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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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People Don't Talk About Nuro Enough - DTNS 3713 Feb 06, 2020

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Clearview AI, offers image recognition to law enforcement agencies based on a database of 3 billion images scraped from social media and online platforms. Clearview CEO Hoan Ton-That argued it had a "First Amendment" right to access data in the public domain. Is he right and just what are the legalities around harvesting images online?

Starring Tom Merritt, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang

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Zoom and Enhance on 1896 Film - DTNS 3712 Feb 05, 2020

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Denis Shiryaev has upscaled the film classic "L'Arrivée d'un train en gare de La Ciotat: a 50-second silent movie of a train pulling into a station. Using DAIN and Topaz Labs' Gigapixel AI, he has transformed the original blurry footage into a 4K 60FPS clip.

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

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The Iowa App Flap - DTNS 3711 Feb 04, 2020

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Iowa’s Democratic Party App to tally votes crashes during the party's caucus. Paper ballots saved the day but why did the App fail and what can be learned from this incident?

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

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AirBnB Cautious - DTNS 3710 Feb 03, 2020

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Tech companies are feeling the impact of the coronavirus with Foxconn declaring a "big" production impact, while Airbnb has activated its extenuating circumstances policy to help deal with the issue.

Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Nate Lanxon

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One Charger to charge them all - DTNS 3709 Jan 31, 2020

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Apple's has proposed a standardize format for one-time passcodes sent over SMS, used in two factor authentication, while Google launched OpenSK, an open source Rust-based firmware to turn Nordic chip dongles into FIDO U2F and FIDO2-compliant security keys. What will this mean for 2FA and online security?

Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Shannon Morse, Roger Chang, Len Peralta

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Facebook Doesn't Want to be Liked - DTNS 3708 Jan 30, 2020

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Facebook's Zuckerberg wants his company to be understood not liked, Microsoft wants to spend $40 million for AI on health research, and what does Canalys smartphone metrics for 2019 mean for the industry.

Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang

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Eggs In Apple Baskets - DTNS 3707 Jan 29, 2020

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Apple's valued net worth is greater than Germany DAX's. We sift through Apple's earning results and see what's working and what isn't.

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

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Remote Work is so Close - DTNS 3706 Jan 28, 2020

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Ars Technica's Lee Hutchinson describes how the site functions without a physical office. How does it work and what types of things are needed for it work for the company.

Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Patrick Beja, Roger Chang.

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Grub Flub! - DTNS 3705 Jan 27, 2020

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A recent post from WhiteSource identifies the trends in Open Source software licensing and makes predictions on what shape Open Source software will take down the road.

Starring Tom Merritt, Richard Stroffolino, Roger Chang

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Post YouTube Stress Disorder - DTNS 3704 Jan 24, 2020

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If you plan on getting a new gaming PC should you build or buy it? Lamarr Wilson shares his thoughts.

Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Len Peralta, Lamarr Wilson

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