Daily Tech News Show

DeepMind creates a machine learning model to predict energy output up to 36 hours ahead of time, Samsung begins mass production of eUFS 3.0 512GB storage chips and Funcom signs up to produce games based on the “Dune” property. Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Microsoft is rumored to be bringing Xbox One games to Nintendo Switch. Are these rumors true and if so what does it mean for home console video game market? Starring Tom Merritt, Patrick Beja, Roger Chang and Amos Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We digest the torrent of announcements from this year's Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain. Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang and Charlotte Henry Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We interview Eric Olander from the 'China in Africa' podcast to discuss the state of tech in China and examine where the largest non-American tech companies are choosing to do business.  Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang and Len Peralta. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Apple teams up with Goldman Sachs on a MasterCard credit card that will incorporate Apple Wallet, Microsoft Edge Browser has a secret whitelist for allowing Flash video to play, and HTC announces Vive Focus Plus. Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, and Justin Robert Young.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Samsung announces new Galaxy S10 phones and tablets. Worth the upgrade? Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang and Scott Johnson. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Google sent out a press invite for its Game Developers Conference keynote on March 19. Sources suggest its for the launch of a game streaming service called Project Stream. An all-you-can play cloud-based video game subscription service. Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang and Patrick Beja. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Australian political parties get hacked, the UK’s Digital, Culture, Media and Sports committee publishes its final report on fake news, and Ming-Chi Kuo published a note on an all new MacBook Pro design for 2019. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We examine the current state of Nvidia's GPUs.  Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Len Peralta, Roger Chang, Patrick Norton Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Apple's news subscription service wants newspapers to fork over half their revenue. Extortion or shrewd business sense?  Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang and Justin Robert Young. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Blizzard released its earnings results for the recent quarter, is a Sleep Pod the best way to get a good nights rest and what is Apple's news subscription service all about? Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang and Scott Johnson. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

EA's 'Apex Legends' has received 25 million sign-ups in a single week besting the previous title holder 'Fortnite'. Will 'Apex Legends' be the next "it" game?  Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang and Patrick Beja.   Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Tencent invests in China, Smartphone sales dip in China but Huawei manages to claw its way to the top and Microsoft teases a press event at Mobile World Congress.  Starring Tom Merritt and Roger Chang. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Amazon’s Jeff Bezos released un-redacted emails of a conversation between Enquirer and himself that he says was used to blackmail him. What’s going on and why now? Starring Tom Merritt, Len Peralta, Roger Chang and Annalee Newitz. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Twitter releases numbers, Facebook explains advertisements, Google Fiber declares a mistakes and is location data more nefarious than you think? Starring Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang, and Shannon Morse. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Spotify acquires podcasters Gimlet Media and Anchor in a bid to become the premiere podcasting network. But where does the company go from here and what does it mean for the podcasting landscape? Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang and Scott Johnson.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A Microsoft report shows a small but noticeable improvement in internet civility. Will it last or is this just a statistical anomaly? Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Danny Crichton from TechCrunch questions why people don't quit Google or Facebook and that current reasoning to explain that behavior is incorrect. Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, and Roger Chang.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Apple rolled out the ban hammer on Facebook and Google apps this past week for bypassing the App Store's vetting process. What exactly happened and what does it mean for other iOS App developers? Starring Sarah Lane, Lamarr Wilson, Roger Chang and Len Peralta. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Another cache of hacked passwords and logins has been released, Apple is looking at putting a 3D camera into the iphone and Ultraviolet is closing its doors. Starring Sarah Lane, Roger Chang and Justin Robert Young Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Facebook is again in the spotlight this time for a "research" program that paid teens to install VPN software that gave the company root access to decrypted network traffic.  Starring Sarah Lane, Roger Chang and Allison Sheridan  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A serious bug in Apple's FaceTime allowing anyone to hear the recipient of a call's microphone even before they accept. Is this a simple bug or sign of a deeper flaw in Apple's software development? Starring Sarah Lane, Roger Chang and Patrick Beja.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A recent report by the Brookings Institution finds 25% of US workers have high exposure to jobs that will be automated. While the US Bureau of Labor Statistics says the effects of automation will be felt unevenly with women and minorities taking a higher burden. Will higher education supply the necessary skills to compete in the future workplace or does there need to be shift in how we view jobs a...

Facebook plans on unifying the messaging infrastructure in Instagram, FB Messenger and What's App. DeepMind's AlphaStar AI was finally defeated in StarCraft II after defeating 10 other players. MIT's MediaLab found Amazon's Rekognition software misidentified the faces of darker complexioned and female faces at a higher rate than those of lighter skinned men.  Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane,...

Google is pondering changes to Chrome to make it more effective against malicious extensions but at the expense of breaking 3rd party ad-blockers. Who and whom would this affect the most and will this mean Chrome users will see more ads if the changes are implemented? Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang and Patrick Beja. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.