Are we ready for the vending machines to silently judge us based on our snack habits? Some New Yorkers will find out soon as new models equipped with artificial intelligence are making their way to town. Meanwhile the disruptors are getting some disruption themselves, Facebook’s F8 conference brings new announcements, there’s a new Star Wars trailer out and El Kaiser and J.D. wonder if it’s time for iTunes to retire. Grab a bag of chips or your favorite meat-stick product and settle in for a listen here on Episode 231!
Links to Stories in This Week’s Show
- Inside the hotel industry’s plan to combat Airbnb (The New York Times)
- New York moves to require Uber to provide tipping option in its app (The New York Times)
- Facebook Spaces: A new way to connect with friends in VR (Facebook)
- The 4 most important things Facebook just announced (Time)
- Manhunt in Cleveland after video of killing posted to Facebook (NBC News)
- Community Standards and Reporting (Facebook Newsroom)
- Netflix falls short on users without a ‘House of Cards’-size hit (Bloomberg)
- Apple readies iPhone overhaul for smartphone’s 10th anniversary (Bloomberg)
- Apple is having trouble getting the iPhone 8’s signature feature to actually work (BGR.com)
- Comment: Rumored Apple TV account switching in tvOS 11 may suggest multi-users for iPad with iOS 11 (9to5Mac)
- Samsung says Bixby voice assistant won’t ship with Galaxy S8 (Axios)
- PayPal teams up with Android Pay for mobile payments (TechCrunch)
- Steve Ballmer serves up a fascinating data trove (The New York Times)
- Introducing new ways to organize your saved posts (Instagram blog)
- Introducing New World Lenses (Snap blog)
- Artificially intelligent vending machines are coming to NYC (Time Out New York)
- Cassini at Saturn (NASA)
- NASA finds evidence of hydrothermal vents on Saturn’s moon Enceladus (Popular Mechanics)
- Star Wars: The Last Jedi Official Teaser (StarWars.com on YouTube)
- We know who the ‘Last Jedi’ is and its scary but not surprising (Mashable)
- Apple rebrands iTunes Podcasts as ‘Apple Podcasts’ (MacRumors)
- iTunes needs to go (well, the name, anyway) (Macworld)
- Loopy Cases