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In a blog post Wednesday Sony announced premium customers will be able to play “select” cloud-streamed PS5 games later this month. How much does Google pay Apple to keep the search engine front and center on its devices? And Utah’s Division of Consumer Protection filed a lawsuit against TikTok, alleging the app is knowingly harmful to children because of its “addictive nature.”

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

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Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman reports Apple is working on a lighter version of the Vision Pro. Google announced results and expansions of its “Project Green Light”, its program to reduce times cars spend at red lights. And has the recent attack in Israel highlighted the shift of news off X?

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

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DTNS is off for the US holiday.

Snap is under investigation in the UK over possible privacy risks with Snapchat My AI chatbot, chip makers Samsung and SK Hynix able to supply US chip equipment to their China-based factories, and Google's Vertex AI aims to help doctors with patient histories and billing.

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We explore how AI is impacting the world of mathematics with data scientist Andrea Jones-Rooy. Plus some retailers are souring on the concept of self checkout lanes. And the Information reports that Meta is paying millions of dollars to celebrities for the rights to recreate their personalities as chatbots.

Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Andrea Jones-Rooy, Roger Chang, Joe.

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We do a Nobel Prize recap as we look at this year’s winners and the research that got them there. Plus BlackBerry announced on Wednesday it would separate its Internet of Things and cybersecurity business units. And we analyze recent comments by X CEO Linda Yaccarino about brands returning to the platform.

Starring Sarah Lane, Robb Dunewood, Dr. Niki Ackermans, Roger Chang, Joe.

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We go through everything announced at Google’s Pixel hardware event and share our analysis of the latest Pixel 8 flagship phones and accessories.

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

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We examine Meta’s plan to charge a fee to use Facebook in lieu of targeting users with ads to comply with EU regulations. For $100 a year the NYC based Cloaked lets users create multiple “identities” of different email addresses, usernames, password and phone numbers that can be used at different websites. Your expectations and beliefs about a chatbot may affect how you talk to it, thus affecting its responses.

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

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We have updates on the titanium iPhone 15 overheating issues and Apple’s work in developing its own web search service. LG has no plans to support ATSC 3.0 due to patent uncertainty. And Humane shows off its wearable AI assistant “Ai Pin”.

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

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We learn Apple considered swapping Google’s search engine for Microsoft Bing. And London’s Capital Economics assessed which countries will benefit most from AI technologies. And Google announced support for an extended flag in websites robots.txt file to exclude sites from being used to train Google’s AI models.

It's Friday! Who Am I? - GDI 4615

It takes a village. Are you ready for another “Who Am I”? So many tough clues. Is there a bell? Why is it not 0? How is your knowledge of literary persons? Sarah is just winging it. Who would be Disney adjacent and also a spy? Sarah was so close. So many passes. How weird are Duke people? Is Roger punking the hosts? How many language apps can you list? Tristan shares some robots.txt stories.

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

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This episode is a "free preview" of content usually only received by patrons of DTNS at patreon.com/dtns.

Tom explains why DTNS is doing a free preview week and answers Pat's question about who this Pat is.

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