TNW 426: Samsung Galaxy S26: AI, Privacy, and New Buds - Samsung's New Privacy Display Feature
Tech News Weekly (Audio)
Leo Laporte
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🗓️ 26 February 2026
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Emily Forlini of PCMag joins Mikah Sargent this week on Tech News Weekly! A look into a program that trains dogs to detect hidden tech. How AI is impacting learning for kids in schools. Samsung touts a new privacy feature for its latest phones. And Apple is ramping up its new product releases as it catches up in the AI race.
- Emily talks about her time at the FBI and a program that trains dogs to detect hidden tech.
- Mikah chats about an agentic AI that was developed to attend lectures and do homework for you, delving into the conversation about AI's impact on a child's learning development.
- Jason Howell of Android Faithful joins the show to talk about everything announced at the Galaxy Unpacked event that happened in San Francisco, including Samsung's new Privacy Display feature.
- And Mikah talks about Mark Gurman's look into the work Apple is ramping up on as it works to catch up in the AI era of tech.
Hosts: Mikah Sargent and Emily Forlini
Guest: Jason Howell
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on Tech News Weekly, Emily Forlini is here and has a special announcement, very exciting stuff, |
| 0:06.6 | and then we get to hear about her time at the FBI meeting a really cool dog. |
| 0:13.5 | No, I'm not lying. You've got to check it out. I also talk about an AI that's supposed to do your homework and go to school for you. |
| 0:21.2 | Jason Howell stops by to give us the lowdown on Samsung Unpacked. |
| 0:26.4 | And I round things out by talking about the latest rumors on Apple hardware just around the corner. |
| 0:33.1 | Stay tuned. |
| 0:34.0 | You do not want to miss this episode of Tech News Weekly. |
| 0:39.0 | Podcasts you love. |
| 0:40.6 | From people you trust. |
| 0:43.2 | This is Twitter. |
| 0:46.9 | This is Tech News Weekly, episode 426, with Emily Forlini and me, Micah Sargent, recorded Thursday, February 26th, |
| 0:56.0 | 2026, Samsung Galaxy S26, AI, privacy, and new buds. |
| 1:04.0 | Hello and welcome to Tech News Weekly, the show where every week we talk to and about the people making and breaking the tech news. I am your host, |
| 1:11.7 | Micah Sargent. And today I am joined by the wonderful, the ever talented. Emily Forlini, |
| 1:21.4 | welcome back, Em. Thank you so much. I'm happy to be here as we discuss. This will be my last show in several months. |
| 1:29.6 | Oh. Oh, I'm having a babe. I'm having a baby. So I'll be out for a little bit. |
| 1:36.9 | Oh, we are very excited for you, very happy for you. And glad that you get to take some time away and, you know, wish you all the best, |
| 1:48.3 | of course. I'm sure that it will not be long before the live chat is filled with congratulations |
| 1:55.1 | for you as well. But let us kind of keep going along here. Of course, people, by this point, you got to know how the show works. |
| 2:03.6 | We kick things off by talking about our stories of the week. |
| 2:06.9 | These are the stories we think are interesting and important and well worth sharing with you. |
| 2:12.7 | And oh, my goodness, I was so excited when Emily sent me the story that she planned to talk about today. |
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