Twitter's Circles of Mystery - DTNS 4344

Daily Tech News Show

Tom Merritt

News, Technology

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 30 August 2022

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Twitter is rolling out the Circle, a “close friends” feature, to all users. We take a look at a new Chinese social media app Soul. And California’s legislature passes sweeping new regulations on the way sites operate for minors called California Age-Appropriate Design Code Act, aka AB 2273.

Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Allison Sheridan, 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	Daily tech news show is made possible by its listeners.
0:33.0	Thanks to all of you, including Kevin, Paul Teeson,
0:36.0	and Ali Senjabi.
0:38.0	Coming up on DTS Twitter rolls out circles.
0:40.0	Will they have more success than Google Plus?
0:42.0	Also a Chinese app that promotes its anonymity as its best feature.
0:46.0	And what's actually in California's age-appropriate design code act.
0:50.0	And how it might affect the rest of the internet.
0:56.0	This is the Daily Tech News for Tuesday, August 30th,
0:59.0	2022 in Los Angeles, I'm Tom Marin.
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