Richard Pascoe - FIVEaa Tech Talk with Leith Forrest - Wednesday 14th Oct 2026
Tech Talk with Leith Forrest – Wednesday 14th October 2026 (FIVEaa Afternoons)
On the show: Apple’s big announcements – the new Home View smart display ($449) that recognises each member of the family by face and controls your HomeKit lights and air conditioning, a new Apple TV with a Siri remote you can find when it slides down the couch, and new HomePod minis in five colours ($229 each) that can link up for surround sound and alert you when a smoke alarm goes off. Plus the new Siri AI that can dig up old emails and recordings, new phone features that warn before showing explicit images, and why Richard says hold off on buying a Google Book until the software catches up.
Your calls: A $20 copy of Office 2021 bought through Groupon that won’t install (and why you should never let a seller connect to your computer with AnyDesk), phones accidentally waking up Siri from the radio, updating an older iPhone, moving songs from an old iPod to an iPhone, the future of Foxtel satellite and the iQ4 box, cooking your phone in a dash mount on hot days, where to buy an Oppo Find X9 Ultra, why McAfee and Avast should be removed, and Facebook becoming a Meta account – make sure your security is locked down.
Coming up: Richard is hosting the Melbourne Cup at the Waterloo Station Hotel, and presenting on scams and AI at the West Lakes Library.