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  • Hands-On Tech 198: Connecting An iPad to an Android Smart Home

    In this episode of Hands-On Tech, Mikah Sargent tackles a unique smart home dilemma from a viewer named John, who runs his home automation through Android while his wife uses Apple devices. John wants to know if he can use an old iPad as a home hub to give his wife easier access to their home's smart features, like thermostats, greenhouse controls, and outlets, without having to go through his phone.

  • Android-first setup is actually advantageous, as it means devices are already configured independently rather than being locked into Apple's HomeKit ecosystem
  • For HomeKit-compatible devices, adding them to the wife's iPhone/iPad is as simple as scanning the HomeKit codes in Apple's Home app

    • Some suggested approaches for the iPad hub:

  • Use as a portable control panel that can move between rooms
  • Mount it permanently as a dedicated control center using a device such as elago's Home Hub Mount, which allows for clean cable management.
  • Mikah recommends using Home Assistant (home-assistant.io) as a powerful third-party solution that works with more devices than just HomeKit or Google Home, has robust automation capabilities, and has apps for multiple platforms, making it accessible to both users.
  • Mikah also emphasizes the importance of "smart," which means proactive automation, giving examples like automatic fan control based on humidity sensor readings, proximity-based lighting control, and custom scenes triggered by pressure sensors.

    • Host: Mikah Sargent

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    11 min
  • This Week in Space 143: King Starship

    Coming into 2025, we have six flights of SpaceX's Starship behind us, with a possibility for as many as 25 tests supported by the FAA license for this year. This is also the year we need to see an orbital test, payloads carried, orbital refueling, and hopefully catches of both the Booster and Ship, and progress toward an uncrewed test landing on the moon. So much to discuss, so join Tariq, Rod, and ace space reporter Leonard David as we deep dive into King Starship!

    Headlines:

    • Wildfires near NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, have displaced many employees and caused the facility to shut down temporarily, but the lab itself remains untouched.
    • NASA is considering two options for the Mars Sample Return mission, both under $8 billion, with a launch planned by 2035-2039.
    • Bill Nye, CEO of The Planetary Society and former host of "Bill Nye the Science Guy," was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom for his dedication to science education and space exploration advocacy.

    Main Topic - SpaceX Starship in 2025:

    • SpaceX plans to ramp up Starship test flights in 2025, with up to 25 launches scheduled throughout the year.
    • Starship test flight 7, scheduled for January 13th, will feature a new Starship design with enhanced flaps, a new flight computer, and other upgrades.
    • The goal of Starship is to serve as a reusable, heavy-lift launch vehicle capable of carrying up to 100 people and 100 metric tons of cargo to the Moon, Mars, and beyond.
    • SpaceX is rapidly iterating on the Starship design, with stated plans to build new Starships in a single day and test new features on each flight.
    • While Starship's development has been impressive, questions remain about its life support systems, radiation protection, and interior design for crewed missions.
    • A discussion of the potential impact of Starship on NASA's Artemis program and the future of space exploration, including the possibility of using Starship as a space station or for Mars missions.
    • The conversation also touches on the challenges facing NASA, including aging infrastructure and the need for greater collaboration with the private sector, as highlighted in a recent report by the National Academies.

    Hosts: Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik

    Guest: Leonard David

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    1 hr 8 min
  • Tech News Weekly 369: Checking In With CES 2025

    This week on Tech News Weekly, host Mikah Sargent is joined by guest co-host Dan Moren to discuss Siri privacy concerns and how Apple could leverage AI to improve the user experience. Jason Hiner of ZDNET.com reports on CES 2025 on the latest TV displays, NVIDIA's AI innovations, and more. Then Imran Ahmed, CEO of the Center for Countering Digital Hate, weighs in on Meta's controversial decision to end fact-checking on its platforms.

  • Dan's latest column explores how Apple could use AI to benefit users by improving spam filtering, search capabilities, and automation. Implementing these features would align with Apple's focus on simplifying technology.
  • Apple released a statement clarifying that Siri recordings are not being used to build ad profiles, despite an ongoing conspiracy theory that devices are always listening. In reality, ad targeting is based on online behavior.
  • At CES 2025, new TV display technologies were announced including brighter OLED panels likely using "tandem OLED" and a new mini-LED backlight system from Hisense for improved color depth.
  • Lenovo showcased an expensive laptop prototype with a screen that rolls up to double in size, though it may have limited practical appeal for now.
  • NVIDIA unveiled COSMOS, an AI framework to generate synthetic training data for robots and self-driving systems, which could accelerate future autonomous innovations.
  • Offbeat CES products included an electric spoon that makes low-sodium foods taste saltier to promote healthier eating, and aggressively priced TVs from TCL.
  • Meta announced it will end fact-checking and rely on community moderation, which CCDH CEO Imran Ahmed argues will amplify the spread of misinformation and cause real-world harms.

    • Hosts: Mikah Sargent and Dan Moren

    Guests: Jason Hiner and Imran Ahmed

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      • 1 hr 7 min
    • This Week in Google 801: Human Beans
    • Meta is ending its fact-checking program in favor of a "community notes" system similar to X
    • (30+) kottke.org: "oh s**t new logo just dropped"
    • Masnick: The Good, The Bad, And The Stupid In Meta's New Content Moderation Policies
    • Social-Media Companies Decide Content Moderation Is Trending Down
    • I watched the Nvidia keynote; can summarize -jj
    • The Bitter Lesson
    • Hank Green's Cripslock Test for AGI
    • Public Domain Day 2025
    • CES 2025
    • New AI powered Samsung refrigerators will allow direct grocery ordering with Instacart
    • Gemini is taking over Google TV - in a good way
    • Google's AI Help Me Read feature
    • Deepseek seems to be a big deal: Chinese model, cheaper to train
    • Altman's latest gospel
    • Choose your Silicon Valley Thinkbro
    • Nicvember Post Mortum
    • The Habermas Machine: AI mediating disagreements
    • VPN Demand Surge in Florida after Adult Sites Age Restriction Kicks In

      • Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

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        • 2 hr 9 min
      • Windows Weekly 914: Something Weird From the Closet

        We heard you missed us. We're back.


        Windows

      • Microsoft declares 2025 the "year of the Windows 11 PC refresh."
      • As likely as "year of the Linux desktop"
      • The theory: Windows 10 EOL, AI PCs, lingering security fears from CrowdStrike
      • The issue: Windows 10 has 63 usage share right now. At this point in time, Windows 7 had only 25 percent usage share (and was in second place, not first)
      • Intel joins in on this fever dream but we've stopped listening
      • More interesting: AMD is kicking ass and taking names. And we thought the existing chips were good (they are). Related to this, PC makers are embracing AMD like never before. Check out HP's workstations (including laptops)
      • Microsoft is blocking the 24H2 update on PCs with Auto HDR enabled
      • New Canary and Beta builds ring in the New Year
      • Not that it matters, but Windows 11 almost had Vista Ultimate Extras-like dynamic wallpapers
      • Dell kills XPS and all its other PC brands because Dell is stupid and doesn't know what it had

        • Arm & PCs

      • Qualcomm defeated Arm Holdings in licensing dispute court case. And, yes, it won big time, contrary to Arm's nonsense
      • Qualcomm announces an even lower-end Snapdragon X chip for $600 PCs, so ASUS announces an $1100 laptop that uses it
      • Snapdragon Dev Kit update
      • Part 2 of Paul's history of Windows on Arm is up
      • New Arm PCs announced, including desktops. Ahead of CES, Geekom jumped the gun and said it was coming out with a Snapdragon X-based NUC. Lenovo has a NUC/SFF
      • NVIDIA and MediaTek confirm partnership on Arm chips for PCs

        • Microsoft 365

      • First, GitHub Copilot, but now Microsoft 365 Copilot will allegedly stop using OpenAI exclusively
      • Microsoft reveals (confirms) it will spend $80 billion on AI infrastructure in FY 2025 as it suckles up to Trump like the rest of the tech industry
      • Microsoft and OpenAI allegedly tied AGI milestone to profits, not intelligence

        • Xbox & Gaming

      • Microsoft discusses a console-like experience for Windows handheld gaming. Tied to that, a new generation of handheld gaming PCs is on the way
      • Xbox Game Pass says Happy New Year with a full slate of Activision Blizzard titles. Just kidding
      • NVIDIA announces new graphics cards for PCs
      • No one wants this, but Xbox is coming to LG smart TVs
      • Xbox Rewards shuffles the deck chairs, hopes no one notices it's worse now

        • Tips & Picks

      • Tip of the week: Spend a little, upgrade to Windows 11
      • App pick of the week: Microsoft PowerToys
      • RunAs Radio this week: Least Privilege in 2025 with Bailey Bercik
      • Brown liquor pick of the week: Kilbeggan Irish Whiskey

        • Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell

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          • 2 hr 45 min
        • Security Now 1007: AI Training & Inference
        • The consequences of Internet content restriction.
        • The measured risks of 3rd-party browser extensions.
        • The consequences of SonicWall's unpatched 9.8 firewall severity.
        • The incredible number of still-unencrypted email servers.
        • SonicWall vulnerability patching
        • Shadowserver Foundation & eMail Encryption
        • Salt Typhoon Evicted
        • HIPAA gets a long-needed cybersecurity upgrade.
        • The EU standardizes on USB-C for power charging. What?
        • Believe it or not, a CATCHA you solve by playing DOOM.
        • And... what I learned from three weeks of study of AI

          • Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1007-Notes.pdf

          Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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          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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            • 2 hr 47 min
          • MacBreak Weekly 954: Lickable Interface

            The MacBreak Weekly crew celebrates the 25th anniversary of Mac OS X, discusses Apple's $95 million settlement over Siri privacy concerns, and shares their thoughts on new gaming capabilities coming to the Vision Pro headset. The hosts also debate the future of Google search in light of the US government's antitrust case and touch on the possibility of non-invasive glucose monitoring coming to the Apple Watch.

            • Release of iOS and iPadOS 16.3.1 with important bug fixes and security updates

            • 25th anniversary of Mac OS X and its importance in providing a modern, Unix-based foundation that became the basis for Apple's other operating systems
            • Apple's $95 million settlement over Siri privacy concerns related to accidental recordings, while maintaining that user data was never sold or used for marketing
            • Speculation on why Apple is unlikely to create its own search engine, particularly due to its lucrative deal with Google and the economic risks involved
            • Concerns over Apple's AI-generated news summaries sometimes being wildly inaccurate, prompting calls for the company to suspend the feature until it can be improved
            • Expansion of Apple Fitness+ with new workouts and integration with the Strava workout tracking platform
            • The gang discusses the ethical implications of Apple potentially securing exclusive rights to non-invasive blood glucose monitoring on the Apple Watch
            • Nvidia announcing upcoming support for its GeForce Now game streaming service on the Vision Pro headset, plus the ability to use the device for capturing movement to train AI for robotics
            • 'Wicked' director Jon M. Chu used Apple Vision Pro during the film's post-production process

            Picks of the Week:

            • Leo: Ghostty - a macOS terminal with metal integration
            • Jason: Govee Christmas Lights 2, programmable LED lights for festive decoration
            • Alex: iPhone Cinematic mode, which allows for impressive video capture and post-production focus adjustments
            • Andy: Anker's new 140W 4-port charger, offering fast charging capabilities for multiple devices simultaneously

            Hosts: Leo Laporte, Alex Lindsay, Andy Ihnatko, and Jason Snell

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              • 2 hr 21 min
            • This Week in Tech 1013: Calamari in Crisis

              Touching the Sun, Fake Spotify Artists, Banished Words

            • AI Needs So Much Power, It's Making Yours Worse
            • How many billions Big Tech spent on AI data centers in 2024
            • NASA Spacecraft 'Touches Sun' In Defining Moment For Humankind
            • Elon Musk Calls Out NASA's Moon Ambitions: 'We're Going Straight to Mars'
            • Elon Musk and the right's war on Wikipedia
            • Trump Asks Supreme Court to Pause Law Threatening TikTok Ban
            • US Treasury says Chinese hackers stole documents in 'major incident'
            • Judge blocks parts of California bid to protect kids from social media
            • Finland probes Russian shadow fleet oil tanker after cable-cutting incident
            • US appeals court blocks Biden administration effort to restore net-neutrality rules
            • The Ghosts in the Machine (fake spotify artists)
            • Massive VW Data Leak Exposed 800,000 EV Owners' Movements, From Homes To Brothels
            • Banished Words | Lake Superior State University 2025
            • Public Domain Day 2025
            • Happy Birthday, Bitcoin! The top cryptocurrency is old enough to drive
            • End of the lines? QR-style codes could replace barcodes 'within two years'

              • Host: Leo Laporte

              Guests: Richard Campbell, Anthony Ha, and Stacey Higginbotham

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                • 2 hr 36 min
              • Hands-On Tech 197: Stop Your TV from Turning On by Itself

                Mikah addresses a listener question about why their TCL TV and cable box sometimes turn on automatically after a power outage. He explains the likely causes and offers troubleshooting tips. Mikah also shares an important follow-up from a previous episode about internet speeds and the limitations of the Apple TV 4K's Ethernet port.

                Main Topic:

                • Richard asks why his TCL TV and cable box sometimes turn on by themselves after brief power outages
                • Mikah explains that TCL TVs have a "Fast TV Start" feature that keeps the TV in a powered-on state to maintain network connections, causing it to turn back on when power is restored
                • HDMI-CEC (Consumer Electronics Control) allows devices to communicate and control each other, which may cause the cable box to turn on when the TV powers on
                • Mikah advises checking the TV and cable box settings for features like Fast TV Start, sleep/hibernation modes, and HDMI-CEC to adjust the behavior
                • Many smart home devices, such as lights and robot vacuums, also have auto-on features that should be configured to prevent unexpected behavior after power outages

                Follow-up:

                • Thomas points out that in a previous episode (195), the Apple TV 4K used to test internet speeds has a maximum throughput of about 990 Mbps due to its Gigabit Ethernet port
                • For the listener (Ross) to accurately test their 2.5 Gbps internet speed, they should ensure their Mac supports the full 2.5 Gbps that the adapter provides
                • The Apple TV 4K's Wi-Fi 6 support may allow for faster speeds than its Ethernet port, depending on the router and environment

                Don't forget to send in your questions for Mikah to answer during the show! [email protected]

                Host: Mikah Sargent

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                20 min
              • This Week in Space 142: 2025 in Space

                On episode 142 we're talking about 2025 in space! It's going to be an exciting year, kicking off with the first launch attempt for Blue Origin's New Glenn heavy booster and another test flight of Starship. Then we'll see a new asteroid sampling mission from China, the first test flight of Blue Origin's Blue Moon lander to the moon, and the launch of the first-ever private robotic mission to Venus by Rocket Lab. There's a lot more in store, so be sure to join us for this jam-packed episode!

                Headlines:

                - NASA's Parker Solar Probe makes its closest, fastest, and hottest flyby of the Sun yet, flying through the corona and withstanding 1800°F temperatures
                - Blue Origin's massive New Glenn rocket is finally on the pad with plans to launch in early January after many years of development
                - China announces their crewed lunar lander and crew capsule are ready, raising concerns about a new space race to the Moon

                2025 in Space:

                - SpaceX aims for up to 25 Starship launches—and landings—in 2025 if they can secure FAA approval, with flight 7 featuring Starlink satellite deployment tests coming within weeks
                - Jared Isaacman, billionaire and private space mission funder, expected to be nominated as the new NASA administrator under the incoming Trump administration
                - Several commercial and international robotic missions to the Moon are planned, some of which will help fill the void left by NASA's canceled VIPER rover
                - The future of NASA's expensive and long-delayed Mars sample return mission is in question as China aims to complete its own by 2027
                - Colorado and Alabama are vying to be the home of U.S. Space Command as it potentially reorganizes under the new administration
                - Vast Space aims to be the first to launch a private space station module in 2025 without NASA funding, providing a potential ISS replacement
                - The European Space Agency's Space Rider, a reusable robotic space transportation system, set to launch in 2025 for various orbital experiments and satellite deployment/retrieval
                - China's ambitious Tianwen-2 mission to collect samples from a near-Earth asteroid and visit a main-belt comet in the 2030s launches this year
                - Japan's Destiny+ mission will visit asteroid Phaethon, the source of the Geminid meteor showers, propelled by novel ion engines
                - Rocket Lab plans to launch a small, privately financed probe to Venus to look for signs of life and organic molecules in the atmosphere

                Hosts: Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik

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                1 hr 14 min

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