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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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Do You Even Metaverse, Bro? - DTNS 4079 Jul 23, 2021

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On Wednesday, the US Federal Trade Commission voted to increase its enforcement of laws against repair restrictions that prevent small businesses, workers, consumers, and even government entities from fixing their own products. We discuss where the current state of right to repair is at and what we can expect in the near future.

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

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Computing in Plastic - DTNS 4078 Jul 22, 2021

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ARM shows off a bendable processor prototype, Twitter is testing a dislike button and why uneven uptake of the FCCs emergency broadband benefit program highlights geographic disparities.

Starring Sarah Lane, Rich Stroffolino, Roger Chang, Joe.

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Stranger Netflix Chess Game? - DTNS 4077 Jul 21, 2021

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Netflix loses 400,000 plus North American subscribers, Tumblr is testing a new feature called Post+ that lets some users charge their followers a monthly fee for exclusive content, and a market survey has revealed 75% of TikTok visitors discover musical artists there, while 63% say it’s a source for music they haven’t heard before.

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

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RCS and a Moon Pie - DTNS 4076 Jul 20, 2021

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Priavacy-focused search engine DuckDuck Go is offering an email protection feature. Sony announced two high-end home theater products with HDMI 2.1 passthrough ports that support 8K, 4K gaming at 120 Hertz, Dolby Vision HDR, eARC and more. Two former WhatsApp employees launched the HalloApp a private ad-free social network.

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

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Anti Gravity Chili - DTNS 4075 Jul 19, 2021

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A forensic analysis report by Amnesty International claims NSO Group’s Pegasus software was used by clients to compromise the phones of more than 1,000 heads of state, politicians, journalists, activists, and business executives in more than 50 countries. Warner Media will launch a streaming news service in the US under the CNN banner called– you could have easily guessed– CNN Plus. Online glasses seller Warby Parker has released its Virtual Vision test which lets most users renew their prescription using an iPhone 6s or newer.

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

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Seniors in Tech: Sandra Foster Jul 17, 2021

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Welcome to Seniors In Tech, a podcast mini-series where we bust stereotypes by talking to seniors who either worked in the tech industry at the beginning of the digital era, and or are currently tech-fluent in their everyday lives. I’m Dr. Niki Ackermans and this week we are talking to Sandra Foster, a former High School French teacher who taught herself how to operate and fix Macs and ended up being tech support for her friends and family.

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Welcome to the HakVan - DTNS 4074 Jul 16, 2021

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Friend of the show Darren Kitchen has made the road his home with a van kitted out with some of things you might expect, like a table, bed, cooking equipment. But when you hack across America, you need a lot of tech in that van too. Thankfully Darren has agreed to tell us about some of the gear he’s used to tech out the van.

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

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Netflix: Throne of Games? - DTNS 4073 Jul 15, 2021

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Netflix announced it has hired Mike Verdu as its Vice President of game development. The US Consumer Product Safety Commission said it has sued Amazon to recall hundreds of thousands of hazardous products distributed on its platform. China’s National Bureau of Statistics reported integrated circuit output in the country rose 43.9% on the year in May.

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

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Satyamania 365 - DTNS 4072 Jul 14, 2021

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Microsoft’s new easy-to-set-up and use virtual windows machine service called Windows 365. Scientists at the University of Oxford and University of Liverpool published a study in the journal New Media and Society called “More diverse, more politically varied: How social media, search engines and aggregators shape news repertoires in the United Kingdom.”

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

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Google Gets a French Slap - DTNS 4071 Jul 13, 2021

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France’s competition authority fined Google €500 million for not negotiating in good faith to pay news publishers for the right to show their headlines and snippets in search and news results. The Verge’s Chaim Gartenberg discovered that the iPhone’s built-in weather app on recent versions of iOS never shows the temperature as 69 degrees Fahrenheit instead showing 68 degrees or 70 degrees. And Twitter mistakenly approves bot accounts.

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

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