Engadget Podcast: How Apple and Google are highlighting accessibility

This week, we’re specializing in World Accessibility Consciousness Day (GAAD), an annual occasion meant to advertise the necessity for accessible tech options. Cherlynn returns to inform us what Apple, Google, Adobe and others are doing to make their merchandise extra helpful for folks with disabilities (and, it seems, many basic customers too). We additionally focus on Sam Altman’s journey to Congress, and why we’re not completely impressed with the OpenAI CEO’s requires AI regulation. Lastly, we clarify why the BlackBerry film is without doubt one of the finest movies about tech ever made (take that, Tetris!).

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Matters

• Tech corporations spotlight new options for World Accessibility Consciousness Day – 1:27

• OpenAI CEO Sam Altman goes to Congress and advocates for A.I. regulation – 34:24

• Amazon introduced a bunch of {hardware}: new Echo Buds, Echo Present and Echo Pop – 45:10

• Montana’s TikTok ban has been signed, scheduled to enter impact in 2024 – 49:04

• Working On (and Cherlynn’s expertise on the bottom at Google I/O) – 53:55

• Popular culture picks – 1:04:44

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Credit
Hosts: Cherlynn Low and Devindra Hardawar
Producer: Ben Ellman
Music: Dale North and Terrence O’Brien
Livestream producers: Julio Barrientos
Graphic artist: Luke Brooks and Joel Chokkattu

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