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This is the Daily Tech News for Tuesday, April 22nd, 2025. We tell you what you need to know, follow up on the context of those stories, and help each other understand. Today, Duolingo adds chess, Google divulges its exclusive deals aren't exclusive anymore, and Bodhi Grimm on some fun EVs coming soon. I'm Jason Howell. I'm Tom Merritt. Let's start with what you need to know with a big story.

Yes, Duolingo is launching a new chess course that's designed to make learning the game accessible for everyone. Yes, beginners included. The course uses Duolingo's signature gamified bite-sized lesson approach and includes interactive chess puzzles to teach the basics and strategies of chess.

Now, users can also play short mini matches or full games against the virtual coach, which is a character named Oscar inside the app. Duolingo is aiming to fill a gap in the market by catering to new and intermediate players. Many of the existing tools that are around chess players

Getting better at chess really target more advanced users. So this is really meant to isolate the people who really just want to learn how to play and how to become a little bit better than maybe they are right now. The course will launch in beta on iOS in English.

plans to expand to more users in around four to six weeks. So that'll open up. And then the feature will expand to Android devices. I'm sad a little bit. And additional languages in the coming months. Were you going to jump right on this if it was available for Android? Well,

I mean, I, I jump on it to, to test it out. Chess isn't a game that I play all the time, but it's certainly a game that every once in a while, like, you know, I want to learn how to be a better chess player because it does come up from time to time. I haven't thought of Duolingo as anything beyond language learning, but apparently this is, this is not new that they're kind of branching out to other avenues. It's an interesting strategy. Uh, if people don't realize they also have a math course and a music course, uh,

And so chess is the third in the non-linguistic courses that Duolingo has been expanding into. Also, after years of, I wouldn't say they didn't expand at all, but after years of sort of cautious research,

improvement of their language courses, the language courses have been getting a lot of improvements. I use Duolingo to kind of keep sharp on Korean as I'm learning it. And they keep adding things to it to make it better and better, things that I wish that had been there when I had started at the beginning. So it's interesting to see them also not pivot, but expand to say, well, we're not just a language learning app, we're a learning app.

All the things that they said in the interviews about this were like, no, no, don't expect a bunch from us. We have nothing else to announce. We're not going to throw a bunch of other courses here, but we are going to see how this goes. And I think that's probably on face value, them looking at music and math and saying, okay, that seemed to work. What if we try chess? Let's learn from what people use it for and then decide what other topics they might want to add. So I'm curious what they learned from this.

Yeah, well, as my so I haven't had a lot of interaction with Duolingo over the years. Like I've tested it here and there. And I've I've had, you know, those moments where I'm like, oh, I'm going to you know, I'm going to Italy or whatever. So I might install it on my phone and use it for like two weeks and then I forget about it and then it fades away. So I'm not a regular user of Duolingo. But I do wonder and maybe maybe you are more exposed to this because you have used it more.

on these courses that have nothing to do with language, is there the potential to where Duolingo kind of sprinkles its language learning magic into that as well, kind of like a combined thing? And I don't know how you do that creatively and effectively, but it might be interesting to be like, yeah, I'm learning how to play chess, but I'm also kind of learning how to play chess through a tutorial that's in this language that I'm learning. I don't know.

Oh, yeah. Like you're learning Russian and then you learn chess and Russian combined. That makes a lot of sense to me. Yeah, yeah. No, that's really interesting. I wonder if they've thought of that already, but that's a really good idea that they should.

I mean, it certainly complicates things a little bit further to be like, well, now you're not just learning the rules of the game, but you might have more to, you know, invested in learning that chess game if you're also kind of learning, you know, the basics of the Russian language as far as that's concerned.

Well, certainly they're launching this in English now, but they plan to expand it to other languages, which they have the database for languages. For sure they do. They should be able to do that. And I guess you could just DIY it and say like, okay, I would like to learn chess in Russian and then push yourself.

But if they did it on purpose, then yeah, they could, they could sort of guide you along. One thing I liked in this announcement was that they said that they will allow you to kind of enter in at your level. So like you said, it's, it's new and intermediate players, but if you're intermediate, you don't have to just grind through the new levels. You can, they can place you, so to speak. Although I'm curious how that placement works. If it's self-reported, uh, I,

That's fine, but what I would like these tools to do, and with generative models out there, I feel like they can do it, is to kind of test you and ask you questions and then kind of proceed at the pace that you learn. That is one thing that Duolingo does not do yet in its languages very well. They have some kind of ways of doing it, but to...

to say like hey you know let's adapt the lessons you're getting to how you're learning give you more of the things you're having a trouble with give you less of the things uh that you're mastering right away they have added some things where they they will kind of try to strengthen your vocabulary with lessons which i find extremely helpful and every once in a while it'll go like hey you're doing really well you want to skip this lesson and just go on to the next one but

But those are very basic. I'm imagining something a lot more tailored in the future. Anyway, having the chess app kind of bring you in at your level made me think, oh, that'd be nice if they did that across the board too.

And embedded inside of the app that already exists, or is this an entirely separate thing? I imagine it would just be offered through Duo Lego, and then that has the added benefit of someone who wasn't thinking about starting to learn a foreign language of some sort. Now they're through the door for something completely different. Right, they came in for chess, and they're like, ooh, maybe I should learn this language too. Well, maybe I should learn math. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Well, you know, let us know if you try this out, how it works for you, especially if you're a non-duolingo user. I'm very curious about that. Feedback at dailytechnewsshow.com. DTNS is made possible by you.

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All right, there's more we need to know today. Let's get to the briefs. The remedy phase of the Google antitrust case over search advertising is underway, and some new tidbits are coming out in the testimony. I'll get to those in a second, but just to remind those who haven't been following this super closely, the remedy phase is where the US and Google each try to persuade Judge Mehta, also just side note, the guy overseeing it is named Mehta. It's M-E-H-T-A, but I just...

I just find that constantly amusing. Anyway, they're each gonna try to persuade Judge Mehta what should be done in response to Google's abuse of its dominant position in search text advertising. And keep in mind that whatever the judge decides, Google's gonna appeal it. So nothing's gonna happen right away. And even what the judge decides might not ever happen. Anyway, during the testimony, Google's VP of Platforms and Device Partnerships, Peter Fitzgerald said that Google has a two year contract

to pay Samsung to pre-install Gemini on its devices. The payments include a fee plus a share of revenue. The amount of the payments was not disclosed. Fitzgerald also said Samsung received competitive offers from other companies, including OpenAI, Meta, and Microsoft. Fitzgerald said the Gemini contract is non-exclusive and

and the search and assistant contracts for Samsung have been amended to be non-exclusive as well. Gemini placement is not part of this case.

But the Department of Justice wants to show that this case is already having an effect and that the judge should make that effect permanent. You might think like this would work in Google's favor, like, see, we don't even need the decision. But the DOJ is like, see, once they started feeling the pressure, they started acting better. Let's force them to do that. At issue in this case is Google paying for exclusive search, among many other things.

Generally, you hear people talk about the contract Google has with Apple and how much they pay Apple. But Google also has one with Mozilla. And in the Epic versus Google case, it came out that Google paid $8 billion over three years to Samsung for search, Play Store, and Google Assistant placement. So one imagines they're paying quite a bit of money for Gemini placement as well.

Anyway, the judge will decide the remedy. The judge doesn't have to take anybody's suggestions if he doesn't want to, but he's going to listen to everybody's suggestions over the next couple of weeks. And like I said, Google's going to appeal whatever he decides.

Yeah. And sort of related, I saw this right before coming to record this. Samsung reportedly in talks with perplexity about making it the default AI assistant on its devices. Motorola potentially has an announcement later this week announcing perplexity as a partner. So there is change in the air. There is a challenge of brewing when it comes to these AI smart, you know, smart agents and assistants on these devices. I feel like it still benefits Google more.

For people to hear like, hey, Samsung's got to deal with perplexity coming. So I wouldn't be shocked if Google wanted that to leak out ahead of time. Yeah, totally. That makes a lot of sense, actually.

the US FTC has sued Uber alleging that the company enrolled customers in its uber one subscription service and charged them without consent there's a whole bunch of charges uh from the FTC here the FTC says that Uber made it very difficult for users to cancel memberships sometimes requiring navigation through at least seven screens and 12 actions oh my goodness that sounds like a nightmare customers within 48 hours of their billing date

faced at least 23 screens as well as a customer service call.

Just shoot me now. The complaint also claims that Uber misled customers by promising $25 a monthly savings without factoring in the $9.99 subscription fee. Now, Uber denies the allegations. I think there's even more that I didn't touch on here, but Uber denies these allegations, says cancellations can now be completed in-app within 20 seconds. I have canceled Uber One before, and I don't remember it being paid for. Maybe.

Maybe I blocked it from my memory, but I remember it being something that could just do with a few taps in the app.

That's particularly painful. Like, I don't know that I've ever gone through 23 screens along with a customer service call to cancel anything. So I've definitely gone through the customer service call alone. Like there's no other option. Right. Yeah. Sarah Lane talked about this on DTNS live yesterday, and she has been a victim of being charged for Uber one when she did not remember signing up for it. Now she's willing to say like, maybe I tap something without realizing it, but yeah.

Uh, so, so there, there's that side of this too, of like using some dark patterns to get people to sign up when they're like, wait, when did I do that? So that's, that's part of this as well. Hmm.

Google Messages Beta is rolling out a sensitive content warnings feature that uses on-device algorithms to automatically blur images that have nudity. They do this in search results sometimes, but this would be on your device. The feature is opt-in for adults while supervised users under 18 will have it enabled automatically with parental control in Google's Family Link app. If you're unsupervised, no parental control.

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Instagram released right before Showtime actually edits a standalone video editing app that competes with ByteDance's hugely popular CapCut. The free app is now available on Android and iOS. It provides tools not found in the Instagram app. So you get things like green screen background replacement. You can do subject cutouts, the ability to animate a still image. And then upcoming features include more edit,

uh AI edit capabilities uh key frames and collaboration tools so something collaborative with other users Instagram head Adam Mosseri has shared in the past that edits is intended quote more for creators than casual video makers that's what he said and admits that as a result is going to appeal to a smaller audience than CapCut does CapCut is

really reigns supreme largely on mobile when it comes to this sort of thing. But it sounds like you already put it to the test, even though it was right before Showtime, Tom. Yeah, yeah. I downloaded it, slapped together a bunch of videos of Seven the Dog and myself just to see what it would do. I tried out the green screen thing, which was a little confusing at first how it was supposed to work, but it works per clip.

So I did a little green screen. The green screen is fine. It's as good as like Zoom circa 2020 and blocking out your background. You know, you're going to have part of your head fade into the background sometimes.

But yeah, it seems fine. And what I mostly was interested in was how is the exporting work? So when you get to the export, it will give you the option to go straight into Instagram or Facebook, as you might expect. But then it will also save it to the camera roll first. So it'll save it to the camera roll and then share it to Instagram or Facebook. And then I was able to go into my camera roll and share it to TikTok.

No watermark, nothing like that. So you can use it for other platforms. It just won't be the built-in sharing within the app. And it seems pretty run-of-the-mill as far as editing goes. I imagine Messeri's making all those claims about this being more for creators than casual video makers to explain that it has more features. And so if those features are confusing to some people who pick it up, that's why.

Also sounds like it was an argument in the project management meeting about whether they should lean more simple or more complex. Right, yeah. I mean, I'm curious. Definitely, I don't do a huge amount of like,

hardcore video editing on my smartphone. And I know in certain groups that makes me an outlier because I think a lot of people actually do these days, which is kind of interesting to me. But I am always looking for the solution on a smartphone that isn't painful because I find them all sort of painful. And so I'm curious to play with this one.

Yeah. My wife, Eileen, does a lot of editing on her phone and her tablet using CapCut. So I'm going to be curious what she thinks of edits. And I have used various like Splice I used to use because sometimes I'm like, I've got all the video here. I just want to do something simple. So edits might be a good option for me now. Mm-hmm.

Apple has removed the available now label from its Apple intelligence web page. This is after the National Advertising Division, which is part of the Better Business Bureau national program, recommended the company discontinue or modify the claim. The NAD found that Apple's advertising implied that all of its AI powered features were available with the launch of the iPhone 16 when that was not really the case.

Also, the NAD pointed out that the inclusion of Apple's upgraded Siri below that available now label implied that that feature was there, even though it's still missing from its consumer products. Apple also removed its more personal Siri video from that page as well. And follow continues, I swear. Interesting.

Blue Sky is adding new ways to verify users. Blue Sky itself can verify select users with a round blue checkmark and organizations like the New York Times can be given the ability to verify users like its own journalists with a scalloped edge blue checkmark. This comes in addition to Blue Sky's more complex domain-based self-verification approach. And for now, only select notable accounts and

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Soon, maybe I'll get verified on a single platform. That'll be great. And I won't have to pay for it. Just verify yourself. It's not, it's actually not that hard. Yeah, that's true. I'm verified on Mastodon. I've verified myself there. Yeah. I've verified on Mastodon. I'm verified on blue sky. I'm actually sort of sad that they're going this route of like, we'll pick who's important because I feel like that was one of the mistakes that Twitter made in the early days. But yeah, here we go. Yeah.

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And that's fueling a lot of speculation by many people, including some of the admins there and everything, that it may be gone for good. 4chan administrators have acknowledged the breach and shared that they are working to secure the platform, but the scale of that damage to the architecture, and not to mention the scale of the damage to the kind of reputation of being an anonymous platform, might actually be too great to overcome.

Can you even imagine a modern internet that doesn't have 4chan existing somewhere in the dark corners? No, it would definitely be the end of an era. Rumors of its death may be greatly exaggerated. But as Wired points out, people who like to do the kinds of things that they do on 4chan have a lot of other options these days. So, you know, they may not come back.

Those are the essentials for today. Let's dive a little deeper into an ongoing story and follow up. The choices among electric vehicles, they keep expanding. God, I was, you know, just for my wife's birthday party, it was a big discussion around EV. And, you know, it wasn't just about Tesla. It was very interesting. Tom caught up with Bodhi Grimm from the Kilowatt podcast to talk about some cool EVs coming soon, including the return of an old favorite.

- Bodhi, you're an old favorite of ours. Thanks for coming back. - Oh, stop. Thank you. - It's always fun to talk about what's out there and I think that's really useful, but it's also even more fun sometimes to talk about what's coming. Let's start with Nio. Nio is a company that I have followed for quite a long time. What have they got in the pipeline for us? - So they have a new sub-brand called Firefly.

But depending on the time this is released, this may not be an EV coming soon. This might be an EV recently released kind of a situation. But the Firefly brand was announced late in 2024. In terms of size, it competes with the Mini or the Smart Car. It has a 42-kilowatt-hour battery with a range of 420 kilometers or 260 miles. Nice.

Let's all assume that when this goes to a different market, those numbers might change. Okay, gotcha. But yeah, NIO is saying this is a premium car, and I'll tell you why. Because this car is only going to be released in China, but it's kind of expensive for China. So this vehicle has a frunk. It's a five-seater. It's rear-wheel drive. It's compatible with NIO's battery swap stations, which I think that is my favorite part of the car.

It's not expected to come to the US, but it will be available in markets outside of China like Europe. As a matter of fact, it kind of seems like this was built specifically for the European market. Like I said, April 19th is when it's going to come out in China, but we're looking at $21,000, which is very expensive in China. And then it would likely sell for more outside of China. That's usually the way this goes, but probably not a lot more, right?

Yeah, because there's a cost to shipping it, but also there's tariffs or duties in Europe. So I don't know exactly how much that would actually end up being, but it's definitely going to be more. Well, the next one is good news for a lot of diehard fans of Chevy. Yeah, this is, again, this is another brand and vehicle that people just love, and that is the Chevy Bolt.

So Chevy had a huge hit with the Chevy Bolt. When the Bolt was actually being sold, it just dwarfed any other EV that GM sold. They sold 70,000, 80,000 of these cars.

Whereas they were selling in the tens of thousands of the low tens of thousands of the other vehicles combined. So the Chevy Bolt really kind of bolstered GM's EV proposition. Problem was a lot of it was built on LG technology with some Chevy stuff bolted on.

Then bolted on. I didn't mean to do that. But the new Chevy Bolt will be based on GM's Ultium platform, which, by the way, GM dropped the Ultium name and didn't get a new one. So they don't call it that? No, they didn't call it anything. But it's the same stuff. It's the same thing. Okay. But anyway, they didn't give us... Like, we don't have specs at this time, but it's supposed to be coming out soon. So I would imagine we would see the announcement here in the next couple of months.

Uh, but based on what they did with the Equinox EV, I think this is going to be well equipped as far as price goes. I have to guess that it's going to be south of $30,000 just because the Bolt or the Equinox is at 35, but it's, it's a car I'm excited about. All right. These first two are cars as you might normally imagine cars. Let's, let's turn to something that's got a different form factor on the car.

So, Tom, I know I've brought up Aptera to you in the past. Do you have a picture in your mind? Yeah. Could you describe what you think that looks like or what it looks like in your mind? Like kind of a really big Cushman with wings. What is a Cushman? It's the little cart that people drive around. Okay. Okay.

Yeah, this is the Aptera to me looks like a fuel silage for an airplane. Okay. Yeah, that's probably closer to the truth. And Aptera, it's a three wheeled vehicle, two in the front, one in the back, two seater. It, like I said, looks like an airplane without wings, but Aptera in Greek actually means wingless flight.

So, yeah, uh, this car at the top of the car, you'll find 700 Watts of integrated solar panels that will generate around 40 miles of range per day, depending on, you know, you gotta have optimal conditions to get that, uh, app terror claims on a full charge vehicles, a range of 400 miles. Again, this is a pre-released vehicle. So let's be, um,

hopeful of those numbers it it won't go over we could say for sure for sure uh and this is I found this to be very funny when I was writing this up this morning but recently I'm sure like back in March took one of their vehicles one of their test vehicles to Flagstaff Arizona

And they drove to the Imperial Valley of California on a single charge, which is great. That's about 343 miles, five hour trip. Yeah, it's not a short drive. I've made that drive. Yeah, it's fantastic. The thing is, is I was like, Flagstaff has a really high elevation. What is the elevation of Imperial Valley? So Flagstaff is 7000 feet.

I didn't even know this was is 230 feet below sea level. So there's a thing in EVs where you're going downhill and you take your foot off the accelerator where you're regenerating and putting power back into the battery. You still have to go back up sometimes on that drive, but net overall, you're going downhill. That's a good, really good point. Yeah. Like 7,230 feet. You're going downhill.

So I think it's a bit of a cheat, but it's a cool car in any case. I really like Aptera. They started as a company in 2006. They folded in 2011. Both founders went out and did other things, found a little bit of success, came back in 2019, refounded the company.

And yeah, they're supposed to, and I talked to their CEO at CES, they're supposed to start production, low volume production, which I would say that's probably one car in 2025. But in 2026, they're supposed to start in earnest production.

All right, let's finish up with one last one. And I've talked in other places about people importing these tiny trucks because they're so efficient and affordable and durable and all of that. And it sounds like we have a similar style thing for an EV here. Yeah, so Telo Trucks, they modeled their MT1 pickup truck off of the Japanese K trucks, which are small and efficient, like you said.

And the cool thing about this truck, Tom, there's lots of cool things. The coolest thing is it's about as long as a Mini Cooper. Okay. But it has the interior space of a Toyota Tacoma. That's like a TARDIS. How do they do that? Well...

It's a really good question. The bed of the truck is five feet long, but if you need to put in like a four by eight sheet of plywood, for instance, there's a mid gate and the back seat folds down and that expands it out. So you lose two seats when you do that, but you gain plywood. It also has a pass through cargo space in the bed of the truck, which is similar to what Rivian, the R1T does.

And Telo says this truck is going to start at around $41,000 for the single motor version. And that'll get you 260 miles of range.

But if you're looking at maxing it out without the accessories, because you can go wild on the accessories. But if you're looking to max it out, you're looking about 50,000 for dual motor, bigger battery, Telesys, 350 miles of range, again, an estimate. And that's expected out early 2026. All right. These are great things to keep an eye out for and see if they come to your market. Appreciate you keeping us updated on the future of electric vehicles, man. If folks want to find more of what you do, where should they go?

they should head over to 918digital.com and got podcasts on music, got podcasts on content creation. And of course we've got the Kilobyte podcast where we talk about electric vehicles. - Bodie, thanks so much, man. - Thank you, Tom. - What do you want to hear us talk about on the show? One way to let us know is our subreddit. You could submit stories and vote on them. Go do it. Reddit.com/r/DailyTechNewsShow.

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Thank you, Azar. And then Matt Schultz wrote in to say, I never thought about how translating dolphins doesn't mean that we will be able to communicate with them. Thought-provoking interview. Yeah, it's easy to kind of go to that place and be like, oh, soon we'll be talking with dolphins. Like, you know what? Maybe somewhere down the line, but wouldn't it be interesting if we could at least just understand those noises that they happen to put out into the world? I couldn't tell you what they sound like because I don't have a dolphin sitting next to me right here. But...

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