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2:08This right here is the Daily Tech News for Tuesday, March 17th, 2026. Happy St. Patrick's Day. We tell you what you need to know, give you some important context, and faith in Begora, help each other understand. Today, NVIDIA announced a lot about its profitable data center chips at GDC, but gamer backlash against DLSS5 is getting a lot of attention. It's funny. The first stories I saw were all like, ooh, this is good. And then like immediately everyone not liking it. Me? Oh, I'm Tom Merritt. I'm Sarah Lane. Let's start with what you need to know with that big story.

2:46Yes, indeed. We have a lot to tell you from NVIDIA. So we'll save the DLSS 5 stuff till the end. But let's start with the data center stuff. NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang made several big announcements. First and foremost, they are confident about making money. Previously, the company forecast it would make$500 billion in sales from NVIDIA's data center chips by the end of 2026. Monday, Huang extended that by another year for a total of more than a trillion dollars by the end of 2027. So he really didn't increase it. He just said, well, we'll keep making 500 billion, maybe a little more. To further make that case for the market being real, that this is not a bubble, Roche, the pharmaceutical manufacturer, said it has deployed more than 3 ,500 Blackwell GPUs, calling it, quote, the greatest announced GPU footprint available to a pharmaceutical company.

3:43nvidia also discussed deals with ibm hp enterprise adobe and uber uber is going to use nvidia to handle fleets uh it's going to handle the fleets that run on nvidia autonomous car software byd and geely also going to be using nvidia's autonomous taxi platform as well we also have chips because it's nvidia nvidia announced the nvidia grok 3 lpx its first product to come from its acquisition of the talent behind chipmaker grok it's that weird thing where grok still exists but they like basically bought everybody from grok to come over to nvidia um we must always remind you though that this grok has nothing to do with xai's grok that is with a k this one's with a q uh the grok with a q two different two different very different both in a this is isn't this the definition of trademark confusion when you have to anyway um the grok with a Q, 3LPX, is an inference server rack with 256 GroK language processing units, or LPUs, and 128 gigabytes of SRAM.

4:53That's where all the RAM is. They'll be manufactured by Samsung on a four nanometer process and be available in the second half of the year, along with the previously announced Rubin server racks. Roughly speaking, the Rubin chips are for training your models and And LPUs are for inferencing, a.k.a. answering your queries. If you would like an orbital data center, which is an actual thing being explored by multiple companies, not just the one you've heard of, NVIDIA announced Space One Vera Rubin, a space-oriented version of Rubin with 25 times the space-based inferencing of the H-100 that it sent up into space.

5:34It will be used to operate in orbit by Etherflux, Axiom Space, Kepler Communications, Planet Sophia Space, and StarCloud. Sarah, I imagine you're wondering, but what about OpenClaw? Yes, that was my next question. Well, I'm glad you asked. NVIDIA is getting into the OpenClaw game with NemoClaw, which adds NVIDIA's agent toolkit to OpenClaw. Among other things, that adds some privacy and security tools, specifically new open source security runtime called OpenShell. The new product is formally known as the NVIDIA NemoClaw stack for the OpenClaw agent platform. Great catch. Okay. I'm up to speed.

6:17Yeah, yeah. We'll be throwing that one around right and left. uh nvidia announced the nematron coalition uh along with thinking machines lab cursor and mistral to develop an open model trained on the nvidia dgx cloud and looking to the future the next generation of data center gpus after ruben will be named after richard fineman so their tradition of naming after physicists will continue and video announced it will sell computers running on its own vera cpu uh so it didn't give as many details about cpus this time as as i kind of expected uh but they did indicate that they'll be putting those in computers that you can buy all right you gamers got an announcement whether you liked it or not uh nvidia showed a preview of dlss 5 what it does is real-time rendering to add realistic lighting and some coloring to go along with it to game frames, which make computery images look more realistic.

7:16DLSS 5 will come this autumn. If you have an NVIDIA 50 series GPU, you can use it. Major publishers including Bethesda, Capcom, NCSoft, Tencent, and Warner Brothers games will support it. And they show demo video of it being used in Resident Evil Requiem, Hogwarts Legacy, Starfield, and EA Sports FC. If you're concerned about how this changes the aesthetic, NVIDIA's Jacob Freeman said developers, quote, have artistic control over DLSS 5's effects to ensure they maintain their game's aesthetic. So even though it's changing the look, the developer controls how it changes the look. Bethesda backed this up by posting on X, this will all be under our artist's control and totally optional for players.

8:03You cannot turn on DLSS 5 if you want to. Now, people are complaining that this is AI slop. A lot of people think it looks bad. A lot of people think it looks great. Sarah, what do we think? Well, so my initial reaction, because I've always thought, and I think it was one of the articles that I read about this this morning is someone saying, we're just used to those video game characters who sort of have the dead eyes. Yeah. They look human-esque, but not really. I mean, you know the difference. And this makes them look a lot more human. And for me, because I don't do a lot of gaming, none of these games that I saw examples of this on, I have personally played.

8:48When I looked at the examples of before and after, you know, which was NVIDIA's kind of PR thing, I was like, wow, that looks way better. Isn't this great? but I can I you know thinking into it a little bit more not necessarily just as the end player but as the artist who put a lot of work into something looking a certain way maybe it is supposed to look a certain way and this reminds me a lot of you know when you mentioned AI slop that sort of like AI making everybody look more beautiful yeah you know like you look younger you know your hair is better you know your the bags under your eyes are gone and that is not necessarily a bad thing i mean i use it on stream yard but uh but it also it does tend to make everybody look a little bit more the same in the same way and i can see where people say no no no let me decide if i want to do that or not and to nvidia's point you can yes you can say i don't i I don't want to use this.

9:52As an artist, you can say, we're going to dial this back a little bit more or make this work for us a little bit more. I don't think NVIDIA is doing anything wrong here. I can't really see a reason that someone would be hateful of this unless you just say, I don't want AI to be on top of the artistic product that I was given initially. Yeah, it definitely feels like an I object to the idea of this being some kind of algorithm that is making this look the way it looks. I thought it was interesting. The register felt like, yeah, it looks like a really good AI generated photo, but that still looks better, which, you know, the register isn't known for pulling its punches.

10:38So I was I was very curious to see that take, whereas Engadget was was like, this is a bunch of slop. This looks horrible. This looks like the kind of thing that's made by Sora and Vio, and you can tell, and I don't like it. And I think both those opinions are perfectly justifiable. However, I think as long as it's up to the game maker to say, yes, this is how I want it to look, we are getting very close to just dismissing tools out of hand because they're tools, which is sort of a Luddite position, rather than actually judging whether they make a better video game or not. Yeah. And I'd love for anybody who does have a strong opinion about this, and you know who you are out there, to say, I want something to be as photorealistic as possible.

11:24Because to me, these do look more realistic. They look like real people more than the original versions. But do you want that? Is that something that you're looking for in your gaming experience? And maybe for some people, it's like, no, no, no, it's a little too much. And also a little too much kind of in the same way, the lighting, you know, the wrinkles, uh, it is, it's definitely, it's adding a, it's basically an Instagram filter for our modern age. Very similar. Yeah. I mean, sometimes we don't want realism. That's why we have cell shaded graphics. That's why we like eight bit and 16 bit games and stuff.

12:02Uh, but I think that there is a place for video games to be more photo realistic. And it seems like that's something most video gamers have appreciated in advances up till now. But yeah, you know, I'm curious if there's somebody who says that I have an objection that I don't think is just anti-LLM. I think this looks bad because of this. I'm curious what that argument would be because I'm sure there's some good arguments in that vein out there. I know you talked about a lot of other stuff that NVIDIA announced. I would like to know more about the partnership with Roche just because we hear a lot about, you know, the pharmaceutical industry getting so much more power to make us all live forever.

12:48I mean, that's not necessarily what they're saying here, but it's like, okay, great. What are we going to cure faster? I want to know more about that. I love the idea of it. It's like, give it to the people who are going to cure cancer. Thumbs up. But how? How? How are we doing that? There's clearly good articles out there about drug discovery and how these algorithms can do lots of protein folding, for example, to be able to accelerate drug discovery. But I'm with you. Roche seemed to be there to prop up NVIDIA saying, look, we're selling plenty of chips. And maybe this isn't the place for it, but I'm also curious what comes out of being able to use all that power from Roche specifically.

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16:33There's more we need to know today. Let's get to the briefs. Tom, as one foldable opens, another closes the window. Oppo's Find N6, with an almost invisible crease, almost, has launched in Asia, the Middle East, Australia, and New Zealand. Quite a few markets there. At the same time, Samsung told Bloomberg it is ending sales of its Galaxy Z Trifold, which launched in South Korea just back in December. Once inventory in the U.S. is sold out, it will be discontinued here as well. It's also listed as sold out on the Samsung site. So it may be available in some Samsung stores, but basically they had a first run and they're taking their workshop home.

17:17It was only ever available directly from Samsung as well. Last month, Samsung COO of mobile said the company hadn't decided if it would make a follow-up trifold. Yeah, so this clearly was a test. They just wanted to make it, show they could make it, put it out there, see what it was good for. I imagine some of the aspect ratio management that they had to do to make this work will be useful in your bifolds as well. Is that what they're calling them? Bifolds? I just said that as I was saying it. I was like, is that right? I mean, that makes sense. That's what I call my wallet. So yeah, I think there is a place for a trifold.

17:59People seem pretty excited about it. I think the price was too expensive. It's interesting to see Samsung pull it so fast. But I can't imagine somebody in China isn't going to continue along the trifold. We've already seen a couple of models out there, right? So this is not going to go away. The Galaxy Z trifold was what? $2 ,400? bucks yeah i mean come on you know it's like it's like that is cost prohibitive that is a if you are really interested in form factors and you've got the disposable cash great you could buy four macbook neos with that yeah i think this is you really could um uh this is a great way for samsung to be like okay who's into this who's using it and why and then they can come back to the table.

18:47Yeah, I think I'm curious what they learn from this. I don't get the sense that this will be like, that's it. We tried it. It didn't work. See you later. But will they try a different take on it? Will they hold off until they can bring the price down? I mean, that is one of the things is that the price of materials for these things is only going up as we're going to hear later in the show. So maybe it takes a couple of years off before they bring it back. I think also the idea of having three screens, you know, the trifold, you know, when it's, you know, fully folded out can be a little daunting for the average person.

19:28I mean, myself included. It's like, I'm looking at one screen right now. Granted, my desktop monitor is quite large, so I don't need another one. But it's like, if you're using three different screens and you want to make the most of it i think some people are kind of like i don't know i mean what do i do on the third one you know it just unfolds into one big one the idea isn't to use three screens at once the idea is just to unfold it and like oh now i've got a tablet size screen well yeah yeah but again it it it it it introduces a layer of complexity that i i don't know if it's a problem being solved it's just more of like a, look what we did.

20:07I wonder if they can take a cue from what Oppo did, which is pretty amazing to like use droplets to engineer the hinge. So it has as little crease as possible so that it's almost invisible to the human eye. Uh, I wonder if Apple's going to do something similar to that. Uh, is that another reason Samsung wants to hold off is they want to get their display tech up to snuff to do what Oppo and possibly Apple are going to do, In which case they could then make it so that it's like, yeah, it's just a phone. And then you could make it slightly bigger or tablet size, you know, and you'll never see a crease.

20:41Maybe that makes it feel less complex. The information reports that OpenAI signed its contract with AWS to sell OpenAI products to the U.S. government for use in both classified and unclassified work. That confuses you. AWS has a contract to sell cloud services that are approved. Basically, they host them. OpenAI has a deal with the government to let them use their products. And now they needed this to be like, they'll be hosted on AWS so they can be provided to the US government. This, of course, follows OpenAI's agreement to provide services to the US Department of Defense. That, of course, also follows the DoD's decision to stop using products from Anthropic within the next six months.

21:25If you missed all that, or maybe you just want a refresher, let's bring you back up to speed on what happened with Anthropic. Because I feel like this story has been moving really fast, and it's worth taking a step back and providing the context again. So Anthropic has provided its products to the US Department of Defense starting in 2024. This has been a couple of years. And they are providing basically the same clod that you use yourself. This isn't some special version that does different things. It's been adapted for government work, so it has some modified safety filters to meet government standards.

22:00It has better handing of classified data, but it's clawed. It's a chatbot. Anthropic learned that its tools were used in the operation to bring Venezuelan President Maduro to the U.S. for trial. And in discussions about that, two points of contention emerged. This is where I think a lot of people are playing fast and loose with what happened. So I think this is worth going over again. Anthropic did not want the Department of Defense to use its tools combined with publicly available commercial tracking data, something you can just go and buy from data brokers, because with Claude, you can use that data to de-anonymize people.

22:40And Claude or Anthropic did not want the DoD to de-anonymize data about U.S. citizens. That is technically legal. So the DOD says, hey, if it's legal, we should be able to do it. Anthropic is saying, yeah, it's legal because we haven't thought about it before. Let's wait until the law catches up with the practice because we think maybe there will be some guidelines built around this. And the DOD said, no, we'd rather not. The second one is the one that gets most of the attention, which is autonomous systems. And this one, I think, also gets pretty misunderstood. Anthropic didn't want its tools used to inform autonomous systems to choose targets.

23:19Remember, this is just Claude, but they were basically like, you could ask Claude, like, where's the missile launcher? And Claude would say, it's right there at these coordinates. You could make a system that would then pick those coordinates and fire against them without a human intervening. However, Claude isn't good enough not to make mistakes and pick the wrong target. And Anthropic said, until our products are improved to make fewer mistakes, we don't think they should be in the loop. We don't want to be on the hook for this. Exactly. The DOD just didn't want that to be in the contract. They weren't about to start doing that, but they're like, we want the latitude to be able to move on this once we think it's good enough.

23:54And Anthropic wanted to determine when it was good enough. So discussions broke down over all of this, which caused the DOD to threaten to declare Anthropic a supply chain risk on February 27th. However, I think this also gets lost in a lot of the reporting. The two sides were actually close to a compromise. They were apparently two or three words away from an agreement on March 4th when that Slack chat from Anthropic's CEO was made public in which he claimed the company was being punished for a lack of dictator-style praise. That caused the DOD to just break the whole thing off. They followed up with a formal letter to Anthropic declaring it a supply chain risk.

24:30It's still unclear if any of the other steps, including notifying Congress that are required by law, have been taken. And of course, because of that, in part, Anthropic is suing to reverse the designation. A hearing on a stay of the designation while the court case proceeded is scheduled for March 24th. So next week, we'll find out if Anthropic can get the DOD to not use that supply chain risk designation. Am I – call me crazy, please, Tom, if I am. I know I am. But call me crazy. When we're talking about the Slack chat, I understand that feathers will get ruffled by somebody saying something like that.

25:12This did not seem like that big a deal to me. You know, unless you just you have a fragile ego. Emotions run high in these sorts of situations. I could imagine a scenario where someone says, look, it's very clear now to us how you really feel. Let's just not do business with each other. that would be the reasonable reaction to that becoming public of like you know what i don't think i if that's how you're talking to your employees let's let's just not do business we can go with somebody else instead they had already done the supply chain risks thing so they basically were like well we told you we threatened and then they went ahead and did it yeah well tech ranch has a report on a startup named ruby that's r-u-b-i which is developing a way to turn carbon dioxide into cellulose, which could be used for things like making clothing.

26:02Other startups have used bacteria for similar conversations, but Ruby uses a cascade of enzymes to process waste CO2 and uses some machine learning algorithms to boost efficiency. The enzymes float in a solution, and as CO2 is added, the cellulose suitable for high-quality textiles appears within minutes, supposedly. Clothing retailer H &M is one investor in this project. Yeah, which is why TechCrunch put H &M in the headline. But H &M isn't really part of the science here other than funding it. I'm sure they would take advantage of it. The idea here is pretty fast, though. It's faster than the bacteria synthesis.

26:41I don't know that this is going to take a significant amount of CO2 out of the atmosphere, frankly. But every little bit helps, right? And if you can buy a shirt that took CO2 out of the atmosphere and was made, even if it's synthetic in a way that is considered environmentally responsible, I'm sure you could sell a few more shirts. I mean, H &M, not exactly known for having the most environmentally responsible fast fashion on the planet. So I can see where, you know, a large retailer like an H &M or a Zara or a Forever 21, you know, or, you know, just kind of, you know, big box stores, being able to make a t-shirt that, sure, you know, it sounds good on paper.

27:26We took some CO2 out of the atmosphere and made a t-shirt, but made it cheaply, I think is the key here. Yeah. I wonder, I mean, there's a lot of clothing, so I'd be curious what the numbers are on how much would get removed. There are other uses for textiles like this, long chain textiles like this that are industrial out there. And I wonder if you could get somebody who's like, actually, that's going to be good use in our industrial process where we need this sort of thing. Maybe some kind of material for manufacturing of equipment or something. If anybody is in there like, actually, yes, I know what would use this in large numbers.

28:05Let us know feedback back at dailytechnewsshow.com because then it could potentially become something that, you know, has an effect on the environment. Big thanks to Echo of Oppenheimer for noting this next story in our subreddit. Scientists at Cortical Labs in Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia, who previously taught lab-grown neurons to play Pong, have trained a Petri dish of 200 ,000 human brain cells to play doom. Yes, human brain cells have joined the ranks of things you can run doom on. For comparison, the average human brain has 86 billion neurons. So this is quite a bit smaller than a fully working human.

28:45Of course, they asked him, like, do you think this is sentient? Do you think it's conscious? He's like, I don't think so. That's not very many. We're only at 200 ,000 here, guys. It does show that you don't need that many neurons to play doom though. If you're really good at doom, you're not taking up too much of your brain. You might wonder where these neurons were sourced. They came from one of the scientists, Han Wen Chong, but they didn't take him out of his brain. They took 10 milliliters of blood and then turned the white blood cells back into pluripotent stem cells. This is a common practice that you can use for lots of different things.

29:19And then once you have a pluripotent stem cell, you can program it to become a different kind of cell. And they programmed it to become a brain cell. So I don't think it has Han Wenchang's memories. It's just white blood cells that were turned into brain cells. You then place those on a glass chip. You interface with electric pulses, and then some special code was written to convert game info, so things like your health, your enemy position, your own position, into data signals that the neurons could understand. The neurons then fire in ways that are interpreted as control signals, like left, writer shoot uh the neurons at first weren't doing very well they would take a couple of steps maybe shoot an enemy and then stop but they got better as they played the game more and this could be the more important part of this is scientists learning how those cells were able to learn could help us understand the wider workings of the brain uh chong says he'd like to get it to play pokemon next um but also maybe some more practical things like you know modeling diseases to test drugs for conditions like epilepsy?

30:20Pokemon first, of course. Then we'll go into something like epilepsy. But okay, so this is fascinating to me. The idea that brain cells can play doom, I'm sort of like, okay, good for you. I don't really know. I understand that it's a proof of concept. But the idea that you can take white blood cells out of my body, at the blood lab, and then turn them into what eventually become brain cells, which could then help me in the future. Say I have epilepsy. I mean, I don't have epilepsy, but I've definitely had some brain issues in the past. That is huge. That's a big deal. I don't know how we leap from fun, you know, game playing stuff to that, but it's, it seems like we're getting there.

31:13Yeah. And the pluripotent stem cells is kind of old tech at this point. They've made petri dishes of brain cells for lots of reasons, including playing pong. So getting it to be able to use more of them to do more things. and like you say, and then be able to say like, oh, we can now treat your epilepsy and maybe specifically yours by growing your brain cells in the Petri dish and then seeing how they react to different drugs and going, this is the one that will work and then administering to you. That's pretty great. And all sorts of neurological things, you know, could be epilepsy, Parkinson's.

31:53Yeah, I mean, you know, all sorts of, you know, frontal lobe stuff that people suffer from. It is that, you know, the medical side of all of this is always very fascinating. So, you know, kudos to Han Wen Chong, who's like, use my white blood cells. Let's have some fun here and make people better in the future. Well, you can join in the conversation in our Discord. As always, it's going 24-7, seven days a week. You can join by linking to a Patreon account at patreon.com slash DTNS.

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34:18Pittsburgh's Gecko Robotics has signed a deal with the U.S. Navy to make robots and sensors for inspecting large equipment. starting with 18 ships in the U.S. Pacific Fleet. Sam Altman's Tools for Humanity company has launched AgentKit. This is a way for commercial website to use TFH's world ID, you know, the orb thing that scans your eye. It can use those identifications to verify that there is an actual human being and which human being is being represented by agents. Google has added desktop mode to Android 16 QPR3 so developers can test how their apps work in advance of Android-based desktop and laptop computers.

35:00Ooh, it's coming. Following a release of Android for users in August, WhatsApp users on iOS TestFlight can now also test guest chats. This lets you send a link to somebody who doesn't have a WhatsApp account but still have a chat with them. Nintendo released an update for the Switch 2 that adds handheld mode boost for instances where an original Switch game looks kind of blurry in handheld mode on the Switch too. So the mode essentially provides the same upscaling that you get in docked mode, which will use the battery faster. Yeah, you make the trade-off, but at least they're letting you do it.

35:38Wall Street Journal reports that OpenAI CEO of Applications, Fiji Simo, told employees in an all-hands meeting last week that the company, quote, cannot miss this moment because we are distracted by side quests. We really have to nail productivity in general and particularly productivity on the business front. That's not how Fiji Simo sounds at all. Basically saying like, let's not get distracted doing what sounds like consumer level stuff. Like they're saying, let's go fully business. Let's go fully enterprise. SK Group's chairman told reporters at GTXC that the supply of chips is lagging behind demand by about 20 % and that added capacity won't balance things until 2030.

36:20That's not great news. 2030. I mean, it's not that far off, but, you know, it's not right around the corner either. Yeah. And that's one of the SK Hynix is one of the biggest chip makers for RAM specifically in the world. So they kind of know what they're talking about. And they would have a vested interest in telling you it's coming faster, I think. Sure. Yeah. Thanks to Tech Z Explorer for noting this one on our subreddit. Encyclopedia Britannica has joined the ranks of those suing OpenAI for training on its IP without consent. More specifically, though, outputting substantially similar texts.

36:55So not a new take on a lawsuit, but now Britannica's in on it. Denon has launched its first turntable model with Bluetooth, so you can stream its high-quality audio to a speaker. The DP500BT sells for$899. And as a Denon fan, I say that's expensive, but also I want it. They're pretty. You pay for it being pretty. And they're also good. I'm not saying they're just pretty. They're solid. They're like us. Pretty, but also good. Books has released a new version of its Android-based e-book reader, the Go 10.3 Lumi, which adds a front light, something it didn't have before, and also updates it to Android 15, and it's$450.

37:41Samsung has patched its Samsung Galaxy Connect app, and Microsoft has pushed a fix. For those you might recall, some of you lost access to the C drive. Something very important to you as a result of a bug in the app. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has paused a lower court order which prohibited perplexities agents from accessing Amazon. The agents can now continue to access Amazon while their case is heard. Google is going to let free users of Gemini in the U.S. integrate personal intelligence, which lets Gemini use what Google knows about you from other products like Gmail and Google Drive, if you allow it.

38:19And Wired has a good read called How Invisalign Became the World's Biggest User of 3D Printers. The company that straightens your teeth is transitioning to 3D printers to end longer, more wasteful process of making molds each time you need one. This is a very timely story because I'm considering doing Invisalign again, which I have done once already. Ah, okay. Yeah. Maybe this time it'll be 3D printed. Bottom row of teeth are getting kind of weird. But yeah, I mean, what a perfect use case for 3D printing. If you can't get better. If you can just do it at the dentist too? Yeah. Yeah. No, that's awesome.

38:56We like to end every episode of DTNS with some shared perspectives. Today, Mattia has a thought about why Apple made that MacBook Neo easier to repair. He thinks it has to do with their marketing to schools. Mattia wrote, Schools deal with a constant cycle of accidental drops, cracked screens, worn out batteries, and all the other chaos that comes from putting laptops in the hands of kids. For districts operating under tight budgets, the real cost of a device isn't just the purchase price, but the ongoing cost of keeping it alive for several years. By making the MacBook Neo far more repairable than recent MacBooks, Apple may be trying to reduce that long-term cost of ownership.

39:33Easier repairs mean less downtime, fewer full unit replacements, and a lower total cost per student over the life of the device. That's exactly the kind of math school districts do when choosing between Chromebooks, Windows laptops, and Macs. If Apple wants to regain grounding education, offering a Mac that schools can actually afford to maintain is a smart way to start. Thanks for the great coverage, as always. That is a really good point, Matthea. Yeah, indeed. Indeed. I haven't been in elementary school for a while, but, you know, the Macs used to be like, that's what you would have, you know, a select few kids, you know, could access them in certain classes back in my day.

40:11But it was always Macs, whether, you know, and pretty much nobody had a Mac at home, or at least, you know, not, not in my realm. So that was, that was the classroom thing. and interesting to see how far we've come from those days and how much Apple could really benefit from getting back into the Macs. When I was in college, the computer labs were predominantly at least half if not more Macs. And I think Apple has a proud history of that and they'd like to get back into it. When I was in high school, they were TRS-80s. So it's a little different back then. I don't even remember having any computers in high school.

40:52We had one at home, a gateway. Well, what are you thinking about? Got some insight into a story. Maybe we've talked about something and you said, I've got a great anecdote like Matia did. Send it our way. Share it with us. Feedback at dailytechnewsshow.com. Thanks to Matia for contributing to today's show. Thank you for being along for Daily Tech News Show. And if you see someone who's a patron of our show, thank them as well. If you're already a patron, thank you. You can become one, too. Keep us in business at patreon.com slash DTNS. The DTNS family of podcasts. Helping each other understand.

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