 When I first tried the Daily Tech News show with Tom Merritt and his insightful commentary It was so good I told two friends about it and they told two friends and so on and so on and so on and Believe me. It's so easy to donate to DTNS head over to patreon.com slash A C E D T E C T then tell your friends about it and they'll tell two friends and so on and so on and so This is the Daily Tech News for Tuesday, June 2nd 2015 I'm Tom Merritt joining me from Finland this time Patrick Beja Independent podcaster and DTNS contributor. How fares the world of Finland? So, you know, it's it's good. I try to only join DTNS when I'm in countries that begin with an F So I was in Russia last week and you know, I didn't know I couldn't do it Although it's the federation of Russia Technically you could have I suppose so. Yeah Don't it Merritt get your time machine out. We have to redo the episode. How was it? How was Russia? It was very interesting. I was in St. Petersburg Which is probably the most Western city in all senses of the word and it was very interesting technologically it was a little bit more a Little bit more advanced than I thought it would be they had Wi-Fi everywhere everyone had phones including lots of iPhones but the biggest technological surprise actually came from Finland where we were looking for a Wireless connection and one of the easiest solution was actually mobile subscriptions and even Data prepaid data cards if I'm correct where for the subscription, for example, you can get an unlimited 100 megabits connection for about $20 a month. So there you go Unlimited to unlimited no data cap and and my brother-in-law and my brother-in-law was really pissed because on his plan That was a little bit cheaper. They limited the data that he has a data cap of about 70 gigabytes a month and he was really angry. That was unacceptable. So 70 gigabytes How can I live with just 70 gigabytes? Oh my gosh I had a gig I had a gigabyte cap on my prepaid card in Italy for a week And I felt like I was living in the luxury. That's been meant for you. That's crazy Well, you can say spasiba to a katharina for a st. Peter St. Peter Berg Because it's a she was she was the Empress who really kind of put that city westernized Yeah, she very much Western. She tried to emulate France as a matter Always a good choice in my book. Well enough of my half attempts at history Let's listen to some headlines tech crunch has confirmed that Microsoft has indeed acquired productivity app Wunderlist a company That created Wunderlist 6 Wunderkinder has more than 13 million users CEO Christian Reber said for now Nothing will change although new features and partner integrations are likely And it's an example of Microsoft continuing to grab apps in the productivity space So yeah, they're on the roll. Yeah smart smart move for Microsoft probably You know, I'm a big fan of Wunderlist by the way Veronica Belmont huge fan. I think I think everyone is a big fan of Wunderlist Except for a while and then I stopped. Hmm. And I don't have a good reason why I stopped. I just It has fans Who are now automatically fans of Microsoft? So what you're saying is Veronica Belmont huge fan of Microsoft that is exactly what I'm saying The verge reports the first products to work with Apple's home kit are here Home kit allows smart home products to be controlled by any iOS device Lutron's two hundred and thirty dollars lighting kit and instian's smart home hub go on sale today Echo bees two hundred and fifty dollars thermostat. I home's power outlet and it'll Gato sensors will go on sale in July Home kit was announced one year ago today. So they're sliding in Just under the mark to be able to say at WWDC next week last year We announced home kit and we've launched these products on the platform since It did take a longer time than I would have expected. Yeah, me too That thing's just been sitting there doing nothing on your phone for a year But I imagine we're going to hear a lot more about this next Monday Very probable ours technical reports that Intel announced Thunderbolt 3 will use the USB type-c connector Instead of the mini display port connector Thunderbolt 3 will as you might expect support USB 3.1 Therefore up to 10 gigabits per second and Thunderbolts transparent port layer will go up to 40 gigabits per second Bidirectional full duplex that means one Thunderbolt 3 cable can support to 4k displays or even a 5k display at 60 Hertz At launch a passive Thunderbolt 3 cable that supports USB 3.1 and display port 1.2 at 20 gigabits per second Will be sold and an active cable that supports the 40 gigabits per second transport layer But without the display port compatibility will also be sold an active optical cable is coming sometime in 2016 The other two that I mentioned will ship before the end of this year so that means that Thunderbolt will now be indistinguishable from from USB 3.1 I'm wondering if this is going to lead to some confusion and I guess I'm already somewhat confused so yes it will You will have a Thunderbolt 3 connector where you will also be able to plug in USB cables Right. I think the most confusion is going to come when somebody has a Thunderbolt Device let's say a display and they plug it into a USB port and it doesn't work Exactly because the USB port doesn't support Thunderbolt because Thunderbolt will support USB It seems like it's looking like all the cables will support USB 3.1 But not every USB port is going to support Thunderbolt Although that's fixable. I guess, you know, it's just just firmware because it supports the connector, right? So hopefully the confusion will be at a minimum, but there will be some cases out there where something's going to seem like it should work and I won't I'm really excited about this the USB type-c connector I think is fantastic and the fact that Thunderbolt and Intel is saying we're you know what we're going to standardize on that I think is great. Yeah, it's I mean it seems at this point that USB 3.1 has everything Anyone should hope for in a connector. It could be the one to rule all of them now if only Apple would Abandon the lightning port that they launched what two years ago. Well, and remember their last or their last MacBook had a USB C yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, the MacBook the new MacBook does only has one. It's yeah, it could be possible I mean there is no Apart from the fact that they wouldn't want to change, you know, they wouldn't want to flip-flop And the flip-floppers they could go to USB 3.1 It would be annoying for all the people that have gotten Lightning connectors, but could make sense. I guess maybe they could they could continue to support Thunderbolt and lightning And have a USB type-c connection That's what this this allows and for those who don't know the USB type-c connection is the one that that's flippable speaking of flip-flopping Like it doesn't matter which orientation you plug it in. It's and it's tiny Yeah, yeah, but I mean all the cables you have you would need to get new cables if you have iOS devices Yeah, Apple fans are kind of used to that. I guess so Although there was a sizable uproar when Apple let go of the very old 30-pin connector two years ago. I didn't say there wouldn't be uproar. Ah, right All right, CNET reports that a Nintendo spokesman told the Wall Street Journal There is no truth to the report saying that we are planning to adopt Android for NX So it turns out Nikkei's people were not as familiar with the matter as they thought No, you know the the the polygon report on the matter Mentioned that Nikkei I'm quoting Nikkei does have a long history of getting its reports correct and Nintendo has a history of denying those reports early on despite them being accurate This is a really flat denial though. Like there's denials and there's denials, right? There's like we have nothing to announce at this time, which is a really soft denial and there's like We do want to comment on rumors and speculation all that. This is there is no truth to the report That's pretty that's pretty solid. If you want to get a little bit a little bit Annoyingly Specific about it. They're saying there is no truth to the report that we are planning to adopt Android for an X So they might not be planning to do it Or maybe they're studying different options with Android being one of them. Well, and you give me a case track record, but you're absolutely right about my guess is in The NX lab somebody has a prototype of Android that they're playing around with to see What it can do and yet it's not on the roadmap that that would fit these facts if the if somebody leaks out like hey They're developing with with Android and yet they're like that's just an experiment We have no plans to actually make that the product Intel also announced updates to its 14 nanometer Broadwell fifth generation core processor lineup according to CNET five desktop and five mobile parts were announced The core i7 5950 HQ for laptops is the most expensive one 623 bucks that gets you a 2.9 gigahertz quad-core chip and apparently 95% better media performance than the previous i7 5600 you although at a cost of a 47 watt thermal design power rating So it's quite a debit increase there the iris pro 6200 graphics cards getting all the attention though That comes as a socketed desktop part with up to 128 megabytes of ED RAM Comparable to the GeForce 940 M They're also announced five new Zeon server chips and those are getting the iris pro 6300 built-in So CPU Geeks everywhere rejoice Give your guards to Broadwell Our Stecnica reports game fly announced It has acquired cloud gaming service Playcast and is using it to launch a game fly streaming service on fire TV today Game fly streaming launches with 35 titles available in packs The packs give unlimited play to seven to 16 games Ranging in price from seven to ten dollars a month Game fly intends to refresh the games available and expand to other platforms You can talk about your can this confuses me more than Thunderbolt 3 and USB type-c does so I can buy packs Per month so I could have multiple subscriptions per month to packs of games that won't change Think of it like a satellite TV or cable TV plan like Yeah, it's basically bundles and it might seem like a bad way of doing it because you have to pay for multiple packs Or probably you're gonna want something because I can go to Sony I just pay him one amount a month and I get all the games That is very true But these can be cheaper, you know Sony is if you pay for it for three months It gets you It comes down to 15 bucks a month This could be seven so you could get some games. Yeah, it's not that I'm guessing It's probably not gonna be for very hardcore gamers, but I guess it's interesting that they're trying a different monetization with this idea of cloud gaming Because we haven't yet found there isn't a lot of competition. This is sort of a new field and It there could be something there I think seven is probably a little bit too expensive because as you correctly said Sony has a more old encompassing Offering but if you come down, let's say a couple of bucks if you have Let's say 10 games for five bucks a month Could be interesting for some people maybe yeah And so far the games are not blowing me away if you're a Lego fan They've got a Lego pack and I can see where that that bundled approach might work me for particular fans, right? They're gonna be excited to get oh, I get you know Lego Batman Lego Hobbit Lego Gotham They go beyond Gotham, but then there's a racing game and I'm I like racing games and I'm looking at this I'm like grid to Moto gp-13 You know Yeah, I mean I don't know that maybe it's because I have a console if I didn't have a console and this was my only access I Might be more excited Yeah, I guess that's that is the idea. I mean there are there are some interesting games There's Batman, you know Arkham. This is city or asylum might be city or fear three dirt three there. They're serious games They're it's not like the you know, I don't know that we or things like that where the games weren't as compelling That's a very good point. So However, we look at it though Alicia Keys said it best this game flies on fire TV wired reports that Facebook will open a new artificial intelligence lab in Paris where you're usually at The head of AI for Facebook Yann Lacune was born and educated in Paris and says he wants to work openly with and invest in the AI research community in Europe Lacune specializes in deep learning and building computers that mimic the human brains neural network Facebook already uses deep learning to identify images on the site and don't forget Google owns a deep learning outfit called DeepMind in Oxford, England So it looks like all the US money is coming to Europe to invest in AI research Yeah, maybe not all of it, but some of it. It's interesting, you know We're at least in in Paris the French are usually bemoaning the fact that we are not attractive to Entrepreneurs and the the job market or the economic context context is not attractive yet Probably for geographical reasons and a bunch of others all of the big tech companies have offices in Paris And this is one other example of that. So I'm not sure what to make of it But it's definitely interesting and and I'm also happy that Facebook is investing in in Europe in Paris, but it's Again, interesting that they're doing that At the time when Europe is not maybe not very happy with the way those tech giants handle Taxes and data and things like that. So that's you think there's another motivation of like, hey, you know We're employing all these people now in AI research Well The verge reports sound hound founder Kvan Muhair has launched an Android app called hound the app is a natural language processor that handles complex questions and Answers them fast. How does speech recognition and understanding in the same engine? Hey, Tom What is the population of the capital of the country in which the space needle is located, huh too late? Hound already has the answer the population of Washington DC is 601,723 Precisely and that that is an example of one of the questions. They did in a demo for the verge and You know, they were impressive because What is the population of the capital of the country in which the space needle is located means you have to deal with two Washington's you have to know the space needle is in Washington But the capital of that country that Washington is in is also called Washington But it's a different Washington to Washington DC and then be able to look up the population and spit that answer out Which is very impressive and the fact that it is speech recognition and understanding in the same engine is one of the reasons It's able to do things fast, but just able to tease out the complexity of natural language like that Is fairly impressive now this app is available for Android users of phones. I couldn't put it on my tablet It was like nope can't put it on an XS9 So I'm curious how it works in practice. It also isn't integrated into anything yet, right? But that's that's what Hound wants they're like we want people to see how good this is and then put it in their apps And hopefully put it in their platforms as well Tom I don't know how people are educated in the US But for me it was a relatively easy question and I understood the thing about the country or state in you know at maximum 15 seconds, so it's not that well you have you have the advantage of the evolved natural language processor of your brain How now that that's too complex for me to understand Let's move on the next web reports BQ has announced the Aquarius e5 HD Ubuntu edition That's its second smartphone to replace Android with Ubuntu. It's a 5-inch 720p display dual SIM One gigabyte of RAM quad core processor 16 gigabytes of storage phone the rear camera is 13 megapixels too It's expected to arrive mid-June unlocked for 199 euros and 90 euro cents across all of Euroland. I Love the addition of two euros in the sentence well played. Thank you Mashable reports that Pinterest showed off muck action buttons that will let users buy products directly From the site and add items to a wish list So if you see a recipe on Pinterest and want all the ingredients You could add those ingredients in your cart with one click Pinterest's head of partnerships Tim Kendall Tim Kendall said Pinterest hasn't built the feature yet. Oh, it's an interesting one though There are so many opportunities for interest to monetize this would seem like a pretty obvious one It's it reminds me of the same impulse behind the Google Tap right, which is like I'm in context. So I want to do something This is much less sophisticated than that because it doesn't have to interpret what's on the page. You mean you mean Google now on tap or yeah, yeah, Google now So so yes, I'm not comparing the technologies But it's that same impulse on the user side Which is I just want to do the thing that I'm looking at and and in Pinterest a lot of times I mean people shop and if there's a buy button there That they can just buy the thing they're looking at Pinterest is going to make some money off that so our retailers Yep. Yeah, definitely time for some news from you A lot of our news tons of our news the wonder list story for instance comes off of our subreddit daily tech news show.Reddit.com and you Don't get to complain unless you vote. So if you're like wait a minute Why didn't you cover my favorite story of the day? Well get into daily tech news show reddit.com and make your voice heard now You're not the only voice so we have to pay attention a lot of things and we also put our own spin on it That's why we're here is to to craft the perspective But it is very important and very helpful to see what the subreddit thinks is important and the more people that participate The more helpful it is Thank you our patentee for submitting our patinee I should say submitting this one. You guys voted it up PC world reports on a product called Batterizer which claims to extend the life of disposable batteries by around 800 percent It's essentially a scaled-down Voltage booster that keeps batteries alive even when they drop below 1.5 volts of output they can actually keep them alive all the way down to 0.6 volts The sleeve that goes around the battery is 0.1 millimeters thick So the batteries can fit in pretty much any standard compartment Batterizer is going to launch on an indiegogo campaign in June and then they intend to sell the product in September for ten dollars for a pack of four nice teaglass 1976 sent us the Disturbing news I'm disturbed that hot topic seems to have been outbid in its purchase of think geek Yes, hold your hold your comments for just a moment a second. Our stagnica reports GameStop swooped in and offered twenty dollars a share wait wait. It's not over Stealing the deal away from hot topic geek net think Geeks parent company has formally accepted GameStop software. So if you are hoping for a last-minute reversal, apparently it doesn't didn't happen although The deal should conclude sometime in August unless We should buy it Can you think we can come up with twenty one dollars a share? How many shares is it more than a lot of shares? Okay, if it's more than three then it might be a little bit difficult, but if it isn't we have a shot so Look think geek and hot topic made perfect sense to me It's basically, you know hot topic was saying we just want to be the physical world Equivalent of thinking and that made a lot of sense GameStop this is genius GameStop's been doing all the right things in advance of saying Oh, you know what games are gonna all be bought online in the future instead of folding in advance of that like bookstores Let's figure out how to keep the people who come into our stores coming into our stores to buy other things So they've been you know, they've been starting online services, which is smart But this would be brilliant to start become the think geek store become the place where gamers shop for the things That they would like to buy in person immediately accessories shirts fun little toys Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, I agree and that is a look at the headlines All right, let's talk about a story that caught Patrick's eye today tech crunches Sarah Perez reporting that the app store Made a change the iOS app store made a change May 14th in the US market That took away the new what's hot and all iPhone Algorithmically determined sections of the games page on the app store and replaced it with mostly editorially curated lists Games now has best new games chosen by editors best new updates chosen by editors and on sub categories all-time Greats there is one algorithmically determined category still there called more games. You might like that's based on your individual history there So it's more relevant to you. I also saw best new updates as well First-time games subcategories have ever had curated lists. They've had featured lists and theme lists on the main page But never on the subcategories Different categories have different lists in the app store Patrick a lot of developers though are complaining that their sales have tanked because of this Yeah, this is an interesting consequence of that change The I suspect that the sales might be a Temporary effect the sales tanking I would suspect that before the the the algorithm Wouldn't necessarily be easy to to game. Huh? Huh? Yeah, thank you a second But you know the algorithms are always Possible and probably easy well actually easier to game than just the curation So it might be that some of those site tools were just trying to game the system Or maybe they're just not appeared Anymore because they're not the ones that the teams at Apple have chosen to display So there might be some time to adapt but the fact is it was providing a somewhat poor experience In my opinion when you only had algorithmically selected titles and apps and it is a little bit more work to have The games selected by a team But they already do that in some other portions of the store on podcasts on other things and there's Really no reason for games do not be in that in that same boat One of the really interesting aspects of it though is that it allows Apple to sort of influence the type of content That they will have on their store This might be seen as a nefarious Something that could be used you know power that could be used for evil In this case all of the games that are in the little carousel at the top that doesn't appear So you have lots of different categories in the app store and when they're algorithmically created You don't have a small carousel at the top. It's just a very ugly Banner that doesn't represent anything really when they are curated you have a Carousel that displays a bunch of titles in this case at least in France all of the titles selected are Titles that you have to pay maybe all but one are titles you have to pay for they're not freemium games So they're not free to play games So I'm wondering if this isn't a way for Apple to try and give a little nudge a little hint To developers saying what we value are games that you pay once for and you don't you're not going to be pestered with lots of Suggestions and reminders and opportunities to pay more or pay something for the game That it because we've discussed it a few times It seems those free-to-play games have sort of taken over The entire economy of the app store especially for games Which is a huge very important portion of that store so essentially what I'm saying is this curation gives Apple the power to Steer the app stores boat when algorithm didn't necessarily as much Well good because of the chance to steer it even more than they already did I guess Lockdown app stores in existence. So there they've been steering for a long time They just took over more of the direction now some devs reporting drops of 30 to 90 percent of their sales granted I'm sure when you change the listings the people who are no longer in the listings are gonna see their their sales drop That's doesn't matter how you change them. That's going to happen What I bet didn't happen is an overall drop in app sales The Apple wouldn't do that because that would hurt them and it would mean less money for them and their developers overall So I'm going to say without knowing for sure that I'm certain this has not hurt developers in aggregate That it has helped aggregate in developers in aggregate. However, it may have hurt small developers Harder because Apple can decide to choose the partners that it's more familiar with which could be bigger developers And that that could be a valid problem with this But at the same time instead of having to Game a system as you were saying a developer has to now impress the Apple editorial board So there's a there's a different method here It's still to me not the ideal system though because what should happen is the thing that impresses people who play games should be what is surfaced and featured and I don't know if there's a dead-on way to do that yet yeah, it's definitely a difficult problem because Theoretically if you put the games if you you put forward the games that have been selling the most or making the most money Which was the old system? You would you know come up with a list where the most successful games are presented to to the potential buyers In effect even if that was the case there were effects that wouldn't necessarily be desirable like games that were the most Efficient are Tricking people into spending money correct we get or even without going that far games That would have the kind that would elicit the kind of behavior. You don't necessarily want associated with your game with your store like You know somewhat addictive behavior, you know the free-to-play market has become More and more worrisome to game developers in the past year or 18 months There have been a few reports of a Mobile games Conferences where there were you know developers of course, but also a lot of people that were dealing in in gambling and Those kinds of sites that were very interested Take care of that by just banning gambling apps though. No, no curate the store. Well, that's the thing It's not gambling apps. It's games that have Freedom and free-to-play Elements, but that rely on player behaviors and gaming Apple could just ban those kinds of apps. I don't think they could want to be associated with those kinds of apps I don't think they could quite in that way because they're they're almost they constitute a huge amount of the Gaming apps market now there they've become so huge But if you're trying to curate them out of existence, why not just go the rest of the way? You're basically saying I don't want them to be successful either way Well, I don't that's the thing. I don't think that's neither Apple wants nor desirable. I think it's about balance So in other words, they don't want to rid the world of them. They just don't want to highlight them And and they get this this is a very Apple maneuver, right? They get more control over the App Store Makes perfect sense to me Well, did we lose Patrick? I thought he was just being unusually reticent But he seems to have frozen up We'll we'll we'll get him back. Don't worry, but that was pretty much the wrap-up of that conversation So apps reported January the App Store had 1.4 million apps And I bet at WWDC next week. We're gonna hear even more Let's move on to our pick of the day. It was sent to us by Matt Had a discussion with Darren on Friday if you remember regarding trusting Google with your passwords as well as cyber attacks from North Korea Matt says I always find the security and cyber crime topics on the show entertaining and this latest one prompted me to start reading a book That has been on my reading list since it came out in February. The book is Future Crimes by Mark Goodman Don't think it's the same Mark Goodman that was on MTV Book covers a wide range of topics from our oversharing of personal information The motives of the companies we give that info to and how they use it the technology used in both cyber attacks and terrorist attacks Such as the Mumbai attacks in 2008 and the future possibilities of technology centered crimes around the world It is a lengthy book, but totally enthralling and Matt says I highly recommend it for any tech Cyber crime or security fan junkie enthusiast conspiracist Luddite or otherwise You can find the pick at bookstores everywhere. So check it out Future Crimes by Mark Goodman Said your picks to feedback at Daily Tech news show comm and you can find my picks at Daily Tech news show comm slash picks Got some emails to Juice wrote in regarding our discussion on Monday about Facebook and the news Juice says I just wrote a short research paper from my honors on paywalls The newspaper paywall a suboptimal payment model that distinguishes that diminishes public access to quality journalism And and J juice says yeah, it's an academic wank title It's meant to be but here's a section of it regarding a social danger Readers who are paying per article try to only read articles that they agree with rather than items that will challenge their world view And there's a quote referring to individuals who had to pay for news in a study Were significantly less likely to select stories from an opinion challenging source than individuals who did not have to pay for news I also highly recommend Matthew Ingram now with fortune after the sudden demise of giga ohm and Jeff Jarvis Mostly on medium, but also on this week in Google on these subjects. I'm sure that's not news to you Those recommendations says juice, but yeah, that is that is a great a great great point there that When you have paywalls, you're going to have a selection bias involved there and Facebook doesn't have a paywall so you actually do have some freedom inside of Facebook to pick the kinds of things that you may or may not Agree with we also got L watt commander aka David the programmer in Florida From tropical South Florida saying your story on news sources and which are trusted was very good being barely a Gen X Or I found that I really do not match my demographic at all What the study seemed to miss in my opinion is that Facebook tends to expose people to the Extremes in news far more than traditional news stories sure people on Facebook think they are being exposed to different viewpoints But it's Veronica pointed out they are just being exposed to things that are so far from their worldview that they are easy to dismiss That's a fair Piece of criticism as well I think a lot of people when you hear a study want to say well I'm not like that so that part of his reaction is not unusual everybody Everybody says that because the study is an average and none of us are our exact Replications of the average but the idea that on Facebook you might see more extreme examples of journalism far to one side Or the other of an issue I think is a very interesting and and and frankly a Premise that should be explored and find out if people when they expose themselves to viewpoints different than their own Tend to expose themselves to more extreme viewpoints that they can then not be swayed by Hello. Oh, hello Patrick is back. I So apparently the internet blew up at the house That was going to happen. We knew that was going to happen. And at least it happened at the end of our conversation Did you get the the last of my? Sentence maybe yes I got the last year since then I was responding and then you were very quiet And I'm like well, that's not like Patrick Usually is quick with the like. No, yes, but here's the other point. That's what I like He's also being very still So I think we had a problem with the connection, but it's good to have you back We were just going through some things about the Facebook algorithm story that we had yesterday I've got one more from Claudia who talks about how During Dilma Rousseff selection. There were a bunch of protests She was disagreeing with a lot of people about their viewpoints Some were saying they should bring back the dictatorship in Brazil. So she unfriended a bunch of people And she said since Since I did that I Banished them to my acquaintance list and their post have disappeared I have not seen any conservative posts in my wall except for those posted or shared by my mother I believe that feed filtering is real and a real danger We surround ourselves only with the news we want to hear with the points of view We agree with and that validate those points of views with other people's arguments and creates a feedback loop So we've got three different responses here one basically saying, you know, the real problem isn't on Facebook It's on paywalls paywalls are the thing that make you only want to read stuff You want to hear and then we have a walk commander saying oh no no you you see things on Facebook That you don't want to hear but you see the extreme so you just dismissed them and then Claudia saying well You hear other viewpoints until it gets really serious and then you dismiss them all and that's a danger as well You know, it's it's a very difficult thing I think we actually need some very serious academic Academic research on this. It's it's risen to a point where Yesterday you were saying that you know if that ends up influencing an election. I don't think you know Facebook would ever actually do this, but it could become An important powerful factor in shaping people's viewpoints and maybe we would need some yeah Some academic serious reliable research on the topic because for now the only thing we have is People saying that's how it influences me or that's how it does it and that is very Circumstantial and we got more than a few people writing in saying yeah Exactly you need to watch this because Mark Zuckerberg is in the pocket of the candidate I disagree with and so he's gonna spin the election towards that person thing is all those people named a different person on a different Point in the political spectrum all the way from the left to the extreme right So I'm not sure anyone's very clear on whose pocket Mark Zuckerberg might be in but if he were he could Have an effect one would think yep Jeff from Waterlogged Boston had a quick note on the Windows 10 notification Microsoft pushed to Windows 7 users the other day It's created a lot of work and undue stress for those in the position to support Windows 7 users What's this icon? Do I have a virus have been asked to myself and my peers constantly since KB 3035 583 got pushed down I've been told Windows 7 Enterprise Edition users were spared the notification But my opinion is that all machines running the pro edition should have been excluded as well I'm glad Microsoft is making the upgrade path easy and straightforward for home users But they need to be more sensitive to small and medium-sized businesses who will have their own deployment schedule and user training for Windows 10 All right. Yeah fair enough fair enough but I think there is you know good and but size to everything that the upside of Forcing quote-unquote forcing a lot of people to see the possibility of upgrading that the upgrade path Outweighs the the the small annoyances that he's mentioning You know in my opinion, it's better if in a couple of years We have as many people as possible on the same platform and version of Windows I assumed it was all about load balancing to just be like all right These are the number of people in this order that are going to get the upgrade push to them because they reserved it ahead of time We'll see how this I'm starting to think this is going to be a bit of a nightmare at the end of July Well, thank you Patrick Beja for joining us as always When you're not traipsing around Finland actually even when you are traipsing around Finland you're doing lots of other podcasts Yeah, I am I'm gonna be in Finland for a few weeks and the connection at the home where I will be is gonna be better than this one so You know, I'll be able to wait because you're gonna be farther out in the country You're going to have better bandwidth So basically I met my mother-in-law's house right now and she really doesn't care about the internet so she didn't you know That's why but at the house. I'm gonna be for a few weeks I made damn sure that there was an excellent connection and I'm gonna have a backup backup Mobile connection 4g mobile connection. So very awesome And yes, I have a lot of cool things going on and all of them are at French spin dot com you can find a show about gaming called pixels and you can find a show about International fun and news with people from different countries around the world giving their opinions and thoughts on topics that we think we might have figured out and that show is called the Phileas Club Both of them have had new episodes in the past few days. So you can go to French spin dot com and enjoy both Enjoy them. I actually really enjoyed the last Phileas Club. I'm glad you had two Middle Eastern Residents because you got to see the difference in the way. They've they've used certain things. I was really it was really enlightening Yeah, yeah, that was the idea. 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