TNW 344: Samsung's Galaxy Ring and Watch Ultra - NGL & the FTC, Redbox, AI Zombified Websites
Tech News Weekly (Audio)
Leo Laporte
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🗓️ 11 July 2024
⏱️ 87 minutes
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Summary
The Federal Trade Commission bans an app from being offered to minors. A beloved DVD rental service files for bankruptcy. An old website publication has been resurrected as an 'AI-zombified' website. And what Samsung announced at its latest Galaxy Unpacked event.
- Amanda Silberling joins Mikah this week on Tech News Weekly! Amanda talks about the FTC banning the app NGL from offering its social app to minors following a ruling that the company tricked users into paying its $9.99 monthly subscription.
- Mikah talks about Chicken Soup For The Soul Entertainment, the company that owns the DVD rental service Redbox. It is now filing for Chapter 7 bankruptcy following a filing of Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection initially.
- Christina Warren stops by to discuss how a company brought back an old website as an 'AI-zombified' publication, using content pulled from other website publications under the bylines of former authors who wrote for the publication, including Christina herself!
- And finally, Jason Howell returns to TNW to talk with Mikah about everything Samsung announced at its recent Galaxy Unpacked event, including the Galaxy Watch Ultra and Galaxy Ring devices.
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on Tech News weekly, Amanda Silverling is here. We start by talking about the |
| 0:05.2 | Spicy Spicy FTC. That's right, the FTC has banned NGL, the anonymous app from offering that app to minors. |
| 0:13.5 | Then they talk about how there are many dark patterns being used online by frankly |
| 0:19.8 | almost all of the subscription apps and websites. |
| 0:23.5 | Afterward, it's time to pour one out for Red Box. |
| 0:27.1 | It's a nostalgic moment as the company who owns Red Box |
| 0:31.4 | is filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy. |
| 0:34.7 | Then Christina Warren stops by to talk about the zombie AI resurrection of Tuaw, the unofficial |
| 0:42.4 | Apple Weblog, and what you do when your name and your |
| 0:46.8 | content is being reused as part of an AI content farm. |
| 0:51.8 | Afterward, we get to a very important story because |
| 0:56.0 | Samsung's Galaxy Unpacked event took place this week so Jason Howell stops by to |
| 1:00.9 | tell us all about all of the hardware announced at the event. |
| 1:05.0 | Stay tuned for a jam-packed episode of Technos Weekly. |
| 1:09.0 | Podcasts You Love from people you trust. |
| 1:15.0 | This is Twit. |
| 1:17.0 | This is Twit. |
| 1:20.0 | This is Tech News Weekly with Amanda Silverling and me, Micah Sergeant, episode 344, recorded |
| 1:27.6 | Thursday July 11, 2024. Samsung's Galaxy Ring and Watch Ultra. |
| 1:34.0 | Hello and welcome to Tech News Weekly, the show where every week we talk to and about the people |
| 1:39.4 | making and breaking the Tech News. |
| 1:41.6 | I am your host, Mic sergeant and I am joined by the one the |
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