In the Weeds with Dexter Johnson

The butterfly key switches on the new MacBook and MacBook Pro devices have been lauded as being faulty and prone to failure almost since their release. With Apple putting out documentation about how to use compressed air to hopefully fix -- a repair program has been a long time coming and we'll deserved for customers, who have paid updward of $3000 for a laptop. ||

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Bias is built into everything, whether you realize it or not and with more services and industries utilizing AI we must be careful with how we implement these datasets and practices, especially facial recognition. Read an interesting article here: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-06-26/ai-has-a-race-problem ... ||

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Marketing. That's what it's all about. At the end of the day, companies want you to buy their things and whether that product or service is in a video, Instagram or Facebook post -- reviewed directly or indirectly, it's all a marketing game. ||

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It happened, on June 27, 2018, controlling things using our voice on Google Home devices powered by our friend Google Assistant went down for hours on end. With a voice first world vastly approaching, what can when do when this happens again -- and is voice first even the right move? ||

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Wi-Fi Protected Access, which is a protocol developed by the Wi-Fi Alliance is getting an upgrade allowing for individualized encryption and more. More security in 2018 is certainly a welcome addition. ||

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The latest offering from Instagram, dubbed IGTV, is going to shake up mobile video in one way or another. This new platform focuses on the much maligned vertical video and is meant for smartphone viewing. Many have claimed that this is a competitor to YouTube; however, I think it's the nail in the coffin for Snapchat. ||

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Google makes multiple attempts at many things, sometimes their apps and services make it, sometimes hey get rolled into another and other times they are separated out into a new app when it's confusing of how to find that feature in a current app --meet Google Podcasts, the app that should've been there all along. ||

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As usual, law enforcement is exciting fear over what they supposedly cannot do if Apple strengthens device protection by locking down USB access so that Cellebrite and other hacking machines cannot syphon data off of iOS devices. Everyone has a right to privacy and just because you don a badge doesn't give you the right to rummage through everyone's digital assets. Cry me a river. Link to the story here: https://gizmodo.com/cops-are-predictably-pissed-about-apples-plan-to-turn-o-1826814158 ||

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The World Health Organization is officially recognizing gaming disorder as a thing. Addiction to video games is a real problem, with games becoming more realistic and captivating than ever -- what could this mean for us as a society? ||

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Lovers of the other side always criticize the other company while there are succinct reasons why each company pursues different avenues which are directly related to what they are inherently good at. Apple is awful at AI -- take a look at Siri and tell someone otherwise. Google really has no clue how other OEMs will implement it's AR features into their devices. So they push what they can control the narrative on, respectively. ||

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