Microsoft announced yesterday that it's laying off 4,800 employees and more than 30% of those are in the Xbox division. Microsoft is also spinning off four of its game studios and there are apparently even more cuts still to come. At the same time as making all of these huge cuts, Xbox's CEO Asha Sharma is also trying to argue that the Xbox's brightest days are still coming.She wrote that I want Xbox to be one of the few companies that entertains more than a billion people each day and gives everyone the op ...

We have all become desensitized. Every place is like every other place, every experience is happening at a remove and on a screen. And Ian Bogost, a Washington University professor and a writer at The Atlantic, argues that this "dematerialization" is making our life worse. Ian joins David to explain how to once again commune with the world. He tells us of the magic of paper tickets, why he's kind of obsessed with the rubber on his water bottle, and why you don't need to throw phone into the ocean — but you ...