 Hey everybody, it's the July 3rd holiday which in the United States means the July 4th happened on Saturday But gosh darn it. We're gonna exercise our patriotic right to take a day off during the work week anyway So most people have the day off as do Roger and Jenny at least from this job And I'm just gonna do some head-to-head quick. So thank you folks for checking in with us. Here we go Oh, oh, oh missed a step. See without my producers around I'm a mess All right, here we go Daily tech news show is brought to you by me Oh, thanks me if you also wish to bring it go to patreon.com slash ace detect That's patreon.com ACE DT ECT This is the Daily Tech news for Friday July 3rd 2015. I'm Tom Merritt. Just me today It is the July 4th holiday I'm celebrating it a day early because otherwise we don't get the day off everybody gets Saturday A lot of people get Saturday off anyway, so just headlines here today But very happy to have you along Hope you're having a good holiday weekend if you're in the United States or maybe an extended Canada day weekend If you're in Canada or just a great summer weekend If you're anywhere else in the northern hemisphere a great winter weekend in the southern this worldwide thing Boy, those beats one people make it look easy. It's harder than you think. Let's take a look some headlines More than 100 popular subreddits went private yesterday after Reddit unexpectedly dismissed Victoria Taylor You might have heard her by her reddit name Chewter who was director of talent or director of communications depending on who you ask and Really what's important? She was an admin integral to the execution of ask me anything's AMA's While Taylor's dismissal was the immediate cause of the protests several mods Express the feeling that reddit admins have not respected the work put in by volunteer moderators for a long time So this was a long time coming reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian apologized for the lack of communication this morning on reddit Reddit CEO Ellen Powell posted that reddit is working on better tools for mods As to why Ms. Taylor got dismissed mark Bodnick of Cora who works for Cora on Cora posted That Taylor had resisted changes to AMA's what he heard Things involving video and monetization However, Bodnick's post was later deleted. So we don't know the veracity of it or why it was deleted Anyway, this morning I am a I am a the the AMA subreddit went public again with a post titled welcome back Explaining how the subreddit will work from now on in summary You should go read the post if you're really interested in this but in summary the mods were not satisfied with their conversations or the information provided by the reddit admins over the past 12 to 24 hours and They wrote in their post quote We will no longer be working with the admins to put together AMA's Anyone seeking to schedule an AMA can simply message the moderators or email us at AM a verify at gmail.com And we should point out how the toilet condolce linked to gizmodo's timeline of the events in our own DTNS subreddit, which by the way is maintained by our own amazing mods scottyroll and Tom Gerke Kiled and sub guns So all props to them for any DTNS subreddit pleasure that you take there's 5,000 people in there man daily technician at reddit comm We are very proud and appreciative of them down today more than ever We're always very proud and appreciative of them, but it does seem like miss Taylor was essential to the AMA process and the mods felt like they were ignored Undervalued in this decision that it's going to make running AMA's harder and they don't feel like this is new They it's sort of surprising but maybe not unexpected is the vibe that you get when you read about this Many people are very angry loads hundreds as I said of subreddits went dark in support because I think there is a general feeling of a lack of communication between the admins, which are employees of reddit and The mods now probably not in all cases. I know there are admins out there like miss Taylor who Work very well with the mods and and do communicate and I don't want to brush everyone with the same Tar everyone with the same brush. There we go. Now. I'm gonna brush anyone to tar But what I'm saying is while there are probably some admins that that are exceptions to this there does seem to be a generalized Frustration with reddit. So Anyway, it looks like the AMA folks just decided, you know what? We're just going to take this under our own wing We're not gonna work with the admins from now on they were not satisfied by what they were hearing from the admins overnight They certainly are upset that Victoria Taylor is gone Victoria Taylor has been very professional and has not said anything Bad that I've read anyway about reddit only saying that she knows as much as anybody else and she was surprised as anybody else So yeah, this is a very critical point for reddit If you know anything about reddit's history, they have survived on the goodwill of their community And yes, they are known for having some horrible commenters and horrible subreddits But that is not the norm the norm that doesn't get the attention are amazing communities who thrive and provide great things like today I learned and ask me anything and This is a this is a critical point This is a critical turning point for them one that dig did not handle very well as you recall reddit kind of stole digs Thunder and ran with it and became the front page of the internet and they are going to have to navigate these waters Very carefully. I'm not saying that they're in danger of going under or that people will leave reddit But it will change how reddit is perceived and how reddit operates no matter what they do So they are setting their course for the next several years with this and there's been a lot of frustration that you know reddit is Not balancing monetization with community needs as well as the community would like and that's always tough That's not an easy thing to do and and reddit's ability to do that From its beginning until now without causing more of these kinds of controversies I think is quite surprising. So anyway fingers crossed that they figure out how to make this work. I'm glad that amas are back I'm glad that subreddits are going public again If you don't understand what going private meant it meant that only the mods could see them basically So you take away page views from reddit at that point and you take content Off the internet for for most people. So it was a it was a pretty severe And I think the folks who are running the amas Are reacting with a very measured hand Uh, and yeah, sure. Waffle Offica says don't they still own it? Sure reddit owns it But people don't have to participate in it So you if you if you go in with that attitude, then you're just going to drive everybody off as well Um, anyway, we'll see what they do. We got other headlines zini net reports on leaked renders from evan blast Uh, evan blast discovered leaked renders is the way I should say that of something called the blackberry venice phone That runs android render shows a phone with a bunch of android apps on it Looks similar to the blackberry slider phone shown off at mobile world congress And if you remember that phone had a touchscreen covering a slide out physical keyboard Everyone expected that would be a blackberry phone But it might if this render is more than just a concept Might Be an actual blackberry android phone. I guess we'll find out soon enough There's another rumor that is less verifiable. I mean this this is an actual render. We know that we don't know what it means Another rumor kicking around that maybe at&t would carry this phone But maybe that they may just be carrying the slider phone no matter what operating system it runs on And gadget passes along info from the wall street journal that casio Is making a smart watch Details are few but the watch has apparently been in development for a few years And is set to launch in japan next march for somewhere around 400 dollars So those of us who remember casio being on the cutting edge of electronic watches Can have a little nostalgia moment? And i'm interested to see what they come up with will it run android wear will it run a proprietary operating system? What's it gonna be zd nets mary joe foley reports microsoft and kiyosara have settled a patent suit Signing an extended patent licensing agreement microsoft had sued kiyosara for allegedly violating seven patents Regarding kiyosara's android phone the patents involved thread scheduling display sensors network management and communication technologies Among others so microsoft put another one i guess in the win column They didn't win in court, but they got a settlement and they got a cross licensing agreement tech crunch reports uber Finally suspended its uber pop service in france thursday night at 8 p.m It is only the second time uber has suspended a service in a city without a court order the first time was in portland Oregon in the u.s uber is still operating in france uber x uber and uber van Services will all continue to operate those services Require professional drivers though So the the whole the whole argument is over people who don't have to go out and get a professional registration And uber has said they will work with their uber pop drivers to try to get them the registration So they can operate under these other services Reuters reports the russian state duma approved a law friday Requiring internet search engines to remove users personal information from search results by request Russian users will have the right to request the removal of information that is either incorrect Or no longer relevant regulation goes to president vladimir putin to be signed into law very similar to the right to forget laws of europe Will now go into place and of course the andex the most popular search engine in russia very Firmly against this saying it's an undue burden on them google hasn't said much about it, but they're less popular. They have less of a market share in russia And gadget passes along droid life's discovery that google submitted a gadget called a for r gg1 to the fcc for approval of its wireless radio Pay attention to that g one part The device is not classified as a smartphone a tablet or a media device But it is mobile And that leads to speculation. It could be the next google glass model gg1 You see what we're saying the elabel for the device is also formatted in the same aspect ratio of the google glasses display I'm actually not quite sure from this filing. What else it could be It would be even more shocking if it wasn't a new version of google glass No idea when a filing like this might turn into an actual announcement. It might never that those things happens happens They have Uh, but it is a sign that we might be getting another model of google glass sometime soon Reuters has the good news that andre borschberg successfully landed the solar impulse to In kalea aloha hawaii on friday officially setting the non-stop solo flight record at 120 hours Uh, congratulations, uh to captain picard and borschberg The next leg will be to phoenix Arizona Bertrand Picard, of course the other pilot, uh, they'll make the last leg when they go back to dubai Which is where they started on march 9th. They'll make the last leg together as well. So I don't know. Maybe i'm the only one who's uh, who's impressed by this But that that flight against the pacific really kick or against Maybe that is a better way of phrasing it the flight across the pacific That was 120 hours really captured my attention at What an amazing Engineering human Team feet this is And finally brian blank submitted the engadget story to daily tech news show dot reddit dot com that cooperative group Wired west has gained support to roll out gigabit municipal fiber internet in 22, massachusetts town The service will start at 49 dollars a month for 25 megabits per second and range up to 109 dollars a month for gigabit Towns have raised 24.5 million of the 79 million in funding necessary So they need to raise some more money and town councils need to approve the costs Towns have yet to formally join as well But a little uh, little community fiber happening out there in massachusetts and that Is a look at the headlines Bertrand not john luk prickard just settled that Uh, one more thing before we get out of here pick of the day, uh, was walter a while back and we've got eric from the parrot haven edgewater new jersey I like that it's not weather related something that Edgewater is known for a haven of for parrots if you are a parrot and you haven't checked out edgewater new jersey You probably should uh, eric said i wanted to make you aware of an app i use called vox vox Although it doesn't handle the ripping aspect of your cds. It's a great media player And they just introduced a service called loop that will let you store your tracks online uh, so Take your cds tracks, uh put them into loop to play store them online You've got an online locker things that people were sued out of existence for in 2000 or apparently now regular Things, uh, anyway, thought it would be worth a mention. 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Uh, that'll help give you a little extra content there Tech and trade if you haven't listened to the audio podcast big jim Talks about customs law and how it invents, uh, how technology affects it And uh, it's it's really interesting stuff because it's something I know nothing about personally And he is a fan of the show so he ties it into the kinds of things that if you're a fan of the show You're going to be interested in Uh, so so go check out the audio version for that at daily tech news show dot com Wow, that uh that levelating happens quick when it's only 14 minutes long doesn't it? Everything's quicker today All right It's i'm laughing because i'm looking at like tech and trade is almost the same size as the show Today because it's just a couple minutes long, but the show's not that much longer Uh, all right. Let's get some audio out of here. Uh, yeah, so anyway get any questions pop them in the chat room And I will ask me anything that's kind of I that's that's why I had the inspiration to do that I should probably do a real ask me anything, but now I feel bad those guys are overworked I will do one one day. I swear Uh, p. Delahanti asks did I miss anything? Yeah kind of The whole show Hey, but new fsl tonight coming out tonight Right If anybody's not following fsl What you've been waiting for go to fsl tonight calm And take a look at what's happening with the los angeles guardians of the galaxy or the Coruscant senators It's been a tough season so far already three games in for the gallifrey time lords There's all kinds of things going on over there and justin robert young and myself Bring you all the analysis every week as soon as the games are played Obviously we have to wait for the games to be played Since it's not an imaginary league that we make up as we go along Of course I have to concentrate when I type Because I as you many of you know I am really bad at typos My favorite hearthstone card Yeah Uh the portal The portal card that just gives you something fun or webspinner big fan of webspinner and I know the uh Uh the tavern brawl having webspinner that was one of my favorite class challenges I could do it on the diamond club subreddit. That's true. Hey. Yeah, that's a really good idea Uh top three songs of all time I don't know how to answer that I Like songs I don't know if I can pick three I'd have to look at a playlist. I'll be honest. Uh The three that are coming into my head are the old 97s time bomb uh factory belt by uncle tupelo and oo child And I always forget the name of the uh The the group The five stair steps Oo child, but also uh now I I do like uh red bones come and get your love I don't know if that'll wear off over time and I Uh make your own kind of music Is a great one. Oh, uh portal the uh the you know, uh I want you gone and um This was a triumph Can never remember. I'm horrible at songs. Yeah The cake is a lie song This was a triumph Making a note here huge success. I should not sing you my three favorite songs and I've also named six I'm not sure that that's helping. Uh, yes working on any new novels bio cal. Yes one That will be called paveria is done By me and waiting for my editor To take a stab at so hopefully that'll be out in a couple months And another which was last year's nano rimo called pilot x. I I've just started polishing up on Uh, let's see how much did ponyville pay jury to stop hating them nothing ponyville did not uh compensate. There are these rumors are inaccurate. They are uh nefarious And I want to say that justin is well above The price that ponyville offered. I mean he's well above taking a bribe From a team to change his opinion about them uh Gordon the cloud wants to know if we script the fan color segments. No We don't uh What we've done in the past Is leave them wide open to people Or if they're if if perhaps maybe they would like Uh, we have given them guidance on like here's an issue you could make a call on Uh, there have been a couple of times where we wrote up Things and then people rift off of it Uh, so there there have been a couple things. I guess you could call scripting But most of the time no and all these Hammond all these calls from Hammond this year Uh, have all been his own creation 100% So thanks to Hammond for that Uh plans for the fourth Try to stop our dog from panicking We have considered things like driving to Palm Springs And other things to keep our 12 year old dog from having a heart attack because she hates fireworks so much Uh, so yeah, I don't know. I don't really know. We don't really have any real honest goodness plans Uh, we we just really like to Relax when we get these days That we can not do anything just take advantage of not doing anything Okay Tech news for July 3rd 2015 Date line Tech and news together on the 8th Maybe we should just create a 24 hour. I mean, I know alpha geek radio is a 24 hour radio station 24 hour news news station Alpha geek news radio We could have traffic and weather on the 8th Uh Leroy Jenkins something five. This was a triumph still alive. Thank you ton to go. So um I didn't miss anything about vox purple fish head says you missed the most important part of vox. I didn't pick it Uh, so your criticism would be better directed at eric from new jersey Uh Well, haphalophagus would like us to sing My favorite songs. I don't think you really want that. I really don't Uh, I'm actually here for a dts. Oh travis. You're late. I did it early my fault Thunder shirt Yes Uh, wow, good questions you guys. Thank you For that. I'll answer a couple more here in a second. I just got to make sure that I haven't screwed up this posting We are processing your track for playback Oh a comment from rooker about the la guardians would be amazing patrick That's a great idea Beats one is starting to repeat some songs This is me on the regular so you know for instance They played that just like a couple hours ago and they're just playing it again. That's a very radio like Uh, no, I didn't hear the night attack, uh thing. I'll have to take a look I'll have to take a listen rather to the night attack worldwide I heard they used the the sub guns capture Awesome. Thanks. Deshka. I'll take a definitely take a look at that Uh, any plans for a more galactical event? I'll allow the world cup considering we're in the fourth year of the sport Val roman That is a vfs l every year. It is a galactical event I'll allow the world cup. It is it is that all the time you can't get more galactical than that Including the elevation tournament, which is super galactical Um, I'm not sure what more you could do Thunder shirt dogs So oh my gosh I I think that would freak my dog out even more, but thank you. I'll take a look at it How well do you think ant-man will do in the box office movie draft? I think it'll do well I do Did it publish did it publish? This is me on the regular. So, you know Oh, I did that thing Please try again restore the backup Publish again. Oh wordpress You and your silly antics Now I can see if I actually, uh Daily tech news show Not everyone agrees. Well It's up. It's good I'll get the video up later on as well But the youtube video should be there. Well, the youtube video is still going Because I'm on it Uh, let's see. What else we got here weren't there 3,600 teams in the elevation round? Yeah Something like that. I think of more actually Uh, why didn't I get your mass text? Oh, you weren't in my context bio cow But now you will be so you should get all my mass texts All right, insanely calm dogs. What? That's not what I want Well, that's it. Uh, thanks everybody for watching. Stay tuned For a rerun of current geek because there is no current geek this week either Following your late local news