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October 20, 2022 #24 - Meta's Metaverse: A 10 minute long game of beer pong where no one speaks
We've plugged into blockchain metaverses, but how is Facebook/Meta's multi-billion dollar attempt going?

Company Documents Show Meta’s Flagship Metaverse Falling Short - Wall Street Journal ($)

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21 min
October 18, 2022 #23 - Kanye West (Ye): Is Yeezus going to finally solve social media's moderation conundrum?
Kanye says he's going to buy Parler, the 'free speech'-focused Twitter clone. But more broadly, what is a platform's responsibility when it comes to removing speech? Do we want our tech overlords to determine what is allowed to be said and what isn't? If not them... then who?

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30 min
October 13, 2022 #22 - AI: Is it (finally) coming for our jobs? ft. Dan Nolan
AI is once again all the rage – with investor money, engineering talent and media interest flooding into the sector once again. What does the future hold?

Dan Nolan, notorious poster and AI entrepreneur, joins us to discuss.

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35 min
October 11, 2022 #21 - Alt-Tech: This episode is strictly NOT for soy drinkers
An anti-woke bank, a conservative safe-space for the desperate and dateless, a censorship-proof YouTube and a free speech Twitter.

We check in on right-wing tech.

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19 min
October 06, 2022#20 – Google: Whistling through the graveyard
Google. You know it as a search engine, an email provider, a cloud hosting service, a mobile operating system, a friend. But did you know that Google is also a killer? Join us on a spooky pre-Halloween journey into the many products Google has unceremoniously killed before their time.

Links

Google Is Killing Stadia, And Refunding Every Purchase Ever Made - Forbes

Killed by Google

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23 min
October 04, 2022 #19 - Elon Musk: What's going down in the DMs of the richest people on the planet?
As part of the ongoing 'Does Elon Have to Buy Twitter?' drama a court has ordered the messages between Elon and many wealthy business leaders and VCs to be made public. It's a treasure trove.

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20 min
September 29, 2022 #18 - Love: What happens when you give a "one click checkout" guy LSD?
The relationship between frictionless payment, recreational drugs and attempting to find a greater purpose. Silicon Valley's weird relationship with drugs.

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21 min
September 27, 2022 #17 - NEOM: This podcast is officially sponsored by the Saudi Public Investment Fund
Saudi Arabia is building the city of the future which includes a 250 metre wide, 500 meter tall and 170km long vertical city. It's supposed to be ready in 8 years time. How's it looking? On track, we bet.

Links:

MBS’s $500 Billion Desert Dream Just Keeps Getting Weirder - Bloomberg

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18 min
September 22, 2022 #16 - Uber: The unbearable agony of ridesharing
Have the grand promises of Uber come to pass? Or are we living in an endless nightmare from which we might never wake, endlessly begging from a release that surely never to come? No? Just us? OK.

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20 min
September 20, 2022 #15 - Adobe: The most hated company on Earth rides again
Adobe has announced it will acquire the much-loved design platform Figma. What does it all mean, and why does everyone hate Adobe so much?

Down Round investigates. (By which we mean we discussed it, with no investigation or reporting whatsoever.)

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17 min