Dishin' Digital

You may be surprised by the decent tech gadgets you'll find at the dollar store or other discounter.  USA Today tech columnist Marc Saltzman shares with us his favorite picks, starting with a phone mount for your car.  More here: https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2023/02/22/dollar-store-family-dollar-tech-deals/11322627002/

This is YouTube TV's first price hike in three years.

Amazon has announced the major milestone along with an expansion of its Fire Tv lineup.

The FTC is warning people not to speak first when answering a call from an unfamiliar number. That's because scammers could be recording your voice to trick your friends and family into giving them money.

General Motors says it will end production for its classic muscle car next year.  GM isn't saying whether it has plans for a Camaro EV, but says this is not the end of the story for Camaro.

CNET's Lexy Savvides talks to us about the Garmin Venu 2 Plus, which she says is a great smartwatch and fitness tracker that works with both Apple and Android phones.

This year's nominees include Angry Birds, Age of Empires, Barbie Fashion Designer and Wii Sports.

Apple Music Classical is a standalone app for streaming more than five million classical music tracks.

The new feature called Copilot is being include with Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook.  It's designed to automate routine tasks like summarize emails, draft stories in Word and animate slides in PowerPoint.

The new ChatGPT 4 is now available on Bing's AI chatbot.

We speak with Yahoo Finance Tech Editor Dan Howley about the announcement from Roku at this year's CES in Las Vegas.  More from Dan here: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/roku-says-it-will-begin-building-its-own-t-vs-140033106.html

CNET's Ian Sherr talks to us about the new tool called "Take It Down".

The FAA has finished outfitting major airports with new technology that can warn when an incoming plane is set to land on a taxiway instead of a runway.

Mattel, CarMax, Instacart, Coke, and Snapchat are among the companies now using artificial intelligence tools.

Spotify says the upgrades will make it easier to find things to listen to and watch.

Ring, the company behind the video doorbell is out with a dashboard cam for your car.  We speak with Tom's Guide Global Editor in Chief Mark Spoonauer.  More here: https://www.tomsguide.com/news/ring-car-cam-is-putting-your-favorite-ring-features-into-a-dash-cam

Elon Musk says new innovations in manufacturing and smaller factories could lower the price of a Tesla to around $25,000.

Snapchat's My Ai uses the latest version of Open AI's ChatGPT.

TikTok will soon default to a one-hour daily screen time limit for users under 18.  Users under 13 will need a parent to enter a passcode to get more screen time.

The federal government is about to ban all employees from using TikTok on their government-issued devices.  

Tech columnist Marc Saltzman talks to us about the free Presence app for iOS and Android.  More here: https://ca.sports.yahoo.com/news/short-cash-7-things-free-163816259.html?src=rss

Sling Free has been rebranded and expanded.  The new Sling Freestream has launched with more than 225 free channels, with plans to offer more than 400 channels in the months ahead.

A first-generation iPhone sealed in the original box sells for more than 100 times its 2007 sales price at auction.

The AI-enhanced search engine is now being included in the Bing smartphone app as well as the app for the Edge web browser.

Meta is testing Meta Verified, which requires a subscription to have Facebook and Instagram accounts verified.