20: T-Rex with Arms

Rejoice! Taylor Swift single-handedly saves music! What should we get her to do next.. international diplomacy? We also check in on what the new Twitter experience will be like and explain how a certain Tyrannosaurus Rex got its arms.

On the news front, we look at Tidal losing their CEO, The Rock fighting a gorilla, Twitter’s top secret project, how Twitter is killing Twitter to save Twitter, we review the indie film, Tangerine and much more!

This episode is brought to you by the letter ‘T’.

Episode 20. Recorded Wednesday 24 June 2015.

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• Jamaica’s Deshorn Brown grabs on-pitch selfie with Messi | The World Game
• Follow up: Facebook can recognise you in photos even if you’re not looking | New Scientist
• Follow up: Jay-Z’s streaming service Tidal just lost another CEO | Business Insider
• Sizing up the suitors for Here, Nokia’s mapping service | TechCrunch
• Taylor Swift’s open letter/ultimatum to Apple | Tumblr
• Apple says it will pay Taylor Swift (and others) for free streams after all | re/code
• Oculus Rift inventor Palmer Luckey: VR will make distance irrelevant | re/code
• Lithium-ion batteries and the creation of the modern laptop | Ars Technica
• FitBit shares ‘surge’ at IPO, valuing the company at over $6bn | The Verge
• Twitter’s top secret project – Project Lightning | BuzzFeed (Mat Honan)
• Twitter is killing Twitter to save Twitter | Wired (David Pierce)
• Hololens demoed alongside Minecraft | Press Start
• NVDIA Shield TV – the best Android set-top box you can buy | Engadget
• Google finally drops emojis from search results listing | Search Engine Land
• Google announces plan to block revenge porn from search results | Rolling Stone
• Ewan McGregor: I’m up for a Trainspotting sequel | The Guardian
• Tom Holland to play the new Spider-Man and Jon Watts to direct it | Marvel
• The Rock will fight a giant gorilla in a ‘Rampage’ film | Engadget
• ‘Jurassic World’ | IMDb
• ‘Tangerine’ | IMDb
• Kelvin’s tip: Fully featured portable software system on your USB drive – PortableApps.com
• Video reaction for Kelvin: ‘Cuphead’ E3 2015 trailer
• Video reaction for Geoff: ‘The Peanuts Movie’ trailer