This week’s episode brought to you by Sidekick Media Services, Slice on Broadway, and Alex Kahrs Design & Media! Chilla, Katie, and Sorg are joined by Charlie Deitch of the Pittsburgh Current to talk this week in tech news, including:
- Chilla is looking at the Pixel 3a as his Awesome Thing of the Week.
- Katie is sharing an Instagram update to add alternate text to photos.
- Sorg is sharing some live stream cool things with Hear Corp as his Awesome Thing of the Week.
- Charlie is sharing a cool addition for the Pittsburgh Current as his Awesome Thing of the Week.
- Sorg's best segue: How about that Spiderman trailer?
- Pittsburgh had a new traffic reporter at WTAE.
- Angry Birds extends into the real world with AR integration.
- Microsoft Solitaire has been inducted into the Video Game Hall of Fame, and Sorg is looking to check it out next time he's in the area.
- Google is working on a way for voice recognition to work with those with speech impairments.
- Alexa goes hands-free on Windows with a wake word update.
- PornHub wants to buy Tumblr and restore its adult content.
- Commercial drones are more popular than the FAA expected.
- Microsoft is coming back to MacOS with its Edge browser.
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