Daily Tech News Show

Netflix announced it has hired Mike Verdu as its Vice President of game development. The US Consumer Product Safety Commission said it has sued Amazon to recall hundreds of thousands of hazardous products distributed on its platform. China’s National Bureau of Statistics reported integrated circuit output in the country rose 43.9% on the year in May.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.

Microsoft’s new easy-to-set-up and use virtual windows machine service called Windows 365. Scientists at the University of Oxford and University of Liverpool published a study in the journal New Media and Society called “More diverse, more politically varied: How social media, search engines and aggregators shape news repertoires in the United Kingdom.”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.

France’s competition authority fined Google €500 million for not negotiating in good faith to pay news publishers for the right to show their headlines and snippets in search and news results. The Verge’s Chaim Gartenberg discovered that the iPhone’s built-in weather app on recent versions of iOS never shows the temperature as 69 degrees Fahrenheit instead showing 68 degrees or 70 degrees. And Twitter mistakenly approves bot accounts.Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Nicole Lee, Roger Chang, Joe.Link to the Show Notes. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Will a crowdsourced ransom payments tracking website called Ransomwhe.re provide empirical evidence companies need to determine if paying ransomware is beneficial? Plus we examine the impact of PhD students Rodrigo Ochigame and Katherine Ye Search Atlas, a project that displays results from different geographic versions of Google Search, and can change how people understand events. And has Disney’s “Black Widow” movie helped re-energize the movie theaters or did it just give people another reason to stay home and stream.Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Charlotte Henry, Roger Chang, Joe.Link to the Show Notes. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode Niki interviews former US Robotics engineer, software/hardware developer and part-time paramedic Michael Musiel about his lenghty career in tech includustry from the late 70s through the present day. You can follow Michael's podcast here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-podcast-that-shall-not-be-named/id674558126Starring: Niki Ackermans, Michael Musiel Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Biden administration issues an executive order that encourages the FCC to restore open internet rules, limit early termination fees by ISPs, limit the ability of ISPs to sign exclusive deals with landlords, and require reporting of ISP prices and rates. Square’s hardware head Jesse Dorogusker announced the company will make a hardware wallet for bitcoin. And we examine how the design of social media platforms affects arguments.Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Robb Dunewood, Len Peralta, Roger Chang, Joe.Link to the Show Notes.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Start-ups position robots as bee replacements in the all-important crop pollination role, Thirty-seven US state and district attorneys general have sued Google in California federal court, alleging it unlawfully maintains a monopoly with the Google Play Store and Steve Wozniak argues for the right to repair.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.

South Korea lawmakers are considering a revision to a law restricting children from playing games after midnight and China’s Tencent will use facial recognition to stop minors in China from playing video games between 10 pm and 8 am or for more than 90 minutes per day.Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Owen JJ Stone, Roger Chang, Joe.Link to the Show Notes. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

New owners of Audacity updated the audio editor’s privacy policy with language indicating it was collecting user data for analytics and legal enforcement. Nintendo announced a new version of the Switch game console with a 7-inch screen and 720p OLED display. And Norway passed a law requiring anyone being paid to post on social media to disclose if posts have been modified and how. The law is meant to reduce pressure put on people due to “idealized people in advertising”.Starring Tom Merritt, Owen JJ Stone, Roger Chang, Amos, Joe.Link to the Show Notes. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Welcome to Seniors In Tech, a podcast mini-series where we bust stereotypes by talking to seniors who either worked in the tech industry at the beginning of the digital era, and or are currently tech-fluent in their everyday lives. I’m Dr. Niki Ackermans and this week we are talking to Allison Sheridan, who used to work in engineering and is also one of the earliest podcasters! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.