HomePod Defense Squad

An official test of the brand new HPDS in-person systems featuring 20% new technology, 45% new jokes, and 100% more Soylent!

CES is over, the European Parliament is angry about the lightning cable, and Segway shows off the absolute cutting edge in lack of market awareness.

The Xbox Series X gets announced, Jack Dorsey wants you to know that he's aware Mastodon exists and they're gonna build it anyway, Google discloses nearly 1500 mobile device location histories to law enforcement, and some truly obsessive tech consumerism.

Going hands-on with the Stadia Founders Edition, Twitter has finally got a proper 2FA, robot lawyers are coming to help us understand dystopian license agreements, and Elon Musk goes full Tony Stark with the Tesla Internet Truck.

Microsoft Ignite happened and there's big news on the infrastructure as code front from Azure Resource Manager. Chromium Edge gets a release date of January 15th with new privacy features, and browser-based Visual Studio Code rolls out for testing to all developers. Also, Evan reviews the Airpods Pro and Instagram will start hiding like counts in the US starting this week.

To no one's surprise, Joe is really into Dickinson, Microsoft is updating the Edge logo for a new Chromium-based era, Jack Dorsey shows his butt to Mark Zuckerberg, Google has plans for a new watch with its Fitbit purchase, your Twitter questions, and more!

Evan finally got his hands on the iPhone 11, the boys have a good discussion on the physical limitations of 5G and why it's not coming to your rural town any time soon, Firefox is rolling out DoH with Cloudflare, and why that might not be such a great thing, and the absolute disaster that is trying to send a text message on the Android operating system.

The Samsung Galaxy S10 has a broken fingerprint sensor, Twitch passes on the Apple Tax, Netflix Q3 earnings report analysis, the Google Pixel 4, Evan's mad about something, and what the hell is Python Pickling?

Joe and Evan are really excited about Apple Arcade, then it's time for the inevitable dive into the influence the Chinese market has on American industry, specifically in the context of the past few weeks.

Tim Cook said a thing, so naturally we had to go for two hours. iPhone 11, Apple TV+, Apple Watch Series 5, why the iPad will never break into education, and mourning a dearly departed friend of the show. Enjoy our tenth episode-palooza special maximum ultra!

A roundup of all the the biggest Pear Phone and Watch rumors before the big conference tomorrow.