TNW 418: Best of 2025 - Tech News Weekly's Favorite Interviews in 2025
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Leo Laporte
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🗓️ 28 December 2025
⏱️ 88 minutes
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Summary
Take a look back at some of our favorite interviews from the past year on Tech News Weekly!
- Eric Migicovsky, founder of the smartwatch company Pebble, joins Mikah to talk about exciting news with Pebble.
- Bloomberg antitrust reporter Leah Nylen returns to unpack the latest in the DOJ's case against Google. She explains the three proposed remedies—including a possible Chrome browser divestiture—and what testimony from tech competitors like DuckDuckGo, Perplexity, and OpenAI revealed about Google's dominance in search and AI.
- Leila Zia, Head of Research at the Wikimedia Foundation, outlines their new AI roadmap, which focuses on supporting Wikipedia's volunteer editors rather than replacing them. She details how AI will assist with moderation, multilingual knowledge expansion, and mentorship—all while upholding values of transparency and human agency.
- Scott Stein of CNET is staying busy as he joins the show to share his hands-on impressions of Nintendo's Switch 2 console, Mario Kart World, and its new features.
- And Consumer Reports' Derek Kravitz details Instacart's AI pricing practices.
Host: Mikah Sargent
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on this, a very special episode of Tech News Weekly, it's a look back at our best moments of 2025. |
| 0:09.5 | Podcasts you love. |
| 0:11.1 | From people you trust. |
| 0:13.6 | This is Twitter. |
| 0:17.2 | This is Tech News Weekly, episode 418. With me, Micah Sargent, recorded Thursday, December 11th, 2025 for December 25th, 2025. |
| 0:28.6 | The best of 2025. |
| 0:32.6 | Season's greetings, everyone. I hope you're enjoying the holidays. If you are tuning in for today's |
| 0:39.0 | episode of Tech News Weekly, well, it's just a look back at some of my favorite moments from |
| 0:44.7 | this year, some of the best interviews that we had. So be sure to give it a listen and joy. And |
| 0:50.9 | I'll catch you on the flip side. |
| 0:55.6 | Nostalgia. |
| 0:56.8 | Gotta love it. |
| 1:04.2 | I spent this morning, actually, digging around through my boxes because I did just recently move, trying to find the device I know is hiding out somewhere, my pebble. |
| 1:11.7 | And that is because there's some great news to talk about when it comes to pebble. |
| 1:17.5 | Joining us today to talk about that great news is Eric Mijikovsky. |
| 1:23.4 | Welcome back, Eric. |
| 1:24.9 | How are you? |
| 1:25.5 | Thank you. |
| 1:26.1 | It's good to be back. |
| 1:30.9 | Yeah, there's a blast from the past this week. |
| 1:45.8 | Although I hear for you, it's not quite a blast from the past because you've been using your pebble for a while. I want to talk about that. That's awesome. It's right there on your wrist. So let's let's kick things off, though. If somebody were not familiar with Pebble and what we're talking about here, maybe we should start there. |
| 1:51.4 | Although, again, I have a feeling that this crowd either has owned one or has heard about it. |
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