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🗓️ 23 October 2025
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And AWS explains exactly what took down the internet on Monday.
Starring Tom Merritt, Huyen Tue Dao, and Andy Beach.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Daily Tech News for Thursday, October 23rd, 2025. We tell you what you need to know. |
| 0:09.5 | We follow up on context. We try our best to help each other understand. Today, the year of smart |
| 0:15.4 | glasses shapes up with Amazon and making its delivery drivers wear them. and Andy Beach tells us why Reddit is suing |
| 0:22.1 | data brokers for using Google search. |
| 0:24.5 | I'm Tom Merritt. |
| 0:25.4 | I'm windwit now. |
| 0:26.6 | And I'm very excited. |
| 0:27.6 | You're back. |
| 0:28.0 | I'm excited. |
| 0:29.2 | I'm going to miss you guys, too. |
| 0:31.0 | Let's start with what you need to know with the big story. |
| 0:35.7 | As I continue to believe that 2026 will be the year of the smart glasses, uh, |
| 0:40.2 | we get yet another entrant into the race. |
| 0:42.2 | In fact, we've got two in today's show. |
| 0:44.1 | See if you can spot the second one. |
| 0:45.7 | The first one, Amazon announced Wednesday that it is testing smart glasses for its |
| 0:50.6 | North American delivery drivers. |
| 0:52.6 | They have plans to give everybody them, but they're starting in North America. |
| 0:55.9 | They look like normal glasses, but they have a monochromatic heads-up display in one lens. |
| 1:03.1 | Gives you kind of a green overview, very 1980s Apple 2. |
| 1:09.2 | It also has speakers and a camera, kind of thing you expect in smart |
| 1:12.3 | glasses, and connects to a wireless controller that has buttons, including an emergency button, |
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