The ESA is bringing out a new video game show, “Interactive Innovation Conference”. Is this the successor to E3? Scott fills us in. Plus Apple is looking into home robotics to expand its smart home offerings and launching a new health study that will gather data from Apple devices to discover new relationships between different areas of health tracking. And Netflix opened a restaurant?

Starring Sarah Lane, Tom Merritt, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Joe.

Link to theShow Notes.

Quick Hits:

OpenAI Cancels Its O3 AI Model in Favor of a Unified Next-Gen Release
https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/12/openai-cancels-its-o3-ai-model-in-favor-of-a-unified-next-gen-release/

Apple Finally Lets You Move Your Digital Purchases to Another Account
https://www.engadget.com/apps/apple-finally-lets-you-move-your-digital-purchases-to-another-account-134535401.html

DOGE Cyberattack Targets United States Treasury
https://foreignpolicy.com/2025/02/11/doge-cyberattack-united-states-treasury/

Apple Reportedly Delays iPhone SE Launch by One Week
https://www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/apple-reportedly-delays-iphone-se-launch-by-one-week/

Apple TV Crosses Enemy Lines, Will Be Available as an Android App Starting Today
https://arstechnica.com/culture/2025/02/apple-tv-crosses-enemy-lines-will-be-available-as-an-android-app-starting-today/

Thomson Reuters Sues Ross Intelligence for AI Copyright Infringement
https://www.theverge.com/news/610721/thomson-reuters-ross-intelligence-ai-copyright-infringement

AWS Opens Asia-Pacific Headquarters in Singapore
https://www.techinasia.com/news/aws-opens-asia-pacific-headquarters-in-singapore

Discussions:

Apple Health Study Explores Wearables, iPhone, Apple Watch, and AirPods
https://www.theverge.com/news/610308/apple-health-study-wearables-iphone-apple-watch-airpods

Netflix Bites Restaurant Opens in Las Vegas MGM Grand
https://variety.com/2025/digital/news/netflix-bites-restaurant-las-vegas-mgm-grand-1236304177/

More Discussions:

Forget E3: The ESA is Back with a New Video Game Conference for Change Makers
https://www.gamedeveloper.com/business/forget-e3-the-esa-is-back-with-a-new-video-game-conference-for-change-makers-

Kuo: Apple Robots Likely 2028 or Later
https://www.macrumors.com/2025/02/12/kuo-apple-robots-likely-2028-or-later/

Ming-Chi Kuo on Apple’s Robotics Timeline
https://x.com/mingchikuo/status/1889694419907125342

Apple Prototypes Tabletop Robot
https://www.macrumors.com/2025/02/06/apple-prototypes-tabletop-robot/

Apple Robotics Discussion Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHJa_CyJjdc&embeds_referring_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.macrumors.com%2F&source_ve_path=Mjg2NjY

Today’s guest:

Scott Johnson
https://frogpants.com
https://frogpants.substack.com
https://www.threads.net/@actualscott
https://mastodon.sdf.org/@scottjohnson
https://bsky.app/profile/thescottjohnson.com

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Tom Merritt Links:

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https://www.cordkillers.com
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