Jennifer Pattison Tuohy joins Mikah Sargent on Tech News Weekly! Amazon is directly implementing Alexa into its flagship shopping website. Bambu Lab is in hot water over direct messages it sent to an independent developer regarding third-party software access. Google&#x27;s set to release its Android XR smart glasses later this year. And Apple unveils new accessibility features for its products, now including Apple Intelligence. Jennifer talks about Amazon integrating Alexa into Amazon.com, where you&#x27;ll be able to ask Alexa questions and get more personalized answers. Mikah discusses how Bambu Lab, maker of popular 3D printers, is facing criticism from the 3D printing community after it sent a cease-and-desist letter to a developer over a third-party app that bypassed some of Bambu&#x27;s proprietary software. WIRED&#x27;s Julian Chokkattu joins the show to talk about Google&#x27;s upcoming Android XR smart glasses and his hands-on experience with the device on how it handled tasks such as translation, navigation, and on-the-fly information lookup. And Mikah shares Apple&#x27;s latest announcements of new accessibility features that will be coming to its OS&#x27;s later this year. Hosts: Mikah Sargent and Jennifer Pattison Tuohy Guest: Julian Chokkattu Download or subscribe to Tech News Weekly at https://twit.tv/shows/tech-news-weekly. Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free audio and video feeds, a members-only Discord, and exclusive content. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: outsystems.com/twit threatlocker.com/twit Melissa.com/twit

Gemini in Your Glasses: A First Look - Google's Android XR Smart Glasses

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[SPEAKER_A] Coming up on Tech News Weekly, Jennifer Pattison Tuohy of The Verge is here. We talk about Amazon's virtual assistant showing up on Amazon.com. Then I talk about a kerfuffle and a row in the 3D printing community before Julian Chokkattu stops by to give us a bit of an understanding of Google's upcoming Android XR smart glasses as he went hands-on with them. Then Apple's accessibility updates coming in the next versions of its various platforms. All of that up next. Tech News Weekly. This episode is brought to you by OutSystems, a leading agentic systems platform built for the enterprise. Organizations all over the world are building, orchestrating, and governing agentic systems on the OutSystems platform, and with good reason. Architect, deliver, and scale governed agentic systems with agility and trust using one open and unified platform. Power secure, company-wide agentic orchestration for core business operations. Use one open and unified platform. Power secure, company-wide agentic orchestration for core business operations. Teams of any size and technical depth can use OutSystems to build, deploy, and manage AI apps and agents quickly and cost-effectively without compromising reliability and security. With OutSystems, you can rapidly launch ideas from concept to completion. It's the leading agentic systems platform that is unified, agile, and enterprise-proven, allowing you to accelerate growth, reduce operational friction, and deliver real enterprise impact with AI. OutSystems: Build your agentic future. Learn more at outsystems.com/twit. That's outsystems.com/twit.

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[SPEAKER_A] This is TWiT. This is Tech News Weekly, episode 438, with Jennifer Pattison Tuohy and me, Mikah Sargent. Recorded Thursday, May 21st, 2026, Gemini in Your Glasses: A First Look. Hello and welcome to Tech News Weekly, the show where every week we talk to and about the people making and breaking that tech news. I am your host, Mikah Sargent, and I am always thrilled to be joined by the wonderful Jennifer Pattison Tuohy. Hello, Jen.

[SPEAKER_C] Hello, Mikah. Always happy to be here.

[SPEAKER_A] Yes, it's always happy. It's always a pleasure to have you with us. Now, Let me go ahead and say to everyone out there, if you currently have an Echo device that is listening for a certain keyword, just go in your little app and switch it to Echo or computer for a moment, or perhaps maybe even just hit that little mute switch that's on the top or on the side or wherever it happens to be. Just have it plug its ears basically, because we're going to be talking about, I think, a very interesting story from Jen and their there are going to be lots of mentions of you-know-who, Amazon's virtual assistant. So prepare yourselves, and then we don't have to have John going through and finding every single instance of Alexa throughout. All right.

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Gemini in Your Glasses: A First Look - Google's Android XR Smart Glasses

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