TNW 348: Google's Nest News - Google Nest, Turing, M4 Mac Mini
Tech News Weekly (Audio)
Leo Laporte
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🗓️ 8 August 2024
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Google released a new version of its Nest Learning Thermostat. Google is also looking to enhance the Google smart home experience with Gemini intelligence. A look into the coming that's gathering 'human data' for every major AI company. Mark Gurman reports that the Mac Mini will be updated with the M4 chip and a design change later this year.
- Jennifer Pattison Tuohy joins Mikah this week to talk about the latest iteration of Google's Nest Thermostat and the new design and features of the device.
- Jennifer also talks about how Google is bringing its Gemini intelligence to Google Home to join the market of other smart home systems using AI.
- Reed Albergotti of Semafor stops by to talk about Turing, the company helping major AI companies gather 'human data' for their AI systems.
- And Mikah talks about a Mark Gurman report that we may see an update to the Mac Mini with M4 chips and a design change later this year.
Host: Mikah Sargent
Guests: Jennifer Pattison Tuohy and Reed Albergotti
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on Tech News Weekly, Amanda Silverling is out, but Jennifer Patterson Toe actually joins me for the first half of the show to talk about all of the Google Nest news. |
| 0:10.0 | Because there's a lot of it. Google's smart home announcements include a new nest learning |
| 0:15.6 | thermostats, some updates to Google Gemini Intelligence making their way into the smart home, |
| 0:21.3 | and the end of Chromcast but the introduction |
| 0:24.6 | of a pretty cool Google streaming set-top box. Then Reed Albergotti of Semaphore |
| 0:31.0 | stops by to tell us about the AI company behind many of the popular |
| 0:36.4 | AI companies that provides human data to improve upon the AI systems we've come to know and use. |
| 0:45.6 | Afterward, I've got a quick little story of the week from Mark Germin, |
| 0:50.8 | all about Apple's potential new Mac. German all of that is |
| 0:53.0 | potential new Mac mini. |
| 0:56.0 | All of that is coming up on Tech News Weekly. |
| 0:59.0 | Stay tuned. |
| 1:00.0 | Podcasts you love from people you trust. |
| 1:05.0 | This is Twint. |
| 1:08.0 | This is Tech News Weekly with me, Micah Sergeant, episode 348, recorded Thursday, August 8, |
| 1:17.6 | 2024. |
| 1:18.6 | Google's Nest News. |
| 1:22.2 | Hello and welcome to Tech News Weekly, the show, |
| 1:25.0 | whatever week we talk to and about the people making and |
| 1:28.0 | breaking the tech news. |
| 1:30.0 | I am one of your hosts Micah, Sergeant, |
| 1:32.0 | and typically. |
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