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Join Leo Laporte and Mikah Sargent as they commentate on Mark Zuckerberg's keynote at Meta Connect 2024 and discuss some of the things that debuted at the keynote, such as the Meta Quest 3S, Llama 3.2, and the prototype Meta Orion AR Glasses.

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Hosts: Leo Laporte and Mikah Sargent

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Apple's September 2024 event unveiled updates across their iPhone, Apple Watch, and AirPods lineups. The iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Pro feature Apple Intelligence, Apple's new personal intelligence system, along with the powerful A18 and A18 Pro chips, respectively. Both models include improvements to the camera system, such as a 48MP Fusion camera and the new Camera Control. Apple Watch Series 10 sports redesigned hardware with a larger display, thinner profile, and new aluminum finishes, while both Series 10 and Ultra 2 introduce sleep apnea detection and new watchOS 11 features. AirPods 4 received updates to its design, audio performance, and charging, while AirPods Pro 2 gain the ability to function as a hearing aid.

Hosts: Mikah Sargent and Rosemary Orchard

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Leo Laporte and Jeff Jarvis provide live commentary on Google's "Made by Google 2024" event. The event primarily focused on Google's advancements in AI with their Gemini AI assistant and new hardware with Pixel 9, Pixel 9 Pro, the foldable Pixel 9 Pro Fold, and Pixel Watch 3.

Host: Leo Laporte

Guest: Jeff Jarvis

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Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) 2024 opened with a content-rich keynote showcasing significant updates to Apple's ecosystem. From enhancements to operating systems to the introduction of Apple Intelligence, the event set the stage for the next generation of Apple products and experiences.

Entertainment

• Apple TV+ enters its 5th year with a strong lineup of originals and upcoming shows and movies
• Gaming experiences on Apple devices are enhanced by the unified gaming platform, leveraging Metal and Apple silico- Notable upcoming games include Frostpunk 2, Control, and Assassin's Creed: Shadows for both Mac and iPad

Operating System Updates

• visionOS 2 for Apple Vision Pro introduces enhanced gestures, improved Mac Virtual Display, and expanded developer APIs
• iOS 18 brings deeper customization for the Home Screen and Control Center, privacy improvements, and a major Photos app redesign
• iPadOS 18 features a new floating tab bar for apps, Smart Script handwriting recognition, and the new Calculator app with Math Notes integration for Apple Pencil
• macOS Sequoia introduces iPhone Mirroring for wireless phone control from your Mac, improved window tiling, presenter preview for video calls, and the Passwords app
• watchOS 11 includes Training Load for workout impact analysis, the Vitals app for health metric insights, and an updated Photos watch face

Apple Intelligence

• Personal AI capabilities for iPhone, iPad, and Mac
• Siri receives significant upgrades with more natural interactions, personal context understanding, and cross-app actions
• Systemwide Writing Tools assist with rewriting, proofreading, and summarizing text across apps
• Genmoji and the Image Playground allow for playful image creation using simple descriptions
• Integration with ChatGPT brings powerful external AI models to Apple devices

Hosts: Leo Laporte and Mikah Sargent

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Leo Laporte and Jeff Jarvis watch OpenAI's Spring 2024 Update as the company unveils the latest update to its ChatGPT system, GPT-4o, and demos its AI system's new capabilities as it interacts with text, voice, and photos.

Hosts: Leo Laporte and Jeff Jarvis

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Apple unveiled a series of updates to its iPad lineup, introducing new models, features, and accessories.

• Redesigned iPad Air: The new iPad Air, available in 11-inch and 13-inch models, features the M2 chip, an updated camera layout, improved connectivity, and increased storage options.
• Next-Generation iPad Pro: The all-new iPad Pro boasts an ultra-thin design, advanced Ultra Retina XDR display, and the powerful M4 chip. It comes in 11-inch and 13-inch models.
• Introduction of the M4 Chip: Apple's latest silicon, the M4 chip, enables the iPad Pro's sleek design and impressive display capabilities while delivering significant performance improvements.
• Updates to Pro-Level Apps: Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro receive substantial updates, with new features like Live Multicam, Final Cut Camera, Session Players, ChromaGlow, and Stem Splitter.
• Debut of Apple Pencil Pro: The new Apple Pencil Pro offers an enhanced user experience with pressure sensitivity, haptic feedback, gyroscope-based control, and Find My integration.
• Redesigned Magic Keyboard: The updated Magic Keyboard for iPad Pro is thinner, lighter, and includes a function row, aluminum palm rest, larger trackpad, and haptic feedback.

Hosts: Leo Laporte and Mikah Sargent

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Mikah Sargent and Jeff Jarvis watch Jensen Huang's highly technical keynote for NVIDIA's GTC 2024, which showed off the powerful Blackwell platform, NVIDIA Inference Microservices, the NVLink Switch Chip, Project GROOT, and several business partnerships revolving around AI.

Hosts: Mikah Sargent and Jeff Jarvis

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Samsung holds their Unpacked 2024 event by talking about the use of AI in their devices, unveiling the S24, S24+, and S24 Ultra phones, and announces the Galaxy Ring.

Hosts: Leo Laporte and Mikah Sargent

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At its inaugural developer conference DevDay, OpenAI unveiled major upgrades like GPT-4 Turbo, a more advanced AI model that's 3x cheaper than GPT-4 and a 128k token context window that can handle much longer prompts. They also launched new multimodal capabilities so developers can integrate vision, speech, and image generation into apps. Key highlights include the Assistants API for building AI agents, the ability to create custom versions of ChatGPT called GPTs and share them publicly on the GPT Store, and Copyright Shield to protect customers. Overall, OpenAI aims to make AI more affordable, capable, and safe for developers to build next-gen apps.

Hosts: Jeff Jarvis and Jason Howell

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At its October "Scary Fast" event, Apple unveiled new MacBook Pro laptops featuring the powerful new M3 family of chips, as well as a refreshed 24-inch iMac desktop with the M3 chip. The M3, M3 Pro, and M3 Max chips offer dramatic leaps in performance and efficiency thanks to a new 3-nanometer manufacturing process. Apple also highlighted new GPU architecture in the M3 chips, enabling advanced graphics capabilities like hardware-accelerated ray tracing. The MacBook Pro and iMac retain the same form factor, but the MacBook Pro now comes in a new Space Black color option.

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Mikah Sargent, and Alex Lindsay

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Leo Laporte shares commentary on the Qualcomm Snapdragon Summit in Maui. Snapdragon is quite popular in mobile device processing, but has continued to grow in XR, AI and connected cars. Qualcomm announces the Oryon CPU and other strategic partnerships.

Host: Leo Laporte

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At their Made by Google '23 event, Google shared an update to their Pixel Buds Pro and unveiled the Pixel Watch 2, Pixel 8, and Pixel 8 Pro.

Hosts: Jason Howell and Huyen Tue Dao

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Leo Laporte and Mikah Sargent tune in on Apple's September 2023 "Wonderlust" event unveiling the new iPhone 15 lineup, Apple Watch Series 9, and Apple Watch Ultra 2.

• The event opens with a short showcasing how Apple devices have saved lives through features like crash detection and ECG.
• Apple Watch Series 9: New S9 chip, brighter display, faster on-device Siri, and a "Double Tap" gesture for control.
• Environmental Initiatives: Apple plans to reduce their carbon footprint through phasing out leather, 100% clean electricity, reducing emissions, and planting forests and mangroves, aiming for every product to be carbon neutral by 2030, starting with the Apple Watch lineup.
• Apple Watch Ultra 2: Gets the same upgrades as Series 9, plus a brighter display with a new "night mode."
• iPhone 15: Dynamic Island comes to the base models, A16 chip, a new smoothed "color-infused" glass back, 48MP main camera with 2x telephoto, and a USB-C connector.
• iPhone 15 Pro: Debuts a lightweight titanium design, the powerful new A17 Pro chip, Wi-Fi 6E support, a new Action button, USB‑C connector with USB 3 speeds, and spatial video recording for Apple Vision Pro, and an all-new 5x Telephoto camera on iPhone 15 Pro Max.

Hosts: Leo Laporte and Mikah Sargent

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During Apple's WWDC 2023 keynote, the tech giant unveiled their first spatial computer, the Vision Pro, featuring a micro-OLED display with a resolution of over 4K per eye and a unique dual-chip design with the M2 and new R1 chip. Additionally, Apple introduced a larger 15-inch MacBook Air and updates to the Mac Studio and Mac Pro with a more powerful M2 Ultra chip. The company also unveiled updates to its operating systems with iOS 17, iPadOS 17, macOS Sonoma, and watchOS 10.

Host: Leo Laporte

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At day 2 of Microsoft Build 2023, Rajesh Jha, EVP, Experiences + Devices, and Panos Panay, EVP & Chief Product Officer, shares how developers can leverage the power of Microsoft 365 apps, Windows, and the Microsoft Graph to develop next-generation AI-powered applications.

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell

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At Microsoft Build 2023, CEO Satya Nadella shares insights on the new era of AI and announces the launch of Windows Copilot, Azure AI Studio, and Microsoft Fabric, and CTO Kevin Scott is joined by OpenAI's Greg Brockman to explore how Microsoft and OpenAI's full-stack AI platform empowers developers and outlines a framework for building AI apps and copilots.

Hosts: Leo Laporte and Richard Campbell

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Jason Howell, Ron Richards, and Huyen Tue Dao visit the Google campus to sit down with Dave Burke, VP Engineering, and Sameer Samat, VP Product Management at Google.

Hosts: Jason Howell, Ron Richards, and Huyen Tue Dao

Guest: Sameer Samat

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Google presents the 2023 Google I/O Keynote

Hosts: Leo Laporte and Jeff Jarvis

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NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang delivers the GTC 2023​ keynote, introducing the latest advancements in generative AI, the metaverse, large language models, robotics, cloud computing, and more.

Hosts: Leo Laporte and Mikah Sargent

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Samsung unveils their flagship Galaxy phones and laptops for 2023 at their semiannual Unpacked event, with the Galaxy S23, S23 Plus, and S23 Ultra, and the Galaxy Book3 Ultra, Book3 Pro, and Book3 Pro 360.

Host: Jason Howell

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At Microsoft's 2022 Surface event, the company announced the next generation of Surface devices, including the Surface Laptop 5 with Thunderbolt 4 support, the Surface Pro 9 2-in-1 with the SQ3 Arm-powered processor with 5G support or Intel's 12th Gen Core processors, and the Studio Surface Studio 2+ all-in-one powered by Intel's 11th-Gen Core i7-11370H processor and Nvidia's RTX 3060 GPU. Plus new Adaptive Accessories, Microsoft Designer and Image Creator apps with AI-generated art powered by Dall-E 2, and more.

Host: Leo Laporte

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At Made by Google '22, Google unveiled its latest Pixel lineup with the Pixel 7 and Pixel 7 Pro powered by Google's 2nd-gen mobile chip, the Tensor G2, powering more AI and machine learning features like Super Res Zoom, Photo Unblur, Cinematic Blur. Also announced was Google's first smartwatch, the Google Pixel Watch, with Fitbit's health and fitness expertise, and shared some details on the Pixel Tablet with a charging speaker dock coming in 2023.

Hosts: Leo Laporte and Ron Richards

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Apple's September "Far Out" event, Apple announces the new iPhone 14 with Satellite Emergency SOS, the iPhone 14 Pro with the Dynamic Island, the Apple Watch 8 with menstrual cycle tracking and crash detection, Apple Watch Ultra with the Oceanic Plus app, and the new AirPods Pro with adaptive transparency.

Hosts: Leo Laporte and Andy Ihnatko

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At Galaxy Unpacked August 2022, Samsung unveils its next generation of foldable smartphones with the Galaxy Z Flip4 and Galaxy Z Fold4, as well as the Galaxy Buds2 Pro earbuds and the Galaxy Watch5 and Watch5 Pro smartwatches.

Hosts: Jason Howell and Ron Richards

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NASA reveals the highly anticipated first batch of color images from the James Webb Space Telescope, including the deepest and sharpest infrared image of the distant universe to date.

All about Webb: https://webb.nasa.gov

Hosts: Leo Laporte and Rod Pyle

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