Go Update Roomba, You're Drunk- DTNS 3974
Daily Tech News Show
Tom Merritt
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 24 February 2021
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Facebook Vice President of global affairs Nick Clegg wrote a blog post Wednesday saying Facebook plans to spend more than $1 billion on the news industry over the next three years. The post also reiterated Facebook’s position on the Australian Media Code which is to say, it prefers to make deals without being subject to the code. What does this mean for the average Australian and for Aussie news outlets?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Peter Wells, 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 Foxconn to build more cars. |
| 0:33.0 | How a lack of rain is impacting the global chip shortage. |
| 0:36.0 | And what it was like in the great Australian news drought of 21. |
| 0:43.0 | This is the Daily Tech News for Wednesday, February 24th, 2021. |
| 0:47.0 | In Los Angeles, I'm Tom Merritt. |
| 0:49.0 | And from Studio Redwood, I'm Sarah Lane. |
| 0:51.0 | It's not like City, Utah. I'm Scott Johnson. |
| 0:53.0 | And I'm the shows producer, Roger. |
| 0:55.0 | Joining us from Australia, Peter Wells, freelance tech journalist. |
| 1:00.0 | Up early. Thank you for doing that, Peter. Good to have you. |
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