TNW 379: Google Unveils Midrange Pixel 9A - iRobot, Amazon Echo, PebbleOS Watch
Tech News Weekly (Audio)
Leo Laporte
4.1 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 20 March 2025
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
Will iRobot's new Roomba's bring the company back to the forefront of robotic vacuums? What to know about Amazon's change of handling voice recordings through Alexa devices. Two new PebbleOS watches are available for pre-order! And the lowdown on the new Pixel 9a smartphone that Google recently announced.
- Jennifer Pattison Tuohy of The Verge joins Mikah Sargent this week! Jennifer talks about the new Roombas that iRobot has unveiled but is unimpressed by the lack of innovation in these new robotic vacuums.
- Do you have Alexa devices in your household? Be aware of some of the new changes Amazon is making to how Echo devices handle voice recordings.
- Two new Pebble watches are available for pre-order after Google open-sourced PebbleOS in January of this year!
- And friend of the network, Jason Howell, talks with Mikah about Google's newly announced Pixel 9am phone.
Hosts: Mikah Sargent and Jennifer Pattison Tuohy
Guest: Jason Howell
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on Tech News Weekly, Jennifer Patterson, Toey of the Verge, is here to join me, Micah, |
| 0:04.8 | Sergeant, and we kick things off by talking about the state of Roomba and its future. Then we talk |
| 0:11.9 | about the Amazon Echo sending your recordings to Amazon and what you need to know there, plus |
| 0:18.9 | a conversation about the new Pebble OS smart watches and a great conversation |
| 0:24.8 | with Jason Howell, all about the Pixel 9A mid-range phone. |
| 0:30.2 | Stay tuned for what I think is an excellent episode of Tech News Weekly. |
| 0:37.4 | Podcasts you love. |
| 0:39.1 | From people you trust. |
| 0:41.7 | This is Twitter. |
| 0:45.2 | This is Tech News Weekly, episode 379, with Jennifer Patterson, Tooey, and me, Micah Sargent, |
| 0:53.0 | recorded Thursday, March 20th, 2025. |
| 0:56.3 | Google unveils mid-range Pixel 9A. |
| 1:00.9 | Hello and welcome to Tech News Weekly, the show every week we talk to and about the people making and breaking the tech news. |
| 1:07.5 | I am your host, Micah, Sergeant, and I am joined on this episode on this, the third Thursday in March, |
| 1:16.7 | by Jennifer Patterson Toey. Welcome back, Jen. Thank you. You know, I think I've been doing this for a year. |
| 1:25.1 | It has been a year. Because it's my birthday tomorrow. |
| 1:28.2 | And I remember it was my birthday, like the first day. |
| 1:32.4 | I did it. |
| 1:33.3 | So I think it's been a year. |
| 1:35.0 | Oh, my goodness. |
| 1:35.9 | Congratulations. |
| 1:37.0 | Thank you for being here with us. |
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