Daily Tech News Show (VIDEO)

OnePlus released a social media post showing its upcoming phones working in the rain. Gizmodo recently reported that CNET has apparently deleted thousands of old articles with CNET claiming it’s done for SEO purposes while Google responds that its search doesn’t work that way. And Molly shares details of her interview with Matt Rogers, co-founder of Mill the food recycling service about how design informs use. Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Molly Wood, Roger Chang, Joe To read the show notes in a separate page click here! Support the show on Patreon by becoming a supporter!

Shannon gives up a wrap-up of all the big news from this year’s Black Hat security conference. We find out why urban drone delivery is not a regular thing yet. And Disney shares its subscriber numbers and new push to make its ad supported service available in more countries. Starring Sarah Lane, Robb Dunewood, Shannon Morse, Roger Chang, Joe To read the show notes in a separate page click here! Support the show on Patreon by becoming a supporter!

YouTube announced Tuesday that users who disable watch history will no longer see recommendations on the home page. Netflix is doubling down on its gaming offering, including an app to let subscribers play games on their TV. And China continues its clampdown on children’s online time. Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Joe To read the show notes in a separate page click here! Support the show on Patreon by becoming a supporter!

We go over Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s big announcements from this year’s SIGGRAPH event in LA. Postdoc researcher in ergonomics at USC, Alexis Souchet, details some of the negative issues with VR in a Conversation post. OpenAI announced its GPTBot, that will crawl the web like a search index does and filter out paywall-restricted sources, sources that violate OpenAI policies, sources that gather personally identifiable information. And the atmosphere between authors and AI have has grown tense. Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Joe To read the show notes in a separate page click here! Support the show on Patreon by becoming a supporter!

A team of scientists from several UK universities trained a deep learning model to extract data from a recording of your keyboard clicks. Plus The New York Times reports on a woman in the city of Detroit after a mistaken arrest based on flawed facial recognition. And we delve into the issues brought up in the Verge’s Jennifer Pattison Tuohy article “Why Thread is Matter’s biggest problem right now.” Starring Tom Merritt, Justin Robert Young, Nica Montford, Roger Chang, Joe To read the show notes in a separate page click here! Support the show on Patreon by becoming a supporter!

Qualcomm, NXP, Nordic, Robert Bosch and Infineon have joined forces to create a company to promote the development of RISC-V. We go over Apple’s latest earnings report. And Google is making it easier with new tools to remove your private information from search! Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Chris Ashley, Roger Chang, Joe To read the show notes in a separate page click here! Support the show on Patreon by becoming a supporter!

Warner Brothers Discovery announced quarter ending June 2023 earnings and has lost 1.8 million subscribers across all properties including Max, the newly combined HBOMax and Discovery+ streaming service. France’s AFP news agency is suing Elon Musk’s X platform, aka Twitter, because it isn’t negotiating payment for sharing AFP stories on Twitter. Wired’s Gregory Barber has an article up about the “Local-first” software movement. Local-first has become popular in the developer community, along with the slogan “There is no cloud. There is just someone else’s computer.” Starring Tom Merritt, Robb Dunewood, Roger Chang, Joe To read the show notes in a separate page click here! Support the show on Patreon by becoming a supporter!

Meta released a tool for AI music generation called AudioCraft, under an MIT open source license. Early results from an ongoing Swedish trial of more than 80,000 women undergoing mammograms show that AI is able to accurately detect 20% more breast cancers from mammograms than traditional screening by radiologists. And Amazon is trialing their grocery delivery from Amazon Fresh to customers without a Prime subscription in a dozen US cities. Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Joe To read the show notes in a separate page click here! Support the show on Patreon by becoming a supporter!

We pit the Samsung’s Flip and Fold against the Motorola’s Razr+ foldable phones. Which of these foldable smartphones is better? Plus Adobe, Apple, Autodesk, Nvidia and Pixar formed the Alliance for OpenUSD to promote a standard for interoperable 3D tools and data. Basically. Standard for AR. And Videogameschronicle’s sources say that development kits for the Nintendo’s next console have been delivered to key game studios. Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Iyaz Akhtar, Roger Chang, Joe To read the show notes in a separate page click here! Support the show on Patreon by becoming a supporter!

Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman reports Apple will unveil a standard iPhone 15 model that ditch the old notch for the Dynamic Island design. Plus Apple has officially allowed Twitter to change its name to X, in the App Store. And the U.K. Ministry of Defense mistakenly sent emails meant for U.S. military intelligence to Mali. Starring Sarah Lane, Megan Morrone, Roger Chang, Joe To read the show notes in a separate page click here! Support the show on Patreon by becoming a supporter!