The Fine Bros found out the internet do not think they are so fine, Alphabet is now the most valuable company in the world and Yahoo is set to cut 15% of its workforce – just another regular news-filled week here in TLC land. Our feature this week is all about the future of interfaces and we examine Microsoft’s purchase of SwiftKey tech and what that may mean in the way we interact with machines as well as with each other. This and more on episode 48 of The Lazy Couch.

Episode 48. Recorded Thursday 4 February 2016.

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Show-notes

* Geoff watches Beach House – live footage from Pitchfork Festival | youtube

* Kelvin watches The Big Short (2015) | Rotten Tomatoes

* Geoff receives his first Loot Crate | Reddit

News of the week:

* The Fine Brothers’ reaction video controversy, explained | Vox

* Project Skybender: Google’s secretive 5G internet drone tests revealed | The Guardian

* Alphabet passes Apple as the world’s most valuable company | The Verge

* Google’s new algorithm called Brotli will make Chrome run faster | The Verge

* Google reveals how much it paid the guy who bought google.com last year | The Verge

* Yahoo to lay off 15% of its workforce | Wired

* Instagram extends video ads to 60 secs to score TV dollars | TechCrunch

* Uber’s new branding and logo | Gizmodo

* Catching up with Dropbox | NY Times

* Zagg to acquire Mophie for US$100m | re/code

Feature – The Future of Interfaces

* Microsoft steps up AI push with Swiftkey deal | Financial Times

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