Is Disney Plus in subscriber free fall? What’s Fairphone’s latest repairable tech for consumers? And is the ROG Ally worth the hype or is it just another minor step in mobile gaming?
A Tape Recorder With No Tape - GDI 4518 starts at 31:54
Do you want to pay $1500 for a field recorder? Is functionality or design more important for you? Amos recor...
2023-05-11 21:48:29 +0000 UTC View Post
Is Disney Plus in subscriber free fall? What’s Fairphone’s latest repairable tech for consumers? And is the ROG Ally worth the hype or is it just another minor step in mobile gaming?
A Tape Recorder With No Tape - GDI 4518 starts at 31:55
Do you want to pay $1500 for a field recorder? Is functionality or design more important for you? Amos records raw. So much portable audio talk. What product do you think is too cool for school? Where is your line, when...
2023-05-11 21:26:07 +0000 UTC View Post
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Sitting through this year’s Google I/O event I was suddenly struck by the large-scale commitment to productize and integrate AI tools into the company’s web-based services. Google’s of course not alone. Microsoft, Amazon, and Meta have all made big investments in the s...
2023-05-11 17:58:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Taiwan is at once one of the most vexing political situations on the globe and one of the most important to the world of technology.
Let's help you Know a Little More about Taiwan.
Featuring Tom Merritt.
This episode has been updated to correctly name the original four members of the United Nations Security Council.
Full episode transcript:
Taiwan is at once one of the most vexing political situations on the globe and one of the most important to the world of tec...
2023-05-11 13:00:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Anthropic announces “Constitutional AI” to help train artificial intelligence without the need for human-intensive training, and Google takes the stage to announce new tools, APIs, and LLM innovations.
Large Lane Model - GDI 4517 starts at 32:26
The Google I/O discussion continues. Does LLM stand for Large Lane Model? Was there too much talk about Goo...
2023-05-10 21:48:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Anthropic announces “Constitutional AI” to help train artificial intelligence without the need for human-intensive training, and Google takes the stage to announce new tools, APIs, and LLM innovations.
Large Lane Model - GDI 4517 starts at 32:24
The Google I/O discussion continues. Does LLM stand for Large Lane Model? Was there too much talk about Google's AI integrations? What was your takeaway from the conference? Do you remember Sergey Brin skydiving into a...
2023-05-10 21:21:35 +0000 UTC View Post
What is spatial audio and is worth upgrading your entertainment audio setup for it? Plus Amazon launched “Amazon Anywhere”. A service that could let you buy physical goods from within AR, VR and video games. And Ohio State University about an algorithm that can use the signals from multiple low-earth orbit satellites to determine location.
Apple Takes Its Final Cut ...
2023-05-09 21:46:26 +0000 UTC View Post
What is spatial audio and is worth upgrading your entertainment audio setup for it? Plus Amazon launched “Amazon Anywhere”. A service that could let you buy physical goods from within AR, VR and video games. And Ohio State University about an algorithm that can use the signals from multiple low-earth orbit satellites to determine location.
Apple Takes Its Final Cut - GDI 4516 starts at 32:53
Sarah has thoughts about the Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro to iPad. Wou...
2023-05-09 21:22:32 +0000 UTC View Post
Even as generative AI tools like ChatGPT become normalized the various security, ethical and moral issues surrounding them still grab headlines. IMGUR announced April 19th that it has new terms of service coming into effect May 15th, and it will then remove all “nudity, pornography, & sexually explicit content” from its platform. And Fast Company’s Jesus Diaz posted a story...
2023-05-08 21:57:15 +0000 UTC View Post
Even as generative AI tools like ChatGPT become normalized the various security, ethical and moral issues surrounding them still grab headlines. IMGUR announced April 19th that it has new terms of service coming into effect May 15th, and it will then remove all “nudity, pornography, & sexually explicit content” from its platform. And Fast Company’s Jesus Diaz posted a story called “From Netflix to HBO, the terrible design of streaming is ruining TV”
Gateway to Chea...
2023-05-08 21:25:25 +0000 UTC View Post
We go through Apple’s quarterly earnings report and analyze what Tim Cook had to say about the company's operations during an interview with CNBC. French developer Vignesh Tarar has created a search tool that will index your pick of websites to create a custom search engine at usegrasp.com. We share our expectations of what will be announced and shown at next week’s Google I/O co...
2023-05-05 21:53:27 +0000 UTC View Post
We go through Apple’s quarterly earnings report and analyze what Tim Cook had to say about the company's operations during an interview with CNBC. French developer Vignesh Tarar has created a search tool that will index your pick of websites to create a custom search engine at usegrasp.com. We share our expectations of what will be announced and shown at next week’s Google I/O conference.
Sliced Bread is the Best Thing Since 1928 - GDI 4514 starts at 32:11
The...
2023-05-05 21:25:33 +0000 UTC View Post
Discord is changing how it assigns user names and everybody will have to get a new one. Scientists can’t replicate what you see by scanning your brain. But they’re a step closer to being able to help send impulses to the brain that can replicate visual stimulus. And we dive into Shopify’s Q1 earnings.
An Embarrassment of Niches - GDI 4513 starts at 31:46<...
2023-05-04 21:53:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Discord is changing how it assigns user names and everybody will have to get a new one. Scientists can’t replicate what you see by scanning your brain. But they’re a step closer to being able to help send impulses to the brain that can replicate visual stimulus. And we dive into Shopify’s Q1 earnings.
An Embarrassment of Niches - GDI 4513 starts at 31:46
Google announces the Pixel Fold. Why are there so many leaks of tech products? Justin gives his thoughts....
2023-05-04 21:32:07 +0000 UTC View PostThere's a lot of fear uncertainty and doubt being spread about OpenAI. So let's help you straighten out what it is and what it isn't.
Featuring Tom Merritt.
Episode transcript:
OpenAI is BIG in the news these days what with ChatGPT, GPT-4, its partnership with Microsoft and mounting criticisms from multiple corners.
You may have heard it's a non-profit. Or that it used to be and now it's not. Or that it was supposed to open source things and now it's not.
There's...
2023-05-04 13:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
We look at a new LLM training technique called semantic decoder where data from scans of a person’s brain activity are fed into the model. As T-Mobile suffers another data breach involving hundreds of customer’s information including social security numbers, pin codes and address we ask why isn’t T-Mobile’s reputation taking a long lasting hit? And Google accounts now support...
2023-05-03 22:04:09 +0000 UTC View Post
We look at a new LLM training technique called semantic decoder where data from scans of a person’s brain activity are fed into the model. As T-Mobile suffers another data breach involving hundreds of customer’s information including social security numbers, pin codes and address we ask why isn’t T-Mobile’s reputation taking a long lasting hit? And Google accounts now support passkeys to replace password and 2FA logins.
MyFlix - GDI 4512 starts at 33:06
Ho...
2023-05-03 21:22:06 +0000 UTC View Post
We learn about Rediet Abebe, a key black innovator in AI development. Samsung bans generative AI tools like ChatGPT after employees load sensitive data into a prompt. Multiple companies have joined together to propose an industry standard to the IETF for “unauthorized tracking alerts” for Bluetooth trackers like Apple’s Air Tags or Tile’s Trackers. And we go through things yo...
2023-05-02 21:54:51 +0000 UTC View Post
We learn about Rediet Abebe, a key black innovator in AI development. Samsung bans generative AI tools like ChatGPT after employees load sensitive data into a prompt. Multiple companies have joined together to propose an industry standard to the IETF for “unauthorized tracking alerts” for Bluetooth trackers like Apple’s Air Tags or Tile’s Trackers. And we go through things you should know about BlueSky.
No Title - Writer's Strike - GDI 4511 starts at 32:54
Geoffrey Hinton, 2018 Turing Award winner for his foundational work in AI, recently left Google so he could speak freely about the dangers of AI without negatively impacting Google whom he believes has acted responsibly in its AI roll-out. Is juice jacking a real threat to users of up to date smartphones? And JAMA has a story about the comparison between real physicians and ChatGPT a...
2023-05-01 21:45:13 +0000 UTC View Post
Geoffrey Hinton, 2018 Turing Award winner for his foundational work in AI, recently left Google so he could speak freely about the dangers of AI without negatively impacting Google whom he believes has acted responsibly in its AI roll-out. Is juice jacking a real threat to users of up to date smartphones? And JAMA has a story about the comparison between real physicians and ChatGPT answering patient questions.
Can Tom Handle That Smoke? - GDI 4510 starts at 31:11
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2023-05-01 21:18:41 +0000 UTC View PostMONTHLY DTNS UPDATE
Hey folks!
Great to have you all still on the ride for this crazy independent news experiment we call DTNS. It's been a rocky financial start to the year for us but I'm hoping the summer will stabilize things.
If you haven't checked it out yet, we launched Top 5 at youtube.com/dailytechnewsshow. Me hosting, Roger Chang producing. The latest one about celebrities who code is a good one.
We also have some Live With Its coming to Patreon. One with Chri...
2023-05-01 18:47:14 +0000 UTC View PostTheatremonkey put together this GDI monthly highlight reel for April 2023.
We get a RSA Conference wrap-up from David Spark, ask why there’s no standardized threat actor naming convention, and Reddit began testing persistent chat channels with 25 volunteer subreddits.
The Voice is Coming From Inside the Podcast - GDI 4509 starts at 34:28
We take Dave’s CISO “The Public Interest” game to see who has the better knowledge o...
2023-04-28 22:03:06 +0000 UTC View Post
We get a RSA Conference wrap-up from David Spark, ask why there’s no standardized threat actor naming convention, and Reddit began testing persistent chat channels with 25 volunteer subreddits.
The Voice is Coming From Inside the Podcast - GDI 4509 starts at 34:30
We take Dave’s CISO “The Public Interest” game to see who has the better knowledge of security search terms. And the winners from that play “That Totally SOCs” - SOC stands for “Security Op...
2023-04-28 21:36:24 +0000 UTC View Post
How has cloud computing, data centers and generative AI increased the demand for fossil fuel energy instead of reducing it? Chicago’s Human Computer Integration Lab demonstrated a way to give you haptic feedback in VR without anything on the front of your hand. IDC reports that smart phone sales fell 1.6% on the year. That's the 7th straight quarter that smartphone...
2023-04-27 22:04:43 +0000 UTC View Post
How has cloud computing, data centers and generative AI increased the demand for fossil fuel energy instead of reducing it? Chicago’s Human Computer Integration Lab demonstrated a way to give you haptic feedback in VR without anything on the front of your hand. IDC reports that smart phone sales fell 1.6% on the year. That's the 7th straight quarter that smartphones sales have fallen year over year.
Now You've Got A Baby In Your Arm - GDI 4508
We talk about a st...
2023-04-27 21:20:32 +0000 UTC View Post
You may have heard that using text messages as a second factor or 2FA code to protect your logins is less secure than other forms like apps or keys. You may even know this is because of something called SIM Swapping. Are there any legitimate uses/functions to swapping/cloning?
Featuring Tom Merritt.
Episode transcript:
You pick up your phone and there’s no service. You’re not getting text messages. And shortly you notice somebody is posting on your Facebook account...
2023-04-27 13:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
We further explore the fear people have over generative AI tools by taking a look at what AI firms are doing to stoke those fears. While Netflix saw growth in its North American subscriptions for its service the number abroad has dropped. Is it temporary or signs of a more concerning problem? And Microsoft still hopes it can convince the UK Competition and Markets Authority to allow the company to acquire Blizzard Activision.
Cat Track Fever! - GDI 4507 starts at 32:15<...
2023-04-26 22:22:02 +0000 UTC View Post
We further explore the fear people have over generative AI tools by taking a look at what AI firms are doing to stoke those fears. While Netflix saw growth in its North American subscriptions for its service the number abroad has dropped. Is it temporary or signs of a more concerning problem? And Microsoft still hopes it can convince the UK Competition and Markets Authority to allow the company to acquire Blizzard Activision.
Cat Track Fever! - GDI 4507
We discuss...
2023-04-26 21:21:50 +0000 UTC View Post