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Daily Tech News Show

Tom Merritt

Technology, News

4.81.5K Ratings

🗓️ 31 January 2024

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Blizzard gets a new president, Johanna Faries. Scott explains what her appointment means in a newly merged Microsoft Activision Blizzard company. Plus Universal Music Group, says negotiations have broken down with TikTok over royalties. And US lawmakers grill social media CEOs over the use of their platforms for facilitating child sexual abuse online.


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.

0:03.7

Then I'm going to jump to a link.

0:05.2

Using the usual tech devices.

0:07.0

We have a pointing device called a mouse.

0:09.0

Doing the usual tech productivity tasks.

0:11.4

Now we're connected audio. You can see my work, you can point at it, and I can see

0:15.7

your face and we can talk. Except it's 1968 and it's going to set the computing agenda for the

0:20.5

next half century, then almost immediately be ignored.

0:24.4

The mother of all demos on NOAA Little More.

0:27.6

Get it wherever you get your podcasts.

0:29.7

AI might be the most important new computer technology ever.

0:36.6

The problem is that AI needs a lot of speed and processing power.

0:40.2

So how do you compete without costs spiraling out of control?

0:44.0

It's time to upgrade to the next generation of the cloud,

0:47.0

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, or OCI.

0:50.0

OCI is a single platform for your infrastructure, database, application development, and AI needs.

0:56.0

So now you can train your AI models at twice the speed and less than half the cost of other clouds.

1:02.0

If you want to do more and spend less, take a free test drive of

1:05.2

OCI at oracle.com slash elevate. That's oracle.com slash elevate.

1:10.1

Oracle.com slash elevate.

1:12.1

Hello, I'm Karyadloid. Oracle. called you are not alone and it's out now. It's inspired by all my

1:23.5

conversations I've had on the grief cast and some of my incredible guests

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