There is a garage door mystery
WIRED’s Big Bounce: Exploring the Rise of Silicon Valley with Stranger Trends and Artificial Intelligence (via Mike Calore, Zo Schiffer, Lauren Goode)
There’s a lot to cover, and there’s also a lot to talk about. I am so happy to inform you that I have announced a new program from three of WIRED’s finest Bay Area journalists: Michael Calore, Zo Schiffer, and Lauren Goode. The hosts will explain how the strangest trends from the tech industry are poised to affect society at large on the show.
Here at WIRED, we’re covering all of this power and influence on a daily basis across our digital platforms and in our print editions. We always look for new ways to explore the rise of Silicon Valley, in order to make it easier for us to understand and think about it. Why does Musk think a GOP White House is good for the country, and how would a Muskian approach to federal efficiency affect your daily life? If Meta remains committed to making the whole metaverse thing a reality, how will it change the way you socialize, work, or learn? And is generative AI really going to change everything, or are we in the midst of a bubble that’s about to blow the tech industry apart at a scale we haven’t seen since the early-2000s dotcom bust?
In other words, think about it, Musk is essentially an agent for US Presidential candidates while subsidiaries of his company are buying up more and more real estate with every satellite launch.
What Have We Learned about the Smart Home During the Big Tech Event? An Overview of Apple’s Big Week of Mac Announcements
You left the house. When you tear down the street in the cool way, you also have to open the garage door. What does it do? It feels like the wrong answer because the answer is probably nothing. The smart home was supposed to have fixed this by now.
On this show, we did not talk about smart garage doors for as long as we did, but we did have a lot to say about Apple intelligence, notification summaries and how we all. What does Apple really think it can do in the smart home with the reported hardware push? Make sure you watch the interview with Federighi because it is important.
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 also talk about this week’s Big Tech earnings, and what they taught us about how AI is actually being used — and how it makes money.
In our coverage, we look at 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? So we talk about power buttons, and chip bumps, and why the Mac Mini feels more important than ever.
