Coming up on DTNS, it's TSMC versus Huawei as the China-U.S. trade war heats up in the tech sector, which Apple AR headset is most credible and Facebook buys Giffy? This is the Daily Tech News for Friday, May 15, 2020 in Los Angeles. I'm Tom Merritt. And from Studio Redwood, I'm Sarah Lane. And from Columbus, Ohio, I'm Rob Dunwood. Drawing the top tech stories from Cleveland, Ohio, I'm Len Perrault. And I'm the show's producer, Roger Chen. We were talking about old cars and old commercials on Good Day Internet today. If you want to get that conversation, become a member at patreon.com slash DTNS. Let's start with a few tech things you should know. Netflix is starting to lift European coronavirus-related streaming quality limits in Denmark, Norway and Germany. This was first reported by FlatPanel's HD. Previously, Netflix, Apple, TV+, and Amazon Prime Video all compiled with European Commission requests back in March to reduce bandwidth and help networks manage their loads. Apple restored 4K streaming late last month. Munich, Germany announced it will use open source software for administration needs. The city government also committed to making source code of all city software public as long as no confidential or personal data is involved. Netflix began moving away from proprietary software back in 2006, but in 2017 moved toward proprietary software again. The new swing back to open source will happen slowly as contracts come up for renewal. Foxconn reported its net income declined 89 percent in Q1 to $70 million overall revenue for the company declined 12 percent on the year to $31.02 billion. Foxconn thinks it stabilized everything in Q2 though. They were in China with the pandemic hitting in Q1 unlike most of the rest of the world, which really didn't get hit till March. So they're projecting double digit percentage growth for Q2 over Q1, although likely still down on the year. Next quarter, enterprise is expected to grow 10 percent, computing units 15 percent, and consumer electronics, which has phones in it falling by 15 percent. Foxconn did note that all its main factories in China have now resumed normal operations. Microsoft published threat intelligence data related to COVID-19 themed attacks on GitHub. This data comes from trillions of signals each day seen across identities and point cloud applications and email by Microsoft and has already rolled out into Microsoft solutions like Microsoft Threat Protection and Azure Sentinel. Microsoft also provided attack indicators to raise awareness of attackers shift on techniques, how to spot them and how to enable customized detection. NVIDIA launched Clara Guardian, an edge AI system designed for hospitals. Using sensors, the system can check people for elevated temperatures, use computer vision analysis to monitor for social distancing, and do contactless patient monitoring. The system will use NVIDIA's EGX edge AI chips available in late 2020 and is currently in test development in 50 hospitals across China, France, Italy, and Israel covering 10,000 hospital rooms. And Facebook announced its Messenger Rooms group chat feature now available to all users across mobile and desktop. Messenger Rooms lets up to 50 participants chat with no time limit. Rooms can be used under the people tab in the Messenger app or from the top of the main Facebook news feed and users can specify who can join, even letting non-Facebook users join the calls. All right, let's talk a little more about something else Facebook did, Sarah. Oh, let's. Facebook has acquired GIF making and sharing site Giffy. You might call it Giffy and that's fine, but that's what it acquired and put it under the Instagram organization. Giffy is already integrated into Instagram Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp, as well as several third party services that you might use. Facebook says 50% of Giffy's traffic comes from Facebook properties, though. Instagram's VP of product Vishal Saw says that Giffy's API partners will continue to have the same access to Giffy's APIs and the community can still create GIFs there. So I don't know. I mean, unless GIFs are getting pulled away from something that you really use it for, is this really a big deal? Because man, it's being called as a really big acquisition. Yeah, the need your reaction in any acquisition is, oh, they're going to ruin my favorite thing, right? And with Facebook these days, people just immediately assume evil intentions, whether it's called for or not. Facebook's saying all the right things, though, right? They're saying we're going to continue to leave it operating as it is. It already is integrated in all their products. They're going to try to find new and cooler ways to integrate it. But other than maybe being critical of Facebook getting bigger and owning another piece of the internet, I don't know that they've said anything that warrants criticism right away. As long as I get to keep my rock slow capping while hard chewing gum, Giff, I'm okay with it. I actually really thought where do I use this? It's almost exclusively on Facebook, on Instagram time. You mentioned earlier that you use it on Twitter. Yeah, yeah. But it's true. I do use it mostly with Facebook properties. So as long as they are not going to snatch stuff away, I think that people are going to be upset right now. But after time, they won't care because they still use it like they've always used it. I mean, a lot of this people going like, Giffy, isn't it like sort of fun animated Gifs? Yeah, in many ways it is. And then I've also seen, especially from particular news outlets today, like, well, Facebook's taken over your keyboard now. What are you going to do about that? And it's sort of like, like, is this really the acquisition that would make us say this? Yeah, I don't consider Giffy as an integral part of my keyboard. I guess there are plenty of situations where you've got Giff integration, if you've got the Giffy app in iOS or Android integrated. But how many Facebook things are also integrated with the keyboard somehow?  And maybe Giffy deserves some antitrust investigation, which sounds hilarious in retrospect. But I don't think that Facebook owning Giffy means they now control, I don't know, there's a line there. And it doesn't have to be a bad thing is what I'm trying to say. Yeah, yeah. So analyst Ming-Chi Kuo says Apple plans to launch a 10.8 inch iPad in the first half of 2020 and an eight and a half to nine inch iPad mini in the second half of 2020. Kuo also says tablets will have a low price point with up-to-date chips. Kuo also said that Apple's upcoming AR glasses will launch in 2022 at the earliest. However, YouTuber John Prosser claims that they will launch in March to June timeframe of 2021. They actually both could be right as the information says Apple is working on an AR headset for 2022 and an AR glasses set for 2023. All right, let's talk about augmented reality. First of all, I like the idea that we might be getting close to finally seeing what they've been working on. They've hired enough people, they just required next VR this week. Yeah, so you know they're working on something, and I'm very interested to see what it is. But I'm also kind of interested in industry veteran, longtime proven credible analyst whose predictions generally are spot on. Ming-Chi Kuo going up against the young up-and-comer YouTuber John Prosser over the date of the AR glasses, we will check back in March to June 2021 to see who will win this epic fight. Well, the thing is that, so Kuo is very, very, like he understands the supply chain and what might be on par, delayed, maybe brought to the forefront kind of thing like no other. However, John Prosser also says, I've seen these AR glasses. I've tried out at least a prototype and I like them. They're both going to be right. I'm assuming they're both going to be right. Something's going to come out shortly. Something's going to come out shortly after that. And they're both going to be able to say, see, I was right. So I am kind of excited to see what they're doing with AR. But also at the beginning, the story was the inexpensive iPads. I'm excited to see those because we were talking about this a little earlier. I believe that school is going to be different in the fall than it's ever been. So there's going to be a lot of remote learning. And these are devices that you probably can relatively easily get into the hands of school children to allow them to do their online learning. Because I think even if they aren't going to class, it's just going to be a level of disruption that we haven't seen where they're going to be doing a lot of work at home, maybe going every other day or something like that. And one day work from home, one day work in the classroom. So I think that these inexpensive iPads are going to go a long way to enabling those kind of efforts. Yeah. Quo saying that they will take the same approach as the iPhone SE makes sense. Upgrade the chips, but maybe keep the form factors simpler. These will be larger versions of affordable iPads. I think the 10.1 inch at $329 is maybe the cheapest one. I know $329 is the cheapest one they have. So will we see a $299 iPad between 8.5 to 9 inches there? It would be the largest iPad mini at 8.5 to 9 inches, I think, that they have done. So yeah, I think you're right. It may not be as splashy and flashy as an AR rumor, but it is the more impactful if you've got affordable iPads out there when more and more kids need access to that and in schools, too. In a post on the Chromium blog, Google announced it plans to block ads that use up to too many system resources. Google said this would impact 0.3% of ads that use 27% of network data taken by ads and 28% of CPU usage. Chrome would set a limit of four megabits of network data or 15 seconds of CPU usage in any 30 second period going forward or 60 seconds of total CPU usage and ads over that limit would show an error message advising that the user was seeing that because that is not showing because it was taken up too much space. The Chrome team will experiment with these features in the next few months with a plan to launch it in the stable Chrome channel in August. Man, yeah, I don't imagine anybody who isn't trying to do crypto mining in an ad is going to complain about this. I mean, 0.3% of ads using 27% of network data. That's crazy. 28% of CPU usage.  And you turn off scripts and suddenly it goes away. Like ads on their own, even legitimate ads build up those processes. And if you've got something that's just taking over way more resources, either through incompetence because it's just programmed badly or maliciousness, I don't think there's anybody who's going to say, I don't want that to go away, right? Yeah, Google knows that bad ads keep people from clicking on good ads that they're generally not bothered by. So if you've got an ad that's going to crash your system, the next ad that actually may have been something that was beneficial to you that you may have clicked on, you're just going to have an aversion to doing it. So this makes sense business sense for them to get that look out of their system so that they can continue to make money for every click on the ones that meet their criteria. Yeah, for sure. And also, Sarah, as you were saying, having a big, big blank space in the middle that had some Laura Mipson kind of text in the example they showed on venture.com that I saw, but just saying like, Hey, this ad was eating up your system resources. Can you imagine as a user being like, bummer, I really wanted it. But it's good to sort of know, I suppose. But when people are trying to bypass ads left and right for the most part, it seems like this is a call to whoever's making ads, bring down that data, or you're going to get you're going to bounce out of here. All right, some people may stay working from home. We talked earlier this week about Twitter saying that their folk can just stay working from home indefinitely unless they have a job that requires them to be on location. A Gartner survey back in April found that 74% of company CFOs expect at least some of their employees to remain permanent remote workers even after there's a vaccine for COVID-19. Wired reports some anecdotes box saying that they found their engineers push releases quicker working from home in their case and that reaching customers has been easier because you don't have to fly to meet them.  A startup called cul-de-sac has already given up its $25,000 a month San Francisco office space because they thought their workers became happier and more productive working from home. Not all companies are going to be able to take advantage of this. Apple is a very big example of having some security policies that mean they can't get a lot of things done and keep the security policy, especially when it comes to building hardware. So they are already planning to bring people back into the office later this month. If you do have to go back in the office too it's going to be different. According to a survey from commercial real estate company CBRE expect social distancing easily. 80% of the people they surveyed are going to do that. There will probably be some kind of face covering policy whether it's you have to have it on all the time or certain situations. Certainly there will be restrictions on visitors. Visitors may be banned entirely or just limited. Possibly employee health screenings. Some places will be doing fever checks and maybe some testing. TechCrunch reports that some country companies will even look at overhauling their air filtering and circulation. Implementing sensors that determine how many people are in a room to make sure that it's not over the new capacity. And putting markings on the floor to control movement around the office. Cameras might be up that monitor compliance. Some are even considering putting in robots to patrol the buildings and do cleaning like we've seen some robots doing with ultraviolet in hospitals. So I mean this is going to sound real obvious to say but no matter what even when we all come out of the lockdown as countries and cities are reopening around the world the office is going to be different. Very different. It's going to be very very different and I think that a lot of folks are not going to go back. But you know as this article is saying there's going to be some people who just the nature of their job requires them to be in an office so you're going to see a lot of differences in the way you used to work probably middle of March going back and how you will work let's say June going forward. It's just going to be a different beast of how you interact in an office. Well I think a lot of you know these the details about okay how will the office environment work okay to make everyone safe when we come back to it. In some cases okay well we're going to have to you know make sure you pull out some some deaths so that nobody's too close to each other. Maybe there's you know yeah staggered hours. All of that makes sense but there are also certain physical places where the company is going to be like you know what this is a wash. This is this let's close it down. Let's figure out where to open it up in the future. Not everybody's going to work from home. I mean in some cases maybe everybody will but most of the time let's reimagine this because you're not just going to like pull out an HVAC and be like well let's make everybody safer like in in many ways I think that open office office atmosphere is kind of maybe you know should have died a long time ago. I do imagine that especially for you folks out in California that outdoor meetings are going to be an all-time high in the second half of this year. Unless it's too hot right that would be that would be the only reason yeah that's that's a really good really good point. Companies are going to have to adapt in lots of different ways and and I think you're both right. It's going to be an evaluation case by case. Obviously Twitter is not going to have their data center employees working from home if they're meant to be swapping out RAM and stuff like that you need maintenance people on site so that's that's going to continue but where companies have the opportunity they probably will do a lot like cul-de-sac and say look it's twenty five thousand dollars a month for an eight person office in San Francisco that we now have to spend extra money to pandemic proof. We can't put as many people in that same amount of space as we used to. We can't we can't have you know the the same kind of situation as far as amenities that we used to. We have to safeguard food and all of the costs to adapt to that even you know just smaller costs like bringing in masks and everything maybe enough for company to stay. We'd rather spend that money helping people build up their their home work offices and you see that slack just increased their allotment from five hundred dollars to to an extra thousand so fifteen hundred dollars to help people build out their workspace at home. Twitter is giving people a thousand dollars as we mentioned earlier this week a lot of companies have that kind of stipend to say look the money we're saving on not running the office we're going to use some of that to help you build out your home office and then once you've done that I mean there aren't a whole lot of ongoing maintenance issues there. Maybe you give people a break on their cell phone or internet on an ongoing basis but a lot of companies are going to be doing a lot of cost analysis on that. I know Sarah you were talking about a friend of yours that that their workspace was essentially the size of a conference room and that's just not workable. Yeah exactly the idea of like well it was a conference room but a bunch of us were in there because that's where you know you could put the cubicles and it was is in in our previous world like I don't know it was you know close quarters now can't do it yeah cannot legally do it and that and I I know that a lot of people are sort of nodding to the fact that there were a lot of configurations that were bad in their first place bad for people you know bad for comforts bad for being able to you know stretch out and and feel comfortable so you know I hate to say like this is a good thing but imagining the physical workspace probably you know was what was a long time coming. I can tell you what I personally will not miss that that open workspace where everybody just was kind of sitting right on top of each other. There was no barriers you know I hated that you know I don't want to say it was a millennial thing because I think they hated it too but somebody thought it looked cute it looked good but uh but yeah that I won't be sad to see those go away it was supposed to be like we're all collaborating together there's no you know wells between us type thing that actually sucks people need privacy even at work yeah you can't force them into collaboration yeah that's for sure well I don't know maybe maybe uh if enough of these companies move people to work from home reduce their office space usage the price of offices go down and then the companies that do need to bring people into the office uh well we'll be able to save some money on that and and possibly provide better benefits better pay uh for people as well hey if you want to get all the tech headlines each day in about five minutes be sure to subscribe to dailytechheadlines.com tech crunches Danny Crichton puts it this way China wants to build and grow while America wants to design and buy that's why the two have to work with each other but there is a dispute going on to try to get the upper hand in that relationship that these two countries find themselves in and over the past 24 to 48 hours we've had several developments impacting that the first the U.S. has extended a temporary license that lets some U.S. companies usually rural ISPs continue to do business with Huawei to support equipment that they had already bought that is now extended through August 13th but the Department of Commerce has said this is the last extension you need to figure your stuff out so that you don't need to work with Huawei after August 13th the U.S. Department of Commerce also has increased restrictions of what can be traded with Huawei in its words and this is not mincing any words this is from the Department of Commerce announcement to strategically target Huawei's acquisition of semiconductors they're calling acquiring semiconductors from non-us companies a loophole so the new rules require any company foreign company that uses us chip making equipment to obtain a U.S. license before supplying certain chips to Huawei or its affiliates while we will need to obtain a license to receive certain semiconductors and use certain designs if you're wondering how they can get away with that well most chip manufacturers worldwide rely on equipment produced by U.S. companies the foundries may be in Taiwan or Vietnam or China but the companies like applied materials lamb research and KLA that make the equipment used in those foundries are in the United States China of course not happy with this is now once again saying they're considering putting U.S. companies on its unreliable entity list China has said this previously before there was a simmering down of this relationship there was an agreement that is still in place that was supposed to kind of calm all this China now says it could launch investigations into Apple Cisco and Qualcomm and might suspend purchase of Boeing airplanes again they're saying this they haven't done it yet they didn't do it last time we'll see what happens this time one of the companies caught up and this is TSMC TSMC is a Taiwanese company they have a lot of factories in China and they get a lot of equipment and design from the United States so they would be one of the companies that would have to stop supplying Huawei if they couldn't get a license interestingly Taiwan's TSMC just announced a deal with the U.S. government to build a factory in Arizona to make five nanometer chips thanks to what it calls forward-looking investment policies from state and U.S. governments in the past TSMC has said they'd need subsidies they're not coming out and saying they're getting subsidies but they're certainly getting some kind of assistance from the state of Arizona and the U.S. federal government now TSMC you may be forgiven for not realizing already operates a foundry in the U.S. state of Washington in the town of commas and has design centers in Austin and San Jose so they're TSMC is not new to the United States but building a five nanometer chip plant in the United States is a big deal that that is probably the most significant of their developments in the country the Arizona plant will not start production of chips until 2024 so this is not something that's going to start bringing chips to U.S. to U.S. assemblers right away but there's a lot of moves by the U.S. in this trade dispute specifically in the tech sector to try to strangle Huawei and whether this is being done to force China's hand in the broader trade conversation whether it's just punitive to try to drive Huawei out of business because the United States government has made it very clear that they do not trust Huawei. It's you know it's up to you to kind of decide what you believe but the fact of the matter is they are putting the pressure not only on Huawei at the supply source with semiconductors but also putting the pressure on the entire Chinese system by going after some of its biggest contributors in TSMC. Well I know a lot of folks who have listened to our coverage of this as of late depending on the company is like okay well Apple's moving some chip production into Vietnam from China or you know there's some U.S. production that seems to be lined up even if it's in 2024 at least we're going in the right direction right like is that is that the is that the call is that the call right now to if the U.S. and China are are involved in a trade war for the foreseeable future do you get just get things out of China? Yeah that's a good question certainly it's a part of it a larger part of it right now is the the supply chain disruption that happened because of COVID-19 when China shut down its factories in February and companies realized that they had a lot more of their supply coming from one location so I think that is the the near-term instigator but but certainly that background of a trade dispute was part of this I don't know the TSMC thing seems to be more of a carrot in that situation of like hey here's another reason we might want to look elsewhere maybe we can get the U.S. to give us a break on taxes like TSMC got the Huawei thing is very specific to Huawei though I don't I don't know that that really has any effect on why what companies Apple would pick that that would be the more the wider trade war and the trade restrictions that that involve things beyond just Huawei because there's there's sort of two aspects of that going on. Yeah I think that you know you kind of hit it on the you know the nail on the head there that it's just kind of two things happening at the same time TSMC was probably doing this regardless of whether or not the pandemic happened but also the pandemic is showing that we might want to do a little bit more of this because we are so dependent you know on getting stuff from elsewhere so you know one of the things is that you know you can't just throw a foundry up in a couple of months these things take years not not just to build the building and get the you know get the hardware and get the processing correct but you've got to train the workforce that's actually going to do it so these are decisions that have been thought long and hard about but I would not be shocked if we see you know another company or two or three or more this I am if we can get a tax break let's see if we can't build something in the States might be beneficial to us joining the conversation in our discord if you've got thoughts on this or anything else you can join by linking to a patreon account at patreon.com slash dtns all right let's check out the mailbag oh let's do it Mike from what does even matter because I'm inside right says you're talking about tech firms potentially looking at hiring or incentivizing people outside of the Bay Area had me thinking I'm surprised they haven't done this yet Mike says the federal workforce is spread out all over the world and 100k doesn't go as far as everywhere depending on where you live that's why they include locality pay on top of base pay depending on where you live that said I would not encourage tech firms to use the federal model the cost of living is calculated on housing groceries utilities fuel etc this seems logical but in Washington a one bedroom condo is what a couple might do expect to live in versus Omaha where it might be a two bedroom home parking in large cities very expensive sometimes rare making suburban living a different commute all together groceries are a nice basis but if you're a senior professional the expense of small luxuries like going out to a restaurant should also be considered yeah this is interesting so I like Mike saying hey what we do works which is there's a base pay for a role but there's locality pay if you live in an especially expensive area and that seems to make sense but Mike also is saying but don't calculate that the way we do because it doesn't always fit the location and that's that's a good piece of information there as well thank you Mike and thanks to our patrons at our master and grand master levels including Philip less Frederick Frederick Huebner and James P. 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It serves in such a small space and I can see even further architectures will even get even higher density on this right here. You're talking about the need to do quite a bit of different efficiencies all the way down to, once again, storage level, the IO level at the NIC level, the way that you interface, you know, through the SATA interfaces to the hard drives or to solid-state storage, how do you optimize your solid-state storage for maximum input output? You know, how do you go ahead and set up your different tables in the storage so that all can take advantage of this architecture, but require some changes in the software stacks. So we're going to need to be able to work together on that. So you mentioned, obviously, it's a changing mindset different. Yeah, I think differently. Obviously, Paul was talking about how cloud computing is becoming more the norm for IT and IT as a service in particular. Yes. How is the partner program going to address those new things? We also heard from Linux, you mentioned those guys. And they're talking about how Linux moved from the boxes to more of a systems approach. What's going to change in the partnership program for you guys? Anything different? Any different approaches you're taking? Well, I think the big change is we are fairly simple and straightforward from the standpoint of the Solution Builder program where we had either hardware available to go to your site at a, you know, either a discount rate or available to you. Or you could go ahead and dial in. That part is similar. Except the fact it was basically how does your stuff work on there and do you want to make some tweaks or tweaks to it? Tweaks, not tweets. Tweets. We tweet. We're tweeting. We do tweets. You tweet, we tweet. That's easy for you to say. Say that 10 times fast. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, no, I think I'll pass on that. In this particular case, so the fact that we have this lab and we're focused on collaboration. So in the previous program, you could be part of the program and your stuff works. You make some adjustments to it. It's all great. Here we actually want you, if you're a Pathfinder member, we want you actually to be able to be a participant in the lab working together with our customers and with other participants as well on running benchmarks, doing experiments, making adjustments, changing things. We'd like you to be there available for doing training of your software stack to customers. We'd like for you to work with other folks and be able to create different kinds of stacks that can solve different kinds of computing problems that will work both for if you're a large service provider or if you're an enterprise. What do you see as the mindset of a successful partner? Because obviously, as you mentioned, those factors do make a difference. There's a little more collaboration involved. What's the profile of a partner? I mean, as people out there trying to make business, there's a lot of business stuff, even like we're broadcasting on Justin.tv. They have pretty big back-end storage and they're running at scale and other companies out there might have developers. What would you share with folks out there about how to be a successful partner in this new world? Do they have to organize their business differently, different hiring criteria? What's the disruption and opportunity you've seen there? Well, I think the disruption or the opportunity, I think a lot of us are seeing, feeling, reading about, is just the sheer scale of this kind of compute. I mean, I think that for a lot of us in the technology world who are maybe kind of geeky and my wife gets very annoyed with me with how many phones I like to buy and play with. It's the problem. I see no problem with that. She seems to see an issue with that, but I don't. And everything like that. We see where all this is just starting to go. But I mean, as Paul said, the numbers of folks who will have smart phones who'll be uploading, downloading information, creating information, the kinds of services we haven't even imagined yet. I mean, the number of applications I have, which include all sorts of different types of cloud-based services, it's just starting out. That's going to just be immense. So there's terrific, huge opportunities for ourselves, for partners, for service providers, for people that are going to provide services on how you put all this stuff together for all sorts of companies.  But there's another whole tier below that of very smart new companies starting out here in other places around the world where this is just going to take off. And so for the folks who are going to be providing the hardware, for folks who are going to be providing the software stacks, the services, the opportunity to come to our lab, to be part of our program to collaborate and create the next stage of this environment, I think it's just absolutely huge for everybody. So how do you prioritize and what's the pitch to the partners? How do you target them and what's in it for me pitch? Well, I think first of all, a lot of them are going to get a hold of us once they hear about this because they're going to see the opportunity. And we also know folks that we're reaching out to as well that we think have a lot of value in this space. They either show that from their technology standpoint, from a market presence standpoint, from a skills capability that we would want to have part of this to solve particular set of issues that we see need to be solved. You can't handle 300 tomorrow, right? Well, yeah, I mean, as you said, that inbox would get filled up quite a bit and we're going to be opening the lab in the first quarter of 2012 and have the development platform. So I think, you know, that's kind of somewhat of our getting things going really big with this. But we're already going to be starting to bring people in on this and get this all prepared. As you guys build it out as other incentives, there's going to be like a co-op program and Intel has been very famous in the old days, the old Intel inside where they had some little reimbursements. Is it going to be something similar that you guys are looking at in terms of supporting folks? I mean, some of them might be emerging startups like we heard the armed guys talking about their work and with people, they're like, well, if you look back at what we do at Solution Builder Program, we did a lot of joint promotion of that. So we did things like, if we were at a conference or a trade show, we made sure that in our own booth that we would go ahead and say, when you go out around this environment or this event here, you know, look for folks who have this particular insignia, the HPE Solution Builder Program. And in each one of those booths, we worked really hard to either have our equipment. There are some other information that we managed everything that tied it all together. And the idea was, you know, not only joint promotion, which is good for us, good for those third parties, good for customers because then they had some assurance that, you know, someone had tried this software before in this environment, it actually works. And that was part of what we, you know, the value proposition for customers. Is that somebody had actually, you know, plugged in and saw what happened once. So, you know, I would expect that while we are still in the process of rolling this out that we would be doing the exact same thing in this program here, you know, joint promotion, joint, you know, information so that people have some level assurance that if someone's kind of got like, you know, the tourist sticker. So we really tell them, but if they get the good, if they get the, hopefully not violating trade marks here, but if they get the good housekeeping, you know, label and everything, customers will have, and that will be a benefit for customers and for all of us that there's been some level of collaboration testing. And this is, you know, a good set of tools to work with this environment. How global is the team? Is it primarily concentrated, at least in the early days in the U.S., or is it a worldwide initiative? Well, it's a worldwide initiative. We drive a lot of worldwide initiatives out of Houston. That's where a lot of this work is going on right now and that's where a lot of the folks are, but just like we did with Solution Builder, as we got the program up and going, we added more people to the team. You know, we're in, you know, well over 140 countries around the world, so we have people in our different regions. Right. And then all those regions are important. You know, be here in America, be it in EMEA, be it in Asia Pacific, Japan, True, but I mean, a lot of the leverage points that you're going to get are going to be out of, you know, local companies that talk about the Hadoop ecosystem. It's a lot of local guys, local being, you know, United States. And right here. And right here in California. Yes, yes, yes. Sort of the episode for you guys, too. And it's early for you guys, too. So you're putting it all together. You're probably listening to these guys more to find out what their needs are. Right? Yeah, and we'll be bringing them into the laboratory there, the labs and getting the things up and running. And we've already got a lot of details on behind the program already that we're already sharing with folks and making adjustments and feedback on that as well. So we always want to make it better. My final question before we bring on the next guest, Dwight, we'll talk more about some of the technology, CTO-like conversation is, where do you want to be next year? So looking back on this announcement, Moonshot, great name because we've heard it's been a journey beginning, not the checkered flag, it's the green flag getting it going. What do you want to be in a year from now in terms of the program? What do you envision success being? Well, I think from the HP Pathfinder program standpoint, we'll be well over a hundred, if not in the hundreds by that time. We'll actually have certainly some of the key leaders who are very actively involved with the HP Discovery Lab. Actually, by that time, we'll have the first commercial offerings rolling out. People will be actually getting their feet wet with this. Seeing how it scales and actually starting to apply it for real life problems as all this really begins to take off. And even then, we'll still be early, as you said, the green flag, everything will be early in the race to use that analogy there. But we should actually be at that point, everyone should be up at speed at that point. Okay. Mike Kendall, manager of the partner program here for Pathfinder. Great to have you on the queue. Appreciate your time. Great. I'm going to go ahead and check that inbox, too. See how we're doing. I really appreciate that. All right. They're lined up around the corner.


All right, here's another story I wanted to cover today. It's a little complicated because it's a very mixed story. But I don't know if you saw the video of this Columbia University student, a physics student, who was taped and the video went viral yelling and screaming these white supremacist rants about how, you know, and they are white supremacists. He talked about how proud he was of being white and whites that changed the world.   And, you know, we, again, white people invented science and industry. And you went to tell us to stop because, oh, my God, we're so bad. And he goes on and on and on. I mean, on and on for a couple of minutes in the video. I'm not sure how long the video is exactly. With this rant and he's jumping up and down and he's obviously very excited and so on. And it's really, I mean, I have to say it's horrible and it's inexcusable and it's wrong and it's offensive and all of that. But what's emitted from the video is the context, is the context. And the context is just as vile, right? And the context is at least according to him, right? So he has come up with a public statement which is interesting because nobody else is carrying this. I've tried to look for it. I found it in a couple of news sources. One, it disappeared. It was listed but then I can't find it. His name is Von Ebbel and he's supposed to be a real, a brilliant, what do you call it, a physics student.   And the whole idea that a male can't comment on women and if you're white you can't comment on somebody who's not white and that everybody is categorized based on these intersectionality categories. I find offensive and disgusting and you know, now the reaction to that should never be racism, right? The reaction to racism should never be racism.  No, do I subscribe to any views that support that ideology. I unequivocally denounce all groups that support racism. Good. And he says my reaction that evening grew out of my distaste for the overuse of the term white privilege and similar divisive rhetoric as a means of dismissing views of others. Now, you know, I think the fact that it's divisive is the least of our problems. But I get that he was angry.  I am too and I'm told that all my views are the consequence of my white privilege all the time.  And it's okay to get really, really mad and yell at people. As long as you don't yell back at them equally disgusting things. You my boy did not create Western civilization. You my boy have nothing to do with science technology and everything that has to do with civilization. You didn't do it. You didn't build a modern world. People who maybe look a little bit like you did. Who cares? You didn't. Don't take credit for something you didn't do. You didn't invent the modern world. You didn't build modern civilization. The fact that somebody else had the same color skin as you did is irrelevant to anything.  Yes, get furious when you're told that you should not be able to comment on issues because of the color of your skin or because of your gender. Yes, you should get angry.  Yes, you should argue against that point of view. But to argue against that point of view from the perspective of racism, from the perspective of collectivism and tribalism, makes you as bad as them, makes you as bad as them. Now, I think the fact, I think the fact that the media is so selective in terms of what they published and they haven't published the whole story and that they don't publish the occurrences of racism from the other side, that they're not offended by the idea of white privilege and the constant, the constant if you go on campuses and you go online and the constant barrage of attacks that are done in the name of white privilege and you can't discuss issues because of who you are and the color of your skin. The fact that the media and others don't recognize that as racism is a real problem.  This is the problem with the alt-right. The alt-right supposedly is offended by identity politics and the solution to identity politics is to embrace identity politics. That's disgusting. It's irrational. It doesn't make any sense. The color of your skin is an accidental insignificant feature of who you are. And you, by being white, do not share anything in achievements of other people who happen to be white, whether they're born with you right now or born in previous generations. Even if they were your ancestor, you don't share in their achievements. Even if you have a genetic link to them, you don't share in their achievements.


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The title of this module is kind of not very exact and precise what is going to be discussed in this module Why I use this title because as for the textbook timing and performance Timing over here means the time to generate the web page, not the timing of kind of synchronization or when what is required to happen And of course performance is the response So when let's look at the what we'll be covering over here Timing and performance, transaction processing and data and nothing but the data Now one thing is obvious that once you are generating dynamically a web page It is likely to take more time. It is likely to take more computing resources Because the process of page generation has been automated Now the old timers who are used to hand coding the web page they say oh I we told you it takes more time It takes time but the overall time taken is less The experience of a dynamic page the feel is much more than that of a static page That's going to more detail It may take overall more time but the total time is less More is less More is less Interesting The feel of the dynamic page is tremendously more attracting and involving as compared to a static page A static page is better than non-graphics that is the difference over here That's the difference over here So obviously we are automating the process of page generation We need computing power but we have to play smart Instead of computing power we use the adaptations There are three different types of adaptations What the adaptations will do is that they will be accessing the database Without the user knowing that the database is being accessed to generate dynamic web page Without using a high power web server or a database server Of course the client has to be thin The processing is limited which is done at the client end So let's go into more detail A complexity of database driven website is less than the static ones Why? Because if I have to make a change in a dynamic database environment I only make a change at one place And then that change is reflected whenever a new page is generated When I am using a hand coded page I am bound to make mistakes I am bound to make typing errors I am bound to overlook things I am bound to make mistakes, miss things So this automating is less complex Cost of required computing resources has been increased It is automated, that is why But in a cloud environment that cost is amortized It becomes economical Let's go into more detail Interface adaptations Why go for expensive hardware? When you can use the frames We have a frame which is covered in a web engineering course Or a web programming course And in that frame we have data coming from a database dynamically generated This certain static header also So while the dynamic page is generated That static header is displayed And while the user is reading that static header The dynamic page generation is complete within the frame Without using expensive hardware Redirections Redirections is that I type a URL or I click on something And the website has moved to other place And as I am taken to that other place From the old domain to the new domain During that time the dynamic page is generated And set the home page I have this intranet And people click on my home page And while my home page is being displayed Which has certain static things For example my name Which of course is static title department Which might be changing And while that is being displayed The dynamic content is also being generated And the page is being populated So these interface adaptations Don't require expensive hardware But they give good performance Kind of a feeling of good performance Okay Transaction processing What is transaction processing? Transaction processing is a collection of operations Which will go unstopped That is why it is atomic It either succeed or fails The purpose, the objective is that the data base Should be in a consistent stable state If it fails it rollbacks to the prior or initial state If it succeeds The change is becoming permanent Now this transaction processing Can be implemented at different levels You can specify the operations You can set the desired level And you can create your own transactions also Lots of flexibility over here But remember transaction processing is expensive Why? Because operations may be implemented twice Or even thrice Remember in the prior module I showed you how database programming works Remember the testings Remember the tests To multiple tests happening For the same thing So you have to be careful about Because this will hinder the performance This will degrade the performance And ensures commitment or rollback Of course commitment If it's successful rollback If it fails Evaluate the need for rollback If the rollback is not required You don't have to implement rollback Why make preparations? Why code something which is not going to happen? Because the rollback will always degrade performance Remember that you are going to retain your customers You are going to have happy customers If your application is running fast Right? And you have to make your application run fast The smart way Not the expensive way And remember data retrieval never require rollback You don't have to implement rollback in data retrieval Rollback is required Either you modify the data You insert the data Which is kind of modified and delete the data But if you are reading You don't have to implement rollback Because in reading there is no rollback And finally Data moving from HTML to databases People are populating the databases From the static data which is available on HTML And the converse is also happening Data moving from the databases to the HTML pages That is happening But remember one thing This happens or this happens Right? You enter the data into an HTML page is very easy The tradeoff is that maintaining is very expensive You enter the data in a database That takes slightly more effort But using SQL queries or other queries You can update, modify, delete the data Very effectively, very efficiently With rollback and commitment So you have to look at the long term benefits Versus the short term benefits And you should be always centered, focused Interested on data and nothing but the data That's the message of this module Thank you very much


Holy hell, you are watching the Daily Decrypt episode 35. I am your host, Amanda, and today's episode is brought to you by Nubits. Exchanged, BTCC is now offering priority confirmation times for Bitcoin users, even if that Bitcoin user doesn't include a transaction fee. BTCC also just so happens to run a mining pool, which controls 13% of the Bitcoin network's hash rate. So as a perk for their customers, Bitcoin users using BTCC will have their transaction submitted directly to this large mining pool for priority confirmation. So as long as Bitcoin's block size cap remains smaller than the demand for it, we may see other exchanges and mining pools compete with BTCC in this way. A user of the cryptocurrency subreddit is writing his senior thesis, and he has published this survey and he wants you to take it, and I want you to take it, help the students. They are going to come out with debt and useless diplomas. The least you can do is take their survey and help them write a good paper. The exchange, CCEDK, has begun selling crypto equity tokens themselves. These ones are called obits. This is following a small but growing trend of exchanges and really just productive enterprises in general issuing their own crypto equity tokens. You may remember that meta exchange sells meta fees and B&C exchange sells block shares. And they all have like separate ways in which they either pay dividends or offer buybacks or it varies. And to me this presents a sort of flash vision of the future in which a cryptocurrency and a crypto equity are no longer considered separate things, but rather the line between them becomes blurred and it's all just crypto tokens with people being incentivized to use the most useful and most profitable ones. Future alert! You heard it here first. The PERS merchants program has been launched in beta and there is early access available.  Early merchants there include Trezor, the bitcoin safe, ledger hardware wallet, and private internet access VPN among others.  Library is an alpha stage protocol right now which would make content viewable on URIs which are not HTTP but rather library specific URIs basically combining the functionality of BitTorrent with the incentives of bitcoin and the file storage capabilities of storage. Now they're looking for people to just try to download and use their alpha software which has to be done from the command line and so if you are comfortable with that and you're willing to just download it and tell them how it felt for you they'll give you a thousand library tokens. You just fill out a survey once you've completed the download process send it back to them and you get the bits. Dash has released an iOS app that is similar to Bitcoin's bread wallet and it includes the shapeshift API function for swapping currencies within your wallet and naturally Apple rejected it from their app store so Dash has released a version which you can compile yourself and you don't even have to jailbreak your iPhone to use it.  Today's episode has been brought to you by NewBits which is a wicked stable currency in that it has tracked almost exactly the value of the US dollar for over a year now. And NewBits offers a mobile wallet called the NewDroid wallet and with the shapeshift API you can convert your NewBits to Bitcoin on the spot and so of course use your NewBits to pay anywhere that accepts Bitcoin and this got me thinking of a perfect conversation starter you can ask these merchants hey by the way are you gonna sell off your Bitcoin as soon as I send it to you and if they are you can say did you know you don't have to sell your Bitcoin to maintain the exact dollar value that I'm paying you today? Save yourself the bank fees and the payment processing fees and just convert your Bitcoins to NewBits and then you don't have to worry about volatility they might just give you that beer for free. Visit newbits.com to learn more. Hey why don't you leave a comment below? I like them.


This paper presents a comprehensive review of artificial intelligence, AI, applications and dermatology, focusing on methodology, AI models for various skin diseases, limitations and future opportunities. The current image-based models are being implemented across disease subsets, but challenges exist for widespread adoption. The future of AI and dermatology may involve large-language and multimodal models, emphasizing the need for responsible, fair and equitable models. This article was authored by Jessida Funney, AOMI, Haiwen Gui, Roxana Dainch-Chu and others.


Hello, I'm Jenny Leckie. Today we will be exploring Synth and Adobe Spark. They are web apps that can be used to encourage mindfulness and student voice in the classroom. Before we get started, don't forget to subscribe and hit that bell to enable notifications for our channel by clicking our logo during the video. Also, leave us a comment or check out our related videos by clicking the pop-up cards in the upper right corner. Here's how to get started with Synth. Synth is a wonderful tool for including podcasting in the classroom. You can use the web-based version or the Apple version. Let's get started. When you first log in and it'll go to your feed, at the top you can click explore and you can check out all different types of podcasts. The main place you'll hang out is the podcast tab. So on this tab is where you'll find your collection of podcast stations. So what you do first is create a station and then within that you can share a link to give to students to record episodes. Let's create a podcast. Click the red button, give it a title, and then at the bottom right hit start podcast. There are website links and also embed codes if you'd like to put it on a website, ways to share it with students. And here's your podcast. So now you'd share this link and students would come to this page but there aren't any episodes created. All you need to do is hit the plus sign on the right side. This is what students would do. They'd click this and they'd hit start and they just record their audio. It gives them a timer and this really helps them to be mindful with what they're saying and creating. It makes them be concise and precise with their word choice. Once they're done they hit stop. You can preview by hitting play or you can hit record and add more content. Once you feel you're done at the bottom hit done and it processes it. You can preview it. You can also add music and sound effects. Hit next, give it a title. You can organize by hashtags of chosen and hit next and you're done. Hit send and it creates a specific webpage just for that episode. So this is the page that students will see once it's published. You can play right on the website or hit the share button and there's many options here including downloading the option. A neat tool that is included is creating a thread. So students can create a digital conversation by clicking and responding to what the students said. They can also type comments. So this is a great way to create a mindful digital conversation as well as showcasing student work. Adobe Spark is another great tool for using student voice and mindfulness in the classroom. This lets you narrate any kind of visual product. It can be created in the program or ahead of time. So the first place to start is start now and sign up using your Google account. Once you logged in, this is the home screen. I want to take you to some of the templates. There are all types of content that you can create. It really opens the door to your student's imagination and self-expression. Maybe they create a piece of content for your class YouTube station. Maybe they create a graphic for your class Instagram or maybe it's content for the classroom. The possibilities are endless. There's an entire section just for teaching. So students can use these templates or they can venture out on their own. On the home screen you can access projects here on the left hand side. As you can see there are already a set of projects. Let's go into one that I've already created. As you can see on the bottom there are a variety of slides and when you click on the slides you can see there's a recorded narration. To record and add additional audio all you have to do is hit the record slide. So that way students can create a slide and tell you what they were thinking about in that moment. At any time students can hit preview at the top or play at the side and check out what it looks like so far. After you're satisfied with your product you can hit share or you can download it to your device. This is a great way for students to use their voice to show the world their understanding of content and to show their mastery of skills. Plus it allows them to have an expanded audience. Thanks so much for watching. Be sure to like comment or reply to one of our other videos or share the playlist below. Subscribe to our channel and enable notifications so you don't miss out on the next episode. Don't forget to check out our other resources like this cast podcast and see what else is going on at Ori County Schools. Be sure to follow at Dear Dis is on social media or contact us via email or our blog.


Women from refugee background living in high income countries have been shown to be at greater risk of developing mental health issues due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This is because they already have a higher prevalence of mental disorders, trauma exposure, and social adversity before the pandemic, which makes them more vulnerable to its effects. The pandemic has exacerbated these existing conditions, leading to increased rates of depression, post-traumatic stress disorder, separation anxiety disorder, and persistent complicated bereavement disorder among refugees. Additionally, material hardships caused by the pandemic have also been linked to increased rates of mental health issues among refugees. This article was authored by Susan J. Rees, Muhammad Mohsen, Alvin Kuwaitay, and others.


Moving to section 8A, Faustin squaring off with Winimac. Pick things up in set two early on. The Greyhounds were on top of their game. Lily Manakey pushes the ball cross court for the point. Then it's Taylor Crainings' turn. She delivers the kill to give Faustin the one point lead. But it would be the Patriots' night. Elena Espa-Seth comes up with one kill here and then another right here to push the Winimac lead to four. The Patriots would take set 225 to 22, take the two set to none advantage, and they'd win in three over Faustin, three to zero. If you've enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News, please consider making a tax-deductible contribution to Lakeland Public Television.


What's going on guys? Welcome to a new video. So today I'm going to be discussing whether you should start a dropship of business in 2021. Obviously, we've kind of come into the end of COVID. There is some light at the end of the tunnel. Things like shipping times and things like that are reducing down and we're returning to some normality. Obviously, there's been some big changes since Brexit too with the VAT rules and that. So people, there seems to be some confusion around whether dropshipping is still a viable business. So in this video, I've made a list of all the kind of most popular questions. So I keep getting asked and I'm just going to run through them now to kind of answer them and hopefully help you make that decision then, whether you want to take that risk of starting a business in 2021 dropshipping on Shopify. So the first point that I want to address is one of the most popular, probably the most popular question factor to get asked all the time is dropshipping easy. And it's really easy question to answer and it's just kind of it's a flat no. So it's not an easy business, but it is a low risk business. And I think people often get the too confused. So if you think that by starting a dropshipping business and getting a Shopify store up and running within space for a couple of days, sticking a load of AliExpress plastic rubbish on there and then running some Facebook ad campaigns and expecting to see some money in return, that's not going to be the case. You're not going to be able to make money doing that. Maybe four or five years ago, then, yes, you probably would have been able to. I did. I sold some pretty cheap rubbish products back in the day, but things have changed in terms of how competitive Facebook ads are. And I think just in general, the consumers have become a bit more savvy into what a professional site actually looks like. The next video in which I'm going to be uploading tomorrow will be kind of like the three keys to every successful Shopify store in which I'll go into more detail on those things. So if you want to see that, make sure you hit that subscribe button now. Going back to the question in hand then, then, no, it's not an easy business. If you think that you can make ten grand in your first month, yes, it is possible 100 percent, but it's unrealistic. If you're a complete beginner and building a Shopify site is brand new to you, running Facebook ad campaigns is brand new to you, picking products is brand new to you. Then to expect to make that sort of money in your first month is completely unrealistic. If you're essentially starting from scratch and this is 100 percent new to you, then I wouldn't even worry about the first three months of being in business and making a single penny. I would just kind of dip your toes in, start by running some Facebook ad campaigns on really small budgets of two, three pounds a day, get all your mistakes out of the way, learn everything there is to learn in that first three months and then start to ramp it up, especially if you're thinking about starting a business in the next few months. It gives you plenty of time to get your site looking really crisp, really professional, gives you plenty of time to test products and then capitalise on Q4. So personally, I think Q4 in 2021 this year is going to be absolutely ridiculous. Obviously, because of last year with most people being furloughed, not being able to see family on their birthdays and at Christmas and kind of special occasions as people go back to work and the furlough scheme ends, more people have got more money in their pockets and they're making up for that lost time. I think the amount of money spent online is going to increase dramatically this year. So in my opinion, between now and the course of the next few months, it's probably the most ideal time to be starting to drop shipping business because shipping times have come drastically down. They've become a lot cheaper, too. So six months ago, if you wanted to get something sent from AliExpress to the UK, so China to the UK via AliExpress, then if you could get two weeks, then I would say you were probably quite lucky. But as things stand now, things have improved quite a lot. You can consistently get things only two weeks and around a week, depending on who you're using, what kind of shipping methods you're using. I know CJ has been pretty reliable throughout as well from what I've heard from some of the members of the academy. And recently, through the kind of samples I've ordered through them myself, you're looking at about seven to ten days China to the UK, which isn't bad at all. So if you are wondering about whether drop shipping China to the UK is still viable or not, then 100 percent, yes, it is. Now, the flip side of that is the VAT rules have changed. The point at which VAT is charged and the amount of VAT is charged or the value in which it's charged on, sorry, has changed, which there are some good and bad points to it. I'll give you a couple now in this video, but there is there will be a separate video. It's quite an important topic. Everything needs to be kind of explained really slowly and clearly to make sure I put across the right information for the right reasons. Obviously, so there will be a separate video on that. But basically, the bad part of it is we have to pay more taxes, more VAT on the products we bring in if we drop shipping from China to UK. There are lots and lots of different workarounds, by the way, in which you can use to take advantage and actually make your business more profitable. But then the flip side, one positive aspect to this is where we were kind of restricted to products 15 pounds and under before Brexit. It really limited the kind of quality and the profit margins we could make because if you were buying something for 10 pounds, then you can only sell that realistically up to about maybe 30, 40, even 50 pounds. But now, because it doesn't matter and VAT is charged on everything, we can buy something for 30 pounds and drop ship it for 100, 120 pounds. Obviously, so the profit margin is going to be a lot higher and there's a lot more money to make if you do it in the right way. But like I said, there will be a separate video that goes into a ton more detail on this particular topic. The next positive to consider if you are thinking about starting a drop shipping business in the next couple of months is there's going to be lots of new trends following as we come out of lockdown here in the UK. I touched on this briefly earlier on in the video, but think about all the sorts of things people haven't been able to do like birthday parties, go out to the pub, go to nightclubs. When nightclubs open, people are going to be going absolutely crazy, spending their money on things which they otherwise wouldn't have or they're going to be spending more money on those things. And if you can kind of take some time to think about it and use the tools available online like Google Trends and kind of just apply some common sense to what people are now going to start buying.  But as soon as people are allowed to go out and kind of socialize and interact with other people, then obviously the sorts of things, the sorts of products they buy is going to change drastically. And with that being said, then guys, I'll go through a quick recap now. There's no need to make this video crazy, crazy long. So I'm just going to touch on the points just to kind of reiterate them once I've already gone through. So number one, drop shipping is not easy. It hasn't been for many years now. I don't want you to come into this with false expectations. It's good to have big expectations and have big goals, but it needs to be realistic to how quickly you can achieve them. Realistically, try not to think about making any money in the first three months. I'm not saying that's completely impossible. Don't come away from this video thinking in the first three months. I'm not going to make a penny because that's not the case. There's people in the Academy who have gone through the content, applied it super quickly because they've had lots of times on their hand and they've been able to make 5, 10 K in the first three or four weeks because they've had that structure and that plan to follow. And they get that support from myself and the Academy team to kind of point them in the right direction. But if you're a complete beginner, start from scratch, start from refresh, then without that sort of step by step guidance and support, then it's completely unrealistic. So just make sure you take your time, make all your mistakes, spend in £2 a day rather than 20 or 30 or even £200 a day on Facebook ads because mistakes are going to happen. It's guaranteed, as with anything, you always make mistakes until you get better at something. Point number two, e-commerce is going to be absolutely huge. It continues to grow year on year. Covid has kind of accelerated that.  And they're going to be making up for lost time, buying bigger and better birthday presents, holiday presents, Easter, Q4, Cyber Monday, Black Friday, Halloween, all those sorts of things. People are going to be spending more as long as you pick it in the right trend. Now, don't go out there and try and sell home fitness gear as an example, because in the UK, this is as the gym started to open up, more and more people are going to be dying to get out of the house and join a gym. So home fitness workout gear is kind of like a dying trend at this point, unless you're thinking about building a brand and doing it long term. If that's your case, stick with what you're doing, put your head down, build the content out, have a content strategy and just build your following over time. And everything works if you do it for long enough and build that brand. But if you want to try and see those results immediately and straight away, then selling or trying to sell within a dying trend or in something that's kind of decreasing in popularity, then it's always going to be an uphill battle. Put in the three then, do your research, pick a trend that is going to spike in popularity as soon as certain kind of events happen. So for example, when festivals come back out, when nightclubs open, people are going to want to take pictures with their friends. So selfie lights and things like that. And then fourth and final point, which a lot of people are concerned about shipping times, shipping times have come down drastically. Yes, we're not part of the EU now. But I'm guessing that as soon as Boris kind of has the time to focus on other things, you'll start looking for trade deals and things like that with China and just kind of streamline in the whole process. Even if he doesn't then shipping times from China to the UK now less than two weeks consistently and typically around kind of seven to 10 days. And I believe they're the same when drop shipping to the US as well. And with that being said, guys, thanks for tuning in. Hope you enjoyed it. Hope I answered all your questions, but of course, not feel free to post them down below and I will see them and get back to you. One final thing then before you go, if you are looking for a program to kind of hold your hand through the whole process of building your store out, finding products and comes with full support and guidance from some from somebody who has experience like myself. Please do check out the ECOM Academy. It comes with all of that and more. There's loads and loads of new content always constantly being added. And there is a free callback service too. So if you want to hop on the phone with me, for example, and go through any questions or hesitations you have about joining beforehand, then we can get that arranged. Just check out the first link in the video description. Thanks again for watching and I'll see you in the next one.