General Protection Fault

Old farm equipment is experiencing a gold rush, Scroll removes ads across a range of sites for a flat fee, Grubhub is offering deliveries from restaurants that haven’t signed up and Some advice for people seeking free anti-virus software that won’t spy on you.

Tax prep software can no longer hide free offerings, and may have a new competitor in the future, Google Play store will stop notifying you of app updates, Disney is dropping “Fox” from all of its new purchases and Pokemon Go’s Live Events may in fact drive over $200 million in travel expenses.

More than a 100 million folks are using the Epic Game Store, Robot restaurants are on their way out, at least in San Francisco, PC sales are up for the first time in 9 years thanks in part to Lenovo and We look at the worst data breaches of 2019.

Netflix library is shrinking as focus turns to original content, Rocket League is officially loot box free and electric vehicles outsell manual transmissions in the US.

Valve announces a return to the world of Half-Life in VR, Motorola reveals the new foldable Razr smartphone along with its price and Twitch studio is available and now ANYONE can quickly be a twitch streamer. All of this and a review of the RecJoy Digital Voice Activated Recorder, spy-pen style.

T-Mobile is promising an awful lot if they are allowed to merge with Sprint, Disney+ launches to the delight of 10 million subscribers, and pirates. Not happy with just FitBit data, it looks as though Google probably has all of your medical history too.

Twitter is banning all paid political ads starting November 22nd, AT&T’s failure to offer a truly Unlimited plan results in a $60 million fine, Fitbit will soon be owned by Google and Alex Everett puts on his existential fedora and dives deep into Disco Elysium by ZA/UM.

Aired: October 30, 2019 | Episode: 266

Topics:

EA aims to start using Steam again

A quick chat about RTX-enabled games

Sony’s PS4 is the highest selling current gen console

The Xbox All Access program returns

And a look at what Windows 10x is and if it really matters to you (hint: it doesn’t)

Featuring:

Jeremy Smith (Host)

Ivan Baird (Co-Host)

GPF airs Wednesdays at 6:30 PM AST on KSUA 91.5 FM.

Aired: October 16, 2019 | Episode: 265

Topics:

Google’s streaming game tech Stadia could have better latency in a year or two

The latest device to get DRM, Nerf darts

The Internet Archive recently added a plethora of pre-windows games

And a look at Destiny 2’s new release and relocation along with a review of Sniper Elite V2 Remastered From Rebellion

Featuring:

Jeremy Smith (Host)

Ivan Baird (Co-Host)

GPF airs Wednesdays at 6:30 PM AST on KSUA 91.5 FM.

Aired: September 11, 2019 | Episode: 264

Topics:

Gamestop is trading itself in to the tune of 200 store closings

World-building game Civilization 6 announces a battle royale mode

The biggest announcements from Apple’s recent tech event

Featuring:

Jeremy Smith (Host)

Ivan Baird (Co-Host)

GPF airs Wednesdays at 6:30 PM AST on KSUA 91.5 FM.