Daily Tech News Show

A group of over 500 researchers have signed on to the BigScience project, an effort led by the startup Huggingface to build an open-soruce large language model to better understand natural-language processing. Facebook’s vice president of global affairs and former UK deputy prime minister Nick Clegg wrote an op-ed for CNBC calling for US lawmakers to create a new digital regulator. Ford reveals more information on the F-150 Lightning Pro’s extended-range version, capable of about 300 miles on a single charge and with a 240 V, 80 A charger (called the Charge Station Pro) that can fill the battery to 100% in eight hours. Price? Just under $50,000.

Starring Sarah Lane, Rich Stroffolino, Nate Lanxon, Roger Chang, Joe.

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We discuss the state of Right to Repair and issues surrounding the various stakeholders involved.

Starring Sarah Lane, Rich Stroffolino, Patrick Norton, Len Peralta, Roger Chang, Joe.

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The crowdsourced crime watch app Citizen sparks a manhunt for the wrong guy, Twitter restarts its public verification program and more updates from the Epic vs Apple trial.

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

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Tuesday the National Internet Finance Association of China, the China Banking Association and the Payment and Clearing Association of China issued a warning that consumers would get no protection from losses related to cryptocurrency investment transactions. Financial and payment institutions were also advised that they must not use virtual currency for most purposes. This sent cryptocurrencies tumbling. Has the cryptocurrency bubble burst?

Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Joe.

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Google I/O 2021 has started and a flood of announcements were made today. We parse out what was unveiled and how it fits into Google’s broader strategy.

Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah, Rob DeMillo, Roger Chang, Joe.

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AT&T and Discovery have reached an agreement to combine their media divisions into a joint venture to be 71% owned by AT&T and 29% by Discovery. Wired recently featured a piece looking at a number of top gamers quitting full-time esports organizations to pursue careers as influences on Twitch and YouTube. And more on Epic vs Apple as their court case grinds on.

Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah, Jenn Cutter, Roger Chang, Joe.

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Ransomware is still in the spotlight as the Irish government announced the Irish Health service’s central data servers were under an attempted ransomware attack and Toshiba disclosed that it had been attacked by Darkisde, the same group believed to be behind the software used in the Colonial Pipeline attack.

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

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Facebook changes the name of Libra, its digital in-house currency, and moves its headquarters out of Switzerland, Tesla’s Elon Musk issued a statement announcing the company will stop taking Bitcoin after 49 days of accepting it for purchases of cars, and Colonial Pipeline paid the group behind its ransomware attack $5 million dollars.

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

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Belgian security researcher Mathy Vanhoef published details of so-called WiFi “frag attacks.”, YouTube plans to launch a $100 million fund to pay popular creators on its recently launched Shorts platform, and Xiaomi and the U.S. Defense Department reached an agreement to remove Xiaomi from a list of firms barred from US investment.

Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Joe.

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During Apple’s Spring Loaded event the company revealed the Apple TV Color Calibration tool. The idea is that you can use the iPhone’s TrueDepth camera to adjust the color settings on your TV without diving into complicated settings. So we asked Robert Heron to give us his expert view on this feature.

Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah, Robert Heron, Roger Chang, Joe.

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