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Who Let the Blogs Out? - DTNS 4911
Season 11, Ep. 4911
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Merriam-Webster made “blog” the word of the year in 2004. Twenty years later how has blogging evolved and changed since then? Plus Google unveils its latest quantum computer that can solve problems in 5 minutes that would take the Frontier supercomputer (currently second fastest) 10 septillion years. And Reddit is testing a generative model chatbot that answers user questions with a summary of relevant threads.
Starring Tom Merritt, Nate Lanxon, Roger Chang, Joe.
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