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TNW 206: Apple M1 Pro & Max...

10.21.2021

Rene Ritchie discusses the major hardware announcements from Apple's Unleashed event including the new AirPods 3 and new MacBook Pros with the M1 Pro and M1 Max chips. Ben Schoon from 9to5Google walks through Google's Pixel 6 event to reveal ...

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10.21.2021 TNW 206: Apple M1 Pro & Max and Pixel 6 - New MacBook Pro, AirPods 3, GeForce Now With RTX 3080, AT&T Uses Stadia Rene Ritchie discusses the major hardware announcements from Apple's Unleashed event including the new AirPods 3 and new MacBook Pros with the M1 Pro and M1 Max chips. Ben Schoon from 9to5Google walks through Google's Pixel 6 event to reveal ...
10.14.2021 TNW 205: The Quest For VR Flow - HTC Vive Flow, Amazon's Copycat Goods, Hardware Preview, AirPods for Health Sam Machkovech from Ars Technica walks through HTC's Vive Flow announcement and tries to determine who this new VR headset is actually for. Steve Stecklow from Reuters discusses his special report on how Amazon created knock-off products and promoted them ...
10.07.2021 TNW 204: Backup Therapy - Windows 11 Review, Twitch's Massive Data Leak, iOS Payments Systems, Backup Woes Dan Ackerman from CNET shares his review of Windows 11. Is it more than a centered Start menu? Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai from Vice walks through the details of the massive Twitch data leak. Mikah details Paddle's plans to be first to ...
09.30.2021 TNW 203: Is Amazon's Astro a Spy? - Instagram Teen Safety Hearing, Solar Roofing Technology, Twitch Hate Raids Facebook testified at a Senate hearing about the safety of Instagram for teens after a bombshell report by the Wall Street Journal. Heather Kelly from the Washington Post details her favorite products from Amazon's cavalcade of announcements this week. Brian ...
09.23.2021 TNW 202: Itty Bitty Flying Microchip - Surface Duo 2, Surface Laptop Studio, Square Outage, Files and Folders John Rogers from Northwestern University talks about the creation of tiny microchips that can fly and sample the environment. Cherlynn Low from Engadget shares her hands-on thoughts of the latest Microsoft Surface hardware announced this week. Mikah talks about what ...
09.16.2021 TNW 201: Apple A15 vs. Google Tensor - California Streaming Event, Pixel 6 Pro Leaks, FTC Rules for Health Data, Laser Cannons Rene Ritchie walks through Apple's California Streaming event and details the major hardware announcements that he's excited about. Mishaal Rahman from XDA Developers talks about his exclusive look at the Google Tensor chip and what Pixel 6 owners can expect. ...
09.09.2021 TNW 200: Facebook Wears Ray-Bans - iPhone Event, Ray-Ban Stories, Apple's Bug Bounty, Germany's Smartphone Law Apple's annual iPhone event is just around the corner so it's time to predict what the company will announce, Facebook and Ray-Ban have announced a new pair of sunglasses for recording video and taking photos, security researchers have a whole ...
09.02.2021 TNW 199: Hands-on With the Z Fold 3 - App Store Concessions, 3D Printing Meat, Digital ID Storage on Smartphones Dan Moren from Six Colors discusses some of the ways that Apple is changing its app store policies in reaction to legislative pressure. Iain Thomson from the Register shares how scientists are learning to 3D print Wagyu beef in the ...
08.26.2021 TNW 198: OnlyFans Has Regrets - Tesla and NHTSA, Beta Testing OpenAI Codex, Galaxy Watch 4 Classic Hands-On Sam Abuelsamid from the Wheel Bearings podcast talks about the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's investigation into the safety of Tesla autopilot systems. Anna Kramer from Protocol discusses the about-face that OnlyFans made after only days ago banning explicit sexual ...
08.19.2021 TNW 197: T-Mobile Hack: 40M Records - IoT is Bad at RNG, Facebook's Most Viewed Content, Horizon Workrooms T-Mobile's recently revealed hack affects incredibly sensitive data of more than 40 million customers. IoT is bad at Random Number Generation according to researchers from Bishop Fox. But what does it mean? Facebook's 'widely viewed content' report is out and ...
08.12.2021 TNW 196: Not Sold on the Z Fold - Apple CSAM, Crypto Tax, Bypassing Facial Recognition, Samsung Unpacked After Apple detailed its plans for protecting against Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM), many questioned the impact such a decision could have. The U.S. is set to pass a new infrastructure bill that features a cryptocurrency tax provision. Researchers have ...
08.05.2021 TNW 195: Amazon Says Get Truck'n - Apple Detects CSAM, Pixel 6 Pro First Hand Impressions, Google+ Class Action Apple announced a new on-device photo hash matching system to aid in proactively identifying child abuse imagery. Cherlynn Low from Engadget shares her first hand experience with Google's new Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro. Paris Martineau from The Information ...
07.29.2021 TNW 194: Metaverse: A Virtual Certainty - Blizzard Walkout, Facebook's Metaverse, Oculus Recall, Teen Loneliness Activision Blizzard employees staged a walkout on Wednesday in the ongoing outcry surrounding the lawsuit by the California Department of Fair Employment and Housing. Facebook has plans to create the Metaverse. Oculus is issuing a voluntary recall of its facial ...
07.22.2021 TNW 193: Akamai's DNS Outage - Alexa Live 2021, Right to Repair and the FTC, Wear OS 3 Carolina Milanesi from Creative Strategies breaks down the biggest announcements from Amazon's Alexa Live 2021 developer conference. Right to Repair got a huge boost by the Federal Trade Commission and Taylor Dixon from iFixit is pleasantly surprised by how specific ...
07.15.2021 TNW 192: Keep Your Xbox Out of My Enterprise - New Emoji, Windows 365 & Cloud PC, Fleets, Netflix Gaming World Emoji Day is here. Jeremy Burge of Emojipedia highlights new emojis approved by Unicode. Microsoft announces Windows 11 for the cloud with Windows 365. Mary Jo Foley of All About Microsoft details. Twitter Fleets is shutting down. So soon? ...
07.08.2021 TNW 191: How To Fool Facial Recognition - TikTok Resumes, Google Play Store Under Fire, Assassin's Creed Online Parmy Olson from Wall Street Journal details how fraudsters are fooling modern facial recognition systems. Abrar Al-Heeti from CNET shows off how TikTokers are getting hired by submitting video resumes on the platform. Google is sued by 36 states for ...
07.01.2021 TNW 190: Turning Windows Up to 11 - Facebook Antitrust, Windows 11 In Preview, Instagram Video, Florida SB 7072 After a federal judge dismissed two antitrust cases against Facebook, many are wondering what happens next. Windows 11 is available to developers, so here's a first look. Instagram says it's going to focus primarily on video sharing. A judge has ...
06.24.2021 TNW 189: The Lowdown on Windows 11 - App Store & Antitrust, Apple Private Relay, Peloton's Treadmill, Windows 11 Apple has published a report on the App Store, its "trusted ecosystem" of apps in response to several antitrust cases and concerns. iOS 15 will introduce iCloud Private Relay and Universal Control. Peloton is reeling in the backlash its received ...
06.17.2021 TNW 188: E3: Gilmore Girls Meets Paperboy - Oculus Quest Gets Ads, Amazon Labor Issues, Consumers as Beta Testers Jason details the ways that Facebook's Oculus hardware will begin to show ads and why that's particularly intrusive. Sam Machkovech from Ars Technica shares his list of highlights from the E3 games conference. Laura Hautala from CNET talks about how ...
06.10.2021 TNW 187: The Everyday Impact of Ransomware - FBI's Anom Phone Service, WWDC Tidbits, New Pixel Buds, Ransomware Ransomware attacks are affecting more than just big, faceless corporations. They've closed schools, delayed chemotherapy appointments, and caused panic. Jason Howell goes hands on with Google's new Pixel Buds A Series. Mikah Sargent shares some of the things you may ...
06.03.2021 TNW 186: What's Up With HarmonyOS? - Twitter Blue, WWDC Preview, Retro Gaming With CRT Monitors Dan Moren from Six Colors breaks down what he expects to see at Apple's upcoming WWDC developer conference. Huawei finally launched their Android replacement, HarmonyOS, and Ben Schoon from 9to5Google has the details. Aidan Moher talks about his Wired article ...
05.27.2021 TNW 185: An Accessible Return to Work - Office Accessibility, Galaxy Upcycling, Facebook Misinfo, WFH Insights As folks around the world plan their return to the office, advocates are pushing for a sustained — and improved — focus on accessibility. Samsung's Galaxy Upcycling program seemed promising, but the company kind of ruined what was once a ...
05.20.2021 TNW 184: What's Behind the Crypto Crash? - M1 iMac, iPad Pro, Apple TV 4K, Accessibility, Google IO Ups and Downs Jeff John Roberts from Decrypt talks about the many forces that led to the major crypto market sell-off. Rene Ritchie has full reviews of the M1 iMac, iPad Pro, Apple TV 4K on his YouTube channel and shares his thoughts ...
05.13.2021 TNW 183: Biden on the Pipeline - Instagram Youths, Connectivity Standards Alliance, VR in 2021 Roger Cheng from CNET details what is known about the ransomware attack on the Colonial Pipeline and what it might mean for the security of US infrastructure going forward. Facebook is planning an Instagram for kids product and Kurt Wagner ...
05.06.2021 TNW 182: Signal's Facebook Ad Stunt - Epic Games vs. Apple, Signal Ads on Facebook, Google 2FA, Amazon Drivers The Epic Games and Apple trial is underway and it's bringing loads of new information to the surface. Messaging service Signal says it tried to run some ads on Facebook, which the company then blocked. Google is enabling two-factor authentication ...
04.29.2021 TNW 181: Deepfaking Your Geography - School Content Blockers, Planned Obsolescence in Tech, Clubhousification Damon Beres talks about his op-ed in the New York Times about the cognitive dissonance of Apple's hardware event compared to the simultaneous occurrence of Earth Week. Todd Feathers from VICE discusses how content blockers in schools are often hit ...
04.22.2021 TNW 180: AirTag: A Boring Product? - Apple's April Event, VR Physical Therapy, FLoC, Teacher-Approved Apps Apple announced a slew of new products at its April event. Physical therapists are testing VR programs for their practices. The privacy implications of Google's FLoC. Google and the FTC are at odds over "Teacher Approved" apps. First, Ian Sherr ...
04.15.2021 TNW 179: Can the FCC End Robocalls? - Apple Springtime Event, Instagram for Kids, Spotify Car Thing, Twitter AI Mark Zuckerberg isn't convinced that an Instagram for kids app is actually a bad idea after all. Spotify is offering a free gadget called Car Thing and it is ideal for iOS users without CarPlay. Dan Moren from Six Colors ...
04.08.2021 TNW 178: Facebook Hack: Old News? Not Really - Dark Patterns Explained, Facebook's Breach, AR Beauty Filters Facebook says its data breach everyone's talking about is old news, but experts disagree. How "dark patterns" online can trick people into spending more money. The impact of AR beauty filters on young women and girls. First, Kari Paul stops ...
04.01.2021 TNW 177: A Whole Lotta Hololens - Tesla and Bitcoin, NFTs and Artists, Nest Hub 2 Review, Godzilla vs Kong Tesla and Bitcoin, NFTs and artists, Nest Hub 2 review, Godzilla vs Kong. Sam Abuelsamid from Guidehouse Insights talks about Tesla's investments into Bitcoin and why it might not be such a great idea to buy a car with crypto. ...
03.25.2021 TNW 176: Slide Into My Slack DMs - OnePlus 9 Pro Review, Amazon Drivers Peeing in Cups, LGs Phone Business OnePlus 9 Pro review, Amazon drivers peeing in cups, LGs phone business. Mishaal Rahman from XDA Developers dives into his time spent with the new OnePlus 9 Pro and whether the Hasselblad camera partnership pays dividends in photo quality. Kate ...
03.18.2021 TNW 175: A Troubling SMS Hack - YouTube Shorts, Amazon's "Gamified" Warehouse Work, SMS Forwarding Attack YouTube Shorts, Amazon's "Gamified" Warehouse Work, SMS Forwarding Attack. YouTube takes on TikTok with YouTube Shorts. Amazon expands its program to "gamify" warehouse work. A hacker exploits a gaping flaw in SMS messaging. First, YouTuber Rene Ritchie stops in to ...
03.11.2021 TNW 174: Facebook's Paradoxical AI - Amazon Vesta Home Robot, Verkada Surveillance Hack, Instagram Lite in India Amazon Vesta home robot, Verkada surveillance hack, Instagram Lite in India. How big of a priority is Amazon's home robot, the Vesta? Eugene Kim from Business Insider has the inside scoop. Surveillance camera company Verkada was hacked giving unprecedented access ...
03.04.2021 TNW 173: An NFT Is What Now? - Arizona Law and App Stores, Square Invests in Tidal, TALON, Piano AI Arizona Law and App Stores, Square Invests in Tidal, TALON, Piano AI. Ian Sherr from CNET breaks down the amendment to an Arizona bill that might influence the battle between Epic Games, Google, and Apple. Lance Ulanoff, writing for Medium, ...
02.25.2021 TNW 172: Net Neutrality Returns! - Facebook and Australia, Android vs iOS Updates, Twitter's Super Follow Facebook and Australia, Android vs iOS updates, Twitter's Super Follow. Alex Kantrowitz from Big Technology Podcast talks about how Facebook and Australia have made amends in the News Feed dust-up. Karl Bode wrote for VICE about the changes that are ...
02.18.2021 TNW 171: Supermicro Returns! - Supply Chain Attacks, Epic Games vs. Apple, Pandemic Screen Time Bloomberg doubles down on its Supermicro supply chain attack story, Epic Games files an antitrust complaint against Apple in the EU, and all this pandemic screen time is affecting us. First, computer security technologist Bruce Schneier joins Tech News Weekly ...
02.11.2021 TNW 170: PS5 Scalpers Are People Too - Florida Water Hackers, "I'm Not a Cat" Filter, Slack for Android Security Florida water hackers, "I'm not a cat" filter, Slack for Android security. A water treatment plant in Florida was hacked and was nearly poisoned as a result. Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai from VICE has the details. Janhoi McGregor from Forbes talked to ...
02.04.2021 TNW 169: So Who Is Andy Jassy? - Amazon CEO Andy Jassy, Goldeneye 007, Apple App Privacy Labels Amazon's Jeff Bezos announced he's stepping away from the CEO role, but who's the guy replacing him? (It's Andy Jassy.) There may be a remake of Goldeneye 007 on the horizon! Apple's new App Privacy labels may have an accuracy ...
01.28.2021 TNW 168: What's Up With Gamestop? - Nextdoor and Local Politics, Apple's Record Breaking Quarter, Galaxy S21+ Nextdoor and local politics, Apple's record-breaking quarter, Galaxy S21+. Will Oremus from OneZero shares his story about how Nextdoor directly impacted a local school referendum and how the service is in many ways impacting local journalism. Apple had a record-breaking ...
01.21.2021 TNW 167: Crypto-Gardening - Apple VR, Galaxy S21 Ultra, Crypto-Mining & Gardening Apple VR, Galaxy S21 Ultra, crypto-mining & gardening. First, Rene Ritchie stops in to discuss the latest Apple rumor. The company is reportedly working on a virtual reality headset, but this may be but a first step in a larger, ...
01.14.2021 TNW 166: Visa Won't Wear Plaid - Trump's Social Media Options, CES 2021 Recap, Apple's Racial Justice Initiative Trump's social media options, CES 2021 recap, Apple's racial justice initiative. Visa won't be buying plaid after all. Will Trump snap back at social media now or is it too late? CES 2021 is done. Was it as effective in ...
01.07.2021 TNW 165: Facebook Bans Trump - Social Networks Respond to Trump, XRVision, and "OK Google" the Movie Twitter, YouTube, and Facebook take action to limit President Donald Trump's access to his social media accounts and Rebecca Black stars in a dark comedy about a rogue digital assistant. Dave Gershgorn of Medium's OneZero publication stops by to talk ...
12.24.2020 TNW 164: The Best Interviews of 2020 - A Look Back at Some of the Host's Favorite Interviews of the Year Mikah Sargent and Jason Howell recount a few of their favorite interviews from throughout the crazy year that was 2020. Zoe Shiffer from The Verge talks about how Zoom was being used for some joy as a host of virtual ...
12.17.2020 TNW 163: SolarWinds: What Is a Supply Chain Attack? - SolarWinds Hack, Apple Fitness+, Cash in Japan SolarWinds hack, Apple Fitness+, cash in Japan. Bruce Schneier breaks down how the SolarWinds hack was executed and talks about what it takes to pull off a supply chain attack. Apple released its new Fitness+ service and Michael Potuck from ...
12.10.2020 TNW 162: Facebook Faces Charges - Facebook's Antitrust Charges, Rural Digital Opportunity Fund, Uber & Aurora Facebook faces a number of antitrust charges from the FTC and state attorneys general, so what's next for the company? Many companies — including SpaceX — are vying for the FCC's Rural Digital Opportunity Fund, but will it help the ...
12.03.2020 TNW 161: Slack, May the Salesforce Be with You - The Gift of Surveillance, TikTok's Testing 3-Minute Videos The gift of surveillance, TikTok's testing 3-minute videos Alex Wilhelm from Techcrunch discussed Salesforce's acquisition of Slack and what kind of competition they face from Microsoft Teams. Thomas Smith from Debugger warns gift-givers of buying their loved ones tech gifts ...
11.19.2020 TNW 160: Fleets Are the Mullet of Twitter - Twitter's New Fleets, Loon's Financial Trouble, macOS Woes Apple's macOS saw some slowdowns earlier this week — what's that all about? Apple also announced plans to reduce its App Store commission from 30% to 15% for small businesses. Loon, the Alphabet company that aims to bring internet to ...
11.12.2020 TNW 159: M1 Chips, Series Xs, PS5s: Oh My! - Apple's Next-Gen Macs, Reviews of All Next-Gen Game Systems! Apple's next-gen Macs, reviews of all next-gen game systems! Rene Ritchie details how Apple's M1 Chip makes the new crop of MacBook Pros, Macbook Airs, and Mac Minis so different and special. Elise Favis from the Washington Post's Launcher shares ...
11.05.2020 TNW 158: How the Election Shapes Uber & Lyft - Prop 22, Tech Stocks, Amazon's Rural Delivery Plans The stock market is reacting to the election and we take a closer look at tech stocks. California's Proposition 22 has passed; what does that mean for app-based drivers and the rest of the country? Amazon may be planning to ...
10.29.2020 TNW 157: Section 230 in the Zoom-light - Biden and Big Tech, the Insect Impact Effect on Autonomous Vehicles Biden and big tech, the insect impact effect on autonomous vehicles. Emily Birnbaum from Protocol highlights the questions that were and were not answered during the Section 230 Senate hearing in Washington DC. Alex Kantrowitz from the Big Technology podcast ...

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