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Daily Tech News Show

Tom Merritt

News, Technology

4.81.5K Ratings

🗓️ 3 August 2022

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Andy Bird the CEO of textbook publisher Pearson believes NFTs could help the company add revenue from the resale of digital textbooks. How the fall of the DSLR is emblematic of a broader shift in the digital photography industry. And NPD Group estimates that spending on video games fell $1.78 billion last quarter, down 13% on the year.


Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, 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

Daily Tech News Show is made possible by its listeners.

0:33.0

Thanks to all of you, including Paley Glendale,

0:35.0

Dr. X17 and Dustin Campbell.

0:38.0

Coming up on DTNS.

0:39.0

Is this the end for DSLR cameras?

0:42.0

Textbook publishers toy with NFTs.

0:44.0

And the future of gaming seems to be subscriptions.

0:55.0

This is the Daily Tech News 4 Wednesday,

0:58.0

July 3rd, 2020.

0:59.0

It's that July.

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