 Hey, we're live. We're going to be doing a show today. Veronica's here, Roger's here, and the internet is here. We're going to hope the internet stays for all of us. Stay well, internet. Let us stream to you. Oh, did you get a haircut? Who me? Yeah. No. No, just sleep on it. I mean, maybe, I don't know, two weeks back. That's a odd thing to say. Or an odd thing to say. No, it's good. It may be odd, but it's also correct. Like, that is definitely what happened with my hair. I slept on my hair and I woke up. I slept on my bed. I got a haircut this weekend, but you didn't notice. It's also because I have a website for my face. Yeah, your face is a website, so. Your website looks great. A little trim here and there. It's at the point where my hair just bothers my ears and I have to get it cut. Oh, hey, Veronica, do you have any questions about the lineup? No. Did you do the normal scavenger hunt for my typos? I literally just opened it. I haven't even looked yet. I was busy today. I'm sorry. Oh, excuse me. We should do a quick super clip of supercuts of Veronica just doing housework. Really busy. No, trying to find the job, Roger. Trying to find the job. Getting prepared. Hey, can you go any higher? I want you to hit an ultrasonic frequency. You want to be a babysitter? No. Yes, yes. That'd be great. Wait, are you saying my kid's not worthy? No, your kid's awesome. I think I know a baby that's pretty much as cute as your baby, though, I have to say. Wow. Shots fired. I know. I'm just saying. Shots fired and baby. You're not saying. You're implying it, therefore. I'm implying that there may be another baby out there that is as cute as your baby. It's close. It's close. No. It's pretty close. All right. I am going to do this. Let's start a recording and then we're going to do a show. What do you think? Let's do a show. Is that crazy talk? Good hiding. All right, here we go. One person can't make a difference. But all of us together on Patreon. We can. Daily Tech News Show relies on your support and every little helps. Please give generously. DailyTechNewsShow.com forward slash support. This is the Daily Tech News for Monday, May 9th, 2016. I'm Tom Merritt joining me today. Ms. Veronica Belmont is back. How are you, Ms. Veronica Belmont? I'm fantastic. How are you, Tom? I am fantastic as well because when you're fantastic, I'm fantastic. We're going to talk about agenda setting, serious communication theory. What sort of? We're going to talk about Facebook and the Gizmodo article that says that they were at least at one point suppressing political opinions. Maybe intentionally, maybe not. And we have a statement from Facebook now. That just came out before the show started. So even more to talk about. Much more to talk about, but let's start with the headlines. Evleaks and HelloMotoHK have posted pictures of a supposed new Motorola X phone. Pretty convincing looking pictures. And at least Evleaks for sure, I know, is a pretty reliable source. This would be the first flagship phone out of Motorola since Lenovo bought it from Google. Pictures show a phone with an all metal design. At least it looks all metal. Large camera assembly and rear facing speakers on the back. Bottom has a large bezel with a fingerprint reader. And the front shows four sensors at each corner. HelloMotoHK's photo also shows the droid logo indicating that Verizon would have a version of this phone as well. No statements out of Motorola as you might expect. But a nice looking Motorola X, don't you think? Yeah, it's beautiful. I love the design. And I'm not much of an Android person typically, but I could get behind that. And unlike Huawei, it's looking like another in the series of Motorola phones rather than trying to look like another phone. That camera assembly does look like it might be sticking out quite a bit on the back. It might be a bit of a bump. Opera released Opera VPN for iOS today with unlimited mobile VPN free for life. It has servers in the US, Canada, Germany, Singapore and the Netherlands. It also removes ad tracking cookies and ads and ad blocker to browsers and other apps. Yeah, so if you don't realize how this works, it actually sets up a VPN in your iOS settings so that all of your internet goes through it. It's not like the Opera browser that's in the developer channel that only does your browser connection. This isn't a browser. This is a thing that adds VPN separately. It can also do the ad blocking and ad tracking through extensions. So this is not an Opera browser, folks. It's really interesting. Wafalophagus wants to know why I said for life in quotes because quotes were written around for life. Yeah, that's a quote from Opera. They're saying for life. We are not promising it. Opera is. That's hence the quotes. Yeah, and I'm not sure if it means for the life of Opera for your life. Hence the quotes. Yeah, but a pretty interesting thing. And no, I have not heard whether Opera has addressed the VPN vulnerability that we reported on previously in the developer channel version of this. That is a widespread VPN vulnerability. So if you're going to rely on this for perfect security, maybe you should investigate that. But for just using light VPN, it's an interesting option and it's free for life. I want to know why Tinevac wants to know why this is a bad idea. He wants to know why it's a bad idea? No, he says it's a bad idea and I want to know why he thinks it's a bad idea. It may be a bad idea to rely on Opera. Maybe that's it because, I mean, for instance, there is a takeover in the works. A consortium of Chinese companies want to buy Opera. So you might not want to rely on that in the future if Opera were to come under a different control or you might. It's up to you. If I cringe at the idea of all my internet traffic going through someone, it doesn't have to. Yeah, but that's just a VPN. Whatever VPN you get, you're always going to have to trust the source on the other end. So it's a matter of whether you trust Opera or not. Periscope announced it's adding a few more features to its Android and iOS apps in the coming weeks. You'll be able to switch cameras between your phone, a DJI UAV, quadcopter, slash drone, and GoPro camera. So you can go drone, camera, GoPro, drone, camera, GoPro. You can do your own little switching thing. Broadcast will be saved permanently by default now. Remember, we mentioned the beta that was testing that. They're going right in and saying, yeah, okay, we're going to make that available for everybody for good. And a new search bar gives results based on titles and descriptions. So it should be easier to find some streams too. Camera switching is kind of a big deal. That's pretty great. I mean, I can't wait to see what people come up with for this thing. There's going to be some pretty cool stuff on Periscope in the next couple months. So you could have someone like, okay, let's say someone's surfing and they've got a GoPro. And you get someone standing on shore with a wide shot from the phone. You have the GoPro first person view from the surfboard and then a quadcopter hovering above to get the overhead shot. You can do a really cool live video that way. Yeah, there's going to be some great videos. There's going to be, I feel like people are going to start making movies this way. Like there's just so many, I mean, right? Like the DJI cameras are really good. I mean, you can get some, I think they do, they have a 4K version of the DJI. I think the Phantom. Yeah. I can't remember which one it is. Anyway, but yeah, a lot of great potential there. Vive, the open source voice assistant. Vive, perhaps? Let's say Vive. I was thinking of like Vivian. Viv. Let's do Viv. Viv sounds sassy. Viv, the open platform voice assistant from the creators of Siri was demonstrated today at Disrupt New York and generally impressed as expected. Viv demonstrated dynamic program generation. With every verbal request, Viv showed the code that handled it. This could allow developers to build a conversational UI by speaking to Viv and tweaking the generated code returned. And I know this is the third time you're hearing about this on DTNS because Peter Wells wanted to talk about it yesterday in advance of it coming out today. And of course, we talked about it when it was first scheduled. But this programming code was not anything I'd heard about prior to the announcement. And I think that's a really interesting way to give developers a leg up in integrating this. And that is the advantage of Viv over Siri. And even to a large extent Cortana and Google is that they don't have a dog in the fight. They want to open this up to anyone to use it. I'm excited to check this out. I love, as you guys know, I love conversational UI stuff and I'm also not a coder. So the easier to do it, the better. Wall Street Journal reports Twitter has blocked another third party service from analyzing tweets. But the significance of this one is that the company Data Miner that's getting blocked counts the US intelligence community among its clients. Data Miner was the only third party getting access to real time feeds of all tweets. Twitter owns a 5% stake in Data Miner. And Twitter has a policy banning third parties from selling information to government bodies for the purpose of surveillance. Now to be clear, Data Miner can still provide third party data to its non-governmental clients. In fact, there is a way that Homeland Security can use this to see news information through a little chain of events. But what Twitter is saying is giving this information directly to the government's law enforcement agencies is against our policy. We just flat out say no, we don't care if it's surveillance for good or ill. We're not going to allow it. 5% stake is not insignificant. So being able to just turn off the Twitter hose also plays a big part in that. So they're going to do what Twitter says. And I think one of the things about this is that these are public tweets, right? These are things, and Twitter even says law enforcement agencies are free to go and look at the Twitter feed themselves anytime they want and surveil that way. So it's not that they want to restrict private data. It's that they actually want to prevent the ease of getting that data. They don't want to be seen as cooperating with government surveillance. And Strike It Rich on the IRC says Twitter owns 5% and can enforce their policy. It's not just that they own 5%. They also control the API. So they can not have any company that really has almost nothing to do with it. It's more about they can enforce their policy by restricting API access. Yeah, don't get confused there. It's not the 5%. The 5% stake is only interesting in that this isn't Twitter saying, well, this is really a competitor like they've done previously with APIs. Because they own 5%. They actually do want to see data miner succeed, but they have a policy. It doesn't matter whether they own part of a company or not to say you're not allowed to do this. And so they're enforcing it. And this is the only company that was doing it. It was part of a test pilot and the pilot is now over and says Twitter and Twitter says no, we're not going to cooperate. I think they're going to get some backlash on this one because it's publicly available information. But I think they also would get backlash if they were seen to continue doing this by people who have a very hard line against government surveillance. So it's kind of a no-win situation for them. So the best they could do is just enforce their own policies to say this is what this was our policy. We're just following our own rules. And take the heat for their policy at that point. Yeah. Uber and Lyft both suspended service in Austin, Texas Monday after voters supported keeping a city ordinance requiring fingerprint checks on drivers. Uber said it will continue to operate its food delivery service in Austin. New York, Atlanta and Houston are also considering requiring fingerprint checks. Yeah. So there's some fallout to this that might affect other cities if it looks like, hey, they were able to succeed with this in Austin. Let's go ahead and push through our own. And in fact, Uber has said that they would pull out of Houston if Houston were to implement this as well. So pulling out and interestingly Lyft pulling out in solidarity because they're also affected by this is a showdown. And what's really, really interesting in the local KXAN story, I noted that at least on Sunday, Uber was saying that they would continue to provide service in the suburbs of Austin. So for instance, our friend Brian Brushwood, I was talking to him about this Sunday, said, yeah, so apparently I'll be able to take an Uber into Austin because I don't live in the city limits, but I won't be able to get back by Uber. Wow. Yeah. I'm impressed also that Lyft is following along on this, but yeah, they're affected as well. Yeah. Oh, and I wonder if they'll actually shut down the destination point and say, yeah, we can take you around the outside of Austin, but we can't even drive in because it's not allowed. So what is the, I'm curious to know what the technical block is for letting fingerprint checks work? Like is that something that Uber and Lyft could add? Is that something that is a privacy issue? What is preventing them from doing this? I'd say burden to collect the fingerprints from people and then an extra cost to run it through the system to check. So instead of just doing a regular background check, what the law says is you now have to gather fresh fingerprints from every driver and then pay to have those analyzed and added to the background check. Because sometimes people are able to fool the background check and so the fingerprints another safeguard against that sort of thing. I'm sure the fingerprints have to be in person, but wouldn't it be cool if they could use the fingerprint scanner on iOS to actually input the fingerprint into their profile? Yeah, the drivers would think that was really cool too, because then they could just have a buddy put their finger on it. I'm just trying to think of ways as like how the Uber product people are trying to figure out ways to get around this. Yeah, no, I think the Uber product people are probably saying, just no, we're not going to do it because it's too burdensome. At least that's the Uber product. And the fact that Lyft is doing it too, sometimes in these sort of cases, you'll have one company go, well, we really could comply with this, so we will. And Lyft, at least has the reputation of being the more cooperative with local governments, is saying, yeah, no, this is too high a burden for us too. Yeah, and the other thing is that Uber saying like, we'll still have our drivers deliver your food, I think is a thumb thumbing the nose saying, you know, you don't require a background check for someone to bring you food from the pizza place, do you? Oh, I kind of value my life over a pizza. Yeah, but I think that's what Uber is trying to point out there is like, we're going to still operate drivers. You just don't want us carrying around. I don't know. Spotify announced it will bring out 12 original TV series about music and pop culture. Episodes will be less than 15 minutes long for iOS and Android in the US, UK, Germany and Sweden. Among the shows will be Rush Hour from Russell Simmons, Hip Hop Legend, Landmark, a doc series based on the Music History podcast of the same name, and something called Trading Playlists, where celebrities trade playlists. Sounds fun. Sounds fun. Look, what's on your playlist? I don't know. This is again, Spotify doing all kinds of crazy things with original content. Some of them have worked, some of them have not, but that doesn't mean they shouldn't try it. And I wonder if any of these will catch on. They still do the thing, though, with Spotify, at least last time I tried, where if you're watching a video, you can't turn the screen off. I just wanted to listen to some Amy Schumer stand up, and it was a video, but I had to have the video playing while I was driving in my car. I just wanted to turn off the screen and have it play in the background, and it didn't let me do that then. Maybe that's changed. That's not what it's for. You're not allowed to use it. I know, I know. That's what we're doing. Google News announced it will add a local source tag to stories that start as local coverage and go national. Local source articles are identified automatically by looking at where a publisher has written about in the past and comparing that to the story location. This will help local blogs and other outlets, not part of a larger organization, get highlighted. So I think this is an excellent way to boost local coverage, which is in dire need of boosting. If anything is dragging behind in news coverage on the web, it's your local information because everybody thinks you need to make national money doing anything on the Internet, or even worldwide money. And so a lot of people just aren't getting into local news, and this might help local newspapers get a boost, help other local sources who are trying to just do community blogs get a boost. So I love this. Yeah, I think it's cool. BBC News reports Facebook has won a trademark infringement case against Zhang Shan Pearl River Company, who registered the name Facebook in 2014 for things like coffee mugs. In a statement released April 28, the Beijing Court ruled the Chinese company had violated moral principles with obvious intention to duplicate and copy from another high-profile trademark. BBC News notes that Facebook is currently blocked in China, and that Mark Zuckerberg recently did meet with China's propaganda chief, Liu Yunchan, as well as Alibaba's Jack Ma. So a very different case than the iPhone case situation. Remember the Leathergoods manufacturer, they trademarked their name in 2010, and the court said, well, you were originally filed in 2007. In 2007, the name iPhone wasn't widely known in China, so you get to keep your trademark. What this court is saying is, yeah, Facebook, even though it doesn't exist in China, is pretty widely known. Everybody knows what it is. So you don't get to take that name. That seems fair. And especially now that it seems like Zuckerberg is really making an active push for the Chinese government to perhaps allow access to Facebook in China. I think it's even more telling. Yeah, it's an easy relationship, but it's certainly a better relationship than Google has with China if it's not as friendly as, say, Apple or Microsoft has. And then Apple has its run-ins as well, you know, with, for instance, the book and music services getting blocked. So Facebook is negotiating the waters very carefully. Yes. Speaking of China, China has imposed limits on the number of health care advertisements that can present above search results. The number of paid results will be capped at 30% of the page. Rankings can no longer be solely determined by payment and medical institutions advertising must be approved by the government. A student died after undergoing an experimental cancer treatment found in an ad on Baidu. The hospital involved was breaking the law and has been investigated as well. Yeah, and I think that's important to note is that this was an experimental treatment that Baidu was just passing along for a military hospital. The hospital had accreditation problems, apparently, and they're being sanctioned and punished by the regulators. But China is going the extra step and saying, OK, no, you have to be extra careful with medical ads here and some ads in general. Yeah, that's, I mean, it feels almost like maybe it's not there. I don't know. I almost want to say it's not their responsibility to have to look through this stuff, but maybe they should a little bit. Well, it's one of those, you know, downstream situations where if I'm Baidu and a hospital that is a real hospital, right? It's not it's not something pretending to be a hospital. It's a place where this guy got treated, wants to take an ad. I wouldn't question it much. Yeah, yeah, that's what the thing I'm like. Yeah, this is a tricky one, I think there's some responsibility, but I don't know if it needs to be all the responsibility. Yeah. Well, thanks to everybody who submits things on subreddit, including TM204, Teaglass 1976, Strike at Rich One, Abituella Condulce, Captain Kipper and more. You guys make the show better. And all of you who vote make the show better. Get in there and vote dailytechnewshow.reddit.com and that is a look at the headlines. One of the top stories on our subreddit today was this gizmodo story quoting a former journalist who worked at Facebook as a curator of the trending news box. The idea was they needed someone who would look at the algorithm generated trending topics, pull out ones that were obviously failures of the algorithm, and then write the headlines and summaries that would go in the trending box. This particular curator told gizmodo that they were a conservative and they would always notice when they would come into their shift that some of the stories that they found very interesting were not in the trending box, even though the algorithm showed them as trending. These were usually conservative stories, things like Lois Lerner's investigation of the IRS, Scott Walker in Wisconsin, stories from the Drudge Report that get huge pickup were not were being used in this sources case saying they were being repressed. A separate source that gizmodo talked to said, yeah, every situation was different. They couldn't get any examples of someone coming in and suppressing left-leaning news, but they said it was absolute bias. We were doing it suggestively. It just depended on who the curator was and what time of day it was. Now, okay, there are reasons for them to do this. Here's what gizmodo talks about is they would look at the algorithm sometimes inject stories not popular enough to make it on their own. So the directive apparently was look at the front pages of the big news sources out there. If you see the New York Times and CNN and MSNBC and Fox News all talking about Syria, then if Syria isn't bubbling up in the algorithm, let's give it a boost. Let's bring it in. The particular example that gizmodo mentions is the Black Lives Matter movement, which apparently wasn't getting enough boost at first until it was put into the trending topics and then it caught on. Breaking news is an even better example, something that hasn't had time to catch on yet, maybe, but is important. Like Flight MH370 or the Charlie Hebdo shootings, they would give that a boost as well. And then sometimes they would pull things out. Stories about Facebook particularly were never included unless a manager approved it. As the algorithm improved, injection became less frequent according to some of their sources. And in fact, today Facebook says there are rigorous guidelines in place for the review team to ensure consistency and neutrality. The guidelines do not permit the suppression of political perspectives, nor do they permit the prioritization of one viewpoint or another or one news outlet over another. These guidelines do not prohibit any news outlet from appearing in trending topics. So Facebook's saying today none of this stuff happens. And maybe it was just the algorithm getting better enough to overcome the bias. But Veronica, you and I well know from working at places like CNET that you always are going to have someone's subjectivity affecting coverage because when you're picking headlines, you always have someone's own perspective influencing what should go on that page. Right. They're still humans behind it. The issue is right in the name. They're news curators. These are not robots that are basically using data sets to exactly choose what they think you'll be most interested in based on your friends and based on what your interests are. That happens. But these are news curators. These are people who are picking what stories they think should be going in this trending box. And that's, you know, there's always going to be issues when there's people behind something like that. You were talking about the agenda setting theory, which I think ties in perfectly to this. Well, and I think that's the case is when you call something trending, it creates the expectation that that is a natural thing, that lots of people are talking about this. At least that's what we think today. We look at Twitter trending topics, we think an algorithm spit it out. We look at our Facebook news feed and we know an algorithm spit that out because it doesn't make any sense sometimes. So there is an agenda setting going on. Agenda setting is a theory set forth by Max McCombs and Donald Shaw. Largely in a study they did around the 1968 election saying that what happens in newspapers and in news media is they have an influence in what you think about. Now, there's all kinds of theory that has sprouted off from agenda setting and about second stage agenda setting and whether you can actually influence people's opinions and such. But it is fairly well established that the press quote according to Bernard Cohen is stunningly successful in telling its readers what to think about. And McCombs and Shaw basically set out to find out whether Bernard Cohen was right or not and they were able to find a lot of good statistical backup of that. So in some senses, Facebook is trying to be a good citizen and saying, you know, we really should be thinking about Black Lives Matter. We should be thinking about Syria. We should be thinking about the economy. Let's make sure these topics that a lot of news outlets are covering should be in here. But in the same sense, if they're looking to news outlets to do that, aren't they falling under agenda setting and then perpetuating it by putting it out in front of a bunch of other people? Right. And I have mixed thoughts about this because sometimes I want my Facebook timeline to be completely non-biased. I want to just hear the news from both sides of the aisle. But at the same time, am I going to really click on things that don't jive with my own beliefs and opinions? Like I'm kind of in this happy little echo chamber where I just hear what I want to think about. So I don't know. I think it's a matter of semantics. If Facebook wants to do a curated list of stories they think are important, they should call it that. Okay, maybe not literally stories we think are important, but, you know, important news. Stop what you think you'll like. Top topics. You could call it top topics and I think that would be fine. But calling it trending really does provide the idea that like, oh, this is an unbiased look at things. And I get that Facebook is saying in their statement, yeah, no, we're trying to be unbiased. We really were just trying to correct for the algorithm's deficiencies. And in some sense, that's going to happen. And when you hire, as according to the gizmodo they did, a lot of Ivy League journalists, you're probably going to have a spectrum of political opinions that tilts left. That's just borne out by statistics as well. So this shouldn't be much of a surprise really. Yeah. But it looks like they're conscious of this now, aware of this. And now that it comes out in the press, maybe there will be a change. Well, they're saying that they already made a change. So I don't think there will be a change. It makes me want to say, I want to see the pure algorithm. Give me that option. Maybe that's the way around this is you've got your trending topics and then you have a little link to see behind the curtain. What is that algorithm spitting out? I was on a little dropdown that I could say. Bias, unbiased. Uncurated. Just say this is the curated list and then you could have a choice to look at the uncurated. That would be transparent. It would help us keep an eye on it and say, hey, wait a minute. I've seen Drudge report in the uncurated every day and you're not putting it in there. What's up with that? Right. I would love to see that. And I guess what Facebook is trying to say today is this is a non-story. It doesn't happen anymore. Please move along. But if you're still curating it, then there's still influence on that. And that's something that I think in this day and age you don't have to put up with. When it was a guy in a room with a wire copy, you did. This show is curated, right? This is me looking at Google news, tech meme, our subreddit, my own feeds and then trying to cobble together a list of stories, trying to correct for my own biases and put in things that maybe I'm not as interested in, but I know the audiences or international perspectives or operating systems that don't get enough coverage. That is hard, but at least I'm very upfront saying, this is me doing it. I'm not pretending to be an algorithm. Trending Tom. Trending Tomics. Trending Tomics. As StoicsGirl says, you'll never satisfy everyone. Never satisfy everybody. Is that a cop out though? If Facebook's setting it up as like we have billions of active users and you have an outsize influence, I think you have to do more than just say we'll never satisfy anybody. But people can put their own biases on everything, no matter how it's presented. Yeah. I think they should be clearer in whether we're getting filtered results or not. I'm fine with them curating it as long as I know that. I just assume Twitter is just purely algorithm because nothing ever makes sense on the trending topics over there. You know what? And that's why Facebook's curating it. They're like they wanted to have their competition with Twitter to get your news eyeball. And so they were trying very hard not to fake it, but to juice the results so that they looked better than Twitter's. Yeah. Let's get to our pick of the day. Mike, a Nickelbacker from summer is here. Winter is coming, San Francisco. I said I wanted to plug my favorite music app, Stream and Website, Radio Paradise at RadioParadise.com. Music selection is an eclectic mix of modern and classic rock, world music, electronica, even a bit of classical and jazz selected by two real human beings. The site supports multiple streaming types and services as well as apps for iOS and Android. The app allows you to download up to 12 hours of high bit rate music to your phone over Wi-Fi so you don't have to compromise quality to save precious data plan bytes. There's a synced HD slideshow which you can submit your own photos to. Finally, it's 100% commercial free supported by listeners through this crazy value for value proposition. They simply ask if you get value out of the site to send whatever you think that is worth back to them and help the support station in paying its ASCAP BMI, its CSAC fees, all that sort of thing. And he says what's unbelievable is the models worked for 16 years now. Wow. That's incredible. I wonder how much Mike has put into Radio Paradise. It's kind of like pre-patreon. Yeah. Just under some money. That's the way no agenda was doing it and Radio Paradise has been doing it forever too. So come out, RadioParadise.com. Thanks, Mike. Send your picks to us, folks. Feedback at DailyTechNewShow.com. You can find more picks at DailyTechNewShow.com. I'll take the first email here on one show recently. I mentioned the legend of Inuit people having multiple words for snow. I was using it as an analogy and I sort of offhandedly said, well, you know, you've heard that story and I don't know if it's true. Well, Mark writes, I thought you might be interested to know, they probably don't have anywhere near the mythic levels of words for snow, although given that their language is built upon suffocation, in theory they could. I covered this in a recent episode of a new podcast, vidcast series I started in the last couple of months. And if you're interested, you can check out the latest episode at whatisitabouttheweather.com. What is it about the weather.com? What is it about the weather.com? What was it with all these words for snow? So yeah, I thought that was a great answer, which wasn't just, yes, they do know they don't, but kind of not, but could. Good answer. Yeah. Rob wrote in and reported that the Sea Hero Quest game that is being used to collect data for Alzheimer's research is funded by Deutsche Telekom, but it's available to all Android users. Yeah, we mentioned that it was available in all Deutsche Telekom's 13 European regions. Deutsche. But Rob was saying, yeah, but you don't have to be on T-Mobile to get it. You can have any Android phone at all. So that's good to know. And a pretty cool program at that. That is it for this episode of The Daily Tech News Show. Thank you Veronica Belmont. Huzzah. My trending topics on Facebook right now are Game of Thrones, Oathbreaker, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Scientist Develop Material to Temporarily Smooth Wrinkles, and Real Madrid. Club moves into second place. And I don't know about that. That sounds like rugby. Is that rugby? Real Madrid is soccer. Real. Real. Damn it. They don't know what I want to hear about. The Champions League. If you click more, it says Facebook Trending. Platform suppresses news topics from conservative media report says. Oh, I don't have that. Interesting. I may not be there now. Actually, I found that earlier. So they do talk about Facebook. So they did have it in their trending topics today. If you were like, yeah, I bet they suppressed that one. No, they didn't. Did not. I definitely found it in there. You can find all kinds of news right here every day thanks to you. This is supported and underwritten through a grant from you. So if you haven't sent us what you think the show is worth, you can do so right now. Go to dailytechnewshow.com. Support and let us know through PayPal or Patreon or however you would like to express that opinion, how much you think this show is worth. Also, if you are a Patreon at the $5 a month level and above, you've got a special tech in travel from Chris Christensen in the treasure chest. You can go get that now or we'll append it to the end of the audio episode as well. 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Yeah. That's what's going on. Hey, what do we got for titles there, Roger? Roger. Roger, we can't hear you. It's doing that thing again. No, we can't hear you. Goodbye, Roger. Big Jim goes, Bellbot, are you trying to get free? And she goes, yes. See? You hear me now. Yes, we can hear you now, Roger. Man, Google Hangouts, chief in my hide. All right. Top is Uber doesn't like getting the finger. Two is left book. Ha-ha. One third is Modo Finds its ex. Viv a little. Mind your data for privacy. Where's the elephant one? The elephant in the Facebook room. Oh, that's good, too. Help, help by being repressed by Facebook, quote, unquote, news curators. It's long, but Monty Python. Facebook should get no agenda. Ellipses, ITM, trending Tomics as you and it. Your face is a website. It is. It turns out social networks aren't perfect. Who knew? No, it says they're perfect. Oddly. Selective. Someone else does Uber finger. All your trademark belong to China, but that's not what happened. Trending Tom. That one is inaccurate. Fake it till you curate it. Interesting. Drone, camera, GoPro, action. Life is bigger than pizza. Gizmodo represses itself. No, not doing that one. Facebook loves donkeys. Oh, jeez. Nothing really leaps out at me. Nothing grabs me by the lapels. Liberal book. It's all. I don't know. I'm editing. Do you have any title faves? I like Viva little. I don't know why. Viva little. Viva little. Viva little. Viva little. Way to ruin the joke, Belmont. I'm so tired. We installed a sense, our sense sensors. I do like the elephant in the Facebook room because it works two ways. The elephant in the room, but also because the elephant is typically a symbol of the GOP, which is a conservative point. Right. That's a good point. Very, very good beatmaster. Good work. I applaud you if I could applaud. I'm physically unable to clap my hands. Physically clap my hands. I can't do that thing because I don't have hands. Radio. I remember signing up to Radio Paradise, not signing up, but using it back in 2003. I have donated a total of 150 bucks to them. Look at you. I was hurrying the chat room. Get him out of here. Because they're going to do a hotline Monday. The elephant in the Facebook room, it relates to our main topic. Fine, whatever. You know, elephants never forget. I thought we'd do another vivid story. I'm just saying. Okay. Fine. Maybe we'll take you to Marine World and you can do an elephant ride. What is a Marine World? I don't think they have any animals at Marine World anymore. I don't know what Marine World is. Marine World Africa USA. It's not Six Flags Park. It's up in Vacaville. We haven't been there yet. It's not Vacaville. It's the town that you have. It's the Lajo. Oh, it's great. They used to have a killer whale and a tank a quarter of the size of the one from SeaWorld. Dolphins in an Olympic size swimming pool. They don't have that anymore. Well, they still have animals. They still have lots of animals that are land-based. Land-based. You're land-based. I am land-based. Oh, Discovery Kingdom. That's what it's called. He literally is land-based. He's land-based. They have animal attractions. Pet and then eat your favorite animals. Balbacos. My colloquy isn't working. Yes, it is. I do think it's hilarious when I go to an aquarium because I always get hungry. Ooh, they do still have the elephant. The elephant encounter. You get to ride them. Barnum and Bailey brothers just got rid of their elephants so they sent them to a retreat. A retreat? Is that what they call it now? Oh, your dog went to a retreat, honey. A retreat at the puppy farm. Well, typically with large performing animals, there's a number of sanctuaries. That's what I meant. There's one in California that's run by Paws, P-A-W-S. That's funded by Bob Barker because he has a lot of spot for animals. They recently took two Toronto zoo elephants, one of them recently passed away, to live out the rest of their years. I have to go now. I'm sorry. I have a call. I board you with sacks. You scheduled a call for the point but the show isn't even over yet. The call is for 2.30, but I have to talk to Ryan about fences before we do that. Is this about your neighbor troubles? It's important fence. I don't have neighbor troubles. There's important fence decisions that have to be made. Fences make good neighbors, especially if they're tall. They are tall. Bye, guys. Bye. Still exporting. Yeah, what about those days? I got beat by the Orioles. Man, I totally missed that thing Saturday, didn't I? I totally misheard that. I think I know what you did. Because I remember you asking me, how long will it go? I don't remember this part perfectly clearly, but I think I probably said, well, it starts at 4.30, so we'll probably be there till 6.30 or 7. I think in your head, you just remembered 7. So I'm glad I got to see it. It would have been worse if you'd showed up and we'd all been gone. Yeah, then I stepped on that little piece that I hope that's dog poo. But I cleaned it off on the way home. I didn't know you stepped on dog poo. That whole area has questionable sidewalk hygiene. Very questionable, for sure. Oh, so, yeah, I have that tomorrow. Hopefully those guys at the ABC, not ABC SF city. That's weird. They must make a bank load of money. They only open four days a week, and they close at five. Bankers' hours. That's why they're calling them bankers' hours, right? Yeah, but it's not a bank, it's an auto shop. Oh. Like where I jumped my car off. The only reason I did is, because they're super close to me, I don't know how to balance you. Well, you've got a flexible schedule, so it should be okay, right? Hopefully, depending on when it's done. Oh, struts. They save money for the auto designer, but they're such a pain in the ass. They still use them, too. It's not one of those parts that went away. They didn't innovate around it yet. Well, they did. They innovated two struts from shocks, because then they could get rid of the upper control arm on the front part of it. They could get rid of it on all four corners. But that's still got struts. Oh, yeah. That's what I'm saying. When they moved from shocks, they could eliminate one geometric component of the car suspension and replace it with other components. Yeah, you're saying they innovated around shocks, but not struts. Well, at some point, you could just have levitate. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. Electromagnetic repulsion. Is there some kind of cool new technology that's not yet... I want Luke Skywalker's little land speeder. The one that sits only two, because that's a pretty... That's like a Mazda Miata with little engine A cells off a Lyre jet. Because that's... Nothing says blink like that. A cells. That's the one thing I love. I don't love everything about the next generation, but I love the fact that the number of times Jordan before says this is all that. Warp containment field is degrading by 10%. Have you thought of increasing it by 20? We're trying. Everyone seems... There almost seemed to be a lack of an alacrity when it came to stuff like that. It's like, oh geez, maybe we should just like get into our emergency. Everything's going to explode suits. It just seemed like, you know, especially for such an advanced ship, it took so long to get to the escape pods or something. Well, it's funny to be... I've been rewatching Voyager on and off recently, and it's always funny to me when they're like telling people to do things that yet they can talk to the computer, which could do exactly the same thing. It seems really inefficient to be like speaking commands to other people at that point. The whole thing is very inefficient. Why does everyone have to look at one giant screen? If you think of a future, you would have some sort of... If not VR technology, but a way to display the entire... I don't know. I think sometimes physical displays will probably still be preferable to make sure everybody's looking at the same thing. The giant view screen on the bridge makes sense to me. That I think is something you might still have. I'm thinking about the possibilities they would have like five. You had the center one, and there would be surround sound screens around you. Just so you wouldn't have to like, hey, view screen half. It's like, no, why don't I just turn around and look behind me? All right, well, we are done. We are uploaded. We are published. So thank you everybody for watching and listening, and we will talk to you tomorrow.