The Canadian Tech Podcast – Ep. 63 – Mon, Mar 14, 2016

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Hosts & Guests

• Stuart Clark
• Derek Silva

Topics

*Apologies for Stuart’s sound quality this week*

Happy Pi day!

Inventor of email and savior of the @ sign, Ray Tomlinson, is dead at 74

• http://www.theverge.com/2016/3/6/11168718/ray-tomlinson-dead-inventor-of-email-obituary

 

Apple Macs targeted by KeRanger ransomware for the first time

• http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/mar/07/apple-targeted-by-keranger-ransom-malware-for-first-time

 

Samsung launches a new line of SSD drives including one at a whopping 15.63TB

• http://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/samsung-15tb-business-ssd/

 

Google extends right-to-be-forgotten rules to all search sites worldwide

• http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/03/google-finally-extends-right-to-be-forgotten-rules-to-all-search-sites-including-com/

 

Clean disruption? Stanford group plans for 100% green-energy future

• http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/clean-disruption-renewable-energy-canada-1.3470590

 

Failure to communicate: Federal data centre gets top-secret surprise

• http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/shared-services-canada-data-military-1.3472794

 

Microsoft will bring its SQL database software to Linux

• http://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2016/03/07/announcing-sql-server-on-linux/
• http://www.wired.com/2016/03/microsoft-will-bring-sql-database-software-linux/

 

Apple confirms it will livestream March 21st event for iOS, Mac, Apple TV and Windows users

 

Local Story

London Farm Show will have 355 exhibitors at Western Fair District

• http://www.lfpress.com/2016/03/01/london-farm-show-will-have-355-exhibitors-at-western-fair-district

 

Stuff We Like

• Stuart – Scansnap Scanner

Derek – WordPress Google AMP Plugin