On this week’s episode, El Kaiser and JD ponder the purple iPhone and Apple’s other pile of spring product announcements, as well as other headlines from around the tech world. And space nerds everywhere celebrated NASA’s historic week as the Ingenuity helicopter took its inaugural flight on Mars — and then another — all while bringing a little piece of American aviation history along for the ride.
Spin up PTJ 353 to hear it all!
- Nobody official trailer (YouTube)
- Spotify Set to Rival Apple Podcasts Subscriptions With New Service That Won’t Charge Content Creators (MacRumors)
- Spotify Is Launching Podcast Subscriptions, and Unlike Apple Won’t Take a Cut From Creators (Variety)
- Apple AirDrop shares more than files (Technical University of Darmstadt)
- Incorporating More Feedback Into News Feed Ranking (About Facebook)
- How Facebook Failed To Prevent Stop The Steal (Buzzfeed)
- Tesla’s Autopilot is ‘easily’ tricked into working without anyone in the driver’s seat (The Verge)
- U.S. agency still ‘gathering facts’ on Texas Tesla crash (Reuters)
- CR Engineers Show a Tesla Will Drive With No One in the Driver’s Seat (Consumer Reports)
- Supreme Court Slashes FTC’s Power to Seek Monetary Awards (Bloomberg)
- NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Succeeds in Historic First Flight (NASA)
- NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Logs Second Successful Flight (NASA)
- NASA, SpaceX Officials Thrilled With Crew-2 Launch Success (NASA)
- Mars helicopter Ingenuity carries piece of Wright brothers’ famous plane (Space.com)
- Apple introduces new iPad Pro (Apple Newsroom)
- All-new iMac features stunning design in a spectrum of vibrant colors (Apple Newsroom)
- Apple introduces iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 mini in purple (Apple Newsroom)
- Apple unveils the next generation of Apple TV 4K (Apple Newsroom)
- Apple leads the next chapter of podcasting with Apple Podcasts Subscriptions (Apple Newsroom)
- Apple introduces AirTag (Apple Newsroom)
- Apple’s AirTag tracker respects privacy and foils stalking (Fast Company)