Daily Tech News Show

Lamarr gives us a first person account of Nintendo's new Switch and his thoughts on the iPhone 11 Pro. Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Len Peralta, Lamarr Wilson Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jeff Bezos announced Thursday that Amazon has signed on to The Climate Pledge, Roku released updates to its Express and Ultra streaming boxes, and Google launched a new platform within the Google Pay app in India. Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Justin Robert Young.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Facebook launches Portal TV a smart device camera that connects to your HDTV, plus the company shares more details of the Independent Oversight Board setup to deal with content moderation. Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Scott Johnson Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Patrick Beja gives us a hands-on look at Apple Arcade. Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Patrick Beja Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

SpaceX is changing its launch strategy to speed up deployment of its satellite internet broadband for the southern United States. Will this increase competition for broadband delivery in remote locations? Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Kikki Sanford. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We talk about HTC's new Vive Cosmos and the state of VR industry. Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Len Peralta, Nicole Lee, Roger Chang.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Huawei's CEO has proposed selling its current 5G know-how to Western firms to address concerns over security. What does this mean for its competitors and is it enough to win over governments and consumers? Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

California Senate passes a bill that if passed by the state Assembly and signed by the Governor will greatly expand the state's oversight into who can be classified employee or contractor. What are the implications for the gig-economy and how will workers benefit? Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Scott Johnson Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Apple announces the new iPhone 11 and iPhone 11 Pro, a new Apple Watch and 7th generation iPad, Apple TV+ news, and updates on Apple Arcade and Retail Store. Starring Tom Merritt, Allison Sheridan, Roger Chang, Patrick Beja.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Apple adjusts its app store algorithm in July to deprioritize Apple apps in search results, the Verge has a review of Fitbit's Versa 2, and Bloomberg reports Apple and Foxconn confirmed that Foxconn exceeded Chinese labor limits on the number of temporary staff it is allowed to use. Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Allison Sheridan shares her experience on charging her Tesla from the amount of time it takes to charge her car and what chargers seem to work better than others. Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Allison Sheridan and Len Peralta. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We check out more news from IFA in Berlin. Plus Facebook is expands its dating service into the US and asks AI researchers to create deep fake videos to test with the company's deep fake detection tools. Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Justin Robert Young. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We take a gander at all the news highlights from this year's IFA. Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Scott Johnson. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Researchers at Facebook are developing a virtual assistant to help Minecraft players letting users type in requests in natural language to an in-game avatar and the assistant will carry out requests if it can. How does this change machine learning and how can players benefit? Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Patrick Beja, Roger Chang. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Google catches a major iOS exploit in the wild, MacBook pros BANNED from airplanes worldwide, and Richard Gunther helps us understand what works with Nest. If anything. Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Richard Gunther, Len Peralta, and Amos Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Wednesday, Nicole Lee posted shares her thoughts on the $149 handheld game system, Playdate. A quirky homage to old school handheld gaming consoles.  Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Nicole Lee, Roger Chang.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Apple looks to address complaints around how it tests and improves the voice recognition abilities of Siri by letting users opt-in. Does this go far enough and is it something other companies will want to replicate? Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Voice assistants have been criticized for gender and racial bias due to the fact that they’re predominantly developed by white males in western-based tech companies. Mozilla wants to solve this and created “Common Voice” in 2017, a tool that crowdsources voices as a dataset to diversify AI and represent the global population. Starring Sarah Lane, Patrick Beja, Roger Chang, and Amos Hosted on Acast...

CNET's Patrick Holland posted an impassioned plea Sunday titled "Apple needs to fix the iPhone 11's buttons so accidental screenshots go away. What other changes would folks like to see Apple fix on the iPhone 11. Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

More than 5.3 million accounts belonging to cardholders from 35 U.S. states are posted online, DoorDash unveiled its updated tipping policy, with all drivers now receiving 100% of tips placed through its app, and Denmark will review 10,700 court cases dating back to 2012, to see if flawed cellphone evidence was used for convictions. Starring Sarah Lane, Shannon Morse, Roger Chang, and Anthony Lemo...

Rupert Murdoch's News Corp makes a play for online news aggregation with Knewz.com in order to compete with Google and Facebook. What will this mean for news companies and how will users benefit? Starring Sarah Lane, Justin Robert Young, and Roger Chang Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

G-Suite predicts spelling errors as you type, YouTube might start behaving better for your kids, and LinkedIn culls spam accounts. Starring Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, and Roger Chang. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Starring Sarah Lane, Patrick Beja, and Roger Chang We discuss how many streaming subscriptions is too many and what criteria people will use to decide which ones they stop and which ones they keep. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Reddit is testing its Public Access Network, or RPAN, as a limited-time livestream experiment, set to run from 9 am to 5 pm through the end of this week before a full rollout in the coming months. The cryptocurrency exchange Binance announced plans to launch an “independent regional version of Libra,” called Venus. Nvidia announced its competing GeForce Now streaming service will be coming to Andr...

The consumer digital camera market declined about 80% to 19 million unit sales in 2018, versus more than 400 million smartphones sold globally the same year. What can camera companies do to cope with a shrinking market and what will it mean for consumers? Starring Sarah Lane, Ant Pruitt, Roger Chang and Len Peralta Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.