Gizmodo ’s consumer tech team has a podcast , Gadgettes , and our second episode just dropped on your favored podcast program ! Each workweek , your hosts , Gizmodo reporter Florence Ion and senior editor Caitlin McGarry , womansplain the widget we ’re test and reviewing as well as question our fellow Gizmodo reporter about the workweek ’s self-aggrandizing tech news .
This week , it ’s all about the metaverse . Facebook — or , sorry , Meta — is sample to show in the next era of computing , and we have some interrogative . Will Mark Zuckerberg’sbig company name changeconvince hoi polloi to step inside his practical creation ?
Gizmodo newsperson Shoshana Wodinsky also joins us to talk about theFacebook Papersand why the Meta name change may possibly be related to the leak Department of Commerce . Shosh explain what we ’ve learned about Facebook ’s algorithms and what you may do if you ’re deep implant in Facebook , Instagram , or WhatsApp ( because quittingisn’t so easyfor everyone ) .
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But it ’s not all serious . We ’ll take a consequence to fangirl about thePeloton bike , while acknowledging it is indeed a cult , and also chat about the newPeloton Treadand what the caller can do to reestablish its mental image after itsdisastrous handlingof the Tread+ recall .
We created this podcast because technical school coverage has historically been homogenous and targeted toward a specific audience , particularly in podcasting . Enthusiasm for technology and gadgets is no longer an exclusive nightclub . We want to invite everyone to join us , so if you ’re search for a fresh perspective on tech , we go for you ’ll sense welcome to tune in . And while we ’ll grind out on specs sometimes , we ’ll do our best to keep the cod approachable to all .
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