1 00:00:04,440 --> 00:00:07,760 Speaker 1: Get in tech with Technology with Text stuff from stuff 2 00:00:08,039 --> 00:00:14,800 Speaker 1: dot Com. Hey there, everyone, and welcome to tech Stuff. 3 00:00:14,840 --> 00:00:18,439 Speaker 1: I am Jonathan Strickland and I'm Lauren and we wanted 4 00:00:18,480 --> 00:00:21,320 Speaker 1: to take a look back at the year what was 5 00:00:21,400 --> 00:00:24,800 Speaker 1: two thousand thirteen and some of the big tech news stories, 6 00:00:24,840 --> 00:00:26,480 Speaker 1: and it turns out there quite a few. So we're 7 00:00:26,480 --> 00:00:29,040 Speaker 1: gonna divide this up into a couple of episodes, And 8 00:00:29,080 --> 00:00:31,159 Speaker 1: before we get started, I wanted to do just a 9 00:00:31,240 --> 00:00:33,640 Speaker 1: little bit of explanation of how some of this is 10 00:00:33,640 --> 00:00:36,080 Speaker 1: going to play out. In the past, we have often 11 00:00:36,159 --> 00:00:38,880 Speaker 1: kind of commented on the stories as they happened throughout 12 00:00:38,880 --> 00:00:41,360 Speaker 1: the year. That's generally what we're going to do today. 13 00:00:41,400 --> 00:00:44,480 Speaker 1: But for any story that continued to develop throughout the year, 14 00:00:44,760 --> 00:00:47,159 Speaker 1: we're just gonna tell as much of that story as 15 00:00:47,159 --> 00:00:50,680 Speaker 1: we can when it first started happening, more or less, 16 00:00:50,680 --> 00:00:52,880 Speaker 1: because we find that that's a lot easier to follow 17 00:00:52,920 --> 00:00:55,680 Speaker 1: than to say this happened in January than we do 18 00:00:55,760 --> 00:00:58,160 Speaker 1: stories for February, March and in April. Hey you remember 19 00:00:58,160 --> 00:01:00,640 Speaker 1: the thing that happened in January, Well here's where this happened, 20 00:01:00,840 --> 00:01:02,920 Speaker 1: all right. Yeah, there's a couple of places where we 21 00:01:03,000 --> 00:01:06,760 Speaker 1: either are are waiting until a larger event in the 22 00:01:06,840 --> 00:01:10,440 Speaker 1: chain happened to to break it during our timeline or 23 00:01:11,280 --> 00:01:14,480 Speaker 1: exact yeah, exactly. In some cases we'll be talking about 24 00:01:14,560 --> 00:01:17,240 Speaker 1: the biggest part of the story and we may say, oh, 25 00:01:17,360 --> 00:01:20,000 Speaker 1: early in the year this happened, but we wanted to 26 00:01:20,000 --> 00:01:21,800 Speaker 1: do it in such a way where you could get 27 00:01:21,880 --> 00:01:24,880 Speaker 1: kind of the encapsulated version of that news story all 28 00:01:24,920 --> 00:01:27,360 Speaker 1: at once, as opposed to spread out throughout the whole year. 29 00:01:27,720 --> 00:01:31,560 Speaker 1: So any um, alien historians listening to this for like 30 00:01:31,840 --> 00:01:35,720 Speaker 1: extreme accuracy purposes, just you know, slow down and take 31 00:01:35,760 --> 00:01:38,800 Speaker 1: it all in. Also, welcome to the Gregorian calendar. Yeah, 32 00:01:38,959 --> 00:01:43,760 Speaker 1: that's exciting. So let's start, I suggest starting with January two, 33 00:01:44,520 --> 00:01:48,760 Speaker 1: an excellent month of the Gregorian calendar to start with. Yes, okay, 34 00:01:48,800 --> 00:01:51,480 Speaker 1: So the first thing that I have written down, we 35 00:01:51,480 --> 00:01:54,120 Speaker 1: we kind of we didn't go day by day for 36 00:01:54,200 --> 00:01:56,160 Speaker 1: the year, but we kind of lumped them together and 37 00:01:56,160 --> 00:01:58,720 Speaker 1: stuff that happened in various months. The first story I 38 00:01:58,720 --> 00:02:02,639 Speaker 1: wanted to mention was that that was when Kim dot 39 00:02:02,680 --> 00:02:06,520 Speaker 1: com did a little press event where he unveiled his 40 00:02:06,640 --> 00:02:11,239 Speaker 1: plan of the mega website. And you know, Kim dot 41 00:02:11,240 --> 00:02:13,480 Speaker 1: Com of course was one of the founders of Mega upload, 42 00:02:13,880 --> 00:02:16,320 Speaker 1: and a year earlier, back in two thousand twelve, had 43 00:02:16,360 --> 00:02:20,080 Speaker 1: his home rated by various law enforcement officials, and so 44 00:02:20,160 --> 00:02:22,440 Speaker 1: this was on the anniversary of that big raid. He 45 00:02:22,520 --> 00:02:25,200 Speaker 1: unveiled this new service called mega which is a file 46 00:02:25,240 --> 00:02:29,359 Speaker 1: hosting service that also includes encryption so that you can 47 00:02:29,360 --> 00:02:31,680 Speaker 1: share files. You can you can upload a file and 48 00:02:31,720 --> 00:02:34,000 Speaker 1: share it with people, and you can encrypt it so 49 00:02:34,040 --> 00:02:36,280 Speaker 1: that anyone you don't want to share it with doesn't 50 00:02:36,320 --> 00:02:39,440 Speaker 1: know what the heck you're messing with. So it's kind 51 00:02:39,440 --> 00:02:42,000 Speaker 1: of a work around on some of the issues that 52 00:02:42,040 --> 00:02:45,560 Speaker 1: Mega upload had where, you know, anyone who owned copyrighted 53 00:02:45,639 --> 00:02:49,239 Speaker 1: material and saw it up on Mega upload would say, hey, 54 00:02:49,280 --> 00:02:51,240 Speaker 1: you've got to take that down that belongs to me. 55 00:02:51,639 --> 00:02:53,880 Speaker 1: This way they can all they can say is there's 56 00:02:53,919 --> 00:02:55,760 Speaker 1: stuff up there that may or may not belong to me, 57 00:02:55,800 --> 00:02:58,320 Speaker 1: but I can't tell because it's all encrypted. Yeah, this 58 00:02:58,320 --> 00:03:00,760 Speaker 1: this is part of a kind of law your theme 59 00:03:00,919 --> 00:03:05,880 Speaker 1: of of a encryption and be uh file sharing kind 60 00:03:05,919 --> 00:03:08,280 Speaker 1: of issues. It turns out that that's something that I 61 00:03:08,320 --> 00:03:12,080 Speaker 1: doubt is going to go away anytime soon. Yeah. When 62 00:03:12,120 --> 00:03:15,960 Speaker 1: we next have a story that has kind of one 63 00:03:16,000 --> 00:03:19,600 Speaker 1: of the tragedies of this one is so close to 64 00:03:19,639 --> 00:03:22,480 Speaker 1: your heart. Um. This was a research in motion or 65 00:03:22,560 --> 00:03:26,000 Speaker 1: a rim renaming itself BlackBerry and uh and launching the 66 00:03:26,160 --> 00:03:31,799 Speaker 1: BlackBerry ten os UM and then kind of not really 67 00:03:31,840 --> 00:03:35,760 Speaker 1: going anywhere after that. There were if you remember, back 68 00:03:35,760 --> 00:03:37,880 Speaker 1: in two thousand twelve, there were a lot of analysts 69 00:03:37,880 --> 00:03:40,960 Speaker 1: saying that BlackBerry ten os was going to be the 70 00:03:41,000 --> 00:03:44,800 Speaker 1: make or break product for BlackBerry, that it was only 71 00:03:44,880 --> 00:03:48,600 Speaker 1: if that that that new overhaul of the smartphone operating 72 00:03:48,640 --> 00:03:51,600 Speaker 1: system that would be what would end up either saving 73 00:03:51,640 --> 00:03:55,080 Speaker 1: the company or it wouldn't be enough. And while BlackBerry 74 00:03:55,160 --> 00:03:58,840 Speaker 1: is still around, it's certainly had a really rough year. 75 00:03:58,880 --> 00:04:01,640 Speaker 1: In two thousand thirteen, they went so far as to 76 00:04:01,680 --> 00:04:04,320 Speaker 1: say they were entertaining offers for people to come up 77 00:04:04,360 --> 00:04:09,240 Speaker 1: and buy the company. However, uh, just recently, relatively recently 78 00:04:09,240 --> 00:04:12,800 Speaker 1: as of the recording of this podcast, CEO John Chen 79 00:04:13,360 --> 00:04:17,680 Speaker 1: sent out a letter to customers, enterprise customers meaning giant companies, 80 00:04:18,000 --> 00:04:21,200 Speaker 1: saying that BlackBerry was no longer looking for a buyer. 81 00:04:21,279 --> 00:04:24,320 Speaker 1: They were going to to go this alone. They were 82 00:04:24,320 --> 00:04:28,279 Speaker 1: going to continue to cater to their enterprise customers, but 83 00:04:28,320 --> 00:04:31,440 Speaker 1: they were not going to try and sell off the company. UM. 84 00:04:31,440 --> 00:04:36,360 Speaker 1: However they are basically any investors are being um, it's 85 00:04:36,360 --> 00:04:40,120 Speaker 1: being recommended that investors sell off their BlackBerry stock. Things 86 00:04:40,120 --> 00:04:42,840 Speaker 1: are not looking in the business industry like this is 87 00:04:42,839 --> 00:04:46,800 Speaker 1: fun to go. When city groups said they're changing BlackBerry 88 00:04:46,839 --> 00:04:50,159 Speaker 1: to sell that was that was not a good news 89 00:04:50,200 --> 00:04:52,799 Speaker 1: item for BlackBerry. So it continues to be a really 90 00:04:52,880 --> 00:04:57,240 Speaker 1: rough year. Uh hey, you know what, have you ever 91 00:04:57,240 --> 00:05:00,920 Speaker 1: wanted to be in pictures? I am in picture sometimes? Yeah? 92 00:05:01,120 --> 00:05:04,120 Speaker 1: Have you what about moving pictures? I'm I'm in those 93 00:05:04,360 --> 00:05:07,400 Speaker 1: yeah occasionally. Yeah. I like I like being in them. 94 00:05:07,760 --> 00:05:12,479 Speaker 1: I really like them when they are six seconds long. Well, hey, 95 00:05:12,560 --> 00:05:17,640 Speaker 1: there's an app for that. What Twitter had purchased this 96 00:05:17,640 --> 00:05:21,679 Speaker 1: this little company called Vine in twelve and in January 97 00:05:22,120 --> 00:05:25,680 Speaker 1: unveiled the iOS vine app. Yep, And this was what 98 00:05:25,880 --> 00:05:29,520 Speaker 1: let all those would be iPhone movie makers out there 99 00:05:30,040 --> 00:05:33,800 Speaker 1: use their phones to create six second long looping videos, 100 00:05:34,120 --> 00:05:36,240 Speaker 1: which some people did, and it was just kind of 101 00:05:36,279 --> 00:05:40,839 Speaker 1: like ridiculous stuff that hardly anyone outside of a small 102 00:05:40,880 --> 00:05:43,320 Speaker 1: group of friends would have ever taken notice of. Other 103 00:05:43,320 --> 00:05:45,880 Speaker 1: people were using it as an actual means of artistic 104 00:05:45,920 --> 00:05:49,120 Speaker 1: expression and using in a very kind of creative way. 105 00:05:49,200 --> 00:05:51,719 Speaker 1: But I mean, it's challenging. Right. It's just like in 106 00:05:51,720 --> 00:05:54,360 Speaker 1: a way when you talk about the different types of 107 00:05:54,560 --> 00:05:57,479 Speaker 1: fiction and how the shorter you get, the harder it 108 00:05:57,560 --> 00:06:00,240 Speaker 1: is to write. So, for example, a good novel is 109 00:06:00,240 --> 00:06:03,239 Speaker 1: hard to write, a good novella is harder to write. 110 00:06:03,240 --> 00:06:05,799 Speaker 1: A good short story is really hard to write because 111 00:06:05,839 --> 00:06:09,880 Speaker 1: as you're restricting yourself, every single word counts even more 112 00:06:10,360 --> 00:06:12,800 Speaker 1: than it would in a longer form. So you've got 113 00:06:12,839 --> 00:06:15,120 Speaker 1: a six second movie, You've got to find a way 114 00:06:15,120 --> 00:06:17,160 Speaker 1: of saying what you want to say in six seconds 115 00:06:17,240 --> 00:06:19,360 Speaker 1: that really has an impact. And there's some people who 116 00:06:19,360 --> 00:06:21,280 Speaker 1: are really good at it. Oh yeah, yeah, And it's 117 00:06:21,320 --> 00:06:24,440 Speaker 1: also a terrific medium for for just main kind of stuff. Um, 118 00:06:24,720 --> 00:06:27,680 Speaker 1: that's that's short and easy. And I saw some really 119 00:06:27,760 --> 00:06:30,280 Speaker 1: cute ones this here. Yeah, I saw some great ones 120 00:06:30,320 --> 00:06:33,120 Speaker 1: as well. But you know, I I don't really feel 121 00:06:33,120 --> 00:06:36,679 Speaker 1: comfortable limiting myself to six seconds. I need a little 122 00:06:36,680 --> 00:06:39,200 Speaker 1: more than twice that, i'mount Is there anything out there 123 00:06:39,240 --> 00:06:43,359 Speaker 1: for me? Well? In June, actually Facebook kind of caught 124 00:06:43,440 --> 00:06:48,200 Speaker 1: up when they announced Instagram Video, right, that would allow 125 00:06:48,200 --> 00:06:50,720 Speaker 1: you to do fifteen seconds of video and see there 126 00:06:50,800 --> 00:06:53,359 Speaker 1: a lot of people were saying, you know, Facebook is 127 00:06:53,760 --> 00:06:57,480 Speaker 1: playing hardball here by not allowing Vine to live on 128 00:06:57,520 --> 00:07:01,080 Speaker 1: Facebook and instead having this competing product that could live 129 00:07:01,080 --> 00:07:04,320 Speaker 1: on Facebook. Meanwhile, Vine, of course, is doing quite well 130 00:07:04,320 --> 00:07:07,599 Speaker 1: on Twitter. So you've got these two giant social media 131 00:07:08,000 --> 00:07:11,320 Speaker 1: goliaths that are kind of, you know, trying to to 132 00:07:11,360 --> 00:07:14,160 Speaker 1: push the other one out of the picture. As it 133 00:07:14,160 --> 00:07:15,920 Speaker 1: turns out, I mean, I don't I don't know what 134 00:07:15,960 --> 00:07:18,200 Speaker 1: the figures are because I didn't look them up. All 135 00:07:18,240 --> 00:07:21,520 Speaker 1: I know is what my direct experience has been I've seen. 136 00:07:21,600 --> 00:07:23,920 Speaker 1: And maybe it's because I'm not a big Instagram person, 137 00:07:23,960 --> 00:07:26,200 Speaker 1: that's probably the main reason. But I've seen way more 138 00:07:26,360 --> 00:07:29,440 Speaker 1: Vine videos, and I've seen Instagram videos. I know more 139 00:07:29,440 --> 00:07:33,280 Speaker 1: people personally making Instagram videos than I do personally making 140 00:07:33,360 --> 00:07:37,800 Speaker 1: Vine videos. But overall, I have seen more propagation of Vine. Interesting. 141 00:07:37,960 --> 00:07:41,320 Speaker 1: So you know, this obviously is all anecdotal, So it 142 00:07:41,320 --> 00:07:43,720 Speaker 1: could very well be that, you know, and I mean, 143 00:07:43,720 --> 00:07:46,560 Speaker 1: there's way one of us is on the money here. Well, 144 00:07:46,560 --> 00:07:48,480 Speaker 1: those and and those are those are trends of two 145 00:07:48,520 --> 00:07:50,840 Speaker 1: you know, thirtiesome things who work in the tech sector, 146 00:07:50,920 --> 00:07:54,600 Speaker 1: and and so you know this grain assault, but so 147 00:07:54,640 --> 00:07:57,600 Speaker 1: what about you know, sticking with Facebook, they also in 148 00:07:57,680 --> 00:08:00,600 Speaker 1: January launched something that I don't had a lot of 149 00:08:00,600 --> 00:08:04,280 Speaker 1: buzz around it at the time. That was an interesting idea. 150 00:08:04,280 --> 00:08:07,400 Speaker 1: It was called graph search, and this would let you 151 00:08:07,600 --> 00:08:10,720 Speaker 1: use Facebook as a search engine to look for really 152 00:08:10,760 --> 00:08:13,600 Speaker 1: weird stuff. Like the examples they gave were always odd, 153 00:08:13,680 --> 00:08:16,480 Speaker 1: so uh. An example I said was, I want to 154 00:08:16,520 --> 00:08:23,160 Speaker 1: know what kind of music people who really enjoy planetarium's 155 00:08:23,480 --> 00:08:25,680 Speaker 1: happen to like, and I could do a search on that, 156 00:08:25,720 --> 00:08:28,040 Speaker 1: and Facebook has of course all that information of what 157 00:08:28,080 --> 00:08:31,760 Speaker 1: people have liked and you know anything. Yeah, so then 158 00:08:31,760 --> 00:08:34,160 Speaker 1: they would come back with well, people who said they 159 00:08:34,200 --> 00:08:37,760 Speaker 1: liked planetariums also said they really like you know, I 160 00:08:37,760 --> 00:08:42,320 Speaker 1: don't know Manner Asterman, which would make total sense that 161 00:08:42,320 --> 00:08:44,880 Speaker 1: that would be an example. But it's this kind of 162 00:08:45,200 --> 00:08:49,000 Speaker 1: deep graph search, whereas a social search kind of thing. Um. 163 00:08:49,040 --> 00:08:51,440 Speaker 1: I've only played with it a little bit and it 164 00:08:51,480 --> 00:08:53,640 Speaker 1: doesn't seem to work that well for me. But it 165 00:08:53,720 --> 00:08:55,560 Speaker 1: may just be that I'm using it wrong and then 166 00:08:55,600 --> 00:08:59,160 Speaker 1: I'm too old. I haven't. I haven't experimented with it 167 00:08:59,360 --> 00:09:01,240 Speaker 1: very much. But um, but I think that since the 168 00:09:01,240 --> 00:09:05,400 Speaker 1: trends of overall Facebook getting older, I've probably indicates that 169 00:09:05,440 --> 00:09:07,240 Speaker 1: it's not that you're too old. It's just that it's 170 00:09:07,280 --> 00:09:09,960 Speaker 1: not as functional as they had perhaps hoped it might be. 171 00:09:10,200 --> 00:09:11,960 Speaker 1: That's very kind of you to say. I'd like to 172 00:09:12,000 --> 00:09:15,360 Speaker 1: think that it's their fault, not mine. Also in January, 173 00:09:15,520 --> 00:09:19,840 Speaker 1: Canonical announced that they would bring Ubuntu, the Linux distro, 174 00:09:20,400 --> 00:09:23,000 Speaker 1: you know, it's a distribution of the Linux operating system. 175 00:09:23,000 --> 00:09:25,400 Speaker 1: They would bring it to the mobile platforms. They would 176 00:09:25,440 --> 00:09:29,679 Speaker 1: create a smartphone version of a Buntu in the near future. 177 00:09:30,360 --> 00:09:32,920 Speaker 1: That's the story would play out over two thousand thirteen, 178 00:09:33,000 --> 00:09:36,520 Speaker 1: and it was not a particularly successful story either. In July, 179 00:09:37,240 --> 00:09:41,280 Speaker 1: they announced a crowdfunding campaign to try and raise money 180 00:09:41,280 --> 00:09:43,840 Speaker 1: on I think it was Indie Go Go for what 181 00:09:43,880 --> 00:09:46,439 Speaker 1: they were calling the Ubuntu Edge, which would have been 182 00:09:46,480 --> 00:09:51,920 Speaker 1: the first smartphone to feature this operating system. However, they 183 00:09:52,000 --> 00:09:54,360 Speaker 1: hit a little bit of a roadblock. Yeah, they had 184 00:09:54,360 --> 00:09:57,000 Speaker 1: a thirty two million dollar goal and they only made 185 00:09:57,200 --> 00:10:00,200 Speaker 1: nineteen of that. Actually are they They fell short by 186 00:10:00,280 --> 00:10:03,480 Speaker 1: nineteen nineteen million dollars. I thought, I feel badly that 187 00:10:03,559 --> 00:10:07,000 Speaker 1: my kick started campaign didn't fund, But um I got 188 00:10:07,000 --> 00:10:09,000 Speaker 1: more than halfway to where I needed to be and 189 00:10:09,040 --> 00:10:11,720 Speaker 1: they didn't quite make that. So well, but that's still 190 00:10:11,760 --> 00:10:14,280 Speaker 1: I mean, they they still made. I mean, I'm having 191 00:10:14,320 --> 00:10:18,720 Speaker 1: a lot of trouble subtracting right now then. Um but 192 00:10:18,720 --> 00:10:20,520 Speaker 1: but I mean, but that's still you know what, like 193 00:10:20,520 --> 00:10:23,320 Speaker 1: like eleven million dollars that they raised. I'm just saying 194 00:10:23,360 --> 00:10:26,240 Speaker 1: that's not terrible. Yeah, no, it's they didn't they weren't 195 00:10:26,280 --> 00:10:28,240 Speaker 1: hunting for cash, but they didn't have enough to go 196 00:10:28,320 --> 00:10:33,160 Speaker 1: through with what they planned. Did some subtractions so hard? Yeah, well, 197 00:10:33,200 --> 00:10:34,959 Speaker 1: you know, we only like to add on tech stuff. 198 00:10:35,000 --> 00:10:38,480 Speaker 1: We hate taking stuff away. The Ubuntu Edge would have 199 00:10:38,520 --> 00:10:41,559 Speaker 1: been eight thirty dollars to buy outright if it had 200 00:10:41,640 --> 00:10:45,560 Speaker 1: come into existence now since then, back in December of 201 00:10:45,559 --> 00:10:49,480 Speaker 1: two thousand thirteen, Canonical announced that some other as yet 202 00:10:50,200 --> 00:10:52,160 Speaker 1: as of the recording of this podcast, and I should 203 00:10:52,200 --> 00:10:57,319 Speaker 1: say recording this on December twelve, so so and anything 204 00:10:57,360 --> 00:11:02,360 Speaker 1: that we get terribly weird of, especially towards the end, 205 00:11:02,480 --> 00:11:05,320 Speaker 1: that's one of the reasons we're also terribly weird people. 206 00:11:05,360 --> 00:11:07,920 Speaker 1: So that also plays the department. But anyway, Canonical has 207 00:11:07,960 --> 00:11:11,600 Speaker 1: said that some unnamed manufacturer would be producing the first 208 00:11:11,679 --> 00:11:15,160 Speaker 1: ubun two smartphones sometime in two thousand fourteen, and it 209 00:11:15,200 --> 00:11:17,400 Speaker 1: may very well be that by the time this podcast 210 00:11:17,440 --> 00:11:20,400 Speaker 1: goes live. We will know who that manufacturer is, but 211 00:11:20,559 --> 00:11:23,839 Speaker 1: as of the recording, we do not. Uh. And then 212 00:11:23,840 --> 00:11:27,440 Speaker 1: we have a very sad story to round out January 213 00:11:27,480 --> 00:11:30,600 Speaker 1: of two thousand thirteen, which was on January eleventh, two 214 00:11:30,600 --> 00:11:36,200 Speaker 1: thousand thirteen, Aaron Swartz committed suicide. Uh. Swartz was one 215 00:11:36,200 --> 00:11:40,200 Speaker 1: of the people who worked on Really Simple Syndication RSS. Uh. 216 00:11:40,520 --> 00:11:42,400 Speaker 1: He was. He was a hacker and an activist. He 217 00:11:42,520 --> 00:11:44,640 Speaker 1: was He was a deep member of all of these 218 00:11:44,679 --> 00:11:48,240 Speaker 1: communities that were based around the building of the Worldwide Web. Yeah. 219 00:11:48,280 --> 00:11:50,920 Speaker 1: He was very much involved in the development of Reddit. 220 00:11:51,080 --> 00:11:55,240 Speaker 1: He was very active with Creative Commons, and he was 221 00:11:55,320 --> 00:11:58,640 Speaker 1: a proponent of the idea that information wants to be free, 222 00:11:59,040 --> 00:12:01,760 Speaker 1: and in fact had been charged with breaking and entering 223 00:12:01,840 --> 00:12:05,600 Speaker 1: by m I T Campus police when he was using 224 00:12:07,200 --> 00:12:12,120 Speaker 1: unauthorized He was using a computer to download massive amounts 225 00:12:12,120 --> 00:12:15,280 Speaker 1: of documents from j Store, which is you know, you know, 226 00:12:15,320 --> 00:12:20,280 Speaker 1: it's a it's an academic um database of papers, and 227 00:12:20,880 --> 00:12:26,480 Speaker 1: presumably with the intent of distributing them freely, because information 228 00:12:26,520 --> 00:12:29,600 Speaker 1: wants to be free. Uh. He you know. M I 229 00:12:29,640 --> 00:12:33,240 Speaker 1: T eventually decided not to pursue charges, but the federal 230 00:12:33,360 --> 00:12:36,640 Speaker 1: government did not have that same point of view. They 231 00:12:36,679 --> 00:12:40,720 Speaker 1: actually when after sworts On on multiple charges under the 232 00:12:40,720 --> 00:12:44,520 Speaker 1: Computer Fraud and Abuse Act UH Sports, his lawyers offered 233 00:12:44,520 --> 00:12:49,160 Speaker 1: to have a plea bargain, but the prosecutors refused the 234 00:12:49,160 --> 00:12:51,319 Speaker 1: plea bargain. Yeah, they were being really I mean, and 235 00:12:51,800 --> 00:12:53,840 Speaker 1: the sentence that they were putting out there was thirty 236 00:12:53,840 --> 00:12:56,480 Speaker 1: five years in prison and about a million dollars in 237 00:12:56,600 --> 00:12:59,760 Speaker 1: five Yeah, and there were other you know, things tacked 238 00:12:59,760 --> 00:13:02,680 Speaker 1: onto there. This actually prompted a big discussion in the 239 00:13:02,720 --> 00:13:06,120 Speaker 1: tech world about whether or not the federal government was 240 00:13:06,360 --> 00:13:09,440 Speaker 1: trying to use sports as an example to try and 241 00:13:09,559 --> 00:13:13,880 Speaker 1: frighten other people by going after sports with such gusto 242 00:13:14,440 --> 00:13:18,160 Speaker 1: and refusing to do any sort of plea bargain. And UM, 243 00:13:18,200 --> 00:13:21,600 Speaker 1: two days after the denial of the plea bargain came through, 244 00:13:21,640 --> 00:13:24,599 Speaker 1: that's when Sports committed suicide. And it was this is 245 00:13:24,640 --> 00:13:27,560 Speaker 1: a very complicated issue. You can't just point a finger 246 00:13:27,600 --> 00:13:31,240 Speaker 1: and say because of this, this other thing happened. I mean, 247 00:13:31,360 --> 00:13:34,240 Speaker 1: it didn't stop people from trying. Oh absolutely, if you'd 248 00:13:34,280 --> 00:13:37,480 Speaker 1: like to learn more about sports and UM and all 249 00:13:37,520 --> 00:13:40,000 Speaker 1: of this this hubbub leading up to this tragic event. 250 00:13:40,040 --> 00:13:43,319 Speaker 1: In particular, UM, we did a memorial episode on February six. 251 00:13:44,200 --> 00:13:46,559 Speaker 1: That was during kind of my learning curve of the show. 252 00:13:46,600 --> 00:13:49,240 Speaker 1: I will warn you guys, right, Yeah, so there are 253 00:13:49,280 --> 00:13:51,840 Speaker 1: several of the stories we'll talk about kind of relate 254 00:13:51,880 --> 00:13:54,480 Speaker 1: back to some of the episodes we've done. I mean, obviously, 255 00:13:54,520 --> 00:13:57,400 Speaker 1: whenever anything really big happens, we like to try and 256 00:13:57,760 --> 00:14:00,240 Speaker 1: at least give some context to it on text. So 257 00:14:00,400 --> 00:14:03,000 Speaker 1: definitely check that one out. But now we're ready to 258 00:14:03,000 --> 00:14:07,079 Speaker 1: move on to February, which twenty eight days as a 259 00:14:07,160 --> 00:14:13,000 Speaker 1: rule are plenty. Yeah, February in this case, UM had 260 00:14:13,040 --> 00:14:16,160 Speaker 1: had the beginning of kind of the saga that Intel 261 00:14:16,280 --> 00:14:19,720 Speaker 1: went through during the course. Yeah, here's another one. Like 262 00:14:19,760 --> 00:14:23,000 Speaker 1: you know, BlackBerry had its own saga, Intel's had one, 263 00:14:23,040 --> 00:14:27,680 Speaker 1: although Intel's is is definitely different from Blackberries. Blackberries the 264 00:14:27,680 --> 00:14:31,120 Speaker 1: company that people are always kind of predicting that this 265 00:14:31,240 --> 00:14:34,240 Speaker 1: year will be the end of BlackBerry type thing. No 266 00:14:34,280 --> 00:14:38,800 Speaker 1: one's predicting that for Intel. But yeah, they had announced 267 00:14:38,920 --> 00:14:41,440 Speaker 1: in February at the All Things deconference that they were 268 00:14:41,440 --> 00:14:43,880 Speaker 1: going to be launching an Internet TV service by the 269 00:14:43,960 --> 00:14:47,080 Speaker 1: end of the year, and in July they had announced 270 00:14:47,080 --> 00:14:48,840 Speaker 1: that the name of the service was going to be 271 00:14:48,920 --> 00:14:53,040 Speaker 1: on que I didn't realize how quickly the story had developed. 272 00:14:53,080 --> 00:14:55,720 Speaker 1: I mean, I didn't realize it was only July when 273 00:14:55,760 --> 00:14:59,560 Speaker 1: they named it and now actually a month ago back 274 00:14:59,560 --> 00:15:02,760 Speaker 1: in Nova Member, they started looking to offload it. Yeah, 275 00:15:02,760 --> 00:15:04,760 Speaker 1: they're looking to try and sell it off to someone 276 00:15:04,760 --> 00:15:08,200 Speaker 1: for around five million dollars. And you might say, well, 277 00:15:08,200 --> 00:15:10,920 Speaker 1: why would a company in the very beginning of the 278 00:15:11,000 --> 00:15:13,800 Speaker 1: year say they're really going to push to get into 279 00:15:13,840 --> 00:15:17,400 Speaker 1: this world, this internet television world that no one has 280 00:15:17,480 --> 00:15:19,760 Speaker 1: yet really cracked. You know, You've got a lot of 281 00:15:19,800 --> 00:15:22,560 Speaker 1: big companies that are all vying for this, including Apple 282 00:15:22,560 --> 00:15:25,960 Speaker 1: and Google. Why would they say they really want to 283 00:15:26,000 --> 00:15:28,480 Speaker 1: do it? And then they kind of bailed on it. 284 00:15:28,600 --> 00:15:30,800 Speaker 1: And well, here's where the story is a little more complicated. 285 00:15:30,880 --> 00:15:32,960 Speaker 1: It's because the people who were in charge at the 286 00:15:33,080 --> 00:15:34,800 Speaker 1: end of the year were not the same people who 287 00:15:34,800 --> 00:15:37,200 Speaker 1: were in charge at the beginning of the year. Yes, 288 00:15:37,440 --> 00:15:42,080 Speaker 1: uh Ceo, Paul UHLINI thank you, I always I can 289 00:15:42,160 --> 00:15:44,560 Speaker 1: never say that, and yeah, well good luck on the 290 00:15:44,600 --> 00:15:47,960 Speaker 1: next one. Yeah, he stepped down and was replaced by 291 00:15:47,960 --> 00:15:52,760 Speaker 1: Brian Krisnitch. I'm gonna say it's Crescentitch, even though someone's 292 00:15:52,760 --> 00:15:56,520 Speaker 1: gonna tell me that that's an inappropriate pronunciation, but that's 293 00:15:56,520 --> 00:15:59,280 Speaker 1: what I'm going with. But yeah, it was, it was. 294 00:15:59,400 --> 00:16:01,880 Speaker 1: It was a move where I'm with two minds of this. 295 00:16:02,240 --> 00:16:05,760 Speaker 1: You know, I like seeing companies promote from within. I 296 00:16:05,880 --> 00:16:08,880 Speaker 1: think that that's a valuable thing to do. But there 297 00:16:08,880 --> 00:16:10,920 Speaker 1: were a lot of analysts who said that the problem 298 00:16:11,040 --> 00:16:15,800 Speaker 1: Intel faces is not that, you know, they are abusing 299 00:16:15,800 --> 00:16:19,840 Speaker 1: their their talent, it's that they have kind of adhered 300 00:16:19,960 --> 00:16:22,960 Speaker 1: to a similar strategy for so long that what's really 301 00:16:22,960 --> 00:16:25,000 Speaker 1: needed is some new blood to stir things up. And 302 00:16:25,000 --> 00:16:26,480 Speaker 1: they're look that as being a little bit old and 303 00:16:26,560 --> 00:16:31,280 Speaker 1: stagy in terms of management. Yeah. So, and Crecentag is 304 00:16:31,720 --> 00:16:33,440 Speaker 1: someone who has been with a company for more than 305 00:16:33,480 --> 00:16:37,040 Speaker 1: two decades. So when he stepped up a CEO, some 306 00:16:37,080 --> 00:16:39,320 Speaker 1: analysts were saying, well, this is a sign that Intel 307 00:16:39,360 --> 00:16:43,120 Speaker 1: is not ready to move forward. Uh and and some 308 00:16:43,280 --> 00:16:46,360 Speaker 1: have argued that the on q story where now they're 309 00:16:46,400 --> 00:16:49,520 Speaker 1: trying to sell off on q is, is evidence of that. 310 00:16:50,400 --> 00:16:53,840 Speaker 1: So that's where they are right now. Um, something else 311 00:16:53,920 --> 00:16:56,480 Speaker 1: happened in February. We got our first look at one 312 00:16:56,480 --> 00:17:01,080 Speaker 1: of the next generation consoles now current generation console. Right, Yeah, 313 00:17:01,080 --> 00:17:03,400 Speaker 1: Sony got the jump on Microsoft. There they announced the 314 00:17:03,440 --> 00:17:06,600 Speaker 1: PlayStation for at their own personal event in New York. 315 00:17:06,800 --> 00:17:08,919 Speaker 1: It was invitation only and I didn't get an invite, 316 00:17:08,960 --> 00:17:13,160 Speaker 1: so just follow along with all the live blogging. But yeah, 317 00:17:13,600 --> 00:17:17,560 Speaker 1: they showed off the system. They really stressed that the 318 00:17:17,600 --> 00:17:19,840 Speaker 1: system was for gamers, and that's going to be important 319 00:17:19,920 --> 00:17:21,600 Speaker 1: later on in the year when we move on to 320 00:17:21,720 --> 00:17:25,399 Speaker 1: the other big console. They talked about how the PlayStation 321 00:17:25,440 --> 00:17:28,199 Speaker 1: four would allow you to not only play games, but 322 00:17:28,320 --> 00:17:30,840 Speaker 1: share your experience. You know, you could stream stuff on 323 00:17:30,880 --> 00:17:33,320 Speaker 1: things like twitch tv. I think it was twitch TV, 324 00:17:33,560 --> 00:17:36,399 Speaker 1: and then they could all you could also, UH, at 325 00:17:36,480 --> 00:17:40,119 Speaker 1: least at some point, be able to hand over control 326 00:17:40,160 --> 00:17:42,320 Speaker 1: of your game to someone else. So if you just 327 00:17:42,359 --> 00:17:44,920 Speaker 1: can't get past that third level, if you just can't 328 00:17:44,960 --> 00:17:47,359 Speaker 1: get that boss fight, you can just pass. Everybody calling 329 00:17:47,480 --> 00:17:49,560 Speaker 1: Lauren up in the middle of the night. Lauren needed 330 00:17:49,600 --> 00:17:52,760 Speaker 1: to get past this guy for me. He keeps hitting 331 00:17:52,760 --> 00:17:55,119 Speaker 1: me on the head with a fish, and then she 332 00:17:55,160 --> 00:17:57,000 Speaker 1: would fix it for me, and then I could continue 333 00:17:57,040 --> 00:18:01,400 Speaker 1: to play UH and so owe me so many coffees 334 00:18:01,440 --> 00:18:05,600 Speaker 1: the next day. You'd be awake at three in the morning. 335 00:18:05,800 --> 00:18:09,840 Speaker 1: If I had said ten in the morning, Oh snap, 336 00:18:09,880 --> 00:18:13,640 Speaker 1: a little inside looking I guess that's just me anyway. 337 00:18:13,840 --> 00:18:17,400 Speaker 1: So Sony would go on to E three and uh 338 00:18:17,520 --> 00:18:21,080 Speaker 1: and after some pretty fierce competition between Sony and Microsoft. 339 00:18:21,359 --> 00:18:23,280 Speaker 1: I would say that most journalists by the end of 340 00:18:23,320 --> 00:18:27,119 Speaker 1: E three were at least some might say prematurely calling 341 00:18:27,359 --> 00:18:33,600 Speaker 1: Sony the winner. Yeah, I mean the winner. Yeah, so 342 00:18:34,080 --> 00:18:36,359 Speaker 1: um yeah, and then it did. It did pretty well 343 00:18:36,359 --> 00:18:38,359 Speaker 1: on its release, although I mean it's hard to compare 344 00:18:38,440 --> 00:18:40,200 Speaker 1: to the Xbox One is we'll talk about a little 345 00:18:40,200 --> 00:18:43,320 Speaker 1: bit later because Microsoft isn't really releasing numbers. But um, 346 00:18:43,359 --> 00:18:46,920 Speaker 1: but Sony has said that they sold a hundred I'm sorry, 347 00:18:46,920 --> 00:18:50,800 Speaker 1: I'm sorry, one million units um, and they were only 348 00:18:50,880 --> 00:18:54,480 Speaker 1: selling the console in two nations at that time. So yeah, 349 00:18:54,480 --> 00:18:58,119 Speaker 1: a good job for them. Uh. Next, we have one 350 00:18:58,480 --> 00:19:02,400 Speaker 1: of the spawns is of our show occasionally Netflix. Right, 351 00:19:02,480 --> 00:19:05,560 Speaker 1: they introduced their original series House of Cards. That was 352 00:19:05,600 --> 00:19:08,320 Speaker 1: the first original series that they had come out with. Yeah, yeah, 353 00:19:08,440 --> 00:19:11,200 Speaker 1: they and and of course the way Netflix does it 354 00:19:11,240 --> 00:19:13,520 Speaker 1: is different from the way you would watch a show 355 00:19:13,560 --> 00:19:16,199 Speaker 1: on TV. You know, on on television you get it 356 00:19:16,359 --> 00:19:18,840 Speaker 1: week after week, so you get one episode per week 357 00:19:19,320 --> 00:19:20,800 Speaker 1: and then you have to wait a week to see 358 00:19:20,800 --> 00:19:24,360 Speaker 1: the next one. Netflix said Okay, we've produced this series 359 00:19:24,440 --> 00:19:27,480 Speaker 1: and we're going to serve up the entire season at once, 360 00:19:27,600 --> 00:19:30,040 Speaker 1: so so you can you can already mainline it just 361 00:19:30,480 --> 00:19:32,479 Speaker 1: and you can just set aside a weekend and just 362 00:19:32,480 --> 00:19:37,360 Speaker 1: watch Kevin Spacey be progressively more and more nasty. I've 363 00:19:37,359 --> 00:19:41,560 Speaker 1: watched some of this and he is amazingly amoral in 364 00:19:41,640 --> 00:19:44,240 Speaker 1: this in this show. I haven't caught it yet, but 365 00:19:44,400 --> 00:19:47,600 Speaker 1: um but they did. They did release also following that, 366 00:19:47,760 --> 00:19:52,840 Speaker 1: um the next season of Arrested Development, and also the 367 00:19:52,840 --> 00:19:54,879 Speaker 1: first season of Orange is a New Black, which I 368 00:19:54,920 --> 00:19:58,440 Speaker 1: have not Oh it's so good. Um uh. And yeah, 369 00:19:58,720 --> 00:20:02,760 Speaker 1: there was overall a trend in of more companies doing 370 00:20:02,800 --> 00:20:06,000 Speaker 1: more original series on streaming video on demand. Yeah, Hulu 371 00:20:06,119 --> 00:20:09,080 Speaker 1: had already launched a couple of scripted series in two 372 00:20:09,119 --> 00:20:11,399 Speaker 1: thousand twelve, and they continued to do that in two 373 00:20:11,440 --> 00:20:15,879 Speaker 1: thousand thirteen, and Amazon Prime same thing. They had produced 374 00:20:15,880 --> 00:20:18,159 Speaker 1: a couple and they were working on more. So you 375 00:20:18,200 --> 00:20:21,200 Speaker 1: can see shows on all three of those services. And 376 00:20:21,200 --> 00:20:24,360 Speaker 1: those aren't the only three, but those are the three big. Yeah. 377 00:20:24,760 --> 00:20:26,960 Speaker 1: If you want to learn more about that, you can 378 00:20:27,040 --> 00:20:31,760 Speaker 1: see our episodes about streaming video on demand UMU. Primarily 379 00:20:31,880 --> 00:20:35,320 Speaker 1: videos in the stream which came out September. There you go. 380 00:20:35,840 --> 00:20:39,560 Speaker 1: So before we get onto the next half of the 381 00:20:39,600 --> 00:20:42,880 Speaker 1: first half of two thousand thirteen, I think I think 382 00:20:43,000 --> 00:20:45,200 Speaker 1: the Q two is really what you would say, they're 383 00:20:45,320 --> 00:20:47,520 Speaker 1: Q two. Okay, before we go on to Q two, 384 00:20:47,640 --> 00:20:50,639 Speaker 1: let's take a quick break to thank our sponsored all right, 385 00:20:50,760 --> 00:20:54,560 Speaker 1: let's march on with March of two thousand thirteen, and 386 00:20:54,640 --> 00:20:57,440 Speaker 1: Lauren judges me. Some things, by the way, remain consistent 387 00:20:57,480 --> 00:21:01,959 Speaker 1: throughout two thousand thirteen, including Lauren shaking her head and 388 00:21:02,000 --> 00:21:04,560 Speaker 1: just staring at me with disapproval. Hey, at least I 389 00:21:04,560 --> 00:21:10,399 Speaker 1: don't laugh uncontrollably anymore. I feel like that. Yeah, yeah, no, 390 00:21:10,560 --> 00:21:13,120 Speaker 1: just once she got over the the laughter thing, now 391 00:21:13,160 --> 00:21:16,320 Speaker 1: I just get the judging. So that's fine. That's my friend. 392 00:21:16,320 --> 00:21:19,200 Speaker 1: Matt refers to that as my laugh number twenty one, 393 00:21:19,280 --> 00:21:21,840 Speaker 1: nervous laugh number twenty one. Apparently I have a lot 394 00:21:21,840 --> 00:21:25,359 Speaker 1: of them. Mll It's good to be versatile. So moving 395 00:21:25,400 --> 00:21:28,919 Speaker 1: on to March two thousand thirteen, Um, what just really quickly, 396 00:21:29,000 --> 00:21:33,000 Speaker 1: T Mobile did something pretty pretty unheard of in the 397 00:21:33,160 --> 00:21:37,000 Speaker 1: four major carriers of cell phone services in the United States. Right, 398 00:21:37,119 --> 00:21:39,520 Speaker 1: Europe is gonna go like this is such old news 399 00:21:40,119 --> 00:21:42,720 Speaker 1: in the US, it was. It was pretty Uh, it's 400 00:21:42,760 --> 00:21:46,119 Speaker 1: like a Maverick move. Yeah, they introduced no contract service 401 00:21:46,160 --> 00:21:49,600 Speaker 1: plans yep, which uh, you know doesn't necessarily mean that 402 00:21:49,640 --> 00:21:53,040 Speaker 1: you would be better off with that versus a contract one. 403 00:21:53,080 --> 00:21:55,760 Speaker 1: It would be a case by case basis, but it 404 00:21:55,800 --> 00:21:58,560 Speaker 1: did mean that it suddenly, you know, US customers had 405 00:21:58,600 --> 00:22:01,119 Speaker 1: more options. So it needs to be seen how this 406 00:22:01,200 --> 00:22:03,160 Speaker 1: is going to affect the rest of the industry over 407 00:22:03,160 --> 00:22:05,400 Speaker 1: the next few years. But I'm very curious to see 408 00:22:05,440 --> 00:22:08,080 Speaker 1: if this move ends up being something that's transformative or 409 00:22:08,080 --> 00:22:09,600 Speaker 1: if it's just a little blip in the radar. Its 410 00:22:09,640 --> 00:22:12,320 Speaker 1: too early to say right now. And in other relatively 411 00:22:12,400 --> 00:22:15,120 Speaker 1: small news that made perhaps a bigger splash in our 412 00:22:15,240 --> 00:22:18,119 Speaker 1: personal lives, Google announced in March that it was going 413 00:22:18,160 --> 00:22:21,000 Speaker 1: to shut down Google Reader. Yeah. This is what caused 414 00:22:21,000 --> 00:22:26,560 Speaker 1: me to say, no, that's that is literally what he did, 415 00:22:26,640 --> 00:22:28,440 Speaker 1: like in the middle of the office. I'm pretty sure 416 00:22:28,480 --> 00:22:30,679 Speaker 1: it was pretty bad. Yeah, Um, that's that. That was 417 00:22:30,720 --> 00:22:34,120 Speaker 1: their RSS service. Yeah, that was if you wanted some 418 00:22:34,200 --> 00:22:36,320 Speaker 1: sort of RSS reader, this was one of the ones 419 00:22:36,359 --> 00:22:38,719 Speaker 1: that could work pretty well. You could divide it up 420 00:22:38,720 --> 00:22:41,080 Speaker 1: into different categories and stuff and there were plenty of 421 00:22:41,119 --> 00:22:43,960 Speaker 1: other options out there, oh yeah, and and Google suggested 422 00:22:43,960 --> 00:22:47,199 Speaker 1: many other good ones as replacements. Exactly, they weren't. They 423 00:22:47,240 --> 00:22:49,120 Speaker 1: were like, we understand that some of you are very 424 00:22:49,119 --> 00:22:51,400 Speaker 1: passionate about this, but the problem is that even with 425 00:22:51,440 --> 00:22:55,840 Speaker 1: all of your passion, you're still very few vocal minority. Yeah. 426 00:22:55,840 --> 00:22:58,040 Speaker 1: So it was one of those things where as a company, 427 00:22:58,200 --> 00:23:00,560 Speaker 1: I totally understand why they were doing this. They were saying, 428 00:23:00,560 --> 00:23:02,840 Speaker 1: you know, we've got a lot of projects. We have 429 00:23:02,960 --> 00:23:06,000 Speaker 1: to devote some attention to all of them, and it 430 00:23:06,040 --> 00:23:08,200 Speaker 1: makes more sense for us to go ahead and shut 431 00:23:08,240 --> 00:23:10,800 Speaker 1: down things that are not terribly successful so that we 432 00:23:10,840 --> 00:23:13,399 Speaker 1: can devote that kind of time and attention to something else, 433 00:23:13,840 --> 00:23:16,320 Speaker 1: which really, in the long run became sort of okay 434 00:23:16,359 --> 00:23:20,160 Speaker 1: because March was also the month that Google announced their 435 00:23:20,240 --> 00:23:24,000 Speaker 1: their beta of Google Glass. Yeah, Project Glass. You know, 436 00:23:24,320 --> 00:23:28,240 Speaker 1: it seems so weird, Like I imagine that because I 437 00:23:28,280 --> 00:23:30,959 Speaker 1: have a pair of these, Um, technically the office has 438 00:23:31,000 --> 00:23:32,959 Speaker 1: a pair of these. They're just in my possession. They 439 00:23:33,040 --> 00:23:36,639 Speaker 1: kind of reside with Jonathan most I turned into golem 440 00:23:36,720 --> 00:23:40,840 Speaker 1: with the ring he does. Yeah, very I've led a 441 00:23:40,840 --> 00:23:43,600 Speaker 1: couple of people wear them, But I get real ansy um. 442 00:23:43,640 --> 00:23:47,280 Speaker 1: But anyway, Project Glass was the it. You probably see them. 443 00:23:47,280 --> 00:23:50,280 Speaker 1: They're the glasses that have the little bitty cube on 444 00:23:50,359 --> 00:23:52,679 Speaker 1: them where you can use that as a screen and 445 00:23:53,000 --> 00:23:55,800 Speaker 1: take pictures with them, take video. We do some apps 446 00:23:56,240 --> 00:24:00,520 Speaker 1: to navigation, some web search connects by a bluetoo their WiFi, 447 00:24:00,920 --> 00:24:02,679 Speaker 1: a little bit of a vocal command in there, so 448 00:24:02,680 --> 00:24:04,719 Speaker 1: that you don't say, okay glass to take a picture, 449 00:24:05,040 --> 00:24:07,359 Speaker 1: take a video, record a video, recorded video, take a 450 00:24:07,359 --> 00:24:09,240 Speaker 1: picture yet. Yeah, because I had a lot of fun 451 00:24:09,280 --> 00:24:11,760 Speaker 1: with that a dragon con. I went drunken and people 452 00:24:11,760 --> 00:24:15,080 Speaker 1: will be like, you took my picture with the future, 453 00:24:15,640 --> 00:24:18,119 Speaker 1: and I'm like, yes, I did. So I think I 454 00:24:18,160 --> 00:24:20,480 Speaker 1: think Jonathan got more people coming up to him to 455 00:24:20,520 --> 00:24:22,720 Speaker 1: ask they could take a picture of him taking a 456 00:24:22,760 --> 00:24:25,520 Speaker 1: picture of something with his Google Glass. Yeah. Yeah, I 457 00:24:25,560 --> 00:24:28,199 Speaker 1: was not the celebrity in that room. Google Glass was 458 00:24:28,240 --> 00:24:31,920 Speaker 1: the celebrity anyway. Yeah. It's it's a program that has 459 00:24:32,160 --> 00:24:35,000 Speaker 1: recently opened up a little bit more. They've allowed some 460 00:24:35,080 --> 00:24:39,600 Speaker 1: of the pioneers of the Google Beta program to uh 461 00:24:39,640 --> 00:24:42,200 Speaker 1: invite a couple of other people to join. So I 462 00:24:42,280 --> 00:24:44,560 Speaker 1: think it's it's either two or three. I haven't received 463 00:24:44,600 --> 00:24:47,359 Speaker 1: the email myself. Yet, but it's two or three people 464 00:24:47,359 --> 00:24:51,160 Speaker 1: that you can then extend an invitation to and then 465 00:24:51,200 --> 00:24:54,320 Speaker 1: they have the option to join, although that option comes 466 00:24:54,320 --> 00:24:58,480 Speaker 1: with a pretty hefty price tag. Yeah, it's all for 467 00:24:58,520 --> 00:25:02,280 Speaker 1: a headset, pretty expensive stuff. And it is still a 468 00:25:02,280 --> 00:25:06,359 Speaker 1: prototype version. This is absolutely not a consumer level. No. 469 00:25:06,560 --> 00:25:09,680 Speaker 1: I understand that it's an updated version of the headset, 470 00:25:09,720 --> 00:25:12,680 Speaker 1: but it's still it's still kind of a beta headset. 471 00:25:12,720 --> 00:25:14,560 Speaker 1: It's not not meant to be the kind that you 472 00:25:14,560 --> 00:25:17,919 Speaker 1: would get, assuming this ever becomes an actual consumer product, 473 00:25:18,000 --> 00:25:19,679 Speaker 1: the ones that you'll see in stores will probably look 474 00:25:19,680 --> 00:25:23,520 Speaker 1: a little different. Um. And then there's a Kickstarter story 475 00:25:23,560 --> 00:25:25,879 Speaker 1: we have to cover. It's we don't have to, but 476 00:25:25,880 --> 00:25:29,040 Speaker 1: I thought it'd be interesting. So, you know, kickstarters mostly 477 00:25:29,080 --> 00:25:31,639 Speaker 1: meant for for or we tend to think of kickstars 478 00:25:31,640 --> 00:25:34,800 Speaker 1: being meant for people who for a small independent projects. Yeah, 479 00:25:34,880 --> 00:25:37,280 Speaker 1: some artists who want to get something a project off 480 00:25:37,280 --> 00:25:40,240 Speaker 1: the ground, or maybe it would be entrepreneur who needs 481 00:25:40,240 --> 00:25:43,360 Speaker 1: a little starting capital but has a really strong idea. 482 00:25:43,960 --> 00:25:48,040 Speaker 1: But in this case, it was creators of a cult 483 00:25:48,160 --> 00:25:52,720 Speaker 1: television show that had a passionate but relatively small following, 484 00:25:53,040 --> 00:25:56,159 Speaker 1: that show being Veronica Mars. They decided to hold a 485 00:25:56,240 --> 00:25:59,320 Speaker 1: Kickstarter campaign with the goal of raising two million dollars 486 00:25:59,600 --> 00:26:02,840 Speaker 1: so that they could produce a Veronica Mars movie that 487 00:26:02,840 --> 00:26:06,119 Speaker 1: would be set approximately the same number of years after 488 00:26:06,359 --> 00:26:09,479 Speaker 1: the series it ended as actual time had passed. Uh, 489 00:26:09,560 --> 00:26:12,800 Speaker 1: And it met that initial goal in eleven hours. Yeah, 490 00:26:12,880 --> 00:26:16,360 Speaker 1: and then eventually raised five point seven millions, so they 491 00:26:16,400 --> 00:26:19,240 Speaker 1: went above what they their original projection was. By the way, 492 00:26:19,359 --> 00:26:22,240 Speaker 1: a two million dollar budget for a movie is incredibly small. 493 00:26:22,359 --> 00:26:25,680 Speaker 1: I'm wondering, and I wondered then, and I still wonder now. 494 00:26:26,040 --> 00:26:29,280 Speaker 1: If the kick started campaign was less about raising money 495 00:26:29,320 --> 00:26:32,960 Speaker 1: and more about demonstrating that there is an audience for 496 00:26:33,119 --> 00:26:36,560 Speaker 1: that particular film, I would strongly suspect that they're going 497 00:26:36,600 --> 00:26:39,120 Speaker 1: to get investment from other sources. Yeah. I can't imagine 498 00:26:39,119 --> 00:26:42,800 Speaker 1: that they're able to even complete a full thirty minutes 499 00:26:42,800 --> 00:26:45,320 Speaker 1: on two million dollars. I'm sure. I'm sure that they could. 500 00:26:45,320 --> 00:26:48,399 Speaker 1: If they really wanted to mus be like the Veronica 501 00:26:48,480 --> 00:26:52,760 Speaker 1: Mars Suck puppet Show, it would be the light version. UM. 502 00:26:52,800 --> 00:26:56,879 Speaker 1: Also in March of this year, UM Facebook CEO Cheryl 503 00:26:56,960 --> 00:26:59,959 Speaker 1: Sandberg published her book Lean In, which was kind of 504 00:27:00,080 --> 00:27:02,760 Speaker 1: uh follow up piece to a Ted talk that she 505 00:27:02,800 --> 00:27:05,479 Speaker 1: had done back in I believe, um, and and this 506 00:27:05,560 --> 00:27:08,400 Speaker 1: is this is more of a women in industry sort 507 00:27:08,400 --> 00:27:10,919 Speaker 1: of thing than a tech news thing in particular. But 508 00:27:11,320 --> 00:27:13,520 Speaker 1: you know, Sandberg is is the leader of one of 509 00:27:13,560 --> 00:27:17,240 Speaker 1: tech's biggest companies. And so therefore the publication of a 510 00:27:17,280 --> 00:27:20,040 Speaker 1: book about what it's like to be a woman in 511 00:27:20,119 --> 00:27:22,720 Speaker 1: tech and and a woman in big business is is 512 00:27:22,560 --> 00:27:24,080 Speaker 1: a is a pretty big thing. And it's and it's 513 00:27:24,080 --> 00:27:27,000 Speaker 1: a big issue, um, you know, especially when you consider 514 00:27:27,040 --> 00:27:29,680 Speaker 1: the kind of dismal percentages of women in tech and 515 00:27:29,880 --> 00:27:32,479 Speaker 1: women in leadership. I did. I did a guest episode 516 00:27:32,480 --> 00:27:35,320 Speaker 1: of a run Stuff Mom Never Told Use Stems series 517 00:27:35,560 --> 00:27:38,160 Speaker 1: on November six, if you want to go check that out. 518 00:27:38,240 --> 00:27:40,639 Speaker 1: But um, but yeah, it's like only like a quarter 519 00:27:40,720 --> 00:27:44,200 Speaker 1: of professional computing occupations in the US are held by women, 520 00:27:44,600 --> 00:27:49,440 Speaker 1: and um, only twenty of of chief information officer positions 521 00:27:49,480 --> 00:27:51,960 Speaker 1: at the at the fortune to fifty companies are held 522 00:27:51,960 --> 00:27:54,679 Speaker 1: by women. And so you know, these are these are 523 00:27:54,720 --> 00:27:57,320 Speaker 1: big things, and and the trends are not seeming to 524 00:27:57,359 --> 00:28:00,280 Speaker 1: get better right now. So so I think it's really 525 00:28:00,320 --> 00:28:02,840 Speaker 1: cool that you published this. Then it became a huge 526 00:28:02,880 --> 00:28:06,560 Speaker 1: news item, right because that could potentially inspire other women 527 00:28:06,640 --> 00:28:10,000 Speaker 1: to go into a field that that traditionally they might 528 00:28:10,040 --> 00:28:13,200 Speaker 1: feel like there's some social or cultural pressures to keep 529 00:28:13,240 --> 00:28:17,800 Speaker 1: them out, when in reality we benefit from being able 530 00:28:17,840 --> 00:28:20,639 Speaker 1: to take advantage of talent, no matter where that talent 531 00:28:20,760 --> 00:28:23,080 Speaker 1: might fall across the field. Of course, yeah, and and 532 00:28:23,080 --> 00:28:26,080 Speaker 1: and at the very least encourage more discussion about the 533 00:28:26,080 --> 00:28:30,119 Speaker 1: issue and why this is, yes, exactly, raising awareness is 534 00:28:30,119 --> 00:28:33,840 Speaker 1: a great thing. Moving on to April, we only have 535 00:28:34,040 --> 00:28:37,840 Speaker 1: one item for April because it's a foolish month. We 536 00:28:37,880 --> 00:28:40,080 Speaker 1: don't like to spend a lot of time there. But 537 00:28:40,080 --> 00:28:44,200 Speaker 1: but it but it was a Google thing and pretty Google. Yeah, 538 00:28:44,280 --> 00:28:46,880 Speaker 1: I mean it made me wish that it was a 539 00:28:46,880 --> 00:28:49,440 Speaker 1: different town with an that starts with a that they 540 00:28:49,440 --> 00:28:53,680 Speaker 1: had talked about Google is moving Google Fiber into Austin, Texas, 541 00:28:53,760 --> 00:28:56,000 Speaker 1: and in fact, you know they're already doing that now, 542 00:28:56,080 --> 00:28:58,040 Speaker 1: but that this was back when they announced that that 543 00:28:58,120 --> 00:29:00,840 Speaker 1: was going to be the next city they were targeting. Right, 544 00:29:01,120 --> 00:29:04,240 Speaker 1: Initially it had only been in Kansas City. Yeah, both 545 00:29:04,320 --> 00:29:07,479 Speaker 1: Kansas cities, but yes, because there are two of them 546 00:29:07,920 --> 00:29:10,600 Speaker 1: way by a river. But yes, yes, Kansas City was 547 00:29:10,640 --> 00:29:14,400 Speaker 1: the initial proving grounds of Google Fiber in Austin, Texas, 548 00:29:14,720 --> 00:29:16,920 Speaker 1: out of all the different places in the United States, 549 00:29:17,160 --> 00:29:19,480 Speaker 1: was the next one. So keep Austin weird at an 550 00:29:19,560 --> 00:29:24,680 Speaker 1: incredibly high download rates. So for all my friends in Austin, 551 00:29:24,880 --> 00:29:31,560 Speaker 1: I hope you enjoy your one gigabit per second download speed. Yeah. Meanwhile, 552 00:29:31,680 --> 00:29:34,080 Speaker 1: I will continue to make smoke signals at the top 553 00:29:34,120 --> 00:29:37,880 Speaker 1: of my house in hopes of connecting to Gmail. Moving 554 00:29:37,880 --> 00:29:41,600 Speaker 1: on to May. So, uh oh boy, you remember doing 555 00:29:41,640 --> 00:29:46,440 Speaker 1: this podcast? Yeah? Okay, So this company called Defense Distributed, 556 00:29:46,800 --> 00:29:49,040 Speaker 1: I mean, and and and really mostly this guy named 557 00:29:49,080 --> 00:29:52,880 Speaker 1: Cody Wilson, who was the founder of Defense Distributed, figured 558 00:29:52,920 --> 00:29:56,320 Speaker 1: out he designed a three D printed gun only used 559 00:29:56,560 --> 00:30:00,560 Speaker 1: one um like basically a hardware store nail to pin 560 00:30:00,640 --> 00:30:04,200 Speaker 1: everything together and everything else was something that you could print, 561 00:30:04,360 --> 00:30:09,240 Speaker 1: assuming you had the the appropriately sophisticated three D printer 562 00:30:09,440 --> 00:30:12,400 Speaker 1: and and the appropriate plastics to use it, because if 563 00:30:12,440 --> 00:30:14,360 Speaker 1: you were to use weaker plastics, you could have a 564 00:30:14,400 --> 00:30:17,760 Speaker 1: catastrophic failure of your of your weapon, which could cause 565 00:30:17,960 --> 00:30:20,480 Speaker 1: injury or death. All right, we we did a whole 566 00:30:20,480 --> 00:30:23,959 Speaker 1: episode about that on May twenty two, and um and 567 00:30:24,080 --> 00:30:25,960 Speaker 1: I was, I mean, I remember being fond of it. 568 00:30:26,000 --> 00:30:28,000 Speaker 1: I haven't listened to it in a minute. But there 569 00:30:28,080 --> 00:30:31,320 Speaker 1: was a lot of really interesting information and press about 570 00:30:31,360 --> 00:30:33,120 Speaker 1: all of this, and it was a firing pin, not 571 00:30:33,240 --> 00:30:35,320 Speaker 1: like some kind of like lynch pin of the gun 572 00:30:35,440 --> 00:30:37,320 Speaker 1: I miss spoke a moment ago. But it was funny 573 00:30:37,320 --> 00:30:40,480 Speaker 1: because I remember in that episode we certainly didn't give 574 00:30:40,720 --> 00:30:43,800 Speaker 1: Cody Wilson much quarter. And I haven't felt a lot 575 00:30:43,880 --> 00:30:48,640 Speaker 1: differently since then. I understand at least what his expressed 576 00:30:48,760 --> 00:30:51,880 Speaker 1: motivations were. And I mean, I I get it, and 577 00:30:51,920 --> 00:30:53,760 Speaker 1: it's not like it's not like it's a world we 578 00:30:53,800 --> 00:30:55,840 Speaker 1: live in now where we can somehow take that away. 579 00:30:55,880 --> 00:30:57,880 Speaker 1: It was going to happen sooner or later. And I 580 00:30:57,880 --> 00:31:00,280 Speaker 1: think that it was an interesting political statement. Um. I 581 00:31:00,560 --> 00:31:05,120 Speaker 1: I kind of do appreciate the um anarchist sort of 582 00:31:05,240 --> 00:31:07,720 Speaker 1: bent of it, of of just going like, no, really, 583 00:31:07,760 --> 00:31:10,240 Speaker 1: you need to be paying attention to this technology because 584 00:31:10,280 --> 00:31:14,440 Speaker 1: this is in fact what it can do. Yeah. I 585 00:31:14,520 --> 00:31:16,600 Speaker 1: just wish he had been a little less cavalier about 586 00:31:16,600 --> 00:31:18,480 Speaker 1: the whole thing, because that that kind of rubbed me 587 00:31:18,480 --> 00:31:20,200 Speaker 1: the wrong way. I was like, I get off my lawn, 588 00:31:20,360 --> 00:31:24,480 Speaker 1: don't shoot me. Um. But yeah, since then, we've seen 589 00:31:24,600 --> 00:31:28,280 Speaker 1: some other developments. For example, there's a company called Solid 590 00:31:28,320 --> 00:31:30,920 Speaker 1: Concepts that printed a three D gun in metal, not 591 00:31:31,000 --> 00:31:33,520 Speaker 1: in plastic, showing that they you could actually do this 592 00:31:33,600 --> 00:31:37,760 Speaker 1: with again, uh sophisticated three D printer. Obviously, the metal 593 00:31:37,840 --> 00:31:39,920 Speaker 1: ones are not ones that you're going to find the 594 00:31:39,920 --> 00:31:42,400 Speaker 1: consumer market. These are right right, and I mean even 595 00:31:42,400 --> 00:31:44,120 Speaker 1: the plastic ones that you would need for something like 596 00:31:44,120 --> 00:31:47,800 Speaker 1: this around like ten dollars and they're talking pretty expensive. 597 00:31:47,840 --> 00:31:51,800 Speaker 1: You could probably buy a lot more guns traditionally, yeah, 598 00:31:51,960 --> 00:31:54,160 Speaker 1: or even rent one for for more choply than that. 599 00:31:54,880 --> 00:31:57,800 Speaker 1: And then Philadelphia is the first city in the United 600 00:31:57,840 --> 00:32:01,400 Speaker 1: States that has passed legislation banning the printing of guns 601 00:32:01,480 --> 00:32:04,240 Speaker 1: within that city. Although how they would ever expect to 602 00:32:04,960 --> 00:32:08,920 Speaker 1: actually yeah, how I don't know if it's an enforceable law. 603 00:32:09,120 --> 00:32:10,800 Speaker 1: Maybe they can work together with the n s A 604 00:32:10,920 --> 00:32:13,200 Speaker 1: and creep on people a lot, right, The n s 605 00:32:13,240 --> 00:32:15,520 Speaker 1: A knows everything you're printing, so you know, it can 606 00:32:15,600 --> 00:32:17,880 Speaker 1: just be a little tag team. They just can't. They 607 00:32:17,920 --> 00:32:19,680 Speaker 1: just can't let it be known that they found out 608 00:32:19,720 --> 00:32:21,080 Speaker 1: from the n s A because the n s A 609 00:32:21,200 --> 00:32:22,880 Speaker 1: is supposed to be for four and each We'll talk 610 00:32:22,880 --> 00:32:25,800 Speaker 1: more about the n s A later. So May it 611 00:32:25,840 --> 00:32:29,480 Speaker 1: was also the month when the other big console company 612 00:32:29,840 --> 00:32:33,520 Speaker 1: announced their entry into the war for the next generation 613 00:32:33,560 --> 00:32:37,320 Speaker 1: of consoles. Right, Microsoft finally unveiled their Xbox one. Yep, 614 00:32:37,440 --> 00:32:40,280 Speaker 1: so they first they put to bed the whole idea 615 00:32:40,280 --> 00:32:43,080 Speaker 1: of it being called Xbox seven twenty, which is good 616 00:32:43,200 --> 00:32:45,800 Speaker 1: because one of their initial ideas. Yeah, those of us 617 00:32:45,840 --> 00:32:48,960 Speaker 1: who have trouble with math would rapidly have problems in 618 00:32:49,000 --> 00:32:52,760 Speaker 1: a couple of generations. I'm referring to myself with that, 619 00:32:52,800 --> 00:32:57,080 Speaker 1: by the way. So Microsoft unveils Xbox One, and mostly 620 00:32:57,360 --> 00:32:59,560 Speaker 1: at that first event when they first unveiled it, they 621 00:32:59,600 --> 00:33:02,320 Speaker 1: weren't really looking at the games so much. Yeah, unlike 622 00:33:02,360 --> 00:33:06,560 Speaker 1: PlayStation's uh idea for their launch, they were really talking 623 00:33:06,600 --> 00:33:10,080 Speaker 1: about all of the other media center factors that that 624 00:33:10,120 --> 00:33:12,800 Speaker 1: they were planning, right, Yeah, things like being able to 625 00:33:12,800 --> 00:33:15,760 Speaker 1: control your cable box and and have some interactivity with 626 00:33:15,800 --> 00:33:18,400 Speaker 1: things like sports. Sports played a big role in that 627 00:33:18,480 --> 00:33:24,040 Speaker 1: initial announcement, including things like getting stats on players in 628 00:33:24,080 --> 00:33:26,560 Speaker 1: real time that kind of stuff. And also they talked 629 00:33:26,600 --> 00:33:30,120 Speaker 1: a lot about the the kind of peripheral abilities of 630 00:33:30,160 --> 00:33:33,840 Speaker 1: the console, specifically the new version of Connect with all 631 00:33:33,880 --> 00:33:37,280 Speaker 1: the voice and gesture controls, but not so much on games. 632 00:33:37,280 --> 00:33:41,840 Speaker 1: It wouldn't be until E three before Xbox really started 633 00:33:41,840 --> 00:33:43,920 Speaker 1: talking about the games that would be coming out for 634 00:33:43,960 --> 00:33:47,040 Speaker 1: that system. And unfortunately, also at E three, they made 635 00:33:47,040 --> 00:33:50,840 Speaker 1: a few announcements that were very unpopular amongst the gaming public. Yeah, 636 00:33:50,880 --> 00:33:53,000 Speaker 1: the big one being that the Xbox One was going 637 00:33:53,040 --> 00:33:55,720 Speaker 1: to require a persistent connection to the Internet or else 638 00:33:55,760 --> 00:33:57,720 Speaker 1: it would not work, and people like that it needed 639 00:33:57,760 --> 00:34:00,200 Speaker 1: to phone home like once a day or some thing 640 00:34:00,280 --> 00:34:03,680 Speaker 1: like that in order to you know, confirm that you 641 00:34:03,680 --> 00:34:07,200 Speaker 1: were still using entirely up and up software and then 642 00:34:07,200 --> 00:34:09,760 Speaker 1: you hadn't stolen anything, right that that all the copies 643 00:34:09,800 --> 00:34:12,000 Speaker 1: of everything you were running and actually belonged to you 644 00:34:12,080 --> 00:34:14,319 Speaker 1: weren't being used by someone else, that kind of thing, 645 00:34:14,760 --> 00:34:16,400 Speaker 1: and people objected to it. They said, well, you know, 646 00:34:16,560 --> 00:34:19,719 Speaker 1: not everyone has a persistent Internet connection and they want 647 00:34:19,760 --> 00:34:22,319 Speaker 1: to buy your product, but they can't use it. And 648 00:34:22,360 --> 00:34:25,040 Speaker 1: eventually Microsoft ended up backing down on a lot of 649 00:34:25,040 --> 00:34:28,799 Speaker 1: those initial stances, and um, they also said that as 650 00:34:28,800 --> 00:34:31,760 Speaker 1: a result of making those concessions, some of the features 651 00:34:31,760 --> 00:34:34,840 Speaker 1: they had planned for the Xbox would no longer work 652 00:34:35,080 --> 00:34:39,320 Speaker 1: because they required that first element that they had backed 653 00:34:39,320 --> 00:34:42,000 Speaker 1: off on, and that got people upset too. And I'm like, well, 654 00:34:42,040 --> 00:34:44,680 Speaker 1: you can't win, guys. You gotta you have to be like, well, 655 00:34:44,719 --> 00:34:47,160 Speaker 1: either I'm okay with all of it, or I'm okay 656 00:34:47,200 --> 00:34:49,440 Speaker 1: that a lot of it goes away if they take 657 00:34:49,440 --> 00:34:52,040 Speaker 1: away the one thing that I really hate. I I 658 00:34:52,080 --> 00:34:54,759 Speaker 1: think that they probably could have found workarounds for some 659 00:34:54,840 --> 00:34:57,399 Speaker 1: of those, and that some some of those workarounds might 660 00:34:57,440 --> 00:34:59,759 Speaker 1: still be coming in the next several months. But these 661 00:34:59,760 --> 00:35:01,600 Speaker 1: are these are things that they may find a way 662 00:35:01,600 --> 00:35:04,560 Speaker 1: of implementing in in other ways further down the line. 663 00:35:04,560 --> 00:35:07,719 Speaker 1: I mean, just like the PS four, the Xbox one 664 00:35:07,840 --> 00:35:12,760 Speaker 1: doesn't have the full functionality they talked about. Yeah, although 665 00:35:12,800 --> 00:35:15,840 Speaker 1: it did sell the same one million units in twenty 666 00:35:15,840 --> 00:35:17,880 Speaker 1: four hours that the PS four did. Yeah, it's just 667 00:35:17,920 --> 00:35:19,880 Speaker 1: they I think they were in eleven countries and not 668 00:35:20,000 --> 00:35:23,200 Speaker 1: just two. So I mean, so it's it's and yeah, 669 00:35:23,200 --> 00:35:25,360 Speaker 1: and they're being a little bit more squirrely about their numbers. 670 00:35:25,400 --> 00:35:27,120 Speaker 1: Like I think I said earlier, they did at one 671 00:35:27,160 --> 00:35:30,960 Speaker 1: point say like in in eighteen days, we sold something 672 00:35:31,000 --> 00:35:34,759 Speaker 1: like more than two million units, or essentially they were 673 00:35:34,760 --> 00:35:38,319 Speaker 1: saying that the sales were exceeding their expectations, and so 674 00:35:38,520 --> 00:35:42,600 Speaker 1: they weren't being so upfront with exactly what their expectations were. 675 00:35:43,120 --> 00:35:47,319 Speaker 1: But yeah, they're selling quite well, probably from what I 676 00:35:47,320 --> 00:35:49,799 Speaker 1: can tell mostly this is anecdotal, probably not as well 677 00:35:49,880 --> 00:35:52,440 Speaker 1: as the PS four at least initially. But you know, 678 00:35:52,600 --> 00:35:54,560 Speaker 1: these things are going in. This is a long tail 679 00:35:54,680 --> 00:35:56,799 Speaker 1: type of game, and it's gonna We're gonna have to 680 00:35:56,840 --> 00:35:59,480 Speaker 1: see when, especially yeah, since since a lot of the 681 00:35:59,560 --> 00:36:02,960 Speaker 1: games that they're talking about being really hot are not 682 00:36:03,000 --> 00:36:06,080 Speaker 1: going to be out until at the earliest, right right. 683 00:36:06,120 --> 00:36:08,520 Speaker 1: I like the games that are the launch titles for 684 00:36:08,600 --> 00:36:12,080 Speaker 1: both of these consoles are I've mentioned this before. They're 685 00:36:12,080 --> 00:36:16,319 Speaker 1: not games that particularly strike me as you know, must have. Yeah, 686 00:36:16,400 --> 00:36:18,360 Speaker 1: so there's none of them. None of them are the 687 00:36:18,440 --> 00:36:22,640 Speaker 1: killer apps. So I'm still waiting. Um. Moving on, Yahoo 688 00:36:22,800 --> 00:36:27,920 Speaker 1: bought Tumbler for one point one billion dollars, which is 689 00:36:28,080 --> 00:36:30,160 Speaker 1: so much money. I mean, I mean not the Tumbler 690 00:36:30,200 --> 00:36:31,680 Speaker 1: isn't worth it. I think it's a very up and 691 00:36:31,719 --> 00:36:36,400 Speaker 1: coming um social media platform. Absolutely, and uh and everyone 692 00:36:36,480 --> 00:36:40,120 Speaker 1: on Tumbler was really, really, really worried about this because 693 00:36:40,200 --> 00:36:43,759 Speaker 1: the image of Tumbler is young and hip and silly 694 00:36:43,880 --> 00:36:47,480 Speaker 1: and and full of irreverence, full of reverence. Yeah, and 695 00:36:47,480 --> 00:36:50,440 Speaker 1: and the image of Yahoo is basically the polar opposite 696 00:36:50,480 --> 00:36:52,680 Speaker 1: of all of that. Yes, the company that has the 697 00:36:52,760 --> 00:36:55,680 Speaker 1: name Yahoo with an exclamation mark at the end of 698 00:36:55,719 --> 00:36:58,600 Speaker 1: it is just a bunch of old fuddy duddies. What 699 00:37:00,080 --> 00:37:06,239 Speaker 1: it's not international business machine people, come on not. Nonetheless, 700 00:37:06,320 --> 00:37:09,400 Speaker 1: there was some concern, especially considering the way that Yahoo 701 00:37:09,480 --> 00:37:13,280 Speaker 1: has in the past handled a lot of it's large, 702 00:37:13,600 --> 00:37:18,840 Speaker 1: large design decisions and commenting decisions. And I mean, I 703 00:37:18,840 --> 00:37:21,600 Speaker 1: think Yahoo was the original site on which I decided 704 00:37:21,640 --> 00:37:24,000 Speaker 1: that I can't read comments on the Internet anymore. I 705 00:37:24,040 --> 00:37:27,040 Speaker 1: can understand that. Yeah, And to be fair, the Yahoo 706 00:37:27,080 --> 00:37:29,600 Speaker 1: executives have all said that they have no plans of 707 00:37:29,760 --> 00:37:33,680 Speaker 1: screwing up Tumbler and doing anything different. But as long 708 00:37:33,719 --> 00:37:36,040 Speaker 1: as it's just a change in ownership but not a 709 00:37:36,120 --> 00:37:39,440 Speaker 1: change in administration, than things should go pretty well. But 710 00:37:39,920 --> 00:37:42,600 Speaker 1: we're gonna wrap up this first episode about a look 711 00:37:42,600 --> 00:37:46,320 Speaker 1: back on two thousand thirteen with possibly the biggest story 712 00:37:46,680 --> 00:37:50,200 Speaker 1: of We wish we could save this for the end 713 00:37:50,239 --> 00:37:52,600 Speaker 1: of the last episode, but it happened in the middle 714 00:37:52,600 --> 00:37:54,200 Speaker 1: of the year, so we've got to talk about it. 715 00:37:54,160 --> 00:37:56,120 Speaker 1: It's it's the only one that I referred to in 716 00:37:56,160 --> 00:37:59,759 Speaker 1: my notes entirely in caps lock about Yeah, okay, So 717 00:38:00,080 --> 00:38:03,640 Speaker 1: what we're clearly talking about is when Steve will Hit 718 00:38:04,360 --> 00:38:10,719 Speaker 1: actually explained how his invention the graphics interchange format, how 719 00:38:10,800 --> 00:38:15,640 Speaker 1: you were supposed to pronounce the acronym uh and it's jeff, 720 00:38:16,239 --> 00:38:18,480 Speaker 1: which is wrong, and I won't do it. No, it's right. 721 00:38:18,640 --> 00:38:20,279 Speaker 1: That is so right. That's the only clear way to 722 00:38:20,320 --> 00:38:23,319 Speaker 1: say it. Gift, gift is gift because if you put 723 00:38:23,360 --> 00:38:25,200 Speaker 1: a T at the end, it'd be gift. It wouldn't 724 00:38:25,239 --> 00:38:29,880 Speaker 1: be jift. Jeff is a peanut butter gif is graphic. 725 00:38:29,960 --> 00:38:34,880 Speaker 1: Gift sounds ridiculous, jiffun graphic, gift graphic it makes sense, 726 00:38:35,640 --> 00:38:40,319 Speaker 1: Jeff graphic. No, you don't have graphics. I have graffics. 727 00:38:40,560 --> 00:38:46,160 Speaker 1: Do you have a park for him? Welcome to Giraffic Park. Alright. So, anyway, 728 00:38:46,239 --> 00:38:48,839 Speaker 1: that wraps up this first episode of our look back 729 00:38:48,880 --> 00:38:51,440 Speaker 1: on twirteen. Tune in next time when we find out 730 00:38:51,440 --> 00:38:53,399 Speaker 1: what happened at the end of the year. So we're 731 00:38:53,400 --> 00:38:55,680 Speaker 1: gonna wrap this up. If you guys have any suggestions 732 00:38:55,680 --> 00:38:57,960 Speaker 1: for future topics of tech stuff, if you have a 733 00:38:58,000 --> 00:39:00,880 Speaker 1: specific technology wants to talk about a company, or if 734 00:39:01,080 --> 00:39:02,719 Speaker 1: any of these things that we have not gone in 735 00:39:02,800 --> 00:39:04,799 Speaker 1: depth about you'd like to hear more on. Yeah, maybe 736 00:39:04,840 --> 00:39:07,960 Speaker 1: you're like, Hey, I really want to have a full 737 00:39:09,120 --> 00:39:12,799 Speaker 1: minute discussion about gift versus Jeff. Let us know if 738 00:39:12,880 --> 00:39:16,840 Speaker 1: you are that person, Write us an email. Our address 739 00:39:16,920 --> 00:39:20,000 Speaker 1: is tech stuff at Discovery dot com, or drop us 740 00:39:20,040 --> 00:39:23,399 Speaker 1: a line on Tumbler, Twitter, or Facebook. 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