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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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Broadtale of Two Countries - DTNS 3592 Aug 09, 2019

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We take a look at the National Broadband Networks that the governments of Australia and New Zealand rolled out and what others can learn from their successes and mistakes.

Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Raj Deut, Len Peralta

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Battery Rights Management - DTNS 3591 Aug 08, 2019

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IFixit reports that if anyone but Apple replaces a battery in the iPhone XR, XS, or XS Max, a "service" message displays saying the phone is "unable to verify this iPhone has a genuine Apple battery. At Black Hat, Researchers from security firm Checkpoint demonstrated an exploit of WhatsApp that would let an attacker alter text in a quoted message to change what a person appeared to write. Early results from a study by Apple, Eli Lilly and Evidation Health found that data from an iPhone, an Apple Watch, and a Beddit sleep monitor, differentiated patients with mild Alzheimer’s disease dementia from those without symptoms.

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

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Notes on the New Note - DTNS 3590 Aug 07, 2019

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We pick apart Samsung's Galaxy Note 10 announcement; the good, the bad and the interesting.

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

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Recycled People Are Pretty Too - DTNS 3589 Aug 06, 2019

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Google pledges that 100 percent of all shipments going to or from customers will be carbon neutral by 2020 and 100% of "Made by Google" products will include recycled materials and will maximize recycled content whenever possible starting 2022. Is this a PR gimmick or the start of larger trend in tech companies approach to environmental sustainability?

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

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The Cow Jones Industrial Average - DTNS 3588 Aug 05, 2019

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Cloudflare terminated DDoS protection services to the forum website 8chan as of August 5th after the mass shootings in El Paso and Dayton. Other companies including Volitility have also done the same.

Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang.

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WiFi 6 Explained - DTNS Aug 03, 2019

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What the heck is WiFi 6 and why do you need it?

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Hoarding The Streams - DTNS 3587 Aug 02, 2019

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Are expectations for what consumers are willing to pay for new streaming services too high?

Starring Tom Merritt, Patrick Norton, Roger Chang.

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Patent Pretending - DTNS 3586 Aug 01, 2019

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A team of academics say artificial intelligence system should be recognized as the inventor of two ideas patented on its behalf.

Starring Tom Merritt, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang.

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Netflix Getting Physical? - DTNS 3585 Jul 31, 2019

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Apple reported revenue of $53.8 billion, up 1 percent year over year despite revenue declines in Europe and China, a team led by neurosurgeon Edward Chang at UCSF, has developed a brain-computer interface that could decode words and phrases in real time and Samsung announces the 10.5-inch Super AMOLED Samsung Galaxy Tab S6 tablet with a Snapdragon 855 processor, 15 hours battery life, and an S Pen that charges wirelessly.

Starring Tom Merritt, Scott Johnson and Roger Chang.

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Capital 100M Records Stolen - DTNS 3584 Jul 30, 2019

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Capital One announced Monday that customer data including 140,000 SSN and 80,000 bank account numbers were accessed by an intruder. How did the hack occur and what steps should have been taken to prevent the breach in the first place?

Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Shannon Morse and Roger Chang.

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