


9 Sep 2025 · 25m · 13 chapters

Daily Tech News episode covering Apple’s September 2025 announcements (AirPods Pro 3, Apple Watch Series 11/SE3/Ultra 3, iPhone 17 line including the ultra-thin “iPhone Air”), plus tech briefs (Anthropic/Cloud, Google Pixel Daily Hub pause, Xbox cloud gaming in cars, Signal encrypted backups, Firefox iOS shake-to-summarize).
No named guests; hosts are Jason Howell and Tom Merritt (Daily Tech News Show).
AirPods Pro 3 are smaller, add in-ear live translation (on-device with iPhone), improved ANC, heart-rate sensing for workouts, IP57/8h ANC battery; Apple Watch adds 5G modems, blood-pressure risk screening, sleep “score,” and Ultra 3 satellite connectivity; iPhone 17 adds anti-reflective display, A19 chips, fusion cameras, and iPhone Air is 5.6mm thin with eSIM-only and “adaptive power mode.”
AirPods translation requires both users to have AirPods; Ultra 3 emergency SOS without service; iPhone Air uses MagSafe battery accessory; Signal backup costs $1.99/month after 45 days free; Pixel 10 Daily Hub paused after weak feedback.
Written by AI. May contain mistakes.
Explore the new features of the AirPods Pro 3 including live translation.
“It's called Chat Concierge and it's simplifying car shopping.”
Explore the new features of the AirPods Pro 3 including live translation.
“Let's start with what you need to know with the really big story.”
Discuss the new health features and performance upgrades of the Apple Watch Series 11.
“So if both people have AirPods, you don't even need to pull the phone out, right?”
Review the specifications and new functionalities of the Apple Watch SE3 and Ultra.
“If you're like, ooh, you may have hypertension, you should check with your doctor.”
Delve into the new features of the iPhone 17 including camera and battery improvements.
“Take advantage of the wrist flick gestures and the double tap.”
An overview of the ultra-slim iPhone Air, its design, and technology.
“And if I don't have the service to pay for it, then I'm still screwed.”
Exploration of the new features and implications of the iPhone Air.
“I do not believe that it's silicon carbon, though.”
A series of brief updates on various tech news, including Anthropic and Google.
“Yesterday, we told you about Anthropic agreeing to pay$1.5 billion to settle a copyright lawsuit with authors.”
Discussion on Signal's new backup feature and Mozilla's shake-to-summarize update.
“Yeah, a lot of people eat in their car too.”
Learn about Signal's new backup time options and their pricing strategy.
“It's incredibly generous to get me to use Signal to give me the 45 days for free.”
Find out how to engage with the show through Discord and Patreon.
“You can join our Discord by linking your Patreon account.”
The hosts close the episode with listener wisdom about the Raspberry Pi heartbeat sensor story and a pun on a tricorder needing 3.14 sensors.
Hear listener feedback and contributions, including a fun math-related joke.
“So Pi quarter and 3.14 is the first three digits of Pi.”

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2:31This is the Daily Tech News for Tuesday, September 9th, 2025. We tell you what you need to know, follow up the context of those stories, and help each other understand. If you're like, wait, this episode seemed to show up a little later. What happened? Apple happened. Big Apple announcement. Or was it? We're going to talk about that. I'm Jason Howell. I'm Tom Merritt. Let's start with what you need to know with the really big story. If it's a big story and it's about Apple, that makes it the big Apple story. Oh, that's true. Hey, that's a good point. Although it was in Cupertino, not New York.
3:05We're going to go in the order they announced the stuff. AirPods Pro 3. The new thing in the new AirPods is they're smaller. They allege that they will fit more ears better if you have a problem with these things sticking in your ears. There's five sizes of the new foam ear tips, better automatic noise cancellation, live translation. So working with your iPhone and a chip in the AirPods, they can hear a language and then interpret it for you and then display what you're saying on a phone for the other person to see. Is that a brand new feature or did previous AirPods do that and this is an update?
3:44This is a new feature in the AirPods. You could do this on the phone with various apps, but this will do it in the AirPods for you. So if both people have AirPods, you don't even need to pull the phone out, right? Yeah. Again, it leans on the need for ubiquity for both people to kind of have that. There's an argument they're sure locking some people with this one, which when Apple puts a feature in their product that other third parties provide. Right. IP 57, not 68, which is normal for earbuds, but they weren't even 57 before. So they're a little more hearty. And heart rate sensing. I think it works all the time, but they tied it specifically into workouts.
4:27So it's probably not useful for much else. But you can measure your heart rate with just the AirPods if you don't have an Apple Watch. Eight hours of battery life with the noise canceling on. Ten hours within transparency mode. $249. Same price. Pre-order. Available September 19th. Yeah, I love the eight hours battery with ANC on. That's nutso with noise cancellation running. Yeah. That's a really good battery. They said, a transatlantic flight. And I'm like, what about the Pacific? That's your next one. Yeah, not good enough, Apple. Also, live translation, just circling back on that. My question about live translation with the earbuds is it's awesome that we can do this.
5:07And the Pixels do this as well. Google has integrated features like this. So we're starting to kind of see this bubbling up as maybe not quite table stakes yet, but it seems like it's kind of going in that direction. They're all probably going to have it eventually. I just really wonder how many people are actually using these features. I was going to say the same thing, right? And I've traveled to Japan and Korea and places where this comes in handy. I've used Google Translate where I just say what I want to say and then show it to them. uh i i feel like this is a bit of a demo feature where it's more impressive in the demo than it is in real life because you're like you know what i can just get by by pointing at the menu i don't really need to point out but i don't know maybe in business situations where it's in you know it's important to have an ongoing conversation uh feedback at dailytechnewsshow.com if you're like no i've definitely used this before would love to hear that uh new apple watches apple watch series 11 uh and actually all the apple watches now have a 5g modem in them uh and before it was just lte i don't know how big of a deal that is in your watch uh i i am one who just turned off the connectivity service on my apple watch series 6 because i'm like i never use this i never need that lte modem uh but there are some who do so 5g modem and blood pressure sensing uh not for giving you a blood, you know, you're 120 over 80 or whatever, but telling you if you've possibly got hypertension.
6:34If you're like, ooh, you may have hypertension, you should check with your doctor. I suppose there's a checkbox if you know you have hypertension to be like, don't bother telling me this, but they're anticipating FDA clearance on that and release slated for 150 countries. Also adding a sleep score now to the sleep stuff. You can do sleep tracking though before. You can do sleep tracking. But this is just a score for it. Now they're going to give you a score. 42 hours of battery life. Yeah. You know, that ain't bad. I think that's pretty solid. I mean, that's almost two full days. There's longer.
7:08Garmin's over there waving at you right now. But, you know, it's pretty decent. I mean, the OnePlus Watch 3 that I have on my wrist, you know, it goes three to four days. But it's also a different battery technology than I imagine what Apple's using. Exactly. So$399 is how it starts. Mine, because I get the bigger size, cost me like$449 because I ordered the Series 11 because it's been five years since I got an Apple Watch. There you go. Apple Watch SE3. So if you want the bargain one, this one's$249. Has a new chip called the S10. And that means it can now, at the lower price, do an always-on display.
7:43Take advantage of the wrist flick gestures and the double tap. Adds wrist temperature, which is good for ovulation tracking. has a sleep apnea tracker uh a speaker which is not oh they didn't have a speaker i mean i had a speaker for dings but now i can play your music oh i bet it's really high fidelity that base is bumping your wrist right uh 18 hours of battery life two times faster charging uh so that's nice uh and then the apple watch ultra which is their like super duper you know go outdoors uh activity watch. It has a larger face, has a new Waypoint watch face with a bunch of stuff for outdoorsy people.
8:24Satellite connectivity, as well as 5G. So you can not only do the text messaging, but also emergency SOS. 42 hours of battery life as well. Black and titanium for$799. Pre-order now, ship in September 19th for all of these. Pre-order now, ship in September 19th. Chunky, chunky big watch as the Ultra usually is. I mean, satellite connectivity, that's like a new yeah that's a new trend that we're seeing makes perfect sense that it would end up on their like hyper kind of ultra uh smart watch that people are wearing when they you know go rock climbing or out into the wilderness or whatever it's nice to have that extra peace of mind from satellite yeah you do a little more hiking than i do but do is this are you do you do enough that you think you need something like this no i'm i i don't do enough that I think I need something like this.
9:16But when I go, it would be nice to have something like this. Absolutely. And having the peace of mind of the satellite connectivity, like I just did a backpacking trip with a few guys like a week and a half ago, and we were definitely in a remote area. And I was getting on my Pixel 10 Pro, the little satellite icon. What I didn't realize going into the trip, though, is that that is an extra cost. It is an extra service that you have to have, at least with T-Mobile, I thought it was included. So I guess the question here, or at least the point when it comes to these devices, more of them getting these satellite capabilities is don't find yourself in a situation where you absolutely need it and you don't have it.
9:56It kind of seems to me a little bit like it defeats the purpose. It's like, I wouldn't know that I need satellite connectivity as a last resort until suddenly I do. And if I don't have the service to pay for it, then I'm still screwed. So that kind of was a little weird. Well, you get emergency SOS you can use without the service. So if you get in real trouble. Okay. All right. Well, at least there's that. Not the other one. Also, I totally flipped the numbers, by the way. Somebody's probably already yelling at me. 24 hours of battery life on the Series 11. 42 hours of battery life for the two flipped on the Ultra 3.
10:31And 72 hours on the Ultra 3 in low power mode. Got it. Okay. Well, 42 hours is pretty awesome. Now that we got that cleaned up. uh iphone 17 uh is the new iphone they didn't call it the 26 i'm very sad about that but you know i knew it probably wouldn't happen 6.3 inch display now gets the pro motion screen the 120 hertz refresh rate 3000 nits of brightness they've improved ceramic shield it's now called ceramic shield 2 that's their scratch resistance uh on the front screen a new chip a19 chip on the three nanometer process, six core CPU, five core GPU. All the phones have anti-reflective coating, no more glossy stuff.
11:12Love that. Yeah. Eight more hours of video playback than the iPhone 16. All day battery life is all that they said otherwise. But you can do 10 minutes of fast charging and that'll give you eight hours of video playback. Dual cameras. And they're both fusion cameras, which means they can do different things, including a 48 megapixel fusion and ultra wide camera. So your ultra wide, your telephoto is all packed into two lenses. And the front camera, which they call the center stage is now got a wider field of view and a square sensor. So your front camera can now do landscape without you turning the phone.
11:52it's it can sense if like there's people in the phone photo that are off off off stage vertically and it'll just automatically go landscape so you can get everybody in the picture uh video stabilization for selfie videos uh facetime calls etc starting at 799 it has the different camera bar styling that you know had been rumored everything looks a little i don't know it kind of has a little bit of a pixely quality to it right that kind of likes it although it's more of like a a larger rectangle than a than a very narrow kind of pill-shaped one but i i actually really like the design of it i think it looks really eye-catching what about the iphone air design that was the star of the show i mean five inch display and 5.6 millimeters thick that's 0.2 millimeters thinner than the s25 edge take that samsung boom yeah what you got now it's also got the horizontal camera bump because it's just one single camera lens in there with a with a sensor uh and so they few it's a fusion camera but the air costs more it's basically taking the place of the plus in the lineup but it's got fewer cameras so i think that is interesting uh same center stage is the iPhone 17, dual camera in one frame.
13:11A19 Pro chip. So you have a higher performance chip in here. You've got the N1 wireless communication chip. That's a new chip with Wi-Fi 7, Bluetooth 6, and thread. And then the C1X, which is the newest version of their modem chip. The C1 is in the iPhone SE. All the rest of them use Qualcomm except the Air, which will use the C1X for power efficiency. Also, no SIM card slot, just eSIM because keeping it thin. And they have an adaptive power mode on all the time so they can get you all day battery life. So battery is going to be a problem with this because they spend a lot of time telling you about the solutions for your battery life without telling you the battery life wouldn't be a problem.
13:56Yeah. I mean, which is the same with the S25 Edge. It's a smaller device. Unless they're barring the their uh inclusion of a more compact higher density battery technology like say silicon carbon which is i believe not in the iphone air then yeah you're going to have challenges and there are going to be trade-offs in order to nail that all-day battery that people expect they said it's new battery tech but they didn't tell us what it is they didn't say what it was they said it was higher density i'm super curious to see where that like where that comes out and when and what that actually is. I do not believe that it's silicon carbon, though.
14:33It's the only iPhone announcement I've ever seen where they talked about the MagSafe battery accessory you can buy during the phone announcement. Like, hey, and by the way, if you want 40 hours of video playback, slap this battery on the back. You're going to need this accessory. Just sorry. Also, two custom cases, because obviously with that thin profile, you're going to have to have a custom case. So you get two custom cases coming directly from Apple and a cross-body strap. They're really playing up the cross-body strap, starting at$999. Yeah, very interested in this. E-SIM-less also, so no E-SIM.
15:08Only E-SIM. No SIM card slot. I don't like that trend, but apparently it's here. You know what? When's the last time? Well, I take that back. When's the last time you weren't reviewing a phone that you needed a SIM card slot? Because you probably swap SIMs all the time, right? I mean, that's the thing. It's definitely probably more a me problem than anyone else. but I just like having the control, man. It's so nice to be able to just plunk it in. All right. The iPhone 17 Pro was the final announcement, 6.3-inch and 6.9-inch model, biggest battery in any iPhone yet. They still didn't give us hours, but they did say that the eSIM-only models have more batteries, so 39 hours of video playback for those.
15:50I think you can still get a SIM card slot for some of the iPhone 17 Pros. Unibody design with a vapor chamber with deionized water inside for cooling. Yeah. Sorry, not Vader chamber. Sorry. Yeah, yeah, vapor. This is vaporware is what someone in our chat said, which is hilarious. 20 times greater thermal conductivity. Like basically this thing runs hot and they've done a lot to make sure that it keeps cool. It's got three fusion cameras on the back, the longest optical quality zoom ever in an iPhone at 8X, ProRes Raw, Genlock for keeping multi-camera shoots synchronized. You can do front and back at the same time, which is kind of fun.
16:35They got some new cases and the crossbody strap. And the iPhone Pro Max has a two terabyte option for storage, should you need to shoot a lot of video. Starts at$1 ,099. Not for that two terabytes, though. That's 256 gig. You can pre-order it Friday. The iPhones are pre-order Friday. Everything else is pre-ordered now, but the iPhones, all three models are pre-order Friday, and they're all, everything, shipping on September 19th. And so which one are you getting, Tom? I have to imagine you're getting them. I have ordered the watch. I got$55 in trade for my Series 6 Apple Watch. I don't think I need a new iPhone, though.
17:14There's nothing on here where I'm like, I got to test that for people to know, right? I mean, there's some interesting stuff, but nothing where I'm like, that's a brand new feature that I need to know how it works. So I may still stick with my 16. Interesting. Very interesting. But my Pixel Fold, on the other hand, is starting to age. Yeah. I've heard that. That might be the next phone. I might need a new Android phones. Yeah. Fair. Well, DTNS is made possible by you, the listener. Big thanks to folks like AB Puppy, Dale Mulcahy, and Matt Zaglin. And welcome to our new patrons, Mark, Dan, Maurice, and Brandon.
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18:22clear, engaging, and actually enjoyable to listen to. Hosts Neil Freiman and Toby Howell make the show feel like you're catching up with two friends while giving you the context you need to feel smarter and more confident throughout your day. New episodes drop every weekday wherever you get your podcasts. Tune into Morning Brew Daily wherever you get your podcasts. This episode is brought to you by Capital One. Capital One's tech team isn't just talking about multi-agentic AI. They already deployed one. It's called Chat Concierge and it's simplifying car shopping. Using self-reflection and layered reasoning with live API checks, it doesn't just help buyers find a car they love.
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21:35All right, there's more we need to know today. Let's get to the briefs. All right. Yesterday, we told you about Anthropic agreeing to pay$1.5 billion to settle a copyright lawsuit with authors. Well, Judge William Alsup said not so fast. He rejected court approval of the settlement, saying he wants more information about which works are covered. Maybe he heard me saying. I didn't think my books were in there. And how authors could be notified and compensated for their works. Thanks, Judge Alsup. I actually appreciate that. But Alsup also shared concerns that the settlement might be pushed forward without proper oversight, resulting in some class members being left out.
22:12Thank you again. Judge Alsup set a September 15th deadline for a complete list of works involved and has insisted on clear workable claim methods for everyone involved. Yeah, so not much longer. That's just a week from now, essentially. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, you've got to do this right. I mean, he didn't say my name directly. He didn't call you out specifically. But we all know, Tom. We all know. But yeah, I am not a member of the Authors Guild. And if you're not, it's much more intricate and confusing process to get your claim. Yeah. Yeah. Curious. You know, the ongoing precedent of cases like this and the big payout just kind of changes the architecture of the potential impact of cases like these for the smaller players, especially.
22:57Yeah. This doesn't change the precedent setting nature of it. It's just details on how the money gets split up. Yeah. Totally. Totally. Well, speaking of Anthropic, Cloud now lets users create PDFs, slides, and spreadsheets. It can all be done through the Cloud chat interface that you're already using if you use Cloud. Anthropic says the new feature turns raw information to those structured data types. It must be enabled in settings. So if this is something you're interested in, you got to go in, you got to check it and make sure it's on. And Anthropic warns users that their data, quote, may be at risk.
23:35I thought this was kind of interesting that they just kind of like, well, although they are very risky, but not risky, but risk focused. Risk averse. So maybe risk averse, let's say, or at least they are publicly risk averse, whether they actually are remains to be seen. But they say that data may be at risk due to the tool's broad file access and analysis capabilities. Max team and enterprise customers will get access to these new capabilities. Yes, if you're on a pro account, you'll get that access sometime soon, but you don't have it yet. Yeah. It just made me realize that I only a couple of times had ChatGPT successfully create.
24:13It is said it is created in Excel file, and then that file doesn't actually exist. So maybe Claude will be better at this. Yeah. Google has paused the Pixel 10's Daily Hub. This is a premier Gemini-powered feature that offered weather, calendar events, curated recommendation based on the user's broad scope of data. This comes just two weeks after the launch of the new phone. Daily Hub was a preview inside the interface, and early feedback was that it wasn't quite effective in providing useful information, as promised. So good job, Google, saying, you know what? Let's work to improve the experience and performance before we give that back to the phone.
24:53Yeah, I'm switching to it right now. Now on my Pixel 10 Pro, I do not see it. I mean, it's definitely been one of the new features that's been a real head scratcher. Like, really? This is what you think people want? And yeah, like you said, good on Google for recognizing going back to the drawing board. I'm confident that they can come up with something that's useful. Like, I get the idea. I get the premise. But in actuality, like, anytime I opened it, it didn't tell me anything that really helped my day. And some of the information that it displayed throughout the interface was really head-scratching and kind of puzzling.
25:26Like, why would I ever choose to reference that? That's the knock on Apple a lot, is that it's summarizations or it's priority messages. You're like, no, it's not. So I think it's a problem of these generative models when they hit scale, not being able to really work at scale as well as they can in the lab. It's kind of a dream that's constantly chased by tech companies, which is we will tell you what you need to know before you need to know it. Seriously, right? And in my experience, it never delivers quite the way they promise. And so it's back to the drawing board. Eventually, maybe it will.
26:00But now that you say that, that goes back to the Yahoo MyPage. Yes. Yeah. I know. Exactly. It's been around forever, and they're still chasing that dragon. uh microsoft and lg announced that cloud game sorry xbox cloud gaming will soon be offered in vehicles that use lg's automotive content platform the new xbox app lets game pass ultimate subscribers stream cloud-based xbox titles on the in-car screen but only for passengers to play while in transit and while charging this new feature which is powered by lg web os is designed for use on in-car backseat displays. So you're not going to find this in the front seat dashboard displays, as one example, which is probably a good thing because you don't want the drivers playing this while they're driving.
26:48That would be a weird sight, and you don't want to see that on the road. At launch, the new feature will arrive on the Kia EV3 in Europe. There's support planned for upcoming Kia EV4, EV5, and the latest Sportage models coming soon. Yeah, a lot of people eat in their car too. too. So, you know, while you're parked and pop. Now you have to pop into the backseat, though. You know, if I'm not driving, I kind of would like to have it on the front. But yeah. Yeah. But if you're a passenger of the backseat, that's actually really cool. That's like fire up your your Xbox library stream from the cloud.
27:19Yeah. Internet connectivity better be really car sick. Yeah, that's true. Not a whitey road game. Oh, yeah, that's cool. uh signal has launched a secure backup feature letting users backup chats and media as encrypted archives uh works in the signal android beta and you have to opt into it it's not going to work automatically so you have to have informed consent basically uh the previous 45 days get backed up for free if you want to go longer it's a dollar 99 a month the backup uses a 64 character recovery key which is stored on your device so signal can't help you if you lose it uh this is signal's first paid feature and a broader rollout to ios and desktop users is coming soon yeah they basically said like the dollar 99 monthly fee is really to cover the the infrastructure that is required to do this they're there this doesn't seem like a major money-making effort they want to provide the service they want to give you the option to have a longer backup time but they need the you know they need to cover the cost of the servers i don't begrudge signal making money because they need to make money to stay in business and that's a perfectly reasonable fee for something more than 45 days.
28:27It's incredibly generous to get me to use Signal to give me the 45 days for free. That's great. Totally agree. Totally agree. Well, Mozilla added a new shake to summarize feature to Firefox. You just shake it. Thank you, Taylor Smith. I know. Shake, shake, shake. On iOS 26, using Apple Intelligence for on-device summaries on the iPhone 15 Pro and newer models. If you have an older iPhone, you can still get summaries, but those will actually be done with mozilla's own ai servers in the cloud users can shake their device or tap a thunderbolt icon in order to kick off that summarization process supports up to 5 000 word web pages new feature supports english sites in the u.s at launch there are of course plans to expand to more languages and regions somewhere down the line yeah uh this is weird it's not something i was i i expecting from Firefox on iOS, but I'm going to try it.
29:22I'm going to see how well it works. Because, man, that summarization, not always that great. So if they're using apples, we'll see how it goes. If you would like to summarize your thoughts on what we've been talking about, you can do so in our Discord. Put them right into our brains because we're there on the Discord. You can join our Discord by linking your Patreon account. You become a patron by going to patreon.com slash DTNS.
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31:08and we end every episode of dtns with some shared wisdom regarding monday's story that's yesterday's story about the raspberry pi chip being used to sense heartbeats and rob's joke about the tricorder arthur had some added wisdom yeah arthur said clearly the Raspberry Pi quarter would need to contain 3.14 sensors. Get it? This tricorder needs three, and it's a Pi. So Pi quarter and 3.14 is the first three digits of Pi. Thank you, Arthur. You made me smile. Yeah. And anytime that Pi comes up in this sense, I end up hungry too. So it's kind of does double duty, really. Yeah. 3.14 cherry, any kind of Pi.
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