TNW 393: Wearables for Every American? - Government Ad Campaign to Get You Wearing Trackers
Tech News Weekly (Audio)
Leo Laporte
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🗓️ 26 June 2025
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
This week on Tech News Weekly, Mikah Sargent and Emily Forlini explore RFK Jr.'s ambitious plan to get health trackers on every American's wrist, Apple's CarPlay Ultra facing resistance from automakers, landmark AI copyright rulings, and Fairphone's latest sustainable smartphone offering.
- RFK Jr.'s Wearable Health Initiative - Emily Forlini discusses the HHS Secretary's vision for every American to wear health trackers within four years, examining both the potential benefits of democratizing health data and concerns about privacy, data collection, and the government outsourcing public health monitoring to tech companies.
- Apple CarPlay Ultra vs. Automakers - Mikah explores Apple's ambitious expansion beyond infotainment to control entire car dashboards, revealing which manufacturers are embracing or rejecting the technology, and discussing the fundamental question of who should own the in-car experience - tech companies, automakers, or consumers.
- AI Copyright Rulings Shake Tech Industry - WIRED's Kate Knibbs breaks down two precedent-setting court decisions involving Meta and Anthropic, explaining how judges ruled AI training as "transformative" fair use while leaving the door open for piracy-related damages that could reach into the trillions.
- Fairphone 6: Sustainability Meets Modularity - Will Sattelberg from 9to5Google showcases the latest repairable smartphone featuring modular backplates, a dedicated "Moments" mode for digital wellness, and an ambitious 8-year software support promise, though US availability remains limited.
Hosts: Mikah Sargent and Emily Forlini
Guests: Kate Knibbs and Will Sattelberg
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on Tech News Weekly, Emily Forlini is here, and we start off by talking about |
| 0:06.0 | RFK Junior's plan to get health trackers into the hands of every American. |
| 0:11.0 | Afterward, we talk about how Apple's CarPlay Ultra is trying to make its way into more cars, |
| 0:18.0 | but maybe those automakers aren't interested in it. |
| 0:21.6 | Then Kate Nibs of Wired stops by to talk about some landmark AI copyright wins |
| 0:28.1 | before we round things out with Will Saddleberg of 9 to 5 Google, who tells us a little bit |
| 0:33.5 | about Fairphone's latest, the Fairphone 6. All of that coming up on Tech News Weekly. |
| 0:39.2 | Stay tuned. |
| 0:42.5 | Podcasts you love. |
| 0:44.3 | From people you trust. |
| 0:46.8 | This is Twitter. |
| 0:50.3 | This is Tech News Weekly. |
| 0:53.8 | Episode 393, recorded Thursday, June 26th, 2025. |
| 1:00.1 | Wearables for every American? |
| 1:03.0 | 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. |
| 1:10.1 | I am your host, Micah, Sergeant, and I am joined this week at the end of June by Emily |
| 1:17.5 | for Lini. |
| 1:18.9 | Welcome, Emily. |
| 1:20.0 | It's been a while. |
| 1:20.9 | That was so great. |
| 1:22.0 | Hi. |
| 1:22.5 | How are you doing? |
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