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Stuart Langridge, Jono Bacon, and Jeremy Garcia present Bad Voltage, in which the show was recorded in slightly unusual circumstances because people are travelling at our normal time, phones are now literally twice as big as they ought to be if you like tiny phones which apparently nobody does, and:

• [00:02:15] Samsung unveil their new <a href="https://www.cnet.com/news/samsungs-foldable-phone-is-real-and-opens-into-a-tablet-infinity-flex-display-specs/">foldable phone</a>, which we are, to be honest with you, not all that impressed with
• [00:11:35] In an update on a previous segment, phone companies in the USA have been <a href="https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2018/11/08/phone-companies-slammed-for-lousy-robocall-efforts/">slammed by FCC for not doing more to handle robocalls</a>,

and a whole bunch of information about call screening and automatically
routing scam calls to voicemail if you can manage it. How should such things be fixed, or regulated, if at all?

• [00:22:25] Motorola are the first major phone manufacturers to sell <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2018/10/23/motorola-is-partnering-with-ifixit-to-sell-official-diy-phone-repair-kits/">official DIY phone repair kits</a>,

which is somewhat against previous phone vendors’ approaches to who is 

allowed to repair their devices. Is this a good thing, or too little too

late? And would you buy a Motorola just to get it?

• [00:32:30] Brad Smith, president of Microsoft, says <a href="https://www.recode.net/2018/11/7/18072048/facial-recognition-regulation-brad-smith-tony-blair-web-summit">we need to regulate facial recognition tech</a>

before ‘the year 2024 looks like the book “1984”‘, which prompts quite a
lot of discussion about the role of companies and research in the 21st