Tech News Today
Tech News Today is a podcast from the TWiT Network which is broadcast every weekday. The podcast was hosted by Tom Merritt and a rotating cast of co-hosts including Sarah Lane, Iyaz Akhtar, Darren Kitchen, Scott Johnson, Becky Worley, and Dr. Kiki. Jason Howell ran the tricaster during the show (which he currently hosts now), though on rare occasions John Slanina would sub for him.
Mike Elgan went on to take over hosting duties of the show on January 2, 2014 from Tom Merritt, who's last show was December 30, 2013. Mike left the show December 7, 2015 to focus on his writing and world travels, and his last show was released December 31, 2015. Jason C. Cleanthes ran the tricaster during the show after Jason Howell.
Megan Morrone and Jason Howell currently host the show and began hosting on January 4, 2016.
Each episode will "take you on a fun and friendly ride through the need-to-know tech news highlights of the day." In each episode, they'll run down the top tech news stories, mention other headlines in the "lightning round", and take a look at the calendar.
The show is recorded live on twit.tv/live every weekday starting at about 7:00pm ET, 4:00pm PT.
Fun Facts
- The first episode was broadcast on Tuesday, June 1, 2010.
- NSFW #25 was essentially a plug for Tech News Today via Robospider Tom.
- As of June 21, 2011, Tom had only missed 14 episodes of Tech News Today.
- Although the album art originally featured a clean shaven Tom, he has had a beard in every episode.
- The episode on Friday, February 2, 2011 was sponsored by MailRoute and Tom suggested people look on YouTube for NSFW's ad read which was done in Chatrealm's Choice by Justin Robert Young. Sarah Lane said it was funny.
- NSFW #72 was an homage to Tech News Today and met with high praise from Tom.
- Tech News Today was subject to the eponymous #freeTNT hashtag and its respective bit in NSFW's FreeTNT episode.
- Tom Merritt's last show was December 30, 2013. Tom would go on to host a new daily tech news show podcast called, Daily Tech News Show.
Appearances
Brian and Justin would pop up on Tech News Today from time to time:
- #11 "Huge Space Storm May Kill Us All"
- #66 "Five Times More Awesome" (Justin "hacks" the show)
- #152 "4D Virgin 3D Tablets"
- #189 "Creepy Wink to Block Porn"
- #198 "I Have a Light Leak Problem"
- #199 "Japan Update and IP Rant"
- #247 "Frontierville May Die of Dysentery"
- #427 "You Got A Frand In Me"
- #488 "Proprietary iGoop"
- #536 "Xbox, The Ocho!"
- #564 "Dockpocalypse"
- #597 "Drive-In To Go"
- #632 "The First Second Screen"
- #662 "The Ugly Girl at the Prom"
- #668 "Apple is Roy"
- #749 "Tech Toons Today"
- #758 "Durango Unchained"
- #779 "On Behalf of the Loopers"
- #794 "Post PC World Era"
- #851 "Surface 2 Air"
- #896 "Fight for Your Freedumb"
- #899 "Pupu Platter of Content"