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June 07, 201858: Focus on our Most Profitable Children
Live from Apple's developer conference in San Jose, we're joined by some Apple experts to discuss iOS and macOS announcements. Plus Amazon and Sonos make some home theater announcements.
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Microsoft: Learn about building intelligent iOS apps that scale
Guest Starring:
Marco Arment and Serenity Caldwell
Links and Show Notes: iOS 12 Preview - Apple iOS 12 introduces new features to reduce interruptions and manage Screen Time - Apple macOS - Mojave Preview - Apple Apple previews all-new Mac App Store - Apple GitHub Is Microsoft’s $7.5 Billion Undo Button - Bloomberg Amazon's Fire TV Cube squeezes an Echo into its set-top box The Beam is Sonos’ ambitious attempt to win the living room - The Verge Sonos Beam is a new $399 soundbar for your TV | Ars Technica Crocodile eats small dog in Australia after years being chased by Pippa the terrier - CBS News Marco Arment (@marcoarment) | Twitter Serenity Caldwell @ WWDC (@settern) | Twitter
57 min
May 31, 201857: Extra Letters!
Google's struggle with AI and military projects, Plex expands to podcasting, and we talk the joys of mechanical keyboards with one of the editors from The Wirecutter.
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Guest Starring:
Anže Tomić, Megan Morrone, and Kimber Streams
Links and Show Notes: How a Pentagon Contract Became an Identity Crisis for Google - The New York Times Google Employees Resign in Protest Against Pentagon Contract ‘The Business of War’: Google Employees Protest Work for the Pentagon - The New York Times Plex adds podcasts and personalization so you never have to leave the home screen - The Verge Have Plex Your Way | Plex Nokia closes digital health sale to Withings founder Eric Carreel, who plans relaunch by EOY | TechCrunch Our Favorite Mechanical Keyboards: Reviews by Wirecutter | A New York Times Company Enter the clicky keyboard - Six Colors PRAZNA TIPKOVNICA [Anže Tomić] | Stvar - YouTube Home - Tap Review of Tap, the wearable keyboard that almost works - The Verge There’s No i in Keyboard – 512 Pixels Once marked 'free,' abandoned dog finds new home in Ross County Connected - Relay FM Kimber Streams (@kimberstreams) | Twitter meganmorrone (@meganmorrone) | Twitter Anze Tomic (English) (@atomicxx) | Twitter Storming Mortal – An interview podcast with folk from the techy side of the internet.
51 min
May 24, 201856: President of Netflix
Elon Musk reacts badly to media criticism of Tesla's products and labor practices; The Obamas get a production deal with Netflix; Comcast tries to snipe Disney in a bid for Fox; and cities move to tax their local tech giants.
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Guest Starring:
Christina Warren and Devindra Hardawar
Links and Show Notes: Consumer Reports will give Tesla’s Model 3 another shot after brake fix Tesla says its factory is safer. But it left injuries off the books | Reveal Liftoff - Relay FM Elon Musk needs to chill out Amazon.com: Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup Netflix inks multi-year production agreement with the Obamas Comcast confirms plan to buy 21st Century Fox and control of Hulu | Ars Technica No one’s ready for GDPR - The Verge Instapaper is temporarily shutting off access for European users due to GDPR - The Verge Silicon Valley Wants to Tax Big Tech Just Like Seattle Did - Bloomberg Dog 'adopts' nine orphaned ducklings at Essex castle - BBC News
57 min
May 17, 201855: Tachy Goes to Coventry
Microsoft has a Surface so big you can hang it on a wall, and is making one small enough to take on Chromebooks and iPads. Meanwhile, Twitter tries to fight trolls with algorithms and continues to tighten the screws on third-party Twitter apps.
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Guest Starring:
Craig Hockenberry and Melissa Riofrio
Links and Show Notes: Microsoft's Surface Hub 2 is a bold attempt at changing how we work Surface Hub 2 coming in 2019, looks amazing | Ars Technica Microsoft Plans Low-Cost Tablet Line to Rival iPad - Bloomberg Serving Healthy Conversation - Twitter Blog Twitter delays shutdown of legacy APIs as it launches a replacement | TechCrunch Apps of a Feather Daring Fireball: The End of Third-Party Twitter Clients? Amazon launches special Whole Foods discounts for Prime members Amazon Serves Up New Benefit for Prime Members at Whole Foods Market - Whole Foods Market Newsroom Here's When Puppies Are Most Adorable, According to Science Melissa Riofrio (@MRiofrioPCW) | Twitter Craig Hockenberry (@chockenberry) | Twitter
57 min
May 10, 201854: Give Me All the Nannies
This week brought developer conferences from Google and Microsoft, and with them came a lot of news. We discuss Google's commitment to "digital well-being", updates to Google Assistant, an unnerving phone call from a robot, and more.
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Guest Starring:
Florence Ion and Mikah Sargent
Links and Show Notes: Lucid - Mikah's dream podcast Somehow I Manage - a podcast from The Incomparable All About Android Material - Relay FM Amazon.com : Cinnamon Imperials, 3lb Bulk Bag : Hard Candy : Grocery & Gourmet Food
58 min
May 03, 201853: Horizontal Integration of Relationships
T-Mobile and Sprint take another run at merging together; Facebook releases its standalone VR headset, gets into the dating game, and offers some data opt outs; and the gig economy takes a body blow.
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Guest Starring:
Shelly Brisbin and James Thomson
Links and Show Notes: Sprint, T-Mobile Said to Close In on $26.5 Billion Combination - Bloomberg Sprint and T-Mobile C.E.O.s Are in Washington to Sell Their Merger. Here’s What They’ll Confront. - The New York Times The $199 Oculus Go mobile headset launches today - The Verge Oculus Go review: mobile VR, minus the phone - The Verge Facebook is taking on Tinder with new dating features - The Verge Facebook will let users opt out of its browsing history collection - Recode Gig workers could gain employee status with California Supreme Court ruling - San Francisco Chronicle James Thomson (@jamesthomson) | Twitter Shelly Brisbin (@shelly) | Twitter
58 min
April 26, 201852: Danger Bubble
Google fails to get the message about texting privacy, Amazon's got home robots and is now letting people open your car, and on this podcast's first birthday we consider some trends we've noticed over the past year.
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Guest Starring:
Serenity Caldwell and Lisa Schmeiser
Links and Show Notes: Exclusive: Chat is Google’s next big fix for Android’s messaging mess - The Verge Amazon Has a Top-Secret Plan to Build Home Robots - Bloomberg With Amazon Key In-Car, couriers can deliver packages to your trunk GE Appliance’s new smart air conditioners work with HomeKit, Alexa, and Google Assistant - The Verge The Immortal Iron Feminist (@lschmeiser) | Twitter Serenity Caldwell (@settern) | Twitter
1 hr 6 min
April 19, 201851: Planet Netflix
The U.S. takes on ZTE, Russia takes on Telegram, San Francisco takes on scooters, and video-streaming services take on your wallet.
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Slack: Where work happens.
Guest Starring:
Shahid Kamal Ahmad and Megan Morrone
Links and Show Notes: US hits ZTE with huge ban that has ominous Android implications - SlashGear ZTE can no longer buy Qualcomm chips after US ban - The Verge “Privacy is not for sale,” Telegram founder says after being banned in Russia | Ars Technica In effort to shut down Telegram, Russia blocks Amazon, Google network addresses | Ars Technica NASA Planet Hunter on Its Way to Orbit | NASA Liftoff - Relay FM
Jason and Stephen's podcast about space.
ESPN’s Streaming Service Is A Peek At The Future Of ESPN—And Disney ESPN+ Stream Live Sports San Francisco to scooter startups: Your customers are terrible | Ars Technica meganmorrone (@meganmorrone) | Twitter Shahid Kamal Ahmad (@shahidkamal) | Twitter
50 min
April 12, 201850: I Ran Out of Metaphor
Mr. Zuckerberg goes to Washington, Apple goes all in on renewable energy, Hulu and Spotify rebuild the bundle, Snap gives it a second try, and Google releases its own fuzzy-puppy update.
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Guest Starring:
Brianna Wu and Carolina Milanesi
Links and Show Notes: 11 weird and awkward moments from two days of Mark Zuckerberg’s Congressional hearing - The Verge Zuckerberg's Congressional Hearings: The Most Important Exchange - The Atlantic Facebook Is Complicated. That Shouldn’t Stop Lawmakers. - The New York Times US Consumers Want More Transparency from Facebook – Tech.pinions Why Mark Zuckerberg’s 14-Year Apology Tour Hasn’t Fixed Facebook | WIRED Apple Now Runs On 100% Green Energy, And Here’s How It Got There Powerwall | The Tesla Home Battery Snap Spectacles Model 002 With 802.11ac Surface in FCC Filing – Variety Now you can get Spotify and Hulu together for just $12.99 each month - The Verge Spotify + Hulu Bundle Puparazzi alert: five tips for your pet photos Brianna Wu (@Spacekatgal) | Twitter Carolina Milanesi (@caro_milanesi) | Twitter
50 min
April 05, 201849: Good Plus
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
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