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Hey folks,
It was a busy week! Kicked it off in style with a double dose of Charlotte Henry from mac Observer. We had Charlotte on DTNS Monday and then Charlotte was kind enough to have me on her Media+ podcast Tuesday to talk about Apple's TV sports strategy. I think we solved a lot of things for them. Still waiting for Tim Cook's call.
We are so close to my new audio book "Project VERA" coming out on Audible. If you want a second slice, head over to my writer's Patreon for a sample of Chapter 2 (Chapter 1 is there too).
And of course, I love every episode of Know A Little More equally, ... but this latest one about Cookies is pretty delicious. Even some grizzled old admins who you'd think wouldn't be impressed by such a pedestrian topic, told me they liked it.
Also Darren Kitchen came on DTNS to show us the tech he uses in his van! You won't believe how good his internet is just driving aroudn the country!
Now I'm off to bask in the glory of waiting for a notary to arrive so I can sign mortgage papers. Hooray!
Cheers,
Tom
About HTTP Cookies — dailytechnewsshow.com Tom clears up the mystery of why your browser and the sites you visit love cookies so much. Featuring Tom Merritt. MP3 Please SUBSCRIBE HERE. A special thanks to all our supporters–without you, none of this would be possible. Thanks to Kevin MacLeod of Incompetech.com for the theme music. Thanks to Garrett Weinzierl for theContinue reading "About HTTP Cookies"
Seniors In Tech: Michael Musiel — play.acast.com
In this episode Niki interviews former US Robotics engineer, software/hardware developer and part-time paramedic Michael Musiel about his lenghty career in tech includustry from the late 70s through the present day.
You can follow Michael's podcast here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-podcast-that-shall-not-be-named/id674558126
Starring: Niki Ackermans, Michael Musiel
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Top 5 trends in digital health - TechRepublic — www.techrepublic.com With innovations like biofeedback, AR surgery, on-demand care and more, technology is helping improve medical care. Tom Merritt lists five things to know about digital health.
Where Have All The Ransoms Gone? - DTNS 4070 — play.acast.com
Will a crowdsourced ransom payments tracking website called Ransomwhe.re provide empirical evidence companies need to determine if paying ransomware is beneficial? Plus we examine the impact of PhD students Rodrigo Ochigame and Katherine Ye Search Atlas, a project that displays results from different geographic versions of Google Search, and can change how people understand events. And has Disney’s “Black Widow” movie helped re-energize the movie theaters or did it just give people another reason to stay home and stream.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Charlotte Henry, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Google Gets a French Slap - DTNS 4071 — play.acast.com
France’s competition authority fined Google €500 million for not negotiating in good faith to pay news publishers for the right to show their headlines and snippets in search and news results. The Verge’s Chaim Gartenberg discovered that the iPhone’s built-in weather app on recent versions of iOS never shows the temperature as 69 degrees Fahrenheit instead showing 68 degrees or 70 degrees. And Twitter mistakenly approves bot accounts.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Nicole Lee, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Satyamania 365 - DTNS 4072 — play.acast.com
Microsoft’s new easy-to-set-up and use virtual windows machine service called Windows 365. Scientists at the University of Oxford and University of Liverpool published a study in the journal New Media and Society called “More diverse, more politically varied: How social media, search engines and aggregators shape news repertoires in the United Kingdom.”
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Netflix: Throne of Games? - DTNS 4073 — play.acast.com
Netflix announced it has hired Mike Verdu as its Vice President of game development. The US Consumer Product Safety Commission said it has sued Amazon to recall hundreds of thousands of hazardous products distributed on its platform. China’s National Bureau of Statistics reported integrated circuit output in the country rose 43.9% on the year in May.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang, Joe.
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Welcome to the HakVan – DTNS 4074 – Daily Tech News Show — dailytechnewsshow.com Friend of the show Darren Kitchen has made the road his home with a van kitted out with some of things you might expect, like a table, bed, cooking equipment. But when you hack across America, you need a lot of tech in that van too. Thankfully Darren has agreed to tell us about some…
Cordkillers 367 – Release the Star Wars Snyder Cut (w/ Bill Meeks) — cordkillersaudio.wordpress.com Black Widow breaks the bank, but in the right way? Plus , Peacock gets Universal and Dreamworks movies and a non-Star Wars Star Wars movie from Zak Snyder for Netflix. All that and more on Cordkillers! With special guest Bill Meeks. This week on It’s Spoilerin’ Time: Loki (104-105), Black Widow, Rick and Morty (503-504)Next … Continue reading Cordkillers 367 – Release the Star Wars Snyder Cut (w/ Bill Meeks) →
#415 - DisCon is not for Disco — soundcloud.com DisCon is not for Disco but it could be? Why Veronica and Tom aren't idiots. All the summer reading list fodder your list can take. Who was your first binge? And is hard Sci-Fi cold by nature?
A Marriage of Cheerful, Delightful Beauty – It’s a Thing 170 – It's a Thing Tom finds that even friends don’t have benefits any more and Molly finds the greener side of jewelry. Then Tom finds games for the literati, while Molly finds a thing shining bright in a mason jar.
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