Daily Tech News Show DTNS 2025 Tech News in Review
Dec 27, 2025
Reflecting on a transformative year in tech, the hosts highlight the rise of smart wearables and the return of Pebble. They delve into the memory crunch affecting data centers and consumer devices. Antitrust rulings have reshaped app store rules, while foldable phones gain traction with improved durability. AI emerges as the year's standout story, presenting both opportunities and risks in workplaces and gaming. They explore the potential of AI in medicine and the looming question of a bubble similar to the dot-com era.
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Wearables Are Setting The Table
- Wearables, especially smart glasses, laid groundwork in 2025 and may surge in 2026 as the next darling device.
- Pebble's return and diverse form factors suggest wearables are becoming a broader, mainstream category.
Memory Crunch From AI Data Centers
- A memory crunch in 2025 was driven by massive data-center RAM demand for generative models, raising consumer RAM prices.
- Factory capacity is hard to scale quickly so shortages may impact device RAM totals in 2026.
Personal Pain Buying RAM For A PC
- Jenn Cutter described struggling to buy PC parts and regretting waiting to upgrade due to high RAM costs.
- She noted prebuilt vendors offering to reuse existing RAM to avoid the sticker shock.