TNW 382: Anticipating Samsung's Home Robot - Waymo, Digg.com, Apple's Siri
Tech News Weekly (Audio)
Leo Laporte
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🗓️ 10 April 2025
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
A Waymo robotaxi got stuck in a unique space. A rebooted digg.com launches an early-access community. How Apple fumbled the AI makeover of Siri. Samsung is finally releasing its Ballie device later this summer, which was initially unveiled back in 2020.
- Amanda Silberling of TechCrunch is here this week! Amanda talks about a Waymo robotaxi that got trapped in a Chick-fil-A drive-through after dropping off a passenger at the fast-food restaurant.
- Mikah Sargent talks about the rebooted digg.com website launching an early-access community with a $5 fee that gives early adopters insight into the website's rebuilding and other perks.
- Mikah also talks about a great report from Wayne Ma of The Information about Apple's fumble with Siri's AI makeover.
- And Jennifer Pattison Tuohy of The Verge stops by to talk about Samsung's Ballie, which is finally getting a release later this summer after being announced back in 2020.
Hosts: Mikah Sargent and Amanda Silberling
Guest: Jennifer Pattison Tuohy
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on Tech News Weekly, Amanda Soberling of Tech Crunch is here. |
| 0:03.7 | We talk about a Waymo getting stuck in a Chick-fil-A drive-thru. |
| 0:07.6 | Then we head back into the early web as we talk about Dig and our early experiences there |
| 0:14.6 | before another story of the week about Apple and its fumbled Siri launch. |
| 0:20.4 | Then Jennifer Patterson, Tui of the Verge stops stops by to tell us about Bali, that's Samsung's |
| 0:25.3 | upcoming home robots. |
| 0:26.7 | All of that coming up on Tech News Weekly. |
| 0:31.8 | Podcasts you love. |
| 0:33.4 | From people you trust. |
| 0:35.9 | This is Twitter. |
| 0:39.7 | This is Tech News Weekly, episode 382, with Amanda Silberling and me, Micah Sargent, |
| 0:46.8 | recorded Thursday, April 10th, 2025, anticipating Samsung's home robot. |
| 0:54.4 | Hello and welcome to Tech News Weekly, the show every week we talk to and about the people |
| 0:58.0 | making and breaking that tech news. |
| 1:00.5 | I am your host, Micah Sargent, and I am joined on this episode on the second Thursday of the |
| 1:08.3 | month by TechCrunch's own Amanda Silberling. Welcome back, Amanda. Hello, happy Second Thursday of the Month by TechCrunch's own Amanda Silberling. |
| 1:12.0 | Welcome back, Amanda. |
| 1:13.2 | Hello. |
| 1:13.8 | Happy Second Thursday of the month. |
| 1:15.8 | Happy second Thursday of the month to you. |
| 1:18.1 | Perhaps we should have like a special observance on these the second Thursdays, a little |
| 1:24.1 | lighting of incense or something. |
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