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I DON'T Want My MTV! - DTNS Live 4977
Season 12, Ep. 4977
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Discord hopes to expand its reach with its Social SDK enabling game devs to integrate Discord features into their games. Google is turning its Taara incubator into its own company. Taara uses laser light to transmit data at 20 Gbps over 20 km lowering the cost to deploy high speed broadband into remote and rural areas. Plus Would you take orders from a robo-boss? Scientists in Poland ran a study to find out. And Warner Bros. Discovery is experimenting with releasing a premium series first on its cable outlets before moving them to streaming.
Starring Sarah Lane, Tom Merritt, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang, Joe.
Link to the Show Notes.
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