Daily Tech News Show

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05.06.2021

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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05.06.2021 NASCAR Takes a Left Turn - DTNS 4025 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. ...
05.05.2021 Scanning Your World - DTNS 4024 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 ...
05.04.2021 The Dialogue is Flawless - DTNS 4023 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 ...
05.03.2021 I'm Not Betting on Yahoo - DTNS 4022 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 ...
04.30.2021 Epic Apple Store Battle – DTNS 4021 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 ...
04.29.2021 The Smaller The Pie, The Sharper The Knives - DTNS 4020 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 ...
04.28.2021 A Browser for Your Browser - DTNS 4019 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 ...
04.27.2021 TikTok, The Public Square - DTNS 4018 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 ...
04.26.2021 Carriage Fights Come To Streaming - DTNS 4017 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 ...
04.23.2021 That's Not a Bug. It's a Conviction - DTNS 4016 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 ...
04.22.2021 Ransomware As A Service - DTNS 4015 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 ...
04.21.2021 VR stands for Virtual Recovery - DTNS 4014 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. Link to the ...
04.20.2021 The Remote Is Fixed, Stop Complaining! - DTNS 4013 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. Link to the Show Notes. See acast.com/privacy for ...
04.19.2021 Electric Luxury - DTNS 4012 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. ...
04.18.2021 DTNSxTWIS Crossover Show 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. ...
04.16.2021 Now You Can Judge a Kindle by it's Cover - DTNS 4011 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. ...
04.15.2021 You've Got to Fight for Your Right to Disconnect - DTNS 4010 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 ...
04.14.2021 VR so good, it's Supernatural - DTNS 4009 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 ...
04.13.2021 A Healthy Dose Of Security - DTNS 4008 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 ...
04.12.2021 Nvidia's Multiple ARMs - DTNS 4007 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 ...
04.11.2021 DTNS Special: EV Owner's Roundtable 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 ...
04.09.2021 Ready Monkey Player 1 - DTNS 4006 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 ...
04.08.2021 Bucket of Power- DTNS 4005 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. Link to the Show Notes. See ...
04.07.2021 No Thanks for the Memories - DTNS 4004 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, ...
04.06.2021 Chip Problems On Display – DTNS 4003 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 ...
04.05.2021 Digital Copyright Wars - DTNS 4002 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. ...
04.02.2021 Beauty Is in the Eye of the Filter - DTNS 4001 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, ...
04.01.2021 In Tech We Trust? - DTNS 4000 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 ...
03.31.2021 A Permanent Record of Bad Decisions - DTNS 3999 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 ...
03.30.2021 Nvidia Sets the Bar and Resizes it - DTNS 3998 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 ...
03.29.2021 What Can Stretch Do for You? - DTNS 3997 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 ...
03.26.2021 It's Never The Wrong Time To Backup Your Data! - DTNS 3996 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 ...
03.25.2021 Social Media's Capitol Affair - DTNS 3995 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 ...
03.24.2021 Intel Plays Its Chips - DTNS 3994 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, ...
03.23.2021 Your Mental Health Matters - DTNS 3993 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 ...
03.22.2021 A License to Zoom - DTNS 3992 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 ...
03.19.2021 Are You Ready for Some Streamball - DTNS 3991 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, ...
03.18.2021 NASA's New Tire is So METL - DTNS 3990 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 ...
03.17.2021 More Than A Contractor; Less Than An Employee - DTNS 3989 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 ...
03.16.2021 Hey Google Am I Asleep Yet - DTNS 3988 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 ...
03.15.2021 Amazon's Warehouse Games - DTNS 3987 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. ...
03.12.2021 Let Me Flex My Batteries - DTNS 3986 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 ...
03.11.2021 Security Through Absurdity - DTNS 3985 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 ...
03.10.2021 Smile! You’re On Unsecured Camera! - DTNS 3984 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, ...
03.09.2021 Nothing But A Pipe Dream - DTNS 3983 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, ...
03.08.2021 Mobile World Cautious Congress - DTNS 3982 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 ...
03.05.2021 S1NG for NFT - DTNS 3981 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 ...
03.04.2021 Tidal Square Wave - DTNS 3980 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 ...
03.03.2021 What the Flock is Going On - DTNS 3979 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 ...
03.02.2021 Flipped locally - DTNS 3978 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. Link to the Show Notes. See acast.com/privacy ...

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Daily Tech News Show episodes:

NASCAR Takes a Left Turn - DTNS 4025

Scanning Your World - DTNS 4024

The Dialogue is Flawless - DTNS 4023

I'm Not Betting on Yahoo - DTNS 4022

Epic Apple Store Battle – DTNS 4021

The Smaller The Pie, The Sharper The Knives - DTNS 4020

A Browser for Your Browser - DTNS 4019

TikTok, The Public Square - DTNS 4018

Carriage Fights Come To Streaming - DTNS 4017

That's Not a Bug. It's a Conviction - DTNS 4016

Ransomware As A Service - DTNS 4015

VR stands for Virtual Recovery - DTNS 4014

The Remote Is Fixed, Stop Complaining! - DTNS 4013

Electric Luxury - DTNS 4012

DTNSxTWIS Crossover Show

Now You Can Judge a Kindle by it's Cover - DTNS 4011

You've Got to Fight for Your Right to Disconnect - DTNS 4010

VR so good, it's Supernatural - DTNS 4009

A Healthy Dose Of Security - DTNS 4008

Nvidia's Multiple ARMs - DTNS 4007

DTNS Special: EV Owner's Roundtable

Ready Monkey Player 1 - DTNS 4006

Bucket of Power- DTNS 4005

No Thanks for the Memories - DTNS 4004

Chip Problems On Display – DTNS 4003

Digital Copyright Wars - DTNS 4002

Beauty Is in the Eye of the Filter - DTNS 4001

In Tech We Trust? - DTNS 4000

A Permanent Record of Bad Decisions - DTNS 3999

Nvidia Sets the Bar and Resizes it - DTNS 3998

What Can Stretch Do for You? - DTNS 3997

It's Never The Wrong Time To Backup Your Data! - DTNS 3996

Social Media's Capitol Affair - DTNS 3995

Intel Plays Its Chips - DTNS 3994

Your Mental Health Matters - DTNS 3993

A License to Zoom - DTNS 3992

Are You Ready for Some Streamball - DTNS 3991

NASA's New Tire is So METL - DTNS 3990

More Than A Contractor; Less Than An Employee - DTNS 3989

Hey Google Am I Asleep Yet - DTNS 3988

Amazon's Warehouse Games - DTNS 3987

Let Me Flex My Batteries - DTNS 3986

Security Through Absurdity - DTNS 3985

Smile! You’re On Unsecured Camera! - DTNS 3984

Nothing But A Pipe Dream - DTNS 3983

Mobile World Cautious Congress - DTNS 3982

S1NG for NFT - DTNS 3981

Tidal Square Wave - DTNS 3980

What the Flock is Going On - DTNS 3979

Flipped locally - DTNS 3978

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