Spotify acquires Gimlet Media and Anchor for $230M and thus changes the podcasting landscape forever. While Tencent invests heavily in Reddit who may now be ready to take on Facebook and Google as your frontpage of the web. Apple is in trouble again with a horrendous FaceTime bug and Facebook keeps on being Facebook by spying on you even further.

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Episode 118. Recorded Tuesday 12 February 2019. 

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01:45 – Spotify buys Gimlet & Anchor

* Daniel Ek’s letter | Spotify Newsroom

* Blumberg and Lieber explain why they sold Gimlet to Spotify | Recode Media

15:12 – Tencent backs Reddit, Apex Legends, Fortnite

* Reddit raises $300m and ready to take on Google and Facebook | CNBC

* Is Apex Legends a threat to Fortnite? | BBC

* Fortnite’s Marshmello concert was bizarre and a glimpse into the future | The Verge

* Ventus VR in Sydney is the world’s first PvP arena scale experience | Ventus VR

* Injuries pile up with e-scooter craze | Yahoo News

30:05 – Tesla in China

* Why Tesla is betting big in China with a Shanghai gigafactory | WSJ youtube

* Elon Musk says… | CNBC

33:12 – Apple Stuff

* 14-year old’s FaceTime bug discovery could rattle Apple | news.com.au

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Are you a Whatsapp user that never joined Facebook? Well, that may be a thing of the past if Zuckerberg has anything to do with an upcoming project to unify all of Facebook’s many messaging services into one. There’s a great chance too, you know being the CEO and all. While Netflix has been forced to go on a price hike in America to keep its revenues up, as it prepares to stave off competition coming from all angles. If you have an ad-blocker extension on your Chrome, you may want to switch to Firefox as Google looks to re-engineer some key APIs on Chrome. Meanwhile, Nike just released its latest self-lacing sneakers and people are going nuts over them!

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Episode 117. Recorded Monday 28 January 2019. 

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00:00 – Intro & Davos 2019

* Netflix series ‘Kingdom’ a must-see even if you’re not into zombies | cNet

* 10 things we learned at the World Economic Forum | The Guardian

07:18 – Facebook to amalgamate Whatsapp, Instagram, Messenger

* Zuckerberg planning to integrate all the messaging services | NY Times (via Outline)

* ‘The Facts About Facebook” by Mark Zuckerberg | WSJ (via Outline)

* Zuckerberg defends Facebook in Op-Ed | Yahoo Finance

21:45 – Can Netflix hang on?

* With price hikes, Netflix is facing a Bird Box challenge of its own | SMH (via Outline)

* Sharing passwords? This company will use AI to track you down | The Verge

* Netflix is finally sharing its audience numbers | Recode

32:37 – Chrome’s new APIs to render Ad-blockers useless

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Another CES has come and gone and yes, 2019 has officially begun. We cover everything from exoskeleton bionic suits, AR glasses that actually look decent on your head, toilets for dogs and a home brew machine that can make beer with a touch of a button. We also catch up with our favourite sentient robot, Sophia and this year, she may have given birth to a baby Sophia.

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Episode 116. Recorded Sunday 13 January 2019. 

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00:00 – Intro & Kelvin’s dreams

* “Young and Dangerous” Hong Kong crime film from 1996 | wikipedia

02:12 – What is CES and themes in 2019

* Products unveiled at CES throughout history | @JohnErlichman

* Wireless companies put their big 5G gambles on display at CES | BNN Bloomberg

09:49 – Health and well-being

* Samsung’s bots and exoskeleton hint at the future of care | Engadget

* DFree, the always on device utilises ultrasound to gauge the fullness of the user’s bladder | Engadget

17:57 – Wearables, AR & VR

* Geoff’s best in show: Focals by North | bynorth.com

* Focals by North are AR glasses having their Pebble moment | 9to5google

* Nreal Light are mixed reality glasses in disguise | Engadget

* The Tripp VR, the ‘adaptive digiceutical | tripp.com

* Omron Healthcare’s Heartguide is a discreet blood pressure monitor in a smartwatch | Engadget

29:47 – Future of Food & Beverages

* Meat-free “Impossible Burger 2.

Apple and Tim Cook are making the headlines for all the wrong reasons this week but are the concerns warranted? What are the factors that has the market worried and what are some strategies they could employ to stop the rut? We also chat all things Bandersnatch and Netflix’s attempt at interactive entertainment. How _do_ you explain what a tv streaming service is to someone from the 80s?

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Episode 115. Recorded Monday 7 January 2019. 

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00:00 – Intro & Kelvin’s rant

* How to fix Skype not connecting to the internet on Windows | YouTube

03:40 – Bandersnatch review

* Netflix takes interactive storytelling to the next level with Black Mirror’s Bandersnatch | Variety

* Bandersnatch’s secret post-credit ending – what happens and how to get it | Screen Rant

* “Moral Machine” reveals deep split in autonomous car ethics | Cosmos Mag

* Contribute to the Moral Machine | mit.edu

17:30 – Apple is in trouble, will these moves help?

* Tim Cook’s letter to Apples investors | Apple Newsroom

* Foxconn to begin assembling high-end iPhones in India | Reuters

* Sony boosts 3D camera output after interest from phone makers | Bloomberg Quint

* Samsung Galaxy S10 leaks show a new type of “notch” | Business Insider

43 :24 – Digital Driver’s Licence trial in NSW

* How your driver’s lice...

We say goodbye to 2018 by recalling all the memes and themes for the year and greet 2019 by boldly predicting what lies ahead.

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Episode 114. Recorded Tuesday 1 January 2019. 

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00:00 – Intro & year in review

* Events galore! Google I/O, Apple’s WWDC, CES, Oculus Connect 5, E3, etc, etc* Elon Musk is mainstream news* The Lazy Couch turns 100 (episodes)* Rise of NVIDIA* FAANG watch

18:29 – 2018 positives

* iPad Pro 2018 version* Magic Leap exists!* Android phones get interesting* The promise of ‘voice UI’ can be realised* The Lazy Couch 3.0* Films: ROMA, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-verse* TV: Chilling Adventures of Sabrina* Game: Red Dead Redemption 2

32:00 – 2018 disappointments

* Google Pixel Slate* Lack of AirPods 2 & AirPower* Nothing happened with IoT* Tech giants going to Congress for political games

40:54 – Did we get 2018 predictions correct?

* Kelvin 1: Android P will be ‘Popsicle’* Kelvin 2a: ‘iPhone 9’ will look exactly the same as iPhone X * Kelvin 2b: Pixel 3 will be entirely made by Google* Kelvin 3: Elon Musk will send a ‘living thing’ to space* Kelvin 4: Apple will launch a whole new category* Geoff 1: Apple will produce a ‘hit’ TV show in 2018* Geoff 2: Zuckerberg will announce he is running for POTUS 2020* Geoff 3: Logan will be first superhero movie to be nominated for an Oscar best picture

46:47 – Our bold 2019 predictions

* Geoff 1: Oculus Quest to be released post-June 2019* Kelvin 1: Apple will launch a new iPad mini* Geoff 2: Apple will announce AR ‘glasses’ product to be released in 2020* Kelvin 2: Android Q will be just ‘Q’* Geoff 3: Spotify or Audible will release a choose-your-own-adventure style game/book* Kelvin 3: Chrome will drop below 50% marketshare globally on all devices

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The Lazy Couch is a geek culture podcast hosted by Kelvin Lee and Geoff Kim, based out of Sydney Australia. Topics range from the latest trends in technology to comic book movies and all things geeky. If you enjoyed listening to us, you can help the show by leaving us a review on iTunes or get in touch with us on @thelazycouch.

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The foldable smartphone is closer to being reality as Samsung unveils its plans to make that a thing in 2019. Web Summit is also a thing that happened in Lisbon, and somehow it involves climate change. Australia’s Robyn Denholm is Elon Musk’s new boss for the next 3 years – how does the world feel about that?

As always, we cover all angles using clips from different sources so you get everything you need to know, right here on The Lazy Couch Podcast.

Episode 113. Recorded Sunday 18 November 2018. 

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00:00 – Intro

* Stan Lee, Marvel Comics’ real life superhero, dies at 95 | Hollywood Reporter

05:00 – Samsung Developer Conference

* Samsung Developer Conference 2018 in 10 minutes | E3 Gamers Youtube

* Samsung Bixby 2.0 cheat sheet | TechRepublic

22:25 – Web Summit 2018

* Web Summit 2018 – closing remarks | President of Portugal

* What is Web Summit? | Wikipedia

* How long before robots rule the world? | Web Summit Youtube

* Chinese news agency unveiled AI anchors | Mashable Youtube

34:07 – Tesla Appoints Robyn Delholm as New Chair

* Elon Musk’s replacement as Tesla Chair faces task controlling erratic CEO | ABC

* Tesla Board of Directors | Tesla investor relations

* Robyn Denholm, current Telstra CFO’s LinkedIn | LinkedIn

43:36 – Singles Day

* Australian brands woo shoppers at China’s Singles’ Day sales | Financial Review

The Lazy Couch is a geek culture podcast hosted by Kelvin Lee and Geoff Kim, based out of Sydney Australia. Topics range from the latest trends in technology to comic book movies and all things geeky. If you enjoyed listening to us, you can help the show by leaving us a review on iTunes or get in touch with us on @thelazycouch.

Apple has unveiled its long awaited refreshes of the MacBook Air and Mac mini and announced some major changes to the iPad Pro lineup. We break it all down to assist with your (and our) purchasing decisions. Are you forking out thousands of dollars on these new shiny toys or have you seen it all before and won’t buy the marketing fluff? Let us know what you think!

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Episode 112. Recorded Sunday 4 November 2018. 

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00:00 – Intro & follow up

* CamperMate app for all your NZ road tripping needs | CamperMate web

03:43 – MacBook Air

* October New York keynote in full | Apple YouTube

* MacBook Air specs and Australian pricing | Apple Store

* MacBook Air review: The present of computing | The Verge

* The Mac, with Apple’s Tom Boger | iMore

26:48 – Mac mini & Apple Retail

* Mac mini specs and Australian pricing | Apple Store

* Mac mini review | iMore

* Apple widens ‘Today at Apple’ in-store classes with 60 new programs  | cnet

35:14 – iPad Pro

* iPad Pro first impressions: Incredibly thin | Marques Brownlee YouTube

* Laptop-killing hardware let down by iOS | Peter Wells on SMH

* iPhone battery and performance | Apple Support

* iPad Pro specs and Australian pricing | Apple Store

The Lazy Couch is a geek culture podcast hosted by Kelvin Lee and Geoff Kim, based out of Sydney Australia. Topics range from the latest trends in technology to comic book movies and all things geeky. If you enjoyed listening to us, you can help the show by leaving us a review on iTunes or get in touch with us on @thelazycouch...

The Pixel 3 leaks were correct! Google finally unveiled its hardware product line for 2018, which includes a notched XL phone, a tablet trying to be a laptop that’s definitely not a phone phablet and a new Google Home with the assistant built in with a phablet-sized screen. Confused yet? Tune in to episode 111 as we break it all down and what it all means to you.

As always, we cover all angles using clips from different sources so you get everything you need to know, right here on The Lazy Couch Podcast.

Episode 111. Recorded Thursday 11 October 2018. 

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00:00 – Intro & follow up

* Kelvin predicts the demise of Google+ | CNBC

* Pixel 3 conspiracy theories add intrigue to Google’s launch | PC World

08:15 – Pixel 3 & Pixel 3 XL

* Pixel 3 XL – the notch is REAL | D2D YouTube

* You can hide the Pixel 3 XL notch but it’s tricky | Android Authority

* How Google’s Pixel 3 camera works wonders with just one rear lens | Wired

* Google Pixel 3 first impressions | MKBHD YouTube

* Everything about Google’s great Android hope | Gizmodo

* Google Assistant will screen spam calls on the Pixel 3 | The Verge

31:13 – Pixel Slate

* Google Pixel Slate hands-on: the keyboard is the best part | CNet

* The Pixel Slate: first look at Google’s new tablet | The Verge

39:00 – Google Home Hub

* Google Home Hub hands-on: Assistant gets a screen | The Verge

* Google Home Hub’s best feature is not having a camera | engadget

* Under the hood, Google Home Hub is nothing like other Google smart displays | Ars Technica

After 5 years of steering Oculus and their virtual reality arm for high-tech devices, Facebook are making all the right moves and pushing the industry forward with the launch of Oculus Quest – a new standalone VR headset with hand presence and 6 degrees of freedom. Oculus Connect 5 is its annual developers conference and we deep dive into the metaverse to bring you all the latest from the event. Is the future truly VR? When will we be able to jack into the Matrix?

As always, we cover all angles using clips from different sources so you get everything you need to know, right here on The Lazy Couch Podcast.

Episode 110. Recorded Friday 5 October 2018. 

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00:00 – Intro

* Breaking news – Instagram goes down | 9 news

* Instagram co-founders Systrom and Krieger step down | NY Times

08:39 – Oculus Connect 5

* Oculus Connect 5 keynote featuring Zuckerberg | Oculus YouTube

* Oculus Quest specs, price, release date and everything else | UploadVR

* Hands-on with the Oculus Quest VR headset | Tested YouTube

* 6 degrees of freedom | wikipedia

27:53 – Applications of tether-less VR

* John Carmack, Oculus CTO and godfather of modern gaming | wikipedia

* Oculus Quest put us in an arena scale wild west shoot out | The Verge

* Project Tennis Scramble preview | VR focus

* Star Wars VR experience ‘Vader Immortal’ will debut on Quest | engadget

40:28 – Our VR future

* Michael Abrash, Chief Scientist at Oculus | wikipedia

* What is fixed foveated rendering and why does it matter? | Tom’s Hardware

* 5 big takeaways from Michael Abrash’s OC5 keynote | UploadVR

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In this special episode of The Lazy Couch podcast, we are joined by long time friend of the show, Alex, as we break down the all the announcements from the latest Apple event from Cupertino. What did we like/dislike about the new phones? Will we order the new watch? What’s with the weird naming convention anyway?

As always, we cover all angles using clips from different sources so you get everything you need to know, right here on The Lazy Couch Podcast.

Episode 109. Recorded Friday 14 September 2018. 

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00:00 – Apple Event

* Jonny Ive introduces the iPhone XS, iPhone XS Max and iPhone XR | Apple YouTube

* Apple’s A12 Bionic is the first 7-nanometer smartphone chip | engadget

* Apple Watch 4 hands-on: bigger is better | The Verge

* Apple could sell 30m iPhone XS Max phones next year | Bloomberg Tech YouTube

The Lazy Couch is a geek culture podcast hosted by Kelvin Lee and Geoff Kim, based out of Sydney Australia. Topics range from the latest trends in technology to comic book movies and all things geeky. If you enjoyed listening to us, you can help the show by leaving us a review on iTunes or get in touch with us on @thelazycouch.

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