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# Episode 0: DTNS Experiment Week
- URL: https://www.technicaltea.show/000-dtns-experiment-week/
- Published: 2026-07-06T14:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-10T02:26:43.000Z
- Description: For DTNS Experiment Week 2026, DTNS Co-host, Huyen Tue Dao, and DTNS Science Correspondent, Dr. Nicole Ackermans, come together to talk science and tech, which becomes the pilot episode of Technical Tea.
- Author: Huyen Tue Dao
- Tags: Episode

The pilot episode of Technical Tea was for an unnamed experiment for Daily Tech News Show's Experiment Week 2026\. It is a short one at at 31 minutes-ish, but we got such great feedback and had such a great time that we just went for it and started Technical Tea for real!

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# Show Notes

▶ Intro  
\[01:42\] DTNS Live, Nerdtacular 2026: Science vs. Tech  
[https://www.youtube.com/live/o\_UmCyk1oKU](https://www.youtube.com/live/o%5FUmCyk1oKU?ref=technicaltea.show)

▶ Vibe Checks  
  
\[07:19\] The Commodore Callback 8020 Is a Digital Detox Phone That Isn't Dumb  
Meaning and purpose in the age of AI  
[https://www.wired.com/story/commodore-callback-8020-is-a-digital-detox-phone-that-isnt-dumb](https://www.wired.com/story/commodore-callback-8020-is-a-digital-detox-phone-that-isnt-dumb?ref=technicaltea.show)  
\[09:43\] HMD Barbie™ Phone 4G  
[https://www.hmd.com/en\_int/hmd-barbie-phone?sku=1GF030APC1L01](https://www.hmd.com/en%5Fint/hmd-barbie-phone?sku=1GF030APC1L01&ref=technicaltea.show)  
\[11:26\] ONE35 V2 Camera  
[https://joinflashback.co/en-us/products/flashback-one35-v2-camera](https://joinflashback.co/en-us/products/flashback-one35-v2-camera?ref=technicaltea.show)  
\[13:17\] A blood test that screens for multiple types of cancer? It may be available soon  
[https://www.npr.org/2026/06/21/nx-s1-5858691/blood-test-multi-cancer-early-detection-mced](https://www.npr.org/2026/06/21/nx-s1-5858691/blood-test-multi-cancer-early-detection-mced?ref=technicaltea.show)  
\[20:26\] Mission / purpose in the age of AI for software engineers: Why Software Engineers Are Grieving  
[https://dev.jimgrey.net/2026/06/25/why-software-engineers-are-grieving](https://dev.jimgrey.net/2026/06/25/why-software-engineers-are-grieving?ref=technicaltea.show)  
\[25:26\] iNaturalist  
[https://www.inaturalist.org](https://www.inaturalist.org/?ref=technicaltea.show)  
\[26:27\] Merlin Bird ID  
[https://merlin.allaboutbirds.org](https://merlin.allaboutbirds.org/?ref=technicaltea.show)  
\[27:21\] What It Means to Be a Mathematician When AI Does the Math  
[https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-in-mathematics](https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-in-mathematics?ref=technicaltea.show)  
\[28:52\] "For a Student Who Used AI to Write a Paper" by Joesph Fasano  
[https://poets.org/poem/student-who-used-ai-write-paper](https://poets.org/poem/student-who-used-ai-write-paper?ref=technicaltea.show)

▶ Thank You  
Thanks to Amos for editing and Roger Change for Producing, and to the whole DTNS family for letting us test out the show!