Lots of tech news to discuss this week. Zuckerberg announced some updates to the Meta glasses lineup, but the live demo didn’t work so great. The TikTok US separation deal may finally be nearing completion. Most importantly, Nate has his new iPhone 17 Pro and is ready to discuss. That and so much more, all to help you get out there and tech better.
INTRO (00:00)
Nates New iPhone 17 Pro (03:30)
Best OS 26 Tahoe Feature for Brave Browser (10:50)
MAIN TOPIC: Meta has new glasses (12:05)
- Meta Connect 2025: the 6 biggest announcements
- Watch the Meta Ray-Ban Display glasses fail in Mark Zuckerberg’s painful live demo
DAVE’S PRO-TIP OF THE WEEK: De-glassify iOS 26 (21:55)
JUST THE HEADLINES: (28:00)
- The Wizard of Oz is grossing $2M a day at the Sphere
- A New Solar Panel Shield Made From Onion Peels Outlasted Industry Plastics in Tests
- Interlune signs $300M deal to harvest Helium03 for quantum computing from the moon
- Scandal rocks international stone skipping contest
- Librarians are being asked to find AI-hallucinated books
- Astronomers discover previously unknown quasi-moon near Earth
- Taliban leader bans Wi-Fi in an Afghan province to ‘prevent immorality’
TAKES:
- TikTok’s algorithm to be licensed to US joint venture led by Oracle and Silver Lake (30:20)
- By some measures, TikTok has grown bigger than Facebook or Instagram in the US (31:35)
- Online marketplace Fiverr to lay off 30% of workforce in AI push (34:20)
- Inside the Jaguar Land Rover hack: stalled smart factories, outsourced cybersecurity and supply chain woes (35:30)
BONUS ODD TAKE: Meet the 2025 Ig Nobel Prize winners (39:20)
PICKS OF THE WEEK:
Dave: Itsycal (42:45)
Nate: iPhone 17 Pro (46:50)
RAMAZON PURCHASE OF THE WEEK (52:10)
