Emily Forlini and Jennifer Pattison Tuohy are taking the reins of this week's episode! Does a robot vacuum really need an arm to help keep your home floors clean? Inside the chaotic struggle to keep Fisker EVs maintain connectivity. A wireless way to charge your low-powered smart devices. And insight into Sam Altman's company, OpenAI, acquiring Jony Ive's AI startup company, io.

• Jennifer shares her thoughts on Roborock's Saros Z70 Robot Vacuum after testing it out for some time.
• Emily talks about an association formed by Fisker owners following the company's bankruptcy and how it collapsed following disputes over costs and a botched software upgrade with American Lease.
• Jennifer also had the opportunity to use a new wireless power system from Wi-Charge, which uses infrared lasers to charge low-powered devices, such as smart locks, wirelessly.
• And Lauren Goode, Senior Correspondent for WIRED, joins Emily to discuss Sam Altman and Jony Ive's partnership to create AI hardware following OpenAI's acquisition of Jony Ive's io company.

Hosts: Emily Forlini and Jennifer Pattison Tuohy

Guest: Lauren Goode

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TWiT.tv CEO Lisa Laporte breaks down TWiT.tv's current four-tier advertising model—from host-read interstitial and billboard ads that remain in perpetuity, to dynamic ad insertion through Lipson Ads partners, plus Spotify and YouTube video ads. Lisa explains the difference between host-approved vs. producer-read ads, and why diversifying revenue streams became essential for TWiT's survival and growth in the modern podcasting landscape.

Host: Lisa Laporte

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This week, Paul navigates the upcoming end-of-life for Windows 10, as we explore a range of options to keep your systems secure and up-to-date. Go on a historical journey through Windows 10's legacy, its evolution into a continuously innovating service, and the critical decisions users must make as October 2025 looms.

Host: Paul Thurrott

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Unlock the power of your voice with macOS dictation! Mikah Sargent demonstrates how to transform your spoken words into written text anywhere on your Mac, complete with punctuation commands, formatting tricks, and even emoji support. This comprehensive guide walks you through enabling the feature and using advanced dictation commands you probably didn't know existed.

• Enabling dictation in macOS - Access this feature through System Settings > Keyboard > Dictation, where you can choose language, microphone source, and set up keyboard shortcuts.
• Auto-punctuation option - Let macOS intelligently add punctuation based on your speech patterns or manually dictate punctuation marks.
• Voice punctuation commands - Mikah demonstrates speaking marks like "period," "comma," "question mark," "open quote," "close quote," and many others.
• Typography symbols - Learn to dictate special characters including backslash, forward slash, ampersand, bullet points, and vertical bars.
• Text formatting commands - Control your text with commands like "new line," "new paragraph," "tab key," "no space on/off," and "caps on/off."
• Mathematical and currency symbols - Dictate special symbols including equal sign, greater/less than signs, and various currency symbols like dollar, euro, and yen.
• Emoji dictation - Add expressions to your text by saying phrases like "smiley face emoji" or "sobbing emoji."
• Intellectual property symbols - Easily add copyright (©), registered (®), and trademark (™) marks through dictation.
• Troubleshooting tips - Mikah offers advice for when dictation isn't working as expected, including checking your language settings and internet connection.

Dictate messages and documents on Mac - Apple Support - https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/use-dictation-mh40584/mac
Commands for dictating text on Mac - Apple Support - https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/commands-for-dictating-text-on-mac-mh40695/15.0/mac/15.0
If Dictation on Mac doesn't work as expected - Apple Support - https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/if-dictation-on-mac-doesnt-work-as-expected-mchlc480652b/15.0/mac/15.0

Host: Mikah Sargent

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Listener Charles Simmons has an old LG C series OLED TV and wants to upgrade. But should he get last year's G4 for less money or this year's G5 with its updated technology? Scott Wilkinson offers his advice.

Host: Scott Wilkinson

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Discover powerful voice recording and transcription apps that can transform how you capture ideas, take notes, and create content on your Apple devices. Mikah Sargent and Rosemary Orchard explore essential voice tools while sharing exciting news about CarPlay Ultra's debut in Aston Martin vehicles.

• Voice Memos app - Built into iOS with live transcription capabilities, allowing users to record, edit, search transcripts, and enhance audio quality with features like silence skipping.
• Just Press Record - Popular third-party app offering automatic transcription in multiple languages, customizable file formats, and the ability to share recordings as text, audio, or video.
• Ferrite Recording Studio - Professional-grade podcast production tool for iPhone and iPad with multi-track editing, effects, automation, and advanced audio manipulation capabilities.
• Otter - Voice transcription service that has evolved to include enterprise features like AI summaries, meeting integrations with Zoom and Teams, and action item extraction.
• Notes app recording feature - Built-in audio recording in Apple's Notes app that synchronizes with typed or handwritten notes, providing searchable transcriptions.

News

• CarPlay Ultra announced - Apple's next-generation car interface is debuting in Aston Martin vehicles with support for instrument clusters and customizable displays; coming soon to Hyundai, Kia, and Genesis. The new CarPlay Ultra works with devices as old as iPhone 12 running iOS 18.5, making the technology accessible to more users.

Shortcuts Corner

• New Shortcuts features in iOS 18.4 - Latest update includes actions for Clock app (add/remove cities), Messages app (open specific conversations), and settings controls for various apps.
• Safari settings shortcuts - New ability to toggle pop-up blocking, change search engines, and adjust tab behavior through shortcuts, allowing customized browser experiences.
• Creating profiles - Using the new settings shortcuts to create pseudo-profiles for different contexts like work and personal use on iOS and iPadOS

App Caps

• Partiful - Free event planning app with features like date polling, RSVP tracking, photo sharing, playlist integration, and "chip in" payment options for collecting money from attendees.
• Moft Dynamic Folio - iPad case offering several viewing angles with innovative folding design, available for multiple iPad models and starting around $40.

Hosts: Mikah Sargent and Rosemary Orchard

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• Interview with Kate O'Neill
• Police secretly monitored New Orleans with facial recognition cameras
• Personal context is Google's big advantage in AI
• Google is replacing the exec in charge of Search and ads
• Chicago Sun-Times Prints AI-Generated Summer Reading List With Books That Don't Exist
• Google's Gemini AI is coming to Volvo cars
• We're Definitely Going to Build a Bunker Before We Release AGI'
• OpenAI's planned data center in Abu Dhabi would be bigger than Monaco
• China begins assembling its supercomputer in space
• The environmental impact of LLMs ranked
• NYC Restaurant Interior or Black & White Drawing?
• Trump signs the Take It Down Act, criminalizing the distribution of nonconsensual intimate content and requiring platforms to promptly remove it when notified
• Google Challenges Meta With Smarter Glasses
• Watch Me Try Google's Live Language Translator. It's Wild.
• Google's Sergey Brin: 'I made a lot of mistakes with Google Glass'
• How Kara Swisher Scaled Even Higher
• No, Graduates: AI Hasn't Ended Your Career Before It Starts
• AI Discovers Suspected Trigger of Alzheimer's, And Maybe a Treatment
• OpenAI is buying iPhone designer Jony Ive's AI devices startup for $6.4 billion
• Gingers are Black
• Who is the "Tech TV hottie" mentioned in Kimya Dawson's 2004 song from the Juno soundtrack???
• Some great new Apple Podcast reviews make mention of a certain jingle...
• New details emerge in death of Texas Renaissance Festival king, George Coulam
• Lego cat

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Guest: Kate O'Neill (Tech Humanist)

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Agentic AI is the theme of the show this year, and this time its multi-agent with orchestration! But first, we need to discuss the protestors. Paul and Richard have stories. So many stories!

Build 2025

• New Microsoft 365 Copilot features are rolling out now because it's a day that ends in y
• Tuning is the unexpected Build Bingo center square term - rolling out to agents
• GitHub Copilot is open source in VS Code, more
• Win32 app support improvements, no more fees in Microsoft Store
• A shift in making Windows 11 the best place for developers - some things said, some left unsaid
• Edge gets new AI features too of course
• New native app capabilities in Windows App SDK, React Native
• And, pre-Build, 50 million Visual Studio users
• Copilot for consumers does image generation now. Fun tip: You can Minecraft-ize photos
• OpenAI has a coding agent too, obviously
• And OpenAI is buying Jony Ive!

Windows

• Administrator Protection is coming soon - And not just for businesses. This feels very much like the firewall in XP SP2, it's going to be disruptive
• New 24H2 features in Release Preview: New text actions in Click to Do, a lot more
• New 24H2 features in Dev and Beta: AI actions in File Explorer, Advanced Settings, Search improvements, more
• New 23H2 features, Windows 10 features in Release Preview
• Surface Laptop Studio RIP
• Calendar companion app for Windows 11/M365
• Microsoft may finally put the Teams antitrust issue in the EU behind

Xbox

• Fortnite returns to the Apple App Store
• Apple blocked it first, Epic complained to judge
• And Microsoft files a legal motion against Apple and for Epic Games
• Qualcomm job listing confirms Xbox plans to some degree
• What happens when you combine Qualcomm NPU with Nvidia GPU?
• Xbox May Update arrives and it's a big one
• Retro Classic Games for Xbox Game Pass
• Game Bar updates, Edge Game Assist, GeForce now etc. on PC
• Custom Xbox gift cards
• More streaming of your own games
• Hellblade II is coming from Xbox to PS5
• Many more games coming to Xbox Game Pass across platforms

Tips and Picks

• App pick of the week: You can try Microsoft's command line editor now
• Game pick of the week: Doom: The Dark Ages
• RunAs Radio this week: PowerShell 7.5 and DSC 3.0.0 with Jason Helmick
• Brown liquor pick of the week: Tamnavulin Sherry Cask

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