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March 29, 201848: I Brought Services, You Brought a Crayon
Apple goes back to school, but will it make any difference in its battle with Chromebooks? Microsoft unveils a game subscription service, because we live in the era of subscription services. And Facebook has another bad week.
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Guest Starring:
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Links and Show Notes: iPad 9.7-inch - Apple Education - Everyone Can Create - Apple Apple Renews its Love for Education not the Education Market – Tech.pinions Microsoft’s Xbox game subscription will include the next Halo, Gears of War, and Forza on launch day - The Verge Microsoft’s new gaming cloud division readies for a future beyond Xbox - The Verge PUBG is out now on Android and iOS, following Fortnite mobile Fortnite vs PUBG Mobile: Which One Should You Play? | NDTV Gadgets360.com New York Auto Show 2018: the latest news and the fastest cars - The Verge Microsoft’s Windows chief departs as the company pushes further towards AI and the cloud - The Verge The FTC Is Officially Investigating Facebook's Data Practices | WIRED Facebook to Limit Use of Data Brokers for Ad Targeting - Bloomberg Facebook Delays Home-Speaker Unveil Amid Data Crisis - Bloomberg Jerry Brown's new puppy: Calif. governor announces pet in release Michael Gartenberg (@Gartenberg) | Twitter Stan'Baku (@StubbyStan) | Twitter
1 hr 5 min
March 22, 201847: Put the Toothpaste Back in the Cat
Facebook made us all think about the power of social media and the value of our personal data this week, but was Mark Zuckerberg's response enough? In equally heavy news, the first autonomous vehicle fatality happened this week.
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Guest Starring:
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Links and Show Notes: Facebook suspended Donald Trump’s data operations team for misusing people’s personal information - The Verge Facebook's Cambridge Analytica data scandal, explained - YouTube Cambridge Analytica Uncovered: Secret filming reveals election tricks - YouTube WhatsApp Co-Founder Says It's Time to Delete Facebook Mark Zuckerberg - I want to share an update on the... | Facebook Cracking Down on Platform Abuse | Facebook Newsroom Driverless Uber death raises questions about responsibility - Curbed Video Shows Driver In Autonomous Uber Was Looking Down Moments Before Fatal Crash Tempe police chief: Uber crash likely 'unavoidable' for any driver BlackBerry’s Fan League will give you swag for hyping its poorly-selling phones - The Verge Apple holding "field trip" education event on March 27 - Six Colors As Tech in Education Matures, it calls for more than Hardware – Tech.pinions The Case for an ePad – 512 Pixels ‘Monty Python’ is silly-walking onto Netflix Glenn Fleishman (@GlennF) | Twitter Carolina Milanesi (@caro_milanesi) | Twitter
1 hr 1 min
March 15, 201846: Count the Ms
The U.S. government kills the Broadcom/Qualcomm merger, Apple buys a magazine subscription service, and Facebook and YouTube take stands of a sort against questionable posts on the Internet.
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Links and Show Notes: Trump issues order blocking Broadcom takeover of Qualcomm, citing national security - The Verge Broadcom Drops Qualcomm Bid, Pledges to Pursue U.S. HQ - Bloomberg Qualcomm, National Security, and Patents – Stratechery by Ben Thompson Qualcomm Outspent Broadcom About 100 to 1 in Lobbying - Bloomberg Apple to acquire digital magazine service Texture - Apple Marines’ Love Affair With 3D Printing: Small Is Cheap, & Beautiful « Breaking Defense - Defense industry news, analysis and commentary Facebook finally suspended the anti-Muslim political group that President Trump retweeted last year - Recode Taking Action Against Britain First | Facebook Newsroom Facebook bans Britain First pages - BBC News YouTube will add information from Wikipedia to videos about conspiracies - The Verge Out of the Doghouse, Into the Bed - The New York Times
50 min
March 08, 201845: Android Pop Rocks
Into a somewhat boring smartphone market comes our first glance at Android P, MoviePass gets caught tracking its users, iPhone app development turns 10, and is that a creepy laugh coming from the Amazon Echo?
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Guest Starring:
Lisa Schmeiser and Devindra Hardawar
Links and Show Notes: Android P first look - YouTube Android P Features and APIs | Android Developers Android P messaging notifications take some inspiration from the iPhone - The Verge Idoru by William Gibson MoviePass CEO: 'We watch how you drive from home to the movies' - Engadget MoviePass pulls 'unused app location' features from its iOS app - Engadget Full transcript: MoviePass CEO Mitch Lowe on Recode Media - Recode Uber’s self-driving trucks have started hauling freight | Ars Technica Tesla’s new electric semi truck is making its debut delivery - Digital Trends A Lot Can Happen in a Decade • The Breakroom Amazon has a fix for Alexa’s creepy laughs - The Verge Mystery solved? Amazon explains what cracked up Alexa, and what they’re going to do about it – GeekWire Amazon disables the phrase ‘Alexa, laugh’ due to false triggers | AFTVnews Devindra Hardawar (@Devindra) | Twitter The Immortal Iron Feminist (@lschmeiser) | Twitter Pop Rocks - Wikipedia
58 min
March 01, 201844: They Went With the Chicken
This week we analyze many of the phone announcements from Mobile World Congress, including a new Samsung Galaxy and the return of a phone you may remember from a film made in the previous century.
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Guest Starring:
Florence Ion and Philip Michaels
Links and Show Notes: Samsung Galaxy S9 announced with an upgraded camera in a familiar body - The Verge Samsung’s Galaxy S9 AR Emoji are kind of horrifying - The Verge Samsung Galaxy S9 Camera: What's New! - MKBHD on YouTube LG’s V30S ThinQ is a V30 with more RAM and AI - The Verge The Nokia 8110 Reloaded is HMD's latest retro feature phone - Engadget Android Go: explained - The Verge on YouTube Vivo Apex hands-on: pop-up selfie cam, in-screen fingerprint scanner, and practically zero bezel - Android Police Huawei, Asus embrace the smartphone notch | TechCrunch Stratolaunch Taxi Test - Gallery Amazon buys startup Ring in $1 billion deal to run your home security Why Scientists Love to Study Dogs (and Often Ignore Cats) - The New York Times Prehistoric Puppy Was Likely Pet Dog, Archaeologists Say - National Geographic Florence Ion (@Ohthatflo) | Twitter Philip Michaels (@PhilipMichaels) | Twitter
49 min
February 22, 201843: Tea Party With Bots
Twitter is banning a bunch of bot accounts (again) and Microsoft is struggling to shed legacy technology in Windows (again), while the next flagship smartphone has been leaked (again).
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Guest Starring:
Mikah Sargent and Carolina Milanesi
Links and Show Notes: Introducing Subnet - Relay FM Subnet - Relay FM Automation and the use of multiple accounts - Twitter Blog Conservative Twitter is freaking out over a reported bot purge - The Verge Microsoft Finally Documents the Limitations of Windows 10 on ARM - Thurrott.com Windows 10 on ARM limits (briefly) confirmed: No virtualization, no OpenGL - Ars Technica Carolina Milanesi on Twitter: "No matter what kind of PC user you are, battery matters the most..." Google’s new AI algorithm predicts heart disease by looking at your eyes - The Verge Samsung Galaxy S9 rumors: everything we think we know - The Verge Hands-on Galaxy S9 photos leak just days before Samsung’s announcement – BGR Samsung is going to release location based social networking app Uhssup along with Galaxy S9 and S9 Plus Samsung crams 30TB of SSD into a single 2.5-inch drive - Ars Technica Winter Olympics 2018: Why are athletes being given a stuffed animal named Soohorang and not flowers or medals? - The Independent Carolina Milanesi (@caro_milanesi) - Twitter Mikah Sargent (@mikahsargent) - Twitter
56 min
February 15, 201842: Get Used to Disappointment
Apple's software quality may have caught up with it, while Snapchat is dealing with the fallout of its recent redesign. All the while, Facebook is doing Facebook things and we really need a fuzzy puppy update.
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Guest Starring:
Serenity Caldwell and James Thomson
Links and Show Notes: How Apple Plans to Root Out Bugs, Revamp iPhone Software - Bloomberg Apple’s Software “Problem” and “Fixing” It - Steven Sinofsky Snapchat’s New Update Triggers Revolt by Millions of Teens Isaac Svobodny on Twitter: "The Snapchat update sucks. RT to save a life!… " Petition: Remove the new Snapchat Update · Change.org Magic Leap’s cheapest headsets will cost as much as a high-end phone - The Verge Magic Leap is partnering with the NBA to bring virtual basketball games to its goggles - The Verge Watch the interview: Magic Leap’s Rony Abovitz and the NBA’s Adam Silver - Recode Inside Facebook's Hellish Two Years—and Mark Zuckerberg's Struggle to Fix it All | WIRED Facebook is pushing its data-tracking Onavo VPN within its main mobile app | TechCrunch Gov. Cuomo Introduces ‘Captain,’ The First Puppy « CBS New York Verge Science - For $50,000, you can clone your dog. Tim Goodman: The Winter Olympics is Here! Yay? | Hollywood Reporter Serenity Caldwell (@settern) | Twitter James Thomson (@jamesthomson) | Twitter
50 min
February 08, 201841: Grandma's House
It's corporate results season, so we check in on how things are going at all the tech giants, including Apple, Google, Amazon, Facebook, and Netflix. Oh, and a billionaire shot a sportscar into space.
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Guest Starring:
Shelly Brisbin and Natalie Jarvey
Links and Show Notes: Netflix crosses $100 billion market capitalization as subscribers surge Amazon Fourth-Quarter Revenue Rises to $60.5B, Beats Analyst Expectations | Hollywood Reporter Jason Snell on Twitter: "Apple Watch sales figures still looking good… " Facebook Revenue Soars As Time Spent on Platform Plummets | Hollywood Reporter Apple's Phone Sales Decrease But Tim Cook Declares iPhone X a Hit | Hollywood Reporter Alphabet’s Earnings Disappoint. Blame It on the iPhone. - The New York Times Google brings Nest into the game as its AI battles Alexa - CNET Nest to join forces with Google’s hardware team Why Waymo might play the Michael Douglas ‘Greed is Good’ speech in court - The Verge Exclusive: Intel’s new Vaunt smart glasses actually look good - The Verge Liftoff - Relay FM B-Sides #31: Falcon Heavy - Relay FM SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket flung that Tesla car on a path that goes beyond Mars Here’s what’s next for SpaceX after Falcon Heavy’s first flight - The Verge Elon Musk’s Tesla roadster, which launched on top of SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy earlier today, is going farther out into the Solar System than originally planned. - The Verge Inside the desperate fight to keep old TVs alive - The Verge Natalie Jarvey (@natjarv) | Twitter Shelly Brisbin (@shelly) | Twitter
1 hr
February 01, 201840: An Alien Riding a Bike
It's a weird week in tech news: Strava leaked the location of secret military bases, Amazon got into healthcare, someone in the Trump Administration proposed nationalizing 5G wireless, and the world waited (or didn't) for the Apple HomePod.
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Guest Starring:
Megan Morrone and Michael Gartenberg
Links and Show Notes: Fitness tracking app Strava gives away location of secret US army bases | Technology | The Guardian What He Did on His Summer Break: Exposed a Global Security Flaw - The New York Times Strava Global Heatmap A Letter to the Strava Community - Strava Blog Strava will focus on privacy awareness to address security issues Tim Stevens on Twitter RE: Strava privacy Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway and JPMorgan Chase & Co. to partner on U.S. employee healthcare | Business Wire Amazon is creating a health care company with the help of Warren Buffett and JPMorgan Chase - Recode Amazon Health – Stratechery by Ben Thompson Google is now using machine learning to predict flight delays - The Verge Get help with cheaper flights and potential flight delays this winter - Google Blog Scoop: Trump team considers nationalizing 5G network - Axios The Trump Administration said it has no plans to build a 5G wireless network - Recode Trump Administration Idea for Nationalized 5G Falls Flat - Scientific American Proposal to national the 5G network no longer being considered, but it's still telling - Slate 3 local rescue puppies to compete in Puppy Bowl | WPXI The Puppy Bowl, explained - Vox Michael Gartenberg (@Gartenberg) | Twitter meganmorrone (@meganmorrone) | Twitter
1 hr 4 min
January 25, 201839: Vulnerable to Stick-Ups
After a long delay, Apple prepares the HomePod for release, but who (if anyone) is buying? Long lines greeted the opening of Amazon's new automated store that's supposed to do away with lines, but what's the endgame?
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Guest Starring:
Lisa Schmeiser and Kirk McElhearn
Links and Show Notes: HomePod arrives February 9, available to order this Friday - Apple Five obvious questions about Apple’s HomePod speaker - The Verge One Hour With Apple's New HomePod - Refinery29 Review: Apple iPod Hi-Fi - Macworld Amazon Go, a high-tech version of a 7-Eleven, will finally open on Monday — with no checkout lines and no cashiers - Recode Amazon Go Photos: Here’s what the new cashier-less convenience store looks like - Recode Jeff Bezos’ brilliant PR stunt - Axios Alphabet: Latest X Moonshot Graduate Chronicle Tackles Cybersecurity | Fortune Chronicle Security - Homepage rachel binx on Twitter: "if I make take a minute for a Bird Culture tweet: so a magical thing about viral bird videos is that now our birds are starting to learn distinctive songs and calls from their owners watching videos"
51 min

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