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This is the Daily Techno's 4th Thursday, April 20th, 2023. From Studio Redwood, I'm Sarah Lane.

In lovely Cleveland of the Ohio, I'm Rich Strapolino.

From Petaluma, I'm Megan Maroney.

And on the show's producer Roger Chang?

Megan Maroney, we're so glad to have you back on the show.

Welcome.

I am glad to be back. It was nice to see your beautiful face, and in real life, the last time I was on the show, we actually got to see each other and breathe each other's air. It was amazing.

We did. Megan and I saw each other, IRL.

It doesn't happen that often these days.

On the rest of you, we'll just stay remote.

But before we get into the Quick Hats real quick, Twitter has begun removing blue check marks from legacy verified accounts.

Mine was included, so I am no longer verified unless I want to pay $1 a month, which I don't.

Twitter said it previously promised to do this, so not a big surprise, but you never know what Twitter these days.

Let's get into more Quick Hats.

The chip shortage from the last few years has done a bit of a 180 TSMC forecast that chip revenue this quarter will be worse than expected due to drops in demand for its chips across sectors from phones to servers.

TSMC says it expects a continued decline in the second quarter, then improvement coming in the second half of the year.

But it's not just TSMC Bloomberg reports that Taiwanese export orders dropped 25.7% in March and orders for tech components like semiconductors fell 29.4%.

That is the largest fall in 14 years.

Microsoft announced that starting April 25th its multi-platform smart ads product will no longer include Twitter as one of the platforms.

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