Hundreds of thousands of Californians are experiencing planned power outages in an attempt to avoid wildfires sparked by wind-damaged PG&E electrical equipment.  Last year’s Camp Fire was set off by PG&E equipment destroying the town of Paradise and killing 86 people.  Matt Simon, science writer at Wired, joins us for all the conditions that got us here.

Next, amid more scrutiny in the wake of the college admissions cheating scandal, the ACT has announced that it will lets students retake individual portions of the test they wish to improve instead of having to retake the entire test.  These new scores will be added to a “superscore” for the student.  Tawnell Hobbs, education reporter for the WSJ, joins us for what this all means for students taking college entrance exams.

Finally, Apple and Google are pushing to transform the video game industry.  Moving beyond traditional console and computer games, these companies are launching mobile game platforms like Apple Arcade and cloud based gaming like Google’s Stadia.  Kevin Webb, tech reporter for Business Insider, joins us for how the video game industry is changing.

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