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Daily Tech News Show

DTNS 3335 - We Fix the Internet

Daily Tech News Show

Tom Merritt

News, Technology

4.81.5K Ratings

🗓️ 30 July 2018

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Twitter will work with two university professors to understand the Internet "echo chamber". A UK parliamentary committee calls for action to “build resilience against misinformation and disinformation into our democratic system”. How do we go about "fixing" the internet and ensure that misinformation is NOT passed along as objective fact?

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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.

0:31.6

This is a passenger announcement. You can now book your train on Uber and get 10% back in credits to spend on Uber eats so you can order your own fries instead of eating everyone

0:46.4

else's.

0:49.4

Trains now on Uber.

0:50.8

T's and C's apply.

0:51.8

Check the Uber app.

0:52.6

You know that guy I've been seeing?

0:54.4

Yeah.

0:55.0

Turns out my sister's been seeing him too.

0:58.0

Oh, really?

0:59.0

And I heard he's been seeing Kelly at number 56.

1:02.0

And Dave? Your brother, yep. Speck savers opticians and

1:07.3

audiologists own their stores, so your care is their business, which can make

1:12.4

them rather popular. I've got something to tell

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