2024 Daily Tech News Show


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5			On this episode of DTNS, Mickey Mouse heads into the public domain , China's selling more EVs but the US is not, Nica Montford helps us understand why, plus, and why Apple didn't release a new iPad last year.	Twitch Chat Pop-out Window
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8			This is the Daily Tech News for Tuesday January 2nd, 2024. In LA, I'm Tom Merritt
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19		sl	Telegram released version 10.5.0 with a redesigned look for voice and video calls including new animations and backgrounds that update based on call status. Telegram also says it should use less power, saving your battery life. And for Android fans the power-efficient "Thanos Snap" visual effect its coming that turns deleted messages to dust. Finally, bots can now react to messages, work with quoted messages, and send replies.	https://9to5google.com/2024/01/01/telegram-call-redesign-10-5-0-update/
20		tm	LG has a bit of tradition of announcing lots of stuff in December, ahead of showing it off at CES. Here's a rundown of some of the things it has announced over the last week or so. The Dukebox is a smart speaker with vacuum tubes. You can see the tubes through the adjustable transparency of the OLED display. The MyView series of 32-inch 4K monitors run WebOS so can act like a smart TV and even run Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace without needing a computer attached. They'll run $500 to $600. The CineBeam Qube is a 4K projector with a handle that looks like a crank. And new LG Gram laptops will include Intel's Ultra Chips for on device AI processing. And finally a two-legged wheeled robot similar to Amazon's Astro that can act as a home monitor.	https://www.engadget.com/lgs-dukebox-puts-vacuum-tube-audio-behind-a-transparent-oled-display-125526158.html
21		sl	Apps like eBay and Airbnb that allow private citizens to earn money will now be reporting those earnings to tax authorities, based on a new agreement from the 38 members of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). The OECD includes Europe, the US, the UK, Israel, Japan, Korea and more. The amount of tax you might need to pay on this income will vary by country.	https://9to5mac.com/2024/01/02/apps-will-be-reporting-your-earnings/
22		tm	Counterpoint released its estimates on Premium smartphone sales in 2023. It defines premium as a phone with a wholesale value of $600 or more, which equates to a retail price of about $800. The projected premium total smartphone market share rose globally by 6% to 24% seeing record sales in 2023. Much of 2023’s growth was driven by China, Western Europe, India, and the Middle East and Africa regions, with India being the fastest-growing premium market globally. Apple dropped four points but is still the top OEM with 71% market share, followed by Samsung with 17%, and Huawei with 5%.	https://9to5mac.com/2024/01/02/samsung-and-huawei-cost-apple-iphone-sales/
23		sl	Camera makers, news organizations, and technology companies are looking to differentiate their images from those generated by artificial intelligence, creating a free web tool called Verify which checks for authenticity of images and it is being adopted by Nikon, Canon, and Sony. If an image has a Verify digital signature, the tool will display the date, location, and other credentials for the image. Camera manufacturers are updating firmware on professional cameras to support Verify this year. Canon has a new camera in developement coming next year that will also support Verify.	https://www.pcmag.com/news/camera-companies-are-working-on-technology-to-watermark-real-images
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27		sl	Mickey Mouse is now in the public domain in the US. You likely saw or heard some headlines. Since copyright is such a big part of our modern rights online, Let's go over what this does and doesn't mean.	https://www.theverge.com/24006670/mickey-mouse-steamboat-willie-enters-copyright-public-domain-2024
28		tm	First a bit of history. US copyright law was 28 years until 1976. Then got extended twice to end up being 95 years or life of the author plus seventy years, whichever ends earlier. It's more complicated for sound recordings which have to be 100 years old this year to enter public domain. Ok so back to Steamboat Willie. The Mickey Mouse in the film is now public domain. It doesn't mean Mickey Mouse is public domain. It gets complicated and a lot of it would be up to how a judge would decide it, but essentially you can do anything you want with the film Steamboat Willie and you can derive things from it as long as what you derive is not from other copyrighted works. You also have to keep in mind that Mickey Mouse is a trademark of Disney, so you can't go using the name in any way that make people think what you made is from Disney.	https://web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicdomainday/2024/
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31			NOTES The first two Mickey Mouse related works to take advantage of the public domain are a slasher film called "Mickey's Mouse Trap" and a video game called Infestation 88 A few other recognisable works going into the public domain in the US include Plane Crazy - another Mickey Mouse cartoon that was a silent film. Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie Lady Chatterly's Lover by D.H. Lawrence Orlando by Virginia Woolf All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque. House at Pooh Corner by A.A. Milne. The Mystery of the Blue Train by Agatha Christie The Circus starring and directed by Charlie Chaplin. The songs Mack the Knife, Let's Do it by Cole Porter, I Wanna Be Loved by You and I can't Give You Anything But Love Baby Tower of Babel woodcut by M.C. Escher
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35		sl	Apple did something it hasn't done since 2010… it failed to release a new version - or at least a refresh - of a single iPad model. But instead of that signaling that Apple isn't still committed to the iPad, rumors and analyst forecasts point to 2024 being a significant year for the iPad lineup, with every model including the the entry-level iPad, iPad mini, iPad Air, and iPad Pro, possibly getting a hardware refresh. If a rumored 12.9-inch iPad Air also launches this year, that would be a record 6 new iPad models in 2024. Nica, the Vision Pro continues to loom on the horizon. Knowing that's going to make 2024 a unique year for Apple, how do you feel about it potentially being a big iPad year too?	https://www.macrumors.com/2024/01/01/apple-just-broke-a-tradition-it-held-for-12-years/
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50		tm	Towards the end of last year a number of automakers have pared back on their EV plans as sales drop. Rivian missed its quarterly delivery expectations. Tesla met delivery estimates but cut prices and Ford is cutting back production of its F-150 Lightning for 2024. Meanwhile China's BYD saw sale rise 61.9% on the year and passed Tesla in sales in Q4. China's Geely raised its sales forecasts. Nica you've been following all this. What's going on?	https://abcnews.go.com/Business/electric-vehicle-sales-slowing-panic-insiders/story?id=105842727
51				https://www.techinasia.com/short/ev-firm-byd-sales-surge-62-2023-hits-3-million-vehicles
52				https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/chinese-automaker-geely-raises-sales-target-2024-19-mln-units-2024-01-01/
53				https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2024-01-02/tesla-deliveries-meet-estimates-falls-behind-byd-video
54				https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/12/business/ford-f150-lightning-ev.html#:~:text=Slower%2Dthan%2Dexpected%20growth%20in,company%20to%20join%20that%20pullback.
55				https://finance.yahoo.com/news/ev-transition-could-take-longer-than-the-biden-administration-wants-heres-why-161221486.html
56				https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/gm-earnings-outlook-1.7043345
57				https://www.investors.com/news/electric-vehicles-market-loses-charge-what-means-ev-stocks-tesla-ev-battery-buildup/
58				https://techcrunch.com/2024/01/02/rivian-deliveries-slip-10-in-q4-raising-demand-questions/
59				https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/cruise-gm-investments-mary-barra-18521623.php
60				https://europe.autonews.com/automakers/apple-scales-back-self-driving-car-delays-debut-until-2026
61			NOTES: . The following clean vehicles still qualify for the full $7,500, although we should note that the first two on the list (the Chevrolet Bolts) have ceased production now: 2022-2023 Chevrolet Bolt EV 2022-2023 Chevrolet Bolt EUV 2022-2024 Chrysler Pacifica PHEV 2022-2024 Ford F-150 Lightning extended range battery 2022-2024 Ford F-150 Lightning standard range battery 2023-2024 Tesla Model 3 Performance 2023-2024 Tesla Model X Long Range 2023-2024 Tesla Model Y All-Wheel Drive 2023-2024 Tesla Model Y Performance 2023-2024 Tesla Model Y Rear-Wheel Drive Additionally, the following vehicles qualify for a $3,750 tax credit: 2022-2024 Ford Escape Plug-In Hybrid 2022-2024 Jeep Grand Cherokee PHEV 4xe 2022-2024 Jeep Wrangler PHEV 4xe 2022-2024 Lincoln Corsair Grand Touring 2023-2024 Rivian R1S Dual Large 2023-2024 Rivian R1S Quad Large 2023-2024 Rivian R1T Dual Large 2023-2024 Rivian R1T Dual Max 2023-2024 Rivian R1T Quad Large	https://arstechnica.com/cars/2024/01/its-a-new-year-and-these-are-now-the-only-evs-that-get-a-tax-credit/
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71			Daman - With the announcement of Bird filing for bankruptcy [in December] and talk on the show about how much longer the e-scooter market can stay afloat, one place they may never die is on college campuses. I work at a large university and during the e-scooter boom, the campus was flooded with scooters from Lime, Bird, and others. They had many of the problems that were discussed on your show. Scooters ended up in fountains, rivers, and backyards. Recently, the university partnered with one company, Veo, and it has been much better. Students did not want a total ban on the scooters because they were a great way to get across campus quickly and the university wanted one company to be responsible for the maintenance of the fleet. I feel that college campuses and other locations that are more pedestrian-focused are better suited for this mode of transportation than in the downtown of a large city where automobile traffic is higher.
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73			Lance in Mississippi - "I loved the discussion on Smart car functionality with AI. I just wanted to let Sarah know that my wife has the same vehicle that she does… The Volvo, XC 60, I believe. It actually will do those functions of “I’m cold“ or “I’m hot“ And adjust the temperature incrementally. Just in case you didn’t know! Thanks for the awesome show as always."
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102			Evolution of GitHub Co-Pilot There has been so much talk regarding how AI will replace workers to which I think has some credence but not to the sky is falling extent that some people are screaming about. There are ways that AI machines and humans can peacefully ( & successfully might I say) co-exist for the overall [improvement of all]. GitHub's Co-pilot is one of those things. -0-
103			[So for those who don't know] Co-Pilot is a cloud-based AI tool developed collaboratively between GitHub (owned by Microsoft) and OpenAI (49% owned by Microsoft) to help devs who use of VS Code & other IDEs (integrated development environments) autocomplete code, an AI pair programmer so to speak. -0-	https://github.com/features/copilot
104			It was first announce back in June 2021 as a technical preview in VS Code's dev env, then came a plugin on JetBrains & Neovim in October of that same year. In March of 2022, it hit Visual Studio IDE. Finally in June 2022, it became available as a subscription-based service for individual developers. -0-
105			I remember when Co-pilot was 1st launched & downloaded it immediately in my personal IDE. Many of the devs that I know were super excited about it. But there were valid concerns for using it in the corporate environment. At the time, there was a scaled back version that was made accessible to the company that I worked for that was (even in that format) still pretty good. -0-
106			So where are we today, there is now an Android & iOS app were launched in Dec 2023. In addition to easily accessible apps for devs, MSFT has expanded access to Copilot to include commercial data protection is available to education which includes all faculty and higher education students. Also, Copilot for Microsoft 365 eligibility as of Jan 1 includes education faculty and staff for $30/mo. -0-	https://www.theverge.com/2023/12/29/24019288/microsoft-copilot-app-available-iphone-ipad-ai	2
107			The future is Copilot X announced in March 2023 as a readily accessible AI assistant throughout the entire development lifecycle that will introducing chat and voice for Copilot, and bringing Copilot to pull requests, the command line, and docs to answer questions on projects.	https://github.blog/2023-03-22-github-copilot-x-the-ai-powered-developer-experience/
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