Tech Time Podcast Episode 4 – Turtlenecks and Electric Cars IPhone XS and more

Will the iPhone XS be worth it?

Listen to find out if the iPhone XS will be worth your wait.

Samsung Foldable Smartphone to be revealed in November

Samsung CEO DJ Koh said they will reveal the foldable smartphone sometime this year.
Many speculate it will be during Samsung’s Developer Conference in November.
Koh stated that Samsung is working on differentiating the phone from a phone or a tablet.
- “If the unfolded experience is the same as the tablet, why would [consumers] buy it?” Koh added: “So every device, every feature, every innovation should have a meaningful message to our end customer. So when the end customer uses it, [they will think] ‘Wow, this is the reason Samsung made it.’”
Do we need a foldable phone?
- Will a foldable phone fit better in my pocket?
- Why would I say, “I need this?”
What is the market for this?

Samsung Rumored to be Developing a Phone with 4 Cameras on One Side.

Not the S10 witch is rumored to have 3 cameras on one side and an in-screen fingerprint sensor.
What is the purpose?
- Double 3D?
- Extra Zoom? That would be nice!

OnePlus 6T Shows a “Teardrop” Notch and an In-Screen Fingerprint Sensor

Slashleaks user “King Star” (has a 91% accuracy rating) posted the image of the packaging.
There are authenticity questions – Oneplus never drew pictures of the phone in their packaging before.
I like the small “teardrop notch”.
In-screen fingerprint sensor will need to be fast.
- I don’t like my back fingerprint sensor – difficult to unlock when mounted in the car.

Sony Dismisses Cross-Platform Gaming

Many multiplayer games have been asking Sony to open up and allow cross-platform gaming.
- Fortnight is the latest to request this feature.
Sony’s CEO Knichiro Yoshida said, the “best experience” is offered by Playstation 4.
XBox Engineering Lead Mike Ybarra, “Sony still isn’t listening to gamers”.
Currently games like Fortnite and Minecraft are playable on XBox and Nintendo Switch.
- Would you like to play cross-platform?

iPhone XS, iPad Pro, Apple Watch 4 – Release Date Wed, Sep 12 @ 10 am Pacific Time.

iPhone XS – What do we know of this device?
- Will this be just another S year? New processor same form?
Apple Watch Series 4
- Leaked images show screen could wrap around watch.
- Battery Life?
iPad Pro – New slimmer bezels.

Lyft Driver finds a Prototype Pixel 3 in his Car.

Leaked so much, the driver instantly knew he was looking at the Pixel 3 XL.
- Big Notch, Big Chin..
He took it out of the case, snapped some pictures and sent them to “BusinessInsider” before returning it to the owner.
It looks like nobody cared. Has it been over leaked?

European Car Makers Releasing all Electric Competitors to Tesla

Mercedes Benz – Yoga, an Electric SUV geared towards millenials.
- How many millennials have the money for a Mercedes?
BMW & Audi will release their Tesla competition shortly.
- Audi – e-Tron SUV to launch on Sep 17 in San Francisco.
- BMW – Vision iNext Concept car will be flown to San Francisco for a tour during the same time.
European Car CEOs and VPs have been seen copying Silicon Valley style by appearing in jeans and sneakers to appeal to a younger crowd.
The three German Car Makers are developing their own network of fast- charges along major highways in partnership with Ford.
- What do you think about Proprietary Charging Stations?
  - We don’t have Ford or Chevy gas stations…
Tesla currently holds 12.3% of all electric car sales.
- As competition heats up, will they be able to hold their market share?

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Transcript:

all right welcome back this is our

podcast and we finally have professional

microphones and we also have videos so

you can see a speak in live

how’d your week go Matt it went pretty

good back at work and just trying to get

everything under control kids started

school again so that’s always exciting

did you do anything cool for Labor Day

uh no not really we just hung out at

home got ready for school cleaned up the

house a bit and that was it nice well I

went on a giant sand dune up in Malibu

and I rolled down it it was pretty

awesome I’ll post that on Instagram and

had a good time camping so it’s been

pretty good sounds awesome

well I hear there’s a lot to talk about

this week with technology did you hear

about that new fold-up Samsung phone

that they’re talking about yeah they’ve

been talking about her for a few years

Samsung has been playing around with the

technology teasing it a little bit here

and there but we haven’t seen an actual

working prototype I guess it was I think

it was yesterday or maybe even today

Samsung CEO JB Koh talked about

revealing the phone sometime this year

so it sounds like he’s given himself a

commitment of 2018 and and we should see

if people are expecting around November

when Samsung does their development

conference what do you think about a

fold-up phone would it be helpful well

you know I thought a lot about that and

I’ve been wondering like what would be

the difference because I have a tablet I

have a cell phone and it would be nice

to say well I’ve got both now but I

really don’t see what the functionality

difference would be and I think a lot of

people have mentioned that to Samsung in

fact code made this statement he says if

the unfolded experience is the same as

the tablet

why would consumers buy it so every

device every feature every innovation

should have a meaningful message to our

end customers so when the end customer

uses it they will think wow this is

reason why Samsung made it so I agree

with him I’d really like to see what is

the advantage of having a foldable phone

I think it’s cool I mean people might

like it personally I’m okay with just

slipping a candy bar phone in my pocket

that’s how they’ve been for the last ten

years kind of like a chocolate bar you

know yeah but it’s kind of fun that

they’re thinking outside of the box and

maybe they could put a screen on the

back side or maybe just make it more

innovative maybe you could write on one

part kind of like a notepad I’m not too

sure what their plans are but it’s

better than just doing the same thing

over and over again right yeah it seems

to me creative renders that people have

been doing based on rumors and usually

the renders look way cooler than what

the actual product looks like because

they’re just based on what they would

love to see not what they can

technically actually fit inside right

and it was really neat because on the

edges when it was folded the edges had

the date the time the weather and kind

of looked like a neat little clock that

was sitting next to your bed or on your

desk and then you open it up and you’ve

got full tablet capabilities I’m just

not sure I like how thin my phone is and

if I was to fold it in half like I don’t

know then it’s it’s bulkier in my pocket

right maybe we’ll go back to holsters

like we had back in the early 2000s

where we all kind of look like Batman

with one or two things hanging off of

our belts I’m looking forward to that

and I’ll start wearing a belt more often

I actually saw a commercial for a

foldable phone for Samsung about a year

ago it was the prototype yeah it had two

people in a bar you know this girl sits

next to this guy he pulls it out and

unfolds it what is that she says you

know yeah it’s really interested

everyone stops in the bar and looks over

so there’s definitely it’s definitely a

gimmick that’s for sure yeah so I heard

that Samsung’s rumored to be making a

phone with four cameras on the side how

many cameras does your phone have you’ve

got a Samsung right yeah mine’s got two

and I actually really like the

functionality of having two cameras

what Samsung lets you do at least with

the s9 Plus which is what I have is it

gives me two times optical zoom I know a

lot of the camera setups that have

multiple cameras out there for example

oneplus doesn’t give you the optical

zoom on the one plus six instead they

went with a different range of you I

think a wide angle lens I’d have to

double check that so some are going with

just black and white so that they can

get more detail there’s lots of

different experimentation with different

cameras so it makes me wonder why for

now do you think it could be 3d do they

want to do like things that pop out you

know like the red phone yeah I don’t

know I know red phone definitely is

going that way but I don’t really see

that as being something that people are

looking for and people are asking for

right now maybe extra zoom I think

that’d be fantastic because that’s been

my biggest complaint of using a camera

phone I mean the camera phone sensors

are amazing they’re great in low-light

they are getting more and more detail

man we’ve got twenty five megapixels 30

megapixel cameras coming in these phones

now but really you don’t have that zoom

unless you lose quality and you do at a

digital zoom and I know on the p20

that’s got three lenses and you can do a

three times zoom and it’s when I was

playing around with it was a big

difference and so for somebody who wants

to take photos with their phone and not

have to carry around anything else

perhaps that’s why they’re going with

four cameras that will give you a lot of

zoom that might give you some great

low-light may be a wide angle it would

be kind of like swapping out lenses on a

digital SLR but it’s right there

built-in deer phone there’s a lot of

people that really like to take close-up

photos photographers I think that would

be a really great option and that way

you don’t have to put a hunk and lens on

every single one of your phones right

those clip ons that you can get was

there a more convenient

I know you like the oneplus phones in

your family did you hear about the 60

yeah so there’s a rumor that came out I

believe it was just today maybe a landed

last night there’s a leaker he his name

is King star and he likes to post to a

website called slash leaks and he showed

the inside of a fox that will package

the oneplus 60 and it’s really neat

because it shows a teardrop notch so

it’s a very minimalist notch right in

the middle of the phone that would house

the selfie camera and then it also shows

an in screen fingerprint sensor so we’ve

known about the in screen and

fingerprint sensor for a while now we

knew it was gonna have a notch because

the six already has a notch but the tear

droppy it looks really nice it’s almost

like the notch isn’t there so if this is

real I think that would be fantastic it

would almost make me want to go grab a

oneplus again / Samsung now I know the

Samsung has 10 coming out next year

looks like it’s gonna have an in screen

fingerprint sensor and Samsung’s just

trying to get the soft or the hardware

fast enough so that it can be responsive

enough some of the phones that came out

with it right now out of China they’re

just slow you stick your finger on and

it slowly unlocked your phone as

compared to the ones that are on the

back of your phone that are lightning

fast well I want to talk about two

things first of all that teardrop

I like that they’re getting smaller

honestly I don’t like the look of the

iPhone 10 with that selfie camera on the

top I know a lot of people like the

knotch

I think it looks ridiculous I think it’s

2018 let’s figure out a way to put the

selfie camera behind the screen I know

it’s very difficult to do but I remember

when I first got my first iPhone the 3G

I remember booting it up and thinking it

was slow I knew back in 2008 that it was

too slow and yeah I knew that it had a

lot to improve on

that’s kind of how I feel about the

iPhone 10 I saw the notch and I just

felt like this isn’t a very well

polished product I can’t believe they

release this to the public and people

are wanting it and then androids trying

to copy it which I also think is

ridiculous so it’s great that they’re

making it smaller I hope that in a

couple of years they can just completely

eliminate any kind of knotch

let me tell you as a game developer it’s

a little bit of a nightmare I make games

for the iPhone and for the Android and

it’s frustrating that all of these

screens are different sizes and it’s

frustrating that there’s a knotch and so

it’s hopefully something they’ll get rid

of and I think something that shouldn’t

have even been included in the first

place yeah I agree I like the idea of

having more screen space I think that’s

important I thought some of the ways

that people are using the knotch where

they put a black bar across the top and

then make it look like it’s just the

forehead of the phone but you can have

notifications up there I think that’s a

neat way of using it but it really looks

like the different companies aren’t

there or just embracing the notch and

just putting the wallpaper all the way

up and I agree with you it’s it’s a

little bit painful to see so the tear

drop what we’re seeing from oneplus

looks like a good compromise but it

would sure be great if we can get a spat

and and remove notches all together

again

the other thing I wanted to talk about

is the fingerprint sensor I’m not sure

about your phones but my phone already

doesn’t work the finger really sir yeah

it worked for about eight months and

then just one day it stopped working and

when I asked about it at the Apple

support they just said sometimes it just

stops working and and I’m not gonna buy

a new phone and so I like the idea of

being able to put your finger anywhere

on the screen instead of yet one spot

because then hopefully it’ll be able to

work in the future I mean I love what

what Apple wants to do eventually make

just one sheet of glass as a phone

without any buttons without any spots

that are you know more sensitive than

others no holes to plug things in and

I’m hoping that this this fingerprint

sensor being anywhere on the screen will

will make it closer to that one sheet of

glass they’re aiming for absolutely and

you know at first when I I’ve got a

fingerprint sensor on the back but I had

one on the front of my oneplus 2 and it

was lightning fast and the problem with

it being in the back is when I travel

and I tried a lot for work and trying to

unlock the phone and you reach out your

finger and you got to take it out of the

harness that it’s in and get your finger

back behind it to unlock it that way it

also does iris scanning but then you’re

driving and then you find yourself like

it really closing your eyes are on the

road I’m like this is totally dangerous

and we’re over drivers that’s terrible

right I’m sure they have to knock and

lock their phones all the time

especially with foreign people in their

cars strangers right all the time they

probably just leave them unlocked

completely and with my old one plus I

just reached out my finger because the

fingerprint sensor was underneath the

screen on the chin right so in fact

that’s something that the pixel 3 in

pixel three XL I was hoping if they’ve

got that big massive chin might as well

put it to use and put that fingerprint

sensor on the front I’m not sure if they

are or not I believe they’re on the back

for the current version of the pixels

and it just seems like such a waste of

real estate space on the front if you’re

not gonna use it for that hey so do you

play any cross-platform games like to

play for tonight or did you play doom or

quake or Wolfenstein when you were

younger oh of course I played doom quake

and Wolfenstein and all kinds of

multiplayer muds multi-user dimensions

and mord’s and all those fun games

my son Brant plays Fortnight in fact he

plays all kinds of games and the problem

that he has is he has friends with

Xboxes and friends with Playstations and

friends with computers and you guys have

Station right we have a Playstation and

then we have an iMac which by the way

isn’t working right now but the problem

with having an Apple computer is a lot

of the gaming for computers is geared

towards Windows and not every game is

ported to Apple but in any case if he

wants to play with friends that are on

the computer and Friends that are on the

Xbox right now Sony doesn’t let you do

that that’s so frustrating and so only

Xbox allows you to play cross-platform

so you could play with a Nintendo

console or with a with a PC may be

running steam software but Sony’s not

into that at home no in fact Sony CEO

his name is Kenichi royo Shiba I

probably said that completely wrong but

when he was asked about it he says oh

the best experiences offered by

PlayStation 4 so in other words why

would we bother allowing cross-platform

gaming when the best experiences here on

the PlayStation they want you to buy

their product of course now what’s

interesting is they are outselling

Xboxes by quite a bit and so he may have

a point however it drives my son crazy

because he still has quite a few friends

that are on the Xbox and also a lot of

these games could be played on the

Nintendo switch oh yeah the

cross-platform in gaming is the future

and if Samsung isn’t listening to gamers

then I think they’re gonna fall behind

this could be a big mistake for Samsung

I heard for sodium you know honestly a

lot of my friends my age do most

everything on steam they’re not really

doing Playstation or Xbox because they

can build a PC that’s much more powerful

the better video card and then just

running off of steam do you see that a

lot – absolutely yeah steam is very

popular in fact it’s getting popular in

virtual reality as well and I like the

idea because steam can be cross-platform

if some of these consoles will let it be

well let’s talk about

biggest news this week I think there’s

been some leaks on the new iPhone

maybe 10s or XS what have you heard

about that

yeah there have been a few leaks but I

guess what is most important is now we

have a date at that time where we can

watch it be revealed so it’s going to be

released on Wednesday September 12th at

10 a.m. Pacific time right now and I

don’t know about you but in the past I

used to log onto my computer and I’d

live streaming or I’d go to different

websites that are blogging it and I do a

little bit of work and I come over and

see what what’s balay this is great

coming out of Apple now I used to be a

huge Apple fanboy and I wouldn’t say

that I’ve got the same fanaticism that I

used to have in the past but I’m still

very interested to see what they’re

going to release and according to some

of the information that’s coming out of

Cupertino or how do you pronounce that

anyway over there I know you got it yeah

coming out of Cupertino we’ve already

talked about the iPhone XS it’s going to

be a bigger screen there’s going to be

an OLED model there’s gonna be some

cheaper LCD models I’m also interested

to see what the iPad pro is gonna do

it’s been a long time since the iPads

had a remake the rumours now is it’s

gonna have slimmer bezels and that’s

been a big question I’ve always had why

has an Apple slimmed down those bezels

it’s a lot of wasted front page now do

you guys use tablets in your household

you know not as much as we used to so we

used to be an iPhone and iPad home and

then I you know getting a a Windows

laptop the surface pro oh that one’s a

good one it’s fantastic because it can

act as a tablet and it can act as a

laptop and I often use it as both so if

I’m at home and I just want to watch

some Netflix or just do some casual

surfing it’s my tablet if I need to pull

something out and actually do some work

on it then it’s a tiny little laptop but

anyways I haven’t had the need for a new

tablet since I’ve

that laptop for me tablets don’t make a

lot of sense

mostly I can do everything on my phone I

even watch netflix on my phone I mean

why would I need a bigger screen so you

don’t have that desire for a bigger

screen especially for movies and TV

shows not at this point I think when I’m

over 40 I might because then I’ll need

reading glasses and I need a bigger

screen well I am over 40 and I don’t

need reading glasses and I like a nice

big screen when I watch you watch on a

tiny little what’s your phone by that

sir yeah yeah it’s the same as the

iPhone 5 it’s a tiny little screen so I

heard that they have a lift driver found

a prototype of the pixel 3 in his car

yeah that’s actually quite funny because

it happened on the weekend and what I

find interesting is this lift driver

recognized the phone for what it was

that just goes to show how much the

pixel 3xl has been leaked and so he also

took some pictures of the front-to-back

took it out of the case and sent it off

to a website to say hey look a miss I

found a prototype phone but the most

interesting thing about it is nobody

really cares it’s like this phone’s been

leaked so much that it definitely hasn’t

been driving up the hype like people

thought it would for finding such a

sought-after prototype phone in the wild

that’s quite a tech-savvy lift tracker

to be able to recognize a phone like

that I think most people would look at a

phone like that and say oh must be 2 3

years old right yeah

left his phone here oops oh I don’t

recognize this phone oh L might be one

of those weird Android phones but

apparently the lift driver has the

current version of the XL so the pixel –

and obviously knew what he was looking

at when he saw that big giant notch at

the top and and he’s remind our

listeners – one of the reasons why

people really like the pixel 3 is

because it’s great at taking pictures

you know it’s debatable whether it’s

better than the iPhone 10 but I know a

lot of photographers that I talk to

prefer the pixel over Apple phones and

so this new one’s kind of exciting for

that reason so I got a question for you

Dan the fact that there was hardly any

hype is there such a thing as something

being over leaked it just we see it so

much that it loses the excitement I

think it’s kind of the opposite of Apple

right they try to keep everything

hush-hush this is actually kind of

advertisement for them people are

finding out what’s coming out and it’s

really not their fault right that that

it’s leaked but I think it’s creating

some buzz and it’s creating some

excitement and I think it’s actually a

good thing for Google that it’s leaking

well you know oneplus is famous for

their ability to drum up excitement

right before a phone launch and they’re

kind of the ones that started this whole

get the buzz going in the wild and get

it going on the internet and people

talking and excited about it and they

started that through leaks but it’s

gotten to the point where you wonder is

Google leaking this on purpose why is

this the leakiest phone in history like

it’s it’s got to be like oh this lyft

driver just happened to recognize

exactly what he had I mean I’m not

saying that that was a plant but maybe

some of the other leaks were we know

Villeneuve oh yeah could’ve been a setup

lanova did that with their phone they

they put all these crazy rumors that

this phone was going to be amazing and

then it was the most disappointing thing

when we actually saw it get released and

it actually made me dislike Lenovo a

little bit more but at least people

talked about Lenovo where nobody cared

about or even knew that they were still

making phone I’ll tell you what I don’t

like about the pixel phones before we

move on that they really only stay with

Google’s operating systems for about two

to three years and then Google stopped

supporting them and yeah one of the

reasons why I had originally gotten a

Google phone was so that I could try out

the new betas of all of their software

and after about two years they just

dropped me and dumped me so I thought

that was frustrating and Apple seems to

be installing new software on a lot of

their older phones compared to Android

and so that’s that’s a bit of a surprise

to me I like to see a comparison how

long phones are supported because the

biggest problem with Android is that I

believe it really depends on the OEM

manufacturer how long they’re gonna

support it my oneplus 2 I got through

two years of support and then they

stopped updating it but yet if I had a

one plus three they’re going on three

years of support so I it’s really up to

the manufacturer and where they feel is

the the best use for their money for

supporting these older phones I’d really

like to see a comparison because my

experience with Apple is when I had the

old like second version or four they did

get supported much more than two years

maybe three at the most and then it was

just going so slow they stopped

supporting it and then all the sudden

apps stopped working from the app store

so maybe they go a little bit longer I

don’t know I’d like to see that

comparison here’s what I want to know I

hear that there’s some European car

makers releasing electronic competitors

to test what have you heard about that

like is it BMW and Mercedes or who’s

who’s doing that so there’s three that

are being announced this month BMW Audi

and Mercedes are all coming out with

their fully electric competitors to

Tesla now this isn’t the first time

we’ve seen these manufacturers at least

BMW Mercedes have cut out other

all-electric vehicles in the past but

what they really struggled with is they

didn’t have the mileage and the range

that Tesla’s being able to put into

their cars at same thing with the Nissan

Leaf that’s probably one of the more

cocky

the all-electric so you’ve got the

Nissan Leaf you’ve got Tesla’s vehicles

and they they just can’t compare with

the range that Tesla’s getting even

these new ones coming out don’t quite

get the same range but they’re at least

getting closer so the question that I’ve

got is 10 these competitors especially

these brands coming out of Europe can

they compete with Tesla and then where

is the advantage that they have over

Tesla because these are hundred-year-old

companies these are companies that have

a huge supply chain and being able to

manufacture parts that can be moved in

and out of vehicles all over the world

but that’s gotta give them some some

savings and being able to bring the cost

of these vehicles down now where they’re

behind the ball is their batteries so

they’re manufacturing and being able to

get a big enough battery and to get the

factory the castle stuff even mega

factories that are putting out giant

batteries made just for their vehicles

but I don’t think it’s going to take too

much longer for these companies

especially BMW Mercedes and Audi they

have large war chests

I feel like Tesla’s overrated as far as

how much its stock price is whereas

these companies are proving Giants with

great quality at least that’s our

perception and here in North America

that these European companies have

better quality so what do you think Dad

do you think they’ve got a chance do you

think they’re gonna chew away at Tesla’s

market for these all electrics there’s

no question that we need competition in

the market if it’s just gonna be Elan

musk making these all-electric cars and

the leaf we’re not gonna get very far

now here in California we used to have a

mandate I believe that it was by 2025

that we needed to really cut back

emissions and electronic cars are part

of that and so you know in order to get

less pollution

on the 405 and all of the freeways down

here I’m hoping that we’ll move in that

direction if it’s just gonna be one or

two car companies and you know the major

public’s not going to pick it up and so

I’m hoping these German cars do start to

do that so we can start seeing less

pollution in the air and you know I

think it would just be neat to have more

technology in our cars I agree so here

are the three vehicles that are being

released this month mercedes-benz has

the yoga SUV I believe they have been

talking about it for a little bit but

they’re actually going to be releasing

it this month and it’s geared towards

Millennials so that’s coming out

howdy has the e-tron SUV that’s supposed

to be launched on September 17th in San

Francisco and then BMW has the vision I

next concept car which is going to be

flown to San Francisco

and is going to be touring around the

same time now here’s something that’s

interesting about these German

manufacturers they’re copying Elon Musk

or perhaps let’s say Silicon Valley

style there instead of showing up in

their crisp suits and walking around

with their white collars they’re now

wearing jeans and sneakers and they’re

trying to look hip and cool and they’re

trying to grab the Millennial crowd

which loves that style that I would

argue started with Steve Jobs and Apple

so not only that but isn’t it

interesting that they’re releasing these

cars in San Francisco or bringing them

to San Francisco to kind of get the buzz

going so what do you think do you think

they’re being copycats or do you think

they can actually bring their own style

to the electric car are they wearing

turtlenecks get people excited about it

you know that’s a lot of great

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Tech Time Podcast Episode 3 – Russian Fake News

Trump Accuses Google of Rigging Search Results To Favor ‘Bad’ News About Him. Russia fake news

President Donald Trump says Google search results for “Trump News” show only negative coverage about him.
Tweet this morning on Tuesday 8/28/2018
Trump tweet, “96% of results on “Trump News” are from National Left-Wing Media”
He said it’s a “very serious situation” that “will be addressed!”
Google denies the claims and says it’s search engine, “is not used to set a political agenda and we don’t bias our results toward any political ideology”.
Shares of Alphabet fell 0.8% to $1,245.86.
Does google/facebook/twitter alter the way we vote and think about issues
YouTube, Apple and Facebook removed content from Alex Jones’ site Inforwars. Conspiracy theorist. Twitter also temporarily deactivated his account.
Fake News out of Russia? Was mostly pro Trump.
- Where do you draw the line? How do you police that?

Xenophobia and automation:

As the Trump administration continues to advance its hardline stance towards immigration, legal or otherwise, businesses are increasingly turning to automation and robotics to fill jobs previously held by humans.
Japan has a notoriously difficult immigration system. You have to do a 6 month course in Japanses culture/language before immigrating.
Their population is getting older. Instead of opening up immigration they are turning to robotics.

Rights groups are demanding that google stops production on their censored search system for china:

More than a dozen tech NGOs and human rights groups have issued an open letter calling on Google to stop work on a censored search engine project in China.
Organizations including Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Access Now and others released the letter to Google CEO Sundar Pichai on Tuesday,
The tech giant’s plans to release a censored version of its search engine app to users in China represent an “alarming capitulation by Google on human rights.”

LCD 2018 ‘A12’ iPhone expected to dominate sales, two dual-SIM models exclusive to China

- Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo has slightly refined predictions for the 2018 iPhone lineup
- reiterated his belief that the two new OLED iPhone models will be available in September. However, the widely anticipated 6.1-inch lower-cost LCD iPhone model will be made available to consumers a bit later.
- Kuo continues to maintain that the new 6.1-inch LCD and 6.5-inch OLED iPhone models will have single-SIM and dual-SIM versions. At present, it does not appear that the dual-SIM models will be available in the United States.
- The less expensive LCD model is not expected to have the A11 processor as found in the iPhone 8 and iPhone X. Kuo believes that the it will equipped with the “A12,” the same as the OLED model
- Will the iphone SE 2 come out too? (I love my iphone SE)
- The 6.1-inch LCD phone is expected to cost around $600-700, while the 5.8-inch model slots in at between $800 and 900, with the 6.5-inch model coming in at least $999.

They might also remove 3D TOUCH: Barclays says it’s “widely understood” that 3D Touch will be removed from iPhones with OLED displays in 2019—aka the third-generation iPhone X and second-generation “iPhone X Plus.” However, they caution that the plans aren’t finalized yet, so they could change. (Did you use 3D touch with your iphone?)

XBox all access:

2 year commitment. 22 dollars a month. ($528 in 24 months)
- XBox One S + XBox Live Gold + XBox Game Pass
Comes with an XBox One S [If you want the XBox one X it’s $35 a month ($840)
- XBox One S is $280 on Amazon.
- XBox One X is $480 on Amazon.
Comes with 100 Games (via streaming)
What happens after the 2 years? Do you need to give the XBox back? Do you just lose the streaming games?

Speaking of XBox: Apparently they’ve shelved a VR headset.

Have you used the playstation VR?
What about occulus? What did you think?

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[Music] hey and welcome back to tech time I’m down from sunny Los Angeles and I met from freezing Edmonton we went from crazy hot to crazy cold in one day what kind of temperatures very violent well it’s not too bad right now but we actually had snow on the trans-canada up in Kenmore near banff and jasper really in august and it’s a little bit disappointing because I feel like I’m getting ripped off of beautiful weather which we don’t get a ton of here back to your 6 months of winter Matt I know I know well we have a lot of to talk about today I just wanted to say that we actually have a Twitter account we have a gmail account and an Instagram account so you can follow all of our travels and what we’re up to the Twitter account is at Tech time show PC the Instagram is at Tech time show PC and of course our gmail is tech time show PC at gmail.com alright Matt so we have a lot to talk about today let’s get started I looked in in my newsfeed and there were 700 articles this past week did you find a lot of stuff for tech as well you know why yes there was a lot of stuff on tech interestingly a lot of it blurs different genres so tech and politics especially with Trump and and that was mostly today that’s right didn’t he tweet this morning at like 3:00 in the morning yeah I’m not sure what time the tweet came out but it wouldn’t surprise me if he was tweeting at 3:00 in the morning doesn’t that remind you of our conversation last week where we were talking about gee emails you shouldn’t be sending emails at 3:00 in the morning you should probably have something similar with tweets I think if it’s after 9:00 p.m. you’re crazy so it sounds like he wrote that Google is out to get him and that basically anything on Google is negative coverage about him he actually used a statistic now he hasn’t been known to be solid on his statistics in the past but he said 96% of results on Trump news are from national left-wing media well that’s a very very serious situation and I’m sure it will be addressed right in his words his words yes very serious situation and will be addressed so Google tweeted back actually they deny the claim oh yeah and yeah they said their search engine is not used to set a political agenda and we don’t bias our results towards any political ideology right now of course they use algorithms to dig up news and those algorithms are based on popularity so websites that people are going to regularly and if people are specifically looking up Trump where are people reading it now if those new sites tend to be according to Trump left-wing media and they’re the ones that people are going to in reading then I don’t think his problem is that Google is biased it could be that people on the Internet are biased what do you think about that you know I think a lot of people that are younger tend to go a little more left that’s not always true but in some cases and they’re the ones that are doing more of the Internet news reading Huffington Post of course is is geared towards that and I’m sure they have amazing algorithms with Google to make sure that they’re always top of the pic and so I’m just not sure if the conservative news sites are doing as well and if they’re able to figure out Google’s algorithm to get to the top of the stack you know I think there’s more to it than just the Google’s algorithm 10 media outlets actually pay money to Google to show up on the top of the search results you can certainly place an ad and a lot of times ads will show up on the top but when you’re doing a Google search you can tell what is an ad and is actually produced by their algorithm there’s a little icon that says add next to it when you’re searching so maybe that’s what’s got him confused maybe I remember reading an interesting article a few years back about a guy who was just graduating from University and he wanted to get an advertising job and what he did is he googled the names of the top three advertising firm CEOs and he paid Google that whenever somebody searched for those CEO names his resume showed up and a little blurb that said hey I want to get hired by you and because he knew that they were they tended to be megalomaniacs to see what people are saying about them he actually got interviews at all three firm yeah he had his pick and he did that by using Google and paying for it he googles himself he watches the news constantly all about himself to see what people are saying about him so I don’t know if you could actually twist towards bias with how much information is probably being written or talked about him at one moment so I don’t know I I think that this might just be part of his war against the media and maybe his personal bias I don’t know well that’s hilarious I’m curious to know how much that guy that wanted a job paid for the Google ads one time I did a campaign for one of my websites and I just threw out a few hundred dollars and it caught ate up so fast so he must have been pumping a lot of money into that for those CEOs to find him uh-huh but yeah it’s interesting I even heard alphabets shares fell by 0.8 percent today because of his tweet yeah you know it is interesting how when Trump tweets about a company it usually does affect its stock price if it’s publicly traded I listen to a pretty funny podcast awhile back I believe it was Planet Money by NPR they they created a bot that would buy and sell shares based on Trump’s tweets of a company and if the tweet was negative they would sell if the tweet was positive they would buy you know anyways yo ya they made some money at the beginning but the biggest problem they had wasn’t Trump’s tweets it was the bots understanding whether Trump’s tweets were positive or negative so I’m curious what do you think do you think Google and Facebook and Twitter and all of these websites do you think they affect the way that we vote and think about political issues well yes absolutely I think that’s been proven with a lot of the fake news and the investigations into Russia that have come out recently so yes I think that they they do and they have been manipulated and probably continue to be manipulated but I think they’re getting smarter and wiser on it I think the biggest issue is how do you separate truth from fake you could probably do some quick fact checks but I think you can’t automate this with an algorithm I think you need an army of fact checkers and and where do you separate opinion from fact do you know anything about Alex’s jlx Jones site I think that happened last week something about it being taken down I don’t know if his site was taken down I know that Twitter temporarily deactivated his account I actually thought it was permanently deactivated because it was being labeled as hate speech I know he’s a conspiracy theorist and he probably appeals more to those that would vote on the right side of things but it’s interesting is you do draw a line between free speech and being able to have an opinion that could be completely wrong and unbathed on statistics and truth but you still have a right to say it but then on the other hand there is it’s been proven that we need to stop fake news so where does it where’s the line between opinion and fake news and a lot of it can be really offensive I mean there could be certain groups that are marginalized with the type of hate speech that you write on Twitter with all of that aside though I actually like the media stream of Twitter that you know our presidents and CEOs and other prominent people are able to express themselves without having to go through some kind of a biased media like a like a newspaper or you know a news television station you know that’s an interesting point and I totally agree with you I think what we’re doing is we’re getting the opinions of our politicians and celebrities and politicians or celebrities as well straight from their thumbs via Twitter like it and it can come at 3:00 in the morning like with Rosie yeah and drunk or ambien yep no an ambien I mean bring up musk again and you know so we are getting that unfiltered and so in on one side I think it’s kind of neat we see the human side the unfiltered side of these people but on the other hand usually the unfiltered and human side can be offensive at time do you lived in Russia for a time when you were living there did you notice were people talking about American politics were people interested in America or not really oh absolutely they were now I was there in the mid 90s and also where I was played a big difference in what I was seeing so I was in the Baltic republics Latvia Estonia in Lithuania and those three republics were very Western leaning they all had their independence indigenous languages and cultures that had been part of the Russian Empire and part of the USSR for such a long time and they were the first ones to break away from the USSR and wanting their independence again so they were very Western leaning but they also had large Russian a large Russian population lat was almost 50/50 reason lat and did they speak Russian there too yes everybody had the spoke Russian because during the USSR everybody had to learn Russian but to speak Russian to a Latvian was offensive okay because they had been basically conquered and treated almost as a colony even though they were part of the USSR and so anyways to get back to this fake news Russia kind of invented fake news really oh yeah there’s fascinating articles and investigations into especially what happened in the Ukraine and the annexation of Crimea so Russian journalists were paid full time paid by the Russian government to write up fake news that would turn the opinion of local Russians in the area against the Ukraine so just like Latvia was 50 percent Latvian and fifty percent Russian Ukraine especially in the East is mostly Russian and so Putin actually claims that he was liberating the Crimean Peninsula from the Ukraine because they were already Russian people and they wanted to rejoin Russia well he did that through manipulation of the media and fake news and it really quite fascinating how he did that so there’s no doubt about it that what people read in the newspaper or in any type of media can affect their opinion in some way absolutely no question about it well you know it’s interesting how political we’re getting today the next thing I want to talk about actually is xenophobia and automation so right now there’s a big push to stop illegal immigration and a lot of the people especially here in Southern California that take the jobs that you know a lot of the the jobs like cleaning and other things are done immigrants and some interesting articles have come out this week saying that if we start doing more automation with more artificial intelligence those jobs actually might not be able to be held by immigrants anymore you know that’s an interesting thought and you know one of the things that you had mentioned earlier as well is that you know automation maybe isn’t just an immigration issue automation is an employment issue all across the board whether it’s immigration or whether you’re born and raised in a country a lot of jobs are becoming automated even fancy jobs like lawyers there’s legalzoom.com I mean nobody’s safe right you know I don’t think anybody’s safe and even artists you know they’re starting to automate art I don’t think they’ll truly be able to get around that and I think that people who are creative in nature those types of jobs will still be very strong but anything where you can create a database or you can crunch numbers or you can automate a vehicle so truck drivers taxi drivers I’ve got a robot vacuum cleaner it’s not as awesome as when I personally vacuumed but hey I prefer watching it zip and around my house than me taking my vacuum and going around the house myself does your vacuum have a name oh yes yes my vacuums name is Rosie yeah so Japan notoriously has a difficult immigration system I lived in Japan for a few months and it was really interesting how expats were treated and how really not a lot of people are immigrating to Tokyo apparently there’s a six-month course that you need to take on Japanese culture and language before you’re even considered for immigration but what ends up happening with them is that their population they’re getting older and there’s no immigrants to take the jobs and not a lot of kids that are taking the jobs of the past so what they’re turning to is actually robotics and it’s been fascinating to see the different kinds of things that they’re trying to make robots do whether it’s help out in an old folks home or like your robot clean the house that’s fascinating you know Japan’s always been on the cutting edge of robotics and so I makes me ask the question is it because they’re so hard on immigration that they it’s now pushing robotics into that field or is it the fact that that’s some of the easier areas to automate and because Japan’s on the cutting edge that that’s the areas that are getting automated first you bring up a good point but either way that population is getting older and there’s known a lot of people taking the jobs at the bottom unfortunately but speaking of Asia Google right now is actually working on a web search for China but it’s going to be censored and the government is going to kind of have control over what is able to be searched and not searched have you heard about that you know what I didn’t hear about it until you brought it up with me earlier today and I’m wondering if this has to do with some of those high-level Google executives and engineers that all quit their jobs about six months ago and they couldn’t talk about why they were quitting Google but I wonder if that has something to do with this very possible I guess more than a dozen tech NGO and human rights groups have issued an open letter calling for Google to stop work on the sensor and search engine project in China so that’s people like Amnesty International Human Rights Watch and the Electronic Frontier Foundation access now they all released their letter to the Google CEO on Tuesday so do you think that Google has an explanation I mean weren’t they the company that came out with the motto do no evil um am i quoting the wrong company they actually retracted that but I only like doing no but it’s no longer one of their one of their points I think they want a piece of the pie in Asia and I think they see these other companies that are really moving ahead and they feel like they’re probably lagging a little bit behind now their algorithms are wonderful for searching but they’re just not able to be in China at this point so I think they’re they’re reaching a compromise with the Chinese government to still be able to work there and get the money from advertisement but in a censored fashion well that does make sense especially from a business point of view referring back to last week’s conversation about how many Internet users there are in China and how that wave of internet use is probably going to affect the tech industry in the next couple decades it was 800 million there’s 800 million tech users there and you know I can understand why China would want to censor some things but it’s interesting can you think of some types of things that could be a human right that is having that search being censored could be problematic well from what I’ve read in the past and this is from a few years ago it seems like things that are getting censored would be any criticism of the government okay that tends to be censored and personally I have a big problem with that I feel like you know born and raised in a democratic country I feel like I have a right to complain about my government and and we also feel like we can make changes to our government through our ability to vote and lobby and write articles to those elected individuals and so this censorship I think it’s mostly going to come down on censorship of people complaining about their government well there’s no question free speech is important so off the political campaign it sounds like iPhones are coming out and probably in a few weeks and I hear there might be three different models and two of them might even have a duel soon yeah actually that was pretty exciting for me to read that today I I just saw it this morning I as I mentioned earlier I loved having two sims on my cellphone you’ve got a work sim and home soon I I had a work sim in a home sin I’ve since gotten rid of my home sim because I found I really wasn’t using it that much and work was okay with me using their cell phone occasionally for personal use but it was sure great for people who like to keep their personal life and their work life separate but yet not carry around multiple phones it was fantastic and for the international traveler it’s wonderful too so I went to spy on it last month and when I went to the airport I found a cell phone place and when I walked in they told me I could get a month with five gigabit gigabytes of data at LTE speed for 11 euro and I couldn’t pull my yeah and the guy said you must be from Canada and I said how can you tell isn’t my accent and he said no it’s every Canadian that walks in here cannot believe that you get a month for 11 euro with five gigs of LTE speed he said you can use it in any of the European Union countries and until brexit goes through you can use it in the UK as well and so you know we went to Portugal we went to Spain I was in London for a little bit and my cell phone worked perfectly and I was streaming Spotify and going on Facebook and so if you had two Sims and you did a lot of international travelling I’m sure you could keep them both in your phone and switch over and that would be convenient too Oh amazing yeah absolutely convenient you wouldn’t miss anything on your personal sim while you’re using that international sim that’s and you wouldn’t have to worry about the passcodes that you have to put in every time you put in a new sim and if you forget the pass sometimes you can get locked out yeah so these iPhones also think what I found interesting about it is two of the three that are coming out are gonna have OLED screens which in my opinion is a much nicer screen your phone right now has an OLED right yes absolutely and I love the blacks yes oh yes because I had an old LCD screen but my last phone was three years old it was a one plus two and it had an LCD screen and going from LCD – OLED those blacks are black and it saves on my battery when I use dark mode oh I had no idea yeah I love the OLED screens now I know that it does cause a problem with iPhones 3d touch oh that’s right oh it’s not as easy from what I understand to use 3d touch through an OLED screen but personally I’ve never had an iPhone with 3d touch I think my Samsung Galaxy S 9 plus actually has 3d touch where I’ve got multiple pressure levels just on the home button that I can use that’s amazing it is kind of neat I like that feature but it’s really just more it gives me a little haptic feedback to know that I’ve actually hit that right spot but other than that I don’t see much of a use for it how about you if you had any experience with 3d touch you know just with friends iPhones I’ve never personally owned one with 3d touch it just seems kind of gimmicky to me there’s some neat things you can do with the icons on the screen you can press and hold and delete things or move things but Apple always has another way to do it so it’s not a necessary thing that’s for sure okay well I’m curious to hear if any of our listeners care about 3d touch and if they’d like to see it stay on their iPhones and Apple figured out how to make it work with OLED screens or if everybody’s okay just let this disappear and it sounds to me like what they’re gonna do is they’ll probably release the two OLED screens first one’s gonna be a 6.1 inch and one’s gonna be a 6.5 inch I believe so different sizes and then they were saying maybe a few weeks later they’re gonna do the cheaper LCD screen and that’s gonna be the one that’s really going to take off that everyone’s gonna buy as far as price points go I mean for the bigger OLED screen it’s gonna be more than if I was as I’m guessing yes definitely sounds like it I know that on the leaks that came out or earlier today they were actually thinking a thousand bucks would be the high end because Apple does tend to price their most expensive model about the same as what they did the previous year right it’s the iPhone 10 was an exception but I I kind of feel like maybe they will because the they cross the thousand dollar barrier first so they may stay around there who knows now rumor has it that the LCD model that’s going to be popular is actually only going to use the a11 processor from last year so it’s going to be the same speed as the current iPhone 10 but it might have a little bit of a bigger screen and yeah have you heard much about that you know I from the little that I read is it’s also going to only have one camera instead of two and probably use some intelligence and in the programming to get that bokeh effect which Google seems to have no problem with their pixel phone’s exact pixels everyone that I know that has a pixel loves the camera on it yeah that seems to be the the big buzz about it and they do take beautiful pictures from what I’ve seen but remember these iPhones are gonna be going up against the new pixels that are coming out at roughly the same time they’re probably gonna be announced maybe three or four weeks after this and against all of the Samsung phones that you already have I’ll tell you what though my favorite phone is the iPhone se it’s basically the same size as a 4s but it has the innards of a success and I’m hoping the iPhone se two comes out that’s maybe a little bit faster but still cheaper I bought my phone for a hundred and seventy dollars two years ago I still love it it’s screaming fast I will admit the battery is starting to go on it but do you remember that controversy that Apple had a few months back when people were saying they were getting throttled because of their battery well because yeah yeah now I can get a new battery for something like 29 bucks before the end of the year so if that’s you if you have an iPhone se or if you have one of the older models and that qualifies you can get an entirely new battery if you do it before the beginning of next year do it I personally think the battery is the number one reason why a lot of people upgrade their phones yes they slow down and especially as iOS marches forward or Android marches forward and gets more interesting things and uses more RAM yes that will slow down your phone naturally but me personally my phones I usually replace when I can’t get a half a day out of my battery so I usually last 2 to 3 years and then my batteries toast it used to be that your phone would be too slow and that’s why you would want a new one I remember when I had the iPhone 3G I would open up my text messages and it would take 30 seconds just to open up the text app with all of the new software coming out and that drove me to get a new phone now the problem isn’t whether it’s fast enough to open programs or your videos the problem is your battery is running out in a few hours and you know a lot of these newer phones are getting smaller they’re getting waterproof and and to get smaller and tighter and waterproof they’re using glue a lot more to seal up the phone ok and reading on ifixit.com where they tear apart these phones they talk about how easy it is to replace a battery the newer nicest phones are some of the most expensive and harder to replace the batteries because of the glue that’s used on on the screen and gluing the batteries in instead of the old-school screws that used to keep them in place them so you know that’s kind of I mean I love how thin my phone is I love how it just fits in my pocket but on the other hand in three years I’m gonna hate the fact that it’s gonna cost me $200 to replace the battery exactly and this program Apple’s got right now I think it’s like 20 bucks 29 bucks replace the battery but you’re right it’s in the older ones I don’t think it’s with the iPhone I enter the iPhone 7 it’s the older ones that probably don’t have the glue so it’s probably much easier to replace the battery on them and I love the old Samsung’s where they had replaceable batteries just go buy your own and pop off the back and slap in a new battery and it almost felt like you had a new phone I remember the first time I did that and I was like oh it lasts a day and a half now this is amazing and sometimes you could probably even buy a bigger battery than your phone came with in the first place so bonus points there right yeah so a new Xbox thing came out I believe it was today or yesterday it uses the X the Netflix model so if you go into a two-year commitment for $22 a month you get an Xbox one S and you get like a hundred games on there on there store that you can stream that would be pretty neat when was the last time you bought a consult actually it was at Christmas time and I closely looked at Xbox one s I was actually looking at the Xbox one X as well because when I buy consoles these are something that you’re gonna keep around for for me I usually keep them at least five years sometimes even longer I mean I’ve still got my Wii and so I seriously looked at the Xbox one X the one s had just come out and was super cheap and sleek and looked really cool and actually the main reason why I was looking at the Xbox one X is the rumor that they could come out with virtual reality oh yeah I’m I wanted a virtual reality console that was cheaper than going out and buying a $2,000 computer plus the oculus rift or whatever yeah $500 in accessories and a headset so I was looking at the PlayStation which had the PlayStation virtual reality and then there was the rumors of the Xbox one X being getting this virtual reality headset as well problem was I was in the market at Christmas and it was PlayStation that had the product and so I bought that product and and I actually really enjoy it but to be honest with you we don’t use it as much as I was expecting to do you have the virtual reality headset for the PlayStation 4 yes I do oh sorry not the picture and I got the four Pro which handles the virtual reality better you get better refresh rates and of course the games have to be made for it and a lot of the new VR games are and they’re sending you know patches to older VR games that take advantage of it I really enjoy the virtual reality but you know one thing that I found is I actually can’t go as long as I thought I could one hour of virtual reality and I’m exhausted I’m a bit of a headache I don’t get motion sickness but I’m done do your kids know you know what they do love it and there’s some really neat games that allow you to play with multiple players which is great so one person’s got the virtual reality headset on and then everybody else has their own little controllers and they can control things on the TV that the virtual reality player doesn’t see because they’ve got the visor on and so there’s lots of neat games and that was one of my biggest concerns with virtual reality is it seems to be a one player only well a lot of different developers have got around that by saying hey you’ve got a TV and you’ve got people wearing the visor and they’ve come up with some really neat ways to do it but that being said I just find that we don’t use the virtual reality system as much as I thought we would it’s kind of like the we do you remember about you know six or seven years ago when everyone was getting the Wii you know people that normally wouldn’t play video games suddenly they were doing bowling and tennis at every party it would bust out and then after a few months it just kind of cooled it you know same thing with rock band that was huge for a few months and then it just kind of and people stopped playing it do you think that’s what’s gonna happen with virtual reality you know a lot of people online are saying that they feel like it stalled out and if you look at the numbers the the number of units that are currently being purchased if you look at the HTC vive and if you look at oculus and Playstation those tend to be the three big ones numbers have stalled they’re still selling quite well but they’re not selling more and more and more and you don’t see that that rise a lot of people are saying that until we can get untethered virtual reality you’re not gonna see it really take off and that’s what the magic leap is trying to do oculus has a cheaper headset that just came out where it’s a standalone unit but it doesn’t have the same horse powers if you plugged it into an awesome computer so I feel like we’re still a few years away from having virtual reality where you can literally walk around without being tethered no tethered means that you have cables connected to the back correct yeah that’s correct and so without it you’d be a little more free and if you could get a few headsets for people in your family or if you knew your friends all had headsets I mean you could do some really neat things but one of the rumors I read today actually said that Xbox is shelved or put aside their plan on doing a virtual reality system in the near future so it sounds like they’re probably looking at the marketing they’re looking at the numbers and I think they agree with what you just said that it’s still a few years out yeah I feel like Microsoft has been a lot more conservative in their approach to games than say Sony because they tend to be a little bit further behind in the cutting-edge side of things but when they do put something out it tends to be quite good however it did make me disappointed to hear that they were scrapping it now on the other hand they have a great relationship with oculus and Facebook right and that’s what I was actually hoping that the Xbox one X when it was developed was created to take advantage of the oculus being used on the Xbox one X so a little bit disappointed we’re gonna have to keep a close eye on it and that’s our show today if you have anything you wanted to talk about you can email out us at Tech time show pc at gmail.com next week

Until next week.

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Tech Time Podcast Episode 2 – Canadian Musk

Gig economy pressure: drivers more likely to crash

From a report: Research from University College London (UCL) indicated 42% of “gig-economy” couriers and taxi drivers reported vehicle damage because of a collision.
Close to half admitted time pressure could make them break the speed limit. Distraction by smartphones and tiredness from overwork were also flagged as risks for those delivering food and parcels.
Have you ever had a close call in an uber? (Black mirror: Everyone has a number. What’s my uber number?) Do you feel pressure to tip?

Chinese Internet Users Cross 800 Million Mark

There are now as many internet users in China as there are people in the United States, Indonesia and Brazil combined
open huge market opportunities for hi-tech companies
provide the government with better access to keep watch over its citizens (When I went to china everything was blocked. I’m sure they were watching me)
Wechat (Like Messenger). Weibo (A lot like twitter. Saw some girls using it last night at Disneyland)

NVida’s new graphics cards: RTX 2070 and 2080

These new 20-series cards will succeed Nvidia’s current top-of-the-line GPUs, the GeForce GTX 1070, GTX 1080 and GTX 1080 Ti
(Expensive) The Nvidia-manufactured Founders Edition versions will cost $599 for the RTX 2070, $799 for the RTX 2080 and $1,199 for the RTX 2080 Ti
will be the first consumer-level graphics cards based on Nvidia’s next-generation Turing architecture
built-in support for real-time ray tracing, a rendering and lighting technique for photorealistic graphics
Out in September
(I remember in 1994 saving up money from my paper rout to get an ATI Mach 64 video card.

Gmail can now send self-destructing email from phone:

protect sensitive information by allowing users to set an expiration date for individual messages or revoke access to messages already sent.
The feature also prevents recipients from forwarding, copying, printing or downloading its content and allows users to require recipients to enter a one-time code sent via SMS to view the email. The authentication feature is intended to protect information in the event of the recipient’s email account being hijacked.
How many times have we accidentally sent an email right?
Some say it doesn’t go far enough. It’s not end to end encrypted and google will ask you for your latest cell phone number in some cases to decrypt a message. Should we be giving this information to goole?

Netflix Will Now Interrupt Series Binges With Video Ads For Its Other Series

users claimed that ads for entirely different series would play between episodes of a given show’s binging.
Awkward placements for advertisements are happening: An add for “I am killer” during the cartoon bob’s burgers (Tina is my favorite character on that show).

Twitch Prime Ends Ad Free Viewing.

New Chromecast with Bluetooth and better 5grz WiFi.

Motorola Receives Backlash For Revealing a ‘Shameless’ Copy of the iPhone X as Its New Model

The new Motorola P30 was a “brazen” and “egregious” rip-off of Apple’s flagship device
Same notch
Motorola “even went so far as to adorn the screen with a wallpaper that’s a dead ringer for Apple’s default wallpaper.”
Is it a good design?
Do you like the notch?

Apple planning new low cost MacBook and MacMini

Tesla Tweets

Stock bumps and drops
Rapper Aziela Banks claims Musk was tweeting on Acid.
- Was in LA to work with his girlfriend Grimes.
25k car in 3 years.
- YouTuber Marques Brownlee asked Musk in an interview about room for a lower-cost Tesla

Tesla Stock YoYo
• Whistle Blower
○ Drop %
• Tai Rescue Diver Pedophile Accusation
○ Drop 4%
○ Apology
• Going Private
○ Increase 11%
§ Tweet – Taking Tesla Private at $420 a share ($82B).
○ Fact Check Drop 5%
○ Saudis Increase 2%
○ Tesla Board Appoints 3 people to vet his “Go Private”
§ Lost all gains.
○ Class Action Law Suit because his tweet rallied his stock without any proof.
§ Short Sellers mad.

OnePlus 6T
• Launch in October on T-Mobile
○ Huge for a Chinese firm.
○ Surprising no Leaks yet.
§ Perhaps waiting for the next gen processors.

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[Music] all right welcome back this is tech times I’m Dan and I’m Matt Carter and I am in the beautiful tiny town of Vilna Alberta they boast the largest mushrooms in the world and it’s true I’m actually looking at the largest mushrooms in the world right now so what are you doing over there well this is my vacation I decided to take my two boys and we’re traveling around to every tiny little roadside stop that is a longer way there’s actually 270 stops I mapped out in Alberta and I only have time to hit ten a day so we’re trying to hit 78 a week we saw the largest pumpkin patch today in Smoky Lake we’re gonna see the biggest pierogi right after this we’re gonna leave Vilna and go to Glendon and then there’s actually a UFO landing pad in Saint Paul tell me about it well apparently they’ve declared the airspace above an intergalactic states so no matter where you come from you are allowed to come directly down above this landing pad without breaking any laws so is it like Roswell did they have some kind of a UFO sighting back there in the 70s do you know you know what I’m gonna find out but stay tuned I think there’s probably something up on that so I got to tell you about my week I actually got trapped trapped yeah elevator in Irvine ooh high tech problem it was a high tech problem we were at pool party and we were going down from the fifth floor and all of a sudden the elevator crashed and the roof all of the dust came down from the roof on us and apparently what had happened was the catch system on the bottom had caught us because something had gone wrong and we were stuck in there for 30 minutes there were two people having panic attacks and when the fire department when he got us out were they strangers in there with you you know thankfully they were just friends but I fired a part of finally pulled this out the elevator was halfway so I jumped out as fast as I could because I did not want to get sliced in half in cases started going again I would be sliced and happy there there’d be no podcast there would be no podcast and you know what’s funny about that den and and this is something that we haven’t talked about yet its self-driving cars and how they tie in with elevators yeah have you heard about the two different theories about self-driving cars and how one’s called the elevator theory right you know I didn’t pay attention in statistics class so I’d like you to tell me all right it was fascinating so the elevator theory is elevators when they first came out were just scary people were afraid of them they didn’t want to get cut in half just like you didn’t want to get cut in half and it was this new high-tech thing they had elevator operators somebody was pushing the buttons they were trained they knew all about the elevator and it was scary because these elevators when they originally were made were basically boxes made out of frames and you could totally fall out it was scary so what they decided to do to stop people from freaking out on elevators is they put walls around you so you couldn’t see out and then they gave you a big red button that you could push to say whoa stop me now and then they came up with elevator music but the idea is you get in the elevator and you push a button and then then you just go so how does that relate to self-driving cars well this is Google’s idea for self-driving cars so what they want and you’ll see it if you look at some of the videos of their self-driving cars that they’re working on is it was the elevator technique you get in the car you can’t control the car there’s a big red button that you can push if you need to to say well I’m getting scared now but it’s basically get in go for a ride get out well you’ve got what Tesla is doing which is more of an automated pilot type situation where you can take the wheel take control but then it’s also been shown that that can be dangerous because if you’re not really paying attention to what’s happening on the road you can over create correct when the odd pot would have saved you especially if you’re going 85 miles an hour and you try to take over all of the sudden right that’s interesting do you think they’ll try and block out some of the windows too I don’t know the biggest thing about it though is it seems like Google is kind of slowing down on the automated vehicle type of thing I haven’t heard any news for quite a while on it so it’s something to research and perhaps one of our listeners could enlighten us as to what Google’s doing lately hey that’s interesting I gotta tell you about my nest so I got my nest on on Sunday and installed it and at first I was really excited about it because it looks really cool and helps control the temperature in my house but then my fan wouldn’t turn off so even after the air conditioner was done cooling the house the fan kept going and going and so I ended up having to call the company and they walked me through it and we tested every single wire behind the nest it felt like I was diffusing a bomb you know they’re like get the red wire then move the blue wire this way did you like divert music playing in the background there was MacGyver yep there was MacGyver music slam the groover but thankfully we sorted it out and it seems to be pretty cool so far yeah well you know I have another friend who had a similar problem with a nest and they have their air conditioning going and the nest is upstairs now the problem is with air conditioning is if you have a basement cold air drops right and so his basement would absolutely freeze and the nest wouldn’t know it and what he’s done is he’s figured out a way to program his nest and I’ll have to ask him what he’s doing but it turns the fan on to recirculate the cold air in the basement and bring it upstairs and so that’s money on his electricity bills so the nest must-haves Mahmut are in it right yes it does yeah but you can get additional thermometers or additional nests they can chain up to it that you can place in the basement you know I wanted to bring up a cool study this week did you hear about this they say that people in the gig economy so people that are uber drivers people that do lyft they’re more likely to crash than an average person why is that well they say research from the University of the College of London UCL indicates the 42% of gig economy couriers and taxi drivers have more vehicle damage and they say it’s because they want a speed to be able to drop their patron off faster they want to look at the phone while they’re driving and so they’re just more distracted drivers um have you taken an uber and Edmonton yet is it up there it is up here yeah actually I have good friends that take ubers all the time I personally haven’t had the need to take an uber yet but how about you have you been in an uber all the time mostly I take it to go to LAX because it’s the worst ask a friend to drive you all the way down there but one interesting thing is you actually have a number and so you rate each other you rate the uber driver and then they rate you oh and so my number is a little bit lower than it should be the phone that I used to have used to say that I was like a block away every time I would hail an uber and so they’d get frustrated when I wasn’t at the exact spot but it kind of reminded me of that black mirror episode did you see that one I think it’s a season 3 episode one where she gets that social media rating oh yeah that’s fantastic so I just have a question she spazzes at the end did you become an uber diva Dan is that why you guys Marit yeah no I think out of five stars I’m like a four point one so but now that I know they’re more likely to crash maybe I’ll just drive myself to LAX yeah I have some friends who actually became uber drivers and I was surprised to see them driving around in this fancy brand-new car because I guess you have to have a certain level of car to be accepted so it’s got to be newer and it’s got to be a pretty nice car and I was in prayer they said what do you do and how did you afford this car and he said he was an uber driver so you know I I hope they can make some good money on it and have a nice car out of it as well I hope so too and another thing that interests me about where you’re at is ice right like when I drive on ice Ana de I know how to pump the brakes I know how to correct the steering wheel but I might feel a little bit awkward with someone else that I don’t know driving me slippery roads right yeah you know I I’ve never had that experience even when I’ve taken right Euler taxis okay so you would hope that they would have the experience to be able to handle the ice so Dan I’ve got another one here that I’m curious about it there’s an article that says Chinese internet users are now over 800 million that’s insane that’s because I think the United States only has something like 330 million people and what does Canada have like 33 million where another 30 yeah yeah so that’s a lot of people using the Internet so that’s more people than in the United States Indonesia and Brazil combined and those are huge places so obviously that’s a great opportunity for high tech companies I know there’s a lot of great companies coming out of China right now like have you heard of WeChat before yeah I have it’s kind of like a text message based app out of China isn’t it yeah it’s like messenger there’s been a few people here that I’ve actually tried to get me to download it like oh you should download WeChat so we can talk and then I say how come I can’t text you or just you know messenger are you on Facebook so that’s funny and then have you heard of Weibo that one’s huge too in China oh yeah we both huge I’ve heard all kinds of things about Weibo especially the conspiracies man I sound like a conspiracy theorist I talked about it last week – well we Bose all about Big Brother and the Chinese government owns a big stake in it and yeah and they’re listening in well it’s huge and actually last night I was at Disneyland and the girls in front of me on Splash Mountain we’re using Weibo like crazy posting and it looks like a lot of fun I can’t understand any of the characters but they were having a great time on it so that’s interesting that the government would would look in on that you know I had a chance to go to China a few years back back in 2009 and it was interesting everything was blocked I couldn’t get on Facebook I don’t even think I could check my gmail and I was at the hostel have you heard of that oh yeah what do they call that it’s it’s one of the curtains the Great Firewall of China right yes the Great Firewall of China so I thought that was interesting but it’s great that they have a lot of users you know we might actually be trying to use their things in ten years if they have 800 million people right so absolutely yeah I mean all those cyberpunk movies they’re all gonna come true it’s all gonna be about China well start learning my Mandarin now did you hear in videos got their new graphics cards out in September yeah I saw that I saw they were announcing the new graphics cards they’ve got some pricing out there I think 600 bucks for the r-tx 2070 800 bucks for the r-tx 2080 and it looks like 1200 bucks for the r-tx 20 atti so big yeah how cool it would be to have the 20 atti yeah that would be an awesome awesome card to have what’s the application for a card like that is it are you really just trying to get some crazy refresh rates and VR with that or is there something else that we’re trying to do they say there’s built-in support for real-time ray tracing like I remember back when I was in college I would do a little bit of ray tracing and you would hit the compile button and it would literally take hours and you’d come back and see your movie but I mean it sounds like they can do it in real time now with this one it is that all of them or just the 20 atti because it from what I read it sounds like all of these cards have real time ray tracing is a great question I think probably the 28th ETI is just a whole lot more horsepower and if you like things like Bitcoin if you like two-bit mine any kind of the cryptocurrencies I’m sure the more horsepower you got the faster you’re gonna do it well you know speaking of that I’m looking at the prices for these cards and they’re outrageous now I know that these prices got inflated significantly last year when Bitcoin was doing its big March and everybody was getting into all the different types of coins and do you think that these prices reflect that or do you think that these prices could actually drop since bitcoin is not really as big of a deal as it was last really hoping they drop because I would love to have one of these cards it would make life a lot of fun I remember back in 94 when I was saving up my paper out money I bought a mach 64 an ATI video card and it just made yeah doom and Wolfenstein so much better and you know that new 2080 TI is gonna make all of these games a lot better now so it’s pretty exciting yeah yeah I heard one of them even has three fans in it which I’ve never seen before it’s probably pretty loud right yeah now I also heard Gmail has a new feature that you can now self-destruct emails from your phone that’s pretty cool oh yeah that’s great so it sounds like you can set a time period for it to expire and so if you want to send some sensitive information that you don’t want to stick around in the cloud forever because I don’t know if you’re like me but I have Gmail emails in my gmail from back when I first signed up internet I mean that’s there forever so you know it allows you to set these time limits and then the email will delete well that’s great because that covers your butt for a lot of things and is there any possibility to delete things that you accidentally sent to somebody you know I’ve looked into that with Gmail and perhaps it’s gonna show up in one of these future updates but right now it there’s nothing like it like you can in Outlook Microsoft Outlook if you’re on the same server as everybody else so at work if I accidentally send an email and I forgot the attachment which is really embed Tsing and I do it all the time then I can just retract the email put the attachment in Gmail I’m always like oops sorry everybody my bad and then I I send it with the attachment but you know I’ve also seen some really funny things that this self-destructing email would be good for literate if you if you could automatically set it up that if you’re sending an email from two or three o’clock in the morning that you know it will self-destruct in three or four hours because you probably shouldn’t be sending emails at 2:00 or 3:00 in the morning you’re not in the moment right mindset right well I have a co-worker who went on a very drunk and angry rant in an email once and sent it out to everybody in the company and he ended the email with and I’m not drunk and of course he wasn’t it’s just he wishes that email self-destructed because when he got to work he was self destructed and shown the door oh no did they fire him oh yes and rightly so I I took over his office and that that dude was doing weird things at night I found handprints like up in the top corner not not delegate I don’t know if he was walking on his desk and leaping but like there was like handprints and footprints on top of the furniture it was bizarre nothing anyways and yeah hopefully Gmail will allow us to delete any kind of random rent we go on in the middle of the night right yeah that’s we should just don’t don’t don’t drunk and email anybody and don’t stand on your desk and leave in the middle of now either danger some people were saying though that it doesn’t go far enough oh yeah yeah they’re saying that there’s no end-to-end encryption with these new Google messages that self-destruct and that sometimes they’ll ask for your cell phone number to decrypt a message and a lot of privacy advocates are saying should we really be giving our phone number to Google every time you know so yeah they already know it you know it all they’ve got all of them they’re probably listening to this and watching us right now yeah speaking of watching on I hear Netflix has something going on that’s pretty crazy recently right yeah actually these are two things Netflix and twitch so let’s talk Netflix first but it sounds like twitch is doing something similar so Netflix has been doing a pilot project where they’ve randomly chosen people throughout the world it sounds like you didn’t have a choice and if your binge-watching a show all of a sudden you’ll get an advertisement for some of Netflix’s original content now I personally if it’s geared towards me I’d be like oh cool that’s interesting maybe I do want to see this show but on the other hand I’m paying a premium price for Netflix I actually pay for one of the higher tiers because there’s so many and my family want to be on Netflix at the same time mm-hmm but you know I thought I was paying for no ads no people are upset is this in the middle of like you’re watching one episode and then in the middle and and then into the next episode suddenly you see an ad right when you’re watching and binge watching that’s what I’ve understood it to be so while it’s switching and you know sometimes it says hey are you still watching you know cuz some people fall asleep or whatever I think it’s around that time when it would normally ask are you still watching that you’d suddenly see an advertisement for some of their original content well that’d be brutal because you just want to get to the next episode typically right yeah if you’re bein watching and you’re right about the money it’s annoying because they raise the price and so now I’m paying more and suddenly it’s turning into Hulu where there’s advertisements what’s up with yeah so twitch I mentioned this one earlier to twitch prime is ending their ad free viewing and this actually would make me even more upset because if I’m watching Netflix and I’m binge watching those ads should only come up in between episodes it’s not can interrupt anything that I’m watching but on twitch you’re usually watching one of your favorite twitch stars do something like they’re playing a game or they’re trading their cosplay outfit and then all of a sudden you’re gonna be getting an ad now I’m not sure exactly how it’s lining up when the ads are gonna hit you but you also pay for twitch Prime so you can go in and you can watch twitch for free but now even with twitch prime where you’re paying you’re going to be seeing advertisements so it’s gonna just interrupt the feed that’s my guess perhaps it they’ll execute it a little bit more elegantly than that and I would hope so maybe the twitch star will have certain times where they’ll pause for ads because I believe that they have ads sharing so then they’ll be able to get some of the money for the ads that people are watching I’m hoping it will be more elegant than all of a sudden you know they’re about to do something amazing on fortnight and then boom here’s an advertisement for downy right yeah we all get so used to having these free feeds have you tried HQ Tribune oh yeah Matt it’s like a game show for your phone you know what I saw somebody playing it I haven’t actually done it myself is that the one where you can win money it’s a lot of fun and here in the states I have a few friends that are very very smart they both got like the top grade for their a CT test in in high school you know yeah so they play this kind of for fun and they’ve won I think like twenty six dollars over it because if you end up with the entire game you know they split the $25,000 amongst all of the people that won so you get like a few bucks but it’s still exciting that it’s real money right yeah that is exciting the reason why I brought it up though is because for the past month we’ve all been playing it without any advertisements well they’re gonna start doing ads now and oh no I mean you can’t expect things to stay free forever right I mean what if we have ads in this podcast I mean yeah actually we should in this podcast anybody who’s listening we are capitalist through and through we would love to peddle your wares that’s right speaking of peddling people’s wares let’s talk about Google chromecast here I hear they’ve got a new one with Bluetooth out right well it’s coming soon and you know it’s not that exciting it’s not a huge change but it is gonna be nice to have Bluetooth and so you’ll be able to hook up to it with any type of phone just using your Bluetooth and they’re also improving the Wi-Fi sensor and receiver which specifically around the 5 gigahertz band so that should really improve your wireless sending and receiving of information you know I’ve never understood chromecast why people would get excited about it and I wrote COO myself I mean I’ve used an Apple TV before chromecast seems cool for people that know what they’re doing like they can pull up Netflix from their phone or from their laptop but could you see mom and dad doing that I could see dad but not mom you know I spent probably an hour on the phone with mom trying to explain to her how to log into iTunes and I was ready to just run down the road and log in for her because it was the most painful experience of my life helping her so dad yes mom no but I have a chromecast do you make it I’m on the fence I gotta tell you if it was easy enough for my youngest who doesn’t have a phone to be able to watch something I mean we have a Google home and so he could tell Google to watch dinobots or whatever he wants to see and it would work but he has no way of controlling it so he can’t pause he can’t fast-forward unless he uses his voice which he really hasn’t started doing and so he usually just gets on the PlayStation 4 and watches Netflix there well I wanted to talk a little bit about Motorola’s new p30 it’s a pretty cool phone coming out but it’s been a lot of backlash have you heard about why well isn’t that the one that looks like the iPhone 10 it’s ridiculous it looks exactly the same it has the same notch on the top it went so far as to put almost the exact same wallpaper so it’s like basically the same phone oh wow I would expect that out of China I would not expect that for Motorola my question is do you think that the iPhone 10 is a good design personally no I don’t like it at all and I’m not gonna say I’m anti notch I’m not at all I came really close to buying the one plus six which has a knotch I really like the essential phone which was the first phone I ever saw with the notch and it’s just got a little spot for the camera Wow did the essential phone come out before the iPhone 10 yes yes it did yeah yeah in fact here’s a little thing for our listeners I believe Amazon American Amazon has the essential phone on for something like 250 bucks might be 230 it is cheap cheap cheap it’s a great phone it’s got an e 35 processor it’s got decent RAM it’s got two cameras on the back the only problem with the phone is I don’t think essentials long for this life I think the company’s gonna fold but you do have a pure Android or almost a pure Android experience with it it’s already on Android Pi cool have you tried ahead PI out no I haven’t unfortunately my phone right now is the Samsung S Plus Galaxy S Plus and we all know Samsung’s not very good at giving us updates if I get done with the oneplus 6 like I was originally looking at I could have been in the beta program but I’m okay to wait I like the phone I have well that’s good to hear I also heard that they might come out with a new MacBook and a new Mac Mini have you heard that from Apple yeah that’s actually kind of exciting we haven’t had a new bat MacBook in a long time so it sounds like it’s gonna have thinner bezels they’re gonna try to bringing it up into where all the other laptops are they’re gonna make it a Retina display so I mean how long’s Retton have been out five six years it’s by the time that they put it on their cheapest laptop and then the Mac minis are kind of cool have you ever seen a Mac Mini I actually have one I have a mankind one from 2009 it’s no longer supported by Apple I actually do a lot of coding I make games for the iPhone and for Android and I’m so frustrating to compile my games on that 2009 Mac Mini I just want to throw it out the window every time so this year I actually saved up for about three or four months to get the new MacBook Pro and the whole time I was crossing my fingers that the original MacBook would come out for a new version so I could get it cheaper but as of now it’s still not out and I just couldn’t wait any longer I bought the necklace Pro so you’ve had your MacBook Pro for what two three weeks now if you had known what have you waited because I do so much with coding and compiling with my iPhone games i i’m glad i bought the more expensive model with the faster processor it really just just so snappy it it compiles things so fast I gotta tell you I’m the same way I I’m like if I’m gonna spend money on something I might as well get something great drives my wife crazy but it’s the way I am but you know if you’re a regular user if you’re just using it to browse Facebook the internet occasional Spotify you know type of paper here or there I think a regular MacBook or a MacBook Air would be fine absolutely so let’s talk about somebody who’s not doing fine right now who’s that how about Elon Musk have you have you watched him online or on Twitter he’s kind of notorious here in Los Angeles I think he lives over in Bel Air and yeah kind of like a superhero he’s always you know making new cars or building new tunnels he’s kind of exciting what’s going on with him well he he’s got some not-so-good stuff going on but you know I gotta tell you I think Elon Musk was great I mean I still think he is the superhero persona is perfect for describing how people see him I even was watching Star Trek Discovery a little while ago they’re first seeds and they even made reference to Elon Musk as one of the greatest inventors of all time is that the new one on CBS access yeah it’s that one it’s a great show and we should probably have our own Trek podcast because I can talk all about it and the Orville by the way but I’m digress let’s talk about Musk maybe we could have you make a twitch account and see you make some cosplay costumes yes some Star Trek cosplay costumes while we talk about Star Trek discovery and then an ad will come rolling through that’s right so musk he his girlfriend is Canadian she’s a singer last name Grimes yeah and I don’t know if you’ve seen pictures of her but it’s kind of scandalous I mean musk is how old you know like he’s four late forties yeah right and he’s dating Grimes I should google and tell you exactly how old she is but let’s say early 20s I think is roughly where she is so it’s a little bit scandalous and you know he’s known for dating beautiful women and okay the dude’s worth billions got it well apparently Grimes had a gig going on with rappers Elia banks and so I don’t know if his crimes or Musk who invited her to go to his mansion and you know talking to you Dan it sounds like in LA these celebrities often just allow all kinds of people to stay in their mansions with friends and things like that so I guess that’s not crazy to think that musk would have some rapper in his mansion well she she claims that musk has been tweeting while on app and that Grimes had to coddle him and help him feel better while he was coming down off of his acid trips what so yeah that that’s kind of crazy and at first you think well I don’t know if I believe that but then there’s been all this talk about musk using sleeping pills for him to sleep at night yeah yeah yeah and he’s even tweeted about it I think it’s ambien is the name of the the sleeping pill he’s been tweeting about and you know the board members are concerned about him they’re concerned about his dependence on prescription drugs or non prescription drugs if we’re talking about other things such as acid and who knows what else so and then it kind of makes sense if you look at the just look at the last month of Musk’s tweets you know like there was the the whistle blower there and musk start slamming him over twitter and then stock started dropping and then there was this Thai soccer team and mussed came up with his submarine which you know kind of cool but not really that practical when you actually looked and saw what they were dealing with and one of the actual rescuers said hey Musk you’re I feel like it’s just a publicity stunt that you’re doing and I think it really upset musk that you know a guy said you’re not really trying to save these kids you’re trying to get some publicity and then he accuses him of being a pedophile because the guy lives in Thailand oh yeah hurt his pride yeah then all of a sudden Tesla stocks drop again and then he claimed they were gonna go private – right oh yeah that was crazy so that was I believe a week and a half ago and he says hey by the way Twitter world we’re gonna go private funding is assured and we’re gonna sell it for a hundred dollars and four hundred and twenty dollars per share and all of a sudden eleven percent bump now they needed another 11 percent but they got that close to four hundred and twenty dollars a share and it would have been there then it turns out that when you start fact-checking the money wasn’t really assured and musk likes to do this to get rid of short sellers short sellers drive him crazy these are people who are trying to short sell his stock they believe it’s gonna go down and when they buy a lot when they short sale it actually does drag it stock down and then crazy sounds like he’s got a lot going on he does he’s going through what he calls production hell getting the model 3 going I believe they got to 6000 model Therese a week which is crazy and by the way I actually could have gotten my model 3 I’ve been on the list for a while but then there’s two reasons why I didn’t want to get it and one of them is the price I’m waiting for the thirty five thousand dollar one but also I’m worried about quality right like they’re putting out so many cars he built a tent for goodness sakes where they’re manufacturing these cars a big giant tents instead of in a proper manufacturing plant so I mean I’ll give him props for getting the numbers out and you know there was a teardown that happened this week where they showed the model three and they actually estimated how much it would cost to actually build and it sounds like the are getting a bang for your buck they said they that Tesla does not make a dollar they actually lose money on every model tree unless they can sell you up to forty four thousand dollars well your upgrades take you to 44,000 that’s what where they say the break-even is they even use the term space-aged parts and technology so maybe they’re drinking the must kool-aid but they’re also saying it’s a great car I don’t know I think I’m gonna wait another year or two and wait for them to get through production hell well if you gave me a Tesla I’d be driving it I’ll tell you that much and I’m really excited about his plans for Los Angeles I think just last week he went to a Dodgers game and was so sick of the traffic you said I’m gonna drill a hole and we’re gonna make a tunnel that goes right to Dodger Stadium so he’s doing some cool things yeah you got billions do it yeah just dig a hole get your boring company going you know they broken speed records I really think that some neat stuff he’s doing when they first came up with the boring company I thought this is not practical SpaceX’s practical Tesla’s practical the boring company I mean there’s just so much stuff underground I I mean I live in Edmonton where there’s coal mines from a hundred and 150 years ago everywhere and I know this because we build major projects all over this dangerous ground and water and I mean there’s all kinds of things you need to think about apparently he’s doing it all right I’m good so that’s our show for this week we’re gonna try and set up the show once a week and have it released on Thursdays if you have any questions or comments [Music] see you next week [Music]
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Tech Time Episode 1

Notes for Tech Time Episode 1

1:05

Google continues to track you through services like Google Maps, weather updates, and browser searches — any app activity can be used to track you.
By turning off Location History, you’re only stopping Google from adding your movements to its Timeline feature, which visually logs where you’ve been.
But there is a way to get Google to actually stop tracking you: by digging through settings to turn off “Web and App Activity.”
Tech companies make money by tracking us.
Are all of these features worth your privacy? (Zuckerberg tapes his camera)
Companies know more about you than you think.

5:40

Red (Hydrogen one) Phone Specs and Release date

5.7” Holographic display (No need for glasses)
8K 3D camera attachment
1600 titanium version (priciest), cheaper alluminum version 1200.
To be released in the fall of 2018

10:05

Magic Leap Specs and Reviews

Augmented reality goggles.
2.3 billion and 8 years… still haven’t released goggles.
Pre-order $2300 ( you could buy 2 Iphone X’s with change to spare)
Reviews pretty mixed. Seems to be geared towards developers.
How does it compare with microsoft’s holo lens?
Talk about pokemon go (Santa Monica water pokemon)

17:05

Pixel 3 Leaks

Apparently it has a very small battery for the screen size
Android P has ‘machine learning’ based battery optimization and chipsets become ever more efficient, but apps and games also become ever more demanding
Galaxy Note 9 has a 4000mAh battery tmah (Large Pixel 3 @ 6.7 Inches is only 3,430mAh)
Battery life is my most important factor

19:55 Note 9 Release (Crazy Price)

128GB of storage in the standard model, a little bit of artificial intelligence, and a Bluetooth-enabled S Pen you can use as a remote control.
Tesla Stock YoYo
1000 bucks. (Same as iphone X). More expensive than the Pixel 2 XL ($849)
Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 octa-core processor (or Exynos 9 if you’re outside the US),
a whopping 4,000mAh battery
6 GB of Ram (That’s almost as much as my 1800 dollar new mac book pro)
I like the curved glass. I don’t think I’d use the stylus

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[Music] all right Matt so here we are it’s the podcast this is our first one yeah this is exciting finally after all this discussion let’s let’s get it going so I’m coming at you from sunny Los Angeles and that were us I am in the apocalypse of Edmonton we are covered in smoke British Columbia is on fire and this morning I stepped out on my porch and the the smoke was so thick everything had this amber hue it was the most surreal feeling and then when I stood there nothing moved no animals no neighbors and I was kind of looking around going hello it’s a great day to talk about technology though right yes the technology apocalypse is upon us as well well let’s talk a little bit about Google tracking us through the web so I heard this week that even if you turn off your location history they still track you yeah that’s the big news that came out of Google this week and you know I always thought that if you turned off the setting that prevents the following your location I always assumed that Google was not tracking me but it turns out that’s wrong yeah apparently even if you turn it off on Google Maps they can still tell where you’re at with your weather updates and your browser searches so you really can’t get them off your back right yeah actually so I watched a video just the other day on how to really turn it off and to be honest with you I was a little bit shocked and surprised at how many clicks how deep you had to get down in there to actually turn it off mm-hmm it just wasn’t easy it wasn’t intuitive you know the conspiracy theorists out there or making hay with this and you know what there may be something to it well I bet even if you went all the way down there and turned off all the clicks they’d still be watching you somehow right well that’s what the conspiracy theory they’re thinking now let’s let’s go a little bit deeper into this conspiracy as well so take me there Chinese phones HTC Xiaomi I know down in the States that’s one of the big reasons why Verizon and some of the other major carriers are being told they can’t carry these phones is it because of the tracking well that’s the worry it’s could there be something embedded in their phones that could be spying on American citizens now right the other thing that we could go even deeper into that Xiaomi one of the major owners is a former general and the Chinese army I mean there’s there’s all these conspiracy theories and you know what I usually don’t listen to them but now that I hear that Google has been tracking this all along it’s very possible you know that’s pretty crazy to think about but the reason why they track us of course is to make money right I mean we’re not paying for a lot of the services they give us right it’s kind of worth it in a way my favorite name for a Chinese cell phone is Huawei have you tried the Huawei phones yet no I haven’t tried Huawei oneplus I’ve been a big fan of oneplus for about three years now I started with the oneplus 2 I bought my son the the X actually it’s not called the X our listeners will probably correct me on which one that is but it was the affordable one that came out about three years ago and I really liked the product they think they gave you a good bang for the buck and that’s why I’ve always been kind of hoping that there could be a shining star come out of China as far as cell phone affordability and so how does your son like the oneplus and which one does he have is the oneplus 2 no I have the oneplus 2 he has the MICEX know what yeah yeah it is the oneplus X that he has and it’s basically the cheaper model and from what I understand is it was the oneplus ones old chipset that they had left over and then they just put it into a more budget-friendly phone and it was perfect to buy a young teenager because it was affordable it gave him an Android device that was dependable and it was funny he says most people didn’t recognize his phone when he was in junior high walking down the hallways but a few kids that were from India instantly recognized is one less and just thought it was awful you know I don’t even think I’ve seen a oneplus in California I know they’re out here but I think in Canada you’ve got a better shot at it yeah yeah I I’ve loved my one plus the feature I love the most about it was the dual SIM oh yeah that’s nice because then you can use it for your company phone or at home right yeah I hated feeling like Batman with two cell phones on my belt right it’s like one for work and one personal this way it was all just in one phone and you know Android did a great job managing both Sims you could text from both Sims on the oneplus to you you could only pick which one to use data at at that time but I heard that the new phones you can actually use data on both your Sims without having to switch speaking of phones I know the hydrogen one’s coming out have you heard anything about it the red yeah so the red phone this one’s interesting I watched some people online talking about it they got to hold it in advance and you know they’re they’re trying to raise some interesting buzz about it’s supposed to be a three-dimensional screen and one where you don’t need glasses so is that kind of like the Nintendo 3ds you know I did hear one person who hadn’t seen it but he had talked to somebody who had seen it and he kind of describes it like an expensive 3ds others you know they recorded themselves and their expression when they saw it and it was you know I don’t I don’t know if it was like famed shock and awe I can’t imagine it’s that exciting I wasn’t too impressed with the 3ds even if it’s a higher quality 3ds I don’t it’s worth the money they’re touting but you know what I think is the neatest thing about this let’s hear it I think it’s gonna be for independent filmmakers peope oh yeah Shoji know much about the company red and their background well I know that they’re talking about maybe doing an eighth 8k camera as an attachment yeah so they make all kinds of video cameras in fact just about everything that Netflix is putting out right now is actually filmed on reds cameras and Wow so the guy who is behind the red phone the owner of red he is actually looking for the perfect phone for him not necessarily the perfect phone to make a gazillion dollars on the people around and so it’s more gonna be an ability to look at a 3d movie that he’s filming in real time right there in front of him and be able to move the phone around and get all the 3d angles and so I think that’s really who this phone is for I think it’s gonna be for independent filmmakers people who just want to go out there and shoot a film in the backyard or in the park or down the street not these multi-million dollar or hundreds of million of dollar budgets I think it’s gonna be for the independent for the universities and more for perhaps a grassroots film industry I think that’s who’s gonna be looking at it well because it’s gonna be pretty pricey right like I heard the more expensive one starts at $1,600 the tiny titanium version okay that’s crazy yeah that’s a lot of money so you could get like an iPhone X and a half right an iPhone 10 yeah I sure hope that for that price it comes with some lenses that attach I know it’s modular so you’ll be able to attach lenses I hope for sixteen hundred US dollars you get something with it yeah that’s almost 2,000 Canadian right now yeah that’s yeah tell me about it well I can tell you one kind of unique perspective I’m an eye doctor so a lot of times I’ll spend my days with kids just trying to get them to see in 3d and a lot of people have a really hard time because you have to see really good vision out of both eyes for it to pop out so I wonder just how you know if this will catch on if a lot of people have a tricky time seeing the 3d pop-out of the screen you know that’s a great question so I’m gonna ask you another question as a professional vision specialist do you believe the hype that such a tiny screen could actually give you a good 3d image you know I’m not sure about the 3d image but I can tell you that staring at a screen for a long period of time especially if you’re younger yeah in the development years can actually lead to new your site admits yeah you need to be a little bit careful about that okay that begs the question what about virtual reality I mean that screen is literally like an inch or less from your eyeball what do you think about that you know I’m not sure I haven’t read any peer-reviewed studies about virtual reality but I’d be interested I’m speaking of which the magic leap specs are out have you heard much about it yeah you know magically it’s been this this really leaked virtual or AR and you know they’d be talking about for years and they’ve been teasing images here teasing images there and so they actually came out just last week and they’ve announced that they’re gonna sell it it’s only it’s only a mere two hundred and ninety five dollars or two thousand two hundred ninety five dollars and right and then you could pay an additional five hundred dollars and you get something called the Professional Development Edition which comes with an extra hub cable and it’s got some kind of a service called rapid replace and it sounds like if you break something they’ll replace it within 24 hours so oh that’s pretty good yeah is it worth 500 bucks I don’t know and is it 500 bucks a year I don’t know they haven’t told us much have you had a chance to check out any of the reviews that have been on the web well I know that it’s been a work in progress for the last eight years and they’ve gotten their investors to give them 2.3 billion dollars so I’m hoping it’s gonna be pretty good the reviews seem pretty mixed like you were saying it seems geared towards developers and I’d be interested to see how it compares with microsoft’s hololens have you tried that at a Microsoft store anyway you know what I haven’t I haven’t tried it and it’s definitely been something that’s been fascinating me I think for me the most interesting thing about AR is the ability to use it in the workplace yes I work in a heavy industrial construction and we’re always looking at blueprints and drawings and trying to figure out how to put things together and you’ll often have to try to take two-dimensional drawings and then figure it out three dimensionally in your head and for some things it’s easier than others and it would just be amazing to be able to as the demo show pull up three-dimensional sketches you can use what we call the industry BIM modelling which is 3d modeling where you can zoom in zoom out move around an object look up and through a lot of the projects I’m currently working on that would be just perfect for being able to use it and do the applications that we’re looking for so I think that’s the neatest thing I’m excited about the games yeah I don’t know did you get a chance to try Pokemon go augmented reality was huge last year I didn’t take your kids out actually I did not take my kids out I actually took myself out I was wandering around Fredericton New Brunswick and I had some time on my hands I was there for a business trip and I just thought hey I’m gonna give Pokemon go a try so a bunch of people almost wander into the street and get hit by cars and I thought that looks like fun and looks great I to be honest with you the AR was kind of neat to look through your phone and see a little Pokemon jumping in front of you and flick but it wasn’t that big of a deal well here in Los Angeles it’s been a lot of fun last year I remember I was at the beach I was on Santa Monica Pier and there was about a thousand people there searching for the water pokemon and it was really eerie because everyone was on their phones nobody was talking to each other and you just looked everywhere and the beach was covered with people so I think there’s a lot of uses for augmented reality and I’m hoping that the hololens can kind of do that as well as this new magic leaf you know that’s really neat how pokemon go brought everybody together i know there’s probably a few diehard fans that are still playing it today there’s one lady in my office who plays it regularly with a group of people and I think what’s neat about both magic leap and hololens is that it’s portable so for example yeah this magic leap it comes with a visor but it also comes with the way they’re describing is like this puck that you can put inside your pocket so it either clips on to your pocket and they say it gets a little bit warm but it’s got an Nvidia graphics chip in it a Tegra X 2 processor 128 gigs of storage and battery life for 3 hours that’s amazing but you could look a little weird walking around the streets of Los Angeles with a visor on right well the Pokemon go people I mean myself included look a little bit weird staring at our phones I mean it was pretty dangerous staring at our tiny little 4 to 6h phones it will be so much safer when you’re walking around with goggles on although that being said it sounds like one of the biggest criticisms of both the magic leaf and the hololens is the field of view oh really is it mostly straight ahead it is mostly straight ahead they said it’s like looking through scuba diving like a scuba diving mask but without the clear edges like you’re just looking straight ahead I’ve the aspect ratio here it says it’s a four by three aspect ratio so forty degrees horizontal 30 degrees vertical 50 degrees diagonal and here’s actually a direct quote a are naturally feels limiting in that you see everything else around you with unobstructed peripheral vision so VR headset is blind to things VR headsets are blind to things off like windowless scuba mask that was the hollow lenses problem and it’s the magic Leafs one drawback to and that was from CNET a couple of days ago so you know they describe it like looking through a windowless scuba mask so it still could be dangerous you’re not gonna have your peripheral vision but it’s a whole lot better than staring at your phone yes way better than staring at your phone and I wonder if people are gonna ban them like I know the Google glass was banned at a lot of places here the snapchat spectacles a lot of people frown on it if you have them on and you’re in line somewhere did you ever see those I haven’t seen any snap yeah people are wearing them everywhere down here Wow still going like it wasn’t just a fad for when did it come out in the fall last year yeah I feel like it was kind of a fad but I still see it every once in a while too interesting now speaking of fads this new pixel 3 is coming out have you seen any of the leaks how could you not see one of those leaks that thing’s leakier than to Titanic now that maybe it’s not too soon to use that joke but still like the leaks are everywhere I must have seen three different videos maybe ten different pictures the one that I remember seeing the very first one was funny because it was obviously Russian and it said pixel three and then written in Russian Cyrillic it it phonetically spelled out exhale and I was like oh it’s pixel turning XL it was is funny so apparently it’s got a really small battery have you heard that too you know I remember somebody mentioning it is it less than 3,200 yeah it’s supposed to be less than the old pixel Excel so I’m not sure how they’re planning on powering their six point seven inch screen right yeah the one thing that I really noticed about it is I’m big into aesthetics and it’s got a huge chin on it it’s got the knotch and the 3x ELLs got a bigger notch looks like it might have something similar to what Apple’s got with the face recognition and using points that it certain cameras will fix on your face but I don’t know it just looks big and clunky when you compare it to some of the phones coming out of China right now as well as what Samsung’s putting out yeah like those phones like Huawei that I like right yeah you know I looked it up and the battery’s supposed to only be about 3,500 milliamp so not very good you know to tell you the truth that’s not too bad because I believe that the note 8 was even less than that I believe it was around 3200 just last year oh yeah an Android P apparently has a new machine lean learning-based battery optimization so it might make the apps a little more efficient you know that’s a great point so maybe you’ll still be able to get the same amount of time out of your new pixel 3xl I guess we’ll just have to wait and see you know honestly though when it comes to a smartphone I’m all about the battery if the battery lasts less than 4 hours I just struggle with it I think all of us now we’re using our phones more often right oh absolutely I mean it didn’t seem too long ago when we were getting our very first flip phones and just thinking they were neat well now if I misplace my phone I’m lost yeah you’re using Google Maps on it you’re snapchatting you’re doing all of the things it’s tough without battery yeah my calendar my contacts I always say if you don’t tell my wife or my phone I don’t know that’s right now the phone that you’ve got right now you’ve got a samsung right yeah I have the s9 plus and I’ve had it for about two months now and to be honest with you I love it I was really debating on getting the one plus six and it’s a it’s a beautiful phone it’s a little bit smaller than the Samsung S nine plus but the s9 plus just has that gorgeous green yeah it’s got that curved right yeah it’s got that curved my batteries been lasting really well like really long so I’m quite happy with it the one thing I do miss is that dual SIM but I just cancelled one of my phone lines and I’m saving 60 bucks a month so nice can it ate that well that’s great I really like that curved screen and actually I’m an iPhone user and I wish that’s one of the things I’m envious of of Android is that we had the curved screen on the side it looks really slick yeah well you know there are new phones coming out this year for Apple as well I don’t think you’re gonna see a curved screen this year but possibly for 2019 so let’s talk about the new Galaxy Note 9 release did you catch the price on that it was pretty crazy right yeah that seems to be the big tagline I mean it’s a beautiful phone it’s got all kinds of great things about it but everybody’s talking about the price so I think it’s like a thousand bucks which is about the same price as the iPhone 10 but I mean typically androids are usually a little bit cheaper right they are but you got to remember that these are flagship phones so I think that Samsung priced this on purpose I’d really like to know what kind of margin they’re making on these phones does it cost them a thousand bucks to make it usually at the beginning of a product cycle it cost them even more so they actually sell it as a loss and then as they work things out in the factory they start making a little bit more money as the the cycle of the phone moves on so it’s a thousand bucks for a hundred and twenty eight gigabytes which is pretty sweet or twelve hundred and fifty for 512 wow that’s a huge hard drive you know it’s funny this thing comes with six gigabytes of RAM – that’s almost as much as my new MacBook Pro has and spent 1700 on it so you know it’s crazy the technology that’s coming out on it the thing that I’m the most excited about is the four thousand milliamp battery that sounds like it’s gonna last a long time it is you know it sounds like it still got a honking screen on it but so far the preliminary reviews they say that battery does make a difference so that’s good I also like the fact that you can put a 512 gigabyte card into the phone so if you buy the $1,250 note 9 with the 512 gig duro 512 gig in you’ve got a terabyte worth of information in your pocket but I got a question for you Dan yeah is that worth it you know it’s a good question and what I’m curious about for you have you used a SIM card not a SIM card but a memory card in your phone before is it weird to install an app on it if does it separate things out is it slower you know what it depends on how you use it so you can buy various speeds of SD cards and micro SD cards and so some of them for high performance digital SLRs they’re supposed to be very fast and I’ve heard anecdotally that it’s almost as if it’s built right into your phone the way I used my SD card in the past is I used it for memory so my photos if I did video on my phone movies that I was taking with me on the plane things like that so really when it came to music movies and photos it’s fantastic ok no apps I installed a few apps on it I never noticed anything being slow okay hey that’s great and that’s something that I wish we had with our iPhones as well right yeah what do you think about the Bluetooth pen that the notes are famous well they’re famous for the pen this year it’s Bluetooth what do you think about it you know honestly I’ve never been a big pen fan because typically what I do on my phone I can use just my fingers for it do you use the stylus a lot well I don’t have a stylus on mine I remember back in the old palme days and it was like you couldn’t live without that stylist yeah those palm phones had such small screens and big fat fingers just couldn’t click and do things very well and so I think that the the phones today are set up four fingers whereas Palme originally set it up to use the stylus and utilizing the smaller screen space honestly I don’t think I’d use it much although this new bluetooth pen has some pretty neat tricks now is it more geared towards artists who if they want to do like a drawing the harder you press the the darker the line is or talk to me about it I believe it can do that I don’t have the stats in front of me for how many different types of pressures it will recognize I know that’s a big deal when it comes to these styluses I’m not even sure if it’s really for artists I think it’s more for quickly taking notes I don’t know if you’ve used OneNote before but it’s a Microsoft product and it’s fantastic when you can just jot something down in OneNote and it will automatically recognize your handwriting it’s come a long ways from the old pump days where you had to learn a shorthand for every letter and you had to practice it nowadays you can just write on your phones and nine times out of ten it’s gonna recognize your scribble even in a rush so people I’ve talked to that use the stylus is especially on the note series they really like it for the fact that you can just grab your phone write something down and then it’s saved in your notes oh that’s pretty nice I’m kind of the type where I just want to start using Siri and not even touch my phone again so I’m kind of on the opposite mindset yeah yeah everything is going to voice recognition so let’s talk about that a little bit then have you tried to set up a smart home or done anything along those lines you know I’ve got a nest coming to my house on Friday which I’m really excited about so the nest is the temperature control that hooks into your Wi-Fi and you can change the temperature no matter where you’re at yeah I love my nest I have one as well what did you get I think it’s the version three so it’s the kind where you can look at it across the room and it’ll it’ll turn on and and you can see what the temperature is yes that’s what mine is too I think they’ve got another version that just came out that’s a more affordable version than than the three and it’s got a different background and looks a little bit more like the Metro style that’s popular in cell phones these days oh yeah I love my nest it is fantastic have you saved money with it too you know that’s a good question because Sharon’s a stay-at-home mom and the kids are here or somebody’s here during the day I don’t think I’m really saving a lot of money because my furnace is always on in the winter if somebody’s here what I do like is I can save money when we’re away I can turn things off and on when I’m away I really like that and it emailed me updates and tells me how much money is saved whether I believe it or not that’s another question well it sure looks cool doing it right I mean it’s the start of getting the smart home I’d love to have my garage door opener be on the smart home my lights it’s gonna be a work in progress you know I just started setting up my house so I have a Google home I think you remember when I had you buy there in the States because I couldn’t get in Canada mm-hm and it was last Christmas and so my Google homes a lot of fun it does do wacky things every now and then where it thinks that I’m searching for things when I’m not and to be honest with you it’s more of a party trick than being a lifesaver and making my life a lot better right it settles a lot of arguments and debates while we’re having dinner perfect like where is the largest pierogi in the world it will tell you it’s in Glendon Alberta and I highly recommend everybody go take a look at it all right I’m there so the smart home what I like is I’ve gotten some Wemo light switches that are also dimmers oh can you control it with your Google Voice I can and I can say lights 240 person and it turns them to 40% I can set up schedules I can say goodnight and just by saying goodnight it starts doing a good night routine where it will dim my lights for half an hour and then automatically turn them off you can program it to do all kinds of neat things and all of it voice-activated you know I heard they’re actually going to make it so that it will speak well you’re gone so it sounds like somebody’s there you know like an argument there’s even somebody talking about maybe it talking someone through how to put IKEA furniture together for hours on end that way no one’s gonna come into your house right that’s awesome yeah some Swedish accents coming out of the house put the farfegnugen together by using this little allen key well I’m 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