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Plus, OpenAI gets into the agent game, and how India is stepping up its manufacturing game, but CHina will be harder to beat than you might already think.
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How Android XR could benefit from HTC brain drain, a risky Cloudflare CDN security flaw, Instagram teen accounts come to South Korea, and Jason takes you behind the stage of Galaxy Unpacked.
Starring Jason Howell and Huyen Tue Dao.
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There was a cliffhanger ending to Samsung’s announcement, plus Google dominates education tech and Molly Wood tells us how data centers can power themselve sustainably.
Starring Tom Merritt and Jenn Cutter.
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Why companies may be risking fines in the US, should your mobile OS restrict SIM card info and Reed Albergotti from Semafor tells us why the World Economic Forum in Davos is something of a tech conference.
Starring Tom Merritt and Huyen Tue Dao.
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Plus, Norway is set to launch more rockets, great news for longer-lasting batteries and batteries on the power grid, and Lamarr Wilson has some advice for the TikTok diaspora.
Starring Tom Merritt and Huyen Tue Dao
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Today’s Daily Tech News Show dishes out all the details on the newly announced Nintendo Switch 2 gaming console, Duolingo's right place right time, Bluesky's upcoming photo-sharing app, a conversation with a long-time RedNote user, and more!
Starring Jason Howell and Huyen Tue Dao.
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Today’s Daily Tech News Show dives into TikTok’s potential shutdown, Google Workspace’s Gemini integration, and Softbank’s attempt to redefine search culture in Japan. Plus, insights into Nvidia’s Cosmos platform and more!
Starring Tom Merritt and Jenn Cutter.
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TikTok’s U.S. ban deadline fuels divestment talks, Musk rumors, and user shifts, as Amazon delays AI updates, and new launches include DJI’s Flip drone and DirecTV’s MySports bundle.
Starring Jason Howell and Tom Merritt.
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Proposed GPU export restrictions target China, setting tiered licensing rules that could impact global AI chip distribution. Mastodon wants to transfer ownership, Sonos CEO's resigns, and Netflix overtakes BBC1 in the UK.
Starring Tom Merritt and Jason Howell.
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A recent survey by Deloitte has shown a drop in EV interest. Why has interest in EVs waned? Sports-focused streaming service Venu, co-founded by Disney, Warner Bros. Discovery, and Fox Corp., has been discontinued. With a possible TikTok shut down in the US on the horizon, what are some alternatives? Plus we engage with some introspective questions in our Friday end-of-week debates.
Starring Sarah Lane, Tom Merritt, Len Peralta, Roger Chang, Joe.
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We discuss the winners of Best of CES 2025. Plus Meta backtracks on its policy of allowing political content on its platform. And we discuss the LA Fires and how it has impacted the DTNS crew.
Starring Sarah Lane, Tom Merritt, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang, Amos, Joe.
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Tom finds Matter is slowly making its way across more IoT smart home devices. Robert Heron is here with details on Home Theater technology trends for this year including even larger screens, brighter OLED displays, and laser short-throw projects. Plus Robb Dunewood shares the results of his quest to find better microphones for podcasting. And Jason Howell discovers an AI powered earbud that does translation.
Starring Tom Merritt, Robb Dunewood, Jason Howell, Robert Heron, Roger Chang, Amos, Joe.
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Tom has good news for fans of the Matter smart home standard. Plus, tech to help dyslexic readers and more from CES 2025.
It’s day 2 of our CES coverage. Allison found a space heater for beehives, an emotional support robot for pets, iFixit’s latest DIY repair tools. Plus Robb has found a potentially life changing tool for those with dyslexia. Tom’s found several new smart glasses. And Bodie shares what he learned from Lightship RV about the future of EV RVing and Pivotal’s single seat EVTOL.
Starring Sarah Lane, Tom Merritt, Robb Dunewood, Allison Sheridan, Bodie Grimm, Roger Chang, Amos, Joe.
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We are down in Las Vegas reporting from the Consumer Electronics Camera 2025. We had a great discussion at AMD’s event, TCL’s announcements, new pinball machines from Stern, wearables, robot lawnmowers and Robb had a chance to talk to the CEO of Stellar about their product to provide mobile internet access to vehicles.
Starring Sarah Lane, Tom Merritt, Robb Dunewood, Shannon Morse, Roger Chang, Amos, Joe.
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Monday, January 6th, 2025
This is the Daily Tech News CES Briefing for Monday, January 6th, 2025. To give you a complete look at the news coming out of CES, I’ll be doing these shorter briefings each morning, followed by our regular DTNS discussions in a separate episode later in the day.
I’m Tom Merritt, let’s start with what you need to know with the big story.
Can putting data centers in space provide much needed benefits and what are the challenges? Hoping to appeal to a younger crowd Meta is rolling out features to let users create AI characters on Instagram and Facebook and why some say the results look more like spam more than anything else. Roger brings a quiz about Las Vegas.
Starring Sarah Lane, Tom Merritt, Robb Dunewood, Len Peralta, Roger Chang, Joe.
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On this episode. Is the web browser extension coupon code tool, Honey, running a scam using influencers to peddle its product? Plus Meta swaps out its Global Affairs President, former leader of the UK Liberal Democrats, Nick Clegg, with Joel Kaplan, Clegg’s deputy and a well connected Republican.
Starring Sarah Lane, Tom Merritt, Robb Dunewood, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang, Joe.
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It’s our 2025 Tech Predictions Show! Tom and Sarah along with Robb Dunewood, Justin Robert Young and David Spark bring their two predictions of what they think will happen to the tech landscape in the year 2025!
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Robb Dunewood, Justin Robert Young and David Spark
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It’s the 2024 DTNS Predictions Results episode. This is where we look back on the predictions we made about technology and the tech industry in the year 2024 back in December of 2023 to see how they actually turned out! Who came out on top and who was just too early?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Tasia Custode, Dr. Nicole Ackermans, Jenn Cutter, Roger Chang.
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We’d thought it be fun to include a repost of last year’s 2024 tech predictions before we bring you are 2024 tech predictions RESULTS show on Monday. So here is our 2024 Tech Predictions Show from last December 2023! Tom and Sarah along with Dr. Niki, Jenn Cutter and Tasia Custode bring their two predictions of what they think will happen in 2024 the tech landscape.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Dr. Nicole Ackermans, Jenn Cutter, and Tasia Custode
2024 saw plenty of big tech stories take the headlines for DTNS and GDI. From continued rise of generative AI to the increased scrutiny of Social Media by governments around the world. So Joe put together the best conversations we've had all year and put them together here for you. Enjoy!
Welcome to our end of year Listener Hangout Show. This is the annual episode where we invite several of our supporters to appear alongside us on the show. On this episode we ask our listeners about their use of generative AI and passkeys. Plus we debate which streaming service are the ones we can’t live without!
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Joe, Mark Bussell Jr., Andrew Tzakis, Todd Belcher, Gary Fisher, Howard Yermish.
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Brian Brushwood explains how he uses AI models in his personal and work life. Plus a Canadian startup has developed a continuous potassium monitoring device that’s inserted just below the skin to help those with chronic kidney disease or at risk of heart failure. And we share our picks for the best holiday gift.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Brian Brushwood, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Dr. Niki reveals the big 2024 winners of this year’s Ig Nobel Prizes and why you shouldn’t take it too seriously. Plus the Exoskeleton Laboratory team at the KAIST in Daejeon have developed a lightweight wearable exoskeleton that helps a paraplegic patient walk. And Meta might be adding a display to their Ray-Ban smart glasses next year.
Starring Tom Merritt, Dr. Niki Ackermans, Roger Chang, Joe.
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YouTube announced a number of new AI focused policies. How will these help creators? Plus product leaker Evan Blass posted images of what they claim is Lenovo’s sixth-generation ThinkBook Plus with a rollable display. And Zelle, a major peer-to-peer payment platform operated by bank-owned fintech firm Early Warning Services, is under scrutiny for inadequate safeguards for transferring funds.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Shannon Morse, Len Peralta, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Who’s Hunter DeButts, why did President Wilson pardon him, and how did generative AI get all of this mixed up on a national morning TV show? Plus Tesla is looking to roll out its Robotaxi service in Texas, including Austin. And Apple and Meta are in a dispute over interoperability requests mandated by the European Union’s Digital Markets Act (DMA).
Starring Sarah Lane, Robb Dunewood, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Why is Netflix making its battle-royale style Squid Game video game available to non-subscribers? Plus TP-Link’s routers draw the attention of the US DOJ and DOC as potential vectors for cyberattacks. And Flipboard announced a new app called Surf that would allow Mastodon, Bluesky, Threads, RSS feeds, podcasts, and YouTube videos to be remixed into a custom feed.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Is Apple Intelligence as good as Apple says it is? Emily Forlini from PC Magazine shares her experience. Plus US users can try out Google Labs new image generator called Whisk. And Mark Zuckerberg announced Threads daily and monthly active users numbers. And how do they compare with X and Bluesky?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Emily Forlini, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Political polarization feels like it's at historic high, but what does the data actually tell us? Plus LLMs can sound very convincing to some people and there’s a psychological reason why that is. Professor of cognitive psychology at the University of Waikato, Dr. Garry explains.
Starring Tom Merritt, Andrea Jones-Rooy, Dr. Maryanne Garry, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Waymo’s robotaxis passes an independent first responder test. Plus Google’s NotebookLM AI podcast hosts can directly talk with the user. And Patrick’s here with a list of audio brands you’ve never heard but you should check out.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Patrick Norton, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Jason Howell has first impressions of Android XR, Google’s new mixed reality platform. And is Epic’s deal with Telefonica bloatware?
Big Story
"Epic Games to pre-install its game store on 'millions' of devices with new Telefónica deal | TechCrunch" https://techcrunch.com/2024/12/12/epic-games-to-pre-install-its-game-store-on-millions-of-devices-with-new-telefonica-deal/
"Android XR: Google's Bold New Vision for Extended Reality" https://www.androidfaithful.com/android-xr-googles-bold-new-vision-for-extended-reality/
"I Tried Google's Android XR Glasses - by Jason Howell" https://jasonhowell.substack.com/p/i-tried-googles-android-xr-glasses
"Google wants Android XR to power your next VR headset and smart glasses" https://www.androidpolice.com/android-xr-announced/
"Android XR and Project Moohan hands-on: Gemini is the killer app - The Verge" https://www.theverge.com/2024/12/12/24319528/google-android-xr-samsung-project-moohan-smart-glasses
"Harvard and Google to release 1 million public-domain books as AI training dataset | TechCrunch" https://techcrunch.com/2024/12/12/harvard-and-google-to-release-1-million-public-domain-books-as-ai-training-dataset/
"Harvard Is Releasing a Massive Free AI Training Dataset Funded by OpenAI and Microsoft | WIRED" https://www.wired.com/story/harvard-ai-training-dataset-openai-microsoft/
"FCC Opens Entire 6-GHz Band to Very-Low-Power Device Operations | TV Tech" https://www.tvtechnology.com/news/fcc-opens-entire-6-ghz-band-to-very-low-power-device-operations
"YouTube TV Hikes Price by $10 to $83 per Month, up 14%" https://variety.com/2024/digital/news/youtube-tv-raises-price-increase-2024-1236247063/
"YouTube TV Hikes Price $10 to $82.99" https://www.thewrap.com/youtube-tv-price-increase/
"Google Adds More Bluetooth Tracker Protections to Android - Thurrott.com" https://www.thurrott.com/mobile/android/314394/google-adds-more-bluetooth-tracker-protections-to-android
"Android’s Unknown tracker alerts adding ‘Find Nearby’ for FMD" https://9to5google.com/2024/12/11/unknown-tracker-alerts-find-nearby-update/
"You can now use AirTags to expedite a lost luggage reunion through United’s mobile app - The Verge" https://www.theverge.com/2024/12/12/24319503/apple-airtag-find-my-network-share-item-location-united-airlines-lost-bag-luggage
"Intel Arc B580 review: The first worthy budget GPU of the decade | PCWorld" https://www.pcworld.com/article/2553897/intel-arc-b580-review.html
"It sure looks like OpenAI trained Sora on game content — and legal experts say that could be a problem | TechCrunch" https://techcrunch.com/2024/12/11/it-sure-looks-like-openai-trained-sora-on-game-content-and-legal-experts-say-that-could-be-a-problem/
"Nvidia Steps Up Hiring in China to Focus on AI-Driven Cars - Bloomberg" https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-12-12/nvidia-steps-up-hiring-in-china-to-focus-on-ai-driven-cars
"China’s Instagram-Style Xiaohongshu Crosses $1 Billion in Profit - Bloomberg" https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-12-12/china-s-instagram-style-xiaohongshu-crosses-1-billion-in-profit
"Australia to force tech giants to keep paying for news" https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy4pvgjklevo
"Google says feedback shows old search result format is bad for hotels" https://finance.yahoo.com/news/google-says-feedback-shows-old-140517877.html
What happens when Moxie the AI powered emotional support companion loses access to its cloud servers that make it run because the company that makes it closes down? Plus Google introduces its new Gemini 2.0 AI model. And YouTube Says Sports Viewing Via TVs Is Up 30% Year-On-Year, 4K Uploads Climb 35%.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Joe.
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How an AR program may be the key to helping people with Parkinson’s disease manage symptoms. Plus Amazon is partnering with Hyundai to purchase a new car online with more automakers to follow next year. And Norway’s Vipps launches the first tap-to-pay system that can be the default payment system on iPhones instead of Apple Pay.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Merriam-Webster made “blog” the word of the year in 2004. Twenty years later how has blogging evolved and changed since then? Plus Google unveils its latest quantum computer that can solve problems in 5 minutes that would take the Frontier supercomputer (currently second fastest) 10 septillion years. And Reddit is testing a generative model chatbot that answers user questions with a summary of relevant threads.
Starring Tom Merritt, Nate Lanxon, Roger Chang, Joe.
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As the US government invests in technology to extra data from encrypted communications what should typical users worry about? Plus researchers from the Swiss École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne and UC Irvine have developed a drone with jumping legs to leap the device into the air. And red team research published by OpenAI and Apollo Research discover o1 will lie to give answers users are happy with.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Molly Wood, Len Peralta, Roger Chang, Joe.
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OpenAI’s “12 Days of Shipmas” starts today and we go over the big announcements. Plus, X-like social media platform Bluesky has hinted at including social media subscriptions, a marketplace of algorithms, and selling domain names.
Starring Sarah Lane, Robb Dunewood, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang, Joe.
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In response to suspected hackers in China penetrating American telecom networks the head of CISA and an FBI official recommend people use encryption. Plus, the head of Sony Interactive Entertainment Hermen Hulst believes generative AI can be the key to innovative in-game experiences but that game development needs a human touch.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Tuesday, China restricts the export of “‘dual-use items’ related to gallium, germanium, antimony, and superhard materials to the US.” Plus the Verge has launched a subscription service called Verge+, priced at $7 per month or $50 per year, that removes ads and gives unlimited access to articles. And a University of Texas research team has created ink for a temporary tattoo that can be printed on the skin to record brain activity.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Allison explains why she’s changed her mind about Apple’s password management app. Plus Intel CEO, Pat Gelsinger, leaves the company abruptly. And we explore the rumors that Apple may or may not change all of their iPhone cases to aluminum in 2025.
Starring Tom Merritt, Allison Sheridan, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Canada’s Competition Bureau sues Google for anti-competitive online advertising, the European Commission ends an investigation into Amazon over taxes, and Meta plans to build a $10 billion, 40,000+ kilometer fiber-optic subsea cable.
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Australia bans social media for teens under 16, China said it would take "necessary actions" to protect Chinese firms if the U.S. escalated chip control measures, and the FTC is investigating Microsoft over antitrust concerns.
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President of SCE Worldwide Studios, Shuhei Yoshida, steps down from his 38 years. Scott shares his thoughts on Yoshida’s legacy. Plus OpenAI shuts down access to its video generative AI tool, Sora, after artists given early access released a version of the tool publicly alongside a statement decrying “being lured into ‘art washing’ to tell the world that Sora is a useful tool for artists”. And a Hugging Face machine learning librarian a dataset composed of one million Bluesky posts.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Joe.
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A UK company has developed a gamma ray detector mounted on a robotic dog that can assess soil quality. Do the domestically manufactured chips in Huawei’s Mate 70 smartphone point to progress in China’s semiconductor industry? And the musician Drake has filed a lawsuit in New York’s Supreme Court alleging Universal Music Group used bots and bribes to inflate the popularity of rival Kendrick Lamar’s song “Not Like Us”.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Joe.
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How does holiday pricing work and what motivates sellers to drop prices during the holiday shopping season? Big Jim explains. Plus the media is warning that AI development has reached its peak, but is it true? Andrew Mayne cuts through the FUD. And The Information says the iPhone 17 “Air” rumored to be coming next year will be between 5 and 6 millimeters thick compared to the iPhone 16 at 7.8 mm.
Starring Tom Merritt, Nica Montford, Andrew Mayne, James Thatcher, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Robert Heron is here with a holiday home theater buying guide! Not sure which TV deals are the best? Robert will steer you right. Plus OpenAI wants to make its own browser according to The Information. And Threads is overhauling its search and trend features as Bluesky closes in on engagement numbers.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Robert Heron, Len Peralta, Roger Chang, Joe.
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The US DOJ is proposing a breakup of Google's Browser and potentially its OS business as well. How likely is that? Plus Facebook Messenger has added support for HD video calls, audio and video voice messages, generative backgrounds, and support for Apple’s Siri. Tubi has introduced a new short-form video feature called “Scenes” that lets users explore short clips from over 250,000 popular television programs and films.
Starring Sarah Lane, Robb Dunewood, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Why has Niantic, creators of the Pokémon Go mobile game, turned that into an AI tuned to geospatial information? Plus a system update for the PlayStation Portal lets users play games directly from the cloud. And Amazon introduces a new Echo product. The Echo Show 21.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Tom Merritt and Huyen Tue Dao summarize the top announcements from Microsoft Ignite. Microsoft really is a cloud company. Plus Sony's potential big anime and video game acquisition and Andrew Heaton explains how he used AI to make an entire musical.
Starring Tom Merritt, Huyen Tue Dao, Andrew Heaton
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Trisha gives us the details on Mediatek’s “This Chip Changes Everything”. Plus the Belgian region of Flanders is offering data wallets based on the solid protocol. And Pew Research Center found that about 20% of people surveyed in the US get news from influencers on social media.
Starring Tom Merritt, Trisha Hershberger, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Bluesky is on the uptick, Google will help you geolocate your gift shopping, and Max Scoville helps you find gift for all the gamers in your life.
Starring Tom Merritt, Robb Dunewood, Max Scoville, Len Peralta, Amos, Joe.
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The world of satire takes a great leap as The Onion buys InfoWars. No joke! Plus Spotify is changing the name of its podcasting service from Spotify for Podcasters to Spotify for Creators. And Disney announced that Disney+ added 4.4 million new subscribers to pass 120 million. Netflix has 287 million.
Starring Tom Merritt, Robb Dunewood, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang, Joe.
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1% of users in Belgium, Croatia, Denmark, France, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, and Spain will no longer receive EU news sources in their search results as part of a Google test. Plus Just Eat sells Grubhub to Wonder for $650M. And GOG launches a new initiative to preserve older video games.
Starring Tom Merritt, Robb Dunewood, Jenn Cutter, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Signal offers an alternative to Zoom, why the Mac Mini power button is on the bottom, and Meta won’t track you in Europe but you won’t be able to skip ads.
Starring Tom Merritt, Robb Dunewood, Amos, Joe.
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While Amazon tries to save seconds with smart glasses, Swiggy delivers groceries in less than 13 minutes. And Apple makes parts available to fix your own iPhone 16.
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As Google pushes Gemini AI into its developer tools we ask what do developers think? Plus TikTok launched a feature Thursday which lets you share a song from Apple Music or Spotify into TikTok. And Apple has expanded High Power Mode to Macs with the M4 Pro chip.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Huyen Tue Dao, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Australia’s PM proposes a law that would ban social media for anyone under the age of 16. Plus a feature in iOS 18.2 developer beta could let users share the location of lost or missing items through Find My app. And Canada's government has ordered TikTok to cease operations in the country.
Starring Robb Dunewood, Sarah Lane, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Why is Netflix delisting its interactive titles and what does it say about the company’s video gaming ambitions? Plus Nintendo outlines backward compatibility with the 2nd generation Switch. And why has OpenAI bought Chat.com?
Starring Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Amazon announced it will start drone delivery tests in the Phoenix Metro Area after receiving FAA approval for its new MK30 drone. Plus Amazon has also launched a new Prime Video AI-powered tool called X-Ray Recaps that generates personalized summaries of TV seasons, episodes, or even specific parts of episodes. And Perplexity CEO causes a stir after suggesting AI could replace striking NYT workers.
Starring Sarah Lane, Robb Dunewood, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Are the fire risks of EVs overblown? Tim Stevens is here to clear away the FUD. Plus The social media platform X is rolling out its controversial update to the block feature which will now allow users you’ve blocked to see your public posts. And why is X unblocking people from following accounts they've been blocked from?
Starring Robb Dunewood, Tim Stevens, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Windows 10 support ends October next year. So what are your options if you want to keep it running past that date? Plus the EU has signed a contract to build its own Satellite broadband network. And Apple reported its fiscal 2024 fourth-quarter results, achieving a record revenue of $94.9 billion, 6% up over the previous year.
Starring Sarah Lane, Patrick Norton, Jenn Cutter, Len Peralta, Roger Chang, Joe.
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500 Amazon.com employees have written a letter asking for a reversal of the company’s return to a five day a week office policy. Plus Meta reported its Q3 revenue was up 19% YoY to $40.59B with Meta’s AI seeing over 500 million users. And OpenAI has finally announced search capabilities with an enhanced ChatGPT for pro users.
Starring Sarah Lane, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Ubisoft has released a blockchain game. Plus following announcements for new M4 powered iMacs and Mac Minis, Apple announces new M4 MacBook Pros. And why has Ubisoft stock dropped 39% in the past quarter and what does it mean for the health of the company?
Starring Robb Dunewood, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Joe.
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How has Tubi managed to build an audience that rivals Disney+ while spending less money with little to no exclusive content? Plus right after the announcement of new M4 iMacs, Apple has revealed M4 powered Mac Minis. And Meta is working on an AI-powered search engine to decrease its dependence on Google and Microsoft.
Starring Sarah Lane, Robb Dunewood, Charlotte Henry, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Allison shares her experience with using an generative AI version of her voice to do a recent NosillaCast episode. Plus Apple announces new M4 iMacs and the roll-out of Apple Intelligence. And a new alternative to TikTok called Loops has opened for sign-ups. Will it succeed?
Starring Sarah Lane, Allison Sheridan, Roger Chang, Joe.
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We take a look at Google’s Pixel Studio App for the Pixel 9 and ask the question is on-device generative AI image tool really needed? Plus Meta has announced a multi-year deal with Reuters to integrate real-time news content into its AI chatbot. And At the Bloomberg Tech Summit Arm CEO, Rene Haas, predicted AI will progress more quickly than the internet itself.
Starring Sarah Lane, Robb Dunewood, Tasia Custode, Len Peralta, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Microsoft released a report Wednesday, accusing attempts by foreign adversaries to stir up anger or confusion in the U.S prior to the upcoming presidential election. Spotify has introduced a new auto-moderation feature for podcasters. And Justin Robert Young talks about how AI could affect access to our political representatives.
Starring Sarah Lane, Robb Dunewood, Justin Robert Young, Amos, Joe.
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Why has Netflix closed its AAA game studio and does it portend bigger things? Plus air-taxis cleared another hurdle as the US Federal Aviation Administration issued new rules Tuesday for air-taxi VTOLs. And Arm has canceled Qualcomm’s chip architecture license, and it’s not such a big deal.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Anthropic updated its Claude 3.5 Sonnet model allowing it to interact with desktop computer apps letting users potentially automate certain software tasks. Plus Meta suspends Instagram and Threads accounts that reposted public information tracking private jets. And Meta tests facial recognition again to combat celebrity impersonations and for account unlocking.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Ariel Waldman shares their experience using technology in Antarctica to shoot a documentary. Plus Dr Nicole Ackermans gives us a report on the tech she found at Neuroscience 2024. And Shannon gives us a review of Meta’s new Quest 3S VR headset.
Starring Tom Merritt, Shannon Morse, Ariel Waldman, Craig Porter, Dr. Niki Ackermans, Roger Chang, Joe.
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OpenAI and Microsoft are having relationship problems, Netflix earnings call is more about where the company is heading versus where it is, and Dr Niki joins us to talk about the 2024 Nobel Prize Laureates.
Starring Tom Merritt, Niki Ackermans, and Roger Chang, Joe, Amos.
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Apple Business Connect lets businesses without a physical location manage how they appear in Apple’s services. How one company is making portable solar power easier to carry. And a company called Hiya has a new product that can reliably detect AI generated voices.
Starring Tom Merritt, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang, Joe.
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SAG-AFTRA will re-enter negotiations with the bargaining group representing triple A game studios. What’s at stake and will they be able to come to an agreement before the end of the year? Plus the US FCC approved a notice of inquiry to examine whether data caps harm consumers and competition. And Amazon announced a slew of new products including their first color e-reader, the Kindle Colorsoft.
Starring Sarah Lane, Robb Dunewood, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Apple has revealed a new iPad Mini with updated specs. But they’re not alone. A number of companies have announced new or updated products just in the time for the holiday gift buying season. Plus Spotify said it is testing bringing music videos to 85 more markets. And a roundup of the latest news surrounding Google.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Adobe kicks off the Adobe Max creativity conference in Orlando, The Honor Magic 7 smartphone launches October 30th in China, and the Internet Archive is back online.
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How do you backup your data before a natural disaster? Plus the latest news with Steam and Steam Deck. And Tesla unveils its Cybercab, with Musk claiming they expect Full Self-Driving on Texas and California roads next year.
Starring Tom Merritt, Patrick Norton, Len Peralta, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Amazon announced it will sell Apple TV+ as an add-on to its Amazon Prime Video feature. Plus Meta is adding more features to Threads including a way to allow users to repost IG Reels on Threads. And a new study reveals TikTok isn’t as important to users as a source of news or politics.
Starring Tom Merritt, Robb Dunewood, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang, Joe.
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The US Department of Justice says a breakup of Google is an option. Plus the Wimbledon tennis tournament is adopting AI powered live electronic line calling, replacing human judges. And why have all the recent Nobel prizes for AI work been given in different categories?
Starring Tom Merritt, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Neural Network researchers Geoff Hinton and John Hopfield have been awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics. Plus A Virginia congressional candidate has created an AI chatbot just in case the incumbent doesn’t show up for the October 17th debate. And Adobe is proposing a way to watermark content to stop AI thefts. Will the community support it?
Starring Sarah Lane, Robb Dunewood, Roger Chang, Joe.
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The US FCC has given Starlink and T-Mobile “Special Temporary Authority” for direct-to-cell satellite service in North Carolina. Plus 23andMe suffered a data breach in December last year. How can you data have you with the service? And the latest Apple product predictions from Mark Gurman.
Starring Tom Merritt, Nica Montford, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Why are big tech companies talking about building power plants and what does nuclear energy have to do with it? Plus Automattic employees who disagreed with the handling of the WP Engine dispute were offered a severance package to leave the company. And Meta Unveils AI Video Generator and rolls out a redesign of Facebook for Gen-Z.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Molly Wood, Len Peralta, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Google will begin rolling ads into AI Overview summaries and releasing a separate AI-organized pages, a tool that provides AI aggregated content related to search queries. Plus California’s governor Gavin Newsom signed AB 2839 a bill which targets the distributors of political deep fakes into law. And two Harvard students demonstrated how smart glasses and facial recognition technology can dox people’s identities in real-time.
Starring Sarah Lane, Robb Dunewood, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Will Epic’s reduced royalty rates for developers using the Unreal Engine pay off? Plus Charter cable will distribute Comcast’s Peacock to its cable TV customers at no extra charge. And Apple takes down Juno’s third-party YouTube app for the Vision Pro and the Switch emulator, Ryujinx, from the app store.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Joe.
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We go through all the big new features and enhancements for Copilot that Microsoft announced today. Plus Serve Robotics is partnering with Wing Aviation to expand autonomous delivery options. And Google unveiled new voice options for Gemini plus new AI specific keys for Chromebooks.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Joe.
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PC Mag’s Iyaz Akhtar gives us a head to head comparison between the Samsung Galaxy S24 and Apple’s iPhone 16. Plus DirecTV has reached an agreement to acquire EchoStar’s TV business. And Epic has filed an antitrust lawsuit against Google and Samsung, alleging a conspiracy against third-party app stores.
Starring Tom Merritt, Iyaz Akhtar, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Jason Howell is here to share his hands-on review of the Google TV Streamer, the replacement for the Chromecast. Plus the National Institute of Standards and Technology aka NIST, is proposing to bar nonsensical password rules that make security less safe.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Jason Howell, Len Peralta, Roger Chang, Joe.
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LG brings ads to the screensaver of its Smart TVs. Plus Google introduced new features for NotebookLM enabling it to summarize YouTube videos and audio files. And why have CTO Mira Murati, Chief Research Officer Bob McGrew, and a research VP, Barret Zoph, left OpenAI?
Starring Sarah Lane, Robb Dunewood, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang, Joe.
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We analyze all the big announcements from the Meta Connect 2024 conference. And Logitech launches MX Creative Console, a peripheral that integrates with Adobe’s Creative Cloud suite.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Google aims to make Gemini AI a key part of the Workspace productivity suite. Duolingo has two new features for language learning: Adventures, and AI video calls. And Ford’s patent application for in-vehicle advertisements based on info derived from your driving behavior has privacy advocates concerned.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Nate explains how he auto-subtitles old foreign TV shows he collects as a hobby. Plus, Google Streamer, Google’s replacement for the Chromecast, goes on sale today. And Sam Altman is working with former Apple executives on an AI device.
Starring Tom Merritt, Nate Lanxon, Roger Chang, Joe.
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“AI For Humans” host, Kevin Pereira, is here to detail all the AI tools he uses in the making of his show. Plus what did Apple do to make active noise cancellation effective on the AirPods 4. And Huawei and Apple go head to head with the launch of their flagship phones.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Kevin Pereira, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Allison Sheridan shares the tech she used on her recent vacation Safari. And the US House Energy and Commerce Committee has approved the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) and the Children and Teens’ Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA 2.0).
Starring Sarah Lane, Robb Dunewood, Allison Sheridan, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Intel loses out to AMD for a contract to make chips for Sony’s PS6. Plus YouTube introduced a number of new features like Hype, to help smaller channels and expand its “Community” feature for creators. And the NDA on iPhone 16 reviews has lifted and reviews are coming out.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Google outlines plans to include identifying if an image was taken with a camera, digitally edited or AI generated. Plus the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety study shows partial automation tech increases driver distraction. And starting today Instagram is putting every user under the age of 18 into “Teen Accounts”.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Microsoft unveils a raft of new Copilot products and features including Copilot Pages. Plus a round-up of the latest Apple news on iOS 18, iPad, Watch and Mac updates released today. And do dating apps make it easier to find a partner?
Starring Tom Merritt, Chris Ashley, Roger Chang, Joe.
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How can simple food dye
turn a lab mouse's skin transparent? Plus can AI chatbots be better at weening people off conspiracy theories? And the technology integrated new sports arenas that make them greener and more hygenic.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Dr. Nicole Ackermans, Len Peralta, Roger Chang, Amos
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Want to make your own podcast and not have to speak into a mic? Well, Google’s NotebookLM new “Audio Overview” feature will turn your notes into a podcast. Plus Google Wallet will be allowing users to digitize their US passport as an alternative to waiting for each state to add digital ID support. And the FDA approves Apple’s AirPods Pro as over-the-counter hearing aids!
Starring Sarah Lane, Robb Dunewood, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Sony’s PS5 Pro comes with a larger GPU, faster render times, advanced ray-tracing support and a $700 price tag. Is it a worthwhile upgrade? Plus Meta quietly scrapped every Australian user's account to train its generative AI since 2007. And Nuro, the delivery robot company, will license its technology out to automakers and mobility providers.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Screen legend, James Earl Jones, has passed away, but his unmistakable voice will live on forever. We explore the details that will allow Lucasfilm to use his voice for future iterations of Darth Vader. Plus Amazon’s Thursday Night Football will offer AI powered alerts to give home viewers a prediction of game strategies the teams will use. And Apple confirms the rollout schedule for iOS 18, iPadOS 18, watchOS 11, macOS Sequoia, and Apple Intelligence.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Joe.
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We got full coverage of all the big announcements from Apple’s “It’s Glowtime” event including: Watch Series 10, iPhone 16 line, AirPods 4 and iOS 18. And Google begins its second antitrust trial regarding its online ad dominance with the Justice Department calling for a breakup of the company.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Nica Montford, Terrance Gaines, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Patrick discusses the Sonos update that is supposed to "fix" their controversial app revamp and shares alternatives for folks who want to use something else. Plus new display form factors from IFA. And watching the NFL gets complicated.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Patrick Norton, Roger Chang, Amos, Joe.
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Android 15 is releasing this fall. What can users expect from the latest Android OS and why is the roll-out timeline so weird? And we talk to Jen Briney about the reasons why manufacturers are lobbying against legislation to allow the US military to repair its own hardware.
Starring Sarah Lane, Robb Dunewood, Ron Richards, Jen Briney, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Nvidia faces headwinds with US regulators and from the stock market. Plus security researchers at NinjaLab have found a potential attack vector for YubiKey. And the latest with Intel’s Lunar Lake processors.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Cox Media Group, a marketing firm, has admitted to investors that it listens in on user conversations to place ads on smartphones. Plus Canva is jacking up its prices for some users by nearly 300%. And what research into 28-years of data on cell phone use and increased rates of cancer found.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Joe.
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EVs are crucial in the pivot towards a renewable energy future but what do you do with their batteries when they reach the end of their life? Plus the Wall Street Journal’s sources say Apple is in talks to invest in OpenAI. And what does Amazon have in store for its version of Alexa?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Molly Wood, Len Peralta, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Why are major websites opting out of being scrapped Apple’s generative AI training? Plus Nvidia reports an increase in 122% revenue. And Alphabet Inc.’s Google will resume letting some consumers generate images of people using Gemini.
Starring Sarah Lane, Robb Dunewood, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Why is the CEO of Procreate promising the company will never integrate generative AI into its products? Plus Patrick Beja is here to give us the French perspective on the French arrest of Telegram CEO Pavel Durov. And the NotePin from Plaud promises to be a better AI wearable for remembering everything.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Patrick Beja, Roger Chang, Joe.
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France’s Prosecutor of the Republic has published an explanation of the arrest of Telegram CEO Pavel Durov. Garmin introduced a couple new smartwatches. And China is restricting exports of rare earths in response to bans on exporting chip technologies to the country.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Joe.
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The Verge asks how society will need to change its views that photos are irrefutable proof of an event occurring, as on-device generative AI image editing becomes widespread. Plus a new Android malware clones stolen NFC data. And Pavel Durov, the founder and CEO of encrypted chat app Telegram, was arrested by French authorities outside of Paris
Starring Tom Merritt, Shannon Morse, Roger Chang, Joe.
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In the inaugural episode of IT SPARC Cast, John Barger and Lou Schmidt dive into the latest happenings in the IT world with a mix of insights and a touch of humor.
Starring John Barger and Lou Schmidt
Brad and Will take a closer look at Microsoft's IntelliMouse Explorer. These days it's hard to remember that it was Microsoft who banished the infernal ball and introduced the optical mouse to the mainstream, so we head back to 1999 and discuss what mice were like beforehand, how mechanical and optical sensors work, debate PS/2 versus USB, make an argument that the whole PC gaming accessory ecosystem owes its existence to this product, and more.
Starring Brad Shoemaker, Will Smith
You can follow Brad and Will on their podcast at https://techpod.content.town.
Microsoft has officially announced that it is deprecating the Windows Control Panel, YouTube has introduced a new AI assistant to help creators recover hacked accounts, and SpaceX is set to attempt the first-ever private spacewalk.
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Bodie and Robb share their insights on where podcasters should go to host their podcast files and which platforms to share your shows on.
You can follow Bodie and Robb at https://shows.acast.com/beyond-the-post podcast.
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Microsoft is going to retry its rollout of Recall to Windows Insider PCs beginning in October, The U.S. FTC fines Lingo Telecom $1 million for its role in transmitting deep fake robocalls of President Biden, and Cloud storage company Dropbox has acquired AI-powered scheduling tool Reclaim.ai.
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Scott Johnson shares his experience on the best art apps you can get for your tablet.
Starring Scott Johnson
You can find Scott's work at https://www.frogpants.com or follow him at https://x.com/scottjohnson.
Blair is "the Zoologist" and sitting animal expert who co-hosts the weekly science news podcast, This Week in Science. Her husband Brian is a nursing student and avid gamer of all types (video, board, card, role-playing, etc), and their friend Jesse is a podcast host, writer, and "your teacher's favorite teacher" who is also a games enthusiast. Together, we will explore the worlds of Pokemon, Zelda, Horizon, Dune, Lord of the Rings, Dungeons and Dragons, and whatever else we fancy to discuss the real world inspiration for the fantastical creatures you can find in your favorite fiction.
Find Blair Bazdarich talking animal news at www.twis.org, Jesse McGrath discussing what makes life "very quite lit" on Jesse and Wilder's Guide to Life wherever you find your podcasts or on X, and Brian Pagano if you wake up in a Bay Area Emergency Room - he will be pleased as punch to help get you back on your feet.
The FBI accuses Iran of launching cyber operations against both U.S. presidential campaigns, Apple will make its highest-end iPhones in India for the first time, and Zoom has raised support on webinar calls from 100,000 to 1 million simultaneous viewers.
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Welcome to "Behind The Data". We all know that data is all around us -- it powers every algorithm, predictive model, and AI tool that is revolutionizing our lives. But where does it come from? Who collected it? How do we know if it's any good? For every dataset shaping our lives, there is a person or team making impactful decisions about what to track and how to track it that we are barely talking about. In this show we go behind the data to understand the stories and incentives behind how all this data came to be, why it matters for our lives, and how we can play a role in shaping it going forward.
Starring Andrea Jones-Rooy, Dhrumil Mehta
Andrea Jones-Rooy: www.datascienceneedsyou.com, www.instagram.com/jonesrooy
Guest Dhrumil Mehta: https://dhrumilmehta.com, https://twitter.com/datadhrumil
Materials referenced in the show:
Example polling tracker (the current version is not one that Dhrumil and I worked on): https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/president-general/2024/national/
Nate Silver article, "The Media Has a Probability Problem", FiveThirtyEight
Harry Enten article, "Fake Polls are a Real Problem", FiveThirtyEight
Harry Enten article, "Trump is Just a Normal Polling Error Behind Clinton", FiveThirtyEight
Dhrumil's polls LLM: http://pollfinder.ai
What can businesses do to be more resilient against future CrowdStrike like outages? Plus Fortnite is available again for iOS in the EU and for Android worldwide. And over 2.7 billion data records with Social Security numbers were leaked onto a hacking forum. Should you be worried?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Steve Zalewski, Len Peralta, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Former Google CEO, Eric Schmidt, recants his view that remote work policies are hindering Google’s AI competitiveness. But does he mean it? Plus Google is expanding the rollout of its generated summaries for search results, called “AI Overviews.” And the New England Journal Brian-Computer Interface (BCI) developed by scientists at the University of California, Davis.
Starring Sarah Lane, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang, Joe.
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The US DOJ is considering asking a judge to break up Google. Apple announced support for access to the iPhone’s NFC chip in iOS 18.1. And Valve confirms SteamOS support for Asus’s ROG Ally handheld gaming PC.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Joe.
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We detail all the highlights from today’s Made By Google event including the new Pixel 9 hardware, AI services and Pixel Watch 3!. Plus some folks are mad that The Verge published screenshots from Valve’s unannounced game. And Password manager Dashlane shared its first Passkey Report.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Jason Howell, Roger Chang, Joe.
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We explain the hack of the Trump campaign by an foreign state actor and the possible threat to US elections. Justin explains how to find out who’s really soliciting donations on behalf of a electoral campaign. And the Verge’s Sean Hollister explains the limitations of the PSVR2 PC adapter.
Starring Tom Merritt, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang, Joe.
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David Spark is here to give us the highlights from this year’s Black Hat security conference. Plus Apple reveals a fee structure for apps that link to outside websites for purchase in the EU. And eVTOL air taxi startup Archer Aviation hopes to have its service up and running in Los Angeles by 2026.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, David Spark, Roger Chang, Joe.
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We do a deep dive into AlphaFold 3 and how its impact on scientific research with Dr Niki. Plus The Financial Times reports that Google worked with Meta to roll out ads that targeted children, despite violating Google’s own rules.
Starring Sarah Lane, Robb Dunewood, Dr. Niki Ackermans, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Reddit plans to experiment with search result summaries generated by Large Language Models. CrowdStrike details what caused the Falcon Sensor bug to crash Windows machines around the world. And the Borderlands movie releases in the US this Friday. Is this a sign that the game has made it, or are movie adaptations an unneeded distraction?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Google announces the TV Streamer, a replacement for the 11-year old Chromecast device. Plus we have the latest on Uber's autonomous car ride-hailing service. And what does Google loss in the DOJ’s big monopoly trial over search business mean for the company?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Joe.
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As Nvidia runs into delays producing its next-gen Blackwell B200 chips and startup AI chip competitor Groq lands new funding some investors are questioning if generative AI is really ready for primetime. Plus OpenAI is looking into watermarking content produced by ChatGPT and we pick our favorite new tech product from the headlines.
Starring Tom Merritt, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Details about Google’s new Pixel phones and watch have already leaked. What do we know about the Pixel 9 hardware and why does Google have so many leaks? Plus Suno has admitted its generative music AI model was trained on copyrighted songs scraped from the Internet but that it’s protected under fair-use. And we take a look at Apple’s Q3 earnings report.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Ron Richards, Roger Chang, Joe.
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The Kids Online Safety Act or KOSA, and the Children Teens’ Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA 2.0) has been passed by the US Senate. What’s in these two bills and what do they mean for online platforms that target teens and youth? Plus Reddit CEO Steve Huffman wants Microsoft and others to pay to scrape data from the site. And Google introduces new Gemini-powered tools for Chrome desktop like Lens for desktop, natural language integration for search history and more!
Starring Sarah Lane, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Why are Xbox sales dropping and is it intentional? How can you keep your games when the digital store that sells them closes up? Plus can an AI powered pendant keep you from feeling lonely. And Intel and Ryzen release their CoPilot+ ready processors.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Apple bringing RCS to iPhone with iOS 18 is a win for folks who send cross-platform messages. But how will businesses benefit? Brett Rounsaville is here to explain. Plus Amazon expands its Fast Delivery service into rural areas. And neurotech startup Synchron revealed it’s successfully interfaced its brain implant to the Apple Vision Pro.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Brett Rounsaville, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Apple delayed the roll out of its Apple Intelligence until iOS 18.1 update in October. Plus Synology’s BeeStation hopes to streamline the data backup process for users who don’t want to be a part-time sysadmin. And Microsoft reveals more details about the CrowdStrike crash.
Starring Tom Merritt, Nica Montford, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Wil Harris is here to explain how he cleared out the bugs from his latest website update. Plus will OpenAI’s SearchGPT be the search tool to unthrone Google’s reign? And how is X using your data to train its Chatbot Grok?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Wil Harris, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Elon Musk is asking Tesla shareholders to invest $5 billion into his newest startup, xAI. Meta’s Oversight board deems the company’s rules are “not sufficiently clear” in preventing sexually explicit AI-generated images of real people, calling for changes.
Starring Sarah Lane, Robb Dunewood, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang, Joe.
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241 Bethesda game developers unionized last Friday. Is this sign of more unionization efforts in the gaming industry? Plus CrowdStrike releases more information about its faulty update that brought systems to a halt. And Stability AI introduces a new generative video model called Stable Video 4D.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Joe.
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We look at a number of pet health tech startups that are innovating the way we take care of our four-legged companions. Plus Google has decided not to deprecate third party cookies in the Google Chrome browser. And Amazon has sold more than 500 million Alexa-enabled hardware devices with a new paid-tier version coming out soon. What’s in store for this venerable Amazon device?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Cate Lawrence, Roger Chang, Joe.
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The summer season is here and if you’re traveling to a fan convention or a vacation getaway, Trisha Hershberger has some tips on tech to bring with you to make the most of your experience. Plus the reviews for ASUS’s ROG Ally X are out. What do the critics like and not like about the company’s latest handheld gaming PC. And we have a roundup of stories on the effects of last week's CrowdStrike outage.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Trisha Hershberger, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Iyaz is here with a review of Samsung’s flagship foldable Galaxy Z Fold 6. And We explain what happened with a CrowdStrike bug that crippled PCs around the world.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Iyaz Akhtar, Len Peralta, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Where can you stream the Olympics and how are companies bundling their streaming options to make the most of it? Plus how are consumer protection laws conflicting with the roll out of AI? And Instagram will help research to determine if the service is bad for teen health.
Starring Sarah Lane, Robb Dunewood, Charlotte Henry, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Are advertisements in video games, leading to a revolt of video gamers and dislike of in-game marketing? Plus The UK has become the first European country to approve the sale of lab-grown meat. And has Montana Technologies’ AirJoule cooling system the future of air conditioning?
Starring Tom Merritt, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Joe.
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How did an international team of scientists create a 3D representation of a Woolly Mammoth? Plus the Bird Buddy smart bird feeder gets an AI update. And the reviews are out for Xreal’s “Real Beam Pro” the android device designed to complement the company’s AR glasses.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Dr. Nicole Ackermans, Roger Chang, Joe.
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We get more details on AMD’s Ryzen 5 Ryzen 9000 and AI 300 processors. Plus Google is allegedly looking to acquire security startup Wiz. And did AT&T pay off the attacker responsible for a data breach last Friday to delete customer data and what does that mean for potential future data breaches?
Starring Tom Merritt, Shannon Morse, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Michael Wolf is here to explain how AI is shaking up the food business. Plus scientists have created a spacesuit that will recycle astronaut urine into drinkable water during spacewalks. And the Amazon shopping assistant chatbot, Rufus, is now available to US customers in the Amazon mobile app.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Michael Wolf, Len Peralta, Roger Chang, Joe.
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CNN has revealed its new digital strategy. What does it entail and can it shore up the network’s flagging viewership numbers? Plus Google and Apple launch a tool to transfer images from Google Photos to iCloud. And IDC says Apple’s Vision Pro won’t pass the 500,000 units sold last year. Is Vision Pro running out of steam?
Starring Sarah Lane, Robb Dunewood, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang, Joe.
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We breakdown all the announcements made today at Samsung’s July 2024 Galaxy Unpacked Event including the latest Galaxy Fold, Flip, Watch, Ring and AI! Plus we discuss the latest design from Chinese PC maker Linglong. A foldable keyboard that’s also a PC.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Robb Dunewood, Huyen Tue Dao, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Etsy announces four new classifications for items: “made by,” “designed by,” “handpicked by,” and “sourced by.” What’s with the switch and what does it mean for sellers? Plus OpenAI is teaming up with Arianna Huffington to develop an ‘AI health coach’. And Honor sets July 12th as the launch for its Magic V3 foldable while the reviews for Motorola’s Plus Flip phone are out!
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Chris explains why folks might want to consider commercial or consumer grade technology. Plus Apple green lights Epic Games Store. And the robotization of warehouse operations continues in Japan with help from the UK’s Ocado.
Starring Tom Merritt, Chris Ashley, Roger Chang, Joe.
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The Information reports Google wants to increase its own app usage in iOS to lower reliance on Safari for its search traffic. Plus YouTube releases an updated eraser tool for creators to remove copyrighted music without affecting audio in videos. And what does a budding young artist need to do to break into digital illustration?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Len Peralta, Roger Chang, Joe.
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OpenAI’s Mac client stored chats in clear text, Foxconn will invest nearly $551 million in two new projects in Vietnam, and Nintendo won’t use generative AI in games.
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Proton, providers of the privacy minded Proton Mail, launches a privacy-focused alternative to Google Docs. Plus, should AI be allowed to grade student essays? And are transparent gadgets back in vogue?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Scientists at North Carolina University are using AI to build a one-size-fits-all exoskeleton. Plus Tesla announced it produced 410,831 vehicles in its latest quarter. A drop of 15% from the same quarter last year. Is this just a blip or trend towards lower EV sales. And is the Figma AI developer tool leading users into potential legal issues?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Joe.
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David Spark is here with a VidCon 2024 wrap-up! Plus the SCOTUS ruled that lower courts that ruled in favor of Florida and Texas restrictions on social media must retry the cases. We explain why. And Rodney Brooks, a founder of iRobot, and professor of robotics at MIT, thinks everyone is vastly overestimating generative AI.
Starring Tom Merritt, David Spark, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Blair explains how bats target their prey benefit which could help advance sensor technology. Plus Samsung is now rolling out AirPlay support for hotel TVs. And we go over all new features YouTube announced for subscribers to YouTube Premium.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Blair Bazdarich, Len Peralta, Roger Chang, Joe.
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How can POSSE eliminate the hassle of publishing to multiple sites, feeds and social media platforms? Plus Google Translate is getting support for more than 110 new languages. And Instagram is running a test of AI Studio, letting creators make AI chatbot versions of themselves.
Starring Sarah Lane, Robb Dunewood, Will Smith, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Why poorly thought out licensing deals in games can make them unavailable for play years later. Plus, the U.S. Supreme Court overturns a lower court’s 2023 decision to impose limits on the way the US President may communicate with social media platforms. And we share an explanation on why Instagram flags your photo as ‘Made With AI’.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Sarah judges three AI stories from Google. Are they worth your attention? Plus, are autonomous cars FINALLY here yet? Closer. And why the RIAA suing is a good thing this time.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Amos, Joe.
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Apple beats Google and Meta to be first sued in the EU over new DMA laws. A UK company introduces a brain implant to help control seizures, and receiving news in video format may have finally hit mainstream.
Starring Tom Merritt, Justin Robert Young, Amos, Joe.
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The US Department of Commerce classified Kaspersky Lab as a threat to US National security, SpaceX launches the Starlink Mini, and Patrick Norton makes us smarter about chatbots making us dumber.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Patrick Norton, Amos, Joe.
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What are DACs and how can they make your music listening experience better? Anthropic releases its newest model called Claude 3.5 Sonnet, comparing it to OpenAI’s GPT 4o. And reviewers raise issues with Google's new “Find My Device” network.
Starring Sarah Lane, Robb Dunewood, Rob DeMillo, Roger Chang, Joe.
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The first wave of Copilot+ PCs have launched. How are reviewers receiving these Arm powered Windows machines? Plus Xreal hopes its Beam Pro will make its AR glasses more useful. And we explore why some big name social media influencers are having a hard time of it.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Joe.
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McDonald’s is winding down its AI chatbot drive-thru ordering system deal with IBM. What other deal might replace it? Plus the National Defense Authorization Act bill narrowly passed the US House. Will it survive a Senate vote? And US Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy wrote an opinion piece in the New York Times recommending the US pass a law requiring warning labels on social media.
Starring Tom Merritt, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang, Joe.
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How can the environmental impact from AI's increased power demand be mitigated? Plus the 1839 Color Photography Awards created a special category for AI-generated photos. And Microsoft's Recall feature saga has hit a lull as the company hits pause on the rollout.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Molly Wood, Len Peralta, Roger Chang, Amos
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The announced partnership between Apple and OpenAI at WWDC will see neither party paying the other for the privilege. What’s going on here and could monetary compensation eventually be part of the deal? Plus how does a desert beetle have to do with extracting water from the air around us?
Starring Sarah Lane, Robb Dunewood, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang, Joe.
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X announced it’s making who likes which posts private so users can “like posts without getting attacked for doing so”. Plus Adobe is beta testing Wacom’s Yuify service, which allows artists to record ownership of their work on a blockchain. And Scott gives us a hands-on impression of Apple’s iPad Pro M4.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Joe.
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We pour over the details on how Apple’s AI works. And we look into a tiny 3D printer that uses a single, millimeter-scale photonic chip to print out objects. Plus we detail why Apple is rebranding Apple accounts from “Apple ID” to “Apple Account”.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Joe.
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We breakdown all the big announcements from this year’s Worldwide Developers Conference. Plus we explain how Google’s Project Green Light and your smartphone can make regular traffic lights a whole lot smarter.
Starring Tom Merritt, Nica Montford, Terrance Gaines, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Why is Samsung suing smart ring maker Oura right before the launch of the Galaxy Ring? Plus why has social media platform for creatives, Cara, exploded in popularity this past week? And how an Australian invention is letting blind people see.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Ron Richards, Roger Chang, Joe.
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The US Department of Justice and US Federal Trade Commission divvy up their antitrust investigations into Nvidia, Microsoft and OpenAI. Plus Microsoft’s Windows Recall, a feature in its Windows 11 Copilot+ PC offering, is not being received well. And The Verge reports that Best Buy is shutting down its Samsung repair program. Is this because of recent revelations of Samsung’s policy of using non-authorized parts to repair its devices?
Starring Sarah Lane, Robb Dunewood, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang, Joe.
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At COMPUTEX hardware vendors are showing how AI’s impact in gaming will go beyond just NPCs and game developer tools. Plus the popular ‘Bartender’ Mac app has been acquired by a new unknown developer. And Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman reports that Apple officially signed a deal with OpenAI to bring ChatGPT to iOS 18.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Joe.
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The Verge’s Sean Hollister tells us about Intel’s unveiled Lunar Lake processor architecture for mobile. Plus over two dozen current and former employees from OpenAI, Google’s DeepMind and Anthropic posted a signed letter at righttowarn.ai called “A Right to Warn about Advanced Artificial Intelligence.” And Instagram confirmed it is testing unskippable ads in its feed.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Sean Hollister, Roger Chang, Joe.
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YouTube CEO Neal Mohan believes YouTube creators are the new Hollywood. Is he right? Plus security expert Kevin Beaumont has demonstrated a way to exfiltrate from Copilot+ PC’s Recall feature. And AMD CEO Lisa Su states AI is now the “number one priority” for the company.
Starring Tom Merritt, Shannon Morse, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Can AI help small independent publishers succeed or will it allow larger companies to undercut them? Plus Meta is finally rolling out its new Tweetdeck-like column view to all users. And we go over Liz Reid’s, VP and Head of Google Search, post describing how Google is addressing odd results in AI Overviews.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Chris Mancini, Roger Chang, Joe.
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What is a P(doom) and what does it have to do with a recent deal between OpenAI, Vox Media and The Atlantic. Plus why is Apple negotiating to use OpenAI’s GPT in iOS 18? And you can edit messages in Google Messages.
Starring Sarah Lane, Robb Dunewood, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang, Joe.
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YouTube has rolled out Playables, its free-to-play casual games, to all users Tuesday. Plus, Fitbit Ace LTE is a fitness tracker for kids that appears to be a surprise hit. And on Monday internal documents describing what factors Google Search takes into consideration when ranking and displaying web results leaked.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Joe.
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We discuss why traditional TV networks have more to fear from video streaming services than movie theaters. Plus is the slowdown in EV sales more of a blip than a trend? And examine the results of a Reuters Institute and Oxford University survey of 12,000 people across six countries about their habits with new AI tools like ChatGPT.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Charlotte Henry, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Daily Tech News Show is off for the US holiday. Here are the headlines from our companion show Daily Tech Headlines.
Classic game company Atari purchases other classic game company Intellivision, China announces new funding boost of 47.5 billion USD to achieve semiconductor self-sufficiency, and robot umpires still aren't ready for the big leagues in the MLB for 2025.
AI is disrupting major segments of the economy and job market. But what is its impact on the environment and climate change? Allison Sheridan shares her insights. Plus smart rings are now a thing. What are the options and what can and can’t they do? And Google is criticized as its AI-generated summaries on search results, AI Overview, makes some very obvious errors.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Allison Sheridan, Len Peralta, Roger Chang, Joe.
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404 Media reports independent repair shots are contractually required by Samsung to snitch on people who use aftermarket parts. Plus Elon Musk wants to make Likes on X private. And will Microsoft’s stringent requirements for Copilot+ PCs force users to upgrade or turn away from Microsoft’s integrated AI offering?
Starring Sarah Lane, Robb Dunewood, Roger Chang, Joe.
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The videogaming recovery of 2023 saw PC revenue increase while staying static for game consoles and dropping for mobile. The UK Information Commissioner’s Office, or ICO, wants to know more about Microsoft’s Recall feature for Copilot+ PCs citing privacy concerns. And CNBC sources say Amazon plans on offering an AI enhanced version of Alexa for a monthly fee later this year.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Will AI come for all of our jobs? Andrew Mayne explains why this is an unfounded fear. We explain the legal tussle between OpenAI and actress Scarlett Johansson over the use of her voice in the company’s GPT-4o text-to-speech function. And Sonos announces its first over-the-ear headphones, the Sonos Ace.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Andrew Mayne, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Microsoft reveals the “Copilot Plus PC” initiative that pairs future Windows NPU integrated notebooks with exclusive integrated Copilot tools, plus new features of Copilot integration in Windows 11, and announces a new ARM powered Surface Laptop. And Semafor reports that Apple News+ has become a major source of revenue for news publishers.
Starring Tom Merritt, Chris Ashley, Roger Chang, Joe.
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In a market where 2.5″ notebook drives have been supplanted by SSDs and NVMe, WD releases a new 6TB 2.5″ line. What are they thinking? Patrick Norton explains. Plus LG stops making the Signature OLED R TV that rolls down and hides within a stand. And the latest helping of OpenAI news.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Patrick Norton, Len Peralta, Roger Chang, Joe.
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OpenAI and Google both had LLM announcements this week. But which offered more compelling and consumer-ready products? Plus the joint sports streaming venture between Disney, Fox, Warner Brothers Discovery has an official name: Venu Sports. More importantly, what does this service entail?
Starring Sarah Lane, Robb Dunewood, Jason Howell, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Predictive AI is making its mark in the world of gambling. How does AI integration into slot machines and sports betting benefit everyone involved? Plus Apple announces new accessibility features coming to iOS and iPad OS. And OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever announces he will be leaving the company.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Joe.
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It’s Google I/O 2024 ! We go over all the big announcements from Google's developer event. Plus Comcast will offer a Peacock, Netflix, and Apple TV+ service bundle at a reduced price. Are bundles back?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Robb Dunewood, Roger Chang, Joe.
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OpenAI announces their latest LLM GPT-4o. What does it mean for the LLM space and its competitors? Plus US and Chinese officials will meet in Switzerland Tuesday to discuss AI security concerns. And a new study by the Oxford Internet Institute suggests a high correlation between Internet access and use with positive wellbeing.
Starring Tom Merritt, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang, Joe.
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We have a full wrap-up on this week's RSA conference from CISO series podcast producer, David Spark. Plus OpenAI plans to announce Google search competitor on Monday. And Jack Dorsey the former Twitter CEO feels that decentralized social network BlueSky is repeating all the mistakes of Twitter.
Starring Sarah Lane, Robb Dunewood, David Spark, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Voice ID is a popular security measure some banks use but has generative Voice ID made it a security risk? Plus TikTok announces it will start adding an “AI-Generated” label to watermarked third-party AI-generated content. And chaos at Xbox as it closes three subsidiaries with plans to absorb a fourth.
Starring Sarah Lane, Robb Dunewood, Shannon Morse, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Scott gives us an artist’s take on Apple’s latest iPad announcement. Plus Micron is shipping upgradable memory modules called LPCAMM2 which promises the convenience of user-upgradeability of traditional SODIMM with the power efficiency of solder on memory modules. And the US Department of Commerce confirmed to the Financial Times that it has revoked “certain” export licenses to Huawei.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Joe.
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We analyze Apple’s newly announced iPads including a new iPad Pro powered by the all new M4 processor. Plus Amazon launches an online shopping service in South Africa. And a roundup of the latest Open AI news including a tool to let content creators opt-out of their work be used in AI training models.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Nica Montford, Terrance Gaines, Roger Chang, Joe.
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PlayStation relents on forcing PC gamers playing the Steam version of “Helldivers 2” to log into the PlayStation network to play. Plus we share the latest Apple and Android including the TRT for Apple’s event tomorrow. And we examine the complaints surrounding “Vera AI” claims that it lets users create copies of “your friends or family members”.
Starring Tom Merritt, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Antartica is the most remote continent on the planet. So how's the internet connection? We find out from a person actually living there at McMurdo Station. We breakdown Apple's Q2 2024 earnings announcement. And Seattle based Hubble Network has successfully established a Bluetooth connection directly to a satellite.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Craig Porter, Len Peralta, Roger Chang, Amos
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Universal Music Group and TikTok have ended their standoff over royalty payments and AI policies. Plus DOJ records show Google paid Apple $20 Billion to be default search engine in 2022. And French economist, Yann Coatanlem, believes Europe needs more flexible labor markets to compete against China and Europe in tech. Is he right?
Starring Sarah Lane, Justin Robert Young, Amos, Roger Chang
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Apple's May 7th event is being billed as "a different kind of Apple Event" we speculate on what that means. Plus prices are used Apple Vision Pros are unexpectedly low. And Android Faithful's Mishaal Rahman details what he discovered about the Rabbit R1 personal assistant.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Eileen Rivera, Mishaal Rahman, Amos, Roger Chang
Show notes here.
Quick Hits:
https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/1/24146205/lastpass-independent-company-security-breaches
https://www.theverge.com/24145849/batman-arkham-shadow-trailer-vr-meta-quest-3-exclusive
https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/1/24145983/anthropic-claude3-model-mobile-app-team-plan
https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/30/24145259/walmart-health-centers-close
https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/30/screenshots-suggest-tiktok-is-circumventing-apple-app-store-commissions/
https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/30/screenshots-suggest-tiktok-is-circumventing-apple-app-store-commissions/https://www.reuters.com/world/us/most-americans-see-tiktok-chinese-influence-tool-reutersipsos-poll-finds-2024-05-01/
Top Stories:
https://www.androidauthority.com/rabbit-r1-is-an-android-app-3438805/
https://appleinsider.com/articles/24/05/01/gms-carplay-replacement-doesnt-work-well-and-has-a-long-road-ahead-of-it
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https://shows.acast.com/apple-vision-show
https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/27/24142810/apple-vision-pro-ebay-low-prices
https://swappa.com/listings/apple-vision-pro
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Anthropic announces Team enterprise offering, Walmart ditches its health centers, is TikTok skirting Apple's App Store commission fees?
Pittsburgh's Aurora Innovation plans to operate 20 self-driving semitrucks between Dallas and Houston this year. And we go over a trio of TikTok news including a possible ban in the EU. Plus Instagram is making changes to its algorithm to recommend smaller creators.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Amos, Roger Chang
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Quick Hits:
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2024/04/apple-poaches-ai-experts-from-google-creates-secretive-european-ai-lab/
https://www.axios.com/2024/04/30/microsoft-openai-lawsuit-copyright-newspapers-alden-global
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/google-to-pay-up-to-6-million-to-news-corp-for-new-ai-content-report/articleshow/109734472.cms
https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/30/24145198/beats-solo-4-headphones-buds
https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/30/24144183/arc-browser-windows-launch-features-availability
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-04-30/ses-agrees-to-buy-intelsat-in-3-1-billion-satellite-deal-deal
Top Stories:
https://www.politico.eu/article/tiktok-ban-in-eu-is-not-excluded-von-der-leyen-says/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/04/29/tiktok-capcut-ban-impact/
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-04-30/tiktok-shop-tops-500-000-us-sellers-after-2023-e-commerce-launch
https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/30/instagram-is-updating-its-ranking-systems-to-surface-more-content-from-smaller-original-creators/
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Default guessable usernames and passwords on IoT devices are now banned in the UK. Noyb, a European privacy rights group, has filed a complaint against OpenAI for violating the GDPR. And we share tips on how to travel with tech you need for an event.
Starring Tom Merritt, Scott Johnson, Brian Ibbott, Amos, Roger Chang
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Quick Hits:
https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/29/ipados-dma/
https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/28/24143526/apple-oled-ipad-pro-11-13-inch-m4-ai-tablet
https://www.pymnts.com/artificial-intelligence-2/2024/report-apple-and-openai-reopen-iphone-ai-talks/
https://wccftech.com/apple-vision-pro-successor-not-expected-until-end-of-2026/
https://www.androidpolice.com/google-play-store-simultaneous-downloads-wider-roll-out/
https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/12/23914177/google-pixel-8-everything-need-know-news-announcment-review
https://www.axios.com/2024/04/29/elon-musk-china-self-driving-approval
https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/29/24141869/financial-times-licensing-deal-openai-news
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/us-post-office-phishing-sites-get-as-much-traffic-as-the-real-one/
Top Stories:
https://9to5mac.com/2024/04/29/weak-passwords-for-smart-home-devices-to-be-illegal-in-europe/
https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/28/chatgpt-gdpr-complaint-noyb/
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Is the Chips Act a success? The author of "Chip War", Chris Miller, believes it and we go over his reasons for his belief. Plus Engadget's Sam Rutherford argues that it doesn't matter if Apple only sold 400,000 Vision Pros. It's still making money. And we go over Alphabet's earnings.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Molly Wood, Roger Chang, Joe.
Link to the show notes here:
Quick Hits:
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/04/25/snap-snap-q1-2024-earnings-.html
https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/25/24139988/microsoft-q3-2024-earnings-revenue-profits-windows-xbox-gaming-surface
https://9to5mac.com/2024/04/26/apple-pulls-multiple-ai-nude-image-apps-from-app-store/
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/04/25/intel-intc-earnings-report-q1-2024.html
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/openais-sam-altman-and-other-tech-leaders-to-serve-on-ai-safety-board-7dc47b78
Top Stories:
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/04/25/alphabet-set-to-report-first-quarter-results-after-market-close.html
https://variety.com/2024/digital/news/youtube-q1-2024-revenue-alphabet-earnings-1235982528/
https://www.androidauthority.com/youtube-pause-ads-3437531/
https://www.engadget.com/it-doesnt-matter-how-many-vision-pro-headsets-apple-sells-ming-chi-kuo-production-numbers-143112470.html
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Discussion Story:
https://www.christophermiller.net
https://www.ft.com/content/26756186-99e5-448f-a451-f5e307b13723
https://www.popsci.com/environment/chips-ira-climate-change-policy/
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Why are people getting tired of on-demand video streaming and what does that mean for streaming services? Plus as TikTok faces legislative action in the US, regulators in Europe are turning a more skeptical eye to the social media platform. And will Rabbit’s R1 AI personal assistant device avoid the fate of the Humane AI pin?
Starring Sarah Lane, Nica Montford, Charlotte Henry, Roger Chang, Joe.
Link to the Show Notes.
What does Meta hope to achieve by opening up their Meta Horizon OS to third party hardware developers? And Qualcomm announced the Snapdragon X Plus which the company aims to put on more Windows laptops. Plus Apple releases small, open source AI models designed for on-device usage called OpenELM.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Amos, Joe.
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Adobe announces that Photoshop will get the ability to generate images from a text prompt in the app. Plus Ray-Ban’s Meta Smart Glasses now have multimodal AI support. And Apple has an announcement set for 10 AM Eastern time May 7th.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Joe.
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The US House passed another bill on Saturday, that would require ByteDance to sell TikTok’s US arm within 9-12 months of being ordered to do so. We explore what happens next. Plus is subscribing to a service to watch a specific show and then canceling the new way we watch TV? And Swedish company Embracer Group is splitting into three companies.
Starring Tom Merritt, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang, Joe.
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What options does Meta in operating in the EU if they can't offer a free version that allows them to collect user data or a paid version that charges for the service? Plus in the age of AI powered services is the term “user” outdated? And Netflix announced its Q1 earnings report on Thursday. How well or not did they do?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Nate Lanxon, Len Peralta, Roger Chang, Joe,
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How can learning about how bacteria swim help us stop infections and make more agile nanobots? Plus will Google’s latest reorganizing really help bring AI to all of its products? And the latest Meta AI roundup.
Starring Sarah Lane, Robb Dunewood, Dr. Niki Ackermans, Roger Chang, Joe.
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We evaluate the leaked specs for Sony’s upcoming PS5 Pro. Plus power demand from data centers is holding back AI development. What are the solutions? And US cybersecurity firm and Google subsidiary Mandiant said Wednesday that a hacking group with ties to the GRU was behind the January cyberattack that caused a tank at a water facility in Muleshoe, TX, to overflow.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Joe.
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How is YouTube expanding its efforts to stop ad blocker use on YouTube? Plus we take a closer look at why Humane AI pins have been poorly received. And we explain the buzz around the audio based social media platform, Airchat.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Adobe is integrating generative models for Adobe Premiere, its video editor. Plus after Apple made changes to its App Store policy allowing emulators, the company booted off its first emulator iGBA. And Samsung has taken its crown back as the leader in global smartphone shipments.
Starring Tom Merritt, Nica Montford, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Tech layoffs have been a common occurrence over the past several months. But what is it like after you’ve been laid off and where do you go from there? Plus OpenTable is informing members that all reviews on the platform will now show members’ profile pictures and first names starting May 22nd. And a roundup of the latest Chatbot stories.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Nicole Lee, Veronica Belmont, Len Peralta, Roger Chang, Joe.
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The first round of reviews for Humane’s AI Pin have been published. We parse out what reviewers had to say. Plus Instagram announced a new safety feature that will automatically blur out nude images sent via direct message on the platform. And how is anti-deepfake porn legislation bringing together lawmakers from across the political spectrum.
Starring Tom Merritt, Robb Dunewood, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Microsoft has plans for new Xbox hardware. Plus Blizzard announces its games will return to mainland China in summer 2024 after signing a new deal. And after EU legislation forced Google, MS, and Apple to make it easier for users to switch to rival browsers, independent browser companies have seen a spike in users.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Android’s enhanced Find My Device network was rolled out yesterday. What can it do and what do you need to use it? Plus we share the big news from Google’s Next conference in Las Vegas today.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Ron Richards, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Ford delays its EV rollout and refocuses on hybrids as public interest in EV ownership wanes. What’s going on? Plus Apple’s new app guidelines allows for game emulators and in the EU music apps can take users to an external website.
Starring Sarah Lane, Chris Ashley, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Google Podcasts is no more. What are your options? Plus OpenAI CTO Mira Murati wouldn’t confirm if its Sora model was trained on any data from YouTube, Instagram or Facebook. And Disney CEO Bob Iger told CNBC that the company will begin its password-sharing crackdown in June.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Tasia Custode, Len Peralta, Roger Chang, Joe.
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We share long time supporter Craig Porter’s insight into the connectivity and internet situation in the Antarctic. Plus Social Media service X is doling out free blue checks to users that have more than 2500 premium followers. And how do you determine if you actually need a VPN? Patrick Norton is here to explain.
Starring Sarah Lane, Robb Dunewood, Patrick Norton, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Microsoft is testing an AI chatbot for Xbox support services, but has bigger plans for the technology. Plus Stable Audio 2.0 now lets users upload their own audio samples to create text-prompt AI-generated songs. And we discuss what impacts yesterday’s earthquake in Taiwan has on chip production and why Threads is suddenly so popular in the island nation.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Scientists from Trinity college Dublin published a paper in the journal PLOS ONE that found that some people perceive more images per second than others. Plus Yahoo and Artifact jointly announced Tuesday that Yahoo will buy Artifact, an AI-generated news aggregation and recommendation app. And why does the New York Times consider games like World and Connections new classified section?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Microsoft and OpenAI are jointly working on a data center featuring an AI supercomputer named “Stargate”. Plus what’s the current status on that legislative bill to force ByteDance to sell TikTok or block its use in the US? And a backdoor was found in a widely-used compression program called XZ Utils for Linux and Unix-style OSs by Microsoft developer named Andres Freund.
Starring Tom Merritt, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang, Joe.
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In a recent study China pulls ahead of the US when it comes to developing AI talent. What is AI talent and what skills do you need to become one? Plus The Drive reports the Old Westbury Police Department in NY state is using GPS trackers embedded in foam darts with sticky glue on them fired from special launchers on police vehicles. Four school boards in Ontario, Canada are suing Meta, Snap and ByteDance for $4.5 billion, alleging their products negatively affect children.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Andrea Jones-Rooy, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Is a recent half-a-billion plus donation to Future of Life Institute, an AI think tank, set the stage for AI regulation? Plus why are Intel’s and Microsoft’s idea of what constitutes an AI PC confusing? And Google announced it’s rolling out an update to its Search Generative Experience (SGE).
Starring Sarah Lane, Robb Dunewood, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang, Joe
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What does Microsoft’s Phil Spencer think is happening to the video gaming business? Plus Disney officially adds Hulu as a category inside of Disney+. And why are Apple users getting dozens of password reset notifications?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Joe.
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We discuss the emergent capability of generative video LLM as a world simulator. What does it mean and what can it do? Plus we examine David Pierce’s The Verge article called “Here’s why AI search engines really can’t kill Google.” And online design company Canva will acquire professional design software company Affinity.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Andrew Mayne, Roger Chang, Joe.
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How are game microtransactions infuriating game players and why might we see more of them in the future? Plus Spotify is testing a fourth category of content alongside music, podcasts and books; online courses. And did Microsoft’s Phil Spencer hint about a future handheld Xbox?
Starring Tom Merritt, Trisha Hershberger, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Are robotaxis facing a losing war in gaining broad public acceptance? Nicole shares her experience riding in them and what she thinks needs to be done. Plus seven US researchers have identified a new side-channel attack called “GoFetch” that impacts Apple M1, M2, and M3 processors. And OpenAI pitches its technology to film studios and directors.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Nicole Lee, Len Peralta, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Microsoft announces new Surface PCs for Business with Copilot integration. Plus Neuroscience startup Neuralink live-streamed an interview Wednesday with 29-year-old Noland Arbaugh, the first person to be implanted with Neuralink’s brain-computer interface. And the US Department of Justice files a lawsuit against Apple for monopolistic behavior.
Starring Tom Merritt, Robb Dunewood, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Unity’s 2024 Unity Gaming Report notes an increase in multiplatform game development. What’s behind this trend and is it good for the industry? Plus Meta’s Peter Cottle shows off a brief demo of how users can eventually connect their accounts and posts to the Fediverse through Threads. And Ubisoft revealed at GDC that it has been developing an NPC that uses Large Language Models to have more realistic conversations with players.
Starring Tom Merritt, Robb Dunewood, Patrick Beja, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Meta is reducing the fee for EU users to €5.99 a month plus €4 for additional accounts to assuage regulators' concerns about economic coercion. Plus we share the highlights from Nvidia’s keynote at its GTC developer conference.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Joe.
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How has GDC 2024 pivoted to meet the needs of laid off game developers. Plus why has Sony paused the manufacture of its PlayStation VR2 headset? And Bloomberg reports sources say Apple and Alphabet are in negotiations to use Google Gemini for some AI services in a future version of iOS.
Starring Tom Merritt, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Ars Technica posted a story on Thursday called “Hackers can read private AI-assistant chats even though they’re encrypted.” Which Chatbots are affected and what should users do about it? Plus Walmart begins selling Macs for the first time! And The US Supreme Court will hear the case of Murthy vs. Missouri on Monday. At issue is whether it is a violation of free speech protections for the US government to directly call out social media posts it thinks are harmful or misinformation.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Will the US Congress pass a bill forcing the sale of TikTok? How is Google’s artificial intelligence-powered search engine, Search Generative Experience, impacting publisher’s ad revenue? Hugo Barra, former VP of Android and head of Meta’s phased-out Oculus headset brand, has some thoughts about Apple’s Vision Pro.
Starring Sarah Lane, Robb Dunewood, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Sea of Thieves briefly took the top spot for PS5 game pre-orders Monday. Is this that Microsoft’s new Xbox strategy is paying off? Plus Google DeepMind researchers trained a model that’s learned to play multiple 3D games like a human. And a team of researchers at the University of Chicago say they’ve figured out a way to hack into Meta Quest headsets without the user knowing.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Ray-Ban’s Meta glasses has updated the visual search feature to recognize landmarks and describe them. Plus a startup called Empathy is looking to simplify the process of closing a deceased person’s affairs. And a nurse in the UK used an Apple Vision Pro during a spinal surgery to identify instruments and processes as a double check on accuracy.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Covariant launched RFM-1 (Robotics Foundation Model 1) a “large language model (LLM), but for robot language.” Plus did the Princess of Wales, aka “Kate” photoshop a picture of herself with her three children? And why are tablet sized handheld gaming machines rising in popularity?
Starring Tom Merritt, Shannon Morse, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Patrick is here to explain what you should expect to pay for your next GPU upgrade. Plus what will a solar eclipse mean for solar power? And what effect did the pandemic have on Netflix and the increase in the number of comedy specials?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Patrick Norton, Len Peralta, Roger Chang, Joe.
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What does the “Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act” mean for TikTok and other foreign owned social media platforms? Plus Robinhood, a commission-free investment platform has partnered with sports agency Klutch Sports to expand its reach into sports, entertainment and media.
Starring Sarah Lane, Robb Dunewood, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Scott goes over all the games revealed at Xbox’s partner showcase. Plus, Apple terminated Epic’s developer account thwarting its plans to bring a third-party App Store to iOS in Europe. What happens next? And OpenAI published an open letter Tuesday in response to Elon Musk’s legal claims that OpenAI reneged in its non-profit mission to help humanity. Is this just drama or is something else afoot?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Joe.
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We explain the changes Google announced to bring its products and services in compliance with the European Union’s Digital Markets Act. Plus, Instagram announced a new feature this week that allows users to edit direct messages up to 15 minutes after sending them. And we explore the reasons why Li-Ion batteries don’t charge as well in colder climates and what can be done about it.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Why is Apple Card drawing the ire of UK banks? Plus how Nigerian Fintech company Moniepoint is making inroads with consumers in the country. And how do LLMs do the things they do?
Starring Tom Merritt, Nica Montford, Roger Chang, Joe.
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As large social media sites and platforms make deals to provide training data to AI operators will users be negatively impacted? Plus Elon Musk is suing OpenAI, Sam Altman and Greg Brockman saying they have violated the company’s founding agreement. And Spotify is adding 15 hours of free audiobooks listening to its subscription plan.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Jason Howell, Len Peralta, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Stack Overflow is partnering with Google to provide AI assistance to users while Google Cloud will integrate Stack Overflow’s knowledge base into Gemini for Google Cloud. Plus complaints from consumer rights groups target Meta’s switch last year to charging users in the European Union for an ad-free subscription for access to Facebook and/or Instagram. And U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has launched an investigation into OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s communications when he was fired and then quickly rehired as CEO late last year.
Starring Sarah Lane, Robb Dunewood, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang, Joe.
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We discuss how the Video Game History Foundation’s efforts to preserve video game culture marks a new chapter in video game preservation. Plus we examine the controversy over Wendy’s new dynamically adjusted pricing menu boards. And Swedish fintech firm Klarna says its AI assistant does the work of 700 people after it lays off… 700 people.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Joe.
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How can the ribbontail stingray teach us how to make better less invasive coloring agents? 404 Media’s Emanuel Maiberg has a report on ghost kitchens using generated images in their menus. And According to data from Appfigures, Meta’s Threads now sees triple the daily downloads of X (formerly Twitter) on iOS globally, and sometimes more than triple the number of installs on Google Play.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Dr. Niki Ackermans, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Mobile World Congress starts this week. We look at the big announcements from Samsung, Xiaomi, HMD, Honor, and Lenovo. Plus we look at OnePlus’s latest smartwatch and why the company seems to be having a renaissance.
Starring Tom Merritt, Ron Richards, Roger Chang, Joe.
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What happens when your Instagram or Threads post is labeled political? Molly Wood details her experience. And what type of reaction has Reddit received after files to go public? Plus Tom explains the two cases the Supreme Court will hear Monday that could and their ruling which will impact online speech.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Molly Wood, Len Peralta, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Is OpenAI’s text-to-video tool, Sora, a threat to the business of making TV shows and films? Plus, Google is pausing Gemini’s generation of people in images so it can adjust the model to produce more historically accurate results. And AT&T has been dealing with widespread service issues for more than ten hours affecting millions of subscribers across the US.
Starring Sarah Lane, Robb Dunewood, Charlotte Henry, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Intel reveals its Foundry Business roadmap. Plus Apple will add PQ3 cryptographic protocol to its messaging service, which Apple believes is resistant to future attacks from quantum computers. And Apple announces a free, standalone app called Apple Sports.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Walmart announced that it will acquire TV maker Vizio in a deal valued at $2.3 billion. Plus we detail the big redesign changes YouTube is rolling out to creator channels. And what makes the iPad mini a better choice than the iPad Pro?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Lamarr Wilson, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Bose has new earbuds that sit outside the ear canal instead of inside it. Plus, it turns out OpenAI’s Sora video-generating model can render video games too. And passkeys will eventually supersede passwords for digital security. What should you know about using it in daily life?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Patrick Norton, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Why is Meta clamping down on political posts and cutting back on funding for fact checking? Has the web evolved beyond the usefulness of robot.txt files to allow web crawlers? And why are people returning their Apple Vision Pros to the store?
Starring Sarah Lane, Robb Dunewood, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang, Joe.
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How did Nvidia go from gaming company to AI darling worth a total market cap just behind Apple and Microsoft? Plus how did a South African based company dethrone Netflix as top streamer on the African continent? And Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg posted a video of his views comparing the Vision Pro to the Meta Quest 3.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Nvidia demos Chat, an AI chatbot, running locally one of the company’s RTX series GPU. Google Meet announces, “Companion Mode” which helps you reach your teammates when dialing in on mobile devices. And Memorizer is an iOS app that combines a bit of Goodreads with a bit of Trakt and some Yelp.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Joe.
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We do a rundown of the top four launch bugs on Samsung’s S24 smartphone. Plus the IEEE Spectrum has a report on how piezoelectric transducers can use a phone’s screen for both haptic feedback and a speaker. And Funimation announces that subscriber’s digital copies of shows and movies will go away after April 2nd.
Starring Tom Merritt, Shannon Morse, Roger Chang, Joe.
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How does a small business navigate social media? How does Sam Altman plan to reshape the global semiconductor industry? And why is X pivoting towards video?
Starring Sarah Lane, Robb Dunewood, Ant Pruitt, Len Peralta, Roger Chang, Joe.
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ESPN, Fox, and Warner Bros/Discover have agreed to a deal for a mega sports streaming service coming this Fall. Plus Singapore-based Brilliant Labs announced a pair of lightweight AR glasses called Frame, with a multimodal virtual assistant named Noa. And Google is changing the name of its AI-powered chatbot formerly known as Bard and its sister model Duet to Gemini.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Why is Xbox looking to bring some of its exclusive titles to other platforms? And Apple and scientists at UC-Santa Barbara released an open source multimodal large language model that can let users edit images using natural language.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Some owners of the Apple Vision Pro report forgetting their passcode which can disable the headset if a passcode is entered in too many times. Plus Forbes is reporting High school applicants that utilize ChatGPT for personal essays, often hire human editors to de-AI them. And Mozilla introduces a privacy monitoring service, called Mozilla Monitor Plus for $8.99 a month.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Allison is here to explain everything you need to know about wireless charging standards. Plus Amazon and Reach, the UK’s largest publisher, reach a deal to allow access to customer data for targeted advertising. And Meta’s Oversight Board ruled that a maliciously edited video of US President Joe Biden can stay on Facebook but recommends changes to the site's rules on manipulated content.
Starring Tom Merritt, Allison Sheridan, Roger Chang, Joe.
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We get hands on time with the Apple Vision Pro and share our thoughts. Plus Apple releases big numbers in its Q4 earnings call. And what happened to all the music on TikTok?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Nica Montford, Terrance Gaines, Len Peralta, Eileen Rivera, Roger Chang, Joe.
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What is the Kids Online Safety Act and why is it such a contentious issue? Plus Google is bringing generative AI to Google Maps. And why is Tim Cook betting so much on the success of the Apple Vision Pro?
Starring Sarah Lane, Robb Dunewood, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Blizzard gets a new president, Johanna Faries. Scott explains what her appointment means in a newly merged Microsoft Activision Blizzard company. Plus Universal Music Group, says negotiations have broken down with TikTok over royalties. And US lawmakers grill social media CEOs over the use of their platforms for facilitating child sexual abuse online.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Is Netflix’s pivot to more traditional TV fare like dramas and reality shows a threat to traditional linear TV? Plus Apple Has Sold Approximately 200,000 Vision Pro Headsets. And TikTok’s effort to separate US data from China by putting it and a US-version of TikTok’s algorithm in an Oracle-run data center is running into issues.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Charlotte Henry, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Chris Ashley shares his thoughts you need to be aware of before you invest in a power generator for emergency situations. Plus Amazon gives up on acquiring Roomba-maker iRobot. And the Browser Company has a new iOS app out, called Arc Search.
Starring Tom Merritt, Chris Ashley, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Explicit deep fake images and videos of Taylor Swift have flooded X, raising questions about a legal framework around deep fakes and issues with X’s current explicit content filtering system. And Google updated the Pixel 8 Pro this week to allow for a new body temperature sensor feature. Plus Samsung launched the Galaxy S24 in China but instead of using Google’s Gemini models, it’s using Baidu’s Ernie.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Shannon Morse, Roger Chang, Joe.
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What kind of tech do you need if you want to be a fulltime Van Lifer? Plus in response to the EU’s DMA, Apple will allow alternative app stores for the iPhone and iPad. And Google announced Lumiere on Tuesday, an AI video generator it’s calling “a space-time diffusion model for realistic video generation”.
Starring Sarah Lane, Robb Dunewood, Kevin Pereira, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Why is Palworld so popular with gamers and why has it stirred so much controversy? Plus we analyze a recent FT article on Apple's AI strategy. And Amazon will its policy of allowing police to ask for Ring footage publicly instead requiring a search warrant be submitted instead.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Netflix and the WWE announce a 10-year deal to bring Monday Night Raw to the streaming service. Plus HP’s CEO gives a curious reason as to why it blocks third-party ink cartridges. And is China doing a U-turn on its videogame addiction crackdown?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Joe.
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A new MIT study suggests that the number of jobs AI steals is far fewer than originally projected. Plus what’s Japan’s plan with their Slim Moon lander with its solar panels pointed in the wrong direction. And Dr. Niki Ackermans is here with an explanation of the experiments aboard the Axiom-3 mission.
Starring Tom Merritt, Dr. Niki Ackermans, Roger Chang, Joe.
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AI co-hosts? Gavin Purcell from the “AI For Humans” show details the steps they use to generate their weekly AI co-host. Plus pre-orders from Apple’s Vision Pro started today and by all accounts went smoothly, but what does it say about the headset’s potential popularity?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Gavin Purcell, Len Peralta, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Is podcasting actually a declining industry or is it just going through a market correction? Plus is Microsoft’s Copilot adding value and market share to its Bing search business? And Reddit announces plans to launch an initial public offering by the end of March.
Starring Sarah Lane, Robb Dunewood, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang, Joe.
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We sift through all the big announcements from Samsung’s Unpacked Event. Plus Amazon agrees to invest in Diamond Sports, allowing them to provide access to Diamond’s content via Prime Video. Research from Leipzig University, Bauhaus-University Weimar, and the Center for Scalable Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence show a general reduction in the effectiveness of search engines.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Huyen Tue Dao, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Peacock’s AFC Wild Card game between the Kansas City Chiefs and the Miami Dolphins was the most live-streamed event in U.S. history. We explain the UK’s Post Office Horizon IT scandal which led to the false arrest, financial ruin, and imprisonment of more than 700 Post Office branch managers. And we examine a survey from PwC released at the World Economic Forum in Davos about the impact of generative AI on employee numbers.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Joe.
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It's the final day of CES. Robert Heron is on to share the home theater highlights from this year’s show and what you should be looking for in your next TV. Plus we explain what you need to have before you plop down money for Apple’s Vision Pro. And we look at this year’s Best of CES winners.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Robert Heron, Len Peralta, Roger Chang, Joe.
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It’s Day 4 of CES and we continue our coverage of the electronics trade-show. Plus we examine how Microsoft recently surpassed Apple in market capitalization. And Shannon shares her new favorite laptops from this year’s CES.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Robb Dunewood, Shannon Morse, Roger Chang, Joe.
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It's Day 3 of our CES 2024 coverage. We detail the latest news from the event. Plus the SAG-AFTRA union and Replica Studios have come to an agreement over licensing voice actor voices for use by generative AI. And Trisha Hershberger shares her favorite products and innovations from the show!
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Trisha Hershberger, Roger Chang, Joe.
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It's Day 2 of CES 2024. We cover all the news and announcements on the first official day of the event.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Molly Wood, Roger Chang, Joe.
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We cover all the big announcements right before CES 2024 opens. Plus we have Allison Sheridan’s highlights from Sunday’s CES Unveiled media event.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Robb Dunewood, Allison Sheridan, Roger Chang, Joe.
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What sets Suno.AI apart from other generative AI music efforts? And can Android’s default assistant be changed to something other than Google Assistant? Plus what does the future look like for Substack?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Tristan Jutras, Len Peralta, Mishaal Rahman, Roger Chang, Joe.
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We explain what’s behind the lawsuit between OpenAI and NY Times and Justin shares his thoughts on the entire matter. Google is moving forward with cookie-less browsing. And Microsoft is adding another dedicated key for Copilot.
Starring Sarah Lane, Robb Dunewood, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Square Enix plans to aggressively leverage AI in its business, Chris Ashley gives us a BBQ masters look at the GE Profile Smart Indoor Smoker, and what Facebook wants with its new “Link History” feature.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Why are automakers pulling back on their EV plans? And is Apple still committed to the iPad? Plus Mickey Mouse is going to the public domain. What does it mean for IP moving forward?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Nica Montford, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Google settles a $5 billion lawsuit for tracking Chrome users using Incognito Mode, Microsoft’s DALL-E 3 powered Image Creator generates violent images, and X fails to convince a federal judge that California’s content moderation law violates its freedom of speech.
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It's our 2024 Tech Predictions Show! Tom and Sarah along with Dr. Niki, Jenn Cutter and Tasia Custode bring their two predictions of what they think will happen in 2024 the tech landscape.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Dr. Nicole Ackermans, Jenn Cutter, and Tasia Custode
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It's the 2023 DTNS Predictions Results episode. This is where we look back on the predictions we made about technology and the tech industry in the year 2023 back in December of 2022 to see how they actually turned out! Who came out on top?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Will Smith, Andrea Jones-Rooy, Iyaz Akhtar, Roger Chang
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Apple Watches Have Gone Back On Sale, Bill Gates believes AI will accelerate the rate of new discoveries at a pace we've never seen before, and Xiaomi unveiled its first electric vehicle…
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The New Your Times is Suing OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright violations in the training of their generative AI models, a federal appeals court paused the ban on the Apple Watch, and Amazon Prime Video is adding commercials to content on January 29th.
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Mobile carrier Mint Mobile gets hacked exposing customer information, Apple Vision Pro mass shipments rumored to begin the first week of January, and Chevy Blazer EV sales are halted amid a slew of reported problems...
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Welcome to our end of year Listener Show. This is the annual episode where we invite several of our supporters to appear alongside us on the show. This year we wanted to try something different. Taking a cue from our Friday GDI we've decided to make this episode a quiz and debate show. To play along with us we have: George Tsang, Tom DiGianvittorio Jr. AKA CaptainJack913, and Gary Fisher.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang
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What does Adobe’s failed acquisition of Figma mean for the broader startup industry? Plus why leaks of Samsung’s S24 phones reveal the future of mobile software in 2024. And Sony and Discovery work out an arrangement that doesn’t leave owners of Discovery content on PlayStation out in the cold.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Molly Wood, Len Peralta, Jason Howell, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Why did Bird file for bankruptcy? Justin shares his thoughts. Plus are Teslas experiencing an unusual amount of defects? And is Microsoft giving up on Mixed Reality?
Starring Sarah Lane, Robb Dunewood, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Why are big name game developers like Insomniac targets of ransomware attacks? Scott Johnson shares his thoughts. Plus Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick is stepping down officially December 29th. Who will Microsoft find to replace him? And Amazon may be setting itself up to get baseball streaming rights in the messiest way possible. We explain.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Google settles a lawsuit brought by 37 US attorneys general. Navigation platform TomTom announced it has partnered with Microsoft to offer generative models in its automobile software. And we check in on the State of VR/AR at the end of 2023, It is no longer early days my friends.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Apple announces it will halt US online sales of the Apple Watch Series 9 and Apple Watch Ultra 2, starting Thursday December 21st. Plus four US lawmakers have asked the US Department of Justice to investigate Apple’s blocking of the Beeper and Beeper Mini services from Apple Messages. And what does the jury decision to find in favor of Epic in the long running Epic vs Google case mean for Android developers?
Starring Tom Merritt, Huyen Tue Dao, Roger Chang, Joe.
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We take a look at the technical challenges that had to be overcome to integrate the Disney+ with Hulu. Plus we dissect Cox Media Group subsidiaries' claim that our devices are listening to us and using the data they gather to target ads to us. And scientists at the International Centre for Neuromorphic Systems (ICNS) at Western Sydney University announced Deep South, a supercomputer capable of simulating networks at the scale of the human brain.
Starring Tom Merritt, Robb Dunewood, Len Peralta, Harry McCracken, Roger Chang, Joe.
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At a Fortune AI conference CEO of Cloudflare, Matthew Prince commented “Most of the people… if they’re doing anything in AI, are effectively lighting money on fire.” in recognition of the difficulty of turning AI demos into usable products. Plus Dropbox turned on a new search feature powered by OpenAI and boy are people mad. And Threads launched in the European Union, adding a potential 448 million users to its platform.
Starring Sarah Lane, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Google launches AI Studio, a webtool to allow developers to create chatbots and apps based on its new Gemini Pro LLM and a new medical focused LLMs under the name MedLM. Plus Apple is testing 'Stolen Device Protection’ , a feature coming to iOS 17.3 that can delay a thief’s ability to alter critical information on a phone. And Nature Electronics published a study which describes a “hybrid biocomputer” system called Brainoware that can identify voices with 78% accuracy.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Joe.
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A jury delivers its verdict in the Epic v. Google case. What was their verdict and will the impact be? Plus we go over the most downloaded iOS apps of 2023. And how did CRISPR gene editing help to breed a chicken resistant to the avian flu?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Dr. Nicole Ackermans, Roger Chang, Joe.
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What are your alternatives to TinyLetter, the free newsletter service that parent company Mailchimp is closing down? Rich has some suggestions. Plus we explain the latest with Beeper’s iMessage to Android service. And a roundup of the latest Apple news.
Starring Tom Merritt, Rich Stroffolino, Roger Chang, Joe.
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A key concept in cybersecurity is “secure by default” vs “secure by design”. But does it mean and how does it apply to your data security? Plus a recent Apple funded report has noted an increased frequency of cyberattacks which Apple believes is reason to expand the use of end-to-end encryption. And Instagram is rolling out its hashtag-less tag feature to Threads across the globe.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Mike Johnson, Len Peralta, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Meta announced that Facebook Messenger chats and calls will be protected by end-to-end encryption by default. And Google announced the launch of its Google Podcasts to YouTube Music migration tool. Plus Justin shares his reasons why he thinks Google’s Gemini Ultra, Pro and Nano roll out is a sign of management failure.
Starring Sarah Lane, Robb Dunewood, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Why are AAA games like GTA 6 ported to PC well after their release on game consoles? Scott explains. Plus Twitch will stop operations in South Korea starting February 27, 2024, due to high costs there. And Google launches its new Large Language Model Gemini which comes in three flavors; Gemini Ultra, Gemini Pro, and Gemini Nano.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Gmail is getting a powerful update to its AI-powered spam detection in the service’s biggest security upgrade in years. And can iPhone/Android cross-platform messaging service Beeper succeed with its implementation where Sunbird crashed and burned?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Need to give a loved one a new Android phone but not sure what to get? Iyaz is here with his best 2023 Android phone picks. Plus We analyze a recent BBC article asking “Could X go bankrupt under Elon Musk?”. And is Sony’s announcement that it will begin deleting Discovery shows from users libraries even if they’ve paid for them.
Starring Tom Merritt, Iyaz Akhtar, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Ever since Open AI announced GPTs, chat agents that developers can use on their platforms developers have made a lot of these. Tristan Jutras takes through some of the more outlandish examples of people flexing their creative GPT muscles. Plus, is the push to force workers back to the office dead? One Stanford professor thinks so. And Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer confirmed that Microsoft is talking to partners about launching an Xbox Mobile store.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Tristan Jutras, Len Peralta, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Google rolls out system updates for Android, Wear OS and Google TV devices. What features and functionality do they add? Plus as Threads, Meta’s microblogging platform, plans a European Union launch in December is it becoming a viable alternative to “X”? And we delve into the reason why Apple relented and decided to include RCS capability into the iPhone.
Starring Sarah Lane, Robb Dunewood, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang, Joe.
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The WSJ says Apple is looking to end its relationship with Goldman Sachs that it currently uses to support several financial products including Apple Card. Plus Is the new Microsoft Outlook a potential privacy risk? And Unity is cutting jobs and closing offices as part of a company reset. We explain what might be going on.
Starring Tom Merritt, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Winter driving is no fun but a little planning can go a long way to making it more safe and less stressful. Patrick Norton is here to tell us how. Plus we go over all the big announcements from AWS’s re:Invent conference for cloud customers. And we look at Ofcom’s latest study of AI use in the UK.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Patrick Norton, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Dayton, Ohio police are warning parents to disable the "Bringing Devices Together" setting in AirDrop for children. And Research from the Graz University of Technology, Austria suggests that Zoom fatigue is real. Plus we go over leaks for Samsung's upcoming Galaxy S24 flagship phone.
Starring Tom Merritt, Shannon Morse, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Nvidia delays is H20 AI developed specifically for China until Q1 2024, Pixel 8 owners report circular bumps under the screen, and Nearly 8.5 million Welltok user's patient data exposed in MoveIt breach.
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Broadcom completes its $61 billion acquisition of VMware, Cruise plans to resume operations in one U.S. city, and OpenAI and Microsoft are being sued by non-fiction writers…
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Sam Altman is returning as OpenAI CEO. We explained what happened. And Spotify announced three major changes to how it pays royalties to musicians. Plus we explain everything you need to know about "The Strange $55 Million Saga of a Netflix Series You’ll Never See." Labels will be charged a fee when “flagrant” streaming fraud is detected. Seems reasonable.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Home Theater expert Robert Heron is here with the perfect home theater gift buying recommendations in time for the holiday season. Plus Nothing Chats and Sunbird the app developers that boasted they could access the iMessage protocol to give Android users blue bubbles has had its message app pulled from the Google Play store. And on Dua Lipa’s “At Your Service” podcast for BBC Sounds, Tim Cook told the singer: “We’re a company that believes in working on succession plans, so we have very detailed succession plans.” What does it mean?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Robert Heron, Roger Chang, Joe.
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GM’s robotaxi startup Cruise co-founder and CEO Kyle Vogt announced his resignation. And We go into the details behind OpenAI’s board firing of CEO Sam Altman.
Starring Tom Merritt, Nica Montford, Roger Chang, Joe.
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EV’s might be the future of personal automobiles but Toyota thinks that some drivers might still want an old-fashioned stick shift. Cleaning up car based pollution isn’t just about EVs. You also need to address the environmental impact of tires. Tim Stevens explains. And why are Amazon and Hyundai teaming up to sell cars online?
Starring Sarah Lane, Robb Dunewood, Tim Stevens, Len Peralta, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Will Smith joins us with a geek gift buyer’s guide for the upcoming holiday season. Plus the first Qi v2.0 devices are nearly through the certification process. We explain what this means and how you’ll benefit! And Apple announces in the future it will adopt the RCS standard. Will this mean the end of the blue vs green messaging schism?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Will Smith, Roger Chang, Joe.
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We go over all the big announcements from this year’s Microsoft Ignite event. Plus a study in the Psychological Science Monday explores how convincing generated images were especially ones of white individuals. And a study in Science showed that an AI meteorology model from Google DeepMind called GraphCasts made better forecasts using traditional models.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Why are iPhones overrepresented in smartphone ownership by teens? Android Police’s Will Sattelberg is here to explain. Plus YouTube rolled out new policies regarding generative AI videos. And users of the Nothing Phone 2 Android phone will get access to Apple iMessage in North America and Europe starting this month.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Will Sattelberg, Roger Chang, Joe.
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We go over the latest Apple prognostications from Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman and analyst Ming-chi Kuo about what the company has in store. Plus we analyze the latest reviews of Sony’s just released Portal handheld gaming device for the PS5. And Allison Sheridan shares her research into what the best note taking app is on the market.
Starring Tom Merritt, Allison Sheridan, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Tumblr decided to downscale after failing to turn the site around, Meta to start selling VR headsets to Tencent in China, and payment apps and digital wallets may get regulated like banks in the US…
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Humane launches its AI wearable, the AI Pin. Is this the future of personal everyday AI interfaces? Plus Disney CEO Bob Iger says Disney will launch a beta test of a new app next month, combining Disney+ and Hulu into a single experience. And Amazon is readying a new operating system to replace Android on its Fire TVs, smart displays and other connected devices
Starring Sarah Lane, Robb Dunewood, Tristan Jutras, Roger Chang, Joe.
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We take a close look at what was revealed on the first day of the Google vs Epic Games trial. And Nintendo announces it will partner with Sony to develop a “Legend of Zelda” movie. Plus Rockstar Games confirmed Wednesday that it will begin “promoting” Grand Theft Auto IV next month.
Starring Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Joe.
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GM’s robotaxi division, Cruise, had its California operating driverless permits pulled over safety concerns. What’s going on with the company? And how is technology helping researchers monitor damage of climate change to the coasts of the Atlantic Ocean.
Starring Sarah Lane, Robb Dunewood, Dr. Nicole Ackermans, Roger Chang, Joe.
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We detail all the big announcements from OpenAI’s first developer conference. Plus Tesla plans on building a €25,000 (about $27,000) car at its German plant. And Apple says it will not be making an Apple Silicon version of the 27-inch iMac.
Starring Sarah Lane, Robb Dunewood, Chris Ashley, Roger Chang, Joe.
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What does the UK hope to gain by hosting the A.I. Safety Summit? Nate Lanxon explains. Plus how is YouTube’s decision to crack down on ad-blockers affecting the ad-blocker business? And we discuss what’s behind the dip in Apple’s revenue from the previous year?
Starring Tom Merritt. Sarah Lane, Nate Lanxon, Len Peralta, Roger Chang, Joe.
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What do the latest earnings calls from chipmaker mean for the PC market and longer term will the growing popularity of AI help the industry? And can two former Google Nest engineers disrupt the robotic vacuum market? Plus Comcast is ready to let go of Hulu, but Disney still needs to agree to a price.
Starring Tom Merritt. Sarah Lane, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Sony-owned Bungie laid off around 100 people. What does it mean for the Destiny game and what does it say about the health of the industry? And YouTube has launched its ad-blocker prevention efforts worldwide. Plus which types of searches generated the most ad revenue for Google?
Starring Tom Merritt. Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Charlotte Henry helps us understand how streaming is creating a boom in horror flicks. Plus Apple announced its new M3 SoC and new pricing on its MacBook's. And an Alliance of countries have banded together to say no to paying ransom to cyber-criminals.
Starring Sarah Lane, Robb Dunewood, Charlotte Henry, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Meta’s ad-free subscription version of Facebook and Instagram will be available in the EU, the EEA, and Switzerland starting next month. Google has announced research into audio plethysmography that uses the hardware for active noise canceling to sense heart rate. And US president Joe Biden has issued an executive order directing federal agencies to develop safety guidelines around generative AI.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Tasia Custode is here to give us a first hand review of Pixel 8 Pro’s A.I. features. And the UN created a 39-member advisory board to act as a bridge between various UN efforts for the international governance of AI. Plus we detail out all of the announced changes Google is bringing to Google Maps.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Tasia Custode, Len Peralta, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Trisha breaks down all of Twitch’s announcements from this past weekend’s TwitchCon in Las Vegas. And Music Business Worldwide reports Spotify will make changes to its royalty payout model starting next year. Plus we analyze Meta’s third-quarter earnings.
Starring Sarah Lane, Robb Dunewood, Trisha Hershberger, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Sony plans on shipping its PS5 slim in both an optical disc drive and without one. What’s the logic behind this decision and does it really matter? Plus, Amazon is beta testing AI image generation tools for its advertisers that offer an easy way for those advertisers to create backgrounds or scenes. And Qualcomm details its new chip lines, as it faces increased competition from in-house designs like Apple’s M1.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Artificial wombs. What are they and what role will they play in health care? Plus Ben Zhao, a professor at the University of Chicago, has created a tool called Nightshade that lets creators fight back by “poisoning” their works to prevent LLM models from training on it without permission. And is POSSE, Publish on your Own Site, Syndicate Everywhere, the solution to decentralizing the social media space.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Annalee Newitz, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Matter 1.2 is here and we explain what it is and why it matters to your IoT network. And in a bid to open up municipal broadband markets around the US, SiFi will spend $500 million to build an open access fiber network at no cost to taxpayers. Plus we discuss all the ways companies are investing in AI integration.
Starring Tom Merritt, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Molly Wood explains one company is looking to decarbonise LA before the 2028 Olympic Games. We explore Tesla’s latest earning results. And we share the latest efforts to speed up AI training.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Molly Wood, Len Peralta, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Meta is beta-testing disappearing voice messages in WhatsApp and bringing “broadcast channels” to Facebook and Messenger. The hacker behind the data breach at 23andme has leaked more private user data on an online forum. And the FCC looks to reestablish net neutrality by establishing rules that prohibit ISPs from throttling or limiting certain traffic.
Starring Sarah Lane, Robb Dunewood, Nica Montford, Roger Chang, Joe.
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X has begun testing a $1 per year charge in NZ and the Philippines it’s calling “Not A Bot” that lets new users view posts and follow accounts for free, but must pay the subscription fee to do anything else. YouTube announced changes to its interface and creator tools that will roll out over the next few weeks. Xbox’s Phil Spencer confirmed Wednesday that Activision Blizzard games won’t be coming to Xbox Game Pass until at least 2024.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Joe.
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You might have a disaster plan for your data but do you have one for your internet? Patrick is here with alternative internet options when find yourself in an emergency. And Qualcomm announces it’s building a RISC-V-based platform for Google’s WearOS smartwatch OS. And we analyze the early reviews for Meta’s new Ray-Ban Meta Smart glasses.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Patrick Norton, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Intel releases its Raptor Lake Refresh Desktop processors. Is the dream of wireless distance charging coming to a toothbrush near you? And we’ve got more Apple rumors to share including iPad launch dates, M3 Pro and Max, and a way to update your iPhone at the Apple Store.
Starring Tom Merritt, Chris Ashley, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Microsoft’s bid to acquire Activision-Blizzard has been accomplished. We share the important things you need to know about the final deal. And Best Buy announced its intention to stop selling physical video media sales early next year.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Geoff Belknap, Len Peralta, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Social media platforms get the EU’s scrutiny over Israel-Hamas War disinformation and illegal content. And we take a look at the reviews for Google’s latest flagship phone the Pixel 8 Pro. Plus YouTube surpasses Netflix as top video source for US teenagers according to a new survey from Piper Sandler.
Starring Tom Merritt, Robb Dunewood, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang, Joe.
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In a blog post Wednesday Sony announced premium customers will be able to play “select” cloud-streamed PS5 games later this month. How much does Google pay Apple to keep the search engine front and center on its devices? And Utah’s Division of Consumer Protection filed a lawsuit against TikTok, alleging the app is knowingly harmful to children because of its “addictive nature.”
Starring Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman reports Apple is working on a lighter version of the Vision Pro. Google announced results and expansions of its “Project Green Light”, its program to reduce times cars spend at red lights. And has the recent attack in Israel highlighted the shift of news off X?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Joe.
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DTNS is off for the US holiday.
Snap is under investigation in the UK over possible privacy risks with Snapchat My AI chatbot, chip makers Samsung and SK Hynix able to supply US chip equipment to their China-based factories, and Google's Vertex AI aims to help doctors with patient histories and billing.
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We explore how AI is impacting the world of mathematics with data scientist Andrea Jones-Rooy. Plus some retailers are souring on the concept of self checkout lanes. And the Information reports that Meta is paying millions of dollars to celebrities for the rights to recreate their personalities as chatbots.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Andrea Jones-Rooy, Roger Chang, Joe.
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We do a Nobel Prize recap as we look at this year’s winners and the research that got them there. Plus BlackBerry announced on Wednesday it would separate its Internet of Things and cybersecurity business units. And we analyze recent comments by X CEO Linda Yaccarino about brands returning to the platform.
Starring Sarah Lane, Robb Dunewood, Dr. Niki Ackermans, Roger Chang, Joe.
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We go through everything announced at Google’s Pixel hardware event and share our analysis of the latest Pixel 8 flagship phones and accessories.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Mishaal Rahman, Roger Chang, Joe.
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We examine Meta’s plan to charge a fee to use Facebook in lieu of targeting users with ads to comply with EU regulations. For $100 a year the NYC based Cloaked lets users create multiple “identities” of different email addresses, usernames, password and phone numbers that can be used at different websites. Your expectations and beliefs about a chatbot may affect how you talk to it, thus affecting its responses.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Joe.
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We have updates on the titanium iPhone 15 overheating issues and Apple’s work in developing its own web search service. LG has no plans to support ATSC 3.0 due to patent uncertainty. And Humane shows off its wearable AI assistant “Ai Pin”.
Starring Tom Merritt, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang, Joe.
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We learn Apple considered swapping Google’s search engine for Microsoft Bing. And London’s Capital Economics assessed which countries will benefit most from AI technologies. And Google announced support for an extended flag in websites robots.txt file to exclude sites from being used to train Google’s AI models.
It's Friday! Who Am I? - GDI 4615
It takes a village. Are you ready for another “Who Am I”? So many tough clues. Is there a bell? Why is it not 0? How is your knowledge of literary persons? Sarah is just winging it. Who would be Disney adjacent and also a spy? Sarah was so close. So many passes. How weird are Duke people? Is Roger punking the hosts? How many language apps can you list? Tristan shares some robots.txt stories.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Tristan Jutras, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Tom explains why DTNS is doing a free preview week and answers Pat's question about who this Pat is.
What are the implications of stem cell derived human embryo models? Epic and Apple are still at it as Apple asks the US Supreme Court to review a ruling that lets developers direct users to alternative payment methods.
Your Zoom Background Speaks Volumes - GDI 4614 starts at 31:48
How important is your background while on a video call? Niki likes the walrus. How did Sarah lose part of her head? How many books in your shelves have you actually read? Have you framed any diplomas? The group discusses remote video setups. Roger wants a deep fake Roger. Stranger Danger talk takes over. How good of a driver are you? Sarah plays around with virtual backgrounds. When was the last time you went on a long train ride? The group discussed the future of transportation.
Starring Sarah Lane, Robb Dunewood, Dr. Niki Ackermans, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Microsoft buys Nokia's phone business, Sony might do a VR headset, Valve introduces SteamOS, Twitter files for an IPO and more.
What role does AI and streaming play in the Writers Guild of America and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television producers agreement. We explain FTC’s latest efforts to challenge the Microsoft-Activision Blizzard merger. And Meta unveils the Quest 3 headset.
Killer Sloths and Tacos - GDI 4613 starts at 30:39
CNN launched CNN Max in beta. Does this excite you? How much live news do you watch? Where do you think Max is trying to be? Does HBO still stand for prestige? So much confusion. So many contracts and agreements can be overwhelming. Cable companies might be losing their leverage. Scott has an appreciation for Tubi. Have you heard about Slotherhouse? Horror movies talk takes over. Can there be too much cheese? How often have you eaten street food? Do parasites have accents? Sarah shares a brain parasite story and won't eat sweaty cheese. Don't microwave your Blu-ray’s.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Google announced plans to end several services including YouTube Premium Lite, Basic HTML Gmail, and Google Podcasts. US FCC unveiled a proposal to reclassify broadband internet providers as telecommunications providers, aka Title II. And LG takes the wraps of its latest foldable-screen laptop.
Pixel Support Until the 7 Year Itch - GDI 4612 starts at 31:46
What was the lowest grade you were comfortable getting when you were in school? Did you ever get an “I”? School talk takes over. How many pass/fail classes have you taken? How many years should a phone get OS updates? When do you feel your tech is getting slow enough to replace it? Where is your plateau of use? Do you still have rotary phones laying around? The group walked down a corded phone memory lane. Do you remember when your family got a cordless phone? When was the last time you used a payphone?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Joe.
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iFixIt releases its findings from their teardown of the new iPhone 15. Getty Images is partnering with Nvidia for “Generative AI by Getty Images” which is trained exclusively on Getty’s library of licensed photos. OpenAI launched a new version of ChatGPT that you can prompt by speaking and integrates image search into prompts.
Chat GPT Starts Talking Back - DTNS 4611 Extended
Do you leave voicemails? How do you get in hold of people in a hurry? Do you change your ways, when it's a professional conversation? How long is too long, when leaving a voicemail? How often do you get ghosted? Is just the “k” disrespectful? Do you want the double check mark? The group has so many different ways that they communicate. Does it bother you when someone asks if you got their text? How much do you move around while on a video call? How often do you talk on your speaker phone? Do you screen calls?
Starring Tom Merritt, Chris Ashley, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Starting in early 2024, Prime Video subscribers in Canada, Germany, the UK, and US will see “limited advertisements.” Would you be $2.99/month to get rid of them? What type of display should go on a foldable phone’s cover screen? And the latest Apple news including why USB-C AirPods can support lossless audio.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Shannon Morse, Roger Chang, Joe.
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We detail all the important news from Microsoft’s Surface and AI event including new AI integration into Bing and new Surface Go models.
Starring Sarah Lane, Robb Dunewood, Chris Ashley, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Amazon held its “Devices and Services” this Wednesday. We go through all the big things they announced and what we think about them. Plus OpenAI announced version 3 of its image generator, DALL-E. It understands context better and integrates with ChatGPT. So for example, you can tell ChatGPT to write a prompt for Dall-E 3.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Joe.
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The UK gets a new free streaming entry from the country’s public sector broadcasters called Freely that delivers live TV over broadband. Building on its “Just Walk Out” technology Amazon has introduced a new version for clothing stores that uses RFID chips. And Microsoft’s plans for the Xbox are revealed in documents accidentally uploaded to the FTC during its lawsuit with the Redmond based company.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Charlotte Henry, Roger Chang, Joe.
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We discuss how crowdfunding has changed and evolved with Chris Mancini. And is Unity backtracking on its statements last week about a new per install fee structure for developers? Plus that latest on iPhone 15 and iOS 17 roll out.
Starring Tom Merritt, Justin Robert Young, Chris Mancini, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Preorders for the new iPhone 15 models started Friday morning and we highlight the issues some have faced trying to order one. The Irish Data Protection Commission, which has jurisdiction over TikTok in Europe, fined the company €345 million for 8 violations of the GDPR. X has contracted with an Israeli company called Au10tix to provide government-ID based account verification as an option.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Will Smith, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Google said Thursday it plans to offer software updates for Chromebooks for up to a decade. A new study from Columbia University casts a critical eye on the use of current Large Language Models to replace human decision-making in critical jobs. And we learn more about the cyber-incident afflicting MGM.
Starring Sarah Lane, Robb Dunewood, Tasia Custode, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Unity announces it will begin charging a runtime fee to developers starting January 1st, 2024. MGM reports that a cyber incident that has significantly disrupted properties across the US represents a material risk to the company. And Adobe announced that Firefly is open to all in its Creative Cloud, Adobe Express and Adobe Experience Cloud offerings.
Starring Sarah Lane, Robb Dunewood, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Nica Montford and Terrance Gaines from the snobOS Cast join us to unpack all the Apple Watch and iPhone announcements from Apple’s Sept 12th event.
Starring Sarah Lane, Nica Montford, Terrance Gaines, Roger Chang, Joe.
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After complaints, Amazon will start requiring writers who sell through Amazon’s e-book program to disclose if their work includes artificial intelligence material. Friday, some Wyze security camera owners noted on Reddit that they were able to see webcam feeds that weren’t their own, an error chalked up to a web-caching issue by Wyze. Meta is testing a cross-platform WhatsApp messaging feature to comply with the EU’s DMA directive.
Starring Sarah Lane, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Still thinking about replacing your current TV with a larger better model? Before you do, listen to what Home Theater expert Robert Heron has to say. Plus Spotify is working with publishers in the U.S. to allow subscribers to listen up to 20 hours of audiobooks a month. And Apple has an iOS 16.6.1 update which patches two zero-day exploits used to inject Pegasus spyware.
Starring Sarah Lane, Robb Dunewood, Robert Heron, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Are online user submitted movie ratings, like Rotten Tomatoes, worthless and is there a way to make them more useful? Plus SoundCloud is rolling out a TikTok-style discovery feed feature complete with vertical scrolling and short snippets of tracks. And BMW drops its controversial subscription to activate heated seats on their cars.
Starring Sarah Lane, Robb Dunewood, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang, Joe.
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How last year's LastPass breach enabled thieves to steal $35 million in crypto. Plus the European Commission has unveiled a list of companies it considers subject to the Digital Markets Act. And how is Google keeping its gaming ambitions alive in YouTube.
Starring Rich Stroffolino, Robb Dunewood, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Soundbars are the easiest and cheapest way to upgrade your TVs audio capabilities. But how do you go about picking one? Plus Apple and Microsoft are privately arguing that neither iMessage nor Bing are big or powerful enough to justify the EU’s Digital Markets Act (DMA) restrictions. And can regular internet use stave off dementia?
Starring Sarah Lane, Robb Dunewood, Patrick Norton, Roger Chang, Joe.
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X's updated privacy policy hints at new AI model data collection, YouTube staff reportedly worried over Shorts revenue, Microsoft WordPad gets deprecated.
Are tech IPOs coming back into fashion? And for the first time a high-speed AI drone racer beats human world-champion racers. Plus Lenovo announces new products including a new handheld Windows gaming device and glasses that function as a monitor replacement.
Starring Sarah Lane, Robb Dunewood, Rob DeMillo, Len Peralta, Roger Chang, Joe.
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October 1st, Microsoft will be separating Teams from the Microsoft 365 and Office 365 suites in the European Economic Area and also Switzerland to head off antitrust regulators. Plus How is a YouTube invalid traffic bug causing problems for YouTubers. Tasia Custode from “AI Named This Show” explains. And the Philips Hue Line Gains Smart Cameras and Sensors.
Starring Sarah Lane, Robb Dunewood, Tasia Custode, Roger Chang, Joe.
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OpenAI reaches $1 billion in annual sales as ChatGPT use soars. But Pew research only 18% of Americans have used ChatGPT. Plus Samsung launched an app for Android and iOS called "Food", a "personalized, AI-powered food and recipe" app. And PlayStation Plus is raising prices following a similar announcement for the Xbox Game Pass a month ago.
Starring Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Google announced it would be rolling out its Duet AI, unveiled earlier this year, across all Google Workspace apps. And HBO Max will be giving subscribers limited access to select AMC+ shows. Plus Snapchat releases a new AI selfie feature called Dreams.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Are the ethical implications of AI more about how much can be done at scale vs what could only be done in a limited fashion? Tech reporter and analyst Benedict Evans believes so. And we discuss the Verge’s David Pierce experience with Google’s NotebookLM. Plus is Dolby’s new Atmos feature called FlexConnect the answer to setting up multi channel home theater audio?
Starring Tom Merritt, Nicole Lee, Roger Chang, Joe.
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The Information reports Amazon is in talks with Disney to team up on the ESPN streaming service. SwitchBot has introduced an autonomous vacuum/mopper called the SwitchBot S10. And data transfer software MOVEIt suffers from a massive hack. What are the impacts and who’s affected?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Chris Ashley, Len Peralta, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Apple was issued a patent for a digital stone. What exactly is a digital stone? And WB Discovery announced plans to launch CNN Max this Fall. Is this a redux of the aborted CNN Plus or something less ambitious?
Starring Sarah Lane, Robb Dunewood, Charlotte Henry, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Sony has unveiled the PlayStation Portal, a handheld game streaming device. The Indian Space Research Organization or ISRO has made India the first country to land on the south pole of the moon. And why is LinkedIn now the place for people to post updates on?
Starring Tom Merritt, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Joe.
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We reveal details about Microsoft’s conversation with the UK’s competition watchdog about the Microsoft Activision-Blizzard merger. IBM announced it will sell its weather business The Weather Company to private equity firm Francisco Partners. And we have a Pixel Fold roundtable as Tom, Huyen and Shannon share their experiences with Google’s foldable smartphone.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Shannon Morse, Huyen Tue Dao, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Justin has a report on the feasibility of hacking voting machines from DEFCON. We cover the US District Court for the District of Columbia ruling on copyrighting AI generated content. And YouTube issues new policies on AI generated music. Plus the Wall Street Journal’s sources say a full desktop version of Instagram’s Threads could launch early this week.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Microsoft is hosting a "special event" next month, Netflix gets bundled with 5G in India, and X may start requiring ID verification...
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Welcome to TechTV Scrapbook. The podcast that talks to the people and personalities who made the TechTV network possible. On this episode we talk to Jenn Cutter former producer and on-air talent at Call For Help Canada.
Starring Roger Chang, Jenn Cutter
You can follow Jenn on X (Twitter), BlueSky and her jenncutter.com
The Associated Press issues AI guides for the newsroom, New York City bans TikTok on city-owned devices, and Snapchat's AI assistant glitches and posts Stories to users' feeds.
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AI Named This Show is a AI-focused tech show hosted by longtime friends and tech media veterans Tasia Custode and Tristan Jutras. Join the fun each week as Tristan and Tasia wade through the hype and the doomsaying to keep you up to date in the fast-moving world of artificial intelligence.
In this episode many smart folks have claimed that we're now at an inflection point in artificial intelligence, on par with the creation of the World Wide Web. Some people think AI will save the world and others think AI will end it. That’s where we come in!
Starring Tasia Custode and Tristan Jutras
Intel gives up on acquiring Tower Semiconductor, Foxconn begins making the next iPhone in India, and scientists reconstruct a Pink Floyd song from brain recordings.
During Daily Tech News Show's experiment week we're providing DTNS subscribers the Daily Tech Headlines episodes, to keep you up to date.
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The Whitehouse requests to challenge Florida and Texas social media laws, Tesla launches 'Standard Range' Model S and Model X vehicles, and get food delivered to your gate at large US airports...
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A show about life on the internet. That includes social media, memes, viral videos, and everything in between. In this episode we discuss X, the company formerly known as Twitter, as well as its many competitors. Plus we touch briefly on the "Attenzione Pickpocket" lady and the Pinkydoll trend on TikTok.
Starring Nicole Lee and Karissa Bell
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Show Notes:
Elon Musk is rebranding Twitter to X
Twitter's rebrand to X could worsen its legal and financial problems
"The everything app": why Elon Musk wants X to be the WeChat of the west
Is decentralization the future of social media?
Inside Twitter rival's Bluesky first major crisis
Stanford researchers find Mastodon has a massive child abuse material problem
Threads adds chronological feed
"Attenzione pickpocket" vigilante found to have far-right links
A woman on TikTok started talking like a robot for money. Then came the imitators
Apple Watch refresh set for 2024, cord-cutting may no longer be a money-saver, YouTube tests new adblocker block.
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Welcome to TechTV Scrapbook. The podcast that talks to the people and personalities who made the TechTV network possible. On the pilot episode we talk to Kate Botello former host of TechTV's The Screen Savers and Extended Play.
You can follow Kate Botello at Interlochen Public Radio and on X (Twitter).
OnePlus released a social media post showing its upcoming phones working in the rain. Gizmodo recently reported that CNET has apparently deleted thousands of old articles with CNET claiming it's done for SEO purposes while Google responds that its search doesn’t work that way. And Molly shares details of her interview with Matt Rogers, co-founder of Mill the food recycling service.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Molly Wood, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Shannon gives up a wrap-up of all the big news from this year’s Black Hat security conference. We find out why urban drone delivery is not a regular thing yet. And Disney shares its subscriber numbers and new push to make its ad supported service available in more countries.
Starring Sarah Lane, Robb Dunewood, Shannon Morse, Roger Chang, Joe.
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YouTube announced Tuesday that users who disable watch history will no longer see recommendations on the home page. Netflix is doubling down on its gaming offering, including an app to let subscribers play games on their TV. And China continues its clampdown on children’s online time.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Joe.
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We go over Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s big announcements from this year's SIGGRAPH event in LA. Postdoc researcher in ergonomics at USC, Alexis Souchet, details some of the negative issues with VR in a Conversation post. OpenAI announced its GPTBot, that will crawl the web like a search index does and filter out paywall-restricted sources, sources that violate OpenAI policies, sources that gather personally identifiable information.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Joe.
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A team of scientists from several UK universities trained a deep learning model to extract data from a recording of your keyboard clicks. Plus The New York Times reports on a woman in the city of Detroit after a mistaken arrest based on flawed facial recognition. And we delve into the issues brought up in the Verge’s Jennifer Pattison Tuohy article “Why Thread is Matter’s biggest problem right now.”
Starring Tom Merritt, Nica Montford, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Qualcomm, NXP, Nordic, Robert Bosch and Infineon have joined forces to create a company to promote the development of RISC-V. We go over Apple’s latest earnings report. And Google is making it easier to remove your private information from search!
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Chris Ashley, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Warner Brothers Discovery announced quarter ending June 2023 earnings and has lost 1.8 million subscribers across all properties including Max, the newly combined HBOMax and Discovery+ streaming service. France’s AFP news agency is suing Elon Musk’s X platform, aka Twitter, because it isn’t negotiating payment for sharing AFP stories on Twitter. Wired’s Gregory Barber has an article up about the “Local-first” software movement. Local-first has become popular in the developer community, along with the slogan “There is no cloud. There is just someone else’s computer.”
Starring Tom Merritt, Robb Dunewood, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Meta released a tool for AI music generation called AudioCraft, under an MIT open source license. Early results from an ongoing Swedish trial of more than 80,000 women undergoing mammograms show that AI is able to accurately detect 20% more breast cancers from mammograms than traditional screening by radiologists. And Amazon is trialing their grocery delivery from Amazon Fresh to customers without a Prime subscription in a dozen US cities.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Joe.
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We pit the Samsung’s Flip and Fold against the Motorola’s Razr+ foldable phones. Which of these foldable smartphones is better? Plus Adobe, Apple, Autodesk, Nvidia and Pixar formed the Alliance for OpenUSD to promote a standard for interoperable 3D tools and data. Basically. Standard for AR. And Videogameschronicle’s sources say that development kits for the Nintendo’s next console have been delivered to key game studios.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Iyaz Akhtar, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman reports Apple will unveil a standard iPhone 15 model that ditch the old notch for the Dynamic Island design. Plus Apple has officially allowed Twitter to change its name to X, in the App Store. And the U.K. Ministry of Defense mistakenly sent emails meant for U.S. military intelligence to Mali.
Starring Sarah Lane, Megan Morrone, Roger Chang, Joe.
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The first four papers from US 2020 Facebook and Instagram Election Study, setup to see if social media was the root cause of extreme political polarization, has been published. We examine what they found out? We discuss Mark Hill’s Wired article focusing on the social media trend of including strangers in our posts without permission. And we talk to Gene X Hwang about the experience of X taking over his X handle.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Gene X Hwang, Len Peralta, Roger Chang, Joe.
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What is the Calyx Institute and how can people benefit from its work to enable data security and digital privacy. Reuters reports that Tesla has been purposely exaggerating range estimates on its line-up of EVs at full charge. And Meta released its Q2 earnings results, with revenue up 11% YoY to $32B.
Starring Sarah Lane, Robb Dunewood, Patrick Norton, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Samsung announced several new foldable phones, tablets and smart watches. We dive into the details with Android Faithful’s Huyen Tue Dao. Plus to get Twitter’s rebranding to X they needed to buy the Twitter handle from an existing user. And Mastodon hits the big leagues after the FBI seized a suspect’s equipment including a machine being used to troubleshoot a Mastodon instance.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Huyen Tue Dao, Roger Chang, Joe.
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How will Apple’s streaming service benefit from popular soccer star Lionel Messi’s exclusive deal with Major League Soccer? Netflix will replace its downloads tab with “My Netflix” which it describes as a “one-stop shop tailored to you.” Wall Street Journal reports TikTok wants to launch an e-commerce business in the US in early August.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Charlotte Henry, Roger Chang, Joe.
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s is rolling out Worldcoin, a way to provide identity validation with focus on “distinguishing humans from AI online.” We discuss The Verge’s Allison Johnson’s article called “Flip phones are having a moment — and all eyes are on Samsung now.” TikTok entered the microblogging competition, with a new text option alongside photo and video. So at this point is it safe to say that Twitter is no longer focused on this part of its service?
Starring Tom Merritt, Megan Morrone, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang, Joe.
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AI is disrupting a lot of industries but will it also disrupt your paycheck? The Information reports that Meta told Quest Pro suppliers it would not need new components. Is this an early sign that VR is dying? Do couples who engage in “phone snubbing”—the act of cutting off conversations with others IRL using text or messaging instead, have a less fulfilling relationship?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Megan Morrone, Roger Chang, Joe.
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The UK government is looking to update its 2016 Investigatory Powers Act that would require companies to comply immediately if the UK’s Home Office demands technology companies disable security features before shipping them to consumers. Amazon says it’s bringing its Amazon One palm recognition technology to all of its 500 + Whole Foods stores in the US. In Netflix’s latest quarterly earnings, the company saw its second straight quarter of subscriber growth, up 5.9 million worldwide to 238.4 million.
Starring Sarah Lane, Rich Stroffolino, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Why are TikTokers acting like NPCs in a video game? Netflix has removed the basic plan in the U.S. and the U.K. And we have the latest on the soap-opera that is the Microsoft-Activision acquisition.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Joe.
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How can chatbots replace human subjects in scientific research? Microsoft announced details on some new chatbot features coming to Microsoft 365 business users. And are people warming to “Apple’s Most Hated Product.” Apple Maps?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Dr. Niki Ackermans, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Sony agrees to keep all of Duty available for PlayStation for 10 years after the Microsoft Blizzard acquisition closes. A Financial Times report found that the .mil domain used by the US military often gets typo’d as .ml the country code domain for the West African country Mali possible to data leaks. And TechRadar's Christian Guyton cites several users claiming that ChatGPT output quality decreased since switching to OpenAI’s GPT-4 model.
Starring Tom Merritt, Rich Stroffolino, Roger Chang, Joe.
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What's the deal with carmakers signing deals to use Tesla's SuperCharger network? Twitter has begun compensating some of its popular creators with a share of ad revenue from ads served in tweet replies. Will this be enough to turn the company around? And is Dutch ebike maker VanMoof approach to the market a little too smart for its own good?
Starring Sarah Lane, Rich Stroffolino, Bodie Grimm, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Rolls-Royce introduces the first EV in its 150 year history, the Spectre. Tom’s Hardware notes that the IEEE has added the 802.11bb standard for light-based wireless communication. Yep. LI-FI. And Chatbots face a rocky road as new obstacles cloud their advancement.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Tim Stevens, Roger Chang, Joe.
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The Video Game History Foundation and Software Preservation Network claim that 87% of classic video games (that means games released before 2010) in the US are “critically endangered”. What’s being done to preserve these games? Meta announced that open beta for Roblox on the Quest 2 and Quest Pro headsets will launch in the “coming weeks.” Reuters reports that industry sources say Huawei has designed its own 5G chips and is working with China’s SMIC to produce them. SMIC’s N+1 process can make chips with the equivalent performance of 7 nanometer processes.
Starring Tom Merritt, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Thinking about upgrading your PC but not sure where to start? Will Smith is here to give us pointers on your PC upgrade path. A judge has ruled *against* a preliminary injunction to stop Microsoft and Activision-Blizzard from completing their merger. Did Microsoft win? And a Pew Research Center study indicates 59% of US adults surveyed see TikTok as either a major or minor threat to national security.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Will Smith, Roger Chang, Joe.
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The Wall Street Journal’s sources say Google is testing a language model called Med-PaLM 2 with some health care companies, including the Mayo Clinic. Is the start of AI integration into healthcare? We discussed Engadget’s article about NYU Media Lab’s AI & Local News Initiative. And Instagram head Adam Mosseri confirmed that Meta’s Threads app surpassed 100 million accounts since launching on July 5th. Is this the start of a new social media platform comparable to Twitter?
Starring Tom Merritt, Rich Stroffolino, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Can you use a thumbs-up emoji to sign a contract in Canada? Maybe? We explain what went on and what is and isn’t affected. Plus Sega is withholding its big franchise IP from third-party blockchain gaming initiatives. And Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman’s sources say the retail launch for Apple’s Vision Pro headset may involve in-store appointments.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Robb Dunewood, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Instagram launched its new Twitter clone called Threads yesterday. After a full day we dive into the app and what we think. Plus Twitter is still busy looking for a new way to make money. And on Tuesday Federal Judge Terry A. Doughty issued an injunction barring some officials in the White House, CISA, the FBI, and Homeland Security from contacting social media companies about moderation content protected under the Free Speech Clause of the First Amendment to the Constitution.
Starring Sarah Lane, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Instagram is launching a Twitter-like microblogging service called Threads. We explain how it compares and possible issues with it. The Recording Academy announced some changes to who can receive future Grammy Awards with one new rule stating "only human creators" could win. And Vox.com's Sara Morrison has a writeup today asking if the apps being developed should keep older users in mind.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Joe.
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These are the Daily Tech Headlines. DTNS is off for the US Independence day holiday but will return Wednesday July 5th.
Google's privacy policy change is smaller than you might think, the US might restrict how Chinese companies can use cloud services and goodbye Gfycat.
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This year’s summer game announcements were a veritable deluge of new IPs, sequels and spin-offs. Trisha Hershberger is here to give us an expert's eye on what to watch out for. Is Google’s new foldable smartphone compelling enough for people to switch mobile ecosystems? And Valve explains its stance on AI generated content on the service.
Starring Tom Merritt, Rich Stroffolino, Trisha Hershberger, Roger Chang, Joe.
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On Thursday, Google joined Meta in saying it will remove Canadian news from its platforms in response to Bill C-18 aka the Online News Act. In addition Google will end existing deals with Canadian news publishers. ByteDance, owner of TikTok, unveiled the Ripple music creation app that can generate instrumental music based on your humming. And the company’s streaming music app Resso is in talks with dozens of music labels in an attempt to enter new markets. And Molly Wood explains why your right to repair is good for the climate.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Molly Wood, Len Peralta, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Twitter CEO Linda Yaccarino lays out a plan to woo back some advertisers who previously left the platform. Reddit has given closed communities a deadline to reopen, or be in violation of Rule 4 of the code of conduct regarding being Active and Engaged as a moderator. And we explain how gravimetric waves can be used to locate black holes.
Starring Sarah Lane, Rich Stroffolino, Dr. Nicole Ackermans, Roger Chang, Joe.
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SiriusXm is shutting down Stitcher. Users have until August 29th to move to a new podcast listening platform. Business Insider reports that Google recently killed an augmented reality project internally known as "Iris" after several years of work. And Major League Baseball partnered with the biomechanics company Uplift Labs on a system to evaluate prospects using two iPhones and an AI model.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Joe.
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With its high price tag, why is Apple continuing the Mac Pro line when they have the Mac Studio that does most of what it can do for half the price? Will optical electronics be the future of computers as we reach the speed limitations of silicon transistors? And will turbo-charge the amount of junk websites and spam flooding the internet?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Wall Street Journal reports, YouTube began internally testing “Playables” a service for playing games on the platform. Amazon is recruiting small businesses in 23 US states for its Amazon Hub Delivery service, a bid to expand its “last mile” delivery network. And Wired has a report on a working paper published by the National Bureau of Economic Research highlighting the effects of automation on employment numbers
Starring Tom Merritt, Rich Stroffolino, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang, Joe.
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AI is often presented as a danger to democratic societies by undermining trust in institutions and government. But can the reverse also be true? The Canadian Senate passed the “Online News Act” Thursday, sending it for royal assent to become law. What are the repercussions for Google and Meta and how will Canadians actually benefit? And we go over the latest revelations from the FTC’s attempt to block Microsoft from closing its deal to acquire Activision Blizzard.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Owen JJ Stone, Len Peralta, Roger Chang, Joe.
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As Spotify enters its next phase of podcasting what exactly are its plans? Is the European Commission aiming to break up Google? And Google announces integration with Adobe Express with ChromeOS to allow schools to distribute the software more easily to students.
Starring Sarah Lane, Rich Stroffolino, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang, Joe.
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The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) filed a lawsuit against Amazon, alleging the company violated rules by using so-called dark patterns. Electronic Arts CEO Andrew Wilson announced the company will restructure its studios, citing an effort to “empower our creative teams.” And is the metaverse taking off outside of North America? RestofWorld reports that Indonesia’s tvOne broadcast channels have been using a digital reporter called Nadira.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Spotify is planning a pricier new premium subscription tier it has been calling “Supremium” in-house. What’s going on between Meta and Mastodon? And Patrick explains why high-end audio brands are making assistive devices and medical companies are putting out high-end audio.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Patrick Norton, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Google will be shutting down its domain name registrar called Google Domains with Squarespace will take over the business and its assets. We talk about how the Pixel Fold plans to distinguish itself. We talk about the latest events surrounding Reddit’s API price hike.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Rodd Dunewood, Len Peralta, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Epic released a new tool called MetaHuman Animator that captures an actor’s facial performance using an iPhone, that then creates your “MetaHuman” in the Unreal Engine using local GPU hardware within “minutes.” Thursday the US Senate Judiciary Committee is resurfacing The Journalism Competition and Preservation Act, a proposed bill designed to help print and broadcast news outlets in their negotiations with tech giants. Streamlabs released a new podcast editing tool called Podcast Editor. It includes machine-assistance like text-based editing and transcript generation.
Starring Sarah Lane, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang, Joe.
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The European Union’s European Parliament passed a draft law known as the AI Act. This year’s Reuters Institute Digital News Report shows that when it comes to news content, more than ever is being consumed through platforms… such as TikTok… over “legacy” media like newspapers and television. Geoff Keighley’s Summer Game Fest took place last week and set records, so it’s no surprise that the fest officially announced that it will return in June 2024.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Joe.
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The Wall Street Journal’s sources say Netflix is in talks to live-stream its first sporting event. Golf. Played by Formula 1 race car drivers. In Las Vegas. UliDig in the DTNS Discord tipped us off to this story. The University of Iowa’s Driving Safety Research institute has been testing an automated shuttle on rural Iowa roads for the last two years. And DTNS supporter Technomench submitted this story to our subreddit. Sir Paul McCartney told BBC Radio 4’s Today program that artificial intelligence has helped finish production of a ‘final’ Beatles song.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Reddit’s plan to charge for API access has led to a big backlash on the platform with many subreddits switching to private or hidden mode in protest. Apple’s Vision Pro isn’t the only VR/AR news. We take a look at some other developments in the space including VR ebook headset and tools to help creators make AR/VR content. And Iyaz Akhtar shares his review of Motorola's latest foldable handsets the Razr and Razr+.
Starring Tom Merritt, Rich Stroffolino, Iyaz Akhtar, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Independent streaming analytics company Antenna has the results from Netflix’s recent crackdown on password sharing. Chris Ashley shares his advice on towing concerns with the F-150 Lightning. And the California Department of Motor Vehicles issued a permit for Mercedes-Benz’s Drive Pilot driver assistance system, the first automaker with permission to sell a vehicle with a Level 3 autonomous system in the state.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Shannon Morse, Len Peralta, Roger Chang, Joe.
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WhatsApp has a new feature called Channels which enables “private way to follow what matters,” designed so that channel operators can broadcast to people in the conversation one-way. Third-party Reddit app Apollo developer Christian Selig announced Apollo will shut down on June 30 in response to Reddit requiring developers to pay to access its API. And Wired’s Kate Knibbs shares her thoughts on Apple’s Vision Pro in a story titled “This is not a “revolutionary”.
Starring Sarah Lane, Rich Stroffolino, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Automattic launched an AI assistant for WordPress, which integrates easily with all Jetpack-powered sites. Scientists at the University of Cambridge used a publicly available neural network to generate a model to train a computer to cook by watching videos of people cooking. Apple announced a new tool called Game Porting Toolkit that translates DirectX 12 GPU calls to Metal 3 allowing developers to see how well their games run on MacOS before they decide to port it over.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Sean McManus wrote a piece detailing the Circular Drive Initiative ,or CDI, which is trying to reduce this e-waste by reusing hard drives instead of destroying them. Allison, host of the Nosillacast the geek podcast with a slight Apple bias, shares her thoughts on the Apple's Visor Pro AR headset.
Starring Tom Merritt, Rich Stroffolino, Allison Sheridan, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Apple announced a flurry of new products including their much anticipated “Vision Pro” AR/VR headset at this year’s WWDC 2023. We share impressions and analysis of the new headset and whether it's worth the $3499 price tag.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Nica Montford, Terrance Gaines, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Bloomberg’s sources say Amazon is in talks with Verizon, T-Mobile, and Dish about offering discounted cell service at around $10 a month, or possibly even free service to Prime subscribers. Consumer Intelligence Research Partners (CIRP) reports that between 10% and 15% of new iPhone buyers in the US come from Android. Is this a problem for Android? And pinball is making a comeback. What’s behind the resurgence?
Starring Sarah Lane, Rich Stroffolino, Ron Richards, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg posted on Instagram that a Quest 3 VR headset will come out this autumn. A 128 GB version will cost $499.99. BeReal is testing a chat feature available to users in Ireland called RealChat. It lets users send messages, images, and reactions to friends in private whenever they want. Timothy B. Lee of Ars Technica recently published a post arguing that this “death of self-driving cars” is itself greatly exaggerated.
Starring Tom Merritt, Rich Stroffolino, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Twitter plans on expanding its Community Notes feature where volunteer contributors can add context to posts in order to combat misinformation. If the notes are voted as helpful, they show up for all Twitter users. Language learning app Memrise is launching a Discord integration for its Membot and website. At Computex, Nvidia showed off the ability to talk in natural language to NPCs via its Avatar Cloud Engine, or ACE for Games. Is it something game devs will be looking into or is it just a fancy tech demo?
Starring Tom Merritt, Rich Stroffolino, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Joe.
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We check out the latest announcements from the COMPUTEX trade show in Taipei, Taiwan including Nvidia’s trillion dollar valuation. TechCrunch’s Amanda Silberling highlighted a new edtech startup called Antimatter that’s trying to turn this on its head by turning memes into learning tools. And could AI herald the extinction of the human race? Some AI researchers believe so. But what do we think?
Starring Rich Stroffolino, Chris Ashley, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Nvidia demoed its ACE for Games tech to let gamers talk to NPCs with natural language, JioCinema sets a concurrent streaming record, and Mark Gurman gets an early hands on with Meta's Quest 3 headset.
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Rob DeMillo – Chief Technology Officer at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill is here to explain the nuances of digital twins and how they relate to digital models and what's important from a developers point of view. YouTube TV may have the rights to show NFL Sunday Ticket to home users in the US, but if you go to a bar, the games will still come from DirecTV. We explain the licensing rules around this deal.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Rob DeMillo, Roger Chang, Joe.
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US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, issued new guidance on a company’s responsibility to ensure algorithmically driven HR tools don’t deliver results that violate Title VII of the Civil Rights Act. We explain what it all means and its impact. EC for the internal market, Thierry Breton, said it will work with Alphabet to develop voluntary regulations for AI. Sony announced a game streaming handheld, called Project Q. What does it do and what’s the strategy behind it?
Starring Sarah Lane, Rich Stroffolino, Megan Morrone, Roger Chang, Joe.
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We pour over Sony PlayStation’s pre-summer announcements, checkout all the new features in Microsoft’s PowerToy release including running up to four PCs with just a single keyboard and mouse, and we go over the latest news tidbits from Microsoft’s Build event.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Microsoft’s annual Build conference starts today and the Redmond company has announced a number of AI chatbot integrations with Windows and Bing. Plus Waymo announced a multi-year partnership with Uber.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Chris Ashley, Roger Chang, Joe.
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The EU fines Meta a record €1.2B for sending European user data to the US in violation of GDPR. What now for Meta? The Cyberspace Administration of China has warned critical infrastructure operators against buying components from the memory chip maker Micron, citing “relatively serious” cybersecurity risks in its products. And Instagram is planning on releasing a text-based Twitter competitor, codenamed P92 or Barcelona that could arrive as early as June as a separate app.
Starring Tom Merritt, Rich Stroffolino, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang, Joe.
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The Wall Street Journal reports that Apple restricted some of its employees from using generative models at work over concerns about leaks. Barclay’s financial strategists highlighted streaming services were a new source of pressure on the Japanese Yen. Grub Street’s Ezra Marcus has a story called “Cheesier, Saucier, and Drowning in Caviar How TikTok took over the menu.” Is TikTok changing the way restaurants approach presentation?
Starring Tom Merritt, Robb Dunewood, Len Peralta, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Smell-o-vision makes a return, this time in VR? And the SCOTUS issues its ruling on two cases that could affect Section 230. We go over the rulings and what it means. And we discuss the startup Sightful that’s announced the Spacetop device, described as an “augmented reality laptop” which uses AR glasses in place of a real screen.
Starring Sarah Lane, Rich Stroffolino, Dr. Niki Ackermans, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Allison shares her thoughts on Tesla’s latest “full self-driving beta 11”. Amazon announced new Echo devices. And we explore all the product announcements from this year’s Uber GO-GET event.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Allison Sheridan, Roger Chang, Joe.
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We take a look at the new accessibility features Apple previewed today including Personal Voice and Assistive Access. Vancouver based “Sanctuary Cognitive Systems Corporate” announced a bipedal robot called “Phoenix”. And Neil Saunders a senior lecturer in maths at the University of Greenwich has written a piece on The Conversation saying people need to stop anthropomorphizing AI and stop treating it like it’s human.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Iyaz Akhtar, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Pluto TV co-founder Ilya Pozin announced a new TV startup called Telly where they’re giving away 500,000 TVs for free. Each set contains an always-on secondary 9-inch screen beneath its soundbar, which shows a variety of widgets and ads. The Wall Street Journal’s Kate King has a story called “Online-Only Startups Adopt a Bold New Strategy: Opening Actual Shops”. Is the future of online retail in its past? Caryn Marjorie has launched a chatbot version of herself where fans can talk to it for $1 a minute.
Starring Tom Merritt, Rich Stroffolino, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Would you pay more for a generative AI chatbot that could process more user input at time? We discuss how Google’s open-source AI tool allowed a gamer to play the Dreamcast game Rez using only his face. And Twitter’s Elon Musk has chosen NBCUniversal’s head of advertising, Linda Yaccarino to head the social media platform.
Starring Tom Merritt, Chris Ashley, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Is Disney Plus in subscriber free fall? What’s Fairphone’s latest repairable tech for consumers? And is the ROG Ally worth the hype or is it just another minor step in mobile gaming?
Starring Sarah Lane, Rich Stroffolino, Scott Johnson, Amos, Joe.
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Anthropic announces “Constitutional AI” to help train artificial intelligence without the need for human-intensive training, and Google takes the stage to announce new tools, APIs, and LLM innovations.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Shannon Morse, Amos, Joe.
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What is spatial audio and is worth upgrading your entertainment audio setup for it? Plus Amazon launched “Amazon Anywhere”. A service that could let you buy physical goods from within AR, VR and video games. And Ohio State University about an algorithm that can use the signals from multiple low-earth orbit satellites to determine location.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Patrick Norton, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Even as generative AI tools like ChatGPT become normalized the various security, ethical and moral issues surrounding them still grab headlines. IMGUR announced April 19th that it has new terms of service coming into effect May 15th, and it will then remove all “nudity, pornography, & sexually explicit content” from its platform. And Fast Company’s Jesus Diaz posted a story called “From Netflix to HBO, the terrible design of streaming is ruining TV”.
Starring Tom Merritt, Rich Stroffolino, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang, Joe.
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We go through Apple’s quarterly earnings report and analyze what Tim Cook had to say about the company's operations during an interview with CNBC. French developer Vignesh Tarar has created a search tool that will index your pick of websites to create a custom search engine at usegrasp.com. We share our expectations of what will be announced and shown at next week’s Google I/O conference.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Shannon Morse, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Discord is changing how it assigns user names and everybody will have to get a new one. Scientists can’t replicate what you see by scanning your brain. But they’re a step closer to being able to help send impulses to the brain that can replicate visual stimulus. And we dive into Shopify’s Q1 earnings.
Starring Sarah Lane, Rich Stroffolino, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang, Joe.
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We look at a new LLM training technique called semantic decoder where data from scans of a person’s brain activity are fed into the model. As T-Mobile suffers another data breach involving hundreds of customer’s information including social security numbers, pin codes and address we ask why isn’t T-Mobile’s reputation taking a long lasting hit? And Google accounts now support passkeys to replace password and 2FA logins.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Joe.
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We learn about Rediet Abebe, a key black innovator in AI development. Samsung bans generative AI tools like ChatGPT after employees load sensitive data into a prompt. Multiple companies have joined together to propose an industry standard to the IETF for “unauthorized tracking alerts” for Bluetooth trackers like Apple’s Air Tags or Tile’s Trackers. And we go through things you should know about BlueSky.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Nica Montford, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Geoffrey Hinton, 2018 Turing Award winner for his foundational work in AI, recently left Google so he could speak freely about the dangers of AI without negatively impacting Google whom he believes has acted responsibly in its AI roll-out. Is juice jacking a real threat to users of up to date smartphones? And JAMA has a story about the comparison between real physicians and ChatGPT answering patient questions.
Starring Tom Merritt, Rich Stroffolino, Chris Ashley, Roger Chang, Joe.
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We get a RSA Conference wrap-up from David Spark, ask why there's no standardized threat actor naming convention, and Reddit began testing persistent chat channels with 25 volunteer subreddits.
Starring Sarah Lane, Rich Stroffolino, David Spark, Roger Chang, Joe
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How has cloud computing, data centers and generative AI increased the demand for fossil fuel energy instead of reducing it? Chicago’s Human Computer Integration Lab demonstrated a way to give you haptic feedback in VR without anything on the front of your hand. IDC reports that smart phone sales fell 1.6% on the year. That’s the 7th straight quarter that smartphones sales have fallen year over year.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Molly Wood, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang, Amos
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We further explore the fear people have over generative AI tools by taking a look at what AI firms are doing to stoke those fears. While Netflix saw growth in its North American subscriptions for its service the number abroad has dropped. Is it temporary or signs of a more concerning problem? And Microsoft still hopes it can convince the UK Competition and Markets Authority to allow the company to acquire Blizzard Activision.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Nate Lanxon, Roger Chang, Amos
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GM Chair and CEO Mary Barra said the company will stop making the Chevy Bolt EVs with Michigan plants that makes them converting to making electric trucks by 2024. AT&T helps complete the first successful test mobile phone call from Texas to Japan, via an AST SpaceMobile BlueWalker 3 satellite. And does Social Media tires you out and makes you more likely to buy unnecessary things?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Amos
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Canadian musician Grimes Tweeted she would split 50% royalties on any successful AI generated song that used her voice. Is this a sign musicians see generative AI differently that their labels? How is BeReal responding to waning interest in the platform? And with AARP statistics reporting at least 45% of people over the age of 50 still regularly play video games we ask if older gamers are being overlooked?
Starring Tom Merritt, Rich Stroffolino, Scott Johnson, Brian Ibbott, Roger Chang, Joe, Amos
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Humane, a startup founded by two ex-Apple employees, demoed a wearable personal assistant device that doesn’t need to pair with a smartphone. Proton, the Swiss company that created a secure private mail service called Proton Mail has announced a beta of password managers service called Proton Pass. And how are the costs of generative AI stacking for companies developing the technology?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Robb Dunewood, Len Peralta, Roger Chang, Joe.
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We have an excerpt from “A Word with Tom Merritt” where Tom talks with cyber-ethnography researcher and writer, Ruby Justice Thélot, about how people evaluate the veracity or truthfulness of information they find on the internet. And we share internal misgivings from inside Google about the issues with its ChatGPT competitor Bard and its not ready for primetime functionality.
Starring Sarah Lane, Rich Stroffolino, Megan Morrone, Ruby Justice Thélot, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Canadian startup Precision AI has developed an AI crop-spraying drone that can reduce herbicide use by up to 90%. And we look at the big stories coming out of Netflix’s earnings report Tuesday including subscriber growth, password sharing crackdown, and technical issues that stopped the live streaming of Love Is Blind.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Joe.
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How does the decentralized nature of Mastodon make the social media experience different from other social media platforms and what kind of expectations should people have? Amazon Prime Video now has a “Dialogue Boost” in select shows in English. And Nvidia is reaping the rewards of its push towards AI GPGPU designs. Is this a space ripe for a competing player?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Annalee Newitz, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Netflix delayed then canned its live stream for the cast reunion of Love is Blind after running into technical faults. Does this bold ill for Netflix live streaming plans? The New York Times’ reports sources say that Samsung began considering replacing its default Galaxy phone and tablet search engine with Bing back in March. Is this a threat to Google’s mobile strategy? German artist Boris Eldagsen recently caused a ruckus after winning the creative category at the Sony World Photography Awards which he confirmed the piece was a “co-creation” of his image using AI.
Starring Tom Merritt, Rich Stroffolino, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Conversations around ChatGPT always seem to involve job loss. But Jeff Dwoskin proves that’s always true as he shares how he uses the AI tool to simplify his podcast production process. We examine the state of social media platform BeReal. And Spotify is closing down its Wordle like game Heardle.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Jeff Dwoskin, Len Peralta, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Is Nvidia's RTX 4070 worth buying? The latest news on Windows 11 including possible integration with Hololens 2. And Amazon Web Services announced new services targeted at corporate customers wanting to run their own generative AI models.
Starring Rich Stroffolino, Patrick Norton, Roger Chang, Joe, Amos
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Warner Media has changed the name of its HBO Max service to just “Max” with details on news and sports on the service to be announced in a few months time. Game developers in China are using generative AI to create background landscapes more easily. And Stanford University scientists create a Sims-like virtual world RPG with the player characters controlled by the ChatGPT API.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Joe, Amos
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Why is the FTC looking into online review hijacking? The FBI’s Denver field office warns against using public phone charging stations. We look at the best VPN providers. And how do lasers combine with spectrometers to help identify microbes.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Dr. Niki Ackermans, Roger Chang, Joe.
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TSMC will see a 15% drop in revenue as new PC sales slump. Do smartwatches need to have apps to be successful products? And breakdown the spat between Twitter and Substack.
Starring Tom Merritt, Rich Stroffolino, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Tim Stevens to explain what alternative fuels are and how they might be alternative technology to EVs. Cornell Ph.D. student Ruidong Zhang developed sonar glasses to read a person’s face. What are digital twins and how can they be used to help save your life?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Tim Stevens, Len Peralta, Roger Chang, Joe.
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A mayor in Australia is asking for OpenAI to correct false information being given about him by ChatGPT. Multiple US states are passing their own data privacy laws. Will these patchwork of laws actually do anything to help people or just add to a confusion of legal rights and liabilities? And why does it seem that logging off websites is more and more of an impossibility these days?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Tom Henderson at Insider Gaming’s sources say Sony began development on a new PlayStation Handheld codenamed the Q Lite. Is Sony planning a new handheld and is it a strategy that will work better than the Vita? Is Meta’s release of research into computer vision segmentation a play for a future use as an ad delivery model? And Nintendo’s Shigeru Miyamoto signals the company is pulling its Mario franchise away from mobile. Does the company’s existing vision still work in a multi-platform market?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Microsoft announced a Surface Thunderbolt 4 Dock for $299.99 that can support other devices besides the Surface via USB-C. As Spotify cuts their live offering Tidal does the opposite and expands its live music offering. And Google is walking back its decision to put a cap on the number of files a subscriber can have on Google Drive regardless of available space on the account.
Starring Rich Stroffolino, Iyaz Akhtar, Roger Chang, Joe.
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We take a detailed look at Alan Emtage “inventor of the search engine” with Nica Montford. We breakdown GQ’s recent interview with Apple’s CEO, Tim Cook, to draw out what the company’s intentions with AR/VR technology might be. And we explore the predicted impact that AI tools will have on the workplace.
Starring Tom Merritt, Rich Stroffolino, Nica Montford, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Professor Maryanne Garry from the University of Waikato in New Zealand is here to give us a psychological analysis of Large Language Models like ChatGPT. E3 is officially canceled for 2023. What’s behind its cancellation and will the event survive this latest setback?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Professor Maryanne Garry, Roger Chang, Joe.
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BuzzFeed is using AI for full articles, not just quizzes. Microsoft is experimenting ways to monetize Bing chatbot service. How can alternate web browser developers compete on the Apple App Store if they’re all required to use the same WebKit engine?
Starring Sarah Lane, Rich Stroffolino, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Is ByteDance’s Lemon8 a template for a way forward for the company if TikTok is banned in the US? After Ubisoft announced it wouldn’t be attending this year’s E3 and with Sega and Tencent also being no shows, does the tradeshow still have a future? The Future of Life Institute published an open letter asking for a pause in training AI systems more powerful than GPT-4.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Will Smith, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Generative AI is disrupting the professions of writers, artists, coders and now audiobook narrators. We explore this with tech journalist Erin Carson. Plus we take a look at the “RESTRICT Act'' from Senators Mark Warner of Virginia and John Thune of South Dakota. The latest bill designed to curb TikTok in the US. And we explain what’s happening with verified Twitter accounts after Elon Musk’s tweet on Monday.
Starring Tom Merritt, Erin Carson, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Bioengineers at the University of Hiroshima have created a mathematical model of a bat’s echolocation that could be used to develop new active sensing systems. Why has Microsoft informed at least two customers that it will terminate their license to use the Bing search index if they use it to train AI tools? And will software coders be the biggest victims of large scale AI enhanced dev tool adoption?
Starring Tom Merritt, Rich Stroffolino, Blair Bazdarich, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Modular laptop maker Framework is bringing an expansion featuring PCI-Express interface for the module for a GPU or dual SSDs. OpenAI has launched an alpha for plugins for ChatGPT allowing developers to expand the chatbot’s training data by allowing it access to third-party sources, including the web. And would you let a Anime woman in a videogame do your real-life taxes?
Starring Sarah Lane, Rich Stroffolino, Lamarr Wilson, Roger Chang, Joe.
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The Game Developers Conference is happening all this week. Trisha Hershberger is here with the biggest announcement from the event. Plus a spate of YouTubers have had their accounts hacked and taken over by third party actors. Is there something more that Google could do to enhance YouTube account security? And the US Federal Trade Commission issued a notice of proposed rulemaking for a new Click to Cancel rule, which would require businesses to make subscription canceling simpler for consumers.
Starring Sarah Lane, Rich Stroffolino, Trisha Hershberger, Roger Chang, Joe.
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TikTok’s CEO, Shou Chew, will appear before the House Energy and Commerce Committee Thursday to answer questions regarding the service’s data security. What can we expect to hear about from Chew? Plus Ubisoft announced it’s using a tool called Ghostwriter to help its developers write game dialogue.
Starring Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Amazon is shuttering DPReview.com. A premiere site for digital camera reviews for over twenty years. What does it say about the digital camera market? Plus Oppo announced its new flagship phone, the Find X6 Pro. And Microsoft announced it began rolling out its Bing Image Creator to Bing preview testers.
Starring Sarah Lane, Terrance Gaines, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Will Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Digital Chassis dominate the core component that makes up a connected EV’s digital system? A New York Federal court will hear arguments in a lawsuit over the Archive.org’s Open Library program and copyright holders of material used in the program. Will the judgment impact other digital libraries in the future? And Netflix plans to release 40 more games this year, will add Monument Valley in 2024.
Starring Sarah Lane, Rich Stroffolino, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang, Joe.
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The US Federal Communications Commission finalized new rules that will reduce spam calls. The Metaverse may be getting a Second Life. And relieving the chip shortage will take more than just the US Congress providing monetary incentives to establish manufacturing in the country.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Robb Dunewood, Len Peralta, Amos, Joe.
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OpenAI isn’t as capable as you may have feared but is probably smarter than you’re comfortable with. TikTok’s uphill battle against US regulators just got a little steeper with other countries sharing similar concerns and restrictions. And Microsoft outlined its use case for AI in Office during its Reinventing Productivity event.
Starring Sarah Lane, Rich Stroffolino, Justin Robert Young, Amos, Joe.
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OpenAI’s announcement of GPT-4 has created a stir as company’s announce their integration of the AI tool into their services. Drone delivery service Zipline unveiled its latest delivery platform that’s faster and more precise. Bally Sports net TV channels filed for bankruptcy Tuesday. How will this impact the OTT sports viewing?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Disney is asking a federal court to issue Digital Millennium Copyright Act subpoenas to Reddit and Google in order to identify the individuals responsible for leaking dialogue from the “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania” before the movie’s release. Google announces more AI features in Docs and Gmail, and launched API access for its Large Language Model. And how will Amazon’s Project Kuiper compete against Elon Musk’s Starlink to provide satellite to cell phone service.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Patrick Norton, Roger Chang, Joe.
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With the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank last Friday and Signature Bank today, what has regulators concerned about banks with over-exposure to assets in certain tech sectors? The image results from Samsung’s 100x “Space Zoom” feature on its smartphones is accused of being “fake”.
Starring Tom Merritt, Rich Stroffolino, Molly Wood, Chris Ashley, Roger Chang, Joe.
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We explain the usefulness of hardware key authentication devices and why you should be using them. What does the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank mean for the broader health of the tech industry? And what does Meta’s plan for a “standalone decentralized social network” mean?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Shannon Morse, Len Peralta, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Apple is releasing a standalone Apple Music Classical app for iPhone that will offer access to more than 5 million classical music tracks. Alphabet’s drone-delivery company, Wing, has a new system where drones can pick up and deliver assignments without having to return to a home base. And it's 2023 why are floppy disks still being used?
Starring Sarah Lane, Rich Stroffolino, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang, Joe.
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DuckDuckGo is Bringing AI to its search tool but will use a different approach than the one used by Bing. In a Conversation post Associate Professor, Barbara Ribeiro, argues AI will increase the amount of work people will need to do, not reduce it. And the indie mini-game console, the Playdate, is going up in price.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Mastodon instance enough of a draw to add subscribers? Is David Pierce from The Verge right when he states that streaming boxes have failed in their mission in their original promise of being the central hub for home entertainment? And we dig through Counterpoint’s latest list of best selling phones of 2022.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Nicole Lee, Roger Chang, Joe.
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In a world where generative AI and machine learning chatbots occupy centerstage is there still a place and market for more intelligent voice assistants? Dubbing videos on social media from one language to another is big business. Can YouTube compete? Antibiotic resistant bacterial infections are on the rise. Is the solution molecule sized nanobots?
Starring Tom Merritt, Rich Stroffolino, Dr. Nicole Ackermans, Roger Chang, Joe.
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If you’re planning a trip to ends of the earth what should you keep in mind if you’re planning to bring your personal tech with you? With the increase in the number of satellites around the earth issues of radio interference are a growing problem. What are solutions that astronomers are looking to help mitigate the issue? And will a EU law passed last year finally force Apple to open up iMessage?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Allison Sheridan, Len Peralta, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Microsoft adds a three way toggle switch to control the tone of Bing chatbot response. Apple blocks the update of a ChatGPT powered email app over concerns that the app might be age inappropriate. And we talk about how EV infrastructure and EV range influence the adoption of EVs.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Chris Ashley, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Meta shares its 4 year AR/VR hardware roadmap. What does it say and more importantly what can consumers expect in the near future? And the Volkswagen Group is planning to launch an app store for the infotainment system in upcoming car models. We discuss what might be behind the move and will this help or confuse consumers?
Starring Sarah Lane, Rich Stroffolino, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Rod Simmons for the SMRPodcast is here to share his advice on password managers; are they still worth using, how should a secure password manager operate and recommendations. Microsoft releases PhoneLink for iOS and expands PC Game Pass to more markets and updates for Windows 11. Plus will the UK’s proposed C-SAM legislation force encrypted service providers out of Britain?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Rod Simmons, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Mobile World Congress 2023 starts today and we have all the big news from today’s show including new rollables from Lenovo and foldables from Honor, Samsung’s new chip for satellite phone, and new feature announcements from Google for Chrome, ChromeOS and Android.
Starring Tom Merritt, Rich Stroffolino, Robb Dunewood, Roger Chang, Joe.
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We explore the crucial role NASA mathematician, Melba Roy Mouton, had in supporting the US's first space missions. China looks to develop its own version of Starlink's satellite communication network. And when can we expect Apple's mixed reality headset to ship.
Starring Sarah Lane, Nica Montford, Roger Chang, Joe.
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We analyze the US Copyright Office’s rationale for not copyrighting works created from the Midjourney text to image generator. Plus we examine Canada’s Bill C-18 that would enact legislation compelling big tech companies to pay news publishers for linking to their stories. And we discuss Towns, a protocol and a web-based chat app designed to facilitate self-owned, self-governed online communities from the person that brought us Meerkat.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang, Joe.
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We have the latest on Microsoft's allay concerns over its attempted acquisition of Activision Blizzard by expanding its 10-year deal to publish Call of Duty franchise on other platforms. Google is rolling out a new radio feature on YouTube Music letting users select artists on their "stations". And Spotify launches a DJ feature in beta, that curates music with automatically generated spoken commentary about the tracks and artists powered by OpenAI. Plus we breakdown the latest on SCOTUS hearings on cases that could affect Section 230.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, and Roger Chang.
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We learn about Rimac, Croatia’s EV Supercar company, and their latest car, the Nevera. Scientists at Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology have come up with a way to inexpensively remove pollutants in water. And does Apple have an in-built competitive advantage with the Gen Z demographic?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Tim Stevens, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Will Apple’s Major League Soccer deal workout for the tech company as the new season starts? Is Nest co-founder Matt Rogers new startup Mill the answer to household food waste? Plus how can people avoid being manipulated and used by authoritarians on social media?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Len Peralta, Roger Chang, Joe.
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We have a hands-on review of Sony’s next-gen VR offering the PSVR2 with The Verge’s Sean Hollister. YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki steps down from her role. And Tile announces new features to its trackers to stop stalkers from using the technology to follow people.
Starring Sarah Lane, Rich Stroffolino, Scott Johnson, Sean Hollister, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Stephen Wolfram’s , of Wolfram Alpha fame, explains in a recent post on his site explaining how ChatGPT works and why it gives the results it does. How did Elon Musk boost the profile of his posts on Twitter after a disappointing showing during the Super Bowl? And a roundup of the latest AI news.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Are AI assisted web search products still not ready for prime time? The NHL hopes to attract younger viewers by creating an animated version of real-life games they hope appeal to a generation hooked-on TikTok. Plus how Microsoft is responding to the UK Competition and Markets Authority’s concerns about its acquisition of Activision-Blizzard.
Starring Tom Merritt, Rich Stroffolino, Brian Brushwood, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Andrew Heaton explains how he used ChatGPT to create an episode of his The Political Orphanage podcast. And what do trademarks have to do with brain scans? Plus how the Supreme Court of the United States may fundamentally alter the way people interact online.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Andrew Heaton, Roger Chang, Joe.
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AI may be replacing your Fiver editor, Canon is finishing up its RF line-up, and all the new products we're excited about since the start of the year.
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We talk to Scott Johnson, Trisha Hershberger, and Max Scoville about games as a subscription service. Does it work well, is it a legitimate alternative to buying games for serious gamers, how do the different services compare to each other, and will this be how we access games in the future?
Starring Tom Merritt, Scott Johnson, Trisha Hershberger, Max Scoville
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How did Apple manage to avoid laying off staff while other big tech giants like Microsoft, Amazon, Meta and Google let go thousands of employees? Cloudflare thinks it might have the solution to making Mastodon less complicated. And is 1Password’s goal of making its password manager secure by having a passkey only option really address the security issues?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Robb Dunewood, Len Peralta, Roger Chang, Joe.
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We explore how Spotify’s new exclude playlist option might affect your music recommendations. Plus we explain a new DNA analysis tool that helps screen for a variety of illnesses in a single test. And with Disney+ posting losses how are the streaming companies reacting to a changing marketplace?
Starring Tom Merritt, Rich Stroffolino, Brian Brushwood, Roger Chang, Joe.
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their version of the ChatGPT Large Language Model. We explain the latest regarding Microsoft’s acquisition of Blizzard Activision from the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority. And Scott details his experience with the Xbox Game Pass service.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Microsoft took the wraps of their new ChatGPT integrated with their Bing search engine. How does it work and is this the future of web search? Plus what’s the future of the Macintosh in Apple’s product plans?
Starring Tom Merritt, Rich Stroffolino, Patrick Norton, Roger Chang, Joe.
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We cover the latest iPhone and Mac Studio rumors from Mark Gurman. Examine how geopolitical tensions between India and China have influenced TikTok’s ability to work in India and what it says about similar moves in the US. And we explore the rise of the “de-influencer” on TikTok and if its a trend that might catch on.
Starring Tom Merritt, Rich Stroffolino, Iyaz Akhtar, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Municipal broadband internet where the public controls and manages internet infrastructure and services is a controversial topic in the US. We examine how Colorado might provide an example of communities that can build out their own internet services. In light of workforce cuts is Microsoft still committed to the HoloLens 2? And how will Google leverage its AI efforts in light of the company’s recent earnings report.
Starring Tom Merritt, Shannon Morse, Len Peralta, Roger Chang, Joe.
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ChatGPT is now reaching mainstream awareness. What types of startups and operations are building themselves around ChatGPT and is this a watershed point that marks the next era of consumer technology development? Plus why is AMD reducing shipments of its chips to vendors?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang, Joe.
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We go over the highlights of Samsung Galaxy Unpacked event including their new flagship phones. Plus we explain the updated changes in Netflix’s password sharing policy enforcement and the new features rolling out for premium Netflix subscribers.
Starring Tom Merritt, Scott Johnson, Robb Dunewood, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Dr. Nicole Ackermans is here to give us an overview of her time with Haikubox bird song identifier. Plus we go over US moves to block further technology sales to Huawei. And Instagram co-founders Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger a new venture focused with Artifact, a personalized news feed that uses machine learning to serve you content and let you share it with others.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Dr. Niki Ackermans, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Reported ransomware payments in 2022 dropped. Is this due to better security practices by companies, more aggressive law enforcement action or a combination of both? Plus AI text and image generation has grabbed most of the headlines but what about AI generated music? And the latest about Carl Pei’s Nothing phone.
Starring Sarah Lane, Rich Stroffolino, David Spark, Roger Chang, Joe.
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We go over The Wall Street Journal’s analysis of Meta’s business. And scientists at University of Maryland have produced a method of watermarking ChatGPT’s output. Plus have scientists developed a tractor beam?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Lamarr Wilson, Roger Chang, Joe.
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As the Supreme Court of the United States weighs in on the protections afforded by Section 230 to online platforms we review what Section 230 covers and what it was intended to do. Plus we explain how TikTok plans to maintain its operations in the United States and we go over the details of Meta’s move to reinstate former US President Donald Trump’s Facebook account.
Starring Tom Merritt, Rich Stroffolino, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang, Joe.
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9to5’s reviewer noticed that the M2 MacBook Pro’s storage is slower than that in the M1 version it replaces. We breakdown all the big news from Xbox/Bethesda’s first Developer Direct event. And Nvidia Broadcast has a new update appropriately called “Eye Contact” that puts virtual eyes on video hosts so it always looks like they’re looking at the camera. Creepy?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Can ChatGPT help you with your next job application? Is Amazon’s new generic prescription drug service really a deal? And what is LastPass’s parent company, GoTo, saying about a data breach late last year where customers’ encrypted backups were stolen.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Megan Morrone, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Microsoft’s new OpenAI exclusive maybe isn’t so exclusive, podcasts are dead, long live podcasts, and Super Nintendo World is open. Lamar Wilson joined Tom in attendance for the Technical Rehearsal.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Lamarr Wilson, Amos, Joe.
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We go over Netflix’s earning reports and the news that Reed Hastings is stepping down as CEO, how Google might attempt to meet the challenge of ChatGPT on its business, and explain the latest friction between Twitter and third-party apps developers.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Chris Ashley, Len Peralta, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Nature reports scientists disapprove of the use of ChatGPT on research papers as the article points to at least four research papers list ChatGPT as an author. Scientists have grown atom-thin materials on industrial silicon wafers leading to the possibility of even greater semiconductor efficiencies and higher performance. Instagram introduces “Quiet Mode”. A feature that silences notifications, auto-replies to DMs, and lets your contacts know you’re in “quiet Mode.”
Starring Tom Merritt, Rich Stroffolino, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang, Joe.
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TikTok rolls out a ‘state-controlled media’ label that will identify accounts whose content is subject to state influence. Apple announces a second-gen HomePod speaker and Bloomberg Marc Gurman uncovers more details about Apple’s mix reality headset. Plus Mozilla has found a way to keep ad-blockers working within the controversial Manifest V3 or MV3, browser extensions standard.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Apple reveals new M2 Pro and M2 Max SoCs and the Mac models that’ll go into, the UK passes an online safety bill that increases penalties for violation to include jail time, and Microsoft announced Monday that Azure OpenAI Service is available to businesses.
Starring Tom Merritt, Rich Stroffolino, Nica Montford, Roger Chang, Joe.
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CES 2023 was a major showcase for EVs. Bodie Grimm from the Kilowatt EV podcast is here with his favorites from this year’s show. Plus how conflict in Ukraine might spur the development and adoption of high-speed satellite based internet. And the US National Transportation Safety Board chair Jennifer Homendy raises concerns about the growing weight of EVs.
Starring Tom Merritt, Robb Dunewood, Bodie Grimm, Roger Chang, Joe.
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We delve into the latest news regarding FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried and the termination of the naming rights deal between FTX and Miami-Dade County for the sports arena used by the Miami Heat. Explore how CNET is using AI to write many of its articles under the “CNET Money Staff” label. And the POTUS pens an opinion on the threat of big tech poses on the broader society.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang, Joe.
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We explain what exactly caused the FAA to temporarily ground flights across the US. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge is now available for Netflix subscribers on Mobile platforms. And we unpack a recently published study in Nature which concluded disinformation campaigns on Twitter in 2016 had little to no effect.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Joe.
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We explain all the latest TV tech trends from CES, DoNotPay’s Joshua Browder will test out an algorithmic system for defendants in a real-life court setting, and the number of states offering the option of digital license plates grows.
Starring Tom Merritt, Patrick Norton, Robert Heron, Roger Chang, Joe.
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We check in to see if people are still flocking to Mastodon from Twitter. Why are old digicams the latest retro trend with Gen Z? And we follow-up with Rich on his favorite technologies and products from this year’s CES.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Rich Stroffolino, Roger Chang, Joe.
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It’s Friday at CES 2023. We checkout the Archer e-VTOL, RAM’s EV pickup, Samsung’s Bespoke AI Oven, and smart home products from EcoFlow and Eve Systems.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Shannon Morse, Nicole Lee, Roger Chang, Amos, Joe.
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Today is CES 2023 official opening day. We detail Sony’s press event last night, examine all the latest Matter IoT announcements, and on the computing front we cover the latest announcements from AMD and Lenovo. Plus Rich tells us what caught his eye at this year’s show.
Starring Tom Merritt, Rich Stroffolino, Roger Chang, Amos, Joe.
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It's Wednesday Jan 4th at CES 2023. We have all the big and fun announcements from LG, Roku, HP and others; including a new urine scanner, a haptic feedback glove for VR, an aroma player, some new beauty tech from L'Oréal.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Rich Stroffolino, Cherlynn Low, Roger Chang, Amos, Joe.
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CES 2023 starts this week! We check out the big pre-show announcements from Nvidia and Samsung. Plus the on-going saga of Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision-Blizzard continues on in the new year.
Starring Tom Merritt, Iyaz Akhtar, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Happy New Year everyone! 2022 was filled with fun and fact-filled conversations both on DTNS and on Good Day Internet. So we challenged Joe to pick the best conversations we’ve had all year and put them together here for you to enjoy!
We share our prognostications on what we think the tech landscape of 2023 will look like.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Andrea Jones-Rooy, Iyaz Akhtar, Will Smith, Roger Chang
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Welcome to the DTNS Holiday Week 2022 Predictions Results episode. This is where we look back on the predictions we made about technology back in December of 2021 and see how they actually turned out!
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Nica Montford, Shannon Morse, Stephanie Humphrey, Roger Chang
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Welcome to our Holiday Reminisce Episode! On this special episode Sarah, Roger and Tom take a trip down memory lane sharing with you how we all met and the lives we lead working together at TechTV!
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang,
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Welcome to our end of year Listener Co-Host Show. This is the annual episode where we invite several of our long-time supporters to appear alongside us on the show. We talk about our most controversial opinions on tech, should we increase taxes on industries that replace human workers with robots or automation, and where the heck happened to our future filled with flying cars and jetpacks?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Tim Jahr, Anthony Marco, James Thatcher, Roger Chang
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Are continual camera upgrades a good thing, is camera marketing broken, and what camera gear do you bring to big events?
Hosted by Rich Stroffolino and Anthony Lemos
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It’s our last LIVE show for the 2022 year and we’re doing a special Q&A episode. Watch as we answer questions submitted to us from our listeners.
Starring Tom Merritt, Patrick Norton, Len Peralta, Roger Chang, Amos, Joe.
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As the future of Twitter’s remains clouded Mastodon is benefitting with new users including some big players like Mozilla. But is the distributed social media platform capable of being scaled up and managed effectively? Plus is the future of vertical farming at risk from higher energy prices. The New York Times reports that Google issued a Code red over the rise of ChatGPT. Google CEO Sundar Pichai directed teams in Google’s research, trust, and safety division to assist in developing AI prototypes and products.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Robb Dunewood, Roger Chang, Joe.
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a show with her daughter’s girl scout troop and has her removed because her firm is in a legal case with the venue. Problem with the technology or implementation of the technology? NFL Sunday Ticket is going to YouTube. Who’s the real winner here? And will sharing passwords be akin to pirating content in the eyes of UK law enforcement?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Joe.
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As Netflix begins tightening its purse strings and more selective about shows it funds, Paris Marx from “Insider” asks if the Golden Age of video streaming is coming to an end? Big Science is developing the next phase in text generators that’s cheaper to implement. And Lenovo makes an early start on CES announcements.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Terrance Gaines, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Twitter CEO, Elon Musk, posted a Twitter Poll asking people if he should step down. So what exactly is happening at the social media company? When will Apple release an M2 powered Mac Pro? And Apple and NFL have exited a deal for NFL Sunday Ticket. So what happens now?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Iyaz Akhtar, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Dreaming of working abroad while working online? Jennifer Briney from the Congressional Dish Podcast is here to share her advice on being a digital nomad. What’s up with Twitter banning journalists? And why are some street lights looking purple?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Jennifer Briney, Len Peralta, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Embracer Group has acquired Tomb Raider developer Crystal Dynamics. The company also owns the worldwide exclusive rights to elements of The Hobbit and Lord of the rings. We speculate what Embracer Group is up to. The latest Framework modular laptop, that lets you swap out components and ports like a desktop PC, has received positive reviews while Dell continues to tease with its modular laptop concept. The ad-supported tier of Netflix isn’t providing enough of an audience for advertisers. Is this a problem only for Netflix or are other ad-supporter streaming services experiencing this too?
Starring Tom Merritt, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang, Joe.
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PC tester Will Smith is here to explain the upgrades in his latest PC build including what he chose for a GPU. Hybrid work has been touted as the normal. But is the hybrid work experience the same for everyone involved?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Will Smith, Roger Chang, Joe.
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General AI is often presumed to be just around the corner. But is it really and what are we not understanding about what General AI is? And scientists at Lawrence Livermore Labs achieve fusion ignition. The first time a fusion reaction has been able to output more energy than it takes to sustain one.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Dr. Niki Ackermans, Roger Chang, Joe.
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K-Pop is a pop-music sensation. But are catchy beats and staged managed performers ripe for an AI makeover? Plus AI powered Chatbots have been used to impersonate notable figures from history like dead presidents, authors and celebrities. But what if you used it to talk to your younger self? And Lawmakers target incomprehensible EULA terms with the ‘TLDR’ bill.”
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Iyaz Akhtar, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Is space tourism just for the rich and friends of the rich? Or do high-profile and deep-pocketed tycoons hold the promise of space tourism for the masses? Amazon wants to kill the barcode and replace it with something called Multimodal Identification. And we go over Morning Consult’s Fastest Growing Brands of 2022 to see which Tech companies made the list.
Starring Tom Merritt, Shannon Morse, Len Peralta, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Do constant alerts and notifications on your smartphone adversely affect your mental health and work productivity? Would you pay $950 for noise-canceling headphones with a mouth piece that also purifies the air you breathe in? And how is technology shaping the style and scope of popular music that is being created?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Having problems finding a gift for that one person because you don’t know what to get them? KTLA’s Rich DeMuro is here with a list of tech gifts sure to please the recipient. Plus Microsoft announces a deal with Nintendo and Valve to make Call of Duty available for the Switch and Steam for ten years. And The Information’s reports Microsoft wants to develop a new “super app” that would combine shopping, messaging, web search, games and news feeds.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Rich DeMuro, Roger Chang, Joe.
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What’s the problem with a subscription model to “unlock” features on a car you already own? And we examine the Journalism Competition and Preservation Act. A bill that enables news organizations to collectively negotiate with online platforms for increased revenue share. Plus we hear back from listeners who work in the trucking business on our discussion yesterday about the near-term feasibility of autonomous trucking.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, John C. Dvorak, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Two weeks ago we had a discussion with Andrea Jones-Rooy on how the problems that come about because we don’t fully understand how AI Models work. Today we have our follow-up on the same topic focusing on what we could and should do to mitigate the issues surrounding AI generated “answers”. As companies move forward with commercializing algorithmically-generated content, we can now see the initial crop of policy approaches on how to treat it. And how much longer do we need to wait for fully self-driving semi-trucks?
Starring Tom Merritt, Nica Montford, Andrea Jones-Rooy, Roger Chang, Joe.
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The European Commission has ruled airlines can provide in-flight 5G technology on board planes. Kids are purportedly asking for virtual currencies instead of actual currencies as they spend increasingly more in online virtual economies. And why is smart home brand Eufy’s security cameras sending unencrypted images and streamed video to AWS servers when it sells itself as a data privacy minded alternative to Amazon’s offerings?
Starring Tom Merritt, Robb Dunewood, Len Peralta, Roger Chang, Joe.
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We look at all the work still being done with OpenAI’s GPT-3 large language learning model including its spin-offs. And we compare streaming video to all the alternatives and share what could be the best options for you if you want to cut-the-cord and what you should expect.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang, Joe.
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We check out the reviews for the Amazon Scribe and Sarah compares it to her experience with the Remarkable2. Plus Big Jim gives us the details on what’s keeping solar panels and other electronic goods from China delayed at US ports. And Elon’s recent moves at Twitter have people reconsidering their social media options.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, James Thatcher, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Still searching for the perfect tech gift this Holiday season? Nicole Lee here with some smart home ideas perfect for anyone, even the less tech inclined. Plus Sony has launched a motion capture project called Mocopi, and Apple Music, YouTube and Spotify launch their 2022 recap so users can see who they listened to most this year.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Nicole Lee, Roger Chang, Joe.
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EVs are a growing presence on highways and streets. But how should emergency responders treat them when they’re involved in an accident? Bodie Grimm from the Kilowatt EV podcast shares his thoughts. And as the demand for EVs grows, their production is increasingly coming from non-traditional auto-manufacturing countries. Plus Mike Orcutt from the MIT Technology Review believes a sci-fi blockchain game could help create a metaverse that isn’t controlled by just one owner.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Bodie Grimm, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Recent tech layoffs have made big news in recent weeks. But what’s behind the layoff moves and what can workers expect to find as they look for new work? Plus GPU shipments fell 25.1% in Q3 compared to last year. What’s behind the drop? And Meta announced Cicero, an AI that they say can achieve human-level performance in the strategic board game Diplomacy.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Megan Morrone, Roger Chang, Joe.
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As AI gets more sophisticated the scientists who’ve developed them are at a loss on how they exactly work. We ask data scientist Andrea Jones-Rooy to explain what’s going on and what it says about the limitations of AI.
Starring Tom Merritt, Robb Dunewood, Andrea Jones-Rooy, Roger Chang, Joe.
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TV selection has never been better but how do you know you’re getting the best deal? Robert Heron is here with his picks for best Holiday shopping deals on TVs. Plus move over foldable LCD screens and make way for LG’s stretchable displays! And Wired’s Omar L. Gallaga wrote a story called “It’s Time to Make 3D TVs a Thing Again”. Is there a big enough demand for 3D TVs or is it an answer to a question no one asked?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Robert Heron, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Still having trouble figuring out what to get that home theater/audio geek in your life for the Holidays? Patrick is here with his gift picks. We interview well-known video game accessibility consultant Steve Saylor on what goes into making video gaming accessible to those with disabilities. And what’s the latest on the going ons at Twitter.
Starring Sarah Lane, Patrick Norton, Len Peralta, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Pew Research Center released survey data on how teens use and perceive social media. The Verge has an article up about The Browser Company’s Arc browser and their productivity approach to browsing. And we delve into a story about University of Florida computer science professor Juan Gilbert who’s developing an unhackable electronic voting machine.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Alphabet’s Mineral project has partnership with berry grower Driscoll to monitor the condition of its crops. Motherboard has a story on how local libraries are launching their own local streaming music services. And what's the latest on the state of chip supplies.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Shannon gives us the details on MediaTek’s latest flagship SoC. Mastodon, the open source software for people to self-host their own social networks, has garnered increased interest as people look to abandon Twitter. We explain how it works and what you need to do to use it. And as the EU investigates Microsoft’s proposed acquisition of Activision Blizzard eyes fall on the availability of Call of Duty on other platforms.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Shannon Morse, Roger Chang, Joe.
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The Holiday Shopping season is here and Trisha Hershberger has gift ideas to fit any video gaming need and budget. And there’s a trend of folks using dating apps to make platonic relationships and it's giving rise to startups who specialize in connecting people for friendships. Plus Malaysia built a work from home paradise. How has it worked out so far and what can other destinations learn?
Starring Tom Merritt, Rich Stroffolino, Trisha Hershberger, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Sony, Canon, Fuji, and OM-System all release cameras, but where's Nikon? Film is finally growing for real this time. And what's a picture worth?
Hosted by Rich Stroffolino and Anthony Lemos
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Waymo passes another hurdle in California, Airly is monitoring the air we breathe, and what’s really happening with FTX and why does it matter?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Chris Ashley, Amos, Joe.
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AMD’s RDNA 3 powered Radeon RX 7900 XTX and 7900 XT hit the shelves next month. Are they worth waiting for and should you even consider them? Plus Meta is laying off 13% of its workforce or about 11,000 people. Is this a sign of a bigger issue at the social media giant? And Security researchers found evidence that several of Apple’s first-party apps seem to report data even with iPhone analytics turned off.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Will Smith, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Microsoft might be testing the idea of placing ads in the Windows 11 Start Menu. YouTube Shorts– YouTube’s TikTok-like feature– had 1.5 billion users a month who watched 30 billion videos a month as of the beginning of the year according to YouTube product manager Todd Sherman in a Verge story. Is this the future for YouTube? And Wired posted a story “TikTok’s Greatest Asset Isn’t Its Algorithm—It’s Your Phone” by Leo Kim. Is he right? Is this smartphone medium really TikTok’s secret sauce?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Lamarr Wilson, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Apple has plans for Siri from making its activation phrase snappier to integrating it into third-party products. How plausible are the effects of cosmic radiation on our electronics and do we need to pay more attention to it? And Airbnb is planning to make its pricing more transparent to customers so they don’t suffer sticker-shock when they pay the bill.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Iyaz Akhtar, Roger Chang, Joe.
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As demand for new chips slumps will the existing chip shortages turn into a chip glut? How did Reddit grow NFTs right as the broader market for NFTs dropped? And has the streaming service space reached saturation point?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Robb Dunewood, Roger Chang, Joe.
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We talk to Jeri Ellsworth about the kickstarted AR gaming system Tilt Five. Matter gains some steam as the companies formally announce their Matter smart home standard product roadmaps. And Rewind AI announces a software tool that keeps a searchable record of everything you do locally on any Apple Silicon powered Mac.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Sony announces release dates, pricing and full feature set for the PSVR2. Plus Google just put a Lens button to the google.com homepage in the search bar. And we have all the news from Google’s AI event.
Starring Tom Merritt, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Joe.
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We find out how Mercedes-Benz is developing new technologies and protocols to make EVs safer for passengers and first responders. Plus Amazon is opening its full Amazon Music Unlimited catalog in Shuffle Mode to all Prime subscribers at no additional cost. And YouTube announced “Primetime Channels”, a feature that lets viewers subscribe and watch content from over 30 services within the YouTube app.
Starring Tom Merritt, Rich Stroffolino, Tim Stevens, Roger Chang, Joe.
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How is climate change negatively impacting high-performance computing aka super computers and what can be done about it? Plus how did Android users get alerted to an earthquake before it happened? And now that Elon Musk is the owner of Twitter what are the changes that are being announced?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Dr Niki Ackermans, Roger Chang, Joe.
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We go over the week’s big tech earnings reports; with some doing well and others not so well. Will lab grown meat ever be a commercially viable competitor to traditional farm raised meat or plant-based meat alternatives? And how many licenses will creators need to get to fully use Adobe Creative Cloud?
Starring Rich Stroffolino, Nate Lanxon, Roger Chang, Joe.
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The process of transferring funds to buy Twitter by Elon Musk has begun. What will the company look like under Elon’s management? Disney is looking at integrating their theme parks with their Disney plus subscriber data to tailor a more personal experience. And when will drone delivery become a mainstream option?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Can playing video games help kids improve their memory and motor skills? What happened to the GPS over the Dallas-Fort Worth region on Oct 17th? And Twitter has noticed a decrease in heavy Twitter user activity since March of 2020.
Starring Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Shannon shares her hands-on experience with Google's new Pixel 7, Pixel 7 Pro and Pixel Watch. Shutterstock is partnering with Open AI to integrate DALL-E 2. Getty Images wary of the legal implications of selling AI generated images is going another route. With the release of iOS 16.1 and iPadOS 16.1, Apple is revising the App Store guidelines.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Shannon Morse, Roger Chang, Joe.
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YouTube rolls up design and pricing changes. Apple rolls out iPadOS 16.1 a week after introducing new iPads. And how is the US crackdown on the export of semiconductor technology affecting China?
Starring Tom Merritt, Rich Stroffolino, Nica Montford, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Backing up your data is important. But doing it correctly is just as important. Pat tells us what we need to know about keeping our data safe from drive failure. Plus are we losing our interest in technology? And AI company Runway announced a product that will edit video based on written descriptions.
Starring Tom Merritt, Patrick Norton, Len Peralta, Roger Chang, Joe.
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The US NIST and the FTC are working on a basic set of security standards to create at-a-glance security labels, Uber launches a new advertising product called Journey Ads, and how large tech companies are using government regulation to their benefit in India.
Starring Tom Merritt, Lamarr Wilson, Roger Chang, Joe.
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A partly redacted version of a Microsoft filing in the UK says it wants to build an Xbox mobile game store. What would that look like and is this part of its wider cloud gaming plans? Apple has a solution to the compatibility issue between the 10th generation iPad and 1st generation Apple Pencil. And with its reported increase in subscriptions is Netflix doing better than previous forecasts have suggested?
Starring Tom Merritt, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Apple announces an updated iPad and iPad Pro. We explain the benefits of Wi-Fi 6E for users who don’t might not even have devices that can use the updated protocol. And will live-streamed shopping ever happen in the US?
Starring Tom Merritt, Iyaz Akhtar, Dave Hamilton, Roger Chang, Joe.
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How is social media increasing pressure on endangered species and negatively impacting conservation efforts and what can be done about it? Gas is the latest social media app to see increasing popularity on the Apple App Store. The twist? You have to be nice! And news sites are turning GDPR into an opportunity to sell subscriptions.
Starring Tom Merritt, Jenn Cutter, Blair Bazdarich, Roger Chang, Joe.
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While Google gets heat for scrapping high-profile endeavors like Stadia, operations like Google Fiber are quietly bouncing back. The Information has new details on Apple’s alleged upcoming mixed-reality headset. And Wired’s Steven Levy asks if the Metaverse would work better without the VR.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Robb Dunewood, Len Peralta, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Google is building a video chat booth based on the company’s Starline holographic system announced last year at Google I/O. We analyze details from a Verge post about what Mark Zuckerberg thinks “open” means. And Microsoft decides to rebrand Office.
Starring Tom Merritt, Rich Stroffolino, Lamarr Wilson, Roger Chang, Joe.
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We go over all the announcements from Microsoft’ Surface event. Roku announced eight new smart home devices. Lights, cameras, doorbells, and plugs that you can control from the Roku OS. And we share our value rating on Nvidia’s ginormous new RTX 4090 GPU.
Starring Tom Merritt, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Meta announces updates to Metaverse including new features from partners like Microsoft. Plus a new Oculus headset! And Annalee Newitz is here to explain the Blue Economy and how scientists are harnessing ocean waves to generate emission free energy.
Starring Tom Merritt, Annalee Newitz, Roger Chang, Joe.
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TVs are constantly being updated with new features. What should be the minimum set of features your next TV should have before you make a purchase? And look out AI text to image generators! Stability AI, the folks behind the Stable Diffusion text-to-image generator, are backing Harmonai, a tool set that can generate clips of music by training on hundreds of hours of existing songs.
Starring Tom Merritt, Rich Stroffolino, Robert Heron, Len Peralta, Roger Chang, Joe.
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What’s exactly inside the recently passed CHIPS Act and which industries and companies will benefit from it? Plus Google announces its latest phones the Pixel 7 and Pixel 7 Pro. Are they worth upgrading if you already have a Pixel 6 or 6 Pro?
Starring Tom Merritt, Robb Dunewood, Jennifer Briney, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Stanford University scientists work on producing a faster method of 3D printing objects. Plus Facebook is adding “show more” and “show less” buttons below posts in a user’s news feed while it works out how to maintain its user base and relevancy. And we fill you in on the latest news on Elon Musk’s bid to acquire Twitter.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Why did Twitter grant 4,000 plus employees elevated access privileges to user accounts and how does that compare to a competent IT security policy? Sensor Tower reports revenue from Apple’s App Store dipped 5% on the year in September and Google Play revenue fell 8% on the year. Is this simply due to inflation and COL issues and what does it mean for those services moving forward? The European Council approved the Digital Services Act. How will it impact users and service providers?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Rod Simmons , Roger Chang, Joe.
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A New York law is forcing a rethink on bias in AI. What are the practical outcomes of this type of legislation and how do you remove bias in AI? Plus the Supreme Court agrees to hear a case about the liability of platforms from hosting objectionable content.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Andrea Jones-Rooy, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Action cams heat up, cameras start sporting SSDs, and will we soon see a new 35mm point and shoot?
Hosted by Rich Stroffolino and Anthony Lemos
What is spectroscopic x-ray imaging and how is it being used in the medical field? We go over the latest Twitter vs Musk saga? And what should happen to a drone operator when it causes a power outage?
Starring Tom Merritt, Dr. Niki Ackermans, Len Peralta, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Google announces it will close the Stadia game streaming service Jan 2023. Meta introduced its new AI generation tool called Make-A-Video, letting users type in a description of a scene, with the system generating a short video matching that text.
Starring Sarah Lane, Rich Stroffolino, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang, Joe.
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We sift through and analyze all of today’s product announcements from Amazon including a new version of the Kindle that you can write on called Scribe. Character.AI opened a public beta letting visitors create a chat bot based on any character they choose. And we look back at the origins of the humble electric button.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Intel has announced its 13th generation “Raptor Lake” of Core processors. How does it stack up against AMD’s recently announced Zen 4 based Ryzen 7000 series? And how do you prevent images you’ve taken and uploaded to the Internet from being used to train AI?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Patrick Norton, Roger Chang, Joe.
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We look at some of the ways boardgames are integrating apps and smartphones into their gameplay. Plus what are the implications of an artist who copyrighted their work that was created by an image generation AI? And can technology help iconic voices live forever?
Starring Tom Merritt, Rich Stroffolino, Chris Mancini, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Two-Factor Authentication is a step above a simple password for account protection but it isn’t perfect. We dispel some common myths people hold about 2FA. France tries to curb the influence of Amazon on small booksellers in the country by forcing mandatory delivery fees. And is podcasting out of ideas?
Starring Tom Merritt, Shannon Morse, Len Peralta, Roger Chang, Joe.
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ByteDance, the parent company of TikTok, developed a new virtual reality headset called the Pico 4. Can it compete with the incumbent players? A company called Seoul Robotics is developing an autonomous vehicle system that doesn’t put sensors in cars, but inside towers along roads and then broadcasts telemetry data to the car. Is it a viable alternative to the current approach? And we discuss the thesis of the Verge’s Russell Brandom from his article “How platforms turn boring.”
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Google has begun rolling out “Results about you” a feature that lets you remove details about yourself from Google’s search results. The US NTSB has called for alcohol detection systems in cars to prevent impaired driving. Getty Images told The Verge it no longer lets users upload and sell illustrations generated using text-to-image services like DALL-E or Midjourney.
Starring Tom Merritt, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Nvidia unveils its 4000 series of GPUs. Nvidia’s latest chip features improvements in ray-tracing speed and features, DLSS 3.0, and of course a much higher price point. We breakdown what Nvidia has unleashed and what it means for you. Plus we talk to Dr. Kiki Sanford about how brain-computer interfaces work. Plus OpenAI is now allowing AI art generator DALL-E to edit images with human faces, something that was banned due to fears of misuse.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Dr. Kiki Sanford, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Instacart hopes to beat Amazon’s “Just Walk Out Tech” with a “Connected Store” experience that blends existing and new technologies to smooth the in-store shopping experience. Facebook rolls out a Reels API to share from 3rd party apps and BeReal begins monetizing its platform. And the company behind “Deep Nostalgia” tech used by the service MyGenealogy is launching Creative Reality Studio. A service that creates virtual human-like presenters complete with synthesized voice for presentations. Creepy!
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Lamarr Wilson, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Ford’s 2024 gasoline powered Mustang is getting an EV influenced interior including a handbrake that looks suspiciously like a joystick. Why an incomplete Internet of Things “Matter” on launch is still good. And what is “Customers Ask Alexa” and should Alexa users embrace it?
Starring Tom Merritt, Tim Stevens, Roger Chang, Joe.
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IGN’s Max Scoville is here with details on this summer’s biggest video gaming announcements. We go through Backblaze’s 2022 Drive Stats Mid-year Review to see which did better in terms of longevity and reliability; SSDs or HDD. TikTok announced it will launch TikTok Now in the US, which sends a daily prompt at a random time that gives you three minutes to capture a photo or 10-second video using the front and rear cameras.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Max Scoville, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Sony gives journalists some hands-on time with their upcoming next-gen VR headset the PSVR2. A study reveals people are more willing to lie to others when using a laptop vs a smartphone. On September 15th at around 1 AM Eastern time, the Ethereum blockchain will experience “The Merge” where it will switch from proof of work to proof of stake. Why does it matter and will holders of Ethereum notice?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Twitter’s board votes to move forward with Elon Musk Twitter buyout deal. Why is the Apple Card loaded with a higher rate of defaults compared to other credit cards? And The Verge redesigns their site.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Terrance Gaines, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Zoom is rebranding its communication suite to Zoom Teams Chat, Roku updates its offerings including the addition of a new cheaper wireless subwoofer, and Starbucks gets into NFTs with a blockchain based loyalty program called Starbucks Odyssey.
Starring Sarah Lane, Rich Stroffolino, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Why is Doomscrolling bad for your health and how do you stop it? Patreon lets go of their entire security team. And what’s the deal with United’s eVTOL flying taxi service, Eve?
Starring Tom Merritt, Robb Dunewood, Len Peralta, Amos, Joe.
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A KPMG survey shows that a majority of Americans see value in the Metaverse and that it will have a significant impact on their lives. Google rolls out new features right after Apple’s product announcements yesterday. And how a tweet in California might have prevented a statewide blackout.
Starring Sarah Lane, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Apple Sept 2022 Event has announced new Apple Watches, AirPods and the iPhone 14. We break down all the new products and share our thoughts on what we think of them.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Terrance Gaines, Nica Montford, Roger Chang, Joe.
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The European Union wants to make five years of security and three years of OS updates mandatory for all smartphones. A Finnish company works to create a food protein substitute made from fermentation. And why do phone makers insist on introducing new models every year?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Iyaz Akhtar, Roger Chang, Joe.
Link to the Show Notes.
Will you 3D print your next lens? Canon's bottoming out means things are looking up, and is Reddit better than NASA?
Featuring Rich Stroffolino and Anthony Lemos.
Quick Hits:
https://petapixel.com/2022/08/23/dji-mavic-3-pilots-no-longer-need-to-pass-the-european-flight-exam/
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1029705457/newlandcamera-the-rebirth-of-folding-land-cameras
https://petapixel.com/2022/08/08/panasonic-and-leica-to-launch-jointly-developed-mirrorless-camera/
https://www.diyphotography.net/googles-new-nerf-ai-has-learned-to-see-in-the-dark-better-than-any-camera-you-own/
https://www.dpreview.com/news/2107134223/fujifilm-confirms-x-summit-event-in-new-york-city-on-september-8
Top Stories:
https://www.dpreview.com/news/0028150648/this-3d-printed-163mm-f2-5-lens-was-made-for-around-15
https://www.popphoto.com/news/webb-jupiter-photos/
https://www.npr.org/2022/08/22/1118713393/astrophotographers-moon-reddit-image
http://www.dailytechheadlines.com/
Discussion Story:
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The USBIF or USB Implementers Forum have introduced a point upgrade to USB4 called USB4 2.0. What does it offer and do you need new cables? We explain the meaning behind VTuber and why it might be the next big thing in user generated content. And learn how DALL-E has spawned a cottage industry of “professional” prompters who can tailor DALL-E prompts to get you the exact results from DALL-E AI image generation.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Terrance Gaines, Len Peralta, Roger Chang, Joe.
Link to the Show Notes.
Twitter is testing an edit button. Will this feature find its way to all Twitter users in the near future? An artist submits a AI generated art as his own painting at the Colorado State Fair and wins. Backlash ensues. The US Commerce Department put in place new rules on August 26th, that require a license in order to export high end machine learning chips that meet or exceed a certain performance threshold, to Russia, Hong Kong or China.
Starring Tom Merritt, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Wil Harris the CEO of Unbound is here to explain how crowdfunded publishing works. Plus Japan’s digital minister works to dismiss laws requiring the government to submit data on floppy disks and CD-ROM. And we explain how SHŌ Club, San Francisco’s first NFT restaurant works.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Wil Harris, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Twitter is rolling out the Circle, a “close friends” feature, to all users. We take a look at a new Chinese social media app Soul. And California’s legislature passes sweeping new regulations on the way sites operate for minors called California Age-Appropriate Design Code Act, aka AB 2273.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Allison Sheridan, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Can Meta make WhatsApp the Super App of India? Netflix builds out its gaming infrastructure with the addition of gamer handles. And we share the latest info on Apple’s mixed-reality headset.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Rob DeMillo, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Prices for high-end GPUs are dropping below MSRP!? Patrick Norton explains. And we breakdown Twilio’s recent data-breach.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Patrick Norton, Len Peralta, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Why is Amazon shutting down Amazon Care but expanding into other medical businesses? What’s going into Sonos’s next-gen flagship speaker, the Optimo 2? And is the Journalism Competition and Preservation Act the right tool to assuage concerns over large tech companies not paying their fair share for news search results?
Starring Sarah Lane, Rich Stroffolino, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang, Joe.
Link to the Show Notes.
Will gamers warm to Amazon’s Alexa Game Control; an interface which lets gamers use voice commands to perform in-game actions? Can a UCLA developed smart camera that captures only images you tell it capture in the device be key privacy technology in the future? And we take a look at the latest product announcements from Fitbit.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Chris Ashley loves his Ford F-150 Lightning and to make sure it’s topped up and ready to go he needed to install a charger at his home. But how do you do that when you don’t have a garage or driveway? Plus is Google’s CSAM policy too restrictive?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Chris Ashley, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Click & Grow wants to help you grow your own produce, indoors. Zencastr announced some significant new features to let users record and edit 4K video, distribute their shows and monetize them. And MoviePass is still around. What’s the latest from this movie subscription service?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Iyaz Akhtar, Roger Chang, Joe.
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We take a closer look at two zero-day vulnerabilities on the iOS that Apple recently patched, delve into the urban legend of Janet Jackson’s “Rhythm Nation” crashing laptop hard drives, and how well can the TikTok app track you?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Robb Dunewood, Len Peralta, Roger Chang, Joe.
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We explore the timeline of Apple Pay and judge its success. A Swedish car magazine has published the results of a touchscreen vs physical button test. And Nielsen numbers show that streaming video is overtaking traditional broadcast TV in viewership.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang, Joe.
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The UK’s Office of Communications reports, young adults spend more time watching TikTok than broadcast television. We examine how well Netflix’s gaming push is working out, and we check out the story of Nathan Copeland who has spent the past 7 plus years with a brain computer interface, the longest on record.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Shannon Morse is here to give us a round-up of the big news from last week’s DEFCON event in Las Vegas. Spotify is testing audio reactions feature in Vietnam. And will a further glut of chips lead to lower prices for things like GPUs?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Shannon Morse, Roger Chang, Joe.
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How do streaming services plan on dealing with viewers who subscribe, watch and then cancel after they binge watch what they want? What is Apple’s plan for Ad expansion? And TikTok now offers a basic AI image generator built into the app.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Charlotte Henry, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Solar enthusiast Brian Hoffman walks solar-curious Amos through the process, predicaments, and benefits of choosing solar, arming you with the right questions to ask when you decide solar is right for you.
Starring Brian Hoffman and Anthony Lemos
DTNS Moderator Willie Scott covers the biggest news in streaming and some of the gear new streamers should check out when considering what to buy.
Starring Willie Scott
Robb and Rod share their thoughts on this morning's Samsung's Galaxy Unpacked event. The company announced the Galaxy Z Fold 4, the Galaxy Z Flip 4, Galaxy Watch 5, and Galaxy Buds 2 Pro featuring 24-bit wireless audio.
Starring Robb Dunewood and Rod Simmons
Charlotte Henry interviews author and journalist Chris Stokel-Walker about the power of YouTube and TikTok, and what comes next for the platforms.
Starring Charlotte Henry
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BobaTech is a podcast about the Asian-American perspective in tech and new media. In this first episode of BobaTech, Nicole introduces herself, talks about some of the latest news, and chats with long-time friend Eileen Rivera about Asian representation on the internet, Squid Game, K-dramas on Netflix, and more.
Starring Nicole Lee and Eileen Rivera
Last week DeepMind announced it was releasing and making free the expanded database filled with 200 million highly accurate protein structure predictions generated by DeepMind’s AI, AlphaFold. What’s the significance of AlphaFold’s work and how will it help in other areas of research? Plus Amazon plans to buy iRobot and what’s in the cards for Warner Media’s streaming platforms after Discovery’s buyout?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Dr. Niki Ackermans, Roger Chang, Joe.
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How can crab vision help us to see on land and in water? Why are potential podcast guests offering substantial amounts of cash to be on certain podcasts? And we examine how the chip shortage affecting automakers is causing new types of relationships to be made
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Andy Bird the CEO of textbook publisher Pearson believes NFTs could help the company add revenue from the resale of digital textbooks. How the fall of the DSLR is emblematic of a broader shift in the digital photography industry. And NPD Group estimates that spending on video games fell $1.78 billion last quarter, down 13% on the year.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Joe.
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We look at the fine print of the CHIPS and Science Act of 2022. Samsung and iFixit now offer parts and tools for users to self-repair their Galaxy devices. And RISC-V is an open-sourced Instruction Set Architecture. But what does that mean in the world dominated by Arm and x86 chips and is it something to keep an eye out for?
Starring Tom Merritt, John C. Dvorak, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Where is Brain-Computer Interfaces technology currently at how much longer until its mass-market adoption. Is TikTok pushing to expand its role beyond influencing musical tastes? How have recent losses in the tech sector been reflected in large tech companies? And we learn about Dr. Philip Emeagwali contributions to parallel processing used in supercomputing and search engine servers.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Nica Montford, Roger Chang, Joe.
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All the big photography news for the month of July 2022. This episode Nikon says goodbye to DSLRs, big sensors come to phones, and is firmware a beta test?
Hosted by Rich Stroffolino, Anthony Lemos
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What’s keeping author, journalist, and activist, Cory Doctorow, from publishing his books on Audible? Plus with both houses of Congress passing the CHIPs Act and an expected approval from President Biden will the US see a renaissance in domestic chip production? And can battery swapping in EVs be a realistic alternative to long recharging times?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Cory Doctorow, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Why are Snap and Twitter earnings less than stellar earnings this past quarter? We explore the question: is DALL-E's borrowed or stolen? And Twitter is testing status alerts with select users in the US and Australia.
Starring Sarah Lane, Rich Stroffolino, Lamarr Wilson, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Dimitris Giannakis AKA the Modern Vintage Gamer is here to fill us in on FPGAs and their rising role in the retrogaming/classic video gaming scene. Plus do video games have a negative impact on the mental health of players? And we fill you in on the latest Metaverse happenings.
Starring Sarah Lane, Rich Stroffolino, Scott Johnson, Dimitris Giannakis, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Instagram has caused a ruckus after changes to what goes into your main feed have upset some high-profile users of the social media platform. Currently, computers use a fixed method of determining time however the speed of Earth’s rotation is constant, slowing and speeding up over time. Meta wants to change that by coming up with a new way to determine time.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Iyaz Akhtar, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Dropped your iPhone and cracked its screen? What do you do? Go to the Apple store, a cell phone repair place in the local mall or try to fix it yourself? The NFL launches its first in-house streaming service today. Plus is the demand for microchips on the wane?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Terrance Gaines, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Building PCs is a popular pastime for many. But with prices for PC components creeping ever higher is it still worth putting your machine together? Plus two US Senators propose legislation that would prohibit data caps on high-speed broadband. And researchers at UC Berkeley have developed a new accelerated learning technique to get robots on their feet faster.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Justin Robey, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Joel Telling the 3D Printing Nerd is here to share advice on how to get started in 3D printing. Plus Amazon is buying subscription health care provider One Medical. And email provider Gated wants to charge unknown people the ability to email you. Good idea?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Joel Telling, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Quinn Nelson from Snazzy Labs is here with a surprising view. That the M1 MacBook just might be the best gaming laptop on the market. Plus we go over Netflix’s less bad than anticipated earnings report. And OpenAI is expanding access to DALL-E 2.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Quinn Nelson, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Will Smith, formerly of Tested.com, is here to explain how technology has democratized broadcasting. Plus are younger cohorts skipping Google Maps and using TikTok instead when it comes to picking places to eat lunch? And we’ve got updates on the IoT connectivity protocol Thread used by the IoT Matter standard.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Will Smith, Roger Chang, Joe.
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We have Jack Rhysider from Darknet Diaries here to explain how to select stories for his podcast and what he thinks about the state of security reporting. Plus how a piece of open source software got a malicious backdoor installed and is the term hack too negative of term for use in data security?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Jack Rhysider, Roger Chang, Joe.
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We check out recent annoucements in the EV space that are making cars more lifestyle friendly. Shopify has demoed a their version of home/living space scanner to help users visualize how new furniture or additions to their home will look. And we get the latest on Amazon's attempt at drone delivery and what others are doing in the drone delivery space.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Robb Dunewood, Roger Chang, Amos
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How bad is Ring's law enforcement policy, turn any ol' laptop into a Chromebook, and will you use the new Hyundai EV as a home office?
Staring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Lamarr Wilson, Roger Chang, and Amos
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Will Elon’s decision to pull-out of the deal to acquire Twitter mean the two next face each other in court? Are smart thermostats bad for the power grid? And the NY Times reports that Jony Ive’s LoveFrom design firm and Apple have parted ways.
Starring Tom Merritt, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Joe.
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A group of 1000 AI researchers have created a multilingual large language model bigger than GPT-3, the AI model behind DALL-E, that’s completely open. BMW hopes to use a subscription model for optional features in its cars sold in South Korea. And we go over the Bluetooth LE Audio specification.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Iyaz Akhtar, Roger Chang, Joe.
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How well does AI improve the diagnostic capabilities of physicians in breast cancer screening? What exactly is the state of Apple’s car project? And focus a spotlight on Jessica Matthews the founder and CEO of Uncharted Power.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Nica Montford, Roger Chang, Joe.
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E3 announced it will return in 2023, but will there be anyone waiting for them when they do? Plus special edition bundles of God of War Ragnarok set for a November release come with a number of collector items but curiously no actual game disc just a digital code. And the PlayStation Store will remove access to Studiocanal movies purchased by German and Austrian customers next month.
Starring Tom Merritt, Patrick Norton, Trisha Hershberger, Roger Chang, Amos, Joe.
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The price for new video cards have started to fall again. Is now the right time to open your wallet for that GPU upgrade? We discuss new details about Meta’s upcoming mixed-reality headset and what is Twitter’s new CoTweets feature all about?
Starring Tom Merritt, Patrick Norton, Roger Chang, Joe.
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On Tuesday July 5th, CERN restarted its Large Hadron Collider particle accelerator. We explore the new experiments researchers used the particle accelerator for and the results they got. Plus are we headed towards a cryptopocalypse? Advances in quantum computing power have made decryption of previously complex algorithms faster to solve with brute force processing. The NIST has been warning of this day and has out recommendations for quantum resistant encryption.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Dr. Niki Ackermans, Roger Chang, Joe.
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We discuss the data breach of the Shanghai National Police database compromising about 24 terabytes of data on around a billion Chinese residents. Examine the prospects of slowing demand for chips and other semiconductors as sales of PCs and crypto mining hardware soften.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Shannon Morse, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Amazon opens its first micromobility hub in London, TikTok sends a letter to US Senators describing "Project Texas" which it claims will resolve privacy and national security concerns, and IDC finds VR headset shipments up 241% in Q1.
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Can offshore floating windmills to generate electricity be a reality? We try to decipher why a bunch of cruise driverless taxis stopped working blocking a San Francisco street. And the FCC is allowing Starlink to provide internet to moving vehicles.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Patrick Norton, Len Peralta, Roger Chang, Amos, Joe.
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Apple has another policy proposal for allowing third-party payments in iOS apps. To catch you up, Apple is facing various pressures to allow third-party payments for apps in its iOS App Store. YouTube announced new policies to try to fight comment spam and channel imitators. We try to answer the question of why do we still not have waterproof phones?
Starring Tom Merritt, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Snap is now offering a $3.99 a month subscription called Snapchat Plus, with exclusive and early access features. Startup, Oonee, is developing a kit for modular parking pods that can securely store 8 to 80 bicycles at a time. Security experts raise warnings over potential malware aboard container ship systems potentially affecting control of the ship.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Airbnb makes its ban on “all disruptive parties and events” permanent, Lamarr and Tom share their “Just Walk Out” experiences at Whole Foods, and we go over the steps you should take to secure your medical privacy.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Lamarr Wilson, Roger Chang, Joe.
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We share what the Verge thinks about Starlink’s RV satellite internet service, examine the price premium EVs command in the US automarket, and check out all the potential new products coming out from Apple in the near future.
Starring Sarah Lane, Rich Stroffolino, Roger Chang, Joe.
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All the big photography news for the month of June 2022 in under ten minutes.
This episode: Adobe announces photographer-centric updates, is there life left for APS-C cameras, and a new film stock hits the market.
Hosted by Rich Stroffolino and Anthony Lemos
Nothing Phone 1 pre-orders start today, scientists at Imperial College London developed a machine learning algorithm to aid diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease, and Netflix's Ted Sarandos explained at the Cannes Lions advertising festival why Netflix’s future includes ads contrary to the company’s previous stance.
Starring Tom Merritt, Lamarr Wilson, Dr. Niki Ackermans, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Amazon is working on a way for Alexa to mimic the voice of anyone using less than a minute of provided audio for training. Facebook Pay rebranded to Meta Pay and will work to make it an interoperable “wallet for the metaverse” that can manage identities, items, and payment methods across digital worlds.
Starring Sarah Lane, Rich Stroffolino, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Ikea has a new smartphone app that lets you scan and then delete objects in your living rooms to see how their furniture might work in your place. Twitter partnered with Shopify to launch a sales channel app for all US merchants. The people behind the Brave browser have moved their Brave search engine out of beta and we see how well it works.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Meta is expanding its metaverse with new Horizon Worlds experiences. 5G infrastructure is still being rolled but that hasn’t stopped proposals for a new 6G standard. And Chinese commerce are outsourcing bad customer experience judgements to a “crab court”?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Shannon Morse, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Telegram launches a premium tier, Meta will sell you digital designer clothes for your avatars, and TikTok says US user traffic now routes through Oracle Cloud.
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Can you defeat review bombing? Epic Games thinks it has the answer. Do EVs take the fun out of driving? And Roku announced a partnership with Walmart to make TV streaming part of its online shopping experience.
Starring Sarah Lane, Robb Dunewood, Roger Chang, Amos, Joe.
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Inside the Amazon Style store, Ebay's move to live shopping streams, a lot of streaming ads happen when your TV is off, and we solve the disinformation problem.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang, Joe, Amos.
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Google adds a new tool to help YouTube creators fix mistakes and divulges the number of monthly watchers for YouTube Shorts. Steam is coming to the Nreal Light and Air mixed-reality glasses. Plus we explain what DALL-E Mini an AI based tool that generates an image based on user prompts.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Apple gets 10-year contract for all Major League Soccer matches, Adobe makes Photoshop free on the web and Meta now offers a setting to garble the voices of strangers in Horizon Worlds.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Stephanie Humphrey, Roger Chang, Amos, Joe
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Did Google fire a person for defending a sentient AI. Not really but we'll explain why you might have heard that. Plus a car powered with solar panels and do we want free ad-supported books from Spotify? If they're read by a non-sentient AI?
Starring Tom Merritt, Lamarr Wilson, Roger Chang, Joe, Amos
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Solar panels are a popular upgrade for many homeowners. But what are the costs and considerations that someone needs to consider before they take the plunge? We ask our panel to share their experience and expertise with installing solar panels and how much of a difference it's actually made.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Joe Briney, Steve Sheridan, Brian Hoffman
WWDC wasn’t the only big tech conference this week. David Spark shares insights from this year’s RSA IT security conference. Plus researchers find a security flaw in Apple’s M1 chip and we clear the mystery regarding what’s happening to the Insteon servers after Smartlabs shut them down.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, David Spark, Len Peralta, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Meta has plans to pivot Portal away from the consumer market and to the enterprise space. Apple reveals more details about the Apple Pay Later loan service it teased at the beginning of WWDC. And Microsoft announces it will move away from building a dedicated game streaming stick to developing apps on multiple platforms.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang, Joe.
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E3 plans on in-person attendance in 2023 but has that ship already sailed for E3? Plus Microsoft is restructuring its Mixed Reality Group as the landscape for mixed reality glasses continues to shift, and Apple's Passkeys points to a passwordless future.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Joe
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Europe makes USB-C the law, Uber Eats takes on Goldbelly for shipping food across the continent, and Dr. Niki Ackermans tells us about the tech needed to slice up muskox brains for science!
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Dr. Nicole Ackermans, Roger Chang, Joe, Amos.
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WWDCC 2022 kicks off today and Apple kicks it off with a slew of product announcements including the M2 processor, new OS and iPhone updates.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Nica Montford, Terrance Gaines, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Moving to a new place can be a fun experience but moving your 60″ plus TV to that new place is not so much fun. Patrick is here with tips on how to move your TV without breaking it. Plus union elections are coming to Apple stores in Maryland and NYC, and we examine the tech behind over-the-counter molecular Covid tests that give you the accuracy of a PCR test with the speed and convenience of a rapid antigen test.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Patrick Norton, Len Peralta, Roger Chang, Joe.
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How have economic sanctions imposed by the West on Russia for the invasion of Ukraine affected its tech sector? Will Amazon’s new process for buying hard-to-find game consoles really work? And we bring you up to speed on Meta’s new COO.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Tweetdeck’s fate is sealed, Android has spawned a whole new OS, and could notifications use a bi-directional “away” mode?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Amos, Joe.
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Computer vision comes for baseball umpires, what Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion can do for island power, and Microsoft brings blue checkmarks to everyone.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Chris Ashley, Amos, Joe.
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We share insights on selecting a VPN and the results of Allison Sheridan’s work on narrowing down the top VPN services. Microsoft reveals its refocusing away from development of its current iteration of a game streaming device for TVs with a new approach. And is Telegram setting up a paid version of its current service?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Allison Sheridan, Len Peralta, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Sony detailed investors on the future of its Game & Network Services Segment including the future of PS5 and moving beyond the console. Plus the latest in the air taxi developments and ProtonMail’s new unified service offering.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang, Joe.
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A researcher discovers DuckDuckGo’s mobile browser does not block advertising requests from Microsoft scripts on non-Microsoft properties. Seth Green's new show launch is thrown into disarray when a NFT that stars in it was swindle from him in a phishing scheme. And Dyson makes a recruiting ad that shows glimpses of robots doing household chores.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Cybersecurity jobs are in demand right now. So why are companies demanding a level of experience few have leading to almost 400,000 cybersecurity job openings in the US alone? Microsoft brings support for Arm processor based AI to Windows as well as an Arm version of Visual Studio and an Arm based mini-PC. Plus we examine the state of NFTs after the crash in value of crypto currencies recently.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, David Spark, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Is the human race on the edge of extinction? And is technology the reason why humanity’s future existence is so hazy right now?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Erin Carson, Roger Chang, Joe.
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We show you how to score a hard-to-find Raspberry Pi for that project you’ve been planning. Plus Qualcomm is changing fabs from Samsung to TSMC with the Snapdragon 8+ the first result and we explain why LG’s latest CineBeam short-throw projector just might be the bee’s knees.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Patrick Norton, Roger Chang, Joe.
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TikTok has plans to get into gaming by conducting tests in Vietnam, a company has released a new API to make reading any piece of text faster, and we get into the details of a new Senate bill called “The Competition and Transparency in Digital Advertising Act”.
Starring Tom Merritt, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang, Joe.
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MIT researchers develop a way to desalinate seawater into potable water without expensive pumps or filtration systems. We take a look at Acer’s latest OLED offerings. And we explain the stable crash coin and the impact it has on other cryptocurrencies.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Joe.
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With E3 2022 canceled, what will take its place and what announcements can we expect from game devs this summer? Apple announced a number of new accessibility features for iPhone, Apple Watch and Mac laptops. And Ming-chi Kuo says Apple is testing a new e-ink display for use on a foldable device. And researchers have developed malware that will still work when an iPhone is off.
Starring Tom Merritt, Max Scoville, Roger Chang, Joe.
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In an effort to stop falling subscribership Netflix is looking at offering live streaming. Uber Eats is piloting two ways to deliver food autonomously in Los Angeles. And we get some hard numbers of what exactly happened during the Great Resignation and how much of the narrative about people leaving work for better opportunities rings true.
Starring Sarah Lane, Rich Stroffolino, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Machine learning helps researchers identify individuals animals, drones ressed a Canadian forest, spiders hear through their legs, and electric chopsticks help make food taste better.
Hosted by Nicole Ackermans
Story Links
Space:
https://www.theverge.com/2022/4/26/23043042/spacex-crew-4-dragon-falcon-9-launch-watch-live
https://www.theverge.com/2022/4/29/23044697/mars-nasa-ingenuity-helicopter-perseverance-space
Conservation:
https://www.theverge.com/23032327/wildlife-photos-ai-conservation-research
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-27980-y
Drones:
https://www.theverge.com/23022323/drones-wildfire-first-nation-british-columbia
Spiders:
https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2122789119
There’s a new feature for the Alexa app called “Shopping List Savings” which combines in-store purchases with Amazon credits. Is this a worthwhile feature and what are the privacy implications? We take another look at the environmental impact of crypto-mining. And we break down the details on the European Commission, Parliament and EU Council’s Network and Information Security Directive (NIS2 Directive).
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Shannon Morse, Len Peralta, Roger Chang, Amos, Joe
Link to the Show Notes.
We go through the nitty gritty of Texas and Florida laws that aim to prevent social media platforms of a certain size from blocking objectionable posts. Microsoft is looking for ways to validate game discs for play on discless Xbox game consoles. And Meta released a video of Project Cambria, the follow-up Mixed Reality headset to the Quest 2.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang, Joe.
Link to the Show Notes.
We examine and discuss all the developments announced at this year’s Google I/O.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Nicole Lee, Roger Chang, Joe.
Link to the Show Notes.
Apple wants employees to return to the office but a small group of hold-outs doesn’t want to return even in hybrid form. Why is Amazon recruiting mom-and-pop stores to help with delivering packages? And Microsoft is preparing to launch cloud-gaming streaming sticks and pucks over the next 12-months.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Lamarr Wilson, Roger Chang, Joe.
Link to the Show Notes.
Instagram’s Adam Mosseri announced the platform will start testing NFTs with select creators. Can you build an EV without traditional friction brakes? And is Apple finally coming out with AR glasses?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Joe.
Link to the Show Notes.
DTNS Gaming News Monthly brings you the month's biggest gaming news in approximately 15 minutes. Activision Blizzard shareholders approved the $69 billion sale to Microsoft, Epic brings Fortnite back to phones through the Xbox Cloud Gaming service, and the Mario movie gets delayed to 2023.
Hosted by Jenn Cutter
What could you do if the government shutdown or severely restricted access? We expand our understanding of what computer vision is and the role machine learning has in advancing it. We explore the ways people could work around the blocks and get reconnected. How are people backing up Ukraine’s cultural heritage during Russia's assault against the country?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Robb Dunewood, Roger Chang, Joe.
Link to the Show Notes.
What does Bluesky, an open-sourced Twitter offshoot, bring to the social media table? And how are Apple, Google and Microsoft working together to improve web security by ditching passwords?
Starring Tom Merritt, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang, Joe.
Link to the Show Notes.
SoundCloud has acquired Musiio, an audio AI company that can “listen” to new music and identify what makes a hit a hit. GM is partnering with a company called Inrix to collect data from vehicles for US transportation officials to analyze. Protocol has an interview with Beena Ammanath, executive director of the Global Deloitte AI Institute and head of Trustworthy AI and Ethical Tech who has thoughts about bias in AI development.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Joe.
Link to the Show Notes.
Chip shortages aren’t anything new but the lack of ICs is hampering the ability to make chips as the manufacture of the machinery used in chip fabrication is delayed due to the lack of chips. Spotify is making its official appearance in Roblox with Spotify Island. Nica Montford highlights Kunle Olukotun and his key role in advancing multithreaded and parallel processing chip architecture. And Amazon will now be supporting EPUB. But what is EPUB and what makes it important?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Nica Montford, Roger Chang, Joe.
Link to the Show Notes.
The European Commission has sent a formal “Statement of Objections” to Apple with the preliminary view that Apple is abusing its dominant position in the market when it restricts access to NFC chips for contactless payments. What’s the story behind this action and will Apple face similar actions
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Rich Stroffolino, Roger Chang, Joe.
Link to the Show Notes.
All the big photography news for the month of April 2022 in under ten minutes. In this episode Nikon releases a huge firmware update for their flagship cameras, two creators build new ways to utilize old film, and supply constraints hit the film market.
Yuta Ikeya's cinema film project | http://yutaikeya.com/
Hosted by Rich Stroffolino
Is the chip shortage impeding Sony’s ability to produce PS5s and inadvertently helping Xbox? Is software meant to help improve your posture allowing employers to snoop on employees? And tech earnings; who gained, who lost and the broader trends they reveal.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Terrance Gaines, Roger Chang, Joe.
Link to the Show Notes.
Belkin announces a partnership with Wi-Charge to create over-the-air charging products for consumers. Virtual reality company AppliedVR is working with Komodo Health to create a synthetic control group for medical trials. And the negative impacts of remote meetings on brainstorming.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Justin Robert Young, Len Peralta, Roger Chang, Amos, Joe.
Link to the Show Notes.
Apple’s DIY repair service opens today and Patrick has some thoughts on it. Bloomberg reports Twitch is considering proposals to revamp its payment structure. And Ubisoft published a list of 91 games that have had online services and multiplayer features shut off since 2021.
Starring Sarah Lane, Patrick Norton, Roger Chang, Joe.
Link to the Show Notes.
E Ink announced the E Ink Gallery 3 its latest advancement in e-ink technology, Sensor Tower reports the top 100 subscriptions apps in 2021 saw a 41% increase in global revenue, and the BBC reports surgeons at Southmead Hospital in Bristol, England successfully implanted a device into the brain to treat Parkinson’s disease in a patient.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Dr. Kiki Sanford, Roger Chang, Joe.
Link to the Show Notes.
The EU has unveiled companion legislation to the earlier Digital Markets Act called the Digital Services Act. What does it cover and who does it affect? And Twitter agrees to Elon Musk’s buyout offer.
Starring Sarah Lane, Rich Stroffolino, Roger Chang, Joe.
Link to the Show Notes.
The UK’s Department for Transport proposed updates to the Highway Code for people using self-driving vehicles that are registered as self-driving with the government. A judge from The Brazilian state of Goias ruled Apple must pay 5,000 reals (about $1080 dollars) to a customer who complained about not getting a charger with their iPhone. And security firm Mandiant notes that there were 80 zero-day disclosures in 2021, 18 more than than the previous two years combined.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Shannon Morse, Roger Chang, Joe.
Link to the Show Notes.
Allison shares her first hand experience riding in a driverless Waymo vehicle! Plus CNN+ is ending just after a few months of operation, and Amazon has launched Buy With Prime, which lets third-party merchants use Amazon’s shipping and logistics network to fulfill orders on their sites outside of Amazon.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Allison Sheridan, Len Peralta, Roger Chang, Joe.
Link to the Show Notes.
Netflix reports it lost 200,000 subscribers in Q4 of 2021 falling and expects to lose another 2 million this quarter. What’s behind the falling subscribership? Researchers work on a way to generate electricity from solar panels at night. And we examine the buzz around the PlayDate hand-cranked black and white handheld retro-game console.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Joe.
Link to the Show Notes.
Data shows UK subscriptions to streaming services are shrinking. What’s the cause and will adjusted pricing help? U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that LinkedIn cannot stop its competitor hiQ Labs from scraping publicly available data off user pages. The Wall Street Journal reports that the much anticipated shift of consumers to online shopping because of the pandemic didn’t happen.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Nate Lanxon, Roger Chang, Joe.
Link to the Show Notes.
Microsoft is building a program to let brands advertise within free-to-play Xbox games, with ads appearing as early as Q3 2022. Protocol reports that Classroom Technologies is working with Intel to incorporate an algorithm that would attempt to identify what emotions students look like they’re feeling, including bored, distracted or confused. Netflix is developing a show based on the card game “Exploding Kittens”. A mobile game developed along with the show will launch this May, along with two new cards for the game with the show releasing in 2023.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Rich Stroffolino, Amos, Joe.
Link to the Show Notes.
What3Words hopes to revolutionize geolocation but how does it work and what makes it compelling? Twitter creates a poison-pill against a Elon Musk buyout.
Starring Sarah Lane, Rich Stroffolino, Patrick Norton, Roger Chang, Joe.
Link to the Show Notes.
Elon Musk offers to buy Twitter for $43 billion. What does Elon think he’ll gain from the acquisition and will the current Twitter shareholders accept the offer?
Starring Rich Stroffolino, Justin Robert Young, Len Peralta, Roger Chang, Joe.
Link to the Show Notes.
We get more clarity on what Meta’s take will be on digital assets sold on its Horizon Worlds VR platform. Could electrically conductive polymer batteries” be the battery breakthrough industry has been looking for? And we explain Foundation Models and their role in developing the next generation of AI.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Joe.
Link to the Show Notes.
What’s behind the rise of so-called “new collar” jobs? What’s happening in the market for NFTs as overall sales decline? And outside of social media how are algorithms being used.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Chris Ashley, Roger Chang, Joe.
Link to the Show Notes.
Amazon is adding to its custom made clothes your measurements service, Made For You, with athletic shirt options. Netflix rolls out its anticipated Two Thumbs Up user rating system. And Twitter backtracks on its decision to delete block quotes from deleted tweets and CEO Parag Agrawal clarified that Elon Musk declined to join the company’s board of directors.
Starring Sarah Lane, Rich Stroffolino, Roger Chang, Joe.
Link to the Show Notes.
Monthly Science News is here! Our science correspondent Niki goes over the major science stories from March 2022 including CT scans of aquatic dinosaur bones to see how well they might have floated, archeologists using Google AI to restore old inscriptions and text, and how a paralyzed man used a brain-computer interface to communicate with the outside world.
Hosted by Nicole Ackermans
The DFW airport partners with Steer Tech to pilot an automated valet parking. Twitter rolls out several new features. Researchers at Washington State University have developed for neuromorphic computing using honey. During its Austin plant Tesla announced the Cybertruck and the Optimus robot will go on sale in 2023.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang, Joe.
Link to the Show Notes.
Meta is developing in-app tokens for their virtual properties and testing ways NFTs can be used to validate membership in Facebook groups. Nike plans to open a technology center in Atlanta next year. And MLB approves the PitchCom system to let catchers send directions to their pitchers electronically.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Nica Montford , Roger Chang, Joe.
Link to the Show Notes.
Why are TikTok songs so earwormy, how can 3D printing help Sub-Saharan Africa economies leapfrog into manufacturing, and is Twitter planning an edit feature?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Joe.
Link to the Show Notes.
Microsoft made a number of announcements today. We go through the major ones and share our thoughts on what was revealed. Plus Plex rolled out a number of new features they hope will entice more users to their app.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Lamarr Wilson, Roger Chang, Joe.
Link to the Show Notes.
Elon Musk buys a big stake in Twitter. Alphabet’s Wing announces its first on-demand drone delivery service. And we examine the trend of cloning pets and the issues surrounding the practice.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Joe.
Link to the Show Notes.
DTNS Gaming News Monthly brings you the month's biggest gaming news in approximately 15 minutes. Sony announces their three tiers to replace the standard PlayStation Plus, Fortnite creates a Zero Build mode and makes it permanently available, and E3 will return in 2023.
Hosted by Jenn Cutter
Samsung announced a program Thursday to help Samsung Galaxy phone and tablet users repair their own devices. Apple now allows developers of “reader” apps, like Netflix and Spotify, to link to a website for account creation and management. And Bloomberg reports food delivery startups are seeing their shares drop as investors get cold feet about the segment.
Starring Tom Merritt, Robb Dunewood, Roger Chang, Joe.
Link to the Show Notes.
The security firm Bit-defender published a post outlining vulnerabilities in IoT cameras from the company Wyze. We examine how Americans feel about emerging technologies in the field of robotics and AI/Machine Learning. Plus Bloomberg’s sources say Apple, Meta, and possibly Snap provided customer data in mid-2021 to hackers masquerading as law enforcement agencies.
Starring Sarah Lane, Justin Robert Young, Len Peralta, Roger Chang, Joe.
Link to the Show Notes.
How is Facebook’s Media Partner Portal being abused by scammers? Why can’t Ukrainian and Russian game developers can’t access their game receipts on Steam? And is technology to blame for our loneliness.
Starring Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Joe.
Link to the Show Notes.
Sony reveals their game subscription plan formerly code-named “Spartacus.” Several Verizon Wireless and MVNO Visible customers report getting spam texts that appear to come from their own number. And will Europe’s DMA break message encryption?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Jenn Cutter, Roger Chang, Joe.
Link to the Show Notes.
Is there a correlation between social media use and teen life satisfaction? How computer generated deep fakes are being used to create fake LinkedIn profiles. And what plain text internet means for the future of web surfing.
Starring Sarah Lane, Rich Stroffolino, Roger Chang, Joe.
Link to the Show Notes.
TNS producers Anthony Lemos and Rich Stroffolino condense the month's photography news in this seven minute audio show. This episode the Associated Press reviews its NFT policy, Sigma files a massive patent, and film options abound!
Hosted by Anthony Lemos
The European Parliament and European Council agreed on a provisional text of the Digital Markets Act could be approved as law sometime in October. But does the Digital Markets Act actually say and what does it mean for incumbent tech companies and for start ups?
Starring Tom Merritt, Shannon Morse, Roger Chang, Joe.
Link to the Show Notes.
Google announced a pilot program for Google Play app developers called “user billing choice” that will let them offer alternative payment methods alongside Google Play’s own. Research Associate in the Department of Computer Science at University of Oxford, Keri Grieman writes in the Conversation on how to investigate accidents involving robots and how to handle them.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Justin Robert Young, Len Peralta, Roger Chang, Joe.
Link to the Show Notes.
Arizona became the first US state to support driver’s licenses and state IDs in the Apple Watch and iPhone Wallet app. The Next Web posts a write-up on where in the world you can catch an autonomous taxi. And Sony announced a Variable Refresh Rate feature for the PS5 in the “coming months.”
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Joe.
Link to the Show Notes.
The Lapsus$ hackers allege they have hacked Microsoft’s Azure DevOps server containing source code for Bing, Cortana, and various other internal projects. We take a look at the big feature updates in Roku OS 11, and will the latest attempt at smart glasses take off?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Charlotte Henry, Roger Chang, Joe.
Link to the Show Notes.
Zomato announced Zomato Instant, a service offering 10 minute food delivery. DJI announced the M30 Enterprise. With Ip55 weather sealing the new drone can operate in rain, wind, or snow, and in temperatures from -20 to 50 degrees Celsius. And is new social media platform BeReal the anti-Instagram?
Starring Sarah Lane, Rich Stroffolino, Roger Chang, Joe.
Link to the Show Notes.
Do social media companies have a responsibility to their for social ills that might come about from the use of their services? If so, what's the threshold of responsibility? FIDO the authentication alliance dedicated to replacing passwords believes it has found the way to break through user hesitation on ditching passwords. And gadget blogs and tech news sites are gushing over Apple’s Universal Control feature.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Stephanie Humphrey, Roger Chang, Joe.
Link to the Show Notes.
Quick Hits:
https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-parent-sued-over-scam-ads-by-australian-regulator-11647585391?mod=djemalertNEWS
https://www.reuters.com/article/russia-cenbank-sberbank-crypto-currency-idUSL5N2VK540
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/japans-murata-sees-partial-restart-quake-hit-factories-2022-03-18/
https://www.techinasia.com/grab-partner-sharia-loan-malaysia
https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/18/22984479/samsung-galaxy-a73-5g-release-date-news-features-specs-108-megapixel-camera
Top Stories:
https://www.cnet.com/tech/computing/universal-control-from-apple-builds-a-deeper-ios-macos-relationship/
https://9to5mac.com/2022/03/17/universal-contorl-ipad-and-mac-feature/
https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/16/22980566/universal-control-ios-macos-mac-ipad-hands-on
https://www.wired.com/story/fido-alliance-ios-android-password-replacement/
https://9to5mac.com/2022/03/18/passkeys-in-icloud-keychain-fido/
https://media.fidoalliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/How-FIDO-Addresses-a-Full-Range-of-Use-Cases.pdf
https://play.acast.com/s/know-a-little-more/aboutthefidoalliance
https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/18/22984636/dyson-airwrap-2022-beauty-tech-hair-curler
https://www.engadget.com/dyson-airwrap-2022-multi-styler-hair-curler-price-availability-020044717.html
https://www.tiktok.com/@bondenavant/video/7076126028976098606
https://www.tiktok.com/@jewelswithjules/video/7076153613092998443
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coand%C4%83_effect
Discussion Story:
https://www.latimes.com/business/technology/story/2022-03-16/california-bill-would-let-parents-sue-social-media-companies-for-addicting-kids
https://embed.documentcloud.org/documents/21418370-assembly-bill-2408/?embed=1&responsive=0&sidebar=0&title=1
https://www.wsj.com/articles/california-bill-aims-to-make-tech-firms-liable-for-social-media-addiction-in-children-11647382786
https://www.techdirt.com/2022/03/17/california-legislators-introduce-bill-to-blame-internet-companies-for-kids-liking-their-products/
https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/16/tech/senators-kids-social-media/index.html
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6034942/
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1902058116
Kicker:
https://amateurtraveler.com
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Stephanie Humphrey
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@TechLifeSteph
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Amazon closed its acquisition of movie studio MGM Thursday. A coalition of the biggest smart home platforms, Google, Amazon, Apple, Samsung, etc. to work toward interoperability was scheduled to launch this summer,but is being rescheduled for autumn. And Snap launched “Custom Landmarkers” Wednesday. It lets the more than 250,000 lens creators tie experiences to physical locations like stores, sculptures, and other landmarks
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Justin Robert Young, Len Peralta, Roger Chang, Joe.
Link to the Show Notes.
Quick Hits:
https://9to5google.com/2022/03/16/google-io-2022-dates/
https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/17/22978286/samsung-galaxy-a53-5g-price-specs-screen-battery
https://www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/samsungs-galaxy-a33-budget-phone-gets-an-update/#ftag=CAD590a51e
https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2022/03/16/ukraines-zelensky-signs-virtual-assets-bill-into-law-legalizing-crypto/
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/its-official-ryzen-7-5800x3d-is-not-overclockable
https://www.thurrott.com/cloud/web-browsers/microsoft-edge/264405/microsoft-edge-automatic-image-descriptions-screen-readers
Top Stories:
https://variety.com/2022/film/news/amazon-mgm-merger-close-1235207852/
https://www.protocol.com/newsletters/entertainment/mgm-amazon-ads
https://www.protocol.com/entertainment/amazon-acquires-mgm-ad-business
https://dailytechnewsshow.com/2021/10/07/about-matter-with-special-guest-stacey-higginbotham/
https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/17/22982166/matter-smart-home-standard-postponed-fall-2022
https://www.protocol.com/entertainment/snap-custom-landmarkers-geospatial-ar
https://twitter.com/lukehurd/status/1483913095185682434?s=21
Discussion Story:
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/21670811.2022.2031240
Kicker:
https://www.wired.com/story/nasa-finally-rolls-out-its-massive-sls-rocket-with-much-at-stake/
https://www.upi.com/Science_News/2022/03/17/NASA-SLS-Artemis-moon-rocket-rollout/9681647440757/
Mailbag:
Sean the historian in Toronto sent in his thoughts on renting e-Bikes in Toronto. We'll put the full email in the show notes if you want, but here's the summary.
Sean used Zygg, which is $189 CAD/month on a month-to-month plan or $129/month on a 1-year plan as well as seasonal discounted rates. Last autumn he signed up for two months to try it out.
Sean says, "They delivered the bike directly to my home and all repairs and servicing was included in the price of the subscription. I... My commute is 25km. I tried it on a standard bike a couple of times, but it just wasn’t practical for me (too sweaty!). Switching to a pedal-assisted e-bike was the perfect solution for me. I was able to commute regularly to the office (2-3 days a week), arriving in about an hour and relatively sweat free."
And if you're worried about safety Sean added "these bikes are fast, but they aren’t faster than a standard road bike (many of which blew right by me on the way to work each day)."
Thanks Sean!
https://www.ridezygg.com/bikes
Today’s guest:
Len Peralta
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http://lenperaltastore.com
@LenPeralta
Justin Robert Young
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@JustinRYoung
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http://thetechjawn.com
https://www.tildeathdoyoutweet.com
@TechLifeSteph
NFTs are coming to Instagram, says Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, how will a fresh outbreak in China affect the tech supply chain, and we look at the role cryptocurrencies are playing in the Ukraine-Russia conflict.
Starring Tom Merritt, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Amos, Joe.
Link to the Show Notes.
Quick Hits:
https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/uk-launch-in-depth-probe-into-nortonlifelocks-86-bln-deal-with-avast-2022-03-16/
https://www.axios.com/slack-disconnecting-russia-customers-bbac4f2b-37cf-47a9-bfff-66c41337e47f.html
https://www.zdnet.com/article/samsung-ceo-apologises-for-galaxy-s22-app-throttling-controversy/#ftag=RSSbaffb68
https://venturebeat.com/2022/03/16/miso-robotics-partners-with-chipotle-for-tortilla-chip-making-robots/
https://techcrunch.com/2022/03/16/instagram-rolls-out-new-safety-tools-for-parents/
Top Stories:
https://www.engadget.com/mark-zuckerberg-confirms-nf-ts-are-coming-to-instagram-204435805.html
https://www.protocol.com/mark-zuckerberg-metaverse-sxsw
https://www.pcmag.com/news/china-just-shut-down-manufacturing-in-shenzhen-for-a-week
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/03/14/apple-supplier-foxconn-pauses-operations-in-shenzhen-amid-covid-outbreak.html
https://www.reuters.com/technology/apple-supplier-foxconn-q4-profit-beats-estimates-2022-03-16/
https://about.netflix.com/en/news/paying-to-share-netflix-outside-your-household
https://variety.com/2022/digital/news/netflix-subscribers-pay-users-outside-households-1235206575/
https://variety.com/2021/digital/news/netflix-test-password-sharing-verification-1234928544/
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Discussion Story:
https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/why-crypto-is-unlikely-to-be-useful-for-sanctions-dodgers/21808188
https://www.forbes.com/sites/laurashin/2022/02/22/exclusive-austrian-programmer-and-ex-crypto-ceo-likely-stole-11-billion-of-ether/?sh=26e22fd47f58
https://www.wsj.com/articles/justice-department-says-it-seized-3-6-billion-in-stolen-cryptocurrency-exchange-hack-11644339381
Kicker:
https://www.engadget.com/espn-nba-volumetric-video-140012516.html?src=rss
https://www.sportsvideo.org/2022/02/20/live-from-nba-all-star-canon-free-viewpoint-to-make-u-s-broadcast-debut/
Today’s guest:
Scott Johnson
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https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/rockrunners/rock-runners-inc
@scottjohnson
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Len Peralta
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@LenPeralta
Justin Robert Young
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AMD announces new processors, a Parisian electric scooter has come up with a different business model and Allison Sheridan explains why she thinks buying a Mac is about to get more complicated.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Allison Sheridan, Roger Chang, Joe.
Link to the Show Notes.
Quick Hits:
https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/15/22978889/arm-nvidia-deal-job-cuts?scrolla=5eb6d68b7fedc32c19ef33b4
https://www.engadget.com/microsoft-directstorage-windows-pc-113503431.html
https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/15/22979251/microsoft-file-explorer-ads-windows-11-testing
https://www.engadget.com/samsung-one-ui-4-1-galaxy-s21-s20-z-fold-flip-3-131533375.html
https://techcrunch.com/2022/03/15/intel-plans-to-build-a-19-billion-chip-plant-in-germany/
https://wccftech.com/intel-first-alchemist-discrete-gpu-arc-a370m-graphics-confirmed-30th-march-launch-2x-performance/
https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/15/22978719/google-stadia-cloud-gaming-free-trial?scrolla=5eb6d68b7fedc32c19ef33b4
Top Stories:
https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/15/22978087/amd-ryzen-7-5800x3d-processor-price-release-date-stacking-v-cache?scrolla=5eb6d68b7fedc32c19ef33b4
https://www.anandtech.com/show/17313/ryzen-7-5800x3d-launches-april-20th-plus-6-new-low-mid-range-ryzen-chips
https://www.xda-developers.com/amd-ryzen-7-5800x3d-announced-new-cpus/
https://techcrunch.com/2022/03/14/motto-to-launch-a-new-electric-bike-subscription-service-in-paris/
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Discussion Story:
https://www.podfeet.com/blog/2022/03/m1-family-2022-03/
https://www.podfeet.com/blog/2022/03/apple-computer-history-diagram/
https://mactracker.ca
Kicker:
https://www.cnet.com/culture/saddle-up-sci-fi-cowboys-kawasaki-has-a-rideable-robotic-goat/#ftag=CAD590a51e
Mailbag:
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/discovery-plus-hbo-max-bundled-warnermedia-merger-streaming-1235107837/
Today’s guest:
Allison Sheridan
http://podfeet.com
@Podfeet
https://folge.me
I'd like to highlight a Ukranian developer named Oleksii Sribnya. His app Folge helps you create tutorial guides on Mac or Windows with screenshots, annotatoins and text explanations. It has seven different export formats too. Check it out at folge.me
Next guest:
Scott Johnson
http://frogpants.com
https://frogpants.substack.com
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/rockrunners/rock-runners-inc
@scottjohnson
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Automotive News reports Ford will sell some Ford Explorer vehicles without chips for rear seat climate controls, Discovery’s board approved a merger with Warner Media, and figures from the RIAA show vinyl and CD sales increased in 2021 for the first time since 2004.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Joe.
Link to the Show Notes.
Quick Hits:
https://www.wsj.com/articles/tencent-faces-possible-record-fine-for-anti-money-laundering-violations-11647242561?mod=djemalertNEWS
https://techcrunch.com/2022/03/14/paytm-payments-bank-2/
https://news.yahoo.com/foxconn-suspends-iphone-factories-shenzhen-093000709.html
https://9to5mac.com/2022/03/13/kuo-a16-iphone-14-pro-models/
https://9to5mac.com/2022/03/11/exclusive-apple-currently-has-no-plans-to-release-a-new-larger-screen-imac/
https://www.engadget.com/russia-bans-instagram-130215448.html?src=rss
https://www.reuters.com/technology/meta-narrows-guidance-restrict-calls-death-head-state-2022-03-14/
Top Stories:
https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/13/22975246/ford-ship-sell-incomplete-vehicles-missing-chips
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/ford-announces-ev-production-profit-150537152.html
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/discovery-plus-hbo-max-bundled-warnermedia-merger-streaming-1235107837/
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/03/google-hijacked-millions-of-customers-and-orders-from-restaurants-lawsuit-says/
https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/23/18636836/google-search-maps-assistant-food-orders-delivery-pickup-doordash-postmates-slice-chownow
https://food.google.com/chooseprovider?restaurantId=/g/1th7n4l2&g2lbs=AGgkzMwUQfshfVyHBtVpqw06a6UNdRqxl9IgESJYOCuHuhth0SDgD4dIfkCtnknxqmsrqCJpL31A7prsrTla7HKSxBTwFL24RA%3D%3D&hl=en-US&gl=us&cs=1&ssta=1&fo_m=MfohQo559jFvMWwP9igWZeWQMczq7voErUdXMT_RFPQ05bfKMQVr5-7IofUJMU_hT8vrWuwRMUv3d8yCO4PgMUOzJVpjPL1YMfaXTPp5KXh-OAE%3D&gei=SYAvYtPpH5SdkPIPtOy0uAY&fo_s=OA,AH&sei=CQcfnnR7h_GrEf-M3gWGxHAW&utm_campaign&utm_source=search
Discussion Stories:
https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/14/22976557/cd-sales-increase-2021-recording-industry-association-of-america
https://www.axios.com/cd-sales-grow-for-first-time-since-2004-0745a5ce-a2f3-4ed3-8b1e-14b20f0b218e.html
https://www.snopes.com/news/2021/03/22/cassette-sales-have-doubled-during-the-pandemic-heres-why/
Kicker:
https://www.engadget.com/samsung-galaxy-z-fold-2-star-trek-picard-225629648.html?src=rss
Mailbag:
https://shokz.com/
Next guest:
Allison Sheridan
http://podfeet.com
@Podfeet
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Monthly Science News is here! Our science correspondent @AckermansNicole goes over the major science stories from February 2022 including; fish fossils that explain why some species survived the asteroid extinction event, how tech affects climate change, scientists using ultrasound to save a species from extinction, and AR mammoths.
hosted by Nicole Ackermans
Sources:
Fish fossil asteroid:
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1817407116
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-022-04446-1
Vaccine copies:
Mollusk ultrasound:
https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2022.784481
AR mammoths:
Has the GPU market stabilized and is it safe to get one right now? Patrick Norton has the details. Plus ByteDance might avoid having to divest itself of TikTok in the US. And updates on how the Russo-Ukraine war is affecting the tech industry.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Patrick Norton, Roger Chang, Joe.
Link to the Show Notes.
Google announced a load of new features for a number of products including Messages, Assistant, Gboard, Live Transcribe, Google One, and Google TV. Magic Leap announces cuts in staff and CNET gets hands on with the Magic Leap 2. SubStack released a reader for iOS and started a waitlist for Android Users.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Justin Robert Young, Len Peralta, Roger Chang, Joe.
Link to the Show Notes.
Twitter launched a Tor compatible version of its website to get around blocks and filters. Snapchat records big growth in India. Alienware ships the first QD-OLED screen in a 34″ curved gaming monitor package. And Apple’s iPhone takes all the top spots for best selling smartphone in 2021.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Joe.
Link to the Show Notes.
Apple has announced an updated iPhone SE, iPad Air, New Mac line and a new M1 chip!
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Terrance Gaines, Nica Montford, Roger Chang, Joe.
Link to the Show Notes.
Political podcasts need an enormous amount of material in order to provide a complete view of the political landscape. Jennifer Briney from the Congressional Dish podcast is here to detail the technology she uses to collect, research and collate resources for her show.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Jennifer Briney, Roger Chang, Joe.
Link to the Show Notes.
DTNS Gaming News Monthly brings you the month's biggest gaming news in approximately 15 minutes. Sony reportedly redoing PlayStation Plus into multiple tiers, Valve released a tool for testing game compatibility with Steam Deck, Forza Horizon 5 adds cinematic sign language options, and Nintendo Switch Sports brings back the joy of Wii Sports.
Hosted by Jenn Cutter
Disney Plus announced its launching an ad-supported version of its service. Apple, Google, Microsoft and Mozilla are working together on Interop 2022 which will “improve the experience of developing for the web in 15 key areas. And we look at several more ways the war in Ukraine is affecting the technology world, including chips and internet operations.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Robb Dunewood, Roger Chang, Joe.
Link to the Show Notes.
After a long hiatus, HTC is coming out with a new flagship phone. Silicon Valley startup Cana has introduced a new appliance that lets you make a wide variety of beverages from tea to coffee to mimosas. And Android Authority reports that Samsung phones might be throttling application speeds to save on battery life.
Starring Tom Merritt, Chris Ashley, Len Peralta, Roger Chang, Joe.
Link to Show Notes.
We look at how the Ukrainian tech startup scene is faring in during Russia’s invasion, Epic Games agrees to acquire Bandcamp, and scientists want to bring back the Tasmanian Tiger, a carnivorous marsupial that went extinct in the early 1900s.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Joe.
Link to the Show Notes.
Amazon is opening up its Luna game streaming service to all US users, Alphabet Wing’s reaches 200,000 deliveries, and a company called Thermacell has launched a mosquito repellent system called Liv.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Lamarr Wilson, Roger Chang, Joe.
Link to the Show Notes.
Mobile World Congress has kicked off and we take a look at the big announcements. Plus we explain what exactly the S.W.I.F.T. network actually does and why it matters in the current geopolitical context.
Starring Sarah Lane, Rich Stroffolino, Roger Chang, Joe.
Link to the Show Notes.
DTNS producers Anthony Lemos and Rich Stroffolino condense the month's photography news in this seven minute audio show. This episode we cover new micro four thirds offerings, end-of-life lenses, new film offerings, and an artist that is using Artificial Intelligence to create life-like portraits of animated characters.
Hosted by Anthony Lemos
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As the Ukraine conflict reaches a new tempo hackers have become a critical part of the defense of the country. The government of Ukraine is calling on hackers to help protect critical infrastructure and spy on Russian troops. Meanwhile Chris Krebs, former CISA Director, has tweeted that the Conti Ransomware gang has pledged to strike back against anyone who attacks Russia, basically confirming their allegiance with Russia, while US and European cybersecurity and tech companies have actively started to support Ukraine in various ways.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Shannon Morse, Roger Chang, Joe
Link to the Show Notes.
As the Russian military invades Ukraine, tracking down a reliable credible source for information can be difficult. We share our sources for news and information regarding the conflict and we use them.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang, Joe
Link to the Show Notes.
Nintendo has caused an uproar amongst video gaming fans with the removal of key 3DS and DS titles from the eShop. Many fear that the ability to access older titles will be limited and even extinguished as Nintendo actively prevents its oldest titles from going into the public domain.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Joe.
Link to the Show Notes.
We get an in-depth look at DAOs or Decentralized Autonomous Organizations; what they do, how they work and their purpose with crypto journalist and “The Cryptopians” author Laura Shin.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Laura Shin, Roger Chang, Joe.
Link to the Show Notes.
The Trump Media and Technology Group publishes the social-media app Truth Social in the US App Store, Taiwan's semiconductor industry job vacancies increased 77% since 2020, and Google finds Linux patches bugs the fastest.
Get the show notes here.
The economic and civil disruption caused by the Canadian Trucker protests has caused counter-protesters to strike back with some hacking their way into the protests support network. Is hacktivism an effective form or protest or just a feel good activity?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Annalee Newitz, Roger Chang, Joe
Link to the Show Notes.
Where can users of assistive medical technologies go when their devices are no longer supported or become orphaned? We explain why some websites break when using an up-to-date web browser. And what does an investigative filing into the origins of an FBI Russia probe have to do with DNS?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang, Joe.
Link to the Show Notes.
Cinemarket is launching Cineverse, a start-up that will enable filmmakers, distributors and producers to market films directly using blockchain and NFT tech. To combat sexual harassment issues is making several changes to its AltSpace VR app. Will these affect the changes necessary to cut down on harassment? And we examine if NFT counterfeiting really is an issue.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Joe.
Link to the Show Notes.
Trisha Hershberger is here with details on Corsair’s product announcement, Motorola and Verizon developed a 5G neckband to move the bulky processor, communication chips and power supply off AR glasses, and Google has launched a new version of the Chrome OS called the Flex designed for to run on old Macs and PCs!
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Trisha Hershberger, Roger Chang, Joe.
Link to the Show Notes.
With the recent controversy over Spotify and declarations by musicians to move off the platform we take a look at the current landscape of streaming audio. And we look at the burgeoning tech space in real estate.
Starring Tom Merritt, Rich Stroffolino, Roger Chang, Joe.
Link to the Show Notes.
Monthly Science News is here! Our science correspondent @AckermansNicole goes over the major science stories from January, including a genetically modified pig heart transplant, the Tongan volcanic eruption and how to regrow frog legs.
Hosted by Nicole Ackermans
US Senators Ron Wyden and Martin Heinrich requested the CIA declassify a surveillance program to see how the records of US citizens were handled in the surveillance program believing the program is operating “outside the statutory framework.” MoviePass is back in the subscription movie tickets game and we examine their updated business case. And we talk about the real world impact 5G will have on commercial aviation in the US with an actively working airline pilot.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Nate Lanxon, Brian Hoffman, Roger Chang, Joe
Link to The Show Notes.
The US government details how it will spend $7.5 billion on a national network for EV charging stations. We talk about other ways NFTs can be used outside of being just collectibles, and Linkedin is letting users remove political discussions from your feed.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Justin Robert Young, Len Peralta, Roger Chang, Joe
Link to the Show Notes.
We cover all the big announcements from this year’s Samsung Unpacked event, examine Microsoft president Brad Smith’s comments about the pending acquisition of Activision Blizzard, and parse out news from Bloomberg regarding Apple’s rOS.
Starring Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Nicole Ackermans, Roger Chang, Joe
Link to the Show Notes.
Softbank announced the deal with Nvidia to buy Arm is cancelled. Apple has officially announced a new Tap to Pay feature for iPhone. Popular comedian Leslie Jones tweets about the 2022 Olympics have been blocked and taken down causing her to give up tweeting about the Olympics.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Robb Dunewood, Roger Chang, Joe.
Link to the Show Notes.
Why is Google demoting its Stadia project? And is Meta expecting its earnings to take another dip?
Starring Sarah Lane, Rich Stroffolino, Roger Chang, Joe.
Link to the Show Notes.
In this final episode in the Scientists In Tech min-series Niki interviews Dr. Georgi Trenchev is a physicist and engineer with a passion for innovation and future tech. He specializes in plasma physics, fluid dynamics, and carbon capture and utilization (CCU). In 2021, he co-founded the startup D-CRBN, which will bring the innovative plasma technology to the field of carbon reduction.
Hosted by Nicole Ackermans
Patrick Norton is back with a sobering look at the state of affordable GPUs. We look at Amazon’s earnings for Q1 and how will Apple respond when alternative payments cannot be blocked from the Apple Store?
Starring Tom Merritt, Patrick Norton, Roger Chang, Joe.
Link to Show Notes.
What did Microsoft plan for a HoloLens 3? Meta’s stock taking a pounding, and how the rich and powerful launder their past activities off the internet using a combination of copyright claims, GDPR violation accusations, right to be forgotten laws, and sometimes fake legal notices.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Justin Robert Young, Len Peralta, Roger Chang, Joe
Link to the Show Notes.
Sony’s purchase of Bungie has raises the questions about the company’s future gaming plans and more importantly what it means for video gamers when it comes to exclusives and access.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Joe.
Link to the Show Notes.
We examine the NY Times motivation to acquire popular word puzzle game Wordle, why Yahoo Japan is shutting down in Europe and Nica Montford is back with this month’s Teching While Black segment.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Nica Montford , Roger Chang, Joe.
Link to the Show Notes.
After Neil Young and Joni Mitchell pulled their music from Spotify the streaming company has released the rules and policies regarding dangerous, deceptive, sensitive, and illegal content. Sony buys Bungie in possible countermove to news of Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision last week.
Starring Sarah Lane, Rich Stroffolino, Roger Chang, Joe.
Link to the Show Notes.
DTNS producers Anthony Lemos and Rich Stroffolino condense the month's photography news in this seven minute audio show.
This episode Canon releases a hybrid mirrorless, the Associated Press dips into NFTs, and Nikon reaches for your wallet.
Hosted by Anthony Lemos
Starring Sarah Lane and Jenn Cutter
Sarah Lane gives her thoughts about the Remarkable 2, an e-ink tablet for writing and reading.
$299 (was $399 at time of purchase)
*If you buy with Connect, you get a $150 discount on the hardware and 2 months free service, worth checking out.
Marker Plus highlights:
Initial thoughts:
E-Reader capability:
Nitpicks:
OVERALL:
The Remarkable 2 is powerhouse for anyone annotating documents, sketching, freeform stuff. Although you can sync over WIFI and email documents easily from the tablet, it’s not really “online”
Dr. Susan Leemburg, a neuroscientist at Charles University in the Czech Republic, tricks rats into thinking they’ve been teleported to measure their brainwaves to see how these basic brain functions work!
Hosted by Dr. Nicole Ackermans
Google Actually Listened to Us - DTNS 4201 starts at 14:27
Google revises its policy on forcing free tier Google Workspace to transition to a paid tier. Rob brings the heat on Sonos vs Google decision and a potential Sonos vs Amazon dustup. Apple Q1 financial results are in and we examine the success Apple+.
DTNS 4201 ends at 48:32
That's What An Alien Would Say - GDI 4201
Is Tom moving to Arizona? Brock Wilson really likes Bitcoin. Killing laws with baby bathwater. Sarah is a bit chilly and needs a DTNS beanie. Sarah’s mom rocks and makes some great pies. Have you seen Dead to Me? Is Amos an alien? Too many Dan’s. Who lives in Los Angeles time?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Rob DeMillo, Roger Chang, Amos, Joe.
Link to the Show Notes.
Google revises its policy on forcing free tier Google Workspace to transition to a paid tier. Rob brings the heat on Sonos vs Google decision and a potential Sonos vs Amazon dustup. Apple Q1 financial results are in and we examine the success Apple+.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Rob DeMillo, Roger Chang, Joe.
Link to the Show Notes.
The Q Commerce Continuum – DTNS 4200 starts at 14:31
Q-commerce is taking off, especially in India, but now that it’s obtained a snappy nickname, it’s worth looking at again. Bloomberg’s sources say “in the coming months” small businesses will be able to use iPhones to accept payments, without requiring extra hardware.” And the United States Office of Management and Budget sent a memo to federal agencies calling for new security strategies including moving to a zero-trust model.
DTNS 4200 ends at 47:36
What's the HotNet - GDI 4200
So what is the HotNet? Cold is a relative term. How is the weather around you? Walking the dog on ice is not an easy trick. Do you want to go shopping with Sarah? Roger is heart adjacent. Does Justin live in a different timeline? How many voices do you listen to each day? Is it twenty twenty too? We might get a Cleveland DTNS episode.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Justin Robert Young, Len Peralta, Roger Chang, Amos, Joe.
List to the Show Notes.
Q-commerce is taking off, especially in India, but now that it’s obtained a snappy nickname, it’s worth looking at again. Bloomberg’s sources say “in the coming months” small businesses will be able to use iPhones to accept payments, without requiring extra hardware.” And the United States Office of Management and Budget sent a memo to federal agencies calling for new security strategies including moving to a zero-trust model.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Justin Robert Young, Len Peralta, Roger Chang, Joe.
List to the Show Notes.
Is Sony’s Gaming Business In Trouble? – DTNS 4199 starts at 13:43
Microsoft earnings are in and we dissect the numbers to see what’s going on with the Redmond company’s operations. Plus Microsoft will launch its public preview of Android Apps for Windows 11 next month and analysts predict the ways Sony’s gaming business could find itself out in the cold.
DTNS 4199 ends at 44:14
NFTeased for Fun and Profit - GDI 4199
Scott has strong thoughts on NFT’s. Should Scott have to buy his own art that was minted by someone else? Where does art, commerce and NFT’s have a chance to succeed? Tom has higher hopes for other uses for NFT’s. Do you want to look for gold, or sell tools to all the people looking for gold?
Starring Tom Merritt, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Amos, Joe.
Link to the Show Notes.
Microsoft earnings are in and we dissect the numbers to see what’s going on with the Redmond company’s operations. Plus Microsoft will launch its public preview of Android Apps for Windows 11 next month and analysts predict the ways Sony’s gaming business could find itself out in the cold.
Starring Tom Merritt, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Joe.
Link to the Show Notes.
By Shannon Morse, ThreatWire
The world’s third largest cryptocurrency trading platform was hit with a cyberattack last week that compromised 483 customer accounts and led to $34 million crypto to be withdrawn. Crypto.com was targeted and US $33.8 million was stolen, though the CEO stated in multiple interviews that customer funds are not at risk.
The hack caused about $15 million in ethereum, $18.6 million bitcoin and $66,000 misc crypto to be stolen from the platform. The attack was detected on January 17th, at which time Crypto.com suspended withdrawals for about 14 hours. 2FA tokens were also revoked, so users had to re-sign in and set up new 2FA tokens for access.
While this crypto was stolen via unauthorized withdrawals, the platform fully reimbursed affected users. Transactions resumed on January 18. According to a Crypto.com post, their risk monitoring systems detected the attack, and saw transactions being approved without 2FA authentication, meaning the 2FA was being bypassed by attackers.
The company migrated to a completely new 2FA infrastructure in response. They also added that the company will be moving away from 2FA and moving to true multi factor authentication for end user security, and beefing up security with an Account Protection Program, which will offer better security for funds within the App and exchange. APP would also restore funds up to $250,000 in the event of unauthorized access.
A lot of technical information regarding this attack has not been shared with the public. For example - who was behind this attack? How were they able to bypass 2FA restrictions for withdrawals? What protocol was being used to implement 2FA and how does the new infrastructure fix these problems? Hopefully Crypto.com will share some of this information with their customers to ease some of the concerns shared via social media.
https://threatpost.com/2fa-bypassed-crypto-com-heist/177846/
https://crypto.com/product-news/crypto-com-security-report-next-steps
https://www.vice.com/en/article/g5qj9j/cryptocom-says-incident-was-actually-dollar30-million-hack
https://www.zdnet.com/article/crypto-com-ceo-responds-to-complaints-of-login-issues-after-hack/
Sarah Lane talks to Tom to answer Norm's question about how they assign the show prep and who does what.
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8K: What Is It Good For Right Now? - DTNS 4198 starts at 14:31
8K is what’s new as 4K becomes the new standard for high-definition displays. But are people ready for it and more importantly interested in it?
DTNS 4198 ends at 46:11
Chair Pants - GDI 4198
Tom got all his hair cut and Owen is not amused. The best jokes are always better with explanations. Have you seen the Husbands explained on TikTok? Do your chairs wear pants? Hang your pants however you want, no shaming. How often do you wash your jeans? Owen thinks it’s always Tom’s fault. The puns must flow.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, J.J. Owen Stone, Roger Chang, Amos, Joe.
Link to the Show Notes.
8K is what’s new as 4K becomes the new standard for high-definition displays. But are people ready for it and more importantly interested in it?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, J.J. Owen Stone, Roger Chang, Joe.
Link to the Show Notes.
Lightning in an Acquisition Bottle - DTNS 4197 starts at 15:57
Dealogic have calculated that Microsoft, Amazon, and Alphabet each announced more acquisitions in 2021 than any year in the past decade. Australia’s prime minister, Scott Morrison, has lost control over this WeChat account. And a Penn State and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory team has released new research that allows its previously developed thermoelectric generator to be made flexible, letting it wrap around common waste heat sources without any glue.
DTNS 4197 ends at 47:23
Sport Is Like A Really Good Sandwich - GDI 4197
Is Rich living in a dungeon? So much meowing. Kids talk takes over. Have you watched Only Murder in the Building? The group discusses a few of their favorite TV shows, some not of the kids. So there were a few football games over the weekend. Are you a fan of the sportsball? Roger and Amos have thoughts on the over under.
Starring Sarah Lane, Rich Stroffolino, Roger Chang, Amos, Joe.
Link to the Show Notes.
Dealogic have calculated that Microsoft, Amazon, and Alphabet each announced more acquisitions in 2021 than any year in the past decade. Australia’s prime minister, Scott Morrison, has lost control over this WeChat account. And a Penn State and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory team has released new research that allows its previously developed thermoelectric generator to be made flexible, letting it wrap around common waste heat sources without any glue.
Starring Sarah Lane, Rich Stroffolino, Roger Chang, Joe.
Link to the Show Notes.
Niki interviews Grant Coffey a research database manager at Crow Canyon Archaeological center in Southwestern Colorado. Grant pilots drones to survey ancient pueblo archaeological sites and find structures that are otherwise difficult to see.
Hosted by Nicole Ackermans
Intel has selected a 1000-acre site in New Albany Ohio for its third US chipmaking location. Netflix reported it added 8.28 million net subscribers worldwide in Q4 for a total of 221.8 million. What does it say about the company’s direction and more broadly about the streaming market?
Starring Tom Merritt, Lamarr Wilson, Roger Chang, Joe.
Link to the Show Notes.
Amazon announced it will open a clothing store called Amazon Style in a suburban mall located in the Los Angeles area, later this year. Meta AI scientists have developed an algorithm called Data2vec that can train a neural network to recognize images, text and speech. Google is informing users of its “Google Apps for Your Domain” that the free service is ending and will require them to sign-up for a payment plan.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Justin Robert Young, Len Peralta, Roger Chang, Joe.
Link to the Show Notes.
What does Microsoft hope to gain from the buyout of Activision Blizzard and what does it mean for the videogaming industry? Plus does Microsoft see the Exynos 2200 chip as a threat to the Xbox?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Joe.
Link to the Show Notes.
While the excitement around the Metaverse continues to grow, it's important to step back and take a look at the issues that need to be addressed in order to make the concept a reality.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Jonathan Strickland , Roger Chang, Amos, Joe.
Link to the Show Notes.
Amazon backs down from its plans to no longer accept Visa credit cards, security researchers find new sophisticated cross-platform remote access Trojan, and Microsoft finds ransomware-like malware targeting Ukrainian organizations.
Get the show notes here.
Niki interviews Dilsad Dagtekin a Turkish biologist who uses digital camera trapping to monitor wildlife populations. Dilsad is working on her PhD at the University of Zurich in Switzerland. She uses statistics to create population models with Bayesian framework in hope to contribute to conservation policies.
Hosted by Nicole Ackermans
A massive cyberattack hit Ukraine, impacting seventy government agencies and taking down websites for hours. Google is updating Chrome so the browser will begin relaying requests when public websites want to access endpoints inside the private network of the person visiting the site. The newly-public portions of a multi-state lawsuit against Google for antitrust behavior allege that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Google CEO Sundar Pichai approved the “Jedi Blue” deal in November 2018 that gave Facebook an advantage in Google’s online advertising auctions.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Robb Dunewood, Roger Chang, Joe.
Link to the Show Notes.
China gets into NFTs and the US Federal Reserve is making a digital dollar top priority. Second Life founder Philip Rosedale is returning to the company. And to help alleviate chip shortage issues the world’s largest contract chipmaker, TSMC, plans to try by throwing money at the problem.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Justin Robert Young, Len Peralta, Roger Chang, Joe.
Link to the Show Notes.
We discuss what exactly happened to the Samsung event where journalists expected the company to unveil the latest Exynos processor. T-Mobile clarifies technical issues regarding Apple's Private Relay feature in the iPhone. And we dissect the TechCrunch interview with Wordle creator Josh Wardle.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Joe.
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What will the EV landscape look like in 2022? While CES featured some big announcements from car companies, what can prospective buyers look forward to in the non-Tesla EV market and what can they expect to pay?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Tim Stevens, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Researchers at the Medical University of Vienna and University of Vienna have found via computer animation that pet dogs notice when objects in the world do not conform to the laws of physics. What’s going on and what does this tell us about how creatures and people perceive the world around them.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Blair Bazdarich, Roger Chang, Joe.
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It’s our CES 2022 Wrap-up show. Robert Heron is here with all the important TV and Display highlights from the show and Allison Sheridan spotlights a few unusual products that you may have missed.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Allison Sheridan, Robert Heron, Len Peralta, Roger Chang, Joe.
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This is Day 3 of CES 2022. We check out Google’s announcements and new laptop form factors.
Starring Tom Merritt, Justin Robert Young, Shannon Morse, Roger Chang, Joe.
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We continue our CES 2022 coverage with a look at Sony’s latest VR and automotive ambitions, the latest device announcements for Amazon’s Sidewalk and Matter IoT smart home network, plus laptops, displays, EVs and more.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Nate Lanxon, Roger Chang, Joe.
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CES 2022 has arrived. Intel, AMD and Nvidia have all made chip announcements, Web3 product announcements have begun to trickle out, and home automation gets a boost with some new smart home products!
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Patrick Norton, Roger Chang, Joe.
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AT&T and Verizon declined to comply with a request from the FAA and DOT to delay rolling out 5G at airports, Microsoft Exchange Server bug couldn't handle the new year, and all these new chip fabs could lead to a semiconductor labor shortage.
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Find out the wild and crazy predictions we have in store for Tech in 2022! Are they too on the nose or just too far out? Find out in the last DTNS show for 2021!
Staring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Shannon Morse, Nica Montford, Stephanie Humphrey
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The Central Bank of Mexico plans to launch a central bank digital currency by the end of 2024, the Competition Commission of India to investigate Apple's App Store payment rules, and Samsung's next-gen Exynos SoC will use AMD's RDNA 2 GPU architecture.
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We evaluate and judge all the predictions we made at the end of 2020 on how the tech landscape would look and change in 2021
Staring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Scott Johnson, Patrick Norton, Robb Dunewood, Lamarr Wilson
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No one should have to spend New Year's Eve alone. Every year, Ritual Misery presents the Diamond Club New Year's Eve Streamathon, 27 hours of raising money for sick kids through extra-life.org. This year, Sarah and Tom will be bringing in the New Year with a live show! Join us on New Year's Eve at 2330 UTC/1530 Pacific for Good Year Internet!
Find all the details, including the full schedule, at ritualmisery.com/streamathon
Samsung reports it sold four-times more foldables in 2021 than 2020, LG's 2022 smart appliances include a ThinQ Recipe app, and TuSimple completes its first trucking run on open roads without human safety drivers.
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It's time to look back on the year that was 2021. As many of you know we have DTNS and a longer show that patreon's get called Good Day Internet. So our producer Joe combed through both shows to look for some highlights that exemplify the big stories, the interesting discussions and the fun diversions.
Here is the best of 2021. Enjoy.
Staring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang and Friends.
Instagram's Adam Mosseri says the app will "rethink what Instagram is" in 2022, Waymo is working with Geely on an autonomous EV for ride-hailing services, and Tumblr updates its iOS app with a large list of blocked tags.
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We invite our Grand Masters Steve Iadarola and Norm Fazekas to help us co-host an episode of DTNS
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Norm Fazekas, Steve Iadarola.
No one should have to spend New Year's Eve alone. Every year, Ritual Misery presents the Diamond Club New Year's Eve Streamathon, 27 hours of raising money for sick kids through extra-life.org. This year, Sarah and Tom will be bringing in the New Year with a live show! Join us on New Year's Eve at 2330 UTC/1530 Pacific for Good Year Internet!
Find all the details, including the full schedule, at ritualmisery.com/streamathon
Microsoft founder tells computer hobbyists that software should be protected. The Queen of England sends an electronic message and a new fangled spacecraft combines aeronautics and rocketry! It's the biggest tech stories of this for 1976.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang.
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No one should have to spend New Year's Eve alone. Every year, Ritual Misery presents the Diamond Club New Year's Eve Streamathon, 27 hours of raising money for sick kids through extra-life.org. This year, Sarah and Tom will be bringing in the New Year with a live show! Join us on New Year's Eve at 2330 UTC/1530 Pacific for Good Year Internet!
Find all the details, including the full schedule, at ritualmisery.com/streamathon
It’s our last live show for 2021! We’ll be joined by OG DTNS producer Jennie Josephson along with whomever drops by during the recording as we test ourselves to find out which news stories had the biggest impact on our memories.
Starring Tom Merritt, Rich Stroffolino, Jennie Josephson, Roger Chang, Amos, Joe, Robb Dunewood, Chris Ashley, Dan Campos, Patrick Norton, Nate Lanxon
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We have the latest news on the The Log4J vulnerability. The US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is investigating whether 580,000 Tesla drivers playing video games on the car’s touchscreen while the car is in motion is a distraction. LG announced the 27-inch DualUp monitor, with a unique 16:18 aspect ratio.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Joe.
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What is Web3 and why is there controversy about it among the tech industry leaders? Who is Matt Mullenweg and why could he be the antidote to walled gardens and closed ecosystems? ETH Zurich released the results of a 15 month large-scale study into phishing attacks.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Chris Ashley, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Researchers at MIT discover that machine learning is experiencing convergent evolution similar to the human brain without anyone programming it to do so. TikTok is launching the delivery-only TikTok Kitchen in partnership with Virtual Dining Concepts with about 300 restaurants across the US at launch. Telegram is working on a way to hide sensitive content in a chat by hiding message text behind a fuzzy pixelated placeholder, with a small eye icon next to it. And what are the dangers of autonomous weapons systems and how do you define that danger?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Rich Stroffolino, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman’s sources say Apple is hiring engineers to design more wireless chips in-house, planning to replace components made by Broadcom and Skyworks Solutions. Citizen Lab reported on government use of spyware called “predator” which is made by North Macedonian developer Cytox. And Patrick gives us a CES preview of what to expect in Home Theater products.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Patrick Norton, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Nvidia’ GeForce Now cloud game streaming service removed the waitlist for its RTX 3080 tier, Adidas is launching a line of NFTs called “Into the Metaverse.”, TikTok is testing out TikTok Live Studio a Windows app that streams directly to TikTok Live, and Google’s Project Zero has revealed details of a vulnerability, now patched, that was used by the NSO Group to access iPhones and install spyware without interaction from the user.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Dell shows off three prototype products designed for a “seamless work experience,” the Concept Flow, Concept Stanza and Concept Pari. Oppo announced more details on its folding phone the Find N. And Norway’s data protection authority has fined dating app Grindr 65 million Norwegian Krone which is about US$7.1 million.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Dell shares more details on Concept Luna, its laptop with removable components. Why HDMI 2.1 doesn’t mean what you think it means. And Scientists discover that altering medical scans can fool human radiologists and algorithms into believing evidence cancer either was there when it wasn’t or vice versa.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Robb Dunewood, Roger Chang, Joe.
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At the IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting, Intel showed work on how it will continue Moore’s Law post 2025 with Samsung and IBM announcing a new vertical FET design. Boston Consulting Group valued the pre-owned apparel market at over $40 billion this year, with resale platforms like Depop, Vestiaire, Tradesy, Poshmark and Vinted making up most of the market. And Apple released the 15.2 release for iOS, iPadOS, tvOS, and Homepod, as well as watchOS 8.3.
Starring Tom Merritt, Rich Stroffolino, Nicole Lee, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Welcome to DTNS: Science News Monthly for December 2021. This month we cover asexual reproduction in condors, the Milky Way’s new feather, Roblox investing in education and what the new infrastructure bill means for science. We also bring you a COVID update and more monthly science + tech news.
Hosted by Nicole Ackermans
Emails disclosed as part of the Epic vs Apple trial show that in March 2020, Microsoft proposed creating individual apps for Apple’s App Store to stream games, including offering exclusive triple-A Xbox games. The Next Web’s Cate Lawrence has an interesting writeup on an EV-charging system that works without internet connectivity making it useful in parking garages and remote locations. And security researchers at Alibaba discovered a huge vulnerability, called Log4Shell or LogJam in a common Java element. Shannon is here to help us understand it.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Shannon Morse, Len Peralta, Roger Chang, Joe.
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The European Commission proposed a directive which could lead to gig workers across the European Union gaining legal protections of workers. Kickstarter announced the development of “an open-source protocol that will essentially create a decentralized version of Kickstarter’s core functionality. And Amazon is leading the development of a wireless video streaming protocol for the Matter IoT connectivity standard.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Amazon launches the Alexa Together subscription, available for $19.99 a month or $199 a year, that helps elderly or special needs family members who are living on their own. We explain what caused the AWS outage yesterday and what the effects were. And Apple prognosticator analyst Ming-chi Kuo makes predictions on the company’s future products.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Joe.
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US Department of Justice investigators have asked Roblox why it labels itself as “experiences'' instead of games as part of its anti-trust investigation into Apple. Life360 is buying location tracking service Tile. And the Information reports Apple signed a five-year agreement with the Chinese government to help develop China’s economy and technological capabilities back in 2016.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Iyaz Akhtar , Roger Chang, Joe.
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Brian Brushwood shares his experience trying to mitigate the issues of supply chain constraints on his online store. DoorDash is starting a 15-minute delivery with its chain of DashMart convenience stores in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan. What is DAO and how does it allow cryptocurrency owners to benefit?
Starring Tom Merritt, Brian Brushwood, Roger Chang, Joe.
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DTNS Gaming News Monthly brings you the month's biggest gaming news in approximately 15 minutes. Valve delays SteamDeck shipping until February 2022, Activision Blizzard continues to deal with fallout from harassment complaints, and Microsoft celebrates the 20th Anniversary of Xbox.
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Hosted by Jenn Cutter
We get a firsthand account from Allison Sheridan on what it’s like driving around with Tesla’s Autopilot feature turned on. Plus US regulators look to stop the Nvidia/Arm merger.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Allison Sheridan, Len Peralta, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Instacart plans to launch a 15-minute delivery service in a US city as early as February. Qualcomm also announced the Snapdragon 8cx Gen 3 and 7c+ Gen 3 platforms for ARM-based PCs, built on the 5-nanometer process. Qualcomm says they will get 5G support for both sub-6 and mmWave service, multi-day battery life. upgraded camera, audio functions and chip-to-cloud security. And Square co-founder and CEO Jack Dorsey announced the company will change its name to Block, effective December 10th.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang, Joe.
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We check in on the latest developments from autonomous vehicle company Nuro, we review the reactions to Microsoft’s integration of the Buy Now, Pay Later service Zip into Edge web browser, and how is Meta responding to concerns of child safety advocates about end to end encryption on WhatsApp.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Twitter updated its privacy information policy preventing the sharing of personal information without consent including photos and videos part of its anti-doxxing rules. The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority ordered Meta to sell Giphy. The Wall Street Journal reports on investment companies buying up digital “land” in virtual platforms that they hope may one day become the metaverse.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Robb Dunewood, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Twitter’s Jack Dorsey steps down. What does this mean for users of the social media platform and does this signal new direction for the company?
Starring Sarah Lane, Rich Stroffolino, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Baidu can now charge for robotaxi rides in Beijing, Apple's AR headset reportedly doesn't need to be tethered to a phone or Mac, and Google agrees to give UK regulators oversight and input into its Privacy Sandbox APIs.
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AT&T and Verizon agree lower 5G tower strength for six months for an FAA review, Pinterest settles discrimination lawsuit, and the European Commission proposed a bill overhauling how political ads can be targeted.
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Is perovskite a possible alternative to making cheaper solar panels faster? Why does predictive text achieve a lower WPM than autocorrect? The Asphalt Xtreme mobile game is coming to Netflix. Is that sign that Netflix wants its game lineup to move away from just casual gaming?
Starring Tom Merritt, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Joe.
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We examine new developments in renewable power and storage, Qualcomm will debut its next flagship Snapdragon chip at the Snapdragon Tech Summit on November 30th along with a new naming convention, and we examine the popularity of shopping livestreams.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Nica Montford, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Robert Heron is back with tips and recommendations for those on shopping for a new 4K TV this holiday season. El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele announced the country's plans to build the first “Bitcoin City” in the eastern region of La Union. A new study by New York University’s Center for Social Media and Politics found that warning Twitter users about the consequences of their posts decreased subsequent posting of hateful language for a week.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Robert Heron, Roger Chang, Joe.
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We discuss the impact of Alphabet's cafeteria cleaning robots, MediaTek unveils its flagship Dimensity 9000 mobile SoC, and the Australian art project that gives downloaders 15GB of NFT content.
Starring Sarah Lane, Rich Stroffolino, Robb Dunewood, Len Peralta, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Nreal will begin selling its Light mixed reality glasses in the US, after launching in South Korea last year. Reuters reports that an Amazon spokesperson said the company is in talks with MasterCard and American Express– as well as Visa– about who it will continue to partner with in the future in the US. Axios reports that VP of gaming Phil Schiller is advocating video game preservation through emulation.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Apple announced a Self Service Repair program, which will let customers buy parts from Apple directly for repairs. Amazon announced it will stop accepting Visa credit cards issued in the UK because of their high fees, starting Jan.19. And we examine how different social media platforms benefit certain types of celebrities, notable people and social media entrepreneurs.
Starring Sarah Lane, Rich Stroffolino, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Dan Campos from NTX shares his review of Xiaomi’s MiPad 5 Android tablet. Twitter will stop auto-updating your Web version of the feed which sometimes causes tweets to disappear mid-read. And Cashier-free technology is coming to the UK’s Sainsbury supermarkets at a location in London set to open on November 29th.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Dan Campos, Roger Chang, Joe.
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We go in detail on the reasons why chip shortages will exist until next year. IBM announced its 127 qubit Eagle quantum chip, and Apple announced residents in eight US states to store digital state IDs and driver’s license.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Stephanie Humphre, Roger Chang, Joe.
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We explore the coming conflict of quantum computing and blockchain cryptocurrencies, plus we find out what happened to Movie Pass and learn about Patreon’s plan to host and deliver video.
Starring Tom Merritt, Shannon Morse, Len Peralta, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Google will expand the Sleep Sensing features on the second-gen Nest Hub that uses a motions Ensor to monitor your sleep patterns. We cover the latest events in the Epic vs Apple lawsuit. Google loses its appeal against a 2.42 billion Euro fine leveled by the EC in 2017 for abusing its monopoly on search.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Joe.
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We lay out all the things Nvidia announced at its GPU Technology Conference including new AI avatars, the 3D virtual world simulation and collaboration platform Omniverse, and the NeMo Megatron, the company’s open source large language model platform.
Starring Tom Merritt, Patrick Norton, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Can an EV with solar cells on the roof compelling enough for the market, we discuss the state of SES battery technology, ponder the tax implications of selling your gaming NFTs and explain what WhatsApp began rolling out multi-device support as a default feature could mean for you.
Starring Tom Merritt, Rich Stroffolino, Roger Chang, Joe.
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DTNS Gaming News Monthly brings you the month’s biggest gaming news in approximately 15 minutes. Blizzard cancels BlizzConline then delays Overwatch 2 and Diablo 4 amid more studio departures, hackers leak 125GB of Twitch.tv data, and Steam bans NFT games while Epic entertains the idea.
Hosted by Jenn Cutter
Can robots get along with other robots? Apple’s chip roadmap signals a shift to a 3nm process. And how FinTech’s might be building super apps of their own to compete with messaging and social media apps that let you make payments.
Starring Tom Merritt, Patrick Norton, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Benchmarks for Intel’s Alder Lake processors are in and boy do they look good! Meta is looking for alternative ways to generate profits outside of ad revenue and Qualcomm thinks supply-chain issues for its chips will abate by this Christmas and Danish shipping firm wants to compete against Amazon’s shipping services.
Starring Tom Merritt, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Nvidia is making a hard play for cloud based video gaming. Sean Hollister from the Verge shares his hands-on review with the game streaming service and it stacks up to Google’s Stadia.
Starring Tom Merritt, Scott Johnson, Sean Hollister, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Microsoft Ignite starts up this week and we go over all the updates and service announcements from the Redmond based company. VP of Alex explains why he wants you to talk to your Echo smart speaker less. And is there really something to Facebook’s Metaverse concept?
Starring Tom Merritt, Nate Lanxon, Roger Chang, Joe.
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We talk to CNET Roadshow’s Editor-In-Chief Tim Stevens about the impact supply-chain constraints are having on EV production and what it means for consumers in the market for an EV.
Starring Tom Merritt, Rich Stroffolino, Tim Stevens, Roger Chang, Joe.
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We examine all the press analysis on Facebook’s name change to Meta. We get some interesting insights from WSJ’s Joanna Stern interviews with Apple executives on design choices for the new MacBook Pro. And we speculate why Microsoft has acquired a content moderation company called Two Hat.
Starring Tom Merritt, Lamarr Wilson, Len Peralta, Roger Chang, Joe.
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We examine why big tech companies are growing slowly while smaller more recent startups are doing the opposite, how Apple’s ad tracking policy is hitting some companies bottom line and the ongoing effects that chip shortages are having on the industry.
Starring Tom Merritt, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Intel announces Alderlake processors releasing this year, Casey Newton suggests more context is needed regarding the Facebook Papers released by Francis Haugen, and Adobe Max has released details on new AI powered features for video.
Starring Tom Merritt, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Joe.
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We get a first-hand review of Android 12 and Google’s new Pixel 6 Pro smartphone. Amazon is building a new app codenamed “Project Mic”. It would let anyone make and distribute a live radio show, including music pulled from Amazon’s catalog. Lennar Corporation is partnering with a startup called Icon to build a community of 100 3D-printed homes near Austin, Texas.
Starring Tom Merritt, Rich Stroffolino, Trisha Hershberger, Roger Chang, Joe.
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We examine the policy and management decisions revealed in documents released by Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen. Mastercard announced a deal with the cryptocurrency firm Bakkt to provide crypto options for merchants and banks on its payment network. And Hertz, the rental car service, will buy a 100,000 Tesla Model 3s for its rental fleet.
Starring Tom Merritt, Allison Sheridan, Roger Chang, Joe.
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We examine the long and short term prospects for Intel after their recent financial statements. NFTs go pop culture. Wired’s Brian Barrett has an article called “I Used Facebook Without the Algorithm, and You Can Too”. We examine how effective Barrett’s tips are.
Starring Tom Merritt, Chris Ashley, Len Peralta, Roger Chang, Joe.
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A startup called Spotz.ai will use computer vision and machine learning to solve the random ad problem that plagues services that stream movies and video content without natural commercial ad breaks. Sam Altman the CEO of OpenAI is starting a cryptocurrency called Worldcoin that will issue free cryptocurrency if you can verify your account with an iris scan with a little metal ball they send you. The Associated Press will use the Ethereum-based Chainlink Labs smart contracts system to automate its news data distribution and ensure content integrity.
Starring Tom Merritt, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang, Joe.
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The Verge’s sources say Facebook plans to announce a company name change next week. Alphabet’s Wing company has expanded its drone delivery business into Texas. Finally we give details into this week’s Samsung Galaxy Unpacked event.
Starring Tom Merritt, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Google takes the wraps off the new Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro phones. Higher performance, new features and new colors we take a look at what Google’s latest smartphones bring to the table. Facebook is introducing a mobile 10.1-inch smart display called the Facebook Portal Go and Fisher Price is putting out a version of its Chatter play telephone that can pair with Android and iOS.
Starring Tom Merritt, Lamarr Wilson, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Apple reveals two new M1 chips; the M1 Pro and M1 Max. See how these new SoC processors stack up to the original M1 and the new MacBook models that will feature them.
Starring Tom Merritt, Rich Stroffolino, Nica Montford, Terrance Gaines, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Tesla launched an auto insurance product in Texas that uses “real-time driving behavior” that it will use “to evaluate your premium based on your actual driving.” Apple employees are organizing under the name Apple Too, to collect stories of workers who have experienced harassment or discrimination. Tuesday, a reported with the St. Louis Post-Dispatch alerted the state of Missouri that social security numbers of school teachers and administrators were vulnerable to public exposure on the Missouri department of education’s website.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Shannon Morse, Len Peralta, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Facebook announced a research project called Ego4D, to improve AI analysis of first-person, video. Sony knows it’s not going to be able to make enough PS5s to meet demand so it’s started a registration where US PSN users can sign up for the opportunity to buy a PS5. US Senators Chuck Grassley, Amy Klobuchar, Lindsey Graham and Richard Durbin, have backed a bill Thursday that would prohibit tech platforms from favoring their own products or services.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Charlotte Henry, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Reddit launched a new feature called “Predictions”, a spinoff of Reddit Polls that have become popular in subreddits. The Amazon India private-brands team secretly exploited internal data from Amazon.in to copy products and then offered knock-off versions on the platform. And Wall Street Journal sources say Apple is looking at using Airpods as a health device.
Starring Sarah Lane, Rich Stroffolino, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Joe.
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A Swiss Federal Institute of Technology robotics engineering student Ken Pillonel stuffed a USB-C port that can transfer data as well as charge into an iPhone X. A San Francisco court orders Tesla to pay $136.9 million to a former contract employee who alleged discrimination and hostile work environment, and Microsoft and Nvidia created the Megatron-Turing Natural Language Generation model or MT-NLP which they call the “most powerful monolithic transformer language model trained to date”.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Stephanie Humphrey, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Microsoft has now agreed to let independent third-party study the impact of making Microsoft devices easier to repair. Google SVP Hiroshi Lockheimer offers an invitation to Apple to help them implement RCS on the iPhone. CNET’s Brian Cooley notes that Michelin and GM plan to have airless tires available for street use as early as 2024.
Starring Tom Merritt, Robb Dunewood, Len Peralta, Roger Chang, Joe.
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As the climate crisis impacts our lives and our environment, how is tech playing a leading role in mitigating its effects? And as the Internet of Things grows more popular, how does the Matter protocol make everyone place nice with each other.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Justin Robert Young, Molly Wood, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Google added options to Search, Maps, Travel, and Nest Thermostats. Twitch confirms a data breach with the site’s entire source code, commit history, an unreleased competitor for Steam from Amazon Game Studios and details of creator payouts being accessed. And Restofworld.org has a story about the effect India’s banning of TikTok in June 2020 has had on creators.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Joe.
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We give an explainer on what caused Facebook and associated properties like Instagram to go offline for six hours and we do a follow-up on all that Facebook testimony.
Starring Tom Merritt, Nate Lanxon, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Amazon launched a new feature, letting Prime subscribers in the US send gifts using just an email address or phone number. The whistleblower who provided documents that served as the foundation for the Wall Street Journal’s Facebook Files series came forward as former Facebook product manager Frances Haugen. And ten years after its introduction what exactly has Siri achieved?
Starring Sarah Lane, Rich Stroffolino, Roger Chang, Joe.
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DTNS Gaming News Monthly brings you the month's biggest gaming news in approximately 15 minutes. This month heavily features the multiple legal dramas around Activision Blizzard, Apple keeping Epic's Fortnite out of the App Store until all court appeals are final, and all the info from the latest Nintendo Direct & Sony Showcase.
Hosted by Jenn Cutter
A number of websites and services reported issues due to the expiration of a root certificate provided by Let’s Encrypt. South Korean ISP SK Broadband has sued Netflix to pay for the costs of managing extra network traffic caused by Netflix users streaming new shows. YouTube TV and NBCUniversal agree to a temporary extension to avoid channel blackout while the companies attempt to negotiate a longer-term pact.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Patrick Norton, Len Peralta, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Fairphone makers of easy-to-repair smartphones with sustainable materials has announced the Fairphone 4. Augmented reality company Nreal announced its Air Glasses, a more compact, and cheaper version of its smart glasses. US President Joe Biden and European Commission Vice Presidents Valdis Dombrovskis and Margrethe Vestager,met Wednesday as part of the US-EU Trade and Technology Council.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Ars Technica has a story stating VR reporter Brad Lynch has found evidence that Valve is working on a wireless headset. Netflix acquires its first game studio. And Motherboard has interviews with two sources who worked on Amazon’s Astro and believe the consumer robot is flawed.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Amazon has unveiled a slew of new devices including a $1000 home robot. Hear what we make of all the new products and which ones excite us the most.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Erin Carson, Roger Chang, Joe.
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A new note from Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo forecasts shipments of Apple silicon Macs will drop 15% in the first half of 2022. Oculus’ consulting CTO John Carmack announced the company will unlock the bootloader of the Oculus Go headset, providing users with root access. Instagram head Adam Mosseri announced the company will pause development of a version of Instagram aimed at children 10-12 years old.
Starring Sarah Lane, Rich Stroffolino, Roger Chang, Joe.
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People’s Bank of China Friday reiterated that offering trading, order matching, token issuance and derivatives for virtual currencies including overseas crypto exchanges providing services in mainland China are are strictly prohibited. We explain why higher prices for tech aren’t entirely the fault of manufacturers and how they mitigate the sting of higher pricing with additional product features. And how people have been using New Zealand’s Waipa District Council to make themselves look like their busy.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Ashley Esqueda, Len Peralta, Roger Chang, Joe.
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How does Apple’s iPhone Pro line really compare to a more sophisticated and purpose built video DSLR? Plus Michigan is the latest region to attempt to develop a road that can wirelessly charge electric vehicles. And The Wall Street Journal’s reports on Amazon’s plans to open clothing stores.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Justin Robert Young, Stephen Schleicher, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Microsoft unveiled new products at its Surface Pro 8 event and the Defense Ministry of Lithuania issued a statement recommending citizens “not buy new Chinese phones and to get rid of those already purchased as fast as reasonable possible.”
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Joe.
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PayPal mobile app now includes expanded bill pay, and the ability to get checks by direct deposit, and more. Marvel and SiriusXM are launching the Marvel Podcasts Unlimited channel for $4 a month. UploadVR noticed that back on April 20, Netflix listed a VR game called Eden Unearthed on Oculus’s App Lab. The game works on the Oculus Quest and Quest 2. The game is free and seemingly related to the Netflix anime series Eden.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Rich Stroffolino, Lamarr Wilson, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Details about new versions of Amazon’s Kindle Paperwhite e-reader leak, Apple will delay an under-display Touch ID and a foldable iPhone to 2023 and 2024, respectively, and Roku announced the $49.99 Streaming Stick 4K and $69.99 Streaming Stick 4K+.
Starring Sarah Lane, Rich Stroffolino, Robb Dunewood, Roger Chang, Joe.
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The Dutch city of Utrecht wants to have the world’s first bi-directional EV power grid. The Russian government ordered Google and Apple to remove an app meant to guide supporters of Alexei Navalny on how to deprive Vladimir Putin’s, United Russia, of votes in regional and federal elections. Protocol’s sources say Google plans to add free TV channels to Google TV, and is currently in talks with several free, ad-supported streaming television channels.
Starring Tom Merritt, Chris Ashley, Len Peralta, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Pay for a movie night out with cryptocurrency, FTC chair Lina Khan is starting her crackdown on big tech, and the tech blogs have posted their hardware analysis of Apple’s new iPhone 13 and 13 Pro.
Starring Tom Merritt, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang, Joe.
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We learn more about the Framework modular laptop, Microsoft launches passwordless sign-in, and Zuckerberg announces changes to Facebook’s news feed algorithm with stories shared by media outlets and businesses de-prioritize in favor of content produced by friends and family.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Apple announced a number of updates to its iOS and Apple Watch product line today. To help us parse it all out are the hosts of the SnobOS Podcast, Terrance Gaines and Nica Montford.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Nica Montford, Terrance Gaines, Roger Chang, Joe.
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We talk to Engadget reviews editor, Cherlynn Low, about her experiences with latest foldable phones, discuss a study on the effects of remote work on 6,100 Microsoft employees and go over all the latest updates Zoom has announced for its service.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Cherlynn Low, Roger Chang, Joe.
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US District Court Judge Yvonne Gonzalez-Rogers issued her decision in the Epic v. Apple case. In the coming weeks, WhatsApp is rolling out its options for all users to encrypt their chat backups in the cloud. Apple Music announced it is using technology from Shazam, which can automatically identify music, to identify and compensate all creators involved in a DJ mix.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Shannon Morse, Len Peralta, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Facebook announces new smart glasses called Ray-Ban Stories, iRobot announces the Roomba j7+ robot vacuum featuring built-in machine vision, BMW showed off two e-bike concepts, the I Vision AMBY and Motorrad Vision AMBY and Amazon released its own house-brand TVs running it’s FireOS smart TV system.
Starring Tom Merritt, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Amazon plans to bring its “Just Walk Out” cashierless technology to two Whole Foods stores, Twitter launched a few feature tests. One changes the way photos are displayed on mobile and the second lets users remove followers without blocking them, and we look at the state of long range wireless charging.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Joe.
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A ProPublica report says contractors hired by Facebook are reviewing messages that have been flagged by an algorithm as improper, El Salvador now officially uses Bitcoin as legal tender, and A police report revealed French police via Europol, got a Swiss court to order ProtonMail to log and provide to the police the IP address of suspected activist’s plus the device ID accessing it.
Starring Tom Merritt, Nate Lanxon, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Apple will delay its CSAM features, Amazon plans to release its own branded TVs later this year, and how widespread is misinformation on social media spread during political campaigns and ways to mitigate their effects.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Nicole Lee, Len Peralta, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Apple faces legal scrutiny for abuse of market dominance in India, Texas legislature approves a bill to fine social media platforms for removing posts or users based on location or political view, and Locast, a non-profit service that streams locally broadcast channels over the internet, to people geolocated in the broadcast area, shuts down after losing copyright case.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang, Joe.
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We go over all the various facets of the chip shortage and why supplies will still be tight at the end of the year and what you can do about it.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Patrick Norton, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Microsoft announced the free upgrade to Windows 11 will begin rolling out on October 5th, starting with new devices. Protocol’s Amber Burton has an article called ‘There aren’t enough data scientists’: How the future of reskilling in tech is changing. South Korea’s National Assembly passed an amendment on Tuesday prohibiting large app-store operators from requiring the use of their in-app purchasing systems.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Lamarr Wilson, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Has constant video conferencing made people already neurotic about their image? A new survey from Harvard in the International Journal of Women’s Dermatology suggests that video conferencing is impacting how people view themselves, in a disorder called “Zoom dysmorphia.”
Starring Tom Merritt, Rich Stroffolino, Robb Dunewood, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Gaming Checkpoint gives you an overview of what's going on around the console scene, covering hardware options, online play, and near future outlook. Whether you're a lapsed gamer looking to dive back into this generation or are getting into console gaming for the first time, this episode will cover what Nintendo, Microsoft, and Sony have to offer.
Hosted by Jenn Cutter
BBQ and Tech is an energetic dive into all facets of how technology is being used to make everyone's favorite cookout food, Bar-B-Que. Hosted by lifelong friends, Chris Ashley and Rod Simmons who share a 15+ year tech obsession with all things smoked or grilled, BBQ and Tech will share tips, tricks, and technology to earn you the title of backyard grill master.
This week’s episode finds Chris and Rod walking through the evolution of their smoker purchase history. The discussion is intended to help listeners understand the nuances of some of the most popular smokers being used today and hopefully help inform their decision on purchasing a new cooker.
Pegasus is a digital tool sold by the NSO Group to different governments across the globe used to monitor activists, politicians and persons of interest. In The Pegasus Project, journalists from 17 outlets like The Guardian, Le Monde, The Washington Post or Aristegui Noticias, collaborated to reveal the way the spyware was used by different agencies. In this special report we explore what they found and the effect it had in the way technology was implemented by different government agencies.
The transcript can be found here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1nhE-hImCJQty7LHh0TmJdofm9GL92bhPyoyAp-yhs1o/edit?usp=sharing
Hosted by Dan Campos
Rich Stroffolino talks with tech skeptic Ben Weinberg about the latest tech news. In this pilot episode, they look into the luddite perspective on Apple's recently announced on-device scanning for CSAM, Facebook's metaverse take on VR meetings, and why AI-generated websites are like Final Cut X.
Featuring Rich Stroffolino, Ben Weinberg
It is said that the best camera is the one you have with you, and the latest smartphones offer extraordinary capabilities, but are they really the only camera you need? DTNS Associate Producer Amos is joined by Ant Pruitt of Hands On Photography to discuss when and why you might consider making the investment into a dedicated camera system.
Starring by Anthony Lemos, Ant Pruitt
The Tech Jawn is a second look at the week's tech news headlines delivered from a different perspective. African Americans, demographically, are the biggest users of consumer technology in the country and The Tech Jawn aims to showcase how technology affects them as well as how they affect technology.
Hosted by Robb Dunewood (@robbdunewood), Stephanie Humphrey (@techlifesteph), and Terrance Gaines (@brothatech), the first episode tackles bias in algorithms like Facial Recognition and Artificial Intellegence.
Tesla showed off an idea for a 5 foot 8 tall, 125-pound humanoid robot called the Tesla Bot. Microsoft announced the first Office 365 pricing increase since the service launched in 2011. Newly unredacted documents from the Epic-Google lawsuit show that in 2019, Google ran a “Premier Device Program”, which offered Android OEMs a greater 12% of search revenue instead of the standard 8%, if they agreed not to preinstall third-party app stores.
Starring Tom Merritt, Chris Ashley, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Intel reveals its new Alder Cove hybrid processor design for desktop, mobile and ultra-mobile applications. Nvidia has its earnings call and gives updates about its acquisition of ARM. And the FTC has amended its complaint over Facebook, a new antitrust complaint.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang, Joe.
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China renews pressure on Tencent and the country’s tech giants, Blackberry discovers a vulnerability in its QNX operating system and Windows 11 is changing the way users pick a default browser.
Starring Tom Merritt, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Joe.
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We explore the role that fans and fandom in leveraging social media and the internet to shape the TV shows and movies we see at home and the movie theater.
Starring Tom Merritt, Justin Robert Young, Annalee Newitz, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Scientists in South Korea have published an article in the journal Nature Communications about a robot they created that can change its skin color like a chameleon. Would you eat cheese made from the byproducts of fungi? And Intel announced an upcoming high-performance discrete GPU line called Arc.
Starring Tom Merritt, Rich Stroffolino, Blair Bazdarich, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Samsung confirms its use of AI software called DSO.ai to design its Exynos line of chips. Apple’s Craig Federighi explained to the Wall Street Journal the company’s plans to scan photos uploaded to iCloud for C-SAM– and a separate program to scan Messages on child accounts for sexually suggestive images. Car and Driver tested the level 2 driver assistance systems from multiple carmakers to see which worked best and which could be fooled the easiest.
Starring Tom Merritt, Shannon Morse, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Three US senators have sponsored a bipartisan bill called the Open Markets Act that would impose new rules on app stores including prohibiting them from requiring developers to use its in-app payment system and setting different prices on different stores. Nvidia revealed Wednesday that a press announcement for its Omniverse system delivered earlier this year was computer generated.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah, Nate Lanxon, Roger Chang, Joe.
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How did the biggest cryptocurrency heist happen and what does this mean for the security of cryptocurrencies? And Samsung announces a slew of new and updated products including the Galaxy Z Fold 3, Galaxy Watch 4 and Watch 4 Classic and Galaxy Buds 2.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Joe.
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We check out the latest Apple rumors from Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, Amazon says it will now compensate customers for defective products sold on its marketplace, and HP rolls out new ChromeOS products.
Starring Tom Merritt, Allison Sheridan, Roger Chang, Joe.
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The Wall Street Journal has a story on how brands on Amazon go to extreme lengths to stop bad reviews of their products, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman argues that, in the current streaming landscape, that the Apple TV is a pointless products, and Facebook unveils its “Transfer Your Information” tool that allows users to export selected data for use by other services.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Chris Mancini, Roger Chang, Joe.
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We examine Apple’s Expanded Protections for Children where the company performs an on-device scan of devices looking for child abuse material. China continues its crackdown on tech companies and how Wi-Fi software company Plume is making a pivot towards becoming a data business.
Starring Tom Merritt, Patrick Norton, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Three US Senators are proposing an amend meant to the infrastructure bill that would exclude some crypto companies, from a tax reporting provision, researchers across multiple universities publish a paper on YouTube’s algorithm and radicalizing effect it has on viewers, and DHS unveils a joint cyber defense effort with Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and others to combat ransomware and cyberattacks.
Starring Tom Merritt, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Sony beats earning expectations, MIT comes up with a way to predict the next big thing in tech and why did Facebook ban academics researching transparency and misinformation on Facebook from Facebook.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Researchers successfully hacked and bypassed the TPM inside an Intel powered laptop and we examine the security implications of Right to Repair.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Seth Rosenblatt, Roger Chang, Joe.
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We follow a Wired story about spoofing the ID of ocean going ships, examine India’s new government e-payments system the e-Rupi, and Google gives the world a preview of the Pixel 6.
Starring Sarah Lane, Rich Stroffolino, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Apple sends a cease and desist letter to a Chinese citizen who leaked information about stolen iPhone prototypes on social media. Is preventing leaks a way to keep consumers engaged or just to keep corporate secrets? And a big roundup of China related tech stories on the government’s latest crackdowns on tech and what it means.
Starring Tom Merritt, Patrick Norton, Len Peralta, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Facebook continued the trend of stellar tech company earnings reports with revenue up 56% and monthly active users up 7% to 2.9 billion. Reviews for Intel’s gaming NUC 11 Extreme enthusiast gaming PC have arrived. See how well it rated. Finally 1st and 2nd generation Kindles might lose their ability to download eBooks. We discuss your options.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Patrick Norton, Roger Chang, Joe.
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We examine the exploding phenomenon of Virtual Idols on YouTube. What are Virtual Idols and why are they so popular on Google’s online video platform? Spotify listeners rose 22% to 365 million in Q2. That might sound pretty good, but it’s less than everyone, including Spotify, expected. And Sony reports the PS5 is their fastest selling video game console.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Intel unveils its latest company road map which includes plans to build chips for Qualcomm, Facebook issues a voluntary recall of the Oculus 2 and Samsung announces what to expect from its upcoming August 11th event.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Nate Lanxon, Roger Chang, Joe.
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China’s State Administration for Market Regulation ordered Tencent to end its exclusive music licensing rights within 30 days including requirements for copyright holders to give the company better treatment than rivals. Google announced it will now designate a subset of APIs across the company as Google Enterprise APIs, which will be subject to strict guidelines about any change to them that would impact consumer software built around them. Sean Hollister at the Verge recently profiled how the YouTube channel Upscale is recreating classic video game cutscenes at high resolution. The channel does this using Topaz Video Enhance AI.
Starring Sarah Lane, Rich Stroffolino, Roger Chang, Joe.
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On Wednesday, the US Federal Trade Commission voted to increase its enforcement of laws against repair restrictions that prevent small businesses, workers, consumers, and even government entities from fixing their own products. We discuss where the current state of right to repair is at and what we can expect in the near future.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Patrick Norton, Roger Chang, Joe.
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ARM shows off a bendable processor prototype, Twitter is testing a dislike button and why uneven uptake of the FCCs emergency broadband benefit program highlights geographic disparities.
Starring Sarah Lane, Rich Stroffolino, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Netflix loses 400,000 plus North American subscribers, Tumblr is testing a new feature called Post+ that lets some users charge their followers a monthly fee for exclusive content, and a market survey has revealed 75% of TikTok visitors discover musical artists there, while 63% say it’s a source for music they haven’t heard before.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Priavacy-focused search engine DuckDuck Go is offering an email protection feature. Sony announced two high-end home theater products with HDMI 2.1 passthrough ports that support 8K, 4K gaming at 120 Hertz, Dolby Vision HDR, eARC and more. Two former WhatsApp employees launched the HalloApp a private ad-free social network.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Jenn Cutter, Roger Chang, Joe.
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A forensic analysis report by Amnesty International claims NSO Group’s Pegasus software was used by clients to compromise the phones of more than 1,000 heads of state, politicians, journalists, activists, and business executives in more than 50 countries. Warner Media will launch a streaming news service in the US under the CNN banner called– you could have easily guessed– CNN Plus. Online glasses seller Warby Parker has released its Virtual Vision test which lets most users renew their prescription using an iPhone 6s or newer.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Andrew Heaton, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Friend of the show Darren Kitchen has made the road his home with a van kitted out with some of things you might expect, like a table, bed, cooking equipment. But when you hack across America, you need a lot of tech in that van too. Thankfully Darren has agreed to tell us about some of the gear he’s used to tech out the van.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Darren Kitchen, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Netflix announced it has hired Mike Verdu as its Vice President of game development. The US Consumer Product Safety Commission said it has sued Amazon to recall hundreds of thousands of hazardous products distributed on its platform. China’s National Bureau of Statistics reported integrated circuit output in the country rose 43.9% on the year in May.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Microsoft’s new easy-to-set-up and use virtual windows machine service called Windows 365. Scientists at the University of Oxford and University of Liverpool published a study in the journal New Media and Society called “More diverse, more politically varied: How social media, search engines and aggregators shape news repertoires in the United Kingdom.”
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Joe.
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France’s competition authority fined Google €500 million for not negotiating in good faith to pay news publishers for the right to show their headlines and snippets in search and news results. The Verge’s Chaim Gartenberg discovered that the iPhone’s built-in weather app on recent versions of iOS never shows the temperature as 69 degrees Fahrenheit instead showing 68 degrees or 70 degrees. And Twitter mistakenly approves bot accounts.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Nicole Lee, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Will a crowdsourced ransom payments tracking website called Ransomwhe.re provide empirical evidence companies need to determine if paying ransomware is beneficial? Plus we examine the impact of PhD students Rodrigo Ochigame and Katherine Ye Search Atlas, a project that displays results from different geographic versions of Google Search, and can change how people understand events. And has Disney’s “Black Widow” movie helped re-energize the movie theaters or did it just give people another reason to stay home and stream.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Charlotte Henry, Roger Chang, Joe.
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In this episode Niki interviews former US Robotics engineer, software/hardware developer and part-time paramedic Michael Musiel about his lenghty career in tech includustry from the late 70s through the present day.
You can follow Michael's podcast here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-podcast-that-shall-not-be-named/id674558126
Starring: Niki Ackermans, Michael Musiel
The Biden administration issues an executive order that encourages the FCC to restore open internet rules, limit early termination fees by ISPs, limit the ability of ISPs to sign exclusive deals with landlords, and require reporting of ISP prices and rates. Square’s hardware head Jesse Dorogusker announced the company will make a hardware wallet for bitcoin. And we examine how the design of social media platforms affects arguments.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Robb Dunewood, Len Peralta, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Start-ups position robots as bee replacements in the all-important crop pollination role, Thirty-seven US state and district attorneys general have sued Google in California federal court, alleging it unlawfully maintains a monopoly with the Google Play Store and Steve Wozniak argues for the right to repair.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang, Joe.
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South Korea lawmakers are considering a revision to a law restricting children from playing games after midnight and China’s Tencent will use facial recognition to stop minors in China from playing video games between 10 pm and 8 am or for more than 90 minutes per day.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Owen JJ Stone, Roger Chang, Joe.
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New owners of Audacity updated the audio editor’s privacy policy with language indicating it was collecting user data for analytics and legal enforcement. Nintendo announced a new version of the Switch game console with a 7-inch screen and 720p OLED display. And Norway passed a law requiring anyone being paid to post on social media to disclose if posts have been modified and how. The law is meant to reduce pressure put on people due to “idealized people in advertising”.
Starring Tom Merritt, Owen JJ Stone, Roger Chang, Amos, Joe.
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Nikkei Asia’s (NEE-kay Asia’s) sources say Intel and Apple began testing chip designs using TSMC’s 3-nanometer production technology, security researchers at Northeastern University purchased 86 used Echo Dot devices and found “all previous passwords and tokens, remains on the flash memory, sometimes even after a factory reset, and CNET’s Dan Ackerman has an article up called “Why giant e-Ink screens like the Boox Note Air’s are my favorite underrated tech.”
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Chris Ashley, Len Peralta, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Amazon seeks an alliance of app makers to challenge Microsoft, Instagram will start experimenting showing users full-screen videos over the coming months, and the OECD released a framework to set a minimum tax of 15% for the world’s 100 biggest companies, targeted mostly at tech companies.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Bloomberg’s sources say Microsoft and Google will not renew a non-aggression pact in place since April 2016, Facebook launched a subscription newsletter service called Bulletin, and The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration announced a change in reporting requirements for autonomous driving systems.
Starring Sarah Lane, Rich Stroffolino, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Alphabet’s drone-delivery company, Wing, in cooperation with the FAA launched the OpenSky app in the US. The app will allow hobbyist and commercial operators alike see where they can legally fly drones and request approval to operate in areas that are otherwise restricted. The Information’s sources say that as of May 2021, Apple is on track to spend $300 million on cloud storage through Google. And it was 0-day flaw, not 2018 bug, that let hackers mass-wipe My Book Live devices.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Nate Lanxon, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Mobile World Congress starts this week with Samsung revealing details about its WearOS partnership with Google. Plus as more and more music streaming options appear on the market we ask if high definition music is really worth having?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Patrick Norton, Roger Chang, Joe.
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We talk to Christophe Zajac-Denek about his lived experience with accessibility needs as a person with dwarfism. Western Digital puts a security warning regarding some of their My Book Live products. And Microsoft clarifies TPM requirements for Windows 11.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Robb Dunewood, Christophe Zajac-Denek, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Often when we talk about Accessibility we discuss the way applications allow people who are vision impaired, deaf or have limited dexterity to use them. But what about the tools that create those applications? We talk to the creator of a blind accessible programming Andreas Stefik, Ph.D. Associate Professor Computer Science University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Justin Robert Young, Andreas Stefnik, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Accessibility in video games is an often unnoticed and unappreciated aspect of game development. We ask two game developers to help us understand the work and guidelines they use to ensure that everyone can enjoy video gaming despite their disabilities.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Jennifer Ash, Andrew Davis, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Accessibility week rolls-on as we talk to David Woodbridge about his work in reviewing device accessibility and the criteria and metrics he uses.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Allison Sheridan, David Woodbridge, Roger Chang, Joe.
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We kick off Accessibility Week with a look into how AI is helping and in some cases hurting the development of accessibility in technology.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Shelly Brisbin, Roger Chang, Joe.
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“NASA inches closer to printing artificial organs in space” according to the MIT Technology Review, Tim Cook confesses Apple likes to fail internally, and Nielsen has new data about how people consume video content.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Amber Mac, Len Peralta, Roger Chang, Amos.
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A bipartisan group of US Senators Brian Schatz, John Thune, Raphael Warnock, and John Kennedy proposed a bill Wednesday called the Unsubscribe Act. Companies would be required to make terms and conditions more transparent when offering a free trial. US Senator Kirsten Gillibrand has revamped the Data Protection Act she introduced last year. Co-sponsored by Senator Sherrod Brown, it would establish a federal agency to oversee data privacy in the country.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Justin Robert Young , Roger Chang, Joe.
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Google will open its first retail store at 76 Ninth Avenue in New York City Thursday at 10 AM. The Wall Street Journal has sources and documents that say starting in 2016 Apple began developing a way to offer primary-care. The plan was to develop a subscription based personalized health program using data from devices combined with virtual and in-person primary care visits.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson , Roger Chang, Joe.
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NFTs have gotten a bad rap for being involved in crazy prices for questionable artwork but is there more to NFTs outside making digital art collectible? Christian Cantrell to give us what possibilities there are for the blockchain based token.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Christian Cantrell , Roger Chang, Joe.
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We take in all the latest from E3 2021 and examine a recent study on the impact of remote work on productivity and the number of hours worked.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Jenn Cutter, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Cnet’s Erin Carson wrote a piece called “How Gen Z harnessed the internet and destroyed the generation wars”, which focuses on how the younger generation, often called Gen Z, is struggling to do what every generation before it struggled to do, which is define itself. What’s different is the scale at which the internet plays into definition, because Gen Z kids have never known a world without being online.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Chris Ashley, Len Peralta, Roger Chang, Joe.
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In a research paper published in the scientific journal Nature, Google Research explained they’ve developed algorithms allowing AI to more efficiently design computer chips. On Tuesday the administration released its findings after conducting an interagency review on how to shore up US supply chains. Ride hailing and delivery companies are always looking for ways to utilize their drivers.
Starring Sarah Lane, Rich Stroffolino, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang, Joe.
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We explore how film photography is being kept alive despite an onslaught of digital replacements.
Starring Sarah Lane, Rich Stroffolino, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Joe.
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WWDC is happening this week but E3 starts this weekend. We have Trisha Hershberger here to tell us what to expect from this year's popular video gaming tradeshow.
Starring Sarah Lane, Rich Stroffolino, Trisha Hershberger, Roger Chang, Joe.
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We breakdown all of the updates and features Apple announced at this year’s WWDC.
Starring Sarah Lane, Rich Stroffolino, Terrance Gaines, Nica Montford, Roger Chang, Joe.
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We learn how technology is giving researchers new insight on how shark’s almost went extinct millions of years ago, Facebook plans to change their policy exemption for politicians, and the EU unveils plans for a digital wallet smartphone app to store electronic forms of identification and official documents.
Starring Sarah Lane, Rich Stroffolino, Annalee Newitz, Len Peralta, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Apple CEO Tim Cook sent out an email to employees asking them to partially return to the office starting in September. WhatsApp confirmed that it will support multiple devices allowing users to access their accounts from up to four linked devices. The US Supreme Court has slashed the scope of the 1986 Computer Fraud and Abuse Act in a 6-3 decision handed down Thursday.
Starring Sarah Lane, Rich Stroffolino, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Huawei launched its HarmonyOS for mobile phones. At Facebook F8 the company announced all businesses can now use the Messenger API to interact with users on Instagram. And China’s PBOC will give out a total of 40 million yuan’s worth of digital yuan split among 200,000 people in Beijing.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Joe.
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We break down all the latest PC hardware announcements from this year’s Computex. Plus Apple App shows up on Nvidia’s Shield TV and Amazon is releasing a free public mesh network in the US.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Allison Sheridan, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Twitter rolls out its Blue Twitter subscription service on the Apple App-store. Security researcher Troy Hunt announces the code for Pwned Passwords database is now open source and that the FBI will now add data from data breaches to the database as well. Microsoft announced that the organization believed to be behind the SolarWinds supply chain attack has been linked to a malicious email campaign targeting 150 government agencies, research institutions and other organizations in 24 countries.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Shannon Morse, Len Peralta, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Facebook announced Wednesday that it will de-rank the accounts of and limit the spread of posts from users who repeatedly share content that has been debunked by fact checkers. Bloomberg’s sources say Nintendo will begin assembly of a new updated Switch console as early as July, with a release scheduled for September or October. Mozilla runs targeted ads on Facebook and Comcast issues a DMCA warning to a user who downloaded…. Linux.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Amazon buys MGM. Is Amazon becoming a 21st century conglomerate and what is the company’s end game? Plus the US District of Columbia sued Amazon Tuesday for violating antitrust laws.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Arm introduced its first designs to the new Armv9 architecture, including the flagship Cortex-A710 CPUs and Mali-G710 GPU. Huawwei shifts gears to focusing on software development. The Epic Apple trial closed Monday and Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers will now take what is likely months to review the 4500 pages of testimony and make her bench decision.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Amos.
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A group of over 500 researchers have signed on to the BigScience project, an effort led by the startup Huggingface to build an open-soruce large language model to better understand natural-language processing. Facebook’s vice president of global affairs and former UK deputy prime minister Nick Clegg wrote an op-ed for CNBC calling for US lawmakers to create a new digital regulator. Ford reveals more information on the F-150 Lightning Pro’s extended-range version, capable of about 300 miles on a single charge and with a 240 V, 80 A charger (called the Charge Station Pro) that can fill the battery to 100% in eight hours. Price? Just under $50,000.
Starring Sarah Lane, Rich Stroffolino, Nate Lanxon, Roger Chang, Joe.
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We discuss the state of Right to Repair and issues surrounding the various stakeholders involved.
Starring Sarah Lane, Rich Stroffolino, Patrick Norton, Len Peralta, Roger Chang, Joe.
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The crowdsourced crime watch app Citizen sparks a manhunt for the wrong guy, Twitter restarts its public verification program and more updates from the Epic vs Apple trial.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Tuesday the National Internet Finance Association of China, the China Banking Association and the Payment and Clearing Association of China issued a warning that consumers would get no protection from losses related to cryptocurrency investment transactions. Financial and payment institutions were also advised that they must not use virtual currency for most purposes. This sent cryptocurrencies tumbling. Has the cryptocurrency bubble burst?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Google I/O 2021 has started and a flood of announcements were made today. We parse out what was unveiled and how it fits into Google’s broader strategy.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah, Rob DeMillo, Roger Chang, Joe.
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AT&T and Discovery have reached an agreement to combine their media divisions into a joint venture to be 71% owned by AT&T and 29% by Discovery. Wired recently featured a piece looking at a number of top gamers quitting full-time esports organizations to pursue careers as influences on Twitch and YouTube. And more on Epic vs Apple as their court case grinds on.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah, Jenn Cutter, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Ransomware is still in the spotlight as the Irish government announced the Irish Health service’s central data servers were under an attempted ransomware attack and Toshiba disclosed that it had been attacked by Darkisde, the same group believed to be behind the software used in the Colonial Pipeline attack.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah, Robb Dunewood, Len Peralta, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Facebook changes the name of Libra, its digital in-house currency, and moves its headquarters out of Switzerland, Tesla’s Elon Musk issued a statement announcing the company will stop taking Bitcoin after 49 days of accepting it for purchases of cars, and Colonial Pipeline paid the group behind its ransomware attack $5 million dollars.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Belgian security researcher Mathy Vanhoef published details of so-called WiFi “frag attacks.”, YouTube plans to launch a $100 million fund to pay popular creators on its recently launched Shorts platform, and Xiaomi and the U.S. Defense Department reached an agreement to remove Xiaomi from a list of firms barred from US investment.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Joe.
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During Apple’s Spring Loaded event the company revealed the Apple TV Color Calibration tool. The idea is that you can use the iPhone’s TrueDepth camera to adjust the color settings on your TV without diving into complicated settings. So we asked Robert Heron to give us his expert view on this feature.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah, Robert Heron, Roger Chang, Joe.
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This past Friday the Colonial Pipeline Company suffered a ransomware attack and shut down the entire pipeline. The attack does not seem to have affected control systems that run the pipeline itself, but the shutdown is meant to make sure that does not happen. Is this the infrastructure attack we’ve been warned of happening? And what can we do to reduce our risk in the future?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah, Roger Chang, Joe.
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With no deal in sight between Google and Roku to renew YouTube TV’s presence on Roku’s platform the search giant has come up with a workaround. It will let people access YouTube TV directly from the main YouTube app. Will Roku allow it and what does this mean for Google’s attempts to strongarm platforms to accept its terms?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Lamarr Wilson, Len Peralta, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Was the FCC’s decision to roll back on net neutrality rules based on fraudulent public comments? The NYAG thinks so and so does FCC Acting Chair Jessica Rosenworcel.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang, Amos, Joe.
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3D scanning as a technology has come a long way especially in its use in science and research. Dr. Nicole Ackermans joins us with an explanation on the different types of 3D scanning technologies and what they’re used for in research circles.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Dr. Nicole Ackermans, Roger Chang, Joe.
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The Oxford Internet Institute published a survey of 430,000 10 to 15-year-olds about their TV viewing, social-media and device use with feelings of depression, suicidal tendencies and behavioral problems. What were the results and what does it mean?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Allison Sheridan, Roger Chang, Joe.
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TSMC says it projects its supply will catch up to the auto industry’s demand by the end of June, Verizon announced Monday it intends to sell its Verizon Media division to Apollo Global Management, and Sony announced a partnership that will see it integrate Discord into “your social and gaming experience on PlayStation Network” by early 2022.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Nate Lanxon, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Finland trials an autonomous robotic street cleaner called Trombia Free, The YouTube TV app is no longer available for download from the Roku channel store, and Fast Company reported concerns but the National Network to End Domestic Violence, or NNEDV that Apple’s AirTags could be used to track people by secretly slipping them into a bag or jacket pocket.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Chris Ashley, Len Peralta, Roger Chang, Joe.
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We take a look at the state of harmful speech regulation online as the European Parliament formally adopting a law requiring internet companies to “remove or disable access to flagged terrorist content”. Plus a recent article in Wired by Gilad Edelman says Social Media platforms speech policies aren’t actually inspired by the First Amendment and says that’s a good thing.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Samsung announced new intel-Evo certified laptops at its Unpacked 2021 event Wednesday, Sony has sold more PS5s in the first quarter of 2021 than PS4s sold in its first fiscal year, and updates on the Epic vs Apple case.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Joe.
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TikTok is popularized as a pop-culture meme generator. But the platform is increasingly being used for other less well known uses including cooking tutorials, language learning, real estate listings, DIY projects and in some cases for dating. We talk to CNET’s Erin Carson about how TikTok morphed from short funny videos into a cornucopia of information.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Erin Carson, Roger Chang, Joe.
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If you’ve ever experienced wake word fatigue with your virtual assistant, Google might have something in the works for you, The Washington Post is spinning off its software-as-a-service publishing platform, and Roku and Google have a public spat over YouTube TV.
Starring Sarah Lane, Rich Stroffolino, Roger Chang, Joe.
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UK court overturns 39 Post Office employee convictions that were originally based on flawed information derived from the Post Office’s computerized system called Horizon. Should this be a warning call for others to rely solely on one data point to uncover criminal activity even if it derives from an automated computer system?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Patrick Norton, Len Peralta, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Yesterday a Senate judiciary subcommittee hearing called “Antitrust Applied: Examining Competition in App Stores” focused on Apple and Google’s control over their app stores, we examine why the Netbook never took off and discuss the spec leaks on the next generation MacBook.
Starring Sarah Lane, Rich Stroffolino, Justin Robert Young, Dan Campos, Roger Chang, Joe.
The European Commission proposed a bill Wednesday to develop comprehensive regulation of Artificial Intelligence. What’s in it and will it impact users outside of the EU’s borders?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Apple announced a flurry of new products including a new Pro level iPad and a M1 powered iMac.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Charlotte Henry, Nica Montford, Terrance Gaines, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Mercedes unveils its EQS, an all electric S-class luxury sedan, Reddit launches its Clubhouse competitor, and Nica Montford from SnobOS introduces us to Angie Jones, First-Ever Black Female Java Champion.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Tim Stevens, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Join DTNS and the crew from TWIS as the two grand pillars of podcasting join forces for an epic podcast episode filled with science, technology and fun.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Kirsten Sanford, Justin Jackson, Blair Bazdarich.
What does “no” in Android’s location history really mean? The Internet of Secure Things Alliance has expanded its certifications of i-O-T devices to include mobile apps and VPNs and Adias has a new show with material made from mushroom roots.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Lamarr Wilson, Len Peralta, Roger Chang, Joe.
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The UK union Prospect, which represents scientists, engineers and tech workers is lobbying the government to create a “right to disconnect.” The law would not stipulate when companies could communicate with workers but require that companies negotiate with staff on rules about when and when not you can be contacted for work purposes. Will it succeed and should the policy be copied elsewhere?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Urbanista announced its latest wireless noise-canceling headphones- the Urbanista Los Angeles, TikTok claims to have more than 100 million US monthly active users, with 732 million globally and Facebook announced several updates coming to the Oculus Quest in version 28 of the headset’s OS.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Microsoft announced new Surface hardware and a variety of accessories, Roku began rolling out Roku OS 10, which adds AirPlay 2 and HomeKit compatibility, and the hidden patient health data attached to medical images that people should know about.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Seth Rosenblatt, Roger Chang, Joe.
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At Nvidia’s GPU Technology conference the company unveiled Grace, the company’s latest ARM based SoC CPU design, Logitech announced it will no longer manufacture Harmony remotes, and Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman’s sources say Apple is working on a couple of new smart home devices.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Iyaz Akhtar, Roger Chang, Joe.
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We get so many questions about electric vehicles or EVs, that we decided to gather some EV experts and enthusiasts to tell us what their experiences are and what those of you curious about Evs should know before getting behind the wheel.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Allison Sheridan, Rod Simmons, Bodi Grimm, Howard Yermish. Link to show notes.
Cal-Berkeley’s Zhongyu Li has built Cassie, a robot that teaches itself how to walk through reinforcement learning, An audit by scientists at the University of Southern California found that Facebook’s ad delivery system still has a gender bias leading to some ads being shown to male but not females regardless of skill qualifications and The US National Institutes of Health issued a grant to scientists at General Electric to further develop a sensor capable of detecting COVID-19.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Robb Dunewood, Len Peralta, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Facebook announces its Clubhouse competitor, more on Apple vs Epic, and Andrew Heaton shares his experience podcasting in a camping trailer.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Justin Robert Young, Andrew Heaton, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Lauren Goode has an article on Wired called “I Called Off My Wedding. The Internet Will Never Forget”. We discuss how the Internet can make it hard to forget and move past painful events in our lives.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Clubhouse rolls out its first monetization feature, called simply, Clubhouse Payments, Signal plans to add support for MobileCoin and why a shortage in the tiny little display driver chips is at the heart of the wider chip shortage.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Facebook's dataset of 533 million accounts hacked in 2020 is now being offered for free, LG is leaving the mobile communications business, and the SCOTUS ruled in Google’s favor over a suit brought by Oracle over 11,500 lines of code.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Rich Stroffolino, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Vaccine passes are in development. The idea is to be able to securely show who has been vaccinated to enable a return to normal faster. How do they work and where have they been implemented?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Chris Ashley, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Edelman surveyed more than 33,000 people in 28 countries to gauge consumer trust in institutions like media, government, and businesses. Trust in the tech sector fell by 7 percent around the world – a third straight year of decline. What’s behind the decline and what if anything should tech companies do about it?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Allison Sheridan, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Motherboard posted a story earlier this week about multiple occurrences where someone bought an NFT and then the thing the NFT referred to disappeared, Facebook announced a couple new features and Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman reports that in the next several months, Apple may make an announcement for a mixed reality headset.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Joe.
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LinkedIn is adding features that cater to video creators, Arm announced its first major new chip architecture in ten years, called Armv9, and PayPal will let US users use cryptocurrency holdings to pay online merchants in the coming months with a feature it calls Checkout with Crypto.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Lamarr Wilson, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Boston Dynamics announced Stretch, a new robot designed to move boxes in warehouses, MIT computer scientists led a team that looked at 10 of the most-cited datasets used to test machine learning systems and found that 3.4% of data was either inaccurate or mislabeled, Sony announced it’s shutting down the PlayStation Store for the PlayStation 3 and remaining purchasing capabilities on the PSP on July 2nd, and Microsoft has rebranded the Xbox Live service as Xbox Network.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Trisha Hershberger, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Xiaomi plans to market electric vehicles under its own brand, Dodge announced a new security feature for its Challenger and Charger cars that requires a four-digit code to unlock the car fully and TCL wants to combine rollable and foldable screens into one device.
Starring Tom Merritt, Patrick Norton, Len Peralta, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Zuckerberg, Pichai, and Dorsey all testified before the House Energy and Commerce committee to discuss spreading disinformation, extremism and misinformation, Facebook announced it took actions to disrupt the group that security researchers call “Evil Eye” or “Poison Carp” and Triumph announced details about its TE-1 electric bike project, in development since 2019.
Starring Rich Stroffolino, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger announced it will elevate its small foundry business to become a standalone business within Intel called Intel Foundry Services led by Randhir Thakur. Unlike previous efforts, IFS will offer SoCs with not only x86, but Arm, and RISC-V cores, and use industry standard design tools this time, making it easier to work with for third parties. How will these efforts help turn Intel’s ship around and will it be enough?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Peter Wells wrote a column for the Sydney Morning Herald called “How searching for help online can be healthy.” But should you search online? And what kinds of help can you expect?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Peter Wells, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Zoom will begin selling access to its API for companies to embed video calling into their own products, Microsoft will start a limited reopening of its headquarters in Redmond and Seattle on March 29th, and preservation group Hidden Palace has obtained 752 PS2 game prototypes for the Project Deluge initiative.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Patrick Norton, Roger Chang, Joe.
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The MPAA notes that online video subscriptions rose 26% to 1.1 billion in 2020, passing 1 billion worldwide for the first time. Is this is just a pandemic spike or are the the numbers here to stay?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Lamarr Wilson, Len Peralta, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Sony shows off their new PSVR 2 controllers while Facebook is working on an AR wrist controller. ATT won't be exempting HBO from data caps, and we may never have to worry about our bicycle tires going flat.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Justin Robert Young, Amos, Joe.
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During an annual shareholders meeting, Samsung co-CEO Koh Dong-jin said worldwide chip shortages will impact its business next quarter. Koh said, “our business leaders are meeting partners overseas to solve these problems. It’s hard to say the shortage issue has been solved 100%.” Samsung is the second-largest made-to-order silicon supplier, after TSMC but relies on suppliers for some parts like power management and radios.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Australia is considering an online safety bill with six main areas overseen by an eSafety commissioner. What will this new legislation cover and what do tech companies think about the new regulations?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Peter Wells, Roger Chang, Joe.
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The Information reports Amazon is expanding an existing program called FC Games, which encourages its fulfillment center employees to improve efficiency and compete against others for digital rewards, such as virtual pets.
Starring Sarah Lane, Rich Stroffolino, Roger Chang, Joe.
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The CSUN Assistive Technology Conference is held every year to show off developments in assistive technology. This year for the first time it was held virtually. Allison Sheridan is here with highlights from this year’s show.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Robb Dunewood, Allison Sheridan, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Digital artist Mike Winkleman sold an NFT of his work “Everydays – The First 5000 Days” for $69 million at the 255-year-old Christie’s auction house, putting him in the top three most valuable living artists. Is this is a sign that NFT’s are gaining acceptance in the collectors market?
Starring Tom Merritt, Roger Chang, Len Peralta, Amos Joe.
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A group was able to access admin tools inside a company called Verkada that supplies surveillance cameras to more than 5200 customers including cities, colleges and hotels. Who was affected and what data was put at risk?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Monday the European Union approved Microsoft’s acquisition of ZeniMax, the parent company of Bethesda, which now officially has joined Microsoft. What will Microsoft gain and how does this change things in the video gaming world?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Patrick Beja, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Plans are firming up for an in-person Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this June, with a possible 45,000-50,000 attendees. That would be just about half the 109,000 who attended in 2019. 17,000 people attended MWC Shanghai in February.
We talk to Nate Lanxon about how the show is adapting to meet the challenges of hosting a show during a pandemic.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Nate Lanxon, Roger Chang, Joe.
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China’s parliament is meeting to approve the party’s five year plan which includes plans to become self-sufficient in technology. While China is home to tech assembly factories, it imports $300 billion worth of chips annually and does not produce its own chipmaking gear which would be needed to ramp up production. The US continues to target China with export controls on high-end semiconductor manufacturing equipment.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Patrick Norton, Len Peralta, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Apple is facing scrutiny over its App Store policies that force companies to use only Apple’s payment system which Apple takes a cut from. What are investigators looking to charge with and how will Apple respond?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Flock cameras are used for neighborhood surveillance and can detect people, animals, and bicycles, but are best at detecting cars, specifically their license plates. Motherboard obtained hundreds of emails from about 20 police departments in the US detailing the use of a program called TALON to look up information collected from Flock cameras. More than 500 police departments in more than 1,000 US cities have access. Flock claims it helps police solve 4 to 5 crimes per hour. Is this a dangerous trend or one we should welcome?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Joe
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Microsoft’s Ignite developers conference starts today. We take a look at all the big announcements from this year’s show and share what excites us most.
Starring Tom Merritt, Chris Ashley, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Google updated its Workspace productivity suite (formerly known as G Suite) with new features focused on fostering “collaboration equity” between employees who work from home and employees who work in the office.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Nicole Lee, Amos, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Scientists at Stanford University studied why video conferencing is exhausting. We discuss their findings and share our own experiences with Zoom and video conferencing fatigue.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Lamarr Wilson, Roger Chang, Joe.
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It’s no secret that Twitter has been looking into subscriptions as a source of revenue. At its Analyst Day presentation, the company announced its first offering in this lineup, Super Follows, which will let users charge their followers for access to additional content. In the demo, Twitter showed one example of a user paying $4.99 a month for access to exclusive tweets, deals and discounts, a supporter badge, newsletter, and community access. Will this new model payoff for the company?
Starring Sarah Lane, Rich Strophollino, Justin Robert Young, Len Peralta, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Facebook Vice President of global affairs Nick Clegg wrote a blog post Wednesday saying Facebook plans to spend more than $1 billion on the news industry over the next three years. The post also reiterated Facebook’s position on the Australian Media Code which is to say, it prefers to make deals without being subject to the code. What does this mean for the average Australian and for Aussie news outlets?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Peter Wells, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Video game development is a popular career path for many people. But exactly how do you get into the industry? Is it something you can study for in college, gain a degree in and then apply for a job after graduation? We invited Bungie EP, Carrie Gouskous, to share her insights on how to break into the video game industry.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Carrie Gouskos, Roger Chang, Joe.
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We share a clip of our interview with Dr. Michael Geist, law professor at the University of Ottawa, about Australia’s ongoing issues with Google and Facebook, and what it means for the broader internet and media outlets around the globe.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Trevor Croker, Roger Chang, Joe.
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The Supreme Court of the United Kingdom unanimously upheld a lower court ruling in a 2016 case that Uber drivers are not independent contractors. What does this mean for Uber in the UK and will this set a precedent for governments elsewhere?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Robb Dunewood, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Facebook had just started blocking news links from Australian sources worldwide and blocking Australian Facebook users from seeing any news links, in anticipation of Australia passing a law that would require Facebook to pay publishers to link to news content. What were the effects of the Facebook’s block and will it change anything?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang, Joe.
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YouTube announced several new products coming this year but the most interesting is YouTube Shorts. It will come as a beta to some creators in the US in March. We discuss YouTube’s strategy and its likely success against the incumbent short form video platform TikTok.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Patrick Norton, Roger Chang, Joe
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Allison Sheridan shares her thoughts on SaleForces’s recent decision to allow a majority of the its employees to work from home.
Starring Sarah Lane, Rich Strophollino, Allison Sheridan, Roger Chang, Joe
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Bloomberg’s sources say that in 2010, the US Department of Defense found that Supermicro servers in unclassified networks were sending network data, including a partial map of the unclassified network, to China. Undetectable countermeasures were put in place and the attack was allowed to run in order to determine its aim. So What Did they find?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Shannon Morse, Roger Chang, Joe.
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New York Times’ sources say Facebook is building a Clubhouse competitor. It’s in the earliest days, so early that the sources say the secret code name is even subject to change. So how do we think Facebook will do at copying Clubhouse? Or should it just buy it?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Salesforce posted to its blog Tuesday that the “9-5 workday is dead.” And will give employees three categories to choose from for their work schedule. Flex would see employees come in 1-3 days a week into the office. The other two categories are fully remote and office based.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Joe
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A worldwide chip shortage is growing. NXP and Infineon both say chip constraints are no longer limited to automotive. Apple and Sony have both said their newest models are affected by production bottlenecks and component shortages.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Ashley Esqueda, Roger Chang, Joe.
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The largest ever study of facial-recognition data shows how much the rise of deep learning has fueled a loss of privacy.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Patrick Beja, Roger Chang, Joe
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When you shop for home theaters you’re going to see a lot of info about subwoofers. Their Size, power and placement. But why do you need a subwoofer, how do you pick one and where the heck do you put it? Patrick Norton from AVExcel is here to give us the basics on what you need to know about subwoofers?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Patrick Norton, Len Peralta, Roger Chang, Joe.
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The incoming head of the Senate antitrust subcommittee Senator Amy Klobuchar, plans to introduce a new antitrust bill that would place limits on acquisitions by large tech platforms. If the bill became law here’s it would shift the burden of proof on to companies with more than 50 percent market share.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang, Joe
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Yesterday the news broke right before the show that Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos will stop being CEO in Q3 (which starts in July) and become Executive Chair of Amazon’s board. AWS CEO Andy Jassy will take over as CEO. What will Bezos be doing as Executive Chair and will it matter to the day to day operations of Amazon?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Amos, Joe.
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Uber announced it intends to buy the alcohol delivery company Drizly for $1.1 billion. The company aims to integrate Drizly services into Uber Eats, but also wants to maintain the separate Drizly app. DoorDash, Instacart, Minibar, Craftshack and more all offer alcohol delivery in the US.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Dan Benjamin, Roger Chang, Amos, Joe.
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Independent publishers thrive in China on platforms like WeChat and Toutiao. Chinese TV shows and movies are often made based on successful web novels. In China self-publishers are referred to as “We Media” both a reference to WeChat and being fan-driven. In 2020, 360 million users read articles published on WeChat public accounts. Self-publishers have always had to make sure they don’t attract the attention of Chinese censors. A regulation published January 22nd by the Cyberspace Administration of China requires accounts that “provide online news service to the public shall obtain the Internet News Information Permit and other relevant media accreditation.”
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Rich Strophollino, Amos, Joe.
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Xiaomi announced Mi Air Charge Technology, a wireless power charging system that uses a phase control array to send up to 5 Watts of power to multiple devices using beamformed millimeter-wide waves within a radius of several meters. Will this end up being vaporware?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Lamarr Wilson, Len Peralta, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Facebook’s Oversight Board has reached decisions on a number of accounts directing the company to restore four posts in its first ruling.
Starring Sarah Lane, Rich Strophollino, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang, Joe.
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What does short selling have to do with GameStop? And why is a subreddit r/wallstreetbets in the middle of allegations of stock price shenanigans?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Molly Wood, Roger Chang, Joe.
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During this pandemic much has been made about tech workers fleeing cities for other parts of the country due to cost of living and natural disasters. But what exactly is going on and is this shift a much deeper and older set of human behaviors?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Annalee Newitz, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Peacock used to be notable for being a streaming service that hasn’t yet added Plus to its name. But recent moves by NBCUniversal look to make it a destination for sports. Internally the company plans to wind down NBCSN by the end of the year, with its sports coverage, including Hockey, Tennis, and NASCAR going to USA Network and/or Peacock.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Joe.
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We examine the state of Quantum Computing from China’s perspective and how it might impact the wider world.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Dr. Kiki Sanford, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Amazon chief executive of worldwide consumer business, Dave Clark, sent a letter to the US President, offering to help reach the goal of vaccinating 100 million people against COVID-19 in 100 days. Can Amazon really help with the deployment of vaccines across the country and should the country take them up on their offer?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang, Joe.
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The European Commission fined Valve and the game publishers Focus Home, ZeniMax, Koch Media, Capcom, and Bandai Namco a combined 7.8 million Euros for geo-blocking roughly 100 PC games, preventing them from being played outside certain EU countries and breaking EU’s Digital Single Market rules.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Company gets approval for self-flying drones away from line of sight, Brave browser offers new IPFS functionality and Pizza Hut in Israel plans on testing drone pizza delivery to drop-off points for final delivery by a driver.
Starring Tom Merritt, Robb Dunewood, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Are Facebook and Twitter protected by a shield that stops them from being responsible for any of their content? We bring on Mike Masnick from TechDirt and Shoshana Weissman from the R Street Institute to talk about what Section 230 is, what it isn’t, and whether it needs to be changed.
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Shoshana Weissmann, Senior Manager of Digital Media and a policy Fellow at the R Street Institute.
https://senatorshoshana.medium.com/who-am-i-ff164b02707e
Mike Masnick, founder and CEO of the Copia Institute and editor of the Techdirt blog.
https://www.techdirt.com/user/mmasnick
Our discussion isn't a substitute for, nor does it constitute, legal advice. The goal of this discussion is to explore some of the legal issues surrounding CDA 230.
The central text of Section 230
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/47/230
(1) Treatment of publisher or speaker
No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider.
There is also a section right after that on Civil Liability that offers further protections for taking certain moderation actions.
-- What is Section 230 designed to do?
-- What are some of the major misconceptions about Section 230?
-- If section 230 were repealed with no replacement, what do you think the effect would be?
-- Do you believe Congress should replace 230? If so, with what? If not, why?
Mike:
-Fix a typo
-Reverse FOSTA
-Remove intellectual exemption property
Allison Sheridan is back with her take on the rest of CES 2021, plus we talk about the future of Podcast Media LLC as it goes up for potential sale.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Allison Sheridan, Len Peralta, Roger Chang, Joe.
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It’s the final day at CES 2021. We take a look at the winners of Engadget’s Best of CES and the highlights from Samsung’s announcements.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang, Joe.
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CES 2021 wraps up as we talk home automation trends, a new heads-up-display for cars and a new open world Star Wars game.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Richard Gunther, Roger Chang, Joe.
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It's Day 2 of CES 2021. We discuss the latest developments in High and Ultra Definition TV and Home Theater technology with Robert Heron and Patrick Norton. Plus all the chip announcements from AMD, Intel and Nvidia.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Patrick Norton, Robert Heron, Roger Chang, Joe.
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CES 2021 has arrived. We sort through all the press releases and discuss all the gadgets, hardware and services announced at the first day of the trade show.
Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Chris Ashley, Peter Wells, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Roku has agreed to acquire exclusive global distribution rights to more than 75 Quibi shows and documentaries, some of which had not been released before Quibi shut down. After the exclusivity deals expire Ibn a bit more than a year, Roku will have the rights to show the content until 2027. The content will have to be presented in its original increments of 10 minutes or less. Why did Roku make this move and how will they benefit?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Shannon Morse, Len Peralta, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Former executives from Discovery and Disney are launching a streaming service called Struum. Struum will not have its own content but will partner with smaller streaming content providers, instead, to offer subscribers the ability to sample content from multiple places for one monthly fee. What’s the business model for Struum and do we think it will work?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Verizon’s 3G network will seemingly get another stay of execution. Verizon had initially said its 3G network would be shutdown at the end of 2019, later delaying it to the end of 2020. What’s causing the delay and are there practical reasons why it’s still running?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Joe.
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We examine three cryptocurrency news items including the US Office of the Comptroller of Currency Interpretive Letter 1174, that says banks may use stablecoins and the US Financial Crimes Enforcement Network is proposing requiring financial institutions to collect personal information like name and address, for anyone involved in large cryptocurrency transactions.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Robb Dunewood, Roger Chang, Joe.
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It’s 2021 and this year many of the major auto makers will be introducing all-electric models into their lineup. What can we expect and from whom? CNET's Roadshow Editor-in-Chief, Tim Stevens is here to fill us in!
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Tim Stevens, Roger Chang, Joe.
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With 2020 coming to a close it's time to cast predictions of what will happen in tech in the year 2021. See what bold insights our contributors have this time around and what we all think of their prognostications.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Lamarr Wilson, Patrick Norton, Robb Dunewood, Roger Chang
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Welcome to our 2020 Tech Predictions Results episode. Back at the end of 2019 we brought on a group of contributors to share what they thought might happen in the world of tech in the year 2020. See who was right, who was wrong and compare what we worried about with what actually happened.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Jenn Cutter, Shannon Morse, Allison Sheridan, Roger Chang.
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2020 is almost over but before it closes checkout all the highlights from the past year in this special Best of show put together by our very own Theatremonkey!
Staring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Shannon Morse, Scott Johnson, Justin Robert Young, Nicole Lee, Ant Pruitt, Len Peralta, Chris Ashley, Patrick Beja, Patrick Norton, Anthony Lemos
This is our end of year Listener Co-Host Show. This is the annual episode where we invite several of our supporters to appear alongside us on the show. This time we thought it be fun to have some of the folks who help moderate our Discord and Twitch chat to give us their perspective on the show and our audience.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Preston Monroe, Willie Scott, Beat and Dan Christensen.
Welcome to our holiday retro show episode. We look back at the stories from Sept 21st, 1999 and share our thoughts on how those stories turned out 20 years later.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane and Roger Chang
Is 5G Slower Than 4G on Verizon? We reveal the surprising details and the truth behind Verizon's 5G network.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Joe.
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We learn how researchers in Japan are exploring the feasibility of using electric rays and sting rays equipped with pingers to help map the ocean floor.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Blair Bazdarich, Roger, Joe.
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Last week we talked about the launch of Apple Fitness+ and who it's best for. THIS week we can talk about using it since Allison Sheridan has been doing just that!
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Allison Sheridan, Roger Chang, Joe.
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The US Commerce Department added 77 entities to its "entity list," 60 from China but also companies from Bulgaria, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Italy, Malta, Pakistan, Russia and the United Arab Emirates. What does this mean and are products from those companies now banned?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Lamarr Wilson, Len Peralta, Roger Chang, Joe.
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We take a closer look at the antitrust suits filed against Google as 35 states, Guam, Puerto Rico and DC led by Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser and Nebraska Attorney General Doug Peterson. The suit accuses Google of anticompetitive behavior including designing its search engine to favor its own products above competitors.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Facebook took out full page ads in the New York Times, Washington Post and Wall Street Journal saying “We’re standing up to Apple for small businesses everywhere." The statement centers on updates to Apple's third-party ad policy coming early next year which could limit Facebook and others from targeting ads. So who's right and who's wrong and will the consumer benefit in either case?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Patrick Beja gives us an overview on where video games and video gaming is in 2020.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Patrick Beja, Roger Chang, Joe.
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A breach in the Orion network management platform from a company called Solar Winds has led to attacks on FireEye, Microsoft and several US government agencies. Solar Winds said Sunday that updates to its Orion platform between March and June may have carried malware as a result of a sophisticated nation-state supply-chain attack. We unpack what exactly happened.
Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Peter Wells, Keith Townsend, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Microsoft has identified a malware campaign it calls Adrozek which began as late as May this year, peaked in August and is still ongoing. How can you avoid it and what should you do if you're infected?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Shannon Morse, Len Peralta, Roger Chang, Joe.
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It's not a good week for Facebook. After two antitrust lawsuits were launched against Facebook in the US Wednesday, Germany’s Federal Cartel Office announced it is investigating Facebook's requirement that users have a Facebook account to log in to an Oculus VR devices. The office believes the practice "could constitute a prohibited abuse of dominance by Facebook." We examine new allegations and explain what they might mean for the social media giant.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang, Joe.
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The US Federal Trade commission filed a lawsuit Wednesday alleging Facebook illegally maintains "its personal social networking monopoly through a years-long course of anticompetitive conduct." The FTC is asking the court to order Facebook to sell off WhatsApp and Instagram, prohibit anticompetitive conditions on developers and require notice and prior approval of future mergers and acquisitions.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Streaming services are the new hotness. AT&T CEO John Stankey announced at a conference that HBO Max subscriptions rose from 8.6 million at the end of Q3 to 12.6 million as of early December while NBCUniversal CEO Jeff Shell said Peacock passed 26 million signups as of Monday up 4 million since October.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Patrick Norton, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Saturday JD.com became the first virtual platform to accept digital yuan, the government's official digital currency. Is this a watershed moment for government issued digital currency?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Robb Dunewood has put a lot of work into his home video studio and is ready to share all tricks he's learned and a few of the products he thinks are worth knowing about.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Robb Dunewood, Len Peralta, Roger Chang, Joe.
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WarnerMedia announced its entire slate of movies in 2021 will debut on HBO Max in 4K HDR at the same time they appear in theaters. That means Dune, Suicide Squad, The Matrix 4, Godzilla vs. Kong, the whole slate. Each movie will be available on HBO Max for a month. Theaters like AMC will run the movies as well and may continue to run them after the 30 days.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang, Joe.
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What does Salesforce want with Slack and who should be the most worried about the company's acquisition?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Yesterday we told you about DeepMind's AlphaFold system that uses an attention-based neural network to predict protein folding structure in a matter of days. This avoids needing the huge computing resources to brute-force predictions, such as folding@home or the meticulous and labor intensive use of direct observation both of which take much longer. Today Dr. Kiki is going to help us understand what this advance of neural network training can actually do for us.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Dr Kiki, Roger Chang, Joe.
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The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Monday in Van Buren vs. United States regarding the application of the US Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA). We discuss the premise of the case and how a ruling one way or another will impact computer use.
Starring Tom Merritt, Rich Strophollino, Roger Chang, Joe.
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The Verge's Tom Warren notes that despite the Xbox Series X having more powerful hardware, the PS5 has been outperforming it, particularly in frame rate, according to benchmarks from Digital Foundry. What's going on and is there deeper going on?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Twitter announced it is relaunching its verification process with new guidelines, the Australian inspector general for the intelligence community discovered intelligence agencies were “incidentally” collecting data from Australia’s COVIDSafe contact tracing app, and the future of newspapers.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Peter Wells, Roger Chang, Joe.
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If you plan to upgrade your home theater display this holiday shopping season wait till you hear what Robert Heron has to say on what to look for and which TVs should be on your shortlist.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Robert Heron, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Patrick Norton is back with some choice picks for your holiday gift buying list.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Patrick Norton, Roger Chang, Joe.
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The Washington Post's sources say state and federal investigators are preparing to bring antitrust charges against Facebook, alleging that the acquisition of rivals Instagram and WhatsApp led to a social media market with few quality alternatives. We examine the thrust of the case and what Facebook can look forward to in court.
Starring Sarah Lane, Rich Stroffolino, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Apple announced the App Store Small Business Program that-- starting January 1st-- will let developers who earn less than $1 million in annual sales apply for a reduced commission rate where Apple would only take 15 percent, instead of 30 percent, of sales.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Dan Benjamin, Roger Chang, Joe.
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We delve into the science of happiness and the unspoken dark side that pursuing it entails.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Erin Carson, Roger Chang, Joe.
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TechCrunch's sources say Uber has been in talks since October to sell its Advanced Technologies Group. This would follow Uber selling scooter and bike company Jump, selling a stake in Uber Freight and agreeing to acquire Postmates, which is expected to close this quarter. What's Uber's plan and why the shift away from tangential business ventures?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Joe.
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We examine the rise of contact tracing devices in the workplace and their use for worker surveillance as outlined by David Gershgorn's recent OneZero article.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Shannon Morse, Len Peralta, Roger Chang, Joe.
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On January 6, 2021, the US will count its electoral votes for President and Vice President and right now it seems likely that the next US president will be former Vice President Joe Biden. So we thought we'd look at what kind of tech policy we might see from a Biden administration.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Apple releases its new M1 processor its first system on a chip for Mac. We share out thoughts and perspectives on Apple's new in-house processor.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Nica Montford, Terrance Gaines, Roger Chang, Joe.
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In 2017, Tim Berners-Lee launched a company called Inrupt to market products that used the Solid system. Monday, Inrupt announced an enterprise product to let developers build apps that use Solid's Pods. Inrupt worked with the BBC, the UK's National Health Service and the Government of Flanders in Belgium to develop its enterprise platform. Is this a step forward in allowing customers to manage their data privacy?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Chris Ashley, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Netflix tests a new way to chill, Apple to enforce new "nutrition Guidelines" for App Store apps, and the Intel-AMD race has legs again.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Chris Ashley, Len Peralta, Amos, Joe.
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Nvidia is dipping another toe in the gaming water where Nintendo is doing well, there's a big move in Bitcoin, and what does California's Prop 22 mean for the rest of the world?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Justin Robert Young, Amos, Joe.
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Tech companies win some and lose some, solar gets salty, and Walmart looks into the smart television market.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Amos, Joe.
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Voice assistants may learn when you are talking to them, Walmart foregoes robots...for now, and where are visual effects artists getting paid?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Nicole Lee, Amos, Joe.
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The RIAA has found the piracy, Waymo simulates collisions, and your cough might know if you have COVID-19 before your body shows symptoms.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Amos, Joe.
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John Hancock is offering its Life Insurance customers an Apple Watch Series 6 for $25. Then you have a choice: pay the remaining cost of the watch monthly for two years or exercise more and share that data with John Hancock to reduce or eliminate your monthly payment. We discuss the implications of the policy and what it might mean for data privacy.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Robb Dunewood, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Time management coach Elizabeth Grace Saunders wrote an article for Wired called "How to Stop Getting into Pointless arguments online." We share our views, experiences and tips.
Starring Tom Merritt, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey testified before a US subcommittee about the way they use Section 230 or Safe Harbor. What did they have to so and will it change any lawmakers minds about enacting possible regulations?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Joe
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T-Mobile will launch its streaming TV service TVision for T-Mobile postpaid customers starting November 1. Is this new business sustainable and how will it fare against the competition. Plus why has Wikipedia managed to keep its operation from being abused in the same manner as Facebook or Twitter?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Charlotte Henry, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Facebook is rolling out streaming games on the Web and in its Android Facebook app to selected users in the US, the RIAA, SAG-AFTRA and several other recording industry groups sent a letter to Jeff Bezos and Twitch CEO Emmett Shear claiming Twitch has failed to properly license music, and Researchers from Stanford and Samsung developed an OLED display with a density of more than 10,000 pixels per inch.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Brett Rounsaville, Roger Chang, Joe
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Patrick Norton joins us as he shares insights what Dolby ATOMS and HDR means for your home theater setup.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Patrick Norton, Len Peralta, Roger Chang, Joe.
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WhatsApp for Business is rolling out in-chat shopping, letting merchants link to products and services with the option to buy without leaving the interface. Merchants will also be able to add "buy" buttons to other online locations, which will take users to WhatsApp chats to complete the purchase.
Starring Rich Strofollino, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang, Joe.
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PayPal will let US customers buy, sell and hold bitcoin, ethereum, bitcoin cash and litecoin. The Information's sources say that NBCUniversal and Facebook declined to buy Quibi's catalog of video and Quibi chairman Jeffrey Katzenberg is now considering shutting down the company. And Amazon's Luna game streaming service opened up to users by invite only.
Starring Tom Merritt, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Joe.
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The US justice department filed an antitrust lawsuit in Washington DC federal court Tuesday, alleging Alphabet's Google engaged in anticompetitive conduct to preserve monopolies in search and search advertising using exclusionary and interlocking business agreements to keep out competitors.
Starring Tom Merritt, Alison Sheridan, Roger Chang, Joe.
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How can a simple word game give you better insight on network security? David Spark is here to show us how.
Starring Tom Merritt, David Spark, Roger Chang, Joe.
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After criticism of how Twitter applied its hacked materials policy the company announced Thursday evening it would change the policy. What's changed and will it have any effect?
Starring Tom Merritt, Shannon Morse, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Twitter blocked the ability of its users to link to or repost images from a New York Post story about VP Joe Biden's son, Hunter Biden. Twitter said the story violated its personal information policy because it included private information like phone numbers and email addresses. Is this a sign of a more actively policed Twitter for rule breakers or something that should have been done sooner?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Zoom has started beta test a service called OnZoom that lets paid Zoom users host and sell tickets to online events of up to 1000 attendees. Is this Zoom's way to expand beyond just teleconferencing?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Peter Wells, Roger Chang, Joe.
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We cover Apple's iPhone 12 and Home Pod mini announcement and see how they stack-up to the competition.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Nica Montford and Terrance Gaines, Roger Chang, Joe.
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How ride hailing defied government, angered unions and workers and how California voters will decide if gig work will ever be the same again in California and beyond.
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Film and TV prop and costume maker, Frank Ippolito, is here to give us some insight into the real-world technology that turns imaginative movie ideas into a physical reality.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Frank Ippolito, Len Peralta, Roger Chang, Joe.
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The beauty of the Internet is being able to do what you love and another perhaps even more beautiful thing about the internet is being able to turn what you love into your career. For Creator Week we asked Brian Brushwood to talk about how he did just that?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Justin Robert Young, Brian Brushwood, Roger Chang, Joe.
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From exploding space ships to de-aging actors many of today's Movies, TV shows and streaming series rely on visual effects. So we've invited VFX artist Carrie Smith on to give us a better understanding of what happens behind the scenes.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Carrie Smith, Roger Chang, Joe.
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A video game's experience is more than just the gameplay it is also the narrative that glues the various elements together. Shayna Moon, Senior Program Manager at Unity Technologies, is here to explain what goes into narrative game design and what developers need to think about when developing a game's story.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Patrick Beja, Shayna Moon, Roger Chang, Joe.
We start off Creator Week with Mark Johnson, Grammy award-winning music producer/engineer and co-founder of playingforchange.com. He explains the process and gear of recording and producing ensemble music with musicians from all parts of the globe.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Mark Johnson, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Atlanta’s Mercedes-Benz Stadium, home of the Atlanta Falcons and Atlanta United FC, will use a pair of drones to disinfect fan seating and other areas after upcoming events. The drones will use electrostatic spraying nozzles to distribute the nontoxic disinfecting chemicals.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Robb Dunewood, Len Peralta, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Google plans to spend more than $1 billion over the next three years to create something called Google news Showcase. What's Google's plan and how will news outlets benefit?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Google announced new products including 5G Pixels, Google TV and Chromecast, and Nest Audio. We dissect and examine the products.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Joe.
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We compare and contrast Amazon's upcoming streaming videogame service, Luna, against the competition from Google's Stadia, Microsoft's Game Pass Ultimate, Nvidia's GeForce Now and others.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Patrick Beja, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Roku announced the Streambar, a 14-inch soundbar that runs Roku's OS, capable of streaming 4K and HDR content. A compact speaker combined with a set-top streaming device. Who is this for and will it be successful in the marketplace?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Joe.
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With all the friction between Apple and Epic over payments in the App Store how will Amazon's streaming game service, Luna, tackle the same issue?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Lamarr Wilson, Len Peralta, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Amazon made a number of new hardware announcements at its Fall hardware event. We go through their list and share our thoughts.
Starring Sarah Lane, Rich Stroffolino, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Blizzard CEO and co-founder Mike Morhaime left the company in 2018. He has now unveiled his new company DreamHaven, a game developer and publisher. What is he up to and what can we expect from his new company?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Microsoft's Ignite kicks off today. We take a gander at the developments coming out of the conference.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Patrick Beja,Roger Chang, Joe.
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Cryptographic engineer Tony Arcieri noted that Twitter's automatic cropping algorithm for presenting image previews in the timeline seems to focus on white faces. What's going on and what can be done to mitigate the problem?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Joe.
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German police have begun a murder investigation into the death of a female patient in Düsseldorf who was about to undergo critical care when the hospital's systems were disabled by a ransomware attack September 9.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Shannon Morse, Len Peralta, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Like grains of sand in the desert, the saga of Tik Tok seems to go on and on. We bring you the latest this year's longest running tech soap opera.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Facebook announces the Oculus Quest 2. How does it compare to the earlier version and is an upgrade or a cost cutting measure?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Apple has announced new versions of the Apple Watch, iPad and iPad Air plus new services. We share our thoughts and get some insight from SnobOS's Nica and Terrance.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Patrick Beja, Nica Montford, Terrance Gaines, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Oracle wins its bid for Tik Tok but the sale still needs regulatory approval. Is this a done deal and what questions remain unanswered?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Joe.
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The Wall Street Journal has an article by Matthew Kronsberg called 10 Biggest Tech Trends to Come. We sort out which trends would select as the favorite ones and explain why.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Robb Dunewood, Len Peralta, Roger Chang, Joe.
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The reviews are out for the Microsoft Duo Android dual screen phone but don't call it a phone. We go through the first reviews of Microsoft dual screen Android phone.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Tuesday, three US Senators introduced the Online Freedom and Viewpoint Diversity Act which would modify section 230 of the US CDA to roll back the blanket protection for moderation. Platforms would receive their protection for liability only if their moderation decisions were made based on an “objectively reasonable belief” that content violated a specific policy. What exactly is this bill trying to accomplish and how would it work?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Pricing for Microsoft's upcoming Xbox Series X and S gaming console has been revealed along with detailed hardware specs for the Xbox Series S. The battle between the next generation of video gaming consoles heats up!
Starring Tom Merritt, Shannon Morse, Lamarr Wilson, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Patrick Norton is here with the important takeaways from this year's IFA tech trade-show in Berlin.
Starring Tom Merritt, Patrick Norton, Len Peralta, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Facebook CEO Mark Zukerberg announced several steps the company is taking to prevent misinformation ahead of the 2020 US election. We examine them to see if they're actually effective or just PR theater.
Starring Tom Merritt, Rich Stroffolino, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Microsoft has launched a three-part plan to fight deep fakes. The first is a tool meant for political campaigns and journalists called the Video Authenticator and it's also working on a system to let content producers add digital hashes and certificates to media so users can verify authenticity.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Facebook warns it will "stop allowing publishers and people in Australia from sharing local and international news on Facebook and Instagram," if a plan to force negotiations with news publishers to pay for content goes through. What's Facebook's plan and how will the Australian authorities react to it?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Patrick Beja, Roger Chang, Joe.
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IFA has started and one of the big trends coming out of the German technology conference are budget smart phones. We examine the latest from Motorola, Samsung and Qualcomm.
Starring Tom Merritt. Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Joe.
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CNET's Ben Fox Rubin reports that MasterCard announced a platform called Shop Anywhere in partnership with Accel robotics to let shoppers walk out of stores without having to go through a cashier. Is this the future for brick and mortar retail?
Starring Tom Merritt. Sarah Lane,Shannon Morse, Len Peralta, Roger Chang, Joe.
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TikTok CEO, Kevin Mayer quits as due to ongoing political turmoil, Microsoft working with Walmart on TikTok deal, Oracle has reportedly proposed a $20 billion bid for TikTok and TikTok likely to announce sale U.S. operations in the coming days.
Starring Tom Merritt. Sarah Lane, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Andrew Ross Sorkin and Mike Isaac from the New York Times published an in-depth look at how Microsoft got pulled into possibly buying part or all of TikTok. We share our thoughts and analyze the timeline of everything that happened.
Starring Tom Merritt. Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Joe.
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US District Court Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers ruled Monday that Apple does not have to reverse its decision to remove Fortnite from its App Store but must hold off terminating Epic's developer account which is also used to support Unreal Engine.
Starring Tom Merritt. Sarah Lane, Patrick Beja, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Alex Kantrowitz on Medium's OneZero wrote an article titled "Why a Slack Backlash Is Inevitable" and the Wall Street Journal's Chip Cutter and Aaron Tilley wrote "Slack Has Made Remote Office Communication Easier. It Can Also Be Less Civil. " Are we seeing.... a Slacklash?
Starring Tom Merritt. Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Taylor Soper over at GeekWire wrote up his experience of what remote NBA fandom looks like in the age of social distancing. We discuss his findings and share our own experiences of watching from the virtual bleachers.
Starring Rich Stroffolino, Len Peralta, Robb Dunewood, Roger Chang, Joe.
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A new survey from Pew Research Center revealed 73% of Americans think that its at least somewhat likely that social media platforms censor political viewpoints, up one percent from a 2018 survey. How do social media platforms juggle their business with the needs and challenges of political speech.
Starring Sarah Lane, Rich Stroffolino, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Apple hits $2 trillion market capitalization, Zoom expands into smart displays, and Blackberry keeps on ticking.
Starring Rich Stroffolino, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Monday Epic said Apple had told them they have until August 28 to change their Fortnite app to comply with app store guidelines or lose their membership in the Apple Developer Program. What's Epic strategy and does Apple's policy hurt more than just Epic?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Lamarr Wilson, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Allison Sheridan shares her experience with creating an open source ebook based on her podcast "Taming the Terminal".
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Allison Sheridan, Roger Chang, Joe.
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In case you missed it, we cover everything that has happened so far between Epic games, Google and Apple regarding Fortnite.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Patrick Norton, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Justin Robert Young shares his political insights on recent initiatives by social media giants to ready themselves for the upcoming US 2020 Election.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Microsoft's dual-screen Android device, the Surface Duo is available for preorder now for $1399, arriving September 10. We share our thoughts.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Joe.
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A scammer told Business Insider he cashed in selling millions of fake views for Instagram Reels just hours after it launched. Is the arrival and success of scammers a sign of a platform's success?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Lamarr Wilson, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Sources have said TikTok's separation from ByteDance could take over a year. Well beyond Trump and Microsoft's Sept. 15 timeline. What will happen next as Microsoft continues to negotiate a transition.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Rob DeMillo, Roger Chang, Joe.
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The POTUS signed two executive orders Thursday under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act forbidding transactions with TikTok owner Bytedance and any transactions with Tencent related to their super app WeChat. Are the orders legal and what will the repercussions be for the tech economy?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Annie Gaus, Roger Chang, Joe.
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US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced a five-pronged plan to curb national security risks from China called the "Clean Network." What does that entail and what should you know about it?
Starring Tom Merritt,Sarah Lane, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang, Joe.
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We examine all the announcements from this year's Samsung Unpacked event.
Starring Tom Merritt,Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Amber Mac shares her experience at a "free range" dairy farm that is almost entirely run by robots. The cows are free to roam in climate-controlled barns, get milked when they want, and they wear FitBits to measure their health. Is this the future of agriculture?
Starring Tom Merritt, Amber MacArthur, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Microsoft said Sunday it is working on a deal to acquire TikTok's operations in Canada, the US, New Zealand and Australia. What's the motivation behind the deal and will it be allowed by regulators?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang and Joe.
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Bytedance is considering listing its business in Hong Kong or Shanghai stock markets with plans to list TikTok separately in Europe or the US. Plus Bloomberg's sources say the US may announce an order for Bytedance to divest its ownership of TikTok.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Lamarr Wilson, Roger Chang and Joe.
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We explore what might happen to big tech after the Congressional hearings. Will it be good for them, consumers or anyone?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang and Joe.
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The US House Antitrust Subcommittee called Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, Apple CEO Tim Cook, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai to assemble and discuss their market power. What was said and who said it?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang and Joe.
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Andrew Mayne incorporated OpenAI's latest GPT-3 model into a project to help him develop dialogue for characters real and fictitious called AI|Writer.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Andrew Mayne, Roger Chang and Joe.
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First it was canned audio played over loudspeakers now its virtual fans in the stands. How is the technology that powers video games making virtual audiences for live games?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Andy Ihnatko, Roger Chang and Joe.
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Intel’s next-gen 7nm chips are delayed until at least 2022 and it would consider farming out more work to outside semiconductor foundries, eroding a founding principle that manufacturing is key to its success. What's ailing Intel and what do they need to do to turn it around?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Patrick Norton, Len Peralta, Roger Chang and Joe.
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On an investor, CEO Jack Dorsey said the company is actively exploring additional ways to make money from its users, including a potential subscription model. TikTok announced a new $200 million creators fund to support US creators who “are seeking opportunities to foster a livelihood” on the app. Bloomberg reports Nvidia approached SoftBank about a potentially acquiring ARM.
Starring Sarah Lane, Rich Strofollino, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang and Joe.
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Crowd noise is being piped into stadiums for sports played without fans using foley from video game companies like EA sports and Sony Interactive. With life now seemingly imitating video games where do we go from there?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang and Joe.
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Xbox's Phil Spencer is pushing for developers to make their games cross compatible across Xbox One, PC and xCloud including the first slew of titles for the upcoming Xbox Series X next-gen console. Will Microsoft pursuit of non-platform specific titles help or hurt the Xbox Series X chances against Sony's PS5?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Trisha Hershberger, Roger Chang and Joe.
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Unwanted and inappropriate sexting is an all too common problem. Katelyn Bowden, CEO of Badassarmy, with some advice on how to navigate the issue
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Katelyn Bowden, Roger Chang and Joe.
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It's World Emoji Day and Google and Apple revealed their versions of the 117 new emoji coming later this year as part of Unicode's emoji 13.0 update.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Robb Dunewood, Roger Chang and Joe.
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Twitter was the subject of a major hack compromising the accounts of high profile accounts including Bill Gates, President Obama, and Elon Musk. What was behind the activity and what are the ramifications.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang and Joe.
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Facebook are revising their estimates for their VR hardware upwards and Sony is ramping up production of their upcoming PS5 console. Are these moves based on hard numbers or generous assumptions?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane,Scott Johnson, Roger Chang and Joe.
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Can a skinny minimalist robot that resembles a coat rack be the future of robots in the home?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane,Patrick Beja, Roger Chang and Joe.
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Tik Tok faces new scrutiny as companies and political parties urge employees and members to delete the app from their personal Android or iOS devices due to security concerns.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane,Roger Chang and Joe.
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Deepfakes often feature in contentious debates regarding news and the dissemination of information. But exactly is a deepfake and how should society approach the issue in an informed manner?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Shannon Morse, Alyssa Miller, Roger Chang and Joe.
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What can your operation do to keep its data secure? We examine the key elements of infosec every business needs to know.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Justin Robert Young, Allan Alford, Mike Johnson, Roger Chang and Joe.
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With an increase in the number of people working from home securing your home data infrastructure has never been more urgent. Seth Rosenblatt from The Parallax breaks down the things you need to know to ensure your telecommute is as secure as possible.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Seth Rosenblatt, Roger Chang, Joe.
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There's a lot of fear, uncertainty and doubt about malicious attackers hacking the power grid, the water system and other industrial systems. What does it take to secure those facilities and who's responsible?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Patrick Beja, Keirsten Brager, Roger Chang, Joe
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Despite what movies tell us, the number one way thieves and hackers access our bank accounts, credit information and other sensitive data is through socially engineering. Infosec engineer, Stephanie Ihezukwu, is here to explain ways to know you're socially engineered.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Stephanie Ihezukwu, Roger Chang and Joe.
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As over 500 join in a boycott of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg stated there would be no change in company policy telling staff he believes that advertisers will return to the platform eventually. Is he right or just blind to obvious discontent from users and advertisers?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang and Joe.
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Swiss decentralized computing company Dfinity announced its Internet Computer is now open for third-party developers to build serverless apps that do not need a host to run from the cloud. Internet Computer runs across multiple independent data centers not in server farms controlled by a single company like Amazon or Google.
Starring Tom Merritt, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang and Joe.
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Discord posted Tuesday that it will shift its focus from video game communication to broader community creation. What's behind the shift and what are Discord's goals?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Patrick Beja, Roger Chang and Joe.
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Disney Research scientists and ETH Zurich published a paper on a neural-network based method for swapping faces in photos and video at a resolution high enough for use in film and TV
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Anthony Carboni, Roger Chang and Joe
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Microsoft shuts down its retail stores, verizon and Unilever join the move to pull ad money from facebook and the best TV projectors for watching in your garden.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Robert Heron, Len Peralta, Roger Chang, Joe, Amos
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Amazon launches a crime-fighting unit, Goldman Sachs won't let you use their font to criticize them and Google offers to pay publishers.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang, Joe, Amos.
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Amazon wants to compete with cable TV, the scoop on whether giving up your phone passcode is self-incrimination and the first mistaken arrest involving facial recognition.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, and Roger Chang.
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Patrick Beja weighs in on Apple's WWDC announcements.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Patrick Beja, Roger Chang, Amos.
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Apple finished up their WWDC 2020 presentation this morning. What was revealed and is Apple's official news regarding their shift to in-house ARM based silicon more about what's good for Apple vs what's good for their customers?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Terrance Gaines, Nica Montford, Roger Chang, Amos
We take a look at the African Americans engineers and inventors who've made wide-ranging contributions to technology development.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Shannon Morse, Len Peralta, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Twitter rolled out an update that allows people to record up to 140 secs of audio and tweet sounds. Is this something users need or want?
Starring Sarah Lane, Rich Stroffolino, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang and Joe.
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Monday Basecamp launched a subscription email client, called Hey, for iOS. However, required updates to the app have been blocked by Apple whom Basecamp has a disagreement regarding how subscription fees are collected.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Joe.
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A 2020 Reuters Institute Digital News report notes that people rely on Instagram for news twice as much as they did in 2018, particularly young adults. What will this mean for social media platforms like Twitter and how will news agencies evolve to adapt to it?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Lamarr Wilson, Roger Chang, Joe.
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GitHub plans to replace tern "master" with alternative term to avoid slavery references. What other terms could come up for consideration and how will that change look?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Veronica Belmont, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Robb Dunewood shares his experience on keeping a live podcast going when Mother Nature turns the lights out.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Robb Dunewood, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Wednesday the California Public Utilities Commission ruled that it considers Uber drivers to be employees. Uber, Lyft and any other transportation networking companies must provide workers compensation for all employees by July 1 or see their license revoked.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Can a small startup accomplish what $2 billion dollar Quibi could not?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Bloomberg's Mark Gurman's sources say that at WWDC on June 22, Apple may announce that it will replace Intel chips in Macs with its own ARM-based processors. IBM wrote a letter to members of the US Congress announcing it no longer offers general purpose IBM facial recognition or analysis software. Germany will commit 400 million Euros for funding of electronics research and development to reduce reliance on imports used in critical infrastructure.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Patrick Beja, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Despite the predicted doom and gloom over Airbnb's future due to COVID-19 the latest numbers from the company suggest a resurgent interest in the company's services.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane and Roger Chang, Joe
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Correct speaker placement can go a long way towards enjoying your home audio setup. Simple things that often require little to no money. Patrick shares his insights on what to do.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Patrick Norton,Len Peralta, Roger Chang, Joe.
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As protests over police brutality continue new scrutiny is being placed on Big Tech's ties to law enforcement.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang, Joe.
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The CEA has greenlit CES for 2021 in Las Vegas. Is this a wise move in light of continuing COVID-19 infections and will anyone show up?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Google announced new features for its Pixel line of Android phones, AT&T confirmed to the Verge that its HBO Max streaming service will not count against AT&T Mobile’s traditional data caps or the soft data caps on unlimited plans, and Samsung launched the Access phone subscription program in the US.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Chris Ashley, Roger Chang, Joe.
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A New York Times piece by Taylor Lorenz examines the phenomenon of the TikTok cult. Rabid followers of seemingly innocuous TikTok creators. What can influencers expect from these fan bases are how are they different from ones that rise-up from Instagram and YouTube?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Lamarr Wilson, Len Peralta, Roger Chang, Joe.
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After Twitter afixed a fact-check label on a tweet from Donald Trump the US president has threatened to sign an executive order removing safe harbor provisions from social media platforms. What does this mean and what will it do to social media outlets?
Starring Sarah Lane, Richard Stroffolino, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang, Joe.
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As Twitter tries to navigate a highly-charged political landscape, what things are they trying to do to insure tweets from World Leaders are filled with misleading or false information?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Joe.
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The social media service, Cameo, lets you buy short custom videos from celebrities. Is this tipping point for the "passion economy" and what will people request from their celebrities?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Patrick Beja, Roger Chang, Joe.
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An Nvidia created A.I. has replicated the game Pac-Man using a machine learning framework called generative adversarial networks. Why is this achievement notable and what will be learned from it?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Shannon Morse, Len Peralta, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Netflix is rolling out a feature to automatically un-subscribe users from their service if it hasn't had activity for a year. Is this Netflix responding to consumer subscription fatigue or a clever marketing ploy?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang, Joe.
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In an opinion piece in Wired noted futurist Ray Kurzweil has advocated for more AI assistance in vaccine research. What's behind his advocacy and can AI really speed up vaccine development?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Microsoft BUILD is happening and we share all the important news from the event and breakdown what it all means.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Patrick Beja, Xavier Guillemane, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Canon's recently announced R5 camera promises to be a beast. With 8K recording at 30p, IBIS, and dual-pixel AF it ticks all the boxes in the must-have list. But can it help offset the growing decline in the consumer digital camera market?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Ant Pruitt, Roger Chang and Joe.
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The US moves to cutoff Huawei from global suppliers and added an additional year to the ban on ZTE and Huawei in the US. What does this latest spat between China and the US mean for consumers and the technology industry?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Robb Dunewood, Len Peralta, Roger Chang and Joe.
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With stay-at-home orders flat-lining movie theater attendance what does the future hold for the way movies are seen, distributed and sold?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Justin Robert Young, Chris Mancini, Roger Chang and Joe.
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With Zoom's increased popularity the number of social faux pas on the service has also increased. What are rules of etiquette when you Zoom and where are they codified?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang and Joe.
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Twitter announced it will add labels to mark tweets with misleading information on COVID-19. This is the latest attempt by the social media platform to fight disinformation. Is this enough and have its other attempts borne fruit?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Patrcik Beja, Roger Chang and Joe.
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Much has been made regarding the UK's efforts in creating a contact tracing app to help mitigate the spread of COVID-19. How is it coming along and does it work as intended?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Charlotte Henry, Roger Chang and Joe.
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Moving can be a challenge but moving your tech along with you adds an extra layer of hassle. Find out how Patrick Norton moves his considerable amount of gear to a new place.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Patrick Norton, Len Peralta, Roger Chang and Joe.
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As the way society works is dramatically changed by a pandemic, big tech is having to forecast long term developments based on an uncertain future landscape. How do they adapt and what will big tech look like in a few years time?
Starring Tom Merritt, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang and Joe.
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Facebook's Oversight Board names its first 20 members. The board is an independent entity to oversee content moderation disputes that have exhausted appeals at Facebook and Instagram.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Joe, Amos.
Music blog Consequence of Sound's Meggie Gates wrote an article titled "Embracing a Future Where Memes Choose the Hit Songs. The fate of a pop artist now belongs in the hands of Twitch, Twitter, and Tik Tok". Is this true and if so who becomes the new musical taste makers?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Patrick Beja, Roger Chang, Amos
Billy Mitchell the erstwhile Donkey Kong champ filed case against Twin Galaxies for removing his score in April 2019. This July will see the score ranker and the Mitchell face off in court to decide its fate.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Amos, Joe
With more people spending an increased amount of time in front of the TV we asked Home Theater guru Robert Heron on tips to improve on the HDTV sound experience.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Robert Heron, Len Peralta and Joe.
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As movie theaters remain empty due to COVID-19 a fights a brewing between studios who want to release their feature films as on demand content and theater owners who want to retain exclusivity windows for new releases.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Justin Robert Young and Joe.
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Autonomous vehicles promise an exciting future but how do you develop the technology during a pandemic? And will priorities shift when the emergency passes?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Scott Johnson and Joe.
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How are various countries implementing contact tracing apps and which ones should we be concerned about?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Patrick Beja and Joe.
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Twitter has made doctors and other medical professionals social media celebrities. But are they ready for it and can they help stop the spread of false and misleading medical information?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang and Joe.
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We take a look at the security implications of the Google and Apple's joint contact tracing system.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Shannon Morse, Len Peralta and Joe
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Bezos steps back into the captain's seat at Amazon as the company faces renewed scrutiny from government regulators.
Starring Sarah Lane, Rich Stroffolino, Roger Chang, Justin Robert Young and Joe.
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In an apparent dichotomy games sales have trended upwards while game production has stalled. What's the behind the stats and what does it tells us about COVID-19's impact on video game production?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Scott Johnson and Joe.
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eRacing has seen sizable growth after live motorsports events were cancelled due to COVID-19. How has NASCAR fared in this new digital realm and how have its drivers reacted?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Jenn Cutter and Joe.
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Is technology blunting our children's social skills?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Allison Sheridan and Joe.
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Telecommuting is often touted as the solution to quarantined-at-home workers. But are the realities of telecommuting and is it really the panacea for populations who practice social distancing?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Robb Dunewood, Len Peralta, Joe.
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Twitter is a bastion of trolling, bots and quotable comments. But recently oncologists have reported it has been a valuable source of oncology related information and data.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Justin Robert Young, Joe.
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As another week of COVID-19 quarantining passes, people are looking for a way to escape their situation with the help of virtual on-line experiences and VR.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Scott Johnson, Joe.
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Patrick Norton is on to talk about free streaming options and his own streaming setup as he crisscrosses the country.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Patrick Norton
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SimilarWeb reported that YouTube website traffic was up 15% as people tuned in during COVID-19 lockdowns. But that doesn't mean that creators are seeing a similar increase in revenue.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Lamarr Wilson and Joe.
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Dinosaur bones are the stuff of imaginations, movies and epic museum displays. But how has technology changed the way we dig up fossils and more importantly they way we study them?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang and Riley Black.
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Microscopes are a common fixture in labs the world over. But what makes modern microscopy tools different from the ones everyone used in HS biology?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Justin Robert Young and Ariel Waldman.
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The days of Indiana Jones in archaeology is over. Now its all about drones, LIDAR, and DNA sequencing. Found out how tech innovations are changing the way we do archaeology.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Annalee Newitz, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Dr. Kirsten Sanford from This Week In Science is here to answer your technology related questions about COVID-19
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Kiki Sanford, Patrick Beja, Joe.
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Colonizing Mars is the stuff of Fiction. From movies to TV shows everybody has a plan for Mars. But to actually colonize another planet you need to make it a place where humans can actually survive. While domed cities might seem like a solution for some its just a stop gap to their goal. Terraforming the Red Planet.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang and Eric Carson.
Has mandatory stay-at-home orders changed they way we behave online?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Chris Ashely, Len Peralta, Joe
Intel unveils new mobile CPU parts in response to AMD's Ryzen 9 4000 enthusiast mobile processor announcement last month.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang and Justin Robert Young.
As telecommuters and families flock to Zoom for their teleconferencing needs why has Skype not seen a similar boost in use or recognition?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane,Scott Johnson, and Roger Chang.
The Intercept reveals Zoom doesn't use end-to-end encryption, neuro-scientists discover a way to turn brain activity into text and Fitbit announces a new activity tracker.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang and Patrick Beja
As health authorities race to contact trace infected patients with people in the public many are turning to smartphones as way to speed-up the process. But are there privacy issues related to this method and how can they be mitigated?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Molly Wood, Roger Chang
With so many people turning to Zoom for their teleconferencing needs, as they work from home, what are the security risks of the platform and what can be done to mitigate them?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Shannon Morse and Len Peralta
A new Pew study suggests people who receive COVID-19 news primarily through social media have greater misconceptions around the disease.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Justin Robert Young
We share our experiences and our personal tech setups for streaming video from out homes.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Bryce Castillo, Justin Robert Young, Shannon Morse, Allison Sheridan, Scott Johnson, Joe, Amos
A round-up of all the COVID-19 related tech stories of the day including MIT's plan to release plans for a low cost respirator and WHO partnering with tech companies.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Scott Johnson
We share our tips on keeping ourselves busy when we're sheltering-at-home and not working.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Patrick Beja
As new travel restrictions come into effect to slow the spread of COVID-19 how are influencers changing the way they produce and present content for their audience?
Starring Sarah Lane, Rich Stroffolino, Lamarr Wilson, Joe, Roger Chang
With more and more people telecommuting to work the strain on ISP networks could be immense. What are some companies to relieve that pressure?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Len Peralta, Roger Chang, Patrick Norton
How will America's manufacturing industry respond to the COVID-19 outbreak and will it be enough?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Justin Robert Young, Joe
The US government is in talks with tech companies regarding the use of location data to track and slow the spread and affects of COVID-19.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Scott Johnson, Joe
Major tech companies are working together to stop misinformation about COVID-19 from spreading, while elevating authoritative content on their platforms.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang and Patrick Beja
As enormity of COVID-19 begins to affect various parts of society how has big tech responding to the challenges of the outbreak.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Robb Dunewood, Len Peralta
How a diverse Infosec team can anticipate and dodge security risks.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Joe
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COVID-19 has the potential to hammer home ISPs as companies and their employees consider telecommuting as an option over working from an office.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Scott Johnson, Joe
Leaked iOS 14 code reveals clues about updates to the interface, plus hints about iPad Pro, iPhone 9, and AirTags refreshes.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Patrick Beja, Joe
Working from home at the request of your job? We've got some tips on how to secure your person PC setup when telecommuting into the office.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Justin Robert Young, Joe
Can you bring back obsolete and old tech from dead even after the manufacturer stops support or ceases to exist?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Nicole Lee
Facebook's attempt at fact-checking political posts runs into a problem as various fact-checking partners contradict each other a recent POTUS comment.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Justin Robert Young
New research from the University of Washington shows strong correlation between language skills, reasoning capability, and working memory as key indicators of coding ability beating out mathematical capability.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Scott Johnson
We get a wrap from this year's RSA conference from security-news website "The Parallax" founder and editor-in-chief Seth Rosenblatt.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Seth Rosenblatt, Joe
More and more people are feeling unhappy. Is social media to blame or is just exposing older and more systemic social issues?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang.
How are professional e-sports leagues dealing with the fallout from fears of COVID-19 and will their strategies be effective?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Len Peralta, Jenn Cutter
Northrup-Grumman rescue satellite successfully linked up with the ailing Intelsat 901, Urban rolls-out its in-app language translation tool, and the Smithsonian published 2.8 million images, data and 3D models under the Open Access program.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang
Some clever musicians are trying to place every melody under a Creative Common's License to bring an end to music copyright lawsuits regarding melodies they feel are stifling creativity.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Joe
Tractor-hailing could help farmers not only get more crop yields but better bank loans too, and airponics could make your airplane food better than what you eat at home. Plus Microsoft's attempt to secure our Smart Home future.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, and Patrick Be.ja
Just because Mobile World Congress has been cancelled it doesn't mean there aren't phones that need announcing. Plus new GPU info on Microsoft's upcoming Xbox Series X and new search box for Google?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang
David Ginsberg - Host and Producer of "In Touch With iOS" podcast explains how he manages to use a tablet as his main everyday computing device.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, David Ginsburg, Len Peralta
Apple is considering letting users set third-party web browser and email defaults in iOS. Is this a win for consumers?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang
Popular image manipulation tool Photoshop turns 30. We examine the various developments in Adobe's breakout application through time.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang
Critics attack Samsung's Galaxy Z foldable phone, Dutch man runs dairy from barge and Space X wants to put you in orbit, for a price!
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Joe
Which collaborative messaging platform works best in a corporate environment; Slack or Teams? Rob Dunewood is here to break it down for us.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Robb Dunewood, Len Peralta, Roger Chang
In light of the failure of the app at the Iowa Caucus Nevada will instead use a tool pre-installed on iPads that are not connected to the Internet. Unlike the Iowa app, the Nevada iPad tool will only be used in the room to collate those numbers. Will this method work better than the Iowa Caucus app?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Justin Robert Young
Activision Blizzard is removing its games from the Nvidia GeForce Now game streaming service, including Overwatch, WoW, and the Call of Duty series. What can Nvidia do and does this bode well for GeForce Now?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Scott Johnson
Samsung Unpacked 2020 rolls out new phone reveals and product announcements. We unpack the info-dump and explain what you should know.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Patrick Beja
Oscar Award Winner Taika Waititi called on the WGA to get Apple to fix its keyboards. "Apple needs to fix those keyboards. they are impossible to write on — they’ve gotten worse. Is he right?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Charlotte Henry
Looking to upgrade to a new laptop this year? Before you do listen to what Patrick Norton has to say about your options on today's show.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Patrick Norton, Len Peralta, Roger Chang
Clearview AI, offers image recognition to law enforcement agencies based on a database of 3 billion images scraped from social media and online platforms. Clearview CEO Hoan Ton-That argued it had a "First Amendment" right to access data in the public domain. Is he right and just what are the legalities around harvesting images online?
Starring Tom Merritt, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang
Denis Shiryaev has upscaled the film classic "L'Arrivée d'un train en gare de La Ciotat: a 50-second silent movie of a train pulling into a station. Using DAIN and Topaz Labs' Gigapixel AI, he has transformed the original blurry footage into a 4K 60FPS clip.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang
Iowa’s Democratic Party App to tally votes crashes during the party's caucus. Paper ballots saved the day but why did the App fail and what can be learned from this incident?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Patrick Beja, Justin Robert Young, Joe
Tech companies are feeling the impact of the coronavirus with Foxconn declaring a "big" production impact, while Airbnb has activated its extenuating circumstances policy to help deal with the issue.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Nate Lanxon
Apple's has proposed a standardize format for one-time passcodes sent over SMS, used in two factor authentication, while Google launched OpenSK, an open source Rust-based firmware to turn Nordic chip dongles into FIDO U2F and FIDO2-compliant security keys. What will this mean for 2FA and online security?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Shannon Morse, Roger Chang, Len Peralta
Facebook's Zuckerberg wants his company to be understood not liked, Microsoft wants to spend $40 million for AI on health research, and what does Canalys smartphone metrics for 2019 mean for the industry.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang
Apple's valued net worth is greater than Germany DAX's. We sift through Apple's earning results and see what's working and what isn't.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang
Ars Technica's Lee Hutchinson describes how the site functions without a physical office. How does it work and what types of things are needed for it work for the company.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Patrick Beja, Roger Chang.
A recent post from WhiteSource identifies the trends in Open Source software licensing and makes predictions on what shape Open Source software will take down the road.
Starring Tom Merritt, Richard Stroffolino, Roger Chang
If you plan on getting a new gaming PC should you build or buy it? Lamarr Wilson shares his thoughts.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Len Peralta, Lamarr Wilson
Google tweaks how it delivers paid search results, new safety features for dating apps and scientists listen to voices from the grave!
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang.
UN looks into Amazon's Jeff Bezo's phone hacking, GM shows off its new driver-less car, and voters in King County Washington will make US history by being able to vote from their personal web connected devices.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang
We discuss the civil liberty issues and actual effectiveness of facial recognition based surveillance tools.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang
Scientists from Tufts University, the University of Vermont, and the Wyss Institute at Harvard published early research in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences about robots made from heart and skin cells derived from frog embryo stem cells that they call xenobots. What does this mean for robotics and what are the ethical issues at play?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Len Peralta, Roger Chang, Annalee Newitz
The Iowa Caucus takes place February 3 and Democratic Party will be using an in-house smartphone app to send out results. Justin shares hits thoughts the party's latest attempt to leverage smartphone technology.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Justin Robert Young
When asked about an edit feature for Twitter, company CEO Jack Dorsey said "We'll probably never do it." What's the logic behind his statement and would an edit feature add or detract from the platform?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Scott Johnson
Quibi insists it's not competing with traditional streaming incumbents like Hulu or Netflix. But then who is it for and what's the business case?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Patrick Beja, Roger Chang.
Wired spoke with Kayvon Beykpour former founder of Periscope and head of product at Twitter regarding steps the platform is taking to minimize bad behavior.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang.
We wrap up CES 2020 with a look at Engadget's Best of CES and Verge Awards at CES 2020 winners. Plus Lamarr Wilson's shares his fav picks of the week.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Len Peralta, Lamarr Wilson.
Facebook offers to reduce the amount of political ads you see, Panasonic shows off VR headset that looks like goggles and a new menu of search engines will appear in setup process for Android phones in Europe.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang, Joe
It's Wednesday here at CES 2020 and the announcements and news continues to roll out. We share our thoughts on the highlights from today's show.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Amos, Shannon Morse, Bill Detwiler.
It's our 2nd Day at CES 2020. We look at the big announcements and share our thoughts on what we saw.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Amos, Cherlynn Lowe, Peter Wells
Its Monday at CES and that means announcements, announcements, announcements. We sift through all the releases and share our perspective on what we've seen so far.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Amos, Richard Gunther, Allison Sheridan
Tim Stevens from CNET's Roadshow highlights all the automotive tech you should keep an eye on at this year's CES.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Tim Stevens, Len Peralta and Roger Chang.
We talk a look at some of the more interesting pre-CES announcements.
Starring Tom Merritt, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang
DTNS ends the year with this special Best of 2019 GDI reel put together by Theatremonkey.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Scott Johnson, Justin Robert Young, Patrick Beja, Allison Sheridan, Shannon Morse.
We've reached the end of 2019 and its time again for the DTNS gang to share their prognostication for what will go down in 2020 in the world of tech.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Jenn Cutter, Allison Sheridan, Shannon Morse, and Scott Johnson.
We bring back the predictions crew from end of 2018 to see how accurate they were in prognosticating the events of the tech world in 2019.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Justin Robert Young, Allison Sheridan, Shannon Morse.
Chance the Hacker, ZoeBringsBacon, Cleveland Climber and Shelia join Tom and Sarah on our annual listener co-host show!
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang
DTNS from the past as the gang revisits Friday Dec 18th, 2009 to share and discuss that day's most important tech news.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang
On this special episode of DTNS we host the final "Live With It" for 2019. Sarah shares her experience with FitBit's Versa 2 fitness tracker. This show is audio only. There is no video version.
Starring Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson and Roger Chang
Lasers are making some noise, how can NBC differentiate their streaming service, and Apple in SPACE!
Starring Rich Stroffolino, Justin Robert Young, and Amos
A leaked dataset from a location data company revealed the movements of 12M+ Americans with 50B location pings across major cities between 2016 and 2017. Should we be concerned and if so what should be do about it?
Starring Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Shannon Morse, Amos
Ars Technica’s Timothy Lee has an article detailing how he created a semi-realistic deepfake. What did Tim learn about the process and lessons can take away from his experience?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Amos
We give up our holiday tech-gift recommendations.
Starring Tom Merritt, Roger Chang, Rich Stroffolino, Amos
How is plastic surgery and social media creating a new synthetic idealized vision of beauty, fooling facial recognition systems with face masks, and how delivery drivers in Mexico are using Google Maps and WhatsApp to stay safe.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Joe
This Week in Science's Blair Bazdarich explains how low-cost consumer quad-copter drones can help save Hippos and their habitat.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Blair Bazdarich, Len Peralta
Apple News will be hosting the next four DNC Presidential debates. Is this significant for Apple News and if so what will it mean for future Presidential debate coverage?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Justin Robert Young
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey announced the company will fund an independent project called Bluesky to develop an “open and decentralized standard for social media.”
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Scott Johnson
In letters sent to US Attorney General Bill Barr and UK and Australian leaders Facebook has stated it will not remove encryption from WhatsApp. What exactly were those governments looking for in encryption and what does it mean for the end user?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Patrick Beja.
How two of the poorest counties in Kentucky became revitalized with the introduction of fiber internet.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang.
How securing environments just gets more and more complicated over time, but the reality is the basic security issues (e.g., known vulnerabilities) is what is most commonly the fail point.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Len Peralta, David Spark.
Are flagship phones falling out of favor and will mid-range phones take their place in the marketplace?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Patrick Beja.
Tuesday Alphabet announced that Google co-founders Larry page and Sergey Brin will step away from their duties as CEO and President and Google CEO Sundar Pichai will take on the additional role of CEO of Alphabet. Is this a sign of rougher waters for Google and Alphabet or just the normal evolution of the company?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Scott Johnson.
Adi Robertson has a thoughtful article on The Verge today called "How to fight lies, tricks, and chaos online." We break down the recommendations and add our own suggestions.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Justin Robert Young
Chris Mancini from Comedy Film Nerds joins us to explain how the blurring of the lines between VFX in movies and fully rendered CGI cutscenes can lead to audience detachment from the content.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Chris Mancini.
For the second year Mozilla has published its "Privacy not included gift guide" rating gifts on a scale of Not creepy, a little creepy, somewhat creepy, very creepy and super creepy. For instance, Facebook Portal is super creepy, the Nintendo Switch, not creepy. We take a look at this gift guide and share out thoughts on effectiveness of it.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Scott Johnson, Amos
As the gift buying season enters full swing we share our tips making sure you're online shopping experience is safe and secure.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Patrick Beja
Robb Dunewood shares his reasons why he went to team Dell XPS after showing significant interest in Apple's newest MacBook Pro.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Robb Dunewood
Trisha Hershberger joins us with a gamer's guide to gift giving for the holiday season!
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Len Peralta, Trisha Hershberger
Google has rolled out an updated policy regarding political ads on the platform. We examine to see what changes were made and effect, if any, the policy will have.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Justin Robert Young
Bill Gates's backs computer directed heat ray mirrors, Disney admits issues with Disney+ app vows to rebuild it, and a bot that reads user scanned licensing agreements and highlights possible issues including data privacy and opt outs.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Scott Johnson
This Thursday Valve will announce Half-Life: Alyx a flagship VR game. To help us understand why this is such a momentous occasion Patrick Beja fill us in on the history of Half-Life.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Patrick Beja.
Sleep is possibly one of the most important aspects of our daily routine. We look into the efficacy of sleep tracking tech and what if any useful information they can provide.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Rob DeMillo.
Robert Heron joins us with tips on some out of sight deals on HDTV and UHDTVs!
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Robert Heron.
What is Rich Communication Service aka RCS and why is so important to the wireless telecom industry?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Justin Robert Young
We take a look at the Apple's latest refresh of the MacBook Pro line, the MacBook Pro 16".
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Scott Johnson
Disney+ has launched but not without some hiccups. We examine how well the new streaming service has fared on its first day and our impressions of it.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Theatremonkey
Are frequent OS updates the right way to go or should they be rolled out annually for bug checks and compatibility issues?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Allison Sheridan, Roger Chang
The US Justice Department has charged two former Twitter employees with spying for Saudi Arabia. AMD announced the Ryzen Threadripper 3970X and 3960X processors and T-Mobile will activate its 5G network int eh US on December 6.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Justin Robert Young.
In a blog post Facebook platform partnerships head Konstantinos Papamiltiadis revealed around 100 developers accidentally had access to Facebook Group member data that was thought to have been cut off. Is this failure a continuation of Facebook's missteps?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Scott Johnson
Patrick Norton shares his experience with mobile internet while on the road.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Patrick Norton
We share our thoughts on the slew of new Microsoft and Adobe products and services.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang
Australia's government is mulling over facial recognition technology to age verify internet users before allowing them to view porn online.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Len Peralta, Peter Wells
Twitter's Jack Dorsey recently announced policy changes on Twitter banning political ads on the platform. This is in stark contrast to Zuckerberg's Facebook policy of not interfering with political posts.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang
HBO Max will launch in May for $14.99 a month, the same price as HBO Now. Customers who pay HBO for an HBO Now subscription or who get HBO from an AT&T service will be able to log into HBO Max. What will this mean for current HBO subscribers and the streaming landscape?
Starring Tom Merritt, Patrick Beja, Roger Chang
Electronic Arts announced it is publishing games on Steam for the first time since 2012, starting with a pre-order page for Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order. Why has EA's strategy for online game distribution come full circle back to Steam and will it be the only one?
Starring Tom Merritt, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang
Nvidia updates its venerable Shield TV set-top box, Apple announces the launch of its AirPod Pros, and Harvard University researchers have found a way to simulate real meat by growing muscle cells on a gelatin scaffold.
Starring Tom Merritt, Nicole Lee, Roger Chang
Facebook is rolling out a News product in a limited test in the US as a home screen tab and bookmark in the Facebook app. What is Facebook trying to accomplish with this roll-out and will it succeed?
Starring Tom Merritt, Shannon Morse, Roger Chang, Len Peralta.
Is TikTok a national security threat or just electioneering hyperbole?
Starring Tom Merritt, Roger Chang, Justin Robert Young
McDonald's, the fast-food giant, has invested substantial resources into developing AI to help automate portions of its business. We take a look at the progress the Golden Arches has made in the tech sector.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Justin Robert Young
Ed Both at ZDNet has an article up called "How to replace each Google service with a more privacy-friendly alternative." We take a look at Ed's suggestions and add a few of our own.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Patrick Beja
Scientists at the University of Bristol and Sorbonne University have developed a skin-like input interface for use with phones and computers. Twitch is testing "watch parties", which would allow streamers to screen Amazon Prime video content to viewers, provided they also have an Amazon Prime subscription. NordVPN says one of its VPN servers at a data center it was renting in Finland, was accessed without authorization.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang.
We examine the phenomenon that prevents people from picking up new habits and ways of doing things preferring established methods instead even if new behavior would simplify tasks.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Blair Bazdarich, Len Peralta, Roger Chang.
Netflix earnings for the quarter are in and things look good. Earnings are up but subscriber base in the US missed targets. CEO Reed Hastings said that new streaming services from Apple and Disney would provide "modest headwinds" and that the bigger threat is linear TV.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Justin Robert Young.
Twitter published a post titled "World Leaders on Twitter: principles & approach" explaining that in "cases involving a world leader, we will err on the side of leaving the content up if there is a clear public interest in doing so." In it the company laid out its policy towards world leaders using the platform.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang
Google announces new products and services including Ambient Computing and Pixelbook Go. Plus the company shares updates to the Google Home, Stadia and Pixel 4.
Starring Tom Merritt, Patrick Beja, Roger Chang.
Data privacy. There's a lot of misinformation and overreaction when it comes to data privacy but that's in large part to the fact that there's a lot of lack of data privacy. People are rightly concerned. In this episode Tom describes very simply and generally what differential privacy is, and what you need to know about how it's used.
On DTNS we try to balance the idea that companies do definitely need to improve data protection with the idea that sharing data at all isn't a bad thing in fact when done right can be a very good thing.
Not just for companies but academic research and nonprofits benefit from research on datasets. However just taking data, even when names are stripped off, can lead to trouble. As far back as 2000, researchers were showing that the right analysis of raw data sets could deduce who people were even when the data was anonymized. In 2000, Latanya Sweeney showed that 87% of people in the US could be identified from ZIP code, birthdate and sex.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2009/09/your-secrets-live-online-in-databases-of-ruin/
One attempt to make data workable is called differential privacy. Apple mentioned the use of differential privacy in its 2016 WWDC keynote.
https://www.theverge.com/2016/6/17/11957782/apple-differential-privacy-ios-10-wwdc-2016
What is differential privacy?
An algorithm is differentially private if you can't tell who anybody is by looking at the output.
Here's a simple example. Let's say you want to publish the aggregate sales data of businesses by category. Stores want to keep sales data private. So you agree that only the total sales for a category will be published. That way you can't tell how much came from which businesses. Which is great until you come to the category of Shark repellent sales. There's only one shark repellent business in your region. If you publish that category you won't be saying the name of the business but it will be easy to tell who it is.
So, you have an algorithm that looks for categories where that's a problem and maybe it deletes them or maybe it folds them into another category.
This can get trickier if, say, there's a total sales number for the region and only one category was deleted. You just add all the published categories and subtract it from the published total and the difference is the missing business.
And remember there's other data out there to use. Some attacks on data use data from elsewhere to deduce identities. Let's say you study how people walk through a park and you discover that of 100 people observed 40 walk on the path and 60 cut through the grass. Seems private enough right. There's no leakage of data in the published results.
But an adversary discovers the names of the people who participated in the study. And they want to find out of Bob walks on the grass so they can embarrass him. They also found out that of the 99 people in the study who weren't Bob, 40 walked the path and 59 walked on the grass. BINGO! Bob is a grass walker. Now I know it sounds unrealistic that the adversary got that much info without just getting all of it. But differential privacy would protect Bob's identity even if the adversary had all that info.
So what do we do? How do we do this differential privacy thing?
In 2003 Kobbi Nissim and Irit Dinur demonstrated that, mathematically speaking, you can't publish arbitrary queries of a database without revealing some amount of private info. Thus the Fundamental Law of Information Recovery, which says that privacy cannot be protected without injecting noise. In 2006 Cynthia Dwork, Frank McSherry, Kobbi Nissim and Adam D. Smith published an article formalizing the amount of noise that needed to be added and how to do it. That work used the term differential privacy.
A little bit on what that...
Earbuds have become the latest front in the ongoing ecosystem war between large tech giants with Microsoft, Amazon and Google hoping to cut into Apple's AirPods marketshare. What should consumers expect in the coming years?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Annie Gaus, Len Peralta, Roger Chang.
Apple pulls app used to track Hong Kong police, pulls Quartz news app from the store and Hong Kong protester role-playing game suspended from Google Play Store. Has big tech bowed to big pressure from China?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Justin Robert Young.
Co-founder and CEO of Legal IO, Pieter Gunst tweeted his experience with a rather sophisticated phishing scam, that ALMOST fooled him. We examine how sophisticated phishing schemes have become.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Scott Johnson
In a blog post the president of Sony’s interactive entertainment Jim Ryan announced next PlayStation console will be called the PlayStation 5. What should we expect from the new machine and what's Sony's strategy?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Patrick Beja
Ariel Waldman shares her first hand experience with setting up and streaming live video from the bottom of the world in Antartica.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Ariel Waldman, Roger Chang
US Attorney General William Barr, UK Home Secretary Priti Patel, and Australian Minister for Home Affairs Peter Dutton, requesting Facebook delay building end-to-end encryption across all its messaging apps to ensure that law-enforcement has the ability to access illegal content.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Shannon Morse, Len Peralta, Roger Chang
We catch-up on the world for Fintech including the use of AI, real time payment, and open banking.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Justin Robert Young and Tony Staley.
Microsoft unveils a slate of new Surface products and we give our take on all of it!
Starring Tom Merritt, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang
The Verge obtained recorded audio of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaking about a variety of topics during two open meeting with employees in July. We parse through the topics and digest what was said.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Patrick Beja.
A recent report by the British government makes the case that more not less automation is needed to create new jobs to provide work for the population. How does this counter-intuitive mindset change how we prepare people for work in the future?
Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang.
Have we reached peak streaming? Is the sheer number of services we sign-up for causing issues with cord-cutters as cumulative costs add up?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Lamarr Wilson, Len Peralta, Roger Chang.
Developer Riley Testut has released a project called AltStore which lets you run an alternative app store on iOS including Testut's own Nintendo emulator called Delta using Apple's AltServer application. What does Apple do and will there be repercussions?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Justin Robert Young.
Amazon has revealed a raft of product announcements at its 2019 hardware event we dig and see what's what. Plus Mark Zuckerberg announced a software update to the Oculus Quest and unveiled Facebook's new VR environment.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang
Last week Valve lost a case in a Paris district court to decide if Steam customers had the right to resell the games they purchased on the site. Patrick Beja gives us insight into the thinking behind the decision and what it means for customers across Europe.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lame, Patrick Beja, Roger Chang
Google claims to have achieved quantum supremacy after completing an experiment with a quantum computer in 3 minutes and 20 seconds that would have taken the traditional super computer, Summit, 10,000 years to solve.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang
Lamarr gives us a first person account of Nintendo's new Switch and his thoughts on the iPhone 11 Pro.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Len Peralta, Lamarr Wilson
Jeff Bezos announced Thursday that Amazon has signed on to The Climate Pledge, Roku released updates to its Express and Ultra streaming boxes, and Google launched a new platform within the Google Pay app in India.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Justin Robert Young.
Facebook launches Portal TV a smart device camera that connects to your HDTV, plus the company shares more details of the Independent Oversight Board setup to deal with content moderation.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Scott Johnson
Patrick Beja gives us a hands-on look at Apple Arcade.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Patrick Beja
SpaceX is changing its launch strategy to speed up deployment of its satellite internet broadband for the southern United States. Will this increase competition for broadband delivery in remote locations?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Kikki Sanford.
We talk about HTC's new Vive Cosmos and the state of VR industry.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Len Peralta, Nicole Lee, Roger Chang.
Huawei's CEO has proposed selling its current 5G know-how to Western firms to address concerns over security. What does this mean for its competitors and is it enough to win over governments and consumers?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang.
California Senate passes a bill that if passed by the state Assembly and signed by the Governor will greatly expand the state's oversight into who can be classified employee or contractor. What are the implications for the gig-economy and how will workers benefit?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Scott Johnson
Apple announces the new iPhone 11 and iPhone 11 Pro, a new Apple Watch and 7th generation iPad, Apple TV+ news, and updates on Apple Arcade and Retail Store.
Starring Tom Merritt, Allison Sheridan, Roger Chang, Patrick Beja.
Apple adjusts its app store algorithm in July to deprioritize Apple apps in search results, the Verge has a review of Fitbit's Versa 2, and Bloomberg reports Apple and Foxconn confirmed that Foxconn exceeded Chinese labor limits on the number of temporary staff it is allowed to use.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang.
Allison Sheridan shares her experience on charging her Tesla from the amount of time it takes to charge her car and what chargers seem to work better than others.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Allison Sheridan and Len Peralta.
We check out more news from IFA in Berlin. Plus Facebook is expands its dating service into the US and asks AI researchers to create deep fake videos to test with the company's deep fake detection tools.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Justin Robert Young.
We take a gander at all the news highlights from this year's IFA.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Scott Johnson.
Researchers at Facebook are developing a virtual assistant to help Minecraft players letting users type in requests in natural language to an in-game avatar and the assistant will carry out requests if it can. How does this change machine learning and how can players benefit?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Patrick Beja, Roger Chang.
Google catches a major iOS exploit in the wild, MacBook pros BANNED from airplanes worldwide, and Richard Gunther helps us understand what works with Nest. If anything.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Richard Gunther, Len Peralta, and Amos
Wednesday, Nicole Lee posted shares her thoughts on the $149 handheld game system, Playdate. A quirky homage to old school handheld gaming consoles.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Nicole Lee, Roger Chang.
Apple looks to address complaints around how it tests and improves the voice recognition abilities of Siri by letting users opt-in. Does this go far enough and is it something other companies will want to replicate?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang.
Voice assistants have been criticized for gender and racial bias due to the fact that they’re predominantly developed by white males in western-based tech companies. Mozilla wants to solve this and created “Common Voice” in 2017, a tool that crowdsources voices as a dataset to diversify AI and represent the global population.
Starring Sarah Lane, Patrick Beja, Roger Chang, and Amos
CNET's Patrick Holland posted an impassioned plea Sunday titled "Apple needs to fix the iPhone 11's buttons so accidental screenshots go away. What other changes would folks like to see Apple fix on the iPhone 11.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang
More than 5.3 million accounts belonging to cardholders from 35 U.S. states are posted online, DoorDash unveiled its updated tipping policy, with all drivers now receiving 100% of tips placed through its app, and Denmark will review 10,700 court cases dating back to 2012, to see if flawed cellphone evidence was used for convictions.
Starring Sarah Lane, Shannon Morse, Roger Chang, and Anthony Lemos.
Rupert Murdoch's News Corp makes a play for online news aggregation with Knewz.com in order to compete with Google and Facebook. What will this mean for news companies and how will users benefit?
Starring Sarah Lane, Justin Robert Young, and Roger Chang
G-Suite predicts spelling errors as you type, YouTube might start behaving better for your kids, and LinkedIn culls spam accounts.
Starring Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, and Roger Chang.
Starring Sarah Lane, Patrick Beja, and Roger Chang
We discuss how many streaming subscriptions is too many and what criteria people will use to decide which ones they stop and which ones they keep.
The consumer digital camera market declined about 80% to 19 million unit sales in 2018, versus more than 400 million smartphones sold globally the same year. What can camera companies do to cope with a shrinking market and what will it mean for consumers?
Starring Sarah Lane, Ant Pruitt, Roger Chang and Len Peralta
Amazon Rekognition facial recognition software is adding the capability to detect fear and Elon Musk wants a better man to machine interface.
Starring Sarah Lane, Scott Johns
Shannon breaks down all the highlights from this year's Def Con hacking conference in Las Vegas.
Starring Sarah Lane, Shannon Morse, Roger Chang.
Samsung unveils a new smartphone camera sensor that offers up to 108 megapixels of resolution. The US Navy announced it will revert destroyers from touchscreens to mechanical throttle and helm control system over the next 18-24 months, DARPA showed off an open-source secure voting machine with chips designed as open hardware with no proprietary components.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang.
Chris Ashley from the SMR Podcast chats with Tom about Amazon's cooperation with Police on promoting Ring doorbell video sharing, how that might feed into Amazon's imperfect Recognition facial recognition system and what we need to do to make this work better for all of us.
https://www.theverge.com/2019/8/6/20756555/amazon-ring-police-security-camera-footage-warrant-privacy-surveillance
https://www.theverge.com/2019/7/29/20746156/amazons-ring-law-enforcement-partnerships
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/mb88za/amazon-requires-police-to-shill-surveillance-cameras-in-secret-agreement
https://aws.amazon.com/rekognition/
https://www.orlandoweekly.com/Blogs/archives/2019/07/18/orlando-cancels-amazon-rekognition-capping-15-months-of-glitches-and-controversy
We talk with Tonya M. Evans, Associate Dean of Academic Affairs and Professor of Law, Director, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency & Law Certificate Program at the UNH Franklin Pierce School of Law about Libra, its misconceptions, why it's not truly a cryptocurrency and what the future may hold for it.
What are in your view the main misconceptions about Libra?
What in your view are the main problems/challenges for Libra
What would the reception of Libra be if Facebook wasn't involved?
Could something like Libra take off without Facebook behind it?
- Walmart's new patent filing signaling they may follow in FB's footsteps. (pegged to dollar, stored value card, not global, just a patent for now)
"Generating one digital currency unit by tying the one digital currency unit to a regular currency; storing information of the one digital currency unit into a block of a blockchain; buying or paying the one digital currency unit.”
https://cointelegraph.com/news/walmart-is-trying-to-patent-its-own-libra-like-digital-currency
What already exists that is similar to Libra?
Tell me a little about the Blockchain Cryptocurrency & Law online professional certificate program (law.unh.edu/blockchain).
We take a look at the National Broadband Networks that the governments of Australia and New Zealand rolled out and what others can learn from their successes and mistakes.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Raj Deut, Len Peralta
IFixit reports that if anyone but Apple replaces a battery in the iPhone XR, XS, or XS Max, a "service" message displays saying the phone is "unable to verify this iPhone has a genuine Apple battery. At Black Hat, Researchers from security firm Checkpoint demonstrated an exploit of WhatsApp that would let an attacker alter text in a quoted message to change what a person appeared to write. Early results from a study by Apple, Eli Lilly and Evidation Health found that data from an iPhone, an Apple Watch, and a Beddit sleep monitor, differentiated patients with mild Alzheimer’s disease dementia from those without symptoms.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang.
We pick apart Samsung's Galaxy Note 10 announcement; the good, the bad and the interesting.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang
Google pledges that 100 percent of all shipments going to or from customers will be carbon neutral by 2020 and 100% of "Made by Google" products will include recycled materials and will maximize recycled content whenever possible starting 2022. Is this a PR gimmick or the start of larger trend in tech companies approach to environmental sustainability?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Shannon Morse, Roger Chang.
Cloudflare terminated DDoS protection services to the forum website 8chan as of August 5th after the mass shootings in El Paso and Dayton. Other companies including Volitility have also done the same.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang.
Are expectations for what consumers are willing to pay for new streaming services too high?
Starring Tom Merritt, Patrick Norton, Roger Chang.
A team of academics say artificial intelligence system should be recognized as the inventor of two ideas patented on its behalf.
Starring Tom Merritt, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang.
Apple reported revenue of $53.8 billion, up 1 percent year over year despite revenue declines in Europe and China, a team led by neurosurgeon Edward Chang at UCSF, has developed a brain-computer interface that could decode words and phrases in real time and Samsung announces the 10.5-inch Super AMOLED Samsung Galaxy Tab S6 tablet with a Snapdragon 855 processor, 15 hours battery life, and an S Pen that charges wirelessly.
Starring Tom Merritt, Scott Johnson and Roger Chang.
Capital One announced Monday that customer data including 140,000 SSN and 80,000 bank account numbers were accessed by an intruder. How did the hack occur and what steps should have been taken to prevent the breach in the first place?
Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Shannon Morse and Roger Chang.
Researchers at Harvard and MIT-IBM Watson Lab have created the Giant Language Model Test Room to identify whether a piece of text was generated by a language model algorithm aka Machine Learning, The NYTs reports sources say Amazon is exploring creating a grocery store chain separate from Whole Foods, and scientists at UC San Diego have created a contact lens, controlled by eye movements, that can zoom in if you blink twice.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang.
Crickets were served as a promo item for TBS's upcoming Snowpiercer TV show at this year's San Diego Comic Con. Find out what they taste like and more importantly how technology is making them a serious alternative to traditional protein sources.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang and Erin Carson.
Chris Wetherell told BuzzFeed he regrets building the retweet button for Twitter. He led the team that made it in 2009. US presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard is suing Google for $50 million after her campaign was suspended from buying ads for six hours following a debate in June. And the Anti-Defamation League published a new report that found 74% of adults who play games online have experienced some form of harassment.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Justin Robert Young.
The US DOJ is investigating Amazon for anti-trust behavior. Is there a case for the investigation and what does it mean for other tech giants?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Scott Johnson.
On July 16th Oakland formally banned the use of facial recognition technology becoming the 3rd US city to do so. Is this the start of a pushback against the technology and what are the concerns people have over the use of the technology in public?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, and Shannon Morse.
Microsoft will invest $1 billion into OpenAI, a report alleges Huawei helped build North Korea's cellphone network, ByteDance will open data-centers in India to assuage privacy concerns, NY Times reporter works as a DoorDash delivery revealing the company still keeps tips from drivers.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang.
Patrick Norton tells us why its the time to upgrade if you're interested in bringing up your PC up to spec for gaming or editing videos.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang and Patrick Norton.
Netflix's latest financial reports shows the company's first lost net subscriber loss. What's behind the poor showing and diminishing audience?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang.
Elon Musk wants to improve the interface between humans and computers with Neuralink. What exactly is he looking to do and how will people benefit?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Scott Johnson.
With Libra in the crosshairs of American politicians we examine what was and what wasn't said at Libra's Senate hearings.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang and Justin Robert Young.
Huawei news roundup as U.S. firms may get nod to restart Huawei sales in two-four weeks, Huawei will reportedly lay off hundreds of US workers, and Huawei will invest $3.1 billion in Italy.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang.
Can fertility apps and tracks really work or are they just a gimmick to pad out feature lists? Plus Amazon workers planning a strike and academics discover away to leak data using the LED lights on a keyboard.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Nicole Lee, and Len Peralta.
Amazon plans on retraining 100,000 US employees by 2025, France approves a 3% tax on digital companies making 750 million euros of revenue, and Toronto’s Sidewalk Labs project press release gets Twitter Bot’ed.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang and Justin Robert Young.
Nintendo confirms a sub-$200 portable version of the Switch game console called the “Switch-Lite”. What do you give up in this smaller cheaper form factor and is it designed to appeal to existing owners or new ones as well?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Scott Johnson.
Patrick discusses how the shift to game streaming, passes and cross platform controller compatibility will disrupt video-gaming industry.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, and Patrick Beja.
How do you get people to accept lab grown meat and is the fear just a matter of incorrect marketing?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang and Blair Bazdarich.
Microsoft's Swiftkey keyboard coming to Andriod, MoviePass goes on hiatus, and Walmart on-track to lode $1b in e-commerce.
Filling in for Tom, Sarah, and Roger are Rich Strofolino and Anthony Lemos.
In a letter to US Senator Chris Coons Amazon’s VP of public policy Brian Huseman told the Senator that they keep transcripts and voice recordings indefinitely, and only remove them if they’re manually deleted by users.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson and Roger Chang.
Samsung's DJ Koh believes that the era of the smartphones is coming to an end as 5G, IoT and new emerging technologies take shape. What comes after the smartphone and what form will it take?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang
A new study from MIT on a driver's ability to notice brake lights in cars in front of them us suggests that eyes position is more important than multi-tasking when it comes to driver distraction.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang
Two Florida cities have been the victims of ransomware attacks. Why were these cities picked and what steps can other cities take to avoid the same predicament?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Shannon Morse.
Bloomberg reports Huawei employees have worked on projects for the Chinese People's Liberation Army, the Verge's Elizabeth Lopatto explains why Libra won't help people without bank accounts, and the Pentagon is developing a laser sensor to detect unique cardiac signatures.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang.
Oppo shows off a new smartphone with the camera under the screen instead of next to it in the bezel, Executives from 7 Libra partners being cautious about their membership, Oxford Economics estimates up to 20 million manufacturing jobs could be replaced by automation by 2030.
Starring Tom Merritt, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang.
FedEx sues the US government saying its not liable for inadvertent shipping products that violate ban of products to China, Australian judge rules man can sue media companies for defamatory comments on Facebook posts, and Facebook agrees to handover user identity information over alleged hate speech posts.
Starring Tom Merritt, Patrick Beja, Roger Chang.
Raspberry Pi Foundation announces the Raspberry Pi 4, Google is expanding its Child Safety program to include media literacy, Apple is rumored to be launching a 16-inch MacBook Pro in September and Amazon unveils a online beauty supply store.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang.
AT&T wins PCMag's fastest mobile network in America, Huawei is in talks about using Russian-sourced Aurora OS for its mobile phones, and France wants G7 task force to look into to ensure Libra follows all proper regulations regarding money laundering and consumer protection.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Allison Sheridan.
Younger generations seem to be developing horns in the back of their skulls due to the extended use of technology like smartphones and tablets according to a study at the University of the Sunshine Coast in Australia. Is this a trend or something greater or lots of press over something minor?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Justin Robert Young.
Google's brass is contemplating removing all kids videos off of YouTube and putting them exclusive on YouTube Kids. Is this is too little too late and what's the impetus for the possible change in the first place?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang.
Facebook has taken the wraps off its cryptocurrency Libra. Backed by low-volatility assets like banking deposits Facebook subsidiary Calibra along with 27 other partners will manage the operation of the Libra. Will the Libra be the standard in non-governmental fiat currency and how will this affect other cryptocurrencies?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, and Patrick Beja.
Huawei admits US sanctions will affect profits, Instagram rolls out a new feature to help users regain their hijacked accounts, and Samsung US deletes tweet reminding owners to scan for viruses on their TV.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang,
Maker Media the publisher responsible for Make magazine and Maker Faire has garnered unwanted attention after laying-off its entire staff. What was the reason behind it and does it indicate problems in the Maker community?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Len Peralta, Patrick Norton, Donald Bell.
Samsung's announces the 292-inch Wall Luxury TV, Microsoft pulls CERNs academic status, Amazon is being sued in two separate class-action lawsuits, and teens sell clothes from their closet.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Justin Robert Young.
Facebook will not remove a manufactured video of an AI Mark Zuckerberg giving a speech crediting a secret organization for his success off Instagram. What are the affects of this decision and is it something to be concerned about?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang and Scott Johnson.
E3 officially starts today. We discuss Nintendo's Livestream press event, Microsoft's policy towards backward compatibility and xcloud strategy, and how Google's Stadia fits in with the rest of the video gaming news.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Patrick Beja.
E3 is this week and with Sony absent from this year’s event Microsoft took the opportunity to drop some big announcements.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane and Roger Chang.
Why is our political discourse so divisive? How much of it is technology's fault? and Who needs to step up and fix it? Tom talks with Yaël Eisenstat, a policy adviser at the Center for Humane Technology about all these questions.
https://www.yaeleisenstat.com/
Details of Destiny 2 going to free-to-play have been corroborated by Engadget story. Along with cross-save and release for Google Stadia, and rumors that Destiny 2 is ditching its platform exclusivity with Sony what does this mean for the franchise and possible cross platform gaming as a whole?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Len Peralta and Chris Ashley.
Google released details about its upcoming Stadia service. We examine what was said, pricing and decide if this is a service that has a market.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang and Justin Robert Young.
One of the new features touted in MacOS Catalina is Sidecar. A function where an iPad can be used as a 2nd display for a Mac. Is this a feature that’s in demand and how would someone use it?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang and Scott Johnson.
How can polydactyls (people born with extra digits on their hands or feet) help improve the science of robotic limbs? TWIS host Kiki Sanford is here with the details!
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang and Kiki Sanford.
Apple delivered a number of announcements at this year's WWDC. We breakdown the information and round out the details on all the new products and features.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang.
Star Wars Galaxy’s Edge at Disneyland is complete and ready to accept a huge line of fans this summer. We take a look at all the exciting tech being used at the attraction to immerse guests in the Star Wars universe.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Len Peralta, Roger Chang and Chris Mancini.
Xbox head Phill Spencer plans on making Xbox Game Studios PC games available in different stores and outlets including Steam. The Department Of Justice wants Sprint and T-Mobile to help a 4th wireless carrier build out its network before it approves the merger. And 47 companies including Apple, Google and WhatsUp signed an open letter to the UK's GCHQ urging the security agency to abandon plans for a "ghost protocol."
Starring Tom Merritt, Roger Chang and Nicole Lee.
PCs heavyweights like Intel, HP, Asus and Lenovo showed off new their new dual-screen laptops this week at Computex. Will a 2nd screen become a common feature in upcoming PC laptops?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson and Roger Chang.
AMD, Intel, ARM, and Nvidia up the Generation ante, Apple updates the iPod Touch, and donkey-enabled solar powered Community Tablets arrive.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Anthony Lemos, and Robert Heron.
Author and Podcaster Shelly Brisbin joins us with an update on state of assistive technology.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Len Peralta and Shelly Brisbin.
Why do voice assistants default to a woman's voice and in a recent email to employees Tesla's CEO said the company was on track to deliver a record amount of cars in Q2.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang and Allison Sheridan.
Research shows that placing googly eyes on robots makes them less threatening and Ford is rolling out an autonomous package-delivery robot called "Digit".
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang.
Huawei gets an extension, Chinese-made drones may pose security risk, what did dinosaurs really look like?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, and Roger Chang.
The Trump administration has placed Huawei on a "entity list" that would prevent the company from acquiring US technology without approval. The knock-on effect has been profound as companies like Google, Intel and Qualcomm have falling in line and stopped shipment of chips to the company. What does this mean for tech consumers and how will tech companies navigate the ban?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang
With the latest update to Adobe Lightroom came with interactive tutorials. Ant Pruitt, Tech Republic contributor, is here to explain what makes these learning tools such a powerful addition.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Ant Pruitt, Amos
US President Trump issued an executive order Wednesday declaring a national emergency and prohibiting US companies from using equipment from foreign telecoms if they are believed to pose a national security risk. Although no specific companies was singled out Huawei among other Chinese tech companies are understood to be the target. What will this mean for big tech companies of China and will the Chinese government retaliate in kind?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang and Justin Robert Young.
San Francisco bans the use of facial recognition technology by the city, Google releases Rivet an app with more than 2000 free books, and Netflix will host a panel “Bringing Your Favorite Shows to Life: Developing Netflix Originals into Video Games.” at this year’s E3.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang and Scott Johnson.
HP and Lenovo have introduced some new twists to the old laptop form factor. Are these the next logical step in laptop design?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang
Apple loses case to stop an antitrust against the company from moving ahead. What exactly the Supreme Court rule on and what does it mean for the antitrust case against the company?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang
Why is that shiny new uber-slim laptop you just bought seem slower than your 3-year old machine its replacing? Plus Lyft is trialling longer-term car rentals and Uber goes public.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Patrick Norton, Roger Chang.
Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes calls for government to breakup Facebook. Is this a turning point in the struggle to regulate large tech firms, and what if any political will is there to see this implemented?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang and Justin Robert Young.
As national violent crime rates dips the number of social media platforms based around fear of criminal activity is rising. What's causing the discrepancy and are the long term effects of on social behavior?
Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang
We break down the flood of new products, updates and services were announced at Google I/O 2019.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang and Patrick Beja.
Microsoft BUILD starts today. Plus the EU plans on opening an anti-trust investigation into Apple and privacy concerns after Facebook reveals its contracting with an Indian firm to manually post tags on images and text from Facebook users.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, and Roger Chang.
Longtime YouTube creator Jason Inman talks about YouTube's latest plea for creator trust.
Jason Inman host of Geek History Lesson, show runner's assistant on The Code CBS, and author of Super Soldiers: A salute to the comic book heroes and villains who fought for their country
The latest episode of Game of Thrones elicited controversy for being too dark by viewers to see what was happening. We go over what fans can do to correctly see the action on screen. Plus the latest inductees into the Video Game Hall of Fame and man swallows an AirPod bud and passes it through his body completely intact and functioning.
Starring Tom Merritt, Ashley Esqueda, Len Peralta and Roger Chang.
A Techdirt article makes the argument that content moderation of online platforms is totally broken and how the impact is affecting online discourse.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Justin Robert Young.
A Vox/Recode story reveals that team collaboration software like Slack, Teams and Workplace are reducing the productive output of workers instead of improving it. We explore the reasons and discuss the discrepancy between technology's promise of a productivity enabler and the real-world outcome.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang.
We breakdown all of the important news from today's Facebook's F8 conference. Plus we discuss Uber and Lyft's decision to stop accepting new drivers and chew over quarterly numbers from Samsung and Alphabet.
Starring Tom Merritt, Iyaz Akhtar, Roger Chang
Horror stories about game development “crunch time” have filled forums and reddit threads alike. What’s really going on and why does this seem to be a industry-wide problem?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang and Jenn Cutter.
Between YouTube, online resources, forums and wiki pages we discuss the variety of ways people can self-teach themselves about technology and where it falls short.
Starring Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Len Peralta and Allison Sheridan.
Microsoft Q1 earnings push earnings up 20% per share, Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled that warrantless police access to real-time cell phone location data intrudes on a person's reasonable expectation of privacy, and Walmart opens a concept store called Intelligent Retail Lab in Levittown, New York.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Justin Robert Young and Roger Chang.
In a weird juxtaposition tech companies like Airbnb, Uber and Netflix are starting up their own print magazines. Why are they investing in an old media platform and what do they hope to gain by doing so?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, and Nicole Lee.
>Intel unveils its 9th generation high performance mobile processors, Nvidia prices the GTX 1650 for $165, and the FAA approves Alphabet's Wing from airdrop delivery.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Patrick Beja.
What is upcycling and why should you be part of the movement? Plus Samsung Galaxy Fold delayed, Sony launches ride-hailing service in Tokyo, SiriusXM reaches for streaming-only audiences.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, and Roger Chang.
Microsoft has formally entered the wireless earbud market with Surface Buds. What do they hope to achieve and will it be a hit among consumers?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang and Chris Ashley.
Business Insider reports that since May 2016 Facebook collected the email contact lists of 1.5 million new users without consent.Amazon and Google kiss and make up allowing YouTube on Amazon's Fire TV devices and smart TVs in the coming month. And in response to issues with early production models of the Samsung Galaxy Fold Samsung says it will, "will thoroughly inspect these units in person to determine the cause of the matter."
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang and Justin Robert Young.
Apple and Qualcomm have patched things up just in time for Apple to dump Intel as its sole source 5G chip supplier and pick Qualcomm instead. Hmmm. Plus Microsoft rolls out its diskless Xbox One S and the UK reveals that mandatory age-verification for adult sites begins July 15th.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang and Scott Johnson.
Sony reveals key specs for their upcoming PlayStation 5 game console including 8K resolution, faster CPU, and SSD storage. What does this reveal say about where Sony wants to be in gaming and more importantly where it might be weakest.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang and Patrick Beja.
Voice Assistant feedeback! You share your thoughts on voice assistants with us. Microsoft is developing its own earbuds. And Microsoft warns that malicious actors could have viewed non-corporate Outlook email accounts.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang.
We talk about artificial intelligence a lot these days and I see several reactions in the audience. Some people think it's ALL hype. Some people think it's just a fancy word for algorithm. And some people just want to understand what it is.
Here to help us with that is
Karen Hao, artificial intelligence reporter at MIT Technology Review and host of the newsletter The Algorithm.
Patrick Norton is back with his picks of top affordable headphones plus a review of the Qobuz music streaming service.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Len Peralta and Patrick Norton.
Bloomberg revealed that Amazon has staff members who “review” recordings from Amazon Voice Services in order to improve responses. This raises a host of questions especially around privacy and anonymity. How can users be sure there voice assistants aren’t listening in to their conversations?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang and Justin Robert Young.
Amazon execs have stated their GO stores will accept cash payments to address discrimination concerns. How will it work and does it conflict with the purpose of the cashier-less stores?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang and Scott Johnson.
Australia green lights deliveries by drone, Ming-Chi Kuo believes Apple will release a 31.6-inch 6K external display in the 2nd or 3rd quarter of 2019, and Facebook maps the population density of Africa.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang and Patrick Beja.
Vlad Savov from the Verge joins us to share his review of Huawei's P30 Pro and why its a shame its not available in the US.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang and Vlad Savov.
Laura Shin host of the Unchained Podcast is on the show to talk about the state of Blockchain technology and gives us an overview of the Decentralized Finance movement.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang and Laura Shin.
A recent BuzzFeed News article argues that seniors will irrevocably alter the internet as their numbers grow and they become the targets of misinformation and partisan rhetoric. Is this inevitable or a misreading of the facts?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang.
Adobe makes After Effects content-aware to help simplify and speed up compositing and FX editing, who can claim to be the first location with 5G service and can Machine Learning grow the perfect basil?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson and Roger Chang.
Is Google hammering consumer trust in its constant shutdown of various services like Google+, support for IFTT, and Goo.gl URL shortener.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Patrick Beja, Roger Chang.
Cloudflare integrates Warp VPN, Mark Zuckerberg writes a weekend Op-Ed, and Google reports on Android security.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, and Roger Chang.
We explore how tech giants like Google, Apple, FB and Tencent have become unintentional game companies and the challenges they impose on incumbent players.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Len Peralta and Rob DeMillo.
Controversial Chinese tech company Huawei has seen its international fortunes ebb and flow as governments decide whether to allow access their markets and communications infrastructure.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Justin Robert Young.
An internal memo from Microsoft’s Marketing Head asks teams not to do any public-facing April’s Fool stunts. Is this is a shift in tech’s attitude towards the day or a sign tech culture is getting more buttoned down?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang and Scott Johnson.
The EU Parliament has passed the controversial Copyright Directive. What does this piece of legislation mean for internet users and how will it impact businesses? Plus a closer look at Apple's Arcade.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Patrick Beja, Roger Chang.
Kaspersky Labs finds new Asus backdoor, Airbnb climb the hotel charts, and Apple announces new "Plus" services.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, and Allison Sheridan.
Game streaming as a service was major topic at this years GDC. What does it mean for the videogaming landscape and will gamers benefit?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Len Peralta, and Trisha Hershberger
As the EU inches closer to a vote on the Copyright Directive European Wikipedia sites have gone dark in protest, Facebook confirmed it kept logins and passwords for hundreds of millions users in plain text in some cases for almost seven years, and the NYT reports Apple has made a deal with the WSJ for its news and services.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Justin Robert Young and Roger Chang.
We unpack all the details from Epic Games's announcements on Day 2 of GDC.
Starring Tom Merritt, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang
Google unveiled Stadia its streaming game service at GDC. This adds another player to the increasingly crowded and competitive game as a streaming service marketplace. How does it stack up to the competition?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Patrick Beja
Apple updates iPads, MySpace loses your media, and where your online money really goes.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, and Roger Chang.
After a tragic mass shooting in Christchurch NZ questions are raised about social media's ability and responsibility to curtail the spread of disturbing livestream video.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Len Peralta, Roger Chang, and Patrick Norton.
Wired posts an article where the author argues Amazon isn't anti-competitive because its a monopoly but because its a monopsony. What does that mean and what can regulators do about it?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Justin Robert Young.
An NBC report reveals IBM used images from Flickr tagged with Creative Commons license to train its AI on facial recognition. Is this in keeping with the spirit of Creative Commons or an abuse of it?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Scott Johnson.
On the 30th anniversary of the World Wide Web its creator, Tim Berners-Lee, published an open letter identifying three current problems of web misuse and how to fix them.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang.
UK drone laws change, Nvidia acquires Mellanox, and Tesla takes a retail turn.
Starring Sarah Lane, Roger Chang and Lamarr Wilson.
US Senator Elizabeth Warren released a Medium post outlining her plans to breakup Big Tech companies and foster increased competition. Is it workable and more importantly is their enough support for her proposition?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Len Peralta, Roger Chang and Brian Brushwood.
David Spark from Spark Media Solutions is back with a full roundup from this year's RSA conference.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang and David Spark
The latest Axios Harris poll shows that Facebook has dropped from 51st place to 94th in 2018. Is this something Facebook should be worried about and how do other tech companies stack up in the same rankings?
Starring Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang.
Scientists from Heriot-Watt university in Edinburgh to weld glass to metal. Corning is developing a new Gorilla glass that can bend. Plus MIT's mini-cheetah robot can doing a standing back-flip.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang.
How induction burners will replace stoves, Google's Project Zero finds kernel flaw in MacOS, and Facebook still targeting ads at folks who use phone number based 2FA.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang.
A cord-cutting study indicates Netflix maybe losing $192 million due to people sharing accounts. Is this a legal and what do the streaming services think?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Len Peralta, and Shannon Morse
Tipping users on Twitter, Amazon announces Project Zero to fight counterfeits, and YouTube will disable comments on all videos featuring minors.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang and Justin Robert Young.
DeepMind creates a machine learning model to predict energy output up to 36 hours ahead of time, Samsung begins mass production of eUFS 3.0 512GB storage chips and Funcom signs up to produce games based on the “Dune” property.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang
Microsoft is rumored to be bringing Xbox One games to Nintendo Switch. Are these rumors true and if so what does it mean for home console video game market?
Starring Tom Merritt, Patrick Beja, Roger Chang and Amos
We digest the torrent of announcements from this year's Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang and Charlotte Henry
We interview Eric Olander from the 'China in Africa' podcast to discuss the state of tech in China and examine where the largest non-American tech companies are choosing to do business.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang and Len Peralta.
Apple teams up with Goldman Sachs on a MasterCard credit card that will incorporate Apple Wallet, Microsoft Edge Browser has a secret whitelist for allowing Flash video to play, and HTC announces Vive Focus Plus.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, and Justin Robert Young.
Samsung announces new Galaxy S10 phones and tablets. Worth the upgrade?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang and Scott Johnson.
Google sent out a press invite for its Game Developers Conference keynote on March 19. Sources suggest its for the launch of a game streaming service called Project Stream. An all-you-can play cloud-based video game subscription service.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang and Patrick Beja.
We examine the current state of Nvidia's GPUs.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Len Peralta, Roger Chang, Patrick Norton
Apple's news subscription service wants newspapers to fork over half their revenue. Extortion or shrewd business sense?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang and Justin Robert Young.
Blizzard released its earnings results for the recent quarter, is a Sleep Pod the best way to get a good nights rest and what is Apple's news subscription service all about?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang and Scott Johnson.
EA's 'Apex Legends' has received 25 million sign-ups in a single week besting the previous title holder 'Fortnite'. Will 'Apex Legends' be the next "it" game?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang and Patrick Beja.
Tencent invests in China, Smartphone sales dip in China but Huawei manages to claw its way to the top and Microsoft teases a press event at Mobile World Congress.
Starring Tom Merritt and Roger Chang.
Amazon’s Jeff Bezos released un-redacted emails of a conversation between Enquirer and himself that he says was used to blackmail him. What’s going on and why now?
Starring Tom Merritt, Len Peralta, Roger Chang and Annalee Newitz.
Twitter releases numbers, Facebook explains advertisements, Google Fiber declares a mistakes and is location data more nefarious than you think?
Starring Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang, and Shannon Morse.
Spotify acquires podcasters Gimlet Media and Anchor in a bid to become the premiere podcasting network. But where does the company go from here and what does it mean for the podcasting landscape?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang and Scott Johnson.
A Microsoft report shows a small but noticeable improvement in internet civility. Will it last or is this just a statistical anomaly?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang
Danny Crichton from TechCrunch questions why people don't quit Google or Facebook and that current reasoning to explain that behavior is incorrect.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, and Roger Chang.
Apple rolled out the ban hammer on Facebook and Google apps this past week for bypassing the App Store's vetting process. What exactly happened and what does it mean for other iOS App developers?
Starring Sarah Lane, Lamarr Wilson, Roger Chang and Len Peralta.
Another cache of hacked passwords and logins has been released, Apple is looking at putting a 3D camera into the iphone and Ultraviolet is closing its doors.
Starring Sarah Lane, Roger Chang and Justin Robert Young
Facebook is again in the spotlight this time for a "research" program that paid teens to install VPN software that gave the company root access to decrypted network traffic.
Starring Sarah Lane, Roger Chang and Allison Sheridan
A serious bug in Apple's FaceTime allowing anyone to hear the recipient of a call's microphone even before they accept. Is this a simple bug or sign of a deeper flaw in Apple's software development?
Starring Sarah Lane, Roger Chang and Patrick Beja.
A recent report by the Brookings Institution finds 25% of US workers have high exposure to jobs that will be automated. While the US Bureau of Labor Statistics says the effects of automation will be felt unevenly with women and minorities taking a higher burden. Will higher education supply the necessary skills to compete in the future workplace or does there need to be shift in how we view jobs and labor?
Starring Sarah Lane, Kiki Sanford, Roger Chang and Erin Carson.
Facebook plans on unifying the messaging infrastructure in Instagram, FB Messenger and What's App. DeepMind's AlphaStar AI was finally defeated in StarCraft II after defeating 10 other players. MIT's MediaLab found Amazon's Rekognition software misidentified the faces of darker complexioned and female faces at a higher rate than those of lighter skinned men.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Len Peralta and Robb Dunewood.
Google is pondering changes to Chrome to make it more effective against malicious extensions but at the expense of breaking 3rd party ad-blockers. Who and whom would this affect the most and will this mean Chrome users will see more ads if the changes are implemented?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang and Patrick Beja.
A trio of new smartphones from LG, Xiaomi, and Meizu introduce new and novel concepts to the market segment. Are they the path forward for smartphone design in world where better cameras and larger screens aren't enough?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang and Scott Johnson.
Brian Brushwood and Justin Robert Young explain the process of self-producing an album online.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Justin Robert Young and Brian Brushwood.
Food tech was big part of this years CES. So we asked Engadget's Nicole Lee about the latest trends from the food tech space.
Starring Tom Merritt, Roger Chang, Nicole Lee, and Len Peralta
Tim Cook urges the US government to pass comprehensive privacy regulation in an Op-Ed piece in Time magazine. We examine his argument and debate its merits.
Starring Tom Merritt, Roger Chang and Justin Robert Young.
Soundguys.com says USB-C audio is dead based on the dearth of any USB-C audio products at CES 2019. Why hasn't USB-C taken off and what can manufacturers do?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, and Roger Chang.
We share our takeaways from CES 2019.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Len Peralta and Shannon Morse.
The Intercept reveals Amazon Ring has privacy issues, WeChat executive gave a lengthy talk at his company's annual confab, Ikea will start selling smart blinds, and folks over 65 are more likely to share fake news.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang and Justin Robert Young.
It's Wednesday Jan 9th at CES 2019. We give you the latest updates from the show plus highlights of our hands-on experiences with various products on display.
With CES 2019 right around the corner we give you a preview of what to watch for at this pivotal electronics trade show.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang and Len Peralta.
The DTNS Gang predict what will happen in the world of tech both big and small in year 2019.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Justin Robert Young, Shannon Morse and Allison Sheridan.
We revisit the predictions we made at the end of 2017 about what would happen in the world of tech in the year 2018.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Justin Robert Young and Scott Johnson
Three DTNS supporters join our show as our co-hosts!
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Justin Kauflin, Michael Parker and Liam Hughes
The DTNS gang go back in time to Oct 1992 to debate the wonders of the nascent consumer CD-ROM technologies.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang and Rich Stroffolino
Intel unveils a new chip process and announces Cove its latest architecture, Epic has a new free cross-platform online SDK for developers and Huawei's CFO Meng Wenzhou has been released on bail by a Canadian judge.
China is deploying surveillance software that recognizes people by the way they walk and their body shape. How will this shape security and privacy of the masses in years to come?
Instagram has developed a new feed that lets business pages push slide shows to its followers injecting stories into their queues to “boost” their exposure.
Starring Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang and Andrew Mayne.
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Who's pre-ordering what Apple stuff, and on DTNS: Apple has announced a new iPad that's faster, lighter, and more capable than previous models. Plus they unveiled the long-awaited update to the Mac Mini and MacBook Air.
Tom talks with artist Shayla Maddox https://www.shaylamaddox.com/ about how science and tech inspire and enable her as a creator.
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Art N Glow
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As a greater share of professional-grade services and apps make their way to smartphones, tablets and cloud services is their a reason to own a PC anymore?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang and Patrick Beja.
David Malki takes us through how he developed the Wondermark Web Comic, the benefits and challenges of using the Internet in creative enterprises and the history of the sick elephant storyline.
See the comic at wondermark.com http://wondermark.com
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We share our analysis on all the new and updated products announced at the Made by Google event in NYC this morning. Plus we examine how well they stack up to their Apple, Samsung and Amazon competitors.
DTNS is off today due to the US holiday. We've included the day's headlines in the feed today as a result.
Facebook's Portal offers video calling, Intel announces 9th-gen processors and Microsoft promises to recover deleted files from a faulty Windows 10 update.
A report by Bloomberg alleges that server hardware sold by Supermicro had surveillance chips installed by Chinese authorities at the factory with the intent to spy. Dutch agents uncover a Russian GRU operation trying to hack the OPCW (Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons) right as the organization was about to report its findings in the UK poisoning case.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang and Justin Robert Young.
Tesla, Tesla, Tesla. We discuss the reviews of Tesla's Model 3, what's going on in Elon's brain case and why Tesla is under investigation by the US Justice Department.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Len Peralta and Shannon Morse.
Medical data has always been treated as sacrosanct. But if startup Hu-manity has it way you might be treating your own medical data as more of a commodity and not just a privacy issue.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang and Justin Robert Young.
Chuck La Tournous, shares the story with us of how his smartwatch has made him healthier. Once when he had an undiagnosed blood clot problem and more recently with efforts to fight off diabetes and get in better shape.
Chuck is editor and publisher of RandomMaccess.com also writes for Macworld and Fast Company.
Chipotle invests in alternative farming and agriculture tech, Australia issues new 5G guidelines, and Apple slaps Facebook for privacy concerns.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, and Justin Robert Young.
An 11 year-old at DEFCON successfully hacks the vote totals on a replica of Florida's Secretary of State webpage. Lenovo comes out with a thin and light desktop replacement notebook. Samsung updates its SmartThings wireless hub.
In this episode, we discuss:
Next XBox Rumors
Fortnite bypasses the Play Store on Android
Nintendo sells 20M Switch consoles
With Patrick Beja and Scott Johnson.
It's our end of month July round table episode. We examine how robust security keys are in everyday life and why moving to physical keys in an digital world makes sense. We discuss the technology used to discover water on Mars and how this will change the idea of space exploration. Plus teens debate the news with peers on Instagram. What are the implications of a free for all mindset to the spread of information and will this alter how these teens will get their news as adults?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Shannon Morse, Roger Chang and Rob DeMillo.
What Facebook's slightly low user growth means for the fate of the internet and the world, plus Windows wants to annoy you less and smart watches are finally hot!
With Sarah Lane, Tom Merritt and Justin Robert Young
After a recent spate of violence instigated via WhatsApp the Indian government is asking the app maker for help in cracking down on irresponsible messaging blamed for inflaming tensions. But what can WhatsApp really do and what civic and legal responsibilities do messaging platforms aren't used to incite violence.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang and Justin Robert Young.
In this episode, we discuss:
Our takeaways from E3
Sony's cross play PR issues
Battle passes are the new standard
Steam sales recommendations (Scott: Celeste, Endless Space 2 / Patrick: Opus Magnum, Dead Cells)
With Patrick Beja and Scott Johnson.
While much has been discussed about the disruption that automation will have on the job market, businesses and the economy not much work or thought has been giving on mitigating the fallout and the future of work. We discuss how to grapple with the inevitable shift in society as automation becomes a fact of working life.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang and Justin Robert Young.
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It’s our end of June round table show. This month we discuss the developer shift from single player to multi-player games. Are single-player games an endangered species? Plus electric scooter rentals from Bird and Lime electric are gaining fans around the country. We find out what turned one scooter hater into one of their biggest fans! And as GO90 closes its doors we kick around what is and what isn’t working in the new age of streaming TV.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Shannon Morse, Roger Chang and Trisha Hershberger.
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Apple may bundle music, TV and news into a single subscription, a new Pew survey shows 74% of American adults think technology was helped their life but 36% think technology is bad for society, and Amazon is acquiring online pharmacy PillPack.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, and Justin Robert Young.
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Google rolls out public testing of Duplex. Google’s AI technology that can make human sounding phone calls on your behalf for reservations or appointments. We examine the impact, usefulness, and future of the technology.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang and Scott Johnson.
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5G is coming with its promise of faster speeds. Will this wireless cell technology finally give mobile users the same speeds as broadband users? And will this new technology provide meaningful competition for incumbent broadband providers?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang and Luria Petrucci.
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At VidCon 2018 YouTube announced new revenue opportunities for creators and Instagram unveiled IGTV for longer format video content. We asked YouTube Lamarr Wilson for a creator’s perspective on these new policies and how it will change things moving forward.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang and Lamarr Wilson.
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What’s the state of diversity in tech and are the steps used to help improve the situation working? Plus YouTube announces new revenue options for creators and US Supreme Court rules that privacy in the digital age includes cellphone data held by 3rd parties.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Megan Rose Dickey, Roger Chang and Len Peralta.
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The US Supreme Court rules that states can force online stores to collect taxes on goods sold in their jurisdiction. How will this ruling shake up the e-tailing space in the USA and what will it mean for smaller players?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang and Justin Robert Young.
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The Brave web browser has started voluntary testing of its new ad opt-in program where uses can choose to see targeted ads based on their browsing history. Is this a new model of how smart browsers can juggle the demands of online advertising and improved user experience?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang and Scott Johnson.
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YouTube Premium launched in the EU and Patrick Beja is excited by it. Find out what he finds so appealing about the service and why you might want to subscribe to it yourself.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang and Patrick Beja.
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Conspiracy theories are a staple of the Internet. Posts about adulterated ingredients at fast food restaurants, videos about alleged political shenanigans, and forums discussing the latest evidence proving man’s greatest achievements were hoaxes find a ready audience online. We examine the role that the Internet plays in conspiracy theories and if its influence is perhaps a bit less than most people assume.
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In light of Loot Box controversies, Matt Campbell, Owner of Battleshopper.com and a mobile gaming developer at a mobile gaming company, talks about his histories with trading card games and how they play (and avoid playing with) gambling laws.
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After months of sky high GPU prices it seems the cost of a new video card is coming down. Patrick Norton from TekThing joins us with his video card picks plus a whole host of other PC part goodies that you’ll definitely want on your shopping list.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Len Peralta, Roger Chang and Patrick Norton.
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What’s behind the push Article 13 of the Copyright Directive in the EU Parliament that would make things like meme subject to copyright law and what would it mean for the Internet if the legislation passes?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang and Justin Robert Young.
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US District Court ruled that planned the merger of AT&T with Time Warner could go ahead. What are the market implications of this merger and how does this affect future Telecom/Media Distribution Company mergers?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang and Charlotte Henry.
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E3 2018 is here an Patrick Beja host of gaming podcast “Pixels” is here to breakdown all the announcements for us. Plus Valve plans to launch Steam in China and a suspicious fan was given to all the journalists in Singapore for the North Korea/USA summit.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane and Patrick Beja.
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Apple puts its foot down on apps that run cryptocurrency mining in the background, Microsoft announced at E3 it acquired five game developers to bolster its first party game library, and the US Dept of Energy has launched the fastest supercomputer in the world, Summit, capable of 200,000 trillion calculations a second.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang and Justin Robert Young.
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Tom, Sarah, Roger and friends update us on the state of DTNS, review the DTNS mid-year survey and chat with a few of the Patreon Advisors.
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With Google ending its involvement in Project Maven after significant employee dissent about the company working with the military we ponder what exactly should AI be used for and perhaps more importantly what it shouldn’t be used for.
Starring Tom Merritt, Shannon Morse, Len Peralta and Roger Chang
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Valve unveiled a new policy allowing anything to be posted to the Steam Store as long as the content is not something Valve decides is illegal, or straight up trolling. Is this policy of relaxed control an effort to reduce the need to moderate the store or is something else at play?
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Sonos pulled the wraps off the Beam. A smart home theater sound bar that integrates Amazon’s Alexa many have speculated that its Sonos’s attempt to take over the connected living room. Will it succeed or end up on the latest in a long line of failed attempts?
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We take a look at Asus announcements from this year’s Computex, China is launching a probe into DRAM price fixing, Qualcomm announced a new Snapdragon processor for PCs and Intel pulls the wraps off a special edition 5Ghz processor to celebrate its 50 yrs anniversary.
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Apple unleashed WWDC 2018 on an expecting audience. We break down this year’s announcements and offer up our analysis on what Apple wants to do and where it wants to go.
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Scott got hacked, but let’s make some lemonade from that big lemon. How do you get your artwork and other content in front of people in 2018 without becoming a data manager? Scott has some thoughts.
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ARM releases the specs on their new 7nm SoC design. Facebook shuts down its trending site from the top its page. California launches two pilot programs to allow autonomous vehicles pick up passengers.
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The influential VC, Mary Meeker, has released her highly anticipated 2018 Internet Trends report. We break down her analysis and discuss the implications of her findings.
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Patrick Norton is back with his recommendations for the best earbuds on the market. Plus researchers in Finland have discovered “time crystals” that may make it possible to build quantum computers without the need for zero temperature to operate and why Thailand is worried about the overflow of e-waste on to its shores.
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Cashless payments is changing the way customers pay for goods and services, but how well does it work for non-traditional situations, like busking, where cash has always been king?
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General Data Protection Regulation or GDPR, the EU’s new data privacy rules start today. Already some EU users have been blocked from sites, access to social media platforms limited for others, and lawsuits against large tech firms in the process of being filed. We examine the laws impact, its affect on countries outside of the EU and how well large tech firm are complying with the new rules.
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Elon Musk goes on a tweet storm about the truthiness of major media outlets. Musk wants to setup a website where the public can rate the credibility of news outlets and ‘core-truth’ of news stories. We examine the issue, the problem and proposed solution.
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Comcast signals its intent for a hostile bid for 21st Century Fox’s assets. What are the implications if its successful and what will Disney’s counter offer be, if it makes one?
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Sony Interactive Entertainment President and CEO mentioned in an investor relations call that the PlayStation 4 was entering the final phase of its life cycle. Cryptic words to be sure but what does this mean for the PlayStation console and does it signal a shift from gaming as a product to a gaming as service for the company?
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It’s our end of May DTNS round table. This month we examine technology issues from an Australian perspective like; how is net neutrality viewed in Australia and how does the proximity to Asia influence the direction and scope of tech in the country.
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With recent stories covering data security issues from cellphone location data tracking to PGP and S/MIME vulnerabilities we have Shannon Morse here to break it all down and give us an infosec perspective.
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Federal laws restricting Sports Gambling in the United States have been struck down by the Supreme Court. Will this start a new gold rush into online gambling as companies take advantage and who will be the winners and the losers?
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Cheating on exams has been constant thorn in the side of schools and the halls of higher education. But with smart phones, wearables and the internet cheating has become so ubiquitous some schools are taking drastic action to limit student access to personal technology. Will this help stem the tide or does the problem call for new ideas and approaches to testing students.
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Twitter is implementing a new system based on thousands of behavioral signals to filter our tweet replies, searches, and recommendations. Will this help curb abusive and bullying behavior on the platform or will other more invasive measures be needed?
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Researchers have uncovered vulnerabilities in PGP and S/MIME, Tesla engineers reveal they considered adding driver attentiveness when developing the autopilot feature, Uber riders can now rate their ride mid-trip and Apple faces a class action lawsuit over defective keyboards.
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As coding becomes a indispensable and respected skill some toy makers have developed STEM toys to help children, especially girls, develop and interest in coding. We take a look at the latest wave of programmable toys to hit the shelves.
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Google wants to help people improve their Digital Wellbeing. What does that mean and is this is a sign that even large tech companies acknowledge too much technology can be a detriment to one’s health?
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Microsoft announces new features for Windows that’ll roll out by the end of the year, Walmart is buying Indian e-commerce giant Flipkart, Valve says Steamlink will arrive for iOS and Android May 21st, and EA goes all in on Loot-boxes despite legal rulings against the practice in Europe.
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We break down the announcements from this years action packed Google I/O, and cover everything from AI developments and roll-outs to new Android features and updates to News, Maps and Waymo!
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We examine all info-packed Monday announcements from this year’s Microsoft BUILD event. Plus Robocalls are still a thing and unfortunately they’re getting worse and Spotify is not a publicly traded company.
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In this episode, we discuss:
God of War
Nintendo Labo
Red Dead Redemption 2
PS2 games on Playstation Now
Oculus Go
Financial results
Battle Royale craze at E3
With Patrick Beja and Scott Johnson.
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With Disney updating its Star Wars: Jedi Challenges lightsaber duel AR game to allow multiplayer we’d figured its time to examine the current state of the VR/AR consumer market. Plus Germany techsite heise.de reports 8 new Spectre-like vulnerabilities were found in Intel’s processors and national security and defense website Defense One reports the use of drones by criminals to keep tabs on law enforcement.
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Amazon wants to shake up the apparel business by having customers 3D scan their body so they can get a more exact fit when selecting clothes from the Amazon Store. Will this force traditional retailers to follow suit and how will customers react to the new service? Plus some in Congress have plans to reverse the FCCs rollback of Open Internet guidelines using arcane legislative procedure.
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Apple’s earnings are in and far from the predicted bloodbath the iPhone sales were up. Where did the analysts go wrong? Plus Open Whisper Systems gets a warning from Amazon about domain fronting their secure messaging app Signal with Amazon.com.
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We analyze the latest announcements from Facebook’s F8 conference. Plus the British Parliament gives Facebook CEO Zuckerberg an ultimatum. Voluntarily give evidence before Parliament or get a summons the next time he steps foot in the UK.
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We talk with jack Conte about how Patreon came about, and the challenges it faces as it grows.
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In the market to upgrade you PC or Mac desktop display? We got TekThing’s Patrick Norton on the show to talk about what you should be on the lookout for when buying a new computer monitor. Plus France.com’s owner files suit against France and T-Mobile and Sprint say I do to a corporate merger.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang and Patrick Norton.
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En liten tjänst av I'm With Friends. Finns även på engelska.