Daily Tech News Show

Why is that shiny new uber-slim laptop you just bought seem slower than your 3-year old machine its replacing? Plus Lyft is trialling longer-term car rentals and Uber goes public. Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Patrick Norton, Roger Chang. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes calls for government to breakup Facebook. Is this a turning point in the struggle to regulate large tech firms, and what if any political will is there to see this implemented? Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang and Justin Robert Young. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

As national violent crime rates dips the number of social media platforms based around fear of criminal activity is rising. What's causing the discrepancy and are the long term effects of on social behavior? Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We break down the flood of new products, updates and services were announced at Google I/O 2019. Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang and Patrick Beja. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Microsoft BUILD starts today. Plus the EU plans on opening an anti-trust investigation into Apple and privacy concerns after Facebook reveals its contracting with an Indian firm to manually post tags on images and text from Facebook users.  Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, and Roger Chang. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Longtime YouTube creator Jason Inman talks about YouTube's latest plea for creator trus t. Jason Inman host of Geek History Lesson, show runner's assistant on The Code CBS, and author of Super Soldiers: A salute to the comic book heroes and villains who fought for their country Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The latest episode of Game of Thrones elicited controversy for being too dark by viewers to see what was happening. We go over what fans can do to correctly see the action on screen. Plus the latest inductees into the Video Game Hall of Fame and man swallows an AirPod bud and passes it through his body completely intact and functioning. Starring Tom Merritt, Ashley Esqueda, Len Peralta and Roger C...

A Techdirt article makes the argument that content moderation of online platforms is totally broken and how the impact is affecting online discourse. Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Justin Robert Young. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A Vox/Recode story reveals that team collaboration software like Slack, Teams and Workplace are reducing the productive output of workers instead of improving it. We explore the reasons and discuss the discrepancy between technology's promise of a productivity enabler and the real-world outcome. Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/priv...

We breakdown all of the important news from today's Facebook's F8 conference. Plus we discuss Uber and Lyft's decision to stop accepting new drivers and chew over quarterly numbers from Samsung and Alphabet. Starring Tom Merritt, Iyaz Akhtar, Roger Chang Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Horror stories about game development “crunch time” have filled forums and reddit threads alike. What’s really going on and why does this seem to be a industry-wide problem? Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang and Jenn Cutter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Between YouTube, online resources, forums and wiki pages we discuss the variety of ways people can self-teach themselves about technology and where it falls short. Starring Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Len Peralta and Allison Sheridan.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Microsoft Q1 earnings push earnings up 20% per share, Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled that warrantless police access to real-time cell phone location data intrudes on a person's reasonable expectation of privacy, and Walmart opens a concept store called Intelligent Retail Lab in Levittown, New York. Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Justin Robert Young and Roger Chang. Hosted on Acast....

In a weird juxtaposition tech companies like Airbnb, Uber and Netflix are starting up their own print magazines. Why are they investing in an old media platform and what do they hope to gain by doing so? Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, and Nicole Lee. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

>Intel unveils its 9th generation high performance mobile processors, Nvidia prices the GTX 1650 for $165, and the FAA approves Alphabet's Wing from airdrop delivery.   Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Patrick Beja. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

What is upcycling and why should you be part of the movement? Plus Samsung Galaxy Fold delayed, Sony launches ride-hailing service in Tokyo, SiriusXM reaches for streaming-only audiences. Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, and Roger Chang. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A Patreon special from January where Tom explains some of the important things you need to know about 5G. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Microsoft has formally entered the wireless earbud market with Surface Buds. What do they hope to achieve and will it be a hit among consumers? Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang and Chris Ashley. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Business Insider reports that since May 2016 Facebook collected the email contact lists of 1.5 million new users without consent. Amazon and Google kiss and make up allowing YouTube on Amazon's Fire TV devices and smart TVs in the coming month. And in response to issues with early production models of the Samsung Galaxy Fold Samsung says it will, "will thoroughly inspect these units in person...

Apple and Qualcomm have patched things up just in time for Apple to dump Intel as its sole source 5G chip supplier and pick Qualcomm instead. Hmmm. Plus Microsoft rolls out its diskless Xbox One S and the UK reveals that mandatory age-verification for adult sites begins July 15th. Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang and Scott Johnson.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more...

Sony reveals key specs for their upcoming PlayStation 5 game console including 8K resolution, faster CPU, and SSD storage. What does this reveal say about where Sony wants to be in gaming and more importantly where it might be weakest.  Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang and Patrick Beja. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Voice Assistant feedeback! You share your thoughts on voice assistants with us. Microsoft is developing its own earbuds. And Microsoft warns that malicious actors could have viewed non-corporate Outlook email accounts.  Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We talk about artificial intelligence a lot these days and I see several reactions in the audience. Some people think it's ALL hype. Some people think it's just a fancy word for algorithm. And some people just want to understand what it is. Here to help us with that is  Karen Hao , artificial intelligence reporter at MIT Technology Review and host of the newsletter The Algorithm . Hosted on A...

Patrick Norton is back with his picks of top affordable headphones plus a review of the Qobuz music streaming service. Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Len Peralta and Patrick Norton. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Bloomberg revealed that Amazon has staff members who “review” recordings from Amazon Voice Services in order to improve responses. This raises a host of questions especially around privacy and anonymity. How can users be sure there voice assistants aren’t listening in to their conversations? Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang and Justin Robert Young. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/priva...