October 29th, 2026: Apple's New MacBook, Google's Genie 4 And Things I Did This Week
Host Lindsey Vernick delivers a sardonic roundup of tech news, international tragedy, and personal misadventures. The episode opens with a parody "Adulting Customer Service" hotline for people who are technically adults but clueless about everyday life.
Coverage includes Apple's new touchscreen MacBook (features, steep prices, and long battery life), a fatal high-speed train collision near Madrid with dozens dead and an ongoing investigation, and Google DeepMind's Genie 4—an experimental AI that generates interactive worlds along with a new SynthID watermarking tool.
The episode also weaves…
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