Abrar Al-Heeti joins Mikah Sargent on Tech News Weekly this week! Abrar talks about TikTok blocking teenagers from using beauty filters on the platform. There’s an AI app that can predict your death. A new competitor enters the mixed-realty headset market. And learn about the data company the FTC recently banned from selling sensitive location data.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Abrar Al-Heeti talks about TikTok’s decision to block teenagers from using beauty filters on its platform and the broader message this decision sends about the digital influence on teens’ beauty standards.
\n\u2022 Mikah Sargent is fascinated by an AI app that predicts when you will die but is a little off-put by the steep price point of the application.
\n\u2022 Scott Stein of CNET joins Mikah to talk about the Xreal One Smart Glasses, a new competitor in the mixed-reality headset market.
\n\u2022 And Joseph Cox of 404Media stops by to talk about the FTC taking stronger action against data companies, such as Venntel, signifying the FTC’s shift in the regulation of data companies.<\/p>\n
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