Intelligent Machines (Audio)

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August 30, 2023TWiG 731: Leo Saving Time - Pixel 8 event date, Samsung Food, Workspace AI, tech stock buybacks
Google announces Pixel 8 launch event for October 4th

Samsung buys popular meal planning app Whisk and rebrands it as Samsung Food

Google discontinues Pixel Pass subscription bundle after just one year

Chrome OS 116 adding auto correct and local file search

Google Chat adding voice messages and interoperability with Slack and Teams

Elon Musk makes controversial appearance at Valorant esports tournament

Tesla planning LA supercharger location with diner and drive-in movie theater

Facebook lifting ban on political ads in preparation for 2024 election

Senator Chuck Schumer hosting AI forums with tech executives

Meta removes thousands of accounts linked to Chinese influence campaigns

Canada's news ban on Facebook failed to reduce platform's usage

Twitter facing thousands of arbitration cases from fired employees

WordPress offering 100-year domain name registration option

Nvidia posts record profits on demand for AI and gaming chips

Zuckerberg demonstrates typing 100 words per minute in VR using digital keyboard

New Sony Alpha A7C and A7C-R compact mirrorless cameras announced

Donation options to support Hawaii residents impacted by recent hurricanes

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Ant Pruitt

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2 hr 30 min
August 23, 2023TWiG 730: Phanky Qipek - Elon Musk, AI and CAPTCHAs, Threads web app, Spotify podcast business
Heritage Minister says Meta news block endangers lives as Canadians flee wildfires

Canadian Media Orgs Said That Meta Linking To News Was Anticompetitive; Now They Say NOT Linking To News Is Anticompetitive

The Bill C-18 Regulation Fake-Out: Setting the Record Straight on When Bill C-18 Takes Effect and the Regulation Making Process

Elon Musk's Shadow Rule

How is Spotify doing with its podcast business?

Spotify will let podcasters customize their show page to bring in new listeners

YouTube tests a search feature where users hum to identify songs

A Few Unpopular Opinions about AI

New York Times' considers legal action against OpenAI as copyright tensions swirl

AI bots are so good at mimicking the human brain and vision that CAPTCHAs are useless

Create real estate flythroughs with AI

The Facebook settlement claim deadline is Friday. Here's how to apply.

Meta launches web version of flagging Threads app

YouTube is testing a much smaller 'Skip Ads' button

YouTube Music to support subscribing to podcasts via RSS

Google's New Feature Ensures Your Pixel Phone Hasn't Been Hacked. Here's How It Works

Google Photos Rolls Out New Editing Tools For Web

New Gmail 'Verify it's you' prompt appears when attempting 'sensitive actions'

Google TV update brings NFL Sunday Ticket integration, more free TV channels

Gmail for Android and iOS rolling out translate feature

Adobe's Co-Founder John Warnock Dies at 82
Picks:
Mike - Textify

Mike - Unriddle

Mike - TextFX

Jeff - Sorry, But LinkedIn Is Cool Now

Jeff - TikTok meets Dukes mayo

Ant - Vegas Pro 21 Update with Boris FX

Ant - Shout out to Harry Williams: Free Form Living Light

Leo's AI Flythrough

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Ant Pruitt

Guest: Mike Elgan

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3 hr 2 min
August 16, 2023TWiG 729: Waffle Party - Robotaxi victory in California, broadcast TV in trouble, Chrome Topics, Google Hotel
Google's updates to NFL Sunday Ticket, including flexible billing, student plans, live chat, polls, and more

Linear TV viewing falling below 50% for the first time

Streaming gaining more market share, but subscription costs rising

Congressional inquiry into harmful data broker practices

Google using AI to generate key points in web pages

Google considering allowing AI summaries directly in search results

YouTube cracking down on videos promoting ineffective cancer cures

Google Photos getting AI-powered auto-generated titles and organization

Google Slides enabling presenters to draw and annotate while presenting

Changes coming to YouTube Shorts, including blocking links to combat spam

Google's hotel for employees during COVID now offering discounted rates as they push back towards in-office work

California allowing self-driving cars to operate in San Francisco 24/7, leading to traffic jams

Google eliminating many of its private label consumer product brands due to poor sales and distrust

Internet Archive being sued by record labels for digitizing and hosting out of print 78rpm records

Update on researcher Joan Donovan's firing from Harvard and new role at Boston University

Proposal for new rules regulating data brokers under the Fair Credit Reporting Act

Analysis of surveillance capitalism and its effects on society

Discussion on public distrust of medical institutions and ""elite"" doctors

Speculation on Elon Musk's erratic behavior on Twitter including visiting Mark Zuckerberg's house

Review of the movie Oppenheimer and how its portrayal connects to the ethical dilemmas of technology

Several lighter topics including bollards on Twitter, introducing grandparents to TikTok, and AI-generated poetry
Picks:
Stacey - Homey Pro

Jeff - She introduced Grandpa to TikTok

Ant - Better Smartphone Photography with Lisa Carney at Donner Lake

Ant - In-Person or Online: How You Can Support Maui Wildfire Relief

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, Stacey Higginbotham, and Ant Pruitt

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2 hr 46 min
August 09, 2023TWiG 728: Stupid Dove Nests - Z Flip 5, Google antitrust, BlueJeans, Project IDX, Tetris lawsuit
Leo shows off his Galaxy Z Flip 5.

Judge Narrows Scope of Coming Trial Over Google Monopoly Claims.

Musk's X Fined $350,000 in Secret Justice Department Fight Over Trump Records.

Google Changes Name of Ad Product Amid Inventory Quality Scandal.

Norway fines Meta 1M crowns per day over behavioural ads feud.

Tech writer sues Apple, claiming Tetris movie ripped off his 'Cold War thriller' book.

BlueJeans, Verizon's Google Meet competitor, is shutting down.

Zoom AI tools trained using some customer data, updated terms say.

Google says AI systems should be able to mine publishers' work unless companies opt out.

I Would Rather See My Books Get Pirated Than This (Or: Why Goodreads and Amazon Are Becoming Dumpster Fires).

Henrietta Lacks' family reaches settlement over use of immortal 'HeLa cells'.

'Every single' Amazon team is working on generative AI, says CEO.

AI 'red teams' race to find bias and harms in chatbots like ChatGPT.

Google Chrome switching to weekly security patch updates.

Google moves forward with plan to delete inactive accounts.

Google Messages now encrypts RCS conversations by default.

Gmail for Android and iOS adding translate feature.

Google gives Pixel Tablet first discount 1.5 months after launch.

California regulators to decide the future of Cruise and Waymo.

YouTube will stop showing videos on the homepage if your watch history is off.

WeWork Raises 'Substantial Doubt' About Staying in Business.

Netflix is winding down its DVD business after 25 years.

MrBeast Facing $100 Million Lawsuit After Dissing Own Burgers.

Curiosity Rover Finds 'Striking' Evidence of Habitable Seasons on Mars.

The Expanse Online Auction.

Introducing Project IDX, An Experiment to Improve Full-stack, Multiplatform App Development.

$5 billion Google lawsuit over 'incognito mode' tracking moves a step closer to trial.

Rhoda Karpatkin, Who Led Consumer Reports for Decades, Dies at 93.

Rest in peace Bram Moolenaar, author of Vim and hero of many developers.
Picks:
Stacey - SmartThings Energy.

Leo - The Sad Bastard Cookbook by tRaum Books.

Jeff - ESPN Strikes $2 Billion Sports-Betting Deal With Penn Entertainment.

Ant - The Best $9 You Can Spend.

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, Stacey Higginbotham, and Ant Pruitt

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2 hr 41 min
August 02, 2023TWiG 727: Blame It On The Osso Buco - Canada link tax, incandescant light bulb, AI music generation
Shift Happens is about to ship!

Meta starts blocking news in Canada over law on paying publishers.

Hollywood's Pain Is YouTube's Advertising Gain.

The buttons on Zenith's original 'clicker' remote were a mechanical marvel.

Facebook's ad business recovers from Apple's attack; watch out TV.

A view from DC: Adtech is built on a privacy fault line.

Meta Offers to Seek Consent for Highly Personalized Ads in Europe.

Family of Henrietta Lacks settles lawsuit over use of immortal cell line.

Uber Investors Ought to Look at the Big Picture.

An Internet Veteran's Guide to Not Being Scared of Technology.

The incandescent light bulb still isn't dead — but 'normal' ones are now truly banned.

We visited three Worldcoin orb locations since its July launch.

Kenya suspends Sam Altman's eyeball-scanning crypto project.

Point of no return: Australians fight for the right to work from home permanently.

China to Cut Internet Access to Minors.

Twitter Gives Verified Users Option to Hide Checkmark of Shame.

Google delists AI Test Kitchen app on Android and iOS.

Meta's new AI model can create sounds that are technically music.

Movie extras worry they'll be replaced by AI. Hollywood is already doing body scans : NPR.

AI can detect breast cancer as well as radiologists, study finds.

Scientists race to test claimed room-temperature superconductor.

Superconductor Breakthrough Findings Replicated, Twice, in Preliminary Testing.

Johnny Cash sings ""Barbie Girl"" (A.I.) - YouTube.

Google Releases Nearby Share for Windows.

YouTube TV price drops temporarily for new users.

ChromeOS could split out browser updates this month.

4 new Chrome mobile features to quickly find information.

Google's generative search feature now shows related videos and images.

Android will now warn about unknown Bluetooth trackers, like AirTag, traveling with you.

Post Malone Buys Lord Of The Rings Card Worth Over $2 Million.

The Boring Company will dig a 68-mile tunnel network under Las Vegas.

My First Ankle Monitor (fake but fun).
Picks:
Glenn - Removal of airline change fees + airline apps.

Jeff - Facebook surpasses 3 billion monthly active users.

Jeff - Content Moderation's Legalism Problem.

Ant - Order Prints From Joe Akbrud.

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Ant Pruitt

Guest: Glenn Fleishman

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3 hr 7 min
July 26, 2023TWiG 726: Corpora Bailiwick and Jones - Twitter becomes X, Alphabet earnings, NotebookLM, Web Integrity API
Twitter's rebrand to X may actually be happening soon.

Alphabet reports better-than-expected quarterly results driven by growth in cloud.

YouTube Q2 Ad Sales Rise 4.4%, Alphabet Handily Tops Earnings Estimates.

Google's CFO just got a promotion.

Google says 2 billion logged in monthly users are watching YouTube Shorts.

Google Street View is back in Germany after 10+ year halt.

Jeff talks about his trip to Google previewing NotebookLM.

Google software engineer got $605,000 bonus, plus more from massive salary leak.

Google's nightmare "Web Integrity API" wants a DRM gatekeeper for the web.

Top tech companies form group seeking to control AI.

ChatGPT broke the Turing test — the race is on for new ways to assess AI.

Google abandons work to move Assistant smart speakers to Fuchsia.

Google Play services ending support for Android 4.4 KitKat.

Everything Samsung Announced at Summer Galaxy Unpacked 2023.

ChromeOS 115 rolling out: Android App Streaming, PDF signatures.
Picks:
Stacey - Weighted Vest.

Jeff - IMAX emulates PalmPilot software to power Oppenheimer's 70 mm release.

Ant - "Google Stadia" Lives On For Me.

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, Stacey Higginbotham, and Ant Pruitt

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2 hr 28 min
July 19, 2023TWiG 725: But Senator Trellis... - IoT cybersecurity label, defending Lina Khan, LLaMA 2, AI Synthetic data
The White House details its IoT cybersecurity label plan.

Framework Laptop 16 pre-orders are now open.

Pluralistic: Why they're smearing Lina Khan (14 July 2023).

Mark Lucovsky Leaves Google, Calls Company "Unstable".

Meta and Microsoft Introduce the Next Generation of Llama.

Apple is testing an AI chatbot but has no idea what to do with it.

Why computer-made data is being used to train AI models.

G/O media will make more AI-generated stories despite critics.

AI can't even tell you the chronological order of 'Star Wars' movies.

OpenAI strikes $5 million-plus local news deal.

Devindra: AI put me in a 'South Park' episode.

The risks of AI are real but manageable.

This AI Watches Millions Of Cars And Tells Cops If You're Driving Like A Criminal.

Google launches Nearby Share for Windows and partnering to pre-install.

Google confirms related search operator is going away.

Google is testing AI-generated Meet video backgrounds.

Now Google's Bard AI chatbot can talk and respond to visual prompts.

PSA: Google is deleting some old Hangouts photos this week.
Picks:
Stacey - Shards of Earth by Adrian Tchaikovsky

Leo - The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York

Leo - Click for a random web 1.0 web site

Jeff - Vox Media stops using Chorus, proprietary CMS, for its own websites

Ant - Peak Design Camera Cube

Ant - Yellowgold - This Road

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, Stacey Higginbotham, and Ant Pruitt

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2 hr 37 min
July 12, 2023TWiG 724: Thirsty Grindfluencer - Threads launch, Amazon Prime Day, Anthropic's Claude AI, NotebookLM
Threads has 100 million users, and many are on Android.

Threads Adopting ActivityPub Makes Sense, but Won't Be Easy.

Facebook's Threads is so depressing.

Twitter is threatening to sue Meta over Threads.

Amazon Prime Day Pushes US Online Sales Up 6% in First 24 Hours.

Lina Khan Is Taking on the World's Biggest Tech Companies—and Losing.

Amazon sues EU in first US challenge to Digital Services Act.

In – or out? Wimbledon considers replacing line judges with AI.

Anthropic's Claude Is Competing With ChatGPT. Even Its Builders Fear AI.

Nirit Weiss-Blatt's taxonomy of the promoters & marketers of AI panic.

Google's medical AI chatbot is already being tested in hospitals.

Hollywood Studios' WGA Strike Endgame Is To Let Writers Go Broke Before Resuming Talks In Fall.

Sarah Silverman is suing OpenAI and Meta for copyright infringement.

Google Embroiled in Class Action Lawsuit Over AI Products.

The AI Dividend.

Scariest bridge in America via Frank Garufi Jr.

NotebookLM: Google's AI-powered notes app is launching today.

Android 14 Beta 4 lets Pixel devices automatically unlock when you type in the PIN.

Google app rolling out 'Finance Watchlist' stocks widget.

Google News offering free 4-month New York Times trial.

Google Play Changes Policy on Tokenized Digital Assets, Allowing NFTs in Apps and Games.

Jeff & Alan Rusbridger discuss the Gutenberg Parenthesis in London.
Picks:
Stacey - Different ways that Stacey uses sensors.

Jeff - 2023 Digital media trends: Immersed and connected.

Jeff - Scotland fries.

Ant - "Taller Desk Chair"

Ant - Watch FLOSS Weekly with Ant!

Ant - Cheers To Mr. Terrell C. Woods.

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, Stacey Higginbotham, and Ant Pruitt

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2 hr 36 min
July 05, 2023TWiG 723: Contabulating! - The Gutenberg Parenthesis, Instagram Threads, Twitter rate limits, Canada link tax
Jeff's book, The Gutenberg Parenthesis, is out!!

Fireworks Have a New Competitor: Drones.

Rise, Goldfish: Elden Ring's bosses are now being humiliated by a fish somehow hooked-up to the controls.

An update on Canada's Bill C-18 and our Search and News products.

Jeff Elgie, local news owner, says Google will bring the government to the table.

Village Media's C-18 Update.

Google Analytics Violates GDPR, Says Swedish Watchdog.

The FTC wants to put a ban on fake reviews.

Twitter was locked in a chaotic doom loop. Now it's on the verge of collapse.

Update on Twitter's Rate Limits.

The Instagram Threads launch countdown jumped forward and is now targeting 7PM ET.

Google Says It'll Scrape Everything You Post Online for AI.

Talking about a 'schism' is ahistorical.

Why transformative AI is really, really hard to achieve.

Federal Judge Limits Biden Officials' Contacts With Social Media Sites.

Android Auto is adding new features for electric vehicles.

Google Slides opens up Duet AI image generation with Imagen.

Google Messages web app now supports direct reply.
Picks:
Stacey - Roku Home Security Cameras.

Leo - Next-Gen Samsung Foldable Reservations Now Live.

Jeff - ChatGPT lawyer's forced apologies.

Ant - Godox SL-60W CRI 95+ LED Video Light.

Ant - Rokinon 35mm T1.5 High Speed Wide Angle Cine DSX Lens for Canon EF.

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, Stacey Higginbotham, and Ant Pruitt

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2 hr 46 min
June 28, 2023TWiG 722: The Rupert Murdoch of Hot Dogs - SCOTUS and cyberstalkers, AI books on Amazon, Pixel Tablet review
Supreme Court guts protections for cyberstalking victims.

Supreme Court Rejects Lawsuit Accusing Google of Stealing Song Lyrics.

Talking about the new TWiT AI show.

What makes human and what makes conciousness?

AI-Generated Books of Nonsense Are All Over Amazon's Bestseller Lists.

Billionaires and Bureaucrats Mobilize China for AI Race With US.

Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis Says Its Next Algorithm Will Eclipse ChatGPT.

Warner Bros. Signs Deal for AI-Driven Film Management System.

Biden announces $42 billion high-speed internet initiative.

RIP to my Pixel Fold: Dead after four days.

Leo reviews the Pixel Tablet.

TP-Link's New Smart Light Switches Support Matter.

Coway Airmega Air Purifier.

Leo and Lisa's trip to VidCon.

YouTube Music now automatically adds songs to your last playlist.

Google introduces a new shop tab for rentals and purchases on Android TV | TechCrunch.

Google Search rolling out 'Perspectives' filter for more personal and human results.

Google updating the Android logo with 3D robot head, new wordmark.

Google is giving Find My Device a new logo.

Canada Forces Google and Facebook to Pay News Outlets for Linking to Articles.

Plot Twist at Turner Classic Movies Upsets Film Fans.

Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk say they're up for a cage match. Who would win?
Picks:
Jeff - The typical OpenAI engineer makes $925,000

Stacey - Nanoleaf 4D Screen Mirror + Lightstrip Kit

Ant - Sony ZV-E1 firmware update

Ant - BimmerCode

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2 hr 26 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.

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