March Madness has begun, so get your votes in now. Plus do we like Alexander Skarsgard as Murderbot? And our final thoughts on Will of the Many and non-spoiler intro to The City and the City.
Social Media and Misinformation are often presented as two sides of the same coin, but what does the data actually say? Andrea Jones-Rooy is here to break it down for us. And surveillance technology used to monitor warehouse workers is being introduced into the office workplace but does it actually measure anything useful? Instagram looking into the idea of launching Reels as a standalone short-form video app. And OpenAI announced GPT-4.5, its latest and largest AI model, available as a research preview.
Starring Sarah Lane, Robb Dunewood, Andrea Jones-Rooy, Roger Chang, Joe.
Sony cuts the price of the PlayStation VR 2 by $150, Amazon gets into the Quantum computing game with Ocelot, and Dr. Niki says that Spam is a problem for science as well as email.
Instagram ponders spinning Reels out into its own app, AWS unveils Ocelot, its first quantum-computing chip, and Meta fixed a glitch that flooded users’ Reels feeds with violent content.
Why hasn’t Xbox Game Pass turned into the Netflix of games? Scott shares his thoughts. Why is Apple’s decision to end Advanced Data Protection for UK iCloud users drawing such little outcry from the British public. Amazon announced Alexa+, a generative AI-powered version of the venerable voice assistant. And what is Toyota Woven City the company’s test course for mobility all about?
Starring Sarah Lane, Tom Merritt, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Joe.
The future of James Bond shifts as Amazon MGM takes the reins, Andor Season 2 sets a course for Rogue One, and Netflix expands its streaming empire. Plus, is YouTube’s “Premium Lite” the budget-friendly option we need? All that and more on this week’s Cordkillers!
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