1 00:00:04,440 --> 00:00:12,319 Speaker 1: Welcome to tech Stuff, a production from iHeartRadio. Hey there, 2 00:00:12,360 --> 00:00:15,800 Speaker 1: and welcome to tech Stuff. I'm your host, Jonathan Strickland. 3 00:00:15,840 --> 00:00:18,640 Speaker 1: I'm an executive producer with iHeartRadio. And how the tech 4 00:00:18,720 --> 00:00:22,760 Speaker 1: are you? I am much better. I think I had 5 00:00:22,800 --> 00:00:27,400 Speaker 1: food poisoning and boyowdy did knock me on my Patucas. 6 00:00:27,680 --> 00:00:29,760 Speaker 1: But I'm back and it's time for the tech news 7 00:00:30,040 --> 00:00:35,199 Speaker 1: for Thursday, August seventeenth, twenty twenty three. And kicking the 8 00:00:35,240 --> 00:00:38,320 Speaker 1: news off today is an update on the material called 9 00:00:38,640 --> 00:00:43,360 Speaker 1: LK ninety nine. Now, if you've listened to recent tech 10 00:00:43,360 --> 00:00:46,559 Speaker 1: Stuff episodes or you've been following the story in general, 11 00:00:47,080 --> 00:00:51,000 Speaker 1: you probably heard that some researchers in South Korea believed 12 00:00:51,120 --> 00:00:55,120 Speaker 1: that they had created this material LK ninety nine, and 13 00:00:55,200 --> 00:00:59,920 Speaker 1: that it displays the properties of a superconductor at high temperatures. 14 00:01:00,280 --> 00:01:02,840 Speaker 1: So a superconductor is a material that has some really 15 00:01:02,880 --> 00:01:07,480 Speaker 1: interesting properties. For one, it has zero electrical resistance, meaning 16 00:01:07,520 --> 00:01:12,720 Speaker 1: it is a perfect conductor. Superconductors also reject magnetic fields, 17 00:01:12,760 --> 00:01:14,720 Speaker 1: and then you get into things like the Meisner effect. 18 00:01:14,720 --> 00:01:19,400 Speaker 1: But usually we have to either cool a conductor down 19 00:01:19,520 --> 00:01:23,000 Speaker 1: to wicked cold temperatures like a degree or two above 20 00:01:23,160 --> 00:01:28,400 Speaker 1: the temperature of deep space. In order to reach super conductivity, 21 00:01:28,400 --> 00:01:31,360 Speaker 1: we have to get to the critical temperature of this material, 22 00:01:32,000 --> 00:01:37,119 Speaker 1: or you have to subject the material to really high pressure, 23 00:01:37,800 --> 00:01:41,960 Speaker 1: and then you can increase the temperature for the critical 24 00:01:42,040 --> 00:01:46,280 Speaker 1: nature of the material. But we're talking crazy pressures or 25 00:01:46,319 --> 00:01:50,280 Speaker 1: temperatures here. Frequently you'd have to do both. LK ninety 26 00:01:50,360 --> 00:01:55,040 Speaker 1: nine seem to have superconductive features at room temperature and 27 00:01:55,360 --> 00:02:00,600 Speaker 1: air pressure, which would have been incredibly disruptive if true, 28 00:02:01,040 --> 00:02:05,240 Speaker 1: and amazing, it would have been so good, But it 29 00:02:05,320 --> 00:02:08,960 Speaker 1: appears that's not the case. Over the last couple of weeks, 30 00:02:09,040 --> 00:02:11,880 Speaker 1: various research groups have attempted to replicate the results of 31 00:02:11,919 --> 00:02:15,880 Speaker 1: the South Korean team, But it looks like LK ninety 32 00:02:15,960 --> 00:02:19,000 Speaker 1: nine isn't a superconductor after all. In fact, it's more 33 00:02:19,040 --> 00:02:22,400 Speaker 1: of an insulator. So how did the South Korean team 34 00:02:22,440 --> 00:02:25,960 Speaker 1: get this wrong? Well, according to chemist Preschant Jine of 35 00:02:26,320 --> 00:02:30,080 Speaker 1: the University of Illinois, the issue was that the process 36 00:02:30,120 --> 00:02:34,840 Speaker 1: to synthesize LK ninety nine tends to introduce impurities. Like 37 00:02:34,880 --> 00:02:38,280 Speaker 1: that's just part of the synthesizing process, and it's not 38 00:02:38,320 --> 00:02:41,560 Speaker 1: always the same each time you synthesize this stuff. But 39 00:02:41,639 --> 00:02:45,400 Speaker 1: one of the impurities that can be introduced is copper sulfide, 40 00:02:46,080 --> 00:02:49,600 Speaker 1: and that material has a very low electrical resistance if 41 00:02:49,639 --> 00:02:52,359 Speaker 1: it happens to also be exposed to air and it's 42 00:02:52,440 --> 00:02:56,440 Speaker 1: below like one hundred and four degrees celsius. And Jine 43 00:02:56,480 --> 00:02:59,639 Speaker 1: said that the presence of impurities is what gave researchers 44 00:02:59,639 --> 00:03:03,160 Speaker 1: the missis stake and impression that the material overall was 45 00:03:03,160 --> 00:03:06,680 Speaker 1: a superconductor because there was a sudden drop in resistance, 46 00:03:06,760 --> 00:03:11,920 Speaker 1: but it was because of impurities like copper sulfide. Researchers 47 00:03:11,960 --> 00:03:15,320 Speaker 1: have said that LK ninety nine is really tricky because, 48 00:03:15,360 --> 00:03:17,960 Speaker 1: like I said, synthesizing can lead to samples with varying 49 00:03:18,000 --> 00:03:22,040 Speaker 1: amounts of impurities. So even the same lab trying to 50 00:03:22,080 --> 00:03:25,040 Speaker 1: synthesize this material could end up with two different samples 51 00:03:25,440 --> 00:03:29,639 Speaker 1: with two different amounts of various impurities and different distributions. 52 00:03:30,240 --> 00:03:34,600 Speaker 1: But unfortunately, it appears that super conductivity is not a 53 00:03:34,680 --> 00:03:39,560 Speaker 1: property that LK ninety nine possesses. It might have some 54 00:03:39,640 --> 00:03:44,040 Speaker 1: ferromagnetic properties, and like I said, with these impurities, there 55 00:03:44,120 --> 00:03:48,160 Speaker 1: might be pockets of lower electrical resistance, but it's not 56 00:03:48,240 --> 00:03:53,240 Speaker 1: super conductive at least according to these follow up experiments. 57 00:03:53,680 --> 00:03:56,960 Speaker 1: So that is a bummer. It's not necessarily a surprise, 58 00:03:57,200 --> 00:04:01,680 Speaker 1: but you know, you always hope that the thing really 59 00:04:01,800 --> 00:04:05,320 Speaker 1: is an incredible breakthrough, and then you know, but you 60 00:04:05,360 --> 00:04:08,080 Speaker 1: prepare yourself for the fact that it's probably not right. 61 00:04:08,880 --> 00:04:11,400 Speaker 1: It would have been a truly extraordinary thing had it 62 00:04:11,440 --> 00:04:15,240 Speaker 1: all worked out. As always, you know, using critical thinking, 63 00:04:15,360 --> 00:04:19,279 Speaker 1: being skeptical it's important so that way you can really 64 00:04:21,640 --> 00:04:25,159 Speaker 1: investigate claims and make sure that they have merit. In 65 00:04:25,200 --> 00:04:28,040 Speaker 1: this case, it seems that sadly they did not. That's 66 00:04:28,080 --> 00:04:30,280 Speaker 1: not to say that I think the researchers from South 67 00:04:30,360 --> 00:04:33,360 Speaker 1: Korea were attempting to mislead anyone. I don't believe that. 68 00:04:33,480 --> 00:04:37,520 Speaker 1: I just think it was a case where they mistakenly 69 00:04:37,560 --> 00:04:42,640 Speaker 1: identified a property that just wasn't there. The tech research 70 00:04:42,680 --> 00:04:46,400 Speaker 1: firm Gartner released its hype cycle for emerging technologies in 71 00:04:46,440 --> 00:04:50,280 Speaker 1: twenty twenty three, and generative AI is perched right at 72 00:04:50,320 --> 00:04:54,520 Speaker 1: the tippy top of the peak of inflated expectations. So 73 00:04:55,160 --> 00:04:58,520 Speaker 1: the hype cycle is Gartner's way of describing the typical 74 00:04:58,560 --> 00:05:02,960 Speaker 1: pattern we see when and exciting technology starts to gain 75 00:05:03,240 --> 00:05:06,680 Speaker 1: mind share. So the hype cycle doesn't really say that 76 00:05:06,880 --> 00:05:11,960 Speaker 1: much about the abilities of technology itself. It's more about 77 00:05:12,000 --> 00:05:15,560 Speaker 1: how our perception of that technology and our reaction to 78 00:05:15,600 --> 00:05:20,400 Speaker 1: that technology often are at a big gap from what 79 00:05:20,520 --> 00:05:24,400 Speaker 1: the technology does. So it doesn't reflect poorly on the technology, 80 00:05:24,400 --> 00:05:30,000 Speaker 1: it reflects poorly on us and our tendency to get 81 00:05:30,080 --> 00:05:34,160 Speaker 1: over excited about things. So you start off at the 82 00:05:34,160 --> 00:05:38,360 Speaker 1: innovation trigger. So this is the emergence of some new technology, 83 00:05:38,400 --> 00:05:41,520 Speaker 1: and at the earliest stages, usually the only people who 84 00:05:41,520 --> 00:05:44,880 Speaker 1: are paying attention are folks who are directly involved in 85 00:05:44,920 --> 00:05:48,479 Speaker 1: that sector or field of study, right Like, these are 86 00:05:48,839 --> 00:05:52,120 Speaker 1: people who are on the forefront of research, and they 87 00:05:52,200 --> 00:05:54,840 Speaker 1: might get excited about stuff not because they think it's 88 00:05:54,839 --> 00:05:59,160 Speaker 1: a huge breakthrough, but that it's progress. Then you have 89 00:05:59,279 --> 00:06:03,920 Speaker 1: this really steep climb to that peak of inflated expectations. 90 00:06:04,400 --> 00:06:06,560 Speaker 1: Along this route is when the rest of us start 91 00:06:06,560 --> 00:06:10,240 Speaker 1: to hear about this, and usually things like the media 92 00:06:10,720 --> 00:06:16,600 Speaker 1: and companies and you know, personalities out there start to 93 00:06:16,680 --> 00:06:18,880 Speaker 1: hype up this technology and talk about all the different 94 00:06:18,920 --> 00:06:21,760 Speaker 1: ways that we might be able to use this tech 95 00:06:21,800 --> 00:06:25,360 Speaker 1: and it will transform our lives and it will, you know, 96 00:06:25,720 --> 00:06:31,080 Speaker 1: make business processes a billion times more efficient and cheaper, 97 00:06:31,120 --> 00:06:33,159 Speaker 1: and all this kind of stuff right like, that's where 98 00:06:33,200 --> 00:06:37,240 Speaker 1: all that conversation starts to happen. And there's a lot 99 00:06:37,279 --> 00:06:40,240 Speaker 1: of blue sky thinking going on during this stage. But 100 00:06:40,320 --> 00:06:43,839 Speaker 1: at some point we start to realize that our perception 101 00:06:43,960 --> 00:06:47,120 Speaker 1: of the technology and what it can actually achieve are 102 00:06:47,200 --> 00:06:50,159 Speaker 1: out of alignment, right, that we have put way too 103 00:06:50,240 --> 00:06:54,240 Speaker 1: much hype on this underlying technology, and then we plunge 104 00:06:54,320 --> 00:06:57,840 Speaker 1: into what is called the troth of disillusionment. Now at 105 00:06:57,880 --> 00:07:02,400 Speaker 1: that stage, some of us might even dismiss that technology outright, say, 106 00:07:02,400 --> 00:07:06,360 Speaker 1: oh man, it's worthless, it can't do anything, and this 107 00:07:06,440 --> 00:07:09,120 Speaker 1: is the exact same technology that we were super hyped 108 00:07:09,120 --> 00:07:14,320 Speaker 1: about earlier. But again our perception and the actual technology 109 00:07:14,320 --> 00:07:17,760 Speaker 1: itself and its abilities are out of alignment. Now our 110 00:07:17,800 --> 00:07:21,160 Speaker 1: perception is below what the technology can actually do. We're 111 00:07:21,280 --> 00:07:25,200 Speaker 1: undervaluing it. So following the trough of disillusionment is the 112 00:07:25,360 --> 00:07:28,400 Speaker 1: slope of enlightenment. That's where we start to figure out 113 00:07:28,480 --> 00:07:31,680 Speaker 1: how the tech can actually be put to good use 114 00:07:32,240 --> 00:07:35,360 Speaker 1: without overinflating its importance. They might be a much more 115 00:07:35,640 --> 00:07:38,400 Speaker 1: modest approach than what we were originally thinking when it 116 00:07:38,440 --> 00:07:43,280 Speaker 1: was going through that peak of inflated expectations. And then 117 00:07:43,360 --> 00:07:46,680 Speaker 1: that finally leads to the plateau of productivity. That's kind 118 00:07:46,680 --> 00:07:49,560 Speaker 1: of where the tech sits comfortably and its capabilities and 119 00:07:49,600 --> 00:07:52,640 Speaker 1: our perceptions of the technology are more or less in alignment. 120 00:07:52,640 --> 00:07:57,480 Speaker 1: They're more or less parallel. So if Gartner is on 121 00:07:57,600 --> 00:07:59,840 Speaker 1: the money here, that means we should be in store 122 00:07:59,840 --> 00:08:03,800 Speaker 1: for a pretty dramatic reversal on how companies and others 123 00:08:03,880 --> 00:08:09,400 Speaker 1: are looking at generative AI. There is no shortage of 124 00:08:09,520 --> 00:08:14,320 Speaker 1: pieces about the technologies, current limitations and drawbacks, so I 125 00:08:14,360 --> 00:08:17,239 Speaker 1: don't necessarily disagree. In fact, I'm actually a little surprised 126 00:08:17,240 --> 00:08:20,800 Speaker 1: that Gardner didn't position generative AI as if it were 127 00:08:20,920 --> 00:08:24,880 Speaker 1: just past the peak and already on its way down. 128 00:08:25,800 --> 00:08:28,760 Speaker 1: Other technologies that were included on this projection are things 129 00:08:28,800 --> 00:08:34,679 Speaker 1: like federated machine learning, cloud sustainability, and post quantum cryptography. 130 00:08:34,760 --> 00:08:37,880 Speaker 1: All of those are still on the climbing toward the 131 00:08:37,920 --> 00:08:41,120 Speaker 1: peak of inflated expectations part of the hype cycle, according 132 00:08:41,120 --> 00:08:44,040 Speaker 1: to Gardner. And again, this is just kind of a 133 00:08:44,080 --> 00:08:47,640 Speaker 1: way of us kind of taking a step back and 134 00:08:47,679 --> 00:08:51,880 Speaker 1: looking at how we react to these technologies. It's so 135 00:08:52,000 --> 00:08:55,200 Speaker 1: interesting to me because again, it's it doesn't have anything 136 00:08:55,200 --> 00:08:58,360 Speaker 1: to do with what the technology actually can do. It's 137 00:08:58,400 --> 00:09:02,040 Speaker 1: all in our perception and leaf of what that technology 138 00:09:02,080 --> 00:09:06,720 Speaker 1: can do really fascinating, sort of a meta approach. The 139 00:09:06,800 --> 00:09:12,280 Speaker 1: Associated Press or AP, has updated its policies about journalism 140 00:09:12,360 --> 00:09:16,960 Speaker 1: and artificial intelligence in general, but also generative AI and 141 00:09:17,040 --> 00:09:21,320 Speaker 1: specifically chat GPT in particular. So, for example, the AP 142 00:09:21,480 --> 00:09:25,600 Speaker 1: states that quote any output from a generative AI tool 143 00:09:25,679 --> 00:09:29,800 Speaker 1: should be treated as unvetted source material. AP staff must 144 00:09:29,800 --> 00:09:34,479 Speaker 1: apply their editorial judgment and AP sourcing standards when considering 145 00:09:34,559 --> 00:09:39,120 Speaker 1: any information for publication end quote. This also doesn't just 146 00:09:39,160 --> 00:09:44,400 Speaker 1: include text. AP has also talked about images. The AP 147 00:09:44,480 --> 00:09:48,440 Speaker 1: says that journalists should never include AI generated or AI 148 00:09:48,760 --> 00:09:53,160 Speaker 1: altered images unless the story itself is about AI creating 149 00:09:53,280 --> 00:09:56,920 Speaker 1: or changing images, in which case you can include examples, 150 00:09:56,920 --> 00:09:59,599 Speaker 1: but you do need to clearly label them in captions 151 00:10:00,120 --> 00:10:03,280 Speaker 1: so that the reader of the piece is aware of 152 00:10:03,360 --> 00:10:07,240 Speaker 1: what that is. The AP also urge journalists to be 153 00:10:07,360 --> 00:10:11,880 Speaker 1: extra cautious when researching material, to make reasonable efforts to 154 00:10:12,040 --> 00:10:16,120 Speaker 1: ensure that the sources they're referencing are reliable, because if 155 00:10:16,160 --> 00:10:19,200 Speaker 1: those sources were generated by AI, they may not be. 156 00:10:19,840 --> 00:10:23,240 Speaker 1: The AP urges journalists to check multiple sources, which is 157 00:10:23,280 --> 00:10:26,560 Speaker 1: always a good thing, and to use strategies like reverse 158 00:10:26,679 --> 00:10:30,720 Speaker 1: image searches to validate information before including it in their 159 00:10:30,800 --> 00:10:35,040 Speaker 1: own pieces, which again makes sense. Also, if journalists have 160 00:10:35,080 --> 00:10:37,960 Speaker 1: any doubts about the validity of the material, they should 161 00:10:38,000 --> 00:10:40,280 Speaker 1: probably just not use it at all, and that seems 162 00:10:40,360 --> 00:10:43,520 Speaker 1: like a reasonable benchmark to me. The AP is publishing 163 00:10:43,559 --> 00:10:46,520 Speaker 1: new updates to the AP style Book today as this 164 00:10:46,600 --> 00:10:50,560 Speaker 1: episode goes out, and they will include other guidelines about AI. 165 00:10:51,600 --> 00:10:55,319 Speaker 1: A big one is not about journalists making use of AI, 166 00:10:55,440 --> 00:10:58,080 Speaker 1: but how they cover it, and part of that is 167 00:10:58,120 --> 00:11:01,120 Speaker 1: not buying into the hype or at least not to 168 00:11:01,160 --> 00:11:06,040 Speaker 1: take claims at face value, specifically from AI developers, and 169 00:11:06,400 --> 00:11:10,000 Speaker 1: also that journalists should avoid using language that quote attributes 170 00:11:10,080 --> 00:11:15,839 Speaker 1: human characteristics to these systems end quote, and that makes sense. 171 00:11:15,880 --> 00:11:19,080 Speaker 1: It's also good to call attention to it, because we 172 00:11:19,160 --> 00:11:24,360 Speaker 1: humans are often guilty at projecting human characteristics on non 173 00:11:24,480 --> 00:11:29,080 Speaker 1: human stuff like animals or even inanimate objects. I mean, 174 00:11:29,120 --> 00:11:32,000 Speaker 1: how many of y'all have named your cars, for example. 175 00:11:32,200 --> 00:11:33,640 Speaker 1: I'm sure not all of you have, but I bet 176 00:11:33,720 --> 00:11:37,319 Speaker 1: some of you have. Anyway, here's hoping that these guidelines 177 00:11:37,320 --> 00:11:40,440 Speaker 1: can help journalists frame AI stories in a way that 178 00:11:40,559 --> 00:11:43,679 Speaker 1: leads to more accurate reporting. We're going to take a 179 00:11:43,760 --> 00:11:46,840 Speaker 1: quick break. When we come back, we will continue this 180 00:11:46,960 --> 00:11:59,880 Speaker 1: episode we're back. So, city employees in New York City 181 00:12:00,080 --> 00:12:03,360 Speaker 1: are now barred from installing and using TikTok on any 182 00:12:03,559 --> 00:12:07,680 Speaker 1: city owned devices. So this is a very similar story 183 00:12:07,760 --> 00:12:10,120 Speaker 1: that we've seen play out in lots of other places, 184 00:12:10,400 --> 00:12:13,400 Speaker 1: several states here in the US. Several federal agencies here 185 00:12:13,400 --> 00:12:16,120 Speaker 1: in the US have similar bands, and the concern is 186 00:12:16,160 --> 00:12:21,160 Speaker 1: that TikTok could potentially pose as a security vulnerability, one 187 00:12:21,200 --> 00:12:24,760 Speaker 1: that could give unauthorized persons access to, in this case, 188 00:12:24,800 --> 00:12:29,440 Speaker 1: New York City's networks. The ban is effective immediately, and 189 00:12:29,520 --> 00:12:31,719 Speaker 1: as I have said in previous episodes, I think this 190 00:12:31,800 --> 00:12:37,360 Speaker 1: is perfectly reasonable for a city owned system or a 191 00:12:37,360 --> 00:12:40,760 Speaker 1: government owned system. If you are a city worker and 192 00:12:40,800 --> 00:12:44,040 Speaker 1: the city has assigned to you a smartphone, that phone 193 00:12:44,120 --> 00:12:47,439 Speaker 1: isn't really yours, it's for you to use with respect 194 00:12:47,679 --> 00:12:51,280 Speaker 1: to your job working for the city. City workers are 195 00:12:51,280 --> 00:12:54,199 Speaker 1: still allowed to use TikTok on their personal devices. It's 196 00:12:54,240 --> 00:12:57,360 Speaker 1: not like they're forbidden from using TikTok at all. And 197 00:12:57,520 --> 00:13:00,880 Speaker 1: I've also said this before too, but I agree that 198 00:13:01,120 --> 00:13:04,640 Speaker 1: banning TikTok from government owned devices makes sense. I don't 199 00:13:04,640 --> 00:13:08,400 Speaker 1: have any issue with that. I think unless your job 200 00:13:08,480 --> 00:13:11,240 Speaker 1: for the government requires you to have TikTok, like maybe 201 00:13:11,280 --> 00:13:14,480 Speaker 1: you're a pr person or something, it doesn't make sense 202 00:13:14,520 --> 00:13:19,920 Speaker 1: to have TikTok on a government owned device. I also 203 00:13:20,360 --> 00:13:24,680 Speaker 1: think that singling out TikTok exclusively when we're talking about 204 00:13:24,800 --> 00:13:29,640 Speaker 1: concerns around data security and data privacy is absurd. So 205 00:13:29,679 --> 00:13:31,840 Speaker 1: in other words, yes, I think it makes sense to 206 00:13:32,160 --> 00:13:36,000 Speaker 1: ban it from government owned devices, but I also think 207 00:13:36,000 --> 00:13:41,240 Speaker 1: it's ridiculous to single out TikTok as the one evil 208 00:13:41,520 --> 00:13:47,400 Speaker 1: boogeyman in the data security space, because wild TikTok can 209 00:13:47,440 --> 00:13:49,920 Speaker 1: be a threat to security and privacy. That's true for 210 00:13:50,240 --> 00:13:57,960 Speaker 1: tons of apps right like x slash, Twitter has those issues, Facebook, Instagram, Amazon, 211 00:13:58,400 --> 00:14:02,000 Speaker 1: pretty much any app that's collecting information about us, and 212 00:14:02,160 --> 00:14:05,520 Speaker 1: especially apps that have the information later make their way 213 00:14:05,559 --> 00:14:09,800 Speaker 1: to data brokerage markets. All of those pots as security 214 00:14:09,800 --> 00:14:12,719 Speaker 1: and privacy threats to us. But that's a soapbox I've 215 00:14:12,720 --> 00:14:15,199 Speaker 1: been on so many times. I'll just move on. The 216 00:14:15,280 --> 00:14:20,720 Speaker 1: cryptocurrency exchange platform Coinbase has secured regulatory approval to allow 217 00:14:20,880 --> 00:14:25,480 Speaker 1: US based customers to deal in crypto derivatives, so globally, 218 00:14:25,560 --> 00:14:29,320 Speaker 1: cryptoderivatives make up the majority of crypto trades, but here 219 00:14:29,320 --> 00:14:32,040 Speaker 1: in the US they weren't allowed. If you wanted to 220 00:14:32,200 --> 00:14:34,040 Speaker 1: deal with crypto here in the US, you had to 221 00:14:34,080 --> 00:14:40,160 Speaker 1: actually buy or sell actual cryptocurrencies, not derivatives. So derivatives 222 00:14:40,160 --> 00:14:44,040 Speaker 1: are stuff like futures and options. And I'm going to 223 00:14:44,080 --> 00:14:47,080 Speaker 1: be honest, y'all, this is outside my wheelhouse. And the 224 00:14:47,120 --> 00:14:51,920 Speaker 1: more I read about stuff like stocks and futures and options, 225 00:14:52,280 --> 00:14:54,680 Speaker 1: the more I'm left with the sinking feeling that nothing 226 00:14:54,760 --> 00:14:57,240 Speaker 1: is real. And the only reason the financial world keeps 227 00:14:57,280 --> 00:14:59,520 Speaker 1: moving at all is that enough folks have agreed it's 228 00:14:59,560 --> 00:15:02,160 Speaker 1: too importan and to let it fall to pieces. So 229 00:15:02,200 --> 00:15:04,200 Speaker 1: we just have to shut our eyes and believe in 230 00:15:04,280 --> 00:15:06,520 Speaker 1: fairies and the whole thing will just keep on going. 231 00:15:06,800 --> 00:15:09,920 Speaker 1: But that's not very helpful for this particular news item, right, 232 00:15:10,000 --> 00:15:14,360 Speaker 1: So a future, in case like me, you really had 233 00:15:14,360 --> 00:15:16,160 Speaker 1: heard the term, but you were like, I don't even 234 00:15:16,200 --> 00:15:19,160 Speaker 1: know what that really means. A future is a contractual 235 00:15:19,360 --> 00:15:23,920 Speaker 1: agreement to buy or to sell a certain asset at 236 00:15:23,960 --> 00:15:27,680 Speaker 1: a certain price at a certain time. So it's where 237 00:15:27,720 --> 00:15:30,880 Speaker 1: a buyer and a seller agree upon what is going 238 00:15:30,960 --> 00:15:34,560 Speaker 1: to be bought slash sold, when that's going to happen 239 00:15:34,960 --> 00:15:37,840 Speaker 1: and at what price. It's a lot like making a 240 00:15:37,880 --> 00:15:40,800 Speaker 1: bet on what you think the future value of an 241 00:15:40,840 --> 00:15:43,880 Speaker 1: asset might be. So let's use an example to help 242 00:15:43,920 --> 00:15:46,720 Speaker 1: clear things up. So right now, as I record this, 243 00:15:46,840 --> 00:15:50,480 Speaker 1: the price of a single bitcoin is around twenty eight thousand, 244 00:15:50,760 --> 00:15:54,960 Speaker 1: three hundred bucks. But let's say that you think that 245 00:15:55,080 --> 00:15:58,600 Speaker 1: in three months bitcoin is going to surge in value. 246 00:15:58,880 --> 00:16:01,800 Speaker 1: So you want to secure a futures contract. You want 247 00:16:01,840 --> 00:16:04,680 Speaker 1: to purchase one bitcoin, but you want to purchase it 248 00:16:04,720 --> 00:16:08,520 Speaker 1: in three months at the price of Let's say you've agreed, 249 00:16:08,560 --> 00:16:11,520 Speaker 1: You've negotiated it to twenty nine thousand dollars, so it's 250 00:16:11,600 --> 00:16:15,240 Speaker 1: more than what it's valued at now, but you think 251 00:16:15,280 --> 00:16:17,720 Speaker 1: that in three months it's going to be worth way 252 00:16:17,720 --> 00:16:21,360 Speaker 1: more than that. Now, let's say that someone else who 253 00:16:21,440 --> 00:16:24,520 Speaker 1: owns bitcoin thinks that the price of bitcoin is actually 254 00:16:24,560 --> 00:16:27,560 Speaker 1: going to dip in three months, so they have an 255 00:16:27,560 --> 00:16:31,240 Speaker 1: incentive to make a deal, especially to sell one bitcoin 256 00:16:31,280 --> 00:16:34,320 Speaker 1: at twenty nine thousand dollars, which is again higher than 257 00:16:34,320 --> 00:16:37,040 Speaker 1: what the current market value is. So the two of 258 00:16:37,080 --> 00:16:40,800 Speaker 1: you enter into an agreement, You create a contract, you 259 00:16:41,040 --> 00:16:44,720 Speaker 1: sign on the dotted line three months go by, and 260 00:16:44,800 --> 00:16:46,920 Speaker 1: now it's actually time for you to pay for that 261 00:16:47,000 --> 00:16:49,920 Speaker 1: bitcoin and take possession of it. So the agreed upon 262 00:16:50,040 --> 00:16:52,680 Speaker 1: price was twenty nine thousand dollars, and it turns out 263 00:16:52,680 --> 00:16:55,240 Speaker 1: you were right. Let's say that the market did surge, 264 00:16:55,280 --> 00:16:57,280 Speaker 1: and now the market price for bitcoin is close to 265 00:16:57,440 --> 00:17:00,240 Speaker 1: forty thousand dollars. That means you're able to buy a 266 00:17:00,400 --> 00:17:04,480 Speaker 1: forty thousand dollars bitcoin at twenty nine thousand dollars. So 267 00:17:04,560 --> 00:17:06,920 Speaker 1: you've already made a profit as soon as you make 268 00:17:06,920 --> 00:17:11,239 Speaker 1: the purchase. Or let's say the seller was right, and 269 00:17:11,280 --> 00:17:14,480 Speaker 1: now the current price a bitcoin is down to twenty thousand, 270 00:17:14,760 --> 00:17:17,080 Speaker 1: but you've already agreed to pay for it at twenty 271 00:17:17,200 --> 00:17:21,040 Speaker 1: nine thousand. Now you might say, Jonathan, why would you 272 00:17:21,119 --> 00:17:24,120 Speaker 1: trade in futures when you could just buy or sell 273 00:17:24,160 --> 00:17:27,240 Speaker 1: the actual cryptocurrency in real time. If you think the 274 00:17:27,280 --> 00:17:29,520 Speaker 1: price is gonna go up, why not just buy it now? 275 00:17:30,240 --> 00:17:34,440 Speaker 1: And to that, I say, beats me. Maybe it's that 276 00:17:34,520 --> 00:17:37,560 Speaker 1: you don't have the money right now, so that three 277 00:17:37,600 --> 00:17:40,000 Speaker 1: months would give you enough time to gather the money 278 00:17:40,000 --> 00:17:43,200 Speaker 1: you would need to buy the asset. That's one way 279 00:17:43,240 --> 00:17:45,560 Speaker 1: of doing it, although that is putting yourself on a deadline. 280 00:17:45,560 --> 00:17:48,919 Speaker 1: That is scary, my friend. You get close to that 281 00:17:48,960 --> 00:17:50,680 Speaker 1: three months and you're like, oh man, I need to 282 00:17:50,720 --> 00:17:54,919 Speaker 1: scrounge up that twenty nine K. But I am not 283 00:17:55,920 --> 00:17:59,240 Speaker 1: at all an expert in financial matters, which is more 284 00:17:59,280 --> 00:18:02,159 Speaker 1: than evident, right, And I am sure there are lots 285 00:18:02,160 --> 00:18:07,080 Speaker 1: of really legitimate, smart financial reasons to trade in futures. 286 00:18:07,720 --> 00:18:10,520 Speaker 1: I mean I get it for like physical stuff like agriculture. 287 00:18:10,560 --> 00:18:13,760 Speaker 1: I totally understand it in that context. But in things 288 00:18:13,840 --> 00:18:18,440 Speaker 1: like stocks and cryptocurrencies, that blows my mind. So it's 289 00:18:18,480 --> 00:18:21,000 Speaker 1: outside my wheelhouse. And you might as well just tell 290 00:18:21,000 --> 00:18:24,679 Speaker 1: me it's magic, and I'll believe you because it totally 291 00:18:24,800 --> 00:18:28,440 Speaker 1: escapes me. Anyway, the fact that regulators have now approved 292 00:18:28,440 --> 00:18:31,960 Speaker 1: derivatives for Coinbase is a huge deal both for US 293 00:18:31,960 --> 00:18:37,240 Speaker 1: investors and for the crypto exchange itself. Meanwhile, in the UK, 294 00:18:37,480 --> 00:18:42,120 Speaker 1: PayPal will pump the brakes on customer crypto sales starting 295 00:18:42,320 --> 00:18:46,919 Speaker 1: in October. That's because UK regulators are implementing new rules 296 00:18:46,960 --> 00:18:52,080 Speaker 1: and restrictions regarding crypto trading in the UK starting October eighth, 297 00:18:52,119 --> 00:18:55,280 Speaker 1: and PayPal execs say they need to pause crypto features 298 00:18:55,680 --> 00:18:59,120 Speaker 1: to make certain that the company's operations satisfy these new 299 00:18:59,200 --> 00:19:04,240 Speaker 1: rules will still be able to sell their crypto through PayPal, 300 00:19:04,320 --> 00:19:06,800 Speaker 1: but they won't be able to buy. And that's because 301 00:19:06,840 --> 00:19:09,639 Speaker 1: these new rules are going to include giving clear and 302 00:19:09,760 --> 00:19:15,040 Speaker 1: understandable warnings about the risks that are surrounding the investment 303 00:19:15,119 --> 00:19:19,840 Speaker 1: into cryptocurrencies. So regulators have been really concerned that customers 304 00:19:19,840 --> 00:19:23,960 Speaker 1: in the UK don't fully understand those risks, and so 305 00:19:24,040 --> 00:19:28,000 Speaker 1: these rules are more about raising awareness about possible consequences 306 00:19:28,000 --> 00:19:31,080 Speaker 1: if you were to pour your money into the cryptocurrency world. 307 00:19:31,480 --> 00:19:33,720 Speaker 1: And because they say that, a lot of people just 308 00:19:33,800 --> 00:19:36,280 Speaker 1: view it as this is a guaranteed way to get 309 00:19:36,400 --> 00:19:39,120 Speaker 1: rich and they don't take into consideration the very real 310 00:19:39,160 --> 00:19:44,080 Speaker 1: possibility that your investment could just disappear. That you could 311 00:19:44,760 --> 00:19:47,440 Speaker 1: invest all that money and then the asset could fall 312 00:19:47,520 --> 00:19:51,320 Speaker 1: through and then you've lost all that money. So it's 313 00:19:51,320 --> 00:19:55,240 Speaker 1: not an outright ban on the buying and selling a crypto, 314 00:19:55,320 --> 00:20:01,639 Speaker 1: but more about making sure that any any company that 315 00:20:01,720 --> 00:20:04,520 Speaker 1: facilitates the buying and selling of crypto has to be 316 00:20:04,600 --> 00:20:09,800 Speaker 1: able to express these risks to customers. So that's why 317 00:20:09,840 --> 00:20:12,400 Speaker 1: PayPal is going to put a pause on things. Well, 318 00:20:12,440 --> 00:20:16,480 Speaker 1: they make sure that they comply with those rules. Okay, 319 00:20:16,960 --> 00:20:20,679 Speaker 1: I've got three more stories to go, but we're going 320 00:20:20,760 --> 00:20:34,240 Speaker 1: to take another quick break to thank our sponsors. Okay. 321 00:20:34,359 --> 00:20:37,760 Speaker 1: So this is an important one if you happen to 322 00:20:38,880 --> 00:20:41,800 Speaker 1: drive a Ford vehicle that was made between like twenty 323 00:20:41,840 --> 00:20:45,440 Speaker 1: fifteen and twenty twenty one, in particular, So, Texas Instruments 324 00:20:45,480 --> 00:20:49,159 Speaker 1: recently discovered a vulnerability in a Wi Fi driver that 325 00:20:50,280 --> 00:20:54,040 Speaker 1: the company supplies to the automaker Forward and this is 326 00:20:54,080 --> 00:20:58,840 Speaker 1: for the use in the SINC three infotainment system. And 327 00:20:58,880 --> 00:21:01,359 Speaker 1: this is a bad one because this flaw makes it 328 00:21:01,400 --> 00:21:05,400 Speaker 1: possible for a hacker to tap in through a vehicle's 329 00:21:05,440 --> 00:21:10,760 Speaker 1: WiFi and to execute remote code on that infotainment system. 330 00:21:11,119 --> 00:21:16,080 Speaker 1: So essentially a hacker can take over that infotainment system. 331 00:21:16,400 --> 00:21:19,320 Speaker 1: Ford at least has reassured the public that the infotainment 332 00:21:19,359 --> 00:21:23,600 Speaker 1: system is firewalled off from critical driving systems like breaking 333 00:21:23,760 --> 00:21:27,359 Speaker 1: and steering in that kind of thing. So the good 334 00:21:27,400 --> 00:21:32,480 Speaker 1: news is that while this is a critical security vulnerability, 335 00:21:32,520 --> 00:21:36,040 Speaker 1: there's not really any risk of hackers getting the ability 336 00:21:36,080 --> 00:21:41,359 Speaker 1: to force board vehicles off the road by exploiting this 337 00:21:41,480 --> 00:21:45,160 Speaker 1: vulnerability in the SINC three infotainment system. Nothing like that 338 00:21:45,200 --> 00:21:49,600 Speaker 1: should be possible. Still, The recommendation is for people who 339 00:21:49,760 --> 00:21:53,000 Speaker 1: own a Ford that was made after twenty fifteen that 340 00:21:53,119 --> 00:21:57,040 Speaker 1: has this Sink three infotainment system in it, they should 341 00:21:57,080 --> 00:22:01,160 Speaker 1: go into their Wi Fi settings and turn off Wi 342 00:22:01,200 --> 00:22:05,040 Speaker 1: Fi while they wait for Ford to issue a security patch, 343 00:22:05,359 --> 00:22:09,639 Speaker 1: which they would then have to install via USB or 344 00:22:09,680 --> 00:22:12,439 Speaker 1: bring it into a Ford dealership to have it installed there. 345 00:22:13,119 --> 00:22:17,240 Speaker 1: The current version of the infotainment software on Ford vehicles 346 00:22:17,640 --> 00:22:21,199 Speaker 1: made since twenty twenty one is Sync four, So if 347 00:22:21,240 --> 00:22:25,119 Speaker 1: you have a Sink four infotainment system, this shouldn't apply 348 00:22:25,200 --> 00:22:28,080 Speaker 1: to you. At least Ford has not revealed any vulnerabilities 349 00:22:28,160 --> 00:22:34,320 Speaker 1: in that generation of the infotainment system. So again, if 350 00:22:34,320 --> 00:22:36,679 Speaker 1: you own a Ford it was made between twenty fifteen 351 00:22:36,720 --> 00:22:40,119 Speaker 1: and twenty twenty one, it's got Sync three infotainment system, 352 00:22:40,600 --> 00:22:43,320 Speaker 1: go into those settings and turn off Wi Fi until 353 00:22:44,200 --> 00:22:46,880 Speaker 1: Ford has a security patch, and you know, just keep 354 00:22:46,920 --> 00:22:51,920 Speaker 1: an eye on Ford's own website about this issue, and 355 00:22:51,960 --> 00:22:54,760 Speaker 1: that way you can avoid having your car get hacked 356 00:22:54,800 --> 00:22:59,480 Speaker 1: into by hackers. What a world right. Earlier this week, 357 00:22:59,520 --> 00:23:02,960 Speaker 1: I talked about how San Francisco recently authorized robo taxi 358 00:23:03,080 --> 00:23:07,520 Speaker 1: companies Waimo and Cruise, which is owned by General Motors. 359 00:23:07,560 --> 00:23:10,560 Speaker 1: Weimo is owned by Alphabet, you know, Google's parent company. 360 00:23:11,240 --> 00:23:14,720 Speaker 1: But anyway, they have authorized these companies to operate within 361 00:23:14,760 --> 00:23:18,359 Speaker 1: the city of San Francisco. They've got certain things that 362 00:23:18,359 --> 00:23:19,960 Speaker 1: they have to follow in order to be able to 363 00:23:20,119 --> 00:23:23,400 Speaker 1: charge for rides. But anyway, I also talked about how 364 00:23:23,480 --> 00:23:28,159 Speaker 1: several vehicles owned by Cruise, maybe as many as a dozen, 365 00:23:28,880 --> 00:23:31,400 Speaker 1: created a bit of a traffic jam in San Francisco 366 00:23:31,800 --> 00:23:34,560 Speaker 1: when they stopped on a street in the San Francisco 367 00:23:34,600 --> 00:23:39,679 Speaker 1: neighborhood Doe to sell service interruptions and interference. There was 368 00:23:39,720 --> 00:23:42,399 Speaker 1: this big music festival that was hogging all the data, 369 00:23:42,840 --> 00:23:45,280 Speaker 1: and the cars were unable to navigate properly, so they 370 00:23:45,359 --> 00:23:47,720 Speaker 1: just kind of parked it on the street and caused 371 00:23:47,720 --> 00:23:50,560 Speaker 1: a bit of a traffic jam. Now there's another report 372 00:23:50,560 --> 00:23:53,160 Speaker 1: out of San Francisco that says a Cruise vehicle made 373 00:23:53,200 --> 00:23:57,239 Speaker 1: a booboo when it drove over a construction site and 374 00:23:57,280 --> 00:24:02,320 Speaker 1: then into wet concrete. Apparently the car registered the wet 375 00:24:02,320 --> 00:24:05,199 Speaker 1: concrete as being just fine to drive on, and so 376 00:24:05,440 --> 00:24:09,280 Speaker 1: it drove in and got stuck. Crewise employees had to 377 00:24:09,280 --> 00:24:12,080 Speaker 1: come to its rescue. A little bit later on, the 378 00:24:12,160 --> 00:24:15,240 Speaker 1: Cruise vehicle was not carrying passengers at the time at least, 379 00:24:15,480 --> 00:24:18,440 Speaker 1: but does illustrate that these vehicles have limitations and we're 380 00:24:18,520 --> 00:24:21,520 Speaker 1: likely to see similar issues while engineers work to make 381 00:24:21,560 --> 00:24:25,200 Speaker 1: the vehicles better. It might lead some people to ask 382 00:24:25,320 --> 00:24:30,240 Speaker 1: if perhaps these cars are in operation a bit prematurely, 383 00:24:31,640 --> 00:24:34,600 Speaker 1: and I think that's a fair question to ask. Others 384 00:24:34,640 --> 00:24:37,240 Speaker 1: would say that, well, the whole purpose of operation at 385 00:24:37,280 --> 00:24:42,160 Speaker 1: this stage is to find out where these problems are 386 00:24:42,280 --> 00:24:44,600 Speaker 1: so that we can fix them and make them better. 387 00:24:45,160 --> 00:24:49,800 Speaker 1: But when you're talking about a device that is that big, 388 00:24:49,920 --> 00:24:53,280 Speaker 1: can move that fast and can potentially kill somebody, I 389 00:24:53,320 --> 00:24:55,880 Speaker 1: think you got to hold it to a very, very 390 00:24:56,119 --> 00:24:59,680 Speaker 1: very high standard. Finally, our last story is a bunch 391 00:24:59,720 --> 00:25:02,320 Speaker 1: of foe folks who owned three D printers made by 392 00:25:02,359 --> 00:25:08,800 Speaker 1: the company Bamboo Bambu found that their devices spontaneously began 393 00:25:08,880 --> 00:25:12,320 Speaker 1: to print in the middle of the night recently. So 394 00:25:12,359 --> 00:25:14,680 Speaker 1: it is the machine uprising, only it's just the three 395 00:25:14,760 --> 00:25:18,000 Speaker 1: D printers and they can't do very much else other 396 00:25:18,040 --> 00:25:21,439 Speaker 1: than you know, print stuff. But they were trying to 397 00:25:21,480 --> 00:25:26,639 Speaker 1: print previous print jobs, sometimes printing over an earlier print 398 00:25:26,680 --> 00:25:30,719 Speaker 1: job or a print job that had been going and 399 00:25:30,760 --> 00:25:33,520 Speaker 1: then just stopped and now it had been restarted, so 400 00:25:33,560 --> 00:25:35,560 Speaker 1: printing on top of it and just ruining the whole thing. 401 00:25:35,840 --> 00:25:38,720 Speaker 1: It also meant that the machines were sometimes because they 402 00:25:38,720 --> 00:25:42,680 Speaker 1: were trying to print on top of existing print jobs, 403 00:25:42,720 --> 00:25:47,080 Speaker 1: causing issues like banging into stuff and potentially damaging the 404 00:25:47,119 --> 00:25:51,800 Speaker 1: machine itself. So what made the machines do this Well, 405 00:25:51,840 --> 00:25:57,119 Speaker 1: apparently Bamboo's cloud services had an interruption, and this is 406 00:25:57,160 --> 00:25:59,920 Speaker 1: what prompted the printers to go into print mode on 407 00:26:00,200 --> 00:26:04,879 Speaker 1: their own once the interruption was corrected. This actually reminds 408 00:26:04,920 --> 00:26:07,800 Speaker 1: me of how once upon a time there was an 409 00:26:07,880 --> 00:26:11,360 Speaker 1: issue with some podcast servers that went offline and when 410 00:26:11,359 --> 00:26:14,200 Speaker 1: they came back on, they pushed out all the episodes 411 00:26:14,240 --> 00:26:17,440 Speaker 1: on the server as if they were brand new episodes. 412 00:26:18,040 --> 00:26:21,639 Speaker 1: So if you were subscribed to one of these podcasts, 413 00:26:22,320 --> 00:26:25,880 Speaker 1: you would get all existing episodes sent to you as 414 00:26:25,920 --> 00:26:30,160 Speaker 1: if they were brand new. And for some shows which have, say, 415 00:26:30,320 --> 00:26:34,080 Speaker 1: I don't know, two thousand episodes, that's a lot. It 416 00:26:34,160 --> 00:26:37,640 Speaker 1: hogs up a lot of space and it makes it 417 00:26:37,800 --> 00:26:43,960 Speaker 1: very frustrating to use the podcatching app. Yeah, so that's 418 00:26:44,000 --> 00:26:47,280 Speaker 1: a very similar situation. In this case. The servers went 419 00:26:47,320 --> 00:26:51,800 Speaker 1: offline when they reconnected because the cloud service was unable 420 00:26:51,880 --> 00:26:54,960 Speaker 1: to verify that the last print job actually went through 421 00:26:55,000 --> 00:26:59,719 Speaker 1: it just initiated it again. But this actually comes with 422 00:26:59,760 --> 00:27:04,000 Speaker 1: some pretty big risks, right, Like one thing is, as 423 00:27:04,040 --> 00:27:06,240 Speaker 1: I said, it's possible for the printers to end up 424 00:27:06,320 --> 00:27:09,280 Speaker 1: damaging themselves because they're printing on top of an existing 425 00:27:09,320 --> 00:27:12,920 Speaker 1: print job in some cases. But also three D printers 426 00:27:12,960 --> 00:27:16,000 Speaker 1: can run very hot, so if there were some issues, 427 00:27:16,040 --> 00:27:19,639 Speaker 1: there's also the danger of it overheating and potentially becoming 428 00:27:19,720 --> 00:27:22,280 Speaker 1: a fire hazard. You know, there's supposed to be protections 429 00:27:22,320 --> 00:27:25,200 Speaker 1: in place to prevent that from happening, but it's hard 430 00:27:25,280 --> 00:27:29,119 Speaker 1: to you know, verify that in fact those protections are 431 00:27:29,280 --> 00:27:33,840 Speaker 1: are sufficient until disaster strikes. Right. There's also the concern 432 00:27:33,960 --> 00:27:37,359 Speaker 1: that if it's something that can be remotely initiated like that, 433 00:27:37,520 --> 00:27:41,439 Speaker 1: it could be a security vulnerability. So yeah, not the 434 00:27:41,440 --> 00:27:44,120 Speaker 1: best little thing to happen. Although I will say that 435 00:27:44,200 --> 00:27:47,720 Speaker 1: according to everything I've read, Bamboo has been very forthcoming 436 00:27:47,760 --> 00:27:53,120 Speaker 1: about the issue and has accepted responsibility for the problems here, 437 00:27:53,280 --> 00:27:56,080 Speaker 1: although it remains to be seen what the company will 438 00:27:56,080 --> 00:27:58,560 Speaker 1: do for people who have a three D printer that 439 00:27:58,720 --> 00:28:04,680 Speaker 1: was perhaps damaged as result of this unforeseen issue. Now 440 00:28:04,720 --> 00:28:06,600 Speaker 1: before I go, I do have a recommendation for an 441 00:28:06,640 --> 00:28:10,600 Speaker 1: article for y'all. The article is titled It's Time to 442 00:28:10,680 --> 00:28:14,560 Speaker 1: Rethink Our Relationships with Streaming Services. It was written by 443 00:28:14,640 --> 00:28:18,479 Speaker 1: Charles Pulliam Moore and it's on the Verge. So if 444 00:28:18,520 --> 00:28:20,200 Speaker 1: you just go to the Verge and look for It's 445 00:28:20,200 --> 00:28:23,239 Speaker 1: Time to Rethink Our Relationships with Streaming Services, you can 446 00:28:23,280 --> 00:28:25,600 Speaker 1: read up on it. It's obviously a piece that's talking 447 00:28:25,640 --> 00:28:29,320 Speaker 1: about what has been going on with streaming services over 448 00:28:29,320 --> 00:28:32,400 Speaker 1: the past couple of years, the issues that we're seeing, 449 00:28:33,320 --> 00:28:37,920 Speaker 1: the price hikes that have been going on, and maybe 450 00:28:38,200 --> 00:28:42,160 Speaker 1: that it requires some reflection and decisions about are you 451 00:28:42,240 --> 00:28:46,080 Speaker 1: really getting the value out of these services that you 452 00:28:46,160 --> 00:28:48,880 Speaker 1: deserve based upon how much you're paying for them. I 453 00:28:48,920 --> 00:28:52,080 Speaker 1: know if I were being honest about that for myself, 454 00:28:52,720 --> 00:28:54,520 Speaker 1: I would have to come to the conclusion that I 455 00:28:54,640 --> 00:28:59,880 Speaker 1: need to cancel several subscriptions because I know I've got 456 00:29:00,160 --> 00:29:04,080 Speaker 1: subscriptions to about half a dozen streaming services and I 457 00:29:04,240 --> 00:29:09,680 Speaker 1: use maybe two of them frequently. So really I should 458 00:29:10,240 --> 00:29:18,600 Speaker 1: follow this advice and really reevaluate the relationship I have 459 00:29:18,680 --> 00:29:22,000 Speaker 1: with these streaming services and whether or not it is 460 00:29:22,080 --> 00:29:25,040 Speaker 1: a healthy one, Because I would suggest that perhaps it's not, 461 00:29:25,360 --> 00:29:27,520 Speaker 1: and I need to I need to pay attention to 462 00:29:27,640 --> 00:29:31,520 Speaker 1: the same recommendations I give everybody else. And that's it 463 00:29:31,840 --> 00:29:35,320 Speaker 1: for today's episode. I hope you are all well. Thank 464 00:29:35,360 --> 00:29:39,680 Speaker 1: you for those of you who sent nice messages making 465 00:29:39,680 --> 00:29:42,480 Speaker 1: sure that I was okay. I am okay, or at least. 466 00:29:42,520 --> 00:29:45,360 Speaker 1: I'm definitely better than I was yesterday. I'm not at 467 00:29:45,360 --> 00:29:49,160 Speaker 1: one hundred percent, but I'm way better than in the 468 00:29:49,240 --> 00:29:53,320 Speaker 1: last two days, so that's good. And I will talk 469 00:29:53,360 --> 00:30:04,040 Speaker 1: to you again really soon. Tech Stuff is an iHeartRadio production. 470 00:30:04,320 --> 00:30:09,360 Speaker 1: For more podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, 471 00:30:09,480 --> 00:30:11,479 Speaker 1: or wherever you listen to your favorite shows.