There's Holland, and there's the Netherlands. Who are the Dutch? And everyone was like, I don't know. Holland is a part of the Netherlands. It's not the entire country. It's like saying the Midwest isn't all of you. But their interchange, the joke was like, that everyone's like, oh, are we talking about her? There was a joke, Roger. I'm sorry. And facts don't make it any funnier. Explaining the joke always makes it funnier. I think it was George's dad was asking about the chicken and hen.  The rooster. They're all, the rooster, they're all.  They're both chickens. It doesn't matter, dad. So, Nate, I don't know if you've been on since we started our innovation, which is discussing rooster sex. No, which is in our Google Doc, Roger has the ability to turn the very top of it yellow, kind of orangey yellow, or red. And the orangey yellow is, hey, we probably should wrap up our conversation and get ready to move on. And the red is, we're out of time on this one. Let's move on to the next thing. Orange typically means you got a minute or less to wrap it up. And then red is, you're done, move. So this is the key behind your incredible exact half hour daily programs. It's all Roger. Yeah. I've noticed it's very good. Precision. Precision. Yeah, yeah, yeah. DTNS instruments, we value precision. That's why we end the quote of Roger at every box. All right, are you guys ready? Yeah, I'm ready. Then let's get off. Oh, did you take that? I'm just gonna hang up. I'm just applying that call. We got work to do. I think I've been saying that to Len when his phone rings for like six years now. I never get tired of it. All right, here we go. Three, two. A Nikola show keeps you in the know. If you'd like to find out more, please go to dailytechnewshow.com slash support and find out how to keep us on the air. Thank you. This is the Daily Tech News for Friday, April 20th, 2018 from DTNS headquarters in Los Angeles. I'm Tom Merritt. I'm studio feline. I'm Sarah Lane. And from the Hack 5 Studio in Oakland, California, I'm Shannon Morse. And from the LA of the Midwest, I'm Len Peralta. That's what they call Cleveland. That's what they call Cleveland. They actually call LA the Cleveland of California. It's amazing. A lot of people don't realize it, right? Also joining us, very happy to have tech journalist at Bloomberg and editor there, Nate Langston joining us. How are you, Nate? I'm very well. Thank you, Tom, very well. How are you? You're looking great this Friday. Yeah, thank you for joining us. I know it's evening where you are on the weekend, no less. So thank you for sharing some of your tadpool-filled weekend with us. My pleasure. I hope it'll be worth it. Nate has a whole big pond full of tadpoles that is calling. I think that term is polywog. I'm sorry, polywogs. I forgot he is a Middle English speaker. Yeah, and I have a giant vivarium full of giant African land snails as well, but that's public for another day. All right, we are going to talk about co-bots. We'll explain what that is, but let's start with a few tech things you should know. Alibaba has bought chip maker, Hwangzo C-Sky Microsystems, a leading supplier of embedded CPU cores for Internet of Things devices. Alibaba said it was showing its commitment to the cloud-based IoT space. And during testimony in defense of the proposed acquisition of Time Warner, AT&T CEO Randall Stevenson mentioned an online TV service launching in the next few weeks. AT&T Watch will cost $15 a month to stream or be free for AT&T wireless subscribers. No word on what channels would be included, but it would not contain any sports. And Sharp announced it will expand sales of its 70-inch 8K TV. It's been on sale to whoever wants an 8K TV in Japan and China, but now Europeans can get it too, and it'll donate LV70X500E is the snappily named television, and it'll set you back 11,199 euros. That's about $13,000 US, delivering sometime by the end of April. Well, let's talk a little more about Apple. Are they having some problems, Shannon? Yeah, I would say they are. So the Wall Street Journal reports that Apple is having problems getting enough OLED displays from LG. An alternative supplier to Samsung for iPhone screens. While it may be true that Apple is cutting its supply orders with LG, it is unclear if this means an overall supply cut for iPhone production or just issues with LG's process. It's certainly issues with LG's process. There's been a lot of stories about LG not being able to get the yields that customers want for these OLED screens. They, Samsung supplies around 80% of them anyway, by most estimates. Nate, I'm curious.  Is the stuff about iPhones not selling well just FUD? And that's all this is, is an LG issue, or do you think there's something more here? I think the thing that's important to bear in mind is that phones have become such expensive pieces of equipment that people are hanging on to them for a longer period of time. We saw this with iPads for a different reason, that basically a first and second gen iPad was very, very good for several years. So the upgrade cycle was much less regular. And iPhones have got to this point where we've kind of hit peak iPhone where the new models are good, they're great, and there's certainly big improvements over, the people are quite happy hanging on to them because they now cost a thousand pounds or a thousand dollars for one of these devices. So the fact that people aren't buying them is probably not a reflection of people not being interested in them. It's just a case of, they've got to wait for that cycle to regenerate for them.  We'll see if they do better next time around or if Apple's gonna keep relying on Samsung. And just because Apple relies on Samsung doesn't mean Samsung can jack up the price. You know, there's still some pressure because they have LG there. So I think it's overblown what impact this has on iPhone price and iPhone sale. Apple tends to price their stuff whatever they want to price it anyway. It doesn't really matter how much it costs to make. Well, I mean, the fact that Apple and Samsung have beefed over various things over the years, it's the fact that the company would want to diversify its supply chain, manufacturing teams, you know, even if it wasn't like a personal thing is that's been ongoing for years now. Yeah, and it's also one of the reasons why Apple has been trying to bring more of its production in-house because more in-house it can do, whether that's R&D, whether that's, you know, actual manufacturing, you know, the better margins it can get, but also the less reliant on third parties and the supply chain it can be as well, which is, you know, key to keeping their margins high and their output, you know, as good as possible. Let's move on to some Google news that got lots of attention last night. The Verge reports that Google is working on a new messaging feature called chat. It will be the name of Google's Rich Communications Service or RCS messaging option. So it's really more of an update rather than a new protocol altogether. RCS is a standard meant to replace SMS or at least supplanted. Chat will appear in the Android Messages app. In addition, Google is pausing development on its messaging app, Allo. Yeah, nobody's talking about RCS or Android adopting RCS further as a standard. Everyone's talking about Google is getting rid of another messaging platform.  Well, to be honest, as an Android messenger or Android user myself, I never used Allo even though it's available on my Pixel XL. Personally, I don't use any of the Google Messenger options. I stick with Signal, which is encrypted and that's the biggest reason why I stick with Signal. Well, and one of the main complaints at least from people's first reactions to this news was that this is not end to end encrypted. And if Allo is going away and it's like what kind of what's the team doing over at Google that they would particularly know that people who care about those things and these days more than ever, that that would be a real sticking point for something that obviously they're putting so much effort into.  And given that there are so many competitors in that encrypted marketplace currently, why wouldn't they join that marketplace and why wouldn't they become a competitor? Well, RCS is like SMS in that it doesn't play well with end and encryption. So by implementing RCS as a standard, it makes it more difficult. Whereas iMessage, which is Apple's roll your own can be end and encrypted because Apple made it up with that would be the counter argument there is that because Google's sticking with the standard and putting their weight behind it, it makes it more difficult. And hey, SMS isn't encrypted either. So this isn't a replacement for WhatsApp or Signal. This is a replacement for SMS, which already is an end and encrypted. So if that was your concern, you probably weren't using SMS for those kinds of messages anyway. Right. Germany's Supreme Court has dismissed a case brought by publisher Axel Springer against IO over their product, Adblock Plus. You probably know them better as Adblock, right? The court found Adblock Plus was legal and overturned previous decisions that operating a whitelist was tantamount to unfair competition. Springer intends to take the case to Germany's constitutional court on the grounds that Adblockers violate press freedom by disrupting online media and their financial viability. So Nate, this feels like Springer was trying to say, hey, you can't do something that hurts our bottom line. And the court says, your bottom line isn't a company's concern. You can find other ways to fund yourself. Yeah. And it's been interesting to see the ones who can and that have managed to do that because it's the ones that can't, often the loudest at complaining that it's this fault or it's this fault. And I sometimes think when you look at online advertising, we still haven't really got past, a lot of publications haven't got past that point of extremely intrusive, full screen overlays and flashing banners that sort of feel like relics of the early 2000s and they're still there and they're still demanding attention. And so it's a chicken and egg, isn't it? It's like they won't move away from those until they know they've got a replacement for it but they can't have a replacement for it until enough people see their ads so they can afford to implement one. It's a real sort of cat and mouse situation, right? I mean, how do you feel, Shannon? Where do you fall on ad blocking? Should you never do it? Should you not do it but you should have the legal right to do it or should you totally just do it all the time? It's fine. I am a ad blocker myself, mostly because of security concerns because malvertising is still a thing and there's also the issues of cryptocurrency miners using advertising embedded on websites to steal your CPU usage. So there are those problems currently and we haven't really gotten past those quite yet. So I try to support people in other ways like for example, you're on Patreon and I'm on YouTube, so I have YouTube advertisements turned on like monetization but so I think it's okay to totally block advertisement as long as you're supporting creators in some other way. Yeah, I think I would start arguing for mindful ad blocking. Don't block ads at sites where you know they're good actors and you wanna support them but you should have the right to decide that I think. Well, moving on, Alienware has been showing off a gaming suite, Room 2425 at a Hilton in Panama City. It comes with an Alienware PC, Alienware laptop, a racing seat, Oculus Rift and Xbox One Elite along with immersive lighting that responds to gaming, a 65 inch 4K TV and surround sound for $349 a night. And I have officially decided where I wanna go for my next vacation. When I first heard the story, I was like, wait, they're showing off a new gaming rig at a room at a Hilton in Panama City? No, you stay at this room. Yeah, you experience this fun thing. Yeah, I mean, okay, it's very specific, but hey, if you're in the Panama City area or thinking about going, why not? I think this is- Do they have multiple rooms where they can have like a giant hotel wide LAN party sort of thing? Or is it just like one? That's pretty funny, it's only at room 2425. Yeah, it's just the one room, which unfortunately they gave out the room number so I know that I won't be tweeting from there whenever I stay there. Maybe it's code sort of the way that celebs check into hotels with funny names. It's like, there's no room 2425, let's you know. I'll just say brilliant publicity stunt. It is. Alienware, good job. Kind of sounds like- You do not wanna take a shower in a shower that has a frosted Alienware logo on it. I'm just saying. Even if it had been cleaned thoroughly? Yeah, well, I'm assuming it's cleaned thoroughly. If it's not cleaned thoroughly, that's just- You just have an issue with- Yeah. I just don't want to use it. That's too much. At block that. Everywhere, like on the strip that the toilet has been cleaned, don't need an Alienware logo on it. Well, Shannon, you and I will take a little trip down to Florida. All right, I'm down. During two days of testimony before the US Congress, this month, Senator Lindsey Graham quoted a line from the first page of Facebook's Terms of Service and said, I'm a lawyer and I have no idea what this means, to which Zuck replied, I don't think the average person likely reads that whole document. GDPR is supposed to address all of this confusion in Europe beginning in May and calls for fines as high as 4% of a company's global revenue for violations, which will make it tougher to get away with really long user agreements that people don't read and or understand. Nate Clanson, you just wrote about this for Bloomberg, thought that this would be a nice teen off point for you to explain, how do people feel about this in your neck of the woods and how will this change things, if at all? Well, that's one of the interesting things is that a lot of the conversation around GDPR, which stands for General Data Protection Regulation, they sort of think that because it's been enacted and enforced in Europe, that it only affects European companies and it's completely untrue. It only affects European citizens, but it affects global companies. So companies like Facebook, I mean, any company that has more than 250 employees has to be GDPR compliant and there's a whole load of regulation that goes with it. The issue with this specific to Terms and Conditions and there's an interesting backstory to how this story came about that we've probably not got time for, but ask me about that at some other point. Essentially, you look at a company like PayPal. Okay, if you go into the UK, you go to PayPal's Terms and Conditions in Britain and it's about 60,000 words long today, 60,000. You know, to put that in context, it's longer than the Great Gatsby. It's twice as long as George Orwell's Animal Farm. It's one of the longest- This book right here, Paveria by Tom Merritt, is about 50,000 words long. Yeah, and it would take you at an average speed, even if you understood legalese, it would take you several hours to try and get through this. So part of the problem is, is that when you're signing up to one of these services, you have to give consent for your data to be processed. And often that's just a little check box and fine as long as you've ticked it, a company's legally sound. And the GDPR, you have to give informed consent. So it'll be no defense to say, oh, well, they checked this box. And so they knew what they were signing up for. They knew how the data would be handled because a court can just say, well, yeah, they did, but it was embedded in a 60,000-word document that even a lawyer can't understand. That's not good enough. That's grounds for a complaint being upheld. And it's hopefully gonna change the game across the board. The argument against this in the past was, well, how do you decide? Where is the line between saying it and saying it understandably? How is GDPR phrasing that? How is it making it so that you can clearly say to a court, you have to follow this guideline to decide whether it was clearly stated or not? Well, that's the interesting thing about GDPR is that it's worded in such a way that it's to get people to comply with the spirit of it rather than to try and say, well, this is exactly the precise wording here. So it's up to a court to basically interpret. Well, an average person have understood this. And the answer for loads of these terms of conditions is no, because nobody reads them. The CEO of the world's biggest social network says, in Congress and says, I don't think anyone really reads that document. That won't do. It just simply won't do because if you don't believe people can understand it, then how can they give informed consent? And if they aren't giving informed consent, how can you justify acting commercially with their data in ways that they don't even understand? It won't work anymore. Yeah, I mean, I think we've all been wanting this day to come and why it has taken so long. I don't understand, but terms of service that no one can be reasonably expected to have read because they are as long as a novel can't be enforceable. They just can't be, but they have been for so long. So I hope that this GDPR regulation plus the testimony from Facebook starts to push people into thinking seriously about like, hey, wait a minute, maybe we should all have more reasonable ways of making people aware of what the terms are. I mean, it's not that you shouldn't have terms. It's that your terms shouldn't be easily dismissable and then enforceable because most people don't know what they are. Well, and the next step of this is if a company, a large company like Facebook, for example, is like, oh, okay, we're gonna change some legal things around so that this applies to U.S. terms of service rather than Ireland's terms of service and other companies are able to follow suit and take advantage of loopholes that at least exist right now, then what does that mean? Then how enforceable is GDPR anyway? I mean, this is really frustrates me. Facebook changing people who aren't in Ireland to not be under Ireland's terms of service is not controversial. Nobody should be under Europe's laws except Europeans, but the positive aspect of GDPR is that because it's hard to change your system for just one region, we're going to benefit from the changes anyway because they're gonna happen mechanically. The thing we don't have in the U.S. is the ability to go to court and say, well, hold on, you're not doing it right. A European has to do that. So hopefully we'll actually catch up in the U.S. and come up with our own version of that. Folks, if you wanna get all the tech headlines each day in about five minutes, be sure to subscribe to Daily Tech Headlines at DailyTechHeadlines.com. You can also get it on the anchor app in the Google Home device or on the Amazon Echo. Makiko Yamazaki of Reuters has a story on collaborative robots or co-bots. A lot of times people complain that all we do is talk about Google, Facebook, Amazon, et cetera. Here's a whole industry that is doing really interesting things with their own titans that you probably haven't heard of and it's going to affect the way industry works. Cobots are smaller than traditional industrial robots. Traditional industrial robot heavyweights like Fanook, F-A-N-U-C, they're the apple of industrial robots. They've got a pile of cash that they're sitting on. Yaskawa is another one. They're trying to catch up now. They've been disrupted because they underestimated the demand for these small lightweight co-bots. Cobots are expected to grow several dozen times in the next decade, not in size, but in like market share. They're seen by many as a solution to labor shortages. We've talked about how there's labor shortages in warehouses and factories. Cobots don't take jobs. They actually help the existing laborers do their job more efficiently. KUKA, a German robotics firm, licensed the tech from the Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics in 2004. That kind of brought it into the mainstream. Denmark's Universal Robots, which has 60% of the global market of co-bots right now, introduced their co-bots in late 2008 in partnership with German automakers. Bosch followed into the market after that. And in Japan, one of the reasons that big companies have been lagging behind there is Japan had standards that prevented robots from being in contact with humans, which meant collaborative robots really weren't very practical. They relaxed those standards back in 2013. So now you've got robots, for instance, Nippon Flower Mills is using a Kawasaki Heavy Industries co-bot to season packaged food for convenience store sale. Shannon, I know you were looking into these and it's fascinating that we're going from the big arm that puts the rivets in the car to robots that are sitting there helping you season food. Yeah, it's totally disruptive. And even from the standpoint of like we used to have a warehouse here at Hack 5 and thinking about how if we grew to the point that we needed to buy this kind of technology, collaborative robots would be the perfect example of something that we could use because not only are they more lightweight and they can handle a lot of the lighter items that we would use around our warehouse, but they are also inexpensive. So a lot of startup companies and a lot of those smaller like mom and pop shops that have warehouses like local warehouses, they would be able to purchase these because they range anywhere between $10,000 to $35,000 or $45,000 as compared to those really big industrial robots which cost over $100,000 easily. And they're so much more safer. So you're not taking away jobs from local citizens that are living next to you. So it sounds like there's a ton of positives. So I'm wondering to myself, are there any negatives to these kind of robots because they seem so disruptive and I feel like we're gonna keep on seeing them getting bigger and bigger. I mean, I think one of the obvious things that people would say as well, but give a human that job, right? There are lots of people out of work, but there are labor shortages and a lot of that has to do with where warehouse is located, are there enough people in the area that can physically come to the warehouse every day, which is something that larger companies like Amazon are trying to figure out, where do you expand? So in that sense, in order to make a company be more efficient with the workers that do work there and can benefit from the fact that the company is successful or growing in success, this makes a lot of sense to me. And in Japan, you've got an aging population. So a lot of times you just don't have the workforce available for certain jobs because of that. There's a whole immigrant labor, not controversy, but conversation I guess happening in Japan around that and co-bots can help fill in the gaps there. I love discovering new arenas like this where you have like an entire new layout of incumbents that are being disrupted by the Danish firm is disrupting the longstanding Japanese robot firm because we sort of get stuck in thinking that everything happens in San Jose and San Francisco. And there's a lot going on in this space that is a wave of technology that is gonna have an effect on you because it's going to make things cheaper. I mean, you guys have been to Japan, right? Yeah. Convenience stores are insane there in the amount of convenient food that they have that's really good. And when I read this about the robot doing the seasoning, I'm like, oh my gosh, that's how they can afford to make that process cheap enough to put all that great food in those convenience stores. You could have a nice meal of an invented machine in the subway. It would end up, if they did it right, it could keep those costs down for consumers. And since there's such a huge demand in consumers, I'm like, that's a win-win for us as well. Yeah. There's another interesting angle to this is when I throw out there because I've been following this for a while now because historically we've had a lot of these kind of co-bots in the automotive industry because they were big and they had huge warehouses. And a lot of the problem was you couldn't get those sorts of things into smaller environments where they could fit and be useful. But it's increased the awareness, I think, that it runs the risk of causing injury to humans. So there's been research done to try and understand how you can teach a robot to know when it's hurting a human being. There've also been studies done to try and teach a robot how to feel pain. And there is like a robot out there. There was a story a while ago, I think, that showed that there was a robot now that existed that could feel pain. The idea being that if a robot was able to predict or sense that it might injuring a human, it could pull away. And that's something that a lot of machines can't necessarily do without just using sensors and just assuming that if there's only one inch of space between a robot and a wall, chances are the human's not exactly healthy. And I think we're gonna see more research on that as we get even closer to working with our robot companions and colleagues. Got a link to a YouTube video from the Hanover Mesa Conference in our show notes where a lot of the people demonstrating these co-bots there were emphasizing, these are soft, these are safe, these are not going to hurt you when they're working alongside of you because that is a huge concern. Thanks to everybody who participates in our subreddit. You can submit stories and vote on them at dailytechnewshow.reddit.com and facebook.com. Slash groups slash Daily Tech News Show is there as well. Sarah, what's our thing of the day? A travel tip from Chris Christensen who's giving a little perspective in tech in light of the recent Southwest Airlines engine failure. This is Chris Christensen from Amateur Traveler with another Tech in Travel Minute. A lot of the things with technology and travel are invisible to us until they go wrong, which they did recently on the Southwest flight where someone was killed.  But the reason I bring it up is there were a lot of things that went wrong that normally go right. Obviously normally the engines don't fail and normally when they do fail, they're contained by this design of the engine. And those didn't used to be the case. Engines used to fail more often and when they did fail, they caused more problems. But of course the NTSB investigates when something goes wrong in airline manufacturers and airline laws and things are refined and improved so much so that this was the first death in commercial aviation in the US in nine years, which is pretty amazing. But I thought about that as we were thinking about some of the things that are going on right now with the automated cars as well. Hopefully we'll get through some of the accidents that have happened in those cases as well and continue to improve it and continue to get to the place where it brings more safety as we get better and better. I'm Chris Christensen from Amateur Traveler. Thank you, Chris. It's good perspective on that and a really interesting connection to the situation with autonomous cars. All right, let's check the mailbag, Sarah. Andrew, the keen archeologist actually has some good news. Let's lighten it up a little bit. He says, how to scan Edison cylinders? This is in response to Alice and Sheridan writing in yesterday, we talked about, what do you do with these old recordings that are fragile and where do you digitize them and can you digitize them? He says, the Library of Congress actually has a device to scan and digitize these old recordings at the waveform level called Irene. In fact, you can get in touch with them at Irene.lbl.gov. He says, of course, they're really fragile. I'd watch the clip of one being dropped on tech TV before. I let one out of my possession, which is funny because I completely forgotten about that, but now I know exactly which segment you're talking about. He links us to a YouTube video and then another Atlantic article on the device. Says, the thing is, is the Edison cylinders are harder to scan than a flat record. There's a lot of reasons for that. I'm aware of this project because there are a lot of recordings of indigenous languages that no longer have any living speakers on these Edison cylinders. He's an archeologist after all, would be cool if you could shout out some techie archeological research. And we will, that's amazing. And the best part is, not only did the archeologist in our audience, which I love being able to say, email us about this, but just within the past hour, Peter wrote in and said, I work for the Library of Congress on the Irene project. I was scanning some Edison cylinders and it was so nice to hear you speak about the technology that I'm using. So I made sure to forward that to Allison as well. Thank you, Peter, not only for writing in and listening to the show, but for the work you're doing at the Library of Congress. I won't use your last name because I know you don't speak or represent the Library of Congress. But that's fantastic. I'm very happy to hear from folks in the audience who, these are great tips and great work that's being done. So we're forwarding all of this to Allison to help her out. All right, let's check in with Len Peralta before we finish up here. Len, what have you been illustrating? Well, you know, I wanted to do something that was sort of a mash-up of both the main topic and today being 420 Day, which those in the know know what 420 Day is. Everyone knows what it is. Exactly. I'm just, you know, I'm not assuming anything about it, like your audience. But of course, I wanted to talk about robots, co-bots, and of course, the 420 Go With The Flow Bot. And you can check. You can see what that guy's got a 420 hat on. It's pretty, it's pretty interesting. I think that's... He's saying, you know, he's kind of a belly shirt. He's a robot with a lot of dreadlocks. He's had, he's lived his best life. He's going with the flow, you know what I'm saying? It's 420. Yeah, you can pick this up at my online store. And by the way, you can also go to my online store and commission me if you like the kind of stuff that I do because that'd be perfect for different events coming up this spring. Go with the flow right over to LenPeraltaStore.com and commission Len. Yeah, he's there. He's just chilling waiting for you. Thank you, Nate Langston again for joining us and for writing up that story for Bloomberg and sharing your thoughts with us. We always hear from you, usually like Mondays or Tuesdays about what's happening on your show, text message. Yeah, so I'm not going to waste time here plugging that because I'll just get a plug that next week anyway. But no, you can find my, you know, right for Bloomberg.com and Business Week as well. So that's where my feature was this week. And actually earlier this week, I met up with Christopher Wiley, the whistleblower behind the Cambridge Analytica scandal. So I'm going to have a piece out next week about some of the stuff that we talked about. So look out for that. Follow me on Twitter. It's probably the easiest way to find that stuff at Nate Langston. And of course, if you want to keep up on security and gadgets and hardware, you got to check out hack5.org and techthing.tekinhing.com with Shannon Morse. Absolutely, we just reviewed this ridiculous thing called the grillbot. And I definitely drew blood while I was reviewing it because it has brass scrubbers for your grill.  So check it out on techthing.com. And of course with hack5, we've been doing a whole series, an animated series about DNS and talking about how Cloudflare is actually faster and how it's more secure. So if you're interested in learning more about that with a little educational series, definitely check it out. Excellent. Thank you folks for supporting us on Patreon. And right now, we're six more patrons than we had last month. We want to keep that going. We will do something to celebrate it. I'm thinking right now it involves minutes and a tarantula, but no promises. Patreon.com slash DTNS. Our email address is feedbackanddailytechnewshow.com. And by the way, thank you for all the suggestions on what Tom should or should not do in order to reach our goal. It's been fun and enlightening to learn a little bit more about what you guys are capable of doing. We're live Monday through Friday at 4.30 p.m. Eastern, 2030 UTC. And you can find out more at dalteknewshow.com slash live. Monday with Justin, Robert Young. Dr. Yvan. This show is part of the Frog Pants Network. Get more at frogpants.com. Garmin Club hopes you have enjoyed this program. So there is a pet store that has tarantulas right over here in Santa Monica. Nope. That's a no from me, dog. That's gonna be a hard no. Would you hold a camera? Nope. Sarah. Would I what? Would you hold the camera in the same room while one crawled on my arm? Yeah, because there's Zoom. Because there's Zoom. All right, we'll work out the details. Same room. I don't have to be near you. Just a solid optical Zoom, you know? I can be in the same room as a tarantula, but I don't want to touch it. Really? Not me. Heck no. I don't want to. That doesn't sound good. It's like an eight-legged dog. Oh, I wish I was an eight-legged dog. Oh, God. Nightmares. I apologize. You should. That might be what we do. I'm still not making any promises, but that might be it. What are we gonna call this episode? My Cobot Buddy. Oh, I like that.  Or Cobots, the Skynet for Softies. That's funny. I like my Cobot Buddy. I do too. I like my Cobot Buddy. Tan! Just reminds me of that old film Short Circuit. Oh yeah, Johnny Five. Johnny Five. I just, you know, that in my head, that's what I want all future Cobots to be like. Just little Johnny Fives. Not even little Johnny Fives. Just full-sized Johnny Fives. Johnny Five is alive. Johnny Five is alive. Yeah. It's that funny. True story. When I visited the armory back when it was still doing King.com, still home to King.com, they actually had a Johnny Five robot built by the guy who built it for the show. Now the thing is, it was redesigned for adult entertainment. So it had a couple of modifications. Bo's the same robot. Oh my. I feel offended. That sounds like some anime stuff. Yeah. It's kinky at kink.com. Is there a name for that? I didn't know. Should I just wanted them to turn it on, but they said it was dead and didn't have power. Yeah, that's just wrong. Cause my little brother who's seven years younger than me was a huge fan of Johnny Five. Like, loved that movie. Yeah. Then they came out of Short Circuit too, which was terrible. Yeah. I liked it actually, because I thought Johnny Five had more character in it, but it had numerous faults, which won't go into, but you probably know what they all are. But I still think it was a good film. Oh, by the way, I wanted to show this on the video, on the YouTube video. I'm part way through constructing my first labo, Nintendo's cardboard thingy. So cool. That's cool. This is the piano. This will eventually be the piano. It takes a while. I picked the wrong one. I should have picked one that took shorter time so I could demonstrate it. This one's gonna take me another half hour to an hour probably, but I've got the little lever here works. It's got the little rubber band in there. And I have to say the instructions on the Nintendo itself in the app are fantastic. They did a great job with that. Like it's super simple to follow. I can't wait to see. You should post a video about it. I should. It's more fun to just do it. Do a time-lapse. Oh, I did make, this is the demonstration one is you make a little holder for your Joy-Con. Oh, cute. So I made that. That's just to kind of get you used to how it works. How to fold cardboard. The perforations are great. Like they're really, really hard to mess up. They're really easy to follow. That's a really wonderfully geeky thing to be able to say. That you're really impressed by the perforations in a product. The perforations are just marvelous. I would say it's geeky. I think it's like it's so convenient, but when they don't work, they're the most irritating thing, especially when it comes to forms that they don't actually put enough teeth in it. And you just end up ripping the paper right above it. Ah, that's annoying. So see, they do, they kind of give you an animation on the switch screen. Oh, nice. That shows you what you're supposed to be doing as you put everything together and all that. Does it score you as you put it together so you can do it a good job? No, it's just instructions. And as soon as you let off, it stops. So if you're like, oh, wait, I need to figure out where that tab goes. You can just let go and it pauses right there. As you might expect from Nintendo, very well designed. That's so cool. Well done. Right, I'm gonna go to bed. All right, thanks for staying up. Why? Why is it later? Yeah, well, it's not that late, but I've been up since about. I'm just kidding, I'm just kidding. Thanks for being here, Nate. It's so good to see you again. Yeah, you too, Sarah. It's been a lot of fun. And hi, Shannon. We've not talked before. I love the new studio, by the way. It looks awesome. Oh, thank you. I liked your time lapse, in fact, that you did. Oh, thanks. Thank you so much. Yeah, it was a hard, hard work, but I did it. Had you two not met before? I'm so sorry, I didn't even realize. I think we've been on a show previously before. Maybe. Very long time ago. But yeah, it's nice to meet you again. Hey, same, same. Okay, right, I'm gonna go. Thanks, guys. Bye, Nate. Have a good weekend. Bye. See you. Yeah, I'm gonna log off, too, because I got to. All right. Hard out. Hard out, you're right. Actually, thanks for reminding that. All right, thanks, Len. Bye, bye. Good work. Go buy Len stuff, commission him. Yes, please do. Thank you. Do it. Bye. Do it now, don't wait. Go Cavs. Go Cavs. Ah, what? No. Yeah. What if you made me die, or what? Some serious sports balling going on over here. I know. So the, you know, the joke that Len and I have is that Cleveland Cavaliers, which is his team and the Golden State Warriors, which is my team, have been in the finals three years in a row and have ping-ponged wins. So neither of those teams might be in the finals this year, but they also might be hard to say. But, you know, now we're like rivals, but we're not really. Uh-oh. Yeah, fight. This is what Lakers and Celtics fans felt like for a while. Exactly. Yeah, right. It's the two best teams and, you know, the rest of the country is like, so boring. And we're like, you know, but it doesn't really. I actually like the Cavaliers. I don't have an issue with anybody. And I like LeBron James quite a bit. You know, it's funny when I was growing up, it was Steelers and Cowboys, Yankees and Dodgers, and Lakers and Celtics. That was what the championship was expected to be every year for those three sports. Wake me up when y'all start talking about tech again. And I have a program baseball on my Commodore 64. Oh, did you say Commodore 64? Yes, I did. Have y'all heard of Denise Williams, a singer from the 80s? Oh, yeah. I'm gonna go see her next weekend in a concert. Oh, nice. And I don't know if I've ever heard her music before because I was born in the 80s. You might have heard it in a department store or like a shopping center. Oh, okay. Because hers, her song is one of those that was poppy enough that it gets. Yeah, let's hear it for the boy from the Footloose set. Let's hear it for the boy. Okay, cool. You made Roger sing. I love that song. When she sang it on SNL, it sucked, though. Well, it sounds fun, so I'm gonna get introduced to a music. How did you get roped into this? You know Dale Chase? Yeah. Of course. He asked me if I wanted to go and I was like, yes, sure. Why not? He is the child of the 80s. He's a Denise Williams fan? He is. Like old school hip hop and old school pop and stuff like that. Yeah. That's great. Right down his alley. We need to get him on the show when we talk music next time. You know what? I was putting together an 80s playlist for myself of songs that I remember liking off the cassettes that I used to listen to, but I never hear anymore. And I failed to include the Footloose soundtrack. I gotta go look and see because let's hear it for the boy. Well, you gotta start all over again now. Oh no, I just add to it. Oh, let's start over. Thank goodness. Nope, gotta start all over again. I just got Dynum burning all of my blue rays to via what was it called? One of those like open source software programs so that I can back them all up. Like, oh, finally. So now I can do a Plex server. Yay. We did a big long digitization thing a few years back for music. Oh my gosh. It takes months to back up all those files, but man, it's worth it though. I've been able to like clear out all these old DVDs and I was just like donating so many of them. It's like, oh, finally, finally. We took the CDs out of their jewel case, but Eileen was like, I don't wanna get rid of them. Let's keep them as a backup. So now we have them in albums, but they just sit gathering dust. I have a bunch of those. I'm keeping my CDs. Yeah. I'm just like, but they're ripped to a hard drive and that hard drive is backed up. So it's already backed up. You don't really need the CDs. You need a backup of your backup. I buy the CDs because it's actually cheaper in many cases than buying the digital. Well, that's different than what I'm talking about though. That's buying new music and that makes sense. Also, if I'm overseas, there's a lot of times that like, anime music isn't available online for us. So I'll have to buy it overseas and then I've earned myself a little disc, or MP3 player. But once you've burned it and backed it up and you feel confident, do you still need the actual disc? Yeah, because then I feel like I did something wrong by basically like, oh, it depends. Like, am I trying to sell off the disc or just give them to someone? No, just good, good. Just let it. I don't resell it. Just get rid of it. I don't care how. I just do them or I gift them to somebody else or if it's like a Sailor Moon album, I'll keep it because I collect those items. I keep them because they remind me at the various levels of my growth into adulthood. Oh, that's easily. So I'll have the stage between 25 and 35 and then 35 to 40. And then nobody. Your volume just went real low for some reason. Did it? Yeah. It went real low. It was like leading away or something. Is it low now? No, that's better. That's better. We just want to hear you. Can you hear me? Is it me that you're looking for? Hello. We found you. All right, all right. No more light or itchy references. So the chat room, the IRC chat room is very fixated on us talking about food in every post-show. Fixated in the sense of they'd want that? Well, they bring it up whenever we're talking about it. I'm down with talking about food. Can we talk about being a possible burger? I've been wanting to have that. It's the meat-free, beefy dish burger. Yeah, I just tried it for the first time ever. I'm a meat.  And so is my husband. So we eat a lot of meat. But yeah, I tried the impossible burger at a restaurant here in Oakland. It's called Umami burger. Yeah, yeah. It's a well-made burger. They say like, oh, it tastes like meat. It does not taste like meat at all. They have one at the Fat Burger over here. They have the impossible burger. And I've been meaning to go try it.  You don't have to get the impossible burger. But the fact that I'm going to get it just defends her sense of- I'm not a beef. I decided to try it because it was free. And I was like, OK, I'll do it just this once. And it was good. It still tasted good. But it didn't taste like- It's different. It did taste like beef. It was different. I haven't had one. And I actually, I am not much of a beef eater. But I do like burgers, specifically a certain kind of burger. I will draw everyone's wrath. As I've gotten older, I actually like burgers less. Well, that's not going to draw my wrath. It's more for me. Like, I used to eat a lot of burgers as a kid. But as controversial as I've gotten older, it's just like the taste of it. You imagine, ah, I realize you like burgers less. The taste of red meat is not as appealing now as I get older than it was. You've always been against red meat.  Yes. Or, you know, sort of enthusiasts, have tried the Impossible Burger at various places and say, yeah, it's not exactly the same. Like, it's not going to fool you, but it's pretty good. To me, it's like, OK, well, that sounds good enough to me. I mean, that's like almond milk. It's like, I mean, if you like it, you like it. It's not the same. I went into it knowing that it was not meat, but people told me that it tasted like meat. So I thought when I bit into it that it would taste like meat. It doesn't taste like meat. It tastes like, like, I don't know, well done something or another. It's just, it's very strange. It's a taste that really depends on what you know. Does it taste processed? No, it doesn't taste processed. It tastes very healthy. Well, because it has a hemoglobin type element that's used to make it bleed. And so that it has the iron content that actual meat has. And that's supposed to give it the umami flavor that's similar to real meat. But you're saying that it definitely appears as something to you, but not necessarily meat. Yeah, exactly.  And I ate my hamburger, so I can definitely say that I enjoyed it. I just, I wouldn't go into it expecting it for it to taste like a regular, like, medium rare or medium burger, because it doesn't. Talking about it does qualify as talking about food. Cool. Awesome. We should have accomplished. We'll see you everyone Monday. Have a great weekend, everybody. We'll be back with Justin Robert Young. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye.


One of our first taglines in the beginning was, your baby's food shouldn't be older than your baby. And literally that was what was happening. I mean, all the packaged baby food had a shelf life of multiple years. It's highly processed, you know, heat pasteurization. Basically what, I mean, the FDA would call it commercially sterile. It has none of the properties of fresh food. When you think about fresh food, there's vitamins, there's nutrients. It should be a bright color. You can obviously taste the difference. And the baby food, it was just stunning to me that the same people that were going into places like Whole Foods and buying eight to $10 bottles of green juice for themselves were left with an option of either to settle for this grocery store baby food, this highly processed food that is older than my baby, or I have to make it myself. And that's a trade-off that didn't seem right.


Hello and welcome to the 100th episode of News Clicks Daily Roundup. I am Aditi. And I am Prashant. And here are the major stories for the day. At least three people have been reported killed as cyclone phony makes landfall in Urissa. News Clicks Bahasa Singh is on the ground in Lucknow where she finds strong opposition for the BJP. Digital rights activist Ola Biniz appealed against 90 day detention denied. The Venezuelan Embassy in Washington is being protected by activists against the right wing. India's east coast is witnessing the wrath of phony, the super cyclone that first formed in the Bay of Bengal on April 25th. Phony finally made the landfall today morning at around 8 o'clock in the city of Puri in Urissa. The landfall wind speed has been reported to be 175 to 180 kilometers per hour with occasional gusts of around 200 kilometers per hour enabling it to be denoted as a category 4 hurricane. Till now three people have been reported dead in a wall collapse due to the ravaging winds. Trees and electricity poles have been uprooted in Puri and Bhuvaneshwar bringing the cities into a standstill. News Clicks spoke to sacked BSF Javan Tej Bahadur Yadav whose nomination was cancelled at the 11th hour by the election commission on flimsy grounds. He was to take on Prime Minister Narendra Modi from Varanasi parliamentary constituency. Tej Bahadur was earlier terminated from service after he had posted a video on Facebook complaining about bad quality food allegedly being served to the Javans in the security forces. Let's have a look at the interview. Puri Rajniti Sena Pe Huy Hai. Ketni imandari thi is Rajniti mein. Chuki a BSF mein aapne serve kiya hai. Front line aapka defense hota. Army aapki piche hoti hai international border pe. Ketni sachai hai usdave mein. Dhe kye isse pehle aap khud pura desko sotsana siye. Ketne aatanki humleve. Aur inke dhoran ketne huye. Agar di vaake mein, Ino ne foz ki liye ek pati sadh bhi kaam kiya hota. To inke raaj mein 977 mein, Javan aatam hathya nahi karte. 775 javan aatanki humle mein nahi marhe jate. Pulmama humla aapke saamne hai. Jw ye sahid sahid chillate hain. Inse ek baar yeh puchho ki, yeh jo jawan hai, yeh sahid nahi hain. Aaj tak sahid ka darjah diya hai. Ino ne. Kya kya ino ne? Yeh OROP ki chillare hain. To inko yeh puchye ki, jis din, mera road se ho raha tha. Jawan hiya mere saath road pe khde hoke, kaya rahe the, ki hme OROP nahi mila. Ke ho jhut bol re. Agar di yeh Sena ke liye kuch karte, to Sena ke jawan, inke liye khilaf road ho pe kyo aate. Ino ne sarap Sena ko badnam kiya hai, Sena ka moral down kiya hai, Sena, Inke khilaf bade gusse mein, Purish. Kya yeh maan liya jaye, ke Tej Bahadur dargahin hain. Inko kisi tarah se daraya gaya hain. Aur, dhusra soval yeh, ki abhi aap host trading ki baat ka rehte. Ke aap yeh kaya rehte, ke aap ko BJP se, paise ko offer aaya hai. Ke di sachai hai, in dabo mein, kya khenge aap hiin pe? Ne, offer, yeh har tarahin ki kosis karthe, jay se pehle mujhe, dhamkiyaan dee jati thi, aap bhi chhe hoji hai. Inko pata hai, ek hoj ka jaman hai, dhamkiyon se drega.  Ni, yeh rasta apnaya, dokha dhadi karke, aur mera naaman, kanrad karwaya hai. To anko toh mein, sida-sida kaya raha hu, jab tak mere ishaansh se legi, ish Modi Sarkar ko, khad ke fekne ka pariyas kar hu. Fourteen constituencies, in Uttar Pradesh, will go to polling in the fifth phase of polls, on May 6. Lucknow is one of these constituencies. Senior journalist, Basha Singh, visited Lucknow to speak to the locals, in order to understand their key issues in the upcoming elections, and to know their dissatisfaction in the last five years. Let's have a look. Kintna kargar hai, samajwadi party aur baspa ke bhi, jo gatbandan hai, kya usne vaka hi koi asha ki kiran, jagai hai, yeh bhaashpa ki jo gehari pat hai, woha kargar rahegi. Sahab, jab se yeh loob baith hai, toh se toh mein, saara payas hai, nongon le liya. Mera 2,000 rupiya dhala, mera rupiya usne kaunter se gaya, ho kate, kya hota, computer service mein, chala gaya. Abata hi saab, yeh dhad hai, kar aap, kaat lenge, huma kise gaya, haja daala hai, diklan bhi hoon, salis ka rogu, ek aad, kar aap, mera.  Roodyaar de nahi rahe hoon, jo, aadni ish puthaat ka, sahab ka kaat rahe hoon, sko lagane nahi de rahe hoon, toh yeh, samasya toh hi hai. Ham denge bahenji ka, chahe modi boli maare, toh chahe rahe hain. Bahenji koi kaat nahi, nekul ka sasaan chak tha, unke jamanu koi, tron tatsan leti thi. Modi ji, yaha kabhi hai, yeh, jah rahe hai toh, log darsan karat, jahdi bhagain chale di, rahe rukula chahi hoon, doh manat. Kuchu name ka mila hai, ka aap baata hoon, lai, le, le, le, le, le, le, le, le, le, le. Na aap sochaale hai umlogos ke, na ay o, boli te, 15 lakh sab toh, jhatho yaate kar rahe hain maμε mej logo, humlog danh kaha jaye? Kya kara hai? Kisi ko rodshkar diya abhithak.��는 Jeel In our international section, we first go to Ecuador, where software developer and privacy activist, Ola Baimee, will continue to remain in jail after his plea against pretrial detention which was rejected by a Kantequ Просто just yesterday. The judges of the court, by a 2 X 1 margin, rejected the appeal which is filed in April. The Ola Binni was first arrested in April 11th and in a hearing two days later was sentenced to detention on charges of breaking into a computer system. Even in the first hearing, the prosecution had failed to provide any concrete evidence. It was against this that Ola Binni's lawyers filed the appeal. In the hearing yesterday, the prosecution yet again failed to provide any concrete evidence. One of the charges presented by the prosecution was the fact that Ola Binni was friends with Julian Assange. The only evidence that they were able to provide regarding the wrongdoing was the fact that Ola Binni had visited Assange once and the fact that he owned a number of books and encrypted technological devices. The presentation of this evidence by the prosecution led to much laughter in the court. However, despite the flimsiness of this case, the judges decided by two to one margin to not let Binni walk free. Ola Binni's case has led to a lot of controversy across the world with activists, writers and intellectuals releasing a statement asking the Swedish government to intervene in the case as Ola Binni is a Swedish citizen. After yesterday's trial, Ola Binni's lawyer said that there are no words to describe what happened yesterday and that the team felt very humiliated and disturbed. He also said that this decision would be condemned in Ecuador and abroad. In our second story, we go to Washington DC, where activists are defending the Venezuelan embassy against a right-wing takeover bid. The right-wing has besieged this embassy and is preventing the supply of food and other essentials to the activists who are inside. The activists are mobilized under the banner of the Embassy Protection Collective and went into the embassy a few days ago after getting permission from the democratically elected government of Nicolas Maduro. Since April 30th, when the self-proclaimed right-wing president Juan Guaido once again tried to seize power, right-wing forces have been gathering outside the Venezuelan embassy in Washington DC. These opposition forces have hurled abuse and physically assaulted these activists who are inside the embassy to defend it and defend the legitimacy of the government of Nicolas Maduro. Over the past few days, attempts to supply food have been blocked by these opposition forces. Ariel Gold, one of the activists, tried to actually supply food to her comrades inside the embassy but was blocked. After that, she actually threw the bread inside but was promptly arrested by security forces who charged her with throwing missiles in simple assault. A few hours later, Ariel Gold was released and went back to the embassy premises but was once again beaten up by opposition supporters. Similar scenes were also witnessed over the past few days outside the Venezuelan embassy in Buenos Aires in Argentina as well. Here is some footage of the protests by the right-wing forces and attempts by the embassy protection collective to defend the embassy. Activists are inside, they're not letting us get food in, although we did actually manage to get some food in. I think they're okay but it's a siege that's going on now and it's very dangerous because this crowd can get very physical, they have physically assaulted us, they verbally abuse us. Our people are non-violent, their people are not. So I think it's a dangerous situation and I'm surprised that the police are not doing a better job of keeping the peace. Well they're basically just watching and yet when we tried to get food in and we're throwing it down here, the police arrested two of our people if we're doing that. That is it for today. To learn more about these and many such important stories visit our website www.newsclick.in. Subscribe to our YouTube channel and follow us on Facebook. Thanks for watching.


Good morning. It is 10 o'clock and we are here to do a video about prep your tech. Basically, we just want to let you know everything that you need to know about technology here on campus before you arrive. My name is Molly Strickland. I'm a student here at the University of Arkansas. I'm studying advertising and public relations with the minor in marketing. I'm about to head to my junior year. Good morning Molly. Good morning. Now who's this? Hello everyone. My name is Marcelo Navajas and I'm a senior resnet tech working for the University of Arkansas at the housing department. I'm a senior in electrical engineering and I've been working for the housing department for three years now. So today I would like to share a couple tips with you guys on how to prep your tech. Excellent. Next time we have a laptop here so we can a stunt laptop if you will to go over and show the different things that we need to show. Now you said you're a resnet tech. What kind of is that? Sure. So this is our website. Resnet stands for residential network and we basically are what students will be using on campus to access the internet. Resnet is a collaborative partnership between the university housing department and the information technology services department to provide a local network and internet services to our residents living on campus. Very cool. So you have some people watching. Let me tell them if you're viewing at home feel free to ask us questions as we go and we're pleased to hear where you're from even just tell us where you're from and tuning in from. So that'd be great. I guess you know Resnet is really about connecting online getting on the internet. Yeah. Basically. And you connected to the internet when you were living in your residence. Yes I did. The main internet for Arkansas it's called URQ Wi-Fi not Guest Wi-Fi. That's a good thing to know when you arrive on campus use URQ Wi-Fi and it's just your username is going to be your URQ name. So mine's MS Strick and then your password is just going to be your password for all of Arkansas. Thanks. Very nice. Hey Cindy from Austin. We'll wait for you to send me. Hi Cindy. Okay. So yeah. How easy is it to connect? Either one can answer that. Let me tell you how to connect. So there's two main ways that you can connect to our network. So for the most part laptops desktop computers mobile devices such as phones and tablets do not require any special arrangements to connect to our network. You can connect in two different ways. In some of the norms we do have internet jacks on the walls. I'm going to show you one on this room later on. But if you do have a jack on your wall you can connect to your device by plugging one end of the ethernet cord to your wall and the other end to your device. So you have an ethernet connection sometimes. Yeah in some dormitories we do and we have Wi-Fi in all of them. Just know that we do not provide ethernet cords anymore. So if you want to use one of them you will have to buy one probably at the Walmart or on campus. And the other way you can connect is using the Wi-Fi and it's fairly simple. All you need to do is you want to go to the list of available networks on your computer and then you're going to want to find your Wi-Fi and then once you click on it at all the first time you do it it's going to ask for your username and password and once you type those in you'll be ready to go. Yeah so you have a login screen that pops up and just type in your username. Yeah your URKID username. Your URKID username which is everything that comes before the at sign on your username. Exactly. And then your unique password which will get you into almost everything when it comes to the University of Arkansas technological stuff. Hey Allison from Phoenix. From Phoenix. Wow. That's a long way. Yeah glad to have you too then. Okay so you connect in that way both with your laptop and I guess your phone would be a similar kind of.  Mine should be connected but. And the first time you'll have to log in again. First time you'll have to log in again sometimes after not being here for a while you may have to log back in and whenever you change your passcode on campus because you have to change I think every 90 days. 120 I think. Oh I think it's 120 and I'm actually really glad you mentioned that because we have a lot of students calling in saying oh my internet stopped working and what they don't realize is that they changed their password and so they need to go back into the password thing on the Wi-Fi and change that in there so they can connect again. Which I believe is password.urk.edu. Yeah you can change your password there anytime. We try to have a pretty intuitive urls when we can. Okay so great so we've talked about how to connect with your phone. So hold on I'm going to stop you right there because we have some other devices we have so if you're trying to connect with let's say an Apple TV or a Roku or any other smart TV or gaming consoles such as an Xbox or a PS3. I want to do that. Then you're going to have to access our website and register your device so that you can go through the firewall and I can show you right now how to register your device. How do we get through the firewall? Okay so our website is housing.urk.edu and let me go back there so you'll see what you will see when you first go in there. There we go. So the first thing you're going to want to do is go to ResNet under my housing and then you're going to see this screen right here. Here we have a little bit of information about where ResNet is and here we have a list of the more common devices that we get on campus and I'm going to go over that in a little bit and so to register your device you are going to want to go to adding a device to ResNet and hit register my stuff. Okay and then it's going to ask you to log in. So I'm going to log in with my credentials right now. Okay and this is how to register for any device like a smart TV. Everything other than a laptop, desktop computer or a mobile device. Okay so the first time you log into the website it's going to ask for some contact information and the reason we do this is so that when we open if you ever open a problem ticket with us we will have a phone number to contact you and we will be able to reach you faster and help you fix your whatever problem you're having. Sure so the landing page you'll see when you very first log in and we'll give you additional support. Let's try okay I think it's not working for you right now because you're not living on campus yeah yeah and this but the first time you log in you'll actually have a different experience than Molly who's lived here for how many years? One I lived here for one year um but you've been on campus I mean like not living on campus you've been here at the university yeah I'm about to start my junior year yeah so okay there we go so once you log into the website you're going to see this window and so for the sake of the video let's say you're trying to register your Xbox one okay so what you're going to want to do is you're going to go look where your device so it would be under gaming consoles right here and then you're going to go find uh Xbox one and then it'll ask you to name your device so let's just say my Xbox or whatever okay and then we have uh two different types of connections available the ethernet connection and the wireless connection okay and my experience uh students are trying to game usually try to use the ethernet connection but we've upgraded the wireless connection as well so it's very stable right now so either one will work for you so let's say you're trying to use the wireless and you want to register your device so you can game online through the wireless network so it's going to ask you for a wireless mac address and so what's that was a world's mac address so um a wireless mac address is a series of 16 uh numbers and letters okay um it's a hexadecimal code but I'm not going to get into that I'm going to simplify that for you and it's basically an id for your device and what it does it's it lets our network know what kind of device is trying to connect and basically who is trying to connect to the network where do you find that at uh sure I'll I'll tell you that in a little bit but uh one thing I wanted to clarify is that a mac address is something that every single device that connects to the internet has and not something that is only for apple devices like many people uh seem to believe um so to find your mac address um you can always had a question come in while we were talking alex asks I was wondering if a phillips hue wireless lighting system which I'm going to assume is kind of a smart device would be compatible with resnet it is actually we've had a couple of them uh uh been registered last semester uh you may have a couple issues when trying to uh register the device but if you give us a call uh we will be happy to help you okay so our contact information is our phone number is 479 uh for no 8398070 and our email is resnet at uark.edu okay so yeah alex you apparently the phillips hue wireless lighting system will work all right great so you're going to show us mac addresses okay so for the most part uh you can find the mac address for any device on google so I usually tell students uh just go on google and type how to find my my mac address and then your device name but we also have a helpful list of devices on this website so uh let's say I was trying to register my xbox one so I'm going to go looking for xbox one on this list and I'm going to click on there and I'm going to scroll down and we have a video right here that will tell you how to find your mac address and we're not going to play this right now but you can play it at home and it's fairly simple to follow and once you get that series of numbers and letters you're going to write them down right here and then just hit add new device and you'll be ready to go ban your in okay you'll be able to see all your all the devices that you've registered under my devices right here and yeah that should be it if you have any problems just let us know and we'll be happy to help you either through the phone or we can also sketch on that point with you yeah you'll do house calls right yeah we do house calls we are we have extended hours during the first couple weeks of school so that we can help us many students as we can our regular office hours are Mondays through Fridays from nine to six but like I said you're in the first couple weeks we will have people staying later and we'll also have people working on Saturdays and Sundays very cool very cool um so what else would we like to show up Resnet or even the expanded services that we offer here sure so another good thing if you're a student at the University of Arkansas is the free software that you can access so you can see some of the software that we have available if you go to techarticles.uark.edu and then you're gonna see this website right here and you're gonna want to go to services and if you scroll down you're gonna see these two tabs right here the antivirus and the software let me go over the antivirus first because I think it's actually one of the most important tools you can get before coming to campus and the reason for that is big fan of antivirus software huh yeah okay well and especially of this brand of antivirus Symantec and the reason for that is that with so many antivirus software out there we usually run into a couple of them that will either slow down your connection to the university's network or won't let you connect at all and that's why we worked with the people at Symantec to bring you the software that works perfectly with our network so you just hit on the antivirus tab and then if you just hit download and install it'll ask for your credentials and you can download the antivirus for free very nice service there yeah and then I've heard Office 365 is that yeah exactly that's another really nice tool to have if you're a student um if you hit here on software um it'll bring you to this website and you can download two things in here uh the one that you mentioned is a Microsoft Office 365 and that will give you access to Word, PowerPoint, Excel, OneNote, Outlook, and many other Microsoft products once you're trying to install it of course it's going to ask for your credentials and it will ask you which products you want to download so you don't need to download all of them you can get only the ones that you need and it'll also grant you some space on the OneDrive cloud so that way you can like save your notes and your papers on the cloud and you don't have to worry about your computer dying or right because you can access them anywhere in the cloud yeah and we also have Adobe Creative Cloud which will grant you access to other applications illustrator and design the stuff we use all the time just for professional purposes yeah exactly and Premiere right yeah exactly we actually make all of our videos with Premiere so that can come very handy to students that's $60 I think a year for students normally $250 a year so it's quite a discount that you get for it yeah and um yeah that's uh there's also some R free software that's available but that's uh dependent on what college uh you're studying on so for example for me being in the college of engineering we had access to all this power analysis software and so there's much more software than this but uh you will talk about this college specific yeah I know one of the things I really use is linda which is a free or it's not free that university pays for but it's free for students and it's basically like a tool that you can use if you're wanting to learn any type of program um it gives you YouTube tutorials basically on how to work everything so eventually you become a pro yeah it's I've used it a lot too professionally and it's uh basically like having access to an online university yeah when it comes to learning specific types of software yeah definitely so highly recommend it and I think the way you access that is going to uh ITS or linda I usually I usually just like I usually just use the term you arc and then what I'm looking for and I think you do that too exactly um so then it just popped up and then it says online training for everyone anywhere and it tells you how to learn office 365 the basics how to use linda um faculty um yeah all kinds of so all kinds of things and then you can just log in this is always the main screen when you go in to log into something so it's going to be your work username and passcode and I'll log in and then it shows me thinking like I learned how to do a dope spark yeah um so you can create playlist with it and everything like that yeah and I think once you finish uh section or uh class uh it'll actually give you a certification that you know how to use the software or whatever it is you're learning to put that on your resume and it's not a bad thing to have um another service as as long as we're talking about technological services is the student technology center in the union exactly they have a lot of equipment available for uh you can take it home they have gaming consoles they have go pros they have computers they have mouses controllers pretty much anything you can think of and uh they'll rent them out for you for a couple days um yeah you should definitely check that out on the union that's very helpful yeah you can I mean you couldn't rent the hardware the tech hardware and uh not rented I mean borrow I mean it didn't cost anything it's free to to take out as a student well uh let's talk about laundry sure so uh we worked with a laundry company uh last year to uh integrate the laundry room into our wi-fi network and the reason for that is that we had a lot of people that were struggling with the laundry room they had to wait a long time to find a machine that was available and we usually had people that didn't know where the when their load was finished so they would forget about it and have other people just waiting on a uh machine to be available I see you nodding over here yeah you're nodding used it a lot I mean it's easy because while I load in yokem and it has about 500 people in there and there's not that many and there's let's say I don't know the number off the top of my head 10 washers 10 dryers so it gets kind of it makes you kind of mad whenever you go down there and everything's filled and then people are waiting and you don't know how long it's going to take to do your laundry and you may have to go back upstairs and do homework you may have to like go to church like Sundays are the most popular day to do your laundry and so the system that I actually downloaded the app on my phone because I found it easier it told me what was available um told me how much time was left on it and so I could go down there immediately put my stuff in and then it would tell me when my stuff was done and when I could move it over yeah so something very good to use yeah so let me show you how it works so uh let's go back so that you can see how it's going to look the first time you log in so you will go to laundry alert dot com and once you go to the website it's going to ask for a password to sign in uh the password for the university of Arkansas is racerbacks and so you type racerbacks right here and hit sign in and then you'll get a list of all the buildings on campus so right now we are filming at future hall so let's say I want to do my laundry so I'm going to go to future I'm going to click on it and it's going to tell me all the machines that are in that room uh the status of the machine is right next to it so we can see that all the washing machines are available and that there's two drying machines and use it'll also tell you uh what's the estimated time remaining on the machine so this one will be drying for the next 16 minutes and another really cool thing about this website is that you can go here to let me know and you can have the website email you when either a machine has become available or when your load is finished so let's say I'm using what the washing machine number three so I just say let me know when machine three is done and then you just type your email down here and hit submit and then once uh your load has been finished washing it'll send you an email and you'll know that it's ready very nice yeah saving saving time yep without a doubt and now you've got it on your phone as well yeah so I have the app right here on my phone and I just click on that and I wait for it to load of course and if you don't know what to do there is a sign in the laundry room that lets you know how to do all of this so I'm connected to future and I click that and it's telling me that these are all the things that are available and there's 15 minutes now remaining on the washer 8 and 10 um and you can track it whenever you want and it'll just send you a notification whenever you're done saying that hey it's open you can go down there and then like I'm tracking that one now saying when it's going to be available yeah another nice thing about it is that uh either on the website or on the app if you see that one of the machines it's not working you can actually report a problem and they'll have somebody come and fix it so on the website use hit request service and then you hit let's say machine five it's not working and then just type something if the machine stopped working I don't know something and you hit submit and then they'll have somebody come over to school and fix the machine as soon as they can very nice yeah we try to service those machines we have a special contract with a vendor and we service those laundry machines as much as we can keep them going for you have you let's see did you use laundry load a little bit last year I did just because there were so many people in a residence hall and so it gets very annoying whenever you have to go down there several times and you know sometimes you still have to wait just as long as you're down there right before it ends um yeah it was just something good to use so highly suggest it it comes with your tuition and fees so why would you not with your housing fees specifically housing fees yeah all right well cool deal um let's see what else we need to talk about when it comes to technology here on campus so another thing I wanted to show you guys is how the cable boxes work in school so we've partnered with Cox last year to bring HDTV to all the rooms on campus so we have cable boxes in all the rooms and I can show you guys how that work if you follow me let's do that yes you bet and if you have any questions now is a great time to ask as well as we're going through here explaining the technology in your room and beyond so the way this works is we have a cable box in the room it's usually behind your desk you'll be able to find that the first thing you want to do when you move to campus is make sure it's plugged in and it has an LED on the front I don't know if you're going to be able to see it with the camera right now but it's usually on the front end right here and all you want to make sure is that the LED is green so that means it's working green means connected exactly and if it's not green then there is a number on the box and you can call Cox and then we'll ask for the ID number off the box which is also written on the box okay and they'll help you out either through the phone or they can also send a tech to your room to help you out but for the most part all the cable boxes are working and the way it works is you have an HDMI output that will go to your TV and then we have also a coax output for those that have older TVs okay and what else this right here is the IR receiver it stands for the infrared receiver and it's basically what is receiving the signal from your remote so depending on how you configure your room you might actually put that in a slightly different place yeah exactly we tend to change these every every semester every year and that way it's not stick to anything and you can actually put it on your TV or on your desk or wherever you want so so that cox remote for example won't it's not key to your TV it's key to that thing yeah exactly this is key to the cable box but once you move in you're gonna get one of these papers and it has instructions on the back on how to program this cox controller for your TV for your specific TV exactly so that way you don't have to use two remotes so you can actually turn on your TV with this or change the volume or do everything else you would do with your regular remote sure and there's also instructions in the back of the remote to show you how to do that okay yep great great let's turn on the TV and actually we were having a question about um uh channel selection yeah so right here um if you go to housing.urc.edu forward slash channels you'll get to this cable you'll get to this screen and it does tell you cox cable instructions um about how to set up everything and then it says the cox remote uses a AAA battery you're responsible for supplying this battery yes bring the AAA battery yes and then right here it gives you the channel listing and the troubleshoot guide also if you ever needed any help it gives you this number that is actually you know verses of Arkansas numbers so if you would call that um and that can help you with any questions that you may have no go over here and you'll notice that right here these are all the things that you're going to be getting in your tv starter guide so you have access to mvc tvs abc you can still watch the bachelor um you have connection to the uatv which is our um channel here that we have on campus i'll also give you local news about what's going on the university and you do have the hbo's okay so that's always something cool so you can have a like that movie night and you can buy um you can upgrade yeah you can upgrade and get a dvr if you want to go buy that through cox not through us yeah and it'll just tell you these are the extra things that you can get yeah cool well let's see the tv in action it's now working um we're there so this is one of the hbo channels uh they usually have movies on that night let's guess let's watch the movie in real time here y'all can watch with us what are we watching i have no idea sure but no don't don't guard it you gotta guess it fed game you gotta guess it okay i was like a person people at home if you know which movie this is how it's really scary is it it's not Stranger Things no it reminded me of that actually yeah all right well let's not keep this suspense let's go ahead and figure out what it is push the so you hit the guide on the remote like every one of us are remote but uh yeah that's why i didn't know what it was oh miss peregan's home for peculiar children do you uh turn down the volume but sure uh okay so this we haven't programmed this remote yet but we can actually do that right now if you want to see how to uh sure sure why not so uh the way it works is you have instruction at the back so it says turn the tv on press and hold the setup button until the power button blinks twice and then release so let's do that right now we're setting up for a samsung and then it says press and release the power button and then press and hold the select button until the tv turns off then release let's try this again all right we do one time then press twice then power and release then select and then eventually it's going through all the channels and now okay bam it just did it then you release the button and then now it's programmed to your tv so we can turn it on and it'll work with your tv so you don't need this other mode anymore you can save it nice yep oh and you didn't have to type in a little code either it just sort of cycled no exactly what it's doing it's uh it has the all the codes loaded on the on the remote so it's just going through all of them and then when it finally finds the one that matches your tv your tv turns off and then it's programmed it's super convenient wow okay it's such a weird maybe um alex says so we can't use a ethernet hub correct and i think it depends now on the room some rooms have an ethernet hub some do not um would you say the majority do or don't at this point we've been transitioning as a campus we're exactly we're transitioning from ethernet to wireless we're have a very stable wireless network right now and we're actually improving uh and adding more routers to each room you can see one right here and those are the wireless ap's we're not watching you that is as ethernet right there yeah and uh as long as they're blue or green it means they're working and they're very stable so if you don't have an ethernet cord and you're an ethernet jack in your room then you always will have wi-fi so and that's a change from like two or three years ago when we were still using ethernet a lot now we feel like we're very confident in our wireless connections yeah exactly all right so the tv works let's show them just two special interest channels for um University of Arkansas community yeah so if we if you look on here i'll tell you but u of a it's going to be two one four i was getting my daily news in yeah that hoda and what is her name so this is ua tv and this is run by the journalism department you can get involved with this if you want to um go to the journalism department down there in the basement of kentville hall and they will show you how to get involved and you can do it with your book too but basically this is just like the news channel um i have no idea what you're doing but talking about something and we have an r a right there on the left so cool all right so what are the channel let's show let's show so hbio it's going to be 341 i believe i think of 340 340 341 i was right so that's what we were just okay we're just on that um so you have hbio it's miss the curlers children camp nowhere camp nowhere giving some really poopy scores um that's show time there's no show time okay and then like you can go to my favorite channel is nbc all right so i'll get a channel line let's do every channel today show let's go through every single no joke i'm too teasing that's not i mean i can't oh the price is right we'll leave it on this okay we'll leave it on a show while we are signing off here does anybody have any other questions for us about um technology on campus which would be comfortable to be able to connect online as much as you need to find the channels that you want to be able to watch and get all those free services that you know we were talking earlier um you didn't know about linda to a little bit later i had no idea what linda was until i started my internship with the housing department so it's just services like that that i wish i knew um before i arrived here on campus that i could use and utilize because i i like to say that i know everything but i really don't so that would have been a good tool to use and the laundry alert system i didn't know really about until halfway over freshman year so wow something i would definitely very highly considered yeah using and then we mentioned about the student technology center being able to rent things you said yeah exactly that's something i didn't really know until like a couple semesters ago and i never really took advantage of that so i'm really glad that we're showing this to students right now so that they have all this knowledge before they move to campus we have a lot of resources that even i and i've lived here a couple years i don't even know about so anyway um yeah feel free with any more questions jennifer asks do you recommend getting a surge protector for your room what do you mean by a surge protector is it a i'm talking about the the plug that has the protection okay so i would actually very much recommend that we have one right here in the back and i can tell you it's an electrical engineer you definitely want this in your room oh we did an electrical engineer opinion here what what it does is if there's like a lightning storm or something that could damage like your tv or your microwave or any other electric device that you have this thing actually has a little fuse in there so what it would do is this thing would break instead of your tv and this is like 34 dollars so it's 34 no tv so exactly that's a lot of money we um some high recommendation there about getting a surge protector with the fuse that will break instead of your computer additionally we do recommend that you know renter's insurance is something worth considering uh you might talk to your parents about whether you're covered under their renter's insurance or you might consider you know getting renter's insurance yourself it never hurts and it's honestly not that expensive but it protects all of your stuff um great well let's see we'll hang out for another second or two see if any more questions come in with regards to um to technology what are i'll ask you a question so you work the very first week and two of move in and people come in and they have a ton of questions for us that where what are like what are the majority of questions about so the first couple questions that we always get is uh well my tv is not working and that's because students don't really know that they have to register their devices this is for smart TVs for smart TVs and gaming consoles everything but computers and mobile devices you have to register them like i showed you guys before and another question that we get a lot is uh what is the wi-fi password and like we said earlier it's just your username and then you're the password that you select those are the two biggest questions you guys get yeah okay well good well hopefully uh people watching this are going to be in the know they're going to be on the inside track when it comes to things that you can know all right yeah one last thing is like we have flyers everywhere on campus without contact information so if you guys have any questions about any specific device or if you cannot connect to the internet for any reason uh you should have no problem finding our contact information literally everywhere on every dorm so just feel free to contact us and we'll be happy to help you thank you very much thanks for tuning in with us to show us this stuff that was very helpful we still have another one to do well yes we have the move in 2017 yeah that is going to be next friday so make sure that you tune into that it's at 10 a.m and we're just going to be going over everything that you need to know when moving in so we're going to tell you about parking about dollies about rubber mallets all that fun stuff all the fun stuff but definitely the most one of the most useful videos so tune in and it will be our last york home life videos so we'll see and then you'll be coming and then y'all will be here it's not that long it's probably about three weeks away sorority recruitment y'all got like two weeks so it's coming welcome to freshman year and welcome to rents for students we'll see y'all later