Tech Enthusiast Hour

Threads launch. How they all integrate. Who is going to win?

Game controllers, Retro games, Electric vehicles unite, Big disks

In This Episode: This week the TEH Podcast is hosted by Leo Notenboom, the “Chief Question Answerer” at Ask Leo!, and Gary Rosenzweig, the host and producer of MacMost, and mobile game developer at Clever Media. (You'll find longer Bios on the Hosts page.) Top Stories 0:40 LN: More Reddit. Harvesting content and losing advertising. 3:00 GR: Why Reddit has to charge for API 7:15 Google also scrapes sites 11:00 What's the strategy. Is it all advertising revenue? Or, is it just that third-party apps don’t show Reddit ads, so it is server use without any revenue generated by Reddit? 13:00 LN: One person’s conspiracy theory 17:30 LN: Cortana going away What makes a voice assistant successful, anyway? 25:00 Will it turn into Bing? 30:00 GR: Making stuff up... or is it true? GR: Scientists find way to make energy from air using nearly any material. This seems like too-good-to-be-true stuff to me. Clean electricity from air? 39:00 Why aren't there flying cars? And drones. A

Apple goggles, Sonoma and more announced. Reddit protests

Airships, Mac rumors, Generative Fill, Trouble with clocks that have little birds.

Apple voice simulation. Passwords in the future. Fake explosions and ordering a hamburger.

Where does the light switch signal go? More AI. Secure passwords... again.

Smart homes, Blocking Utah, AirTags, Anniversary and picking locks.

Zippy internet. ChatGPT can’t do math? Authenticators, and broken school laptops.

Internet Woes, Social Media what now? and Planetary Slingshots

Virtual Machines, Complaining about complaining, the Future & Buffy.

Pretend voices for good or evil. VOIP can do anything.

Why Free software. Watch-And-Grab iPhone Theft.

AI and jobs... Can everything get better?

New search - Is AI a smart Bard or stealing content?

Is History Old? Being Platform Agnostic, How AI Gets smart

Programming again. Mac touch screen and Virtual Reality. Security and You.

Lastpass again. CES not so much. Future of Search.

Predictions for 2023

Recap of 2022, Wordle, Shorts, Starlink, Social Media, Space & Security