Ctrl-Walt-Delete: New TiVos, old TiVos, and ad-skipping

Welcome to the first-ever second episode of Ctrl-Walt-Delete! With the release of the new TiVo Bolt, Walt and Nilay discuss its new features, Walt’s review of the first TiVo back in 1999, and the great relevance of the Bolt’s ad-skipping features. Spoiler alert: Nilay still owes Walt $100.

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We took Google’s self-driving car prototype through an obstacle course at the mall

As Google has expanded throughout Mountain View over the past decade, its repurposed office buildings have developed a certain sameness: perfectly mundane exteriors, accented by the multicolored Google bikes scattered outside. Building RSL2 is different: it was previously known as the Mayfield Mall, and for that reason, its roof is an enormous multilevel parking lot. On this day, there isn’t a car in sight — and if you live in the Bay Area, where parking spaces are conserved as zealously as water in Mad Max: Fury Road, it looks a little like the promised land.

And then something comes into view from across the lot. Something small and purposeful, moving toward you at an eminently reasonable speed. Its movements are self-assured and…

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