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April 21, 2025

FTC sues Uber Over Deceptive Billing and Cancellation Practices – DTH

DTH-6-150x150Riot Games says Valorant Mobile is coming soon, Lego opens $1 billion factory in Vietnam, attackers exploit weakness in Google’s DomainKeys Identified Mail checks.

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Published on April 21, 2025 12:08

April 19, 2025

Historia, vida y muerte del doblaje al español – NTXtra

En esta entrega especial hacemos una revisión a la historia del doblaje en México, y cómo este se ve amenazado por el doblaje sintético.

El episodio originalmente fue publicado en Churros y Palomitas, y podrás encontrar las notas y bibliografía aquí.

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-Breve historia del doblaje al español
-Tipos de doblajes
-Hablemos de dineros
–Inteligencia (artificial) mata Doblaje
–La intención original del autor y la voz
-El doblaje contraataca

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Published on April 19, 2025 03:00

April 18, 2025

Trust Your Lying AI? – DTNS Live 5001

The initials DTNS in a multicolored 1980s style with the word LIVE underneath in white on a black background. We discuss alternatives to Google’s ubiquitous search tool. Will screenshots be the universal method of capturing digital information for AI digital assistants? Is a trend of using ChatGPT to identify locations from photos another threat to privacy?

Starring Sarah Lane, Tom Merritt, Robb Dunewood, Roger Chang, Joe.

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Published on April 18, 2025 14:37

How Nintendo Kept Its Switch 2 Price – DTNSB 5001

Plus, the difference between the Google antitrust cases, and Andy Beach talks Adobe agents.

Starring Tom Merritt, and Huyen Tue Dao, and Andy Beach.


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https://www.theverge.com/news/643616/nintendo-switch-2-us-preorders-date

https://www.nintendo.com/us/whatsnew/nintendo-maintains-nintendo-switch-2-pricing-retail-pre-orders-to-begin-april-24-in-u-s/

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/18/nintendo-switch-2-retail-preorder-to-begin-april-24-following-tariff-delays.html

Chinese shopping app Taobao joins DHgate in Top 5 on US App Store

The latest viral ChatGPT trend is doing ‘reverse location search’ from photos

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/04/gemini-2-5-flash-comes-to-the-gemini-app-gives-developers-control-over-thinking/

https://www.engadget.com/ai/gemini-live-video-and-screen-sharing-is-now-free-for-android-users-140051993.html

Meta blocks Apple Intelligence on Facebook and its other iOS apps

https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/netflix-q1-2025-earnings-financial-results-subscriber-counts-1236371830/

https://deadline.com/2025/04/ted-sarandos-netflix-james-cameron-ai-movies-better-cheaper-1236371326/

Apple is the only major phone maker declining in China

https://www.theverge.com/23869483/us-v-google-search-antitrust-case-updateshttps://www.theverge.com/news/650665/google-loses-ad-tech-antitrust-monopoly-lawsuit

https://www.theverge.com/2024/8/6/24214641/google-us-monopoly-ruling-what-happens

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Published on April 18, 2025 11:41

Google Offers US College Students Free Access To Google One AI Premium – DTH

DTH-6-150x150Google offers U.S. college students free access to Google One AI Premium, Meta has stopped supporting Apple Intelligence in Facebook, WhatsApp, and Threads, and Netflix is developing an AI-powered search experience.

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Published on April 18, 2025 08:52

April 17, 2025

Baby-Googs – DTNS Live 5000

The initials DTNS in a multicolored 1980s style with the word LIVE underneath in white on a black background. Google has been found guilty of breaking the law to establish its dominance in ad tech. What discuss what it means for the company. Community colleges struggle against bots pretending to be students stealing financial aid funds. How has AI impacted irregular digital workers who rely on online work to get by? And Polaroid introduces an updated version of their popular camera taking the best of both the old and the new.

Starring Sarah Lane, Robb Dunewood, Roger Chang, Joe.

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Published on April 17, 2025 14:27

The FULL Moonlighting Experience: First (101 – “Moonlighting”)

Three people, three very different experiences. Is this the best or worst of what 80’s television had to offer?

Next week: Moonlighting (204 – “The Dream Sequence Always Rings Twice”)

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Published on April 17, 2025 13:00

Google’s Ad Tech Violated Antitrust Law – DTNSB 5000

Discord begins to trial face scanning for age verification in the UK and Australia, and Anthony Spadafora from Tom’s Guide shares his AR-driven productivity experience after getting rid of his laptop.

Starring Jason Howell, Huyen Tue Dao, and Anthony Spadafora.

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Google Partially Loses US Advertising Tech Antitrust Case (GOOGL) – Bloomberg

Judge rules Google illegally monopolized adtech, opening door to potential breakup – TechCrunch

Zuckerberg underscores TikTok competition as Meta fights monopoly allegations – The Hill

Google, Apple, and Snap aren’t happy about Meta’s poorly‑redacted slides – The Verge

Discord Begins Testing Facial Scans for Age Verification – Gizmodo

TikTok is adding Footnotes, its take on Community Notes – Engadget

OpenAI’s new o3 and o4‑mini models are all about “thinking with images” – Engadget

OpenAI debuts Codex CLI, an open‑source coding tool for terminals – TechCrunch

Temu and Shein are raising their US prices next week – The Verge

Apple says zero‑day bugs exploited against “specific targeted individuals” using iOS – TechCrunch

Patreon is getting livestreaming – The Verge

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Published on April 17, 2025 11:27

The Trump Administration Considers Barring DeepSeek In The U.S. – DTH

DTH-6-150x150The Trump administration considers barring Americans from using DeepSeek, TikTok is introducing a new crowd-sourced fact-checking feature called “Footnotes”, and Wikimedia partners with Kaggle to release a beta dataset optimized for AI model training.

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Published on April 17, 2025 09:24

April 16, 2025

We’re All Footnotes – DTNS Live 4999

The initials DTNS in a multicolored 1980s style with the word LIVE underneath in white on a black background. We discuss Ubisoft’s new dev tools to help game-devs incorporate accessibility into their games for the colorblind. How can sound help patients alleviate issues with motion sickness. TikTok is launching “Footnotes,” a crowd-sourced fact-checking feature. And with the success of A Minecraft Movie, we ponder the potential of what other game IP to leverage for cinematic or TV adaptations.

Starring Sarah Lane, Tom Merritt, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Joe.

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Published on April 16, 2025 14:25