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You should know Amazon earnings are in fifteen dollars and twelve cents per share on revenue of a hundred thirteen point oh eight billion up Twenty-seven percent on the year that might all sound good, but it was below analyst estimates AWS generated fourteen point eight one billion up thirty seven percent on the air second straight quarter of accelerating growth for AWS Amazon's other unit, which is where their advertising is grew eighty seven percent to seven point nine billion You might not have noticed if you don't read quarterly reports But Bloomberg noticed that Amazon was hit with the biggest ever European Union privacy fine whopping seven hundred forty six million euro That's eight hundred eighty eight million us that was on July 16th The Luxembourg National Commission for data protection issued the fine for violations of the EU's general data protection regulation You know it GDPR Amazon second-quarter SEC reports revealed the fine and Amazon says shocker They strongly disagree with the ruling Claiming there has been no data breach and no customer data has been exposed to any third party If you couldn't log into Snapchat yesterday, you are not alone down detector reported more than a hundred twenty thousand outages Normally, we don't cover outages because they're always done by the the time we report them But a lot of folks thought Snapchat had shut down So if you happen to be one know it didn't Snapchat tweeted We're aware of an issue preventing some snapchatters from logging in just before 7 p.m. And by 11 p.m They had a fix that's the way that stuff goes if you still can't log in though Snapchat support is saying to update your app in the app store Which is one of the reasons we want to cover this one in case you're still locked up NPR sources say the Israeli spyware company NSO group temporarily blocked Several of its government clients from using its software and services as it investigates possible misuse I'm shocked Louie NSO group does not list its clients But says it has 60 customers in 40 countries all of them intelligence agencies law enforcement bodies and militaries Security company Sentinel-1 claims to have reconstructed a July 9th cyber attack that halted Iran's train system building on early analysis by Podvish security researchers They identified a new wiper called Meteor and named the overall campaign therefore Meteor Express Wipers are tools that attempt to wipe drives and delete data's hence the name The attackers abused group policy to distribute a cab file to conduct the attack Labs dot sentinel one comm is the place to go if you want the blow-by-blow analysis you wrote this up Patrick Pretty sophisticated attack sound like well I think also at this point all Attacks are sophisticated and I just wanted to tell people where to go because quite frankly if you're an IT You need all the help you can get yeah The Analysts at Cantalus report that Q2 Chromebook shipments increased 75 percent on the year Well, 11.9 million if you're trying to make an argument about Windows domination That's not gonna help HP and Lenovo remained in the top two spots while Acer jumped to number three over Dell Which actually saw declining shipments on the year Samsung came in number five, but saw the biggest growth shipments up 324 percent on the year all right Let's talk a little more about this Apple cease and desist Apple sent in a cease and desist would not be news happens every day well Maybe not every day it happens a lot motherboard However, got a hold of one of the cease and desist letters sent to a citizen in China warning them to stop Advertising leaked stolen iPhone prototypes on social media so far. You're probably still wondering okay But people advertise these leaks all the time What's new about Apple wanting them to stop the letters reasoning for why they need to be stopped goes beyond the simple issue of trade secrets and Confidentiality it states those reasons as you would expect Apple's letter also argues that advertising rumored or unreleased Apple products harms consumers because they won't be surprised Here's the quote. I know it's very sad Apple has made every effort to take strict measures to maintain confidentiality for any information about Apple's products before their official release To ensure that every time Apple releases a new product It can surprise the public the secret of Apple's latest technological innovation is an important part of the company DNA So that argument is not just about like we don't want sad people to be Spoiled it's actually being used to establish the commercial value of keeping the information confidential So this is this is about creating a legal argument of like and when you do this it causes people to not be surprised And that's core to our business plan and therefore a commercial harm So it's not as silly as it sounds, but it's unusual Apple also argues in the letter that leaks that aren't accurate harm consumers because third-party accessory Manufacturers may develop and sell mobile phone cases and other accessories that aren't actually compatible With the unreleased products because Apple might change something in between the leak and the time they released the product That would actually make sense to me like yeah We don't want it out there when we want it out there for people to make cases for we'll put it out there Patrick what do you think about this this idea of like but people won't be surprised and that's our business well It's it's it's funny because I was reading somebody's tweet Not basically tweet storm, but they were just really angry about way Movie industry controls access and kind of creates winners and losers by controlling access to previews of movies And it was really funny because I read this whole thing and I was like oh He's talking about movies not technology because I always think of Apple and they're very carefully curated Pieces and images and they're basically atomic death hammer for Violates any kind of NDA or or security agreement with them, you know Apples is looking for new and exciting ways to get what they want out of the Chinese Government dot dot dot and this works for them Give the lawyers a bonus and keep moving forward. Hey, you know, it's it's I have always assumed that Apple's secrecy Was partly about surprise, you know, they want to they want to delight people with an unexpected twist hence one more thing Right, but I I know I think this takes it to a new level in my mind of like, oh, no, it is a core business principle This isn't just a like hey, it'll be fun to do this This implies that it's like no we have Manufacturing meeting consumer demand supply chain and surprise these are these are all right next to each other in importance in a launch you say surprise I'll say Controlling the narrative You know and and the public's relationship to the product as much as possible until it's actually on sale And then after that which whatever means they have necessarily, but there are yeah, then it goes into other things, right? They have their whole process though is super tightly controlled and crafted And anything that disrupts that because you know, they have four or five people they reach out to they get early products They write glowing endorsements of them and how magical and mystical and in and how they're gonna elevate humanity And and if the four or five people who get those early releases don't say that they don't get early releases in the future This is all this is all very very carefully Controlled and orchestrated and having somebody anywhere in the world, you know being like look I got a picture of the new thing the keyboards on the wrong side is not what they want Oh sure, you know crazy. I've always I've always assumed that I just like the part of the letter that focuses on like also We want customers not to know what to expect that I'm like, oh, it's it's not just That you're controlling the message. It's it's one that one of the reasons you're controlling the message is coming out here I guess that's interesting the sharing now The sharing economy isn't new One of the most famous examples of the sharing economy Is ride sharing which is really just ride hailing But then there's air B&B has become an entire hospitality industry heavyweight There are even rental services for cars like Hui that let you rent out your own car when you're not using it So what's left? swimming pools CNET has a write-up of Swimpley yes swim ple like simply but with a W if you have a swimming pool on your property You can rent it out to strangers to swim in so Swimpley Autocorrect almost got me there Swimpley started in 2018 and is now available in Canada Australia and the US with about 13,000 pools listed now you might think nobody wants to swim in a stranger's pool You might think nobody wants strangers swimming in their pool and you might think that even those that did the pandemic would have killed this business because Who wants possibly infected people in their pools, but instead it experienced? 5,000% growth year-over-year in 2020 and became profitable Because of the pandemic because this is one of the few things that you could go do The average rental cost for a Swimpley listing in the US Anyway is about 40 to 45 dollars an hour and Swimpley plans to expand They've got a new service in the wings called joy space where people can list their home gyms their home theaters the tennis courts the music studios one of the things they pointed out Patrick is that instead of You having to take someone somewhere instead of you doing something for someone this is this is more You're just offering them the use of something I am I am I am fascinated I also am laughing because my first two Airbnb experiences involved in unfinished space and Someone scraping lead off the side of the place. We're staying and using heat guns so, you know, I'm much I'm much actually at this point much less afraid of a Swimming pool if it's filled with chlorine than I am about any Airbnb experience. So I'm not surprised I mean they they're they're gonna figure out people are gonna figure out a way to get a side hustle at anything They can share and a lot of this is no longer the the go-go 2000s anything goes at your own risk Swimpley is already providing insurance to people, you know, and that was my big question Yeah, the liability insurance on this would have to be nightmarish and they they are they are covering it now Saying you're covering it and the details of that coverage are two different things I say I haven't looked into how good their coverage is but that's already part of the conversation here and You know a lot of the CNET article was people saying yeah I was a little nervous the first time I tried it out, but got in the pool had a good time. Everything was fine That I guess the thing to do on Swimpley is look for the place that will let you use the restroom because some some people will List their pool, but be like you get no you get no house access. You're on your own Which I think would be not in your own best interest as the pool owner, frankly I'm really trying so hard not to say what's in my mind right now. We should move to the next story Yeah from possible Swim pollution to chips AMD announced an entry-level RDNA to GPU the RX 6600 XT designed for high performance 1080p gaming Offers 33% more performance than the 5600 XT 9.6 teraflops supports ray tracing So it's 1080p, but it supports ray tracing as well as radion boost and some anti lag features 32 compute units 8 gigs of GDDR6 RAM draws 160 watts of power, but you're probably still going okay Those are great specs, but why 1080p the verge notes that IDC estimates two-thirds of gaming displays sold last year Or 1080p people have high refresh rates and want some power in their GPU But 4k is wasted on them. So why pay for that AMD says the 6600 XT can run things like Battlefield 5 at high frame rates on max settings for 1080p AMD RX 6600 XT GPU cost $379 shipping August 11th if you can get one AMD is not pulling any punches It said we're doing our best to get supply But the demand is unprecedented and also the supply constraints are real. So we are working with those situations at hand It's amazing when you when you look at for example, look at the steam survey and I'm shocked right now because only 68% of steam gamers are using 1080p monitors and that's down a significant probably down 20% From a few years ago. So that's kind of odd it literally 1080p people don't upgrade their monitors They don't want to they're going for frames per second. They don't want anything It's gonna slow down their their ability to go out and frag people I'm really curious to see how many minutes these are available for AMD is not doing any cards. It's all third parties Availability is still gonna be problematic and you know One of the things that the upside is probably will work as a 14 as a as a 25 65 14 40 card But man if you were ticked off about the 30 60 pricing This is not making you any happier at this point although it will compete with a 30 60 I'm talking about like 2x 1660 performance. So nice card if you can get it We wait with bated breath. Yeah, I mean The ability to even get one aside which kind of renders the rest of the conversation academic. I know but It what do you think of 379 dollars as the price? I you know, it's it's it's really interesting I was watching a Linus tech tips article and one of the things he pointed out he flat out said It doesn't matter what I think about the 6600 XT Because there's little it can be done about GPU pricing right now on the upside Everybody's predicting that that supply is gonna release in in 2022 Intel's coming online with what promises to be a very very powerful GPU in 2022 or more powerful than you would think Based on the integrated graphics on CPUs Supply lines are becoming less problematic And China's cracked down on crypto mining. So all of a sudden there's a whole bunch of used cards being dumped on the market Which is gonna ease some of the demand there, but really at this point, there's issues with parts There's issues with building. There's issues with like, you know, BGA grid array assembly on the The CPU or the GPUs they can get made and the other thing is is even if you look at all that and Linus did a great job walking through this Where, you know, like I know this from trying to get my house wired coppers up like, you know So a huge percent like every material every raw material Is up like yeah, it's a copper is doubled in the last year Server orders are blown up. So there's people are competing for memory. Memory's gone up 50% on contract pricing and spot pricing i.e. buying small amounts because you need to now up a hundred or 200% It's a mess right now the supply chains a mess and you know, and there's still scalpers and there's still people out there trying to buy mining cards So yeah, good luck. Hopefully this is gonna ease. I'm kind of just accepting it. It's gonna be 2022 Before I find the card now that I've said and I'm saying that also out loud a lot So that I accidentally walk into micro center and there's just what you're looking for right there. Yeah Yeah buying a GPU may the odds be ever in your favor By the way, if you want to get a better handle on this whole logistics issue that's causing the supply chain shortage We've covered it pretty well from the production side But tomorrow on a special weekend edition of the show We're gonna have James Thatcher big Jim on to explain the shipping side of it the logistics side of it Why aren't things getting like even if they can make them? Why aren't they getting to where they go? So look for that in your feed tomorrow. Now. Let's turn it over to Dan Campos who wants a word with all of us Did you know that the word Android means a human with a male robot appearance? The female equivalent of this word is gynoid. I just wanted to share that information Another thing I can share with you is a podcast the notices the technology express Escuchalo I We mentioned China a couple times on this episode already China is continuing to crack down on technology companies the Ministry of Industry Information Technology told 25 tech companies including Alibaba and Tencent to audit and rectify eight types of problematic behavior Including pop-ups data collection and storage as well as the blocking of external links Crackdown has been underway for months now Some of it is stuff we would like in in any country Stopping anti-competitive practices protecting consumer security Some of it is letting big companies know that the Communist Party is still the boss But another reason that the Chinese government has expressed itself often is that it wants these companies to invest in Solid tech that helps China achieve self-sufficiency In other words it wants the ability for these companies to make microchips batteries robotics advanced materials They don't want them making new social media platforms new e-commerce platforms They don't want any of that soft stuff China has criticized what it calls and this is a quote disorderly expansion of capital That's a change in direction China's very much been up until Xi Jinping will allow a little bit of free market because we get a benefit They seem to be changing their tune and stock markets have gotten the message Alibaba and Tencent Built their businesses on platforms like social messaging and e-commerce lost nine and eleven percent of their stock price respectively Chinese chip manufacturer SMIC though, which has the Communist Party's favor right now up 25 percent Wall Street Journal notes that these industries may not grow as fast though Which could negatively impact China's economy if they're shutting down the fast-growing platforms But encouraging slow growth chip that maybe isn't even going to sell outside of China They won't employ as many people that won't have as many sales They won't get as many taxes and it's definitely giving the US an opportunity to impede Chinese companies Reuters sources say the US Securities and Exchange Commission has stopped processing Registrations for US IPOs from Chinese companies because it wants to craft new guidance for investors about the risk of the regulatory Crackdown in China they want to be able to say if you buy into this Chinese stock They may tell you you can't register new users after your IPO like happened to DD Xu Xing Beyond that other countries are pursuing direct subsidies for the exact industries China is trying to encourage In fact, the US Senate voted for 52 billion dollars for new semiconductor fabs The EU has committed to doubling its share of global semiconductor manufacturing to 20% South Korea approved up to 65 billion dollars to support semiconductor makers there Japan promises to match any other country's semiconductor aid and encourage data centers to locate there Similar plans are underway in countries for EV batteries rare earth minerals and other sectors So it's not like China can boost up its chip industry and dominate the world They're gonna have a lot more competition and while all regions face the same question of whether these investments will pay off Which they may not? Governments attempting to direct the chip marketplace is about to become commonplace Former venture capitalist and current governor of Virginia Mark Warner told the Wall Street Journal The truth is you could have a panel that makes exactly the right decisions Technology could leapfrog and five years later the valid choices you made in 2021 could look pretty stupid. That's his exact words However, he still doesn't oppose the subsidies He believes if the US doesn't intervene to get fabs built there, they will be built in China instead He says this is the kind of bet America has to make So it's it's not so much about for me whether I think these folks are wrong or not It's that we need to get used to the fact that this free open global marketplace We're like well China builds the chips, but it gets assembled down in Taiwan and it gets sent all over the world That's changing. We're gonna have a distributed supply chain We're gonna have countries trying to control that supply chain and it may not be as Vibrant or adaptive as it has been in the past because of that And it's it's interesting to look at it's you know If you've ever dropped a glass or a light bulb and you're thinking about gluing it back together like I feel like China's Done so much to sort of encourage a whole lot of economic creativity entrepreneurship And now they're yanking it back and I'm one I'm really really curious to see how that's gonna end up and whether or not They have as much what they do How extreme this is gonna get over time. It's also really interesting looking at the idea that you know There's there's some part of me. It's like Globalism is okay if we're just exporting jobs reduce the cost of labor But now it's impeding with our ability to make huge amounts of money You know like they're just realizing like wait a minute all of these things We need to do these things for these things or to keep our you know, I I'm really curious to see how this ends up I have zero issues with with bringing more Manufacturing or especially fabs, you know to the United States. I am really curious to see how that bet looks in five years There are some some really non political reasons why having fabs decentralized might be a good idea Wages are catching up Certainly in China, but even in India Africa would be your place where you could find some cheaper labor these days So this may not be good for subcontinent Countries in that they could have been getting fabs and maybe they won't But given that there is a more level playing field It may make more sense for your supply chain to be like yeah make it near where I'm gonna sell it Well, I should have factories all over the world I'm gonna sell to South America have some fabs there if I'm gonna sell in India have some fabs there I'm gonna sell the US Canada have some fabs there. I mean also, you know between the the trade wars involving the tariffs You know the fact that the covid Revealed some some of the downs like you know all of this The the thing I keep seeing in place after place after place is like all of this just in time global Manufacturing works flawlessly as long as nothing breaks down But as soon as there's a glitch somewhere we end up in the situation where we are there where you can't get X You can't get why you know Oh, this company's going out of business or that company's failing and all of a sudden everything that made it sound fantastic Is goes from being or everything that was was such an extraordinary way to generate or maximize profits Suddenly becomes the liability because you don't have cash reserves or you don't have resiliency because there's no competitors Although I would say and and you'll hear this tomorrow when we talked to Jim big Jim The global supply chain weathered the pandemic quite well Sure the catch-up and it's the the the Misunderstanding of potential demand that was the problem and the other thing I keep thinking is But how often is a pandemic going to happen? Do we wanted to design our entire supply chain for the worst case and lose the efficiency? Or should we maybe you know just striking a little bit of a middle ground there because you know You're not gonna have a pandemic happen every year. I Agree well, and that's the question is it seat belts, which it's like that's better to be safe to then sorry Or is it something more restrictive where you're like well now we've actually reduced the efficiency? That's that's the question to ask right. I think it's a valid question. Yeah If you've watched any of the Olympic archery competitions this year You may have noticed a graphic show up in the lower left with a number and BPM and that number is often in the hundreds and You'd be forgiven if you're looking at those archers standing there calmly eyeing their target to think Maybe that BPM refers to the beats per minute of the death metal They're listening to as they prepare to lose their arrow They can't possibly be that common have that high of a heart rate But they do 140 beats per minute is the heart rate of the archer if you see that and I've seen that on the screen Not every archer, but some of them the heart rate is being determined by software from Panasonic That uses video from standard cameras placed 12 meters from the shooting lines and it measures subtle variations in face color That correspond to pulse all 128 archers were asked for permission to display their heart rate on the official Olympics video feed all but six of them agreed so there will be some where you won't see it if they didn't agree But the rest were like yeah, I'm curious. I want to see everybody else's too So sure show mine while research hasn't found a connection between a lower heart rate and better aim The number definitely conveys the level of stress each competitor is feeling and you can see when somebody shoots 10 A lot of times their heart rate is lower than it was when they shot an 8 Panasonic is not the only one developing this kind of technology Microsoft and alphabet Also have projects underway and all of them are aiming toward medical settings not specifically archery Doctors could use them with patient permission to help spot problems with the patient's conditions by having a Complete accurate record may be catching some spikes in the heart rate Sports are also interested though archers have pursued accurate measurements in the past They previously wore some watches that weren't really accurate or consistent Panasonic says its system is better because it works on all skin tones and even biathlon is considering using it in its sport That's the one where you run and shoot combined. So definitely is going to make a difference there Ski and then you stop for like 30 seconds. Oh, you're right. You ski not run. Correct. Thank you I didn't I'm sorry by athletes Of course alongside the legitimate uses are concerns that contactless medical measurements could be used without people's permission or even awareness If the wrong person is using this technology You know, I was I was shocked to realize that by athletes apparently, you know They're at like 90% of their of their their maximum heart rate when they're doing the cross-country skiing part, but they only drop 15 or 20% max when they start shooting. So they actually sort of shoot in between the heartbeats To have that that's super Holding over I just I couldn't believe I could hold they could shoot that well with their their hearts going that fast But it's fascinating. Yeah, interesting stuff and I was I was like that can't be accurate that guy can't be Standing there with 143 beats per minute, but it apparently apparently it was true It's a classic case of everyone else's job looks easier when you're not doing it where I'm like Oh, they're just standing there gonna shoot an arrow and it's like no That's a lot of tension and that's a lot of stress. So there's a lot of it's a it's a sport for real All right, let's check out the mailbag our story on the Intel NUC yesterday and its modular CPU cards Reminded Jerome that back in the early 1990s Wells American developed a plug-in computer where the CPU was on a Replaceable card Jerome says the more things change the more they stay the same But there are no new ideas under the Sun basically But that was a good that was a good blast from the past. Thank you Jerome for Remindedness of Wells American keep those emails coming. We've gotten a lot. 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Well, you know, I have been talking on my stream about how my neighbors are putting in a pool Next door and I'm watching them with with you know, just with a with a keen eye So of course I had to draw the story about Swimpley, which is the Airbnb for pools And you know, I guess the question you ask yourself is what could possibly go wrong. Sure. Well This is one of the things lots of things. This is one of them Is that possibly the person you rent from is is is housing a sea monster back there? Yeah, possibly they are not getting a good rating on Swimpley if they did not know The sea monster, you know, who knows you never know but I'm interested in Swimpley. Maybe you should be too. But anyway, if you want if you like this Swimpley poster You can get it on my patreon if you can one of my patrons patreon.com for slash Len or at my online store and Len Peralta Store.com is that is that right? I haven't talked about this in a while So I brought the store.com is what it says here on my doc. So yeah, then I'm then that's that's where you need to go folks Thank you so much. It's good to have you back. Len. You're Swimpley the best. Oh please That no, come on Oh Patrick Norton it was delightful to have you two days in a row. That was great. It's so strange. So wonderful. Yeah If people weren't listening closely yesterday, where can they find more of you? I have a quick correction the Radeon RX-66 XT Twice the performance of a GTX 1060 That's that's that's a big delta there. Yeah. Yeah, that is a big delta. You can catch up with me at twitter.com twitter.com slash Patrick Norton or at Patrick Norton or if you like home theater and audio and looking for a podcast Listen to you, please check out avxl.com. 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