TNW 364: AI App Aims To Predict Your Death - Beauty Filters, Xreal One Smart Glasses, Venntel

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🗓️ 5 December 2024

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Abrar Al-Heeti joins Mikah Sargent on Tech News Weekly this week! Abrar talks about TikTok blocking teenagers from using beauty filters on the platform. There's an AI app that can predict your death. A new competitor enters the mixed-realty headset market. And learn about the data company the FTC recently banned from selling sensitive location data.

Abrar Al-Heeti talks about TikTok's decision to block teenagers from using beauty filters on its platform and the broader message this decision sends about the digital influence on teens' beauty standards.
Mikah Sargent is fascinated by an AI app that predicts when you will die but is a little off-put by the steep price point of the application.
Scott Stein of CNET joins Mikah to talk about the Xreal One Smart Glasses, a new competitor in the mixed-reality headset market.
And Joseph Cox of 404Media stops by to talk about the FTC taking stronger action against data companies, such as Venntel, signifying the FTC's shift in the regulation of data companies.

Hosts: Mikah Sargent and Abrar Al-Heeti

Guests: Scott Stein and Joseph Cox

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0:00.0	Coming up on Tech News Weekly Abraar, Al Hiti is back and we kick things off by talking about
0:06.4	social media and beauty standards. This time we're talking specifically about TikTok and how
0:12.0	the app has blocked teenagers from using beauty filters. We discuss the impact therein. Then, I talk
0:19.2	about an app that wants to help you figure out
0:21.9	when you're going to die.
0:23.1	But don't worry, because it provides some health suggestions
0:26.0	to make sure that you live a little bit longer.
0:29.6	Afterwards, Scott Stein of CNET joins us
0:32.5	to talk about his time using Xreal 1 smart glasses
0:36.6	and compares them to some of the other ARVR mixed reality
0:39.9	headsets on the market. Before we round things out with Joseph Cox of 404 Media, who joins us to talk
0:47.0	about an FTC ban on a company that is tracking locations and selling that data to the government.
0:56.2	All of that coming up on Tech News Weekly.
0:59.4	Stay tuned.
1:02.5	Podcasts you love.
1:04.4	From people you trust.
1:06.9	This is Twitter.
1:10.5	This is Tech News Weekly, episode 364, with Abrar Al-Hiti and me, Micah Sargent, recorded Thursday, December 5th, 2024.
1:21.3	AI app aims to predict your death.
1:25.3	Hello and welcome to Tech News Weekly, the show wherever week we talk to and about the people
1:29.9	making and breaking the tech news.
1:32.0	We have hit the reset button on the month counter, which means we are back at the beginning
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