TNW 293: Can Meta's Thread Replace Twitter? - Apple Gaming, AI Voices, Google Reader
Tech News Weekly (Audio)
Leo Laporte
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🗓️ 6 July 2023
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
- Meta has officially launched its answer to Twitter called Threads. Richard Lawler from The Verge talks about what Threads is about.
- Mikah Sargent talked about Apple's gaming porting tool for macOS, discovered by Christina Warren a couple of episodes ago, that aims to bring real gaming to Macs. She joins the show to talk about the update the tool has received recently.
- Jason Howell talks about how voice actors are losing their voices to AI through services like Revoicer, even when these voice actors did not agree to permit these companies to use their voices.
- Finally, Mikah talks about "who" killed Google Reader.
Hosts: Jason Howell and Mikah Sargent
Guests: Richard Lawler and Christina Warren
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on Tech News Weekly, it's me, Jason Howe, starting off with an interview with Richard Lawler from The Verge. |
| 0:05.5 | We talk all about threads that just launched. |
| 0:08.3 | And I'm Micah Sargent, and I bring on Christina Warren of GitHub to talk about what's new in the news regarding Apple's Game-Porting Toolkit. |
| 0:17.6 | And then my story of the week, you know, it's all about AI for me these days, voice actors, and how they're losing their voices to artificial intelligence. |
| 0:27.0 | Oh, no, and last but not least, it is who killed Google Reader, the history of Google Reader and our |
| 0:34.0 | reminiscence of such a wonderful app. |
| 0:36.8 | Stay tuned for Tech News Weekly. |
| 0:41.0 | Podcasts you love. |
| 0:42.8 | From people you trust. |
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| 0:50.1 | This is Tech News Weekly, episode 293 recorded Thursday, July 6th, 2023. |
| 0:55.9 | Kameda's thread, replaced Twitter. |
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