AT&T and Discovery Cross the Streams - DTNS 4032

Daily Tech News Show

Tom Merritt

News, Technology

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 17 May 2021

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

AT&T and Discovery have reached an agreement to combine their media divisions into a joint venture to be 71% owned by AT&T and 29% by Discovery. Wired recently featured a piece looking at a number of top gamers quitting full-time esports organizations to pursue careers as influences on Twitch and YouTube. And more on Epic vs Apple as their court case grinds on.

Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah, Jenn Cutter, 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	Coming up on DTNS, take heart, audio, snobs,
0:33.0	lossless music is becoming the norm.
0:35.0	Why e-sports players are becoming streamers instead.
0:38.0	And the real reason AT&T is spinning out Warner
0:41.0	into a merger with Discover.
0:46.0	This is the Daily Tech News for Monday, May 17th, 2021
0:49.0	in Los Angeles. I'm Tom Barrett.
0:51.0	And from Studio Redwood, I'm Sarah Lane.
0:54.0	I'm the shows producer Roger Chang.
0:56.0	And from Toronto, I am Jen Cutter.
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