TEH 197: Game controllers, Retro games, Electric vehicles unite, Big disks

In This Episode: Game controllers, Retro games, Electric vehicles unite, Big disks<br /> <br /> This week the TEH Podcast is hosted by Leo Notenboom, the “Chief Question Answerer” at Ask Leo!, and Gary Rosenzweig, the host and producer of MacMost, and mobile game developer at Clever Media. (You’ll find longer Bios on the Hosts page.) Top Stories 1:00 Travel. Services nearby. 3:00 GR: AI, the “new” Beatles song, Apple Music Sing. How people are misinterpreting this as “AI singing as John Lennon” when it is actually “AI acting as a sound engineer separating the voice from a recording.” 8:00 Mistakes in reporting about AI. Be skeptical. 13:00 LN: Game Controllers and submarines 18:00 GR: New games for old systems: Mr Run and Jump Atari just announced the first new Atari 2600 game in more than 30 years 21:50 For reasons no one can fathom, McDonald’s has released a new Game Boy Color game 23:00 Nox Archaist: 24:50 Super Mario Bros. Wonder 26:20 Adventure: The Atari 2600 at the Dawn of Console Gaming (Book) 32:20 LN: I would not have predicted this, but I think it’s bigger than most people realize. Electric vehicles unite. ChargePoint joins Tesla’s NACS, will offer connector on new and existing stations North American Charging Standard 37:00 Charge in the garage 38:00 LN: This might just be an old man moment, but “WD Blue 8TB HDD Review: A Balanced, Entry-Level Hard Drive” 8TB is entry level? 41:00 18 TB – 22TB drives now. 44:00 Backup realities Ain’t it Cool 46:00 LN: Youtube channel – There I Ruined It  – Elvis singing “Baby Got Back”. Party in the USSR, Nickleback + Ray Charles — mashup, many others. 48:50 GR: Black Mirror, new season BSP: Blatant Self-Promotion 53:30 LN: Should I Buy a New Computer to Fix Malware? 54:20 GR: Will Apple Ever Make a 27-inch iMac Again?