DTNS 2924 – What Happens in Vegas, Stays on AWS

Logo by Mustafa Anabtawi thepolarcat.comBen Johnson from Marketplace tech talks with Scott Johnson and Tom Merritt about his show Codebreaker as well as drone deliveries, Amazon Echos in hotel rooms, snapchat surgery and autonomous cars.

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Daily Tech Headlines – December 14, 2016

DTH_CoverArt_1500x1500Facebook gets into TV, Amazon Prime Video goes worldwide and begins drone delivery.

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DTNS 2923 – Self-Driving Food

Logo by Mustafa Anabtawi thepolarcat.comFunding for on-demand delivery services is slowing. Can autonomous cars save the DoorDashes and Delivs of the world? Patrick Beja and Tom Merritt discuss.

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Daily Tech Headlines – December 13, 2016

DTH_CoverArt_1500x1500Google decides to partner on cars, Apple releases its AirPods and Snapchat adds Groups.

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DTNS 2923 – Just Troll With It

Logo by Mustafa Anabtawi thepolarcat.comTwitch is using machine learning to moderate chat while Imzy tries to start a troll-free community. Veronica Belmont and Tom Merritt discuss whether that’s even possible.

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DTNS 2922 – Just Troll With It

Logo by Mustafa Anabtawi thepolarcat.comTwitch is using machine learning to moderate chat while Imzy tries to start a troll-free community. Veronica Belmont and Tom Merritt discuss whether that’s even possible.

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Daily Tech Headlines – December 12, 2016

DTH_CoverArt_1500x1500Tech executive meet with the incoming President, Tech luminaries star clean tech investment fund, Skype real-time translator now works with non-Skype phone lines.

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DTNS 2922 – Just Say It Amazon

Logo by Mustafa Anabtawi thepolarcat.comAmazon still flirting with Australia, Does the Valley need more tourist locations, and why we’re not covering that hacking story…

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Weekly Tech Views: The Tech, No Logic Blog – Dec 11, 2016

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Real tech stories. Really shaky analysis.

Welcome to the Weekly Tech Views–the widely proclaimed egg nog of technology writing! If the eggs had been left out on the counter overnight and that slightly “off” taste covered up with extra rum!

For the week of December 5 – 9, 2016…

The Family-Size Bag Of Chips Is The Real Problem
Amazon opened Amazon Go, a physical convenience store, that lets customers scan a QR code on their phone to get in, grab some snacks or a sandwich, and just walk out, knowing they will be automatically charged for what they’re carrying. This astounding technology does beg the obvious question however–“How easily can I retrieve the roast beef-and-Swiss I put in the hoodie of the guy walking out of the store in front of me?”

Break Out The Virtual Canned Air
Artificial intelligence company OpenAI made public their Universe interface, which lets an AI use a computer like a human by viewing a screen and using a virtual keyboard and mouse and getting a half-pound of virtual potato chip crumbs between the virtual keyboard’s keys.

I Wake Up In A Cold Sweat From The Leather Sport Seating Flashbacks
A car thief was apprehended when the car’s maker, BMW, remotely locked the man in the vehicle. Congratulations, of course, go out to the thief for the upcoming traditional multi-million-dollar claustrophobia-induced PTSD lawsuit victory.

What If We Use The Bingo Machine Next Week?
Bitcoin reached its highest value on the iBit exchange in nearly three years at $774. Some analysts believe this can be attributed to the recent shortage of cash in India, but those of us more familiar with the basic concept of Bitcoin understand the true influence is 7-7-4 coming up on the secondhand lotto machine they utilize at iBit headquarters.

NBC Claims Breaking News Pointless!
NBC News is shutting down its Breaking News app due to its lack of revenue generation. “Revenue? Have you tried a Faking News app?” asked Facebook.

Why Are They Saying We Should Call It The Alanis Morissette Update?
With 133,000 Galaxy Note 7s unaccounted for in the United States, Samsung will push out an update that will prevent charging of the devices, essentially bricking them. “Yes, as a matter of fact, we do know that fire is used to make bricks,” said every Samsung employee in response to everyone they know.

Our Lawyers Assure Us Data Charges Don’t Count As In-App Purchases
Nintendo announced that players will need an active internet connection to play the highly anticipated Super Mario Run mobile game. The company believes this unpopular move is necessary to prevent both piracy and more importantly, in a post-Wii U world, the unfamiliar and unsettling sensation of high expectations.

This also means that, in light of the huge demand for the NES Classic Edition–and its unfortunate lack of an internet connection–playing the any of the mini console’s thirty games will require the physical presence of a Nintendo middle-management-level employee (and while not officially required, letting him or her join an occasional game of Tecmo Bowl is considered good form).

Nature Abhors Good News For Samsung
In the latest turn of the five-year patent violation trial between Samsung and Apple, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Samsung did not have to pay a $399 million penalty for copying iPhone designs.

Said one Samsung attorney, “Finally! Something this year that goes our–”

“Don’t say it!” said the other attorneys.

“–way. What? What’s wrong?”

All across the globe, millions of Samsung POWERbot robotic vacuum cleaners chose that moment to increase their suction a hundredfold, tearing carpets from floors, yanking lights from low-hanging Christmas tree branches, and traumatizing countless small pets who’d been trained to ride on them in service of cute YouTube videos, before disintegrating and leaving behind, ironically, a large pile of dust.

 

There’s your weekly glass of smooth, creamy, festive tech news, well worth, one hopes, the significantly increased danger of intellectual salmonella.

Thanks to everyone who backed the Kickstarter for the Weekly Tech Views collection Tech, Please! While the goal wasn’t reached, I’m going to go ahead and produce the book and make it available within the next week in the more traditional manner. So if you thought you were done hearing about it here, take that.

 

Mike Range
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DTH Sunday History Break – 12/11/2016

DTH_CoverArt_1500x1500DTH Sunday history break.

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