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Daily Tech News Show

Tom Merritt and the team help you stay up to date with an independent, authoritative and trustworthy tech news briefing.

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Elon's Millions: Buying Twitter - DTNS 4315 Jul 13, 2022

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Will Elon’s decision to pull-out of the deal to acquire Twitter mean the two next face each other in court? Are smart thermostats bad for the power grid? And the NY Times reports that Jony Ive’s LoveFrom design firm and Apple have parted ways.

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

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You Need Bluetooth LE Audio - DTNS 4314 Jul 12, 2022

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A group of 1000 AI researchers have created a multilingual large language model bigger than GPT-3, the AI model behind DALL-E, that’s completely open. BMW hopes to use a subscription model for optional features in its cars sold in South Korea. And we go over the Bluetooth LE Audio specification.

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

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Turning Over the Apple Car - DTNS 4313 Jul 11, 2022

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How well does AI improve the diagnostic capabilities of physicians in breast cancer screening? What exactly is the state of Apple’s car project? And focus a spotlight on Jessica Matthews the founder and CEO of Uncharted Power.

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

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What Are We Actually Buying? - DTNS 4312 Jul 08, 2022

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E3 announced it will return in 2023, but will there be anyone waiting for them when they do? Plus special edition bundles of God of War Ragnarok set for a November release come with a number of collector items but curiously no actual game disc just a digital code. And the PlayStation Store will remove access to Studiocanal movies purchased by German and Austrian customers next month.

Starring Tom Merritt, Patrick Norton, Trisha Hershberger, Roger Chang, Amos, Joe.

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Chip Prices Fall Where They May - DTNS 4311 Jul 07, 2022

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The price for new video cards have started to fall again. Is now the right time to open your wallet for that GPU upgrade? We discuss new details about Meta’s upcoming mixed-reality headset and what is Twitter’s new CoTweets feature all about?

Starring Tom Merritt, Patrick Norton, Roger Chang, Joe.

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Deep Into The Particle Zoo - DTNS 4310 Jul 06, 2022

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On Tuesday July 5th, CERN restarted its Large Hadron Collider particle accelerator. We explore the new experiments researchers used the particle accelerator for and the results they got. Plus are we headed towards a cryptopocalypse? Advances in quantum computing power have made decryption of previously complex algorithms faster to solve with brute force processing. The NIST has been warning of this day and has out recommendations for quantum resistant encryption.

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

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Mac-wards Compatibility - DTNS 4309 Jul 05, 2022

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We discuss the data breach of the Shanghai National Police database compromising about 24 terabytes of data on around a billion Chinese residents. Examine the prospects of slowing demand for chips and other semiconductors as sales of PCs and crypto mining hardware soften.

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

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Amazon Opens Its First Micromobility Hub in London - DTH Jul 04, 2022

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Amazon opens its first micromobility hub in London, TikTok sends a letter to US Senators describing "Project Texas" which it claims will resolve privacy and national security concerns, and IDC finds VR headset shipments up 241% in Q1.

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Star-linking the World - DTNS 4308 Jul 01, 2022

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Can offshore floating windmills to generate electricity be a reality? We try to decipher why a bunch of cruise driverless taxis stopped working blocking a San Francisco street. And the FCC is allowing Starlink to provide internet to moving vehicles.

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

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Okay to Drop Into Toilet - DTNS 4307 Jun 30, 2022

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Apple has another policy proposal for allowing third-party payments in iOS apps. To catch you up, Apple is facing various pressures to allow third-party payments for apps in its iOS App Store. YouTube announced new policies to try to fight comment spam and channel imitators. We try to answer the question of why do we still not have waterproof phones?

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

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