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Apple announces the new iPhone 11 and iPhone 11 Pro, a new Apple Watch and 7th generation iPad, Apple TV+ news, and updates on Apple Arcade and Retail Store. Starring Tom Merritt, Allison Sheridan, Roger Chang, Patrick Beja.   See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Apple adjusts its app store algorithm in July to deprioritize Apple apps in search results, the Verge has a review of Fitbit's Versa 2, and Bloomberg reports Apple and Foxconn confirmed that Foxconn exceeded Chinese labor limits on the number of temporary staff it is allowed to use. Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang.   See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Allison Sheridan shares her experience on charging her Tesla from the amount of time it takes to charge her car and what chargers seem to work better than others. Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Allison Sheridan and Len Peralta.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

We check out more news from IFA in Berlin. Plus Facebook is expands its dating service into the US and asks AI researchers to create deep fake videos to test with the company's deep fake detection tools. Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Justin Robert Young.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

We take a gander at all the news highlights from this year's IFA. Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Scott Johnson.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Researchers at Facebook are developing a virtual assistant to help Minecraft players letting users type in requests in natural language to an in-game avatar and the assistant will carry out requests if it can. How does this change machine learning and how can players benefit? Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Patrick Beja, Roger Chang.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Google catches a major iOS exploit in the wild, MacBook pros BANNED from airplanes worldwide, and Richard Gunther helps us understand what works with Nest. If anything. Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Richard Gunther, Len Peralta, and Amos  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Wednesday, Nicole Lee posted shares her thoughts on the $149 handheld game system, Playdate. A quirky homage to old school handheld gaming consoles.  Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Nicole Lee, Roger Chang.   See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Apple looks to address complaints around how it tests and improves the voice recognition abilities of Siri by letting users opt-in. Does this go far enough and is it something other companies will want to replicate? Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang.   See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Voice assistants have been criticized for gender and racial bias due to the fact that they’re predominantly developed by white males in western-based tech companies. Mozilla wants to solve this and created “Common Voice” in 2017, a tool that crowdsources voices as a dataset to diversify AI and represent the global population. Starring Sarah Lane, Patrick Beja, Roger Chang, and Amos  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

CNET's Patrick Holland posted an impassioned plea Sunday titled "Apple needs to fix the iPhone 11's buttons so accidental screenshots go away. What other changes would folks like to see Apple fix on the iPhone 11. Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

More than 5.3 million accounts belonging to cardholders from 35 U.S. states are posted online, DoorDash unveiled its updated tipping policy, with all drivers now receiving 100% of tips placed through its app, and Denmark will review 10,700 court cases dating back to 2012, to see if flawed cellphone evidence was used for convictions. Starring Sarah Lane, Shannon Morse, Roger Chang, and Anthony Lemos.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Rupert Murdoch's News Corp makes a play for online news aggregation with Knewz.com in order to compete with Google and Facebook. What will this mean for news companies and how will users benefit? Starring Sarah Lane, Justin Robert Young, and Roger Chang  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

G-Suite predicts spelling errors as you type, YouTube might start behaving better for your kids, and LinkedIn culls spam accounts. Starring Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, and Roger Chang.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Starring Sarah Lane, Patrick Beja, and Roger Chang We discuss how many streaming subscriptions is too many and what criteria people will use to decide which ones they stop and which ones they keep.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.