 Oh look, it's Jenny in the hat. Jenny in the bright red hat. Jenny is downstairs from her other work, but because we're doing the show later, she could break away and join us and then you're going to race to your office during the show and then join us in the post show if all goes well. Don't drive too fast. Oh no. My new car that I got is so comfortable that I could actually do the show from in the car. I could pull over to the side of the road if I don't make it all the way to the office and rejoin you in the post show. Patrick says don't drive too fast, but being in LA, I would say don't drive too slow either. Yeah, that's just as bad. You've got to find that perfect middle. Sweet spot. Hi, Daily Tech News Show. It's so great to be here. This will make whoever that was on Twitter today very happy. Ted Lyons, who noticed Jenny's name at the end of Kyra's Dolls show and was like, wait, is that the Jenny Josephson that worked for ACE Detective? Molly Steeleher? Some people are still catching up. I think Ryan Officer also was like, wait, what happened to Jenny? Ryan Officer, better not take me out of that poster because that thing is shaping up to be awesome. Yes, Ryan, make sure to leave her the poster. All right. Which reminds me, I need to do that. Okay. That's so cool. We're going to do a little show here in a minute. That's exciting. So much news today. There is news. There's always news. I don't care what Patrick says. What did I say? Now, just the running joke in the early months of you saying, I don't see what you're talking about. Well, that wasn't news. That was discussion topics. That's true. It's a different thing. Yeah. News, I agree. There's always news. There may not be much else to say. Poor Patrick. We either make him get up so early or stay up so late to be on the show. It's okay, Jenny. No one made him do anything proper at a proper time, so it doesn't have to be a problem. I'm going to go away. Excellent. Oh no. All right. Let's start the show. Here we go. All right. Let's see you on the other side, Jenny. This is the Daily Tech News for Tuesday, April 19th, 2016. I'm Tom Merritt. Joining me today from Japan, Mr. Patrick Beja, we missed you last week. Thank you so much, and thank you for doing the show a little bit later today so that I can join and be awake at the same time, which is amazing. It's Wednesday morning, right? Round 7.30, where you are? It is, and let me tell you, Wednesday is so incredible. You're going to love it. I like that we get a sneak peek. Thank you so much. You're welcome. So yeah, if you're wondering, wait a minute, DTNES looks like it's a little later showing up in my feed today, or if you're watching live, you figured this out. We are doing the show a couple hours later for Patrick's sake. We'll figure this out for the next month. You're going to be there until around June 10th, right? Yes. Coming back for, you know, WWDC and E3 season, I'll be in Europe for that, which is still not, you know, as you put it before the show started, the proper time zone. It's closer. And next week, you won't be on Tuesday, but you will be on Sunday for the Day 6 episode with Peter Wells. Yes. So many exciting new things. Exactly. So this is going to be fun. We're going to talk about some of the tech trends that Patrick has noticed in Japan while he's been there, but let's start off with the headlines. Okay, so I have a MacBook Pro whose screen is dying. If you follow me on Snapchat, you saw it yesterday, and I am in a race to continue to be able to use it until new MacBook Pros are announced. Apple gave me a moment heart flutter this morning when they updated their MacBook and MacBook Air laptops, they're saving the MacBook Pro for WWDC. But if you need a MacBook or MacBook Air, you can get the MacBook with dual-core Intel M processors. Now those are Skylake processors. They run up to 1.3 GHz if you customize the build. You get Intel HD Graphics 515 GPU, you get faster graphics, faster storage, better battery life, they're saying 10 to 11 hours, and they added the rose gold color option to this as well. All models come with 8GB of RAM now. The two main options start at $1299 and $1599. And the 13-inch MacBook Air didn't get much of a bump, it now has 8GB of RAM as well. And this is still a wonderful online connected typewriter. I've seen a couple of people saying, oh, but it still can do this or still can do that. That's, you know, the kind of thing you're thinking that it's not able to do is really not the things that it's designed to do, but. At least their screens are broken. It's an excellent feature with screens that are not broken. I really hope the MacBook Pro update gets options for discrete graphics cards in the 13-inch MacBook Pro. I'm a 15-inch guy, so that doesn't bother me as much, but I hope it happens as well. So you can spend, you know, twice the price to get the discrete graphics card as well. I didn't say it was rational. Mac and 925 Mac say they have confirmed that Apple has hired Tesla Vice President of Vehicle Engineering, Chris Porritt, as Special Projects Group PD Administrator. Porritt was also Chief Engineer at Aston Martin previously. Tesla told Electric that Porritt left Tesla in September. I'm wondering if they also said, and we didn't want him anyway, which is basically what they said a few months ago. No, that's Musk's attitude, isn't it? Like, oh yeah, Apple always hires the people not good enough to work here, I'm not sure what Chris Porritt would think of that now as he has left for Apple. But I guess the guy who was reputed to be running the Apple car project sometimes thought of as Project Titan, although that makes me think of Blizzard because of you guys. But he apparently left, he was a 16-year Apple employee, but he had worked at Ford previously. And so the thinking is they might have hired this guy, Porritt, to come in and run that project now. Yeah, would make sense. Kevin Kelly wrote a feature about artificial reality for Wired. You should absolutely read it. It is, I mean, Kevin Kelly is an amazing tech journalist to begin with. But it is being billed as a look inside Magic Leap. It is so much more than that. Kevin talks about his experiences with virtual reality, going back to Jared Lanier days. It is a primer on the state of artificial reality, both virtual, augmented or as Magic Leap would like to call it, mixed reality. However, what is catching the headlines is that Magic Leap has posted a new demo video of what their augmented reality headset can do. And it's supposedly filmed from the perspective of the Magic Leap. It is not simulated as it has been previously. Kelly describes Magic Leap as glasses that reflect a beam of light into your eyes to create an augmented reality view. This is similar to the approach that HoloLens and Meta use with beam splitting, but Magic Leap says they're not using beam splitting. They're using something better, although they won't talk about what it is. CEO Ronnie Abavitz describes it as a thin chip that puts out a digital light field. And if light field catches your ear, that's because that's what Lightro does. And Lightro is moving into VR creation as well. So maybe Magic Leap is kind of a Lightro in reverse. The interesting thing in their demo video is that it seems the augmented reality part of the field of view is occupying a much larger space in the field of view than it is on the HoloLens. And that's been what a lot of people have been saying is the failing of the HoloLens. Now, we don't know exactly, you know, it's hard to estimate how wide the field of view of the camera is. But certainly here, the computer graphics seem to occupy the entirety of it. And that could be an interesting aspect because that seems to be difficult to do, at least for Microsoft with the HoloLens, or expensive at least. Yeah, and one of the reasons you'll want to read this is Kelly, he gives a lot of insight into HoloLens, into Oculus. He visited Palmer Lucky and he played around with things. And he talks about where virtual reality is going and what the advantages are there and why he thinks, like many, that it's going to all end up being a sort of mixed reality in the end anyway. But yeah, it does sound like Magic Leap has real products. We've, you know, a lot of people have been wondering that for a long time, but they're also still being very secretive about how those products work. The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee held a hearing on encryption, including representatives from Apple and the US FBI. Apple General Counsel Bruce Sewell told the committee that it has not provided a source code to the Chinese government. That was a big question we've been having for a few years now. FBI's Executive Assistant Director for Science and Technology, Amy Hess, told the panel that the FBI is investing budgets into tools, quote, we might be able to throw at the problem, unquote. That would be good. Yeah, I mean, honestly, there weren't a lot of big revelations this time around. A lot of the same ground was covered as the last time around when James Comey was there. But it was good to hear the FBI's Amy Hess, who I think is often unfortunately overlooked because she is the person trying to get the FBI to use technology saying, yeah, we're trying to spend some money on this. We would like to develop our own tools to be able to not have to rely on third parties. It was great to hear Bruce Sewell, who had been accused by the captain of the state police in Indiana of giving source code to China in the same hearing to just flatly deny that saying, no, that is not true. Yeah, I sort of, I didn't make like of it, but I sort of made a joke of it. It is a super important piece of information. That's been a big question for a long time and Apple didn't comment, obviously, but it could have been possible that China demanded the source code in order to let Apple sell their phones in the country. Now, it doesn't mean that they didn't provide something else. They might have made it easier for the government to access their services in another way. But still, the fact that they don't have the source code is an important piece of information. Apple also released its transparency report on request from law enforcement. National security request jumped categories. Remember, they can't give specifics on those, but it used to be in the 750 to 999 category and now it's to the 1250 to 1499 category. China requested the most number of account information at 6,724 accounts. Apple honored 53% of those requests. The US was second with requests for 5,192 accounts and Apple honored 82% of those requests. The most requests for help with devices, that's like an IMEI number or something like that, came from Germany. Germany requested information and help with devices 11,989 times and 52% of those requests had some data disclosed. Do we know on what basis they decide to comply or not comply? That is a little bit of a concern to me. I mean, I really don't think that a private company should decide whether or not they're going to grant. I mean, the process seems like it's not ideal for sure. You send them the request and then they look at it and they say, yeah, this one we're going to be okay with, this one. I understand that it's better than just blindly granting all of the requests of the government, but it seems like there should be an independent official party like, I don't know, a judge or someone to decide whether or not they're going to grant. That's interesting that you say that because what's happening here is that in some of these cases, a judge has issued a warrant and generally companies comply if they say, okay, you've got a judge to sign off on it. In other cases, there is a request to help. Maybe it's a lost device. It's been stolen and recovered and the owner of it says, yeah, that's my phone. I just need Apple to tell you that it's my phone, right? There could be positive uses for this as well. So that's some of the device issues there. But yeah, I mean, overall, that's what's going on here is these companies like Apple are saying, okay, you want me to hand over this data? Do you have a warrant? Do you have a clear legal reason? Like, and if not, then no, we're not we're not going to comply with this if we don't have to. Right, okay. Giant Bomb says it has multiple sources that tell it Sony is making a new version of the PlayStation 4 code named Neo. The Neo would supposedly have a 2.1 gigahertz CPU up from 1.6, a GPU that jumps from 18 to 36 cores and from 800 to 911 megahertz. Memory would stay at 8 gigabytes, but speed would increase from 176 gigabytes per second to 218. And from October, games would be required to ship with a base mode and a Neo mode, which would support 4K output. All games must work on all versions on the PlayStation 4, no exclusives, including VR games. And when we say no exclusives, we mean no exclusives to Neo. They're saying, look, if it works on Neo, it's got to work on all the PS4s. And I can already hear the cries of outrage about this, and this isn't even an official announcement. But at least it sounds to me like Sony is saying, we want to provide a better piece of hardware to people without leaving anyone out. If you've got a PS4, you'll still be able to use it. It's just like a PC when you upgrade the graphics card, except with the PS4, you can't upgrade the graphics card. So you'll still be able to play all the games. You just won't have quite as nice of a graphics card inside. It's basically, yeah, your PlayStation 4 has not changed. It's still the same PlayStation and it still runs the same games. And this is, you know, we've heard Microsoft talk about that possibility already a few months ago. And it seems Sony might beat them to the punch. It's very similar to what happens in the mobile space, even more than it is in the PC space, I would say. And it's happened in consoles as well. Nintendo has put out better performing versions of their DS with the DSi. And the new 3DS recently came out following the regular DS. And, you know, Sony is not going to leave out the almost 40 million PlayStation 4 that are on the market. So they are definitely not abandoning it. It's just providing a more powerful option. That being said, I am also kind of torn on that debate. I understand that some people feel betrayed by this because they did buy their unitary device. That is usually been happening in the world of consoles. And now Sony is telling them, yeah, yours is cool, but there's a cooler one. And I think it's sort of an interesting market trend that they are following as they're trying to emulate the possibilities of the mobile. But I also completely understand the fact that some people are feeling like, do I have to buy a new one now? OK, I don't have to. It's not going to stop working. Mine is not going to stop working. But there's going to be something better out there. And it's sort of pushing me to it. And I understand the sentiment. I think, overall, I don't think it's a bad thing. And I think, especially, some games are going to be better. And they needed to put out a 4K console anyway at some point they had to. So they decided to beef up the specs. But yeah, it's it's it gives me complicated, complex feelings. Well, yeah. And again, I understand the emotion because I own a PS4. And now I'm like, oh, my PS4 isn't the best PS4. The solution to that is to buy the best PS4. Like I is as disappointed as I will be sitting here with my old PS4. Sony is doing the right thing and saying, you're not going to be left out of games. All of our games are going to work for now. Sure, they might change their mind down the road and then I'll be angry with them. I'm not going to get angry with them yet if they haven't done it. So they haven't changed that. And really, so all I'm left with is that someone else can own a newer thing. Like newer things do come out. So I would it doesn't make sense for me to tell other people, no, because you didn't buy a PS4 earlier. You don't get to have a nicer PS4 than me ever. Like that just wouldn't make sense. So I I totally feel those emotions. I feel the anger of like, ah, man, now I'm stuck with the old one. But logically, we shouldn't tell Sony, don't make better products because I bought your old one, like that just. But Tom, give into the anger that the rage flows through you, go to websites and leave angry comments. I mean, I got a suit on them. Maybe I will. I'm not saying that I won't say that I will. I think the issue, the issue is both feelings are valid and both feelings can justify themselves. So that's yeah. So but the the thing you want to do if you do leave those all caps statements, like I'm totally not going to do is have it encrypted. Viber announced it now offers end to end encryption on all calls and chats, including group chats. Great. What protocol are you using? They're not telling us. So I'm much less excited about it suddenly. I would like them to tell us what protocol they're using. However, if you just trust Viber, then you also now get the option to hide jets from the usage log feature arrives today in Brazil, Belarus, Israel and Thailand with more countries to follow in the coming weeks. And it'll work on Android, iOS, Windows and Mac. I wonder what these recent announcements of end to end encryption is going to do to the debate about encryption on, you know, consumer products like Apples and Google's because obviously it becomes a little bit more difficult to say, you know, we need the keys to this if then people can just as many people had predicted turn around and use another app, then you have to say, well, we need from this one and this one and this one. And the sort of anti competitiveness of it is a lot more apparent because people are going to say, I don't want to use the Apple product. If it's not say secure and I can just use the other guys. So yeah, it's it might have some bearing to that entire discussion. Definitely. VR headset maker, our advisor is partnering with a company called VR bangers to rent VR bangers to rent in room adult VR content in Las Vegas hotels. Videos are set in hotel rooms similar to the one that the renter is staying in or advisors will will cost $20 to rent and come preloaded with requested videos. Oh, so like when you say adult video, that's like Falcon crest because when I was a kid, my mom would be like, oh, you can't watch Falcon crest. This is an adult show. Is that what that means? Exactly what it is. Okay, got it. Interesting. So innovative Las Vegas. Yeah, it's I mean, I wonder how, you know, this is actually an interesting concept, how similar to the actual room you're in, if it's the same room, and you can move around and, you know, see the action happening in the room you're in when it's not actually happening there. I mean, there are definitely some mind bending concepts, although it's VR. If it was augmented reality, it would be even more mind bending, but interesting concepts in mind, mind boggles and gadgets. The Vindra Hardware has a post on virtual desktop, a $15 app for Oculus Rift and HTC Vive coded by Guy Godin. Hardware describes the experience like having your windows desktop floating on top of a virtual movie screen and found virtual desktop easier to use and text more legible than using SteamVR's desktop theater mode. The downside is the need to rely on a keyboard and mouse without being able to see them all. But this seems to be, and in fact, one of the things Kevin Kelly said in the Magic Leap article is that they are starting to use Magic Leap as their desktop. This seems to be one kind of thing that could really change how we use computers. It is definitely an interesting attempt. I mean, it seems like the first thing people go to is to try when there's new technology is to try to create a 3D desktop, you know, windows or finder desktop somewhere. It's never taken on until now. Maybe this works, but I have a hard time using this, imagining using this for a long period of time. If I can't see my keyboard or mouse. Well, that's what the HTC Vive is better, because then you can do the quick look to see where things are, right? Because it allows you to see the room around you. That, that, yeah, I guess that would work. I'm also thinking this kind of thing probably doesn't work as well on a PlayStation VR, because the resolution of the screen I'm thinking is not good enough to have a legible text if it's too far away. Well, it's for Windows machines anyway. So there you go. Of course, of course. I'm thinking about the technology. Apple confirmed, wait, where are we? Oh, yes, we are here. Apple confirmed to the Wall Street Journal that it has discontinued support for QuickTime for Windows. They finally confirmed it. Trend Micro and the Department of Homeland Security recommended users uninstall the application due to vulnerabilities last week. Apple has noted on its support page that users who do not need QuickTime 7 for Windows should uninstall it. So there you go. Apple finally getting into that and admitting it. Intel announced its plans to cut 11 percent of its workforce, eliminating 12,000 jobs in the process. Intel earnings weren't even that bad, but this is about the transition from a PC-based business to a cloud-based business. Intel made 54 cents a share, beating its forecast of 47 cents. They hit their target of 13.8 billion in revenue. Chip sales were up 2 percent year over year. In fact, most units were down over the previous quarter, but up over the past year, security was the biggest bright spot, rose 5 percent over the last quarter and 12 percent year over year. And finally, Technology Review has an article about how chemists at HRL laboratories, labs in Malibu, have developed ceramics that can be used in a 3D printer. A special resin carries silicon and other elements found in ceramics. The resin is printed, then baked to become a ceramic. One lattice has 10 times the strength of conventional ceramics and can tolerate heat up to 1,700 degrees Celsius, at which other ceramics begin to degrade. So they can start making ceramic parts for airplanes, for turbines. There's some really interesting uses if they can make this a practical process here. And just the ability to print ceramics, I know sends materials scientists into fits of euphoria. So can those ceramics be used to make bowls and lovely vases? Yes, I knew you were going to make the bowl ceramic connection. And yes, absolutely. Why wouldn't they? Yeah, but it's just, you know, I assisted at that, like your vase can fit on surface of mercury. I'm just, I'm in Japan, I'm seeing ceramics everywhere and my wife is buying some of them. Color Me Mind is going to be really excited about this. Hey, thanks to Philip Shane, TM204, Steve Io, the real Silver Blade and all of those folks who submitted things we used from our subreddit, you guys are the best. Keep submitting the stories and voting on them at dailytechnewshow.reddit.com and that's a look at the headlines. So, Mr. Beja, spent a few weeks now in Japan. Before that, you were in Finland. Before that, you lived in France. You've got an interesting perspective on how this whole internet thing is working. And I know one of the things we talked about previously on the show that you've been using is wireless internet, particularly Y-Max. Yeah, you know, so I think we've all heard about Y-Max and I think some people have even been using it. But it really, in my mind, was this technology that didn't take off. And that could have been cool, but some issues prevented it from becoming mainstream. It seemed that as in many things, my understanding of it all was incomplete because in some places it has taken off. I know it's being used in rural areas in France, for example, but I'm sure in other places as well. And in Japan, this is the connection I'm talking to you on right now. It's the one that is connecting the home. And I also have a mobile router that works on Y-Max and that is working incredibly well. So Y-Max and Y-Max 2 Plus, which is the technology used by the router, the mobile router, is apparently alive and kicking. And even more interestingly than the mere fact that Y-Max works is the fact that Kyoto is not the biggest city in Japan, but it certainly is a big city and it is very densely populated and it's still working really well. I mean, I think my image is coming very clearly. I've been doing podcasts, both audio and video throughout those two weeks. So it's some real-world experience to show that it works. And so this is very densely populated area with wireless Y-Max. It works. When I was in Finland, I've talked about this for a while now on the show. When I'm in Helsinki, which is again, not the most densely populated city, but still a pretty large city. I have, of course, fiber connection at home and unlimited data for G-Wireless, which I even did a show from, which works again very, very well, a very decent connection. And at my not step family, what is it? Like my wife's family's countryside house. In-laws. Thank you. There you go. The in-laws. In French is the same word. At the in-laws, we have a fiber connection in the countryside. And it's really this is like the least densely populated area you can think about in Europe. And sure, it requires subsidies from the state to an extent a little bit and a community effort, but it's a very fast fiber connection. So to bring this reflection to sort of a conclusion, I'm starting to think how much rhetoric the ISPs in some countries, I use the word rhetoric very, you know, specifically here instead of another word. The ISPs are selling us when saying because it seems like when you're in a densely populated city, they say, oh, but it's too complicated for mobile. There's too many people and it doesn't work. And when you're in rural areas, they say, but we can't connect it. It's not cost effective and we can do something decent anyway. And I've seen examples. Now, admittedly, it's anecdotal, but I've seen examples of all of these working very well in all of the situations that they are telling us it doesn't work. So I'm wondering, is this just them protecting their interests? A shocker, I know. No, it is possible. Yeah, it is. There are probably not many actual lies in what ISPs tell you, but there are certainly exaggerations. In fact, the top story in our subreddit today was was submitted by T-Bear, with many E's, T-Bear, about a guy in Tennessee who went to AT&T to get gigabit fiber for a real estate development. He was doing his name is John Thunder Thornton. AT&T said it'll cost $1.3 million to bring internet service into his development. Now, that sounds like a lot, but of course, it is a real estate development. But Thornton said that's that's too expensive. So he went across the border to Alabama and said, I want to build my own ISP for this development. How much would it cost? Cost him $400,000 to build it himself. Now, granted, AT&T was going to have to run lines, but AT&T has already built the infrastructure to run internet in this area. It was just extending it. Granted, it's going to cost money. We're not saying it's free. Thornton wasn't saying it was free, but he's like, okay, yeah, maybe they would charge a little more because they're going to organize it and do everything. And I don't have to do that. But from $400,000 to $1.3 million, that's ridiculous. And that's I think that's what you're seeing is in some places, the incumbent providers have created the conditions that will prevent competition from moving in to protect their profit margins. And in so doing, they've taken away the incentive for them to roll out more service. And I think that is the big that's something that we've been suspecting for a long time. But in the past year or two, and you know, with the development of Google fiber of all things, it's pushing existing ISPs to develop a little bit more of their fiber network and to provide decent prices. I think there had been what I'm getting at is that there has been an argument being made by the ISPs that some people, you know, understandably, were believing, right, that the ISPs were saying, well, we can't do it for this or that reason. And I think we're seeing now in the past couple of years that those reasons are actually a lot less valid than some people might have thought they were. And it's a very important realization to come to. And I even think, as long as, you know, you have a reasonable reasoning behind it, to make people understand, I think the internet is way too important. It's basic infrastructure, just like architecture or running water. I think it's really important that we understand the reality of the situation, the realities of the situations and that we, I don't want to say spread the truth, but at least set aside the, again, rhetoric. And it seems there is way too much rhetoric in those arguments and the balance between we all understand that there's going to be a little bit of exageration to protect your interests. But there has been too much here and internet, at least in first world countries, there is no reason why anyone should not have broadband internet at this one. There is always a solution. And the solution, I think this is the important part, a solution that apparently, except for maybe some extreme cases, if you want to, you know, connect the far reaches of the northern parts of Alaska, maybe, you know, it's that becomes really too difficult. But there is always a solution, apparently, that can be done at a reasonable cost. So by Max Fiber community efforts, some real estate developers that goes and digs the trenches themselves in the crown, there seems to be a solution. Now, we don't have too much more time left. But before we move off of the Japan topic, you've been noticing just how much more people live with mobile devices than they do in other places you've been living. You know, it's not like there is some incredible, amazing technology we've never seen here. I was sort of expecting that living here, I would realize, oh, they have this, I don't know, robots. Yeah, exactly. And it's not quite that. However, Japan has sort of a socio economic setup that makes it very easy for smartphones to thrive. One example, I think one of the best illustrations of this is love hotels. Do you know what love hotels are? I can guess. Do I want to guess? Well, it's it's a place where you can rent a room for an hour or two and go have fun with your partner. Okay, the reason why this is this exists, snuggles or, you know, sexual activity. In the car, Patrick, come on. This isn't dirty. So anyway, there is the reason why this is important, why this exists, is the fact that the families are usually all together. There are often three generations of one family in one house and it's often a relatively small house. So people don't have a lot of personal space. So in that context, I found that smartphones are being used, I think, even more than we use them in the US or Europe, because you can always come back to your to your laptop or desktop computer. And certainly a lot of us understand that it is possible to use smartphones for a lot of things. But I think here they're putting it in place. They had an sort of NFC technology for wallets and a bunch of things back even in 2004. So they've had it for a while. Now they only use Androids and iOS devices and iPhones, but they still use them for a lot of things. I've seen, for example, something that I didn't expect. They have convenience stores here that sell everything. They're packed in tiny spaces. And they literally like they have drinks, food, socks, personal hygiene items, they have like everything. And they also have printers that have Wi-Fi networks you can connect to with your smartphone to print your stuff at the convenience store. And you don't need a printer at home. So basically, I think because of the way society is organized here, smartphones are even more the very personal device that you can use for everything in your life, because that's how it's developed. It's even more than in our Western countries, I think. Yeah, I agree that it's kind of a it's a different culture. And I haven't been to Japan, but everyone tells me that people there live outside. And this is true of a lot of large, dense cities where, you know, you don't spend as much time in your apartment. Man, Japan seems to have cracked it as far as like making it easy to just carry that supercomputer in your pocket and get everything you need. So, for example, a lot of workers work, go out to work, you know, the salaryman, the employees, they go out to work and in early in the morning. And then in the evening, they have to go out and they go drink with their friends. It's becoming less and less the case now, but it certainly happens still. And they only come back home at 10, 11 midnight. So it's very common. It's a very common occurrence here. And they also often have one or two hours of commute every day. So in those instances as well, they're not home and they have to rely on their smartphone for all of their needs. So all of this makes it so the smartphones are even more important. And I'm sort of realizing even, you know, witnessing in reality, do most people need a laptop or a real computer? We do because we're nerds. I don't think they do. They can even go to the convenience store and print print their stuff from their phone. Yeah, print your stuff, pay for your stuff. And we've talked a lot about this, you know, the idea of like in China with WeChat and Alipay, you can get around quite a bit and do a lot of things right from your smartphone. And that is the future. That is that is those those countries are at the leading edge of that trend, I feel like. So I actually I'm not sure how, you know, I'm not sure it's the future for everyone. I think it's it's working well here because of the the fact that it's you have less personal space, even at home. I'm not sure if we're ever going to get to that in our, you know, countries where we have we have a little bit more space. I think I'm thinking it's different solutions for different setups. And for us, there's still going to be that you always go to the path of most convenience. And I think here it's more convenient to do stuff on your smartphone because you don't you don't have as much room in general. If you have more room, I'm wondering if it's if you're not going to go back to the computer when you can. So if you have one and that and fewer people even in developed countries are opting to have a desktop or even a laptop in a lot of cases. We've seen a lot of numbers on that. So that is an interesting question to watch. Thank you for sharing those insights. And of course, Patrick's not going away. Like I said, he's going to be on day six next week. We're going to have a lot more of these insights as they come. So let us know if you've got questions, you know, if you're in Japan, you could share your own insights. But if you're not, feedback at DailyTechPunishow.com Patrick, keep an eye out for stuff for you. Skip to our pick of the day from Keith and beautiful Brownwood, Texas wanted to update us that he listens to DTNS on his Android device, but not yet on his Android Wear device. It appears in the rollout of podcast functionality has not yet come to his watch. He can subscribe through the web, but no podcast shows up on the mobile device. On another note, though, he's got our pick, which is the PlayState, which is up. I'm sorry, PlayOn. PlayOn.tv has been vital to his household. Here's how it works. You install the PlayOn server on your PC in your home. You can record shows and movies or stream from sites without needing subscriptions to those individual sites, or you can record shows and movies or stream to shows that you have subscriptions to. So he's not breaking the law. It's basically you you can either stream for free from some sites like you can now, or you can stream from the sites that you do pay for like Netflix or Amazon. And then you can take recordings of those streams, play them through a Chromecast, Roku, PlayStation, et cetera. It's a paid service for recording shows and movies. We paid $60 lifetime subscription years ago and never had cable or satellite since then. You can stream through the PlayOn app for free, though, just another service to add to the cord cutting tool belt. We talked about this on cord killers this week. Here's the thing. Yes, technically you can stream Netflix shows and record them with PlayOn. It is a violation of the Netflix terms of service. Should they catch you doing it, which may be unlikely, they have the right to ban you from their service. There are other questions of legality of whether breaking in terms of service has other penalties or not. Hulu has a specific provision against this as well. So know that if you're going to use PlayOn to record streaming video, you may be violating the terms of service of the site that you're streaming from. However, if the site doesn't have a provision against that, then it's OK. I don't know what YouTube does, but let me tell you, you can definitely take Daily Tech News show video and record it and do whatever you want with it. It's got a creative comments license exactly for that privilege. I can't speak for anything else. But a lot of people use this, PlayOn.tv. Have you ever tried it, Patrick? No. I don't really, you know, I live in a world of Netflix and YouTube and all of my devices have those apps available. So I don't, you know, that's that's what I use. So your picks to us, folks, feedback at DailyTechNewsShow.com. You can find more picks at DailyTechNewsShow.com slash picks Murray in Sunny Cops Harbor, New South Wales wanted to point out an election resource for Australians in the audience, the vote for you dot org dot au tracks the permanent parliament voting records of anybody in office. Now it's not going to be able to help you look up people who've never been in office yet, but it's a nice little election site for you. And then Nate Langson has something here that I think Patrick, you might be having an opinion on. Google launched the podcast directory. Nate says, can you think of any reason why this free service is only available in the US and Canada, at least when it's a physical product of even paid for download. There are shipping or licensing issues, but podcasts, the things us European podcasters put up with, at least when Ingrid Mickelson releases a single digital only and restricted it for sale in the US, meaning I had literally no way of paying her for it for months. I could assume it was a licensing issue. But podcasts, quote, aren't available in your country. Google, you can do a lot better than this. Google launched Gmail globally, Sony launched PS4 globally, Microsoft Launch Windows Ted globally. What's so hard about a damn podcast? You can quote me on all that if useful. Have you run into this? Nate said he couldn't even submit his podcast because he was in Europe. Yeah, the submission process started months ago and I rushed to it, of course, and couldn't do it. So I think they're testing it. I'm, you know, I mean, thinking this might be an effort by two people who love podcasts at Google and they're like, we're testing it for now. Let's just, I'm fine with them testing it for a couple of weeks. We were used to the US having stuff first when it's a company from the US. It makes sense. I'm hoping it's not going to last too long and, you know, within a couple of weeks or, you know, a month that most we're going to have it in Europe as well. But yes, I've run into this. It is frustrating at times. I think it's understandable if it doesn't last forever. It's one thing to say. We're launching in the US and Canada because we don't want to overload our servers, although podcasts are generally delivered from the servers of the podcaster and Google has pretty good servers. Yeah, but, you know, it's testing is not just about server load. It's also you want to make sure you don't I mean, an argument could be made. There's they don't want to mess things up for everyone. And that's fine. That's fine. But then why not allow submissions from everyone? Again, this is a global thing. I just I don't quite understand that part of it either. Like I as a US user who can subscribe to podcasts through Google Play Music can't subscribe to text message, can't subscribe to Loranda Vitek, can't subscribe to all these great podcasts because they happen to not be in the US. That doesn't make any sense to me. Yeah, it doesn't. You know, I my my heart is with you. I'm trying to reason to make my rage, which we were talking about earlier, subside a little bit. I'm trying to not give into the fear and anger. This time. So that yeah. OK, so when is it that I give into the fear and anger? Just wait a couple more parsecs. OK, parsecs. Parsecs a unit of distance. So well, that was a joke about the you know, I have to be flying the Millennium Falcon. Exactly. There you go. For that, I got it. OK, I think I got it now. Patrick Beja, thank you so much, especially even even two hours later, it's still early for you. So we 100 percent appreciate your dedication and getting up for us. Let folks know where they can find more of what you're doing over there. Well, you know, the schedule is pretty much the same, even though I'm in Japan, which is the wonders of modern technology. We are just recorded an episode of Pixels, where we discuss a bunch of news from the video game world. We did that with our good friends, Scott Johnson and Jeff Kanata. So you can find this on French spin dot com. And actually in just over half an hour, if everything goes well, I should record a special episode of the Phileus Club about the French political scenery with a French person who is very much still left of the spectrum in France. So that should be enlightening, I think. Hopefully it will happen. So possibly by the time you listen to this, this is going to be up as well also on French spin dot com. Excellent. Go check it out. French spin dot com. And of course, we're able to do this show entirely because of you. We are listener supported. If you are listening to the show, if you are watching this show, you just decide how much we're able to do. How good this show is going to be allowed to get by supporting the show at daily tech news show dot com slash support. I know a few of you were noting that the Bitcoin donation thing was broken. That is now fixed. 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That's Wednesday. He's usually on talk to that. Here he is. This show is part of the Broadpants Network. Get more at the frog pants dot com Diamond Club. Hope you have enjoyed this program. It's a show. It was a good show. And just like that. Hi, Jenny. We're in another location. Can you hear me? Yeah. OK, cool. And just like that. She's on what I did. All right. Good show, guys. Thank you. Yeah, I felt the part about Wi-Fi about ISPs was a little bit better than the part about smartphones. Yeah, I think we tried to pack in too many topics. But I still I still thought the second part was good if Trump catered, perhaps. Yeah, there was the discussion was still going in the in the chat room. And I, you know, I held my desire to well, you always want to leave him one more. Good. Good. That's what I said. I'm excited for titles. Are you? Yeah, I've been waiting all day to hear the titles for this show. Hey, you want to list them? I want a good one. I'm still logging into things. I want to hear them. All right. The top of the list from Captain Jack nine one three is I'm a 15 inch guy. Followed up. You didn't say that. I'm not going to lie. It's true. KS4 is the one VR so horny VR in Vegas puts hair on your palms. Perhaps at the Palms Hotel. Sony takes the red pill. Quick time. So you skipped bio cows. Last choice. Snuggles. Oh, yeah. Play stations. Now I got it. You know, there's the matrix big in Japan, trouble in America. Huh. I don't like lies, damned lies and I speak exaggerations to. I like it, too. Yeah. See. Oh, Apple, the FBI, dawn of privacy. That's that's interesting, too. Why Max is big in Japan. There's a lot of big in Japan. Yeah, there's a lot of big in Japan. Panpanpanpan. Well, Sony never upgrade. Max Liz VR gets raunchy. Spread the truth, lies, damned lies, eyes. I'm I'm. I don't know what to pick. I like the lies one. Patrick, you like it, too, right? Yeah. There's also why Max lives. That's pretty good. Jenny, do you like any of these in particular? I like everybody all the same. No, I'm just kidding. They're all perfect in their own way. They're all perfect in their own way. I do like why Max. Why Max lives. Yeah. But I think lies, damned lies and I speak exaggerations has the most votes and it's the most relevant. Well, it sounds I like it. I think it's great. It sounds like an episode of No Agenda just by a little bit. Oh, that's good. They have good clickbait. Yeah. So we're on the right track if we want to be that. But I but we deliver like this is what we talked about. Yeah, it is absolutely true what we talked about. And I always love something that references my favorite lies, damned lies and statistics quote. So that's the other thing. Huh. Yeah, because we have done that. Prope. Yeah. But we've done all the tropes and we're circling back around on trope two. So I don't know if I have. We done why Max lives. No, we haven't. All right, that carries the day. Why Max lives as in why Max lives. I I solidly buy that. Excellent. Everything is falling into place. I. I can't believe that I was there. And then I got here in like a half hour. That's good. Were you listening to the show as you were? I was. I have when I'm on the road, I get off of the hangout after you guys start, so I don't screw anything up. And then I listen on Alpha Geek radio all the way in the car. And then I just showed up here and there was an office waiting for me that I haven't seen in quite some time. That looks exactly the same. Are there any cobwebs? Nope, but there might be something unsavory in the trash. Yeah. So I'm recording a Phelios Club in 40 minutes. I still have a bit of time, but do you want to go over? Oh, maybe we're still live. We are still live, but we should you and Roger and I need do need to go over your schedule. So maybe I'm still exporting. How much time do you need? How much time do you need now? No, no, no, no. It's it's in it's in 40 minutes. So I have some time, but I, you know, I just woke up and sat here. So I OK, you want some to eat? But it's fine. I don't need, you know, I need like 10 minutes before the show. So I have OK. Yeah, I'm exporting now. So it shouldn't be too much longer. OK. How's Ellie? I miss Ellie. Oh, she's good. She walks. Baby, my new job. She what? No babies at my new job. Oh, no, yeah, that's kind of a no. No, yeah, that's for places. Unless you have been. Yeah, unassisted. Now she's in everything, everything at her height. She's poking her head in the cabinets in the trash, the toilet, the toilet's the big one I'm worried about. So I always make sure she doesn't is in the bathroom. Yeah, that shelf behind you looks like tremendous baby bait. Yes and no. She's actually more interested in all the cables that dangle off my computer next to me. She loves the cables. I don't know why. Babies love cables and cords. That's right. Oh, that sounds like babies and cords. Oh, my. That sounds like a great radio shack replacement cables and cords where you go for USB cables, power cords, everything. And I'm selling you cable. Oh, T2, T2 has a question for you in the chat room there, Patrick. Oh, yes, T2. Oh, right. Yes, yes. Awards, which we are qualified from. We only won once. What the fresh heck? Whatever. Yeah, I will. I will register it. I actually started it yesterday and then fell asleep. So yeah, yeah, I registered. Tell it anyway, just because I'm a being glorious asshole. And I. Children in the car. Oh, well, they have them too. And I. She goes to public radio. And suddenly she's working. I'm like, hey, I'm going to spend an Internet. Let me put my mouth free. Oh, and I couldn't pay for it. It like the two factor off the two factor authentication of PayPal did not track it. Like it blocked the knowledge that I was trying to pay the podcast awards. And so I couldn't do it. So I have to go figure out how to do it, which makes it all the less likely that it's going to happen. So it sucks. Yeah, I did it twice in both times. I had to do so I have to probably go to PayPal and turn two factor off for five minutes and then do it because then it passes through. That's weird. It's weird. Oh, to pay with PayPal or not pay with PayPal. I think, yeah, I guess that's the other option. Yeah, I have other options besides PayPal. No, well, now I hope I'm going to be able to do it to register. That that is kind of dumb if they put the register thing and and you can't actually pay for it. You can. It's just my weird TFA. If you have a two. Yeah, if you have a two factor. I'm guessing the podcast crowd usually has that, you know. Yeah, that's like a podcast crowd thing to do. And also never got a thing saying I registered. Whatever, it's not like anyone's going to nominate, tell it anyway. Anyway, right? I mean, who would do that? Wink, wink. Not not. Let me try this again. Done exporting, putting the image in to the MP3 uploading. Doing this and going as fast as I can. Patrick, it's OK, it's OK. Don't worry, it's fine. I just I need to pay attention to you when we have our scheduling conversation. So I got to finish this. Yeah, don't worry, don't worry. And it's absolutely fine. No, I want to rush, OK? And I had a serious panic attack on Sunday night. It was bad. Oh, no, no, no, no. What? Joke about panic just now, then took me back. Like, I thought I was having a heart attack and stuff, which I wasn't. But was it at night or was it in during just the day? It was a night. That's typically when panic attacks happen. That's why. Thank you. Well, no, I had one before and I literally woke up with. Oh, yeah, I wasn't asleep yet. I mean, not that we should talk about this necessarily totally on the stream, but nothing triggered it in particular. Just sort of no, no, no reason. There was no thing, you know, that's that was the weirdest part. That's why I was like, am I what's going on with me? And it was just I just needed to calm down. Pat my dog, breathe deeply. It went away. And do you are you sure it's due to the immense amount of stress you're under? Because of all the shows you do? Yeah, that's probably that's probably a doctor. I think you nailed it in one. So are you going to do something about it? Ah, I'm sure it'll be fine, right? No, I did. I will. That's the weird thing is I've already been trying to figure out how to weigh, you know, have ways to manage things better. And I feel like it's like I didn't get sick for the first year and a half that we were doing the show. And then finally, when I felt like we were like, you know, had a good system in place is when I got that horrible flu. And I was like, huh, like it would have been much worse before. So I guess it's good now. And maybe that's it. Like now that I started to learn to relax. Your body lets you get sick. Yeah, my body's like, OK, now we're going to just release all of this anxiety that you had over the past two years all at once. Hope that's OK. TVZ gone says in the chat room is the tech is going to start the new podcast to talk about managing his podcast stress. That would be typical. You should take a meditation. I tried to. Yeah, I tried to once by ended up just sleeping. I mean, I didn't lose. And Eileen was out of town, so I didn't lose, you know, like I knew what was happening. That was the biggest part of it is is cognitively saying, OK, you know what this is, so don't let your mind run away with it and do all the things that you know how to do to calm yourself down. Like, you know, sitting, breathing deeply, thinking about things that are fun, all that. And it totally worked. But man, I haven't had something like that since Austin. Well, you know what? I had a so maybe it's the weather because I didn't have a panic attack, but I had a similar thing where my head just crunched real hard after last week and it and it it was like I couldn't. It was like I was swimming through a fog and I couldn't shake it. And so I just did a similar thing and I just shut it all down. And I think that is sometimes very helpful. Like I just sat still and talked to anybody. But oh, my God, it was like I couldn't think I couldn't think. So maybe it's, you know, maybe it's the heart. There's some of your mental something. Maybe the stars are in alignment for panic attack. Yeah, Mercury must be in something. It's probably in the air. Small stuff. But you're breathing in all that healthy Mercury. And it makes you crazy, man. All right, I have uploaded the podcast and it seems to work and everything. Yeah, I know. So thanks, everybody, for watching. And we'll be back at our normal time with Scott Johnson tomorrow. Bye.