Daily Tech News Show

Facebook had just started blocking news links from Australian sources worldwide and blocking Australian Facebook users from seeing any news links, in anticipation of Australia passing a law that would require Facebook to pay publishers to link to news content. What were the effects of the Facebook’s block and will it change anything? Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Justin Robert Young, Roger Cha...

YouTube announced several new products coming this year but the most interesting is YouTube Shorts. It will come as a beta to some creators in the US in March. We discuss YouTube’s strategy and its likely success against the incumbent short form video platform TikTok. Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Patrick Norton, Roger Chang, Joe Link to the Show Notes . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy...

Allison Sheridan shares her thoughts on SaleForces’s recent decision to allow a majority of the its employees to work from home. Starring Sarah Lane, Rich Strophollino, Allison Sheridan, Roger Chang, Joe Link to the Show Notes . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Microsoft is reportedly testing a browser-based version of its xCloud game streaming service, India removes licensing requirement for geospatial data for local firms, and Jaguar to release only all-electric vehicles by 2025. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Bloomberg’s sources say that in 2010, the US Department of Defense found that Supermicro servers in unclassified networks were sending network data, including a partial map of the unclassified network, to China. Undetectable countermeasures were put in place and the attack was allowed to run in order to determine its aim. So What Did they find? Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Shannon Morse, Roge...

New York Times’ sources say Facebook is building a Clubhouse competitor. It’s in the earliest days, so early that the sources say the secret code name is even subject to change. So how do we think Facebook will do at copying Clubhouse? Or should it just buy it? Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang, Joe. Link to the Show Notes . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy f...

Salesforce posted to its blog Tuesday that the “9-5 workday is dead.” And will give employees three categories to choose from for their work schedule. Flex would see employees come in 1-3 days a week into the office. The other two categories are fully remote and office based. Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Joe Link to the Show Notes . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/p...

A worldwide chip shortage is growing. NXP and Infineon both say chip constraints are no longer limited to automotive. Apple and Sony have both said their newest models are affected by production bottlenecks and component shortages. Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Ashley Esqueda, Roger Chang, Joe. Link to the Show Notes . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The largest ever study of facial-recognition data shows how much the rise of deep learning has fueled a loss of privacy. Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Patrick Beja, Roger Chang, Joe Link to the Show Notes . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

When you shop for home theaters you’re going to see a lot of info about subwoofers. Their Size, power and placement. But why do you need a subwoofer, how do you pick one and where the heck do you put it? Patrick Norton from AVExcel is here to give us the basics on what you need to know about subwoofers? Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Patrick Norton, Len Peralta, Roger Chang, Joe. Link to the Sh...

The incoming head of the Senate antitrust subcommittee Senator Amy Klobuchar, plans to introduce a new antitrust bill that would place limits on acquisitions by large tech platforms. If the bill became law here’s it would shift the burden of proof on to companies with more than 50 percent market share. Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang, Joe Link to the Show Notes ....

Yesterday the news broke right before the show that Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos will stop being CEO in Q3 (which starts in July) and become Executive Chair of Amazon’s board. AWS CEO Andy Jassy will take over as CEO. What will Bezos be doing as Executive Chair and will it matter to the day to day operations of Amazon? Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Amos, Joe. Link to the S...

Uber announced it intends to buy the alcohol delivery company Drizly for $1.1 billion. The company aims to integrate Drizly services into Uber Eats, but also wants to maintain the separate Drizly app. DoorDash, Instacart, Minibar, Craftshack and more all offer alcohol delivery in the US. Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Dan Benjamin, Roger Chang, Amos, Joe. Link to the Show Notes . Hosted on Acas...

Independent publishers thrive in China on platforms like WeChat and Toutiao. Chinese TV shows and movies are often made based on successful web novels. In China self-publishers are referred to as “We Media” both a reference to WeChat and being fan-driven. In 2020, 360 million users read articles published on WeChat public accounts. Self-publishers have always had to make sure they don’t attract th...

Xiaomi announced Mi Air Charge Technology, a wireless power charging system that uses a phase control array to send up to 5 Watts of power to multiple devices using beamformed millimeter-wide waves within a radius of several meters. Will this end up being vaporware? Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Lamarr Wilson, Len Peralta, Roger Chang, Joe. Link to the Show Notes . Hosted on Acast. See acast.c...

Facebook’s Oversight Board has reached decisions on a number of accounts directing the company to restore four posts in its first ruling. Starring Sarah Lane, Rich Strophollino, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang, Joe. Link to the Show Notes.   Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

What does short selling have to do with GameStop? And why is a subreddit r/wallstreetbets in the middle of allegations of stock price shenanigans? Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Molly Wood, Roger Chang, Joe. Link to the Show Notes . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

During this pandemic much has been made about tech workers fleeing cities for other parts of the country due to cost of living and natural disasters. But what exactly is going on and is this shift a much deeper and older set of human behaviors? Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Annalee Newitz, Roger Chang, Joe. Link to the Show Notes . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Peacock used to be notable for being a streaming service that hasn’t yet added Plus to its name. But recent moves by NBCUniversal look to make it a destination for sports. Internally the company plans to wind down NBCSN by the end of the year, with its sports coverage, including Hockey, Tennis, and NASCAR going to USA Network and/or Peacock. Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Joe. Link...

We examine the state of Quantum Computing from China’s perspective and how it might impact the wider world. Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Dr. Kiki Sanford, Roger Chang, Joe. Link to the Show Notes . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Amazon chief executive of worldwide consumer business, Dave Clark, sent a letter to the US President, offering to help reach the goal of vaccinating 100 million people against COVID-19 in 100 days. Can Amazon really help with the deployment of vaccines across the country and should the country take them up on their offer? Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang, Joe. Lin...

The European Commission fined Valve and the game publishers Focus Home, ZeniMax, Koch Media, Capcom, and Bandai Namco a combined 7.8 million Euros for geo-blocking roughly 100 PC games, preventing them from being played outside certain EU countries and breaking EU’s Digital Single Market rules. Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Joe. Link to the Show Notes . Hosted on Ac...

Company gets approval for self-flying drones away from line of sight, Brave browser offers new IPFS functionality and Pizza Hut in Israel plans on testing drone pizza delivery to drop-off points for final delivery by a driver. Starring Tom Merritt, Robb Dunewood, Roger Chang, Joe. Link to the Show Notes . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

DuckDuckGo sees a new peak in daily search queries following 62% annual growth in 2020, Grab considers a US IPO, and researchers find smartwatches can detect COVID-19 before its detectable is tests. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Are Facebook and Twitter protected by a shield that stops them from being responsible for any of their content? We bring on Mike Masnick from TechDirt and Shoshana Weissman from the R Street Institute to talk about what Section 230 is, what it isn’t, and whether it needs to be changed.  SHOW NOTES: Shoshana Weissmann, Senior Manager of Digital Media and a policy Fellow at the R Street Institu...