Rocket

Rocket

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  • 340: Breaking Windows

    This week Christina and Bri are talking about Windows 11, the various events from the launch and they detour into the state of Windows in general.

    For dessert, Bri and Christina extol the virtues of F9 and the Fast and Furious franchise.

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    • Links and Show Notes: Support Rocket with a Relay FM Membership Join us to see what’s next for developers - YouTube Upgrade to the New Windows 11 OS | Microsoft Introducing Windows 11 | Windows Experience Blog Windows 11: The Best Windows Ever for Gaming - Xbox Wire microsoft/GDK: Microsoft Public GDK 29 results for Laptops Can You Watch ‘F9’ Having Never Seen the Other ‘F&F’ Movies?
      1 hr 14 min
    • 339: Snap Swears

      This week we're hitting the road again with Peloton — any paying the price!? Peloton's PR problems are not getting better, with a new update soft-locking their treadmills for non-subscribers. And then, a Supreme Court Snap swears settlement! In a very alliterative episode of Rocket.

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      • Links and Show Notes: Support Rocket with a Relay FM Membership Peloton forced its subscription plan on Tread+ owners, but claims a fix is coming - The Verge Peloton: All Owners of $4,000 Tread+ Must Pay $39 Membership to Use Supreme Court says school can’t punish student for profane Snapchat post - The Verge Netflix’s Sexy Beasts Is a Dating Show Fever Dream
        58 min
      • 338: Hype House!!

        We have special guest Ashley Carman of The Verge on the show to talk about her INCREDIBLE story about the rise and fall of HiStudios and the podcast hype house that collapsed dramatically over the last year. And then we talk about E3 and all the good games!!

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        • Guest Starring:

          Ashley Carman

          Links and Show Notes: Support Rocket with a Relay FM Membership Himalaya Launches Podcast Platform With $100 Million Funding - Variety How Ximalaya funded one man’s podcasting hype house dreams - The Verge Square Enix announces action-heavy spinoff Final Fantasy Origin - The Verge Breath of the Wild 2 trailer analysis: Link’s new powers and other secrets - Polygon Starfield: What we know about Bethesda’s next RPG - Polygon New WarioWare game, Get It Together!, announced for Nintendo Switch - Polygon Metroid Dread: First gameplay and story details from Nintendo at E3 2021 - Polygon Redfall is Arkane’s new multiplayer shooter with vampires - Polygon
          1 hr 6 min
        • 337: MoviePass: Back in the News

          It’s another WWDC with Rocket. We’re chatting about the coffers announcements from Apple’s keynote, and giving yet another dramatic update on MoviePass. What could possibly have happened now?!

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          • Links and Show Notes: Support Rocket with a Relay FM Membership Apple WWDC 2021 biggest announcements: iOS 15, macOS Monterey and more - The Verge Apple is building video and music sharing into FaceTime - The Verge Apple’s Live Text is going to read all the text in all your photos with AI - The Verge You’ll soon be able to use your iPhone as ID at the airport - The Verge Apple’s Siri will finally work without an internet connection thanks to on-device processing - The Verge Apple introduces Siri for third-party devices - The Verge Apple announced App Privacy Report, changes to Mail and Safari - The Verge Apple is making AirPods easier to hear with and find - The Verge macOS Monterey lets you run Shortcuts and share input between Macs and iPads - The Verge MoviePass Deceived Users So They’d Use It Less, F.T.C. Says - The New York Times
            1 hr 11 min
          • 336: Cheaters Prosper

            Aunt Christina is having baby-time, but she's still here because we absolutely can't talk about GPUs and Stack Overflow without her! Nvidia has released an updated 3080, the RTX 3080 Ti. But it's $500 more than last year's card? What is HAPPENING? Then, speaking of large numbers, Prosus has acquired Stack Overflow for 1.8 billion, with a B. Is this a yikes or a yay?

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            • Links and Show Notes: Support Rocket with a Relay FM Membership Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 Ti review: more 4K for more of your wallet - The Verge Stack Overflow Sold to Tech Giant Prosus for $1.8 Billion - WSJ Technology investor Prosus is taking over Stack Overflow for $ 1.8 billion - Free to Download APK And Games Online Inside The ‘World’s Largest’ Video Game Cheating Empire
              1 hr 6 min
            • 335: AIRBN-BS

              Christina is at Microsoft Build this week, but what's this?? HOOFBEATS ON THE HORIZON? BRIANNA WU IS RETURNED FROM FLORIDA and she's SO ready to talk about the remastered Mass Effect trilogy. But first, we talk about Valve's new Switch-like CP and AirBnB's whole deal.

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              • Links and Show Notes: Support Rocket with a Relay FM Membership Exclusive: Valve is making a Switch-like portable gaming PC | Ars Technica Dell’s new Concept UFO puts PC gaming on a Nintendo Switch-like device | Ars Technica Airbnb 2021 Mass Effect remastered trilogy release date announced - Polygon Mass Effect remastered trilogy release date announced - Polygon Mass Effect Legendary Edition review: "The only way to play an unmissable series" | GamesRadar+ Mass Effect Modders Are Using Official Audio To Restore Gay Romances For Jack, Thane, Tali, And More
                1 hr 1 min
              • 334: Apple is Killing Games

                Christina and Simone are mourning Christina's Dogecoin dreams. But wait, what's this?? Apple is doing one good thing and two weird ones!? Unprecedented behavior from our problematic fave. Find out what's up on Rocket!

                This episode of Rocket is sponsored by:
                • Pingdom: Start monitoring your website performance and availability today, and get instant alerts when an outage occurs or a site transaction fails. Use offer code ROCKET to get 30% off. Offer expires on January 31, 2022, and can be used only once.
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                • Links and Show Notes: Support Rocket with a Relay FM Membership Bitcoin is, for now, worst of all financial worlds | Reuters 24-inch M1 iMac review: She’s a rainbow – Six Colors iMac M1 2021 review: the all-in-one for almost everyone - The Verge Unboxing ALL 7 M1 iMac Colors! - YouTube AirPods Max don't support Apple Music's lossless songs, Apple says | iMore Apple Music announces free lossless, Spatial Audio & Dolby Atmos upgrade | iMore AirPods Max won't support Apple Music's lossless audio over the Lightning cable either [Update] | iMore Apple said Roblox developers don’t make games, and now Roblox agrees - The Verge In Epic v Apple, everybody is losing at the game of defining games - The Verge Matthew Ball on Twitter Rocket #250: A Colossal Flip-Up - Relay FM MyBuild - Your home for Microsoft Build
                  1 hr 4 min
                • 333: Apple vs. Epic: Puritanical Edition

                  This week Simone and Christina are interrogating Apple vs. Epic! Would you download an unspeakable game… to your phone?? Would you?? We'll answer that and more as we examine Apple's puritanical behavior in the courtroom, and then pivot to the crummy future of smart toasters and their ilk, as the chip shortage persists.

                  This episode of Rocket is sponsored by:
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                  • DoorDash: Get 25% off and zero delivery fees on your first order of $15 or more.
                  • Links and Show Notes: Support Rocket with a Relay FM Membership Apple uses Itch.io’s ‘offensive and sexualized’ games as a cudgel against Epic - The Verge Indie game marketplace Itch.io caught in the Epic-Apple crossfire - Axios Itch Being Brought Into The Apple V Epic Case Shows What Corporations Think Of Queer Creators In Epic v Apple, everybody is losing at the game of defining games - The Verge Even Apple Knows Fortnite's Peely Is A Monster Adi Robertson on Twitter: "Apple lawyer: “We have a large yellow banana here, in a tuxedo?” Weissinger: “Yes, that’s Peeley." Apple: [light paraphrase: “And in the tuxedo he’s known as Agent Peeley."" / Twitter Adi Robertson on Twitter: "Apple lawyer: “We have a large yellow banana here, in a tuxedo?” Weissinger: “Yes, that’s Peeley." Apple: [light paraphrase: “And in the tuxedo he’s known as Agent Peeley."" / Twitter Adi Robertson on Twitter: "Epic Lawyer: “A little bit of a digression: we talked about Peely, our banana?"" / Twitter The Unspeakable Jam - itch.io Sony Warns Tight PlayStation 5 Supply to Extend Into Next Year - Bloomberg Chip shortage is starting to have major real-world consequences Why is there a global chip shortage—and how will it end? | Fortune Watch Venom 2 : Let There Be Carnage’s first trailer, which is full of carnage - Polygon BabyLand General® Hospital Cabbage Patch Kids
                    1 hr 1 min
                  • 332: All Out With Baby Stuff

                    In a lightning-fast episode we're talking about… yep, the big Basecamp blow-up, and we've got a lot to say. Then finally, Apple vs. Epic is finally before a judge, and lots of fun secrets are coming out!

                    This episode of Rocket is sponsored by:
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                    • Squarespace: Make your next move. Enter offer code ROCKET at checkout to get 10% off your first purchase.
                    • Links and Show Notes: Support Rocket with a Relay FM Membership Facebook’s Oversight Board upholds Trump ban for at least six months - The Washington Post Peloton reverses course, decides to recall treadmills after injuries, death | Reuters How Basecamp blew up - Platformer Changes at Basecamp Basecamp CEO apologizes to staff in new post: ‘We have a lot to learn’  - The Verge Epic vs. Apple Shows the Courts Were Not Prepared for the Games Industry's Obsessive Secrecy - IGN Sony really hated PS4 crossplay, confidential documents reveal - The Verge Epic Games Vs. Apple: What You Need To Know About The Trial : NPR
                      56 min
                    • 331: Triple Scamtown

                      It's triple helping of scams this week on Rocket. First off, a binary options scam comes to light after years of fleecing vulnerable people. Then, the secret behind McDonalds' ice cream machine failures is finally revealed!!

                      This episode of Rocket is sponsored by:
                      • Pingdom: Start monitoring your website performance and availability today, and get instant alerts when an outage occurs or a site transaction fails. Use offer code ROCKET to get 30% off. Offer expires on January 31, 2022, and can be used only once.
                      • The Intrazone, by Microsoft SharePoint: Your bi-weekly conversation and interview podcast about SharePoint, OneDrive and related tech within Microsoft 365.
                      • Links and Show Notes: Support Rocket with a Relay FM Membership Scam Theater: Inside an Online Trading Crime Ring That Grifted Millions from Mom-and-Pop Investors Scamworld: 'Get rich quick' schemes mutate into an online monster | The Verge Scamworld: 'Get rich quick' mutates into an unstoppable monster - YouTube The REAL Reason McDonalds Ice Cream Machines Are Always Broken - YouTube They Hacked McDonald’s Ice Cream Machines—and Started a Cold War | WIRED Chameleon — Campside Media Inside one of Hollywood's most audacious Ponzi schemes - Los Angeles Times
                        1 hr 10 min

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