Jenn and Roger share their personal favorites for games that keep them in a Zen state of mind. After all, real-life is stressful enough, the games you play shouldn't add to it.
Starring Jenn Cutter, Roger Chang
2025-08-22 16:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostMeta halts AI hiring in its superintelligence divisions, Masimo sues US Customs and Border Protection after it permitted Apple to start selling Apple Watches again, and Agentic browsers are full of security flaws.
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2025-08-21 16:02:10 +0000 UTC View PostMeta halts AI hiring in its superintelligence divisions, Masimo sues US Customs and Border Protection after it permitted Apple to start selling Apple Watches again, and Agentic browsers are full of security flaws.
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2025-08-21 16:00:29 +0000 UTC View Post
The most common use of the internet for many of us is research. We research prices. Who has the thing we want at the lowest price? We research local laws and ordinances, ideally before starting a home renovation project. And we research health information when we feel sick and need to know if we should make an appointment with a doctor. The first destination is often a search engine like Google, Bing, or DuckDuckGo, or a generative LLM like ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini. Not only can they search...
2025-08-21 16:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostAmos catches up with DTNS crew emeritus Jennie Josephson and Rich Stroffolino to find out what they’ve been doing since their time on Daily Tech News Show.
Starring Amos, Jennie Josephson, Rich Stroffolino
2025-08-21 16:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post
Amos catches up with DTNS crew emeritus Jennie Josephson and Rich Stroffolino to find out what they’ve been doing since their time on Daily Tech News Show.
Starring Amos, Jennie Josephson, Rich Stroffolino
2025-08-21 16:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostAndroid Faithful's Florence Ion and Ron Richards are joined by special guest Juan Bagnell for the very first edition of Android Faithful live coverage of a product announcement event for Made By Google 2025! After the rollout of the Pixel 10 line, Google drafter a star studded lineup of Jimmy Fallon, The Jonas Brothers, Stephan Curry and more to help bring the Pixel 10 lineup and Gemini AI functionality to the masses. Was it a success or was it cringe? Tune in to see what we thought!
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2025-08-20 18:56:38 +0000 UTC View PostXbox Ally and Xbox Ally X handhelds arriving October 16th, Grok chats are showing up in Google Search, Amazon readying a $400 Android tablet?
2025-08-20 18:08:08 +0000 UTC View PostEver wondered how a beauty app knows your exact skin tone, or why it took until 2017 for most brands to realize people come in more than 12 shades? Our pilot episode decodes the likely tech behind BoldHue's color-matching technology, debugs the cultural earthquake that was Fenty Beauty's 40-shade launch unpacked that exposed the beauty industry blind spots, and glows up with Eunice W. Johnson, the visionary who created Fashion Fair Cosmetics decades before inclusion became trendy. Learn more ...
2025-08-19 16:00:13 +0000 UTC View PostEver wondered how a beauty app knows your exact skin tone, or why it took until 2017 for most brands to realize people come in more than 12 shades? Our pilot episode decodes the likely tech behind BoldHue's color-matching technology, debugs the cultural earthquake that was Fenty Beauty's 40-shade launch unpacked that exposed the beauty industry blind spots, and glows up with Eunice W. Johnson, the visionary who created Fashion Fair Cosmetics decades before inclusion became trendy. Learn more ...
2025-08-19 16:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostAll models of the iPhone 17 headed to the U.S. will be manufactured in India, the UK has withdrawn its request for a “back door” in Apple’s iCloud, and SoftBank has invested $2 billion in Intel.
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2025-08-19 14:32:16 +0000 UTC View PostAll models of the iPhone 17 headed to the U.S. will be manufactured in India, the UK has withdrawn its request for a “back door” in Apple’s iCloud, and SoftBank has invested $2 billion in Intel.
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2025-08-19 14:30:36 +0000 UTC View PostWill Meta debut Hypernova smart glasses in September? Do Grammarly’s new AI tools help students and educators with writing and grading? Will you buy Samsung’s new Galaxy Buds 3 FE?
2025-08-18 17:03:40 +0000 UTC View Post
In this video:
Geeks do a lot of weird things like open ports on routers and run personal servers, but here are 5 geek habits everyone can do and benefit from!
music credits:
- Jan-Michael Hökenschnieder
Roger interviews Adam Sessler host of TechTV/G4TV's Extended and later X-Play video game review show. We explore his experience at the network and the changing landscape of video game journalism.
Starring Adam Sessler, Roger Chang.
2025-08-18 16:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostRoger interviews Adam Sessler host of TechTV/G4TV's Extended and later X-Play video game review show. We explore his experience at the network and the changing landscape of video game journalism.
Starring Adam Sessler, Roger Chang.
2025-08-18 16:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostRobb Dunewood follows up to answer questions about the tools and procedures he uses for his "Second Brain."
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BigJim tells us about battery shipping rules and why they are keeping your phone's battery capacity from getting larger.
https://www.androidauthority.com/phone-battery-transportation-rules-3574123/
2025-08-16 13:00:13 +0000 UTC View PostPlus tech journalism’s dinner with Sam Altman, and why you need to be skeptical of that Booking.com link.
Starring Tom Merritt, Huyen Tue Dao, and Brian Brushwood.
TOM: This is the Daily Tech News for Friday, August 15, 2025. We tell you what you need to know, follow up on the context of those stories and help each other understand.
HU...
2025-08-15 18:33:38 +0000 UTC View PostThe White House administration is considering acquiring a stake in Intel, The SCOTUS allowed Mississippi’s social media age verification law to take effect, and xAI was slated to partner with the federal government until Grok disseminated antisemitic conspiracy theories in July.
The next version of Microsoft Windows will become even more agentic, and Insta360's Antigravity brings a new immersive perspective to the drone creator toolkit.
Starring Jason Howell and Huyen Tue Dao.
JASON: This is the Daily Tech News for Thursday, August 14, 2025. We tell you what you need to know, follow up on the context of those stories and help each other understand.
HUYEN: Today new details on Ap...
2025-08-14 18:28:00 +0000 UTC View PostLet us know what you want us to talk about on the next Bonus Show coming up for August!
Post your ideas down in the comments section below!
We'll pick three of them to use as our discussion topics when we record later in August.
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2025-08-14 18:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostTom reads some reactions and follows up on questions from last week's editor's desk.
2025-08-14 15:31:42 +0000 UTC View PostOracle and Alphabet partner to bring Gemini to Oracle’s cloud customers, Meta’s AI policies permitted bots to hold sensual chats with minors, and blood oxygen monitoring is coming back to some Apple Watches.
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2025-08-14 15:00:36 +0000 UTC View PostPlus, AI assistance makes Endoscopists worse, and the Pebble Time 2 gets closer to reality.
Starring Tom Merritt and Jenn Cutter.
TOM: This is the Daily Tech News for Wednesday, August 13, 2025. We tell you what you need to know, follow up on the context of those stories and help each other understand.
JENN: Today OpenAI backtracks on model selection and the new Pebble Time 2 gets closer to reality.
I...
2025-08-13 18:26:09 +0000 UTC View PostOpenAI reinstates ChatGPT’s model picker, sweeping hack of the federal judiciary’s CM/ECF case filing system exploits basic security flaws first identified in 2020, Apple says the App Store is “fair and free of bias”
2025-08-13 17:23:41 +0000 UTC View PostReddit announces its will block the Internet Archive to prevent AI scraping of its data, and Samsung's new Micro RGB TV is an affordable $32,000!
Starring Jason Howell, and Tom Merritt.
JASON: This is the Daily Tech News for Tuesday, August 12, 2025. We tell you what you need to know, follow up on the context of those stories, and help each other understand.
TOM: Today, Perplexity is offering Google $34.5 billion to buy Chrome, and Reddit is...
2025-08-12 18:28:43 +0000 UTC View PostChina is discouraging the use of NVIDIA’s H20 chips, xAI is suing Apple, and the DoT has released new guidelines for $5 billion in EV charging station infrastructure.
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2025-08-12 15:38:57 +0000 UTC View PostThe UK tells Wikipedia to wait to sue, and Bodie Grimm from the Kilowatt podcast joins us to tell US car shoppers what EVs might be good to get before the EV tax credit expires.
Starring Tom Merritt, Robb Dunewood, and Bodie Grimm.
TOM: This is the Daily Tech News for Monday, August 11, 2025. We tell you what you need to know, follow up on the context of those stories, and help each other understand.
OpenAI restores older models after GPT-5 backlash, Amazon launches 24 new Kuiper internet satellites, ESPN and Fox to launch $40/per month bundle October 2nd.
2025-08-11 17:37:04 +0000 UTC View Post