Block announced a 40% layoff of staff as it leans further into AI tools, and Netflix drops out of the bidding wear for Warner Discovery leaving Paramount in the driver's seat.

Starring Jason Howell and Jenn Cutter.

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And Burger King. They put LLMs. In our ears. 

Starring To Merritt and Jenn Cutter

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Plus, Teens are fairly neutral about AI and may not use it for the things you think they do.

Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, and Jason Howell.

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Meta secured a deal with AMD that shows that all roads do not lead to Nvidia, and Dan Campos tells us about Mexico's use of robot dogs for security.

Starring Jason Howell, Tom Merritt and Dan Campos.

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We analyze the departure of Phil Spencer and his replacement, the person who helped Instacart IPO. Plus, a solid-state battery gets closer to safer 5-minute EV charging.

Starring Tom Merritt, Rob Dunewood, and Andy Beach.

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Plus, one more email to explain to managers what coding tools are good for and why you shouldn?t have random usage goals.

Starring Tom Merritt, Huyen Tue Dao, and Andy Beach

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Plus Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg admits under oath that age verification is hard. 

Starring Tom Merritt, Huyen Tue Dao, and Dr. Niki

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Plus, Apple may do a week of announcements in March, and Gemini can now create song jingles.

Starring Tom Merritt and Sarah Lane.

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That?s the good news. The bad news is everything else we have to tell you about RAM.

Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, and Andy Beach.

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Anthropic just raised $30 billion as it preps for a possible IPO later this year, and the Apple Vision Pro finally gets a native YouTube app with offline downloads.

Starring Jason Howell and Huyen Tue Dao.

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The rest of the news is people in the tech world jockeying for political advantage.

Starring Tom Merritt and Huyen Tue Dao

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It wrote that headline for us after all. One dev thinks he knows what we all need to do. 

Starring Tom Merritt and Sarah Lane.

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Alphabet is selling 100-year bonds to fund its data-center priorities while sitting on $100 billion in cash, and Justin Robert Young explains a new bipartisan AI copyright transparency bill.

Starring Jason Howell, Tom Merritt, and Justin Robert Young.

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Plus, science says AI is good at brain scans, too good at making you more productive, and not great at helping you with your medical condition.

Starring Tom Merritt and Robb Dunewood

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Waymo is training its fleet on edge case driving scenarios with DeepMind's Genie 3, and TikTok might have to change its infinite scroll behavior to address health concerns in the EU.

Starring Jason Howell and Huyen Tue Dao.

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It?s not a conspiracy. We don?t think anyway. Plus, RAMageddon expands to take down the Steam Machine and NVIDIA GPUs.

Starring Tom Merritt and Huyen Tue Dao

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Plus, Anthropic runs an ad to throw shade on running ads.

Starring Tom Merritt and Sarah Lane

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The Nintendo Switch is officially the company's best-selling console, and Firefox will get an AI kill-switch feature in the next version of its browser later this month.

Starring Jason Howell and Tom Merritt.

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OpenClaw gains buzz, as does a social network for its agents. And why Robb might buy an Apple clamshell foldable.

Starring Tom Merritt and Robb Dunewood.

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A cow named Veronika has been documented using a tool. But is it really tool use? Do we need to do tech reviews for cows now?

Featuring Tom Merritt and Dr Niki.

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Tom Merritt and Jenn Cutter look back on the biggest tech stories of January. 

Starring Tom Merritt and Jenn Cutter.

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Apple announced big gains for the iPhone 17 last quarter while its services slowed, and Rabbit is back, teasing a specialized device designed for vibe coding.

Starring Jason Howell and Jenn Cutter

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Plus, Apple is inspiring imitators without even having a product, and why Waymo hitting children is not a problem. In this case.

Starring Tom Merritt and Huyen Tue Dao

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Google launches Gemini into the Chrome browser and Amazon ends Palm scanning.

Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, and Jason Howell.

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Meta is bringing a paid subscription plan to its marquee apps, and Andy Beach tells us about why Bandcamp?s ban on AI music is just the beginning.

Starring Jason Howell, Tom Merritt, and Andy Beach.

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Oh, and Apple has new Air Tags. But SMALL ROBOT!

Starring Tom Merritt and Robb Dunewood.

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Andrew Mayne explains how chips like Groq and Cerebras are giving us faster training and inferencing, and how that can help save us time and power and increase productivity.

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A study shows how effective the Apple Watch is at detecting AFib in adults over 65, and Tesla now has at least a couple of unsupervised autonomous robotaxis giving rides in Austin.

Starring Jason Howell and Sarah Lane.

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Plus a phone that can triple-boot into Android, Linux and Windows 11.

Starring Tom Merritt, Jenn Cutter, and Andy Beach.

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YouTube?s yearly creator letter ends with AI promises, and vertical video dreams. Plus a robot hand that can do way more on its own than you can with your clumsy two attached flesh hands.

Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, and Dr Niki.

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Realme's P4 Power smartphone touts a whopping 10,001mAh battery capable of more than three days on a charge, and Andy Beach tells us why we shouldn?t call things ?AI?.

Starring Jason Howell, Tom Merritt, and Andy Beach.

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At CES 2026, Robb talked with CrackBerry Kevin about the upcoming Clicks Communicator. They reminisced about old times and their love for the BlackBerry Bold series of devices before getting an overview of the Clicks Communicator. 

They also talked about the brand new Clicks Power Keyboard, Clicks for Moto Razr, and why we probably won't see a Clicks for Samsung Galaxy Flip.

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Smartglasses companies XREAL and Viture are getting ready to duke it out in court, and Dr. Niki shares what kinds of biomechanics robotics she saw at SICB.

Starring Jason Howell, Huyen Tue Dao, Tom Merritt, and Dr. Niki.

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Plus, A new version of Wine is aout and it?s simpler to launch programs, and why Microsoft is spending so much money on Anthropic 

Starring Tom Merritt, Huyen Tue Dao and Andy Beach.

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Why you might want to let Gemini access your Gmail and Search history. Plus, the new chip shortage isn?t RAM, it?s glass.

Starring Tom Merritt and Sarah Lane.

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Apple targets digital creatives with the debut of its "Apple Creator Studio" subscription package, and Moxie Marlinspike is bringing end-to-end encryption to the open-source AI chatbot world with the release of Confer.

Starring Jason Howell and Tom Merritt.

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OpenAI and Anthropic make a play for the health industry; meanwhile, Apple had its best year ever.

Starring Tom Merritt and Robb Dunewood

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 FCC is about to approve changes that will make Wi-Fi advocates very happy, and Bose deserves a lot of credit for open sourcing its nearly end-of-life SoundTouch Wi-Fi speakers.

Starring Jason Howell and Huyen Tue Dao.

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David Katzmaier tells us what CNET awarded best overall, and Richard Gunther and Trisha Hershberger fill out the list with their faves.

Starring:  Tom Merritt, Robb Dunewood, Sarah Lane, Trisha Hershberger, David Katzmaier, Richard Gunther, Roger Chang, Joe, Amos.

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Shannon Morse joins us to talk about our favorite things at CES.

Starring: Starring Tom Merritt, Robb Dunewood, Sarah Lane, Shannon Morse, Roger Chang, Joe, Amos.

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Bodie Grimm sifts through the car tech talk, we make chip news interesting, and so much health tech.

Starring Sarah Lane, Tom Merritt, Robb Dunewood, Allison Sheridan, Bodie Grimm, Roger Chang, Joe, Amos.

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We?re live at CES surrounded by robots, HUGE TVs, and forklifts. We cut through the noise to break down what?s really going on at the biggest tech show going.

Starring Tom Merritt, Robb Dunewood, Jason Howell, Sarah Lane, and Roger Chang, Joe.

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2026 is shaping up to be banner year for the AI industry. Or is it? Our predictions panel share their thoughts on what next year will bring for AI, smartphones, streaming and algorithms.

Starring Sarah Lane, Tom Merritt, Robb Dunewood, Scott Johnson, Ron Richard, Amos.

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Last year our predictions panel gave two predictions about what the future of tech would like in 2025 all the way back in December of 2024. What terrible and exciting things do we foresee and what did we get wrong? Find out!

Starring Sarah Lane, Tom Merritt, Robb Dunewood, Justin Robert Young, David Spark, Roger, Joe.

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It?s our 2025 Tech Predictions Show! Tom and Sarah along with Robb Dunewood, Justin Robert Young and David Spark bring their two predictions of what they think will happen to the tech landscape in the year 2025!

Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Robb Dunewood, Justin Robert Young and David Spark.

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Tom Merritt and Jenn Cutter look back on the biggest tech stories of the year. 

Starring Tom Merritt and Jenn Cutter.

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The Holiday season is filled with tech gifts from friends and family. So we put together this special gift support show to share our tips and experiences on supporting people who need might need a little more help with their gifts.

Starring Sarah Lane, Tom Merritt, Robb Dunewood, Jason Howell, Trisha Hershberger, Rich Stroffolino, Roger Chang, Joe.

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The DTNS crew and several folks from the audience share their thoughts on great tech gifts they've got, or are hoping to get for the holidays.

Starring Sarah Lane, Tom Merritt, Robb Dunewood, Jason Howell, Amos, Roger Chang, Bradd, Gary, Bill, Benjamin, HitNRun Tony, Brian, Kory, Joe.

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