Sep 27th 2018
Tech News Weekly 51
Queen Bot Cortana
Hosted by
Megan Morrone,
Jason Howell
Oculus Quest, Surface Hub 2
Records every Thursday at 2:00pm Eastern / 11:00am Pacific / 19:00 UTC.
- 1:58 Brad Sams from Petri runs through the big announcements from Microsoft Ignite including the eagerly awaited Surface Hub 2.
- 14:21 CEO of Libby and Overdrive Steve Potash shares the ways people can checkout digital books from their library for free.
- 27:45 Oculus Connect wraps up with a big reveal of the standalone Oculus Quest, and Sam Machkovech from Ars Technica tried it out.
- 41:06 The founders of Instagram are leaving the Facebook umbrella for good. Recode's Kurt Wagner thinks it will be a while before people see the affects of that.
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Links
- Surface Hub 2’s Best Feature Isn’t The Screen or Hinge
- Consumer Reports gives its recommendation back to Microsoft’s Surface laptops
- What Is Cortana’s Future? Here’s My Prediction
- Microsoft’s Windows Virtual Desktop Delivers A Modern Desktop with Azure
- Beneath a Surface
- OverDrive
- Libby App
- Oculus Quest, a fully wireless VR headset, shipping spring 2019 for $399
- Hands-on: Oculus Quest is an intriguing new middle ground for VR
- Tweet: Oculus Quest at 72fps from @samred
- Instagram’s co-founders, Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger, are leaving amid frustrations with parent company Facebook
- Facebook’s recent ‘bear hug’ of Instagram frustrated its independent founders, leading to their exit
- Facebook’s reputation as a good place for founders is suddenly under attack
- Don’t You Hate When a Seal Slaps You in the Face With an Octopus?