29: Mosquito to a Light

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 Insider

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28: Five Layers

The iPhone X is almost here, and we've got three people who have one in their hands. Plus, what's the deal with Apple's iPhone X PR strategy? Meanwhile in D.C., tech companies are facing down Congress.

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Links and Show Notes iPhone X: Tomorrow's iPhone today - Six Colors Apple's iPhone X: The First Field Report | WIRED Above Avalon: iPhone X 512 Pixels - YouTube The Cary42 is a gorgeous wooden arcade box for the extremely wealthy - The Verge cary42 - LOVE HULTEN RetroPie - Retro-gaming on the Raspberry Pi Tech Executives Are Contrite About Election Meddling, but Make Few Promises on Capitol Hill - The New York Times Eight Revelations From Day Two of Russia Hearings with Facebook, Twitter, and Google | WIRED Russia-Financed Ad Linked Clinton and Satan - The New York Times Senators target fictional ads on Facebook - Axios carolina milanesi (@caro_milanesi) | Twitter Neil Cybart (@neilcybart) | Twitter

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30: Knowing Yourself

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