Thinking of spending some of your inside time recording a podcast or your own music? After a tour through the week’s technology headlines with J.D., El Kaiser offers some shopping tips on microphones that make you sound way better than the one built into your laptop. Just click the Play button to hear it all on PTJ 336 — starting with a suggestion for another binge-worthy show to pass the time in the Quarantine Life.
Links to Stories in This Week’s News Segment
- Community (NBC)
- The 15 best episodes of Community (EW.com)
- Community Cast — Including Donald Glover — to Reunite for Virtual Table Read (Variety)
- TikTok Broke Privacy Promises, Children’s Groups Say (The New York Times)
- Your Second First Trip (Uber Newsroom)
- Google removed 813 creepware apps from the Android Play Store (ZDNet)
- The Many Kinds of Creepware Used for Interpersonal Attacks (Semantic Scholar)
- Merkley, Colleagues Continue to Lead Charge to Protect Consumers from Internet Shut-Offs During Pandemic (Jeff Merkley)
- Keeping our employees and partners safe during #coronavirus (Twitter)
- Apple Plans to Return More Staff to Offices in Break From Rivals (Bloomberg)
- Organize your tabs with tab groups in Google Chrome (Keyword blog)
- Protecting against resource-heavy ads in Chrome (Chromium Blog)
- A first look at Unreal Engine 5 (Unreal Engine)
- PlayStation 5 will launch in 2020 holiday season despite coronavirus: Sony (CNBC)
- Facebook to pay $52m to content moderators over PTSD (BBC News)
- Jeffrey Katzenberg Blames Pandemic for Quibi’s Rough Start (The New York Times)
- ‘Hamilton’ coming to Disney+ in July (CNN)
- Slice raised $43M in Series C funding to power local pizza (Slice Pizza Blog)
Shopping for Microphones
- Blue Microphones
- Blue Microphones: Yeti series
- Shure: Microphones
- Audio-Technica Microphones
- Rode Microphones
- Zoom Recorders
- Marantz Recorders
- Presonus USB Audio Interfaces
- Focusrite USB Audio Interfaces
- Mackie Onyx USB Audio Interfaces
- Differences Between a Dynamic and Condenser Microphone (non-technical breakdown)
- How to Connect a Microphone to Your Computer (Neumann)