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Hey there,
Short week this week because of the Labor Day holiday but some great tech news to look at. Daily Tech news Show dug into those Facebook Ray-Bans. It's a really compelling product that might surprise you. Though it's still for early adopters and way too expensive.
We also got the first round in the Epic v. Apple court case done. Apple mostly won but the thing it lost was a big one, in-app payment restrictions. However this will be appealed and won't end for years so no big changes coming anytime soon.
And if you like my writing, I have a few rough draft chapters of a novel called "Captain Min" about a ship making second contact with a somewhat reluctant civilization.
And I was asked to be a guest on the wonderful Reading Envy podcast. That will come out later this month so keep an eye out for it!
Thanks everybody. Have a great weekend!
Tom
Top 5 smart home devices you need to know about - TechRepublic — www.techrepublic.com Tom Merritt has some smart home smarts for us. Try out these items to make your home and office life simpler.
The Emoji of Choice - It's a Thing 179 — play.acast.com
Tom gets trailerized and Molly finds the new backyard hotness. Then Tom finds what's old is new again for department store chains, while Molly finds the emoji of choice for the young cool people.
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Hey Facebook, Nice Glasses! - DTNS 4107 — play.acast.com
Facebook announces new smart glasses called Ray-Ban Stories, iRobot announces the Roomba j7+ robot vacuum featuring built-in machine vision, BMW showed off two e-bike concepts, the I Vision AMBY and Motorrad Vision AMBY and Amazon released its own house-brand TVs running it’s FireOS smart TV system.
Starring Tom Merritt, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Less Cashiers, More Service - DTNS 4106 — play.acast.com
Amazon plans to bring its “Just Walk Out” cashierless technology to two Whole Foods stores, Twitter launched a few feature tests. One changes the way photos are displayed on mobile and the second lets users remove followers without blocking them, and we look at the state of long range wireless charging.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Joe.
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This Isn't the Privacy Issue You're Looking For - DTNS 4105 — play.acast.com
A ProPublica report says contractors hired by Facebook are reviewing messages that have been flagged by an algorithm as improper, El Salvador now officially uses Bitcoin as legal tender, and A police report revealed French police via Europol, got a Swiss court to order ProtonMail to log and provide to the police the IP address of suspected activist’s plus the device ID accessing it.
Starring Tom Merritt, Nate Lanxon, Roger Chang, Joe.
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#419 - Trust me, It's SciFi — soundcloud.com Tom and Veronica are jealous of those with Leviathan Falls ARCs, and wonder if a phobia ever affected your book enjoyment! Plus we kick-off Terra Nullius, and Tom reassures us that it IS SciFi.
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