Episode 394: Dead or Angry

Oct. 2, 2018

This week: some TV and movie stuff, Dark Mode and accessibility, OS stability and beta temptation, Merlin has an anecdote, the powers and frustrations of Siri via Apple Watch, updates to the Fitbit family, tech that does enough, Dan tried Bear, updates on the Chrome login thing, and an intriguing listener comment about Apple's ASP/inch³.

Links for this episode:

• Shop Fitbit Charge 3™ Advanced Fitness Tracker
  
• Fitbit Charge 3 Hands-On Preview | Digital Trends
  
• Fitbit Charge 3 hands-on: Better controls come with a trade-off
  
• Cary Fukunaga - Wikipedia
  
• Bear - Notes for iPhone, iPad and Mac
  
• Atom
  
• How to Turn Off the Auto Sign-In Link in Gmail and Chrome
  
• Inside Amazon’s Warehouse, Human-Robot Symbiosis - MIT Technology Review
  On the other side of the warehouse, workers pack products into boxes for shipping with help from Amazon’s central computer systems. Items retrieved from storage shelves are automatically identified and sorted into batches destined for a single customer. The computer knows the dimensions of each product and will automatically allocate the right box, and even the right amount of packing tape. Further along, before products are sent to different trucks for dispatching, boxes are weighed to make sure no mistakes have been make in packing.

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