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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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Putting the Home in Home Box Office - DTNS 3919 Dec 03, 2020

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WarnerMedia announced its entire slate of movies in 2021 will debut on HBO Max in 4K HDR at the same time they appear in theaters. That means Dune, Suicide Squad, The Matrix 4, Godzilla vs. Kong, the whole slate. Each movie will be available on HBO Max for a month. Theaters like AMC will run the movies as well and may continue to run them after the 30 days.

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

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Salesforce takes up the Slack - DTNS 3918 Dec 02, 2020

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What does Salesforce want with Slack and who should be the most worried about the company's acquisition?

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

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We Can Do Bigger Better Faster Stronger - DTNS 3917 Dec 01, 2020

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Yesterday we told you about DeepMind's AlphaFold system that uses an attention-based neural network to predict protein folding structure in a matter of days. This avoids needing the huge computing resources to brute-force predictions, such as folding@home or the meticulous and labor intensive use of direct observation both of which take much longer. Today Dr. Kiki is going to help us understand what this advance of neural network training can actually do for us.

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

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Technology Originalists - DTNS 3916 Nov 30, 2020

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The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Monday in Van Buren vs. United States regarding the application of the US Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA). We discuss the premise of the case and how a ruling one way or another will impact computer use.

Starring Tom Merritt, Rich Strophollino, Roger Chang, Joe.

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UK Forms the Digital Markets Unit - DTH Nov 27, 2020

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The UK announced the formation of the Digital Markets Unity to investigate dominant online platforms, Amazon's global workforce grew 50% in a year, and the Libra Association hopes to launch a stablecoin as early as January.

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Foxconn Moving Some Apple Production to Vietnam - DTH Nov 26, 2020

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Foxconn is reportedly planning to move some iPad and MacBook production to Vietnam, South Korea fines Facebook for sharing user data without consent, and the EU approves a Right to Repair resolution.

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The Monolith Has Always Been There- DTNS 3915 Nov 25, 2020

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The Verge's Tom Warren notes that despite the Xbox Series X having more powerful hardware, the PS5 has been outperforming it, particularly in frame rate, according to benchmarks from Digital Foundry. What's going on and is there deeper going on?

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

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Adventures of Spot and Sparrow - DTNS 3914 Nov 24, 2020

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Twitter announced it is relaunching its verification process with new guidelines, the Australian inspector general for the intelligence community discovered intelligence agencies were “incidentally” collecting data from Australia’s COVIDSafe contact tracing app, and the future of newspapers.

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

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Let OLED Light Up Your Life - DTNS 3913 Nov 23, 2020

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If you plan to upgrade your home theater display this holiday shopping season wait till you hear what Robert Heron has to say on what to look for and which TVs should be on your shortlist.

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

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Deal Digging for GPUs - DTNS 3912 Nov 20, 2020

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Patrick Norton is back with some choice picks for your holiday gift buying list.

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

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