AwesomeCast 493: Weaponized Roombas
We've got Ron Krause, John Chichilla, Katie Dudas, and Mike Sorg together (from their respective social-distancing studios) to talk this week's tech talk headlines.
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Show Notes
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We've got Ron Krause, John Chichilla, Katie Dudas, and Mike Sorg together (from their respective social-distancing studios) to talk this week's tech talk headlines, including:
- Krause has returned to Android, and he has a new wireless charging stand he's sharing as his Awesome Thing of the Week.
- Chilla's Awesome Thing of the Week is from the recent Apple announcement - the new MacBook Pro 13.
- Katie found some "new" headphones for her iPhone X as her Awesome Thing of the Week.
- For Star Wars fans, Disney+ dropped a new Disney Gallery behind the scenes for The Mandalorian.
- A drone disguised as a hummingbird was used to capture footage of a Monarch Butterfly swarm.
- Apple will be hosting WWDC as a virtual conference.
- PIT is utilizing a UV cleaning robot to clean the Pittsburgh airport.
- We learned about the Roomba Olympics thanks to Katie and TikTok.
- And, there's Roomba beer pong?!?!
- RTX Voice will update your Nvidia graphics to improve quality of calls.
- Unity training classes make it possible to start making your own games with a master class in game development.
- Jay and Silent Bob are in a videogame! Mall Brawl is coming soon to Nintendo.
- Katie is giving us our weekly Animal Crossing New Horizons update with the addition of weeds.
- Chilla is sharing something new from Logitech that can make content creation easier.
- Finding webcam shortages frustrating? Turn your Canon camera into a webcam with some handy-dandy software.
- Krause is sharing some gaming updates with us.
- Cyberpunk2077 is teasing a June 11 event.
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