TWiT 1058: Furry Little Potatoes - Smart Glasses & Everyday "Surveillance"

This Week in Tech (Audio)

Leo Laporte

Technology, Techtv, Tech News, This Week In Technology, Twit, Leo Laporte

4 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 16 November 2025

⏱️ 200 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

Meta's Ray-Ban Display glasses steal the spotlight on a Rome trip, triggering debates about privacy, wearable tech etiquette, and the uncomfortable power of recording the world through your eyewear. Plus, gadgets scanning your urine, bots shaping your inbox, and the future of Disney+!

Counting Renaissance butts in Rome with the Meta Ray-Ban Display
Jury says Apple owes Masimo $634M for patent infringement
Google ordered to pay $665 million for anticompetitive practices in Germany
Disney and YouTube TV reach deal to end blackout
The future of Disney Plus could involve AI-generated videos
X is finally rolling out Chat, its DM replacement with encryption and video calling
Tim Cook could step down as Apple CEO 'as soon as next year'
iPhone Pocket revealed in hands-on videos of new Apple accessory
AMD continues to chip away at Intel's X86 market share — company now sells over 25% of all x86 chips and powers 33% of all desktop systems
Google DeepMind is using Gemini to train agents inside Goat Simulator 3
George Lucas' narrative art museum opens next year in LA
Spotify's new audiobook recap feature uses AI to remind you of the story so far
PNG is back!
3 SeatGuru alternatives for finding the best airline seats
What Are We Going to Do With 300 Billion Pennies?
Withings Beamo

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Victoria Song and Christina Warren

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0:00.0	It's time for Twitter this week at Tech. We are going to have a great show. I just know a Victoria's Song is here from The Virgin. It's the return of Christina Warren. She's now back at GitHub. We're going to talk about counting Renaissance butts in Rome with a meta-ray band display. Disney and YouTube TV finally make a deal. And where's Tim Cook going?
0:22.1	Is he ready to retire?
0:23.1	All that more coming up next on Twit.
0:28.0	Podcasts you love.
0:29.6	From people you trust.
0:32.2	This is Twit.
0:47.1	This is Twit, This is Twit. This Week in Tech. Episode 158 recorded Sunday, November 16th, 2025.
0:53.2	Furry little potatoes. It's time for Twit this week in tech. The show we cover the week's tech news. and we've been sitting here for half an hour chatting, and I forgot to press the record button. So maybe we better begin the show. This is going to be one of those shows. It's going to be so much fun. Victoria's Song is back. She was so great the last time you were on. I'm so glad we could get you back seeing your reviewer at The Verge. She's back from Rome
1:12.5	with her meta display glasses. We've got lots to talk about. Victoria, welcome. Thank you for having me.
1:19.4	And someone we have missed desperately. She disappeared into the maw of Google, into the maw of deep mind and was incognito for a year,
1:32.3	but she's back.
1:33.3	I saw your post, Christina Warren at GitHub Universe.
1:38.3	I said, what?
1:40.3	And we immediately contacted you.
1:42.3	Welcome back to the living. Thank you so much. Thank you so much. No, that was so nice of you because I didn't want to make a big deal about like, you know, like job announcements if it wasn't one of those things that was necessary. But I wanted to let people know I was at Universe and people picked up on it, which was great to see. And you always have some very nice crocs you were wearing. I did.
2:01.2	I had the Windows XP crocs and I was wearing a Zoom t-shirt and just going all out.
2:07.2	Yeah, I know it was a good fit.
2:08.4	It was a really, really good day two fit.
2:10.0	Like day one, like I was like all like, you know, like looking like sleek and like professional.
2:15.6	And the day two, I was like no we're we're going to do
2:18.2	the the zoon t-shirt and and the the windows XP limited edition crocs which are are so good
2:23.7	um so those weren't hand painted they actually sold no yeah no they actually made for the 50th
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