Daily Tech News Show

Atlanta’s Mercedes-Benz Stadium, home of the Atlanta Falcons and Atlanta United FC, will use a pair of drones to disinfect fan seating and other areas after upcoming events. The drones will use electrostatic spraying nozzles to distribute the nontoxic disinfecting chemicals.

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

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Google plans to spend more than $1 billion over the next three years to create something called Google news Showcase. What's Google's plan and how will news outlets benefit?

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

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Google announced new products including 5G Pixels, Google TV and Chromecast, and Nest Audio. We dissect and examine the products.

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

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We compare and contrast Amazon's upcoming streaming videogame service, Luna, against the competition from Google's Stadia, Microsoft's Game Pass Ultimate, Nvidia's GeForce Now and others.

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

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Roku announced the Streambar, a 14-inch soundbar that runs Roku's OS, capable of streaming 4K and HDR content. A compact speaker combined with a set-top streaming device. Who is this for and will it be successful in the marketplace?

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

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With all the friction between Apple and Epic over payments in the App Store how will Amazon's streaming game service, Luna, tackle the same issue? 

Starring  Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Lamarr Wilson, Len Peralta, Roger Chang, Joe.

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Amazon made a number of new hardware announcements at its Fall hardware event. We go through their list and share our thoughts.

Starring Sarah Lane, Rich Stroffolino, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang, Joe.

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Blizzard CEO and co-founder Mike Morhaime left the company in 2018. He has now unveiled his new company DreamHaven, a game developer and publisher. What is he up to and what can we expect from his new company?

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

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Microsoft's Ignite kicks off today. We take a gander at the developments coming out of the conference.

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

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Cryptographic engineer Tony Arcieri noted that Twitter's automatic cropping algorithm for presenting image previews in the timeline seems to focus on white faces. What's going on and what can be done to mitigate the problem?

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

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