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#48: I Brought Services, You Brought a Crayon
March 29th, 2018 · 64 minutes
Apple goes back to school, but will it make any difference in its battle with Chromebooks? Microsoft unveils a game subscription service, because we live in the era of subscription services. And Facebook has another bad week.
#47: Put the Toothpaste Back in the Cat
March 22nd, 2018 · 60 minutes
Facebook made us all think about the power of social media and the value of our personal data this week, but was Mark Zuckerberg's response enough? In equally heavy news, the first autonomous vehicle fatality happened this week.
#46: Count the Ms
March 15th, 2018 · 49 minutes
The U.S. government kills the Broadcom/Qualcomm merger, Apple buys a magazine subscription service, and Facebook and YouTube take stands of a sort against questionable posts on the Internet.
#45: Android Pop Rocks
March 8th, 2018 · 57 minutes
Into a somewhat boring smartphone market comes our first glance at Android P, MoviePass gets caught tracking its users, iPhone app development turns 10, and is that a creepy laugh coming from the Amazon Echo?
#44: They Went With the Chicken
March 1st, 2018 · 48 minutes
This week we analyze many of the phone announcements from Mobile World Congress, including a new Samsung Galaxy and the return of a phone you may remember from a film made in the previous century.
#43: Tea Party With Bots
February 22nd, 2018 · 55 minutes
Twitter is banning a bunch of bot accounts (again) and Microsoft is struggling to shed legacy technology in Windows (again), while the next flagship smartphone has been leaked (again).
#42: Get Used to Disappointment
February 15th, 2018 · 49 minutes
Apple's software quality may have caught up with it, while Snapchat is dealing with the fallout of its recent redesign. All the while, Facebook is doing Facebook things and we really need a fuzzy puppy update.
#41: Grandma's House
February 8th, 2018 · 59 minutes
It's corporate results season, so we check in on how things are going at all the tech giants, including Apple, Google, Amazon, Facebook, and Netflix. Oh, and a billionaire shot a sportscar into space.
#40: An Alien Riding a Bike
February 1st, 2018 · 63 minutes
It's a weird week in tech news: Strava leaked the location of secret military bases, Amazon got into healthcare, someone in the Trump Administration proposed nationalizing 5G wireless, and the world waited (or didn't) for the Apple HomePod.
#39: Vulnerable to Stick-Ups
January 25th, 2018 · 50 minutes
After a long delay, Apple prepares the HomePod for release, but who (if anyone) is buying? Long lines greeted the opening of Amazon's new automated store that's supposed to do away with lines, but what's the endgame?