Industry expert Mikah Sargent, brings you interviews from tech journalists who make or break the top stories of the week. Get the freshest perspective and in depth insight into the fast-paced world of technology from Tech News Weekly. Records every Thursday at 2:00pm Eastern / 11:00am Pacific / 19:00 UTC.
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episode 85: Mo Data, Mo Problems
- (01:29) Sam Machkovech from Ars Technica spent a week with the Valve Index VR system, and it's really impressive.
- (14:22) Twitter is a little late to cracking down on extremism, but Joseph Cox from Vice says they are considering deplatforming offenders.
- (28:53) The Washington Post's Geoffrey Fowler discovered how chatty his iPhone is while he sleeps, and that's concerning.
- (40:12) Patron Scan allows bars to keep tabs and block people who behave badly at bars, but is it going too far?
- (44:54) More than half of the workers at Google are contractors who miss out on many of the benefits of full-time employees.
Hosts: Megan Morrone and Jason Howell
Guests: Sam Machkovech, Joseph Cox, and Geoffrey Fowler
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