 Coming up on DTNS, it's the Big Tech Quiz of 2021. This is the Daily Tech News for Thursday, December 23rd, 2021 in Los Angeles. I'm Tom Merritt from Lovely Cleveland, Ohio. I'm Rich Truffalino. Drawing the top tech stories from also from Lovely Cleveland. I'm Len Peralta. I am on the West Coast and I'm the show's producer, Roger Ching. And we're joined by our original producer, podcast producer and self-described corporate sellout, Jenny Josephson. Hi, everybody. We were just talking with Jenny and a bunch of other folks who may be joining back in here on DTNS in a few minutes on our longer version of the show. If you want more goodness, good day internet available at patreon.com slash DTNS. Big thanks to our top patrons, including Reed Fischler, Michelle Sergio and Mike McLaughlin. Let's start with a few tech things you should know. Huawei released the P50 Pocket, a clamshell style foldable. It features a 120 Hertz, 6.9 inch screen when unfolded, offers a circular display for notifications when folded, and uses the Snapdragon 888 4G SoC. It uses a new zero-gap hinge and supports face unlock on both screens. It's available in China starting at $8988 yuan. That's about 1400 US dollars. Earlier this month, Intel sent a note to suppliers in Xinjiang, notifying them they would not purchase goods or services sourced from the Xinjiang region. The US accuses China of human rights abuses in the region. After receiving public criticism in China over the letter, Intel posted to WeChat Thursday to say the supplier notes were, quote, a statement of compliance and legality only and are not meant to express its intent or position. And then Intel apologized for, quote, any distress the notes caused. Wednesday, Square CEO Jack Dorsey posted a screenshot of a notification that Mark Andreessen had blocked him. Dorsey added the text, I'm officially banned from Web 3. Dorsey went on to rant about decentralization, Web 3, and the blockchain earlier this week and called Andreessen's A16Z VC firm by name. Researcher Jane Mansion Wong pointed out that several other tech execs have also blocked Dorsey. Good reporting, Jane. Samsung announced its 2022 Neo QLED TVs and gaming monitors will support the recently announced HDR10 plus gaming standard. This includes support for variable refresh rates up to 120 Hertz and real-time color calibration. Samsung and A data also announced an 8 terabyte PCIe 5.0 SSD for consumers. And if you're in the enterprise, a 15 terabyte model. Sorry, I drilled a little. Engage. LG showed off a media chair concept ahead of CES, which features a curved rotating 55 inch OLED TV attached to a reclining chair. LG said it's working with a Korean massage chair company to commercialize the concept. Lenovo announced it will suspend in-person attendance at CES. Lenovo was the first major hardware company to pull out of the trade shows in-person component, but not the last as Intel then announced that it would minimize its in-person presence at the show. Alphabet's Waymo also announced it would attend the show. I would not attend the show in person. All these companies will still participate virtually, though. You think they just send the autonomous cars. And Bloomberg has seen internal Amazon data that indicates between 2018 and 2021 as many as 15 to 25 percent of new voice assistant users stop actively using devices after just two weeks. Bloomberg says Amazon predicts the market will expand 1.2 percent annually for the next several years. That's on Echo devices. A 2019 document claimed new users discover half of the features they will ever use on an Echo device within the first three hours of activation. All right, folks, if you want to hear us talk about something on the show, one way to let us know is our subreddit. Now, we won't be doing new shows until January 3rd, 4th. But around that time, you want to get a submission in there, go to dailytechnewshow.reddit.com. Well, Jenny Josephson, it's time to finish up our last live show. I'm really, really happy that you could join us. We wanted to finish with a quiz of questions to finish out the year about the technology events that happened this year. But are you prepared for that? No, I really feel like if I could raise my eyes to the sky and wish for help, it would be a lot better for me because I haven't been as plugged into the tech universe as I would like to be. So is there any way my Christmas wish could be granted? Well, let me just shout some names out into the atmosphere and see if the magic of Christmas can make them appear to help us out. Chris Ashley, Chris Ashley. Yo, I'm here poof. Oh, my gosh. Dan Campos. Dan Campos. All the way from Mexico City. We pulled him in. It's amazing. Let me try this one. Rob Dunwood. What up, though? Oh, hey, I worked. I'm here to make sure that I get the answers wrong to bring the quota of right to wrong to put it in place. Yeah, balance out the world needs balance, Rob. We appreciate it. Can I try one? Yeah, yeah, go for it. Okay, I want an old school DTNS early guest who shouldn't currently be awake. Would that be Nate Langson? Oh, this is British Santa, you mean? Oh. Jenny's powers reach across oceans. That's right. All right. Let me let me try one. Patrick Norton. I can even turn off mute. Oh, that is magical. Truly a Christmas miracle. All right. And just because you know, he's always there. You know, he's always in the background, but our producer, Amos Anthony Lemus. Hello. All right. I have got I have got a little bit of quiz music for us to bring us into this. And I have an ability to tell you if you are right or wrong. If you are right, you will hear this. If you are wrong, you will hear this. Patrick Norton, you had a question. Did Richard and Jenny not get the email about this being a very beardy podcast? I just noticed that. This is the only time I've ever seen this many beers in one podcast. I just spent an hour getting rid of my mustache. Don't make me bring one back. That's the one gift Santa will never bring. All right. Our first quiz question will we will first our first round, we will go in order by person, but each person can call on another person to aid them. So Jenny, we will start with you. The question is, what was the first story on the first DTS of this year, which happened on January 4th? Okay. So I obviously don't know the answer because I wasn't daily watching and listening to DTS, but I'm going to say that it either has something to do with, because like there's only a couple things you talked about at the beginning of January. It's either something to do with CES or something to do with Julian Assange. You're very close. You're very close. Would you like to call on Nate Langston for assistance? Yes, I would. Yes. Was I on the show on that day? I would say CES, but I would assume it would be something about it being cancelled. One of those two answers she gave was happening in the UK. That's why I picked you as a hint. Well, it has to be Julian Assange, of course. Indeed. Indeed it is. UK Judge Vanessa Beritzer of Westminster Magistrates Court ruled that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange could not be extradited to the US at that time to face trial on charges of violating the Espionage Act. Well done. Well done. Thanks. Thanks. All right. You gave me the answer. That will take us to Dan Campos. Dan Campos, your next up. Remember, you can answer the question or you can toss to another contestant to help you out. Here's the question. A ransomware attack caused no shortage of fuel but fear around it caused a run on gas and short term shortages in the United States. Who got attacked by that ransomware? I believe I know this one because we recently made an episode about this kind of topics on NTX. So I believe it's colonial pipeline and I believe that the villain in there, it was Thanos. No. Dark side. Dark side. That is correct. Well done. Well done. Indeed. All right. That takes us to you, Rich Strafilino. Uh-oh. This is an open category, special question so you can all join in on the answer because the first one to answer is the winner. When I say shortage, you say chips. Actually most of those answers were correct. But the answer we were looking for was chips. Well done. Well done. All right. Over to you, Chris Ashley. Here we go. Are we ready? Ready. This is a deep one. I'm in at three point stands. It's been a while. All right. What are the three names the company that runs Instagram has operated under since it began in 2004? Yikes. I'm going to need some help. So let me get my pal right back in here. Jenny, hook your boy up. Okay. I only know this because I'm an old lady. I think it is Instagram, Facebook, and Metta. Two out of three. Again, the question was, what are the names the company that runs Instagram now? So I'm not going to count Instagram wrong because it was a little bit of a confusing phrasing. Because they were originally a different company. So this is the company that now runs Instagram has been under three names. What are those? What is the third one? No. Someone else's answer. I've done my part. All right. So let me get my partner in crime, Mr. Dunwood. What was the third? Let's go with the Facebook. Facebook. Correct. Correct. Now, we would have given bonus points if you had said Metta platforms, Inc. But Metta does operate under the trade name Metta. So that is still correct without the full incorporated teamwork makes the dream work. Let's go. All right. This brings it over to you, Rob Dunwood. Are you ready? No, but let's go ahead and go anyway. Jack Dorsey stepped down as CEO of Twitter November 29th. What was Jack's first and actually the first ever post on Twitter? I feel like I should know this, but unfortunately I don't. So I want to need a lifeline. Who do you want to throw your lifeline to? Patrick. Mr. Norton, you might know something like this. I see you googling in the background. You might know this. Yeah, I'll be honest. I googled this because it just sold as an NFT for $2.9 million. That is correct. The tweet was quote, just setting up my Twitter. How do you spell Twitter? TTR. I can read the Google. But you spelled it wrong. It was T-W-T-T-R. That is correct. Just setting up my Twitter without any vowels in the Twitter. All right. Over to you, Nate Langston. You get an open-ended question. Congratulations. Here is your question, Nate. Are you sitting comfortably? No, but that's only because I'm twisting so I can still get the cat in shot. Good. Name one effect you felt from Apple restricting third-party ad tracking. That would be less relevant ads in Facebook if I used it, which I don't. Wrong! You did not experience that because you don't use Facebook. Oh, okay. I experienced my wife complaining about it because she does. Correct. Good answer. Good answer. Also, I hadn't used the wrong sound effect yet, so I had to take the opportunity. Yeah, did anybody actually feel any real effects from Apple restricting third-party ad tracking? I did notice all the small businesses around me were like really sad that they couldn't get personalized ads. I did notice that. They were all just crying a lot. It had nothing to do with the bottom. That is why I know my wife was noticing because they work with a small business. They have a small business. There you go. That makes sense then. All right, Patrick Norton, it's on to you. Are you ready for your question? I'm going to keep my hands up so I can't type. Seriously, right? Oh, nice. Eckerd Orcher sweatshirt there. I like that. Thank you. Here is your question. GameStop stock started January at $18 and rose to above $300 by the end of the month. Name at least one catchphrase associated with the GameStop meme stock phenomenon. Stonks. Stonks! Literally all I said for days. Anybody got any other favorites from the meme stocks? I mean, to the moon is probably another common one. There's several I can't say on a family-friendly podcast. Sure, sure. I appreciate you throwing that caveat down. Diamond Hands was another one I enjoyed. All right, we are on to the top row. So this brings you in to the conversation. Amos, Anthony Lemos, are you ready? Uh-oh. That's Anthony for yes. Yes, I assume so. Digital artist Beeple sold an NFT of his work every day's the first 5000 days for $69 million at the 255-year-old Christie's auction house. What is Beeple's given name? Well, you might want to call on Dan. I think Dan might have an idea. Yeah, Dan, hopefully you know because I know. All right, if it's only the name, it's Mike, but you need the full name. Do you know the full name? Mike, Winkle, Winkle, Winkleman, I don't know. Correct! Wow! Mike, Winkleman, aka Beeple. Why are the Winkle people always involved in such strange things? The Winkle Voss twins. There's the Winkle Vi, there's the Winkle Steans. What is it about the Winkle? Rip Van Winkle. Yeah. Didn't Danila Ice's name Winkle something? It wasn't really. Bongo Winkle. Rob Van Winkle. Rob Van Winkle, yeah. So, Roger, are you participating? I see you have your camera off, but do you want a question? Sure, hand me a question. All right, here we go. Roger Cheng in May AT&T announced it was doing something with Warner Media. Be as accurate as possible in describing what that was. Oh, geez. I should know this because I was producing that show. And show your work. No, I'm just kidding. I am drawing a complete blank. So, as I look across my checkerboard of faces, who should I call? Can someone look? Oh, rich? Does rich? Rich, no. Does rich have an idea? So, I believe, yes. I believe they're spinning it out. I'm going to say spinning it out. Spinning it out. Spinning it out is technically correct. Can anyone else? Selling it. They're selling it. Yes. Correct, but less correct than spinning it out. They put it out to the farm where old media properties go. That does sound like a life. Beautiful farm upstate. People get to play with other brands like Pan Am and TWA. Good tab. Was it was it? It was a direct TV, was it? No, no, no. Direct TV was an AT&T spinout this year. I was going to say something along the lines that they spun out a Harry Potter, but I don't think that's correct. The precision that would have got you top scores, although you are correct, is creating a joint venture with it in combination with Discovery Inc. That's what I was going to say. Oh, then you were absolutely correct. Just working on it. I was working up to it. We are back to the top. Jenny Josephson, are you ready for another question? Sure. All right. Remember the SolarWinds attack? The SolarWinds attack happened technically in December 2020, but we had news about it all through 2021. It's usually referred to as the SolarWinds attack, but which platform operated by SolarWinds was the one that was breached? What SolarWinds sub-brand? Well, I know all I can tell you are the companies that I remember it being affected by. So I'm going to be wrong, but I want to be right while being wrong. Sure. So the NSA was one, I know. Work it out, Jenny. Uh, everything, but I know the NSA was involved, but I don't remember the platform unless it was AWS. Wrong. No, does anyone else know the SolarWinds brand? It's something. Can I jump in? Sure. Yeah. I could be a little wrong about this as well. So it's something like astrological related. Yeah. Okay. Is it, is it, it's like Solaris or Polaris? No. I knew it's like something astrological. I inserted into so many headlines. Why don't I remember? It's astrological and I'll give you all a hint. It has a belt. Oh, all right. All right. I definitely didn't know that. SolarWinds, all right. Very good context. Jenny got it. Yes. It was handed to me on a platter of stars by Tom Merritt and I got it. All right. We're back around to you, Dan Campos. LG stopped making its own phones this year and licensed out its brand. What was LG's share of the market in Q3 2020 as close to the percentage as you can get in Q3 2020? What was LG's share of the smartphone market? All right. They actually came out of the market. I believe that it was really low. So I am guessing about 3% lower. What? 1%? A little higher. Okay. 2%. 1.91%. Good answer. That is a lot higher than I would have guessed if that was my question. I was going to go less than one. I was like, yeah. So was I. Yeah. It was less by the time they actually got out, but Q3 was the last was the last market share that they had on the day that they got out of it. All right. To you, Rich Strafolino, LG stopped making its own phones. I'm sorry. I already read that one. The ruling in the Apple versus Epic case came down on September 10th, going mostly Apple's way, but ordering Apple to allow mentions outside two ways of paying outside of its app store, which they eventually got to stay for. But focusing on that September 10th decision and that original case, who was the judge? I'm going to go with the old judge, Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers. Indeed. Wow. Right off the top of your Santa hat. Well done. Got the quiz brain on. I think people are looking at you with the suspicion after that. You write it so many times that I have an aunt Yvonne. So if you write a show, I believe you know. That's my, that's always my little. All right. Chris Ashley, this one's coming to you. All right. Let's do this. And it's an Apple question. And I'm actually curious if anybody on the pedal could get it, but you get first shot. I go name one of the Apple announcements from April 20th. It was for 20, but that doesn't relate to the answer. I'm going to take a guess. They announced a new Apple TV. They did. Do you remember what it was called? Nate has a finger up. You might want to call on Nate. All right. Come on, Nate. Bring the heat. Is it the 4K Apple TV 4K? It was indeed the Apple TV 4K. I remember considering it, but I was like, and I never pulled the trigger, but I just couldn't remember that part. My always, my guess with Apple is better cameras on the phone. Better screen time with the phone, but they didn't, they didn't, I think they announced a new color of an iPhone technically, but not one of the main announcements. Anybody remember anything else from that announcement? HomePod mini? Not that one. No. Is that when they announced their, I can't even think of the name of them, their tile-like devices? Yes, you don't remember what it's called. The AirTag. AirTag, does it? AirTile clone 3. I think it's hilarious that you remembered the announcement, which was probably the only significant announcement that day, but none of us could remember the name of the actual product. The other two things were the iPad Pro with M1 and the iMac with M1, AirTag and Apple TV 4K. There were also some Apple TV plus announcements and stuff, but that's all the hardware there. All right, it's coming over to you, Rob Dunwood. Are you prepared? Let's go. Facebook took an aggressive position regarding an Australian law this past year. What was that action? Is that back when they passed a law Australia did that made Facebook and Google pay for content from like news sources? That was the, that is the long question. Yeah, it had not passed when Facebook took this action, but they took it preemptively saying if you passed that. And I think Facebook pretty much said, no, we're good. In what way did they say, no, we're good. They, they were, they refused to do it. Oh, I'm trying. I can't remember anybody else. I remember this story, but I can't remember the specifics. I think I think Dan will jump in and help you. Yeah. Australia stopped existing in Facebook at that moment. Well, a little overstating it, a little overstating it. Oh, well, yeah. Well, yeah. Can you pull the news content? Yeah, I blocked all news content on Facebook in Australia. Correct. That is, that is correct. Yeah, I was thinking that's what it was, but I don't, did they go that far? I couldn't remember if they actually did that if they did, they did, but here's the bonus question. Do you remember how long that action lasted? How long was news gone from Facebook in Australia? I must say 24 hours. Yeah, it was, it was only a couple of days. A couple of days is closer. Yeah. A week, a week. Less than a week. Six days. Four calling for it's three friends. And there's still no news in Facebook. Many dozens of hours. Okay. This is one only someone who writes for Bloomberg could get. Nate Langston, are you ready? All right. Oh, yeah. Go on. I have no idea of any. I would not have gotten this one. I'm just going to say, like there, this is, this is, this is, we're getting into the tricky ones now. On January 4th, what did the Taiwanese United Daily News report that Foxconn had been commissioned to prototype? Got this. I mean, was it, was it an Apple car? No, not a car, but it was for Apple. Apple VR, Headsetty, Sunglassy. No. AR, VR. No, I'm going to have to pass. I can't remember. Anybody? I thought it was an EV too. Yeah, I thought it was two types of foldable phones. There was a lot of talk about prototyping cars. That was later. Yeah, I was later in the year. All right. What may be the most difficult question that is created for this quiz goes to Patrick. Are you excited? I'm so excited. Slightly terrified. Everybody help Patrick with this one. Please. I'll be very impressed if anyone gets this. What did the GPT-3 Dal E add on do a good job drawing when given the short natural language phrase as a prompt? What? So Dal E was an add-on for the GPT-3 algorithm, and you could give it a prompt, say draw this and it would draw it. What did it consider to have done a good job drawing? This is the exact second I became old. And it was used as an example in the press release. There's actually a couple of them and one that it did not do as well. Flower? No, there's no flower. Can I take a stab? Yeah. Yeah. Sheep? No sheep. I thought dolly maybe. A pineapple. Not a pineapple. I thought it was a watch. Was I closer? Was it an avocado? No, it was an avocado what? Not just an avocado. Toast. Toast. Avocado toast. It was not avocado toast. Was it like furniture? Yes, it was. An avocado armchair. Armchair. Rob, you had that. No, I didn't have it. I looked it up. You looked it up. Oh, he had it. He just had it handed to him. The other one it did well on that there's just no way. A baby daikon radish in a tutu walking a dog. Yeah, sure. Right. And it did not do as well on a snail made of harp. Oh, that's a tough one. Yeah, especially because they didn't specify whether they meant the beer or the musical instrument. Oh, yeah. All right, we are around to you. Amos, Anthony Lamos. It's almost important that we say both names now because people, so many people have been like, I didn't know Amos was the same person as Anthony Lamos in the credits. Right, because they hear it in the credits. Yeah, most on the January 8th show, we teased that Roku bought some quibi. What did they buy? I'm going to go with Jenny because she looks excited and I have no idea. I think they bought the leftover original programming that was on quibi that didn't ever air on quibi or in there. Indeed, 75 shows and documentaries. That is exactly what they bought. All right, we're back to Roger if he so desires. He keeps turning off his video though. So I'm trying to conserve bandwidth. I'm sorry. Okay, okay. Got you. What did Verizon get rid of on May 3rd? Was it CNET? No, CNET was not owned by Verizon. Oh, CBS owned CNET. And it's not Yahoo because they still have that. No, they don't. They don't still have Yahoo. I mean, I know the answer to that also. So if they don't have Yahoo. And they don't know they did. So they got rid of Yahoo. Yes, correct. Guys, it's a law of the Internet. Everyone always gets rid of Yahoo. I love it very much, but yeah. We also would have accepted AOL. Both of them were ditched in the same. So thank you all for playing Big Tech Quiz of 2021. Very much appreciate this. Hope you had a good time. I certainly did. So give yourselves a round of applause. And I'll help with some sound effects. Also, thanks to our brand new boss, Maxim. Maxim timed it just right to be the last new boss before we stopped checking for new bosses of the year. Everybody else is going to have to pile in to 2022. But if you do become a new boss of Page Room, we always thank you on the show. So thank you, Maxim. And thank you, Len Peralta, who was illustrating today's show. Len, what have you drawn for us today? Or is he there? I think he did see that he may have left. He may have not drawn. He drew us something though. And it was with Santa with the new DTNS logo as his face. And if you've seen the art, you know that his lack of presence is befitting the art? Because it's a Santa bot, which you can get if you are a patron of Len at patreon.com slash Len. You can also buy it at LenPeraltaStore.com. You please help him pay for a new internet connection, folks, buy his art with just five simple payments. Jenny Josephson, thank you so much for coming back on our last show of the year. We really appreciate it. I have to tell you that nothing so much prepared me for the pandemic and getting along with my virtual colleagues as having virtual colleagues in 2014. So I could not be more grateful. This place really trained me to love and value people even if I couldn't hug them. That's so nice. I'm glad to do that. That's a lovely sentiment. Before you go, get out of here though. You have anything going on you want to tell folks about? Yes, okay. I never meant to announce this, but I do work at Intuit QuickBooks, helping small businesses get through these really difficult times. And because I really enjoy them, I made them a present. I built them a baby video UI at intuit.me slash the hub. And if you go there, you can see a video that I made. You could see all these different videos that all people across QuickBooks made. And we did it for no other reason than we really like small businesses. And that was really fun. And it's a fun place to work, even if I can't work with all of you. So go check it out intuit.me slash the hub. Thank you, Jenny Josephson. And let's quickly thank all of our contestants today. Patrick Norton. Thank you. Nate Langson. Thank you. Wait, no, I shouldn't cheer myself. I mean, thanks. Yeah, yeah, please. No one else is going to cheer. Apparently. So yeah, go ahead and cheer yourself. That's totally fine. Rob Dudwood. Thanks for having me, folks. Chris Ashley. Thank you so much. Appreciate it. Rich Truffilino. Truly a definitive pleasure. And Dan Campos. This was incredible. Ah, gracias. And Anthony Lemos, aka Amos. DCStreamathon.org. Thank you. This is our last live show for 2021. We're off tomorrow for the holidays. DTNS will continue next week with our special holiday prerecorded lineup. Starting with our retro show on Monday. We're going back to the 70s. We'll be back live in person next month, Tuesday, January 4th, where we will be live at 4.30 p.m. Eastern 2130 UTC. Find out more about that at dailytechnewshow.com slash live. See you next year. Merry Christmas, happy new year and all that stuff. This week's episodes of Daily Tech News Show were created by the following people, host producer and writer Tom Merritt, host producer and writer Sarah Lane, executive producer and Booker Roger Chang, producer, writer and host Rich Truffilino, video producer and Twitch producer Joe Coots, associate producer Anthony Lemos, Spanish language host, writer and producer Dan Campos, news host, writer and producer Jen Cutter, science correspondent Dr. Nicky Ackermanns, social media producer and moderator Zoe Deterding. Oh, mods! Beatmaster, W. Scottus 1, Bio Count, Captain Kipper, Jack Shid, Steve Guadirama, Paul Reese, Matthew J. Stevens and J.D. Galloway. Modern video hosting from Dan Christensen, video feed by Sean Wei. Music and Art provided by Martin Bell, Dan Looters, Mustafa A, A-Cast, Creative Arts and Len Peralta, Live Art performed by Len Peralta, A-Cast ad support from Trace Gaynor, Patreon support from Stefan Brown. Contributors for this week's shows included Chris Ashley and Scott Johnson, along with Rob Dunwood, Dan Campos and Patrick Norton. Guests on this week's show were Nate Langson and our consulting producer, Jen Josephson. Thanks to all the patrons who make the show possible. This show is part of the Frog Pants Network. Get more at FrogPants.com.