We break down the flood of new products, updates and services were announced at Google I/O 2019.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang and Patrick Beja.
Monthly Archives: May 2019
Cordkillers 266 – Fox Properties (w/ Chuck Wendig)
Ghost Rider on Hulu, a new Spider-Man: Far From Home trailer, and five Game of Thrones spinoffs? All this and more on Cordkillers! With special guest Chuck Wendig.
Next week: Game of Thrones promises big changes and Barry continues on!
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Microsoft Word Helps You be a More Better Writer – DTNS 3525
Microsoft BUILD starts today. Plus the EU plans on opening an anti-trust investigation into Apple and privacy concerns after Facebook reveals its contracting with an Indian firm to manually post tags on images and text from Facebook users.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, and Roger Chang.
Should Creators Trust YouTube? – DTNS Special
Longtime YouTube creator Jason Inman talks about YouTube’s latest plea for creator trust.
Jason Inman host of Geek History Lesson, show runner’s assistant on The Code CBS, and author of Super Soldiers: A salute to the comic book heroes and villains who fought for their country
The Pea Milk Tasting Menu – It’s a Thing 60
Tom was inspired by Dairy Queen and realized that tasting menus are a thing, while Molly notices that mainstream physics has joined the rank of things. Plus the demise on inkjets, backpacks, and of course, pea milk.
What is Dark May Never Light – DTNS 3524
The latest episode of Game of Thrones elicited controversy for being too dark by viewers to see what was happening. We go over what fans can do to correctly see the action on screen. Plus the latest inductees into the Video Game Hall of Fame and man swallows an AirPod bud and passes it through his body completely intact and functioning.
Starring Tom Merritt, Ashley Esqueda, Len Peralta and Roger Chang.
#352 – The Sword Conspiracy
To Gene Wolfe! Thank you for Shadow and Claw and Pringles. Plus, William Gibson’s Alien 3, what you need to know before reading The Martian Chronicles, and our final thoughts on the vast conspiracies that make up Theft of Swords.
Moderation in Moderation – DTNS 3523
A Techdirt article makes the argument that content moderation of online platforms is totally broken and how the impact is affecting online discourse.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Justin Robert Young.
Slackluster – DTNS 3522
A Vox/Recode story reveals that team collaboration software like Slack, Teams and Workplace are reducing the productive output of workers instead of improving it. We explore the reasons and discuss the discrepancy between technology’s promise of a productivity enabler and the real-world outcome.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang.
It’s Spoilerin’ Time 265 – Avengers: Endgame, Game of Thrones (803), The Office (UK) (202)
We breakdown the biggest battle sequence of all time in Game of Thrones. Plus, the biggest superhero film yet in Avengers: Endgame. All that and The Office (UK) too! With special guest Anthony Lemos.
Next week: we’re caught up on Barry and Game of Thrones soldiers on.
01:07 – Summer Movie Draft update
04:10 – Game of Thrones (803)
24:34 – Avengers: Endgame
58:11 – The Office (UK) (202)
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