Tribute to Stan Lee – 9 of his Cameos in Screen Shots

Stan Lee Passes:

Stan Lee, the man responsible for Spider-Man, the X-Men, Thor, Iron Man, Black Panther and the Fantastic Four has passed away. It happened quietly and close by to where I work.

I was amazed looking at my social media feed as to the impact he had on my friends and family. Several warm tributes were posted.

Thousands of years later we still talk about greek and roman mythology. Stan Lee in a sense has created a new type of mythology. Superhero characters that will stand the test of time. I imagine that in hundreds of years people will still be talking about Spiderman, just like we talk about Zeus today.

Stan Lee, the legendary writer, editor and publisher of Marvel Comics whose fantabulous but flawed creations made him a real-life superhero to comic book lovers everywhere, has died. He was 95.

Lee, who began in the business in 1939 and created or co-created Black Panther, Spider-Man, the X-Men, the Mighty Thor, Iron Man, the Fantastic Four, the Incredible Hulk, Daredevil and Ant-Man, among countless other characters, died early Monday morning at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.

As I was reading-up on his life, I was impressed to see that he had served in the military and had many cameos in new movies!  I’m amazed at the energy he had later on in life:

 

  1. Avengers: Age of Ultron:

2.Captain America:

  1. Dr. Strange:

  1. Guardians of the Galaxy V2:

  2. The Incredible Hulk:

  1. Iron Man: (what a stud lol)

  1. Mall Rats:

8.Spiderman Homecoming:

9 The Amazing Spiderman:

 

Can you think of any other movies in which Stan Lee makes a cameo?  Let us know in the comments below!  If you have a fun story about him we’d love to hear it as well!

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Which is better Android or Apple? Episode 14 – Tech Time Podcast

Samsung Reveals a Foldable Phone – Samsung Galaxy F

  • Last Wednesday (Nov 7) Samsung revealed a prototype of the Foldable phone.
    • It was “camouflaged” in a bulky case.  We expect the phone to be slimmer.
  • There were two screens (one on the outside and a large one on the inside) and opened like a book (as opposed to other designs where there is one screen on the outside).
  • The ‘book style’ will protect the large screen.
  • The screen was beautiful and didn’t appear to have a crease (unlike other prototypes shown by smaller companies).
  • Front 4.58” display 1960×840; middle 7.3” 2152×1536
  • The phone also could tell which screen you were looking at and automatically rotated, adjusted the apps you were working on.
  • Samsung will call the phone the Galaxy F (for foldable).
  • It will release in March of 2019 for about $1,770.
  • Most likely to be fully announced at CES 2019.
  • LG plans to release a foldable phone at CES 2019.

 

Leaker says Samsung S10 will have an O-Shaped Camera Cutout

  • UPS – Under Panel Sensors does not appear to work for the camera.
  • A leaker “Ben Geskin”, claims the S10 screen will have an O-shaped cutout for the camera.
  • Screen is called Infinity-O
  • It will be small & minimal but still technically a notch.
  • The S10 will also come with a triple camera option like the recent Galaxy phones (standard, wide angle & telephoto).

Apple iPhone X, Samsung Galaxy S9 and Xiaomi Mi 6 Smartphones Hacked At Pwn2Own Tokyo

wiredmikey writes:Apple iPhone X, Samsung Galaxy S9 and Xiaomi Mi 6 smartphones were all hacked on the first day of the Pwn2Own Tokyo 2018 contest taking place this week alongside the PacSec security conference in Tokyo, Japan. Pwn2Own Tokyo 2018 participants earned a total of $225,000 on the first day of the event. On the second day, at least two teams will make additional attempts to hack the iPhone X and the Xiaomi Mi 6.

  • Do you think and act like your phone is secure?
  • Discussion about mobile security (online banking/bitcoin/social media/documents/pdfs)
  • WIFI phishing.
  • Even these new phones with modern operating systems can be hacked.

Comic Book Genius Stan Lee, Spider-Man Creator, Dies at 95

  • Stan Lee, the creative dynamo who revolutionized the comic book and helped make billions for Hollywood by introducing human frailties in Marvel superheroes such as Spider-Man, the Fantastic Four and the Incredible Hulk, died Monday. He was 95.
  • As the top writer at Marvel Comics and later as its publisher, Lee was widely considered the architect of the contemporary comic book. He revived the industry in the 1960s by offering the costumes and action craved by younger readers while insisting on sophisticated plots, college-level dialogue, satire, science fiction, even philosophy.
  • Millions responded to the unlikely mix of realistic fantasy, and many of his characters, including Spider-Man, the Hulk and X-Men went on to become stars of blockbuster films. He won the National Medal of Arts in 2008.
  • Some say he’s the writer of modern mythology.

 

Android Vs. iPhone Battle:

Android:

More open: can change UI/backgrounds/icons/themes

Google’s suite: Gmail/docs/sheets/chrome better options than: Safari/iwork/mail

Cheaper phones with newer components (like USB-C)

More variety

iPhone:

Appstore (more secure and clean)

iMessage (can use on your computer/with wifi for a regular phone number)

iCloud (backs up contacts/photos) ← Can be hacked

High quality machine.  Well designed and thought out.

Sharing contacts/pictures easily with airdrop

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Transcript:

[Music]
all right and we’re back we have a lot
to cover this week samsung revealed
their foldable galaxy F phone a leaker
says the s10 will have an O shape to
camera cutout Apple iPhone Tammy galaxy
s 9 and and Xiaomi me six bones are all
hacked in Tokyo comic book genius Stan
Lee has passed away we’ll talk a little
bit about that and give him a tribute
this week we’re gonna debate which is
better Android or iPhone I’m just back
down back down and as well tens of
thousands of Google employees walk out
in protest so we’ve got a huge show
today I was just wondering how are
things going on your side of the planet
man I’m good yeah we just had a long
weekend it was remembrance day so that
was nice I played axes and allies Global
Edition which is like two big game
boards put together that show the whole
world and we played we added it up
probably about 16 hours not straight
thankfully but we we did Friday evening
Saturday and then Monday so yeah it was
it was a good weekend did you ever take
over the Ukraine and say Ukraine is
strong I should have but I did take over
the Ukraine I played the Soviets Union
and I wore my Soviet Union hat that I
brought home from my years in Russia so
yeah there’s a lot of fun
and I found that when I wear the hat i
rolled better no it wasn’t that awesome
they’re just regular dice and axes and
allies the regular six-sided die but
yeah it was it was good times and super
uber geeky Remembrance Day thing to do
especially as we celebrated a hundred
years since the end of World War one
yeah you know and for all our fans in
the United States Remembrance Day is
Veterans Day
and so yeah we celebrated it here too
and I wore my poppy so oh that’s good to
wear your poppy did you anybody else
wearing a poppy it was just me people
had no idea what it meant over here I
was like don’t you watch international
news everyone wears it but it’s not
really a thing here
breathing is burning down unfortunately
yeah yeah are you caught up in that Dan
no thankfully I’m about 45 minutes away
but it’s sad all of the beautiful places
are burning why couldn’t they burn the
ugly places in California I think I
could find one or two all right I wanted
to start out here with the galaxy F
phone from Samsung it was cool I saw
some articles on this of of them folding
the phone do you want to talk a little
bit about it and when we can expect it
yeah it was really neat actually for
some reason at work I just happened to
have a little lull where I could blog on
and watch them live broadcast and and I
I logged in after all their little
preamble that they advertised before
just in time to see the VP pull out it
looked like this little book and the
lights all went dim and he opened it up
and and you saw this big picture ago and
it was really cool and you could tell
that actually it was in a camouflaged
case so basically they’re not showing
the full design of the phone right now
they’re just showing that it opens up
like a book so there were a few
different designs that they were mulling
around the first one is actually where
it’s the opposite of a book where the
screen is on the outside and then it
folds but you still have the screen on
the outside and the advantage of that
design is you only have one screen but
the disadvantage is your screen is on
the outside when it’s folded and prone
to scratches and and issues like that
because you can’t really put gorilla
glass on a foldable screen to protect it
from scratches so they talked about some
of the materials that went into making
it how is
be scratch proof but I don’t think it’s
gonna be anywheres near scratch proof as
the typical regular phones that we have
so this one actually has two screens so
on the front screen it’s a four point
five inch display which is kind of small
like like an old iPhone 4 maybe a little
bit bigger and it’s 1960 by 840 and then
you open it up and it’s a 7.3 inch
screen and it’s 21 52 by 1536 so it
looked like a beautiful screen it was
neat when he showed the front and it was
on that little tiny screen of them that
looks kind of lame but then when he
opened it up as soon as he opened it was
like everything switched to the inside
screen and it could tell which screen
you’re looking at and it would rotate of
course like a regular phone would so all
intents and purposes it look pretty neat
I’m not sure if I would fork out for it
so here’s the details they’re calling it
the Galaxy f4 fordable foldable no but
maybe not affordable right so it’s gonna
release for 1707 to US dollars yeah so
super pricey comes out in March of 2019
most likely it will be announced at CES
2019 but they’re also going to be
releasing the Galaxy S 10 at the same
time so the Galaxy S 10 most likely will
come out in February and then the Galaxy
F the foldable will come out in March so
it’ll be kind of this one to Samsung
punch early on in the year so we’ll see
how that goes
now everybody’s chasing the foldable
phone there was a really cheap working
prototype that I saw online last week
that was the outside one and you know
when it was open to have this big crease
in the middle and it just looked junky
and ugly and and I was like that is not
something I’d want to buy and apparently
LG is going to be showing their
version of a foldable phone also at CES
so Samsung’s not necessarily gonna be
the first but the prototype we saw last
Wednesday looks pretty slick to me I
have so many questions first of all it
looked really thick to me like it looks
like you couldn’t slip it in your pocket
like it look like a cereal box you know
it was so big he did pull it out of his
pocket those which is cool so he was
wearing a jacket you didn’t really
notice like a big lump or anything and
he pulled it out and it kind of reminded
me of when Steve Jobs brought out the
first MacBook Air remember when he did
that envelope yeah the military envelope
it was like your interoffice mail
envelope but we all went but yeah it
looked like a big book but what’s
interesting is that was actually the
camouflaged case so I’m actually
expecting this to look a little bit
sleeker a little bit sexier and if you
look at the patents that Samsung has
it’s got a neat looking hinge on the
patents so I’m expecting it to look a
little bit more like the Microsoft pros
like the actual laptops where their
hinges are a little bit more wider and
bigger so you know we’ll see how it
looks but it can’t be that thin in your
pocket because it’s a folded phone right
so talk to me more about the hinge how
are they gonna get away with that and
not have a crease down the middle
I don’t know Dan I don’t know and maybe
that’s why they went with the inside
screen instead of the outside screen but
from the patent I saw it actually the
hinge looked like it had two functional
moving parts so it’s like a flat part in
the middle and then a hinge on this side
and then a hinge on the other side and
so it looks like it actually folds in
two different spots to kind of protect
it and keep it from having that that
lump in the middle or a crease I hope
everyone’s watching on YouTube and
seeing mats
[Music]
okay so is this something that you would
buy no not a first-gen and I don’t think
many people will I don’t think Samsung’s
even expecting many people to buy this
very first gen device
I think everybody’s still trying to
figure out what’s it for how useful is
it gonna be but you know if you look at
a lot of things like the very first VR
that came out was super clunky and it’s
getting slimmed down so I think that as
this device comes out and people are
gonna start using the device and then
the form factor will get tweaked for
uses that people aren’t eating it fork
first-gen know maybe a third or fourth
gen depending on if the price comes down
and if I actually see a use to having a
bigger screen like that but until then
I’m gonna stick with my phablet okay
that sounds great I think one use I
could see for me is using the front
screen everyday and then when I lie down
maybe watching Netflix on the bigger
screen yeah I mean that Real Estate’s
useful professionally in my work that I
do
I often pull up drawings pictures ISO
metrics I pull them up on my phone and
having that screen real estate is really
important you can always zoom in and
zoom in but having that bigger picture
is useful professionally so I think a
lot of people are gonna enjoy this but
is it worth seven seventeen hundred yeah
another leak came out this week I see
you have an article about the Samsung
s10 that it’s gonna have an au shaped
camera cutout yeah I was a little bit
disappointed about that because last
week we talked about this UPS which
stands for under panel sensors and yes
it really looked like the camera was
going to work through the screen which
to me sounded like magical technology
kind of takes us back to the original
iPhone unveiling and and Steve Jobs this
is a magical device right and it seemed
magical it was the Internet in our
pocket since
this UPS technology sounded like magical
unfortunately at least this generation
they’re calling it the infinity Oh
display so Santa yeah what does that
mean is that a knotch yes it’s a knotch
so it means they actually have a little
tiny cut out that’s just big enough for
the camera a piece itself and that
camera will it will be a little tiny
notch so it’s still a notch as far as
I’m concerned
now it says minimalistic as it can be we
saw the teardrop notch and the oneplus
60 and I thought it looked pretty cool
for a notch even though I’m not a notch
fan and this gets even smaller but I’m
hoping just fingers crossed that the
note 10 that will come out in the fall
of 2019 might just have this magical ups
under panel sensors that everybody’s
talking about well that’s what I’d
really like and when you talked a little
bit last week about the 1 plus 60 having
to think the fingerprint reader under
the screen yeah that was so cool that’s
so much better than having on the back
of the phone and so it looks like maybe
we’ll have these third-party Android
people doing it first maybe Samsung’s
not going to be the first to do it well
they’re the under fingerprint or under
screen fingerprint scanner is already
here in the 1 plus 60 shammies released
a few and so of some other smaller
companies but not just though yeah not
not listen I don’t think we’re gonna see
a full screen phone until maybe end of
2019 and maybe even into 2020 but we’re
getting closer so I wanted to talk a
little bit about security today so they
just had a conference in Tokyo called
Pantone and they actually hacked the
iPhone 10 the Samsung Galaxy S 9 and the
Xiaomi me 6 and they did it really
really fast so they won 225 thousand
dollars on the first
the event and apparently it was cracked
within 24 hours so I wanted to open up a
little bit of a discussion about phone
security and Matt do you think your
phone secure do you act like it is when
you use it do I act like it yeah I act
like it but really who am i right like
remember last week we talked about
Donald Trump’s iPhone getting hacked by
the Chinese and the Russians and they
both said yeah we do it right I mean if
you’re a high profile individual then
yeah you should be concerned personally
what do I use my phone for yeah I use it
at work but really who’s gonna be like
well let’s see what project Matt’s
working on now right like I I think that
they are easy to hack absolutely and I
am kind of surprised that different
companies especially large giant ones
allow us to bring our phones
I remember when cameras first showed up
on cell phones and it was a big deal and
I had one of the first Windows Mobile
devices that actually had a jar on it
and I remember my boss looked at it and
he freaked out because I had a camera on
my phone
and I could go around and take pictures
like some kind of a spy of all of our
drawings know why you’re freaking out so
much and they actually passed a rule our
corporation it was a major corporation
and they passed a rule that you weren’t
allowed to have a phone with a camera on
it and this was during the BlackBerry
craves and BlackBerry’s didn’t have
cameras at first
really yeah and blackberries were known
to be far more secure and they were far
more secure and that was kind of the
reason of why corporations went with
blackberry as opposed to iPhones and
when Android came out so I guess it
would be interesting to compare if
blackberry was still around what type of
security features they would have but
well yeah you know people are doing
their online banking all the time I know
I even do
coin transactions on my phone I have
PDFs that I pull up that maybe could be
a little more secure my social media
documents on Google Drive that I use I
mean all of those things technically
could be compromised by hackers and
these people in Tokyo did it under 24
hours with all of the latest phones all
of the latest software I mean we think
if we update our software we’re secure
but we’re not and this is a good time to
remind listeners that maybe your mobile
phones not the right place to have
sensitive information on it like banking
and money and and photos if you’re a
celebrity you know banking is an
interesting one I think I’m gonna look
into this hackathon that happened that
you’re talking about here and just see
like what kinds of aspects of the phone
were they able to hack into because I
love how easy it is to do my banking on
my phone I deposit checks on my phone by
signing the back and taking pictures it
uses my fingerprint to access my app on
my phone I send email transfers all the
time I mean when was the last time I
stepped into a bait years ago I’ll tell
you what people are still stepping into
the banks here in California the other
day I had to wait 45 minutes in line Wow
[Music]
but you’re right it sure is convenient
but if somebody stole your phone and if
they were able to hack it and you know
get into those directories yeah yeah
where your CIBC account is or whatever
it is that you use they might be able to
find some information and but it’s not
the end of the world I mean we’re not
big corporations but I still think do
you think you’re secure and you’re
really not I think there’s a lot of
things we don’t know about who can
access our things including including
our cameras and our microphones and did
you know that Mike Mark Zuckerberg
actually covers his camera with with
taya’s I actually saw that so I saw a
picture and I saw
tape and I thought oh he’s one of those
paranoid people cuz lots of people do it
and it just seems to be that like older
people tend to have the tape over it not
necessarily the younger generation but
but I don’t think that’s necessarily the
case I think they’re more it doesn’t
matter what generation you are more of
us are becoming paranoid about people
hacking and using our software and our
hardware and and one of my biggest
concerns are self-driving cars I mean
that’s another debate we can get into
like what if somebody takes over your
car do they kidnap you and Mexico or
have you drive off a cliff like there’s
there’s all kinds of concerns there so
security I mean it’s a multi-billion if
not trillion dollar industry and it’s
just gonna get bigger as the Internet of
Things happens through 5g you know it’s
so interesting that all this money being
spent on security is because we can’t
trust people it’s too bad right we could
save so much money as a society if
people were just honest I really know
this week something kind of sad happened
down yeah genius Stan Lee
spider-man creator died at 95 he
actually died passed away at
cedars-sinai hospital in Los Angeles not
too far from me tell me what you know
about Stan Lee well I don’t know a lot
about Stan Lee but he’s been the face of
Marvel Comics definitely since the 70s
and especially since they started the
movies and it’s a big Empire these
Marvel movies and they’ve been the
highest-grossing movies every year and
now they’re like releasing four or five
six of them a year and they keep
bringing in the money I mean not even
Star Wars can keep up Star Wars people
are getting tired of and they’re calling
it Star Wars fatigue and we were getting
maybe two a year and we’re already tired
but yet for some reason we keep coming
back to these comic books and Stan Lee
was the main driving force behind it in
fact did you know that Marvel
we came really close to declaring
bankruptcy in the 90s I did not know
that yeah and so when Disney bought them
they actually got a pretty good deal
from them and I think Disney bought them
after Stanley convinced people to start
the movies and and get these movies
going and to kind of reboot our love of
comic books I don’t know about you dad
but when I was like 10 11 years old I
loved going to the Short Park Mall and I
went to the comic store and I loved
buying comics and I remember like it was
Thursdays all the new comics came in and
I would just listen to the older comic
book teenagers and men just talking
about all the latest fantastic for is in
oh here’s the new Silver Surfer and I
believe me collecting for our newspaper
route and having a fifty dollar Canadian
bill and the store was closed
[Music]
I had it in the stock market it would be
like 10,000 right now and if you’d
bought Bitcoin talk about a couple
things first of all Stanley he was
famous for spider-man the Fantastic Four
Incredible Hulk one of the top writers
of Marvel he’s considered the architect
of the contemporary comic book and I was
reading reddit the other day and one
thing that somebody said was that you
know really he’s like a modern he’s the
writer of modern mythology because you
know we all know about Zeus we know
about all of those things
yeah from mythology but you know in
200-300 years people are gonna know
about spider-man they’re gonna know
about Thor they’re gonna know about the
Fantastic Four
it literally is modern mythology I love
that that’s great and look at the money
that we spend
or maybe not placing dead lambs and and
food on the altars of our mythic gods
but we are spending trillions of dollars
on this modern mythology so yeah it’s
that’s fascinating way to look at it I
wanted to talk a little bit more about
the movies yeah it’s been an interesting
trend for me to watch I don’t know if
you remember in the late 80s Early 90s
westerns were kind of the big thing
yeah and now nobody’s really into
westerns and so I wonder are we on a
trend where we’re watching superhero
movies and then maybe in 20 years it’s
gonna go away like the Western yeah you
look at the kids in the 60s right and
they were all wearing their little
cowboy hats and vests and their little
deputy stars and yeah I mean look at
kids today they’re all like Halloween
kids are knocking on my door dressed
like the Hulk and spider-man and you
know like it is it’s it’s definitely a
trend how long can it last I don’t know
but man it is Bank and Disney is cashing
one thing that I think is really
interesting is that movie theaters even
still exist because we have Netflix we
have Hulu we have Amazon Prime and we
all have these huge televisions in our
homes that are pretty cheap I mean this
one was maybe 300 bucks yeah everyone
has really good access to new movies you
can pop your popcorn at home you know if
you got your dog you can have them jump
up on your lap it’s private everything’s
fine yeah you go into the movie theater
you got a drive there you got a park
it’s $15 I mean I can’t believe in 2018
we’re still doing it and I think we’re
doing it because like you said people
are really into you know superheroes and
and really into Star Wars and it’s it’s
a little bit of nostalgia to go with
friends and wait in line and it’s just
fascinating to me that in the Internet
of Things we’re still lining up at a
movie theater like it’s 1980 right well
you know I yeah I like how you said it’s
like 1980 I remember was it 82 and eat
eat
and that was the year birthday is May
timbre 28 so anyways we were lined up
around the block and I remember standing
with mom and dad and and Joe and I and
Nicole was there and mom was probably
pregnant with you and et came out and we
were in the rain and we just couldn’t
wait to go see et so I don’t know Dan
there’s something about seeing a movie
in the theaters and the way I rank
movies is the top rate that’s a great
movie is a theater movie that’s a movie
I have to see in the theaters now there
are some movies that I will say are
amazing and spectacular but they’re not
a theater movie unless there’s a
technical component to them like a big
soundtrack explosions like big wonderful
beautiful scenes you know those are
theater movies French horns like Crazy
Horse’s versus our listeners Dan doesn’t
like watching any movie with horses it’s
kind of the thing to a litmus test if
there’s French horns and horses I’m not
into it yeah it’s a no Robin Hood Prince
of Thebes man there’s horses and French
horns in that movie well I wanted to
have a little bit of a debate with you
are we gonna just like a rap battle yeah
terrible rapping I wanted to discuss
which is better the Android or iPhone
and I’m gonna be iPhone and you’re gonna
enjoy better what do you think all right
drop a beat then just kidding I’m not
gonna rap maybe I thought about this in
advance I could have put a nice little
rap to it
so Android why do I love Android I’ve
got to tell you it’s probably the
customization of Android the openness of
Android the ability to move files on and
off
all the things that come in Android
phones you want an Android phone this
cheap buy a cheap Android phone you want
an Android phone that has a additional
memory so that you can put tons of
movies and photos and videos on it you
get an Android phone you want a phone
where you can make it beep at you and do
all kinds of different things when
you’re looking upside down or left or
right Android will let you do that
so customization the freedom to do what
you want with it and the ability to buy
the phone that is right for you in fact
let me give you a good example so mom
said to me last night and and remember
when you were on the phone with us and
she said I want to know what phone is
best for me so for our listeners our
mother is in her late 60’s and she is
not very into technology and so she just
wants a simple phone well if she wants a
simple phone that’s not very expensive
it’s gonna be Android oh that’s
interesting that you said Android
because I think an iPhone would be
better for Mom and here’s the reason why
drop it down this is the debate it’s
better for Mom I think it’s just been
planned out way better they had the top
minds of their field figure out a design
that looks great it’s gonna fit well in
her pocket she’s gonna turn it on she
doesn’t know she doesn’t need to know
how to configure anything she just
presses a button to turn it on and it
just works and it’s beautiful and that’s
what I think would really appeal to mom
about that look with my iPhone I can
easily share contacts and pictures with
airdrop and I don’t know about you but I
find most of the people that I hang
around with have iPhones and so after a
hike or after you know going to
Disneyland it’s so much easier to just
open our phones and share photos that
way I’m not that easy to share with an
Android person is that that is correct
whereas actually
how do you what are you doing yeah
Google photos is awesome it works on
Android and it works on iOS and I love
it so here’s another question all right
so I will concede the fact that iOS is
simpler to use there’s no question about
it but it’s becoming more and more
difficult to use especially on the
iPhone 10s so you get the iPhone tens
and that home buttons gone so now
there’s all the gestures and the flicks
and and it’s got to be flicked just
right and it’s got to be gesture just
right so I feel like as iPhone is trying
to compete with androids functionality
there and they’re trying to simplify by
removing buttons I think they’ve kind of
created they’ve moved away from the
simplicity that they were known for and
then here’s the other problem is the
price right you to get something that’s
affordable for Mom something that she’s
if she’s only gonna use it as a cell
phone and then you know occasional web
browsing and Netflix you’re gonna be
buying a really old iPhone and the
problem with those really old iPhones is
they’re not supported anymore and what
drove me crazy when I had an old iPhone
is all the sudden an app will stop
working and it will say download the
latest app oh this latest app isn’t
available on your iPhone one of my best
apps just stopped working because it
just wouldn’t work on my old iPhone even
though it did four years well you know I
do want to talk about the App Store you
may have a point there but I personally
think with iPhone the app store is so
much more clean and secure because they
have such a big vetting process and it’s
easy to find what you want
it’s a well-designed App Store and you
know quite frankly people use it more
often and spend more money on it too so
if you’re a developer you’re gonna make
more money making games for the Apple
iPhone store
no question it’s far more secure than
Apple play and we’ve talked about that
too and you know a bit of the
functionality of an Android is that you
can actually sideload apps from anywhere
you want but then that leaves you open
to malware and you’ve got to really
trust the source of where you’re getting
your app from one thing that I really
like about the iPhone space is iMessage
really there’s just nothing that
compares with it on the Android side
when I had Android for three years
recently I tried everything Google had
text message er you know Samsung has
attempted text messenger I downloaded
some third-party ones that I thought
would you know work well but it just was
so disorganized and frustrating when
people sent me group text sometimes from
an iPhone it just came really weird and
sometimes in multiple messages broken up
one thing that I like about iMessage is
when you send it to people you can tell
when they receive it so there’s never a
question about it on my laptop I can
send my messages to which is very
convenient to people’s cell phone
numbers not so like an email address or
yeah I’m kind of a gtalk account it’s
actually to their third phone number the
messenger now does that too but it’s an
actual webpage I believe it’s messages
Google comm and you have to log in with
your your Gmail account but yeah I
totally hear ya iMessage is fantastic
and Android and iOS as far as messaging
is working better now but what I found
is you need to have a newer Android
phone so I think it was more on the
Android side was they created something
that was compatible with iMessage not
necessarily Apple saying let’s let’s
work well with Android because I don’t
think they would ever do that no but I
mean the problem is is it’s not standard
across the board you open up an iPhone
it doesn’t matter if it’s an iPhone 5 or
a 10 s you’re using iMessage
when you text somebody you know whether
they received it or not when you group
text people it’s obvious it’s just so
much more organized if you’re on Android
it’s totally different if you’re on a
xiaomi phone than on a samsung phone
then on a Google phone Nexus phone
everything is different text messengers
yeah you can get lost in the messages
that’s why I like the vanilla Android
experience in fact on my samsung s 9
plus I actually use the Google messages
not the Samsung Messenger app and it may
play well with iOS and iMessage as well
but I just like to keep the experience
the same right ok that’s a good point
I like iCloud as well it backs up all of
my messages it backs up my photos that’s
one thing I really like about the iPhone
is there anything else you like about
the Android before our battle royale is
finished
you know iCloud I have mixed thoughts on
that one
Sharon uses an iPhone and her iCloud
just her phone is always full and she’s
constantly removing photos and trying to
upload photos to iCloud and iCloud is
syncing all these different apps and you
gotta pay more to be able to use iCloud
I mean she doesn’t use a lot and yet her
phone is constantly telling her to
delete things and iCloud is full and pay
more money whereas Android especially
with my photos and videos everything’s
in Google Photos so I’ve now set up
Google photos on her iPhone and she no
longer has those issues because it
automatically syncs and it really is a
great app in fact I would argue that
Google’s apps are some of the best and
you can use them on iOS or you can use
them on Android but they’re made
specifically for Android and if you use
Google’s apps you know they’re gonna be
great just look at Google Maps Google
Maps is way better and has constantly
outperformed maps on iOS oh yeah and you
know it is
fantastic I can’t tell you about how
many times I’ve used apples map software
and gone to like a weird warehouse
that’s where the party is no no but
we’re just burying the bodies Oh back
yeah you got me there Matt I mean Google
photos is the way to go I always buy the
smallest iPhone in size because I I know
that most people fill up their hard
drive with photos and for me I delete
all of my photos on my phone and just
upload them the same day and so I have
tons of space on my phone all the time
yeah and yeah the only thing that I
don’t love about Google photos is my
live pictures which you can use with
with the Apple phone you know where it
kind of moves the Harry Potter style all
those are cool I like those they’re cool
but when you look them up on google
photos it’s weird it’s like a video and
they’re sound and it’s just not very
well integrated yet could be upgraded
soon so it sounds like we’re divided
here I’m on Team Apple natural team
Android team a Android yeah we’d love to
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Diablo Immortal is a Huge Disappointment

Diablo Immortal was not well received at BlizzCon

Hopeful fans gathered at BlizzCon last week expecting news of an upcoming Diablo Immortal PC game.  Instead they were met with a multiplayer mobile game. While this makes sense from an economic standpoint, many die-hard fans were extremely disappointed.

The mobile world of gaming has been quite lucrative as of late.  Nintendo, normally keen on selling their own hardware for their games has started releasing mobile versions of their most popular titles.  Super Mario Run has made Nintendo very rich this past year.

Most of us have a smart phone capable of running complex games with 3D graphics.  Tapping into that market can be really ground breaking.

The problem with Diablo Immortal is that it basically is just copying a Chinese mobile game.  It lacks originality.  Most of the fans were looking for a PC version, perhaps for nostalgia from the 90s.

Commenting on this reaction during the quartly call a top executive stated: “So we’ve seen some interesting reaction to the announcement.  I think that it’s clear that there are a lot of players who are eager for more Diablo PC and console content. I think that came through loud and clear from BlizzCon. And frankly, we feel fortunate to have a community that cares so much about that franchise. The commitment and the engagement of our community is, I think, one of the things that makes Blizzard very special. It’s something that we really appreciate, and we like to hear the things that they articulate as to what they want to hear next and what we can do better, frankly.”

Very well said in my opinion.  Here’s what the rest of the internet thought.

 

I laughed out loud several times while scrolling through Reddit and seeing the reactions from the die-hard gamers.

Diablo for me brings a sense of nostalgia.  I remember staying up late nights with friends playing the game back in middle school.   I even remember using KALI to connect with other friends via my 2400 baud modem.

It looks like the world is slowly going toward mobile.  Maybe it’s time I embrace it too. I think I’m just like the rest of the fans though… I would love to see another PC release.

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iPad Pro 2018 is awesome but expensive – Episode 13

iPad Pro Apple Event Oct 30

  • iPad Pro
    • 11” $799, 12.9” $999 (same price as previous MacBook Air)
    • Face ID (266 ppi), Slimmer Bezels, rounded corners, Liquid Retina Display, 4 speakers, no home button, 1 USB C
    • Storage tops out at 1TB, 8 core A12X Bionic processor (same as new phones).
      • Claim 92% faster than i7 chips.
    • Apple Pencil wirelessly charges.  
      • Old Pencil won’t work on new.  New pencil won’t work on old.
    • Support for USB-C
      • Cannot connect directly to Monitors yet.  Needs Dongle.
    • Output for 5K displays
      • only mirrors but 3rd party can extend.
    • Can buy Magnetic Keyboard $200 (That’s $1,200 with 12.9” iPad Pro).
      • Max $1899 + Pencil + Folio + BT Headphones (no HP Jack). $2,200
      • Just get a Surface Pro 6 or MacBook Air!
  • MacBook Air
    • 13.3” laptop, 2.75lbs, Retina Display, Touch ID (17% smaller and 10% thinner).
    • 8th Gen i5 dual core, 128GB – 1.5TB SSD
    • $1,199
  • Mac Mini
    • Up to 6 cores, 64GB of memory and 2TB of storage.
    • $799 (previous $499).

 

Apple lowers forecast for iPhone XR by 30% and Stock Tumbled Below $1 Trillion.

  • Apple announced that they will miss forecasted earnings.
  • Specifically around the iPhone XR which is their budget friendly iPhone X.
  • Stocks dropped 6.6% on Friday and is the fifth week in a row of declines.
  • Interestingly, they increased production of the iPhone 8 due to greater demand.
  • It looks like Apple users are getting $$$ fatigue and want cheaper iPhones.

 

Blizzard getting booed for the first time at their own event.

  • As soon as Chang opened and used the word mobile the whole crowd let out an audible groan.
  • Later during the QA someone asked him if this was an out of season April fools joke.

 

  • There’s exactly three problems with Diablo Immortal.
  • 1: People spent real money- 200 bucks for the tickets, probably around one grand in travel and lodging expenses- to go to Blizzcon. The convention for Blizzard. The company best known for it’s PC titles. No one is going for the next big cell phone game announcement. Hearthstone was announced at Pax for a reason, you know?
  • 2: This is a core franchise title. Hearthstone was spun off from Warcraft, but Immortal is straight up the plot of the Diablo universe in between 2 and 3.
  • 3: This isn’t even a Blizzard game. They’re not developing it, a Chinese mobile cell phone game developer is.

 

The Year OnePlus Started Ignoring Fans

  • OnePlus has made a name for itself selling devices that punch above the price class. The Chinese smartphone maker has also built a loyal fanbase by proactively reaching out to its users and incorporating the changes and suggestions they make in its product lineup.
  • But as the company grows bigger and embarks on a new journey — entering the United States — it is increasingly turning a blind eye to its community.
  • OnePlus releases two phones per year, and it makes sure to hype these before each debut. This year was the same in this regard, except for the obvious fan backlash.
  • notches and headphone jacks.
  • In March, OnePlus cofounder Carl Pei tweeted that users should “learn to love the notch.” The outcry was so great that Pei deleted the tweet.
  • The OnePlus 6 of course launched in May with a notch. Earlier in March, Pei also tweeted his usual annual poll about headphone jacks. The OnePlus 6T, which started shipping in the U.S. on November 1 and will hit the rest of the world on November 6, has a smaller “teardrop” notch. But as you likely already know, it doesn’t have a headphone jack. […]
  • It’s a bizarre set of decisions given OnePlus has always prided itself on giving its fans exactly what they want.

 

OnePlus 6T to Has Teardrop Notch & Removed Headphone Jack

  • Oct 29, OnePlus announced the 6T.
  • Synaptic’s 2nd Gen Under-screen Fingerprint reader
    • 1st gen released at CES in January.
    • 3rd gen confirmed in Samsung’s S10 – Ultrasound.
      • Used when finger is wet.
      • More secure.
    • 1st in US to have under-screen Fingerprint reader.
  • OnePlus 6T has a teardrop notch.
    • Smallest notch next to the Essential Phone.
  • Expandable Micro SD – No
    • German Retailer Otto had a short lived posting.
  • Camera
    • Front 16mp + Portrait Mode
    • 16mp 20mp + Night Mode
  • Android Pie
  • Carl Pei (Cofounder of OnePlus) confirmed the 6T will not have a headphone jack.
    • States that 59% of OnePlus customers already have wireless headphones.
    • Will have a dongle in the box.
    • Can buy USB C headphones.
    • Pros
      • More internal space.  Specifically used for battery.
      • Easier to make it waterproof.
        • Did not happen.
    • Cons
      • People love their headphones – I have bose.
      • Can’t charge at the same time as using a dongle.
      • OnePlus copying Apple again (face unlock, notch, now no headphone jack)?
  • Will be released on T-Mobile’s 600 Megahertz spectrum.  Can be used unlocked on Verizon.
  • Cost $549 (6GB 128GB) – $629 (8GB 256GB)
    • $300 off at T-Mobil ($259) with trade in (iphone 6, Pixel 1, Samsung s6, OnePlus X, 1).

 

OnePlus to be among the first to launch a 5G phone.

  • Carl Pei made the announcement alonside Qualcomm at the 5G Summit in Hong Kong today.
  • The OnePlus 7 will feature Qualcomm’s x50 modem and QTM052 mmWave antenna.
  • According to Qualcomm at least 2 5G phones will be released next year.

 

Samsung Leaker Claims the Galaxy S10 will be Bezel-less and Notchless.

  • Ice Universe got in a Samsung event in China where Samsung was talking about the S10.
  • Not only integrates in the fingerprint sensor but the front-facing camera and speaker as well.
  • FoD – Finger on Display – snaptec’s 3rd generation. Ultrasonic pulses (sound) to map finer instead of optical (picture) in this year’s phones.
  • HoD – Haptics on Display – creates sensation of buttons for games.
  • SoD – Sound on Display – the screen becomes an external speaker.
    • Can others hear your conversation?
  • UPS – Under Panel Sensors.  Camera Lens and facial recoginition sensors placed behind the screen so they are hidden but hey can see through the screen when in use.
  • Will the UPS technology be ready for the release in Q2 of 2019?

 

President Trump’s iPhone was Hacked!

  • A report came out last week stating that both Russia and China have spied on President Trump through an iPhone he keeps to chat with his friends.
  • The NSA has altered two iPhones for President Trump but he cannot store contacts on those phones and prefers to use his personal phone to call friends.
  • The New York Times states that China is using the information from his phone calls to manipulate President Trump’s policies towards them.
  • This is done through using his friends to influence his thoughts on certain policies.
  • Russia isn’t thought to be doing something similar because “Trump Admires Putin”.
  • Xiaomi (a Chinese company that doesn’t have a foothold in the USA due to security concerns) has invited President Trump to use one of their phones.

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Transcript:

welcome back to the tech time podcast we
have so much to cover today we’re gonna
talk about Apple’s event how they
announced the new iPad pro the new
MacBook Air we’re gonna talk about the
oneplus 6 president Trump’s iPhone got
hacked
and maybe some rumors about the Galaxy S
10 coming out next year and about
Apple’s stock getting slashed by 10% so
we have a ton to go through but first I
want to know how are you doing Matt are
you having a good time in Canada oh man
we are in a frozen winter wonderland
we’ve had freezing rain all week car
accidents left and right it’s almost
like everybody kind of forgot how to
drive throughout the beautiful it’s it’s
not that bad but yeah it’s time to get
the winter tires on and you know like
right when it just starts getting cold
that’s when you get all that ice that
just builds up because it freezes and
thaws and yeah it’s it’s bad but anyways
we’ll get through that we’ll be back to
the beautiful winter paradise that we’re
known for you know what terrifies me
about winter driving is the traffic
circles you guys have yeah so I just
remember one time I was taking the first
exit and I just slid right on through
really trying to pump the brakes and I
was just turning and spinning there’s
cars everywhere in the traffic circle so
here in the states we do have traffic
circles they’re just one lane and never
two lanes at least in the city that I’m
in and you know no ice at all this week
oh yeah you know what two lane traffic
circles are the way to go the problem is
as most people don’t know how to use
them and so it got a signal the
dangerous part about it is people
changing lanes in the traffic circle
you’re like no no stop or people going
too far when they’re in the outside lane
and I mean the problem isn’t with the
design the problem is with people who
don’t know how to use them and you know
absolutely and I’m gonna save everyone’s
lives here that are listening right now
that my
visit Canada or Europe if you’re in a
traffic circle and you’re not taking the
first exit use your blinker light to the
left and that way people will know
you’re not taking the first exit so
there you go
it’s a choice yield to people who are on
the what side inside or outside daddy
[Laughter]
aware when you’re in a traffic circle
what’s going on around you yeah I’m just
gonna be looking to the inside the whole
time imagine doing it the opposite in
the UK go in the opposite direction oh
yeah inside or outside man-bird National
Lampoon’s Kids Big Ben and then they
keep driving around this big annex big
[Laughter]
to the inside even if you’re driving the
other direction are you sure you just
keep driving until 2 in the morning when
no one else is there and then you run
away signal you know I had a pretty cool
weekend we actually went to have a soup
I so for our listeners that don’t know
about that it’s the Grand Canyon there’s
this giant waterfall that has these
majestic blue waters and in February you
can actually reserve a campsite there
and you have to hike down with your
packs and you know I was so lazy on the
way up I just bought a mule to take all
my my pack sup to the top and then that
way I could just hike the 10 miles
without a 30 pound bag on my back so it
was pretty pretty cool you’ll have to
check out our Instagram and our Twitter
for some pictures on that and the
mermaid tail yeah there was somebody
randomly had a mermaid tail there so
there may or may not be pictures of that
up well let’s get back down to business
so Apple had a big event tell us what
happened there
okay this was round two so the first
event was all about their iPhone tens
and
and the changes that came there and so
this one was their iPad event at least
that’s what they focused on but they
also talked about releasing a MacBook
Air as well as a Mac Mini and you know
Dan I’m actually a big fan of the Mac
Mini I thought it was a really cool
design when it first came out and I was
really disappointed that it just doesn’t
get the same kind of love that other
Apple products get so I was excited to
see a little bit more love coming I
wasn’t excited about the price because
it’s still supposed to be
budget-friendly and it is still kind of
but nothing like it was supposed to be
but anyways yeah let’s get into it so
the product everybody’s talking about
right now is the iPad pro and so as we
were talking about through leaks that we
had seen slimmer bezels absolutely this
is a beautiful iPad it’s a little bit
thinner than the previous iPad pro but
the key is is they’ve slimmed down those
bezels and yes there is facial
recognition with those little infra red
dots that come out and map your face but
Dad but no not no just gonna redesign my
game for this right now tonight I’m
gonna stamp until 3:00 in the morning
yeah they were able to keep a lot of the
I’m pretty sure the same aspect ratios
and what’s really neat about it is you
compare the iPad pro from last year to
this year and even though the screen
size is the same it’s a much smaller
footprint because they’ve slimmed down
those bezels and man it was time I mean
those bezels were just killing us cool
I’ll tell you what I’m the most excited
about it’s that USB see yeah the most
excited about and you know people were
talking on rumors about this and I
thought they’ve got their proprietary
lightning cable no way they’re gonna
switch because they have all these
speakers and you know car attachments
and plugins and they’re probably making
so much money off of those lightning
cables and the minute that they switch
it to USB see then all of these
third-party places you know can just use
the same cable for their PC as their
iPad pro now and it really takes away a
lot of the market for them but the
positive thing is now we
can use all of our peripherals you can
plug that into basically anything an
overhead projector if you’re at school
and you want to show a presentation you
can plug it into lots of things that
will give it power no dongle necessary
yeah yes we were always buy an iPhone
dongles dongles for your headphones
you’ll still need that because they got
rid of the headphone jack I mean you
could put a headphone jack thing there’s
room in there there’s room for the drop
this thing in the toilet we’re both
using our headphone jack right now right
[Music]
that’s interesting
they also improved the screen so they
call it their liquid Retina display they
have four speakers that’s pretty cool so
this thing some really good sound they
got rid of home button that’s part of
shrinking the bezels and so it’s all
about the flicks and the gestures and to
be honest with you I I don’t know I
haven’t tried it yet but just from the
reviews I’m seeing not everybody’s
excited about the new gestures and it’s
a little bit harder to get to the
multitasking features that we were used
to with like a double tap on the home
button so I guess we’ll see how that
goes
so other things that come along with
this and then let’s talk about price
because that’s crazy
yeah so peripherals you can buy a new
Apple pencil today hmm it wirelessly
charges it has a magnetic mount where
you just stick it right on top and so
your pencil doesn’t have to stick in
your ear or up your nose where you used
to keep it yeah that’s cool what’s sad
about it is it’s pretty expensive I
think it’s around 200 bucks and you
cannot use the old pencil wait wait wait
the pencils $200 of the iPads $200
[Music]
groceries for a month or one pencil cool
things you could tap it to like make it
change from like eraser mode and stuff
like that
so but what’s sad about it is you can’t
use your old pencil if you bought the
pencil last year you can’t use it on the
new iPad whatever you know you just
can’t do it so you have combined the new
pencil okay so another thing you have to
buy because people say this is the
must-have peripheral is this new
magnetic keyboard portfolio that one is
$200 I saw that one and a keyboard makes
sense for $200 a pencil in my opinion is
a little bit crazy yeah and maybe it’s a
hundred maybe 150 we’ll have to like
answer down in the comments below of
what it really is but you know it starts
adding up if you’re buying all these
peripherals so first of all how much
does this cost n do you know how much it
costs to buy a new iPad pro I’m gonna
guess 599 wrong Bob one dollar Bob what
you’ve got here so for the 11 inch which
is the budget-friendly model 799 dollars
okay that’s yeah you know to be expected
okay now the 12.9 just squeaks under
$1000 for their cheapest version 999
okay how much was the previous MacBook
Air wasn’t that the same price as
getting a MacBook Air yeah that’s the
budget-friendly hurt so this doesn’t
come without the e or any of those sim
card slots now you can crank this up to
a terabyte storage you can put LTE in it
and the most expensive it’s 1809 that’s
like my iPad I mean my iMac pro now slap
on that at $200 a keyboard by the pencil
let’s even call it an extra 100 bucks
you’re gonna need bluetooth headphones
unless you want to dongle it up all the
time you’re gonna be like around 20 to
23 hundred bucks by the time you’re
finally done buying this iPad well the
thing about iPads is you can’t really
create still as well on them I mean if
you’re using this
magnetic pencil for $200 maybe you’ve
got some crazy photoshop skills and can
do a little bit of creation but yeah all
of the creative people I know they use a
laptop or a Microsoft Surface because
they need those more powerful
applications that you know are a little
more RAM hogs and the the iPad
applications I just haven’t seen them be
equal yet and you know it’s the
hopefully tasking – it’s the
multitasking you go back and forth you
take screenshots of things you put it
into Photoshop I mean that kind of stuff
is just harder to do on the iOS instead
of the Apple now this one you can do
split screen so you can have two apps
open at the same time but that’s it you
can’t have four you have this massive
screen you got a 12 point 9 inch screen
if you go for the big one and you can’t
put 4 apps you can’t do 3 it’s it’s –
and what’s interesting about this though
is the chips they are super high power I
mean you’re talking processing seven
nanos like it is so fast and what do so
many nanos what they’re saying though is
that the just running it through the
benchmarks this is a powerful device but
yet it’s still even though it would
underperform say macbook air of the same
price value it still isn’t as functional
as say a laptop so all the reviews I’m
reading basically say is it a laptop
killer no but it is the best tablet you
could buy out there if that I’m making a
prediction here me internet problems
Apple has said for a long time that they
are not merging Mac OS and iOS but I’m
calling them on it I think they’re gonna
have to if they’re gonna make these
$2,000 iPads they’re gonna need to merge
the two operating systems they’re gonna
need to have creatives be excited about
buying this and creating content on the
platform I mean I just don’t see people
creating this and this seems like maybe
something that rich rich baby boomers
would have to you know read but III just
don’t see a lot of people running out
and buying this I mean it’s a beautiful
device it really is but when you look at
the form factor that it is and how big
it’s gonna be if you’re gonna stick it
in your bag you might as well put a
laptop in your back right like it’s not
as amazing is when the the iPad first
came out it was way thinner than a
laptop and way easier to take with you
and I tried really hard to get my iPad
to replace my tablet mostly by screen
mirroring and and leaving my laptop at
work and oh that’s interesting yeah I
could do all kinds of cool stuff with it
but it I just no matter how hard I tried
I could not replace my laptop and even
today which we’re talking like seven
eight years later from when I was doing
that we still can’t do it so I agree
with you I think they’ve got to somehow
bring the software experience together
between us
iOS and and OS OS X yeah well speaking
of laptops the new MacBook Air now this
is the thing that I was waiting for in
the summer we’ve talked about it in our
past podcasts I really wanted to buy a
new Apple laptop in the summer time and
they just kept delaying it I kept
hearing rumors finally I threw up my
hands and I said I need to buy this
MacBook Pro today and of course now
months and months later they have this
reasonably affordable laptop I mean it
comes in at $1,200 yeah and you know
it’s even a bunsen worth than before
yeah yeah I read the the benchmarks
comparing it to my MacBook Pro the 2018
with the touch bar and they actually say
that for the single core processes it’s
pretty comparable where my MacBook Pro
really beats it is the multi-core so
when are you gonna start using
multi-core that’s going to be when
you’re creating YouTube content like we
do and when we are rendering things or
when you’re compiling code it’s really
for creative people if you’re using
Photoshop and you have some
an effect that you’re gonna put in your
picture the multicore is gonna make that
go a whole lot faster and process it
quicker but for the single core things
and that’s for the majority of people if
you’re gonna be word processing if
you’re gonna be using Chrome or Safari
to browse the internet or even if you’re
playing games most likely you’re not
going to tap into that multi-core unless
you’re using some pretty hardcore stuff
and so I think this is a great deal if I
could talk to myself back in July I
would say self-weight wait until
November because you’ll save $600 a
MacBook Air is amazing yeah so it’s it’s
the 8th gen I 5 dual-core that comes out
with it you get 128 gigabytes up of
storage up to 1.5 terabytes
now I’m sure that’s gonna be expensive
to stick that in there and 128 gigs
though I mean that goes so fast I mean
you basically install your operating
system is gone like you know what you
need to double that at least at least
but the big deal is they now have Retina
display so that’s good that’s what
they’ve been asking for for these
MacBook Airs for a long time so I think
it’s gonna be a nice laptop and I think
it’s gonna be a winner for Apple and Mac
Mini let’s quickly touch on it even
though it’s not the most sexy device
that Apple’s ever put out it’s gonna do
sexy yes sexy six quarters that’s what
its gonna have 60 40 gigabytes of memory
yeah and two terabytes of storage so
it’s got tons of memory tons of storage
six cores and it comes in at $7.99 so
it’s almost double it used to be $4.99
so 500 bucks
now it’s 800 bucks it’s a big price jump
but you also look at what you get with
that you get an awesome processor up to
six cores and tons of storage so I think
it’s gonna be great the portability of
taking it with you a lot of people use
them in server farms I think it’s gonna
be pretty good I I’m glad that they
refreshed it instead of just letting it
die well let me talk about the Mac Mini
for a minute I really like it because
all of us have keyboards in the garage
or a door
we all have mice from 15 years ago we’ve
all got a monitor that just is a flat
screen that we don’t use anymore yeah so
here comes this Mac Mini that you can
hook up that old technology to and you
can keep upgrading and keep those
peripherals that are fine I mean our
mice and our keyboards haven’t really
changed in the last 20 years so I like
it for that standpoint because you can
save money now who would want to buy
this Mac Mini developers because you
can’t use Xcode on Windows and it is so
expensive to buy an Apple computer just
to use Xcode I mean you have people that
are actually renting Mac computers
online just to compile their code that’s
why people get older Mac minis to have
Xcode so that they can compile their iOS
apps now here’s the problem with the Mac
Mini yeah a roommate of mine has the Mac
Mini but the problem is is it it’s only
five or six years old and it’s not it’s
not ordered anything you can’t install
the latest operating system on it and I
suppose you could say that with all of
Apple’s hardware whether it be a laptop
their iPads their iPhones you buy one of
these and you’re hoping you can use your
legacy technology four or five years you
can’t use Xcode anymore you’re no longer
able to to submit apps to the Apple
Store because it really has a shelf life
of maybe four to five years so that’s
the danger you run into there weren’t
weren’t I totally agree and this is the
cheapest way to get a Mac is to get a
Mac Mini and I think they’re cool all
right so what happened since this
announcement well Apple stock actually
rose they everybody said hey this is
great we think the iPad looks pretty
cool maybe it’s gonna bring in some
money the definitely the iPad or the air
the MacBook Air is gonna bring in a
whole ton of cash and so stocks rose and
then Friday dan do you know what
happened Friday well you know they had
their quarterly their quarterly
announcement their phone call
it’s funny I don’t know what you guys do
for budgeting but I keep track of my net
worth on a quarterly basis so I’ve just
decided to do it with Apple stocks so I
have a spreadsheet and every time that
they do the Colin you know this was how
many Macs we sold then I just put my you
know net worth on this spreadsheet so I
knew it was coming up because I was
excited to see the difference from last
time now what they did was they
announced how many units they had sold
for each individual thing and it was
actually down the amount of money they
made was up and the reason why is
because they’re charging us more for the
phones they’re charging us more for the
iPads and so they’re making more money
but they’re not selling as many units
and so then at the end of the phone call
they announced we’re not going to tell
you how many units were selling anymore
we’re just gonna tell you the bottom
line of how much money we made and
everyone lost their mind because it’s
not honest I mean look at us we’re
buying these thousand-dollar phones
$1,200 laptops we’re buying these iPads
for $1,800 and it’s making them a lot of
money but what you don’t realize is that
other companies out of China’s or Korea
Samsung they’re selling more units and
they’re more affordable and so you
really have to look at the numbers and
people were not very pleased that means
the next quarterly report we will not
know how many they sold yeah and so what
I I think you hit it right on the head
Dan if they stopped talking about units
sold we will lose the ability to track
market share and that’s what’s important
because yeah they can keep hosing us and
the fanboys will keep forking out the
cash but if the fanboys are forking out
more cash and the units are getting less
and less and less you will actually have
a stock crash as soon as people realize
how much market share is being lost and
Apple is the one who is losing market
share like crazy if you look at their
market share they owned the world five
years ago they
owned it and then as Android became more
competitive and Samsung came in and took
over as the number one cellphone
producer and then you’ve got phone
companies like oneplus and so and Xiaomi
and you know out of China these
companies are just growing like crazy
cuz their affordable
margins are tight apples margins are
great that’s awesome but they’re losing
market share so a lot of people are
asking the question is Apple in the same
position today that Blackberry was in
eight years right good point you know
it’s so interesting to watch their stock
I remember I sent you and dad an email
probably a couple years ago and it was
at $100 and they had that big scandal
where a bunch of celebrities their nude
photos were hacked and so oh yes their
stock had fallen below $100 I think it
was like 98 dollars and I I wrote you
guys and I said bye bye-bye and you know
if you had bought it it would have
doubled which is pretty cool but it’s
just interesting to see that even this
huge stock that everyone’s in love with
I mean it’s part of the sp500 it’s a
huge company even something as robust as
that can still fall overnight by 10% so
you have to be really careful when you
look at these numbers and I just find it
fascinating from an economic standpoint
so one last thing and I don’t want to
beat the dead horse with this but this
is an interesting thing that came out
they announced they were actually going
to produce less iPhone 10 ours and
that’s the budget-friendly model of the
iPhone 10 and I think there’s two
reasons why they’re gonna do it number
one is they show demand wasn’t there
like they thought it was everybody was
forecasting this phone to take the world
by storm the cheapest iPhone 10 and it
didn’t why it’s still crazy expensive
and it’s still $800 to start yeah it’s
crazy expensive so people are still
saying you know what I’m just gonna get
an iPhone 8 which is still I think it’s
only a hundred bucks less than that but
it turns out that’s where the
and is so Apple said look we’re gonna
cut back the iPhone 10 are and we’re
gonna increase production of the iPhone
8 and as far as I’m concerned that’s
kind of an ugly phone for 2018 I mean
yeah it’s got a chin like but you can
get a refurbished one for $4.99 I saw on
Apple’s website it’s an iPhone 8 so
that’s way better than $7.99 right you
know what else you can get for $4.99
what add 50 bucks in there and you can
get a one plus 60 with the greatest
process sorry I mean okay we won’t talk
about that yet but let’s let’s first
talk about another company that was all
guns-a-blazing I can’t wait to tell you
about this sorry about this frequent
redditor so I’m always on reddit seeing
what’s going on and yesterday people
were losing their minds over blizzard so
Blizzard has this thing called Blizzcon
where they announce new things I don’t
know if you remember this game did you
ever play Diablo or Diablo – of course
of course I did
so this was called up to 90 yeah this is
kind of a 90s thing you know Diablo is
kind of fun and the cool thing about it
is you could do multiplayer you could
really get into the quests people just
loved Diablo 2 and jambo 3 actually did
pretty well as well and as soon as Chang
opened he used the word mobile and
everybody’s brain melted people lost
their minds
boo he actually got booed at his own
Blizzcon so you know ii was in second
it’s like if you went to comic-con and
booed spider-man I mean nobody would do
that but people were so angry later they
had a questions and answers session
where people could go up and ask
questions and one guy said is this an
out of season April Fool’s joke and
everybody laughed and it’s funny on on
reddit there’s memes there’s videos of
just hilarious things of people making
fun of this and you know it’s it’s
really funny people wanted the actual PC
game you know and I’ve seen that
recently a lot of people are
heading back towards PC games because of
Steam people want their powerful
processors they want their big screens
to play these games and basically these
hardcore fans did not want a mobile game
here’s another problem with it this
mobile game is basically being made by a
Chinese manufacturer it’s basically a
Chinese game that’s just kind of being
made into Diablo and people are furious
because the controls are the same
everything looks the same there’s just
no originality to it I think it’s really
actually sad this is a computer gaming
company now where’s the cash of course
the money is in mobile of course
why because little six-year-old kids are
racking up mom and dad’s iTunes credit
card because they’re buying all these
little extra things so that they can
beat their buddies in fortnight or
whether it will actually fortnight’s one
of the ones where you can’t pay to win
but a lot of people pay a lot of money
and pay to win and and we talked about
this earlier about some computer games
going that way and people are losing
their minds but this is another example
of a company chasing the buck and
leaving behind what they’re known for
and what they’re known for
are great amazing and game world
altering PC games world altering I’m
telling you these games like Diablo and
World of Warcraft and many of their
franchise games change the way people
play video games and it’s like of course
they should be booed it’s like they’re
walking away from what they do great to
chase that almighty dollar it was just
like when EA with battlefront 2 started
putting all those micro transactions and
pay2win and everybody went boo
we don’t want this well that’s the thing
is as a corporation you really need to
listen to the consumer what do they want
and you need to cater to that which
actually brings me into the oneplus yeah
about it that is a corporation that’s
not necessarily listening to their fan
base look they have really great things
and like you were saying you can get
their flagship for 650 dollars which is
much cheaper than the idea can I 55 well
there you go let’s go buy it today but
they’ve made a name for themselves
selling devices that really have great
hardware at great prices and the Chinese
phone maker has also built a loyal fan
base and they’re always reaching out to
users asking them what do you like how
can we improve on this well as you know
with their newest phone it came out with
a knotch
that people weren’t excited about back
in March and then this latest one
doesn’t have a headphone jack and people
lost their minds again because they want
the headphone jack they don’t want a
knotch if you listen to your consumer
that’s who that’s who you should be
listening to or else you’re gonna lose a
lot of money and a lot of the fan base
is frankly gonna go over to Samsung
because it’s the same story over there
but possibly just designed a little bit
better and a lot more expensive that’s
true too but I got to tell you yeah
people lost their minds when they
brought the notch out and so the one or
the yeah the one plus six came out
earlier in the spring and it had a notch
was it as crazy huge as the iPhone 10 no
but it still was an ugly notch and I
gotta tell you Dan I really struggled
because I I seriously considered the 1
plus 6 but that not just had me going
and Carl Pei said embrace the knotch
that’s right he wrote that tweet did me
and Anita lead it right after
it was like the whole does everybody
went and saying over it now
I got to tell you have you seen the new
notch that’s on the sixth it much better
right it’s a teardrop notch on it’s so
tiny now if you gotta have a notch it’s
the way to go I’m still not a notch
lover but on a scale of one to ten where
the iPhone 10 is a notch that makes you
rage like the Hulk
the the oneplus six was probably a 5 or
a 6 and the oneplus 60 this new one’s
probably a 2 or a 3 on a rage scale of
10 so it’s it’s really small it’s not
nearly as obtrusive but it’s still there
but still if you gotta have a notch I
think it’s the best implementation we’ve
seen to date so this all got announced
and of course it has the first under
screen fingerprint sensor which we were
talking about last week and it’s optical
so it takes a picture of your finger and
that’s how the biometrics work it’s
slightly slower it’s a third slower than
the optical sensors that most
fingerprint readers have so some people
say they notice it some people say they
don’t I prefer to have that fingerprint
reader on the front especially when it’s
it’s docked in my car so I can just
unlock and go and you know even though I
have Samsung it has Retina display I
find myself staring at my phone yeah one
thing we did say one of the rumors that
didn’t turn out to be true is that it
would have expandable memory it doesn’t
but it does have great cameras the
cameras aren’t much different from the 1
plus 6 that came out earlier you still
got a 16 megapixel front camera you have
a 16 and a 20 megapixel on the back and
you have great night mode I don’t
believe that they have optical zoom
which is what I really look forward to
when I have 2 cameras but it’s I think
it’s a great phone and the best price
that that you can get out there for all
the flagships yeah yeah the only thing
this phone does not have
is proper waterproofing my and well it’s
still you can drop it in the toilet and
you’ll be okay but you can’t drop it to
the bottom of a swimming pool for half
an hour like you can with all these
other phones yeah doesn’t have that same
rating even when they got rid of the
headphone jack so you know that’s part
of the problem with it but and it also
doesn’t have wireless charging I’m
pretty sure that’s that’s one of the
issues but you give up wireless charging
and that extra waterproofing and you
shave off three four hundred dollars off
of the price of a cell phone if you get
and they’re no longer calling it a
flagship killer they’re calling it a
flagship great so it is right up there
with bones like the pixel three the the
Samsung nine the iPhone 10 doesn’t have
all the bells and whistles they have no
but it comes pretty darn close for a
fraction of the price yeah the processor
screaming fast the cameras are pretty
good yeah and now that price is really
great the price is fantastic in my
opinion I think this is by far the best
one plus phone that we have seen and you
know we’ll see it’s it actually looks
like it’s quite popular and the fact
that it’s gonna be released on t-mobile
oh Dan did you hear how much money you
can buy it for on t-mobile how much you
can so it’s five hundred and fifty
dollars and you can get three hundred
dollars off by training in an old phone
any phone not any they got a list but
they go way back like you can go back to
a Samsung s5 you can go back to an
iPhone I believe six and you can go all
the way back to one plus one or one plus
X which my son has I think I only paid
250 for it and you still get $300 credit
so you’re paying two hundred and fifty
dollars for a flagship phone right you
know what is the problem with t-mobile
though is I think their cheapest price
that you can get is fifty dollars a
month for their unlimited plan last time
I looked into it
and you know I just do way better with
other things I pay $19.99 for my
wireless bill and it’s five five gigs of
data so it would be hard to get back
into that you know where you’re kind of
renting the phone is that what it is you
are kind of renting it and you’ve
definitely got to do your homework and
research like make sure that the cost of
the phone is factored into that $50 a
month that’s true and see is it cheaper
so ask yourself how much would I pay
without having this plan of $50 a month
is it 35 is at 40 and then is it worth
offsetting the price of the phone in
fact when I bought my samsung s 9 plus
actually it was way cheaper to do that
which surprised me so for the last three
four years I’ve always just brought my
own device and paid a cheap for plan but
when I actually did the math I said I
can drop a thousand bucks right now on
an s nine plus and then have this
cheaper plan or for two years I can only
pay I think it was $500 for it nice plus
I get a trade-in so I mean there were
things you gotta do your homework and do
your own research cool well that’s great
and it sounds like one plus might even
be among the first to launch the 5g
phone right that’s the rumor so Carl Pei
made the announcement alongside koala
comm so this was a week or two ago and
koala coms making these 5g chips and
they said oneplus is our first baby that
will be coming out with it so you know I
think that’s great I am cheering for
oneplus the underdog has grown from
underdog to medium dog yes let’s say I’m
all about oneplus growing some more so
let’s see how that goes so some other
exciting news is there’s been some leaks
about the Galaxy S 10 so they’re saying
it might be bezel this and notch less
that’s pretty cool how big is your notch
in bezel on your s9 uh well I have no
knotch
but here I’ll hold it up for you okay if
everybody on the YouTube channel can see
this and yes that is an iPhone
background what I join it cuz I like it
you can see so the forehead is pretty
thin and so is the chin okay you can see
on the forehead you still have your
sensors you have your front camera and
you have your speaker and then down here
it’s really just the space they need for
the screens hardware that’s underneath
on the chin so what they’re saying with
the s10 is it’s gonna be bezel this now
will it or won’t it I’m gonna prophesy
now I’m gonna say the s10 isn’t gonna
quite achieve it but I think the note 10
will oh they always seem so it’s just
like the under screen fingerprint reader
the note 9 was supposed to get it but it
just wasn’t quite ready you know it
always seems like they save a little bit
of amazing technology and because
they’re working feverishly on getting it
to work so I’m gonna say we’re probably
not gonna see bezel listen till the note
10 but this is what the the forecast is
or the roadmap for Samsung for 2019 so
are you ready yeah well I really want to
hear in your current one where’s your
fingerprint readers and on the back yeah
it’s on the back how cool would it be if
it was under the screen totally cool and
what they’re saying is the new
technology is going to be sonic so the
one that we see right now in the 1 plus
6 is optical when it takes a picture of
your finger and then compares it and
that’s exactly what these fingerprint
sensors on the back and some of them are
on the side of the phone I like that
idea of on the side of the phone I’m
sure it drives left-handed people crazy
but in any case that’s optical it’s
taking a picture of your fingerprint so
the sonic is it sends out sound and will
actually tap test the depths of the
creases in your fingerprint so you get a
3d map and it’s supposed to be way more
secure than the optical where you can
actually fake it right now that’s pretty
cool yeah so that’s neat so that’s the
third generation now the other thing
that they have to do there’s a few
technologies to make it
Trulli bedless how are you going to get
the speaker underneath that screen well
this technology’s been out for a little
bit I believe there’s some Xiaomi phones
that already do it and they basically
use the screen as a mini speaker so that
the screen vibrates and you can hear it
I haven’t been able to test it out but
the reviewers say surprisingly it
doesn’t sound any different from a phone
that actually has a speaker grille in
the top cool yeah so it makes me kind of
wonder well does that mean it’s gonna be
a little bit louder for my neighbor who
sitting next to me on the bus will they
be able to hear my whole conversation I
don’t know but from what the reviewers
are saying this technology actually
works pretty good so another one so
that’s called s OD sound on display and
then they’ve got finger on display which
we talked about and then there’s haptics
on display we’ve seen this a little bit
in the past I know Apple played around
with it where they were trying to make
it feel like there’s buttons on the
screen and they’re kind of shying away
from that now I read an article that
said they’re not really doing that
anymore they’re just doing the press and
hold thing and yeah they’re not really
doing the 3d touch as much as they were
before yeah so I’m a little bit more
skeptical on this feature haptics on
display it’s supposed to create the
sensation of buttons for games so kind
of like you’re holding a controller in
your hands
and to me I don’t know if we really need
that right like we’ve already got
virtual buttons I don’t really miss the
old buttons but anyways that’s one thing
they’re working on now the big
technology this is the one that’s
blowing everybody’s minds if they can
actually do this it’s called ups under
panel sensors so what they’re doing is
they’re actually gonna put the selfie
camera behind the screen that’s
impossible I don’t know a screen that
lights up but yet it will be able to
take pictures through the screen so
that’s pretty neat and they’re talking
about putting a 3d optical recognition
just like Apple has but instead of this
gross notch that takes up most the top
anyways yeah that notch sucks it’s gonna
fly through the screen
yeah so I think that’s pretty neat so to
me that’s the game changer if they can
put sensors and the selfie camera behind
the screen we will see a truely bezel
as’ phone and who can do this
Samsung already creates most of the
screens out there for the phones that’s
true yeah they come for Apple they make
them for themselves they make them for
most of the smaller Android companies so
I think LG is making the ones for pixel
right now but still those screens don’t
match up to what Samsung can do so if
anybody’s gonna be able to pull this off
I think Samsung is the one and that’s
what I’m looking forward to if they can
get ups working for the s10 this phone I
never upgrade until after three years
but I might be tempted to yeah it’d be
pretty sweet now I know we normally
don’t go this long but I think there’s a
fun story that I want to hear about it’s
a little bit political and being that
it’s voter day today will you tell us a
little bit yeah political political I
keep singing that song we should
probably have like a little intro with
that when we work on it so Donald
Trump’s iPhone is getting hacked by
spies we love talking about spies we
love talking about President Trump and
when you can take president Trump and
spies and put them together and make a
tech story out of it this is goal it
makes our minds melt like all those
people at Blizzcon so it turns out
Donald Trump has three cell phones that
the NSA has taken apart made them super
secure I don’t know if it launches up to
Sputnik and back down well wouldn’t be
Sputnik that would be a Russian
satellite but you know I’m not sure how
they make it so secure but one of the
features they have is he’s not allowed
to keep any contacts on those three
phones probably in case somebody picks
it up they can’t figure out who he’s
calling right away right so right no
contacts so when he calls his buddies do
you think he goes to one of his secure
phones no he picks up his iPhone that
he’s had forever
nobody here bill gates right so that’s
what he’s doing and the problem is that
phone is completely unsecured in fact
with just some simple technology you can
get from Radio Shack or The Shack or you
know whatever your they’re calling
themselves these days you anybody can go
and listen to other people’s cell phone
conversations it’s not that hard and so
do you think there are spies following
president Trump around what they’re
they’re basically they’re the cup to
their ear to the wall absolutely they
are you know I heard that even there
were some reports that possibly China
and Russia had already tapped into that
phone which is insane they admitted it
oh of course we do how could they even
figure out what that phone number is in
the first place people are you know
really on top of it when it comes to
yeah so so basically Russia said of
course we listen in to President Trump
when he uses this phone it’s great but
we know he loves Putin so of course we
do nothing so that’s what Russia says
China goes oh yeah man we use it to
manipulate him because it’s got all
kinds of business ties in China so we
talk to his buddies and we’re like hey
you know president Trump’s putting all
kinds of tariffs on China and do you
think he could soften him up a bit and
by the way I heard him say this to you
about that talking about this to him
then perhaps you can alter president
Trump’s policies if this was a Netflix
show I’d watch it anyways that’s what’s
fascinating and then the best part this
is kind of the punchline to the whole
situation Xiaomi a Chinese company came
out and and they were the ones that not
only president Trump but many other
Republicans and perhaps even Democrats
stopped from Verizon sharing their
phones because the security issues
Xiaomi came out and said president Trump
our phones are secure
dating China would you like to use one
of our crazy
I really enjoyed that political story
there that you know this is great I’m so
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Tech Time 12 – OnePlus 6T Launch Event Details

OnePlus 6T to Have Teardrop Notch & Remove Headphone Jack

  • The Oneplus 6T: Carl Pei also confirmed:
    • Synaptic’s 2nd Gen Underscreen Fingerprint reader
      • 1st gen released at CES in January.
      • 3rd gen confirmed in Samsung’s S10 – Ultrasound.
        • Used when finger is wet.
        • More secure.
  • Poster for the OnePlus 6T shows the teardrop notch.
    • Smallest notch next to the Essential Phone.
  • Expandable Micro SD
    • German Retailer Otto had a short lived posting.
  • Carl Pei (Cofounder of OnePlus) confirmed the 6T will not have a headphone jack.
    • States that 59% of OnePlus customers already have wireless headphones.
    • Will have a dongle in the box.
    • Can buy USB C headphones.
  • Pros
    • More internal space.  Specifically used for battery.
    • Easier to make it waterproof.
      • Will we get a rating this time round?
  • Cons
    • People love their headphones – I have bose.
    • Can’t charge at the same time as using a dongle.
    • OnePlus copying Apple again (face unlock, notch, now no headphone jack)?
  • Will be released on T-Mobile’s 600 Megahertz spectrum.  Can be used unlocked on Verizon.
  • Rumored to cost $650 to $670

Tim Cook Wants Bloomberg to retract its Spy Chip Story

  • Bloomberg reported that China infiltrated hardware of Apple, Amazon and others in a mass surveillance campaign.  
  • Apple and Amazon denied the report.
  • Chinese spy chips were allegedly used to gather intellectual property and trade secrets.
  • Tim Cook says, “There is no truth in their story about Apple.  They need to do the right thing and retract it.”
  • Andy Jassy (head of Amazon Web services) agreed with Cook and also called for a retraction from Bloomberg.
  • More concerns grow over Chinese tech spying and stealing trade secrets.
    • Australia blocked chinese carriers from building their 5G network.
    • The US Government is also calling for a US built 5G network that would be “free of the possibility of overseas interference.”

 

Twitter fired spy for Saudi Arabia

  • Employee was spying on Twitter accounts critical of Saudi Government.
  • Fired in December 2015.

 

OnePlus 6T Launch Event moved to Oct 29 (from Oct 30)

  • OnePlus was originally going to launch the 6T on Oct 30.  
  • Late last week Apple announced they would be holding an iPad and Laptop event on Oct 30.  Even though there will be no iPhones released… Everyone watches Apple.

 

OnePlus to be among the first to launch a 5G phone.

  • Carl Pei made the announcement alonside Qualcomm at the 5G Summit in Hong Kong today.
  • The OnePlus 7 will feature Qualcomm’s x50 modem and QTM052 mmWave antenna.
  • According to Qualcomm at least 2 5G phones will be released next year.

 
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welcome to Tech time podcast episode 12
we’re back again and we have a lot of
things to talk about this week the first
thing we wanted to talk about is Tim
Cook once Bloomberg to retrac it’s spy
chip story so Matt a couple weeks ago we
talked a little bit about this Apple
watch that maybe went into an embassy in
Turkey and you know overheard some
things with its recording technology can
you catch us up on what’s going on with
with Tim Cook here yeah actually so this
is interesting this goes back to 2015
even further back oh yes yeah so this
one goes back and basically Apple has a
lot of manufacturing that happens in
China but not just Apple Amazon as well
and then there’s a few chip makers and
motherboard makers that are also part of
this article the Bloomberg put out so
this articles actually been out for a
couple of weeks now but it’s just this
week that people have started to get
angry about it specifically Tim Cook so
what they’re accusing happened is that
there was a mass surveillance program
and they’re not sure by if it was the
Chinese government or if it was
industrial espionage done by a company
but it sounds like a little bit of both
it was the Chinese government saying
okay
Foxconn or okay whatever other company
is out there is making these Amazon
Apple and chip products I’d like you to
put some spy hardware and so this is
Hardware going into these systems and
that’s what is alleged in the story by
Bloomberg so now Tim Cook has come out
and he says quote there is no truth to
this story about Apple they need they
may be bluebird bloomberg needs to do
the right thing and retract it now this
is interesting
because I mean there’s a lot of Apple
haters out there and Tim Cook if he
tried to ask everybody to retract
something that he didn’t feel was
accurate or correct he would that would
be his full-time job times 10 so it is
interesting that he is talking out about
this but that’s a big deal if you could
say every iPhone out there is
compromised and is potentially spying on
you because it was put together in China
that’s a big deal and so Andy jassie who
is the head of Amazon Web Services which
are the products that were alleged to be
compromised he agreed with Tim Cook and
also asked for a retraction from
Bloomberg so I’d like to see what
happens I’m is there proof behind these
allegations according to Tim Cook and
according to Andy jassie no there is no
proof however Bloomberg hasn’t retracted
it and I’d really like to know is there
smoking gun have they found a little spy
piece inside this equipment I really
like to know and if that’s the case what
would that do to China as the
manufacturing mecca of the world right
now well maybe we’d have to start moving
things to the States or other countries
well that’s of course exactly what
Donald Trump wants and what he’s been
trying to do he was successful in at
least getting Apple to move their
flagship or their their mast so the head
of their company from Ireland back to
the United States can he bring
manufacturing back and then what would
that do to the price of these goods
because of course of course will be very
expensive so we’ll see what happens now
what’s also interesting about this is a
lot of the worries about spying has
actually been in the cellphone arena
specifically around 5g technologies so I
know there was a big deal about the
United States government some of these
Chinese companies wanted to bid on
building the 5g network in the US and
right now the United States government
is calling for
the 5g networks to be quote free of the
possibility of overseas interference and
also just earlier this year Australia
the government of Australia blocked all
Chinese carriers from bidding on their
5g networks for the exact same concerns
that they could be spying on the
Australian Government on companies and
doing industrial espionage which is
exactly what is alleged by Bloomberg
with Apple Amazon and with these these
chips that are being made so I don’t
know what do you think dan do you think
it’s a it’s a true possibility that
there is not just spyware but spy
hardware that is installed in some of
these things well let’s start out with
all of the money that Australia is
losing because taking China out of the
arena of the bidding process for 5g is
just gonna lose them so much money I
mean there is so much money coming out
of China right now especially for
technology and also out of Asia I mean
Softbank in Japan own so many things
that it would just make your head spin
if you knew how much they’re involved in
the United States and how many things
they own and so for them to completely
pull out this Asian money is really
surprising to me and they must have some
real concerns because that’s a lot of
money lost so it there must be some
truth behind it if they’re if they’re
you know absolutely pulling them out
well think about just the proximity of
Australia to Asia Hong Kong or to
Thailand for their vacations because
it’s so close you know and there is a
lot of proximity and actually a lot of
immigrants go to Australia from Asia and
so it’s surprising that they’re they’re
cracking down on that now there’s a rule
that I always follow when it comes to
cell phones and electronics and digital
media if you have something private to
say go say it to someone’s face don’t
call them don’t text them you just say
it to them just like the story you told
us last week about the
the lady who confessed her love to a
doctor through messenger and deleted me
and she deleted it and thought she was
fine but then she realized that that’s
not a feature that’s out yet it’s 2018
Facebook get it together so let’s let’s
keep talking about spying so it’s it’s
not just spying with hardware and
spyware it turns out that there’s
another story here that Twitter actually
fired a spy for Saudi Arabia now I found
this story interesting especially
considering the fact that Saudi Arabia
has been in the news for the last couple
of weeks over the Khashoggi murder and
execution and so then all of a sudden
somebody goes well you know back in
December of 2015
didn’t we catch a spy for the Saudi
government working at Twitter he was
working at Twitter like in the United
States yeah I’m actually not sure what
office he was working out of I’m they
may have offices overseas but this spy
specifically targeted Twitter got a job
there and was monitoring accounts that
were negative to against the Saudi
government so if Khashoggi had a Twitter
account that’s what this guy would have
been doing and depending on what access
he had he could have shut them down he
could have censored them who knows what
the plan was but apparently it was
discovered in time and Twitter says
nothing terrible was done on behalf of
the Saudi Arabian government before what
how awkward would that office
conversation beam hey Jim what are you
doing over there in your cubicle do you
want to come over here for a minute we
have to talk about something just a
minute just spying here on dissidents
[Music]
[Laughter]
are you doing espionage and your cubicle
no no these these base Walzer crazy
thing about khashoggi right I mean
wasn’t he murdered well I mean
supposedly we don’t know for sure but
they come out and admitted he died so
that that’s recent that that’s finally
the Saudi Arabian government has said
what we’ve all known all along they
admitted he has died in the consulate
they just lost his body so did he slip
on the bathroom floor while he was
taking the leak or what was no they said
it was a fistfight
I mean hey have you seen this guy he’s a
brawler not at all like he’s like he’s
somebody that’s old enough to go to
Costco and enjoy an ice-cream there and
apparently he takes on 15 Saudi Arabian
government agents that are his kill
squad including a forensics expert with
the bonesaw he’s like I will take you on
that’s the latest so yes spies are
everywhere even on Twitter we are not
spies but I think if somebody worked for
YouTube for the Saudi government they’d
probably be watching this video right
now and flagging us because we brought
them up several times for the past
podcast and we are in so much trouble
Saudi Arabia Russia especially I
guarantee you Putin knows exactly who we
are and if I slip slip in a bathroom
somewhere you all know what happened
just record it on your Fitbit we’ve
already said recording everything
including this okay so what I really
want to talk about now is the one plus
new announcement the 60 now you had
already told us I think last week that
this is switching to the 29th of October
and it’s still yeah let’s let’s just
talk a little bit about what’s to be
expected so in typical one-plus fashion
there is so much that gets leaked in
advance
now that’s on purpose and Carl Pei who
is one of the cofounders of oneplus
totally admits it in fact he’s the
reason why we know so much about the
oneplus 60 that’s coming out and there
were some really interesting leaks that
came out literally before we started
recording this I found an article that
was 15 minutes fresh and it talked about
a German website that accidentally
posted it in advance and we got another
little bit of information we thought we
knew everything about the 60 but
according to this website if you can
believe it there’s gonna be expandable
memory so you could put an SD card in it
I love that I love it – I love it with
my Samsung device I’ve used it in the
past and this will be a first for
oneplus so if this is really true
do you have an S nein I do I have an S 9
plus and it has expandable memory
absolutely yeah really cool yeah they
all do right now the S 9 yes 9 plus the
note 9 and fingers crossed the the 10
that comes out in the spring you’re
awesome yeah yeah yeah so let’s get into
what we think is gonna be announced so
the big news is the under fingerprint
scanner so this is gonna be the first
that’s gonna be commercially available
in the United States there are a few
that have already beat others to their
oneplus to the punch I believe there’s
some Xiaomi phones but basically these
are phones that are not commercially
available outside of China there might
even be one in India but it’s the first
generation of synaptics under the screen
fingerprint reader it’s an optical
reader it takes a picture of your
fingerprint and compares it to what it’s
got stored very similar actually the
fingerprint readers that you have
regularly that you just touch on the
back or the side of your phone however
it’s slow so the first jeanna slow
what’s making this pretty exciting is
this is the second gen fingerprint
reader and those people who have played
around with this one
+60 say it’s so much faster it’s just as
fast they claim as using a regular
fingerprint reader on the back or the
front of your phone I’m looking forward
to seeing that that sounds pretty cool
we also know from a box that appeared to
have been leaked and this was like a
month ago that’s gonna have a very tiny
notch so the one plus six has a knotch
and it’s pretty minimal when you compare
it to the iPhone tens with their giant
notches that take up three-quarters if
not more of that top so it’s just a
little teardrop notch and it’s just big
enough for a camera so that’s it and it
looks pretty minimal I like it it just
means it’s gonna be frustrating for you
to program more apps for a tiny not just
keep that part of the screen empty
that’s that’s a black black bar on the
top of all of my screens yeah yeah so
other things that have been leaked oh
here’s some bad leaks you can still have
bad leaks it looks like oneplus is
getting rid of the headphone jack done
that they seem like the kind of company
that’s like anti Apple you know they’ve
got their memory expansion they’ve got
their fingerprint scanner in the screen
instead of that it just it’s it’s
bizarre that they would get rid of the
headphone jack well this is what’s
interesting is Carl Pei says he says we
are a company that listens to our
customers that’s what he claims and so
he says we sent out a poll and you the
customer said you don’t care about the
headphone jack look at us both right now
we’re both using headphones that plug
into a jack am I right we are we are
headphones Carl Pei says 59% of one-plus
customers already have wireless
headphones and of course expect that
he’s going to release some new one plus
headphones that will be bluetooth
headphones
apparently there’s going to be a dongle
and
caryl pay also says you can always buy
USBC headphones yeah Karl but I can’t
charge my phone at the same time I
believe that’s the biggest frustration
is you can’t charge your phone at the
same time using a dongle or USBC
headphones and you know if you’re using
wireless headphones you’re draining
batteries there too so oh well
well here’s the thing I know I’m like
from the 90s still but I actually
plugged my phone into the auxiliary port
in my car and I want it to charge while
I’m driving – come on guys yeah unless
you have wireless charging so you know
maybe that can happen but in any case so
here’s some of the pros of why Carl Pei
does it he says it gives us more
internal space so specifically you can
have a bigger battery because you’re
removing some hardware out of the phone
when Apple said that though they said
that they added the batteries so much
bigger because of the space and then you
actually crack open the phone and it’s
just a space yeah that’s a that’s a bad
bad idea
well this is true is it makes it easier
to waterproof I’ll give you right it’s
it’s another opening that doesn’t let
anything in so that’s good but I gotta
tell you I love my headphones I got Bose
headphones they they stay in my ear when
I’m at the gym they you know they’re
good phones they got a beautiful sound
so anyways that that’s that’s
frustrating but other things about the
phone it will be released on t-mobile
600 megahertz spectrum so that’s it yeah
that’s a brand new spectrum that
t-mobile is unlocking and by the way if
you want to use it on Verizon don’t
worry and say Oh Verizon doesn’t have
the six megahertz 600 megahertz spectrum
it’s okay because their phones work on
Verizon just fine as well all their
phones come unlocked I’m sure even if
you get it on t-mobile it should come on
locks I
don’t know for sure we’ll find out but
you should be able to unlock it anyways
and use it on Verizon well I love the
price point I was looking at your
article and made me dance with Glee
because that’s about how much I want to
pay for a cell phone yes so 652 six
hundred seventy dollars I saw some
rumors that it’s going to go back to the
500 to 550 to 560 but it just doesn’t
seem likely especially comparing the
prices of the last one plus six so yeah
expecting around 650 679
let’s see if they get wireless charging
that’s one thing that was missing from
the last one they do have NFC that came
in on the one plus five so really the
only thing that we’re missing right now
is wireless charging and you get all
those great internals remember this is
gonna come with a Snapdragon the latest
Snapdragon what is it the 845 that’s out
this year so you’re getting yeah you’re
gonna get some really good specs with
this phone that’s why they call it a
flagship killer and it has been a
flagship killer since it came out well
it’s gonna be literally half the price
of all the other flagships yeah yeah
especially if they keep going up I mean
wasn’t there phone we were talking about
last week where it was like $1200 so
this is literally half the price of that
well here’s the thing about oneplus
right is it’s awesome for the emerging
markets like India and China because in
those locations people do have more
money now but they don’t want to pay
1200 u.s. for a phone you know you’ll
find that oneplus is huge in India and
Asia
and because it’s a better price point I
mean here you and me I mean I would
prefer to buy it over something a
thousand dollars from Samsung but I mean
it’s gonna be huge over there and I
bought two oneplus phones
I love oneplus the only reason why I got
a Samsung phone right now is it was a
pretty sweet deal trade-in that worked
well with the plan that I had and I was
so close to buying a one plus six and I
gotta tell you it wasn’t excited about
the knotch
now look
this needs even less of a knotch it’s
looking pretty exciting so rumors I
wanted this week about the 1 plus 7
Barcelona next year usually announced I
believe it’s in March or April so about
the same time a little bit after Samsung
releases their phones so I don’t think
actually 1 plus I’ve ever announced that
Barcelona but it’s usually close so yeah
let’s look forward to that but here’s
the rumor it’s not a rumor actually it
was confirmed just on October 23rd and
it was Carl pay made the announcement at
Qualcomm big 5g summit in Hong Kong and
it’s that the 1 plus 7 is gonna be the
first commercially available 5g cell
phone well here’s what I want to know do
they even have standards for 5g like do
they know how it’s gonna work already I
thought it was still in progress it
isn’t and it is let me explain they have
a standard so let me just scroll down
this is in some of our old news that we
didn’t talk about but they have a
standard and it’s called 5g NR and
that’s the global standard that’s coming
in 2019 there is another close to
standard that Verizon is actually
installing right now and some select
cities it’s in Houston LA San Francisco
and Indianapolis and they started doing
that about three weeks ago and it’s 5g
ETF or the t f stands for technical
forum and it’s proprietary to Verizon
and I know but it’s it’s on the same
spectrum as regular 5g the five GNR and
the only reason that Verizon says
they’re not installing five GNR right
now is because it’s not ready even
though it’s the standard they say we’ve
been working on the TF for so long and
we’re ready to go with the TF
and we can easily upgrade tf2 NR when in
ours ready cool now here’s the thing
about 5g I mean we’re all getting
excited about it but who really has an
unlimited data plan right now when you
talk to most of your friends they have
maybe two gigabytes maybe five gigabytes
if you have a 5g access and you only
have two gigabytes of data a month it’s
gonna go in ten minutes you’re gonna be
listening to your life streaming music
and it’s over well you know what I hope
this is gonna drive the price down just
like going to 3G did so remember with 2g
we were able to like get some webpages
but it was like turn off all the photos
because it was just burning through our
data and then when 3G came out it
brought data I mean it brought pictures
it brought it was so much quicker to
load a webpage and then 4G really
brought video so all of a sudden you
could be sitting on the bus and you
could be looking at YouTube videos and
Facebook videos and you know YouTube
live hello everybody Netflix and and all
the other things that you can be doing
so 5g is just gonna bring massive
amounts of data and I’m hoping that it
will also mean that it will be cheaper
now here’s the problem with 5g is the
hardware has to be really close to each
other because of the spectrum that it’s
working on you’re gonna have to be a
hundred and fifty feet apart so a lot of
people are concerned about this I was
reading some interesting articles about
it where they’re starting to install in
some of these cities like Indianapolis
what do you mean scope what do you mean
150 feet apart like from someone you’re
calling well actually from the antenna
so it’s basically a line-of-sight
situation so when you’re in other
spectrums like what we’re currently
dealing with in 4G and 3G you’re you can
broadcast that signal at a much greater
range but you don’t get as much data
whereas 5g you get these laser super
awesome amounts of data flying at you
but you basically have to be able to see
it and if you get past 150 feet then it
starts slowing down and getting worse
and worse and you can’t get through
trees so imagine that there’s an antenna
5g antenna that you’re using and the
true the wind starts blowing the leaves
in front of that antenna you’re gonna
notice it interesting now this might
work well in like a stadium situation or
Disneyland situation theme parks where
you know there’s a lot of open space and
people’s phones get bogged down because
there’s thousands of people there but it
would be terrible inside your house I
mean your windows are always those you
know hey I’m willing to bet you’re gonna
have 5g boosters for your house so you
you can buy 4G 3G boosters for your
motor home because you’re gonna be out
in the middle of nowheres Ville but
you’re gonna be buying these boosters
for your house so that you can be in
your basement and and still be able to
get your data I mean look at 5g how much
information can come we’ll probably pull
the plug on coaxial cable because we
don’t need coax right like be great
we’re we’re not getting or cat5 we’re
not gonna need cat5 we’re not getting it
like it’s gonna be so blazing fast but
we’re also gonna need to build that
infrastructure so that’s why I think 5g
is gonna take a while
is it gonna come out in 2019 sure are we
gonna be on it because even koala comm
says there’s gonna be at least two
phones in 2019 that we’ll be able to use
5g that’s it and are these light
spectrum rays going to give us cancer
maybe watching our Netflix on HD our
quality about this is they’re actually
doing some really cool things so they’re
they’re gonna be bouncing these 5g
signals off of walls so there’s actually
gonna be a lot of engineering that goes
into it if you set up an antenna over
here and an antenna over there you might
be bouncing that signal off of a wall
before it gets to the antenna so that’s
kind of their plan
is to use a lot of bouncing a lot of
antennas to be able to blanket the
places that we want to use 5g but and
we’re not gonna see it out in rural
areas you’re not gonna be on a farm on
5g but cities absolutely cities you’re
gonna see 5g and you’ll probably run out
by a 5g booster for your house if you’ve
got a 5g phone and that’s how you’re
getting your internet so they say it’s
gonna change the world I think it’s
gonna be slower than we think because of
the infrastructure and a lot of people
are concerned what’s it gonna make my
neighborhood look like if every tree or
every lamppost or every light post is
gonna have an antenna and how expensive
is that and how is there no other
solution to this like when all the
scientists sat down and thought about it
like it couldn’t there be another way
that is less lossy to just you know
transfer the data as quick as 5g but
through a wall you know well maybe I
think what they’re doing is they’re
already finding those workarounds by
literally working around the objects and
doing the bouncing so let’s let’s see
what happens okay well this is
fascinating stuff Matt again thank you
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Tech Time Podcast – Apple October Event new iPads

Apple To Announce New iPads on October 30

  • Apple will hold its next big product announcement in New York later this month, the company said today.
  • BuzzFeed News: It’s the first time Apple, which usually holds these events in the Bay Area, will roll out new devices in New York City. It’ll happen at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, on October 30.
  • The company is widely expected to refresh its iPad and possibly the MacBook Air lineups at the event.
  • iPad with smaller bezel, faceID (look more like an iPhone X)

Apps Installed On Millions Of Android Phones Tracked User Behavior To Execute A Multimillion Dollar Ad Fraud Scheme

  • A new investigation uncovers a sophisticated ad fraud scheme involving more than 125 Android apps and websites, some of which were targeted at kids. None were installed on Apple hardware
  • Last April, Steven Schoen received an email from someone named Natalie Andrea who said she worked for a company called We Purchase Apps. She wanted to buy his Android app, Emoji Switcher.
  • But right away, something seemed off. “I did a little bit of digging because I was a little sketched out because I couldn’t really find even that the company existed,” Schoen told BuzzFeed News. The We Purchase Apps website listed a location in New York, but the address appeared to be a residence. “And their phone number was British. It was just all over the place,” Schoen said.
  • It was all a bit weird, but nothing indicated he was about to see his app end up in the hands of an organization responsible for potentially hundreds of millions of dollars in ad fraud, and which has funneled money to a cabal of shell companies and people scattered across Israel, Serbia, Germany, Bulgaria, Malta, and elsewhere.
  • The Google Play store pages for these apps were soon changed to list four different companies as their developers, with addresses in Bulgaria, Cyprus, and Russia, giving the appearance that the apps now had different owners. But an investigation by BuzzFeed News reveals that these seemingly separate apps and companies are today part of a massive, sophisticated digital advertising fraud scheme involving more than 125 Android apps and websites connected to a network of front and shell companies in Cyprus, Malta, British Virgin Islands, Croatia, Bulgaria, and elsewhere.
  • More than a dozen of the affected apps are targeted at kids or teens, and a person involved in the scheme estimates it has stolen hundreds of millions of dollars from brands whose ads were shown to bots instead of actual humans.
  • This means a significant portion of the millions of Android phone owners who downloaded these apps were secretly tracked as they scrolled and clicked inside the application. By copying actual user behavior in the apps, the fraudsters were able to generate fake traffic that bypassed major fraud detection systems.

Silicon Valley’s Dirty Secret: Using a Shadow Workforce of Contract Employees To Drive Profits

  • As the gig economy grows, the ratio of contract workers to regular employees in corporate America is shifting.
  • Google, Facebook, Amazon, Uber and other Silicon Valley tech titans now employ thousands of contract workers to do a host of functions — anything from sales and writing code to managing teams and testing products. Does apple do this as well?
  • This year at Google, contract workers outnumbered direct employees for the first time in the company’s 20-year history. It’s not only in Silicon Valley. The trend is on the rise as public companies look for ways to trim HR costs or hire in-demand skills in a tight labor market.
  • The U.S. jobless rate dropped to 3.7 percent in September, the lowest since 1969, down from 3.9 percent in August, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Some 57.3 million Americans, or 36 percent of the workforce, are now freelancing, according to a 2017 report by Upwork.
  • A spokesperson at Alphabet cited two main reasons for hiring contract or temporary workers. One reason is when the company doesn’t have or want to build out expertise in a particular area such as doctors, food service, customer support or shuttle bus drivers. Another reason is a need for temporary workers when there is a sudden spike in workload or to cover for an employee who is on leave.
  • Copout. Lame for a multi-million dollar company

Google App Suite Costs as Much as $40 Per Phone Under New EU Android Deal

  • Android manufacturers will have to pay Google a surprisingly high cost in Europe in order to include Google’s Play Store and other mobile apps on their devices, according to documents obtained by The Verge.
  • : A confidential fee schedule shows costs as high as $40 per device to install the “Google Mobile Services” suite of apps, which includes the Google Play Store. The new fees vary depending on country and device type, and it would apply to devices activated on or after February 1st, 2019.
  • But phone manufacturers may not actually have to shoulder that cost: Google is also offering separate agreements to cover some or all of the licensing costs for companies that choose to install Chrome and Google search on their devices as well, according to a person familiar with the terms. Google declined to comment.
  • Since Apple makes its own phones no increase in price would be necessary.

Samsung Announces Galaxy Book 2, a 2-in-1 Windows 10 S Hybrid With Gigabit LTE and 20-Hour Battery Life

  • At an event in New York City today, the Seoul, South Korea electronics giant took the wraps off of the Galaxy Book 2, a Windows ultraportable powered by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 850 chip.
  • From a report: The only catch? It runs Windows 10 S, a slimmed-down version of Microsoft’s operating system that can only run applications from the Windows Store — specifically Universal Windows Platform (UWP) apps and Win32 apps that Microsoft has explicitly approved (including, but not limited to, Microsoft Office). NO VR Etc…
  • You can upgrade to Windows 10 for free, of course, but it’s an emulated experience. But if that doesn’t bother you, you’ll be able to pick up a Book 2 at AT&T, Microsoft, and Samsung stores online for $999.99 starting November 2, 2018. It’ll hit brick and mortar at AT&T, Sprint and Verizon later in the month.
  • The Book2 — which measures 11.32 x 7.89 x 30 inches and weighs in at 1.75 pounds — looks sort of like Microsoft’s Surface.
  • Its gorgeous 12-inch 2,160 by 1,440-pixel AMOLED display (216 pixels per inch) is fully compatible with Samsung’s S Pen stylus, which comes bundled in the box (along with a detachable keyboard that attaches magnetically to the bottom bezel), allowing you to scribble notes and mark up documents easily.
  • The screen’s paired with stereo speakers tuned by Samsung subsidiary AKG Acoustic with support for Dolby Atmos, a premium audio format for multichannel surround sound setups, and there’s two cameras onboard: a front-facing 5-megapixel camera on tap and an 8-megapixel camera on the rear.
  • Under the hood is the aforementioned Qualcomm Snapdragon 850 system-on-chip paired with 4GB of RAM, comprising four high-performance processor cores running at 2.96 GHz and four power-efficient cores clocked at 1.7 GHz.

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so Matt we’re on this is podcast number
11 the exciting thing is we’re doing
YouTube live now so if you have comments
if you’re coming in type them for us
we’d love to chat with you and see how
you’re doing
but let’s get started now we’ve got lots
of things to talk about but first how
was your weekend you know what it was
just one of those weekends that with a
little bit lazy on Saturday and
winterized old Boris the Motorhome so
that was good to finally get that off my
plate but Sunday morning I had a bit of
a scare I forgot I had to speak in
church and my alarm went off at 8:30 and
it was in a different congregation than
I normally go to and they start at 9:00
and so I looked at my watch as like when
I looked and I had prepared nothing I
wrote my talk up on the stand
pretty cool went to Disneyland oh nice
Laguna Beach you know you can’t really
beat it life is good
but what’s really cool is actually this
weekend I’m going to the Grand Canyon
have you heard of how’s it Havasupai
Falls oh yeah of course yeah it’s really
cool about eight months ago we got
permission from the Native Americans to
cross over into their land and do the
hike and so we had to call their office
and call them like a million times we
finally got ahold of someone and so
we’re doing it yep I’m getting my new
backpack tomorrow in the mail and I’ve
got a special special sleeping bag that
hopefully will go down to 20 degrees
Fahrenheit
and jazz on prime that is that except
for I’m too cheap for Amazon Prime I
don’t know if I’m the only one out there
that does this but typically I’ll wait
six to eight days for my Amazon stuff
really really cheap yeah anything over
twenty five bucks is free shipping isn’t
it yeah just have to wait for it but
this time I was like shoot I knew that
by this weekend so I paid twenty dollars
but guess what twenty dollars is cheaper
than 119 or whatever Amazon Prime is am
i right yeah absolutely I gotta tell you
although I do enjoy watching Amazon
Prime the guy in the high castle Castle
electric trick this is a good one it’s a
lot like a black mirror that one’s
pretty good
oh I haven’t checked that one out yet
it’s a little bit dark but you know a
lot of fun black beers dark too
the other cool thing that I noticed have
you noticed a lot of other companies are
trying to compete with Amazon for
example Walmart and Costco so you can
actually have Costco ship you basically
anything in two days free because you’re
already paying the fifty five dollars to
be a member and so I have all my protein
powders and all of my ridiculous things
from Costco that I don’t want to
actually go to Costco and buy yeah I
just happen it’s out at my doorstep in
two days and I don’t have to battle with
like 160 year olds that are also there
you donated there for their ice cream
cones
every time I I’m a big spender when I
take everybody out for lunch at work I’m
like let’s go to Costco every time I go
for a hot dogs I run into like some
people that we grew up with into Milt
Lybrand and Dan Butler eating their
cheap ice cream every time I go I run
into somebody like that like mom and
dad’s age having a cheap ice-cream or a
cheap hotdog you know the baby boomers
love Costco you are there there
by the way Milt LeBaron and for our
podcast listeners he has been a Costco
fanatic since the 1980s when it is true
that’s true yes she had a membership
before regular people could get a
membership yeah you know back when only
small businesses and and he was in the
know you know yeah he’s still there all
the time and everybody’s like how do you
know I’m like they’re like you know
everybody in sure Park i’ma just the
people at Costco well now you can get
your things shipped to your house I’m
afraid you can’t get the dollar 50
hotdogs also I’m really jealous that you
get poutine at your Costco yeah and I’ll
tell you what the gravy there is the
best poutine
maybe Burger King’s number two but I
like Burger King poutine I’ll have to
try Burger King poutine although I like
McDonald’s fries they’re there gravy
just is not good on there poutine I’d
say if I had to rate it KFC’s at the top
Costco’s number two and Burger King’s
number three AFC’s gone downhill they
used to use the drippings from the
chicken that’s what I like but they
don’t do it anymore that’s unsanitary
it’s dangerous so no it’s like it’s not
the same den it’s just not the same okay
well things have changed well we have a
great show ready yesterday you know
we’re gonna talk all about the new Apple
event that’s going on at the end of the
week we’re also going to talk about
different apps that are exposing people
to fraud schemes we’ve got new Samsung
products we’re gonna talk about and yeah
you know I just wanted to talk about the
Google Play Store I know we brought it
up before Google Play has always been a
little bit looser with their
applications so they allow their
developers to submit things a lot easier
than the Apple App Store does now
recently they’ve cracked down a little
bit more on it but I
reading an article this week about a new
investigation that uncovered a
sophisticated ad fraud scheme involving
more than 125 Android apps and websites
some of them were targeted at kids so
last April
this reporter received an email from
somebody named natalie andrea who said
she worked for a company that purchases
apps she wanted to buy his android app
and so this reporter had like an emoji
switch or app so right away something
felt a little bit off he did a little
bit of digging around because when he
looked on the website the company didn’t
even really exist it was just a house
address on the Google Play Store and
then after that it looked like it was
based in Cyprus in Europe so everything
just seemed a little bit strange and
their phone number was British so it was
all over the place so then when he
reached out in to BuzzFeed to
investigate a little bit further they
found out they were actually ripping
people off of millions of dollars with
these hundred and 25 apps from the App
Store and the Google Play app store so
this is massive and this is huge and
there’s a couple things about Google and
Android that are a little bit different
than Apple and the App Store so for our
podcast listeners if you’ve got an Apple
phone when you download an app you know
typically Apple really looks into the
company that’s making these apps they
make sure that it runs well I’m a game
developer myself and they had people
playing my game for hours and taking
screenshots before they even approved it
for the App Store Google Play it’s a
little more overwhelming for them they
have more users they’re not quite as
sophisticated and so you can get away
with releasing a lot of things easier on
the Google Play Store not only that but
with Android you can actually download
Android apps from any website without it
going through the Google Play Store so
that opens up owner abilities now I
think this is sketchy way to get your
apps
sideloading is is the term that it’s
called in fortnight’s kind of doing that
but there are a little
more reputable but the thing about this
is you know they’re going in there
attacking kids because they know that
parents aren’t really supervising their
kids when they’re on their phone a lot
of parents I see it all the time they
give their kids tablets they give their
kids phones and they say here play with
this and unbeknownst to them their kids
are downloading these games off of the
Google Play Store that look fun and it
turns out 125 of those games have
malware that are actually racking up
millions of dollars and so you know it’s
pretty clever I was reading through how
they did it what they did was they kind
of made it seem like the kids were
looking at Google advertisements so
really it looked like it was ripping off
but you know this is just a warning out
there that when you download apps
instead of just clicking on anything
make sure it’s reputable make sure
there’s an app as well on the Apple App
Store because that one’s going to be
well vetted so you know watch out
absolutely so how were they getting
money were they just convincing kids to
download other apps like how did the
malware collect money yeah it says here
that for a significant portion of the
millions of Android owners who
downloaded these apps they were secret
or secretly tracked as they scrolled and
clicked inside the application so by
copying actual user behavior in the apps
the fraudsters were able to generate
fake traffic that bypassed major fraud
detective systems so it sounds to me
like it was just kind of showing
advertisements for Google probably
seeming like they were the actual user
the actual patron of the game when
really it was fraudsters in the
background I think it was probably with
advertisements with Google interesting
okay so Dan you’ve got another one here
that talks about Silicon Valley’s dirty
secret and it looks like it’s it’s using
contractors they call it a shadow work
force why don’t you tell us a little bit
about what’s going on there well this
gets me really angry I don’t know what
the job situation is like in Canada
I know here in the States whenever you
join a big company instead of offering
full-time we don’t have free health care
like you do they just offer contract
work and so they say you know we’ll give
you 40 hours of contract work but you’re
not going to be a full-time employee
what does that mean that means you don’t
get a 401k that means you don’t get
health insurance means you don’t get
vacation time if you don’t go to work
you simply don’t get paid and what’s
frustrating is is now the big companies
are doing it this isn’t just mon pop
places that can’t afford health care
this is Google this is Amazon this is
Apple this is huge companies that have
tons of money that should hire people
full time so that you know if they get
fired they have a severance package or
if they have kids they have a health
care package and people are saying yes
to this because the unemployment rate
has never been this low and so lots of
people are getting jobs but these jobs
aren’t real jobs their contract work its
gig economy work its side hustle work
and it’s frustrating that they’re
working 40 plus hours and they’re not
getting a guarantee I know personally
when I started my job that’s how it was
that was a contract worker for the first
two years and when they finally switched
me over to full-time you know you see
benefits and it’s just such a relief as
well if you’re trying to buy a house
mortgage companies really want to see
that you’re full-time and not a contract
work because it gives you a little more
reputable with with your money anyways
and so I just thought it was frustrating
that these huge places go Google
Facebook and Amazon uber and other
Silicon Valley tech Titans are just
doing contract work so they reached out
to them and they said why are you doing
this and they revealed it was because
they wanted to trim HR costs which makes
sense for their bottom line but it it’s
frustrating for for tech workers you
know it’s fascinating because I started
my career same as you on contract
straight out of university and Canada
actually changed our tax laws around
being a numbered company or a limited
company and you actually have to prove
that you have more than one customer so
for example if I was hired by Apple here
in Canada then I would have to show if I
was a contractor that I had more than
just Apple as a customer or else I would
be deemed an employee and in fact the
Canadian government has gone after
companies that have done this and said
by the way Matt is an employee because
you give him 40 hours a week and he has
no other customers and so now you owe
the government your portion of the taxes
that you normally would have paid if he
had been an employee so I know in the
state’s you got fika and sudha and
different states have different benefits
and taxes that the employer has to pay
and so it’s the same in Canada we have
Canadian pension plan CPP we have
Employment Insurance GI and the employer
has to pay half now if I was a
contractor I have to pay all those
things myself so I still have to pay
into the Canadian pension plan I still
have to get my employment insurance but
my limited company or my numbered
company would pay though that portion
for me and then I would pay my own as
well so in Canada it’s interesting that
since the crackdown we’ve seen a lot
less contract work but when I started in
oil and gas and heavy and industrial
just about everybody was a contractor
and some people really liked it because
it normally meant you got about 20 to 25
percent more on your out your hourly
rate and with that you could go out and
purchase your own insurance and you
could put away your own retirement
savings plan money so is that different
than what’s happening in the u.s. like
if I went to go get a job with one of
these companies in Silicon Valley would
they say oh you’re
contract for $40 an hour or you could be
a permanent employee at $40 an hour or
would they say contract you get 45 or 50
from this article it seems to me that
people are starting off with contract
work it makes it easy to fire someone
they don’t have any protection true yeah
and it’s it’s frustrating and I think
only the people that have been there for
several years are now getting that the
full time work they may offer an olive
branch to people that are very talented
in the industry but it seems to me that
this is kind of the way it’s going in
the future and you know quite frankly I
think it’s frustrating especially
because the companies are so rich yeah I
mean they can’t afford it and you know
they’re really looking at their bottom
line and it seems like that’s kind of
the way of the future of the the
full-time employees out the door and the
contract employee is and so well you
guys need to be like good old left-wing
Tanit up here and crack down on that
alright you know we were talking last
time about how remember how Europe was
was telling Google that they needed to
start separating all of their
applications from Android that includes
the Google Play Store that includes the
Google suite of office suite it includes
even their messenger chat anything
Google well it turns out this week that
it’s been revealed that now Google is
going to charge companies $40 a phone in
Europe if they choose to use the Google
suite and so that’s kind of putting a
price tag on it and do you think $40 is
fair absolutely they give away their
their software for free so you can put
Android on a phone for free I mean
that’s the whole reason why it’s free is
so that Google can benefit from their
apps being used so yeah absolutely
I don’t think this was a surprise to
anybody that Google was gonna put a $40
price tag on it per phone we all knew it
was going to happen and that’s the exact
reason why the EU actually wanted
this way now it’s incentivizing Android
phone makers the hardware side of things
to actually create their own apps very
similar to what Samsung does so for
example you get a Samsung phone you’ll
have Samsung’s email client you’ll have
Samsung’s browser those types of apps is
exactly what the EU wants to see is some
competition and trying to break that
monopoly that Google has over Android
here’s kind of a cool thing though
they said that if you use Google search
with Google Chrome on the phone it’ll be
free then they won’t charge the $40 so
that’s kind of a fun workaround yeah
that it’s an interesting workaround I
had no idea they would do that ok so now
everybody wants to talk about Apple
announcing these new iPads and and Macs
in October so this is gonna happen
October 30th
you know remember Matt I bought this new
MacBook Pro back in July and I was
really trying to hold out for the
regular MacBook refresh yes you know
there were rumors oh it’s gonna come out
in August oh no just kidding it’s coming
out in September well the latest rumor
is is that the new MacBooks are gonna
come out in October so October 30th
which is exciting and we might see a new
MacBook Air which is very long overdue
for a refresh very my regular MacBook
lineups I don’t think they’re gonna
change anything about the pro since that
came out this summer but these are very
exciting things so what does that mean
it’s gonna be faster processors it’s
gonna be faster graphics chips hopefully
more harddrive space that’s kind of the
the rumors that I’m hearing now for that
for the actual max and battery life
should remain consistent now another
cool thing is the new iPads that they’re
thinking about launching have you heard
anything about the rumors there yeah
absolutely in fact that’s what everybody
was expecting to come out at the same
time that they announced the new iPhones
and traditionally they’ve done both the
iPad and the iPhone at the same time so
I’m
sure why they push the iPad back maybe
they’re gonna do something spectacular
and they wanted to have just all the
buzz about that once everybody went out
and bought their new iPhone or maybe
they just weren’t ready
or maybe the IMAX weren’t quite ready so
I guess it all depends on how you look
at it we’ll find out on the 30th but
these new iPads they’re supposed to have
slimmer bezels hallelujah I mean all the
other tablets out there have had slimmer
bezels for a long time but you know iPad
just seems to be a little bit behind the
times when it comes to that and you’ve
got a note here that they’re gonna have
face ID I hadn’t heard about that so
that means they’re gonna have those
infrared dots go all over your face very
cool it’s gonna have a knotch
yes you know it’s interesting about this
announcement it was actually just
dropped like what three four days ago so
it wasn’t like they gave the tech world
a whole bunch of notice they just said
oh by the way in two weeks we’re gonna
have an event well remember a couple
weeks ago in our podcast we talked about
all the phones that are gonna be
released throughout the month of October
well October 30th was one pluses big
reveal of the oneplus 60 which is one of
the most look forward to phones that are
coming out this year and now oneplus is
going it’s like when a bride is at her
wedding and then this sister-in-law has
a baby that same day they changed it to
the 29 and you know there’s smaller
company but they did not want to share
the limelight with Apple even though
there’s no new phones
everybody’s gonna be talking Apple Apple
Apple
for at least three or four days after
the apple of it so it was wise that they
put it on the twenty-ninth yeah yeah
they did I thought that was interesting
and and I I totally agree with that move
the only extra thing I want to say about
this is if they do make the knotch on
the iPad it’s gonna be another freaking
resolution that I’ll have to program
into my face just a little rant I’m
putting out there oh no not on on
tablets please please no notches
alright so Samsung is announcing their
galaxy book 2 this is a two-in-one
Windows 10s hybrid with gigabit LTE and
20 hour battery life so this is pretty
cool it’s a lot like your laptop that
you have that you have the surface pro
right I do yeah the only thing about
this and you know I was getting excited
reading about it but the frustrating
thing about it is it actually comes with
Windows 10 s so that’s kind of a boiled
down version of Windows that runs on
certain chips um this isn’t an Intel
chip this is going to run on the
snapchat Snapdragon 850 chip which as
you know is kind of a mobile chip that’s
geared more towards cell phones very
powerful chip but you’re just not going
to be able to run normal applications so
what does Windows 10s means it means
that you can only download games from
the Windows Store yep now there are a
lot of programs on the Windows Store
obviously Microsoft Office is is on the
Windows Store and that’s very useful
their web browser edge is on there
basically it’s you know if you gave this
to mom or dad they’d be happy but if
it’s somebody that wants to run virtual
reality if it’s somebody that wants to
run steam games or if it’s somebody that
just wants to run legacy apps maybe
they’ve got an accounting app that you
know or maybe QuickBooks I don’t know
that’s on the Windows 10 store you’re
gonna have to emulate it so there is an
emulator that you can get you can
actually technically run 32 windows 32
apps but you know emulation is
always terrible it’s always slow and
you’re not gonna be gaming with that
you’re not going to be loading up
fortnight or Tomb Raider or whatever it
is that you play quake it’s gonna do its
weight quick way too slow it’s gonna
start at about a thousand bucks which I
thought was four that’s actually the
same price as the the iPhone 10s you
know it’s it’s very reasonably priced
and the cool thing about it is it has a
beautiful screen so it’s a twelve inch
AMOLED screen and it’s fully compatible
with the Samsung S Pen Stylus which I
know a lot of people like to do when
they mark up PDFs if they’re you know
students in a class or if they’re
artists a lot of people like to have
that that pen that’s detachable as well
a detachable keyboard and very small
bezel they also said that the the
speakers are really great with Dolby
Atmos and it’s got really great cameras
too so under the hood they’ve got the
snapdragon 850 chip that comes with 4
gigabytes of RAM and the processor is
almost three gigahertz and there’s
there’s a four cores so I mean this is
kind of a beast but how frustrating that
you can’t run real Windows on it you
know for a thousand bucks that that’s my
problem for a thousand bucks just go get
a surface pro and yeah there they even
start cheaper than that so yeah thousand
bucks go get a surface pro you’re gonna
have a real laptop you’re gonna be able
to run real applications without having
to go to the Windows 10 store and I
gotta tell you I’ve played around with
Windows 10 s and it’s a pretty good
operating system but I would prefer
Chrome OS if I had to choose so I think
that was a mistake I’d love to get a
debate going down in the comments or you
know have listeners angrily defend
Windows 10s on the Windows Store said
nobody ever that nobody ever and it’s
even a stripped down version
word so it’s not even the full version
of word that usually yeah I mean it’s
optimized for a tablet so I noticed that
they have a Samsung S Pen Stylus so
that’s great we’ll be able to handle
that but you know what so can a surface
pro so for that kind of money I always
have to compare to the service pro and
that is such a wonderful device at a
great price point and it just doesn’t
seem like it’s worth it to me now your
surface pro you can use a stylus on it
to write simple keyboard but it actually
runs the full-blown Windows 32 now full
shebang I I used the pen but really not
that much I used it more at the
beginning just because it was a novelty
oh look I can draw a little like now you
can see my doodles on my notes when I’m
in a meeting it is still pretty neat and
you know I’ve helped my kids with their
homework by being able to draw stuff out
and it’s fascinating on like especially
OneNote on the surface Pro because I can
handwrite and I can still search OneNote
and it will search my handwritten notes
yeah it’s pretty fantastic but honestly
it’s just faster to take that little
tablet with the keyboard into a meeting
and type on the keyboard than it is to
scribble it just way faster but in any
case you know I I wish Samsung luck with
this hybrid but I think they really made
a mistake when they went with Windows 10
s I don’t think you can even have the
real Windows with these Qualcomm chips
now there they must be really good at
battery life because I mean this thing
has 20 hours of battery life I wonder if
they threw in an Intel chip if it just
would be like eight hours or ten you
know it would be the same as what you
get in the surface pros or in the
MacBook Airs for that now how many hours
do get on your surface pro I get about
eight well actually that’s the way it
started was eight and it all depends on
what apps you’re running of course so if
you’re doing some heavy gaming like if
you’re running steam you’re not gonna
get a
you might get three or four I’ve had a
few apps really surprised me like for
some reason Adobe PDFs can suck the
battery life really fast sometimes even
just web browsing depending on what
websites I’ve got in the background
going on they could drain my battery so
I usually get anywhere between three and
eight hours I probably say average five
could you so this is actually a really
big advantage if you think about it I
mean this is like having a cell phone
but a computer and it lasts for 20 hours
I mean you could do that for a couple
days and take it to work type some notes
if you’re not doing games I mean it can
really be a good thing absolutely I mean
if you’re an international traveler and
you’re gonna be stuck on a plane that
doesn’t have an outlet to charge or you
know you’re gonna be sitting in the back
of a cab you know who knows and that I
think that’s that’s really what the
sales on this would be if you need a 20
hour battery then by all means this is
exactly who should go out buy it and you
know these days most people just use web
browsers anyways I mean I even do my
taxes on the web browser I don’t have
anything you know it’s pretty dude so
that’s why Chromebooks are becoming so
popular especially in the classroom the
great thing about stuff like that is
there’s not a lot of viruses for this
stuff because it’s new you know these
operating systems haven’t been around
for a whole lot of time and it’s just
harder to break

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Tech Time Podcast 10 – Huawei Mate 20, Samsung Foldable Phone and Paul Allen’s Passing

Chinese Tech Phone Maker Huawei Launches Mate 20 Pro Featuring In-Screen Fingerprint Sensor, Two-Way Wireless Charging, 3 Rear Cameras and 4,200mAh Battery
2 Slashdot / by msmash / 6 hours ago

  • Huawei’s new Mate 20 Pro has a massive screen,
  • three cameras on the back and a fingerprint scanner embedded in the display.
  • From a report: The new top-end phone from the Chinese firm aims to secure its place at the top of the market alongside Samsung, having recently beaten Apple to become the second-largest smartphone manufacturer in August.
  • The Mate 20 Pro follows Huawei’s tried and trusted format for its Mate series: a huge 6.39in QHD+ OLED screen, big 4,200mAh battery and powerful new Huawei Kirin 980 processor — Huawei’s first to be produced at 7 nanometres, matching Apple’s latest A12 chip in the 2018 iPhones.
  • New for this year is an infrared 3D facial recognition system, similar to that used by Apple for its Face ID in the iPhone XS, and
  • one of the first fingerprint scanners embedded in the screen that is widely available in the UK, removing the need for a fingerprint scanner on the back or a chin on the front.
  • The Mate 20 Pro is water resistant to IP68 standards and has a sleek new design reminiscent of Samsung’s S-series phones, with curved glass on the front and back.
  • The back also has an new pattern etched into the glass, which is smooth to the touch but ridged when running your nail over it.
  • On the back is a new version of Huawei’s award-winning triple camera system using a 40-megapixel standard camera, an 8-megapixel telephoto camera with a 3x optical zoom and new for this year is a 20-megapixel ultra-wide angle camera, replacing the monochrome sensor used on the P20 Pro.
  • The Mate 20 Pro runs EMUI 9, which is base
  • $1,214 USD.

 

Samsung Says Its Foldable Phone Will Be a Tablet You Can Put In Your Pocket


11 Slashdot / by BeauHD / 3 days ago
The CEO of Samsung’s mobile business, D.J. Koh, said you’ll be able to use its upcoming foldable smartphone as a tablet that you can put in your pocket. While the phone has been teased and hyped up for several months, Koh stressed that it will not be a “gimmick product” that will “disappear after six to nine months after it’s delivered.” It’ll reportedly be available globally. CNET reports: However, the foldable Samsung phone, like the Galaxy Round, will be Samsung’s testbed device to see how reviewers and the market react. The Galaxy Round, which bowed vertically in the middle, was Samsung’s first curve-screen phone. It’s a direct ancestor to the dual curved screens we see on today’s Galaxy S9 and Note 9 phones. The larger screen is important, Koh said. When Samsung first released the original Galaxy Note, he said, competitors called its device dead on arrival. Now, after generations of Notes phones, you see larger devices like the iPhone XS Max and the Pixel 3 XL, proving that consumers want bigger screens. A foldable phone would let screen sizes extend beyond 6.5 inches.
Read more of this story at Slashd

 

Paul Allen, Microsoft Co-Founder dead at 65

  • Paul Allen died today at 65 from cancer.  He is best known for his partnering with Bill Gates to found Microsoft.
  • Paul Allen and Bill Gates met in Private School and would later drop out of college to pursue their High School software dreams.
  • Bill Gates stated that “Personal Computing would not have existed without Paul Allen.”
  • Paul Allen left Microsoft in the 80’s (before the 90’s boom) but not before he became a billionaire.  He owned the Portland Trail Blazers and the Seattle Seahawks.
  • He also founded Vlucan; an investment firm for his philanthropy.  He also founded the Allen Institute for Brain Science and the aerospace firm Stratolaunch.  He also backed research into nuclear-fusion power.

 

Facebook Is Testing An Unsend Feature For Messenger


19 Slashdot / by BeauHD / 3 days ago
Facebook is reportedly testing a feature that will let you take back what you send via Messenger. The company said it was working on the feature back in April after TechCrunch caught it deleting messages from CEO Mark Zuckerberg. After TechCrunch asked Facebook about its progress on the Unsend feature, the company said: “Though we have nothing to announce today, we have previously confirmed that we intend to ship a feature like this and are still planning to do so.” From the report: Now we have our first look at the feature thanks to TechCrunch’s favorite tipster Jane Manchun Wong. She’s managed to generate screenshots of a prototype Unsend button from Facebook Messenger’s Android code. Currently, you can only delete messages from your own inbox — they still remain in the recipients’ inbox. But with this Unsend feature prototype, you’re able to remove a message from both sides of a conversation. However, the code indicates that in the current prototype there’s a “time limit.” That may mean users would only have a certain amount of time after they send a message to unsend it. That would essentially be an editing window in which users could take back what they said.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.

Google Fined $5B fine by EU; Tells Europe that Phone makers will have to pay to preload Google Apps.

  • Android controls more that 80% of the world’s mobile market share.
  • Google has given Android free to Phone Makers but requires all Android phones to come preloaded with Google’s Apps like Search, Maps & Chrome.
  • The EU fined the $5B by arguing that this requirement gives Google an unfair advantage on the Mobile market.
  • Google has responded and said it will comply but any phones going to EU will need to pay a licensing fee if they want to install Google’s mobile Apps (Play store, Gmail, TouTube, Maps etc.).
  • Apparently this was exactly what the EU wanted; incentive for competitors to develop alternatives.
  • Will this inspire innovation or will people just sideload the Playstore and then download their Apps?

 

The Rise of Netflix Competitors Has Pushed Consumers Back Toward Piracy

  • BitTorrent usage has bounced back because there’s too many streaming services and too much exclusive content.

    • Game of Thrones (HBO)
    • House of Cards (Netflix)
    • Handmaid’s Tale (Hulu)
    • Jack Ryan (Amazon)
  • It’s getting almost as expensive to subscribe to all these services as it was to pay for cable.  Is it worth it?

 

Turkey Claims Khashoggi’s Apple Watch recorded his Torture and Execution.

  • Turkish Officials claimed that Journalist Jamal Khashoggi’s Apple Watch recorded his torture and execution.
  • Khashoggi handed his iPhone to his fiance before he entered the Saudi Arabian Consulate.
  • Could have the Blue Tooth been enough to get through the walls and sync with the phone?
  • Turkish Officials also claim that his assailants noticed the recording and unlocked the watch with Khashoggi’s fingerprint and proceeded to delete files.
  • Some believe that his watch could have synced via LTE but Turkey doesn’t have that technology.
  • Lastly, the Apple watch doesn’t have touch ID to recognize fingerprints.
  • More likely a cover story to protect an informant inside the Consulate.
  • Many believe that Turkey has the Consulate bugged.

Cops Use Slain Woman’s Fitbit To Charge 90-Year-Old Stepdad

  • 90 year old man has been charged in slaying his 67 year-old step daughter.
  • Her fitbit was used to destroy his alibi.
  • The authorities compared surveillance video to the woman’s fitbit data.  
  • The fitbit shows her heart rate spike at 3:20pm followed by a rapid slowing of her heart rate which stopped at 3:28 pm (official time of death).
  • The surveillance video shows the 90-year-old parked in front of her house from 3:12 – 3:33.
  • Other evidence was used to tie him to the crime such as her blood on a couple of his shirts.

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[Music]
and we’re back this is episode 10 can
you believe we’ve made it all the way to
number 10 Matt number 10 that’s exciting
milestone every week’s a milestone for
us so this is tech time podcast we are
talking about huawei launching the May
20 pro today as well we’re going to talk
about Samsung’s new foldable phone and
how it might actually be a tablet that
you can put in your pocket Paul Allen
the Microsoft co-founder is dead at 65
Facebook is testing an unsent feature
for messenger and Google is fined five
billion by the European Union and it
looks like we have a pretty good lineup
today so how are you doing that I’m
doing pretty good Dan how about you
pretty good I was just fighting a Los
Angeles traffic right now it was insane
have you ever seen Ferris Bueller’s Day
Off when he’s running from his mom and
sister in the car
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thankfully I made it in time to do this
podcast I think it would been an awesome
if there was a parade that just started
going down the street you jumped up on
the float and started singing that would
have been awesome either that or maybe I
could have gotten one of those bird
scooters and and gotten my way through
the parade yes they’re likely I’m doing
really good
it’s it’s been a busy week both at work
and of course rebuilding the condo that
burned down so it’s kind of nice to just
think about the tech news and and unwind
all right well let’s unwind to Huawei’s
new mate 20 pro now I want you to tell
us a little bit about this and it will
it be something that we can even buy
here in North America
well yes but only I can so I don’t think
you’ll be able to so Huawei’s products
come to Canada the United States has had
a problem with Huawei just because of
some of the executive owners happen to
also be former Chinese military and with
extreme ties to the government so the
United States is concerned about spying
and hardware and I personally think it’s
maybe a little bit of protectionism for
Apple I’m not sure but for whatever
reasons the whole rest of the world
doesn’t seem to be afraid of always
phones except for the United States so
this is the p20 now what’s really neat
is it’s a great phone but also the p30
which Huawei releases every year as well
tends to be their big flagship device I
would probably compare it to say the
note 9 or the note series for Samsung
but the 20 always comes out this time of
year and then the third he usually comes
out with the following year in the
spring so the 30 that came out this year
was the first three camera phone and it
was doing amazing things in low-light as
well as having a telephoto lens and it’s
been an all-around great phone
specifically for the camera so the new
mate 20 this one also comes with three
cameras and it is the best phone that
while we produces now if you want to
wait for an even better phone I prefer
the 30 but it this is a pretty neat
phone it is feature packed I personally
feel like it’s got too many features so
for example it has an in screen
fingerprint sensor which is great but it
also has the infrared giant notch that
Apple has to send out those little
infrared dots to do face ID so I almost
feel like Huawei couldn’t commit to one
way or the other to unlock the phone so
you’ve got giant notch and you have an
inch screen fingerprint sensor I would
have thought maybe you can bring the
price point down
little bit by just focusing on one or
the other so we do know that one plus
will be focusing more on the in finger
or in screen fingerprint sensor but this
one has both so if you like that if you
like the options and you know what maybe
it’s more useful when you’re driving to
just smile at your phone and have it
unlock I guess we’ll have to test it I
love that it has both actually I mean
some people might feel a little more
comfortable with their fingerprints but
other people might like the face one
well Huawei says they are protecting
your face information right because yeah
in China in China of course the United
States government doesn’t feel that
that’s very protected and also your
fingerprint information I mean that’s
important if you think about it these
phones are collecting our fingerprints
that’s kind of interesting they’re
collecting our biometric identification
do we care about that I don’t know if
we’ve had much discussion on that on
this show but we’re putting a lot of
trust in these companies and some of
these companies may come and go and what
happens if Huawei now I don’t think
Huawei will disappear but what about
some of the smaller ones that we may be
testing and trying and then what happens
to all that intellectual information
when the company is sold or bought out
and who can buy it and is that something
we really want
so maybe the US government might be
right to be a little bit hesitant but I
personally feel it’s a little bit of
protectionism well I think it could be
sold to the highest bidder I mean really
that’s where they’re making most of
their money is off of our information in
our data and like you said now that they
have our biometrics that’s even more so
yeah I mean if you think about it I use
my fingerprint to get into my banking
information on my phone so if somebody
sold my fingerprint to somebody else and
all you had to do was hack the phone to
trick it and say okay now you’re into my
bank now you can transfer funds you can
and they could even own that condo in
Fort McMurray that you loved so much
right please
so let’s get into some of the specs on
this phone it’s actually really it’s a
beautiful phone it’s quite large
actually it’s a six point three nine
inch qHD OLED screen it’s gone up it’s
huge it’s gigantic
but actually they have a smaller more
budget-friendly model that is not an
OLED screen and it’s an LED screen or
sorry LCD screen and it’s actually a
little bit bigger and it’s got a little
tiny notch it doesn’t have the face
recognition it’s got the teardrop knotch
that we’ve seen in the p6 the oneplus
six phones that are coming out here the
battery is huge this is a 4200 milliamp
battery and it is huge and there’s
something really neat above the battery
but let’s go through some of the other
specs and then I want to get back to the
battery so it also has Huawei’s care and
980 processor so this is the first of
always been able to produce at seven
nanometers
now as you noted in this article they’re
matching apples a12 chips from the 2018
phone so this is pretty neat and it’s
their own proprietary chip so they can
manufacture it to be special
on the huawei phones how do they do that
how are they you know are they copying
Qualcomm are they copying Apple how are
they making their own processor honestly
I don’t know I know that Samsung in the
past is created their own processors I
know that they do it for their watches
their smartwatches
they’ve also created their own operating
systems to go along with it while we
also released a SmartWatch today that
doesn’t use where OS and does their own
operating system so I guess we’ll have
to see whether Qualcomm which has all
the money or arm has quite a bit of
funding has been around forever if if
they can stay on top or if some of these
more proprietary chips like Apple
is done I can actually take over and be
quite competitive but it sounds like it
just may be and I guess we’ll have to
see how tests and speeds has go on these
phones you know it’s fascinating I’ve
noticed a trend I don’t know if you’ve
noticed this that it seems like Google
is moving away from Android and they’re
going more towards Chrome OS and I
wonder if maybe Huawei is using Android
and if there might be a fork in the road
in the near future where Google starts
to go more towards chrome and everyone
else is going to just be left with an
old Fork of Android you know that’s an
interesting thought and personally let’s
simplify why have Android and Chrome OS
I get it at Chrome OS is for Chromebooks
and it’s supposed to be more of your
desktop computing software made simple
but it uses the Play Store right so like
why have to let’s just create one and
let’s make it seamless between the
phones and computers I mean my phone’s
practically computer already and for the
prices we’re paying for these phones
it’s the same as what we pay for a
computer anyways and so I think we’re
gonna see the lines blurring we we saw
the lines blur between tablets and
phones and now we’re gonna see phones
and computers blur we’re already seeing
it with Samsung and I’m trying to
remember the feature they have where you
can plug your new Samsung phone into
your your screen and in a minute yeah
and it mimics a desktop so you know give
it a few more years and and I think that
maybe we will see a unification between
the operating systems on phones and
desktops so let’s talk about the cameras
and then let’s get back to the battery
because this is kind of the neat feature
that if it might be the feature that
people run out by four so you’ve still
got your three cameras you’ve got a 40
megapixel standard camera on the back
you have an 8 megapixel telephoto camera
love the telephoto Dan I am NOT a fan a
digital zoom
although pixel 3 had a really
interesting way of doing the enhanced
feature that we talked about last week
so that’s great to have the 3 times
optical zoom and it has this is new
a 20 megapixel ultra wide-angle camera
so you’re gonna see like arms reaching
around and like grabbing bigger selfies
perverts rejoice just take a picture of
the apartment complex next to you and
zoom in rejoice okay so let’s talk about
the really neat thing about this phone
the feature it will allow you so not
only will it have wireless charging but
it will also wirelessly charge other
phones so that possible like a network
of charging yeah so it actually showed
that if you picked up this phone and put
another phone that can wirelessly charge
onto the back of it it will charge that
phone so at first I thought why well
here’s a few reasons number one it’s a
huge battery it’s 4,200 milliamps that’s
pretty big number two what about having
your phone plugged into the wall and
then somebody else’s phone attached to
it wirelessly charging off of that that
would be cool yeah so that’s kind of
cool so if you’re traveling somewhere
with a friend then you know juice up
both phones at once if there’s only one
outlet also think about sneaking up next
to your brain your battery you know you
could just sort of vampire life 3 then
so am I going to get cancer by being
close to this chain of err connected
chargers I don’t know people be worried
about cell phones and cancer for decades
now so you put it right next to your
head while you’re charging you and your
wife’s phone while you’re sleeping and
see what happens so Dan have you heard
how much this phone is gonna cost well
I’m guessing since it’s not the iPhone
10 less than a thousand how much it is
so it’s a thousand forty nine euros and
I threw it into exchange just to see
what it comes out to 1214 US dollars
that’s a laptop friend yes it is so I
guess you gotta have deep pockets if you
want to wirelessly charge your buddy’s
phone like I said there is a cheaper
version of the phone that doesn’t have
the face ID doesn’t have the OLED screen
has a little bit smaller battery but the
actual phone itself the the footprint is
a little bit bigger maybe that’s the one
people are gonna go for it personally
I’m gonna wait around for the p30 that
will come out next year see how that
goes but man if they’re gonna keep at
this price point yeah I’m kind of
surprised actually so just so I’m clear
about it the one that doesn’t have the
face ID still has the fingerprint reader
in the screen and it’s written has less
of a notch that’s the one I’m gonna buy
right yeah but I didn’t actually throw
that one through exchange it could still
be a thousand bucks I hope LCD screen
but yeah hey speaking of cool screens
Samsung remember how we talked about
this before they say that their new
foldable phone will be a tablet you can
put in your pocket so remember about
four or five episodes back we had talked
about the rumors we had heard about
Samsung having a foldable screen and we
thought well what would be useful about
that once you fold it and have a
calculator on one side maybe a daily
planner on the other like why would you
want to pull foldable phone yeah and so
now they’re saying it’s actually going
to be a tablet that you can just fold
and put in your pocket so for example if
you had a tablet in front of you it
might be awkward to put in a bag you
can’t put a tablet in a pocket but if
you pulled it it up that could be
convenient right yeah I guess if it’s a
tablet first and then a phone second I
think that’s kind of the issue that
you’ve got to ask yourself is what is
the purpose of this device and it was
kind of the same question we had to ask
ourselves when phablets first came out I
remember love I do love it and I
remember my first note it was the very
first note that came out and then when
all the other phones were small like the
iPhone 4 it looked like I put a dinner
plate to my head but I remember I was
out at lunch and
my phone rang and I picked up my my note
1 and I put it to my head and everybody
started laughing they’re like mad it’s
like you put a dinner plate at your head
the whole restaurant stopped eating that
is scratched on the ground yeah so I
mean I do like the form factor that
Samsung is putting out now it’s more of
a candy bar shape it’s not nearly as
wide as that original note so it fits
better in your hand it’s easier to one
hand use but it took them a while to get
to that form factor so I don’t know what
do you think do you think people will
buy it as a tablet first and then oh
it’s a foldable tablet not necessarily a
phone yeah and it sounds to me like it’s
really just for storage – right you’ll
fold it and be able to put it in
convenient places Co he’s kind of the
person that always talks about the new
Samsung products
he says he’s hoping this isn’t going to
be a gimmick product that it’s actually
going to be something that people will
want to buy I mean women have purses
it’s easy for them to throw big
electronics in and be on the go but for
us I mean we only have a front pocket
imagine if you could take a tablet sized
thing that was thin that you can fold up
and just pull out anywhere that would be
pretty neat it would be sweet for the
plane it would be sweet for work I mean
yeah I think it would be great I got to
see what it looks like when it’s folded
up but you know I’m gonna reserve any
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judgment until I actually see the phone
so I’m looking forward to this one they
say it’s gonna be more than 6.5 inches
which is I mean your phone’s like around
that isn’t it
yeah 6.5 to 69 is kind of the average
for phablets right now nothing really
goes over 7 inches so if this foldable
actually takes you into that 7 to 8 inch
region but then allows you to have the
form factor of a phone when it’s folded
I think it could be kind of
groundbreaking I personally like a
bigger screen that’s why I’ve always
loved phablets but you know we’ll see
and and you know Dan there was actually
another phone that was announced this
week by palm and really they’re still
out
well yeah and I can’t remember who
bought the rights to palm but it’s the
complete opposite of this giant phablet
that Samsung is trying to create it’s a
tiny little phone and it’s actually
ridiculous I don’t think it’s gonna go
anywhere but the whole purpose of the
new palm phone is to wean you off your
smartphone addiction so it’s small to
stop using phones yeah that’s exactly it
sounds great so your goodness I’m gonna
buy a phone to stop using my phone but
the whole idea is well it’s Android and
it’s on this tiny little screen kind of
reminds me of Zoolander when you have
that tiny little boat and so it’s like
am I really gonna get on Facebook or
Twitter or YouTube on this tiny little
phone so that’s kind of their idea I
think it’s gimmicky and it’s also really
silly because of like look it fits
better in those sports armbands that you
put on and go to the gym in and I was
like nobody uses some I actually see one
guy at the gym you than I think it looks
silly but just get a SmartWatch listen
to our podcast about the Apple watch it
sounds pretty cool yeah so some sad news
I believe it was yesterday that Paul
Allen the Microsoft co-founder died
right at 65 I actually heard about it
today so maybe it was last night but I
heard it this morning coming into work
yeah so he cancer was the cause of his
death and so a lot of people are talking
about the things that Paul Allen did one
of the things that I found quite
interesting was a quote from Bill Gates
he said quote personal computing would
not have existed without Paul Allen so
for those of our listeners who aren’t
familiar with Paul Allen both he and
Bill Gates were in the same private
school and then they went on to college
but they had their dreams to create
their own software company in highschool
and they I think they kind of convinced
each other that
we don’t need no college education let’s
go become billionaires so together they
created Microsoft and that’s pretty
exciting and he pressure with a
philanthropist and gave a lot of his
money away in and did some wonderful
things with his billions right he did
you know so some of the things he’s done
there’s the Allen Institute for brain
science he also created the aerospace
firm straddle launch which sends it
actually created this giant airplane to
launch satellites into space he also
backed research into nuclear fusion
power he also was quite well known for
loving sports so he’s owned the Portland
Trailblazers and the Seattle Seahawks so
very cool he was still a billionaire
what’s interesting is he got out of
Microsoft in the 80s and Microsoft
really boomed at the end of the 80s and
throughout the 90s so you could say well
he missed that giant wave kind of like
Wozniak
yeah but actually he still came out of
it a billionaire I mean if he was worth
the billion in the early eighties when
he got out he definitely had the cash to
buy some sports teams and be a
philanthropist and research nuclear
fusion so good on him the world will
miss him and we need more people like
him that will create groundbreaking
inventions that will just change the
course of the world for good and that we
can give our billions to let’s make some
more billionaires right let’s make some
more billionaires speaking of people
that are billionaires Mark Zuckerberg
Facebook so here’s a future that I think
is pretty funny that’s taken forever to
come out with do you ever use Facebook
messenger and you send somebody a text
and then you immediately regret it and
then you delete it and you realize that
only was deleted on your end and not on
their end they can still see it like I
do
so they’re finally working on this
feature an unsent feature I mean how
hard could it be right right but I
actually have a pretty funny story about
it I have a friend that confessed her
love to a doctor at work and then by
very message yeah regretted it and she’s
elated it no it’s fine and then the next
day everything was really awkward
because of course on his and it never
deleted it’s funny if you think about
all of the different technologies we
have we have email you can’t unsend an
email and have text messages once the
text is sent it’s gone and so it’s a
little bit silly to me that even
messenger you know whatsapp it’s
ridiculous that you can’t delete
something that you’ve already sent so
I’m excited about this feature just for
picture embarrassing things although
it’s always fun at the office so when
something like that happens I think it
was like podcast number 2 or 3 where I
shared the story about the guy that sent
the drunken email and the milk midnight
this was like and I’m not drunk and all
you can do is write that email that says
please don’t open that other email
exactly actually did you know the Gmail
now has an undo function I believe it’s
been live for a couple months now and so
it basically delays sending so you can
set how long you want to wait until it
sends it off but that’s really all it is
I was gonna say maybe you can try it
first because wouldn’t that be great if
there was an undo button for life
decisions a lot of my student loans I
think I would have sold my condo before
it burned down we all would have
invested an apple back in the 90s we’d
all be billionaires and we’d all own
sports teams and be philanthropist Matt
of course we’re not gonna board all the
money I’m speaking of money Google was
fine five billion dollars by the
European you
Union tell me about what’s going on with
that is it from the Google Play Store or
what’s going on there so this one’s
actually been in the works in the courts
in the European Union for quite some
time I remember reading about it I seen
it even two years ago so here’s the
argument that the European Union says
80% of the world’s smartphones are on
Android and that is a huge market and
every single one of these Android phones
comes with pre-loaded google apps and
that’s actually by design because
Android or search should I say Google
says we developers of phones we will
give you our software for free but in
order for you to get it for free you
have to use our apps such as google
search and it comes with chrome and by
the way who knows photos maps and
anybody who has that phone or buys the
phone they can delete and put other apps
as they so choose so it’s not like
they’re forcing the end-user to use
their apps but they come pre-loaded so
what the EU said is well this is unfair
if 80% of the phones in Europe come with
your apps pre-loaded that’s not allowing
innovation and allowing smaller
companies the opportunity to have their
day in the Sun now you could argue that
the reason why Android apps are so huge
like YouTube how many millions if not
billions of people use YouTube you need
that economies of scale to make it
worthwhile same with your ad revenue and
so we talked about this in the past so
it can be really hard for third-party
apps to be able to take on Android so
here’s what’s interesting so Google trot
back and they said ok you hit us with 5
billion dollars and we understand what
you’re saying so now what we’re going to
do is any Android phone that is going to
be sold in the European Union will have
to pay a licensing fee
so the producer of the phone whether it
be huawei shall me Samsung the the
manufacturer of the phone will have to
pay a licensing fee or every single one
of the phones that go to the EU and that
sounds like Google’s kind of being a
little bit snarky you know saying well
if you’re not gonna use the whole reason
why we create Android to be free in the
first place then you gotta pay us for it
and that actually makes sense to me and
actually this is exactly what the
European Union wanted they wanted the
smartphone manufacturers to be
incentivized to innovate and to create
competitors so what do you think dan do
you think this is gonna work or do you
think people are just gonna sideload the
Play Store cuz that’s a Google app these
phones won’t even come with her Play
Store so well here’s what I’m hoping you
know Samsung’s working on Tizen their
own phone operating system I’m hoping
that you know they’ll start to innovate
that but the problem that we have like
you were talking about before is that
the Google Play Store needs to be a
central place for everyone to get their
apps if you start segregating at all
it’s going to be almost impossible to
find the apps you want and especially as
an app developer it’s so annoying to
release it for the Google Play Store and
for Apple iTunes and for you know all
the different things and if Samsung
makes their own store and if oneplus
makes their own it really complicated
but it could drive innovation and you
know with all capitalism the fastest and
the strongest wins and so eventually
it’s going to come out as one company is
going to have it all anyways so it’s
kind of a circle you know this kind of
reminds me of another article that we
research but never did and it’s all
about how there’s so much competition in
the streaming world so competition with
Netflix Disney now is coming out with
their own movie and TV app and you’ve
gotta go
Amazon crime rate and also yes as the
has the Star Trek ones yeah so what it’s
doing is because there’s so much
competition people are starting to go to
BitTorrent again and in fact when
Netflix got big people stop torrenting I
don’t want to have any admission on
anything what I definitely would have
been less likely to torrent because
everything I needed was on Netflix and
but now I can’t get go get Star Trek on
Netflix I can get the old stuff but I
can’t get the new stuff and people who
want to watch games of Thrones has to go
to HBO and people who want man in the
high tower have to go to Amazon Prime so
they have all this specialized content
and what it’s doing is its pushing
people back to piracy so it’s kind of
the same thing with trying to create
these new operating systems is the world
better off with more operating systems
in the mobile device sphere or are we
better off with a few really good
choices and then is it the same thing
with streaming our television and movies
are we better off with two or three
giants or are we better off with this
smorgasbord that’s gonna cost us the
same as having cable in the first place
if we want to watch it all well it’s
frustrating because of the money right I
mean obviously I wanted third to only be
one store but that would mean only one
company would get all of the money and
it would be impossible to break into
that monopoly and so if you’re asking
what’s best for the consumer one store
is the best if you’re asking what’s best
for all of us at several stores or else
it’ll just be impossible in the future
for anyone to break in I guess we’ll let
the invisible hand decide and Adam Smith
and I’ve got some really interesting
news I want to get political I want to
get into crime so this is like true
crime typist
from mixes with technology and I see
where we’ve got a few minutes left so
I’ll try to make it as quick as possible
did you know I think I want to hear this
story because it’s about is it about the
embassy where that guy died yes are you
familiar so his name is Jamal khashoggi
are you familiar with him and what
happened to him no I just know that he
and his girlfriend or fiancee went to
the consulate and and he disappeared and
never came out right that’s all I know
yes so he’s a journalist and he used to
be quite pro Saudi Arabia that’s his
home country but within the last few
years he’s actually been quite anti the
current king and Crown Prince and so
he’s actually less Saudi Arabia for his
own safety and has been living in the
United States I believe in Vermont but
he was in Turkey at this time and his
fiancee was with him and he wanted to go
get documents so that he could get
married to her now he had to get those
documents from the Saudi Arabian
Consulate so he goes up to the consulate
and he hands his iPhone to his fiance
I’m not really sure why he does that but
he gives it to her he walks into the
consulate and he never comes out so the
very next day the Turkish government
says hey what happened to this guy he
walked into your embassy we know that he
is somebody that you guys don’t like and
somebody that you would like to have
something bad happened to him where is
he
now how what does this have to do with
technology
well the Turkish government or the
officials say that khashoggi actually
recorded his interrogation and his
execution on his Apple watch no way so
that’s that’s the claim so in order for
that to happen a few things have to work
number one his fiance has to be close
enough
that the Bluetooth will be able to work
through the consulate walls and be able
to upload that to iCloud so that’s
number one and we know that’s very
unlikely
number two the Apple watch could have
been connected to Wi-Fi while it was
inside the Saudi Arabian consulate and
that’s possible if for some reason the
Wi-Fi was wide open
or if Khashoggi had previously been
there and somehow connected to the Wi-Fi
so that’s a possibility but also not
very likely and then the third option
that lots of people have talked about is
perhaps his Apple watch was LTE enabled
and it was syncing with iCloud from the
moment that he walked in there and
started recording the problem is as
turkey does not have LTE technology so
anyways the Turkish officials claimed
that he was recording all of this on his
his Apple watch and that the assassins I
mean we’re using that term a lot on this
podcast took the Apple watch and then
used his finger to unlock it and delete
certain buttons now could they do that
you find my Apple watch function on his
iCloud to find where the body is could
have a great idea I don’t know if
anybody’s looked into it I’m sure they
may have tried personally I think the
watch is toast and I think the body’s
gone and we won’t get into how that
happens although I have a forensics
degree and we can have a whole other bug
that’s done how how to get rid of a body
take a blue barrel put some acid in it
no does it work trust me okay anyway so
we won’t get into that so when a lot of
people think actually happened is that
the Turkish officials have the consulate
bugged and so they’ve been spying on
their Saudi Arabian friends for a long
time and when they go down they heard it
go down and they recorded it and so
here’s the whole thing now we’re not
going to get in on the latest political
news such as Donald Trump saying maybe
it was a rogue element trying to give
excuses to the Saudi Arabian government
for what happened but the technology
side of that was quite interesting and
then one last story that goes along with
it is a Fitbit was used to lay charges
and also convict a 90 year old man of
murder 90 years old yeah so first of all
I don’t know what a 9 year old man is
doing murdering people work with the
Fitbit how can he even stand up anymore
well it wasn’t his Fitbit it was the the
woman he murdered so it was his
stepdaughter she’s 67 years old and so
what he claimed was he went and he
visited his stepdaughter and they had a
nice little conversation maybe ate some
cookies cuz that’s what you do when
you’re 90 and then Werther’s Originals
and then she walked him to the door and
he drove away and then somebody came in
and murdered her after that was his
alibi but what the the prosecutors did
is they took camera footage now we’re
back to those cameras that are watching
us everywhere just like those Russian
spies got caught in England so it’s
camera footage and they saw when this 90
year old guy parked in her driveway so
they have his car there they know when
he got there and they know any left and
then they went to the Fitbit that his
stepdaughter was wearing and they went
and they can see exactly what happened
they say the Fitbit shows her heart rate
spiked at 3:20 p.m. followed by a rapid
slowing of her heart rate which stopped
at exactly 328 so that does it
can I see your murder happen and then
they tied that to the surveillance video
and they said you were there and there’s
also other things like they found blood
on his shirt you know like it wasn’t
convicted just because of a bit but 90
year old dudes I mean nobody should be
murdering but you know what it’s this or
90 you don’t get a free pass
technology is not letting us get away
with anything these days and I’m
actually very happy also I’m wearing my
Fitbit anytime I go into an old folks
home me too
and I’m going to have it record any
interrogations or executions of myself
any time I go into a consulate I am
wearing my Fitbit well that was a lot of
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Tech Time Podcast 9 – Google Pixel 3 XL Home Hub and Pixel Slate

Google Event 2018: Pixel 3 Pixel 3 XL Google Home Hub Pixel Slate

  • Pixel 3 & Pixel 3 XL – Exactly what we thought it would be.
    • Starts at $799 – $999 (128gb XL).
    • XL = 6.3” QHD+ Flexible OLED at 523ppi, Notch!, 40% louder speakers.
      • Finally –  Wireless charging and IPX8 Dust & Water Resistant (Pixel 2 IPX6).
    • Single camera on Back, Two Selfie Cameras. = All about AI!
      • Top Shot – Takes multiple pictures – AI to pick the best.  You can scroll through too.
      • High Rez Digital Zoom. – Uses AI to increase the Pixels using the wavering of your hand when you take a picture.  Let’s see!
      • Night Shot – Said, “Don’t use your flash again”.  AI – Multiple layers and apertures to get amazing color in the dark.  Let’s see!
      • Moving Focus – AI identifies people/pets and keeps the focus when it’s moving.
      • Wide Selfie – Two front facing cameras to create an extra wide image for lots of people in the selfie.
    • Screen Call – Google Assistant, will answer and you can read the text as the person replies, “This is your captain speaking”.
  • Home Hub – Screen to Google Home
    • 7” Screen. BT 5.0,  Should have good sound.  
    • $150 – Cheaper than Amazon Show.
    • Can’t adjust the angle.
    • No camera – I want one.  Many freak out.
  • Pixel Slate
    • Chromebook/Tablet – Definitely competing with the iPad Pro.
    • Decent camera on the back (not sure if it gets all the AI of Pixel 3).
    • Folio – Magnetic keyboard, silent type, full trackpad + Cover.  Optional Pen.
    • $799 (Slate) + $199 (folio Keyboard) + $99 (Pen) = $1k (Surface Price).
      • I would rather have a full Windows Laptop (Surface Pro 6) for that price ($899 + $99 keyboard).

Tesla Model 3 Achieves NHTSA’s ‘Lowest Probability’ of Injury Ever

In a blog post on Monday, Tesla said that the Model 3 has been deemed to have the lowest probability of occupant injury than any vehicle ever tested by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). The Drive reports: Since 1979, the regulatory body has implemented the New Car Assessment Program (NCAP) which, through a series of tests, ultimately produces a rating for a new-to-market vehicle based on how well it performs in a variety of safety-related tests. Over time the test has evolved to assess the injury to occupants based on data gathered for front, side, and rollover crashes. During the NHTSA’s previous tests of Tesla vehicles, the Model S and Model X, respectively, became the two vehicles with the lowest probability for injury, outpacing all other automakers. The Model 3 has now widened that gap as it takes the new number-one position on the leaderboard for the safest overall vehicle for occupants. The California-based auto manufacturer acknowledges the car’s low center of gravity as a major factor in its gracious performance in rollover tests. Similar to The Model 3 places its heaviest component, the battery pack, into the floor, so this helps improve the overall stability and rigidity of the car, making it perform excellently in rollover crashes. Additionally, the automaker gives a subtle nod to its engineering team for their design of the vehicle’s crumple zones. Working in conjunction with airbags placed in the front of the vehicle and at the occupant’s knees, the Model 3 was able to safely control the deceleration of passengers in frontal crash tests.

Microsoft Rereleases Windows 10 October 2018 Update, Fixes Data Deletion Bug

An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Verge: Microsoft is re-releasing its Windows 10 October 2018 Update today, following the company pulling it offline due to data deletion issues over the weekend. The software giant says there were only a few reports of data loss, at a rate of one one-hundredth of one percent. “We have fully investigated all reports of data loss, identified and fixed all known issues in the update, and conducted internal validation,” says Microsoft’s John Cable, director of program management for Windows Servicing and Delivery. Microsoft is now re-releasing the Windows 10 October 2018 Update to Windows Insiders, before rolling it out more broadly to consumers. “We will carefully study the results, feedback, and diagnostic data from our Insiders before taking additional steps towards re-releasing more broadly,” explains Cable. It appears the bug that caused file deletion was related to Windows 10 users who had enabled Known Folder Redirection to redirect folders like desktop, documents, pictures, and screenshots from the default location.

 

Google Launches Third-Gen Chromecast With 60fps Video, Multiroom Audio Support

Alongside the new Pixel smartphones, and the Pixel Slate laptop-tablet hybrid, Google on Tuesday also announced a new version of its Chromecast streaming adapter, the third generation of the company’s streaming device, which supports playback video at higher frame rates and can also stream multiroom audio. From a report: The new device goes on sale Tuesday in the U.S., Australia, Canada, Denmark, Finland, Great Britain, Japan, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Singapore and Sweden. Stateside, the new Chromecast once again costs $35 — the same as its predecessor. […] The bigger changes are on the inside: The new Chromecast is 15% faster than the previous model, which allows it to stream 1080p HD video with a rate of up to 60 frames per second (fps). “Everything becomes much smoother,” said Google Home product manager Chris Chan during a recent interview with Variety. He specifically cited the growth of 60fps content on YouTube as one of the reasons Google added the new feature.

*Could be for streaming gaming

Facebook announces Portal and Portal+, an Alexa-enabled video chat device for you home

  • Video Chat Smart Speaker – with Alexa.  Called Portal.
  • $200 10”, $350 15”.
  • “Smart Camera” – Automatically Pan and Zoom to keep everyone in view.
  • “Smart Sound” – Minimizes background noise and enhances speaking.
  • Facebook Messenger – Upto 7 people.
  • Can disable the speaker and camera.

Google Plus to close after bug leaks personal information

  • Google Plus will shutdown after it was made known that Google had leaked +++
  • Did anyone use Google +?

Is Spying too Old Fashoined for our Internet World?

  • We brought you the breaking news of how the Russian Spies were caught on hundreds of CCTV cameras in Salisbury England attempting to kill Sergei Skripal.
  • A month ago Russia tried to give these two men alibis but the Internet has blown that cover right out of the water.
    • RT (Russian Television) interviewed the two accused of the assassination attempt and had them tell their side of the story.
      • Two Sports Nutritionists who loved 14th century clocks.  They flew in directly from Moscow only to see the clock in Salisbury’s cathedral (a few blocks from the Skripal residence) and then flew home.
      • They did not address why there were traces of the Novichok Nerve Agent in their hotel room.
    • One week after the Interview, Bellingcat (British Investigative Website) disclosed the name of one of the spies as Colonel Anatoliy Chepiga.  A high level GRU operative who received the highest honor “Hero of Russia” from Putin himself. They had pictures of him from his graduating class, and confirmation of him receiving the medal from Putin when they visited his hometown and saw the picture in his Grandmother’s home.
    • This week Bellingcat released the name of the 2nd Spie as Alexander Mishkin.  He is a Military Doctor who spent a lot of time in the Ukraine, just before Russia Annexed Crimea.
    • Mishkin took longer to unmask because he had a smaller “digital footprint”.
  • Not only have these missions been botched but the Netherlands have caught and kickout GRU spies who were trying to hack the “Global Chemical Weapons Watchdog”, the organisation looking into the Novichok nerve agent.
  • What do you think about an investigative Website thousands of miles away from Russia uncovering both of these spies?  What about the cameras that caught them in England? Would James Bond stand a chance today???

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[Music]
welcome back to tech time this is
episode number 9 we’ve got a lot to talk
about today
the first thing we’re gonna hit up is
Tesla Model 3 achieves the lowest
probability of injury ever afterwards
Microsoft releases Windows 10 October
2018 update fixes the data deletion bug
we’re going to talk about the
ridiculousness of that bug and why we
think it’s good they got rid of it
google has launched so many things
including a new chromecast the pixel 3
and pixel three XL there’s the home hub
the pixel slate we’re going to talk
about that Facebook announces portal and
portal plus an Alexa enabled video chat
not Google or Siri and then also Google
Plus has closed we’ll talk about the
implications of that and then is spying
too old-fashioned for our internet world
we have an update about our Russian
spies welcome back to tech time we are
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comment we love to respond how are you
doing that
I’m doing great dan how about you good I
had a pretty fun weekend so Halloween’s
in full effect here in Southern
California have you heard of not scary
farm before no I haven’t heard I’m
scared fire it’s a lot like Disneyland
yeah but it’s just scary mazes with
monsters so I’m not scary it is with a
k’ and silent cave as a Berry Farms got
a timer too how about you what were you
up to this weekend well it was Canadian
Thanksgiving so I made some turkey hung
out with mom and dad we went down to the
the cabin down in southern Alberta just
north of Waterton and Dan it was
beautiful al elahh show you some of the
pictures maybe we should tweet some out
but absolutely loved it and then
when I drove back Edmonton was in full
winter mode I’ll bring you to a warmer
climate yes that’s right let’s get a
million views just another 900 that’s
all you need to do just listen to our
podcast save Matt from the winter snow
from the winter but I do love my schemes
so I’m looking forward to that but
anyways we we’ve got some more
seasonable weather coming up its gonna
get above zero here and that zero
Celsius and yeah it’ll be nice again but
anyways that’s what we’re dealing with
okay so we wanted to start out with that
new Tesla Model 3 there’s some cool news
I’m apparently it has achieved the
lowest probability of injury ever and so
in a blog post on Monday Tesla said that
the model three had been deemed to the
lowest probability of occupant injury
than any other vehicle tested by the
National Highway Traffic Safety
Administration that’s pretty good
especially since things like a Corolla
or a Honda Accord have been out there
for so long right the driver port says
since 1979 the regulatory body has
implemented the new car assessment
program which through a series of tests
ultimately produces a rating for a new
to market vehicle based on how well it
performs on a variety of safety related
tests so basically they did a bunch of
tests on this car and it kept winning
over and over now one of the reasons why
that happened is because it’s very low
bearing and it has a very heavy battery
and so that helps it not flip you know
if you were on the side of the road or
if somebody swiped you on the side it
helps it have that low balance yeah and
the model three has now widened I a gap
as it takes the number of new number one
positions on the leader of the board for
the safest overall vehicle for
California so that’s pretty good you
know and I think yeah I was just gonna
say anything it’s really quite
fascinating how the model 3 is just
tearing it up a lot of people were
concerned could they get enough model
trees oh and
with the amount of model 3s I believe
they’re doing five thousand a week
now what about quality control issues
and I am hearing about some paint issues
things like that Tesla does take care of
them but it’s great to see that quality
it might be a little paint Fleck here or
there that you can get fixed and it
doesn’t affect safety so I think that’s
really important I think so – have you
had a chance to drive in the model
through yet or just the Model S actually
neither of them but funny you should ask
I’m actually going down to Calgary we
don’t have anything in Emmett in where I
can test drive but we do have Depot in
Calgary and I’m gonna set up my model
three test drive and I’ll test drive a
Model S there as well I’m gonna be down
there I think Thursday Friday this week
so ask me again next week and I’ll tell
you know goes and then I’m interested
and I think our listeners are interested
too and how it handles the snow and ice
yeah that’ll be neat especially as a low
bearing card you know I wonder if it
slips and if the back wheels slip you
don’t have to tell us how it is well
with the additional weight it should be
a lot better on the snow my only concern
and I believe it’s front-wheel drive the
model three I know the S is rear-wheel
drive you can get the all-wheel drive
but it you know once again it’s more
expensive so I think it’s gonna be good
on the snow especially front-wheel drive
and the heavier weight very cool and you
still have that thousand dollars down
right so are you serious ideas entering
buying one well it’s 80,000 Canadian if
you get every Bell and whistle so that
means you’re getting the all-wheel drive
you’re getting the extra long battery
you’re getting the pure glass roof your
you’re getting the ultimate autopilot
even though it’s not legal to use it
probably won’t be for years and years
and years so I think that one comes out
to like 80 grand oh and they now have a
performance Edition which probably takes
you closer to 90 95 so crazy but I’m
still waiting for the 35,000 US dollar
one and then once I put the upgrades I
want to see
they’re like they do want a pretty nice
autopilot I’ll probably be sitting
around 55 60,000 I also want the
extended battery just because I travel a
lot for work and I don’t want to have to
get halfway there and then wait an hour
as I plug in and is it weird that I just
want the car because of the big display
it’s like an iPad drive itself so in my
car right now it does not have bluetooth
so I have one of those Bluetooth plugins
yeah and it Fritz’s every once in a
while so I have to flick it so that the
music isn’t but it’s going to be great
when I finally get a test well you guys
will be the first to know our next thing
that we wanted to bring up is Windows 10
finally releases the October 2018 update
this fixes that data deletion bug now
this bug was kind of scary people were
installing the update and all of the
sudden the data on their Drive you know
files pictures spreadsheets were being
deleted by Microsoft that’s that man
Gary it’s scary because I don’t think a
lot of people backup their data I know
personally I use Google Docs Google
Drive for most of my things but when
you’re at work you probably don’t put
your work spreadsheets up on the Google
Docs do you you know someone came in and
updated your software and then all of
your hard work just disappeared or your
pictures of your loved ones it doesn’t
sound very fun and so oh it’s terrible
the software giant says there were only
a few reports of data loss they said
1/100 of a percent so that a fully
investigated all the data all the
reports of data loss and identified and
fix the known issue so the issue turns
out to be it was people that were
connecting their folders in a way that
it was like a shortcut and that sounds
like something maybe a power user would
do or something that you or me would do
and that’s why the the updates kind of
scary so it appears that the bug that
caused the file deletion was related to
Windows 10 users who had enabled known
folder redirection
– redirect folders like desktop
documents pictures and screenshots from
the default location
so again if you’re a regular user if
you’re not really changing things up you
wouldn’t have had to be worried in the
first place but if you’re a power user
and if you like to organize where your
documents are it’s very possible that
your data could have been deleted so
make sure to check that out and that
raises a good question I mean do you
trust updates Matt do you always do this
I usually do absolutely because often
especially with Windows 10 is a security
update and then we already know that we
are not secure at all so I’d be happy to
have any security update I can get so
yeah I trust them and I just click sure
go ahead and then I sit there and tap my
fingers well it goes through the reboot
install process but it’s fascinating to
think that we’re trusting you know this
company and then all of a sudden the
files are deleted right oh yeah oh no
scary I’ll be honest I usually wait a
week or two especially for my phone I
have not updated to iOS 12 yet I’m still
on 11 I know they have a really great
beta testing process but I usually give
it a few months before I switch over I’m
a little bit stubborn yeah I got you on
that one
one thing I gotta say is I am impressed
with how quickly updates are coming out
for Windows 10 now it seems to be a lot
faster than in the past and other
versions of Windows even faster than
Apple Apple did a great job doing that
with my Mac and tell it’s tough working
but we’re not going to talk about that
I’m frustrated and shouldn’t have done
that but anyways yeah the updates are
coming fast and furious I personally
trust them and it’s just downright scary
that I got a lost things like family
photos but thankfully I do put most my
documents in the cloud
especially photos oh great so we had a
big Google lunch just this weekend do
you want to talk a little bit about the
Google event yeah I don’t know did you
have a chance to watch it at all today
dance I definitely read about it and I’m
really excited about all the different
devices maybe let’s talk about each
device starting with the pixel being the
pixel 3xl what did you learn about that
well it’s actually nothing surprising of
course the the pixel 3 in pixel 3 XL
were leaked profusely before it came out
and so it’s exactly what we were telling
everybody it was gonna look like so
here’s just the stats really quick it’s
got the excel as a 6.3 qhd+ flexible
OLED screen at 523 PPI and it’s got that
honkin notched and the notches it’s so
ugly like the ugliest iteration of a
notch is huge and it’s because it’s got
two front facing cameras it’s not for a
depth picture or why would they do that
you know at first I thought it was but
really what they touted is the
wide-angle ability with both cameras it
pieces the two pictures together so that
you can do group selfies so it’s
actually a group selfie mode but it’s
also probably really good if you’re
standing in front of the Eiffel Tower or
something else and do in the selfie so
it’s really it’s four awesome selfies
now what surprised me is cameras tend to
be on the back with the double cameras
so that you can get like a zoom feature
the extra wide angle or even night modes
and so it was surprising to see that
they did that on the selfie because they
felt like everything else could be
handled by software so that’s where the
real story is I’ll just finish really
quick on the specs we have wireless
charging hallelujah that’s great
and we also upped the dust and water
resistance net to ipx8 so that’s
fantastic it’s so it’s it’s now catching
up to the other flagship phones so a
quick question about the OLED screen
what does it mean that it’s flexible I
don’t know I just saw that written down
I think it’s because especially on the
excel it goes right to the edge so
they’re doing an edge to edge screen and
so just like my Samsung s9 here I’ll
just hold it up and you can see that it
has the curved edges here and that’s the
flexible screen so I think that on the
pixel 3 it’s got a little bit of that
rounding of the edges to make it smooth
and I think it’s kind of a neat look so
one camera on the back why did they do
this well I was pretty impressed if you
guys want to check out the keynote on it
I highly suggest you do because it’s all
about the AI so this camera or this
phone there’s nothing really special
about the hardware there’s nothing new
that hasn’t been done before but even
the double selfie cam cameras has been
done before for wide-angle shots so
that’s not even new but it’s really neat
the tricks that can do so the first one
is pop shot and what it does is it takes
multiple pictures and then with the
artificial intelligence it says this is
the one where the wind wasn’t blowing
your hair in your face or this is the
one where you weren’t blinking so you
don’t have all the all the crazy
pictures and yeah it’s neat because you
can also sort of go through the pictures
too and you can just scroll until you
see one that you like the VA I maybe
didn’t pick out but it’s supposed to be
really good at that this is a neat one
I’m actually really interested to see
how well it works
it’s called high-res digital zoom now it
only has one camera and with my phone
the s9 plus I have two cameras and I get
in a two times optical zoom and that’s
why I got it I wanted that optical zoom
in my pocket well this one does a
digital zoom but it uses that shakiness
from your hand when you’re holding your
phone up to grab pixels that the one
camera doesn’t grab all at once and then
as you zoom in the artificial
intelligence sort of fills in the blanks
so it’s kind of like when you watch
those spy movies and they’re watching
the camera footage and they’re like zoom
in zoom it enhance enhance and I was
like enhancing is totally big you can’t
enhance but that’s what this AI is doing
so they really are enhancing so we’re in
the future I’m excited to see if it
really works like they were showing it
off to do and then excited for my sake
you are the better it’s going to enhance
so another one that’s me is that shot
now nice shot sounds really cool because
what it does is it takes a whole bunch
of really quick shots with different
apertures grabbing different aspects of
light and then it layers the pictures on
top of each other and what it does is it
then pieces together like a fully bright
picture in the dark now of course they
compared an iPhone X phone or a 10 phone
to the pixel 3 and it’s probably
completely unfair but I like I’d like to
see people do these tests and and they
always do you can find them on YouTube
and it will be great to see if this
night mode is truly as exciting as it
looks I know I mean these all sound
great but it sounds like it’s taking
like a hundred photos for each photo
you’re taking yeah how much memory are
you using and is that gonna force you to
buy the more expensive phone well that
your hard drive that’s a great question
because the phone actually doesn’t have
a lot of memory both the 30 in the three
XL come in the standard 60 40 gigabytes
that’s tiny dent totally tiny compared
to what the other cameras are doing
especially these cheap ones coming out
of China so that was a little bit
disappointing you pay an extra hundred
dollars to get the 128 gigs but really
what’s great about these phones is all
your photos as long as you’re taking
them with this phone in their native I
think it’s only 12 megapixels it’s all
free and it uploads to your google
photos and so that’s great and I think
the AI is smart enough to say that when
you take all these pictures and this
one’s the one where you don’t blink and
you’re happy with it it deletes
everything else so I think that’s good
and I believe there’s also a feature
where you can keep them all if you
really want to and so that lets you just
go crazy and it all goes to the cloud
then you can weave through them later
another really neat feature is called
moving focus so I don’t know if you’ve
ever tried to take a picture of a dog
and it does is it identifies it look at
this kid it’s zooming around and or this
motorbike and it knows that this is the
subject and the focus follows so that’s
pretty neat and then the very last one
that is part AI is the wide selfie that
we talked about earlier that it just
grabs that bigger field of view so that
looks pretty neat
there’s also another interesting feature
they use Google’s what’s at Google’s
assistant to screen a call so you know
how you get those phone calls like this
is your captain speaking and it’s of
course the total fake call so if you get
a call that you don’t recognize the
number you can actually turn on the auto
answer and Google assistant will answer
your phone for you and then it shows
this little text readout of what the
phone says and then what people say to
the phone and then if it’s like this is
your captain speaking you can just hang
up right there it’s like this is your
mom and I lost my old phone and I’m
calling from a pay phone and then you
[Music]
mom got lost in Los Angeles in a bad
area and had to use the payphone at a
gas station one real quick thing I want
to bring up with that is that that
reminds me a lot of Google Voice did you
ever have a Google Voice it has that
option where you can have you know a
robotic voice just people yeah oh hi you
know who is this and then they have to
record it and then you pick up the phone
it rings and it says hello this is your
captain speaking
and then you can choose to accept or not
it sounds a lot like Google Voice yeah
it sounds like it is and it’s just a
little bit smarter than that and it’s
built right into the phone so it’s not a
game changer to me I wouldn’t buy the
phone just for that but for these other
features like night mode and and
high-res digital zoom top shot I think
these are actually pretty cool I’m
hoping they work and if they do do we
need three or four cameras on the back
like what is the the rage that’s
happening right now in the hardware
world
pretty soon the phones are gonna be like
bumble bees they’re gonna have a million
eyes on the sides they’re going to buy
to get really good pictures am i right
yeah I think a combination of the two
right let’s use that AI let’s throw on
some optical zoom there hey Google
let’s get that optical zoom so you get
that better quality throwing you’re
super brilliant smartness and then you
get an even better product well one
thing that was really cool too from the
announcements was the home hub it’s a
screen to Google home now you have
Google home and we use it every day yeah
we love it and it turns on our lights
and it can lock my door and you know
there’s there’s a lot of security built
into it as well but um well we lock do
you have for your door I’ve got the
August
yeah smart lock yet what you put it on
is it I really like it yeah yeah yeah
it’s great the only problem is my door
has a weather sealing in it and it has a
hard time closing unless you push the
door tight so I’ve just got to do a
little bit of adjusting and then it will
be perfect when I was looking at that
August lock yeah it just looked really
big and bulky to me is I kind of have a
small house and so I didn’t want like it
taking up the whole entire doorway you
know I don’t know it just seemed really
big and it seemed like I had to replace
the batteries every six months it is is
it annoying or do you like it or it is
big and bulky it’s ugly
I’ll admit that you go walking I’ve got
on my back door and you walk by this
huge in this ugly yeah that’s probably a
complaint and it doesn’t need to be that
big it doesn’t you look at the
components in another few generations
yeah but back to the home hub yeah it’s
a hundred and fifty dollars cheaper than
Amazon Show
you know every time I see Amazon Show on
the internet you know somebody’s
displaying it I just don’t have that
feeling like I need to run to the store
and buy it it just kind of looks cheesy
I don’t know but this Google home might
be a little bit sleeker it has the 7
inch screen it has good sound but no
camera yet what do you think would you
be excited about it you know
or sleep on whether they want this
camera or not I think that’s actually
kind of lame that you don’t have a
camera
I mean what’s great about the Google
home I do phone calls on it so like I’ve
talked to you on it in the car yeah yeah
and mom and dad and I mean everybody can
gather around the Google home and have a
great conversation why not do video
calling now people on the other side of
the coin they’re like that’s creepy I
mean Google homes already listening to
everything I say so why would I want it
looking everything that I do then you’ll
know I’m sitting on the toilet so and
also people want to put these things in
their bedrooms the kind of neat thing
about it is you can send an alarm and as
it gets closer to when your alarm goes
off it can get brighter and brighter
brighter and slowly wake you I think
it’s cheesy I don’t care about that but
it’s one of the things they’re touting
personally I don’t think I’m gonna buy
it unless it’s got a camera okay well
you did write a note that says mini
freak out about having a camera so it
was another product that was announced
and this is probably the least
interesting to me
it’s the pixel slate so it’s Google’s
approach to the iPad pro and to tell you
the truth Dan I think tablets are on
their way out about that before yeah so
it’s got Chrome OS which yeah it’s light
it’s fast you can play any game that’s
in the Play Store but it’s not gonna
replace a laptop or a computer
especially for heavy gaming and the
price so it starts out at $7.99 which is
about volume is the ED probe yeah and
then you pay another $200 to get the
keyboard the magnetic keyboard a lot
like the surface and then another
hundred dollars for a pen so now you’re
at a thousand US dollars Dan just go get
yourself the surface pro six it’s or
thousand dogs yeah
get a whole laptop right yeah because it
just has Chrome OS on it right that’s
crazy yeah I mean it looks really nice
it comes with Google assistant and it’s
got a super high resolution I haven’t
been able to compare it to the iPad pro
or to save a surface pro Microsoft
Surface pro so it does look like it’s
got a lot of really neat features but in
the end you still don’t have Windows or
or Mac like it’s so you’re not laying
your Steam games you’re not using valve
or anything like that that’s crazy now
or having a full experience with the
office suite yes they have Android apps
but it’s not the same and it’s not as
quick and easy to use but you could play
my new game on it which would be
exciting yeah that’s great game I’ve
been played it so it’s it’s called le
words look it up the next thing I wanted
to talk about is Facebook announcing
portal and portal plus so this is really
similar it’s an Alexa enabled video chat
device for your home but this time it
actually has a camera so you’d be a
little more stoked about this right Matt
yeah actually it looks great it’s a lot
more expensive and the Google Hub I mean
the Google hubs only seven inches this
one comes in two sizes a ten inch for
$200 and a 15 inch for 350 dollars and
the 15 inch is actually really long so
you got portrait mode or you can rotate
it the whole idea about this is to bring
messenger into the home and they want it
so that you can feel like the the
person’s actually in the room with you
and with a 15-inch shirt it would be
pretty cool there’s understands smiling
face looking at me right Colin from LA
is a free anyways it looks interesting I
think the neat feature about this is
it’s got the smart camera so what this
camera will do according to what they
say is it will zoom around so if
somebody else walks in and starts
talking the camera will pan
and then it will zoom into wherever the
action is I’d really like to see if this
works or not I mean that just sounds
really crazy like what if you have a
robotic vacuum that comes in the room is
it gonna zoom in on this or a dog
maybe it’s oom Zin on the fish and the
fishbowl just swimming around I don’t
know it would be neat to see if it
really works
same thing with smart sound it will take
all the background noise and kind of
fade that out I that seems more
believable to me than just this magic
cameraman that seems to work but I’d
like to see how it works well it’s cool
that it works with Facebook messenger
because that’s what I use anyways for
everything so you could just you know
talk to whoever on it and you wouldn’t
have to make them get a new account with
you know say Google+ so did you hear
about Google+ is actually closing after
some bug leaks of personal information
now we’ve talked about this before how
people try to make things that that
isn’t their bread and butter for example
in Apple made their social network on
iTunes that totally flopped now this
time it’s Google trying to make a
Facebook Google+ and it totally has been
flopping I mean I’m amazed it even
lasted this long you know honestly I
always post things on Google+
I find it hard on the internet to find a
place that you can post your blogs or
your YouTube videos I really like that
about Google+ that was kind of like
Twitter how you can say hey check this
out people can easily search it and it’s
not buried under a bunch of other
searches but so that’s kind of sad that
Google+ is leaving but did you ever
really use it you know what I didn’t I
set it up and I kind of liked it because
you know I’ve admitted I’m a oneplus fan
and I’ve had one plus phones in the past
and they were really present on Google+
and I really liked that so I’d go to my
Google+ feed and there would be one plus
I wonder if it has to do with the plus
plus plus anyway
[Laughter]
but I think was the most controversial
part about this move is this happened at
the same time Facebook announced that
they had a problem earlier on in the
year and that they’d been hacked and we
talked about that last week so they kept
it quiet and that’s kind of evil Google
I know that they’re not promising to do
no evil anymore but you know they didn’t
announce that they had a problem and
maybe it’s because nobody cares cuz
nobody really uses it anyways but now
it’s gone so one thing that I thought
was cool about Google+ when it first
came out as they had Google Circles so
you know when you’re on Facebook and you
have 2,000 friends and you cannot
remember who that build person is or
that tiffany girl is you know you kind
of you have to do a little bit of
stalking look at their pictures see who
their friends are it takes you a little
bit of time to figure out whose birthday
it is that you’re posting right the neat
thing about Google+ and the idea that
they had was it was going to be
organized so when you added a friend you
would add it to a circle so maybe the
circle of work friends or church friends
or you know school friends and so as you
were adding people they were going into
groups and you could easily message the
group’s you know I only want people at
school to see this post or I only want
people at work to see this post and I
thought that was ingenious I think
Facebook’s very disorganized I would
really just like to have them punch
things together and have artificial
intelligence to say this is who this is
let’s group these people all into one I
really like that but obviously it didn’t
work people didn’t catch on to it yeah
it’s a shame you’re right I thought that
was great and I don’t see Facebook
paying the money to Google to to buy in
fact I think Google and Facebook don’t
get along very much right now because in
Facebook’s in their portal and portal
plus they chose to go with Alexa as
their voice assistant really that yeah
analog yeah so Amazon ins instead of
making it work with all the big ones
like Siri Google so Apple Google
Amazon they chose to go with Amazon so
that kind of surprised me and I don’t
know if it was good or bad that’s
probably the main reason why I won’t get
it because I’m invested into Google the
Google sphere so not really into
Facebook sphere so you know we’ll we’ll
see if they they made the right choice
or not now before we end there’s
something that I’ve been dying to hear
about that Russian spy that you’ve been
on top of what’s going on there okay I
just had to put this in here because it
is so fascinating so the world of spies
is it’s coming down and so we talked
about and I think it was in our first or
second podcast how the spies that tried
to assassinate saved a street ball in
Salisbury England were caught and so it
was this technology side of all these
cameras that caught them when they got
off the plane and watch them get on the
bus and go to their hotel and then watch
them go to Salsbury and watch them go on
a reconnaissance mission and then watch
them go and do it the next day like it
was fascinating how they were able to
use this technology to catch these spies
well then Russia of course they couldn’t
let it go they couldn’t just be like
Lulu maybe you’ve got a lot of spies
this time but we’re not telling you who
they are so they does both right
Wilson’s acquittal
so what they decided to do is they had
the craziest interview and they put it
on um RT which is Russian television and
it’s of course paid for by the Russian
government and they interview these two
guys in like no trust us we are just
nutritionist experts who like to go look
at 14th century clock towers and
cathedrals in Salisbury
we specifically flew from Moscow to go
look at this clock like that’s it that
was their their alibi and the whole
world looked at in there like really
like that’s your attempt to try to give
these two guys in alibi like they should
have just let them disappear into yeah
okay you got our spies but we’re not
telling you who they are so because of
this there is a website called Belling
cat out of
England and this is another fascinating
thing with technology they watched the
interviews they went through the data
and information that mi6 put together as
far as who are these guys they nailed
them they found out exactly who these
guys are so the very first one one week
after the interview they disclosed that
the first guy’s name was Colonel Anatole
chapito and yeah so they’re like here’s
the guy and this is where he was born
this is the military school he went to
he got honors like we know everything
about this guy here’s a picture of him
this is what he looks like so you don’t
have so it’s like this is obviously the
same guy and they’re showing them side
by side and with all the video camera
stuff and here he is in the interview
and then here he is getting Russia’s
highest honor which is the hero of
Russia and he got it from Putin himself
now that was classified they couldn’t
find any digital information about it
because Russia had scrubbed that but
when they went to his hometown and went
and talked to his grandma they’re like
is this your son so I mean it would
totally fell apart and then it took a
little bit longer and the same website
has now uncovered who the second spy was
and his name is Alexander Michigan and
it turns out he’s a military doctor and
it makes sense they were using the
Novacek nerve agent and this guy they
were able to release that he spent a lot
of time in the Ukraine so not only is he
a military guy here but they were able
to expose he is a spy and he’s been
working for Russia and he’s been in the
Ukraine and we talked earlier about all
the fake news that was happening in the
Ukraine and how it helped topple the
Crimean Peninsula and then it got
annexed by Russia I mean this it just
shows that all the dominoes all the
pieces are coming together and they’re
starting to fall and it shows that
Russia is not nearly as innocent as they
present to be I mean of course we all
know
they were behind everything and it
wasn’t just the Russian people in the
Ukraine they’re like please come take a
salute we all want to be a Russia again
but it was carefully orchestrated and
the GRU which is the Russian spy agency
was behind it so all of this which
amazed me was exposed by a grassroots
website so these are just people who are
like this is dumb let’s find out who
these people are I mean these are
hackers these are investigative
journalists
this isn’t mi6 that put this together
maybe they did as well separately and
did release it but these are people who
are just discovering what’s going on so
here’s a question is is the age of
international spying over like or is it
just gonna get more technical like you
can’t get away with the old school stuff
anymore you can’t just get away with a
let’s go in there and let’s assassinate
them by sprague nerve agent on their
doorknobs so what do you think Dad would
James Bond stand a chance today I’m just
shocked that these people are not clock
tower enthusiasts this whole time 14th
century clocks what does Wikipedia say
oldest clock in Europe we must fly out
just to see we must don’t see that’s
really cool if you guys have comments
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Tech Time Podcast 8 – Facebook Faces Class Action Suit and Every New Android Phone

Facebook Faces Class-Action Lawsuit Over Massive New Tech Hack

https://yro.slashdot.org/story/18/09/28/233249/facebook-faces-class-action-lawsuit-over-massive-new-hack

* hacker exploited a security flaw in a popular feature of Facebook to steal account credentials of as many as 50 million users.

* a class-action lawsuit has been filed on behalf of one California resident, Carla Echavarria, and one Virginia resident, Derick Walker. “Both allege that Facebook’s lack of proper security has exposed them and additional potential class members to a significantly increased chance of identity theft as a result of the breach,” reports The Verge.

* From the report:The lawsuit was filed today in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. The complaint alleges Facebook is guilty of unlawful business practices, deceit by concealment, negligence, and violations of California’s Customer Records Act.

* The plaintiffs want statutory damages and penalties awarded to them and other class members, as well as the providing of credit monitoring services, punitive damages, and the coverage of attorneys’ fees and expenses.

FBI Forced Suspect To Unlock His iPhone X Through Face ID
https://apple.slashdot.org/story/18/10/01/1438241/fbi-forced-suspect-to-unlock-his-iphone-x-through-face-id

* In what may be a world first, the FBI has forced a suspect to unlock his iPhone X using Apple’s Face ID feature.

* Agents in Columbus, Ohio entered the home of 28-year-old Grant Michalski, who was suspected of child abuse, according to court documents spotted by Forbes.

* With a search warrant in hand, they forced him to put his face on front of the device to unlock it. They were then able to freely search for his photos, chats and any other potential evidence. The FBI started investigating Michalski after discovering his ad on Craigslist titled “taboo.”

Swiss Chalet, Harvey’s, other big chains hit by ‘malware outbreak’
Recipes Unlimited – owns many large canadian restaurants (1,400 locations; Swiss Chalet, Harveys, Milestones, Montanas, East Side Mario’s…) were hit with malwear on Friday.
* The restuarants cannot accept credit or debit (cash only).
Many restaurants are closed a few have remained open but with limited services.
* Can/will malware cause bigger issues in the future?

Here’s every new Android phone being announced in October — it’s going to be a busy month
Oct 3 – LG V40 THINQ, NYC & Seoul Korea.
Small notch and Boom Box speaker.
Oct 4 – Nokia 7.1 Plus, London
Oct 9 – Google Pixel 3, XL & mystery phone? NYC
Oct 10 – Razer Phone 2, Hollywood
Made for gaming.
Oct 11 – Samsung Mystery Phone
4 cameras?
Oct 16 – Huawei Mate 20 & Mate 20 Pro
Water drop notch; In-display fingerprint sensor, triple camera setup.
Oct 17 – OnePlus 6T
Water drop notch, in-display fingerprint sensor, T-Mobile
Google reportedly pays Apple $9 billion per year to stay the default search engine in Safari on iOS
Rod Hall @ Business Insider estimates $9B for 2018 and up to $12B for 2019.
Is this worth it?
Siri already uses Bing when it searches the web.
How would Apple users feel if they get Bing results? Is Google still King?

Some iPhone XS Owners Await Charging Issue Fix in iOS 12
* Some shiny new XS and XS Max phones won’t charge when the screen is off. It only resumes when the screen is tapped awake.
* People have woken up to an uncharged phone after having their phones plugged in all night. This could be bad for people who depend on their phones and don’t have a place to charge.
Some think this could be a simple fix with an IOS update.

Tesla Settles with SEC – Stocks Rebound
https://money.cnn.com/2018/10/01/technology/business/tesla-stock/index.html
https://money.cnn.com/2018/09/27/news/companies/elon-musk-sec-tesla/index.html
https://www.thisisinsider.com/sec-says-elon-musks-420-price-point-was-a-weed-reference-2018-9
Background – Aug 7 Musk tweeted, “Am considering taking Tesla private at $420. Funding secured.” Sent the stock soaring 11%.
SEC claimed the funding was not secured, nor was there any talk with anyone about a $420 price. Claim the 420 was a weed reference to impress his girlfriend.
Tesla Stock then dropped 11% and another 14% last friday.
Tesla settled with SEC.
Fined $20m, two new independent board members, Must to step down as Chairman of the Board but stays on as CEO. Doesn’t have to admit wrong doing.
Stock Prices soared 17% almost wiping out any loss from Friday.
Current stock price is $306.5; stock before tweet was $342. 10% less.

Tesla Reports an Upturn in Production

Tesla produced 80k cars in 3rd quarter (53k of them were Model 3s).
Tesla’s goal was to produce 5k model 3’s a week (4,417).

Tesla uses Brand Loyalty to Deliver Record Number of Model 3’s
Tesla has achieved its goal of manufacturing 5,000 Model 3’s a week.
Now 5th fastest selling vehicle only beat by cheaper Camry, Corolla & Civic
Now in Logistic Delivery Hell
Volunteer Model 3 owners helped deliver and orientate thousands of new Model 3 owners on the Weekend to deliver almost 12k cars (8k model 3s) for quarter end (can only count a sale when the car is in the owners hands).
Free labour on delivery and orientation.
Excitement and advice from a current owner.
Tesla is now manufacturing Semi Trailers to ship the Model 3 as there is a shortage.

Half the World Is Now Middle Class Or Wealthier, Says Brookings Institution

https://news.slashdot.org/story/18/10/02/052252/half-the-world-is-now-middle-class-or-wealthier-says-brookings-institution?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
Something of enormous global significance is happening almost without notice. For the first time since agriculture-based civilization began 10,000 years ago, the majority of humankind is no longer poor or vulnerable to falling into poverty. By our calculations, as of this month, just over 50 percent of the world’s population, or some 3.8 billion people, live in households with enough discretionary expenditure to be considered “middle class” or “rich.” About the same number of people are living in households that are poor or vulnerable to poverty. So September 2018 marks a global tipping point. After this, for the first time ever, the poor and vulnerable will no longer be a majority in the world. Barring some unfortunate global economic setback, this marks the start of a new era of a middle-class majority.

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[Music]
welcome back to podcast number eight I’m
tech time I wanted to go over today what
we’re gonna talk about Facebook is
facing a huge class-action lawsuit over
a massive new hack the FBI forced a
suspect to unlock his iPhone X through
face ID swished la Harvey’s another big
chains hit by malware outbreak here’s an
every new Android phone beginning in
October that’s going to be announced so
we’re going to talk about each one of
those it looks like Google is paying
Apple nine billion dollars per year to
stay as their default search engine and
some iPhone 10s owners are having some
charging issues so that’s what we’re
talking about today are you doing over
there Matt I’m doing really good you
also forgot the big news of the week
which is Tesla we’re gonna talk about
the the settlement with Elon Musk and
SEC so we’ll try to cover that too I’m
looking forward to it and Hunter we can
go you know what it was pretty good I’m
trying to remember oh man it was really
busy I was up in Fort McMurray and I was
dealing with her condo board and didn’t
get home until like late Saturday night
so you know busy doing community service
how about you then for those of you that
don’t know Matt’s condo burned down in
the great fire of 2017 yes Fort McMurray
and so now he’s still paying a mortgage
but there’s no condo is that right it’s
you know there’s a there’s a lot of
victims and you know it’s it’s I don’t
want to draw parallels to the terrible
tragedies that happened with the
Hurricanes like the ones that devastated
were Tirico but just like the initial
response or reports saying what the the
damage is done from the Hurricanes the
number of fatalities it’s the same as it
grows exponentially over time as the
effects kind of snowball and domino you
know
I think it went from 37 people or
fatalities from puerto rico’s hurricane
to now thousands well for MacMurray
thankfully there were no fatalities but
the financial devastation is continuing
to roll on and it’s because peoples
insurance deserve running out it’s been
two and a half years and a lot of people
are foreclosing and that’s kind of the
unexpected results from these terrible
tragedies you think you have insurance
and you do it just turns out to not be
sufficient for that level of of a
tragedy and wildfires so you know things
I’m learning but that’s not what this
podcast is about get insurance everybody
and make sure you’ve got lots of it
don’t let your condo burned down well
this weekend I went to a bachelor party
and we played this ridiculous game about
farting have you heard of it it’s like
you know like a board game kind of like
Settlers of Catan but yeah you get
points for farting and it was disgusting
the Yetta isn’t like pull my finger all
the way but Settlers of Catan but hardly
anything about technology there let’s
get into our first story probably just
horse farting dad is there’s this big
risk there’s very big risk just like the
risk Facebook when they got a
class-action lawsuit against them I
guess they had a hack and 50 50 million
users were exposed so some people in
California were pretty angry about this
we went ahead and filed a lawsuit over
it
did you hear much about this man you
know what I did hear a little bit about
it but I don’t know many of the details
tell me a little bit about that
like you said 50 million users users and
it has something to do with the popular
future and allowed a hacker to steal
account information from 50 million
people now if you think about how many
people actually are on Facebook
I mean billions I literally have a
billion users a month that are active so
it’s a small small pool of people but
you know it could have been you it could
have been me it was apparently one of
these people in California that realized
that their information had been
compromised and you know I think we
forget how much we trust these companies
that are giving us free online things
like Facebook with our private
information that’s right our
conversations with loved ones or
business partners they’ve got all of
that in the messenger or on your walls
so there’s quite a bit of information
that can be compromised well you know
what they say when you’re not buying a
commodity you become the commodity and
if I remember right from when I was
reading about the story earlier it was
tied into the future the feature on
Facebook where you want to view your
profile so I believe they said if you
had clicked on the view my profile to
see what it looks like to other people
within the last year you’re one of those
50 million users that got hacked
how interesting well it’ll be their
stock went down quite a bit a few days
ago and it was exposed the stock really
hasn’t been doing that well in this past
month really a lot of ups and downs but
it’s hovering around 165 this week which
really isn’t that great for a tech
company compared to how they had been
doing in the past I mean they started
out at like $17 a few years ago so I
remember you bought some of that stock
here you still holding it nope increased
so also this week the FBI for the first
time forced someone to unlock their
phone with face ID this is controversial
because before people were screaming and
hollering about unlocking a phone with
your fingerprints and whether or not
that was right for the police to do and
it’s even easier for them to get a
picture of you or just to flash your
phone towards your face and should that
be allowed what do you think about that
man
well you know I guess it depends on the
state and the promise that they’re in I
I know that different states have
different rules on being able to access
your personal information I don’t know
if you actually need a subpoena or a
court order to be able to open
somebody’s phone it might be considered
the same in some states if not all of
the states is entering into somebody’s
home
now some people I know certain troopers
have the right to search vehicles and
perhaps cell phones because they’re on
your person can be part of that because
they can also search you as well so I
really don’t know enough about the law
of that the interesting thing about
forcing them to use the face ID face IDs
actually really quite secure on iPhones
because it uses that infrared system
where it shoots those thousands of
little dots all over your face it’s a
three-dimensional scam that it does
instead of just a picture so some of the
less secure ones like I believe oneplus
you somebody was able to hack it with a
picture
I think they’ve gotten better and more
secure but by no means are they as
secures face ID on the iPhone tens well
talking about security I remember when
the when it first came out the face ID
and somebody his mom just pointed it at
her face and even though it was her son
with the phone it unlocked it because
they have learned facial facial
structure I mean this is you know one in
a million kind of things so it is secure
but you know if you have a relative that
looks similar to you you might be out of
luck by going back to the implications
of the police using this in this case
this actually happened in Ohio yeah and
it looks like they had a search warrant
on handle and so that’s absolutely yeah
I don’t see any problem with that as
long as they’re following the laws of
the state and the and the federal laws
if they have a search warrant by all
means if they can open it you’re there
and there’s biometrics involved you
should
open it or else you will be seen as not
cooperating with the law and it could be
worse for you well it’s just interesting
right because if you instead chose to
have a numeric password you can just say
no I’m not going to give you the
password and they can’t force it out of
you what if you said I forgot yeah and
but if they hold it up see you would say
yeah they’re gonna open it up so if you
have things on your phone that you want
left secure whether it be bank records
or whatever
probably best to do a numeric number one
thing that is interesting is the more
numbers you have the more secure it is
and so really you shouldn’t have a floor
number password mine is about 15 number
they’re all random and it’s it’s not
that there’s anything you know unruly or
unsavory on my phone I just you know if
somebody pulls me over I don’t want them
to go through it so I feel like I have
the right to do that and I choose to opt
out of face ID and now my touch doesn’t
even work on my iPhone yeah you’re
telling me your fight your fingerprint
didn’t work you said that last week so
yeah I totally get where you’re coming
from I personally like the biometrics
because they’re fast um like my
fingerprint is fast and I think the in
the future the way things are going is
actually just might be DNA so they might
be like here lick your phone but as long
as it’s tasty so Swiss Chalet and
harvey’s and other big chains were hit
by a malware outbreak so for our
American users Swiss Chalet is a
delicious place that we don’t have here
that serves quarter chicken meals for
like under $10 yeah any Kenny Rogers
roasters yes still around I don’t know
they are but it’s delicious
I love Swiss and they have great gravy
and and you know people will try
anything to get their gravy to taste
like it but I was shocked there’s no
Swiss Chalet here in the States but what
happened to those chains I mean we have
Barbies here okay we call it Carl’s jr.
I think it’s the same company
honey I’m actually Carl’s jr. was part
of this list so it’s actually a bigger
company an umbrella corporation that
owns all these restaurants and it’s
called recipes unlimited and we don’t
know how the malware affected their
system but we do know that it happened
Friday some time and so Saturday or
maybe even Friday night people tried to
get into their favorites which LA or
Harvey’s and most of them are closed and
what I saw in the news there was like
big signs that were pressed up against
the the doors saying we’re closed our
head off has got hacked but this has
affected over 1,400 locations throughout
Canada that is huge that is a lot of
restaurants and a lot of towns that just
can’t feed those hungry people who want
to eat their chicken
well malware is really scary lately I’ve
noticed here more so they’re attacking
hospitals with electronic medical
records
now you’ve ever talked to a doctor
before they’re really leery about
talking about private patient
information it’s all protected under
something called HIPAA which is an
agreement that keeps people’s
information safe and so if you could
picture a doctor keeping it secret
imagine how terrible it would be if
millions of patients data their blood
sugar cholesterol levels whether or not
they’re HIV positive things like that if
that gets out that is really a big
compromise yeah that’s that’s really
quite scary I was actually listening to
a podcast the other day and I probably
should have researched the exact name
and which one it was that our listeners
could go listen to it but it was an
expert that was being interviewed on
hacking and he basically said that we’re
seeing more and more hacks we’re seeing
state sponsored hacks that’s a big part
of espionage these days we’re seeing a
lot of just ground grassroots hacking
you know like the kid in the basement
that’s 12 years old it’s trouble and you
know hacking is really gone from its
innocent roots and it’s quite
interesting the roots hacking is quite
innocent it was
kind of like look what I can do and I
can make you computer laugh at you to
something that can now cost billions of
dollars now this one with the
restaurants I don’t think it’s gonna be
worth billions of dollars but what if
the government goes down we know people
have tried to hack the FBI and the
United States government servers and
they have been successful and we know
that some of the state-sponsored hacks
at least the ones that hit Canada
actually shut down the government of
Canada’s websites for a while so this
expert basically said look this is just
the beginning it’s gonna get worse and
he foresaw hacks that will shut down the
entire Internet now that just blows my
mind because the Internet is this vast
nebulous concept of interconnected
hardware software like how can you shut
that whole thing down but he was saying
we are going to see times in the future
when the whole internet will go down and
then what do we do you know I even read
an article today that our information
for Facebook is being sold in the dark
web for $3 a person although that’s
username and password for Facebook
profiles that are active and you know
that’s very lucrative for some people
because if you are able to get ahold of
people you can contact their friends
pretend to be them maybe you could
pretend to be a Prince of Nigeria I’m
surprised it’s only going for $3 a pop
but you know really be careful with your
passwords and this is just a good time
to remind our listeners to change your
password at least yearly I do yeah you
know I I still get a few fake friend
requests I probably maybe one a year but
I got one the other day and it said and
here’s some of your friends that are
friends of mine and I looked at it as
like no they’re not I think that could
be how their
using that $3 a person is there
pretending to be a friend of a friend
and that’s when you let them in and boom
they start grabbing information they
know where your kids go to school I mean
it’s scary stuff so now you you have a
list here of every Android phone that’s
being announced in October and there’s a
lot yeah you want to go over that with
us yeah let’s go through it so October
is the big phone month I mean we’ll get
some more coming up I believe in January
February when they have the big mobile
conference that usually happens in Spain
yeah Barcelona yeah I’ve been watching a
lot of Netflix out of Barcelona Tiffany
drew love to see is good recommended
nobody paid me to say that so here we go
we’ll start with tomorrow October 3rd
LGD four teeth in queue is going to be
released in both New York City in Seoul
Korea at the same time interesting thing
about this phone it’s got a small
teardrop notch we talked a little bit
about that on the oneplus 60 that’s
coming out as well but it’s also gonna
have a boombox speaker so I kind of look
forward to see what that is
speakers on cellphones aren’t known for
being awesome but they’ve definitely
improved
October 4th the next day the Nokia 7.1
plus will be announced in London October
9th that’s the big Google announcement
the one that we’ve been talking about
all the conspiracy theories and
everything going on looking forward to
it yeah me too actually even though we
debunked the theory of the the pixel
ultra we do know that there will be more
than two variants now we know that
there’s the pixel 3 and the pixel 3 XL
that’s coming out but most likely the
other variants will be international
versions and then versions for the
United States but you know stay tuned we
may have a surprise there there will
also be other things like the the pixel
books will be announced and maybe some
more information on Google home and some
new features that they’re doing so I’m
really looking forward to that
October 10th the razor phone 2 is gonna
be announced in Hollywood and then um to
go down you should and if you remember
the first razor phone it was made for
gaming
and all the reviews that hey this is a
big chunky foam but if you want a game
on this thing this is the best phone for
gaming and then we’ve got October 11th
this is another one that’s interesting
to me I’m definitely gonna log into it
in it’s the Samsung mystery phone so
they sent out some announcements and
they’ve got that picture of forward like
it’s called a galaxy 4 or something like
that and and four cameras and so they’re
wondering is it gonna be three on the
back one on the front or is it gonna be
two on the front two on the back but you
may be folded in half the photo you know
um I hope we get an update on that I’m
not expecting to see an actual
announcement on Samsung’s foldable phone
but would it be cool if they had a
working prototype and showed us the
working prototype it doesn’t have to
come out this year but it would be
awesome if they showed us something so
that would be awesome
October 16th the huawei mate 20 and the
May 20 Pro are gonna come out and they
actually look really neat this is I’m a
big one-plus fan and I’ve been excited
for the 16 and but this one’s got the
water drop notch it’s got an in display
fingerprint sensor and it will come with
a triple camera setup I really like a
triple camera set up on the p20 Pro that
I was playing around with the low-light
is amazing and you can have a triple
zoom it’s the only phone camera that I
see that has a triple zoom so that was
awesome then on October 17th is the
oneplus 60 I’m definitely gonna log into
that I’m a big fan gotta admit it and
we’re gonna have once again water-drop
notch in display fingerprint sensor and
the neat thing about that is it’s going
to be released on t-mobile that’s
absolutely essential that they they get
a partner in the United States and it
was it Huawei or Xiaomi that was trying
to get released on either Verizon or
t-mobile last year and it got shut down
by the government for security issues
because the company was mostly owned by
the Chinese government and so the fact
that oneplus can come in and get an
America partner that’s huge that’s great
these are a lot of excellent phones
coming out
another thing I wanted to talk about is
how some of the companies make so much
money off of your phone did you know
that Google is going to pay Apple nine
billion dollars per year B billion to
stay as their default search engine in
Safari on iOS and so if you didn’t
realize it when you go search in the
upper right hand corner on Safari just
type something in there you’re making
Google a lot of money and yeah I mean
once again where the commodity so
Facebook where the commodity google
where the commodity they love us
googling because the more that we Google
the more they learn about us and they
the more they learn about what we want
to buy and what we want to know about
and and obviously that’s worth nine
billion dollars for Google to pay Apple
I mean well I’m glad they do it yeah
because I prefer Google search results
over Bing or Yahoo I don’t know about
you but it’s just I’m so used to it now
yeah well speaking of being did you know
that if you use Siri on your iPhone it
actually does the search query through
being instead of Google I find that odd
but yeah it does it uses Bing now my
personal experience with being it isn’t
as good or as targeted as Google now
maybe it’s just that I’m used to Google
and I’m used to the way it presents it
to me but being seems to be a little bit
more new centric but I just I haven’t
enjoyed being as much so what do you
think Dan would it do you prefer Google
Bing Yahoo have you even tried yet who
in the last decade so as far as people
at work love being for their homepage
they’ve had these beautiful pictures
that come up and you type in and they
just love seeing that as their home
screen and they’ll have their you know
email hooked into it and it’s yeses but
as far as the search results go I feel
like it’s the experience is just a
little bit cluttered for me I prefer
Google I mean it’s just a white screen
with some blue letters it’s been the
same for the last ten years it’s easy to
look at yeah I actually do a lot of
things in Yahoo
I do their stocks I do their money their
finance I really like their newest page
I like the way it’s organized but I
don’t search with the I who because I
feel like the relevancy of things I’m
searching for aren’t quite up to par
with Google and but it just could be
because I’m used to that so what do you
think would happen if Google stopped
paying Apple 9 billion in fact they’re
forecasting 12 billion for 2019 and we
should make it clear for our listeners
that this was an estimate there is no
specific report that says I saw this
check get cut and written this is an
estimate that somebody made broad haul
at Business Insider put together and
it’s probably pretty close but what do
you think would happen Deeping Apple
would create their own search engine I
mean they obviously I’m the money for it
but they’re so far behind the queue or
do you think they would just default to
Google because it is the best or they go
to B they tried to do like a Facebook
thing on iTunes a few years ago I forget
the name of it but it totally crashed
and tanked I even set up a user account
for it and it was awful they’ve tried in
the past to do things that they’re not
very good at it’s just not their bread
and butter I think they would pick me
personally I don’t think they try to
reinvent the wheel again even if it did
save them money I think you’re right and
I guarantee you Microsoft would pay them
maybe they’d be rolling in it and they I
guarantee you they’d use that 9 billion
dollars it’s part of their budget for
2019 so yeah Apple might want to use
part of that budget to fix the iPhone
10s because I hear it’s not charging for
some users I was reading online that
some people had plugged it in at night
and you know even with their alarm clock
set and in the morning their phones were
dead they woke up late for work and
because the phone didn’t charge at all
and now the articles that I read said
that as long as the screen was lit it
was charging but as soon as the screen
turned off and stopped charging that’s
no good
it’s actually your year but remember how
expensive these iPhone 10s is and yeah
they’re super expensive so to be able to
plug it in and think you’re gonna have a
full charge in the morning I mean some
people are road warriors or they
constantly are on the move you’re you
take transit to work I mean where are
you gonna plug it in so that can be
really bad for you now a lot of this
information came from trying to remember
his last name but his name is Lou our
listeners maybe we’ll put a link in the
doobly-doo down below here if you if you
watch it on youtube or or in the nose to
our podcast but he was known for
bendgate
and he’s a video blogger on YouTube out
of Toronto and I really like his style
but he does take a hard anti Apple line
because it made him money and I think he
honestly likes Android better but he
found this issue and since he started
blogging about it more and more people
especially on reddit has said no that
happens to my phone as well so and then
they thought it was just with the ten
and or the 10s and the 10s max and then
they realized some of the older phones
as well have this issue so they think
it’s an issue with the latest iOS
version and hopefully a patch can fix it
for everybody and well I think we’re
avoiding the biggest news of the week
yet Tesla is settling with the sec their
stocks rebounded do you remember when it
totally crashed
oh man the cedar waters gonna happen
with Elon Musk talk to us about that
drama all right so let’s go through the
drama so it all started August 7
actually started before then when he
accused a guy of the tired gave rescue
as being a pedophile but we’re gonna
skip that we’ve already talked about it
so on August 7 you on must put out a
tweet this is I quote what he said and
considering taking Tesla private at
420 dollars funding secured so this is
big news because he’s basically saying
okay we’re gonna take it off the market
it’s gonna be a nine billion dollar buy
actually it probably is even more than
nine billion but I think that’s what I
heard and who had that money right
funding secured what does that mean well
as soon as he sent out that tweet within
a few hours like in the in the morning
when the markets open it had soared
eleven percent that’s crazy
eleven percent so the people who got
really upset about this or the short
sellers and I believe we talked about it
a little bit an earlier in one of our
podcasts but then the Securities
Commission came along and they said hey
it is funding secured do you have proof
the funding is secured you can’t just
send out tweets like this that aren’t
true and then get this huge bump in your
stock price and so when they looked into
it investigated into it it turns out
that funding wasn’t secured Elon Musk
claimed that the country the Kingdom of
Saudi Arabia was gonna invest and then
he had a few others lined up but really
there was nothing solid nobody had said
that they were gonna lay that kind of
money down so the SEC sent a claim and
one of the claims and I found this
fascinating is they claimed that Elon
Musk chose 420 dollars or 420 as a
reference to pot oh yeah remember he’s
dating this much younger than like half
his age
singer last name Grimes and she’s big
into pot she actually tweeted so this
goes back to another news report that we
did earlier where it was the whole tweet
back and forth with a zillion banks as
well and I guess she was tweeting sort
of friend Azealia and she said well Elon
figured that in a bio you get a 20% bump
to the stock price and it came up to
$419 and so he just rounded it up to 420
as a joke because he knew I’d like it
well the SEC is like there is nothing
Joe
thing about this at all you can’t be a
very public figure who is not only the
CEO but also the chairman of the board
and make claims like this so the
settlement did you read what he settled
for somebody how much well he took a
fine at 20 million okay this is okay
I’ll pay you twenty million dollars
chump change for a billionaire they have
to have two independent board members
and Elon Musk must step down as the
chairman of the board for no less than
three years now you might think that’s
bad I mean their stocks were plummeting
when the SEC sued them and they dropped
hard on Friday and but the he in this
deal he does stay on as the CEO of Tesla
so in other words all the people who
were scared that they were gonna lose
the super powers of Elon Musk still get
him as a CEO they just don’t get him as
the all-powerful chairman of the board
as well and I think this is better for
everybody I think it puts some checks
and balances in place I think that Elon
is crazy tweeting will be taken less
seriously now because he doesn’t control
both the board and the company so I
think in all this will be good and the
stock market agreed so the stock price
soared another 17% which basically wiped
out the the crash that happened last
Friday at 14% now just to give everybody
an idea of the seesaw and teeter-totter
since August 7th they’re still down so
the current stock price when I looked at
this morning was 306 dollars and 50
cents I think it’s dropped some more
since then so they had this huge spike
and then some people are like wait a
minute wait a minute wait a minute let’s
let’s bring it down so I think if
someone around 303 304 but when the
tweet happened in August it was 342
dollars so we’re talking it’s still down
ten percent from its highs that it was
flying with the 420 tweet oh wow that’s
huge
I heard good news though that they’re
really ramping it up with their
production of the model 3 so that’s good
it is and and I think that’s part of the
reason why the stock price didn’t take a
harder hit so Elon Musk had a goal for
the third quarter to have 5,000 model
threes produced every week he didn’t
quite achieve it but he came pretty
close and for a company that constantly
misses its target I think this was
pretty good for a third quarter and I
and I think investors agreed so he got
53,000 model threes delivered and a
total of 80,000 cars all in the third
quarter and it came out to 4400 cars per
week but we do know that the last week
for sure he hit that 5,000 mark and it
looks like he’s going to continue to
hold it if not increase now what was
fascinating about this is in order to
count these cars as sold they have to be
delivered so it’s one thing to be able
to make 5,000 cars a week now you got to
deliver 5,000 cars a week and Elon Musk
actually said he’s gone from production
hell to logistics hell and you know he
used his superpowers again he used him
this weekend did you hear what he did
was he trying to get his own customers
to deliver them that’s exactly what he
did with Elon Musk superpowers he got
his customers so excited and amped up he
said I need your help to deliver and
orientate new customers on the model 3
and people signed up and lined up so if
you needed it delivered to your house
there would be another model 3 owner
would show up at your house in your
brand new model 3 would they get paid or
no this is totally volunteer so think
about it you’ve got free labor when it
comes to delivery now I don’t know if
they control the orientation because I I
mean they’re probably pretty excited
look at this feature look at that
feature but they’re not yet experts I
mean they probably only had their model
threes for Apple
a month right so but still it’s amazing
that they were able to mobilize so many
people and use that brand loyalty and
that super power that musk has to get
people so excited about his product it
made me almost ready to use my thousand
dollar deposit and pay ridiculous money
to go get my model three I’m waiting for
the cheap one so you still have the
deposit in play I do have the deposit in
play I’m still waiting for the cheap one
and also good news for Canadians the
Canadian dollar spiked this last week
actually last couple of days because
NAFTA was finally agreed to they now
call it the US Mexico Canada agreement
oh yeah are you up to 80 cents yet close
we’re really close I think it’s like
seventy nine point five and you know if
we can get over 80 cents I think I’ll be
able to afford the cheaper model 3 but
um you know I’ve also got to take care
of this condo in Fort McMurray first but
speaking of being did you know that half
the world now is middle class or
wealthier I was just reading this
article on a technology website that I
follow and I thought it was fascinating
because you know you always hear about
these developing countries really
struggling but it sounds like according
to this article that people are finally
pulling out of the poverty spell for the
first time since agricultural based
civilization began ten thousand years
ago I thought that was pretty cool I
think that’s awesome you know I like
history I I really enjoy development of
economies and civilizations and and
what’s really neat about this is look at
what happened in the United States and
Canada and and I would even say Western
Europe we moved from an agrarian society
especially here in North America it was
very agricultural based and I would say
up to the 30s 40s and even 50s were
their cities absolutely big cities like
Los Angeles in New York City and in
Boston
Toronto I mean these were big cities
even 150 years ago but you look at how
many people in North America have moved
from farms into the city now look at
what’s happening around the rest of the
world so a China huge migration from
rural areas to urban and it’s really
hard for them to keep up with the number
of people’s but compare that to what was
happening in the United States in the
50s and 60s it’s the same kind of boom
as people are leaving the farm I mean
you and I dad left the farm in the late
60s when he decided to go to law school
and I think most people in Canada T
United States can say either a parent or
a grandparent left the farm well we’re
now seeing that in other parts of the
world including China and India which
are the two most populous countries in
the world and we’re seeing it in Africa
as well as they move to the massive
metropolis is like Lagos and this is a
movement that’s happening and it usually
brings greater wealth and pulls people
out of poverty as long as our agrarian
society can continue to feed us all and
I haven’t heard any concerns about that
not since the eighties when everybody
was into doom and gloom I think it’s a
good thing for the world I I think it’s
fascinating economics is really
interesting that there isn’t a limited
amount of money out there you know it’s
not like there’s you know how Bitcoin
has a set number of Bitcoin and you
can’t write any more than that I mean
you can make money out of nothing you
know it’s it’s fascinating that people
are pulling themselves out of poverty
and there’s not some set amount of money
out there that people are being
successful and thriving in all kinds of
economies what I love about it is the
whole interconnectedness of everything
no some people argue that that can be
bad too because it breeds homogeny where
you start
everybody starts looking and acting the
same and enjoying you know wearing blue
jeans and less
the country music not that I listened
well Swedish country music I admitted I
like a couple songs there last week but
it can breed a homogeny but at the same
time that interconnectedness is is
pulling the world up by the bootstraps
and the rest of the world can enjoy a
lot of the comforts and luxuries that
the West has enjoyed for so long and I
feel like it’s a bit of leveling the
field but it’s not a levelling of the
field as in the West is being drawn down
it’s the rest of the world that’s coming
up and and now look at what we’re gonna
be able to do as globalization improves
and we become more interconnected in
these growing economies I think it’s
just gonna be good for the rest of the
world well an interesting tie into
technology is as technology advances you
know what’s going to happen are we gonna
have more time on our hands to be
creative well we have more time to be
artistic is it going to be like Rome and
you know ancient Greece where they had
time to make these beautiful paintings
and statues are we going to spend more
time on on on the arts or are we going
to still focus on the stem you know
science math technology it’s interesting
to see those ships and to see how
society changes as people become more
middle-class and upper-class Amen
brother
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Tech Time Podcast Episode 7 – Clouds of Bugs and Donairs

Tech Time Podcast Episode 7:

Gut-Brain Connection Could Lead To a ‘New Sense’

  • In our podcast a new study has revealed a “fast-acting neural circuit allowing gut cells to communicate with the brain in just seconds,” reports New Atlas. Diego Bohorquez, senior author of the study, says “these findings are going to be the biological basis of a new sense. One that serves as the entry point for how the brain knows when the stomach is full of food and calories.” He says it “brings legitimacy to [the] idea of the ‘gut feeling’ as a sixth sense.”
  • Duke university
  • Remarkable new work from a team of researchers at Duke University has now revealed a previously unknown direct circuit between the gut and the brain that could allow for fast sensory communication that doesn’t relay on laborious hormonal signaling.

 

Mosquitoes Genetically Modified To Crash Species That Spreads Malaria

  • For the first time, scientists have demonstrated that a controversial new kind of genetic engineering can rapidly spread a self-destructive genetic modification through a complex species.
  • The scientists used the revolutionary gene-editing tool known as CRISPR to engineer mosquitoes with a “gene drive,” which rapidly transmitted a sterilizing mutation through other members of the mosquito’s species
  • After mosquitoes carrying the mutation were released into cages filled with unmodified mosquitoes in a high-security basement laboratory in London, virtually all of the insects were wiped out, according to a report in Nature Biotechnology. The mosquitoes were created in the hopes of using them as a potent new weapon in the long, frustrating fight against malaria. Malaria remains one of the world’s deadliest diseases, killing more than 400,000 people every year, mostly children younger than 5 years old.
  • What’s encouraging is that the mosquitos reportedly did not appear to further mutate in a way that would diminish the effectiveness of the engineered mutation. “But the researchers stressed that many years of additional research are needed to further test the safety and effectiveness of the approach before anyone attempts to release these mosquitos or any other organisms created this way into the wild,
  • Matt – What effect would this have on the local ecology?  I hate mosquitos but would birds, bats and other predators starve? Would other insects move in to replace mosquitos?

 

Uber Drivers and Other Gig Economy Workers Are Earning Half What They Did Five Years Ago

  • According to a new study by the JPMorgan Chase Instittue, drivers who transport people via apps (e.g. Uber, Lyft, Uber Eats, Postmates) made 53 percent less in 2017 than they did in 2013.
  • drivers on average are working fewer hours; demand hasn’t increased to meet the increased number of drivers; trip prices have fallen; or platforms are paying drivers lower rates.
  • The average monthly payments to those who worked for a transportation app in a given month declined to $783 from $1,469. Meanwhile, people working for leasing apps — Airbnb, Turo, Parklee and other apps that let you rent assets like your home, car or parking space — saw their incomes from those platforms rise 69 percent to $1,736 on average.
  • Matt – Outdoorsy – I looked at renting my RV.  A friend of mine said he put his gas Class A on the site just before the May long weekend and had over $10k of bookings within a week.

 

Apple Completes Shazam Acquisition, Will Make App Ad-Free For Everyone

https://mobilesyrup.com/2018/09/24/shazam-ad-free-following-apple-acquisition/

 

  • Apple has successfully completed its $400 million acquisition of Shazam, and the company announced it will be removing all ads from the app “soon.”
  • Shazam has been downloaded over 1 billion times around the world and is used over 20 million times every day

 

Implanted Device Helps Two People With Paralysis Walk Again
* NBC News: At least five people whose legs were completely paralyzed are walking again, two of them with no outside help, thanks to a specialized program of therapy and a pain stimulator implanted in their spines

  • It’s the latest and most dramatic advance in a new approach to treating spinal cord injuries developed at the University of Louisville in Kentucky
  • The reports show that electrical stimulation of the spine, when combined with a very intense and specialized training program, can re-educate the body and help move the legs even though signals from the brain are cut off. The stimulator is implanted into the epidural layer surrounding the spinal cord, and sends controlled signals into the bundle of nerve tissue.

 

SiriusXM Is Acquiring Pandora in $3.5 Billion Deal To Create the ‘World’s Largest Audio-Entertainment Company’

  • with more than $7 billion in projected revenue in 2018 and more than 100 million monthly listeners, combining SiriusXM’s 36 million subscribers and Pandora’s 70 million-plus monthly active users.

 

Streaming Accounts For 75 Percent of Music Industry Revenue In the US

The numbers also show that more people continue to join paid subscription services, with subscription rates growing by about one million per month. But while streaming revenue is still on an upward trend, the news isn’t so good for digital downloads and CD sales. Digital downloads have only made up 12 percent of overall revenue so far this year, down from 19 percent last year, and CD sales saw a whopping 41 percent drop in revenue. To compare, during the same time last year, CD sales were only down three percent from the year before. Vinyl revenue, however, is up 13 percent.

 

First Android phone launched 10 years ago

https://www.cnet.com/news/google-android-first-phone-rivaled-iphone-like-blackberry-nokia-never-could/

https://www.engadget.com/2018/09/24/android-next-decade/

  • 10 years ago (Sep 24) the HTC Dream was released on T-Mobile.
    • The first phone with Android as an Operating System.
  • Had a screen that slid away to reveal a QWERTY Keyboard.
  • Competition in 2008 was Nokia/Symbian, Blackberry, Palm, Windows Mobile, Apple
  • In 10 years we now have Android Pie (API level 28).
  • 2 billion people are estimated to currently have an android device.
  • Android made its name through
    • being open sourced (fragmentation)
    • customizable (contrasted with Apple’s closed OS)
    • Google Apps integrated (Gmail, Google Maps, Chrome, Docs, Photos)

 

Pixel 3 Ultra & Leaks Explained…?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsgAlpzzUmI

  • Brandon (This is Tech Today) and John Prosser (Front Page Tech) the VBloggers who was behind the Pixel 3 Ultra rumour explains the reasons behind the Pixel 3 XL leaks and the Pixel 3 Ultra rumour.
    • Received this information through an Engineer at Google after establishing security protocols.
  • Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL were not leaked on purpose.
    • They were allowed to continue to leak to find the culprit.
    • The leak happened at Foxcon where the LG screens are manufactured.
  • HTC was purchased by Google in January.
    • HTC is most likely the team designing the Pixel 4.
    • The Pixel 3 was designed by the old team (most likely their last).
      • Pixel 3 was already 4 months into development when HTC was purchased.
    • HTC has manufacturing power.
  • There is a 3rd device that the HTC team is working on.
    • It may be released in time for Christmas.
    • Possible working with Xiaomi

Transcript:

welcome back we’re here on our seventh
episode there’s a few things we wanted
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alright then let’s get started how was
your weekend well it was really good I
actually just discovered there’s a
Korean market behind my house and yeah
yeah well good food it’s a meat market
so I went got bulgogi marinade sauce so
I’m gonna try that on my chicken today
to see if it tastes any good the stuff
in the store I don’t know it’s just okay
so we’ll see if this is a little more
authentic I live in kind of a Korean
neighborhood
hoping it’s good stuff how about you how
was your weekend oh it was great I took
the kids out to comic-con here in
Edmonton is actually called the Comic
Expo I guess there’s copyright issues
with calling it comic-con it was great
fun unfortunately a lot of the big stars
didn’t show up they canceled last minute
but we still had fun I was dressed up as
Captain Christopher Pike from Star Trek
and the kids all were there geekiest
shirts and we just had fun watching
people and trying to spot celebrities
and of course eating bad food and and
just getting our geek on it was awesome
so did your costume include a leotard no
I didn’t wear the leotard that’s the
next thing I have to buy but I had the
authentic original series shirt that
it’s the exact same color the same
fabric everything that was in the
original series so are you talking
Captain Kirk I miss twitchett captain
you said well Christopher Pike is before
Captain Kirk he was in the pilot in the
original series oh you know I did I said
I saw the first one it’s on Netflix I
think and I thought that’s strange that
isn’t the regular Captain Kirk I’m used
to well the reason why I chose
Christopher Pike is also in Star Trek
discovery season two he’s gonna be the
captain that shows up and starts
interacting with the discovery kind of
that bridging captain into the original
series since discovery takes place just
before it so fascinating stuff and of
course a few people did recognize me and
they said which captain are you so yeah
we got our geek on it
great at Miss Piggy and it’s a good way
to trying to explain the role switch
right freshman Sabella married to a new
person this is just weird
so to start out we’ve got some kind of
cool news I guess there’s a new
gut-brain connection that could lead to
a new sense so there’s a new study that
says that fast-acting neural circuit
allows gut cells to communicate with the
brain in seconds so if you’ve ever had
that gut feeling when you’ve gone
somewhere that something’s odd that
might actually be real apparently
they’ve figured out that the stomach in
the brain communicate a lot faster than
we think and this could actually be used
for a lot of really cool tech uses in
the future this was done out of Duke
University and it really is remarkable
work that they’re doing did you hear
anything about that no nothing at all
I’m just curious I mean I think it’s
great it’s a it’s our six senses I got a
bad gut feeling about this but what do
you think it could be used for
well I’m doing medical reasons I’m
hoping they’re going to be able to check
out the flora and your gut maybe they
could do tests where they use certain
dies they said that they actually used a
mouse and put a certain time at stomach
and found traces of it in the brain
literally milliseconds later perhaps we
could discover different ways to
diagnose and treat gut problems and I
think that’s just scratching the surface
so that I thought that was pretty cool
that is pretty neat another kind of neat
interesting thing going on is
genetically modifying mosquitoes so Matt
growing up in Canada we had a lot of
mosquitoes and a lot of people joke that
in Alberta is the provincial bird yes
and I remember one time I broke
down on the side of the road on baseline
road in Sherwood Park with mom and we
had to walk to the nearest gas station
and I remember there being thick black
clouds of mosquitoes and just running
and you can feel them filtering your
face as you ran through them if you
still have bad mosquitoes like that you
know what every year is different some
years there’s like flocks and hordes of
mosquitoes that will just descend upon
you and your children and just suck you
dry and then other years you hardly see
any it really depends on how wet the
summer is this summer wasn’t too bad but
I gotta tell you as an RV guy and I love
to take my motorhome out my biggest pet
peeve is mosquitoes and I just love
coming and visiting you down there in LA
because you don’t have the same mosquito
problem we do and you know just that
feeling of walking around in the dark at
night
I’m always cringing because in Tanana
you’re that’s mosquito season like you
just head for home don’t hang out at
night when the sun’s going down because
well this is really cool they actually
genetically modified the species using a
CRISPR technique and what they did was
they were able to make hordes of these
mosquitoes become infertile and so they
weren’t able to reproduce and it really
brought down the amount of mosquitoes in
the next batch for the next year so it’s
exciting but there’s some negative
consequences potentially I mean what
eats mosquitoes right I mean are we
gonna destroy a food chain there what
are you thinking yeah well that’s that
was my thought when you sent me the link
and I started reading about this so
first of all I think it’s great I don’t
know from mosquitoes have any benefit to
ecology other than feeding birds and
bats and other predators and I hope that
if we do decide to eradicate mosquitoes
I mean though prevent malaria and other
diseases get
get sent around in mosquitos what was
that one that was causing birth defects
a while ago yeah I know what you’re
talking about it’s all in Brazil and and
yeah I mean those types of things could
be eradicated and hopefully there’ll be
more less blood sucking bugs that will
sort of fill the neeshub mosquitos but
it does make me wonder a little bit what
would be the effects of eradicating this
past so how many people do you think
died a year from malaria I wouldn’t even
begin to guess did you see any numbers
yeah almost half a million is what the
estimate is so 400,000 a year and most
of them are children under five years
old so I think it might be worth getting
rid of a batterer to to to save all
those people that are potentially
passing away from from the pass on
malaria the one thing I saw that was
fascinating about it is the way that
crispers was eradicating this mosquitoes
is it was sterilizing them it was
basically creating the next generation
after they reproduced sterile and so in
essentially one generation which is
literally days memories yeah the days
are weeks with mosquitoes right you’ve
wiped out that population so it’s fast
it’s it’s a little bit scary to think
that we have that kind of control but
we’ve been doing crispers for a while
now and we’ve been doing gene editing on
plants for a long time for example most
of the plants that we grow and eat are
genetically modified in some way or
another either to be robust and and
prevent insects from eating them they
can handle Hardy or whether they can
grow a lot more wheat and a bushel and
these are great things that genetically
modifying is doing but also these
companies are protecting themselves by
making that generation of whatever is
being produced sterile so I can select
the seeds and
and do your own seating the next year
you want this fabulous new genetically
modified product and what you’re talking
about is quite controversial I know
people in Alberta love the canola plants
which i think is genetically modified a
GMO but you know when I was living in
Hawaii people hated GMOs and we would
constantly have people protesting in the
streets because yeah moustachio or
whatever it’s called that big company
that one said oh yes yeah they were
doing a bunch of testing out there in
Hawaii and so I think I find people that
are very Pro and I think the Pro points
you went over you know it’s more robust
bugs don’t eat it as much you get a
higher crop yield but then there are
some people that are a little bit leery
about eating a plant that’s not natural
and you know could it cause potential
side effects good companies go ahead and
copyright the the plants and say you’re
not allowed to grow this only we are and
would that create a monopoly there’s a
lot of pros and cons to those sides and
you know maybe with bugs and eliminating
mosquitoes we’d have certain
corporations and companies profiting off
of it and other farmers losing out I
don’t know there could be pros and cons
to it too let’s wait and see
so Dan here’s another interesting
article that you found and I’m curious
if you could just talk a little bit
about this
it’s just that side gig economy looks
like it’s not nearly as lucrative as it
was a year or two ago that’s right
you’re talking about Buber they did a
study where they took the average amount
that people earned in 2013 five years
ago and compared it to today and it’s
remarkably lower it’s 53% less this is
what the average uber driver is earning
this year as opposed to 2013 and there
could be several reasons for that it
might be that Buber drivers are working
less hours that demand hasn’t really
increased to meet the number of drivers
the prices have fallen there’s more
competition with lyft and other things
people are doing the scooters now are
they doing school
Simonton I haven’t seen any scooters no
they’re pretty cool when you come out
here to LA next time we’ll go to Santa
Monica yeah it’s full of people on
scooters
you know Millennials out everywhere
outside of their cars in the community
it’s fun to watch but that’s
controversial too a lot of people are
trying to get rid of them because
they’re living on the sidewalks well
everywhere you go there’s these scooters
that are electronic and people don’t put
them away nicely they just throw them on
people’s lawns they throw them on
business sidewalks and they’re just
literally everywhere I mean there’s a
new Segway you know remember what
everybody was whipping around on segways
now with scooters and well what you’re
saying is true I mean it’s a fad
obviously people love it and it’s funny
I just went to church this morning and
walked outside and there was you know
maybe 20 of these scattered right on
like near the lawn right in Monaca and
it’s just funny to see that but I mean
the positive things are people are out
in the community more I mean when you’re
behind a car in Los Angeles you don’t
talk to each other at least you can make
eye contact with people and it’s fun I
see people out on dates to people on a
scooter they’re going up and down the
path you know on the ark it’s a lot of
fun so I’ll have to show you that next
time you’re here that’d be great maybe
you can tweet out a picture of those so
to get back to the side gig and how it’s
being affected is the fact that it’s
harder to make money in a side gig
because prices are getting more
competitive is that better for the
consumer like myself if I wanted to go
get an uber am i seeing that the price
of an uber is dropping or is it really
just the amount of money that’s going
into the uber drivers pocket because
they’re getting less fares you know
perhaps but you’ll find what surge
pricing you know there’s times of the
day where it really is more expensive so
I don’t really know how much you’re
saving as a consumer it’s it’s
frustrating I mean the taxi drivers that
were here 20 years ago
have been working ever since some of
them have switched over to Ober and I
just feel like their paychecks keep
getting cut and I think maybe even in
the next five years we might see robots
take over and have self-driving Ebers
and so you know it really is frustrating
that you know the robots are coming for
our jobs and robots are coming it might
be good for the consumer in a way but I
think you’ll find that if you looked at
the data you’re probably spending just
as much as a consumer I don’t really
know how much you’re saving since 2013
so I think the big businesses are
probably winning here that’s my opinion
so I think it’s interesting just from
reading this article and your notes on
it it looks like it’s really because
this decline in them making money is
because there’s more and more people who
are driving for uber or lyft or some of
these other side gigs meanwhile you’ve
got a very fascinating note in here that
says leasing apps like Airbnb Turbo
partly outdoorsy where you can rent your
RV those seem to be on the move and on
the increase in fact the statistic you
have here it says 69 percent revenue has
increased by people posting things that
could be rented like that no numbers guy
yeah if you look at the numbers back in
2013 monthly on average people doing
Airbnb and other other things leasing
out their properties they would get 783
dollars a month and now it’s 1469 so
it’s you know it’s almost doubled and
Airbnb is huge here because people love
to come down here and experience the
sunshine and you know people are taking
more advantage of that with their
properties so that’s positive but I
think when it comes to over and other
ride-sharing apps things are just going
down it seems to me that it’s the
service industry that first had this
spike in popularity like uber and lyft
and we also have skipped the dishes as
another side hustle you can have so is
that like uber it’s ER
yeah it’s like uber eats it maybe a
Canadian thing but basically restaurants
that normally don’t deliver you can go
through skip the dishes and they’ll have
a minor fee to deliver you food I used
it all the time when I was working out
at an industrial site during night shift
and I wanted to feed a bunch of angry
construction workers and so it’s like Oh
donators for everybody so that everybody
knows that Donaire is actually a year
amazing it’s got this white sauce that’s
made out of sweetened condensed milk
it’s not available in the United States
the second you go to Canada get off the
plane and get it on there ask you to go
there yeah sweet white sauce you’ll be
in heaven
so anyways they I use skip the dishes
ooh it would be exactly like uber eats
so that’s the service industry and it
looks like it’s spiked and now a lot of
people are into the service industry and
it’s harder to make money meanwhile on
the rental industry Airbnb partly Turo
and the one I want to talk about is
outdoorsy that seems to be on the rise
as more and more consumers are
comfortable with using these apps I
think that actually lyft and uber paved
the way once people got in there first
uber and realized this isn’t a scary
person who just signed up and is trying
to make some money it might murder me
right which does happen like we talked
about last week it does happen but it
looks like people are becoming more
comfortable and starting to trust these
services for example outdoorsy is an app
that I’m looking at using next summer I
have a motor home that sits and doesn’t
get used all the time and I’d like to
make some money off it and on outdoorsy
people can rent my classe which is a big
bus and it’s a diesel pusher now I’ve
got a friend who has a gas class eight
lights a bus not nearly as nice as mine
and he listed it just before the May
long weekend this de spring
and he said within a week he had over
$10,000 worth of people booking his RV
and I thought 10,000 you know just think
of the amount of money you could make
how many people have trailers or
motorhomes just sitting in storage or in
their backyards that could be out making
them money so perhaps we’ll see this
spike as we talked about with the
service industry and maybe we’ll see a
drop-off as more and more people get
into things like Airbnb and Turo and
outdoorsy but still it’s an opportunity
to make some money on the side
that’s not really exciting also for our
American listeners the main long weekend
is Memorial Day a lot of people know
that is I’ve tried that a few times it
is the next thing I want to talk about
is that Apple actually just bought
Shazam do you ever use Suzanne I choose
them all the time
so I remember when Suzanne first came
out and I tried to show some friends how
cool it was it’s the app where you stick
it next to a speaker and within a few
seconds it knows what the song is and I
had a lot of friends push back at first
and say why would I do that I can just
hear the words in the song and then type
it in a Google search well you know
there’s some times where you can’t
understand what it is or maybe you’re
listening to a song that’s just a beat
so it’s been quite popular and I think
it’s actually driven the sales for a lot
of streaming downloads and it’s been
quite profitable and I think that’s one
of the reasons why Apple wants to own it
now they claim that they’re gonna take
away the advertisements for it and they
actually spend 400 million dollars on it
now here are some of these numbers I’m
kind of a numbers person so did you know
that Shazam has been downloaded over 1
billion times I mean I see people even
live on the earth 7 8 billion by that’s
1 7 that’s insane right that 1/7 of the
people of the earth have it and they say
that it’s used over 20 million times a
day
and so if you take the population of
like the Southern California that’s
everyone here using it once a day that’s
insane yeah it’s absolutely insane to
think how many people use it I love
using Shazam I even had the the little
the app on my phone where I could just
push it and and oh here’s the song and
then I could click on it I get
downloaded from iTunes I could watch it
on YouTube I mean all these things were
a fantastic way to get this music onto
my phone so I think that’s why Apple
says we don’t need advertising Shazam
needed the advertising and it considered
itself a little bit of a radio player
I’m guessing and that’s why advertising
naturally fit in with the Shazam model
however apples gonna benefit hugely I’m
sure it’s already benefited hugely by
having people Shazam and then instantly
going to buy like what does this mean
that people that aren’t Apple will have
a harder time recognizing songs is this
mean Samsung phones or you know other
kinds of Android tablets maybe wouldn’t
have the opportunity I’m sure they’ll
still be able to download Shazam but so
to get to your question I’m a little bit
concerned about that as well
I don’t think it will be harder to
Shazam a song and know what the song is
or even have access to its lyrics and
all the fun things that Shazam is known
for but what I’m concerned about is it
may not be as simple to go to youtube
and say I want to watch the video of
this in youtube so that’s what my
concern is I think they may try to push
[Music]
Google and YouTube out by making it more
of an apple centric service interesting
one other cool article that I wanted to
talk about before we get into the geeky
stuff is did you hear that they actually
have an implant that has helped to
people with paralysis walk again so this
is pretty cool this is based out of I
believe it’s Tennessee so in NBC News
that at least five people whose legs
were completely paralyzed are walking
again two of them with no outside health
thanks to a specialized program of
therapy and a pain stimulator implanted
in their spines um so this is kind of a
big dream right to help people that are
paralyzed walk again and we’ve seen a
lot of things like exoskeletons we’ve
seen you know muscle stimulation but I
think this is really exciting this is a
cool advancement it’s the latest in most
dramatic advancement in the approach to
treating spinal cord injuries and yes
aluminum University of Louisville in
Kentucky actually that that is working
on that I look forward to seeing a
little bit more about that I’ve seen
exoskeletons used for people with spinal
injuries I think that the sky’s the
limit with what they can do
I mean cyberpunk is coming usually what
we see in science fiction from 20-30
years ago are a reality today I mean
Captain Kirk had an iPad so we’re going
to see similar things happen I think
this is even greater than the
exoskeleton because you’re actually
doing some repair to those those nerves
I look forward to seeing what happens I
also wanted to talk really quickly about
Sirius XM acquiring Pandora three point
five billion dollar deal recently that
happened and this is creating the
world’s largest audio entertainment
company now when I read this I was
fascinated because number one as a
millennial I don’t use Pandora and
number two as a millennial I don’t use
Sirius XM I’m on Spotify amount Apple
music I’m on YouTube those things they
seem kind of like people use them 10 15
years ago do you know a lot of people
that use Sirius XM in their car still or
no actually I don’t
and if I do it’s usually a free service
that comes with the car
they have it for a year the only people
I know that used to subscribe to Sirius
XM were people who worked out in the
bush out in the boonies didn’t have
access to regular radio so if you’re way
up in the Northwest Territories
underneath the Arctic Circle they’re
perfect you can get radio and you can
listen to Howard Stern in a way you go
but I said you can really get serious XM
up in the Northwest Territories oh yeah
yeah because it’s satellite based so I
think that there will always be a market
for satellite based radio you know and
perhaps it will grow in areas like the
second world instead of the first world
places where people are becoming more
affluent but maybe they don’t have
access to radio and Internet like we
have here however I absolutely agree
with your insight as to Millennials and
even myself I’m a generation Xer and I
don’t listen to regular radio I don’t
watch regular TV I use streaming
services like Netflix and I would use
Hulu if we could get it here in Canada
because I sure don’t know we actually
can’t even get Pandora here but I use
Spotify and I’m seriously thinking about
going to youtube music because I am an
Android person and a Google user and
that’s just one more service that falls
underneath the umbrella of Google and so
to me that just seems like a no-brainer
to just migrate that way but I think
you’re right this could be a bad buy but
I think Sirius XM realized that on the
way out they’re seeing a drop in
subscribers they see the Internet as the
savings to their to making money and
this is something that they could afford
seven billion is a lot of money
wait a minute 3.5 billion is good
Towson’s yeah chump change right
but that being said I I think that it’s
it’s they’re betting on the wrong horse
now what’s interesting to get into that
streaming media business there’s another
article here that you posted that says
streaming accounts for 75% of music
industry revenue now that’s in the US
alone but that’s huge then I think that
really shows they’re betting on the
wrong horse by going with radio based
listening to music so Pandora although
when it first came out was neat because
it would say oh you like this song and
here’s a radio station I’ve created
well Spotify does that and Spotify makes
recommendations and says hey I think
you’re gonna like Swedish country music
and I was like Swedish country music I
don’t think so and then I listened to it
and I was like this is great this is not
ABBA meets Willie Nelson like it’s it’s
alternative it’s cool and guess who knew
I would like it Spotify
really oh yeah okay you know one of the
most fascinating things in this article
about the streaming music is that did
you know that vinyl is 13% of the sales
now and that’s almost as much as CDs or
more that’s insane right I have a few
friends that listen only to vinyl and
you know it’s kind of a thing where you
go into their house and they have the
vinyl on yeah do people do that up there
too
oh sure I mean it’s an audiophile thing
and it’s it’s retro and it’s kind of
cool it’s kind of a hipster and maybe
the sound is a little bit better but
really CDs are retro too so to be able
to say he knows CDs or 12% they used to
be a hundred or or 95 percent and to say
vinyl is 13 it used to be a hundred
right until cassette tapes came out so I
still see yeah vinyls increasing because
of its audiophile appeal
it’s retro appeal but it’s not gonna
grow much more than that it’s not gonna
take over the music industry we are
going digital and I think what we’re
gonna see in the future is streaming
apps that are going to get their packets
of music in better quality smaller
chunks so we’re not using all of our
data and when 5g networks come out it’s
just gonna be that much easier to stream
that’s true you know I have a funny
story yesterday a patient was telling me
she wanted to get me this DVD for me to
watch yeah and you know there I guess
there’s this DVD store somewhere in Los
Angeles about she was gonna get it for
me and I told her I don’t have a DVD
player I mean what have you have your
playstation before I don’t have a
Playstation yeah literally my laptop
doesn’t have a DVD player my Roku
doesn’t I mean I couldn’t play it if I
tried so it’s interesting how we’re all
shifting away from physical media and
now you know that streaming music is 75%
that’s fascinating now you had some
articles about Android I can’t believe
it’s been 10 years than it’s been out
yeah actually so yesterday was the 10
year anniversary of when Android made
its first debut on t-mobile actually so
t-mobile had a phone called the g1 which
was also known as the HTC dream so HTC
was the manufacturer and Android was the
OS that was on it and if you see
pictures of this phone I should tweet it
out but it it looks like a really thick
and chunky blackberry that’s all screen
and then you can slide the screen out
and there was a QWERTY keyboard
underneath the screen and I remember
seeing this phone come out and I
remember thinking that’s awesome now at
the time I was a Palm Pilot user and I
had actually just migrated from palm
into Windows OS and I was into these
Windows phones and then to see a screen
slide and have a blackberry type quarter
QWERTY keyboard it was amazing I
remember thinking this is the future
is so cool and also Android started
putting cameras on the front of their
phones not necessarily on the HTC dream
but it was like wow we can get video
cameras now that’s science fiction
that’s crazy and it’s gonna be in my
cell phone
so Android change things now you could
argue Apple actually started to change
and I would agree with you
Apple put the internet in your pocket
that’s what made Apple cooler than
blackberry and cooler than Windows OS
because you actually had the internet in
your pocket it was much better than the
browser’s that the other phones gave you
but Android brought customisation it
brought the Google apps were all
integrated so you have Gmail Google Maps
then later came chrome Docs and photos
and so that’s all totally integrated
into Android so what I like about
Android is how much more customizable it
is you can do a lot more with it you can
tweak it a lot more it’s easier to you
know get under the hood and do things
you want to do with my iPhone I’m
basically stuck with the way it is and I
think it’s a great model but you know I
went to Android for three years you
remember that when I switched over and I
really enjoyed being able to do whatever
I wanted you know live backgrounds I was
able to change and tweak things for my
apps that I was developing it was just a
whole lot easier
yeah so it is it’s great it’s
customizable I really enjoy Android but
now the elephant in the room is the the
many different fractured types of phones
out there right you cannot make Android
as smooth and as seamless as what you
get with the iOS experience and iPhone
because the software is made to work
directly with the hardware so it’s still
great interesting to see so more numbers
so nowadays there are 2 billion people
are
they’re using an Android device today so
those good memory so anyways it’s
fascinating to see where we’ve come so
to go along with that some other
interesting things in the phone news
this last week we’ve been talking about
the conspiracy theories about the pixel
3 and the leaks that have been happening
with it have they been intentional and
then there was rumors about the pixel 3
ultra another phone that would not have
this terrible ugly notch and so we
finally got some answers this week and
the the answers came from two video
bloggers so the first is Brandon from
this tech today and the one that made it
really famous is John Prosser from
front-page tech and basically they were
the ones talking about these rumors and
and really spreading it and they said
they finally got to talk to an engineer
that works for Google and is actually on
the team for designing the pixel 3 well
first they had to lock down all these
security protocols you know using VPNs
and any messaging we do has to be on an
app that will delete everything within a
few seconds so that there was really no
trace but they said the leaks were not
intentional we thought they were you and
I talked about it as a way to drum up
buzz but it turns out that the leaks
were not intentional it came from Fox
Khan’s Factory in China where they
install the lg screens and that that’s
where some of the prototypes or a bunch
of prototypes were stolen and so that
the leaks happened but then Google
didn’t try to stop the leaks they
actually allowed leaks to continue to
happen so that they could find who is
the source of the leaks and fried or
topples so according to their inside
source they weren’t on purpose but then
they didn’t try to stop it but
unfortunately that means that
it’s gonna have a beastly notch at the
top right it’s not gonna be notice so to
get to the pixel 3 ultra which is this
bezel list notch list foam that we’re
all hoping was gonna show up and save
the pixel brand doesn’t look like it’s
coming so if you remember back in
January
Google purchased HTC and it purchased
their phone design team and so now
essentially they had two teams they had
the original pixel team and then they
have this HTC team and and the original
pixel 3 team so when they purchased it
the pixel 3 team was already four months
into development and you can’t just
bring a whole new team with all their
tools and all their equipment into the
lab and say use these guys so basically
what they did is they said according to
this inside source
HTC team with all the bells and whistles
and cool equipment you’re now working on
the pixel 4 which is coming out next
year current team you continue with the
pixel 3 and pixel 3 XL and if people
aren’t gonna like it it won’t matter
because you’re done when this is over
anyways interesting so apparently this
engineer was on the pixel 3 team doesn’t
expect to stick around for the pixel 4
looks like he’s already been replaced by
this new team that was purchased with
HTC so I guess we’ll we’ll look forward
to see what happens that is really
interesting now we’ve gotta go but
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