Dr. Niki looked at the numbers and tells us why this year’s number of recalls is not that different than previous ones, but is notable in one important way.

Featuring Tom Merritt and Dr. Nicole Ackermans.

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Tom Merritt and Jenn Cutter look back on the biggest tech stories of July

Starring Tom Merritt and Jenn Cutter.

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Astra is coming for us all, Lenovo has new concept devices, and Microsoft knows what’s best for you. Streaming game limits and developer configurations. 

Starring Tom Merritt and Jenn Cutter

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DJI, Roborock, and Dyson unveiled new robovacs that can easily climb stairs and keep home mapping data private, and HTC's VIVE Eagle smartglasses gives bystanders the ability to stop recording simply by saying so themselves.

Starring Jason Howell and Jenn Cutter

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A judge rules that Google won’t have to drop its ad tech businesses. Plus, OPenAI says how it will safeguard Astra, and Anthropic releases Fable 5.1

Starring Tom Merritt and Sarah Lane.

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Roku's first OLED TV is more affordable and likely still has ads, and a new study that finds that raindrops really can do the electric slide and that's one reason why metal corrodes.

Starring Jason Howell and Tom Merritt.

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The EU calls ChatGPT a Very Large Search Engine Platform; also, it’s Tim Cook’s last day, and Microsoft leans back towards physical media for Xbox.

Starring Tom Merritt and Robb Dunewood

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Dr. Gerry Tolbert joins us to tell us why he's so excited for a robotic system to draw blood and what hurdles it will need to overcome to get widespread acceptance. And yes, his name is pronounced Jerry, not Gary, which Tom knows, but Gerry was too nice to correct him during the show. 

https://thenextweb.com/news/vitestro-aletta-fda-robotic-blood-draw

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Grand Theft Auto VI runs at an articulable 30 frames per second and apparently has around 80 hours of gameplay, and Samsung's new Odyssey monitor lineup pushes 1100Hz refresh whether you can tell the difference or not.

Starring Jason Howell and Huyen Tue Dao.

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And HuggingFace made a dancing robot duck.

Starring Tom Merritt and Huyen Tue Dao

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Meta will change its teen policies for ten years, Bill Gates wants to tax AI and robots, and Xbox kicks off its disc-to-digital program.

Starring Tom Merritt and Sarah Lane.

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Uber is giving parents of teens the ability to livestream video of the child's ride in real time, and Android 17 includes a new Motion Assist feature to help reduce motion sickness for riders in moving vehicles.

Starring Jason Howell, Tom Merritt and Dr. Niki.

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Netflix might join Amazon and Apple in letting you add services. Plus, a humanoid robot runs faster than Usain Bolt and game preservationists plan a boycott of Sony.

Starring Tom Merritt and Robb Dunewood

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Brian Hoffman joins us to talk about how pilots like himself deal with jet lag after decades of experience.

Featuring Tom Merritt and Brian Hoffman.

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Dr. Niki chats with Jim Ackermans, Naval engineer, about carbon footprint reduction in commercial shipping. What methods have promise and which ones might sink.

Featuring Dr. Nicole Ackermans and Jim Ackermans.

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A new feature aims to make it easier for news publishers to show up more often in AI overviews. Plus, ChatGPT can now access Apple Messages.

Starring Tom Merritt and Huyen Tue Dao

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Stripe's acquisition of OpenRouter is official bringing it one step closer to being the money manager for AI, and YouTube is reportedly incentivizing its biggest creators to remain exclusive... or else!

Starring Jason Howell, Jenn Cutter, Tom Merritt and Bobby Frankenberger

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OpenAI published some details about its new safety precautions. Meanwhile, Amazon ups its drone delivery game, and Pew Research Center determines that everybody’s still worried that AI will take their jobs.

Starring Tom Merritt and Sarah Lane.

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YouTube changed how it tracks views to catch up with TikTok and Instagram hoping to make its metrics less confusing, and opening statements have begun in a major child safety case that looks at how Meta designed Facebook and Instagram.

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Uber signs up Zipline drones and GrubHub contracts with Serve Robotics. PLus NVIDIA makes a less risky backing of OpenAI’s Ohio data center and whether adding AI to dogs who can smell cancer is is scientifically sound. 

Starring Tom Merritt, Robb Dunewood, and Dr. Niki

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Dr. Niki takes us deep into the past to explore what ancient hand axes can tell us about human intelligence, technology, and the way our ancestors thought. Plus, what archaeology can teach us about innovation.

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Featuring Dr. Nicole Ackermans and Dr. Jonathan Dombrosky.

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ChatGPT Computer History gathers how you use your computer for constant context within ChatGPT, and the CMF Clip Pro buds are getting favorable reviews for environmental awareness and comfort.

Starring Jason Howell and Huyen Tue Dao.

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 It’s a day of changing policies. US lets private companies hack back sometimes, Flock increases privacy controls, and Twitch lets you opt out of AI training. 

Starring Tom Merritt and Huyen Tue Dao

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It’s what’s inside that counts. And with the new Pixels, that’s Gemini. Also, somebody tried to phish everyone using WiFi on a Delta flight.

Starring Tom Merritt and Sarah Lane.

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Lenovo's ThinkBook patent codenamed Project Swan will bring horizontal rollable displays to its laptop form factor, and Apple is reportedly splitting the release of its premium iPhone 18 devices from its cheaper ones.

Starring Jason Howell and Tom Merritt.

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Google finally opens back up to a game store, meanwhile a vulnerability in UK military drones may not be as bad as it seems.

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Dr. Niki helps us understand how TimeShifter can actually reduce your jet lag with solid science.

Featuring Tom Merritt and Dr. Nicole Ackermans.

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But will it have a hole? Also, Google open sources the solution to hurricane preparedness.

Starring Tom Merritt and Huyen Tue Dao

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It’s the first new Bose QuietComfort headphones in three years. Plus, Dolby Vision 2 comes to HiSense, a Samsung soundbar that doesn’t need a subwoofer, and smart glasses displays that don’t need prescription inserts.

Starring Tom Merritt and Huyen Tue Dao

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Also, Sunbird is back for iMessage on Android and Disney+ wants TikTok users to post there.

Starring Tom Merritt, and Sarah Lane

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Microsoft released details of a Hotel Wi-Fi attack capable of breaching 365 accounts, and OpenAI shares a collection of screenshots and emails to defend itself against Apple's trade secret lawsuit against it.

Starring Jason Howell, Tom Merritt, and Dr. Niki.

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A court order indicates Apple continues to fight. Plus, new Googlebook laptops coming from Lenovo and expensive gaming laptops from Razer.

Starring Tom Merritt and Robb Dunewood.

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Jason Howell and Jenn Cutter look back on the biggest tech stories of July

Starring Jason Howell and Jenn Cutter.

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Sony says its reserved enough memory for all those PS5s it plans to sell this year with the release of GTA 6, and CipherX sells a mail-order permanent tattoo technology that's pain free and pretty cheap.

Starring Jason Howell and Jenn Cutter

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DJI's Osmo Pocket 4B is out but you might have a hard time getting it in the US, and Google DeepMind's Gemini Robotics 2 aims to be the Android OS for physical AI and humanoid robots.

Starring Jason Howell and Huyen Tue Dao.

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Google is shutting down the DeepMind AlphaFold team and moving researchers into Gemini and Isomorphic Labs, and Hugging Face is one of four entities impacted by OpenAI's agentic cyberattack.

Starring Jason Howell and Sarah Lane.

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Motorola's new Android app called Indigenous Collections is all about the preservation of indigenous language and culture, and Model Context Protocol got its biggest update to date to make AI agents in the enterprise more practical at scale.

Starring Jason Howell and Jenn Cutter.

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But it’s a weird search index quirk that’s causing it. Plus, a bellwether case about data rights at the US border.

Starring Tom Merritt and Robb Dunewood.

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When you have to have a ComicCon policy for something, it’s mainstream. And everyone but OpenAI and Anthropic signs an open letter supporting open weight models. 

Starring Tom Merritt and Huyen Tue Dao

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Amazon Hopes that adding games will make Prime Video more sticky

Starring Jason Howell and Huyen Tue Dao.

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You’d think they’d be mad, but Hugging Face has nothing but praise for OpenAI. Plus, Robb Dunewood joins us to break down the new Samsung Galaxy Foldables.

Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, and Robb Dunewood.

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Samsung has a new credit card that goes toe to toe to the Apple Card, and xMEMS announced a new fan-on-a-chip that's designed to keep heat down on smartglasses and XR headsets.

Starring Jason Howell, Tom Merritt and Huyen Tue Dao.

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Kimi is the second coming of Deep Seek, and Hugging Face thinks the US needs to change how ti thinks about AI safety.

Starring Tom Merritt and Robb Dunewood.

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Kimi K3 is a new frontier-level open-weights model from Moonshot AI out of China that gives properietary models a run for their money, and robotics research has now given us the ability to get dressed without having to use our hands and it's... kinda wierd.

Starring Jason Howell and Huyen Tue Dao.

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Vital Signals introduced a $399 smart ring that is meant to replace Blood Pressure Cuffs without a subscription fee attached, and 1Password says it is letting Claude tap into its password vault and 2-factor codes safely.

Starring Jason Howell and Huyen Tue Dao

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OpenAI's new Codex Micro keyboard is a $230 niche control center for ChatGPT agents, and Bloomberg says OnePlus is days away from announcing its exit from the US market.

Starring Jason Howell and Sarah Lane.

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Microsoft announced its finally removing promotional noise from the Windows 11 Search Box, and New York has become the first US state to place a moratorium on new hyperscale data centers.

Starring Jason Howell and Jenn Cutter.

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More than 200 economists and tech leaders signed a “We Must Act Now” letter encouraging policymakers to understand and address the AI moment, and the European Union is planning a ban of children under 13 from using social media with staged access as they get older.

Starring Jason Howell and Robb Dunewood.

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What games made them lifelong gamers? Jenn Cutter and Roger Chang revisit the six titles that started it all, from Roger's 8-bit classics King's Quest and Star Trek to Jenn's Mario adventures on the NES and SNES.

Starring Jenn Cutter and Roger Chang.

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Hammond and Amos walk through some of the common problems they face producing daily news podcasts, relate tales of woe, and share some advice for those wanting to create their own content.

Starring Anthony Lemos, Hammond Chamberlain

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