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Tech News Weekly hosted by Jason Howell and Mikah Sargent brings you interviews from tech journalists who make or break the top stories of the week. Jason and Mikah give you more context and perspective, with an in-depth look at the fast-paced world of technology and how it is changing our lives.

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06.08.2023

Kerry Flynn of Axios joins the show to talk with Jason Howell about Spotify combining its two divisions, Parcast and Gimlet, into one operation called Spotify Studios and what this means for Spotify and podcasting in general. Jason Snell got ...

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06.08.2023 TNW 289: What It's Like Wearing the Vision Pro - Spotify, Dyson Zone, Adobe Firefly Kerry Flynn of Axios joins the show to talk with Jason Howell about Spotify combining its two divisions, Parcast and Gimlet, into one operation called Spotify Studios and what this means for Spotify and podcasting in general. Jason Snell got ...
06.01.2023 TNW 288: Meta Announces Quest 3 - Right to Repair, WWDC 2023, Reddit API Kyle Wiens of iFixit joins the show to talk about where the right-to-repair in the United States is, as Minnesota & California became the most recent states to pass their own right-to-repair laws. Dan Moren of SixColors stops by to ...
05.25.2023 TNW 287: Surgeon General Warns of Social Media - Build 2023, Adobe Firefly, AI in Health Daniel Rubino of Windows Central comes back to the show to discuss the biggest announcements from this year's Microsoft Build 2023 event. Stephen Shankland of CNET talks about his experience using Adobe's new generative AI tool, Firefly, and how it ...
05.18.2023 TNW 286: Tick Tock for TikTok in Montana - Telly TV's, Google, Apple's AR/VR Headset Montana has become the first state to ban TikTok as of Wednesday officially. Caroline Mimbs Nyce of The Atlantic stops by the show to discuss what happens next. How does a free TV sound? Mikah talks about the company Telly, ...
05.11.2023 TNW 285: Generative AI Comes to Google Search - Waymo Hands-On, Google IO, Peridot Barry Schwartz of Search Engine Land stops by the show to talk with Jason about Google's announcement of AI integrating with its search engine. Abrar Al-Heeti of CNET joins Mikah to discuss her experience riding in one of the Waymo ...
05.04.2023 TNW 284: Passkey Mania - AI Drake & The Weeknd, Wikipedia, Virtual Kidnapping Have you heard of the new hit song by Drake & The Weeknd, Heart on My Sleeve? Well if you did, it wasn't actually sung by Drake & The Weeknd. Mia Soto from The Verge explains how that song was ...
04.27.2023 TNW 283: Colorado's John Deere Decision - Protecting Kids on Social Media Act, Amazon Halo, Apple AR/VR Headset A new bill was unveiled Wednesday to set a minimum age in the US for social media usage. Shoshana Weissmann of the R Street Institute joins the show to share her thoughts on this bill. Mikah talks about Amazon shutting ...
04.20.2023 TNW 282: Adieu to Netflix DVDs - Bluesky, Apple AR Headset, Loadstar Bluesky is a Twitter-like service that Jack Dorsey backs. Jay Peters of the Verge has spent some time with the service and shares his thoughts about Bluesky with Mikah and Jason. Bloomberg's Mark Gurman has the scoop on Apple's rumored ...
04.13.2023 TNW 281: Did Elon Musk Dissolve Twitter? - HBO's 'Max', Substack Notes, ChatGPT Water Nitisha Pahwa of Slate stops by the show to talk about Twitter as a company is no more and instead, Twitter Inc. has been merged into a new entity called X Corp. Mikah talks about HBO rebranding its online streaming ...
04.06.2023 TNW 280: Emoji Dialect - AI Headlines, The Poop Emoji, Tesla Workers Ant Pruitt talks with Dr. Nirit Weiss-Blatt about how AI is dominating news headlines and finding the middle ground between the excitement of what AI can do and the doomsay of AI. Mikah Sargent shares two stories this week. The ...
03.30.2023 TNW 279: The Twitter Advertiser Exodus - Adobe Firefly, Apple Pay Later, WiFi Protocol Flaw Ant Pruitt talks about the beta launch of Firefly, Adobe's AI generative platform, and the idea of training AI ethically and correctly. Dan Moren of Six Colors chats with Mikah Sargent about Apple's Pay Later program and the announcement of ...
03.23.2023 TNW 278: Loop & Bing Chat: Microsoft's Updates - TikTok Design, Beethoven's DNA, AI Myths Callum Hood from the Center for Countering Digital Hate joins the show to talk about TikTok and the concerns about the platform's algorithm in recommending harmful content to teens. Daniel Rubino of Windows Central stops by to talk about Microsoft ...
03.16.2023 TNW 277: GPT-3 vs. GPT-4: What's New? - SVB, TikTok US Ban, Microsoft Copilot Friend of the network, Alex Wilhelm of TechCrunch, stops by to talk about the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank and what has happened since then. J.D. Capelouto of Semafor talks about OpenAI announcing Chat GPT-4 and all the impressive things ...
03.09.2023 TNW 276: Spotify App Update: Noise, Not Music - Lightship EV RV, LinkedIn, Apple Music Classical Emily Dreibelbis of PCMag joins the show to talk about a company called Lightship and its EV RV that could entice Jason to get one for himself. Harry McCracken of Fast Company stops by the show to talk about LinkedIn ...
03.02.2023 TNW 275: The Clock Is Ticking on TikTok - Flipboard, OpenAI API, Bluesky Mike McCue, Co-Founder and CEO of Flipboard, joins the show to share how Flipboard is getting into the Fediverse by adding support for Mastodon in its app. Amanda Silberling of TechCrunch comes on to talk about a proposed bill called ...
02.23.2023 TNW 274: DJ Spotify In The House! - EV Motorcycles, Glucose Apple Watch, AI Writing Tim Stevens comes on the show to talk about his experience with electric motorcycles and possibly convinces Jason to pick up an electric motorcycle himself. Mark Gurman of Bloomberg talks to Mikah about Apple's significant progress in adding blood glucose ...
02.16.2023 TNW 273: Kia Responds to TikTok's 'Kia Challenge' - AI Matchmaking, Bing ChatGPT, Tile Trackers Michael Kaye from OkCupid comes onto the show to talk about the company using artificial intelligence to help those find the love of their life through OkCupid's matchmaking service. Sam Abuelsamid talks about the TikTok challenge, dubbed 'The Kia Challenge,' ...
02.09.2023 TNW 272: Netflix Password Crackdown Has Begun - AI Replica Voices, Bing, Android 14 Preview 1 Joseph Cox of Vice stops by to talk about his reporting of AI voices and the future of it when a computer can replicate another person's voice, especially without their permission. Daniel Rubino from Windows Central talks about Microsoft unveiling ...
02.02.2023 TNW 271: Eufy's Security Camera Kerfuffle - Samsung S23 Ultra, Chat GPT & Bing, AI Boom Mr Mobile himself, Michael Fisher, joins Jason and Mikah to talk about the Galaxy event held this week and the new S23 lineup that Samsung announced. Reed Albergotti of Semafor stops by to talk about the next iteration of ChatGPT, ...
01.26.2023 TNW 270: Live Nation Answers to Senate & Swifties - Google, AI-Generated 80's Horror Film, DoNotPay Mishaal Rahman joins the show to talk about some of the changes Google is making to its Android business in India after some antitrust directives in the country. Amanda Silberling from TechCrunch shares details from the Senate hearing with Ticketmaster ...
01.19.2023 TNW 269: Twitter's Unpopular API Changes - M2 Mac Minis, OpenAI, Steam Deck Craig Hockenberry of The Iconfactory and developer of the first Twitter app, Twitterrific, talks to Mikah Sargent about the sudden change to Twitter's API as numerous 3rd party Twitter apps no longer work. Dan Moren of Sixcolors stops by to ...
01.12.2023 TNW 268: Can ChatGPT Make Microsoft a Profit? - Tesla in Review, Experimental ChatGPT, AI Articles Reed Albergotti from Semafor joins the show to chat about the potential deal between Microsoft and the owner of ChatGPT, where Microsoft would invest $10 billion into the ChatGPT service. Patrick George of The Verge talks about the state of ...
01.05.2023 TNW 267: Apple Books Narrated By AI - Apple's Headset, Qi2 Wireless Charging, GPTZero Jason Howell chats with Wayne Ma of The Information as he gives insight into the technology powering Apple's still-in-development mixed-reality headset. Sean Hollister of The Verge talks about the new Qi2 wireless charging standard and what this means for non-Apple ...
12.29.2022 TNW 266: Tech News Weekly's Best Interviews of 2022 - A Look Back At Some of Mikah and Jason's Favorite Interviews of 2022 Mark Harris shares the tale of folks with retinal implants who received notice that their bionic eyes are nearing obsolescence. Open AI researchers Prafulla Dhariwal and Aditya Ramesh talk about DALL•E 2. Denise Howell talks about the tech and legal ...
12.22.2022 TNW 265: Mastodon, Twitter, Digital Growth & Decline - Netflix Ads, Mastodon, Facial Recognition Sarah Krouse from The Wall Street Journal talks about how Netflix's offering of an ad-supported tier is going for the company in their hopes of staying profitable. David Carr of Similiarweb discusses some of the most prominent digital growth and ...
12.15.2022 TNW 264: Google Activates Matter For the Smart Home - DoNotPay, Apple's Walled Garden, Instagram Joshua Browder of DoNotPay.com has the world's first AI lawyer that can allow you to negotiate your bills. He stops by to talk about it. Mark Spoonauer of Tom's Guide joins the show to talk about Apple's rumored decision to ...
12.08.2022 TNW 263: Swifties Sue Ticketmaster - Apple Security, OpenAI, AI Portraits Mark Gurman from Bloomberg joins the show to talk about Apple adding new user security options to further protect one's data within Apple's ecosystem. Mikah Sargent has an interesting conversation with someone special about ChatGPT & OpenAI. Jason Howell talks ...
12.01.2022 TNW 262: LastPass, Hive, and Eufy's Security Woes - LastPass Security, SFPD Robots, Anker's Eufy Cameras Steve Gibson of Security Now joins the show to talk about LastPass's recent security incident that stems from some information gathered from a previous security breach that LastPass suffered earlier this year. Matthew Guariglia from the Electronic Frontier Foundation stops ...
11.17.2022 TNW 261: ID.me Scrutinized by House Committees - Evernote buyout, Snapdragon AR2 Gen 1, iPhone Emergency SOS Dan Moren from Six Colors walks through the details of Apple's rollout of Emergency SOS features for iPhone 14 and iPhone 14 Pro. Jason details Qualcomm's next-gen augmented reality chip, the Snapdragon AR2 Gen 1. Mikah shows the heat ID.me ...
11.10.2022 TNW 260: Big Tech Layoffs - Meta Layoffs, Mastodon, Twitter Verification Meta announced a huge round of layoffs in its company. Gerrit De Vynck from The Washington Post joins the show to discuss some of the layoffs' details. Stephen Shankland from CNET stops by to talk about Mastodon, what he liked ...
11.03.2022 TNW 259: The Mastodon in the Room - Twitter, VR in Your Car, PS VR2 Elon Musk is dominating the news space with his acquisition of Twitter last week. Russell Brandom from The Verge joins the show to discuss what Elon has done with the company since then. Janko Roettgers from Protocol comes back to ...
10.27.2022 TNW 258: Why Ticketmaster's So Pricey - TikTok, YouTube, Rising Streaming Costs Kari Paul from The Guardian joins the show to talk about The Guardian's guide on TikTok and the influence TikTok can have on aspects of people's lives, including the upcoming 2022 elections. Jason Koebler of Vice talks about Ticketmaster and ...
10.20.2022 TNW 257: Netflix Reinvents Itself - New iPads, DiscMaster, Pixel Watch Teardown Jason Howell talks with Zac Hall of 9to5Mac about the new iPads announced this week, what is making people excited about the new base model iPads, and why some people are a bit confused and disappointed about the new iPad ...
10.13.2022 TNW 256: Inside the Meta Quest Pro - 2022 Holidays, CNN NFTs, Project Starline First, Jason Howell talks about the upcoming Holiday Season & what Adobe has forecasted for projected sales during this online shopping season. Next, Ant Pruitt is covering Mikah Sargent in this episode. Ant talks with Richard Lawler of The Verge ...
10.06.2022 TNW 255: Google Reveals The Pixel 7, Pro, Watch - Matter, AI Bill of Rights, Kindle Scribe Mikah Sargent talks about the announcements from Google's Pixel 7 event and what's to come from the company. Stacey Higginbotham joins the show to talk about the release of Matter, the smart home interoperability protocol, and what this means for ...
09.29.2022 TNW 254: RIP Google Stadia - AI Art, Dreamforce, Fast Company Hack Chloe Xiang from Vice joins the show to talk about the emergence of AI images, the tools behind them, and how possibly images of yourself are being used without your consent. Aisha Counts of Protocol stops by to talk about ...
09.22.2022 TNW 253: iPhone 14 Teardown - YouTube, Pico Headset, DeepMind Shahram Mokhtari from iFixit joins the show to talk with Jason about the iPhone 14, 14 Pro, 14 Max, and iFixit's teardown of the device. Becca Ricks from the Mozilla Foundation joins the show to talk with Mikah about the ...
09.15.2022 TNW 252: Ethereum Merged - Inflation Gadgets, Leg Lengthening, TikTok Now David Yaffe-Bellany from The New York Times joins the show to talk about Ethereum's upgrade to its architecture, called The Merge, and how this could be a big deal in Crypto. Janko Roettgers from Protocol joins the show to talk ...
09.08.2022 TNW 251: What We Saw at Apple's "Far Out." iPhone Event - Apple Event, Google Event, GPT-3 Mikah Sargent talks to Dan More of SixColors about Apple's "Far Out" event and the products announced at the event, such as the new Apple Watches, AirPods Pro, and the iPhone 14 lineup. Jason Howell jumps in quickly to talk ...
09.01.2022 TNW 250: Cable vs. 5G: Internet Showdown - "Instagram Face", AI Artwork, AI Test Kitchen Jared Newman from Fast Company talks about some big changes coming to traditional cable internet companies and why 5G is causing these changes. Tate Ryan-Mosley of MIT Technology Review discusses beauty filters and the bans these filters are facing online. ...
08.25.2022 TNW 249: Pinterest Civil Rights Investigation in California - iPad in Space, YouTube Chip, Plex Data Breach Zac Hall, 9to5Mac writer and space enthusiast, talks about NASA launching a rocket to space soon that'll have important cargo, including an... iPad? Issie Lapowsky of Protocol discusses how Pinterest is facing a civil rights investigation in the state of ...
08.18.2022 TNW 248: What Will Apple Announce in September? - OTC Hearing Aids, U.S. Streaming, iOS VPN's Jaipreet Virdi, Assistant Professor at the University of Delaware, joins the show to talk about the unintended consequences of over-the-counter hearing aids being more easily available starting in October. Mark Gurman of Bloomberg spills the beans about when Apple's next ...
08.11.2022 TNW 247: Hands-On With Z Flip 4 and Z Fold 4 - BeReal, AmazonOne, Facebook Florence Ion of Gizmodo and All About Android joins the show to talk and show off some of what was announced at Samsung's August Galaxy Unpacked event. Lizzy Lawrence of Protocol talks about the BeReal photo-sharing app, the future of ...
08.04.2022 TNW 246: AirPods Pro vs Pixel Buds Pro - Tech Lifespan, Zelda TASBot, CHIPS Act Geoffrey Fowler from The Washington Post joins the show to talk about the lifespan of electronic devices and what can be done to increase their lifespan. Allan Cecil, aka DwangoAC, talks about TASBot and the unique Ocarina of Time speedrun ...
07.28.2022 TNW 245: Net Neutrality's Next Chance - Facebook, Ring & Nest, Data & Automobile's Farhad Manjoo from The New York Times joins the show to talk about being wrong about Facebook and his regrets about the company. Ry Crist of CNET talks about Amazon & Google sharing video footage from its Ring & Nest ...
07.21.2022 TNW 244: Chiplets: The Future of Computing - Internet Health Report, OpenAI, One Medical Solana Larsen, editor of the 2022 Internet Health Report published by the Mozilla Foundation, joins the show to talk about the report and the direction of artificial intelligence. Max Cherny from Protocol stops by to talk about chiplets, what they ...
07.14.2022 TNW 243: The Uber Files - MacBook Air M2 Review, Netflix & Microsoft, TikTok Dan Ackerman from CNET has the MacBook Air M2 in hand and talks about his review of the device. Richard Lawler from The Verge discusses how Netflix is partnering with Microsoft and its ad platform to start an ad-supported streaming ...
07.07.2022 TNW 242: Apple's New "Lockdown Mode" - Digital Markets Act, TikTok Challenge, Apple Watch Ben Brody of Protocol joins the show to talk about Digital Markets Act and Digital Services Act in Europe and what that means for Big Tech. Mikah talks about a story of two girls dying after trying a viral TikTok ...
06.30.2022 TNW 241: Privacy in a Post-Roe World - Nothing Phone 1, Data & Privacy, Nanometre Chips Daniel Bader from Android Police joins the show to talk about the Nothing Phone 1, the hype behind the device, and how the phone seeks to stand out amongst its competitors. Next, Denise Howell stops by to talk about the ...
06.23.2022 TNW 240: Meta Prototypes Our VR Future - 13" M2 MacBook Pro, Instagram Age Verification, Amazon Proteus Devindra Hardawar from Engadget joins the show to talk about his review of the 13-inch M2 MacBook Pro. Harry McCracken from Fast Company shares his thoughts about the prototype hardware showcased from Meta's Reality Labs and what the future of ...

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