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Wed. 10/23 – Strong ARM Tactics

A huge dispute in the semiconductor space has gone nuclear with implications that are crazy. Anthropic’s new AI app can control your computer for you....

Tue. 10/22 – The Next Gen Snapdragon

Qualcomm has unveiled its big, next gen Snapdragon SoC which will someday be in all the phones. Except iPhones, of course. Is Netflix pulling back on...

Mon. 10/21 – Google Get’s A Stay

Google’s strategy of keeping it in the courts is already going to plan. New AI agents from Microsoft. New Open Source models from IBM. Perplexity is l...

(Bonus) Goldeneye 007 With - John Gruber

Did Nintendo try to kill GoldenEye 007 before it was completed? Why did Shigeru Miyamoto keep telling the development team to tone down the violence....

Fri. 10/18 – Netflix Wins

Thu. 10/17 – Sigh Of Relief From Chip Stocks

Now Amazon is building some modular nuclear reactors. TSMC’s results cheer up the chips industry. Uber but for buying plane tickets. No, I mean, reall...

Wed. 10/16 – Color Kindles

Kindles come roaring back, with significant updates to the Paperwhite and the Scribe, but also, for the first time ever, a Kindle with a color screen....

Tue. 10/15 – Tech Going Nuclear

The Nuclear Energy sector is clearly getting back in business, thanks to big tech and their AI needs. The latest back and forth in the Wordpress brouh...

Mon. 10/14 – Adobe Unleashes Firefly

Adobe unleashes its Firefly AI video model broadly. Mark Gurman lays out Apple’s headset strategy going forward. What’s been going on with the Interne...

(Bonus) The Rise And Fall Of Blockbuster Video

Why was Blockbuster so successful? Was it the DVD that killed Blockbuster? What was the deal with late fees? Is there any way Blockbuster, not Netflix...

Fri. 10/11 - Cybercab

All the headlines from Tesla’s robotaxi event. AMD unveils the chip it wants to use to go toe to toe with Nvidia. Are people actually making money bui...

Thu. 10/10 – OpenAI Won’t Be Profitable Until When?

Apple TV+ finally comes to Prime Video Channels. OpenAI says they’ve been disrupting AI election influence campaigns. But they won’t be profitable unt...

Wed. 10/09 – Big Podcast Announcement

Subscribe to RAD! 80s90s History in your podcast app!Apple PodcastsSpotifyOvercastThe government says it does, in fact, want to break up Google. The N...

Tue. 10/08 – Epic’s Win V. Google

Crack… at least for the Google Play store. Two AI scientists have won the Nobel Prize for physics?! Samsung is in a similar boat to Intel, just not qu...

Mon. 10/07 – Apple Intelligence Gets A Date

We finally have a date for Apple Intelligence. Meta has a new text to video AI model. Google could soon drop under 50% in the search ads market. More...

Fri. 10/04 – AI Slop Comes To Podcasting

Google has updated Lens and is taking a page out of Perplexity’s book. OpenAI’s new canvas workspace. Why an upcoming iPhone SE might have some intere...

Thu. 10/03 – The Monster OpenAI Raise

OpenAI raised their round, and it basically broke all the records. The whole Wordpress mess has gotten so crazy that WPEngine is suing. Using Ray-Ban...

Wed. 10/02 – A Tech Angle To The Hurricane

Catching you up on a bunch of other Microsoft announcements we missed yesterday. Is Nvidia trying to break open the black box of AI? It’s absolutely w...

Tue. 10/01 – Running This Pod Through NotebookLM

Do we have the first IPO of the AI era? Do we have the first AI model beyond the transformer architecture? Microsoft has a bunch of new AI tools insid...

Mon. 09/30 – Controversial AI Bill Vetoed

That controversial AI bill in California has been vetoed by Governor Newsom. Is even Apple now thinking that its Vision Pro strategy might need a reth...