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Daily Tech News Show

Tom Merritt

Technology, News

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 8 December 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Google takes on Meta in the smart glasses arena, plus why Paramount is trying to swipe Warner Bros. away from Netflix. All that and mushroom resistors in your PC!

Starring Tom Merritt, Robb Dunewood, Jason Howell, Justin Robert Young, and Dr Niki.

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0:00.0	This is the Daily Tech News for Monday, December 8th, 2025.
0:09.2	We tell you what you need to know, give you some context, and try to help each other understand.
0:13.2	Today on DTNS, Jason Hale tells us about Google's Project OroGlasses from XREL.
0:18.4	Justin Robert Young helps us understand Paramount's hostel takeover bid for Warner Brothers and Dr. Nicky tells us about mushroom resistors.
0:25.3	Yeah, just a quiet holiday newsday, you know, slow Monday. I'm Tom Merritt. And I'm Rob
0:30.4	Dunnwood. Let's start with what you need to know with that big story. So Google and
0:36.4	X-Real today announced its Project ORA glasses.
0:40.8	There's also some other news coming from Google about their glasses and VR strategy,
0:45.2	mixed reality strategy.
0:46.5	Jason Howell got the scoop on all of that.
0:48.1	Jason, thanks for joining us.
0:49.8	My goodness.
0:50.8	Today is not a quiet day, is it?
0:52.8	Not at all.
0:54.1	Sorry to pull you in on a monday man yeah
0:56.9	i know yeah totally usually mondays are my all right let's see what happens for the rest of the week
1:01.6	but today it's been like to the wall the entire morning well let's start with uh project aura what
1:07.0	what is this one about yeah so i think the the big story for me on Project ORA is I think standard like headset VR and XR has
1:18.0	a real problem, which is that it requires a lot of extra, right?
1:23.0	Like it's a huge headset.
1:24.7	You're blocking yourself off from reality.
1:26.9	You're like locking yourself into this
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