 Hey, I'm very the people on the patron feed know what Lamar is really feeling right now. I'm very animated and happy to be here. Hi. Hello, everybody. Five minutes to showtime. Hey, programming note. I know we did this to you last week already too. We're going to start the show a half hour early tomorrow. Because dream host just keeps changing things and keeps telling us they're going to take our database down at 2 p.m. Pacific. You know, I thought my headphones were working. Oh, you know, I thought they were too. Yeah, I just speak. Yeah, literally here you are. Say something. Yeah, hi. Yeah, you're literally out of my computer. I was like, wait a minute. Something's not right here. Oh, okay. Well, I have five minutes to fix it. Yeah, yeah. This is the race against time. Can Lamar fix his headphones in the next four minutes. So yeah, tomorrow, one p.m. Pacific starting time, four p.m. Pacific Eastern, 10 p.m. Paris time. Oh, baby. Oh, that's like the last database warning that we'll get. I had it wrong. There we go. That's better. Okay. Any port in a storm actually not true. And there also wasn't a storm. So I guess. Yeah. Nice try. Thanks. Did I mention Pilot X is out? Hey, somebody's going to have a fancy book signing some. That's right. On Saturday at Book Soup in LA. It's a store where they just put one book in and then everyone else puts vegetables and meat and then they make soup out of it. Oh, come on. So that'd be like all over again. Okay. All right. I'm just not having it today. Stop. Just stop. I follow Jeff Kanata over here to appreciate my dad jokes. Yes. Well, congratulations on the race. You've been working on it for a long time. Yeah, I'm excited. It was really, really a blast to go into a store and Marina Del Rey and find it on the shelf. That was crazy. Wow. And then my friend, Mark Jorgina, who I grew up with went to a Barnes & Noble that's near where we grew up and took a picture of it on the shelf there and sent it to me. Wow. Oh, so you did the whole policy thing. Yeah, that's awesome. Yeah. Okay. This is really cool. Wow. And I'm going to have a post on John Scalzi's blog tomorrow, I think. I think that's supposed to happen tomorrow. I can't believe I've done someone famous. This is so cool. Me either. I'm afraid it has a book. Hey, I don't know how. I mean, I didn't read one, but I understand the process. What's your book coming out? You got to do a book. 2080 Wilson story. Yeah. Ghost write it for you. Yeah. 2080. It'll be released. 2080. I'll still be around. You can do Lamar Wilson's big book of jokes. Wait, you have a book full of jokes ready just to be written? Yeah. How about Lamar Wilson's big book of funny? Big book of funny. A collection of all of the things I think are funny, but aren't really in reality. Yeah. We might have something here. Yeah, exactly. All right. Yeah, my dad humor. We ready? We are ready. Oh, wait. Give me control when you get it. Almost forgot to get right to control on the board. There you go. Hey. Hey. Hiding. Here we go. Daily Tech News show is powered by you. If you're not already powering the show and you're willing to help, find out more at DailyTechNewsShow.com. This is the Daily Tech News for Monday, March 13th, 2017. I'm Tom Merritt. Lamar Wilson joining us today. Good to have you along, man. Thanks for having me here. It's good to be here. And congratulations to you on your successful, amazing, congratulatory new release of your world-famous book, Pilot X. Why? Thank you so much. Yes. I do have a book that is officially releasing tomorrow, though you can already find it on shelves. A bunch of places. It's a novel. It's about a time traveler. It's called Pilot X. You can go check that out. Because I pitched it, then you don't feel bad about my pitching your own book. That was very kind of you. Yeah. Thank you. I'm excited about it. I'm excited to have Lamar Wilson, YouTube personality at youtube.com slash Lamar Wilson. That's two Rs in Lamar. Go subscribe right now. Join us today. Oh, thank you. Thank you. We'll send that PayPal later. Okay. We'll cancel each other out. Hey, we got a bunch of stuff to talk about today, including kind of we're going to discuss why the Nintendo Switch is still in the news. It's still getting positive vibes from some people, not everybody. But that's coming up in a bit. Also, not to leave Sony out of it, but Sony just announced it's bringing its PS4 catalog to the PlayStation Now streaming game service. I saw that. Yeah. The whole catalog. So the whole catalog on PC from your P, you have to own a PS4 and you have to subscribe to PlayStation Now. And you'd be able to play everything from that PS4 catalog if you're part of that service. It's a couple of bad things though. Just, just real quick. You won't, they're limiting the PS Now service. They take it off TVs. Yes. Everything is for a PC. Yeah. And that's like, that's kind of a blow because I just bought some Sony TVs. Not that I was going to get that service, but I used PlayStation View. But still, it was a selling point that the guy said, you can play PlayStation games if you want. I'm like, cool. I might do, I might try it out. Not now. Yeah. Well, but if you have a PS4 and a PC, it's still good news. Okay. Let's take a look at the rest of the top stories. Intel confirmed it will acquire autonomous car technology company Mobileye for $15.3 billion. If that sounds familiar, the big story about Mobileye was this summer when it was, when we learned that it was part of Tesla's autopilot system and then Mobileye withdrew as a supplier for Tesla. Mobileye is still partnered with a lot of folks, including Intel on a self-driving car project, as well as processor production. In fact, Mobileye says it's working with 27 car manufacturers, including 10 production programs with Audi, BMW, Nissan and others. Mobileye's CTO and co-founder, Professor Amnon Shashua will head up Intel's autonomous driving division and that autonomous driving division will now be located in Israel where Mobileye is located. Yeah. I gotta say this is smart on Intel's party. As you remember, they payfully missed the boat on mobile or just didn't get there in time. I mean, their boat's there. The boat's there. It's not, it's well behind Qualcomm's boat, I guess. Yeah. Okay, fair enough. Yeah, exactly. So I think getting ahead of this autonomous car thing that's going on right now is a smart idea. So buying them instead of trying to create something themselves, they got the money to do it. Yeah. Seeing a brand percentage has a plan and it's to get ahead in places like AI, Internet of Things and autonomous cars. And this is a big acquisition. It's the biggest acquisition, I think, in Israel startup history and it makes Intel a parts manufacturer of a sort. And a lot of people were worried that maybe a car manufacturer or even a tier one parts supplier would acquire Mobileye and that would reduce the usefulness of Mobileye. Because let's say Audi buys Mobileye. Well, BMW's not going to want to do business with them anymore. Absolutely. With Intel buying them, it's open for business for everybody. Yeah, it makes a lot more sense. Yahoo disclosed Monday that Marissa Meyer will receive $23 million after the close of Verizon's acquisition of Yahoo's main business. Previously, she did forego receiving an annual bonus or equity award. So this is not related to that. Meyer will move to Verizon and Thomas McInerney will take over as CEO of Altaba. Altaba is what they're going to call what's left of Yahoo that Verizon doesn't buy, which is pretty much just stock holdings, mostly in Alibaba. So this is severance. Marissa Meyer, Verizon's buying most of Yahoo. Right. And then Marissa Meyer, CEO of Yahoo, which is left and is going to become Altaba, gets fired from that company because she's going to go work for Verizon now as part of the acquisition. Okay. So it has to be a firing to be hired by Verizon. Or a let and go lay off or something. Yeah, because she's a corporate officer. So she's leaving the board of Altaba. It's confusing because there's two Yahoo's here, right? There's Yahoo that we all know, which is the brand and the website. That's all going to Verizon. That all makes sense. But then the remaining company is still technically Yahoo, but they're changing the name because Verizon gets to use the name. So will Verizon use the name is the question? Yeah, Verizon's going to use the name. They're actually going to merge Yahoo with AOL and create a unified content ad tech. They do own AOL. At least a big part of it. Okay. So all of the Yahoo tech, all of the Yahoo news, that stuff still gets big traffic. It does. It'll be alongside Engadget and TechCrunch, Huffington Post, et cetera. Very interesting. Wow, Verizon. I actually think that part, people have not paid enough attention to that part for Yahoo because Yahoo could get revived as the content hub for all of these solid AOL brands. Absolutely. And that will make a lot of sense. They get a huge amount of traffic like you said. Yeah. All right. A lot of people are focused on how Marissa Meyer does. And so they're not thinking of that other stuff. But she's going to be all right with her $23 million. Yeah, I think she won't suffer too badly. Pandora Premium was launched Monday for $10 a month. If you remember, Pandora bought Ardio, shut it down, and has been working on an on-demand service. Pandora, as you probably know, is a service that provides you streaming radio. You put in the name of something, and it uses its music genome project to stream things that you might like. But you don't get to create playlists and things like that. With Pandora Premium, you will. It allows you offline play, smart playlist creation. You can either create it yourself or you can use some of that Pandora magic to have it automatically create playlists. It will, of course, have multiple radio stations the way Pandora does. And the emphasis, what Pandora is trying to position this as, this is really easy to use. So unlike others where you kind of have to learn how to use it and do a lot of button switching, they wanted your recently played music right on the home screen. They want anything you want to listen to to be available within one or two clicks. Pandora said it also is curating its catalog. So if you search for a song, you won't see a million karaoke and tribute versions. Right. Yeah, no. Isn't that annoying? You won't see all that stuff. If you want to take part existing Pandora users can get invites between now and March 15th. And if you're not somehow an existing Pandora user even of the free version, you can sign up and those invites will start going out mid April. Pandora plus users, the people who pay for Pandora will get six months free and everybody else gets a two month free trial. So my only question with this, I'm a little confused. Can you open this app after you sign up for it and pick a song in play or is it still the Pandora magic? No, that's the deal. It is now like Ardio but with Pandora's music genome magic behind it. So yeah, you can create a playlist of your own. You can pick songs and just play those. You can play albums. So just so it's lining up to compete with Spotify, Apple Music. Absolutely, yeah. Okay, okay, okay. But they're the radio, which I tend to use more on Apple Music than anything at the radio stations. They may have an advantage because they have a better project behind them. Yeah, and that's one of the interesting things. They're not doing curated playlists. You know how Spotify has all their curated playlists? Yeah, absolutely. Pretty much every Apple Music does too. I like those kind of playlists. They're just giving you Pandora radio stations but they have this smart playlist thing where let's say everything you've ever given a thumbs up can turn into a playlist. Or if you're listening to one of their radio stations and you thumb up a few things, it will create a playlist around just those. And you can even, if you're creating a playlist, hit a button and have it add three to seven other tracks based on what you've added so far to kind of fill it out. So they're trying to use all the smarts that they have as Pandora to make it better at recommending music you might like. Cool, cool. Anyway, I like it. Yeah, I wish they'd just launch it. But okay, the invite thing, like make sure that they can sustain interest, I guess. Absolutely. How about a jean jacket? No. That is also a touch screen. Not a screen actually. It's just a touch controller. It's the fact you're saying jean jacket. I'm like no. No, you're done. It's the Levi Commuter jacket. Not computer jacket. Commuter jacket. Yeah. First product from Google's Project Jaquard, which they announced at Google IO a while back, goes on sale this autumn for $350. The Commuter jacket features a detachable Bluetooth device and 15 threads of conductive fabric on the left sleeves. Now, you can't tell. In any of the pictures, in any of the reviewers, they say it just feels like a normal jacket. An app lets you set three gestures, either swipe in, swipe out, or double tap to do things like skip to the next song, get updates on your map. You can control Spotify with it. So you have to have an app on your phone connected to the jacket. The Bluetooth device in the jacket has a battery life of two days. And then while you're riding your motorcycle Lamar, you just double tap on your sleeve. That's what I do in LA. Now you spoil it. Everybody knows. Yeah. So look, man, I watched a video on this. And look, I'm a person that's into the smart home, the internet of things. I like gadgets. You know that. Nothing could be as garbage to me as this idea. Like I saw what they were trying to do. And I'm like, in this particular case, I see what people say, just use your phone. There was, it was safe. It seems to be no advantage to swiping while looking, holding the phone with one hand, trying to swipe and then looking what the phone is doing. It seems so tedious. Well, the thing is, you wouldn't have to be looking at your phone. I think they were doing that in the video to show like, hey, see, it really does work. But I guess you have to know your bike, your motorcycle or your bicycle. All you'd have to do is that to skip a song. Okay. I mean, all right. I just, yeah, it just, it looked, it looked really silly. But again, I'm maybe, I'm not the market. I'm not the market for it. Now I'm not talking about the fashion of the jacket, which I am told is fashionable. I'm fashion blind. I don't know. I have the Mr. Collection dress me. That's the only way I look halfway decent. But with Levi's, I think this is a true wearable tech that's worthwhile. Like granted, not everybody needs this. If I'm just walking around down the street, I probably don't need to be a half to swipe my sleeve. It looked a little weird. But it's certainly more convenient. And it sounds like it actually works. So the only thing that's left is to make sure that the app is smooth. And I guess that that's the one thing that's held this up. It was supposed to come out in the spring and it's coming out in the autumn because they're still trying to get the app to work out everything. But I love this idea of having clothing that looks normal like clothing that can do smart stuff. I'm for that. I guess you clarified the video for me because it looked really weird. And I just spent enough time thinking about it. Actually hold your phone out all the time. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Maybe. I don't know. I think they might be on to stuff. This is wearable technology. The little things around your wrist get so excited. I hit my mic. The little things around your wrist and stuff, those are great. But they've kind of reached their saturation point. The people who want fitness tracking have fitness tracking and there's more to be done there. But that's not the big opportunity. Having stuff that's just woven into you, like literally woven into your life, that gets me a little more excited. Yeah. And I want something in my shoes where I can click my heels three times and something like maybe Postmates sends me a sandwich that I automatically always get. Why not? Yeah. Red shoes that can be programmed to give you navigation home. Oh, okay. Even more genius. Right? There you go. You click your heels three times and Waze launches. It's like, oh, okay. I love it. Don't click them while you're driving. That's probably not a good idea. No, click them before you get in the car. That's, yeah, to be safe. Finally, Google's Area 120 incubator has launched an app called Uptime. This is an iOS app that lets you watch YouTube videos with friends. Kind of one of those experimental things that's coming out of Area 120. You can make comments or post-reaction emojis. Those will be recorded. So if your friend watches the video later, they'll still see your emojis and comments in the timeline as you made them. You can also tap on the screen to make sparkles happen. That only happens live. You don't get to see those later, apparently, for some reason. Uptime is currently in invite-only mode, but TechCrunch said, and it worked when I tried it, that you could use the invite code pizza and that would get you in. Yeah, so I downloaded this and my first reaction, and it's not negative, but it was like, why is it this in the YouTube app? But I understand what an incubator is. They want to see if there's interest in this, and then maybe they'll close this down and bake it into the YouTube app. Because I think the idea is good. They need to find a way to make YouTube more social, and you think they would have figured that out already, but they're getting out. I think this is a good start. It's a shame it's a separate app that you have to ask people to download, but I do like the idea. Yeah, and like you say, I mean, they're just trying it out, so maybe they will roll this stuff in. They've even tried simultaneous viewing features in YouTube's app before. And lots of people have tried this simultaneous viewing. My concern is that simultaneous viewing is one of those things we all think we want, but don't. Because so many people have tried this and it's never caught on. Yeah, I don't really want to watch a video with you. I can watch it after you or it gives feedback. It's fun for me if I'm actually in the room with you to sit down and watch this video and we watch it together in reaction. I think that's what they're trying to capture, but if I'm not actually in the room with you, is it as fun to go through all of the hoops that you have to go through to make sure that, hey, are you available? Are you there? Hold on, I got you on WhatsApp, but you don't reply to WhatsApp. I guess if you both have uptime and you both set it up, then it becomes easier because you see, it's available. I want to show them this video. Sure, sure. And right now it's mostly portrait mode, but they could change. Oh, there's that too, yeah. 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Now, side story here is that the Nintendo Switch, which doesn't have a browser, but does use the WebKit browser to do authentication for Wi-Fi, has the same vulnerability that iOS 9 had, so you can use the iOS 9 jailbreak to jailbreak your Nintendo Switch. Now, that doesn't allow you to run unsigned games because it doesn't give you access to the Nintendo Switch kernel, but it allows you to investigate the rest of the Switch's code. You can further inspect the Switch, which a lot of people want to do. So that leads me to think people don't spend this amount of time, and I know it's a fairly easy vulnerability, but they don't bother with this kind of thing unless they're really into something. And I've noticed that since the Switch launched, March 3rd, there have been Nintendo Switch stories at the top of Google News every day for 10 days. I expected that to happen after three or four days, but here we are 10 days later, and it's still up there. And so what I'm curious about is, why does Nintendo Switch getting this much interest? Not just coverage, not just blogs writing it, but the blogs are writing about it because people are still talking about it and playing it and the memes are still coming out and people are jailbreaking it. Now, Lamar, I know you're a fan of the Switch as am I. Mostly because of Zelda. Is that all there is to it? You know, I gotta say, for those who are into Zelda, it's a great launch title because, like we were talking before, I've put over 105 hours into this game. Well, you know a lot of people are, yeah. Yeah, absolutely. And I gotta say, there are some people who criticize me and say, oh, you're just playing it because you like to Switch because of the game. I like to Switch because of the Switch. I have taken this out, thrown it into a case, taken out of the road with me, go to a friend's house or wherever. I'm waiting for somebody and I'm in a restaurant and I pulled this out at a restaurant. I remember I was at some sandwich place and I pulled it up for about 10 minutes while they were making my sandwich and finished a shrine I was doing on the TV earlier. So I couldn't do that before. I had to wait to get home and get the console. The concept of having this console in your hand wherever you wanna go is really intriguing. And I think it will be intriguing after Zelda. The question is, what will it be as engaging after Zelda? There's something really intriguing about this and this is why I wanted to talk about it because this isn't the first time a company has tried to say, oh, we're gonna have something that is a console situation available mobile, right? That's what the PS Vita was trying to go after. But it did not succeed the way the Switch has, particularly because what the Switch is doing is what I've actually wanted a computer to do for a long time, which is be a full-on computer when docked but allow me to pull it out and use it as a mobile device. And that's what Microsoft Continuum is about. There's Android projects trying to do the same thing. And Nintendo has made that work. I think the big revelation for me was the first time I was playing the game on the television. It was the first night we had it. My wife went to take the dog out and I'm like, all right, let's give this thing a try. And I just pulled it out, right? And I felt like I was doing something wrong, like, don't I need to shut something down? Or put something in standby mode? No, just pull the thing out and suddenly I'm playing it on the screen without missing a beat. Now, that is very cool for a game machine. That is very cool for technology in general, I think. No, I think so too. Just that on-demand, I could play what I want. Process. I think that's why it's creating buzz. Obviously, them being sold out is having, you know, that's that Wii effect. I think Nintendo, I hope Nintendo, I should say, is not going to play that card too heavy. Oh, no, we're out. Demand is so high. Because you're going to lose people. I mean, this is March. It's normally a big time to sell a console. They really need to get these in the hands. And I was reading one article you posted about, you know, some reasons why you should support it. And I think, you know, early adopters are definitely going to get this. They're going to be bugs. They're going to be little problems. But I think, you know, us buying it, and then disclosure, Nintendo did send me a mind, but I had already had a pre-order. Just to let your audience know. I bought mine myself. So, but supporting it, buying games, supporting the platform is only going to encourage the third party to do what we want them to do, which is to give us more games out here. You know, but if people are sitting around waiting, you know, at least there's one of the argues with people sitting around waiting, I'll wait to the next one, I'll wait till the bugs are out. You know, then that just kind of slows the progress. I'm hoping more people jump in because I'm going to be honest with you, and this is not because Nintendo sent it to me, there's no obligation to praise it at all. I have run into almost no problems. There's been one stutter that happened last night when I was playing. I was in a fight, and it started a little bit, and I was the first time I had any kind of freeze frame in this. This has been pretty much a powerhouse. I cleaned it today. I don't have any of the scratches that people are complaining about. So, you know, maybe I'm lucky, but, you know, it's been almost flawless machine. Yeah, I haven't seen any of the scratches. I have had the left joy-con connectivity issue. I kind of figured out the sweet spot where I'm close enough that it doesn't seem to happen, but when I was just leaning back on my couch, I was having that constant problem with the disconnecting. That's it. And honestly, I've started to play it on the TV less and less because it's just more convenient. Like, at a situation, and this is a personal thing, right, where I would be like, I don't want to have to turn on the TV or Eileen's watching something on the TV, so I'll wait. I don't have to wait. I just pick it up. I take it in the other room. I had a little bit of a cold this weekend, and I didn't want to be sitting up on the couch, so I just grabbed the thing and was laying in bed playing it, right? Like, it's got so much convenience. And again, the key to me about it is that it is the same experience. You don't have a mobile experience versus the console experience. Are you losing some resolution? Sure. Yeah, you're going from 1080 to 720. It's a smaller screen. It's a smaller screen, but I had it on its kickstand. I was at the sandwich spot. I was at two goals or something like that. So I had it on its screen, and I took these off. I put them in. I brought the adapter, and I was playing like in tablet mode on a kickstand. Kickstand could be better. This is not the greatest kickstand there is, but I mean, it was just such a cool experience. I recently got the Pro Controller. I will first to say, like I said in my video, I think it's too expensive. I think $70 is kind of crazy. But as I'm starting to use it, it's really my preferred controller now. It has the HD rumble. It has amiable support. And you can use it for a PC, which I didn't even know you could do. They have some hacks in there that you can make it even better for PCs. So Nintendo is trying this time around to do things right. It's a little much to ask for a brand new person. $300. No game comes with it for $300. But I think it's such a buzz idea. I think it's going to stand well into the holiday season. We're going to outpace the Wii. Wii U probably this year. The closest thing to this has been the Nvidia Shield. The problem with the Shield is that it just couldn't get the titles that people who wanted a more forward gaming experience like that had. PS Vita just couldn't keep the experience. And Nintendo has found that crossroads where it's like, okay, we don't have as many titles, but we have one really good one. Everyone mostly agrees is great with Zelda. And they have more coming because they have Mario on the way. So that could still be their downfall is not having enough titles. That would be the problem which is after Zelda. What do you do? No, I think that's absolutely the biggest question right now. And it's the question for those who are not into Zelda. There's some people who don't like JRPGs. Like what do they have right now in the store? There's a racing game that no one's really heard of before. There's the one to switch, which is really a demo that they're charging 50 bucks for. And it should have been included in the game. And in the system when you get it. So that is a big question. Like after everybody's done with Zelda, what's going to keep them on this excited and playing? Can Mario Kart do that in the next month? We'll see. One of my friends was asking if it seemed like there's a pattern in the last couple of weeks that every Thursday or so, there's been some drops into the eShop from Nintendo. And we were wondering if that's going to be a pattern for them because we've noticed it. And if they can do that, even if there's like old titles from 64, they did some Neo Geo titles. And they can keep bringing new stuff in. Then the proposition to have this just raises pretty high. Well, thanks to all those who participate in our subreddit. Keep those conversation starters coming at DailyTechNewShow.Reddit.com. Let's check in with Nate Langson over across the pond in the UK for what's happening on text message this week, Nate. Thanks, Tom. This week we go behind the scenes of the comedic Twitterbot clickbait robot. Just why is it obsessed with jellyed eels and British politicians? We had a lot of fun finding out. We also examined whether Britbox, the Netflix-like service for bringing British TV to your American shores, looks any good from our UK perspective. We're even more keen to hear about whether it's compelling enough for any of you to sign up for across the pond. All that and much more than just jellydeals at techpodcast.uk. Come for the jellydeals. Stay for the intelligent tech discussion. Exactly. You need to get some jellydeals on your channel one more. That's not going to happen. No. I don't want to open a box and have that in there. No. I actually kind of do. I kind of want you to open a box and see that in there. And now somebody's going to send that. No, no, no. Don't do that. Don't do that. I got a screen on my box at the UPS store just to make sure. I'm not taking that home. Jellyed. Not live. Jellyed. All right. Let's get to our messages. Linda wrote in. In fact, several people wrote in about our conversation with Allison about her experience being an engineer. And thank you for that. Linda was one of those people who said, yeah, this kind of rang true with her as well. She talked about an episode that happened to her in a corporation she was working at in the late 80s where they were moving offices. And the boss was going around asking all the guys if they would come in and help do the move and they'd get paid overtime. So she asked him why she hadn't been asked. And he was surprised and said he didn't think I'd want to do the physical labor. I pointed out there were plenty of boxes and smaller items and told him I'd love the exercise. I also told him I thought that technically excluding me was against the law. He didn't take offense at all. And said he thought I was right. It was just that the thought of a woman helping to move had never occurred to him. I'd worked for this man for a couple of years and I absolutely believed him. He was never mean or malevolent in any way. Oblivious though. I believe to this day that there are a lot of men out there for whom this is true. It's just that they live their life in their own little world and never think of things from others perspectives. So there you go. Another example of that. And then Terry from Everhot Houston wrote, I really enjoyed Friday's Talk with Allison as a father of two daughters. I really identified with not saying one gender is better at something than the other. One of my girls is great at math and science and the other is not as strong. They're individuals, not a category. But where it really drove home was Allison talking about the instructor separating classes along gender lines. My oldest daughter has been welding in school for nearly three years. In her class this year she was one of two female students over 30, over 30 number of people. The instructor teamed them both up rather than team them with male students. Now at first I was a little outraged by put the girls together but the more I talked to my daughter about it I learned that this was the first time welding for the other female student and the instructor asked her if she would feel more comfortable working with male or female partners. So I need to ask questions before jumping to these conclusions. Anyway, I like these emails because I think we got people's wheels turning and it's not a simple issue where it's like oh, it's this or that. There's a lot of different perspectives and a lot of reasons people do things that aren't necessarily mean or malevolent. Sometimes they are, but you know what? It takes a lot of understanding and seeing things from other people's perspectives to make the world go round, you know? Yeah, absolutely. That's one of our biggest problems. Yeah. John wrote in from Salisbury, New Brunswick, Canada about the cowler story that I found so fascinating. He's like, smart collars for cows aren't necessarily a new thing. I've had a Fitbit for cows for the last eight years. It's a simple pedometer, but as a cow gets sick she moves around less. Conversely, when a cow is getting ready to be bred she moves around a lot and is highly active. The part I find very interesting is the text message functionality of the cowler. Unfortunately, each collar would need a data plan or you'd need Wi-Fi in the barn and hopefully they have addressed this as rural broadband, as you have mentioned in the past, leaves something to be desired. Now, if someone will make a smoke detector that will alert my phone, I'd sleep a lot better. And I emailed John and I pointed out that the Nest Protect as well as several others do exactly that. I have three of them in my place. They'll never get messaged by them. But it's good to know that you would. And then finally, Jeremy is going to be in Cleveland for the 175th annual St. Patrick's Day Parade and he's hoping to set up a DTNS meetup on Saturday the 18th at the Great Lakes Brewing Company in downtown Cleveland. He said it'd be great to meet Rich from Lovely Cleveland, maybe Len, all the Cleveland area listeners. He says, of course you're welcome to join too. I won't be able to bake it. But he's got an event link on Facebook that you can go check out. We'll keep that in the show notes as well. So, if you're in Cleveland and you want to meet up with some other DTNS listeners, head on out to meet up with Jeremy. And if you're in LA on Saturday, March 18th at 4 p.m., go to Book Soup in West Hollywood. It's on Sunset Boulevard. You can just look up Book Soup Sunset Boulevard. 4 p.m. Saturday, we're going to have a meetup and a book signing, a Pilot X there as well. So, if you're in the LA area, come on by there. A couple of big DTNS meetups happening on March 18th. That's awesome dude. Yeah, I might show up in Cleveland. No, not Cleveland. Probably the LA one. Yeah, you're going to go to the Cleveland one, aren't you? Yeah, exactly. So, yeah, show up. Who knows? You might even see Lamar there. Hey, thank you, Lamar, for joining us. YouTube.com slash Lamar Wilson. That's L-A-M-A-R-R-W-I-L-S-O-N. Go there and subscribe. What else you got going on? Yeah, so we got a lot of switch talk happening and I made due an update on that one. But something interesting, I guess I'll spoil it. They're not exciting anymore, but they finally came in for me. Oh, Spectacles. Yeah, the problem is, it took so long, I don't really use Snapchat anymore. Oh, no. Yeah, I mean, I haven't. I have my phone, but I'm more into Instagram stories. So, I'm trying to figure out the angle I would have for this video. So, that'll be coming up this week. Can you have Spectacles to post to Instagram stories? If somebody can do that, that'll be awesome. So, and then behind the blanket there are a lot of other cool unboxing things that I'll be doing. So, it's a secret. Nice. I'm intrigued now. I wonder what's under that blanket over there. Yeah, it's a lot of cool stuff. Go check it out. YouTube.com slash Lamar Wilson. Big thanks to everybody who supports this show. We could not do it without you. Literally, you guys are the reason that happens. If you get some value out of the show, all we ask is you give a little that value back. The way Jimmy Christensen, Patreon.com slash DTNS. Our e-mail address is feedback at DailyTechNewsShow.com. We're live Monday through Friday, 4.30 p.m. Eastern at AlphaGeekRadio.com and DiamondClub.tv and our website is DailyTechNewsShow.com. Back tomorrow with Patrick Beja and special guest Annalee Newitz to talk about human flesh on robots. We'll talk to you then. Show is part of the Frog Pants Network. Get more at FrogPants.com. Club hopes you have enjoyed this program. Thank you. Wait a second. Tomorrow, we'll be talking about human flesh and why was I not invited to that show center today? You should come back. Like, what a way to end the show. Oh, by the way, was that my human, your live human flesh on robots? Okay, see you later guys. Annalee wrote a story about it so that was one of the topics we picked. Oh my God. I know, right? You can jump back in. That sounds terrifying. Well, it's a cool story. It's actually about using robots for skin graft preparation. So you put the human flesh on the robots to get it ready to be grafted onto a human. Okay. You know what it maybe reminded me of that time when I believe Lord put human, human flesh on data. Like he blew it. He had the hairs raised. It came to my mind that Was that in Nemesis or was that in the TV show? That might have been the movie in Nemesis. I don't remember being in the TV show. But yeah, it made me think of that. So you were tricky. I went ahead and left it recording. So that little bit of you going, and why was I not asked to be on this show? It was going to be in the main. Okay. What are you going to say? Hey, titles. Ah, yes, titles. Severe severance. Severe severance. Severance Snape. Verizon isn't a total yahoo. Swiping jack. It's a good yahoo title. No, sorry. Does this make my ass look smart? I like that one. It's not jeans, it's a jacket. It's a jean jacket. It's a jean jacket. That is funny though, but yeah. It's a denim jacket. Pandora to explore. A new on demand service. YouTube uptime. Nintendo switches up the news. Mobile Ion Intel Sky. Tap for sparkles. I don't know. Keep voting folks. Showbot.chatrealm.net. Or showbot.tv. I keep forgetting you have a chat while you do this. You never mention it. Oh, I keep forgetting to remind you. It's too late now. Well, it's not, but yeah. You know, there's a serious addiction. I'm sitting here fumbling at this like almost waiting for the show to end. You're like, good play. You have to understand. No, no, no. I need to put this away. This is bad. Maybe I can get some shrine tips from you. Yeah, like the one you just did is I did that two days ago. So I I hate some of them and I feel really fulfilled in a lot of them and some of them are like way too easy. But yeah. Oh, here's a question. And I hope this isn't spoiling anything for people, is there another stable? Yes. Okay. So can you I haven't found it yet, but like when I find that, then can my horses magically go from one stable to the other? Yes. So I just need to find that. There's several stables. I know why I haven't found it. It's the same reason because I have to climb some towers. Yep. You need to open up your map. That's it. I haven't gotten to the towers. I have to get to the towers that I cannot climb. I spend too much time just getting distracted and going once over on that hill. Yeah. I find the tower is very enjoyable because I see them, like I'm on one tower and I see the other one. I'm like, okay, I'm going there and I jump off and I'm floating, whatever. And then you land and it's not close at all. It gives you an idea of how mountains are. You'll see a peak. Oh, that's not that far. And then you realize just how far it is when you start actually walking toward it. This game gives a lot of that realism. It's like, no, you're not as close as you think you are. And then I spend most of my time trying to get to that tower. But yeah, if anybody is struggling with the game, I would say the one tip is to unlock as many towers as you can in the map. My problem is I was doing that and then I ended up at a tower that was way too hard because it was by two guardians. Yeah, some of them are are tough. And I went to that one and I didn't have guardian protection and I won't spoil how to say that. I didn't have guardian protection and I don't know how I did. I had sneaky armor on and I just sneaked around. But I did it. All right. So swipe my jacket is leading the vote. Is that what we're going really? I like it. Anybody have a different one? Swipe my jacket. It is. All right. We're done. So he brings bacon wins. Not that it's a competition. She brings bacon and titles. Have you have you downloaded any other games besides this? Just to try them out. No, I haven't. I'd recommend the race, the racing game. The racing game. That was one of the ones I was looking at. Yeah. Yeah. It's actually, it's really fun. All right. I can see if I can get you a cold if you want. Well, I wouldn't say no. See what I can do. But yeah, I paid, I paid for the switch and I paid for Zelda and I felt good doing it. $2.99 is still. Well, gee, thanks. They're not supposed to feel guilty. That is not what I meant. Like, I feel good with that. No, I meant like, I got my money's worth. That's all. You know, I know, I know what you meant. That was not meant to be a swipe. I'm sorry. I had one I pre-ordered. I was like, I never depend on. I mean, Nintendo treats me. Me and other influence are just like press. We could get a press copy. Yeah. Sometimes they run out and the press, the main press gets in first. So I had a $2.99 a little high, but I'm getting my money's worth out of it. That's what I'm trying to say. Yeah, yeah. Even the Zelda at $59.99, just like I felt with the latest Final Fantasy, I definitely got my money's worth out of the game. I know this is illogical. I feel like it's worth $60 because I all have the physical cartridge. It's almost like it's a, you know, like I've got a collectible object. Are you that guy? I'm not. I try not to be, but there is something about it where like, if I just downloaded it for $60, I'd feel a little ripped off. You know why it's because you think, well, there's some manufacturing that went in to get making this flash cart and the rest of the art. But you read the same article I did. They can't lower it or else the game's dropping. No, I get it. We'll stop selling them. You know what, they need to make, they need to, this is where the road splits. Pick a path. You can't straddle it. Eventually you'll be doing the splits. Or just glide. The funny thing is like the Xbox that people complained about with the Xbox One, that was the direction they were trying to go in. I know. Digital and there'd be wine and be worried about it. And here we are. I think, you know, digital downloads are great. Whatever. People moan about it. PC users have been doing it for years with no issue. Like, I don't know why it's so different. Or I could, you know, I lose the ability to trade it in. Okay, if it gets big, then it'll be like Switch has a, excuse me, Switch. Steam has a ability to trade games, right? Yeah. Well, you can also download the game off Steam and play it. If you, for example, there's a way to archive your games locally on your machine that you bought, of course. I don't know, I mean, like to be honest, I like the digital downloads. Occasionally Amazon, like two weeks ago, I bought Dragon Age Inquisition, the Game of the Year edition, which has all the downloadable stuff, for $13. I just bought it. It's like normally 40 bucks in retail on a disk. It's like about 13 bucks downloaded overnight, woke up in the morning. It's like you're buying it used at that point. Yeah, but it's, but you know, that's the thing though. It's like, in case you'll be able to get those deals. Steam does it. If we can Steam sales. Steam is like always on sale, all right? It's like, they're crazy. Yeah. So that's not all the games, different games. Right. I just, I think console users need to get over it. I need to have this in my hand. And like digital, digital will be so much cheaper. They will still make their money because they're not paying for these, you know, the producers of it or not, paying these extra costs. And more people will get it. I'm convinced of it. I convinced it. They will still make the money that they were making now if they just do it. Somebody has to take the lead on this. Besides Steam. Well, you can sell collectible versions, like play into that little niggling part of me that likes having the physical object and be like, if you buy a physical copy, you'll get this, this one of a kind thing. I mean, most of the, most of the packets are kind of junk anyway. I'm sorry. Like if, if, if, I mean, like if they did, like they did with, which, which is the Halo that they gave you like the Spartan helmet? I was a Halo 34. 34, 34, yeah. Something like really nice. Not something like, oh yeah, I'm going to sell the garage sale in five years for like a nickel. Blizzard does a really good job of their deluxe editions. Their physical deluxe editions have like art books and comics and figurines. And it's really something where you're like, oh, I'm going to pay an extra $20. I know, but look at all the stuff I got. I would actually give up the art books and a lot of the other stuff. If they, if you got like a framed poster artwork of whatever, like Blizzard or whatever and something you could hang because they're not framed. You have to frame yourself. But like our, our books are great if you want to fill out your library because you can decorate your house with. Yeah. It's a nice, it's a nice coffee table book if people still have coffee tables. So, you know, I had to get rid of mine because I'm a kid. They should start selling coffee tables at GameStop. There you go. They used to sell a game table that had, Oh, really? That flipped up, had little, had little like it flipped up so you could put like all your D&D or board game or game controllers in it. Now, I mean, I understand why just because you said it, Roger, but like you gave up to get the coffee table because the kid isn't just her running into it just a fear of that. Well, it's running into it, but that's a, you know, I just don't want to bang her head against it. Okay. Like if she's climbing on it. Some, I don't mind that she climbs on the couch because it's mostly cushions. Right. No, no, it's a good point. I just wanted you to say it just so that people can, yeah, cause it's, it's an important. Yeah. Reason. Even if it's wood. I mean, my, my last one was a room and board coffee table and that's, that's a welded steel frame. That's not cool. And it's a glass top. So it's just not cool. Oh yeah. Yeah. Like hazards everywhere. Nice sharp corners. Yeah. 90 degree angles for four sides. Tom, you don't have a good, I'm saying this because I'm looking for a coffee table right now. But like, you don't have, don't remember you having one in your house, right? Yeah, yeah. We do. We do. Iron frame with a wood top. Yeah. Okay. I don't remember it at all. You please. I understand why. You slept all the time. You took a nap. I'll do that. It was, it's right in front of the couch. Okay. We were, okay. We were sitting on the other side of it away from. If you buy furniture, let's try to find it used first. Especially like furniture is only good used if it's like hardwood that's been treated. We bought that coffee table and bus van for bargains which was awesome until they went out of business. I would not do that for couches or mattresses. Anything with no mattresses or helpers. Never buy used mattress. I don't want to buy used couch either. People sleep on couches. Used couches are nasty. Anything with fabric, foam that can inherit parasites and stuff, no. But if it's a solid table that's like stained or treated like a kitchen table or anything that you don't want to play. I bought a kitchen table used. I wouldn't mind. Okay. That's fair. That's fair, yeah. When you say all furniture, I was like, eww. No. I'm good. Sorry to ever go into a goodwill in Austin one time and they had underwear for sale. I'm like. No, goodwill used to sell that. What they sold, they sold a pair of tidy whities. I know it's clean technically, but. 25 cents. Yeah, it is clean. It's like, you know what, dude? I will go out and buy you a pack of 50. It's not that expensive. I was making like $12,000 a year at the time and I still didn't. I was like, no, I can buy one. I remember those days. Yeah. I used to, yeah, when I made, I was at a school as a substitute, I was making net 700 a month, which is what? 70, yeah, that's like, it's under 10. Yeah, it was nothing. It was a part, it was nothing. It was crap. I don't know how, I had three other jobs too because I had to. Yeah. Yeah. Those are the days. All right, ladies and gentlemen, thank you for joining us once again. Don't forget, half hour earlier tomorrow from our normal starting time, hopefully it'll be the last time we have to shuffle the deck and we'll see you then. All right. Take care.