Man the good news just keep coming in for these Baltimore Ravens, baby team keeping clean I love you a subscribe to the channel so you don't miss nothing Subscribe and turn your notifications all the way on Let's get into it because as y'all know our secondary been beat up banged up bruised up battered and just It's been rough. It's been really rough, but Today I got a little better I Just so happy man, I'm just so happy man because Awesome a let who the Raven sign this offseason. He's back at practice Jalen Alma Davis who the Ravens drafted last offseason. He's back at practice, but The Ravens well before a mother went out. He was gonna be their number two corner Well, we expected him to be their number two good Well, by the way that they paying him he was gonna be the number two corner But anyway, the man who was going to be the Ravens number two corner He's been out for a while, but now essentially what I mean, yes, he's gonna be that number one guy Rock your scene and Rock your scene has been out longer than but all those guys and now he's back He's back Rock your scene is back in the building So this is a beautiful thing because the Ravens they just signed Ronald Darby a few days back So that should be a solid addition and Raven should be in some good shape to hold it down Until Marlon Humphrey returns again, like we talked about a lot more is gonna be put on the offense, but Speaking of offense We got even more great news Because this was my favorite news of the day And I don't mean to be partial anything like that, but this was my favorite update from today Center from Davidson Hensley. He said it Ravens You could tell I'm on I'm on the Mitchell train. It said Ravens. I'm drafted rookie running back Keaton Mitchell is back Back practicing after leaving Monday night's preseason game with a shoulder injury. He's been impressive this summer. Yes, he has Keaton Mitchell is back So hey all them people all them people who told y'all that Google is false when it comes to medical stuff when it comes to medical Information don't listen to none of them. Don't listen to none of them because y'all remember in the video that we did a few days back When we talked about Keaton Mitchell's injury being a shoulder stinger We looked it up on Google right then and there like how long is he gonna be out for how long the shoulder stingers take to heal and Some of the stuff said one or two weeks But some of it said hey, it could be a couple hours It could even just be a couple days and they may be good But this is great news for Keaton Mitchell specifically and let's talk about him for a little bit Keaton Mitchell Rock you seen He he is already on the roster. He his spot is safe. It's secure Jalen armor Davis in my opinion I think his spot is actually safe, too It is in a weird spot. It's not one hundred, but it's I think it's pretty safe Arthur Millet spot is not safe But we'll see what happens, but with Keaton Mitchell He is in a very tricky position because he would make Raven's job a lot easier if his injury was serious because Had it been serious Ravens could be like, oh, okay. Well, we got our running backs We ain't got to have no competition. We ain't got to worry about we got our guys already we are Set my mic wasn't set, but we are set because they could have been like, all right We got JK Doppers. We got Gus Edwards. We got Justice Hill We got more than Melvin going. Hey, we good to go. Keaton Mitchell was in competition with those guys But now since he's out with injury. Oh Unfortunately, but we ain't got a way about it no more, but now since he's back This is good for him because this can help him Earn that spot on the roster like so many of us really want him to get especially Myself I feel like Keaton Mitchell. Wow I wouldn't expect him to have some big huge enormous impact that running back this year for the Baltimore Ravens I wouldn't expect that. I think that would not be I Don't say it wouldn't be wise, but I just I don't think it would be a fair Expectation for him this upcoming season simply because of everything and everyone that's currently in front of him But the possibility of him making an impact on maybe special teams Possibly and you know what? Well, they have four running backs active on game day. No, probably not so there could be some times where he would be inactive But it could be one of those stay ready. So you ain't got to get ready type things We love JK Dobbins. We love Gus Edwards, but we also know their injury history We know it and especially with JK Dobbins. It's been an extensive injury history Unfortunately, so with the Ravens in their running back room The more the merrier Jonathan Taylor more the merrier, but the more the merrier. So if they keep four I could see them keeping four I could see them doing that especially since Possibly two of them play special teams just as Helen Keaton Mitchell, but we'll see we'll see we'll see we'll see How it goes, but I'm getting back to the cornerbacks It's just nice man. It's nice to Get more depth back in a secondary especially the quality of it since the quality of it is going up rocket scene That improves the quality of the Ravens cornerbacks a lot from Everybody that had been missing before and even everybody that was out there, but having rocket scene back is big now Ravens got this game in Tampa in a couple days. I Don't expect him to be playing I think they'll just hold him out till week one, but that's big That's that's that's really big news that they got their number two Well kind of maybe number one guy now back whether they I guess him between him and Ronald Dobby number one number two Whatever they got him back now some guys who weren't practicing obviously Marlon Humphrey, but you know stone You know stone wasn't practicing Tyler Hunley still isn't practicing. We talked about it on the stream. I this me again I'm an NFL outsider no plugs no context no connects But I expect him to be back this week. That's just me though. That's just me I mean no nothing from nothing I air another from nobody nothing.  That's it But he's not back yet. Marlon Humphrey obviously still out but Mark Andrews He is not practicing today No concerns With anybody on this list, maybe Gino stone a tiny bit, but maybe he just a little banged up from the game and whatnot Maybe that's it.  I'm sure he's good I ain't I ain't worried about that and with Gino stone Yeah, I'm sure he'll be uh, he'll be good as well. So yeah, man this is uh Really really good news for these Baltimore Ravens. I'm just uh Making sure that I ain't miss nothing before we get on up out of here, but I love it I love it. Um, it's always nice to get good news always nice to get great news And with the Ravens this is it's been this flow This flow of great news that they've been getting especially when it comes to injuries because We've been the recipients of the not so great news the terrible news the bad news The awful news when it's come to injuries over the years. Um, Obviously the year where they lost Gus Edwards and Marcus Peters on the same day Lost JK Dobbins, but one that I forget about too that I don't mention enough that same year. They lost Justice Hill too They lost Justice Hill too So We always get so caught up in talking about when they lost JK Dobbins and Gus Edwards and those were obviously big losses But they lost Justice Hill the same year and I remember that day When they lost Justice Hill, I was taking a walk. I was taking a walk Just walking exercising feeling good trying to better myself and whatnot. Okay. Yeah, I'm good. Let's go. Let's go, baby Walking walking my phone start going off a little bit.  I'm like, oh, okay That's that year where the hits just kept kept on coming they kept on coming and Ravens fought They kicked they scratched their claw, but they just they they couldn't withstand all the injuries and all the injuries that they suffered and everybody They lost that year so Hopefully this is the year man. This is the year where they can Both get healthy and stay healthy because obviously we got some more guys coming back from injury But um, hopefully this is the one man. This is the one because if they can Really do believe They can be a Super Bowl team They really can if they can stay healthy They can match up with anybody. They can rock with anybody. They can mess with anybody man anybody anybody Whether it be chiefs bills bingles jets dolphins Whatever whoever they can mess with anybody We know they can lose anybody too. It's any given Sunday, but seriously they they can rock with anybody um, so we just hope that the Ravens have their health this year because that is Whoo, that is the biggest thing right there, but We'll see how it goes. Anyway, make sure you subscribe to the channel Turn your notifications on leave a like on the video too. And again, like I always say, hopefully you like it What you see hopefully enjoying the videos and I really appreciate y'all I appreciate your time because we spend a lot of time together whether you know it or not We spend a whole lot of time together every single day every single day So I really do appreciate y'all doing that whether you want a way to work Whether you're on the way to school whether you're on the way back from work or school Wherever you go and whatever you're doing, even if you're chilling at the house you watching dishes you cleaning up Whatever you're doing, you know what? We didn't spend a long time if you made it to this part of the video just put a comment section Put whatever it is that you're doing while you're watching the video So just curious man. Just don't want to know what y'all doing while y'all watch these videos But I appreciate y'all whatever you're doing. I appreciate you watching videos. I love you and just like Jaylen Alma Davis Just like Arthur Millet just like rocket scene and just like Keaton Mitchell no longer are when it comes to being In well No, just like they no longer are. Yeah when it comes to being in practice. We out


If you need to remove access to some Google Drive files from somebody who has left your team, this is how you do it. First, you need to know the email address associated with your Google Drive account, the one that you shared, the email address you shared with them, to them in the first place. So once you know that email address that you want to remove access from, click on the search options icon in your Google Drive and then scroll down to where it's a share to and then enter that person's email address. Again, the one associated with your Google Drive account. I have one here called George Calteam. I'm going to go ahead and do that. That's another Google Drive account of mine. And then once I do that, I click on the search button. And now these are the files that I have shared with the George Calteam Google Drive account. And let's just say I want to remove these files. Okay, I'm going to go ahead and click on these files and multi-selecting. So on the Mac, it's command click and on the Windows, it's control click. Anyway, I selected three files. Now I'm going to click on the share button on the top right. And then what I'm going to do now is you see George Calteam, right? That's the account that I want to remove from access to these files. I click on editor. It might say commenter or viewer or editor. I'm going to move my video here. Okay, and then instead of editor, I click on remove. Okay, and then it's suspending changes. I'm going to click on save. Now George Calteam has been removed from these files. And to show you that's the case, I'm going to go ahead and click on one of these files. And then you can see here it says private only to me. Now if you had previously opened the file and you just went back to that tab, you may have to refresh the file to update the privacy that you have just recently changed. Now let me show you another example of something that might be confusing to some of you. So for example, I'm going to select this file. Let's see here. And then I'm going to multi-select this file as well. And now I'm going to try to remove George Calteam by clicking on the share icon. And when I go here, it says varies. What does that mean?  I can't remove them. What this means is that one of the files or folders I have selected is actually owned by the other person, George Calteam. And not all of them are owned by me. That's why I can't change the ownership or remove them from these selections. So in order to find out which ones were owned by them, if it's only a few, I could literally click on them. And for example, this one is owned by, you know, when I click on a file, by the way, if you don't have the, if you only are seeing it like this, oh, there you go. You might see owner right there. Okay. And as a column, or if you have the I selected, well, you've got to click on the high details to see which ones are owned by you. You can only change the ownership if it's owned by you. So then again, these are the files shared with George Calteam. I can select them and remove ownership. I can show you here. It says varies, but varies now. Interestingly here, it says removed. Now, why is it this available? It's because I am the owner. And maybe it says varies because maybe the George Calteam account has, has editor access to this one and commenter access to that one. Maybe something like that. So I hope this is helpful. If you want to remove that person, for example, if I want to move George Calteam from any of these folders, I have to ask them to transfer the ownership over to me before I can remove them. They, if actually, if they know how to transfer ownership, they should be able to know how to, how to. So for example, let me, let me show you. Let's say I wanted to remove myself from the access of this file. What I can do is I click on this file, click on the share. I add George Calteam. Okay. And then let's say I make them an editor. Okay. All right. And then let's say they're an editor now and I want to remove myself. I go here again. I make them the owner transfer ownership. Okay. Send invitation to transfer ownership. Oh, actually, I'm sorry. They have to select, they have to accept. But once they accept, I will be able to select myself and remove myself from the file. So that's how that would be done. Well, I hope this is helpful. And if you have any other tips to share with others on ownership transfers in Google Drive, you can comment below or if you have any questions, you can comment below and either I or somebody else who knows something might be able to answer. All right. Take care.


Daily Tech News Show is made possible by its listeners, thanks to all of you, including Eric Holm, Carmine Bailey, and Vince Power. Coming up on DTNS, Rich DeMuro is here with some excellent last minute tech gift ideas. Scott Johnson talks about Microsoft's 10-year deal to bring Call of Duty to the Nintendo Switch. And what would it take to get you to use a super app? Americans? Why? Why can't you be more like China? Says business. This is the Daily Tech News for Wednesday, December 7th, 2022 in Los Angeles. I'm Tom Merritt. And from Studio Redwood, I'm Sarah Lane. In Salt Lake City, I'm Scott Johnson. I'm the show's producer, Roger Chang. And joining us, tech reporter for KTLA TV and host of a new radio show called Rich On Tech starting January 7th on stations nationwide, Rich DeMuro. Thank you. Also in Los Angeles. Yes. Yes. Also in Los Angeles, where we are. You now have a majority of the house on the shelf. Indeed. Indeed. All right. Let's start with the quick hits. Uber and Motional began offering self-driving car service in Las Vegas. Users booking through UberX or Uber Comfort Electric in service areas have a chance to be matched with emotional autonomous vehicle. Now as a user, you have to opt into the sort of ride. They're currently free with plans for a commercial launch to come. Your rides include safety drivers at launch with fully autonomous service scheduled for some time next year, 2023. I got lots of little Apple things here. Apple announced changes to the App Store pricing model. There's like 900 prices now, which is about 10 times as many as there used to be for developers. Minimum app price drops to 29 cents, used to be 99 cents. They increased the maximum price of an app. You may not have realized this, but you could only charge up to $1,000 for an app before. You can charge up to $10,000. It also provides more incremental pricing, so 10-cent increments up to $10. It allows setting prices on a per-country basis, auto-renewable subscriptions can start using the price changes now, and other apps will get it in spring 2023. Apple also introduced new security measures for cloud data, including end-to-end encryption for iCloud backups, photos, and more. Wall Street Journal says the company has dropped its proposed system for trying to identify child sexual abuse material or CSAM. They had an automatic system that had some controversy around it. They're just not going to implement it. And finally, the release of iOS 16.2 will revert airdrop sharing to contacts only after 10 minutes automatically to prevent unwanted requests to receive content. That's the thing that Chinese iPhone users already have to stop them from hearing anything bad. Remember how important Dish Getting Spectrum was to the approval of T-Mobile's acquisition of Sprint? Well, they're finally doing something with that spectrum. Dish Wireless launched a beta program for its post-paid, boost-infinite wireless service, offering unlimited calls, texts, and high-speed data for $25 per month. Data throttles after 30 gigabytes, so that'll be a factor for some folks. The beta will use AT&T's network. After fully launching in Q1 of 2023, it will use Dish's 5G network in addition to AT&T and T-Mobile. Connections for smartwatches and tablets will be available at the full launch. The messaging app Telegram dropped its requirement for using a SIM card, if you want to sign up for its service. To verify users, Telegram partnered with a company called Fragment, which will let users create an anonymous phone number to sign up. It also added a global auto-delete timer for all chats, upgraded its topics feature to sort group topics into multiple threads, and added a new quote-unquote aggressive anti-spam filter for group chats. SpaceX launched StarShield, a version of its Starlink satellite internet technology designed for government and military use. The company claims it could quickly build end-to-end systems for government clients from launching dedicated satellites to user terminals, offering additional high-assurance cryptographic capability on top of Starlink's existing end-to-end encryption, you know, things like that that the military might want. SpaceX claims that StarShield service would remain interoperable with Starlink's network. Yeah, they're probably going to run on the same network with some firewalls in between. All right, that's the quick hits. Microsoft announced it has reached deals with Nintendo and Valve to make Call of Duty available for the Switch and Steam for at least 10 years. I mean, it was already on Steam, but it's going to stay on Steam for 10 years and Switch for 10 years if Microsoft acquires Activision Blizzard. I know Microsoft reportedly offered the same deal to Sony, but Sony has not accepted. The deal is, of course, contingent on regulators approving Microsoft's pending acquisition of Activision Blizzard. They told Activision Blizzard, hey, we made this commitment in case we get you, but they can't force Activision Blizzard to do anything about it yet. Because the rules around mergers mean no development can begin until the acquisition is closed. Now, Microsoft says it expects it to close in June of 2023. The US Federal Trade Commission meets Thursday, December 8th, to discuss the acquisition. Regulators in the UK and EU are also investigating the acquisition for antitrust concerns. So there's some stuff yet to happen. But the fate of Call of Duty is not the only antitrust consideration. It's often been brought up as an example of the power that Microsoft would have over the gaming market if such a deal is approved. Now, Scott, I know you've been following the story. What's your best guess on how this shakes out? Well, for me, shake out is an interesting proposition, because there are a few things a little bit vague here. For one, when they say 10 years on the Switch, what they really mean is 10 years on Nintendo platforms. It's entirely possible, in fact, likely that sooner than later, Nintendo will have a successor to the Switch or whatever their new platform will be. So the idea of people still playing Call of Duty in 10 years on a Switch is probably not quite what they think it is. Secondly, it doesn't even guarantee that we're talking about day in day releases of new Call of Duty products, of cutting edge stuff that needs 200 gigabytes of space and all of the bells and whistles, the new consoles and PCs provide. So just a little bit of a reality check on the Nintendo side. But what it does tell me is they're saying I think it's a strategy. This is Microsoft saying, look, we're putting our best foot forward and saying to our competitors where they will accept it. Hey, we're not going to take Call of Duty away from you. In fact, Nintendo would like to offer you Call of Duty again. It's been a long time since anything has come from this franchise onto your platform. So there's that. There's your 10 years of that. And of course, Nintendo stoked about it or at least accepting of it. In Steam's case, they already had it, like Tom mentioned. However, it's been pulled before when things only were available on the Blizzard launcher, they pulled it from Steam. It's now back on Steam, and this is them saying, hey, we'll keep it on there. So you guys are good. I think these two steps are an additional way for them to say we're feeling very benevolent about all of this. We want everybody to have our stuff that includes Sony. They're just not doing it yet. But boy, we sure are trying to give it to everybody. I actually think it's a good move. I think it's smart for them to do it. I also think that we're going to do this anyway. They don't want there's money on the table that you would leave in massive amounts if you didn't put Call of Duty on other platforms. So I think this actually may help Microsoft down the road for this getting approved and over with. Yeah, I think their benevolence is definitely fueled by that Thursday to some great meeting that Sarah mentioned. I think Microsoft is trying to do everything they can to show that the concerns about Call of Duty, at least that Sony are bringing up are not anything to be worried about. It's not what this is about, though. It's about whether this gives Microsoft too much control, whether they they're going to do 10 year deals or not. It's about doesn't give it too much control. So I'm not sure whether it's actually going to save this deal or not. Rich, I don't know. Do you play Call of Duty? Does this affect your life at all? It does not. But I saw the tweet from I think it was a lawyer at Microsoft and he was like, this is a good thing for consumers. And any time you have a lawyer saying that during any sort of merger, it is most certainly not a good thing for consumers. So none of these mergers, none of these actors, they're never good for consumers. They, you know, they can promise 10 years. But when everyone kind of forgets about it, the prices start to creep up. The things start to scale back and it's always the same story. So I'm not buying it. I think that there's a chance for Microsoft to do good here. And here's my only thinking up till now with Game Pass and kind of the new Microsoft in terms of their gaming division has been, look, we're not so concerned that you're buying our exact console. What we'd love it is if you'd play our games, no matter where they are via cloud. So, hey, get on Xbox Game Pass and let's do that PC. You want to play it there? Great. You want to play Halo there? Great. You want to play it on a console? Great.  Great. And also, if you just pay cash for it on Steam, that's fine, too. Oh, you're on the Epic Store. Cool. Buy it there. If that attitude continues where they're like, get our games wherever you game. Then I then then this fits that. Yeah. If this doesn't hold, then maybe we got a problem down the road. I think, you know, as is often the case in these antitrust situations, the cases are always about the past, not what's actually going to happen. So, you know, it's interesting to note that Microsoft being dominant on Windows was a huge deal a few years before the desktop operating system stopped being the thing anyone cared about. And everyone was caring about the browser. And then after that, the phone operating system. So these things are always a little bit lagging. And I think if it were to look forward, which I don't expect it will, they would be looking at Project Luna. Are you going to make Call of Duty available there? Are you going to make all your games available to Amazon? Are you going to make them available to Nvidia Shield? Are you going to make them available to any other streaming service that comes along? Because I think that's the devils in the details there. Microsoft's like, yeah, of course, we'll let Steam and Sony and Nintendo do this, even if it costs them development money. Because what we want to do is make our money off the streaming service. We know that's where the future is. Yeah, well, we'll keep our eyes on it. In other Microsoft news, the information sources say Microsoft wants to develop a new, they're calling Super App on mobile that would combine shopping, messaging, web search, games and news feeds. Sound familiar? Maybe like WeChat a little bit. The report actually mentions that. They want to emulate the mobile strategy of 10 cents WeChat. Microsoft reportedly sees this as a way to boost its advertising and its search business, as well as draw more users to teams. It's unclear if Microsoft will actually launch the app, but it seems the desire is there. Yeah, I mean, let's just say, let's say that Microsoft does launch some sort of a Super App and other companies certainly could do that as well. WeChat is the very obvious example of a very successful Super App where many millions of people can do all sorts of things within WeChat and not use 10 different apps to do the same. But many of us, myself included, I'm not used to that all-in-one model. There are certain things I might be able to do within an app like send a friend some money and also chat with them, but it's pretty limited. And certainly a lot of users in the US are not as used to the Super App situation as in certain other markets. So I thought it might be kind of fun to go around the horn quickly and just take some stock in what we might think a Super App would be helpful for if we don't have an option for one already. I think for me, sort of the messaging and payments thing, that's obvious, but you can do that within Messenger. You can do that within Venmo. You can do that within PayPal. There are ways to do that. But I think if I were to take that a step further, it would probably be some sort of a shopping experience. And that doesn't really mean that I want Amazon to give me a Super App, because I don't know if that's what I'm asking for. But I would say that would be that would be the third thing if we're talking about money and chatting that I would probably throw in there. Yeah, for me, I think I'm like Sarah in that there's some habit involved here where I'm used to the same five, six apps a day that I do all these things with. And I don't think the American market or the US market is in the mood to shove a bunch of stuff under one roof and whose roof will that be and who will control it. I also think it's a little bit like saying, hey, I'm going to start a competitor to Facebook today and I expect it to be huge. I just think that's a really daunting process. I'd love it if somebody would, but I don't think anybody's going to. You have certain established norms. We're weird about that in some ways, and we just lock in on it. So if you could I'm sure if I lived in like Japan and I had one app that did everything or wherever it's prominent, I would be way into that, but it isn't here. And I don't know how everyone agrees to sort of cozy up to it. It's like the insurance business. Nobody's going to do it. Rich, what are your what are your thoughts on the idea of the super app? Is is convenience key for you? Or does it make you feel weird to have too many things in one place? Yeah, I actually I go the other way. I don't I definitely don't want anything in the same place. I'm a big believer in the competition of the apps. And we're seeing a lot of apps try something like this.  They're blending in the ability to rent a car. And I'm not sure besides Uber eats, if any of those things are super popular have taken off. And I do see what you're saying about things like Venmo, you know, if you're collecting money, you know, you're on a we're on a text chain the other day with my kids basketball team. And we need to collect money from all the parents. And we went from, you know, I message to typing in all the phone numbers to a new message and then getting everyone to Venmo and a separate thing. And of course, the username and the confirming. So I mean, I see why there's some friction here, but at the same time, I think we also like to move around to the best thing. And so if that best thing is Venmo right now, that's great. A couple years ago, it might have been PayPal and the same thing with, you know, email providers and all these different things that I feel like people have gotten so used to having apps for different purposes. And honestly, if you think about it, the iPhone is almost kind of what Apple is trying to build is a super app. When you think about all the different things that they've built into that phone, the services and the products, the magazine subscriptions, the messaging, the ability to send money. I mean, there's so many things, the maps. I mean, it's kind of a super app in itself. And it's great. It's convenient. But I hate the fact that people just open up the Maps app and think that it's the best Maps app out there and they should be using that. So I think what what I hear you say, and I think it's very representative of what a lot of people feel is I don't want one company controlling it all. But if you look at the way we chat does it, Amazon is on some of these super apps in China. So if you do it right, it's not it's it's saying we're just going to make it easier to have everything integrated so you don't have to hop from app to app and the apps don't communicate to each other. I think the biggest reason, though, that it hasn't caught on in the United States is is emblematic in this information article. The information writes Microsoft executives wanted the app to boost the company's multi-billion dollar advertising business and Bing search as well as draw more users to teams messaging. In other words, they want it because they have reasons. That's not the right way to do it. If that's why they're going to do it, don't do it. What we chat did was found things that made people's lives easier, which is why they integrated other shopping. They didn't try to run their own shopping. They integrated other shopping. They integrated other payment systems even at some points. They said what makes people want to use our service better and then created that now granted they had some advantages because there weren't other things competing. We're kind of stuck in our ways. It's that it's the first mover disadvantage, right? We've already been using PayPal for a long time. We've already had Venmo so we don't want to move. And I think the combination of that, like it's hard to make the case. It's hard to create the service that's better and the fact that we're all stuck in our ways and we're like, yeah, but we like it the way it is makes it hard to see the advantage of jumping to something else. So I think the only way you do this in the United States is you get a neutral platform that convinces some if not the number one in every vertical, at least the number two where people go, oh, but it is way easier to use that service because it's integrated with this other thing in here. If you can make that happen, then it works. But that's really hard. And that may be why it never happens here. I have one good example of this real quick. So we were ordering pizza the other night and, you know, I it was cheaper to go outside of DoorDash directly to the restaurant and use their app, which was horrendous, right? It was just like poorly made app. And I sat there and I was like, I told my wife, I'm like, look, I think next time we'll just pay the extra five dollars to go through DoorDash, even though it's a little bit more expensive because it's streamlined, it has all of our information. I don't have to type everything in. It's got my payment and it's just simpler. And so I do see the the appeal of something like that, especially if they are using different companies to do it. But just one company having all the control always kind of scares me. Indeed, indeed. Well, folks, if you've got a thought about this, I bet you do. Or anything else we talk about on the show. Our email address is feedback at daily tech news show dot com. We want to hear from you. All right, so the big commercial pushes Black Friday, Cyber Monday, those are in the past now, but you probably still have a few things you might need to get or even things you want to ask for. We've already covered gifts for gamers, home theater, TV shoppers, new smart home users. But what do you get for somebody who's hard to shop for? We had to call in our closer. Rich DeMuro has been doing tech gifts for literally decades. Rich, help us out. Give us some ideas. Hey, actually, today, Circuit City was trending on Twitter. And so I shared an old video from CNET Black Friday, 2006 at Circuit City. I didn't even know I had this in my I just happened to look up. I was like, why is Circuit City trending? And it was just classic watching what people were buying on Black Friday so many years ago. It was mostly like DVDs and digital cameras. That's great. So things have changed. But let's go through a couple of the picks I have. So number one, I think that the gift that is the easiest to give to anyone in your family is the Aura frame. So this is a digital frame. And what's neat about this frame is that you can send pictures from your phone to this frame. So it's all digital. You don't have to put a USB stick in the back and you can do it. As soon as you take a picture, if you're halfway across the world, you can send it right to your parents' frame or a loved one's frame or even a frame that you have at home. And so it's just something that is such a crowd pleaser. I've gotten this for almost everyone in my family and extended family because who doesn't like seeing a picture pop up on their kitchen counter of their grandkids? That's all the picture, I guess. I guess so, yeah. Well, this is a family thing. Yeah. Yeah, it's a family thing.   Yeah, that's a classic one. I did that. That one's been around for a long time. That's a good one. Yeah. That's it. That's a really great. I mean, it's just it's just a crowd pleaser. OK, moving on. So these earbuds, people always ask, you know, I want a cheap inexpensive pair of wireless earbuds. And of course, AirPods, everyone has AirPods. Everyone loves AirPods.  So the best earbuds I've tested in the last couple of years have been the one plus Nord Buds. These are just 39 bucks, and sometimes they go cheaper on sale. They don't have all the fancy schmancy stuff. So when you take them out of your ears, they're not going to pause the music on your phone, but they sound really good. There's no noise cancellation, but they sound really good. They're water and dust resistant. The battery lasts a long time and they're just simple and they work with iPhones, androids, and if you just want something that you don't mind if you happen to lose them or leave them at the gym, you know, and, you know, it's just an easy thing to give. Yeah. And one plus makes quality stuff in mid range and affordable prices. So that makes sense to me. Yeah. Nord is sort of their, you know, their basic lineup. I think, yeah, like Nord, they have like a Nord phone, Nord Buds. So, yeah, one plus is doing some good stuff there, too. All right. So this next one, you can see the picture theme. I get a lot of questions about, for some reason, people don't want to use the cloud for their pictures. I don't know why I recommend the cloud to store your pictures and, of course, having them backed up somewhere else. This is a way to free up space on your phone and also bypass the cloud if you don't want to use a cloud. It's the Sandisk I Expand Flash Drive Luxe. And the reason why this is the fancy Luxe version is if you look closely, one side is lightning, the other side is USB-C. And so you can plug one side into your iPhone. The app will help you take the pictures off your phone or copy them to this device. And then you can plug the other side into your computer to transfer them or access the photos. It's just kind of a nice tool to have in general. Like I like having one of these in my bag just because you never know when you want to get something off your phone in a, you know, non-air drop, non-cable manner, non-upload to cloud manner. So, yeah, it's also a good reminder. I mean, I'm an iPhone cloud, iCloud user and I don't know. I mean, I have many thousands of photos in the cloud, but I haven't really backed them up anywhere recently, as in the last five years because iCloud seems to be working. But a good reminder that, you know, if you care about those photos, you want them in more than one place. SneakerNet lives and you could move them from an iPhone to Android if the Android phone has USB-C, which the cloud may make it more difficult. This would be an easy way to do that. Yeah, it's just a nice thing to have. And like you said, back them up, even if at the very least you still use iCloud. You can still back them up to this to have a secondary backup, which I always recommend. OK, next up, this is something that I feel like everyone could use. This is a wireless portable charger, but it's MagSafe. This is from Belkin. It's one of those things that it's just, again, nice to have in your bag. I feel like everyone could use this if you have an iPhone with MagSafe, which is the iPhone 12 and up. It's that circle in the back of the iPhone that lets you magnetically attach stuff. This is a wireless battery that will align itself. It will charge your phone. It's great if you're going to Disneyland.  I know that's something for me. But it's just good to have your traveling, checking out a different city. Nothing is worse than being at the bottom of the battery on your phone and not having any charger in sight. So this is super easy to have in your bag and it's 40 bucks. And it's just, to me, again, one of those things that anyone can use that has an iPhone with MagSafe. Is it just MagSafe or could you charge something else off of it, too? Does it have the other port? Yeah, it still has USB-C, so you can still, you know. And when you, no matter which one of these things you get, any sort of portable battery bank, if you don't want the, you know, if you want one that's more Android oriented, you always want one that has USB-C in and out because it's going to charge the fastest both ways. Some of them are still kind of like slow on the charge in or out, so just be aware of that. Good to know. Okay, this one, do we have the Tesla up next? This one's kind of funny. This is something I personally use. Ever since I got an electric car, I've been using it as an office at times. And this laptop tray steering wheel desk, I know it looks funny. And the picture on Amazon has the person eating McDonald's, but I put my laptop on here. I've actually done work in my car. The thing you don't realize about an electric car is since it's not idling, you don't feel bad sitting in it for longer periods of time.  You're putting emissions out. So it's just kind of one of those things. Yeah, it just seems strange. It seems odd, right? I mean, I know that people do it, but to me, when you're going electric, this kind of turns your car into an extra room, an extra place to work, so. And to be clear, you don't use it while driving. This is when you're parked. Thank you for that clarification. Do not use this. This is when you're parked. And I've used it in both the passenger and also the driver's seat, but the problem with the passenger and the Tesla, everything sort of shuts off when you close the door. So I need to figure out how to like keep things on. I'm sure there's a way, but anyway, things seem to stay on when you're sitting in the driver's seat. Okay, next up, this is really cool. Again, on that charging, I travel a lot and I charge a lot of stuff. So you can see the themes here. But this is the STM Charge Tree Go. And what I love about this is you can charge three things all at once. You can charge the iPhone. You can charge even an Android phone. You can charge an Apple Watch and a pair of wireless earbuds on the backside. So three in one and you just have to plug in one cable. It folds up all compact. So the side where the Apple Watch goes that pushes in and then this folds down flat. So it's super easy to pack. First thing I do when I get to a hotel room, you set this up, all your stuff charges.  Yeah, no, Eileen, my wife has one of these and they're great. We'll have a couple of bonus picks. We'll talk about on Good Day Internet if you get the extended show as a Patreon and we'll throw up in the show notes as well, dailytechnewshow.com. Thank you, Rich. Let's check out the mailbag. Andrew wrote in about AI and code in general. Andrew says, I've been a software engineer for a while now and one of the things I have to teach almost every new developer who joins my team is not to reinvent the wheel. It seems to be ingrained in them, regardless of institution, to come up with a completely new solution instead of using a well vetted library. Now this is Andrew's response to our conversation with John C. DeVorek yesterday. Andrew says, John was right in a sense that understanding code reuse earlier would be good, though an AI just designed to spit out code is not gonna be any better at recommending libraries than a junior engineer. Yeah, we got a lot of really good responses to that discussion about having assistance with code from something like GPT-3 versus using it to replace code. I really liked Andrew's response here as somebody who's teaching it. I know we had other folks as well, so thanks to everybody for those responses. Good stuff. And indeed, also good stuff from you, Rich Jamiro, and so nice to have you on the show. Where can people keep up with what's gonna happen with you in 2023?  Sure, my website is richontech.tv. There you can find all the details and all my stories from TV. I'm on KTLA channel five here in Los Angeles in the mornings and throughout the day. And then of course on social media, I am at richontech on all the various platforms. Instagram is probably where I'm the most active, but I do check in on the rest of them from time to time just to see what's going on. Well, very nice to have you on the show today. Also nice to have you, Scott Johnson. Where can people keep up with your latest? Well, it's pretty exciting stuff over here at the Frogpan Central joint. I'm making a new card game, everybody. I learned a lot from making rock runners. I've moved on to a new game called Dungeon Murder, which you can learn all about at DungeonMurder.com. 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The first news article for today's analysis talks about India's gold reserves, which appeared on the page number 15 of Chennai edition and page 13 of Delhi edition. The aspects of this article can be covered under the UPSC civil service examination syllabus in preliminary examination, under the areas current events of national and international importance and in economic and social development. And in main examination it can be covered in GS paper 3 under the areas Indian economy and issues relating to planning, mobilization and government budgeting. Stepping into the main discussion, let us try to understand the balance of payments, which is a part of India's external sector. External sector deals with export of goods and services and financial capital between nations. The balance of payments is the systematic record of countries all economic transactions. Say for example, India's entire economic transactions with the outside world that is with other countries of the world in a particular year. All transactions include the transactions of the government and the private as well. It is a double entry bookkeeping, one with the credit entry which signifies the inflow that is the imports which are credited or purchased with money and the other with a debit entry which signifies the outflow that is the exports are debited with money for the goods and services rendered. The balance of payments includes the following items which is the format used in economic service of finance ministry that is tabled before the Indian parliament in the budget session of every financial year. This data is compiled from the Reserve Bank of India's balance of payments sheet that is released by RBI for every quarter in a financial year. You can have a look at it in RBI's official website. Let's see the table of balance of payments that was presented in economic survey of 2017-18. The subheads include current account, capital account, errors and omissions, overall balance and reserves change. Let us now focus on reserves change which is relevant to our topic of this news article. The reserve changes in general denote the monetary movements in and out of India. They are the foreign exchange reserves. The sum of the current and capital account balance is the balance of payment. The balance is added to the foreign exchange reserve if the balance of payment is surplus. The balance is deducted from the foreign exchange reserve if the balance of payment is in deficit. It means the payment is made out of the old balance of foreign exchange reserve. The foreign exchange reserves consist of foreign currency assets, gold reserves of RBI, special drawing rights that is SDR holdings of Indian government with IMF, the international monetary fund and reserve tranche. Let us focus on the gold reserve or gold stock of RBI. These gold reserves are maintained by RBI. It is used as a backup to issue currency. It is also utilized when an unexpected problem in the balance of payment happens in any financial year. The value of these gold reserves is expressed either in US dollars or INR. If you see the table published in today's news article, India is the 11th largest country in the world with gold reserves which also includes IMF. Since IMF also holds the third largest gold reserves if we see the table. Also USA is the country with the largest amount of gold reserves which is almost equal to the next three countries in the table combined that is Germany, IMF and Italy. The gold reserve data is released every month by World Gold Council. The news is that the gold reserve of India has increased marginally from February 2019 to 608.7 tons when compared to the previous month January 2019 where it was 607 tons. We need to know in brief about World Gold Council. It is headquartered at London in United Kingdom which is a market development organization for the gold industry that works across the entire supply chain of gold industry from mining to market. With this we come to the end of this discussion. The practice question displayed will be discussed later at the end of this. Moving on to the next article discussion which is based on the electronic voting machine and it is highly important today because two editorial articles were based on this topic which appeared on page number 10 of the Chennai edition and page 8 of the Delhi edition. The aspects of this article can be covered under the UPSC civil service examination syllabus in preliminary examination under the areas Indian polity and governance and in main examination under the area important aspects of governance transparency and accountability. Stepping into the main discussion the author focuses on the saga of the EVMs. Previously the paper ballot system was vulnerable in many ways like it was prone to boot capturing and there was a high proportion of invalid votes because many found it difficult to put this stamp in the allocated space. But in the era of EVMs the boot capturing has lost its possibility and value and it deleted the risk of invalidity of votes. But the political parties of India seem to have a continuous suspicion on the integrity of this EVM system. As a response to this suspicion the election commission of India linked the EVMs to the VVPAT that is the voter verified paper audit trail which the author refers to as the doubt removal machine. The major concern with the EVM system as pointed out by the author is that firstly a vigilant glance at the VVPAT provided slip and will it provide satisfaction to the people who have suspicion on the integrity of the EVM or not. Secondly the more advanced nations than us have not agreed to use EVMs for their elections and also long row of buttons in the EVM creates doubt in the voters whether the vote is recorded or whether it is cast to the intended person as the voter wanted. But it demands clarity of vision and precision in the fingers which may not be possible for elderly people. This problem was rectified by VVPAT attached to the EVM since it provides visual verification of the votes casted by the voter. In the context of technology we have narrowed our mind and convinced ourselves that digital machines are the only accepted technology and we have swept our other choices aside. Moreover this leads to other encounters with more science and technology. So what needs to be done first is to tackle this is to emulate the caution like the advanced nations and possess a quality as highest as theirs. Another step can be increasing the VVPAT physical verification. Coming to VVPAT verification the opposition political parties demanded for a 50% VVPAT count which could have amounted to 125 odd machines per constituency but would have addressed the remote possibility of inside or to return to paper ballot system. As a result the Supreme Court has provided a reasonable proportion of five random EVM per assembly constituency from one per assembly constituency which was provided by as a closure by the Supreme Court. This increase is made to reassure the integrity of EVM. But here the key technical issue for the election commission of India is not because in parliamentary by elections in UP Vihar and the assembly elections in Karnataka last year registered significant machine replacement rates. To rectify this problem technical fixes to the VVPAT were made to make them more resilient and available and the availability of replacement of machines and the ability to deploy them quickly in case of failure of VVPATs is essential. Under this context it is important to discuss about the EVM and VVPATs. The electronic voting machine is voting using electronic means to aid casting that is an electronic device for recording votes and counting votes. It has been developed to facilitate easy polling and counting. The use of this machine is to save cost of paper and printing etc and also to get the result within three to four hours thus saving a lot of manual exercise involved in conventional counting. The EVMs have been devised and designed by the technical experts committee of the election commission in collaboration with two public sector undertake Electronics Corporation of India Limited and Bharat Electronic Corporation of India Limited. These machines provide full safeguard for ensuring secrecy of ballot and against tampering of machines apart from ensuring rapidity of poll and instantaneous results. Voting machine consists of two units a control unit and a balloting unit joined by a five meter cable. The control unit is placed with the presiding officer or a polling officer and the balloting unit is placed inside the voting compartment. Instead of issuing a ballot paper the the polling officer in charge of the control unit will release a ballot paper by pressing the ballot button on the control unit. This will enable the voter to cast his vote by pressing the blue button on the balloting unit against the candidate and symbol of his choice. EVMs were first used in 70 Paroor Assembly Constituency of Kerala in the year 1982 and EVM being used by election commission of India can record a maximum of 2000 votes and during simultaneous elections two separate sets of EVMs are required one for parliamentary constituency and the other for the legislative assembly constituents and finally it completely eliminates the possibility of casting invalid vote. The detailed analysis of VVPATH was discussed by Ms Divya ma'am on 9th April 2019 video. The video is posted by the Shankar Isakirami YouTube channel. This practice film's question and main question which are displayed here will be discussed later in the end of this week. Moving on to the next news analysis which talks about Fame India 2 scheme which appeared on page number 16 of the Chennai edition and page 14 of the Delhi edition. The aspects of this article can be covered under the UPSE civil service examination syllabus in preliminary examination under the areas current events of national and international importance and economic and social development and it means examination under the areas in GS paper 2 government policies and interventions for development in various sectors and issues arising out of their design and implementation and in Indian economy and issues relating to planning mobilization of resources growth development and employment and in under the topic infrastructure energy ports roads airports railways etc. This article talks about the society of manufacturers of electric vehicles who has urged to de-link localization factor and X showroom prices of e-bikes from subsidy under Fame India 2 scheme. This news discusses about the execution part of the scheme which we need not focus for our preparation but we need to know about the general aspects of the Fame India 2 scheme. This scheme has been approved by the union cabinet in February 2019. It has come into effect since 1st of April 2019. This Fame India 2 scheme is the expanded version of Fame India 1 scheme that was launched in April 2015 and was in effect until Fame India 2 scheme was started. Fame India scheme in general is a part of national electric mobility mission plan. Fame stands for faster adoption and manufacturing of electric vehicles in India. This scheme was introduced to promote the electric mobility in India. Fame India 2 scheme has been allotted rupees 1000 crore and would be implemented for a period of 3 years till 2022. Let us see about the objectives of Fame India 2 scheme. It will support the electric vehicle industry with incentives which is nothing but subsidy benefits in order to promote their manufacturing and sales. The main criterion for subsidy allocation in Fame India 2 scheme is that the vehicles must use lithium ion batteries and any new technology batteries. The allocated fund will support 10,002 wheelers, 5,00,000 electric 3 wheelers, 55,000 electric 4 wheelers and 7,000 buses. The second objective of the scheme is to establish a charging infrastructure in the major cities of the country that includes metros, other million plus cities, smart cities and cities of hilly states across the country so that there will be availability of at least one charging station in a grid of 3 kilometer by 3 kilometer. The next objective is to establish charging stations on major highways of India for every 25 kilometers. This Fame India 2 scheme will be implemented by department of heavy industries under ministry of heavy industries and public enterprises. Moving on to our next article which talks about the economically weaker section criteria. This article appears on page 11 of the Chennai edition and on page 9 of the Delhi edition. The information given under this article is relevant under subtopics quality and governance in the preliminary examination syllabus and in Indian constitution and in government policies and interventions for development in various sectors and issues arising out of the design and implementation which comes under GS paper 2 under the main syllabus. Let us begin the discussion with what 10% quota is about in the first place. It provides 10% reservation in jobs and education institutions to the economically weaker sections in the general category. It has been introduced through constitution 103 amendment act 2019. The 10% reservation will be in addition to the existing cap of 50% reservation for the schedule cast, schedule tribes and other backward classes taking the total reservation to 60%. Let us move on to understand who all will be considered as economically weaker section. There is no fixed official criteria in this regard. However, center has mentioned that the following are the criteria and it can be changed by states according to their will. They include people who have an annual income of less than rupees 8 lakhs and people who own less than 5 acres of farmland and people who have a house lesser than 1000 square feet in a town or 100 square yard in a notified municipal area. However, there are several issues that hinder the implementation of this reservation. We can categorize them as legal, constitutional and others. The news article also mentions few issues regarding the same. Here are the legal issues. Firstly, it is in contravention of mandal verdict. In the landmark verdict of supreme court, in the mandal case, the supreme court had held the proposal to provide 10% reservation for other economically backward sections of the people who are not covered by any of the existing schemes of reservation. As constitutionally invalid, the supreme court had held that mere economic backwardness or mere educational backwardness, which is not the result of social backwardness, cannot be the criterion on backwardness in article 16, clause 4. Secondly, it is also in contravention of Indra Sahane case. The supreme court in this case has ruled that the share of jobs or educational or legislative seats reserved for different communities cannot together exceed 50%. So, the present order of the government to provide reservations violates some of the observations made by the supreme court in its previous judgments. Constitutionally, the article 15 and 16 enables the state to make special provisions for socially and educationally backward classes and those not adequately represented in services. The government plans to introduce a constitutional amendment to amend articles 15 and 16 of the constitution for providing reservations for economic backwardness. The news article discusses other hurdles that exist in its implementation. Author refers to the NIRF 2016 data on the representation of economically backward casts and socially backward casts, like schedule casts, schedule types, other backward classes in premier educational institutions, public and other private institutions. It can be seen that while representation of economically backward casts, premier institutions, it stands at 28%. And representation of SC or ST or OBC stands at 38%. Despite a 10% high, it is not proportionate as SC or ST or OBC together, which constitutes 70% of the population. Representation of SC or ST or OBC in public and other private institutes is also poor. Let us now see the way ahead to make this implementation much smoother. The one way to implement the current reservation proposal is to include the law of providing reservations under the ninth schedule of the constitution. An example of this can be Tamil Nadu backward classes, schedule casts and schedule tribes act of 1993, which placed in ninth schedule of the constitution to keep Tamil Nadu's reservation limit intact at 69%. Secondly, states decision is rational and non-arbitrary. The state has to show quantifiable data to satisfy the court as to inadequacy of representation of economically backward classes. Lastly, proper implementation of the existing reservation is needed. The practice question, which has been displayed here, will be discussed later at the end of this video. The next article for today's discussion appears on page number 14 of the Chennai edition and page 12 of the Delhi edition. The information given under this article is relevant under subtopic current events of national and international importance and in Indian economic and social development under preliminary examination syllabus. Stepping into the main discussion, let us first know about what the news article discusses. The International Monetary Fund in its World Economic Outlook 2019 has projected that global growth will be 3.3% in 2019, down from 3.6% in 2018. India's growth is projected to pick up from 7.1% in 2018 to 7.3% in 2019. It has stated the following reasons for a low global growth. Firstly, US-China trade tensions could reduce global GDP growth by 0.7% as a result of increased tariffs. Secondly, macroeconomic stress in Turkey and Argentina and issues like Brexit. Thirdly, low Chinese growth as it moves towards increasing private consumption and services and regulatory tightening. Lastly, normalization of monetary policy in advanced economies which is creating tighter financial. This news article also mentions IMF's suggestion for Indian economy. Like it called for a continued implementation of structural and financial sector reforms in order to lower public debt and aid growth. Specifically, it says a continued fiscal consolidation is needed to bring down public debt, strengthening goods and service taxes, complaints and lowering subsidies. In this context, it will also be helpful to have a basic understanding of IMF. It stands for International Monetary Fund and was formed in the year 1945. It is headquartered at Washington DC. IMF along with World Bank are called Bretton Woods twins as they were established during the Bretton Woods Conference. It consists of 189 countries working to foster global monetary cooperation, secure financial stability, facilitate international trade, promote high employment and sustainable economic growth and reduce poverty around the world. Now let us know about the quota system at IMF. A member's quota in the IMF determines the amount of its subscription, its voting weight, its access to IMF financing and its allocation of special drawing rights. A member state cannot unilaterally increase its quota. Increases must be approved by the Executive Board of IMF. If you see the below diagram, U.S. has the highest quota at IMF followed by Japan, China, Germany, France, UK, Italy. India stands at 8th place with a quota of 2.79%. The practice question which has been displayed here will be discussed at the end of this video. Moving on to the next and final article for today's discussion, which is based on the Right to Information and Central Information Commission's appointments which appeared on the page number 9 of this 10th edition and page 7 of the Delhi edition. The aspects of this article can be covered under the UPSC civil service examination syllabus in preliminary examination under the areas Indian polity and governance and in main examination GS paper 2 under the area Indian constitution, basic structure, statutory regulatory and various quasi-judicial bodies and important aspects of governance, transparency and accountability. Stepping into the main discussion, the article discusses about the RTA request regarding the appointments to Central Information Commission which was denied by the Center contradictory to the judgment of the Supreme Court. The judgment which came in February 2019 stated that center and states should proactively disclose all information regarding the recruitment advertisement, particulars of the applicants, the search and selection committees and the criteria shortlisting the candidates on their websites. In the context of this article it is crucial to know about the Right to Information Act of 2005. The main objective of this act is to provide for setting out the practical regime of right to information under the control of public authorities and to secure access to information under the control of public authorities and to promote transparency and accountability in the working of every public authority. It ensures a democracy with an informed citizenry which in turn helps in curbing corruption as this act holds governments and their instrumentalities accountable to the governed that is the people. This act was enacted in replacement with the erstwhile Freedom of Information Act of 2002. This act in particular empowers the citizens to seek information which should be provided by the public officials expeditiously or within 30 days and it allows them to inspect or demand copies of government documents in the form of information. It also relaxes the official secrets act and other special acts which restricts information disclosure. This act seeks for computerization of records by public authorities to have easy access to the information. The Supreme Court in a landmark judgment held that right to information is a fundamental right under the freedom of speech and expression under the article 19 clause 1 sub clause A. The scope of this act extends to the whole of India except Jammu and Kashmir. The constitutional authorities, institutions established by the act of parliament or state legislature and non-governmental organizations substantially financed directly or indirectly by funds provided by the government are covered under the ambit of public authorities who are entitled to provide information when a citizen asks for it. But not all information can be provided to the citizens as some are confidential. Hence, the act provides for the exceptions to the providing of information. When one asks for any information affecting the sovereignty and integrity of India, security, strategic, scientific or economic interests of the state or any information received by the country in confidence from a foreign government and all information that breaches the privileges of the parliament. This act provides for the central information commission at the central level which is the highest appellate body under this act and at state level it provides for a state information commission. We have now come to the final part of our video that is practice questions discussion. The first question is as follows, which of the following form a part of foreign exchange reserves in India? First option, external commercial borrowings. Second, gold reserves of RBI. Third, foreign currency assets. Fourth, reserve tranche. Fifth, special drawing rights, holdings of Indian government with IMF. Choose the correct answer below. So, we have to choose the correct answer as we know from our discussion that option 1 is not included in the foreign exchange reserves in India. Hence our option D234 and 5 is the correct answer for this question. The second question is with reference to electronic voting machines, consider the following statements. First statement, it is voting using electronic means for recording and counting of votes. Second statement, voter verified paper audit trail attached with EVM was first introduced in the assembly election of Kerala. Third statement, the slip printed by VVPAT which consists of serial number, name and symbol of the candidate for whom the vote is casted. Which of the above statements is or are correct? So, we have to choose the correct statements from the above statements. As we know first statement is correct and we also know that third statement is also correct. The slip has the number and name and symbol of the candidate. So, third statement is also correct. But the second statement states, VVPAT was first introduced in the assembly election of Kerala. As we know from our discussion that it was not introduced in the assembly election of Kerala, but it was introduced in the assembly election of Nagaland. Hence, our statement 2 is incorrect. So, the correct option is option 1 and 3, which is option B. The next question states, fame India scheme, faster adoption and manufacturing of electric vehicles in India aims to promote electric mobility in the country. This scheme is implemented by which ministry? So, we have to know fame India scheme is implemented by which ministry? The options given are ministry of commerce and industry, ministry of new and renewable energy, ministry of heavy industries and public enterprises, option D ministry of road transport and highways. As we know from our discussion, option C is the correct answer that is ministry of heavy industries and public enterprises. The next question states, consider the following statements. First statement, right to criticize is an intrinsic part of right to life and personal liberty. Second statement, sedition is covered under section 124 A of Code of Criminal Procedure 1973. Select the correct code from below. So, we have to select the correct code. First statement is right to criticize is an intrinsic part of right to life and personal liberty. As we saw from our discussion that it is an intrinsic part of the fundamental right under freedom of speech and expression, not under right to life and personal liberty. Hence option one is wrong. And the statement one, statement second state, sedition is covered under section 124 A. Yes, we know it is covered under 124 A, but it has been given, it is covered under code of criminal procedure. We know that it is covered under section 124 A of Indian Penal Code. Hence option two is also wrong. So, the correct code is neither one nor two. The next question states with reference to international monetary fund, which of the following statements is incorrect? First option given is voting power at IMF is based on quota system. Second option, Indian quota stands at 2.7 in percent and is the third highest among all the nations. Third option, promoting sustainable economic growth is one of its objectives. And the last option, it releases world economic outlook report. As we know the last option is correct and we also know that option two is also correct. We have to now see the second option which states India, Indian quota stands at 2.79 percent. We know this part is correct. And the second part of the statement B says it is the third highest among all the nations. We know it is the eighth highest among all the nations. So, hence option B is the incorrect option. The next question is as per the right to information act 2005, consider the following statements. First statement is it provides for access to information under the control of public authorities to the citizens. Second statement, it replaces the erstwhile freedom of information act of 2003. Third statement, information pertaining to strategic and economic interests of India shall not be provided to any citizens. Which among the above statements is or are correct? So, we have to look for the correct statements. First statement as we know is correct and we also know that it was replaced by this act replaces the freedom of information act of 2002. So, hence our option two is incorrect. It is not 2003, it is 2002. And the third statement information pertaining to strategic and economic interests of India shall not be provided to any citizens. Hence, this option is also correct. So, option two is only incorrect. So, the correct option from the course given below are option one and three. So, option C is the correct answer to this question. Let us see the practice question under mains which appeared in civil service examination in 2018 under general studies two paper. In the light of recent controversy regarding the use of electronic voting machines, what are the challenges of election commission of India to ensure the trustworthiness of elections in India? Answer to this question we have already discussed the relevant points in our article discussion about EVM. Try to incorporate those points in this answer. And the next question is in the context of the recent 103rd constitutional amendment discuss the constitutional and legal issues with respect to the concept of affirmative action. For answering this question refer to the today's article discussion on 10% quota and incorporate those points in the answer.