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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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Go Update Roomba, You're Drunk- DTNS 3974 Feb 24, 2021

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Facebook Vice President of global affairs Nick Clegg wrote a blog post Wednesday saying Facebook plans to spend more than $1 billion on the news industry over the next three years. The post also reiterated Facebook’s position on the Australian Media Code which is to say, it prefers to make deals without being subject to the code. What does this mean for the average Australian and for Aussie news outlets?

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

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Getting Your Game On! - DTNS 3973 Feb 23, 2021

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Video game development is a popular career path for many people. But exactly how do you get into the industry? Is it something you can study for in college, gain a degree in and then apply for a job after graduation? We invited Bungie EP, Carrie Gouskous, to share her insights on how to break into the video game industry.

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

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Meme Weaver - DTNS 3972 Feb 22, 2021

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We share a clip of our interview with Dr. Michael Geist, law professor at the University of Ottawa, about Australia’s ongoing issues with Google and Facebook, and what it means for the broader internet and media outlets around the globe.

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

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I'm My Own Ferret Grandpa - DTNS 3971 Feb 19, 2021

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The Supreme Court of the United Kingdom unanimously upheld a lower court ruling in a 2016 case that Uber drivers are not independent contractors. What does this mean for Uber in the UK and will this set a precedent for governments elsewhere?

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

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The Land Down Under Facebook's Thumb - DTNS 3970 Feb 18, 2021

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Facebook had just started blocking news links from Australian sources worldwide and blocking Australian Facebook users from seeing any news links, in anticipation of Australia passing a law that would require Facebook to pay publishers to link to news content. What were the effects of the Facebook’s block and will it change anything?

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

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Paying the Iron Price for News - DTNS 3969 Feb 17, 2021

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YouTube announced several new products coming this year but the most interesting is YouTube Shorts. It will come as a beta to some creators in the US in March. We discuss YouTube’s strategy and its likely success against the incumbent short form video platform TikTok.

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

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Does work from home really work? - DTNS 3968 Feb 16, 2021

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Allison Sheridan shares her thoughts on SaleForces’s recent decision to allow a majority of the its employees to work from home.

Starring Sarah Lane, Rich Strophollino, Allison Sheridan, Roger Chang, Joe

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Microsoft Testing Browser-Based xCloud - DTH Feb 15, 2021

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Microsoft is reportedly testing a browser-based version of its xCloud game streaming service, India removes licensing requirement for geospatial data for local firms, and Jaguar to release only all-electric vehicles by 2025.

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Not Big Spying. Just Super Micro Spying! - DTNS 3967 Feb 12, 2021

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Bloomberg’s sources say that in 2010, the US Department of Defense found that Supermicro servers in unclassified networks were sending network data, including a partial map of the unclassified network, to China. Undetectable countermeasures were put in place and the attack was allowed to run in order to determine its aim. So What Did they find?

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

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Server Side Puppy Training - DTNS 3966 Feb 11, 2021

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New York Times’ sources say Facebook is building a Clubhouse competitor. It’s in the earliest days, so early that the sources say the secret code name is even subject to change. So how do we think Facebook will do at copying Clubhouse? Or should it just buy it?

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

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