I'd like to introduce our CEO, Mathematics, the President of Angkor-Boston-Harbour-Baptisalvio and the Honourable Mayor, Carlo Di Maria. Good afternoon everyone, and thank you so much to all the members of the media for coming out today. We really appreciate the fact that you're here and spend so much quality time with our team. I'd also like to give a shout out to the team of professionals that Michael just introduced. It has been such a pleasure to work with all of them to produce this wonderful resort. And before I introduce Math, I'd like to say a couple of thanks as well. And Matt, to you and the board of directors, thank you so much for all the support. The team here could not have done it without the support. We know that the company has invested a tremendous amount of money and we can't wait to open to get to the public in the doors so we can make the return on investment for our shareholders. So thank you for everything, Mr. Mayor. I know you're going to speak in a minute, but again, I want to say thank you so much. We know that the team here could not have done this without you. So again, I wanted to offer my thanks. And most importantly, I want to say that Angkor-Boston-Harbour has received its operating certificate from the Massachusetts Gaming Commission and we will open at 10 a.m. Sunday morning. And again, we have Chair Kathy Judstynas in the audience. Thank you for coming out today. We have Elaine Driscoll who is, most of you know, coordinates all communications and work with the media. Chair, thank you so much. The team was terrific to work with during the preview days. It was a thorough exercise and our team is ready, willing and able to open the doors. Thank you for the confidence that you put in us. We're going to make you proud. And so with that, I have the pleasure of introducing our CEO, Mr. Matt Maddox. Thanks, Bob. Appreciate it. So we wouldn't be standing here today if it didn't start with the floor sight of the lawmakers of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Understanding almost a decade ago when they passed this gaming bill that this was not about gambling. This is about economic progress and urban renewal. This was about tourism and this was about large-scale integrated resorts. And it's because of that vision that we're standing here today. We couldn't have accomplished these things without the strong partnership and relationship that we have with the Massachusetts Gaming Commission. And I want to thank them for everything that they've done to get us to this point. And watching all of the Massachusetts Gaming Commission agents work over the last week has really been incredible. They were here till after midnight last night, working on our certification. And that partnership is strong and we're proud to be, we are proud to have them as our lead partners here. Also, this would have never occurred had it not been for the vision of Mayor Carlo de Maria in the city of Everett. When I actually came to Everett about seven years ago, it was in November of 2012, and saw this site for the first time, first person from the company to come here, and met with the mayor. He laid out a vision for urban renewal and for an entertainment district right here where we're standing. And it was really extraordinary to sit in City Hall in Everett and hear the passion and all of the, you know, everything that he had dedicated to this and how he believed he could make this happen. And it was at that moment that our company thought this could be the perfect partner to bring to the state of Massachusetts a five-star integrated resort. As you walk around this place, I'm sure you'll see the craftsmanship is unbelievable. Our, I just have to thank Suffolk Construction and John Fish and his team, the 7,400 construction workers that worked on this site. In fact, we're really proud, over 7% of all the construction workers that worked on this site were female, which is the largest percentage of any job of this size in the United States. So they, I've been associated with five large wind openings of these integrated resorts, multi-million square feet, and this by far from a construction standpoint was the smoothest and the quality was the best. So again, the trades, the craftsmen here in New England are second to none and our relationship with Suffolk has been terrific. I have to say that the thing that I'm most proud of, and the building is amazing, but the thing that I'm most proud of are the 5,000 plus employees that we've been able to hire. It's over 300 million dollars of payroll that's coming to this community right now. It's a new day for a lot of people. It's a new start. And when you walk around, you're going to see a lot of smiling faces. We have a saying if you walk through our back of house or if you look anywhere, luxury is not defined by buildings. It's defined by people because only people make people happy. We believe that our number one asset are our people. payroll is not an expense in this company. We're not a company with things like that. Our people are our asset and I am so proud of the job that Bob DeSalvio, Brian Gilbrantz and Jackie Crom have done leading this effort to employ the 5,000 plus people, hopefully going to 5,800 in the next few months. We're still hiring if anybody has anyone looking for a job, but it's been extraordinary, the work that they've done, and we are ready to open to the public this Sunday. And what I think will be or I know is one of the most anticipated resort openings on the planet. I was in China a few weeks ago. Everyone was talking about Massachusetts. We have 25 journalists coming from Japan in three days. This is not just a United States story. This is a global story and we are here and we want to make the Commonwealth of Massachusetts proud. With that, I'm going to turn it over to the mayor and let him talk about his vision for the city of Everett. Good afternoon. I said good afternoon. Nice to see you all here today. In the city of Everett, even though we're at Angkor, Boston Harbor, we are still in the city of Everett. Mr. Thomas, a remarkable job. Truly amazing. This place is wonderful. It has hats off to you. This is a warm-up for my ribbon-cutting ceremony, so I'm going to practice a few things on you and see how you like it. Matt is right. Back in 2008, I became mayor, born and raised in Everett. I used to bike to Northeastern as a kid and always drive by the Monsanto criminal plant. It was empty. It was barren since the 90s. I went to school in 1991 to college and it was empty prior to that. And fast-forward, I became mayor, trying to get some economic development going in my community. That was the Secretary of Economic Development at the time, was Secretary of All. And I said, I really want to do something great for my city. We're just maintaining. We're not really growing. We're not doing really great stuff. I want to get access to the waterfront. As a kid, I was always on the water, but not the right way. You know, trespassing. We'd go down to the water as kids and we were quoting not from the area. All big industry was all over. They would go no paths, no open to the sea or to the water.  And I said, you know, not knowing anything about them because it's not really a book that tells you how to become a mayor. So I said, yeah, let me look into that. I remember going to Sasaki in Wadah Town. Started the Low Abroad Master Plan. From there, I could create an urban renewal plan. You know, water. We're at the CZM in them to do a water plan. And as soon as we, you know, I worked at residence from the city of Everett for about 18 months.  They wanted to see a marina. They wanted to see active use in the waterfront. That report was released. I got a call from the wind team and the rest is history. You know, there were some other people who want the site that wanted to maybe possibly look at this. And I said that I wasn't interested. I was only, when I heard the name wind and the organization, I said this is a company that I would love to do business with. And to think about it, they spent $70 million, $80 million to clean up a, I call it a super fun site. It was a disaster. It was polluted. It was leaching into the Boston Harbor. They built the Living Shoreline. They built the six acre, you know, community park for the residents. And these were, from day one, the conversations with Mr. Maddox, Mr. Wind at the time, the team, they're always positive with Bob, the recent three, four years now, Jackie and Chris and the whole team, and I don't want to stop missing people, but they bought into my vision of creating this. That's why they acquired, you know, $100 million worth of parcels of land right next to it. They bought into the vision that we forecasted. We showed. You know, this is a great area of opportunity for our residents.  We want true partnership. And that's what it is. It's actually true partnership. It's been wonderful. And we're looking at things like Gold Standard BRT in the city of Everett. We're looking at the pedestrian footbridge that they want to put up $25 million, $30 million to build. We're working with the Game and Commission and the state to build a headhouse to connect our bike paths that we're working on now. You can bike from Gloucester, Manhattan, all the way into Everett. And that's going to be a realization within, you know, probably the next year. Right now, it terminates at West Street. I don't know if you know what that is, but it's going to be all connected. So they bought into the vision of the city of Everett. We relocated the park. And I know I'm all over the place, right? So we relocated the park where we call Line Street Park. It's across the street from here. It's next to the Howell plant. They built that park. We never touched it as a city because we were afraid to. We knew it was possibly, you know, not the best park to be looking at, right? We knew it was very, had some issues with it. They built a beautiful park on the Mall in River. I don't know how much money they spent, but it is a wonderful facility for the city of Everett. You know, my residents couldn't be happier. 600, 700 of them are working here. I get a chance when I come in to see them. They're beaming. They're so happy. They have a great job for a great company. That's amazing to get a five-star resort. But probably not a company that really treats their employees with loving care. They actually really cares about people. You don't really find that in many industries. You find it with this organization. And that was one of the real reasons why I said I wanted to do business with them. And I'm so happy to see that some of our best business owners in Boston, from Verona Group and Frank, and Big Night Entertainment, their product is wonderful. I have Kane and Randy. Great to have them in our community. They're great business people. I had a good meeting with them recently to welcome to the city of Everett. It's just, you know, I can't say enough about the whole process in Commissioner Stein. It's been wonderful getting to know you and the entire gaming commission. It's just a great organization. They've been there with the city of Everett from the beginning. We'll be taxed. We'll be knocking your door for more money. We're spending $500,000 to design the head house that will connect the pedestrian footbridge from here over to Assembly Road. That will give our residents true connectivity to the Orange Line. In Everett, all we have is bus service. We have a train station at one time. We lost that. All we have is bus service. And, you know, transportation is huge on everyone's mind. How do we get people in and out of this facility? There are ways. One of those is called cost rapid transit. Did I talk about that? If I did, the gold standard BRT. If you see it in Mexico City, you see it in other countries there. You can do center lane buses that are on street level boarding, heated air condition from Glendale Square, Everett. You can go right down to 99 Don Rutherford Ave. to North Station. I'm going to work my hardest to get that in place. I'm going to work with Mayor Walsh, who wants to build up Rutherford Ave. and build up the Charleston neighborhoods. I'm going to work with the Game and Commission. I'm going to work with the Encore Group. Because Encore wasn't always about one building. I was hoping the second building was Encore. So, I figured what that's going to be called, a palace. I was always hoping that we'd be... Sorry, we skipped a step. But, you know, this district wasn't created by the Encore team. It was created by the City of Levin. We looked at this whole area. You see what's happening across the street, all the buildings coming down. The used car lots, the scrap yards. We would define for many years as that greedy industrial city that had tough guys that played football. We're still tough guys that play football, but we're no longer a greedy city. We're a city that's on the move that wants to get a little bit of that hotel business. Just make it a vibrant district. That's what we're going to do. It's a pleasure for me to be here. I don't know how long I was supposed to talk for, but I'll probably use enough of my time. I'm going to turn it back over to Matt. So, we're here to answer questions. And that's really what this is all about, enough with the speeches. We're really open to any questions. Does anybody have any? So, he's asking about the 11 acres that we purchased across the street from the hotel. I believe there's over 82 parcels that we purchased over the last four years. So, it's been quite an effort. The idea is that we want to work with the city to create an entertainment district. It's not all going to be our company win. I'm sure that we'll be jointly developing things as we have internally with, as you pointed out, the big night group here and other people. So, we want to work with lots of local developers, potentially other hoteliers, convention centers, et cetera. But our idea, I believe along with the mayors, is to continue to redevelop this area so that it's known as the entertainment district in the northeast. So, do you see this as an anchor property? Yes. This is what happens. You build the anchor and then all of a sudden everybody looks around and goes, wow, look at the opportunity. So, it takes vision like the mayor had first. And then now we have accumulated quite a bit of land and other people are too. And so, we're really excited for the next few years. In the next decade, we'll hear that. Okay. What follow-up on that? Will entertainment include concerts? Usually, people come to casinos to hear famous singers. And so, you probably don't, doesn't have that now. And so, do you see in the future that you'll build a concert venue? There's a future for, we've talked about lots of things with the city of Everett from arenas to conference centers to hotels. But I'd like for Bob to just answer the specific question about hearing famous singers. Bob, what do you have on tap here in the next few months? Sure. We're actually doing a private event next weekend where we have invited guests coming in for dinner and a concert with Earth Wind and Fire. We have the week after that, Paul Anka doing a private show for VIP guests as well. We're going to have our first sporting event, July 12th, working with Ken Casey and Murphy's Boxing for a championship boxing event right in our Picasso Ballroom on July 12th. And we're going to continue to look at other opportunities using our current 37,000 square foot ballroom facility. However, there's a second piece to this and that we are so lucky to be in a city that has wonderful tourism assets right at our fingertips. We already have arrangements with the Red Sox for a wonderful suite at Fenway. They have a tremendous concert series. We have a wonderful box at the TD Garden and besides the sporting events, they have some of the best concert lineups in the country. We have a suite at Gillette Stadium. They've also developed a concert series there and then arrangements with the Lang Theatre. And so there are so many great assets. One of the things that we really like about being in eastern Massachusetts is that there's so many other things for our guests to do. We want them to go out and explore the region, enjoy the tourism assets. We think that will be the key to having them make more trips in the future. Yes. The best ways to get here. I know that this is going to be a huge draw for people from New Hampshire and I wasn't at your conference previously on transportation, but right now you've got great plans for the future right now. What are the best ways to get here other than private? Again, because Bob spent so much time in the mayor on their transportation press conference on Wednesday, go ahead. I'll take that one. Thanks, Peter. Great question. Thank you. For example, you mentioned New Hampshire. We're going to be opening on Sunday a park and ride Exit 4 off of 93 in New Hampshire where you'll be able to get right off the interstate, jump on a premium motor coach. It's a $7 ride. Great way to leave the car back in New Hampshire and ride in by motor coach. So we took that concept. We're going to also be doing that from the west off of 90 in Milbury and then to the south off of Route 3 in Rockland. And so there are three great options for motor coach. We have water options available with a premium harbor shuttle. We'll be running starting this Sunday constantly from early morning at 7 o'clock to noon with shuttle service in the harbor that will go between Encore Boston Harbor, the World Trade Center, and Long Wharf North. Luxury, beautiful luxury vessels that were built by right under the Tobin Bridge. Thank you, Scott. Boston Boatworks, wonderful partner of ours. They built beautiful water vessels for us and we think the guests will enjoy that. The T is going to be a critical connection for us. Getting off at either the Wellington Station or Alden Center. We're providing free shuttle service for our guests. And then quite honestly if folks want to just get off in Sullivan Square it's an easy 10 minute walk. We did a lot of transportation improvements on the roads including redoing Broadway up and down Everett, rebuilding Sullivan Square, rebuilding Wellington, new traffic signals, time signals, new pedestrian crossings making sure that we respect ADA accessibility. And so when you look at it across the board, it's on the water, it's buses, motor coaches. It's a neighborhood shuttle system that runs 24 hours a day and now connects us to the Silver Line over in Chelsea. We're really encouraging folks to try something different. Leave the car at home, use mass transit. We've got to think differently. It's not all about pavement. We like the use of technology. We like the use of alternative transportation methods and we're already willing and able to continue to work on those programs. I know it's in the forefront of what the Mayor talks about all the time but we love transportation as you've heard. In what's interesting, last night from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m., we invited 7,200 of our closest friends and they all came. And so this building had 7,200 people in it. They all loaded in within a two hour period last night and it was quite smooth. I have a question for you. Yes, Rebecca? Yeah, just, are you prepared if the legislature approves sports gambling? Where would it go in the casino? Do you have a lot of additional space? And the second part, is it fair to say that when the Resorts House supports betting on Massachusetts or at least has less concerns about it? Yes, we do support that and I know that the lawmakers are thinking about it and being very careful in the way that that could be implemented. If it is, if the state of Massachusetts decides to do that, we have identified a place for it. We've actually, we have a design that we worked out. We would be ready to move forward if that opportunity exists. Can you guys comment or at least comment a little bit on maybe funding the actual construction of the pedestrian bridge from this square? I know you've committed a lot to the design but what's our next step with that? I'm very sure. Sure, I will, I'll go ahead and take that one. We have said all along that there's really three parts to the crossing. It's important, one thing, when Matt and I talked about this early on we didn't want a bridge to know where. And so as you know, the DCR has been working in cooperation with the City of Somerville on redoing Draw 7 Park. It's really important that that connection be made, otherwise we would be afraid that folks would go over a bridge and land it in unfinished areas. So we think the finishing of that Draw 7 Park by DCR is a critical component. We also feel that if somebody makes the effort to cross over the Mystic River and go through Draw 7 Park they have to have an easy connection to get up to the T. And that involves crossing over the railroad tracks. So we need vertical circulation. We need to get folks up on both stairs at an elevator and then into an expansion of the north head house at the Assembly T station. And we've asked for others to participate then in that as well. Matt's commitment early on was that if DCR works on the park, if the head house project is completed our company would be willing to move forward on the bridge portion of the project. So it's a partnership. We are expecting multiple stakeholders to participate because there will be so many beneficiaries to that kind of a project. But we will be there. But all we're asking is that it's a complete project. Is that fair? Yeah, that's exactly right. And to make this a full entertainment region where you can go over to Somerville and go over to Assembly and it's all interconnected. And do you have access to the Orange Line? So I know it's really important Mayor to you as well. I think what Dan said great as you know in the northern bike strand if you have seen the northern bike strand we have determinates in a small section of Everett we have designing the rest of that section on the sweet sort of circle. That is at 80% design now will hopefully be a construction probably by next spring that will connect to the gateway connection. And they have committed I could say they have committed to building the pedestrian footbridge and we are working with the city of Somerville to stay to the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Secretary I think there's a strong commitment from the Game and Commission that they would see this as a positive piece of transition connectivity. So we feel very confident right now we can just award it by the Game and Commission $500,000 to design that head house. Thank you. So I feel that they are very committed to the project I know that the Encore Green Organization is also feels very strongly because you can get off at Somerville and come right over to the site. Also, for people on Sunday Wellington Station is actually probably a quicker walk over to the site because we'll be open to that connector the up portion to get over to Sunday morning. Could we get an estimate of the Could we get an estimate of the first week's attendance? As a public company we typically don't put out information until it's put out by the state so we will continue just as we do in Macau and by the way our chairman of Win Macau Limited Alan Siemen flew in from Hong Kong to be with us here today. Bruce, do you have a question? I do. I went back and listened to the pitch that Win made to the Game and Commission back in 2014 and one of the points that they made was we're going to be focused just on this property we don't have a Connecticut property to worry about it because obviously we're competing against the Connecticut casino it seems like the transportation is sort of west and north Are you going into the Connecticut market aggressively? What impact are you going to have on the casinos there? I do think that there will be an impact because as you know a lot of the Connecticut market is actually Massachusetts and so this clearly our facility I believe is superior and the location and the service we believe will be five star. One thing that I don't want to be lost in this though is we are in the business of tourism and so we believe that our company will be able to attract significant international tourism because people as Bob pointed out are really interested to come to Boston and this is a great tourist destination and we have great relationships and marketing offices around the world we actually have some of our Far East players checking in next week because they have to come to check it out and so we're focused on the region for sure but we're really focused on the planet and I think that we'll be able because Boston is such a terrific tourist destination to be much more global Hi So some of the attendees mentioned how beautiful it was but they also mentioned that there was food running out during test nights so I was wondering what some of the takeaways were from test nights to make sure that this is in fact a flawless opening Well there's a long checklist when you build 3 million square feet and employ 5,000 plus people and try to open it all at once if you think about it no businesses do that most businesses start off and ramp up and grow as they grow not these you open and you go from 0 to 100 so we're learning lots of things from running out of class wear to no bar napkins to the ice machine didn't work to you name it but in terms of problems there are the least amount of issues here of any opening I've ever been associated with it's really just operational tweaking and these properties do ramp for many days probably until it's running like a machine it'll be great from the beginning but the wind service standard will be in about 2 to 3 months tell you the three problems so Joseph you kind of touched on it we also have MGM out in the spring field do you think this is going to impact MGM at all specifically maybe pulling some people that are in sexual mass Bob do you want to take that the MGM property great property by the way in spring field we visited many times I feel like the property is much more of a regional destination I know they draw heavily from the Hartford market and those areas surrounding it and I do think that what Matt described earlier is we're looking for a much broader tourism play here and so I think they're going to continue to do well there and I think they'll continue to stay very strong in their regional segment we're actually looking for a little bit different type of market and so I think we can peacefully coexist they're friendly competitors and they run a great operation thank you we get to see a lot of the high end on the casino end a lot of the higher end gaming areas what about the lower end like the penny slots and things like that how much of that will be here and secondly is there a dress code so there are more than 3,000 slot machines there are lots and lots of penny slots they're actually quite popular and believe it or not the average way to draw a penny slot to well over a dollar because people like to have their credits but there's lots of opportunities this casino will have something for everybody in terms of a dress code we're not strictly enforced dress codes at any of our properties you know I think that people come here will feel comfortable and you know we clearly cater to the higher end segment but everybody is invited when you're in Las Vegas we're here or in Macau we usually receive between 15 to 25,000 people a day when it's open to everybody and I think Matt brings up a very good point we're open, we're welcoming however you do notice that in the property there are some very fine dining restaurants and I think you know we see this in all the resorts that we have normally if somebody makes a reservation in a fine dining restaurant they want to feel good about themselves and they dress appropriately but if somebody just happens to be walking in they're going to come in and they building casual insurance and just enjoy it so I think it really does work for everyone and I think the guests actually figure it out based on their own itinerary but good questions how much of the revenue do you expect to come from the restaurants and the fine dining options versus revenue from the slots in the casino for so we haven't given those specific percentages in a long time the last time was really when we made an application to the Massachusetts Gaming Commission I would expect that this will be somewhere in the middle of what we experience in Las Vegas which is majority non-gaming to what we experience in the McCow which is mainly gaming so this will definitely be I think a very vibrant casino but we're looking forward to the non-gaming assets doing quite well here I just wanted to ask about the parking fees I noticed it was going to be 20 something dollars and it seems for some people maybe they're elderly or on a limited income basis I just think that seems steep and I was just wondering if that's going to continue or are there exceptions or certain times of the day that might be cheaper thank you good question the parking right now is planned at $22 for the first six hours and $42 for the first 24 hours what's important about that is by having a parking fee you are encouraging people to at least think about it and maybe consider a mass transit alternative matter of fact we were encouraged to have a parking fee as part of our environmental filings through the MEPO or the Massachusetts Environmental Policy Act so I think that it is important it does make people think about it however we do have a frequency marketing program called red card and for those customers especially high frequency local customers which we know there will be a lot of they'll earn credits as they play table game slots or poker and then you can use those credits to pay for the parking and we'll give a discount for that so I do think there's something for everyone a regular player you can use your card and get a discount if you're coming to Dine when I think about our parking rates and I think about my own visitation in around Boston parking is pretty expensive in greater Boston I think the $22.42 seemed like a reasonable approach for us to start but clearly players will get a discount based on rewarding them for their casino play thanks good question it'll take to determine the project's success and whether or not it's worth pursuing that next phase entertainment district and everything so you know you learn as you go we feel very confident about the location the partnership with the city and what this property will be able to generate in the northeast and then what you find out is what are you missing you don't know everything right away and so we'll think about developers to partner with who we can partner with with the city and look at different hotels and arenas what is it that needs to go here and really take our time and work with the right people and with the city to come up with a comprehensive master plan that will create one of the best entertainment districts in the northeast one more question Bruce do you have another one we are talking right now decade and so on and so forth doesn't sound like you'd have any discussions about selling this property as I've worked before can you definitively say Angkor Boston Harbor is not for sale it's actually it's a key part of win resort strategy we believe this is really one of the first integrative resorts in a major metropolitan area and it's a calling card for other states and other jurisdictions globally to think about putting large scale integrative resorts that can create real urban renewal and economic progress which is why we have 25 journalists visiting us from Japan on the 25th so this is really quite strategic for our company thanks everyone we hope to see you again


So with Eden 6 being this week's loot the universe destination and us having increased drop rates of certain legendos, I've decided to bring you guys the best in my opinion farming spots for said destinations. Has it gone guys, my name is DP and today I bring you another BL3 video, if you do enjoy it leaving a like really helps out and subscribe if you do want to see more. So the loot universe this week is on Eden 6 and on screen now we can see what specific types of legendos drop where. Floodmore Basin we see is pistols and class mods, the Anvil we have SMGs, Jacobs estate we have assault rifles and shields, the Racious canopy we have snipers, Ambamir we have shotguns and grenade mods and within black barrel sellers we have heavy weapons and artefacts. So let's get into what in my opinion are the best farming spots for each location. So starting with Floodmore Basin, here are all the spots I will state guys, is the one which doesn't really have a unique way of farming pistols and class mods in terms of a spot you can quickly load in and out of, besides the one I'm going to show you guys today. And it's kind of like a small route of decent leveled enemies which should be great enough for you, and once you've killed them after following the route, check that route, quit out, load back up and the save point is right here, right next to it, through to repeat the process, so spawn into the drop pods section of Floodmore and follow the short route I take. Once you are here, this is where you will load out and load back in, right next to these vending machines, so simply run the route I take on screen now, kill all the enemies upon this short path, check the route, quit out and load back in, it is that simple guys, and you will see yourself get a decent amount of legendaries as well. So next up on the list we have the Anvil, here you will see a ton of SMGs for absolute sure if that's what you want to farm, here we actually have two methods for you, the first one is pretty straightforward though, and that is play through the map making your way up to the dragon queen, killing all enemies in your path, as you can see on the screen now, all these legendaries are from one run, yes enemies are of that high level, but they do drop a ton of loot, the second method is actually killing the dragon queen, who I'm making my way to on screen now running through all these legendaries, now once you are here, kill the dragon queen, then kill anything that spawns in right by her, then run back to this corner right here, once here just wait for those dragons to get glitched above you, once that happens to shoot them, if you've got a decent weapon like the yellow cake, you can kill them with one shot, and they can drop loads of loot, but at the same time they can be quite stingy, the dragon queen though is a little more generous, now this in my opinion is way easier to do, but running through the first part of the map you will earn way way more, once done with either method though guys quit out and load back in, dragon queen has a safe point right outside her room to make it more efficient, okay so we're going to move on and next up we have jcubs estate, here we see assault rifles and shields, now from the moment you spawn in here, enemies are at that high level and can drop some decent loot, but in my opinion the best part here is up where that legendary looting is, this area is full of enemies which drop a ton of legendaries as you'll see on screen now, with a safe point right near by, quit out loading back in, you will see yourself earn legendaries real quick, so load into jacubs estate, run up past the first lot of enemies, run to where that legendary looting is, and let's kill the enemies here, once done quit out and load back in, okay so we're going to move on people and next up we have voracious canopy, here we see snipers dropping way more often, and the best place to do this is no doubt the Jabba Magua, so following the route I'm taking on screen now and bring yourself a trial weapon, so once, yeah, these things will duplicate if you shoot them with trial or they're in the water, on screen now I am using an incendiary redistributor with that zane trial sentinel anointment, so I'm killing them but at the same time they are duping by me hitting them with trial damage as well, and you'll see them duping and you'll see them drop a ton of legendaries at the same time, so yeah guys have fun here, okay so next up we have ambimir, and here we see increased shotgun and grenade mud drops, so upon ambimir from me the best farm are the four billets, these you will find in a cave, so spawn into the rogue's hollow part of ambimir, follow the short path I take on screen now to this cave, when here four billets will spawn, nine times out of ten, they drop legendaries upon you killing them, so just kill them, check that loot, quit out and load back in, rinse and repeat people, super super easy this one, okay so next stop and lastly we have black barrel sellers, here we see heavy weapons and artifacts dropping and this is the place I will be farming this week, now here the best place to farm is without doubt after you kill Aurelia, now run through the map, kill her and progress on, then follow the short route I take which is right of the statue right in front of you, which you can interact with, once here kill all of the enemies and they will drop a ton of legendaries for you, once you are done quit out and load back in and you'll literally right outside this spot again ready for you to rinse and repeat, so have fun and yeah guys these are in my opinion the best spots to farm that loot the universe week three even seats loot, I hope this helps you out, on that note guys we have come to the end, if you guys enjoyed it leaving a like really helps out, if you're new around here and want to see more borderlands be sure to subscribe and if you never want to miss a video I upload you can turn notifications on by hitting that bell button but guys thanks as always for stopping by, hopefully you enjoyed the video and hopefully I will see you on that next one


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What Justin was saying, one silly, one serious, the silly one, when you said Tom Merritt franchise, I realized, man, I am that franchise. I left St. Louis and ended up in LA. I feel awful. Second, less silly. You know, I think editor is a a better description of what I do, even though I'm not an editor of people all the time. Like I'm editing the internet, which sounds way too grand for what I mean. But I'm acting as an editor of the things that are coming in up the internet and aggregate, because I always say like, I'm an analyst, I'm not, I'm not a journalist. I don't, I don't conduct journalism. But editor is actually closer to it. It's like, I'm taking everything in and then saying, okay, let's get, let's boil it down to the essentials. 100%. You know, my favorite editor that I worked with at a newspaper was in Allentown, Pennsylvania. And that dude knew what the readers wanted. And it shaped my worldview so much to know it's not necessarily about what I can get. It's not necessarily about how well I can write it. It's not necessarily even about how much I can make it true, how much I can, I can make it evocative. There were some stories where, you know, he told me there was an ugly story and I don't want to get into the exact crime that happened, but it was suffice to say horrific and involved children. And you know, I had written it in a very plain, spoken, graphic kind of way as I had been at the courthouse listening to people say it in full, complete quotes. Yeah. His answer was, or his thing to me was like, people are reading this over breakfast and you need to understand that this doesn't make it less true. It makes it more like that they'll read it, that they'll get through it, that they won't put the paper down. And the world will be more informed if you write this better with that in mind. And that's something that I've always appreciated about this. And I think it's going to be a great feature for this new, this new, do you have an official name for it? I mean, not yet. I'm still working that through. From the editor's desk is sort of the working title. We'll go from there. Well, but yeah, check it out. If you're a Patreon at the $5 a month level, we'll talk about it again in the show. It's at patreon.com.dts. Also led me to think maybe we should flip good day internet and DTS around. I don't know. We'll kick that idea around, too. Kick it like Tom. Ah, bend it like Justin. All right, you guys ready? Yes. DTS begin. Where is she still in it? Wait, am I in the right one? Nope, I am not in the right one. You're not ready. Okay, that's fine. I just want to make sure, sorry. Why am I over there? Cool, cool, cool. All right, you're in the right one now. Yes. DTS begin in 30 seconds. Batten down your hatches. Yeah. Hattin' down your batches. Batten down your matches that you're going to light the fire that we didn't start.  And remember, only flip over the table when you talk about color wars. Right. That's good advice. All right, here we go. In five, four, three, two, one. Thanks to everyone who supports Daily Tech News Show directly. To find out more, head to dailytechnewshow.com slash support. This is the Daily Tech News for Monday, October 22nd, 2018 in Los Angeles. I'm Tom Merritt in Oakland, California. I'm Justin Robert Young, and I'm the show's producer from somewhere in L.A. County, whose name is Roger Chang. Thank you. We are missing a Sarah Lane today. She's got the day off. And by missing her, I mean, she's missing from the show and we miss her. But she will be back tomorrow. So Justin, Roger and I will attempt to hold down the fort. We're going to talk a little bit about Facebook potentially looking to buy a cybersecurity company. I just call them security companies, but in case you're talking to somebody who doesn't follow this stuff like we all do, cyber security. Even though it's cyber.  Anyway, for another time, let's start with a few tech things you should know. Linus Torvold is back after several weeks away from managing the Linux kernel. Torvold is meeting with top developers of Linux at the maintainer's summit in Scotland. Torvold took a break to, quote, get some assistance on how to understand people's emotions and respond appropriately, end quote. Intel directly refuted a report from Tech News Outlets semi-accurate that claimed it was not accurate at all when they said sources said Intel would abandon development of a 10 nanometer process. Intel said the report was untrue and quote, we are making good progress on 10 nanometers. Yields are improving consistent with the timeline we shared during our last earnings report. And if you missed it, that last report promised 10 nanometer chips sometime next year. Oculus Co founder Brennan Iribe is leaving Facebook. Text Crunch reports Iribe is leaving because his project, a PC-based Rift 2 headset, was canceled as Facebook focuses on an all-in-one headset that doesn't require a connection to another device. So creative differences. He's going to do solo projects now. Samsung officially announced its HMD Odyssey Plus Mixed Reality headset, still 500 bucks like the previous version. But with technology, it says eliminates the screen door effect. That's pretty much the only improvement here. There's a couple others we'll mention. Samsung is using a light diffuser to bleed light from adjacent pixels together to make those black lines that cause the screen door effect, as they say, near impossible to see. Otherwise, the headset is a little lighter at 1.31 pounds down from 1.42 as a wider nose guard, wider eye box and is available now in South Korea with China, Hong Kong and Brazil getting it soon. All right, let's talk about Bloomberg and. Modified motherboard allegations and super micro Justin, the story that keeps giving us stories. Super micro sent a letter to customers Monday saying it will conduct, quote, a complicated and time-consuming review to further address and, quote, allegations from Bloomberg, Bloomberg report that its hardware had been compromised. Super micro has denied the report that hardware allowing spies access to networks was placed on its motherboards during manufacture in China. Meanwhile, Andy Jassy, CEO of Amazon Web Services, tweeted at Tim underscore Cook. You know, he's the CEO of that Apple place. He was right. Cook was. Bloomberg's story is wrong about Amazon, too. They proved story kept changing and showed no interest in our answers unless we could validate their theories. Reporters got played or took liberties. Bloomberg should retract. Second call for retraction, although a call for retraction from CEO Tim Cook of Apple, a much more unusual event than a call for retraction from Andy Jassy. I don't know that Andy Jassy has ever retracted anything before either, but he's not quite in the same spotlight that Tim Cook is. But reporters got played is an interesting accusation starting to put forward this idea like you just don't know what you're talking about. Somebody's fooling you. I don't know who it would be that would fool a Bloomberg reporter and a Bloomberg editorial desk into printing this and what their motivation would be. But at this point with this story, Justin, I'm just about ready to believe one explanation as much as another. When last we talked, we were parsing those initial one or two line reactions from companies and now done full statements and asked for retraction. How are you feeling about it now? And have doubled down almost consistently each time they say something. They say something more forceful than they did before. Whereas like you mentioned before, I was looking for the the way that you could wiggle because whenever you're talking about government contracts and, you know, foreign governments and stuff like that, you got to be a little soft shoey. But this is absolutely the opposite. This is stuff. This is not Palais when it comes to them trying to deal with these rumors. Tim Cook does not comment on this stuff directly. He has now commented on it as publicly as he ever comments about anything which is normally Alabama Auburn football. So at that level, this is about as commercial and popular culture exposed that he gets. I agree with you, Tom. This is highly unlikely. And we're going to get to a point where either Bloomberg, Bloomberg right now has their relationships with these companies damaged because that's just what happens whenever you have something where they the companies are saying, absolutely not. This is not true. You must retract. You're going to have to deal with some reputational fallout. But I be curious, as a reader of theirs, I think that it is almost incumbent upon them to open the kimono a little bit and then show a little bit more of at least their thought process in terms of these sources and where it came from. Yeah. I mean, again, some of this will be a repeat of things I've said previously, but the situations that might fit the facts are the sources they're talking to know this happened, but are not allowed to tell anyone. So their bosses wouldn't know and their bosses could in full faith and honesty say this didn't happen because their bosses don't know and Bloomberg wouldn't be able to reveal who they are because it's confidential and it would it would cause legal issues for Bloomberg and others, including the sources. It's not likely that this is trolls or social engineering unless it's social engineering by people in the government and at these companies. I'm going to trust at this point that Bloomberg is still good enough that they can tell when someone really did work at a place or really is working for the US government or not. That's one of the first thing you ask about a source. Are they real? Are they vetted? Are they who they say they are? So given that it's either they didn't know or this is a highly coordinated intelligence attack to plant this for some reason from within the US, not not Russian trolls, not Chinese hackers, etc, which is odd because the US government is also kind of pushed back on this. Right. It's the same thing. People within the government and within the company say it happened to Bloomberg, but they can't say who they are. Whereas the people in charge of the government and in charge of the company say no, either we say it didn't happen or we have no evidence. But interesting that Super Micro now having to go back and say, OK, to calm down investors, we need to go through and thoroughly examine this to make absolutely certain that we can say, with all honesty, no, it didn't happen. Yeah. Look, one real quick journalism note. I have always referred to anonymous sources as kind of like black magic. They are very powerful. You need to use them very sparingly because at the end of the day, this can happen to you. If you don't have a federal official on the record, you don't have an ex-employee on the record that can take this kind of heat, then you are ret, you are staking your outlets reputation on the fact that trust us, we got this right. Yeah. And then a demon crawls out of your eye because you didn't know what you're doing with the black magic. That's a Mike Cole reference. Tech Radar notes some people are reporting that the new Windows 10 October 2018 update available to Windows insiders doesn't handle zip files well, failing to ask for permission to override previous versions or sometimes just not writing the new version and not telling you. So you think you have the new version, but you still have the old version.  Microsoft has put the update out for testing after fixing a bug that deleted files for some users. So this zip file thing not nearly as serious, but everybody's on the lookout for bugs this time around. Artistic is Peter Bright notes that some commentators believe that Microsoft is having these problems because it's trying to do two updates a year and they should cut back. But Bright makes a very well reasoned and researched argument that Microsoft needs to fix its development process. It's not about doing things two times a year. Ubuntu does things two times a year. Microsoft itself does office every month. It's not about that. They'd have the same problems just once a year instead of twice a year, unless they fix their development process in which they allow bugs to come out into public builds. Yeah. Look, this is something that Microsoft wants to keep pace and be thought of as a well maintained and forward thinking operating system, not just the standard that you get on the computer that you buy, specifically when they're creating hardware for it. So I can understand the desire to do two updates a year. And I don't know. Sometimes you're going to get some rat hair in the sausage, I guess. I highly recommend people go read Peter Bright's article at Ars Technica because he makes the argument better than I ever can. But what he's saying is it's the process that they use. If their process didn't allow bugs, and he compares it to Chrome OS where every build is considered to be close to production ready, if not production ready. If Microsoft did that, they wouldn't have these problems. It's that they allow commits of code that are known to have bugs with the idea that they'll fix them afterwards. Yeah, sometimes that even leads to knowing there's a bug in a public release, but saying they'll fix it afterwards. And he says, look, this has been going on forever back when they would release a Windows every two or three years. You waited for the service pack because that's when they fixed the bugs that went out in the public version. Microsoft just needs to stop that and create a better infrastructure for testing and commit to squashing bugs before they go public. Seems pretty reasonable to me. Oh, speaking of squashing problems, Amazon patch 13 security flaws in the open source free RTOS, which is used in the Internet of Things devices. Technical details will be disclosed in 30 days by Zimperium, which found the flaws. Amazon Web Services took over maintaining free RTOS core in November of last year. Yeah. So I think this is one that you might look at and go, oh, okay, well, that's interesting, whatever, Internet of Things platform. But this is Amazon showing up on your radar in the cloak of Microsoft and this is the Windows or Android of the future. The Internet of Things devices are multiplying. They're all over your house. And the interesting thing is you don't buy a smart home device because it runs free RTOS or safe RTOS or one of the distributions built on free RTOS. You just buy the smart thing, right? So Amazon kind of taking over stewardship of this open source operating system is kind of just taking on a lot of problems and at the same time, feeling like, but then will benefit because we'll be in on the ground floor and we'll control, we'll be the Android of smart things devices, which is essentially kind of what this is right now. So this is a good story. Zimperium found flaws and Amazon's stewardship worked and they squashed the bugs. And in 30 days, they'll make sure everybody knows about them once they're patched, once small companies have had a chance to put out the patches. But it's something to put on your radar that like, hey, Amazon is trying to be the Google, what Google is to smartphones and what Microsoft is to desktop operating systems. Fix these problems proactively now or deal with the front page story about your big problem later. That is the new law of corporate responsibility. IBM and Visa announced B2B Connect, a distributed ledger run on IBM's Ethereum based permission network. The system tokenizes sensitive data like customer information and account numbers to help facilitate global payments. The problem with these things, and they're often called blockchains, even though permission networks are really just distributed ledgers. There's a lot of controversy over whether you should call them blockchain. It's like the hacker versus attacker debate. Everyone calls it a hacker, even though they know, well, it's not always necessarily the most appropriate word. So I didn't call it blockchain here because it really is a distributed ledger on a permission network, but this would be a big advance if they can make it scale because Visa always touts that they can theoretically process payments faster than Bitcoin because of the breadth of their network, but they haven't been able to get a distributed ledger, a permissioned one to scale to that level yet. Maybe this is the case. Well, there's going to continue to be a need to transfer this kind of information. Bitcoin creates a decentralized platform to do it and Visa and IBM are gigantic brand names that want to get in on the new things. So I think that this makes sense on a lot of levels. Every press release on this will use the word blockchain just so you know. Yes. So please apply your blockchain terminology appropriately. It is really just a chain of blocks after all. Intellivision is planning a comeback, but not in a tiny nostalgia form, but a new console called Amiko. The idea is that each title will be affordable between $3 and $8 or so exclusive to the platform. And once you buy it, it's the whole game. No DLC. The games announced are full reimagined classics from Intellivision, Atari, iMagic and more, including Astro Smash, baseball, Centipede and Tempest, along with others. They hope to sell the console for $149 to $179 and target people who find the barrier to entry for a current gaming scene too high. But in any case, don't be in a hurry. Amiko is expected to come out October 10th, 2020, when I'm sure nothing will be different in the world. Right, Tom? Yeah, this is interesting. You know, so we've seen Commodore try to come back with a brand new device. Atari is doing the same thing, a gaming device under the Atari name and sort of leveraging its its its ability to say, oh, and you can also play all those classic Atari titles. And then, of course, what Nintendo has done is just put out small versions and say good now, too, small versions of its old consoles that play its old games. But what Amiko is trying to do, or Amiko, is is compete with Nintendo. And Nintendo's big advantage is to say, hey, maybe you don't need all the power of a PlayStation or a PC. And we're here for you. You just want to play fun games with the family. That was the big success of the week. It's one of the things that still drives the success of the switch. And so in television is saying, maybe we can get in on that action by being even cheaper and leveraging that nostalgia that we had. And granted, not that Nintendo is lacking any kind of nostalgia. You've got all kinds of old games you can play on the switch now. But I don't know, not a bad gamble. But like you say, by 2020, things on the ground might be a little different. Well, he was like, sorry, go Roger. Oh, no, I was just going to say I liken these to the commemorative plates that people they used to hawk on TV for whatever bit of nostalgia that you had 10, 15, 20 years. You're talking that that's not what this is at all. No, no, no, I know. But they're trying to leverage that in a way they're trying to leverage the whole nostalgia scene that that's occurring right now in order to I don't think so, though. I mean, no speech. If you read the speech, he was very much like, no, this is going to be a great console for people to play now. And yeah, OK, so we got a bunch of nostalgia games that they didn't emphasize the nostalgia as much as usual. That was what I tell you. I actually think that you're both right. And this is why this product is bad is that it is trying to be the best of both worlds. And it is trying to get Roger's commemorative plates. And I don't know if these games are necessarily thought of as fondly, as maybe Amiko wants to think of them in terms of the modern of the modern market, nor do I necessarily think that people are going to put a ton of time and effort into creating games for this platform when they're going to cap the amount that you're going to charge for between three dollars and eight dollars, which is like more expensive than a mobile game, way less expensive than a console. We'll see what happens in 2020. But if Nintendo has famously had a hard time figuring out third party developers and they've been better with the switch, let me let me make that clear. Then I have no idea what Intellivision has up their sleeve. Hey, Roger, I think what my interpretation of what Intellivision is doing is saying, hey, we've got a really great plate that you can use for your food right now. And it's super cheap. And it comes with these four small commemorative plates, too. Yeah. But if you remember those commemorative plates also said not for eating. Right. No, that's what I'm saying. Intellivision is saying, no, this plate's for eating. And we also have some small commemorative plates. It's a very interesting way to approach the market. You know, good luck on them. Good. Yeah, I'll see how they do in the couple of years. Get all the tech headlines each day in about five minutes. Be sure to subscribe to DailyTechHeadlines.com. So the information, the web publication has sources that say Facebook has ramped up what it had been looking at doing for a while, trying to acquire a security company. Sources say Facebook wants to buy a company with software could fold into its existing services to secure user accounts and alert them to hacking attempts. Luke Stangle at Silicon Valley Business Journal points out that Facebook has made some small cybersecurity acquisitions in the past, including in 2014. They bought out Palo Alto based private core. They are looking for companies that do analytics, suspicious behavior monitoring and account risk assessment. So instead of a security company that does like antivirus or something like that, they want to do something that specifically is going to help a user who has an account on Facebook or Instagram or WhatsApp. Cupertino based DeMisto, San Francisco based Jask, Colorado based Swimlane, Maryland based Zero Fox and Virginia based Safeguard Cyber are all identified by the information as the types of startups that might fit the bill, although none of their sources would say which companies Facebook is actually talking to. So they may or may not be talking to any of these. Interesting, Justin, though, the idea of Facebook making a bigger splash to buy buy some security both from a PR standpoint as well as a security standpoint. Well, and also let's just ask the question very quickly. We don't have to dwell on it. Where do you think this story is coming from? I would guess that it's probably among these companies that want to fashion themselves, whether the interest is real or not. And I had no reason to assume that it's not as acquisition targets by gigantic companies like Facebook. Moving on. This is a very interesting story to me for this reason. Facebook and I think a lot of these Internet platforms have thought about security as a oops, you screwed up the user will make it easy for you to help clean up your mess that you made up till now. And we are looking at a real crisis point in the reputations and quite possibly a situation where government intervention could be something that is on the horizon for some of these companies, including Facebook. So now the question seems to be not only with this story, but also others that we've seen are well, wait a minute. Maybe we weren't as customer focused as we were before. Maybe we did tip the scales a little too far on the hey, let's make sure that we funnel these people into as many advertising channels as possible instead of let's make sure that these guys that that our users have a good experience, not just a profitable experience for us because their thoughts of us, not only as users, but also as voters and members of the larger culture is very important. And so whether or not this is theater or this is we need to lock down a problem that we are are seeing develop. To me, it is important that this is consumer level security and not necessarily the larger. OK, we have a box warm that's trying to attack us. And it's the difference between a locksmith and the CIA. Yeah, I'll tell you what I think back in August, Facebook's chief security officer, Alex Stamos, left to take a job at Stanford. I'm not saying that that is the cause of this, but he is the guy that you would point to in a room after 30 million accounts were accessed by a login token stolen during a bug in the view as function, right? He's not there now. So if I'm an angry CEO of a company, one solution I might come up with when I don't have that chief security officer around anymore to say, here, you fix this is, you know what? We're not letting this happen again. Who's the best at this? Out there, we will buy them. Yeah. And and that is my best guess about what happened here. Granted, it's going to look great in the PR and those are feed-in reasons to justify like, should we do this? Yes, we should because we win on all these counts. But I guarantee, well, I don't want to guarantee. I almost guarantee that the knee-jerk reaction is we can't let this kind of thing happen again.  And so we need to hire protection. We obviously can't do it ourselves, gentlemen, because look what happened, let's buy something. Well, and I'm surprised that this is not more of something that this is being reported as kind of like a novelty that Facebook would want to buy a company like this. It seems like and possibly because this might just be an industry for which the brain drain leads to companies like Google and Facebook and massive companies with gigantic hiring potential. But certainly it doesn't stop a lot of engineers that create something interesting that just gets snapped up these by Facebook and Google for various different reasons to create products. Security is a major issue. But again, to me, the most interesting element of this is that it's not necessarily that Facebook wants to care about security. It's that there is a paradigm shift that is currently under that is currently happening in our culture, making my Facebook account is insecure. Oops, that's my fault. Old and busted. New hotness. My Facebook account is in here. Facebook should have done better to make sure that it was more secure to begin with. And that's the that's the shift from Geeks who feel like generally, you know, back in the 90s, like, hey, if you're using the Internet, using your own risk, right? You should be aware of what you're doing to the general public saying, hey, I'm using your product. You need to make sure it's safe and secure, like all products. The money was a lot less then, right? Like on the Internet, because we like to talk about Dr. Ho. Yeah. Right. Like now it's like, oh, you are gigantic company that is tilting all of humanity. Guess what? That great power comes with great responsibility. I forget who said that. Movie about it. Somebody stand some anyway. Worth point now one last time. Looking at companies for suspicious behavior, monitoring and account risk assessment. So this isn't about securing accounts at the level of the user. This is about figuring out when somebody has has sneaked in to your system and stopping them before the damage is done. Hey, thanks to everybody who participates in our subreddit. You can submit stories and vote on them at dailytechnewshow.reddit.com. I'm extremely proud of the comments in there recently. You guys have been doing great. And of course, we have a Facebook group. If you're on there, facebook.com slash groups slash Daily Tech News Show. Let's check in with Nate Langson about what's coming up on episode 148 of text message. Roger. Nick Clegg, what is the point of Facebook hiring him? Of course, he is the ex Prime Minister of Britain, where we are broadcasting from. And so we've got a lot of local insight. We think we could probably shed on this topic. What do we think he's going to do over there in Menlo Park? You can find out our thoughts on that by listening to text message at techpodcast.uk. You're on episode 148. Thank you, Nate. All right, let's dip into the mail bag. It doesn't feel the same without Sarah here, but we'll do our best. Al Spalding, who calls himself a libertarian, thought we would find this interesting. Jamie Dupri, a radio reporter for Cox Communications, which broadcasts on multiple radio stations throughout the Southeast, has been a Washington correspondent for a long time. About two years ago, he developed a medical condition that prevented him from speaking more than a couple words, which makes a radio career very tough. However, Al writes he is back on the air through the miracle of software. Full explanation in the story of Jamie Dupri's blog below, a company contacted him with software that uses some machine learning to analyze his years of recordings and pick out the words so that now he can type up his story, run it through the software, and his voice comes out reading it. And there's some great videos of him hearing this for the first time. His anchor station is WSB Radio in Atlanta, so the link is to the Atlanta newspaper, program directors, Pete Spriggs. But you might want to check this out. We'll include a link in the show notes as well. Thank you, Al, for bringing that to your attention. Thank you, Justin, Robert Young for joining us. What's going on in your world these days? Well, back from Politicon, which was fantastic. And thank you to everybody that I saw down there. But there's no rest for me in October as we will be at TwitchCon this weekend in San Jose. So Brian and I are doing a talk there on Saturday. But you can follow all of the fun at my Twitter, Twitter.com slash Justin R. Young. Go folks, check it out. Also reminder, if you didn't realize this folks who support us at the $5 level on Patreon got a special experimental episode called From the Editor's Desk on Friday. It was just me talking at length about my thought processes and critiques in evaluating a tech story. And this one had to do with Facebook's election war room tour that they gave to reporters. So if you're at that level or you decide to increase to that level, check it out. And let me know what you think Patreon.com slash DTNS and we'll have a link directly to the post in our show notes. Also don't forget we've got a fine selection of DTNS stuff, hats and hoodies, mousepads and more stickers even. Go check them out. Daily Tech News Show.com slash store. Our email addresses feedback at DailyTechNewsShow.com. We're live Monday through Friday for 30pm Eastern 2030 UTC. You can find out more about that at DailyTechNewsShow.com slash live back tomorrow with Patrick Beja. Talk to you then. This show is part of the Frogpants Network. Get more at frogpants.com. Well played. Well played everyone. Pond five. Pond five. And they just made a joke. I'll do it for whatever reason. Whenever there was any kind of repeating sound, John and I at Politicon just kept saying doing the pond five lady bumper of just like five. Pond five. Pond five. I don't even know what that is. You'd ever used pond five? Clip art, clipped audio. They were a podcast sponsor for many podcasts for many years. But basically if you wanted to sample the audio, they would put a mark on it and it would be this lady going pond five. And after I was bleeding, just keeps going. I get it. I get it. But the real question is, Roger, what should we call this episode? There's Intellivision Commemorative Edition. I feel like I just did a really bad job explaining that story now because the whole point was that it's not a commemorative edition. It's not a nostalgia play. It's it's a white console with cool looking controllers and or at least not I think that look the decommission is warranted in that like I think that there's a reason why they jumped up and down and said this isn't that because it very clearly looks like that. And if they're going to announce retro games that are going to be a part of you say it looks like that. You mean sounds like that. There's a perception problem. And so because it doesn't look like that if you actually no, no, no, no, no. I mean, the perception of this product is such that having a confusing back and forth on it is the most accurate reflection of it. They know there definitely is. I mean, they took the name one to the controllers resemble the original game controllers that came with the original console. I mean, I think Justin's Robert Justin is right and that they're doing both that they are trying to and I think I think I also agree that it is just as to this confusion that will probably be more of an anchor moving forward than actually helping them. Well, I think my problem is a lot of people out there who aren't who are hearing us talk about the story are imagining. Oh, so it's a mini version of the Intellivision. And I felt I was having a hard time getting across like, no, no, no, no, no, let's establish right away. That is not what they're doing. Yeah, creating an entirely different looking thing. They're trying to build it as a modern console. Now that we have everyone clear on that, we can say, but you know what? They also might secretly be trying to play on the nostalgia and that might be confusing to people. I don't think it's a secret, though. I mean, you use if you wanted to create a forward looking console, you could pull it and television doesn't have to talk about what you think they're really doing. And I'm talking about what they actually said. No, no, no, no, but they use the name. Right. Right. Like, it's not. The new version of of this is they called it the Amico, though, on purpose, right? They're like, we're in television, but. I thought that point was getting lost. That's all. Yeah, I guess my you're right that it is getting lost. I don't think that it is because you wrote the story wrong. I think that it is because that point is going to get lost if in your initial thing, you're saying, we're not a nostalgia thing. Also, we have nostalgia games, but it's not that it's about. Our job is to make sure that you understand that that's not what they're trying to do before we say, but I think it's I think it's a hopeless cause because they're still calling themselves intelligent and including all of these things. And I wasn't sure we had we had made that clear. That's all. There's security gets in your Facebook. The shoulders, could shoulders, could as and what as of security. Those are two separate titles. And. What was that security gets in your Facebook?  So you get. OK, putting security in your face and then book is in parentheses as a separate one. Looking. Which one do you love the most, Roger? Anonymous sources equal black magic. Yep, done. OK, that's our name. OK, I was just trying to I was looking for something that was around the main topic. Yeah, no, that's good. And we should always do that, but I just wasn't. Nothing was grabbing my. You know what they need to do is rebuild the Amiga and leverage that and say works with me. I thought that company that I thought somebody was rebuild doing. Well, they they they've remade them onto a field programmable Gator a. But I mean, like. I don't know, it's just it was such an interesting product. There was such a halo product that was managed so poorly that it just kind of fell out of the market. Tramil. I just found it I found it really interesting that instead of coming out with a nostalgia play, which is what Atari did. Like it's going to play new games, but hey, it looks like Atari that it tell of it. I thought it was really interesting that in television tried to not do that. Well, you're right. I would you. That's more interesting to me than once again going here comes another one because it was different. Calling it the Amiko and having it look modern and talking about it as if like, hey, there's going to be new games and these aren't ports. That's another thing. These are reimaginations even of the old stuff. They're. Yeah, they're. Yes. And it's it's Tommy Tallarico. He's he was for about three months. My co-worker at G4. Nice. I'm just saying it's going to come out two years from today, right? We don't know what the game landscape is going to be. We don't know what kind of developers are going to be able to attract at a three to eight dollar model, right? There's a lot for if they're selling point is this is new. This is the future. There was nothing that grabbed. There's a lot of interesting ideas, whether or not they're viable in two years. Yeah, they weren't trying to say it's the future either. What they were trying to say was, hey, we know there's an unserved niche in the market that likes to play games, but feels like the barrier to entry is too high. I didn't feel we even touched on that point, whether it was valuable or not. But that that was his main sure. No, no, no. I guess it was. Hey, we're trying to be Nintendo, basically. This is my point. And this is what I think I did make on the on the show is that. Whether it's. That that price point. And you're right. Like what this system does is literally took the complaints that people have about the modern console gaming world, right? Number one, way too expensive. Number two, I'm a pay for a game that then in like a week and a half is going to hit me up for a DLC or is going to be very obviously broken. And and I'm going to need a DLC to be interested, you know, in it past, you know, playing it, I feel I feel ripped off oftentimes. So we're going to do that now, whether or not that is them responding to the market by saying we will indeed give you a faster horse instead of we are going to focus on something that is interesting going forward. We'll find out in two years. But I guess that's the other thing is that like the two year lead time. To me, makes so much of this vaporware. It's it's it's announcing your things out loud. Right. No, I think that's a perfectly fair point because it's one thing to get up at the retro gaming conference and say, hey, we're fulfilling all your wishes. It's another thing to have a shipping product. Like this is not even they don't even have a prototype. Yeah, concept stuff. And also it's like that you can't tell me you're we're watching this video right now. You can't tell me that you're marketing that you're not marketing to retro nostalgia. Well, and here's the thing here's the other thing that I think why this is bugging me so much.  I don't care what you're saying. Plus your product isn't real. So it's going to fail. Goodbye. I'm done. Right.  I thought, you know what? Maybe that's all true. But this is an interesting approach to say, actually, we're going to take an old brand, but we're going to try to make it new. We're like, if Intellivision had never stopped making consoles, what would it look like? Maybe it would look like this. Nintendo has retro stuff on their on their switch. You know, this is going to be a modern Intellivision console with new games and some reimagined old games. And I thought that was interesting beyond whether Intellivision itself can make it work. I don't care if Tommy Tellerico succeeds or not. I just thought that concept was interesting. Well, I mean, it's I. I'm not it's it's a very interesting market segment that they're going after because it is it is something focused on simplicity of gameplay, something that typically has been considered the casual gaming market. Something that's what Nintendo makes it. Well, it would be considered less than Nintendo because Nintendo does offer triple A 3D gaming, and this is really kind of shoehorning it back into the 2D sprite era. So I there there has to be a market there, and I'm curious to know what it looks like when this is done. I'm not I said before and I do wish them the best of luck because, you know, one one of the things that gaming has been been covered by is literally triple A titles this triple A and that's what people think video gaming is. There is no nuanced staircase of, you know, different levels of gaming of commitment, right? Not everyone who reads wants to go through a book the size of War and Peace or, you know, the Lord of the Rings or something. Maybe they want to read a novella or maybe they just want to read a self help book and not everyone who reads books reads the same type of books and I'm really fascinated to know what the kind of audience comes for this particular product. We haven't talked about food once though. Um, I had a salad. From Trader Joe's. Oh, you ate. Yes. Sort of. It was mostly just chicken and a whole that I heard. It was. I accidentally clipped on it. Clicked on it. I thought it was a gift. I thought it was a gift. Dance, dance.  Yeah, it was breakfast lunch. It was. Let's have breakfast for lunch. Hmm. I have eaten. Uh, some fruit from the LA United Club. Mm hmm. A mini bagel from the San Francisco United Club. Oh, I have some hot news to break, by the way. Excuse me. The DTS after show. Excellent. November 1st, the LAX United Club, in my opinion, one of the best, if not the best in the world, and certainly the best in America, will debut a whole new menu up to and including a taco stand. Taco stand. Hot food, baby. Taco stand. Is that going to be something that's going to be contracted out or is it going to be like you're just when you do food at the airport, do you have to use the the in-house, like this United Club? So I think they're able to do whatever they want inside those membership walls. There are usually limits to food, though, that are agreed to in order to not compete too much with the concessionaires, which is why those clubs have rarely had. Well, no, it depends because like the AMEX Club has like food, like food you'd find at a wedding, like they've got like a fey kind of food, right? Well, and the and the Delta has has macaroni and cheese and sometimes taco, taco bar. But United has lagged traditionally in the food. What a cheddar cheese I've eaten out of you. Squares, they've recently they did recently step it up. They had a few more soups. They didn't have a hot soup for a while. That was only at the U.S. Air Clubs. They eventually wound up having soups and some charcuterie and just better versions of the cold food. But now, at least at L.A.X., according to my exclusive reporting, right, right. They cultivated sources. More hot food. More hot food starting November 1st, so right around the corner, you know, your description, Justin kind of has me envisioning all the food that you get at like digital experience. And it's just like, yeah, that's pretty much right on. Can I have one of my stuffed NFL like footballs? If I were to rank the reasons why I enjoy and continue to have, despite not traveling as much a United Club membership, it is because I like the following things in the following order. Number one, a place to sit down that's not the floor that is by an outlet. Number two, internet that's usable and reliable. Number three, open bar. And number four, a little, just a, just a notch.  In fact, pro tip, friends, super relatable. I know everyone's gonna, everyone's been in this situation. What you do is when you get off the flight, if it's past 10 or 11, whenever they put the soup out, go to the United Club, toss that soup in a coffee cup in those disposable coffee cups, sip your soup on the way down to wait for your bags. By the time you're done with your soup, bags are out.  Is the soup like piping out or scalding hot? No, no, no, the soup's good. The soup's in one of the nicer, newer, like a big old cauldron things that they just leave out for a while. So it's like, you know, then they replace it fairly often. I've never had soup there that I was like, Oh my God, this is vile. I mean, as long as it's hygienic, that's always my concern with self-help. Yeah, I've always had, they usually have a tortilla soup that is pretty good or a vegetable like a minestrone kind of soup. Do they have those margarita slush machines that you see at some of the bars in the airport? They do not have a margarita slush machine either for your own use or behind the bar. Unfortunately, they will probably make you a margarita. I don't know if they have margarita mix. I would guess that they would. But they do not have a slush machine and everything is still behind the bar, unlike international clubs where they just leave out bottles and you just pour it yourself. Like viewers, I hope you've enjoyed this exclusive reporting on the United Club at Los Angeles. Audio listeners, if you'd like to know what Tom thinks about the Delta Club, stay tuned.


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Welcome to The Journey. Today we're going to talk about why you need a business domain name. All right, so digital marketing is not just an option anymore. It's a necessity for your business to thrive in today's world. But what's a domain? What is a domain, Emma?  That's like your house. Yeah, it's where you live, and it's where your website lives, right? So let's talk about why your business needs that domain. The domain name is essentially the building block of your online presence. Talk about what our domain name is. We're going to go over just a few little points of choosing the right domain name and why it really matters to you. Let's dive in. So when thinking about domains, thinking about what is that actually going to be, I know it comes up a lot when speaking to local heroes is SEO, search engine optimization. What words should you use? Because there are key words depending on your industry and your business, and there are relevant words that your customers are going to be searching. So you want to make sure you're paying attention to that and including that when thinking about your domain name. Yeah, and on the flip side, you also don't want to limit your business, right?  What if you want to expand? Now you're no longer in the chandler area. So when you're choosing your domain name, figure out are you going to expand? Do you want to or you're just going to be in that one little city? It's up to you. And just as important when thinking about the word choice that you're using with domain name, also be sure to do a similar approach when thinking about your email address. I know for me, when I see an email come in for a business and it's at Gmail, not as professional as if it's at and then their business name. You need a domain name to be able to do that. And that's why it's super important. Your domain name is going to let you have that professional email that's going to let you communicate back and forth to your clients and not only let you look more professional, but it's going to add credibility. Because like you said, if I was emailing someone, I got a response back from a Gmail. Anybody can make a Gmail. I don't know if this person is legitimate. I don't know if they are who they say they are. I'm scared. I'm going home. I'm not talking to them.  All that fun stuff. So you're likely not going to get his business. None of it. With the Gmail. I'll save my money for pizza. You know what I love about websites? What? They're open 24 seven. You gotta have one. You gotta have one to be found by customers without a website. You don't exist. Right. And what I always like to say is your website is your hardest working employee. Think about it. It never sleeps.  It's always there. It's dependable. Have that website and really show off your brand. And when you don't have a website and you don't have that domain name, it's really hard to earn someone's business. I was in Iowa over the past couple of days and literally almost. How was that? It was fun. I didn't even ask. I had a blast. I've never been. Iowa, it's cool. They have some cool bars there. I checked them out. But I was trying to find a just a steakhouse to go with the friends I was with. And most of the restaurants did not have a website. They linked me to a Facebook page. Some of them, if that was at best. Or there was nothing at all. It was super frustrating trying to find a steakhouse. You just wanted a steak. Imagine me trying to find a tofu meal in Iowa. I'd starve. You'd be done, right? And it was super frustrating for me. And to think about your customers that are looking for your type of business. Now, if they find you on Google My Business or Yelp or wherever else and there's nowhere else to link to to get more information, they're going to be frustrated and you're going to lose their business forever. Don't be at the mercy of just your customer reviews. Get a website. Yeah. And there are plenty of places to get that website. Now, you technically don't need a domain name to build a website. You can have temporary domains like GoDaddy's website builder. You can have yourname.GoDaddySites.com. Wix has your name.Wix.com. But it goes back to that professionalism and that credibility. If you don't have your own domain name, they're pretty cheap, like 20 bucks a year to give or take, right? Yeah. Have that there and show your customers that you mean business. So, Nealey, speaking of websites, another thing that I want to talk about with our audience, copyright. Keeping it protected. Whatever you put on your website, correct me if I'm wrong, whatever you put on your website, you won't. That's yours. Whatever you put on your website that you create is yours. Thanks for clearing that up what he said. Right.  Or a musician. Yeah. The content that you create and put on your website is protected by copyright laws so that your information is safe and it's yours. So, cool little tidbit. You have to have a website and you have to have a domain name to be able to do that. Now, I know social media is all the rage right now. Everyone's on Instagram, everyone's on Twitter and Facebook and everyone just wants to be there. But what I strongly urge everyone to really think about is those platforms can come and go. What happened to Vine? It came. It went. It went. People built up large, large followings and spent a ton of time on Vine and it's gone. All those subscribers, all those everything is gone. But you know what won't go away? Can you guess? Well, I'm biased. I think social media is here to stay but I know what he wants me to say. Website. Yes. So, social media is always going to be here but the profiles and the websites themselves may change or they may change in a direction that doesn't really work with your business anymore. Your website will always be there. You control all the content on it. You control what goes on with it. It's all yours. Another important thing that I want to bring up that I often advise with your website is the importance of including your customer reviews there. Now, sure they already exist over on Yelp and Google but having them on your website as well acts as social proof. So, I strongly encourage that and plus think about it. Let's say I land on your website first and I'm deciding if I want to use your business to go to to get my car wash and I see all these great testimonials from your customers. That might be just a one and done.  I don't even need to go anywhere else. I'm going to go to your business. You have won me over with your social proof on there. Absolutely. And with your website too it really makes customers or potential customers just have an easy way to contact you. There's usually a contact form there and a phone number or social handles or everything else that they need to contact you. Now, when it comes to domain names, let's give them a couple of pro tips on how to really select the right domain name. We talked about keywords, things like that. There's some things that we should avoid. First or foremost, you should avoid hyphens in domain names, right? You don't want this dash is dash a dash really dash long dash domain dash dot dash dash dash dash dash. Make your customers dash. Right. So avoid those dashes and I always like to talk to the local heroes about the the radio test. Remember the radio test in one of the early videos? Yes. You did enlighten me with that. It was short. It was sweet. How long? Yeah.  Would that person remembering your domain name in that little ad spot? Now, if it's super long or complicated or they can't remember how to spell it or whatever it might be, it's going to be a bad domain name. So try to keep it short, sweet, memorable and something that someone like us would remember. What do you mean by that? We're millennials. We're everywhere. All right. That's a wrap. Go ahead and comment below on what you learned for the benefit of your domain name. Also, be sure to like this video and subscribe so you're in tune with all the future content we're creating. And ring that bell. So you'll be the first to know what's next. This is The Journey. We'll see you next time.


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Russians regretted entering the Bakhmut centre they retreat. The main battles for Bakhmut are already taking place in the centre of the city, but there is no threat of encirclement yet. This was said by Ukrainian military expert Oleg Zdanov. According to him, the Russians are pressing the Ukrainian troops from three sides and a large number of manpower is stationed in each occupied street. The situation there is very difficult. But I cannot say that they defeated us in a military sense because we are oppressing them. Zdanov emphasised. The expert also said that the centre of Bakhmut has become an obstacle for Wagner and regular Russian troops. We are successfully controlling the city centre. We prevent the enemy from trying to advance either from the north or from the south. Zdanov also added that the Ukrainian army is improving its tactical positions in the Marin and Avdeev areas. We are counter-attacking, which is quite good. Russian forces are already forced to retreat in some areas.