 Coming up on DTNS good news and bad news for Xbox fans how computer vision 5g and Starlink might make your cotton t-shirts cheaper and Lamar gives us the lowdown on whether Instagram reels is for everyone This is the daily tech news for Tuesday August 11th 2020 in Los Angeles. I'm Tom Merritt and from studio Redwood I'm Sarah Lane also in Los Angeles. I'm Lamar Wilson Not the shows but and I'm the shows producer Roger Chang. Are you sure? Yes, I am You are Hey, we were just talking about pie and cake and claim jumper and all kinds of good stuff on good day internet If you want in on that fun, you got to become a member and get your patreon on at patreon.com Slice DTNS. Let's start with a few tech things you should know Well, we were off by just one day a tease from Nvidia on Monday implied that an announcement would come on August 31st But Tuesday Nvidia announced an event at 12 p.m. Eastern Time September 1st Expect a new line of g-force video cards likely the RT yx 3000 series and a successor to the RTX 2080 Dell announced a new latitude 7410 Chromebook enterprise that can be configured as a tool one it comes with a 10th generation Intel Core i7 processor and up to 16 gigs of DDR4 RAM now Dell promises up to 21 hours of battery life no pricing or available Vability yet got a lot of products today feels like CES TCL announced a new line of mid-range five and six series 4k TVs They run the Roku OS support HDR 10 Dolby vision and HLG The 50 inch 5 series starts at $400 with a QLED screen and a 60 Hertz refresh rate And the six series adds mini LED backlighting to the QLD ED screens starting with a 55 inch for $900 that's such a good price. I know I know you gotta be in that Roku University More product announcements Xiaomi announced the Mi 10 ultra phone with 120 X hybrid zoom 50 watt wireless charging 120 watt wireless watt wired charging rather the 6.67 inch OLED phone starts at 5299 one which is about 760 US dollars for 8 gigabytes of RAM in black silver and transparent Xiaomi also announced a 55 inch transparent TV the Mi TV looks OLED at transparent edition Similar to previous TVs from Samsung and LG. It looks like a piece of glass when it's turned off It cost 9991 or about 7200 US dollars and coming to China on August 16th buying it So remember how it looked like Twitter had launched the option to limit replies to tweets But then Twitter said it hadn't well now it's officially launched Look for a globe icon at the bottom of your tweet to limit who can't reply. Oh good the in real and Real light mixed reality glasses are available now in Korea KO R. Yeah for 699,000 won That's around 586 dollars US also bundled with a galaxy note 20 or LG velvet for a little more the real The and real glasses look like sunglasses and connect by a wire to your phone for computing That's why they're doing the bundles the glasses come with various nose clips a corrective lens insert And a VR cover to block out light and make for a clearer picture and real promises support for Chrome Facebook and Instagram among others at launch you can pre-order now with store arrival coming August 21st Google announced a new category of apps coming to Android Auto starting with a Google Calendar app other new Categories coming soon for third-party apps include parking like spot hero more EV charging options like a charge point and more Navigation beyond Google Maps and Waze including at Sygic There's also an actual settings app that will run on the dashboard and give you a little bit more control of what you're doing Calendar and settings are coming over the next month with third-party apps coming in beta by the end of the year San Francisco. Oh, sorry bit much my lip What did San Francisco ever do to you Bite your lip something bad San Francisco Superior Court Judge Ethan Shulman issued a preliminary injunction ordering Uber and Lyft to classify their California drivers as employees Now the judge ruled that drivers do not perform work outside the usual course of Uber and Lyft business business Wanting out drivers on central not 10 Tengen what's that word? Okay, I've never used that before to the business the injunction as stayed for 10 days to allow for both companies to appeal Which they will yeah, they definitely will bite your tongue. I Don't want you. It really hurt not again. No And news we've been keeping you up to date on vaccines Even though it's a little bit outside of technology and you may have heard Russia announced It has registered a SARS-CoV-2 vaccine from Gamalaya Institute That has not yet entered phase 3 trials if you're like wait a minute I didn't hear you mentioned this before It will be administered to volunteers outside of clinical trials phase 3 trials as you recall are the last stage before Approval and that phase is used to ensure safety and effectiveness There are five vaccines for SARS-CoV-2 in phase 3 trials right now one from AstraZeneca and Oxford University That's on track if all goes well to gain approval in October Vaccines both from Moderna and BioNTech Pfizer and Shanghai Fosin could see approval as early as November So the Russian one is not approved after a phase 3 trial It's the government saying we're gonna let volunteers take it after the phase 2 trial Which some people say may or may not be dangerous. So there you go. All right, let's talk a little bit about Xbox Yeah, so the good news first Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscribers with an Android device can start playing games streaming from the cloud as part of project xCloud beta That started Tuesday You use the beta of the game pass app not the project xCloud preview app as that one goes away September 11th now the beta launches with about 30 titles of the expected 100 that eventually be there at launch Project xCloud officially launches on September 15th. Now, that's the good news Also, good news. Hold on Microsoft said in a blog post that it will launch the Xbox Series X in November. So now we have kind of a almost date But here's the bad news The official Halo account tweeted that Halo if an it's release date will be shifted to 2021 due to multiple factors Including lockdowns caused by the virus now Halo infinite was supposed to be included at the launch of the Xbox Series X That is Unfortunate news. I mean, we obviously wanted to have a launch game with the console and you know and PC, but I Rather them kind of get the game, right Yeah, yeah, I mean, yeah, we were talking about that before the show too Like they they went out of their way to say one of the factors was the lockdown and and and the pandemic So it's out of like there were probably some other things that they wanted to fix as well, which might have led to this being delayed anyway Yeah, there was a lot of blowback from the the demo they showed a couple few weeks back and so They could have been a factor and I'm also mentioned in a pre show I could have you know, like people are also working from home We don't know how powerful the computers are how long it takes to get things on it Just could just be delayed and it's like hey take your time We have a bunch of games coming out in the next few months Like I don't know if I would have jumped on Halo day one anyway with all the all the crazy triple-a games coming out So I'm like take your time. We ain't going nowhere unless we let's let's we do go somewhere I mean, it's not great. Halo. Halo is a popular title for for an Xbox launch So they're not loving having to delay it But yeah, and it'll be interesting to see what the response is to to the project X cloud beta Which is you know has been favorably compared to stadia, wouldn't you say? Yeah, I would say and I was in the first beta. I'm this just kind of dropped today So I had a chance to play with the the one today. I gotta say and again, this is on an Android phone I was running on Wi-Fi to be to you know be clear seamless I was playing Gears for I believe it was Or whatever the latest gears was and trying that out There's a couple hiccups, you know, but again for playing on my phone that was pretty pretty seamless I I think this The comparison of this being like the Netflix of games is very apt The why stadia didn't do this is why they're not getting the kind of positive Coverage that they're getting I'm not to say that stadia is bad because it's not I've tried it I also have tried it on mobile. It's a good service. It works really well But it's the model of how you get the games is the problem. Yeah, you don't have to think about it with xCloud It's just there, right? It's just there. Yeah, yeah Well, Google announced the Android earthquake alerts system something you would want to know is there an attempt to use phone accelerometers to detect and then alert people of Earthquakes it's similar to an app called my shake from the University of California at Berkeley that detects P waves from Earthquakes early and then can warn users before the damaging s-wave shocks reach them at least in some cases Usually it's only a minute or so of heads up warning But sometimes that is plenty the Google system would not rely on users installing apps though because it would be built into Android itself The company is working with California's shake alert system. It's the same one underpinning my shake To combine accelerometer data with seismometers for better predictions and alerts Pardon me. The feature will come through Google Play services update and beyond for anybody with location services on Proactive alerts will launch first in California and come to other areas over time. Yeah, it strikes me how similar this is to the Exposure notification system that Google and Apple worked on together, which is you can have an app But people have to go and install the app make it part of the operating system Yeah, suddenly you're gonna get a lot more data in the system a lot more accelerometers contributing stuff here And of course being in California where we have earthquakes frequently This is this is pertinent to us in particular, but there are a lot of earthquake Regions around the world Peru, Japan and more and you need to have The back end for this to work right that you needed to have the system that we have in California that has actual seismometers out There so it can take the accelerometer data and pool it with the actual seismometer data for it to work That's why it's launching first in California But once you can get those kinds of systems up and running elsewhere or integrate into the existing ones like they have in Japan For instance, I think we'll see this in more places Men it's not a lot but man if it's enough to get you, you know out of into a doorway or under a desk or whatever you need to Do that's good. Yeah, could wrap up what I'm doing in the bathroom, you know, right save them Right if I'm sitting there or not, you know, but I might be When you got in there, but yeah, no, it's it's a lot of people in like a minute I mean, we need like an hour to like drive away or something. It's that's that's not possible at this point But yeah for anybody who's who's been through an earthquake that's big enough where you're like, oh, I'm pretty freaked out You know, it's is I want to be somewhere where something's not gonna fall on me Yeah, you know, or otherwise, you know power line stuff it would matter. I'm made it to save your life for sure. Yeah All right, let's shift gears from from saving lives to annoying podcasters whole different situation Equire says amazon music and audible have sent emails to podcasters asking them to submit their shows to a new catalog of podcasts That will be added to both services. That's good news for all of us, right? Yeah, sure Yeah, one more place to, you know get discovered The email that they sent to podcasters said first of all that the information was confidential, which That's one of my pet peeves is somebody says under embargo, and I'm like, I never agreed to the embargo Like you can't just say I'm going to give you all this information But hey, it's confidential, which is why it leaked out It also invited podcasters to submit their show in advance of the launch of the service Podcasters who clicked through to submit their own show found a license agreement totally normal And you're gonna have a license agreement and some eagle eyed podcasters noticed that the license agreement said quote Your content may not include advertising or messages that disparage or are directed against amazon or any service So I ever I mean Any amazon service? Yeah I I I don't remember getting this email, but you know, there may have been I don't know. Maybe it's, you know, podcasters associated with Yeah, I got like 12 of them Because I do that many podcasts Uh and right or who knows maybe I did and I just haven't seen it yet But you know the the whole thing of you can't disparage amazon That's a little silly, but if it were me I'd be like, well, okay, but I don't So that's fine. But yet then you get into some gray areas like on here on this show What if we were covering a story? Where it was amazon amazon against another company and it was reported as news But amazon decided to take issue with the way that it was reported like there It's just a strange thing to to tell people We really want you to be part of, you know, our new podcast universe, but with some serious restrictions Yeah, they need to be agnostic just like apple and and google and spotify all of them are and just Yeah, unless they're gonna pay you You know, you get you get to be part of a premium tier where you get some ad sharing I can see this kind of thing in there and then it's up to your judgment where you want to be part of that or not That's still that's still like, you know, a weird situation But at least you're getting something for it But just to to Blake you tell you you can't talk bad about them. It's is uh, it's really silly I maybe I shouldn't have said I got these emails because it was required of me to be confidential Uh, but I did I didn't click through on them because we have a cast and it said in the email You know, if you have a platform, you're a part of your platform will take care of it So I I pinged a cast I was like, hey you gone this they're like, yeah, we're on and it's fine And so I didn't think twice about it Which is why I never read the terms of service, which is why I didn't see this I don't think amazon is really trying to trick podcasters into never saying anything negative about them No news service. No this show particularly would not submit to those terms. Absolutely not We are free to say whatever evaluative statements we want to say about anybody It that is not something we would ever agree to and even non-new shows wouldn't because they don't want to get caught Like sarah was saying like, well, we don't really like what you said Even if it wasn't disparaging we're gonna say it is this was boilerplate Stuff that was put in a terms of service without thinking and uh, I fully expect and the Amazon will take it out immediately, right amazon I actually do have an amazon affiliate links that can we not say anything bad about them just You know, I love you amazon Anyway, let's talk about google Google has wrote out a new feature for search in india that lets anyone create a virtual visiting card What you might call a calling card or business card now google calls them people cards When you sign it to google you search for your name or add me to search and look for the prompt add yourself to google search You'll be asked to verify a phone number that you can get from Where you can write a description of yourself and other information like links to websites and social media phone number address work Education details email address all optional now your picture is a is your google account picture But you can change it if you want now each account can only Create one card and cards can be reported for things like spam or impersonation You can delete your own card at any time People cards is now available in india in english on mobile Yeah, so I I uh took a little trip through my vpn to Mumbai uh and tried this out Uh, you can only do it on mobile. You can only do it on your phone, but it was easy I I searched add me to search Uh, and it popped right up like oh, would you would you like to add yourself to search? Here you go. Click click click. It required me to verify my phone number It sent me a code because I said, oh, yeah, this is my phone number. It sent me the code I entered the code. It's like, okay, great I didn't end up creating the people card because it failed at the end I think it may have failed because it knew I was on vpn somehow at the at the verification stage But it was really easy to fill out and it had a a lot of information you could choose to add uh home experience work experience Uh address phone number if you're a business. I think this would be really good for you Uh, it's sometimes being described as maybe a competitor for LinkedIn Uh, I think it's for people who are like, yeah, LinkedIn's too much. I just want to have, you know, I'm a consultant Uh, or I'm a freelancer. I'm a small business. I just want to have my information out there Here's an easy way for me to get it out there I'm I wonder how much it really helps because if people aren't searching for you anyway Uh, this isn't going to solve that But if they are and it's kind of like, you know, I've done this before where There's a person and I'm I'm just kind of verifying. Oh, is this the lawyer person with this name? Or is it some other person, you know, it and kind of do a google search and just sort of see what comes up If something that was specifically About the person in question and there was some information because maybe I did want a phone number, you know, or an address or A peel box or or more information about that person's website then I can see this being a Quick search you're already in google anyway. And yeah, you mentioned LinkedIn I mean, LinkedIn works really well for people who use the platform But it requires some upkeep and there's a lot of social interaction and and it's it's also Not just in search where you were already Yeah, I think I think it's interesting and I'm curious, uh, how it does in india, uh, how it takes off It, you know, this this is a thing that apparently according to google anyway, people have been requesting and people have been asking for so Uh, any indian listeners out there? Let us know if you try this out. Uh, how it works for you I love it when new features are introduced like people have been wanting this. Okay. That's why we made it John Deere subsidiary blue river technology published a post friday about its sea and spray computer vision product The software uses a database of plant imagery to train a computer vision system on the open source pie torch machine Learning platform to identify weeds between crops and only spray those with herbicide This could reduce the amount of herbicide used by up to 90 And also keep unwanted chemicals off the crops that we end up eating The system is aimed for use in cotton and soybeans Protocol.com spoke with blue rivers director of computer vision chris padwick about the project So if you'd like to read more that would be a good place to go Padwick mentions they use invidia cards in the tractors through Eventual 5g or star link rollout could make a cloud system possible as well That would allow for more power and faster updates to the model. Yeah, this is a fascinating read folks If you're one of those people who've been like, what's 5g gonna do for me? Uh, it could make your t-shirt cheaper It could make your tofu cheaper This this is really interesting the use of invidia cards in the tractors the speculation That they had with padwick about like, well, could you do a cloud service? And he just he sort of entertained it He's like, well, you know star I'm really interested in star link because that could give us some rural connectivity 5g might be there But it's gonna take a while for it to get out in the rural areas that we needed to But he's like once we did have cloud system Then yeah, we could we could actually do a lot more data collection He was more excited about the data collection than then powering the actual tractors in the cloud because You could do real-time collection and and updating as conditions change and and stuff The it was also the other interesting thing in this article was How computer vision had a challenge In training Because we're really good at telling a cat from a dog and being able to label stuff for a machine learning algorithm to be like That's a cat. That's a dog It takes specialists to be able to tell velvet leaf from soybean, right? Like I most people won't be able to look at it and tell you which is which so you need agronomists You need people who know this easily to be able to at scale go and label this stuff for computer vision So if you want some good examples of you know, what is AI quote-unquote writ large good for this is a great example You said it all man I try Hey folks, if you want to get all the tech headlines each day in about five minutes be sure to subscribe dailytechheadlines.com While tiktok is under the gun from the indian and us governments and as of today the french who have started a data handling probe of tiktok instagram reels is out there hoping to steal tiktok's thunder and It may be working business insider reports It has talked to people who claim to have sold enough fake views on reels To pay for quote a good car and a decent home. They didn't say where but still that's a lot Well, we don't condone using a botnet to pump up your view count on any platform The arrival and success of scammers is certainly one sign that a platform is viable Like if you can make money selling fake views to people there must be people who are valuing that platform However, is it good for law by people as well? Lamar, you've been trying it out since the launch on august 5th What do you think are real so far? I have been trying it out and you know, it is it is a let's be real It is real. Okay. Sorry. Uh, it is a knockoff tiktok Uh, however for someone like me who had had a didn't really have a big tiktok showing or or or viewership You know, I just I never promoted it to have something like that in my instagram We was already with viewers it it took off. I've done. See it came out with six days ago I've done 11 so far and some of it is Uh are things I put on tiktok But some of it has been original content thing, you know, little memes of things that come up with and I've been having a ball I've been having a ball and you know Like almost all of them are getting 50 000 views or higher in it and it's it's not some for me It's not so much the views it's getting a new audience that had no idea who I was before To to to see to see what I do. So it's been it I look at reels as a Silly side of instagram as if instagram wasn't already silly So so it's just a sillier side that you know, none of that content means anything. You just throw it up to be funny Um, and then and then you got the other parts that want to be more serious with ig tv I can uh, or you know over just or stories if I want to vlog So it's to me. It's completed the app and I know instagram is literally ripped off from everyone from snapchat from youtube to to to now tiktok, but It's worked. I I think it's going to be a success You know, it's not going to be a tiktok replacement right now unless they close then it's the closest thing to it But but uh, it's great. I'm having so much fun with it right now You know every time instagram well at this point I don't actually feel that way anymore But it used to be that when instagram would rip off something super blatantly snapchat great example I was like no, yeah This is so stupid. Like how do they sleep at night? You know, there's already this they ripped off every single feature It even looks the same. I'm not using this. I already have a network for this. Well, I was I was off and alone and those thoughts because people are like well No, I I don't care about that other service that I wasn't using anyway But I like what I'm seeing in instagram now and I was already here I mean people like to hang out in one app and do a lot of things they do and that you know that I I'm sort of changing my tune now because I I feel the same way where I make but tiktok I love so much and that's it's an own thing instagram is a very different place to me You know, it's a lot more sort of beauty shots and life is so great But it like you mentioned the silly aspect of it And I mean there's plenty of silly stuff on instagram But introducing more of that and allowing people to be creative in ways that it was never really known for It's it's an interesting concept and I wonder how many people will adopt it I I think Lamar one of the things that you mentioned and sir You kind of back this up is that the advantage instagram has and it's an interesting thing because facebook the parent company of instagram doesn't seem to be able to do this But instagram does is take an imitation and work it into their existing User base so that people adopt it stories didn't torpedo snapchat Uh, it just got a bunch of people who might not have ever used snapchat to start using snapchat like functionality And what that's what you're describing is not that you never use tiktok But you're like man, I'd have to work really hard to build up an audience on tiktok I already have an audience on instagram so reels makes sense because I can just use it Yeah, and I know I know youtube is going to try to do their own thing but that's I don't you too was like Like your granddad, you know like, you know For them to try to come up with a service like that is like meh because they have stories They they they they have stories there and uh, I just I I know no one uses it Well, I think that's a good question that some people may have what is the difference between A story on instagram, which is essentially snapchat, right? It's a short video and reels, which is also a short video Well, it goes uh stories are are uh go away after 24 hours Yeah, yeah, I'll try to come up with the word. Thank you. They're ephemeral. So which I wish tweets were but that's another story So but yeah, so they go they go away And reels are very loopy. They're designed to be edited differently and they stay honest until you delete them Which most people I don't think they're going to delete them So right and it's but it's more me me stuff. Um, it's very me as in meme like things And that I mean tiktok has been so successful just with getting people to we're all going to do something funny to the same song And it's going to be like millions of people doing this and there's like a really fun community aspect of it That even though I'm totally an observer. I've never made one tiktok anything Um, I I I really enjoy that stuff and instagram Has a huge user base and so even if a small portion of especially some of the creators with larger audiences Get ahold of this then yeah, it wouldn't make sense to to move over to tiktok unless you were already really really popular there Really? I got that Yeah, make sure a challenge to you sir. Uh by the end of this week. You're making a reels You are making one. Okay. Okay. All right Challenge accepted lamar. All right And the challenge to the rest of the audience is to find the one real I made You may want I did I did nobody nobody's nobody's seen it So you could be the first go check it out. Hey, uh, thanks to everybody who participates in our subreddit folks Submit your stories and vote on them at daily tech news show reddit.com. I just told sarah's read so now she can have mine Uh tom I would wait for you to tell me to check out the mail bag. But you know what I'm just going to do it on my own Regarding mail malls rather, uh, this is from rick in kingwood, texas Regarding malls and the story about amazon possibly taking over anchor stores to be warehouses. We talked about this yesterday Anchor stores can veto changes says rick and many of the leases to non anchor tenants Those are the the smaller stores kind of in the middle of the mall have clauses that lower their rent When anchor store traffic goes down or leaves altogether And houston the san jis into a mall redevelopment was held up for years because the anchor stores wouldn't agree to changes that the mall owner Wanted to implement if the empty anchor stores become distribution centers Then they don't bring any retail traffic to the mall possibly triggering the other tenants rent reduction or even closure Yeah, and so rick's expected maybe uh, simon mall the the folks that we talked about wanting to possibly, uh, you know, give Give tenancy to amazon for distribution centers Could be using that as as a way to put pressure on other anchor stores to say well We could we could just hand your contract over to somebody else the san jis into a mall. I looked into it Those anchor stores had long term restrictive contracts and uh, I think that was probably a lesson for a lot of mall owners too Not to give long term restrictive contracts to people So I I wonder how many other malls would have to get an anchor tenant to agree to sell its contract To amazon in order to hand this over because that that's what doomed that mall in houston Real quick. You we say anchor you mean like mcglummery ward or jc pennies. Yeah jc pennies sears I'm so sorry mcglummery ward. They do not Sticks barren fuller. Yeah the Emporium Hey, shout out to patrons at our master and grandmaster levels including tony glass jeffry zilx and steve aya dorolla Also, thanks to lamar wilson for being with us today. Oh, we's a pleasure. Can't wait to see all your reels What else you got going on? Yeah, so uh, yeah, i'm doing a lot of content on uh on reels as you as you mentioned i g tv But uh, i'm also supporting some of the i g tv content over to youtube So you can check it out on youtube.com slash lamar wilson right now I got a reaction series going on where I actually literally just reacted to them. Hey, little infinite thing and yesterday Uh, why she's not on youtube yet, but like tomorrow to be on youtube I'm gonna react to a three hundred dollar toaster and why that exists That's uh pray see to see a smart a smart toaster with a screen on it Yeah, why is that why does that exist? So check me out on yeah on my youtube appreciate it youtube.com slash lamar wilson There's two r's in all the best names including lamar at youtube.com slash lamar wilson Hey folks, uh, we are in the process of putting some new stuff in the store So you might want to go keep an eye out over there. We've got hoodies We got hats. We've got mugs. We've got masks. 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