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Belkin announces a partnership with Wi-Charge to create over-the-air charging products for consumers. Virtual reality company AppliedVR is working with Komodo Health to create a synthetic control group for medical trials. And the negative impacts of remote meetings on brainstorming.Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Justin Robert Young, Len Peralta, Roger Chang, Amos, Joe.Link to the Show Notes. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Apple’s DIY repair service opens today and Patrick has some thoughts on it. Bloomberg reports Twitch is considering proposals to revamp its payment structure. And Ubisoft published a list of 91 games that have had online services and multiplayer features shut off since 2021.Starring Sarah Lane, Patrick Norton, Roger Chang, Joe.Link to the Show Notes. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

E Ink announced the E Ink Gallery 3 its latest advancement in e-ink technology, Sensor Tower reports the top 100 subscriptions apps in 2021 saw a 41% increase in global revenue, and the BBC reports surgeons at Southmead Hospital in Bristol, England successfully implanted a device into the brain to treat Parkinson’s disease in a patient.Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Dr. Kiki Sanford, Roger Chang, Joe.Link to the Show Notes. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The EU has unveiled companion legislation to the earlier Digital Markets Act called the Digital Services Act. What does it cover and who does it affect? And Twitter agrees to Elon Musk’s buyout offer.Starring Sarah Lane, Rich Stroffolino, Roger Chang, Joe.Link to the Show Notes. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The UK’s Department for Transport proposed updates to the Highway Code for people using self-driving vehicles that are registered as self-driving with the government. A judge from The Brazilian state of Goias ruled Apple must pay 5,000 reals (about $1080 dollars) to a customer who complained about not getting a charger with their iPhone. And security firm Mandiant notes that there were 80 zero-day disclosures in 2021, 18 more than than the previous two years combined.Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Shannon Morse, Roger Chang, Joe.Link to the Show Notes. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Allison shares her first hand experience riding in a driverless Waymo vehicle! Plus CNN+ is ending just after a few months of operation, and Amazon has launched Buy With Prime, which lets third-party merchants use Amazon’s shipping and logistics network to fulfill orders on their sites outside of Amazon.Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Allison Sheridan, Len Peralta, Roger Chang, Joe.Link to the Show Notes. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Netflix reports it lost 200,000 subscribers in Q4 of 2021 falling and expects to lose another 2 million this quarter. What’s behind the falling subscribership? Researchers work on a way to generate electricity from solar panels at night. And we examine the buzz around the PlayDate hand-cranked black and white handheld retro-game console.Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Joe.Link to the Show Notes. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Data shows UK subscriptions to streaming services are shrinking. What’s the cause and will adjusted pricing help? U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that LinkedIn cannot stop its competitor hiQ Labs from scraping publicly available data off user pages. The Wall Street Journal reports that the much anticipated shift of consumers to online shopping because of the pandemic didn’t happen.Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Nate Lanxon, Roger Chang, Joe.Link to the Show Notes. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Microsoft is building a program to let brands advertise within free-to-play Xbox games, with ads appearing as early as Q3 2022. Protocol reports that Classroom Technologies is working with Intel to incorporate an algorithm that would attempt to identify what emotions students look like they’re feeling, including bored, distracted or confused. Netflix is developing a show based on the card game “Exploding Kittens”. A mobile game developed along with the show will launch this May, along with two new cards for the game with the show releasing in 2023.Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Rich Stroffolino, Amos, Joe.Link to the Show Notes. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

What3Words hopes to revolutionize geolocation but how does it work and what makes it compelling? Twitter creates a poison-pill against a Elon Musk buyout.Starring Sarah Lane, Rich Stroffolino, Patrick Norton, Roger Chang, Joe.Link to the Show Notes. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.