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- This Week in Space 187: An Inspired Enterprise
Were you inspired by "Star Trek" (or one of its innumerable spinoffs) as a young person? We know we were, so it was a pleasure to invite Glen Swanson, author of the new Star Trek history book "Inspired Enterprise" onto the show. We've all heard lore about the original series, but Swanson, who was previously the Chief Historian at the Johnson Space Center, used his prodigious skills to perform a deep dive into the topic. From Gene Roddenberry's original inspiration to working with Caltech, the RAND Corporation, and NASA; and on to the design of the good ship Enterprise itself (and the very popular AMT models that followed), this book provides everything you need to know to be a certified Trekker.
Headlines:- Comet 3I Atlas confirmed as a comet, not a spacecraft & NASA releases new images and details of the comet
- SpaceX's Starship Version 3 booster suffers damage during test
- Uranus reaches yearly opposition—best viewing opportunity
Main Topic: The Real Inspirations Behind Star Trek
- Glen Swanson shares career highlights as a NASA historian and magazine founder
- How Gene Roddenberry's background and influences shaped Star Trek
- NASA's direct involvement and technical guidance for Star Trek's creators
- The significant role of the aerospace industry, Rand Corporation, and real-world science in Star Trek's development
- The story behind NASA and the Smithsonian Enterprise shooting model connections
- AMT's plastic model kits fueled fan obsession and supported the show's visuals
- Influences from movies like Robinson Crusoe on Mars and Forbidden Planet
- Space Station K7 design's origins traced to NASA and Douglas Aircraft concepts
- Star Trek's impact on inspiring real-life astronauts and the space community
- Glen Swanson's book, "Inspired Enterprise," and how you can get a signed copy
Hosts: Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik
Guest: Glen Swanson
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Dan Moren of Six Colors joins Mikah Sargent this week! Apple Wallet's mobile driver's license feature is expanding to more users. An AI-powered teddy bear was caught giving explicit and graphic instructions to children. Google unveiled Gemini 3. And can AI-powered smart pens give you an edge in your academics?
- Dan covers the expansion of Apple Wallet's mobile driver's license feature as the state of Illinois is the latest to support this feature.
- Mikah shares how an AI-powered teddy bear, FoloToy, was discovered to be teaching kids unsafe behaviors and discussing adult topics.
- Sabrina Ortiz of ZDNET joins the show to talk about Google's latest iteration of AI model, Gemini 3.
- And Elissa Welle of The Verge stops by to share her experience using an AI pen, and how the pen was less than helpful.
Hosts: Mikah Sargent and Dan Moren
Guests: Sabrina Ortiz and Elissa Welle
Download or subscribe to Tech News Weekly at https://twit.tv/shows/tech-news-weekly.
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1 hr 4 min - Hands-On Windows 167: Tiny 11 Builder
Imagine Windows 11 without Edge, OneDrive, or Copilot. This episode dives into Tiny11Builder, the tool that strips Windows down to just what you want—no corporate extras.
Host: Paul Thurrott
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23 min - Hands-On Apple 209: Understanding Sounds & Haptics
Ever wondered why your iPhone's sound isn't as loud as you expect, or your AirPods seem capped? Mikah Sargent uncovers the hidden settings that could be hindering your listening experience.
- Managing silent mode and status bar indicators on newer iPhones
- Switching audio input sources, including iPhone mic and AirPods
- Fine-tuning ringtone and alert volume controls for less disruption
- "Change with buttons" explained: separation of media and alert volumes
- Customizing haptic feedback and vibration settings for notifications
- Setting default sounds for ringtones, texts, voicemail, and mail alerts
- Keyboard feedback: toggling typing sounds and haptics preference
- Differences between iPhone and iPad haptics (limitations on iPad)
- Controlling speaker volume limits and effects on media playback
- Understanding "Reduce Loud Sounds" to avoid abrupt audio spikes
- Headphone safety: adjusting reduced loud audio upper limit for AirPods
- Headphone usage notifications & protecting hearing over seven days
- Managing USB audio accessory settings and privacy tracking
Host: Mikah Sargent
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23 min - Home Theater Geeks 509: Best Type of Center Speaker
Listener Jason asks which is better for the center channel: a speaker designed for that purpose, or the same speaker as the front left and right? What are the pros and cons of each approach? Also, same question for the surround speakers. Scott Wilkinson has some answers.
Host: Scott Wilkinson
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18 min - iOS Today 779: Holiday Planning
Ready to ditch holiday stress? Discover the relatively new Apple Invites app and cutting-edge planning tools that could change how you host, organize, and celebrate with friends and family this season.
- Apple Invites app demo: shared photos, playlists, and event updates
- Partiful vs. Apple Invites: choosing invite apps friends actually use
- Shared reminders and sections: holiday shopping and planning hacks
- OmniOutliner for meal prep and complex holiday schedules, plus AI outlines
- Favorite recipe apps: Paprika vs. Crouton for Thanksgiving cooking
- Secret Santa gift exchanges made easy with Elfster app features
- News: Apple launches $150 iPhone Pocket fashion accessory. New Apple hardware updates: iPad Pro, 14" MacBook Pro, Vision Pro M5
- App Caps: Torras Mini MagSafe battery pack and Locket Widget social app
Hosts: Mikah Sargent and Rosemary Orchard
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42 min - Intelligent Machines 846: Chivelord
What does it take to build tech the world actually trusts? Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales joins the crew to dig into the real crisis behind AI, social networks, and the web: trust, and how to build it when the stakes are global.
- Teen founders raise $6M to reinvent pesticides using AI — and convince Paul Graham to join in
- Introducing SlopStop: Community-driven AI slop detection in Kagi Search
- Part 1: How I Found Out
- $1 billion AI company co-founder admits that its $100 a month transcription service was originally 'two guys surviving on pizza' and typing out notes by hand
- His announcement leaving Meta
- White House Working on Executive Order to Foil State AI Regulations
- Nvidia stock soars after results, forecasts top estimates with sales for AI chips 'off the charts'
- Jeff Bezos Creates A.I. Start-Up Where He Will Be Co-Chief Executive
- Jack Conte: I'm Building an Algorithm That Doesn't Rot Your Brain
- AI love, actually
- Cat island
- road trip: liquidator's warehouse
- Gentype
- The Carpenter's Son...
- My excerpt from the Q&A
- Image of the paper
Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau
Guest: Jimmy Wales
Download or subscribe to Intelligent Machines at https://twit.tv/shows/intelligent-machines.
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2 hr 44 min - Windows Weekly 959: Thurrott Syndrome
Ahead of Microsoft Ignite 2025, Windows boss Pavan Davuluri tweeted an innocuous post about nothing, and all hell broke loose. We are broken as a community and it's time to cull the herd.
Ignite 2025
- Fun aside: Google could have announced Gemini 3 at any time, but they chose the opening day of Ignite. Who's dancing now?
- No Satya and suddenly the keynote is watchable again
- Microsoft brings Anthropic models to Foundry along with Nvidia architecture
- MCP comes to Windows 11 in public preview for developers
- New Microsoft 365 Copilot agents for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
- Agent 365 is the obvious name of an AI agent management service
- Windows 11 is getting agents on the Taskbar because it isn't annoying enough already
Windows 11
- Two new Release Preview builds, a new Canary build, and the first release of Copilot Actions
- The RP builds are a preview of Patch Tuesday in December, it's bigger than expected
- Dev/Beta build with experimental AI agent capabilities, more
AI
- OpenAI released ChatGPT 5.1 and it's like no one noticed
- Mozilla announces AI window for Firefox, with immediate backlash
Xbox and gaming
- Qualcomm JUST announced a new control panel for Snapdragon X gaming
- Hands-on with the Xbox Full Screen Experience (FSE) for Windows 11
- FSE Transforms a gaming handheld PC into a device-like experience
- Frame rates see a dramatic jump in FSE Call of Duty, which was surprising
- Fortnite is coming to the Xbox app in Windows, adding Xbox Play Anywhere support
- Xbox announces a new set of titles coming to Game Pass across platforms
- Xbox Partner Preview event is set for November 20
- As predicted, Steam Machine is the "Xbox Microsoft wanted to make." Yes, it's a good idea now that someone else is doing it
Tips and picks
- Tip of the week: Tiny11 Builder, again
- Hardware pick of the week: Lenovo Legion Go 2
- RunAs Radio this week: Azure SRE Agents with Deepthi Chelupati
- Brown liquor pick of the week: Jameson Rarest Vintage Reserve 2007
Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell
Download or subscribe to Windows Weekly at https://twit.tv/shows/windows-weekly
Check out Paul's blog at thurrott.com
The Windows Weekly theme music is courtesy of Carl Franklin.
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2 hr 30 min - Security Now 1052: Global Cellphone Tracking
Think your cell phone is safe from tracking? Steve reveals how global networks let anyone pinpoint your location—no hacking required and no malware involved.
- Apple introduces a new Digital ID inside Wallet.
- Checkout.com refuses to pay a ransom demand.
- Google announces "Private AI Compute" in the cloud.
- Google backpedals on their "devs must register" demand.
- Win11 added a Passkeys API which 1Password & Bitwarden support.
- Russia tracks SIM card appearances to thwart drone usage.
- Google sues Chinese Phishing as a Service platform.
- Lots of interesting listener feedback.
- Global cellphone tracking is alive, well, malware free and a distressingly common commercial enterprise
Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1052-Notes.pdf
Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte
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You can submit a question to Security Now at the GRC Feedback Page.
For 16kbps versions, transcripts, and notes (including fixes), visit Steve's site: grc.com, also the home of the best disk maintenance and recovery utility ever written Spinrite 6.
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3 hr 3 min - MacBreak Weekly 999: Rough Depowdering
Speculation about Tim Cook's eventual successor is ramping up, as he may announce his retirement as early as next year. A federal jury in California rules that Apple must pay Masimo $634 million for patent infringement. And Apple unveils how cases for the Apple Watch Series 11 & Ultra 3 were 3D-printed this year.
- Apple intensifies succession planning for CEO Tim Cook.
- Apple COO Jeff Williams is now officially retired.
- Jury says Apple owes Masimo $634M for patent infringement.
- UK refuses Apple's request to appeal $2 billion App Store ruling.
- Apple wins camera patent dispute, as Supreme Court refuses to hear appeal.
- 2026 iPad roadmap: Here's when to expect every upcoming model.
- Mapping the future with 3D‑printed titanium Apple Watch cases.
- Joe Rogan beats The Daily to top Apple Podcasts' Top Charts for 2025.
- Apple's new App Review Guidelines clamp down on apps sharing personal data with 'third-party AI'.
- Apple's iPhone overhaul will reduce its reliance on annual fall spectacle.
- Apple takes 25% share of China smartphone market in October on iPhone 17 demand.
- Survey data shows Wi-Fi speeds are much faster on iPhone 17, thanks to Apple N1 chip.
- Apple loses iPhone Air designer to unnamed AI startup.
- Is "F1: The Movie" getting a sequel?
- Legendary game designer, programmer, Space Invaders champion, and LGBTQ trailblazer Rebecca Heineman has died.
Picks of the Week
- Andy's Pick: A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving
- Shelly's Pick: Magnetic Airpod Pro Lanyard
- Jason's Picks: Alternatives to Bartender
Hosts: Leo Laporte, Andy Ihnatko, and Jason Snell
Guest: Shelly Brisbin
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