2020 Daily Tech News Show


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4			Coming up: Spoiler! Everything that will happen in 2021!
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6			Today's date
7			This is the Daily Tech News for... Thursday Dec 31st! In LA, I'm Tom Merritt
8			I'm Scott Johnson
9			I'm Patrick Norton
10			I'm Robb Dunewood
11			I'm Lamarr Wilson
12			From Studio Redwood, I'm Sarah Lane
13			And I'm the show's Producer Roger Chang
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17			Predictions Results
18	3:07		SARAH PREDICTIONS
19			Oculus Quest 2 gets an app that makes it a "must have" in homes as pandemic continues through 2021
20			Glimmers of a post Facebook/Twitter world will emerge from a company that isn't an Ello or a Parler [[PAR-lurr]], but something new and different.
21			Bitcoin gets back into the mix (never went away but price fell long enough that people stopped believing)
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23	3:14		SCOTT PREDICTIONS
24			Netflix will lose a massive share of streaming audience to Disney+ Hulu and HBOmax by the end of 2021, forcing a price drop or at least no price rise.
25			Nintendo will release a full generational sequel to the Switch, with a couple big nintendo titles. It will be a monster hit.
26			Gamepass will take microsoft to the top spot for this console generation in units sold, and profitability overall. Sony will spend the year trying to match value add features.
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28	3:24		PATRICK PREDICTIONS
29			1) At least oen of Lenovo, HP, or Dell (top three PC mgs by market share) work w/ MS to follow Apple's lead and start custom ARM CPUs.
30			2) By some minor miracle Starlink actually manages to blanket most of the US w/ $99 a month unlimited internet... which will cause radical changes in data pricing by Verizon/ATT/T-Mobile.
31			3) 3000 series NVIDIA GPUs and AMD's 5000 series CPUs won't be easy to buy at MSRP until June...
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33	3:31		ROBB PREDICTIONS
34			Boutique Consulting / Gig Consultulting will skyrocket in 2021
35			2021 will be the year of copycat Clubhouse social network startups
36			Mobile Payments finally become mainstream in the US
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38	3:40		LAMARR PREDICTIONS
39			All movies go same day theater/streaming for all major distributors in 2021.
40			Disney folds Hulu into its Disney+ app as a hub and combines the subscribers to over 100Mil.
41			Game streaming starts to become mainstream by end of 2021.
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43	3:49		TOM PREDICTIONS
44			First attack by self-learning malware that gets past AI-based defense systems like Defender.
45			Wal-Mart, Amazon and Alphabet become health care providers
46			Antitrust suits against Amazon and Apple by the United States
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48			Internet of Behaviors, AnywhereOps, security mesh, hyperautomation
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51	3:56		Thank Guests
52			Scott Johnson	frogpants.com
53			Patrick Norton	avexcel.com
54			Robb Dunewood	smrpodcast.com
55			Lamarr Wilson	youtube.com/lamarrwilson
56				https://twitter.com/lamarrwilson
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65		sl	We're live M-F at 4:30 PM eastern/21:30 UTC find out more at dailytechnewsshow.com/live. That's it for DTNS 2020! We're off tomorrow for New Year's Day!
66		sl	But we'll be back Monday in the New Year along with Tim Stevens!
67		tm	Happy New Year!
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69		tm	No one should have to spend New Year's Eve alone. Every year, Ritual Misery presents the Diamond Club New Year's Eve Streamathon, 27 hours of raising money for sick kids through extra-life.org. This year, Sarah and Tom will be bringing in the New Year with a live show! Join us on New Year's Eve at 2230 UTC/1430 Pacific for Good Year Internet! Find all the details, including the full schedule, at ritualmisery.com/streamathon