Episode 79 - New Playstation Pics Leak
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Welcome to episode 79 of Geek Bytes Podcast.
I’m Ramon Mejia……I’m Edgar Acosta
Every podcast we bring you the roundup of the week’s best Geek and Tech news, then we discuss that news and anything else we’re interested in that week.
In Geek News this week, we’ll talk about all the Sony announcements, Android Nougat, Pizza Delivery by Drone, the Flash movie Villains and much much more..
In our discussion section we’ll talk about ...Our interview with Travis Bagwell, author of Awaken Online: Catharsis
Now let’s Begin our show with Geek News
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Geek News
We begin with…
Sony News
Sony raises the price of a PlayStation Plus membership from $50 to $60 a year. Now here are some more top stories. http://venturebeat.com/2016/08/22/playstation-plus-annual-membership-now-costs-60-a-year-not-50/
Sony announced that PlayStation Now is coming to Windows machines. Soon you can stream Sony games to your PC in Europe soon followed by North America. You’ll need a special adapter for your controler for $25.
PlayStation Now requires Windows 7, a 3.5Ghz Intel Core i3 or better CPU, at least 2GB of RAM and a 5 Mbps or faster Internet connection. http://blog.us.playstation.com/2016/08/23/playstation-now-coming-to-pc-dualshock-4-usb-wireless-adaptor-unveiled/
The Wall Street Journal has sources who appear to confirm the legitimacy of a leaked picture of a new smaller version of the PlayStation 4. Sony has a press announcement scheduled for September 7th in New York where it is expected to announce a 4K-capable PlayStation previously referred to as Neo. The Journal says the new slimmer PS4 is likely to replace the original PS4. http://www.theverge.com/2016/8/22/12582288/sony-ps4-slim-console-4k-wsj
Android Nougat is out
Android Nougat is out of beta and available for Google's Nexus devices, the Pixel C tablet and the General Mobile 4G Android One phone. It should roll out over the next couple of weeks. https://techcrunch.com/2016/08/22/android-nougat-comes-out-of-beta/
Pokemon Go Numbers down
Bloomberg reports numbers reported by Sensor Tower, SurveyMonkey, and Apptopia show Pokémon Go has declined from 45 million daily users in July to around 30 million in August.
Pizza Delivery by Drone
This Week, startup Flirtey and Domino’s Pizza debuted the first commercial model for pizza delivery by drone.
A Domino's location in New Zealand will begin delivering pizzas using drones later this year, with plans to begin using the technology at more of Domino's Pizza Enterprises' 2,000 locations in the future.
http://www.businessinsider.com/dominos-drone-will-be-delivering-pizza-this-year-2016-8
Flash movie Announces Villains
Ezra Miller will enter the speed force in 2017’s Justice League and then in his own solo adventure. Not much is known about The Flash’s first featured film, but Umberto Gonzalez revealed that the villains of The Flash will be The Rogues. The Rogues are a team of Flash villains that join together to try to stop the Fastest Man Alive. In the comics, the team is currently led by Captain Cold and includes Mirror Master, Heat Wave, Weather Wizard, the Trickster, Pied Piper, the Top, and Captain Boomerang.
http://heroichollywood.com/rogues-villains-flash-movie/
Gambit Director leaves to direct Justice League Dark
Warner Bros. has hired its Edge Of Tomorrow director Doug Liman to helm the DC title Justice League Dark, and producer Scott Rudin, after Guillermo del Toro dropped off to pursue his many other projects.
https://deadline.com/2016/08/doug-liman-dc-title-justice-league-dark-warner-bros-1201808262/
Thor and Loki to visit Doctor Strange
Thor and Loki are travelling to DOCTOR STRANGE's Sanctum Sanctorum in THOR: RAGNAROK! A new set photo shows Thor holding a card with the address "177A Bleecker St" - this address belongs to none other than Doctor Strange himself!
New Iron Man is called Iron Heart
LAST MONTH WE learned that Tony Stark would be stepping down as Iron Man, and bequeathing his role to Riri Williams, a young science prodigy who had fashioned her own version of Starks’s Iron Man suit. Now, Marvel has revealed that when Williams officially steps into the role this November, she’ll be known as Ironheart and instead of Jeeves as the suit’s AI, it will sound like Tony Stark.
http://www.wired.com/2016/08/marvel-iron-man-new-identity-ironheart?mbid=social_fb
That’s it for Geek News
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Now onto our Discussion section
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In our discussion section we talk about anything we find interesting that doesn’t fit in with the News section. This week we’re talking about…
Our interview with Travis Bagwell, author of Awaken Online: Catharsis. The main character in the story is not your average goodie two shoes. He travels a rather dark path. If you like zombies and VR game worlds you’ll enjoy this book. Available as an e-book, paperback, and soon as an audiobook. http://amzn.to/2bEyBOK
Hope you enjoyed that clip from the interview. The full interview is over an hour long and you can see it at geekbytespodcast.com
That’s it for the show.
Thanks for watching and listening.
For the Geek Bytes Podcast I’m Ramon Mejia and I’m Edgar Acosta. Now Go Geek out about something.
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Music Credits
"Happy Bee", "Movement Proposition", "Theme for Harold (var.3) ", "Take the Lead"
Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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