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DJI, Roborock, and Dyson unveiled new robovacs that can easily climb stairs and keep home mapping data private, and HTC's VIVE Eagle smartglasses gives bystanders the ability to stop recording simply by saying so themselves.Starring Jason Howell and Jenn CutterShow notes found here.

Roku's first OLED TV is more affordable and likely still has ads, and a new study that finds that raindrops really can do the electric slide and that's one reason why metal corrodes.Starring Jason Howell and Tom Merritt.Links to stories discussed in this episode can be found here.

The EU calls ChatGPT a Very Large Search Engine Platform; also, it’s Tim Cook’s last day, and Microsoft leans back towards physical media for Xbox.Starring Tom Merritt and Robb DunewoodShow notes can be found here.

Dr. Gerry Tolbert joins us to tell us why he's so excited for a robotic system to draw blood and what hurdles it will need to overcome to get widespread acceptance. And yes, his name is pronounced Jerry, not Gary, which Tom knows, but Gerry was too nice to correct him during the show. https://thenextweb.com/news/vitestro-aletta-fda-robotic-blood-drawhttps://academic.oup.com/clinchem/article/72/8/845/8566288?login=falsehttps://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT05878483

Grand Theft Auto VI runs at an articulable 30 frames per second and apparently has around 80 hours of gameplay, and Samsung's new Odyssey monitor lineup pushes 1100Hz refresh whether you can tell the difference or not.Starring Jason Howell and Huyen Tue Dao.Show notes found here.

And HuggingFace made a dancing robot duck.Starring Tom Merritt and Huyen Tue DaoShow notes found here.

Meta will change its teen policies for ten years, Bill Gates wants to tax AI and robots, and Xbox kicks off its disc-to-digital program.Starring Tom Merritt and Sarah Lane.Links to stories discussed in this episode can be found here.

Uber is giving parents of teens the ability to livestream video of the child's ride in real time, and Android 17 includes a new Motion Assist feature to help reduce motion sickness for riders in moving vehicles.Starring Jason Howell, Tom Merritt and Dr. Niki.Links to stories discussed in this episode can be found here.