April 05, 2018

49: Good Plus

59 minutes

Intel unveils new mobile chips, Apple dumps Intel, Google loses its AI chief to Apple, and Microsoft reorgs Windows. All that, plus scooters litter the streets of San Francisco, drones are crashing all around us, oh the humanity!

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Guest Starring:

Lisa Schmeiser and Mark Hachman

Links and Show Notes: Intel's debut 6-core Core i9 CPUs could push gaming laptops past 5GHz speeds | PCWorld Dell's updated XPS 15 could crush the MacBook Pro 15—again | PCWorld MacBooks: What CPUs could Apple use in the next version? | Macworld Apple Plans to Use Its Own Chips in Macs From 2020, Replacing Intel - Bloomberg Why the next Mac processor transition won’t be like the last two | Macworld Connected #187: On the Edge - Relay FM Apple’s 2019 Mac Pro will be shaped by workflows | TechCrunch Apple Hires Google’s A.I. Chief - The New York Times Daring Fireball: The Information on What Went Wrong With Siri Electric scooters are taking over San Francisco streets and sidewalks - Business Insider The End of Windows – Stratechery by Ben Thompson Satya Nadella email to employees: Embracing our future: Intelligent Cloud and Intelligent Edge | Stories Watch this Russian postal drone smash into a wall on its inaugural flight - The Verge The Immortal Iron Feminist (@lschmeiser) | Twitter Mark Hachman (@markhachman) | Twitter