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FULL DTNS 3200 - Sorry Dave, I Can't Comprehend That

Blizzard's Overwatch League attracts 10 million viewers in its first week. What should come next? TWiT sues Twitter over breach of contract and YouTube will begin manually reviewing videos in the Google Preferred premium ad program to assuage client fears over their ads appearing over inappropriate videos.

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FULL DTNS 3199 – Can We Have an Alert for the Alert?

Was Hawaii mistakenly put on a ballistic missile alert by bad User Interface design? Can a push by Democrats in the Senate to Reinstate Open Internet Guidelines? And a Canadian man has been arrested for disrupting Twitch streams.

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FULL DTNS 3198 - Beware the Baby Bots

The future may be automated but does it need to come with dimples and big eyes to be accepted? Why cute is taking over the world of personal robotics. Plus Facebook refocuses its feeds on well being instead of public sharing, news and ads.

Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Erin Carson and Roger Chang

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FULL DTNS 3197 - Nostalgitech

US House of representatives extends NSA's controversial surveillance program, Google acquires company that can turn screens into speakers, Opera announces Opera News and whole lot more!

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DTNS LABS INTERVIEW - Richard Kowalski, CEA

We talk with Richard Kowalski from the Consumer Electronics Association about what it takes to make CES happen

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FULL DTNS 3196 – Vive Las Vegas

CES Blackout! Shannon Morse and Bill Detwiler joins us to share there picks from this year’s CES.

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FULL DTNS 3195 - CES 2018: How do You Say Sit in Japanese? (Better audio)

It's Tuesday at CES 2018. We analyze the keynotes from Ford, Samsung and Intel, and comb through a blizzard of product announcements for the most interesting of the lot.

Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Allison Sheridan, and Patrick Norton.

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FULL DTNS 3194 - CES 2018: Another Pixel in The Wall

Amazon brings voice to Windows and Microsoft might be OK with that, Nvidia has a big gaming display and more AI firepower and there's inflatable smart hip protection and so much more. 

With Sarah Lane, Tom Merritt, Roger Chang, Peter Wells, and Paul Spain.

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FULL DTNS 3193 - IoT: The Internet of Toilets

The hottest trends to expect at CES, plus smart toilets. Which is one of the hot trends at CES actually.

Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Len Peralta and Allison Sheridan.

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January 2018 DTNS Update

Hello friends, old and new,

THIS is the DTNS Monthly Update available to all backers. Each month I let you know what's going on at DTNS and highlight a few awesome patrons in the audience. 

TOM'S NOTE

CES is dominating our discussions as we head into 2018. For the first time, DTNS will stream from the CES show floor. Last year, I did the show in Las Vegas from a hotel room, but this year we want to see if we get a boost from having the show all around us.

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FULL DTNS 3192 - The Spectre of Speculation

Whether or not to freak out about the new chip vulnerabilities, or whether to freak out about the Indian citizen database breach OR whether you should freak out about oil-filled artificial muscles for robots and prosthetics.

With Sarah Lane, Tom Merritt and Roger Chang.

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FULL DTNS 3191 - Let The Chips Flaw Where They May

What you need to know about the Intel chip vulnerability, controlling a car with your mind and more startups try to make a go of lab-grown meat.

With Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Scott Johnson and Rich Stroffolino.

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FULL DTNS 3190 - Meatless VR!

A new advancement could make VR lenses thinner, whether Apple should buy Netflix and what we think of Apple's battery replacement program. Oh and DTNS has been around for four years now, officially.

With Sarah Lane, Tom Merritt, Roger Chang and Patrick Beja.

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DTNS LABS - GAMES - Big Games of 2018

In this episode, we discuss the big games you can exepect and look forwrd to in 2018:

Monster Hunter World (Jan 26, PS4, XBO, Win)

Dragon Ball Fighter Z (Jan 26, PS4, XBO, Win)

Ni no Kuni 2: Revenant Kingdom (Mar 23, PS4, Win)

A Way Out (Mar 23, PS4, XBO, Win)

Far Cry 5 (Mar 27, PS4, XBO, Win)

Wargroove (TBA Q1/Q2, Switch, XBO, Win)

Kingdom Hearts III (TBA, PS4, XBO)

Red Dead Redemption 2 (TBA Q2, PS4, XBO)

Anthem (Q3, PS4, XBO, Win)

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Hey APs, Happy New Year

Thanks for supporting the show!! Here's hoping you have the happiest of 2018s. 

Keep an eye out for the weekly post with a recap of the week's news and an exclusive column. 

And for those of you using Resilio to access the treasure chest. Here is the new link!

Resilio Sync

https://link.resilio.com/#f=TreasureChest&sz=5E10&t=1&s=FJP5UVDXDAP5HWV2RHMWJS6R7XT4USXX&i=CQCZ3SAUTG7ZYYY3STXCBPB...

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Happy New Year!

Hey everybody,

Tomorrow Daily Tech News Show celebrates its 4th anniversary, thanks to you. Here's to another year of fun conversation about tech and a continuing effort to understand how all this stuff works and affects our lives.

Thanks for being along for the ride!

Talk to you soon!

Tom

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FULL DTNS 3189 – Predictions for 2018

The DTNS crew share their best guesses at what they think will happen in tech in 2018.

With Sarah lane, Tom Merritt, Roger Chang, Justin Robert Young, Jenn Cutter and Scott Johnson


There's no pre and post show this week so this episode is identical to the one in the main feed. 


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DTNS at CES

We'll be mentioning all this on  the show of course, but thanks to the excellent support of patrons like you, we'll be trying our hand at a little broader CES coverage this year.

Here's the schedule. All times are pacific (local time zone in Las Vegas) so if you're going to be AT CES you can know where we'll be and if you're going to be in Las Vegas at all, take note of the meetup on Tuesday night and come out and say hi there too!

Cheers,

Tom


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FULL DTNS 3188 - Predictions Results

We look back on our predictions from last year (and in one case a little longer) and see how we did!

There is no pre and post show this week. This episode is identical to the one in the main feed. 


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FULL DTNS 3187 - Listener Co-Host Show

Three listeners join us to talk about they they like tech.

There is no pre and post-show this week. This episode is identical to the one in the main feed. 

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FULL DTNS 3186 - Retro Show

There is no pre and post show this week, so this episode is identical to the regular feed.

It's the Daily Tech News Cassette for July, 1983 with thoughts on the new TRS-80 Model 4, micro PC versions of the Eliza AI, and whether software piracy is unethical.

With Sarah lane, Tom Merritt, Roger Chang and Jenn Cutter.

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FULL DTNS 3185 - Round Table: It's Beginning To Look A Bot Like Christmas

The bounty and danger of bots, Tesla's big year, protecting your face on Facebook, the tech we use to relax and more!

With Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Len Peralta, Amber Mac, Annie Gaus, and Ashley Esqueda.

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FULL DTNS 3184 - Lost MP3s in the Amazon

Facebook changes its fact-checking program, Amazon ends MP3 storage and Keeper sues Ars Technica.

With Sarah Lane, Tom Merritt, Roger Chang and Justin Robert Young.

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FULL DTNS 3183 - What Has Your Wearable Done for You?

Magic Leap announces it really will ship next year, Apple may be throttling old phones in order to save batteries and we check in on the health of wearables.

With Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, and Scott Johsnon.

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Take the DTNS End-of-year Survey

Twice a year we run a survey to check in and find out what y'all are thinking of the show!  It really helps us improve. So take a few minutes and fill it out. We promise there will; be pie. Or at least a question about pie.

The link is http://bit.ly/DTNSSurvey17

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FULL DTNS 3182 - Free Speech, the Internet and You!

Is the Internet over? We talk with Russell Brandom from the Verge about how centralization has changed the ethos of the Net. Plus self-healing screens and a closet that steam cleans. Badly.

With Sarah Lane, Tom Merritt, Roger Chang, Patrick Beja and Russell Brandom.

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FULL DTNS 3181 - Should I Shave My Eyebrows?

A game you control with your eyebrows, Twitter's new content requirements kick in and Facebook tries to ungame its news feed.

With Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, and Veronica Belmont.

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Q4 2017 DTNS Hangout

We'll be streaming our quarterly hangout today at 11 AM Pacific/2 PM Eastern/ 19:00 UTC. 

Analysts and Advisers can submit questions in the #questions channel in Slack. We'll also have the IRC  and Discord chats open as well!

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FULL DTNS 3180 – AIM-Less

Vice begins planning to subvert the ISPs, the cryptocurrency bubble continues to inflate and TVs to watch at CES and beyond.

With Sarah Lane, Tom Merritt, Roger Chang, Rob Reid, Patrick Norton and Len Peralta.

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FULL DTNS 3179 - Net Neutrality: What now?

We talk about what will happen next after the FCC vote to reclassify Internet and what you can do about it. Plus, Disney is buying most of Fox.

With Sarah Lane, Tom Merritt, Roger Chang and Justin Robert Young.

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