TNW 375: Apple's New iPhone 16e - RIP Humane AI Pin, NVIDIA's AI Platform for American Sign Language

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🗓️ 20 February 2025

⏱️ 63 minutes

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In this episode, Mikah Sargent is joined by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy of The Verge to discuss NVIDIA's work on an AI platform for American Sign Language and her review of the Skylight Calendar Max. Zac Hall of 9to5Mac talks about the new iPhone 16e, and Scott Stein of CNET discusses the end of the Humane AI Pin.

- NVIDIA is collaborating with the American Society for Deaf Children and creative agency Hello Monday to develop Signs, an online platform that uses AI to help people practice and understand American Sign Language. The platform aims to create a validated dataset to account for variations in signing and provide real-time feedback to learners.

- Jennifer reviews the Skylight Calendar Max, a 27-inch digital touchscreen display for managing family schedules. She finds the AI-powered Sidekick feature, which can parse various data formats to create calendar events, to be incredibly useful and a potential glimpse into the future of AI in smart home devices.

- Zac Hall discusses the newly announced iPhone 16e, which replaces the iPhone SE 3 and iPhone 14. Priced at $599, it offers a modern design with Face ID and an A18 chip for Apple Intelligence features, making it a compelling upgrade for those with older iPhones.

- The Humane AI pin is being sold to HP for $116 million, and users will lose access to its services on February 28th, 2025, with no recourse or refunds for most customers. Scott Stein shares his experience reviewing the AI pin, its shortcomings, and his thoughts on the future of AI-augmented devices and their relationship with smartphones.

Hosts: Mikah Sargent and Jennifer Pattison Tuohy

Guests: Zac Hall and Scott Stein

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0:00.0	Coming up on Tech News weekly, Jennifer Patterson-Tui of The Verge joins me,
0:04.4	Mike and Sergeant on the show.
0:05.5	We talk about Nvidia helping to launch an AI platform for ASL.
0:10.8	That's American Sign Language.
0:11.7	We also talk about Jennifer's Skylight Calendar Max review and what we can expect from Amazon next week.
0:18.8	Before we head into the interview, Zach Hall of 9 to 5 Mac joins us to talk about the Apple iPhone 16E,
0:25.3	and Scott Stein of C-Net gives us an understanding of Humane's AI pin.
0:29.8	All of that coming up on Tech News Weekly.
0:34.8	Podcasts you love.
0:36.5	From people you trust. is twit this is tech news weekly with
0:45.2	Jennifer Patterson toey and me Micah Sargent episode 375 recorded Thursday February 20th
0:52.2	2025 Apple's new iPhone 16E.
0:56.0	Hello and welcome to Tech News Weekly, the show where every week we talk to and about the people making and breaking that tech news.
1:04.0	I am one of your hosts, Micah Sargent, and I am joined across this vast and ever-changing landscape that is the internet by the very cool, the very awesome, and the very smart home knowledgeable Jennifer Patterson towey of The Verge. Welcome back to the show, Jen.
1:23.6	Wow, that was a great intro. Thank you.
1:26.6	You're very welcome. Happy to be here. Yeah, it's good to get you. Wow, that was a great intro. Thank you. You're very welcome. Happy to be here.
1:28.3	Yeah, it's good to get you.
1:29.3	Yeah, it's good to get you.
1:31.3	So we've got some great stories of the week.
1:34.3	I'll actually be kicking things off today.
1:37.3	So get ready because we're mixing it up.
1:40.3	I wanted to talk about this really cool story over, uh, on venture beat.
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