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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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Netflix Puts the Controller Before the Game - DTNS 4579 Aug 09, 2023

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YouTube announced Tuesday that users who disable watch history will no longer see recommendations on the home page. Netflix is doubling down on its gaming offering, including an app to let subscribers play games on their TV. And China continues its clampdown on children’s online time.

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

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Nvidia Gives a Nod to Amazing Grace - DTNS 4578 Aug 08, 2023

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We go over Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s big announcements from this year's SIGGRAPH event in LA. Postdoc researcher in ergonomics at USC, Alexis Souchet, details some of the negative issues with VR in a Conversation post. OpenAI announced its GPTBot, that will crawl the web like a search index does and filter out paywall-restricted sources, sources that violate OpenAI policies, sources that gather personally identifiable information.

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

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Does Thread Matter More Than Matter? - DTNS 4577 Aug 07, 2023

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A team of scientists from several UK universities trained a deep learning model to extract data from a recording of your keyboard clicks. Plus The New York Times reports on a woman in the city of Detroit after a mistaken arrest based on flawed facial recognition. And we delve into the issues brought up in the Verge’s Jennifer Pattison Tuohy article “Why Thread is Matter’s biggest problem right now.”

Starring Tom Merritt, Nica Montford, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang, Joe.

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RISC-V vs. ARM - DTNS 4576 Aug 04, 2023

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Qualcomm, NXP, Nordic, Robert Bosch and Infineon have joined forces to create a company to promote the development of RISC-V. We go over Apple’s latest earnings report. And Google is making it easier to remove your private information from search!

Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Chris Ashley, Roger Chang, Joe.

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There is No Cloud, Only Zuul - DTNS 4575 Aug 03, 2023

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Warner Brothers Discovery announced quarter ending June 2023 earnings and has lost 1.8 million subscribers across all properties including Max, the newly combined HBOMax and Discovery+ streaming service. France’s AFP news agency is suing Elon Musk’s X platform, aka Twitter, because it isn’t negotiating payment for sharing AFP stories on Twitter. Wired’s Gregory Barber has an article up about the “Local-first” software movement. Local-first has become popular in the developer community, along with the slogan “There is no cloud. There is just someone else’s computer.”

Starring Tom Merritt, Robb Dunewood, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang, Joe.

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Amazon Fresh Tries Not to Drop the Bag - DTNS 4574 Aug 02, 2023

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Meta released a tool for AI music generation called AudioCraft, under an MIT open source license. Early results from an ongoing Swedish trial of more than 80,000 women undergoing mammograms show that AI is able to accurately detect 20% more breast cancers from mammograms than traditional screening by radiologists. And Amazon is trialing their grocery delivery from Amazon Fresh to customers without a Prime subscription in a dozen US cities.

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

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Flipping Out With Flip Phones - DTNS 4573 Aug 01, 2023

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We pit the Samsung’s Flip and Fold against the Motorola’s Razr+ foldable phones. Which of these foldable smartphones is better? Plus Adobe, Apple, Autodesk, Nvidia and Pixar formed the Alliance for OpenUSD to promote a standard for interoperable 3D tools and data. Basically. Standard for AR. And Videogameschronicle’s sources say that development kits for the Nintendo’s next console have been delivered to key game studios.

Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Iyaz Akhtar, Roger Chang, Joe.

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The Bird Goes Down in a Blaze of Glory - DTNS 4572 Jul 31, 2023

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Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman reports Apple will unveil a standard iPhone 15 model that ditch the old notch for the Dynamic Island design. Plus Apple has officially allowed Twitter to change its name to X, in the App Store. And the U.K. Ministry of Defense mistakenly sent emails meant for U.S. military intelligence to Mali.

Starring Sarah Lane, Megan Morrone, Roger Chang, Joe.

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X Used to Mark My Spot – DTNS 4571 Jul 28, 2023

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The first four papers from US 2020 Facebook and Instagram Election Study, setup to see if social media was the root cause of extreme political polarization, has been published. We examine what they found out? We discuss Mark Hill’s Wired article focusing on the social media trend of including strangers in our posts without permission. And we talk to Gene X Hwang about the experience of X taking over his X handle.

Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Gene X Hwang, Len Peralta, Roger Chang, Joe.

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Making Money Now, Lose It in the Future - DTNS 4570 Jul 27, 2023

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What is the Calyx Institute and how can people benefit from its work to enable data security and digital privacy. Reuters reports that Tesla has been purposely exaggerating range estimates on its line-up of EVs at full charge. And Meta released its Q2 earnings results, with revenue up 11% YoY to $32B.

Starring Sarah Lane, Robb Dunewood, Patrick Norton, Roger Chang, Joe.

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