Hot new phones from LG, Sony and even Motorola. Wearables refocus on fitness, but is that what we want? And the world’s first and largest drone delivery company expands to a new country.
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Cortana teams up with Alexa, iPhone may dump the home button and an inconcenient pacemaker firmware upgrade.
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Google’s ARCore and the state of augmented reality, plus Apple’s fight for 4K and Enterprise success.

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Uber gets a new CEO, Microsoft shows off VR products, Amazon’s brave new grocery world.

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• News You Should Know
  • (01:05) Dow Jones, Wall Street Journal expect Sep 12th iPhone 8 event
  • (02:10) NYPD scrapping Windows phones for iPhones
  • (03:35) Munich students win SpaceX competition with 201 mph pod
• More Top Stories
  • (04:20) Uber expected to name Expedia CEO as new boss
    • Uber’s New CEO May Get at Least $200 Million… – Bloomberg
  • (07:35) Microsoft makes many mixed reality announcements at IFA
  • (11:55) Fitbit announces new smartwatch
    • Fitbit Ionic and Fitbit Flyer… – Pocket-lint
  • (16:25) Amazon cuts Whole Foods stores by up to 43 percent
  • (21:10) Sarahah scrutinized for collecting user data
    • Tesla’s … electric truck aims for 200 to 300 miles… – Reuters
• Thing of the Day
  • (25:45) Tech In Travel Minute
• Discussion
  • Mailbag Monday
    • (27:35) Ward Oatway – Bitcoin mine construction
    • (29:05) Joe – Just in Time Training
    • (30:45) Anon – Tesla Semi
    • (32:55) anotherJmartin – self-driving car maintenance
    • (34:20) Ethen – Quadcopters
    • (34:45) Jeff Steinhauer – Games to learn programming

Pepper the robot becomes a Buddhist priest, self-driving trucks hit the roads and whether Just in Time Learning from YouTube is good bad or otherwise.

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• News You Should Know
  • (01:30) Apple posts note to developers supporting U.S. sanctions
  • (02:40) Updated Apple TV rumored to support 4K and HDR
• More Top Stories
  • (03:50) Head of Samsung guilty of embezzlement and bribery
  • (06:15) Amazon opened up influencer program to YouTubers
  • (09:15) Johns Hopkins proposes using quadcopters to explore Titan
  • (11:20) Robot demonstrates funeral rites at funerary industry expo
  • (16:20) UK approves semi-automated truck envoy trials in 2018
    • Tesla’s … electric truck aims for 200 to 300 miles… – Reuters
• Discussion
  • (19:00) Bruce – Just In Time Learning
• Thing of the Day
  • DTNS Facebook Group
• Message of the Day
  • (30:05) Derrick – Amazon ads

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Apple’s phone price gamble, HTC might sell off Vive and Facebook’s hardware challenges.
With Tom Merritt, Justin Robert Young and Roger Chang.

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• News You Should Know
  • (01:25) New Pixel phone announcement rumored for October 5th
  • (02:25) Judge will supervise Dreamhost user data turnover
• More Top Stories
  • (03:35) Next flagship iPhone rumored to cost $999
  • (06:45) HTC considering sale of Vive VR business
  • (10:55) Amazon will offer Prime discounts at Whole Foods
  • (16:50) India’s Supreme Court rules in favor of citizen’s privacy
  • (20:20) NY judge issues judgement in favor of fair use
• Discussion
  • (23:55) Andrew Bosworth has taken over Facebook’s Building 8
    • Facebook is putting a top exec in charge… – Business Insider
    • ‘Not a random idea factory’… – Business Insider
    • Facebook Is Working on a Video Chat Device – Bloomberg
    • Facebook is working on futuristic smart glasses… – Business Insider
• Thing of the Day
  • (35:00) After On Podcast, Episode 4: Andy Hessel | Synthetic Biology
• Message of the Day
  • (35:55) Martin – Movie Pass
  • (36:25) Stefan – Computer accessibility request

Justin Robert Young

Samsung’s Notable Note release, Blizzard reaches out with Hearthstone and Iceland’s drone-delivered hamburgers.

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• News You Should Know
  • Samsung Galaxy Note 8 arriving Sept 15 for ~$900
  • Apple rumored to host event on Sept 12
  • US DoJ narrows request of Dreamhost user data
  • San Francisco airport installing electrochromatic glass
• More Top Stories
  • Google Express dropping fees, partnering with Walmart
  • Apple will test autonomous shuttle on its corporate campus
    • Apple Scales Back Its Ambitions… – New York Times
  • Robot shipments to China jumped 27% in 2016
  • Blizzard presents 6-minute animated Hearthstone short
  • Flytrex begins delivery-via-drone trials in Iceland
• Discussion
  • Samsung Galaxy Note 8
    • Samsung makes the Galaxy Note8 Official – Ars Technica
    • Samsung is offering Galaxy Note 7 owners a discount… – The Verge
    • Galaxy Note 8 hands-on: Enough to make you forget the Note 7 – engadget
    • The Galaxy Note 8’s dual camera rivals the iPhone 7 Plus – engadget
    • Samsung’s Galaxy Note 8 packs a giant display and a smarter pen – engadget
    • Samsung’s Note 8 has a 6.3-inch screen and an £869 price tag – engadget
    • The Galaxy Note 8 vs. the Note 7: What’s changed? – engadget
    • The Galaxy Note 8 vs. the competition: More than just a stylus – engadget
    • Here’s what the Galaxy Note 8 will cost at AT&T, T-Mobile, Verizon, and Sprint – The Verge
    • Samsung’s new Galaxy Note 8 customers get free in-home visits from HelloTech – The Verge
    • Samsung confirms it’s working on a smart speaker – The Verge
• Breaking News
  • FTC allows Amazon, Whole Foods deal to proceed – CNBC
• Thing of the Day
  • DTNS Facebook Group
• Message of the Day
  • Ali Smith – Mozilla Servo, Quantum CSS
  • Anonymous – Impending CDN trouble?

Scott Johnson

The scoop on Crash Plan getting out of home backups and what the heck an ICO or Initial Coin Offering is.

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• News You Should Know
  • (01:15) Google launched Chrome Enterprise
  • (01:55) SNES Classic up for pre-order
  • (02:30) DJI Spark UAVs stop flying Sept 1st without firmware update
• More Top Stories
  • (03:20) CrashPlan shutting down consumer backup service
    • HashBackup
    • Rclone
    • IDrive
    • The Best Online Backup Services of 2017 – PCMag
  • (05:15) Google planning new Chromebook and Home devices
    • Google app 7.10 reveals that ‘Bisto’ are headphones… – 9to5google
  • (07:25) Verizon splits ‘Unlimited’ plan
  • (11:10) eMarketer estimates 12-17 yo Facebook use to drop
    • Let’s face reality: US Teens engage with iMessage… – Giuseppe Stuto
  • (15:25) IBM announced consortium to explore blockchain use
• Discussion
  • (20:05) Estonia joins Russia and China by creating its own cryptocurrency
    • What is an ICO… – FX Empire
    • Golem
    • ICOrating
    • Initial coin offerings have raised $1.2 billion… – CNBC
• Thing of the Day
  • (00:00) DTNS Facebook Group
• Message of the Day
  • (33:35) Travis (mechagobbler) – autonomous weaponized robots
  • (34:30) Rich Stroffolino – the Cloud

Patrick Beja

Alex Van de Sande

Android Oreo is official, AI experts warn against autonomous lethal weapons, and what steam engines and computers have in common.

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• News You Should Know
  • (00:55) NuTonomy’s CEO hopes to launch autonomous car service by mid-2018
  • (01:15) Vote for new Uber CEO expected within two weeks
  • (01:35) Vive VR headset priced dropped to $599
• More Top Stories
  • (02:10) Android 8.0 is called ‘Oreo’
  • (04:05) Intel announced updated U-series mobile processors
  • (06:40) Xbox One X available for pre-order
  • (07:50) United Nations urged to prevent arms race of autonomous weapons
    • AN OPEN LETTER TO THE UNITED NATIONS… – Future of Life Institute
  • (12:50) Nielson reports on listenership of music apps and radio
• Discussion
  • (16:25) Why didn’t electricity immediately change manufacturing? – BBC News
• Thing of the Day
  • (28:15) Amateur Traveler with a tip for tech in Rome

Chinese Cyber-court, ATT&T’s big loss, and mining the Deep and the Dark Web.
With Tom Merritt, Roger Chang, Shannon Morse and Len Peralta.

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• News You Should Know
  • (01:15) Asus launches 6 new ZenFone 4 models
  • (02:10) iOS Public Beta option disables touch ID in emergencies
  • (02:55) China opens Hangzhou Internet Court for Internet-related crimes
  • (03:50) Instagram allows photo and video replies
• More Top Stories
  • (04:20) Apple and Comcast rumored to be in talks with movie studios
  • (06:35) Google will livestream launch of Android O on August 21st
  • (08:10) The Verge’s Vlad Savov celebrates LG’s V30
  • (10:45) EFF’s Executive Director condemns tech companies’ overreach
    • Fighting Neo-Nazis and the Future of Free Expression – EFF
  • (12:25) AT&T loses court fight regarding utility pole access
• Discussion
  • (14:25) Dark Web Data
    • A dark data startup you haven’t heard… – Tech In Asia
    • Dark analytics: Illuminating opportunities… – Deloitte University Press
    • Quantta Analytics
    • The WWW Virtual Library
• Thing of the Day
  • DTNS Facebook Group
• Message of the Day
  • (23:40) Kenji – Verizon Up rewards program

Len Peralta’s “Devouring the Deep Web”