Why Build A PC - DTNS 4322
Daily Tech News Show
Tom Merritt
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 22 July 2022
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Building PCs is a popular pastime for many. But with prices for PC components creeping ever higher is it still worth putting your machine together? Plus two US Senators propose legislation that would prohibit data caps on high-speed broadband. And researchers at UC Berkeley have developed a new accelerated learning technique to get robots on their feet faster.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Justin Robey, 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 Chris Benito, Steve Ayaterolla, |
| 0:36.0 | and Jeffrey Zilx. |
| 0:38.0 | Coming up on DTNS, robots get faster at learning. |
| 0:41.0 | The U.S. tries to ban data caps. Good luck. |
| 0:43.0 | And Justin Roby tells us why building a PC is still a good idea. |
| 0:47.0 | For some folks. |
| 0:51.0 | This is the Daily Tech News for Friday, July 22, 2022. |
| 0:54.0 | Los Angeles, I'm Tom Marin. |
| 0:56.0 | And from Studio Redwood, I'm Sarah Lane. |
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