Hurruah! It's 2024 and Ted and Gareth are back for another year of dribbling over tech. On this show an investigation into the sexy streamings on Twitch, Google's and Apples app store action, the Incognito mode judgment, Nuclear container ships, a tough tablet from Samung, a little ebook reader from Onyx, Samsung AI, Motorola AI, Microsoft AI, Google AI and the Retroid Pocket 4.





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Logitech G Yeti Orb Microphone (https://amzn.to/47kmIsq) - HardwareZone Review (https://www.hardwarezone.com.sg/revie...)





SoundCore AeroFit Pro Earphones (https://amzn.to/47fMM7T) - Ted’s Review (https://tedssalmagundi.blogspot.com/2...) - (with free SoundCore Motion 100 (https://amzn.to/3H03QnA) )





…but no Marshall Acton III (https://amzn.to/41ILoJJ) which I begged Santa for - the mean, petty-minded bag’o’shyte





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News, Mews and Views





Google and Apple might have to play nice with external app stores in Japan (https://www.androidpolice.com/japan-s...)





China’s Nuclear-Powered Container Ship: A Fluke Or The Future Of Shipping? (https://hackaday.com/2023/12/26/china...)





Game Over: The Tech That Died in 2023 (https://www.pcmag.com/news/game-over-...)





Police to be able to run face recognition searches on 50m driving licence holders (https://www.theguardian.com/technolog...)





Portable, non-invasive, mind-reading AI turns thoughts into text (https://techxplore.com/news/2023-12-p...)





2023 vs 2022 – UK Broadband and Mobile Speeds vs the World (https://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php...)





Google agrees to settle $5 billion lawsuit accusing it of tracking Incognito users (https://www.engadget.com/google-agree...)





Cleavage but no underbust, please for those who present as women: Twitch bans "implied nudity" among streamers (https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/clea...)








Hardline on the hardware





Sony dips toes into VR, publishes patent for trackball foot controller (https://www.notebookcheck.net/Sony-di...)





Onyx Boox Palma review: The bite-sized e-reader (https://www.androidcentral.com/tablet...)





Samsung Galaxy Tab Active 5 images and specs leak featuring S Pen (https://www.sammobile.com/news/galaxy...)








The Wearables Watch





This awesome [absurd-looking] watch lets you play your favourite classic games on your wrist (https://www.xda-developers.com/retro-...) The retro gaming watch (https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/...)





The original Pixel Watch's long-awaited notification sync feature finally arrives (https://www.androidpolice.com/dnd-and...)








Phone Zone





Motorola Razr: next-gen edition slated to launch as first-gen ...