To Gene Wolfe! Thank you for Shadow and Claw and Pringles. Plus, William Gibson’s Alien 3, what you need to know before reading The Martian Chronicles, and our final thoughts on the vast conspiracies that make up Theft of Swords.
Russian President Vladimir Putin signs a bill to create a “sovereign internet” in the country, the FCC revises broadband adoption figures after discovering a data error, and structural changes at Facebook may be part of its settlement with the FTC.
A Vox/Recode story reveals that team collaboration software like Slack, Teams and Workplace are reducing the productive output of workers instead of improving it. We explore the reasons and discuss the discrepancy between technology’s promise of a productivity enabler and the real-world outcome.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang.
We breakdown the biggest battle sequence of all time in Game of Thrones. Plus, the biggest superhero film yet in Avengers: Endgame. All that and The Office (UK) too! With special guest Anthony Lemos.
Next week: we’re caught up on Barry and Game of Thrones soldiers on.
01:07 – Summer Movie Draft update
04:10 – Game of Thrones (803)
24:34 – Avengers: Endgame
58:11 – The Office (UK) (202)
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Facebook announces new things for Instagram, Oculus and Facebook itself, Apple earnings not as bad as expected and India is the new Fintech investment darling of Asia.Face
Parrots are weird in Brazil. There’s more Clockwork coming. Star Trek animated series comes into focus. Keeping brains alive! Lord and Miller are cooking up rad stuff for Sony Pictures. Transporters and how they will work! And more!
We breakdown all of the important news from today’s Facebook’s F8 conference. Plus we discuss Uber and Lyft’s decision to stop accepting new drivers and chew over quarterly numbers from Samsung and Alphabet.