2024 Daily Tech News Show


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5			On this episode of DTNS, OpenAI shows that AI is definitely big business now, LG says 안녕히 가세요 to its scrollable living room TV and Patrick Norton celebrates the first new capacity for a 2.5-inch drive in 6 years and what's going on with storage these days.	Twitch Chat Pop-out Window
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8			This is the Daily Tech News for... Friday May 17th 2024. In LA, I'm Tom Merritt
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10			From Studio Animal House I'm Sarah Lane
11			At the edge o' the Three One Four... Patrick Norton
12			Drawing the Top Tech Stories. In Cleveland, I'm Len Peralta
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17	:01	TM	Let's start with the Quick Hits.
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20		sl	Samsung announced it has made its Relumino Mode available on the Galaxy S24. The mode was previously only available on Samsung TVs. Relumino mode is an accessibility feature that enhances contrast color and sharpness to make images more clear for people with low vision.	https://www.sammobile.com/news/samsung-relumino-mode-galaxy-s24/
21		tm	The Wall Street Journal reports that Microsoft will allow Call of Duty for Xbox Game Pass subscriptions service during an Xbox showcase June 9th. Call of Duty is one of Activision's biggest revenue generators, and some think it might make less money if it's included in the subscription. But it's possible it will cost extra to get Call of Duty in Game Pass or Microsoft might raise the price of the subscription overall. And while we're talking about Microsoft events, don't forget Microsoft BUILD is next week and Microsoft is holding a special event on Monday May 20th. It's expected to be all about AI, but also show off new Windows Surface devices running on Qualcomm's Snapdragon Elite chips.	https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/17/24158934/microsoft-call-of-duty-xbox-game-pass-plans
22		sl	Singapore's Huber Butchery has become the first retailer to sell lab-grown meat, derived from cultivating animal cells. The retailer's product was made in partnership with Good Meat which is part of the US-based Eat Just. If you head to Huber Butchery, look for the chicken-like Good Meat 3. But be advised it's only 3% animal cells. The rest is a more typical plant-based protein. It's selling for seven Singapore dollars a pound, or about five dollars US.	https://www.techinasia.com/sg-hubers-butchery-retailer-sell-labgrown-meat
23		tm	Twitter has been called X for awhile now, but the twitter.com domain name remained in most fo its URLs. Until now. The site has made the transition to make X.com its fundamental domain name. Typing twitter.com will redirect in all core URLs to a version with X.com. The last major reference to Twitter is now gone. Sorry. If you want to be accurate you need to call it X.	https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/17/23829098/twitter-x-com-url-links-switch
24		sl	Sony Music sent a letter to more than 700 tech companies, warning them not to use their music for “training, development or commercialization of AI systems” without permission. This is a necessary step if Sony wants to negotiate rights deals with these companies. As an example, YouTube came to an agreement with major music companies for a strict set of rules regarding the use of AI voices for music. As a result, YouTube has a product called Dream Track which lets users generate songs in the style of a limited number of artists from text prompts.	https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/17/24158887/sony-music-ai-training-letter
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27	:05		SEGMENT A - BIG NEWS
28		tm	We have prepared OpenAI news for you three ways today. Deals, Features and Failures.
29		tm	- Reddit signed a deal to give OpenAI access to its API of real-time posts. Reddit will use some OpenAI tech to add features for Redditors - Reddit is NOT licensing its data to OpenAI for training - Reddit DID give Google a license to train off Redddit data in Feb. Google also got access ot the real-time API. In that deal Reddit got access to Vertex API to improve its own search. TAKEAWAYS - Not all improvements to OpenAI products need to be training data apparently. Real-time info is a weakness that this helps reduce.	https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/16/24158529/reddit-openai-chatgpt-api-access-advertising
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31		tm	ALSO: Paid users get - Ability to create tables and charts from uploaded documents that you can ask chatbot to tweak then download for use in presentations - Integration with Microsoft OneDrive and Google Drive	https://www.zdnet.com/article/chatgpt-will-put-your-data-into-interactive-tables-and-charts-with-gpt-4o/
32			[[DISCUSS]]	https://venturebeat.com/ai/chatgpt-now-lets-you-import-files-directly-from-google-drive-microsoft-onedrive/
33		tm	FINALLY - Ilya Sutskever and Jan Leike, led a "Superalignment" team to prepare for the rise of Artifical Generalized Intelligence. Both announced departures earlier this week and now OpenAI has disabanded the team. Does this show that the threat was not as imminent as some thought or that OpenAI is being irresponsible or neither?	https://www.wired.com/story/openai-superalignment-team-disbanded/
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38		sl	Korean news outlet Chosun reports that LG is no longer making the Signature OLED R TV that rolls down and hides within a stand, with LG said to be already repurposing that manufacturing line for other TVs at a plant in at the Gumi plant in Gyeongbuk, South Korea. If you don't even recall this exact LG model, it was originally shown off at CES as a prototype back in 2018, but it didn't actually go on sale until 2021. It was also $100,000 for a 65-inch 4K TV that needed to rise out of a side table of sorts. TV options have changed since then.	https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/16/24158263/lg-rollable-oled-r1-r-tv-discontinued
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40			NOTES: - The LG Signature OLED R was hailed as the "Best TV" at CES 2019 in Las Vegas in January 2019 - actual sales were low, art exhibitions and premium marketing efforts as examples (no hotels??) - LG's OLED display tech now includes smartphones and laptops and its series of G Flex Android phones. - At CES 2024, LG showed off the LG Signature OLED T, wireless, transparent, and 77-inches with 4K resolution
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53		tm	Laptop computers introduced us to the 2.5" hard drive form factor but SSDs and NVMe solid state drives have supplanted them in most of the market. But the 2.5" hard drive isn't dead yet. Western Digital introduced a new 6TB external hard drive which will go into the company's My Passport, Black P10, and G-Drive ArmorATD product line. The drives are thicker than 15mm of current 5TB 2.5" models meaning they won't fit into existing laptop drive bays. The drives are avaliable now at retailers and range in price from $200 for the WD My Passport Ultra up to $230 for the SanDisk Professional G-Drive ArmorATD. Patrick where are we with storage these days?	https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/external-hdds/western-digital-rolls-out-new-25-inch-hdds-for-the-first-time-in-seven-years-is-6tb-the-swan-song-for-25-inch-hard-drives
54				https://www.anandtech.com/show/21400/not-dead-yet-wd-intros-6tb-25-inch-external-hard-drives
55			First up, one correction: 2.5" drives will fit in existing drive bays in very old laptops... humor aside, as laptop mfgs have moved towards a) soldering storage onto the motherboard or b) using M.2 SSD storage, the weee expansion cards, demand for 2.5" drives has dropped. A lot.
56			And depending on which story you read, it took either 6, 7, or 8 years to get to 6TB 2.5" drives
57			Where those 2.5" drives have remained strong is in portable storage... though, much like SSDs have replaced most ever rotating hard drive anywhere other than massive drives used for nas server or desktop storage, - see roger's 2 cents for this week - a lot of the market is all about SSDs. I think the sweet spot for a lot of portable storage is a 1TB SSD for under $100.
58			For fun, I started digging into Microcenter's website, I found five 2.5" traditional internal hard drives from 1-2TB from $52 to $99.
59			25 external 2.5" drives w/ ye old rotating media, starting at $65 for 1TB maxing at $130 for 5TB...
60			And 47 external SSDs, in all form factors, starting w/ $46 for 500GB, $75-ish for 1TB, 4TB drives starting under $200, and the max being an 8TB Samsung T5 for $619
61			For cmparison, a 20TB HD for NAS or, hey, your massive collection of photos in your desktop PC which I know you're backing up somewere else, right??? ... $300-$450
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63			Notes: - WD My Passport Ultra and WD My Passport Ultra for Mac with USB-C both retail for $199.99; - WD My Passport and WD My Passport for Mac are $179.99 - WD My Passport Works With USB-C is $184.99 - the gaming-focused WD_Black P10 Game Drive sells for $184.99 - SanDisk Professional G-Drive ArmorATD is $229.99.
64			Big honking portable storage... on a single drive, that's pretty much where 2.5" drives are... 4TB SSD = $300+ and bigger SSDs are rare, and cost 3X as much!!!
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78			Laurent in finally-feels-like-winter-is-over Montreal wrote in - "On Wednesday's show you had a question about [LLM model] context windows. Here is what I use in my training to explain the concept. Think of the credits at the end of a movie. As the credits roll, they disappear off the screen, never to be seen again… unless you rewind, but that's a whole 'nother story. Conversations with an LLM are similar. The credits are the content of the conversation. The screen is the context window. The larger the context window (so, a taller screen), the more information the LLM can retain before forgetting the beginning of the conversation."
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80			Our spanish language host Dan Campos wrote in- "Since the race for streaming now is heading to a place where the bundles are the hot item, I was wondering about who wins and loses with such wonderful offerings. In a good part of Latin America, Mercado Libre offers a couple of interesting options for their customers within Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Uruguay, Brasil, Mexico, Peru and Ecuador. 1- Mercado Play. This is a free service with a lot of series and movies with ads included, similar to Tubi or PlutoTV. You just need to have a free Mercado Libre account to use it. It also has a limited offering for Disney+ shows. 2- Meli+ (Meli Más) For 129 pesos (about 7.80 USD) you get a similar offer to Amazon Prime. You'll get free delivery for what you buy on the digital marketplace and it also includes access to Disney+ and Star+ (our local version of Hulu), as well as a free year on Deezer Premium. In comparison, the Disney/Star combo costs $269 pesos (about 16.15 USD) if you get it directly from Disney. If you decide to use Meli+ as your streaming platform you'll also get a 30% discount on Max, Paramount+, ViX Premium or all three. But your individual accounts for the services can't connect if you decide to use Meli Más. This makes me wonder if the bundles announced by Disney and Warner, or Comcast with Paramount and Netflix can be as attractive as the ones offered by third parties. There are other services like MVSHub where you can pick and choose different streaming services where you can save about 20-30, but they don't offer Disney services. Last but not least, in México, regulatory organizations such as the COFECE (Federal Economic Competition Commision) have already issued warnings and wants to regulate the streaming offerings from Amazon and Mercado Libre, mentioning that including streaming to to their delivery subscriptions is anticompetitive to other digital marketplaces. You can check NTX episodes 350 and episode 361 for more information about that."
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91		tm	Len Peralta	Len Peralta http://patreon.com/len http://lenperaltastore.com https://www.twitch.tv/lenperalta @LenPeralta @lenperalta@mstdn.party	https://www.patreon.com/len	https://lenperaltastore.com/
92		sl	Patrick Norton	Patrick Norton http://avexcel.com @PatrickNorton	twitter.com/patricknorton	avexcel.com
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102		tm	Patrons! Stick around for the extended show, Good Day Internet--- It's Friday and its time for another fun filled quiz! How much do you really know about Google I/O? Can you figure out the correct answer before our contestants?
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116		Intro	Google I/O has been around sixteen years but how much do you really know about the event? This quiz will test your Google I/O chops!
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118		Question 1	In which year was the first Google I/O conference held? (The answer was in the introduction)
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120		Question 2	Where was Google I/O held for the first seven years? The specific venue not just the City.
121			Moscone Center in San Francisco
122		Question 3	What does the I/O in Google I/O mean/come from?
123			From the number Googol. The first digit "1" in a googol and the "O" representing the second digit "0" in the number
124		Question 4	At Google I/O 2014, Google revealed a prototype modular smartphone as part of announcement . What was the name of that phone project that Google announced?
125			Project Ara
126		Question 5	At that same Google I/O 2014, the Samsung "Gear Live" and the LG "G Watch" were launched to promote this Google Product?
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128		Question 6	At which pre-pandemic Google I/O did Google announce Google.ai?
129			Google I/O 2017
130		Question 7	This former head of Yahoo gave the keynote speech at Google I/O 2008. What is her name?
131			Marissa Mayer
132		Question 8	Google's Android was announced at the first Google I/O. HTC produced the launch smartphone for the OS. What was that handset called? The American name for the phone is also accetable.
133			HTC Dream. Called the G1 from T-Mobile in the US.
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