Samsung reports it sold four-times more foldables in 2021 than 2020, LG’s 2022 smart appliances include a ThinQ Recipe app, and TuSimple completes its first trucking run on open roads without human safety drivers.
It’s time to look back on the year that was 2021. As many of you know we have DTNS and a longer show that patreon’s get called Good Day Internet. So our producer Joe combed through both shows to look for some highlights that exemplify the big stories, the interesting discussions and the fun diversions. Here is the best of 2021. Enjoy!
Staring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang and Friends.
Multiple versions (ogg, video etc.) from Archive.org
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 2330 UTC/1530 Pacific for Good Year Internet!
Find all the details, including the full schedule, at ritualmisery.com/streamathon
Instagram’s Adam Mosseri says the app will “rethink what Instagram is” in 2022, Waymo is working with Geely on an autonomous EV for ride-hailing services, and Tumblr updates its iOS app with a large list of blocked tags.
When DTNS is dark, usually for a holiday, we put Daily Tech Headlines into the DTNS feed. We’ve decided to expand this policy to include any time DTNS isn’t releasing a regular live show. So for this holiday week schedule, we’ll be including Daily Tech Headlines into our regular DTNS feed along with our pre-recorded specials.
Multiple versions (ogg, video etc.) from Archive.org
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 2330 UTC/1530 Pacific for Good Year Internet!
Find all the details, including the full schedule, at ritualmisery.com/streamathon
Microsoft founder tells computer hobbyists that software should be protected. The Queen of England sends an electronic message and a new fangled spacecraft combines aeronautics and rocketry! It’s the biggest tech stories for 1976.
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 2330 UTC/1530 Pacific for Good Year Internet!
Find all the details, including the full schedule, at ritualmisery.com/streamathon
China’s tech crackdown reduces available mobile apps 39% since the end of 2018, more major tech companies cancel physical presence at CES, and Movano plans a slim smart ring for 2022.
Getting a new streaming device this holiday season? Here are our favorite shows and movies we discovered in 2021 (and a few we abandoned). With Cordkillers producer Bryce Castillo
THE KILLIES FOR 2021: Drive to Survive/F1TV Pro (Netflix/Formula 1) Hometown Cha Cha Cha (Netflix) Invincible (Amazon Prime Video) 2ndJerma/Jerma985 (YouTube/Twitch) Toast of London (Channel4/Netflix) Inside Job (Netflix) WandaVision (Disney+) Defunctland (YouTube) Squid Game (Netflix) Vincenzo (Netflix) Harley Quinn (HBOMax) It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia (FX/Hulu) The Expanse (Amazon Prime Video) Hacks (HBOMax) Luca (Disney+) Mr. Queen (Viki) Star Trek: Lower Decks (Paramount+) The White Lotus (HBO) I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson (Netflix) Succession (HBO) Evangelion 1.11/2.22/3.33/3.0+1.01 films (Gainax/Amazon Prime Video) Ted Lasso (AppleTV+) The Mitchells vs. the Machines (Netflix) We Are Who We Are (HBO) Loki (Disney+) Nobody (Universal Pictures) Tom’s Abandonee: Kim’s Convenience (CBC/Netflix) Brian’s Abandonee: Dave (FX/Hulu) Bryce’s Abandonee: Good Girls (NBC)
It’s our last live show for 2021! We’ll be joined by OG DTNS producer Jennie Josephson along with whomever drops by during the recording as we test ourselves to find out which news stories had the biggest impact on our memories.
Tom Merritt, Rich Stroffolino, Jennie Josephson, Roger Chang, Amos, Joe, Len Peralta, Robb Dunewood, Chris Ashley, Dan Campos, Patrick Norton, Nate Lanxon