TNW 321: Explaining Palworld's Popularity - EU App Store Changes, Framework 16", New York
Tech News Weekly (Audio)
Leo Laporte
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🗓️ 25 January 2024
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
What is Palworld, the most popular video game on Steam and Xbox? Apple announces changes to iOS, Safari, and the App Store in the EU with some snark. Sean Hollister of The Verge reviewed the Framework 16" Laptop. And New York declared social media a public health hazard, the US's first city ever to do so.
- Ana Diaz of Polygon talks to Mikah Sargent about Palworld, the history behind the game, and the controversies surrounding the popular title.
- Apple recently announced changes to iOS, Safari, and the App Store in the European Union to better align with the Digital Markets Act that the EU passed in 2022.
- Sean Hollister of The Verge joins the show to talk about the Framework Laptop 16" he reviewed and shared what he likes about the laptop and the aspects of the laptop that have him concerned about a product that aims to convince others this is a futureproof platform.
- Finally, Mikah talks about how New York has declared social media a public health hazard, the first time a city in the US has done so.
Host: Mikah Sargent
Guests: Sean Hollister and Ana Diaz
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on Tech News Weekly, I kick off the show by talking to Anna Diaz of Polygon about a very interesting, very controversial game. |
| 0:10.0 | It's called Pal World, and it's a little bit more intense than the name might suggest. I also have a sort of late |
| 0:17.7 | breaking story of the week. Apple has announced changes to iOS to safari to the App Store if you live in the EU. |
| 0:27.0 | Sideloading finally coming to your iPhone? |
| 0:30.0 | Oh my goodness. |
| 0:31.0 | Then Sean Holliser of the Verge stops by to talk about the framework |
| 0:34.6 | Laptop 16 and he breaks the thing down right in front of us. It's super cool. |
| 0:39.0 | You really need to stick around for that. It's easily the most amazing thing to happen on Tech News Weekly |
| 0:44.5 | in a while before I round things out with my last story of the week about New York City |
| 0:50.5 | declaring something I'm not going to say what a public health hazard. I don't |
| 0:56.0 | know if you would expect the choice that they made but all of that is coming up on |
| 1:00.4 | tech news weekly. Podcasts you love. |
| 1:05.0 | From people you trust. |
| 1:08.0 | This is Twit. |
| 1:10.0 | This is Tech News Weekly, episode 321 with Micah Sergeant, recorded Thursday, January 25, 2024, explaining |
| 1:21.5 | PALWorld's popularity. |
| 1:24.0 | Hello and welcome to Tech News Weekly, the show where every week we talk to and about the people |
| 1:28.6 | making and breaking the Tech News. |
| 1:30.7 | I am your host, Micah Sergeant, and I have to to say I think I've got a great show |
| 1:34.2 | plan for you today. Up first we are going to talk about a game that is |
| 1:40.1 | taking the world by storm in many ways. is |
| 1:45.0 | a world by storm in many ways here to help us explain help us to understand and to explain |
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