TNW 290: Apollo's Christian Selig Talks Reddit - Google Ad's, Gaming on Mac, AI Beatles Song

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🗓️ 15 June 2023

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

Christian Selig, the developer of the Reddit app Apollo, joins the show to talk about Reddit's changes to its API and whether Reddit will make any changes or reverse its API update.
The European Commission issued a formal antitrust complaint against Google and its ad business. Nicola Agius of Search Engine Land discusses what this could mean for Google and other ad businesses.
Mikah talks about how games like Diablo 4 may be able to run entirely on Apple computers.
Finally, Jason shares how Sir Paul McCartney is releasing a "final" Beatles song using Artificial Intelligence.

Hosts: Mikah Sargent and Jason Howell

Guests: Christian Selig and Nicola Agius

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0:00.0	Coming up on Tech News Weekly, Jason Howell and I are back in the studio.
0:04.3	We have a really exciting episode planned because we get to talk to Apollo's developer.
0:11.2	Yes, Apollo, the Reddit client on iOS, Christian Sealig joins us to talk about where
0:18.4	Reddit is right now, the Reddit blackout, and why Apollo may be closing down on June 30th.
0:26.5	Then we talk to Nicola Aegis of Search Engine Land about Google's ad business and the challenges
0:34.6	coming out of the EU. Will there be a future for Google ads in the EU? I don't know.
0:41.2	And of course, our stories of the week, Christina Warren had a great piece over on Inverse
0:47.2	about Apple getting into gaming in a new way. And we talk about Sir Paul McCartney's choice.
0:56.8	To use AI to release a new Beatles track, the Beatles nerd, Jason Howell has all of that,
1:04.0	of course, an AI nerd as well, to talk about. So stay tuned for this episode of Tech News Weekly.
1:11.4	Podcasts you love. From people you trust. This is planned.
1:20.4	This is Tech News Weekly, episode 290, recorded Thursday, June 15th, 2023.
1:25.9	This episode of Tech News Weekly is brought to you by the AWS Insiders Podcast.
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2:00.3	a more with code TNW. Hello and welcome to Tech News Weekly. The show we're every week we talk to
2:07.0	and about the people making and breaking the tech news. We are back in the studio this week.
2:11.1	I watch you. I am one of your hosts, Micah Sargent. And I'm the other one, Jason Howell.
2:16.5	It's good to see you Micah in the flesh in person.
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