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Stuart Langridge, Jono Bacon, and Jeremy Garcia present Bad Voltage, in which there are more rants than expected, there are seven seconds of panic, and:

• [00:02:00] Google drop <a href="https://www.blog.google/products/messages/latest-messages-allo-duo-and-hangouts/">the latest on Messages, Allo, Duo and Hangouts</a>, where “the latest” is “we’re cancelling Allo”, which both people on Allo are presumably sad about
• [00:16:40] Microsoft are dropping EdgeHTML, their browser rendering engine, and <a href="https://www.theverge.com/2018/12/4/18125238/microsoft-chrome-browser-windows-10-edge-chromium">rebuilding Edge to be based on Chrome</a>, which is a more nuanced thing than it might at first appear
• [00:25:51] <a href="https://www.theverge.com/2018/11/26/18112781/nasa-insight-mars-lander-landing-success-supersonic-parachute">NASA’s InSight landed on Mars</a>. Nice one, NASA. Six and a half months of travel and it will study the interior of the planet, and “Marsquakes”. Watch the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zpojhD4hpI">launch video</a>, and then spend some time contemplating ancient technology and admiring this excellent Twitter bot of <a href="https://twitter-com/yorecomputer">old 80s home computer magazines</a>
• [00:32:50] Apparently <a href="https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/12/global-u-s-growth-in-smartphone-growth-starts-to-decline.html">smartphone growth is actually starting to decline</a>,

which we think may be at least partially because there’s nothing left 

to make with phones any more. See Jono’s views on the “notch” for details

• [00:44:00] Someone <a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/11/stupid-patent-month-patent-using-mathematical-proofs">patents the concept of formal software verification, as long as you’re doing it to financial software</a>, at which all we can do is roll our eyes
• [00:50:10] <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-46497526">NHS told to ditch ‘absurd’ fax machines</a>, to which at least some people say “hey, they work”, and others say “shut up grandad, we don’t care”