SHAZAM
Writer: Jeff Parker
Artist: Evan “Doc” Shaner
Colorist: Jordie Bellaire
It’s Shazam versus Steampunk, as the world of Gotham By Gaslight takes on the Captain Marvel family and friends.
No matter what anyone else says, DC’s Convergence is now officially worth it for this 2-issue mini alone.
Security researcher GironSec has pulled Uber’s Android app apart and discovered that it’s sending a huge amount of personal data back to base – including your call logs, what apps you’ve got installed, whether your phone is vulnerable to certain malware, whether your phone is rooted, and your SMS and MMS logs, which it explicitly doesn’t have permission to do.
Amazon is offering free access to the Washington Post’s new app to owners of its Fire tablet, the first tie-up between the companies since the e-retailer’s founder Jeff Bezos bought the paper last year.
The WaPo app, which will be free for six months, will offer two editions, at 5am and 5pm US eastern time, with at least 100 articles, plus breaking news and other updates. The editions will be compiled by a team of 16 journalists working three shifts a day.
It will be imminently pushed to all Fire tablets as a software upgrade, though owners who do not want the app can delete it. After the trial period it will cost a total of $1 (64p) for the following six months and a fee likely to be between $3 and $5 a month after that.
As a Kindle Fire owner, I have to admit that I’m loving this app/subscription. It’s not just the content, but the layout/UI of the app. If it’s a year for $1, I’m definitely in; after that, we’ll see if I’ll end up signing up for $36 or $60 a year…
Upon Reading Too Much Social Media
The realization that I have little-to-no interest in responding to someone’s fandom for something I have little interest in by saying “[X] is terrible, you should like [Y] instead!” has made me consider whether or not I truly “get” Internet 3.7 or whatever we’re on right now.
(This comment brought to you by “Why have I looked into the MoffatHate tag, am I an idiot?”)