Musk Goes Bird Hunting

We’re sorry, however this week on Gadgettes, we now have to speak about Elon Musk shopping for Twitter. Frankly, it’s nonetheless the largest information of the week. It began with Elon asserting his plans to take over the social community for a cool $44 billion, after which by some means morphed into one thing as large as Musk’s ego. Musk has convinced himself that he’ll be capable of “make Twitter better than ever by enhancing the product with new features, making the algorithms open source to increase trust, defeating the spam bots, and authenticating all humans.” But as you’ll hear on the podcast this week, we’re doubtful about Musk’s plans for the social media platform.

Then, it’s on to the subsequent overhyped matter. We’re chatting concerning the Pixel Watch left behind at a Chicago restaurant. It’s bulbous and a tad chunky, and we’re having a tough time imagining the way it’ll assist deliver Android’s wearables again into the highlight. We’ll additionally clarify why the leaked watch shouldn’t be as thrilling as when somebody discovered the iPhone 4 in a San Francisco Bay space bar again in 2010.

The leaked Pixel Watch has actually sparked pleasure inside the Android group. Finally, there’s proof the watch exists, which implies there was some credence to all these rumors. But it additionally looks like everybody else has moved on from ready for Google to determine its smartwatch technique.

Lastly, your co-hosts indulge of their favourite shared peripheral: the mechanical keyboard. Michelle begins us off on why she likes Razer’s optical switches, and Flo walks you thru the three sorts of mechanical switches you’ll encounter for those who’re searching for a keyboard. You’ll additionally study that your co-hosts depend on Cherry Red and Brown switches to get writing accomplished.

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