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The Weekly Tech Rant
By Jay + KarlTechnology
The Weekly Tech Rant episodes
- Episode 160: It's Time for Samsung's Galaxy Ring Vision, MWC 2024 Highlights, Nvidia's AI Triumph, and the Apple Controversy Unfolds
This week we covered:
- News
- Samsung has big ambitions for the Galaxy Ring
- MWC 2024: all the phones, wearables, and gadgets announced in Barcelona
- Nvidia’s role in the AI wave has made it a $2 trillion company
- As $500m EU fine looms, Apple accuses Spotify of wanting ‘limitless access’ to its tools for free
- Killing the Apple car is depressing and sad
- Meta and Microsoft ask EU to reject Apple’s new app store terms
- Sony are officially working on PC game support for the PS VR2 headset
- Rumours
- A new MacBook Air coming soon: Here’s what we know
As always, we'd love to hear your comments
Find us on Twitter @WeeklyTechRant
57 min - Episode 159: It's Time for iMessage's Legal Clearance, Nvidia's Local AI Leap, and VMware's Shift, Plus Xbox's Bold Updates and Quest 3's Zuckerberg Endorsement
This week we covered:
- News
- iMessage antitrust threat removed, as EU says it’s not a dominant service
- Nvidia’s Chat with RTX is a promising AI chatbot that runs locally on your PC
- Broadcom-owned VMware kills the free version of ESXi virtualization software
- After trying the Vision Pro, Mark Zuckerberg says Quest 3 ‘is the better product, period’
- Xbox Updates
- Microsoft confirms new Xbox hardware will be announced this holiday season
- Microsoft: four Xbox-exclusive games are coming to PS5 and Nintendo Switch
- Microsoft’s Xbox Game Pass service grows to 34 million subscribers
As always, we'd love to hear your comments
Find us on Twitter @WeeklyTechRant
1 min - Episode 158: It's Time for Microsoft's Major Layoffs and Meta's AR Ambitions, Plus Apple's European App Revolution
This week we covered:
- News
- Microsoft lays off 1,900 Activision Blizzard and Xbox employees
- Meta ‘optimistic’ about Vision Pro as it hopes to be the ‘Android’ of the AR/VR world
- Apple… Hell has frozen over
- Apple announces reduced commission structure for apps in Europe
- Apple announces support for third-party iPhone app stores in the EU, coming with iOS 17.4
- Apple says third-party app marketplace creators must have €1,000,000 ‘letter of credit’
- Apple will prompt users to set default browsers and allow third-party web engines on iPhone in the EU
- Apple lets apps feature streaming games, chatbots and other built-in experiences
- iPad users will miss out on third-party app stores, browser engines, and more
As always, we'd love to hear your comments
Find us on Twitter @WeeklyTechRant
46 min - Episode 157: It's Time for Apple's Vision Pro Unveiling and Prescription Lens Revelation, iPhone's High-Altitude Survival, Intel's GPU Innovations, and iPhone 16 Rumours
This week we covered:
- News
- The Apple Vision Pro will launch in February
- Prescription lenses for Vision Pro to cost $149 – far less than predicted
- iPhone from onboard Alaska Airlines incident found; survives 16,000-foot drop
- Intel's next gen Battlemage GPUs are up and running in its labs, and work on its next-next generation Celestial architecture is well underway
- Xreal Air 2 Ultra ‘Vision Pro competitor’ has been announced – at $699
- Apple CEO meets with EU competition chief to talk sideloading iPhone apps
- Rumours
- Report: iPhone 16 to feature more RAM and faster Wi-Fi; upgraded 5G coming to iPhone 16 Pro
As always, we'd love to hear your comments
Find us on Twitter @WeeklyTechRant
50 min - Episode 156: It's Time for CES 2024 Tech Extravaganza and SEC's Social Media Shockwave
This week we covered:
- CES
- The Lenovo ThinkBook Plus Gen 5 is the funkiest gadget mashup at CES 2024
- The Wi-Fi 7 era officially begins with the introduction of certified devices
- Intel reveals its full 14th-gen CPU family at CES, including a powerful 24-core laptop chip
- AMD Unveils Ryzen 8000G Series Processors: Zen 4 APUs For Desktop with Ryzen AI
- AMD releases even more Ryzen 5000 CPUs, keeps its last-gen AM4 platform alive
- TCL came to CES 2024 with a 115-inch MiniLED Quantum Dot TV
- The $2,000 ASUS ZenScreen Fold solves the biggest issue with portable monitors
- Asus unveils its ROG NUC, packing up to a Core 9 Ultra and RTX 4070 graphics into a compact 2.5-liter chassis
- The first Steam Deck competitor with SteamOS is almost here
- News
- The SEC’s X account was hijacked to post a fake approval of Bitcoin ETFs
As always, we'd love to hear your comments
49 min - Episode 155: It's Time for AI Revolution, Legal Battles, and CES 2024 Sneak Peeks
This week we covered:
- News
- Microsoft’s OpenAI-powered Copilot app comes to iPhone and iPad
- Microsoft’s new Copilot key is the first big change to Windows keyboards in 30 years
- The New York Times is suing OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement
- Crypto-crook Sam Bankman-Fried spared a second trial
- Rumours
- CES 2024 Rumours and thoughts!
- CES 2024 preview: The future of PC gaming hardware
- Intel's 6.2GHz uber CPU expected to launch at CES 2024 as new image emerges
- Kuo: 24-megapixel upgraded front camera coming with iPhone 17
- Siri generative AI capabilities to be announced at WWDC – leaker
As always, we'd love to hear your comments
Find us on Twitter @WeeklyTechRant
44 min - Episode 154: It's time for the end of the year show 2023
This week we covered:
Our picks of the best gadgets, games, films and TV of 2023!
As always, we'd love to hear your comments
Find us on Twitter @WeeklyTechRant
36 min - Episode 153: It's time for Epic win, Ad-free Cloud Gaming, No more WindowsVR, Apple Vision Pro in Feb, UniFi cloud issues, M3 iPads, Apple Watch X
This week we covered:
- News
- Epic decision sees jury find Google's Play store is illegal monopoly
- Microsoft exec hints at free ad-supported Xbox Cloud Gaming
- Microsoft is killing its Windows VR platform — announces deprecation of 'Windows Mixed Reality'
- Apple Has Reportedly Been Aiming To Launch Vision Pro In January
- UniFi devices broadcasted private video to other users’ accounts
- Rumours
- Apple may unveil M3 MacBook Airs in March alongside new iPad Pro and iPad Air models
- Under-screen Face ID camera after 2026, suggests supply-chain report
- Apple Watch X - new DESIGN, new MAGNETIC BANDS, Blood Pressure, and more!
As always, we'd love to hear your comments.
50 min - Episode 152: It's time for Nvidia to rake in the cash, MSFT joins OpenAI board, iMessage EU Ruling, Amazon rides on SpaceX, Bye bye WS1 and CB, Yorkshire TeaXMSFT, Plus GTAVI reveal
This week we covered:
- News
- Nvidia sells half a million AI chips and bags $14.5 billion in just three months
- Microsoft joins OpenAI’s board with Sam Altman officially back as CEO
- EU’s iMessage antitrust investigation looks set to rule in Apple’s favor
- A bitter pill: Amazon calls on rival SpaceX to launch Internet satellites
- Broadcom to divest VMware's end-user computing and Carbon Black units
- Games
- Yorkshire Tea is now selling branded Xbox and PS5 controllers for £150 and the designs are something to behold
- Sega just announced new Jet Set Radio, Golden Axe, Crazy Taxi, and Shinobi games
- Rockstar announces next GTA game trailer
As always, we'd love to hear your comments
43 min - Episode 151: It's time for Meta ad-free subs, Ikea new home sensors, CMA says no to Adobe, AWS unveils super AI CPUs, Google Drive loses files, and MSFT app store? Plus new GTA trailer
This week we covered:
- News
- Meta's controversial ad-free subscription is facing scrutiny from EU privacy campaigners
- IKEA's new smart home sensors focus on safety and avoiding water damage
- UK watchdog slams the brakes on Adobe’s $20 billion bid for Figma
- AWS unveils core-packed Graviton4 and beefier Trainium accelerators for AI
- Google Drive users say Google lost their files; Google is investigating
- Microsoft could offer one of the first third-party app stores on iPhones
- Games
- Rockstar announces next GTA game trailer
As always, we'd love to hear your comments
Find us on Twitter @WeeklyTechRant
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About The Weekly Tech Rant
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