Rocket
Countdown to excitement! Every week Christina Warren, Brianna Wu and Simone de Rochefort had accelerated geek conversation. Tech, comics, movies, games and books, no galaxy is off limits! Hosted by Christina Warren, Brianna Wu, and Simone De Rochefort.
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 65 minutes
- Episodes
- 470
- Years Active
- 2015 - 2023
350: Many Apples
Many many tiny slices of Apple are coming to you, listener. First, an update on Apple's CSAM tools and concessions to the anti-trust critics! But will it be enough to save the App Store? All this and…
01:04:28 |
Thu 09 Sep 2021
349: Arriving Today!
This week on Rocket, tech journalist and author Christopher Mims is here to discuss his new book, Arriving Today. It's the book that critics are saying "makes supply chains interesting" (Simone de Ro…
01:09:02 |
Thu 02 Sep 2021
348: Only Fans, Only Problems
Where are the only solutions? This week on Rocket we're talking about the Only Fans debacle, which came to a tenuous resolution mere hours before we started recording? Reverse Rocket Rule! Deep dive …
01:07:45 |
Thu 26 Aug 2021
347: YAK, BACK, DO IT AGAIN
WHEELS TURNING ROUND AND ROUND. This week we're talking about YIKYAK, Google not shipping chargers with new phones - dessert this week is an episode from Wall Street Journal on the tech workers who a…
01:06:03 |
Thu 19 Aug 2021
346: Really Ridiculous Content
Apple proposes to add controversial machine learning tools to the iPhone to protect children but is it the right thing to do? Also, iPhone rumors! Apparently, no amount of questionable activity will …
01:12:23 |
Thu 12 Aug 2021
345: Scholastic Succession
On this episode of Rocket, we're not saying anyone was murdered! But we ARE saying the RIAA's ridiculous bullying could MURDER the music industry & their penny-pinching ways won't help creators!!
00:57:55 |
Thu 05 Aug 2021
344: Viral News
This week we're discussing the lawsuit against Activision Blizzard and employee walk-outs protesting widespread sexual harassment at the company. Also, mandatory vaccines at Google, and Adam Driver t…
00:53:13 |
Thu 29 Jul 2021
343: Faith in Ted Sarandos
It's a big week for Rocket Rules: Last week Steam announced its Steam Deck handheld PC, and Netflix announced it was getting into games! But in the middle of all that fun, don't we have time for… som…
01:06:26 |
Thu 22 Jul 2021
342: Goodbye, Fleets
The New York Times has a killer new story on Facebook's relationship with CrowdTangle. And then, speaking of driving engagement, Twitter is killing Fleets? WHAT ARE WE GONNA DO!!
01:06:17 |
Thu 15 Jul 2021
341: Social Media Astir
Christina and Simone are tackling the newest model of the Nintendo Switch with its fancy new OLED screen. Is it the Switch we've been waiting for!? Maybe not!? Is it the Switch we have? Yes.
01:04:03 |
Thu 08 Jul 2021
340: Breaking Windows
This week Christina and Bri are talking about Windows 11, the various events from the launch and they detour into the state of Windows in general.
For dessert, Bri and Christina extol the virtues of…
01:13:40 |
Thu 01 Jul 2021
339: Snap Swears
This week we're hitting the road again with Peloton — any paying the price!? Peloton's PR problems are not getting better, with a new update soft-locking their treadmills for non-subscribers. And the…
00:57:31 |
Thu 24 Jun 2021
338: Hype House!!
We have special guest Ashley Carman of The Verge on the show to talk about her story about the rise and fall of HiStudios and the podcast hype house that collapsed dramatically over the last year. An…
01:05:14 |
Thu 17 Jun 2021
337: MoviePass: Back in the News
It’s another WWDC with Rocket. We’re chatting about the coffers announcements from Apple’s keynote, and giving yet another dramatic update on MoviePass. What could possibly have happened now?!
01:10:11 |
Thu 10 Jun 2021
336: Cheaters Prosper
Aunt Christina is having baby-time, but she's still here because we absolutely can't talk about GPUs and Stack Overflow without her! Nvidia has released an updated 3080, the RTX 3080 Ti. But it's $50…
01:05:39 |
Thu 03 Jun 2021
335: AIRBN-BS
Christina is at Microsoft Build this week, but what's this?? HOOFBEATS ON THE HORIZON? BRIANNA WU IS RETURNED FROM FLORIDA and she's SO ready to talk about the remastered Mass Effect trilogy.
01:00:21 |
Thu 27 May 2021
334: Apple is Killing Games
Christina and Simone are mourning Christina's Dogecoin dreams. But wait, what's this?? Apple is doing one good thing and two weird ones!? Unprecedented behavior from our problematic fave. Find out wh…
01:03:36 |
Thu 20 May 2021
333: Apple vs. Epic: Puritanical Edition
This week Simone and Christina are interrogating Apple vs. Epic! Would you download an unspeakable game… to your phone?? Would you?? We'll answer that and more as we examine Apple's puritanical behav…
01:00:16 |
Thu 13 May 2021
332: All Out With Baby Stuff
In a lightning-fast episode we're talking about… yep, the big Basecamp blow-up, and we've got a lot to say. Then finally, Apple vs. Epic is finally before a judge, and lots of fun secrets are coming …
00:55:41 |
Thu 06 May 2021
331: Triple Scamtown
It's triple helping of scams this week on Rocket. First off, a binary options scam comes to light after years of fleecing vulnerable people. Then, the secret behind McDonalds' ice cream machine failu…
01:09:11 |
Thu 29 Apr 2021
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