In my last column, I mentioned the nostalgia play behind many game, movie, and streaming show franchises. The idea is that an IP that’s broadly familiar with a potential audience has a greater chance of finding success versus a new or unknown property that won’t have an automatic audience. And while it’s cool to have a ...
2023-12-07 19:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
What's really being celebrated on Black Friday and is it the biggest shopping day in the world?
Featuring Tom Merritt.
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At the end of the civil war the US government was deeply in debt, both from the cost of fighting and reconstruction. When General Ulysses S. Grant was elected ...
2023-12-07 14:00:10 +0000 UTC View Post
Why are AAA games like GTA 6 ported to PC well after their release on game consoles? Scott explains. Plus Twitch will stop operations in South Korea starting February 27, 2024, due to high costs there. And Google lau...
2023-12-06 23:13:36 +0000 UTC View Post
Why are AAA games like GTA 6 ported to PC well after their release on game consoles? Scott explains. Plus Twitch will stop operations in South Korea starting February 27, 2024, due to high costs there. And Google launches its new Large Language Model Gemini which comes in three flavors; Gemini Ultra, Gemini Pro, and Gemini Na...
2023-12-06 22:15:43 +0000 UTC View Post
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Gmail is getting a powerful update to its AI-powered spam detection in the service’s biggest security upgrade in years. And can iPhone/Android cross-platform messaging service Beeper succeed with its implementation wher...
Gmail is getting a powerful update to its AI-powered spam detection in the service’s biggest security upgrade in years. And can iPhone/Android cross-platform messaging service Beeper succeed with its implementation where Sunbird crashed and burned?
Sarah Cuts Through the Internet Shopping B.S. - 4658 starts at...
2023-12-05 22:19:30 +0000 UTC View Post
Need to give a loved one a new Android phone but not sure what to get? Iyaz is here with his best 2023 Android phone picks. Plus We analyze a recent BBC article asking “Could X go bankrupt under Elon Musk?”. And ...
2023-12-04 22:46:50 +0000 UTC View Post
Need to give a loved one a new Android phone but not sure what to get? Iyaz is here with his best 2023 Android phone picks. Plus We analyze a recent BBC article asking “Could X go bankrupt under Elon Musk?”. And is Sony’s announcement that it will begin deleting Discovery shows from users libraries even if they’ve pai...
2023-12-04 22:19:41 +0000 UTC View Post
Ahh the holidays. A chance to get together with your family to eat, share gifts, catch-up on gossip and tech support their PCs, laptops and smartphones. It’s easier to do when you’re physically there but what do you do for the rest of the year when you’re away? Here are our Top 5 tips when tech support...
2023-12-04 17:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Ever since Open AI announced GPTs, chat agents that developers can use on their platforms developers have made a lot of these. Tristan Jutras takes through some of the more outlandish examples of people flexing their...
2023-12-01 22:56:03 +0000 UTC View PostMONTHLY DTNS UPDATE
Hey folks,
We are in the midst of end of year specials planning. So if you didn't see the Patreon post about the listener show, go find it! We're doing a game show with listeners this year. And of course we'll also do our predictions show, predictions results show, and the best of.
We're ...
2023-12-01 22:55:24 +0000 UTC View Post
Ever since Open AI announced GPTs, chat agents that developers can use on their platforms developers have made a lot of these. Tristan Jutras takes through some of the more outlandish examples of people flexing their creative GPT muscles. Plus, is the push to force workers back to the office dead? One Stanford professor think...
2023-12-01 22:14:57 +0000 UTC View PostTheatremonkey put together this GDI monthly highlight reel for November 2023.
2023-12-01 17:00:15 +0000 UTC View Post
Google rolls out system updates for Android, Wear OS and Google TV devices. What features and functionality do they add? Plus as Threads, Meta’s microblogging platform, plans a European Union launch in December is ...
2023-11-30 22:47:50 +0000 UTC View Post
Google rolls out system updates for Android, Wear OS and Google TV devices. What features and functionality do they add? Plus as Threads, Meta’s microblogging platform, plans a European Union launch in December is it becoming a viable alternative to “X”? And we delve into the reason why Apple relented and decided to inc...
2023-11-30 22:25:32 +0000 UTC View Post
The WSJ says Apple is looking to end its relationship with Goldman Sachs that it currently uses to support several financial products including Apple Card. Plus Is the new Microsoft Outlook a potential privacy risk? ...
2023-11-29 22:44:03 +0000 UTC View Post
The WSJ says Apple is looking to end its relationship with Goldman Sachs that it currently uses to support several financial products including Apple Card. Plus Is the new Microsoft Outlook a potential privacy risk? And Unity is cutting jobs and closing offices as part of a company reset. We explain what might be going on. 2023-11-29 22:16:12 +0000 UTC View Post
Winter driving is no fun but a little planning can go a long way to making it more safe and less stressful. Patrick Norton is here to tell us how. Plus we go over all the big announcements from AWS’s re:Invent conf...
2023-11-28 23:01:54 +0000 UTC View Post
Winter driving is no fun but a little planning can go a long way to making it more safe and less stressful. Patrick Norton is here to tell us how. Plus we go over all the big announcements from AWS’s re:Invent conference for cloud customers. And we look at Ofcom’s latest study of AI use in the UK.
The Blue S...
2023-11-28 22:22:05 +0000 UTC View PostWe're looking for interested Patreon supporters to come on this year's holiday DTNS listener co-host show. The show will be pre-recorded and released during our Holiday Week at the end of December.
For this year we want to try som...
2023-11-28 16:37:27 +0000 UTC View Post
Dayton, Ohio police are warning parents to disable the "Bringing Devices Together" setting in AirDrop for children. And Research from the Graz University of Technology, Austria suggests that Zoom fatigue is real. Plu...
2023-11-27 22:56:53 +0000 UTC View Post
Dayton, Ohio police are warning parents to disable the "Bringing Devices Together" setting in AirDrop for children. And Research from the Graz University of Technology, Austria suggests that Zoom fatigue is real. Plus we go over leaks for Samsung's upcoming Galaxy S24 flagship phone.
Well, It Was a Nice Gesture ...
2023-11-27 22:21:20 +0000 UTC View Post
Technology has always been an essential part of the Newsroom, but it’s changed a lot over the years. Let’s count down the top 5 newsroom tech in history!
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Nvidia delays is H20 AI developed specifically for China until Q1 2024, Pixel 8 owners report circular bumps under the screen, and Nearly 8.5 million Welltok user's patient data exposed in MoveIt breach.
Over the past few weeks, I’ve been dual-playing two different video game titles. Both can be comfortably classified as science fiction but with two very different approaches to tone and gameplay. But what unifies them besides their category label is how unassumingly engrossing they ended up being. Games that I was very much...
2023-11-23 19:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostBroadcom completes its $61 billion acquisition of VMware, Cruise plans to resume operations in one U.S. city, and OpenAI and Microsoft are being sued by non-fiction writers…
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Sam Altman is returning as OpenAI CEO. We explained what happened. And Spotify announced three major changes to how it pays royalties to musicians. Plus we explain everything you need to know about "The Strange $55 M...
2023-11-22 22:45:48 +0000 UTC View Post
Sam Altman is returning as OpenAI CEO. We explained what happened. And Spotify announced three major changes to how it pays royalties to musicians. Plus we explain everything you need to know about "The Strange $55 Million Saga of a Netflix Series You’ll Never See." Labels will be charged a fee when “flagrant” streaming...
2023-11-22 22:11:14 +0000 UTC View Post
Home Theater expert Robert Heron is here with the perfect home theater gift buying recommendations in time for the holiday season. Plus Nothing Chats and Sunbird the app developers that boasted they could access the ...
2023-11-21 22:49:19 +0000 UTC View Post
Home Theater expert Robert Heron is here with the perfect home theater gift buying recommendations in time for the holiday season. Plus Nothing Chats and Sunbird the app developers that boasted they could access the iMessage protocol to give Android users blue bubbles has had its message app pulled from the Google Play store....
2023-11-21 22:18:33 +0000 UTC View Post
