Daily Tech News Show

Tech reporter and analyst Benedict Evans discusses the ethical implications of AI at scale. They also talk about Google's NotebookLM and Dolby's new Atmos feature FlexConnect for home theater audio.

Amazon in talks with Disney for ESPN streaming service, SwitchBot introduces SwitchBot S10 autonomous vacuum/mopper, MOVEIt suffers massive hack impacting millions of users, discussions on AMD's new GPUs, Alibaba's AI models, and the importance of protection against cyber attacks

Patent for a digital stone issued to Apple. WB Discovery announces launch of CNN Max. Nvidia's revenue growth driven by AI boom. Tech news updates on Apple, Meta, Intel, Walmart, and Dropbox. Speculations on future of VR and CNN's new streaming service. Analysis of CNN Max launch and potential success. Discussion on coffee, listener feedback, and Y2K.

Tom Merritt, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, and Joe talk about Sony's PlayStation Portal, India's moon landing, LinkedIn's popularity for updates. They also discuss OpenAI's GPT 3.5 Turbo, Meta's encryption plans, Spotify's podcast features, and Netflix's user growth. The hosts dive into the PlayStation Portal's features and pricing, the possibility of a moon rover battle, TikTok's shift to e-commerce, and retro gaming. They also mention Gamescom news and tease Sarah Lane's upcoming discussion on Netflix's DVD service.

Microsoft's conversation with UK's competition watchdog about the Microsoft Activision-Blizzard merger, IBM selling The Weather Company, Pixel Fold roundtable on Google's foldable smartphone, DLSS 3.5 enhancing performance for RTX GPUs, Meta's M4T language model, Facebook's European update, cloud gaming, preferences for weather apps, differences in car performance between EVs and traditional cars, and discussion on Google Meet, RCS vs iMessage, and privacy implications of messaging platform incompatibility.

Topics covered include hacking voting machines, copyrighting AI generated content, YouTube's policies on AI generated music, potential launch of a full desktop version of Instagram's Threads, and listener feedback on experiment week shows.

The host discusses the importance of choosing reliable sources and conducting thorough research for creating a well-informed and scripted podcast. He also explores the process of gathering information, using reliable sources, and effectively communicating content in a podcast episode.

Microsoft is hosting a "special event" next month, Netflix gets bundled with 5G in India, and X may start requiring ID verification...Link to Show Notes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Former Call For Help Canada producer and on-air talent, Jenn Cutter, discusses their journey to Tech TV, working on the show, gaining skills and networking opportunities, the family's perspective on their TV appearances, being recognized in public, and reflections on the Tech TV experience.

Topics include the Associated Press issuing AI guidelines, New York City banning TikTok, Snapchat's AI assistant glitching and posting Stories, new features in Chrome 117 and Roku's expansion of local news offerings, Roku's new stations, Cisco Systems' quarterly results, PayPal pausing crypto transactions in the UK, and WhatsApp's AI-generated stickers. Also discussed are the upcoming release of a new feature and the introduction of the Microsoft Teams Play Together widget for Xbox Game Bar.