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Daily Tech News Show

Amazon's Business of Everything - DTNS 4039

Daily Tech News Show

Tom Merritt

News, Technology

4.81.5K Ratings

🗓️ 26 May 2021

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Amazon buys MGM. Is Amazon becoming a 21st century conglomerate and what is the company’s end game? Plus the US District of Columbia sued Amazon Tuesday for violating antitrust laws.


Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Joe.

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0:00.0

A tech demo shows off the usual tech things.

0:04.0

Then I'm going to jump to a link.

0:05.0

Using the usual tech devices.

0:07.0

We have a plane device called our mouse.

0:09.0

Doing the usual tech productivity tasks.

0:11.0

Now we're connected audio.

0:13.0

You can see my work. You can point at it.

0:15.0

And I can see your face and we can talk.

0:17.0

Except it's 1968 and it's going to set the computing agenda

0:20.0

for the next half century, then almost immediately be ignored.

0:24.0

The mother of all demos on no a little more.

0:27.0

Get it wherever you get your podcasts.

0:30.0

This time last year Hassan was working in sales.

0:36.0

And spent his evenings gaming.

0:39.0

Now he's working as a prison officer.

0:41.0

He's tackled self-fires, got through to some of the most challenging prisoners.

0:48.0

And helped support their rehabilitation.

0:50.0

He's done things he once thought he was never capable of.

0:54.0

But he still loves his gaming.

0:57.0

An extraordinary job done by someone like you.

1:00.0

Such prison jobs now.

1:05.0

Coming up on DTNS, do you trust Google

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