FB Deli Slices The Truth - DTNS 4040
Daily Tech News Show
Tom Merritt
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 27 May 2021
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Facebook announced Wednesday that it will de-rank the accounts of and limit the spread of posts from users who repeatedly share content that has been debunked by fact checkers. Bloomberg’s sources say Nintendo will begin assembly of a new updated Switch console as early as July, with a release scheduled for September or October. Mozilla runs targeted ads on Facebook and Comcast issues a DMCA warning to a user who downloaded…. Linux.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Justin Robert Young, 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 | Coming up on DTNS, Mozilla targets you with Instagram ads that describe you. |
| 0:35.0 | Sony reaches break even on the PS5. |
| 0:37.0 | And how can Facebook and others check facts? |
| 0:40.0 | If the facts aren't even known. |
| 0:44.0 | This is the Daily Tech News for Thursday, May 27, 2021 in Los Angeles. |
| 0:49.0 | I'm Tom Merritt. |
| 0:50.0 | And from Studio Redwood, I'm Serylene. |
| 0:53.0 | From Austin, Texas, I'm Justin Robert Young. |
| 0:56.0 | And on the show's producer, Roger Cheng. |
| 0:59.0 | We're just talking about recency and availability biases and their effects on your perception of the internet. |
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