1 00:00:04,400 --> 00:00:07,800 Speaker 1: Welcome to Tech Stuff, a production from I Heart Radio. 2 00:00:12,200 --> 00:00:14,920 Speaker 1: Hey there, and welcome to tech Stuff. I'm your host, 3 00:00:15,040 --> 00:00:18,040 Speaker 1: Jonathan Strickland. I'm an executive producer with I Heart Radio 4 00:00:18,200 --> 00:00:21,560 Speaker 1: and I love all things tech. And this is the 5 00:00:21,760 --> 00:00:29,280 Speaker 1: news for Tuesday, February ninth one. On Monday, Facebook announced 6 00:00:29,280 --> 00:00:32,320 Speaker 1: that the company would take a stronger stance against posts 7 00:00:32,320 --> 00:00:38,880 Speaker 1: containing misinformation regarding vaccines. This is an escalation of earlier 8 00:00:39,120 --> 00:00:43,839 Speaker 1: Facebook policies. In October twenty, Facebook said it would no 9 00:00:43,880 --> 00:00:47,680 Speaker 1: longer sell ad space to parties that promoted misleading information 10 00:00:47,680 --> 00:00:52,720 Speaker 1: about vaccines. Then in December, Facebook upped the anti by 11 00:00:52,760 --> 00:00:56,040 Speaker 1: saying it would remove posts the elevated claims that had 12 00:00:56,080 --> 00:01:00,920 Speaker 1: been debunked by the World Health Organization or w HO. 13 00:01:01,120 --> 00:01:04,800 Speaker 1: But Monday's announcement broadens this approach behind vaccines for COVID 14 00:01:04,880 --> 00:01:10,360 Speaker 1: nineteen and encompasses all vaccines period. While Facebook used to 15 00:01:10,600 --> 00:01:14,520 Speaker 1: flag misleading posts and then just down rank them, you know, 16 00:01:14,600 --> 00:01:19,240 Speaker 1: not remove them, but reduce their rank, that would just 17 00:01:19,319 --> 00:01:21,200 Speaker 1: mean that they were less likely to show up in 18 00:01:21,360 --> 00:01:26,000 Speaker 1: users feeds. Now the company will actually remove posts promoting 19 00:01:26,040 --> 00:01:30,400 Speaker 1: false claims about vaccinations. Facebook worked with the World Health 20 00:01:30,480 --> 00:01:35,039 Speaker 1: Organization and other governmental agencies to create something like a 21 00:01:35,160 --> 00:01:39,880 Speaker 1: database of false or misleading claims. According to a Facebook 22 00:01:39,920 --> 00:01:43,240 Speaker 1: post on the matter, the company's stance on vaccines falls 23 00:01:43,319 --> 00:01:48,520 Speaker 1: under multiple user policies. For example, content that would promote 24 00:01:48,600 --> 00:01:54,040 Speaker 1: events intended to spread COVID nineteen on purpose, presumably in 25 00:01:54,040 --> 00:01:57,080 Speaker 1: the belief that catching it is better than being vaccinated 26 00:01:57,120 --> 00:02:01,760 Speaker 1: against it, would fall under the coordinating Harm policy. Because 27 00:02:01,760 --> 00:02:06,560 Speaker 1: it turns out Facebook is against coordinating harm, which frankly 28 00:02:07,120 --> 00:02:10,480 Speaker 1: is news to me. So I suppose other things that 29 00:02:10,480 --> 00:02:14,560 Speaker 1: would fall into this category would include, uh, Facebook pages 30 00:02:14,600 --> 00:02:18,960 Speaker 1: dedicated for big public events in places that have a 31 00:02:19,080 --> 00:02:23,800 Speaker 1: quarantine or lockdown in place, you know, That would presumably 32 00:02:24,040 --> 00:02:29,359 Speaker 1: fall under the coordinating harm policy. Meanwhile, under the Regulated 33 00:02:29,440 --> 00:02:33,000 Speaker 1: Goods policy, Facebook says it will prohibit posts that are 34 00:02:33,000 --> 00:02:37,600 Speaker 1: attempting to sell quote medical and respiratory face masks and 35 00:02:37,680 --> 00:02:42,400 Speaker 1: COVID nineteen test kits end quote. Apparently there are a 36 00:02:42,440 --> 00:02:45,480 Speaker 1: lot of parties out there selling stuff that's like a 37 00:02:45,520 --> 00:02:51,640 Speaker 1: counterfeit type of of medical mask or tests that haven't 38 00:02:51,680 --> 00:02:55,519 Speaker 1: actually been cleared by any regulatory agency, that kind of thing, 39 00:02:56,200 --> 00:03:00,480 Speaker 1: And it's a real bear to wade through. The legit 40 00:03:00,760 --> 00:03:03,960 Speaker 1: versus the illegitimate one, so Facebook saying, all right, we're 41 00:03:04,000 --> 00:03:07,680 Speaker 1: just not going to run those ads. Under the hate 42 00:03:07,720 --> 00:03:11,799 Speaker 1: speech policy, Facebook will remove content that suggests people who 43 00:03:11,840 --> 00:03:15,440 Speaker 1: share a protected characteristic are in some way, you know, 44 00:03:15,520 --> 00:03:18,880 Speaker 1: responsible for the virus, or they are spreading the virus 45 00:03:18,960 --> 00:03:25,040 Speaker 1: and so on. But this doesn't include national origin as 46 00:03:25,080 --> 00:03:27,800 Speaker 1: an outright band because Facebook states that it wants to 47 00:03:27,840 --> 00:03:32,640 Speaker 1: allow for posts about health statistics that are not hate speech. 48 00:03:33,160 --> 00:03:37,680 Speaker 1: Rather they are giving important information such as x percent 49 00:03:37,760 --> 00:03:42,720 Speaker 1: of Americans have caught COVID nineteen since the beginning of 50 00:03:42,720 --> 00:03:46,160 Speaker 1: the pandemic, something like that, And you wouldn't want to 51 00:03:46,160 --> 00:03:50,240 Speaker 1: put a full ban on uh nation of origin because 52 00:03:50,240 --> 00:03:53,520 Speaker 1: the information could be really useful. And there's a whole 53 00:03:53,560 --> 00:03:58,560 Speaker 1: list of prohibited content that falls under Facebook's Community Standards barrier, 54 00:03:59,080 --> 00:04:03,440 Speaker 1: and that includes a ton of stuff, including more broadly 55 00:04:03,560 --> 00:04:07,240 Speaker 1: debunked claims about vaccines in general, such as the claim 56 00:04:07,440 --> 00:04:10,040 Speaker 1: that they cause autism, despite the fact that you know 57 00:04:10,120 --> 00:04:14,440 Speaker 1: that claim has been thoroughly rejected and the researchers who 58 00:04:14,560 --> 00:04:19,120 Speaker 1: first proposed the link between vaccines and autism we're later 59 00:04:19,279 --> 00:04:23,520 Speaker 1: found to have essentially fabricated the whole thing, but the 60 00:04:23,640 --> 00:04:26,400 Speaker 1: idea has still stuck around and a lot of people 61 00:04:26,480 --> 00:04:30,479 Speaker 1: latch onto it. Facebook will now remove those posts when 62 00:04:30,520 --> 00:04:33,480 Speaker 1: they catch them, though I should add the language indicates 63 00:04:33,520 --> 00:04:37,880 Speaker 1: that this general policy really is only in effect for 64 00:04:37,920 --> 00:04:41,400 Speaker 1: as long as there is a COVID nineteen public health emergency, 65 00:04:41,760 --> 00:04:44,000 Speaker 1: so there's no telling if the company is going to 66 00:04:44,120 --> 00:04:47,320 Speaker 1: ease off on these restrictions later on down the road. 67 00:04:47,839 --> 00:04:51,120 Speaker 1: According to Facebook, the reason behind these changes comes from 68 00:04:51,160 --> 00:04:54,560 Speaker 1: the Facebook Oversight Board, which is the independent group that 69 00:04:54,600 --> 00:04:59,240 Speaker 1: would recently formed to review Facebook's content moderation policies. And 70 00:04:59,279 --> 00:05:03,000 Speaker 1: while we're talking about Facebook, Forbes published an article that 71 00:05:03,080 --> 00:05:06,680 Speaker 1: put claims made by the company's chief operating officer under 72 00:05:06,720 --> 00:05:11,960 Speaker 1: the microscope. The CEO of Facebook is Cheryl Sandberg, and 73 00:05:12,240 --> 00:05:15,880 Speaker 1: the specific claims were regarding the siege on the US capital. 74 00:05:15,960 --> 00:05:21,440 Speaker 1: On January six, Sandberg had said quote, I think these 75 00:05:21,480 --> 00:05:25,200 Speaker 1: events were largely organized on platforms that don't have our 76 00:05:25,240 --> 00:05:29,120 Speaker 1: abilities to stop hate, and don't have our standards and 77 00:05:29,200 --> 00:05:35,120 Speaker 1: don't have our transparency end quote. Which yikes. Okay, as 78 00:05:35,200 --> 00:05:39,120 Speaker 1: you guys probably have gathered, because I am not subtle 79 00:05:39,160 --> 00:05:42,400 Speaker 1: about it, I'm pretty critical of Facebook and how it 80 00:05:42,520 --> 00:05:46,080 Speaker 1: enforces or until recently, I guess it would be better 81 00:05:46,120 --> 00:05:50,960 Speaker 1: to say, failed to enforce its policies. Forbes looked over 82 00:05:51,040 --> 00:05:54,240 Speaker 1: documents from the U s Department of Justice regarding the 83 00:05:54,320 --> 00:05:57,919 Speaker 1: charges against two hundred twenty three people connected to the 84 00:05:58,040 --> 00:06:01,520 Speaker 1: riots now part of the nation that they looked at. 85 00:06:02,440 --> 00:06:05,480 Speaker 1: Part of the information in those documents includes cases in 86 00:06:05,520 --> 00:06:10,880 Speaker 1: which they identified posts on social media that account for 87 00:06:10,920 --> 00:06:14,400 Speaker 1: some of the evidence against the respective individuals with regard 88 00:06:14,520 --> 00:06:18,159 Speaker 1: to planning and you know, the various threats that were made. 89 00:06:18,800 --> 00:06:23,600 Speaker 1: Seventy three of those documents name Facebook as one of 90 00:06:23,640 --> 00:06:28,080 Speaker 1: the social platforms upon which an associated suspect posted material 91 00:06:28,279 --> 00:06:32,480 Speaker 1: relating to the assembly in d C and the riot 92 00:06:32,480 --> 00:06:36,120 Speaker 1: at the Capitol, which puts Facebook in the lead for 93 00:06:36,240 --> 00:06:39,800 Speaker 1: platforms that were cited by the d o J as 94 00:06:39,839 --> 00:06:43,440 Speaker 1: having hosted material related to the riots. In a distant 95 00:06:43,680 --> 00:06:48,279 Speaker 1: second place is YouTube, which had twenty four appearances in 96 00:06:48,320 --> 00:06:51,800 Speaker 1: these documents, and Instagram takes up spot number three, with 97 00:06:51,839 --> 00:06:55,799 Speaker 1: twenty of the documents citing Instagram posts, and since Facebook 98 00:06:55,800 --> 00:07:00,360 Speaker 1: owns Instagram, you could arguably add those twenty two Facebook's account, 99 00:07:00,480 --> 00:07:05,159 Speaker 1: although to be fair, some of these documents probably referenced 100 00:07:05,560 --> 00:07:10,000 Speaker 1: more than one social network, So while Facebook appeared seventy 101 00:07:10,040 --> 00:07:13,800 Speaker 1: three times, and Instagram appeared twenty times. Some of those 102 00:07:13,840 --> 00:07:16,240 Speaker 1: may have been in the same documents, there might be 103 00:07:16,320 --> 00:07:20,520 Speaker 1: some overlap. There's what I'm saying as for Parlor or Parley, 104 00:07:20,560 --> 00:07:23,440 Speaker 1: you know, the free speech social network that largely catered 105 00:07:23,480 --> 00:07:26,800 Speaker 1: to extremists and the far right, that one the d 106 00:07:26,920 --> 00:07:31,360 Speaker 1: o J only cited in eight documents. Now, that does 107 00:07:31,360 --> 00:07:35,400 Speaker 1: not necessarily mean that everyone involved in the riots used 108 00:07:35,640 --> 00:07:40,200 Speaker 1: Facebook primarily, and hardly anyone used Parlor, But it also 109 00:07:40,200 --> 00:07:44,840 Speaker 1: seems to undercut Cheryl Sandberg's claims that Facebook was somehow 110 00:07:44,840 --> 00:07:48,200 Speaker 1: in a better position compared to these other platforms. It's 111 00:07:48,200 --> 00:07:51,520 Speaker 1: true that Facebook had been working to remove groups, you know, 112 00:07:51,640 --> 00:07:55,080 Speaker 1: hate groups and and posts that violated its policies against 113 00:07:55,120 --> 00:07:59,360 Speaker 1: militarized social movements. But it's also true that the platform 114 00:07:59,440 --> 00:08:03,360 Speaker 1: was still hosting a lot of communication and organization related 115 00:08:03,600 --> 00:08:08,240 Speaker 1: to the riots on January six. So I'm not saying 116 00:08:08,240 --> 00:08:12,680 Speaker 1: that Facebook is more responsible than these other platforms, or 117 00:08:12,720 --> 00:08:16,720 Speaker 1: that the vast majority of planning happened on Facebook. Rather, 118 00:08:16,880 --> 00:08:20,800 Speaker 1: I'm saying that Sandberg's claims that somehow Facebook is elevated 119 00:08:20,840 --> 00:08:24,560 Speaker 1: above these other platforms just doesn't hold water when we're 120 00:08:24,600 --> 00:08:26,600 Speaker 1: looking at the evidence that the d o J has 121 00:08:26,640 --> 00:08:31,240 Speaker 1: been bringing together. In other news, zd net reports that 122 00:08:31,360 --> 00:08:34,360 Speaker 1: Microsoft is going to add a new type of threat 123 00:08:34,400 --> 00:08:37,840 Speaker 1: alert for its Defender product for Office three sixty five, 124 00:08:38,480 --> 00:08:42,960 Speaker 1: and the alert is for nation state cyber attacks. So 125 00:08:43,120 --> 00:08:47,120 Speaker 1: if Microsoft detects that a nation state backed hacking group 126 00:08:47,600 --> 00:08:51,559 Speaker 1: is targeting a particular companies, employees, or its systems, it 127 00:08:51,640 --> 00:08:54,720 Speaker 1: can send up the alert through Defender for Office three 128 00:08:54,800 --> 00:08:58,400 Speaker 1: sixty Microsoft has already been kind of doing this on 129 00:08:58,440 --> 00:09:03,680 Speaker 1: a more granular approach, since if the company detected that 130 00:09:03,840 --> 00:09:08,400 Speaker 1: a nation state backed attack was targeting one of Microsoft's customers, 131 00:09:08,800 --> 00:09:12,360 Speaker 1: then Microsoft would send an email to that specific person, 132 00:09:12,440 --> 00:09:16,200 Speaker 1: alerting them of the attack and providing advice on how 133 00:09:16,240 --> 00:09:19,960 Speaker 1: they should secure their account. Now, according to Microsoft, it 134 00:09:20,040 --> 00:09:24,120 Speaker 1: was sending out around ten thousand alerts per year since. 135 00:09:25,559 --> 00:09:28,640 Speaker 1: But there is a problem with this approach, and that's 136 00:09:28,640 --> 00:09:32,040 Speaker 1: the fact that not everyone stays up to date on 137 00:09:32,120 --> 00:09:36,120 Speaker 1: their emails. You know, I'm kind of guilty of that. 138 00:09:36,320 --> 00:09:39,120 Speaker 1: I get a lot of emails every single day, and 139 00:09:39,160 --> 00:09:44,200 Speaker 1: I'm frequently busy researching or recording, so I'll miss a 140 00:09:44,280 --> 00:09:47,400 Speaker 1: lot of messages or you know, read them in batches 141 00:09:47,480 --> 00:09:49,600 Speaker 1: at the end of the day, and considering that a 142 00:09:49,720 --> 00:09:53,360 Speaker 1: nation state backed hacking attack is what I would call 143 00:09:53,480 --> 00:09:57,760 Speaker 1: a super high priority and urgent matter, people like me 144 00:09:58,120 --> 00:10:01,280 Speaker 1: can be a real problem. And so this new feature 145 00:10:01,320 --> 00:10:04,080 Speaker 1: will allow Microsoft to send out an alert through the 146 00:10:04,160 --> 00:10:07,680 Speaker 1: Office three sixty five dashboard, which should pop up on 147 00:10:07,679 --> 00:10:11,400 Speaker 1: the screens of various system administrators and I T personnel, 148 00:10:11,720 --> 00:10:15,520 Speaker 1: who can then take steps to address problems, including proactively 149 00:10:15,679 --> 00:10:19,640 Speaker 1: changing the settings on affected accounts and then contacting the 150 00:10:19,679 --> 00:10:23,440 Speaker 1: affected employees. So then no time is wasted in responding 151 00:10:23,480 --> 00:10:25,640 Speaker 1: to the threat. It would be better for an employee 152 00:10:25,640 --> 00:10:28,040 Speaker 1: to get locked out of their account by their system 153 00:10:28,040 --> 00:10:32,600 Speaker 1: administrator than to have it, you know, compromised by a 154 00:10:32,720 --> 00:10:36,360 Speaker 1: nation state backed hacker. And I really wanted to include 155 00:10:36,400 --> 00:10:39,439 Speaker 1: this news item today, not because I want to advertise 156 00:10:39,440 --> 00:10:42,440 Speaker 1: for Microsoft, but rather point out how the rise of 157 00:10:42,559 --> 00:10:45,880 Speaker 1: nation based hacker groups has really become a serious and 158 00:10:45,960 --> 00:10:49,839 Speaker 1: persistent threat around the world. And just to be clear, 159 00:10:50,760 --> 00:10:54,439 Speaker 1: tons of countries do these kind of cyber attacks. Here 160 00:10:54,480 --> 00:10:57,480 Speaker 1: in the United States, we typically hear about groups that 161 00:10:57,520 --> 00:11:01,600 Speaker 1: are backed by China and Russia in North Korea, but 162 00:11:01,760 --> 00:11:04,800 Speaker 1: keep in mind that the United States has engaged in 163 00:11:05,040 --> 00:11:08,600 Speaker 1: this kind of cyber warfare too. Cyber warfare is real, 164 00:11:08,800 --> 00:11:11,960 Speaker 1: and it is quietly raging online all the time, and 165 00:11:12,000 --> 00:11:15,600 Speaker 1: we typically only become aware of it when someone discovers, 166 00:11:15,880 --> 00:11:18,400 Speaker 1: you know, a big flaw in security, such as the 167 00:11:18,440 --> 00:11:21,640 Speaker 1: solar Winds hack. So it's a pretty scary world out 168 00:11:21,679 --> 00:11:25,360 Speaker 1: there and wild to think that there needs to be 169 00:11:25,440 --> 00:11:30,280 Speaker 1: an official alert built into an Office three product to 170 00:11:30,400 --> 00:11:33,440 Speaker 1: let you know about a nation state based hacking attack 171 00:11:33,520 --> 00:11:37,160 Speaker 1: on your company. That's I mean, it's this is like 172 00:11:37,160 --> 00:11:42,040 Speaker 1: like spy movie type stuff. Bloomberg reported that Twitter is 173 00:11:42,080 --> 00:11:44,960 Speaker 1: looking at some potential ways to generate revenue for the 174 00:11:45,000 --> 00:11:49,160 Speaker 1: company in addition to its normal route. Right now, Twitter's 175 00:11:49,200 --> 00:11:53,720 Speaker 1: main source of revenue is through advertisements, such as promoted posts. 176 00:11:53,760 --> 00:11:57,480 Speaker 1: So if you've ever been on Twitter and you thought, huh, 177 00:11:57,679 --> 00:12:01,600 Speaker 1: I don't remember following Taco Bell. Did I follow Taco Bell? 178 00:12:02,400 --> 00:12:05,880 Speaker 1: Did I get loopy last night and follow Taco Bell, 179 00:12:06,480 --> 00:12:09,040 Speaker 1: Well there's a chance you never followed Taco Bell, but 180 00:12:09,200 --> 00:12:12,480 Speaker 1: rather Taco Bell had paid for a promoted post and 181 00:12:12,520 --> 00:12:15,840 Speaker 1: Twitter then posted that to your feed. And while Twitter 182 00:12:16,280 --> 00:12:20,080 Speaker 1: had a rocky road early in the pandemic, as companies 183 00:12:20,120 --> 00:12:23,080 Speaker 1: began to kind of cut back on their advertising, budgets. 184 00:12:23,679 --> 00:12:27,920 Speaker 1: It did bounce back. Recently, Twitter announced that second one 185 00:12:28,120 --> 00:12:31,640 Speaker 1: billion dollar quarter. That's one billion dollars in revenue, I 186 00:12:31,679 --> 00:12:35,320 Speaker 1: should add, not profit. And there are questions about whether 187 00:12:35,360 --> 00:12:39,320 Speaker 1: that trend will continue, you know, because after all, most 188 00:12:39,360 --> 00:12:43,600 Speaker 1: recently Twitter purged tons of accounts from its platform due 189 00:12:43,600 --> 00:12:47,160 Speaker 1: to the aforementioned riots at the US Capital, among other things. 190 00:12:47,720 --> 00:12:51,240 Speaker 1: So that means it's a good idea to diversify. If 191 00:12:51,679 --> 00:12:55,440 Speaker 1: your growth isn't going on the up and up, like 192 00:12:55,480 --> 00:12:58,480 Speaker 1: if you're not expanding the number of users to your service, 193 00:12:59,280 --> 00:13:01,400 Speaker 1: then you have to figure out how you're going to 194 00:13:01,480 --> 00:13:06,000 Speaker 1: generate revenue beyond just advertising, because advertisers are more interested 195 00:13:06,040 --> 00:13:08,640 Speaker 1: in seeing those numbers go up. So in this case, 196 00:13:08,679 --> 00:13:12,320 Speaker 1: Twitter is reportedly considering introducing some features that users can 197 00:13:12,400 --> 00:13:16,199 Speaker 1: access if they cough up the dough. One possible change 198 00:13:16,200 --> 00:13:19,200 Speaker 1: is that Twitter will start charging for tweet Deck, which 199 00:13:19,240 --> 00:13:23,439 Speaker 1: is an alternative way to view tweets. Uh. It's it's 200 00:13:23,480 --> 00:13:26,800 Speaker 1: its own little kind of dashboard. For one thing, you 201 00:13:26,920 --> 00:13:31,080 Speaker 1: get all the tweets in reverse chronological order, so there's 202 00:13:31,120 --> 00:13:35,719 Speaker 1: no confusing little segments of stuff like labeled. You might 203 00:13:35,760 --> 00:13:38,040 Speaker 1: have missed this. That's nestled in the middle of more 204 00:13:38,080 --> 00:13:41,319 Speaker 1: recent tweets. I know that whenever I use Twitter directly, 205 00:13:42,080 --> 00:13:44,960 Speaker 1: I will run into tweets that were posted, like, you know, 206 00:13:45,120 --> 00:13:49,280 Speaker 1: eighteen hours ago, and I'll think, wow, that's a big gap. 207 00:13:49,520 --> 00:13:52,480 Speaker 1: That's because Twitter has kind of aggregated those, thinking, hey, 208 00:13:52,520 --> 00:13:54,640 Speaker 1: maybe you want to see these. I prefer it in 209 00:13:54,679 --> 00:13:58,360 Speaker 1: reverse chronological order. Tweet deck does that. If you manage 210 00:13:58,400 --> 00:14:01,400 Speaker 1: multiple Twitter accounts, you can set up tweet deck to 211 00:14:01,520 --> 00:14:05,920 Speaker 1: actually show all those various feeds side by side, including 212 00:14:05,960 --> 00:14:09,360 Speaker 1: things like replies and direct messages. So I use tweet 213 00:14:09,360 --> 00:14:13,080 Speaker 1: deck to manage Twitter accounts for myself, for tech stuff 214 00:14:13,400 --> 00:14:16,640 Speaker 1: and for large nerdron collider. So one option Twitter is 215 00:14:16,679 --> 00:14:22,080 Speaker 1: reportedly considering is making the service a subscription based service. 216 00:14:22,680 --> 00:14:25,320 Speaker 1: Another feature that could be a paid option is an 217 00:14:25,440 --> 00:14:30,080 Speaker 1: undo send button. I'm not sure how it's different from 218 00:14:30,120 --> 00:14:34,040 Speaker 1: a delete tweet option unless it actively removes the tweet 219 00:14:34,400 --> 00:14:38,280 Speaker 1: from displaying in various feeds in real time. Because sometimes 220 00:14:38,480 --> 00:14:40,280 Speaker 1: if you send out a tweet and you delete it 221 00:14:40,480 --> 00:14:44,880 Speaker 1: and somebody else has an older, unrefreshed Twitter feed up, 222 00:14:45,200 --> 00:14:49,720 Speaker 1: they can see that undeleted tweet. Maybe this deals with that. 223 00:14:49,840 --> 00:14:52,920 Speaker 1: I don't know, and another pitch would allow accounts to 224 00:14:52,960 --> 00:14:56,400 Speaker 1: offer up exclusive content to people who tip the accounts, 225 00:14:56,440 --> 00:14:58,560 Speaker 1: sort of like a tiered subscription that you would find 226 00:14:58,560 --> 00:15:02,280 Speaker 1: on platforms like YouTube. Twitter responded to a request from 227 00:15:02,280 --> 00:15:05,720 Speaker 1: Bloomberg to clarify the strategies, and the company essentially said 228 00:15:05,760 --> 00:15:08,320 Speaker 1: that any plans right now are in the very early 229 00:15:08,400 --> 00:15:11,760 Speaker 1: stages of discussion. Nothing is said in stone, and you 230 00:15:11,760 --> 00:15:16,160 Speaker 1: shouldn't really expect to see anything implemented this year. Now. 231 00:15:16,200 --> 00:15:18,200 Speaker 1: I say all that knowing that Twitter is going to 232 00:15:18,240 --> 00:15:22,000 Speaker 1: hold its quarterly earnings called later the day. This goes 233 00:15:22,040 --> 00:15:25,560 Speaker 1: out on Tuesday, the ninth of February, so it's possible 234 00:15:26,000 --> 00:15:29,080 Speaker 1: that I'll have some updates for Thursday's episode. We'll see. 235 00:15:29,680 --> 00:15:31,800 Speaker 1: And one big story that I've yet to touch on 236 00:15:32,000 --> 00:15:36,840 Speaker 1: tech stuff is uh the ongoing political upheaval in Myanmar. Now, 237 00:15:36,880 --> 00:15:40,600 Speaker 1: this country in Southeast Asia was formerly a British colony. 238 00:15:41,720 --> 00:15:45,960 Speaker 1: For several decades, it existed under military rule. It transitioned 239 00:15:45,960 --> 00:15:49,240 Speaker 1: to a civilian based government, used to be known as 240 00:15:49,240 --> 00:15:52,480 Speaker 1: Burma in the United States. It frequently is referred to 241 00:15:52,600 --> 00:15:56,840 Speaker 1: still as Burma, and until very recently, the leader of 242 00:15:56,880 --> 00:16:00,480 Speaker 1: the country was on San su Ki, who won a 243 00:16:00,560 --> 00:16:04,000 Speaker 1: re election campaign in a landslide. She she was originally 244 00:16:04,040 --> 00:16:09,760 Speaker 1: elected in one reelection this past year, and the military's 245 00:16:09,840 --> 00:16:14,080 Speaker 1: justification for taking over the government hinged on charges of 246 00:16:14,440 --> 00:16:18,000 Speaker 1: nationwide voter fraud, and those are charges that have no 247 00:16:18,200 --> 00:16:22,800 Speaker 1: evidence behind them, which sounds a bit familiar and indicative 248 00:16:22,880 --> 00:16:25,720 Speaker 1: of a general trend in world politics that we've seen 249 00:16:25,720 --> 00:16:29,360 Speaker 1: in many places not too long ago. And this isn't 250 00:16:29,400 --> 00:16:32,160 Speaker 1: the first time that sue Ki has seen this kind 251 00:16:32,200 --> 00:16:35,840 Speaker 1: of resistance. She had served around fifteen years in detention 252 00:16:35,920 --> 00:16:39,640 Speaker 1: as punishment for efforts to organize a democratic government in 253 00:16:39,680 --> 00:16:43,200 Speaker 1: the country. She also received the Nobel Peace Prize for 254 00:16:43,280 --> 00:16:46,520 Speaker 1: her efforts in nineteen one. Now, the reason I bring 255 00:16:46,600 --> 00:16:49,000 Speaker 1: up the story here is that the military has been 256 00:16:49,000 --> 00:16:53,440 Speaker 1: steadily cracking down on Internet platforms within the country. One 257 00:16:53,600 --> 00:16:56,800 Speaker 1: of the big changes between the last era of military 258 00:16:56,840 --> 00:17:01,240 Speaker 1: regimes and this current one is the proliferation of the 259 00:17:01,280 --> 00:17:06,040 Speaker 1: Internet and affordable technology that citizens can use to access 260 00:17:06,080 --> 00:17:08,919 Speaker 1: the Internet. This ends up giving people a lot of 261 00:17:08,920 --> 00:17:12,240 Speaker 1: options when it comes to doing stuff like organizing protests 262 00:17:12,280 --> 00:17:17,560 Speaker 1: and sharing information, something the military has been keen to squash. 263 00:17:17,720 --> 00:17:20,639 Speaker 1: As such, the military has moved to cut off citizens 264 00:17:20,720 --> 00:17:24,200 Speaker 1: access to the Internet. The BBC reported over the weekend 265 00:17:24,280 --> 00:17:28,119 Speaker 1: that nationwide connectivity fell to sixteen percent of what it 266 00:17:28,200 --> 00:17:31,440 Speaker 1: normally would be. The military also moved to block citizen 267 00:17:31,520 --> 00:17:36,240 Speaker 1: access to platforms like Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. Some citizens 268 00:17:36,280 --> 00:17:39,679 Speaker 1: switched to using virtual private networks or VPNs in order 269 00:17:39,720 --> 00:17:43,119 Speaker 1: to get around those blocks, and that prompted the military 270 00:17:43,119 --> 00:17:46,840 Speaker 1: to go for the more brute force approach of essentially 271 00:17:46,880 --> 00:17:51,320 Speaker 1: shutting down internet service entirely within the country. Essentially, the 272 00:17:51,400 --> 00:17:54,359 Speaker 1: military are taking the philosophy of the founders of the 273 00:17:54,359 --> 00:17:56,720 Speaker 1: Internet and trying to do the opposite in order to 274 00:17:56,760 --> 00:18:01,439 Speaker 1: restrict speech and organization. Citizen in the country continue to 275 00:18:01,480 --> 00:18:05,080 Speaker 1: speak out against the coup, organizing in the streets. Apparently, 276 00:18:05,359 --> 00:18:08,080 Speaker 1: the three finger salute from Hunger Games has become a 277 00:18:08,119 --> 00:18:12,480 Speaker 1: widely adopted symbol representing a rejection of authoritarianism. There's a 278 00:18:12,520 --> 00:18:16,399 Speaker 1: growing international pressure against the military to reverse course and 279 00:18:16,440 --> 00:18:20,240 Speaker 1: acknowledge the democratically elected leaders. And this story is ongoing, 280 00:18:20,280 --> 00:18:24,480 Speaker 1: so I'm sure we'll have more updates in future episodes. Okay, 281 00:18:24,520 --> 00:18:27,040 Speaker 1: we've got a lot more news to cover, but before 282 00:18:27,040 --> 00:18:37,399 Speaker 1: we get to that, let's take a quick break. We're back. 283 00:18:38,040 --> 00:18:41,000 Speaker 1: The New York Times published a piece about the gig 284 00:18:41,000 --> 00:18:45,200 Speaker 1: economy in general, and Uber, Lift and Airbnb in particular. 285 00:18:45,720 --> 00:18:49,440 Speaker 1: Over the course of twenty twenty. Clearly, the pandemic has 286 00:18:49,440 --> 00:18:53,320 Speaker 1: had a major effect on these companies and their employees 287 00:18:53,800 --> 00:18:58,000 Speaker 1: or contract workers as the case may be, and their customers. 288 00:18:58,640 --> 00:19:02,960 Speaker 1: Uber and Lift have never had a profitable year, though 289 00:19:03,000 --> 00:19:06,200 Speaker 1: the typical response to that criticism has been that they're 290 00:19:06,440 --> 00:19:09,800 Speaker 1: you know, both companies have invested more in growth year 291 00:19:09,840 --> 00:19:15,080 Speaker 1: over year, which made costs outpaced revenue, but both have 292 00:19:15,240 --> 00:19:18,119 Speaker 1: had I p o s or you know, initial public offerings. 293 00:19:18,119 --> 00:19:22,359 Speaker 1: They're both publicly traded companies, which typically brings along with 294 00:19:22,359 --> 00:19:26,160 Speaker 1: it a certain general expectation that the companies will become 295 00:19:26,200 --> 00:19:30,879 Speaker 1: profitable and represent a return on investment for shareholders. And 296 00:19:30,920 --> 00:19:34,199 Speaker 1: of course was a much different year than any of 297 00:19:34,280 --> 00:19:37,879 Speaker 1: us had planned thanks to the pandemic. Usage of ride 298 00:19:37,880 --> 00:19:43,240 Speaker 1: hailing services and Airbnb dropped significantly in the spring. It 299 00:19:43,320 --> 00:19:46,320 Speaker 1: recovered a bit and then had a second dip in 300 00:19:46,400 --> 00:19:48,800 Speaker 1: the fall, though not as drastic as it could have been, 301 00:19:49,280 --> 00:19:51,600 Speaker 1: and the gig workers have had a lot of concerns 302 00:19:51,720 --> 00:19:54,560 Speaker 1: during that whole time. There's a higher risk for them 303 00:19:54,600 --> 00:19:56,960 Speaker 1: to get sick as they can encounter a lot of 304 00:19:57,000 --> 00:20:00,320 Speaker 1: people on a single shift. And what's more so, gig 305 00:20:00,359 --> 00:20:05,480 Speaker 1: workers intentionally sought out gigs around larger public events, you know, 306 00:20:05,520 --> 00:20:10,440 Speaker 1: potential super spreader events. Because people needed transportation, a lot 307 00:20:10,480 --> 00:20:14,320 Speaker 1: of gig workers stopped working those types of jobs completely. 308 00:20:14,720 --> 00:20:18,240 Speaker 1: Others would swap over to stuff like driving deliveries rather 309 00:20:18,280 --> 00:20:21,800 Speaker 1: than passengers, and you know, Uber really did a major 310 00:20:21,840 --> 00:20:28,000 Speaker 1: shift towards delivery. In with that change came lower paychecks 311 00:20:28,200 --> 00:20:32,040 Speaker 1: and lower risk of getting sick. According to Lift and 312 00:20:32,119 --> 00:20:35,600 Speaker 1: its ten largest markets, the drivers who you know kept 313 00:20:35,640 --> 00:20:38,960 Speaker 1: picking up passengers were working at a fairly steady pace 314 00:20:39,040 --> 00:20:42,280 Speaker 1: through most of the year because there were a reduced 315 00:20:42,359 --> 00:20:44,960 Speaker 1: number of drivers out there, which meant there was a 316 00:20:45,000 --> 00:20:48,600 Speaker 1: smaller supply, so a smaller demand was okay, But in 317 00:20:48,640 --> 00:20:52,360 Speaker 1: other places, drivers spent a lot of time just waiting 318 00:20:52,400 --> 00:20:56,440 Speaker 1: idly in their cars for potential fares. And apparently tipping 319 00:20:56,600 --> 00:20:59,960 Speaker 1: was down in as well. Oh and drivers often had 320 00:21:00,040 --> 00:21:03,959 Speaker 1: to supplement masks and cleaning products that were supplied by 321 00:21:04,040 --> 00:21:07,240 Speaker 1: their companies, and they had to add in stuff that 322 00:21:07,320 --> 00:21:09,760 Speaker 1: they bought with their own money because it wasn't enough 323 00:21:09,800 --> 00:21:13,840 Speaker 1: to cover their their work, which represented another cost for 324 00:21:13,960 --> 00:21:17,040 Speaker 1: the driver. Both Uber and Left will be announcing their 325 00:21:17,080 --> 00:21:20,320 Speaker 1: financial results for twenty twenty later this week, and we'll 326 00:21:20,400 --> 00:21:23,360 Speaker 1: learn more about how these companies have been doing. Currently. 327 00:21:23,400 --> 00:21:25,879 Speaker 1: Both Uber and Left have stocks priced in the fifty 328 00:21:25,960 --> 00:21:29,160 Speaker 1: to sixty dollar range, which is a pretty drastic increase 329 00:21:29,200 --> 00:21:33,280 Speaker 1: from the lows that their stocks hit in. And now 330 00:21:33,320 --> 00:21:36,000 Speaker 1: for a couple of Tesla stories. First up as a 331 00:21:36,040 --> 00:21:39,240 Speaker 1: story in the Wall Street Journal. Their reports. China has 332 00:21:39,240 --> 00:21:43,119 Speaker 1: criticized Tesla for the build quality of the US built 333 00:21:43,240 --> 00:21:46,200 Speaker 1: vehicles the Tesla has been trying to sell in China. 334 00:21:46,920 --> 00:21:51,280 Speaker 1: China's State Administration for Market Regulation has rebuked Tesla for 335 00:21:51,400 --> 00:21:55,600 Speaker 1: inconsistent build quality, which is something that the company has 336 00:21:55,600 --> 00:21:58,320 Speaker 1: faced over here in the United States on occasion. Is 337 00:21:58,560 --> 00:22:03,120 Speaker 1: inconsistent build quality. The company has issued a few recalls 338 00:22:03,160 --> 00:22:06,000 Speaker 1: on US built models, like the Model S and the 339 00:22:06,080 --> 00:22:09,720 Speaker 1: Model X. One of those recalls was about the touch 340 00:22:09,840 --> 00:22:13,160 Speaker 1: screen that was incorporated into the dashboard of these vehicles, 341 00:22:13,240 --> 00:22:16,440 Speaker 1: and another recall was for an issue with the suspension 342 00:22:16,480 --> 00:22:20,800 Speaker 1: systems of the vehicles. Interestingly, the Tesla vehicles that are 343 00:22:20,840 --> 00:22:25,200 Speaker 1: actually built in the company's Giga factory in Shanghai are 344 00:22:25,320 --> 00:22:28,400 Speaker 1: clear of these problems or appear to be so. This 345 00:22:28,480 --> 00:22:32,240 Speaker 1: seems to be an issue specifically with the American made 346 00:22:32,560 --> 00:22:36,520 Speaker 1: Tesla vehicles. Tesla apparently greased a lot of wheels to 347 00:22:36,560 --> 00:22:40,520 Speaker 1: open up operations in China. It received funding from Chinese banks, 348 00:22:40,560 --> 00:22:44,280 Speaker 1: which are stayed owned and operated, and it also sidesteps 349 00:22:44,280 --> 00:22:47,080 Speaker 1: some regulations that normally it would have to go through 350 00:22:47,119 --> 00:22:50,680 Speaker 1: in order to get you know, approval in China, and 351 00:22:50,760 --> 00:22:52,440 Speaker 1: it was all in an effort to get the production 352 00:22:52,480 --> 00:22:56,200 Speaker 1: even faster. So it's kind of rough to get all 353 00:22:56,240 --> 00:22:59,560 Speaker 1: these sorts of favors from a foreign country and then 354 00:22:59,600 --> 00:23:02,240 Speaker 1: turn round and kind of mess up. It's too early 355 00:23:02,320 --> 00:23:05,680 Speaker 1: to say if there will be further consequences, but they 356 00:23:05,720 --> 00:23:10,280 Speaker 1: could escalate up to and including an import ban on 357 00:23:10,480 --> 00:23:14,879 Speaker 1: US built Tesla vehicles. So it's not, as the kids say, 358 00:23:15,440 --> 00:23:19,480 Speaker 1: a good look. And our second Tesla story is that 359 00:23:19,520 --> 00:23:25,000 Speaker 1: the company is really into bitcoin, like really into it, 360 00:23:25,520 --> 00:23:28,040 Speaker 1: as in making a one and a half billion dollar 361 00:23:28,119 --> 00:23:33,040 Speaker 1: investment into the cryptocurrency kind of into it. And in 362 00:23:33,160 --> 00:23:36,440 Speaker 1: its tin K report to the SEC, we learned that 363 00:23:36,480 --> 00:23:40,520 Speaker 1: the company apparently plans to accept bitcoin as a form 364 00:23:40,560 --> 00:23:44,280 Speaker 1: of payment in the future to some degree. Now, personally 365 00:23:44,960 --> 00:23:47,879 Speaker 1: I find this whole thing ridiculous, but I find almost 366 00:23:47,920 --> 00:23:51,639 Speaker 1: everything about bitcoin to be ridiculous. As I have pointed 367 00:23:51,640 --> 00:23:55,760 Speaker 1: out on numerous occasions in my old grouchy Man voice, 368 00:23:56,359 --> 00:24:01,040 Speaker 1: bitcoin's value fluctuates so much that it's hard for me 369 00:24:01,119 --> 00:24:04,480 Speaker 1: to see it as a valid currency. I mean, yes, 370 00:24:04,880 --> 00:24:09,679 Speaker 1: people have used bitcoin to make transactions, particularly for stuff 371 00:24:09,720 --> 00:24:12,680 Speaker 1: that they would rather not have on the books anywhere else. 372 00:24:13,359 --> 00:24:17,560 Speaker 1: But on January twenty one, the value of a single 373 00:24:17,600 --> 00:24:21,880 Speaker 1: bitcoin was thirty thousand, four hundred seventeen u s. Dollars. 374 00:24:21,920 --> 00:24:24,919 Speaker 1: That's a lot, right, Well, this morning it was just 375 00:24:25,000 --> 00:24:28,320 Speaker 1: above forty three thousand dollars, and as a record this 376 00:24:28,400 --> 00:24:31,280 Speaker 1: episode in the night of February eight, the current value 377 00:24:31,320 --> 00:24:35,399 Speaker 1: for a bitcoin is forty six thousand, four hundred twenty 378 00:24:35,480 --> 00:24:39,840 Speaker 1: seven dollars and fifty cents. So in two weeks, the 379 00:24:39,960 --> 00:24:43,880 Speaker 1: value of a single bitcoin increased by more than sixteen 380 00:24:43,920 --> 00:24:48,000 Speaker 1: thousand dollars, and it increased by nearly three thousand dollars 381 00:24:48,040 --> 00:24:52,520 Speaker 1: just over a few hours for one bitcoin. So let's 382 00:24:52,560 --> 00:24:56,239 Speaker 1: say that you've got some bitcoins, maybe you invested in 383 00:24:56,280 --> 00:24:59,439 Speaker 1: them and purchased them, maybe you mind them. It doesn't 384 00:24:59,480 --> 00:25:02,840 Speaker 1: really matter or how likely are you to spend a 385 00:25:02,840 --> 00:25:06,800 Speaker 1: bitcoin if you know that in two weeks, the bitcoin 386 00:25:06,840 --> 00:25:09,720 Speaker 1: you spend might have increased in value by more than 387 00:25:09,800 --> 00:25:13,359 Speaker 1: fifteen thousand dollars. I mean, you would have already spent 388 00:25:13,680 --> 00:25:16,280 Speaker 1: the bitcoin, so none of that value would come back 389 00:25:16,320 --> 00:25:19,000 Speaker 1: to you. You would have spent that money already. It 390 00:25:19,040 --> 00:25:21,920 Speaker 1: would be out of your wallet and in someone else's 391 00:25:21,960 --> 00:25:24,840 Speaker 1: and that person would see the money they received from 392 00:25:24,920 --> 00:25:29,560 Speaker 1: you increase in value dramatically. Now that doesn't seem like 393 00:25:29,600 --> 00:25:32,040 Speaker 1: it's a very viable currency to me. I would be 394 00:25:32,200 --> 00:25:36,000 Speaker 1: terrified to spend money, thinking what if I held onto 395 00:25:36,000 --> 00:25:39,280 Speaker 1: this for two weeks and it increased in value, you know, 396 00:25:39,520 --> 00:25:43,280 Speaker 1: by sixteen thousand dollars, I would never spend it. So 397 00:25:43,800 --> 00:25:46,000 Speaker 1: maybe you could think of it more as an investment, 398 00:25:46,800 --> 00:25:52,400 Speaker 1: but you know, not really currency anyway. Tesla essentially acknowledged 399 00:25:52,400 --> 00:25:55,760 Speaker 1: that the company is diversifying its investments with money that 400 00:25:56,040 --> 00:25:58,760 Speaker 1: you know, they don't need for their regular operating expenses, 401 00:25:59,240 --> 00:26:03,640 Speaker 1: and bitcoin represents one of those investments. Now, this next 402 00:26:03,680 --> 00:26:08,560 Speaker 1: story isn't a Tesla story, but it does involve Elon Musk, 403 00:26:08,720 --> 00:26:12,480 Speaker 1: who is currently the richest person in the world. He's 404 00:26:12,480 --> 00:26:16,119 Speaker 1: putting money, a hundred million dollars of it, toward a 405 00:26:16,240 --> 00:26:21,399 Speaker 1: prize pool for a special contest. No, he is not 406 00:26:21,560 --> 00:26:25,360 Speaker 1: inviting five children to a Tesla factory to get gobbled 407 00:26:25,400 --> 00:26:28,200 Speaker 1: up by various machinery until he takes one of them 408 00:26:28,240 --> 00:26:32,080 Speaker 1: on a glass elevator ride, though I do continue to 409 00:26:32,119 --> 00:26:36,480 Speaker 1: pitch that movie instead. The contest is for teams to 410 00:26:36,560 --> 00:26:40,639 Speaker 1: propose carbon removal solutions to reduce the amount of carbon 411 00:26:40,640 --> 00:26:43,880 Speaker 1: dioxide in the atmosphere and then to lock it up 412 00:26:44,000 --> 00:26:46,800 Speaker 1: in some form to reduce the amount of greenhouse gases 413 00:26:47,240 --> 00:26:50,679 Speaker 1: that are out there and help fight climate change. The 414 00:26:50,720 --> 00:26:54,400 Speaker 1: prize pool totals one million dollars. But this isn't a 415 00:26:54,440 --> 00:26:56,919 Speaker 1: winner takes all kind of game. There will be a 416 00:26:56,960 --> 00:27:00,600 Speaker 1: fifty million dollar grand prize, and second and third place 417 00:27:00,680 --> 00:27:04,399 Speaker 1: we'll get twenty million and ten million dollars respectively. The 418 00:27:04,480 --> 00:27:08,159 Speaker 1: remaining twenty million bucks will be divvied up between small 419 00:27:08,240 --> 00:27:11,680 Speaker 1: teams to help fund their solutions. It's incantive to get 420 00:27:11,720 --> 00:27:16,160 Speaker 1: people thinking about ways to combat climate change and hopefully 421 00:27:16,160 --> 00:27:19,200 Speaker 1: come up with some practical solutions that can be actually 422 00:27:19,240 --> 00:27:22,240 Speaker 1: implemented and make a real world difference. It's part of 423 00:27:22,280 --> 00:27:26,520 Speaker 1: the X Prize series of events. X Prize is itself 424 00:27:26,880 --> 00:27:31,720 Speaker 1: a nonprofit organization and X Prize events have covered tons 425 00:27:31,760 --> 00:27:36,400 Speaker 1: of different challenges, from space exploration to building more efficient 426 00:27:36,400 --> 00:27:42,400 Speaker 1: automobiles to improving literacy among adults. Generally speaking, the contests 427 00:27:42,480 --> 00:27:46,840 Speaker 1: tackle really big problems that require a lot of innovative solutions. 428 00:27:47,359 --> 00:27:50,359 Speaker 1: And to learn more about x Prize, specifically the carbon 429 00:27:50,400 --> 00:27:53,840 Speaker 1: removal one, but other ones as well, uh, you can 430 00:27:53,880 --> 00:27:57,040 Speaker 1: go to x prize dot org. Just know that when 431 00:27:57,080 --> 00:28:01,639 Speaker 1: we're talking carbon removal, we're talking big picture because the 432 00:28:01,680 --> 00:28:04,119 Speaker 1: goal is to come up with solutions that can remove 433 00:28:04,200 --> 00:28:09,760 Speaker 1: carbon on the gigaton scale that's a billion tons. And 434 00:28:09,840 --> 00:28:12,960 Speaker 1: the last little bit for this new segment, Bloomberg reports 435 00:28:13,000 --> 00:28:16,640 Speaker 1: that Dan Richio, who used to lead Apple's hardware division, 436 00:28:17,240 --> 00:28:22,320 Speaker 1: has moved over to Apple's mostly secret department that oversees 437 00:28:22,359 --> 00:28:26,840 Speaker 1: the company's work in augmented and virtual reality technologies. And 438 00:28:26,920 --> 00:28:30,560 Speaker 1: just for a quick refresh. Virtual reality is when you're 439 00:28:30,640 --> 00:28:35,200 Speaker 1: using technology to create a simulated reality, so the stuff 440 00:28:35,240 --> 00:28:38,600 Speaker 1: that you can see and hear, and sometimes even touch 441 00:28:38,640 --> 00:28:42,600 Speaker 1: and smell is all created by technology to create the 442 00:28:42,640 --> 00:28:45,600 Speaker 1: sensation that you are in a different kind of environment. 443 00:28:46,160 --> 00:28:49,880 Speaker 1: Augmented reality is when you use technology to create a 444 00:28:50,040 --> 00:28:54,600 Speaker 1: digital enhancement to the real world around you, and you 445 00:28:54,680 --> 00:28:57,960 Speaker 1: might access this using a headset where you can see 446 00:28:58,000 --> 00:29:00,440 Speaker 1: the real world around you, but there's a year old 447 00:29:00,440 --> 00:29:04,120 Speaker 1: display that is on top of your view of reality. 448 00:29:04,600 --> 00:29:06,840 Speaker 1: You might just use a smartphone, so you hold up 449 00:29:06,880 --> 00:29:08,920 Speaker 1: the smartphone and you're looking at the world through the 450 00:29:08,960 --> 00:29:12,440 Speaker 1: smartphones camera with a digital overlay added. Or it might 451 00:29:12,480 --> 00:29:15,719 Speaker 1: even be something like headphones where you get digital information 452 00:29:15,840 --> 00:29:18,400 Speaker 1: through audio cues. But the whole idea is that the 453 00:29:18,440 --> 00:29:22,680 Speaker 1: technology identifies your location and your orientation, so in other words, 454 00:29:23,160 --> 00:29:25,400 Speaker 1: where you happen to be and what you happen to 455 00:29:25,440 --> 00:29:28,760 Speaker 1: be facing, and then provides information on top of that 456 00:29:28,880 --> 00:29:32,240 Speaker 1: environment around you. The information might be for entertainment, I 457 00:29:32,240 --> 00:29:34,400 Speaker 1: mean you might just be looking at people and seeing 458 00:29:34,400 --> 00:29:37,520 Speaker 1: bunny ears pop up on everyone's head. Or it might 459 00:29:37,520 --> 00:29:41,120 Speaker 1: be informative, like giving you digital instructions overlaid on top 460 00:29:41,160 --> 00:29:45,200 Speaker 1: of your view of say and otherwise incomprehensible pile of 461 00:29:45,240 --> 00:29:49,800 Speaker 1: furniture pieces from Ikea. The rumors about Apple mostly suggests 462 00:29:49,800 --> 00:29:52,920 Speaker 1: that the company would first build out a really premium 463 00:29:53,240 --> 00:29:58,239 Speaker 1: and really expensive VR set up before moving into the 464 00:29:58,320 --> 00:30:02,080 Speaker 1: augmented reality technology G for a consumer space. And I 465 00:30:02,120 --> 00:30:05,840 Speaker 1: can kind of understand that VR is a small market 466 00:30:06,400 --> 00:30:09,840 Speaker 1: but it's a market. It has actually had some success, 467 00:30:09,880 --> 00:30:14,280 Speaker 1: though I would call it modest success are at least 468 00:30:14,400 --> 00:30:19,200 Speaker 1: in a robust implementation has seen less success, with companies 469 00:30:19,240 --> 00:30:23,280 Speaker 1: like Magic Leaps still struggling, and the Microsoft Hollow lens 470 00:30:23,400 --> 00:30:27,520 Speaker 1: restricted more for developers and enterprise customers, and the whole 471 00:30:27,560 --> 00:30:30,560 Speaker 1: mixed reality thing that Microsoft was behind kind of just 472 00:30:30,720 --> 00:30:34,280 Speaker 1: faded away. So a R is gonna probably be in 473 00:30:34,320 --> 00:30:37,880 Speaker 1: a holding pattern for a little while. But when we're 474 00:30:37,880 --> 00:30:40,800 Speaker 1: talking VR and we're saying expensive, how much do we 475 00:30:40,840 --> 00:30:44,960 Speaker 1: mean by that? Well, the website the Information estimates that 476 00:30:45,000 --> 00:30:47,960 Speaker 1: a VR set from Apple might have a price tag 477 00:30:48,000 --> 00:30:52,800 Speaker 1: somewhere in the neighborhood of three thousand dollars. Yikes. I mean, 478 00:30:52,840 --> 00:30:56,719 Speaker 1: you could build a really good gaming rig for three grand, 479 00:30:56,960 --> 00:31:01,400 Speaker 1: you know, not a like bleeding Edge it'll rip the 480 00:31:01,440 --> 00:31:04,000 Speaker 1: skin off your face kind of gaming rig, but still 481 00:31:04,360 --> 00:31:08,440 Speaker 1: a really good one for three thousand dollars. Now, maybe 482 00:31:08,480 --> 00:31:12,560 Speaker 1: Apple is building out a better VR implementation than anyone 483 00:31:12,640 --> 00:31:16,560 Speaker 1: else has ever managed. That is possible, but the company 484 00:31:16,600 --> 00:31:19,880 Speaker 1: has had some missteps in the past as well, So 485 00:31:20,000 --> 00:31:23,280 Speaker 1: nothing is certain except that you'll definitely be paying the 486 00:31:23,320 --> 00:31:25,920 Speaker 1: Apple tax if you want to buy one, because nobody 487 00:31:25,960 --> 00:31:28,800 Speaker 1: gets out of that. We have a few more stories 488 00:31:28,840 --> 00:31:31,200 Speaker 1: to cover in this episode. Before I get to those, 489 00:31:31,280 --> 00:31:41,959 Speaker 1: let's take another quick break. You know, if I weren't 490 00:31:42,080 --> 00:31:46,280 Speaker 1: making podcasts, I would be pitching big budget blockbusters to 491 00:31:46,360 --> 00:31:51,240 Speaker 1: Hollywood types. You heard me do one with Elon Musk's contest. 492 00:31:51,320 --> 00:31:53,560 Speaker 1: If you listen to large nerd Dron Collider, you know 493 00:31:53,680 --> 00:31:56,640 Speaker 1: I do it every week, and I would make really 494 00:31:56,840 --> 00:32:00,640 Speaker 1: groundbreaking stuff. For example, here's one for you for free. 495 00:32:01,120 --> 00:32:04,600 Speaker 1: I got this idea. There's a robot from the future 496 00:32:04,880 --> 00:32:07,760 Speaker 1: and it comes back to present day because it has 497 00:32:08,280 --> 00:32:13,040 Speaker 1: one mission to make a really good salad. That's my 498 00:32:13,120 --> 00:32:15,920 Speaker 1: way of introducing this next story, which is that door 499 00:32:16,000 --> 00:32:19,480 Speaker 1: Dash is set to acquire a company called chow Botics, 500 00:32:19,920 --> 00:32:24,600 Speaker 1: which tech Crunch describes as quote a Bay Area based 501 00:32:24,680 --> 00:32:28,959 Speaker 1: robotics company best known for its salad making robot end quote. 502 00:32:29,320 --> 00:32:32,520 Speaker 1: That robot, by the way, is named Sally, so in 503 00:32:32,600 --> 00:32:37,640 Speaker 1: my movie Pitch, Arnold Schwarzenegger would clearly be playing Sally, 504 00:32:37,840 --> 00:32:41,440 Speaker 1: the salad making robot. Chow Botics first got its start 505 00:32:41,480 --> 00:32:45,040 Speaker 1: in and according to tech Crunch, it has raised more 506 00:32:45,040 --> 00:32:49,080 Speaker 1: than twenty million dollars so far. The salad making robot 507 00:32:49,240 --> 00:32:53,120 Speaker 1: looks kind of like a vending machine and also kind 508 00:32:53,120 --> 00:32:55,120 Speaker 1: of like one of those claw games that you see 509 00:32:55,120 --> 00:32:59,600 Speaker 1: in arcades, except instead of being filled with garfield plush toys, 510 00:33:00,120 --> 00:33:03,600 Speaker 1: it's filled with these columns of containers that are filled 511 00:33:03,640 --> 00:33:07,479 Speaker 1: with leafy greens or other veggies and stuff like salad 512 00:33:07,560 --> 00:33:11,920 Speaker 1: dressings and croutons and cheese. The earlier incarnation of the 513 00:33:12,040 --> 00:33:15,720 Speaker 1: robot had a touch screen ordering interface, so you'd walk 514 00:33:15,840 --> 00:33:18,880 Speaker 1: up to the device and you could pick from a 515 00:33:18,920 --> 00:33:21,800 Speaker 1: selection of salads or you could, you know, customize your 516 00:33:21,800 --> 00:33:24,600 Speaker 1: own and choose which elements would go into your mix, 517 00:33:25,040 --> 00:33:28,280 Speaker 1: and you'd make your choices. Then the robot would spin 518 00:33:28,320 --> 00:33:31,440 Speaker 1: a carousel of containers, each filled with stuff like spinach 519 00:33:31,560 --> 00:33:35,400 Speaker 1: or kale or carrots or whatever, and it would dispense 520 00:33:35,840 --> 00:33:38,360 Speaker 1: the stuff into a bowl and it would measure it 521 00:33:38,440 --> 00:33:42,320 Speaker 1: by weight, so you get a consistent salad from serving 522 00:33:42,320 --> 00:33:45,040 Speaker 1: to serving, and you just put the bowl into a 523 00:33:45,040 --> 00:33:48,040 Speaker 1: little outlet for the robot and it would shoot the 524 00:33:48,120 --> 00:33:52,080 Speaker 1: salad into your bowl. With the pandemic, robots like Sally 525 00:33:52,240 --> 00:33:56,040 Speaker 1: clearly had an advantage over other options like salad bars 526 00:33:56,160 --> 00:34:00,400 Speaker 1: or people prepping salads for you, and chalbotics also introduced 527 00:34:00,400 --> 00:34:03,080 Speaker 1: an interface that would work with an app so that 528 00:34:03,160 --> 00:34:07,400 Speaker 1: you could actually order your salad with your phone instead 529 00:34:07,400 --> 00:34:10,040 Speaker 1: of having to touch the touch screen on the robot, 530 00:34:10,880 --> 00:34:13,839 Speaker 1: which is pretty clever. Now, how that company is going 531 00:34:13,880 --> 00:34:19,080 Speaker 1: to fit into door dashes strategy isn't totally clear yet, 532 00:34:19,320 --> 00:34:21,360 Speaker 1: but I imagine it's going to be along the lines 533 00:34:21,400 --> 00:34:25,680 Speaker 1: of door Dash offering up its own products to consumers 534 00:34:26,080 --> 00:34:30,440 Speaker 1: in addition to those found in local restaurants. So when 535 00:34:30,480 --> 00:34:33,240 Speaker 1: you open up door Dash, you might order a salad 536 00:34:33,520 --> 00:34:37,920 Speaker 1: from door Dashes army of merciless killer salad robots for 537 00:34:38,000 --> 00:34:40,440 Speaker 1: a slightly lower price than you would spend if you 538 00:34:40,480 --> 00:34:43,920 Speaker 1: were to get it from kill Me maybe or whatever, 539 00:34:44,040 --> 00:34:47,240 Speaker 1: you know, some salad place. I got some more bad 540 00:34:47,280 --> 00:34:52,439 Speaker 1: news for Google Stadia owners, which includes myself. I mean, 541 00:34:52,480 --> 00:34:55,080 Speaker 1: for one thing, there's a general feeling that this service 542 00:34:55,800 --> 00:34:59,720 Speaker 1: might not be around for much longer. Google already killed 543 00:34:59,719 --> 00:35:03,960 Speaker 1: off it's internal Stadia development division, the people who were 544 00:35:04,040 --> 00:35:08,359 Speaker 1: working on, uh, the exclusive games for Google Stadia. Now, 545 00:35:08,400 --> 00:35:10,600 Speaker 1: as far as I know, no one actually working on 546 00:35:10,800 --> 00:35:14,759 Speaker 1: the division has been you know, targeted for early retirement 547 00:35:14,840 --> 00:35:18,200 Speaker 1: or anything. But now we hear that the developer for 548 00:35:18,320 --> 00:35:22,760 Speaker 1: the indie game Terra Area has decided that his company 549 00:35:22,840 --> 00:35:25,560 Speaker 1: is going to cancel all plans to port that game 550 00:35:25,680 --> 00:35:31,319 Speaker 1: over to Google Stadia and wherefore should it be thus well. 551 00:35:31,760 --> 00:35:35,080 Speaker 1: Ours Technica reports that this move was in response to 552 00:35:35,120 --> 00:35:39,160 Speaker 1: YouTube banning Andrew Spinx's channel, and Spinx is the lead 553 00:35:39,160 --> 00:35:45,000 Speaker 1: developer for Terrarium, and YouTube banned the Relogic Game Developer 554 00:35:45,120 --> 00:35:49,160 Speaker 1: channel for a terms of service violation. But it gets worse. 555 00:35:49,480 --> 00:35:53,360 Speaker 1: The Terra Area Twitter account elaborate that first their YouTube 556 00:35:53,440 --> 00:35:56,319 Speaker 1: channel was banned despite the fact that no one had 557 00:35:56,320 --> 00:35:59,840 Speaker 1: actually added anything to that channel for several months, so 558 00:36:00,280 --> 00:36:04,920 Speaker 1: there was nothing new there to be objectionable, and the 559 00:36:05,040 --> 00:36:08,160 Speaker 1: email message that they received said that there was some 560 00:36:08,239 --> 00:36:12,280 Speaker 1: sort of undefined terms of service violation, and the email 561 00:36:12,320 --> 00:36:15,239 Speaker 1: itself even said that it was probably an error on 562 00:36:15,320 --> 00:36:19,319 Speaker 1: Google's part and that they should not get any strikes 563 00:36:19,360 --> 00:36:22,879 Speaker 1: against the channel because of that. But then, just three 564 00:36:22,960 --> 00:36:28,759 Speaker 1: days later quote the entire Google account, YouTube, Gmail, all 565 00:36:28,840 --> 00:36:32,440 Speaker 1: Google apps, even every purchase made over fifteen years on 566 00:36:32,480 --> 00:36:36,880 Speaker 1: the Google Play Store was disabled with no warning or recourse. 567 00:36:37,760 --> 00:36:41,480 Speaker 1: This account links into many business functions and as such 568 00:36:41,680 --> 00:36:46,040 Speaker 1: the impact to us is quite substantial. End Quote yikes 569 00:36:46,880 --> 00:36:50,840 Speaker 1: Spins took Twitter to air his grievances and formally canceled 570 00:36:50,880 --> 00:36:55,120 Speaker 1: the port of Terraria for Google Stadium, which, honestly, given 571 00:36:55,280 --> 00:36:58,239 Speaker 1: the extent of the issues with having a total ban 572 00:36:58,480 --> 00:37:03,040 Speaker 1: on all Google services, I wouldn't call that an extreme reaction. 573 00:37:03,760 --> 00:37:06,160 Speaker 1: This is one of the downsides to Google's approach to 574 00:37:06,239 --> 00:37:10,520 Speaker 1: having a single sign in account system for all Google services, 575 00:37:10,560 --> 00:37:14,640 Speaker 1: because a single band can potentially affect everything else, which, 576 00:37:14,920 --> 00:37:18,800 Speaker 1: as ours technic up points out, creates a disproportionate kind 577 00:37:18,920 --> 00:37:22,600 Speaker 1: of punishment. And when you're being punished for something that 578 00:37:22,800 --> 00:37:26,720 Speaker 1: is likely not your fault, it's just an accident, that's 579 00:37:26,880 --> 00:37:31,200 Speaker 1: extra harsh. In happier news, at least for TikTok fans, 580 00:37:31,560 --> 00:37:34,800 Speaker 1: the app has secured a music license for Universal Music 581 00:37:34,800 --> 00:37:38,319 Speaker 1: Group's entire catalog of music from around the world and 582 00:37:38,360 --> 00:37:40,840 Speaker 1: for those who have never used TikTok except maybe to 583 00:37:40,920 --> 00:37:43,880 Speaker 1: sing along to see shanties, which is how I use it. 584 00:37:44,320 --> 00:37:47,080 Speaker 1: A very popular use of the app is creating lip 585 00:37:47,120 --> 00:37:51,280 Speaker 1: SYNCD videos to various clips of audio, which frequently includes music, 586 00:37:51,680 --> 00:37:55,480 Speaker 1: and those licenses are important because it grants users permission 587 00:37:55,680 --> 00:37:58,600 Speaker 1: to make videos of themselves, you know, dancing or lip 588 00:37:58,640 --> 00:38:02,400 Speaker 1: syncing or singing along with copyrighted music without fear of 589 00:38:02,480 --> 00:38:06,240 Speaker 1: having their videos flagged or their accounts banned for unauthorized 590 00:38:06,600 --> 00:38:09,400 Speaker 1: use of copyrighted material, or at least that's how it's 591 00:38:09,400 --> 00:38:12,359 Speaker 1: supposed to work. In the first six months of twenty 592 00:38:12,640 --> 00:38:17,160 Speaker 1: TikTok received more than ten thousand, six hundred copyright takedown requests, 593 00:38:17,600 --> 00:38:21,840 Speaker 1: and earlier in Universal was one of the music publishing 594 00:38:21,840 --> 00:38:26,279 Speaker 1: companies threatening to sue TikTok for copyright infringement, arguing that 595 00:38:26,360 --> 00:38:29,440 Speaker 1: the company lacked the proper licenses to allow its users 596 00:38:29,480 --> 00:38:31,440 Speaker 1: to create the kinds of videos that they were making. 597 00:38:31,920 --> 00:38:34,800 Speaker 1: The music companies argued that without the agreements in place, 598 00:38:35,080 --> 00:38:38,200 Speaker 1: the artists who create the songs that fans love don't 599 00:38:38,239 --> 00:38:41,280 Speaker 1: get paid for the use of their music, and yeah, 600 00:38:41,520 --> 00:38:43,840 Speaker 1: that is a raw deal. But I do want to 601 00:38:43,880 --> 00:38:47,840 Speaker 1: point out that when it comes to altruistic philosophies, music 602 00:38:47,920 --> 00:38:51,440 Speaker 1: publishing companies rarely rank really high on my list of 603 00:38:51,480 --> 00:38:55,279 Speaker 1: candidates for most thoughtful of the year. Anyway, it looks 604 00:38:55,320 --> 00:38:58,640 Speaker 1: like Universal and TikTok negotiated to a common ground, which 605 00:38:58,680 --> 00:39:02,160 Speaker 1: probably means TikTok is shelling out big oh buckos the 606 00:39:02,320 --> 00:39:05,440 Speaker 1: Universal in order to make the music available to TikTok creators. 607 00:39:05,880 --> 00:39:09,320 Speaker 1: TikTok has reached similar agreements with Sony Music and Warner 608 00:39:09,440 --> 00:39:12,680 Speaker 1: Music Group, as well as lots of independent labels. Now 609 00:39:12,719 --> 00:39:15,600 Speaker 1: does this mean you can upload a video to TikTok 610 00:39:15,920 --> 00:39:19,600 Speaker 1: and use the music from TikTok's database without ever worrying 611 00:39:19,640 --> 00:39:24,279 Speaker 1: about a takedown? Notice? Maybe it sometimes happens anyway, which 612 00:39:24,320 --> 00:39:28,239 Speaker 1: has to be frustrating to creators. Meanwhile, old timers like 613 00:39:28,239 --> 00:39:31,520 Speaker 1: yours truly say stuff like where reminds me are the 614 00:39:31,560 --> 00:39:35,120 Speaker 1: old days of YouTube? Shutter down? Let me tell you 615 00:39:35,160 --> 00:39:40,000 Speaker 1: about them? So no one ever settles down and everyone 616 00:39:40,440 --> 00:39:45,960 Speaker 1: leaves me. Finally, entrepreneur Mark Cuban is co founding a 617 00:39:46,040 --> 00:39:50,920 Speaker 1: new podcast platform called Fireside. Apparently, the idea behind this 618 00:39:51,000 --> 00:39:53,439 Speaker 1: venture is to create a platform in which creators can 619 00:39:53,480 --> 00:39:59,239 Speaker 1: record and or broadcast conversations, monetize them, and use analytics 620 00:39:59,239 --> 00:40:03,360 Speaker 1: tools to see how different content performs on the platform. 621 00:40:03,400 --> 00:40:06,080 Speaker 1: It's supposed to be a curated platform as well, so 622 00:40:06,560 --> 00:40:09,360 Speaker 1: it's not like an open mic night at the local 623 00:40:09,560 --> 00:40:13,120 Speaker 1: CD comedy club. I think the sales pitch here is 624 00:40:13,160 --> 00:40:17,280 Speaker 1: that it takes a lot of stuff for probe podcasters 625 00:40:17,400 --> 00:40:22,160 Speaker 1: to do their jobs. And it takes all those duties 626 00:40:22,200 --> 00:40:25,120 Speaker 1: and aggregates it into a cohesive service. So rather than 627 00:40:25,160 --> 00:40:29,879 Speaker 1: a podcaster having to do marketing, analysis and sales all 628 00:40:29,960 --> 00:40:32,880 Speaker 1: on their own, you know, landing sponsors for their shows 629 00:40:32,920 --> 00:40:36,040 Speaker 1: and that kind of thing, this platform would handle that 630 00:40:36,160 --> 00:40:39,400 Speaker 1: stuff for them, at least to some degree. Now I 631 00:40:39,440 --> 00:40:42,160 Speaker 1: don't know how much control the creators on the platform 632 00:40:42,280 --> 00:40:45,400 Speaker 1: are going to have, So for example, with my show, 633 00:40:45,800 --> 00:40:48,400 Speaker 1: I typically get to have a say with regard to 634 00:40:48,520 --> 00:40:52,600 Speaker 1: which sponsors are allowed to advertise on tech stuff, and 635 00:40:52,640 --> 00:40:55,759 Speaker 1: I generally avoid sponsors that I don't feel are a 636 00:40:55,800 --> 00:40:58,560 Speaker 1: good fit for the show are or maybe they're in 637 00:40:58,600 --> 00:41:00,440 Speaker 1: the type of business that I'm not a fan of. 638 00:41:00,760 --> 00:41:04,520 Speaker 1: So for example, if an ad for any alternative medicine 639 00:41:04,520 --> 00:41:07,760 Speaker 1: company plays on my show, you can be pretty certain 640 00:41:07,800 --> 00:41:09,880 Speaker 1: that I did not get the chance to shoot that 641 00:41:09,920 --> 00:41:12,799 Speaker 1: one down, because I would never have something like that 642 00:41:12,920 --> 00:41:15,960 Speaker 1: run during one of my episodes. But I don't know 643 00:41:16,120 --> 00:41:18,839 Speaker 1: if people working on Fireside are going to be given 644 00:41:18,880 --> 00:41:21,520 Speaker 1: that level of authority to make those kind of decisions. 645 00:41:22,000 --> 00:41:25,520 Speaker 1: And just to be clear, they're actually already is a 646 00:41:25,520 --> 00:41:29,480 Speaker 1: company called Fireside that is in the podcast business. It's 647 00:41:29,480 --> 00:41:34,160 Speaker 1: a company that hosts podcasts and provides analytics for those podcasts, 648 00:41:34,560 --> 00:41:38,359 Speaker 1: which frankly surprises me that no one over on the 649 00:41:38,400 --> 00:41:43,040 Speaker 1: New Fireside project thought to check out that you know, 650 00:41:43,120 --> 00:41:45,239 Speaker 1: the name was available, because I mean, it's one thing 651 00:41:45,280 --> 00:41:48,239 Speaker 1: to take a company name that's already in use. It's 652 00:41:48,280 --> 00:41:51,200 Speaker 1: another thing to take a name that's already in use 653 00:41:51,520 --> 00:41:54,760 Speaker 1: in the exact same industry that you are getting into. 654 00:41:54,880 --> 00:41:59,719 Speaker 1: That's just bad form. According to the Verge, Fireside that is, 655 00:42:00,040 --> 00:42:03,080 Speaker 1: the New One has already reached out to some established 656 00:42:03,120 --> 00:42:06,000 Speaker 1: podcasters to talk about being part of the founding group 657 00:42:06,040 --> 00:42:10,960 Speaker 1: of creators on the platform. I am not one of them. 658 00:42:11,000 --> 00:42:14,960 Speaker 1: I'm not saying I'm hurt, but I'm not not saying 659 00:42:15,000 --> 00:42:19,600 Speaker 1: it either. And that wraps up this episode of tech 660 00:42:19,640 --> 00:42:22,000 Speaker 1: Stuff News. I know I got a little loopie there, 661 00:42:22,320 --> 00:42:26,400 Speaker 1: but it is ten fifteen PM as I record this, 662 00:42:27,040 --> 00:42:30,680 Speaker 1: So my day has been a long one. Give me 663 00:42:30,760 --> 00:42:32,920 Speaker 1: some slack, but don't put me on slack. I just 664 00:42:33,080 --> 00:42:36,200 Speaker 1: I can't. I can't do another project management tool right now. 665 00:42:36,480 --> 00:42:39,279 Speaker 1: I just can't. All right, guys, if you have any 666 00:42:39,320 --> 00:42:42,520 Speaker 1: suggestions for future episodes of tech Stuff, whether it's a 667 00:42:42,960 --> 00:42:46,640 Speaker 1: topic about a company, a technology, a person in tech, 668 00:42:46,960 --> 00:42:49,200 Speaker 1: a trend in tech. Maybe you just want to know 669 00:42:49,239 --> 00:42:52,319 Speaker 1: how something works let me know. The best way to 670 00:42:52,360 --> 00:42:54,839 Speaker 1: reach out is over on Twitter. 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