TNW 405: Inside Meta's New $799 Smart Glasses - The Ray-Ban Display Glasses & Neural Band
Tech News Weekly (Audio)
Leo Laporte
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🗓️ 18 September 2025
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Jennifer Pattison Tuohy of The Verge joins Mikah Sargent this week on Tech News Weekly! Amazon has announced its upcoming fall hardware event. OpenAI is working towards implementing security features for teens using ChatGPT. A look into SMS blasters as a way to target you with scam texts. And Scott Stein of CNET spent some time with Meta's newest Ray-Ban Display Glasses and Neural Band.
- Jennifer is excited as Amazon has announced its upcoming hardware event for September 30th, at which the company is expected to unveil its latest Kindle and Echo devices.
- Also, Google will be debuting its latest smart home devices the day after Amazon's hardware event on October 1st!
- OpenAI is working towards implementing safeguards and restrictions for teens using ChatGPT, following lawsuits and growing regulatory scrutiny.
- Mikah shares how cybercriminals are utilizing a process called "SMS blasters" to send scam text messages to people.
- And Scott Stein of CNET joins the show from the Meta campus to share his initial hands-on experience with Meta's new Neural Band and latest Ray-Ban Display Glasses.
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on Tech News Weekly, Jennifer Patterson, Toey of The Verge is here. |
| 0:04.6 | We start by talking about what we expect at Amazon's upcoming hardware event before Google |
| 0:11.0 | has one of its own. Then I talk about the latest from Open AI and what it's doing to protect |
| 0:15.9 | teens using its chatbot. Afterward, a quick story about the latest tech cybercriminals are using to try to send |
| 0:23.1 | you spam messages before we round things out with CNET's own Scott Stein, who stops by after |
| 0:29.2 | going eyes on with meta's new Ray Band Display Glasses. |
| 0:34.2 | All of that coming up on Tech News Weekly. |
| 0:39.3 | Podcasts you love. |
| 0:41.1 | From people you trust. |
| 0:43.6 | This is Twit. |
| 0:47.2 | This is Tech News Weekly, episode 405, with Jennifer Patterson-Tooey and me, Micah Sargent, recorded Thursday, September 18th, |
| 0:56.5 | 2025, Inside Meta's new $799 Smart Classes. |
| 1:03.5 | Hello and welcome to Tech News Weekly, the show where every week we talk to and about the |
| 1:07.5 | people making and breaking the tech news. |
| 1:10.4 | I am your host, Micah, Sergeant, and I am |
| 1:13.2 | joined this week by the wonderful Jennifer Patterson-Tooey. Welcome back to the show, Jen. |
| 1:19.5 | Hi, Micah. Happy to be back. It feels like it's been an age. I've been all around the world |
| 1:24.9 | since I last for you. Yeah, you're the jet setter of the group. |
| 1:29.3 | Welcome back. I'm glad you had, you know, safe travels and everything. |
| 1:33.3 | It's been a busy couple of months in the smart home territory. |
| 1:39.3 | We're in TechTober. TechTember. |
| 1:41.3 | Oh, I love that. |
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