 The decision is sold at pet stores seriously. I have like three of them under my sink No, no, no nature's miracle Jesse says absolutely not on the dog. I told you before He can't be trusted Yeah For sure Well, it's about time Jesse Rogers daughter if you're wondering who that baby sound is It's about time Jesse got a little equal time Ellie had almost a full year of sitting on Roger's lap during the show It's true. There would have been some sibling rivalry on that point if we if we hadn't balanced it out eventually Yeah, Jesse's sort of at that age where she notices things like that It's like this is Pretty Reading her Instagram then. Yeah Yeah All those creep creep creep snaps of Ellie I mean when Jesse texts me, I know it's bad OMG you won't believe Sorry Raj Just, you know, this is this is what child people do kids right now knock yourselves out. Yeah Now we're not hearing any echo Well, it's just a it's a family Family Monday Oh, I'm gonna get flagged It's too close to the original. Yeah, it was so it's like the bot will think it's the original so so good, I Mean when I was a kid, I thought it was a terrible song, but It grows into it Well, I'm ready to go if you guys are Roger. Tell me when a good point to start recording is and yeah Let's do it all right Here we go then in three two Jonathan Gillespie has supported independent tech news directly for five years be like Jonathan become a DTNs member at patreon.com slash DTNS This is the Daily Tech News for Monday January 14th 2019 in Los Angeles. I'm Tom Merritt and from studio feline I'm Sarah Ling and From a damp area of LA. I'm Roger Chang the show's producer It's just the three of us today taking you through the tech news We're gonna talk about what I know is one of your favorite topics, you know who I'm talking about out there We're talking about headphones and headphone jacks and the lack thereof a little later in the show Also, YouTube is gonna let you swipe to go to the next video and it's iOS app. How exciting is that? Well, let's hear about a few other tech things you should know in our quick hits All right, everybody mark down the date because January 14th 2020 one year from the date of this recording Microsoft will no longer support Windows 7 Unless you're a big company that pays for the privilege, of course Windows 7 arrived in 2009 Microsoft extended its end date from 2015 to 2020 Seven years ago makes me want to do one of those memes Windows 7 2009 Windows 7 2019 Same screenshot Google's project five mobile service now supports RCS chat RCS adds things like read receipts typing indicators high-resolution media uploads to the standard used by carriers RCS can also message over data and Wi-Fi has some improved chat options. If you're like, wait a minute Doesn't that already exist? Yes, the features have been available in messaging apps Particularly if you're an iPhone user you see all these features in iMessage But that is over Apple's network in that case or it might be over Google's network in another case RCS is over the carrier's network just like SMS Google Fi also is upgrading its roaming hooks to LTE speeds in 33 countries. So there's another cool thing Apple announced that HomePod will be available in mainland China and Hong Kong starting this Friday January 18th It'll be available in white and space gray like other countries Apple also played up integration with Apple Music's new artists of the week feature in China as well as curated playlists like Mando Pop and Kanto Pop being available via HomePod in China HomePod is already available in the US the UK Australia Canada France Germany Mexico and Spain. So this is the night. I get them Chinese unit sales up, right? This is this is how they win Phone maker Oppo is sending out media invites for an event January 16th in China with the tagline 10 times the view see you soon That seems to be related to the leaks We've been seeing that Oppo plans to introduce a phone with 10 times optical zoom Which would be a first for phones Oppo However previously did show off five times optical zoom and never released it So we may see 10 times optical zoom and it'll be interesting to see if it actually makes it into a phone for sale The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency put out a call last week for proposals to use Insect brains to control robots. Yes, you heard me, right? The research could create more efficient models for artificial intelligence as well as reveal the meaning of consciousness and subjective experience DARPA will award one million dollars to the company that and feasibility map Insect brains and create a proof of concept platform for more capable AI hardware From the people who brought you the internet someone think of the insects important sex Finally Huawei sales executive Weixiang Wang Arrested in Poland on espionage charges Friday was fired by Huawei Saturday Huawei said his actions have no relation to the company and he was fired for bringing the company into Disrepute all right. Let's talk a little bit more about what Facebook's doing to make you Remember and use its stories function Man if the email notifications weren't enough Facebook said it plans to start testing a way to quote Share the events you're interested in and coordinate to meet up with friends IRL and quote using its stories feature in the US Brazil and Mexico This is both on iOS and Android versions of the mobile app. The stories will show up with event details If friends see your story they can mark themselves as Interested or even going to the event that you've posted within the story itself a link to the event page is built in And then if a bunch of people want to go a group chat in messenger with friends who respond is included as well This is it's interesting because Facebook Facebook stories some people use it. I see Facebook stories from friends It is nowhere near the amount that people use the the stories feature in Instagram Which basically works the exact same way and of course Facebook owns Instagram But I see this as Facebook trying to figure out a better way that people can use this feature that makes sense Yeah, I get why it's one of those things and I say this a lot when we're talking about Facebook features over the years I get why Facebook wants you to do this because it'll make you use stories more and Facebook is used as next at From the verge points out it's used quite often to organize things But it means that people have to be looking at stories and I was gonna say I don't know anybody who uses stories But I also don't look at them. So I'll take your word for it that there are some people out there using them Are there enough in and and and can can the few people that use them? Cause the others to start using them because they say hey We're organizing an event or is it end up with like well, I never saw your event because you put it in stories Why didn't you just put it in the group or on your new well and the event feature on Facebook is weird anyway I mean how many notifications have you gotten recently where it's like so-and-so who's your friend on Facebook is? Interested in an event near you on Saturday, and you're like what? You know, I wasn't even in there. So yeah I'm it sounds like Facebook trained to push the stories feature in a way that probably is going to be pretty helpful to a Small amount of people maybe not that the greater Facebook population Samsung says it will launch a new line of its M series phones in India January 28th and roll them out globally Afterwards the M series is it's like mid-range cheap mid-range. It's not the cheapest line They're actually phasing out the cheapest line three models will come out ranging from ten thousand rupees Which is around a hundred forty one dollars us to twenty thousand rupees. So two hundred eighty two dollars us So these are affordable phones Samsung's partnering with Amazon on sales in India And this is their effort to try to out compete Xiaomi which leads manufacturing or sales in India and Samsung is number two trying to fend off advancements from vivo and micro max and oppo among others I Was all into this story. I'm like, yes This is exactly what Samsung needs to do They have a position that Apple doesn't in India one of Apple's biggest problems is not having any sales in India They're starting from not scratch but starting from a very low number or Samsung's trying to preserve it So coming out in India first with a good line of new M series phones is great But then partnering with Amazon I mean, I guess Amazon has got a better presence than it did a couple years ago But that seems limiting to me. Well for anybody who's like, what does that mean partnering with Amazon? Are we gonna see an Amazon button anytime? You're supposed to you know pay for something with this phone Well, I'm assuming it means that if you want the phone and you click it'll take you to Amazon to buy it I say I see owns and things like that Not in at purchases not gonna be in flipkart though Is it not gonna be available in the other big market places in India that would be a mistake? Well, I have to say Considering the fact that we just recently reported on Apple iPhone sales being a little lackluster in India as far as Apple's concerned these prices are pretty good And yeah, like you mentioned Tom, this is not even Samsung's most You know lowest-end feature phone. It's it's it's much more affordable, of course, but Yeah, the Amazon on sales thing is Interesting Samsung's got to do this though. It's the only the Amazon part is the only thing that's interesting But maybe maybe it's not exclusive. It would be silly if it was exclusive. Sure, but if they want the boost in sales I feel like they'd go with Something else, but hey, they're number two, right? They just need to maintain number two. Don't don't let it fall anymore We're number two The Google news initiative has partnered with automatic the makers of WordPress to create a quote fast secure low-cost Publishing system tailor-made to the needs of small news rooms Oh as somebody who used to work in a small newsroom. This is music to my ears It's called news pack and the news publishing platform could include website design a CMS That's content management system and commerce options as well with support for existing WordPress plugins with operating fees between 1,000 per month and 2,000 per month after launch. So again, these are smaller newsrooms Whether they be physical or online funders include Google the Lenfest Institute for journalism The John S and James all night foundation and civil media along with Google early signups for news pack are open now And a beta version is expected by July. So yeah Google's given more than half of the money and those other institutions are giving the rest Automatic is building it and I can already hear some of the objections of like a thousand to two thousand dollars per month For a blog. Well, this is not WordPress. This is a content management system And I have a lot of questions too about what you're getting for one to two thousand dollars Sure, but the promise that they're making when I in the stuff that I have read about this is You can focus on writing your news covering your news and this news pack Will take care of all of the back-end stuff. So you don't have to this is this is chump change for something like the New York Times or the Washington Post, right? They need much more advanced stuff and they pay more for it Well, and the Washington Post and the New York Times are not the focus of this. This is this is this is the idea that I Smaller market Newsrooms that may be focused on the LA area where we're all talking about rain, but it doesn't apply to the rest of the world Are dying, you know Sacramento, maybe something like that. Yeah. Yeah These are these are smaller markets, right? And and they need They need to be able to focus on what they're good at. I I think this is a great thing a lot of the stories I read about this pitched it as saving journalism This is not going to save journalism One of the big problems with journalism right now is that everybody is suddenly competing with everyone And I know I've mentioned this before so any of you have heard me go on about this, please my apologies But we went from every market like Sacramento, Los Angeles, Chicago, St. Louis and Sonati They all had their own set of competitors, right? And even those competitors weren't always competing directly the newspaper didn't have video the television stations didn't have print You know, so so there were niches even within these markets Then suddenly the internet comes along and says a now the newspaper has video the TV has print everybody in the market is now competing with each other on every platform and There are no more regions everybody can read everything So your local coverage may distinguish you but on on national news You're competing with the USA today and the New York Times and the BBC and RT and China daily And and so it's going to take even longer for us to figure out how to make that all work in the meantime Local news is the one taking a beating here And I think this kind of situation that that Google is is funding can help with that with the with those lower markets The smaller markets like we're talking it also makes me wonder because again I am not world's WordPress expert by any means But I know that it just takes one person to understand the platform to be able to accomplish what what what the seems to be doing here with news packs, so Okay, I guess we don't have enough folks that are well-versed in CMS systems working for local news stations Correct. Well, correct, right? You don't want to have to pay somebody In some markets, you don't have the money to pay somebody To pay a lot of people to do that to build the pieces to do the design To constantly be adding features, especially even in WordPress where it's plugins It takes some doing to find the right plugins and make sure they work right and all of that So, you know if this is this is going to help take that off your plate for one to two thousand dollars a month It might be worth it I'm interested if there's anybody out there either in web design and a media organization or or an editorial Who's looked at this and said yes, this is why I want it email us feedback at daily tech news show comm a Team at the University of California, San Diego has bioprinted a section of spinal cord that can be custom fit into a patient The procedure started by printing implants made of soft gel and then using a printer to fill them With neural stem cells and the reason you print the stem cells in there is you want to arrange them in a way that you get the Right mix of tissues growing the implants were then placed in a rat's spinal cord and formed new connections To bridge a gap in the spinal cord and connect to the circulatory system Precision 3d printing at one micron scale usually Bioprinting is like 200 microns So this is an advance in and of itself was used to make sure that the implant fit accurately into the wound and Partial movement was restored to the rats hind quarters research was published in the journal nature medicine You know, it's interesting when Tom and Roger and I were at CES last week We ran into a former colleague of ours who is in the 3d printing business and he said, you know It's funny 3d printing is kind of moving away from CES It's just not that cool area that people thought was going to change their lives but when you hear a story like this you realize how important and Amazing this actually is well and that fits with what he was telling us because You know, it's not a 3d printer on every desk, right? This is a 3d printer in the lab and that is where it has gone. It has become an enterprise thing It has become something that is important in certain businesses and in research And this is an example of that and man if you can make this work for humans, which is I'm not saying they can't right? I mean rats are close, but they aren't humans if you can make this work with a more, you know Complex system like a human being Suddenly you're printing people new spinal cords and they can walk again. That's that's crazy I don't that's no 3d like there's there's nothing that could be better 3d printing machine that to be able to restore Capabilities like that. I mean the promise The promise of me being able to print a new part for my dishwasher kind of pales in comparison Exactly when I think that that's where you know, there there was this sort of flurry of like a 3d printing We're gonna be able to you know, we're gonna be do all our own things We'll never have to have somebody come by and fix our dishwasher again. Yeah, okay Well, that's not really something that people need all that often. But when it comes to the medical fields, it is the I mean the the the The potential here is So life-changing for people that I Hope it works Now we go from one life-changing story to another We sure do Tom a stock photo of an egg has dethroned Kylie Jenner's birth Announcement as the most liked Instagram post ever in the history of Instagram The New York Times pointed out and I thought this was kind of interesting that the eggs likes have now passed the population of Australia That's a whole continent which was over 30 million as of Monday morning when I last checked it The account called world underscore record underscore egg was posted January 4th with the caption Let's set a world record together to get the most like post on Instagram buzzfeed who claims to have interviewed the poster says that the person Was engaging in dry January Justin rubber young are you listening? The egg is referred to as Eugene if you're curious now if we on our pre-show We couldn't help and I don't know if it's on the good day internet I think it was before that we couldn't help but speculate like why did this take off and My my feeling is that there is no why this is absolute random How there have been plenty of other Instagram posts from people saying I want this to be the most liked post ever and They didn't take off this one did Who knows why it was a series of events? That just happened to keep that beach ball in the air long enough For Jimmy Fallon and Ellen DeGeneres to then decide to talk about it on their shows and once you get celebrities involved like that Then it becomes then you know, that's it's it's a Permian explosion, right? That's that's when it suddenly just starts to self propagate and and takes off and keeps going and people think oh Well, this is silly. I'll join in and do it too How it got to that point no no no way of knowing, you know This this person was just bored on a Friday because they can't they're not drinking in January and said I'm gonna do this for kicks How many hundreds of thousands of other stories exactly like that exists in the history of Instagram is a no very many That's what happened and we think if we kind of ascribe some intentionality to it But the fact is this is the one in a million like probably literally a million times That it was tried and this one just happened to catch where most of them don't it's a photo of an egg It's it's not interesting Original photo of it right the the that's why this this is why and we were talking about this with rich Druffalino this morning It's why do certain memes take off right? You just don't know the the the pointlessness of it is why it's so compelling and the fact that 30 million plus people liked this photo. I mean sure I could you know Went around the what it got passed around so so there was some there was some momentum there But I mean, it's just silly internet at its past. Did you like it? I Did not I have not I have not I Yeah, I'll report on these sorts of stories, but I'm not gonna engage Tom Hey, folks if you want to get all the tech headlines each day in about five minutes You can hear Sarah Lane report on these stories along with rich Druffalino and myself each day five minutes keeps you up to date at dailytechheadlines.com All right, Android Authority has a great article up today going into USB see It's it's kind of roughly based on on the idea that there weren't a lot of USB see based headphones at CES Lily Katz wrote the story for Android Authority about whether USB see audio as in USB see headphones might be dying and Could we see the return of the headphone jack now? I grant you that is a fantasy that many of you are going to want to buy into just because you want the headphone jack to continue To be available on your favorite device that got rid of it It's hard to say whether that's gonna happen or not, but I thought we could discuss today How much this really bothers us and where we think it's going let's start with Why do companies even want to ditch the headphone jack? It's dead simple. It always works. It's cross-compatible. It's proven technology It's been around for years the old tip ring TRRS mini 3.5 millimeter jack is beloved Well, it reduces the components needed inside the device that reduces your cost Gives you more room for battery or to spend the money on something else Slims down possibly if you don't use it for battery. It just makes those devices easier to manufacture and look nice and Bluetooth LE means that wireless audio is a realistic alternative especially as the prices for Bluetooth headphones have come down and so Before if you didn't have a headphone jack. You basically had to give people headphones That had had the connector on them to be listened now People can buy Bluetooth headphones and enjoy them and sometimes prefer them. So there are a couple of key advantages there So why usb-c? Well, the ports already there for charging And can handle audio as the D the DAC and the amp move out into the headphones or adapter That's one of the things that saves you space. So you've already got this port You can just reuse it You don't have to add anything more to it and it lets the manufacturer include headphones without having to include more Expensive Bluetooth headphones. You can still include some earbuds. They're just usb-c and digital audio arguably And this is arguably you can argue against this too But and some people like oh, this is gonna be better sound. You're gonna get better sound out of this Some people will not agree with that Here's why everybody's mad though usb-c headphones are more expensive usually Because they have that DAC and amp in them Although usb can support analog audio However with power concerns involved analog audio might not sound as good as analog audio from a headphone jack Anyway, the fact that you can support analog audio or not support analog audio does mean you've got cable confusion And boy is there lots of usb-c cable confusion without even involving headphones Active or passive usb-c cables do different things for instance You get your usb-c headphones from a one-plus phone They don't work on the pixel 3xl and people say well This is not a replacement for the headphone jack where every one of my headphones worked in every headphone jack out there Plus the sound quality of usb-c Arguments, yeah, sound quality just doesn't measure up to Bluetooth or analog Generally for usb-c. So There we go, Sarah. There are the arguments. What do you think? Well, it's money I When usb-c entered my life and everyone said oh, I can't believe they got rid of the headphone jack This is crazy. I was like, I don't know apple gave me a little converter works fine Long as you don't lose it doesn't really change my life all that much I did not feel the outrage that many people felt. However, I have a really good friend She she works and in our business She does a lot of phone call stuff and her thing is like I cannot charge my phone and Also use my headphone jack at the same time. Now, of course, you'd say maybe you have some Bluetooth options wireless options Don't worry about it. She's like I've tried them all they suck There's so many third-party Bluetooth headphone options that just are not up to snuff You know, they I don't know they break or they're janky or whatever So I I understand that argument as well. I I don't know I Feel like the the industry sort of goes in the direction. It's going to go in Something like this if it doesn't catch on to the point that there are now articles being written about, you know We didn't see a lot of usb-c stuff at CES, which tends to indicate Trends right in the marketplace. Okay. Does that mean that people are I don't know really and against the technology I don't know. I I I'd love to see a headphone jack just because I have so many headphones that do need a converter But again, the converters work perfectly fine. There may be there may be a An audio hit. I'm not hearing that again most of the time. I'm not listening to rich beautiful audio in that way I'd I'd prefer to use my speakers at home. So I might not be Exactly the right person to ask for this, but I don't know Tom I mean, is this something that is changing your life one way or another? Yeah for me. It was when decent Bluetooth headphones that in particular the AirPods although there you don't have to get the ones from Apple now The fact the Verge has a review of some TCL $15 Bluetooth earphones that they say have sound fantastic So you can get some pretty good good headphones for cheap and and I would say to your friend I bet the Bluetooth headphones that you could try today are already better than the ones you tried the last time you tried them Like it's probably yeah, we saw a lot of Bluetooth headphones at CES Even though we didn't see a lot of USB see so I think the switch to Bluetooth has made it So I would rather use wireless headphones when I answer a phone then plug something in It's just faster and easier And and I don't get the headphone Tangled or anything so I prefer that and now I don't miss the headphone jack most of the time Except when I'm doing this when I'm doing podcasting and I want to pull sound out of something I'm like, ah, there's no headphone jack that compatibility becomes a problem But for most of my daily life it's not a problem anymore because of Bluetooth and I think that's probably where this is going where Bluetooth headphones will become More common for people on the devices that don't have the jack and USB-C will be the janky included headphones that you have to use until you get Bluetooth headphones or if you're in between your Bluetooth headphones Because it was free and it came there, but I don't think that will become a category that people seek I think at this point What would the messaging be for a company that keeps USB-C, right? You know, nobody likes it, but we still have it, you know They're not gonna say that you have to see port anyway, right or like an apple's case Why would you stop supporting it? Like that would be even more ridiculous. So you just leave it there, I think Well, thanks to everybody who Participates in our subreddit. Sometimes we talk about USB-C stories Sometimes we talk about other things you can submit your own stories that we should talk about on on either of our shows either Daily Tech news show or at Daily Tech headlines and you can vote on others at Daily Tech news show reddit.com We're also on Facebook Facebook comm slash groups slash Daily Tech news show All right, let's move on to the thing of the day We missed Chris Christensen the amateur traveler, but he's back with news about airlines testing blockchain tech Antiquiting this is Chris Christensen from amateur traveler with another tech in travel minute I'm a little bit of a blockchain skeptic, but apparently United Airlines isn't they've just done an experiment with blockchain With a company called ARC testing the use of blockchain to potentially provide a quote a secure distributed and immutable Transaction record that will improve their business process over that exist today Their claim is that this should simplify the booking process for corporate travelers and improve receipt collection for expense reports One of the reasons I'm skeptical with somebody who's been known to fly over a hundred thousand miles a year is I'm not sure that that's a problem But we shall see I'm Chris Christensen from amateur traveler. I I'm gonna guess that it's more about saving United some dollars on the back end Then it is about helping you out Chris that if they do end up implementing this that might be why All right, let's check out the mailbag We got an email from Mike in what he calls dusty Saudi Arabia Mike says let me just express my Disappointment and Google's announcement that is ending production of Chromecast audio I love being able to add Chromecast capabilities to my existing speakers and Reconfigure them as I want as I as I want I move a lot And I end up in a range of weird home designs and having my own speakers rather than a crappy Google Home mini speaker an expensive full-sized Google Home, I hope they change their mind or add an aux jack to the mini Yeah, again, I think this is one of those the where Chromecast audio was kind of a middle step And yeah is more people are just gonna buy connected speakers Or or buy something like a sonos that will turn their existing speakers into connected speakers and Google realizes Just not selling enough for those Chromecast audios to keep them around and and Mike Mike acknowledge this But in case you're confused out there Google is not stopping support. 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This is you know I went in eyes wide open that this is an alpha So we're going to send the stickers from the daily tech news show comm slash store to anybody at the co-executive producer or Analyst level this month. So we said we'd get your stickers. You'll still get stickers It just won't be part of this alpha program, but we're leaving the posters in the mug there to try that out So That's why the change in that and if you have any questions just feedback at daily tech news show comm I'll do my best to answer them What should we possibly call this Let's just take a look see Show about that chat round net if you're listening or watching egg that cracked Instagram print me a spine Not even an original egg I like the spine stuff actually print me a spine is pretty good. Let me a spine is good I mean and and please do my life on the USBC list Once you go no headphone jack you don't go back or do you You sometimes do Yeah, I keep going back and forth personally Yeah, my my yeah, that that's my I went ahead and voted for print me a spine The egg that crack Instagram is funny, but you know, it's There have been a lot of egg jokes made at this point in the day. I I'll be honest if we were Really doing this right the egg that cracked Instagram is probably gonna get more attention but I Will sleep better at night knowing that I promoted a Advancement that will like help right walk again Let's stay true to our science roots And get us all some spines. Let's stay true to our blonde roots Yeah, or I Think you're speaking for yourself If you're talking about when I was younger my roots were definitely blond These days they're they're paid for my roots are not as blonde as they used to be Yeah, I'm a little darker over the years. Yeah. Yeah, I Yeah, it's weird sometimes you look at a photo of you know, me as a two-year-old people go wow You're such a toehead. I'm like, I mean what happens to most blonde kids Me too sort of turn into sort of a dirty blonde and then a light brown right bright blonde as a kid Oh, yeah, and and honestly my dad was too according to my grandma There's the pictures were all black and white back then so we have no proof But but my dad by the time he was my age his hair was black Like it was not it was not even blonde. It was dark dark brown. Yeah. Yeah Yeah, you and I probably have the same thing my parents were both Yeah, like Dirk brunette people The fact that they had a blonde kid with freckles never made any sense to anybody Yeah Some evidence And nobody in our family has it hmm interesting a cousin of mine and I have similar noses and No one else has that nose. You're we're like You know, we keep the same family The output that wave is uploaded Now I was about to say like when my oldest daughter was born her eyes were blue. I Think that's pretty common with babies. Most baby Blue or gray and then they kind of change. Mm-hmm. Oh, that was the thing now for a I don't know for a half Asian kid Maybe not. Yeah, maybe not even I thought all babies were no, oh, no, I was born with dark eyes I actually was too when I was born. I had black hair and dark eyes I looked Different than I do wings. Yeah, I Also had wings and I was a dragon Okay Not all babies have blue eyes a baby is more likely to be born with blue eyes and then have them change Yeah, but many babies, especially African Asian and Hispanic descent are More likely to be born with brown eyes, although even then they can be born with You just you see a lot of new born photos where people go When look at those eyes and you're like, they're gonna change like don't look at me Usually do not all the time but most of the time they do. Yeah, so is it still uploading? No, that's why I told you it's all done. I know the reason I asked is because there's a There's two with the exact same number two and five One is the regular and the others the output the output is the levelated one. That's the only one you should ever use Okay, just we didn't change that did we well before you just gave me a wave You didn't give it. Oh, maybe one day. I forgot to levelate it for you. Sorry They're both they're both up now, you don't have to use the levelated one You don't want to level it you don't want to level or I guess it could levelated himself Yeah, maybe I was not levelating them at the end of the last week because I was tired. I don't claim to ever be consistent Well, you know, I put all our headlines into the template this morning after not doing that for two years So well, that was a funny is is Sarah Black me is like, oh, I'm so sorry. I put all the headlines in the template by accident I was like, oh, I can fix that real fast because I've done that a lot Right, right. I've gotten very good at fixing that and I've done that before in other spreadsheets where I'm like, oh man Which I actually what I what I did in previous sort of rundowns like we use now is I've got the template and then at the end of all the Cells, I have like a save one just in case like I'm really desperate and I and I bury it so that if you really need it it's still there But yeah, I felt stupid this morning because I was like, hold on a second because I was publishing to the web like wait Where's my date? Oh man, I put it in template Such a rookie move But when I went in there, there was also a regular version. So you must have already changed it Well, I duplicated it. Yeah, so that it would have the right dates to publish, but yeah, my template was still screwed up Have to go to the pharmacy and I have to go to the mailbox and it's raining I have to I don't have to go to a pharmacy or a mailbox, but I do have to walk my dog who I I mean at this point I notice you must be in distress Because you haven't done things that you do normally at 8 a.m. You went out Uh, we went out before the show, but he didn't go with the last time he went. Sorry. Oh, uh yesterday time That's yeah poor kid. What time? Oh, uh We walked around we had a huge power outage in my neighborhood. It was bizarre Um, so we were walking around about 9 p.m. Last night. Oh, he's um, yeah, okay. That's a long time a long time No, I'm like, thank you for not having an accident, but I know you want to Yeah, but he goes outside and he looks at the rain and he's like I don't like this I don't want to do this And then you don't want to stay out there and make him because it's raining and you don't want to be out There either. I mean this morning we were Soaked even with his poncho where I'm like, okay. We're gonna go back inside now You realize that's what's happening. He was like, mm-hmm. Want to go? I want to go back inside He went right back to bed Poor kid. Oh this he's like my bladder can take it. I'm staying in he says I got a big strong bladder I'm a big boy with a big bladder Mm-hmm The things we do for our pets my goodness. I don't know if you guys saw my tweet this morning It was so funny. I there was a notification very vague from the photos app on my iPhone. It said Uh new notification from photos from like what and I look at it And the photos app has put together an algorithmic Folder based on pictures of my pets called Fluffy friends 2018 And it's all pictures of sam lucy and otis And it like it was perfect. It's fluffy friends Fluffy friends 2018 even though a few of the photos are from 2019 But most of them are from last year or even 2017 And I have to say I looked through it. It was perfect. I wasn't in any of them. It was only my pets Uh, even though I've taken pictures of other people's pets, whatever, but uh It it gave me a a fuzzy fluffy feeling even though otis is like I'm not fluffy That's the cats that are fluffy. I'm just sleek Yeah Anyway, so I I tweeted it and a bunch of people said like that's weird because google photos did the exact same thing where I got a notification this morning that they uh The the algorithm had had compiled all of the what it thought was pet photos into a folder and sent me a notification Are you sure you're not talking about google photos now? I'm like positive There's collusion happening within the pet community in uh the uh mobile apps for for google photos and and photos on ios It cannot recognize Oh, wait. No, it it has Sorry, there was soya was in a picture of jango, but when I click on it, it just opens up pictures of jango Although one of the pictures is of me and eileen in the uh north korean demilitarized zone Did you guys look particularly fluffy? And one picture is of soya and rey not jango so That's not really working Probably just dogs. Why why and this picture of me and eileen in the dnc is showing up in all of the dog albums that are auto-generated by google I'm not even gonna unpack that one. Yeah Seriously, it's salting google. Yeah You ever felt more like an animal? The scene of the sarah lane folder that is like almost exclusively pictures of you at ces This weekend. Well, I mean that I get Yeah, and it's all you there's no other There's you know, there's no dogs showing up or me and eileen's showing up in your album It's just that accurately has recognized you right. Yeah Yeah, they know me Yeah, it was funny because I was sort of like what is this notification and then when I looked at the folder I was like I love these photos. Oh my gosh. These are these are my favorite photos There's an album created of the guard the south korean guard at the dmz because eileen took like three pictures of me Standing next to him and how it recognized him and created an album just for him Because he's in those three pictures. You should send those photos to him. Yeah might be nice Yeah for posterity, you know, she might appreciate that here. He is at work. Absolutely Yeah Doing a good job. Your son is working hard Yeah, I don't see any auto-generated Pet well, well, that's funny because I would assume you've got Plenty of stuff and you're Using an iPhone in your photos And so many people on water responded and said oh, I got that too fluffy friends google and apple and neither one of them Maybe they don't think ray and swear fluffy enough Oh, it did create a las vegas folder, but that's easy. It just goes by yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah Well, fine fine that way. Yeah Photo apps some yeah some real favoritism going on And in mobile app world Not all babies It is interesting how it does the facial recognition though. I want to go back to that Yeah, it is because that's Okay, so I've got photos It's weird too. It's like there are folders that I'm like, this is actually really cool. Like there's a home folder It's my previous apartment not the one I live in now, but Because once I was in there, I was like So it's got you know, I like I looked at all the you know, all my old apartment, you know And it it always kind of had this one Window in the background, which is obviously something that started drawing from after a while which is Doesn't it's not surprising because so many of my cat photos were taken in front of that window because they loved it But it's like okay. I probably wouldn't have put this collection together myself But I'm kind of happy it exists So there's a tom married album which has pictures of me. There's an eileen reverie album pictures of eileen There's a veronica belmont. There's a rodrigo reverie. That's eileen's dad. Then there's soyer jango re june are our niece eileen's sister's daughter You my nephew benjamin bryan brushwood roger chang justin robert young my sister-in-law christin Then it gets weird like all of this is normal Then there's a picture of people in your life jango And in this album are pictures of ray pictures of eileen and soyer pictures of jango and so here like So this is yeah, this is where it started to break down like we recognize dog Personally dog, but not a correct dog. Yeah, and it has separate albums with the just the dogs that it's recognizing Uh-huh, then there's my brother-in-law my sister Lilo my sister-in-law's dog patrick bezia ellie roger's daughter Then there's another dog one. That's just like dogs without their faces It's it's my dogs, but without the faces towards the camera So it's like a dog butt album Because I can't see the face I guess It's like we don't think this is a person or a dog Then there's my sister's dog shameless There's another one of dog butts There's two dog butt albums My brother-in-law my sister's husband shannon ias molly ibbitt You know, oh This is weird. Then there's one album. That's just a picture of me in my all blacks hat from 2006 What is it called? It doesn't have a name. Oh Just a photo. Yeah Oh my gosh, there's an album of my my nephew's friend That was in a bunch of pictures of my nephew from the wedding and it pulled him out. That's weird Yeah, some of these are they sort of defy My favorite is the south korean guard because his avatar Picture is amazing because it kind of cuts him out with just blue behind him. He looks great his mother needs this Yeah Find her Your kid is doing great Here i'll hold it up to the video the camera so you can see it Oh, oh, yeah That's a lovely photo right All right. Thanks everybody for watching the video. We are going to Pop away now to audio land. So audio listeners stick around. There's more to come