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Episode 23: It's time for Extended Free trials, iOS VM's, Walking and Watches, no more Loons, HomePod reviews and Bond or Agent 47?

The Weekly Tech Rant with Jay and Karl

English - January 31, 2021 14:54 - 1 hour - 60.9 MB
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Previous Episode: Episode 22 - It's time for return of the Pat, No more touching the bar, Virtual CES, flying cars and rolling phones, plus 47 is back

Next Episode: Episode 24: It's time for Masked unlocks, Fitness casting, health-check for your wallet, iCloud Passwords here and then gone, Stadia concerns and we all go to Greenland, plus logging that flight!

This week we covered:

News

Apple Extends Apple TV subscription again - Is there a subscriber conversion problem?
Corellium makes its iOS virtualisation available to individuals - fancy some virtual iPhones?
Looks like the Huawei Ban isn’t going away anytime soon - No change in China relations
Hackers publish Gov files after Ransom is refused - We do not negotiate with Terrorists/hackers
Apple unveils new Fitness+“Time to Walk” activity - These boots were made for walking!
Apple Watch saves kidnapped woman - A first!
Alphabet is shutting down the Loon Internet service - someone popped that balloon!
LG considers exiting smartphones in 2021 - is the market too crowded?
Weeks later, Google still hasn’t added privacy labels to its most popular iPhone apps

Update on the story from last week

Gadgets

Jay has got his HomePod Minis!

Games

Hitman 3 first thoughts
Hitman Dev’s Bond Project could end up being a Trilogy
Cyberpunk 2077 1.1 Patch - fix or bust?

As always please let us know your thoughts in the comments!