TNW 353: The PS5 Pro Costs How Much? - Oakland Ballers, Meta AI, iPhone 16
Tech News Weekly (Audio)
Leo Laporte
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🗓️ 12 September 2024
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
A new baseball team is starting to make waves within the city of Oakland that a startup founder founded. Meta has trained its AI on everything posted on its social websites since 2007. What Apple announced at its "Glowtime" event. And what are the differences behind the PS5 Pro console that Sony announced earlier this week?
- Amanda Silberling talks about the Oakland Ballers, a new independent baseball organization that started earlier this year, and how the organization is approached like a startup company.
- Mikah Sargent talks about Meta's admission that it has been training its AI system using data scrapped from its social media services dating back to 2007.
- Dan Moren of SixColors talks about the new iPhone 16s and Apple Watch Series 10 devices announced at Apple's recent event.
- And Kyle Orland of Ars Technica joins the show to talk about the PS5 Pro console, the key hardware upgrades within the console that separate it from the regular PS5 console, and how the console's price point compares to other consoles in the market.
Hosts: Mikah Sargent and Amanda Silberling
Guests: Dan Moren and Kyle Orland
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on Tech News weekly, Tech Crunches, Amanda Silverling is here and she kicks off this week's episode talking about a new baseball team in the Bay Area that's been founded by a startup founder, then I talk about how Meta has |
| 0:16.5 | admitted to feeding all of our public posts since 2007 into its AI. After that Dan Morne of Six Colors |
| 0:26.6 | stops by to give us an understanding a nice summary of the Apple event |
| 0:31.5 | plus things we might have missed before we round things out with Kyle. summary of the Apple event, |
| 0:33.4 | before we round things out with Kyle Orland of Arst Technica, |
| 0:37.2 | who joins us to help us understand why that new PS5, |
| 0:41.1 | the PS5 pro, costs so much money. |
| 0:44.2 | All of that coming up on Tech News Weekly. |
| 0:49.3 | Podcasts you love from people you trust. |
| 0:53.0 | This is Twit. |
| 0:55.0 | This is Tech News Weekly, episode 353 with Amanda Silverling and meet Micah Sergeant recorded Thursday September 12th |
| 1:06.1 | 2024. The PS5 Pro Costs How Much? |
| 1:11.0 | Hello and welcome to Tech News Weekly, the show where every week we talk to and about the people making and breaking the Tech news. |
| 1:18.0 | I am your host, Micah Sergeant, and it is the second Thursday of the month which means I am joined by the wonderful, the super cool. |
| 1:28.0 | It's Amanda Silberling. Hello Amanda. |
| 1:31.0 | Hello, how's it going other than off Mike. I just try to convince you to buy a $30 |
| 1:37.1 | squirrel mug so we're off to a great start here. I'm feeling great you know it's it's a good start to the day after we kind of talked about both feeling a little exhausted. |
| 1:48.8 | What can solve that but a little bit of retail therapy? |
| 1:54.1 | And speaking of retail therapy, |
| 1:57.9 | interestingly, apparently you can just use the money that you have to if you can't buy something build it. |
| 2:09.0 | This is me trying to do an introduction to your story of the week. |
| 2:11.8 | Oh, I was like, did Micah discover what money does? |
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