October 22, 2020

Tech News Weekly 156: AOC is Among Us on Twitch

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The failure of Quibi, Phantom Secure, AR Mario Kart in your living room.

Joseph Cox from Motherboard details a lengthy voyage of Phantom Secure, a secure smartphone service that catered to and participated in the criminal underground.

Mario Kart is coming to your living room! Rebecca Spear from iMore tested the new Mario Kart Live kit and shows why it makes such a good toy for humans and cats.

Quibi failed fast and hard, and Josh Constine from SignalFire has thought extensively about why it wasn't able to capitalize on the opportunity that shelter-in-place provides for video streaming services.

Twitch saw Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez nearly break live streaming records while playing Among Us, and Kyle Orland from Ars Technica dissects what that means for the upcoming election.

Host: Jason Howell

Guests: Joseph Cox, Rebecca Spear, Josh Constine, and Kyle Orland

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October 22, 2020

Tech News Weekly 156: AOC is Among Us on Twitch

Listen Later

57 minutes

The failure of Quibi, Phantom Secure, AR Mario Kart in your living room.

Joseph Cox from Motherboard details a lengthy voyage of Phantom Secure, a secure smartphone service that catered to and participated in the criminal underground.

Mario Kart is coming to your living room! Rebecca Spear from iMore tested the new Mario Kart Live kit and shows why it makes such a good toy for humans and cats.

Quibi failed fast and hard, and Josh Constine from SignalFire has thought extensively about why it wasn't able to capitalize on the opportunity that shelter-in-place provides for video streaming services.

Twitch saw Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez nearly break live streaming records while playing Among Us, and Kyle Orland from Ars Technica dissects what that means for the upcoming election.

Host: Jason Howell

Guests: Joseph Cox, Rebecca Spear, Josh Constine, and Kyle Orland

Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/tech-news-weekly.

Sponsors:

twilio.com

MySudo.com/twit

ZipRecruiter.com/tnw

...more