Intelligent Machines (Audio)

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June 05, 2024TWiG 771: Sucked to LA - Ultrasonic Coffee, Microsoft Recall, Perplexity Pages
'Like drinking a music festival': this is ultrasonic coffee – but does it taste any good?

Trump joins TikTok, the app he once tried to ban

Unanimous SCOTUS To States: No Strong-Arming Third Parties To Silence Those You Dislike

Federal Preemption of State Privacy Law Hurts Everyone

The Internet's Final Frontier: Remote Amazon Tribes

That time Rupert Murdoch almost married a woman from Petaluma

The Very Online Afterlife of Franz Kafka

Finally! Someone has figured out how to make money in the media biz

The Uncanny Rise of the World's First AI Beauty Pageant

a16z: no human will ever again have to make a call.

India's election wasn't the deepfake doomsday many feared

MS Recall

Perplexity will research and write reports

Visiting local chickens

Bragging: Gutenberg review

Paris' tabs

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Cathy Gellis

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2 hr 55 min
May 29, 2024TWiG 770: Giggle Pants and Chortle Skorts - Google AI Answers, ICQ, Private Jet Tracking
Google scrambles to manually remove weird AI answers in search

Ex-OpenAI Director Says Board Learned of ChatGPT Launch on Twitter

OpenAI researcher who resigned over safety concerns joins Anthropic

UN statement on risks from generative AI

We'll Miss You: Pioneering instant messaging program ICQ is finally shutting down after nearly 30 years

Congress Just Made It Basically Impossible to Track Taylor Swift's Private Jet

Everything Google announced at its big Chromebook showcase

Google adds AI-powered features to Chromebook

Here's the Google Home app 'Favorites' widget

Google Ads Now Being Mixed In With Organic Results

YouTube's free games catalog 'Playables' rolls out to all users

How Shein and Temu Snuck Up on Amazon

BuzzFeed Clashes With Vivek Ramaswamy, Its New Activist Investor

Internet Archive and the Wayback Machine under DDoS cyber-attack

HUGE Google Search document leak reveals inner workings of ranking algorithm

TikTok offered an extraordinary deal. The U.S. government took a pass

Parents Dance Like It's the '80s on TikTok, and Bring Down the House

Meta's white, male advisory group

My weekend plans: Ren Faire on HBO

Canva meets Hamilton

Top 50 podcasts

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

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2 hr 32 min
May 22, 2024TWiG 769: Keeping Up With the Kevorkians - ScarJo vs. OpenAI, Google Classic
Scarlett Johansson was 'shocked, angered' by ChatGPT voice that sounded like her

It's Time to Believe the AI Hype

Steven Levy's Extremely Stupid AI Piece

Utah Locals Are Getting Cheap 10 Gbps Fiber Thanks To Local Governments

Congress Shouldn't End the Internet's Sunrise With a Section 230 "Sunset" Repeal

Buy This Legislation or We'll Kill the Internet

Taiwan, on China's Doorstep, Is Dealing With TikTok Its Own Way

French TikTok block in overseas territory sets 'dangerous precedent,' critics warn

2023 Was the Worst Year for Internet Shutdowns, Report Finds

Microsoft unveils 'Copilot + PC' initiative in new bid to revitalize Windows with AI

jacking Wendy's ai

Google is bringing back classic search, with no AI – and I couldn't be happier about that

Does One Line Fix Google?

Google's AI Overviews are getting ads soon

Google rolls out immersive, AI-powered Shopping Ads

Google's new 'Add to Chromebook' badge makes web apps easier to find and install

After beating Sonos case, Google brings back group speaker controls

Magic Editor for older Pixel phones starts rolling out

Google Pay will show your card benefits, Autofill with PIN/face unlock over security code

YouTube seems to once again be rolling out its widely hated new web redesign

New: OpenAI, Wall Street Journal Owner News Corp Strike Content Deal

Truecaller partners with Microsoft to let its AI respond to calls in your own voice

C. Gordon Bell, Creator of a Personal Computer Prototype, Dies at 89

Let Bions Be Bygones

United flight because of passengers stuck laptop

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Ed Zitron

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2 hr 54 min
May 14, 2024TWiG 768: Google A/I - Google I/O 2024
Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Alex Kantrowitz react live to the Google I/O presentation.
Gemini

Search with Gemini

Agents

Deepmind

Gemini Flash

Project Astra

Imajen 3

Veo

Trillium

Search

Ask with Video

Gemini for Workspace

Virtual Teammate

Gemini App

Android

Google AI Studio

Gemma

SynthID

LearnLM

Hosts: Leo Laporte and Jeff Jarvis

Guest: Alex Kantrowitz

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2 hr 28 min
May 08, 2024TWiG 767: Never Hug an Elmo - BuzzFeed, AdVon, 65-Foot Hot Dog
'It's Been Painful': What Jonah Peretti Says Went Wrong at BuzzFeed

The first Pulitzer prize for tech journalism in a decade!

Meet AdVon, the AI-Powered Content Monster Infecting the Media Industry

Google is getting even worse for independent sites

Heat Death of the Internet

What's happening at Tesla? Here's what experts think.

They Put a 65-Foot Hot Dog in Times Square, and It's a Blast

Read the wild email Tesla is sending to suppliers amid Supercharger chaos

Lithium-free sodium batteries exit the lab and enter US production

TikTok Sues US Government Over Potential Ban

Meet Pixel 8a

YouTube's AI-powered 'Jump Ahead' feature rolling out widely to Premium users

Google is changing how you set up 2FA

Google Chrome Now Has a Gemini AI Shortcut

Google TV's magic button is finally here, so what does it do?

Number Of Search Results Dropped Google Search Results Page

I Love Facebook. That's Why I'm Suing Meta.

Jack Dorsey quits Bluesky board and urges users to stay on Elon Musk's X

(God help us) Elon Musk's Plan For AI News

The Forgotten War on Beepers

AI-Voiced Audiobooks Top 40,000 Titles on Audible

geospy.ai

MacWhisper

Is This the Most Boring Man in the World?

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

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3 hr 3 min
May 01, 2024TWiG 766: Area Man Buys Onion - Alphabet Hits 2 Trillion, DJI Ban, FCC Fines
Google is building a fart button into Android

The Rabbit R1 is loosely based on Android after all

Alphabet Leaps Into $2 Trillion Club as Results Show AI Strength

Google plans $3 billion data center investment in Indiana, Virginia

Google cuts hundreds of 'Core' workers, moves jobs to India, Mexico

Google workers fired for protesting Israeli contract file NLRB complaint

Meet the powerful tech insiders behind the push to ban TikTok

A Chinese Firm Is America's Favorite Drone Maker. Except in Washington.

FCC fines AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, and Verizon nearly $200 million for illegally sharing location data

The FCC just doled out big privacy fines. It could soon lose that power.

Supreme Court Rejects Musk's 'Twitter Sitter' Appeal in SEC Win

Twilio Founder Jeff Lawson Has Some Serious Plans for The Onion

Lawsuits test Tesla claim that drivers are solely responsible for crashes

Musk Wins China's Backing for Tesla's Driver-Assistance Service

Elizabeth Spiers: That Strange Piece of Metal Origami Embodies All Elon Musk's Flaws

Tesla to lay off everyone working on Superchargers, new vehicles and public policy team

Supreme Court declines to block Texas pornography restriction

Bruce Perens proposes draft Post-Open Zero Cost License

Remember that Sora balloon video?

From Baby Talk to Baby A.I.

Related: Yann LeCun & AI as 4-year-old

Is history repeating itself? I have concerns.

The Cheyenne Supercomputer is going for a fraction of its list price at auction right now

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

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2 hr 24 min
April 24, 2024TWiG 765: Inflatable Nuts - TikTok Ban, Rabbit R1, Equinox.space
'Thunder Run': Behind Lawmakers' Secretive Push to Pass the TikTok Bill

TikTok ban would be a gift from Congress to Meta and Google

How the TikTok ban could survive a court challenge

The Chilling of TikTok

FTC Bans Noncompete Agreements That Restrict Job Switching

Sam Altman-backed crypto project Worldcoin faces an orb shortage

Paris' nuts

Rabbit R1

brilliant.xyz

More wearable AI: IYO One

The Man Who Killed Google Search

Google search boss Raghavan warns employees of 'new operating reality'

The solution to scary Boston Dynamics bots? Make robots hairy

Meta shares plummet 10% after second quarter outlook disappoints

Newsletter platform Ghost adopts ActivityPub to 'bring back the open web'

Beware of The Fake Podcast Invite Scam

Bravely Exploring the Squalor of a 'Boy Room'

This fun little web game: Equinox.Space

magCulture

No one buys books

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

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2 hr 37 min
April 17, 2024TWiG 764: Cow Magnets - Atlas Evolved, Humane AI Pin, Panic-as-a-Business
Craig Newmark the Pigeon Man / more AI Music

Boston Dynamics' Atlas humanoid robot goes electric

Marques Brownlee calls the Humane AI pin "the worst product I've ever reviewed."

limitless ai

brilliant.xyz

Maria Cantwell wants a privacy law. She's been one of its biggest obstacles.

Experts Provide Early Analysis of the American Privacy Rights Act

Unclear Protections in the American Privacy Rights Act Not Worth Broad Preemption

Google tests stopping news links in California because of CJPA

Whoops! Computer error leads to wrong couple getting divorced

Hey, Paris: How Neopets' nostalgic revival tripled users in six months

Amazon virtually kills efforts to develop Alexa Skills, disappointing dozens

Panic-as-a-Business is Expanding

Crypto Trader Searched Web for 'Fraud' Before $110 Million Haul

'Eat the future, pay with your face': my dystopian trip to an AI burger joint

Ready for a Chatbot Version of Your Favorite Instagram Influencers?

Prophet Song

Strands, the superior NYT game

Cow magnets

Vinod Khosla's tech-determinist TED wet dream

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Stacey Higginbotham

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2 hr 55 min
April 10, 2024TWiG 763: All the Meat Was Shaking - Suno Music, Google Cloud Next
Google Shows AI Model Is Enterprise-Ready After Gemini Mishaps

The Internet Archive Just Backed Up an Entire Caribbean Island

FCC chair rejects call to impose Universal Service fees on broadband

Talking about the old internet

Jeff's paper on the California Journalism Preservation Act

Twitter's Clumsy Pivot to X.com Is a Gift to Phishers

Elon Musk says Tesla will unveil its robotaxi on Aug. 8; shares pop

SF Giants using facial recognition tech to fast-track ticket line

NYC Chicken Shop Replaces Cashier With Woman in Philippines On Zoom

First look at federal privacy bill

Instagram Generated Almost 30% of Meta's Revenue in Early 2022

Elon Musk's 'self-inflicted wounds' and other highlights from a newly released deposition

5 Workspace announcements from Google Cloud Next '24

Fitbit app rolling out redesigned Sleep stats

Google's Nest Secure is shut down — and you've got options besides ADT

Google brings AI-powered editing tools, like Magic Editor, to all Google Photos users for free

The wonderful world of Taskmaster

Also! A report from the teens at PS 47

Mario meets Pareto

Suno music

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

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3 hr 5 min
April 03, 2024TWiG 762: People Who Like Sticks - Taco Bell AI, Amazon Scraps "Just Walk Out"
The great rewiring: is social media really behind an epidemic of teenage mental illness?

Here Are the Cable News Ratings for March 2024

Why YouTube Decided to Take Over Cable Television

YouTube is increasing the price of premium (Red) subscription by nearly 50%

Why Did Matt Farley Put a Song About Me on Spotify?

Google Pledges to Destroy Browsing Data to Settle 'Incognito' Lawsuit

20 years of Gmail

AT&T resets account passcodes after millions of customer records leak online

Yahoo is acquiring Artifact to bring its AI features to Yahoo News

Amazon's Grocery Stores to Drop Just Walk Out Checkout Tech

Google is Bringing Gemini Nano to Pixel 8 and Circle to Search to More Devices

Tips for Linking Shell Companies to their Secret Owners

Google to Fight Cookie Hijacking With Encryption Keys for Chrome Browser

Taco Bell and Pizza Hut Are Going 'AI-First,' Yum's New Tech Chief Says

Jon Stewart claims Apple wouldn't let him interview FTC chair on his podcast

Apple sues former iOS engineer for allegedly leaking Vision Pro, Journal app details

Very good by Katie Harbath: Digging Into Ten Overused Tech Tropes

Hume, an "empathic" voice-to-voice AI chatbot

Harvard Releases the Caselaw Access Project

Ant: I streamed with Logitech's Mevo Core camera and it nearly beat out my $3,600 Canon

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

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2 hr 14 min

About Intelligent Machines (Audio)

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The 21st Century began with the rise of the Internet and social media. The next decade will mark the rise of the Intelligent Machines. AI will inhabit all our devices from cars and appliances to smart phones and robots.

The Intelligent Machines podcast explores the most exciting revolution humanity has ever seen, filled with promise and peril. More than ever we need to understand what these new devices will bring to our lives and how to make best use of them as the 21st century unfolds.

On this show you'll meet the AI pioneers, inventors, and innovators who are about to disrupt every aspect of modern life. You'll learn what's real and what's hype, and you'll come away with a deep understanding of the intelligent future that awaits us all.

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