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TNW 138: Reading the WWDC Code Bits - WWDC Preview, Audio Tweets, Video Game Prescriptions
Tech News Weekly (Audio)
Twitter's new audio tweet feature might be ripe for abuse, we get a preview of Apple's WWDC, there's a new prescription for ADHD: a video game, and a Google team has created Pinterest but automated.
- Motherboard editor-in-chief Jason Koebler joins us to ask and help answer the question: How is Twitter going to moderate its new voice recordings?
- Zac Hall of 9to5Mac stops by to give us a preview of what we can expect at Apple's World Wide Developers Conference.
- Jason talks about a new FDA-approved treatment for ADHD and it's a video game.
- Mikah shares "Keen," an experiment from Google that's like Pinterest, but automated.
Hosts: Jason Howell and Mikah Sargent
Guests: Jason Koebler and Zac Hall
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