#422 - Best and worst tech of CES 2020!
The CultCast
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🗓️ 10 January 2020
⏱️ 71 minutes
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This week: Tim Cook strikes back! Ricky Gervais tore Apple a new one live at the Golden Globes, but TC always gets the last laugh... we discuss.
Plus: we round up the coolest, weirdest, and whackiest gadgets announced at the 2020 Consumer Electronics show.
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This week's stories
Golden Globes host Ricky Gervais: Apple ‘runs sweatshops in China’
- * Apple’s first night at the Golden Globes didn’t go exactly as Tim Cook may have hoped — with none of the nominations for Apple TV+ show The Morning Show resulting in award wins. Adding insult to injury, returning host Ricky Gervais quipped that Apple used sweatshops to make its products. And even drew parallels to terrorist group ISIS.
Why Samsung will probably get away with ‘borrowing’ Face ID icon
- * Eagle-eyed viewers spotted something oddly familiar during Samsung’s CES keynote Monday. On a slide regarding Samsung Pass, its new biometric “identity management as-a-service” product, Samsung included a logo that looks (to be polite) “borrowed” from Apple’s Face ID.
Crock-Pot's latest slow cooker comes with Alexa voice control
- * Belkin has quietly unveiled a 6 quart Crock-Pot slow cooker with a new twist: you can control it with Amazon Alexa.
Segway’s S-Pod looks weird, but it’s a lot of fun to drive
- * Segway’s newest self-balancing vehicle is a strange egg-shaped S-Pod wheelchair.
PiBo is a robotic companion for single people
- * It can get lonely living on your own, especially when you've got a landlord that doesn't allow pets or roommates. That’s where PIBO comes in, a cute robotic companion robot from Korean developer, Circulus
Don’t worry: Impossible Foods is already working on fake bacon
- * Impossible Foods CEO Pat Brown has revealed that his company is working on a plant-based version of bacon.
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| 0:00.0 | And we found out that they're writing memos with them and they're doing some |
| 0:03.1 | planning and some budgeting the things we expected but the thing that that |
| 0:07.0 | depressed us the most and caused the most alarm was that it takes a usual that normal |
| 0:11.2 | person spends 20 to 40 hours, |
| 0:13.5 | simply learning how to use the computer before he can do any useful work. |
| 0:18.0 | Now, if you had to spend 20 to 40 hours learning how to use let's say your telephone just to learn how to call |
| 0:26.0 | home and then you had to spend another 10 hours learning how to call the stockbroker |
| 0:31.3 | and another 10 hours learning how to call the police. |
| 0:34.1 | You know, let's hope you're not in trouble. |
| 0:36.0 | Because someone's chasing you, you've got to call the police. |
| 0:38.1 | You're not going to spend 10 hours doing that. |
| 0:39.4 | You're going to throw the telephone off your desk. |
| 0:41.7 | So the challenge in coming up with this great product |
| 0:44.8 | called Macintosh is coming out with a product that people can really understand |
| 0:49.4 | quickly that they don't have to spend this 20 to 40 hours learning how to use it. |
| 0:54.0 | And that's the magic behind the product. |
| 0:59.0 | Hello and welcome to the Hokkawie Best 30 Plus Men Apple Conversation. |
| 1:03.7 | You're gonna hear all week long. |
| 1:05.9 | I'm your host Air Funelizer. |
| 1:07.0 | Join me today. |
| 1:07.9 | He always Chuck, you, he always chuckles when I joke. |
| 1:11.4 | He's a senior official in the Antifa organization, but he's never denied it. |
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