Independent publishers thrive in China on platforms like WeChat and Toutiao. Chinese TV shows and movies are often made based on successful web novels. In China self-publishers are referred to as “We Media” both a reference to WeChat and being fan-driven. In 2020, 360 million users read articles published on WeChat public accounts. Self-publishers have always had to make sure they don’t attract the attention of Chinese censors. A regulation published January 22nd by the Cyberspace Administration...
Feb 01, 2021•28 min•Season 7Ep. 3958
Xiaomi announced Mi Air Charge Technology, a wireless power charging system that uses a phase control array to send up to 5 Watts of power to multiple devices using beamformed millimeter-wide waves within a radius of several meters. Will this end up being vaporware? Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Lamarr Wilson, Len Peralta, Roger Chang, Joe. Link to the Show Notes . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Jan 29, 2021•30 min•Season 7Ep. 3957
Facebook’s Oversight Board has reached decisions on a number of accounts directing the company to restore four posts in its first ruling. Starring Sarah Lane, Rich Strophollino, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang, Joe. Link to the Show Notes. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Jan 28, 2021•30 min•Season 7Ep. 3956
What does short selling have to do with GameStop? And why is a subreddit r/wallstreetbets in the middle of allegations of stock price shenanigans? Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Molly Wood, Roger Chang, Joe. Link to the Show Notes . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Jan 27, 2021•33 min•Season 7Ep. 3955
During this pandemic much has been made about tech workers fleeing cities for other parts of the country due to cost of living and natural disasters. But what exactly is going on and is this shift a much deeper and older set of human behaviors? Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Annalee Newitz, Roger Chang, Joe. Link to the Show Notes . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Jan 26, 2021•30 min•Season 7Ep. 3954
Peacock used to be notable for being a streaming service that hasn’t yet added Plus to its name. But recent moves by NBCUniversal look to make it a destination for sports. Internally the company plans to wind down NBCSN by the end of the year, with its sports coverage, including Hockey, Tennis, and NASCAR going to USA Network and/or Peacock. Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Joe. Link to the Show Notes . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Jan 25, 2021•31 min•Season 7Ep. 3953
We examine the state of Quantum Computing from China’s perspective and how it might impact the wider world. Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Dr. Kiki Sanford, Roger Chang, Joe. Link to the Show Notes . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Jan 22, 2021•33 min•Season 7Ep. 3952
Amazon chief executive of worldwide consumer business, Dave Clark, sent a letter to the US President, offering to help reach the goal of vaccinating 100 million people against COVID-19 in 100 days. Can Amazon really help with the deployment of vaccines across the country and should the country take them up on their offer? Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang, Joe. Link to the Show Notes . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Jan 21, 2021•33 min•Season 7Ep. 3951
The European Commission fined Valve and the game publishers Focus Home, ZeniMax, Koch Media, Capcom, and Bandai Namco a combined 7.8 million Euros for geo-blocking roughly 100 PC games, preventing them from being played outside certain EU countries and breaking EU’s Digital Single Market rules. Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Joe. Link to the Show Notes . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Jan 20, 2021•31 min•Season 7Ep. 3950
Company gets approval for self-flying drones away from line of sight, Brave browser offers new IPFS functionality and Pizza Hut in Israel plans on testing drone pizza delivery to drop-off points for final delivery by a driver. Starring Tom Merritt, Robb Dunewood, Roger Chang, Joe. Link to the Show Notes . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Jan 19, 2021•28 min•Season 7Ep. 3949
DuckDuckGo sees a new peak in daily search queries following 62% annual growth in 2020, Grab considers a US IPO, and researchers find smartwatches can detect COVID-19 before its detectable is tests. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jan 18, 2021•6 min
Are Facebook and Twitter protected by a shield that stops them from being responsible for any of their content? We bring on Mike Masnick from TechDirt and Shoshana Weissman from the R Street Institute to talk about what Section 230 is, what it isn’t, and whether it needs to be changed. SHOW NOTES: Shoshana Weissmann, Senior Manager of Digital Media and a policy Fellow at the R Street Institute. https://senatorshoshana.medium.com/who-am-i-ff164b02707e Mike Masnick, founder and CEO of the Copia In...
Jan 16, 2021•31 min
We interview the CTA's Senior Manager, Industry Communications Danielle Cassagnol on the challenges the organization faced moving the tradeshow online. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jan 15, 2021•11 min
Allison Sheridan is back with her take on the rest of CES 2021, plus we talk about the future of Podcast Media LLC as it goes up for potential sale. Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Allison Sheridan, Len Peralta, Roger Chang, Joe. Link to the Show Notes . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Jan 15, 2021•35 min•Season 7Ep. 3948
It’s the final day at CES 2021. We take a look at the winners of Engadget’s Best of CES and the highlights from Samsung’s announcements. Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang, Joe. Link to Show Notes . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Jan 14, 2021•32 min•Season 7Ep. 3947
CES 2021 wraps up as we talk home automation trends, a new heads-up-display for cars and a new open world Star Wars game. Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Richard Gunther, Roger Chang, Joe. Link to the Show Notes . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Jan 13, 2021•36 min•Ep. 3946
It's Day 2 of CES 2021. We discuss the latest developments in High and Ultra Definition TV and Home Theater technology with Robert Heron and Patrick Norton. Plus all the chip announcements from AMD, Intel and Nvidia. Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Patrick Norton, Robert Heron, Roger Chang, Joe. Link to the Show Notes . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Jan 12, 2021•42 min•Season 7Ep. 3945
CES 2021 has arrived. We sort through all the press releases and discuss all the gadgets, hardware and services announced at the first day of the trade show. Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Chris Ashley, Peter Wells, Roger Chang, Joe. Link to the Show Notes . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Jan 11, 2021•49 min•Season 7Ep. 3944
Twitter permanently suspended the president of the United States from its platform, Apple warns Parler to improve moderation and Google delists Parler from Play store. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jan 09, 2021•4 min
Roku has agreed to acquire exclusive global distribution rights to more than 75 Quibi shows and documentaries, some of which had not been released before Quibi shut down. After the exclusivity deals expire Ibn a bit more than a year, Roku will have the rights to show the content until 2027. The content will have to be presented in its original increments of 10 minutes or less. Why did Roku make this move and how will they benefit? Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Shannon Morse, Len Peralta, Rog...
Jan 08, 2021•33 min•Season 7Ep. 3943
Former executives from Discovery and Disney are launching a streaming service called Struum. Struum will not have its own content but will partner with smaller streaming content providers, instead, to offer subscribers the ability to sample content from multiple places for one monthly fee. What’s the business model for Struum and do we think it will work? Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang, Joe. Link to the Show Notes . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for m...
Jan 07, 2021•32 min•Season 7Ep. 3942
Verizon’s 3G network will seemingly get another stay of execution. Verizon had initially said its 3G network would be shutdown at the end of 2019, later delaying it to the end of 2020. What’s causing the delay and are there practical reasons why it’s still running? Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Joe. Link to the Show Notes . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Jan 06, 2021•29 min•Season 7Ep. 3941
We examine three cryptocurrency news items including the US Office of the Comptroller of Currency Interpretive Letter 1174, that says banks may use stablecoins and the US Financial Crimes Enforcement Network is proposing requiring financial institutions to collect personal information like name and address, for anyone involved in large cryptocurrency transactions. Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Robb Dunewood, Roger Chang, Joe. Link to the Show Notes . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy fo...
Jan 05, 2021•33 min•Season 7Ep. 3940
It’s 2021 and this year many of the major auto makers will be introducing all-electric models into their lineup. What can we expect and from whom? CNET's Roadshow Editor-in-Chief, Tim Stevens is here to fill us in! Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Tim Stevens, Roger Chang, Joe. Link to the Show Notes . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Jan 04, 2021•34 min•Season 7Ep. 3939
With 2020 coming to a close it's time to cast predictions of what will happen in tech in the year 2021. See what bold insights our contributors have this time around and what we all think of their prognostications. Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Lamarr Wilson, Patrick Norton, Robb Dunewood, Roger Chang Link to the Show Notes . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Dec 31, 2020•55 min•Season 6Ep. 3938
Welcome to our 2020 Tech Predictions Results episode. Back at the end of 2019 we brought on a group of contributors to share what they thought might happen in the world of tech in the year 2020. See who was right, who was wrong and compare what we worried about with what actually happened. Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Jenn Cutter, Shannon Morse, Allison Sheridan, Roger Chang. Link to the Show Notes . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Dec 30, 2020•42 min•Season 6Ep. 3937
2020 is almost over but before it closes checkout all the highlights from the past year in this special Best of show put together by our very own Theatremonkey! Staring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Shannon Morse, Scott Johnson, Justin Robert Young, Nicole Lee, Ant Pruitt, Len Peralta, Chris Ashley, Patrick Beja, Patrick Norton, Anthony Lemos Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Dec 29, 2020•36 min•Season 6Ep. 3936
This is our end of year Listener Co-Host Show. This is the annual episode where we invite several of our supporters to appear alongside us on the show. This time we thought it be fun to have some of the folks who help moderate our Discord and Twitch chat to give us their perspective on the show and our audience. Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Preston Monroe, Willie Scott, Beat and Dan Christensen. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Dec 28, 2020•48 min•Season 6Ep. 3935
Welcome to our holiday retro show episode. We look back at the stories from Sept 21st, 1999 and share our thoughts on how those stories turned out 20 years later. Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane and Roger Chang Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Dec 24, 2020•37 min•Season 6Ep. 3934
Is 5G Slower Than 4G on Verizon? We reveal the surprising details and the truth behind Verizon's 5G network. Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Joe. Link to the Show Notes . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Dec 23, 2020•30 min•Season 6Ep. 3933
