Daily Tech News Show

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India: The Prime Frontier -...

08.21.2019

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. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

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08.21.2019 India: The Prime Frontier - DTNS 3600 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. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy
08.20.2019 Grading on an Algorithmic Curve – DTNS 3599 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. For information regarding your data privacy, ...
08.19.2019 Night of The Living Scooters - DTNS 3598 Reddit is testing its Public Access Network, or RPAN, as a limited-time livestream experiment, set to run from 9 am to 5 pm through the end of this week before a full rollout in the coming months. The cryptocurrency exchange ...
08.16.2019 Phone for Convenience, DSLR for Quality - DTNS 3597 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 ...
08.15.2019 Pasture raised, cage free AI - DTNS 3596 Apple, Amazon ,Facebook ,Google and Microsoft have all been criticized for allowing humans to listen to users’ private conversations in order to test their AI products for quality. Is it truly necessary or is it just easier and cheaper to ...
08.14.2019 What's Up with Your Face? - DTNS 3595 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 For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy
08.13.2019 A Mos Def Con - DTNS 3594 Shannon breaks down all the highlights from this year's Def Con hacking conference in Las Vegas. Starring Sarah Lane, Shannon Morse, Roger Chang. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy
08.12.2019 Touchscreens Away! - DTNS 3593 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 ...
08.11.2019 Amazon Rings up the Police - DTNS SPECIAL 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 ...
08.10.2019 Don't Fear the Libra - DTNS SPECIAL 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 ...
08.09.2019 Broadtale of Two Countries - DTNS 3592 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 ...
08.08.2019 Battery Rights Management - DTNS 3591 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 ...
08.07.2019 Notes on the New Note - DTNS 3590 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 For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy
08.06.2019 Recycled People Are Pretty Too - DTNS 3589 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 ...
08.05.2019 The Cow Jones Industrial Average - DTNS 3588 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. For ...
08.03.2019 WiFi 6 Explained - DTNS What the heck is WiFi 6 and why do you need it? For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy
08.02.2019 Hoarding The Streams - DTNS 3587 Are expectations for what consumers are willing to pay for new streaming services too high? Starring Tom Merritt, Patrick Norton, Roger Chang. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy
08.01.2019 Patent Pretending - DTNS 3586 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. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy
07.31.2019 Netflix Getting Physical? - DTNS 3585 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 ...
07.30.2019 Capital 100M Records Stolen - DTNS 3584 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? ...
07.29.2019 AI recognise AI - DTNS 3583 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 ...
07.26.2019 Crickets, the Next Super Food - DTNS 3582 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 ...
07.25.2019 Holy Guacamole, it's a Cat! - DTNS 3581 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 ...
07.24.2019 Amazon prime target for DOJ - DTNS 3580 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. For information regarding your data privacy, ...
07.23.2019 Face it, Recognition Isn't Ready - DTNS 3579 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 ...
07.22.2019 RoboUmp - DTNS 3578 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 ...
07.19.2019 All Ryzen. DTNS Court's Now in Session - DTNS 3577 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. For information regarding your ...
07.18.2019 Will Smart Diapers Pass The Sniff Test? - DTNS 3576 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. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy
07.17.2019 How Does the Rat Feel - DTNS 3575 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. For information regarding your data privacy, ...
07.16.2019 The Drones Beneath My Wing - DTNS 3574 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. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy
07.15.2019 It's a Prime Day for Protests - DTNS 3573 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. ...
07.13.2019 You're Looking at the Wrong End of the E-Waste Problem Tom talks with professor Josh Lepawsky about what the real situation with e-waste is and why the professor thinks people should look at the factory, not just the landfill. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy
07.12.2019 A Prime Day To Strike - DTNS 3572 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 ...
07.11.2019 Amazon Primes Employees for New Jobs – DTNS 3571 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 ...
07.10.2019 Nintendo Switch-Lite – DTNS 3570 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 ...
07.09.2019 You Can Do The Same Thing With Your Mouth - DTNS 3569 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. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy
07.08.2019 Meet Your New Meat – DTNS 3568 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. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy
07.05.2019 People of Amazon - DTNS 3567 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. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy
07.04.2019 Apple Reportedly Moving Away from Butterfly Keyboards - DTH Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo says Apple is moving away from Butterfly keyboards, court rules that Amazon is liable for third-party sellers, and Waymo receives a permit to participate in California's autonomous vehicle passenger service pilot program. For information regarding your data ...
07.03.2019 You’ll Still Get Your Pizza – DTNS 3566 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 ...
07.02.2019 Smart-E Pants 2.0 - DTNS 3565 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, ...
07.01.2019 Loon Over My Kenya - DTNS 3564 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, ...
06.28.2019 Once It's Encrypted, It's Encrypted - DTNS 3563 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. For information regarding your ...
06.27.2019 Outsourcing Jony Ive - DTNS 3562 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. ...
06.26.2019 Box of Jobs - DTNS 3561 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 ...
06.25.2019 The Buzz Around Lightyear – DTNS 3560 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 ...
06.24.2019 What’s a Pi 4? - DTNS 3559 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 ...
06.21.2019 The First Wrong Is Always Right - DTNS 3558 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 ...
06.20.2019 Hmm, I Don't Know if You're Having a Heart Attack - DTNS 3557 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 ...
06.19.2019 Hey YouTube, Leave Those Kids Alone - DTNS 3556 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, ...

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Daily Tech News Show episodes:

India: The Prime Frontier - DTNS 3600

Grading on an Algorithmic Curve – DTNS 3599

Night of The Living Scooters - DTNS 3598

Phone for Convenience, DSLR for Quality - DTNS 3597

Pasture raised, cage free AI - DTNS 3596

What's Up with Your Face? - DTNS 3595

A Mos Def Con - DTNS 3594

Touchscreens Away! - DTNS 3593

Amazon Rings up the Police - DTNS SPECIAL

Don't Fear the Libra - DTNS SPECIAL

Broadtale of Two Countries - DTNS 3592

Battery Rights Management - DTNS 3591

Notes on the New Note - DTNS 3590

Recycled People Are Pretty Too - DTNS 3589

The Cow Jones Industrial Average - DTNS 3588

WiFi 6 Explained - DTNS

Hoarding The Streams - DTNS 3587

Patent Pretending - DTNS 3586

Netflix Getting Physical? - DTNS 3585

Capital 100M Records Stolen - DTNS 3584

AI recognise AI - DTNS 3583

Crickets, the Next Super Food - DTNS 3582

Holy Guacamole, it's a Cat! - DTNS 3581

Amazon prime target for DOJ - DTNS 3580

Face it, Recognition Isn't Ready - DTNS 3579

RoboUmp - DTNS 3578

All Ryzen. DTNS Court's Now in Session - DTNS 3577

Will Smart Diapers Pass The Sniff Test? - DTNS 3576

How Does the Rat Feel - DTNS 3575

The Drones Beneath My Wing - DTNS 3574

It's a Prime Day for Protests - DTNS 3573

You're Looking at the Wrong End of the E-Waste Problem

A Prime Day To Strike - DTNS 3572

Amazon Primes Employees for New Jobs – DTNS 3571

Nintendo Switch-Lite – DTNS 3570

You Can Do The Same Thing With Your Mouth - DTNS 3569

Meet Your New Meat – DTNS 3568

People of Amazon - DTNS 3567

Apple Reportedly Moving Away from Butterfly Keyboards - DTH

You’ll Still Get Your Pizza – DTNS 3566

Smart-E Pants 2.0 - DTNS 3565

Loon Over My Kenya - DTNS 3564

Once It's Encrypted, It's Encrypted - DTNS 3563

Outsourcing Jony Ive - DTNS 3562

Box of Jobs - DTNS 3561

The Buzz Around Lightyear – DTNS 3560

What’s a Pi 4? - DTNS 3559

The First Wrong Is Always Right - DTNS 3558

Hmm, I Don't Know if You're Having a Heart Attack - DTNS 3557

Hey YouTube, Leave Those Kids Alone - DTNS 3556

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