Windows 10 Bugs, Tesla Snake Charger, Privacy Badger and Error-Prone

Windows 10

bugs

, Tesla's Snake Charger and... an adorable

badger

. I'm Gabriella, welcome to Geek Beat! --------------- Support the show! Visit GeekBeat.TV/Patron to find out how. ------------------------ Electronic Frontier Foundation has just announced the release of version 1.0 of Privacy Badger for Chrome and Firefox. Privacy Badger has a lot in common with Honey Badger. Privacy Badger is a browser extension that you can add to Chrome or Firefox that will automatically block hidden trackers as if they didn't have a . Every time you browse, the plugin inspects web traffic to determine if someone is trying to track you. If the same third-party domain appears to be tracking you on three or more different websites, Privacy Badger blocks all future connections.

It's free, so you might as well add it to your protection arsenal along with your firewall and antivirus. --- For those of you who recently upgraded to Windows 10, you will soon discover that there is a major limitation on the new operating system's ability to display its list of applications. It appears as soon as you have 512 of them installed. Insert a snarky comment here about the kind of people who have over 500 apps installed on their PC. If you're not sure if you've been affected... Really? You can open the Start menu and search for Windows Powershell. and run the command “Get-StartApps” pipe space “measurement”.

Or you know what? Just go to GeekBeat.TV/1084 and we'll have the command in the show notes so you can copy and paste it. --- Here's a fun, but useless game for you to try! The game's creators, Peter Cardwell-Gardner and Mark Backler, created their new game "Error-Prone" during a hackathon in just 12 hours. It allows players to control 26 cars driving in a circle, each marked with a different letter. Without human intervention, the cars predictably circulate at the same speed, with the same distance between each one. You can take charge of any car by pressing the corresponding key.

When you do, pressing the key speeds up and releasing it slows down. Of course, you'll immediately see how much chaos the human element introduces. And if you want to see a total disaster, you can have up to 26 people play simultaneously. For about, oh… 1/10 of a second. The goal of the game is to demonstrate that driverless cars will be much more efficient, something I think the Terminator movies have already demonstrated very well, thank you. But it's still fun to try. And of course, we have the link at GeekBeat.tv/1084 --- Speaking of cars, in December of last year, Elon Musk tweeted: "By the way, we are actually working on a

charger

that automatically comes out of the wall" .

And it connects like a solid metal

snake

. Really". Well, he wasn't kidding. Tesla has released a video of something that looks like it came out of someone's belly in a remake of Aliens. He is clearly looking for the electric charging port and then stabs himself to charge the car. Does anyone else find this a little creepy? Send me a tweet and let me know... --- That's it for this episode. Hey, you know what? You can help support the program by becoming a patron! Just visit GeekBeat.TV/patron and you can donate a dollar or two a month to keep things growing.

Like Carter. He is a growing boy and he eats a lot… I'm Gabriella. Thanks for watching!