Daily Tech News Show

Sources have said TikTok's separation from ByteDance could take over a year. Well beyond Trump and Microsoft's Sept. 15 timeline. What will happen next as Microsoft continues to negotiate a transition.Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Rob DeMillo, Roger Chang, Joe.Link to the Show Notes. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The POTUS signed two executive orders Thursday under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act forbidding transactions with TikTok owner Bytedance and any transactions with Tencent related to their super app WeChat. Are the orders legal and what will the repercussions be for the tech economy?Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Annie Gaus, Roger Chang, Joe.Link to the Show Notes. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced a five-pronged plan to curb national security risks from China called the "Clean Network." What does that entail and what should you know about it?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.

We examine all the announcements from this year's Samsung Unpacked event.Starring Tom Merritt,Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Joe.Link to the Show Notes. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Amber Mac shares her experience at a "free range" dairy farm that is almost entirely run by robots. The cows are free to roam in climate-controlled barns, get milked when they want, and they wear FitBits to measure their health. Is this the future of agriculture?Starring Tom Merritt, Amber MacArthur, Roger Chang, Joe.Link to the Show Notes. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Microsoft said Sunday it is working on a deal to acquire TikTok's operations in Canada, the US, New Zealand and Australia. What's the motivation behind the deal and will it be allowed by regulators?Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang and Joe.Link to the Show Notes. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Bytedance is considering listing its business in Hong Kong or Shanghai stock markets with plans to list TikTok separately in Europe or the US. Plus Bloomberg's sources say the US may announce an order for Bytedance to divest its ownership of TikTok.Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Lamarr Wilson, Roger Chang and Joe. Link to the Show Notes. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We explore what might happen to big tech after the Congressional hearings. Will it be good for them, consumers or anyone?Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang and Joe. Link to the Show Notes. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The US House Antitrust Subcommittee called Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, Apple CEO Tim Cook, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai to assemble and discuss their market power. What was said and who said it?Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang and Joe.Link to the Show Notes. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Andrew Mayne incorporated OpenAI's latest GPT-3 model into a project to help him develop dialogue for characters real and fictitious called AI|Writer.Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Andrew Mayne, Roger Chang and Joe.Link to the Show Notes. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.