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This summer has broken heat records across the globe with parts of the southern hemisphere experiencing temperatures around 40C, which is bonkers when you realize this time of year is their winter. It’s hot with the south and west-facing side...
2023-08-10 18:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
YouTube announced Tuesday that users who disable watch history will no longer see recommendations on the home page. Netflix is doubling down on its gaming offering, including an app to let subscribers play games on their TV. And China continues its clampdown on children’s online time.
The Taming of the Shoe - GDI 4579 starts at 31:16
A lady has so many ...
2023-08-09 21:51:47 +0000 UTC View Post
YouTube announced Tuesday that users who disable watch history will no longer see recommendations on the home page. Netflix is doubling down on its gaming offering, including an app to let subscribers play games on their TV. And China continues its clampdown on children’s online time.
The Taming of the Shoe - GDI 4579 starts at 31:19
A lady has so many shoes, she doesn't know what to do. Why is Amazon sending so many shoes to Anca Nitu? How many would you keep? ...
2023-08-09 21:14:06 +0000 UTC View Post
We go over Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s big announcements from this year's SIGGRAPH event in LA. Postdoc researcher in ergonomics at USC, Alexis Souchet, details some of the negative issues with VR in a Conversation post. OpenAI announced its GPTBot, that will crawl the web like a search index does and filter out paywall-restricted sources, sources that violate OpenAI policies, source...
2023-08-08 21:51:52 +0000 UTC View Post
We go over Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s big announcements from this year's SIGGRAPH event in LA. Postdoc researcher in ergonomics at USC, Alexis Souchet, details some of the negative issues with VR in a Conversation post. OpenAI announced its GPTBot, that will crawl the web like a search index does and filter out paywall-restricted sources, sources that violate OpenAI policies, sources that gather personally identifiable information.
Happy National Cat Day! - GDI 4578 starts at 3...
2023-08-08 21:12:42 +0000 UTC View Post
A team of scientists from several UK universities trained a deep learning model to extract data from a recording of your keyboard clicks. Plus The New York Times reports on a woman in the city of Detroit after a mistaken arrest based on flawed facial recognition. And we delve into the issues brought up in the Verge’s Jennifer Pattison Tuohy article “Why Thread is Matter’s bigge...
2023-08-07 21:53:27 +0000 UTC View Post
A team of scientists from several UK universities trained a deep learning model to extract data from a recording of your keyboard clicks. Plus The New York Times reports on a woman in the city of Detroit after a mistaken arrest based on flawed facial recognition. And we delve into the issues brought up in the Verge’s Jennifer Pattison Tuohy article “Why Thread is Matter’s biggest problem right now.”
The DM Says Roll to Determine if AI is Allowed - GDI 4577 starts at 32:3...
2023-08-07 21:18:42 +0000 UTC View Post
Qualcomm, NXP, Nordic, Robert Bosch and Infineon have joined forces to create a company to promote the development of RISC-V. We go over Apple’s latest earnings report. And Google is making it easier to remove your private information from search!
I Saw Right Through That Whole Hologram Fad - GDI 4576 starts at 31:55
Romans and their weird numbers. We h...
2023-08-04 21:48:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Qualcomm, NXP, Nordic, Robert Bosch and Infineon have joined forces to create a company to promote the development of RISC-V. We go over Apple’s latest earnings report. And Google is making it easier to remove your private information from search!
I Saw Right Through That Whole Hologram Fad - GDI 4576 starts at 31:52
Romans and their weird numbers. We have another “Who Am I” quiz. Where was Rocky born? Steve Jobs was not a child actor. Tom is staying in char...
2023-08-04 21:19:10 +0000 UTC View Post
Warner Brothers Discovery announced quarter ending June 2023 earnings and has lost 1.8 million subscribers across all properties including Max, the newly combined HBOMax and Discovery+ streaming service. France’s AFP news agency is suing Elon Musk’s X platform, aka Twitter, because it isn’t negotiating payment for sharing AFP stories on Twitter. Wired’s Gregory Barber has an ...
2023-08-03 21:56:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Warner Brothers Discovery announced quarter ending June 2023 earnings and has lost 1.8 million subscribers across all properties including Max, the newly combined HBOMax and Discovery+ streaming service. France’s AFP news agency is suing Elon Musk’s X platform, aka Twitter, because it isn’t negotiating payment for sharing AFP stories on Twitter. Wired’s Gregory Barber has an article up about the “Local-first” software movement. Local-first has become popular in the developer commu...
2023-08-03 21:22:37 +0000 UTC View Post
One of the more popular work theories formulated at the end of the pandemic lockdowns was the belief that the office was obsolete. With the internet, many jobs could be done just as easily from home. Yet a few high-profile CEOs are questioning that belief. Companies are increasingly prodding their workers back into office even if it's just a&nb...
2023-08-03 18:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Meta released a tool for AI music generation called AudioCraft, under an MIT open source license. Early results from an ongoing Swedish trial of more than 80,000 women undergoing mammograms show that AI is able to accurately detect 20% more breast cancers from mammograms than traditional screening by radiologists. And Amazon is trialing their grocery delivery from Amazon Fresh to cus...
2023-08-02 22:06:26 +0000 UTC View Post
Meta released a tool for AI music generation called AudioCraft, under an MIT open source license. Early results from an ongoing Swedish trial of more than 80,000 women undergoing mammograms show that AI is able to accurately detect 20% more breast cancers from mammograms than traditional screening by radiologists. And Amazon is trialing their grocery delivery from Amazon Fresh to customers without a Prime subscription in a dozen US cities.
Sarah is a Smoothie Operator - GDI 4574...
2023-08-02 21:18:27 +0000 UTC View Post
We pit the Samsung’s Flip and Fold against the Motorola’s Razr+ foldable phones. Which of these foldable smartphones is better? Plus Adobe, Apple, Autodesk, Nvidia and Pixar formed the Alliance for OpenUSD to promote a standard for interoperable 3D tools and data. Basically. Standard for AR. And Videogameschronicle’s sources say that development kits for the Nintendo’s next c...
2023-08-01 21:59:35 +0000 UTC View Post
We pit the Samsung’s Flip and Fold against the Motorola’s Razr+ foldable phones. Which of these foldable smartphones is better? Plus Adobe, Apple, Autodesk, Nvidia and Pixar formed the Alliance for OpenUSD to promote a standard for interoperable 3D tools and data. Basically. Standard for AR. And Videogameschronicle’s sources say that development kits for the Nintendo’s next console have been delivered to key game studios.
Hatchet Safety - GDI 4573 starts at 29:07 2023-08-01 21:21:14 +0000 UTC View Post
MONTHLY DTNS UPDATE
Hey folks,
August is often seen as a slow time but we have lots brewing this month! Our third annual experiment week is coming August 14-August 18. For that week, we replace our normal DTNS shows with interesting takes on tech. We've had lots of fun stuff come out of these weeks, including The Tech Jawn and BBQ and Tech. So get ready to hear what we try out this year!
I'm also excited for a Pixel Fold roundtable happening Tuesday August 22. Shannon Morse ...
2023-08-01 18:12:57 +0000 UTC View PostTheatremonkey put together this GDI monthly highlight reel for July 2023.
2023-08-01 16:53:16 +0000 UTC View Post
Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman reports Apple will unveil a standard iPhone 15 model that ditch the old notch for the Dynamic Island design. Plus Apple has officially allowed Twitter to change its name to X, in the App Store. And the U.K. Ministry of Defense mistakenly sent emails meant for U.S. military intelligence to Mali..
21st Century Lawn Darts - GDI 4572 starts at 30:5...
2023-07-31 21:48:20 +0000 UTC View Post
Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman reports Apple will unveil a standard iPhone 15 model that ditch the old notch for the Dynamic Island design. Plus Apple has officially allowed Twitter to change its name to X, in the App Store. And the U.K. Ministry of Defense mistakenly sent emails meant for U.S. military intelligence to Mali..
21st Century Lawn Darts - GDI 4572 starts at 30:59
E-Bike, or a Motorcycle for Children? E-Bike talk takes over. How fast is going too fast for y...
2023-07-31 21:31:13 +0000 UTC View Post
The first four papers from US 2020 Facebook and Instagram Election Study, setup to see if social media was the root cause of extreme political polarization, has been published. We examine what they found out? We discuss Mark Hill’s Wired article focusing on the social media trend of including strangers in our posts without permission. And we talk to Gene X Hwang about the experienc...
2023-07-28 21:52:20 +0000 UTC View Post
The first four papers from US 2020 Facebook and Instagram Election Study, setup to see if social media was the root cause of extreme political polarization, has been published. We examine what they found out? We discuss Mark Hill’s Wired article focusing on the social media trend of including strangers in our posts without permission. And we talk to Gene X Hwang about the experience of X taking over his X handle.
Inaugural Who Am I? - GDI 4571 starts at 33:30
Ge...
2023-07-28 21:24:12 +0000 UTC View Post
What is the Calyx Institute and how can people benefit from its work to enable data security and digital privacy. Reuters reports that Tesla has been purposely exaggerating range estimates on its line-up of EVs at full charge. And Meta released its Q2 earnings results, with revenue up 11% YoY to $32B.
Parents, First Line of Internet Defense - GDI 4570 starts at 33:26 2023-07-27 21:51:24 +0000 UTC View Post
What is the Calyx Institute and how can people benefit from its work to enable data security and digital privacy. Reuters reports that Tesla has been purposely exaggerating range estimates on its line-up of EVs at full charge. And Meta released its Q2 earnings results, with revenue up 11% YoY to $32B.
Parents, First Line of Internet Defense - GDI 4570 starts at 33:16
But think about the children. If you have kids, how old were they when you gave them a smartphone?...
2023-07-27 21:30:36 +0000 UTC View Post
Samsung announced several new foldable phones, tablets and smart watches. We dive into the details with Android Faithful’s Huyen Tue Dao. Plus to get Twitter’s rebranding to X they needed to buy the Twitter handle from an existing user. And Mastodon hits the big leagues after the FBI seized a suspect’s equipment including a machine being used to troubleshoot a Mastodon instance...
2023-07-26 22:14:30 +0000 UTC View Post
Samsung announced several new foldable phones, tablets and smart watches. We dive into the details with Android Faithful’s Huyen Tue Dao. Plus to get Twitter’s rebranding to X they needed to buy the Twitter handle from an existing user. And Mastodon hits the big leagues after the FBI seized a suspect’s equipment including a machine being used to troubleshoot a Mastodon instance.
Right to Repair Should Be Easier! - GDI 4569 starts at 33:16
Do you want to be a...
2023-07-26 21:17:39 +0000 UTC View Post
How will Apple’s streaming service benefit from popular soccer star Lionel Messi’s exclusive deal with Major League Soccer? Netflix will replace its downloads tab with “My Netflix” which it describes as a “one-stop shop tailored to you.” Wall Street Journal reports TikTok wants to launch an e-commerce business in the US in early August.
Bob's Your Uncle Barb...
2023-07-25 21:54:51 +0000 UTC View Post
How will Apple’s streaming service benefit from popular soccer star Lionel Messi’s exclusive deal with Major League Soccer? Netflix will replace its downloads tab with “My Netflix” which it describes as a “one-stop shop tailored to you.” Wall Street Journal reports TikTok wants to launch an e-commerce business in the US in early August.
Bob's Your Uncle Barbie - GDI 4568 starts at 32:14
Roger gets to try out the Amazon Astro robot and has thoughts. Wil...
2023-07-25 21:19:08 +0000 UTC View Post
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s is rolling out Worldcoin, a way to provide identity validation with focus on “distinguishing humans from AI online.” We discuss The Verge’s Allison Johnson’s article called “Flip phones are having a moment — and all eyes are on Samsung now.” TikTok entered the microblogging competition, with a new text option alongside photo and video. So at th...
2023-07-24 21:59:01 +0000 UTC View Post
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s is rolling out Worldcoin, a way to provide identity validation with focus on “distinguishing humans from AI online.” We discuss The Verge’s Allison Johnson’s article called “Flip phones are having a moment — and all eyes are on Samsung now.” TikTok entered the microblogging competition, with a new text option alongside photo and video. So at this point is it safe to say that Twitter is no longer focused on this part of its service?
The Isl...
2023-07-24 21:26:26 +0000 UTC View Post