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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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No Thanks for the Memories - DTNS 4004 Apr 07, 2021

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Lauren Goode has an article on Wired called “I Called Off My Wedding. The Internet Will Never Forget”. We discuss how the Internet can make it hard to forget and move past painful events in our lives.

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

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Chip Problems On Display – DTNS 4003 Apr 06, 2021

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Clubhouse rolls out its first monetization feature, called simply, Clubhouse Payments, Signal plans to add support for MobileCoin and why a shortage in the tiny little display driver chips is at the heart of the wider chip shortage.

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

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Digital Copyright Wars - DTNS 4002 Apr 05, 2021

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Facebook's dataset of 533 million accounts hacked in 2020 is now being offered for free, LG is leaving the mobile communications business, and the SCOTUS ruled in Google’s favor over a suit brought by Oracle over 11,500 lines of code.

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

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Beauty Is in the Eye of the Filter - DTNS 4001 Apr 02, 2021

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Vaccine passes are in development. The idea is to be able to securely show who has been vaccinated to enable a return to normal faster. How do they work and where have they been implemented?

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

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In Tech We Trust? - DTNS 4000 Apr 01, 2021

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Edelman surveyed more than 33,000 people in 28 countries to gauge consumer trust in institutions like media, government, and businesses. Trust in the tech sector fell by 7 percent around the world – a third straight year of decline. What’s behind the decline and what if anything should tech companies do about it?

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

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A Permanent Record of Bad Decisions - DTNS 3999 Mar 31, 2021

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Motherboard posted a story earlier this week about multiple occurrences where someone bought an NFT and then the thing the NFT referred to disappeared, Facebook announced a couple new features and Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman reports that in the next several months, Apple may make an announcement for a mixed reality headset.

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

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Nvidia Sets the Bar and Resizes it - DTNS 3998 Mar 30, 2021

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LinkedIn is adding features that cater to video creators, Arm announced its first major new chip architecture in ten years, called Armv9, and PayPal will let US users use cryptocurrency holdings to pay online merchants in the coming months with a feature it calls Checkout with Crypto.

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

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What Can Stretch Do for You? - DTNS 3997 Mar 29, 2021

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Boston Dynamics announced Stretch, a new robot designed to move boxes in warehouses, MIT computer scientists led a team that looked at 10 of the most-cited datasets used to test machine learning systems and found that 3.4% of data was either inaccurate or mislabeled, Sony announced it’s shutting down the PlayStation Store for the PlayStation 3 and remaining purchasing capabilities on the PSP on July 2nd, and Microsoft has rebranded the Xbox Live service as Xbox Network.

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

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It's Never The Wrong Time To Backup Your Data! - DTNS 3996 Mar 26, 2021

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Xiaomi plans to market electric vehicles under its own brand, Dodge announced a new security feature for its Challenger and Charger cars that requires a four-digit code to unlock the car fully and TCL wants to combine rollable and foldable screens into one device.

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

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Social Media's Capitol Affair - DTNS 3995 Mar 25, 2021

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Zuckerberg, Pichai, and Dorsey all testified before the House Energy and Commerce committee to discuss spreading disinformation, extremism and misinformation, Facebook announced it took actions to disrupt the group that security researchers call “Evil Eye” or “Poison Carp” and Triumph announced details about its TE-1 electric bike project, in development since 2019.

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

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