Coming up on DTNS, Amazon closed a small warehouse because a worker was infected. How should you treat those packages you ordered online? Intel has a chip that can smell things for you, and automakers volunteer to make ventilators. This is the Daily Tech News for Thursday, March 19th, 2020, in Los Angeles. I'm Tom Merritt. And from Studio Redwood, I'm Sarah Lane. From Lockdown, I'm Justin Robert Young. And from the SoCal LA area, I'm the show's producer, Roger Chang. We were talking about podcast and tech and how that's now just become all entertainment's tech. We were also talking about the significance of what's going on right now on Good Day Internet, get that wider conversation, become a member at patreon.com slash DTNS. Let's start here with a few tech things you should know. A report by Loop Ventures, Gene Munster notes that increases in availability of the 64 gig iPhone 11, 64 gig iPhone 11 Pro, AirPods Pro and the second gen AirPods imply the company's supply partners in China are returning to regular production output levels. Munster believes that lower lead times mostly point to a restart in production in China, regular production anyway, and the softening demand accounts for some, but a minority of that bump. The New York Stock Exchange announced that it will temporarily close its physical trading floors and move to an all-electronic trading following two positive COVID-19 tests. This week, all electric trading will begin on March 23rd. Plug in. Uber CEO Derek Kozarsahi said on an investor call that ride volume has dropped by up to 60 to 70% in cities hit hardest by COVID-19 like Seattle. Kozarsahi stressed that even in a worst case scenario of rides down 80% for the year, Uber would still have $4 billion of unrestricted cash in the bank and a $2 billion credit line. The company is also considering using its network to deliver needed items like medicine and basic goods. Microsoft announced that Microsoft Teams had 44 million daily active users as of March 18th, a 12 million user increase in the last week alone. 20 customers have over 100,000 employees each using Teams. That's up from 14 last week. And in November 2019, Microsoft announced Teams had 20 million daily active users.  The U.S. Federal Communications Commission announced that it temporarily waived quote, unquote, gift rules for its rural health care and E-rate programs until September 20th, 2020. These rules ordinarily forbid rural health care facilities, libraries and schools who are part of the program and receiving subsidies from accepting anything of value from ISPs participating in the program. The change could let ISPs donate Wi-Fi hotspots, upgraded network equipment and offer free service for telemedicine and distance learning. September 20th is my wedding anniversary. So I'll remember that they're losing that exemption then. An Amazon spokesperson confirmed to CNBC that Amazon Prime Pantry, which launched in 2014, is temporarily closed in the U.S. due to high order volumes tied to, of course, people preparing to stay at home because of COVID-19. Prime Pantry is that one that lets Prime members buy packaged groceries and household items as a discount because you pack them all together in one shipment. No word on when service for Prime Pantry will resume. Let's talk a little bit more about what Europe is saying to Netflix, Justin. Well, Tom, the European Union's Internal Market and Services Commissioner, T.R.A. Britain, called on streaming video providers to switch to standard definition content during peak usage and take other measures to ease the strain on internet infrastructure. Netflix says it will reduce bit rates across all streams in Europe for 30 days and estimates that it will reduce Netflix traffic on European networks by around 25 percent. Later, Bretton warned that network providers, that while they can take, quote, exceptional traffic management measures and, quote, to ease congestion, they must not discriminate against individual content providers. The commission also called on users to use Wi-Fi over cellular whenever possible and choose lower content resolution when possible. Bit saving measures are going into effect. Watch, watch in standard depth for our survival. Exactly. Yeah. I mean, this. This is crazy. Yeah. Yeah. Broadband distancing, please distance your bits appropriately. Don't pack them in too tightly. Bits will be two meters apart as delivered to your Netflix stream. At the same time, it would be hard to argue. No, no, no, I am not going to standard depth. It's just not that big of a crisis. Yeah. And honestly, there is a lot of, you know, video delivering that can literally grow or shrink the internet based on on how you do it. If Netflix is taking those steps, then I think everybody can can deal with a few more pixels and hats off to the people who are working to keep the internet running. It isn't as easy as it might seem to folks. It's kind of amazing that it's still working to me. Yeah. No kidding. Well, speaking of video streaming, a lot of folks are experimenting now more than ever with a Chrome extension called Netflix Party that lets a group of friends who all have Netflix sync up their video watching together.  It adds a chat room so you can chat while you're watching. All users in a party have the option to pause or rewind or fast forward unless the initiator reserves that function to themselves could get a little crazy depending on how many people are doing it. Polygon points out that there are other similar options like Metastream for Chrome and Firefox to seven, which has a paid tier to access some services like Hulu or Disney Plus and watch two together, which also supports audio streams if you happen to want to listen to podcasts with your friends. As with all browser extensions, be careful. All extensions are not created equal. And it's hard to tell who is making some of these programs. So be, you know, vigilant and stall at your own risk. Yeah, I was trying to figure out who is behind Netflix Party. They don't have about us page. There's not much detail about them. They have a three star rating on the Chrome extension store. So that that raised my hackles a little bit. Just just just be careful, be wise and make good choices. But this idea of syncing up and watching things is always one where I'm like, do people really want to do this? And this is the time, right? Like, if it's ever going to work, this is it. I actually have a group of friends who we're all kind of scattered around. We're all in the US, but, you know, no one lives anywhere near me. So I'm not going to be in the same room watching Netflix with them at any point. But we all have Netflix and this kind of got floated as a great idea. And we all said, yes, let's do it. We can't agree on a time as humans where we all want to do this together because it requires us, you know, everyone's on appointment viewing now. So it's like, well, I can't do that at nine. Nine, your time is midnight for me, Sarah. So it's still hurting cats a little bit. But I love this idea. I've always wanted something like this to work well. And that's not even because I'm stuck at home. Just this is like a fun thing to do with people who you just aren't going to see that often.  I am taking a fresh look at all of these things. Like I have never went when they announced FaceTime to have multiple parties that you could put a bunch of people in there. Initially, I'm like, ah, whatever. I mean, I barely like it when anybody FaceTimes me, let alone FaceTiming with many people. And yet there I was last night with two friends that I normally go out with on Wednesdays. We now can't because of shelter at home and we were enjoying each other's company on a multiple face FaceTime. So I'm I'm all about this. I do think, however, please, please, friends, you cannot double check these plugins enough they can that they are they are backdoors. And not all the ones that Sarah mentioned are extensions. Some of them are independent services. But again, you know, you're given your information to other people. You can just try to get on chat and say, well, three, two, one, press play. But it won't perfectly sync. So that that's kind of what these services are providing is the ability to do this. I wonder if Netflix will just they've they've had a service like this out of their hacker groups before. I wonder if they'll ramp up something like that that they offer themselves or some of those other products out there come back. But but yeah, this is go check out that polygon article that has a wrap up of all the ones that Sarah mentioned and kind of evaluate them, pick the ones right for you. Monday, Intel announced it had trained its low ehe neurotrophic trip chip to identify the sense of ten different hazardous chemicals. A paper in the journal Nature Machine Intelligence describes work done with Cornell University on the Louis he chip with the output of 72 chemical sensors teaching low ehe that a particular response corresponded to the presence of a particular chemical. So it's not just a sensor that detects a molecule. It's actually trying to mimic the human brain's ability to detect smells so that it can distinguish chemicals, even among interfering smells. If one smell is overpowering the other, it might still be able to tell that it's there. Wednesday, Intel announced the general readiness of Pohoiki Springs, a self contained neuromorphic system running on 768 low ehe chips available to researchers in the cloud. Intel says Pohoiki Springs is similar in neural capacity to the brain of a small mammal. So the first thing I thought here was just safety, like industrial safety, that if you have certain situations where you're dealing with chemicals where it might not be immediately clear to a human brain that there are that things are raising to unsafe levels, that this would be a way to do it. You know, kind of digital canary in a coal mine. But I don't know. Are there any applications that you can think of up the top of your head? Yeah, that's a really good one. Any kind of safety situation where you're looking for leaks or spills, any kind of security situation. There's there's a lot of you go through the TSA here in the United States or any security at an airport and they'll do those swabs and things because they're checking for chemicals. This could just smell the ambient air and say, hey, hold on. We think we detect the faint odor of something that shouldn't be in somebody's luggage. And then you can you can start checking around to find out where it comes from. That's that's a lot more sensitive of a situation than you have where you have to you have to look for the actual molecules themselves. I mean, carbon monoxide alarms at least at least in California, you know, it's it's you have to do it. It's it's it's a legality. But, you know, even in situations like that where there's something that is unsafe at a certain level, but maybe you're burning a candle, you know, and you just you aren't able to discern between that kind of thing, having the technology to be able to, you know, be like at where we are detecting something for a variety of things that shouldn't be shouldn't be sniffed or or just been around is pretty cool. Amazon closed a small warehouse in Queens, New York, following a positive COVID-19 test by an associate associates at the warehouse were sent home with pay as Amazon sanitizes the facility. Amazon said it has increased sanitizing surfaces at facilities and staggered shift times among measures to prevent further spread. The US National Institute of Health says the virus can stay active on cardboard for up to 24 hours and two to three days on plastic and steel. But but those are droplets, not necessarily just the well, what the droplets are the way they think transmission happens in most cases, if people who get COVID probably get it from a droplet, which is usually sneezed or or coughed more likely something in the air. It's not airborne, but it's droplets that happen in the air. And and so if it gets on a surface, it could possibly transmit the virus. What they're saying is, look, we find that the virus is is still valid and active for up to 24 hours on cardboard. But they also don't think that is the major way that it is transmitted. So if you if you've got someone who is at high risk, you might want to take that into account and keep those cardboard boxes away from them until you're sure they, you know, they've been away for more than 24 hours, etc. But it's not a high likelihood of getting something from the package. That said, Amazon needs to be more transparent about what they're doing to keep these facilities safe. I've gotten banks telling me more about how they're wiping down the counters at their at their branches. Then we know about what Amazon's actually doing in their warehouses. Some transparency would go a long way to having people understand how this all works. And it's another indication. If we had more testing, you could just say, look, if you're in a position where you're going to be touching things, you know, US post office, Amazon, let's just test everybody. The problem is we don't have enough tests. So we can't afford to just test everybody like that. Hopefully they're they're at least doing tests for fever. Make sure that if anybody has a fever, they're not allowed to come to work at these warehouses, things like that. But you don't there's not a high risk of getting this from a package. We did want to pass along those facts about the activity of the virus just just so you have the facts as well. Wash your hands. There's there's the one then now forever. Wash your hands. If you got an Amazon package and you handle it, wash your hands, toss the packaging as soon as you get it. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, the Amazon has so many warehouses at so many different sizes all over the place and you've got you say, well, OK, let's say you more or less trust Amazon to do the right thing. OK, well, they figured out a certain facility needed a thorough a thorough cleaning and they're being really fastidious across the board. OK, even so, I mean, I don't know how someone who is driving in Amazon freight truck interacts with anybody at a warehouse and how many people that might go through before it gets to me. I mean, there's there's so much involved that unless Amazon says here's exactly what's going on in here. All the steps we were taking from the point that you order something to the point that you, you know, plug in your new smart light bulb because it's been delivered to you. It is really hard. It's it's it's hard to know. So yes, as you mentioned, Justin, you have to go overboard in in keeping yourself safe because that's all you can really do. Yeah, I mean, it's annoying. Everybody knows it's annoying, but just it's, you know, just wash your hands 50 times. It's fine. You know, I got some I got some hands up that smells really good. I am enjoying it washing my hands.  I mean, I did it before, but now I do it a lot. Yeah. Conan O'Brien announced on Wednesday he will return to full shows on March 30th. He wrote on Twitter, I will shoot at home using an iPhone and my guests will Skype. This will not be pretty, but feel free to laugh at our attempt. Stay safe. Jimmy Fallon has been filming YouTube videos that are incorporated into the evening's rerun of the tonight show. Stephen Colbert has been filming a new monologue for the late show reruns and Jimmy Kimmel has been sharing his own mini log. That's a hashtag on social media. We talked a little bit about this during Good Day Internet, but it is it is quite fascinating to see the world of entertainment, high production value entertainment turned to what we've been doing on shows like this, you know, for 15 years. And it's I'll be honest. Part of me wants to be like, ah, look at you guys doing what we've been doing. Part of me is is is heartened like, oh, welcome to our club. Yes. This you can do this. Oh, absolutely. I mean, my first reaction was like, doesn't he have anything besides an iPhone? You know what? iPhone has a pretty nice shot. I do it all the time. So it's like as long as it's funny, it almost doesn't matter as much when I watched the latest last week tonight with John Oliver. He he wasn't at home, but he was sort of in a kind of look like an Apple ad. It was just like a white background behind him, you know, but there's no studio audience. They didn't do canned laughter, so there was no laughter at all. And I was like, this is a weird way to watch the show. But I appreciate the effort. I appreciate everyone's effort. I mean, they they they want to keep going. They want to keep their audiences. They want to, you know, to keep people happy. So, you know, you got to work with what you have, get creative. Yeah. And look, there are radio shows that are now going fuller remote and some of them have ISDN lines. Many, many don't. And many sound like all the podcasts that you've listened to. Many of our voices on in in our earlier years, except now they are at the height of entertainment and media. There there has never, never been more of a mainstream showing of Skype callers and of various different focusing and refocusing from automatic cameras. It is it is just a bizarre time to live in. And I do think that part of the lessons here will be remembered for a long time. I think that that the idea of the gigantic studio or shows being predicated on a studio audience, you know, may may recede from from this point. You know, it's not needed for all of them. There's there's some interesting things. One is like what you were saying, Sarah, without a studio audience to laugh, you need a different kind of joke. You need a different rhythm. So there may be the situation where they're like, you know what? If we want to do a traditional monologue, we've got to have a studio audience. That's one thing we learned. And if we don't have a studio audience, we have to write differently. Yeah, your rhythm has to be different. I've noticed that in the Colbert stuff. Some of his jokes work great because of the way he delivers them. Others, you can tell he's just out of habit, pausing for applause.  The cadence has to change, you know? And that and a lot of that goes for sporting events, right? OK, we'll play to an empty stadium. Well, the stadium also matters that all of that stuff is it's just we've always done it this way. This is the way that works. Oh, well, now we have to do it differently. Let's try to do it the same way. Well, that didn't work either. OK, let's rethink this. So I don't know. Maybe some good will come of this. I think what we'll see is more of these kinds of of, you know, DIY segments, they've been creeping into the high production value shows here and there, but I bet they'll be doing a lot more of these. And though they'll realize like, oh, we've we've developed this skill. We figured out what's appropriate. We figured out how to make it happen. Like Justin was joking before the show that, you know, they'll figure out that a USB mic is not great. And they still want an analog mic with a USB extender. Like they'll figure all that stuff out and we'll we'll see more of this happen like in these shows, even when things go back to normal. Knock on wood. Yep. Hey, folks, if you want to get all the tech headlines each day in about five minutes, be sure to subscribe to dailytechheadlines.com. Man, yesterday I was talking about how Elon Musk should offer his Tesla factory to to make things that that hospitals and health care providers might need. I swear I hadn't seen any of the stories that happened almost immediately after that when I said it. Ventilators particularly are needed for critically ill patients. And there's a real concern that the number of critically ill patients could soon exceed the number of ventilators on hand in the United Kingdom. Companies, including the jet engine maker Rolls-Royce, not the car maker, Airbus and Jaguar Land Rover have been asked if they can help address the pending shortage. Toyota has also offered to help there. In the United States, General Motors CEO, Mary Bara, told the White House she's looking into making ventilators at her company's factories. Ford's talking to the US and UK governments about doing so. And on Twitter, which is where Elon Musk does most of his talking, a user asked Elon Musk if he could have Tesla make ventilators. And Musk responded Wednesday, quote, we will make ventilators if there is a shortage Thursday morning. New York City's mayor wrote, our country is facing a drastic shortage and we need ventilators ASAP to Elon Musk. He wrote that we will need thousands in this city over the next few weeks. We're getting them as fast as we can, but we could use your help. We're reaching out to you directly, although reaching out to someone in an at reply on Twitter is not the definition of directly. But OK, there are other efforts going on, too. Razor CEO, Min Liang Tang announced they will shift a number of the razor manufacturing lines. And believe me, they're selling razor equipment right now because people are gaming from home, but they're still going to shift some of their manufacturing lines to make surgical masks. Those are also in short supply and essential for health care workers. Razor thinks it can make up to a million masks, which it will give to health care providers for free with the first shipments going to Singapore, where Razor's headquarters are located. And a related story, Nathan Proctor, who's the head of the right to repair campaign for the US Public Interest Research Group, called on ventilator makers to release all the repair documentation for their essential medical kit, especially ventilators. And I fix it has already begun to compile ventilator service manuals and make them available on their site so that there can be more onsite, faster repair of ventilators so you can keep using them longer. This is this is, you know, very interesting situation. It is exactly where my head was at yesterday when we were talking about this. Justin, what what should happen here? What's the role of technology and automaker companies and others in stepping in here and helping? So a real quick primer for everybody. The major issue here, if you are unaware, although this is pretty much all that anybody's thinking of, but in the interest of clarity, the problem with what we're going to face is not necessarily even the lethal power of the virus, but there is a choke point in terms of hospital beds and equipment. And so this on its face, all these companies coming together, saying, look, we have the engineers. We have the we have the the lines to make them. Let's make more ventilators is very, very, very, very good. I I have a few questions, including is a public conversation between Elon Musk and Bill de Blasio, the best way that we should be conducting public health policy during a pandemic. That's that's a big question mark for me. They are strong personalities that I will leave personal feelings about one or both of them out of out of this particular discussion. But where are they needed? How fast can they be made? How fast can they get there? There are logistical questions that I really, really have. And I hope that there is somebody that is a central clearinghouse to connect, you know, whether or not these ventilators are, a safe, be able to be deployed and whether they are able to get where they need to be. Yeah, that that seems to be one of one of the aspects of this that worries me. It's it's not that, you know, the automakers are saying the right things. They are. Even Elon Musk is saying, look, if you need ventilators, I'll make ventilators. That's that's saying the right thing. And it's not that I'm saying, well, I don't trust him. He's just saying that it's that it is something that needs coordination. You want to make the right ventilators. You want to make them in a way that they can be shipped to the places that need them. You need a central clearinghouse, whether it's a czar or or or its CDC in charge of coordinating it. You need someone to look over and say, who's making what? How many are they making? I mean, you need a freaking product manager for the situation so that you can make sure that you're optimizing these and getting them to the right places because lives matter. Lives depend on it. Yeah, I also don't think. I mean, Elon Musk saying, hey, you need ventilators. OK, we will do that. Let us know in the mayor of New York City. I doubt he was like, oh, now's our chance. Tweet back. If he's serious, he obviously contacted him another way. But this is like kind of holding the company's feet to the fire so that everyone else knows, oh, New York actually needs them to do this. So you can't say something and be flippant about it so that if, for some reason, Elon Musk and Tesla and whatever warehouses he has access to don't do this, then they look bad. So I'm sure there's more to it than just chatting on Twitter. Yes, I hope I certainly hope so. Yes, I hope as well as somebody that has had he's he's coming under a lot of fire for for some of the way that he is handling stuff and how seriously he is taking it personally, Google it, YMCA, Jim, just Google that to Blasio. And I hope I hope that he is that this is something where if because he's going to have a major problem, you know, and this is not the only private public partnership that we're looking at. There was a report today or during the press conference today that Carnival Cruise Lines was possibly looking to dock some of their ships that aren't going to be running as possible, floating hospitals. The military has already moved some of their floating hospitals off the coast of New York City. So there are a lot of things that can come together. I just hope that this is taken more seriously than a Twitter one upsmanship between whatever you might think of them to very loud personalities. Ventilators and beds are different things. If you could have all the beds of the world, if you don't have the ventilator for the critically ill patient, then the bed doesn't help as much as it would otherwise.  I guess we're fine. Well, the navy ship might have some ventilators. In fact, the military has been requisitioning some of their ventilators and giving them towards the cause. But from what the people who are dealing with this say, we will likely need more. Yes. And we're going to need more than we would ever think we could have needed because this is this is so cute with a very at risk part of our population. Well, a great group effort that we are very appreciative of is everybody who contributes to our subreddit. You can submit stories. 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Yeah, I think when, surely after I joined the community and I heard you saying this is a lifelong journey, in a way that takes the goal of the timeline for me. And I know probably for others as well, just because there was such a goal-driven mindset to want to know that I will get it. And I think I'm getting it soon when like a dangling carrot just cannot reach it and there is a frustration. But once I heard and truly embraced it, okay, this is a lifetime. This is a practice that's going to last till the end of time, basically. Then there is suddenly no pressure for a goal on a linear time to say where am I at comparing myself with others, comparing myself with anything in a timeline. But it's just, you know, the more the fruit, the more it indicates the work behind it. The work is the mind work, the sincerity to just not let any situation be pushed away. You know, the mind, when it's so-called lazy to not doing the mind training work, what it does is just to push away, push a situation away and say, okay, you know, I don't need to look at it or I know how to go about it. There is no prayer, no prayer behind it. So there is a lot of work on our daily life on the surface. We're very joyful, but behind it there is so much prayer all day long, never-ending prayer, to just want to see the guidance, you know, want to see where following this guidance. And also know our mind is fixated, is anchored in asking the spirit. That is the direction we're giving to the mind. And I watched David, he probably wakes up, just asks, what do we have in the spirit? And then he doesn't stop all day long, even though the body is busy, the mind is still. But it's like one prompt after the next and that becomes the practice behind the joy. I think what has happened with modern, seemingly modern society is it could be called the quick fix society. So we transfer this quick fix mentality to everything, including our spiritual path. So then instead of thinking like back in the days when people would devote their whole life, to a monastery or a spiritual calling, that was part of their promises and their vows. I give my whole life over to you Jesus and that's it. Now it's turned more into a vending machine mentality. Imagine going to a vending machine with a few dollars to put the coins in the vending machine and you say, okay, I'm at the spiritual enlightenment vending machine and I've got my money. I've saved up my money, I've got my money, so please insert your money. In the enlightenment vending machine you insert the dollars, or euros, or coins, whatever you've got. And then it goes... And then you take your enlightenment out of the bottom of the vending machine. Thank you Jesus. That was it. That's what I wanted. I know basically it was actually Esther that wrote in the I need do nothing thing, which sometimes people even use the I need do nothing. I said, did you take the course? They said, oh yeah, I took the course in Miracles about 12 years ago. How did it go for you? Oh, it was good. I was on to my next books. Do you think the course is a book? The course is not a book. The book actually has the line inside the book. You will believe this course will be believed entirely or not at all. What? I thought it said I need do nothing. No, he threw that in there. He threw some candy in there. But actually it says this course will be believed entirely or not at all. So it's a matter of mind of really getting faith in the Holy Spirit so that you don't need the book anymore. You have such a prayer for the Holy Spirit's guidance and Jesus' guidance that you reach a point where you don't need the book. And yet oftentimes on the spiritual journey, people have a feeling like it's just reading words in a book, in a scripture. Sometimes people believe the Bible is the word of God. It's the only way and so on and so forth. Even though the course says it's just one form of the universal curriculum and that there are many pathways to God. Even the course says, forget this world, forget this course. It's not designed to generate a dependency on the book, but it is designed to generate a dependency on the Holy Spirit. We have to say that's a good form of dependency. If the Holy Spirit is your remembrance of who you really are and the Holy Spirit is the one who gives you the guidance and instructions on how to wake up and transcend the body to go beyond the body, then you want to be addicted to the Holy Spirit.  You can call it intuition. You can call it higher self. You can call it Atman. You can call it Fred. You can call it Jane. You can call it anything you want. You can even call it poop if you want. People always like it when I say that word. But imagine that was your higher self. What's the name? Poop. I'm going to tune into poop right now. You can give it any name you want.  Male, female, androgynous. Oh, androgynous higher self.  He, she, it. He, she, him, her. It's so funny to watch humans. Him, her. God the Father, God the Mother. Father, mother, father, mother, father, mother. I go to some churches. They can't say the word God. Father, mother, father, mother. They want to be so inclusive of both sexes. Father, mother, father, mother, father, mother. You know, I just laugh at all the human ways because it's all just trying to connect with the presence that knows the way, how to wake up. And that's really what this whole beyond the body retreat is about, is about connecting with that inner presence and trusting that inner presence. And when fear comes up, just again taking a pause, taking a deep breath and just saying, okay, I trust, I trust. And I know that you're going to send me whatever I need, mighty companions, signs, symbols.  You're going to find a way to reach me because you love me so much and you can reach past this fear that I have in my mind. So that's the great thing. But as Francis is saying, it takes a full devotion. You can't be on the spiritual journey and try to divorce it as just one category of your day or just one category of your worldly life. You want to be able to see God in every moment. You want to be among the ordinary, seemingly ordinary occurrences that are part of your day-to-day living. It wasn't the way of the peaceful warrior. That was one of the realizations. There are no ordinary moments. Every moment is extraordinary. Every single moment is spectacular. Imagine using that word when you think of this moment. How are you doing? Spectacular. What's happening in your life that is so spectacular? It's what's happening in my heart that's so spectacular. It's what's happening in my mind that's so spectacular. It's not saying that the things that I'm perceiving are, but if I'm in a spectacular state of mind, then everything that I perceive would be spectacular. If I have a spectacular heart feeling, then it would be everything I experience from my heart is spectacular. That that's who we are and how we perceive the world is the central place in the dreaming of this world. That's what it means to be the dreamer.  You're not just an ordinary dreamer.  Not at the mercy of the world. You are empowered in mind.


The Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hamad Wasi, has lamented that the executive arm of the federal government does not recognize and implement resolutions passed by the parliament, particularly on the security crisis in the French part of Nigeria. Wasi made this non-during the debate on emotion of urgent public importance, moved by Solomon Myron from Plattus State, on the recent kidnapping of some traditional rulers from his constituency. Myron prayed the House to urge the federal government to direct the Inspector General of Police, the chief of different staff and other relevant security agencies to immediately do everything possible to ensure the safe release of the monarch and many others in kidnappers' captivity across the country, including victims of cardinatry in attack.


Hello, and welcome back to the craft box. My name is Ren and today We've got a question that has been asked a lot What is my favorite world and why? And to that I always say Molly bone and don't really give an explanation why So today we're gonna look at why Molly bone is my favorite world So first reason is that I love the music the music is what makes up half of the game This is the thing that you listen to in the background that some people actually turn off Which I don't know how you do and if you do how are you still playing the game? I Disown you but the music and Molly bone is so cool like I Just love the mysterious nature to it It just yeah really really mysterious, and I like that Another reason is it's kind of short and by kind of I mean it's very very short So there's how many areas are there? There's um a One two three four five six seven eight nine nine areas That you have to do for the storyline Which is not many actually ten sorry including the armworks. I didn't see that one ten Which is not many compared to most places where there's like 1220 They go on forever and most of the areas they do look the same But they all kind of have their own different story and They don't really Yeah, they just I like it. I like how short of this. It's very short. You get through it real quick I think the fastest I've done it was on my storm in my life my old storm in life We're I think we did in like what like six hours So and that that was that was listening to dialogue so it could take a lot lot lot shorter And it's really really quick. There's also a lot of XP that you can get here through side quests And a lot of badges as well from memory Yeah, that's bad just 16 badges, which is a lot really really lots which is cool there's also the Also barking in Palace, which is a very difficult dungeon for level 40s But looks super cool. So that's also a plus at Marley bone Another reason why I love Marley bone is because Because of the artwork like I just love the night feel we don't have money We don't have any other night areas that are like constantly night ever and And was a one-on-one, which is Really cool. So it makes it unique Whereas all the others are just like daytime and it makes sense But like this is your only place Marley bone is the only place where it's night and I like that I kind of like the kind of dark more after after dusk sort of feeling for it. So yeah There's also a lot of fish in here as well, which is good point So if you need fish come to here, this is a good place is barking in Palace a really good place to fish just saying Yeah, so those are kind of like the top reasons why I love Marley bone And it's kind of my favorite world The story is also really good and I kind of enjoyed it even more in Pirate 101 I did not realize fish were up in here as well. Holy moly the more you know Pirate 101 Marley bone is really really cool as well And I love how they brought in kind of the same storyline from Wizard 101 into Pirate 101 is kind of similar, which is cool I love the cohesion in Marley bone. Basically Marley bone is a very cohesive cohesive cohesive is that a word probably not a very Combined world that makes a lot of sense in the lore of the game and that's why I like Marley bone and why it is my favorite world But my question for you today is what is your favorite world? And if you have a favorite world that is not Marley bone leave it down in the comments with a reason why it's your favorite world as well That's your challenge for today So thank you for watching remember to leave a like and subscribe and if you've already subscribed press the little bell so you know Exactly when I post another video and a member craft outside the box


Two men who dug up Viking Hoard are now going to jail. Even before Netflix showcased its program, Detectorists, the hobby was becoming a growing trend.  And some people are going to prison for what has been hidden for centuries. Using a metal detector may not be as exciting as being a pirate searching for buried treasure but it's the closest then the average person has to do some real treasure hunting. According to the BBC, that's just what George Powell and Leighton Davies were doing in Herefordshire, England, but now they're facing prison sentences for 8 to 10 years. The two men had been exploring a field near eye with their metal detectors, back in 2015, when they came across a buried Viking treasure hoard. The hoard contained a mix of coins and jewelry, dating all the way back to the 9th century. The problem isn't with what they found, nor where they found it. It is complete with what they did afterward. There is a procedure to follow which differs slightly from country to country but British law says that they must be reported to the coroner within two weeks of their discovery. Failure to report it could earn some combination of a fine and a short jail term. If the discovery yields any sort of reward there are more laws too. For instance, it must be shared between the person who found it, the owner of the land it was found on, and the person occupying the land, if that's someone other than the property owner. But Powell and Davies did none of those things. It was reported that the two men took their catch to an antique dealer in Cardiff, Wales, and had Paul Wells, a local coin dealer, take a look at it. The treasure was glorious and included a crystal pendant from the 5th or 6th century, a gold ring and dragon's head bracelet that seemed to be from the 9th century, a silver ingot, and around 300 coins. It didn't take long for Wells to figure out that the find was extremely valuable, both financially and historically. Not only was the jewelry ancient and remarkable, but the coins were also perhaps even more so. Among the coins in the hoard were several, two emperors coins, which have images of King Alfred of Wessex and Seowulf II of Mercia. These coins are extremely rare, and also offer historians a look at how the two lands were ruled while England was just starting to become a united nation. But greed seemed to have the treasure finders in its grip because Powell and Davies still didn't report it. Wells contacted another treasure hunter Simon Wicks. The expert was extremely impressed and estimated that just the two emperor coins would be worth a whopping 100,000 each. Rumors began to spread about Powell and Davies and their valuable find. It wasn't long before a local officer in charge of liaising on found treasure was knocking. Powell denied that they had made any such discovery. This was a huge mistake. Finally, however, he relinquished the jewelry. He stuck to his guns about finding only found a few damaged coins of no real value, and there had been no point in reporting them. But that lie came out when police visited the house of Paul Wells, who showed them five coins he had in his possession. Sadly, of all that was found only the jewelry and about 30 of the 300 coins have been recovered. They are now housed in the British Museum. Gareth Williams, who is one of the museum specialists for Anglo-Saxon and Viking artifacts, says the coins are actually making historians reconsider how they have been thinking about that period of time. Powell and Davies have been convicted of theft and concealing the find. Wicks was arrested and is likewise charged with concealment, and is facing five years in prison as a result. Wells was also arrested and charged with concealing the discovery but hasn't yet been sentenced. The judge who presided over the trial said that the three men cheated the farmer who occupied the land and his mother. As well as the landowner and even the general public, to whom the treasure rightfully belongs. The total value of the Viking treasure Horde Powell and Davies discovered is estimated to be in the area of three million pounds. Had the two men simply declared it as they should have, they could have received as much as half of that value as a reward. Now, as a result of their greed, they won't see a penny and will be facing years in prison.


The Castle Lake Beena Boys basketball team was one of the most impressive in our area last year, making it all the way to the Class A semifinals, and they've picked up right where they're left off. The Panthers are ranked third in the state with a perfect 7-0 record, and have already beaten fifth ranked Northwoods, the team that defeated them in the semis last year. Taking on Manoban Waban, who also made to the state tournament last year, it was competitive early, but the Panthers poured it on in the second half. Jarell Jacobs hits the three, good ball movement to set that up. Later on, Ethan Brown into the paint for Jared Brown. Power dribbles in, gets the bucket to fall, makes it 65-39. The Panthers defense was swarming all game, forces the turnover. They get it up quickly in transition, and Antonio Brown finishes for the easy buckets. Another statement went for Castle Lake Beena, they take it's 84-51. Consider making a tax-deductible contribution to Lakeland PBS.


Ben, and why did you create Purism? What was the drive? What was the reason? It's a lot of reasons. It has started, you know, kind of, let's say, you know, bubbling up for a decade as I continue to go shop for new devices and I get frustrated by what's available out there. I've been in the hardware and software space for a long time, a huge free software advocate, and so these things are concerns for me and have been for a while. A big catalyst for me was having kids. And I have two young daughters and looking at the future of computing and where things were going. And, you know, me as an individual, and I think this is the case for a lot of people, especially pre-kids, right, that you're thinking about yourself. So I was willing to give up convenience for my control. But then looking at seeing, you know, having kids and then looking at the peer pressures, devices, how they're just, you know, there's no IoT device that actually respects the user's rights. There's really nothing out there from phones at all. Laptops are also a concern. And what I wanted to do was actually say, you know what, I can change the future for other people, not just for myself. And so that, to me, was where I thought, I'll open up that idea and see if there's others that are interested. And I know that I have the drive and knowledge and ability to execute in that space and have the passion toward it. And that's when I put out the crowdfunding campaign to see if other people were interested in, you know, starting Purism, basically. Yeah, and that worked. Yes, very well. From talking to you, what I see is that you focus too much on, you know, that the company should be ethical, you know, you should be doing the right thing. At times, you know, people do make wrong choices, you know, as we talked about.  I don't even, most of the time I don't even know it's Boeing plane or Airbus. Actually, it's just like Android and Apple, you know, Boeing or Airbus. At the same time, but what I do trust is that there are regulations, you know, there are laws.  Yes, yes. So what do you think about U.S.? So I think your analogy is actually fantastic because it does show that I talk about these two worlds that we have, the physical world where we have centuries of physical rights. And in the digital world, we don't have any. And so I do, I'm very strong believer that we should have digital rights. And those digital rights should be founded off of what benefits people in the society. And so these are things that when I was looking at, right, should I be more of an activist? I already have been an activist for decades and it's an education process, right? And what I have to do as an example is I have to educate people to say, let's take your analogy. Say, no, you shouldn't fly that, you know, let's say Boeing airplane, right? Instead, you should fly a different airplane. And then you would come back to me and say, yeah, but that doesn't get me from point A to point B. Right. And I say, and my activist stance would say yes, but you're giving up your rights to participate. So taking the analogy saying that that flying and there was no regulations would actually be a sort of this unethical approach. If we apply that to that analogy. So taking that same analogy forward would be that in the digital rights world, right, we have barely anything. Right. So what what has happened in Europe is a step in the right direction. But people need to be comfortable that when they just quote unquote board the plane that they know that that the regulations are there to protect them. And that's why it's one of the safest forms of travel. That's why people are comfortable in getting on. And so that same type of thing could happen with devices and the internet and digital rights. And this comes comes all the way from, you know, anti bullying all the way through to just general you having all of your privacy rights protected as society advances more and more toward, you know, where our online life is going to be more than our physical life. That these are going to be real concerns that need to be addressed. So what I looked at doing was I'm going to both be an activist as well as well as three things activist as well as work towards lobbying to make sure that regulations can be in place. And then also provide a business that can create a business that has the ability for creating products that can actually solve these problems as well. And by doing that, then I can influence maximize my influence on the future of computing.


So, what's the deal with mobile screens at concerts and how can we theorise this phenomenon? Digital filmic technologies have interpenetrated the concert experience as a new way to tell a story about our experience, a new way to say, I was there. The stories we tell about our life give meaning to our emotions and give structure to affects the pushes and pulls of everyday life. The way we tell those stories, the way we narrativise, is therefore crucially important in the making sense of our world and our place in that world. As such, personal narratives of the concert event are important to the way in which music culture is experienced and enjoyed. Storytelling and narrative have been associated with the concert for decades and theorists have explored the way in which the function of narrativisation extends the pleasures of belonging and community experienced in that space. Conventional storytelling techniques revolve around linear models, climactic structure and analogue modes such as speaking or writing. As a result, this has been the dominant way of generating and understanding personal stories. However, traditional modes of storytelling are changing as they are impacted by digital technologies and so too are the ways in which individuals understand and tell those stories. Alexander Bryan defines digital storytelling simply as telling stories with digital technologies. Digital technologies such as the camera phone expand and recreate experience in exciting new ways because they are loaded with functional tools and the capacity to connect on multiple levels simultaneously. As Laritha Horth explains, through new technologies, everyday users create their own digital storytelling techniques and diverse networks of distribution. Functionally, the camera phone enables many digital storytelling techniques that reshape the story itself. Like hypertext. Hypertext is a phenomenon of the digital internet age whereby users can click or touch a piece of text that hyperlinks to another portal. In this way, the story is alive. Alexander Bryan describes hypertext as an unusual storytelling platform that encourages the user to navigate along certain storylines like a choose your own adventure model. The hypertextual narrative device is a way that users can participate and change the story while it happens by choosing which portals to venture within and whose stories to weave into their own. One can also geotag other users and interact in other people's stories. A combination of different storytelling aspects of concert experiences in fragmented and highly stylised arrangements changed the way we experienced that concert. Bet you didn't know you were doing all that the last time you got your phone out at a concert. Thanks for watching.


Top five things our Baltimore Ravens must do to defeat those Cincinnati Bengals. Let's go. Number five, tackle. You have to tackle the Cincinnati Bengals offensive players because if you fail to tackle, as the Baltimore Ravens have learned before against not only the Cincinnati Bengals, but plenty of other teams, when it came to poor tackling, it results in bad plays for your defense. So, with these Cincinnati Bengals, open field tackles, group tackles, solo tackles, assisted tackles, they need to tackle the Cincinnati Bengals. Number four, offensive line must protect Lamar Jackson. We've seen it time and time again. When Lamar Jackson is blitzed, he can still have success, but his best and most consistent success comes when he got a clean pocket, when he's protected, when he ain't got all the pressure in his face every two seconds. When Lamar Jackson has time to throw that ball, ooh, Lamar Jackson has time to throw that ball and it's a beautiful thing. And you could say that same thing for any quarterback, but we ain't talking about any quarterback, we're talking about the Baltimore Ravens. So, Baltimore Ravens, protect your QB. Do what you gotta do. Yes, the offensive line is decimated. Yes, Ronnie Stanley is out. Yes, Tyler Linderbaum is out, but they still have guys that have started in this league before and tomorrow, they're going to be starting in this league again in Patrick McCary and Sam Mustapha. And yet the offensive line is gonna be mixed up a little bit and you're gonna sprinkle some Patrick Ricard in there as well, but you must protect Lamar Jackson at all costs that will make the flow of your offense go so much better as we already know. Number three, use Zay Flowers as a decoy. Now, when I say this one, do not get me wrong. You wanna involve Zay Flowers because obviously when Zay Flowers got the ball in his hands, beautiful things happen. We see the spin moves, we see the yak, we see him making people miss. It is a wonderful thing, but you can use that, still do that, still implement Zay Flowers, of course, but use him to set other people up too. The Baltimore Ravens, they had a great opportunity to do this last week, but they did not do this last week. Now, granted, obviously they didn't need to, they scored 25 points and they held it down, but this is something that you can use against the Cincinnati Bengals. So still gives Zay Flowers his bubble screens, still gives Zay Flowers his intermediate and deep passes for sure, but once you establish that, make it look like all right, we about to go to Zay again and you wanna still have him moving in motion and whatnot, pre-snap, but deceive the Bengals. Make your offense unpredictable.   Number two, score points. And yes, this one sounds so obvious to a lot of us, but that's what the Baltimore Ravens have to do. Look, we know the Cincinnati Bengals last week, they only scored three points, but we ain't worried about last week. Last week was last week, they're going to be at their crib this week, they're going to have a lot of energy there and they are going to want to prove like last week was a big time fluke and you know the Cincinnati Bengals, they are one play away all the time. They are a very big play team as we've seen in the past from personal experience too, unfortunately, but they got Jamar Chase, they got T Higgins, they got Joe Burrow, they got nice weapons and they got guys that can stretch the field, they got guys that can get yanked, they got guys that can make people miss. So it's so important for the Baltimore Ravens to score points. Field goals, that ain't going to cut it. It can't be a game where you're just kicking field goal after field goal, no, you have to score, not only points but touchdowns. You have to get in that end zone because against the Cincinnati Bengals team, they are a quick strike team. Now they could dink and dunk you up all day too, but you got to score points because if it's a shootout, which it very much could be, especially with the Ravens, deep-leaded as they are, you're going to need to score points to not only keep up but you want to get up on these Cincinnati Bengals. And the number one thing the Baltimore Ravens have to do tomorrow in order to defeat the Cincinnati Bengals, pass, rush. You got to get after Joe Burrow. You cannot let him have a clean pocket. You cannot have his vision where I, oh, I can look over here, see clearly, I can look over here. No, you need to get in his face early and often and throughout. If you can get after Joe Burrow, oh, you saw what the Browns did last week. You saw how they not only contained him but they got after him. They hit Joe Burrow, they sacked Joe Burrow, they made Joe Burrow extremely uncomfortable. He was in that pocket, like, oh man, what's going to happen next? That's what the Baltimore Ravens need to do. David O'Jobbo, his very first strip sack in the NFL. It came against none other than Joe Burrow.  Adolfi away. Last week he had a good game, but this week he needs to have a great game. Justin Matta, BK, Judevian Clowney, like Ravens got some guys that can get after it, but it's a matter of them getting after it. Tell Orlando Brown Jr., like, look, you on the other side now and you need to move on out the way, my friend. Ravens, get after Joe Burrow big time. And if the Ravens can do these five things, I guarantee you they will have the victory.


From the SiliconANGLE Media Office in Boston, Massachusetts, it's The Cube. Now, here's your host, Stu Miniman. Hi, Cube Nation. I'm Sam Cahane. Thanks for watching The Cube. Due to popular demand from the community, I will be interviewing the legendary Stu Miniman here today. He is STU on Twitter. So Stu and I are going to be digging into the 2019 predictions and also recapping 2018 for you here. So, Stu, let's get into it a little bit. 2018, can you set the stage? How many events did you go to? How many interviews did you conduct? Boy, Sam, it's tough to look back. We did so much with The Cube this year. I personally did over 20 shows and over somewhere between 400 and 450 interviews. Out of, we as a team did over 100 shows, over 2,000 interviews. So really great to be in the community and immerse ourselves as we drink from the fire hose and swim in the data. So over 400 interviews this year. That's amazing. What are some of the key learnings from 2018? Yeah, so Sam, my premise when I'm going out is how are we maturing? My background as you know, Sam, I'm an infrastructure guy. My early training was networking. I worked on virtualization and I've been riding this wave of cloud for about the last 10 years. So about two years ago, it was software companies. How are they living in these public clouds? So Amazon, of course, the dominant player in the marketplace, but we know it'll be a multi-cloud world. The update really for 2018 is we've gone from really how do I live in those public clouds to how are we maturing, we call it hybrid cloud or multi-cloud, but living between these worlds. We saw the rise of Kubernetes as a piece of it, but customers have lots of environments and how they get their arms around that is a serious challenge out there today. So how are the suppliers and communities and systems integrated like helping customers with this really challenging new environment that we have today? I'd love to hear any OMG moments from you. What surprised you the most this year? So it's interesting. When I think about some of the big moves in the industry, I mean we had the largest software acquisition in tech history. So IBM, you know, company used to work for Sam buying Red Hat, company I've worked with for about 20 years for $34 billion. I mean Red Hat has been the poster child for open source and the exemplar of that.  We've been talking for a long time how important developers are and how important open source is. And there's nothing like seeing, you know, big blue, 107-year-old company putting, you know, huge dollars to really, not just validate because IBM's been working in open source and working with Linux for a long time, but how important this is to the future. And that sits right at that core of that multi-cloud world. Red Hat wants to position itself to live in a lot of those environments, not just for Linux, but really the middleware. Kubernetes is a big play. We saw a number of acquisitions in the space there. I mean Red Hat bought CoreOS for $250 million. VMware bought Heptio and was kind of a little surprised actually at the sticker shop. $550 million, great team. You know, we know the Heptio team well. We talked to them, some of the core people back when they were at Google. But some big dollars being thrown around in this space. And, you know, as we said, the big one in the world is Amazon.  It kind of struck me as funny as, you know, okay, Amazon is in Seattle. I actually got to visit Seattle for the first time this year. And somebody told me if you look at the top 50 companies that have employees in Seattle, of course, Amazon is number one, but you need to take number two through 43 and add them together to make them as big as Amazon. Here in Boston, there's a new facility going up with 5,000 employees. I know they're going to have 25,000 in Long Island City, you know, right in the Queens in New York City, as well as Crystal City, right outside of D.C., 25,000. But the realization is that, of course, Amazon's going to have data centers in, like, pretty much every country. And they're going to have employees all around the world. This isn't just AWS, but Amazon overall. So Amazon, just a massive employer. I know so many people that have joined them, some that have left them. But, you know, it's almost everything that I talk about tends to come back to Amazon and either what they are doing or how people are trying to compete or live in that ecosystem. You're always talking to the community. What are some of the hottest topics you're hearing out there? Yeah, so, you know, living in this new world, you know, how are we dealing with developers? A story that I really liked, it's my networking background. The Cisco DevNet team read by Susie Wee is a really phenomenal example. And one of my favorite interviews of the year is actually got to talk to Susie twice this year. We've known her for many years. She got promoted to be a Senior Vice President, which is great validation. But what she built is a community from the ground up. It took about four years to build this platform. And it's not about, oh, we have some products and developers love it, but it's the marketplace that they live in really have builders there. It's the most exciting piece of what's happening at Cisco. My first show for 2019 will be back at Cisco Live in Barcelona. And, you know, Cisco going through this massive transformation to be the dominant networking company. When they talk about their future, it is as a software company. That actually, it blew my mind, Sam.  And when they say, when you think of us five to ten years from now, you won't think of us as a networking company. You think us as a software company. That's massive. They were one of the, you know, four horsemen of the Internet era. And if Cisco is making that change, you know, everything changes. You know, IBM, you know, people said if they don't make this move for Red Hat, you know, is there danger in future? So everything is changing so fast. It is one of the things that everybody tries to sort out and deal with. And I've got some thoughts on that, which I'm sure we'll get to later also.  So first of all, my favorite, Sam, is always when I get to talk to the practitioners. So, you know, a few of the practitioners I love talking to. At the Nutanix show in New Orleans this year, I talked to Vijay Luthra with Northern Trust. My co-host of the show is Keith Townsend. Keith, Chicago guy, and he said Northern Trust is one of the, you know, most conservative financial companies. And they are all in on containerization, modernize their application. It is great to see a financial company that is driving that kind of change. And that's kind of a theme I think you'll see, Sam. Another one, it was actually, it's funny enough, another Nutanix show at London had the Manchester City Council. So the government, what they're doing, how they're driving change, what they're doing for digital transformation, how they're thinking of IoT. Some of my favorite interviews I've done the last few years have been in the government because you don't think of government as innovating, but they're usually resource constrained. They have a lot of constituencies and therefore they need to do this. The Amazon Public Sector Show was super impressive. And everything from my interview to a person from the White House Historical Society, they brought on Jackie O's original guidebook of being able to tour the White House. So some really cool human interests, but it's all a digital platform on Amazon. What Amazon is doing in all of the industry specific areas is really impressive. Some of these smaller shows that we've done are super impressive. Another small show that really impressed me was UiPath. Robotic Process Automation, or RPA, been called the Gateway Drug to AI. Really phenomenal. I've got some background in operations. And one of the users on the program was talking about how you could get that process to somewhere around 97% to 98% compliant and standardized. But when they put an RPA, they get it to a full six sigma, which is like 99.999%. And usually that's something that just humans can't do. They can't just take the variation out of a process if people aren't involved. And this has been the promise of automation and it's a theme. One of my favorite questions this year has been, we've been talking about things like automation and intelligence in systems for decades, but now with the advent of AI, machine learning, we can argue whether these things are actually artificial intelligence and what they are learning, but the programming and learning models that can be set up and trained and what they can do on their own are super impressive and really poised to take the industry to the next level. So I want to fast forward to 2019, but before we do so, anything else that people need to know about 2018? So 2018, Sam, it's this hybrid, multi-cloud world. The relationship that I think we spend the most time talking about is we talked a lot about Amazon, but VMware. VMware now has over 600,000 customers and that partnership with VMware is really interesting. The warning, of course, is that Amazon is learning a lot from VMware and we joke with my friends to say, okay, you've learned a lot from them, means that maybe I don't need them in the long term, but in the short term, great move for VMware really solidifies their position with customers, customers feel happy as to where they live in that multi-cloud environment and I guess we throw out these terms like hybrid and multi and things like that. When I talk to users, they're just figuring out their digital transformation, they're worried about their business, yes, they're doing cloud, so, sassify what you can, put in the public cloud what makes sense and modernize, beware of lift and shift, it's really not the answer, it could be a piece of the overall puzzle to be able to modernize and pull things apart. An area I always try to keep ahead of what the next bleeding edge thing is, Sam, and the thing I've been looking at deeply the last two years has been serverless. Serverless is phenomenal, it could just disrupt everything we're talking about and Amazon, of course, has the lead there. So it was kind of an undercurrent discussion at the KubeCon show that we were just at, so just the final thing, things are changing all the time, Sam, and it is impossible for anybody to keep up on all of it. I get the chance to talk to some of the most brilliant people at some of the most amazing companies and even those, you know, the PhDs, the people inventing stuff, they're like, I can't keep up with what's going on at my company, let alone what's going on in the industry. So that's the wrong thing. Of course, one of the things we help to do is to help extract the signal from the noise, help people distill that. We put it into video, we put it into articles, we put it into podcasts to help you understand some of the basics and where you might want to go to learn more. So we're all swimming in this, you know, the only constant Sam in the industry is? Change. Absolutely. So things are changing. The whole landscape, as you said, is changing. Going into 2019, what should people expect? Any predictions from you? Any big mergers and acquisitions you might see? So it's amazing, Sam. The analogy I always use is when you have the 100-year flood, you always say, oh gosh, we got through it and we should be okay. No, no, no. The concern is if you've had the 100-year flood or the big earthquake, the chances are that you're going to have maybe something of the same magnitude, maybe even more or less, but rather soon. So a couple of years ago, Dell bought EMC, largest acquisition in tech history. We spent a lot of time analyzing it. By the way, Dell's going to go public December 28th. So interesting moves, billions of dollars, as Larry Ellison said. Michael Dell, he's no dummy when it comes to money. He is going to make personally billions of dollars off of this transaction and overall looks good for the Dell Technologies family as they're doing. So that acquisition, the Red Hat acquisition, yeah, we're probably going to see a $10-20 billion acquisition this year. Not sure who it is. There's a lot of tech IPOs on the horizon. The data protection space is one that we've kept a close eye on. From what I hear, like Veeam, who does over a billion dollars a year, not looking to go public. Rubrik, on the other hand, somewhere in the north, the $200 million worth of revenue, I'm trying to remember, $200-250 in run rate right now, likely going to go public in 2019. Could somebody sweep in and buy them before they go public? Absolutely. Now, I don't think Rubrik's looking to be acquired. That space, you've got Rubrik, you've got Cohesity. You've got a whole lot of players that it has been a little bit frothy, I guess you'd say, but customers are looking for a change in how they're doing things because their environments are changed. They've got lots of stuff in SAS, got to protect that data. They've got things all over the cloud, and that data issue is core when we actually did our predictions for 2018. Data is at the center of everything when we talk about Wikibon, and it was just talking to Peter Burris and David Floyer, and they said there's some hesitancy in the enterprise of I'm using Salesforce, I'm using Workday, I'm using ServiceNow. We hear all the things about Facebook giving my data away, Google, maybe allowing people to have data. There's that concern I want to pull things back. I always bristle a little bit when you talk about things like repatriation, I know I'm not going to trust the cloud. Look, the public clouds are more secure than my data centers are in general, and they're changing and updating much faster. One of the biggest sins we have in IT is that I put something in and making changes is tough. Change, as we said, is the only thing constant, and it was something I wrote about Red Hat actually as a company that has dealt with a lot of change. Anybody that's dealt anything with Linux or Kubernetes, there are so many changes happening on, you know, not only weekly but a daily basis that they help bring a little bit of order and adult supervision to what is, what most people would say is chaos out there, and that's the kind of thing we need more in the industry is I need to be able to manage that change. A line I've used many times is you don't go to a company and say, hey, what version of Azure are you running? You're running whatever Microsoft says is the latest and greatest. You don't have to worry about Patch Tuesday or 08. I've got that thing that's going to slow down my system for a while. Well, Microsoft needs to make that invisible to me. They do make that thing invisible to me. So does Amazon, so does Google. Great. What's your number one company to watch this upcoming year? So is it Amazon Sam?  Their ecosystem is amazing. While, you know, Amazon adds more in revenue than the number two infrastructure player does in revenue. So look, in the cloud space, it is not only Amazon's world. There definitely is a multi-cloud world. I went to the Microsoft show for the first time this year and Microsoft's super impressive. They focus on your business applications and, you know, customers love it.  And Microsoft's been a phenomenal turnaround story the last couple of years. Definitely want to dig in more with that ecosystem in 2019 and beyond. But Amazon, you know, we could do more shows of the cube in 2019 than we did, like, our first couple of years. I mean, they do over, they have, of course, Amazon re-invent, our biggest show of the year, but their second tier, it's about 20 shows that they do and we're increasing those. I've been to the New York City Summit and the San Francisco Summit. I already mentioned their public sector summit. Really, really, really good ecosystems, phenomenal users. And I already told you how I feel about talking to the users. So it's great to hear what they're doing and those customers are moving things around. So look, Google, love doing the Google show. We'll be back there in April. Diane Greene's one of the big gets of the year for us this year. I was sorry to miss it in person because I actually have some background. I work with Diane back, you know, before EMC bought VMware. I had the pleasure of working with VMware when they were, like, a 100-person company. Sam, one of the things, I look back at my career and I'm still a little bit of Gog. I mean, you know, I was in my mid-20s working with this little company of about 100 people, signed like an NDA, started working with them, and, you know, that's VMware with 600,000 customers. I've kind of watched their ascendancy. It's been, you know, one of the pleasures of my career. So those small ones, I mean, heck, you know, Nutanix I've mentioned a couple of times. I started working with them when they were real small. They're over a billion in revenue, new pure since the early days. There's some companies that have done really well. So, you know, the cloud is really the center of gravity of what I watch. Edge computing, we got into a bit. I'm surprised we, you know, got almost 20 minutes into this conversation without mentioning it. So, you know, that, the whole IoT space and edge computing really interesting. We did a fun show with PTC here in Boston, you know, got to talk to, you know, the father of AI, the father of virtual reality. It's like all these technologies, many of which have been bouncing around for a couple of decades. You know, how are they going to become real?  So, you know, how much will those take the next step and how much are things stulling out? I was having conversations. You know, autonomous vehicles, we've been looking at the space, been talking about it, you know, will, you know, it really start to accelerate or have we hit roadblocks and it's going to get delayed because in some of these, or technology, some of these are, you know, policies in place and governance and the like. And that's still one of the things that slows down cloud adoption. You know, GDPR was a big discussion leading into the beginning of 2018. Now we barely talk about it. Now there's more regulations coming in California and the like. But, you know, we do need to worry about, you know, there's some of those macroeconomical and political things that sometimes get in the way of some of the technology pieces. Great. So, Stu, I'd love to put something out into the universe here. If you could interview anyone in the world, who would it be? Let's see if we can make it happen. So, look, you know, it's amazing to me, Sam. You know, some of the interviews we've done, I got a one-on-one with Michael Dell this year. It was phenomenal. Michael was one. It took us about three or four years before we got Michael on the program the first time. Now we interview him two or three times a year. And, you know, really to get to talk to him and, you know, there is the founder culture. John Furrier always talks about, you know, some of these founders are very different. You know, Michael, amazing, got to speak to him a couple of times. There's something that makes him special and there was a reason why he's a billionaire and has done very well for himself. So, you know, that was one. Furrier also interviewed John Chambers. It was one of the big gets I was looking at. I was jealous that I wasn't going to get there. I got to interview one of my favorite authors this year, Walter Isaacson, at the show.  I read his bio. I've heard some phenomenal interviews with him. You know, Kara Switzer did a phenomenal sit-down on her podcast with him. Even the 60-minute interview was decent this year. Joe Rogan won this award as well.  I wouldn't expect Elon to be a 15-minute rapid-fire conversation like we usually have, but we do some longer forms sit-down. So, he'd be one. You know, Andy Jassy, we've interviewed, you know, a number of times now, phenomenal. We've not had Jeff Bezos on the program. So, you know, some of the big, you know, tech players out there. Look, Larry Ellison's another one that we haven't had on the program. We've had Mark Hurd on the program. We've had lots of the Oracle executives, you know, Oracle's one that you don't count out. They still have, you know, so many customers and have strong power in the industry. So, there's some big names. You know, I do love some of the authors that we've had on the program, some thought leaders in the space. So, you know, every time we go to a show, it's like, yeah, I was a little disappointed. I didn't get to interview, you know, Jane Goodall when she was, you know, at a show. It was at things like that. So, we ask and never know when we can get them. And but as I said, Sam, a lot of times it's those individual stories of the users which are phenomenal. And there's just, you know, thousands of good stories.  We make sure we always have some editorial coverage so that if there's customers that are comfortable sharing their story, that's the foundation. Our research was founded on peers sharing where their peers and some of those powerful stories of change and taking advantage of new technologies and really transforming, you know, not just business but, you know, healthcare and finance and government. There's, you know, so much opportunity for innovation and drivers in the marketplace today. Stu, I love it. Thanks for wrapping up 2018 for us and giving us the predictions. Cube Nation, you heard it here. We got to get Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Larry Ellison on the Cube this year. We could use your help. So, Stu, thank you. And Cube Nation, thank you for watching.


All right, next question is from s. Costanzo 430. How do you combine maps hit with other programs like maps anabolic great question? Do you want to yeah? No, so maps hit is a high-intensity interval training program that we created a while ago It's one of our more popular programs Understandably, it's a very effective in the short-term fat burning Program so people who want to burn body fat and you know five or six weeks Maximize that this kind of a program is very very effective at doing that There are some drawbacks to hit though the drawbacks are you keep training that way by the way It's same drawback you get with any program if you stick to it for too long Starts to stop working. It doesn't do what it was designed to do anymore One of the other things about hit training is it's intense. It's intense on the body It's actually in the name eight the H stands and the first H and I stand for high intensity If you combine it with other programs You'll probably overwhelm your body's ability to recover and repair in which case you'll get no results Oh, yeah, and that's the main reason why we have the warning we do Because we've ramped up the intensity so much we've had to increase now our attention towards the recovery side of it And so if we're gonna now stack a different program alongside hit now What is your recovery look like so it's it's it's one of those things you got to be conscious of like that You know immediately to me like trying to structure that into another program could be problematic Mainly because it's gonna muddy up all the all the waters of like, you know Even the recovery process which is essential for you to progress The only way that I normally recommend to somebody that they combine it with another program is in replace of like a foundational day Because of time constraint right or just because you wanted to change something up So if I not in addition Yeah, not in an addition like if you're falling maps anabolic and you're not missing any days And you're all doing that and you're trying to also add in hit I would tell you to back off. That's too much. You don't need to be doing that But if you're somebody who's like I own both programs I really like some of the workouts and hit is there a way for me to integrate it with my maps anabolic or maps aesthetic One of my other programs then I would replace it would replace a foundational day So and I this is how I use things like maps hit is I base it off of the day That's I have time constraint like maps hit is designed for you to be able to get a workout in under 30 minutes So instead of me like saying like oh, I really want to just do a maps hit workout today Just because it's like oh, this is a day where I don't have a lot of time We got to get out of here in less than an hour's worth of time. Okay Here's a great time instead of me following my you know phase to workout a map set up Oh, I'm gonna throw a maps hit workout in there. That's how I use it Yeah, I actually used to love it for when I would go on a week's vacation or somewhere Or like I would go somewhere where there's limited equipment And I had just enough to be able to do one of these types of workouts and like through that week If not two weeks like you know just a short window of doing hit was very beneficial for me then coming back Yeah, the feedback and you know, of course this month maps hit is 50% off So we're getting a lot of questions surrounding the program. It's easily one of our I mean this one flies when we put This one on sale people get it and of course again, it makes sense people want fast Resorts and results in a short period of time one of the drawbacks to that though Of course is it doesn't last so you don't want to stretch it out for too long and you don't want to do this You don't want to take a good thing and think if I just add more to it Then I'm gonna get better things right doesn't work like that with exercise The right dose is the best dose the right dose gives you the best results So when we created the program maps it we created it as a standalone program So if you use this program in its entirety don't add things to it if you use our other programs Which are also designed to be standalone and then you add to them probably not a good idea Adam grave great advice Rather than taking a full program and adding another full program to it Cut some of the stuff out and then replace of so you can kind of mix it up a little bit But again, it's you know, what are the benefits of proper hit training? Short so the workouts are shorter faster fat loss That's the big one with this particular program to get very very fast fat loss and then for those you athletically minded people It's conditioning. This is gonna feel much more like a conditioning workout than your traditional resistance training


Kings Island has finally officially announced O'Ryan, the new for 2020 giga coaster by Bolliger and Mabillard. Fans of Kings Island have been asking for this giga coaster for years now, seems like forever, and they are finally getting what they want. Here we have a coaster that stands 287 feet tall, has a drop of 300 feet, a top speed of 91 miles per hour, and a total track length of 5,321 feet. So right off the bat, it's obvious that this is pretty short for a giga coaster. It's actually even shorter than Leviathan at Canada's Wonderland, which people also complain about being a bit short. This ride has been met with a lot of mixed reception upon its leak and announcement, and I'm going to talk about that a little bit here, but mostly I'm going to be focusing on the ride elements and what I think this ride is going to deliver. O'Ryan's theme, as described by Kings Island, is the latest prototype vehicle developed by the Project X Initiative. Scientists are in a race against time to develop technology capable of weaving transport vehicles through a coming meteor storm and traveling to a new planet within the O'Ryan constellation. For the program to be successful, it needs volunteers to help with testing. So basically, this is a simulator for scientists to test out. It's sort of open-ended and slightly confusing maybe. I don't expect this ride to be themed that well, as is typical with Cedar Fair. The logo itself looks pretty good, although I feel like it's a bit generic looking, but it's not bad. The name O'Ryan, I think, is alright. I know the story of O'Ryan, as some have pointed out, ties in pretty well with the park because of O'Ryan hunting the beast. I do like the name Polaris better, but we're well beyond that now. O'Ryan is the new gigacoaster. I think it's a solid name. It has a pretty decent looking logo. The theme is slightly confusing, but it's not bad overall. Looking at this POV, you go up this 287 foot tall lift hill, crest the top and go down a very steep 300 foot drop. We're not sure exactly how steep it is yet, probably around 80 degrees, as a lot of gigas are. Then we go through this massive wave turn-like element, which looks really interesting. Then we go up into the turnaround, almost like a reverse treble clef type of element. This is over 200 feet tall. It's huge. Then we go into this 56 foot tall speed hill right here, which looks like it's going to deliver some amazing airtime. Then over a floater airtime camelback hill. Then we twist right and go up into this figure eight helix type element. This looks similar to something like Shambhala at Port Aventura, which is really interesting. I think it looks awesome. Then we go up into this hill here, dive down.  Overall, I really like the layout of Orion. There's not many surprises here. It's pretty much spot-on with what we've seen from the leaks, and there is definitely some interesting things thrown in there. I think the speed hill looks amazing, and it's very similar to the one found on Leviathan, which I've heard awesome things about. The figure eight helix looks like it's going to be pretty fun and could deliver some pretty good forces as well. The thing I'm most curious about on this ride is that huge wave turn like hill after that first drop. It is absolutely massive. It stands at 174 feet, and I think you're going to experience some interesting sideways airtime there. It's going to be really cool to see what this feels like on a large scale B&M coaster like this. Something else that is really cool about this ride as well is there's this really cool headchopper moment as you exit the figure eight helix. You go between the support from the first drop and the bottom of the first drop, and that looks like it's going to be amazing right there. I think this ride is going to deliver a few decent pops of airtime. I don't think it's going to have any crazy ejector moments, but I think it's going to deliver some decent floater like on the big wave turn like element. The speed hill and then that large camelback hill, and as well as the first drop, I think there's going to be some pretty good airtime on all of those elements. One thing about this ride, even the smallest elements on this ride are pretty tall. Of course, the lift hill is 287 feet tall. The second hill, which is the wave turn like element, is 174 feet tall. The turnaround is 202 feet tall. Then you have the 56 foot tall speed hill, then a 147 foot tall camelback airtime hill right after that. And then the helix is 125 feet tall. Then the next hill after that is 90 feet tall. And what they're considering the last hill, which is actually when you go up into the final brake run is 83 feet tall. So yes, another very tall brake run from BNM. 83 foot tall brake run. So I think this is a really great looking giga coaster layout. It definitely feels similar to a lot of the other gigas, but it's also unique in its own ways. A lot of people are upset about the length of this ride. And while I can understand some of that disappointment and frustration, not every single ride needs to be a record breaker. I don't think it was really necessary for King's Island to break a ton of records with this. And there could be a couple different reasons as to why they didn't make it longer or try to top fury. One of the reasons being thrown out there is that King's Island did not want to one up cedar point and make something bigger than millennium force. It does sound kind of ridiculous, but it could be true. Take it for what it's worth. It's all speculation. Another thing is adding much more length to something like this costs a lot of money. And maybe it was just done for budgetary reasons. Like I said, I don't think it's necessary for King's Island to get something necessarily as long as like fury. It would have cost a lot more money. And they're going to attract just as many people to the park, especially general public with what they have here. I mean, we all know all of us are going to go ride this next year. Who are we kidding? Every one of us wants to get out there next year and ride this. The general public are going to eat this up. This is a great move on King's Island's part. They're getting their giga. They have something that looks really strong, very well done. I think the pacing is going to be pretty great on this ride. It does seem to be a lot more graceful than fury 325, which has more low to the ground elements. And I think that's fine. It is going to deliver some pretty good forces, I think, though, as compared to a B&M hyper. So I think it's going to differ enough from, say, Diamondback. You know, it's not going to be something that focuses all on the floater airtime like that. That's a very hyper style ride. This is very giga style in its layout. And I think it's going to be incredible. The color scheme of this ride looks great. It has a bright blue color track, something similar to the track of Gatekeeper, as well as white supports. So the color scheme is very nice looking. It fits in well with the theme. And I think it's going to stand out in the skyline. It's going to look fantastic. B&M's always look great, especially these giga coasters. It's going to be very large and opposing. You're going to be able to see it from all over the park. And this is just overall going to be a great addition to King's Island's lineup. I think this is something that they could really use. And it's just going to make the park that much better. What are your guys's thoughts on the announcement of Orion for King's Island in 2020? I know there is a lot to discuss here. Let me know if I missed anything in the comments below. And be sure to like, comment, subscribe, like my page, Coaster Daddy on Facebook, and follow me at Coaster Daddy official on Instagram. Thank you guys so much for watching. This is Coaster Daddy. Bye.