Speaker
Ellis Rovin
Appearances over time
2 episodes
Episodes
2
Podcasts
Quotes & moments
Garmin's auto-exercise detection gets the right exercise about 75% of the time on upper body workouts, but only correctly tracks reps 50% of the time.
SpaceX, which now owns XAI and Twitter on the same balance sheet, lost $4.3 billion in the first three months of 2026.
Gabe Newell and Mike Harrington both worked at Microsoft before founding Valve in 1996.
Google Hangouts, which launched in 2013 as a standalone product, originated as a feature built into Google+.
A single person in Canada sells a $50 replacement board that fits inside a Casio F91W, adding Bluetooth, step tracking, time zone sync, RGB LED, and even blackjack. The project is small enough that the creator ships every order on Fridays — and it's already got Andrew hooked.
NVIDIA's RTX Spark Superchip packs 20 CPU cores, 6,144 GPU cores, up to 128GB unified memory, and 1 petaflop of AI compute in a laptop chip. But with zero pricing or benchmarks, and a desktop predecessor that ballooned from $3,000 to $6,300, the hosts are holding their verdict until they get units in hand.
After DIY enthusiasts started attaching traditional watches to Fitbit Air straps on social media — even getting a nod from a former Verge editor now at Google — Google officially released hardware specs for third-party accessory makers. The wearable ecosystem that the hosts predicted would emerge organically just got a formal green light.
Google is offering website owners a toggle to opt out of AI overviews — but the training data is already baked in. Like a black hole, once your content enters the model it can't be extracted. The opt-out prevents future scraping but does nothing for what's already been absorbed.
Microsoft gave employees free Claude subscriptions — and they stopped using Copilot entirely. Now Microsoft is cutting off Claude access by June 30, the end of its fiscal year. The hosts frame it simply: we've hit the moment where AI agent tokens cost more than human developers.
Microsoft's Project Solara is an agent-first OS meant to run on smart glasses, desk devices, smart badges, and more — all powered by Android under the hood. The hosts compare it to the failed Rabbit OS and question whether any of the concept hardware will ever actually ship.
Gemini's Daily Brief is transformative if you don't live in your email — surfacing shipping updates, upcoming birthdays, and context-linked reminders. If you already check everything yourself, it's just a recap of emails you already read. Your digital habits determine whether it's magic or noise.
Ellis typed 'leg' into Garmin Connect's exercise search and got nothing. He typed 'press' and got 50 million results. He typed 'leg press' and found it — but not single-leg leg press. Garmin's search logic is so broken that a legitimate, common exercise is effectively unfindable.
Google's AI assistant is useful precisely because Google knows everything about you — emails, calendar, Drive, Tasks. Apple's privacy stance means a more limited but safer data pool. As AI assistants compete head-to-head, the privacy-vs-utility trade-off has never been more tangible.
Before Google+ launched and failed, Google had already killed three social networks: Orkut (which only caught on in Brazil), Google Buzz, and Google Friend Connect. The correct trivia answer is three — and almost nobody in the room got it right.
WWDC 2026's tagline 'All systems glow' points directly at Siri — Apple's perennially delayed AI assistant. The hosts expect a revamped Siri that digs into iPhone data: contacts, calendar, iMessage, health data. Apple's privacy pitch will need explaining because this requires more on-device data access than ever before.
SpaceX absorbed XAI and Twitter onto its balance sheet, creating a company losing $4.3 billion per quarter, then convinced the NASDAQ 100 to waive its one-year seasoning rule. Within 15 days of the IPO, every 401k tracking the NASDAQ 100 automatically buys SpaceX — before the market has time to price in the losses.
Wearing an optical fitness tracker on the underside of the wrist introduces significant data noise. The tendons running through your fingers constantly break the light seal the sensor needs, causing light leak — while the top of the wrist offers stable muscle tissue for a clean reading.
The $25,000 Slate truck is real, Marques drove it, and it's genuinely zippy — all-electric torque in a stripped-bare shell. The catch: there are no speakers, no power windows, and no paint, but the modular add-on system means you only pay for what you actually need.
Andrew's 'Spirit Airlines of EVs' analogy nails why the Slate Truck divides opinion: the base price is seductively cheap until you add back everything you actually need. It's not a flaw in the concept — it's exactly how Spirit makes money.
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