In this episode we take a surprising twist and beat up on Apple for not updating their hardware. We also commend Instagram for copying Snapchat. What is wrong with us!? See below for all the stories and their links.
232: You Won’t Believe The Bus That DJI Avoided
What a week! It felt like all the big annual themes got hit this week. Clearly this is the year of VR, drones, and the IoT.
Google’s autonomous cars hit something, Bold talks about credibility, Microsoft shares more on the HoloLens, VR heats up for HTC, Oculus and Sony, DJI introduces the next generation of Phantom drones, Raspberry pushes out a new Pi, and Amazon ramps up their Echo offerings.
211: It’s Like Deja Vu All Over Again
The more things change, the more they stay the same. Great artists steal. It’s like deja vu all over again. That seems to be the same after a 3rd set of hardware announcements that basically seems to only change the company name. Don’t get us wrong. Microsoft’s interpretation is very compelling, but it all seems too familiar. See below for all the links to each article.
198: Disynergizing CEOs
Disney is really ramping up the number of Star Wars movies, the Bolt is a cool electric bike, HP is taking a week off and losing Bill Veghte to SurveyMonkey, Apple Watch is doomed, Waze is semi-taking on Uber, Microsoft is making progress with the HoloLens, the BBC is making a micro:bit for kids, Tinder has verified users, Ben Huh is stepping down from I Can Has Cheeseburger?, Reddit has a new CEO that the community likes, Google and Blackberry are suiting up together, and Nintendo’s Satoru Iwata passes away.
195: Do You Think This Is A Game?
This week we talk about…
Google playing with photos (see image above), E3 where Microsoft and Sony show off all sorts of cool goodies, the future of virtual reality from Oculus, Valve & Starbreeze, Nintendo level maker and MarI/O, the death of the Mac, the possibilities of WebAssembly, Apple Music and TSwift, and finally Uber’s employees of the California Labor Commission.
188: How To Pronounce Satya
This week we focus on Microsoft and their announcements at their Build Conference. In short: Continuum looks great, .NET aims to kill Java and Oracle, HoloLens to coming along just fine and Microsoft still doesn’t know how old you are.
We also chat about the Avengers (of course), the EM Drive, Facebook’s video chat feature, and Tesla’s home battery.
174: You Won’t Believe the 9 Things You Didn’t Know About This Company’s Mind Blowing Announcement
This is definitely not click bait, though we do start off talking about the most popular Buzzfeed headlines. Then we move onto the most popular passwords and all of Microsoft’s announcements: Windows 10, Cortano integration, Project Spartan, Xbox integration, the Surface Hub and the HoloLens. We finish up with Xiaomi’s ability to make cheap phones, the Myo’s impending release, NBC streaming the Super Bowl, Blackberry whining about nobody making apps for them and Google investing in SpaceX to bring the Internet via satellites.
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- How Xiaomi Manages To Keep Cost Low
- Amazon Is Gonna Make Movies
- The Myo Gesture Armband Will Go On Sale On Amazon This Quarter
- The Top Buzzfeed Click Bate Titles
- NBC Will Live Stream The Super Bowl
- Google Invest $1B in SpaceX
- The 25 Most Popular Passwords of 2014: We’re All Doomed
- The 9 biggest announcements from Microsoft’s Windows 10 event
- Windows 10 Will Be A Free Upgrade, Mostly
- Windows 10 Will Finally Bring About The Universal App For The Windows Ecosystem
- XBOX ONE is Heading To Windows 10
- The Official Beginning Of The End Of IE
- Microsoft’s Far Less Embarrassing Big ol’ Surface
- Microsoft Is Building A Universal Chat Client
- Microsoft Unveils The HoloLens
- A Reminder Of How This Sort Of Thing Has Gone In The Past
- BlackBerry CEO Wants Legislators To Make Developing BlackBerry Apps Mandatory
- 16 Tech Trends
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