Daily Tech News Show

IFixit reports that if anyone but Apple replaces a battery in the iPhone XR, XS, or XS Max, a "service" message displays saying the phone is "unable to verify this iPhone has a genuine Apple battery. At Black Hat, Researchers from security firm Checkpoint demonstrated an exploit of WhatsApp that would let an attacker alter text in a quoted message to change what a person appeared to write. Early results from a study by Apple, Eli Lilly and Evidation Health found that data from an iPhone, an Apple Watch, and a Beddit sleep monitor, differentiated patients with mild Alzheimer’s disease dementia from those without symptoms.Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We pick apart Samsung's Galaxy Note 10 announcement; the good, the bad and the interesting.Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Google pledges that 100 percent of all shipments going to or from customers will be carbon neutral by 2020 and 100% of "Made by Google" products will include recycled materials and will maximize recycled content whenever possible starting 2022. Is this a PR gimmick or the start of larger trend in tech companies approach to environmental sustainability? Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Shannon Morse, Roger Chang.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Cloudflare terminated DDoS protection services to the forum website 8chan as of August 5th after the mass shootings in El Paso and Dayton. Other companies including Volitility have also done the same. Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

What the heck is WiFi 6 and why do you need it? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Are expectations for what consumers are willing to pay for new streaming services too high?Starring Tom Merritt, Patrick Norton, Roger Chang.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A team of academics say artificial intelligence system should be recognized as the inventor of two ideas patented on its behalf.Starring Tom Merritt, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Apple reported revenue of $53.8 billion, up 1 percent year over year despite revenue declines in Europe and China, a team led by neurosurgeon Edward Chang at UCSF, has developed a brain-computer interface that could decode words and phrases in real time and Samsung announces the 10.5-inch Super AMOLED Samsung Galaxy Tab S6 tablet with a Snapdragon 855 processor, 15 hours battery life, and an S Pen that charges wirelessly.Starring Tom Merritt, Scott Johnson and Roger Chang.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Capital One announced Monday that customer data including 140,000 SSN and 80,000 bank account numbers were accessed by an intruder. How did the hack occur and what steps should have been taken to prevent the breach in the first place?Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Shannon Morse and Roger Chang. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Researchers at Harvard and MIT-IBM Watson Lab have created the Giant Language Model Test Room to identify whether a piece of text was generated by a language model algorithm aka Machine Learning, The NYTs reports sources say Amazon is exploring creating a grocery store chain separate from Whole Foods, and scientists at UC San Diego have created a contact lens, controlled by eye movements, that can zoom in if you blink twice.Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.