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Speaker 1: Good morning everybody. Welcome to the Daily OS. My name

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Speaker 1: is Sam. Let's quickly run through the COVID update before

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Speaker 1: we get into the rest of the news, and then

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Speaker 1: we're going to do a deep dive into Facebook's new glasses.

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Speaker 1: In New South Wales yesterday there were twelve hundred and

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Speaker 1: sixty two new cases the Act recorded fifteen. In Victoria

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Speaker 1: there were three hundred and ninety two new cases of

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Speaker 1: COVID nineteen and in Queensland there were a big fat

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Speaker 1: zero Zara. We also got some extra vaccines yesterday from

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Speaker 1: the Federal government. Can you tell us a little bit

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Speaker 1: more about that.

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Speaker 2: Yesterday Scott Morris and the Prime Minister got up to

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Speaker 2: announce that Australia will receive one million doses of the

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Speaker 2: MODERNA COVID nineteen vaccine. These vaccines are coming from Spain,

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Speaker 2: the Czech Republic, Portugal and Bulgaria, all of whom seem

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Speaker 2: to have a surplus of MODERNA supplies. So the Prime

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Speaker 2: Minister announced the new doses will be sent directly to

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Speaker 2: community pharmacies across Australia, and he said in his presser

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Speaker 2: that families will now be able to go along to

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Speaker 2: the pharmacy to get their vaccinations together.

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Speaker 1: Australia's medical regulator, the Therapeutic Goods Administration, is preparing to

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Speaker 1: take legal action against federal MP Craig Kelly over the

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Speaker 1: United Australia Party campaign text messages that many of us

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Speaker 1: received that contained misleading information about COVID vaccines.

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Speaker 2: I just want to say that I am seemingly the

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Speaker 2: one person who did not receive.

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Speaker 1: That you are on a text blacklist. The TGA believes

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Speaker 1: the campaign broke the law by using the TGA logo

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Speaker 1: on a political party website. The text messages were sent

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Speaker 1: to more than fourteen million phones, excluding Zara's.

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Speaker 2: Some better news for those in New South Wales. From today,

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Speaker 2: up to five fully vaxed people are able to gather

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Speaker 2: outdoors outside of the hotspot LGAs. That means you can

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Speaker 2: have a picnic, you can enjoy some food in the

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Speaker 2: park and you can really soak in this raining weather.

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Speaker 2: Within the hotspot LGAs, however, fully vaxed members of a

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Speaker 2: household will be the only ones who are allowed to

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Speaker 2: congregate outdoors, and that will still be within the existing restrictions. Also,

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Speaker 2: starting today we have a new eleven o'clock. There is

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Speaker 2: going to be no daily presser, which means that now

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Speaker 2: it's just going to be an online briefing by New

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Speaker 2: South Wales Health.

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Speaker 1: And today's good news comes from the world of sport,

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Speaker 1: where eighteen year old British tennis player Emma Radikanu made

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Speaker 1: history in the US Open as the first ever qualifier

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Speaker 1: to win a Grand Slam. So basically, most players are

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Speaker 1: selected to play in the Grand Slam through their ranking,

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Speaker 1: about one hundred and four of the players in every tournament,

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Speaker 1: but Radikanu, who is currently ranked one hundred and fiftieth

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Speaker 1: in the world, was one of only sixteen players who

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Speaker 1: qualified to participate despite her ranking. She's also the first

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Speaker 1: British woman in forty four years to win a Grand

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Speaker 1: Slam title, and that earned herself a personal message from

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Speaker 1: the Queen. A few days ago, Facebook came out with

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Speaker 1: a new product release, which is quite unusual for a

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Speaker 1: software company to come out with a bit of hardware.

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Speaker 1: But we now are faced with the opportunity to buy

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Speaker 1: Facebook glasses. Mariah has actually had a chance to have

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Speaker 1: a look at a pair. Maria, what were your first

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Speaker 1: impressions of this new device?

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Speaker 3: Look, it was quite interesting to hear that Facebook was

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Speaker 3: actually going to release this product in the first place.

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Speaker 3: This type of product, as we know, has been released

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Speaker 3: previously by other companies and there's been quite a bit

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Speaker 3: I first heard about it, I was a bit sort

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Speaker 3: of surprised, but I wanted to see Facebook's take on it.

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Speaker 3: It is quite obvious that Facebook has been wanting to

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Speaker 3: interested to see how they were going to bring this

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Speaker 1: Right. So going back a few steps, how have we

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Speaker 1: seen smart glasses perform in the past. I remember we

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Speaker 1: had Snapchat glasses at one point, Google glasses. Have they

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Speaker 1: been a success on the market.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, So those two examples of Google and Snapchat are

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Speaker 3: the ones that we know most about or the most mainstream.

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Speaker 3: Google does offer glasses still, however, they're not available to

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Speaker 3: the regular consumers, so you wouldn't find the glasses in

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Speaker 3: wouldn't really find it there, but you can if you're

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Speaker 3: an enterprise or a business. Google does offer glasses for enterprises.

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Speaker 3: When those glasses were previously available for consumers, because they

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Speaker 3: were a few years ago, they were quite controversial and

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Speaker 3: not received, and so they're not available anymore as we know,

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Speaker 3: so that's quite telling of how they went. It's interesting

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Speaker 3: for Facebook to see how the Google Glasses were received,

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Speaker 3: which was not quite well, and to still nonetheless release them.

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Speaker 3: There were lots of privacy concerns and price point concerns

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Speaker 3: around the Google Glasses in particular, and then moving on

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Speaker 3: to Snapchat, the Snapchat ones are still available and they're

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Speaker 3: in their fourth generation, so they have released quite a

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Speaker 3: as we know, we don't really see too many people

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Speaker 3: maybe Snapchat had hoped. But we do know that Snapchat

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Speaker 3: they've released four generations worth of these models, so we'll

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Speaker 3: see how it goes for Snapchat. But they are still

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Speaker 3: available for the individual consumer and you don't have to

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Speaker 3: have a business to use them.

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Speaker 1: How smart are these Facebook smart glasses? Do I need them?

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Speaker 1: Will they make things easier for me?

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Speaker 3: When Facebook was presenting the glasses, they focused a lot

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Speaker 3: in the community. How they function is through an app.

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Speaker 3: They have the glasses two sets of cameras and you

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Speaker 3: can essentially film and take photos of your surroundings almost

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Speaker 3: basically hands free, so that is the big exciting part

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Speaker 3: of it. And you can share that footage or the

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Speaker 3: photos directly to your Facebook account on Stories b. You

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Speaker 3: can also take phone calls with the glasses as well,

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Speaker 3: which Sam and I have actually done. We did that together.

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Speaker 1: We did a Facebook glasses call.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that was pretty cool. So you can speak to people.

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Speaker 3: There's a microphone and speaker so you can hear and speak,

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Speaker 3: and then along with the speaker, you can also listen

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Speaker 3: to music and podcasts while you're walking or exercising. They're

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Speaker 3: the big parts and the big features of the device.

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Speaker 3: And then you can also do some micro AI two

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Speaker 3: when you film your surroundings and you upload them to

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Speaker 3: what they call the ray band stories. Because the glasses,

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Speaker 3: I should mention, are a collaboration between Facebook and ray band.

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Speaker 3: It's quite a big deal to have these two very

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Speaker 1: You're the leading tech writer at the Daily Os, you

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Speaker 1: are the queen of tech news. What's your take on them?

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Speaker 1: Are they a success?

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Speaker 3: We'll start with the good and I think the positives

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Speaker 3: of the device. They look like regular standard sunglasses. You

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Speaker 3: They are easily accessible as well. You'll be able to

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Speaker 3: price is relatively fair as well. I thought it would

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Speaker 3: And I also thought that the microphone and speaking use

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Speaker 3: Sam with them, I could hear you well and you

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Speaker 3: that was quite a success of the device. When previously,

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Speaker 3: I know BOS the speaker company, some people thought that

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Speaker 3: Facebook that's quite a big success. And for those that

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Speaker 3: I could see this being implemented well for events like festivals,

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Speaker 3: for people wanting to capture sorts of events, even sporting

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Speaker 3: being implemented well there. However, on the flips so I

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Speaker 3: do see the very obvious privacy concerns around the device.

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Speaker 3: How the device works is that there are cameras embedded

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Speaker 3: onto the glasses, but they are very well hidden, and

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Speaker 3: there is a light that does turn on when someone

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Speaker 3: know how they work, you probably wouldn't notice. And there

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Speaker 3: have been reports of people that have been testing the

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Speaker 3: a sharpie because they don't know how it looks. And

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Speaker 3: there are so many privacy concerns about that because people

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Speaker 3: a very obvious concern that many people have raised so far.

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Speaker 3: And these were previous critiques of the Snapchat glasses and

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Speaker 3: the Google glasses as well. It's not like this is

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Speaker 3: a new issue. When Facebook was asked about well, what

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Speaker 3: makes this time different for Facebook? If these were previous

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Speaker 3: concerns of previous glasses, Facebook did mention something along the

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Speaker 3: it's going to be received differently compared to how previous

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Speaker 3: that this has been a previous issue, and Facebook, i know,

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Speaker 1: Just yesterday we actually saw investigations from Italy's Data Protection

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Speaker 1: Commissioner into the glasses, and it's fair to say it

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Speaker 1: will be on the radar of similar bodies here in Australia.

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Speaker 1: Super interesting to hear about these glasses and we might

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Speaker 1: well be faced with the reality where people are walking

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Speaker 1: around wearing Facebook on their face. Super interesting work from

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Speaker 1: Maria Ladis, our tech specialist at the Deli Odds there.

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Speaker 1: Thanks so much for listening everyone, have a fantastic week.

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