Creepy laughs on your Echo explained! Even Lego can fail. Need more star wars? Put Favreau on the job! Old bottles with old messages. Ready Player One gets a good reception in Austin. How autonomous is TOO autonomous? And so much more.
Monthly Archives: March 2018
DTNS 3238 – Cora in the Sky with VTOL
IKEA is making use of its TaskRabbit purchase by launching a furniture assembly service. Will this be a trend as retailers seek to expand their service offerings to compete? Plus CTS-Labs an Israeli security firm has found 13 vulnerabilities in AMD’s Ryzen chips and the ACLU has filed a FOIA (Freedom of Information Act) against the TSA seeking more information on its screening of electronic devices for domestic travelers.
Starring Sarah Lane, Patrick Beja, and Roger Chang
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Cordkillers 211 – Total Opinion Land
Apple’s just biding their time, fewer ads are the future, and a Luke Cage release date! All this and more on Cordkillers!
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DTNS 3237 – I Got 99 Qualms but Intel Ain’t One
We try to untangle the triangle of Broadcom, Intel and Qualcomm. Plus a city that wants to issue bonds in cryptoicurrency and a company that wants to 3D print cheap concrete houses.
With Sarah Lane, Tom Merritt, Roger Chang and Patrick Norton.
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DTNS LABS – BOT TAKES with Veronica Belmont
The first of Veronica’s weekly-ish roundup of bot news.
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DTNS 3236 – You have the right/To repair/Electronnnnnnnnnics
California has become the 18th state to propose “Right to Repair” legislation. What are the implications and does the consumer really benefit? Plus Waymo has started a pilot program to test autonomous semi-truck technology in Atlanta, and Twitter is working on way for users to verify themselves.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Len Peralta, Roger Chang and Brian Brushwood.
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DTNS 3235 – Real Facts About Fake News
MIT researchers discover false news travels faster and farther on Twitter than factual news, Amazon explains why Alexa has been uttering creepy laughs, and Flippy the burger flipping robot gets turned off.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang and Justin Robert Young.
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DTNS 3234 – Random Laughing Isn’t Funny
Can unplugging yourself from 24 hour online news feeds and social media make you a less stressed and better informed person? Plus the Dig Once bill is shaping up to become law, making it cheaper and faster to roll out fiber optics, and Amazon has admitted its voice assistant randomly laughs.
Starring Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson and Roger Chang.
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It’s Spoilerin’ Time 210 – Counterpart (107), Deadwood (111)
A date for the Summer Movie Draft and a slight change of pace for Counterpart.
00:44 – The Summer Movie Draft is coming up! We’re looking at drafting on March 20th on Night Attack. More info soon!
03:20 – Counterpart (107)
13:29 – Deadwood (111)
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Current Geek 160: There’s Sun on the Blvd!
Welcome to the Current Geek Film Festival, a special monthly look at the greatest movies of all time from a geeky perspective. This month we take on “Sunset Blvd”! I’m Scott Johnson and he’s Tom Merritt!