Fri. 12/13 - The Next-Gen Xbox

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🗓️ 13 December 2019

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Details about the next-gen Xbox, Apple makes an interesting acquisition around photography, Lyft will rent you a car, why I find Roku so interesting, and, of course, the weekend longreads suggestions. Sponsors: Today In Digital Marketing Podcast PixelUnion.net aircall.io/ride Links: Microsoft’s next Xbox is Xbox Series X, coming holiday 2020 (The Verge) Apple Buys U.K. Startup to Improve iPhone Picture Taking (Bloomberg) Lyft launches a car rental service with no mileage limit (The Verge) Google Maps has now photographed 10 million miles in Street View (CNET) Roku Built the Dominant Streaming Box. Now It’s Under Siege (Bloomberg BusinessWeek) Weekend Longreads Suggestions: THE AGE OF INSTAGRAM FACE (New Yorker) The Influencer and the Hit Man (OneZero) Silicon Valley’s psychedelic wonder drug is almost here (Fast Company) How Zoom Became the Best Web-Conferencing Product in the World in Less Than 10 Years (FYI) “Link In Bio” is a slow knife (Anil Dash) THE VERGE’S GADGETS OF THE DECADE (The Verge) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Tech Mem Ride Home for Friday, December 13th, 2019. I'm Brian McCullough today.
0:10.0	Details about the Next Gen Xbox. Apple makes an interesting acquisition
0:15.0	around photography. Lift will rent you a car. Why I find Roku so
0:19.9	interesting and of course the weekend long read suggestions. Here's what you
0:24.4	miss today in the world of tech.
0:28.8	Microsoft's next generation Xbox, the machine that until now has been known as
0:37.9	Project Scarlet, is now officially going to be named Xbox Series X.
0:45.0	And if you feel like the name is not quite distinct enough,
0:48.4	believe me, you will not confuse this machine
0:51.7	with any other Xbox console if you're actually looking at. confuse this
0:55.0	bad-to-box console if you're actually looking at it because this bad boy looks like a computer
0:59.0	or at least different than all the other Xbox's.
1:03.6	Maybe because it is largely a computer though,
1:06.0	quoting The Verge.
1:07.8	The console itself is designed to be used in both vertical and horizontal orientations
1:12.3	and Microsoft's
1:13.6	Xbox chief, Phil Spencer, promises that it will quote,
1:16.6	deliver four times the processing power of Xbox 1X
1:19.8	in the most quiet and efficient way end quote.
1:23.0	Microsoft used the Xbox Series X to showcase Hellblade 2,
1:27.4	a new game from Ninja Theory that is being developed for its next Xbox console.
1:32.0	While Microsoft has revealed the design here, the company isn't
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