Hosted by Christina Warren, Brianna Wu, and Simone De Rochefort.
Countdown to excitement! Every week Christina Warren, Brianna Wu and Simone de Rochefort have accelerated geek conversation. Tech, comics, movies, games and books, no galaxy is off limits!
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#350: Many Apples
September 9th, 2021 · 64 minutes
Many many tiny slices of Apple are coming to you, listener. First, an update on Apple's CSAM tools and concessions to the anti-trust critics! But will it be enough to save the App Store? All this and more on Rocket.
#349: Arriving Today!
September 2nd, 2021 · 69 minutes
This week on Rocket, tech journalist and author Christopher Mims is here to discuss his new book, Arriving Today. It's the book that critics are saying "makes supply chains interesting" (Simone de Rochefort, 2021)
#348: Only Fans, Only Problems
August 26th, 2021 · 67 minutes
Where are the only solutions? This week on Rocket we're talking about the Only Fans debacle, which came to a tenuous resolution mere hours before we started recording? Reverse Rocket Rule! Deep dive into the Mystery of the Exploding PSUs from Gigabyte.
#347: YAK, BACK, DO IT AGAIN
August 19th, 2021 · 66 minutes
WHEELS TURNING ROUND AND ROUND. This week we're talking about YIKYAK, Google not shipping chargers with new phones - dessert this week is an episode from Wall Street Journal on the tech workers who are taking on TWO full-time jobs.
#346: Really Ridiculous Content
August 12th, 2021 · 72 minutes
Apple proposes to add controversial machine learning tools to the iPhone to protect children but is it the right thing to do? Also, iPhone rumors! Apparently, no amount of questionable activity will prevent us from being consumers in this capitalist hell.
#345: Scholastic Succession
August 5th, 2021 · 57 minutes
On this episode of Rocket, we're not saying anyone was murdered! But we ARE saying the RIAA's ridiculous bullying could MURDER the music industry & their penny-pinching ways won't help creators!!
#344: Viral News
July 29th, 2021 · 53 minutes
This week we're discussing the lawsuit against Activision Blizzard and employee walk-outs protesting widespread sexual harassment at the company. Also, mandatory vaccines at Google, and Adam Driver turning into a centaur.
#343: Faith in Ted Sarandos
July 22nd, 2021 · 66 minutes
It's a big week for Rocket Rules: Last week Steam announced its Steam Deck handheld PC, and Netflix announced it was getting into games! But in the middle of all that fun, don't we have time for… some Apple Rumors? You know we do! We always do...
#342: Goodbye, Fleets
July 15th, 2021 · 66 minutes
The New York Times has a killer new story on Facebook's relationship with CrowdTangle. And then, speaking of driving engagement, Twitter is killing Fleets? WHAT ARE WE GONNA DO!!
#341: Social Media Astir
July 8th, 2021 · 64 minutes
Christina and Simone are tackling the newest model of the Nintendo Switch with its fancy new OLED screen. Is it the Switch we've been waiting for!? Maybe not!? Is it the Switch we have? Yes.