Daily Tech News Show

Netflix tests a new way to chill, Apple to enforce new "nutrition Guidelines" for App Store apps, and the Intel-AMD race has legs again. Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Chris Ashley, Len Peralta, Amos, Joe. Link to the Show Notes . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Nvidia is dipping another toe in the gaming water where Nintendo is doing well, there's a big move in Bitcoin, and what does California's Prop 22 mean for the rest of the world? Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Justin Robert Young, Amos, Joe. Link to the Show Notes . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Tech companies win some and lose some, solar gets salty, and Walmart looks into the smart television market. Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Amos, Joe. Link to the Show Notes . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Voice assistants may learn when you are talking to them, Walmart foregoes robots...for now, and where are visual effects artists getting paid? Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Nicole Lee, Amos, Joe. link to the Show Notes . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The RIAA has found the piracy, Waymo simulates collisions, and your cough might know if you have COVID-19 before your body shows symptoms. Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Amos, Joe. Link to the Show Notes . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

John Hancock is offering its Life Insurance customers an Apple Watch Series 6 for $25. Then you have a choice: pay the remaining cost of the watch monthly for two years or exercise more and share that data with John Hancock to reduce or eliminate your monthly payment. We discuss the implications of the policy and what it might mean for data privacy. Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Robb Dunewood,...

Time management coach Elizabeth Grace Saunders wrote an article for Wired called "How to Stop Getting into Pointless arguments online." We share our views, experiences and tips. Starring Tom Merritt, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang, Joe. Link to the Show Notes . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey testified before a US subcommittee about the way they use Section 230 or Safe Harbor. What did they have to so and will it change any lawmakers minds about enacting possible regulations? Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Joe Link to the Show Notes . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privac...

T-Mobile will launch its streaming TV service TVision for T-Mobile postpaid customers starting November 1. Is this new business sustainable and how will it fare against the competition. Plus why has Wikipedia managed to keep its operation from being abused in the same manner as Facebook or Twitter? Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Charlotte Henry, Roger Chang, Joe. Link to the Show Notes . Hosted...

Facebook is rolling out streaming games on the Web and in its Android Facebook app to selected users in the US, the RIAA, SAG-AFTRA and several other recording industry groups sent a letter to Jeff Bezos and Twitch CEO Emmett Shear claiming Twitch has failed to properly license music, and Researchers from Stanford and Samsung developed an OLED display with a density of more than 10,000 pixels per...

Patrick Norton joins us as he shares insights what Dolby ATOMS and HDR means for your home theater setup. Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Patrick Norton, Len Peralta, Roger Chang, Joe. Link to the Show Notes . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

WhatsApp for Business is rolling out in-chat shopping, letting merchants link to products and services with the option to buy without leaving the interface. Merchants will also be able to add "buy" buttons to other online locations, which will take users to WhatsApp chats to complete the purchase. Starring Rich Strofollino, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang, Joe. Link to the Show Notes . Hosted on...

PayPal will let US customers buy, sell and hold bitcoin, ethereum, bitcoin cash and litecoin. The Information's sources say that NBCUniversal and Facebook declined to buy Quibi's catalog of video and Quibi chairman Jeffrey Katzenberg is now considering shutting down the company. And Amazon's Luna game streaming service opened up to users by invite only. Starring Tom Merritt, Scott Johnson, Roger C...

The US justice department filed an antitrust lawsuit in Washington DC federal court Tuesday, alleging Alphabet's Google engaged in anticompetitive conduct to preserve monopolies in search and search advertising using exclusionary and interlocking business agreements to keep out competitors. Starring Tom Merritt, Alison Sheridan, Roger Chang, Joe. Link to the Show Notes . Hosted on Acast. See acast...

How can a simple word game give you better insight on network security? David Spark is here to show us how. Starring Tom Merritt, David Spark, Roger Chang, Joe. Link to the Show Notes . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

After criticism of how Twitter applied its hacked materials policy the company announced Thursday evening it would change the policy. What's changed and will it have any effect? Starring Tom Merritt, Shannon Morse, Roger Chang, Joe. Link to the Show Notes . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Twitter blocked the ability of its users to link to or repost images from a New York Post story about VP Joe Biden's son, Hunter Biden. Twitter said the story violated its personal information policy because it included private information like phone numbers and email addresses. Is this a sign of a more actively policed Twitter for rule breakers or something that should have been done sooner? Star...

Zoom has started beta test a service called OnZoom that lets paid Zoom users host and sell tickets to online events of up to 1000 attendees. Is this Zoom's way to expand beyond just teleconferencing? Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Peter Wells, Roger Chang, Joe. Link to the Show Notes . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We cover Apple's iPhone 12 and Home Pod mini announcement and see how they stack-up to the competition. Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Nica Montford and Terrance Gaines, Roger Chang, Joe. Link to the Show Notes . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

How ride hailing defied government, angered unions and workers and how California voters will decide if gig work will ever be the same again in California and beyond. A co-production of Daily Tech News Show and Politics Politics Politics Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The two largest game streaming companies announce a merger that will give the new company up to 300 million monthly active users, Amazon's Crucible game is officially cancelled, and Apple is using its retail stores as distribution centers. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Film and TV prop and costume maker, Frank Ippolito, is here to give us some insight into the real-world technology that turns imaginative movie ideas into a physical reality. Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Frank Ippolito, Len Peralta, Roger Chang, Joe. Link to the Show Notes . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The beauty of the Internet is being able to do what you love and another perhaps even more beautiful thing about the internet is being able to turn what you love into your career. For Creator Week we asked Brian Brushwood to talk about how he did just that? Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Justin Robert Young, Brian Brushwood, Roger Chang, Joe. Link to the Show Notes . Hosted on Acast. See acast....

From exploding space ships to de-aging actors many of today's Movies, TV shows and streaming series rely on visual effects. So we've invited VFX artist Carrie Smith on to give us a better understanding of what happens behind the scenes. Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Carrie Smith, Roger Chang, Joe. Link to the Show Notes . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more informati...

A video game's experience is more than just the gameplay it is also the narrative that glues the various elements together. Shayna Moon , Senior Program Manager at Unity Technologies, is here to explain what goes into narrative game design and what developers need to think about when developing a game's story. Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Patrick Beja, Shayna Moon, Roger Chang, Joe. Hosted on...