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Always blame the contractor

The U.S. government lost control of 100,000 images of people, including passport photos. But, it’s somehow the contractor’s fault.


115: Windows Into Your Soul

Zach and Frederique talk about the Apple and Microsoft events, Chromebooks, Surfaces and a whole lot more.


106: Stadia Tycoon

Frederique, Owen, and Zach chat about gaming and Apple, and one of us might build a Windows computer. Can you guess who?


Fly or Die: cloud game streaming?

We finally know what Google's cloud game streaming service, Stadia, will cost, and when it'll launch. But, will people actually use it?


The Billion Dollar Exercise Bike

Subscription smart bikes. What more could a venture capitalist want?


Private by default

Firefox will block trackers by default. Your move, Google.


Apple wants to kill the ad industry. It's forcing developers to help.

Apple is strong-arming developers into squashing an industry under the guise of privacy, and it's going to hurt us all.


Apple's plan to kill Google + Facebook login and the iPad grows up

The plan to kill Facebook and Google login? Forcing developers in the App Store to use a new login service by Apple, just as an antitrust probe is announced.


105: Ive-rly Tower

Let’s talk about Apple’s WWDC event, rumors, and what we’re excited about for the event.


A race to track your location

Foursquare buys a company from Snapchat. And it might be the turnaround of the decade in tech.