2024 Daily Tech News Show


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5			On this episode of DTNS, We break down the US Department of Justice's antitrust case against Apple and see if it has a better chance than Epic's similar but more limited case. Plus Neuralink is impressive but is it doing anything new?	Twitch Chat Pop-out Window
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8			This is the Daily Tech News for... Thursday March 21st, 2024. In LA, I'm Tom Merritt
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10			From Columbus, Ohio, I'm Robb Dunewood
11			From Deep in the Heart of Texas, I'm Justin Robert Young
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16	:01	TM	Threads opened its beta that lets users in Canada, Japan and the US who are older than 18, share their posts to Fediverse servers like Mastodon. And now the rest of the Quick Hits.	https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/21/threads-opens-beta-to-let-users-connect-their-accounts-to-the-fediverse/
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19		tm	Reddit is officially a public company, now trading under the ticker symbol RDDT. The company priced its initial public offering at $34 per share, the top of its $31 to $34 range, valuing the company at $6.5 billion. It's the first major social media company to IPO since Pinterest’s debut in 2019 and one of the very few venture-backed tech deals of the past two years.	https://www.cnbc.com/2024/03/20/reddit-prices-ipo-at-34-per-share-sources-say.html
20		rd	After publicly announcing a ban on the importation, sale, and use of consumer hacking devices, like flippers to crack down on car thefts in Canada the Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED) department clarified its stance. The intention is “to ban the illegitimate use of wireless devices used during car thefts.” The ISED will move forward with measures to, “restrict the use of such devices to legitimate actors only”. So... no ban of Flipper Pro	https://www.pcmag.com/news/canada-walks-back-ban-of-flipper-zero-targets-illegitimate-use-cases
21		tm	The Senate heard a classified briefing on the risks of TikTok that are being used to justify a bill that would order Bytedance to sell the US part of the business or face a prohibition against its distribution there. After the briefing, Senators indicated they may schedule a public hearing. Senate Majority Leader Schumer has not committed to a floor vote. That's a slower, and more normal pace for a bill than what happened in the House where it moved swiftly to an overwhelming passage. The Senate must also pass the bill before it can be sent to the president to sign into law.	https://www.axios.com/pro/tech-policy/2024/03/20/senate-plots-next-moves-on-tiktok
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23		rd	DoorDash announced today that it is expanding its partnership with Alphabet’s Wing to bring its drone delivery pilot to the U.S. Select users in Christiansburg, Virginia will be able to order eligible menu items from their local Wendy’s located at 2355 N. Franklin Street. DoorDash users near this address can select the new drone delivery option on the checkout page so long as they have a small clearing on their property of about 2 meters in diameter in order for the delivery to be set down.	https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/21/doordash-is-bringing-its-drone-delivery-pilot-to-the-u-s/	2
24		tm	YouTube TV has begun rolling out Multiview on iPhone and iPad. The feature went live on TVs last year and lets you watch up to four channels at once. Unfortunately for Android users, Multiview won’t arrive for a few months.	https://9to5google.com/2024/03/20/youtube-tv-multiview-iphone-ipad-android/
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28		rd	At a virtual event this morning, Microsoft announced its first AI powered Surface PCs featuring a dedicated Copilot key on the keyboard that enables users pull up the chatbot. The Surface Pro 10 and Surface Laptop 6 are powered by Intel's Core Ultra CPUs with integrated Arc GPUs and a nerual processing unit aka NPUs for AI tasks. The Surface Pro 10 for Business comes with either a Core Ultra 5 135U or Core Ultra 7 165U with starting spec of 8GB of RAM and a 256GB Gen4 SSD with prices starting at $1,199. The Surface Laptop 6 for Business can be equipped with a Core Ultra 5 135H or a Core Ultra 7 165H. The base model starts at $1199 and comes with 8GB of RAM and a 256GB Gen4 SSD. Both models are slated to release this Spring exclusively to commercial and business customers.	https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/21/24107513/microsoft-ai-pc-surface-pro-10-laptop-6-specs-release-date-price
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30		tm	A couple of other notes. Microsoft also announced that Windows users will now have access to Copilot in Microsoft 365 capabilities by selecting the "Work” option in Windows 11. And it updated its Adaptive line of accessible peripherals. The Adaptive Mouse is back with thumb support and custom tails printed by Shapeways. A new Dual-Button is available for the Adaptive Hub as is the Adaptive Joystick Button which looks most like an Atari controller. And there's a Surface Pro Keyboard with brighter backlighting, bolder text and the Copilot key.	https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/21/microsofts-new-adaptive-accessibility-accessories-include-an-atari-style-joystick/
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38		rd	Neuroscience startup Neuralink live-streamed an interview Wednesday with 29-year-old Noland Arbaugh, who has been unable to move his arms or legs since an accident eight years ago dislocated his fourth and fifth vertebrae. He was the first person to get Neuralink's brain-computer interface implanted this past January. On the stream, he demonstrated himself controlling a cursor by thinking, to play chess and the game Civilization. Significantly, he was able to move the cursor while also talking. Arbaugh says the device can be used for up to 8 hours between charges. The battery is charged through the skin by wireless inductance and communicates with a smartphone for processing. Neuralink uses 1024 electrodes across 64 threads to detect brain activity. Arbaugh says he was released from the hospital a day after the surgery.	https://www.wsj.com/tech/neuralink-shows-first-patient-using-its-brain-implant-device-67a8b03a
39		tm	Neuralink has not published much information publicly so it's hard for other scientists in the field to evaluate how different it is from the many similar brain-computer interfaces out there. What has been demonstrated appears to replicate past research. For example, Stanford University scientists have used two small sensors in the brain to convert thoughts about writing words into text and published full details. A company called Synchron has implanted its BCI in a patient before with a less invasive method than Neuralink's though possibly with less data capture.
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41			---	https://www.newscientist.com/article/2423483-has-neuralink-made-a-breakthrough-in-brain-implant-technology/
42			---	https://www.newscientist.com/article/2277272-ai-lets-man-with-paralysis-type-by-just-thinking-about-handwriting/
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53		tm	Thursday started good with Tim Cook appearing in front of a cheering crowd that had lined up for hours to get into Apple's second-largest and newest flagship store in Shanghai, China. Cook even got favorable coverage in the ultra-nationalist Global Times for saying nice things about China's supply chain factories. It was slightly annoying that Epic annocuned its third-party app store in the EU wouldn't charge developers anything for the first 6 months and only 12 percent after that and not take a cut of in-app payments made through non-Epic methods. It got more than annoying when Meta, Microsoft, X, Spotify and Match Group joined Epic in filogn a petition with the court objecting to how Apple cpomplied with a US court ruling saying they had to let developers use a button or link to direct customers to external payment methods. But that wasn't the worst of it in the US.	https://sg.news.yahoo.com/apples-ceo-cook-opens-store-111900416.html
54		rd	The US Department of Justice and 17 states filed a lawsuit in New Jersey federal court against Apple Thursday, alleging that Apple's smartphone policies are an abuse of its market position and violate antitrust law. The complaints say Apple's policies prevent competitors from offering innovative services in spaces like digital wallets, limits the functionality of competing hardware and makes it unnecessarily difficult for consumers to switch to another platform like Android.	https://9to5mac.com/2024/03/21/tim-cook-praises-china/
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58		tm	Let's work through the broad accusations - Apple does not allow cloud mobile game services like Microsoft Game Pass as apps in the app store. - Does not support the full standard for text messaging, such as RCS. (Which Apple says is coming) Doe into allow competing messaging apps to carry SMS - Restricts mini programs in super apps. The filing quotes an unnamed Apple manager saying that letting apps to become “the main gateway where people play games, book a car, make payments, etc.” would “let the barbarians in at the gate.” - Does not allow alternate apps to access tap-to-pay which must go through the Apple Wallet Apple Pay system. - Restricts compatibility of competing smart watches, not allowing things like notifications or messages -0- Justin this is the first time DOJ has filed a lawsuit against Apple specifically because of its anti-trust violations in the smartphone space. What's the significance of this action?	https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-68628989
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60				https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/21/24107659/apple-doj-lawsuit-antitrust-documents-suing
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68			Jason wanted to comment on our discussion with Patrick Yesterday about the trend towards multiplatform game development. I was listening to your discussion around platforms and specifically their exclusives. A component of this conversation that is missing and I think important is the IP itself. A consistent motivator for platform companies that are also publishers are in continuing to support that IP's value. Microsoft/Mojang continues to release regular updates to Minecraft, a single purchase game, because they make a significant amount off of the IP itself. That incentivises the continued excellence and support of those games. Each of the other console makers have at least one such property that comes to mind (Halo, Zelda, Last of Us, etc). I don't think we have much to fear from cross platform releases. If anything, maybe they'll leverage those broader reaches to publish more of those titles we love so much.
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70		tm	Brian emailed with a different perspective Game Pass is a service, not a platform. As long as the other platform holders, Sony, Nintendo, Apple, etc. take a 30% cut of sales and subscriptions it will remain cost prohibitive to have Game Pass on other platforms. Since Game Pass would be a direct competitor to games sold on PlayStation, for instance, it seems unlikely that Sony would want to cut Microsoft any kind of deal or exception. Basically Microsoft can afford to run Game Pass on Xbox because they are the platform holder. As soon as other interests start taking a cut of subscriptions the margins become too slim. At least for the foreseeable future, Microsoft wants Game Pass to be the differentiator that exclusive games are for Nintendo and Sony, not a new platform in and of itself. -Brian in Pittsburgh
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98			Justin, you initially were like me, skeptical that the bill to force a sale or ban TikTok in the US would get past the Senate, but after the Sunday talk shows, you swung around to feeling like it had a good chance of being passed. Reading the tea leaves of the Senate reactions we mentioned in the quick hits earlier, where are you now on the possibility fo the US banning TikTok?	https://www.axios.com/pro/tech-policy/2024/03/20/senate-plots-next-moves-on-tiktok
99			Critics of the TikTok Bill Are Missing the Point - The Atlantic	https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/03/tiktok-bill-foreign-influence/677806/
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