TNW 367: Best of 2024 - Tech News Weekly's Best Moments in 2024
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Leo Laporte
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🗓️ 26 December 2024
⏱️ 107 minutes
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Summary
A look back at some of our favorite interviews from the past year:
- Emily Forlini of PCMag and her story about the AI "dating scene" AI through ChatGPT Plus and AI boyfriends and her somewhat lackluster experience.
- Jennifer Pattison Tuohy and the breaking news that the U.S. Department of Justice is suing Apple for claims that the company has an illegal monopoly over the smartphone market.
- Amanda Silberlng and her story that she wrote about how how AI images have entered this year's Met Gala's online discourse through celebrities who "appeared" on the Met Gala carpet.
- Abrar Al-Heeti and her story about 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.
- Leah Nylen of Bloomberg talks with Mikah about the Google Antitrust Case and The Department of Justice's recommendations that could reshape the tech giant.
- And Nick Steele and David Turner from the FIDO Alliance join Mikah to discuss the Alliance's new specifications involving passkeys and their portability.
Host: Mikah Sargent
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| 0:00.0 | Podcasts you love. |
| 0:04.3 | From people you trust. |
| 0:06.8 | This is Twitter. |
| 0:10.3 | This is Tech News Weekly, episode 367, with me, Micah Sargent. |
| 0:17.1 | Recorded Tuesday, December 10th, 2024 for Thursday, December 26th, 2024. |
| 0:24.1 | Best of 2024. |
| 0:27.4 | Hello and welcome to this our best of episode for Tech News Weekly. |
| 0:33.8 | I am Micah Sargent, and it has been an absolute joy bringing you Tech News Weekly this year. |
| 0:40.6 | As is always the case, this is the time of year where we share our best moments of 2024. |
| 0:49.0 | And this was the year of the co-host, because I was joined by some really awesome people who helped to bring |
| 0:58.2 | you some great stories of the week. We're kicking things off with a story that led to Emily Drybelbus, |
| 1:05.5 | now Emily Forlini, of PCMag joining the show because I had such a great time chatting with her about her AI boyfriend. |
| 1:15.5 | Listen in. |
| 1:16.8 | Love is in the air, folks. |
| 1:19.2 | It is time to talk about tech news and love and AI because that's what we talk about almost every week, right? |
| 1:27.2 | Well, not the love part, but the AI part for sure. And, you know, what we talk about almost every week, right? Well, not the love part, |
| 1:28.1 | but the AI part for sure. And, you know, when we think about it, what's better than having |
| 1:33.3 | a significant other that doesn't disagree with you, that you don't necessarily have to compromise |
| 1:39.5 | with that doesn't leave dirty dishes behind? Doesn't it sound delightful? I don't know. But Emily Drybelbus of PC |
| 1:45.9 | Mag decided to dive in and do this experiment for us. Welcome back to the show, Emily. |
| 1:52.4 | Thank you, Micah. Yeah, it's a pleasure to have you back here. And again, I'm glad that somebody is out |
| 1:59.9 | there doing the hard work. And this is actually kind of my |
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