Apple’s Siri Just Lost to Perplexity, iPhone 17 Air Looks Real, Apple Watch 10th Birthday
04/24/25 • 82 min
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Perplexity voice assistant can now interact with your iPhone, and it’s better than Siri, iPhone 17 Air models reveal an ultra-slim design, Google loses two trials and what it means for Chrome, Search and OpenAI, plus Apple Watch celebrates 10 years since launch.
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- Nintendo Switch 2 preorders: everything you need to know to nab one | The Verge
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- Apple’s New Siri Chief Mike Rockwell Overhauls Management to Start Turnaround - Bloomberg
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- iPhone 17 Air's Extreme Thinness Demoed in New Video - MacRumors
Perplexity voice assistant can now interact with your iPhone, and it’s better than Siri, iPhone 17 Air models reveal an ultra-slim design, Google loses two trials and what it means for Chrome, Search and OpenAI, plus Apple Watch celebrates 10 years since launch.
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- Nintendo Switch 2 preorders: everything you need to know to nab one | The Verge
- OpenPin Hub
- Perplexity Voice AI
- Perplexity Plagiarized Our Story About How Perplexity Is a Bullshit Machine | WIRED
- Apple’s New Siri Chief Mike Rockwell Overhauls Management to Start Turnaround - Bloomberg
- Apple Intelligence | Clean Up Photos: Flex | iPhone 16 - YouTube
- Low Glare | Mac does that | Apple - YouTube
- iPhone 17 Air's Extreme Thinness Demoed in New Video - MacRumors
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Primary Technology - Apple’s Siri Just Lost to Perplexity, iPhone 17 Air Looks Real, Apple Watch 10th Birthday
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Darby Shaw, you take my breath away. Welcome to Primary Technology, the show about the tech news that matters. Google has lost not one but two court cases, and it could mean big things for the future of Chrome, Android, and more. We're gonna talk about that. Apple's Siri team is getting overhauled. The Perplexity came in with voice AI in their app, and it's actually pretty good. The Humane AI pin might be resurrecting. IPhone 17 Air might ha
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