MoviePass the self-proclaimed future of movie cinemas across the nation now finds itself in a spiral of bad news borrowing $6 million to keep running, stopped access to Mission Impossible: Fallout, reduced the number of movie releases available, and raised prices. Was this inevitable and is the company’s failure all but assured?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang and Scott Johnson.
Samsung’s growth slows weighed down by low Galaxy S9 sales while Huawei posted a 15% increase in revenue. How OpenAI is improving robotic hands work. Yahoo Finance is planning on launching its own full-day live video stream network by the end of the year.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, and Roger Chang.
Twitter will work with two university professors to understand the Internet “echo chamber”. A UK parliamentary committee calls for action to “build resilience against misinformation and disinformation into our democratic system”. How do we go about “fixing” the internet and ensure that misinformation is NOT passed along as objective fact?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang and Lamarr Wilson.
DJI Mavic models show up in a catalog, Spanish taxi drivers engage in ride-hailing protest and Twitter hires professors to help make the platform better.
It’s our end of month July round table episode. We examine how robust security keys are in everyday life and why moving to physical keys in an digital world makes sense. We discuss the technology used to discover water on Mars and how this will change the idea of space exploration. Plus teens debate the news with peers on Instagram. What are the implications of a free for all mindset to the spread of information and will this alter how these teens will get their news as adults?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Shannon Morse, Roger Chang and Rob DeMillo.
Tom will be coming home for a high school class reunion at the beginning of September and doing the show from the St. Louis area September 6th and 7th. While he could try to rely on the bandwidth at his sister’s farm, it will be more reliable and more fun if he could hook up with some DTNS listeners and even have a meetup!
if you have bandwidth Tom could use email [email protected] and let us know!
And everybody in the are keep an ear out for a meetup! Ideas welcome. Though Tom would really like to do one at Mario’s Pizza in Greenville.