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Conference tournaments are over and the brackets are set. Sixty-eight teams on both the men’s and women’s sides are about to begin a nearly month-long journey that could culminate with them hoisting a National Championship trophy and cutting down the nets in either New Orleans or Minneapolis. It’s the most wonderful time of the year for basketball fans, and all of the March Madness games are available to stream if you know where to look and have a TV provider log-in to unlock full access. Even if you don’t, there are some options so that you can catch a few games for free. Here’s what you need to know about streaming March Madness.When does March Madness begin?Emilee Chinn via Getty ImagesDepending on who you ask, the 2022 NCAA Tournament either begins Tuesday or Thursday. On March 15 and 16, the First Four or four “play-in” games take place. These allow four more teams to “make the tournament” than if the selection committee just filled the slot with one in each spot. Some people argue the entire event doesn’t really start until Thursday and Friday, March 17 and 18, when the First Round officially tips off.No matter which side you land on, the First Four games will start at 6:40PM ET each night on truTV while Thursday and Friday games begin at 12:15PM ET with the first game on CBS. The latter two days are the busiest and some of the most popular of the tournament as 16 games take place on each. Yes, these are two of the least productive days of the entire year in the US. Action continues with the Second Round on Saturday and Sunday, March 19 and 20, before a break until next Thursday. This is when the Sweet Sixteen and Elite Eight rounds are played over the course of the second four-day weekend of the tournament. The Final Four is set for Saturday, April 2 while the National Championship Game will go down on Monday, April 4.How to stream the 2022 Men’s NCAA TournamentWarnerMediaUnlike during the regular season when you need to know which network your team’s conference has a broadcast deal with to find most of the games, Turner Sports holds the rights to the entire Men’s NCAA Tournament. This means you’ll be able to watch all 67 games, including the First Four, on CBS, TBS, TNT and truTV. If you have cable, you’re all set. If you pay for a live TV streaming service like YouTube TV or Hulu, you’re also in good shape. If you don’t have either, don’t worry, you can still watch a good chunk of the tournament.Turner Sports will allow anyone to watch the games that are broadcast on CBS on the web and mobile devices without a TV provider log-in. Paramount+ users will be able to do the same through that streaming app. If you do have credentials from your TV plan, you can stream everything through the March Madness Live app that’s available on a host of devices. You can find it on Amazon, Android and iOS for mobile and macOS on the desktop. For streaming gadgets, it’s on Apple TV, Fire TV, Google TV, Roku and Xbox and the app also supports some LG smart TVs.NCAA March Madness Live app multi-game stream.WarnerMediaWith some of those home entertainment devices, Turner will give you a very handy feature. On Apple TV, Amazon Fire TV, Google TV and Xbox One, the March Madness Live app will allow you to stream two games at once. Sure, in an ideal world we would get the ability to stream up to four like ESPN’s app goes on an everyday basis, but two is certainly better than one. If you opt for the desktop, mobile or tablet versions, you’ll get picture-in-picture viewing while you browse away from the main game view.You can certainly use your cable interface or streaming TV service of choice, but Turner has made March Madness Live a centralized hub for the tournament. If you have log-in credentials that get you access to everything, using those will allow you to jump from game to game much faster than scrolling th

WeChat reportedly faces a record fine for violating anti-money laundering rules in China, Ford will sell Explorers missing chips, and Russia bans Instagram. MP3 Please SUBSCRIBE HERE. You can get an ad-free feed of Daily Tech Headlines for $3 a month here. A special thanks to all our supporters–without you, none of this would beContinue reading "WeChat Reportedly Faces Record Fine in China – DTH"

Cryptocurrency miners have been flocking to upstate New York for several years, lured by inexpensive electricity, of which crypto mining requires lot. This move has brought a potential influx of jobs and economic activity but also has environmental impacts. As we hear, the industry is getting a mixed reception from locals. Keep independent journalism going strong. Give today to support “Marketplace Tech.”

Have you been considering launching a product or even a business based on Python's AI / ML stack? We have a great guest on the episode this week, Dylan Fox, who is the cofounder of AssemblyAI and has been building his startup successfully over the past few years. He has interesting stories of 100s of GPUs in the cloud, evolving ML models, and much more that I know you'll enjoy hearing.Links from the showDylan Twitter: @YouveGotFoxAssemblyAI: assemblyai.comTensorFlow: tensorflow.orgPyTorch: pytorch.orghugging face: huggingface.coSciKit-Learn: scikit-learn.orgGeForce Card: nvidia.compLS: twitter.comThis journalist’s Otter.ai scare is a reminder that cloud transcription isn’t completely private: theverge.comProgramming language trends: insights.stackoverflow.comCan My Water Cooled Raspberry Pi Cluster Beat My MacBook?: the-diy-life.comPyTorch vs TensorFlow in 2022: assemblyai.com/blog/pytorch-vs-tensorflowWatch this episode on YouTube: youtube.comEpisode transcripts: talkpython.fm--- Stay in touch with us ---Subscribe on YouTube: youtube.comFollow Talk Python on Twitter: @talkpythonFollow Michael on Twitter: @mkennedySponsorsStack OverflowSentry Error Monitoring, Code TALKPYTHONTalk Python Training

M1 Ultra, Mac Studio, DuckDuckGo's neutrality, TikTok's Oracle dealApple unveils the M1 Ultra, its most powerful chip yet.  Apple announces new $1599 27-inch 5K Apple Studio Display, featuring Center Stage webcam.  Apple's Peek Performance Event Delivers to the Pros and the Mainstream.  Apple's Mac Studio is a new desktop for creative professionals.  Apple releasing iOS 15.4, macOS 12.3, and other updates next week.  Russian Cyberattacks are Possible. Be Prepared But Not Panicked. Responding to reports that the Russian government is considering designating Meta as an extremist organization for its policies in support of speech...  Facebook allows war posts urging violence against Russian invaders.  DuckDuckGo ends neutrality, will down-rank sites "associated with Russian disinformation"  TikTok nears Oracle deal in bid to allay U.S. data concerns-sources.  The White House is briefing TikTok stars about the war in Ukraine.\  The Power Of Knowing You Belong: A Conversation With YouTube Stars Justine And Jenna Ezarik.  CNN+ will start streaming on March 29th.  Acclaimed filmmaker Brent Renaud shot, killed in Ukraine.  Amazon's Clubhouse competitor is here, turning hosts into DJs. Salt_Hank on TikTok. Will Magid, musician.  Biden Signs Executive Order Bullish on Crypto, Digital U.S. Dollar.  Moderna Will Develop mRNA Vaccines for 15 of the World's Worst Diseases. Ford to ship and sell incomplete vehicles with missing chips.  Facebook's Parent Company Will Make Employees Do Their Own Laundry.  Twitter is looking for younger users. It's turning to the tech world's teen savant to help find them.  Twitter makes it harder to choose the old reverse-chronological feed.  Linux has been bitten by its most high-severity vulnerability in years. LimeWire Is Making a Comeback, But Not As You Know It.  Coronal Mass Ejection Reaches Earth On Sunday Night.Host: Leo Laporte Guests: Larry Magid, Carolina Milanesi, and Evan Brown Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors:wealthfront.com/twit wwt.com/twit betterhelp.com/twit mintmobile.com/twit

Nick and Shruti are joined this week by Chris Wedel and Derrek Lee to talk about Galaxy S22 throttling, the validity of benchmarks, Apple's M1 compared to other processors, and more. Links: The iPad Air with M1 silicon proves Samsung has a mid-range tablet problem | Android Central Samsung starts rolling out a fix for the Galaxy S22's throttling issue | Android Central Pixel March 2022 feature drop is live with updates for Snapchat, At a Glance, and more | Android Central Sponsors: Indeed: Choose Indeed and join 3 million companies worldwide who use Indeed to hire great people and help grow their teams faster. Get started right now with a free $75 sponsored job credit at indeed.com/acp. Offer valid through March 31. Terms and conditions apply.

Recap of the Apple event that occurred last week, suggestions on duplex scanners, is the TicWatch a good smartwatch, transferring data from a feature phone, cyberwarfare in modern times, issues receiving text messages on Straight Talk, and why a computer may be freezing during startup. Plus, conversations with Sam Abuelsamid and Rod Pyle!Daylight Savings Time... yay. Apple Event Recap. Duplex scanner suggestions. Sam Abuelsamid and the Volkswagen ID Buzz Smartwatch suggestions: is the TicWatch a good choice? Transferring data from a feature phone to a smartphone. Budget smartphone suggestions. Cyberwarfare in today's times. The Cat S22 Flip phone: a great feature phone suggestion. Ways to protect yourself when using an Android phone. Ways to download online videos & bubbles forming on a MacBook laptop screen? Unable to receive text messages on Straight Talk's services. Rod Pyle and fangirling over Q. Plus, some space news. Computer freezing on startup.Host: Leo Laporte Guests: Sam Abuelsamid and Rod Pyle Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Show notes and links for this episode are available at: https://twit.tv/shows/the-tech-guy/episodes/1876 Download or subscribe to this show at: https://twit.tv/shows/all-twittv-shows

Deciding on a 5K display to pair with a Mac Studio. Operating two phones — one an Android device and the other an iPhone — with two different numbers. Using "Reduced Security" on an Apple Silicon Mac with Rogue Amoeba's Audio Hijack. Apple's Major League Baseball get and the end of the pro-level iMac. Finding links for The Tech Guy answers. Using an an iPad Pro for podcasting with two microphones. Plus, conversations with Scott Wilkinson, Johnny Jet, and Dick Debartolo.Web3 is going just great Law banning "rental" fees for customer-owned routers takes effect Sunday | Ars Technica Moderna plots vaccines against 15 pathogens with future pandemic potential | Reuters Ukraine asks ICANN to revoke Russian domains and shut down DNS root servers | Ars Technica Russia, Blocked From the Global Internet, Plunges Into Digital Isolation - The New York Times EU Pushes Google to Scrub Russian State Media From Search Results | PCMag Mac Studio vs. Mac Mini Buyer's Guide - MacRumors LG 32'' UHD HDR Monitor with USB-C Connectivity (32UP83A-W) | LG USA Reviews and Ratings - RTINGS.com Using Dual SIM with an eSIM - Apple Support 12 Things in Travel You Need to Know Today - JohnnyJet.com Rogue Amoeba | Installing ACE on MacOS 11 (Big Sur) and MacOS 12 (Monterey) VLC: Official site - Free multimedia solutions for all OS! - VideoLAN Startup Disk security policy control for a Mac with Apple silicon - Apple Support Friday Night Baseball on Apple TV+ starting April 8 - 9to5Mac Burger King 'O.K. Google' Ad Doesn't Seem O.K. With Google - The New York Times PodTrak P4 Podcast Recorder | Buy Now | ZOOM Chance to Have it All Show-REDBONE RADIO F3 Field Recorder | ZOOM Watch The Whole World Float In Air! | Giz Wiz BizHost: Leo Laporte Guests: Mikah Sargent, Scott Wilkinson, Johnny Jet, and Dick DeBartolo Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Show notes and links for this episode are available at: https://twit.tv/shows/the-tech-guy/episodes/1875 Download or subscribe to this show at: https://twit.tv/shows/all-twittv-shows

This week's blockbuster trade of Seattle Seahawks QB Russell Wilson could be the first in a series of moves that leads to Amazon founder Jeff Bezos owning the team. That was the hypothesis offered by veteran Seattle sports columnist Art Thiel in a piece this week at PostAlley.org, blending smart sourcing with informed speculation. Rumors of Bezos' interest in buying the Seahawks have been around for years, but the team's deal with the Denver Broncos makes the possibility worth revisiting. Thiel, our former Seattle Post-Intelligencer colleague and the founding editor of Sportspress Northwest, joins us on this episode to discuss this theory and what it could mean for Bezos, Amazon and the NFL. More from Art Thiel: A few musings about sports journalism as the unwinding begins Blockbuster Deal(s): Russell Wilson to Denver, Seahawks Sale Next Edited by Curt Milton; Theme music by Daniel L.K. Caldwell   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Monthly Science News is here! Our science correspondent @AckermansNicole goes over the major science stories from February 2022 including; fish fossils that explain why some species survived the asteroid extinction event, how tech affects climate change, scientists using ultrasound to save a species from extinction, and AR mammoths. hosted by Nicole Ackermans Sources: Fish fossilContinue reading "Fish Fossil Asteroids – DTNS Science News Monthly 5"

Arm and Nvidia call off its announced acquisition, Apple announces Tap to Pay feature for iPhones, and the Bluesky Public Benefit LLC will pursue a decentralized standard for social media as an independent organization. MP3 Please SUBSCRIBE HERE. You can get an ad-free feed of Daily Tech Headlines for $3 a month here. A specialContinue reading "Nvidia and Arm Call Off Acquisition – DTH"

From musicians pulling their music to a high-profile podcaster pausing their exclusive show, Spotify is under attack from all sides. Furore over Joe Rogan’s podcast and Spotify’s subsequent misinformation policies and actions has come both internally and externally. Much of the backlash is warranted as Spotify hasn’t been up front about the content of Rogan’s podcast, or misinformation in general. And the lack of transparency is why the company’s current issues are much bigger than one massively popular creator.By now, you’ve likely heard something about the Joe Rogan saga. The popular podcast host has been controversial for years, but criticism ramped up after a December 31 episode featuring physician and biochemist Dr. Robert Malone. While speaking to Rogan, Dr. Malone made a number of unfounded claims about COVID-19 vaccines, including that “mass formation psychosis” led many in the US to take the jab. After the episode was posted, hundreds of doctors, nurses, scientists and educators sent a letter to Spotify urging it to create a clear misinformation policy and take "responsibility to mitigate the spread” of such content.When the group posted the letter online, Engadget reached out to Spotify to ask if the company already had a misinformation policy, how it takes action against misinformation and if it was considering any action against the Malone episode of JRE. The company didn’t respond. Two weeks later, CEO Daniel Ek penned a statement on the matter and posted the company’s “platform rules” on a Sunday afternoon. It’s unclear if Ek was already planning to publish the platform-wide policy or if it was in response to a report two days earlier of internal explanations to employees as to why certain episodes of Rogan’s podcast hadn’t been removed.During the company’s Q4 2021 earnings call last week, Ek took responsibility for not publishing the content policy sooner. "We should've done it earlier and that's on me," he admitted. To employees during a company meeting the same day, the CEO explained that Spotify is not a publisher, so it doesn’t have creative control over Rogan’s show in advance. He said that since JRE is licensed content, it doesn’t have oversight like it does for podcasts from The Ringer or Gimlet – production companies Spotify owns. “We don’t approve his guests in advance, and just like any other creator, we get his content when he publishes, and then we review it, and if it violates our policies, we take the appropriate enforcement actions,” Ek said.A control room at Spotify's "Pod City." Genaro Molina via Getty ImagesWashington Post columnist Margaret Sullivan wrote this weekend that Spotify’s “failure to take any meaningful responsibility, other than adding a few disclaimers, is all too reminiscent of the way Facebook, for years, has dodged accountability for spreading so many harmful lies.” And part of shirking responsibility comes in the form of Spotify’s argument of a platform versus a publisher.Spotify is a publisher, no matter what it says to the contrary. Paying a reported $100 million to lock down JRE as an exclusive brings more responsibility for its content than a show from "any other creator.” Ek argued during that same speech to employees that “exclusivity does not equal endorsement” and that the solution is to secure “an even broader set of exclusives that represent even more voices.” These two statements point to Spotify trying to build a foundation when the house is nearly finished.A treasure trove of exclusives has helped make Spotify the number one podcast app in the US, according to Ek. Over the last few years, the company has purchased podcast production studios like Gimlet, Parcast and The Ringer, making shows exclusive to its service along the way. It has amassed a wealth of talent,

This year’s Academy Awards nominations have been revealed, and Apple TV+ execs will surely be pleased. The service’s films received six Oscar nods overall, up from two last year. Most significantly, Apple has broken through in the Best Picture category. CODA is the first Apple Original movie to receive a nomination for the top prize.It’s the first film with a principally deaf cast to be nominated for Best Picture. It’s been 35 years since a deaf performer was nominated, and Troy Kotsur is now the first male actor to ever receive a nod, as he’s up for Best Supporting Actor.Writer and director Sian Heder is nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay — CODA is a remake of a French film called La Famille Bélier. Apple paid a Sundance record of $25 million to acquire the rights to the film, which won the Grand Jury Prize for Drama and the Audience Award at last year’s festival.The other Apple movie that received nominations this year was Joel Coen’s The Tragedy of Macbeth. It earned nods for Best Actor for Denzel Washington, Best Cinematography and Best Production Design.Elsewhere, Netflix continued the run of awards success it has had over the last few years with a whopping 35 nominations across the board. Star-studded climate change satire Don’t Look Up and Western The Power of the Dog are both nominated for Best Picture. The latter leads the pack overall with 12 nominations. Jane Campion, who received writing and directing nods, is the first woman to land two Best Director nominations. Other nominated Netflix films include The Lost Daughter, The Hand of God, Tick, Tick… Boom and the fantastic The Mitchells vs. The Machines.Elsewhere, Dune has 10 nominations and Best Picture frontrunner Belfast received seven. Amazon’s Being the Ricardos landed three acting nods, while No Time To Die, which marks Daniel Craig's final outing as James Bond, was nominated for Original Song, Sound and Visual Effects. Meanwhile, Japanese drama Drive My Car broke through in the Best Picture and directing races for four nominations in total.The 94th Academy Awards ceremony will take place on March 27th.

Nintendo is ready to hold its first Direct livestream of 2022, and it promises to start the year in grand fashion. The company has revealed plans for a 40-minute Direct on February 9th at 5PM ET that will "mainly" focus on Switch games debuting in the first half of 2022.The timing gives some idea of what to expect. There's a good chance you'll hear about Nintendo's own Kirby and the Forgotten Land (March 25th), and you might hear about soon-to-come third-party titles like Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga (April 5th) or Life is Strange: Remastered Collection (spring).With that in mind, there are more than a few wildcards this time around. Some of the biggest Switch games of the year only have a generic 2022 release window, including Splatoon 3, Bayonetta 3 and the Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild sequel. There's no guarantee you'll hear about any of these major releases during the Nintendo Direct, but we wouldn't be surprised if there are some earlier-than-expected launches or previously unannounced projects.

Photo Illustration by Grayson Blackmon / The VergeHow a Black news startup was born from a racial justice reckoning Lauren Williams is the co-founder and CEO of Capital B, a new nonprofit media company dedicated to news for Black audiences. Capital B launched on January 31st, with both a national news site and a local newsroom dedicated to Atlanta — and the company plans to expand to more cities over time. This interview is a little looser and chattier than usual since Lauren used to be the editor-in-chief and senior vice president of The Verge’s sister site, Vox.com. We were co-workers for a long time, and we’re still friends. So while I did my best to ask all the Decoder questions, we might have made each other laugh a little more than usual. I wanted to know why Lauren decided to go and found a startup, what the last year of building that startup ahead of launch has been like, and how she thinks about standing out in a media business where the pressures of social media and search traffic kind of make everything look the same. And, of course, I wanted to know how she plans to grow. Now that she’s the CEO, how is she making decisions about Capital B’s path forward? Lauren was just on the podcast Recode Media with Peter Kafka, where she talked in more detail about the editorial vision for Capital B. That conversation is great, and you should listen to it, but it’s not what we talked about. I wanted to spend more time on, well, Decoder stuff: being a founder, raising money, and making decisions. Lauren is a really sharp leader, and I think you’re going to like this one. Okay. Lauren Williams, co-founder and CEO of Capital B. Here we go. This excerpt has been lightly edited for clarity. A full transcript will be available soon. It’s hard to remember what that moment felt like, particularly in media. Almost two years ago now — it was around the time of the George Floyd protest — we were in the middle of the pandemic; there was an election coming up. It did feel like the media was failing. It had failed to tell some important story, and a lot of people were just opting out of the traditional media ecosystem. Do you think that Capital B sits as a part of that traditional ecosystem? Does it sit next to it? Are you aiming to build something else entirely? I think it sits next to it, but it is, in that sense, a part of that movement of [thinking] something here is not working. Something here in traditional media is too constrained or too set in its ways to respond to — either from a business perspective or from an editorial perspective — the needs of the moment. That is, I think, really, really seen in local news, which is failing across the country and desperately needs refreshing. That is a business issue for local news. It’s a cultural issue as well. There’s an enormous trust problem, and those business issues and those trust issues really do go hand in hand. They’re aligned, and the effects of those issues are one and the same. Misinformation and disinformation are rising, lack of local news contributes to polarization, and we need new ideas to respond to those issues. You left Vox in February of 2021. It’s now February of 2022. You’ve been building for a year. What has that process been like? It’s been a lot of really intense fundraising for most of it. We needed to raise a lot of money to do what we wanted to do. Our idea is ambitious: to have a national newsroom and also launch a local newsroom. We want to have a centralized business function that’s going to be able to support not just our first local newsroom, which is in Atlanta, but also our subsequent local newsrooms. That’s not cheap. And we want to be able to do the kind of journalism that we want to do for our audience and that we feel like our audience deserves — that’s also not cheap. We have to raise a lot of money, and it’s hard t