1 00:00:04,400 --> 00:00:12,479 Speaker 1: Welcome to tech Stuff production from I Heart Radio. Hey there, 2 00:00:12,480 --> 00:00:15,840 Speaker 1: and welcome to tech Stuff. I'm your host, Jonathan Strickland. 3 00:00:15,840 --> 00:00:18,360 Speaker 1: I'm an executive producer with iHeart Radio and a love 4 00:00:18,360 --> 00:00:21,120 Speaker 1: of all things tech. And this is the tech news 5 00:00:21,200 --> 00:00:27,440 Speaker 1: for Thursday, June one. And following up on antitrust news, 6 00:00:28,000 --> 00:00:31,560 Speaker 1: proposed piece of legislation here in the United States would 7 00:00:31,600 --> 00:00:35,440 Speaker 1: make it illegal for tech companies to prevent users from 8 00:00:35,479 --> 00:00:39,720 Speaker 1: removing pre installed apps on devices. So at the heart 9 00:00:39,720 --> 00:00:43,680 Speaker 1: of the matter here would be competitive advantage. And we'll 10 00:00:43,760 --> 00:00:47,760 Speaker 1: use Apple as an example. So currently Apple can and 11 00:00:47,960 --> 00:00:52,800 Speaker 1: does pre install its own apps on iPhones. Apple also 12 00:00:52,880 --> 00:00:56,960 Speaker 1: prevents users from being able to uninstall some of those apps. 13 00:00:56,960 --> 00:01:01,360 Speaker 1: So even if some other developer makes an iPhone app 14 00:01:01,680 --> 00:01:05,200 Speaker 1: that gets approved, goes into the iPhone App Store and 15 00:01:05,240 --> 00:01:08,479 Speaker 1: it does the same thing as a native Apple app, 16 00:01:09,040 --> 00:01:12,520 Speaker 1: you can't just swap them out. You can't uninstall the 17 00:01:12,520 --> 00:01:14,959 Speaker 1: Apple app and replace it with this new one. They 18 00:01:15,000 --> 00:01:17,440 Speaker 1: would have to sit side by side, so you could 19 00:01:17,440 --> 00:01:21,000 Speaker 1: install the new third party app, but the Apple app 20 00:01:21,200 --> 00:01:26,280 Speaker 1: would stay on your phone, mocking you, judging you. But 21 00:01:26,360 --> 00:01:29,760 Speaker 1: if this legislation becomes law, Apple would be required to 22 00:01:29,800 --> 00:01:33,120 Speaker 1: make its own apps removable so that people could choose 23 00:01:33,160 --> 00:01:35,480 Speaker 1: to go with a competitor if they wanted to. The 24 00:01:35,600 --> 00:01:39,080 Speaker 1: argument is that by making it impossible to remove the apps, 25 00:01:39,360 --> 00:01:43,080 Speaker 1: Apple is discouraging competition, and since Apple is the source 26 00:01:43,080 --> 00:01:46,160 Speaker 1: of both those apps and the hardware that those apps 27 00:01:46,240 --> 00:01:49,320 Speaker 1: run on, this is a big problem. There are currently 28 00:01:49,360 --> 00:01:52,720 Speaker 1: a few different pieces of proposed antitrust legislation in the 29 00:01:52,800 --> 00:01:56,640 Speaker 1: US that could have an enormous impact on the tech 30 00:01:56,720 --> 00:02:00,200 Speaker 1: industry should they actually be passed into law. So will 31 00:02:00,280 --> 00:02:04,880 Speaker 1: keep pace with the story as it develops. Meanwhile, in 32 00:02:04,920 --> 00:02:08,480 Speaker 1: the US Senate, a proposed bill would require companies to 33 00:02:08,520 --> 00:02:11,799 Speaker 1: make it easier for customers to cancel a service at 34 00:02:11,840 --> 00:02:14,519 Speaker 1: the end of a free trial, and it's being called 35 00:02:14,560 --> 00:02:18,720 Speaker 1: the Unsubscribed Act, And this would address situations in which 36 00:02:18,760 --> 00:02:22,680 Speaker 1: a company entices new customers with a free trial and 37 00:02:22,720 --> 00:02:26,760 Speaker 1: then switches those customers to a paid subscription service without 38 00:02:26,840 --> 00:02:29,959 Speaker 1: you know, much notice or an easy way to cancel out. 39 00:02:30,240 --> 00:02:32,840 Speaker 1: They would also affect companies that break out the monthly 40 00:02:32,960 --> 00:02:36,240 Speaker 1: rate of a service but they charge in larger increments, 41 00:02:36,280 --> 00:02:41,440 Speaker 1: like they'll say, oh, you'll get you know charged a month, 42 00:02:41,600 --> 00:02:44,880 Speaker 1: but then they actually make you pay for half a 43 00:02:44,960 --> 00:02:49,280 Speaker 1: year or a year all at once, which is not great, right, 44 00:02:49,360 --> 00:02:52,080 Speaker 1: because what if you change your mind about the service 45 00:02:52,120 --> 00:02:55,160 Speaker 1: you've already paid for, you know, six months you don't 46 00:02:55,200 --> 00:02:57,800 Speaker 1: want to have to pay for half a year or more, 47 00:02:58,360 --> 00:03:01,360 Speaker 1: and then a week in you realize this service isn't 48 00:03:01,400 --> 00:03:04,360 Speaker 1: for me. I think it's interesting to see more moves 49 00:03:04,400 --> 00:03:07,440 Speaker 1: to address consumer rights. We've seen that kind of a 50 00:03:07,440 --> 00:03:09,919 Speaker 1: few times in recent months, and I think this also 51 00:03:10,000 --> 00:03:13,120 Speaker 1: points to how more politicians have been on the receiving 52 00:03:13,280 --> 00:03:16,920 Speaker 1: end of these corporate policies. Typically here in the United States, 53 00:03:17,120 --> 00:03:20,680 Speaker 1: we see politics lag behind tech quite a bit because, 54 00:03:21,680 --> 00:03:24,040 Speaker 1: I mean, let's face it, a lot of politicians tend 55 00:03:24,080 --> 00:03:26,560 Speaker 1: to be old people who are perhaps not quite as 56 00:03:26,600 --> 00:03:30,280 Speaker 1: in touch with technology and tech services as younger people. 57 00:03:31,200 --> 00:03:34,720 Speaker 1: That's a pretty general statement. I get it, uh, And 58 00:03:34,760 --> 00:03:36,800 Speaker 1: I don't mean to say that all old people are 59 00:03:36,960 --> 00:03:39,520 Speaker 1: clueless when it comes to tech. I am rapidly becoming 60 00:03:39,560 --> 00:03:42,200 Speaker 1: an old person, and I like to think that, you know, 61 00:03:42,240 --> 00:03:45,440 Speaker 1: I got a clue or two. But politicians in particular 62 00:03:46,320 --> 00:03:52,800 Speaker 1: traditionally have not been on that bleeding edge of technology scale. Now, 63 00:03:52,800 --> 00:03:56,040 Speaker 1: while we're past the initial n f T craze, we've 64 00:03:56,080 --> 00:03:59,200 Speaker 1: got another one to talk about. Tim berners Lee, the 65 00:03:59,240 --> 00:04:01,720 Speaker 1: man who has since really invented the World Wide Web, 66 00:04:02,280 --> 00:04:04,560 Speaker 1: is now going to auction off and n f T 67 00:04:05,080 --> 00:04:08,880 Speaker 1: representing the original files used to create the first web pages. 68 00:04:09,480 --> 00:04:11,800 Speaker 1: Now again we need to talk about what an n 69 00:04:11,840 --> 00:04:16,240 Speaker 1: f T actually is. That initialism stands for non fungible token, 70 00:04:16,640 --> 00:04:20,360 Speaker 1: and that means it's a thing that represents something that 71 00:04:20,600 --> 00:04:24,880 Speaker 1: itself is not interchangeable. So a US dollar is interchangeable 72 00:04:24,920 --> 00:04:29,039 Speaker 1: with any other US dollar, or U S dollars interchangeable 73 00:04:29,040 --> 00:04:31,920 Speaker 1: with four U S quarters or twenty U S nickels, 74 00:04:31,920 --> 00:04:33,920 Speaker 1: and you get the point. But an n f T 75 00:04:34,360 --> 00:04:38,839 Speaker 1: represents a unique instance of something. However, that being said, 76 00:04:39,120 --> 00:04:41,400 Speaker 1: an n f T doesn't give the owner the right to, 77 00:04:42,120 --> 00:04:45,400 Speaker 1: you know, do anything with whatever it is that n 78 00:04:45,440 --> 00:04:48,400 Speaker 1: f T represents. It's more like you have a certificate 79 00:04:48,400 --> 00:04:51,840 Speaker 1: of ownership of that thing. Like if you've ever seen 80 00:04:51,880 --> 00:04:54,320 Speaker 1: ads for a company that will let you quote, purchase 81 00:04:54,360 --> 00:04:57,120 Speaker 1: and name a star, end quote. It's kind of like that, 82 00:04:57,560 --> 00:05:00,880 Speaker 1: except it's a token that sits on top a blockchain 83 00:05:01,320 --> 00:05:03,240 Speaker 1: and you can buy and you can sell n f 84 00:05:03,320 --> 00:05:06,080 Speaker 1: t s, so you can make them a commodity. But 85 00:05:06,240 --> 00:05:09,240 Speaker 1: they really just represent the idea of ownership in a 86 00:05:09,279 --> 00:05:13,400 Speaker 1: way that's so nebulous that it makes me grouchy. Thanks 87 00:05:13,440 --> 00:05:16,440 Speaker 1: a lot in f T s over in China, the 88 00:05:16,560 --> 00:05:21,520 Speaker 1: Chinese military is training AI combat pilots and using those 89 00:05:21,560 --> 00:05:25,000 Speaker 1: pilots to train human pilots. So human pilots have been 90 00:05:25,000 --> 00:05:28,600 Speaker 1: training with and against, depending upon how you view it, 91 00:05:29,120 --> 00:05:33,800 Speaker 1: AI controlled simulated aircraft. So this is all computer simulations. 92 00:05:34,800 --> 00:05:38,200 Speaker 1: So according to the military, the AI displays an incredible 93 00:05:38,200 --> 00:05:42,120 Speaker 1: ability to learn and apply knowledge and rapidly gain a 94 00:05:42,240 --> 00:05:46,920 Speaker 1: level of expertise similar to that of China's Golden Helmet squadron, 95 00:05:47,080 --> 00:05:50,279 Speaker 1: and the Golden Helmet is an elite group of human pilots. 96 00:05:51,279 --> 00:05:54,320 Speaker 1: The humans participating in the sessions say that the AI 97 00:05:54,400 --> 00:05:57,840 Speaker 1: pilots are able to adapt quickly, so you might defeat 98 00:05:57,880 --> 00:06:02,120 Speaker 1: them once using certain tactics, and then they would turn 99 00:06:02,120 --> 00:06:04,839 Speaker 1: around and use those exact same tactics in the next 100 00:06:04,880 --> 00:06:09,640 Speaker 1: matchup and defeat the human pilots. The project is really, again, 101 00:06:09,720 --> 00:06:13,320 Speaker 1: more about training up human pilots. It's not really about 102 00:06:13,480 --> 00:06:17,039 Speaker 1: creating autonomous fighter jets down the line, at least not yet. 103 00:06:17,640 --> 00:06:21,280 Speaker 1: Guy Snodgrass, a former U. S. Navy commander, expressed some 104 00:06:21,360 --> 00:06:25,600 Speaker 1: skepticism about the usefulness of this project. His point of 105 00:06:25,680 --> 00:06:28,880 Speaker 1: view is that the Chinese pilots might just be learning 106 00:06:28,880 --> 00:06:32,240 Speaker 1: how to fight against AI opponents rather than how to 107 00:06:32,320 --> 00:06:35,719 Speaker 1: engage with actual human pilots who may display very different 108 00:06:35,720 --> 00:06:39,000 Speaker 1: tactics and behaviors, and since we're not in a world 109 00:06:39,400 --> 00:06:42,760 Speaker 1: with robot jet fighters, that could end up being useless 110 00:06:42,760 --> 00:06:46,800 Speaker 1: in a real combat situation. Amazon appears to be removing 111 00:06:46,839 --> 00:06:51,200 Speaker 1: certain tech brands and online storefronts from the Amazon service, 112 00:06:51,640 --> 00:06:54,000 Speaker 1: and the reason behind this ties into the issue of 113 00:06:54,160 --> 00:06:57,600 Speaker 1: fake reviews, something that Amazon has really been struggling with recently. 114 00:06:58,040 --> 00:07:00,800 Speaker 1: Several brands have made it a practice to include a 115 00:07:00,839 --> 00:07:03,400 Speaker 1: card or a slip of paper inside the box of 116 00:07:03,600 --> 00:07:07,640 Speaker 1: various gadgets stuff like you know, charging cables or computer 117 00:07:07,760 --> 00:07:10,680 Speaker 1: mice or something like that, and those cards give you 118 00:07:10,720 --> 00:07:14,800 Speaker 1: an offer to get a like gift card usually or 119 00:07:14,960 --> 00:07:19,120 Speaker 1: credit in a store in return for posting a favorable 120 00:07:19,200 --> 00:07:22,800 Speaker 1: review on Amazon. Typically, the card has some instructions on 121 00:07:22,840 --> 00:07:25,560 Speaker 1: it to guide the consumer through that process of posting 122 00:07:25,600 --> 00:07:28,680 Speaker 1: the review and then sending it to the vendor in 123 00:07:28,760 --> 00:07:31,920 Speaker 1: order to verify that the review was posted, and in return, 124 00:07:32,000 --> 00:07:34,160 Speaker 1: the consumer gets a gift card or credit, so it's 125 00:07:34,200 --> 00:07:37,480 Speaker 1: kind of like bribing for a good review. This practice 126 00:07:37,520 --> 00:07:40,000 Speaker 1: does drive up reviews that might not actually reflect the 127 00:07:40,080 --> 00:07:43,720 Speaker 1: quality or reliability of a product, and Amazon has become 128 00:07:43,760 --> 00:07:46,840 Speaker 1: pretty sensitive to this problem of fake reviews recently, so 129 00:07:46,880 --> 00:07:50,560 Speaker 1: now Amazon appears to be removing entire brands from the store. 130 00:07:51,480 --> 00:07:55,200 Speaker 1: On a related note, Amazon has called social media platforms 131 00:07:55,240 --> 00:07:58,840 Speaker 1: to task, saying that they are helping perpetuate the fake 132 00:07:58,920 --> 00:08:02,480 Speaker 1: review problem. Amazon says that companies that deal in fake 133 00:08:02,520 --> 00:08:06,760 Speaker 1: reviews either as a vendor that's trying to get people 134 00:08:06,760 --> 00:08:09,800 Speaker 1: to positively review it's stuff or as kind of a 135 00:08:09,800 --> 00:08:14,920 Speaker 1: middleman service provider that allows other vendors to purchase good reviews, 136 00:08:15,360 --> 00:08:18,520 Speaker 1: they often turn to social media to recruit folks in 137 00:08:18,560 --> 00:08:23,640 Speaker 1: those efforts, and Amazon says that Amazon's alerted various social 138 00:08:23,640 --> 00:08:26,960 Speaker 1: media platforms about this problem and that the platforms have 139 00:08:27,160 --> 00:08:31,000 Speaker 1: traditionally been pretty slow to do anything about it. Now, 140 00:08:31,040 --> 00:08:35,000 Speaker 1: you could argue that Amazon's structure is what ultimately enables 141 00:08:35,040 --> 00:08:37,600 Speaker 1: the practice of fake reviews to flourish, but there is 142 00:08:37,640 --> 00:08:40,920 Speaker 1: no doubt that using social media to recruit more folks 143 00:08:41,000 --> 00:08:43,880 Speaker 1: to the effort is a problem. I don't think it's 144 00:08:44,080 --> 00:08:46,760 Speaker 1: fair to place all or even most of the blame 145 00:08:46,800 --> 00:08:49,640 Speaker 1: on social media. But I do think that a lot 146 00:08:49,720 --> 00:08:54,360 Speaker 1: of social media platforms, notably Facebook, have traditionally moved very 147 00:08:54,400 --> 00:08:58,479 Speaker 1: slowly to address problems with fraudulent, misleading, or deceptive practices 148 00:08:58,480 --> 00:09:02,720 Speaker 1: on the platform. Twitter is not much better. It's honestly 149 00:09:02,920 --> 00:09:07,040 Speaker 1: a really big mess. General Motors, the number one auto 150 00:09:07,120 --> 00:09:10,400 Speaker 1: brand in the United States, announced yesterday that the company 151 00:09:10,440 --> 00:09:15,040 Speaker 1: will invest thirty five billion dollars in electric vehicle technologies 152 00:09:15,320 --> 00:09:20,080 Speaker 1: through five That marks a significant increase in investment, and 153 00:09:20,120 --> 00:09:23,120 Speaker 1: it coincides with a general trend across the world that 154 00:09:23,240 --> 00:09:27,520 Speaker 1: sees auto companies moving away from producing fossil fuel powered 155 00:09:27,600 --> 00:09:31,880 Speaker 1: vehicles and moving more toward electric ones. According to Reuters, 156 00:09:32,000 --> 00:09:36,880 Speaker 1: a consulting firm called Alex Partners projects that by electric 157 00:09:36,960 --> 00:09:40,600 Speaker 1: vehicles will make up nearly of our all car sales, 158 00:09:41,240 --> 00:09:45,720 Speaker 1: and today it's more like two. We're definitely headed toward 159 00:09:45,760 --> 00:09:49,839 Speaker 1: a future in which all new vehicles will be electric vehicles. 160 00:09:49,880 --> 00:09:52,800 Speaker 1: And I should also add that while electric vehicles could 161 00:09:52,920 --> 00:09:56,360 Speaker 1: lead to a decrease in carbon emissions, though that also 162 00:09:56,480 --> 00:09:59,720 Speaker 1: depends upon where the electricity to power those vehicles has 163 00:09:59,800 --> 00:10:04,360 Speaker 1: come from. Evs are also the source of some pretty 164 00:10:04,400 --> 00:10:08,920 Speaker 1: serious environmental concerns. The lithium used in lithium ion batteries 165 00:10:09,559 --> 00:10:12,760 Speaker 1: is a substance that you know, people mind, and some 166 00:10:12,840 --> 00:10:15,880 Speaker 1: of those mining operations can have a catastrophic effect on 167 00:10:15,920 --> 00:10:20,400 Speaker 1: the environment, at least in the immediate area around the mines. Plus, 168 00:10:20,440 --> 00:10:23,960 Speaker 1: there are some serious concerns about worker welfare and safety 169 00:10:24,280 --> 00:10:27,080 Speaker 1: because many of these minds are in places where workforces 170 00:10:27,160 --> 00:10:31,160 Speaker 1: can be heavily exploited by companies that run the minds. 171 00:10:31,200 --> 00:10:33,720 Speaker 1: So I guess the moral of that story is that 172 00:10:33,840 --> 00:10:38,199 Speaker 1: these issues are really complicated and there are no simple solutions. 173 00:10:38,720 --> 00:10:43,720 Speaker 1: SpaceX is facing some tough questions from Texas law enforcement. Allegedly, 174 00:10:44,000 --> 00:10:48,040 Speaker 1: private security guards working for SpaceX denied people access to 175 00:10:48,240 --> 00:10:52,040 Speaker 1: a county road, a public road, in other words, a 176 00:10:52,200 --> 00:10:56,280 Speaker 1: road that SpaceX doesn't own, and the local government says 177 00:10:56,320 --> 00:10:59,880 Speaker 1: that it never gave SpaceX authorization to close down the 178 00:11:00,000 --> 00:11:04,440 Speaker 1: public roads, so by denying citizens the use of those roads, 179 00:11:04,880 --> 00:11:09,120 Speaker 1: those employees, the security guards, and potentially the company itself, 180 00:11:09,520 --> 00:11:12,720 Speaker 1: has broken the law. In addition, there are questions as 181 00:11:12,760 --> 00:11:15,920 Speaker 1: to whether the security personnel had the required licenses to 182 00:11:16,040 --> 00:11:18,959 Speaker 1: serve as security or to carry a weapon, though at 183 00:11:18,960 --> 00:11:21,120 Speaker 1: the time of the reporting, it was unclear as to 184 00:11:21,160 --> 00:11:24,520 Speaker 1: whether the security personnel in question were armed or not. 185 00:11:25,920 --> 00:11:29,960 Speaker 1: Earlier this year, the japan Supersonic Research Organization got off 186 00:11:30,040 --> 00:11:34,400 Speaker 1: the ground figuratively speaking, in an effort to develop supersonic 187 00:11:34,520 --> 00:11:39,680 Speaker 1: passenger jets. The organization now includes several Japanese aerospace and 188 00:11:39,760 --> 00:11:44,560 Speaker 1: manufacturing companies. There hasn't been a supersonic passenger jet since 189 00:11:44,600 --> 00:11:48,160 Speaker 1: the Concord, which operated for several years before some high 190 00:11:48,160 --> 00:11:52,240 Speaker 1: profile disasters and the harsh reality of economics forced the 191 00:11:52,280 --> 00:11:57,160 Speaker 1: company out of business. Creating a fuel efficient supersonic jet 192 00:11:57,840 --> 00:12:00,800 Speaker 1: is one of several challenges that One of the reasons 193 00:12:00,840 --> 00:12:03,360 Speaker 1: that was so expensive with the Concorde is just jet 194 00:12:03,400 --> 00:12:09,480 Speaker 1: fuel prices were really dragging down the company figuratively speaking, again, 195 00:12:09,920 --> 00:12:12,480 Speaker 1: because it's just too expensive to operate. You had to 196 00:12:12,559 --> 00:12:15,520 Speaker 1: charge higher and higher prices for for flights and eventually 197 00:12:15,600 --> 00:12:17,720 Speaker 1: get to a point where you kind of price yourself 198 00:12:17,720 --> 00:12:20,520 Speaker 1: out of the market. But another big challenge is to 199 00:12:21,120 --> 00:12:25,520 Speaker 1: limit the effects of sonic booms. When you travel faster 200 00:12:25,760 --> 00:12:29,120 Speaker 1: than the speed of sound, you create a sonic boom 201 00:12:29,160 --> 00:12:31,400 Speaker 1: and that travels with you. So if an aircraft is 202 00:12:31,400 --> 00:12:35,040 Speaker 1: flying faster than the speed of sound, there's a boom 203 00:12:35,080 --> 00:12:38,120 Speaker 1: that kind of trails behind the aircraft, and it does 204 00:12:38,160 --> 00:12:41,600 Speaker 1: so consistently as long as that aircraft is going faster 205 00:12:41,679 --> 00:12:44,760 Speaker 1: than speed of sounds. So anything the aircraft passes over 206 00:12:44,840 --> 00:12:48,400 Speaker 1: will experience a sonic boom shortly afterward. For that reason, 207 00:12:48,679 --> 00:12:53,080 Speaker 1: the Concords supersonic flight paths were restricted to being over 208 00:12:53,120 --> 00:12:55,760 Speaker 1: the Atlantic. Once they got to the point where they 209 00:12:55,800 --> 00:12:57,640 Speaker 1: were going to pass over land, they had to slow 210 00:12:57,679 --> 00:13:04,120 Speaker 1: down below supersonic speeds because nobody wants these enormously allowed 211 00:13:04,160 --> 00:13:06,720 Speaker 1: booms to pass over their their area, like it could 212 00:13:07,080 --> 00:13:11,520 Speaker 1: be strong enough to shatter glass in some cases. There's 213 00:13:11,520 --> 00:13:16,360 Speaker 1: no word yet if the Japanese are planning on restricting 214 00:13:16,400 --> 00:13:19,920 Speaker 1: their supersonic aircraft to flying just over the oceans when 215 00:13:19,960 --> 00:13:23,440 Speaker 1: they're in supersonic mode um and we probably won't see 216 00:13:23,480 --> 00:13:26,320 Speaker 1: these aircraft until about twenty thirty or so. However, the 217 00:13:26,320 --> 00:13:29,240 Speaker 1: engineers do say that the design of the aircraft they 218 00:13:29,240 --> 00:13:33,240 Speaker 1: have created should mean that it will produce a sonic 219 00:13:33,280 --> 00:13:36,960 Speaker 1: boom that's only half as loud as the Concords, so 220 00:13:37,040 --> 00:13:40,120 Speaker 1: that's some progress. There are a lot of other companies 221 00:13:40,480 --> 00:13:45,960 Speaker 1: and organizations around the world working on supersonic and hypersonic aircraft, 222 00:13:47,120 --> 00:13:48,960 Speaker 1: and a lot of them are working on ways to 223 00:13:48,960 --> 00:13:52,400 Speaker 1: try and minimize that sonic boom so that these aircraft 224 00:13:52,440 --> 00:13:54,920 Speaker 1: could travel not just over the ocean, but over land 225 00:13:54,920 --> 00:13:59,280 Speaker 1: as well at supersonic speeds. But that's something that's still 226 00:13:59,320 --> 00:14:01,920 Speaker 1: in development, and I mean there are big challenges like 227 00:14:01,960 --> 00:14:04,959 Speaker 1: how do you make something like that fuel efficient so 228 00:14:05,000 --> 00:14:08,439 Speaker 1: that it makes economic sense to operate it. If it's 229 00:14:08,440 --> 00:14:11,199 Speaker 1: too expensive to operate for anyone to ever bother flying 230 00:14:11,240 --> 00:14:13,120 Speaker 1: on it, well then there's doesn't too much of use, 231 00:14:13,200 --> 00:14:16,680 Speaker 1: does it. And that's it. That's all the news that 232 00:14:16,720 --> 00:14:21,200 Speaker 1: I have for you today, Thursday, June one. If you 233 00:14:21,240 --> 00:14:23,480 Speaker 1: have any suggestions for topics I should cover in future 234 00:14:23,520 --> 00:14:26,200 Speaker 1: episodes of tech Stuff, let me know on Twitter. The 235 00:14:26,240 --> 00:14:29,240 Speaker 1: handle is tech stuff hs W and I'll talk to 236 00:14:29,280 --> 00:14:38,520 Speaker 1: you again really soon. Text Stuff is an I Heart 237 00:14:38,640 --> 00:14:42,360 Speaker 1: Radio production. 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