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All right 200th of 1% of the Daily Tech news show were brought to you by me If you would like to decrease my already meager equity go to Daily Tech news show comm slash support This is the Daily Tech news for Wednesday, February 3rd 2016 I'm Tom era joining me Scott Johnson all the way from the mountainous land of Salt Lake City How are you sir? I'm fine. It's was also very snowy here And I'm happy to be here in the early part of the hardest month to pronounce February You do it just fine, but everyone I know struggles. My dad used to say February like that. Yeah, yeah I can tell you that library library. That's why The guy in February, I'll go to the library Exactly talking tech news with you on the 3rd of that fine month is perhaps the highlight of my day We are going to talk about a an offhand comment from the CEO of one of America's greatest mall chains That indicates Amazon might be opening a bunch of physical locations But start we do the headlines Microsoft announced Wednesday it has acquired Swift key the makers of that software keyboard and the SDK for Android and iOS Swift key learns from users how to anticipate What word they might type next which means that I play a little cat and mouse game with it and it improves my vocabulary Microsoft says that predictive technology like this aligns with their aims to build intelligent systems as well as Gives them a chance to integrate it into Microsoft's existing word flow product a similar product Microsoft also said it will continue to develop the Swift key keyboard for iOS and Android That's in keeping with that. They've always said with other products that they purchased I'm glad that they do that Total side note doesn't have a ton to do with this except I saw a notch on Twitter today the previous owner Marcus Marcus person the previous owner of Minecraft who sold that property for some billions of dollars to Microsoft His tweet today said a little something that made me wonder about the relationship. He basically said well, I guess There's one more product. I won't be using any more in that swift key And it makes me wonder if he had a bad experience really yeah I mean he can be a little trolley sometimes You know as can we all not not singling him out, but he's not somebody who just speaks in PR speak So that's true to some I suppose to sum that as a good sign But it was it was a telling moment as he laid this huge pile of money And it definitely is part of the machine learning wars the machine learning wars are on Everybody's trying to acquire various pieces of technology They can use to become the next great artificial intelligence machine learning company And Swift key is is a nice little piece of that, you know, it it's it's machine learning is very Specific to predicting speech right predicting what you're gonna say next but that could have all kinds of Applications in other arenas outside of just a keyboard. Yeah, no, I think this is a good buy for them It'll be fascinating to see what they do with it Google SVP of re of search rather a mitzang high posted on Google plus that he'll be retiring at the end of this month It'll be gone. He wrote my dream is Star Trek computers become a reality or becoming a reality It's far better than what I ever imagined Google VP of engineering and head of our artificial intelligence John at Guillem de Guerrera will also or will take over so he's out no more search guy in with the new guy Now Ahmed's been there since early days. He became a Google fellow in 2001 when the company was only a few years old so probably Not much to read into this other than he's ready to retire and he's got a nice big fat stack of Google stock That's eight dollars and sixty five cents earnings per share Led him to believe, you know, maybe I could retire and John John Andrea Being the artificial intelligence guy Means that again the machine learning wars continue and Google wants to make sure that they take what they're learning About AI and machine learning and apply it even more so to their search results in Google now and things like that His start his nerdy Star Trek references not lost on me And I appreciate the fact that a lot of those guys especially those that were there in the early days Have that connection to the work. They're doing. I That's what Google wants they want your search box and and when you talk to it. Okay name of product They want it to be like Star Trek where you said computer, you know How how many neutrons do I need to reverse the polarity on to make this work and the computer just tells you Google Fiber announced Wednesday It will work with the US Department of Housing and Urban Development's connect home initiative to provide gigabit internet service to public housing at no cost The West Bluff property in Kansas City will be the first to receive gigabit internet as part of this program Google then intends to expand to other locations in Kansas City and eventually to all public housing in all of the cities Served by Google Fiber. Yeah, that would include Salt Lake City at some point or at least Provo I forget where we're at with that right now, but yeah, I think no, I think you're on the map anyway I mean and and there's lots of other cities under consideration Austin for instance is in the in the works already. So this you know, if Google Fiber continues to Perform as an independent ISP and not just a way to to blaze a trail to encourage competition And and I can't tell if Google has decided that or not It could eventually be a big boon to public housing 2016 seems like so far a little bit of the year of rollouts There's these guys we talked last week about Former area folks putting together a program to get ISPs to people's homes wirelessly with with huge speeds and yeah with starry Yeah, sorry that was it and these these things keep coming up And I don't know what that means except to say infrastructure seems to be evolving at the very least At least it feels like that in 2016 and it is having and you could argue whether it's As an effect of this but Comcast is also rolling out gigabyte or yeah gigabit per second Service in more places they announced more cities today. So yeah, there's there's a ton of folks out there Rolling out in the United States anyway service. Well Fitbit unveiled the Alta today No, not the ski resort 20 minutes for me a hundred and thirty dollar fitness tracker This is another band that will feature an OLED touch display and automatic activity tracking The Alta has swappable bands in different colors plus a leather band and metal bracelet for 30 and 60 and then 100 respectively The Alta will ship in March in North America and the rest of the world in April classic bands We'll be available at launch with the metal bracelet coming in the summer and the leather coming later on after that So yeah once again, you know, I know a lot of numbers have been coming out lately that fitness trackers and Health bands have not really seen the hit people thought they might in the face of both Google and Apple getting heavy into the into the watch market and Instead it seems like there are more products coming out that do more things and are also attracting I don't know the more fashion conscious among us. So, you know, it's it's interesting I think everybody else thought that this was gonna be the death nail of those things And it certainly doesn't seem to be slowing yet. Yeah, in a sense It may have made more people aware that these sorts of things existed and said well, I don't want to spend $350 I'd rather spend $99 and this has a clock on it and also tracks my fitness, which is everything I need Microsoft's got a new version of the band coming as well. So yeah, this is it's this is a market that is Ripening and watches may not be where it is most successful Yeah There's a desire to think that what we want is this analog to what watches used to be or still are for people And maybe what we really want is a whole new Bit of thinking about a wearable. Yeah, where you wear it what it does how it functions It may be a completely different paradigm and it's so easy to just say well We need a watch and then we'll expand from there kind of like phones. Yeah, I'm not sure anymore Well, and that's why it's smart for companies like job on and Fitbit to make Fancy or looking trackers that are a hundred thirty dollars not three hundred fifty dollars But still have some style to them one of the things my wife did with her Fitbit Just a couple days ago. She bought some third-party bands because they were different colors She's like I just want to you know want to be able to accessorize with it So that is definitely when you're talking about wearables the fashion is you know as much as maybe somebody like me is like Yeah, what does it matter? Just make it black a lot of a lot of people want to be able to to wear a wearable in the way They wear other kinds of jewelry Cisco issued their annual report on mobile traffic estimating by 2020 5.54 billion people will have a mobile phone and CNET's Roger Chang not Chang Chang Points out five point three billion will have electricity by 2020 so more people will have phones Then electricity by 2020 wrap your head about around that one only three point five billion people will have running water By 2020 Cisco forecast mobile data traffic will grow to 366.8 exabytes by 2020 phones will make up 81 percent of that traffic and more than 75 percent of that traffic will be video The global average network speed should rise to six point five megabits per second by then about triple what it is now Again global average for everywhere. Thanks to mecca gobbler for posting this on the subreddit Mecca gobbler scariest name on the internet today. Also. I would just say That sounds crazy to me, but it does I guess give you a I don't know some insight as to how big this is I mean sometimes you forget like we've all got phones It's now a normal part of life flip phones are a thing of the past All it takes is watching some show from the early 2000s to be reminded that all that stuff has changed But I guess I hadn't realized how much that's to me more Curtis B says how will they charge their phones? I think that's an obvious question, especially for someone living in the developed world where we all assume you have electricity in your home There are loads of ways people are carrying smart smartphones without or having or maybe not even smartphones But carrying mobile phones without even having electricity in their home There are stores that will sell you charging time. Sometimes there are public charging stations I know in Asia charging banks are very very popular. Sometimes they're free and ad supported Sometimes there's not but again, you can charge up your phone and you know if it's a smaller cheaper phone It may run for a couple of days on a charge So you can you can see where you don't have to have electricity at home as long as you have access to electricity somewhere I'm no expert in socio-economic issues But it seems to me that that adoption rate will actually help the other number raise as well because when he's talking about Even though it's sort of individualized infrastructure You need to start supporting that on a broader basis and it seems like maybe more electricity to more homes I don't know if it'll help the running water problem, but it'll certainly probably bump those numbers up. Yeah Where are we here? Yahoo. Oh, yeah, I didn't want to go there either, but I avoid the Yahoo thing But I can't I guess it's time Yahoo bought tumblr in 2013 for 1.1 billion if you remember I do and BuzzFeed reports Yahoo announced it has reduced the blogging services value by a whopping 23 percent that is about 230 million dollars Yahoo wrote down 4.5 billion in the value of various corporate units and has announced that it will lay off 15% of its staff and pursue an aggressive strategic plan As as they mentioned yesterday right here on the show Yahoo's quarterly revenue was up 1.5 percent and beat estimates But still I remember I told you this earlier just back and forth chatting that I felt like Tumblr was a little expensive at 1.1 million and that this doesn't necessarily surprise me But you made a really good point It was on them to have a strategy to make it a profitable arm of the company and it doesn't sound like they're there Maybe just not yet, but not there today. Yeah, I mean They're talking about reducing investment in flicker as part of their coming strategy That was one of the things Marissa Meyer mentioned yesterday it It's sad It is a very complex situation. I get that but tumblr is popular and should be successful It should be doing as well as an Instagram or a snapchat at this point It shouldn't be seen as something that needs to be written down as a failed investment But maybe this just means they overpaid Like you say, I think that's a fair that's probably the the fairest point here, but I Start to sympathize with the investors in yahoo who are saying just sell it off Because tumblr might be better off owned by someone else or independently owned Under some venture capital ownership it and flicker might be better off that way, too You it is it is sad to say but even though yahoo, you know raised its revenue Its market value is still less than the value of the Alibaba stock plus yahoo Japan that it owns Which it wants to sell off which would imply that yahoo itself is not worth anything Yeah, I don't know what they're doing It scares me a little bit for these properties that they purchased and have done good by I mean and tumblr is not a Worst service because they bought them. That's great. In fact, they've a lot of things and It feels like the back ends a little stronger like all that stuff is good And just it's also maybe really hard to change or tweak without getting a very specific community up in arms and moving off to other services So yeah, I don't know challenges abound Well, I could have put a story about Google starting to test their self-driving cars in Kirkland, Washington here But pretty much that's all I'd have to say about that is there we go. There's their third city instead I'm gonna say thanks to Star Fury Zeta for posting this one in the subreddit technology review Reports that researchers from the University of North Carolina in Charlotte led by Jason Marmon have developed a transistor that controls current with laser light Shined on a wire made of cadmium and selenium. That's only a few atoms thick Now, why is that important for one it can conduct when illuminated and insulate when dark You just turn on the light conducts turn off the light doesn't conduct no source no drain no gate They can be made smaller than the current nanometer wide field effect Transistors which could lead to faster processors and you know keeping Moore's law healthy But the next step is to figure out how to send light to each transistor at a decent power efficiency and speed So they they've got to figure out how to manufacture these how to make these into chips basically still someday light effect transistors might be the thing that's powering your fast new processor and Making sure Moore's law has a little more life that I get any closer to a future not to dip too deep into the current X-files reboots but into free energy and the ability to sort of pull energy from around things rather than have to consume anything Yeah, sadly. No, this doesn't do anything. It doesn't even touch on that. You need energy to run the laser So, you know, that's that's just part of it. It might use it might use less power That that is undetermined, but that wouldn't because because of free energy. Well, I was getting excited Adblocking extensions for Samsung's new Android internet browser have been having trouble with Google's play store. This is too bad Adblock fast was removed from the store and told it violated section 4.4 of developer distribution agreement prohibiting interfering with the service of a third party crystal is still available But it's update was blocked for that same reason Adblock plus has not been affected So it's a little murky. What's actually going on here it on the surface of it You could say, oh Google doesn't like Samsung doing ad blocking because they're an ad company which which may be part of it Maybe all of it, but the fact that ad block plus has gone through just fine Makes me think there's something these blockers are doing that Google doesn't like specifically an ad block plus might not be doing it And that's why it's been allowed to stay But keep in mind. This is just ad blockers Put in the play store independently of anything else. So as an APK for a Samsung browser So maybe there's some misinterpretation But I mean the biggest part of this story to me is the fact that they can't get a straight answer out of Google They've gotten communication saying look at via section 4.4 Don't violate section 4.4 and you'll be fine. You can resubmit and they what they want to know is like Well, how why do you think we're violating 4.4 explain that to us and we'll fix it Yeah, the the mere fact that it's an ad blocker sounds like it violates 4.4 and that but if that's allowed for ad block plus and others Then I don't understand. I mean by blocking edge You are interfering with the service of a third party like literally that's what you're doing Yeah, and if that's okay, like it seems to be for ad block plus. Well, and Firefox does ad blocking on Android which interferes with third parties that want to serve ads, but it's allowed So so then it becomes well Maybe it's because you're interfering with the Samsung browser by blocking ads, but Samsung's okay with that But Samsung is allowing that so that shouldn't be it either It's a there's something there's something more going on here that I would like to know I don't know if I'll ever find it's a good reminder that That this stuff is more complicated than people think and when when you talk about curating or having a hands-off approach to your app store Whether you're like Apple where it's much more curated or your your Google Play where a little bit more hands-off Either either way things come up stuff happens and then either they're not giving enough information or people are upset about it Anyway, like I in some ways. I guess I admire that they can pull it off at all. Yeah, and the efficient Algorithmically driven customer support doesn't work in this situation. You need a human to explain to you This is why we rejected your app and if it's because it blocks ads Then we we should know that so we don't waste time making ad blocking things and Samsung doesn't waste time Encouraging people to do it and and that's fine and Google should stand behind that what even if you think it's wrong But make that clear right now It's not clear because you got some that aren't blocked and some that are and it's just a mess Nintendo's first mobile game me Tomo is coming to North America in March for iOS and Android Nintendo announced Wednesday You'll be able to pre-register for a notification to tell you that the mobile game is coming starting February 17th By signing up for the new Nintendo account, which is different than your existing a Nintendo account Though you can use your existing Nintendo account to sign up for the new in Nintendo account And you'll get a special bonus if you do no word on what that will be or what website you'll need to go to to sign up But hey, it's a pre announcement of a pre-registration for a thing So if you're telling me, I don't know if I buy into this idea that Nintendo is bad at online stuff Yeah, they are notoriously bad at this stuff. I don't know why they like to just confuse things But it's also a way for them to hedge off some of this excitement There's gonna be a lot of excitement around this one other announcement They made that we don't have written here and there's not a lot of details that either But they did say that their most important character will soon be coming to an original Mobile game soon which probably means Mario and if we don't know what it means in terms of the game But what it does mean is then in Nintendo's profits are in the hole right now and mobile is More and more outside of this me me a Tomo thing. They're launching with more and more important to them So I'm actually really excited about it But I'm I'm always frustrated with them doing friends codes and it's a different log in and yeah Yeah, I mean, it's fine to say starting February 17th We'll you could sign up and but give me an address maybe or tell me where to find it And then I don't know maybe like a I don't know get ready calm and just get excited or something They just they just operate on a different level. I guess I don't know well folks submit some stories to us It helps us figure out what to talk about each day We we could have talked about the fact that some people are seeing the podcast section show up and Google's music app But I don't know how we decide this I did a whole video on how I decided and part of it is you Getting on the subreddit and doing some voting daily tech news show dot reddit.com. That is a look at the headlines Now we mentioned Amazon might be opening some bookstores. Here's what happened Sandeep Mathrani is the CEO of general growth properties which sounds like something you make up for a TV show, but it's a real company and They operate big malls the Galleria here in Glendale water tower in Chicago The Ala Moana Which is I think the largest Outdoor air open-air mall in the country in Hawaii. These are these are big successful malls and he was doing his earnings call and One of the people on the call asked him a question about traffic to malls talking about foot traffic Like people going to the malls and he talked about you know during the holiday season They were having problems with parking which means obviously there's plenty of people coming to malls may not be shopping in as many different places as they used to but they are spending money and in the course of answering the question and talking about traffic and talking about the importance of Returns and people coming back to the mall to return things. He said case in point You go to Amazon opening brick and mortar bookstores and their goal is to open as I understand 300 to 400 bookstores and you should sit back and say the last mile is all important Which is why bonobos is opening brick and mortar stores and Warby Parker is opening brick and mortar stores and Birch box is cutting their overhead to open brick and mortar stores Now two things, you know catch your eye. The first one obviously is whoa He thinks Amazon's gonna open 300 to 400 stores and this is a guy in the know, right? He runs malls It's his business to know Amazon probably not too happy that he said that whether it's true or not They're not commenting on this but it also points out that yeah, you're right Warby Parker has open stores Bonobos has open stores birch box is planning to open stores. That's for real so All the sudden Amazon looks like they're part of a trend if they do this Yeah Well, I mean and we everyone wants to bring up Apple as an example also the Microsoft stores that exist are kind of an example of this You take a the company that's purely sort of a digital Place or place that sells your computers or whatever and they move to a more brick and mortar status That's one thing the weird thing about this and some of these other products is that they're kind of being looped around on they they all started as things that you would go buy in a bookstore like books and now they they really took the wind out everybody sales by Selling not only books online So you get them straight to your door and you avoid going to the bookstore and shutting down borders and others or indicators of that market Change but also Kindles and ebooks and all this stuff sort of changed the entire landscape and now we're going full circle where the company that did That is putting potentially if this guy's right and it seems like he's in the know You know a real footprint in in retail when it comes to book sales and and whatever else they're going to sell and push there I made the comment this morning on the morning stream when we spoke about this in your segment That this feels a little bit like the Death Star reopening Alderaan after they blew it up for Amazon to do this Yeah, yeah for Amazon to do that. It still feels a bit like that to me on the other hand And I don't necessarily mean that as a pejorative. I'm actually pretty excited about this Because there's a certain reality to Amazon the reality is this is where we now get our books Whether we get them via the mail in a big hard-bound book form or we get it on our Kindle and download it immediately Whatever the method is they have become that for us among many other products that they sell so Because that's a truth and because we know they're good at that Them opening a store that I can also go into sit down in be in a coffee shop for a while Check out a magazine rack while I'm waiting for something browse a book. I'm interested in whatever You know, maybe even find rare stuff I can't get online or at the very least price match what they're selling it online like all of that sounds Good and it also sounds like this might be the time for it Like, you know how you swing too far Maybe we've swung too far into everything needs to be on the internet and we're just swinging back a little bit And why not those successful internet folks why not let them swing it back to just a little bit more like all right? That's a place I can go they blew up the planet why not let them rebuild it right it makes sense I mean, you can't necessarily bring back all four souls you eliminated them on Alderaan But you've got a chance to make a new planet and let me get to the second part of my Theroni's quote Cuz I think it bears on what you're talking about here He says it's a very interesting evolution because the cost of the last mile is that important And again in the mall business if you appreciate which is more focused on fashion it's very different than a staple business where you're buying commodities and so you know In the mall business the impact of e-commerce is a lot less. It's actually your friend not your enemy So what he's trying to argue and again This guy on an earnings call trying to justify his multi-billion dollar mall business So keep that in mind, but he's saying hey The last mile is the issue and I love that they're calling the last mile problem being talking to customers face to face We were just talking about the devs having a problem talking to Google people when you buy clothing a lot of times You do want to talk to somebody I don't but a lot of people do And and you want to try on the clothes and see if they fit And so that's the kind of thing where you can see why a bonobos which is a clothing store would say well Let's have some outlets where people can go do that if they want and it goes back to what you said about the Apple store The reason there are Apple stores you can buy everything from Apple online People like to go and play around with it even if they end up buying it online later Apple doesn't care and so maybe that's what Amazon is experimenting with and remember they opened a store in Seattle back on November 2nd It is it is an experimental store all the books face forward They use data from the website to help inform what books they stock They price everything the same online or in the store so you don't go online to go I get a cheaper mailed to me And they do have some kindle and fire devices, but they're focusing very much on books The idea I think being people still like to browse bookstores and Amazon is in the position to say we make plenty of money Selling books to people even if they come into an Amazon bookstore Don't buy anything but page through a bunch of things and then go home and order it online or even order the ebook for their kindle We still made the money. It's still worth it. Yeah, and they have a real chance to do one extra thing there And that is I would argue Apple did and that is to have a presence that is a physical location That represents your company well that gets a lot of foot traffic and has people leaving going, huh? That is a substantial place. It feels super nice in there I feel like that is a sign that this company that wants my money every year for a new phone or whatever your reason for being there is I feel like that's a thing that's here to stay. There's a there's a like a tree with roots going on there I feel like that's a good little extra boost of PR It's not that Amazon needs a ton of extra help in that department but to have a place that I could go called Amazon books and have that sort of Experience maybe even like you mentioned this morning have it be a place where I can pick up stuff I ordered online and vice versa Is is really powerful and you'll walk out going yeah, Amazon has my back. They're gonna be here for a while I'm happily paying for Prime And maybe there's some benefits to that in the store We kind of joked about that this morning, but I think there's real possibility there with Prime members So it even if it's a lost leader It seems like a smart move for them people are gonna be using them anyway So why not create this place that lets them do all the things they want to do or might want to do and then Also walk away with this feeling of yeah there is a physical substantial tangible thing in my life that I'd like to get products from and If they pull that off then I think that they they win them the same way that Apple's one with their strategies And there's no it may be a cost savings to say if somebody buys the book in the store That is going to be cheaper than shipping it to them or at least maybe the same amount To deliver it to them because they came to the store if this works for Amazon if it ends up being true again We're going on Mothrani's quote that it's even true if Amazon does do a big rollout like this and it's successful Maybe they start doing pharmacies. Maybe they start doing grocery stores, you know, who know who knows what other aspects of Amazon comm Would make sense for you to say well, you know what I do I do order some things like that on Online why not get them at the Amazon store because of this and that other you know efficiency to it Well, I have a theory. I've formulated since this morning and I'd like to share with everybody. All right. I Think that the first real tangible Competition to Costco and Sam's Club Will eventually be not right away, but eventually be the Amazon big box store and I don't think it sounds crazy at all. They could carry everything we already buy through them TVs books Everything food clothes like what you expect from Costco but very well could be less expensive and Have a real pull-and-draw for a lot of people who are just wanting to buy from Amazon anyway in a way that Costco doesn't have that kind Of cache. I think that they could be a huge leader in the big box stores Memberships whatever Amazon warehouse stores. It's a working warehouse where you could pick up your orders Order things immediately or just find something on a shelf and buy it I mean that does sound intriguing doesn't it does and also don't forget perfect application for prime membership Because if you've got a prime membership that's your way into this new store just like a Costco membership as you're right Oh, yeah, you just make a part of the prime like you now get the streaming videos and the free two-day shipping and Membership to this to the warehouse and you don't have a ton of recruitment time. They're already members So yeah, a ton of people day one I think that that would be huge and I wouldn't be shocked Not all my predictions come true, but I wouldn't be shocked if that one has some legs Well, you know, if Mad Max free road has shown me anything it's to take some take some of Scott Johnson's prediction seriously so yeah, I That's intriguing and then if and if all of this stuff does happen Then it becomes a conversation of like how much of this do we want Amazon to do are they becoming too big and too powerful Over the retail marketplace, but that we've got a while before we really need to talk about that in the physical space We there definitely is a question about that in the online space for sure Dogs at Costco hot dogs at Amazon. I'm ready to go Hey, our pick of the day is from a lot of you We received loads of pics regarding hooking up your phone's audio in your car And some other Bluetooth audio pics. So here's a roundup of them Jason in Seattle Says that he likes the I simple ISB to 32 blue jacks Jax Plugs into your aux jack in your car to add Bluetooth functionality. It's less than 30 bucks. He says it works great You set from Detroit likes the home spot NFC enabled Bluetooth audio receivers around 25 to 30 dollars plugs into your power Adapter via USB because he said it's not really meant for the car But he just used a USB power adapter and an aux cord to works great And it's only 25 to 30 bucks Tommy the newspaper publisher in Maui longtime old-time buzz out loud listener Said that he likes the pioneer deck That sells for less than a hundred bucks and has Bluetooth and an external mic so you can do Bluetooth conversations through it He learned about it from the wire cutter, which is another pick I just check out the wire cutter at the wire cutter comm for good good reviews of lots of different things And then Gary followed up on the photo of Bluetooth headphones that he had sent in as a pick a while back Said they finally stopped working on January 19th about a month after he sent him on a trip through the wash So he went for a pair of $17 Bluetooth earbuds from Dana Bose And he'll report back on on how he likes him as he uses them more So he's only been using them for a couple weeks all those prices are so much better than the stuff that everybody says you should get I'm very intrigued by all well and the audio quality of these may not be enough for for audio files I know Nate Langston on the text message podcast was saying that he has just now got to the point where he has found a Single pair of Bluetooth headphones that he feels are good enough for him to enjoy audio And he's he's somebody who really is picky about the quality of his audio So these may not be good for for those kind of folks But if you're like, hey, I just need something, you know, listen to while I jog and I'm listening to spoken word most of the time Or something these may be great. That's right. Dan or he was the Last time he was on the show He was trying to convince us that the only way to live was to keep buying CDs and forget about these I know right he is committed to high quality audio I'll go that will not dispute that man and anything regarding audio quality for sure Send your pics to us folks feedback at daily tech news show comm you can find more pics at daily tech news show comm slash picks I got some messages to get to today Hello from sunny Costa Rica. I always listen to the show every day on my way back from work It's been a while since I do not miss one episode best podcast ever Well, thank you Costa Rica wanted to share a couple things from last week's episode I heard that one of the tops topics was driving apps I'd like to let you know that if you ever visit Costa we Costa Rica ways is the go-to app Community is big here. All the maps and roads are up to date. There's no chance. You can get lost Well, there's always a chance, but he says it's actually really good I also wanted to share an interesting article. He read about Akamai the CDN Planning a core internet protocol boost that will increase the speed of sites up to 30% This is great news because TCP has been out for a while. So a refresher would be awesome Thanks a lot poor a vida And then I looked up this article he's talking about it's a TCP replacement that Akamai is proposing called giga That would be opened up. They plan to combine it with Google's quick Protocol and would require IETF approval and adoption by hardware and software people But would would speed up connections over TCP. That sounds great I wish this stuff was less dependent on that all the everybody changing and adhering to it Like this whenever you say things like hardware and software adoption. Yeah That is just the nature of the beast, right? If you don't have everything using it then it doesn't work Yeah, no, you're totally right. It's like if suddenly, you know, if suddenly Oliver like all of our I don't know Water systems could push Kool-Aid through them. They you know, that'd be great and all but it means a big change That's a terrible example, but but yes, I totally get it I just always keep hoping beyond hope that someone will say hey We found a way to tack on top of TZIP and or TZIP and it's gonna be this easy and take no time at all And it's as if we were never here. Well, yeah, I mean this wouldn't necessarily be hard to implement It just means people would have to implement it, right? There's always that right? You can say like this is easy You don't have to change a thing, but people have to use it Yeah, well exciting stuff. I think we had a really fun conversation about the hyperloop on Monday And a lot of you guys wrote in Mark Stevens said that hyperloop could be great for prime shipping So instead of having a freight truck Amazon could use prime hyperloop ship packages from one place to another Alan Char suggested it might make a good alternative to air cargo the travel time seemed comparable And I imagine the weight restrictions can't be much worse than those of air cargo and and and we got We got some other people, you know suggesting it could be used for this and that but I think people are People are intrigued their imaginations are running about hyperloop. That's where they should be and then finally rich from lovely Cleveland Was thinking about the iPhone 5 se that is rumored to becoming and be announced in March. He said what if The 5 se has a better battery but a smaller screen thus less strain on the GPU the Battery reduction might be offset By this savings and Apple may also decide to lower the system on a chip clock speed Which might not be needed for or which might be needed for heat dissipation anyway I know it's speculation on speculation But if the battery life has improved it might be a surprisingly tempting device Well and for I mean everybody assumes that this is just for the kind of entry level I don't want to go full smartphone I want to get something that's expensive or are these need to be phones that are much cheaper in parts of the world They're they're trying to expand like China and others But yeah, like if you told I know lots of people in my life If you told them you got a less expensive option where battery life was king They don't need to worry about the best performance for games or something else They would be very interested in a phone like that That isn't just a cheap phone But a phone that is specifically designed to take advantage of those kinds of needs like battery life and so on so yeah I'm with him. I think it'd be much more tempting and not just a here's Apple's attempt to Get the lower end of the market. Yeah, just repackaging the same old stuff Maybe maybe not who knows we'll have to wait no March 15th or whatever to find out That is it for this episode of Daily Tech News show Scott Johnson. I'm sad. I'm sad. It's over to all good things must come to an end I know yeah, but you can get more Scott Johnson. There's there's loads loads of Scott Quality Scott Johnson to not that bulk stuff like get the get the primo stuff at frog pants.com Yeah, don't go to don't go to the big box store go to the Boutique and buy my stuff. No, I if people are interested in anything else I have going on their best place to go is frog pants calm And of course you can follow me on Twitter at Scott Johnson always something happened Absolutely, go do it. Take a look find out check out current geek. 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He's on vacation Then I love that he was like I'm gonna see snowbird with snow Yeah, they totally did it's it's couldn't have picked a better year. It is so awesome up there right now Just yeah, it looks like they're having fun. I saw some pictures like it's a powdery awesome ski snow It's just perfect. Yeah, if you're into that sort of thing, which I'm not that I I can appreciate it You're not a skier not really. I don't know. Maybe I grew up too close to it or something It's always the way right you never do the thing that's of the place where you live Yeah, not nearly as much right or the you know you live in California Restaurant, you're like, oh, yeah, they're the best and that's only cuz you just got one or they were never before No, Jenny, did you say about the beach Jenny never goes to the yeah I'm closer to the beach than Jenny and I never go to the beach most of my Vegas friend Same idea I guess although it's kind of a smart thing. I mean just gonna run into tourists and stuff on the strip Oh, yeah, no the strip is if you live there, I'd never go I'd never went to 6th Street when I lived in Austin same thing same deal But um, yeah, they we hung out a little bit their girls are stoked just the eye just the side of snow freaking out Just flipping out they kept asking me. Do you live here all year? Yeah. Oh This is snow all year long No, I'm here. This is amazing. I want to take some home with me But my mom says they won't let me fly with it. I said, I don't think it'll keep well if they if they take less than three ounces You can put it a igloo ice cooler and stick it in the airplane a whole this shit I'm sure you can check it. Yeah, maybe they could actually But yeah, they were I've never seen kids so excited about snow in my life The first time I saw snow when I was a kid I was freaked out It's like why is it so Mushy and at this time because I was up in Tahoe. It's a guy. I don't like this It's a very uncomfortable substance. It's the first time I saw snow. It was five months old. So Yeah, you were used to it then. Yeah, I don't remember it was pro now before The snow pro you want some titles. Yeah, I got what I like though. Yeah, we got something something tumblr pun Amazon and robuck which is the one I like mm-hmm who blocks the ad blockers Amazon gets That's my favorite. Yeah Yeah, that's it. It's so good Because of the whole grease vibe What a win I it took me a while and I say a while but it could might have been like a week You know how things seem when you're young, but I remember the having the realization that Olivia Newton John from the physical song was Sandy from Greece Yeah, you they so that didn't click like immediately. Yeah interesting Oh Yeah, Justin's Brian pictures of them up there. Yeah with the snow helmets crash. It's all sunny up there. Oh, lucky I'm a little jealous. It looks like it's a perfect day Go skiing in snowbird park put on your crash halberds and ski What It says don't mean to blow your mind, but Olivia Newton John was in Xanadu too. Yeah, I Don't want to freak you out or anything, but she wasn't in anything else That's not true. She was not true actually. Yeah, she was in lots of things It's just the only some movies before Greece Like small stuff you haven't you can will a name pop to your head. Can you think of one? No? I just read about it this weekend. We need her They're they're very like unknown movies was in Xanadu one of them Maybe that before she was in Xanadu. I was at a start at our whole conversation And it was after Greece, but but also Xanadu was like a mainstay at our house because my sisters were so into that movie and so the yellow soundtrack was on Constantly, I love that movie too. Do they like roller skating? Yeah. Oh, yeah Yeah, well, they did I don't know they Why must you kick me away? I'm your father. I Am your father Well, it's probably something I have to get used to she gets older. Yeah, for sure I wonder if IMDB is the website I've visited the most over the year probably not just because of searches, but I love the first website I ever visited. We don't have any way to get that kind of stats. Do we that'd be so cool to know I want to know where I go the most. I bet it's either Google Docs Maybe IMDB I didn't go there a lot Do you know how like the CIA has the world fact book online? What if the NSA had one and you For your name and so these are your surfing habits. I'll be all right Whoa, she performed at Eurovision No way 1974. Oh No, Olivia Newton John Australia Although Australia actually is now part of Eurovision or no They used to fight didn't they used to not boycott it, but they used to be kind of poopy about it or something But the Australians didn't like Eurovision for a while or they were it's Eurovision. They weren't invited Right, but they were Australia actually has a special relationship with Eurovision That's what I heard is because they aren't they're in it now, right? They they compete. Yeah, they were allowed. They were given a special invite to join on the like anniversary Because they were originally what were they prison colony colonists from the Queen? Well, yeah, that's like Georgia though She was in a movie called tomorrow with spelled TOO Oh, no, that's so in funny things happen down under Then Greece then Xanadu then two of a kind remember that movie. Oh Yeah, that's a good soundtrack horrible movie And when I say good soundtrack. Oh, yeah with Travolta again They were trying to keep trying to recapture that. Yeah didn't happen Well, maybe it did. I don't know Maybe people loved that. I don't know She was in the an episode of Lost Joe just as a performer. She was in the couple of episodes of Glee soundtrack Just her songs were just her song. Yeah It was a Nicky or Palo She was Nicky and Palo Wow, I'm in of them all these diverse actresses of the spider I Smoked monster T2T2 confirms Australia was only part of last year. Oh, okay. I knew there was some talk about it I couldn't remember the deal, but yeah, Eurovision is just for European countries As I understand it with occasional exceptions made It's a very weird thing to watch I found I tried to watch some of it night. It's so fun hard to watch I love it. It is fun. I just I don't know what I'm watching. I guess. Yeah, I guess I'm not big on that I guess maybe that's what I'm supposed to like, but I'm okay. Here's the key. You were where were you watching it? over a Friends house and it was a late at night because it was like we're not in what what service He had it I don't remember what he was using it was my neighbor probably using some Because if you can get the feed from the BBC with Graham Norton hosting Yeah, it adds to the enjoyment. I like Graham Norton. Yeah, I could deal with that You know the thing I heard was just like it was like watching the gong show international what I felt like Which is fine Maybe again, I'm saying things I should like but I don't know I couldn't do it tried my sister loved it. She's she watched the whole thing in Sweden this year Huh, yeah, I just got welcomed to the Lexington peddlers mall. I think it's the wrong Tom Merritt Yeah, I'll say I Mean, that's one thing you know, you could call crowdfunding that I guess but I don't think it'd be it's so accurate Floor space that you're in may not be your tag number for you're using the wrong tag number. You won't get credit for your sales This is hilarious. I also got invited to a hog marketing seminar Wow, and I had to write back like I think you have the wrong Tom Merritt I did report on pork belly futures went in my first job In radio but other than that, I don't know anything about it I get a lot of things for Steve Johnson. Yeah, which isn't me It wasn't me. I wonder how many Tom Merritts out there are getting angry notes about my podcast I totally disagree with your opinion on malls Poor Tom Merritt in Lexington, Kentucky is like, but where'd my peddlers mall? Oh Getting this angry email Overwatch back on the ninth. Oh, yeah, what? Oh, I won't get invited. Maybe you will Not gonna get my hopes up So I'm writing another Article about movies because that's what's obsessing me lately on your medium. I'm a medium the first one was movies that haunt me Avengers Age of Ultron and Now I'm doing an article that defines why certain movies like what makes a movie that haunts me It's kind of fun. Cool. Why this is on my mind It was always on your mind. Well, that's actually oh My god, wait, what movie is that from? Well, it's from Willie Nelson writing the song But it's been used in multiple movies. I think you know like a you were always I Don't know you were always Well, where did Jenny go? I don't know she poop out poofed. She's like I got to find what movie that was it bye That was it as a reminder if you had access to the closed beta before the break You'll continue to have access during this next phase. Oh good the rich get richer It says we're also looking to recruit more players to help us get an even wider range of perspectives and feedback So if you're interested in participating make sure you got you've opted in. Oh, I've opted in yeah, you're in so I Have opted in I came to see I actually haven't been playing a lot lately of anything. So Do you know what do you think about these standards in? Hearthstone do you hear about that? There's a way for them to yeah, I need to like pay I need to sit down and read that again But it sounds like something that could either be awesome or go horribly awry depending on how well it's Implemented and I have to say the Hearthstone team five folks have implemented things very well in the past So I'm gonna I'm gonna expect that it will turn out to be a good thing Yeah, I think they've earned the faith of the community on this one Yeah, I agree with you that see when you see it you just like oh really okay, that's weird That's real weird But but also it does definitely addresses some some issues that people have had Like I've got this huge card set and I just want to play I don't want to have to play the ladder meta It's all you know, it's trying to address a lot of those things. Yeah jazzed about it. That's someone who hardly plays anymore It helps me put it that way. Yeah, well, that's the key They want to get Pete they want to get Scott Johnson playing Hearthstone again and not feel like you're overwhelmed Yeah, cuz then you you dip away for a while you come back and you what are all these there are a billion new cards I don't own any of them. I guess I'm not good I keep up on the cards like I've got most of the cards not all of them And I still come back and I'm like, oh, you know what? I really need to research this deck more before I decide what I'm gonna put in it like And that's not the way I should think I should just play I know that and I would have fun if I just played but It's it's one of those things where if you're not into building decks, which a lot of people are But you're like, I just want to you know, I want to have a decent deck and then I'm more into the play And and sometimes that will lead to you getting into building decks later But if you're not there yet, it does it can be kind of daunting. That's the yeah, I think that's what they're trying to do. I Think it's something they were recognized as an issue and Timbeck points out wild mode will be just like things are now So if you want things to be like they are now You'll Sure, it's the same. I mean essentially, I mean even the term standards comes from the magic community It's like what they have to do. Hey Jenny made it back. Oh, she did. It was weird. I don't know what happened I just faded away. It was your turn. I had my weird thing before the show and it was yours Let's all have weird things That's on Sundays with Andrew main I Am out of the post. I think I did it without even messing it up Son and I left the post so Roger It's good. I fixed the episode numbers by the way if somebody noticed that we did 26 78 twice because it was groundhog day is what I'll say now Might have been me I'm generally pretty good about that though. No, this was in the blog post though wasn't in the part you do you had it, right? No, I think it was Me to a subarrow so I can get my Calzone that was the only thing I would ever order from a subarrow. Yeah, and now they're not around Well They're gone. That's it. No, there's a few there's one in in San Jose at the mall. We always go to for movies I think there's one here There was one I think there was one even in Alamoana we were just in Alamoana in December. I think there was a sparrows there Well folks I Just yeah, W. Scott is one points out that the number mistake was in the video too Yeah, cuz I copy it over from the blog post Groundhog Day Celebrate thanks everybody round beef day. We'll see you tomorrow for ground beef day