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Remember that All right, shall we record this audio podcast? I think we should all right for posterity for great posterity or grayscale The Daily Tech News show was brought to you today by me if you would like to bring it to someone visit patreon.com Slash ace detect that's patreon.com slash a c e d t e c t This is the Daily Tech News for Thursday June 25th 2015 I'm Tom Merritt joining me today as he does often on a Thursday Although he's in quantum superposition. He could show up on any day Justin Robert Young. How you doing man? I'm a rolling stone. I gathered no moss when I roll around the DTNS calendar You know wherever I laid my hat is my home and other songs from the 60s Yeah, for the for the full compilation see Justin Robert Young's Twitter account twitter.com slash Justin our young hits and Joining us also is I as act are of CNET.com fame And host of top five a fine show. That's a good show I'm glad it was just sitting there waiting for me some guy made it deep in the history that show Steeped in tea as well No, it's actually great. I'm really pleased I couldn't be happier if anybody doesn't know I started the scene at top five many long years ago Brian Cooley Donald Bell now. I as act are I mean they've just topped me every time Well, yeah, I plan on being the first coast to get the show canceled. So Watch it folks. It could be its last aim. Hi Let's let's take a look at some headlines. Shall we? And gadget reports that yahoo has partnered with Oracle to get users to try out yahoo's search engine as part of their next Java update The update comes with a pre-checked installation box to make yahoo the default search engine yahoo says the onboarding process is quote highly transparent and gives users choice If this sounds familiar Java and yahoo toolbar installation have a storied history and I Don't know man. I thought Marissa Meyer might put an end to these kinds of tricks and chicanery, but I guess not Well, you just got to protect that market share, right? Like at some point there is going to be a question on where yahoo search is since it is the lifeblood of the company And if they do not show hard numbers then there is a problem and Marissa Meyer Although she is beloved by the press is not bulletproof on the yahoo board No, and then she was talking to the board when she announced this. So this this does somewhat I Don't want to say anything smelly, but it seems as if maybe this is a sop to critics Who are getting impatient with yahoo's turnaround? Sop it up folks ZD net reports that iPhones on the t-mobile network have been hit by a blue screen of death What how could this have been done? According to the reports iPhone 5 s's iPhone 6's and iPhone 6 plus devices running iOS 8.1 or 8.3 on the t-mobile network are being affected by freezes Restarts and crashes the issue is being blamed on an update pushed to the device to enable Wi-Fi calling Several possible fixes have been suggested including disabling Wi-Fi calling disabling voiceover LTE or disabling LTE all together You could also hard reset your iPhone delete old text messages from the past few days and factory restore your iPhone using I tone iTunes however users report mixed success No word yet on whether or not Apple or t-mobile will pin this failure to their coat and wear it around the town square Yeah, and no word, you know, maybe I've been paying attention But I don't think anyone's called this an uncarrier move, but nobody's done it Just uninstall your carrier and it works an uncarrier I could tell you that because this right here in my hands is a t-mobile unlocked iPhone 6 that I use on the Verizon network. None of these problems Oh Over at Microsoft they revealed a new desktop wallpaper for Windows 10 according to the Verge the default Windows 10 wallpaper Uses a Windows logo with a twist with a lime actually. I'm just kidding the logo is made entirely out of light Microsoft use camera mapping techniques lasers and projectors in two custom installations in a San Francisco studio light beams out and around the edges of a sunbeam like fit version of the Windows logo this new wallpaper will start appearing on desktops once Windows 10 ships on July 29th All right round the horn who likes the new lighty logo and Who will turn it off and go to a black desktop as soon as they install Windows 10 Justin. I Think it looks pretty rad. I mean as far as desktops go, you know, I don't know me desktops are like, you know fashion or or personal You know preference like it is very often an extension of your personality So as far as a default interesting thing that shows off Windows's personality I think it looks more forward-facing than let's say some of the fairly boring stock art that normally comes as a Windows desktop So yeah, no, I think it's I think it's all right. I For one think it's a little lame It just reminds me of the tiles that they put on your desktop Anyway, if you're gonna do tiles or like have like little boxes I've seen it before because Windows 8 just was flat now It's tilted so and they're not live tiles or anything, but a little bit of a I think a jab to people to go Yeah, they're your squares. Enjoy them No logo Bloomberg reports on major protests in the French cities of Paris Marseille and Lyon by taxi drivers opposing uber's operation in the country They've been burning tires blocked part of the ring road around Paris overturned vehicles fights were reported Courtney Love was held hostage at one point not really held hostage but police and riot gear at one point intervene using tear gas and roads into the Airport were blocked and air travelers were forced to use the train if they wanted to actually get to the airport France's Interior Minister Bernard cousin you has called for a nationwide clampdown on uber pop arguing the service represents unfair competition Meanwhile, our technical reports that uber has launched a ferry boat service called uber boat in Istanbul today Taking passengers across the boss for a straight So uber is just basically they're they're they're on that honey badger tip, right? Like they don't like like let let everybody else You know riot in the streets You know the the French certainly have a rich history of being upset about things and and and causing a protest about it So This is I don't know I mean like this is just kind of a bigger version of the same story We've heard about uber coming to town and people getting mad about it, right? Yeah, I mean we haven't heard of people burning tires or you know causing Courtney Love to escape on a motorcycle before From from an uber pop vehicle. So I think this is definitely a significant Raising of the anger level here. Oh, certainly. So no, I mean like I'm not saying it's not news It is new sure it's it's you know, the the song remains the same The variations on on this theme are that it's much bigger and much louder But also at the same time much more French like in every single element of it like this these these kinds of protests Although for us are something that deserve to be covered on a tech news podcast Not exactly unique in in in France when it comes to labor protests, right? Like like these they're they're not This is it's big. It's not beyond the pale I guess it you know what what you're saying points me toward the idea that what we're seeing here is not that There's anything particularly new about the protests or the anger with uber But that it is important enough to reach the level of a classic French strike. Yeah. Yeah Well, at least no matter what we all know that they were born ready to protest like that. I was born ready Thank you. Ever wonder why the Amazon Echoes virtual assistant is called Alexa. That's because they're not the same thing Tech crunch reports Amazon has freed Alexa to live on any device or app that will have her and they're even given her a Little spending money the Alexa API lets developers build support for Alexa into their apps Alexa voice service can be integrated into Hardware and the Alexa fund is a hundred million dollars to support devs and gadget builders looking to build voice powered stuff Excellent move Amazon Alexa is good. She's not perfect and one of the things that makes her less than perfect. I'm sorry Alexa Is that I think I activated her is that she can't do all the things you would want her to do Well, the easiest way to make that happen is to put out an API allow for hardware integration and give some people some money to develop some cool new stuff Here's the question. How many disembodied voices do we need? Like you got you got the okay Google you got Siri you got Alexa like I just and I'm not saying that like one will die So the other might live right competition. I'm saying I'm just curious as to like How many? Where is this gonna shake out? Did it is every any personal assistance? Do we need? I? Don't know man. I want I want multiple platforms. I don't want to have only one platform to choose from oh no No, I'm again. This is not about the development. I think we should always be trying everything I'm just curious in as we go forward and understand that these places that these services have a place in our lives I wonder whether or not there will you know at you have five years from now We're going to be regularly talking to three different ai's are we gonna be regularly talking to one different ai that then the background stuff? To interact with other services like I just don't know where in the UI we eventually land Yeah, the folks over at Kentucky seen that they've checked out a lot of hubs when it comes to smart home technology Because a lot of this stuff ends up really when you want to talk to your house and say lights on or whatever you want to do It's these hubs that talk to everything that makes things way better So you could have things that work with Google things that work with what Google and nest and whatever else they're doing Home kit and then Alexa because you just need one thing to talk to everybody So that's going to be the real I think thing that's going to tie everything together I'm going to have basically a hierarchy of assistance Yeah, I don't care which one I'm talking to it. I mean give a moment as long as it does what I want I Just don't want Siri to hit me up and say don't ask me. That's Alexa's job That's of aggressive API coming soon. Maybe you should ask your friend Alexa. Oh, come on, baby, you know, I love you Okay Google Speaking of Apple the New York Times reports Apple will pay two One hundredths of a cent for each stream of a recording during the free trial of Apple music This is supposedly a similar rate to free tiers and other services Although unlike other services Taylor Swift, that's right T-Swizzle herself has agreed to allow new album 1989 to stream on Apple music So that feud is sort of over all of this hoopla leads up to the launch of Apple music on June 30th The beats one radio station launches that morning as well with Zane Lowe's interview of Eminem Does ever as the first one? All right, Justin. I know you got thoughts Okay Well, I made a joke and it is a joke. It's not serious that That that that the Taylor Swift tumbler was an inside job because this has this could not have turned out better For for Apple from where it was in that it reinforces that Apple is a place that is sympathetic to artists It has made a big public relationship with maybe the biggest artist who had made the biggest think about whether or not She was going to put her music on a streaming service and today Makes a really big deal that this relationship is real and it is official and she wasn't just Carping this is definitely going to happen in 1989 will be on the the new service But I don't really believe that I mean, I think that that's it's a fun thing to talk about You don't really believe the conspiracy theory. You do believe that 89 will end up on the service You're saying you what does that it's an inside job. Yeah, she said it I don't believe that it's going to be that it was an inside job I ultimately like if Apple and Taylor Swift were that tight from the beginning to execute this Loose change worthy kind of conspiracy That you would have just Performed at the announcement and made a big deal and said I'm an artist. It really matters to me Apple's gotten it Right. Thank God. So here's what will be funny You don't agree to pay anybody anything right like who would do that and then I'll write an open letter Like pointing it out and then you can be all like oh Taylor, honey, of course We'll change our mind and then I'll be the hero. You'll be the hero and everybody wins And it'll have to come from any cues untucked shirt Twitter account which you know just sounds like he was you know He was he perpetually looks like he's halfway through a rum runner and he's just like of course That's his stick. That's his thing. I love it. No. Yeah, he's my fave. I as what do you think I Don't think this honestly changes anything for my opinion of Apple music Which is I'm not that interested You know if this was timed better like towards the launch on the 30th Then I would say conspiracy on because it's a 25th and this stuff is shaking out now and Apple still has time to gear up I'm sure Apple did not like the fact that Taylor Swift was calling them out because her music moves a lot of well Not just sales but a lot of streams So you want to make sure you got her on board and the thing is with her falling in line so to speak because Apple's willing to pay I'm sure other artists will be like well if she does she's okay with it I'm okay with it even though they might be screwing over other people who are much much smaller than her Yeah, the indie labels are over there saying hold on. We started this conversation This this this whole thing is not entirely Taylor Swift's doing They're out there saying that right now and it's true because you know beggars beggars club beggars group And Merlin were we're leading the charge Against that free trial period. Anyway, everybody's happy now Except for the people who don't want the service like who don't really care We're not unhappy Daily tech news show dot reddit.com is where you can let us know if you want us to talk about a particular story We get lots of great news tips there for instance metal freak flagged an arse tectica write-up of an interesting broadband service provided by home security firm Vivint it just sort of evolved out of user requests. They were installing home automation home security and people said Hey, do you do internet and they're like, well, I guess we could 100 megabit per second wireless service provided by identifying hub homes So they give a hub home the service for free basically come in and say, hey, you want free internet service for life Let us put a three antennas up on the top of your roof in exchange for the service then Vivint is receiving signals from a fiber-connected tower Somewhere in the 27 gigahertz spectrum Then those three antennas Re-broadcast the service to homes in a thousand foot radius over a five gigahertz system They say they can serve up to 128 homes software and hardware were designed by Vivint Themselves because off-the-shelf stuff wasn't working for them And they were trying to avoid interference because they're using that crowded five a gigahertz spectrum Job broad kids got an excellent article kind of going into the details There've been some customers who weren't happy with the service. It had it had some bumps in the early days some outages But it's a really intriguing way of going about providing wireless high-speed broadband To neighborhoods that's much more scalable than you usually hear about The more this can happen and the faster it happens the happier I will be the idea of having a wireless broadband solution is in in every way the kind of emerald dagger that I think all consumers want in the face of monopolies that require People to dig trenches and put wires in the ground Which is something that can be and has been regulated within an inch of its life in terms of city ordinances and state ordinances It makes it very cost prohibitive to have upstarts get in there if Vivint is the first step In which other people look at this technology either license it or come up with their own versions and Make this a more crowded field. I think it solves So many of the problems that we understand very painfully in the modern realm of home internet Yeah, absolutely I'm all for them continuing to try new things and provide new ways to give us more ISPs. I'm on men. I'm in More the better. There's no such thing as too many cooks when it comes to home ISPs Textures sent us the Kurzweil AI report that Stanford University scientists have invented a low-cost 1.5 volt water splitter that uses a single a nice cell I or sorry nickel iron oxide catalyst to produce both hydrogen and oxygen gas for more than 200 hours Continuously the researchers believe that the device described in the nature in nature communications could provide a renewable source for clean burning hydrogen fuel for transportation and industry Man at least here in California. We're not all panicked about the water. What do you say? Yeah, just boil it off. I don't know would this work with seawater. I think it I think it has to be for water Yeah, I think it would be fresh water But double a battery that can give you an 82% efficiency That's that's a pretty nice advance there because one of the biggest issues With hydrogen as a fuel source is transportation But another issue is creation and this would make the creation a lot more affordable anyway So talk about the Corley he sent us or she sent us a new story here from R&D magazine about a team led by Professor de Bashe's Chandra at University of Central Florida's Nanoscience Technology Center and College of Optics and photonics very very catchy name They've created the first full-color flexible thin film reflective display Applied voltage changes in interaction between liquid crystal molecules and plasma on waves on the nanostructured metallic surface in Simple terms it makes it reflect a different color of light That's changing the appearance of the the of the actual color seems to change on the material They display is only a few microns thick compared to a 100 micron thick human hair So it's really really really thin Professor Chandra said that it could change not only electronic displays But camouflage clothing and more Yeah, this is Exceptional and as somebody who for one summer worked as a waiter in a Benningin's right outside of UCF. I say this is great Just think your Benningin's uniform could have changed colors at the click of a button Mm-hmm It would have made it a lot easier for me to disguise my appearance as I told them that I really hadn't transferred to UCF And I was just there for the summer and had taken a job from somebody that they could have given it to otherwise Man, I know this is a fantastic Innovation and and we hear a lot about you know wearable tech and programmable clothing But this this seems to be a pretty significant advance advance here So thank you the Corley for sentiment ag blades submitted the touch arcade version of this story But everybody is reporting this Apple and Google are both removing apps featuring the flag of the Army of Northern Virginia Commonly known as the Confederate battle flag the flag has caused controversy because of its use by racist individuals in groups I know you've heard about those stories the apps being pulled have included some Civil War based games They use the flag to identify southern soldiers, which has caused another much smaller controversy I have to believe that this is an algorithm that's looking for Representations of an image and just pulling every game associated with it. Don't you guys? Yeah, I don't think that there would be much of a doubt I don't think that this is necessarily anything other than you know, maybe even them going into their Complaint bin of people who have complained about apps searching for a Confederate flag and and maybe even deleting things There I don't know if there's the you know much of a this seems far more machete than scalpel in terms of You know just larger decisions made by the app stores I get a feeling that this is the kind of stuff that as we You know as as this conversation continues to evolve that will probably see the Confederate flag in Civil War games You know going forward in the same way that Wolfenstein, you know still has the Nazi flag and you know that that is something that You know is still a thing so I'm curious to see where it goes I Just this is a very important conversation about about the Confederate flag that goes far beyond tech and I really I Cringe when I read this story because I just don't want to have an Element of what I think to be a very important conversation be devolved into kind of kataku comment Name-calling about free speech, you know with five ease Yeah, absolutely, and I I'm very curious what Google and Apple will say About the people who are raising the issue of historical representations and things like that I mean there there are history books in these app stores. There are there are historical exhibits That are apps from history museums in these stores So I'm sure I'm sure we will hear something from them one way or another and I'm curious to see what they say And that is a look at the headlines All right, let's light the mood and talk about a treasure truck Amazon is driving a Store around on the back of a what the UK would call a lorry in Seattle, Washington Starting Saturday at 7 a.m. In Seattle, you'll be able to buy things from that truck one product each day You can order through the Amazon app And this is definitely a way to get people to install the app because you can only order from the truck By using the app or if you see the truck in person you can just walk up to it and buy stuff You don't have to actually use the app if you see it There were like I said, will he be one hard to find heavily discounted or limited edition item per day The first product on Saturday will be a $99 solstice ball inflatable paddle board or something solstice Bali inflatable paddle board apparently that's like a 70% plus discount coming soon a votive candle holder Porter house steak and a beach cruiser Now I as you were pretty excited when you watch the video this thing Yeah, I watched the video of this and this just screams Amazon's ability to get people to think Warm fuzzy feelings about Amazon because they call this thing the treasure truck It's not like it's Amazon on demand or prime on demand or something silly or Amazon You're just on the spot. It's treasure truck. So of course. I'm instantly like what is treasure truck You watch the video. They're showing this truck that has LED lights around it that actually has like text scrolling on it say like treasure truck treasure truck What's inside this thing and they're giving away some stuff at really low cost it when I saw it at first I'm like, oh, it's wood on wheels. That's what they're doing They're doing a heavily discounted item and they own wood So why not do the same kind of thing and they're drilling up more interest not only in there in their app But in the video one small thing that made me like just completely crack up was they're showing install the app And they showed on an iPhone 6 and not a fire phone because even Amazon's like Nobody using the fire phone We're not going to use it in a demo for the treasure truck but treasure truck I think is it's also the idea that Amazon is keeps experimenting. They don't have physical stores yet They have those lockers and stuff now. They're getting on the road with their own truck Well, how long before we start seeing crazier things from them well, how much of this is Amazon trying to put their adrenaline into the idea of What you want right now is being driven around in a truck, you know bring driven around in a car and so We're thinking beyond it comes from a place and gets to you and we're thinking about a delivery driver to get it there Instead how much, you know, Amazon's amazing algorithms and predictive thought can say yeah No, this neighborhood requires X amount of toothpaste this rate, you know This amount of these kind of like regular items and I think that it's something that uber has gotten into it Something that lift has gotten into you've seen a lot of companies try to fill the need of of this stuff like postmates here in the Bay Area Amazon seems like a natural player in this and this seems like their big fun way to just put a Toe in that water and see hey if something's driving around your neighborhood. Are you more likely to want it? Yeah, and Amazon, you know, they've got real razor-thin profit margins So they don't mind spending some money to try something even if it eats into their profits And that's what this smacks of is let's see if we put loot on wheels. What would happen, you know Will will it help drive up downloads? Will it help drive awareness of the brand? Will it drive people to buy more things from Amazon because they bought a porter house steak off the back of a truck? When they were, you know downtown Seattle, I wonder if there's gonna be any backlash against this Having just been up into Seattle, and I know Justin, you've been up there a few times as well There is there are mixed feelings about what Amazon's presence in in the north part of Seattle Is doing to the nature of the city There's a lot of congestion and traffic there that wasn't there before and now here's Amazon The cause of that congestion driving a truck around taking up space on the roads And and trying to sell you more of their stuff. I bet this tires get slashed once Sure, I mean Although, you know, but now the blood's on your hands Tom as you've called for violence against the shreds I am not I am not encouraging that behavior. Let's be clear. You should never slash anyone's tires Never never never do that Maybe I think it's going to be a hard narrative lead up to to make the villain the guy driving a big flashing truck That's selling porter house steaks for you know, 10 cents on the dollar. I don't In terms of the local element of it, obviously that we've seen Not only in Seattle, but really I think it's become a very West Coast phenomenon to have an odd Adversarial relationship with these tech empires that have not only become gigantic but become institutions over the past 15 years You certainly see that a lot in the Bay What I wonder is is this even Their way of of doing what uber has done for years in hey download our app and Request free kitten snuggles and request, you know today. We're doing a Blueberry pancakes, or we're doing cupcake is you understanding that Amazon is where you buy the things you need Points out that in December they were granted a patent for anticipatory shipping So this could be tied into that as well I is yeah to the point that it would cause some kind of adversary relationship with the people of Seattle I was looking I'm just like started zooming in on the actual webpage because it says that you have to go to Meet the truck is not the truck's gonna come to you So you have to go to the app say I want this thing and go meet the truck and in the little graphic It actually shows it at the key arena So it's not like it's going to be in the middle somewhere. It's gonna go to a high traffic area anyway So in theory it's gonna be by the Amazon campus so they can make a bunch of employees go spend their money there in the Company store it's gonna be at the key arena like you said which is far too farther to the south Where else is it gonna be? Well, that's the only thing I see right there and showing that the Seattle Children's Museum is right near key arena I'm not familiar with Seattle that well I could just imagine the kid appearance that like it's almost the ice cream truck right your adult is like What's on Amazon's truck like that's the motive candle truck is here? It's gonna happen I'm telling you there's gonna be people chasing down this truck I don't think they're gonna try to slash its tires because it's got a little bit of the food truck feel doesn't it Yeah, I think that's another thing because when you look at the truck that they have actually Outfitted it doesn't look like a standard truck. It looks like almost a shop on wheels almost looks like a Like like a trailer it's more of a trailer looking thing it looks like a little room and so I'm really curious how it's gonna look when they open it up if they get enough attention and Yeah, you're right. It probably could cause some issues in the town But it's more of a tester and I think that not just driving app of downloads But to get people to get excited to part with money Amazon loves doing that So there I think this is another way to do it Do we think this leads to them creating a retail store? I could back in March There are a bunch of stories about a patent Amazon applied for for a retail outlet It was all bundled in with a patent about a shipping outlet But part of the use case they said was it could be used as a retail outlet where you walk in they use facial Recognition to link you to your Amazon account Presumably and then you can just pick up things that are tagged with RFID walk out of the store. No cashiers necessary No This has anything to do with that. All right, fine Except to say that Amazon is you know, you know Jeff Bezos is Ruthlessly efficient when it comes to trying to innovate and they by the way need to be like you you alluded to before The biggest thing when you follow Amazon especially on a on a podcast like this or for business is that they sell Everything for $12 and it cost them $11 and 98 cents to buy it like they are making and ship it to you like they are making so So thin Margin wise on everything that they sell that they need to be at the forefront of Figuring out how and why you want to buy things this and I'm gonna take a wild guess This is nothing more than Amazon doing a fun little thing in their hometown that may or may not become you know a Local kitschy kind of legend When everybody talks about oh, where'd you get that you get that paddle board? Oh, it was a treasure truck thing But I don't I don't quite know if I would put more money on The store kind of just being another thing that they want to do is they try to figure out ways that they can Beef up their distribution network then this you know The treasure truck being a big demand thing that people want in their own hometown I think the stores and it's an eventuality at some point when all the laws are all in line and they basically like fine We'll pay you taxes whatever they can be wherever they want I'm gonna go off on a crazy limb that this is going to lead to like an Amazon airline So that way they can have the cargo in the actual plane and you're paying to be on it And it's like the treasure plane. It's gonna be so fun There's your drone service that they were saying they're gonna launch by the end of the year right there It's much larger than we thought it's not Those kind of unmanned aerial vehicles I get it Dropping porterhouse steaks and votive candle holders across the land Alright pick of the day comes from Andy who says I'm from Connecticut. I believe you Andy He says I thought I'd point out a great two-factor authentication tool that works with last pass You know they've been in the news for that called duo duo at duo security comms two-factor authentication works with your mobile device Gives you quick access to a second factor approval works have a lot of apps easy to set up with last pass supports the fingerprint reader on your phone and Free for personal use they recently announced Apple Watch compatibility so you can authenticate a second factor on your watch if you're inclined and Andy says I set up do it work as an alternative to RSA hard tokens And it's been a big hit with everybody who's tried it You can send up pin codes as an alternate to the device Should you not have your phone or it can call a phone number you designate and read you your pin as a backup There are lots of other security features and options for the enterprise that are neat So check it out and they're part of project Fido Which is that project a consortium of lots of companies that are trying to figure out how to get rid of passwords So we have better ways to authenticate. So thank you for the pick duo security comm Andy's pick for today, and you can find my picks at daily tech news show comm slash picks That's where they got a message from Brandon. He's a co-executive producer of the show Thank you boss says just wanted to ring in on the windows 10 retail USB rumor that was brought up Wednesday I work on the software buying team for a large u.s. Retailer and have not heard anything about these alleged USBs he says though the USB format makes sense for ultra books and 2-in-1 hybrid devices If the prices are the same as the list prices, which is 120 bucks for home and a hundred or $200 for pro He's like that doesn't seem to make sense for a format switch from CDs to USBs or rather DVDs to USBs Do you guys buy it? Are we going to see box copies of windows 10 on USB kind of make sense to me? I think you have to do it because I mean if you have ultra books and the movement of Essentially is no optical drives on anything. So if you just sell them a disk and they're like Well, what am I doing with this? But then again who goes out and buys a retail copy of windows anymore? Like if you buy it with the PC or get an OEM version, so you kind of know what you're doing So maybe I'm thinking USB just because it makes it a lot simpler for modern people because if you want to sell it Like what is this disk for? Yeah, who needs to clean install windows 10 that would need to buy A physical copy of windows 10 that audience apparently might exist, but I don't know who they are Yeah, and and also any decisions that Microsoft has to be made has to make Really has to be made in pretty large scale right like, you know, there's there There is kind of just some mechanisms there that that might slow down that but I mean it makes sense to me I mean, I don't know the last time I saw an optical drive on uh, you know any kind of Non desktop computer if they're going to do it at all right It makes sense to put it on usb and this river came out of germany So there may be something with the german market that that we're not seeing That would make it clearer that they would need a boxed copy of the german Yeah From mike he says I think lexus creating a hoverboard is more of a research endeavor into new forms of automotive suspensions Cars already use magnets today to create better suspensions for racing or maybe comfort So this could be research towards that this could be something they are researching for a race car or their lexus lf Rich boy toy and he's got an article from gelopnik about how magnets are being used in the camaro I don't know is that the zj one I can't read that but They're using it in a camaro to improve the suspension there So I got a pretty clever insight that yeah sure get a lot of marketing punch out of telling people We're making a hoverboard but use the technology as a as in our suspensions the camaro zl one. Thank you well God jury No, sorry. It's uh, it's good Yeah, I think it's a really great point because when I saw this lexus thing I'm like, well, it doesn't seem like it's lexuses move into the you know Hey, dude, you can go sir. You can go skateboarding like it's not that like pivot It makes a lot more sense for suspension And especially since lexus they do a lot of work with racing So this would make a lot of sense when it comes to How to make their rides better and that's that actually puts everything perspective I think It also is You know, welcome to 2015 every brand wants to be cool Every brand wants to be able to own twitter for a day if they can because there is Either imagined or real a benefit for their bottom line if they cannot look like A soulless entity that is just there to sell you something So, you know, if this is something that their engineers did, you know What does it cost them to put a fun little music or a fun little video together and and put it out there? And we will now think of lexus as just a little bit more rad than they did the day before Yeah Blow kiss fire again That's it for this episode of the rad new daily tech news show I as actar pleasure as always folks can find you at cnet.com They can always find you on the guys from queens network as well. What what do you got going on to tell folks about? Well, you could check out cnet.com. I've got top five I do net picks there's a new one coming out after I look at the video in a couple minutes You could go to gfqnetwork.com where we've got lots of interviews quest for peace That's a show I do where I try to figure out inner peace which sounds like a joke But it's something I've been seriously looking into for several years and I got to promote Podcasts without pretense because it's awesome. Go see that gfqnetwork.com In fact, we got Jonathan Strickland on the show tomorrow Oh, what am I one of my good friends and he does tech stuff I'll promote that because I've been on it twice and it's a great show. I listen to it just for fun Check all that stuff out and then follow him on twitter twitter.com I y a z you can also follow Justin rubber young twitter.com slash Justin are young. What do you got going on these days jerry? Well besides, of course admiring the amazing talents of one. I as act are who is always the best. I have Night of tech which this week was a european themed episode. We had Your friend in mind will harris on we did it at a euro friendly time brian was actually out in france Made it out before the the cab strikes from con For a big convention out there. So go ahead and check that out also the jury show j u r y go to jury talks dot com It's a one mic show where I just talk a lot It's interesting too. 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I just activated alexa alexa stop Is that the full title because I like that no Because tom actually said the same almost the exact same thing Um, you guys actually activated her earlier uh during your show and I was like who's talking well, I just set it up today I'm sorry. I didn't understand that request Um, yahu is the new ask Ouch just voted for it Uh, apple lowers confederate flag wi-fi calling screen of death Um, let there be windows light And my shirt is 1080p, which I kind of like grand theft uber. Oh grand theft uber. Yeah um This oracle is a yahu treasure truck tails tempt throngs Oh, I've always been for some active alliteration points for for alliteration. Yeah Justin, what do you like? Nothing he didn't like any of it. He's just being polite showbot showbot, um Road warrior Prime Here is is very funny to me Steeped in tears is funny I like steeped in tears. It doesn't make any sense Um And then of course because alliteration Is the machine gun of grammar. I very much appreciate treasure truck tails tempt at all It's got a nice 1920s headline feel. What do you think I have? I think I like the third one. I have no idea which one's right now Yahu is the new ask is the third one right now. Well, that's not so good What am I to say that I'm no longer perfect Tom. I've screwed up. Ah It was a good run. I asked it was yeah, it was a good. It was a good 35 minute run Yahu oracle Uh ask by the way, uh has their big headquarters right downtown in oakland. I always see that. Oh Yeah, they're they're the big name on a on a billboard or on a skyscraper in oakland It's kind of awesome. It still sort of amazes me that there is an ask dot com that Exists and has a building and people that go to thank buried diller for that Yeah, no, I was uh, who is it bret was telling me that ask Is just an example of a company that for whatever reason just makes x amount of money per year They literally do nothing to advance it and they are going to ride this until the wheels They are all just content to to cash checks until the gravy train Comes fully to a stop like growth Overrated it's just a ghost ship of of money and then they're like You know, that's actually not a bad way to go. I mean granted you don't really advance any work at the same time it's uh You know, you do have uh At least a definable source of income and you can say well, yeah You know what I mean? It's like it's like saying to a mom and pop like corner stores like oh you guys aren't expanding you aren't growing your business It's like they're happy selling sandwiches and sodas To like the college kids during lunch and that covers all their expenses And then they take the time off when they have it and go fishing or or trip somewhere Dude, I mean it's certainly something that is anthemic to the valley kind of approach to it But uh, it is kind of the rule of business You know as long as business has been around is if you're making money and you could not do anything Then just gotta keep not doing stuff and continue to make money as long as it's not gonna Crash into the rocks. It's funny though because I was afraid who I was talking to but I was explaining why no startup Uh ever just makes a hundred thousand dollars a year forever You know, like there's no just like Small town, you know like oh, yeah. Well, you know, we make we make a decent living You know, we make three hundred thousand dollars a year and we're happy about it. We can pay two employees It's a fun time because anything that gets money if you have made any money You are scaling up so you can make you have a shot to make a billion and if you don't Then it does it's not worth it They will keep scaling you until you break because all that matters is that you Either make a bunch of money or you sell out That's our mission. I feel terrific Well, I'm gonna go with treasure truck tails tempt throngs because I need some alliteration to cheer me up now You'll have a billion one day, Tom. Oh, I hope not So wait, what was you boat? Why was you boat a thing? I don't know I don't know Tvc gone explain explain what you bought you boat There was a boat reference Wasn't there was I yesterday They all are together for me now I also like hear your squares. Enjoy them That's pretty great So Justin, I know that you you held back And and you were reasonable and fact based Uh in your evaluation of the inside job that was apple music, but it's safe space now, man I mean, all right. So yeah, because here's the problem is is you know, that wasn't the place of the time I can't just come on the daily tech news show You've entrusted me to show a different element of my personality that I don't really get a chance to do When a lot of other shows where I could dust off my degree from the si new house school of public communications Located in Syracuse, New York But when when you really break it down What you got to focus on is the fact that taylor swift, okay writes A tumble log right about apple music. So here we go taylor swift apple music taylor swift apple music And you think that that's a connection. Uh, uh, uh, it's on it. It's on a tumble log, right? What's tumble log what what tumblr is uh with their own buy yahu marissa meyer runs yahu What did marissa meyer do today marissa meyer went and said that they're gonna have their search in with javascript So now where does javascript get worked in you think that maybe it's just gonna be Marissa meyer and taylor swift got into a room and said hey, how's this apple music gonna thing go down? Meanwhile javascript comes in and says I think that we need to make sure that all these indie artists get paid Because I like to enjoy music that I hear at a bar one day Okay, so javascript comes in and says that's what's gonna go down some marissa meyer goes back to taylor swift She writes on a tumble log next thing, you know Eddie q's halfway through a run runner and his phone goes off and he says what the hell's going on Falls into the pool wakes up and says, okay, let's go ahead and get taylor swift on apple music Oh my god Bravo, I like it That thing was just java I like that roger went immediately for the correction. It was just java. No javascript Which is true Oh The taylor swift performed at yahoo in like 2007 in one of their things All the way there's pictures of it on the internet. Is there six degrees of taylor swift? There could be a deeper connection 1989 will rise again Pepe Silva, I keep seeing this name. Pepe Silva It's a compelling case and I think at this point We really need Someone from yahoo or apple or taylor swifts management tourist exactly Oh, yeah, by the way speaking of uh, just a and an example of uh, us having a A perilous legal position in front of us, uh The certainly not endorsed by either microsoft or the wwe uh, satchamania shirts are now available Teespring so if you are a fan of satcha nadella and do indeed believe that satchamania is running wild Uh, then you can go ahead and get those shirts before they get shut down by teespring or suited to oblivion Teespring it up folks. Is there any way we risk putting those in the dtns store? No No, you know People want to do it and have it just to be funny. I think it's funny enough If we didn't let's just say that the dts logo that may or may not appear on those shirts is certainly unauthorized by us No, we will join Just on the bottom of the very very bottom I have like an asterisk at the top of the dts but to have the dts stand for something totally different Like okay, this is a new and different microsoft though. Let's just thought experiment here What if they embrace it? What if they're like we think this is great? What if at the next public appearance you see satcha nadella wearing one I think yeah, he should come out and then there should be somebody that complains about uh, the new background the new wallpaper and it just points at him and goes you And then Rips off the you know He satchas out and then he's ripping off his shirt and it's gonna be great It goes to all four corners of the of the stage Although I guess one would be just be like kind of upset Okay, I I did the reverse enneagram for it. Okay, so so the dts on the shirt stands for this t-shirt now satchas Uh, check it out tspring.com slash satcha mania We can't ignore it. I'm definitely not buying one right now, but it's freedom of information That it is there available in large I mean You shouldn't look Personally Here we go. Definitely not typing in all of my address. It's like of course you would You know the You know, it just occurred to me the whole windows 10 logo the new wallpaper Totally reminds me of john carpenter's remake of the thing when you have the thing ripped off. That's a good call Really I did a poltergeist one already where there's a little girl touching the window Oh, nice Yeah, I mean it's a cool thing. I I never want a windows logo staring at me in the face every day I don't care how cool it is. That's my that's my real position on it again, that's the thing though is like All of our backgrounds all of our wallpapers on our on our desktop are a reflection of our personality And so what they want to do is show a reflection of their personality It's never been difficult to change the wallpaper. Everybody always does it even my mom changes the wallpaper on our computer So it's like this is just they're like hey, look at what we did No, it's just pinning it up to your refrigerator It's it's their attempt at flourish Yeah flair One might even say flair How much flair do you have on your desktop jenny? We have a a minimum minimum amount of flair we require here at daily texture show I actually am still closing windows to try to see my desktop. I don't think I've seen my desktop in years Windows d on a windows machine will show you that desktop right away We know people of microsoft, right? Like if we wanted to get a sacha mania t-shirt to sacha nadella, like that wouldn't be impossible, right? It might be a little advice for their career, but yeah, I don't really know. I mean I was on their campus A couple weeks ago. I mean it's it's complimentary. We could just mail it to him Like yeah, you could just mail it at worst. He'd be like but that's I think what justin's going to someone better, which is hand delivered Well, or just Just know somebody who knows his assistant like it just says hey look there's a thing on the internet They they think it's really funny They like you know that that you've come in and made a bunch of changes that I've gotten people excited They've joked that it's sacha mania like hulk a mania. They made a shirt. So here's the shirt That is very nice. Thank you Like that's it the sack with the other ones with all the other novelty shirts people have made about my name Who's who's this mean gene that he needs to mean gene and so who's Who does he give a handshake to is a steve bomber every now and then when they form the mega powers like No, no, no, no the mega the mega powers has to be Uh, I mean the greatest rival would be google, right? Like that would be If if if microsoft and google Like thinking thinking thinking and then they're like, yeah, I could see it. I could see it. I got stars Um, I heard what you said about me sachia. Yeah Where are we gone? I think about who the mean gene is the who who's the friendly the best friendly interviewer for microsoft paul therot. Oh Larry rib Uh major nelson Herb oh Let me tell you something major larry rib. It sounds like a sorry larry. Sorry larry. I don't know why I said that I was imagining it spelled out larry herb herb not herb either. He's major nelson. Let's just call him that That's why he took that name Um, I'm just trying to think who else is surrounded by In all of his days hulk hogan. I wonder if he has uh security guards Yeah, I don't think he could can and suggest all major ceo T-shirt cannon, I think sachi will be like pushed on the ground And the bad thing I just wanted to give for sure. What if you just hired a sky rider? I got you sacha mania in the sky. That's amazing sacha mania is running wild right Do we know any sky riders? Throw that in your bin you don't know the sky sacha And where can you take it from us? You can't take the sky from us Even but you do but he does have a window to the sky By the way, stay tuned for the gizmos immediately following the thriller in sacha nadella. I that that one seems a little Oh, why don't you give him a sacha mania in a thing of nutella? I don't know That's a racha the thriller in nadella. So racha Sacherine All right, you know, I'm starting to think that this show is losing its news value I don't know why you would say that uh, but I am out of the post Oh, and Justin's right for whatever reason saracha nutella One that is equally the funniest thing that's ever been said on this show and the signal that we need to end it That was that was the big closing number. It's hot. It's sweet It's coming up after the gizmos