New stuff! We finally have lots of new products to talk about! El Kaiser and JD discuss a flurry of hardware announcements from several tech companies, as well as Google’s new FLoC tracking system and the results of Amazon’s union vote. El Kaiser also shares his thoughts on HBO’s His Dark Materials series and JD has tips for home design before you actually move into the home. Join us here on PTJ 352!
- His Dark Materials (HBO)
- A Journey into the History of Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials (Barnes & Noble)
- Introducing the new Roku Express 4K+ and Roku Voice Remote Pro (Roku blog)
- Roku announces new $40 Express 4K+ streamer, Voice Remote Pro (Ars Technica)
- Spotify Launches Our Newest Exploration: A Limited Release of Car Thing, a Smart Player for Your Car (Spotify)
- Car Thing (Spotify)
- Introducing Surface Laptop 4 and new accessories for enhanced meeting experiences (Microsoft Devices Blog)
- Microsoft announces new webcam and USB-C speaker for the work from home era (The Verge)
- Siri Reveals Apple Event Planned for Tuesday, April 20 (MacRumors)
- Apple Working on Combined TV Box, Speaker to Revive Home Efforts (Bloomberg)
- Google Play Movies & TV app to shut down in June (9to5Google)
- Google’s FLoC Is a Terrible Idea (Electronic Frontier Foundation)
- Why Brave Disables FLoC (Brave browser)
- Use the DuckDuckGo Extension to Block FLoC, Google’s New Tracking Method in Chrome (Spread Privacy)
- DuckDuckGo’s Solution to Google’s Latest Privacy Controversy (Consumer Reports)
- More than 500 Alphabet employees demand Google stop protecting harassers in open letter (The Verge)
- After Working at Google, I’ll Never Let Myself Love a Job Again (The New York Times)
- Sixty-Week Delay on Router Orders Shows Scale of Chip Crisis (Bloomberg)
- This won’t be the last big campaign to unionize an Amazon facility (The Washington Post)
- Phone app alerts users to look up while walking (BBC News)
- How to Decorate Your New Home Before You Move (The New York Times)