TWiT 921: The Swiftie Panel - Apple Pay Later, Twitter Alternative, April Fool's
This Week in Tech (Audio)
Leo Laporte
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🗓️ 2 April 2023
⏱️ 157 minutes
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Summary
Apple Pay Later, Twitter Alternative, April Fool's
- Best of April Fool's Pranks
- GM is cutting off access to Apple CarPlay and Android Auto for its future EVs
- The Open Letter to Stop 'Dangerous' AI Race Is a Huge Mess
- 3 things everyone's getting wrong about AI
- Apple announces WWDC 2023 for June 5-9
- At Apple, Rare Dissent Over a New Product: Interactive Goggles
- Apple Releases iOS 16.4 With New Emoji, Safari Web Push Notifications, Beta Changes, Voice Isolation for Calls and More
- Apple Pay Later is finally launching
- E3 Cancelled After Big Tech Players Drop Out
- Microsoft Security Copilot is a new GPT-4 AI assistant for cybersecurity
- The secret list of Twitter VIPs getting boosted over everyone else
- T2 - Twitter Alternative
Host: Mikah Sargent
Guests: Alex Wilhelm, Abrar Al-Heeti, and Christina Warren
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on this week in tech, I am Micah Sargent subbing in for Leo Laporte while he's on vacation. |
| 0:05.4 | And I have a great show planned for you. We've got the SWIFTY panel. |
| 0:09.8 | It's Christina Warren, Senior Developer Advocate at GitHub. |
| 0:13.2 | Alex Wilhelm, Reporter at TechCrunch and Abraar Alheety, Video Host and Producer for CNET. |
| 0:19.5 | And we've got a lot to talk about. |
| 0:21.6 | We start off the show, running down some April Fools gags that kind of turns into just a desire |
| 0:28.2 | to have fun back on the internet. |
| 0:30.4 | Then we hit AI. There's a lot to talk about, including that open letter regarding AI and how it's dangerous. |
| 0:39.0 | Was what they said true and were the people who actually signed the letters, |
| 0:42.8 | truly the people who signed the letters. |
| 0:45.2 | We also talk about Twitter. |
| 0:47.7 | Some certain celebrities getting boosted, where we might go outside of Twitter, how we wish |
| 0:53.3 | we could return to how Twitter used to make us feel. |
| 0:57.0 | And we complain a little about GM deciding that car play and Android Auto are not worth keeping around |
| 1:07.1 | in future electronic vehicles. It's all that plus so much more coming up on this week in tech. |
| 1:16.1 | Podcasts you love. |
| 1:18.0 | From people you trust. |
| 1:20.5 | This is Twitch. |
| 1:23.4 | This is Twitch. This week in tech hosted this time by Micah Sergeant Episode 921 recorded Sunday, |
| 1:35.6 | April 2nd, 2023. The Swiftie panel. |
| 1:39.9 | This episode of this week in tech is brought to you by Lookout. Whether on a device or in the cloud, |
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