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#41: Fancy Phones and Fancier Credit Cards from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
David and Joanna discuss the new Samsung Galaxy Note 10, the phone for people who get stuff done. (Stuff. Not other words.) It has a new stylus and some new software and a bunch of new cameras. Lat...
Listen#40: Where Are the Good Netflix Movies? from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
David, Joanna and Christopher start by discussing the future of retail, which at least partly involves all those brands you see in Instagram ads suddenly showing up in a store near you. (The gang a...
Listen#39: The Fight For Faster Internet from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
This week, it's all about how to make the internet faster--and how the world changes when we do. David, Joanna and Christopher talk about Joanna's nationwide test of the new 5G network. Later, WSJ'...
Listen#38: How the Moon Landing Changed Tech Forever from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
This week marks the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing. Even if you don't care about space travel, there's a good chance the work NASA did to get men on the moon affects your life even ...
Listen#37: Why the Family Phone Plan Rules from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
David and Christopher start the show by discussing a technology that drove decades of innovation: the spreadsheet. Dan Bricklin, creator of VisiCalc - the Lotus and Excel predecessor that was so su...
Listen#36: How to Survive Holiday Travel from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
With Christopher on vacation (again), David and Joanna go through their best tips for surviving the coming July 4th travel craziness. They each bring their best gadget, app, and tip for getting whe...
Listen#35: Google Maps to Nowhere from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
David, Joanna and Christopher unpack the coming fight between tech companies and regulators, and get into the messy meaning of an important term in the antitrust world: "consumer harm." Next, Katie...
Listen#34: Call Him Mr. 'Fortnite' from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Joanna and David didn't want to talk about Facebook, but they had to: Facebook launched a new digital currency, Libra, that could upend the way we pay for things. With the help of WSJ reporter Anna...
Listen#33: Facebook's Potentially Problematic Privacy Practices: A Recap from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
This week, WSJ broke news of internal Facebook Inc. emails that suggested the company lacked urgency to stop data leaks. With David out in Hong Kong at the Journal's Asia tech conference, Joanna an...
Listen#32: The World According to Apple from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Apple's annual developer conference, WWDC, was this week, and there's a lot of news that could impact you come the fall. David, Joanna and Christopher sort out the game-changers from the who-carese...
Listen#31: My Way or the Huawei from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
David and Christopher talk about Amazon's new strategy for winning the smart-home wars. Hint: It involves getting in with property managers and home builders. Next, David and Joanna call WSJ report...
Listen#30: Dispatches From the Future (of Everything) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
We have a special episode for you this week. We just finished the WSJ Future of Everything Festival, a three-day event filled with speakers, panels and demos showing us where the world is going-for...
Listen#29: Don't Face ID Me, Bro from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Now that Big Tech's two biggest privacy invaders can't stop talking about privacy, David, Joanna and Christopher won't stop talking about them. Google and Facebook, that is. Next, the team turns to...
Listen#28: Uber for Everything and Everything for Uber from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
To ring in the Uber IPO, David, Christopher and Joanna team up with WSJ reporter Eliot Brown to explore the vast scope of the newest publicly traded tech giant. Prior to that, they recap Google's I...
Listen#27: The New New New Facebook from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
David, Christopher and Joanna attempt to explain TikTok, the hottest new thing in social media. It's like Vine meets Snapchat meets Instagram meets Spotify, sort of. Then, WSJ reporter Jeff Horwitz...
Listen#26: All Netflix and No Chill from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
David, Joanna and Christopher talk about the bizarre non-launch and Joanna's non-review of the Samsung Galaxy Fold, and what it means for the future of foldable phones. Then, WSJ reporter Shalini R...
Listen#25: The Movies Come To You Now from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
David, Joanna and Christopher dive into the algorithms that determine everything from social media feeds to jail sentences, and try to figure out how to make them better and more transparent. Then ...
Listen#24: The First Black Hole, The Worst Car Dashboards from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
First, the Wall Street Journal's digital science editor Daniela Hernandez joins David, Joanna and Christopher with all details of the first-ever image of a black hole -- and why it's made everyone ...
Listen#23: How Amazon Changed Delivery and How Delivery Changes Everything from 2019-04-05T07:30
This week, it's all about how we buy stuff and how that stuff gets to us. David, Joanna and Christopher bring on WSJ reporter Katie Bindley to talk about how to make sure you're getting the best de...
Listen#23: How Amazon Changed Delivery and How Delivery Changes Everything from 2019-04-05T07:30
This week, it's all about how we buy stuff and how that stuff gets to us. David, Joanna and Christopher bring on WSJ reporter Katie Bindley to talk about how to make sure you're getting the best de...
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