Daily Tech News Show

Is TikTok a national security threat or just electioneering hyperbole? Starring Tom Merritt, Roger Chang, Justin Robert Young Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

McDonald's, the fast-food giant, has invested substantial resources into developing AI to help automate portions of its business. We take a look at the progress the Golden Arches has made in the tech sector. Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Justin Robert Young  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Ed Both at ZDNet has an article up called "How to replace each Google service with a more privacy-friendly alternative." We take a look at Ed's suggestions and add a few of our own. Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Patrick Beja Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Scientists at the University of Bristol and Sorbonne University have developed a skin-like input interface for use with phones and computers. Twitch is testing "watch parties", which would allow streamers to screen Amazon Prime video content to viewers, provided they also have an Amazon Prime subscription. NordVPN says one of its VPN servers at a data center it was renting in Finland, was accessed...

We examine the phenomenon that prevents people from picking up new habits and ways of doing things preferring established methods instead even if new behavior would simplify tasks. Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Blair Bazdarich, Len Peralta, Roger Chang.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Netflix earnings for the quarter are in and things look good. Earnings are up but subscriber base in the US missed targets. CEO Reed Hastings said that new streaming services from Apple and Disney would provide "modest headwinds" and that the bigger threat is linear TV.  Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Justin Robert Young.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more i...

Twitter published a post titled "World Leaders on Twitter: principles & approach" explaining that in "cases involving a world leader, we will err on the side of leaving the content up if there is a clear public interest in doing so." In it the company laid out its policy towards world leaders using the platform. Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang Hosted on Acast....

Google announces new products and services including Ambient Computing and Pixelbook Go. Plus the company shares updates to the Google Home, Stadia and Pixel 4. Starring Tom Merritt, Patrick Beja, Roger Chang.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Five new companies leave the Libra Association, Apple now lists Tencent Safe Browsing as part of the Fraudulent Website Warning in Safari, and San Francisco proposes an Office of Emerging Technology. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Data privacy. There's a lot of misinformation and overreaction when it comes to data privacy but that's in large part to the fact that there's a lot of lack of data privacy. People are rightly concerned. In this episode Tom describes very simply and generally what differential privacy is, and what you need to know about how it's used. On DTNS we try to balance the idea that companies do definitely...

Earbuds have become the latest front in the ongoing ecosystem war between large tech giants with Microsoft, Amazon and Google hoping to cut into Apple's AirPods marketshare. What should consumers expect in the coming years? Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Annie Gaus, Len Peralta, Roger Chang.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Apple pulls app used to track Hong Kong police, pulls Quartz news app from the store and Hong Kong protester role-playing game suspended from Google Play Store. Has big tech bowed to big pressure from China? Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Justin Robert Young. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Co-founder and CEO of Legal IO, Pieter Gunst tweeted his experience with a rather sophisticated phishing scam, that ALMOST fooled him. We examine how sophisticated phishing schemes have become. Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Scott Johnson Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In a blog post the president of Sony’s interactive entertainment Jim Ryan announced next PlayStation console will be called the PlayStation 5. What should we expect from the new machine and what's Sony's strategy? Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Patrick Beja Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Ariel Waldman shares her first hand experience with setting up and streaming live video from the bottom of the world in Antartica.  Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Ariel Waldman, Roger Chang Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

US Attorney General William Barr, UK Home Secretary Priti Patel, and Australian Minister for Home Affairs Peter Dutton, requesting Facebook delay building end-to-end encryption across all its messaging apps to ensure that law-enforcement has the ability to access illegal content. Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Shannon Morse, Len Peralta, Roger Chang Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy f...

We catch-up on the world for Fintech including the use of AI, real time payment, and open banking. Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Justin Robert Young and Tony Staley. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Microsoft unveils a slate of new Surface products and we give our take on all of it! Starring Tom Merritt, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Verge obtained recorded audio of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaking about a variety of topics during two open meeting with employees in July. We parse through the topics and digest what was said.  Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Patrick Beja. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A recent report by the British government makes the case that more not less automation is needed to create new jobs to provide work for the population. How does this counter-intuitive mindset change how we prepare people for work in the future? Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Have we reached peak streaming? Is the sheer number of services we sign-up for causing issues with cord-cutters as cumulative costs add up? Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Lamarr Wilson, Len Peralta, Roger Chang.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Developer Riley Testut has released a project called AltStore which lets you run an alternative app store on iOS including Testut's own Nintendo emulator called Delta using Apple's AltServer application. What does Apple do and will there be repercussions? Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Justin Robert Young. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Amazon has revealed a raft of product announcements at its 2019 hardware event we dig and see what's what. Plus Mark Zuckerberg announced a software update to the Oculus Quest and unveiled Facebook's new VR environment. Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Last week Valve lost a case in a Paris district court to decide if Steam customers had the right to resell the games they purchased on the site. Patrick Beja gives us insight into the thinking behind the decision and what it means for customers across Europe. Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lame, Patrick Beja, Roger Chang  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Google claims to have achieved quantum supremacy after completing an experiment with a quantum computer in 3 minutes and 20 seconds that would have taken the traditional super computer, Summit, 10,000 years to solve. Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.