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This podcast is brought to you by Geoff Kim & Kelvin Lee - 2 geeks who chat about technology, pop culture and whatever disturbs The Force.

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63: E3 and WWDC Special

Episode 63 WWDC E3

Epsiode 63 is a legendary one where we cover two massive conventions: gaming convention E3 and WWDC, Apple’s developer conference, how timely with Voltron: The Legendary Defender now on Netflix.

We go through the news story of the week with Microsoft making their biggest deal ever and buying the biggest organisational chart in the world, LinkedIn. Find why and for how much.

Coming all the way from LA, E3 2016 has given us new games, remasters of old classics, more VR excitement and new consoles. We give you a summary of all the announcements from Sony, Microsoft, Nintendo, Bathesda and EA.

While there was no hardware announced at Apple’s WWDC, there were new features across the board. watchOS 3 is now much faster, tvOS lets you use your iPhone as a remote, OSX is now macOS (Sierra) with better integration across all your Apple products, iOS 10 brings about the option to remove Apple apps and a large update to the messages. We cover these and so much more in Episode 63.

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62: Simulated Musk

Are we characters in some advanced civilisation’s computer simulation? Elon Musk of Tesla and SpaceX thinks so – we looked into it and the argument stands up. Cool.

What do the recent LinkedIn and Myspace data breaches mean to you? We’ll tell you what you need to do to protect yourself from being hacked. We also explore the future of Snapchat, Nest and GoPro. And Visa gives Olympians in Rio the power of the ring?  This and more on episode 62 of The Lazy Couch podcast.

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61: Use the Force, Jean

We’re back with an apocalyptic bang after a short hiatus. Episode 61 brings you the X-Men: Apocalypse spoiler review, highlights at Google I/O, Twitter partners with Spotify, largest ever data breach revealed and Asus introduces a robot.

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60: Future of Everything

Big news – the young Han Solo has been cast! Find out who it is and his acting credentials in our ‘future of’ episode. We ask the big questions like how will content be distributed and consumed and who will control the message? How will you be watching live sports like the English Premier League? And is there a future for podcasts?

We also preview what’s to come in PC graphics and some of the cool new tech that LG and Microsoft are developing, that may be coming to your smartphone in the next couple of years. This and much more on episode 60 of The Lazy Couch. We are not Babylonians.

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59: Captain America: Civil War (Spoilers)

** SPOILER WARNING **

Make sure you have seen the movie before listening to this episode. Consider yourself warned!

This is a scene by scene breakdown of this immense film that is not just action-packed but is also smart and mature in its character development and it’s just all around good film-making. Listen out for all of Kelvin & Geoff’s favourite moments and for any questions you may have had about some of the new characters introduced.

This episode is NOT sponsored by Audi, or DHL.

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58: Leap Magic Leap

Ever wonder what the next big leap in technology might be? A lot of smart people are banking on a small secretive startup in Florida called Magic Leap, and their almost too-good-to-be-true digital light field tech, that may eventually destroy whole industries. We chat about them and their very likeable CEO Rony Abovitz to see where the future may take us.

In the short term, a bunch of companies just released their quarterly results. The recent trends continue with Twitter and Apple losing ground while the juggernaut that is Facebook keeps on juggernauting. Who is the dark horse though in the next 12 months? Makes you think…

We also reference Johnny Mnemonic (achievement unlocked) in covering a story about Microsoft investing in DNA strands to possibly store exabytes of data. Is it 2021 yet? This and so much more on episode 58 of The Lazy Couch podcast.

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57: Facebook’s 10 Year Plan

Mark Zuckerberg lays out Facebook’s 10 year plan and roadmap to dominate all aspects of your daily life. We are not surprised. Microsoft may have stole some of the thunder last week, but Facebook are also all in on bots and use of natural language for its slew of messenger apps to be your life OS.

In movies, there are new trailers for Doctor Strange, Suicide Squad, Captain America: Civil War, and the Harry Potter prequel – Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. And what’s that? Do we finally know who will play the villain in Sony’s upcoming Spider-Man movie?

We are on a very short 1-week hiatus at the moment but rest assured, we will be back as strong as ever next week with all the latest in technology, movies, the internet and all things geeky. Keep it locked in here on The Lazy Couch podcast.

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56: Bots Everywhere

This week, Kelvin and Geoff talk about the big Tesla Model 3 event and the announcements coming out of Microsoft Build conference where BOTS are about to take over the world! We’ve also been playing around with Miitomo – Nintendo’s first foray into mobile apps and a possible pointer to their future strategy with yes, the use of Bots.

Want your private messages to be actually private? Whatsapp just turned on end-to-end encryption so we recommend you update your app to the latest version straight away. There’s also news from Facebook, Twitter buying NFL rights and Yahoo’s slow and steady death. This and more on episode 56 of The Lazy Couch.

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55: Batman v Superman Special

So you watched Batman v Superman but had no idea what was going on? Kelvin and Geoff are here to break down every WTF moment in glorious detail and then theorise about what may be coming up in the DC extended universe with the imminent formation of the Justice League.

But to start off the episode, we have some news on Sony, Spotify, Hyperloop and Wondercon – before we spend the best part of 40 minutes chatting all things Batman v Superman.. and Wonder Woman.. and Lex Luthor Jr.. and all the other characters from this mega film.

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54: Do Androids Dream of Pizza?

Apple had a boring event this week but was it still an important one? Twitter turns 10 – will they last for another decade? Is Domino’s the most innovative company in Australia with its bold plan to roll out their autonomous delivery robot DRU? Should your next smartphone be a Xiaomi?

Kelvin and Geoff will tackle some of these questions and so much more on episode 54 of The Lazy Couch.

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