When is thin too thin for smartphones? Why are so many sites moving content behind a paywall and does it bode for tightening ad sector? Reddit is introducing new tools to improve user engagement and help prevent rule violations. And 1Password has a new feature to add a specific physical location to items.

Starring Sarah Lane, Robb Dunewood, Roger Chang, Joe.

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Apple’s unveiled refreshes for the Mac Studio and MacBook Air. Are they enough of uplift to warrant an upgrade? Plus cheap EVs are still unfulfilled wish. But VW plans on changing that with new entry-level EVs next year and in 2027. And users of Sesame’s demo of its conversational speech model report feel emotionally connected to it. Google announced an experimental “AI Mode” in Search to compete with services like Perplexity AI and ChatGPT Search.

Starring Sarah Lane, Tom Merritt, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Joe.

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What’s got everyone excited about the NHL’s smart watch app for referees? Google Messages is adding a scam detection tool for Android users. Smartphone concepts that use full size camera lenses make a reappearance at this year’s Mobile World Congress. And Hasbro announces a Monopoly App Banking, replacing cash and the banker with a mobile app to manage all transactions in the board game. Would you play it?

Starring Sarah Lane, Tom Merritt, Tasia Custode, Roger Chang, Joe.

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Allison Sheridan shares her experience with getting rid of her landline after 42 years. Should parents of young children expose them to generative AI at an early age? Lenovo announced some wild new laptop form factors and concepts.

Starring Sarah Lane, Tom Merritt, Allison Sheridan, Roger Chang, Joe.

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Google co-founder Sergey Brin wants employees to work 60-hour weeks in the office every weekday to accelerate AI development. Microsoft is shutting down Skype. We look back at our fond and maybe not so fond memories of the service. Plus are return to office policies catering to a companies lowest performing employees? And its Friday quiz time. Do you know these UK musicians who participated in the silent album titled “Is This What We Want?”.

Starring Sarah Lane, Tom Merritt, Robb Dunewood, Len Peralta, Roger Chang, Joe.

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Social Media and Misinformation are often presented as two sides of the same coin, but what does the data actually say? Andrea Jones-Rooy is here to break it down for us. And surveillance technology used to monitor warehouse workers is being introduced into the office workplace but does it actually measure anything useful? Instagram looking into the idea of launching Reels as a standalone short-form video app. And OpenAI announced GPT-4.5, its latest and largest AI model, available as a research preview.

Starring Sarah Lane, Robb Dunewood, Andrea Jones-Rooy, Roger Chang, Joe.

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Why hasn’t Xbox Game Pass turned into the Netflix of games? Scott shares his thoughts. Why is Apple’s decision to end Advanced Data Protection for UK iCloud users drawing such little outcry from the British public. Amazon announced Alexa+, a generative AI-powered version of the venerable voice assistant. And what is Toyota Woven City the company’s test course for mobility all about?

Starring Sarah Lane, Tom Merritt, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Joe.

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Miss the old keyboard on the smartphone? Well Clicks is bringing it back for Android phones. In the market of a new EV but not sure where to begin? Emily Forlini is here with an EV buyer’s guide. Would you use free ad-supported software for work? And UK artists and newspapers launch a protest against UK government plans to let artificial intelligence companies use copyright-protected work without permission.

Starring Sarah Lane, Tom Merritt, Emily Forlini, Roger Chang, Joe.

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Perplexity teases its upcoming web browser and shares a wait list. ASUS debuts a new computer mouse you can smell. Google is pricing its new video generation model Veo 2 at $0.50/sec. And researchers at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst have conducted unbiased sampling of YouTube videos uncovering data Google itself won’t share.

Starring Sarah Lane, Tom Merritt, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang, Joe.

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Apple will disable its Advanced Data Protection end-to-end encryption feature in the UK. HP forced customers in Europe to wait 15 minutes on the phone to encourage its customers to use chat or social media for support calls. And its Friday. We quiz you on your knowledge of secret codes and messages in history, corporate logos and movies.

Starring Sarah Lane, Tom Merritt, Molly Wood, Len Peralta, Roger Chang, Joe.

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