Daily Tech News Show

Looking to upgrade to a new laptop this year? Before you do listen to what Patrick Norton has to say about your options on today's show. Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Patrick Norton, Len Peralta, Roger Chang Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Clearview AI, offers image recognition to law enforcement agencies based on a database of 3 billion images scraped from social media and online platforms. Clearview CEO Hoan Ton-That argued it had a "First Amendment" right to access data in the public domain. Is he right and just what are the legalities around harvesting images online? Starring Tom Merritt, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang  H...

Denis Shiryaev has upscaled the film classic "L'Arrivée d'un train en gare de La Ciotat: a 50-second silent movie of a train pulling into a station. Using DAIN and Topaz Labs' Gigapixel AI, he has transformed the original blurry footage into a 4K 60FPS clip.  Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Iowa’s Democratic Party App to tally votes crashes during the party's caucus. Paper ballots saved the day but why did the App fail and what can be learned from this incident?  Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Patrick Beja, Justin Robert Young, Joe Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Tech companies are feeling the impact of the coronavirus with Foxconn declaring a "big" production impact, while Airbnb has activated its extenuating circumstances policy to help deal with the issue. Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Nate Lanxon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Apple's has proposed a standardize format for one-time passcodes sent over SMS, used in two factor authentication, while Google launched OpenSK, an open source Rust-based firmware to turn Nordic chip dongles into FIDO U2F and FIDO2-compliant security keys. What will this mean for 2FA and online security? Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Shannon Morse, Roger Chang, Len Peralta Hosted on Acast. See...

Facebook's Zuckerberg wants his company to be understood not liked, Microsoft wants to spend $40 million for AI on health research, and what does Canalys smartphone metrics for 2019 mean for the industry. Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Apple's valued net worth is greater than Germany DAX's. We sift through Apple's earning results and see what's working and what isn't. Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Ars Technica's Lee Hutchinson describes how the site functions without a physical office. How does it work and what types of things are needed for it work for the company. Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Patrick Beja, Roger Chang. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A recent post from WhiteSource identifies the trends in Open Source software licensing and makes predictions on what shape Open Source software will take down the road. Starring Tom Merritt, Richard Stroffolino, Roger Chang  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

If you plan on getting a new gaming PC should you build or buy it? Lamarr Wilson shares his thoughts. Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Len Peralta, Lamarr Wilson Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Google tweaks how it delivers paid search results, new safety features for dating apps and scientists listen to voices from the grave! Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

UN looks into Amazon's Jeff Bezo's phone hacking, GM shows off its new driver-less car, and voters in King County Washington will make US history by being able to vote from their personal web connected devices.  Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We discuss the civil liberty issues and actual effectiveness of facial recognition based surveillance tools. Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Google CEO Sundar Pichai calls for AI regulation in a Financial Times op-ed, ByteDance reportedly put together a gaming division, and TomTom closes a deal with Huawei for map tech. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Scientists from Tufts University, the University of Vermont, and the Wyss Institute at Harvard published early research in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences about robots made from heart and skin cells derived from frog embryo stem cells that they call xenobots. What does this mean for robotics and what are the ethical issues at play? Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Len Peralta...

The Iowa Caucus takes place February 3 and Democratic Party will be using an in-house smartphone app to send out results. Justin shares hits thoughts the party's latest attempt to leverage smartphone technology. Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Justin Robert Young Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

When asked about an edit feature for Twitter, company CEO Jack Dorsey said "We'll probably never do it." What's the logic behind his statement and would an edit feature add or detract from the platform? Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Scott Johnson Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Quibi insists it's not competing with traditional streaming incumbents like Hulu or Netflix. But then who is it for and what's the business case? Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Patrick Beja, Roger Chang. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Wired spoke with Kayvon Beykpour former founder of Periscope and head of product at Twitter regarding steps the platform is taking to minimize bad behavior.  Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Tom talks with Tina Anthony, Director of Digital Marketing for CTA about how CES gets done, along with show trends, key hot product categories, and what's new about CES. Want to visit 50 countries tech scenes at once? Tina tells us how. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We wrap up CES 2020 with a look at Engadget's Best of CES and Verge Awards at CES 2020 winners. Plus Lamarr Wilson's shares his fav picks of the week.  Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Len Peralta, Lamarr Wilson.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Facebook offers to reduce the amount of political ads you see, Panasonic shows off VR headset that looks like goggles and a new menu of search engines will appear in setup process for Android phones in Europe.  Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang, Joe Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It's Wednesday here at CES 2020 and the announcements and news continues to roll out. We share our thoughts on the highlights from today's show. Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Amos, Shannon Morse, Bill Detwiler. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It's our 2nd Day at CES 2020. We look at the big announcements and share our thoughts on what we saw. Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Amos, Cherlynn Lowe, Peter Wells Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.