Tech News Weekly 11

Jason Howell and Megan Morrone talk to the week's newsmakers and breakers.

• 1:11 Rachel Abrams, business reporter for the New York Times, discovered that Google's knowledge graph showed her as dead, so she went through many steps to get it fixed.
• 19:20 Tom Merritt, host of Cord Killers, talks about the year in cord-cutting, and how far streaming services have come as more people get rid of their cable subscriptions for online content.
• 34:50 Brett Glass of LARIAT, a wireless ISP in Wyoming, shares his perspectives on the Net Neutrality repeal, and why he thinks it's not all doom and gloom.
• 48:17 Sam Machkovech from Ars Technica details his favorite games from 2017, as well as what he fears might happen with low-quality games flooding the market heading into 2018.

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Links

• Google Thinks I’m Dead (I know otherwise.)
• GOP net neutrality bill would allow paid fast lanes and preempt state laws
• Super Mario Odyssey review: Mario’s densest, deepest adventure yet
• Horizon Zero Dawn is the best robot-safari adventure game ever made
• Hands in the box: New puzzle game Statik does right by VR
• Sonic Mania review: 16-bit return breathes new life into struggling series
• Tooth and Tail review: Delightful, rodent-riddled StarCraft for the rest of us
• Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds becomes Xbox One console exclusive “later this year”
• Review: Why I can’t stop killing a cute, puzzle-solving dog named Fidel
• Musk Sends His Phone Number to 16 Million Twitter Followers
• This startup uses body heat to mine crypto – for when robots take our jobs