Ep. 489: Happy Earth Day + Tech News, Tips, and Fun!

Notnerd Podcast: Tech Better

Happy Earth Day! We'll take a look at what you can do, what Apple is doing, and how saying thank you to AI isn't helping. We've got a great set of Just the Headlines this week. Which one are you curious about? There's plenty more to get caught up on in the world of tech this week and we do our best to break it all down for you, so you can get out there and tech better!

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INTRO (00:00)

Insta360 X5 (04:35)

Instagram Edits App (10:35)

MAIN TOPIC: Happy Earth Day (12:35)

Earth Day 2025

Apple celebrating Earth Day in the these five ways

Sam Altman admits that saying “Please” and “Thank You” to ChatGPT is wasting millions of dollars in computing power

DAVE’S PRO-TIP OF THE WEEK: Earth Day Tip! - Clean Energy Charging (22:35)

JUST THE HEADLINES: (26:00)

Daddy of a mistake by GoDaddy took Zoom offline for about 90 minutes

The FBI can’t find ‘missing’ records of its hacking tools

Google used AI to suspend over 39M ad accounts suspected of fraud

Hertz says customers’ personal data and driver’s licenses stolen in data breach

Hackers spied on 100 US bank regulators’ e-mails for over a year

James Webb space telescope reveals that most galaxies rotate clockwise

Scientists recreate brain circuit in lab for first time

TAKES:

Alamo Drafthouse rejects Meta’s Second-Screen technology (30:50)

Apple says all Mac minis with Intel are now ‘vintage’ or ‘obsolete’ (36:00)

Google announces Agent 2 Agent AI protocol (39:40)

BONUS ODD TAKE: My Abandonware (42:40)

PICKS OF THE WEEK:

Dave: Mockuuups (44:50)

Nate: Apple TV+ YouTube Channel (49:20)

RAMAZON PURCHASE - Giveaway! (52:15)