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- May 12: Design This Day skips the theory, and instead talks with people who are quietly building the world you're about to live in: the engineer behind the world's largest aircraft, the designer bringing human-centered thinking to autonomous weapons systems, the founder growing bionic hands for humans and robots. The actual people doing the work speak with futurist Devin Liddell, who has spent 20 years helping Boeing, Nike, Google, and Amazon figure out what comes next.
- Apr 27: You can play RSS podcasts in YouTube Music. It's kind of like the spiritual successor to Google Podcasts - if you know how to use it.
- Apr 8: Podpage now transcribes podcast episodes automatically. The resulting transcriptions are available on your Podpage website (here's an example). The tool is free for Elite members; and supports speaker identification, timestamps, and clean paragraph formatting; transcripts are marked-up for Google, too.
- Mar 30: Remember when Google News was trying to bankrupt us with tens of thousands of downloads a day from random Android devices? While we killed that service after Google's poor communication, others who have persevered with it have finally seen a cut in this spurious traffic (by up to 85%) in the last few weeks.
- Mar 23: The BBC is to get a new Director General (the name the corporation gives for its CEO). Matt Brittin is tipped to get the job; he was the head of Google for Europe, the Middle East and Africa for more than ten years.
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