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Daily Tech News Show
Tom Merritt
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 9 April 2021
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Cal-Berkeley’s Zhongyu Li has built Cassie, a robot that teaches itself how to walk through reinforcement learning, An audit by scientists at the University of Southern California found that Facebook’s ad delivery system still has a gender bias leading to some ads being shown to male but not females regardless of skill qualifications and The US National Institutes of Health issued a grant to scientists at General Electric to further develop a sensor capable of detecting COVID-19.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Robb Dunewood, Len Peralta, 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 D10S Tom Brady and Apple's Eddie Q. |
| 0:33.0 | Launch an NFT company, a robot that can teach itself to walk. |
| 0:36.0 | And fine, we'll talk about that monkey who's playing mind call. |
| 0:40.0 | This is the Daily Tech News for Friday, April 9th, 2021. |
| 0:46.0 | And Los Angeles, I'm Tom Merritt. |
| 0:48.0 | And from Studio Redwood, I'm Sarah Lane. |
| 0:50.0 | From Columbus, Ohio, I'm Rob Dunwood. |
| 0:52.0 | Drawing the top tech from Cleveland, Ohio. |
| 0:54.0 | I'm Len Peralta. |
| 0:56.0 | And I'm the show's producer, Roger Cheng. |
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