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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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Latest Episodes:

You're in my Facebook Top 9 - DTNS 3610 Sep 05, 2019

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We check out more news from IFA in Berlin. Plus Facebook is expands its dating service into the US and asks AI researchers to create deep fake videos to test with the company's deep fake detection tools.

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

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Speakin' of Speakers - DTNS 3609 Sep 04, 2019

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We take a gander at all the news highlights from this year's IFA.

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

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Deep Mind Craft - DTNS 3608 Sep 03, 2019

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Researchers at Facebook are developing a virtual assistant to help Minecraft players letting users type in requests in natural language to an in-game avatar and the assistant will carry out requests if it can. How does this change machine learning and how can players benefit?

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

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Don't Leave the Nest – DTNS 3607 Aug 30, 2019

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Google catches a major iOS exploit in the wild, MacBook pros BANNED from airplanes worldwide, and Richard Gunther helps us understand what works with Nest. If anything.

Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Richard Gunther, Len Peralta, and Amos

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Cranking Up The Retro - DTNS 3606 Aug 29, 2019

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Wednesday, Nicole Lee posted shares her thoughts on the $149 handheld game system, Playdate. A quirky homage to old school handheld gaming consoles.

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

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Siri-ous Changes at Apple - DTNS 3605 Aug 28, 2019

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Apple looks to address complaints around how it tests and improves the voice recognition abilities of Siri by letting users opt-in. Does this go far enough and is it something other companies will want to replicate?

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

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Self-Yelp – DTNS 3604 Aug 27, 2019

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Voice assistants have been criticized for gender and racial bias due to the fact that they’re predominantly developed by white males in western-based tech companies. Mozilla wants to solve this and created “Common Voice” in 2017, a tool that crowdsources voices as a dataset to diversify AI and represent the global population.

Starring Sarah Lane, Patrick Beja, Roger Chang, and Amos

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Tax Wars: A New Hope - DTNS 3603 Aug 26, 2019

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CNET's Patrick Holland posted an impassioned plea Sunday titled "Apple needs to fix the iPhone 11's buttons so accidental screenshots go away. What other changes would folks like to see Apple fix on the iPhone 11.

Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang

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Cell Data Is Rotten In Denmark – DTNS 3602 Aug 23, 2019

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More than 5.3 million accounts belonging to cardholders from 35 U.S. states are posted online, DoorDash unveiled its updated tipping policy, with all drivers now receiving 100% of tips placed through its app, and Denmark will review 10,700 court cases dating back to 2012, to see if flawed cellphone evidence was used for convictions.

Starring Sarah Lane, Shannon Morse, Roger Chang, and Anthony Lemos.

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The Daily Tech Knewz - DTNS 3601 Aug 22, 2019

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Rupert Murdoch's News Corp makes a play for online news aggregation with Knewz.com in order to compete with Google and Facebook. What will this mean for news companies and how will users benefit?

Starring Sarah Lane, Justin Robert Young, and Roger Chang

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