Plenty of news from the tech world this week. We follow up on some recent stories, answer a listener question about taking photos on Safari (not the web browser, the thing with animals in Africa), discuss what is new from Microsoft and Google, and so much more.
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Show Notes and Links:
- Bird builds a better scooter and offers delivery in select cities (00:55)
- Amazon removing bonuses and stock offers for $15 minimum wage. Employees making over $15 get $1 raise (02:30)
- Nielsen study on smart speaker usage (04:00)
- Beauty and Charge gate update (05:45)
- Fortnite on iOS hits $300 million in revenue in 200 days (06:50)
- Dave’s Pro Tip of the Week: Listener Question (07:10)
- I’m going on a safari in Africa but don’t want to bring a camera with a telephoto lens. Is there an attachment to my iPhone 8 that would be of similar quality that I could purchase that y’all would recommend? –Lu
- 20x iPhone Telephoto addon
- Moment Lenses
- Point and Shoot Camera
- From Todd: Apple and Amazon deny the Bloomberg tiny chip article (14:35)
- Why some people didn’t get the “President’s” text message (16:40)
- Everything Microsoft Announced at its event – Microsoft Pulled Windows 10 1809 update due to issues (17:40)
- Google Announcement October 9th – updated with what they announced (21:50)
- Piracy on the rise as exclusive content gets expensive – Ad-supported streaming options gaining popularity (24:15)
- Security:
- Bonus Odd Take: LG W7 Smartwatch has analog physical watch hands (28:40)
- Picks of the Week:
- Dave: Amazon Underground (31:10)
- Nate: Scannr (35:00)
- iTunes Review of the Week (37:10)
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