Tick Tock for TikTok - DTNS 3840
Daily Tech News Show
Tom Merritt
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 7 August 2020
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
The POTUS signed two executive orders Thursday under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act forbidding transactions with TikTok owner Bytedance and any transactions with Tencent related to their super app WeChat. Are the orders legal and what will the repercussions be for the tech economy?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Annie Gaus, Roger Chang, 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. May I have your attention please you can now book your train tickets on Uber and get |
| 0:40.4 | 10% back in credits to spend on your next Uber ride. |
| 0:44.3 | So you don't have to walk home in the rain again. |
| 0:48.8 | Trains, now on Uber. Tees and seas apply. |
| 0:51.5 | Check the Uber app. |
| 0:59.2 | Coming up on DTNS, Apple draws the line at streaming video game services. Science changes gene names because of Microsoft Excel and the President of the United States issues |
| 1:04.4 | executive orders targeting Tik-Tuck and Wechab. |
| 1:07.8 | This is the Daily Tech News for Friday, August 7th, 2020 in Los Angeles. |
| 1:15.0 | I'm Tom Merritt. |
| 1:16.0 | And from Studio Redwood, I'm Sarah Lane. |
| 1:18.0 | Drawing to Top Tech Stories from Cleveland, Ohio, I'm Len Peralta. |
| 1:21.0 | I'm the show's producer, Roger Chain. And joining us |
| 1:24.6 | Annie Gouse, tech reporter at the street is back. Hi Annie. Hey how's it going? |
| 1:30.1 | Good to have you back. We were just talking with everyone |
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