I’m serious: I can’t wait to get a Telly. More screens, please! Also, we talked to Hank Green about the Montana TikTok ban (get well soon, Hank!) and talked through all the latest from the Supreme Court. Lots going on this week!
We’ve been covering Google’s ultra-high-end video conferencing rig for a while, and it’s really remarkable. MKBHD got to film the latest version of Starline, and gives you a good sense of why it works. (I got this same demo at Google I/O, and it’s genuinely even cooler than it looks here. Is it practical or realistic, will most people ever use it? Who knows! Maybe not! But holy crap is it cool.)
If you do, make sure you listen to our interview with Matt Johnson, who directed the movie and also plays Doug, the headband-wearing sidekick. We talked about his favorite and least-favorite tech movies, why BlackBerry lost to the iPhone, and why the world might still want and need something like it.
If you’re not planning to see the movie? You should. It’s great.
Fresh off the Google I/O keynote, we tried to make sense of what it all means — and whether the company’s relentless push toward AI is going to completely change the internet as we know it. Or at least make all your emails long and unreadable.
Ahead of I/O, we tried to make sense of this moment for Google, and the many threats the company faces. And then we talked about phones, foldable phones, tablets, and what’s up with Google gadgets. Google’s a weird company, and it’s a weird time to be Google!
Google is moving slowly and carefully to make AI happen. Maybe too slowly and too carefully for some people. But if you opt in, a whole new search experience awaits.
As always, if you’re not a fan of The Always Sunny Podcast, it’s time to change that. This week’s a good one even if you’re not into It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, though, because the gang talks about BlackBerry, which stars Glenn Howerton as Research In Motion co-CEO Jim Balsillie, and comes out this Friday.
The BlackBerry stuff starts about 30 minutes in. It’s got lots of fun takes on the iPhone, and behind-the-scenes stories about the movie.
Google promised to create a better, faster web for media companies with a new standard called AMP. In the end, it ruined the trust publishers had in the internet giant.
