So this is my agenda. So don't be mistaken. I really want to make sure that we remove those bad guys and they don't contest evictions next year. This is my object and this doesn't mean only those in opposition. Even Dr. Edgar Chakwa Loom, if there is evidence that he too is dented, I don't want him on the ballot. It will even be nice here not to have you. So this is the object. This is the object and this is where I stand even as a party, our party, we want to make sure that we fight corruption. Look Zangans, there is no way we are going to have progressive and meaningful change if we will keep on having bad leadership. If we keep on having people who are corrupt. I know a lot of you have frustrated with the president Edgar Loom and his government. But and you want change. But that change shouldn't be to bring in wrong people again. How are we going to have change? We keep on repeating the same people. Today is in the ruling party. You are saying he is corrupt and so on and so forth. The following day he jumps out of the ruling party. He is attacking the ruling party. You say he is a good leader. How? How? These are the same people. Some of you in here, when I started the issue of wakamwili, right in this boardroom. Some of you were saying no, what wakamwili, but forgetting that wakamwili was in the ruling party. And the cases that I brought, that I took to court were not when wakamwili was in opposition. It was when wakamwili was in the ruling party. And today wakamwili is a convict. And yet you are saying no, this is the Messiah. How? How? How are we going to change this country? If we are going to have this mentality. Some of you say no, you favor Edgarum. Believe me, believe me, I am telling you I swear upon my living God. If Edgarum, if you have evidence against Edgarum, I will come and sit on this chair in this office and say it as it is. I will not spare you. I will not let my conscious be betrayed because he is in office if indeed there is corruption. The problem that we have is that we usually run with in windows, speculations, that's what we run with. If there is evidence, if there is evidence of President Edgarum being involved in wrong things, for me I will definitely go for him. At the moment, I don't have tangible evidence to say President Edgarum is corrupt. I don't have it. And I am saying if you have something, please bring it. But it has to be good evidence like the evidence I have here. It has to be good evidence because at the end of the day, like HH was saying, I mean if you say something that you cannot substantiate, you are in trouble. I don't want to be in trouble. I don't want to be in trouble. Yes, I have issues with President Edgarum in terms of fighting corruption. He approaches corruption with key roles. And I have a problem there. I have a problem there. There are a number of ministers that I will tell you and these are PF ministers today because you like to say no, you only attack the opposition. But some of the names I've mentioned before, they are in government, they are ministers and I've had issues with them. And my writing is on social media. That's why I write on social media because I want even when I'm long gone, people will be able to go to my page and say, this is what he's saying. So for me, I am very balanced in approaching corruption issues. When I'm talking about Mr. Hatter in the HLMA, it is out of the evidence that I have. As far as I'm concerned, Mr. Hatter in the HLMA should not, and I repeat, should not be as hard for presidency. I think it's been jailed. And why do I say that? I say this out of the evidence that I have because I've come to admit people, I've spoken to people, alive, flesh and blood, people, not at cost. They have come to complain. How Mr. Hatter in the HLMA got them out of their houses, how Mr. Hatter in the HLMA keep them out of their employment, how Mr. Hatter in the HLMA has not paid them as people who used to work for some of the companies that were privatized. At the moment, I can give you one example because I want to talk with evidence. I'll give you one example. I've got a number of cases that I've been looking at, but today I'm just going to give you some of the issues. Issues that I'm going to the Ant Corruption Commission to the police and make sure that Mr. Hatter in the HLMA is prosecuted. In my course of going round checking police evidence, it has come to my attention that Mr. Hatter in the HLMA has two analyses. This is what I've obtained and I'm giving it to the police to investigate. There is an analysis and a technique of the analysis. I want to mention these analyses. The analysis is one which is 26, 17, 86, 72, 1. And another one, 12, 88, 73, 72, 1. These analyses are all pointing to Mr. Hatter in the HLMA. I am a whistleblower in this instance and I want the police to investigate. I want the police to investigate. Me, in my investigations as I was going round looking for this, looking for that, going to the Minister of Lands, going to the Zama Development Agency and other, I've come out that there are these two institutions. And I'm confused. I'm confused. Go to Unza, the names are also not appearing. So as far as I'm concerned, I'm wondering who is Mr. Hatter in the HLMA. I am lost on his identity. Unza, if you go there, you will see different names from the names that we know him in the political circles. Analysis, I'm seeing two analyses. Two analyses and some of these and both analyses are attached to some properties. This is how I came to find out because you do a search. Mr. Hatter in the HLMA, I had so many names attached to certain properties but the analyses are different. So I'm confused. What's going on? Who is we here? Who is Mr. Hatter in the HLMA? And for me this is a point of investigation. I want the police to investigate on the identity of Mr. Hatter in the HLMA. To my fellow Zambians, just on that issue of identity, I don't know what you think. But if you have a person that cannot clearly identify himself, how can you trust such a person? Just if you have a person that cannot clearly identify himself, what are we talking about? How are we talking about? He was Hatter in the Sami HLMA at Unza. When did he drop the Sami name? What is going on? What about these two analyses I'm finding out? What's going on? I am taking this to the police and I believe I am not mad. I am not foolish. This is a very genuine case. Mr. HLMA wants to occupy that big position to be citizen number one. If you want to be citizen number one and we cannot identify you, how can that be? I don't hate Mr. Hatter in the HLMA. These are facts. I've given you the analyses numbers. Go and check them. You will find that they have the same name. Everything is pointing to Mr. Hatter in the HLMA. What's going on? I want to know. Go to Unza. You will find that if you check his computer number, the names are different. Anyway, moving on. Let me come to privatization. I have said that there are people who were deprived of their properties, who have not been paid, who were kicked out of employment in the name of privatization. Ladies and gentlemen, I am not joking. I am not being malicious. I have spoken to these people. I have seen how they are suffering. Some of them, if you see them, you would actually feel pity. There is one house. There is one house. There is one house prok namba. You take note of this. There is one house prok namba, 77, stroke A, stroke 609, on Paula Avenue in Cheston, Lusaka. This house used to belong to Zimko. It used to belong to Zimko and the occupants of that house, the tenant, the sitting tenant, at the time they were privatizing Zimko was Mr. S Jere. This Mr. Jere and just before I go, I want to show you, I have got a list. This is a list of houses which were sold by Zimko. I will distribute this document. I will distribute this document. Here there are names, not just the person that I am talking about, but all the names, all the houses which were sold. And this particular person I am talking about is actually on page 2, number 58. You will see the house number that I mentioned here, 77, stroke A, stroke 609, Paula Avenue, Cheston. And it was offered to Mr. S Jere as a sitting tenant, as a former worker of Zimko. So this, I will put it here, this is out, you look through it, it is true. And for those people, I want also to make an appeal that for those who are on this list, this list I will post it even on my page, I know there are some people who are treated in the same way like Mr. S Jere, I want them to come forward because they are my witnesses. They are my witnesses. So all those who are on this list, if you were deprived, in the same way that Mr. S Jere was deprived his house, I want you to come forward and accompany you because I am saying it was offered to Mr. S Jere. You might think that I am joking, here is an offer later. This is an offer later to Mr. S Jere, this one. It's an offer later and the name is there on the list together with others. It's actually Mr. S Jere. Paula Avenue or whatever and you see it and it was offered to this man to be bought at 19.8 million. 19.8 million, that's what was offered to him. By that time it was not the best. So 9.8 million. Mr. S Jere was given that offer and that later and he actually paid for it and I have received. He actually paid for it. He actually paid for it. He paid it through SP Mulenga, where the lawyers were appointed to be receiving money and so on and so forth. So he paid through SP Mulenga. Now, what happened thereafter? Mysteriously, mysteriously that house was bought by Mr. Aka in the Hilema at 31,000. Now how did it happen? Here is a print out from the Ministry of Lands. Here is a print out on page 2 of this. On the second page you see Mr. Aka in the Hilema there and the change of title, you know certificate being offered and at 31,000. How did Mr. Aka buy this house? How? Mr. Aka never went for Zimko. He never went for Zimko and we have an offer later to the sitting tenant and we have a receipt of this sitting tenant buying the house, paying for the house. Later on we have a house in the name of Mr. Hilema buying it at 31,000. I have checked and I have been told and found out that Mr. Nomani Imbazima Mr. Nomani Imbazima who was the core liquidator offered the house to Mr. Aka in the Hilema offered the house to Mr. Aka in the Hilema and he bought it at 31,000. Depriving depriving the sitting tenant, the former worker of Zimko How did Mr. Nomani Imbazima offer the house to Mr. Aka in the Hilema? If you check around you will find that Nomani Imbazima and H.H. they are very close people they are very close people Mr. Nomani Imbazima Nomani Imbazima from there even ended up being the deputy chairman of Angra America Angra America and Angra America is believed to be one of the strongest sponsor of Mr. Hilema and the UPND so you see the connection you see the connection these are not fiction these are real things here is a print out Mr. Hilema is there having a bought this house at 31,000 this is what he is showing and I'm wondering how come how come and these these people who have been deprived is not the only one I know there are other people there is one person Mr. Nomani Imbazima wherever he is you remember that there is a man who also wanted to be treated the same way he had to go to Rona Depenza by then because he was lucky him he was connected to Rona Depenza so he went to Rona Depenza and Rona Depenza wrote a letter a letter which I have telling Nomani Imbazima to say no don't do that he is the owner of the house giving him the house and that's how he was served otherwise his house would have also been gone this is this kind of things that we are going to allow just because we are frustrated we say no this is our messiah with this kind of background I am bringing out this and I am taking it to antcorruption commission I want the antcorruption commission to look into this because how did it happen that Mr. Hilema who was never a worker for zamko Zimko who was not a sitting tenant defriving defriving this man I want the antcorruption commission to investigate this this is one of the cases that I am taking to the antcorruption commission these printouts were taken some time back but just the other day when I went to the ministry of land to check on this house to get a printout they are dubious entries they are dubious entries on that if you go and get a printout today what you see it's not making sense so I am issuing a serious warning to those people who work at the ministry of lands because there is also too much corruption there but my wajinkapata there is too much corruption at the ministry of lands a lot of people are mysteriously losing properties from now I have a recala with your title suddenly there is another person with another title on your property how is this happening and this is a clear example that I have because a printout that is a printout from the ministry of lands that is a printout which was done some time back I go there just the other day the printout is showing something else how this is the same ministry and some details are just you think that it's a different house you know when I went there it's a same house I went to my source and said no I think you gave me a wrong whatever and you said no it's a real one it's the same property there is a lot of corruption going on at the ministry of lands and myself we want to make sure that such corruption is gotten rid of when you have a title you are supposed to feel secure to say I have a property we shouldn't have a situation where people will be influenced people with money taking advantage and just grabbing properties from citizens I can't allow that that's not why I'm in politics I'm here in politics to finish this kind of nonsense to finish this kind of nonsense anyway that is one house nafumako by the way do you know anything about it I don't know anything about it I see because I don't have anything I don't know that about making it I don't know what should be done I don't know how to say I don't know how to put it I don't know how to put it now I think it has never been a question I don't know no. 19. 24 na 19. 24 was mortgage to Lima Bank. It was mortgage to Lima Bank. Around 1989, it was a mortgage to Lima Bank. When Lima Bank was being liquidated and you remember who were the liquidators, it was Grand Central. It was Grand Central. So when Lima Bank was being privatized, this property was still under mortgage, under Lima Bank. Today as we speak, this property is owned by Mr. Haka in the Ichiden. I want to show you this is the mortgage because in Shrelanda Fianna, ten my evidence here, wakamu wiliak watu, re-sabaila-sabaila, on the corridors of the court. If we throw under number evidence, e.e. mortgage. This is the mortgage. It was under Lima Bank. Samson Tembu and Lima Bank Limited. 1989. Lima Bank got into privatization. Afterwards in 19... So there we have the evidence is there. Afterwards in 19... In 2004, this property changed into Mr. Haka in the Ichiden. And even today as I speak, it is still in Mr. Haka in the Ichiden's name. If you check, I checked on some of the documents as far as I could go to check if Mr. Haka in the Ichiden declared interest. There is nothing. And this time around when Mr. Haka in the Ichiden was changing, the property conveying this property into his name. He was actually the emerging partner of Grand Contour. How did Mr. Haka in the Ichiden ma? How did he acquire this property when he was a liquidator? I'm not giving the details. I have all the details. But I want him to respond because he said, no, I never took advantage. I want him to respond. But I'm not working in the Ichiden ma. I'm not working in the Ichiden ma. You are right. I'm not working in the Ichiden ma. I'm asking. If I found number 1924 in Kalomu, how did you acquire it when it was mortgaged to Lima Bank? Lima Bank, which you were privatizing, which you were liquidating? Which you were liquidating? Nganalanda prefa tiyo, HHH wa limu. But how? These are clear facts. I don't hate Mr. Haka in the Ichiden ma. It's not personal. It's not personal. Tatoa pitsi na kumonina hiraku isopia, benaba hirengen pisa. I don't know. So, there is nothing like it's facts speaking for themselves. Even if we go to court even if Jack Mwimbu is the judge what are they going to do with this? How are they going to exonerate? I want to see what I'm aware of. Kif Mwimba. I want to see them. I want them to see how they are going to exonerate Mr. Haka in the Ichiden ma of this. I want them to... I want to see and I'm telling you some of these things. Even if you have an emotional attachment to a person facts speak for themselves like they did Mwimba kumwimbu. He can say whatever he wants accuse a judge the magistrate of anything but at the end of the day facts speak for themselves. There is a manzim kuriwara wajtalo nara waatewa but let me not go there but facts speak for themselves and here facts are speaking for themselves. Facts are speaking for themselves. Now I'm giving you this is the document which shows now that Mr. Ichiden ma is the one that is the transfer. I'm putting it there. I know they are friends of the HHS got also some friends in the media please get this and take it away. I mean it's a fact. It's a fact. Take this to him and let him start organizing his defense because the anti-corruption commission they need to act on this. They need to act on this and I want to see the logical conclusion of these matters. These matters are very serious they want to be seen like there for everyone in our community. I'll leave it for now but I will present it before the anti-corruption commission.  If anti-corruption commission they don't act on this one I'm going to place a mandamus on them so that they can make sure they call a leader but no he is the radius opposition leader no whatever whatever a crime is a crime. A crime is a crime corruption is corruption it doesn't matter who commits it. No matter how big you are no matter how coffee you are no matter how much money you have we have got only one law and me I operate on the fact that we are all equal before the law. We are all equal before the law. So I'm going to tell our HHS don't you come or come when I come and move if you can catch a patient the fact is we are all equal before the law like GBM but you know movie but we are all equal before the law. So HHS if HHS committed crimes me I don't want to hear issue to say no he is a radius opposition we can't touch him. More people are being arrested for stealing chicken in Salaamu Ikatonu he doesn't pick a chicken from the neighbors he is arrested and is sent to jail why do you want to make excuses for the rich people why do you want to make excuses for come when you don't want to move your heart is whatever whatever even how many people are being jailed every day why should I have a heart for come when why we are all equal before the law and especially if you are in leadership you are even supposed to be more responsible than the ordinary citizens so if anything the citizens should be more should demand more responsibility on the leaders than on the poor but we are fond of excusing the rich and the basic point in fingers at each other condemning each other judging each other no HHS must go to must go to court and let the court judging let the court judging I am I want to make sure I want HHS so those who like to insult those who like to say whatever it is I don't care you can call me whatever you want you can say whatever you want it's okay what I want is to make sure that only the right people only good people I don't care I don't care I don't care that's just what it is I've also taken interest in the some hotel I have also looked at it then never last week I was busy when I couldn't fly to the same money because I wanted to go to ito the same money because I wanted to go to itopia because of the war I couldn't go so that money I wanted to use it to go to Mauritius to go and check on Mosotunia because Mosotunia it is saying that the owners of that hotel are in Mauritius therefore I have a kumanya because from where I stand I think that that company is just a fictitious company that Mosotunia belongs to Egypt and is hiding through these companies which are created in safe heavens unfortunately I couldn't go because when I tried to check on the flights and everything it's difficult to fly into Mauritius because of covid but I'm still looking around I want to make sure that I go and get one piece of evidence out there so that it also becomes part of the indictments of Mr. Haka in the Ichilem Ishimu Patilem Darawandi Shimu Patilem it's the evidence that I'm looking at and even yourself if you're objective you will see that indeed there is something wrong here I'm sure you would also want to know about these two analysis I'm sure you want to know who do I belong to, what's going on I'm sure you want to know how can we change these names I'm sure you would also not want to be deprived of the house like Mr. Mjere I'm sure you wouldn't want that these people are suffering what about this farm how is it that Mr. Ichilem is owning this farm which was under human bank which was privatizing how I'm sure these genuine questions that we should ask Mr. Ichilem in whole fairness we should ask him and if he can even be cleared by the courts even better so me Mr. Ichilem you should actually thank me you should be happy with me that I'm taking him to court because if he is innocent the courts will exonerate him he shouldn't even be threatening me why is he threatening me stop threatening me ma'am Ichilem is helping you to clean you to clean you if you are indeed clean but if you are dirty you don't belong in politics you belong to jail that's what it is that's what it is that company we need to be clear what's going on there we need to be clear Mr. Ichilem mafirewa Samba Umeishi Ichilem if you are a spirit before he comes to politics at the moment in my opinion the man no Ichilem I would have used the I know I want to respect I want to be media friendly but sure the man he is not clean and I am not going to sit back to please insisting We don't come and start saying that this is a flowy without no to stand. El Garungu is just a suspect as the hierarchy hikiwork metals. If I catch him or I catch Magic9 engodi, Are even be happy because it will make my job easier and if you say you are eliminating your friends so that you can become President. Yes, many, many things based on the kids. Based on the kids, it's okay. It is about when you have to ride and somebody now with mad dreds who do not have to compete with that person. No, this is the situation. Why do you know if mad dreds are bad? Why do you know if mad dreds are bad? Why do you know if mad dreds are bad? Why do you know if mad dreds are bad? If mad dreds are bad, but mad dreds are bad, then why do you know if mad dreds are bad? They are far because of the money they have acquired. I don't want that. They want to linger at the same level. I'm level in the playing field. This is basically what I'm doing. So, and you know, others who come up to say no in political whatever, now it's because of bill 10.  Me, bill 10, I am happy with it because bill 10 gives me an opportunity to put an injunction against him. If I can find him guilty in one of these with the article 52, I will manage to put an injunction against him. And I intend to do it until all these issues are cleared. Mr. Hedge will not stand. I will not allow Mr. Hedge to stand. I will make sure I put an injunction until all these matters are cleared. So, the better these cases, the area they are cleared, the better. Because I am going to put an injunction as long as these cases are still lingering, I will petition, if these cases are not complete, I will petition to make sure that Mr. Hedge doesn't stand. But Sangwa, he can also go in with eligibility. And at the end of the day we shall see how we will fall out. I think I've made my point for now. Like I have said, it's not only this which I have and a few others that I'm looking at. But for now I wanted to give you this and just one case of this. One case of this Ngaia Pita Nishpa Fita Any questions? We'll push it. We'll push it when we know something. Demias. Yes. Of the two analyses. The same name, same date of death and the like. They bear those. I don't want to to talk too much on that because you remember analyses are private. You will see what I mean. All I'm saying is that there are two analyses. I won't go further than that because I don't want to to be under any other question. That may delay a week. That is Ngaia. Wait, wait. Let's wait. Let's wait for the questions. Are you post this on social media? Do you see them? Yes. I have a question so that we have to know how we couldn't ask each other. Yes. I started. Yes. I'm tomatoes. Yes. Why? Right. My question is you've taken a very active approach. But you are dealing with the issues that happened that years ago. My question is are we seeing you taking the very energetic approach in dealing with the issues of recent corruption such as the cuts to fire tenders, the ambulances and the recent one, the COVID-19 funds which have been misappropriated. Are you going to approach these issues of corruption the same bigger that you are? My brothers and sisters my brothers and sisters in the media I will take an opportunity to make an appeal to you through that question that sometimes we are the ones that propels stories that have no have no depth. Sometimes we are the ones that run with these stories but they have no depth at all. They have no depth at all. For example, there is that rejudgment that came out and the media were covering me to say and now Niawabi has been ordered to pay and in that rejudgment you are busy writing Niawabi has been ordered to pay. Now the issues that you have spoken about I've spoken about the 42 for whatever 42 42 for if by engines you have spoken about the ambulances we can even add 42 houses 48 houses we can even add those and one by one we can talk about the 42 42 for attendance what evidence do we have what evidence do we have that chupatari can run and we say Niawabi what evidence do I have what? Where am I going to start from? Tell me the price is high Yes, the price is high but when you go and peruze through the tendas I mean even those that he competed with this they are not willing to come forward what do you do with it? because as I have been on that case by the way we even went to NRL to the anti-collapsion commission myself before the story came out the anti-collapsion commission themselves they came out to say no the tender process was followed what do I do? what do I do? then we talk about the the ambulances on the ambulances as far as I am concerned I went through that story as well you talk about 288 per unit it was much 288 per unit and if you go down to do a break down on what was bought I didn't see even the inflation but because somebody put it there 248 and everybody was talking about not each unit cost 288 it never cost 288 each unit I think was costing about 135 and if you reach out to the market it's like a normal price what do I do with that 48 houses the owner is there this case is in court this case is in court the owner is there to say these are my houses and I built them through the money that was sent from I don't know that guy he even came in the country he even came in the country to to push for his houses the lawyer that he was using was that old dekawe he even went and saw old dekawe just that I don't know how old dekawe is late but I know who is handling the case but these are the facts so what do I do with that so even when you are accusing me you are not zealously when it comes to some of these matters what is there to follow and I appeal to you the media that please let us follow stories that are okay some of these stories next question no wait a minute I see you are very anxious to send me to do this and that I hope you can also put in some resources and you also must remember that you are also a journalist to also follow this issue because you want to put everything when you look at that I am doing my bit, why are you doing anyway just a clarification I know you mentioned that it's not about piyo chen but the general feeling from your position is that with the form piyo chen which the opposition are claiming that the piyo wanted to use to that but advantage now that it goes through the general feeling from your position they are trying to use you to derail edge things are you being funded by the piyo no first are you being funded absolutely not I mean what I was struggling around but anyway each you are built in each you are built in it is a political political what is on the panel built in is not going to help the fall of built in has not helped the upnb for example they were saying no the fall of built in citizens were celebrating did you see citizens celebrating in the streets it was only hada in the hlma with these lawyers who were celebrating na ma angri lion na ma angri lion na fukasens only them I never saw anyone outside celebrating so that issue of saying built in has put the upnb in an advantage position I mean it is not here no there there is nothing even you are pfnavena they are just the I don't know built in has no consequence because it has no consequence a lot of people did not even understand built in I saw one of these celebrities who wants to become a politician she was asked about built in and she was just all over the place and I mean I don't think there are a lot of us who can articulate what built in was all about so built in really has very little consequence in terms of politics hada in the hlma I wouldn't even be bothered about built in I wouldn't even be bothered because it's only him and a few of his MPs and by the way not all his MPs agreed with him and that's why he locked them up if hada in the hlma confidence in his MPs that his MPs did not agree with built in he would have allowed them to go to parliament why did he lock them up he put them in under the bank why is he so cold under oh sorry are you funded by the that is my question let me answer you my brother I wish they can fund me I wish they can fund me it would help me it would help me seriously speaking I wish they can fund me because if they fund me I would not be struggling with resources I'm telling you to do these investigations and so on and so forth there is also a cost so if they can fund me and at the end of the day I also clobber them why not let me present Michael Sartaj taking this channel to court in the case of Michael Sartaj and the presiding judge then to find mischief for a scam as undesirable element which must be removed and to allow it to grow and it takes long it becomes difficult to remove it it affects everybody now the issue we are having here is like a scam or a mischief which should have been removed long time ago now based on that procurement those who had the information in their hand the question is what is the interest to bring now when this particular thing has even expired because they happened in Zambia where those who are bringing the evidence now had this particular knowledge in the research I can summarize your question to say why are we bringing these issues now things which happened a long time why are we bringing them now yes fine you can extend it like that but for me I would say it is the work of God it was waiting for jupuneri it was waiting for me to come so that is I can sort out all these guys and become president you refused funding from yes for the sake of transparency you were about to fly outside the country for investigation for the sake of transparency which you are preaching who is funding I am running a business right here just like demon you are I am running a business right here I am running a consultant bring a business card give them give them a business card I am running a business and I go to consultants and in my consultants especially at this point in time I am helping a lot of people to collect their debts and some people like one client I know is being owed 1.2 if that money is paid 1.2 I get 7% commission how much is that for some of you the commission I make money easily easily yes you said the cost was 9.8 19.8 million 19.8 million is that the old currency rebest and then rebest nani rebest is that the old currency rebest rebest rebest I am a businessman Musaende nani rebest muka ya check nga na kumakura muka ya check nama taxes muka check muka check muka check no 1 miliyon Ya, 1 miliyon and just to say a little bit the excuse that these people started giving when I'm a zima they started saying that he offered more you see that is what they are saying because he offered more but the role at that point of the privatization the first priority was the sitting tenant and that is which have given you they have even given the evaluations so even it doesn't hold it doesn't hold but keeping them back they will find it difficult to defend this case because the evaluation says something else how did he pay 31 thousand why when was that I think that was 19 words you checking the print out the jet is there my question is on 12th number 1994 you sent it in 7th December just sitting yes 1997-1998 yes and who are you grandfather he is a haka in the itilian mass he is a haka in the itilian mass one here is the thing haka in the itilian let it finish so between 1997 and that's how many years 7 months we are not going through trial you ask the question ask the question yes so after that is a very nice thought please join the defense of Mr. Aka in the itilian mass we will answer in court no I am telling you that is a nice thought I have all the evidence of course I mean I don't have to start giving this one by one why where do you think I'm getting this information if they are not coming forward so they are coming forward through you they are coming forward just because I'm a public lawyer my friend anyway I think we are let me take one last move have you spoken to Mr. Jair and the other question is you are visiting Mr. H.A a lot of people described it as you are kind of scared of him and you don't want to go to Mr. President listen a lot of people talk about that encounter with Mr. H.A when I went to Mr. H.A who stood up where I was sitting to go where I was sitting and when I reached it there Mr. President may have an opportunity to greet you and he stood up to say are you genuine greeting me we didn't even finish the greeting the man launched into emotional attacks on me why do you write about me did you want me also to start shouting on top of my voice where I come from we respect the orders I just respected him I couldn't also start shouting back at him he is not to fear you he is not to fear you how come I have evidence if I have not spoken to them sorry the problem the problem my transmission Mr. Sam Mr. Sam when are you how can I change tell me what went down guys thank you very much this is what I have and I am strongly I am strongly confident that this is the case that should be prosecuted and I am going to court and go through the anti corruption commision 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This 10th year of Daily Tech News show is made possible by its listeners. Thanks to all of you including Larry Bailey, Michelle Serju, and Miss Music Teacher. Coming up on DTNS, Sony named its car, Affila. That's the name of the car. The scoop on AMD's Ryzen announcements and wireless power to Metaverse to Hydroponics Rich Strothelino rounds up some of his favorites from CES. This is the Daily Tech News for Thursday, January 5th 2023 in Los Angeles. I'm Tom Merritt from the fabulous Las Vegas Convention Center. I'm Rich Strothelino. And from my bedroom on the show's producer. You know, we've been remiss in not thanking our on-site producer at Las Vegas, Amos, a.k.a. Anthony Lemos. So big round of applause for Amos doing Yeoman's work out there in Las Vegas. Thank you, buddy. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. All right. We got lots to get to. So let's start with the, this time, non-CES quick hits. Amazon CEO Andy Jassy emailed employees that the company will eliminate approximately 18,000 jobs in both the Amazon stores and people, experience, and technology organizations starting January 18th. Apple launched a digital narration option for audio versions of eBooks itself, starting with literary, historical, and women's fiction with more fiction categories and nonfiction in the works. Don't worry, nonfiction fans. Authors can choose from four voices so far, two Sopranos, Madison and Jackson are trained to read romance and fiction, while baritones Helena and Mitchell are trained to read self-development and nonfiction. Nola.com reported Monday that at the end of November, a 28-year-old black man in Dekalb County, Georgia, was mistakenly arrested and jailed for six days on suspicion of theft in Louisiana because of a mistaken facial recognition. I'm a big stickler for like, okay, but have the mistakes been made? Here it is. A mistake definitely made. In June last year, a man was caught on camera in relation to a theft of around $10,000 worth of luxury goods. The Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office in Louisiana issued an arrest warrant based on a facial recognition match, or so they thought. Jefferson Parish Sheriff's have not commented on the case, but in previous cases have used analysis through the Louisiana State Analytic Infusion Exchange in Baton Rouge, which uses Clearview, AI, you may have heard of them, and Morphotrack systems. Roku announced it now has more than 70 million active accounts worldwide, up 10 million on the air. It also reported a 19% rise in streaming hours on the air. Bruce Schneier reports that Chinese researchers have published a paper detailing a method for using a quantum computer to break 2048-bit RSA. You know, like the most secure RSA. The bad news is the researchers found a workaround that lets them factor a large key size on a smaller quantum computer than people thought would be needed, one with at least 372 qubits. The good news though is that the paper relies on Peter Schnor's factoring method that appears to fall apart at large sizes, so the method may not work in practice. That points out that IBM has the means to test this in real life because it has a 433 qubit IBM Osprey quantum computer. Nikkei sources say Dell has told its suppliers to meaningfully lower the amount of components made in China in an effort to diversify its supply chain. Dell's goal is to have all chips used in its products made outside of China by 2024. Nikkei sources say HP has looked at the possibility of a similar move. All right, that's the non-CES stuff. Now for the CES news. Let's start with Sony's big press event on Wednesday night. Yeah, Sony has been showing off concept electric cars at CES for a few years now, not an unfamiliar site. Last year it announced that Honda would actually make its cars. This year it's giving us a name for those cars, Affila. And the first pre-orders for Affila are planned to begin in the first half of 2025 with sales begin that same year and shipments to North America to come by spring 2026. Affila. I mean, Affila is the name. Sony also says it is working on an accessibility controller kit for the PlayStation codenamed Project Leonardo. Sony has been working with able gamers and special effect on the design. Leonardo has a PlayStation face and trigger button setup so you can move the, you know, the zero in the square and the SF. Those can all be repositioned around a circular game pad. The joystick can also be repositioned relative to that game pad. It has four 3.5 millimeter auxiliary jacks. You can add some third party accessories. It can be used alone or paired with an existing dual sense controller and users can map functions to the various buttons and save up to three configurations on the device. No word on a release date yet. And Sony also showed us a sneak peek at the Gran Turismo movie being directed by Neil Blomkampf, which is going to hit theaters on August 11th. Oh, and Sony says it sold 30 million PS5s and the PS5 shortage is over. Oh, the PS5 shortage is over. Woo, our long national nightmare. How many people immediately said they couldn't get a PS5 after this? That was the tweet of the tweet. Yeah, yeah, exactly. The Sony announcements were fine. It seems like they just make a new car, like a little bit of progress every year on the car, right? It's like, now we get the name. I mean, I got to see it. I got to go up and it's an impressive looking vehicle, very Tesla looking, I would say, in a lot of ways, but definitely it doesn't look like a Honda. I guess that's what I was expecting kind of going up there. It definitely falls into more of, I guess, what we've seen in EV design so far. Yeah, Sony's designing it. Honda's just building it to Sony specs. So yeah, that makes sense that it would look different. And yeah, they can make it look any way they want when they don't have to actually ship it. That's true. Very curious what it'll look like in the end. All right, now for some CES news that matters, as in the Matter smart home protocol. By the way, if you're wanting a little update on matter, if you're like, I just need a little more depth. I know Norm Physikus was asking some questions at the Discord earlier.  I have a great interview with Stacey Higginbotham about what matter is. And we did an episode on thread, the thread protocol that kind of explains border gateways and all that sort of thing. Samsung announced the SmartThings station that acts as a matter and thread compliance smart home hub, a.k.a. if you've listened to that episode I just mentioned, a border router, while also being a 15 watt wireless charger. So you have another reason to have it in your room. It's a flat square device, has one button. You can program that button to trigger smart things, scenes. So for instance, single click, double click or long press for a different automation. You can also program things to happen when you put something on the pad to charge. For instance, you could put a phone on the charger say after 11 p.m. and it would automatically turn off the lights, lock the doors and adjust the thermostat, because that's the signal you're going to bed. Also works with SmartThings Find so that if you double press the button, at least by default, it'll ring your Galaxy phone. It can also scan for Galaxy devices, Galaxy SmartTags and SmartTag+. Sports Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and Z-Wave. So even if you're not worried about matter, if you're in the Z-Wave universe, it would work for you. Launching in Korea first, then following in the U.S. in February for $60 or if you want a USB-C adapter for it, 80 bucks. I think this is brilliant, Rich, because it's a charger. So you'll want to put these things in more places in your home than if it was just the router. Yeah, and we're going to talk about another piece of tech that kind of is the expansion of where we can put these border routers in homes is shoving it in other things because the technology is cheap enough that we can do that. And 60 to 80 bucks, that's on the high end for a nice wireless charger, but it's not completely out of the realm of that. So I don't even feel like there's that much of a price premium, given that you're getting some pretty interesting features here. Yeah. All right, well, so in other news, Apple, Google, and Samsung have all pushed out their matter compliance that left Amazon. And Wednesday, Amazon announced matter-over-thread support will come to Echo and Aero devices this spring and expand to Amazon's smart home devices as well. Basically, everything but first-gen Echoes will get it. Sorry, first-gen Echo owners. And Amazon's Alexa app for iOS will be updated for it as well.  Yeah. I am, actually. This is a long time coming. Matter is going, we've talked about it before. It's going through the same thing that Bluetooth and even USB did, where while it's being rolled out, everybody's confused and it doesn't work everywhere and I don't have to get a driver for it and all that stuff. And then eventually it just becomes a standard and it just works all the time. This is one of those milestones on the way to matter just being the thing that works all the time. And I guess because we now have it all there in two years, smart home stuff is just something you don't have to think about compliance-wise. You just buy the smart home stuff and it works with whatever you got. Yeah. I was kind of worried about that, those early stages, but then I had to remind myself that we're coming from no cross-compatibility to some cross-compatibility. So people that are interested in this are going to, like it's a benefit that was not there even if it's incomplete and we're still kind of in these early stages right now. So I feel like that's worth it for people that value it already to put up with kind of these early growing pains for this. The bigger thing that I think with matter going forward, now that we have this cross-compatibility is like, we're already starting to see some non-feature parity. Like everything will work with your hubs, but there's some like feature stuff between Android and iOS that we're seeing from some manufacturers. I think that's the more interesting story with matter in terms of growing pains going forward. Yeah. The sort of the fenced off areas like, oh, it'll work with matter, but if you want the special automation, you got to use HomeKit. Exactly. We're going to have a lot of conversations about that. This final bit is not exactly matter related, it's matter adjacent. Amazon's Sidewalk Mesh Network uses its devices like your Echo or your Ring Camera to create a very low bandwidth mesh network. We've talked about it, it's very fenced off. I know Amazon has lacking a lot of trust in people that this is fairly well done and you can turn it off if you're really worried about it, but it uses virtually no bandwidth. But what it does is it uses just enough to connect small Internet of Things devices to each other to create an ad hoc network for low bandwidth communication. Tile trackers use it, level smart locks use it, care band senior systems use it, and Amazon announced Wednesday that they've got a bunch of new partners that aren't relying on home users. So Enterprise Wi-Fi product maker Broen, Gas leak detector maker New Cosmos, Enterprise IoT company Meshify, and solar inverter maker Device Royce Aria are all joining Sidewalk. More partners coming later this year, and Amazon says it will open Sidewalk to developers in an API kind of situation later this year. Yeah, if they can make that pitch and that use case obviously they are to the enterprise and you can get where we have all these ambient sensors around that we don't know because they're weird B2B businesses that we've never heard of before, that's the big thing. My question is when will we see Cisco and like one of those where it's like, okay, that's everywhere, like literally everywhere. Yeah, that'll be the next stage. I'm sure they're eyeing that at some point. Yeah, Sidewalk is going to be useful for just making some ambient low stuff possible where you can throw sensors in your yard or on your car and you don't have to worry about internet connectivity, right? You just want small bits of data passing around. It's always been a thing where like, well, if we're just relying on Echoes, what if not enough people in a neighborhood have an Echo and how is that going to work? So these kinds of partners make, oh, they're going to fill in big blocks of the map by bringing these people on. And yeah, they bring on a Cisco conversation over. Exactly. All right, well, there's always a spate of interesting CES announcements. There's just a ton of them out there. Here's a couple, though, that kind of stood out caught our eye. Yeah, Lenovo. These are all from Lenovo. Lenovo, which owns Motorola, has introduced a Lenovo ThinkPad branded phone called the Lenovo ThinkPhone by Motorola. They got all the words in. It looks like a Motorola phone in the front, has a ThinkPad style logo and Kevlar on the back. There's a mullet joke in there somewhere. I'm sure the customizable side button is red. So it's not a ThinkPad track point, but it's a nod to it. It's a solid 6.6 inch OLED phone, IP68 water resistance, in-screen fingerprint sensor, all the standard Motorola enterprise management stuff. There's nothing particularly ThinkPad-y about it, but it's a pretty standard phone. That's my problem with it. I want more ThinkPad-iness to it. I want the round actual track point. Don't just make it the color. Give me all the ThinkPad things. Another interesting thing about Lenovo product is the ThinkBook 16P. It has a magnetic connector on the top called the MagicBay for popping modules on and off. Lenovo has three MagicBay modules. It will sell you when you buy at the laptop a 4K webcam on a rotating hinge that can combine with the built-in webcam that's 1080 to optimize the image for $150, an LTE pack for $99, and a selfie light for $20. The ThinkBook 16P comes in May, starting at $1,350. Modules have never failed Lenovo. Motorola, maybe, but never Lenovo. Yeah, we'll see. There's also the YogaBook 9i, which attaches two 13.3-inch 2.8K OLED screens with a 360-degree hinge.  You can make it really tall. You can make it a really wide screen. You could fold it up like a laptop and just use one screen and then snap the included Bluetooth keyboard over part of the other screen. If you put it up at the top, the bottom becomes a trackpad, put it at the bottom, the top becomes another part of a smaller screen, comes with an active pen for note-taking as well, and the included carrying case doubles as a stand. Starts at $2,100, shipping in June. There's also the ThinkBook Plus Twist, a new version of the laptop with an e-ink screen on the lid that now swivels so you can switch between the OLED and e-ink screens without closing the laptop. It's coming in June for $1,650. I almost wouldn't just buy this to use Windows on an e-ink screen because you can do that. Because you enjoy pain. Yeah. Lenovo has a 10.3-inch e-ink tablet as well. Called the Smart Paper. So this is another entry in that Kindle Scribe remarkable space of e-ink notepads. It has a neat feature, though, that the others don't. Otherwise, it's pretty similar. It can record what audio is being said as your notes are made. I think the remarkable can definitely do audio, but I don't think it automatically records a snippet as you're making the note. So it's easy to get some extra clarity on your scribbles if you're like, well, why was I writing that? You can play back what you were hearing at the time. Comes with the pen, case, and 50 gigabytes of storage as well for $399.99, shipping later this year. Interesting pricing in between the cheapest and more expensive Scribe. I love that they're emulating Microsoft Smart Pen technology from 2005 with that. It's got some advantages with that hefty storage and including the pen. But yeah, its price is not super cheap. It's interesting. It seems like everybody's racing into this space, though. As an e-ink stand, first of all, give me my color e-ink 10.3-inch screen. I know it's going to be like $900. I still want it, but I'm just happy to see we haven't given up on e-ink because it's just a cool power-saving technology. It's good for these kind of things once we get the refresh rates kind of figured out. Yeah. And if CES is behaving the way it usually does, you'll go to Showstoppers tonight and Lenovo will have all this stuff out. That's generally how this works. All right, folks. Don't miss out. We have a special audio interview rich recorded with CES spokesperson Tina Anthony coming to patrons this Saturday. They discussed the tech trends from this year's show and how attendance has beat organizers' expectations. It's free for everyone to listen to on our Patreon sites. So even if you're not a patron, head over there to listen to it patreon.com. All right, let's dig into the big AMD announcements. Yeah, AMD announced the 7600, 7700, and 7900 CPUs that cost $229, 329, and $429, respectively. You guessed it. Compared to CPUs with an X after the model number, these have a lower 65-watt TDP and slightly lower clock speeds and bundled CPU coolers because you're not going to probably be doing crazy overclocking with these. All three will be available January 10th. On the other end of the price scale, for those of you who are like, that's just not enough money for me to spend, AMD announced three Ryzen 9 3D vCache processors, the 7800X3D, 7900X3D, and the 7950X3D. So you want to compare these to the same model numbers that don't have 3D. They're pretty much the same, except the ones with 3D have an extra 64 megabytes of L3 cache stacked on top, hence the 3D. That helps improve game performance. So these are mostly meant for gaming. No prices yet either, but they are coming in February and everybody is getting ready to try to benchmark these against the Intel Core i9-13900K. We'll be looking out for those. AMD also announced new laptop Ryzen 7000 CPUs as well. The 7045HX series is the dragon range for high-end gaming and workstation laptops. It packs in 16 full-speed cores, essentially a reworked desktop CPU in a laptop. The 7040HS Phoenix series is a ZenFORCE CPU combined with RDNA3 integrated GPU on a 4nm process. These come with a dedicated AI engine on board, something Intel won't get until Meteor Lake comes later this year. The other three series are rebranded of previously released chips. And AMD is also promising RTX 3060 level performance on laptops using its new Radeon RX 7600M XT. They have 32 teraflops of performance paired with 8GB of GDDR6 memory. There's also a slightly less powerful 7600M, just 7600M that's coming too. New Alienware M18 and M16 laptops will both be available with the new GPUs. Our producer Roger Chang looked over all this stuff. I know Roger, you keep a close watch on the chip sector. What do you think of AMD's announcements from CES? It's very telling that this announcement follows all the announcements from Intel as well as AMD's itself from last year. And this is just to kind of say, hey, one more time, we do have competitive processors out there. And for the CES set, they basically introduced a bunch of chips that are going to be the bread and butter of their operations, which is chips that go into laptops and ready-built PCs that you get from your best buys from your online Dell stores. Until they get benchmarked, we don't know how well they perform, but this is essentially saying we now have all this good technology that we've just created and it will be reaching you in the various outlets in a tamer, more affordable form. It's generally a positive for the consumer. I think if you're looking to buy a PC laptop or a new PC later this year. What about the desktop CPUs, the $229, $429? So how did those hit you? Those are really the... That is kind of the mid-range of where a lot of PC builders, especially even gamers, if you go through Steam and you do the system analysis, every year they pump out a report that tells you who has what. This will be part of that 75% of people who upgrade, they can probably upgrade to one of these, if not an Intel equivalent, because people do want performance, but they can't necessarily afford the top dollar that you get when you buy top of the line. All right, well thank you, Roger. It is time now for Rich Strafilino's rich roundup of interesting things that caught his eye at CES. We don't have an appropriate jingle for you yet, but if this goes well, maybe next year we'll have that. We'll need a cash register, I feel like that will be appropriate. All right, so first up here, using radio frequency to deliver over-the-air wireless power isn't new. We've seen that before, but in the past we've seen companies like Powercast use dedicated transmitters for sending out RF-based power. So you'd have things that's just that transmitter sitting on a shelf somewhere near the thing you want to power. The company, though, that is Powercast, announced a new $5 ubiquity transmitter chip and it's designed for OEMs. It's small, about the size of two pouches' stamps, and the idea is that it could be integrated into any kind of electronics that you already have around your house, things like TVs, consoles, smart speakers, other devices, and to kind of create a wider RF-power network using devices you're already going to buy for your house. In some ways it reminds me of what we saw on Samsung. We were talking about earlier doing with kind of their smart thing and matter integration into a wireless charger. A wireless charger would probably be a good thing for this chip as well. It's very exciting. I know reference designs are not like the most glamorous announcements. It's the problem with wireless power is that it's always a reference design. It's always a thing that we just need people to implement it. And we're still waiting. There was that lock that was going to use infrared power to keep the battery charged. They're selling it. They announced it at CES, not with the wireless power. So you can buy the lock and then wait for the wireless charger to come out maybe later this year, we hope. So yeah, I'm still waiting for the one to be like, and it's in a product that you can go and use today. So the good thing is I can definitely see companies that are already going to be selling you the remote.  So the problem is you don't have a chicken and egg problem, right? Before you had to buy the thing that could receive the power and the transmitter separately. Now instead, if they get partnerships with any kind of TV OEMs, you buy your Hisense TV, you put it on the wall, and it's automatically charging your, trickle charging your remote within a 15 foot range of your TV where you're always going to have it usually anyway. That to me, and then it works with a wider ecosystem of things.   My, you know, my Echo has this integrated in it as well and build that out and kind of just casually, all of a sudden you have this network. That to me is the appeal to this. And kind of made it exciting. Yeah, get it in a product. Come on. I know the reference sign is fun. That's the news they're announcing. So that's why they're at CES. I'm sure is to do all the B2B. It's such a CES thing. Like because they're looking for the partners, they want to get that out there. I totally get that. We haven't heard enough people talking about the metaverse lately. Oh, no. Yeah. There's barely been scant news about the metaverse here at CES. Well, I was actually talking with a company called MeatKai and they announced tools for building your metaverse apps and making it a little easier. One product is called the meat is called MeatKai reality, which uses quick video footage clips to render a space in a 3D environment already for VR. The more interesting product though is definitely MeatKai metaverse editor, which despite the name maybe raising some eyebrows, lets someone build 3D structures and space without code. Kind of think of it. It reminded me very much of like a Squarespace website editor, but for like something in Second Life. Yeah. The company says it's using its AI background. It actually was founded in 2018 to kind of do AI voice synthesis to make building these spaces with much higher pixel density and less resource intensive than other platforms. So you don't have to kind of crunch all those pixels out once the AI can kind of infer that kind of stuff. It's also working on tools interacting in the metaverse. So there's a MeatKai cloud AI that lets devs plug in voice assistance into virtual reality environments, letting avatars converse more easily with your voice assistant and just having a better kind of chat interface while you're in there. Definitely some interesting thing. They're working with the chargers to kind of build an e-commerce in the NFL to build out like an e-commerce metaverse store for them. The other thing that really interested me about them is they're very much platform agnostic and they're very focused on making this all available through web browsers instead of locking it into app stores. In fact, I was talking to the CEO. He seemed, I don't want to say hostile, but he seemed very ambivalent toward app stores from Meta and potentially Apple getting involved in the metaverse space and very much was Yay Browsers, which made me happy. So is this cross-platform, could I build for Decentraland or I guess Fortnite would need to let me in, but you could build it and if everybody's using, what, universal scene description or something? Right now they're saying it's supposed to be compatible with any metaverse, any browser in the metaverse is the idea for this as opposed to making it app based going forward. Now, if they make the right deals, that may change. I don't know, but the CEO, at least I was talking to, seemed very dedicated to that idea, which was encouraging. What about hydroponics? Yeah, so we had Rise Garden. They announced a new smart hydroponic garden. The new Rise Garden, it's a very creative name. It adds Amazon voice services integration. They've had a Gen 1 out already, but this one, like I said, adds AVS, offers a larger removable reservoir. The other one was fixed in place and a lot smaller and just easier to assemble out of the box. You can stack three of these on top of each other and you can get a total of 108 plants overall, so significant capacity. Using other updates include things like seed pods, that kind of plug-in curing style to the system so it knows what kind of watering and lighting conditions are needed, but Rise, one of their differentiators over something like Aero Garden or some of the other smart hydroponics, is they also have a pH balance system in there, so that'll allow it to support a wider variety of fruits and vegetables and other plants. We saw them growing root vegetables. They had radish that was growing out there, which I have not seen in other systems like that. It's available now for $750. That's for the one-rack, and they call it the single-family system, and you can go up to three racks tall on that. Yeah, there's a lot of these hitting the market now, and I'm kind of hoping that they catch on enough that you'll start to see some feature compatibility and comparisons between them, because they all sort of work differently and it's hard to tell whether it's worth the money or not and how much trouble you're going to have to do, so I'm glad we're seeing more of these. I know there was one other that caught your eye out there in the sous vide area. That was Tyfer, T-Y-P-H-U-R, announced the sous vide station.  It comes with a 1,750-watt circulator, a handheld vacuum pump, which was super cool, and a 12.3-inch screen on top of its water tank. That screen gives you access to obviously setting temperature and timers and stuff like that, but it also comes with guides and recipes and allows you to kind of cater your recipes to what you're actually cooking, so you can set the weight of your meat and it'll tell you, okay, how long you actually need to cook it as opposed to a lot of sous vide stuff feels very, especially on the lower end of the cost spectrum, feels a little on the hacky side where you're kind of guessing, you're kind of going off, you know, forum threads and stuff like that to kind of figure out how to cook stuff. This is on the more expensive side. It is a more developed product. Pre-orders open soon at $700, but definitely it seemed like a very well-polished system if you are into the sous vide universe.  Yes, and the vacuum pump, I cannot emphasize enough. I love the handheld vacuum pump because I do not like the vacuum sealer appliance. It's the worst. Well, folks, there's so much at CES. We try to bring you things that are most notable, so here we go with a lightning round of other interesting announcements. HTC opened pre-orders for the standalone Vive XR Elite VR headset at 625 grams. It's heavier than the Quest 2, but lighter than the Quest Pro. Has 2K pixels per eye, 110 degree field of view, adds a lens diopter adjustment so you don't need to wear your glasses. It won't just do the depth. It'll do some other stuff too. There's a small 10 minute battery so you can swap out the larger two hour battery in the back without having to power down. There's also a glasses mode that you can replace the strap and the battery with some plastic arms, brings the weight down to 240 grams, and then you have to wire it up for the power because you only got 10 minute battery life. But if you're going to sit at a laptop for a long time and you want to use that as a display, that's an option. It's $1,099 shipping in late February. Mercedes-Benz announced that it's partnering with ChargePoint and Solar Energy Company, MN8 to install 400 fast EV charging hubs in the U.S. with a total of 2,500 DC chargers. The hubs will be open to all EV owners through Mercedes owner, although Mercedes owners will get a chance at some limited reservations. Google is rolling out its split screen for Android Auto. This is the one that it previewed at Google I.O. Maps can stay on the screen now and you can have either one or two panes or you can go back to a single pane and those other panes can show other info like a podcast you're playing or reminders, calendar stuff, things like that. And still on the Auto Maker side, Google announced an HD version of Maps for Level 2 Plus and Level 3 assisted driving systems. It lets those systems get info on precise lane markers, road signs and traffic barriers and other items to combine them with information from sensors. The info will help systems in the Volvo EX90 and Polestar 3 with more to follow. Google is working on cross-device playback notifications that use Bluetooth Low Energy Wifi and Ultra Wideband so that if you're like moving between Android Auto, Google TV and your Android phone, you can just seamlessly transfer what you're listening to from one to the other. So for instance, Android might notice that you left your house and offer to move audio from the TV to your phone and then when you get in the car, move it to the car. Google is working on support for this for YouTube Music as you might guess if you want to verify. No word on when that will roll out. Razer's Switch-like Android handheld, the Rated-R Superstar Edge, is coming to Verizon January 26 for $359.99 with a plan. Retail price without a subsidy would be $599.99. Or you can buy a Wi-Fi-only version for $399.99. As a 6.8-inch OLED screen with a 144Hz refresh rate, it supports Xbox, cloud gaming, of course now, and Streamlink. Steamlink, sorry, my mind. Razer also announced the Leviathan V2 Pro for PC gamers. It uses an IR camera to track your head. So not a visual camera, but it can tell where your head is. And then it can provide beam-formed THX spatial audio, either speaker or headphone style. It includes a Subwoofer 2 USB-C or Bluetooth. The Razer Leviathan V2 Pro starts at $399.99 available in February. And Razer promises its $300 Keo Pro Ultra Webcam can deliver uncompressed 4K video at 24 frames per second, or 1440p at 30 frames per second. Legato can do 4K at 60 frames per second, but it's compressed so you can see the advantage for Razer here. It's available now. Now, a lot of you are saying, sure, it's cameras. What about farm equipment? Well, John Deere announced exact shot. I love covering farm equipment. It's a new sensor and robotics-based system for applying fertilizer. So it uses computer vision to figure out how to spray the fertilizer only where the seeds have been planted. And that reduces the cost because you're not using as much fertilizer. That then reduces runoff pollution and weed growth because you're not using as much fertilizer as in the part where the weeds grow. Also announced a new electric excavator. John Deere is using a Chrysler battery, and that will reduce the cost of operation of the excavator as well as the noise and the emissions. Alright, well, Schneider Electric makes the circuit breakers for 40% of U.S. households, which is a lot. The company is announcing an electrical panel, a solar inverter, a wall-mountable, stackable 10 kilowatt hour batteries, an EV charger, and an array and light switches and dimmers. When you buy them together, they can do things like measure consumption at every outlet and every breaker and estimate which device is using energy based on its electric signature. The first installations are expected this summer. This is beautiful because it can work with third-party stuff or not. It's soft lock-in. It's like, hey, you can use this with anything. But if you really want to tell everything that's going on in your home, we can deliver on that from the control panel. Here's something that probably doesn't seem as genius. Philips Hue is launching the Philips Hue Sync App for Samsung TVs. It can sync your Philips Hue smart lights to what is displayed on the TV and it costs $130 for the app. That is still less than the $250 it would cost for the HDMI sync box that did the same thing. And the app on Samsung TVs will work with Netflix and Disney Plus. The box did not. In fact, it works with all image formats and TV content. Though the Verge points out that there is a competing product called the Govi Immersion Kit that will work with any TV and any content. Includes a light strip and a camera and the whole thing costs $80. And Gadgets, Sherilyn Lowe told us about Displaced TV on the show Wednesday and here are a few more details. It's a 55-inch 4K TV video transmission. A tower separate from the TV uses Wi-Fi 6E to send video to the screen though no other details quite on that a little murky there. The screen however is powered by hotswappable batteries which should go a month on a charge. Screen weighs less than 20 pounds and attaches to any surface with suction cups and presumably a lot of faith. A pop-up camera in the TV lets you control it with gestures using the same kind of technology that was used in the Microsoft Connect. You can use multiple screens together in sync as well. The Displaced TV will ship later this year for $3,000. We looked for this on the show, found their booth they're having some trouble setting it up so we'll see if we can get a demo and maybe some video up. Was it sticking to the wall? No, it was sticking to the wall. It just wasn't sinking. So the suction strips were working it was the other stuff. Yeah, definitely sucked, yeah. Asus announced a new Xbox PC controller with a built-in 1.3 inch OLED screen above the Xbox button that can be used for different profiles during gameplay, seeing your battery status, your mic status. Also can connect by Bluetooth RF and USB-C. You can switch controller profiles during the game with buttons at the top. No word on price but it's promised in Q1. And BMW revealed a prototype for the iVision D concept car Wednesday. It has an e-ink panels, hey more e-ink that lets you change the color of the car along 32 choices. A voice assistant called D for digital emotional experience drivers interact with the car by voice. One way to interact is through a heads-up display. You can control how much info is in it with a mixed reality slider. Many of the features will make it into BMW's next car platform coming in 2025. Yeah, that is one thing about prototypes. I go back and forth. One is like, well this isn't real tell me when it's real. But the other is a lot of times you see the features they may not all make it in but you'll see features that will show up. And someday this will be volumetric displays and they can call it 3D. Vancouver's Gluckskind is showing off its Ella baby stroller at CES. When there is no child in the stroller, let's be clear, no child in the stroller it drives itself. So the idea is it stays close to you. It knows where you are and follows you so that you're holding the baby and you're not worrying about pushing the stroller around. Sensors avoid obstacles. It even senses hills and can apply brakes to slow it down when it's going downhill when you have a motor assist when it's going uphill those work even when the baby is in. It's available for pre-order for $3,500 rich. Good. We've seen a lot of interesting like baby and kid tech here. This is definitely one of the more innovative ones but each that price. This is the one you're seeing on CNN and your local news and all of that. You won't believe this, yeah. If the price wasn't so eye-wateringly high which I actually know baby strollers are pretty expensive, right? Hundreds but not thousands. Not thousands. I think this does solve a real problem though. And this is yes, it is a meets and need. It seems like checks a lot of boxes for a lot of parents. Definitely would be helpful but that's a big buried entry. And it's Saray says it seems like this should be applied to luggage as well. It has. There are some luggage that does this. The problem is then you have to take the batteries out when you go on the plane. It's kind of inconvenient. Well, that's going to do it for this episode of CES. Thanks to our brand new boss Jeremy who just started back in us on Patreon. Thank you so much Jeremy for being the person that made CES possible today. All of it. The entire show. Well, okay. Our coverage of it anyway. Thank you Jeremy. If you would like to be Jeremy tomorrow, patreon.com slash DTNS. Patrons, stick around for the extended show. We've got more CES stuff to talk about on good day internet. You can also catch the show live Monday through Friday 4 p.m. Eastern 2100 UTC find out more at daily technewshow.com slash live. Sarah Lane has the day off. She's doing fine. We'll be back tomorrow with Shannon Morse and Nicole Lee. Talk to you then. This show is part of the frog pants network. Get more at frogpants.com. I hope you have enjoyed this program. Have a great day.


Okay, so the question here is, how did I develop the ability to not announce my offers as far in advance as possible? What I mean is that you'll notice that I typically give like about a two-week notice for when my next course begins. The only exception is if it's a like a six-month or 12-month group program, then I will announce it like at least a month in advance, if not two months in advance, because that's a bigger investment. But my typical programs, my courses that are, you know, five weeks, basically three to five, three to six weeks long, I just allow a two-week notice to say, hey, I'm starting in two weeks, and if you want to join me. And the reason why I started doing this is because I've been in marketing, you know, for 12, 13 years, and early on I started noticing that some of the most successful marketers often announced things starting within three days. So it's not unusual in my industry to give just a one to seven-day notice. And so knowing that, I'm like, god, two weeks is pretty generous, you know. And I've also noticed that if, you know, I don't have studies to back this up necessarily, but more of an anecdotal evidence thing. But if I launch something too far in advance, there's, well, number one, if I launch a four-week, you know, four weeks in advance, then the audience has to see marketing messages for four weeks, or they're like sales messages for four weeks, and that is less pleasant than seeing sales messages for two weeks. Sales messages overall are not pleasant, and we just have to be open about that, right? It's not pleasant for someone to say, would you take your hard-earned money or hard-saved money and spend it with me? Will you trust me on this?  Okay? So sales messages are not, let me just be honest, it's not pleasant for either party. I mean, it's, you know, of course sales experts are going to say, oh, we're going to make it fun, make it like enjoyable for everyone when we're selling. Sure, you can make, you can always make selling more and more enjoyable. Obviously, I have a whole book on that called Authentic Selling. So I know what that's all about. But if money were no issue, right, and if enrollment were no issue, no one would ever sell anything, because it's like, why would you, you know, why wouldn't you just always give, give, give, give, give, because that's always the most pleasant thing for humanity, right, give, give, give. So, so yes, so those are all the reasons why, you know, and also the other reason why, you know, the four weeks or six weeks or whatever is, is why I don't do that is because people sometimes forget that they signed up for something. It's like four weeks ago I signed up for this thing. And I had, so what's also, I've also noticed to be true is that energy around a product is highest when someone first buys something, you know, it's like, so it's like the ideal situation is actually when you buy something, you can instantly access it because at that point you're, you know, you're most excited about it rather than, great, I'm going to buy something and wait four weeks before I can access it. Yay. I mean, unless there's, unless the marketer seller has a very skill, is very skillful at building up excitement over the four weeks, two weeks or whatever to say, all right, it's coming, it's coming, coming, coming, or have something to work with first before the product is delivered. Otherwise, you know, you know, it's better to instantly experience something or at least, you know, within, within within a week or two. So those are all the reasons why, and yeah, so if you have any follow up questions to this, we can certainly discuss. Yeah, and thanks to Allison for the chat here, people could also second guess their decision if they're waiting a long time. Yeah, they forgot about the excitement of it rather than getting in and experiencing the product. Yeah, and, and Angie says, you know, there's commitment phobia too. You know, I rarely sign up for things too far in advance. Oh, and another really important thing I forgot to mention is that, you know, people ask me, George, do you have a course calendar for the year? Like, what are you going to be launching the year? And I always, I mean, for my group program participants, people who are, who are committed to me, you know, to working with me for a whole year, I want to give them everything. And they, of course, they get access to everything. So it makes sense for me to tell them the entire year's calendar in advance. But I always say, this is tentative. You know, I'm, I'm thinking I'm going to be teaching these four topics, five topics this year, but, and it's probably going to be these months, but I, I've seen this over 10 years. I frequently change what topics I'm teaching during the year. It's not like I change within two, four weeks, but I usually change within one to two months in advance.  I was going to teach this two months from now, but I'm going to do a different one now. So that's another reason why I don't like to, you know, it's for my own flexibility. I don't want to announce things too far in advance. Yeah.


The Bemidji Fire Department released stats summarizing their 2018 year along with the department's expectations and goals for the 2019 year. The Bemidji Fire Department continues to be one of the busiest stations in the state. Bemidji Fire responded to a total of 986 emergency calls in the 2018. 129 of those calls being fire-related thanks to their work. Bemidji Fire estimates more than $7 million in property was saved last year with only $1 million in property lost. When we look at our causes of fire, our causes of fire in the Bemidji area continue to be the same that they have for the past number of years. Building fire-wise, the most common place for us to have a fire is residential dwellings. The most common cause in that residential setting is unattended cooking. So something on the stove top is by far the most common one for us. And that didn't change in 2018. Overall the numbers are consistent with Bemidji's fires past 10 years. Hofer said points out that it was the normal fire season for them although building fires were up by more than 10 from the previous year. The Bemidji Fire continues to put on a high emphasis on prevention both on educational side and the code enforcement side to make sure the community understands what is causing fires in the Bemidji area. As far as our responses go, I think we're going to continue to put a lot of emphasis on our prevention program, our code enforcement program. Ultimately that's the best way to save a life, prevent an injury and protect property is preventing that fire from even starting. And our response models we continue to look at adapting to minimize the impact of fires once they start. In 2018 we added a new station, a better serve our north end area. And remember prevention is key. The Bemidji Fire Department reminds everyone that the best way to save a life in your home is to make sure you have a working smoke alarm and a planned escape route. If you enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News, please consider making a tax-deductible contribution to Lakeland PBS.