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30: Knowing Yourself
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11/16/17 • 54 min
Wearable tech that can make us healthier or save our lives, a potential renewal of the debate of government access to encrypted data, and how Facebook knows everything about you even if you're not on Facebook. Plus, Jason pours one out for CompuServe.
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Leah Becerra and James T. Green
Links and Show Notes James on Twitter: "Never thought a stupid lil wrist computer I bought 2 years ago would save my life. Saw my ❤️ rate go up, ended up being a pulmonary embolism https://t.co/r97uRcX0En" Apple Watch notification helps save man's life: 'It would have been fatal' Dexcom CEO talks ‘game changer’ diabetes management coming to Apple Watch | 9to5Mac The FBI may have lost critical time unlocking Texas shooter's iPhone Apple says it immediately contacted FBI about unlocking Texas shooter’s iPhone - The Verge Texas gunman’s iPhone could reignite FBI-Apple feud over encryption - The Washington Post Trump’s DOJ tries to rebrand weakened encryption as “responsible encryption” | Ars Technica Black Lives Matter activists are convinced the NYPD hacked their phones | The Outline TechCongress: A Congressional Innovation Fellowship Clipper chip - Wikipedia CompuServe’s forums, which still exist, are finally shutting down Now a shadow of its former self, CompuServe blazed trails online - News - The Columbus Dispatch - Columbus, OH How Facebook Figures Out Everyone You've Ever Met Why is this company tracking where you are on Thanksgiving? | The Outline #109 Is Facebook Spying on You? - by Gimlet Media Leah Becerra (@LeahBecerra) | Twitter renata’s eyepatch (@_jamestgreen) | Twitter
86: The 2019 CES Draft
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01/10/19 • 62 min
The Consumer Electronics Show is, as always, a flood of new technology, corporate announcements, products that will never ship, and embarrassing garbage. How better to sum it all up than with a draft? In this episode, we choose the top stories of the week, then move on to pick some vaporware and the worst story of the show. But don't worry, in the end we've got some fuzzy CES puppies to cheer you up. Is that fresh bread I smell?
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Florence Ion and Mikah Sargent
Links and Show Notes: Every new HomeKit-enabled device announced at CES | iMore Google Assistant Connect makes adding Assistant easier - 9to5Google LG’s groundbreaking roll-up TV is going on sale this year - The Verge CES AirPlay, HomeKit, and Accessory Roundup, Part 1 – MacStories A woman pumped breast milk on the CES show floor. So what? Impossible Burger 2.0 Taste Test: Shockingly Good Intel demonstrates 10nm Ice Lake processor, promises PCs will ship with it later this year - The Verge Bose invented a noise-canceling system for your car - The Verge There Are Not One, But Three Companies That Will Paint Your Cat on Your Fingernail iMore on Instagram: “The ARTPRO NAIL from O'2 Nails is an inkjet printer FOR YOUR FINGERNAILS! 💅🏽💅🏽 #nailart #ces2017” CES 2019: Robotic suitcases back (and ... maybe better?) at this year's show | ZDNet The Craziest Cars and Futuristic Vehicles of CES 2019 - PCMag Bell’s hybrid-electric flying car will be available via Uber by the ‘mid-2020s’ - The Verge This machine will fold your laundry for you | TechRadar Sony's latest project tackles immersive, 3D audio - Android Authority The smart diaper has entered the building at CES 2019 - CNET Royal Flush: Hands-On with Kohler’s $8,000 Alexa Toilet Audi spins out Holoride to put VR in every car | TechCrunch AT&T's Android phones now lie about having 5G AT&T gets burned by rivals over its fake 5G network03/21/19 • 60 min
Google unveils a cloud gaming strategy at GDC, Apple releases all the product updates, Instagram goes shopping, and MySpace deletes all your favorite music from 2009.
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79: The New Flip Phone
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11/08/18 • 64 min
Samsung shows off a foldable phone prototype, Apple grows its services revenue and ships new products, Amazon gets into print catalogs and embraces the east coast, Comcast builds a cable box for cord cutters, and we mourn a couple of casualties of the streaming-service wars to come.
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Shelly Brisbin and Natalie Jarvey
Links and Show Notes Support Download with a Relay FM Membership This is Samsung’s foldable smartphone - The Verge Samsung's folding Galaxy phone reveal was a giant disappointment | PCWorld Android will natively support devices with foldable displays - The Verge Samsung cleans up its Android skin with 'One UI' Apple results: A record September quarter with $62.9B revenue - Six Colors Apple Hits $10 Billion in Revenue From Services Like iTunes | Hollywood Reporter 7-Eleven is bringing cashier-less payments to its stores | TechCrunch Was Amazon’s Headquarters Contest a Bait-and-Switch? Critics Say Yes - The New York Times Amazon Plans to Split HQ2 Between Long Island City, N.Y., and Arlington, Va. - The New York Times Amazon begins mailing printed holiday toy catalog Amazon Expands Free Shipping to Everyone for the Holiday Season | Amazon.com, Inc. - Press Room Comcast making video-streaming box for broadband-only customers Defy Media Shutters, Lays Off Staff | Hollywood Reporter FilmStruck's Demise Is Part of a Bigger Pattern - The Atlantic Roku Stock Plummets After Third-Quarter Earnings Report | Hollywood Reporter British Army veteran who cleared IEDs in Syria reunited with stray dog he found cowering in Raqqa rubble Natalie Jarvey (@natjarv) | Twitter Shelly Brisbin (@shelly) | Twitter46: Count the Ms
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03/15/18 • 49 min
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.
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89: The Second-Best of Times
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01/31/19 • 39 min
Apple copes with declining iPhone sales and a bad FaceTime bug, then ends up coming down hard on Facebook for its misuse of a tool designed to read user data. Also, there's an imaginary bear in the woods... or is there?
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83: Mr. Google Is My Father!
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12/13/18 • 66 min
Google's CEO gets grilled by Congress; Instagram gets a new product leader; Apple does a bunch of stuff; and Supermicro defends itself against Bloomberg. Plus we honor the 50th anniversary of the "Mother of all Demos", Casey hasn't seen "My Cousin Vinny", we try to save journalism and fail, and a puppy emerges from a box!
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81: Elvis Is in the Building
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11/29/18 • 71 min
The App Store goes before the Supreme Court, Amazon embraces ARM servers, and we discuss the amazing life and business lessons of IDG founder Pat McGovern.
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Patrick McGovern and Glenn Rifkin
Links and Show Notes: What happens if Apple loses its Supreme Court App Store antitrust appeal? - The Verge Antitrust, the App Store, and Apple – Stratechery by Ben Thompson What happens if Apple loses its Supreme Court App Store antitrust appeal? - The Verge Amazon Web Services introduces its own custom-designed Arm server processor, promises 45 percent lower costs for some workloads – GeekWire Confirmed: Amazon agrees to buy Israeli chip maker Annapurna Labs for a reported $350M – GeekWire Project Fi is now Google Fi, and it will work with iPhones and most Android devices - The Verge Future Forward: Leadership Lessons from Patrick McGovern: Amazon.com Most British video ever shows policeman knocking on door of Number 10 for a cat | Metro News Larry (cat) - Wikipedia Ungeniused - Relay FM29: Mosquito to a Light
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11/09/17 • 53 min
2017's flagship smartphones are all out, and the dust is starting to settle. In the desert, driverless vehicles are taking to public roads with mixed luck. And Snap works to dig itself out of bad quarterly results.
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Shelly Brisbin and Florence Ion
Links and Show Notes Samsung Galaxy: Growing Up - YouTube iPhone X OLED Display Technology Shoot-Out Google updates Pixel 2 XL with new ‘saturated’ color display option and other bug fixes - The Verge Waymo makes history testing on public roads with no one at the wheel | Ars Technica Las Vegas is expanding its self-driving shuttle experiment - The Verge Las Vegas' self-driving bus crashes in first hour of service Something is wrong on the internet – James Bridle – Medium Sarah Frier on Twitter: "This is huge change. Evan Spiegel has built this product on his instincts. https://t.co/IKEiqSMmVE" Snap CEO Evan Spiegel on Spectacles write-off: 'I guess we made the wrong decision' | VentureBeat Snapchat's big redesign planned for December 4: Here's how it will work - Business Insider02/28/19 • 70 min
Mobile World Congress brings folding phones, battery phones, camera phones, 5G machinations, and a new business-oriented HoloLens. Plus there's a robot on the streets of Memphis, and maybe Netflix is bringing the world closer together?
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Andy Ihnatko and Philip Michaels
Links and Show Notes: Support Download with a Relay FM Membership Huawei Launches the Mate X: Folding in a New Direction Huawei’s Mate X foldable phone is a thinner 5G rival to the Galaxy Fold - The Verge Huawei Mate X hands-on: our foldable future - The Verge TCL's foldable phone concept bends in half like a stack of cash LG V50 ThinQ: entering the 5G game at MWC 2019 - The Verge The Nokia 9 PureView has five cameras and a lot to prove - The Verge This 18,000mAh Energizer battery has a phone in it - The Verge Oppo’s 10x optical zoom system really works - The Verge FedEx unveils autonomous delivery robot - The Verge Microsoft's HoloLens 2: Why it's really all about the cloud | ZDNet Microsoft’s HoloLens 2: a $3500 mixed reality headset for the factory - The Verge Mobile World Congress 2019: Doctor uses 5G to direct surgery live onstage - CNN Mobile World Congress Overshadowed by Huawei 5G Spying Standoff New FTC task force will take on tech monopolies - The Verge Opinion | Netflix Is the Most Intoxicating Portal to Planet Earth - The New York Times Estonian workers rescued a dog from freezing waters — and then discovered it was a wolf - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) Andy Ihnatko's Celestial Waste of Bandwidth – The blog of Andy Ihnatko, intermittently-beloved technology journalist. Tom's Guide: Tech Product Reviews, Top Picks and How To Andy Ihnatko (@Ihnatko) | Twitter Philip Michaels (@PhilipMichaels) | TwitterShow more best episodes
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How many episodes does Download have?
Download currently has 108 episodes available.
What topics does Download cover?
The podcast is about News, Tech, Tech News, Podcasts and Technology.
What is the most popular episode on Download?
The episode title '107: Embankment for the Unbanked' is the most popular.
What is the average episode length on Download?
The average episode length on Download is 56 minutes.
How often are episodes of Download released?
Episodes of Download are typically released every 7 days.
When was the first episode of Download?
The first episode of Download was released on Apr 27, 2017.
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