Cranking Out Retro Games - DTNS 4258
Daily Tech News Show
Tom Merritt
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 20 April 2022
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Netflix reports it lost 200,000 subscribers in Q4 of 2021 falling and expects to lose another 2 million this quarter. What’s behind the falling subscribership? Researchers work on a way to generate electricity from solar panels at night. And we examine the buzz around the PlayDate hand-cranked black and white handheld retro-game console.
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 | Daily Tech News Show is made possible by its listeners. |
| 0:33.0 | Thanks to all of you, including Brad, Kevin and Paul Teason. |
| 0:38.0 | Coming up on DTNS, Scott Johnson tells us how the very small, |
| 0:41.0 | very simple play date console is being received. |
| 0:44.0 | Hint, well, plus generating energy from the night sky. |
| 0:48.0 | And Netflix is forced to about face on just about everything it believes in. |
| 0:53.0 | This is the Daily Tech News for Wednesday, April 20th, 2022 in Los Angeles. |
| 1:02.0 | I'm Tom Marit. |
| 1:03.0 | And from Studio Redwood, I'm Sarah Lane. |
| 1:05.0 | In Salt Lake City, I'm Scott Johnson. |
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