This is the Daily Tech News for Wednesday, December 31st, 2025.

From Studio Animal House, I'm Sarah Lane.

From Studio 7 in Los Angeles, I'm Tom Merritt.

From Columbus, Ohio. I'm Rob Dunderwood. From Salt Lake City, I'm Scott Johnson. It's been a while. From the mean streets of Long Island. I'm Ron Richards. And I'm the show's producer from Studio Rue. I'm Anthony Lemos. Oh, Studio Roo. That's the little puppy. How's a little puppy? Might as well might as well. Puppies first Christmas, puppy's first new year.

I mean, why not?

All the miles knows.

Well, we are all gathered together for one last time in 2025 to make our predictions for

2026 in a year, like we did yesterday, we will check back in a year to see

how we did. And also, for the second year in a row, we're going to make things interesting.

Panelists pay attention. We will be collectively assigning a difficulty rating to each

prediction.

So, for example, if someone predicts that Apple will release an iPhone next year,

we might want to give a difficulty rating of 0.1.

It will be worth almost nothing because, yeah, we know they're going to do that.

However, if you predicted that Open AI will buy Disney, maybe we give you a 10, right?

Because that's a less likely scenario.

Also, the other thing is every panelist gets to plus one, one other panelist's prediction.

Now, last year, only a couple people took advantage of this, but you would get a point

if that prediction is right. So if you hear a prediction, you're like, ooh, that's a pretty good one.

You can one time play your token. Just the once. Yeah, to concur with that prediction. So keep that in

mind, use it wisely. And then you'll get credit for that when we look at it next year. And can we do that at any time throughout the show or only when it's being discussed? You can. Well, yeah, anytime until the show is over. Like at the end of the show, you're like, actually, Sarah's prediction from another show, you know what? I want to use my plus one because that way you can hear all the other ones.

But if you get really excited and you just want to plus one it right from the go, we encourage it. It's more exciting that way. Can you pull it back after it's been deployed and reassign it? No. No. Okay. So once you've deployed it, it's gone. Yeah. It's like playing chess. Once you touch that piece, you can't.

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