S02E019: RIP iPod, 4K shenanigans, do the PR Roomba, USB 3.2, and ARKit has an "a-ha!" moment

Published: July 31, 2017, 1:40 a.m.

Well, that's more like it! A nice beefy news week -- so chock-full of interesting items that we frankly didn't get to everything we wanted to, cadets, but never fear: there’ll be room for more next week! Among the topics Charles and Mike cover on this orbit of Planet Technews are the untimely death of the iPod shuffle and the iPod nano (but we haven't lost our Touch); the mysterious appearance of movies labelled (but not actually) 4K and HDR in the iTunes Store; scotching some rumors about the iPhone SE; the Walkback of the Week from iRobot (makers of the Roomba); and new restrictions on electronics larger than a smartphone from the TSA. There's also the misreporting about the Foxconn plant in the US; why you need to take any Macs still running 10.6 or 10.7 offline; Apogee's war on latency with their Thunderbolt audio gear; Apple helping out hearing aid manufacturers with high technology; and just a mention of the University of Wisconsin judgement and the Nokia patent-licensing settlement. All this and plenty of armchair advice to Nintendo about how to stop screwing up their business, the forthcoming USB 3.2 making for faster RAID arrays, and we rhapsodize over the music of Oslo band a-ha (and their video in ARKit). Remember: the Space Javelin is your best entertainment value in nerdy tech podcasts, cadets, so spread the word!