Daily Tech News Show

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GM in Cruise Control - DTNS...

01.22.2020

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 ...

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01.22.2020 GM in Cruise Control - DTNS 3702 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 ...
01.21.2020 Complexions of Facial Recognition - DTNS 3701 We discuss the civil liberty issues and actual effectiveness of facial recognition based surveillance tools. Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy
01.20.2020 Google CEO Sundar Pichai Calls for AI Regulation - DTH Google CEO Sundar Pichai calls for AI regulation in a Financial Times op-ed, ByteDance reportedly put together a gaming division, and TomTom closes a deal with Huawei for map tech. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy
01.17.2020 Xenobots Have Heart (Cells) - DTNS 3700 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 ...
01.16.2020 A Caucus of Apps - DTNS 3699 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, ...
01.15.2020 Twitter Won't Edit Stance on Edit - DTNS 3698 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, ...
01.14.2020 Live Livers, Body Not Included - DTNS 3697 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. For information regarding your data privacy, visit ...
01.13.2020 Gamers Being Good to Each Other - DTNS 3696 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. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy
01.11.2020 What It Takes to Put on CES - DTNS Tom talks with Tina Anthony, Director of Digital Marketing for CTA about how CES gets done, along with show trends, key hot product categories, and what's new about CES. Want to visit 50 countries tech scenes at once? Tina tells ...
01.10.2020 The Rest of CES - DTNS 3695 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 ...
01.09.2020 Unbundle Your Bundle - DTNS 3694 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, ...
01.08.2020 The Diaper Gets Smarter Every CES - DTNS 3693 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. For information regarding ...
01.07.2020 CES 2020: Cars By Sony & James Cameron - DTNS 3692 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 For information regarding your data privacy, visit ...
01.06.2020 The TV Multiverse at CES - DTNS 3691 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 For information ...
01.03.2020 CES... the C is for Cars - DTNS 3690 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. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy
01.02.2020 CES Product Parade - DTNS 3689 We talk a look at some of the more interesting pre-CES announcements. Starring Tom Merritt, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy
12.31.2019 Best of 2019 GDI - DTNS 3688 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. For information regarding your data privacy, ...
12.30.2019 2020 Tech Predictions - DTNS 3687 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 ...
12.27.2019 2019 Predictions Results Show - DTNS 3686 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. ...
12.26.2019 2019 Listener Co-Host Episode - DTNS 3685 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 For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy
12.25.2019 The iPhone XR Tops Smartphone Sales for 4th Consecutive Quarter - DTH Counterpoint Research reports that the iPhone XR is the top selling smartphone for the 4th consecutive quarter, the Washington Post reports on startups that use Bluetooth and WiFi to track college students, and the hacking group APT20 is getting around ...
12.24.2019 2019 Retro Episode - DTNS 3684 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 For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy
12.23.2019 FitBit Versa 2 - Live With It - DTNS 3683 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 ...
12.20.2019 There Are No Minor Glitches In Space - DTNS 3682 Lasers are making some noise, how can NBC differentiate their streaming service, and Apple in SPACE! Starring Rich Stroffolino, Justin Robert Young, and Amos For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy
12.19.2019 Every Move You Make... I'll Be Watching You - DTNS 3681 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 ...
12.18.2019 Deep Fake Nine – DTNS 3680 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 For ...
12.17.2019 Boring Tech is a Gift in Itself – DTNS 3679 We give up our holiday tech-gift recommendations. Starring Tom Merritt, Roger Chang, Rich Stroffolino, Amos For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy
12.16.2019 A Face to Fool Us All - DTNS 3678 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, ...
12.13.2019 The Drone Hippo-thesis - DTNS 3677 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 For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy
12.12.2019 It's Crap At Chess - DTNS 3676 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 For ...
12.11.2019 BlueSky's The Limit - DTNS 3675 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 For information regarding your data privacy, visit ...
12.10.2019 No End To End To End Encryption - DTNS 3674 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 ...
12.09.2019 Old Bub: The Job Creating Mule - DTNS 3673 How two of the poorest counties in Kentucky became revitalized with the introduction of fiber internet. Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy
12.06.2019 Security is Hard at Scale - DTNS 3672 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 ...
12.05.2019 No Ports, Who Dis? - DTNS 3671 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. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy
12.04.2019 Rearranging the Alphabet - DTNS 3670 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 ...
12.03.2019 Are You Outraged? Citation Needed - DTNS 3669 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 For ...
12.02.2019 Someone Please Build A Machine Lawyer! - DTNS 3668 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, ...
11.29.2019 LG Electronics Announces CEO Change - DTH LG Electronics announces a change in CEO following its earnings report, the EU data regulator sanctions the EU parliament, and researchers demonstrate using undersea fiber optic cables as seismographs. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy
11.28.2019 Twitter Testing Threaded Messages - DTH Twitter confirms it's testing threaded messages on Twitter.com with a potential release in 2020, TikTok unblocks account and apologies to teen with viral video critical of Chinese policy, and a US District Judge rules users impacted by Facebook's 2018 data ...
11.27.2019 VR is Milking It - DTNS 3667 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 ...
11.26.2019 Check It Out Before You Check Out - DTNS 3666 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 For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy
11.25.2019 Hard Thames for Uber - DTNS 3665 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 For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy
11.22.2019 The Quest for the Right Gaming Gift - DTNS 3664 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 For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy
11.21.2019 Snitch Shelf - DTNS 3663 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 For ...
11.20.2019 Skull Johnson - DTNS 3662 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, ...
11.19.2019 The Half Life of VR - DTNS 3661 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 ...
11.18.2019 Mister DeMillo-Man, Bring Me a Dream - DTNS 3660 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. ...
11.15.2019 Robert Heron: TV Whisperer - DTNS 3659 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. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy
11.14.2019 ICANN haz revolving doors? - DTNS 3658 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 For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

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Daily Tech News Show episodes:

GM in Cruise Control - DTNS 3702

Complexions of Facial Recognition - DTNS 3701

Google CEO Sundar Pichai Calls for AI Regulation - DTH

Xenobots Have Heart (Cells) - DTNS 3700

A Caucus of Apps - DTNS 3699

Twitter Won't Edit Stance on Edit - DTNS 3698

Live Livers, Body Not Included - DTNS 3697

Gamers Being Good to Each Other - DTNS 3696

What It Takes to Put on CES - DTNS

The Rest of CES - DTNS 3695

Unbundle Your Bundle - DTNS 3694

The Diaper Gets Smarter Every CES - DTNS 3693

CES 2020: Cars By Sony & James Cameron - DTNS 3692

The TV Multiverse at CES - DTNS 3691

CES... the C is for Cars - DTNS 3690

CES Product Parade - DTNS 3689

Best of 2019 GDI - DTNS 3688

2020 Tech Predictions - DTNS 3687

2019 Predictions Results Show - DTNS 3686

2019 Listener Co-Host Episode - DTNS 3685

The iPhone XR Tops Smartphone Sales for 4th Consecutive Quarter - DTH

2019 Retro Episode - DTNS 3684

FitBit Versa 2 - Live With It - DTNS 3683

There Are No Minor Glitches In Space - DTNS 3682

Every Move You Make... I'll Be Watching You - DTNS 3681

Deep Fake Nine – DTNS 3680

Boring Tech is a Gift in Itself – DTNS 3679

A Face to Fool Us All - DTNS 3678

The Drone Hippo-thesis - DTNS 3677

It's Crap At Chess - DTNS 3676

BlueSky's The Limit - DTNS 3675

No End To End To End Encryption - DTNS 3674

Old Bub: The Job Creating Mule - DTNS 3673

Security is Hard at Scale - DTNS 3672

No Ports, Who Dis? - DTNS 3671

Rearranging the Alphabet - DTNS 3670

Are You Outraged? Citation Needed - DTNS 3669

Someone Please Build A Machine Lawyer! - DTNS 3668

LG Electronics Announces CEO Change - DTH

Twitter Testing Threaded Messages - DTH

VR is Milking It - DTNS 3667

Check It Out Before You Check Out - DTNS 3666

Hard Thames for Uber - DTNS 3665

The Quest for the Right Gaming Gift - DTNS 3664

Snitch Shelf - DTNS 3663

Skull Johnson - DTNS 3662

The Half Life of VR - DTNS 3661

Mister DeMillo-Man, Bring Me a Dream - DTNS 3660

Robert Heron: TV Whisperer - DTNS 3659

ICANN haz revolving doors? - DTNS 3658

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