GeekWire Radio: Ballmer stepping down, Plants vs. Zombies 2, the ‘Jobs’ movie and a slice of Raspberry Pi

We’ve obtained an epic GeekWire podcast for you this week, with an prolonged model of our weekly information phase, that includes our ideas on Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer’s announcement that he’ll be retiring from the corporate inside the subsequent 12 months.

Our visitor within the studio is the Raspberry Pi Basis‘s Rob Bishop (no relation), who’s visiting from the UK to unfold the phrase concerning the credit-card sized Raspberry Pi laptop and its functions in laptop science schooling and all kinds of cool tasks for storage hackers and {hardware} tinkerers.

The Raspberry Pi dialogue begins at 21:00 within the audio participant above. We begin with the fundamentals on the system for anybody unfamiliar with the Raspberry Pi, and conclude with some superior questions submitted by Raspberry Pi fanatics on Twitter and Fb.

This model of the present additionally features a bunch of content material that didn’t air on KIRO Radio this morning — together with our ideas on the ‘Jobs’ film, Vegetation vs. Zombies 2, and an additional phase on the finish with a really particular visitor, my mother, who catches us up on her newest Kindle and iPhone experiences.

We additionally provide a few clarifications from final week’s dialogue of a few of the newest TV streaming and cable applied sciences. For extra, try my overview of the Comcast Xfinity X1 and Frank Catalano’s tackle the Google Chromecast, and hearken to final week’s present for extra on each of these units.

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Take heed to the present above or immediately by way of this MP3 file.