TikTok365 - DTNS 3836
Daily Tech News Show
Tom Merritt
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 3 August 2020
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Microsoft said Sunday it is working on a deal to acquire TikTok's operations in Canada, the US, New Zealand and Australia. What's the motivation behind the deal and will it be allowed by regulators?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang and 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. |
| 0:31.8 | Attention. Attention at all passengers. You can now book your train tickets on Uber and get 10% back in |
| 0:40.6 | Uber credits to spend on your next train journey. |
| 0:44.0 | So no excuses not to visit your in-laws this Christmas. |
| 0:49.0 | Trains, now on Uber. |
| 0:50.7 | T's and C's apply. |
| 0:51.6 | Check the Uber app. |
| 0:59.1 | Coming up on DTNS, what Twitter will include in its paid membership. Adobe leads the fight against deepfakes. And what the heck's going to happen to |
| 1:03.3 | tic-toc and why would Microsoft want it? |
| 1:05.6 | This is the Daily Tech News for Monday, August 3rd, 2020. I'm Los Angeles, I'm Tom Merritt. |
| 1:15.7 | And from Studio Redwood, I'm Sarah Lane. |
| 1:19.2 | And making the wrong month happen on the show's producer |
| 1:23.0 | Roger Chain. |
| 1:24.0 | No one would have known except for my |
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