Daily Tech News Show
Tom Merritt
Tom Merritt and the team help you stay up to date with an independent, authoritative and trustworthy tech news briefing. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episodes
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Jul 13, 2019 • 33min
You're Looking at the Wrong End of the E-Waste Problem
Tom talks with professor Josh Lepawsky about what the real situation with e-waste is and why the professor thinks people should look at the factory, not just the landfill. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jul 12, 2019 • 31min
A Prime Day To Strike - DTNS 3572
Can fertility apps and tracks really work or are they just a gimmick to pad out feature lists? Plus Amazon workers planning a strike and academics discover away to leak data using the LED lights on a keyboard.Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Nicole Lee, and Len Peralta. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jul 11, 2019 • 31min
Amazon Primes Employees for New Jobs – DTNS 3571
Amazon plans on retraining 100,000 US employees by 2025, France approves a 3% tax on digital companies making 750 million euros of revenue, and Toronto’s Sidewalk Labs project press release gets Twitter Bot’ed.Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang and Justin Robert Young. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jul 10, 2019 • 32min
Nintendo Switch-Lite – DTNS 3570
Nintendo confirms a sub-$200 portable version of the Switch game console called the “Switch-Lite”. What do you give up in this smaller cheaper form factor and is it designed to appeal to existing owners or new ones as well?Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Scott Johnson. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jul 9, 2019 • 31min
You Can Do The Same Thing With Your Mouth - DTNS 3569
Patrick discusses how the shift to game streaming, passes and cross platform controller compatibility will disrupt video-gaming industry.Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, and Patrick Beja. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jul 8, 2019 • 30min
Meet Your New Meat – DTNS 3568
How do you get people to accept lab grown meat and is the fear just a matter of incorrect marketing?Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang and Blair Bazdarich. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jul 5, 2019 • 28min
People of Amazon - DTNS 3567
Microsoft's Swiftkey keyboard coming to Andriod, MoviePass goes on hiatus, and Walmart on-track to lode $1b in e-commerce.Filling in for Tom, Sarah, and Roger are Rich Strofolino and Anthony Lemos. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jul 4, 2019 • 5min
Apple Reportedly Moving Away from Butterfly Keyboards - DTH
Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo says Apple is moving away from Butterfly keyboards, court rules that Amazon is liable for third-party sellers, and Waymo receives a permit to participate in California's autonomous vehicle passenger service pilot program. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jul 3, 2019 • 29min
You’ll Still Get Your Pizza – DTNS 3566
In a letter to US Senator Chris Coons Amazon’s VP of public policy Brian Huseman told the Senator that they keep transcripts and voice recordings indefinitely, and only remove them if they’re manually deleted by users.Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson and Roger Chang. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jul 2, 2019 • 30min
Smart-E Pants 2.0 - DTNS 3565
Samsung's DJ Koh believes that the era of the smartphones is coming to an end as 5G, IoT and new emerging technologies take shape. What comes after the smartphone and what form will it take?Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
