Amazon announces a home robot named Astro as part of a bevy of new hardware, Netflix acquires its first gaming studio, and YouTube will now takedown all vaccine misinformation.
Cloudflare announces R2 cloud object storage as part of a push to be the fourth major public cloud, Amazon launches its New World MMO, and TikTok surpasses 1 billion users.
Netflix announced approximately 900,000 things, so we break down the biggest announcements. Plus, YouTubeTV is really embracing this TV tradition, Nintendo and Illumination are making a Mario movie with a big cast, and AppleTV+ shows us a trailer for Generic: The Movie. All that and more on Cordkillers! With special guest Iyaz Akhtar.
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