Daily Tech News Show

Telegram launches a premium tier, Meta will sell you digital designer clothes for your avatars, and TikTok says US user traffic now routes through Oracle Cloud.Get the show notes here. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Can you defeat review bombing? Epic Games thinks it has the answer. Do EVs take the fun out of driving? And Roku announced a partnership with Walmart to make TV streaming part of its online shopping experience.Starring Sarah Lane, Robb Dunewood, Roger Chang, Amos, Joe.Link to the Show Notes. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Inside the Amazon Style store, Ebay's move to live shopping streams, a lot of streaming ads happen when your TV is off, and we solve the disinformation problem.Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang, Joe, Amos.Link to Show Notes. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Google adds a new tool to help YouTube creators fix mistakes and divulges the number of monthly watchers for YouTube Shorts. Steam is coming to the Nreal Light and Air mixed-reality glasses. Plus we explain what DALL-E Mini an AI based tool that generates an image based on user prompts.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.

Apple gets 10-year contract for all Major League Soccer matches, Adobe makes Photoshop free on the web and Meta now offers a setting to garble the voices of strangers in Horizon Worlds.Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Stephanie Humphrey, Roger Chang, Amos, JoeLink to Show Notes. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Did Google fire a person for defending a sentient AI. Not really but we'll explain why you might have heard that. Plus a car powered with solar panels and do we want free ad-supported books from Spotify? If they're read by a non-sentient AI?Starring Tom Merritt, Lamarr Wilson, Roger Chang, Joe, AmosLink to the Show Notes. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Solar panels are a popular upgrade for many homeowners. But what are the costs and considerations that someone needs to consider before they take the plunge? We ask our panel to share their experience and expertise with installing solar panels and how much of a difference it's actually made.Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Joe Briney, Steve Sheridan, Brian Hoffman Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

WWDC wasn’t the only big tech conference this week. David Spark shares insights from this year’s RSA IT security conference. Plus researchers find a security flaw in Apple’s M1 chip and we clear the mystery regarding what’s happening to the Insteon servers after Smartlabs shut them down.Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, David Spark, Len Peralta, Roger Chang, Joe.Link to the Show Notes. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Meta has plans to pivot Portal away from the consumer market and to the enterprise space. Apple reveals more details about the Apple Pay Later loan service it teased at the beginning of WWDC. And Microsoft announces it will move away from building a dedicated game streaming stick to developing apps on multiple platforms.Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang, Joe.Link to the Show Notes. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

E3 plans on in-person attendance in 2023 but has that ship already sailed for E3? Plus Microsoft is restructuring its Mixed Reality Group as the landscape for mixed reality glasses continues to shift, and Apple's Passkeys points to a passwordless future.  Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, JoeLink to the Show Notes. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.