This 10th year of Daily Tech News show is made possible by you. Yes, you, right there, listening to the show right now. Like, maybe your name is Norm Physikus or Chris Allen or Chris Smith. Coming up on DTNS, Microsoft is making call of duty deals with pretty much everybody except Sony, plus what the Supreme Court Justice has said about Section 230 will surprise you, I swear. And Spotify and YouTube Music have new ways to make a personalized radio station for you. This is the Daily Tech News for Wednesday, February 22nd, 2023 in Los Angeles, I'm Tom Merritt. And from studio, rather than I'm Sarah Lane. In 4.2 inches of snow or feet of snow, I'm Scott Johnson. And snowless on the show's producer. There's a difference between 4.2 inches and feet. Yeah, you're right. One's a lot easier to shovel. You can just kind of push them out of the way. Well, folks, we have got so much for you today that we need to get right into the quick hits. Several users on Twitter shared screenshots claiming that OpenAI began offering early access to a new developer platform called Foundry. This will provide customers with a dedicated compute capacity to run OpenAI's model, including GPT 3.5, with the same tools and dashboards used by OpenAI itself. Pricing for the lightweight version of GPT 3.5 starts at $78,000 for three months. So this is for corporations. This is not for personal use. Amazon completed its acquisition of something that is for personal use. One Medical, which operates 200 medical offices across 26 markets in the United States. One Medical offers membership for $199 a year on top of insurance coverage. So your insurance covers part of it. You pay $199 whether insurance covers it or not. But that gives you some all-in-one care that one Medical says is easier to navigate. Lab tests can all happen at the same place. It's kind of like Kaiser, to be honest. Amazon announced the acquisition in July last year and shuttered its Amazon Care telehealth service this past August in anticipation of this. The U.S. Federal Trade Commission said Tuesday it would not object to this acquisition, but is still investigating the deal for any anti-competitive effects or privacy implications. Amazon also partnered with Cochlear to launch a new app letting fire TV devices stream over Bluetooth to Cochlear implants, including any apps supported by the platform. Amazon says this will provide a dramatically cleaner and clearer signal than audio that comes from speakers. A little bit more health care news. Bloomberg's Mark Gurman sources say that Apple has hit major milestones in developing a glucose monitor for the Apple Watch. The tech has been in development at Apple reportedly for 12 years and will use light-based measurement instead of blood samples, probably a plus for Apple Watch customers. An algorithm measures the reflection of light from lasers to estimate glucose concentration. Now, it's still years away from ending up in a watch as the next step. It's apparently to make an iPhone-sized version to strap to your bicep to use in conjunction with the watch. How much glucose is in there? Nikkei Asia sources say Chinese regulators informed several domestic tech giants including Tencent and Ant Group to not offer public access to chat GPT services. No foundry $78,000 subscription for you. They are not allowed to do that either on their own platforms or those from third parties, at least according to these sources. Launching any chat GPT-like service, which a lot of these Chinese companies have said they are going to do, would also require approval from regulators. Microsoft released a preview of mobile apps for Bing and Edge on Android and iOS, both featuring its new Bing chat experience. A Bing icon at the bottom of the apps can be used to begin the chats with users able to get responses as bullet points or text or even as a voice response. The apps use the same waitlist that Microsoft set up for desktop access to the new Bing chat and the company also added a preview of the new Bing chat to Skype. All right, and that is a look at the quick hits, but not the end of the Microsoft news. Microsoft had a busy week and it's only Wednesday. On Tuesday, we told you the company announced a 10-year deal to provide games specifically Call of Duty to Nintendo. Same day they launched on Xbox. Well, a little bit later, Microsoft announced another deal, this one also 10 years, to bring Call of Duty and other Activision games to Nvidia's GeForce Now cloud gaming platform. Now, Microsoft can't share Call of Duty with Nvidia until it actually successfully acquires Activision Blizzard, but in this case we do know that this deal will immediately bring some Microsoft owned titles like Minecraft to GeForce Now as well. Yeah, Vice President and General Manager of Nvidia's GeForce Now, Phil Eisler said he was initially concerned about the acquisition, but that Microsoft was, quote, very open about wanting to enable cloud gaming and work with us on a 10-year license agreement. So over time, they made us more and more comfortable with it, end quote. Eisler also said that Microsoft isn't paying for access to the titles. Now, Microsoft's xCloud service is in direct competition with GeForce Now, obviously. Call of Duty will be available on Nintendo. Microsoft still says it'd like to sign a deal with Sony if Sony wanted to play ball, which it has not yet. So Scott, at this point, is there anything else that Microsoft can do? Anything else they can share with their partners to make nice, to make sure? I'm being offered Call of Duty for 10 years on my own body by Microsoft at this point. You're going to wear it all the time. They want the acquisition to go through, so what are you thinking? Well, I think that this is Microsoft lately. They want people to play their games and games in general with their services wherever people want them to play. It's no longer our platform.  We just want you to play our games and we want you to pay us money for subscriptions. And they're making ground doing that. The interesting thing about the two fills coming together, Phil Spencer and Phil Eisler, is that this seemed like an impossibility a little while ago. In fact, when GeForce Now first launched, you could play certain Activision and certainly Blizzard titles via the service. You could run them via their normal ways of owning them, but you could open them and run them basically as a virtual machine via GeForce Now. So for a while, people were playing World of Warcraft that way, Overwatch, some other popular titles, and that got yanked. They had takedowns for that, so they did. They complied and took it down. This is Microsoft basically saying, hey, we'd like to come back and if we end up acquiring these titles along with our own stuff, we'd really love to bring these back to the service. And it's really no sweat to GeForce Now because GeForce Now doesn't sell you the games anyway. They just provide a gateway service for you to play the games you already paid for, usually through Steam or other services, but some of this stuff has been gated off for a while and now there's a chance it'll all come back. So I think it's actually a really positive move and it's really, honestly, it's no skin off of GeForce or NVIDIA's nose. They lose nothing by this and they gain subscribers by this, so they lose nothing in this process. Microsoft doesn't really lose anything either because you have to buy Call of Duty in the future or even, I mean, you don't really buy Minecraft, but they're going to make their money off Minecraft if people are playing Minecraft. So the more places they could play Minecraft, including GeForce Now, the better. Obviously, Microsoft was motivated to make this deal because they want to look good for these regulators, but there's no reason they shouldn't have made this deal already, to be honest. I think people misunderstand that GeForce Now is not making money off of selling you the games.  Yeah, exactly. And that therein lies the key. Now, the one thing I could see people raising their eyebrows at is they have a competing access your games via the cloud service called XCloud, like Sarah described, and XCloud, while still in beta, is a very solid piece of work and people like it and it seems like that competes directly with something like GeForce Now. But it really doesn't. Any more than them selling Halo Infinite on their store, the Xbox store, or you playing it by Game Pass, or buying it on Steam, or buying it on Epic Store, you get my drift here. Or selling a Surface laptop and letting HP use Windows. Exactly. They're doing that same thing kind of across the board. So the plan with games as going forward fits really nicely into a concept like this. And they're basically just saying, look, if you have Game Pass, we do have XCloud. But if you really like what GeForce is doing, and we kind of do too, actually I really do as well, hey, you can play them there too. And I think this just is consistent with their current mode and puts a little bit more pressure on Sony who seems to be the only one with their arms folded in the corner refusing to do what anybody wants them to do. It's kind of a bad look for them. I still, I appreciate their position, especially as a market leader in consoles. And they don't like this kind of pressure. But I think the writing's on the wall ultimately. Yeah, I know this isn't our prediction show that we do annually at the end of the year. But I feel like within a week, maybe I'm wrong, Sony might change their tune. Oh, follow up next week. If regulators allow this, Sony changes their tune. I don't think Sony changes their tune unless this acquisition goes through. You're right, because then you're just left out. Yeah, although maybe, maybe they will, but they'll want to get something else. Microsoft will want to get something else to return for it. Real quickly though, do we think this is going to go through? Do we think this is going to make a difference? Because right now, I don't know. I keep having these back and forths on it. Part of me is like, it depends on how frustrated or tired of dealing with it, Microsoft is. And then stuff like this happens, they go, oh, no, they're actively out there like building partnerships with companies that previous to now were kind of at odds in a lot of ways. And now this is then coming together in this very specific way. So they clearly have the. Do the regulators care or are they going to be like, I'm still too big if you get it? Because I think Microsoft has enough lawyers. They'll do this all day. Yeah, that's what they're hired to do. And you know, Microsoft has been in long drug out acquisition talks in the past in other capacities. I don't know. I feel like Microsoft is throwing everybody as many bones as possible saying, what about this? Yeah, they're doing everything they can. I still don't know if it's enough. I don't know if the regulators are like, yeah, you can dance all night. We don't care. All right. Speaking of dancing, you're going to need some music. If you want to dance, Google began rolling out a new radio feature on YouTube music that gives you more control than the usual automatically generated playlist. For example, you can select up to 30 artists rather than just one to start your station. And you control how often those artists repeat. You can put some artists in heavy rotation, some in smaller rotation. You can set filters to change the mood of the station. Maybe you want to have more chill stuff or downbeat or pump up. As you listen to the station, you can also adjust those settings in the tune option, which will appear at the bottom of the interface. As somebody who has created her own playlists named Angry Drake versus Chill Drake. I respect this. And this is actually something that I would use. Listen, sometimes you have to get granular with stuff that you like. Especially with Drake. Yeah. Similarly, sort of, Spotify launched a DJ feature. It's in beta and provides curated music with automatically generated spoken commentary about the tracks and the artists selected. The feature is powered by Guess Who? Open AI. Spotify saying it provided its music editors and experts and script writers and data curators because Spotify has all of those things apparently with access to the tool in order to create culturally relevant, accurate pieces of commentary at scale. So humans definitely still in the loop here. And you can tap the DJ button to shift to a different artist say or maybe a different genre or mood help improve the DJ as much as you can. Spotify's DJ is available in English only for now to premium subscribers in the U.S. and Canada to start with. So let's all talk about what we prefer here. Do you want to be in charge of your own radio station? Have all the controls at your fingertips? Or do you kind of like the AI that knows you being in charge and is just kind of helping you out? Or you just want playlists the way that you've had them in the past? I'm the little kid in the GIF who shrugs your shoulders and says why not both? Because that's what I want. I want both the ability to still be very granular and manual with the way I choose music and how I make my quote-unquote mixed tapes showing my age here. But I also love the idea. Some of the application of AI lately in this field is very interesting to me. And I think it can get very good at knowing what you want, how you want it and when you want it. But I don't want that to be the full-time thing. I need to have tools. And they're not saying they're replacing people here or they're replacing my ability to do that. But that would be a hang up for me if all they offered was this AI DJ business. When they say they're going to make me a radio station, as someone who used to program a radio station, I want that. I want the ability to have a rotation list, 10 songs in heavy rotation, 10 songs in medium rotation, some recurrence, a library of 500 oldies that get circled through more slowly. I want to be able to set a clock that plays like heavy rotation at the top of the hour, bottom of the hour, and tendily hour. I really want that kind of control if I'm going to make a radio station and if I don't have that kind of control, then I kind of want the opposite, which is just an AI that asks me some questions every once in a while. Do you like this? What kind of stuff do you like? I notice you've been playing more of this and then creates the perfect station for me. It feels like YouTube music is going in the direction that you want, Tom. It's just that not everybody is like, well, I used to be a radio DJ, so here's what I know I'm capable of doing. Oh, no, I don't. If only you gave me the controls. Yeah, yeah. But it's definitely giving you a sort of, yeah, let's say you pick your 30 artists. Well, maybe 10 of those artists are actually your favorites and others you'd like peppered in a little bit more. So there's a bit of a sliding scale going on here. I also don't have an issue with what Spotify is doing. I say anything that helps me discover artists because honestly, unless I, if you give me too much control, I listen to the same stuff over and over. Or I just go to the radio and then I just suffer through songs that I like less than other songs. And I think, ah, if only I could hard it like I do on Apple Music. As an Apple Music person, neither of these services are directly affecting me. But yeah, I think the, you know, the more control we have over the music that we'd like to listen to for the next hour or however long our next road trip is, it's cool. I don't think either of these are wrong. No, neither approaches are. And I mean, you'll have, you'll still have kind of the base control you have now, but it does make me wonder, mainly because you mentioned it, but it also, I am also an Apple Music user. This feels like something Apple can't take their time with and be like the perfection version of a thing that takes three years longer than everybody else. I think they have to get on it. So I don't know how soon we'll start seeing this sort of thing. Yeah. Because honestly, Spotify is just straight up opinions of a lot of people straight up better at curation than Apple Music. Apple Music has more total songs and albums, but if you can't get what you want or get enough or recommended to you, Spotify is probably the place you're going to go. So I don't think they can sit back and go, well, we're going to have a huge team of researchers figure this out for the next seven years, and then we'll have the ultimate AI recommended DJ. I don't think they can afford it. Also, side note here. I love that Spotify is using open A technology not to replace anyone, but to make their job easier, to make their job more effective, to make their job happen at scale. For example, Spotify's head of cultural partnerships, Xavier Jernigan, who also hosts the Get Up podcast, is the model for the AI voice that reads you things in the Spotify version of this. You get his voice as an artificial DJ. He's not going anywhere, but they're using that. This is a great example of AI being used as a tool, rather than replacing someone. I think that that might be significant down the road. I think there are not everybody, some folks like streaming services enough to have several and like to compare. Most people don't, right?  Maybe you stick with Google's YouTube Music or some version that I'm not thinking of right now. For me, I'm sort of like, Apple Music's great. $9.99 per month. My Verizon subscription pays for it anyway. We're good, but I don't really know what I'm missing. If you feel like you've been comparing multiple streaming services, I'd love to hear about it. Email us. Deezer users, email us. Feedback at DailyTechNewShow.com. The U.S. Supreme Court is considering interpretations of the law that we affectionately on the show called Section 230, which protects internet platforms from being liable for what their users post on those platforms. Why should you care? Well, depending on how the court rules, it could change the kind of things that platforms allow you to post or not post. It could also make it more expensive for new platforms to enter the market and then challenge the existing big ones. And if that happens in the U.S., it's going to have repercussions around the world. Yeah, we have an episode of Know a Little More about how Section 230 works specifically in relation to these cases. The short version, though, is before Section 230, internet platforms either had to choose not to moderate at all or become responsible for everything on their platform. And the U.S. Supreme Court is considering two cases challenging a part of those safe harbor protections. Tuesday, the court heard arguments in Gonzalez vs. Google that rests on whether algorithmic recommendations, the YouTube algorithm that suggests another video to you is protected as moderation or not. The other, Tomna vs. Twitter, rests on whether failure to remove terrorist content fast enough constitutes liability because of the anti-terrorism laws in the United States. Now, we're not going to get Supreme Court decisions on these till late June. All we got was the oral arguments this week, but here's what we can glean from what they said starting with Gonzalez. All right, several of the justices pointed out that algorithms weren't nearly as sophisticated when Section 230 was written as they are now. That seems kind of obvious. And that maybe Congress should deal with this, not the courts. You can check out Neil Gorsuch's feelings when he said, quote, I mean artificial intelligence generates poetry. It generates polemics today that would be content and goes beyond picking, choosing, analyzing, or digesting content. And that is not protected, unquote. Very interesting. Chief Justin John Roberts and Justice Clarence Thomas also asked questions concerning what the wider effects of the case would be. Justice Thomas specifically said that it's the same algorithm that recommends cooking and racing videos than the plaintiff needs to explain how it differs in this case. But the clincher came from Justice Amy Conan Barrett, who said the following, if you lose tomorrow, do we even have to reach the Section 230 question here? Hmm, Tom, what do you think she means by that? Yeah, so Wednesday's case, Tom Noversus Twitter, asks whether Twitter and other companies bear responsibility for a shooting in Istanbul in 2017 because they hosted and monetized videos that radicalized the shooters. The case is not about recommendations. Most experts think, however, that if the court finds that Section 230 protects Twitter in the Tomna case, that that would make the question of algorithms in the Gonzales versus Google case irrelevant. Because, basically, if hosting the videos in the first place is protected, then it doesn't matter if you recommended them or not. Google could then file a motion to dismiss its case, or it could be remanded by the Supreme Court for further proceedings in the light of their Tomna decision. This would be a way for the court to avoid deciding the boundaries of Section 230. But that's only if they ruled in favor of Twitter. Sarah, how did the justices sound in their hearings on Tomna? Well, they focused quite a bit on the part of the Anti-Terrorism Act, saying liability may be asserted as to any person who aids and abets by knowingly providing substantial assistance. They grilled both sides about where the line is between unknowingly assisting somebody who goes on to commit a crime and providing that assistance when you did not... you did know or maybe should have known. So, you know, more of that gray area. Justin Sclerence Thomas asked how the law would treat him if he provided a gun to a friend who then went on to commit a crime. Justice Catani Brown Jackson pointed out that willful blindness is something that we have said can constitute knowledge. So, now what do we make of this? Yeah, so this second one is more typical for the court, which is they ask a lot of hard questions of both sides and you get an idea of how they're thinking about the case but not necessarily how they will rule. So, what I took from the Tomna questioning was that they're taking this one very seriously and they're trying to figure out where is the line of aiding and abetting. They're looking very closely at that part of the law. Did Twitter aid and abet when it provided money to these folks who ended up going on to do the shooting or provided money to people making videos that were seen by the people who were then inspired to do the shooting, is that aiding and abetting? So, that's why you get Justice Thomas' question like, well, hey, if I loaned my friend a gun, but I don't know what he's gonna do with it and then he commits a crime, am I liable for that? That's why you get Catani Brown Jackson, Justice Jackson saying, hey, willful blindness, if you know you should look but you turn away anyway, you can still be found responsible. So, they're not telling us how they're gonna rule but they're telling us that's what they're looking at. They're ruling is gonna rest on did Twitter, can you decide that Twitter aided and abetted? If you decide they did, then Tomna wins and Twitter is found liable and Gonzales versus Google is still in play. If they decide this doesn't constitute aiding and abetting, therefore it's not a violation of the law, therefore Twitter wins, then they can and they indicated very clearly in the oral arguments with Gonzales versus Google that they wanted to kick that one down the road. So, if I had to guess, not based on what their questions were but based on what they said in Gonzales versus Google, it sounds like they want to rule in favor of Twitter and then kick Gonzales versus Google down the road because they don't want to alter how section 230 is interpreted. Yeah, I spent a lot of this morning trying to come up with okay, what's my best guess for how this shakes out? And I don't know because, you know, it still goes back to that question of if you knew somebody was going to do something wrong and you did nothing, that is one thing. But that's not what we're arguing about. We're arguing about whether or not you should have known. Right.  It is, it is, it's a fascinating and certainly not a rosy situation that we're going through. But, but yeah, I don't know. Yeah, I would say the only thing I would add here is Gorsuch brought it up in his opinion or in his comments. AI is about to make their 230 docket really busy. So maybe clear all this stuff out, get it figured out, do what you got to do, throw it back to Congress, whatever you got to do, but things are going to get weird. Yeah. I was heartened by what Justice Kagan and Gorsuch and others said in the Gonzalez versus Google where they're like, we, Congress needs to figure this out because algorithms aren't now what they were when Section 230 was put in place. You need new language. And they kind of repeated that over and over that Section 230 really isn't equipped to deal with the modern algorithm and AI, which is why you saw Justice Gorsuch, you know, point out like, hey, this thing's doing poetry. Congress needs to do something about that. Well, let's turn, turn our attention to the heavens, shall we, particularly space. TechCrunch reported on Tuesday that a company called Vast Space that aims to build artificial gravity space stations in low earth orbit acquired the Space Tug Startup Launcher. This would give Vast Space access to Launcher's Orbiter Space Tug, also their employees, and payload platform and its liquid rocket engine known as E2. Vast would use the Orbiter Tug to test space station subsystems and components in orbit as early as June with another test set for this coming October with both carrying customer payloads. Also, Vast says its first space station will be zero G. Now they haven't quite cracked the artificial gravity thing just yet. If you know more about it, let us know because Vast's commercial project will continue The company adds that Launcher's Space Tugs abilities and its flight software, avionics and guidance, navigation, control systems technology will complement development of the space station, which is why the acquisition happened and Launcher's first Orbiter mission in January failed after the spacecraft's power systems malfunctioned. So Launcher doesn't necessarily have a great track record, but Vast Space thinks they can do something with it. Vast's CEO, Jud McKayla, co-created Mt. Gox, the crypto exchange that went Mt. Down. He's a founder of the protocol Ripple. He's a crypto guy. He has a lot of money. He has a lot of really smart people working on this, though. So to me, it's less about McKayla, he's the front man, he's the hype man for this, but they're doing some really interesting things. And in fact, even though Launcher's first Orbiter failed, it failed in a way that they learned something from. They were very positive about, yeah, while the batteries were working, everything worked the way we wanted to, and we know exactly why the batteries failed, and this is a great test to let us learn from that. So I feel like even though Jud McKayla is CEO, which is gonna make a lot of people go dismiss this, there might be something to this. I'm not sure about the anti-gravity part of that. That seems a little bit, you know, ahead of things. You're getting ahead of themselves, but I think we are at the point where we've got private companies doing regular launches, about to take people to the moon in a couple of years. It's about the time in the schedule where you'd see private companies making their own versions of the International Space Station. I think that's gonna get more common, whether it's vast in Launcher or somebody else. We say hurry up so you can do CES from the moon, Tom. That's what I want. That's expensive though, man. I know. You think it's expensive to stay in the Renaissance Las Vegas until they have CES on the moon. Brand new, patron-level. I think if the satellite internet costs. Well, you're closer to the satellites though. I guess that's true. Yeah, but the Ethernet cable, you know, it's flying all over the place. Yeah, it's really long. Yeah. All right. Well, let's thank Scott Johnson for his being here. Scott Johnson, we just want to thank you for being here. Oh, that's so nice of you to say. I really want to thank you for having me here. How about that? I also want to tell people that I'm getting really close. Like, this isn't a great representation about a centimeter on my fingers here, and you can't see it if you're listening, but that close to finishing my brand new card game called Dungeon Murder, which you can find details at DungeonMurder.com. Some new video going up there this week, so watch for that. But anyway, I am playing the final beta deck. I have play-tested it to death. I think we're there. So keep your eye on that site. Kickstarter coming soon. I'm very excited about it. Can't wait to get it in people's hands. And if you want to know more, once again, that is over at DungeonMurder.com. Scott, I know you've answered this question before, but how long have you had that URL, Dungeon Murder? I have had Dungeon Murder since 2008 because I had this idea. It was based on a comic I drew that year, and I had this idea that, hey, I may want to use that for something, and then I just let it sit. It's just so good. It's not bad, right? It's okay. There aren't a lot of good URLs left anymore. I would have guessed even longer, to be honest. I'm surprised I got it, to be honest, but it's all good now. Scott, you're never short of surprises, and we thank you for being with us today. We also have a boss to thank. 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Hi guys, I am Prashant, I am from Hyderabad, I curate design community called Design Evening in Hyderabad. I also run an innovation platform, so there will be a lot of things going on here. So you can ask questions over here. So I wanted to show something on the, so Sumit was talking about solutions for a bunch of problem statements that are out there and I was talking to a few designers here who are about the collaboration of open source design and it's kind of a new thing but we were also debating on what design and open source, how can they come together and what it means to have open source in design. So I wanted to start showcasing it with examples. So this is one of the projects that people are working on in the community. So the problem statement was how do we enable people to better transport, better use the bus transportation systems in Hyderabad and each one had their own problem, I mean each one had their own solution. Some of them through technology at it, some of them who were like more of domain, they said let's talk to APSRTC. So then we brought all of these people together on to one, into one location and they started brainstorming. So we also had designers for this. This is visual design. So it all started off with understanding, so most of them said there's Google, you can also already see timings. So how we went about it is that one person was leading and curating this project and we all penned down our ideas and we brought it together and it started off with trying to figure out to get the bus stop, the list of bus stops. So we got in touch with the APSRTC and we got around 3000 bus stops and we figured that it's too many bus stops for people to verify, it's not geospatial. So how do we get the number of stops down and find out what to send volunteers across? So one guy wrote an algorithm to find out is there any intersecting bus stops and we found out that 75% of the bus stops are intersecting. So then we figured that we can send a bunch of volunteers over two days and geospatially locate all the bus stops. So we didn't start with building a portal, we didn't start with building an app. So what I wanted to actually bring in is the aspect of designers and technologists coming together to work on something that is open source. So we were discussing on what is open source design and you cannot really open source, it doesn't make sense to open source the design outside, right? So you open source design patterns, you open source design processes. So this platform is where what we created is people worked on these projects and they came up with an exploration process to come up with new patterns and bring out new processes for people to use on problem statements that are very relevant. You cannot take one problem statement and put it out there, right? So finally they figured all the geospatial stops and then how do we send the information out to more number of people? So that's why they built this portal but not everybody has access to this portal. A few volunteers can just take printouts and then they figured out that there are panda bars and smaller stores around the bus stops. So they can print it out and distribute these pamphlets to these panda bars who can in turn sell it for a rupee for everyone across that. So these are all the routes for the stops across that stop and all the stops after the stop and all the relevant information out there. So they were able to, we had a process behind it, it's not very well oriented. So our intention is that we bring this process and put it out there and I think that's how more and more people can get, you know, to start contributing to open source design, right? So this is another example, right? So this is, I would say product design. So this is a bus stop, bus route number. Here you have digital boards in Hyderabad also we have a lot of digital boards but still buses use manual boards, right? So they fall off, they fall off like, I mean it's not relevant to web construction but I wanted to showcase it. So the board falls off and the readability is very bad because there's dust in the glass. So we brought in these bunch of designers again and they started building solutions for the bus boards on different solutions, right? So how can it be better readable because by the time the bus comes and stops, it's too late to read it and the bus goes away, right? So they were trying to bring about something, some kind of board which is easy to read, right? So this could lead to a design process, this could lead to a design pattern which is very specific for road transportation, right? So you cannot translate it, maybe you can derive out of it, right? So if you're able to come out of your day job or your business and collaborate on these kind of projects, then you will be open to more, bringing out more processes which is easier, right? So people can derive in great components and use it as a framework and then derive the components out of it, right? So this is one example and I think the other one is not loading, okay? So I think it's not loading. So the other one was the GetRTI project where we had an RTI activist who had actually had a problem statement of congregating RTI documents because it's not easy to file. I mean, there's a huge process to file for an RTI and then you get the data. It's all manual papers. So they wanted to aggregate it into a digital document repository. It's easy to read. I mean, it's easy to search and create stories out of it, right? So even then we had people coming down and that's more sort of a visual design, right? So because you want to visualize stories out of these RTIs. You take RTI from one department and then you take RTI from another department and then you connect this and create stories. So if there's an opportunity for you to be part of these communities, work on projects which are not like totally constructing you from a day job. Not everybody has the freedom to bring your design processes out of your companies. This could be a platform, right? So if you're able to create the community around, I know there is design day, but this is oriented towards working along with technologies. This is oriented towards working with domain experts. So you get in more, there's more process of exploration. So these are the different projects I wanted to talk about. Yeah, so thank you. Any questions? Good. Thank you.


Okay, so now that we're done setting up our navigation menu, let's go on ahead and set up our store currency and our payment providers. Now the reason that you want to set the correct store currency is so that the viewer will see the correct currency when he's browsing your site. For example, let's go to the website that we created during this course and click on one of the products that we added during the previous lessons. And as you can see here, the currency is a USD currency. Just because a few lessons ago I changed it and I may have tipped you guys on it, but let's go over that process really quick to see how it's done. And as you can see, any variation that I click on, the currency stays the same because I chose a USD currency. So head over to your Shopify dashboard, click on settings, click on general, scroll down until you see the store currency and simply change it to US dollar. The reason that we're going with US dollar is because in this course I'm teaching you guys how to sell to the US audience. So the US audience resides in the United States and their currency is the US dollar. So we're going to go ahead and choose that and go ahead and save that. If you want to take it one step further and also market yourself not only to the US, all you have to do is download an app called auto multi currency converter. The link to it, by the way, is in the resources PDF that you have for this course. And once you install this app on your store, it will look like this as you see here on the bottom right. You can choose which currency you want to go with. So if I click on that, I can go ahead and change the currency to any other currency that I want. And then it'll simply refresh the prices on the page with the currency that I'm interested in. So use that if you're planning to market outside the US. So that's regarding the store currency. Now let's talk about the payment providers that Shopify can provide you with. I don't know which country you're from, but every country works different than the next. So once again, head back to the Shopify dashboard, click on settings. And click on payments. And here you can see which payment providers you can go ahead and use. So once again, if you're in the US, you can go ahead and use Shopify payments, which is the default option. And also use PayPal, which Shopify already creates an account automatically for you when you create your Shopify account. And this is another very good method to receive payments from. But once again, if you reside outside the United States, you cannot use Shopify payments, you're going to have to go ahead and sign up with a third party payment provider and do not worry about it. It's actually a very simple process. So I added the link to the online payment gateways that you can go ahead and choose depending on where you live around the world. The link to this page can be found once again on the course PDF that you have. So simply go ahead and click on the country wherever you're from. For example, let's click on Hungary in Europe. And if you scroll down, you can see what payment providers are available. And then just go ahead and reach out to one of them. Tell them that you have a Shopify store and that you would like to integrate their payment provider option in your store. And they'll guide you through the rest of the process. It's as simple as going into your Shopify settings where we were just at. Click on choose a third party provider and then choose them from the list and add whatever details you're getting from the provider so that the synchronization will work. And once you have that third party payment provider, don't forget to see exactly how much fees they're taking from you. So you can calculate your break even accordingly. Remember that when you're using a third party payment provider, Shopify is going to take another 2% from your transaction from using third party payment processors when you are using the basic plan of $29 a month. So keep that in mind and configure the right payment provider to work with on your store. Once again, the payment provider is that payment option that your viewer will see when he's trying to check out with the product that he has in his card from your store. Therefore, if they do not see the payment options that they want to use, for example, a visa credit card or a master card, some of them want to use only PayPal and some of them want to use other options that you have in the third party payment providers. So that's it when it comes to store currency and payment providers. Your assignment for this lesson is to choose the right store currency for your store and choose a third party payment provider which is supported by the country that you live in. And I'll see you in the next lesson where we will be going over the checkout settings and the shipping zones so that our customers can have a smooth checkout process without any problems and we won't be losing any sales this way. See you in the next lesson.


Hey, how's everybody doing today? I'm your host Rich here on behalf of Rich TV Live with my very special guest, my cryptocurrency enthusiast associate, Mosin. How are you doing, Mosin? Great, Rich. Thanks for having me. How are you doing? I'm doing great, man. I'm excited about learning more about Ascentia and the DeFi life. And I know that you are currently running a masternode. I'm going to start running a masternode. So I wanted you to go through the process since you've already are running a masternode and you're going to run a second masternode. I wanted you to actually go through the process of showing the audience how you do that, how you set up the tokens, how you get money into your account, and how you are able to actually run a masternode with Ascentia. Can you go through the process for us? Yeah, absolutely. We'll give you a bit of background. A masternode is one of the many ways to, or a few ways I should say, to secure the blockchain. So when we are setting up a masternode, we're actually contributing to the decentralization and security of the platform. In this case, that's Ascentia. Ascentia has got a great wallet app. They're on a good path to be almost an aggregator of multiple wallets. They have a very big focus on security. And with this decentralization through different masternodes, we're going to see a very tight project. So yeah, it's looking good. Right now, they're offering two ways to contribute. One is by adding liquidity, which is one thing I suppose maybe you can cover in a somewhere else. And what we're going to talk about today is the actual masternode where we will be helping process transactions. So let's get started. I'll just take you through the first step. I've already done it. So this will be more of like a walkthrough. But we're going to go into the book. We're going to pick up the book. And so in the future, this will be on the Binance Smart Chain, but right now it is not. So we got this bad boy. We're at Uniswap platform right now, app.uniswap.org. Now you're going to want to make sure your MetaMask is set up. So I'm going to hop in here. I just pressed the MetaMask. I have it installed in my browser. Hit connect. Now we're in. This is a custom token. So you want to make sure that you got all of the info. So whenever you want to find this, you're going to hop on and you're going to go into what they may have a block explorer or a page where they give you the info. What we're looking for is the contract address, which is somewhere, sorry, guys. Whenever you can't really find it, the easiest way to do it, go to coinmetacap.com, search up what you're looking for, looking for your sentia, and it'll always give it to you. Very nice. And so you were mentioning that we will be using the Binance blockchain in the future as opposed to Ethereum. And the advantage is there is that Ethereum right now has very expensive gas fees. Is that correct? Yeah. Yeah. Ethereum is a fantastic protocol. It gives developers a way to build on it with a very easy understanding of which with the explosive boom we're seeing now. We're seeing everybody and their dog hopping on the blockchain, this blockchain becoming very bloated. They haven't implemented the systems they need yet to reduce that bloat. We're seeing a lot of projects come to solve that problem. And in most recent time, the Binance blockchain is now here. It offers very similar functionality with the swap to the ability for developers to build on it. But for what will cost us $20 to $60, it will cost us about $0.60 to try to act on the Binance blockchain. So it's a much more scalable solution at this point. So right now, you're using Uniswap and you're going to be sending tokens to ESS from Uniswap. Is that what you're doing? So I put in that contract that we just found. Yeah. Or you added it. So now we are set up to buy our first ESS tokens. If I had balance in my wallet, which I do not unfortunately write the moment, but it would hit what we want to buy. I want to say I want to buy an Ethereum worth. I'll give me the quote. Normally it would say swap. You say okay. You say okay in your MetaMask and then the funds will go in there. So we have now put our tokens into here. This is now in our wallet. So now then that would show up in your MetaMask now, correct? Yeah, where you see my first blood, my LPC, my Ethereum, you would have. And if you do not have ESS, do not freak out. Go to add token, a custom token. We'll put in that contract address. I'm just going to go ahead and paste that. And it already knows what I'm talking about. Boom, we're in. I got nothing in there right now, but that's how you do it. Sweet. Here we are. So imagine I got them. Now we have done the part where we get the tokens. Now we need to get it set up through the Accenture platform. So we're going to go back and download the Accenture wallet. Exactly. Go right here, get the Accenture app, download that one. I already have. You know, it's a simple download.  It'll install it for you. I now have it here. Sweet. Now you can see mine's been messy because I've been doing a lot on the blockchain. But the first thing you want to do, you got to import that wallet. So it's an Ethereum wallet.  You get that private key on that same wallet that you use to buy it. Press these three little dots here. In your MetaMask. In your MetaMask. I don't want you to show your private keys. Keep that private. But here's export private key. You press that. It'll ask you if you're sure to export and then it'll show. When you do get it, just highlight it all, copy, right?  Don't write something in my address. And import. That is how I did it. So now all of a sudden your funds are in your ESS wallet. There it is. So you can see here, I had a little bit left over from my last transaction. So this is what you would see if you did this. The tokens that you bought will be showing up here. If you want to run a masternode, you need to purchase at least 100,000. I would recommend you buy 101,000 to cover your fees. So you need 100,000 tokens guys to run a masternode. I do have over 100,000 tokens ready to run a masternode. And Mohsen already has run a masternode and he's going to be running a second masternode today. Is that correct? That is correct. So from there, what's the next step from there to run your masternode? Now that you get the funds in your account? We purchased on the Ethereum blockchain. And this is important because you can see right here, ERC 20 means that these are your Ethereum based tokens. All right, we hit it. Now here's this token swap. Now we're going to take those tokens and swap them for the native ESS tokens. They are called ESSX. I would take them, take your 100,000. There's so much you're going to receive. You can now set how much you're going to spend on gas. Now you want to hit anywhere from normal to fast. If you hit slow, it will take too long or it will not work at all. Oh, wow. This is where you see the real effect of the Ethereum blockchain. You can see these prices are a little bit on the high end. So you want to make sure you're moving a lot to make it worth your while. Yeah, so if you're moving $100 and you're spending $43 in gas fees, it's probably not worth it. But if you're moving like at least $1,000, then that's 4%. That's not the end of the world. Exactly, exactly. So that would happen. I would hit the swap and it does its thing. So the swap time may take anywhere from half an hour to a couple hours. The dev team is fantastic with support. If you ever have any issues, keep in mind we're very early to this company. It's a great opportunity that Rich has brought to us. So we want to just kind of be aware of it. It's a little bit unpolished. So if you do see that take a look along, don't hesitate to go into the Telegram group. Their support, they'll help you out whatever you need. So we've done that. Our token swap is done. The funds have left. You're going to see a pending like I've got one here pending. And then done, you'll see it say redeemed. And then it'll actually be in this essential wallet that comes with your application. You don't need to import this. It's already there. You'll see it confirmed. And now your coins are in ESSX. Exactly. And that's where you can now, as you can see, Masternode is one of the options there now. So now you could run a Masternode. So what's the process of running the Masternode? So you click on Masternode. I've already got a Masternode. So this one here wouldn't show up for you. But you can see once you do set it up, for example, I've set mine up six days ago, I've already earned over 1000 ESSX tokens. When you set up your Masternode, do you need to put in a certain amount of days you're going to run it for? Exactly, you do. So one beauty thing, let's just touch on this. A Masternode is used by a lot of different systems. Typically holding a Masternode, it needs to be online at all times because you're validating transactions. That's what's happening is instead of mining, you're staking and you are using a Masternode to show that you are a secure provider of these coins. So yeah, in general, you would not need to set the amount. But ESS has a great solution for this. So we're going to hit deploy another Masternode. I'm going to put my Masternode amount. We're going to do 1000 days. 100,000 in 10. So one, one, two, three, one, zero. Those are the amount of days. Oh, sorry. Thanks, guys. We're going to call this no, no two. And I'm going to do this for 30 days. 30 days. Okay, so now the reason I was asking you for this is because ESS essentially gives you a server essentially. So you don't need to have your computer on at all times. You are borrowing server time from them to stake your coins. Oh, wow. I thought I had to keep my computer open. No, thankfully not. Nice. Yeah, it's actually great. It's going to save you a lot. You know, a lot of these computers, you know, they take a lot of energy. So there is a fee to save just for one day. You can see that fee 100,000 on top is your 92. So it's looking to be about 92 in the day. But I'm going to do it for 30 days. It's going to cost you 2,482. So that's all that's pretty much it. So let's just make sure everything's done right. You just got a name, you got 30 days, about pay 102,482. And you can see the balance is 108,968. So I'm good. Maybe we should revise it so you want to be purchasing, say, you know, 103,000 maybe just to be safe. So here I'm going to set it up. Take 20 minutes. Sweet. So now in progress, you see that one, you see my one that's successful. It's been active. It's been up for six days now. I've earned 1127. So if you calculate that six days, you know, I've already got almost half my initial spend for the server. So it's quite good. Yeah, that's pretty good. So you got 1100 tokens out of 100,000, you've already got 1100 tokens in six days.  A master note is similar. You're going to receive rewards. You're going to receive more coins for holding the coin. Correct? Exactly. Yeah. You know, you have your stock companies that they want to have a secure shareholder base. So they're going to incentivize those shareholders. You know, Ascension, they want to make sure that they have a good decentralized base of as many people running a master note as possible. So those centralization, they're going to incentivize you for that. Okay, Mohsen, there's a share screen button. Do you see it? Yeah. Are you able to unshare your screen for a second? Yeah. And then I'll try to go and run my master note. Sweet. Go share my screen now. And here is my wallet. Okay. So do you see my wallet now? Yeah. Perfect. So here is my Ascension. Here's my master node. So I would just click master node. Yep. And then scroll down here. No active master nodes. This is my first master node. And I want to hit deploy master node. It doesn't give me the option to choose days yet. No. Just hit deploy master node. Okay. So this is where I'm going to call this one. We'll call this rich TV live. And we'll say we're going to do it for 30 days, just like Mohsen did, and set up a master node. Boom. You know, Ascension made this so easy. It's essentially a long-click master node. That's it. So there it is, guys. We've got a chance to see Mohsen who's running two master nodes. I'm now running my first master node. And I still have coins in my wallet. So technically I could run a second master node. Good. Because I have 200,999. I guess I have less than that now because I'm running this master node. Yeah, you're just shy, but probably have to send a little bit. Maybe I'll send myself a little bit more gas or a couple more coins. And then I'll be able to run a second master node because you need at least 100,000 ESS to run a master node. So I'll be a little bit shy of that. Correct.  Mohsen, thank you so much for showing us everything today. I really appreciate it. And hopefully you have really good rewards with your master node. And in the future, if we run any other cryptocurrency videos or educational training, love to invite you so that we can get your take on everything that we're talking about. Absolutely. Absolutely. I'm here whenever you need me. I appreciate it. Thank you so much. Congratulations on running your master node and all your success. Hope you enjoy the Essentia token and the Essentia platform. For those of you guys that are watching, remember Rich TV Live is strictly for education, entertainment purposes. Always do your due diligence. Always do your research before you invest in anything that we talk about here in Rich TV Live. Past performance is not an indication of future results. 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