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Welcome to the Big Glass Wars! That's right, just when you thought you'd heard it all, turns out there's hot competition among a few countries to stay on the cutting edge of optical astronomy, and to do that, you need a great big hunk of glass to gather light from distant galaxies and stellar systems. Enter the Carnegie Observatories and their partners on the Thirty Meter Telescope and the Giant Magellan Telescope. Both are curren...

Jennifer Pattison Tuohy of The Verge joins Mikah Sargent this week! Jennifer talks about Matter 1.3 being released by the Connectivity Standards Alliance. Mikah is excited by the new accessibility features Apple recently announced. What Google announced at its Google I/O 2024 event. And finally, OpenAI announces GPT-4o.

• Jennifer Pattison Tuohy talks about Matter 1.3 being released, which brings further support to smart applia...

Microsoft Edge is the default web browser and PDF reader in Windows 11, and a modern and capable successor to the Internet Explorer browser of yesteryear. It's built on the same Chromium web platform that Google uses for Chrome, and it integrates more deeply with Windows and Microsoft online services–most notably Copilot–than other browsers. But Microsoft Edge is also a vector for some of the worst behaviors in Windows 11. For thi...

Time Machine is a built-in back up tool for macOS that keeps multiple, browsable versions of your Mac as you make changes over time. Mikah Sargent walks you through the process of setting up, managing, and accessing your macOS Time Machine backups.

Back up your Mac with Time Machine - https://support.apple.com/en-us/104984

Host: Mikah Sargent

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Listener Eric is moving his old AVR into the workout room, and he'd like to install some in-ceiling speakers to avoid taking up floor space. Scott Wilkinson has some recommendations.

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In this episode of iOS Today, Mikah Sargent and Rosemary Orchard dive into the world of Safari extensions, discussing a variety of handy tools that can enhance your browsing experience on iPhone, iPad, and Mac. From content blockers to custom search engines, the duo explores the benefits and potential drawbacks of these powerful add-ons. Additionally, Rosemary tackles a Shortcuts Corner question about switching Apple Watch faces u...

The new iPad Pros are here! Jason Snell shares his thoughts on the iPad Pro, and Mikah unboxes his iPad Pro as Leo and Andy watch with excitement. Logic Pro gets updated for the Mac and iPad with new AI features: is this a prelude to this year's WWDC? Apple is working on revamping Siri to catch up to its competitors' offerings in generative AI. And people are mad at Apple's 'Crush' iPad Pro ad.

• M4 iPad Pro review: here we go ...

Windows 11

• Patch Tuesday
• Windows 11 gets those stupid lock screen widgets
• Snipping Tool is being updated with emojis and QR code scanning
• Microsoft is testing widgets in the Windows 11 Start menu
• New Dev and Beta builds
• Dell PCs based on Snapdragon X leak
• Microsoft 365
• Microsoft Word gets a long-overdue overhaul to default paste

AI

• OpenAI kicks off the week with its Spring Update
• Google I/O follows up with ...

• Picture of the Week.
• Most to least common 4-digit pins.
• Enhanced LORAN.
• Passkeys.
• Microsoft's Head in the Clouds.

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-974-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Alex Kantrowitz react live to the Google I/O presentation.

• Gemini
• Search with Gemini
• Agents
• Deepmind
• Gemini Flash
• Project Astra
• Imajen 3
• Veo
• Trillium
• Search
• Ask with Video
• Gemini for Workspace
• Virtual Teammate
• Gemini App
• Android
• Google AI Studio
• Gemma
• SynthID
• LearnLM

Hosts: Leo Laporte and Jeff Jarvis

Guest: Alex Kantrowitz

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• Solar Storm Knocks Out Farmers' Tractor GPS Systems During Peak Planting Season
• Apple Closes in on Deal With OpenAI to Put ChatGPT on iPhone
• Apple Will Revamp Siri to Catch Up to Its Chatbot Competitors
• Google is getting even worse for independent sites
• Musk Plans More Layoffs as Two Senior Tesla Executives Depart
• At Tesla, a Wild Week That Defined the Company's Future
• TikTok Sues US Government Over Potential Ban
• Tele...

Leo Laporte and Mikah Sargent ask Sam Abuelsamid of the Wheel Bearings podcast what is going on at Tesla following Elon's dismissal of the supercharger team. Can you completely silence a group message in iMessage for a selected period? Is there a device that can automatically reboot a router following a network failure? Leo, Mikah, and others at TWiT also start talking about mechanical keyboards and their preferences following a l...

We're talking about Google's layoffs and how it affects Flutter and Dart, then AMD is working to push AMF code into FFMPEG, and it's time for Open Source to grow up. RHEL has an AI offering, NVidia is suggesting Open Source kernel drivers, and Zed is coming to Linux. Then there's Pi Connect pulling a Sherlock, KDE working on color management, and a bit of a history lesson on where we came from. For tips, we have the Radion TUI rad...

The Voyager probes have been transiting space since 1977, and they're still at it 46 years later. But late in 2023, Voyager 1, now 15 billion miles distant, started sending what the flight controllers called "gibberish" back to Earth---uncoordinated ones and zeros and a heartbeat tone. They knew it was still alive, but something had gone wrong. The small team of software wizards at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory got to work and cam...

Amanda Silberling from TechCrunch joins Mikah Sargent this week on Tech News Weekly. They talk about how AI deepfakes have infiltrated aspects of the online conversations of the Met Gala fashion. How a Chinese network is behind one of the largest online scams into duping US and European customers through fake online designer shops. Teenagers are turning to AI chatbots to find entertainment, help, and even support from these AI ser...

Focus Modes give you the ability to silence notifications, filter apps, mute certain contacts, and more. Mikah Sargent walks you through the process of setting up a Focus and learning how to adjust Focus Modes.

Set up a Focus on Mac - Apple Support - https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/set-up-a-focus-to-stay-on-task-mchl613dc43f/14.0/mac/14.0

Host: Mikah Sargent

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