After several weeks of unexpected hiatus, El Kaiser and JD return to catch up on the Justice League Snyder cut, NFTs, eco-friendly map directions, NASA’s Mars helicopter — and a whole bunch of Bluetooth headphones. Spin up Episode 351 right here!
- Zack Snyder’s Justice League (HBO Max)
- The Bloody Second Act of ‘Invincible’ and Robert Kirkman (The Ringer)
- Redefining what a map can be with new information and AI (Google Keyword blog)
- Google is making some big upgrades to directions in Google Maps (The Verge)
- Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference is back in its all-online format (Apple)
- WWDC 2021 (Apple)
- Contentious Union Vote at Amazon Heads to a Count (The New York Times)
- There’s Something Fishy About Amazon’s Anti-Union Twitter Army (Gizmodo)
- Boston Dynamics introduces ‘Stretch’, new warehouse worker robot (Reuters)
- SolarWinds hack got emails of top DHS officials (Associated Press)
- Exclusive: Visa moves to allow payment settlements using cryptocurrency (Reuters)
- Exclusive: PayPal launches crypto checkout service (Reuters)
- Buy This NFT Column on the Blockchain! (The New York Times)
- Another SpaceX spaceship prototype explodes, joining Starship graveyard in Texas after ‘exciting’ test (Click Orlando)
- NASA Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Prepares for First Flight (NASA)
- Mars Helicopter tech demo (NASA)
- Paris’s Louvre Museum just put its entire collection online (Time Out)
El Kaiser’s Headphone Mega-Roundup