TNW 356: Microsoft's Latest Copilot Updates - Meta Smart Glasses Facial Recognition, WordPress Drama
Tech News Weekly (Audio)
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🗓️ 3 October 2024
⏱️ 73 minutes
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In this episode of Tech News Weekly, hosts Mikah Sargent and Abrar Al-Heeti discuss Meta smart glasses with real-time facial recognition and the ongoing drama between WordPress and WP Engine. Also joining are Daniel Rubino of Windows Central to talk about Microsoft's latest Copilot features and indie developer Christian Selig to discuss his experience with Apple's removal of his Juno app from the App Store.
- Abrar Al-Heeti shares how Harvard students created an app called I-XRAY that uses Meta's Ray-Ban smart glasses and facial recognition to find personal data on people in real-time, raising privacy concerns
- Mikah Sargent dives into the ongoing feud between WordPress and WP Engine, with WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg calling WP Engine a "cancer" and the two companies exchanging legal threats
- Daniel Rubino breaks down Microsoft's latest AI Copilot updates, including an improved UI, voice interactions, smart search, and photo/paint features that rely on dedicated neural processing units
- Christian Selig discusses his short-lived Juno app, which provided a cleaner YouTube experience on Apple's Vision Pro before being pulled due to pressure from Google, sparking debates about app store policies and developer rights
Hosts: Mikah Sargent and Abrar Al-Heeti
Guests: Daniel Rubino and Christian Selig
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on Tech News Weekly, Abra al-Hiti of CNET is here and she kicks off this week's episode by talking about how college students have figured out a way to use Meta's smart glasses to essentially docks people, IRL, and in real time. |
| 0:17.3 | Then I finally get the opportunity to talk about all the drama going on between WordPress and automatic and W.P. Engine. |
| 0:27.0 | It is a back and forth mess and boy it is juicy, juicy tea. |
| 0:32.8 | Afterward, Daniel Rubino of Windows Central |
| 0:35.7 | joins us to talk about all the cool new features |
| 0:37.8 | Microsoft has announced and in some cases rolled out |
| 0:40.9 | for its AI Co-Pilot plus PCs and Co-Pilot in general. |
| 0:46.4 | And then we round things out with a conversation with Christian Seelig, |
| 0:50.3 | the iOS developer who at one point made Apollo and now makes Juno which has just |
| 0:57.1 | been pulled from the App Store. Yeah we got a lot to talk about on this episode |
| 1:01.0 | of Tech News Weekly. So stay tuned. |
| 1:05.0 | Podcasts you love. |
| 1:07.0 | From people you trust. |
| 1:09.0 | This is Twit. |
| 1:21.6 | This is Twint. This is Tech News Weekly, episode 356, with a Braa Al-Hiti and me, Micah Sergeant, recorded Thursday, October 3rd, 2024, |
| 1:25.1 | Microsoft's latest co-pilot updates. |
| 1:28.6 | Hello and welcome to Tech News Weekly, |
| 1:30.8 | the show where every week we talk to and about the people making and bricking that Tech News Weekly, the show wherever week we talk to, and about the people making and bricking |
| 1:34.0 | that tech news. |
| 1:35.0 | I'm your host, Micah Sergeant, and I'm excited to say it is the first week of October. |
| 1:41.8 | Spooky, no. So that means we are. week of |
| 1:43.8 | Spooky. So that means we are joined by the wonderful Abraar al-Hiti of C-Net. Welcome back, Abra. |
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