And so we want to get in a bunch and so we smoked it and it was garbage and From what I understand the elements Were in that stuff that I smoked has only gotten more potent Which has become you know a bigger and bigger problem more dangerous and and to be clear This is at a time when there were no laws There were no laws of regarding synthetic weed Yeah, what was the stuff? They've just started to put in place laws against them. Anyway, we got an email about it in the show Yeah, there was a there was a thing. Oh god. I can't remember it now But it was definitely one of those like people were hysterical about it And like there were all these YouTube videos of people like freaking out on it That rings a bell actually Might have known about that just forgot it Yeah, someone's gonna know it in the chat Need control.  You'll be at bacon That's a chat room joke if you don't get it and TV see God anticipates me Contributions that I can have to the show that don't involve me admitting crimes Film me sweeted a picture of a Colonel Sanders impersonator. Yeah, he got the card for and it totally explains the fact that I Was in Orlando at a cigar bar and why there was a Colonel Sanders literally just sitting at the at the bar Not part of a promotion Sanders by himself drinking and smoking cigars, which was one of the weirdest things I've ever seen and now a Reason at the why it was happening. All right, we are ready to go. Are you ready, sir? Yeah, three two one The Daily Tech news shows brought to you by listeners just like me and you not outside organizations to find out how you can contribute Visit Daily Tech news show comm forward slash support This is the Daily Tech news for Thursday, May 25 2017 I'm Tom married Justin Robert young in the house was in his house I'm in my house.  I don't know. How's it going everybody? Probably driving if you're driving right driving both hands in the air. Just kidding. Don't do that. That's illegal Both hands in the air like you just don't care about safety or the law. Yeah, this was a trick. You're being arrested I'm speaking to be arrested. We're gonna talk about spice later on in the show The drug it must flow. Yeah, it must flow It's a it's a fan mail Thursday, which I know we figured out a name for and I can't remember what it is mail Junction, but where are the mayors? Yes, exactly. We've got an Egyptian speaker who answered our call for an interpretation of the new proposed laws about social media in Egypt That's coming up. We got the spicy mail We got someone in the ad industry with an analysis of Google attribution and what he would rather have instead Let's start with a few tech things you should know about Go girl has a faster and longer range version of its electric scooter that has a more efficient motor with a more classic Scooter look the go girl to will go on sale this summer in Taiwan for 38,800 new Taiwanese dollars It's about $1,295 us Looks pretty slick. I know it's got that classic look. I kind of want it Yeah, also, they have an expanded battery swap system, which I wonder if that's something that could make its way to the United States That's the key Starting May 31st T-Mobile USA will let customers assign their own phone number to up to five phones or other portable devices Customers can also assign up to five phone numbers for a single device and purchase temporary numbers for use in things like Craigslist postings Disposable numbers. I like it. I like it. I don't know if I'm gonna do this. I'm a T-Mobile USA customer, but yeah, you know The idea of getting a bird or phone number you can do that on apps and stuff like that It's fairly easy to do doing it through to you T-Mobile is interesting But it kind of makes you this is my new or not a new But this is one of my weird theories that phone numbers and specifically the area codes are becoming our modern-day heraldry That like I will forever have a nine five four number and so I'll be known as being from Broward County, Florida It'll follow you throughout throughout your life. I'm four one five I wish I was six one eight, but I'm four one five. That's just where that's just where I was when I got that phone It's because you sold out your homeland Eugene Kaspersky offered to testify To let us throw authorities get examined his source code And more after some US authorities stopped using Kaspersky security software Because it's a Russian company So worth talking about because Kaspersky within the security community has a fairly sterling reputation Eugene Kaspersky is somebody that is well-regarded as an expert in his field To me. I have no proof on any of this It just feels like somebody else wants a contract and somebody else wants influence within whispering in some ears, you know, I'm not saying there's any problem with a Russian company, but uh, you know wink wink doesn't Eugene Kaspersky look tired I Alpha go beat Chinese go master key G for the second time Thursday clenching a win in the best of three series after the game key said last year I think the way Alpha go played was pretty close to human beings, but today I think he plays like the god of Go You can't spell go without the first two letters of God This is fairly amazing just because you know It wasn't but a year and a half ago that a lot of this stuff was thought to be Impossible right was thought to be too complex. They require too much intuition now We got some emails from folks who are saying yeah But the thing about go is you don't always play to win you play for the enjoyment of the game And how can an AI play enjoy the game? But you know and so it That that alone right there shows me that we've made an advance We've made an advance from saying like let's talk about what AI's or whether AI's are smart enough to be like yeah But are they really are they really sent yet? Are they really people like that this conversation is moving along in a very interesting direction Now here are some more top stories sources tell Reuters Facebook has signed deals with Vox media Buzzfeed ATTN group 9 media and others to make original video shows a new video service from Facebook would have long and Short-form content supported by ad breaks Facebook a ticket cut of those Scripted shows would run 20 to 30 minutes and unscripted shows range between five and ten minutes long and Facebook is according to this Reuters Story paying up to $250,000 for the longer shows and between ten and thirty five thousand dollars for the shorter episodes shows would premiere Exclusively on Facebook, but then after a period of time the creators would own the content and be able to show it on their own sites So Facebook is paying for the creation of long-form content that after a window Players can take wherever they want or the creators can take wherever they want to their own home sites Exactly They are doing what YouTube did when they paid for channels when they subsidized channels to kind of boost them off to the ground We've actually talked about this on your live stream on Twitch today A lot of people still view that as a failure and there's perfectly good reasons to do so But I don't think YouTube does YouTube looked at it with different goals than we as viewers that did YouTube said Will this get people to understand what channels can do will it increase views and it did those things? Also at the time YouTube was facing the Viacom lawsuit They were as they always will be chasing away a history of being the place where pirated content is Distributed throughout the world and so the idea of funding original programming was very attractive to them the play Here is the fact that the highest ad rates go for video So they want what YouTube now wants which is all their content to be longer So they can put more advertising inside of it and two to fifty thousand dollars sounds like a lot And it's certainly something to make a pretty decent show out of but they they house of cards money You're not getting oranges the new black or Westworld out of this Oh, certainly. No, but but to be fair That is the top end of where we are at in terms of television budget So two hundred and fifty thousand dollars is nothing to scoff at especially if Especially if it only comes With the idea that you have to debut it within this certain window And then you can still go air it on your own site on YouTube and everywhere else per episode. This is you're talking Something like like a discovery channel level promotion that you know Serious production, but but not like super high-end. No Politico reports Apple has named New York magazine's Lauren Kern as editor-in-chief of Apple news Mac rumor points out eddy Q has previously said that Apple wants a veteran news source to make sure that There was a vet news sources to make sure that they are legitimate Apple news is a curated service pulling from leading news Sources Tom This is the first editor-in-chief that Apple news Will ever have claimed as their own. Yes. Do you believe? That this is the first step toward them building up their own news gathering and writing organization I Could see it both ways. I really can I mean on the one side Why not with Facebook paying money to people to create content for video? Apple wants to be you know seen as a place that has high-quality news or they wouldn't be pouring all this money They wouldn't have changed the newsstand to Apple news. They wouldn't have put their name on it Why not do a little original reporting to get people in there to get people in the fence? They may they may still want the bulk of the content in Apple news to be provided by outside sources But sure why why not get get some journalism in there on the other hand? Apple is perfectly happy throwing money at people Just to do the bare minimum just to do the curation and they could still make the same They could they could make the same pitch of like if you want to avoid fake news if you want to avoid bad Waste of time clickbait headlines use Apple news because we have these top journalists former New York Times Magazine and New York Magazine editor-in-chief making sure that only the good stuff gets to Apple news To me it's a hundred percent chance that they start hiring reporters They have hired reporters that Chris Breen is there, you know, there's a bunch of reporters that went there into a black hole We assume this is what they were hired to start working on Does seem like a waste to have all those names right and not have them writing stuff expert specifically because they Apple doesn't care where everything comes from they want you to trust Apple news And so they're happy that they can credit these other sources when they are the other stories But they want to treat the rest of the news media like their AP like their Reuters Here are stories that we can plug into what we would consider to be our newspaper front page But you know what newspaper have when newspaper front pages also have original reporting and especially for Stuff like politics and business and technology It's very very easy to just hire people to write it yourself Now maybe this is my radio roots showing but Shane in our chat room IRC.chatroom.net Says I could see them having a news version of beats one radio What if what if it was not creating long-form journalism? What if it was just curating the news and then doing Rip and read You know you want more details on the story Be sure to open your Apple news app and get that Washington Post story Hmm Interesting like they would do their own 10 10 win. Yeah, I mean they're going after print people Do you think they'd be going after more radio people if that was the case, but still? well as as ESPN has shown us there is a rich well of Newspaper people that you can train to speak on television and radio. Yeah Microsoft changed the name of its live streaming service It used to be called beam and now it would be called mixer Mixers also getting some new features along with the new name Co-streaming for up to four streamers. In fact, you can even make it so your friends can just join in on your stream If they see that you're streaming Broadcasting apps are coming to iOS and Android. They're in beta But they will eventually be able to stream gameplay from your mobile phone So people on an Xbox one could watch you out and about in the world Maybe even playing crash of clans or something and a new guide is coming to the Xbox one version of the mixer app It'll be called channel one the ideas make it easier to find streams of the kinds of things you're looking for Microsoft obviously sees the fact that live video is exploding on every possible front but maybe the biggest is Twitch which was purchased by the fellow Pacific Northwestern powerhouse Amazon not but what two years ago now. Yeah they the company that has Xbox and Microsoft under their corporate umbrella really cannot afford to sit out the live video streaming revolution I think that it is it is a necessity for them to play in this space even if it's just as an easy way to Play second fiddle to somebody like twitch in terms of the video game space There's enough people there that that can be successful for them considering they can build in the hooks into their native game and device Yet at the same time I don't know if this really gives anybody who wants to take the time to stream themselves playing video games, which can be time consuming Any other tools? Why do you want to commit to this platform right now? I mean On the one hand, it's almost risk-free for Microsoft to do this They have all of the parts to make this happen With with I don't mean to belittle the effort But it's way easier for Microsoft to do this then say Justin can to have started Justin TV, right? Like they've already got powerful cloud servers and video experts and all this stuff So so they're at an advantage. Why wouldn't you do it? And then why? Why you would use it would be you're on the xbox one And it's right front and center you can start it up Maybe you don't realize how to use twitch exactly and you're like, well, hey, this is right here I'm an xbox one fan and I see Of my friends streaming on mixer all the time in my feed on the xbox one So I know they're going to see it. Maybe I'll reach more people It's a toes in the water for everybody Microsoft gets to put a toe on the water of live streaming beyond just gaming right by putting these apps out there Fans of the xbox get to put a toe on the water of streaming without dedicating themselves to the full twitch Universe that you know, they could stay in the their little safe xbox one universe that they're more familiar with Uh, so yeah, it may not be a success for any of them But I can see why people might want to try it out It's a hundred percent failure if they don't try. I totally agree with you there I don't know exactly how much of the market share they're going to get But you probably shouldn't trust my opinion on the success of mixer because my wife works for twitch The american customer satisfaction index released results on its own surveys on smartphone brands the iphone se topped the list follow followed by a tie Between the galaxy s6 edge plus and the iphone 7 plus Motorola was the top non samsung or apple phone on the list at Number 21 with the top 20. Yeah So even the galaxy grand prime is number 20 Just for reference in customer satisfaction. I don't even know what that phone is Only distributed to prime ministers Yes, and grand masters That's it Just what a a picture of dominance 10 years in To the the iphone experience Uh, and and of course subsequently android having the tremendous success that it has experienced That there are two brands apparently that people like the best and it's not Anything but those it's not anything but iphone's and galaxies or samsung's Which is kind of shocking considering in our world, especially with android it's the You know super clean non bloatware google pixels of the world that tend to get a lot of the unrestrained praise right HTC has gotten a lot of praise. I think a lot of phone reviewers Look for subtle differences That that set things apart and that's why they give those the praises to those phones Those subtle differences are lost on a lot of people and again, we're not talking about market share We're not talking about what people are buying. We're talking about satisfaction I like this phone and i'm satisfied with it. The iphone se is the bargain phone People are like I didn't have to spend an arm and a leg on it I didn't have to wait in line to get it and it does everything I want I think it's interesting too. If you look at the top 10 It's a lot of pluses. Yes, the se is at the top, but then the edge plus the seven plus Uh the six plus the six s plus Uh, there's there's the larger phones seem to Get a little bit higher satisfaction than others Because everybody wants that big beautiful gorgeous screen While they use the same data that they already pay for for their phone I think that that's that is a paradigm that is as clear as day to me that We don't want to pay for separate data. We we already feel like we pay too much for data And and we want to watch our movies and our netflix right there on our big gigantic shield of a phone And as we are at least in the us anyway as we are an android and ios operating system world We're a samsung and apple phone world. Uh, yeah, there's lots of other phones to choose from out there Man for good or ill people just aren't satisfied with them That i'm i'm shocked. I'm actually surprised that that not one of those Clean install android phones. I'm not an android user. So I don't I can't I can't speak to it But certainly if you would have asked me That one of those kinds of phones, uh, would have cracked the top 20 I would have I would have bet a lot of money on it Let's go to the uh, the other aging market pcs lenovo returned to profitability earning 97 cents a share in q4 on revenue of 9.58 billion Just a shade under what analysts had expected At 9.6 billion pc shipments which represented 70 percent of levin lenovo's revenue declined 1 That's a small decline and more than half the decline of the overall pc market which declined 2.4 percent in the same period lenovo increased its overall pc market share to 21.4 percent in the quarter lenovo's overall losses came from its data center and mobility divisions Motorola Losing 566 million in the data center sector and 343 million in mobility lenovo working hard to get into smart speakers and all kinds of other uh sectors Right now top of a declining heap I'm sorry tom. I'm still getting over the fact that you referred to the pc market very obviously But also the smartphone market as aging which just made me want to die immediately and be buried under a pile of fidget spinners Uh Fidget spinners, uh, take me right back to the teens one of the oh, sorry Uh, lenovo They are You know who said you can't make money in pcs these days, right? All these other like you mentioned before with mixer being microsoft's toe in the water for live video Certainly these other declining divisions are their toes in the water to what we all imagine to be the future of these companies And yet they're coughing up cash and turns out they can sell a good pc for a profit in 2017 Cheers to you lenovo. Yeah, somebody had to be able to do it. Uh, it it's just not everybody that can do it Hey, thanks to everybody who participates in our sub reddit You can submit stories and vote on them at daily tech news show dot reddit dot com huge help In making the show get in there and vote It's fan mail thursday or wait a minute w scottis. I think cracked it. Uh, it was your thoughts thursday Huh? Maybe i don't know um, let's start with one from an anonymous person in the advertising industry who wrote, uh, and Had a nice email talking about how Companies that sell 95 of their products offline Have no way to know if digital advertising is effective. Uh, not no way, but it's very difficult if you if you sell Let's say yogurt, right? Maybe selling some of that on amazon fresh or something, but most of your yogurt is sold offline One way to get around this problem is to ab test So you can target the millennials with your yogurt commercials Uh, and then exclude Uh, the olds like no no 34 50s They're not going to get any of our yogurt commercials and then see if that affects the numbers, right? A grateful patron writes attribution google attributions modeling is a bit different It tries to capture a history of as many variables as possible and correlates it to historical observed purchases Problem is you can never capture all Relevant variables and even if you did say in a minority report kind of world Nothing guarantees that an attribution model is sophisticated as google's is will be able to disentangle correlation from causation My big question is why doesn't google and the other digital platforms gaffam Put in place transparent ab testing platforms instead of this complex and untrust worthy albeit Attribution black box Maybe it is because every single randomized experiment. We've been able to run it has Extremely low impact on offline sales or maybe there are other reasons that still elude the advertiser community I got guesses What's your guess? What's your best guess, Justin? number one the history of the internet Has long also mirrored the history of advertisers and businesses not understanding the internet and being fearful of it Sure to the advertising solutions that they have known to work since they were knee-high to a grasshopper uh, uh, even The the up fronts that just happened for television networks Uh, the common refrain no matter whether they be did a broadcast television or cable television was all Don't spend money on digital Look at how facebook has misreported numbers. Look at how unreliable it is Just stay with your old pop-up broadcast television. That's where you should be spending your dollars clorox so If you are digital advertising and you are obviously exploding you kind of know now that the tide is moving towards you The idea becomes Prove to those that still don't believe that this is scientific And in fact, you can do the thing that television and print media and every other legacy Of media can't you can show the results or you can show the process of how we got this ad in front of exactly The right person so the more rube goldbergie the more and this is where the second part of my guess comes in the more brandable And specific they can be per platform The more google knows they're going to win the war against legacy media Now google is looking at How do we beat facebook? How do we beat the next big digital media challenger as now all that money comes toward us And we fight amongst each amongst each other Google wants to show that they've got the recipe and it's secret to them And that's why you need to show it. Will it be more effective? Probably not, but why does that matter to an advertising? Well, and this grateful patron is saying like I'm seeing through your snake oil like there ain't nothing there And I think that is a fair perspective right now Theoretically though, and I've been saying this since I worked for tech tv.com and zdtv.com back in the day putting an ad up on a web page And and not forget about clicking right and just saying here's our product go try it Shouldn't be any different than putting an ad in a magazine Yeah, because you can't click on the magazine You can't set a cookie on a person who's reading a magazine The same appeal the same ability to track should work in both Ways and in fact the web should be better because you can tell a little bit more about the person reading it The problem is digital advertising isn't yet In the same mind space for people so we don't have big glossy photos that really capture your attention on the web That's why people try to do page takeovers all it does is annoy people it actually drives them the other way You don't have beautiful video of how delicious your yogurt looks because we didn't really have high definition video advertising But that's why facebook's trying to make original video right because they want to take advantage of that We're moving towards digital being able To appeal to the people who see the ads at the same level that television and magazines have in the past But we're not there yet and until until that all plays out Then I kind of on the side of our grateful patron here Oh, I I Totally agree with him. I don't think that I don't think that this will be well I'll say this I do think that it is More scientific than what we've seen before which is basically the old You know scattershot model of I'll put it in a popular thing and a lot of people watch it I know what the ratings are that means that we got in front of x amount of people But I remember when I used to run the advertising on our magic blog i-tricks.com It was the constant fight. I could show no matter how many times I would show people that wanted to buy Advertising how many more people viewed this than in The leading magazines in the space and that's their announced circulation Not counting for how many just end up on door stops that you are never getting How many are put somewhere else that just are totally or just totally inflated circulation numbers I could say every day imagine if your ad got in front of what they promise you every single day man I don't get it. I'll just spend the money on genie magazine Also tvz gone points that you can set a cookie on a person. It would just most likely fall off or be Hi roger tom and justin robert young on show 30 37 writes apostle of broadband riko the apostle of broadband jesus A richman lovely cleveland shared the news about block stacks peer-to-peer internet Of course, there are others out there, but worth adding to the list is zero net i o You can download and run a small program in the background And then you can use the normal browser to surf the net and zero net ios network It's a very cool idea torrent freaks podcast steal this show Uh season two episode one has a great interview with the developer and founder thomas cascus So yeah A lot of minds working really hard on distributed internet And the more that we see controversy over things like that neutrality the more motivated these people are going to be So I would I would keep an eye on it. That's good to know Hey tom roger and guest I just listened episode 30 33 where you talked about the egyptian proposed bill That if passed would force social media users to register their account with the authorities You asked if any listeners who speak egyptian could send you a translation of the bill So here I am your egyptian reporter reporting for duty Here is a summary of the bill a social network can be any Communication medium from facebook to whatsapp The law in theory applies to any person within egypt egyptians and foreigners alike Punishments range from suspension of internet service to six months imprisonment Since the bill was proposed it has been sent to the communications committee of the house of representatives The lower house of the parliament to discuss its technical feasibility and uh our our intrepid shady from rainy calgary has A longer translation of the various parts and articles that we'll put in our show notes at daily tech news show dot com If you want to see but each person within egypt who is using a form of social network without obtaining a license from the designated authority In accordance with the regulations of this act or the subsequent regulations issued by the regularly embodied the ministry of interior We'll bring charges against such individual and the prosecutor shall present the charges to an urgent trial I don't know enough about egyptian law Making to know whether or not this is something that Will be put into place if obviously at first blush Seems like a real surefire way to create Paperwork and and crackdowns And a social network in this law means any communication software application powered by the internet and used for communication between people So that would be gmail Yeah at that point right Well, I mean because i'm sure they're not being sophisticated in terms of saying drawing a line between application and web application Right. Yeah. Well gmail is an app on my phone It is true uh You know, uh, uh tom i'm gonna go out on the limbs here and say, uh, I don't I don't like this law I think it's a counter purpose to an open and free society And and at egypt is really cracking down on the internet right now They egypt just blocked several katar linked online publications including al jazeera huffington post arabic katari news agency The country says that it is that the publications are fabricating news and inciting terrorism So it is a extremely conservative attitude towards internet and media right now Uh in egypt, but thank you to shady from calgary, uh for for looking into that and uh translating for us really appreciate that Mike writes. Hello tom and guests. I was listening to the pre show for episode 30 37 So i'm gonna add editorially everybody go listen to the pre show because apparently some really hot stuff is happening I admitted to a crime earlier moving on Where you all were speculating about synthetic marijuana Being a cop. I figured I'd give you a little information about it here in my area It goes by the street names k2 or spice It is popular among transient and homeless populations because it's pretty inexpensive When it first came to market it was quasi legal which made buying it in shady corner stores very easy Usually a once One package can be split up into a couple different servings and then resold a couple months ago We had a mini epidemic of people using it and literally passing out wherever they smoked it Often along sidewalks parking lots or other places Concerned citizens would call for medical which trained their fire department which ended up transporting people to the hospital all day long I since that the the synthetic nature and low quality control during production makes this stuff Extra dangerous as you can never really be sure what you're smoking. Please pass this along to the gang If you're still curious Thank you officer mike Mike's been writing in for a couple of years now to dts from time to time So I appreciate you sharing the information there and if you want that full pre show discussion That we're talking about that was in yesterday's Patreon version of the show So either become a patron and you get access to the rss feed that has that pre show in it Or talk to your friendly local patreon Supporter and see if they can help you out. Thank you mike. Uh, by the way One little fun fact about synthetic marijuana. It's not only transient and homeless people that have taken to it there have been a couple incidents with Off the top of my head. I can only think of football players But i'm sure it's athletes of all stripes that have marijuana banned In there as part of the terms of their employment that have also That have also wound up getting themselves into trouble because Again, a lot of this stuff is you know, it's not like the fta is looking over somebody's shoulder No mix in this stuff up. So be careful kids Hey, thank you. Just a robbie young for joining us as always what you got going on Uh bunch of stuff. Let's uh, let's just start here the contender the game of presidential debate Tomorrow we are putting on sale our first mini expansion that takes quotes from the first 100 plus days Of the trump administration We got quotes from everybody shan spicer james comey hillary clinton donald trump and somebody who possibly jokingly but still Went out on television and said he's running for president He is the trail blazing eyebrow raising jabroni beating pie eating possibly Liberal thinking well, I guess if it's either him or trump compromising Dwayne the rock johnson you can get it all in heavy lies the crown that is the new Uh contender expansion on sale tomorrow on the contender dot us for only ten dollars Johnson hanks I don't know. 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I get as soon as trump got out of the primary I was like no at least two billionaires Are going to run seriously and quite possibly, uh Some uh, uh, just celebrities Here's because who knew that this was possible. Do you remember? Do you remember? I know you're in florida at the time, but do you remember the california recall Of supplementary election Where where gray davis was recalled and so they just opened the ballot to anybody who could get the number of signatures And gary colman was on there Our video editor corb at zd tv was on there like Everybody was on that. Uh, that's what i'm imagining. I mean i'm just saying, uh, uh Do you want to know why and this is something that that can kind of go a little bit further into the story about apple news but News is just hot right now Like we are in a very interesting moment in time and people want to read and learn about it Like that's that's just the that's just the end all be all i mean I mean i want to read about it. That's sure they're really learning, but i get to i get where you're going We can we can we can we can we can draw some mistakes putting a two final point on it but You know somebody was uh, i was talking to john my co-creator on the contender in action news and um We were talking about this stuff that happened out in montana last night where the uh Uh, there is a special election because donald trump tapped the Uh sitting representative out there. We need to pick a title to oh, yes So disposable numbers A samsung and apple phone world buried under buried under a pile of fidget spinners knee-high to grasshopper Wake me up before you go goro goro Isn't that a character from the uh psychonauts game? Um You can't spell go without the first two letters of god Dateline apple a thousand newspapers in your pocket I was seeing through snake. I I am What are the disposable numbers? I don't know The google stuff tom knows the answer, but he can't stop hacking The google uh add stuff. Oh disposable numbers We know disposable numbers or disposable phone numbers remember the t-mobile. Yeah, that's it You're right By by hacking his lung right out of his mouth No, really you ask me a question when i'm in the middle like that.  That was the worst It just happened You're all red faced. I got something down my pipes Furball uh hairball This is a hairball um buried under a pile of fidget spinners is leading the pack Yeah, that really didn't really relate to anything. It was just a Just kind of a like a line Dateline apple micro justin dot tv yogurt the great marketing genius I mean you don't pick anything we got no like Main I like disposable numbers, but that was a news story No, I like I like disposable numbers too. Just good. It just sounds good It can mean whatever you want it to mean I know like a uh, it sounds like a like a like a like a sondra bullock, uh From the 90s You mean like the Was it the net? Was it the net? Was that the one she was in? Sure. Yeah, exactly I mean it was mixed that one up with uh, the enemy of the state No, but this is more in like like disposable numbers would be like it would would have come out like a year after the firm or like one of those Uh, the pelican brief.  You're disposable numbers. Yeah Uh Andy Garcia Stars as the evil d car. Yeah, nice pole See disposable numbers So you numbers it is you can go back to your carnival of potential presidential candidates with billionaires I want to search someone who was in the Cirque du Soleil and then as part of their campaigning they'll do like one of their old acts on the road Yeah, well, you know the the The thing about uh, where we're Oh, okay. We were talking about montana, right? Yeah, you were yeah I was uh hijacking the conversation to talk about guy body slammed a reporter because he didn't like this question. All right technically the fox news report, uh indicates that it's a choke slam I don't want to get in fair enough fair enough.  Oh my god. This is crazy. This is insane.  So uh People are Really dialed in on politics right now Like that's it's what people want to read about it's what people want to talk about It's it's it's the it's the it's the television drama that that's happening in real time It's it really does feel that way in the way Like if you were to have a you know, there are certain movies, especially ones surrounding politicians elections That they often use Uh, you know, like in the movie in the in the movie world They have like newscasters kind of set the stage for each act, right?  I don't know what would react 29 now or whatever. It's a long play but uh, it's it's it's very There's something both abhorrent but incredibly addictive about this entire thing Well, because like all good stories There are stakes Right because this is really just the continuation of the election narrative in that Donald trump is found to be abhorrent by a large Swath of america. He is found to be the savior of all by Another swath that by the numbers when everybody went to go vote was slightly smaller But yet he wins because of the electoral college And so now Why do we care about montana? Why do we care about the george's six? Why do we care about wyoming because we want to know Both liberal and conservative Whether or not there is a wave election coming Not this november But next november a a series of elections that will happen a year and a half from now Is the reason why we are watching these elections. Yeah, I totally agree. I mean it's It's interesting because everything now At least at least In the kind of new cycle sense is a Is a litmus test of What the what the political tealies, you know, we'll be reading for for for the midterms, right?  Oh, but they still don't Oh, no, no, you're right fool ourselves People aren't aren't actually Concerned with understanding politics People are concerned with tuning into drama And lots of people are taking advantage of that by feeding them a bunch of bs drama that they eagerly Shoven to their brains Uh, and and you're not actually getting any real understanding or analysis of what's really going on Do you want you want to know what I've just kind of pinned it? To your epiphany your post-show epiphany. I've had an epiphany right here. Yeah. Yeah These elections are effectively The nfl draft Interesting. There's a lot of pump a lot of circumstance. It might mean something Yeah, we might look back a year and a half from now and say Yeah, you want to know what that that turned out to be a big sign of of how something else happened a year and a half from From when it occurred But right now Let's say that that quists beats Uh, uh, the choke slammer, right Whose name is escaping me currently, uh, but when he goes into professional wrestling that will likely be on the forte Gion via gion 40, right gion 40 uh Let's say he wins What have we really learned? Aside from the fact that yeah, the election was probably closer than it should have been which meant the quist was in Striking distance, but is the lesson. Hey, don't choke slammer reporter hours before the polls open Cool add that one to the wikipedia of things to not do when you're running for political office And also if he wins, what do we know? Well, a lot of people mail their ballots in because montana is gigantic and you don't know it doesn't always make sense to Uh, go to your local polling station in the same way that you would in a big city So nobody saw this You know, he's probably he probably is going to win because of how many ballots have already been mailed in and even afterward He's probably not gonna hurt him all that much because number one. He's a republican. It's montana. This is just what happens and two I don't know exactly of if you're gonna list all the martyrs in the world How much a local man to a montana resident is going to find the roughing up of a reporter for a british newspaper Uh, uh to be Yeah, i'll be honest. I feel like we've already spent 10 times more Time discussing this here where we're that we're not even being serious about it than it needs to Now imagine imagine that compared to the amount of words and Coverage being given to it on on the news everywhere. It's just it's it's become no different than celebrity gossip in my opinion Yeah, no, I I agree that's substantive No, it's well, and you know, what's what's what's sad is like what you're uh, what you're touching on earlier It's like really there isn't any kind of deeper Understanding of the actual issues rather it is more about the personalities that orbit Oh, sorry. Well for a long for a long time No need to be sorry. I was just agreeing. Okay. Hey There i'm not sorry It's a joke No, I think there must have been some lag because I thought Well, see there the whole punchline is ruined Ruined ruined no, but for a long time television news particularly has spent Most of its coverage telling you how what happened will affect its coverage Not actually getting into what how what happened would affect anything else. Yeah So it's just cyclical Shane asked it it does potentially show a trend toward violence against the press No, I do I do not think that it is indicative of any kind of broader Uh, uh broader issue, um, you know Sometimes things get physical like like that's that's just things get physical with handlers things get physical. Olivia Newton John Yeah, what happened with her that's good physical She wrote a song about it now. This is beyond the pale But the fact that this is being pointed out as beyond the pale and You know, I think it's it's it's appropriately being reacted to I think it's also sad that it's May the 25th And we're not talking about the 40th anniversary of the premiere of star wars Uh, that's true. That's true. Do you see the hamilton cast up there singing happy birthday? Oh, no, I didn't actually that's pretty cool Is it on the youtubes? I saw it somewhere. I don't know if it's the cast of hamilton that's playing right now and in san francisco I think so. I don't know if it's like the original cast or anything No, so not lin, uh, men well It might have been him though because he's a he's a star wars freak Yeah, and he would he would show up to do that I would think All right friends, uh, thanks for hanging out We love having you tomorrow It'll be a whole new cast. It'll be like hamilton in san francisco. Yeah Scott johnson Andy beach lemper also is probably gonna be back Uh, and sadly, I will miss him But uh, if you're going to be at bay con In the marriott at the san francisco airport Uh, come by and say hi. I'll be there all weekend. See you folks boom


Well, same matchup on the girl side, just minutes in. Kelly Christopher sets the tone from Harper Tower, back of the net, one nil, Jax. How about the other senior and winger, Anna Schuchman? She had herself an afternoon. This one splashes the leather here to nothing but midgy. Very smooth opening half of the season. Lindsay Hildenbrand's turn, the move, top shelf, just beautiful, lead is three. But back to Schuchman. Added another from a penalty kick, and can I get another? Yes, a hat trick for her in the first half. Five nothing at the break. They would go on to put up 11 in this one as they cruise to victory. If you've enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News, please consider making a tax deductible contribution to Lakeland Public Television.


to learn to get more dimension in your art. Try this on for practice. On a scrap piece of paper, stamp or draw an image. Color it in using only grayscale in whatever medium you love, markers, pencils, paints. I'm just using a regular graphite pencil. See how many grays you can get from 100% black through all the mid-tones down to white. Do this with scene elements as well. Keep one of these examples taped up in your workspace to remind you of the power of contrast. It's a great example that'll help you.


The Lubbock, Texas airport. A warm evening in early May. The temperature is now 78. Some indications of severe weather conditions developing to the south and west of the city. For Lubbock, a strong possibility of thundershowers later in the evening. Downtown in the Emergency Operations Center at City Hall. The civil defense director, Bill Ping, is just leaving the office. Well, that doesn't look too bad, does it, Linda? Good night. Not much, Pam. Good evening, City Hall. One moment, please. Going home, Bill? Nope, showing this down top from this club. I'll be at the ambush. See you later. The sky still bright, but worrisome. Some cumulus building up. So far, Lubbock's been lucky. For years, tornadoes have been hitting all around, but never the city itself. But Texans have learned to take their weather seriously. And tonight, Payne is talking to the Monterey Optimists Club in South Lubbock, explaining the city's new emergency operations plan for dealing with various kinds of disaster. And showing a national weather service film called Tornado. There's a message from City Hall. Bill, this is Lou. The weather bureau just called, and you're going to issue a severe thunderstorm morning. OK, Lou, call the operating department. I'll be right in. Coming back, the skies turn black. And already, KFYO, the local emergency broadcast station, is beginning its weather watch. We're sharing the past 10 minutes, indicate golf balls to baseball-sized hail in the vicinity of McKinsey State Park, with the hail increasing at this time. In the emergency operating center. You'll see, Payne speaking. Bill, we're all out here. Red bean supper. If things get rough, let us know. OK, urgent. Yeah, I'll call you. I need you. On the other side of top, the Lubbock Firemen are throwing their annual bash. A red bean and cornbread supper for their friends. The host, fire chief Kershaw Sharpe. And among the guests, Bill Blackwell, the city manager. JT Alley, chief of police. Dealing citizens, the press. Radio man Bob Nash and Max Mott. Looks like the weather bureau may have to issue a tornado warning at the point. Oh, don't sweat it, Max. You've got less chance of being hit by a tornado than being trampled by a dinosaur. District 1, Lois-Garman. Lois-Rodman, I'm receiving very, very heavy rains and very heavy hail. For Bill Payne, a time for waiting and listening, as police reports begin to flow in. OK, I'm still going east. The rain is still heavy, and I'm getting golf balls-sized hail. 89, clear. If you've got a unit out around the traffic circle south of town, it can give us a report on that large hail. 10-4, I'm sitting over on 4th Street, and from here it looks like one big, heavy, dark cloud centered to around 23rd. And everyone wants to wait to see something like it snakes down and it goes back up to you. Alan, we have a hook about 7 miles south of the airport. Operator, would you contact Bill Payne please and tell him the weather bureau is issuing a tornado warning for Lubbock County. Radar indicates a possible tornado, 7 miles south of the airport. McWackle, things are not looking too good. I like you, Herschel and Bob Shannon. Come on, Bill. OK, Bill, I'll round up the troops and be right there. At the Red Bean Supper, the singing Plainsmen have taken over the entertainment. They're back at the EOC. The city manager, safety director Bob Shannon, all the city's key department heads. 800 operators. The radio room and switchboards are fully mapped, according to plan. The emergency center is ready for action. Chief, are you used to it? You're pretty well covered throughout the city. Three of them. Three. OK, 60 to 80, stand up ahead right. We've got a line parking for your baby. We've got a line. Maybe out there we'll play now in six miles or so. The dispatch office, the tower is out. Across the street from city hall, the radio stations also lost power. But as part of the emergency broadcast system, the station has an old emergency generator, obtained as surplus property from the Defense Civil Preparedness Agency. The switch is thrown. The station is back on the air. 790 on your radio dial, Lubbock, Texas, on the weather watch. The tornado warning remains in effect for Lubbock, Western Crosby, Floyd, and southern Hale counties until 10 PM tonight. And now more music. Now, we've got a new hook down here moving toward us. Lubbock DPS, Lubbock Weather Bureau. This is Johnson at the Weather Bureau office. Would you advise the police department in Idlewood to sound the warning sirens for a possible tornado? The Weather Bureau is issuing a tornado warning for the city. If they watch the base of the darkest cloud, we've had one reportable final. And that's rain level. Rain is real heavy, out of the 289. The wind's about 60 miles an hour. Rain is blowing from the southwest. OK, the cloud southeast just dropped two hooks a minute ago. And then they went right back up into cloud. A possible tornado was indicated by a radar at 857. And a funnel cloud has been observed in this same area. A massive storm has just struck downtown Lubbock. All persons, take cover. Come out here on Erskine Road at this time, head it back in for its town. It's raining hard. I can't help to see it, it's raining. I'm completely stopped. OK, FYO. Hello, this is Bob White, Carol Ian Dallas. Could you give me something brief for my 10 o'clock? Now, right now, you'll have to hold on. All citizens, do not attempt to come into the downtown Lubbock area because hot wires are down. OK, I'm on this hill, looking back toward Pam. You've got a point cloud, and you're out over the city limit. Looks like it's touching the ground. I can hear it coming. You better find yourself a spot. Don't worry, I'm going to get right onto the table here. There's a little nature over there. There's probably something going on down there. There's the right station. Chief Central's been here. Lower. Tornado. Don't hang up, I'll be right back. The tornado smashed directly into city hall and the police station just upstairs. For seven seconds, the lights go off. Then the emergency generator kicks in. Marry one over in a downtown, or it is. This never comes back in town. Don't come in and shoot the pretty day it's hit here. Horrible. Roars on north through the city, toward country club and the airport. Then lifts just over the weather bureau, leaving Lubbock behind it in shambles. Police station has been here. Our communications is failing. A little unable to see them. Do we have any lines left? Only incoming, we can't call out. Well, hold those you have and keep trying. All right, yes, sir. Mr. White, will the hotline of DPS still working? Major? Looks like we've been hit pretty hard here in the downtown area. Well, central fire station has been hit, the police station in city hall. Could you start some of your people in our direction? Quickly, state police cruisers from the Department of Public Safety move in, circle their wagons at city hall, begin relaying emergency messages. And Max Mott and Bob Nash of the radio station have cannibalized equipment from one of their mobile units, are springing cable down the stairs. Give me a cue, I'll take it any time, any time, any time. OK, you're on. This is the Lubbock operational area emergency broadcast system with me is Bill Payne, the civil defense director for the city of Lubbock. Hey, Dallas, keep this line open. Don't get off this line. You're the only outside contact. OK, I'll stay on hold there. Now, have you had any reports of injuries? Not yet. We just had it hit downtown. We can't get anything in. I'm afraid to look out the damn window. Wait a minute. The city hall is completely broken. All of the glass is out of it. It's standing, but all the glass is out of it. People are pouring into the EOC, the mayor of Lubbock. And members of the city council, they go into emergency session in Bill Payne's office. I hope you have the city manager do this, the operational aspect of the city. I'd recommend that we go ahead and let him run this show just like he does today. That's right. We're going to need a lot of help. Could you go ahead and input Austin in contact with the governor's office and get the National Guard ready to activate? Quickly, the news is relayed to the capital at Austin, the State Department of Defense and Disaster Relief. The city of Lubbock has been hit by a tornado. Then, on to Washington, DC. They want to be got cordoned off here now. Communications are out, but each man knows what he has to do. It's all laid out in the emergency plan. Our problem right now is going to be to work out all these motels along the Amarillo Highway. We're going to make these motels one-to-one and go through the whole thing. If we have to, we'll drain those swimming pools. We've got six 4-man teams going to do some rescue, certain rescue. So we'll take this part of this area and also it's going to be part of this area. We're kind of out of here with that. There's some people trapped in the apartment. Emergency rooms at all the Lubbock hospitals are being swamped with tornado victims. Others are coming into City Hall. And just down the hallway from the EOC, Helen Payne, Bill's wife, has set up a first aid station. Is there anything you need? Not right now. We're doing pretty good. Do you know what area was hit hardest? I know about one area. It's supposed to be the 2,900 block of Third Street. Third Street? That's my street. OK, can you confirm anything? I don't think so. I mean, if you're not able to get a unit into there at 50 times, hang it on it. OK, then can I get out of the central power station and move this down on our truck? The man from the Salvation Army said that our apartment was damaged. Yes, I know. I mean, there's nothing I can do about it now. I'll see you later. The Lubbock Red Cross office has been asked to please contact the Odessa Red Cross on priority. How's the generator going? Well, I'm afraid we're running low on gas. Let's get an Oklahoma credit card. In neighboring Oklahoma, they probably return the compliment by calling it a Texas credit card. But either way, it means chopping off a length of garden hose and using it to siphon gas from the nearest available car to keep the emergency generator running. As you know, Mayor Granberry just a little while ago declared a state of emergency for the city of Lubbock. Things are rough here in the downtown area, and in other areas struck by the tornado. We don't know at this hour just what the extent of damages and the number of injured and dead are. We have received some reports of dead in the north part of the city. Our search and rescue teams are out at this time, composed primarily of firing police personnel. There are many other problems that face us at this point. We continue to search out the areas that have been struck by the tornado, and we'll continue to report to you by means of radio through the hours of the night. The darkness still hides many things. No one knows what they'll find with dawn. The tornadoes cut a swath more than eight miles long, nearly a mile and a half wide, right through the heart of town. It's been impartial. Nothing's been spared. The downtown business district, the industrial areas, country club, and the Mexican-American section, death and destruction everywhere. People still pinching themselves, surprised that they're still alive. What did it sound like last night when the storm started? Well, it went goose, goose, stop a while and goose. We're in that little storm cellar, and that's just the way it sounded. And the hail seemed like that big on that cellar door. Who was with you? My husband. Have you ever seen anything like this before? A parter like this with a thing there once blowed over here. I missed it about that much. This time, it got me. And the lights across the street went out twice before we ran. And you got under the bed? The kids did. I couldn't get under there. It sounded like a big Russian boy in the hail. And the top of the ceiling and everything got started piling in on top of him. What was it like after it was all over and the survivors started peeking their heads out? I don't know. I was so scared. I didn't know what to do. He had to carry me to the firelight shelter. I don't know exactly what instant it struck, but we were at the cellar door, and the rest of the family had proceeded me down into the cellar. And I wasn't going in that hole at the time. At about that time, something happened. What it was, I don't know whether it was noise or something hit me or just what it was, but something just made me say, let me in there, too. And I went. And we pulled the door, too, and no more and got it fastened and everything broke loose. We hear debris hitting the cellar door, and the cellar door would. Well, we were trying to decide whether to push on the cellar door or pull, because it was going one way, one minute, one way, the other way. You'd try to come in on us and then try to go out. Do not go into the downtown business district. Do not go into the downtown business district. Police and National Guard have cordoned off the area. There is still danger from hot wires and falling glass. Good morning, sir. Good morning. I'm taking some Coleman lanterns and stuff down here to take this testing lab. Yes, sir. You don't have to have to get permit to get in here today. They are reporting that the Green Plains building is twisted, and it should be secured. Some bricks are cracking all over at this time. There are a lot of rumors floating around town about the Great Plains building about to fall. And I think that we might have to contact some local engineers to get them by the visual inspection to give a report to the director of public works and talk about this a few minutes ago.  In the Emergency Operating Center, 1,000 pressing problems. Setting up a temporary morgue. Clearance of emergency routes. Clothing. Shelter. For the thousands who are suddenly homeless. What Libby Center in Lubbock is now in desperate need of 300 sheets and pillowcases. Also, some diapers, some children's underwear, and blankets. For the party calling about John and Janna Goughruth, they are at Possum Kingdom and safe. Yeah, donde quiera. This is from the EOC. Lubbock Coliseum is eating sandwiches for 750 to 1,500 people. Now they'll be feeding from 5.15 PM until. Help of every kind is needed, and it's coming from every direction. Linemen from all the surrounding cities and states are coming in to restore power and communications. The Texas National Guard is there in force. So is Fourth Army with helicopters and heavy equipment. And men from Reese Air Force Base just outside the city. The presidents declared Lubbock a major disaster area. And at the airport, a White House planes arriving, bringing Texas Congressional leaders and federal executives to coordinate a massive assistance program. The city has lost 8,000 homes. Suffered nearly $150 million worth of business and industrial damage. City Hall, the police and central fire stations have been smashed. The city warehouse flattened. Two main power stations are out, and so are the main pumping stations for the water system. High water at the underpass, and you say the north. Professional divers are needed at the feedback overpass. They are needed very urgently. They need your assistance. Too much water here.  There's hardly a drop left to drink. Bill Dykeman of the Brewing Company has just reported he's shipping 2,500 cases of distilled water by force. These will be at the Red Cross Distribution Center at Broadway and Avid UX. Gifts of food and clothing are pouring in from everywhere to help the disaster victims. Day after day, the work goes on. People picking up the pieces, and no time to even catch a breath. For 10 long days and nights, the emergency center will be in continual operation. People working around the clock, eating, sleeping at their posts. Many not going home at all, until the crisis is over. 10 days. But now the book is closed. Taking out now, Linda. Good afternoon, city hall. Good morning, please. Going home, Bill? I guess. More place, baby. It's happened 1,000 times in these last 10 days.  What do you do now? I really asked just, Jim, if we've got our kids. We're lucky, though. We really are. Lucky or just a grim joke? Well, actually, in one way, Lubbock was lucky. Because we were prepared for disaster, as very few cities are. Just the year before, the Defense Civil Preparedness Agency had picked Lubbock for a pilot project, a testing ground. And disaster experts from the federal and state governments came in, worked long and hard with the city officials and authorities, to produce a model emergency readiness plan. This plan, covering every conceivable kind of disaster and telling us exactly just what we had to do. Second, we had a working emergency operating center to do it in. When the trouble came, the top executives stayed together, worked together, made the key decisions. Finally, they kept the people informed, with warning before the twister struck and full information after. These were the things that carried us through. And lucky for Lubbock, we had them. Because, well, I'm Bob Nash, and I learned that even in this day and age, you can get trampled by a dinosaur.


Hello and welcome to the session. In this session we discuss the following question which says if the seventh of an HP that is harmonic progression are respectively 2 upon 5 and 2 upon 7, find the first term of the HP. Before we move on to the solution, let's see when a sequence say a sequence A, B, C and split progression. So this sequence is a harmonic progression that is HP when the reciprocals of these terms of the sequence that is 1 upon A, 1 upon B, 1 upon C which is AP, 1 the whole into B where this A is into the solution which is the first term of the HP where given a progression if we equal to a sequence is said to be harmonic progression when the reciprocals of the terms form an automatic progression. So from here we get would be equal to 5 upon 2 that is the reciprocals of the, now we remember Nth term of an AP is equal to A plus N minus 1 into D. Therefore we have A1 which we have supposed to be the first term of the AP minus 1 which is 6 into D is equal to 5 upon 2. Let this be result 1. Now next we are also given HP is equal to upon 7 which means the AP would be its reciprocals which is 7 upon 2. So therefore we have A1 which is the first term of the and that is 9 into D is equal to 7 upon 2. Let this be result to solve these two equations we get the values of A1 and D. So equation 1 from equation 2 we get A1 plus 9 D minus A1 D is equal to 7 upon 2 minus 5 upon. So further we have A1 cancels with minus A1 9 D minus 3D is equal to 2 upon 2 which is 1. This means 3D equal to 1 or you can say D is equal to 1 upon 3. Let me find out the value of A1. Next is the value of D into D which is 1 upon 3 is equal to 7 upon 10 is 9. So there we have A1 plus 3 is equal to 7 upon 2. 1 is equal to 7 upon 2 minus 3 which gives us A1 equal to 7 minus 6 upon 2 that is 1 upon 3 AP is equal to 1 upon 2 and this means HP would be the reciproc 1 upon 2 which would be equal to 2. The first term of the HP to be A hope you understood the solution of this question.


So, yeah, that was my bio, I'm basically an imposter here, I'm not a data scientist, but I come from the telco world, from the internet service provider or networking world. So this is also a story of a multidisciplinary sort of research that I did with my colleagues, which is the kind of thing that you should look at in machine learning and AI today, I believe. So all this starts from looking at the statistics, what is so-called a dwell time, which is basically a measure of how much time passes in networking before you realize that your network has been compromised. And if you see reports, usually they claim something like around 100 days, which is three months, which is crazy, because it's like saying, you know, you operate a corporate network and you don't realize that for three months your network has been compromised. There is an attacker that has access to your network, which is crazy. So typically, the main reason we see today with our customers is IoT. And by IoT, I mean, you know, a random internet of things, devices of any vendor in this example, a smaller Raspberry Pi, which as you must have heard, is a small computer, basically, which can be used for many things. So in this example, let's say that this is a temperature sensor or humidity sensor or whatever, and it's periodically sending data back to the cloud, to a cloud backend. But it's also doing other activities, for example, synchronizing the clock or sending statistics or telemetry or updating the firmware or whatever. So you know, up to here, if you have a small deployment, you could just follow the traditional approach of setting prescriptive firewall rules to determine what can these devices do and what cannot, what type of network traffic is allowed and what is not. But you know, typically things tend to expand in the world, right, entropy always increases. So after a while, you find yourself with a larger deployment, with a lot of devices, and you know, at some point, some of them might be at remote locations, they might be dialing in your organization via VPN or via some weird data center tunnel. And also some of them might be from that particular vendor you bought several years ago and they're not updated anymore. So you know, this is why you might not realize that one of them has been compromised and now it is an insertion point from an attacker into your network. And typically, this is very hard to identify using traditional firewalling rules because maybe this device is doing very low traffic, very little traffic because it's just sending a keep alive to a remote server controlled by the attacker. So we looked at this problem with several of our customers and we tried to think, why don't we look at the problem upside down? Why don't we instead of trying to control what kind of traffic these devices can do, why don't we allow everything? We allow every type of traffic and instead we try to determine what's the typical behavior of each individual device and see if they change behavior over time. So obviously, it's not something we invented. This is called user entity behavioral anomaly, sorry, behavioral analytics, or UEBA, which is a whole market. There are a lot of startups working in this field and a lot of mainstream vendors already there. We are a late entrant. But if you look at what most solutions are doing, they typically ask you as a customer to operate some sort of big data backend. So you probably have to store network flows or syslog entries or even network packets for a while and then these are processed in batches. We instead want to differentiate ourselves by looking at an approach completely based on online learning where basically we tell our customers we will look at the data only once and then we will throw it away. So we will ingest network data live and we won't require you to store anything at all. And beside being much cheaper from an operational perspective, it's also much simpler from a legal or privacy-related perspective because many of our customers are in highly-regulated industries such as healthcare or finance where even the fact that you have data is toxic, it's expensive. So using online learning is a real facilitator for them, keeps the opportunity cost down. So the inspiration for this work comes from natural language processing and particularly from all the work that has started from 2014, 15 and over the last couple of years starting with World2Vec and up to the recent advancements. And probably I don't have to explain the basics to this audience, I guess, but the core of modern natural language processing is the idea of word embedding. The idea that the meaning of a word can be determined by looking at the context in which the word appears most of the time and what is known typically as the distributional hypothesis which dates back from the fifties with the idea that you shall know a word by the company it keeps, meaning you cannot determine what's the meaning of a word in English by looking at what are the words that fall next to it typically in English books or sentences and so on. And this is the canonical example you always see in tutorials of World2Vec where you see that you can use word embeddings, so vector representation of words, to do analogies, to do grammar conjugation of verbs or going from masculine to feminine and so on or even to do higher order analogies such as going from a country to its capital and in fact this word used in the past a lot even for things like basic artificial intelligence for chatbots. But you know I come from networking again so my context is not spoken languages like English or Italian or French, it's networking. So can we model, can we use this recent advancement in NLP to model made up languages such as synthetic language of networking? What if we say that a network flow for us is a word and the ensemble of all the words generated by or from an individual device is a document, right? Then we would be able to determine what's the typical topic of conversation of that particular temperature sensor and determine whether it changes over time. So what we did was a building a small prototype which is using a set of features from layer 3 and above in the networking stack to generate synthetic words like in this example, taking things from lower layer in the stack and up to the packet inspection which we operate in real time on the traffic we see on our access point and switches and routers and then we apply a sort of advanced word-to-vec where we implemented a few mathematical tricks to adapt it to a synthetic language, a made up language like this one. In particular because we are not using English or any spoken language is the size of the vocabulary is not naturally limited. So we do a few tricks to try to bound the maximum size of the vocabulary otherwise it will grow to infinity. And also we generate we don't only learn a vector representation for each word but for each subfield in the word you saw earlier so that we have actual meaning or vector representation of the meaning of individual networking concepts such as a packet being TCP rather than UDP. So what we end up having is a batches of flows per each device over the last few minutes across the network. So let's imagine device A in this example is a temperature sensor. And let's say over the last few minutes we saw four individual flows. So we pass them through our modified word-to-vec approach and we in output we get vector representation. So basically large arrays of flows for each flow. But in practice many flows you will see on the network on this synthetic language will be very similar in reality. So what we do is we cluster them into a manageable number to keep the number low and we do this by using cosine similarity with a particular implementation that we did so that we can run them in a few millisecond across all the flows that cross the network over the last few minutes. Then we look at the similarity between any pair of flows and we group together those that are more similar than given threshold which basically saying all the flows that are almost identical let's consider them as one. We also keep a tiny state for each individual device which describes the typical behavior of the device which is basically the last clusters of flows that these devices has generated over the recent past. And these clusters are basically moving average of flows that are similar together and also you will notice that these clusters are time-stamped so that we can update the behavior of a device by pruning away the clusters that have not been seen for a while. So what we do then is taking the flows from the recent batch and compare them in similarity with the cluster that we have for this particular temperature sensor. We then take the maximum and we feed those maximum into a quantile sketch algorithm which is a fancy way of describing an algorithm that keeps track of what are the percentile, the quantiles for a particular distribution while keeping the storage bounded in size. So what the user sees from a UI perspective is a single slider like this one where you can set what's the minimum confidence you want the algorithm to have for the allers that you want to receive. So it's like saying if you slide it all over to the left you will receive an alert for every flow where we are not really certain that is an anomaly. If you push it all to the right you will only see allers for things that we are absolutely sure that they are anomalies. What this means from a data science perspective is that we are extracting the corresponding quantile from the sketch which we call beta in this example. So it's from 0 to 1 basically or 0 to 100. And what we do then is basically taking the last row in the comparison table you saw earlier which is basically the maximum similarity between the new flows and the existing clusters. And if there is any previous cluster that is more similar than the threshold then this is not an anomaly. I mean we have seen a behavior similar to this one so we are fine. But if there isn't then this is a new behavior from this temperature sensor. So if it's farther than beta then we should alert the administrator and also create a cluster for the future so that we know and keep alerting the user over and over. So we also in our UI we also generate a very simple dimensionality reduction visualization where you see here a dot for each individual IoT endpoint in the network. And they are colored based on basically the type of device, the mac address of the device. But this is not an information that we pass to the algorithm. So the fact that you see clusters that are similarly colored lying next to each other on the 3D plot, that's not something we told the algorithm. That's something that the algorithm has determined based just on the behavior by looking only at the flows. So if you were to see, for example, a red dot coming from the cloud of red dots which are, let's say, temperature sensor moving away from the cloud of the other temperature sensor, that will also tell you that something is different for this individual device compared to the rest of its peers. And this visualization is live. Actually, in this example, it's taken from a data set of a customer of ours. This is operating a very large scientific park, like a very large laser accelerometer, where they have tens of thousands of custom built scientific piece of equipment. And they don't even know exactly what these devices are doing because it's a very large deployment because they are all custom devices using all sort of IoT protocols. So this visualization not only is useful for security, but also gives the network administrator an idea of what's going on in their network. At least you get an idea of, you know, I have a sizable crowd of devices that are behaving similarly to this one that I know what it is doing in reality. So that's all nice and fun. And this is going through early trials with customers. But what's next? So as future directions, we are looking at multiple things. Ideally, what we want to build is a zero footprint, an augmented, federated, edge-wide speed behavioral modeling. And that's a mouthful. What does that mean? So when I say zero footprint, as I said earlier, I mean, we always want to build a solution which don't require the user to store any data in the back end for operational and for legal reasons, and also that keeps the opportunity cost down. We don't want to ask the user, hey, you know what? You have to install a rack full of equipment for running this application. We want to be able to say you already have a virtual machine in your data center, which is controlling all your access point in your venue. You know what? You can also install this other lightweight virtual machine, and we will do the machine learning magic on there, basically. When I say unaugmented, what I mean is we want to skip the feature engineering part altogether. That slide I showed earlier with the feature that we are using to generate the synthetic words, we want to drop it completely. Ideally, we would want to ingest raw byte data, raw packet data. And even if nowadays most of networking data is encrypted, there are still plenty of metadata, for example, during the TLS encryption phase, handshake phase, that are either unencrypted or they represent entropy, for example, related to certificates, which doesn't change across connections. And this approach ideally would allow us also to automatically learn long-term dependencies between flows. This comes from an approach which takes ideas from computer vision rather than NLP. So it's a fusion between these two fields that we are looking at right now. Another approach that we are looking at today is federated learning. Because if today you buy or you install this software, it will learn everything from scratch. So we are not doing any sort of transfer learning whatsoever. Every new deployment starts with an empty model with complete random weights and biases. So what if we found a way to share these weights between customers while preserving anonymity of the type of data that goes on in their network? That would be ideal, right?  And also as a byproduct, we would get a higher order cloud-based repository of networking concepts, which we could use, for example, to transfer information about security attacks between customers and provide early alerts about ongoing threats. And finally, up to here, all our implementation is pure CPU x86 commodity-based. We believe this will hit a wall if we keep on this road, obviously, because most of what I describe in this slide cannot be done in real time on a CPU, despite all the optimization we are attempting. So we are looking at embedding Edge TPUs or embedded GPUs directly into the Edge hardware. And when I say Edge hardware, I mean actually switches, routers, or access point on the roof. As you know, most of these pieces of hardware, they come from either Home Assistant, like Alexa or Google Home, or from the automobile industry, for example, for self-driving. So this is a very novel field. And there isn't really anyone setting the road for us. But we believe that because the cost of this device is going down because of the economy of scale, we will eventually be able to have those directly on access points. So that's all I have. Thank you very much. And if you have any question.


In this video, I'm gonna show you two products that are working right now. I'm also gonna show you the evidence behind these products as well, so you know exactly what to look for in your products. Next time you're doing your own product research, I'm gonna show you the winning ad creators for these products. I'm gonna show you the winning Shopify stores for these products. And I'm also gonna show you a supplier for these products as well. So you have kind of like a rough ballpark number of what the cost is, what the ideal selling price is, and what your profit margin is left in the middle. The products you pick is arguably, probably, in fact, it is the most important part to any business without a product you don't have a business. So if you want some more product ideas like this one, then you need to do two things. Number one, subscribe to the channel because every single week I will give you two great product ideas like this. And number two is download a free copy of 127 trending product ideas. These are hand-picked selection of products I've chosen myself. 100% free won't cost you a single penny. So top link in the video description down below. Those 127 products, they are separated by time of year as well. So no matter when you pick up this video or when you watch this video or grab a copy of that e-book, you will have 127 products to test throughout the year and keep you going at least for the next 12 months. So make sure you grab a copy of that. That being said, let's jump straight into products number one. So a couple of pieces of information in about this particular one. 10 million views this particular Facebook ad has which we can see over in the top right-hand corner here. 8,500 comments and nearly 70,000 reactions. I'm just gonna go back to this one on Facebook though purely for layout purposes. Before I actually show you the products and the brand, I just wanna take a quick minute to say this in essence is exactly what everybody watching this video should be aiming for. The hardest thing about drop shipping is finding that one product that's gonna take off that you can scale to the moon. The next hardest thing will be keeping it going because as white label products that anybody can sell especially drop shipping wise which you can do in the space of 24 hours, you can give me a product and I can be selling it this time tomorrow because it really is that quick and really is that cheap and easy to get going. So the only way to continue making drop shipping and work for you is to find products like the one I'm about to show you in this video. This is a unique original products that you will struggle to source. I only managed to find one particular supplier on AliExpress. I didn't find it on any other platform and they are the golden goose of products. If you can find a product that you cannot find anywhere else, it's purely unique and it fits a trending niche and the perfect time of year. That is the perfect recipe to making a lot of money because it eliminates any other competition. So before I show you exactly what the product is, I wanna show you how I know that it is a winning product and it's working right now. If you're familiar on the channel, then you probably know what I'm about to say. There's two things. Number one is the level of engagements. Something doesn't get 70,000 reactions, 8,500 comments and 10,000 shares. 10,000 shares is just ridiculous. When you consider the average Facebook user has about 150, 160 friends, 10,000 people with that many friends sharing. This thing has reached probably a million people for free just purely by people sharing it. So number one is the engagements. It's pretty undeniable. This has sold quite a lot of this product with that level of engagements. And then number two is the comments. So we'll check out the most relevant first just to see if people are definitely buying this. So Lisa just got mine. I love them. I just got mine. Just got mine. I love them too. Great idea. Brilliant. I like it. Just received mine. Absolutely awesome. I just got mine. It's so soft and well made. I got mine. They are the best. Awesome. I'll take a look. Thank you. I got mine yesterday. I really like these useful and pretty. Here you go for the new couch for the RV. How do I get this? Loves this cozy, warm for winter. My perps love it. Had mine about two weeks and love it. So did my dog. So as we can see lots and lots of people saying they bought the product equally as important I would say people are liking the products as well. It's no good selling 10,000 units if you're gonna get 9,000 of those sent back because it's a poor quality product. It's really, really important that you sell and drop ship quality products. So that's a tick. We know for a fact that it's selling because people are telling us that it's selling. People are telling us they're buying it. We know it's got any engagements. The other thing we wanna make sure as well is that it's working right now because then there's absolutely no reason if this brand can go ahead and sell this product that works for them then it should work for us as well. So the next I'm gonna check is the newest comments. So we'll open these up 45 minutes ago, one hour ago, 13 hours, nine hours. I think it's pretty safe to say. This is working right now. It's currently active. Nine hours, 12 hours, 13 hours, 14, 15, 15, 16. Tons of comments all within the last 24 hours. It is undeniable this is working right now and it's a winning product. So what is that product? Let's go ahead and play it now. So as you can see, very simple products. It's a really kind of aesthetically pleasing, visually pleasing. It looks like a super high quality product. It's really thick. It's really soft. It stores well, it rolls out. It's basically like a played sofa protector or couch protector if you're watching this in the US. Let's jump on to the Shopify store. Then you're probably familiar with these guys if you're watching my videos for a while. Funny, fuzzy, hands down. Probably the biggest pet drop shipper out there. Definitely a store to follow. Keep an eye on the sorts of products they come out with and release or start selling at least. This is their product page. It's not a cheap product. As we can see it's 75 pounds. That is for the smallest one as well, which is 27.5 by 59. So we'll come back when we're comparing that price-wise to what our supplier is. They typically follow kind of like a pretty textbook product page layout if you like. Few different sections. You can build these out using the Dawn theme pretty quickly, pretty easily, but nothing too crazy, certainly nothing too expensive. And it just goes to show that you don't need a really fancy, crazily designed website. You just need a crazily in-demand product or crazily, I don't know what I'm even saying, but a product that people wanna buy. If you have a product that is undeniable that people absolutely love, then you can get away with doing everything else not half-assed, but certainly not too as high a standard because they look past that because they want the product no matter what, especially with a product like this, which is difficult to source anywhere else. Okay, so this is the products on Funny Fuzzy. This is the products on AliExpress. It was the only supplier I could find. And what we're gonna do is just take a look at the sizes just to get an idea of what their profit margins are. So back on to Funny Fuzzy then. Let's take a look at these sizes. So we've got 28 inches by 60 inches. We're going for this one here, which is their size large. If I can get my cursor around. So we've got large here, 60 inches, 28 inches is their size large. So these guys are selling this product. There will be a shipping fee, I would guess. It says free shipping, but with something, I'll bet it could back down quite small actually. But anyway, the $30 reduced down from 70. These guys are selling it for 75 pounds. So $30 is what, about 22, 23, maybe 25 pounds. Selling it for 75 is give or take 50 pound of room in there. Now, a lot of people, not a lot of people, but some people have commented, yeah, but that's only the welcome price. They would not sell this at this price if they couldn't make a profit from it. If you are sourcing from a decent supplier, this will be the normal price that you're getting it from. Plus, if you don't believe me, go to a website called 1668.com. It's basically the Chinese version of AliExpress, which is the normal kind of wholesale price. If they were selling China to China, they wouldn't sell it at a loss on that website. So you can basically gauge it pretty quick and what the true price if you were wholesaling in a product. Moving on to product number two is kind of like a niche, not necessarily a specific product. Yes, this product is winning. I don't doubt that at all. I wouldn't be featuring it either, but a side note is customized products coming into the holiday periods, coming up to Christmas. This is when personalized items absolutely fly off the shelves because when you're buying gifts for people, it's obviously a nice touch to buy gift that has their name on or some sort of personal touch. Also makes it super quick and easy to get started with, especially if you've got a knack for design because you can put your own designs together for something like this very, very quickly and getting it printed on a mug, still dropshipping, print on demand. It keeps your expenses low as well. So this particular one, 800 chair, 650 comments, nearly or just over 6,500 reactions. Sorry, we'll have a look at the comments quick before we jump on to the Shopify store. So love all nine of my fabulous siblings. The best gift I ever got, so there's somebody. These are awesome. I ordered four for my husband's siblings. I ordered this for me and my brother. I ordered these, love them. So what we can actually see, so I love, love, love my cup. We love our cups. I ordered one and love it. I'm so thankful for my sisters. Love these. I bought three with seven brothers and sisters. What we can gauge from this is two things. Number one, people are obviously buying this thing. And number two is people actually buying more than one of these things because it allows you to kind of tick off all of your brothers and sisters in one go and get them all the same gift. There's no arguments, that sort of thing, no favoritism. Because if you are like this example here, you have five siblings. You're gonna be ordering five of these things so you can give one to each person. You may even order six so you can keep one for yourself and everybody has the same mug. Why the difficulty does come in with a product like this, is building out the Shopify store to make it user-friendly enough that it's straightforward enough for people to use and place an order and know exactly what it is they're getting. So number one, 20 pounds for a mug, I believe. 24 pounds for a larger one, made in the United States. Don't be put off by that. It's super easy to find local print-on-demand supplies. I'll show you my example here with printer fire in a second. If you're not familiar with print-on-demand, then it basically is drop shipping but with personalized products. The supplier will literally print the mug after you've given them the go ahead to print the mug and then they'll ship it directly to your customers. So you're still only paying for something after you've already sold it. This is where the difficulty comes in though, is this section here making it super quick and easy or understandable for people to know exactly what it is they're ordering. If you can see my cursor on the right-hand side or I'll just scroll down and show you instead, you can see how long of a thing this is in order for people to be able to correctly design their mug and be sure of what it is they're getting. So probably not one for the beginners but certainly if you are comfortable with design and that sort of thing. I've definitely considered giving this one a go. So if we can get back to the top, 24 pounds for 15 ounce mug or 20 pounds for an 11 ounce mug, it does have a shipping cost on top of that as it says at the top here, free shipping only on $100 plus. If we jump on to Printify, Printify our print on demand supplier, they basically have lots and lots of different locations so you can pick and choose where you want it shipped from in order to make sure you get the best production times, ratings and delivery times, that sort of thing. Either way, with this particular mug, so 11 ounce, these guys were selling a 11 ounce for 20 pounds, which is about $25 plus there's a shipping on top of that. You can source this exact ceramic mug. 11 ounces have your design printed on it for £4.40 or $4.40 plus the shipping, you're looking at about $10 all in.  And so with that being said, that's the two products I wanted to show you. Hopefully you agree with me that both of these products are great examples, they're both selling really well right now. If you do agree and you want some more great examples, make sure you head to that top link in the video description down below to get a copy of this 127 trending products for 2023 and 2024. Like I mentioned, 100% free won't cost you a single penny. All I need is your name and email address and of course I need your email address so I can send you the actual ebook itself. Thanks for watching guys. Have an awesome week, have an awesome Q4. See you in the next one. Cheers.