TEH Podcast

TEH 196: Reddit again. Voice assistants. Energy from air and flying cars.

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This week the TEH Podcast is hosted by Leo Notenboom, the “Chief Question Answerer” at Ask Leo!, and Gary Rosenzweig, the host and producer of MacMost, and mobile game developer at Clever Media.

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  • 0:40 LN: More Reddit. Harvesting content and losing advertising.
    • 3:00 GR: Why Reddit has to charge for API
    • 7:15 Google also scrapes sites
    • 11:00 What’s the strategy. Is it all advertising revenue?
      • Or, is it just that third-party apps don’t show Reddit ads, so it is server use without any revenue generated by Reddit?
      • 13:00 LN: One person’s conspiracy theory
      • 17:30 LN: Cortana going away
        • What makes a voice assistant successful, anyway?
        • 25:00 Will it turn into Bing?
        • 30:00 GR: Making stuff up… or is it true?
          • GR: Scientists find way to make energy from air using nearly any material. This seems like too-good-to-be-true stuff to me.
          • Clean electricity from air?
          • 39:00 Why aren’t there flying cars? And drones.
            • Ain’t it Cool
            • 46:00 GR: Renfield. Funny vampire.
            • 49:00 LN: What’s Our Problem? – A Self-help Book for Societies – Tim Urban
              • BSP: Blatant Self-Promotion
              • 50:50 LN: The Problem With OneDrive Backup
              • 52:20 GR: XClipTools: Using the Calculator Functions

                • Leo and Gary in Denver

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