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Tech Brew Ride Home

Wed. 06/21 – Dropbox AI

Tech Brew Ride Home

Amalgamated Internets, LLC

Tech News, News, Technology

4.71K Ratings

🗓️ 21 June 2023

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Dropbox joins the AI bandwagon. Lots of news from Twitch. Netflix changes how it calculates its top 10. Mark your calendars for Prime Day. And what all the things Apple DIDN’T demo for their new headset might reveal about the directions in which the product could evolve. Sponsors: Grammarly.com/go NewtonX.com/techmeme Links: Dropbox’s AI tools can help you find your stuff — from everywhere on the internet (The Verge) Twitch will require new labels for streams with sexual themes, gambling and M-rated games (TechCrunch) Netflix Tweaks Its Top 10 Rankings, Adds View Count (THR) Amazon will hold Prime Day 2023 on July 11-12, adding invite-only deals and ‘Buy with Prime’ sites (GeekWire) What Apple Didn’t Reveal About the Vision Pro (The Information) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Tech Mem Right Home for Wednesday, June 21st,

0:06.8

2023. I'm Brian McCullough today.

0:08.8

Dropbox joins the AI bandwagon. Lots of news from Twitch. Netflix changes how it calculates its top 10.

0:16.0

Mark your calendars for Prime Day and what all the things Apple didn't demo for their new

0:21.4

headset might reveal about the direction in which the

0:24.2

product could evolve. Here's what you missed today in the world of tech.

0:29.4

Dropbox is joining the AI bandwagon this morning launching two new AI tools,

0:38.4

one to summarize documents and Dash an an ambitious universal search engine that aims to be what they're calling

0:46.4

Google for your personal stuff.

0:48.7

You know, the summarizing documents thing is sort of what it says. A lot of people have that. So let's take the second part first.

0:55.4

Here's what Dash is, according to The Verge. It's a universal search engine

1:00.9

that can access your files in Dropbox but also across the entire web.

1:05.0

It's called Dash and comes from Dropbox's 2021 acquisition of a company called Command E.

1:10.0

The idea behind Dash, Dropbox CEO Drew Houston, tells me, is that your stuff isn't all files and folders anymore,

1:17.0

and so Dropbox can't be either.

1:19.0

What used to be 100 files or icons on your desktop, says is now a hundred tabs in your

1:23.2

browser with your Google Docs and your Air Tables and Figmas and everything else.

1:27.6

All the tools are better but they resist useful organization.

1:31.0

Quote, so you're just like okay I, I think someone sent that to me.

1:34.4

Was it in an email?

1:35.2

Was it slack?

1:36.0

Was it a text?

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