Gadgetory

hi i'm molly wood and welcome to the buzz report the show about the tech news that everyone is talking about this week anonymous targets Facebook and I'm not having it blackberry just wants to be left alone and the coolest smuggling ring ever but first it's the gadget of the week the gadget of the week is the Roku 2 XS which we are calling the best streaming media device under a hundred bucks actually that's what we call the last 12 but now you can buy a version that includes a video gaming remote and it has angry birds on it Angry Birds Roku and angry birds my two favorite things together at last plus more content smaller size blah blah blah go get one you'll love it and now for the news the hacktivists at anonymous have announced their next target facebook they say they're going to destroy Facebook in fact on November fifth 2011 which is guy fawkes day now anonymous says that Facebook needs to be destroyed because it's turning over personal information to the government and spying on us which I know I mean I guess that's bad but what about my spying I need facebook to find out if that one chick went to that one party and flirted with that one guy I like and I need to know who got fat from high school and what about my scrabble games anonymous and where am I gonna post pictures of my food Molly you think that's bad November fifth is my birthday how is anyone going to know Duke that's my birthday too happy birthday yeah oh yeah that's really bad that hurts anonymous can't you just stick to like banks and evil governments I mean we already knew that Facebook was bad when we signed up moving on in the news whenever there are riots as there were in London all this past week there also has to be a story about how social media helped organize the riots but in this case police found that London's riders were using blackberry messenger to coordinate their looting partly because the service is private rather than public like Twitter but also because something like thirty seven percent of the youth in England use blackberrys who knew research in motion then issued a statement saying it was trying to help the police find the looters but then hackers defaced to the blackberry blog with a very threatening letter talking about seeking revenge even on rim employees over rim cooperating with police meanwhile you know those poor executives over a trim are sitting there like come on okay you just leave us out of this we have enough problems right now I mean have you seen iOS 5 mango even score one for Apple and the great Apple Samsung pissing contest of 2011 a judge in Germany says Samsung cannot keep selling the galaxy tab 10.1 anywhere in Europe well except the Netherlands for some reason and then Apple got so excited by that ridiculous ruling in it's ridiculous patent lawsuit that they're also suing motorola over the design of the xoom tablet the design bite me Apple and another Apple related news it's time for my favorite segment the balls on China Chinese police shut down a smuggling operation that was sneaking iPads and iPhones across the border from Hong Kong how well this is the balls Park allow me to demonstrate first the smuggler shot a crossbow from Hong Kong into shenzhen province then they zip-lined bags with apple stuff across the border so they wouldn't have to pay import taxes authorities caught the smugglers after a sting operation and they say they don't know how long the zip line scheme was active no matter how long it was active it was awesome and finally the return of another favorite segment of mine definitely take a break from worrying about the stock market and the global economy in the erosion of every safety net America ever promised anyone won't you the Sun is coming to kill all our tech sometime between now and 2013 a solar flare Tuesday was the strongest one since 2006 but luckily it was facing away from Earth so we didn't see much impact but scientists say solar activity is increasing and it will peak around 2013 and if the flares get strong enough they can mess with GPS cell towers make electricity go haywire or if they're as strong as the carrington super flare of 1859 they could lead to a geomagnetic storm that does who knows what to our tech he'll probably just brick it all and leave us in the technological Dark Ages see you feel better about the economy already right or something and that's the buzz report for this week everyone i'm molly wood and thank you for watching just oh just bounce so hug more no hoes I'm just kind of look away I said high-five high-five hug look down yeah I just thought I said high five