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HBO Max will launch in May for $14.99 a month, the same price as HBO Now. Customers who pay HBO for an HBO Now subscription or who get HBO from an AT&T service will be able to log into HBO Max. What will this mean for current HBO subscribers and the streaming landscape?

Starring Tom Merritt, Patrick Beja, Roger Chang

 

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Electronic Arts announced it is publishing games on Steam for the first time since 2012, starting with a pre-order page for Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order. Why has EA's strategy for online game distribution come full circle back to Steam and will it be the only one?

Starring Tom Merritt, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang

 

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Nvidia updates its venerable Shield TV set-top box, Apple announces the launch of its AirPod Pros, and Harvard University researchers have found a way to simulate real meat by growing muscle cells on a gelatin scaffold.

Starring Tom Merritt, Nicole Lee, Roger Chang

 

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Facebook is rolling out a News product in a limited test in the US as a home screen tab and bookmark in the Facebook app. What is Facebook trying to accomplish with this roll-out and will it succeed?

Starring Tom Merritt, Shannon Morse, Roger Chang, Len Peralta.

 

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Is TikTok a national security threat or just electioneering hyperbole?

Starring Tom Merritt, Roger Chang, Justin Robert Young

 

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McDonald's, the fast-food giant, has invested substantial resources into developing AI to help automate portions of its business. We take a look at the progress the Golden Arches has made in the tech sector.

Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Justin Robert Young 

 

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Ed Both at ZDNet has an article up called "How to replace each Google service with a more privacy-friendly alternative." We take a look at Ed's suggestions and add a few of our own.

Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Patrick Beja

 

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Scientists at the University of Bristol and Sorbonne University have developed a skin-like input interface for use with phones and computers. Twitch is testing "watch parties", which would allow streamers to screen Amazon Prime video content to viewers, provided they also have an Amazon Prime subscription. NordVPN says one of its VPN servers at a data center it was renting in Finland, was accessed without authorization.

Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang.

 

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We examine the phenomenon that prevents people from picking up new habits and ways of doing things preferring established methods instead even if new behavior would simplify tasks.

Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Blair Bazdarich, Len Peralta, Roger Chang. 

 

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Netflix earnings for the quarter are in and things look good. Earnings are up but subscriber base in the US missed targets. CEO Reed Hastings said that new streaming services from Apple and Disney would provide "modest headwinds" and that the bigger threat is linear TV. 

Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Justin Robert Young. 

 

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