TNW 360: GitHub Copilot Goes Multi-Model - Amazon Echo Graveyard, Mac Week, Genmoji
Tech News Weekly (Audio)
Leo Laporte
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🗓️ 31 October 2024
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
Like Google, Amazon has a list of products the tech company discontinued. Is one of your favorites on the list? What Apple announced this past "Mac Week." What GitHub announced at its GitHub Universe 2024 event. And how Apple's Genmoji generator will operate when it's released with the future iOS 18.2 release.
- Mikah Sargent talks about a great article from The Verge highlighting a handful of Amazon Echo products that the tech company has discontinued over the years.
- Dan Moren of SixColors joins the show again to discuss the new M4 Mac products that the company announced this past week.
- Martin Woodward, VP of DevRel for GitHub stops by to talk about some of the new things that GitHub announced at its GibHub Universe 2024 event, including the new GitHub Spark.
- And Mikah talks about Apple's Genmoji service that is slated to come in iOS 18.2 and some of the things you can and cannot do with it.
Host: Mikah Sargent
Guests: Dan Moren and Martin Woodward
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on Tech News Weekly, it's just me this week. |
| 0:04.0 | Well, me and some awesome interviews. |
| 0:06.0 | We kick things off with a story of the week about how lots of Amazon Echo devices have made their way to the Amazon Graveyard. |
| 0:15.0 | Yeah, what devices are still around, which are gone, which do I really enjoy, which do I think should |
| 0:21.8 | be gone or should be here? |
| 0:23.3 | It's a great conversation about how Amazon kind of just uses us to test its different |
| 0:28.3 | devices and, you know, kind of pay for it in the meantime. |
| 0:32.6 | Then Dan Morin of Six Colors is back. |
| 0:34.7 | Yes, this time though, to talk about Apple's new Mac lineup. The IMac, |
| 0:39.3 | the Mac Mini, and the MacBook Pro all made their way to us this week, and Dan Moran has the lowdown. |
| 0:46.4 | Afterward, the VP of Developer Relations at GitHub, Martin Woodward, joins the show to give us |
| 0:52.6 | the lowdown on GitHub Universe, |
| 0:56.8 | GitHub's annual conference where new and very cool tools have been announced. |
| 1:03.4 | Then we round things out with a rundown. |
| 1:06.2 | Look, we're going up and down, a rundown of Apple's gen emoji feature, which is soon to make its way to our devices, |
| 1:14.6 | a little bit about what that could mean, a little, you know, some confusion there as well, |
| 1:18.9 | and what you should expect going forward. All of that coming up on Tech News Weekly. |
| 1:26.7 | Podcasts you love. |
| 1:28.5 | From people you trust. |
| 1:31.0 | This is Twitter. |
| 1:34.5 | This is Tech News Weekly. |
| 1:37.6 | Episode 360 with me, Micah Sargent, |
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