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Gorillaz is the creation of musician Damon Albarn and comic book artist Jamie Hewlett. They’re a virtual band made up four animated characters. Their songs are written by Damon Albarn and a roster of collaborators. Since the first album was released in 2001, Gorillaz have so...

President Richard Nixon once boasted that at any moment he could pick up a telephone and - in 20 minutes - kill 60 million people.  Such is the power of the US President over the nation’s nuclear arsenal.  But what if you were the military officer on the receiving ...

• Follow up:
  • APFS file name encoding
  • WWDC sitrep
• RIP Jason Seifer
• The Mac Pro
  • Gruber's take
  • Panzarino's take
  • The Case for a True Mac Pro Successor
• The new iMac... Pro?
  • Project Ara
• Ending theme by Jonathan Mann
• Post-show:
  • We adjudicate a bet
  • T-Shirts are for sale! until 26 April

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• Follow up:
  • APFS on iOS
    • Settings → General → Storage & iCloud Usage → Manage Storage
    • Oddities with file names
  • Ahoy, Telephone!
  • Naked-er Robotic Core
• Marco eats waffles
  • Aerial
• MacBook One vs. MacBook Adorable
  • Hello Internet, Cortex
• WWDC
  • Under the Radar #73: WWDC Event Planning
  • Layers (Casey's 2016 Review)
  • Beyond WWDC
  • Code of Conduct & Childcare
• Ending theme by Jonathan Mann
• Post-show: Tiff joins us to talk Zelda: Breath of the Wild
  • Fable
  • First Look video
  • Mario Kart 8
  • Splatoon 2

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Since her debut in 2002, Norah Jones has sold over 50 million albums, and won 8 Grammys. She released Day Breaks, her sixth album, in 2016. In this episode, she takes apart the title track and details how all the pieces unexpectedly came together. You’ll hear her original demo for the song and how it was transformed in the studio, including a session with jazz saxophone legend Wayne Shorter. Plus, a few thoughts from Norah’s co-producer and longtime collaborator Sarah Oda.

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A couple years ago, Ben Montgomery, reporter at the Tampa Bay Times, started emailing every police station in Florida. He was asking for any documents created - from 2009 to 2014 - when an officer discharged his weapon in the line of duty. He ended up with a six foot tall st...

Follow-up: Wii U display lag from Steven Impson Zelda heads-up-display woes Intel X99 high-end desktop options Reasons for delaying the Mac Pro Americans are cheap jerks Marco needs a new pair of shoelaces Analog(ue) #9: My Shoes Are a Bit Dusty Úll Apple executive di...

Dave Longstreth started making music under the name Dirty Projectors in 2002, while he was in college. Since then, he’s released seven albums and collaborated with Bjork, Solange, and Kanye West, Paul McCartney, and Rihanna. And Dirty Projectors went from a solo project to a full-band, performing on TV, and at Carnegie Hall. Dave and one of his bandmates were in a relationship for much of that time, but then that relationship and the band broke up. In February 2017, with Dirty Projectors as solo project once again, Dave released a self-titled album, a breakup album, looking back on those years. In this episode, Dave breaks down the song "Up in Hudson," and the winding road he went down to create it.

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A couple years ago, Ben Montgomery, reporter at the Tampa Bay Times, started emailing every police station in Florida. He was asking for any documents created - from 2009 to 2014 - when an officer discharged his weapon in the line of duty. He ended up with a six foot tall st...

• Pre-show: A friendly bet for January 1, 2018
• Follow up:
  • Windows on iPad (for example, Blackboard)
  • Steve Troughton-Smith's Floating Keyboard Playground
    • Writeup from 9to5mac
  • Apple in Education
• Apple's HomeKit Promo Website & Video
  • Scott McNulty's Tweet
• YouTube TV (Verge Writeup)
• Intel goes 14nm again
• AMD Ryzen
• Xeon Gold
• Tim Cook's tease at the shareholders meeting
• Ending theme by Jonathan Mann
• Post-show: Initital thoughts on the Nintendo Switch

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Sleigh Bells formed in 2008. They released their fourth album, Jessica Rabbit, in 2016. In this episode, Alexis Krauss and Derek Miller break down their song "I Can Only Stare." I interviewed the two of them in front of a live audience at the Kaufman Music Center in New York, as part of the Ecstatic Music Festival.

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• Follow-up: USB-C iPhone 8
  • Ming-Chi Kuo pours cold water on Apple USB-C notions
  • Anker bricks
  • Questionable USB-C-to-A adapter
  • Chromebox for Meetings
• MacBook Boost case
• Windowing on iOS
  • Steve Troughton-Smith writes Finder-like app for iOS
    • Apple does not see the humor
    • This is why iPad can't have nice things
    • Cabel Sasser of Panic weighs in
  • PanelKit
• Accidental programmers
  • Cortex
  • Macintosh Toolbox
  • HyperCard
• Apple's decline in the education market
• Ending theme by Jonathan Mann

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• Pre-show: Xeon Gold
• Follow up:
  • Booting APFS
  • Tesla harassment suit
  • Uber, generic trademarks, Lyft, and alternatives
    • Uber is Quietly Terrible for Women & Black People
    • New Business Model, Same Racist Cab Drivers
    • Uber CEO argues with driver
• Overcast Ads
• iPhones with USB-C?
  • Lightning connector
  • Studio Neat Material Dock
• Nintendo Switch cartridges have bitter taste
  • Mavala Stop nail polish
• Ending theme by Jonathan Mann
• Post-show:
  • Decoding Tim Cook's shareholder-meeting remarks
  • MKBHD: Dear Apple! (2017)

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Simon Green is a producer and DJ who’s been making music under the name Bonobo since 2000. In January 2017 he released his sixth studio album, Migration. For the song “Break Apart," he enlisted Rhye to add vocals, and in this episode, the two of them tell the story of how the track came together.

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It's been almost two years since we learned about CRISPR, a ninja-assassin-meets-DNA-editing-tool that has been billed as one of the most powerful, and potentially controversial, technologies ever discovered by scientists. In this episode, we catch up on what's been happenin...

Pre-show: Noses, Sinuses, and Snot Do By Friday Follow up: Control Center and AirPods Stagehand Backwards Bike Online chat latency Booting macOS from case-insensitive APFS Recipe parts 1 & 2 Overcast 3 Under the Radar #68: Overcast 3 The Talk Show #182: AAA ...

Sara Watkins began her music career when she was only 8 years old, as one of the founding members of the Grammy-award winning band Nickel Creek. In 2016, she released her third solo album, Young in all the Wrong Ways. In this episode, Sara breaks down her song "Without a Word." This interview was recorded in front of a live audience at the Chicago Podcast Festival.

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• AirPods, a couple of months in
• Follow up:
  • Compelling users to upgrade their iPhones
  • Biometrics
    • ✌️
    • ✋
• Chromebooks vs. ARM Macs
  • OXO's story
• Case sensitive HFS+
• Twitterrific for the Mac
  • Origin of "tweet"
• Planet of the Apps
  • MacMan
  • Shark Tank
  • Cabel Sasser's take
• Caavo
  • Verge video
  • John on the omnivorous box
  • Hypercritical #1: Dream Crusher
  • Original GoogleTV remote
• Ending theme by Jonathan Mann
• Post-show:
  • John's Mac
  • Casey doesn't want a WRX
  • You can get a good deal on a Golf R

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We thought we knew the story of Bernie Madoff.  How he masterminded the biggest Ponzi scheme in history, leaving behind scores of distraught investors and a $65 billion black hole.  But we had never heard the story from Madoff himself. This week, reporter Steve Fis...

• Follow up:
  • What could ARM coprocessors in Macs do?
  • Windows Hello face recognition
• More on iPads vs. Macs
  • Upgrade #127
  • Connected #128
  • Marco's blog post
  • David Sparks on iPad hardware longevity
• Crazy locked-down ARM-Mac rumor
• Ending theme by Jonathan Mann
• Post-show: Casey learns the fine art of waffling

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