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
▶ 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
[09:43] HMD Barbie™ Phone 4G
https://www.hmd.com/en_int/hmd-barbie-phone?sku=1GF030APC1L01
[11:26] ONE35 V2 Camera
https://joinflashback.co/en-us/products/flashback-one35-v2-camera
[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
[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
[25:26] iNaturalist
https://www.inaturalist.org
[26:27] Merlin Bird ID
https://merlin.allaboutbirds.org
[27:21] What It Means to Be a Mathematician When AI Does the Math
https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-in-mathematics
[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
▶ 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!
