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Two Jasons, one skeptical tech radar.
Jason Squared follows Jason Cipriani and Jason Perlow as they sort through consumer technology news with impatience and skepticism. The show moves from Samsung phones and Surface laptops to ARM chips, Xbox strategy, CES hardware, Ethernet, and work-from-home distractions.
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Jason Squared is a conversational tech show about what new hardware, platform strategy, and industry power moves actually mean once the press-release shine wears off. It has a working rhythm. Jason Cipriani and Jason Perlow start with the news, then pull it apart through product experience, technical memory, and a fair amount of skepticism. Samsung Unpacked is not just a list of phones and tablets; it becomes a conversation about the Galaxy S22 Ultra as a Note successor, the usefulness of extreme camera zoom, and whether a giant tablet really solves anything. Microsoft’s Activision deal becomes a question about Game Pass, cloud gaming, Azure infrastructure, and how a massive acquisition could change where games live. Apple and Epic open the door to App Store politics, internal emails, iMessage, Spotify complaints, and antitrust pressure. ARM on the desktop gets treated as a real engineering and market problem, with Apple far ahead while Windows laptops still lean on Intel Evo, AMD Ryzen, and familiar x86 expectations. The show likes products, but it does not treat products as magic. That matters. Surface Laptop 4 is discussed through support, patching, and the practical case for choosing a Windows machine. Work-from-home episodes move from office setup into distraction control, Focus modes, browser notifications, Facebook sounds, and the limits of do-not-disturb systems. Networking episodes make room for Ethernet’s history, RJ45 cables, Xerox PARC, 3Com, and why wired connections still matter. CES coverage carries a similar mix of fatigue and curiosity, with attention to Wi-Fi 6 routers, Linksys gear, and the strange economics of a thinned-out trade show. The pacing is informal, sometimes messy, and often funny in a tech-columnist way. It suits listeners who enjoy hearing experienced technology watchers reason out loud rather than race through headlines. The show’s best moments come when a product launch turns into a broader argument about habits, standards, ecosystems, and buyer reality.
Made for: For tech-news followers who care about devices, platforms, chips, networking, gaming, and home-office gear. It especially fits listeners who enjoy casual analysis from people comfortable with both specs and industry context.
What sets it apart: The show pairs product-level detail with a long memory for tech history and platform politics. It is less about clean takes than about hearing two informed voices reason through what is useful, overhyped, or strategically important.
Mobile expert Jason Cipriani and technologist Jason Perlow deliver their insights and experience on every technology topic you care about, from mobile gear and IoT to social networking and the cloud.
Jason Cipriani and Jason Perlow nickname the S22 Ultra 'Notra' while you weigh the spec sheet.
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A relaxed, useful look at Samsung's S22 Ultra, its Note identity, and the Tab S8 Ultra.
Samsung's first Unpacked of 2022 frames a familiar question for Jason Cipriani and Jason Perlow: is the Galaxy S22 Ultra a true new flagship, or the Note returning with a different badge?
A clear, grounded look at whether Apple's M1 lead has left desktop ARM waiting for its next credible challenger.
Nvidia preparing to walk away from its $40 billion Arm deal gives Jason Cipriani and Jason Perlow a useful opening into a larger desktop question: has ARM's near-term story already become Apple's M1 story? Perlow's view is clear.
Microsoft's Activision Blizzard deal is framed through Game Pass, cloud play, Azure, and platform strategy.
Microsoft's agreed $68.7 billion purchase of Activision Blizzard gives this single episode a sturdy technology-business spine. Jason Cipriani and Jason Perlow treat the deal less as a headline and more as a test of platform power, looking at what changes when Call of Duty, Candy…
A practical remote-work episode about using Apple Focus and browser settings to tame notifications.
Working from home turns into a notification problem in this episode, with Jason Perlow and Jason Cipriani drawing on long remote-work experience to talk through what actually interrupts a home office day.
A nearly empty CES still produces useful hardware while two hosts question what the show is for.
CES in Las Vegas becomes a sharper question than a spectacle: what does the show still do when the floor feels nearly empty? Jason Cipriani and Jason Perlow frame that unease through the drop from more than 4,000 planned exhibitors to about 2,200, the show's drift toward volume…
Tech hype, tested against real life.
Hands-on tech demos from the product floor.
Media strategy for obsessive entertainment watchers.
Mobile tech talk with working context.
Practical PC talk with hands-on judgment.
Jason Cipriani and Jason Perlow review Samsung’s first Unpacked event of 2022, centered on the Galaxy S22 lineup and the new Tab S8 family.
Jason Squared: Two Nerds Talk Tech centers on Bloomberg’s report that NVIDIA is preparing to walk away from its $40 billion Arm deal because of the FTC.
Microsoft agreed to buy Activision Blizzard for $68.7 billion, a deal the hosts compare with Microsoft's earlier purchases of Mojang for $2 billion, LinkedIn for $26 billion, and Nuance for about $19 billion.
Jason Squared’s “WFH distractions: Tech and techniques to help keep you focused” centers on Jason Cipriani and Jason Perlow comparing remote-work habits built since 2005, 2012, and 2016.
CES 2022 in Las Vegas is described as a “ghost town,” with the show cut from over 4,000 planned exhibitors to about 2,200 and many announcements moving virtual.
Jason Cipriani questions whether his gaming PC, MacBook Pro and 45-inch monitor make work harder rather than easier.
Jason Cipriani and Jason Perlow compare a Tesla Model 3 with Perlow's weekend in a Polestar 2.
Jack Dorsey resigned as Twitter CEO, leaving former CTO Parag Agrawal to address product stagnation and pressure from Elliott Management.
Jason Perlow opens with the $30-a-month Apple One Premier bundle and an AirTag story about nearly losing his wallet clip at Cochon Butcher in New Orleans.
Jason Perlow and Jason Ciprianni name Facebook the top 2021 Tech Turkey for a third year, citing Frances Haugen's document disclosures and harm to young girls.
Jason Cipriani and Jason Perlow discuss Mark Zuckerberg's announcement that Facebook's parent company is now Meta, which came a couple of days after the Facebook Papers were published, including leaked documents about targeting users as young as six.
Two tech journalists discuss revelations from the Apple vs.
The hosts discuss Microsoft's new Surface Laptop 4 and accessories, sharing their opinions and recommending the device.
The hosts discuss Ethernet as a reliable wired networking standard for improving home connectivity, covering its history and basics.