TNW 413: Testing Valve's Steam Frame, Machine & Controller - Valve's New Steam Hardware
Tech News Weekly (Audio)
Leo Laporte
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🗓️ 13 November 2025
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Jacob Ward of The Rip Current joins Mikah Sargent this week! Tech titans are investing millions into genetically engineered babies. A lot of those who worry about data privacy feel like their actions make no difference. Comments from Windows lead Pavan Davuluri on the future of Windows received a lot of blowback online. And Valve announced a trio of new hardware for.
- Jacob discusses tech billionaires funding companies that are pursuing genetically engineered babies, raising concerns about the commercialization of polygenic screening.
- Mikah talks about how a lot of Americans do worry about data privacy, but feel helpless in that any actions they may take make no real difference.
- Zac Bowden from Windows Central joins the show to talk about comments made recently online from Windows lead Pavan Davuluri on the future of Windows "evolving into an agentic OS," which received plenty of pushback.
- And Scott Stein of CNET stops by to share his hands-on experience with Valve's recently announced new Steam hardware, set to launch in 2026.
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Guests: Zac Bowden and Scott Stein
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on Tech News Weekly, Jake Ward is here. |
| 0:02.7 | His story of the week is all about genetically engineered babies. |
| 0:06.5 | Then I talk about why people say they care about privacy, |
| 0:11.0 | but then don't demand it. |
| 0:13.0 | Afterwards, Zach Bowden of Windows Central talks about how Windows president, |
| 0:19.0 | who said, well, the platform's gonna be an agentic OS, got in a lot of heat on social media, |
| 0:25.0 | before Scott Stein of CNET joined us to talk about his hands-on with all of the new Valve hardware. |
| 0:31.3 | Really exciting episode coming up of Tech News Weekly. Stay tuned. |
| 0:37.2 | Podcasts you love. |
| 0:39.1 | From people you trust. |
| 0:41.6 | This is Twitter. |
| 0:45.0 | This is Tech News Weekly, episode 413, with Jake Ward and me, Micah Sargent. |
| 0:51.8 | Recorded Thursday, November 13th, 2025, testing valves steam |
| 0:57.0 | frame, machine, and controller. |
| 1:00.0 | 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. |
| 1:08.0 | I am your host, Micah Sargent, and I am joined this week. Yes, it is already the second week of November by Jake Ward. Welcome back to the show, Jake. What's up, Micah? I have to say, this one snuck up on me. I was like, is it time again already? I don't know if time is accelerating because I'm getting older or what's going on. But yeah, I'm glad to be here with you. |
| 1:28.1 | I can't believe it. Yeah, it's wild. Now, we of course like to kick off the show by sharing some |
| 1:34.2 | stories of the week. These are stories that we find interesting or think that y'all should know about. |
| 1:41.0 | And I am excited to hand it over to Jake to introduce his story of the week. |
| 1:46.0 | All right, so I'll start in the kind of self-involved way that a professional journalist has to |
| 1:52.0 | with a story that I did once upon a time. So back in 2018, I was at an academic conference |
| 1:58.0 | and I was at the sort of like, you coffee table at the end of it and a guy |
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