Stuart Langridge, Jono Bacon, and Jeremy Garcia present Bad Voltage, in which we are all Google all the time, all news all the time, and:
- [00:03:00] News: Apple open source the kernels for iOS and Mac OS, with obvious discussion about how useful this is and the nature of open sourcing… the new wheeze is web ads that mine bitcoin and Stuart’s controversial defence of why that’s actually not as bad as everyone seems to think it is… Evan Prodromou releases Evancoin, a cryptocurrency where you can buy hours of his time or possibly create a new market… Elon Musk proposes speeding up intercontinental flying by shooting people across the sea in ICBMs, which literally everybody thinks is mad, so we’ll find out in fifty years when you take Saturn V down to the shops… the US Senate approves self-driving car legislation and bans the states from creating regulations to stop it… Google scrap their First Click Free policy, to cautious applause from every newspaper with a paywall… Bill Gates switches to Android, which might be the real death knell for Windows Phone, not that that wasn’t obvious already… and in more Microsoft news, they will release their browser, Edge, for iOS and Android, prompting discussion about what makes a browser beyond its rendering engine, and how to do tab groups in both Chrome (ish) and Firefox (entirely)…
- [00:40:30] Google release a slew of new hardware in their Made by Google event for October 2017. There are home assistants in three different sizes (the existing Google Home and the new Home Mini and Home Max), a new(ish) Daydream VR headset, a Google Clips camera, Pixel Buds (better named as “puds”) headphones, a new high-end Chromebook called the Pixel Book, and the next iteration of the Google phone, the Pixel 2. We’re gonna take a look at what the deal is with all this shiny new kit and whether we’d buy any of it
