Daily Tech News Show

An exceprt from episode 1 of The Tech Jawn on ransomware attacks at historically black colleges and universities. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Dutch city of Utrecht wants to have the world’s first bi-directional EV power grid. The Russian government ordered Google and Apple to remove an app meant to guide supporters of Alexei Navalny on how to deprive Vladimir Putin’s, United Russia, of votes in regional and federal elections. Protocol’s sources say Google plans to add free TV channels to Google TV, and is currently in talks with several free, ad-supported streaming television channels.Starring Tom Merritt, Chris Ashley, Len Peralta, Roger Chang, Joe.Link to the Show Notes. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Pay for a movie night out with cryptocurrency, FTC chair Lina Khan is starting her crackdown on big tech, and the tech blogs have posted their hardware analysis of Apple’s new iPhone 13 and 13 Pro.Starring Tom Merritt, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang, Joe.Link to the Show Notes. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We learn more about the Framework modular laptop, Microsoft launches passwordless sign-in, and Zuckerberg announces changes to Facebook’s news feed algorithm with stories shared by media outlets and businesses de-prioritize in favor of content produced by friends and family.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 announced a number of updates to its iOS and Apple Watch product line today. To help us parse it all out are the hosts of the SnobOS Podcast, Terrance Gaines and Nica Montford.Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Nica Montford, Terrance Gaines, Roger Chang, Joe.Link to the Show Notes. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We talk to Engadget reviews editor, Cherlynn Low, about her experiences with latest foldable phones, discuss a study on the effects of remote work on 6,100 Microsoft employees and go over all the latest updates Zoom has announced for its service.Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Cherlynn Low, Roger Chang, Joe.Link to the Show Notes. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

US District Court Judge Yvonne Gonzalez-Rogers issued her decision in the Epic v. Apple case. In the coming weeks, WhatsApp is rolling out its options for all users to encrypt their chat backups in the cloud. Apple Music announced it is using technology from Shazam, which can automatically identify music, to identify and compensate all creators involved in a DJ mix.Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Shannon Morse, Len Peralta, Roger Chang, Joe.Link to the Show Notes. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Facebook announces new smart glasses called Ray-Ban Stories, iRobot announces the Roomba j7+ robot vacuum featuring built-in machine vision, BMW showed off two e-bike concepts, the I Vision AMBY and Motorrad Vision AMBY and Amazon released its own house-brand TVs running it’s FireOS smart TV system.Starring Tom Merritt, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang, Joe.Link to the Show Notes. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Amazon plans to bring its “Just Walk Out” cashierless technology to two Whole Foods stores, Twitter launched a few feature tests. One changes the way photos are displayed on mobile and the second lets users remove followers without blocking them, and we look at the state of long range wireless charging.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.

A ProPublica report says contractors hired by Facebook are reviewing messages that have been flagged by an algorithm as improper, El Salvador now officially uses Bitcoin as legal tender, and A police report revealed French police via Europol, got a Swiss court to order ProtonMail to log and provide to the police the IP address of suspected activist’s plus the device ID accessing it.Starring Tom Merritt, Nate Lanxon, Roger Chang, Joe.Link to the Show Notes. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.