• Pre-show: Marco enters winter luxury

Marco’s “Slippers” John’s Slippers Marco’s Rug Marco’s Rug Heater • Reminder: Celsius is stupid for ambient air temperatures Robot or Not: Sundays

• Follow-up:

Google ships tapback parsing • Regarding “Screeners”

Xbox Game Pass •

PC Game Pass Game Pass Ultimate Xbox Cloud Gaming Stratechery Interview with Phil Spencer

• Apple and the Netherlands

• New beta bits

• Face ID unlock and glasses from Ryan Booker • Notes on Universal Control from Carlos Carpio Carcía

Sony buys Bungie for $3.6B •

FAQ Sony hints at More Acquisitions

Google tells legacy Gmail account holders to “pay up” •

Ars Technica’s coverage Google information Amazon Simple Email Service Using a custom domain with iCloud email Mimestream Fastmail • (former sponsor)

Hey • (former sponsor)

Zimbra

#askatp • :

• How do we back up shared photo albums? (via Carlos Moffat)

• How do we manage power (and battery) for desktop laptops? (via Anirudh Coontoor • )

Settings • → Battery • → Battery • (in sidebar) → Optimized battery charging

• What security steps do we take for family devices? (via Lars Bekkema)

• Post-show:

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