DTNS 3290 – All Aboard the Hellscape Train
Daily Tech News Show
Tom Merritt
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 24 May 2018
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Elon Musk goes on a tweet storm about the truthiness of major media outlets. Musk wants to setup a website where the public can rate the credibility of news outlets and ‘core-truth’ of news stories. We examine the issue, the problem and proposed solution.
Starring Sarah Lane, Justin Robert Young and Roger Chang.
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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 our 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 Noa Little More. |
| 0:27.6 | Get it wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:31.8 | Attention. Attention at all passengers. You can now book your train tickets on Uber and get 10% back in |
| 0:40.7 | Uber credits to spend on your next train journey. So no excuses not to visit your in-laws |
| 0:46.1 | this Christmas. Trains, now on Uber. Tees and seas apply. Check the Uber app. |
| 0:54.8 | The Daily Tech News Show is brought to you by its audience |
| 0:57.6 | and not outside organizations. |
| 0:59.5 | To find out more, hit the Daily Tech News Show. |
| 1:01.8 | com. Support. more hit the Daily Tech News Show. This is the Daily Tech News show this is the Daily Tech News for Thursday, May 24th, 2018. |
| 1:11.0 | Tom Merritt is out this week from Studio Feline I'm Sarah Lane and |
| 1:15.0 | from the majestic shores of Lake Merritt I'm Justin Robert Young I mean how many |
| 1:20.1 | times have you and Tom laughed about the fact that he used to live on Lake |
| 1:23.8 | Merit and now you do. Not only have I laughed about it. Well there hasn't been a lot of |
| 1:28.2 | laughter because to walk from Tom's old apartment to Lake Merritt, you have to cross Belmont Street to which... |
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