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YouTube Premium launched in the EU and Patrick Beja is excited by it. Find out what he finds so appealing about the service and why you might want to subscribe to it yourself. Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang and Patrick Beja. MP3 Using a Screen Reader? Click here Multiple versions (ogg, video etc.)Continue reading “DTNS 3307 – Musk: Listen all Y’all, It’s a Sabotage”

Conspiracy theories are a staple of the Internet. Posts about adulterated ingredients at fast food restaurants, videos about alleged political shenanigans, and forums discussing the latest evidence proving man’s greatest achievements were hoaxes find a ready audience online. We examine the role that the Internet plays in conspiracy theories and if its influence is perhapsContinue reading “DTNS 3306 – “Flat Earth” is the Voltron of Conspiracy Theories”

After months of sky high GPU prices it seems the cost of a new video card is coming down. Patrick Norton from TekThing joins us with his video card picks plus a whole host of other PC part goodies that you’ll definitely want on your shopping list. Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Len Peralta, RogerContinue reading “DTNS 3305 – Graphing Graphics Card Pricing”

What’s behind the push Article 13 of the Copyright Directive in the EU Parliament that would make things like meme subject to copyright law and what would it mean for the Internet if the legislation passes? Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang and Justin Robert Young. MP3 Using a Screen Reader? Click here MultipleContinue reading “DTNS 3304 – Boring Co. Says, “We Can Dig It””

US District Court ruled that planned the merger of AT&T with Time Warner could go ahead. What are the market implications of this merger and how does this affect future Telecom/Media Distribution Company mergers? Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang and Charlotte Henry. MP3 Using a Screen Reader? Click here Multiple versions (ogg, videoContinue reading “DTNS 3303 – Bless The AI Down In Africa”

E3 2018 is here an Patrick Beja host of gaming podcast “Pixels” is here to breakdown all the announcements for us. Plus Valve plans to launch Steam in China and a suspicious fan was given to all the journalists in Singapore for the North Korea/USA summit. Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane and Patrick Beja. MP3Continue reading “DTNS 3302 – Here, Have this Malware”

Apple puts its foot down on apps that run cryptocurrency mining in the background, Microsoft announced at E3 it acquired five game developers to bolster its first party game library, and the US Dept of Energy has launched the fastest supercomputer in the world, Summit, capable of 200,000 trillion calculations a second. Starring Tom Merritt,Continue reading “DTNS 3301 – Keep Your Memories To Yourself”

With Google ending its involvement in Project Maven after significant employee dissent about the company working with the military we ponder what exactly should AI be used for and perhaps more importantly what it shouldn’t be used for. Starring Tom Merritt, Shannon Morse, Len Peralta and Roger Chang MP3 Using a Screen Reader? Click hereContinue reading “DTNS 3300 – War! What is AI good for?”

Valve unveiled a new policy allowing anything to be posted to the Steam Store as long as the content is not something Valve decides is illegal, or straight up trolling. Is this policy of relaxed control an effort to reduce the need to moderate the store or is something else at play? Starring Tom Merritt,Continue reading “DTNS 3299 – Steam-ier Content”

Sonos pulled the wraps off the Beam. A smart home theater sound bar that integrates Amazon’s Alexa many have speculated that its Sonos’s attempt to take over the connected living room. Will it succeed or end up on the latest in a long line of failed attempts? Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang andContinue reading “DTNS 3298 – Defrag the Seagulls”