All TWiT.tv Shows (Audio)

All TWiT.tv Shows (Audio) gathers the TWiT network's programs into a single feed. Episodes arrive mixed together: Hands-On Tech, Hands-On Apple, iOS Today, Hands-On Windows, Tech News Weekly and This Week in Space, each under its own name and episode number. The mix is the point. In 'Hands-On Tech 263: What Does Siri and Spotlight See When I Search?', Micah Sargent starts with a question sent in by a listener about the Siri and search permissions in iOS. He warns that the answer takes some time to work through. He also says it gave him a reason to spend time with developer documentation again, and he invites listeners to send in their own questions. On Hands-On Apple, Micah Sargent runs a multi-part look at focus modes. 'Hands-On Apple 227: Focus Modes Pt. 2' goes beyond silenced notifications to the setup around them. That covers app and system filters that let a phone act like a work phone or a home phone, and lock screens paired with a particular focus. He also says focus filters could use more attention from third-party developers. iOS Today is practical too. In 'iOS Today 798: Stay Secure on Your Devices', a community-based safety app comes up that can alert professional security guards, trigger SOS alerts and record audio and video, and the discussion notes it still has features that Apple's own Check In lacks. Hands-On Windows covers the other platform. 'Hands-On Windows 185: Windows 11's new Features 4/2026' goes through new Windows 11 additions and recalls a January patch that Microsoft had to follow with two emergency fixes for problems it created. Tech News Weekly covers wider industry news. In 'Tech News Weekly 433: A $399 AI Deer That Texts You', with Jennifer Pattison Toohey of The Verge, the talk turns to the Google Play Store and Apple's App Store seeming to steer users toward apps that create nude images of people. The same episode looks at an eldercare companion device through which a caregiver can talk and set medication reminders, weighed against the cost of a care home and the problem of loneliness. This Week in Space is the change of pace. 'This Week in Space 206: I Want to Believe' asks how science, the media and theology would handle evidence of microbial life beyond Earth. The conversation goes back to a US president announcing possible fossils in a Martian meteorite that turned out not to be what they seemed. One speaker recalls a NASA workshop where public-opinion data showed that much of the American public believed life in space had already been found, which shocked the astrobiologists there. Across the feed the manner is warm and curious, and one episode opens with a cheerful promise to get nerdy. Sponsor reads run through the episodes, some told as personal stories. A listener who wants practical fixes can start with the focus mode installments, and one who wants a bigger conversation can start with the This Week in Space episode on life beyond Earth.