Ep. 436: Spring Cleaning Your Tech - Consider Your P.F.A.N.T.S.S. + Tech News, Tips, and Picks!

It's that time of year to do some spring cleaning, which includes your tech world as well. Nate came up with the very "helpful" acronym P.F.A.N.T.S.S. to help you think through the aspects of your technology world that could use some attention. Maybe this will be the year that we practice what we preach! After that, we'll get you caught up with what's going on in the world of tech and provide some helpful tips and picks so that you can tech better!

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INTRO (00:00)

Spring Cleaning Your P.F.A.N.T.S.S. (09:40)
- Physical
- Files
- Apps
- Notifications
- Time
- Subscriptions
- Security

DAVE’S PRO-TIP OF THE WEEK: Photo album duplicates (31:30)

JUST THE HEADLINES: (36:25)
- Apple alerts users in 92 nations to mercenary spyware attacks
- Taylor Swift Songs Return to TikTok
- Walmart will deploy robotic forklifts in its distribution centers
- Microsoft starts testing ads in the Windows 11 Start menu
- The Motion Picture Association has big plans to crack down on movie piracy again
- Chechnya is banning music that's too fast or slow
- Computer scientist wins Turing Award for seminal work on randomness

TAKES:
- Humane AI Pin review: not even close (37:45)
- Macs with AI-focused M4 chip launching this year (41:25)
- April’s Patch Tuesday Brings Record Number of Fixes (44:05)

BONUS ODD TAKE: Neal.fun - Who Was Alive? (45:50)

PICKS OF THE WEEK:
- Dave: Gemini 2 - Duplicate File Finder (50:25)
- Nate: Udio.com - AI Music Generation (53:15)

RAMAZON PURCHASE - Giveaway! (59:10)

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