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Why are AAA games like GTA 6 ported to PC well after their release on game consoles? Scott explains. Plus Twitch will stop operations in South Korea starting February 27, 2024, due to high costs there. And Google launches its new Large Language Model Gemini which comes in three flavors; Gemini Ultra, Gemini Pro, and Gemini Nano.

Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Joe.

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Gmail is getting a powerful update to its AI-powered spam detection in the service’s biggest security upgrade in years. And can iPhone/Android cross-platform messaging service Beeper succeed with its implementation where Sunbird crashed and burned?

Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Joe.

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Need to give a loved one a new Android phone but not sure what to get? Iyaz is here with his best 2023 Android phone picks. Plus We analyze a recent BBC article asking “Could X go bankrupt under Elon Musk?”. And is Sony’s announcement that it will begin deleting Discovery shows from users libraries even if they’ve paid for them.

Starring Tom Merritt, Iyaz Akhtar, Roger Chang, Joe.

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Ever since Open AI announced GPTs, chat agents that developers can use on their platforms developers have made a lot of these. Tristan Jutras takes through some of the more outlandish examples of people flexing their creative GPT muscles. Plus, is the push to force workers back to the office dead? One Stanford professor thinks so. And Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer confirmed that Microsoft is talking to partners about launching an Xbox Mobile store.

Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Tristan Jutras, Len Peralta, Roger Chang, Joe.

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Google rolls out system updates for Android, Wear OS and Google TV devices. What features and functionality do they add? Plus as Threads, Meta’s microblogging platform, plans a European Union launch in December is it becoming a viable alternative to “X”? And we delve into the reason why Apple relented and decided to include RCS capability into the iPhone.

Starring Sarah Lane, Robb Dunewood, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang, Joe.

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The WSJ says Apple is looking to end its relationship with Goldman Sachs that it currently uses to support several financial products including Apple Card. Plus Is the new Microsoft Outlook a potential privacy risk? And Unity is cutting jobs and closing offices as part of a company reset. We explain what might be going on.

Starring Tom Merritt, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Joe.

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Winter driving is no fun but a little planning can go a long way to making it more safe and less stressful. Patrick Norton is here to tell us how. Plus we go over all the big announcements from AWS’s re:Invent conference for cloud customers. And we look at Ofcom’s latest study of AI use in the UK.

Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Patrick Norton, Roger Chang, Joe.

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Dayton, Ohio police are warning parents to disable the "Bringing Devices Together" setting in AirDrop for children. And Research from the Graz University of Technology, Austria suggests that Zoom fatigue is real. Plus we go over leaks for Samsung's upcoming Galaxy S24 flagship phone.

Starring Tom Merritt, Shannon Morse, Roger Chang, Joe.

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Nvidia delays is H20 AI developed specifically for China until Q1 2024, Pixel 8 owners report circular bumps under the screen, and Nearly 8.5 million Welltok user's patient data exposed in MoveIt breach.

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Broadcom completes its $61 billion acquisition of VMware, Cruise plans to resume operations in one U.S. city, and OpenAI and Microsoft are being sued by non-fiction writers…

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