Daily Tech News Show

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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