 Good day, everyone. Going to take a little time to do a little rhyme. Also, to work on. The technical. Let me share that screen. That better, that better. Oh, that's a lot. I think that's no, that's too much. Yeah, yeah, that works. OK, I did Samsung Galaxy in the circle. Well, that's interesting read. Morning, Clinton. Top seller smartphones, man. That's old, two days old. Maybe, I don't know, and probably not. Had that yesterday. Well, it's not a lot of new stuff on Google News, huh? OK, Netflix app won't work on the vision. I probably didn't think I had that, did have that. Oh, confirms. Who's Metro? I don't think this is. They really do. We always said it was just. Let me see what the verge says. Spoke recently in broad terms. Shareholder meeting. OK, a little less sensational, but that's a good one. Definitely going to do those. OK, yeah, I'll cut in. I've noticed that, too. I wish they did a little better job of curation. Rabbit demo was most impressive. I guess that's sort of interesting. Why is the decrypt doing it, though? OK, that's an interesting read. Now, let's see what tech means up to. Oh, sorry, Web at Magic. I forgot you can watch it later. I just have to work now. That's a minor one. I have an I have an idea of how to do do the newsletter a little differently. You too, this restricts. I think that is worth explaining. So interesting read at the very least. Signers and such, just a stub. You cancel and probably reach a provisional deal on the anti-money laundering regulation. And that's a guy's head sender. Reddit has drawn up plans for an IPM. Hey, Mike, I'm working on my my daily newsletter. That's interesting read. Did that yesterday? That's all from yesterday. Yes, Mike, I did watch the Samsung thing. It was in yesterday's newsletter. Be pretty, pretty negligent if I had not. Let's see what's on our subreddit. Oh, was he did he not mention it or something? I had that yesterday. What is this actually? Very incendiary headline. I don't I don't think that's for us. Job cuts got back at that. Had that yesterday. It's tough, though. All right. And now to the feeds. These are the new ones since I checked earlier this morning. What does she think around the trap? Good, good question. Mark that for coin kills. Let's see. Yes, there we go. All right, that's an interesting read for sure. Well, I'm surprised this isn't getting more play. At least it's it's worth noting. I could go and put the TSMC story because one I had it, but maybe I didn't. Yeah, we definitely did that. OK, that's a good read. In fact, I might want to do a little right up on that. Oh, is the Arizona factory delay? Yeah, yeah, yeah, these together. OK, got that. Humanoid robot. Got a lot of a humanoid robot, right? Who doesn't got that? That's an interesting read wrong. Where is this? France. OK, that's that's I think that's pretty undercover. Paul's got a little scoop there. The other TSMC stuff. I know it has to be plus, right? I have the ability to do remote work does not affect productivity. No, it does protect. No, it doesn't. Yes, it does. OK, there we go. So now only a couple of you here. Would you rather see me writing or rather see the stories I'm writing about because I can't show both at once. It's easier to show the stories I'm writing about since I've already got that screen, but it's not hard to switch it. Brian says stories. Clinton's good with either. Yeah, all right, OK, Duke. And then if if new folks come into the check because I'm going to I'm going to be head down writing here a little bit and wonder like, what is this? You can if you all could help explain that would be lovely. Thank you. I might just move this away a little. Yeah, Clinton, I'm fine with that. I don't want them to address whether an article was written by an air human. I think that's a waste of time. What I want them to address is are these credible? I don't care if an AI writes a very credible, reliable article, I want that to show up. And if a human writes a crappy article, I want that not to show up. So if it's a I generated, to me, that's irrelevant. Don't waste time doing that. Find a way to to curate the good stuff that's that's reliable. That's all I care about. Exactly. How do you measure quality? That that's the trick. Yes, he's fine. I think that's focusing on whether AI wrote it or not is treating the symptom, not the disease. That's just me. I'm I'm weird like that. I want to try, first of all, doing a little I'm using word to identify. Some of my typos. Good day, got the best. OK, on to Netflix. Bloomberg's Mark Gurman says. Netflix will not have an app. For the Apple Vision Pro. This continues. Netflix is long running resistance to cooperating with Apple integration. Netflix seems to think that would give Apple too much. Power over its relationship with its customers. For example, in the Apple TV app, Hulu, Max, Peacock and most others can both services. Netflix shows do not show up there. So you'll be able to watch Netflix video in the Apple Vision Pro, but it will have to be by using the Safari browser. Means no offline viewing and limits on resolution. Many of the reviews of the Apple Vision Pro mentioned watching movies and TV shows is one of the best things it can do. All touted, all the services you can get this week, as well as partnership with Disney to include 3D movies and virtual theater setting books at and Apple wanted to be able to continue to sell its Apple Watch Series 9 and Apple Watch Ultra 2 in the US. With pulse oximeter features on while courts heard its appeal, a decision to prevent it from selling those watches with that feature. The case is because of a company called Massimo, which has a patent on pulse oximeter sensing that it convinced the I.T.U. Apple was infringing. I spelled Massimo right, didn't I? Massimo. The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit denied the request reached no conclusion on the merits of Apple's appeal. Meaning the court didn't think Apple would be harmed by extending the ban. But Massimo might and yet it did not indicate which party it thought would win the case. Part of the reason Apple wouldn't be irreparably harmed might be because Apple has a plan to sell those watches without the pulse oximeter feature on. Those went on sale 9 a.m. Eastern Thursday, January 18th. The hardware still exists and the pulse and the blood oxygen feature is still listed. But when you tap on it, you'll see a message. We'll see a message. That says existing watch owners will not see the feature. OK, OK, I'm going to move that into interesting reads and we'll just do the threat. Threat reports a business insider story that Amazon is developing a paid subscription for Alexa. It is planned to launch by June 30th. Though quality issues might delay it. Improved conversational machine intelligence and improved personalization. Reportedly, 15,000 customers have been testing it. Definitely converses better, but occasionally offers long and or inaccurate responses. It also supposedly has trouble with multiple other stories. Other top stories. It's better than not telling them and just doing it. That Arizona situation was fraught in the beginning. It's just too expensive for TSMC to operate there. Speaking of TSMC, the three nanometer process seems like a behavior that should turn around. Barring, you know, like a world war. And you provisionally agrees to have a crypto. Why did I have that in here? I have crypto due diligence. I'm going to come back later. I don't remember. I don't know why I've got that in there. I think artists should make more money. I'm not certain the EU is competent to decide who and how much maybe I'm wrong. This doesn't shock me. Copilot isn't the public imagination. It still might get there, but not yet. So what I'm doing is. OK, if I chat GBT, this stuff, it would be wrong and not as good. I just see this. OK. That was Eileen Clinton. You heard that she's like two rooms away. And we're back. Let's see to this. Is that going to work? I'd be glad when someday we. We have one way to sign into things, you know, instead of having to guess which way this one does. OK, the code from your authenticator. But maybe some stuff. OK, Tom Merritt, tech newsletter. Is Xbox going cross platform? Is Xbox going Xbox is going cross platform? I think you could say that because it is. All right. Now I'm going to use a little AI to look for typos. German is spelled right. Apparently he wants to change chat beat GBT to cat gut. I don't think I wanted to do that. It's the free. Thursday edition of the newsletter. Yeah. By the way, I'm thinking of renaming this with something like daily tech briefing or something. Let me know what you think. Meanwhile, Microsoft is defying your worst fears. Netflix is not playing nice with Apple. Amazon might start charging for Alexa and worse, name it Alexa plus. Oh, and I'm trying something new this time. There's the usual big story. The smaller stories that I think are important. And then some quick stories that are more than just interesting reads. But just quick comments from me instead of full explanations. Let me know what you think of that, too. Huh. Cheers, your friend, Tom. Drive safely, immediate feedback. Thank you, Mike. I'm glad you like it. Doot, doot, doot. This is in the wrong place. All right, it's better because I did it in word. The rot notable stories. Hey, I did not see Miss Possum this morning. I looked up on the wire. She was not there. Sadly, I wanted to get another progress report on her high wire act. She's been workshopping with us. How you been Wild West, Dan? I think artists should make more money. And by that, I mean me. I'm an artist. Well, let's watch Horizon Bug Scandal. Oh, this is so annoying that took the tabs out. Kind of kind of the same idea. The lines of video. That's true. We don't have an equivalent of interesting reads on the podcast. Because you just can't really do the the same thing where you're like, hey, if this headline looks interesting, you might want to check it out. I have too many interesting reads. This is my bane. I always find too many things interesting. And I can't possibly read all of them and understand them and interpret them and write them up. There's so much cool stuff to put the link in on Substack. Highlight what I want to link and command V, control V, whatever, whatever operating system you're working on. All right, there we go. This post is for everyone from CD to theft to download sales. It's been a heck of a ride. All right, there we go. That's how I do. Well, a Substack. Hey, I got a new free subscriber. I'm checking my email now, but I'm going to do. I'm going to do the editors desk next. Oh, I've got so many questions in here. Wow, you guys are great. OK, where is my thingy? Editors desk, so anybody new to the editors desk in here? Editors desk is a perk for the patrons. Goes out to everybody at the five dollar a month level and up, which is everybody these days, if you're new, there's some legacy folks that pay less. But and it's basically me talking about the state of DTNS, how we do our business. And lately, because everybody's been really good with great questions, answering email questions from folks. So so here we go. It's the editors desk. Hey, sorry, I haven't been doing the editors desk as consistently. We had the holidays and CES, but it's good to be back and wonderful to see all the questions that have been available here. So I'm very excited to get to them. David says, you've been podcasting for well over a decade. I've been a podcast addict for at least as long for where I'm sitting. There haven't been that many technological advancements in podcasting in that time. But I suspect it might be different from your point of view as a podcast creator. My question for you is, where do you see podcasts going in the near to midterm future? Do you anticipate any sea changes, technological, financial, otherwise coming down the pike? I imagine I will have some impact, but do you have any predictions on what that will be? Kind regards, David, who said this before our prediction show. And no, I did not cover it on the prediction show. This is a tough one for me. I don't have a lot of like crazy predictions because having done podcasting as long as I have, I feel like it changes a lot more slowly than people think. So going through some of the the changes that that are happening. Yes, generative models are going to change editing. They're going to they're going to make it more efficient. More people will be able to do it at a higher quality. I think that that is pretty clear. I think we probably won't have a lot of fake podcasts. I imagine somebody will try doing some fully generated podcasts. And I imagine they won't be terribly well received because that's not why people listen to podcasts. People listen to podcasts partly for information, but also for personality. And an AI is not great at personality on its own. It needs help with that. AI co-hosts already are happening. There's a comedy podcast that does that really well. So I could see them being an element of shows. But yeah, I don't I don't know about them replacing things. Financially, I think, you know, there is a demand. I think people continually overestimate the demand or think they can juice the demand, realize that the demand is not keeping up with what they wanted it to and then pull back. And then there's a surplus of demand. I've ridden that wave multiple times. I wouldn't expect that to change anytime soon. What I would like to see, and I don't know if I'm going to see it, is a platform change. You know, right now, what we've got is Spotify, Amazon, Apple to a certain extent, trying to get people into their tents for podcasting. And I would like to see more counter pressures to that as we see decentralization starting to swing around in places like like Mastodon, you know, short short messaging services, microblogs, as they call them. I would like to see a swing that direction with podcasting, too, something that that takes advantage of the decentralized nature of podcasting. So I don't know. That's my that's my quick off the cuff. David, if that pushed me again on this because there may be some things you're like, I thought you'd talk about this. I thought you'd talk about that, that I'm not thinking of. But I appreciate this question. And it's it's definitely a good one. Marty said, I'm slowly getting through DT. And so this is a long one. I should have read this in advance. Not that I mind that, Marty. It's just I'm not sure I want to read the whole thing on the show. I. Oh, he was talking about getting through the editor's desk and sorry to hear about how things were in 2023. You and the whole team are fantastic and provide the most balanced to well research tech news out of any sources I listen to. So I really appreciate everything you all do. Sounds like you're doing better now, which is awesome to hear. And I wish you the best of the new year. I've been struggling to keep up with DTNs lately, just because of my own time, which made me think of the older weekly shows. I always prioritize DTNs head daily tech headlines over the main show. So I still get the news, at least. But I'm what I miss is you, Sarah, Roger, et cetera, discussions on bigger topics. Anyway, sorry, Marty, if I if I'm mischaracterizing. But but to summarize, Marty's saying what if there was a weekly like cut down hopefully without any re-recording or even much editing, just pull out the conversations. Amos has been pushing this idea. He's even done a concept that was really good. The question is, is there enough demand? I know Marty wants it. I know probably a couple of others, if you want, is there enough demand to justify the work? So what, you know, what we have to do, especially in the constrained environment in which we're in is say, OK, if Amos is going to spend a bunch of time making that happen, then is there going to be a demand enough to support it happening? So so, yes, that is something we're talking about. That is something that Amos is really excited about doing. And we need to carry through with it in the new year. I'm just curious why you're going to CES. Oh, this is Craig. I'm curious why you're going to CES in person this year when in past years you've not gone yourself but had a DTS presence there. Thanks. Keep up the great work cost. I have hotel points that are mine. The company has points for airlines that we can use. So it got me there cheap and I didn't have to use all the points. It was a chance for me to be on the ground to secondarily and kind of get a sense for what CES is now that there's a West Hall and that people are coming back, kind of get in touch with people. So it was, you know, on the cheap. I felt like it was good for me to see CES now again, since it has changed in many ways and not changed in other ways. And it was good for us to have a presence there because the CTA has been really good to us over the years. So, you know, I want them to know that we appreciate their cooperation. And so, yeah, it was a combination of me wanting to get a look at CES and not having money to send a lot of people. So I just took it on myself. I said, you know what? I'll go. I'll do it. I would like to do it with other people or send other people. I think I might want to go again for the same reason of just kind of eyeballing stuff. But I got some ideas of what I want to do next time. James says, I wonder about the usefulness of the reddit flares. What purpose were they designed for? Did they meet those goals? I don't know. I really just don't know. Reddit flares showed up. Mods on our subreddit decided to make them and and then people used them. So I think the purpose was just because people like thought they were fun. And I don't think they had any goals. They just kind of happened, honestly. So I don't know if they met any goals or not. But, yeah, that's a good question. I really I really don't know. Reagan said, I'm curious how logistics work. For CES, do you have to rent booth space to broadcast from? Is it randomly assigned? Any other details you think worth sharing? Thanks for the great coverage. Thank you, Reagan. Yeah, so Pam from the CTA. I've been communicating with her since I worked at ZDTV, I think. It is really the person we talk to as press. We don't have to pay. We're not getting a booth. We are given some space in exchange for our coverage, which is why I always am happy to do an interview with one of the CTA people and put it in the feed to kind of say, hey, thanks for inviting us. You know, what's your perspective on the show? It and it is not assigned randomly, but it's sort of a, you know, meet in the middle of, gosh, we'd like this kind of space. What's available given the other outlets? And, you know, there's other outlets that reach more people than we do. So they're going to get first crack, you know, CNN's going to get first crack at space over Daily Tech News show. And that's that's that's fair. We get that. But yeah, we we have had we've had good relations with them. And it's it's not a rental thing. It's it's it's just a space that they assign. We asked if we could have a window a couple of years ago and they gave us a window. So, you know, that's that's pretty cool. That's how that works. All right. And then one more CES question from Sikani, as a former resident of Southern California, currently sitting in my Chicago flat, enjoying the subzero temperatures and rethinking my life decisions. Anyway, the questions first about how much did your company spend covering CES this year? A couple hundred dollars on Quiznos and some some point, you know, I did points for the airlines, but it was one of those like points and pay $30 kind of kind of situations. But but yeah, what I spent on Ubers to get to the press conferences, although I took monorail and the the the CES shuttle a couple of times, but a couple of Ubers to get to press conferences, an Uber to get to Best Buy, what I spent on the adapter, the Ethernet adapter and the headphone splitter. And then the the tiny bit I spent on the on the on the plane fee and yeah, and my food. And I honestly, most of my food I ate at the at the the the press events, which was no charge. So yeah, very frugal CES. Second, how badly do you miss the fries electronics that was just past the south end of the strip? You know, I never went to it, so I can't miss it. But I was thankful for the Best Buy. It would have been nicer to have a fries. I get what you're saying. Also, a few weeks ago, I wrote in with a question about how the current state of AI generated content shaped your opinion of the Star Trek holodeck. OK, I'm going to pause that. Well, just talking, put that cough back in me. Well, I did video. I knew that was your question because I got to your name at the end and realized I had already called you James. So I wasn't sure if I should out you or not. Yes, CTA is the Consumer Technology Association that puts on the consumer electronic show. OK, OK, OK. I wrote in with question about how the current state of AI generated content shaped your opinions of the Star Trek holodeck, since that is basically the final form of AI generation. Don't know, may make a decent GDI topic one day. I must have missed that. I don't have spam caught it or if I just got lost in the holiday shuffle. But yeah, current state shaped my opinion of the holodeck. So that's basically the final. Yeah, I feel like the holodeck gets more dated all the time. But maybe we'll catch back up. I've had that happen where I'm like, well, nobody has flip phones. You know, that starts our communicators crazy. We all have candy bar phones. And then suddenly we had foldable phones. I'm like, oh, maybe we'll get the Star Trek communicator. So I don't know, maybe the holodeck will seem more plausible. It seems less plausible to me right now. All right, that is the editors desk questions. Now, one thing I want to give you guys the scoop on is that there is an Apple show in the works. Sarah and I kind of hinted around about it on Good Day Internet. If you go to AppleVisionShow.com we'll be updating that with the most current information. So there's the tip. We should have a promo in there by the end of today. And you can find out all kinds of more things about it then. So keep an eye out for that. Tell your friends, I think it's going to be one of the best things we've launched in a long time. I'm very excited about it. Especially excited about the team that's working on it. So with that said, thanks for supporting us at Patreon.com I will talk to you soon. I did not talk about the newsletter focus yet, Brian. And I'm glad I didn't since you had to step away. Oh, right. All right. It is super exciting. Paul, court killers, I believe Brian made a post about it. But court killers had to take a week off for a combination of me being a little sick and Brian had to have to deal with frozen pipes at the headquarters. So we we took the opportunity to to take the holiday. We we normally don't take court killers Monday holidays all that often. But we did this time. So there you go. That's what happened to the court killers. Our apologies. Right. OK, that's the browser I want. So many browsers I need to go to Patreon and create a post. Yeah, no problem, Paul. Yeah, I had a different kind of frozen pipe than Brian had Cliff Singer, but you're right. Yeah, we both had frozen pipes. OK, audio, DTNS shows. And it is desk. OK. Yeah, my pipes were more distressed and still are a little bit. I thought I was up past that and then it got me. How DTNS covered covered. See, yes. Tom answer several questions. OK. Editors desk, select the tears. Publish. OK. Look at that. Brian just gave us a raise. Thank you, Brian. If you're listening, you're amazing. OK, Kevin Perez on the show tomorrow. After GDI on Thursday, OK, cool. I feel like I type better when I'm on the stream because I because people are watching me. Let's see what else is going on here. I did the editors desk. I did the subscription. I have not done that. I did that. I got to write top fives. OK, and I got to take Sawyer to the vet. All right, thanks, y'all. It's been fun doing this. And it's nice to see so many of you hanging out with me. I know this was a longish stream. So very cool to to be working with you and hope it was interesting to see a little insight into me doing those things. Have a wonderful rest of your day. Be sure to jump in on DTNS later today at 4 p.m. Eastern 1 p.m. Pacific. Justin, Robert Young, Rob Dunwood and Sarah Lane talking about is podcasting dead a little bit of what I talked about on that editor's desk, as a matter of fact. Thanks, boss, and I'll see you later. Bye, everybody.