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tata","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0}],"full_text":"would you look at that a stranger stepping in to warm themselves with some good old-fashioned tech news and of course some piping hot cocoa well i would be happy to oblige that's right in this old speakeasy we're taking a look at the biggest tech stories of the year before we ring in yet another year probably full of overpriced and impossible to find goods but there'll be no sad faces tonight because it's the 2021 techlink christmas special you better smile this year started with one of the most heartwarming tech stories ever because it was about the people rising up and fighting back against the elites on wall street who seemingly evaded any real negative outcome from the whole thing but hey we had fun that's right the story of game stunks started when members of the r wall street bets subreddit inspired by a redditor named keith gill aka value managed to collectively drive up gamestop's struggling stock price by 3 000 from its 52-week low crashing brokerages with the strength of their passion but ordinary people aren't supposed to be able to manipulate the stock market like this that's wall street's job so it didn't look great when the wall street bets subreddit and discord were taken down temporarily popular investing app robinhood restricted gamestop stock and was even found to have sold user stocks without permission leading to a class-action lawsuit against the app and an investigation by congress but the meme stock crowd didn't stop at gamestop dogecoin saw a similar surge leading robin hood to restrict that too it was the establishment however there were plenty of analysts pointing out that while reddit raids on certain stocks may be new the risk inherent in trading is not and it's likely that just as many or more people ended up worse off than they started but the game stunk saga had a lasting impact on the amateur investors scene which probably directly fed into another of our main stories nfts but before we get to that the first half of the year was also dominated by another story epic's epic lawsuit against apple over the 30 revenue cut it takes from iOS apps epic continued trying to convince legislators that apple should open up its app store filing a second lawsuit in the uk and sponsoring a number of state bills through its coalition for app fairness none of which actually went anywhere but either because of epic's loudness or a general change in the vibes apple and other tech giants made a number of changes to their app stores microsoft matched the epic game store's 12 revenue cut apple and google reduced their standard 30 cut on iOS and Android to 15 for small developers and apple also settled a separate lawsuit allowing developers to email their users about third-party payment options in august south korea passed a law requiring mobile app stores to allow third-party payment options and apple made one more concession allowing reader apps like netflix and spotify to include links to pay for subscriptions on their website very big of them in september a ruling was finally issued in the apple v epic trial which was described as both a resounding victory for apple and a big win for epic which was confusing until the actual legal analysts finished their opinion pieces and it became apparent that this is not the outcome epic wanted they would have to pay apple millions of dollars and sure apple was required to allow developers to include buttons linking to third-party payment options within 90 days but they successfully won a stay on that order and with both apple and epic appealing the result it's unclear what if anything was actually accomplished this year other than getting fortnite gamers all riled up there's a lot more to this story and in fact i'm almost done my tech longer on it so stay tuned for tech longer number two this video is probably already too long but the apple vs epic was a canary in the antitrust mine because almost every major company was investigated for anti-competitiveness and exploiting dominance that uh yay it's not in the christmas spirit at all NVIDIA continued trying to buy ARM for over a year a deal that was actively opposed by qualcomm google and others who would have to deal with NVIDIA gloating about being basically the most important chip maker in the world if it went through don't don't want that as of this month the ftc has sued NVIDIA to block the acquisition so i wouldn't hold your breath if you are a fan a big fan of NVIDIA buying other companies this year google threatened to suspend australia's search privileges and facebook blocked australian users from sharing news links because the boys down there wanted google and facebook to pay news outlets for the privilege of linking to australian news articles both companies eventually made big cash deals with australian news conglomerates just before australia passed the law that would see them find otherwise never try to bluff an aussie they've played knifey spoony too many times google and apple also made plays that were marketed as privacy wins for consumers but which actually solidified their power over their respective ad ecosystems google's flock system to replace third-party cookies ended up being delayed until 2023 due to industry concerns but apple's tracking transparency feature is currently live in iOS 15. although apple also added the ability for iOS users to opt out of apple's own tracking in addition to third-party advertisers and lastly microsoft got all anti-trustee for a second when they made it super difficult to change the default browser in Windows 11 to anything other than edge but eventually backtracked after they realized everyone saw exactly what they're doing it's like why are you sneaking why are you sneaking around i just i can see oh microsoft but perhaps the story that affected nearly everyone this year is the global supply chain issues that made buying electronics harder than the lump of coal i'm putting in my son's stocking this year why won't he sleep in february it was thought the shortages would last maybe until june or later which eventually got amended to mean until 2023 small typo while some combination of pandemic-inspired dips and spikes in demand are thought to have initially caused the shortages for pc gamers things were exacerbated by crypto miners and scalpers buying up stock of gpus as soon as it was available leading NVIDIA to re-release old models like the gtx 1050 ti now last i checked electronic sales are part of the economy so understandably u.s president biden stepped in and announced a 37 billion dollar plan to address the chip shortage the benefits of which will not be felt for some time in what was ostensibly an attempt to discourage miners from buying gaming gpus NVIDIA released gpus specifically for crypto mining and added an ethereum mining limiter to its new rtx 3060 which the company said was unhackable yeah that was that was funny then NVIDIA accidentally leaked a driver that made the limiter very much hackable they followed up with special mining limited versions of the other cards in the rtx 30 series lineups were which were eventually also hacked oh well at least gamers could take some comfort in knowing that even scalper bots were having a hard time finding units in stock because they would sell out immediately Intel announced they were getting back into the foundry business and there were times when we thought you know hey maybe this will uh maybe this will end soon hope on the horizon you know and then other things happened like a giant boat blocking the suez canal or a fire at a chip factory or ransomware attacks on the colonial pipeline and the world's largest meat supplier where am i going to get my meat stock shortages are now just kind of a fact of life in a world where you need a 200 membership to buy a ps5 at best buy so maybe we should look at the positives we got to witness a dangerous mob of gamers russia micro center and a truckload of gpus gets stolen like it's fast and the furious out there but hopefully u.s lawmakers pass that bill prohibiting scalping of high demand goods because i'd like stories like that to remain fiction we've got more top stories of the year coming right up brought to you by secret lab makers of chairs engineered to keep you incredibly comfortable for long hours at work and play their new titan evo 2022 chair keeps you feeling comfortable for longer hours with 4-way lumbar support ultra comfortable seat material options and more all chairs come with up to a 5-year extended warranty and a 49-day return policy so head to the link in the description and check out secret lab today now not mentioning cryptocurrency or nfts would be as big of a mistake as not investing in the future of art and basically everything and revolutionary things is going to change all everything you know in your mind etc so we have to talk about it one could argue the current craze was kicked off when legendary digital artist beeple sold a collection of his first 5 000 daily creations as an nft for 69 million dollars through christie's auction house a development that rankled some true crypto art purists which i every one of whom i imagine to be dressed like a matrix character at all times but it nevertheless led to an nft gold rush that saw twitter founder jack dorsey sell his first tweet for nearly three million dollars and countless bots sell nfts of stolen art some brands got in on the fun charmin sold toilet paper nfts atari sold gaming nostalgia nfts and in a more positive story sir tim berners-lee sold part of the original source code for the web as an nft donating the proceeds to charity see they can be okay but not everyone is boarding the crypto hype train india is considering banning or regulating cryptocurrency while china has gone for the nuclear option metaphorically the ccp banned crypto mining in the summer then banned all cryptocurrency transactions in september going so far as to cut off power to certain regions which affected unrelated factories supplying components to apple Intel and others meanwhile el salvador became the first country in the world to make bitcoin legal tender and the experiment is not going super well with the crypto industry being shaken by numerous heists hacks and pump and dump schemes you know about the squid game one and you should have saw it coming while many game developers and digital platforms have announced and then canceled nft plans including steam which banned all nft based games other companies and people are forging ahead like peter molyneux his game legacy sold 54 million dollars in land tokens and ubisoft refuses to acknowledge that their quartz nft system for ghost recon is kind of flopping love them or hate them nfts are probably here to stay at least until each revolutionary one-of-a-kind eight-based pyramid scheme in which they exist collapses speaking of collapsing it seemed like something like that was in the cards for facebook this fall after the company was rocked by numerous whistles being blown about its inner workings after sustaining criticism for stopping researchers from finding out how the facebook social platform operates the wall street journal published internal research showing the company knew that instagram can be bad for kids mental health particularly teenage girls facebook halted development of its kids-focused instagram app to avoid some of the scrutiny only to be hit with a coordinated barrage of articles from multiple publications about the facebook papers a series of internal documents showing facebook's suppressed moderation teams worked to undermine apple's efforts to protect user privacy and generally made social media more toxic than it already was fortunately soon after that facebook rebranded itself as meta and effectively started a publicity cycle about the metaverse a super connected super social next version of the internet to recap facebook made everyone forget about their horrendous internal workings by announcing they were making basically the entire internet a virtual reality social platform what is this year did you know microsoft released a new operating system this year no no not Windows 10 x that died a horrible death in secret i'm talking about Windows 11. while there were some reasons to be excited like the new microsoft store's excellent revenue sharing scheme and support for Android apps the hype pretty quickly died down because of the hardware requirement for a trusted platform module or tpm and when Windows 11 officially launched on october 5th it was plagued with a host of bugs which took many weeks to fix as of now adoption is estimated to be anywhere from two to nine percent of Windows users who can't really see a good reason to upgrade just to make the number go up by one although that is fun chin up microsoft maybe people just need some time to get used to Windows 11. it's like nfts you know they'll get there hey let's end on a positive note this year the right to repair movement transformed from a few people whining about not being able to use their fancy screwdrivers more to a national topic of interest lewis rossman deserves much of the credit for starting a gofundme in march to campaign for right to repair legislation and a few months later joe biden issued an executive order directing the ftc to establish new regulations now do i want to make the claim that those two things are directly related i mean this is kind of a jokey low effort video so you know what yeah yeah i do louis rossman is the president of the united states microsoft committed to making its surface devices more repairable and later announced a partnership with ifixit valve posted a repair guide for the steam deck while also telling people they probably shouldn't actually try this fair enough and even apple announced a self-service repair program that will let people repair their iphones without voiding their warranty walled gardens are opening up our screwdrivers have things to do again you know what maybe 2021 wasn't so bad a year after all even cyberpunk steam ratings got to a mostly positive now obviously there are way too many stories that we didn't get to cover in this episode but i think that's plenty of tech news for one yuletide eve so from my tech news to yours merry christmas time to count some sugar plums these are all new ultra rare sugar plums that are going to be triple their worth a year from now you just trust me tata"}