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    #30: A Beautiful Disaster

    August 8th, 2015 · 67 minutes

    This week, the Rocket crew talk about Christina's One Direction experience, how Android can move forward from recent security vulnerabilities and ongoing carrier woes, Reddit's banning of a group of offensive subreddits and Time's article about VR.

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    We experienced some technical difficulties with this week's recording; please forgive any issues you may find with this episode's sound quality.

    iTunes - Podcasts - Rocket by Relay FM
    iTunes - Music - Compton by Dr. Dre
    950 million Android phones can be hijacked by malicious text messages | Ars Technica
    Waiting for Android’s inevitable security Armageddon | Ars Technica
    List of Google Play edition devices - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
    Mac OS X Snow Leopard - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
    The state of Android updates: Who’s fast, who’s slow, and why | Ars Technica
    Reddit Bans /r/****town For All the Wrong Reasons

    Warning: Offensive language within.

    Reddit-clone Voat booted by its German webhost
    It's 2015. Stop with the nerd shaming already.
    10 times magazine covers made tech luminaries look terrible