And like both, I mean, I'll be honest I'm pretty much sold on Toyota because those things have lasted and there have been no major issues other than like, you know You've replaced all the consumables the oil the shocks the battery, you know I like my Honda same thing. I feel like I never had to do anything to them It's such a weird feeling because you know, I've I've owned a Volvo.  Yeah, I loved that car The only reason I'm not still driving it was because it was totaled in an accident. No Yeah, sob 9-5 that you ever had it really what like I love but at this point sob is like well I get another one because now your parts are really expensive and it's weird, but I loved that car I think anybody who has a 9-5 would or had would agree with me That was a great ride Come on and take a great ride Yeah, you know, it's it's weird because like it's it's one of those things is it's not just the initial cost of the cars The life cost Yeah, I'm plus so and sure and the thing that really bugs me is moving down here. My insurance went up 200 bucks a year Moving moving across town my insurance went up really. Yeah Echo Park because they figured I'd be on freeways more Yeah Yeah, my insurance I didn't go up by that much but it went up and I was like There's more dangerous to drive a car around here, I guess and then I looked around and I was like, yeah, probably Just more other bad drivers around you That stuff is determined based on accident rates, and you know, it's all based on numbers It's not somebody looking around and deciding what they think My are you just has a lot of people driving expensive cars all these I think a lot of people in my new neighborhood drive farther to work Than in my neighborhood and so that's sure probably it But I look around and I'm like people start driving better Bring my rates down. Come on. Just yeah, and I have all the discounts. I have the good driver discount Yeah, I got old man discount. You don't have an old man discount. Yeah, what's that what you reach a certain age? 25 I don't think to get a discount if you're as you get older they raise your Eyes are going you're going to be more of a Natureland it goes down, but then you start to get older When you when you hit your late 50s it goes up again. Yeah.  I want to ask Sarah to read today's Open but then I realize I don't really really know how to properly pronounce this person's name Okay, all right, okay good good awesome. That's all that okay if you're feel confident then Yeah, I mean bad Competence is key Tom so true so true All right. Um, do you say check? Here we go three two Hey, no pool has supported independent tech news directly for five years be like Hano Become a DTNS member at patreon.com slash DTNS Folks you have reached the daily tech news for Wednesday, January 23rd 2019 in Los Angeles. I'm Tom Merritt and from studio feline I am Sarah Lane from Salt Lake City, Utah. I'm Scott Johnson and from a sunny LA County I'm the show's producer Roger chain. We I've got some phone trends to talk about and decide if they're last gasps or new Frontiers for the cell phone industry, but let's start with a few tech things you should know Viacom is buying the ad-supported Pluto TV and plans to put shows from MTV Nickelodeon and Comedy Central as well as movies from Paramount on it Pluto says that it has 12 million viewers 7.5 million of whom watch on a TV Nice never even heard of it the latest update to Microsoft's edge browser for Android and iOS adds alerts for unreliable websites from NewsGuard all right now all you got to do is toggle it on or off in your settings and Went on 90% and 98% rather of online news sites will show a red or green icon for reliability in the address bar you can tap on the icon for more information per site and IBM's cloud business grew 12% in 2018 as IBM shifts to cloud analytic to I'm sorry cloud analytics cyber security and AI as its focus IBM beat earnings expectations in Q4 and profit forecast for 2019 came in above Expectations as well the revenue declined that it didn't even decline as much as people thought it would so all pretty rosy for Gene Arama to you over there Let's talk robots Scott. Let's do it. Let's talk Amazon robots In fact Amazon announced it is to now joining the world of delivery robots led by companies like Starship Neuro Kiwi among others yesterday Starship announced it was expanding its robot delivery service to George Mason University in Virginia and today Amazon introduced Scout a six-wheeled robot similar to the other delivery robots a pilot program for Scout We'll start with six robots total accompanied by Amazon employees in the Schnoemish, Washington area No Famous as the location for the high school that was used in Twin Peaks Firewalk with me the movie You were just saying it backwards that's I was trying to avoid you say it three times and Well, so for anybody who's like well wait a second I thought Amazon was already working with like drones and you know How do these robots differ when it comes down to the consumer getting their goods? Amazon is behind the curve here, right? Their robot looks just like all the other robots They've got robotics in their warehouse and that may be what a lot of people think but they don't have robots on the streets The way Starship and Neuro and Kiwi and a bunch of others have been doing so Amazon I Wouldn't give them credit this time They didn't try to make it sound like they're the only people doing this like they did with drone delivery Where actual companies have been doing drone delivery for years now and Amazon still isn't this one? They said hey, you know what? We're gonna try this out. We're gonna put it in Snohomish We're a little they didn't say it but they're a little bit behind You know because they're gonna have to have people out there walking on a lot of these Starship ones are just monitored remotely now because they're trustworthy but Amazon could quickly pass all of these first mover advantage companies because who doesn't Faster by robot Do this right they pull this off right? They'll just lap them like this could be a big boon for them But I'm looking at this thing it does look like the other robots number one number two It just looks like a weird little garbage can on wheels like yeah all these fears about what a teenager could do to this thing And I know it's really hardened to being beaten up and they're monitored The Amazon ones are gonna have a person right next to them, but even the Starship ones are monitored Sure.  They're gonna destroy that freaking thing They can also destroy the UPS driver if they really want to do I mean It's not the robot that incites violence It is crazy that we're living in a world where we're talking about how Amazon is late to the game of robot delivery Sure. Yeah. Yeah, and and how we think teenagers might pick it apart All right, let's move on to a few stories from cord cutting land I'll run through a few of them Hulu announced it'll lower its ad supported subscription plan from 799 per month These are US dollars to 599 per month starting on February 26th The ad-free sub will stay at 1199 per month But Hulu live TV will rise to 44 99 from the current 39 99 per month DVR and expanded multi-screen viewing packages are dropping from 999 2 999 rather from 14 99 per month probably because a lot of people used it in the same vein YouTube TV added 95 markets in the US and says that it is now available to 98% of The country and hopes to reach the other 2% shortly more than 90% of its markets have local affiliates from the top four broadcasters and if you listen to all this stuff and you say, oh man It's a little tedious to stand up of all these price changes and what companies are doing There's a startup called suppose TV You may or may not have heard of which has a tool to let you compare different services based on channel selection and Price among other parameters a new feature called TV service alerts will email you when your TV services change their prices Or their channel lineup or their features and the company just launched a new API to give access to its live TV database and recommendation engine Yeah, so it's like we had the Netflix price rise now. We have a Hulu price stretch, you know one Rise and drop it's yeah, it's like they And and I love that suppose TV had good timing to say hey if you're getting tired of figuring out Who's raising their prices and whether it's worth it? We're gonna make it even easier because we've talked about it on court killers before suppose TV is a great tool for Figuring out if which plans have the channels that are most important to you But you don't want to have to keep going back to that so having this email alert that'll send it to you and say hey You know what? You stop thinking stop worrying about it and Scott I'm curious what you think about this stop with the the package fatigue We'll just tell you when the next cool thing is so that you don't have to fret about it No, I like that a lot because I'm not a surprised about it or beef I like to line up one of those awful calls where I have to call in and go you guys did a bunch of stuff this year I didn't know about and so I want to cancel and then you got to fight over All the great new deals are gonna give me now to keep you and and then you start wondering Well, if you had that deal in the first place Why don't you give me that to start with instead of this other bad deal like I hate that whole loop of Community with my providers. So I do like this idea a lot I'm a big fan of services in general that ping you and let you know when something you're using changes I'm glad that it's a sort of a third-party thing and I don't have to rely on Some network or some, you know service like Netflix to do the reminding I'd like to be reminded by these guys So I think that stuff is great The name though, am I supposed to say suppose TV like you'd say suppose TV like it's supposed to be I think I think yeah that they probably aren't mad at that Comparison someone says is this a cool service and they go well, it's supposed to be Which is just the name of it. Yeah. Well, it is what we call it I'm I've been calling it suppose dot TV so that I remember the URL because it's a dot TV URL but Yeah, I also would like to make some feature requests to suppose dot TV for the future because I like where they're going here with automatic alerts What if I am allowed to log in and authorize you if I trust you to just? Cancel services that I'm not using anymore, right? If you're like you ping me. I'm like, hey You do you still have stars, you know because there there are services out here that do that too So it'd be cool if they just started helping me keep track of what I'm subscribed to Not just when the price Changes for yeah, I wouldn't mind it if they I could authorize them to cancel that stars thing I added on to something that I didn't mean to keep and you know past whatever show I wanted to see I mean, that's a weird thing giving them rights to do that sort of thing But I'd like that idea more than me having to go figure it out. So yeah, do everything for me Suppose TV. Yeah, or even get to a questionnaire instead of having to pick channels like what kind of what kind of stuff do you watch? What do you want? Alphabet's Google disclosed Tuesday that it spent twenty one point one million dollars lobbying the US government in 2018 That's more than its previous high of eighteen point two two million all the way back in 2012 Facebook also disclosed that it spent twelve point six two million in 2018 That's its highest yet up from eleven point five one million in 2017 So just last year Amazon spent fourteen point one million dollars its most yet up from the thirteen million dollars it spent last year Microsoft spent nine point five two million so quite a bit less than these other companies and also not its greatest amount yet That was ten point five million in 2013 Apple spent six point six two million even less and that's down from its high of seven point one five million last year Reuters says Google is among the top lobbyist spenders in the entire country each year alongside defense contractors healthcare providers and Cable operators, you know the people lobbying your government the most our defense health care cable TV and Google Can I can I say a controversial thing and then you can just shoot it down if I'm totally wrong on this my assumption here? And you and I it may not even be possible to say whether I'm wrong It seems to me the ones that have up to their budget and are at their highest level Facebook Google companies like that are the most Invested and affected by any goings up or down of net neutrality slash FCC control over the internet that sort of stuff while these other companies Microsoft Apple while services are a big deal and while you know internet traffic is a big deal for them They're less that's less of a focus for them So it just seems to me that that's why they're higher and the others are lower. Am I wrong to to think that you think I? Don't know. I don't know if you're wrong to think that or not I'm curious what people think it does it does tend to look to me like the companies that feel like they have the most to fear from regulation Are also the companies you are most likely to see spending money You know what I'm saying. Yeah. Yeah, no, I think you're right. Sorry. I got distracted But slack for a second Yeah, like if if if I'm alphabet aka Google and all the things I do I Probably have a lot of stuff that I need to have continue happening and want to do in the future that is going to require the ear of people in Places of power that can make those decisions for this country and they probably I don't know this because it's insane there But I'll bet they spend a good amount of money internationally as well I Don't know how that works in say Parliament or other places But I'm sure that that's they'd like the ear of those lawmakers as well And it doesn't surprise me at all whereas Apple's like me Just want to sell a lot of phones and hardware and ear pods and stuff Well, you know Apple it's not like they don't have the problems with the FBI, right? They have a lot of problems with law enforcement and they come under all kinds of patent lawsuits from Qualcomm and places like that But they're less under the gun outside of the cryptography debate For privacy issues and privacy issues and advertising of the hot ticket And if you look at this Facebook Amazon Google, they're all Advertisers even Amazon make it more and more money off advertising these days Microsoft not so much They make some on advertising, but they make less and they spend less and Apple doesn't really make hardly anything off Advertising you have a little bit in the App Store, and that's it and they're at the bottom of this pile So you could it's correlation. I don't know if it's causation, but you could definitely correlate those together I'm terrible correlation causation guy. I'm bad at it. Like I tend to Conflate the two all the time I think that's a known thing of me and Tom's always been a really great kind of counter to that But what you say about ads hadn't even occurred to me, of course, this has a lot to do with ads It must it must have to do with ads Because why wouldn't it? You know late they need to know I mean there's constantly things like ah, is this fair to advertise this way or do this on a website? Shouldn't shouldn't Google not be allowed to mirror like that's always happening and being discussed So of course they're spending more money to try to get their point across. Oh Hey, it's my turn. Yes, it is. Sorry We got the good I guess we got the echo fixed and sorry for everybody was wondering why Scott was distracted by slag It was actually a production slack thing and we were trying to figure something out But I think it's good now anyway Google announced that its G Suite users will be transitioned from the hangouts app to hangouts chat Starting in October of 2019 hangouts chat has a more slack like feature set and is already available for G Suite users Consumers will continue to be able to use hangouts app through Google X Sorry, though Google expects to announce a transition to free chat and meet at a later date Now if you are like me, that's a lot of names to keep track of How does hangouts change it's a very confusing Google has been so good at being confusing about this For years now the problem is that they named everything hangouts, right? They had a problem they had a product called hangouts And then they started to split that product up and kept calling it hangouts And so we'd all say like oh you use hangouts. I heard hangouts is going away Well, not that hangouts that hangouts is over here They even changed Google talk to be hangouts even though it wasn't hangouts or the original hangouts Which is now hangouts on air or hangouts meet and it How could anyone be expected to keep this all straight, but hangouts is not going away It is also going away because everything's called hangouts So when people panic about hangouts is going away, who knows what they're panicking about could be nothing could be something But if I can try to boil it down what Google seems to be doing if I've made sense of this is replacing the chat app With another chat app and they're going to do it for enterprise users first in October And then they're going to do it later for consumers So if you're a consumer and you use the chat app called hangouts, don't worry about it It's going to be at least After October before you're going to have to worry about switching to a new app and Google hasn't even said how they're going to make that Transition if you're on G Suite then you should probably download hangouts chat now Which is what that app is called hangouts chat And and start slide signing up for it That's their slack like alternative because that's what you're going to get transitioned to in October. Yeah Yeah, all this makes sense. They're just really bad at this whole name thing I remember when docks and drive got combined and there was some confusion around that like women Yeah, go to docks still for but it's drive now and that means what their files in there I never know what to call the instant messaging inside Gmail I know is technically hangouts Hangouts, yeah, no one knows what I'm talking about if I say G talk people who are older Using it for a while antiquated. Yeah, but new users are like, what's G talk? I never heard about that. So yeah Well folks if you want to get all the tech headlines each day in about five minutes Don't forget. We have another show. We have much further shows We have monthly video game briefing with Scott Johnson and Patrick Bezio once a month for the mainstream gamer We have daily tech headlines keeping you up to date Monday through Friday with rich straffolino, sarah lane and myself at daily tech headlines Let's talk phone trends. We got three new phone trends It's a month from Mobile World Congress and the phone companies are starting to try to get on the agenda They're leaking out a little information to say hey reporters when you get to Barcelona and a month be sure to pay attention to us First one, I'm gonna give you three and then we can discuss which we think are actual trends and which we think are Just last-ditch efforts or maybe all three or both Meizu announced its new zero phone. No ports No buttons. That's what the zero refers to no holes Office zero apertures No holes no SIM card slots no charging port It does have a camera bump on the back and and it does appear to have some slight holes for the microphone on it So maybe it's not zero holes, but it's 5.9 inch an OLED screen Small bezel on the front for your front-facing camera at the screen contains the fingerprint reader and the speaker So it's not like it doesn't have a speaker. It's just in the screen. They claim an 18 watt wireless charging apparatus so that's quite a bit faster than Samsung or Apple and haptic virtual side buttons So you still have volume buttons on the side. They're just not actually buttons. They also didn't announce a price release date Now that's number one number two Xiaomi released a video on Weibo of its engineering model of a foldable phone foldable We know as a big category Xiaomi's phone is a tablet form that folds on both sides Underneath the middle section to create the phone form factor again. This is just an engineering model third LG published a video promoting its Mobile World Congress press event showing a hand swiping above a piece of paper to reveal the message goodbye touch Implying just your control just your control smartphones have been around for years Samsung's had it for five years But it hasn't really caught on yet LG's announcement is scheduled for February 24th at Mobile World Congress So Sarah Scott lay it on me Which of these is is going to revolutionize the phone market and which of these is just a Desperate attempt to revitalize sales, you know, I have to say that the May zoo zero phone Just in the sense that it is you know, I made a joke earlier like oh wireless office But I do like the idea of it.  Do you want no in a perfect world? We don't need any of these things But in the in the in the modern world that we live in we still do need them So any phone that can do everything I want it to do and yes You've got a headphone port because I guess it would be really hard to to to sell a phone of this caliber and say like well Everything's got to be a Bluetooth wireless But for going in that direction, I think that's the direction that all phones are going to go in.  Well, I thought it said that there was no speaker. There's a speaker in the screen. That's it. Yep For a microphone not a headphone jack, you know what I like this phone even more now I Do I do I mean I and I understand that a lot of people would be like well But you know, I you know, I have all these things and you know What am I gonna do with all this stuff that I've been using for my previous phones and that's the whole garbage dump? Yeah, exactly that that you have to deal with individually, but I am down for a Frictionless phone experience. Here's the negative though. You have to carry that wireless charger with you Like this thing in anywhere. There's no charging like you had to carry the chargers with you anyway We're the battery And and like plug it in with the yet the airport with the USB thing at the jack Not that I ever do that because I don't trust it, but theoretically people do that. So I mean, what do you think I Getting rid of you know, like all of this stuff is like the less of this the better I kind of agree with you and I actually think that's I think it's even apples thinking and they want as little of that as possible. Let's go face ID Let's not have phone jacks anymore on the iPad pros. At least this model. Let's not even have a lightning jack Let's just go with some, you know USB-C can that thing and everybody can figure out what they want to connect into it A lot of people complain about it But I do think the future is a little less holes in your device and little less things to have to plug in I'm worried about However, that wireless charger last time I checked anyway for any of these phones I have one over here about the size of your phone itself with a cable connected to it big taking that on a plane kind of sucks Um, I don't know like that's the only hang-up. I'd have the rest of it audio Speakers built into the screen is kind of cool. I like virtual buttons on things like all of that stuff is fine I think this is too far ahead of its time I think this actually will be what phones will look like down the road As this becomes more and more pervasive and and you don't worry and and wireless charging becomes pervasive enough That it is also at the airport in places like that I think foldable is probably the one that's least likely to catch on out of all of this though Maybe I may be wrong if somebody cracks The the form factor so that it really feels like a thin phone in your hand when it's folded up I really want this to work, but I don't see it working yet Uh, just your control is the wild card for me It hasn't caught on yet But lg seems to think it's got the thing and I could see if it's done right The ability to not even have to touch your phone to be able to just do You know certain moves to to dismiss notifications or call up Uh, you know your camera or something I guess if you have the camera you want it in your hand But I I could see that possibly potentially being a differentiator that people think is cool I do I do think that you mentioned form factor and that's going to matter a lot for a foldable phone and Uh, the the word the wise words of kenny rogers comes to mind. You've got to know when to fold it. Well When I fold mine, it'll be when it's not nine inches thick when you fold it and So you're not you're not going to gamble on one of the first models. No, I'm not I really am not But I do love the idea of a I don't even think of it as a tablet It's just a bigger screen for a while when you're in a certain way of using it You're like, oh, I need to use the phone clamp. Boom. I'm on the phone It's a very very cool idea. But until that stuff gets thin And so when you when you've folded it, it's no thicker than current modern day phones Then you've probably got me gesture control. I don't know that that ever takes off to be honest That one's probably the least interesting to me and I don't I I base that I'm purely just total gut instinct I'm probably wrong But the idea of me just looking at a phone and doing this and swiping my hand left and right seems ridiculous And and and extra work actually versus just doing it with my thumb on the screen Well people who have their thumb on the screen and maybe do not are people on our subreddit because you Stretch the world wide over thanks to everybody who participates in our subreddit You can submit stories and vote on other stories make a friend while you're at it daily tech news show reddit.com We're also on facebook same idea facebook.com Slash groups slash daily tech news show and now let's check in with chris christensen We've missed you the amateur traveler sharing the dangers of having a social media lead vacation This is chris christensen from amateur traveler with another tech in travel minute You talked last week here on the daily tech news show about People being banned from youtube by doing stupid things and recording it The same thing has been happening on cruise ships and royal caribbean is none too happy A man jumped off an 11th floor balcony into the ocean 100 feet below so his friends could film it on instagram He was drunk. Do you think? They got 157 thousand views on instagram But they also got banned for life and royal caribbean is considering legal action Yeah, don't do that. I'm chris christensen from amateur traveler. It feels like it doesn't need saying Apparently it needs saying Is as popular as this will be please don't do this You might die Uh, thank you chris christensen. Let's check out the mailbags there. Let's do it steve a patreon supporter says There are two principles underpinning Singapore's ai framework because we talk a lot on the show about how different countries are dealing with ai technology and and and and how to combat some of the potential issues Steve says one of that is decisions made by or with the help of ai in singapore are explainable Transparent and fair to consumers. The second is that ai solutions are human centric Singapore is working to be one of the jurisdictions with sound approaches to data management and the governance of ai as well as other frontier technologies If today is a slow news day It would be an interesting discussion As if that were true steve, but yeah, and steve actually linked us to a really interesting Article in the straits times which is Singapore centric for a little more information about this Yeah, so I do feel like this is interesting because Singapore Is always trying to make itself Into a technological hub But it is also a a an authoritarian might might be way to put it government You know, it's it's it's strict in its laws It had people have freedoms there, but they don't have all the freedoms that you might have and and so you know, they're always trying to walk that balance between encouraging innovation and And keeping an orderly populace and this this feels like they're almost the best to do this Like okay ai can do all kinds of things and we want it to do all kinds of things But we want to limit what it it's bad effects could do So maybe Singapore is the great place to start this conversation Uh, and and I can't say that I disagree with at least the way he put it in his email Uh, steve says the decisions have to be what it was it uh explainable, right? If an ai makes a decision says you're denied for insurance You should be able to explain why it shouldn't be like I don't know the algorithm said it, right?  How are you conducting this? How does the ai work and it should be fair to consumers? Which is you know almost tautological to the rest of it, but but says hey It's not denying people for reasons that are not that are not okay I'm using insurance as an example, but that should apply to everything. Yeah Good example though. That's one that you know, yeah, that's one. I always think of sure Steve thank you so much for the feedback and the Recommended reading for the rest of us, which we will do and also thanks to scott johnson for being with us This fine hump day afternoon scott. Where can people keep up with the rest of your work? They can just head on over to frogpants.com show Tom brought up earlier the monthly video game briefing is linked there as well And i'm really enjoying that with patrick. 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I know Wow You guys are the best They're number one literally number number one Look ma no ports. Oh, I like it. I like that one. That's good Look ma no ports. No ports. No holes. No buttons. No charging I'll also have to say while while we're thinking of the um Well, we'll do the topic topic of the show first. No. No, I was I think look ma no ports wins But mezu shuts its hole did make me laugh. It's pretty funny Uh, I'm looking through to see if there's any other I I I prefer to look ma Yeah, if I if I if I have to choose. Oh, but um, but no what I wanted to say was a lot of folks You did uh emails back at feedback at daily tech news show dot com but also I got some dms on twitter and like even a couple on instagram and some uh, uh personal emails From folks with wireless earbud suggestions for me We really did um and I just want to thank everybody for going the extra mile to to get a hold of me and let me know I got um Quite a few thumbs up for anchor The anchor earbuds, but I also um, which one was it? I've got it pulled up here somewhere I also I was sort of I mean of all of my feedback I got Oh, I think it was No, it was the one that wire cutter said was its Top model Anyway, people really care about the wireless earbuds that they wear for variety of reasons I got some sports people marathon runners people who are like, hey, I've got weird ears. They don't fit that well So um, and I have all of those problems. So I just really appreciate everybody's feedback And I'm gonna do a little bit of a deep dive and try some stuff out and then let you know Yeah, I I liked uh, I like The idea of you getting you know collecting the The suggestions implementing one of those and reporting back like all right. We tried it out. Exactly. Yeah So So what what was what else do we need? Anybody else need anything? What do I need? I just got a heat an air filter for my heat. Oh the Jabra's that's what I that's the one that I was For getting the name of the Jabra's people love the Jabra elite Is it those aren't the can ones right the ones that look like um No, they're in ear.  So these Jabra I forget what they're called Oh, anyone's looking for over the years style Okay, expensive and incredible sound and also wire cutters pick Hmm for this style.  Hold on. Why aren't you wearing them right now brand name? Um, I could use them here actually, but they're mostly wireless. So I use them with my uh, when I jog and stuff Oh, I see but they have incredible sound and um This you don't believe sound It's only like 60 bucks or something. I think and uh, the purely 100 wireless They have all the like phone functionality stuff pause answer phones volume up and down all that junk Um, and I can't find the name. That's fantastic. It's not really on the Can you ask it? Is it smart enough like Jabra? What are you? Uh, I don't think it is Jabba tell me your feature set But your model number now I feel like it's dummy because I'm giving a bad recommendation. I'm gonna find it You should they should do a Star Wars edition called Jabra the hut Jabra the hut It could be a little soundproof room with all the audio around you And then if you don't hang out any time through in hutties Well, every time it'll just kind of chuck let you go I thought I was listening to Halsey's latest track, but instead I'm just hearing Oh Here it is Jabra move. It's called and uh, I've got a red pair. I have a I have a One or two Uh, let's see 63 38 on amazon totally worth it. These have been amazing for me highly This made me wonder something though. I'm gonna try something live I'm gonna mute myself so that I don't do it to everyone who happens to be playing this out loud What model are you? I are you supposed to mean She's giving me definition of the verb model who is who is the echo Who is a very tall wafie person? I That was about the verb not even the noun the verb The verb model to show when you Please see Madonna's folk video Uh, because I said what model are you right? I would think it would be like I am the echo Show plus or whatever it is, you know Shouldn't it do that it should do that. Oh, it didn't do that It should that's dumb. It should So look monoports correct look monoports. Yep. There are a lot of things that um My amazon assistant does not get where I'm like, you're better than this Come on This was easy. Oh my god softball I just asked google what the same question Uh, and it wants to make me read which super model are you a buzz feed quit? All right. All right, we've done two of the three. I think you're a terlington scott. Yeah Yeah, I think so. Uh, what's her first name? Christy christy terlington. Okay. I would just stay home and stare at myself. I'm serene said. I'm not sure I understand Really? At least he was on at least he was on at least it's honest in this one case One time you get it right Oh goodness, what model are you? I'm not sure I can understand. Yeah, because you're dumb She's like, I don't think this is a question that you know, I can answer So this is you know Frank and pants Imagine if she was like, I don't want to offend you, but you are not a model Is she just she doesn't know what to say what if she started crying after you said she was I Tell me When you break when you when you break the assistant and the assistant is just like Sobbing I gotta get another go That's what ai really gets good.  She goes, you shouldn't do that. I go. What do you mean polite? It's a robot. She goes, I know but You never know. It's just not nice habit to get into because someday the robots will be upset at you for this Right because your instinct would be like maybe to do that to a human, which is probably where your daughter was coming By the way, old guy in our discord Spelled look mono ports look mono ports It's too clever. Yeah, it's too clever to use on the on the actual title, but it's very good Applauded. Yes. Applause to uh old guy for that one. That was a limited audience. Yeah, good work. Look mono ports Good. Look mon no ports Or monkey ports because mono is Spanish for monkey Is it? It is yeah, I did not know that What do you think od are you a little mono that last weekend? Mono I need more monkeys.  I'm just like I'm going to get a white Ford Focus That's what I end up with because I'm just like I want something nondescript. No one no notices it on the road It's safe. I sort of suspect I'm going to uh end up with a Honda fit because I actually really like them Well, the fits are cool and they last yeah They're and they're like they've got a pretty good back seat Because I I got a dog. I want to be able to put the seats down. I like the um, I like the the I like everything about it and they're you know, not a super expensive car It's actually probably the right car for me Yeah, I kind of test drive some other stuff first just very the fits are very Uh across the board you're speaking my language because I'm like tom. I don't want I don't need anything fancy. I'm not trying to show anything off I don't anybody to look at me and go. Oh, look at that guy. I just know Not at all functionality Usability I wanted to last for a long time. I want to keep its value Like you can't go wrong with I mean Honda fits are basically what I just described.  It's like, you know, there's you know Lane change assist and and you know navigation and there's certain things where I'm like, well I do really want that on the next car But you don't have to have some big luxury car to have that anymore And so much of that can go through car play And that's the that's the kind of dirty little secret in the in the car building industry Is that a lot of those things lane assist those are component add-ons that you bolt on to your existing Or not existing but you bolt on to a car design. So it's not like it's integral When they design it in other words, you don't need to go from a blank sheet of paper to To put all that stuff in there. It's like a backup cameras Right, you just need to run a tiny camera somewhere above your license plate and run the cord up to the dash All that stuff any lock breaks I'll miss my cassette player and my William Yeah And my really last time you ran a tape through that thing last time I put anything in that particular device was when the see the ox Jack that Brian Cooley installed in 2005 in that car stopped working briefly and I used the cassette to ox jack adapter For this short period of time until I figured out what was wrong with the other ox jack So It's been a solid 10 years Oh, no, that was actually, um About I don't know 10 months ago. No Oh, I see it was 2005 that you've got that 2005 is when Cooley put the ox jack in Okay, all right, see that video about how to install an ox jack in your car in 2005 and he used my car and said Company paid for this for this video. I'm gonna leave it be harder to take it out than leave it in here It's yours and so I've been using that ever since but it stopped working briefly and I figured out what it was It was a battery issue And and once I figured that out Uh, it wasn't even a bad was that was disconnected to the because it draws power from the car's battery. Anyway Um, I once I figured that out. I stopped but for the brief period I I wanted to hear music in that car before I figured it out. I was using the cassette adapter That was like march Yeah One's the last time we actually ran a cassette though like an actual cassette. I don't know if I ever I don't know if I've ever Right, yeah, because the car is you know that even before Cooley put the ox jack in I was using the cassette adapter for plugging in my ipod Right and my wife has one of those. It's an ipod jack interstitial car stereo Only interface. Oh, yeah, this this thing that Cooley put in has the old uh connector The pre lightning connector In white one, yeah Yeah, yeah that one has that and it has a usb. I could just stick a usb in it And it'll just play mp3s off a usb Nice, I never use either of those. I just I just use the ox jack You know, I I I may have mentioned to you guys or maybe not. Um, that um, I used to be a serious satellite radio subscriber and You were a serious serious Very serious about it. Uh, yeah serious xm And you know, it's the sort of thing that you get as a bundle with cars sometimes and then you know, I ran out and I was like Oh, I actually really liked my serious stations, but you know, whatever so a friend of mine She has I don't know the same kind of a deal and and her her trial period is up and she was like I mean, I have to get it. I mean, how could you live without serious?  Because I I particularly use apple music, but she uses Spotify and I know that and she was like Yeah, but I mean, but how would I like play that to my car? I was like via bluetooth and she was like Bing I'm like, yeah, you don't need rate. Like if you want terrestrial radio, it's free whatever go nuts because I do that too But don't pay for premium radio If you if you can connect your cell phone to your car If you have serious xm, you likely have bluetooth. No No, she does. She she just never really thought about the idea that like, oh my Spotify playlist could just be played through my car I'm like, yeah, it's really easy It's like a like a very easy Yeah, because well because I don't know people, you know get um, this is the reason that radio is still Like it is about radio. Who listens to radio? I'm like you'd be surprised Millennials listen to radio in large numbers. Oh, yeah, and I think because it's friction-free just like play a station I know there's commercials you change something. I really knows how to use bluetooth But every once in a while the bluetooth acts up or the or her apple music or spotify acts up And she's like, you know, it's screwed. I'm just gonna listen to the radio because it's there and it works Well, I also so kcrw is a radio station in the los angeles area Which is an npr affiliate but also has a lot of kind of local Cool up-and-coming artists that are featured it's great station And I listen to that for weeks at a time, you know every once in a while I'll be like, ah, whatever this is, you know is annoying me and that I'll switch over to my phone But yeah, it's I mean it's It's also public radio So you're not getting a lot of the commercials that are very annoying with other stations, but it's great Yeah, we don't even when I'm playing like amazon music We're playing apple music through an echo or whatever it is. We're doing in the house It's very rare that we're like play this particular playlist We're going you know play 70s rock and roll and basically I'm just Permanent station that just plays all the time. Yeah, I use my echo to play today's hits That's all I ever that's all I ever do because I did you do that today? I did. Yeah What what what was today's hit It's Ariana Grande seven rings and Halsey and post Malone and post Malone with sway the the sunflower song Gotta tell you I love that post Malone Hit after hit I mean the the sunflower totally different vibe than wow and they're like almost back to back on that one.  Anyway, here's with tom. I wanted pictures you sitting in front of it going uh a word Please play the hit of today I will explain more about the situation for the audio listeners video listeners. That's all you get Thanks for watching though audio folks stick around


Hi and welcome to a special edition of issues and answers with me Elvis Thomas acting assistant superintendent of police With me this morning is constable number six nine four Travis Chico who is the president of the police welfare Association good morning. Mr. Chico. Good morning. Thank you for coming and being a guest issues and answers I see you smiling already. So you have quite a few good things in store for us Now I just said that you from the police welfare association and tell us a little bit about the police welfare association What what is it all about? Okay? Well the police welfare association is basically an association staff association Which would represent the interests of members in the police the Royal Central Police Force the Association is very distinct from the operations of a trade union and One of our key or one of our major functions as an association is to really is to really It's really push the agenda of the organization in total. So what's a union? Maybe stuff stuff stuff aligned The welfare association is organization oriented in terms of dealing with the issues faced by the organization Okay, so when did you become the president of the association? I became the president of the welfare association on the 15th of March 2007 2007 yes or 2017 And how has it been for you it has been A Smooth sailing period with a few issues that we would have to we would look into as an organization I'm as the welfare association when I came in and there were a few challenges that We inherited from past executives and executives and some of them that we've dealt with and some of them That we open that in the not too distant future We could bring them to a conclusion But the welfare association generally has really met one of its major Objectives which is to ensure that police officers remain productive and to ensure that our officers are efficient and Could read and to reduce wastage in the organization So it's been a struggle. Well, we advocate for for for sorry We are doing it advocate for working conditions, but based on the constitution of of the welfare association in Section 40 of the police act and Subsection 2 would have spoke with and speaks to police or the welfare association Remaining an association that would look into the effective running of the Royal Sanction police force So having having said said this when did this police welfare association start? Well, the police welfare association Commenced in 1969. However as the years Has gone by there's been a lot of evolving of the welfare association Going on the days when a welfare association would have had one representative would just look into the General running of the organization, but they buy then the organization was a very small organization But now you have a fully a fully a fully staffed Executive which would have encompassed the president a vice president a treasure secretary Assistant secretary assistant treasurer and the PR and also an assistant PR The welfare association also has what what is called brunch board. So we represent from the ranks of constables as far as inspectors So the welfare association has representatives on each of the bodies. So you would have five men from the Sergeant five five from the con and corporals five from the Inspectors and seven from the constables, which would have been the biggest pool in the membership of the organization So it is actually the welfare association's first function actually starts at the brunch boards level In terms of selecting persons at brunch board level to represent the rank on the central executive of the police welfare association You just mentioned that representation is made only up to the rank of inspector Yes, what happens? With the rank of inspect above well above the rank of inspector. It is with the public service commission. However They have been talks in terms of having what we call a gazetted branch board where the welfare association I would have encompassed gazetted officers from the ranks of Assistant superintendents to acting to assistant commissioner of police where these men would have elected on themselves Somebody would represent them on central committee and the central committee who would look into issues Issues surrounding the ranks that they are represented that they are in so would that be in keeping with the police act that you mentioned We would have to write to the governor general through the commission of police so that we can make an amendment in the police act that would have So that would constitute the forming of such a branch board And do you have an office where you operate from and what really happens there? Yes I'm the welfare association has a police welfare secretary at and what happens at the secretary at is that um, we run a number of Programs at the at the at the secretary at so we have our police distress fund our police scholarship fund We also have our magical police magic police welfare magical health insurance And of late we've opened what we call the police welfare association fund Which would look into the daily running of of the welfare association itself So there are a number of other initiatives that we hoping in the north not not too far from now that we could actually look upon in terms of how well we could Maintain The interest of our members in terms of whether we look at assisting them in in some of our financial challenges financial issues So the welfare association has a number of Items on its on its agenda and we open that with time maybe Continuity from non-executive to the next that by within 20 by 2025 We would have gotten our proper mandate and staffing in terms of really representing the interests of our members You mentioned four areas here, and I would really like to to touch on them The first one we will do is the distress fund So you can speak about it briefly. We may not we may come back to it after the break So you can speak to the distress one is often it was set up by then commissioner covered Phillips And what will intention of that fun is to really assist police officers with distress So after hurricanes and during the time of death You have persons who may have suffered a house fire natural disasters So that's where the police welfare association distress one would come in to really Assist those members in in in bringing them back on on the feet So the distress one is is really managed by the commission of police was the chair and the welfare Association has members on that committee to really look into some of the applications that we receive the distress one piece so far for parents of police officers who would pass and also the children of police officers and We also look at medical issues where persons genuinely need Assistance the welfare association would come in and chip in something something small The fund is not the healthiest of all because the numbers have grown and why the numbers grow You have we have a bigger payout and the contribution remains the same So we're also looking to go back into the rules of such a The fund and hoping that through the commission of police was chair that we could increase It's like not really making it a building on the pockets of our officers But to really show them the disparity of what they are paying now and what they can't be and the increases or Other other greater functions that the fund can serve in terms of assisting them Thank you very much. Mr. Chico for now We have been listening to a special edition of issues and answers with me Elvis Thomas acting assistant superintendent of police And my guess constable six nine four Travis Chico who is the president of the police welfare Association will be right back I noticed that you built your retaining wall on my property You'll have to give me my land back or compensate me for that my contractor isn't dumb I trust that he will not build anything on your property. Where is your proof? Let's go to court this situation does not require you to go to court looks like we have to go through mediation here Mediation is a way people resolve conflicts like this someone a third party comes to speak to both parties This person is called the mediator the mediator is impartial He or she makes sure that communication between both parties is effective and efficient So the mediator is a judge. No, the mediator is not a judge Mediators unlike judges do not decide cases or impose settlements Let me get a mediator to handle this retaining wall and that kitchen Kitchen yes, your kitchen also falls on my land. Let me call the mediator You have been watching a special edition of issues and answers with me Elvis Thomas acting assistant superintendent of police and my guest Mr. Travis Chico constable number six nine four President of the police welfare association the discussion has been very good. Mr. Chico and we will go right into it We were speaking about the police welfare association and some of the areas that it covers We just spoke about the distress and now we will be looking at the scholarship. So tell us about the scholarship right, so the police scholarship fund was again set up by the then commissioner and What we have with the police scholarship fund is that every police officer who has a child who has gone through secondary school Level from from one to from five the welfare association has the responsibility of purchasing school supplies and books for a child when a child gets to from five the welfare association also pays the CXC of that child the scholarship fund is basically set up in order to assist our members to Take off the plight of buying books and you know the expenses Allocated to to to to search so the welfare association the fund is organized to really take off the building from the membership it's a format members contribute to and It's a format that that is only is strictly for scholarship. I think to date we have 374 students in the scholarship And and we have a I think we want to be the police force The welfare association scholarship fund is the biggest spin scholarship funding solution we have the most students in our scholarship and I Average yearly we spend in the in the amounts of almost 325,000 dollars as it pertains to scholarship and these and these are direct Awards in terms of money received from the membership We spend it back in order to ensure that the children receive all the books as it pertains to the education because the welfare association Is is of the view that education is very important in today's society and we try our best to make sure that All students receive such a scholarship And I believe that most of our viewers would be of the belief that the welfare association is Strictly there for when there are issues to be you know going out on the media or defending police officers But here we have some very good information Yes, we just spoke about that this stress fund and now we're hearing about the scholarship fund That's where you know these this is such an important You know on thing and it is really good. And I guess what is the feedback from from the parents? Oh, yeah, I can tell you a lot of the parents are very thankful for such a fun, especially some of our police officers who have children In in different communities and some you know, we've not really seen the fathers very often and when the time for scholarship Come on the welfare association Some people have the view that because they don't live with the father that they are not entitled But when they come and inquire and with a yes, um, I vote you have him being a challenge The name features on the birth certificate that child is entitled You could see the relief on the face of those parents and some of them are very grateful We get a lot of parents written in those books and when those books are written the welfare association in turn run a little a little a little program where we assist students who are not parents We are not children of police officers and we give them those books once they are in good condition We hand over the books to students. We also assist sometimes with supplies notebooks to to to children in need So the welfare association does not only assist the children of police officers with the scholarship fund We also assist many children within the various communities of Saint Moshe so if One was a police officer and maybe through resignation or retirement they've left but their child Have not gone through that process in terms of receiving the benefits. Can that child? That child is still entitled to receiving the benefits What we find a lot of the times is that we encourage the members when they are retiring Or when they are resigning from the organization when they move on to greener passions They could still make the contribution to the welfare associations in other words to us to continue assisting them as the as as the child goes through through the secondary school education schooling Very good. We will now move on to insurance. You spoke about that magical insurance So tell us some more about that Okay, the welfare association in spite of the collective agreement where Police officers are entitled to free medical and it would be a binning in government hospitals The police welfare association went a step forward We feel that it was fit for us to because of the nature of the job That we should have had an insurance covering us and it is an insurance paid by us by police officers And the purpose the sole purpose of insurance is for better and better quality health care So the insurance covers a transport ambulance. It covers emergency Emergency medical it also covers it has a small life. So if a police officer would have passed During the time he remains a member of the insurance, he would receive a $50,000 life His family would receive it. So the welfare association Has always had the drive to bring more members only on on the plan And we believe as we bring members on the plan, we could always go back to the provider And we negotiate the terms and conditions because we'd have brought in more persons onto the plan But the welfare insurance run by the welfare association, I believe Is going to be better insurances on the island in terms of our relationship with the provider The welfare association continues to see a lot of speedy care when it comes to when we call the provider and we say You know what police officer has to go for emergency medicals in MAPNIC They did it very accommodative to often and this is the sole intention of the the welfare's insurance to make sure that officers Who are part of this insurance can receive quality care that we would not Be in a position to know that we've lost an officer because he could not have received the care Necessary for him to survive. So this is why we have the medical insurance and we continue to urge our members to come on board And take advantage of such an initiative by the welfare association Okay, can any um of the persons from the other essential services be part of that insurance? Or is it solely for police officers? Well, it is solely for police officers and staff So we have some of our civilian staff within the police force who are part of our insurance like our Secretaries and our our clerks. They are offered the opportunity But I know some of the essential services have their own insurances, but we cover police officers and the staff Or we are directly related we are directly associated to the rural financial police force Okay, briefly, um, can you tell us in terms of some of the projects that your association Is working on now? Well, as you as you would be aware, I'm pretty soon will be celebrating the Another part of the anniversary of the passing of Randy Abbott and the welfare association This year will hold its second anniversary of the Randy Abbott football tournament The welfare association has paid a number of opinion in terms of writing to the commissioner in terms of enacting a lot of policies within the Morales and worship police force. So we look at our professional standards. We look at um absentee absenteeism within the organization A number of other projects, um At present we have a small tech shop being run by the by the world police work for association And what we also looking to do not too far from today is to write to the commissioner So that we could have a barbershop and what we what the sole intention is to to to have a young man who Who is unemployed and who has the ability to see whether or not it would be possible to fit him Within the headquarters area so that so it is also considered as a crime fighting initiative as well so the welfare association has a number of of of plans that we believe Could happen and could we could enact so that we could really gain the interest of our members. However, um In the time period as a welfare association one year is very short And there's there's the little that you could accomplish between such a time But then we also believe that if we if we do the right things and we pass on the information to Other executives and they continue then you would see a more effective and a more vibrant Association so this is where we as an association now And um we continue to to take ideas from our membership We continue to ask civilians who have an interest in in policing to to also bring forward Their ideas as the welfare association could better The um the management or the run-ins of the welfare association and also their entrepreneurship police force Speaking of time. This is all the time we have On this segment of issues announcers You've been watching a special edition of issues announcers With me elvis thomas acting assistant superintendent of police and my guest mr. Travis chico Constable number six nine four president of the police welfare association. I wish we had more time You know for this, but then we will get some more time at some other point. Thank you for watching and goodbye


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At this time, 10 years ago, Aaron Judge was receiving recruiting letters from UCLA, Stanford, and Notre Dame, but not for baseball. Ultimately, he chose a partial scholarship at Fresno State to play the sport he loved most near his hometown of Linden, California. In time, Judge emerged as a new face of baseball. As he's found, superstardom in this sport is difficult to achieve and even harder to sustain. Aaron Judge is known one professional employer. He's become a rookie of the year and all-star in Yankee pinstripes. The sort of success Judge knew he could achieve but wasn't always obvious to the scouts and coaches who once projected him as a pitcher or a tight end on Saturday afternoons. Can you describe what it was like to be recruited for football by Jim Harbaugh back in the day? At the time, there was letters coming in from all colleges all around the country, so it was a pretty cool experience. But as cool as it was, you know, talking to a lot of high-powered college football coaches and programs, baseball's still my one true love. I got a dream and it's all I see. The decision to follow his heart and stick with baseball was a good one. In 2017, Judge was an MVP candidate and put together one of the great rookie seasons in MLB history. All rise! Aaron Judge has been great, taking baseball by storm. A two-run home run to the men. When you finish as high as you finish in the MVP, so early in your career, Aaron, when you look at all you've already achieved, where are the sources of inspiration to constantly improve and get even better? There's something you can always improve on. When the rookie of the year, man, I wasn't satisfied with that. I wasn't satisfied with just getting one game away from the World Series. I want to win a World Series. I want to win multiple World Series. Two, two, and that one hits Judge. He was in some pain. Just like that, the air goes out of the room. After a sensational rookie season, injuries have slowed Judge's ascent. He had shoulder surgery in 2017, then a fractured wrist one year later. And this season, an oblique strain cost him nearly two months. Have you come this far? Just to let them... I think it's just the failures in the game. That's what motivates me. So this year, you know, getting a chance to have my time to recover and get the body right whenever you're healthy and can work on things, it's always the best. Judge slams that deep right field. Uh-huh. It's gone. Oh, no. He did it. You think about all the expectations that have been put on you from very early in your career, the face of baseball, very rightfully. So how have you been able to take that and see the fun in that? Because the expectations sometimes feel heavy. Yeah, the pressure's fine. You know, the pressure's all how you use it or apply it or see it.  But when people set high expectations, well, you know, my expectations are even higher than that. So what everybody else expects out of me, that's nothing compared to what I'm trying to do every single day, so it's a constant motivation there.


Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Unless you understand it. My name is Thomas Diner. I work in developer relations at Google. And in this talk, I will look at some of the new Fugu APIs and how they improve core user journeys in the Excalibur PWA. So you can take inspiration from these ideas and apply them to your own apps. I want to start this talk with a story. On January 1st, 2020, Christopher Shidow, a software engineer at Facebook, tweeted about a small drawing app he had started to work on. With this tool, you could draw boxes and arrows that feel cartoony and hand-drawn. The next day, you could also draw ellipses and text, as well as select objects and move them around. On January 3, the app had gotten its name, Excalibur. And like with every good site project, buying the domain name was one of Christopher's first acts. By now, you could use colors and export the whole drawing as a PNG. On January 15, Christopher put out a blog post that drew a lot of attention on Twitter, including mine. The post started off with some impressive stats. 12k unique active users, 1.5k stars on GitHub, 26 contributors. For a project that started a mere two weeks ago, that's not bad at all. But a thing that truly sparked my interest was further down in the post. Christopher wrote that he tried something new this time, giving everyone who landed a pull request unconditional commit access. The same day of reading the blog post, I had a pull request up that added file system access API support to Excalibur, fixing a feature request that someone had filed. My pull request was merged a day later, and from there on, I had full commit access. Needless to say, I didn't abuse my power. Nor did anybody else, from the 149 contributors so far. Today, Excalibur is a full-fledged, installable, progressive web app with offline support, a stunning dark mode, and yes, the ability to open and save files thanks to the file system access API. So this marks the end of my How I Came to Excalibur story. But before I dive into some of Excalibur's amazing feature, I have the pleasure to introduce Panayotes. Panayotes Liberides, on the internet simply known as Lippis, is the most prolific contributor to Excalibur. I asked Lippis what motivates him to dedicate so much of his time to Excalibur. Like everyone else, I learned about the project from Christopher's tweet. My first contribution was to add the OpenColor library, the colors that are still part of the Excalibur today. As the project grew and we had quite many requests, my next big contribution was to build a backend for storing drawings so users could share them. But what really drives me to contribute is that whoever tried Excalibur is looking to find excuses to use it again. I fully agree with Lippis. Whoever tried Excalibur is looking to find excuses to use it again. I want to show you now how you can use Excalibur in practice. I'm not a great artist, but the Google I.O. logo is simple enough. So let me give it a try. A box is the I. A line can be the slash. And the O is a circle. I hold down Shift so I get a perfect circle. Let me move the slash a little so it looks better. Now some color for the I and the O. Blue is good. Maybe a different filth style. All solid or crosshatch. Nah, that sure looks good. It's not perfect, but that's the idea of Excalibur. So let me save it. I click the Save icon and enter a file name in the File Saved dialog. In Chrome, I browse it as a positive file system access API. This is not a download, but a true save operation where I can choose the location and name of the file. And where, if I make edits, I can just save them to the same file. Let me change the logo and make the I red. If I now click Save again, my modifications are saved to the same file as before. As a proof, let me clear the canvas and reopen the file. As you can see, the modified red-blue logo is there again. On browsers that currently don't support the file system access API, each save operation is in download. So when I make changes, I end up with multiple files with an incrementing number in the file name that fill up my downloads folder, but despite this downside, I can still save the file. So what's the secret? How can opening and saving work on different browsers that may or may not support the file system access API? Opening a file in Excalidor happens in a function called LoadFromChasing which in turn calls a function FileOpen. The FileOpen function comes from a small library I wrote called BrowserFSAccess that we use in Excalidor. This library provides file system access through the file system access API with a legacy folder so it can be used in any browser. Let me first show you the implementation of when the API is supported. After negotiating the accepted mine types and file extendance, the central piece is calling the FileSystemAccessAPI function ShowOpenFilePicker. This function returns an array of files or a single file dependent on whether multiple files are selected. All that's left then is to put the file handle on the file object so it can be retrieved again. The for black implementation relies on an input element of type file. After the two be accepted mine types and extensions negotiation, the next step is to programmatically click the input element so the file open dialog shows. On change, that is when the user has selected one or multiple files, the promise resolves. Now to saving. In Excalidor, saving happens in a function called SaveAsJSON. It first serializes the Excalidor elements array to JSON, converts the JSON to a blob and then calls a function called FileSave. This function is likewise provided by the browser FSAccessLibrary. Again, let me first look at the implementation for browsers with FileSystemAccess API support. The first couple of lines look a little involved, but all they do is negotiate the mine types and file extensions. When I've saved before and already have a file handle, no save dialog needs to be shown. But if this is the first save, a file dialog gets displayed and the app gets a file handle back for future use. The rest is then just writing to the file which happens through a valuable stream.  To show this, let me open an existing file make some modifications and then not override the existing file but create a new file by using the SaveAs feature to leave the original file intact. The implementation for browsers that don't support the FileSystemAccess API is short since all it does is create an anchor element with the download attribute whose value is the desired file name and a blob URL as its href attribute value. The anchor element then gets clicked programmatically. To prevent memory leaks, the blob URL needs to be removed after use. As this is just a download, no file save dialog gets shown ever and all files land in the default downloads folder. One of my favorite system integrations on desktop is DragonDrop. In Excalibur, when a drop in Excalibur file onto the application, it opens right away and I can start editing. On browsers that support the FileSystemAccess API, I can then even immediately save my changes. No need to go through a file save dialog since the required file handle has been obtained from the DragonDrop operation. The secret for making this happen is by calling getAsFileSystemHandle on the data transfer item when the FileSystemAccess API is supported. I then pass this file handle to load from blob, which you may remember from a couple of slides ago. So many things you can do with files. Opening, saving, over-saving, dragging, dropping. My colleague Pete and I have documented all these tricks and more in our article at web.dev.slash FileSystemAccess. So you can catch up in case all this meant a little too fast. Another system integration currently in Android, Chrome OS and Windows is through the web share target API. Here I am in the files app and my downloads folder. I can see two files, one of them with a nondescript name untitled and a timestamp. To check what it contains, I click on the three dots, then share and one of the options that appears is Excalibur. When I tap the icon, I can then see that the file just contains the IO logo again. One thing you can do with files that I haven't talked about yet is double-click them. What typically happens when you double-click a file is that the app that's associated with a file's MIME type opens. For example, for DogX, this would be Microsoft Word. Excalibur used to have an Electron version of the app that supported such file type associations, so when you double-click an Excalibur file, the Excalibur Electron app would open. Lippis, we have already met before, was both the creator and the deprecator of the Excalibur Electron app. I asked him why he felt it was possible to deprecate the Electron version. People have been asking for an Electron app since the beginning, mainly because they wanted to open files by double-clicking. We also intend to put the app in the app stores. In parallel, someone suggested creating a PWA instead, so we just did both. Luckily, we introduced a project for Google APIs like File System Access, Clipboard Access, File Handling and more. With the sole click, you can install the app on your desktop or mobile without the extra weight of Electron. It's an easy decision to deprecate the Electron version, concentrate just on the web app and make it the best possible PWA. On top, we are now able to publish PWS in the Play Store and the Microsoft Store. That's huge. So, I could say Excalibur Electron was not deprecated because Electron is bad, not at all, but because the web has become good enough. I like this. When I say the web has become good enough, it's because it features like the upcoming File Handling. This is a regular MacOS Big Sur installation. Now check out what happens when I right-click an Excalibur file. I can choose to open it with Excalibur, to install PWA. Of course, double-clicking would work, too. It's just less dramatic to demonstrate in a screencast. So, how does this work? The first step is to make the file types my application can handle known to the operating system. I do this in a new field called File Handlers in the Web App Manifest. Its value is an array of objects with an action and an accept property. The action determines the URL path the operating system launches your app. An accept object are key value pairs of mine types and the associated file extensions. The next step is to handle the file when the application launches. This happens in a launch queue interface where you need to set a consumer by calling well setConsumer. The parameter to this function is an asynchronous function that receives the launch parents. This launch parents object has a field called files that gets me an array that I still work with. I only care for the first one and from this file handle I get a block that will then pass to our old friend loadFromBlock. Again, if this went too fast you can read more about the file handling API in my article at web.dev slash file handling. You can enable file handling by setting the experimental web platform features flag. It's scheduled to land in Chrome later this year. Another cool feature of Excalibur is the clipboard integration. I can copy my entire drawing into the clipboard maybe adding a watermark if I feel like and then paste it into another app. This is a web version of the Windows 95 paid app by the way. The way this works is surprisingly simple. All I need is to canvas as a block which is then right onto the clipboard by passing a one element array with a clipboard item with a block to the navigator clipboard write function. For more information on what you can do with the clipboard API see Jason's in my article at web.dev slash async clipboard. Did you know that Excalibur also has a collaborative mode? Different people can work together on the same document. To start a new session I click on the live collaboration button and then start a session. I can share the session URL with my collaborators easily thanks to the web share API that Excalibur has integrated. I've simulated a collaboration session locally by working on the Google IO logo on my Pixelbook, my Pixel 3a phone and my iPad Pro. You can see the changes I make on one device are reflected on all other devices. I can even see all curses move around. The Pixelbook's cursor moves steadily since it's controlled by a trackpad. But the Pixel 3a phone's cursor and the iPad Pro's tablet cursor jump around since I control these devices by tapping with my finger. To improve the real-time collaboration experience there's even an idle detection system running. The cursor of the iPad Pro shows a green dot when I use it. The dot turns black when I switch to a different browser tab or app. And when I index Scalibur app by just not doing anything, the cursor shows me as idle symbolized by the three Zs. Having readers of our publications might be inclined to think that idle detection is realized through the idle detection API, an early-stage proposal that's been worked on in the context of Project Fugu. Spoiler alert, it's not. When we had an implementation based on this API in Excalibur in the end we decided to go for a more traditional approach based on measuring point movement and page visibility. We found feedback on why the idle detection API wasn't solving the use-case we had. All Project Fugu APIs are being developed in the open so everyone can chime in and have their voice heard. Talking of which, I asked Lippis one last question regarding what he thinks is missing from the web platform that holds back Excalibur. The file system access API is great, but you know what? Most files that I care about these days live in my draw box or Google Drive, not on my hard disk. I wish the file system access API would include an abstraction layer for remote file system providers like draw box or Google to integrate with and the developers could code against. Users could then relax and note that their files are safe with the cloud provided they trust. I fully agree with Lippis. I live in the cloud too. Here's hoping that this will be implemented soon. Wow, we've seen a lot of really great API integrations in Excalibur. File system, file handling, clipboard, web share and web share target. But here is one more thing. Up until now, I could only ever edit one document at a given time. Not anymore. Please enjoy for the first time an early version of tapped application mode in Excalibur. This is how it looks like. I have an existing file open and installed Excalibur PWA that's running in standalone mode. Now, I open a new tab in standalone window. This is not a regular browser tab, but a PWA tab. In this new tab, I can then open a secondary file and work on them independently from the same app window. Tapped application mode is in its early stages and not everything is set in stone. If you're interested, be sure to read up on the current status of this feature in my article at web.dev slash tap application mode. To stay in the loop on this and other features, be sure to watch our Fuga API tracker. We're super excited to push the web forward and allow you to do more on the web platform. Here's to an ever-improving Excalibur and here's to all the amazing applications that you will build. Go start creating at Excalibur.com. I can't wait to see some of the APIs that I've shown today pop up in your apps. My name is Tom. You can find me as Tomiak on Twitter and the Internet in general. Thank you very much for watching and enjoy the rest of Google I.O.


Hi, I'm Peter Burris, and we've been speaking with Clint Wycoff of Daytrium about reliability, simplicity, and scalability. It's an interesting conversation. If people want to continue the conversation, Clint, where can they meet with you? Well, they can find us at Dell Technologies World at the Sands Expo, booth number 215. They should stop by. I, myself, will be there. We'll be glad to have a chat with you, give you a demo, show you what Daytrium's all about. You might even win a prize or get a cool little free chachki. I think we're giving away ninja wallets or something if I'm not mistaken. But if you're curious, sounds interesting. You should come by and say, hey. So I'll come by for the conversation. I'll let you keep the ninja wallet. Thanks a lot, Clint. Thank you.