TEH 196: Reddit again. Voice assistants. Energy from air and flying cars.

TEH Podcast

English - June 14, 2023 15:55 - 54 minutes - 35.9 MB - ★★★★★ - 26 ratings
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In This Episode:

This week the TEH Podcast is hosted by Leo Notenboom, the “Chief Question Answerer” at Ask Leo!, and Gary Rosenzweig, the host and producer of MacMost, and mobile game developer at Clever Media.

(You'll find longer Bios on the Hosts page.)
Top Stories

0:40 LN: More Reddit. Harvesting content and losing advertising.

3:00 GR: Why Reddit has to charge for API
7:15 Google also scrapes sites
11:00 What's the strategy. Is it all advertising revenue?

Or, is it just that third-party apps don’t show Reddit ads, so it is server use without any revenue generated by Reddit?

13:00 LN: One person’s conspiracy theory

17:30 LN: Cortana going away

What makes a voice assistant successful, anyway?
25:00 Will it turn into Bing?

30:00 GR: Making stuff up... or is it true?

GR: Scientists find way to make energy from air using nearly any material. This seems like too-good-to-be-true stuff to me.
Clean electricity from air?
39:00 Why aren't there flying cars? And drones.

Ain't it Cool

46:00 GR: Renfield. Funny vampire.
49:00 LN: What's Our Problem? - A Self-help Book for Societies - Tim Urban

BSP: Blatant Self-Promotion

50:50 LN: The Problem With OneDrive Backup
52:20 GR: XClipTools: Using the Calculator Functions

Leo and Gary in Denver