TNW 354: Instagram Rolls Out Teen Accounts - IFA Berlin, SocialAI, Camera Control
Tech News Weekly (Audio)
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🗓️ 19 September 2024
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Jennifer Pattison Tuohy returned from the IFA consumer electronics show in Berlin, where some new gadgets and tech were unveiled at the show. There's a new social network that has you and only AI bots in it. A review of the iPhone 16 and 16 Pro. And Meta introduces Instgram 'Teen Accounts' to manage safety concerns of teens using the social network service.
- Jennifer Pattison Tuohy joins Mikah Sargent this week! Jennifer recently returned from the IFA consumer electronics show in Berlin and shares some of the cool tech she saw there.
- Mikah talks about a new social media network called Social AI, where only AI bots respond to your posts.
- Patrick Holland of CNET joins the show to talk about his review of the iPhone 16 and 16 Pro, and his thoughts on the device and the new Camera Control button that was introduced to the lineup.
- And Paris Martineau of The Information and This Week in Google stops by to talk about Meta's new Instagram 'Teen Accounts' and what this new feature aims to do to protect teens while using the service.
Hosts: Mikah Sargent and Jennifer Pattison Tuohy
Guests: Patrick Holland and Paris Martineau
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on Tech News Weekly Jennifer Patterson Toe of the Virge is here and joins us to talk about her trip to EFA, |
| 0:07.5 | which is basically Europe's version of CES. Lots of interesting gadgets and gizmos including a laptop that can pivot to focus on you and follow you around. |
| 0:21.0 | Why? Well, we'll talk a little bit about that. Plus a social media network that |
| 0:26.2 | involves you and you alone, plus a bunch of your AI-generated friends. |
| 0:33.0 | Then Patrick Holland of CNET stops by to tell us about his review of the iPhone 16 Pro and Pro Max |
| 0:39.4 | while showing us the devices. |
| 0:40.8 | Yes, he's got them in hand, and Paris Martino of the information steps in |
| 0:46.7 | to tell us about Instagram's new teen accounts, what they are, how they work, how you get them activated, and when you can expect to see |
| 0:56.0 | them. |
| 0:57.0 | All of that coming up on Tech News Weekly. |
| 0:59.0 | Podcasts You Love, from people you trust. |
| 1:05.0 | This is Twit. |
| 1:07.0 | This is Twit. |
| 1:10.0 | This is Tech News Weekly, episode 354 with Jennifer Patterson Toey and me, Micah Sergeant, |
| 1:17.6 | recorded Thursday, September 19, 2024. |
| 1:21.5 | Instagram rolls out teen accounts. |
| 1:25.0 | Hello and welcome to Tech News Weekly, the show where every week we talk to and about the people |
| 1:30.4 | making and breaking the tech news. I'm your host Micah Sergeant and it is time for |
| 1:36.4 | that third Thursday of the month when Jennifer Patterson Tui of the verge joins us. |
| 1:42.4 | Hello and welcome Jennifer. Patterson Tuy of The Verge joins us. |
| 1:42.6 | Hello and welcome, Jennifer. |
| 1:46.0 | Hi Micah, so happy to be here. |
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