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Daily Tech News Show

PIXELated Goodness Abounds! - DTNS 4831

Daily Tech News Show

Tom Merritt

Technology, News

4.81.5K Ratings

🗓️ 13 August 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

We detail all the highlights from today’s Made By Google event including the new Pixel 9 hardware, AI services and Pixel Watch 3!. Plus some folks are mad that The Verge published screenshots from Valve’s unannounced game. And Password manager Dashlane shared its first Passkey Report.


Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Jason Howell, Roger Chang, Joe.


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Transcript

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0:15.0

Daily Tech News Show is made possible by you listening right now. Thank you. Maybe you're Tony Glass. If you are, thank you. Peter Boheck, Philip Less, Christian Seneseth, all of you. Thank you. On this episode of DTNS, Google makes its new pixels official. Jason Howell, will let you know what's notable about the announcements,

0:18.0

plus The Verge out at a Valve game,

0:21.0

and some people are very upset.

0:22.0

And yay, our passwordless future is

0:25.3

getting brighter.

0:27.0

This is the Daily Tech News for Tuesday, August 13th 2024 in Los Angeles. I'm Tom Merritt.

0:35.0

And from Studio Animal House, I am Sarah Lane.

0:39.0

And I'm the show's producer, Roger Chang.

0:41.0

I don't feel like I really sold our passwordless future

0:43.9

getting brighter. I sounded doubtful. Did you? You sound doubtful. Now I'm

0:51.6

doubting you. But Sarah is going to tell us why the pass keys are going to save us all. Correct, correct, correct. It is, you know, it's a future so bright we got to wear shades. Mm-hmm. And you can unlock those shades without having to use a password.

1:05.1

All right, let's start with the quick kids.

1:07.6

Chinese companies have been testing Huawei's Ascend 910c AI chip, which Huawei says is comparable

1:16.4

to last year's NVIDIA H100.

1:19.2

Because Chinese companies are restricted from buying NVIDIA's higher- end chips, demand is now high enough that

1:24.4

Huawei may have to delay its October ship date target.

1:28.8

A study looked at tablet use and temper tantrums in kids of 315 parents in Nova Scotia, Canada.

1:36.0

The parents were asked to assess

1:38.0

how often their children used tablets

1:40.5

and fill out a behavior questionnaire, a standardized questionnaire that can assess child

1:44.7

anger. The survey was taken when the children were three and a half in 20, four and a half

1:50.3

in 2021, and five and.5 in 2022.

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