Netflix drops a Very Big Bowl-sized surprise–is it a touchdown? Plus, tons of new trailers and YouTubeTV buys some soccer balls. With special guest Jacqueline Coley.
DTNS 3213 – Tech Creator’s Remorse
A group of former Google and Facebook employees have banded together to fight what they see are the ill effects of technology on the human condition. Will this put them at odds with their former employers and industry they helped build? Plus Apple, Cisco and Allianz are teaming up to offer cyber insurance to business that use equipment from both companies and Google will 3rd party developers access the Visual Core processor in the Pixel 2 smartphone.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane and Roger Chang.
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- Quick Hits
- (00:55) At car secrets trial, Uber decries ‘conspiracy theory’, Waymo says Uber cheats | reuters
- (01:20) Samsung heir Lee Jae-yong released from prison on appeal | the verge
- (01:40) Former Intel president launches new chip company with backing from Carlyle Group | tech crunch
- More Top Stories
- (02:15) Broadcom unveils $121 billion ‘best and final’ offer for Qualcomm | reuters
- (04:45) Intel Made Smart Glasses That Look Normal | the verge
- (10:15) Apple, Cisco team up with insurance companies to offer cyber policy discounts | reuters
- (14:25) The Pixel 2’s Visual Core photo processor now works with Instagram, WhatsApp and Snapchat | tech crunch
- (16:35) Apple Music is set to surpass Spotify in paid US subscribers this summer | the verge
- Discussion Story:
- (20:30) Early Facebook and Google Employees Form Coalition to Fight What They Built | the new york times
- Thing of the Day
- (28:00) Tech’s Message
- Message of the Day
- (28:50) Frederik – eBay
DTNS LABS – Mailbag – The mailbag opens
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Daily Tech Headlines – February 5, 2018
Intel’s AR glasses, Broadcom still after Qualcomm, cell phone radiation still not proved dangerous.
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Today in Tech History – February 5, 2018
1850 – The first US patent for push-key operation of a calculating machine was issued to Dubois D. Parmelee of New Paltz, NY.
http://www.google.com/patents/US7074
1944 – At Bletchley Park in Great Britain, the Colossus Mk I attacked its first Lorenz-encrypted message. Enigma had been cracked but Lorenz was a tougher cipher used in communications between Hitler and his generals in World War II.
1974 – The US space probe Mariner 10 returned the first close-up images of Venus and became the first spacecraft to use a gravity assist from one planet to help it reach another.
http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraftDisplay.do?id=1973-085A
1999 – Victoria’s Secret’s online fashion show became the first major webcast, attracting an estimated 1.5 million viewers worldwide. Proving even back then, the Internet is for shopping.
http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9902/05/vicweb.idg/
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Today in Tech History – February 4, 2018
1890 – Thomas Edison received a patent for the first quadruplex telegraph, which could send two messages simultaneously in each direction. One message consisted of an electric signal of varying strength, while the second was a signal of varying polarity.
http://www.ieeeghn.org/wiki/index.php/Quadruplex_Telegraph
http://www.google.com/patents?id=SV9BAAAAEBAJ&printsec=abstract&zoom=4#v=onepage&q&f=false
1998 – Noël Godin, a Belgian who made a practice of pie-ing rich and famous people struck a pie against the face of Bill Gates. Gates did not press charges.
http://news.cnet.com/2100-1023-207832.html
2004 – Mark Zuckerberg and a few other guys at Harvard launched TheFacebook so Harvard students can look up and hook up with each other. They would eventually expand the service to the world. And drop the “the”.
https://www.facebook.com/facebook?v=info
2014 – Microsoft named 22-year employee Satya Nadella its new CEO replacing Steve Ballmer. Bill Gates stepped down as Chairman of the Board at the same time and was replaced by John Thompson.
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/news/press/2014/feb14/02-04newspr.aspx
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Today in Tech History – February 3, 2018
1879 – Joseph Wilson Swan demonstrated the first practically usable incandescent filament electric light bulb to 700 people at the Literary and Philosophical Society of Newcastle upon Tyne.
1966 – The Soviet Luna 9 spacecraft landed safely on the moon in the Ocean of Storms. It was the first lunar soft landing and first transmission of photographic data from the Moon to Earth.
http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraftDisplay.do?id=1966-006A
2011 – The Number Resource Organization announced that the free pool of available IPv4 addresses was fully depleted. The IANA allocated the last of the blocks equally between the five Regional Internet Registries.
http://www.nro.net/news/ipv4-free-pool-depleted
2014 – Facebook launched its ‘Paper’ app for iOS in the US. Paper provided a more magazine like format for viewing Facebook content.
http://recode.net/2014/01/30/meet-paper-facebooks-answer-to-browsing-and-creating-mobile-media/
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DTNS 3212a – Don’t Put Mouth On My Words
We explore the link between AI generated fake porn videos and the future of news and facts. Plus Kaz Hirai steps down as CEO of Sony and CEO Susan Wojcicki explains what YouTube wants.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang and Nicole Lee.
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- Quick Hits
- (01:05) Google releases YouTube TV app for Apple TV and Roku | venture beat
- (01:15) Microsoft drops Surface Book 2 price to $1,199 with less storage | the verge
- (01:50) HQ Trivia is raising $15 million at a valuation of more than $100 million from Founders Fund | recode
- (02:20) Chrome OS 64 rolling out w/ new screenshot shortcut, Android app updates, security patches | 9to5 google
- More Top Stories
- (02:40) Apple announces Q1 2018 revenue of $88.3b: 77.3m iPhones, 13.2m iPads, 5.1m Macs | 9to5 mac
- China’s Xiaomi back to top five vendor as global smartphone market shrinks | reuters
- (08:05) YouTube’s CEO promises stronger enforcement in the wake of controversies | tech crunch
- (11:00) Sony CEO Hirai to step down, turnaround ally Yoshida to take helm | reuters
- (13:50) Intel Is Said to Plan Sale of Majority Stake in AR Glasses Unit | bloomberg
- Discussion Story: (16:40) AI-Generated Porn
- Fake porn is the new fake news, and the internet isn’t ready | engadget
- Researchers make a surprisingly smooth artificial video of Obama | engadget
- Lyrebird claims it can recreate any voice using just one minute of sample audio | the verge
- After 20 Minutes of Listening, New Adobe Tool Can Make You Say Anything | motherboard
- Smart 3D modeling lets you mess with faces in videos | engadget
- UAB research finds automated voice imitation can fool humans and machines | UAB
- AI-Assisted Fake Porn Is Here and We’re All F**ked | motherboard
- AI-powered face swapping has taken a dystopian turn | engadget
- Experts fear face swapping tech could start an international showdown | the outline
- Message of the Day
- (26:05) Brandon – Spotify testing Pandora
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Daily Tech Headlines – 2/2/2018
Apple does OK on slowing iPhone sales, Amazon knocks it out of the park and Alphabet has mixed results.
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Today in Tech History – February 2, 2018
1046 – English monks recorded “no man then alive could remember so severe a winter as this was.” Their analog weather blog entry recorded the beginning of the Little Ice Age.
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/657
1931 – Friedrich Schmiedl launched the first rocket mail (V-7, Experimental Rocket 7) with 102 pieces of mail between Schöckl and St. Radegund, Austria.
http://www.astronautix.com/s/schmiedl.html
1935 – Detective Leonarde Keeler, co-inventor of the Keeler polygraph, tried out the lie detector on two suspected criminals in Portage, Wisconsin. Both suspects were convicted of assault.
http://www.wired.com/2012/02/0202polygraph-leads-conviction/
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