Daily Tech News Show

Chris Ashley shares his thoughts you need to be aware of before you invest in a power generator for emergency situations. Plus Amazon gives up on acquiring Roomba-maker iRobot. And the Browser Company has a new iOS app out, called Arc Search.

Starring Tom Merritt, Chris Ashley, Roger Chang, Joe.

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Explicit deep fake images and videos of Taylor Swift have flooded X, raising questions about a legal framework around deep fakes and issues with X’s current explicit content filtering system. And Google updated the Pixel 8 Pro this week to allow for a new body temperature sensor feature. Plus Samsung launched the Galaxy S24 in China but instead of using Google’s Gemini models, it’s using Baidu’s Ernie.

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

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What kind of tech do you need if you want to be a fulltime Van Lifer? Plus in response to the EU’s DMA, Apple will allow alternative app stores for the iPhone and iPad. And Google announced Lumiere on Tuesday, an AI video generator it’s calling “a space-time diffusion model for realistic video generation”.

Starring Sarah Lane, Robb Dunewood, Kevin Pereira, Roger Chang, Joe.

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Why is Palworld so popular with gamers and why has it stirred so much controversy? Plus we analyze a recent FT article on Apple's AI strategy. And Amazon will its policy of allowing police to ask for Ring footage publicly instead requiring a search warrant be submitted instead.

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

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Netflix and the WWE announce a 10-year deal to bring Monday Night Raw to the streaming service. Plus HP’s CEO gives a curious reason as to why it blocks third-party ink cartridges. And is China doing a U-turn on its videogame addiction crackdown?

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

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A new MIT study suggests that the number of jobs AI steals is far fewer than originally projected. Plus what’s Japan’s plan with their Slim Moon lander with its solar panels pointed in the wrong direction. And Dr. Niki Ackermans is here with an explanation of the experiments aboard the Axiom-3 mission.

Starring Tom Merritt, Dr. Niki Ackermans, Roger Chang, Joe.

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AI co-hosts? Gavin Purcell from the “AI For Humans” show details the steps they use to generate their weekly AI co-host. Plus pre-orders from Apple’s Vision Pro started today and by all accounts went smoothly, but what does it say about the headset’s potential popularity?

Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Gavin Purcell, Len Peralta, Roger Chang, Joe.

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Is podcasting actually a declining industry or is it just going through a market correction? Plus is Microsoft’s Copilot adding value and market share to its Bing search business? And Reddit announces plans to launch an initial public offering by the end of March.

Starring Sarah Lane, Robb Dunewood, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang, Joe.

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We sift through all the big announcements from Samsung’s Unpacked Event. Plus Amazon agrees to invest in Diamond Sports, allowing them to provide access to Diamond’s content via Prime Video. Research from Leipzig University, Bauhaus-University Weimar, and the Center for Scalable Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence show a general reduction in the effectiveness of search engines.

Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Huyen Tue Dao, Roger Chang, Joe.

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Peacock’s AFC Wild Card game between the Kansas City Chiefs and the Miami Dolphins was the most live-streamed event in U.S. history. We explain the UK’s Post Office Horizon IT scandal which led to the false arrest, financial ruin, and imprisonment of more than 700 Post Office branch managers. And we examine a survey from PwC released at the World Economic Forum in Davos about the impact of generative AI on employee numbers.

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

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