October 19, 2021 - Episode 606

F5 Live: Refreshing Technology (Video)

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This week, HTC is going with the Flow, FIFA is looking for options, and DC Comics is bringing new entertainment.

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Scott Ertz

Host

Scott is a developer who has worked on projects of varying sizes, including all of the PLUGHITZ Corporation properties. He is also known in the gaming world for his time supporting the rhythm game community, through DDRLover and hosting tournaments throughout the Tampa Bay Area. Currently, when he is not working on software projects or hosting F5 Live: Refreshing Technology, Scott can often be found returning to his high school days working with the Foundation for Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST), mentoring teams and helping with ROBOTICON Tampa Bay. He has also helped found a student software learning group, the ASCII Warriors, currently housed at AMRoC Fab Lab.

Avram Piltch

Host

Avram's been in love with PCs since he played original Castle Wolfenstein on an Apple II+. Before joining Tom's Hardware, for 10 years, he served as Online Editorial Director for sister sites Tom's Guide and Laptop Mag, where he programmed the CMS and many of the benchmarks. When he's not editing, writing or stumbling around trade show halls, you'll find him building Arduino robots with his son and watching every single superhero show on the CW.

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Palm, the original smartphone brand, to switch to headphones?

Palm has had a long and complicated history. Palm was independent, then it became part of 3M, but its OS was used by Handspring, which was external and more popular than the 3M company. Eventually, they got their brand's focus back and launched webOS at CES 2009, but the sale to HP also screwed up that focus. But, that brand has been licensed in recent years for new products, most famously the poorly-named Palm Phone, a tiny 3.3" display Android phone. But a new tweet (with the image above), suggests a big change - to headphones. The company plans to announce what its been up to on October 26, 2021.

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HTC launches new VIVE Flow VR headset with completely new design

Avram has been very open about his belief that the HTC VIVE hardware is his favorite. It has always had a solid screen system, the tracking is great, and the controllers are fairly natural to hold. But, while the insides have upgraded over the years, the look of the headset hasn't really changed. It's been really high-profile, fairly heavy, and not designed for portability. But, HTC has changed this with the addition of the new VIVE Flow, a headset designed for portability and focused on health and wellness. But, what a noticeable change in physical design.

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FIFA wants to see other people, ends exclusive EA Sports relationship

EA Sports has been the exclusive home of a lot of real-world gaming franchises for many years. The NFL, NCAA, and FIFA have been the high-profile relationships that the game publisher has been involved in over the past few decades. But, while EA has been happy in these multiple relationships, it seems no one else has been. The first to file a divorce is FIFA, which plans to shop its videogame experience around to other studios in hopes of finding a better spouse. But they might also just date around for a while, while still seeing EA on occasion.

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Google brings doomscrolling experience to mobile Search results

While the backend infrastructure of Google Search has changed significantly over the years, and even since yesterday, the frontend experience has remained relatively stable. The addition of Mobile Search is possibly the only major change that has happened in most people's memories. New experiences are added to the Search results, but the actual behavior stays the same. But, Google is about to unleash a new capability to Mobile Search: doomscrolling.

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DC shows off a ton of new projects at virtual DC Fandome 2021

DC Fandome 2021 happened over the weekend, and during this virtual event, they showed off a lot of new information. Included in this new info are trailers for projects, including movies, television, and videogames. Let's take a look at some of the new trailers that made it to the internet this past weekend.

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