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126: Review of Samsung S10 and coverage of WWDC and E3

And we’re back after a slight hiatus! We start off with Kelvin’s shiny new toy, then all of the gratuitous Apple fanfare at this year’s WWDC, and end with our favourite and not-so favourite bits from a jam-packed E3, with a notable few absentees. For a week or so there, Keanu stole the internet while Elon Musk made a surprise visit to the world’s largest gaming conference.

As always, we cover all angles using clips from different sources so you get everything you need to know, right here on The Lazy Couch podcast.

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101: E3 Highlights, Amazon Prime in Australia

Another year, another E3 is done. We cover all the console announcements from Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo as well as all the publisher news from EA’s Battefield V to Ubisoft’s Beyond Good & Evil 2. We also had a quick look at this month’s top tech stories and talk about Amazon Prime coming to Australia and Elon Musk’s Boring company drilling through Chicago. This and more on episode 101 of The Lazy Couch podcast.

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80: Cool Tech Gift Ideas

Episode 80: “Cool Tech Gift Ideas”

Looking for that last minute tech gift idea for that loved one for Christmas? Well, you’ve come to the right place as we give you a smorgasbord of goodies of varying price ranges, just in time for the festive season. We also have a new segment called ‘The Up/Down Report’ where we give you our opinions on whether we were UP or DOWN on some of the news stories to break over the past week. This and so much more on episode 80 of The Lazy Couch podcast.

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63: E3 and WWDC Special

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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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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53: Time Dicking Bomb

 

Rojoice! The possibility of cross-platform, cross-network gameplay may become reality – Find out what Microsoft had to say at the Game Developers Conference. Playstation VR is now available for pre-order, and you won’t need to take out a mortgage to get one.

In features, Kelvin breaks down what the hell happened to Dick Smith and Geoff will tell you what’s going on at SXSW in Austin Texas. There’s also new Captain America trailer and so much more on episode 53 of The Lazy Couch.

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40: Spreading the Disease

Trying to work out which tablet slash laptop to get in time for Christmas? We’ve got you covered as we examine the good, the bad and ugly of all the new Apple and Microsoft devices and their accessories. We also tear down the differences between the Xbox One and PS4 for all your gaming needs this summer. There’s also news on Yahoo, Uber, Samsung.. and is Netflix working on a Lost In Space reboot? Find out on episode 40 of The Lazy Couch!

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19: You Look Rid-Oculus

It’s another monster week in the world of tech, with Twitter going through some growing pains and YouTube getting serious about gaming. Speak of which, the E3 Conference landed this week and brought with it a shedload of new games and various people looking ridiculous in their virtual reality headsets.