Q1 2016 Quarterly Hangout
Tom, Jennie, and Roger chat about plans for the show and take some questions and ideas from the audience.
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DTNS 2715 – Asimov’s First Rule of Robot Club
Don't fear the robots, teach your children to command them! FIRST Robotics coach Shane Rosenkrantz talks with Tom Merritt and Tech Stuff's Jonathan Strickland about team competitive robotics.
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DTNS 2714 – The Next Bot Thing
Messaging is the hot new platform and payments are the hot new thing on the hot new platform as witnessed by WeChatPay's big numbers. Justin Young and Tom Merritt discuss whether this trend is more…
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DTNS 2713 – Middle-Class VR
Sony's PlayStation VR is officially in the race now. Tech Republic's. Erin Carson was at the announcement and talks with Tom Merritt and Scott Johnson about the state of VR.
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DTNS 2712 – Save The Puppy? [ ] Yes [ ] No
People let companies track them and store gigabytes of information about them yet encryption and privacy have never been hotter topics. Do people really care about their privacy or only the appearance? Patrick Beja and…
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DTNS 2711 – AI: Artificial Instinct
Microsoft is opening up a version of Minecraft that teaches AI, while another AI beats world champions at Go. So where do we Organic Intelligences fit into all this? Tom Merritt and Veronica Belmont discuss.
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DTNS 2710 – Psychological Costs of Notifications
Peter Wells and Justin Gibson discuss the differences between iOS and Android, as well the headlines of the day.
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Real tech stories. Really shaky analysis.
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DTNS 2709 – Alexa, What’s In My Wallet?
Justin Robert Young, Eric Geller and Jaime Ruiz talk FCC, FBI and lots of other security-minded acronyms. Tom Merritt is on assignment!
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DTNS 2708 – Privacy Badger Don’t Care About Tracking Cookies
Opera builds ad blocking into its browser. Justin Young and Tom Merritt fire up the old ad blocking debate and why it's NOT about blocking ads.
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DTNS 2707 – Astronaut Prime
A machine learning algorithm beat a Go Master and Blue Origin announces plans for manned flights including space tourism. Andrew Mayne and Tom Merritt discuss.
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DTNS 2706 – The Sixth Estate
Tech companies like Google and Facebook make more money than most countries, have user bases bigger than China, and can often affect your daily life more than your government. Patrick Beja and Tom Merritt discuss…
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