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TEC085: Tis the season for new hardware announcements, so Dom, Thomas, and Jack look at the offerings from Amazon and Google and ask whether we’re being corralled into citizenship in corporate nation-states and whether all this home security is making us more paranoid.

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Links for this episode:

• Amazon’s fall hardware event: the 13 biggest announcements – The Verge
• Amazon is selling safety with a side of paranoia – Six Colors
• Amazon introduces new hand-scanning payment option in its stores – Vox
• Launch Night In recap: Every new product launched [Video] – 9to5Google

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• Jack: ZoneMinder
• Thomas: Headspace
• Dom: [easyazon_link identifier=”B087219P5J” locale=”US” tag=”wwwsqpncom-20″]Anker Docking Station, PowerExpand Elite 13-in-1[/easyazon_link]

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