Daily Tech News Show

Can offshore floating windmills to generate electricity be a reality? We try to decipher why a bunch of cruise driverless taxis stopped working blocking a San Francisco street. And the FCC is allowing Starlink to provide internet to moving vehicles.Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Patrick Norton, Len Peralta,  Roger Chang, Amos, Joe.Link to the Show Notes. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Apple has another policy proposal for allowing third-party payments in iOS apps. To catch you up, Apple is facing various pressures to allow third-party payments for apps in its iOS App Store. YouTube announced new policies to try to fight comment spam and channel imitators. We try to answer the question of why do we still not have waterproof phones?Starring Tom Merritt, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang, Joe.Link to the Show Notes. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Snap is now offering a $3.99 a month subscription called Snapchat Plus, with exclusive and early access features. Startup, Oonee, is developing a kit for modular parking pods that can securely store 8 to 80 bicycles at a time. Security experts raise warnings over potential malware aboard container ship systems potentially affecting control of the ship.Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Joe.Link to the Show Notes. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Airbnb makes its ban on “all disruptive parties and events” permanent, Lamarr and Tom share their “Just Walk Out” experiences at Whole Foods, and we go over the steps you should take to secure your medical privacy.Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Lamarr Wilson, Roger Chang, Joe.Link to the Show Notes. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We share what the Verge thinks about Starlink’s RV satellite internet service, examine the price premium EVs command in the US automarket, and check out all the potential new products coming out from Apple in the near future.Starring Sarah Lane, Rich Stroffolino, Roger Chang, Joe.Link to the Show Notes. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

All the big photography news for the month of June 2022 in under ten minutes.This episode: Adobe announces photographer-centric updates, is there life left for APS-C cameras, and a new film stock hits the market.Hosted by Rich Stroffolino and Anthony Lemos Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Nothing Phone 1 pre-orders start today, scientists at Imperial College London developed a machine learning algorithm to aid diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease, and Netflix's Ted Sarandos explained at the Cannes Lions advertising festival why Netflix’s future includes ads contrary to the company’s previous stance.Starring Tom Merritt, Lamarr Wilson, Dr. Niki Ackermans, Roger Chang, Joe.Link to the Show Notes. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Amazon is working on a way for Alexa to mimic the voice of anyone using less than a minute of provided audio for training. Facebook Pay rebranded to Meta Pay and will work to make it an interoperable “wallet for the metaverse” that can manage identities, items, and payment methods across digital worlds.Starring Sarah Lane, Rich Stroffolino, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang, Joe.Link to the Show Notes. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Ikea has a new smartphone app that lets you scan and then delete objects in your living rooms to see how their furniture might work in your place. Twitter partnered with Shopify to launch a sales channel app for all US merchants. The people behind the Brave browser have moved their Brave search engine out of beta and we see how well it works.Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Joe.Link to the Show Notes. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Meta is expanding its metaverse with new Horizon Worlds experiences. 5G infrastructure is still being rolled but that hasn’t stopped proposals for a new 6G standard. And Chinese commerce are outsourcing bad customer experience judgements to a “crab court”?Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Shannon Morse, Roger Chang, Joe.Link to the Show Notes. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.