Episode 563 - Auto-Man

About this episode

The episode discusses various technology updates including surveillance issues, UI changes, and new smart home products.

On this week’s show: Ring’s Super Bowl ad fallout keeps getting worse as Search Party, Flock, Axon, and leaked emails raise bigger surveillance questions, Fire TV gets its biggest UI update ever, Eufy promises five-year motion sensors, and Third Reality drops new Zigbee gear. Ubiquiti goes industrial with a new Cloud Gateway, Shelly leaves garage doors wide open (literally), and OpenAI picks up the founder of OpenClaw. All of this, a pick of the week, project updates, and so much more!

People in this episode

Hosts: Gavin Campbell, TJ Huddleston, Seth Johnson

Topics covered

• surveillance
• technology updates
• smart home
• UI design
• Zigbee
• motion sensors
• industrial technology

Keywords

• Ring
• Fire TV
• Eufy
• Zigbee
• surveillance
• OpenAI
• Ubiquiti
• Cloud Gateway
• smart home
• technology

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Ring, Search Party, Flock, Axon, OpenAI, OpenClaw, Ubiquiti

Products: Fire TV, Eufy, Third Reality, Cloud Gateway, Shelly

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