Daily Tech News Show

YouTube announced several new products coming this year but the most interesting is YouTube Shorts. It will come as a beta to some creators in the US in March. We discuss YouTube’s strategy and its likely success against the incumbent short form video platform TikTok.

Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Patrick Norton, Roger Chang, Joe

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Allison Sheridan shares her thoughts on SaleForces’s recent decision to allow a majority of the its employees to work from home.

Starring Sarah Lane, Rich Strophollino, Allison Sheridan, Roger Chang, Joe

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Bloomberg’s sources say that in 2010, the US Department of Defense found that Supermicro servers in unclassified networks were sending network data, including a partial map of the unclassified network, to China. Undetectable countermeasures were put in place and the attack was allowed to run in order to determine its aim. So What Did they find?

Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Shannon Morse, Roger Chang, Joe.

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New York Times’ sources say Facebook is building a Clubhouse competitor. It’s in the earliest days, so early that the sources say the secret code name is even subject to change. So how do we think Facebook will do at copying Clubhouse? Or should it just buy it?

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

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Salesforce posted to its blog Tuesday that the “9-5 workday is dead.” And will give employees three categories to choose from for their work schedule. Flex would see employees come in 1-3 days a week into the office. The other two categories are fully remote and office based.

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

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A worldwide chip shortage is growing. NXP and Infineon both say chip constraints are no longer limited to automotive. Apple and Sony have both said their newest models are affected by production bottlenecks and component shortages.

Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Ashley Esqueda, Roger Chang, Joe.

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The largest ever study of facial-recognition data shows how much the rise of deep learning has fueled a loss of privacy.

Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Patrick Beja, Roger Chang, Joe

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When you shop for home theaters you’re going to see a lot of info about subwoofers. Their Size, power and placement. But why do you need a subwoofer, how do you pick one and where the heck do you put it? Patrick Norton from AVExcel is here to give us the basics on what you need to know about subwoofers?

Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Patrick Norton, Len Peralta, Roger Chang, Joe.

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The incoming head of the Senate antitrust subcommittee Senator Amy Klobuchar, plans to introduce a new antitrust bill that would place limits on acquisitions by large tech platforms. If the bill became law here’s it would shift the burden of proof on to companies with more than 50 percent market share.

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

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