Daily Tech News show is made possible by its listeners, thanks to all of you including Alexander Nisev, Hector Bones and Tim Ashman. Coming up on DTNS, Dr. Nicky tells us why a warming world might be bad for your cloud data, plus we actually know about Musk's takeover of Twitter and how Google let people know about an earthquake before they felt it. And yes, there's a cat on the show. This is the Daily Tech News for Monday, October 31st, Halloween 2022 in Los Angeles. I'm Tom Merritt. And from Studio Redwood, I'm Spooky Sarah Lane. From New York City, I'm Dr. Nicky Ackermanns and my familiar is Gummi. And I'm the show's producer, Roger Chan. Yes, thank you for introducing Gummi. Gummi wanted to introduce themselves as well. Good to have you all including Gummi on the show. Let's start with the quick hits. A few tech things you should know. Microsoft's head of Xbox Phil Spencer says he's still planning to ship Call of Duty games on PlayStation as long as there's a PlayStation out there to ship to. Spencer's promise comes after Sony said it received an inadequate offer to extend Call of Duty's cross-platform access for three years past the current agreement. Microsoft is also under continued scrutiny from international governments over its proposed $69 billion purchase of Activation Blizzard. As long as there's a... I want there to be a musical version of what Phil Spencer said. Google acquired startup Altar, which first launched as FaceMoji. That might be how you know of it. For approximately $100 million, they picked it up about two months ago. They didn't talk much about it. We're just learning about it. Altar has a platform that lets developers add avatar creation systems to apps and games. Very meta-versey stuff these days. TechCrunch's sources say the purchase is meant to help Google compete against TikTok. On Monday, China launched the third and final module necessary to complete its permanent space station. Meng Cheng was launched from the Wen Cheng satellite launch center in the province of Hainan. It will join with the second laboratory module Wen Cheng, which is already connected to the crew and their living quarters. Tian Hei, the 23-ton Wen Cheng is heavier than any other single module spacecraft currently in space. Next year, China plans to launch a space telescope, which won't be part of the space station, but will orbit in sequence with it. The station is expected to have a lifespan of 10 to 15 years. China still pursues a zero COVID policy these days, locking down factories, apartment complexes, even sometimes whole cities, in response to any number of cases. And Foxconn's Zhenzhu facility is the largest assembly site for Apple products. And workers at that factory have been locked down for almost two weeks now, meaning they cannot go anywhere but between their homes and the factory. And for those who live in the dorms at the factory, that means not leaving the campus at all. The town has recorded 95 cases in the past four days. However, there are scattered reports of workers just leaving their jobs, hitting the road, getting out of Foxconn. And there are some reports that that might even be slowing down production lines. The Verge notes that while the new iPad has a USB-C connector, it's not a USB-4 port or even USB 3.2. It's USB 2.0. So transfer speeds top out at 480 megabits per second. That is the same transfer speed as the ninth gen iPad with lightning. So apparently Apple changed the connector, but they didn't really change much else. It's also a good reminder that USB-C connection doesn't imply a USB version number. All other iPads with USB-C connectors support faster speeds, but even all of those aren't the same. All right. Let's talk about the, it's not an elephant. It's a bird. It's Twitter. Let's talk about Twitter. Oh, it's a bird. It's a sad bird. Well, you know what? It depends on who you are. Maybe sad, maybe not. Sources talking to both Casey Newton's platformer and the Verge say that Twitter owner Elon Musk has given engineers until November 7th to create a paid verification system for the company. Details of which are still in flux, but one plan floating around would currently have folks who are verified needing to pay $19.99 per month to continue on with Twitter blue up from the current $4.99. Now, if you're verified and you don't pay for Twitter blue, you might say, does this apply to me? It may, it may not. Details, again, pretty sparse at this point. Currently, though, verified Twitter users would supposedly be given 90 days to subscribe after which point the blue check mark would be removed. Musk has only confirmed that the whole verification process is being revamped right now. Yeah. So they're considering a lot of things. A lot of them are leaking out, but we don't know what they're going to do yet. There are other things like that that are reportedly happening according to reliable sources. Some of them saying Musk wants to lay off anywhere from 25 to 50% of the staff, depending on which reports you read, including managers who haven't recently contributed code, saying there's there's too many managers, not enough coders. Tesla engineers have apparently been brought over to Twitter to interview Twitter developers and review their code. Axiosis sources say the former head of consumer product, Kavon Bacepour, was seen in the building. If you recall, he was fired back in May by former CEO, Parag Agarwal. Those sources also say that PayPal's founding CEO, David Sacks, Tesla engineer Thomas Dimitrik, and venture capitalist Jason Calcanus are all listed on Twitter's internal directory now as contractors with Twitter email addresses. And there's supposedly been some discussion of how to provide Twitter over Starlink satellites in countries where Twitter is blocked. We also have a few things that we know for sure have happened. The first one is that Twitter's homepage changed from just a sign up page. So if you were to go to twitter.com and you weren't signed in, it now shows you as a visitor the Explorer page, trending tweets, news stories instead of a sign up homepage, which is what it was in the past. Number two is Elon Musk posted a poll on Twitter on Sunday asking, bring back Vine, getting a lot of attention, as you might imagine would be the case. And the third is that General Motors released a statement that it had temporarily paused its advertising at Twitter while it works to understand the direction of the platform under their new ownership. Very careful wording within the company, but one might assume that if you're GM, there's probably a lot of advertising dollars there. Yeah, so for the things that did happen, these all make sense. GM is pausing its advertising while it figures out if the competing car maker that owns Twitter is going to treat it fairly. I find that thoroughly unsurprising. Elon Musk says bring back Vine because Vine's really popular and he wanted to say something really popular, also thoroughly unsurprising. And actually changing Twitter's homepage to show you actual tweets, I've always thought was a better idea than just showing you the sign up page. That just seems like a reasonable thing to make happen. This other stuff that we don't know anything about what's really going to happen and how much of it is a serious conversation and not is interesting to me. I could imagine a situation where they make verification free as in like basic verification because the entire blue check mark thing has always been about whether it was actually a status symbol or not. And I could see Musk saying like let's just lean into it being a status symbol and if it's a status symbol make people pay for it. If that were to happen and verification was separated for it then that I don't know that wouldn't bother me that much. Nikki, what do you make of this whole mess? Well, I was in Tumblr back on the day. Okay, so I have PTSD from the whole thing crashing under our eyes and maybe this will happen again and also second point. I spent a lot of time curating my science Twitter to be like a nice place where people aren't horrible and I get like good information and collaborations from there. And science Twitter right now is thinking about jumping ship. Not sure what's going on and I would like to not have to jump ship because it takes a lot of work. So I don't know. I'm like in stasis. Yeah, yeah, you know, I don't know. There's so much. I guess just the there's there's a lot to unpack here. There's a lot. We don't have any info. Right. And the whole kind of idea of like bring back Vine. I know, you know, a lot of folks are like, Ah, that's just like a thing that you say to get people riled up because so many people used to like Vine when Vine was owned by Twitter. I mean, Vine already exists now just in other places. You know, yeah, this. Right. Right.  Sure. It didn't necessarily work out the first time, but it worked for a certain amount of people for a while. Yeah. And it might not be a bad idea for Twitter to be like, Hey, we were the original place of Vine. There's a lot of good will out there. Maybe we can give TikTok a run because the timing is right now because people understand short video. That's that crazy. And I don't think it's crazy for must to float it out there as a point winning gesture, whether they end up doing it or not. So I think there's a lot of a lot of hand wringing going on right now. And really, we just kind of have to sit back and wait and see what Musk is actually going to do with it. I mean, I will say. I know. Tell me exactly what's going on right this second. I am verified on Twitter. I actually don't remember the circumstances under which I got verified. It was a while ago. I think it was sort of in the earlier days when maybe it was like a public figure.  I knew a couple of people at Twitter type thing. I think the idea of paying $20 a month for Twitter in any capacity is completely insane. I'm not doing that. You want to unverify me. Go for it. You know, people who want to like figure out if I am who I am, you can do that. However, I think that I have the privilege of saying, well, just, you know, figure out who I am if you want to. There are other people who have very rightly some real qualms with us.  So there are a lot of circumstances where this is really problematic. Yeah. And to be clear, there's no good verification system on Twitter as it is. They've gone back and forth and all over the place. So people saying, well, if he does this verification will be bad. It's like, that's no different than it is right now. Right now it's not a good system for verification anyway. Hopefully what ends up happening is that verification gets fixed. And I'm not saying it will or won't, but yeah, I'm not paying $20 a month to keep that blue check mark either. I got it because we interviewed Biz Stone and Evan Williams on CNET Live, like in 2008. It could be $4. I'm not even sure how it showed up if it goes away. If it was $1. I'm just not doing it. I'm not sure I'm going to pay. We also had a few people write in saying they felt like Justin and I cut off Sarah during Thursday's discussion about Twitter. Sarah, I apologize for that. I know you read those responses too and wanted to respond to them. Yeah, and we'll make this really quick. There were a few of you who wrote in and we're always asking for audience feedback. So we want to address feedback when we get it. And a handful of you said, yeah, I didn't, you know, didn't really rub me the right way the way that the conversation went. I went back and listened to that segment a couple times from Thursday's show. Just so everybody knows, I don't think Justin, Tom, or I all felt that there was any sort of discord during the segment. And, you know, we just kind of kept it pushing because that's just what you do on a live daily show. And for anybody who felt like, ooh, Sarah should have had a little bit more to say, thank you for the feedback. That's good feedback for all of us. But just so everybody knows, we're all a team here. So, you know, there was, there was no, no, no bad vibes on our ends. Yeah. And I always take those things as a chance to double check myself and be like, oh, maybe I should have made sure there was a chance. You know, even if, even if Sarah didn't feel that way, you always want to make sure that the audience and everyone feels like everybody had a chance to say everything they want to say. So thank you for the honest and polite feedback. Really appreciate it. Yes. Great communication. Yeah. On Tuesday, our video producer Joe Koontz told me he got an alert on his Google watch moments before a 5.1 magnitude earthquake hit San Francisco. Joe, if you could switch to yourself for a moment to tell us about what happened with that on Tuesday last week. So I was walking into the bathroom and my watch had a very distinct and unique notification. And I looked down and I just got to read earthquake alert 5.0 and I didn't even get to see where it was from and I felt it. It was probably three to five seconds at the most. But after everything calmed down, we knew it wasn't near us. I was really impressed with it. Like that three to five seconds would have made a difference depending on where I was. So the technology worked at least in this area. And you definitely got the alert before you felt it. That's interesting. Oh, yes. Oh, yes. I guess not really enough to do much about it. But at least you kind of knew what was happening when it happened. Five seconds later, I would have been in a position where I really would not want to be in an earthquake. Mm-hmm. I was... Well, for anybody thinking, well, wow. I mean, has this ever happened before a house? It wasn't the first time that Google has sent an earthquake alert. But because of the location that was near San Francisco, it reached a lot more phones, a lot more people who had phones, and around a million Android users did see it. ARS Technica also has a write-up on how the system actually works. Doesn't actually predict the earthquake. It detects it faster than people can feel it, though. Yeah, the Android alert last Tuesday came thanks to ShakeAlert. ShakeAlert is not related to ShakeShack in any way. It is a project under the United States Geological Survey that detects the first signs of earthquakes. Earthquakes generally start with softer waves called P-waves. And people don't usually feel P-waves, but they are detectable. So when at least four of the 1,300 USGS sensors on the West Coast feel the same P-waves at the same moment, they send an alert to a data processing center for analysis. And if it meets certain criteria, then ShakeAlert sends warnings to FEMA, local transit systems, and other systems like Google's that can tell you that the stronger and more damaging S-waves may be on the way. S-waves are the ones you do feel. ShakeAlert warnings, if you're close to the center of the earthquake, probably won't get to you before you feel the S-waves, like if you're right on top of it. But if you're a little farther off like Joe was, you will get a few seconds anyway, which could be something that can help you find a safer location. Yeah, the USGS plans to increase the number of West Coast sensors to 1,675 by 2022, by the end of 2022. And Google has plans to help extend the network beyond where the expensive sensors can be placed. Mark Stogatis, the project lead for the Android Earthquake Alert System, told Ards Technica that Android phones can use accelerometers to detect earthquakes when they're plugged in and when they're locked. So while people aren't always around the epicenters of earthquakes, they can help supplement coverage. And Dr. Nicky, you covered this for Daily Tech headlines earlier this year. So it was interesting to see this affecting more people now. Yeah, it's really cool. I also anecdotally saw that the Android phones were quicker at this than iPhones, and it's probably just like a software thing. And it may not be this exact instance, but it's just interesting to see it in place and it's hopeful for the future that, OK, even if you have five seconds, it's five seconds to duck under the table. I like seeing technology progress in real life. Yeah, it's something where you're right. A few seconds doesn't seem like a lot. And as Joe pointed out, it took him a second to be like, what is that? But if we become more used to it and prepared for it, then we might start to be able to say like, oh, cool. I'm getting the alert. Let me get into a doorway. Let me get away from a window, whatever it is. Yeah. On the second time you get it, you'll be more prepared. You'll be more prepared. Yeah. Well, it is October 31st, which means in many places where people celebrate it is Halloween. And then a couple of days, it's also Dia de los Muertos, AKA Day of the Dead. And NTX's Dan Campos has a way to celebrate video game developers. In NTX, we're celebrating the Day of the Dead and also the week of the games. Every day we'll have an interview with the minds behind mech zombies, dark tales from Mexico, beyond the nightmares, candlelight, and mostroscopy to know how their games were developed. There you have it. Practice your Spanish, get free games, and know a little more about game developers around the world, only in Noticias de Tecnología Express. La Semana Day video game developers. Las Vegas videos. Yeah. Go check it out. Thank you, Dan. That's great. Hey, folks. If you're feeling social and you want to let us know about stuff, we are on Twitter at DTNS Show, or Daily, yeah, DTNS Show, and on TikTok, Daily Tech News Show, and on Instagram, DTNSPIX, DTNSPIX. As it is Halloween, as Sarah just mentioned, Dr. Niki insisted we pick a spooky science topic, I insisted it involved data centers, and gosh darn it, if Dr. Niki didn't come through, what have you got, Niki? Can you tell that I like Halloween? You do, yes. A recent article on science is what caught my eye, and I picked a spooky topic, which is climate change. So why is climate change a threat to supercomputers? We're going to get really spooky, don't worry. So in 2018, people started opening their eyes to this when a California wildfire burned 230 kilometers away from the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center, and this place houses a supercomputer. And what happened was all the smoke and the soot from the fires kind of clogged up the air that they would usually use to cool down the computer, so they had to close that off and use recirculated air, and this drove up the humidity within the facility and created condensation, and then eventually a blowout in the racks, which is pretty dangerous for a supercomputer. And this is not the only time this has happened. There's been other threats to this same facility with big storms that almost caused power lines to go down in the same area, or in Japan, for example, where a power line did go down and the facility had an outage and floods for over 45 hours. So to kind of link this to climate change, a 2022 Proceedings of the National Academy of Science paper says that Earth's average surface temperature has risen 1.5 degrees since the industrial era, and this is on average, and so in places like the tropics, this is up to four degrees higher. And if the projection continues to follow this trend, the authors are predicting a 30-fold increase in heat waves, a 60% increase in extreme rains within the next 100 years. So obviously this is going to start causing a lot of problems, and all of these factors require these supercomputer facilities to invest even more in extra power-consuming humidity and temperature control, and of course, those create more emissions, and it kind of starts to create a vicious cycle. Yeah, it kind of seems like the combination of a supercomputer being threatened by climate change and climate change threatening the climate in general means how do we win here? Well, we're a little bit stuck. I mean, these facilities use up to 100 megawatts of power. That's as much as like a small city. In hotter climates, there's higher energy demand even from all of the people around who need to run things like air conditioners, and this can lead to more power cuts and blackouts. Some facilities have experimented with moving north, like geographically north, into cooler climates, but those cooler climates are now warming up and becoming more humid, so that's not really doing great. Of course, these facilities also require water to cool down, another thing that we're starting to run out of. Other facilities have considered moving underground. This is something that could be interesting in the future, but they're still going to require electricity. So the solutions are like not great, but there are some options. Some places are switching to renewable resources for their electricity rather than fossil fuels, which are the main resource right now to power these places. Obviously, this depends on what grid you're on. Not all countries have a great source of renewable resources. For example, in the EU, a lot of data centers have signed the Carbon Neutral Data Center Act, which aims for them to be carbon neutral by 2050. Other things that people are doing are carbon offset policies. You must have heard of people like, we're going to plant 1,000 trees to offset our carbon emissions. These are actually kind of problematic because there's no real control to say that it's working. In fact, the trees that get planted usually, it's like a monoculture, so it's all the same tree, and they're not native, and they're not used to the climate. They tend to die and end up emitting more carbon than they'd absorbed.  You don't hear those follow-up stories. Yeah, so it's just like a political stunt, more than an actual ecological thing, and people don't really listen to forestry people who talk about this, so it's definitely something I wanted to mention. Yeah, I've also heard of some test pilot runs to do data centers underwater. I think Microsoft was involved in one of those. So the cooling is done naturally by the ocean, and I could imagine, this is not part of those tests, but I could imagine if they could figure out the corrosiveness, keeping it from degrading too much with salt water, they could add wave generators to power the undersea containers. There's no end of potential solutions, but there isn't a solution, right? That's the problem yet. Yeah, and hey, even some places, they don't have to move. The water is going to come to them pretty soon. But yeah, the solutions are like, well, we have some ideas, but it's expensive to enact, and this is all about money, so it's kind of hard to get there. Ideally, countries would regulate how their data centers and supercomputer centers have their energy with national legislation, but yeah, this is something that's kind of difficult to control. And if you want to feel a better about it, you can think about what kind of tech you buy frequently, you buy tech. This is not a popular place to promote that, but if it makes you feel better, then you can do that too. Yeah, and I'm not advocating against consumer action, but consumer action is always smaller than industrial action 100% in everything. It doesn't mean you shouldn't try, but the bigger solution is going to come from figuring out renewable energy sources for these data centers because the demand for the data centers isn't going to go away either. Forcing them to do it, because some of them do it by themselves, but they're not really incentive. Yeah. Or I would advocate against forcing, because I think when you force, you just end up making people find clever ways to get around what you're forcing them to do. Use some incentives. And sound device, totally. So that it is attractive to do this sort of thing. And raising power costs is going to be one way that it'll make these companies go like, you know what, solar powered or a wave generator that we run is a big deal. That's kind of a good deed. And also our bottom line agrees. Yeah. Yeah. Well, if you've ever thought, if only my e-ink tablet could also take photos, you might like this next product. The Bukes Tab Ultra is an e-ink tablet from a company called Onyx. It's $600. You might say, wow, $600, but it has a 16 megapixel rear camera with a 10.3 inch paper link display. The company says it's a device for professional and business usage primarily. I mean, anybody could buy it. But with the rear camera, you could use it for scanning documents, stuff that, you know, in a professional setting that actually might come in handy for a lot of folks. Another company called Big Me launched a similar tablet earlier this year if you're saying, well, hasn't this happened before? Yeah, yeah. This one launched on Indiegogo with a color e-ink screen, hoping to start shipping next month. But back to the Bukes Tab Ultra. Powered by a Qualcomm Octa-Core CPU, has a 6300 milliamp battery, four gigs of RAM, 128 gigs of expandable storage. You know, a decent tablet. Software based on Android 11, and it's designed to work, hopefully, work better with its displays, more basic capabilities compared to either a standard LCD or an OLED panel. Yeah, so these e-ink screens as replacements for paper make perfect sense if you put a camera on them to scan in the paper so that you don't have to keep the paper. Yeah, I get that. Save a tree. See? Full circle. Yeah. Don't need to make copies. Just scan it in. It's only $600. Yeah. Just gotta make that first. I scan with my phone. I don't even use the scanner anymore. I just did. There's so many good scanning. Even Dropbox has a good scanning app. Yeah. Yeah. So somebody was going back to Twitter for just a second. Somebody was talking about, remember how awesome it was when the bank started to make it easy for you to scan a check? You know, if you get a paper check, you can just scan it and not go to a bank. And I was like, when's the last time I got a paper check? I found out about that. It's been a while. Really? You know what? You found out what? I found out about scanning checks this year. I'd never... Oh, wow. I didn't think you could do it. What are the banks do? I have to do it. You're probably... A lot of people are probably like, oh, I didn't know that either. I guess it depends on the bank, too. Health spending accounts. My wife gets a flexible spending thing, and then they always give her checks instead of direct deposit for them that we then have to scan in. That's what I scan checks for. That's the one thing I can say. Yeah. All right. Let's check out the mail bag. This one came in from Brian Hoffman over the weekend writing in with some very reasonable points about why it would be difficult, if not impossible, for drone delivery to make any headway in dense urban areas. Brian says bird strikes, weather, air space restrictions, wind, power lines, traffic control, all factors here. Not hard to come up with dozens of reasons why it might not happen. Yeah. So I challenged Brian to steal man his own arguments. I'm like, coming up with the impediments is the easy part. We could all do that. Come up with some ways to overcome them. And he did. So thank you, Brian, for taking me up on that. It was pretty awesome. Among his ideas for overcoming his own objections were sonic defenses to keep flightplats clear of birds. Just kind of, you know, some noise that keeps the birds from wanting to fly there. Improved sensors and guidance to help the drones make it through bad weather using secondary systems like cell towers and Wi-Fi to help provide redundant location info if GPS is interrupted. Time slots for drones. I thought this was intriguing. For restricted flight areas to say you're allowed to fly your drone through these areas in these times. Better sensors to avoid power lines. Neighborhood delivery stations to help overcome the logistics of like, well, how do I get the package in my apartment? You know, I'm up on the fifth floor or whatever. And data sharing so that the drones know where each other are and don't run into them. The one thing we both had a hard time overcoming was lawyers. One drone crash is definitely still going to bring out the lawyers. So neither one of us can come up with something around that. But thank you, Brian, for engaging in that. That's what I want to foster on DTNS is not the knee-jerk like, well, that'll never work. But how could it work? Let's go pass just the objection to like, OK, but how could we get past that objection? I'm visualizing Blade Runner with drones going around. It's very exciting. Yeah, yeah. Well, if you do have feedback on anything we talk about on the show, we do want to hear it. We listen and we read every bit of feedback. Feedback at dailytechnewshow.com is where to send your feedback. So thank you, Brian. Thanks to everybody who writes into us every day. And also thanks to Dr. Nikki Ackermann's spooky Nikki aversion for being with us today. Let folks know where they can keep up with your work. People can find me for now on Twitter at Ackermann's Nicole and my website, Nicole Ackermann's where I just posted a bunch of resources for academics. If you're an academic, it's under resources. Excellent. Thank you to you. And also thanks to a brand new boss that we have. That new boss's name is Sean. Sean just started back in us on Patreon. Thank you, Sean. Good to have you along. Yeah, man. Sean understood that we are supported by people. We are an independent technology news source. We're not funded by some big company. What we're funded by is people like Sean. So thank you, Sean, for understanding that and finding some value of what we do. Really appreciate it. We sure do. 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Welcome back to animation recommendations and today I want to talk about a short film called Substance directed and written by Jamal Bradley. I was very fortunate to have seen this movie this Friday and I wanted to talk about it and I wanted to spread the word about it because it's really really good. I wish I could go into all the story elements and the things that really grabbed me but it's a spoiler so I can't really talk about too much but I'm gonna keep it vague enough. Well let me back up. So this was written, directed and produced by Jamal Bradley and if you don't know him he's had a very long career in his industry working on so many different things in terms of features and in game development and now directing a short and the team he's assembled for this short is also massively talented. So you can see you have Jamal as the director and writer, you have Michael Yates as the co-writer lead story artist who comes from Pixar, Bruce W. Smith as the producer and the list goes on. It's a ton of super super talented artists working on the short. Now what you could watch is the teaser and again I'm gonna link to the cartoon brew interview and on that you have a teaser that doesn't really give away the central story but it introduces you to the characters and also gives you really quick insight into the animation quality of the short and given that I love animation I mean that's something I can talk about without spoiling things. The attention to detail to the face and the fingers and just the general interaction between the characters is absolutely fantastic and again I'll have a link in the description to this clip but you can see in those facial tests the amount of detail, the organic squishiness and the fine detail in the facial animation that really allows for very very expressive pantomime and I say pantomime because the other thing that's really really cool is that as the short starts and again no spoilers there's background sound you just do the streets and you can see this in the teaser when he walks you have sounds of the cars and people behind it and it starts traditionally with sound design and so on and then you're wondering well for me at least when people start talking how you know what are the voice actors how is the sound quality of the mics the recording all of that can kind of make or break a short or a movie for me sound is super super important so I was very curious about how he was going to implement that and the awesome thing is that there's actually no dialogue that you can hear because the moment the characters talk there's music that kicks in with lyrics and the music and the lyrics supplement the feelings and emotions of the characters but you can also just turn the whole thing off and play the whole short without sound and it still works and the other thing that was interesting right after I saw the short I takes a Jamal and told him my impressions and you know the things that that I got out of the show and what I interpreted and funny enough I was wrong about a couple things that I interpreted but the awesome thing was that it didn't change the central story and the impressions and the message of the short I thought that was really interesting and because of my cultural background being different I will see things interpret things differently so depending on who you are you will get more or less out of the short but the cool thing is that it was still powerful and resonated with me on a different level but the main message and the main impact of the short was the same and I think that's really interesting and speaks to the quality of the short that despite those differences in interpretations of and again I can't spoil it in terms of whatever I can't spoil it it still worked man I wish I could talk about the actual story but what's also cool is I'm a massive fan of this is that it's a heavier subject matter and it's just something that I'm always a big fan of that you don't always have to have fantastical elements or talking animals or whatever in feature animation there's always I don't know who said this first but if you can shoot a live action while you animate it I understand that there's a cost involved in the animation and it's painstakingly slow and you gotta go frame by frame it's probably easier to shoot something even this short live action but to me it's always why if you have a good story to tell if there's a good message why not tell it within that medium of animation because it's not a genre it's just a style of telling a story and you may or may not agree with this and to be honest I don't care because that's just I love animation I don't want it to tell different stories and it doesn't always have to be in the same family friendly I will say genre and I think this short really does that and I wish that you could take this and extrapolate it into a feature movie and have more of that but I could talk about this forever I really really really like the short and it's not because I got the chance to watch it I'm not doing anybody a favor just by pretending I really did like the short and I hope that you can see it now you're wondering but where can I see it good question I will go on to Jamal's Twitter again link in the description where he retweets and promotes the short it's screening at the Newark Theater in the West Los Angeles but I would follow Jamal if you know is contact him and ask him about future screenings he will know everything about the marketing side so if you have a chance to go watch it there or chance anywhere to watch it I highly highly recommend that you watch the short spread the word it's fantastic let's support him let's support the short let's support all the people involved in this I highly highly recommend it and thanks Jamal again for the opportunity to let me watch it it was absolutely fantastic it's just something I'm very passionate about and I really really hope it does well and changes people's minds in terms of what you can do with animation and the types of stories that you can tell but I'm gonna stop rambling again all the links in the description go in the description you can see his twitter the websites of the short all the things that you need to know again don't go too far into the interviews spoilers but anyway that's it go watch it if you can and that's all I'm gonna say


Hello and welcome to the week ahead video with me, David Madden. Today's date is Friday, the 9th of October 2020 and the time has just gone 1242 British summer time. And I'm looking ahead to next week, which is Monday the 12th until Friday the 16th of October. And before we take a look at the charts and what's going on in terms of the big events next week, let's take a quick recap of the big events of this week. Right now we're seeing broadly speaking between European and US equity markets are in fairly decent condition. There's a lot of hope out there in relation to the Democrats and their Republicans striking some sort of stimulus package in relation to a fiscal response to the COVID-19 crisis. Although there is both sides just politically releasing me far apart. It could be a case of that traders are maybe getting a bit ahead of themselves. But it seems like President Trump was going to do individual stimulus packages in relation to the airline sector or maybe donning out traffic or daughter checks to US citizens. Nancy Pelosi of the Democrats is more keen to do kind of a one size kind of one grand package rather than bits and pieces. But Nancy Pelosi also said she's somewhat kind of hopeful that some sort of an agreement can be reached. And with that, we've seen a decent enough move in stock to last few days. This year is the FTSE 100. The bad news is the FTSE 100 has been kind of moving to the downside the last few sessions. So it's been underperforming in relation to some of the DAX and the S&P, which we'll look at in a moment. On the flip side of things, we can see that on the last few sessions, as I just mentioned, sentiment has increased in relation to the hopes of a COVID-19 coronavirus stimulus package from the US. We can see that the FTSE has been pushing higher. We're back above the kind of psychological important 6,000 mark. The last few sessions, the mark has been moving higher. If you press on higher from here, we could be looking at targeting the 100-day moving average, which comes to play at 6,096. Or it may be up towards the region of the mid-September high in at 6,126. Conversely, if you have a decent move to the downside and we can continue in the broader, wider downtrend, we could be looking at testing the lows of early October in around 5,883. If you move below that, we could head back down towards 5,800, 5,767. Notice how, on a few occasions, this zone here acted nicely as support. That area seems to be fairly significant in terms of support. Any break below that could point to further losses, could take us back down towards 5,660. Take a look at what's going on over in Germany. Even though health, one of the other topics of the day is that sadly we're seeing a pretty high increase in the rate of new COVID-19 cases. The World Health Organization, recently said we've had, you know, a surge in cases and fresh record highs in terms of daily increases, but that really hasn't shaken European markets. As you can see here, the DAX has been a nice upward trend the last few months. Granted, we had a fairly decent correction into late September, but since then we've been pushing higher. So we've had the higher high in the late September, the higher low in early October, and we're pressing on higher again. So it's comfortably above its 50 moving average. If you're going to press on higher from here, we could be looking at going up towards 13,200, or maybe up towards the mid-September high in around 13,339. Beyond that, we could be looking at retesting the September high, and of course the highest level it's been at since February. On the flip side, if you do have a fairly decent move to the downside, we could see support coming to play from this yellow line here, the 100 moving average, but just below that metric on a few occasions acted as support. So that area of, say, down to 12,684, or down to 12,600 itself, that area could act as support should we move lower. I'll take a look now at what's going on after Germany on the US on the S&P 500. As I mentioned, the FTSE is underperforming these major markets. We've seen the FTSE broadly move lower the last few months. The DAX has been in pretty good shape, but if you take a look at the S&P 500, an all-time high in September granted had a very decent correction. You have the lower low, the lower high, the lower low, but notice how it received support from the 100 moving average here, and it's been pushing higher since. In fact, when the cash trading gets underway, we're looking to open that level to the last scene in early September. So things are looking quite positive on the S&P 500. While we hold above this blue metric, the FTSE moving average, it's likely we could see further gains. If we press on higher from here, we could be looking at targeting 3,500. If we go beyond that, we could be looking at targeting the September highs, which were all-time highs. If we do have a decent move to the downside and we take out the FTSE moving average, this blue line here, we could be looking back down toward this area here in around 3,300, and if we have a decent move below that, we could be retesting the lows in late September. Taking a look now at what's going on in relation to the currency markets. The pound is going to be in focus next week. We haven't seen, we've heard a lot of talk from the UK and the EU in relation to the trade deal negotiations. We haven't had a huge amount of action. The language has to be similar. Both sides are keen to get a deal. Both sides are willing to walk away if there's not a good deal on the table. There has been some progress made, but it appears that for the time being, fishing appears to be one of the more important issues. Not that long ago, Boris Johnson, the British Prime Minister, stated that if the bones of an agreement aren't put in place by the 15th of October, which falls next week, next Thursday, if that isn't in place by then, the UK team is going to walk away from the negotiating table. That could be a negotiating ploy. Maybe it is, but nonetheless, euro sterling, which we're now looking at here, is likely to be in focus. If you can see, the trend for the last few months has been at the upside, particularly in early September, so a decent move to the upside. Since then, market euro sterling has come back quite a bit. It's been trading at a smallish range the last few sessions, if you can hold above this blue line, the fifth of the moving average, which comes into play at a zero spot, 90, 59. If you can hold above that, it's likely at the wider uptrend could continue. If you press on higher from here, we could be looking at retesting this area here in a zero spot, 91, 57, and a decent break below that above that could put us on track for the late September highs. If you take on that, we could then be looking ahead up to the mid-September highs in a zero spot, 92, 91. If you do move below the fifth of the moving average, we could be looking at heading back down towards the 90 zone, and if you head below that, we could then be looking at heading back down towards the lows of early September in a zero spot, 88, 64. While we're on the topic of euro sterling, we'll also take a look at what's going on with the pound versus the US dollar, because you've got the likes of US retail sales and also US inflation numbers out next week. So we could see some volatility in the pound and the dollar as well. So the pound dollar had a nine month high or nearly a nine month high in September. But since then, we've seen a move to the downside. So we have the lower low, the lower high, the lower low. But in the last few sessions, we have been pushing higher again. So we haven't retested this blue line, the fifth of the moving average. Notice how it acted as resistance in mid-September. We are pushing higher, but we haven't gotten up to that metric as of yet. So are we going to get the point where we've run into resistance at that metric and it turns lower again? Or are we going to get the point where on this occasion, we have a meaningful kind of break above it, and then we press on higher from here. So if you do take out this blue line, the fifth of the moving average, in a one spot 30, 27, we could be looking at heading back up towards this area here, in a kind of 132, one spot 32, 69. And if you go beyond that, we could really get retesting the highs of September. Early September. And then to the downside, it could take us back down towards the kind of 128 area. And if you go below that, we could really get heading down toward this zone. The lows of mid to late September in around one spot 26, 75. And notice on a few occasions, this kind of general area acts as support. So a move below that could be quite significant. And that could take us back down to the lows in mid-July in around one spot 24, 80. In relation to the other big events of next week, U.S. banking season will kick off. Important season for U.S. banks, Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, Wells Fargo, JP Morgan, Bank of America, Morgan Stanley. We have full year figures from ASOS, the online fashion crowd. Their share price has been a very positive run. And the last few weeks of months, we've seen a decent move at the upside of ASOS. It's not too long ago that the stock was racking up all-time highs. Online shopping has become very popular in the last few months because of the pandemic. We have third quarter numbers out from Johnson & Johnson. Apple have a special event next week where there's talk of possibly an iPhone 12 being announced. Walgreens, Boots Alliance, they have fourth quarter numbers out. As I mentioned, the EU talks are going to be in focus. We have UK unemployment and claim accounts and average earnings. That's going to be of importance. As I mentioned, U.S. CPI and retail sales. We have trade numbers out coming from China to keep an eye for copper and the mining stocks on the back of that. We have third quarter numbers out from Delta Airlines. And also, as we do every single week, we have the U.S. jobless claims, which is coming out on the 15th. That's all from this video. Thank you for listening. Have a good trading week and good luck.


Kevin Byrd, the Tennessee Titans won the AFC South. They are the number one seed in the AFC. For someone like you who has been a part of this Titans team for a while, who's really seen the evolution of this team, what does this victory mean to you? It means a lot, man. You know, just understanding that, you know, we got guys on the team that's been in the league 10 plus years, never had a number one seed. So I definitely understand the impact of this. I understand that these things don't come that often. So I'm definitely grateful, happy. We're definitely gonna celebrate that. You know, going to this playoffs, man, it's just a good feeling that, you know, in fact, we have a first round by, you know, we're kind of already in the elite eight, get to watch some playoff games next so we can find out who we play. What do you do with that first round by because you don't know who you're going to be playing in that second round? Do you use that time to reset? Do you use it to rest? Do you watch all of the football games that happened that week? Yeah, I wouldn't say we necessarily reset. You know, I definitely think that obviously we get an extra week to get some guys healthy. But at the end of the day, obviously I watch all the playoff games or whatever, but it's really about keeping this thing rolling. Obviously it's gonna be sudden death, you know, winter go home type thing. So that mentality is gonna be getting echoed throughout the entire building that, hey, you know, we got to win one game a week. So, you know, it's go time. Describe that playoff mentality for me. What makes it a little bit different than the regular season? Oh, it was a whole different mentality.  You know, it's gonna be primetime football. The whole country's gonna be watching you. It's a new season, honestly, you know, when you walk out there for the game, you're gonna feel like this is week one all over again. So guys gonna be juiced up and ready to ball out in primetime. Now, you didn't want to talk about it before the end of the regular season because everyone was really focused on the Houston Texans and what needed to be done. But the return of Derek Henry, having him back out at practice, hopefully being able to get him back for the playoffs, what is that gonna mean for this Titans team? As a defensive player, you see this offense on the field, fighting for everything that they can get. What is that gonna mean?  Most guys don't wanna tackle that well. And to have them out there, obviously being one of our leaders on the offense is gonna be a huge force.  And I think at this point of the year, we're finally gonna have all those guys healthy. So, you know, watch out for the offense, honestly. Watch out. You were talking about the mentality shift for the playoffs and that seems like something this defense is very familiar with the mentality shift. The change from the 2020 Titans defense to the 2021 Titans defense is incredible. Just on paper alone, it's wild. The statistics and the numbers that the Titans were able to generate on defense in 2021, that had to have been a mentality shift, right? Absolutely. It started during training camp. You know, I think the guys really bought in, understanding that obviously 2020 definitely wasn't good enough. So, I think everybody came into this training camp with a mentality that we have to be better. Obviously, the guys that John and Vrable brought in, from Danico to Bud, you know, all these guys that we brought in, Jack Rabbit, they came and immediately bought in, understood the responsibility that we had to this team, to make sure that we played well and I think it kinda showed out every single weekend. Excited to keep it going during the playoffs. This is a really exciting time, Kevin Byrd. You're so chill right now. How do you keep that level of calm going into this? Or is there a point where you let it fall just a little bit? No, I mean, honestly, just being the leader on this team is a lot of things to celebrate right now. But, you know, just like Kobe said way back, man, we haven't done nothing yet. The job isn't done. You know, our mentality and our entire focus on winning the Super Bowl. So obviously it's a time to celebrate the AFC South, time to celebrate the number one C, but all it does is just put us in a good position. We still have to go out there and prove it every single week because like I said, man, it's gonna win or go home. So that's the mentality that we haven't done nothing yet. And you're doing it at Nissan Stadium. Absolutely, hey, super excited to see all those fans. They really showed out this week in Houston. So I know it's gonna be a packed out. We're really gonna have home field advantage with the fans in Nissan. So definitely gonna be looking forward to seeing those guys out there.


Live from Washington D.C., it's theCUBE. Covering Boomi World 19, brought to you by Boomi. Welcome to theCUBE, Lisa Martin at Boomi World 19 in Washington D.C., and with John Furrier and John and I are pleased to welcome to theCUBE Jason Maynard, the SPP of Global Field Operations from NetSuite. Jason, welcome. Thanks for having me. It's great to be in D.C. and on theCUBE. It is, we were just talking about baseball, so we'll have to park that for a second and talk about some other sexy stuff besides baseball, ERP. So NetSuite, I saw you on stage this morning. You guys have been a partner, the first Alliance partner with Boomi for about 12 years. Thousands of joint customers, candy.com is one of them. They're going to be on later today. So I'm excited to have my afternoon sugar rush. Make sure he brings a big bag of candy for you. Oh, you got it. So talk to us about, you guys were also, I noticed, Boomi's 2019 Alliance partner of the year. Lots of innovations going on. Give our audience a little bit of an overview of what NetSuite is doing with Boomi. Great. So Boomi has been one of our longest partners. I think I said, I think we first inked the partnership in 2007. So it goes back 12, 13 years. We, when we sell ERP, you always end up having to connect to a legacy on-prem system, right? Or you may have to connect to new marketplaces to sell. And so there's always need for integration. And so from day one, Boomi wanted to really kind of push the envelope, work with cloud players. You know, when we started NetSuite 20 years ago, it was kind of crazy to put business applications on the internet. And they've been there from day one with us really on this journey. And so they've been a great partner to sort of help all those customers migrate and move their business to the cloud. You guys had success with Boomi on the customer front. Could you unpack that a little bit because the customer equation around data is interesting. You guys have turned this into an opportunity with NetSuite. Talk about how that works. Yeah, I mean, like every customer needs to get more insight out of their data. And you know, the ERP system is one of the major hubs in any organization, right? You've got a handful of system of records, right? And core financials is one of the main systems record. And inevitably every customer will have probably 15, 20 legacy data sources, right? That are going to be necessary for an ERP. And so for us, working with Boomi across, not just the US, but across the globe with a lot of different international customers, it's a natural fit because we're not obviously going to be connecting with all the systems that they're touching today. It brings a lot more value of data into NetSuite, which obviously then helps our customer out. So you guys were, you said an early partner of Boomi back in 2007 when they were founded, we got to speak with Rick Nucci yesterday. So one of the interesting things that we talk about, and John even pointed this out yesterday is they took a big bet, Boomi did, way back then with building this architecture that's pretty unique to this day, this single instance, multi-tenant cloud application. Take us back to, because obviously NetSuite's been around longer, you have a lot of choice. There are more iPads vendors out there. What is it about the way that Boomi is architected that is enabling your customers to achieve so much success, but also really that you guys saw back in 07, I think this is something that's going to be a real big opportunity for NetSuite. You know, it's been an interesting ride because if you go back even to 07, and even maybe eight or nine years ago, it was not a foregone conclusion with a lot of technology vendors that the world was going to shift to the cloud. Right, there were a lot of server huggers out there. There still are. They still want to hug the machine, right? And so it's important, I think, that we work with partners who have the same true north in terms of where we think the technology is going. And I think that alignment, which is, you know, we're 100% in the cloud, always have been, always will be, Boomi shared that vision early on, so it was easier to make a bet then, right, with a vendor who was going to have that commitment. And so that's been, to their credit, the vision that they've had for obviously years now, and I think it's what's helped them grow so quickly. And one of the things that you observed, obviously, is that the customers have choices, but the world's software is changing, right? I mean, cloud has changed the software development, lifecycle, I mean, just in the past decade alone, the business has changed. You're still going to have the system of records, okay? But with containers and now Kubernetes and some of these cloud-native opportunities, there's more flexibility in how people are deploying legacy and or core apps. So they're not getting thrown away as everyone had predicted. So I mean, there was some pundits saying, well, everyone's going to move to the cloud and not really. Well, look, it's a good point because there's, you know, packaged applications are not the entirety of the application market, as you know, right? Custom application development will never go away. You will always have, you know, things that are custom. People build apps on NetSuite, right? Things that are very close to ERP you'll build on the NetSuite platform, but they're things that are not, you know, native to our platform that need to connect to NetSuite. And there are customers that we share who have legacy COBOL applications, for example, right? And they may need to put a wrapper around that and get certain forms into NetSuite. So it really does run the gamut. And so it'll never be one thing, right? We just sort of in the technology industry, we never go from, you know, 100 to zero in terms of what's deployed in the legacy. We sort of layer and compost technology. And I think that's what's happening. And so, you know, we'll replace certain systems. We go in and we pretty much always replace an on-prem system, but there are a lot of on-prem technologies that will never go away. I was digging around about Boomi and you guys, NetSuite, looking at some of the use cases. One of the things that caught my eye was, you know, the classic growth startup, for instance, might be born in the cloud, never have an IT department. They have kind of a hack together system of record, HR and ERP kind of things, but at some point they got to grow. And they hit a growth spurt and they just become rapid growth, eventually goes public. You guys have had good success with Boomi in these kinds of startups. It's pretty normal, you've seen this before. Can you talk about that, Daniel? Because at some point, people got to start establishing formal systems, applications. You're going to need payroll, you're going to need HR. I mean, this is blocking and tackling. You guys have been successful there. Well, you know, we like to think about, we can be the first system that you'll ever need and hopefully will be the last system that you'll ever need, right? And what ends up happening is we've architected NetSuite to let you start small and then add more functionalities as you grow. So you may start with just basic financials. You may add order management, move into full-fledged ERP. Maybe you're going to use our HR system down the road. And so we kind of stairway a customer through their journey. Boomi does the same thing. Maybe you start with two connectors, right? You're just connecting two basic applications into NetSuite and then you evolve into something more sophisticated, right, where as you saw today in some of the technology demos where they're tapping into all sorts of different systems that are not even ERP or CRM. It's, you know, IoT and just all sorts of different insights that they can bring from the different technologies. So a better together message is legit and this works. Yeah, you know, technology is all about co-opetition these days, right? Is every vendor, right, in some way we overlap, you know, Boomi's owned by Dell and NetSuite's owned by Oracle, right? We're all sort of interlocked in one way or another, but ultimately we have to work together because we share so many customers. And so customers don't have the patience and nor should they for any of the sort of the vendor warfare. And I think that's the cool thing that's evolved with technology standards. It's easy for us to work together and we have to do it and we want to do it because it's what's the right thing for the customer. Let's talk about NetSuite as a launching pad for a lot of tech IPOs in the last few years. Give us your perspectives on what you guys started to recognize as a lot of these tech companies have kind of, that's why it just seems to me like NetSuite has been this sort of launchpad for that. Talk to us about what you've achieved there. Yeah, no, we're really humbled by the fact that more tech companies go public on NetSuite than frankly any other ERP system. We helped invent the industry early on 20 years ago. Evan Goldberg and Larry had the famous four minute phone call to kind of crazily idea to put business apps on the web. And so we've been at the forefront of this, but it's not just technology. We were a subscription business from day one. We didn't sell a license with maintenance, we sold a subscription. So I think a lot of customers look at us and say, okay, they've been through the journey that we have. We went public 12 years ago. We scaled past a billion dollars in sales. We got acquired. So the journey that we've been on, most of our customers are going to be on that journey in one form or another. We've made acquisitions, our customers make acquisitions. So we tried, and this was sort of the genius of what Evan and the team built is a system that can handle any business model.  We can kind of handle any of the business models. And most of the IPOs are innovative companies that innovate not just with what they sell, but in how they sell it. Talk about some stories from the field that you've seen out there. Anecdotally share some current situation. What are customers going through right now? Enterprises, as they go through their, quote, journeys, they realize Cloud's there, they got some stuff on premise they're going to keep there. There's obviously certain reasons you're going to run payroll in the Cloud. You're going to have to have multi-tenancies. There's a lot of news cases. So Cloud's not that straightforward when you start thinking about having an enterprise in a hybrid mode of operations. What are some of the customers feeling? What's the mindset? What's their architecture look like? What are some of the examples can you share? Yeah, you know, I would say three things come to mind. So first off, it's this business model innovation, right? The on-prem systems tend to lock you into a model, right? And there's nothing, when they were built, they were innovative 15, 20, 30 years ago. Most companies' business models have outgrown that legacy system. So they need to move off that to enable some new thing that they want to do. So that's a big driver. I think the other thing is globalization is here to stay. You know, whether you're in the United States, or you're in the UK, or you're in Asia, right? We're one interconnected global economy. And so you may source from Asia, you may design in California, you may do nearshore assembly in Mexico, and then you do omnichannel distribution. So you have to be global. And I would say the thing that's changed in the last 10 years is companies are being global from day one. It's not just something you add on five, seven, eight years down the road. You see companies designed for being global. And I think those two things, business model innovation global, are big catalysts right now. Okay, one more thing real quick. So we had a CUBE alumni said on the CUBE, data is the new software. So if you've got a global business, data is critical as the data needs to be acted upon. You got policy, you got regulations, regulatory issues, personal privacy stuff, company policy. As you have this global layer of data, making it available, addressable, across multiple systems is a huge task. What's your view on that? Well, it's an interesting question. Because we think of it in kind of three pillars.  So you've got to first off, you've got to have visibility into the data. You need to know what's happening. Like how much did we sell in the Australian subsidiary yesterday? You need to have controls. If you're a CFO, you need to have global financial controls. You may have sold a lot in Australia. You've got to make sure you're not spending too much. How do you manage that? And then ultimately the agility is how do you make a decision on that? And so that's those three things I think all play into it. And how does the consumerization affect, impact, visibility, control, agility? Because as consumers we have this expectation, whether you know in our personal lives we can get anything that we want within a couple of clicks. So when you're talking to a tech, whether it's a young tech company or even not a tech company like candy.com, which is seems like a mixture you and I were talking before of a number of different industries all in one. How has NetSuite evolved to enable that consumer to go from their personal life to being able to interact with ERP and extract the value from it in the ways that they want anywhere, anytime? Let's be honest for a second. ERP kind of got a dirty reputation in the 90s. Nobody loved their ERP implementations. Books have been written on this, right? ERP was like a bad trip to the dentist office in the 90s. And that was sort of the catalyst for our company. But that's not enough just to be in the cloud. You have to make your user experience consumer grade, right? We always talk about enterprise grade. It's all the illities, reliability, scalability, all that kind of stuff. That's sort of a given, like you have to do that. But I think you have to adopt the consumer grade.  Maybe you're too connected, maybe that's part of it. Maybe we have screen time problems with business. We definitely do. If we can give our customers screen time addiction to watch their business in real time, I guess that's a good thing, right? And so we want to be able to make sure that they can have all that insight at their fingertips, whether they're in the office or at the beach. And speaking of insight, talk to us about Brainyard, what that is, why you developed it and what it's enabling. Yeah, thank you. That's like my, I was hoping you were going to ask me. It's my secret, but not so secret anymore pet project. So one of the things, being in the cloud, we have 18,000 customers, right? We have a single instance of NetSuite. And so we've had the unique seat at the table to see all these different companies grow in all these different industries. We evolved into selling by industry. So we have a retail version, a software version, a manufacturing nonprofit, 12, 13 different industries. What we had in that is we had all these insights by industry. What is the right DSO number for a software company, right? What is the thing that a nonprofit needs to look at?  And so we decided to crack the hood open and literally open source that information and put it on the website. And so there's a subtle message here, is that we have to do more than just sell bits. We're ultimately selling customer success or business outcome, whatever you want to call it. So we need to transfer that knowledge to our customers so they can run their business better. So it's our investment back into the customer saying, hey, you know what, if you're a software company and your DSO is at this level, best in class is actually five days lower on a day sale outstanding. How do you get your business to close that gap? And that's where we can really add value. It calms, people love comparables and best practices. You're essentially taking that heavy lifting work and just giving it up there. It's benchmarking, it's analysis. I was a former Wall Street analyst, so this one's near and dear to my heart, which is comparison. How is this company doing versus that company? And so we have lots of data that we've gleaned over the years, lots of insights. So we kind of know what those best practices are. This is just the first phase of what we're doing. We're working with a lot of partners across the industry to give us some of their industry data, so we kind of mash it up and come up with the insight. So we'll go ahead and talk. As an analyst, I'd love to get your thoughts real quick. And take the NetSuite hat off, put your industry participant hat on. A lot of Wall Street challenges around WeWork pulled their IPO, their Jeep gross profit was down, other SaaS businesses have huge margins, their successful zooms public. There's a new formula developing in this cloud 2.0 world, software world, where the dynamic between classic software and software economics in the cloud are changing. What's your thoughts on this? And for startups out there and growing companies that are really looking to crack the code, buy at all costs and then monetize, get the margins out. What's your analysis? You know, this is an area that I think a lot of companies raise too much capital, right? And we've been in this very unique environment over the last kind of eight or nine years where I'd argue a lot of startups have been overfunded. And when you have overfunding, you chase growth without any limit on terms of the cost. And what you see is you sort of distort the reality of what's happening in the business. And so I would argue that we've had zero and basically free money in terms of access to capital. And we've lost track of some of the basics that you need to build a profitable, sustainable business. So when I was working on Wall Street, you couldn't go public if you weren't within, say, four quarters of cashflow break-even, right? Those are some of the things that we used to have. You've seen, you know- Is this fundamentals? Yeah, I mean, so what's happening right now, it's just a little bit of, I think it's mean reversion, honestly. I think you're seeing the public markets, if you will, veto some of the frothiness that's been in the private markets. And so this is, I think companies- Some marketplaces do. That's what they, that's their- It's fantastic. It's a self-correcting mechanism, right? I mean, it's just because you marked up your last round when you were private to a good jillion dollars, doesn't mean that the buy side on the pension fund is going to want to pay that. We work, so you can't be high and run a business, you know, as we were saying, you know. People are trying now. God bless them, they're trying. But it's probably not the best practice. I would not recommend it. It's not a good look. Not a good look for Wall Street. It's not a good look. It's really not. It's really not. You get on the Joe Rogan show, they knock yourself out. If you're Elon, you could do it, but you know. He's the only one we're going to let, so. I don't know. I think it's a practice that probably shouldn't be publicly aired too much. Unless you want something to laugh at, and you know what? In this economy, I think we all need that. Jason, thank you for sharing with us what you're doing at NetSuite with Boomi. The insights that you guys are opening up with Brain Yard. So from Brain Yard, let's go back to the other yard that I promised, the baseball yard, your Dodger fan, Giants fan hats off. You guys are there, we are not. So I will say good luck to your team. We appreciate your time. I'm an LA guy. I'll give it to you. All right, it's been a pleasure talking to you. Thank you for your time. Appreciate it, thanks. For John Furrier, I'm Lisa Martin. 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Cool. So, my name is Nicholas, I'm a VSD candidate at the Institute of Applied Sciences in Greece. This is the first time I'm presenting at the bioconducted conference and I represent Lee Netsport detecting south of to the energies in an educational loading municipal resporter. So, to begin with, let's start by what exactly is Lee Netsport? Lee Netsport is another package that aims to identify and assign different transcripts to the energies in wastewater samples based on the reported amino acid mutations. Having this in mind, I would like to begin on how the society came up. Here you can see the COVID-19 situation in Greece since the beginning of the pandemic. As you can see, we had a different number of cases depending on the period and different variants coming up again and again. Greece tried to use PCR based methods and clinical NTS sequences in order to monitor the whole situation. We quickly realized that these kinds of methods were not scalable in the whole country and especially when new variants arise like the old variants. So, we started thinking of alternative ways to track the virus and detecting south of to load in wastewater and identify its different variants in wastewater. It was an idea that came up. So, this is how Lee Netsport was born actually. A very quick overview of the output of the tool. The tool accepts the inputs, a list of PCF files, each one corresponding to a different sample and containing mutations. And the list of reference files, each one corresponding to south of to Lee Nets. Which is being used as a reference source. So, once the analysis is performed, Lee Netsport produces a table that quantifies the south of during NTS or in every sample that was given as input. Here is a more detailed overview of the overall workflow. As I already said, Lee Netsport takes these input VCF files. It should be noted here that apart from the nucleotide mutations, each VCF files be annotated with the amino acid mutations. Outbreak info and pangolin, mostly outbreak info, are being used as reference sources for every lineage of interest that there is a file containing the gene and the corresponding amino acid mutation. And once the analysis is performed, a table is produced, quantifying its lineage presence in every sample. Now, in order to succeed in this quantification, we need to find three metrics based on the island frequency. S island frequency will mean the number of reads, a particular amino acid mutation has occurred at a specific position by the total number of reads at this position. So, the first metric is the average island frequency that the characteristic mutations of lineage of interest have. You went back on mute, Klaus. I don't know why this is happening. We can hear you now. Okay, cool. Do you want me to go a step before the previous step or just right here? I think we heard up to here. Cool. Okay. So, as I said, we defined three metrics to quantify the lineage abundance. The first one is the average island frequency of the characteristic mutations of every lineage of interest. The second one is the average island frequency by excluding common mutations of the cure among the lineages that we gave as a reference to the two. And the second one, and the third one is the minimum island frequency of these unique mutations by excluding any zeta frequency mutations. We applied lineage spot in 14 wastewater samples across a six-month period in the southern Mickey. The two was applied in samples from December 2020 till May 2021. On the right, there is a heat map containing the characteristic mutations of the alpha variant. And on the left, you can see the average island frequency of the alpha variant during this period. In both cases, the results from lineage spot came in agreement with the related clinical data that we had during that time. In particular, Salimniki was dealing with the alpha variant and a small part of the delta variant during that time. This is a very quick overview of how to use lineage spot. Of course, you can download it through the pico-taphyl repository. You can simply call the lineage spot function by providing the folder containing the VCF file and the folder containing the reference files of the lineage of ingests. Lineage spot is kind of new, so there's still a lot of work that we would like to do. Our main focus is to integrate the package with the outbreak info, which is also a package under development by the outbreak info team. And of course, we would like to cooperate with other teams in Europe that work on wastewater surveillance. During this project, a different number of people have been well-coming from different backgrounds. The main work was conducted by the Institute of Climate Sciences and the Aristotle University of Salimniki. And finally, I should say that lineage spot has been published at scientific reports. You can read the paper online. And of course, it has been submitted to the pico-taphyl repository. Thank you all for your attention. Sorry for the inconvenience. Thank you for a very-


Welcome and thank you for joining us. I'm joined today by Darcy Bagnala, Alan Horn and Diego Milano, all regulators and GSR alumni. My name is Stephen Burrow. I'm deputy to the director of the BDT and also a formal regulator GSR alumni. How have you seen the role of regulators and policymakers change over the past 20 years? From 2000 at the first GSR, the regulators focus was very much interconnection, carrier pre-selection. It is very much creating competition, trying to create an even playing field, wholesale regulation, retail regulation. We've come an awful long way from there. The regulator scope has significantly increased. The skills required in the regulator are very different and it's a very different animal. But the principles remain the same of consumer protection, independence, fostering healthy competition and technology neutrality. So generally over the last 10 years, the regulatory and the policymaking decisions, the development of the national ICT policies, regulatory frameworks and importantly the consumer experiences are starting to become integrated. So policymakers and regulators must continue to collaborate. Policymakers and regulators must be prepared to take risks to work outside their core scope of functions and be open-minded and make improvements throughout the processes. Today the world is completely different from 20 years ago. Telecom regulators, although they operate with the same principles, their ability to really contribute to the economy today is very limited. They've done their work, they have to keep working on that, but they have to be reinvented completely. One restriction that telecom regulators have today is that the legal framework where they operate is quite old. And today the regulators of the digital economy are not telecom regulators. Every single regulator or every single sector is an ICT regulator. The health regulator is an ICT regulator. The finance regulator is an ICT regulator. The consumer protection regulator is an ICT regulator. The energy regulator is an ICT regulator. Everybody has to include ICT in the way services are provided to citizens. What do you think the role of ICT and telecom policymakers and regulators should be in privacy and data protection? There are tools which can and regulations which can be put into place, but nothing can replace education of the consumer. And many regulators are putting a lot of time in working with different entities in educating the consumer in the use and safe access of social media and the internet. So that is a significant role that the regulator is playing with many different other entities. So our whole digital economy relies upon data, relies upon personal data, relies upon e-commerce. And that needs significant cooperation internationally, significant changes in laws in order for that e-commerce to work effectively and safely. And the regulator has a key role to play in coordinating those activities. Although important discussions and regulatory best practices on matters including data protection and privacy were annually promoted in the last five years at the ITU level, the UN, IGF forums, and many more regional events, it is clear that very few developed countries or economies have at least developed and are developing frameworks that have assisted to signal to many national governments, the telecom operators and the service providers including the consumers the need of having a national data protection and privacy. And the regulators should once more collaborate with policymakers and other institutions that are promoting data privacy to be more concentrated and move faster. And the most important thing is that we should be focused on the real gaps of the digital economy. And data protection is not a gap that we can solve in the developing countries. This is not about local regulation, this is about global regulation. So we should be concerned about joining the global effort because the internet doesn't have borders. The internet doesn't have borders. So we have to really do something global. In the case of Colombia, 70% of people are connected to the internet. That's great. But do kids have computers at home to be connected to the school? Do public schools are prepared to teach with these new models? Are the payment systems in place to make sure that the e-commerce works? Is the health system working? Are people using the internet in a positive way? So with that, I am going to close this session. Thank you all very much for participating and getting back together.


This is the animation minute as always they start with jobs Bungie is looking for an animator Calling all animators another job posting you can see here the instructions how to apply lots of jobs you from programming UI QA production and more But also animation Looper's films is looking for cleanup and assistant animators Warner Brothers animation is looking for store-bought artists on the wings of fire Switching over to news and pieces of advice. He's a great one about salary negotiations and speaking of advice This is a good one followed up by this one can't agree more like as reveal the poster of their new project They're working on called Wildwood. This is super cool. Is it moho moho? I'm not sure but it's a full-body rig set up and it looks fantastic That's really cool and director's career another great thread by Edward scroll down to see all the goodies I love these if you're interested in mine the three while a new clip has been released It's a minute long and awesome license posted for sci-fi classics. These are fantastic. Come on. That's cool That's cool That's super cool. That's really cool. Do model sheets for boss, baby, too. Super cute. Come on These are so great. I love it. This is an awesome sure-bye blizzard that I fortunately missed and it was really cool So make sure to check it out and I always love seeing these designs by students. Come on That is just so cool Love all the details there. Hello. There's some crazy spaghetti to the animation But it's really neat speaking of 2d and neat. What is this? I love it that switch right there That is so good and single 2d I love this here this whole progression seeing the acting choices the clean up Just the whole process from beginning to the end and the final clip is really nicely done Switching over to pixel art. Look at that. That is cool My wallet is crying, but I like it. Speaking of liking. What is that? Come on That's so cool That's also awesome called captain's house here and that's what at least look at this. I'll love these animation effects It's super cool. And that's it for the mission minute. You can find it every Monday on my channel at 10 a.m


It's going to take time. Obviously, I think there's one or two players from last season that started the game on the weekend. So, you know, we've got a lot of new boys from overseas that are not used to the league, and it's about time and that us improving. And I think you could see, you know, what we're working out on the weekend on Thursday night, but obviously it wasn't good enough to get the three points. But there is a lot for that for us to like. And if we continue creating those chances and tying up at the back, you know, we could go anywhere this year. Yeah, it was good to get a goal and I haven't scored in a while. So, you know, for me, that's good confidence. And, you know, it's something I've been working on this past season, my finishing. And, you know, it's nice to see that maybe rewarded, but that's a good start and we've got to carry on with that. We want to win, you know, we've got a good enough team to win every game. But, you know, we're not the finished product and we'll take it week by week and take it a step forward. I think if you look at the goals, the three pretty, pretty easy to fix goals, but pretty sloppy on our behalf as a team unit and something we need to work on and rectify moving forward. I think Popper's not obviously definitely not happy with it, along with all the players. And it's something that we're going to work hard on this week and not just this week, but coming weeks to make sure that those type of goals don't get conceded on a regular basis, if not at all. Throughout the game, most of the chances probably came from our mistakes. So we need to cut those areas out as soon as possible and keep playing the way we're playing and keep creating the chances that we're creating and put them in the back of the net and really start to dominate the games. I think on the weekend you saw a lot of creative chances being created from all the attacking players and if they can keep gelling and get the likes of Daria Widdicich starting and firing as well. Yeah, I think they'll be pretty deadly and you'll see the combinations bear some fruit.


Hello, this is Hans van der Kwaas, senior lecturer at IHE Doft Institute for Water Education. In a previous video you've seen how to make a catchment map using the print layout in QGIS. In version 3.14 pi there are some new features that I'm going to demonstrate, plus some little extras. First of all there are some more styles for the scale bar. So here you see the default and in the item properties there are now a few more styles you can choose from, such as the stepped line or hollow. Here I will use the stepped line. Sometimes I see the wrong scale bar that belongs to the locator map, so it's important that you choose the correct map, which is the main map. So we have the scale bar for the main map. Now let's improve the legend. Since QGIS 3.14 we can use custom legend patches. Go to the main QGIS screen. There I go to the style manager using that icon. And in the style manager you can find the legend patch shapes. Now it's empty, but I'm going to import style patches. So I'll go to import items and you can use a file or a URL, in this case I'm going to use a URL. Here you find the link that I will also put in the description. I go to the class Carlson patches XML file, I click on raw and then I copy the URL. Back in QGIS I paste the URL and I click fetch items and there we see those nice patches that were prepared by class Carlson. I click do not import embedded tags and then I click select all and import and there's one with the same name, but I'll just overwrite it. And there we see all those patches and there's some nice ones for our rivers. So click close and there I double click on stream order and there I click on the shape under the patch part and there I switch to all legend patch shapes and I'm going to choose river 1. Now this style you see it already in the result is applied to our stream order legend, that's very nice and it looks now more like rivers. So we're going to do something similar for the roar catchment, but we want first some more space there and I do that by switching off the split layer so it gets its own space for the roar catchment. So I'll go back to the main QGIS screen and make sure that I choose the catchment boundary, one with only the boundary color and I am going to select the polygon and I click this button to copy the features. Then I go to the style manager and I go to the legend patch shapes and switch to all so we can see them all and I click the plus button and we're going to add our own custom fill legend patch shape. So we've copied the shape and I simply paste it in here so remove what was there and we need to add it a little bit because we don't need that first line so delete it and also the empty space and then also everything that comes after the last bracket needs to be removed. We want to preserve the aspect ratio and then you click OK and then you have to give this new patch a name.  Here we see our nice roar catchment shape as a legend patch. So click close and I'm going to unselect and I move back to my print layout. Now back in the print layout we double click on the roar catchment and we click on the shape and there we're going to find it under the old legend patch shapes and there's our catchment patch and you see it's now applied in the legend but it doesn't look good yet so we're going to improve the size a little bit. First I'm going to switch off the background so we can use the space more efficiently and now we're going to change the size of the patch and the height needs to be changed, let's say 30 units. Let's finalize that footer part of the map by putting everything in the right place. That looks great. The last thing I want to show is how to add the elevation ramp as a legend but then with the minimum and maximum value automatically calculated. So I'm going to add a rectangle, I'm going to change the size, width of 5 and the height of 50, let's zoom in a bit so we can see what we do and click on style and then I go to simple fill and I want a gradient fill, so I'm going to change it to a gradient fill and then choose the same color ramp as the map and this one here comes from CPT city and then under topography it's the elevation, there it is, now it looks nicer if you have a little box around it and we could do that by having a simple line but we can also make it a little bit darker because we have blended the colors and I'm going to give the box a little bit of gray transparent color to make it a little bit darker. So let's start with black and then change it a little bit to gray and change the opacity, that's a bit of tweaking so it matches the slightly darker colors that we have in the map because of the blending, that looks better. Now we need to add some text to the legend, first it needs to be clear that this is the elevation, type elevation and now let's add the minimum and maximum value to the right of the ramp and we're going to get that from the raster statistics, so under rasters you find raster statistic and that's the function that we're going to use and under map layers you can find the DEM, so when I double click we get the DEM object there filled in in a way that the expression is recognized. Now go back to raster statistics to see how the syntax works and we need to add the band number and the property that we want to calculate, let's start with the minimum so we add band number 1 and we use the string min for calculating the minimum and we see there that it gives 9, that's the minimum value and we also want the units, very important to always add the units so we concatenate the units to it and now we see 9 meters, so that looks good, click OK and now we have the 9 meters, let's copy this one because we're going to do a similar trick for the maximum value, put it there, make sure that they are aligned and I simply have to change min to max to get the maximum and there it is, so now we have automatically calculate the minimum and maximum value of our color ramp, let's do some finishing touches, let's put a frame around the inset map, the locator map and you see it blocks some legends there, so I'm going to change that in our case, map 1 should not obstruct the legends of the cities and towns, now we can export the file to a PNG or to a PDF, I hope this video was useful, please subscribe to my YouTube channel to get updates, for more free materials have a look at GISOpenCourseWare.org


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