Tech Enthusiast Hour

Apple Computer models. Local AI vs. Cloud Servers. Creative ChatPT and surveillance.

In This Episode: The gang is back! Residential cruise ships. All those cables. And More AI. This week the TEH Podcast is hosted by Leo Notenboom, the “Chief Question Answerer” at Ask Leo!, and Gary Rosenzweig, the host and producer of MacMost, and mobile game developer at Clever Media. Our guests are ... Kay Savetz and Randy Cassingham, OG hosts of the TEH Podcast. (You'll find longer Bios on the Hosts page.) Top Stories 00:25 Today we are joined by the original, cohosts of the TEH podcast.  01:01 Kay Savetz is Working with the internet archive and creating a massive library of books, magazines, newsletters, and podcasts.  03:25 Kay owns a bunch of websites. One of them is faxzero.com, which lets people send faxes online.  06:01 Randy is busy living everywhere... specifically moving to a residential cruise ship which slowly goes around the world. He'll be blogging on ResidentialCruising.com  11:42 Items on history of the space station.  13:17 One requirement for a residential cruise ship

AI is smart and dumb. Robots can be cute. And Pass keys.

Leo and Gary talk about the concept of hyper personalization and its impact on technology, as well as the challenges of adding options and settings in software design. They briefly mention the idea of using an air tag for tracking a vehicle. They also discuss the use of AI companion for generating meeting transcripts and the ability to have voice conversations with Chat GPT.

Encryption back doors, iPhone annoyances, Car play and cameras

Apple announcements. Is computer sharing back? AI's news for today.

Burning man mud, so much social media, new iPhone?

Privacy and Paranoia

Two Hundred Episodes, Listening to your keyboard? Facial Recognition, Vocabulary Helps.

Apple Pay, Threads, X, Writer's Strike, Cheap VOIP

Threads launch. How they all integrate. Who is going to win?

Game controllers, Retro games, Electric vehicles unite, Big disks

In This Episode: This week the TEH Podcast is hosted by Leo Notenboom, the “Chief Question Answerer” at Ask Leo!, and Gary Rosenzweig, the host and producer of MacMost, and mobile game developer at Clever Media. (You'll find longer Bios on the Hosts page.) Top Stories 0:40 LN: More Reddit. Harvesting content and losing advertising. 3:00 GR: Why Reddit has to charge for API 7:15 Google also scrapes sites 11:00 What's the strategy. Is it all advertising revenue? Or, is it just that third-party apps don’t show Reddit ads, so it is server use without any revenue generated by Reddit? 13:00 LN: One person’s conspiracy theory 17:30 LN: Cortana going away What makes a voice assistant successful, anyway? 25:00 Will it turn into Bing? 30:00 GR: Making stuff up... or is it true? GR: Scientists find way to make energy from air using nearly any material. This seems like too-good-to-be-true stuff to me. Clean electricity from air? 39:00 Why aren't there flying cars? And drones. A

Apple goggles, Sonoma and more announced. Reddit protests

Airships, Mac rumors, Generative Fill, Trouble with clocks that have little birds.

Apple voice simulation. Passwords in the future. Fake explosions and ordering a hamburger.

Where does the light switch signal go? More AI. Secure passwords... again.

Smart homes, Blocking Utah, AirTags, Anniversary and picking locks.

Zippy internet. ChatGPT can’t do math? Authenticators, and broken school laptops.

Internet Woes, Social Media what now? and Planetary Slingshots