Jul 6th 2023
Tech News Weekly 293
Can Meta's Thread Replace Twitter?
Hosted by
Jason Howell,
Mikah Sargent
Apple Gaming, AI Voices, Google Reader
Records every Thursday at 2:00pm Eastern / 11:00am Pacific / 19:00 UTC.
Guests:
Richard Lawler,
Christina Warren
- Meta has officially launched its answer to Twitter called Threads. Richard Lawler from The Verge talks about what Threads is about.
- Mikah Sargent talked about Apple's gaming porting tool for macOS, discovered by Christina Warren a couple of episodes ago, that aims to bring real gaming to Macs. She joins the show to talk about the update the tool has received recently.
- Jason Howell talks about how voice actors are losing their voices to AI through services like Revoicer, even when these voice actors did not agree to permit these companies to use their voices.
- Finally, Mikah talks about "who" killed Google Reader.
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Links
- Instagram’s Twitter competitor, Threads, is available now
- (Christina's Article) Apple’s Secret Weapon to Getting PC Games on Mac
- Apple’s Game Porting Tool for macOS got its first update – and it’s a huge one
- How actors are losing their voices to AI
- Revoicer
- ElevenLabs Launches New Generative Voice AI Products and Announces $19m Series A Round
- Who killed Google Reader?