Apple releases a slew of product updates, Uber Australia reportedly used spyware to snatch drivers from rivals, and Google announces its game streaming platform Stadia.
The European Parliament is set to vote on its new Copyright Directive, Finland to investigate Nokia phones sending data back to China, and a new study finds that 95% of Bitcoin trades are artificially created.
As the EU inches closer to a vote on the Copyright Directive European Wikipedia sites have gone dark in protest, Facebook confirmed it kept logins and passwords for hundreds of millions users in plain text in some cases for almost seven years, and the NYT reports Apple has made a deal with the WSJ for its news and services.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Justin Robert Young and Roger Chang.
Apple signs The Wall Street Journal to its News subscription lineup, Microsoft makes Windows Virtual Desktop a public preview, new Xbox won’t include disc drive.
We break down the newest Marvel superhero epic, Captain Marvel. Plus, we are close to the finale of True Detective season 3 (we got confused, but we definitely don’t talk about the finale). Plus, The Office (UK) and our first Summer Movie Draft 2019 update!
00:40 – Summer Movie Draft
03:37 – Captain Marvel
11:56 – True Detective (306-307)
26:29 – The Office UK (102)
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Disney decided to bring James Gunn back after-all. Soft robots are not that hard. Amazon is ramping up the Lord of The Rings series! Want more Sliders? You might get some. Hans Zimmer has his eyes on DUNE now. Holographic landscaping. And MORE!
Google unveiled Stadia its streaming game service at GDC. This adds another player to the increasingly crowded and competitive game as a streaming service marketplace. How does it stack up to the competition?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Patrick Beja