 Coming up on DTNS Samsung's almost indestructible Galaxy phone get a free upgrade to Windows 10 force GDP are compliance from websites And do we need a troll score on Twitter? This is the Daily Tech news for Monday, January 13th, 2020 in Los Angeles. I'm Tom errant and from studio Redwood I'm Sarah Lane and I'm Roger Chang the show's producer We were just reminiscing about Star Wars and where we saw the first movies and what we thought about them And what order people should watch them in on good day internet get that wider conversation become a member and support DTNS at patreon.com slash DTNS. Let's start with a few tech things you should know Instagram updated its video loop maker boomerang to now include editing options users can now trim clips as well as add slow-mo Echo blurring and rapid rewind special effects to videos once a video is captured in boomerang users can click on a new Infinity icon to select the editing options one plus CEO Pete Lau announced the new fluid display It's a Samsung built 2k AMOLED screen with that refresh rate that everybody was saying it was gonna have a hundred twenty Hertz Buttersmooth the display promises a thousand nits of brightness support for 10-bit color and we'll use motion smoothing MEMC technology loud didn't announce which device will be the first to get the new display But it will go into something ASUS also announced an Nvidia RTX 2070 graphics card specifically designed for Intel's NUC Ghost Canyon platform, which was announced at CES The ASUS graphics card package is just shy of eight inches long Features a dual fan design to keep it cool available worldwide on January 8th ASUS says the new GPUs shroud heat sink and heat pipe layout were designed to make the most out of the mesh side panel in Intel's chassis All right, let's talk a little bit more about a couple of things one official one not from Samsung Oh boy Samsung announced a tank of a phone the galaxy X cover pro a ruggedized mid-range Android phone with IP68 and MIL STD 810 G certifications That means it can withstand dust water extreme altitudes temperatures humidity and more This is a rugged phone. It also includes a removable 4050 milliamp battery the phone features a 6.3 inch 20 20 by 1080 display Exynos 9611 processor for gigs of RAM and 64 gigs of internal storage with a micro SD card slot It also includes two rear cameras 15 watt fast charging two programmable buttons that can be mapped to push to talk apps like teams and EV EMV level one certification to accept NFC credit card payment with the phone accepted into visas tap to phone payments pilot program The phone ships with the Android 10 in mid 2020 for $499. Hey in related news XDA developers published images that says they are of the Samsung Galaxy S 20 plus expected to be announced on February 11th The images show four cameras a microphone and a flash on the rear no dedicated Bixby button though Yeah, I know this XDA developers leak was on top of every Page today and it's a I know people are excited and like oh it really is the s20 I guess and to me I think you know what I'm fine waiting till February 11th to find out all the details about it But I get that the people are excited and it's like oh it looks interesting They're gonna have a microphone in the back that might make it so you can do that zoom-in sound that Samsung's been talking about I'm way more excited about the Galaxy X cover pro if you didn't catch it what Sarah said was EMV levels of one certification Let's you accept NFC credit card payment so you can use this as a point of sale out in the field This is definitely being targeted at industrial workers field workers that sort of thing because it's super rugged and I Kind of want one honestly. Yeah, I mean, you know what when I Emphasized 499 dollars. I was emphasizing that because for all of these specs Given, you know what the the ruggedness of this phone. This is a really good price Yeah, I mean, it's not great on the internal specs, right? They have four gigs of RAM It's fine 64 gigs internal storage fine 22 20 by 1080 display, you know X and those 96 fine It's all fine. But what they did on the outside for the extreme altitude the extreme humidity the IP68 You can drop it from I think four meters. I might have that wrong, but you can drop it pretty far And and and man, that's just not having to worry about whether this phone's gonna break on you And the fact that it can take payments You know, I mean sure you can take payments with lots of things with a dongle and everything But it's just it's built in that. It's just makes it nicer I don't know. I'm I'm very curious. I just want this because it looks rugged and looks cool I bet we have people in the audience who want this because it solves an actual problem for them out in the field And I'd love to hear from you at feedback at daily tech news show.com because that That's that's where this sort of thing really starts to make sense to all of us. I think Yeah, absolutely Well folks a survey of consent management platforms or cmp's by mit ucl and arhus university Found that 11.8% Met the minimum requirements of gdpr if you're like, wait, what's a cmp? It's a it's basically a piece of software sold by a company. There's about five major companies that say, okay Your website needs to be gdpr compliant. We're going to sell you this platform Which will make all those pop-ups happen Like do you want cookies to comply with the gdpr? You know, select your options here so this Research team looked around at 10,000 uk websites And found they were only 11.8 percent in total compliance That meant no pre-checked boxes Making rejecting all the cookies as easy as accepting them and when you gave consent it was explicit not implicit gdpr requires the consent be informed specific and freely given without pre-selected boxes well 32.5% offered consent by user action like scrolling or not responding. That's not explicit. That's implicit consent 56.2% offered pre-clicked consent boxes went right there in the gdpr. It says you can't pre-click the consent boxes 50.1% of sites did not offer a reject all option you would have to go dig through into the settings and reject them all individually Of those that did offer a reject all button 74 percent Buried that reject all two clicks away Whereas accept all was always available on the first thing you saw In their study they found that having the opt-out be on the second page increased consent to tracking by 22 to 23 percentage points if I had to dig into click it that was less likely to click it They also found an indication that Presenting the option when you wanted to get on with something else like I want to read a story. Oh wait. I got this pop up And and that in addition to seeing options over and over and over on multiple websites It makes the user pay less attention to their choices and they're not necessarily making the best choice so To solve that the authors have designed a plugin that works for firefox and chrome and they have the open source code on github Called consent omatic that lets you choose What your consent choices would be in general and then it can automatically apply them for you So that you don't have to get upset about a cookie banner and you don't have to worry about digging in to find out Where all the option is because they took the five biggest suppliers of these consent management platforms and coded The extension to work with them and do it all for you. I think that's great I do too That said if for whatever reason you don't know about the plugin. Maybe you haven't heard of it. Maybe you don't care Maybe you don't you don't wish to um To to to give folks an option What is going to be the recourse for websites who are not gdpr compliance based on you know These stats, which which lead us to believe that many many are not You mean what's going to happen to the people who aren't in compliance. Why aren't they getting busted? Yeah, right? Like who's going after them besides yeah tools to make you ggr complain. That's great But if you don't if you if you don't take advantage of it, like are you in trouble? Who's going after you the regulators say that they are uh, they're trying to figure out the best way to go after this and and target Websites that are causing effective harm So I think what they mean by that it sounds like it's kind of gobbledygook But I think what they mean is there are way too many for us to go after at once So we're trying to figure out Which ones will have the most effect if we bust a couple of people will that cause others to get in compliance? You know, which ones are causing the most harm and are being the most egregious About not following the rules, but it's a huge enforcement problem because you have So many sites that at least according to this research do not appear to be in strict compliance that I think what's happening Is the EU saying well, it's better than it was and we just need to figure out a manageable enforcement mechanism that will move others into becoming compliant because they just don't have the manpower to try to bust 90 percent almost 80 88.2 percent that aren't in compliance Yeah, um, I predict that uh If if enforcement kind of comes into play a little bit more a lot of sites will be like Oh, well, thank you firefox for your wonderful plug-in to make us more compliant because it it it helps take the pressure off of the developers on that side Yeah, it's firefox and chrome if anybody chrome managers wait wait I don't know you get it either of you get it and I highly recommend it because that way you're exercising your rights You're you're effectively answering the question properly and it lowers your frustration so that you're not just clicking okay Because you're tired of it. I think it's super good option for people Uh liverpool based gamer aiden jackson Was talking to a fellow gamer deal lathora who lives in texas in the united states When jackson experienced a seizure now lathora knew jackson's address But didn't know his phone number So she tried the emergency number of the eu but that didn't work So she found the non-emergency number and she called that police in an ambulance did appear at jackson's family front door in liverpool Jackson's parents said when the police arrived, they had no idea why he was upstairs. They were downstairs They didn't realize what was going on But their son was indeed unresponsive. He was experiencing a seizure and lathora In texas of all places was the one who alerted the entire family to this fact I love this story because it's an example of uh gamers being good to each other People on the internet being helpful with each other and someone going above and beyond I mean lathora would I think be forgiven by most of us if she just said Oh my gosh, uh, I I don't know what to do. I I can't hear I can't hear you It sounds like you're having a seizure and just and just hoping for the best Uh, but but she didn't she went above and beyond and and did did research and tried to get through now I mean, I think that's a testament to how well these two people like each other and and the kind of relationship they have Uh, these aren't just, you know fly-by-night gamers who happen to meet today. They are they obviously have shared information Because yeah, she knew the address and everything so that helps but uh, yeah I you know, we don't get enough of these kinds of stories and I and I think they happen more often than people suspect And you know as somebody who I have my own uh experience with epilepsy this sort of stuff If if you know how it it does tend to happen, you know when you're alone a lot and nobody knows and you're either okay or you're not um, but it is very serious and the fact that um, Mr. Jackson was you know having a seizure. He was in the house with his parents Paris didn't know, you know He's upstairs playing games. You know, they're used to that somebody Very far away saying hey, we you know, we we we need to deal with this Somebody needs to go to his house. I'm gonna do everything in my power and in in in in order to make that happen Is yeah, it's very heartwarming And I think it points out that there and again, I'm not going off the deep end and saying there ought to be a law but I think it would be great if somebody came up with a solution. Maybe it's a plug-in Maybe it's just a standard that that sites like twitch Could could put in or gaming sites could put in to be like hey if I if I need Emergency services make it easy for me to figure out what emergency services And I know the immediate objection would be like well that could be misused because of things like swatting and all of that but but obviously, you know, lathora Had a little difficulty and spent a little time trying to figure this out It would be it'd be nice if there was an easier way To be able to to call in a report like this I'm not saying there should have been or that anything's wrong because there was it but it shows that there might be a good use for that absolutely Official support for windows 7 ends tuesday january 14th. That's the day after rear recording this episode That means no more security updates. That means you should not be using windows 7 After tuesday january 14th and you may say tom. That's great. But I don't have the money for a new windows There are ways to extend Now if you're a big enterprise with a contract, uh, you can probably get some new security updates You can probably get all kinds of help from microsoft But if you're a home user the windows 10 home operating system costs $139 for the upgrade However, you don't need to pay the hundred thirty nine dollars legally. It's this is not an illegal thing There is a free upgrade tool from microsoft now officially microsoft stopped distributing the tool in 2016 But they haven't stopped it from working To get it you go to microsoft's own site on a windows machine Uh, you go to the download windows 10 disk image page Is a legal page on microsoft's website that they are still supporting you find Create windows 10 installation media And choose to download and run that tool Then once you've got it running You choose upgrade pc now and that will upgrade the pc that it's running on when the update is done You go into settings update and security choose activation and you will find your new Legitimate digital license for windows 10 cnet has all the steps on this if you're like wait say that again I want to write this all down. Uh, go go to cnet.com. We'll have a link in our show notes at daily tech news show dot com Uh, keep in mind if you have windows 7 or windows 8 Home you have to update to windows 10 home and if you have windows 7 or 8 pro you have to update the pro They won't let you cross that is blocked Uh, but it is perfectly legitimate for you to go and do this and save yourself 139 dollars Did you have anything running on windows 7? No, I do not I actually I do I I was almost hoping I'm like, there's gotta be some windows 7 something around here No, that's all windows 10 at this point at least in my house But I think that this will apply to you know, some folks, especially with you know, some older hardware And yeah, save yourself some money. Yep The competition commission of india ordered an antitrust investigation into amazon and walmart owned flipkart Looking into allegations from a group of small and medium-sized businesses that the companies promoted preferred sellers Who were either affiliated with or controlled by the companies themselves? The investigation will also look at the company's discount practices and both companies deny the allegations Yeah, I mean in some ways you're like this isn't new I've heard of amazon being brought up on this before but uh, it's happening in india right before jeff bezos is visiting to meet With government officials there to help try to open up that market for him So he's gonna have some awkward questions. I'm sure uh, and it's happening to flipkart Which is a local indian business even though it is owned by out walmart walmart bought it But it grew up in india It's just a matter of size once companies get these this size They want to start using that size to their advantage and when they think it's fair Some small and medium-sized businesses don't think it's fair and that's when you need to have people investigate and decide whether it's fair or not And you know, we're talking about relatively new business You know companies right the idea that you know, somebody is going to be delivering food Or you know that that kind of gig economy type deal You're going to see more and more situations like this where it's like well that companies domain really well Are they you know, I is an abuse of power You know or you know, are they within their rights to do so and I think that uh flipkart As successful as it has been In that particular market is just you know one of one of many companies that will be looked into Well, and you'll also have situations where small business Takes advantage of an open platform like amazon or flipkart And then as that platform grows and its own homegrown stuff starts to do better And the small business isn't growing as fast. They'll look at it and say wait. Is that fair? They they're not helping me the way they're helping themselves and that's what that's what's an issue here Hey, folks, if you want to get all the tech headlines each day in about five minutes Be sure to subscribe to daily tech headlines.com Wired has a publication of a q&a with kvon bakepour He is the founder of periscope and the head of product at twitter Wired talked with him at ces last week and in this q&a sara He goes over a lot of interesting things about how twitter is managed how twitter's trying to be A better citizen how it's trying to make a better environment for people who use twitter The the story is titled it's easy to be a jerk on twitter and twitter wants to fix that yeah, um twitter is It's almost sort of like our best use case of a platform that works well But also hosts a lot of abuse And that's because of the way that the platform was set up before it had the the you know the As as many people who use it as they do now and and and and and the way that they've It's because of unanticipated consequences. They didn't know they were going to get people in this amount of of this number Using it in this way. Exactly. I mean even back to like the The you know rt feature like that that that wasn't even a twitter thing That was something that somebody just came up with and then everyone started using it was like this is great And then the company had to deal with it and the company still has to deal with a lot of that stuff What they have done as a company as big poor describes Hiding replies as a new feature. We've talked about this recently if if uh, if if there is An incendiary stuff that's going on within a conversation on twitter You you now as a user have more options to hide those replies Quoting tweets however and and big pour is is quick to point this out They serve their own purpose quoting tweet if you're not familiar or If you don't use twitter a lot is I you know if tom says something and I want to respond I could at reply to him or I could Quote tweet it which actually breaks the conversation and starts a new conversation That's what this is in reaction to not only hide reply, but also the new threaded conversation options We talked about last week where you can say well the only people who can reply to this are the people I mentioned in the original post right, but if you quote retweet anybody can comment It basically it breaks the conversation and starts a new one. Yeah, and twitter and twitter says we don't want to stop that That's okay. You don't have to you know It's sort of like if if tom's have you tom and roger are having a you know a christmas party and I knock on the door And they're like you're not invited. You know, I could still talk about it. I'm not invited I'm not in the original conversation Exactly, we would always and that's not always some nefarious reason for doing so It might be because you don't follow me or I don't follow you or you know that sort of thing So twitter has said okay. We we understand that conversations are hard to follow We're trying to make them easier to follow We're trying to give their original poster of a conversation more tools in order to Control the conversation, you know, so it doesn't get hijacked by a bunch of trolls At the same time We understand that that's not how all conversations work and it's still okay for other people to Start their own topic of conversation About an original poster's conversation Even if that's a different twitter conversation Well, and and there was there was a point where begpore said, uh, you know, we know that it's easy for people to become jerks Uh, he says here there really isn't a disincentive today to being a total jerk on twitter And that's a product problem And then he and and from the guy from wired nicolas thompson Started comparing it to ride hailing and they said, you know in ride hailing There is a disincentive to being a jerk because every rider has a score that the drivers see every driver has a score that the riders see Yeah, like if you may decide I don't want to take a ride with somebody with only two stars So nicolas thompson from wired suggested Do we need a troll score on twitter that that shows? Just how good or bad you are on twitter And you know My my initial reaction to that was like, oh gosh, this is a yelp. Come on man But at the same time the more I think about it the more I think this actually might be a good thing You, you know You in the in the sense that on linkedin the people that you are connected to the people who give you nice accolades who give you nice reviews, you know who who who Who uh, you know are are are Talking to you online on that platform that's sort of like a That's a really good indication of kind of who you are as a person in the in the corporate world On twitter. It's a very different game. I mean and we all know this like, you know, half the time on twitter I'm, you know, trying to make jokes or you know, I'm lacking other people's jokes and I'm not necessarily Doing my Day job kind of thing But if I were acting inappropriately on a regular basis I think it would be in everyone's best interest to know that I was doing that Even if it doesn't I don't know like even if I don't You know get features taken away from me just to just to have some sort of like it's like an asterisk, right? Like yeah, well, sarah, you know, she's a little she's a little sauce, you know in these certain arenas whether it be, you know Tech or sports or whatever. I think that that that would be helpful to what it's so Because a if it's done by users then it's open to be gamed by users people will start Organizing to label someone as a troll who's not being trolly. Yeah, that's a problem and If someone's a troll and they got a troll mark and they just keep trolling They can be seen as a badge of honor But what if the troll score is only determined by machine learning within the company? Well, okay, then it's a matter of how is that machine learning work? And they actually talk about this in the wired article Bakepore says the way they determine what's toxic right now is they have very clear rules about what's allowed and what's not And then they have a very large amount of sample data of tweets that violate the rules that they can use to train machine learning It's easier to find rule violations than it is positivity But if you're going after violations and toxicity then machine learning is pretty good. It's not perfect yet It's pretty good at finding that so yes Maybe you let machine learning do that and it's resistant To the gaming of the system, but then you deal with the small percentage Even if it's small of people who are incorrectly labeled by the machine learning because it isn't perfect Yeah, exactly. Yeah, I mean it it's I don't I don't exactly know how twitter intends to make this Work they don't bakepore said like that's a really interesting idea And he never commented on whether they'd they'd explore it or not But I think I think I as much many objections as I'm throwing in front of you, Sarah I'm kind of doing it because I'm with you. I think it would be interesting The reason it works on uber and lyft is everybody has a stake in it, right? You tend to want to give honest stars Because you don't even though they can't really do this you don't want people to downgrade you as a writer Like everybody's getting graded and it can mean you don't get a ride There's a driver as well. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I don't know what the equivalent in twitter is like what the real consequence is Yeah, like yeah, exactly. What is the consequence of you saying to me, sarah? You've just Sent too many stupid tweets. Yeah, what happens to the amount of tweets that you can post? Yeah, like it doesn't it doesn't you know, it doesn't affect my bottom line necessarily It's it's it's not sort of an economic You know tit for tat type thing, right? But but at the same time I think that There are especially because I have so many people who are following lots of accounts that I don't follow and and I get You know, I forwarded, you know a tweet that's kind of out of thin air that I have to kind of Try to parse and figure out where it came from and who's this person and oh, let's look at the bio and all of that stuff If there was a rating system that worked and I'm not sure how it would but if there was I would welcome it Because there, you know, it is still the wild west out there Yeah, and the key the key is making it work because I still see twitter On my on my mobile app where it blocks sensitive content blocking things that I darn well know are not sensitive So it's it's not quite there yet Well, thanks everybody who participates in our subreddit. Sometimes twitter stories end up there You can submit your own and vote on others things that you care about and you want us to care about as well Daily tech news show dot reddit.com you can also join our conversation in our discord 24 7 You can join by linking to a patreon account at patreon.com slash d t n s All right, let's check in with chris christensen the amateur traveler who has a tip for those traveling domestically in the us It's chris christensen from amateur traveler with another tech in travel minute If you're a frequent flyer, I'm sure you already know this But for those of you who aren't one trick is when you're flying especially domestically in the united states Before you get on a flight you should have the airline app The latest version of the airline app on your smartphone Yes, it's convenient to have your boarding pass on there But also many airlines are going with free wi-fi enabled movies But you have to have their app to do it and so on your devices that you may want to watch movies You may want that i'm chris christensen from amateur traveler They should all have a current signed version of the app on the server on the plane too. I'm just saying but yes All right, let's check out the mailbag Let's do it. David from brisbane brisbane strong says just adding to your discussion of wearables on friday show David says i work for a large australian company 14 000 employees and in the last 10 years have worked for several companies With a large highly educated office-based workforce All have programs to raise awareness about well-being all have done step challenges like how many steps you can accumulate in a month For example, I wonder if this has normalized and boosted the profile and sales of wearables At least to those chained to a desk five days a week Yeah, those company programs like that can can really cause measurable increases Absolutely Because it it encourages a large number of people once so you know around 14 000 employees That's not nothing even if it's only a percentage of them that participate. So thank you david I love getting this kind of perspective. I appreciate that Absolutely. 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