Daily Tech News Show

Do constant alerts and notifications on your smartphone adversely affect your mental health and work productivity? Would you pay $950 for noise-canceling headphones with a mouth piece that also purifies the air you breathe in? And how is technology shaping the style and scope of popular music that is being created?

Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang, Joe.

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Having problems finding a gift for that one person because you don’t know what to get them? KTLA’s Rich DeMuro is here with a list of tech gifts sure to please the recipient. Plus Microsoft announces a deal with Nintendo and Valve to make Call of Duty available for the Switch and Steam for ten years. And The Information’s reports Microsoft wants to develop a new “super app” that would combine shopping, messaging, web search, games and news feeds.

Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Rich DeMuro, Roger Chang, Joe.

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What’s the problem with a subscription model to “unlock” features on a car you already own? And we examine the Journalism Competition and Preservation Act. A bill that enables news organizations to collectively negotiate with online platforms for increased revenue share. Plus we hear back from listeners who work in the trucking business on our discussion yesterday about the near-term feasibility of autonomous trucking.

Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, John C. Dvorak, Roger Chang, Joe.

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Two weeks ago we had a discussion with Andrea Jones-Rooy on how the problems that come about because we don’t fully understand how AI Models work. Today we have our follow-up on the same topic focusing on what we could and should do to mitigate the issues surrounding AI generated “answers”. As companies move forward with commercializing algorithmically-generated content, we can now see the initial crop of policy approaches on how to treat it. And how much longer do we need to wait for fully self-driving semi-trucks?

Starring Tom Merritt, Nica Montford, Andrea Jones-Rooy, Roger Chang, Joe.

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The European Commission has ruled airlines can provide in-flight 5G technology on board planes. Kids are purportedly asking for virtual currencies instead of actual currencies as they spend increasingly more in online virtual economies. And why is smart home brand Eufy’s security cameras sending unencrypted images and streamed video to AWS servers when it sells itself as a data privacy minded alternative to Amazon’s offerings?

Starring Tom Merritt, Robb Dunewood, Len Peralta, Roger Chang, Joe.

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