TNW 436: What 40,000 Schools Tell Us About Phone Bans - Do Phone Bans in School Really Benefits Students?
Tech News Weekly (Audio)
Leo Laporte
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🗓️ 7 May 2026
⏱️ 78 minutes
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Abrar Al-Heeti of CNET joins the show this week! The Oscars implement new rules with limits placed on the use of AI. Apple is set to pay $250 million to settle allegations about the capabilities of AI on its iPhones. Does tech suck now? And a study into the ban of cellphone use in schools shows mixed results in students' behavior and overall academic performance.
- Abrar talks about how the Oscars announced new eligibility guidelines for awards, requiring that roles & screenplays must be conducted by humans, stopping short of a ban on the use of AI in films nominated.
- Mikah shares how Apple must pay $250 million to settle class action lawsuits that allege the company misled customers on the capabilities of AI on its iPhones that never fully shipped as promised.
- Andrew Lanxon of CNET joins the show to discuss whether modern technology is genuinely getting worse or if some of us are simply becoming harder to please as we get older.
- And Mikah talks about a study that looks at schools restricting student use of cellphones during the day and the mixed results in improving students' behavior and in their academics overall.
Hosts: Mikah Sargent and Abrar Al-Heeti
Guest: Andrew Lanxon
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on Tech News Weekly, Abriol Hiti of C-Net is here. |
| 0:02.9 | We talk about the Oscars changing its rules with AI. |
| 0:06.0 | I also talk about Apple's upcoming settlement over Siri and AI. |
| 0:13.2 | Then Andrew Langson of C-Net joins us to talk about tech, making him a grumpy old man. |
| 0:19.8 | Well, and also just tech being troublesome. Before I talk |
| 0:23.5 | about a ban on cell phones and schools and the results therein. Stay tuned for this episode of |
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| 1:38.6 | This is Tech News Weekly, episode 436, with Abar Alhiti and me, Micah Sargent, recorded Thursday, May 7th, |
| 1:46.7 | 2026. What 40,000 schools tell us about phone bans? |
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