156: ‘Yo, Dingus’ With Merlin Mann
The Talk Show With John Gruber
06/04/16
•118m
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Merlin Mann returns to the show to talk about artificial intelligence and Eddy Cue’s flip-flops.
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- Eddy Cue celebrating on court with Stephen Curry after the Golden State Warriors won the NBA Western Conference finals.
- Apple’s purported upcoming standalone Siri device might have a camera.
- The Talk Show in iTunes. Reviews are much appreciated.
- The AI Effect: “It’s part of the history of the field of artificial intelligence that every time somebody figured out how to make a computer do something — play good checkers, solve simple but relatively informal problems — there was chorus of critics to say, ‘That’s not thinking’.”
- System 7 Macintosh Basics Demo.
- Canary: Real-time streaming video camera for your home. Merlin’s got one and likes it.
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155: ‘Medium Rare MacBook’ With MG Siegler
May 28, 2016
•142m
Special guest MG Siegler returns to the show. (Finally.) Topics include rumors of an upcoming Siri SDK and an Amazon Echo-like device from Apple, the future of the MacBook lineup, Peter Thiel's secretive role as the financial backer of Hulk Hogan's lawsuit against Gawker, and my hatred of Roman numerals.
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Links:
- 500ish Words -- the new home for MG's writing.
- Why do movie studios use Roman numerals for the copyright year in end credits?
- Felix Salmon on the strategy behind Peter Thiel's heretofore secret campaign to bankrupt Gawker.
- 9to5Mac on purported upcoming MacBook Pros that replace the function keys with an LED touchscreen.
- The Optimus Popularis -- a humongous $1500 keyboard where each key cap is a small LED.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
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157: ‘A Nokia Phone and Some Pills (WWDC Prelude)’ With Dan Frommer
June 11, 2016
•144m
Dan Frommer returns to the show. Topics include Jeff Bezos’s and Elon Musk’s appearances at last week’s Code 2016 conference, Apple’s changes to the App Store (subscriptions for all app categories, search ads, and huge improvements to app review approval times), and, of course, our expectations for WWDC 2016 next week.
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Links:
- Full video of Walt Mossberg’s interview with Jeff Bezos at Recode’s Code 2016 last week.
- Full video of Mossberg and Kara Swisher’s interview with Elon Musk.
- MacDailyNews: “Apple to Deliver iMessage to Android at WWDC”.
- Motion Stills: new iPhone app from Google that makes Live Photos way better.
- Mark Bergen’s report for Recode on Mercedes-Benz’s advanced self-driving car initiative.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
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