Cordkillers 282 – Conspiracy Brothers (w/ Merrill Barr)

Should YouTube stop recommendations? New Fire TV Cubes, Roku soundbar, and Mr. Robot comes back soon. All this and more on Cordkillers! With special guest Merrill Barr.

This week on Spoilerin’ Time: The Righteous Gemstones (102-104), Preacher (406-407), Extras (204)
Next week: The Righteous Gemstones (105), Preacher (408), and Extras (205)

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Toughbook, Good Show – DTNS 3612

Apple adjusts its app store algorithm in July to deprioritize Apple apps in search results, the Verge has a review of Fitbit’s Versa 2, and Bloomberg reports Apple and Foxconn confirmed that Foxconn exceeded Chinese labor limits on the number of temporary staff it is allowed to use.

Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang. 

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Deep Mind Craft – DTNS 3608

Researchers at Facebook are developing a virtual assistant to help Minecraft players letting users type in requests in natural language to an in-game avatar and the assistant will carry out requests if it can. How does this change machine learning and how can players benefit?

Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Patrick Beja, Roger Chang.

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Girls Be VSCO – It’s a Thing 75

Tom is back from his world travels, and Molly is back from Minnesota, so that must mean they talked about some things. Tom is fascinated by Mukbang packages at hotels, while Molly finds out the hottest tote bag comes with a New Yorker subscription. Then they discuss VSCO girls and the emergence of spritzes.

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