Daily Tech News Show

We reveal details about Microsoft’s conversation with the UK’s competition watchdog about the Microsoft Activision-Blizzard merger. IBM announced it will sell its weather business The Weather Company to private equity firm Francisco Partners. And we have a Pixel Fold roundtable as Tom, Huyen and Shannon share their experiences with Google’s foldable smartphone. Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Sh...

Justin has a report on the feasibility of hacking voting machines from DEFCON. We cover the US District Court for the District of Columbia ruling on copyrighting AI generated content. And YouTube issues new policies on AI generated music. Plus the Wall Street Journal’s sources say a full desktop version of Instagram’s Threads could launch early this week. Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Justin R...

In this excerpt from Tom's class "How to Make a Great Podcast" he talks about how to choose reliable sources of information or your show. You can get the full class on demand at patreon.com/dtns/shop . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Microsoft is hosting a "special event" next month, Netflix gets bundled with 5G in India, and X may start requiring ID verification... Link to Show Notes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Welcome to TechTV Scrapbook. The podcast that talks to the people and personalities who made the TechTV network possible. On this episode we talk to Jenn Cutter former producer and on-air talent at Call For Help Canada. Starring Roger Chang, Jenn Cutter You can follow Jenn on X (Twitter) , BlueSky and her jenncutter.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Associated Press issues AI guides for the newsroom, New York City bans TikTok on city-owned devices, and Snapchat's AI assistant glitches and posts Stories to users' feeds. Get Show Notes here . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

AI Named This Show is a AI-focused tech show hosted by longtime friends and tech media veterans Tasia Custode and Tristan Jutras. Join the fun each week as Tristan and Tasia wade through the hype and the doomsaying to keep you up to date in the fast-moving world of artificial intelligence. In this episode many smart folks have claimed that we're now at an inflection point in artificial intelligenc...

Tom Merritt looks at News, Sports and Weather and gives his non-expert opinion on what he considers some of the most notable news of the day. It's like reading the morning paper with Tom. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Intel gives up on acquiring Tower Semiconductor, Foxconn begins making the next iPhone in India, and scientists reconstruct a Pink Floyd song from brain recordings. During Daily Tech News Show's experiment week we're providing DTNS subscribers the Daily Tech Headlines episodes, to keep you up to date. Get Show Notes here . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Whitehouse requests to challenge Florida and Texas social media laws, Tesla launches 'Standard Range' Model S and Model X vehicles, and get food delivered to your gate at large US airports... Link to Show Notes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A show about life on the internet. That includes social media, memes, viral videos, and everything in between. In this episode we discuss X, the company formerly known as Twitter, as well as its many competitors. Plus we touch briefly on the "Attenzione Pickpocket" lady and the Pinkydoll trend on TikTok. Starring Nicole Lee and Karissa Bell Follow Karissa Bell on X (Twitter) Follow Nicole Lee on X...

Apple Watch refresh set for 2024, cord-cutting may no longer be a money-saver, YouTube tests new adblocker block. Get show notes here . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Welcome to TechTV Scrapbook. The podcast that talks to the people and personalities who made the TechTV network possible. On the pilot episode we talk to Kate Botello former host of TechTV's The Screen Savers and Extended Play. You can follow Kate Botello at Interlochen Public Radio and on X (Twitter) . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

OnePlus released a social media post showing its upcoming phones working in the rain. Gizmodo recently reported that CNET has apparently deleted thousands of old articles with CNET claiming it's done for SEO purposes while Google responds that its search doesn’t work that way. And Molly shares details of her interview with Matt Rogers, co-founder of Mill the food recycling service. Starring Tom Me...

Shannon gives up a wrap-up of all the big news from this year’s Black Hat security conference. We find out why urban drone delivery is not a regular thing yet. And Disney shares its subscriber numbers and new push to make its ad supported service available in more countries. Starring Sarah Lane, Robb Dunewood, Shannon Morse, Roger Chang, Joe. Link to the Show Notes . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com...

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. Link to the Show Notes . Hosted on Acast. See a...

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 pe...

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...

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. Link to the Show Notes . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 “...

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...

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 deliv...

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. Link to the Show Notes . H...

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 ov...

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. Link to the Show Notes . Ho...