 Now, AlphaGeek Media is trying a little thing today where I don't have to put in the URL. We'll see if it works. I just clicked the return. Have you seen the show documentary now? I have. The one with Fred Armiston? Fred Armiston and Bill Hader? Yes, I've seen like three of them. Have you seen Sandy Passage, The Grey Gardens? No, I've seen the Blue Jeans Junction or whatever, or the Blue Jeans Committee. The one that takes place in Iceland, where everyone tries to do an Al Capone day or something. It's on Netflix now. You need to watch it. It's really funny. What's the documentary called? Well, it's a documentary now. It was done by Bill. It's on Netflix now, and it's a documentary. They are documentaries, but they're 30-minute... Foe documentaries. Documentaries. There's more than one? Third base! ...featuring Bill Hader and Fred Armiston, and were either written or produced by Seth Meyers. And they all kind of take off on either a documentary style or a specific documentary. The Sandy Passage one is a spoof of Grey Gardens. But it is exceptional. And I talked about it on Twitter, and the editor followed me, and I was very happy. Nice. All you have to do is talk about nice things. Yeah. Do all things nice, and the creators will contact you. Positivity. You ever have one of those people that all they say is negative? Keep those people away. Don't play yourself. Major key. Major key. Stay away from they. It's all good advice, man. It is good advice. Also, I love... You know who loves DJ Khaled? Who, besides me? Athletes. Oh, yeah. There was a big... Now, so Syracuse is unexpectedly making a run in the NCAA Final Four, and Carmelo Anthony literally just gets worked up about college basketball and yells DJ Khaled platitudes, like, like, do television. And gets recorded by his wife, Lala. All right. We're about to start. Here we go. You guys ready? I want us to do the tech news. So we do... So we're going to do the tech news. One person can't make a difference, but all of us together on Patreon, we can. Daily Tech News Show relies on your support and every little helps. Please give generously. DailyTechNewsShow.com forward slash support. This is the Daily Tech News for Thursday, March 31st, 2016. I'm Tom Marry, joining me today. Mr. Justin Robert Young, host of Night Attack. Weird things, politics, politics, politics, the jury podcast and more. Not jury more, just jury podcast and more. How are you doing, sir? Man, I really feel like I should add some podcasts. I feel like I'm getting light, you know? Also, Hotline Monday, big, big new podcast with me. Don't forget. Live every Monday at 5 p.m. Eastern time and a great episode. If you've never heard it, just start off with. It's our Batman vs. Superman episode, but that's not what happens now. What happens now is we review the tech news. And we start with the headlines. Microsoft announced that Xamarin, that's with an X. So maybe Xamarin, it's Xamarin. Will be included in all versions of Visual Studio, including the free community edition. If you're wondering what Xamarin does, it allows developers to use .NET and see sharp programming languages to build applications for iOS and Android. So in other words, if they're used to use and C sharp or .NET to build their Windows apps, now they can keep doing that and then turn out some iOS and Android apps. Microsoft will also open source the Xamarin SDK over the next few months, releasing them on GitHub. Microsoft bought Xamarin a while back and so it's no surprise that you're able to do this. But what's cool about it is that Microsoft just made it free for everybody and made the SDK open source. You know, we're gonna get to another big Microsoft topic when it comes to relying on people to, you know, create their platform or make their platforms bigger than they are. And in fact, you could sum up their priorities as developers, developers, developers. Yeah, I mean, it is the developers guys. What else is going on? Amazon has added more than a hundred brands that use its dash button for ordering products. New products now include snacks, vitamins and beverages in addition to assorted home cleaning products. According to Daniel Rausch, the director of Amazon Dash, Dash Buttons, orders have grown by more than 75% over the past three months. I am always dubious of percentages without other numbers. It's true. The fact that they were able to convince a bunch of men to come on board and even some existing brands, I think Fortune mentions Gerber as one, that are adding more of their product lines. They had tested out the waters with one or two and now they're adding more. That's more compelling to me than the 75%. Cause yeah, you can manipulate that to mean anything. But people are using these buttons. Exactly. Just, I mean, 75% of four is three. That's all you need to know. But Gerber's ability to throw down for an extended amount of product lines, there's a lot more numbers behind that. Oh, certainly so. I mean, listen, Amazon, this is worth it for Amazon to do even if it is not a gigantic success in the future of every home automation, right? And if people don't understand, these are, it's a button that connects wirelessly and all it does is order the same exact thing every time you push it. Yes. So you just like, tied. Boop, you know, I need more paper towels. Boop, I guess you just leave it in your closets. So when you run out of a thing, you hit a button and that's it. ZDNets married Joe Fully reports on Microsoft's introduction of a preview of Azure Functions, a serverless compute service. The runtime will be open sourced. They are really pitching it for Internet of Things. They say this is really well used for Internet of Things because you don't have to have a lot of overhead scales to demand though. If you want to use it for your mobile apps, you can. Only charges for the period of time when functions run. You can also purchase Azure Internet of Things starter kits today, get a little hardware, a lot of Adafruit stuff in there for between $50 and $160. That'll help you build some Internet of Things prototypes that then you would hopefully run on the Azure services. Each kit comes with a development board, sensors, actuators, and tutorials. Microsoft also announced a new tool called PowerBuy Embedded for in-app data visualization in your own applications. If you are into data visualization, this is something useful. The tool will be free to try until December 1st. Prosecuting attorney Cody Hyland in Falkner County, Arkansas told the AP Wednesday that the FBI will help unlock an iPhone and iPod belonging to two people accused of murder. Prosecutors believe that the phones may hold evidence related to the murders last July. Hyland made the request after hearing the FBI's success in unlocking an iPhone 5C in a case in San Bernardino, California. So no troubling precedent in Apple having to do it, yet I can't help but think that we are only focusing on these kinds of cases that are probably a little bit more routine than we would expect because of all the press that the San Bernardino kerfuffle got. Yeah, I mean, I get the logic behind saying, see, it wasn't about one case. Here's another case. And there's those 64 cases we heard about yesterday and there's another 12 cases. I understand that. I understand that it is unsettling to think that at the drop of a hat, the FBI could grab your phone and break into it and find out whatever they want. I don't know that this is as troubling as some people are making it out to be. And this is one of those time bomb things where if you lean one way, the other way thinks you're a traitor. But frankly, if law enforcement is going through judicial process, which they are doing in Falkner County and have judicial oversight to say we are going to take this person's property because a judge has determined that there is probable cause for us to open this iPhone. The fact that the FBI has a way to open that iPhone or iPod should be used. That's the way law enforcement should work. I think what's troubling to people that is valid is like, ah, but does that mean that our encryption has been undermined? Well, sure. And like, I think what is, we don't know what comes next, right? And what we hope is that as the tools that are available for law enforcement to get into stuff like this, that you have companies that, you know, Apple has said that they are gonna take steps that will make it harder for those tools to work. You know, like this is, these are the sides that everybody should be on. And I think that like this is what we wanted. We want this to happen. We don't want Apple to be forced to create their own backdoor. I think that's what's muddling the issue is people say, yeah, but now there's this other backdoor. Isn't it the same thing as if Apple had been forced to create it? And I get that. I understand that, right? Because it is. The difference is the government didn't make, whether it was Celebride or somebody else, they didn't make that company figure this out. This company did it because that's what this company does. And they would have done it and have done it in other situations already. That's just part of the normal arms race. What you don't want is the government coming in and mandating companies weaken things because that takes the arms race out of balance. And just one final note on this, because this is something that's been hammered on this show, if you know people that are getting worked up that don't listen to shows like this and they feel troubled by the idea that these can be cracked open by way of third party out in the wild exploits, then congratulations. You have found a way to talk to them about why they should think encryption and security is an important kitchen table issue for them. Because that's what this is about. The idea of Apple forced to make their own backdoor, that's a separate issue. Here, we're back to the meat and potatoes. Strong encryption is good for everyone. Now, as they do with all new products, the folks that I fix it have torn apart the new Oculus Rift headset. The display is much nicer than the development kits. Two 1080 by 1200 OLED screens, custom made, pixel density of 461 PPI. So that's not as impressive. Somewhere between the iPhone 6's 401 PPI, the 6 plus rather, and the Galaxy S7's 576. So it's not quite as good as the S7, which you can put in a gear VR. But otherwise, it's got advantages. For instance, concentric rings on a hybrid Fresnel lens system that gives a large viewing angle and a large focal length. There's a slope on the back of the lens that lets you adjust the focus just by moving the headset higher or lower on your face. So it is more sophisticated. And iFexit gives it a seven out of 10 repairability score. Some things are easy to replace. And as usual, there's a few things like the strap that you would have to cut through if you actually want to get in there and replace a few things. You know, this is one of those teardowns that I don't quite know if we are equipped to understand how good or bad it is, you know. If only because VR itself is still in a, well, what do we want to focus on? We won't, it seems like all of them have said, well, sacrifice a bit of the screen door effect when you are looking through at your image so you can have a better frame rate and you can have a better motion tracking and stuff like that. So I don't know, I mean like this seems, it seems rad and certainly a step up from the dev kit, but I don't exactly know what it says. Yeah, I think what's interesting about it is that we are seeing what it is compared to the development kit, but we don't know how big of an effect that has, right? And we can see what it is compared to the Gear VR, for instance, we don't really know what the big effect is that in road test terms, right? In the actual going out and using it day to day. I think that's fair to say. The repairability though, that's a solid score. That's something I fix it does very well and doesn't really matter how it's used. So yeah, I agree with you, but there's still some valuable stuff in there. Oh, certainly so, certainly so. Square Enix announced Wednesday that Final Fantasy 15 will come to the PS4 and Xbox One on September 30th. This is the current name of the game announced in 2006 as the Final Fantasy Versus 13. A final demo is available now on both platforms. A mobile game for iOS and Android called Justice Monsters Five, a feature film with the voices of Aaron Paul, Lena Headley and Sean Bean, and a prequel anime series called Brotherhood were also announced. Special edition packages are up now for pre-order, of course, the favorite term of gamers worldwide. Pre-order now. I am to Final Fantasy as most other people are to Doctor Who with me and you. We're both fans of Doctor Who, but there are fans out there, people out there. Even Scott Johnson is like, well, I haven't really watched it, I don't quite understand. I say it exactly this way because those people don't hate Doctor Who. They're just like, yeah, I've been wanting to get into it and I just never have. Final Fantasy is one of those things. I saw the movie, I've played a couple of the games, but I've never really been drawn into the universe. At the same time, I have sincere respect for the people who are super excited about this news. Certainly so, you know what I mean? Final Fantasy has always been, you know, one of the most enduring franchises ever. Personally, I kind of lost it as I sort of, you know, took my own path away from regular video game playing when it sort of made its way outside of the 8-bit realm, but you know, I think, listen, it's a very, very impressive. Rarely do you get a video game franchise that's not tied to a manufacturer that has the longevity that Final Fantasy has. California Assemblyman Mike Gatto proposed legislation that would require ISPs to let customers cancel online. Gatto's bill says, quote, if a cable or internet service provider enables an individual to subscribe to its service through an internet website, it shall also enable all of its customers to cancel their subscriptions through the internet website. So they're actually not legislating. You have to cancel online. They're saying, if you let them subscribe online, then you have to let them cancel online. And it is being called Ryan's Law after our friend, the Ryan Block, who of course famously recorded his attempt to cancel Comcast Cable when they were moving a while ago. He's referenced in the press release about this. He's even quoted in the Aristectoclote article. Yeah. Yeah, who was apparently putting out the fire set by DTNS contributor of erotic comod when she was lighting up the same person? And so what you heard was Ryan coming in and cleaning up the mess, which is telling, considering how tense that conversation got as it dragged on and on and on. So we obviously have, we've had a lot of conversations about the role of government in terms of solving these kinds of problems. I read this and all I think is, okay, it gets passed on Monday and on Tuesday, Comcast says, great, online ordering's gone. Yeah, I mean, probably, maybe, or they sue. Or this, I admire Mike Gatto's proposal and in spirit, I support it. I don't know that it's really more than a bandaid on the larger problem, which is, if we had enough competition, hopefully we would be able to not have to deal with these problems. And I know I sound like a broken record when I say that, but that doesn't seem to be the resolution to these sorts of things that anyone is focusing on, whether it's in the net neutrality bait or ends up in like this. So I don't know, maybe this is the best we can hope for. Yeah, I mean, just the more we loosen the oligopoly, the more a lot of these problems solve themselves. Yeah. Shanghai Securities News announced Thursday that the China computer Go team plans to issue a challenge to deep minds AlphaGo AI by the end of 2016. While we wait for the current reigning Go champion, who's a human, by the way, to be next in line for AlphaGo, it seems that we can look forward to next year's WrestleMania, where AI versus AI goes head to head in 2017. Let me tell you something, brother. I love that we have to actually say the reigning champion who is in fact a human. The fact that we have to clarify that is insane, given that all of my life, even before Deep Blue and Kasparov, people were saying, well, you might be able to teach a computer to play chess, but you'll never teach it to play Go. Not teach it to play, but teach it to win. And they have done that. They have cracked that code. This is crazy. And if I were the reigning champion in China, I might be a little miffed that my country's computer Go team is already just out there like, yeah, we know you're gonna beat him. Bring it on. Bring it on. We're next. We want next. It's slapping those quarters on the Go table. Is that how you do it? I don't know. And Alpha, now it's learning Hearthstone. Like it is coming in a big way. Yeah. Kamis Hugo Baro and Manu Jain announced the MI5 smartphone. I'm gonna stay calling it that because it sounds more spy. It's the Mi, the Mi5 smartphone. It is going to come to India just five weeks after being introduced to China. The 5.15 inch glass packed phone with 32 gigabytes of storage goes on sale, April 5th for 24,999 rupees, which roughly is about $376 US. The higher end ceramic Mi5 was not announced for India. Only the introductory level one. The US FCC voted three to two to propose Commissioner Tom Wheeler's privacy policy that would require ISPs to get consent and disclose collection and breaches around consumer information. A public comment period now begins, seeking additional or alternative paths. And in breaking FCC news, senior advisor to Daily Tech News show, Jenny Josephson burst into the chat room minutes ago, hot off the wires from Reuters. US FCC chairman Tom Wheeler says video provider Netflix, not violating any FCC regulations by throttling some consumers data down to 480p or less. Not surprising because the regulations applied ISPs and Netflix isn't one. So there you go. In other notes, Google has extended its cardboard VR development kit to include tools for Apple's iOS. Tesla fans lined up outside Tesla showrooms for a look at the public debut of the Model 3 and Apple released iOS 9.3.1 to fix a bug that caused links to stop working in some apps. I'm hoping that'll bring my Twitter back. Yeah, you wanna know what? Also, you know, first they came for Tom Merritt's web news getting experience with the ad blocking on Forbes.com. Okay, yeah. And then today, now apparently they've added whatever ad blocker that I've put on my iPhone and now I can't get into Forbes articles anymore because they're giving me that. What about wired? Wired, I have not tried yet, but very an interesting add-on to something that we're talking about not too long. All right, folks. Thanks to Abituella Condolce, Flobama, Yannivo 5 and Motang who submitted things we used from our subreddit, submit some stories and do some voting, folks. Join them, dailytechnewshow.reddit.com and that's a look at the headlines. Interesting article today from Nathan Ingram over in Engadget titled Microsoft's Mobile OS isn't Windows, it's Cortana. And of course, a lot of people have been remarking on the fact that Windows for the phone, Windows 10 for the phone, Windows Mobile, however you like to refer to it was barely mentioned in the keynote yesterday. It never came out of the mouth of such an Adela. I believe there was one demo, if I remember right, maybe a couple on the Windows phone. And Ingram's saying that's fine. Microsoft is downplaying the Windows Mobile device for now probably wisely because in Nathan's opinion, Cortana is their mobile OS. Now, you can't make Cortana your default vocal assistant on Android and iOS, but it is there and it is available on 270 million PCs now by default and it's available on laptops and tablets that run Windows 10 as well. There's also the Cortana Intelligence Suite which is made up of two parts, the Microsoft Cognitive Services APIs that let the computer understand humans and the Microsoft Bot framework which we talked about yesterday, letting developers and companies create and manage bots. Those apps can be integrated, I mean those frameworks can be integrated into apps conceivably on any platform. So we also have Alexa out there and we've talked before on the show about how Amazon Echo, particularly Alexa, the vocal assistant there, is kind of taking over the home space and starting to look like maybe it's gonna be the hub that people turn to to control their homes. It's too early to say that for sure but it's not an outlandish proposal. And of course there is an Alexa ASK that allows you to incorporate the Alexa voice services into your apps on multiple platforms. All of this is to say is the coming battle shaping up to be Cortana versus Alexa coming at this space from two different sides, one in the air on mobile and one in the ground in your home and Siri and Google now sort of at the flank trying to get into game? So of the two and let's frame this as a from a serious perspective just for the beginning here. The idea that should worry Apple is Cortana and its bot integration. That to me is the element that if successful would make a phone that runs a Microsoft OS whatever they wanna call it very, very, very attractive and could be that new quantum leap that apps were when the iPhone maybe you know so many years ago. The idea of what Alexa is doing is really to me what is the unborn future of Siri? The idea that Siri could be untethered from these devices that we have that it does not just live in a box it lives kind of everywhere and really both of them are the war that we have brewing is which will be the voice of God which will be the one thing that you rely on to get stuff done because make no mistake, natural language however you wanna run it if you wanna run it as a home automation if you wanna run it as a bot framework if you wanna run it as a search engine which is primarily what Siri is it is all predicated on the idea that it is easier to do this than to do something else and ubiquity equals ease. Yeah chatbot and Matt Hartman put this really well chatbots are good when you just know exactly what you need and you can phrase it and it would be a lot simpler for you to just ask for it than to have to click through a bunch of menus it's not good for everything if you're sort of seeking information and you wanna drill down into something and you don't wanna go through a ton of questions in a command line type interface so it's not good for everything but once it starts to anticipate which Google now used to be the champion of that right it could anticipate what you wanted it looked in your email and said hey I saw you have an appointment downtown at two o'clock you're gonna wanna leave in a half hour to get there Cortana's done doing that now Siri's starting in a rudimentary way to do that sort of thing I haven't seen as much coming from Amazon about that but again they're focused on your home right so they're actually waiting for you to tell them like what do you want Nest to do Nest should be able to anticipate that you want the thermostat up or down but if it's not doing its job you talk to me that way it becomes a situation where you no longer have to you don't have to think about what app you wanna launch to do something so let me ask you this when I was reading this article about the idea that the Windows Mobile OS would be Cortana it brought me back to many conversations that you and I have had about your frustration with the app universe and the idea of siloing usability and your beautiful dream of a richer web that would be able to connect things more seamlessly than putting effort into putting stuff in silos and when I think about the idea that there was just this blank page for which the world can pour into on any different levels I can't help but think that this has to be something that excites you greatly or is it the horrid nightmare that is the worst case right the problem that I've had as you get older Tom you find that the line between the two it's such a thin line the worst case the reason I don't like the app ecosystem is not because I hate apps I think apps are great it's just that the way they've been implemented especially on mobile takes away a lot of the advantages of the web the web was anybody can link to anything anyone can share anything and the things that work best get the most juice and survive and in the app ecosystem it's about well there's Apple controlling the store and then a less restrict respect Google controlling a store and you have to play by their rules and each app is isolated from the other and yeah they can launch each other if they wanna play together but it's not like the web where that's actually the de facto reason for the system to exist so I've always been hoping for a swing back to that open platform if this is a wave that we are going to it's both the best of times and the worst of times it's the worst of times because these are monolithic companies saying we are now the internet Amazon web services is the internet for Alexa and Cortana is powered by Azure and we have everything in our house and you go through us for everything you wanna do but in some respects it's so huge that to be effective it has to almost act like an ISP in a way and say but we will allow you to access anything out there so when I say to Alexa I wanna find out what the BBC is saying about such and such it has to be able to find the BBC it can't say oh the BBC isn't part of our network right so it is hopefully taking the best of the open web and including it there I guess the only thing that still nags at me is well but if I use Cortana then I have to do everything in Microsoft for it to work the best my Google calendar isn't read as nicely by Cortana it wants me to use Outlook.com and vice versa Google now is actually fairly useless for me because I don't do all the things I need to do in Google products in order for it to be able to give me the best experience and nothing is worse than a predictive engine with incomplete data right like that we can like that was always my greatest frustration with Google Glass was that in using a predictive idea with Google Glass which would be flashing in front of your face it just assumed that I was only a Pittsburgh Pirate Superfan that needed to be updated on literally everything Pittsburgh Pirates and that was pretty much it you know and somebody who had a commute here and again Google's idea of you was like somebody constantly dressed in fangare with a foam finger on their hand oh yeah no with my Andrew McCutcheon you know air sprayed a t-shirt so yeah I mean I think what is very interesting now though is like what you've said the future of this both from Alexa and from Cortana is let's get as many people to play in this system as possible like you can't do it if it is not robust if it is not you know you can't have the chatbot to end all chatbots unless it can pull from the world's information because like you know he said the incomplete information is the death of all this stuff i wonder now if you are incupertino they they have never been shy about being third or fourth or fifth to the dance but they're gonna have the prettiest dress on yeah like series seems to need to have a big update in in what it is or what's the point of doing it if it is going to be an internal search engine and i think this autumn we will see bigger siri capability the difference is that siri will always exist in ios only you won't see like you see a cortana app on ios you'll never see a siri app on android now i have just guaranteed that someday you'll see a siri app on android because i said it that way but i mean they got apple music right yeah i mean it's possible i guess but i i get the feeling that apple is very protective of siri and they don't want to unleash her that would be that would be very telling let's put it that way i should backtrack my never and say that would be very telling about the state of things if apple did put siri on other platforms and it would be a another pointer to nathan ingram being right here in that these are the new platforms and if you try to isolate it with your hardware in your os you're going to lose because people are going to be living in their assistance in the future you know the way the the shell account has now become such a thing that microsoft doesn't even feel threatened including bash in windows 10 eventually the operating system may go that way that's crazy talk of course but strange things have happened crazy like a fox talk like well yeah i mean if you had said by the way the linux user space will be integrated into windows someday to someone in 1999 they would have they wouldn't have even laughed at you they would have called the psychiatric hospital well and you also have to wonder whether or not you know a lot of what we assume and predict as apple's world view and apple's philosophy is just fed in by you know like listen they've siloed all their apps the app store is a mac only thing or an ios only thing because the smartphone revolution as we understand it started with an apple device and apple devices have sold really really well right hold on i just thought of something and it's not exactly related to what you're saying so i apologize but uh it occurs to me that machine learning platforms from many places including google and facebook have been open sourcing themselves to allow people to do more development on their on machine learning platforms it occurs to me that microsoft's plan is to make things more open all the time what if the reason we're not hearing much about windows phone is in the future the one thing that windows phone will become is the platform that says yeah anybody can hook into our operating system uh you we're not we're not going to limit default browsers we're not going to limit default voice assistants we're not going to limit anything uh and we have cortana we have the best one but hey uh you want to use google now on on a windows phone go for it we'll let it be the default assistant no problem that would be a huge move for microsoft to say to say the operating system doesn't matter it's a it's a fight fight for apps and we're willing to let that fight happen in order to sell a few more phones and get people more exposed to cortana the way that you don't have browsers locked down uh on your on your pc desktop and the reason i brought up the machine learning being open source is hopefully there's people out there already working on their own voice assistants that they could say hey we're not tied to any platform and we have a great one that you can put on anything that'll allow it well i i think at that at that point we now get into the meta of the meta and say all right well yeah i want that phone that can do anything but now i want this specific recipe that is preloaded that i don't have to think about mixing and matching everything because uh you know by and large the the vast majority of smartphone owners are not going to want to tinker and customize and find the exact right thing they just want the phone that has all the cool stuff which is an amazing idea that we could find you know celebrity chefs uh quote unquote that mix the exact phone that you want or celebrities putting their name on a concoction of this voice assistant this email this uh stuff that is preloaded onto a phone that is completely without borders and and i i would love that to happen my guess is instead we'll have a lot of these assistants that try to be open to an extent or in apple's case maybe remain fairly restricted and everyone will be a little frustrated with them except those people who commit to only living in the ecosystem and those people will rave about how great they are oh and and low they will populate the comments that either mentioned them or their rivals so there we're calling it right now folks uh alexa fanboys kortana fanboys siri fanboys and google now needs a name don't you think i not yeah no they do i mean well dehumanize it a little bit because you know google i don't know how much i trust google i love alexa siri i've known forever kortana listen i got friends that really like her uh you know uh google i got i got issues sometimes i like google sometimes i don't maybe call it largae or seri seri that'd be great or brion never mind uh jeremy's pick of the day is zencaster.com there's no e at the end of zencaster there is at the beginning z-e-n-c-a-s-t-r remember when we used to kill all the e's i know it's it's kind of retro i like it uh zencaster is a web service that records the audio locally and uploads automatically through the browser after the after your show is finished if you're he's talking about podcasting uh the host of the session gets a separate audio file for each person in a folder in their dropbox account the service also has the option of creating a mixed version that has basic noise reduction and compression applied getting a guest to use it just requires sending them a link and making sure they have the microphone selected we use it with skype and hangouts but there's also a built-in voip service that works pretty well in our limited testing zencaster is currently in beta but the developer does plan on charging 10 or 20 dollars for different tiers once it's released works in firefox and chrome but jeremy says it works best for him in chrome that's z-e-n-c-a-s-t-r.com i have tried actually miss belmont has made me try a few of these and they have never worked as advertised so i'm happy to see that one is working for jeremy and i don't know maybe we'll try it out i remain skeptical i had a conversation with somebody at a well-known technology company for which i will not name that uh was ranting and raving about how much they would love if their engineers put their muscle behind a best-in-class podcast recording app that would do a lot of this automatically because you got a figure i mean it's not uh you know it this has always been a mushy middle solution and there have been i mean you know where old hands at this you know now but like you know this gotta do is yeah well yeah but this has been the beautiful dream since the the the second bush term right like you know this is uh this is like a real old problem that has never had a great solution it's interesting how you can get around the bush junior thing by saying second bush term because there's only one president bush that had two terms that's firing an h-w send your picks to feedback at dailytechnewshow.com you can find more picks at dailytechnewshow.com slash picks by the way first election ever voted in 1988 voted for George H.W. Bush there you go uh messages of the day Jeff and Karen wrote in and said hey regarding amazon opening a centralized location in Kansas it does seem like a good idea to pursue but it thought it would be important to add that they just closed a larger warehouse in coffeville Kansas a year ago that had been in operation since 1999 and once employed more than a thousand people coffeville is about two hours south of edgerton where the new amazon warehouse is going in has a population of 10200 versus Kansas City's metro two and a half million uh the recent announcement also drew ire against the governor over the jobs created because they got rid of a bunch of jobs so they're not really created if you get rid of a bunch and then add them again also it's not so much that Kansas has cheap labor more that the cost of living is lower here that said i'd expect average wages to be higher in the greater Kansas City area versus coffeville this may have been a political move as much as it may have been a logistical one so a good perspective on there from jeff and karen you still got the advantages the big gym was talking about about being nearer to the rail line uh and that sort of thing uh but yeah good good i like having people on the scene saying well hold on a minute there's this other fact that you need to consider uh we also had an anonymous microsoft person right to us and say well wait a minute i feel like they did address what tim sweeney was complaining about and he sent me the paste bin that tim sweeney tweeted where tim sweeney actually logged the keynote yesterday for any open of any mention of open systems still no word from tim sweeney how he feels about those announcements but our anonymous person wrote microsoft specifically said that in the anniversary update uwp apps can be installed with a simple double click you only have to do commerce through the windows store if you sell the app or game through the windows store just like other platforms and of course there were mentions of other third party stores will be allowed still waiting to find actual documentation online posted about this the store has some documentation that went up yesterday but nothing about the change in default or the third how the third party stores would work or particularly if a third party certificate would be able to be used to sign uh your items there but uh a good uh inside if inside but good other perspective on this and from s napier in the tech news uh he says in the tech news that virtually no one here cares about mopedics vision systems a high-end security camera company has agreed to sell 65 percent of their shares to conica manolta that is a big shift since mopedics is a german company and they use that as a fairly large selling point so they'll now be foreign-owned so to speak and that is a look at our messages just remember young thank you so much well thank you tom this is uh you know always a pleasure very very excited to chop up the tech news with you well you do a good job with it i always enjoy it i hope we made some people think today where can they find more thought provoking justin robert young content thought provoking well you want to know what a year here is a great uh a batch of thoughts that you can provoke is getting together with your friends and playing a card game called the contender the contender is the game of presidential debate you can find it at the contender dot us we have some very exciting 2016 expansions that are available for pre-order now but you can also uh you know pick up the base game itself we are very very excited to roll everything out and uh we got some fun videos and stuff on the way for everybody so follow us at contender game on twitter or facebook.com slash the contender game it only gets more fun to play as we get closer to election day yeah you know i mean i feel like we've actually been helped by the fact that there are less real debates happening uh you know i think intuitively we 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ocean song um okay this guy out of my cast uh xamarin gonna give it to you you know that whole that word actually just looks like a drug mm-hmm prescription drug xamarin may cause cross compatibility it might bite you and clog your eyes uh developers developers developers mm-hmm dash it out we'll cable block ryan's law do you have any that you like roger well there's one this is jenny j-23 yells stop the presses stop the presses but that doesn't apply to anything we've but it's it's yeah you um ryan's law i mean my problem with calling it ryan's law is usually when it's like megans law or something it has to do with somebody dead yeah i mean like i i this was awesome like the votes keep going up i mean number one also this is one of the things that i love the most about uh tom's news sensibility is that he is always one uh to and i i am saying this not tom to pull things outside of the bay area circle jerk not only the news coverage but also in the coverage of the coverage the meta inside uh super inside baseball so it's like listen this is called ryan's law because the uh tech crunch writer and friend of ryan called it ryan's law he's quoted in the thing that's obviously a part of the reason why this came up but it's like and then i don't want to get too into it because again i think it's it's it's really funny and rad that ryan's mentioned in it right but it's like yeah absolutely but this dude is like chuck schumer has made a career of this of finding trending topics effectively and then holding uh news conferences and introducing legislation based on things that people know about so it's like i don't know whether or not a it it's really great to be like oh it's ryan's law because like you said tom it almost devalues the idea that most of the time this is used it's for some horrifying thing yeah it's a more horrid tragedy that happened to a young girl or something uh cortana os is pretty good like that um there was one something with something god it will be the voice of god let me see oh cortana will be the voice of god which which will be the voice of god which will be the voice of god which none superblade had no votes i will vote for it none shall stand before us we could actually go with it with that it has a very um by democracy we're here to represent it not practice it with your republic as a what was it no that was a line from uh um crimson tide no okay where he says to um says i don't remember any actor's name it's so bad what can i talk to the guy i have to put a i have to put a name in right now for what oh for title yeah yeah which will be the voice of god you and justin yeah no i like that all right do i i'm gonna go cortana os if you don't no cortana os go with cortana os all right yeah but then again i'm i'm always on the side of boring titles i like boring i think boring titles because this is the ironic i think that funny titles are funny like as soon as we you hit return and make it the title from then on it goes through an entire life cycle of being a useful thing where people can remember to find things hey and that's why we that's the beauty of dts having different contributors every day every thursday's can have the character of boring titles the people go you know i really like about thursday's boring ass titles you can always tell it's thursday there's a boring title going down because there's a title that i know exactly what the show is about what i want plain mayonnaise on top of my vanilla ice cream wrapped in a cone of white bread cone of wonder bread i got the wonder bread cone thanks i totally screwed up and didn't get tickets for captain america civil war early enough and now now all the good draught house seats are gone no are you trying to see that an opportune time this is uh yeah this is a segment i like to call relatable problems man i got so there was a guy i could have been a girl i don't know dressed up as an easter bunny at the farmer's market on sunday and i got the best like i was just taking a snapchat of it just because and i got this just moment of him of the bunny who had been posing with a guy just kind of like leaning away from him and patting him on the back and nodding and i was like man easter bunny's so relatable just get him he gets you he does he understands he doesn't want to be in that suit easter bunny a man of the people of bunny of the people you know the weird thing about the easter bunny is that they tend to be is there a more gangly non-human holiday creature holiday creature right like traditionally the halloween's just a squash yeah halloween or ghost right um uh skeleton fat turkey fat skeleton is fat so it's like i give you a going to dress up like a holiday mask no no there it is it's uh july 4th when you have uncle sam he's a pretty gaunt looking dude oh no non-humans we're looking at non-human okay okay right so a skeleton's out because a skeleton is a human skeleton yeah no no no no because you know because you'd be an animated skeleton and at that point you lose your humanity because you're being controlled by presumably dark pretty gangly then yeah but that's like but all right so i guess what you're going black body suit with you just want to if you want the if you want the easter bunny to be it just say it no no no i'm i can't think are you looking for because every time i think of the easter bunny i actually don't think of a a guy in a suit on two legs i think there actually aren't that many non-human holiday mascots to be honest so what you have like baby new year but that's human right yeah Santa Claus is humanoid leprechauns leprechauns are humanoid i guess they're not human though not human no chinese new year but that's more of a dragon yeah a dragon depending on what animal you pick or what the zodiac is right right yeah we have a guy fox day that's british people they're not human that's a guy i mean that's literally the guy and a fox with his team at least can we push to make a fox the mascot of that's what i used to think it was when i was in grade school i remember the fifth of november and tip your fox yeah remember the fox of the fox of november i mean they did with robin hood for disney they should be able to do it for uh for him i would love if that became a big thing and and everybody would just get so angry were you it's not spelled fox i know you're ruining the reason for the guy fox day season which was against treason for the july bald eagle maybe the reason for the treason the bald eagle i remember there was uncle sam for the 84 olympics but he wasn't that wasn't a holiday eagle yeah uncle sam he was our mascot i think that was the only one at least in the us that i think made money during the course of the event i thought it was the salt lake city one made money did it i thought that was that was a whole but the la one still lost money well the the i thought the la one made money because they didn't have to build any of the venues they were already built for the previous olympics that they did in the 30s scott always says that uh the salt lake olympics ended up making money but cost of the olympic games profit and loss uh 1984 the serial serial winter olympics made 10 million the loss of summer olympics made 250 million the calgary winter olympics made 32 million the sole summer olympics made 300 million our solona summer games made 10 uh the atlanta olympics made 10 million and the salt lake city winter olympics made 101 million and that that covers the costs of overhead of building the stadiums and employee you know yeah it was total cost for salt lake was 1.2 billion tax payer breaks were 600 million and it made 101 million and it notes here in wikipedia that additional security costs were incurred in the wake of the september 11th attacks uh oh my god jesus do you want to know uh what the athens summer games lost five billion a lot it lost us dollars 14 to 15 billion with a b well isn't that coincidental didn't grease oh exactly that much when the euro crisis oh my god the cost of the 24 2004 athens summer games has been cited as a contributor to the geek government or the greek government debt crisis yeah venues live vacant and rotting the independent newspapers reports as many as 21 out of the 22 stadiums built for the games still sit unused that's so sad and that's the cradle of the olympics too well and that was the thing is they really wanted because that was a big anniversary yeah they wanted to have it there because that was where it started when really it's like no don't do that to them yeah they should have had it on mount olympus that's where it really started uh the beijing summer olympics made 146 us and uh we are still figuring out the rest of it but i would not be shocked if uh well i guess rio's not necessarily in terrible shape because they they they went back to back on the world cup in the olympics yeah but rio's got its own issues apparently so that's out of the money and the sewage yeah and the the brazilian real charges against rusev well not against rusev but pretty much let's just say there's a lot of political machinations right now and i'm sure anything that blows uh lula lula that exploits the olympics and rio and any kind of political game that can be had will be had and it may or may not be good for people who are attending well listen folks i gotta get out of here and uh appear with becky whirley on tech news today later today so that's what i'm gonna do what are you gonna do i'll tell you what i think that's great i'm gonna be watching you in uh and the warden thank you all right talk to you later folks thanks for watching bye