 I have a little bit ahead of time so it can ramp up and catch up with the API on DiamondClub.tv. Sir, I won't watch... I won't... I know what you do. You're like, don't tell me... I was doing that part of the benefit of the audience. I was using you as your... Well, Lamar... He's like, since you, Lamar, since you don't watch me, what I do is... I don't watch me live. I don't watch you live at all, but it's my evening show or early morning show. Did you bring the gummy worm? Is the gummy worm with you? You want me to bring it in here? We really just booked you for the gummy worm. Do you ever really need to go get the gummy worm? That was incredible. Yeah, it's... That thing is... I don't... Yeah, it'll be here a year or two. You could eat off that family of four for a year, I think. It has all the calorie requirement. It's funny, actually 4,000 calories is not that... It's only a couple of days' worth of calories, so you could theoretically eat half and not die. Wow, really? I guess it's just full of cellulose. Yeah, yeah. It's actually low on calories, considering. See, I did that pledge where I said I would only eat any gummy worms that I killed myself, so I have to hunt them. That's funny. All right, Apple, with your stupid, late earnings. Oh, are they late? Because I was wondering if we're going to get them in the show at the time. Yeah, Roger's going to keep an eye out for them. Cool. And pop them in there. Would you keep delaying? So, how you doing? But one more thing about... Yeah, all right. You give us another minute and we'll start the show. Let's start the show. Do you ever watch Graham Norton? I've watched a few YouTube videos of his, some of his interviews and things. He's so good. He is. He had a... One of my friends was on there. She really talented a singer. She does impressions, Christina Bianco. I don't know if you've seen those videos where she sings like 12 different... She sings a song and it was like 12 different impressions or something like that. Oh, man. That's crazy. Yeah, she got really popular on YouTube for that. Nice. So, she made it to Graham Norton. That's like, yeah, he's good. Well, we used to watch him back in the day when he would like... He'd get a star, then often a British star and then he would have a comedian that he knew. And then there would be a very much a British star, like a British television star. And now he's just like, he's filling that couch up with like a level talent every episode. It's crazy. Like, he had... What did he have? He had David Attenborough, the nature documentarian who's like 90. And then he had Ride Along, Kevin Hart, Ice Cube, Hugh Laurie. Wow. So, he finds out if they're flying to the UK, say, you're going to be on my show if you come here. Yeah, pretty much. All right. Let's get this rolling here. Get out of my way, Mike. Oh, it's moving on its own. Stop that. My fellow citizens of the internet, there is nothing to fear but fear itself. So, go show fear. You mean business. Go to dailytechnewshow.com slash support and show them you're not interested in fear. You're interested in the future. This is the Daily Tech News for Tuesday, January 26th, 2016. Well, that's the first time I almost said 2015. Yeah, I saw that. I saw that, man. I'm going to be LaBar Wilson. He knows what year it is. I would have hated to have done that on your show, Lamar. Oh, yeah. It would have been horrible. No, I know what year it is because I just got off the phone with my text guy. So, I was crying about 2015 and what I'm going to have to pay for a few months. Yeah, it's emblazoned on your mind now. Seriously. But hey, man, it's good to have you back on the show. We haven't had you on all year long. All year, yeah. It's great to be on. I'm taking the place of a very also person who's moving, right? Yeah, Patrick Beja is packing up boxes, heading to Finland. Wow. Yeah. Another country. So, I was meant to ask you this before the show. Can you do a French accent or? Wee-wee. That's perfect, like Patrick's right here with us. Yes. All right. We're going to try something that's sort of a new thing for DTNS today, taking your reactions to our discussion yesterday and then adding on a follow-up story that Lamar and I were interested in talking about regarding Twitter. So, that's coming up. Let's start off with the headlines. TechCrunch reports Twitter's Periscope announced it's integrating with GoPro's Hero 4 when paired with an iPhone. The Hero 4 will give users the option to stream and record through the Periscope app. Users can toggle between the Hero 4 or the iPhone camera once it's going. You can go back and forth. Hero 4 can also record video separately to its SD card while it's broadcasting to Periscope. GoPro enabled pairing with Mircat last year. So, it's not even the first time GoPro has partnered up with a streaming app. Yeah, I think this is fantastic. I was just sitting, I was rearranging my apps the other day and I was looking at Periscope and I was like, you know, why don't I use this? This is actually a really good app for the phone and I've been thinking about getting a GoPro. Not putting those two together in my head, but when I saw this announcement, I was like, I can see that. I can see how this works with the live streaming. It's perfect. Yeah, definitely. The things that you think of people doing with their GoPro's, you know, riding down a mountain, skiing, all of those outdoorsy things would be fun to watch on Periscope, for sure. I mean, people are watching Snowfall from Representative Paul Ryan's office. Yeah, that was exciting. Kind of pretty for a while, to be honest. Sony has merged all its PlayStation efforts into a new subsidiary company called Sony Interactive Entertainment, or PSI. This will replace Sony Computer Entertainment or Ski, which will combine Sony Network Entertainment International. That's the one that runs the PlayStation Network with Sony Computer Entertainment's hardware and software business. The CEO of SIE will be current SCE CEO Andrew House. He will be headquartered in San Mateo, California, and there will be arms in London and Tokyo. Not his arms, but arms of this new company. President of Sony Worldwide Studios Shuhei Yoshida said on Twitter that he will still remain president of Sony Worldwide Studios, but he will report to former Sony Computer Entertainment of America CEO Sean Layton, who will also be over for Worldwide Studios and will report to CEO Andrew House. Wow, I don't know what you just said here. A lot of people will report to a lot of places, but the nut of it is Sony taking Sony Computer Entertainment and the PlayStation Network and combining them into one company. Yeah, I think that makes sense on a couple of levels. The computer business is ramping down for you don't see as many Sony computers. So, I mean, the whole industry is kind of, not I don't say downhill, that's so negative. But, you know, it's not a growth industry. Right, right. And then interesting having the PlayStation here, you know, because I know Xbox, Microsoft keeps their things here. Look, I wonder was that delivered just to try to keep it, keep from having to have the Nintendo problem. The Nintendo problem is Nintendo, as big as they are here in the US, they still have to get permission for everything in Japan and it causes delays and things. I wonder if that was to eliminate that problem. Yeah, a little bit of agility in what they do. And, you know, and electronic arts is down here, Microsoft up in Seattle. There's, you know, this is, the West Coast is kind of where most of the video game folks are, so that makes sense too. And this next story actually ties right into it. Bloomberg reports Sony has agreed to buy Altair Semiconductor. Israel based Altair makes chips for cellular modems that can be used to connect things like power meters, security systems, cars. So think Internet of Things type stuff. And again, this is what Lamar was just saying. Sony saying, we're not going to be a consumer electronics company anymore. We're going to be an image sensor company. We remember they bought the image sensors recently from, I believe it was Toshiba. We're going to be a sensor company for the Internet of Things and we're going to be a video game and entertainment company because you also have Sony pictures. And so that's kind of the new direction for Sony going forward. Yeah. I mean, we've seen a big company, IBM did that, Hewlett Packer kind of backed out as well and got one enterprise. And yeah, it just, it's the inevitability. And I'm glad instead of just like dying, they're just, they keep, they revitalize. Sony's a good name. And it's, it's, it's, it's important that they keep, keep fresh. Yeah. And I think a lot of people were looking at things like Sony Xperia or Violaptops and saying, oh, wow, this company's in trouble. And only those segments of the company were in trouble. And this now feels like a very strong company. Sony pictures, Sony video games, Sony sensors. And they still have the Sony Xperia phones that, that kind of tie into the Internet of Things. So I imagine that will either slowly fade away or will morph into being integrated into that sensor business somehow. Google inbox will start presenting information cards, not just a list of emails when you search for certain items. Examples include flight info, addresses, phone numbers, your membership number, events, bills, package tracking, et cetera. Feature goes live today with updates rolling out gradually after that. The membership number is the one that got me because I'm always going through my email like, oh right, where's that email with my hotel membership number? And if a card just came up and said, here's your membership number for Marriott, let's say. And I don't have to like scroll through an email and try to try to dig it out. That kind of stuff's pretty interesting. I don't know if it's enough to make me switch back to trying inbox though, which I tried for a couple of days and then went back to the regular Gmail app. Yeah, I gave up Gmail a while ago. I mean, I still keep Gmail, but yeah, I kind of consolidate everything into iCloud and I like it that way. Oh, okay, yeah. Well, and that's kind of what they want you to do, right? It is one of us to manage your email, whether it's iCloud or Gmail or something else. Yeah, absolutely. Microsoft announced it will launch the first technical preview of Azure Stack on Friday, January 29th. The preview will only support one machine, so it is definitely a restricted preview. Azure Stack is meant to let companies run Azure Cloud computing services in their own data centers on more than one machine, one would presume. A full release is hoped to happen in the Q4 timeframe. This is mostly of interest to the enterprise folks in the audience who want to be able to use Microsoft Azure services for the cloud, but also have a lot of stuff that they have control over. This is Microsoft's attempt to say, don't use OpenStack, use Azure in your own data center, and then everything will talk with your Azure services really nicely because it's all from the same company. Got it. Waze announced a partnership today with Ridesharing Services Lyft, Cabify, and 99 Taxis. Genesis Group, a UK emergency dispatch company, Just Park, a parking company, and Delivery Company Corner Shop. They will integrate the Waze Transport SDK into their own apps, so their apps will provide routes, real-time navigation, estimated time of arrival, but they'll also feed data back into the Waze database to improve that traffic database, which knows where the traffic jams are and can help you route around it. Uber recently announced that it too will collect data on driving from its drivers, but that's data like whether they're speeding or playing with their phone while they're driving. So for a purely different purpose. Yeah, I laughed at the name 99 Taxis. It felt like one of those, you couldn't get the domain. Taxis.com is taken. What about 99 Taxis.com? What about 99Taxis.com? You use Waze, right? You live in Los Angeles. I have never used Waze with my Uber drivers, you said. Yeah. Don't you know why I didn't use it? Because once Google bought it, I thought it was going to die out, and so I never even paid attention to it. I didn't know it was still going on until I got into Uber, and most of them use Waze. The other night, I was up on Wilshire, and I thought, well, you know what I'm going to probably have to do to get over to Hollywood and Vine is cut through Sunset Boulevard to Santa Monica. But I used Waze, and I thought it was crazy, but it said you should take the 405 North to the 101 and then get off at Vine. And I was like, I'm an episode of the Californians. That's actually a good route. It was a great route. Yeah, that's why I use Waze, because it knows that real-time traffic information. It could say, oh no, the route you think is horrible is actually OK right now. You should definitely take it. And this is going to make their data improve because they're going to have all of these delivery people and taxi drivers contributing more data about where the traffic is. Microsoft Beta is testing a one-handed keyboard for your phone featuring the iOS version of its WordFlow keyboard. Paul Therot got to look at images of the layout from an insider showing a fan-style arc in one corner of the screen, allowing your one thumb to be able to type, or maybe another finger. Microsoft plans to release WordFlow for iOS in the coming months, and an Android version is in the works as well. Yeah, so I read the article in this, and of course the subsequent comments, and boy, those fans are mad. They felt like it was a middle finger to them that they're getting a feature taken away that's special and given to the Apple people once again. I don't know what to feel about that. I think Microsoft does what it has to do to get their apps used. Well, there was a fury over Joe Belfiori, who's the head of Windows Phone. I don't think he's a Snapchat, but he put a picture out where he was obviously using an iPhone. And some people are like, oh, even Joe Belfiori doesn't even use a Windows Phone. It's like, no, what Joe Belfiori does is very responsibly use lots of different phones so that he knows how lots of different phones work. But yeah, I mean, it does feel like Microsoft may be not emphasizing Windows Phone as much as maybe folks hoped they would, but it's still, as they were mentioned and I want the tech this week, it's still got double digit figures in a lot of places around the world. So I doubt Microsoft's just going to abandon it. Yeah, and they make a bunch of money on Android. Actually, they make more on Android than they do on Android. And they want to make money on Apple too, so which is why they're providing these sorts of features to the iPhone users, because they want to draw them into the Microsoft universe. Very smart. What is very sad is the world lost a genius as mathematician and computer scientist Marvin Minsky has died of a cerebral hemorrhage at age 88. Minsky pioneered the ideas behind artificial intelligence. He co-founded the MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab, which on McCarthy back in the 50s and he wrote Society of the Mind. The Society of the Mind in 1985. Thanks to Philip Shane for posting this on the subreddit. Really, that is just the barest tip of the iceberg of what Marvin Minsky is responsible for from 1959 beyond. He was a genius. Yeah, I didn't hear about this today, so that's definitely sad. Hugo Barra tweeted that Xiaomi will announce the Mi 5 on February 24th. The only confirmed spec is that it'll use a Snapdragon 820 processor, but everybody's been wondering when we're going to get the next flagship phone from Xiaomi. So there's your answer, February 24th, right near the end of Mobile World Congress. French taxi drivers burned tires on the ring round around Paris today, blocking traffic and protests against ride-sharing services like chauffeur purvey and Uber, another French company. 22 drivers were arrested as part of the protest. Prime Minister Manuel Vall met with the union representatives and agreed to work on new laws again. Last time there was a big protest, they put in place some new rules. Looks like they're trying to mollify them again. Taxi drivers currently have to purchase a license for around 180,000 euros if they want to drive a taxi, whereas ride-sharing drivers must take 250 hours of training and pass a test. Thanks to Kevin Kipper for posting this on the subreddit. So the issue, because we hear about these taxi drivers who are upset that Uber or Lyft exists, but it seems like this is not that they exist, is that they have to spend so much money and Uber and Uber people don't. I mean, the biggest thing is they don't like the competition. There are some more valid complaints like you're saying, hey, man, to get my medallion, I had to pay 180,000 euros, and this guy can just take a test, and before the latest ones, they didn't even have to take a test. Like here in the United States, you just jump in and pass a background check, I think, and that's it. Yeah, that's a valid point with the money. I definitely agree that. But the one about competition is like, you know, sorry. And that's some of the drivers today were saying the other services should just be banned, and I think that's probably going too far. A quick note that Firefox 44 is out with push notifications for websites, H.264 support, and the ability to choose a home page in the Android version. So the website thing is actually pretty cool. I love the idea that you can have a web app that will provide you notifications same as any other app. I'm a big fan of that. Yeah, I haven't used Firefox in the year. I didn't even 44. Wow, that's still going strong. The Apple earnings are just coming out right now. Thank you, Roger Chang, for popping those in the dock. Net revenue of $18.36 billion. Earnings per share of $3.28. Revenue of $75.9 billion. It is in the low end of what Apple guidance had predicted for last quarter, but still an increase over last year. It is less than $76.54 billion that analysts had expected. So that's a miss, according to Reuters. iPhone sold 74.8 million units, only up 0.4%. iPad sales were $16.1 million, down from $21 million last year. Max, $5.31 million, which is less than a year ago. Apple Watch sold $4.35 million, so it went up from $2.7 million last year. Overall, Apple sales grew 1.7% year over year, with iPhone units up 0.4% and iPad units down 24.7%. Apple sells fewer phones than expected. Apple iPhone grows 0% yearly, with 75 million units. Apple beats earnings expectations, but misses out on iPhone sales. Those are your early headline hot takes. Of course. Yeah, so I look at this, and I'm not an analyst. I'm not going to pretend I am one, but just on the surface, some of these things make sense to me as a real world person. I see iPads down, or Macs down. Well, if it's a company that is priding themselves and making quality and that crap, then it's reasonable that people are going to keep them around. I'm still rocking the iPad Air 2. I mean, that's over a year old, and it works just as fine as it did on day one, and who wants to buy a Mac every year? Yeah, and I think smartphones are starting to slow down as well. I'm not defending it. Yeah, I'll just say that things are slowing down. The phones are good. People don't really want to have to spend 800 bucks out of their pocket a year to buy a phone, whether they're on Android or Apple. I think it's slowing down for everybody. Yeah, and the Apple Watch is the one new product, and it is the one that is rising, but its units are in the Mac neighborhood, not in the iPhone neighborhood. So Apple doesn't have a new hit to kind of take over as what normally happens. Product cycles start to flatten out as they mature, and I think what is most telling here is Apple's guidance is usually low. It usually smashes its guidance, and the fact that it was near its own guidance, in the lower end of its own guidance, is very telling to me. Yeah, I think for the Watch, the problem is that they didn't tell the story well enough of why you need this, why you should have it. I think Apple's, they used to be excellent storytellers, and I think they just didn't convince enough people why you need this. And I think if they can tell the story better, same thing with Google or Samsung, they can tell the story why you need this extra device to still sell, like hotcakes. The argument could be either they're not telling the story well, or there's not a well and good enough story to tell. Here you go, this. With the wearable. And as we mentioned yesterday, Twitter was expected to hire a new CMO, Chief Marketing Officer, and they have Leslie Berland. Will leave her role as Executive Vice President of Global Advertising, Marketing and Digital Partnerships at American Express, where one of her digital partnerships was with Twitter, and now she'll become the Twitter Chief Marketing Officer. Twitter's CFO, Anthony Nodo, can stop filling in a CMO now, which he has been doing since last May. Oh, Twitter. About Twitter, they got things to say about Twitter. But for this story, let's just say congratulations, Leslie Berland, on your new gig. That's fantastic. Absolutely. We'll leave the headlines on a positive note. Thanks to everybody who submit stories in our subreddit. Get in there, folks, and vote. DailyTikNewShow.Reddit.com. That is a look at the headlines. All right, so yesterday on the show, we talked about Twitter and whether they were good for anything and would survive. And you guys wrote in and gave us your responses. David, from It's Warmed Up Enough to Snow Again, St. Paul wrote, the reason I don't like and don't use Twitter all that often is that I can't sort through all the posts. That replies, the retweets, et cetera, to make anything coherent out of Twitter. And I can't have a discussion with people. Whereas in Facebook, I can follow with thread and have a discussion and even have some discussions. Tyler said Twitter clearly has uses, one of which being that I constantly hear NPR and other news outlets reporting the Minister of Defense of Indonesia announce the decision on his Twitter feed. But this may not lend itself to exponential growth. So without redoing our conversation from yesterday, though, Lamar and I wanted to talk about the news today. The Twitter has stopped showing ads to VIPs. Recodes Peter Kafka has some sources saying they've reduced or eliminated ads based on a user's volume and reach. So it's not just a total number of followers, but whether this person actually is seen in an effort to keep people around. Twitter's only comment on it to recode. Twitter rep Will Stickney said, we're constantly looking constraints and adjustments to optimize which ads are shown and how often. What did you think of this, Lamar? You know, it hit me when I read this and the reason it hit me is because I realized I haven't seen an ad in months. I'm one of these people. You have an easy volume and good reach, I assume. I'm not verified at all. But I remember when the ads were rolling out, I would see one every so often. It just kind of got used to them. But yeah, I haven't seen one in quite a while. So I guess I'm special. Are you special as well, Mr. Mayor? You know, I use TweetDeck, so I don't know what that does to the conversation. But I have to say at the times that I'm using the app on my phone or my tablet, I can't say that I remember seeing an ad recently. So yeah, maybe I am exempted from that. And you may say, well, that's a bad thing, Twitter cutting into its revenue, but their ad revenue has actually been quite healthy. So apparently it's not hurting anything for them to do that. Yeah, of course it's my group, yeah. Which is like, if this is something you want to do, just make it so that, you know, if you contribute enough to the conversation as an encouragement, you'll reduce the ads or you can pay to get rid of them. Yeah, I think it's good because, you know, you get your stars or your celebs, whatever, and they're irritated with the service. Then they're not going to post enough. And then the people who love them, who want to see what they have to say, it causes a domino reaction. You know, they won't stay around on Twitter. So it makes sense to make the top people happy and make the lower people pay. That's terrible. Sounds horrible when you put it that way. Now it gets there. I just made up the idea. Now, I, well, but you're right. I see it both ways. One is like, hey, you don't want ads. Here's a way to pay to get rid of them. Hulu just did that, right? And it's fantastic. I love it. I also think that telling someone, look, we value your contributions to our platform. In fact, as we mentioned yesterday, it's kind of a broadcast platform. So we're going to not make you watch ads because we're recognizing the value you're contributing to the platform is kind of cool as well. It is really cool. Yeah. And maybe that's points towards a future for lots of different social networks of, you know, charging you to view the platform versus giving you credit for participation. Although honestly, if Twitter started charging people to view Twitter, no one would look at Twitter anymore. No one would look at Twitter. And I think something like this would be really cool on YouTube. I mean, I am a paying person of the YouTube red just because I wanted to try it out. But, you know, the top people who get the most views of, you know, we don't watch as many videos as the audience does as a whole. So it'd be kind of cool if we was like, hey, you all get complimentary YouTube red or you don't have to deal with the answer. And it'll be nice if they looked into that and pushed it. My wife works at YouTube and she doesn't even get complimentary YouTube red. So they don't, that would be an interesting thing to say, hey, if you contribute to the platform at this level and you're making money for us, we will give you a little bit of this back. I mean, YouTube has lots of problems. Top thing on our subreddit today was a guy who's saying he got a community strike and he's frustrated about his conversation with them. Now, the reason I'm not covering that is I don't know the whole story. We can't see the video he's talking about. But he's not alone in these people who feel like YouTube doesn't talk to them and that it's really hard to get an answer out of people. And so those kinds of gestures go a long way to making people feel like, oh, they actually do care. And YouTube has a bad rap among creators right now. And, you know, for good or ill. Yeah, yeah, they do. I remember when the Nexus One came out. I mean, I was not one of the top people at that time, but it was 2009 or eight. And they gave them up to several top, I thought I was brilliant, the top creators, the TV, the Google TV they gave up. And then they just stopped. And, you know, it's like, hey, we give us the latest Android to give us these latest features for free. We're going to tell our audience about it naturally. And that sales right there. I don't know why they don't see that. Well, I think a lot of these social networks, platforms are sometimes lost in their own priorities for whatever the platform is. And I think that's a key that Facebook learned by getting slapped in the face a lot every time they made a change. Remember, that used to be the thing. Facebook changed when everyone got outraged. They learned how to soft pedal things and really bring in the audience. Whereas Twitter and YouTube, I think, have been able to just kind of go full speed ahead. Maybe they haven't changed as many things. Or in YouTube's case, they changed things. They get slapped in the face and they just ignore it. You know, they can take a punch. Right. I guess. You think a lot of punches. Yeah. Let's get to our pick of the day. Pat from Pittsburgh. It's a Pat from Pittsburgh pick. It's a third-party add-on for Gmail. I shouldn't have picked this because you don't use Gmail. Called Active Inbox. It turns Gmail into what Pat thinks is a powerful task manager. He says, I've been using this for almost a year now. It's actually got me to Inbox Zero. Has helped keep me there. It's hard to explain all the things it can do in this email. So check out their overview video on the website. For the parts I don't like, it is a subscription service. You have to pay almost $4 a month that they'll give you a free two-week trial to try it out. And I went into that trial not expecting to pay for it at the end, but I found enough value in it to sign up for a year and I'll probably end up renewing it when the time comes. The other thing that it's currently lacking is a good mobile app. They have a beta iOS app that sometimes works, but it's slow. And they do, say, developing a mobile app as a top priority. So if and when that happens, I think it'll be valuable to a number of people. But you can check it out. ActiveInboxHQ.com. Lifehacker gave it a good review as well. Said it's very good for the folks in the getting things done world. And it's a way to get to Inbox Zero and a way to manage your tasks, right, from Gmail. I used to be one of those GTD people. Then I broke free. I was saved. You got away from the cult. You know, I read Getting Things Done and I loved it. I think there's some great stuff in it and I pulled certain aspects out of it and left certain aspects behind and said, well, that's not really for me. And I think that's the best way to approach any of these sort of things is take what works for you and implement it. So if ActiveInboxHQ works for you, you might want to check it out. Thank you, Pat. Send your picks to us, folks, feedback at DailyTechNewShow.com. You can find more picks at DailyTechNewShow.com. Got some messages of the day. Kevin Bowman in cold and snow-covered Manchester, Kentucky says, I wanted to send you all this story. I didn't submit it to the subreddit because I thought it needed some context. It's not a flashy story. I live in a rural eastern Kentucky where competition goes to die. I currently have a three megabit per second DSL connection while the other side of my county enjoys faster speeds because there's competition with the telco and cable provider. I was recently told by my telephone company I wouldn't see faster speeds until my cable provider decided to offer internet in the area and they aren't. My neighboring counties, which are seen as more remote and closed off to the rest of the world, have done something pretty awesome. They're developing fiber to all their customers despite how remote the areas are that they live in. It's also really cool that they're using mules to help roll out the fiber. He's set a note to the link to the lane report if you want to hear about it, but I believe it's in neighboring counties possibly in West Virginia. I don't want to say before I get this thing loaded, but it's Silicon Holler they're calling it. Gigabit service in Jackson and Owensley counties in Kentucky. There's also something going on in West Virginia that's similar to this, but this is pretty great. Yeah, they just decided to take it upon themselves. They're not going to get helped. They're going to do it. Yeah, I think that's great. The mules thing is weird. Maybe I don't understand. I guess they're the ones pulling the cable across the county. They used a mule named old bub to help with the last mile installations of fiber optic based gigabit internet connectivity because of the terrain, just like the stuff up. The mule doesn't actually pull the internet bits. It's just helps. I thought it was mule powered. Yeah, the last mile is mule powered, so your speed's made it great. No, it's just to help them get into places to lay the fiber, which is also, I mean they have a picture of the mule on this Lane Report story. Yeah, this is great. Remote areas always get the worst of any kind of technology growth. So I'm really happy to hear that. Yeah, so these two Kentucky counties have fiber internet, while most of Los Angeles does not. There you go. Except you. Well, you know, we're lucky over here. David, previously from Boiling Hot, Lagos said, you're probably going to get emails about this from every single Nigerian who listens to DTNS. And David, you may be the only one. So I may have, because you're the only one emailed. But LAGOS has pronounced Lagos, not Lagos. In other words, Patrick was right with his first guest before you and Veronica corrected him. And Iroco, not Iroco, Iroco is interesting. This is the Nollywood service we were talking about yesterday. He said, the reason Nollywood grew since it began in 1992 to such a huge industry is that it was decidedly low tech. Back then, while Hollywood movies in Nigeria were moving to formats like Laserdisc and a Bollywood movies were stuck mostly in empty cinemas, VCR tapes of Nollywood movies were sold in barbershops. It's no exaggeration that you'd even have tomato sellers offering you the latest movie alongside your tomatoes. We'd buy them, watch them, throw them away, and then buy more. When Iroco came on the scene in 2011, I had my doubts that it would work because of this history and it has been amazingly successful so far. It'll be fun to see how far it goes. So if the movie's bad, you just take the tomatoes and then throw it at the movie? Yeah, you throw it at the videotape. It's very efficient. It's very efficient to buy tomatoes. Brilliant. And the thing about Nollywood back then is they didn't make money on the movies. They made it on the tomatoes. It's like the popcorn. No, seriously, that is really interesting. Thank you, David, from Lagos. I will remember that now and I will give Patrick credit for guessing right. Lagos, Nigeria. Sam in Oregon said, I am a pilot and have been following the discussion with interest drawing parallels between flying and autonomous driving. There are two systems in this country for flying. IFR and VFR. IFR stands for instrument flight rules. VFR stands for visual flight rules. Airlines generally operate at high altitudes on IFR flight with following very specific flight plans and being monitored closely by air traffic control. That's instrument flight. Small planes like IFly recreationally usually fly at much lower altitudes and follow VFR rules, visual flight. We're responsible for looking out for each other but have much more freedom in where we can fly without being under air traffic control. I see freeway travel like IFR where automation could be implemented quite easily but also where travel is already quite safe due to oncoming traffic being separated. So yeah, that's an interesting way of putting it. VFR is driving around on the streets in the downtown where you can just kind of look out for each other and freeway traffic is fairly automatable. We got a lot of people writing in saying I think the problem will be on city streets, not on freeways. Google already drives their autonomous cars on city streets with pedestrians and bicycles. If you haven't gone and looked at this, go look at it. You say that's the hard problem that they'll have to crack. They've done it. The problem now is getting the reliability and the policy in place but the cars can do it. And I want one. And you want to use one. Yeah, I want one. How good the parking will be? Yeah, completely efficient. Yeah, I'm just thinking if everybody even had one of these cars just driving in general, just like when it's no one sitting at the light looking at their phone when it's time to go. Encourages, everything moves. You're not holding up everybody because we're in LA. You know how people do not have any concept of looking at the road while they're driving. Especially on the streets. Especially on the streets. You know, all this IFR, VFR stuff is great because the VFR driving here where you're supposed to just be driving around looking at each other is when people look the least. I feel like on the highway everybody actually behaves fairly reasonably most of the time. There are definitely huge exceptions. But it's once you get down on the city streets that people are like, just they go without looking. They don't watch out for pedestrians. So I don't know. But yeah, I still think just acceptance and policy wise we're still years away. Yeah, I welcome our automated overlord stuff. As you should. Well, thank you Lamar Wilson for welcoming the overlords and being with us today. YouTube.com slash Lamar Wilson folks. Two Rs in Lamar. Go watch, subscribe. What else you got going on, man? Well, I just unboxed the world's largest gummy worm. So good. You have to check that. I was probably the best video I've made in a while. And it's three pounds of pure deliciousness. And so check that out. And if you're into Amiibo or Toys to Life, Disney Infinity, check out today and tomorrow. I'm going to be posting a walkthrough of all of my Amiibo and Disney Infinity characters. So you get to see my collection that's back here. Oh, very cool. I saw you did some product hauls recently and good stuff going on. Oh yeah, it's becoming much more fun. Yeah, I unboxed a bed recently. That was really fun. That's amazing. Go check it out folks again. YouTube.com slash Lamar Wilson. Thanks to everybody who supports this show. DailyTechnewshow.com slash support is the place to go to find our Patreon where you can get special perks for backing us on a regular basis. That is our operating budget, the people on Patreon. If you're not comfortable with Patreon, totally fine. We have PayPal as well. That's our capital expenses budget and also our store where we sell mugs and t-shirts and stickers. You just want a sticker? It says DTNS on it. Go get it at DailyTechnewshow.com slash store. 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Yeah, it will, I still haven't even cut it up yet because it will take months. I might just like divvy up and, no, okay, that would be weird. I almost said it. I was going to divvy it up and put it in bags and take it to the local, by the local school when the kids, hey kids, that's probably not a good idea. See, me being a former teacher, I'm thinking, okay, that's right, right. Of course. But if you were a teacher, you would bring it in the class and then love it. Of course. Absolutely. But I just processed how awful that would be. I feel like, wait, I'm not. I could be, I'd probably be in jail. That would be amazing though. I can't do walk-up. In an office situation, if you're like, oh, we have a little gummy worm left over. And you know, people love gummy worms. Oh yeah, they don't go crazy on that. That's amazing. All right, what should we call this show? We got Twitter down economics. Oh, sigh, SIE. Apple fails. What's that? Apple fails. Oh man, Apple is doomed, is on here too. I like mule fiber actually. Why? The mule? I love the name. You don't like mule fiber, Roger? Mule fiber. Were you listening to our discussion of what that means? Or did Ellie distract you with her rhetoric? Oh no, I was just curious. I don't know, for some reason, Twitter down economics has a very Reagan-esque feel to it. Yes, it does. Well, very much so. Would you have a young audience? They don't even know who Reagan is today. Yeah, they think that's the first name of their friend from fourth grade. Oh, I remember her. I'm sure more people know him as president than as an actor. Yeah, that's true. Yeah, I did not know him as a president. Growing up until he ran for president. I was three years old when he became president. I was ten. Let's not mention ages. That's why I did it. I knew. Hi, Lamar. Hi, Jay. Roger, you're not older than me. So, you know. I'm a lot older. If you were only three when he was president. Are you serious? Are you serious? Some man, Lamar Wilson. No, I have a hard time. Okay. The young man's doing that. Don't ever try to judge an Asian's age until they're over. I have heard that before, actually. That's hilarious. So, new rule. Yes. Always make sure your wireless keyboard is not dying before you race in at the last second. Then you can't enter your password. Yeah, that's why wireless mice, too. It's always a issue. Hey, this was my first time trying wireless headphones. And they weren't, they held up. Oh, yeah. I love the ones I use when I run. But I don't use them. I do use them while I cook, too, actually. And vacuum. No, I can't use them while I vacuum. I take that back. They're not loud enough. Did you all have another show? We did. I think, well, I did. I shouldn't speak for anyone else. I mean, I've had better and other networks. Fair. Fair. Of course. This is the only network I do shows on. Is it really? Yeah, until CNN calls me, say, hey, can you tell us about the gummy worm? We saw you on Daily Tech News Show. We thought to interview you about your gummy worm. What's funny is they actually featured me on their website for the Cinnamon Bun Oreo. Oh, yeah. And when I did the unboxing of those last week. So I was, I don't know, I don't think it ever hit TV. But it was hard to understand. So I'm getting up there, man. I mean, I know you all in about six months. I'm like, did you know who? Yeah, you could talk to my manager. See, we'll get the email back from Mr. Wilson's assistant. Exactly. Thank you for your interest. Actually, I do have a manager now, so. Yeah, that's good. No, yeah. Yeah, but not for just like brand stuff. I'm glad you still answer. I don't need a day-to-day manager. You still answer your emails personally. Hey guys, I think it's weird that every time I try to delete my password from the login for Apple, it puts more characters in. Yes, that is weird. That's not good, right? Something else is smashed, you know. Something is touching something, but I don't know. Yes. Yeah, I've had that happen before. I bet I know what it is. I bet it's my almost-dead, but not-dead trackpad. Ah. Back in Monday, we had courts. We killed all those now. Yeah. Yeah. Uh-oh. Oh, no. I got that. No, no, no. Uh-huh. That is so weird. Trackpad is missing, but still active. I usually watch it the same day, but I forgot you all did it, so I'm going to watch it today. Oh, yeah. It was good. We had Justin and Robert Young on. Very cool. Oh, then this is a good show, then. Yeah, finally. That is not what I mean. That's what I meant. Actually, Brian and I have really made a good rhythm now. I feel good about stuff. Not that I felt bad before, but I feel like, wow, we're just really knocking it out. This is great. Yeah, because even when you don't have guests, like last week, you didn't have a guest, it was like, you still flow really well. Yeah, we still roll, which is great. And Jackie Hearn does a kick-ass job booking. We just let her do it. So when you're like, hey, can I be on court killers? I'm always like, Jackie? Because she knocks it out of the park, too. It's just really good. You have the best support system, I'll tell you. You have so many other people who are struggling with, who seem like they should be doing well. I'm not going to name your names. They seem like they should be doing well. They don't have a support system. They don't have all these cynics in our audience and just nasty people. But I don't think anybody's ever said anything bad about you. Oh, yeah. You have a good audience. I'm going to say, by and large, you have a good audience. Yeah, I do. No, you're absolutely right. I'm the best audience in the world. Yay! Oh, right. And we had Romani Malco on spoiler in time yesterday to talk about Mad Dogs from Amazon. Really? What? Yeah. What? How did that happen? Because he and Brian know each other. I don't know how they got to know each other, but Brian started having him on NSFW show back in the day. So once Romani got the job on Mad Dogs, Brian was like, you've got to come on and talk about it. So, yeah. Wait, wait, wait, wait. I think, OK. I got excited with the wrong person. Wait, who is this now? Romani Malco. Look him up. Oh, I thought, OK. I thought it was the dude from the USA show. What's his name? Sike, the guy from Sike. So Romani Malco or something like that? Romani Malco. Mr. Robot, Rami Malik. Robot. I thought it was the iRobot. That guy. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. No, different guy. Different guy. Oh, OK. OK. I'm going to say it. Still a cool guy. I don't know yet. I don't know that guy. But I'm sure he's cool. I'm sure he's cool. Well, he mostly does comedies. But this is like dramatic comedy, crime comedy. Got it. Houston, we have a problem. I said iRobot. It's Mr. Robot. Oh, that's what Jenny used to say. Jenny said iRobot. I said iRobot because I'm doing multiple things. Did you turn off your Bluetooth? Yeah. So what happened is every time I put the new batteries in this keyboard, it like flips out. The caps lock is permanently on. Something happened. Did you clean it with anything? Like a... Not lately. But is that your only keyboard? Yeah. Oh. Oh, it's too bad you don't have one. The newer ones that have the battery built in and the lightning. Oh, no. Well, I might have one in about 15 minutes because I'm down at the Apple store. Oh, that's true. That's true. It is going to throw off our timeline. So maybe Tom, I'll just do the show from this laptop instead of the full kitty. Can you plug in your mic to that laptop? I'm just asking. I'm saying I don't have a U.S. I don't have a bicycle on me. What show are you all about to do? Let's talk about Star Wars. I don't really want to talk about it, but what show are you about to do? I'm really glad you went there, by the way, that made me smile. That's the kind of intelligence and humor we need on our program. That's right. Yeah, it's me, Jenny, and Garrett Reinserl. Sorry. Cool. I cursed. Are you still doing the YouTube? I don't know about Star Wars. Well, no, I ran out of Star Wars. Okay. So the next episode of that will come out in December when Rogue Squadron comes out. You know, we listened to your episode three, his dog just last night. Matt was like, I want to listen to Tom's show. That's great. Let's do it. He laughs so hard at that stuff. Really? That's flattering, because he knows from comedy. Well, he knows exactly how hard it is to get into the mindset of the triple mindset of what you're doing. He's very, very appreciative of that. And we're going to listen to one of the rest of them every night. Oh, cool. Yeah. So you have a face. See now it types three characters and the caps lock is on. This thing is locked. That sounds like those batteries. I have one. I have one go bad. But yeah, that does sound like... I mean, I've had one of those keyboards go bad on me, but not that problem. I can't believe this was happening. All those keyboards go bad on me. Do you think they have the batteries come? Yeah. Like maybe the batteries are bad on you? Well, I think that says maybe just restart. And it might be the batteries. It might be the batteries are weak, the new batteries. You might just need to restart and have it reconnect. Maybe it's just got a bad connection. I mean, there's no big deal. I can do his doll on here and I can... Yeah, yeah. No, that's fine. Do-able, but it's not ideal. Yeah, it might be a better either. It's these batteries that I just sent 10 minutes in line behind people buying multiple lottery tickets and carefully considering which scratch-off they were going to get. That sounds awesome. I'm going to be upset. I'm going to be excited if possible. Your office isn't like... Like I couldn't work with you because I'm already big. I'm already too big. And like I would just be double the size of all that good food there. I just would. Oh, yeah. Oh, it's... I was just there recently. And as a matter of fact, oh, you know what? Jenny, last time I was there, I texted you and I must still have... I still must be going to your other number. Other number. Because I was like, hey, I was there for like two hours. And I knew you were there because the show was just ending. Yeah. But I don't know where your office is. So I didn't... We didn't see my office? That's silly. No, we just came out and we ate Cajun. What you do is you go to where the donut store is and you go behind where the donut store is and then you go up sort of like where the big garbage cans are and you could just yell, hey, Jenny. And I would probably hear you. That is dangerous working right next to a donut store. Oh, my God. I just... Right next to a donut store. That can't... Yeah, that can't be good. You know, I got over it really quick because I remembered very quickly that donuts don't make you feel so good. They really don't. They look great on the eyes. And then it's just... If you eat out every... Maybe you do. You eat over there every day. But that adds up definitely. I went to that old diner that's over in the corner. It's been there since the 30s. I saw it on your Snapchat. DuPars. So good. You saw it. Wait, old people are using Snapchat? What's going on? Oh, yeah. It's over. Snapchat is over. The old people are showing up. That's right. I did a Snapchat Sunday where I spent all Sunday with Snapchat. And we had a lot of fun. I didn't know they had a diner over there. I love diners. DuPars. Like I'm actually like a big fan of like old diners. Hope you're not at the pancakes of DuPars or amazing. I mean, I had the meatloaf and it was great diner meatloaf. I really enjoyed it. But I also had some of Eileen's pancakes. And man, there was no reason to ever get anything but the pancakes. Like, they're amazing. Okay, this is dead. Okay. This is officially dead. Yeah, maybe it's just a keyboard. Oh. But it was just fine. It was just, maybe your keyboard is somehow tied to Abe Vagoda's soul. Maybe. All right. Tom Merritt, this is your call. If I run down to the Apple Store, it's going to take 20 minutes. Yeah. Just don't do that and do it this way. Plus, it's going to stress you out. Just do it this way and then go fix your keyboard afterwards when you can relax. Yeah. I wish there was a way. Don't have a blue icicle on me. But how was your mic plugged into the other machine? Oh, I'm a moron. It's a USB box, right? Hold on. Sorry. It's USB, isn't it? That's the one I gave you, right? Yeah. It's a USB. The one you gave me one more. Yeah. I get it, but you're distracted by the keyboard. Yeah. Yeah. I have a Scarlet right here. Thank you, Tom. You're very kind. No problem. You're very kind, is poor said. I thought you were going to be like, IEEE. Yeah, I was like, oh, maybe she has a different connection now. Stupid. There, hold on. Oh, God. I'm not going to do much for video, but we're audio only, right? And the other one? Yeah, exactly. Hey. Let's see. Let's stress. Let's talk about Star Wars. Let's talk about Star Wars. Oh, yeah. That's good. All right. Okay. I'll stop. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Wow. No, no. You just, again, that's great. From our generation. I know. What are these old songs? I can't make it seem like kids watch Deton. I'm sure it's a lot of people our age. I feel comfortable that we're in the demographic middle of our audience. Yeah. I'm actually glad my YouTube now has gotten up to 26 to 45 now versus the kids. Oh, yeah. The majority is adults who have money, which is better for what I do. Hell, yeah. Versus a bunch of kids. Definitely. All right. Well, we are out of here. Thanks, everybody, for watching. Go check out. Let's talk about Star Wars.com. And go subscribe to YouTube.com. Session of Mark Wilson.