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Rocket episodes
- 260: Gospel of Simone
We’re reviewing the decade, baby!! Tune in for the best products and the best and worst
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Links and Show Notes: Support Rocket with a Relay FM Membership Boeing Fires C.E.O. Dennis Muilenburg - The New York Times Opinion | Twelve Million Phones, One Dataset, Zero Privacy - The New York Times Opinion | Where Even the Children Are Being Tracked - The New York Times Opinion | Total Surveillance Is Not What America Signed Up For - The New York Times Opinion | How Your Phone Betrays Democracy - The New York Times It Seemed Like a Popular Chat App. It’s Secretly a Spy Tool. - The New York Times The 84 biggest flops, fails, and dead dreams of the decade in tech - The Verge Universal Notifies Theaters 'Cats' Is Being Updated With "Improved Visual Effects" | Hollywood Reporter "Cats" Reviews: Critics Savage Bizarre New Movie Musical Adaptation1 hr 15 min - 259: Catastrophe
This week on Rocket, Simone is deathly ill, so Bri and Christina talk about the latest Boeing CEO news, the New York Times’s scary new privacy investigation, the worst gadgets/companies of the decade, and the debacle/hellscape that is “Cats.”
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Links and Show Notes: Support Rocket with a Relay FM Membership Boeing Fires C.E.O. Dennis Muilenburg - The New York Times Opinion | Twelve Million Phones, One Dataset, Zero Privacy - The New York Times Opinion | Where Even the Children Are Being Tracked - The New York Times Opinion | Total Surveillance Is Not What America Signed Up For - The New York Times Opinion | How Your Phone Betrays Democracy - The New York Times It Seemed Like a Popular Chat App. It’s Secretly a Spy Tool. - The New York Times The 84 biggest flops, fails, and dead dreams of the decade in tech - The Verge Universal Notifies Theaters 'Cats' Is Being Updated With "Improved Visual Effects" | Hollywood Reporter "Cats" Reviews: Critics Savage Bizarre New Movie Musical Adaptation1 hr 3 min - 258: X is Banned
This is a tech-heavy week, with discussion of the new Xbox Series X and security on Amazon's Ring cameras, as well as a long retrospective about the trouble Boeing 737 production and what it could imply about the future of self-driving cars.
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Links and Show Notes: Support Rocket with a Relay FM Membership Xbox Series X: all the news about Microsoft’s next-gen game console - The Verge Xbox Series X: Microsoft’s next Xbox console for 2020 - The Verge The Xbox Series X is basically a PC - The Verge The Case Against Boeing | The New Yorker Boeing’s 737 Max Software Outsourced to $9-an-Hour Engineers - Bloomberg Boeing and F.A.A. Faulted in Damning Report on 737 Max Certification - The New York Times The Roots of Boeing’s 737 Max Crisis: A Regulator Relaxes Its Oversight - The New York Times Boeing 737 Max Was Plagued With Production Problems, Whistle-Blower Says - The New York Times What Really Brought Down the Boeing 737 Max? - The New York Times Boeing 737 MAX freeze divides suppliers into haves and have-nots - Reuters We Tested Ring’s Security. It’s Awful - VICE Ring's Neighbors Data Let Us Map Amazon's Home Surveillance Network Evan Greer: Google Nest or Amazon Ring? Just reject these corporations' surveillance and a dystopic future1 hr 2 min - 257: Not Even Netflix
Christina and Simone tackle the new Mac Pro, and the extremely enjoyable Gadgets of the Decade lists that are coming out now! Finally, an even more important list: trash food of the decade.
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Links and Show Notes: Support Rocket with a Relay FM Membership This 2019 Mac Pro Review is Different... - YouTube Mac Pro and Pro Display XDR first impressions, performance benchmarks, more [Videos] - 9to5Mac Apple Mac Pro 2019 | New Apple Computer Guide Mac Pro Unboxing & Second Impressions: The Power is Back! - YouTube Apple’s most expensive Mac Pro costs $52,599 - The Verge iPhones, Samsung Galaxy, and more: the 100 gadgets that defined this decade - The Verge The Most Innovative Gadgets of the 2010s How Does Jeff Bezos Eat Cheetos? An Investigation | MEL Magazine1 hr - 256: Reverse Rocket Rule
Larry Page and Sergey Brin are leaving Alphabet to Sundar Pichai! Woah! Also, there are … iPhone rumors! As usual. Finally, after 84 years, Marvel has released a Black Widow Trailer.
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- The Ethical Algorithm: The Science of Socially Aware Algorithm Design
Links and Show Notes: Support Rocket with a Relay FM Membership A letter from Larry and Sergey Three Years of Misery Inside Google, the Happiest Company in Tech | WIRED Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin relinquish control of Alphabet to CEO Sundar Pichai - The Verge Analyst: Apple to Release Four iPhones in Fall 2020 With 5G Connectivity and OLED Displays - MacRumors Intel says Qualcomm tactics forced it out of modem chip market - Reuters First Black Widow trailer: Natasha Romanoff is back in a Marvel prequel - Polygon59 min - 255: Agents of Chaos
Description: Christina is back!! Let’s do a Christina catch-up: What did she think about the MacBook Pro and Pokemon Sword/Shield? Then it’s onto the real show, and we’re talking about Tesla’s angular new Cybertruck and Google Stadia. There was going to be another topic but instead we talked about Pokemon for thirty minutes. Who saw that coming?
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Links and Show Notes: Support Rocket with a Relay FM Membership I rode inside Tesla’s polarizing Cybertruck | Engadget Are the boxy Tesla Cybertruck's aerodynamics any good? An engineer found out - Electrek Why the Tesla Cybertruck Looks So Weird | WIRED Elon Musk explains why the Cybertruck's windows broke - CNN Google Stadia Review: It's Getting There | WIRED Google Stadia review: the best of cloud gaming is still just a beta - The Verge The world is waiting for Google Stadia to flop - The Verge59 min - 254: We're Cancelling Black Friday
Bri and Simone convene to discuss the new MacBook Pro model (old keyboard!) and some Black Friday deals that in the end… all kind of suck. Does Black Friday suck? Finally, the new Pokemon game is here and boy has it been a lightning rod for controversy! Let's get heated.
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Links and Show Notes: Support Rocket with a Relay FM Membership Apple’s 16-inch MacBook Pro is here, and it has a good keyboard - The Verge Best Black Friday phone deals: iPhone 11 Pro, Google Pixel 4, and more - The Verge ‘Game Freak Lied’ isn’t entirely about Pokémon Sword and Shield - Polygon THE POKEMON FANBASE IN A NUTSHELL! - YouTube58 min - 253: Hard Times for Tik Tok
Jeremy Kaplowitz and Matt Saincome from Hard Drive are joining Bri and Simone on this week's Rocket to chat about their new book, Apple's plot to release AR glasses and a headset, TikTok's trouble with the U.S. government, and the Sonic redesign.
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Guest Starring:Matt Saincome and Jeremy Kaplowitz
Links and Show Notes: Support Rocket with a Relay FM Membership Apple Eyes 2022 Release for AR Headset, 2023 for Glasses — The Information The threats against TikTok are beginning to add up - The Verge TikTok has a credibility problem with Congress - The Verge Sonic the Hedgehog International Trailer #1 (2020) - YouTube1 hr 10 min - 252: Retraction
Christina and Brianna are eating crow regarding the Morning Show and Apple TV Plus's programming. Simone is still a hold-out. Next, we're talking about lasers, the new way your home tech can be used to make you feel unsafe. And finally it's a mini scamtown on AirBnB, which frankly, needs to do better.
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- Flatiron School: Launch a career in tech with Flatiron School’s modern curriculum paired with one-on-one support from dedicated Career Coaches, all just in 15 weeks.
Links and Show Notes: Support Rocket with a Relay FM Membership Hackers Can Use Lasers to ‘Speak’ to Your Amazon Echo or Google Home | WIRED I Accidentally Uncovered a Nationwide Scam on Airbnb - VICE Airbnb Promises to Verify All 7 Million Listings After VICE Report Exposes Scam - VICE53 min - 251: Neutral Bud Hotel
Before Christina leaves on Microsoft Ignite, we're talking about the battle of the buds! Amazon's low-priced noise reducing echo buds versus Apple AirPods Pro. Then, the first impressions of Apple TV Plus are coming in, and it's looking boring out there. Finally, a brief chat about narrative games after the success of Outer Worlds.
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Links and Show Notes: Support Rocket with a Relay FM Membership Amazon Echo Buds review: great sound at the right price - The Verge AirPods Pro Unboxing & Impressions! - YouTube AirPods Pro hands-on: Apple’s noise canceling earbuds are big on sound - The Verge Apple's TV app is on Roku, Fire TV and Samsung, but only Apple devices get every feature - CNET ‘Dickinson’ Review: A Heroine Out of Time and a Show Out of Whack – Rolling Stone ‘The Morning Show’ Review: Apple TV+ Rises But Doesn’t Shine – Rolling Stone Early Apple TV+ reviews show a lineup lacking hits | Engadget The Outer Worlds review: role-playing among the ruins of capitalism - Polygon1 hr 8 min
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Countdown to excitement! Every week Christina Warren, Brianna Wu and Simone de Rochefort had accelerated geek conversation. Tech, comics, movies, games and books, no galaxy is off limits! Hosted by…
Christina Warren, Brianna Wu, and Simone De Rochefort.
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