TNW 317: Best of 2023 - Tech News Weekly's Best Moments in 2023

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Leo Laporte

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🗓️ 26 December 2023

⏱️ 137 minutes

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Summary

A look back at some of our favorite interviews from the past year:

Stu Tartarone, a veteran of AT&T, who helped develop the first cell phone network and make the first cell phone call back in 1983.
Stephen Shankland of CNET talks about how 500+ cables that carry 400 terabits of data per second are running across our ocean floor.
Joseph Cox of 404 Media (formerly of Vice) about AI voices and the future of it when a computer can replicate another person's voice, especially without their permission.
Christian Selig, developer of the Apollo Reddit app, about Reddit's changes to its API and whether Reddit will make any changes or reverse its API update.
Amanda Silberling from TechCrunch about the Senate hearing with Ticketmaster and the ticketing fiasco with Taylor Swift concert tickets being sold through Ticketmaster's platform.
Heather Kelly of The Washington Post and her guide on teens, smartphones, and social media following the Surgeon General's advisory about social media's effect on the youth's mental health.
Amanda Silberling again about the plethora of new social media services since Elon Musk's acquisition of Twitter last year.
And finally, J.D. Capelouto of Semafor about OpenAI's announcement of Chat GPT-4.

Hosts: Mikah Sargent and Jason Howell

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0:00.0	Podcasts you love from people you trust.
0:05.0	This is Twit.
0:08.0	This is Twit.
0:10.0	This is Tech News Weekly, episode 317, with Micah Sergeant and Jason Howell, recorded on
0:17.8	Thursday, December 7th, 2023 for Thursday, December 28th, 2023.
0:24.0	Best of 2023.
0:27.0	Hello and welcome to Tech News Weekly, the show where typically every week we talk to and
0:31.5	about the people making and breaking the tech news, but this is the very festive end of the year episode where we look back.
0:38.0	I am one of your hosts of this journey, Micah Sergeant.
0:41.0	And I'm the other guy real quick after a couple of weeks of
0:44.3	not being here but here again jason howl
0:47.8	hi jason mica good to see you again my it's so long. It has indeed by the power of movie magic. It has been so long.
0:58.0	Yeah, so in 2023, excellent year for the show. I've always really, I think the thing that I really enjoy about this show is the opportunity to learn from the people that we pull on and
1:07.4	Sometimes we get people who are like the source of the story right and that's almost my favorite, because you really
1:15.3	get to touch on exactly why that news is important
1:18.8	from the horse's mouth.
1:20.9	And yeah, I would say our first clip really ties into that exactly. This was one of those opportunities
1:26.6	that was like an opportunity for me to learn a little bit about the history of these things that, you know, a lot of people probably take smartphones for granted
1:34.4	well Stu Tartarone from AT&T joined us not very long ago to because he was there in the room
1:40.8	when it happened many many decades ago many years ago, a few decades ago.
1:45.0	Today we're going to talk a little bit about the history of, well, cell phones and smart, I mean,
1:51.6	smartphones by extension, but really, I mean smart phones by extension but really I mean when we think about a
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