 Yeah, that's a good one. I like that. All right. We're on the streams. I use that one. I've stolen that one from Norton. Is it nap time yet? I want to sleep. Nap time. It's not nice. Wouldn't that be nice? Are you in touch with him? I was. Yeah, let me, I'll text him. She said he was in that meeting. How long ago did he say that, though? Yesterday. I see you've been in meetings. Well, I want to talk to him more. Well, I emailed him like an hour ago when he emailed me an hour ago. I replied back to him. So let me bug him. Where are you? There you are. Let's do a little tweet. Oh, hey, you come into the show? Me too. What am I doing? No admin wordpress. I don't want to make a new post. Would you like to make a new post? How about a new post? Here, I wrote pre- Tomorrow morning, I will. Yeah. There we go. It is a little bit of a strut. Maybe I can wait to tweet until we see if Patrick's coming. Sent this to the right Patrick, right? Yeah, Patrick Norton. Hey, must buy the money. Now I got Nellie on the brain. Sorry. It's OK, you know, you're from the Lou and you're proud. The Lou. I mean, I'm sure that's fine. I haven't lived there since 1980. Did you ever live in the city proper? No, no, I never actually lived in. Just Jason's. I only ever lived in Greenville. Yeah. So that's 45 miles away anyway. So it's a suburb, but a far one. Yeah, I mean, it is. I mean, it's sort of like where I grew up. Yeah, it's a suburb of San Francisco, but it's an hour away. And it's a very different world. It's weird, too, with St. Louis. If you go 45 miles west of the river, you're still pretty suburban. But if you go 45 miles east, you're in the country. Or at least when I was growing up, that was true. It's just more built up on the Missouri side. I mean, how about that? State lions. You get those state lions. No, California's big enough that very rarely I would ever cross like in Nevada. I was talking in our boss's slack. I'd mentioned something about this last week where I'm like, listen, I understand that a lot of people live in places where it's easy to cross state lions or even cross country lions, right? I happen to be not that far from Mexico if I really wanted to go. I could go today. You said go beyond shortly. Oh, good. But in general, living in California, you're just used to going to another state is a huge deal. Yeah. Just cross state lions. Like it's like a very long drive or a plane ride. Crossing state lions is what we did to go shopping. Like that was just a moment of playing for us. Yeah. I'd be like, I'd go to the top. Go to the top, it would be really hard. It's even weirder on the east coast where when I went to my internship and I lived in Virginia and worked in Washington, D.C. But some other friends of mine were living in Maryland and you could drive right up to Pennsylvania, Delaware. Like, you take an hour-long trip and cross six state lions. That is insane to me. Still. Oh, look at Kanye. Still at it, huh? Oh, good for Kanye. Well, he needs something to do, right? He should just be himself. He is being himself. Well, I think he is for better or for worse. I don't think he's ever had. I don't think he's ever not been himself. Yeah, well, I'm just going to go ahead and leave that one alone. So Sarah has brought up Michelle Wolf and Kanye and then immediately abandoned them in his top hex each time. Well, it's because I was waiting about our show. And then I'm like, oh, Kanye is on a ramp. You know, and then I'm like, I just had enough. I am going to close this, though, because there's no construction out there. We'll give him a couple more minutes and then we're just going to start. We're going to start without all of you. No sales tax. Delaware, the state with no sales tax. There's other states that don't have sales tax. Like Oregon, New Hampshire, right? Washington has no sales tax. Texas has no income tax. But doesn't Florida not either? And that's why people love to retire there? No income tax. Right, but the thing, so this is the thing. If they don't take one form of tax, they're going to make it up in another tax. Well, people must be horrible living in a state with income tax and sales tax. I'm like, you know what? I don't really notice. I don't feel like, oh, I had so much more money when I lived in Texas because I made so much less money there. Well, one of the things that people say like, you live in a high tax state, it's like, actually, no. I mean, California is actually the middle of the road when it comes to that. Like total, yeah. Yeah, in terms of taxes. But someone brought it up, it's like, well, you know what? I actually don't mind paying them because my child, as well as my wife, take advantage of some of those services. So it's not like I'm just throwing money out there for no return. Maybe. Eh, must pay the money. I will say everything Nelly does really holds up to me. Is Nelly still doing stuff? I don't keep track. No. Sadly. No, no, that I shouldn't say such a thing. I'm talking about the songs that he did in late 90s. If you wanna run a bun, run a bun, run a bun. What's done. Why must I feel this way? Must be the money. Must be. It's all it could be. You know, it's all about that paper, Tom. Paper boy, paper boy, all about that paper boy. Are you guys caught up? No, Eileen is. She was, when I was flying, I got delayed like half hour yesterday and she's like, I'm watching Atlanta. Oh. Because I haven't watched last weeks yet. I mean, it is, I also wanna talk to Eileen about Barry, my favorite show. Which we didn't watch last night either. Oh, it's so funny. That is the funniest show. I love it. I love it. All right. Anything else, Roger? Have you heard from Patrick? Yeah, I, she said he, beyond shortly, my apologies, four minutes ago. Okay. Should we just go ahead and start? Yeah, we'll let him. I mean, we're going through our quick hits anyway. There he is. Hey, sorry about that. Oh, there you are. Okay. Must be the money. Nothing says staff meeting like staff meeting. Oh, I like the windows. You too. Very cool. Very vertical. Very appropriate for Windows 10, April 2018 update day. Yes, but it's Android. Oh, it is. You're right. My mistake. I burst into tears. It's because I find it difficult to operate this thing. I was in tears earlier today. So you're getting good company. Aw. No, no, no, no, no. Guys, you're making me sad. I'm sorry. I wouldn't say that if that was actually true, that'd be so weird. I'm just kidding. I just wanted, you know, solidarity. Sometimes people cry. All right. Look, it's Sadiway's Daily Tech News Show. Yay. Yeah, my favorite. All right, here we're going to start. I know that's right, but it's there. Works for me. We do. Here we go. Three, two, sorry. Daily Tech News Show is powered by you. To find out more, head to dailytechnewshow.com slash support. This is the Daily Tech News for Monday, April 30th, 2018 in Los Angeles. I'm Tom Merritt. And from Studio Feline, I'm Sarah Lane. Deep in the bowels of Oakland, California, I'm Patrick Norton. Yes, indeed. And we are going to talk monitors for you in a little bit. Patrick is going to help us make a little sense of the alphabet soup that's out there. No sense to be made of it. Our producer, Roger Chang, has put this all together? Yes. So if it doesn't work, you can blame me. Not what I meant. You could also get the credit. Should it go as well as I expected to go? These are the Mondays over at Chang. Chang, Chang. Long weekend. Got a new roof over his head, but boy, his arm's tired. Let's start with the view tech things you should know. Let's do it. Ride Hailing Company. Didi Xu-Shing wants its team of automotive designers and engineers who work with car manufacturers to make purpose-built vehicles. The idea would be to design standards for intelligent driving technologies and charging facilities. GAC Motor and CHJ Automotive are said to be collaborating with Didi on this. Didi thinks cars are generally over specs for ride-hailing purposes. AMD says, oh Intel, are you delaying your 10 nanometer chips again? We're settling 7 nanometers in to processors. And we're going to say we're going to launch them in 2019. AMD is also testing a 7 nanometer Radeon Instinct Machine Learning Graphics card, it says. And it also says that would be manufactured by TSMC, not Global Foundries. Global Foundries usually does AMD stuff because they spun out of AMD. So that is interesting. Let's talk a little more about a marriage. That does affect a marriage. At least 50% of the people on the show, Patrick, I don't know who your current carrier is, but I know Roger and Tom both use T-Mobile. T-Mobile USA and Sprint announced an agreement to merge. They are the third and fourth largest carriers in the US at this time. Doi to Telecom, which owns T-Mobile, will have a 42% stake of the combined company, while SoftBank, which owns Sprint, would own 27%. T-Mobile CEO John Legere would serve as CEO of the combined company, which would operate under the name T-Mobile. RIP Sprint, perhaps. The companies say they will be able to roll out 5G faster as a combined unit, pending regulatory approval rather, for the merger is expected to finalize in the first half of 2019. Sprint also struck a four-year roaming agreement with T-Mobile that will stand whether the merger goes through or not. Smart for them to be pitching 5G, because if they want to get this through approvals, which by the way, AT&T tried to buy T-Mobile not that many years back and couldn't get it approved. What year was that, by the way? We were still doing tech news today. So it was- Okay, 2014 or earlier. It was 2012, 2013, yeah. All right, okay. But they couldn't do it because they said it would reduce too much competition. It's not like there's been more competition added since then, although T-Mobile's trying to say, well, Comcast has a wireless service and Charter has a wireless service. Those all rely on the four big carriers to exist, same as Project FI. So saying the 5G buzzword, which the government currently is very excited about making sure the US leads the way in 5G is probably a good pitch. Patrick, what do you think of this? Sorry, my Google Hangout just stopped hanging out with me and I heard FI. Well, that's probably because you're not on T-Mobile. I apologize if I'm repeating what somebody just said, but I looked at this and all I could think was, great, just what we need, less competition. And I'm not entirely sure Sprint or T-Mobile can survive long-term. I also think if they do merge into one, whatever traction we've gained as consumers is just gonna slow down, not that it's been blazing at its speed, but- The problem with AT&T buying T-Mobile, it was a top two carrier eliminating one of the smaller ones. This is the number three and four combining. What's interesting to me is that T-Mobile used to be number four until they were prevented from being merged into AT&T and now they're number three. Would the same thing happen if this gets disapproved? I don't know. Yeah, we'll find it. I'll be very curious to see, because everything is the regulatory environment in Washington is a touch unpredictable these days. So I'll be kind of curious. I don't know. I think also ever since the great Comcast Smackdown, I think also they're certainly listening a little bit more than usual outside of the FCC in Washington. So we'll see. Back in the 1990s, Jean-Noel Friedman bought France.com and set up a website for people in the United States who were interested in French culture, even cooperated with French agencies on its development. One of those agencies was the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of France, who in 2015 sued Friedman for control of the domain. In September last year, a Paris Court of Appeals ruled that the site infringed France's trademark on France and on March 12th, web.com, which was where Friedman had bought the site, transferred the domain to the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Now, Friedman has filed suit as of April 19th of Virginia Federal Court, accusing France and Verisign, the registrar behind it all, of cyber squatting and reverse domain name hijacking. Ever heard of france.gov, France? Or .fr, your entire domain name you own. But, okay. I mean. When we wait to sign up for the- When we wait to squat on, all things considered, right? I, yeah, this is, I think, I just, I admire the man for bringing up the lawsuit. I just don't see any hope of him actually winning this one, although it would make him really happy if he did. Well, it's odd because a Paris Court says France gets France.com. What's a U.S. court gonna say? This is a French-born U.S. citizen who operates France.com. And I mean, there are lots of other situations like this. The first one that came to mind is Hawaii. Our friend Ryan Ozawa out in Hawaii, who owns the Twitter domain, or the Twitter name Hawaii, he has been very careful to use his powers for good, so he doesn't get in trouble with the state. So I hope this wouldn't lead somehow to that change. Well, I don't think he was doing anything bad. I think it was, you know, he built up a business. It was a U.S. domain. It was a U.S. business. Yeah, with Friedman, you mean? Yeah. Yeah. And it's not even a U.S. domain. It's a.com domain. That's a worldwide TLD, which arguably that could be what France is talking about. I think Friedman's saying, look, I've done this thing for 24 years, and then suddenly, 20 years in, you decide, oh, wait, we don't want you to use that. You should have started whining in 1996 when everybody else started defending their domain names. Pre-orders for the Atari VCS open May 30th on Indiegogo, a time-limited collector's edition will feature the classic wood-like front paneling, and the rest will be a black version called the Onyx edition. There will also be packages for a classic joystick, a modern controller. It will have an AMD processor support 4K HDR and 60 frames per second gameplay, Wi-Fi, USB 3, and Bluetooth 5. Bluetooth 5, wow, we're up to that already. It will come with more than 100 classic Atari games and be able to support an unknown, at this time, at least, list of popular modern games. Shipping is expected spring 2019. Nostalgia. Is there any limit? No. No. Couple hundred dollars gets you something that looks vaguely like a 2600 or not, if you get the Onyx edition, and can do all the Atari games you can also play in emulation. People seem to love this sort of thing, and it's an interesting move to make it a game machine, like a 4K 60 frame per second game machine. I'm very curious what other games it'll support. I'm assuming they're going to be PC games, but maybe there'll be Android titles. I don't know. I do like the subhead on the gadget. 4K HDR at 60 frames per second seems a bit overkill for playing Asteroids. Exactly. And that's why these list of modern games titles are important, because that's what would take advantage of that, but we don't know what those titles are yet. What if Asteroids was, you know, resed up to be a cool 4K version of Asteroids? Would this make you want to buy this more? I mean, there's not Asteroids anymore. I know, right. I mean, there are certain things you just shouldn't reboot, and yet. Yeah, well, I mean, it's always interesting, because we've seen, I wonder if this is a reaction to like the Nintendo classics that have been coming out the last couple of years or a system finally waking up to, gosh, you know, every time somebody comes out with another one of those Atari joysticks with an entire 2600 inside of it and a cable to plug into your television, they seem to keep selling them. So it seems like they've finally wised up to the fact that they can start selling this stuff, but you know, it's nice looking, but I just, you know, open Linux operating system joined the revolution, and I'm like, if Steam couldn't do it, how are you going to do it? Although it's hard to do it. I mean, this could be the magical way that it gets done, right? It's like, what Steam couldn't do, nostalgia can. And these folks made one of the joysticks that you're talking about. So they know the power of that brand. I'll be interested to see how this Indiegogo does. Timothy B. Lee at Ars Tectica has an article with hopes for people who want to buy graphics cards. I know there are many of you in the audience. We have good news. As the price of most cryptocurrencies have been falling, so have graphics card prices. Lee did a comparison picture from his local Best Buy in January, which had mostly empty shells where the Radeon RX 570 and 580s ought to be, and then took a picture last Friday where those same shells are stocked. He also noted that the 580 price tag was $530 in January and is now $420. And then he went and did some looking at PC part picker and found out that that bears it out. Radeon prices are falling there as are Nvidia card prices as well. The price of Ether has been slowly rising again, though. So some people have been worried if this means the graphic card prices are going to start going back up. But Lee points out that new ASIC mining hardware, custom designed for Ethereum, as well as Ethereum's upcoming change from proof of work to proof of stake, which doesn't need the processing power, may keep those card prices from rising again. We were talking about this a couple of weeks ago. We were talking about buying, we had a viewer was like, is it okay to buy used cards that have been in mining rigs? And it was fun because we talked to some friends of ours about that one of whom who has 76 GPUs in his garage and the other one who reviews GPUs for living. He started buying them, he secured almost all of them before the prices started going up last summer. Around the time I was complaining about paying $50 over MSRP for my 1070, but it's been fun to watch. Over the last, I've been watching the 1060 price for this short 1060 I wanna buy for a system I wanna build. They've been steadily dropping for like the last six weeks. And if you are shopping, check out New Egg. Amazon is often more out of stock faster or with prices that do not reflect the possible. Keep an eye on Camel Camel Camel, but go over to New Egg because New Egg seems to have a much broader supply. Even if you just go to New Egg only, then Amazon and some of the other online shopping places. Quick Patrick, the idea of a gently used GPU versus a GPU that's been used for mining over, I don't know, let's say a year period, what are your thoughts on that? Well, it was an interesting kind of series of conversations, because the side A was like, don't buy used GPUs because most people might game two or three or five hours a week. And these cards are running full blast, 24 hours a day, seven days a week. And it turns out you can actually wear out silicon, which is a concept that I find really difficult because that was always the, ah, silicon never wears out, chips never wear out. But chips can eventually wear out. More likely is that a whole bunch of the other components on the PCB are gonna be trashed because they've been running flat out for so long, especially if there's been poor cooling. The rule of thumb would be, you know, keep an eye out for like EVGA, I wanna say does cards with a three year warranty versus a one year warranty. Look for cards that still have like, you know, two years left on a three year warranty. I probably wouldn't buy used cards off of eBay. I'd be skittish buying them off of Craigslist. If I had a friend who was into mining and suddenly realized that he had, you know, 19 cards that were no longer generating any money and decided to sell them, that person I would buy from. But it'll be interesting to watch because they're already starting to show up, you know, offering third party used on Amazon and other places. And I've seen pictures of warehouses where it's just rack after rack after rack of GPUs. And they're all running flat out 24 hours a day. People, you know, I wouldn't pay any, you know, I would pay under MSRP and I wouldn't pay, probably wouldn't buy one if the warranty wasn't still good. This one was only used by a little old lady for land parties with her church group on Sundays though. That's probably fine. That's what she says. China Times reports analyst Ming-Chi Kuo has left KGI securities for another firm where he's going to focus on emerging industries of notes. Kuo has been one of the leading analysts covering Apple for years, often predicting correctly what the company would do. So kind of interesting that he's decided to, I don't know, expand or move on entirely. Maybe he just got bored with covering Apple supply chains. And I mean, that would be okay if that were okay. It doesn't matter how many times I'm right. People just always remember when I was wrong. I'm out of here. I just want to talk about Android for a minute. Maybe he's just looking at Apple's declining influence. I'm going to say that just to get the hate mail. And he's decided he wants to move on to the next big thing. Well, and honestly, you may be onto something there where he says, you know, Apple's predictable now. It's really not that interesting to try to guess what they're going to do. I'm going to move on to emerging technologies because that's more unpredictable. That's more of a challenge. Well, and the fact that Apple is being more forthright, at least from a PR standpoint about what's going on and what they're doing and the supply chain and that the rollout is like, maybe there is less scoop for somebody like Quo and he feels like there are other areas that he can be an expert in. Although recently there was the whole Apple memo about security that was leaked. So it's not like they don't take security seriously anymore. But I did find it odd too that Mark Gurman's tweet, of course, Mark Gurman works for Bloomberg, famous at having very good sources about what Apple's going to do. Mark Gurman's tweet about Quo leaving was the one that's picked up by everybody because I think he's seen as sort of the heir apparent to like, oh yeah, but don't worry if you want to know what Apple's going to do next. Gurman's still on the beat. So it's going to be fine. Yeah. Hey folks, if you want to get all the tech headlines each day in about five minutes, be sure to subscribe to dailytechheadlines.com available on the Amazon Echo, Google Home and Anchor app as well as a podcast and that. All right, top stories. All right, Patrick, monitor upgrades. It's something that a lot of people need to do, but you don't always hear people talking about it because it's not something you need to do all the time. When should we do it? What do we need to know if you're out there looking for a monitor? Well, okay, first question. Everybody in the podcast right now, Tom, Sarah, what monitor are you using? What resolution is it running at and how long have you had it? I have had this monitor since I bought it at Fry's in 2013. So about five years now, probably almost to the day because it was sometime mid-2013. It's a 24-inch HP monitor and it is running. I'm trying to find the exact resolution. It's somewhere in the 2K range. It's a 60 Hertz refresh rate, but I can't find my resolution. It's probably 1080p. Do you know if it has an LCD back pan or backlight or a cathode ray of CFL? Oh, no, it's a backlight. Yeah, I mean, as you transition from CFL to LCD, the monitor life gets a lot longer because the thing that used to make monitors dim so fast was the backlighting wearing out. Sarah, what are you running on? Are you using a laptop or a desktop monitor? Well, I'm using my MacBook as we speak right now. This is a little bit of an inception situation, but I also have a nice little Windows monitor that I currently don't have set up and I'm sorry that it's extremely sandy. I live at the beach, but it's real nice. Sorry, I've been visioning you and your desktop and your desktop monitor and your generator going down to Venice Beach to like land party out on the beach. Yeah, it's not far from my Saturday night. It's a big party in Venice. What's been interesting, so I hadn't upgraded my monitor while like 2560 by 1440, I've had one for two or three years and Roger and I were talking, I did a review of a new Dell, they have a new 24 and 27 inch what they call their ultra thin or S series monitors. And what's interesting about them is, they're very, very thin, they're very aesthetically pleasing, but they are super, super thin and using something called Corning's Iris glass to attain that fitness. And the worst side effect of that is that you end up with this incredibly even backlighting and it's super, super dark and they've been pushing this whole sort of cinema experience on their laptops and desktop environment. So they decided to go for a Vesa Display HDR 400 certification, which is not, if it was a television, it wouldn't be very impressive because it wouldn't be bright enough but it's pretty impressive for a desktop monitor. And I was looking at this monitor and I hadn't really thought about how old my 2560 by 1440 desktop monitor at home was until I kind of looked at one and looked at the other and realized, A, how much darker the blacks were on this monitor and B, how much better the colors were and C, how incredibly even the backlighting was. And I was looking up the specs. I started to realize it seems like people never upgrade their monitors because when you take a look at Steam, the Steam hardware survey, 72% of Steam gaming is done on 1080p monitors like 1920 by 1080 monitors. And the next highest is like 1366 by 768, like old pre 720p monitors or laptops. That's like 9%. And then another 3.5% of 2560 by 1440 and it occurred to me that people just aren't upgrading their monitors. And partially I can understand why they don't do that in gaming because when you upgrade your monitor, you probably need to upgrade your GPU if it's an older GPU. If it's an older GPU, why upgrade the monitor, right? But even before the GPU prices went through the ceiling. And the truth is, if you can run 1920 by 1080 now, you could buy a new monitor and run 1920 by 1080 on a new monitor if you just went with another like 24 inch panel. But it was odd to me to look at the specs for this monitor and realize it was like, I want to say greater than 85% PCI-3 color gamut. And which means that this 350, $380 27 inch desktop monitor actually has more colors or has a larger color space than most full size 4K HDR televisions that were sold in 2017. So monitors are getting a lot better. There's still a lot of crappy monitors out there, but it seems like you look at productivity or content creation where I look at like, for me, my sweet spot is an ultra wide monitor. I run a Dell U3415 and programmers in Excel spreadsheet jockey sit down in front of this monitor and start panting because it's essentially 3440 by 1440. And for my programming friends that want that last, few pixels to 1600, I understand you can do that. But you end up with like three columns of information which is really nice. And then 4K and 8K monitors are really fantastic for people who during content creation or if you want to have a massive amount of applications up on a monitor simultaneously. Gaming, the higher resolutions are incredibly difficult to drive, especially now because the GPUs are so expensive, even though the prices are coming down. And then you have to kind of choose like, oh, do I want a G-sync monitor or a free sync monitor? Mostly though, people just want higher free fresh rates. That's why I was laughing when you were like, oh, to provide some clarity. And the thing I was laughing about is like, if you're not a gamer, you don't need G-sync or free sync. If you're not a gamer, you don't need a monitor that refreshes 140 frames per second. It is amazing to look at this like, you know, the 24-inch 1080p version of that Dell monitor, which, you know, I wish it had a vertical adjustment, but it was amazing. The blacks are much blacker than I've seen from an LCD. The colors are very, very accurate, very, very bright. It goes up to like 400 nits, which is pretty bright for a desktop monitor. And it was amazing how much better it looked than my five-year-old monitors. I think the thing I wanted to say, and how much again? The 24-inch 1080p one is $230, and the 2560 by 1440, the 27-inch one, I think today it's $380. Last week it was $350. That's the street price, not the MSRP. They're not dirt cheap, but not all. Yeah. No, I mean, this would be like, you know, a premium. You know, maybe not as premium as an ultra-sharp, you know, from the business side of things over at Dell. If you get an 8K, if you get 8K in a monitor, what is that useful for yet? He knows. Well, one, it'll force you to upgrade your GPU if you have anything less than a 1070, or it did for me. That's how I ended up buying a 1070 last year before everything went insane, was I had to upgrade my GPU because I could not literally buy anything less than a 1070 and feed an 8K monitor. And I bring that up because it certainly isn't gaming. And it is interesting to have the equivalent of like 20, I guess 16, 1080p desktops on one screen, which is kind of crazy when you start realizing just the massive amount of pixels. So you can put a lot of apps up. You can put a lot of apps up, especially if you make them really tiny, but the thing that kind of blew my mind on it was realizing that you essentially end up with a retina display-like experience on this massive panel. The pixels at 8K, the pixels are so small, they are invisible. And to use the Robert Herron approved terms, it was luscious. And when you're talking about a monitor, you're close enough that that can start to make a difference versus a television that you're sitting 10 feet away from. Yeah, I mean, if you're 20 feet away from the television, buy a 720p television, buy a 1080p television because you can't tell. But it was really amazing to be like, this far from the monitor. And, you know, it's like that first time you saw a super high-res phone display because you're like quad 4K, it's like, wow, that's just... It's true. You know what I mean? There are definitely those moments where you're like, I just don't care about retina. And then you're like, oh, now I care. Now I do, I can't go back. You look at your phone and you're like, oh God, I didn't want to buy a phone this decade. Yeah. But the 8K monitors are certainly bleeding edge for no reason than A, driving them is really expensive. But there's like an 8K monitor right now is a $3,700 monitor. So the people buying those are, you know, they're working in production, they're early adopters, they, you know, it was... They're rich. Yeah, or, you know, let's say you're a photographer, you can open up a 35 megapixel image. If you can justify the purchase, great. Yeah. But a lot of people are still trying to figure out how to justify that kind of purchase. Well, which brings us to that $350, $380, $27 inch monitor where, you know, it's a nice healthy but not terrifying jump up from 1080p in terms of, because it's frustrating because I hate working on anything other than my ultra-wide now because I've gotten so used to having multiple applications stacked. And then even working on my, you know, working on my laptop, which has a fairly high resolution still seems so tiny because I can't spread things out the way I do on my desktop as silly as that might sound. Yeah, yeah. It doesn't sound silly. There are a lot of things I still do on my desktop. I can't do it in any other way. I'm feeling cramped just right now looking at my 27 inch monitor and hearing. It's time to upgrade your resolution. Hey, thanks to everybody who participates in our subreddit. You can submit stories and vote on them at dailytechnewshow.reddit.com and join in on our Facebook group at facebook.com slash group slash Daily Tech News Show. Always good to get a perspective from across the pond. So let's check in with Nate Langston to find out what's been catching their eye in the UK. Thanks, guys. Well, this week we listen in on Facebook's CTO's grilling by lawmakers here in Britain. We've got some essential sound bites if you want to hear some of the angriest moments. Seriously, if you thought Ted Cruz gave Zuckerberg a hard time the other week, you're in for a surprise. Plus more than a third of all songs in the Spotify Top 50 in the UK now contain swearing. So Spotify is rolling out a trial to filter out explicit tracks. But we look at the wider problem in song lyrics as well, such as violent or sexual subject matter and discuss ways to tackle this in music similar to how it's handled with games and movies. All that and more at techpodcast.uk. Excellent stuff. Thank you, Nate. Let's check the mailbag. Let's first email comes from Tyler. This is about movie pass. We've been kicking around the idea like is this a viable model? What's going to happen with it, et cetera? Tyler says, I was watching. I was writing into comment on your movie pass conversation the other day. I don't think it's hard to believe their claims of making profits on a large number of subscribers. Takes me 30 minutes to get to a theater. Then I usually am only able to go on weekends. Well, my wife is at home napping with the kids, right? You know, parents, you understand that. I waited in incredibly long lines for my card. I had a problem with it after I got it. And then I only have actually used it maybe four times. I'm pretty sure it was a month, possibly even two, when I went unused completely, didn't use it at all. I'm sure that their dream customer is not me. Either way, I don't feel special. So imagine there's probably a people out there that just give them money for no good reason. Although maybe he is the dream customer because he's not actually using it as much as he wanted to, but he doesn't cancel subscription. Also, I remember sometime last year, I think it was an Engadget article that claimed that J.J. Abrams and Steven Spielberg, among others, were supposedly all for day and date releases. I feel it's not so much the tech company theaters should worry about, but maybe the filmmakers as well. I just love this, because Tyler, usually we get the email saying, like, there's no way they could be making money. I have movie pass and I see hundreds of films. And Tyler's like, they must be making money because I never used it, so. Yeah, exactly, exactly. Got another email from Darcy. This is real quick. We had a really, really good Friday round table episode. If you haven't listened to it, please give it a listen. And Darcy enjoyed it as well, says, love all your shows. But the round table this week pushed me to subscribe to Patreon, yay! It's your shows that I watch and listen to while getting ready for work each morning. Thank you. And then said, eh, lol, because it was all Canadian. Thank you. Yeah, got that, Darcy, thank you. That's awesome, Darcy, thank you so much. Totally, and thank you to Patrick Norton, as always for being on the show regularly. Patrick, where can people keep up with everything you've been doing lately? They can sneak into my house and observe quietly from a corner. Okay. That would probably be the best way to know your life. But the children will bounce on you and the dog will eat you. K-E-K-T-H-I-N-G.com, techthing.com, or aviexcel.com, which is the podcast with Robert Herron talking about home theater and audio gear. Thanks to everybody who is supporting us on Patreon. At April 30th, the last day, it looks like we may end up with about 19 more patrons than last month. You are champions! The more patrons we get over the last month, the longer I'll let that tarantula climb up my arm. So by all means, keep them coming in. Tommy, no, you have to do this. I know, I know, I'm starting to wonder. By the way, how many patrons do you need to get the tarantula to your armpit? Well, a second per patron, let's say. I don't know, how long does that look? Let's ask the tarantula what it wants to do. Yeah, that's true. You need to bring everyone in on the consent regarding this. The world's oldest arachnid died this week, by the way. How old was it? Like 42. What? 43. Wow. Wow. I think the scariest part about that story is that I'm actually older than that spider was. Yeah, still beat him, Tom. Oh, well. Good work. Good try. R-E, oh, go. No, I was just going to say, thank you, patreon.com.tw. Take it away. 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Isn't he here right now? Oh, yeah. Thanks for putting the CBS News link in there, too. It was it was just a 43-year-old spider. Forty-three. And of course, lived in Australia. Yeah, well, it's a trapdoor. And it was the makeshift yard. Where all the scary arachnids live. The second-oldest spider was, I think, a I think the second-oldest spider was a tarantula in Mexico City, which lived to the ripe old age of 28, apparently. Why did they live so long? They don't usually. These are extremely. I mean, things like, you know, parrots, turtles, other cute and cuddly animals that live a long time. Great. Parrots are not cuddly. Parrots are cuddly. No, no, you obviously never been attacked by a parrot. I haven't been attacked by one, but I've owned a bird. You have to be careful, though. Parrots are incredibly gregarious birds. So you they need to have. They just won't shut up. We know what it is. They're very needy. They are very needy. They can actually get, is it bipolar? It's like one of the human, you know. Well, they get separation anxiety. They start plucking out their own feathers. It's really. But they live forever. So, yeah, it's like the worst roommate you've ever had. We had that conversation with Sheamus. It's like, I really want to pair it. I'm like, after you're grown up and move out of the house. But it's going to live longer than you will. Speaking of Australia, I will be going there. And we have some meetups scheduled. Still nailing down one for May 15th. By the way, all times local. May 15th is going to be in Sydney. And then there is one on May 22nd. I need to find the details here real quick. The details are all in the monthly post from earlier this month at patreon.com. But there's got Pete Wells and Raj Deyut are going to show up in Melbourne on May 22nd. So, let me get all these details here and then I'll mention it again. Show about that. Show about that? What? What was the URL for the chat room down there? That's a chat room. Hey, must part of my note. It's a big check of that to the roofer. Woofer, the roof. So you get your roof done this weekend? The roof is on fire. Oh, this past week. We don't get no water. Let that burn. A lot of scraping nails. Did you do the prep for it? Me? No. I'm not going to do it. I don't know. You just talked about scraping and nails. It implied that you were scraping and nails. I was implying that because I was sitting under it while they were doing it. You were supervising the experience? No. Doing the podcast while they were hammering away above my head. All right. Melbourne, May 26th, 6 p.m. at Bartronica, 335 Flinders Lane with Pete Wells and Rajdeyut. Sydney, May 25th. Is it part of Veronica related to Veronica Belmont? What's that? Bartronica. Bartronica? Bartronica, yes. It's a transporter accident. I hate it when that happens. Yeah, so Sydney, May 15th, somewhere down by the Harbor Bridge. It's going to be there. There's like three or four that we're trying to nail down. Big thanks to David Colville and Pete Wells for helping me figure out where to do that in Sydney. But if you're going to be around Sydney, May 15th, probably around 6 p.m. there as well, somewhere down in that region down by the bridge. And more details to come. What are you heading there for? My nephew's wedding. How exciting. Yeah, he. International travel for a wedding. Well, yeah. He grew up in Greenville, like me. Went to the University of Illinois, like me. But unlike me, went and studied abroad in Sweden where he met a woman from Australia. And that's what he has moved to Australia. He is in grad school for archaeology in Canberra. And they're getting married. And they're getting married. Oh, look at the suite. Don't do the chap pull upside down in Australia. You should reinforce that if they ever run across any kind of marital friction, that everyone paid a lot of money to come to their wedding. They should work it out. Right, yeah. If it seems a little sideways, lean into how much you had to go through to get there. You know what works for me? Think about dating again. That's actually the best one of them all. Thank you. Thank you very much. Yeah. We were just like, you know what? I'm sorry. I'll stay. I don't want us to wait. I can't tell left from right. I never make it on the dating scene. I don't want to do that again. I don't understand what those songs mean when they say you spin me around. It's because you're just constantly swiping. That's what they mean, Roger. Yeah, especially those ones less than before. Yeah. I made a perfectly fine joke. Just leave it. You make me right. Speaking of jokes, there's a title. Is a good one. The End Graphic Violence and then parentheses, or not parentheses, parentheses. Spit it out. In GPU pricing. Who monitors the monitor? Time to upgrade your resolutions. The End Graphic Violence in GPU price. End Graphic Violence in GPU price. End Graphic Violence in GPU pricing. Yes, I like that. If we drop the the, I'm into that. Yeah. Done. Done. The thing is thinged. Sorry, I had to get down here in the last minute, you guys. Oh, it's OK. It was really good. Cool. Yeah, the show is great. Yeah, totally worth it. It's a delightfully not complex news day. Yeah, just a T-ball. Better for me than for you guys. Yeah, I just, I'm actually really curious to see what happens when that goes up to the FTC. Here's the thing, nobody knows. The FTC will probably be OK with it. It's Department of Justice that is the wild card. And who knows what they believe this week? Yeah. Just depends on what's on their plate. That's why it's why I mentioned the 5G thing, because the administration is very pro like US must roll out 5G. So it's real smart for Lejear to be out there going, and 5G will come faster. Do you like faster roll out of 5G? Because this will give you faster. Do you like 5G? You do great. Give us this merger. Well, Lejear is also the master of being like, here's what you want. Yes. Here's what I'm going to give you. Three swear words to say exactly what you just said. Well, that's how he makes it sound awesomer. Awesomer. Actually, what's awesome? This has nothing to do with tech, although it's a little piece of technology I purchased off Amazon. It has something to do with roofing. After you have the roof done. The roof. Buy a magnetic sweeper. They're about 25 bucks off Amazon, and you'll pick up a bucket full of rusted nails. Oh, smudged stuff. Glassing I need is a little kid getting stuck. Buy the perfect sweeper, perfect. Why were there so many rusted nails on your old roof? Because that's just how it like. They basically, they ripped the old shingles off and then the process. They don't do it here, does it? Yeah. Ripped it down to the rafters. They don't slowly rip it, collecting each nail. Unless they're like, you know, yeah, masochistic roofers. What's interesting, if you go to Amazon, everyone, the latest roofer, I guess, 75% of the people who buy those things must get if you have your roof done. Just had my roof done. These things are great. Yeah. Now that makes perfect sense. Yeah, it does. Was there a brand that you got? I bought the Amazon. What's the one? Amazon's Choice. Like it's like a little scooter. It looks kind of like a lawnmower. The name is Amazon's Choice or it was. That's a little black late right now. It just isn't here. Whatever they're pushing the hardest is Amazon's Choice. Well, that's what I'm wondering. Is it a brand that Amazon was picking or is there an actual brand name called Amazon's Choice? No, Amazon's Choice can be any of a number of brands. That's what I thought. Wait, what's the brand name, Roger? It is Master of Magnetics. Oh, look at that. Magnetic sweepers, tools, and the whole group of the opera. Well, as a third-party seller, you can't put it in your trunk yet. Look at that. See, it does all that, except the nails are rough. It does all that and more. 41-inch handle with rubber grip. I was going over the lawn. The lawn is the worst because you can't see what's in the lawn. I'm only disappointed that it's not 1999. And the country of various widths. This is by the company that does the magnet section in Home Depot and stuff. Oh, yeah. Which is really a terrifying place to take small children. There's a magnet section? Oh, yeah, in the hardware section. They usually have a big section of neodymium magnets. Well, not big, but like 15 or 20 different things. So if you decide to craft and you want to make refrigerator magnets, it's a place to go. Oh, okay. Because I was like, why is there a section of magnets? Well, there's a Velcro. The Velcro section is bigger than the magnet section. I got to go to Home Depot clearly. See, it's all about home improvement and fetish. Just enter it right there. Making. You're a burning man. You want magnets, you want Velcro, you want to go to the desert. Pulling a float with a bunch of people hanging on by Velcro straps like the giant furry couch. You're thinking of the last defawn. See if that way we're talking. Oh. Baby bok choy. Oh, DJ Baby bok choy. I'm telling you guys, Barry is such a good show. It is. It is so funny. I will give it another shot. Everyone, you should go see it if you haven't seen it already and we'll see you tomorrow with Patrick Beja. Goodbye, video people.