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From products and companies to services and trends, Download’s weekly panel of experts analyzed the biggest topics in tech … and a few you may have missed. Hosted by Jason Snell and Stephen Hackett.
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 56 minutes
- Episodes
- 108
- Years Active
- 2017 - 2019
48: I Brought Services, You Brought a Crayon
Apple goes back to school, but will it make any difference in its battle with Chromebooks? Microsoft unveils a game subscription service, because we live in the era of subscription services. And Face…
01:04:39 |
Thu 29 Mar 2018
47: Put the Toothpaste Back in the Cat
Facebook made us all think about the power of social media and the value of our personal data this week, but was Mark Zuckerberg's response enough? In equally heavy news, the first autonomous vehicle…
01:00:58 |
Thu 22 Mar 2018
46: Count the Ms
The U.S. government kills the Broadcom/Qualcomm merger, Apple buys a magazine subscription service, and Facebook and YouTube take stands of a sort against questionable posts on the Internet.
00:49:01 |
Thu 15 Mar 2018
45: Android Pop Rocks
Into a somewhat boring smartphone market comes our first glance at Android P, MoviePass gets caught tracking its users, iPhone app development turns 10, and is that a creepy laugh coming from the Ama…
00:57:26 |
Thu 08 Mar 2018
44: They Went With the Chicken
This week we analyze many of the phone announcements from Mobile World Congress, including a new Samsung Galaxy and the return of a phone you may remember from a film made in the previous century.
00:48:28 |
Thu 01 Mar 2018
43: Tea Party With Bots
Twitter is banning a bunch of bot accounts (again) and Microsoft is struggling to shed legacy technology in Windows (again), while the next flagship smartphone has been leaked (again).
00:55:46 |
Thu 22 Feb 2018
42: Get Used to Disappointment
Apple's software quality may have caught up with it, while Snapchat is dealing with the fallout of its recent redesign. All the while, Facebook is doing Facebook things and we really need a fuzzy pup…
00:49:03 |
Thu 15 Feb 2018
41: Grandma's House
It's corporate results season, so we check in on how things are going at all the tech giants, including Apple, Google, Amazon, Facebook, and Netflix. Oh, and a billionaire shot a sportscar into space…
00:59:57 |
Thu 08 Feb 2018
40: An Alien Riding a Bike
It's a weird week in tech news: Strava leaked the location of secret military bases, Amazon got into healthcare, someone in the Trump Administration proposed nationalizing 5G wireless, and the world …
01:03:24 |
Thu 01 Feb 2018
39: Vulnerable to Stick-Ups
After a long delay, Apple prepares the HomePod for release, but who (if anyone) is buying? Long lines greeted the opening of Amazon's new automated store that's supposed to do away with lines, but wh…
00:50:54 |
Thu 25 Jan 2018
38: Dumbest Idea Ever
We discuss the top trends at CES 2018 with two survivors of the show, plus Facebook makes big news feed changes, Apple brings money home, and networking is harder than it looks.
00:57:58 |
Thu 18 Jan 2018
37: Robot, Hold My Beer
It's CES week, so there's a lot to talk about in the world of voice assistants, robots that may not be robots, cars, impractical televisions, smart bathrooms, and more.
01:00:18 |
Thu 11 Jan 2018
36: Discomfortday
A new year brings big tech news stories, including a huge security flaw in almost every microprocessor out there, and Apple doing damage control with a discounted iPhone battery replacement program.
00:54:54 |
Thu 04 Jan 2018
35: Let Deadpool Be Deadpool
Disney has set shockwaves through the media world with its proposed purchase of Fox. What does it mean for streaming services like Hulu and Netflix, not to mention whatever Apple is up to? How can Ba…
01:02:02 |
Thu 21 Dec 2017
34: Regrets...
A former Facebook executive bemoans the world he helped create, and Patreon goes back on its controversial change in how it collects money. In lighter news, Stephen is looking at a 21st-century Clapp…
00:56:09 |
Thu 14 Dec 2017
33: Consensual Mass Hallucination
Microsoft returns to ARM with Windows 10 running on Qualcomm chips, Amazon and Google get into a slap fight (while Prime Video sneaks on to the Apple TV), and Bitcoin continues to rise into the strat…
00:55:56 |
Thu 07 Dec 2017
32: A Particular Robot Vacuum
We're recovering from Black Friday and Cyber Monday with two members of the Wirecutter staff and talking about what cities are doing to woo Amazon's HQ2 and Net Neutrality.
00:43:44 |
Thu 30 Nov 2017
31: Year of Experimentation
It's a holiday in the United States, so we've gone international this week. We discuss 2017's flagship smartphones and their various compromises, American biases in the tech industry, and whether tec…
00:52:18 |
Wed 22 Nov 2017
30: Knowing Yourself
Wearable tech that can make us healthier or save our lives, a potential renewal of the debate of government access to encrypted data, and how Facebook knows everything about you even if you're not on…
00:54:32 |
Thu 16 Nov 2017
29: Mosquito to a Light
2017's flagship smartphones are all out, and the dust is starting to settle. In the desert, driverless vehicles are taking to public roads with mixed luck. And Snap works to dig itself out of bad qua…
00:53:44 |
Thu 09 Nov 2017
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