 Life, life, life, we're live. We were recording before, now we're live. And Tom was speaking glorious French. We are giving Roger control. Ah, true. Le control. Le control pour le Roger. It's French for the control. I like Roger because it's not English or French. It's. No, actually, but you pronounce it differently in French. But it's just the way you pronounce it in French. Was it was it? Yeah. Hose. Hose. Oh, Hose. Good bidard. Yeah. Yeah, makes sense. Yeah. Hose. So. And Roger is extremely old fashioned in French. Well, how is it old fashioned? Like only old guys have that name? Yeah. It's kind of a name that was popular for, I don't know, I guess our grandparents or something like that. Maybe, yeah. Le Grand Père? Yeah. So. And it was, I know little, I know single words. No, it's fine. It's fine. You you're just, if you don't say, you know, I think you're at a level where you could create some kind of illusion. Yeah, possibly. So wait, then what would be a more contemporary name in France? Like you would name a kid? Nowadays. Yeah. I mean, I don't know these last few years, but in recent years, it's been a return to much older names like Louis and Marie, like super traditional stuff. So Roger should make its turn. And I would say, I'm sorry, I thought it's not my call. Yeah, it's detect. You're absolutely right. Am I? Am I? Marcel, yes. François is still a little bit, it's a little bit closer to us, but Marcel is a little bit like Roger. It's the kind of thing that you could hear probably in in World War Two or something like that. Billy Bob is more like what, Redneck or something like that? Well, Hilberti. Elias like pharmacy. Billy Bob pharmacy. What? Right. Yes, absolutely. I mean, really, isn't that just a shortened version of William Robert? Yeah, well, just call him Will, Will Bob, Willie Bob. Yeah. And is no, it's Richard. But Richard and William are from the same thing, right? Yeah, William. William, isn't that more a Germanic name than a French name? Seems so. No, but I mean, William and Richard, I thought were from the same origin. Oh, no, no. Richard is from Richard is is the root name for Dick Rick. No, I know, I know, I know. And then William is Bill, Billy. Right. They're two separate names. No, I know, but I thought they were, like, etymologically linked. I mean, I guess I'm the same guy, William Richard. You're we can barely hear you, Roger. William Richard. Oh, now we can. There you go. Yeah. So leaning back away from the microphone. Doppler. Land down on his bed. That is fantastic. All right. Shall we begin? Let's all on the show. All right, here we go. Daily Tech News Show is powered by you. Look inside. It's you to find out more at the Daily Tech News Show dot com slash support. This is the Daily Tech News for Tuesday, November 7th, 2017, from DTS headquarters in Los Angeles. I'm Tom Merritt and from the Helsinki offices. I'm Patrick Beja. Oh, I love the sound of that. The Helsinki offices. Sarah Lane is off today doing some other. She's on assignment. Somebody else's assignment, but she'll be back with us on Thursday, though. Meanwhile, producer Roger Chang is still here. How are you, Roger? I am still here. That's good to know. Let's start with a few tech things you should know. Twitter announced it's rolling out 280 character tweets to everyone, except for a few languages. The test was successful. So it's coming worldwide. You might not have it yet. I don't have it yet. Patrick doesn't have it yet, but supposedly coming Chinese, Japanese and Korean were exempted from the test and they will continue to be exempted. They say that you can fit a lot more because of the way those languages work into 140 characters, so they're leaving those alone. All the other languages supposedly get 280 characters. Twitter says 9% of the tweets hit that 140 character limit in general. But during its test, only 1% of tweets hit the 280 character limit. So they think it's a better limit to let people say what they need to say. I don't have it yet, as you said, but I think I agree. So we'll have to see how it works out. And Gadget Japan notes the niche phone S running Android 4.2 comes to Japan November 10th for 95 bucks. The super budget phone can make calls, send texts, play music, record voice memos, connect to Bluetooth headphones and tether a laptop for 3G data. At least that's what it looks like in the video. It's a cute little thing, though. Yeah, I wonder if, you know, Android 4.2, does it still get updates, security updates, although you can do so little with this one. Yeah, exactly. Google Search and Google Maps will soon show you estimated wait times to get a seat at a restaurant at a particular time. Google estimates the time is based on anonymized historical data. They've done this for bars and other businesses and public parks and stuff. So there you go. Pretty good. Nokia and Vodacom announced Tuesday that the company will test 5G service in South Africa, Nokia will provide hardware and the companies will focus on Ultra HD and VR video service. Yeah, another country getting the 5G tests rolling out. See if you can jump into there. Now here are some more. What's that? I was going to say it's interesting that they're focusing on a super bandwidth demanding thing for the test. Yeah, they're basically saying like, let's just push as much data through this thing as we can. Here we go. Here are some more top stories. Waymo is launching tests of its autonomous Chrysler Pacifica minivans with no safety driver. The cars will operate at level four autonomy on public roads, not closed courses in Chandler, Arizona, which is outside Phoenix. Waymo employees will be the passengers at first, though they have plans to expand this to the public and eventually cover most of greater Phoenix. It's I mean, I think Phoenix and outside Phoenix in particular is probably some of the best suited environments to test these kinds of things because you don't you have clear roads. You know, it's not New York, basically. It's dry roads are mostly on a grid, doesn't snow ever. Yeah, exactly. But still, you know, it's kind of incredible how fast these things are going because even if the test is not incredibly successful, they're at the level where they can do it. And only a few years ago when experts were telling us, we'll have, you know, autonomous cars in 2018 are like, what are you smoking? You tech hippie. And then turns out it's not, you know, everywhere. But that level of tests, I don't think we would have believed would happen so quickly. Well, and I still am very conservative on when will we all get it, right? Like, when will we be able to in most areas? Let's let's let's and I apologize because I'm leaving out my sister when I do this, but let's leave out the rural areas because those are harder to cover. Those have their own challenges. But in most metropolitan areas, when will we all be able to, as a regular course, be able to walk out our door and hail an autonomous car? I think that's a long way down the road still. There's just a lot of regulation, a lot of logistics and a lot of things to work out. Business models, probably the hardest one, to be honest. They usually are in these situations. But we have the technology now is pretty exciting. And maybe it'll come faster than I think. Yeah, no. And I think it's a different question. You know, when will we will when will they be common is a very different question from when will they be technically possible and not just possible used, you know, and that when will they be technically used was something that I don't think most people would have agreed would come so quickly. Yeah, I still I still think we may be decade maybe decades away from from widespread availability. But here we are. Like if unless something really unusual happens, I don't think Waymo would be risking this if they didn't think it would work. And full pass into the chat room is saying I thought you needed to have you were supposed to have drivers in them. I'm guessing that Waymo or, you know, Phoenix or Arizona has specific regulations. Yeah, no, Arizona has very loose regulations. They've been very cooperative with lots of different autonomous car companies. And this is the first one that won't need to have a driver in it. Yeah. All right. Let's move on. The latest patch from the Pixel 2 contains a new saturated color option fading navbars to help extend the life of the OLED screen and a fix for the clicking noise made by NFC. It also patches the crack Wi-Fi vulnerability. Yeah, sorry, I left out a C in your copy there. I got it. I, you know, I am tech literate. I knew about the crack vulnerability and I figured that was what it was referring to. Yeah, so this I mean, fixing the crack vulnerability is that's that's a big one. But this is like all the complaints from launch. The patch, this patch covers them all. The people like it looks too blue and Pixel is like, it's supposed to be. I mean, Google says it's supposed to be, but we'll give you a saturated color option if it's not your taste. Oh, you're worried about OLED burn in. You think your navbars are sticking around? Great, we'll have those fade out. No worries. NFC making a clicking noise. I don't know why that's happened, but we stopped it. So, you know, none of these, I think, were were deal killers. And they are all the kinds of complaints that people have when a phone is really popular. And so all the attention is on it. Pretty pretty crazy to see them all fixed in one blow, though. Yeah, it's basically Google saying to the world, don't worry, peeps, we got it. We got you, fam. We're good. And the world will say, I found a new problem that you didn't. Well, I mean, yes and no, I think it's important that Google shows they if there are issues, they will fix them. They're on it and, you know, you can buy the phone and issues always happen. But, you know, for every phone, every, every manufacturer, but Google says, we got you. And that's important. Amazon has released a new version of the Fire TV stick called the Basic Edition in 100 countries. Unlike the Fire TV stick that's been on sale in the US, the Basic Edition doesn't have Amazon voice services because most of the markets don't have Amazon echoes yet. So they haven't launched Amazon voice services in those markets. HD video stick is listed as 50 bucks, which is more expensive than the one in the US. But you also get free shipping. It's a little weird prices vary by region anyway. So it depends on your local currency, really. Does that include VAT and taxes and stuff like that? That's true. And probably that that list price must and must include that, too. Yeah, that's usually the case. And that would make that would make sense. It is it is weird like India just got the Amazon Echo, but this is not launching with Amazon voice services, probably for SKU simplicity. They're like, we've got a US version and a not US version. Everybody else gets the not US version. But Amazon Prime launched in 200 countries, something like that. So not even all the countries with Amazon Prime are getting the Fire TV stick. And that's this is kind of an essential to get people really on board with something like Amazon Prime video is to have a way to easily watch it on the TV. It's coming to the Apple TV soon. Soon. So yet fall, fall. So until December 21st, it's not late. Yeah, I mean, we're still waiting for Echo in France. So I don't know, whatever. I don't even care. I don't I don't want it. I'm I'm done, Amazon. I'll just keep using your sweet, sweet prime. All right. Slurping ramen noodles. And I can't believe this is a tech story. Slurping ramen noodles is a sign of enjoyment. But Nishin wants to make it a quieter sign. The otohiko fork uses noise consolation cancellation to mask the slurps. Nishin collected many slurps to train the noise cancellation. The fork sends a signal to the phone, which then emits audio to cancel out the noise. Nishin is crowdfunding the fork for fourteen thousand eight hundred yen. That's about one hundred and thirty dollars. If it gets five hundred thousand, I'm sorry, five thousand orders by December, they're just as likely to get five thousand as they are. Five hundred thousand, to be honest. By December 15th, it plans to ship the fork in early 2018. So that wonderful, Tom. Yes, this is an example. We are part of there's a few reasons I like this story. One, I just think it's hilarious that anyone would need the noise canceling fork for their noodles. The whole point of slurping your noodles is to show your enjoyment of them. And as you pointed out, Patrick, one shouldn't really be eating their noodles with a fork. It's, you know, it's possibly the most ridiculous tech story ever. I'm fairly sure it's not even a I mean, it's half a joke, half a viral. It's a real product. They are they launched it at the end of October. You can order it. And I bet they do get five thousand of these because missing, if you don't know, is the noodle maker. They make the cup cup of noodles. So of course they want, you know, to drum up business for the noodles. I think it is exactly the example of the kind of thing we usually don't talk about as a I on the show because they're talking they're trying to make it sound like there's machine learning that they're like, oh, we've recorded all the slurps and we've used those. Well, used is not machine. There's no machine learning here. They're very careful to skirt that issue and make it sound like it is. Like we trained it with lots of slurps. It from what I can tell, I looked at Sina, I looked at a few different places. It just emits white noise. Yes. And you know, the white noise isn't really even white noise. It doesn't really cancel the slurp. It, you know, it masks it with some kind of different sounding whoosh or mix between whoosh and slurp sounds. And yes, as you said, people don't eat noodles with forks unless they really don't know how to use chopsticks, which I would encourage people to learn how to use chopsticks. But in Japan, certainly no one uses it. And this is only on sale in Japan. So yeah. And the fork is ginormous. Like there's a tiny little fork end. And the other part is like, imagine an overgrown electric toothbrush, which has some kind of illness, you know, that makes it a bulge. It's it's a ridiculous product. And I think it's, you know, it's not even funny as a joke. It's maybe it's my Japanese sensibilities being annoyed here. But I think it's just dumb. All right. Furniture today reports that Amazon has started selling its own brands of furniture now. You've probably seen Amazon selling electronics and wires and maybe even some clothing. Mid-century modern styled furniture called rivet is is Amazon made and a higher priced modern brand called Stone and Beam is also for sale. The collections include sofas, accent chairs, sectionals and love seats, tables, storage, ottomans, lighting, rugs and wall art. So watch out, Wayfair. Amazon's coming at you. Amazon also expanding its private label line of apparel. Good Sport is a new budget active wear brand, kind of like Champion. Peak Velocity is a premium men's active wear brand similar to Nike or Under Armour. And Rebel Canyon is a leash. They call it athleisure. I cannot bring myself to say that. It's a leisure athletic brand similar to Lululemon. But the company store becoming wider and wider. Now, I have not knowingly bought anything that is an Amazon in-house product myself, except for one USB cable, which broke. So I'm not too like I'm not too well chuffed, as they say, about the Amazon products, but maybe I've bought some clothing and I didn't even know it. I don't buy a lot of clothing on Amazon, so I doubt it. But I would never know that that these peak velocity brand is Amazon's and they don't tell you that. They just sort of put it in with all the other search results. And the interesting thing is they have so much data. They know what sells and what doesn't and what people like. And this makes me think, you know, it's not so much Ikea that this makes me think about, although the design seems kind of Scandinavian almost for the few examples we've seen, which I like, of course. But it makes me think of Mujirussir Yohin. Do you know that brand, Mujir? Yeah, yeah, we have a store in Santa Monica, actually. Right. So this is a Japanese brand where the original intent was to make no brand good products. And it became incredibly popular because they were especially in Japan, cheaper, but it seems that Amazon is doing this for everything now. And of course, it's like a house brand. Right. It's like a store brand, I would say. Yeah, except it seems like they're betting on a little bit higher, like basic, but good quality, which is what Mujir is doing. This is, you know, clever and scary and a growth of Amazon beyond what they started to do, which they're always growing. I would buy something like that, probably, I'm guessing. And I don't know. It's just another example of Amazon eating the world. Yeah, no, that's the thing, right? I look at some of the furniture. The apparel, not really my thing, but I look at some of the furniture and I'm like, man, I've got a mid-century modern house I'm renting here. Like that would fit right in. Looks real nice. We're not in the in the in the market for anything, but we usually have gone to Wayfair if we don't go to some local store. So this this could start pulling people away. And then I get exactly where you ended up, which is, but do I want that? Like, I guess I wanted if it's at the right price and it looks good in its quality furniture, but do I want Amazon to have this much power over everything that I buy, which we, you know, we've talked about before on the show, of course, but yeah. 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. Get everything right in your ears at DailyTechHeadlines.com or on the Amazon Echo and in the anchor app at anchor.fm. Xbox One X is out today and getting into people's I'm sure they're not grubby. I'm sure they almost said grubby little hands for the very clean hands. You've got a brand new Xbox One X. You don't want to get that dirty. So it made Patrick think about all of this talk when the Xbox One X and the PlayStation 4 Pro were announced about the death of consoles. Oh, we're moving to the phone model. Consoles will never be the same again. Let's check in on that theory, Patrick. Yeah. So, I mean, you know, I'm a big gaming fan. I was just as at BlizzCon, where I had the pleasure of seeing you, by the way, Tom. That was very nice to see. It was just a couple of days ago, the wonders of plane travels and jet lag. But yeah, so this is something, a story that I've been following very closely, because, of course, it's at the intersection of gaming, gaming and tech gaming and tech with phones. It was really only a year and a half or two years ago where people were making the predictions or at least making the bringing forward the theory that console cycles could transform into phone cycles. And the theory was very made a lot of sense because we had these mid cycle upgrades, which were being announced. So for people who aren't aware, both the PlayStation Pro and now the I'm sorry, both the PlayStation 4 and now the Xbox One have mid cycle upgrades, which are more powerful in the case of the Xbox One, much more powerful. And that can play for which all games are available on both models. Traditionally, when you would have an upgrade, the new console would sometimes play the games from the old console, but the reverse wouldn't be true. So the games which would come out on the new machine would not be playable on the old machine. And that's why we're calling those a mid cycle upgrade because everything works, all games work on both machines. So this led to a lot of people speculating, well, maybe that's the way things go forward forever in kind of a phone slash PC model where you have a number of different consoles and all the games work, but with better graphics or different functionalities on all those models. And it made a lot of sense, right? I think I thought it might happen. I think you, Tom, would agree it was a possibility, right? Certainly a possibility. I always felt like it was a bit of an exaggerated fear because I didn't think that we'd see this happen overnight. But it certainly seemed like it fit in Microsoft's way of doing things very well, where Windows 10 is the last Windows you'll ever need, right? We'll just keep updating it, like, oh, I guess they could do the same thing with the Xbox. Yeah. And so now we have a little bit of data, not necessarily for the Xbox One X, of course, which just came out today, but certainly for the PlayStation Pro. And the numbers we have are that it sells about one in five machines is a pro model. In the case of the Xbox One X, what Phil Spencer, the Xbox boss, was saying is that they expected it to be roughly in that ballpark, that they didn't expect it to be a replacement for the existing model, but rather to live along with it and be a pro option, like an option for demanding gamers. Yeah, the way with a Windows laptop, you might buy an ultralight or you might buy like a desktop replacement to oversimplify it. And so with that, what's been happening is that the pro versions or the Xbox One X, we're guessing, are getting some attention, but not a huge amount of attention because we get into the issue of market share and installed base, of course, which developers look at very closely when they're developing a game and assigning resources to different features for that game. So not only did the PlayStation 4 come out a year ago and has been selling about one to four compared to the base model, but you also have the history of three years of the console where it was only the base model, which was available, meaning the installed base is much, much bigger for the base model compared to the pro model. We're guessing that it's going to be something similar for the Xbox One X, meaning developers have very little incentive to develop for the more expensive model. Right. If the games are going to be available on all models, because you want to sell as many as possible, right? So of course, you want it to be playable by the most number of people. So that begs the question if the next model of those consoles are the PlayStation 4 Super Pro and the Xbox One XXX, you know? Yeah. And do we make another one of those jumps where, OK, with the XXX, you can't play the XXX games on the Xbox One anymore? That kind of thing. Well, so that's the question. What if everything remains compatible? Then the developers would have, again, even less incentive to develop features that are specific to those high-end consoles because the installed base for the other ones are much bigger. So and that's what we've been seeing now. So I'm kind of thinking that the industry is looking at this now and thinking, well, it's not looking so likely anymore that we're not going to get a clean break because what happens when you get a clean break? It only works if you have competition. If you have at least two companies competing for Gamer's Box, then if one of them does a clean break and has the new Super Duper Ultra Powerful console, then the first, not first responders, but the early adopters, yeah. Thank you. There you go. That's the word I was looking for. The early adopters are going to flock to it. It's going to be a new market that has low installed base, but everyone is going to buy every game that comes out because there is so little offering on that machine and that motivates people to buy it, motivates developers, etc. It's a virtual circle, but that only works if the games are exclusive to that new device. And if the company that does it manages to create that dynamic, they get a head start in that new generation, which then becomes something that is very appealing to gamers. So the other company also has to do that. And that's how the console cycles are created. If we're in a scenario... Yeah, go ahead. Don't finish up. If we're in a scenario where everything is compatible with everything, if the backwards, the forward compatibility actually is maintained, then developers don't have that incentive to develop exclusively for that new machine. So I think that the idea that we won't get new machines, new consoles that are independent, that do that clean break, is getting less and less likely because by 2020, it doesn't need to be both manufacturers that create a new device. And it's looking like PlayStation Sony is looking at a PlayStation 5 that would be a clean break. Backwards compatible, but not forwards compatible. Yeah, right, right. I don't know, I think you're right that we might get one more round of that. But I still, you know, here I am, the guy who was making fun of everybody proclaiming the death of consoles. I don't think it'll be the death of consoles, but I think what Phil Spencer said kind of as an aside about Microsoft looking into a streaming service, which Tony already has, but it's early. And the reason he gave that Microsoft hasn't done it up till now is to say we tried it cost too much. But we also run Microsoft Azure and that cost is coming down. Also, my boss, Sachin Adela, is all about services, services, services, not hardware, hardware, hardware. Hardware is the thing that leads people to buy the services. I think Microsoft is definitely headed down the road where they say, we really don't care what box you have, whether it's our Xbox or a Windows machine or even a Mac or an Android device. We want to provide a service where you play all the games and you pay us for that. And I think this is where this is going eventually. I think Sony, which has already got a foot in that water, will get there as well. I don't know what the year is and I don't think it's soon. So that's why I say I think we might have one more round of the step forward that says PS5, Xbox 100. Those are no longer, you know, those are backwards compatible, but the games made for those won't necessarily work with the old versions. But that may be the last time. Yeah, so that's what I think is more likely as well. The phone model is not necessarily as much in the cards anymore, meaning by yearly updates. But these streaming services, the really interesting thing. And that's kind of why I mentioned video testing where when we were talking about 5G, not necessarily for the 5G element, but video plateaus, like demands in video, unless you go to 4K, which we might. But at some point you get 1080p capabilities for most Internet connections that are just the default, right, 1080p streaming. And when we reach that, the consoles can grow, quote unquote, in power without costing more bandwidth because it's the same image as you're you're sending. I'm just going to interject real quick, because I know we're running short on time. But I think what we what we've seen is that the shift is no longer the target of the hardware, right, for for for the past seven, eight, every hardware iteration that came out was the target. That's what you aim for. That was a platform. I think what we now have, at least with Xbox and PlayStation as well, is that the platform is the services, the environment, the ecosystem that the companies are presenting. That is the platform. It's no longer just the hardware. Hardware is the enabler. It allows you to do this stuff. But in the future, I mean, if you can get exclusive games and you're playing like what you're what Tom was saying is on an Android or whatever device, it's immaterial, right? As long as you buy this amazing game, you're having fun. Someone gets paid, Microsoft or PlayStation, it gets circuit. Everyone's going to be happy. I don't I think what you see is just you just need the hardware that's capable enough to run that service and then you don't necessarily need to dump as much development money that side while you can put more money into the services that attracts hopefully more eyeballs. I could I could respond to that. But that would be an entire other show. So let's let's so go subscribe to Pixels or I don't know, maybe DTS Labs Gaming Edition. Hey, thanks to all those who participate in our subreddit. You can submit stories and vote on them at DailyTechNewShow.Reddit.com and Facebook dot com slash groups slash Daily Tech News Show. Our message of the day comes from Travis in San Antonio, who wanted to throw one more idea into this this phrase, the the wisdom economy or the wisdom workforce. He says, listen, in my mind, a significant chunk of wisdom is knowledge acquired over time when they can take the accumulated knowledge of thousands of medical cases and from their experience, make a determination that sounds like a lot of aspects of wisdom. To me, what the computers have locked down is the IQ tasks, a.k.a. an IQ economy, and what they lack is the personal touch, customer service, bedside manner. I propose the emotional quotient or EQ economy. People with low EQ jobs may be in a position to be replaced. So I think the wisdom economy is something that AI is too far away to replace now. But I think Travis is on to the next phase. Like once AI and machine learning gets good enough to be able to acquire wisdom, which it could at some point, then, yeah, then it becomes our only advantage is emotions. Those are really difficult to replicate. And even if a machine can convince you that it's feeling care for you, you're probably going to know it's a machine. And that's just going to be different. But is it, though, that's the big question. Is it different because it's it's a machine? And I think that it's going to be very exponential. Once it has, you know, intelligence, wisdom, it sort of cascades into emotions, I think, or it will very quickly. Yeah, and it may be able to create. We may be able to create convincing enough bodies that we just won't know who's human and who isn't. Exactly. I guess the question, the real question is, do do do Andrews dream of electronic sheep? Or do electronic sheep dream of humans? Oh, I don't know. Electric sheep. Electric. Yeah. Well, thank you, Patrick. Misha, as always mentioned pixels just now, which is one of your many fine shows at French spin.com. Yeah, absolutely. So pixels is a show about games and the general industry, general gaming show. And last episode, we had a special for BlizzCon, which I also mentioned, where we had a number of great guests we had. 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Our website is dailytechnewshow.com and we'll be back tomorrow with Scott Johnson. Talk to you then. This show is part of the Frog Pants Network. Get more at frogpants.com. I hope you have enjoyed this program. I just realized something. Yes, you change the color of the first line. In the show notes to indicate when we're reaching the end of the Roger was on that today, too. That was really good. That was super helpful, Roger. But I didn't realize that's what it was. I saw it changing colors. I was like, oh, that's interesting. And I understood. It's very clever. I'm sorry we did. I thought we explained that to you. I apologize that we didn't. I must have missed it or maybe I wasn't listening. I wasn't paying attention. It's very possible. Maybe you were jet lagged again for some reason. But yeah, so next time I'll know and I will act accordingly by. Well, I thought you didn't know because you were acting accordingly. Yeah, I sort of figured it out by the end. But you've been doing it for a while and I've wondered for, you know, basically 10 days. I wonder what those. Why is that happening? It's like several weeks. Yeah, yeah, no, I know. It's just, I don't know. I'm slow sometimes. I had to be in a state of jet lag. I was going to say that like Roger was super on, like, even in the top stories, that was great. And that really helped me to feel comfortable. Like, oh, he'll he'll tell me when it's time to move on. And he did. And it worked. Yay. Move. I need to map those to keystrokes. Oh, yeah, that'd be helpful. I don't know if we can do that. Google. So. All right. Show but show but what's on the show. But I can't believe this is a tech story. Xbox. Xbox is a service. XBAS. Way more shots first on public driverless cars. I guess who gets to write shotgun on that car? Noise cancelling forks, self-driving cars in mirror are closer than they appear. The answer to your shotgun question is both. Both people in front are riding shotgun, actually. You don't have to sit in the driver's seat, though. You can just be in the back. Yeah, true. It could be no shotgun. Tech aid in a decade. Arizona's loose regulations, Amazon basics, everything. The $130 forks canceled the slurp. I'm amazed they didn't try to make, like, noodles that weren't so elongated. And that way you would help solve the slurping problem. No, but then you can't really eat them with chopsticks. It's more difficult. You have to eat them with chopsticks. Come on. Yes. Eat with your hands. Well, when you get to the broth, yeah. Dip it down. Early adopters versus first responders. Consoles get one up. Tom leaves out a six third. You tech hippie. I like you tech hippie. So there's other events. Fire, trained with lots of slurps. I need the title now. DTNS consoles you over console concerns. Oh, consoles you over console concerns. Well, the largest one, the one with the most votes, is I can't believe this is a tech story. But it's like the Xbox. I like Xbox as a service. That's my favorite. OK. All right. That's what I'm doing. You are the boss after all. Every once in a while, I get to act like it. This is an executive decision. Yeah. My official title is member. Oh, really? A member of the Limited Liability Corporation. I'm the only member. Are you not the CEO? No, I mean, I can make myself the CEO, but I haven't. We have to have a president in France. I would prefer to be a member is the only thing you have to have for an LLC anyway. If you have a corporation and there's different rules, I think. So that's because I have a corporation. Yeah, I guess I have. Yeah, they're all presidents. We I would be the managing director. Like the board of directors. And then I'm the managing director because I'm not only a director from the board, but I also manage the company. I yeah. I'm the president of myself. That's awesome that you have to be president. Like, sorry. Yeah, I mean, I feel a lot. I feel very fortunate. I apologize for not constantly introducing you as President Patrick Beja. We can fix that, you know, nice. President Beja. I think actually, I would enjoy being referred to and as President Beja. Now, President Beja, what do you feel the console cycle will continue to be? Well, listen, Mr. Merritt, I believe that it's very clear we are entering a different era and we need to be ready. Console is a service. You heard you heard it here first service. Oh, President Patrick, Zoe Brings Bacon. Captain Jack, I think I like the the alliteration of President Patrick more than President, not Patrick. Yeah, President Patrick. President Pat Pat. And I will be first in the prep. I'll be manager Merritt. Oh, nice. Excellent. No, your your your your nickname will be. Well, mine is. All right. No end of entertainment. Yeah, I'll I'll never get tired of from our Helsinki office, by the way, that's also. Yeah, that also sounds really cool about that to me. And unfortunately, it's it's only going to be that for a few more months. Then it will be then it's back to Paris. No, it's the Finnish countryside. Oh, right. You won't. So what's the nearest town to the Finnish countryside? I don't want to say the name. OK, so it's yeah, no, I get you. It's that small that you're like, that would be like giving out my address. OK, it's not. It's not like you're in the Helsinki area is kind of where I was going with that. Yeah, yeah. Oh, OK. All right. Fair enough. That helps the Finnish countryside is glorious. It just sounds so pastoral and lovely. But the Helsinki office really makes this sound like we're part of Interpol or something. I don't know why. Well, we'll find we'll find something like a modern furniture design or that. Yeah, we'll find something. We'll we'll make it when I hear the term when I hear the name Copenhagen, I always think of the furniture store. Everyone does. That's that's what everyone thinks of. I think of the chewing tobacco. Oh, I don't know. Chewing tobacco is unpopular in France, is it? No, it's in Sweden. I don't know that it is in Denmark. In Sweden, they definitely. Well, it's not chewing, actually. They have this horrible, horrible thing called snooze, which is tobacco they put. You know that? Yes, we call it snuff. But yeah, same thing. OK, well, there you go. Stick it up your nose, right? Is that what you're talking about? Out your nose. No, no, no, no, no. It's like it's like a little packet that you put basically between your tooth and your teeth and lip, you know, up here. Oh, that's chewing tobacco, even though you don't chew it. Oh, OK, OK. Just a pinch between the chicken gum. Yeah, there you go. Skull. You spit out regularly. It's nasty. It's horrible. It's. Oh, it's terrible. You know, it's not like cigarettes are wonderful. No, of course, but yeah. If you managed to have something that makes cigarette cigarettes look less horrible, then. I'm I'm not surprised at all. I was not surprised, but it would have been interesting had the movement to outlaw smoking in bars led to an uptake in spatoons in what? There, you know, when when they said, oh, you can't smoke in bars anymore in the U.S. So like swept the nation, right? Yeah, if they would have said if they would have, that would have been followed by an installation of spatoons again, which is what you say tunes. It's it's it's a little thing where you spit your tobacco juice and Western. They're always in the West, the Old West bars. Yeah. Right. I just watched Peaky Blinders and they use that a lot, which is a lot of spatoons in their old disgusting. Too bad, spatoons didn't catch on again. The spatoons revival turns out, though, you still get cancer in your mouth, and that's just not fun. Indeed. So kids, don't do that. Don't chew my my mom wouldn't buy big league chew, which was a bubblegum imitator of chewing tobacco. A bubblegum imitator. Yeah, so it came in the same kind of pouch as some of the chewing tobacco came. And my god, that's horrible out of chewing gum. And then you chew it, you know, it is great. I was like, oh, that's really nasty in Major League Baseball, but some of the players would make big league with tobacco and they would blow these bubbles, but they were black because there's tobacco. That's just so gross. It is really. I'm glad they moved on to sunflower seeds. Oh, there's three seasons of Peaky Blinders. Nice, I didn't realize. I just watched the first one on the plane over. Oh, that's good. That's good plane watching. That's good call. I've been watching movies when I've been on planes lately. Yeah, it's more difficult to transport on an iPad. Yeah. That I have, you know, I made use for the first time of the Netflix download thing to be illegal. I did that on the way back from the UK because they have Star Trek Discovery elsewhere, right? And so I wasn't able to watch it on CBSL Access because I was in the UK, right? It's like, you're not allowed. So I downloaded it on Netflix, watched it on the plane ride back. Yeah, that's very, very handy. I'm like, that's legal. I'm within my terms of service right now. Absolutely. Not getting around any rules. That's the way you want it to work, people. So that's what I did. Yeah, I think it's and that's thanks to DRM. I guess if there was no DRM, it wouldn't be a problem. You could still violate the terms of service, but it wouldn't I guess you have as many problems doing it. All right, well, thank you all for watching, hanging out, helping Patrick recover from his jet lag. I'm sure you've cheered him up quite a bit. Absolutely. Yeah. And like I said, Scott Johnson tomorrow and Sarah's back on Thursday. We'll see you guys later. Bye.