Tech News Today 347: Denial In Motion

Hosts: Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Iyaz Akhtar and Jason Howell

Zynga’s doing something, we try to figure out what, RIM faceplants again, UK limply blocks porn, and more.

Guests: Jason Hiner

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Running time: 45:58

Tech News Today 346: Netflix’s Split Personality

Hosts: Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, and Iyaz Akhtar

Netflix is really sorry, OK, come back!, Facebook finally releases an iPad app, Windows 8 gets faster and light.

Guests: Lance Ulanoff

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Running time: 45:06

S&L Podcast – #78 – I fixed it!

It’s time for SciFi writers to get up and help science, according to Neal Stephenson. We also seem to have had the idea of starting a wiki for Ready Player One.  Now if we only had the energy to do it.  And one broken link gets two podcast hosts into an epic battle of fixing.

QUICK BURNS

Science fiction writers have a job, and it’s time to do it, says Neal Stephenson

TV and Movies

Ready Player One to become a movie?

Downton Abbey

Game of Thrones casting: Ygrette

CALENDAR

Oct. 18 2011
Oct. 20 2011
Oct. 25 2011

BARE YOUR SWORD

Steve Jobs/James Halliday

Virtual Online Schools .. Why not?

Play Ready Player One online (quest spoilers)

BOOK CHECK-IN

Looks like we’ll wrap up Ready, Player ONe either next week or the week after. Which would you rather?

And Tom gives a quick review of The Magicians by Lev Grossman.

EMAILS

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ADDENDUMS

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Tech News Today 345: Piracy Of Mouth

Hosts: Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Iyaz Akhtar and Jason Howell

Sprint goes LTE, Samsung postpones Nexus announcement, Malware takes down US drones, and more.

Guests: Darren Kitchen

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Running time: 40:05