 Coming up on DTNS, MediaTek's latest system on a chip can claim a lot of firsts. Microsoft wants to make Edge the all-in-one browser. And are you ready for robots in your company cafeteria? This is the Daily Tech News for Friday, November 19th, 2021. In Studio Redwood, I'm Sarah Lane. I'm lovely Cleveland, Ohio. I'm Richard Raffalino. And from Columbus, Ohio, I'm Rob Dunwood. Completing the Ohio trifecta and drawing the top tech stories. I'm Len Peralta. And from nowhere near Ohio, I'm the show's producer, Roger Shane. Roger and I, we are outnumbered today. We've got the Ohio trifecta. That's how you know it's good. A show full of buckeyes. It's a good Friday. We were talking before the show about getting into car accidents. And I don't know how to protect yourself in those situations. There is a longer version of the show. It's called Good Day Internet. If you haven't joined yet, please do by becoming a Patreon at patreon.com slash DTNS. Also, big thanks to our top patrons. Today, they include Paul Reese, Dr. X17, and Dustin Campbell. Let's start with a few tech things you should know. Flipkart acquired a majority stake in the online pharmacy startup Sastra Sundar, which works with over 490 pharmacies in India. Flipkart plans to use the stake to launch a healthcare vertical called Flipkart Health Plus. Competitors like Amazon India, Reliance Retail, and Tata Digital have all either launched or acquired online pharmacies in the last year. The US Federal Reserve and FTIC formalized the computer security incident notification requirements for banking organizations and their bank service providers. Under this new regulation, as of May 2022, so in the future, but only by a little bit, banks must report major cybersecurity incidents to federal officials within 36 hours. It also outlines when banks must report cybersecurity incidents to customers as well. Twitter updated its developer documentation to state it was in the process of discontinuing support for AMP sites. AMP support will be fully retired in Q4 2021. Twitter's Android and iOS apps currently load full web pages rather than AMP versions, so well on their way. Twitter also began rolling out its in-app tipping feature on Android after launching on iOS in September. Facebook said it's testing controls to adjust people's ranking preferences in its newsfeed. This could potentially increase posts from friends and family while decreasing content from groups, for example. The company would also make existing features that impact newsfeed content like favorites and snooze easier to access. And next year, the UK will update the highway code to bar drivers from using devices to take photos or to take photos or play games while driving. The rules will specifically make clear these bands apply even when stopped at a traffic light or otherwise stopped in traffic, but you are still driving the car. Calling and texting while driving has already been illegal under the highway code. Hands-free devices are still legal while driving and the rules will exempt contactless payments using a phone while stationary, so Starbucks is still in luck. All right, let's talk a little bit more about a flagship chip that potentially could change things going forward. Rob tells us about it. Absolutely, strap in, because this is a long one, you're about to go ahead and read this. So seeing a media tech SOC on mobile devices can often lead to an assumption that the device won't have top-notch performance. While the company made stabs at a flagship SOC a few years ago, it's found a lot of success in the mid-range and budget segments. With this strategy, media tech now has 40% of the mobile SOC market share along with 28% of 5G SOCs. Now the company is trying its hand at flagship performance with the ambitious Dimensity 9000 mobile SOC. Media tech is going for a lot of firsts on this new 9000. It's the first publicly announced chip to use the newly designed core in one high power, three mid-tier and four efficiency core configurations. Media tech claims geek bench multi-core performance on par with Apple's A15 chip. In the Android world, media tech says it offers 35% better performance while bringing in 37% more efficiency than other flagships. It claims 35% better graphics performance and 60% improved power efficiency with its 10-core Mali G710 GPU compared to other flagships. Its AI processing unit claims 16% better performance than Google's Tensor SOC. Its ISP will support AK AV1 decoding, support up to 180 Hertz HDR displays, supports up to 320 megapixel image sensors or up to 332 megapixel sensors used simultaneously. Even its 5G modem claims some impressive specs with the first use of 3CC carrier aggregation at sub six gigahertz to support downloads up to seven gigabits per second. The modem does lack millimeter wave support, which is media tech is saying that is based on needs outside of the US. Commercial devices for this chip are expected in Q1 2022. So what I think is gonna go on here, you're gonna see companies like Oppo, One, Nokia, even Samsung on their lower devices like the A32, they are about to get really, really competitive with higher end devices that generally come from Samsung and Apple, but you're still gonna see them at this mid-range or maybe higher mid-range price point where you can get a really high-end phone as far as the way that it works, but at the prices of a six, seven, $800 device as compared to one that may cost as much as twice as much as that. And I know TSMC's new N4 mode is, it's a big deal of the announcement. And Rob, it does sound like if you're interested in this, you're pretty pumped, it's pretty cool. But for someone like me who's like, cool, how does this make my next smartphone better? So I think that what this is doing is that, you still wanna have folks who I wanna get whatever Samsung S is the high end, I still wanna get whatever iPhone, the new Ikean 14, whatever the highest end model is, you're still gonna have that. Well, this really does, particularly folks who are into Android, it's gonna allow you to get a relatively high-end phone at a mid-price. I don't think anyone would expect these MediaTek SOC-driven devices to cost the same as what like the new Galaxy S22 will when it comes out next year. But you might see specs that actually operate like that. So I think you're just gonna see, once again, the utilitarianism of phones to where I don't need to have the highest end, I can get kind of close to it and maybe pay half as much. Yeah, and the challenge here, I mean, no surprise here, ongoing chip shortage, they're coming out and announcing this, they're still partnering with TSMC. Obviously they have, they make a lot of chips, but if they're the first to announce this, but not necessarily based on this new ARM design, not the first to ship with that. I know they're saying Q1 2022, not too far off, you should maybe see devices at CES or something like that, they're gonna be using this new chip. That comparison to the Apple performance though, again, as a chip nerd, a lot of things to be excited about here, just kind of cool design choices that they're making, cool specs that they're showing off. As an end user, you just really care, it's like, okay, is this laggy? Can it support? Does the display look nice when I scroll on it? You know what that high refresh rate does? Can I watch all of my media on it? It's not gonna be a problem. Are my games playing nice? That benchmark of Apple A15 performance is kind of top of the mobile field, depending on the benchmark that you're looking at, obviously all those caveats, if it can hit that, and again, not necessarily hit the Apple price point, like Rob was saying, a big shift in how we perceive media tech chips going forward for sure. Rich, I think you're, go ahead, Rob. I just wanna say like the tensor processor, it just came out. I don't even know, you can say a few months ago, but this is saying that these devices are gonna have 16% better performance than something that Google just released. So like I said, I think you're really gonna see high-end devices with that low mid-range to mid-range price set, which is gonna excite a lot of Android users. Well, should we talk about robots, everyone? Please. Please say yes. Okay, because we're going to. Wired had a great write-up today about everyday robots. You might say, everyday robots, what's that? Everyday robots is actually a fleet of 100 robots, 100 plus, in Alphabet X's Mountain View headquarters. And those robots have a job, and that is to keep things nice and neat within those headquarters. So for example, picture this, at 1.30 in the afternoon, a one-armed robot enters the company's cafe, has four wheels, has some cameras, light our sensors on the head to understand where to go for navigation. The point of this robot is to clean the tables in the cafe, because, I don't know, maybe somebody left a mess after their sandwich, and have as little disturbance to humans who might also be in the cafe as possible. So after determining a table is empty, and again, the lighter and the cameras are going to be able to do that to the best of its ability, the everyday robot covers the surface of the table with a disinfectant, it's clear, using a squeegee arm, which is connected to its arm, and then withdraws the arm to squeeze out the excess fluid into a bucket attached to a space. Now, Wired notes that after a few weeks, people eating lunch are seemingly already used to sharing their space with the fleet. Now, you might say, how many people are really in the cafeteria? Well, not that many people are in an office 100% of the time at this point, but it's not nobody. It's sort of a good time to test this type of thing. Everyday Robots is a project of X. The cafe is one of several testing spots on the Google campus, where a small percentage of employees have returned to in-person work. The Everyday Project wants to act as a bit of a proof of concept that robots can operate in the wild, living amongst the rest of us, not just in controlled environments like factories, where they already do really well. Previously, the company tested robots sorting trash into proper recycling bins, for example. Norwegian engineer Hans-Peter Brandmo joined X back in 2015. Now the leading everyday robot effort after Andy Rubin departed the company, and you might say, okay, well, Everyday Robots sound useful, but what about the robots that do backflips? I've seen those YouTube videos, or scale walls, or buildings, or do superhuman Spider-Man type stuff. Brandmo tells Wired, quote, you might say our robots are slow, but what they're actually doing is fully autonomous, and they're working in the world that we live in, and they're actually learning to do things, simple tasks that are getting more and more advanced. We're bringing robots that can live and work alongside us into the world that we live in, as opposed to us moving into the world that they live in. Cleaning tables, not the only thing that Everyday Robots has learned to do, a project to help them open conference room doors in order to check carbon levels inside closed conference rooms to make sure that humans are safe to go in after the fact, took about 10 hours, and then once you get it right with one robot, they all learn it. There have been ballet trials to see how well they can mimic the moves of a classically trained human dancer, for example. So we're not stopping with conference rooms, everybody. And one of the things that's really interesting about this is that Google has been using, or Everyday Robots has been using virtual training to amplify this, right? So you're not limited to, oh, there's not a lot of people in the cafeteria, so perhaps you're not gonna have this huge sample size, or you're limited by the amount of robot runtime that you have, like theoretically, these robots can literally only be in one place at a time, so you're limited by that. This has been a huge trend that we've seen with Waymo, we've been seeing this with what Facebook is kind of offering with a lot of their toolkits for like kind of the soft robotics and stuff like that, where you're able to, with machine learning, kind of do this virtual training much more rapidly, so you can do stuff in 10 hours that would ordinarily, you'd have to build up a huge real-world data set. And then with that, you can then refine it going forward, which is theoretically just opening the door for a lot of these more autonomous use cases, and if they can figure out the economics of this, it makes it very interesting. I like the fact that they are using that AI learning, where they're running simulations to figure out what the robots are gonna do, because you pretty much know how the robots are going to act. What is nice, or the timing is nice, is that we are still in this post-pandemic, the cafeterias are not gonna be that crowded, so the unpredictable part are gonna be people. I know me. I'm gonna throw a piece of ham at the robot just to see how the robot responds. So... Rob, how did you? Fewer people, while these things actually fine-tune, they're training, they fine-tune how they operate. It's probably a good thing as compared to just having a full campus of people, and you have a fair amount of them like me, you're gonna mess with the robot to see if you can get it off this game. I mean, I gotta say, not that those of you who are like, I work for Alphabet, and I don't wanna go back to the office ever, and those of you who say, I want to go back to the office, and there's a small crossover of people who actually are in the office at least part-time. This is a great time to test these sorts of things. Now, sure, Google's campus is one of the largest in the world. All companies can't perform the same trials as Google, certainly not, and this is very early stage days, but it sounds like, and again, this wired article, they spend a little bit of time just observing and seeing if it, I don't know, seemed like some crazy novelty where everybody was like, oh my God, the robots are coming in, and that was not the case. It sounded as though at least the folks, and again, these are folks that probably work in the ex-department in some form, so they're sort of used to this, but felt that it was pretty unintrusive. All right, well, next up here, Microsoft will expand its online shopping tools and Edge plan to roll out support for price tracking on recently viewed items. Microsoft already offers a lot of kind of e-commerce-related tools like price comparisons, price history, and built-in coupons. Microsoft is also piloting a feature to make it easier to change a leaked password. Edge already includes a leaked password monitoring feature, but this new feature would then automatically navigate you to the site to change your password directly, and then Edge has a password suggestion tool to create a strong unique password as well. In other browser news, Brave announced this week it was adding integrated crypto wallet support to its browser rather than using an extension, and it offered an official Brave extension now that it's just built in the browser. This adds to a number of cryptocurrency and privacy features that really has been the browser's hallmark since it's kind of been out there. Seems though like kind of the bigger narrative about this is that across the board, we're seeing browsers just getting more complex. Some would call this feature rich. Other might say, hey, everything's getting a little bloated out there. Seems like every major browser is adding features. Just this year, Chrome has offered things like instant captioning for video as well as text fragment linking so you can link directly to jump to a specific text. Firefox is at focus mode and expanded user profiles. Opera launched cashback shopping features, kind of following along with what Edge has been doing. Kind of like looking at these features added to there. Are we past the point where browsers can be, I don't know, just a browser, Rob? I'm curious what your thoughts are. Yeah, I think so. In the case specifically with Edge, they have for last year or two, it's been faster than Chrome. It opens up faster than Chrome. It's actually a really nice browsing experience when all you want to do is browse. The problem for Microsoft, people are still using Chrome. Chrome is, it is the browser of choice for just about Earth. So I think what Microsoft and with Brave what they're deciding to do is like, well, you know what, we have the speed, let's try to keep the speed, but let's add other things into our browser. Now we know that that's going to make the browser heavy and maybe run a little slower, but can we pull some market share by putting things in our browser that maybe Chrome has to have added with an extension? It's just, you can just do this thing and as you can just do this thing in Brave and see if we can pull some market share there because honestly it's not really close compared to what Chrome has over these other browsers. And I think this is kind of a side effect, another side effect of basically every browser outside of what Safari being Chromium based also is like, you literally can't, I don't want to say you can't, it's very hard to differentiate in performance when you're all using the same open source, you know, kind of platform to build off of. So you need kind of feature ads to be like, oh, hey, I can save $2 on this pack of pencils I'm going to buy, thank you, Edge or whatever, you know, stuff like that. And we've seen Microsoft utilizing their OS advanced, you know, they're baked in OS advantage with Edge to kind of push people to the browser as well. That's kind of a little bit of a separate issue. And I think the other thing is this also, you know, kind of going to Brave with moving an extension into a core browser feature is that extensions, I've just seen like they're just kind of an endless security nightmare. And so the ability, like the idea of, oh, it's nice to be able to extend only get the features that I want. I think a lot of browser makers are rethinking that from a security perspective as well. You know, Brave announcing the integrated crypto wallet rather than extension into the browser. Now this is Brave, Brave known for security, privacy. That's what Brave does well. That's great. I've had a little experience with this sort of stuff in extension land with other browsers. Shall not be named, Chrome, Firefox looking at you. And you know, where you're kind of like, even with a VPN, this is a little, it's a little squirrely. I think that what Microsoft is doing seems to be catching up with what some other browsers who may have less market share just do better. And that makes perfect sense. It will be interesting to see what a browser does, six months to a year from now. And I guess if you want just like a completely stripped down browser, there's still like the open source Chromium browser which theoretically has a lot of this stuff stripped out that is available. And there are some open source options and stuff like that that definitely don't have the market share and don't have the development resources necessarily but can still provide you I guess with that purely stripped down version. 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Thank you, Nika Monford, obviously, of the Snob OS podcast and NF Frequent Contributor to us on this very show. Thank you, Nika. All right, well, Sarah, Rob, here's a new thing you need to hear about NFTs. Just kidding, they're everywhere just today. This is just the rundown of NFT stories we saw in the headlines today. We had the NFL is selling NFTs attached to game day tickets with Ticketmaster. We had Macy selling Thanksgiving Day Parade themed NFTs with proceeds donated to charity, and Adidas will sell NFTs tied to an unspecified event and you don't really own them. Anyway, it can be a lot. If you can't keep up on all the NFT twos and believe me, you probably can't. Australian artist and programmer Joffrey Huntley has a solution for you. The NFT Bay, modeled to look almost identical to the Pirate Bay. The site actually offers a 15 terabyte torrent that claims to offer all the NFTs from the Ethereum and Solana blockchains. That'd be clear. Huntley considers this to be an art project, not like he doesn't really expect you, I guess, a ton of people to download all of the 15 terabytes even if you could. But he does make an interesting point about NFTs kind of as part of this. Huntley claims that most NFTs don't actually store any media on the blockchain itself. Rather, most often they just hold a link to the content the token is attached to. If this links out to an online data store or some other web server, like Google Drive or even AWS, something like that, it likely at some point may not be available, potentially compromising the value of the NFT itself. Huntley himself thinks NFTs have a future as a form of digital representation, but is skeptical that it actually requires a blockchain. He's thinking about the value of, he compared it to the blue check mark on Twitter as that kind of token having value, but it's more about expression of representation than necessarily being tied to the blockchain. So, Rob, are you gonna be downloading the 15 terabytes to get all your NFT artwork? I won't be downloading the 15 terabytes. That I won't be doing. But I am interested in just seeing how NFTs are being used with media, with music, with art. And I had someone explain it to me, and that's it, just put in layman's terms, because why would I pay money for something that I can get for free? And the way they explained it to me was that, think of when you do a Google image search. You can go see millions, hundreds of millions of images when you search for them on Google. You don't own that image. You don't necessarily have a right to that image, but you can actually see the high resolution expression of that image when you go look at it on Google. When you have the NFT, you have a license, or you have a right to say that you have a piece, or you have some, you know, ownership is probably not the right way to say it, but you actually have some license to that image, to where you could then sell your version of it to someone else, that you could pass it down to someone, and there is an associated value, whereas you can't just go take a copy of the Mona Lisa or a picture of the Mona Lisa that you get off of Google and say, hey, I want to start selling these. I now own this, but with an NFT, in some ways you can kind of do that. I know that I'm probably have NFT experts are saying, oh, Rob, you're doing a horrible job, but you know, the way I understand it is that you don't own the thing, you own a right, or a license to the thing that you are ultimately able to pass on for monetary value. And one of the things that I think Huntley kind of points to, but I think also deserves some clarification, is that whole point about, hey, this just points to a URL, so like if you buy this, an NFT representing a digital artwork, that may actually, you know, not be available in the future. There is an incentive though, for whoever the creator is, or the owner, or like the platform that's hosting that, because there is a royalty dynamic to NFTs. So like, that's one of the reasons they're really, they're interesting to a lot of artists, is they get a royalty anytime the NFT changes hands. So like if you're an artist, you have an incentive to keep that piece of art available in the way that it's documented in the blockchain, so that you can, that it won't decrease the value of the NFT and kind of go forward with that. So I do think that is something that as a consumer facing product, sometimes it does get forgotten, in that, you know, the artist or whoever the, I guess the maintainer is, has a vested interest in keeping that available. Huntley's point is still well taken though, that you know, if it's just pointing to a URL, that may not be there at all times. This kind of just, you know, to go back to our conversation about the all in one browser and what a browser can't do, this feels like the same idea. You know, you have so many people, myself included who kind of go like, NFT is mildly interested, at least just to know what I'm talking about, but it depends on, you know, where do I find, you know, if Len Peralta has an NFT that I might be interested in, I need a reminder of where that would be. And if there is a more central repository, sort of browser ask, you know, that is able to make a lot of this, these commodities more available to people who are interested, even if they're just browsing or even if they're buying, I think that that's gonna be what this looks like in the not too distant future. Yeah, and I think that's, it kind of reminds me of the challenge of the web initially, like when we think about, like the blockchain seems like this othering thing, like where it's like, all right, it's this ledger, it exists out there, it's permanent, but like, I feel like as we become more comfortable with that, the idea of, like to your point about central repository and NFT enthusiasts tell you, the blockchain is your central repository that you can always find all this stuff. And that would be like, But as a browser, that's what I'm talking about. And I feel like it's, a lot of it is a front end problem and also a still newness to this as a consumer product, certainly. And the same way that the early internet, when it was text-based had the same, you know, kind of a same perception issue. We need, we're at the links version of blockchain right now, and we need Mozilla or the Netscape navigator to come in, right? Something like that. Something like that. Yeah. Yeah. I will just say this, if you buy digital art, download it along with your NFT, save yourself from trouble because you're right, it could, that link could go to nothing at some point. So if you're buying NFTs, make sure you download them and physically have a copy of whatever digital thing it is you purchased. Rich, what's in the mailbag today? Sarah, I'm so glad you asked, because Michael wrote in with some thoughts about the whole Apple repair program that they announced this week. He said, I thought of a different angle on Apple on the whole right to repair part sales thing. They're gonna be able to sell specialized tools for phone repair to thousands of individuals who otherwise would have gone to a central repair shop. There's probably decent profitability in enabling people to repair their own devices using a guide that you provide. I view it as a, oh, I need the special action, or Apple suction cup to remove my glass, and also this Apple screwdriver. There's gold in them, their hills. And Michael, I would say certainly, like just kind of reading this, certainly Apple could make some money off of that. I would just say though that like, I fix its level of profitability is at a several orders of magnitude different than Apple's existing level of profitability. So maybe that was definitely a consideration. I'm sure they wouldn't do it to lose money, but you know. There's a limit. Well, I'd love to hear your thoughts on this whole story. Apple sells a $20 microfiber cloth that has an Apple logo on it that you could get without the Apple logo for like a $1.99. Why not do this with other stuff? It's just, is one of those things to where, you know what? We have to allow people to fix these things. You're gonna have some people who are gonna want to do it themselves. They'll sell them the official Apple branded version of the screwdriver, let's just, you know, they'll sell them the Apple branded version of the suction cup as compared to letting them go to some other company where they can buy those things and we not actually make a profit off of it. Well, if you have feedback on anything that we talk about on this show, anything we might talk about on a future show, we would love your feedback. The way to send it to us is via email, feedback at dailytechnewshow.com. We also want to give a special thanks to Najee Najumi, who's one of our top lifetime supporters for DTNS. Thank you for all the years of support. Najee, keep it coming Najee. You're the best. Also thank you to Lynn Peralta, who's been drawing up a storm this entire show. Lynn, what do you got for us? Well, you know, before the show started, I was gonna draw everyday robots versus pirates. I think, oh man, who is the winner? In the end, I went with the pirates because pirates are fun to draw. Robots, I've drawn robots before, but I don't think I've ever drawn a pirate for this show before. And this is a pirate, you know, and it's also a great idea to use all the pirate vernaculars. So he's saying, yo-ho-ho, 15 terabytes of NFTs, maybe quite the booty. You own nothing, scurvy dog. Arr, so I don't know. That was taken for what it's worth. This is actually, I'm probably gonna turn this into an NFT after the show as well. So that could be in that 15 terabyte group of stuff as well. If you want to get this, if you just get it at my Patreon, patreon.com forward slash Lynn or at my online store, lendperaltastore.com, where of course I am drawing custom holiday cards for all who want them. So check it out, lendperaltastore.com. Excellent. Yeah, you might have said, well, you know, robots versus pirates, the pirates kinda take over the robots. They're good pirates. I agree. After all. Rob Dunwood, also good to have you on the show today. Let folks know where they can keep up with what you've been up to lately. Well, just chugging along with a couple of podcasts, the SMR podcast and my new show, The Tech John. And you can reach me at Rob Dunwood at all things. So just at Rob Dunwood, you'll find me. Excellent. Well, folks, you probably already know this, but just a reminder, we're live Monday through Friday at 4 30 p.m. Eastern. That's 21 30 UTC. You can find out more at dailytechnewshow.com slash live. We would love to have you join us live if you can. 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