Uncanny Valley Podcast: How Silicon Valley Becomes Smarter with Every inch of Space: Uncovering the Strangest People in Silicon Valley
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From inside the Bay Area bubble, three hosts who have been covering the Silicon Valley for decades will give you informed and intelligent conversations. The smart talk of Tech’s most powerful people is counterbalanced by the weird stuff, as they are also trying to cheat death.
Musk, among the world’s richest people, is a major backer of US presidential candidates, despite his company buying more space with every satellite launch, and also owning more space with every satellite launch than any other company.
How Do You Left Your House? The Vergecast’s Joanna Stern discusses Smart Garage Doors and the Apple Big Tech News in the Apple Era
You left your house. As you peel out of the driveway and tear down the street in the coolest way possible, your garage door… well, what does it do? The answer is probably nothing, and it feels like the wrong answer. The smart home was supposed to have fixed this by now.
On this episode of The Vergecast, we didn’t necessarily set out to talk about smart garage doors for as long as we did, but The Wall Street Journal’s Joanna Stern joined the show with a lot of thoughts about Apple Intelligence, notification summaries, and how we all — and in particular, how Apple’s software leader Craig Federighi — manage their own houses. Given the reporting that Apple is gearing up for a big hardware push into the smart home, what does the company really think it can do here? Be sure to watch the recent interview with Federighi.
At the beginning of the show, though, we talk about some of the week’s AI news. We discuss the just-launched search engine inside of ChatGPT, which may be a threat to Google but is definitely a statement about how we use the internet now. We discuss this week’s Big Tech earnings and what they taught us about artificial intelligence and how it makes money.
With Joanna, we dig into not just garage doors but also the rest of Apple’s big week of Mac announcements. After seeing the new Mac Mini, the new iMac, the new MacBook Pro, and some new accessories, a lot of people were left with the same question: they put the power button and charging port where? Power buttons, chip bumps and the Mac Mini are some of the topics we talk about.