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Episode 181: It’s Time for Apple’s ‘Glowtime’ Showcase: New iPhone 16, Watch 10, and AirPods, Plus What Was Missing

2024-09-1749:15

Welcome to the WTR with your hosts, Jay and Karl, delving into the latest tech news, gadgets, games, and films! Available On: • Listen on Apple Podcasts | Listen on Spotify | Listen on Youtube | All Major Platforms In This Episode: Apple Watch 10 AirPods 4 & AirPods Max iPhone 16 iPhone 16 Pro What didn't we get We love hearing from you! Drop us a line in the comments or tweet us at @WeeklyTechRant

Episode 180: It's Time for OpenAI's $100 Billion Rescue, Concord's Shutdown, Starlink's Compliance, and Bluetooth's Upgrade

2024-09-0640:41

Welcome to the WTR with your hosts, Jay and Karl, delving into the latest tech news, gadgets, games, and films! Available On: • Listen on Apple Podcasts | Listen on Spotify | Listen on Youtube | All Major Platforms In This Episode: News Microsoft, Apple, and NVIDIA will reportedly bail out OpenAI from the shackles of bankruptcy, pushing the ChatGPT maker’s market valuation to over $100 billion Concord Is Suddenly Getting Pulled Offline With Sony Promising Full Refunds Elon Musk's Starlink will comply with the Brazil X ban after all Bluetooth 6.0 brings new technology that will help Apple improve its Find My network Rumours Nvidia RTX 5080 and RTX 5090 are reportedly 'scheduled to officially launch in September' and we'll believe it when we see them We love hearing from you! Drop us a line in the comments or tweet us at @WeeklyTechRant

Episode 179: It’s Time for ARM and AMD’s Bold Moves Against Nvidia, EU iPhone App Flexibility, and Apple’s‘Glowtime’ Event

2024-08-3139:07

Welcome to the WTR with your hosts, Jay and Karl, delving into the latest tech news, gadgets, games, and films! Available On: • Listen on Apple Podcasts | Listen on Spotify | Listen on Youtube | All Major Platforms In This Episode: News Arm reportedly spooling up major new GPU architecture to take on Nvidia AMD signs $4.9 billion deal to challenge Nvidia’s AI infrastructure lead EU iPhones will be able to change the default phone and messaging apps soon Meta pulls plug on plans for high-end Vision Pro competitor Amazon is bricking primary feature on $160 Echo device after 1 year Apple September 9 event invite promises ‘It’s Glowtime’ We love hearing from you! Drop us a line in the comments or tweet us at @WeeklyTechRant

Episode 178: It’s Time for Strategic Shifts at Cisco and Apple, Google’s Pixel 9 Unveiled, and the Latest in iPhone and AirPods Rumours

2024-08-2044:58

Welcome to the WTR with your hosts, Jay and Karl, delving into the latest tech news, gadgets, games, and films! Available On: • Listen on Apple Podcasts | Listen on Spotify | Listen on Youtube | All Major Platforms In This Episode: News Rumours We love hearing from you! Drop us a line in the comments or tweet us at @WeeklyTechRant

Episode 177: It’s Time for Intel’s Costly Reconfigurations, Expanded Game Worlds, and Apple Watch SE Speculations

2024-08-1243:28

Episode 177: It’s Time for Intel’s Costly Reconfigurations, Expanded Game Worlds, and Apple Watch SE Speculations Welcome to the WTR with your hosts, Jay and Karl, delving into the latest tech news, gadgets, games, and films! Available On: • Listen on Apple Podcasts | Listen on Spotify | Listen on Youtube | All Major Platforms In This Episode: News Intel Bleeds Red, Plans 15% Workforce Layoff and $10B Cuts For 2025 Intel’s crashing 13th and 14th Gen CPUs get two additional years of warranty coverage Games Grey Zone Warfare Car destruction lovers rejoice, Wreckfest 2 is on the way Flight Simulator 2024's huge ambition means 'you can now exit the plane, walk around… you can land on every ship, and it looks like a first person shooter environment' Grand Theft Auto 6 is still on track for fall 2025, and there's still no sign of a PC version Rumours The next Apple Watch SE might be plastic, but is that worth the tradeoff? We love hearing from you! Drop us a line in the comments or tweet us at @WeeklyTechRant. For more episodes and tech insights, visit our website: Weekly Tech Rant

Episode 176: It’s Time for Intel’s CPU Crisis, Delayed Apple Intelligence, Key Security Breaches, and Colourful iPhone 16 Revelations

2024-08-0546:18

Episode 176: It’s Time for Intel’s CPU Crisis, Delayed Apple Intelligence, Key Security Breaches, and Colorful iPhone 16 Revelations Welcome to the WTR with your hosts, Jay and Karl, delving into the latest tech news, gadgets, games, and films! Available On: • Listen on Apple Podcasts | Listen on Spotify | Listen on Youtube | All Major Platforms In This Episode: News Intel has no plans to recall those crashing 13th and 14th Gen CPUs, hasn't halted sales, and the damage to affected chips may be permanent Apple Intelligence reportedly may not arrive until October with iOS 18.1 Secure Boot useless on hundreds of PCs from major vendors after key leak OpenAI unveils SearchGPT, an AI-powered search engine Google apologizes for breaking password manager for millions of Windows users with iffy Chrome update Rumours The iPhone 16 color lineup looks like the best in years New image shows off iPhone 16 Pro colors, including darker Black Titanium We love hearing from you! Drop us a line in the comments or tweet us at @WeeklyTechRant. For more episodes and tech insights, visit our website: Weekly Tech Rant

Episode 175: It’s Time for CrowdStrike’s Global Windows Snafu, Musk’s Big Texas Shift, Cellebrite’s iPhone Conundrum, and Ultra-Slim iPhone Rumours

2024-07-3155:08

Welcome to the WTR with your hosts, Jay and Karl, delving into the latest tech news, gadgets, games, and films! Available On: • Listen on Apple Podcasts | Listen on Spotify | Listen on Youtube | All Major Platforms In This Episode: News Elon Musk is moving X and SpaceX to Texas Cellebrite can’t unlock most iPhones running iOS 17.4 and later Trump shooter used Android phone from Samsung; cracked by Cellebrite in 40 minutes FTC blasts Microsoft’s new ‘degraded’ Xbox Game Pass Standard tier and price increases CrowdStrike code update bricking Windows machines around the world Wiz rejects Google’s $23 billion takeover in favor of IPO Rumours New ultra-slim iPhone 17 to focus on form over function with just one camera We love hearing from you! Drop us a line in the comments or tweet us at @WeeklyTechRant. For more e

Episode 174: It's Time for Skeleton Key's AI Threat, TSMC's 2nm Milestone, Big Moves at Google and X, and Xbox's Pricing Strategy

2024-07-1646:42

Welcome to the WTR with your hosts, Jay and Karl, delving into the latest tech news, gadgets, games, and films! Available On: • Listen on Apple Podcasts | Listen on Spotify | Listen on Youtube | All Major Platforms In This Episode: News 'Skeleton Key' attack unlocks the worst of AI, says Microsoft TSMC ahead of schedule on trial production of 2nm chips; iPhone 17 first in line Humane execs leave company to found AI fact-checking startup Google is reportedly planning its biggest startup acquisition ever Microsoft is hiking the price of Xbox Game Pass Ultimate and launching a new ‘Standard’ tier Elon Musk’s X faces big EU fines as paid checkmarks are ruled deceptive Rumours iPhone 16’s new Capture button: Everything we know We love hearing from you! Drop us a line in the comments or tweet us at @WeeklyTechRant. For more episodes and tech insights, visit our website: Weekly Tech Rant

Episode 173: It’s Time for Cloudflare’s AI Defence, Tap-to-Pay Evolution, Security Breaches Galore, and Meta’s Smart Glasses Challenge

2024-07-0941:30

Available On: • Listen on Apple Podcasts | Listen on Spotify | Listen on Youtube | All Major Platforms In This Episode: News Cloudflare debuts one-click nuke of web-scraping AI Tap-to-pay could get more capable and more complicated Authy hack exposes phone numbers of 33M users; Twilio confirms Microsoft’s Midnight Blizzard source code breach also impacted federal agencies Here comes a Meta Ray-Bans challenger with ChatGPT-4o and a camera Rumours Kuo: Apple to begin mass production of AirPods with cameras by 2026 HomePod with display corroborated by references to a new Apple ‘HomeAccessory’ We love hearing from you! Drop us a line in the comments or tweet us at @WeeklyTechRant. For more episodes and tech insights, visit our website: Weekly Tech Rant

Episode 172: It’s Time for Apple’s DMA Challenge, Encryption Policy Shifts, SpaceX’s ISS Mission, and Glimpses of Future Apple Innovations

2024-06-2852:20

Episode 172: It’s Time for Apple’s DMA Challenge, Encryption Policy Shifts, SpaceX’s ISS Mission, and Glimpses of Future Apple Innovations Welcome to the WTR with your hosts, Jay and Karl, delving into the latest tech news, gadgets, games, and films! Available On: • Listen on Apple Podcasts | Listen on Spotify | Listen on Youtube | All Major Platforms In This Episode: June 2024 - ep172 (Season 5) News Apple is first company charged with violating EU’s DMA rules Europe and Australia both back down on CSAM scanning that would break encryption Musk's SpaceX hired to destroy ISS space station Thwarting cyberattacks from China is DHS’s top infrastructure security priority Rumours iPhone rear display and additional cameras described in Apple patent application Report: Cheaper ‘Apple Vision’ headset could require a tethered iPhone or Mac Alleged Apple Watch Series 10 schematics show larger 2-inch display, unchanged band attachment system Comments: We love hearing from you! Drop us a line in the comments or tweet us at @WeeklyTechRant. For more episodes and tech insights, visit our website: Weekly Tech Rant

Episode 171: It’s Time for AMD’s Zen 5 Breakthroughs and Intel’s Counter Moves, Plus PlayStation VR2 and Apple’s Slim Future

2024-06-2150:58

Episode 171: It’s Time for AMD’s Zen 5 Breakthroughs and Intel’s Counter Moves, Plus PlayStation VR2 and Apple’s Slim Future Welcome to the WTR with your hosts, Jay and Karl, delving into the latest tech news, gadgets, games, and films! Available On: • Listen on Apple Podcasts | Listen on Spotify | All Major Platforms In This Episode: News AMD AMD’s first Zen 5 CPU is the ‘monster’ Ryzen 9 9950X AMD unveils Ryzen AI 300 CPUs for Copilot+ laptops AMD reveals the MI325X, a 288GB AI accelerator built to battle Nvidia's H200 AMD Announces Zen 5-based EPYC “Turin” Processors: Up to 192 Cores, Coming in H2’2024 Intel Intel details new Lunar Lake CPUs that will go up against AMD, Qualcomm, and Apple PlayStation VR2’s PC adapter hits this August, with missing features Rumours iPhone 16 Pro to feature world’s thinnest smartphone bezel Apple planning redesigned iPhone, MacBook Pro, and Apple Watch that are significantly thinner Engage With Us: • Comments: We love hearing from you! Drop us a line in the comments or tweet us at @WeeklyTechRant. For more episodes and tech insights, visit our website: Weekly Tech Rant

Episode 170: It’s Time for WWDC 2024 Announcements and AI Advancements

2024-06-1447:35

This week we covered: Software iOS 18/iPadOS 18 WatchOS 11 macOS 15 AI Apple Intelligence As always, we'd love to hear your comments Find us on Twitter @WeeklyTechRant

Episode 169: It's Time for Microsoft Build Revelations, PSVR 2 Expands, ICQ's Farewell, and AI's Role at Apple WWDC

2024-06-0636:59

This week we covered: News Microsoft Build 2024: everything announced Sony made a PSVR 2 adapter for PC support ICQ is shutting down after almost 28 years Google scrambles to manually remove weird AI answers in search Apple confirms WWDC keynote details for AI-focused iOS 18, Platforms State of the Union, and more Gaming Microsoft confirms Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 is coming to Xbox Game Pass As always, we'd love to hear your comments Find us on Twitter @WeeklyTechRant

Episode 168: It's Time for AI Chip Alliances, Emotional AI Chatbots, GTA VI's Arrival, and Apple's Thinner Vision

2024-05-2445:09

This week we covered: News MediaTek and Nvidia are gearing up to tackle the AI PC market hand-in-hand, with an all-new chip UK watchdog looking into Microsoft AI taking screenshots Major ChatGPT-4o update allows audio-video talks with an “emotional” AI chatbot Blink and you missed it: Google has a new pair of prototype AR glasses Twitter is officially X.com now BreachForums, an online bazaar for stolen data, seized by FBI Gaming Grand Theft Auto VI is launching in fall 2025 Microsoft to add next Call of Duty to Xbox Game Pass, WSJ reports Rumours Apple is said to be working on a 'significantly thinner' iPhone Second-generation AirTag again rumored to be announced in 2025 As always, we'd love to hear your comments Find us on Twitter @WeeklyTechRant

Episode 167: It's Time for Nintendo's Emulator Crackdown, Apple's Let Loose Event Unveilings, and Foldable Future Teasers

2024-05-1241:49

This week we covered: News Nintendo blitzes GitHub with over 8,000 emulator-related DMCA takedowns Apple Event iPad Pro M4 SOC iPad Air 6 Pencil Pro Magic Keyboard “Pro” Rumours Apple allegedly planning foldable 20.3-inch hybrid for 2025, foldable iPhone in 2026 As always, we'd love to hear your comments Find us on Twitter @WeeklyTechRant

Episode 166: It's Time for Investigatory Powers Law, Tarkov Tumult, Razer's Mask Misstep, Fallout's Return, and iPad Pro's AI Leap

2024-05-0747:39

This week we covered: News UK's Investigatory Powers Bill to become law despite tech world opposition Escape From Tarkov studio boss says he "did not foresee" players would get mad about charging extra for PvE Apple’s iPadOS will have to comply with EU’s Digital Markets Act too Razer made a million dollars selling a mask with RGB, and the FTC is not pleased Film/TV Fallout Disco Season 5 Rumours Gurman: New iPad Pro may actually be powered by the M4 chip, touting AI features As always, we'd love to hear your comments Find us on Twitter @WeeklyTechRant

Episode 165: It's Time for AI in the Skies, Robotic Revelations, Embracer's Odd Split, Meta's Horizon OS, and Snapdragon's Laptop Challenge

2024-04-2846:35

This week we covered: News US Air Force confirms first successful AI dogfight Boston Dynamics’ new Atlas robot is a swiveling, shape-shifting nightmare After Embracer Group's acquisitions and subsequent troubles, the company is splitting into three oddly-named entities Meta Rebranding Quest Software Horizon OS, Will Run On New Headsets From ASUS, Lenovo, More The full Snapdragon X CPU line-up has now been unveiled, and according to Qualcomm's numbers it should put the fear of ARM into AMD and Intel's laptop divisions Rumours 12.9-inch iPad Air will use same display technology as current larger iPad Pro As always, we'd love to hear your comments Find us on Twitter @WeeklyTechRant

Episode 164: It's Time for Bankman-Fried's Sentence, Microsoft's Strategic Hires, Twitter's Paid Posting Plans, and Google's Big Merger

2024-04-1947:48

This week we covered: News FTX fraudster Sam Bankman-Fried sentenced to 25 years in prison Microsoft hiring Inflection team triggers interest from EU's antitrust chief D-Link issues rip and replace order for besieged NAS drives Elon Musk returns to his ultimate galaxy brain plan for Twitter: charging people to post Google merges the Android, Chrome, and hardware divisions Rumours Vision Pro engineers moved to folding iPhone project; delayed to 2027 As always, we'd love to hear your comments Find us on Twitter @WeeklyTechRant

Episode 163: It's Time for Next-Gen Water Warfare, Apple's AI Ambitions and Legal Battles, SpaceX's Secret Satellite Mission, and iPhone 17's Display Innovations

2024-03-2749:28

This week we covered: News Super Soaker spiritual successor Spyra just shrank its USB-C water blaster SpaceX is reportedly building a network of spy satellites for US intelligence Apple acquires fundamental AI smarts by buying DarwinAI Apple might use Google Gemini to power some AI features on the iPhone US sues Apple for illegal monopoly over smartphones Rumours iPhone 17 rumor: Apple developing new anti-reflective display technology As always, we'd love to hear your comments Find us on Twitter @WeeklyTechRant

Episode 162: It's Time for the TikTok Ultimatum, Digital Security Breaches, Epic's Apple Reconciliation, and Starship's Next Leap

2024-03-1945:50

This week we covered: News House passes bill that bans TikTok unless ByteDance sells Roku hackers breach 15,000 accounts and are selling them online Epic Games just got unbanned by Apple — again Microsoft confirms Russian spies stole source code, accessed internal systems Microsoft’s AI Copilot for Security launches next month with pay-as-you-go pricing SpaceX is cleared to attempt its third Starship test flight As always, we'd love to hear your comments Find us on Twitter @WeeklyTechRant

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