Daily Tech News Show

By Tom MerrittNews Technology

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Daily Tech News Show episodes

May 04 GameStop Bids $56B to Buy eBay - DTNS 5261
Ask.com shuts down after 25 years of answering the world’s questions, and how might the growth of “podslop” could impact the podcast industry in the next year.

Starring Jason Howell and Robb Dunewood.

Show notes can be found here.
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31 min
May 02 DTNS April 2026 in Review
Tom Merritt and Jenn Cutter look back on the biggest tech stories of April.

Starring Tom Merritt and Jenn Cutter.
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19 min
May 01 Apple Sold a Ton of iPhone 17s and Mac Minis - DTNS 5260
Google is rolling out Gemini to Google built-in as a replacement to Assistant, and Commodore 64 and ZX Spectrum can now be enjoyed on new portable handhelds designed to look like the classic computers.

Starring Jason Howell and Huyen Tue Dao.

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34 min
April 30 Why OpenAI Has Literally Been Fighting Goblins - DTNS 5259
OK, not LITERAL goblins, but it’s an interesting gremlin that helps us understand model training. Plus, Sony says don’t worry about the PlayStation DRM, but doesn’t give details, therefore skipping the be happy part.

Starring Tom Merritt and Huyen Tue Dao

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33 min
April 29 Sony’s 30-Day DRM Clock Reappears - DTNS 5258
Did Sony mean to put DRM back on offline games? And what DIDN’T Elon Musk say on the witness stand Tuesday.

Starring Tom Merritt and Sarah Lane.

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30 min
April 28 Inside the 1930s Vintage Language Model Called Talkie - DTNS 5257
Valve's new Steam Controller is purpose-built for its ecosystem and nothing else, and the "Ask YouTube" search experiment is like a version of Gemini that is specific to YouTube video content.

Starring Jason Howell and Tom Merritt.

Show notes can be found here.
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35 min
April 27 Agents Delete Rental Company’s Platform - DTNS 5256
Why you need to be really careful with these agents, but also really careful about what’s possible on your platform. And also be really careful with LED flashlights. We’ll explain.

Starring Tom Merritt and Robb Dunewood.

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30 min
April 25 Why Smart Homes Finally Just Work (Thanks to Matter) - DTNS Weekend
IKEA and Samsung just partnered—but that’s not the real story. Richard Gunther explains how Matter and Thread finally make smart home devices plug-and-play, no platform decisions required.

Featuring Tom Merritt and Richard Gunther.
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20 min
April 24 We Are Xbox and We Have a New Logo Too - DTNS 5255
DeepSeek launched V4 Flash and V4 Pro with a new Hybrid Attention Architecture the means much more context in a single prompt, and Instagram is testing a new Instants app for ephemeral photo sharing that disappears in 24 hours.

Starring Jason Howell and Huyen Tue Dao

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32 min
April 23 Apple Ternus-over - DTNS Live 5124
Tim Cook steps down as the CEO of Apple with chief of hardware development John Ternus taking the reins. Is this a shrewd move for the Cupertino company? Will Framework latest version of its modular laptop take modular laptops and Linux mainstream? And we see if the panel can out guess the riddles on today’s quiz!

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

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1 hr 10 min