DTNS 3274 – Don’t Believe the Headline Hype
Daily Tech News Show
Tom Merritt
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 2 May 2018
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Apple’s earnings are in and far from the predicted bloodbath the iPhone sales were up. Where did the analysts go wrong? Plus Open Whisper Systems gets a warning from Amazon about domain fronting their secure messaging app Signal with Amazon.com.
Starring Tom Merritt, Roger Chang and Scott Johnson.
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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 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. May I have your attention please you can now book your train tickets on Uber and get |
| 0:40.4 | 10% back in credits to spend on your next Uber ride. |
| 0:44.3 | So you don't have to walk home in the rain again. |
| 0:48.8 | Trains, now on Uber. Tees and seas apply. |
| 0:51.5 | Check the Uber app. |
| 0:59.1 | Daily Tech News Show is powered by you. |
| 1:01.6 | To find out more, head to Daily Tech News Show.com slash support. |
| 1:04.0 | This is the Daily Tech News for Wednesday, May 2nd, 2018. |
| 1:10.0 | In Los Angeles, I'm Tom Merritt. |
| 1:12.0 | In Salt Lake City where I can now download Hulu shows to watch offline. |
| 1:17.0 | I'm Scott Johnson. |
| 1:18.0 | And our lovely Sarah Lane is out with some other stuff going on today. |
| 1:23.8 | She'll be back tomorrow. |
| 1:25.1 | We miss her. |
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