TNW 312: Apple Supporting RCS in 2024 - iMessage Gets RCS, Microsoft Ignite, AI Chatbots
Tech News Weekly (Audio)
Leo Laporte
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🗓️ 16 November 2023
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
Apple has reversed course and is adding RCS support to iMessage next year. What was announced at Microsoft Ignite 2023? And Common Sense Media has ratings for ten chatbots & AI services that parents should be cautious with when their kids interact with them.
- Breaking news Thursday morning as Apple has announced that they are adding RCS support to iMessage next year. Will Sattelberg of Android Police shares the details of what this means.
- Microsoft Ignite 2023 is happening in Seattle currently, and a lot has been announced at the event. Daniel Rubino of Windows Central breaks down some of the announcements made.
- Jason shares an exciting story about noise-canceling headphones that could let users choose which sounds they may want to hear.
- Mikah talks about Common Sense Media's ratings of chatbots and other AI services that warn parents about how certain AI services may be unsafe for kids.
Hosts: Jason Howell and Mikah Sargent
Guests: Will Sattelberg and Daniel Rubino
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up next on Tech News Weekly, I'm Jason Howell and I start things off talking about the really big, |
| 0:05.2 | literally breaking news right before the show story about Apple supporting RCS sometime next year. |
| 0:12.4 | Will Saddleburg from Android Police talks all about that. |
| 0:15.0 | And there goes a pig flying through the sky. |
| 0:18.0 | Up next, I'm Micah Sergeant and I have Daniel Rubino on the show from Windows Central |
| 0:22.2 | to talk all things Microsoft Ignite. |
| 0:25.4 | It's all about AI, as you might imagine. |
| 0:27.8 | Noise cancelling headphones. |
| 0:29.3 | We know what they do for us already, but it turns out the technology can be reworked so that it acts like a |
| 0:34.7 | mixer for your life. That's really neat. Ooh and I think it's about time common sense |
| 0:40.0 | media has its first ratings for those AI services to make sure that you know what |
| 0:46.7 | your kids are using and maybe which tools they shouldn't be. |
| 0:49.8 | All of that coming up on tech news weekly. Podcasts you love. |
| 0:56.0 | From people you trust. |
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| 1:06.7 | This is Tech News Weekly episode 312 recorded Thursday November 16th 2023 Apple supporting RCS in 2024. |
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