PCWorld Podcast

PCWorld editors Jon Phillips, Mark Hachman, and Michael Simon go over some of the biggest news out of Google I/O 2017. Starting with Google Assistant's new features, moving to Google Lens and how it is a souped up Google Goggles, and finishing with Google Photos updates. The Right or Wrong segment asks the question: "Is it ok that Google I/O was a quiet event?"

On Episode 43 of the PCWorld Show, the gang talks about Surface Laptop, Windows 10 S, Galaxy S8 and Twitter's new video ambitions.

This week, Jon Phillips, Melissa Riofrio and Mark Hachman reveal the coolest features in the new Windows 10 Creators Update; talk about what makes the Samsung Galaxy S8 so appealing; and lament the broken promises of Intel Optane. The gangs ends the show with a debate on whether the Galaxy S8 can help people forget about Samsung's boom-boom battery problems.

This week Jon Phillips, Gordon Mah Ung and Jason Cross talk about AMD's crazy powerful, and crazy cheap Ryzen CPUs, detail the latest on the Samsung S8 and yawn about Apple's new iPad. In this week's Right or Wrong: Can you survive on a 12-hour flight without your laptop and tablet?

This week Jon Phillips, Gordon Mah Ung and Melissas Riofrio show and tell a Samsung Chromebook that runs Android apps out of the box and EVGA's latest GeForce GTX 1080 that goes overboard on the cooling. The PCWorld crew also tells you if Moore's Law is dead. In this week's Right or Wrong: will new Pokemon's reanimate the excitement or not.

This week Jon Phillips, Gordon Mah Ung and Melissa Riofrio talk about Microsoft's alleged Chrome OS killer, why the MacBook Pro's battery life can be whacky and why Moore's Law is alive and well. In this week's Right or Wrong: "You need a $600 tablet."

This week Jon Phillips, Gordon Mah Ung and Melissa Riofrio show off HP's crazy Omen X, try to figure out just why people won't give up their Samsung Note 7 phones and debate whether Consumer Reports did Apple wrong. In this week's Right or Wrong: "Should Apple make a MacBook Pro 17?"

This week Jon Phillips, Mark Hachman and Melissa Riofrio tell you what the winners and losers of CES were. These veterans of the show then tell you what it's like to actually attend and then ponder whether CES even matters anymore.

This week Jon Phillips, Gordon Mah Ung and Melissa Riofrio tell you what AMD's Zen will be named, tell you why Windows on ARM does and doesn't matter and then question if Surface is really outselling MacBook. On this week's Right or Wrong: Do you want a foldable phone?

This week Jon Phillips, Gordon Mah Ung and Melissa Riofrio talk MacBook Pro vs. Surface Book, Microsoft's "famtana" and name the Best and Worst products. On this week's Right or Wrong: Will Intel soon be using AMD graphics?

This week Jon Phillips, Gordon Mah Ung and Mark Hachman try to figure out if AMD's Zen will be House Stark to Intel's House Lannister. Will your car soon have an Intel Inside sticker on it? And yipee! Facebook will soon push games into your news feed too. On this week's Right or Wrong: Did Apple steal the idea for its SSD backup rig from The Simpsons?

This week Jon Phillips, Melissa Riofrio, and Gordon Mah Ung talk about Apple's new $300 navel-gazing book and debate how far is too far when trading performance for a thin profile laptop. Finally, the crew discusses the problems with "fake" news and in this week's Wrong or Right? Jon surprises all with a gigantic device.

This week Jon Phillips, Melissa Riofrio and Gordon Mah Ung do a hardware show and tell of Lenovo's unique Yoga Book, and HP's updated Spectre X360 and Omen 17. Melissa also fills us in on the latest brand you've probably never heard of: LeEco. Finally, Gordon takes a look a look at almost four years of the MacBook Pro 15 and shakes his head. And Wrong or Right: Paying $769 for a phone is insane.

This week Jon Phillips, Melissa Riofrio, and Gordon Mah Ung discuss the premature death of Samsung's Note7 and the sudden influx of new "cylinder PCs." And it turns out even Mac users don't want to buy ancient hardware anymore as Macintosh sales drop like a rock. Finally in this week's Right or Wrong: Will there even be a Samsung Note 8?

This week Jon Phillips, Jason Cross and Gordon Mah Ung talk Google Pixel phone and what it's missing. The gang also details Google Home and Gordon gets confused by Hangouts, Assistant, Allo and Google Now. Finally Gordon shows off a pair of Dell XPS 13 laptops one of which has Intel's latest 7th Gen Kaby Lake CPU inside.

This week Jon Phillips, Jason Cross and Gordon Mah Ung tell you the latest on Samsung's Note7 fiasco, mull Google's Pixel phone rumors and pass judgement on how serious the Tesla car hack is. And Right or Wrong: Is the Samsung Note7 the new Ford Pinto?

Jon, Melissa and Gordon discuss Apple's iPhone 7 moves, Gordon details the Sony PlayStation 4 Pro and Melissa tells us the EU won't make PC vendors sell computers without an OS. Right or Wrong: Did Apple go too far when it used the word "courage" to describe an iPhone feature?

This week Jon Phillips, Mark Hachman and Melissa Riofrio discuss talk more about Kaby Lake, Windows 10 Mobile and the hot hardware from the big IFA trade show in Berlin. And Right or Wrong: Chromebook's end of life cycle.

This week Jon Phillips, Brad Chacos, and Mark Hachman discuss news from the Intel Developer Forum, whether AMD Zen is competitive against Nvidia, and Microsoft's Holographic Processing Unit. Also Right or Wrong? Was IDF a big deal for PC Enthusiasts?

This week Jon Phillips, Florence Ion and Gordon Mah Ung talk Samsung Note 7 and tell you want happened to the Note 6. Facebook starts blocking ad blockers (who are already blocking the ad blocking blocks). And Gordon tries to get Mac users up in arms over their future. And Right or Wrong: Amazon Prime planes.

This week Jon Phillips, Mark Hachman and Gordon Mah Ung discuss the upcoming forced Windows 10 Anniversary Update, The Deadline is Nigh! and AMD combines an SSD with a GPU. Finally Tim Sweeney's allegations that Microsoft WILL kill Steam and Right or Wrong: Verizon buying Yahoo.

This week Jon Phillips, Jason Cross and Gordon Mah Ung discuss the Pokemon madness, Seagate's gigantic new hard drive and what the future of ARM is. Right or Wrong: Is Twitter's verification policy good for mankind?

This week Jon Phillips, Melissa Riofrio and Brad Chacos talk about the impending Windows 10 upgrade deadline and what you should do. And how an Area Man was paid $10,000 by Microsoft over a forced Win10 upgrade that went bad. More info on the RX-480 and why one man is suing Apple for $10 billion dollars. And yes, it's out of order this week.

This week Jon Phillips, Melissa Riofrio and Gordon Mah Ung discuss the first reported fatality from autonomous driving, Black Berry kills its classic keyboard and rumors of a Microsoft Surface desktop get batted around. Right or Wrong: Can AMD recover from reports that its new budget GPU is killing PCs?

This week Jon Phillips, Mark Hachman and Gordon Mah Ung won't eat the free pizza T-mobile is giving away, Thunderbolt 3 is finally "winning" and here's what Digital Storm's $8,500 exotic PC sounds like. Right or Wrong: Is it wrong to run Android on an iPhone?

This week Jon Phillips, Mark Hachman and Gordon Mah Ung ponder if backpack PCs are now a thing. The crew also details AMD's new super affordable yet fast Radeon RX480 and if you'll have to wait three years for an iPhone. Finally in this week's Right or Wrong: Did Intel go over the line by asking $1,723 for its new Core i7?

This week Jon Phillips, Brad Chacos and Gordon Mah Ung talk about the latest trickery Microsoft is using to get people to upgrade to Windows 10 and you're not going to be happy with it. The crew also discusses Windows Phone dying a little more and Twitter "upgrades." Finally this week's Right or Wrong: Should you uninstall Windows 10 if Microsoft duped you into installing it?

This week Jon Phillips, Mark Hachman and Melissa Riofrio talk all things Google I/O including: The Goog's knock off of Amazon's Echo, Android Auto, and Allo and Duo.

This week Jon Phillips, Brad Chacos, and Gordon Mah Ung dish on Nvidia's wickedly fast GeForce GTX 1080 and whether you should worry about that fast approaching Windows 10 upgrade deadline. Finally, the crew addresses allegations that Facebook is intentionally censoring conservative news.

This week Jon Phillips, Florence Ion and Gordon Mah Ung discuss whether the iPhone 6s takes better pictures than the Galaxy S7. Gordon pits an XPS 15 against a MacBook Pro 13 and the results aren't pretty. The crew also weighs in on a tech-focused Burning Man festival without the hippies and stink. Oh, and there's catering and probably room service too.

This week Jon Phillips, Mark Hachman and Gordon Mah Ung discuss whether the end is nigh for Apple, Intel throwing the PC under the bus (again) and mull whether the Internet should be optimized for a 9600 baud modem or not. Also: Can AI really play a human at foosball while holding a beer in one hand and win?

This week Jon Phillips, Melissa Riofrio and Gordon Mah Ung discuss Intel's massive layoffs, Apple screwing over millions of PC users with QuickTime, the new MacBook and a "smart" mattress that lets you know if you're getting cheated on.

This week Jon Phillips, Jason Cross and Gordon Mah Ung discuss HTC's new 10, why Jon flosses the new LG G5 twice a day and WTF, PC sales just fell through the floor. Also: Is a 10-core CPU in your PC's future?

This week Jon Phillips, Melissa Riofrio, and Gordon Mah Ung discuss Nvidia's monster new Pascal GPU, self-racing cars, and why you should and shouldn't buy HTC's Vive. Also: Microsoft's $22,000 ginormous Surface Hub and whether Surface Phone will save smart phones for the company.

This week Jon Phillips, Mark Hacman and Gordon Mah Ung discuss the latest on the cool-ass HoloLens, PC Gaming (fixed!), Smart bots and more from Microsoft's Build Developer Conference. Finally, will the banned twitter bot Tay ever come back?

This week Jon Phillips, Melissa Riofrio and Gordon Mah Ung discuss Apple's new iPad Air 3 and the company disrespecting 600 million PC users. We also tell you why Intel just gave up on its tick tock and how it impacts you and wonder if Microsoft's new AI Twitterbot aimed at millennials is creepy or an insult to them. Finally, can Apple "win" against the FBI?

This week Jon Phillips, Brad Chacos and Gordon Mah Ung discuss why people are pissed off at Microsoft for trying to trick people into upgrading to Windows 10, talk about AMD's Radeon Pro Duo and why it may be the fastest GPU no one will ever buy and give you the state of the PC Gaming market.

This week Jon Phillips, Mark Hachman and Gordon Mah Ung discuss allegations that Microsoft is heading toward a "walled garden" for PC gaming and Opera adds native ad blocking. Mark also talks about his speed dating experience using Skype translator. And if you don't listen to this, we might just give you a negative review on the new Peeple app.

This week Jon Phillips, Florence Ion, and Gordon Mah Ung discuss the latest flagship phones from LG and Samsung, discuss WD's new 8TB USB hard drive and tel you how much Microsoft HoloLens is gonna cost. And yes, you better be sitting down.

This week Jon Phillips, Susie Ochs and Gordon Mah Ung discuss whose side does Bill Gates took in the FBI vs. Apple battle, whether software is protected by the First Amendment. Also: hell freezes over because you'll soon be able to use a GeForce with a Radeon in the same PC for gaming. Smart watches outsell Swiss watches and is an "always on" smart phone the next big thing?

This week Jon, Melissa and Gordon discuss Apple's showdown with the FBI and a modular desktop PC from Microsoft. Also: VAIO, Toshiba and Fujitsu may join forces to form one big super PC team and who cares about gold computing?

This week Jon, Melissa and Gordon discuss why Intel shut down the cheap overclocking party, ponder if a computer should be considered the "driver" of a car, and question if the Surface Pro's Super Bowl success matters. We also discuss whether it's too late for 4K UltraHD Blu-ray in a world of streaming.

This week we discuss tanking tablet sales, Microsoft buying Swiftkey, a VAIO Windows phone and ponder if USB Type C or USB-C is pain in the tuchas.

Was there a vast conspiracy to rob the Patriots of an AFC title? We address exactly what happened with the Patriot's Microsoft Surface problems, the problem with tech leaks and wonder if anyone really wants a tiny phone again.