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The billion dollar A.I. Company

The future of AI is in the most boring places possible, and Microsoft’s $1B investment in OpenAI is a smart play for that future.


110: Build A PC Inside Your Brain

Frederique, Owen, and Zach talk about the tech news of the week while Owen rebuilds his PC. This episode was also live streamed, check it out on YouTube too!


The problem with browser extensions

You wouldn't install a dodgy-looking app on your computer, but browser extensions are just as powerful and seem to get a free pass—but they're up to more than you think.


Blame it on the content

Netflix lost a bunch of subscribers last quarter—are the good old days over for the world's most popular streaming service?


Big tech faces big government

Facing the music is new for the technology industry, but Facebook, Google, Apple and Amazon all found themselves under the grill in front of Congress on Tuesday.


Facebook gets a parking ticket

$5 billion dollars sounds like a lot, but it's no more than a parking ticket if you made $50 billion in the same year.


109: Malware has joined the conference call

This week Frederique, Owen, and Zach talk about Zoom Malware, the Nintendo Switch Lite, Zach's social media detox, the 12" Macbook (RIP), and more!


A.I. gets a poker face

If a computer can understand when we're lying, the game of poker is well and truly dead.


Nintendo Switch, without the switching

Nintendo removed one of the best features from the Switch for its new version, and it could ruin the original.


OnePlus 7 Pro review: an enormous phone from the future

A beautiful phone that looks like it's from a sci-fi movie, for a fraction of the price of an iPhone—the OnePlus 7 Pro is a great Pixel alternative.