Do You Need a New iPhone? + Yuval Noah Harari’s A.I. Fears + Hard Fork Crimes Division

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Apple unveiled its latest gadgets at its big September event on Monday. We discuss the most interesting new features — including AirPods that can function as hearing aids and Apple Watch software that can help detect sleep apnea — and offer our advice on when to buy a new iPhone. Then, the best-selling author Yuval Noah Harari joins us to discuss his new book and his biggest fears about A.I. And finally, we crack open some criminal cases in a new segment we’re calling the Hard Fork Crimes Division. We’ll explain how one man made $10 million by manipulating music streaming services and how online instructions for building a 3D-printed gun have ended up in the hands of criminals around the world.

Guest:

• Yuval Noah Harari, author of “Sapiens,” “Homo Deus” and “Nexus.”

Additional Reading:

• Apple Unveils New iPhones With Built-In Artificial Intelligence

• Russia Secretly Worms Its Way Into America’s Conservative Media

• He’s Known as ‘Ivan the Troll.’ His 3D-Printed Guns Have Gone Viral.

• The Bands and the Fans Were Fake. The $10 Million Was Real.

Credits

“Hard Fork” is hosted by Kevin Roose and Casey Newton and produced by Rachel Cohn and Davis Land. The show is edited by Jen Poyant. Engineering by Daniel Ramirez and original music by Dan Powell, Elisheba Ittoop, Rowan Niemisto and Diane Wong. Fact-checking by Caitlin Love.

Special thanks to Paula Szuchman, Pui-Wing Tam, Dahlia Haddad and Jeffrey Miranda.