 Ah You missed all our lacrosse talk if you're not a patron Not cross talk lacrosse talk Why would Russian deny Yahoo? involvement Why a tuned cuz they oh is a tease I get it. Sorry Is do they have something to hide or was it a surprise party gone wrong find out A surprise party for me That was ridiculous. You know what I wanted the surprise party for everyone because I'm so happy But you turned it around you've made it about you. I don't want to get rid of this little Zoe brings bacon did look cross at school says it's highly dangerous It is that's we have to wear those eye guards Yeah, and all the pads me and elbow pads Beatmaster says, why would you cross LA anyway? That's right There should be an LA professional lacrosse team called the LA cross La cross fit cross a be sponsored by CrossFit. Oh It's gonna be a good one. I could feel it in my bones. Oh, by the way, have you read this the stuff on the Jose Fernandez report Update me what what's the deal a fairly conclusive evidence that nobody else on the boat was drunk And he definitely was and he was driving and a fairly Concrete paper trail Have some fight with his girlfriend and getting wasted and Driving the boat top speed into the jet Sad news if you feel like somebody shouldn't be driving. Don't be afraid to step in and stop Yeah, you know Yeah, well On a brighter note. The Sun is up. El Sol está abriando and just about ready to Talk Russia and Vidya Amazon voice services McDonald's the Indian state of Kerala all of that will be made clear all the hot Moments all the hot goss the hot goss of Kerala's Hot gosling what? Especially if you're in the state of Kerala didn't meow Okay, shall we let's go Let's do it We go The Daily Tech News show is brought to you by its global listener base not outside organizations to find out how you can contribute Go to Daily Tech news show comm slash support. This is the Daily Tech News for Thursday, March 16th 2017 I'm Tom Merritt with me Justin Robert young good sunny day to you Justin Indeed the sunny shining the March has reached its point of madness and we are ready to deliver the tech news We certainly are we're gonna talk about Twitter's live streaming approach We're gonna talk about the Indian state of Kerala. We're gonna talk about McDonald's. We're gonna talk about Russia We're gonna do that right this second actually Russia has denied no surprise there that two of its FSB intelligence officers We're in any way culpable in that 2014 security breach at Yahoo Remember that two FSB officers were named among the four people indicted by the US Department of Justice, so Russia says no yet. It's just yet. Yeah Netflix chief product officer Neil Hunt said the company is exploring different cuts of its shows for different platforms Because certain shots meant for a big screen can be hard to see on a phone Pan and scan is back Hopefully it's a better than pan and scan and pan and scan. Hopefully now here are some more top stories Nvidia announced Bosch BOS CH will join ZF Which already is partnered with Nvidia as a tier one auto parts supplier to sell Nvidia's drive PX to driver assist Platform to automakers. That's Nvidia's hardware that enables some machine learning some good AI stuff Nvidia will provide that computing hardware and in the case of Bosch's partnership Bosch will develop sensors so they can sell a combined Platform and video also announced a partnership with pack car pack car is one of the world's largest Transport companies they do a lot of trucking and pack cars gonna use the drive PX to platform as well in its autonomous trucks In fact, they've already demonstrated a concept truck along those lines What's amazing is that we are at this point now Or you see a lot of the shifting scale for hardware manufacturers like this that you know Maybe PC's are not the market that they weren't what once were and tablets and phones have reached this level of maturity and Commodization, but it's not like we're entering a world where there is not This burgeoning gigantic need for this kind of processing and hardware and it's very interesting to see that now Yes in in the next decade the the Napa auto parts add that'll play during the Daytona 500 Will include you know like go ahead and get your mufflers including your Nvidia Bosch processors here at the auto parts We know you're smart mufflers. I mean yeah First for sure. I it may not be quite exactly like that, but but the idea is right that Tech companies are becoming part of the auto supply chain. Absolutely and Intel buying Mobileye is part of that Nvidia partnering with Bosch and ZF is part of that and and the other the other side of what you're saying. I think Pertains to the chip industry where for a while people were looking at the decline of desktops and saying well Desktops are are declining laptops are stagnating and phones can't grow forever What's gonna happen to chip companies? Well, what's gonna happen to chip companies if they're smart? I believe Brian Krozenich was one of the guys saying this when he took over at Intel is we're gonna be in everything We're gonna be in sensors and doorknobs in cars And we need to be ready to deliver chips there. Yeah, don't cry for me, Argentina We will will absolutely be in every possible smart device that you could hope for Amazon added its Amazon voice services to its Amazon app for iOS Thursday along with shopping it can do things like playing your flash briefing controlling smart home devices and playing Music as well as answering questions. It should be available to all US users by the end of the week Yeah, so going right along with that The other thing that will be in all of your devices eventually is some kind of voice assistant Some kind of voice recognition so you can talk to those machine intelligences that are living on those Nvidia chips And this is one's very tiny step along that route a lot of folks myself included I've been frustrated that when I want to talk to the name of the assistant that lives inside the Amazon echo, which Going to good lengths not to try to say inside it set off your Amazon echoes I have to go to the Amazon echo or I have to type it in on my app on iOS It's that's just annoying. So I I was very excited about this I tried it earlier today, and it wasn't working But that's because there's already a mic symbol on the Amazon app that just does kind of a voice search So apparently an update's coming that will allow it to tap into the wider skills You have to wonder and this is actually going to get into our next conversation as well that Solutions are not always the fastest pathway to progress right we can all agree that that that what makes the echo an amazing device is this Marriage of hardware and software the software is good enough that it can recognize your voice But the hardware is the secret sauce that if you are willing to put an always-on microphone into your home Then you can have this level of convenience that here to for we were unable to find I don't quite know if having The the Amazon voice on your phone is going to be something that will be used as much or will necessarily Experience the same kind of success that the specific echo device does as well But it's better to have it there especially if the shifting sands of all Operating systems eventually allow for multiple voice assistants, which you know, I think that that that for iOS You know, it's not exactly on the roadmap for what Apple seems to want to do But you never know as we go forward. Yeah, and that that's you know Some of the downsides of this are it's not going to replace Siri on your iPhone, right? They the Apple won't allow that so having Amazon voice service in your Amazon app is only of limited utility The other thing is I get where Amazon's coming from if we're going to put Amazon voice services in a bunch of things We should definitely put it in our own shopping app, right? Yeah, why that did that makes perfect sense But why is it also not in my Amazon echo app? I Still frustrated by that because now I have to go open the Amazon shopping app to talk to the Amazon echo Rather than the actual echo app where I can where I by the way have to go if I want to add any skills Or create any things that will show up in the Amazon app. I mean, come on guys get it into both Sure, and I'm sure that that's probably on the roadmap somewhere, but it does actually lead to this interesting idea Why wouldn't you be able to have multiple AIs in in one phone in one device? You should be able to an open platform would let you do that. You're really rad. Yeah, no reason like leave Siri where it is. Let's let's just hey, let's have a party here. I want all of them I want Cortana. I want the a word that we're not going to say I want the very I want Yeah, I want them all in there and I want to have a really good time and you can do that in other operating systems Apple's never gonna allow that. But yeah, give me my multiple personality device That's the what that's what I want. Hey McDonald's began testing its mobile ordering and payment app at 29 restaurants in Monterey and Salinas, California on Wednesday Orders are sent when the customer arrives So even it's it's kind of like what Taco Bell does you make your order ahead of time But they confirm it once they know you're actually close to the restaurant that way you get it hot And they can be delivered either to the table to the counter to the drive-thru or curbside You get to choose test will expand to 51 restaurants in Spokane, Washington on March 20th And the hope is to roll this out as a finished app to almost all the US restaurants and a bunch of restaurants in Canada the UK France Germany Australia and China by the end of the year As failures of declining restaurant traffic, so they're doing a lot of things to try to reverse that trend Well, and that's an interesting Sadistic because you know McDonald's is the big kid on the block when it comes to fast food So they're going to feel declines, you know But probably sharper than than other people that are trailing them in terms of market size What is your feeling on these apps because you know, I I tend to enjoy the idea of having them I reset not having the option and yet I don't use them as much as I would because again like we were talking about with You know having Amazon voice within an app that you have to click to and hit up hit a button It's a solution. I'm sure it works But is it the one that fits my life that I don't have anxiety about because I'm afraid I'm Screwing something up on the menu and and now my trip is going to be ruined because I accidentally ordered the wrong thing Yeah, they're usually and Starbucks has got one of the better ones out there now Although they ran into some issues with you know, they're getting themselves overloaded by taking too many orders But that's a logistical issue and McDonald's is doing a lot to work through that But generally they just take a few more taps than we would want. I mean ideally. Yeah, you want that voice assistant you want to be able to say I want a burger and fries and a Coke and Done, you know and Domino's is actually leading the way by by using the Facebook messenger bot to kind of Too close to that natural language ability to order things But in the meantime are these things that much better than just driving up and talking to someone I use the Taco Bell one a lot because I'm at my house And I know I'm close enough to the Taco Bell that I can sit down and relax and order and it is better Than waiting until I get there But in most of the cases if I think I'm on the way somewhere and I'm using one of these things It's just easier to go right to the place. So they need to make these ordering apps a lot smoother. I Almost wonder if part of it isn't this next level of personal digital assistant where It recognizes that it's around the time that you eat and you are close to these restaurants that you have a transactional history with and so now There's some sort of proactive. Hey, you know, this is around you You haven't had this in a while. You always like that, you know, would you like me to just go ahead and make these? You know plans for you like just give you the option to say no or give me other options Yeah, let's do just something that's like hey I'm hungry here are all the options that are run through all these apps that have all these APIs and either it leads You to that app or it takes care of it on some some other higher layer I guess I think like this again is one of those things that These are train tracks being laid that I feel will be used far more as we Kind of develop a bed a better digital way to deal with them. Well, yeah, because you can see all the pieces, right? I've got a mobile device that knows where I am and is navigating me in most Instances from one place to another. It knows what's on my route. It has data on what my orders have been Potentially right it can get that and then a voice assistant that can say with a little machine Learning like hey, we're close to Taco Bell Do you want your usual chicken soft taco? I can put in an order for two of them right now and you can say yeah do that and Add a bean burrito with sour cream and done right like that's the dream Well, it's a personal assistant, right? It's actually what a personal assistant would do if they were traveling with you all the time is Anticipating your hunger and making sure that you get the thing that is both yummy in your tummy and also time efficient So that that is the that is the dream. I think we are we are getting close, but yet I don't know if I'm I'm loving it so far with McDonald's is a foray. I only ever buy chicken Mcdonald's from McDonald's anyway, so I Do the chicken dollar menu Mcchicken and McDouble and a couple water for whatever reason I just keep it's like a $3 order at McDonald's all see and you're you're perfect for this, right? The the app should just know that and say at front and center. Do you want that again? Boom done boom also a side salad underrated side salads at McDonald's really Uber operates in eight African countries Egypt Ghana Kenya Morocco Nigeria South Africa Uganda and Tanzania and Iafrican net has a write-up of how it's fairing using South Africa and Kenya as examples in South Africa Taxify holds a 10% share of the market in front of zebra cabs and Josie bear while uber dominates in Kenya However safari calm launched little cab in July with free Wi-Fi and payments through safari comes popular M PASA service little cab is expanding to Uganda and Nigeria Tom this is number one An uber story that doesn't involve a pilloring them so putting a Colonic in the stockade so we can throw rotten fruit at his face as fun as that is but rather the idea that in These these African markets specifically ones where M. Peso, which is the way that you can You know you buy things using you know your cell phone minutes effectively and and the transactions therein can have an entrenched advantage For a service like this. It's kind of fascinating Yeah, I love the story in lots of different ways one is that it just shows you there are so many These companies competing out there a lot of us Oh, it's it's uber and left and what's the name of that weird one that did eat something in China, right? And the fact is this is still an open market And I think the other part of this is you may not realize just how dominant uber is in other parts of the world Where it has moved in and become a worldwide brand so it's kind of two ends of the scale there the fact though that Kenya Which is on the eastern side of Africa kind of mid eastern side of Africa has a Telco that's competing with uber Successfully it sounds like because it had the foresight to create a new way of Doing banking for people who couldn't get bank accounts a lot of people in Kenya don't have credit cards So that's that's not the kind of thing that's gonna work uber Had to adapt to that right they're like they're based their whole business model was originally based on credit card So I had to figure out like how we're gonna take cash. How are we gonna take M? Pesa they haven't quite figured that part out yet. So they have other mobile payment options It's it's a very complex situation there and I I think we look at market sometimes and say Oh, well telcos do telco things really well And then they go and they do this and they and if they go too far they fail and and it all depends on the Landscape, you know the fact that this telco figured out way early something like M. Pesa Was necessary and now has said hey, you know what we have an easy way for people to pay and uber doesn't Well, let's get into the ride hailing business and they partnered with another company to launch it though And it sounds like it's being successful so much that they can expand to the entire other side of the continent over On the west side with Nigeria and and not too far away actually right below in Tanzania What's fascinating to me about this is that you look at all of these markets that have been disrupted with upstart competitors and The big key is if you are entrenched Own the pipe whatever that is and here it's payments right in in in The the the world of telecoms here It's entertainment companies that are rich enough to buy telecom companies right because they want to also be the one that sell you the service As well as the programming on top of it That is is it seems to be the kind of business story of our age is figuring out Okay, you can go ahead and do whatever you want on top of it But let's get to the absolute common denominator and and find out who owns that because we'll always be able to build out We'll be able to buy companies. We'll be able to pull you off competition as long as we have this one pipe Yeah, and then down in South Africa where again more than 50% of the populace has a credit card So it's a little easier for uber to move in with their existing business model and you've got taxify fight and and restarting and and lowering payments Lowering lowering fares, but raising payments to drivers and eking out a 10% share. It's just an entirely different landscape there as well Hi gopro announced plans to cut 270 jobs. It's third round of layoffs since November Back in November cut 15% of its workforce CEO Nicholas Woodman said the move will allow the company to achieve profitability in 2017 But no no word on 2018 or where this company is going It does not look good for it Justin No, you know to not not to be ghoulish, but it looks like a 1080p head-mounted footage of a funeral This is again the third round of layoffs since November Which by the way for those of you without the aid of a calendar is only five months from now less than that It has been something where where they are rapidly trying to figure out where they fit and the problem for gopro Is that as they you know rail against the dying of the light? I'm sure that they can see in the great beyond the the specter of Flip cam looking down at them and saying man. I feel you Move move towards the light the embedded light, which was the last new feature I added to the flip phone or the flip cam. Yeah, I think gopro has a place But that place is on too few heads or wrapped around too few backpacks There there are people who want go pros and they enjoy go pros and maybe what they have run into is that the people who want go pros have go pros and As long as those go pros are working even if they have to plug them in to sink the footage over They're fine with that They don't need to buy a new go pro every one or two years just because it has Wi-Fi Functionality in it or or some other feature So go pro has a tremendous brand. It certainly is thought of as a oh you have a go pro That's a good thing. That's a good solid camera It would seem that when you follow the trail of stories like this the next chapter is Normally go pro in talks with blank for possible acquisition You during our little news chat that we have at twitch.tv slash Justin our young every Thursday morning You had a flaming hot take as a possible acqua acquirer of go pro Yeah, Justin asked me who should acquire go pro and I hadn't thought about it until right that second And so my first thought was who is a company that really wants to position themselves as a camera company That doesn't already have a bunch of cameras, right? My head embedded always on kind of recording technology So my head immediately went to snapchat snap Inc They've got cash Granted their stock has been doing the wrong thing on the market lately But what post-IPO tech stock hasn't sure in the past few years find its floor And then we're gonna see yeah goes and that'll be the tail If they could pick it up at the right price I could see them doing that and saying hey here. Here's the new snap pro We're snap snap chatting your go pro footage. It's it's the pro version of spectacles. Maybe that is Intonating to me to be able to either create a peril that has the go pro legacy or go pros that are That the same sturdy piece of equipment that they are now that you are able to review and automatically Share to me that that's the marriage that really really really seems exciting to me. Yeah I'm gonna guess that if you're Evan Spiegel of snap you've thought about it and Maybe looking at it if you're Nicholas Woodman CEO go pro you're just praying every night. Please. Yes snap or anybody You're hanging out at bars in Santa Monica or Venice wherever the snap headquarters are just you're down at the pier. Yeah Yeah, oh crap. That's so funny. We go to the same restaurant Yeah, I think if you are snap the question is how much is that brand worth because you can probably It's not that's the problem with go pro is that right now they're in a commodity situation where it's not like these cameras are Endlessly expensive anymore. It's not like building a go pro competitor is exactly cost prohibitive, but it's a good name It's a good brand and good talent, right? Maybe there's a little aqua hire Attractiveness here where you can get these folks working on some other stuff from within The Indian state of Kerala has declared the internet a basic human right Finance Minister Thomas Isaac said the state will work with the K-Phone network there project called K-Phone Plans to lay fiber optic cables bringing broadband connectivity to all houses and install free Wi-Fi hotspots in public places Now Tom we wanted we almost did this as the larger topic, but we sure end up Deciding that we're gonna throw this one out to the DTNS community, right? So yeah, we've talked about whether the internet should be a human right before we'll definitely talk about it again But we want to hear your take this time. So let us know Either at patreon.com slash DTNS or if you're in our analyst slack or by email feedback at daily tech news show dot com Hey folks, if you want to get all the tech headlines each day in around five minutes Be sure to subscribe to daily tech headlines dot com It's the faster way to keep on top of all that's going on and you can access it in the anchor FM app as well get the anchor app check out all the cool stuff that's going on in there There's some stuff from you in there Justin Robert young There is and there might be there might be more Coming for me in the in the in the anchor app. We will see All right The information says its sources say that next week Twitter will open its live streaming API to media firms and announced partnerships with firms that Provide back-end services for live video streaming the whole point of this is to say yeah We know we have periscope, but we know that if you're a you know legitimate broadcaster Use us we want to give you some better tools But when we do big things like the Oscars or NFL games We have to sit down and have long meetings about how to integrate the system So let's make it easy for anybody who partners with us to just tap into this API and go broadcasting and the I think the hope here Justin is that people who it's not worth Twitter's time to spend a lot setting up a partnership We'll take advantage of this to just broadcast their own content and provide a lot more live video to Twitter How long ago did Twitter announce that that their future was video? I like two years ago Maybe it's less than two years, but maybe close to it. Yeah, so on on on the two years Yeah, we're more than a year for sure. You can you could say years you could use the plural. Yeah So I'm gonna say something and I know it's gonna be a pet peeve for you She shouldn't be there something that was done a little while ago Right. Yeah, I don't know why that's bugging me so much lately like why didn't they do this before well? They didn't they're doing it now, but I know what you're saying Sorry, is it too late the question for me? No, is that is this a story of? Twitter fulfilling its state of destiny that it's going to be a live video portal that when you think of live video you think of the crackling moment of This is gonna happen like let's say theoretically and obviously this is a rights issue And this is you know something that gets tied up, but nothing kind of lights up Twitter right now like politics and March Madness that today when I say now, I mean literally 16th, right? If what Twitter ultimately wants if money was no object and they could just go acquire whatever they wanted They would want for you to be able to deep dive as far into Whatever you are following on Twitter with live video They would like to be able to have that for you so you could watch it talk about it You know watch all those delicious high CPM ads that would come into your your your life That's what they want. It just does not but I'm wondering whether or not this story is them doing that taking one step closer to being that company or Another one of these what is Twitter doing like it's just is this a mismanagement story Is this a good first step story? What what what kind of story is this? I think it should be The ah, this is another step along the road story, right? Yeah, I know I know there's at least one of you And you know who you are out there going why do I care? Yes And that is Twitter's problem, right the fact that you are saying why do I care is the problem with Twitter because you should care If you care about following Political events which a lot of people do these days or basketball, which a lot of people do you should be thinking Ah Twitter's doing something exciting where I can find out more than just what did he say today? But but keep up on everything as it happens and instead we're getting a lot of these stories where the like Building block in place Right. Yeah, but nobody feels it Nobody talks about Twitter that way and when I go to Twitter what I see is a big long stream of text I don't see the video and maybe maybe This API opening up is a way to turn on the the taps So there's enough video that they can make a very impressive page of video I don't know but they haven't done that yet and that's the problem You wrote a piece on the patreon patreon.com slash Dtns about how Twitter can win at this game. What was your what? Do you think the the biggest strategic move that they could make would be no I've got five step five things in there that I broke down and and you if you're at the five dollar level you can go read more about that but but essentially what it is is tell people you have video make it easy for them to see and Include them in it I know that's only three but there's you know a couple of those are multi-part But the biggest the biggest one that they're failing on is making me realize that they have this video even when they add the NFL You kind of had to know to look for it Oh sometimes and some people got the banner that said hey this this happening right now But but I remember I I had to go into moments to find a debate When they had debate coverage one time like they need to put it front and center on the Twitter home page Not buried in a tab called moments if you're gonna have a tab you better name that tab live So then I'm like ah, that's what's happening now. That's the live or even live video, right? But show me that you're doing this don't hide it away. I'm back in July They announced a deal with MLB and NHL that they were gonna bring live Streaming from both of those sports France sports leagues. We haven't seen a whisper about NHL and the MLB season is about to start I have no idea if they're gonna be doing any MLB stuff or not All right, I got I got I got the idea This totally brings everything that Twitter's wanted to do Into focus and I feel like this is a little bit more where the puck is going as opposed to where it is right now Right now We what we the moves that we are seeing like this move right now is Twitter standardizing its API So now any random news company that wants to build a little division that live streams into various different things Including Facebook live and Twitter. It's easier for them to do it. They want they just apply They tell Twitter like hey, this this is our bona fides. Let us in done They want a backpack on the idea that hey, look the Washington Times or Buzzfeed or Washington Post rather I mean the times to know them if they want to Create a staff that does live stuff and they are not locked down to an exclusivity because they're taking money from somebody like Facebook Then hey put it here, too. We want to be the place where you do stuff Scrap that you don't need that. I mean it's good that it's there But that's not your push because that's not what people really want to see they don't want to see for interns Putting rubber bands around a watermelon. It's a cool gimmick, but that's not what people are on Twitter for Here's what they are for Right now I pay 30 to 50 I think dollars a month to sling to be my over-the-air cord cutting television replacement. I Spend so much time on Twitter Twitter is such a driver for what I would like to watch or a companion piece for what I am already watching and talking with other people I think I would pay on top of my sling another $20 maybe $15 to Twitter for a skinnier bundle where now it's not where I watch everything But let's say earlier in the week when I was following with bated breath Everybody's hot takes on Rachel Maddow's assertion that she had Donald Trump's tax returns I would love within my mobile app Following a hashtag that every single television show pushes to show their social media dominance They already have the discoverability if I were able to click on a hashtag and instead of just getting a collection of everybody else's opinions Also a mini screen where I could watch along with everybody Exactly what was happening that to me is the future of of of Twitter is become a Sling I mean and this is where what everybody's doing YouTube wants to become a cord cutting television place and these networks They want to to supplement the declining cable industry They will make these deals so even if your Twitter make the deal just with CNN MSNBC Fox news ESPN if you can but certainly a Fox Sports one You know all these these kind of also ran Networks so if someone's talking about let's say just for Fox Sports one. They have the Pac-12 If you just have the Pac-12 When someone's talking about USC versus Oregon boom you can click it and Twitter's already partnered with the Pac-12 by the way What was that? Twitter's partnered with Pac-12 networks. It's carrying 150 events now. It's not football and basketball, right? So but there's somebody to talk to there to make that sort of thing happen. I I don't know I when you start talking about I'd pay I'm sure you would a lot of people wouldn't that's a barrier to entry Maybe maybe not but the gist of what you're saying that Twitter and Facebook to be honest both Are in position to say? Yeah, we know that Netflix and Hulu and all these places are your lean back places For watching things, you know, you want to watch where the place or lean in I guess We're the lean back where the place where you don't know what you want to watch you just want to turn something on You or you know something's happening out there and you want to see it while it's happening Whether it's the Oscars or a news event or sports We you should start thinking of us as the replacement for that Maybe there isn't one cable replacement. Maybe there are multiples ones like Netflix that give you shows others that give you You know different kinds of shows and ones that give you live events. I think that there is a tremendous opportunity for Twitter to be a place where I see live video the problem that I see with them is a the content isn't there and when the content is there Like them making the the deal for the NFL It's pushed to me. They have a big banner on top that says we have the NFL It's not the you know, Twitter is there because it finds the heat, right? It hashtag follows the heat you want to be able to just go and see that video And I think that the easiest way for them to do that is not to go and cherry pick Oh, well, we think that newspapers are doing interesting things. So let's build an API so they can plug in there That's what this API is. It says anybody can do it. We're not gonna cherry pick anymore Go ahead and join it. We we need more content. It's addressing that it that that Addressing it. I just don't know if it's going to bring them the content that ultimately is what people want on Twitter if video if They're serious about video, which we assume are that's all that ever The only thing I'd add to that is you also have to tell people you have it, right? When there isn't a big event happening when and they're looking at your product whether it's on mobile or on the Desktop or laptop you need to remind them like hey, don't forget We also have live video and the next time something big happens remember to come back here because this is where you'll see it I mean, I also think so just like, you know, just to go back to the idea of what I pay to sling every month If Twitter did their own thing, I don't know if there's any other company Aside from Facebook, but even then I think Twitter's probably more well equipped for it that can tell me What are my friends watching? What is popular in mice in in my network right and like right now so on on the TV I don't know what to watch it can tell me they have the data right now to say that this is what's popular globally This is what's popular in your area. This is what's popular with your friends There's some intriguing options that that makes happen. So get on I'm sure Twitter was not thinking about any of this until just now So of course not. Hey, it's like what you're welcome, buddy. Yeah Hey, thanks everybody who participates in our subreddit submit stories and vote on them at daily tech news show Dot reddit.com. We got some messages Charles Co-executive producer of Daily Tech news show from sunny, but unusually cool Hilton head, South Carolina Said I let he listened to our show on mesh routers a while back He has a house in Hilton head, South Carolina where he is having problems getting service up to the to the upper floor But no service or very limited service seeming to drop on the lower floor and after listening to the show He went out and bought an Eero He says he loves it. It's got him good connection on both Floors the other thing to mention is how good the software is to configure and manage the routers I'm able to very easily create a great guest network on the top of the network that makes it obvious for guests What to connect to I also can see all the devices on the network give them nicknames So what is connected is obvious and not dictated by some obscure name It was money well spent and I'm likely to replace my Apple Airport device at home as it is so good and transparent For management of devices, so there you go one vote for the mesh networking routers in this particular case Eero Got another email from Kimberly the Texas teacher Who says I don't know if Scott appreciated how on the nose He was when he compared smartphones with glasses my niece is severely dyslexic like her mom and a large number of Her maternal cousins one of our accommodations is an app on her phone a digital version of all her textbooks that she can download Class novels and library books to she can adjust the font there are fonts for dyslexics that weight letters differently So they don't walk off and also so that mirror image letters like D and B are easier to tell apart She has control over the colors and the contrast between the background and the font And it also has text-to-speech and audiobook versions available I have a co-worker whose son uses a different app He could snap a picture of any worksheet because he's severely Disagraphic which means he can't write very well and dyslexic the app is a bit glitchy for reading the scan So the teacher might read it to him, but he can type in his answers and email the completed workshop to his teachers We've even used that app for kids with broken fingers hands and arms while they were in a cast nice Thank You Kimberly for all of that and then Sheila in pro free doughnut. Hey, Orgua writes it may be true that reports of airplane battery incidents are more reported But I'd be curious to hear some chemists Physicists or engineers on the effects of cabin pressurization in batteries So this is talking about that headphone catching on fire and Scott had said like why do I always hear about these on airplanes? I said well Battery catching fire in an airplane makes a much better story than you know catching fire in a very safe fire You know retardant place All I could find was an FAA document talking about testing fire safety of batteries And in that it remarks that at altitude even under pressurization fire risk is lower Because of that pressurization But it didn't say whether the fire risk is lower inside the battery if the battery is less risk of fault So I I'd love to hear from somebody if you know Does cabin pressurization have any effect? Safety of lithium ion batteries. It's such a low percentage. Don't forget that folks It's such a low percentage of lithium ion batteries that have problems that it that the cabin pressurization may be You know close enough to zero that it doesn't matter Yeah, I I I'm curious to see the official opinion, but I can't imagine that if there was anything that was Statistically significant that we would not have heard it, uh, you know at this point They are so kind of overly cautious with plane safety as anybody who's been glared at by A flight attendant to turn off your phone while they tell you to as you know can attest Uh, but I'm I'm definitely curious to see that uh, yeah It's only it's only miami courtrooms. Uh, where you hear about batteries lighting on fire more Uh, kirl wrote in uh and had a couple other smoke detector picks for mr. Dykstra Who had wondered about uh smoke detectors That would alert his phone. I had recommended the nest protect I realized afterwards when he emailed me back that he was talking about for his barn Uh, kirl said what about roost batteries and smoke detectors at get roost dot com The batteries have a microphone wi-fi module in an app You put the battery in your smoke detector and the battery Listens for alarms through the microphone and alerts you on the app if it hears something Another option is lo's first alert iris smoke detector It uses z-wave it could be paired with a smart hub like with their own iris or smart things devices So we'll have links to both of those in the show notes if you want to check those out Thank you. Justin robert young as always what you got going on Well, uh, I'll tell you what you can go ahead and follow me at twitch.tv slash. Justin are young where I am streaming every week day And uh, of course it is uh, oh, I'll tell you what stickers. 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Oh, there it is Kenya uber me home Uh, uh, it's a way to work nigeria into the answer somehow You're welcome to twitter hashtag live hashtag video It's pretty funny. Uh, twitter is a titter for better transmitter hitters Whoa Uh on a monopea It's all a twitter. Do you care? A bad day at twit rock You know get 40 rock twit rock. Yes, right? Yeah um The pros must go You're welcome to give it a tip of the hat to internet access is a bod given right Bod given Yeah, yeah I don't know ghost in the echo ain't bad. Yeah, it's not bad Uh, but i'm i'm open. What do you guys like? Yeah, I think I like ghost in the echo Do you think you like it? Yeah I like it better than old mcdonald's got an app Oh, mcdonald has a E ios get it because Deus ex secret sauce let us cheese pickles onions on a sesame seed bun Oh, you know what it sounds interesting, but every time I get one. I just like why did I buy this? Hmm And what's the burger king they made they made a blatant rip off of the big mac the big king or something like that Oh I know mcdonald's made a rip off of the whopper ah uh called the big Bopper No, they call it. Um, I know what you're talking about Oh, yeah, the burger king version of the uh Of the big mac is called the big king and the big and tasty Is mcdonald's Yeah, see that's it That's the whopper. Okay. Yeah Royale cheese I just get two double cheeseburgers whatever done Almost same gross patty and the same Why don't you just get a quarter pounder then? Because it's uh You get slightly more food cheaper Oh Because it's a better value. Yeah, I think pound for pound Well, it's quarter pound before it's cooked, right? That's how they measure it. So whatever right So so whatever it gets condensed down to And listen the meat's not that great. It's never been no It's the I'm talking about and it it is meat. It's just not the kind of meat You would willingly buy at a butcher's market Yeah Although you you can you can credit them with being incredibly efficient incredibly efficient So when I when uh mcdonald's came to greenville in I think I want to say 1985 something like that Uh The franchise, you know the way mcdonald's worked. They're all franchises, right? So they're all owned by somebody else And usually it's somebody who owns multiple franchises So Dave emberley was the guy who owned the franchises in the metro east area of st. Louis That our mcdonald's was a part of and as soon as they opened that mcdonald's The rumors started to fly amongst all the beef farmers In the area that Dave emberley would would fly out to your farm in a helicopter and Uh and make deals to buy the meat of any any Lame animals or diseased animals that you couldn't sell otherwise And no idea if any that was true Is that what they do? I thought they typically just go straight to whatever packing plant Well, see, I thought all that stuff was centrally sourced, right? I thought mcdonald's just bought Bought all the meat froze it and shipped it out to all the friends. No, no, they they actually they're very regional Because it's the supply supply chains work better if it's a little but is it handled by the franchisees or handled by mcdonald's corporation That's that's what I yeah, so, you know, it depends But I assume if your franchisee you're you're kind of obligated to buy I mean, isn't that part of the franchise agreement? Yeah, that's what I would think Like some restaurants aren't as other franchises aren't as strict and you can choose your supplier, but You know, you can't you can't you can't go into a mcdonald's franchisee and just say hey, I'm gonna be serving slurpies instead of Co-compepsy, right There's regionalisms, but yeah, there's there's standards of regional. I mean if they serve God dammit what I will say that I did like the taro pie in Hawaii and I that's one of the few mcdonald things I still crave Few things not a lot of things I could crave in mcdonald's I made the mistake of getting the A burger king Chicken sandwich because I remember liking those as a kid. Don't like it as much as adults I wonder I mean, I know mcdonald's been doing a lot to try to say oh, we're improving the ingredients There's there's less fewer additives and all that they Change the formula of the chicken mcnuggets for instance Uh, you know the greens might be better, but they still use the same lousy cooking methods To package it and process it What about fast healthy food? Like rubio Tuesdays. Yeah chipotle's trying to that's that's what chipotle does until you know Chipotle's not healthy. Chipotle is foody, right? It's like arm to table fair distinction Yeah, it's the the burritos themselves aren't strictly healthy when you're eating that much meat and cheese But they're Maybe you want to go get a you just want to go get a chipotle burrito, right? See the thing is I can't eat there anymore Like every no never got sick and probably randomly at the same time that the ecoli outbreak Well, so that's the thing that's the only thing I associate with chipotle now Is their food scares? I'm not sure but the food did you actually get sick in a chipotle? No, I haven't but that's the same reason why I won't eat wendy's is because of the whole thing Even though it was proved to be faked because that's it's a meat It's a thing that sits in your back of your mind. Even if you don't think about it openly it's just like You know, you just have a natural version if it was revealed that wendy's was culpable in killing All of my family I would still For a spicy chicken sandwich like there's nothing that could drive me off wendy's however Chipotle It was I have never seen a brand fall as as Chipotle Chipotle was At at a point in the odds when they were just exploding Was not only the place to be it was social coup And when they would come to your town it was an event Right like when they would open a chipotle. It was something to be excited about There was a line out the door so you could get a chipotle and then as soon as They uh, they they got hit with that that culture Yeah, the the food scare man, it is I would say a quarter a quarter of the business that used to do even during lunch rushes It is it is insane. How far they followed, you know, why it's because they never had a brand food That's stuck in your mind. It was it was about the chain But like McDonald's you think big mac big mac, right? It can exist independently of the thought of McDonald's You can't think of a burrito. It's like, oh chipotle. No, you just think of a burrito I could get at 25 different places in town Well, that's true here in california, especially in san francisco where it's burrito country I don't I wonder if that is as true in places that don't have a white selection of good burrito But like think about like Taco Bell Taco Bell you think of all their unique And I put that in I think of the maxi melt. Yeah, the the unique items they offer even if I don't order it That's what I think. What's yeah, what's the the loco? What's the what's the taco? Do you think Doritos Locos Taco? I love that I love the naked chicken taco Wait, are you trying to say that chip if chipotle had had a better brand they would have survived the food scare better They would have something they could they could anchor that you would think of them as instead of yeah Instead of just thinking of chipotle the chain. No, I I think the problem that uniquely affected them was that they had built so much of their brand on We care about our food and our food is in process and we get our food from these various things and it it became not only a A health food or like I'm eating non-processed stuff kind of thing, but it was almost A self-esteem boost that oh I care about where my food comes from I go to chipotle and when That is part of your brand and you screw that up and now it's like oh wait this Thing that I have made a moral decision on is incorrect Well can hurt me and they've selected they have they have winnowed their audience right to be the most Likely to care about the quality of the food. Yes, and then and then you fumbled on that That's I think why chipotle got smacked so hard When on on that by the way darker demer says that I'm with jury the wendy spicy chicken is the best spicy chicken on the market Not only is that true It's inarguable if anybody has any problem with that then you need to just write your local congressman because there's nobody else That will listen to you Like like spicy chicken sandwich at wendy the best get involved run for office. Yeah, I mean I don't change it, right? I mean just just stop it. It's it's easily best without it without a doubt I don't know I'm skeptical of your claims Who uh, well, well name name one name another one. I just like I it's I've searched the land I would love I I'm not Roger Roger freely admitted earlier that he can't eat out of wendy's that he's just got a mental block on it It's I you know, it's listen everyone who has ever claimed So-and-so burger so-and-so sandwich is the best Like a chick filet people say like despite, you know, you know, they're they're they're political leanings and stuff I'm still gonna eat there and I eat there like five times It's like I am so underwhelmed by every item I have selected off the menu that people tell me is the best thing my wife loves chick filet And I said it just tastes like over salted chicken between two warmed if slightly limp buns Deflux is away from the wendy's the wendy's controversy No, no, no, but but but I and I say I'm skeptical. I'm not discounting you I'm skeptical of your claims I will find a wendy's and I will find this so-called spicy chicken sandwich spicy chicken sandwich Here's and I will try it. Here's the reason why number one their breading is Especially when it's well when it's because listen, you can get a bad spicy chicken sandwich at wendy's like what I'm doing is is is aggregating on on batting at me Like it can be prepared poorly. I have had poorly prepared overcooked two singed spicy chicken sandwiches. However When it is good The breading is flaky enough. It's not soggy, right? And here's the key a lot of restaurants do a spicy chicken sandwich, but they try to cheat Where they give you a regular chicken patty But then they try to sauce it up Well, I'm not here for the sauce dog. I need that stuff in the breading I need spicy breading that that filet Is fried in and that's what wendy's does and no one has been able to touch them Chick-fil-a comes the closest but they even they they were forced to do a spicy chicken patty They just had the chicken patty and then wendy's changed the game Everyone else has been playing catch up ever since wendy's spicy ketchup playing ketchup Uh, all right. I'm you know, I'm just saying like I have not been blown away by Many of the claims like in and out. I think it's a fine burger. I don't think it's the best fast food burger of ever had Yeah, I'm I'm not here because I I agree with you I I think that that so much of fast food is is subjective and and there's far more nostalgia tied to it and and I think people want to admit and Like like for example dunkin donuts. I love donuts I I enjoyed a lot. However, I understand that a large element of my dunkin donuts Love comes from the formidable years that I spent next to and as a customer to dunkin donuts Like that was just the thing that I did a lot and I have carried brand loyalty with me Uh, the one thing I will say about the spicy chicken sandwich is that Amongst its peers judge it not to your taste, but judge it against its peers I think that it is all right the unquestioned champion Not since Eileen and I made Roger accompanying us to a pf Changs. Oh, I was so I've been More excited. I was almost gonna get a paper bag and cut out eye holes and just wear it over my head I was like, why am I here? By the way, did you know? that uh owner Of the possibly soon-to-be Las Vegas Raiders Mark Davis Works almost exclusively from the bar Of a pf Changs in Walnut Creek Oh, I feel like maybe you've mentioned this to me before because that rings a bell. It's among one of no no lab dot He reads the paper and works like all off his phone And makes calls and I mean god knows what else but he drinks iced tea And gets appetizers at the same pf Changs in Walnut Creek He must have a like he must have a hallowed seat or location for him man I've always dreamed of that life I've just rolling in where you just place where you just you know, you you have your place And you just go to that place every day Wait, you want to be like norm and cheers? He like he just Just kind of sidles up to that one Well, so I have a new a new neighbor and the downstairs neighbor said, oh, he he lives in marina del rey and i'm like What do you mean? We don't this isn't marina. She's like well What I mean is he goes to this one place and talks to his friends every day and he spends his whole day there And i'm like, oh, right. So just just like in the movies um Wait, who is this? It's a new neighbor. Oh a new neighbor Oh, you mean like, uh, larry who goes down to the regal beagle from uh threes company So is that the regal? And then would they actually do a shot for the regal because like that's the dullest bar i've ever seen Uh, but that's san diega Where the world baseball classic is taking place What is it a classic? Do they wear the old timey uniforms? There it's happening in petco now Oh, it is so it moved from miami because it was in miami Yeah, the the the current round is at petco and then the finals are at dodger stating Which by the way I had multiple friends that went to some of those games Were were were the minnequin republic played in miami. Yeah said it was among the best sporting experiences they've ever had really why because hispanic Baseball crowds are excited because the fans yeah and they drink and they curse and they get jump up and down as opposed to the the regal emerald chess board that uh, uh, let's be fair that the majority white american baseball fan likes to quietly pencil in every foul ball instead of you know Wanting to to do a backflip after somebody bumps to first base Uh, they like that way in soul When I when I was in soul and we were like just watching how excited people were To just be there to just be at the game Yeah All right, uh, well, thanks everybody for watching Shout out to curtis p Which by the way, curtis is one of those people and there are many of you who when there's something wrong in the feed or on the Blog or something like that you get back to me right away As we were still publishing curtis sent me an email saying oh you put the headlines It link at the show in the show notes by accident And so I was able to fix it before we're even done streaming the post show. So thank you curtis Thank you all for watching. We'll talk to you tomorrow