US Supreme Court oral arguments on TikTok ban begin, The Linux Foundation backs Chromium support, Automattic reduces contributions to WordPress core project.
We discuss the winners of Best of CES 2025. Plus Meta backtracks on its policy of allowing political content on its platform. And we discuss the LA Fires and how it has impacted the DTNS crew.
Starring Sarah Lane, Tom Merritt, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang, Amos, Joe.
CES Spokesperson Allison Fried tells us about the growing tech trends at CES. Also why Apple is not selling your conversations to advertisers, and NotebookLM launches a news podcast.
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Google ‘Daily Listen’ is a personalized podcast based on Discover
Apple might be working on a new ‘Invites’ app | TechCrunch
VLC player demos real-time AI subtitling for videos – The Verge
Microsoft’s Xbox Developer Direct returns on January 23rd with a ‘brand new game’ – The Verge
Microsoft teases ‘major’ Surface business announcement for January 30th – The Verge
Political content on Instagram and Threads ramped up
Threads and Instagram are for politics now, says Adam Mosseri – The Verge
Microsoft’s Small Language Model Phi-4 is Now Available for Free
A sign of things to come? Renault’s Dacia slashes price of low-cost EV
TCS Misses Profit Estimates in Sign IT Spending Yet to Pick Up – Bloomberg
Omi is another AI companion wearable — but this one’s trying to read your mind – The Verge
Samsung The Frame Pro at CES 2025: A big upgrade for the art TV
EcoFlow’s Solar hat is better for the planet than your style
Tom finds Matter is slowly making its way across more IoT smart home devices. Robert Heron is here with details on Home Theater technology trends for this year including even larger screens, brighter OLED displays, and laser short-throw projects. Plus Robb Dunewood’s shares the results of his quest to find better microphones for podcasting. And Jason Howell discovers an AI powered earbuds that does translation.
Starring Tom Merritt, Robb Dunewood, Jason Howell, Robert Heron, Amos, Roger Chang, Joe.
Samsung’s Subscription Club expands beyond Korea, Google announces local control on Matter devices, Microsoft releases its Phi-4 14-billion parameter AI model.
It’s day 2 of our CES coverage. Allison found a space heater for beehives, an emotional support pet robots, iFixit’s latest DIY repair tools. Plus Robb has found a potentially life changing tool for those with dyslexia. Tom’s found several new smart glasses. And Bodie shares what he learned from Lightship RV about the future of EV RVing and Pivotal’s single seat EVTOL.
Starring Sarah Lane, Tom Merritt, Robb Dunewood, Allison Sheridan, Bodie Grimm, Amos, Joe, Roger Chang.
Meta will phase in community notes to replace third-party fact-checking, Dell changes its laptop branding to Dell, Dell Pro, and Dell Pro Max, and Samsung announced its next Galaxy Unpacked event will be held at 1 PM Eastern in San Jose, California, on January 22.
We kick off our January read, wrap up Akata Witch, and welcome in new public domain characters. There’s a new Lord of the Rings movie this year. Yay! Plus, Veronica had a rhubarb cider, and Joe Abercrombie looks great for 50!