 What happened to Roger? He had to reboot his. Oh, no. So he won now. Yeah, so if you're listening to the the MP3, the patron MP3, this is the the gun mug. There we are talking about. Roger, look at that gun mug. Let me see. Let me see this mug. Oh, no picture yet. Oh. Now, the funny thing is it's got all these weird symbols that I think are supposed to be like, you know, ranch brands, because it's very Western. But one of them is a peace symbol on your gun mug. Failed it. I mean, honestly, I think it's supposed to be a Y brand, not a peace symbol, but it's funny. Hold on. Let me see. Yeah, I was just being the obstinate in here for a minute. All right, I've given you the requisite control. Yeah, requisite control. Requisite gun troll. Come on, Wired. I think it's just not working with me today. Hey, I'm going to hide. OK. I think we're about ready, Scott. Are you? I'm so ready. It's just sad how ready I am. Sad. Yeah, I'm good. All right. Well, then, I'll take a sip of milk from my gun mug. That's what I always remember having in there was milk, whole milk. Yeah, it's a great place for a drink. All right, here we go. The Daily Tech News Show is brought to you by people like me, not outside of organizations. To learn more, go to dailytechnewshow.com slash support. This is the Daily Tech News for Wednesday, May 24th, 2017, I'm Todd Merritt. Joining me today, Mr. Scott Johnson, how are you, sir? Fabulous is the word I'm going to choose to use today. I feel great. I'm happy to be here. Sun's out. There's tech in the air. Do this. Let us do this. Yeah, we're going to be talking about Microsoft's new Game Pass streaming game service, although I misled you on the morning stream, Scott. I told you that it was both streaming and download, but I read more into the fact, and it's just download. It's not streaming. But it is their competitor for PlayStation Now, which is a streaming service. Yeah, it's an interesting take, and we'll talk about it more in length. But I feel like Microsoft's making small incremental moves toward trying to figure out how they can own 2017 or at least take back a little bit of lost ground. Let's start with a few other tech things you should know about. Intel announced it is integrating Thunderbolt 3 into Intel CPUs. That should make it a little more widespread. And it's making the Thunderbolt protocol spec available to third-party chip makers royalty-free next year. This is all trying to get Thunderbolt into more USB-C ports. Thunderbolt 3 can transfer data at 40 gigabits per second, roughly a 4K movie in 30 seconds. So does this, I mean, Thunderbolt felt like one of those weird in-betweeners that was just going to sort of be a thing and be real fast, and everybody's excited, and then USB-C came along. I didn't realize that Thunderbolt at the chip level could, as a protocol, could actually enhance what we're getting out of USB-C ports. Yeah, those USB-C ports on the new MacBook Pros, also Thunderbolt 3 ports. See, that's good to know. All right, I learned something every day. How about learning this? Samsung Gear 360 video camera goes on sale May 25th. So get out your wallets, everybody, because it's going to set you back 229 bucks. It's been available for pre-order in the UK for 219 pounds. The camera does 360-degree video in 4K, and does that still with 15 megapixels. Yeah, still images. Yeah, I want to see it in action. I'm sure some sample video exists somewhere, but I just... Oh, yeah, there's tons. They showed it off at Mobile World Congress, so... Sure, I just want to see a guy like you do it and then see what the results are, you know? I got you. Like, every day use, is it worth my 230 bucks? That's what I want to know. Ikea's Trud-Free, Trud-Free, Trud-Free, Trad-Fri. T-R-A, well, I don't know that that's an A. It's an A with a little halo on it, D-F-R-I. Anyway, smart lights from Ikea are getting support for Google Home, Apple HomeKit, and Amazon Voice Services this summer or autumn, the lights first debuted in Europe. Cheap smart lights that are cross-platform, smart move Ikea. I agree. This is what I've been waiting for. I love everything Phillips and everybody else is doing. That's great and all, but I don't want to spend my life savings on automated home stuff. I would like to go buy some cheap, crap at Ikea, even if it means it's only the last couple of years. This is the true full rotation of home stuff. So yes, thank you Ikea for finally getting into it. Let's get into some more top stories. Google announced Google attribution, which uses machine learning to estimate how real world video ads, banner ads, emails, and other materials contribute to a customer transaction. So instead of saying, well, they clicked this link and then they bought something, that's all we know. They can say, oh, well, they actually went into the store and we know that from Beacon and they got this circular in the mail and then they went to the website and then they clicked the buy link. And so now we have more information about them. Google attribution is free in beta, but will eventually charge for enterprise pro deployment. But it's just more AdSense details for most people. Google also has begun including analysis of credit card transactions to help determine when digital advertising leads to real world purchases, kind of part of the same effort. They are not collecting your credit card transactions themselves and they're not talking about where they're getting the data from, but presumably it's from companies out there who compile credit card transaction information anonymously and make it available to marketers. Google's just gonna start including that data. So funny timing on this, I got a friend who works in the web advertising world and he was talking to me via email about this very thing. Oh yeah. He was trying to understand from him what this meant and it's all kind of what they've said it means, but he said what I really want it to do is give us analytics on if a page is crowded with advertising, did that page, was that page more likely to lead to an actual sale or was it less likely? If the ads were up top, did that change it if it was on the side or if they were large square ones or if it was in line stuff right in the middle of an article? Like those are the questions they struggle with and they don't really have a good way to analyze that data in a very scientific way. So his thinking was it'd be great if this could be applied that way. Now that may go beyond AdSense and that's the problem. Maybe we can't apply this to other things outside of AdSense or outside of Google Sphere, but that's pretty interesting if we can get down to the nitty gritty of how many ads did it take for Scott to say, okay, fine, I'll buy it. And honestly, without that kind of information, without tracking you, and I know when none of us like to be tracked without permission, but this is one of the arguments for you giving permission without tracking you. They don't know if that stuff works. And so whoever's got the loudest voice in the room decides how many ads get put on a page or whether autoplay video happens. Whereas if they have better data, then someone can make a reasonable argument of like, hey guys, this turns more people off than it does help. Let's do something that's more useful to the consumer. Yeah, especially I'll go to some pages where I use an ad blocker or something and it'll say you've blocked 38 ads on this page. And I think to myself, okay, I don't know if that's some of them repeating. I don't know if that's one that's on a refreshing to be new content. Yeah, and little black pixels, single pixel trackers and stuff down. Exactly, but it's too many. And it strikes me that maybe we could hone, we could figure out a way to do it in a way that isn't so much just throw traps everywhere and let's hope animals step in the traps. Instead, let's be a little more scientific about it. Right, right. Now that's a good way of putting it. The DJI Spark is about the size of a soda can. Tom, if you're looking at your soda can yesterday the other day and you're thinking, man, that'd be cool to have a pop can for some of you. A pop can, exactly. Or a Coke can if you lived down in the South, they call everything. Anyway, this thing shoots HD video, has a two access gimbal stabilizer, tops out at 31 miles per hour and can fly for over 16 freaking minutes. You can also control it with your hand waving. The spark will follow your hand. And if you wave it, it will fly 10 feet away keeping you centered. So basically, you know, you're the point of, you're the fulcrum of what it's going to orbit. You can also, let's see, it will, oh, you can also follow as you walk. And when you're done, wave and hold out your hand and the spark will land on your palm. It will know what they're doing. The St. Francis of quadcopters. Totally. Anyway, so you can preorder this thing if you want to right now in Alpine White, Sky Blue, Meadow Green, Lava Red. That's cool. And Sunrise Yellow. Also known as White, Blue, Green, Red and Yellow. Exactly. I love all these screwy names. Burnt Umber, not included. 500 bucks shipping, with shipping, I guess, June 15th. So coming up faster than you can take a stick at it. I've actually been kind of interested in a drone lately. I don't even know why. I've worried that I'd use it for a week and then quit. But maybe this is the good place to start because I do want some of these cool automation features that are less than just, let me see if I can't crash this every time I try to land it. Yeah, I mean, it's half the price of DJI's next up level of quadcopter. It's also very small and it doesn't do a lot. Two axis gimbal, HD video, like it doesn't have all the specs but that's, everyone talks about it as a selfie function but that ability to just kind of fly off 10 feet and keep you in view, you know, that's the kind of thing that people have been craving and showing off in demos like, oh, and you're on the trail or you're going down the rapids. The quadcopter could just follow along and get it all on film. Now it's here, you can get it on June 15th. It's expensive for the kind of quadcopter it is but maybe it's not expensive when you've taken to account that it can do all that stuff. There's also an app, there's an upgrade package that includes a remote if you don't want to constantly use the hand waving and it'll be interesting to see just how reliable that hand waving is, like what the quirks are on it but certainly interesting. Yeah, I mean, look, 1,000 bucks is 1,500 to 500. I'll bet there is a big market of people who did not want to go, you know, full Monty on the next up at that DJI. So I think it's a good deal. Also, I think it was very telling that the Verge compared it to the size of a pellet. Did they say a Pellegrino? Oh, yeah. I don't know if it was them that did it. Maybe it was somebody else that did that. Might have been wired. But I was like, oh, how, how, how very modern. You know, the old, the pellet. Like the favoured Pellegrino, I'm totally showing my age here because my wife drinks this all the time and I can't even remember what it is, but it's like the hot new flavoured water because it doesn't have any calories, size of a Mountain Dew can for the rest of you. There, a potato for the rest of the other rest of you. For those of you who don't drink sugar water. This one is put in by request from our Daily Tech Headlines collaborator, Rich Drafilino. He said, please tell me, just God Johnson is on the show tomorrow. Blockstack released a decentralized browser that can run apps off of blockchains. Do I need to explain any more for you, Scott? Hold on, let me think. Yes, please. All right, so the browser can grant access to websites using a single identity login owned by the user. Sites are loaded from peers rather than from servers. You don't need a database. You don't need an identity management system. It uses the blockchain for all of that, which means you don't have to actually put the site anywhere. It can just be distributed around and still be secure. It is in the development stage. There aren't a lot of sites yet for it. There aren't even a full browser for it. It currently exists as a browser add-on. So it's riding on the back of either Chrome Firefox or Safari. It's only available for Linux and Mac OS. Windows version is in the works. Current version is for developers to use to create things for it. They want people to come up with really cool things to take advantage of this. And a user-focused version is expected in six months without getting into the nitty gritty of how it works, which there's a lot out there about that. What this does is decentralize so that you don't have to operate a server. You don't have to manage a database and you don't even have to do authentication. The blockchain certifies that I am who I say I am and the site is served from whoever happens to be on and connected to the blockchain at that time so that I get all the relevant information. It is the thing that Silicon Valley, the series is kind of messing around with the sort of mesh decentralized internet and also solves a lot of problems, especially ones around that neutrality. Yeah, I agree. So I'm gonna shock everybody here and say that I am finally starting to understand blockchain as it starts to get away from Bitcoin. I don't mean get away from it, it's still an integral to Bitcoin, but as I start to see the newer applications or the ideas that are being applied to it, it's all starting to fall into place for me. The idea of 10 years from now, all of us having a unique user identification that is purely mine, purely yours. We're living in the future and all we gotta do is say our name or walk up to a thing or have it see our face or whatever. And this being the mechanism for sort of a unified identification system across the board with this level of security and from what I know about blockchain already, it's brilliant. It's totally, I totally get it. I'm on board, I'm all the way in. It's just when it deals with money I struggle for whatever reason. It's the Bitcoin that bothers you, not the blockchain. Yeah, well, it's just the money in general. It's like money's already nebulous and weird. We apply value to a thing that never had value before. And yeah, you've solved, that's Bitcoin right there. Exactly, there it is. And so because I've always struggled with that, what I don't struggle with is everyday functionality. I understand the need for me to go to a website and not have to, what's my password? Shoot, it's asking for caption. I can't see that E or whatever. Like all the ways we do it now, that would be lovely to have that just disappear into the ether and we are just, we are our security. I am my way in. Iocow says this might solve DDoS because you first of all would know wherever request is coming from. They could be anonymous, but there is a public identity. This is one of the problems with the WannaCry folks. We all know what their wallets are for Bitcoin. So we'll know as soon as somebody takes money out of that wallet. So it's gonna be difficult for them to get the money out of the ransomware. So you'd be able to track DDoS is a little easier, but also you wouldn't have one server that you can deny. You can't, if you go after a site, it's just gonna go get the site for you. It's not, I mean, I'm not saying there wouldn't be a DDoS equivalent attack that you could conduct and BioCal has already moved on to like, which could you end up DDoSing every node? But that's much more difficult and complex. Yeah, for sure. I just, I picture a future where that is easier, but also imagine you get into your car, it knows it's you. Somebody who doesn't own your car gets in, it doesn't, it can't verify it based on the same exact criteria, your hunting rifles, your kids can't use them, only you can. Like we're into sci-fi territory in a very real way that's practical and I'm into that. So blockchain is, the more it dawns on me, the more practical it gets. And the less practical it gets when it starts talking about money again for, I don't know what, it's just my, I mean, it is a big leap to go to real world objects like you're talking about, but it is kind of cool to think about it metaphorically as being the same sort of thing. That's exactly right. One password, speaking of security, they're here now, man, they're here now. They introduced a travel mode that will move all stored password and payment data on a user's device during border crossings and restore it once the travel has finished. Canada, Mexico, wherever. All password vaults are wiped when in travel mode unless specifically tagged as safe for travel. Maybe Canada, I don't know, making judgments there. The removed accounts are then synced up again once travel mode is deactivated. Travel mode is only available to subscribers of one password service, not those that purchase the app outright. So you need to be part of their subscription. That's an interesting thing. It feels like they're taking good advantage of some recent events, trouble with people. Well, yeah, a lot of people are worried that the border agents, not just in the United States, but specifically there've been some cases in the United States where people have said, no, you have to unlock your phone. And there's arguments about whether that's legal or not and courts are ruling on it. But for the time being, people are worried, hey, I have sensitive corporate information on here. This has happened in one case. We're an engineer had to unlock his phone for TSA agents who took it away from him and looked at his phone without him present. They don't know what data was accessed. He had confidential data. He's a NASA engineer. And so this is a way to say, look, I'm gonna be safe because I'm not gonna perjure myself. I'm not gonna pretend I don't know something because that's dangerous. If they can actually bring charges against you then, I'm going to remove the access. I won't know the passwords because they're stored in one password. And I will tell one password, get rid of everything on the device so that I won't be lying when I say I don't have the passwords to those things. And the idea being before you leave for the airport maybe or even in the airport lobby, you turn this on and it gets rid of all your passwords. Then you go through customs, you go through security. And then when you're through and you're safely on the other side and no one else is gonna be looking at your phone, you press a button and it restores all those passwords to you. And you can mark some safe. If you're like, look, I don't really care if they have my Flickr account because there's no photos on there. I don't know. You're like, you know what? I've got this one email account that I only use to talk to family. I don't mind if they look at that, that's fine. Maybe it'll keep them from getting angry. I'll mark that one as travel safe, whatever. But if you have those kinds of accounts, you can mark those safe and it won't get rid of those even when you turn on the travel protection and it gets rid of everything else. I have a friend named Zane, went to Nigeria for a business thing he had to do. He's in IT and does some training, gets to the airport, goes through the customs line, they ask to see his notebook, they take it in the back room and they then say that the only way he gets it back is if he pays a certain amount of money. So if you're thinking Nigerians and scams, they extend well beyond email, it turns out. This would have been something he would have really liked to have because he may not have ever gotten it back. He ended up getting it back. There was some scuffle and people got it worked out, but had he not or had they had it long enough to do something to it or to get into it or whatever, there'd been little he could do. So outside of the whole, I'm being truthful about not having my passwords to unlock anything side, which is good. He would have had a much better piece of mind knowing that the data on this thing, which was important corporate data was not being tampered with and that seems good. So I like this. I hope some of the other password management apps and things continue to maybe follow their lead. Yeah, this is the kind of thing that if I'm gonna travel internationally, I'm gonna think about switching to one password because this is pretty convenient. Finally, Warby Parker has an app that can help you order new glasses from them even if your prescription is expired in some cases. The prescription check app needs you to be between the ages of 18 and 40. So Scott and I are out. You have to live in New York, California, Florida or Virginia for the time being. That's where it's legal. I guess they're working on other areas. You have to have no history of eye disease, no need for bifocals. Oh, I'm out again and have had a comprehensive exam in the last five years. So for those few of you still left interested in this, you go to warbyparker.com slash test, you pair up the website with the app, then you stand 12 feet away from the website screen. So presumably you'd have it on a desktop or a laptop and then you have your app in your hand, you stand 12 feet away and you take a basic vision test. If your vision hasn't changed, a doctor will issue you a new prescription within 24 hours and then you can spend money on new glasses from Warby Parker. All right, I like it. I did this with clothes once, one of those online retailers where you, you know, take a picture of yourself, turn around to a 360, they make you a fitted shirt and I thought there's no ways it's gonna work. This is so dumb and it totally worked. So why not a vision test? I mean, I realize there's probably more legal hoops to jump through for them, but I mean, sure, it's just a chart on the wall. And if it's smart enough to be as good as my doctor at telling me what I got blurry and what I didn't, I don't have a problem with this. I'm a little sad I'm not in their age range because I wouldn't mind. Well, you have to have no history of eye disease. You also have to live in New York, California, Florida, Virginia, like they're throwing you out in a bunch of different ways. Yeah, I had eye surgeries, I do not live in those states and I am not 18 to 40, so I'm screwed. I have had a comprehensive exam in the last five years. I think that's the only one of these. Well, no, I live in California. So I have two of these that I can pass. Good morning, I do. Yeah, and I'm wondering what safeguard they have. I mean, I guess it's just not in your best interests, right? But I wonder what kind of safeguard they have against somebody standing closer to the screen than 12 feet. Yeah, you don't. The app may be able to tell through the camera or something. The camera, I mean, but then that depends on, do you have a camera mounted to the screen you're looking at? Like there's a lot of... The camera in your app on the phone, right? That has to be pointed at the screen and maybe that's able to pretty accurately tell if you're 12 feet away. But Warby Parker just, I like this about them. Even this will never affect me and I'll never use it. But I like that they are more than just, hey, get cool glasses online and at a few of our locations. Like they've got more to say, more to do. They're like porn hub for glasses. They have a lot more to do than their core business. Sure, they love being thought of that way. They'd love to have the bottom line, I'm sure. To get all the tech headlines each day in about five minutes, be sure to subscribe to dailytechheadlines.com available as a podcast, as an Amazon Echo flash briefing or on the brand new Anchor app. Anchor has a bunch of great content from folks like Annie Gauss who's on the show Friday or Jeff Kanata's newest, latest, best. And of course, dailytech headlines, you can get that right there at anchor.fm. And that is a look at our top stories. All right, Microsoft Xbox One Game Subscription Service Game Pass launches June 1st, 10 days before E3. If you subscribe for $10 a month, you get access to more than 100 Xbox One and 360 games. It seemed to be a roughly evenly split between the two. Game Pass subscribers can download the games if they want to play them offline. And in fact, I was incorrect as I mentioned on TMS, there is no streaming. And Microsoft says in their fact, they determined that the biggest problem with streaming services people had was lack of bandwidth. So they just do downloads for this service. You can purchase the games if you wanna keep them, like especially if a game is being pulled off the service and you wanna keep it, you can purchase them for a 20% discount. You also get 10% off of downloadable content, which once you buy, you get to keep even if the game goes away from the service. Xbox Live Gold subscribers can get into Game Pass right now. They don't have to wait, Scott. All right, so a couple things about the announcement. I was wondering for months why they had so many 360 games popping up almost daily saying guess what's now compatible with Xbox One? Guess what now is compatible? Every day there would be a new game added to the 360 to Xbox One compatibility list. And while those were also purchasable in some cases, if you already owned it digitally, then you could now just get it. And it was your copy on the new platform. Red Dead Redemption is one of those. There's a few others. That was always really good news and everything, but I kept wondering who was this, what is this for? Like why are they actually doing this? Because in the past, they haven't cared that much about backwards compatibility. In fact, none of them do. They would rather people move onto the new platform. And I think this was it. I think they were waiting for this to launch. Now they've got enough back catalog plus current titles on Xbox One. Certainly nothing brand new, but a decent selection of games. Halo 5, for example, is on here. Halo 5 Guardians, yeah. I actually also like the idea. I kind of wish it was an option, but I like the idea that they're at least addressing this elephant in the room with game streaming these days, which is, I don't care how good your bandwidth is, it is not the most consistent experience in the world. It's kind of a problem across the board. It isn't just Sony. It isn't just the way Steam does it. It isn't the way, you know, Nvidia's got their service. They're all kind of crappy. At one point or another, you're going to have a glitch or a problem. It's not seamless. So it'd be nice to be able to say, well, if I don't have a terabyte internet connection, wouldn't it be cool if I could just download that copy of Halo 3 and play it? And I like that. That's a great option. I wish Sony would do this. This would be a thing Sony should do for PlayStation Now. All that being said though, it is interesting to see Microsoft positioning themselves in a couple of small ways leading up to E3 and leading up to the release of Scorpio this fall to try to take some ground back because they've lost so much of it. According to some numbers released in, let's see, March 16th on Venture Beat, they did a big article about Sony dominating console market with 57% share worldwide. That's huge. And that's everybody, not just those two competitors. That's an enormous lead that is really hard to come back from. So I don't know if this is enough of a small step, if Scorpio is enough of a big step, but we're definitely entering some unknown territory. And I feel like Microsoft's trying to figure out how they can do it. Yeah, so to compare the streaming services is kind of apples and oranges. PlayStation Now costs twice as much as Game Pass. It's 20 bucks and doesn't offer discounts for purchases. So on the financial side, Game Pass wins, but PlayStation Now also has more than 480 games. They don't have PS4 games yet, but they did announce that they're coming. So pretty soon it'll be at parody of having both old and new games and almost five times as many games as Game Pass. So it definitely wins on game availability. The service is streaming though and Game Pass is download. So it kind of is what your taste is. If you've got enough bandwidth, you may prefer the streaming because it doesn't take up space on your hard drive. But the download model of Game Pass means it's always gonna play without lag. So a lot of people may like that. I call it a wash. It kind of depends on what platform you are. I don't think you're gonna pick a console based on the service. So you're gonna get a pretty good service either way. This is, I guess what I'm getting to, Scott, is this is not the thing that's going to get Microsoft to catch up to Sony. What else do you think Microsoft needs to do? All right, so there's a couple of things that have to happen. I think getting some service parody or some service competitive advantage is a good idea. I think this is a good one. I don't know if this is gonna be the end all be all. I don't think there are that many players that care that much about that catalog, but it's still a nice tick on the checkbox list of things you want out of a service. So that's number one. I kind of wish all the console makers, Microsoft included, would quit having separate subscription services for various services. If I wanna get Sony PlayStation Now, PlayStation Plus, PlayStation View, and just regular PSN access, all of those are four separate signups. That's annoying. I don't think they even have any combined ones at the moment that I'm aware of. So I had to sign up for all those individually or the ones that I wanted. Microsoft's got similar setup with the way live works and now game pass. Presumably on the first we learned differently, that will be a separate thing that's sort of a separate subscription that you have to manage. So all that being said, as much as that could improve, getting into some sort of parody position with Sony in that way is a great idea. They have one strength Sony seems to have never had and they should capitalize on this. And that is they've always had better quicker downloads. Since this is a download only service, this bodes well for that than the PSN ever has. It's still a chore to preload a game on PSN for whatever reason, if it's throttled or a thousand other reasons I don't know about, PSN is terribly slow. The fastest is easily steam. Then I'd say Xbox one, and then you get down to way down on PSN. So they could give some heat to Sony in that regard and really improve that experience. The main things are gonna be though, Scorpio this fall being a success, it's gotta launch at least at the same price or less than the PlayStation pro. Otherwise you're fighting an uphill battle. It doesn't matter how awesome that piece of hardware is. So that's a big one. And they need big games at launch when that Scorpio hits. And right now their big games are cracked down three, Sea of Thieves, and I think that's it. As far as stuff you can only get on that platform coming out till the end of the year. E3 they may stand up and go, hey, guess what, five more we didn't tell you about. And I would expect them to do so, but yeah, they need to do that. Something like that hopefully will happen at E3, but they have a lot to prove that way. And the third thing is harder. The hardest thing is to get with third parties and convince them that the recent shift away from them as the previous lead platform in the last generation to Sony as the new lead, that they need to bring some of that stuff back. And that's really hard to convince those third parties that they need to play that kind of ball when big leagues is happening somewhere else. So usually what that is for Microsoft is them paying a ton of money for exclusivity. They did it with Tomb Raider last year. They've done it with other games where they just pay out a ton of incentive cash for certain developers or publishers to go to them first or DLC first or whatever. So I think that's really important. And if it takes a bunch of money, then it takes a bunch of money, but whatever it is that needs to really happen. But all of this, if I'm being truthful, they're not gonna have a big impact with Scorpio until 2018 anyway. We're talking about holiday sales are important, but then there's a drop off and then what? What does the next year look like? That will depend on games. That will depend on how they leverage their PC Windows dominance and combine that with their very loyal Xbox audience and their very loyal PC audience and somehow make those two groups work together, play together, have game parody, launch day parody, that sort of stuff. That's all really important. So that may be too many parts of Microsoft having to work together to make that happen. Sony certainly has this problem across their various divisions. Although PlayStation now works on Windows. Game Pass does not. Microsoft's gonna need to fix that. Yeah, that's a really good point. Again, that parody is gonna matter. They need to be at least as good. And then Scorpio may have enough guts in it to say, all right, we're as least as good on the services front and the games front, but now also we're this much better because of this 4K and this kind of VR capability and blah, blah, blah. I mean, they keep talking about how Scorpio's VR capable. We don't know what that means. They don't have a headset in the works that we know of. Does it mean you hook an Oculus up to it and they make a deal with somebody? Well, remember Microsoft had billed, announced all these third party headsets. So I would expect to see more announcements along those lines, including compatibility at E3. Yeah, so also it's, you know, well, whatever PSVR has done pretty well for itself, but everything always does better if you pack it in. So there's questions about that. That's too expensive for a Scorpio launch. So I have a lot of questions about what they're gonna do, but I think what we're seeing is the right direction for Microsoft. And as much as we can hymn and haw about how this generation is going so far since 2013, the one big difference is this isn't a six to 10 year cycle. It's this new weird half 1.5 upgrade cycle introduced by the PlayStation 4, originally announced from the Scorpio announcement that came before the PS4 Pro announcement. So they're playing a little gamesmanship there, but that's what makes this different. So they can't just count on that this time. You can throw a wrench into it and say, guess what, PS5 is coming out in a year and a half and it's gonna be brap, brap, brap. And that'll make people go, well, I'll just wait. I don't need Scorpio, I'll skip that. So it is a really weird wrinkle in a very familiar tale of one company's ahead of another during a certain generation and then they flip sides the next generation. And that is really fascinating as someone who watches this stuff. I can't wait to see how it pans out. Well, thanks to everybody who participates in our subreddit. You can submit stories and vote on them at dailytechnewshow.reddit.com. Quick patron shout out. I wanna start calling out other folks doing cool things on patreon.com. Peter Anthony Holder has been doing his radio program for decades in Montreal. The latest version of his show is called The Stuff File. He started it in 2009 and it's now supported directly on Patreon. He's interviewed folks like Robert J. Sawyer, Tom Arnold, a man who has Hitler's toilet among many others, including myself. He was nice enough to have me on the show. Go take a look at The Stuff File. It's S-T-U-P-H from Peter Anthony Holder at patreon.com slash The Stuff File program. We'll have a link in the show notes as well. Quick message of the day from Gerhard in sunny Africa on the subject of the Samsung 8 Iris scanner bypass, I can see law enforcement taking mug shots with infrared cameras in the future. This way they have both facial recognition and Iris bypass mechanisms. As an added extra, they can ask you to stand palms faced forward to get a good shot of your fingerprints as well. Eugh, really? Yeah. By the way, speaking of which, I said this morning, I was making a bit of a big deal about it, but I was talking this morning about, you know, Samsung should have caught this whole thing. And I thought about that sense and you said, well, I don't know if they can or whatever. And I came to realize that's how this stuff goes, right? Company releases a thing, public gets their hands on it. And before you know it, 500 weird problems are found. There is not an authentication method without a vulnerability. Exactly. The thing that Samsung needs to responsibly do is say, okay, this isn't 100% perfect, you know, but it's good enough for most people or something like that. Should they have done that? I mean, this is a PR question, so maybe it doesn't matter. They could have done it ahead of time a little more, you know, prepared people for it. Maybe they didn't know somebody would crack it this quick and have such a problem. Well, and also, you know, companies aren't going to market their thing as might be cracked. So, you know, that's not going to happen. But as long as they don't overplay the security, as long as they're out there saying, and this will 100% secure, it's the most secure way to lock down your phone. And I don't think Samsung did that. No, and you could love the same exact argument against Apple and their fingerprint sensor stuff and OneTouch and all that. It's all, that stuff's all subject to the same problem. I feel like Samsung gets a little bit too much heat though because they had a little too much heat there for a while in their Note 7. I didn't actually mean it that way, but yes, well said. But yeah, like, it's just, it's impossible not to want to go, oh, Samsung again with the weird thing. And it's, this is probably stoned too far. Yeah, that's the echo chamber. It's like, ah, I want to be mad at something. Samsung Iris scanner is cracked. Well, yeah, all biometrics are cracked. We haven't got there yet with them. They're nifty, but they're not the most secure. We've also been misled by movies to think that these things are more secure. I'm telling you that blockchain thing earlier, that's the answer. We're going to get to a place where I just have to walk in the room and everything knows what's going on. Yeah. Gouchum says Iris scan should mean username, not password. I don't know exactly username, but I totally am with the spirit of what he's saying, which is a second factor, not the only factor. Something you have, a picture of your high. Hey, thanks, Scott Johnson for joining us as always. What you got going on to tell folks? It's always a pleasure. I would also point people to my regular daily anchor show, which is called the daily blip. You can find it at anchor.fm slash daily blip. It's all about the days, video games, news and reviews and thoughts about what's happening in the gaming world. Getting awful close to E3. And when that happens, expect a lot of commentary about what's going on there from me as well. You can follow all of that at frogpants.com or me on Twitter at Scott Johnson. Thanks to everybody. It gives a little value back to this show for the value you get from it. We hope you get some value. That's why you're listening. That's why you're watching. And we just ask that you give a little bit of that value back if you can. Big thanks to Richard Hul, Cesar Trujillo, Todd Gaston and many, many more at patreon.com slash DTNS. That includes you. Our email addresses feedback at dailytechnewshow.com. We're live Monday through Friday, 4.30 p.m. Eastern, 2030 UTC at alpha geek radio.com and diamondclub.tv or at facebook.com slash dailytechnewshow and our website of course, as you could guess, is dailytechnewshow.com. Back tomorrow with Justin Robert Young. Talk to you then. This show is part of the Frog Pants Network. Get more at frogpants.com. I hope you have enjoyed this program. Nice. It's a good show. It's a good show. I am imitating a post-television, one of those little post-television production company blips. It's not trying to be. Isn't it Rick and Morton? I think so. I think it's Rick and Morton, yeah. I think it's the Dan Harmon thing. It's a good show. Yeah, it's Dan Harmon's thing. That's right. It's my favorite one. I used to, I'm a big fan of those generally. I like logos at the beginning of movies. It's like production company. I love that stuff. Move your head. Love that stuff, but the best one. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. Yes, Roger. What have we for titles? We have putting passwords on airplane mode. That's pretty elegant. I see what you did there, Warby Parker. I want to buy cheap crap. Not sure that came from porn hub for glasses. Thunderbolt, Thunderbolt Thunderbolt, size of a pop can. Thunderbolt type C. Very, very frightening me. KV-87. KV-87. KV-87. Blockchain exporter. More blockchain, fewer fools. Putting passwords on airplane mode. I like that one. That one's pretty good. Yeah, that one's pretty good. What do you like, Scott? Of those, I don't know, I'm bad at picking these. I don't want a big one. I'm going to say my favorite so far is probably, I feel like putting passwords on an airplane mode is long. Okay, it's fair. I mean, I like porn hub for glasses, but only because that's dumb and you should never use it. Let's see. I'm just looking at the lower ones in case something late breaking came in. Yeah, keep voting if you're watching live, showbot.tv. Vote, vote, vote, vote. So far, a maximum of seven of you have voted and there are many more of you watching. I like the term parody matters, but they spelled it parody like a joke parody. I don't know if that's really the point you want to get across. Maybe that's, maybe it's a different comment. Yeah, also I always look for ones that are part of the main topic, but we don't have to, I guess. No, I've started writing a better description that is more than just the main topic. That was always my hang up was like, the description would always be just the main topic and if the headline wasn't that it kind of disconnected, but now I don't have that problem. All right, well, I'm gonna, people are uploading porn hub for glasses. I don't know, putting passwords on airplane mode is probably the best one. It's just. Writing in cars with passwords. It's just long. We'll let it marinate. Showbot.tv go, go vote. Don't soak. Well, more put looks got more votes. Oh, porn hub makes a jump to six. Unlike actual elections and things, these are not binding numbers. Everybody. All right. I'm exporting without a title. I know dangerous. Danger putting passwords on airplane mode is at the top by twice as many as the next one. Yes. 50% more votes going. But is it because you didn't vote? If showbot.tv is not in your browser tab right now, make it so. Yeah. Unless you're at home later, don't look it up. Right. Then it's too late. Sorry. It'll be empty. Or it'll be the next day. And that doesn't make sense. Chad B says, let it merit Nate. That's what happens when Nate Langston's on the show. Nuclear password options, not bad. Nuclear. You know how I used to be a nuclear guy? Yeah. Did you? You know how I fixed it? All you have to do is pronounce the clear part. So you say nuclear. Nuclear. Nuclear. Yeah. Easy. I used to be a Washington, Warsh McClos guy. I fixed it by just paying attention and not saying that. I used to hear people make fun of George Bush, or George W. Bush for saying nuclear. I'd feel bad because I used to do the same thing. Nuclear. Get that porn hop for glasses up there. Now we've got campaigns going on. Putting passwords on airplane mode is definitely leading. Porn hop for glasses, make it a run. Thunderbolt of Type-C, very, very frightening me. Also very long, hilarious. Probably my favorite, but maybe it doesn't work as well as the title. The bolt of Type-C, very, very fright sees what it should be. Rhymes better. Thunderbolt of Type-C, very, very speedy. Cause it's fast. Thunderbolt of Type-C, very, very fast. See. Ah, see, there you go. See, it's very fast. See. Be a good writing vote. I wanted to vote. A vote for KV 87 is a vote for the modified version of his title. Zoe, did I say I want to buy cheap crap and I was talking to him? Oh, it was the Ikea thing. I do. Oh, with the light bulbs, of course. Yeah. No, I remember now. Yeah, now I remember. Brows with blockchain, blockchain explorer. Tom lives dangerously. Oh, is that a new one? Yep. Yeah. All biometrics are correct. Impassive prime. Well, we are 30 seconds away from final export. The polls are about to close, folks. Yep. If you're already in line, hurry up. We do operate on a dictatorial model that allows us to overrule democracy when we feel it is necessary. However, I think we're gonna go with the Democratic results this time. All right. You go with the popular results. Yeah. The popular vote. There's no Roger, Scott, Tom, Electoral College chicanery. Yeah. My porn hub for glasses would be the puppet dictator if we were to put him up there. Well, and Roger and I would outvote you anyway, I think at this point. So it's fine. Yeah. What? Yeah. That's a kind of democracy right there. That's a sort of a democracy. Yeah. So putting passwords on airplane mode, it is. Hooray. Well done. Well done. Well done. Agesia. AJC. AJC. Yeah. Isn't that a AJC? That'd be AJC, right? I was trying to spell it. I was trying to get all phonetic up in there. I get phonetic in here. Oh, my legs. Drawing two legs. Nah, I don't know what it is. I need to walk more. That'll help. They just crank it up. It's one of the nice things about having dogs. They get me out of the house. Heck yeah. I get a good, I don't know, mile or more in just with the walks. I can do usually two miles with a kid. That's two miles carrying a kid who doesn't want to walk in the same straight line. Even with their little push car. You know the little car that comes with the long bar in the back? Oh yeah. Dig it board of it and want to start walking. And now you got to push this thing and carry them at the same time. My dental hygienist daughter is named Ellie and she's a year and a half old. So she always asks me about your daughter when I go into the dentist. Tell her she's left for training. Man, my kid's got the same big obnoxious, hard to find head as I do. I can already see it. She has difficulty putting, I don't know, let me ask you this, Scott. Yeah. You were there for your child, children's upbringing. Did you ever come across an issue where your kids' heads were too big for the shirt? Like you tried to, like, you know, at the one or two age, did you try to pull over their head? Yeah. And complain about it going over their head? Yeah, their head. They get all bent back and they get mad. Yeah, that happened. But maybe because the hole's too small or it looks like it's too small. I usually chalked it up back to our hat discussion. I usually chalked it up to their heads being too big and the shirt wasn't really at fault. That's what I'm thinking, but like, maybe, I don't know. I'm still bummed about my hat not fitting. I gotta return it now or something. Give it to Jen. I have a really great Green Bay hat that I love, but it is so tight that I will have a migraine by four if I wear it. I don't have a headlight. I had that forensic unit hat and that hat was sweet because it fit my melon to a tee. It was a flex-fit hat. It worked. And now I can't find it. I misplaced it. Maybe I left it at a restaurant. I don't know. It's the worst. Just hit it. Pissed. I'm voting for Tom lives dangerously just for fun. I picked our thing already, but why not? I think everyone should push that one up. Give it a 25-inch head, which is a huge head, by the way. Pretty big head, yeah. It's probably about mine. I'll bet we're about the same. Yeah, but you're also 6'1". Yeah, it helps to be stretched out a little. I'm not. I look like I'm an orange with it on a toothpick. A fat toothpick. No one looks at me and goes, oh, but he has a big head. It's when I try their hat on, then they're freaked out. They're like, what? That doesn't fit. So somehow I have an optical illusion going. Yeah, because you're 6'1". Yeah, it helps. You don't, I don't know. I just got a big head. It's pretty obvious to me. I don't know. Actually, what's weird is you only notice it if I'm standing next to someone who's like Patrick, compared to Patrick, I have a ginormous noggin. Patrick. That or Patrick just has a very small head. Patrick Beja or Patrick? Patrick Norton. Yeah, Patrick Norton seems, let's see, here's the thing. On camera, Patrick Norton seems like his head is enormous. When you meet him though, it's not. It's like a little orange. Like a peanut. All right, enough talking about peanut heads. You're a melon. Enough of this melon talk. Yeah, we're bordering dangerous territory. Put on my perfectly average seven and a quarter inch hat. Whatever, I have the same problem with shoes, but that's it. Take a drink from my gun mug. Oh, my God. I wish I could find knitted brain slug. You know what really grinds my gears to borrow a phrase from Peter Griffith is that I can't just, other than pants, I really can't go into a store and find stuff that actually fits me. Like, I don't want to brag. I got a pretty wide chest like torso. So if I get a shirt that actually fits me. So it doesn't pitch my armpits. The shirt comes down to like my knees. You know what I mean? It's just like it's weird looking. Or if I do get one that fits, it just looks odd because the cut is meant for either. I just I basically look like a kid. Like it just looks stupid on me. Like I'm wearing a kid's shirt because it's a shirt. But I just can't find anything to fit. I'm the most ungainly person to clothe. I think that's most people though. Because because I don't have that unusual of a body type. I don't think and even then I can't I go in. I know my size, my inseam and my waist size and I try on pants and they don't fit because the numbers don't mean anything. But I don't know. And this is the only reason I'm not ashamed of it. I would leave eyes 501s because their size is like I know what my size hasn't changed in like the 20 years. And you know, from that manufacturer, it's going to be the same every time. Yeah, no, I hear you. That's you know what I started buying the Mr. Collection service where they just send you clothes and you wear them and send them back and you get to keep ones and buy them from them. If you like them, I have found more pants that way than I ever have going out and shopping. What's the service again? The Mr. Collection. Do they do hats? You know, I think they do occasionally do hats. I've never gotten a hat from them, though. This is I've always wanted to try this. You've you've liked it. Yeah, I get good stuff from them. And you and and they've changed it since I started it now so that you can send it back as many times as you want. It doesn't make sense for everyone because it's not cheaper necessarily. But for me, it was like I need different looking clothes for videos and stuff. And this is better than going out and constantly buying. Yeah. And then, yeah, then you then now you're in charge of figuring out what to do with the stuff you're not going to wear anymore or whatever. Yeah, right. And this way, I just I just like I'm going to wear the shirt is from Mr. Collection. I'm going to wear it today on the show. I'm going to wear it on the tech Republic videos and then I'm going to send it back. I don't have to keep it. Interesting. And it's in the selections. Good and all that. Yeah, they've been pretty good. You can give them feedback too. I wish they had a better feedback system. You have to you have to describe what they sent you and then say what you like. So I often forget to go back and give them feedback. It's not as nice as trunk club in that respect, but trunk clubs are so expensive. Yeah. And it's and it's a shopping service, not a try on service. So trunk club, you can't wear the shoes, for instance, because they're like, you know, you you're worth giving this to you to buy. And if you don't want to send it back, don't wear it. Right. Whereas Mr. Collection is meant to be worn and then you just send it back to me. All right, that is it. Thank you, everybody, for watching, listening, enjoying. We will talk to you later.