Does Thread Matter More Than Matter? - DTNS 4577
Daily Tech News Show
Tom Merritt
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 7 August 2023
⏱️ 34 minutes
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A team of scientists from several UK universities trained a deep learning model to extract data from a recording of your keyboard clicks. Plus The New York Times reports on a woman in the city of Detroit after a mistaken arrest based on flawed facial recognition. And we delve into the issues brought up in the Verge’s Jennifer Pattison Tuohy article “Why Thread is Matter’s biggest problem right now.”
Starring Tom Merritt, Nica Montford, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang, Joe.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Olga Koch, back in the ring for round two of Upfront, the award-winning, |
| 0:03.5 | hard-hitting podcast from IRS. I don't pull any punches and asking questions about |
| 0:07.6 | financial services to help you find the guts to up your game and be the best. |
| 0:11.2 | There's no room for lightweight, expect honesty, expect humor, just don't expect it to be like |
| 0:15.7 | any other financial services podcast. Pull up a ring-side seat for episode one when airs on July 5th. |
| 0:21.7 | Find Upfront from IRS on your favorite podcast app and hit follow so you never miss an episode. |
| 0:26.0 | Let's get ready to rumble! |
| 0:56.2 | And what is delaying matter from making the smart home easy? |
| 1:03.2 | This is The Daily Tech News for Monday, August 7th, 2023 in Los Angeles, on Tom Merritt. |
| 1:08.6 | From the Atlanta area, I'm Nika Mahford. |
| 1:11.4 | From deep in the heart of Texas, I'm Justin Robert Young. |
| 1:14.4 | And I'm the shows producer, Roger Cheng. |
| 1:16.8 | Welcome everyone to a new week of technology news in August. |
| 1:21.9 | Just an idea off the top of my head, should we start with the quick hits? |
| 1:27.8 | Yeah, I think so. |
| 1:30.4 | Let's do it. |
| 1:33.0 | PayPal announced its own stable coin called PayPal USD, or if you're looking for the |
| 1:38.8 | funky acronym's PYUSD, issued by a company called Paxos, that's who they're partnering with, |
| 1:45.3 | on an Ethereum blockchain, and backed by US dollars, treasury certificates, and cash |
| 1:50.4 | equivalents. But it's a stable coin. So one PayPal USD should equal one dollar. |
| 1:55.9 | PayPal, if you recall, paused work on PYUSD back in February, but will now gradually roll it |
| 2:01.0 | out to customers in the United States. CEO Dan Schulman says the technology should allow |
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