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Researchers at Facebook are developing a virtual assistant to help Minecraft players letting users type in requests in natural language to an in-game avatar and the assistant will carry out requests if it can. How does this change machine learning and how can players benefit?Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Patrick Beja, Roger Chang. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Google catches a major iOS exploit in the wild, MacBook pros BANNED from airplanes worldwide, and Richard Gunther helps us understand what works with Nest. If anything.Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Richard Gunther, Len Peralta, and Amos Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Wednesday, Nicole Lee posted shares her thoughts on the $149 handheld game system, Playdate. A quirky homage to old school handheld gaming consoles. Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Nicole Lee, Roger Chang.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Apple looks to address complaints around how it tests and improves the voice recognition abilities of Siri by letting users opt-in. Does this go far enough and is it something other companies will want to replicate?Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Voice assistants have been criticized for gender and racial bias due to the fact that they’re predominantly developed by white males in western-based tech companies. Mozilla wants to solve this and created “Common Voice” in 2017, a tool that crowdsources voices as a dataset to diversify AI and represent the global population.Starring Sarah Lane, Patrick Beja, Roger Chang, and Amos Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

CNET's Patrick Holland posted an impassioned plea Sunday titled "Apple needs to fix the iPhone 11's buttons so accidental screenshots go away. What other changes would folks like to see Apple fix on the iPhone 11.Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

More than 5.3 million accounts belonging to cardholders from 35 U.S. states are posted online, DoorDash unveiled its updated tipping policy, with all drivers now receiving 100% of tips placed through its app, and Denmark will review 10,700 court cases dating back to 2012, to see if flawed cellphone evidence was used for convictions.Starring Sarah Lane, Shannon Morse, Roger Chang, and Anthony Lemos. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Rupert Murdoch's News Corp makes a play for online news aggregation with Knewz.com in order to compete with Google and Facebook. What will this mean for news companies and how will users benefit?Starring Sarah Lane, Justin Robert Young, and Roger Chang Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

G-Suite predicts spelling errors as you type, YouTube might start behaving better for your kids, and LinkedIn culls spam accounts.Starring Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, and Roger Chang. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Starring Sarah Lane, Patrick Beja, and Roger ChangWe discuss how many streaming subscriptions is too many and what criteria people will use to decide which ones they stop and which ones they keep. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.