Mikah & Jason picks their favorite interviews from the past year.
- Cal Newport's new book Digital Minimalism explores how we have grown accustomed to devices as always-on digital companions, and paves the way to returning back to the real world.
- Burger King now offers the meatless Impossible Whopper, and Brian Cooley from CNET dared to try it.
- Tech patents can be downright ridiculous, and Rose Eveleth from Slate reveals why companies have so many of them in their arsenal if they'll never become something real.
- Britt Paris, co-author of "Deepfakes and Cheap Fakes," discusses the ways that fakes are being detected and how those systems might not be good enough as the technology gets better.
Hosts: Jason Howell and Mikah Sargent
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