We're Not as Extreme as We Think - DTNS 4088
Daily Tech News Show
Tom Merritt
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 5 August 2021
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Three US Senators are proposing an amend meant to the infrastructure bill that would exclude some crypto companies, from a tax reporting provision, researchers across multiple universities publish a paper on YouTube’s algorithm and radicalizing effect it has on viewers, and DHS unveils a joint cyber defense effort with Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and others to combat ransomware and cyberattacks.
Starring Tom Merritt, 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 | Coming up on DTNS, why the U.S. Congress is savvy about cryptocurrency. |
| 0:35.0 | Really, they are. |
| 0:36.0 | A study on the effect YouTube has on radicalizing you. |
| 0:39.0 | And Google gets a coherent hardware strategy. |
| 0:42.0 | DTNS starts now. |
| 0:48.0 | This is the Daily Tech News for Thursday, August 5th, 2021, |
| 0:52.0 | in Los Angeles, I'm Tom Merritt. |
| 0:54.0 | From Nashville, Tennessee, I'm Justin Robert Young. |
| 0:58.0 | And I'm Roger Cheng, the shows producer. |
| 1:00.0 | Sarah Lane's got the day off, but Justin Robert Young, on the road, |
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