Apple puts its foot down on apps that run cryptocurrency mining in the background, Microsoft announced at E3 it acquired five game developers to bolster its first party game library, and the US Dept of Energy has launched the fastest supercomputer in the world, Summit, capable of 200,000 trillion calculations a second.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang and Justin Robert Young.
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Show Notes
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Microsoft adds five new game studios, Foxconn plant accused of labor abuses in making Amazon products, US retakes title for fastest supercomputer.
Tom, Sarah, Roger and friends update us on the state of DTNS, review the DTNS mid-year survey and chat with a few of the Patreon Advisors.
With Google ending its involvement in Project Maven after significant employee dissent about the company working with the military we ponder what exactly should AI be used for and perhaps more importantly what it shouldn’t be used for. 
Goodbye Yahoo messenger, Goodbye to a lot of AirBnB reservations in japan, and hello new Verizon CEO.
Valve unveiled a new policy allowing anything to be posted to the Steam Store as long as the content is not something Valve decides is illegal, or straight up trolling. Is this policy of relaxed control an effort to reduce the need to moderate the store or is something else at play?
Instagram may offer long-form video, Valve eases up on content censorship, Amazon announces Fire TV Cube.
Sonos pulled the wraps off the Beam. A smart home theater sound bar that integrates Amazon’s Alexa many have speculated that its Sonos’s attempt to take over the connected living room. Will it succeed or end up on the latest in a long line of failed attempts?
Sonos new smart home theater speaker, Facebook shared data with Huawei, AMD’s 32-core Threadripper.