 That's in front of your face. It really looks like you're you've had one too many Roger Somedays I wish I had Sometimes we all wish we had you know, I'm finally reaching the age where my disposition matches Your disposition Finally when they're saying old man Roger, it's finally because it's true. I am An old man now get off my lawn Do you have a lawn he does I do have a lot. It's that one. It's good. Yeah, I know it's great. It used to be get away from my front door Oh, they're young bunks. Yeah, get off my lawn Go back down to the Dairy Queen. I Was doing an impression of soldier 76. Oh, I see I'm the one who does his job. I'm guessing You're the other one Alright, are you ready? I was born ready. I knew that. Why did I even ask? I don't know. Here we go kids Daily tech news show is powered by its audience to find out more head to daily tech news show dot-com slash support This is the Daily Tech news for Tuesday, January 17th 2017. I'm Tom Merritt joining me Patrick Beja From France, correct Yes, I am currently in France Sometimes I wonder myself where I am but today it is France today is France tomorrow the world Citizen of the world Patrick major We're gonna we're gonna go a little further afield for our discussion topic today And and let me say Patrick suggested that we dig into IPv6 and What you need to know about it and so we went out and we were finding someone who can explain that to us And we'll have that person on maybe like two Tuesdays from now So keep in touch for that Meanwhile, our second topic that we discussed was is Zuckerberg really running for president? Cuz the postings he made from his trip to Texas Feel very campaign like it was a joke initially, but now there are a number of elements that make us seem Political but there are Implications there so part of it is just looking at what he's doing and saying well if he isn't running for president What is he doing which is I think interesting from a tech CEO point of view? And and our understanding of tech, but also a little bit of like well do we want tech people? Yeah, what would that be in there? I don't know Meanwhile vine is going to be shut down Wednesday It was originally supposed to be shut down Tuesday But they gave you one more day to get your vines out of there so Wednesday vine gets shut down and Twitter has already begun Automatically looping any video that is less than 6.5 seconds long so the videos will still loop in fact every Short video will loop on Twitter from now on In case you didn't hear it I'm like so relieved that I have one more day to download my four vines hurry up It's only midnight almost midnight there the US FAA announced it will find skypan international $200,000 for 65 illegal UAV flights in congested airspace of silver Chicago in New York This is the company they had talked about finding 1.9 million dollars So they settled on a on a much lower fee, but it is still the largest fine That has ever been given for flying an unmanned aerial vehicle. Now. Here are some more top stories Now listen Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. We're gonna talk about this later writes. I'm in Texas for work Here's the work. He's doing Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testified in court Tuesday in the legal fight between Zenimax and Facebook owned Oculus if you missed our discussion of that Zenimax claims former employee John Carmack Yes, that John Carmack took proprietary information with him to Oculus Zuckerberg told the court in test of in his testimony today Oculus products are based on Oculus technology claimed he had never heard of Zenimax before Talked about people coming out of the woodwork when you start to be successful Regarding VR Zuckerberg said we want to get closer to this kind of perfect Representation so you can capture a moment you had that's kind of an intriguing bit of testimony there Zuckerberg also said that Facebook wanted to move quickly and plan to vet Oculus legally on a Friday and then sign the deal on Monday Zenimax's attorney kind of seizing on that Trying to imply you couldn't have done a good job if you were moving that quickly and then he asked Zuckerberg about Facebook's motto of move fast and break things and Zuckerberg while under oath Said the motto move fast and break things has been retired and replaced by Move fast and build stable infrastructure Much more sensible motto, but it's certainly not as catchy and Zuckerberg even said that on the stand It's so silly. I mean, I I don't know who is right and what is true in this case It certainly doesn't look great for Zenimax that they waited until Facebook acquired Oculus to start litigating, but I mean they they make a reasonable Compelling argument whether or not it's it's true or not. I mean we don't know but it certainly looks funny and Honestly, I don't know that Zuckerberg would know whether or not the the alleged Things that they are claiming about Karmak would have taken place You can if it's if he didn't that is a bad news for Zenimax Because one of the things they're trying to say is Facebook knew that Palmer lucky was revealing information that he had agreed to under NDA with us Before they bought Oculus and they and therefore they are liable for this not Palmer lucky Because there's a lot of questions about when Palmer lucky signed the NDA. There was no Oculus yet So so can you even sue Oculus or do you have to sue Lucky himself? And if you sue Oculus, can you sue Facebook and Facebook would have had to know that this was an issue For reasons of liability to be more severe. So there's a lot of questions about who knew what when and What you're gonna hear John Carmack say is None of the things that Oculus did Were based on the things I did and when you really look at it and we talked about this previously on the show So I don't want to get too far down that rabbit hole again But they glued a sensor to the side of of of a headset and and made a display It it seems like the kind of thing you you could definitely claim prior art on not not the kind of thing that you can sue someone for inventing Yeah, I mean, yeah, all of this is Zenimax I can absolutely imagine I don't know if it's the case But I can imagine a bunch of suits at Zenimax looking at each other going like hey This this seems like it has a slim chance of working out. Yeah. Yeah, but maybe we should try it anyway Yeah, yeah, all right lawyer said, you know what? You've got a case like he did have VR knowledge. You did get an NDA like so Yeah, well and and maybe they think they can get Facebook to settle out of court to make this go away If they if they push it far enough into court. Yeah, and maybe they're right Maybe it is true. Maybe they waited for some reason. We don't understand. That's why you have a judge, right? Yeah, is to decide that sort of part and maybe their their cases absolutely solid everything They're saying is true and they did wait for someone else to buy it to get more money. It's possible as well It's not illegal to do that. Right. Yeah app Annie's latest figures show India now leads the world in most downloaded apps from the Google Play Store passing the U.S. And Brazil China is the largest source of revenue for the Apple App Store and Japanese iPhone owners spend more on average than any other nationality Meanwhile in a letter to iOS developers reported by now nine to five Mac Apple announced that app price tiers in the UK India and Turkey will increase 25% Over the next seven days the cheapest apps will rise from 79 pennies to 99 pennies In English English money Actually, oh do I I Guess I do with other tiers increasing at the same rate Apple told the Verge The price change was determined by factors including currency exchange rates business practices and taxes. I like business Because changing your price is in fact a business practice. So sure. Yeah, that kind of defines itself right there. Yeah But this has to do with the falling pound the pound if it hasn't Reached its 31 year low was flirting very close to it So so the pound is is sinking and it's close enough to parody that Apple decided, you know what? Our tiers should be parody that the 99 cent is the bottom rate in the United States So the 99 pence is gonna be the bottom rate in the UK. Yeah, it's all based on the the company's home I mean headquarters main currency and that's how they they align all of those I We actually had the similar issue When I was working at Blizzard with the pound Losing value and so the company had to increase the value the the Price of the World of Warcraft subscription not a lot. I think it was I can't remember exactly it was about a pound I think That was an interesting problem for for a subscription that had been the same price for a very long time and The reaction of the public would have was was difficult to to gauge. We actually Anyway, so here it's a little bit easier because it's it's it doesn't apply to a Similar service that people have been paying for a long time. Although I guess maybe it does I wonder if it applies to things like Apple music and other subscription services Apple didn't comment on that But it would make sense that if they're changing these tiers in the app store that they would change their pricing structure in the other stores as well Yeah, so what we did at Blizzard was that as a gesture We grandfather didn't the people who already subscribe subscribed and they kept the same price for a certain amount of time I don't see Apple doing the same thing for some reason Their business practices are usually a little bit different. Well, and they don't have as many Subscriptions although there's some in-app subscriptions and you can subscribe to Apple music Maybe the iCloud Storage space might be impacted as well for sure At the National Retail Federation's big show conference Monday Intel CEO Brian Krizanich announced something Intel calls the responsive Retail platform or RRP. It's an Internet of Things platform meant to connect retail hardware software some APIs and Sensors in one standardized way. So if you're running on this platform, you can put together all of your low-power integrated sensors It's actually going to start just using Intel's RFID sensors But they say they'll eventually incorporate third-party sensors as well to track your inventory and generate your in-store data Runs on open-source analytics platform as a service software from independent software vendors So Intel is not trying to get skin in the software side of this They just want to sell you the platform that says hey if you if you if you contract with us We will make sure that you have a smooth running platform And it will a lot free up your employees to be able to do more things in your store with customers Rather than just running around tracking things and figuring out what your inventory is Intel says it plans to invest more than a hundred million dollars in retail over the next five years You know, we've been talking about RFID on Consumer, I mean You know store products Grocery stores and things like that for years now and it hasn't happened I'm wondering if Intel might have the oomph to and you know, the ease of use and The know-how to finally make it happen would be cool Well, and one of the things that usually gets in the way of this sort of stuff is and you think about just think about it From your own home perspective You either have to buy everything from one company and then hope that company doesn't go out of business Or you're like, well, I've got an Amazon echo that does this and it works with lifex bulbs and Phillips But it doesn't work with those bulbs yet, but maybe it'll work someday So I really haven't got everything automated yet What Intel's trying to do is say look we'll provide the platform and especially when they start working with third-party sensors And that's kind of a key part of this. That's a big question mark right now But they're saying we'll provide the platform so that everything works you use our Intel machines and then You you can get whatever sensors you want someday you can get what use the software that you want That's open source You don't have to pay a whole lot of money for that and we'll provide all the support to make it all work for you Which is a big load off of a retail general manager's mind when they've got other things to worry about Yeah, and if it starts working out in retail then we can start using it for you know in home uses as well I don't think it can work the other way around if every item you buy is Sort of tagged by some kind of ID be it RFID or something else Once it's in your house, you can keep track of it as well if it's done in standards with standards, which it seems Intel is intent on on doing so Might work out. Yeah, although sometimes that stuff's in the box not actually on the product But yeah, it's it's it is certainly a smart for Intel to say let's be the enterprise provider of this Yeah, look we've got there's so many people competing for the home right now Let's let's move into a place where we can make a lot more money at a lot larger scale and then Possibly move into the home. Oh, yeah, listen if it if it works on a large-scale retail scale That scale twice it can you can have you know You can have the the trackers and the sensors on the big boxes And then you can have it on on a cereal box individual cereal box as well if it works out I think there's a there's a future in that thing Facebook announced it will be a launch partner for station F a 3,000 desks startup campus opening in Paris starting in April the Facebook startup garage will have 80 desks on The met need near the entrance Facebook will work with 10 to 15 startups every six months Some of the first startups are check Mapster So 2000s without any vowels the fabulous one club and Keros So it sounds like all the big French VC companies are involved in this as well. This this seems like a huge Enterprise and and getting Facebook isn't a surprise, but it's a feather in their cap certainly Yeah, and it's also very interesting because I wonder how much I mean the French and Parisian but the entire country has always had a very active Taxine, I think we've talked about this a couple of times on this show and you know the fact that I Think a lot of people know a couple of French tech entrepreneurs even in the US I don't think there are as many, you know I don't know Spanish or German people that would come to everyone minds everyone's minds in in the US So I think there is something in France, but the there have been a lack of Organization and a lack of financing both of which are being addressed in actually in the entire the entirety of Europe, but especially in Paris in France and So I'm certain that Facebook is doing this because they know there is talent and there might be some interesting projects to come out of this But also we know that France in particular and EU in general has not been too happy with Facebook and a number of other American companies for various tax or regulatory reasons I'm wondering how much of this is Facebook thinking, you know what if we start playing nice with this Maybe it's gonna make give us a couple of gold stars that we can show the next time We have a meeting with the regulatory authorities Well, I hadn't even thought about the aspect of Facebook being in this huge building alongside Vaughan-Privet, HEC Paris, Daphne, Ventech you're rubbing shoulders with these people more closely and You start to maybe maybe if you do it right have a positive effect where when The people who discuss who should be regulated and how our meeting and talking with each other They say oh, but you know what what Facebook is really trying to do is is positive And here's why because you have direct experience from something like that That's a side effect of this that I hadn't even considered and I think it's also, you know All of these companies seem very foreign. They seem like the big American tech Shut up Siri. I'm not talking to you I don't know what I said So the they seem very foreign It's big American companies. They often try to have it as little business as possible in our country to Pay as little tax as possible and here it seems like they're taking part in the life Seriously, what's what we can't hear it on this end. So it's fine. Hey, that's good. I'm sorry So it seems like they're taking part in the life of the community, you know It's like they're not the weird kid on the outskirts of the village anymore. They're coming in and they're Being a part of the the village party or whatever. They're they're being one of us a little bit So I think it plays into it Side note. Is this call is this called station F or is it? Oh, it's not on the station F Okay, all right. It's just being translated The Wall Street Journal reports its sources say investors in snap incorporated's forthcoming IPO Remember snap is what they now call the company that runs snapchat Snaps forthcoming IPO will not receive voting shares This would leave co-founders Evan Spiegel and Bobby Murphy with 70% of the voting power while holding only 45% of the company stock The company also issued these diluted shares in more recent private funding rounds since 2012 19% of tech companies went public with these kind of dual-class stock offerings if you recall alphabet when they did their last stock split Split the stock into a voting and a non-voting class of shares So you didn't double everyone's votes at the time you actually diluted the voting shares even more this has become a Solid trend for tech companies to maintain control and we'll talk about this a little bit later Zuckerberg did the same thing with Facebook wanting to sell off his shares to charity while maintaining control of the company You know, I don't really understand why you wouldn't want to do that. Is it something that was usually the shareholders won't let you get away with it Right, it's that's that's the issue So I'm I'm curious what and maybe there's some financial people in the audience I know there are who can explain it to us in an email what changed that allowed These companies to convince shareholders to let them do this more often I wonder if it's that they're too successful to not be allowed I mean, they're thinking we're gonna get we're we want the money anyway if they don't Get to do that. Maybe they're not gonna go for an IPO and we don't get the money So it with these kinds of successes Maybe it's easier to put these kinds of things in place and so like squirrel said, how does that even work? It sounds like financial wizardry I mean at the basis it's like if I were to come to you and say hey Would you like to buy a share in my company? I can either sell you a share where you get an equal vote to me on matters of what the company should do now that you're a Co-owner or I could say look I'll sell you a share in my company. You'll get dividends So you you'll get some money back But you don't get a say in how the company works and you can decide whether you want to invest or not Right, it's it. There's nothing illegal or weird about it It's just in the past if you said you can buy you can own a share on my company But you're not gonna get a vote people just wouldn't buy the stock. Yeah, so it didn't happen And it turns out that now people like well I still want to own a piece of snap because that that's gonna go up and I might get dividends It's gonna be worth it. So even if I don't get voting shares who cares. I'm gonna go ahead and buy it At least that's the idea Airbus's Urban Air Mobility Division, which I didn't even know was a thing will test a prototype Self-piloted flying car. Yes, you heard right flying car by the end of the year Airbus is exploring single rider vehicles and helicopter style multiple rider vehicles all booked by app Now look people We've heard about flying cars a lot over the years Don't get your hopes up But this is interesting because it's Airbus, it's a real honest-to-goodness company Obviously, they want a big splash in the press by saying this and I'm I'm very curious to see if they actually test a prototype and release Verification of that for us because testing a prototype is far from being able to provide a service You saw Amazon test a prototype of its UAV Delivery service a while back and we're still far from Amazon being able to send a quadcopter with your package to your house yet, but Somebody like Airbus getting into this certainly could kickstart a lot of people. I guess we can't use that word anymore I mean something different could inspire other companies to maybe try to do the same thing Yeah, I think the the the interesting choice of word here is flying car Of course, if you don't think it's gonna look like a car at all like it's not gonna have Wheels and it's not even I can't see it working with reactors Right, it's gonna have to be some kind of propeller I think helicopter style might make sense like a tiny helicopter or something I don't think it's gonna be quite what what we imagine when we think of a flying car So we should be careful with our expectations here as well The safety could you think that people argue about the safety considerations of an autonomous car the safety considerations of autonomous flying vehicle? Are even more complex. I don't think they're they're doable, but but there's significantly more complex I'm not sure, you know thinking about it there are there seems to be less obstacles in the air if you go high enough and If you want to land you have a clearly marked landing spot, and I'm sure you can lie in it relatively easy I'm not sure. I mean you need to look into it, but I'm not sure it would be more complex or dangerous I'm just thinking you've got three dimensions to deal with But I suppose you're right there. The obstacles are clearly mapped and fewer once you get up above the ground So There's a good system for tracking. What's in the air, but think about this We heard about this lawsuit at the beginning of the show with UAVs being flown in congested areas Those UAVs haven't caused huge problems yet because if you stay away from an airport You're very you have a very low likelihood of running into something you get Autonomous piloted vehicles running around the city suddenly that airspace gets more congested and it does become complex right and of course if you need to go to get to a specific Area, then it's not exactly the same as it but maybe every every Roof top can become anyway. This is speculation. There's a lot to work out exactly Hey, if you want to get all the tech headlines each day in less than 10 minutes subscribe to daily tech headlines calm so We were kicking around Based on a couple postings by Mark Zuckerberg the idea of him running for president Now we made off-handed comments about this when he posted at the beginning of the year that his personal challenge for 2017 Was to visit and meet people in every state in the US by the end of the year now that means about 30 states He's met and visited with plenty of people in California And in plenty of people in Massachusetts where he went to college So he's picking the 30 states that he really hasn't spent significant time with and we said wow it sounds like a campaign Then today He says the first state I'm visiting this year is Texas I'm here in Dallas for work court case But I'm also taking time to meet members of our Texas community over the next few days as part of my year of travel Challenge and his post is talking about digging into the tag magnet school in oak cliff And and helping them work on martin luther king jr. Day Doing some community service. It's a great post makes Zuckerberg look like a humanitarian who cares about the children Who of course we all know are our future Then the next post is a meeting with the officers of the dallas police department To talk about their concerns about social networking and how it's used and how officers can connect with their communities to keep people safe Both of those are fine things and I am not criticizing mark zuckerberg for doing them They are both presented in ways that are obviously meant to make you think better of mark zuckerberg because of them Which is not unusual for a ceo outdoing things But one after the other after the other he announces i'm gonna visit 30 states and meet the people I've been out with the kids today working on the community and I met with our law enforcement officers to discuss safety Sounds very campaign like patrick It does you know in and of itself it already kind of does You know, it could completely be just legitimate facebook business and mark zuckerberg interest It's absolutely conceivable that especially given the events of the past year and the election election cycle in the us He's thinking you know what I really need to go out and meet real people and figure out what people think and it could absolutely be just that But if he was going to you know, if he was eyeing a political position sometime in the future It would probably be the way to Go about starting that process there's also a couple of other things that are worth mentioning that sort of Not cement but at least steer us toward the possibility that this is a bid for public office of some kind One of the the the two elements that I found was First of all the structuring of the the company that states he could you know Serve in public office and keep and retain Control over the company for up to two years, I believe so that is something that I guess you you don't even think about it if you don't actually think about maybe hold Holding public office at some point and they actually went ahead and did it another thing is the fact that he casually mentioned a few Weeks ago a couple of weeks ago that he's no longer an atheist he was raised jewish and over the holidays he passed a message On facebook as he does and in a comment someone asked about something about his Religious beliefs and he mentioned that he was now he thinks religion is very important Again, if you plan to run for public office, it's probably a good idea to have some form of Of religion be part of your character Um, so this that a bunch of other things there is an article in I believe it's vanity fair That first asked the question or not first but recently asked the question. Will he be our next president? They went and asked facebook employees and former friends and there are a number of people who say, you know Things that are a little bit more Uh, you really want need to have to want to read into them to think this uh means he's going to run things like He quotes, uh, the greek Legends and he's talking about emperors all the time. He maybe he just likes history, but again hold together It wouldn't be First of all, it wouldn't be impossible that he wants to run for office of some kind And second again, all of this makes it seem like it would be the right way to do it Now two years is the term of a representative in the united states He would not be able to serve as a senator or a president if he could only Serve in government for two years and keep control of his company There's way more to that story a lot of people argue he can serve for Much longer and keep control of his company anyway, and he didn't need the board's approval in this and that Uh, we also can get lost in jumping to the conclusion that he wants to run for president someday And lose sight of the fact that even if he doesn't even if this has nothing to do with president Even if he doesn't want to be secretary of state or a representative from the state of california Even if he wants nothing to do with any electoral office, this is a really interesting tactic For a tech ceo to do He is taking a personal interest in people and it is right there in the mission with facebook Which says we want to connect you with each other We think sharing your lives together is what makes the world a better place And i'm going to lead by example by getting out there and Getting to know people now oddly in real life not necessarily on facebook But it's a good move anyway For a tech ceo to do this Especially in an atmosphere which is starting to feel backlash against technology ceos is being uncaring Not not not promoting the rights of their workers in many cases like uber getting a lot of flak Not worrying about the future of jobs with automation and ai uh Going out there and and very Much without a stated purpose Just talking with people and meeting with people is good for your image and frankly It's good for zuckerberg. He's going to have a better idea of what people's concerns are when he is working with people on facebook And you know another thing struck me um zuckerberg is really in a unique position because he's been doing things like these for a long time He's in a unique position That he can do this and it doesn't seem artificial at all imagine any other uh Big tech company ceo doing this imagine tim cook doing this it would look ridiculous Any other one would seem completely silly But zuckerberg because of the the reach of facebook and the kind of reach that facebook has and because of his history as well It seems like you know, we're wondering is it for this or that reason, but we're not thinking Oh, it's a completely completely ridiculous pr stunt. It doesn't fit the character um, so i'm wondering I I I guess we have to ask the question at some point Do you think if he did end up running for office? Some people are saying 2020. I think that's really early He's he'd only be 36 so you'd only he you have to be 35 to run And you're talking about, you know, there's an incumbent president That that's sitting that that's a it's always a more difficult race in that case I I think the I the people are saying no, he wouldn't run till 2024 Make more sense if if it makes sense at all that he wants to run. I'm not convinced that it does But do you think uh, there would be I mean if the previous year has proven anything It's that anyone can be president uh in the us at least Do you think he would have a chance? I don't know Because if he ran today Who knows what the dynamics would be right the things the things have changed on the ground And people are scrambling around trying to make sense of what the us electorate wants right now So sure, maybe he could in four years You'll have an entirely different set of circumstances an entirely different mood in the electorate based on Both things under and not under the control of people I I would say that To answer your question directly sure he would have a chance. It's not a shoe in though And you would have to start laying groundwork for that public perception and this is definitely A way to do that If if you're an outsider Like that it's it's what president elect trump did he started laying the groundwork years before to Kind of get people used to the idea and to get his message out about the kinds of things he was concerned with He had that that's why people were going back during the election and finding things Relevant to today's issues that he had posted on twitter four to eight years ago So yeah, that would all make sense. It could also be that he really Just wants to Do good in his mind I'm you know without evaluating whether you think it's good or not He thinks you know what a good thing to do would be this And he might be leaving the option open of maybe that means I run for state representative Maybe that means I run for senator. Maybe that means I try to get a cabinet position Maybe it means I run for president. Maybe it doesn't mean any of that. He may not have decided that He may be saying I want to see what happens when I go out in the world and talk to people more And what I learned from that and that would be very much a zuckerberg approach Yeah, it sounds like a much more reasonable explanation for all of this I I can't imagine he's seeing himself Running, you know in four years and even thinking about eight years down the line is a very long time But maybe um, there's another interesting view On this whole thing by ellen Fleischman in fortune An article from a week ago roughly that that takes sort of the opposite view of all of this He says mark zuckerberg does not need to be president to change the world I would even argue it's possible that he would have an easier time given the reach and Power that facebook has he would have an easier time doing good things or any things Just by using facebook his nonprofit a number of initiatives that he can put in place certainly it wouldn't hurt to have the option to run for office, but it's it's It's completely it's kind of unbelievable if you look at the world from 30 years ago that today we would say this but zuckerberg and a few a handful of companies and CEOs Don't necessarily need to Be in public office to have big a big effect on on the world And that may be what he finds out this may be a journey of education where he goes You know, I I can have the most effect in the way I want to Without running for political office So you may never see that happen But it is intriguing to see him do this and and and especially because he's in there for a court case He had to show up at testify and he has turned that At least tried to turn that into a positive image building. Hey, this is part of my my year of visiting The people of the united states, you know 30 states over a year that is a lot of pr hits That's a lot of public Public How do you say it, you know Of image building and a lot of the presence in the public eye 30 states that's almost three a month He's gonna be and every time he is in a specific states state Maybe the national outlets are gonna get a little bit tired of it But that state is gonna hear about it, right? um I think it would be also interesting and we're gonna move on But if he ends up doing something a big advantage he would have I think is Representing a new fresh generation in a climate where a lot of people are tired of the same old, uh, political, uh, Representatives that seem like they will never go anywhere in that They're always the young outsider. Yeah. Yeah. So Anyway, well, thanks to everybody who participates in our subreddit You can submit stories and vote on them at daily tech news show Dot reddit dot com uh real quickly I want to check in with Nate Langston over in the uk about what's happening on text message this week Hey, thanks, tom. We celebrated our two-year anniversary show this week by looking at why we here in the uk Won't be following norway in axing fm radio. It's something our government is apparently in no hurry to do whatsoever Plus the bbc wants to make its iPlayer catch-up service the biggest on-demand tv destination in the country by 2020 Beating out netflix and iTunes. We discuss how that might be possible this week on text message at tech podcast dot uk Back to you. Thank you, Nate. Very intriguing. Uh, I could see the bbc certainly has good content to do that I'm gonna have to to check that episode out Uh marlin the guy from trinidad here, uh, writes as our tech Correspondent on the ground in the caribbean. Thank you marlin said I would like to report that uber is now in the english speaking caribbean Yesterday at 11 a.m. Local time uber made its debut in the cities of port of spain and san fernando in trinidad Not yet available in tobago apart from the traditional payment method of adding a credit card to your account You can also choose to pay with cash when you get to your destination Everything else you expect from uber is available the slick app the low wait time the talkative drivers And oh, yeah the resistance from local authorities by 7 p.m The same day the ministry of transportation issued a press release questioning the legitimacy Of uber's ability to operate in trinidad and tobago based on our laws Similar concerns were brought up months ago when uber announced their launch plans, but it's uber It's what we expect I for one hope that a compromise is found as our transportation system is way overdue for some disruption And I plan to visit the uber office soon. It's five minutes from my office and get some comments from them Well, let us know if you get some comments from marlin. Thanks for doing that You know, there's uh, I think it was I can't remember where it's from That quote that says war War never changes. I think in this case we could we could have the uber uber never changes That's a way to work out good. That was from fallout 4 fallout 4. Thank you I thought it might have been coal of ut, but thank you roger Thank you Drew wrote in and said and pointed out we had a quick discussion last week about adobe's possible implementation of voice control in photoshop It's something they're researching and drew says I can see some ways this might be really efficient If you could use your voice to manipulate the application as opposed to the actual image There might be some time savings there something like use the brush tool radius 10 flow 30 opacity 100 That could be a lot easier than picking the tool and adjusting all of the sliders But the application of the tool is still up to the artist Maybe someday you could also tell photoshop something like select the sky but exclude the model's hair That would be very cool, but I wouldn't count on it in version one Yeah, given how my digital assistant has been behaving today. I'm not my hopes are not very high You're not high on uh on voice interaction right at the moment Uh, and finally yaru in malaysia wrote in and said i'm hoping that the switch the nintendo switch Will turn out to be more like the ds and 3ds systems that had gimmicks But we're not in the way for their real great games to shine They didn't get in the way of the real great game shining and got support to do just that More than the we or we you which didn't really have that many good games between them despite the former selling really well Yaru says i'm really looking forward to patrick's take on this. Hopefully he'll give his comments when he comes on the show Uh by by yaru's request in malaysia patrick The opening is there. Oh, we roger and I talked about it on friday. But what did you think of the nintendo switch? So first of all, I would dispute the argument that the we and we you didn't have great games some of the games for the we you were Absolutely amazing. Um, but you know, I'm i'm very concerned about the switch. I was cautiously optimistic before we had the present presentation last week And I guess the caution was warranted because with every single announcement They made every piece of information. They gave us it was a little bit of a disappointment It was death by a thousand cuts each cut individually was just a tiny disappointment But overall there was no portion of the announcement that was uh Positive compared to what we were reasonably expecting Especially in europe or in france at least I think it's the same all over europe. The price is 329 euros, which is more than the playstation for or the xbox one There are a number of things, you know, the battery life isn't great the Online the the storage isn't fantastic on the thing. So you need to add an sd card There's the lineup the launch line lineup is abysmal. Sure. There's zelda, but It's still very very poor So overall to summarize my thoughts This feels very much like a soft launch. It's a soft launch. Do not buy it now unless you Really really want to or have to as is my case Um, but by christmas. I hope they will have figured out figured things out at this stage It's not what we were hoping for Yeah, I've seen some arguments that the joy con controllers could be the the savior of it because of the way they work But uh, if you want to hear more about that you should really tune in to pixels With patrick veija because that's what your big topic is going to be on this the next show, right? and I will have one tom merit with me along with our friend garret one's role if everything goes well We're recording in just a couple of days. Uh, and yes, I I have to force myself to stop talking now because there is a Lot more to say about this topic. It's a lot more complex. It's not all dark There are some really interesting things about the the console, but uh, we'll say more on pixels So go check that out if you want more information french spin dot com Big thanks to everyone who supports the show including shon chapman steve james and john arnold and special Thanks to clint mccollum and shon johnston who just raised their amounts at patreon.com Slash d t n s our email address is feedback at daily tech news show dot com We're live monday through friday 4 30 p.m eastern alpha geek radio dot com diamond clumb dot tv Come on and join us and our website is daily tech news show dot com back tomorrow with scott johnson talk to you then Show is part of the frog pants network Get more at frog pants dot com I'm in club hopes you have enjoyed this bro That was a good show Yeah, it was fun. What should we call it? Had a favorite bio cap put one in there. Oh the zuck stops here I can't hear you roger He does don't know why But I like the zuck stops here It's nice The social president uber uber never changes All right, so I was thinking uh I like the zuck stops here. Yeah. Yeah, it's good. Shut up siri if we No, it's not for we need to have it for the main topic unless it's Brilliant, right? So Zuckerberg it's a little Futurama reference there Yeah Zuck no strange apples got 99 pence, but a nap ain't one the zuck stops here. I think works the best. Yeah, I agree All right, I'm gonna go grab my kids. So okay I'll be back. All right. I'll be back Like hopefully in 15 minutes. Uh So you'll see my face as opposed to state All right, it's actually a like a pog like a little coin version of roger Oh I like I don't know why he said it but dark redeemer said go zuck yourself Maybe it works You got to zuck yourself I think we're we're getting a head start on the many many jokes that the uh night time Uh comedy hosts will Right if if he I was writing the monologue for colbert and yeah, basically Kimmel right now Um All right, I actually I'm gonna go as well. All right. Have a lovely night patrick. Thank you again and on Thursday morning it is I'll I'll let you know if garret can do earlier. Okay, sounds good Cool. Bye. Adios And then it was just us ladies and gentlemen Just you and I Face to face book that was another one of the title suggestions in there Uh Snapping up control was pretty good too Seriously All of them good I'm level eight and and just waiting So we're just gonna kick back Don't suck yourself before you wreck yourself Or do zuck yourself Before zuck is this is making me feel ill saying that over and over well folks Tomorrow we'll have scott johnson I have no idea what we're going to talk about Because that's the nature of a news program. You don't know ahead of time Usually, uh, although we do we have been booking. Um Whoa This is some news that broke while we were doing the show At 1 45. So just about a half an hour ago Uh, president obama has commuted Chelsea mannings sir, uh sentence Uh, chelsea manning serving a 35 year sentence for leaking classified military documents had the sentence commuted Manning can be freed on may 17th of this year instead of 2045 Not a pardon Just uh commuting the sentence Development begs the question of whether julie nasage the wiki leaks founder will surrender to u.s authorities. Maybe as part of a deal um And of course, there's all kinds of speculation about edward snowden in here White house press secretary josh earnest said there was a pretty stark difference between the manning and snowden cases So it doesn't sound like there's much chance for poor edward snowden to to get any Change in stance from the president, but yeah big deal Gets out in four months Commuting a sentence is is basically uh changing it It's a fancy word You commute it you move it from one thing to another Yeah, obviously snowden can't be sent commuted because he hasn't been sentenced, but they there was talk of pardoning him Uh and and and and and you know, this is not pardoning manning manning is still guilty and still has this on her record, but We'll be able to get out of prison earlier Oh, right I import that audio Get the show on the road I would not expect anything else to happen regarding assage. Obviously nothing's going to happen regarding snowden I still wouldn't expect anything to happen regarding assage either It just doesn't seem likely to me That's just my opinion though I was wrong before a lot The zuck stops here will be our title. I'm putting it in the id3 tags right now in case there was any doubt I don't think there was but That confirms it Would you vote for zuckerberg or any tech ceo for president? I'm curious Feedback dailytechnewshow.com Okay Well, uh while I export and do some more things, uh, I'm gonna leave you guys there Thanks everybody for watching or listening and we will talk to you tomorrow