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Tracking You, But In A Good Way - DTNS 3941

Daily Tech News Show

Tom Merritt

Technology, News

4.81.5K Ratings

🗓️ 6 January 2021

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Verizon’s 3G network will seemingly get another stay of execution. Verizon had initially said its 3G network would be shutdown at the end of 2019, later delaying it to the end of 2020. What’s causing the delay and are there practical reasons why it’s still running?

Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, 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.

0:30.8

Coming up on DT&S, the CES advance announcements continue new stuff from

0:34.7

Samsung also why people don't want Verizon to turn off 3G and why the ability to

0:40.4

draw a radish in a tutu is a legitimately big AI advance.

0:47.0

This is the Daily Tech News for Wednesday, January 6, 2021 in Los Angeles. I'm Tom Merritt and from Studio Redwood I'm

0:55.3

Sarah Lane from the Frog Pants studios in Salt Lake City I'm Scott Johnson and

0:59.0

I'm Roger Chang with shows producer. We were just talking about donuts and coffee

1:03.4

on Good Day internet because we were trying

1:06.2

to avoid the rest of the world.

1:07.4

Suffice to say, I decided not to wear my Electoral College sweatshirt

1:11.2

today because it wasn't as funny anymore. Let's start with a few tech things. to a some Pixel 5 phones were playing system audio at the highest possible volume despite

1:24.7

users saying no don't play it at this level. Google has rolled out a fix now for the issue

1:29.5

as part of the pixels January update which also improves the

1:32.5

pixel 4A, 4A 5G and 5's auto brightness in some lighting conditions also fixes

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