 Now ladies and gentlemen, I don't want you to panic, but we're about to do daily tech news show Oh, yeah, and also don't panic but Lamar Wilson is here Calm down. Yeah. No, don't don't don't go screaming and running after him trying to tear Pete pieces of his clothes off. We know we get it It is what it is guys Something it's a burden. You have to live with them are yes, you know I live with the burden with the S on my chest every day You know super Lamar or go out and soak up the rays of that yellow Sun to strengthen yourself Yes Yes, and that the yellow Sun creates the power we needed to power my new Xbox Is the Xbox one s kryptonite powered is that did I read that I mean It could not possibly be yeah, it could not possibly be At all in any way, it's not green, right? There's no green on it No, at least not this version They're gonna have some special editions like Gears of War some other ones that might have some dip the Gears of War one Looks great because I love red and black, but yeah Hopefully I get to unbox it. I won't keep it, but I definitely want to box it Did you treat? Oh good the Gears of War one. Yeah. Yeah, I tweeted it 115 I'm getting better about that tweeting before I go on Let people know we're actually doing the show. I Have a social media advisor tells me if you let people know you're doing the show more people will actually take part in watching or listening Boy, did you need to pay somebody for that? $1000 an hour to get that Like huh And that's the case. I mean I'm need to switch careers really quick. Yeah, right All right, let's get this show on the road you ready? Yes. Yes, sir. Let's do it. Let's do it. Here we go Daily Tech news show is powered by its audience not outside organizations to find out more head to Daily Tech news show comm slash support This is the Daily Tech news for Tuesday August 2nd 2016. I'm Tom Merritt joining me today Lamar Wilson is in the house Can you believe it's August already? I'm just sorry to be that guy who's just like I was that guy yesterday. It's like what's what's going on here? Yeah August man feels like it was just January 1st 2013 when I worked it when When I worked in schools we it was a year round so we had to come back in August So I'm used to working really hard in August. Oh, yeah, so that's the odd you're like the opposite of Europe Yeah, yeah, well Lamar was lucky enough to get his hands on an Xbox one s early So we're gonna get your impressions of having played around with that over the weekend here in a little bit If you if you could sum it up in one word, would you be able to? Yes, oh That would be the oh, I thought maybe I was I would say Sleek Sleek, all right. Good. Yeah, that seems to fit a lot of the reviews. I'm seeing let's first of all look at some top stories Samsung had its big New York announcement a new 5.7 inch galaxy note 7 was unveiled as expected If you were keeping track, they skipped the note 6 There's a lot of theories as to why Peter Wells thinks that they were just wanted to distance themselves from the note 5 But yes, the last one was the note 5 this one's the note 7 the internals are very similar to the s7 and the s7 edge It has IP68 water resistance although the note extends its water resistance to the stylus or the Spen the S Pen They really put a micro SD card slot back in the note note 7 has 64 gigs of internal storage So a little more than the s7 USB-C port not a USB an old USB port 3500 milliamp hour batteries about 500 more milliamp hours than the previous note also has an infrared iris scanner That can be used to unlock the phone use in place of the fingerprint And they can even use it to lock apps and files in a secure folder note 7 will launch with Android 6 They said Android 7 will come someday, but they didn't tell you when you can get it in black silver and blue in the US Internationally you can also get it in gold pre-orders for the note 7 begin August 3rd in the US for shipping August 19th And pricing will vary by carrier, but they said it'd be more expensive than the s7. So at least more than $770. Yeah, I looked at the verges I didn't get to see the announcer, but I saw the verges video on it the first look and yeah, it looks fantastic I mean they got the it's edge to edge basically and I I forgot that the five Took away the SD card. I thought that was just the Galaxy line that did that because they got eviscerated for that when they when they did that, but uh, Yeah, I wish it well I kind of wish they would have stuck to their guns because the performance is better if they can you can manage to memory internally better You know theoretically, but you know, they gave it to the fans, which I guess will help them some more Yeah, I think it's better. It's a nice-looking phone It's funny how the note used to be this ridiculous size and now it's just kind of a normal size at 5. I wonder why that happened I wonder what company came out with one that made it popular to have a modified that But yeah, it was really good this iris scanner. Well, I was talking with beatmaster in our slack before the show He's like come on man retina scan iris scans can be fooled by pictures And you have to have like a 1200 dpi photo and you have to have access to the phone and stuff It's not something that is going to happen often But fingerprints scans can be fooled as well with 3d printers and in even like touch conducive paper Could fool them. So yes iris scanner is not the be all end all security option for your device But it's a nice differential here. It's a nice gimmick to just to say you have something extra to know layer security You could you could use They also announced a few other products the Samsung gear VR has an updated form factor They flattened out the touchpad added a dedicated menu button Increased the field of view from 96 to 101 degrees and they added usb-c in an interesting way So you can pull out the little usb-c connector that's inside the gear VR and replace it with a micro usb connector So it's not an adapter like once the once the little connector is in there. It stays flush So it's not gonna Take up space which you kind of need it to not take up space if you want your phone to fit in there So that gives you the ability to use the usb-c on the note 7 but also use your older galaxy phones With the micro usb and then they put a usb-c port on the bottom Which they used to have a regular usb micro usb port for charging your phone while you're using the gear VR The usb-c port will still be able to do that, but it will also be able to carry data So you might get some people making accessories Maybe controls. Yeah I'm a little upset that I'm a little ignorant on this. I've seen it at E3 I walked past it if you tell it the lines are just crazy. I haven't had a chance to play with one of these before I've only the Oculus and the HTC Vive but that's so funny because the gear VR is the more ubiquitous one But I think I've only tried it once Versus the HTC Vive I've tried multiple times. Yeah, and do they have an option where you can buy this get a Lower-end phone to put in it. Do you have to be a Samsung customer with your own phone? Okay. Yeah, you gotta get I'm that's where the problem is you've got to get a Samsung phone They changed the color used to be white. It's now dark blue including dark blue on the inside A lot of people were distracted by the white on the inside. Oh, okay Pre-orders are starting tomorrow $99 for shipping August 19th And Samsung also announced its gear 360 VR camera. It's the one they announced it at CES We'll go on sale in the US August 19th for 349 dollars and that one you can use to record video and put wherever you want Yeah, it's a nice looking camera. Again, it's one of those things like Someone finally got that form factor, right? But at 360 you put on a desk, but it's only for Samsung products. I mean, of course People will say the same thing for Apple is Apple made one it'd be only for Apple stuff But I don't know it looks it looks really cool. I've played with some 360 cameras before and they were clunky And and they did not look as slick as this. I'm happy for Samsung owners I might have to get a I just have to buy one just to play with this stuff Yeah, I mean we're like, you know these when webcams what webcams were in 2001 these 360 cameras are now So it'll be a few years before they get really slick I'm wondering when the equivalent to you remember the What was that? There was the bloggy from Sony and there was another one for for taking web video that you could then upload to the internet Those little single-use devices, I'm wondering when we're gonna get the equivalent of that Instagram added a new feature called stories today that lets you post photos and 10 second videos that disappear after 24 hours Since ideas and generic names are not protected by intellectual property law snapchat will not likely sue Also snapchat still lets you put stickers Filters and lenses and Instagram doesn't have those yet Instagram stories will appear in a row at the top of your feed It'll roll out worldwide for iOS and Android over the next few weeks at Lamar. I haven't got it yet But you said you got it right before the show I did and I'm not understanding what people saying They stole from from snapchat. They they because Kevin's sister basically said It looks like it is an update by the way if you're looking for a hard update for yaps, it won't come in that way It's just a server update. They'll they'll update Yeah, but it has my my most frequent friends up there and then a new button where I can create a Story this is this is kind of what's there is light there But this is the one that's running about cats because they know I like cats I guess yeah And yeah, and then I can I can make most I'm actually excited about a Trying it out because as I was talking to you before the show I wanted reasons. I don't like using snapchat is that I it's yet another app and I'm always trying to minimize Integrate and I had a vision about this a few days ago You've got a vision you say He was I had thought about some type of thing to be an Instagram similar to this and then they come out with this So I think Facebook and Instagram are reading my mind and have a camera somewhere in my house Well, you're the target then because I look at this as someone who uses snapchat and I'm like Not sure why I would use this. I guess it does reduce my my need to make the perfect picture on Instagram And I guess there's some people I know like Lamar who I know I have on Instagram But they don't really use snapchat So I can kind of see it But if you're somebody who doesn't use snapchat at all and you're looking for a relief from like Instagram photos always have to be so perfect I don't want them to have to last forever or I need to I want to do like 12 of them But I don't want them to stick around on my timeline forever. This is your take people. Yeah. Yeah, exactly So I'm looking forward to I'm gonna play with it today Google announced its plans to deliver amp links to all mobile search results amp is a standing for Accelerated mobile pages. This is Google's open source version of Facebook's instant articles It's an open source project on GitHub started by Google to deliver faster loading pages Google has highlighted app based news stories in its carousel at the top of mobile search results for a while now You may have seen that on mobile where you you see the little amp logo or the lightning bolt You tap on it and and the story comes up really fast Well now amp enabled links will show up in the main search And those will show a small lightning bolt by them as well Google will start with a developer preview of amp pages in search results before they roll it out to the rest of us later this year And they said they will not give preferential treatment to amp pages in search rankings However, the verge pointed out that one of the search ranking Signals is how fast your page loads. So if your page loads really fast on amp that is going to help you in search engine Rankings I would think Absolutely, and they totally didn't steal the the lightning bolt thing from Twitter, which has Twitter moments, you know, well Well, yeah, and Facebook uses the lightning bolt for instant articles. Yeah, right, right the universal symbol I guess it is the universal one. I Like there's a there's a really good argument and the verge makes this argument that this is unnecessarily complicated and Takes away control from the page owner, right? So instead of just making HTML Google is operating a system that you have to now build separately to amp enable your pages And that that while it's open source means that I as a publisher Have a limited number of options in my mobile pages if this catches on because amp restricts how many ad units how many images So it can run faster, right? Yeah, okay So yeah, they could go sorry. No, no, I was just saying so now it's overly complicated for publishers Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm just thinking I could end up causing some some problems as fairness I guess people like it's you know, this company has more resources. They can you know do this or Google treats them better It's it's an argument for Google using its dominant position in search For it maybe you think it's a good thing to say hey reduce the complexity on those pages So I don't have to use an ad blocker And I'll see your ads more often the load faster. They use less of my data. Everybody wins But and I can granted it is an open-source project and Google's letting anybody use it who wants but it's Google Putting it in its search results that really drives it forward and it's not standard. It's not an HTML standard It's a standard that Google created on top of that So the right, you know, yes now you've got a if you're a super publisher You have to have a Facebook instant article version an HTML version and an amp version And a mobile responsive version in case somebody's not using Google and searching boy Yeah, I used to build websites and I'm glad I got out of that game Well, I mean what I did a Daily Tech news show was I went found a plug-in for WordPress and said Make an amp version of all my pages and it does make an amp version Okay, but that's not gonna be good enough for somebody like the verge who has like loads of decisions to make about what ads they want To show up in this thing and absolutely TP link admitted violating US radio frequency rules by selling routers that allowed users to change the country code and then Operate at power levels beyond approved US limits. So you could just go in there You didn't have to prove you were in a country you could change the country code on your router and get a little extra range out of it While violating FCC rules at the same time. I don't even know you can do that Yeah, apparently you could but you can't anymore TP link is gonna pay $200,000 comply with rules going forward They've pushed firmware out to fix that option. So you have to use old firmware if you want that option and break the law and interestingly in their agreement with the FCC to to be punished They agreed to allow customers to install open-source firmware on their routers and why that's interesting if you remember Recently the FCC put in rules that require vendors to prevent third-party software From changing certain things that cause radio interference a lot of companies instead of writing the extra code to Prevent open-source router software like open WRT from being able to access the radio frequencies Instead just said we're not gonna allow third-party software and a lot of people said ah the FCC is waging more on open-source software Because they put through this rule that effectively encourages companies to limit the kind of firmware I could put on my router There were exemptions links is for instance routers are accommodating the new rules and allowing third-party open-source software But this settlement which has nothing to do with that radio frequency It has to do with a power thing that's totally separate this settlement requires TP link To a loud third-party firmware to be installed So the FCC is using the settlement to show it does not at least it's trying to say look see we don't want to prevent Consumers from using open-source software. We may TP link do this even though it has nothing to do with their violation Okay, yeah, that's confusing my answer. I know and I followed along but that's just like Yeah, well, it's a weird thing because I mean if you don't understand the difference between the two violations It's like well they violated something with the router and they have to do something else I get it, but it's basically said like saying you use too many volts And so in punishment you have to allow third-party software on your router Yeah, yeah, they're basically yeah They're basically using them as an example since they already had them for an over the knee for one one Issue already that that's what the confusing part was. Yeah, and and now there's another router manufacturer involuntarily Saying hey if you're an open WRT user or some other third-party router software user now you've got another option I'll be curious to see if TP link sees an uptick in their sales because of that And will that uptick lead to revenue more than $200,000 which is what they pay the fine Hmm. I like what you think Finally on Monday, Japan's NHK began the first TV satellite broadcast in 8k resolution Lamar 8k broadcast I'm throwing away my Xbox. Yeah, throw away your Xbox throw away your TV And just red get ready to watch NHK now some of the programming is in 4k But they all they have lots of 8k comment content at 76 80 by 43 20 Supports 22.2 channel audio. They they only broadcast from 10 a.m. Until 5 p.m But they're doing a lot of content in advance of the Olympics and the whole point is to be able to show a Olympic coverage in 8k once the Olympics start later this week. Here's a problem though Lamar. Yeah An 8k television, no, I barely have a fork Yeah, you can't get an 8k television because I don't think there are any on the market Are they so in Japan models? I feel like I eat three. No, they always come out with one That is a reference model, but never you you can you could definitely find one on the floor at CES I'm sharp. I'm that sharp had a 3 had a couple on on display Not for sale not for you to take home So the so NHK is having to install public viewing stations around the country so that you can watch this and I love this because I Do a book called the year in tech history I do daily post called today in tech history and it's always fun to see like the first television broadcast Took place in August and one of the things they did was install televisions in local shops So that people could watch it because nobody had a television and here we are history repeating itself doing the exact same thing. Yeah, yeah, it's like When I first read those like oh man, Japan is really a hand it they've already killed 4k and 8k It's like, yeah, no one has that but it's I mean how long do you think before? consumer and consumers in the house And and what's the point and yeah The it's good for a big resume I mean like in a bar or something or or like they were probably gonna have it over certain stores, whatever like a big What the hundred two hundred inches? Maybe I mean that would be great for 4k. So yeah, I'm a K No, it's a case gonna be excellent for large screens It will it will allow you to get up close to your television and see detail instead of pixels Which is kind of insane, right? Yeah, that's correct. You can you can zoom in by just walking up to your TV It won't fuzz out on you. That was Sherry Sark from Engadgets on 8k television at CES when you're and told me on tech news today that He was like it's amazing. No, he's like it's brilliant because you can actually just walk up It's like almost like walking up to a photo Instead of walking up to a television. That is scary. Yeah, so I want it's cool in that respect And it convinced me that like I think I might just hold out on 4k until 8k comes along, which is gonna be a long time though Yeah, and that's good Okay, always does this NHK always finds whatever that like they did it with HD in the 80s They they were doing oh really high-def broadcast. Yeah, they always do it well ahead to kind of show off their their technical chops Thanks to everybody who participates in our subreddit at daily tech news show dot reddit dot com It definitely helps us put together a fine fine show every day a you tiger fan helped us out strike it rich one motang Go share Steve. I owe Funk around was in there today and more get in there submit some stories and vote at daily tech news show dot reddit dot com That's a look at our top stories Let's get to this Xbox one s I know I just I just bummed you out because I'm like 8k and the whole deal with the Xbox one s is it can show video Yeah, 4k. I don't even want like I want to just toss this out the where's the window? Don't know mark. Don't I hold up to it for the for the sake of it's too small It will hurt no one Break the window. It'll just like compared to me. It is really tiny, but go ahead Let's get some oh, yeah So it's a no Xbox one s 40 percent smaller than the original integrated power supply and 4k HDR video, but not gameplay So Yeah, Eurogamer digital foundry did it did some tests on it and basically the GPU's clock speed is 914 megahertz 7.1 percent faster than the Xbox ones 853 megahertz GPU this GPU can do 2.4 teraflops, which is up from 1.31 That's still less than the ps4 which does 1.84 and according to Microsoft Upclocking the graphics core core is essentially what they needed to do to get that real-time Non-HDR version of the game of the game DVR features streaming and screenshots, so They they did enough to make it play video, but not enough to do real-time game rendering Right, and they weren't trying to do. Yeah, they weren't trying to do that in this version Good so is it really feel smaller. Oh Yeah, I did a boxing of it I have had this since Friday and I did on about seven and absolutely small I put this one on top of the other one and as I'm doing the video I'm like wow like it is it's definitely smaller they managed to get the The power situation solved where you don't have that big brick anymore So it's just one plug that you that you plug in You know smaller as Roger was saying before the show Could lead to some other problems they you know when it's bigger They had more room for the fan as Roger was saying so it was in a big quieter Now they have to ramp the fan up especially with you know with 4k and I'm sure there's some heating issues there The reason I say that is is that although I've had no problems with this I have noticed when I pause my TV. I hear I hear it and not as loud as the 360 Like an airplane taking off like yeah, but because the 360 used to drag out the airport next door Would I yeah, so it's not that bad good. No, no, no, but it was noticeable I got pause and I say wait a minute. Is that the Xbox and it was weird cuz I've never heard my one so I don't think that's a deal breaker But it is something to You know understand and know that it you will hear or hear this one I guess that's a sacrifice for for making it more compact and get and get rid of That fan as well now the other thing Eurogamer was saying is you've got about a nine frame per second in the moment differential between the two consoles In essence the difference is rather like a factory overclocked PC Did you notice that in playing any of the games on it? Did it feel like it was quicker better or less lag etc? No, I felt that the Interface of you know, their main dashboard was a little snappier. I played Star Wars Battlefront. I played The new technomancer play Call of Duty. I ran through the apps the Netflix app had 4k available Amazon at the time did not so I wasn't able to look at their 4k, but yeah, everything seemed about the same With with gaming. I don't have a 4k disc just has to blue rate. I was really excited to do that So I'm gonna probably run out to mess by today or tomorrow to do to get that Well, I gotta say I looked up prices of 4k blue ray players. This is the cheapest one out there I mean, that's 399 right for the two. Yeah, yeah, right and the 500 gigabyte one which comes out a little bit later Yeah, be 299 so I mean and I'm seeing these these going for two to four hundred five hundred dollars These 4k blue ray players. So like if you just want a new age blue ray player You know, yeah beat this right now beatmaster in our chat room has a fair point He's like does that fan noise disqualified it as a like high-end home theater source though Like that was it bothersome while you're watching videos. No, no, I did that's the thing I didn't I didn't hear anything while even at low volume I don't hear the only time I heard it was I hit mute and I just heard a notice they hummed in the house I normally don't hear okay, there's a real sensitive to the noises around so most of us wouldn't notice it Maybe like Yeah, I mean if you gotta be sitting really close to it. I'm sitting what No, eight to ten feet from it and yeah, even at low volume. I don't hear it at all Like there's some machines that you can tell that it's on And I got I remember the 360 So you you you're not gonna see a whole lot of gameplay difference in this Maybe a tiny bit if you're if you're really paying attention But you got actual 4k HDR video and you said you watched it on Netflix. You've got a 4k TV Yeah, I have a 4k. Yeah. Yeah, I mean it looks as well as my the 4k app that's built into my Vizio I have a 2014 Vizio, so it doesn't have the HDR It only has one port for the 60 The 60 Hertz, you know, so I was able to plug this in thank goodness So yeah, and I'll honestly The new games that come out Gears of War Four and a couple of the games will take advantage of the HDR capability and it'll take advantage of I believe the faster processor, so the newer games will start to see a Parity difference, but in general as I said in the video This is for people if you're you sitting on a 360 you looking to upgrade you got it You want to do it this year? It doesn't make sense to get to get the one just go ahead and get this one If you're Xbox one person that you have a 4k TV and You want 4k because you don't have any other way It's want to look at but I'm gonna be honest I said in a video and Microsoft did send this to me by the way for for For review, so I do want to disclose that but and as I said in video Honestly, if you have a Xbox one and it's working fine, and you know your power cord is out the way and you There's there's nothing compelling in this Especially if you don't have 4k to to buy it. I don't I don't think it's gonna make your games that much better As the as to advertise scorpion. Well, it sounds like the only choice is I don't have an Xbox one And I don't have a 4k TV And I'm looking to buy an Xbox do I get the one s for say $249 later this month for the 500 gigabyte or do I get the Xbox one for a hundred ninety nine dollars from Best Buy and save myself You know 50 bucks. Yeah, it'll be too. Now. It's already gonna Lord to 249. I thought well I think it's 249 unbundled. I think that the 299 Oh, okay, okay, but you may not be able to find it unbundled for a while, too. So yeah I always say Get the latest thing if you if it's not that much of a difference worth that 50 bucks unless you just don't have that 50 bucks. Yeah, yeah, yeah, absolutely if you're gonna invest in it going to get the latest one the the controller The controllers great it has a Bluetooth So you can use a controller not for not for the Xbox before Windows 10 for your PC So no longer do you have to have that big extension? To make a wireless controller work. It's double the range on the Xbox one s So if it was 20 feet in your house now, it's 40 you can go outside and still control Hey, I don't know why you like head down to the corner store and keep playing. Okay, good Yeah, but you know, but what it's used for is having hit a headset on and I will go to another side of the house and keep talking Someone it'll go out now that probably won't happen And they got some did you talk about the Cortana stuff when you were well Before we get off the controller though, like otherwise, it's just the textured grip and the and the new thumb And the new thumbstick design. Is that I make any difference to you? Did you notice me? Yeah, it's I didn't notice the thumbs as much as I did notice that the texture grip which I guess helps you hold it a little bit better. I I don't I didn't really see a big difference Yeah, and the new summer software update came today for all the Xbox ones It's got the big thing is Cortana now I was talking about Cortana earlier today on my Xbox And so that that has definitely improved the voice recognition Although if you like the current Xbox voice recognition, you can keep it You can go into settings and turn off Cortana and go with the regular one There's also a few other things in their background music support region free language choice Did the Xbox one has come with the update? Yes, well, no, I had to download it when I when I got it I do want to say something about the connect. I had to connect in the last one. A lot of people don't have the connect It does not come with the with the ability to plug in the connect You have to get an abide adapter which then plugs in the USB I Thought about it and I looked at how much I use the connect and I said, you know I don't use it that much to Even bother with that. So I just I took the connect off and I haven't used it This weekend I can still use Cortana if I put a headset on To let you know to talk to her but other than that I just I thought about like I use it to say open twitch and That I think that's it. I think maybe open YouTube I'll say two commands and so to me just wasn't worth the extra power We use it We run our Tivo which has an over-the-air signal on it through the Xbox one And so we use the voice commands We to like watch TV Like if we're if we turn on the Xbox and it's still on the menu or on a game or something It's the easier way to do that. I lean uses that all the time We'll even usually to pause because it'll it'll be able to control the Tivo Interesting. Okay. So yeah, so that is option. You do have to buy the dunk the dongle For that but for the Xbox. Yeah. Yeah other than that sleek is still my word. I think it's I think it's sleek I think it looks cool. I don't really as I said in the video I really care too much about looks once it's in my TV cabinet. I don't really care what Yeah, what it looks like or how big it is but for those who do care they did provide a solution for you and I think I think it's a good investment so far I Haven't had any glitches or anything. So yeah, so yeah If you don't have an Xbox one and you want one or you have a 4k TV now and you want a source for it. There you go. Those are your two use cases. Otherwise, you're fine. Don't worry about it Yeah, you're good. Yeah Thank You Lamar appreciate taking a look at them. Yeah, our pick of the day comes from Tyler Who says look you guys have been having a lot of discussions about stock prices It was earnings week for a couple of weeks there He says so I want to recommend Yahoo Finance for anybody who wants to get quick stock prices or historical data I've been using it since I took a finance course in college back in 2006 Now I track a non-profits endowment and compare it to benchmarks that reflect similar holdings Yahoo Finance's historical price section Easily downloads into Excel where I can play with the numbers I'm sure there are programs or websites that could do all this for me But I love to work with the raw data on my own and I can get it from Yahoo Finance. So there you go. I Used Yahoo Finance back in the day. I didn't buy stocks but just to learn about stocks I've always been a fan of Yahoo's little, you know, apps not apps So what they're they're sites like this. So good choice. It's a really good site even today Thank You Tyler because I send us your picks folks feedback at daily tech news show comm You can find more picks at daily tech news show comm slash picks Real quickly William Madison at blind insight comm talking about uber said it would be great If uber would build into its profile and notification system to the drivers that the rider is blind or maybe deaf Or any other kind of accessibility requirement because the dry if you're blind You won't be able to see the driver and additional assistance may be needed I've gone back to calling a cab so that their dispatch can relay the information that I'm blind So the driver won't just pull up and expect me to see him and get in the car Highly accurate maps and GPS would also help drivers see where the disabled individual is. Yeah I think it's a good idea. There's another thing about uber. I did know I had to ask a driver They don't see our picture like you put your profile picture in that they have no idea What should look like when they pull up and always thought they did I don't know Maybe uber does that to avoid discrimination if they see someone they don't want to pick up But I think in this situation that would be helpful for the driver to see Okay, this is what the person looks like this, you know, and and be and safely be able to pick them up If they have a disability absolutely now John we've dykstra wrote in from sunny Salisbury, New Brunswick, Canada and I sworn I was done talking about John Deere tractors after after we strung that conversation out for a few days But he said as I sit in my John Deere 7330 piling grass silage. I'm happy you gave a shout out to the many farmers listening to podcast whether driving tractors or milking cows I love to keep up with the tech news that being said I believe the reason that John Deere so adamant not to let farmers work on their tractors is that it saves them time Effort and money when designing new tractors. They've moved to utilizing Software to limit the capability of a range of tractors and I know a couple of you already mentioned this But John has a really clear description He says a series of range of tractors might have five models But instead of putting five different sized engines in them They want to put the same large engine in all five and reduce the horsepower comes down to the fact that John Deere Doesn't want to let farmers overclock their tractors. It's all about protecting their investment So you buy a bigger tractor that has the same engine as the smaller one and there similar situation with certain processors where they'll just turn off a core and sell it as a a Processor with fewer cores and they'll even sell you an in in place upgrade to a quad core If you only have three core runs cores running. I Never thought I hear about a a tractor having software and overclocking that is that is no I know I love I love this so I thank you John for sending that to us And finally Evan Koblen's president of the vintage computer Federation wanted us to remind you that the vintage computer Festival West is this weekend It last ran nine years ago under a former owner and Evan's group as a non-profit Acquired it last fall. So if you're in the Bay Area August 6th through the 7th this weekend of the computer history Museum in Mountain View, California You can learn about CPM versus MS-DOS CPM early computer gaming It's a trip back in time. It's all pretty cool all of the event details are at vc fed Dot org if you want to take a look at it. It's I love that kind of stuff myself. I was gonna say I have a feeling You're gonna be taking a drive Yeah, absolutely So check that out vc fed for vintage computer Federation vc fed dot org Thank You Lamar Wilson, of course if you want to see the unboxing of the Xbox one s head to youtube.com Slash Lamar Wilson what else you got on over there? You know this week if you ever wanted to know about the Phillips Hue light bulbs, I'm gonna be installing a Bunch of these they sent them out, which I was grateful is there and not cheap And I'll be installing those for the first time. I'm trying to get this house to be completely smart I already have to know the nest now that so if you want to see that I think that'll be out Saturday So make sure you subscribe we go to youtube.com slash Lamar Wilson I knew I'll kind of unboxings and showcases of cool products, but that's gonna be one of my favorite ones Yeah, I've got a couple of lifex bulbs and I've gone through periods of rage and kids of love with them To see how the Phillips wouldn't treat you Justin's got a bunch of Phillips bulbs. He uses as well. Oh, does he okay? Thanks to everybody who supports the show daily tech news show comm slash Support allows us to keep doing the show bring on great people like Lamar go to things like create con If you want to continue to support us head to daily tech news show comm slash Support and if you want some perks like that slack channel. 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That's a relief. Yeah Yeah, but oh, yeah, great show. Thank you for having me. Oh, yeah. No, absolutely And thank you for being on that was fantastic. Yeah And for sharing your your Xbox wisdom with us. Yeah, I know I know Roger was like dying You know talk about the the inner is so the Of the fan, you know, that would have been great because I didn't I don't know any of that. All right Titles titles me now. Yes, we can Sometimes I think I have it figured out and then just goes six 360 or 180 The S stands for sleek. Oh, no, okay, you're given titles. I'm sorry My titles my title my eyes are up here Samsung Snapgram less notable note Google amp goes to 11. Ha Moshe Moshe 8k You like sleek box was that was that what you were saying the S stands for sleek That I stands for stands for sleek Lamar you just made that one up, didn't you? I did right? Okay. I was looking for second I am I am amazing when I can't and I need to be so so as stands for sleek. I'm gonna go with that. I like it Nobody wins, but Lamar today Lamar's birthday party he gets a I got a free Xbox. I am parting today No kidding man. You should be yeah Yeah, I mean the thing and I told them my Xbox contact They knew like the day he got announced I was I was there at the show and it right on my phone. I went right to Amazon and Pre-order they saw it. It's like I think well, I think we'll take care of you That's like I'm pre-ordering anyway because I don't depend on them Any of these they surprised me so good stuff and I'll be donating my Xbox one to a family that Yeah, yeah, yeah, they have a odor odor machine. So I was like, yeah Big good thing. Yeah, I did that with my ps3 when I got the ps4. I said ps3 to my brother That works. Yeah, yeah, try to do You get well get YouTube actually hates Giveaways on YouTube and I hate doing them because they're you know Technically is illegal to do international, but if you tell your international audience that you can't do international They'll hate you. Yeah, so you can't win and so like, you know, I'm interested, you know I just don't do them And I was like, yeah, I mean, that's was is it a giveaway because it's a contest or Is I mean what makes even even like I mean, I think they're pretty I don't know what what the legit You know the specific rules on it, but any kind of giveaway any giveaway of a particularly valuable nature requires a set of rules and Tech TV back in 2000 our standard was if it's worth more than $25 you have to have rules That's a good that's a good long but it varies like, you know YouTube's probably more strict because they don't want to have to police that so they may just put a blanket on it Yeah, we used to we used to basically say it was a giveaway and that anyone was Free to win it no matter where they were as long as they said Well, you have to if it's a giveaway you still and it's more than $25 though We still had to have rules and we couldn't allow outside, you know, non-domestic entrance You had to not have be able you had to not do anything of skill It had to be just a random drawing Random random. Oh, is right. Yeah. Yeah. So they're on YouTube They're just paid in the butt ending. We have a situation where a lot of people have Like lied about their giveaways. They've they've cheated, you know say hey I'm giving away a bunch of these and and then they don't or you know, or you know, just all the scams So it's just a kind of a culture of mistrust with those anyway. I just rather not be part of that. No, I hear you know, yeah, I Give away good tidings and they were video. That's the giveaway. I gave away I did I'm doing a short series and I didn't have a new episode last week So I brought already broke my first rule of regularity, but I'm called. It's called What is that where I just hold something up on my YouTube channel? I saw that I like that and I gave away an e-book because that's easy. Oh, yeah, that's digital. That's fine Yeah, it's digital. I can I can give it. Yeah, I can give it very easily with just a link I've done gift cards occasionally to people. Oh, yeah, we're in other other countries Especially if they Wants up at the time when I was doing giveaways and I want something that I couldn't ship it to them For whatever reason. Yeah, I just say hey, I gave you an Amazon the value But yeah, it's still a pain in the butt. I read it is Logistics of all that. I remember the prize closet at tech TV Roger Had to keep a closet for the prizes we would give away and then you'd have to remember to ship them and get somebody to Put them in boxes and send them out and keep track You said I'm out or not. Yeah. Oh, yeah, it was always in turns. I Don't think Roger remembers the closet Closet the prize closet. Oh Listen, are you Yeah, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah closet. Yeah closet. Yeah, we came out of the closet a long time ago No, we're talking about giveaways and prize closets We Are you talking about that you're just talking in general but not talking about the one I was talking about the tech TV prize closet And how much of a mess it was? Well, so there was a generic one, but there was also like call for help at a show specific one We had our own closet, which was under my desk Well, right You'd have to go find Robin Huseveld if you wanted to get anything out of the tech TV one So you needed to have your own for the shows because it wasn't always convenient we screensavers and call for help because of the because of the the shows we're able to basically manage our own Prize giveaways on the show because we did a we did remember we did a daily one. We had the little wall And then all those prizes were by my feet and you did the fridge magnet thing and That was the fridge the fridge magnet thing was Yeah, yeah, but we would send people the fridge magnet too. Oh, yeah. Yeah, we give them There's a lot of Probably We had a boatload of things that we didn't give away at the end when When G4 moved everyone down and I just called all the vendors like It's like I'm gonna return this stuff because we can give away I knew a couple of people wanted them, but it's like nah Well, I remember Intel did a deal where they wanted us to give away their netcams This was when Intel started to do hardware briefly sound effects things and digital netcams and stuff and and Then they stopped and we weren't allowed to give away the Intel netcams because there was a different sponsor so there were all these netcams just taking up space in the closet and I Was allowed to take them and use them at my wedding Instead So we use those instead of the disposable cameras on all the tables This year you had an Intel sponsored wedding, but you didn't get paid for it. Yeah, Intel didn't have didn't pay us anything We We had some pretty smart we had some pretty good deals going In terms of like partnerships with product giveaways and stuff and it's always random I mean random in so much to where I would you know on the game board was interesting. It was fun And the thing is most of them were pretty inexpensive. They would be like, you know, hey, you want a tee Like 90% of the prizes were called t-shirts I'm sure you win a t-shirt Like the grand prize would be like oh you win the Sound Blaster USB sound card whoo your winner. Here's your $60 prize. Give us your address Wait, tell tell me USB sound cards didn't really exist. Yeah, they still do. What are you talking about? Hey? I'm using one right now Are you okay? I Well, I'll I'll yeah, my stuff was always internal. I just yeah, I didn't the USB sound cards were The outgrowth. I mean they've always existed for professional recorders because they want oh Usually they were firewire USBs didn't come around until later until USB 2.0, but It was just easier for I mean if you have if you're if you're recording artist or music producer You don't want to climb over your equipment and take out your box that you have your digital audio workstation on and plug it And you card and all that so It was just here especially for people with laptops, you know, you don't have you don't have PCI Now I make sense and the reason I'm using one is that the computer. I'm on only has mini jack in and out and I don't like that It causes interference problems, so I have a little Berenger USB sound card that allows me to go RCA in and out to my mixer okay, I Retract I Mean they're actually really handy and especially if you're an audio file you can get some really Not custom, but you can get some price here models that are designed specifically for headphone use They're basically high-end DAX with you know, super Awesome, Japanese, you know high-grit aciders that don't leak after 10 years, and they're like they're like that's a little like if you pack like a bunch of Playing card decks together about that size But they work really well, and yeah, it's just you know, you take it out of an environment where it's really noisy to one where But I think traveling is the digital signal which won't be corrupted anyway, so It's good For some people I mean like for the most part the whole reason of having an internal Separate sound card really doesn't exist anymore other than you know people have a legacy card Because not nothing in Windows is excel like audio isn't accelerated anymore, right? Like you don't get hardware it's accelerated sound Because windows that I mean you use third-party 30 you can use third-party drivers for that, but Windows doesn't support it ever since Vista they drop that to increase just a little bit of Windows by dropping it at the kernel And this ladies and gentlemen is how you wake up Roger You mentioned sound I Used to be super. No, I learned a lot. Thank you I used to have eight for some reason I just collect them because they used to Have to build all the machines on screensavers. It's like hi. I got all these stupid Okay, you know my weird collect my weird collection was routers I like and my franken attest to this I will go to Fries electronics in Illinois every weekend so like stare and look at the newest routers because It was at the time where I think it was like 2008 2009 What HD streaming in the house was still something that was struggling It wasn't sure a thing and I was always trying to be the first person to figure it out I was tweaking and going in and try and and trying yeah So I had like five routers at one time in the house trying to go back and forth. It was weird I mean they still are but they're inexpensive like you could buy routers for less than 50 bucks Yeah, I did again. I was really it's a d-link. I got a I got a couple d-links there like 250 bucks Which is pretty high for the time. Yeah. Yeah, did you ever get into any of that third-party firmware then like open No, I tomato. No, I knew I knew about it. I knew about the links this when I never I never Got into the into the kind of stuff. Yeah, you were you were like, no, I knew some guys who did that and really tore Yeah, and then the pre-in was frustrating because I wanted the official and Yeah, it was just it was a weird time in my life where that was my collect Something I was into. Yeah, you know, what was the weirdest? There was a time when I had What was the I had a six no six I had seven machine computers in my house. I had three pts and four max I had like two I had Like two Mac quadras I had a power Mac and I had like a Mac power Mac clone And I had like five four monitors and that's like, why do I have all this stuff in my house? Because it was just clean because there's a lot of stuff that our IT department at tech TV Just literally like giving away because it's like dude. We need to get rid of it if you want to take it It's like, oh great. It's like I'll get this Mac quadra from 1995 It's gonna be because you know, it's like two thousand so it was still pretty you know recent and I snagged a bunch of like low capacity scuzzy dries and Bores is like, oh, this is awesome because you know at the time when you're a college student You can't afford crap, right? He's literally eating ramen noodles every night to pay rent at the end of the month It's like you finally fall into a bonanza of like computer gear. It's like I'm gonna take all of it What is that why all of us have high blood pressure now all this saucy ramen? I am I'm ashamed to admit that my blood pressure is isn't high But it's on the high side of normal and so I'm Especially as I get older about my diet Yeah Yeah, it was okay to eat cramp active. Yeah. Oh man. Remember when you didn't have to think about what you ate now Old men show but I Can eat all the high-drugs I wanted Any kind of instant ramen noodles doesn't matter if it's Korean Japanese or Chinese or horrible horrible for you No nutrition high and salt high in cholesterol. They're just bad for you. I would just eat the uncooked noodles though No, no, no, no, that was just to make that crispy treat Actually, that's not a huge of the you'll listen junior high a bunch of the Chinese kids used to do that take it and smash it the little pieces It's it's already cooked. It's just cooked. It's just super flashed at a big thing at oil and it's bleached Yeah, don't even if you want ramen get real ramen like good like where they actually have fresh Oh, I'm going I'm going to real run at a year or two go to have my first bowl of real ramen and I was blown away I was a little take I was a little off put it. What's the word put off by the put off Yeah, but by the a no no the eggs. I was in there because I don't like over easy Oh No, I love that but it was it was too late But I but I missed it up. It was fine, but like I just I don't like I don't like saying yoke ever if you if you Crack it right away then it kind of cooks so Yeah, it was so it was cooked trust me. I wouldn't yeah would have had any other way, but yeah, it was really tasty Yeah, I love ramen It was funny though when all I knew was top ramen and the first time I saw a ramen store I laughed and feel like no no man. It's really good like it's not it's not what you're thinking I found out about real ramen not from a restaurant, but from watching the cart the anime on Naruto Oh, really? Yeah, because he would eat ramen really fast It's like it, you know, and it was and it was like a running joke in the show and I was like wait Why is what cuz he had so much stuff and I was like, that's ramen. That's weird looks like Exactly it says shrimp flavor not actual shrimp. Yeah. Well, that was yeah I remember the first time I bought top ramen and I was like wait. There's no shrimp in here I've been fooled. No, they're shrimp. It's just the it's just the dried essence that they grind out Grind shrimp, maybe yeah. No, no, no You're at shrimp chips. Oh, yeah, those are great. It's basically they take the prawns they prawns and they process and they grind Dust it on everything. They're so good crepiation Fast not fast food junk food junk food. Yeah, and it's so bad for you. It's so bad for you All right, ladies and gentlemen, we will be back with Scott Johnson and Peter Wells tomorrow. I have a lovely day And spray some chrome in your mouth mad Max