DTNS 3159 – Compuserve still has forums?

Logo by Mustafa Anabtawi thepolarcat.comWhy EA now has the most downvoted Reddit comment of all time, plus wearables might save your heart and you might want to switch to Firefox.
With Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang and Patrick Beja.

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Daily Tech Headlines – November 14, 2017

DTH_CoverArt_1500x1500Firefox Quantum released, HTC announced standalone headset, Apple Watch can identify high blood pressure.

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DTNS 3158 – Lyft Gets an “Eh?”

Logo by Mustafa Anabtawi thepolarcat.comDid FaceID really get hacked? Plus ESPN brings SportsCenter to Snapchat and Amazon Prime Video might go free to watch.
With Sarah Lane, Tom Merritt, Roger Chang and Veronica Belmont.

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Daily Tech Headlines – November 13, 2017

DTH_CoverArt_1500x1500FaceID spoofed, Softbank sinks money into Uber and Lyft comes to Toronto.

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DTNS 3157 – Spambot Revenge

Logo by Mustafa Anabtawi thepolarcat.comUS DoJ tried to crank up the encryption debate again, YouTube tries to crack down on adult videos that look like kids videos, and why one man’s C++ project made him teh target of Russian spies.
With Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang and Darren Kitchen.

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Daily Tech Headlines – November 10, 2017

DTH_CoverArt_1500x1500YouTube cracks down on adult videos with kids characters, China’s Bytedance buys Musical.ly, and the iPhone X has problems in cold weather.

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#310 – Apocalypse 1870

OMG. Patrick Rothfuss is best buds with Lin-Manuel Miranda and they’re doing a TV prequel to Kingkiller Chronicles, while Felicia Day plays Poppy the Dragonologist AND Amazon wants to do a Tolkien series. And that doesn’t even begin to shed light on how good our book pick Doomsday Book is. But the piece de resistance of the show is one man’s story of losing power and trying to read.

DTNS 3156 – Check Your Mark Privilege

Logo by Mustafa Anabtawi thepolarcat.comWe try to make sense of the AT&T Time Warner merger situation, and we try to make sense of the Twitter verification pause, AND we try to make sense of Facebook’s revenge porn reporting system.
With Sarah Lane, Tom Merritt, Roger Chang and Justin Robert Young.

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