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Daily Tech News Show

The Land Down Under Facebook's Thumb - DTNS 3970

Daily Tech News Show

Tom Merritt

News, Technology

4.81.5K Ratings

🗓️ 18 February 2021

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Facebook had just started blocking news links from Australian sources worldwide and blocking Australian Facebook users from seeing any news links, in anticipation of Australia passing a law that would require Facebook to pay publishers to link to news content. What were the effects of the Facebook’s block and will it change anything?

Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Justin Robert Young, 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.

0:31.0

And now a road report from Siemens Energy.

0:35.0

The road to energy resilience is long and winding.

0:40.0

But step by step.

0:42.0

We're making progress.

0:43.0

With renewable energy.

0:45.0

With stronger grid technologies.

0:47.0

Hydrogen-ready gas turbines and e-fields.

0:50.0

For how to decoupleize industries.

0:52.0

We are driving towards the destination every day.

0:55.0

Step by step, we are getting there.

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