DGiT Daily Podcast

We get a first look at the first big phone of 2019, the Z5 Pro GT, and it’ll be the first phone with a Snapdragon 855. It’s also got RAM for days. Our roundup features stories about companies behaving badly, Elon Musk’s brand new tunnel, failed space launches, and some end of the year lists.

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is a massive flotilla of garbage that has gathered together via the world’s currents, and we’re trying to clean it up. We’re just not having much luck with it. Our roundup features stories about LG’s rollable TVs, Google’s shelved Project Dragonfly, the farthest known object in our solar system, Saturn’s ring loss, and 75% of launches today that couldn’t take off.

Huawei’s Nova 4 is official, with Huawei bragging about the size of its hole. Samsung’s was sooner, but Huawei’s is smaller.  Is this becoming a thing? We hope it’s not becoming a thing. Our roundup features stories about Facebook’s latest data breach (yes another one), Steph Curry’s moon landing conspiracy theory, the complexity of the professional Santa business, and bottom-up tornado forming.

100,000 bomb-scare emails were sent out to schools and businesses threatening explosions unless payments - in bitcoin - were sent in before the end of the day. Our roundup features stories about speed testing the OnePlus 6T McLaren edition, Tumblr’s triumphant return to the app store, new foreign accents for your US Google Home, 16,000 electric busses in Shenzhen, Facebook’s privacy pop-up store, and a woman who married her (3rd) cousin and found out about it 40 years later.

Intel introduced us to 3D CPU architecture in the form of Foveros. There was a working model at the introduction, so that may not be far away from manufacturing. Our roundup features stories about Samsung Galaxy S10 leaks, a showdown between the Snapdragon and Exynos processors, the Honor Magic 2, Apple’s pursuit of its own cellular modem, sting operations hunting porch package thieves, and the pizza scam of New York.

Google CEO Sundar Pichai testified before Congress yesterday to speak out about search bias, privacy, China and a host of other questions for one of the biggest, most influential tech companies in the world. Our roundup features stories about Bloomberg’s story on Chinese hardware spying, Samsung’s partnership with Not-Supreme, DuckDuckGo’s fight for Duck.com, Huawei CTO’s bail in sunny Vancouver, and a town in Massachusetts who told Comcast where to shove its broadband.

Google+ is getting shut down even faster now that a new vulnerability bug has been found - and patched. But in an even bigger breach of privacy a number of popular - seriously popular. Our roundup features stories about the new OnePlus 6T Mclaren edition, Apple’s China troubles courtesy of Qualcomm, Instagram’s new voice message feature, Star Wars’s Solo screw-up, proving Einstein’s theory of gravity and relativity, Voyager 2’s big day, and Reddit’s last-minute Christmas shopping tips.

OEMs are racing to get their phones with holes in the screen out there. Over the weekend we saw two new phones with another on the way, all bearing this swanky new hole screen. Our roundup features stories about Apple’s new life-saving Apple Watch tech, Waymo’s stumble out of the gate in Phoenix, Alibaba’s new AI-driven customer service agent which is way better than Google Duplex, Elon Musk’s Twitter gate keeper, and the sound of wind on Mars!

Microsoft announced in a post on GitHub that it would use Chromium, the open-source source code used primarily in Google’s Chrome browser. This is kind of a big deal, and sides are already forming. Mozilla is pissed, and Hacker News goes into the gory details. Our roundup features stories about Qualcomm’s new laptop focused processor, a wonderful read from a brilliant writer about a cryptocurrency cruise, game news at the video game awards, and a resurgence of the plague.

Facebook is back in the news and it’s still bad. A cache of Facebook documents from inside the headquarters of Facebook has been released, and not only is it not pretty, it’s very creepy. Our roundup features stories about Huawei’s right to remain silent, Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 855 and OnePlus’s miscommunication, Waymo’s new self-driving taxi service, Luxembourg’s new free public transit, and Die Hard’s status as a holiday movie (it is - it doesn’t matter what anyone says).

We have a lot more details about Qualcomm’s latest flagship SoC, the Snapdragon 855. We’ve got AI, 5G, and all sorts of abbreviations! Also, Duck Duck Go took on Google and Google told them exactly what’s what. Our roundup features stories about Samsung’s prototype Infinity-O device, a dual-screened beauty from Vivo, how to turn off the soap opera effect, Bose’s new AR glasses, Rudy Giuliani’s Twitter misinterpretation, and cyborg houseplants (seriously).

Tumblr is going completely SFW, this is likely due to Apple’s wholesome values, but it sucks for photographers and a large part of the LGBT community. Also, Qualcomm will unveil its new processor, the SnapDragon 855 in Hawaii this week. Our roundup features stories about Samsung’s Mobile crisis, Quora’s data breach, Apple’s far field microphone technology, Tim Cook’s Courage against Hate award, SpaceX’s rat food problem, NASA’a 5-year asteroid project, and the Captain Marvel trailer!

Google’s Best of 2018 Awards showed off the best selling apps, movies, and books from the Play Store. Also, we have three space launches coming this week, which is pretty awesome! Our roundup features stories about the iOS’s improved, but still pretty bad notifications, new Air Pods coming in 2020, an impasse between Qualcomm and Apple, the drop in quality between iPhone X and iPhone XS, Amazon’s expansion of its cashierless stores, why drone deliveries still aren’t a thing, and the smartest p

This is your last chance to win a Pixel 3 XL! Another one bites the dust. Netflix has cancelled its original Marvel TV series, DareDevil, and speculation is that Disney is just consolidating its properties in advance of its own streaming service, but...is it? Our roundup features stories about the Microsoft roadmap, the new Sirin Finney blockchain phone, Google Assistant’s new manners, worldwide Chinese internet, watching porn at Starbucks, and AT&T predicting the future.

Don’t forget to try to win a Pixel 3 XL courtesy of...us! Google Fi is now an official MVNO which you can sign up for today. It expanded its support phone options, but does it make sense for the average consumer? Your mileage may vary. Our roundup features stories about the notch replacement a.k.a the hole, the popularity of the iPhone XR, a case to not buy a launch-day Pixel phone, equipping soldiers with AR, DJI’s new camera/gimbal, the FTC’s investigation of loot boxes and child gambling.