Daily Tech News Show

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01.15.2021

We interview the CTA's Senior Manager, Industry Communications Danielle Cassagnol on the challenges the organization faced moving the tradeshow online. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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01.15.2021 CES 2021 Interview with the CTA - DTNS Special We interview the CTA's Senior Manager, Industry Communications Danielle Cassagnol on the challenges the organization faced moving the tradeshow online. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
01.15.2021 Google Taunts Australia - DTNS 3948 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 ...
01.14.2021 AMD Rises to the Top of CES - DTNS 3947 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. Link to Show Notes. ...
01.13.2021 Touch is so 2019 - DTNS 3946 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. Link to the Show Notes. ...
01.12.2021 Virtually Filled With TVs - DTNS 3945 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, ...
01.11.2021 Unrolling CES 2021 - DTNS 3944 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. Link ...
01.09.2021 Twitter Suspends US president - DTNS Headline UPDATE Twitter permanently suspended the president of the United States from its platform, Apple warns Parler to improve moderation and Google delists Parler from Play store. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
01.08.2021 SolarWinds - The Gift That Keeps On Giving - DTNS 3943 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, ...
01.07.2021 One Struum to Rule Them All - DTNS 3942 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 ...
01.06.2021 Tracking You, But In A Good Way - DTNS 3941 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 ...
01.05.2021 We All Live in An AI Submarine - DTNS 3940 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 ...
01.04.2021 State of the Google Union - DTNS 3939 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, ...
12.31.2020 2021 Tech Predictions - DTNS 3938 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 ...
12.30.2020 2020 Tech Predictions Results - DTNS 3937 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 ...
12.29.2020 Best of GDI- DTNS 3936 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, ...
12.28.2020 Listener/Moderator Co-Host Show - DTNS 3935 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 ...
12.24.2020 Retro Show 2020 - DTNS 3934 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 See acast.com/privacy ...
12.23.2020 Turn Off Your 5G - DTNS 3933 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. Link to the Show Notes. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out ...
12.22.2020 Ping Rays - DTNS 3932 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. Link to the Show Notes. ...
12.21.2020 Big Data Spy Hunting - DTNS 3931 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, ...
12.18.2020 SolarWinds Keep On Blowing - DTNS 3930 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 ...
12.17.2020 Quoth the Twitter, Nevermore - DTNS 3929 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 ...
12.16.2020 TLDR; Facebook Interprets the News - DTNS 3928 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 ...
12.15.2020 Forged Cookies, the Movie - DTNS 3927 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. Link to the Show Notes. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
12.14.2020 Mighty Solar Winds - DTNS 3926 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 ...
12.11.2020 Down Periscope - DTNS 3925 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, ...
12.10.2020 Bandwidth Was Not in the Forecast - DTNS 3924 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 ...
12.09.2020 Facebook Has Trust Issues - DTNS 3923 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, ...
12.08.2020 Reducing Streaming Stress - DTNS 3922 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 ...
12.07.2020 Beefy Silicon - DTNS 3921 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. Link to the Show Notes. See ...
12.04.2020 Robb Shows Us The Light - DTNS 3920 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 ...
12.03.2020 Putting the Home in Home Box Office - DTNS 3919 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 ...
12.02.2020 Salesforce takes up the Slack - DTNS 3918 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. Link to the Show Notes. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
12.01.2020 We Can Do Bigger Better Faster Stronger - DTNS 3917 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 [email protected] or the meticulous ...
11.30.2020 Technology Originalists - DTNS 3916 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 ...
11.27.2020 UK Forms the Digital Markets Unit - DTH The UK announced the formation of the Digital Markets Unity to investigate dominant online platforms, Amazon's global workforce grew 50% in a year, and the Libra Association hopes to launch a stablecoin as early as January. See acast.com/privacy for privacy ...
11.26.2020 Foxconn Moving Some Apple Production to Vietnam - DTH Foxconn is reportedly planning to move some iPad and MacBook production to Vietnam, South Korea fines Facebook for sharing user data without consent, and the EU approves a Right to Repair resolution. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
11.25.2020 The Monolith Has Always Been There- DTNS 3915 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? ...
11.24.2020 Adventures of Spot and Sparrow - DTNS 3914 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, ...
11.23.2020 Let OLED Light Up Your Life - DTNS 3913 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 ...
11.20.2020 Deal Digging for GPUs - DTNS 3912 Patrick Norton is back with some choice picks for your holiday gift buying list. Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Patrick Norton, Roger Chang, Joe. Link to the Show Notes. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
11.19.2020 Smart Glasses: Still A Thing! - DTNS 3911 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 ...
11.18.2020 Apple Cuts Its Rates- DTNS 3910 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 ...
11.17.2020 Happiness is Squishy - DTNS 3909 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. Link to the Show Notes. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
11.16.2020 Compared to 2020, Video Games are Positive- DTNS 3908 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 ...
11.13.2020 O Employee, Where Art Thou? - DTNS 3907 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. link to Show ...
11.12.2020 Tech Policy in the Biden Administration - DTNS 3906 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 ...
11.11.2020 China Targets Big Tech - DTH China targets online shopping the day before the biggest online shopping day in the world, Apple announces new laptops that use its own chip and TikTok wonders if the US government forgot it. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
11.10.2020 M1 to Rule Them All - DTNS 3905 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. Link ...
11.09.2020 A Solid Plan for PODS of Privacy - DTNS 3904 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 ...

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Daily Tech News Show episodes:

CES 2021 Interview with the CTA - DTNS Special

Google Taunts Australia - DTNS 3948

AMD Rises to the Top of CES - DTNS 3947

Touch is so 2019 - DTNS 3946

Virtually Filled With TVs - DTNS 3945

Unrolling CES 2021 - DTNS 3944

Twitter Suspends US president - DTNS Headline UPDATE

SolarWinds - The Gift That Keeps On Giving - DTNS 3943

One Struum to Rule Them All - DTNS 3942

Tracking You, But In A Good Way - DTNS 3941

We All Live in An AI Submarine - DTNS 3940

State of the Google Union - DTNS 3939

2021 Tech Predictions - DTNS 3938

2020 Tech Predictions Results - DTNS 3937

Best of GDI- DTNS 3936

Listener/Moderator Co-Host Show - DTNS 3935

Retro Show 2020 - DTNS 3934

Turn Off Your 5G - DTNS 3933

Ping Rays - DTNS 3932

Big Data Spy Hunting - DTNS 3931

SolarWinds Keep On Blowing - DTNS 3930

Quoth the Twitter, Nevermore - DTNS 3929

TLDR; Facebook Interprets the News - DTNS 3928

Forged Cookies, the Movie - DTNS 3927

Mighty Solar Winds - DTNS 3926

Down Periscope - DTNS 3925

Bandwidth Was Not in the Forecast - DTNS 3924

Facebook Has Trust Issues - DTNS 3923

Reducing Streaming Stress - DTNS 3922

Beefy Silicon - DTNS 3921

Robb Shows Us The Light - DTNS 3920

Putting the Home in Home Box Office - DTNS 3919

Salesforce takes up the Slack - DTNS 3918

We Can Do Bigger Better Faster Stronger - DTNS 3917

Technology Originalists - DTNS 3916

UK Forms the Digital Markets Unit - DTH

Foxconn Moving Some Apple Production to Vietnam - DTH

The Monolith Has Always Been There- DTNS 3915

Adventures of Spot and Sparrow - DTNS 3914

Let OLED Light Up Your Life - DTNS 3913

Deal Digging for GPUs - DTNS 3912

Smart Glasses: Still A Thing! - DTNS 3911

Apple Cuts Its Rates- DTNS 3910

Happiness is Squishy - DTNS 3909

Compared to 2020, Video Games are Positive- DTNS 3908

O Employee, Where Art Thou? - DTNS 3907

Tech Policy in the Biden Administration - DTNS 3906

China Targets Big Tech - DTH

M1 to Rule Them All - DTNS 3905

A Solid Plan for PODS of Privacy - DTNS 3904

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