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Daily Tech News Show
Tom Merritt
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 12 May 2020
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Twitter announced it will add labels to mark tweets with misleading information on COVID-19. This is the latest attempt by the social media platform to fight disinformation. Is this enough and have its other attempts borne fruit?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Patrcik Beja, Roger Chang and Joe.
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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. |
| 0:31.8 | Attention. Attention at all passengers. You can now book your train tickets on Uber and get 10% back in |
| 0:40.6 | Uber credits to spend on your next train journey. |
| 0:44.0 | So no excuses not to visit your in-laws this Christmas. |
| 0:49.0 | Trains, now on Uber. |
| 0:50.7 | T's and C's apply. |
| 0:51.6 | Check the Uber app. |
| 0:59.3 | Coming up on DTS why it's still too early for online voting. Do you want a phone that swivels? And we break down Twitter's approach to COVID-19 misinformation. |
| 1:04.0 | This is the daily tech news for Tuesday, May 12th, 2020 in Los Angeles. |
| 1:11.0 | I'm Tom Merritt. |
| 1:12.0 | And from Studio Redwood, I'm Sarah Lane. |
| 1:14.0 | And from the forests of Finland, I'm Patrick Beza. |
| 1:17.0 | And from a cul-de-sac somewhere in Southern California, I'm the show's producer, Roger Chang. |
| 1:22.0 | We were just talking about hot sauce and... I'm the show's producer Roger Chain. |
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