TNW 358: FTC's New Click-to-Cancel Rule - Apple Pay, Android 15, 2024 Kindles
Tech News Weekly (Audio)
Leo Laporte
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🗓️ 17 October 2024
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
The FTC is making it easier for you to cancel your subscriptions. Apple is celebrating ten years of Apple Pay. Android 15 is rolling out now to Pixel devices. And Amazon announced new Kindle devices, set to be released at the end of October.
- Fresh off her appearance on This Week in Tech, Jennifer Pattison Tuohy celebrates the FTC's new rule, making canceling a subscription service easier.
- Mikah Sargent talks about Apple's celebration of 10 years of Apple Pay.
- Jason Howell stops by to talk about the official release of Android 15 to Pixel devices and when other Android phones, such as Samsung devices, will see Android 15 arriving on those devices.
- And David Carnoy of CNET got his hands on Amazon's newly announced Kindle devices and shares his thoughts on them.
Hosts: Mikah Sargent and Jennifer Pattison Tuohy
Guests: Jason Howell and David Carnoy
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on Tech News Weekly, Jennifer Patterson Toey joins me Micah Sergeant and we start the show by talking about the FTC's new click to cancel rule, how we're finally, finally getting a ruling that says you got to make it as easy to |
| 0:15.9 | cancel a subscription as it is to sign up for one. Then I talk about Apple Pay. It's just entered its 10th year and Jennifer Patterson |
| 0:26.7 | Toe and I talk about how TAP-to-Pay has changed over time and look forward to a |
| 0:31.8 | future where more comes to our digital wallet. |
| 0:36.3 | Then Jason Howell of Tech Exploder stops by to tell us about what's new in Android with Android 15 |
| 0:42.4 | and what's coming to Pixel Devices in particular |
| 0:44.4 | before David Carnoy of CNET joins us who have the opportunity to go hands on with |
| 0:50.9 | all of Amazon's new Kindle's and shows off the paper white on screen. |
| 0:57.0 | All of that coming up on Tech News Weekly. |
| 1:00.0 | Podcasts you love from people you trust. |
| 1:05.0 | This is to it. |
| 1:08.0 | This is Tech News Weekly, episode 358, with Jennifer Patterson Toey and me, Micah Sergeant, |
| 1:17.2 | recorded Thursday, October 17, 2024. |
| 1:20.8 | FTC's new Click to cancel rule. |
| 1:25.0 | Hello and welcome to Tech News Weekly, the show every week we talk to and about the people making and breaking the tech news. |
| 1:31.0 | I am one of your hosts my name is mica sergeant and if this is your first time joining us or you've been here before you're still gonna hear my spiel |
| 1:41.6 | which is that each week I bore it well each week but the |
| 1:46.7 | fifth week to be clear I bring on an awesome guest to join me for the first half of the show and it is Jennifer Patterson to |
| 1:56.2 | eastern welcome back Jennifer. Hi Micah great to be here as always my second appearance on Twitter this week, so I'm excited. |
| 2:04.8 | Yeah, you really put in your hours this week. |
| 2:07.3 | Hours and hours and hours and hours. |
| 2:11.3 | So I'm very appreciative that you were able to still join me here on Tech News Weekly. |
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