senators covering a wide range of topics all loosely related back to the company&#8217;s recent data breach.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the highlights of his testimony included a 100% &#8220;No&#8221; on the persistent rumour the company listens in to your personal conversations using your phone&#8217;s microphone.<\/p>\n<p>A failure to emphatically name a single Facebook competitor in the global marketplace.<\/p>\n<p>And that a paid version of Facebook could very well be a true possibility.<\/p>\n<p>Despite all the recent bad news surveys of Facebook users seem oblivious to the company&#8217;s privacy issues with it having little no affect on user opinion beyond the bubbled tech circles.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Hand motion tracking specialists Leap Motion announced an open sourced project they&#8217;ve been working on called Project North Star last week.<\/p>\n<p>The project is the outline for a new low-budget, wide field of view, augmented reality headset said to be viable at less than US$100.<\/p>\n<p>Demonstrated in a series of videos of company VP Keiichi Matsuda&#8217;s Twitter feed the new device has two 1600&#215;1440 LCD screens that combine for a 100 degree field of view with impressive response times and full hand tracking abilities.<\/p>\n<p>There are no word on a release date for the open-sourced design at this stage but expect word soon.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Some 200,000 Cisco switches have been hacked by a vigilante group who&#8217;s aim was to supposedly target networking hardware in Iran and Russian only. Spreading globally the worse hit countries were the US and China making up 70% of those affected.<\/p>\n<p>The group replaced the hacked switches configuration files with a new one that contained a text-based picture of the American flag along with the words &#8220;Don&#8217;t mess with our elections&#8221;, ironically hurting their own country&#8217;s hardware more than either of the targets.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>God of war reviews hit ahead of the game&#8217;s April 20th release with the game receiving nothing but heaped praise from all major outlets.<\/p>\n<p>Deviating from the game&#8217;s original style the new version follows Kratos as a father guiding his son through a new, more open format.<\/p>\n<p>While many were slightly concerned about the game&#8217;s new tone it would appear there&#8217;s absolutely nothing to worry about the game blowing away expectations.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>And finally Australia&#8217;s beloved NBN turned the first of yet another type of connection on in the Multi-Technology-Mix being used now. The latest known as Fibre to the Curb is a hybrid solution running cable <em>almost<\/em> to the premise but not quite and doesn&#8217;t require the large, expensive battery powered boxes that encumber fibre to the node.<\/p>\n<p>Fibre to the Curb was switched on for 1000 homes in two pilot locations in Victoria and New South Wales.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"outro\">Outro<\/h2>\n<p>And that&#8217;s it for another week! As always be sure to subscribe and like the show on your listening-slash-viewing platform of choice.<\/p>\n<p>Jump on over to the Reckoner website for more news and exciting features and reviews. Also be sure to check out our Instagram at @ReckonerAU for news story updates as they happen.<\/p>\n<p>Have a great week and bye for now.<\/p>\n<p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/feed\/podcast\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The week that was (TWTW) takes a look back at the week&#8217;s most prominent tech stories from around&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":6526,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"Zuck visits Washington & much more in \u201cThe Week That Was\u201d Apr 8th - Apr 14th, 2018","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1368],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"reckoner_social_message":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7169"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7169\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}