Well, it happens a lot. I mean, this story is not unique, believe me.  And the same thing has happened to them, you know. Difficult to manage patients instead of being sent to a better facility to treat them are criminalized and warehoused. And that's not right.


So, seeing all the issues that you have talked about, do our colleges have enough infrastructure or staff to change entirely the mode of operation that is now being imposed? The funny bit is that there is no quality insistence. So, autonomy means that you will be given the freedom without insisting on infrastructure, whether you have the capacity to sustain new kinds of courses or increase student fees and take in more students or not that the government is not looking into.  Now, you know digital literacy and digital learning and all of that is of course I mean we are very much embedded in that scenario. The whole teaching learning process, but you know to replace physical classroom teaching learning with massive online courses, where you don't need more classrooms, where more students can be enrolled through a virtual system to virtual courses. But what is going to be the ultimate quality of those courses? We see that in the semester system, even our classroom teaching learning has suffered because you know the courses are so badly modularized and students just don't get enough time to engage with the content that we give them. And you know now the next step is you know just not having physical contact with your students. Okay, so through reaching out to them through these virtual sort of modules. So quality is the last thing on the in the mind of the government, quality is getting very severely undermined, alright. The whole point is that education is being seen as a kind of a market from where profits can be leveraged, private players want several entry points into this market and that's the entire vision. Unfortunately, education I mean in the real sense lacks a vision as far as policy makers are concerned and it lacks a leadership because all these people including the people in the ministry, the politicians, all of them are behaving, they are acting as go-betweens, brokers, between educational institutions and very powerful international lobbies that are pressurizing them through the WTO GATs, through the several multilateral trade treaties of which higher education unfortunately has been pledged as a part by successive governments. So I just want to add a little bit to that this MOOCs business, we don't have to sort of speculate that, I mean of course it's very clear to any person with a little bit of common sense that you can't really replace this formal classroom interaction of student and teacher with non-formal education, non-formal education is for those who somehow cannot get to formal education, it's an additional thing and it's not even the way in which IGNU and others they operate, they implement their courses through people, they have a large number of employees in all their centres and they actually administer all those courses. But the MOOCs system all over the world has failed very badly, it has been an absolute disaster in terms of teaching and learning, these have been evaluated over and over again so it's a failed system which is being sought to be imposed on a third world country. The second thing is that as you talked about these corporate lobbies, these international corporate lobbies, you see even organisations like the WTO and other such organisations have been increasingly taken over by corporations, it's not just governments, the non-government players are playing a very big role everywhere, they are formulating government policy, they are lobbying and they are making sure that the policies are implemented for their benefits so that their profits can increase. So when they make very major financial mistakes, they are bailed out and ordinary people are made to suffer, government then imposes austerity measures which means cutback on public health, cutback on public education, cutback on all welfare policies so that ordinary people pay for the mistakes and the greed of the large corporations. That's happening all over the world, there is resistance also, where there is greater resistance, you are able to protect your public education. All these governments whether it was the UPA or the NDA, they have become puppets in the hands of these corporations which are dictating policy. In 2005, the Indian government offered higher education as a commercial tradable service under GATS. Now that was crazy, I mean why should higher education or any education become a trade? Because then you have all the logic of the trade laws which say that you cannot have unfair trade practices, you cannot give any incentives to your own domestic suppliers as compared to all the foreign players and that means your subsidies go and if your subsidies go whether it is an agriculture or an education particularly, your education will not be accessible to most people because then you will have to recover the entire cost from the user that is the student and that is what will put it out of the reach of 95 percent of us of our students. Because students are such an important stakeholder in this entire scenario, they ought to know and their parents who are spending the money ought to know that the government is often talking about loans, education loans and you know without knowing about it, it seems like an attractive or even viable kind of proposition but you know the maximum number, I mean America had, United States had been privatizing its education system for a very long time and the maximum number of student loans are taken in the United States. It is a way of also allowing the financial sector to come in very heavily into the education sector and the debt crisis that happened in the United States a few years back when people studied it, they realized that the largest component of that debt crisis was student loans. Students are either unable to pay back their loans or you know they are in such a pressure to get to well paying jobs or I mean some kind of source of income that will allow them to pay back those loans in a very short period of time that they are unable to take proper decisions in terms of their lives, their criticality and their ability to think independently, to use their education to sort of you know act with a degree of independence is completely thotted because they fall into this debt trap. You know any nation which is allowing its student population to fall into a debt trap at such a young age is a nation which I am not, I don't think that the leaders of the nation are really interested in building the nation up or empowering the youth of that nation. They are doing exactly the opposite of what they are claiming to do. Employment is at an all-time low so you don't get employment to pay back the loans that you have taken for your education. You can see the disaster that is in the making that this will completely destroy our country, the young of our country which is after all the future. And on that note I would end this discussion and thanks a lot for joining me on this show and that's all the time we have for news click. Thank you.


Hello everyone. My name is Mohamed Nufal, an architect, cloud native apps architect, that's what they call us now, and I call the global BlackBill team in Microsoft. Pretty cool name. I'm going to talk to you about RedAzure, how to open Chef today and what's possible with it. My goal is just to explain in 10 minutes what you can do, what you can achieve with it. Then the other goal is to bridge Walid to Azure from AWS. It's like we need that passion, man. That's pretty cool. Right. So if you have installed OpenShift in a cloud, any public cloud, you're going to end up with more or less similar or close architecture to the one on that screen. So you're going to have your infrastructure nodes.  You're going to have your worker nodes or application nodes. You're going to have another load balancer so you can control the ingress flows to your applications. On top of that, you're going to have Azure DNS or a DNS provider so you can register your FQDN for your API server and you can register the FQDNs for your applications as well. And then on top, you're going to have an identity provider, Azure Cloud Active Directory in this instance or any other identity provider. And you're going to have a key vault of sorts so you can register your secrets and your certificates and you can bring them to your applications. So if you install this in Azure, for instance, the whole infrastructure management piece belongs to you so you're going to operate the whole thing. And on top of that, you're going to do the onboarding for your developer workflows so you can have developers deploying applications to OpenShift. But the only managed piece in that scenario is you can open a code on either Microsoft or Red Hat and say, hey, I have a support ticket, please solve it for me. But that comes with the operational burden that you still have to operate the infrastructure or the underlying infrastructure for the whole thing. So four years ago, after a lot of work that is happening with Red Hat, we decided to build Azure Red Hat OpenShift. And Azure Red Hat OpenShift is a co-engineered, co-developed, co-supported, co-operated service between us and Red Hat, so Microsoft and Red Hat. Even in the sales part, it's co-sealed, right? So both teams will go together and sell that service to customers. It's not just like Red Hat going or Microsoft will go alone. With Azure Red Hat OpenShift, we take the whole infrastructure part and we abstract it for you. So you still have access to it, but it's all abstracted for you. It's fully managed. So all the nodes that you saw, all the load balancers, the DNS part, the scale set parts and so on, all of these parts are managed. You're going to end up with just the part that you need to onboard your developer workflows and the identity provider integration. That's all that you need to do. The rest of this is already operated and managed in the back end by Microsoft and Red Hat. So I'll give you some ideas of what you can achieve today with Azure Red Hat OpenShift. First, on delete working end, you can have a choice whether you can have private clusters, so private control plane and private ingress for your applications or public. You can mix and match between public and private as well, right? Then you have full cluster admin on the cluster itself. So when we first did Azure Red Hat OpenShift, it was on 3.11, but then we didn't give you admin access there because we didn't need to provide too much access that you can break the SLA, right? So we needed to achieve the SLA, but then that led to a lot of restrictions on our end. So we moved to a way where, okay, we're not going to restrict a lot, we're going to open up, but we're going to tell you the things that you shouldn't do, right? So you can technically have the admin access that you require to your cluster do the things that admins would require to do, but at the same time provide a fully managed service that is fully supported by both parties. You can bring your own virtual network, which means that you can own your ingress and ingress flows. So you can ingress your traffic through a web application firewall. You can do whatever you like with your ingress. You can deploy on routers and so on. And you can control your ingress flows as well. Like a lot of enterprises that we work with, what they do is they ingress through a firewall, for instance. So they can audit all their traffic. They prevent the traffic that shouldn't be allowed to the public and so on. So that's something that you can achieve because you have full access to the virtual network. We have multiple availability zone support, so that's if you need to split your traffic across three different availability zones and then you move from 3.9s SLA to 4.9s SLA, that's what you can achieve with availability zones. You can also bring your own identity provider, so we recommend Azure Active Directory, but if you have your own identity provider, like you're working with Okta or some other identity provider, you can bring your own and then integrate with it. We don't force anything there. You can choose your desired billing model as well.  You also have the reserve model, where you're going to say, hey, I'm going to pay upfront, but then you're going to get a discount for whatever you committed to upfront. And then there is the pretty cool model, which is the spot model. And the spot model is you're going to bid on the unused capacity in Azure. So in each data center, we have some unused capacity, so you're going to bid on it. And that bid will give you 80% to 85% saving on the compute price, so on the on-demand compute price. The caveat there is once we need that capacity, we're going to evict your node, right? Which means that the spot instance is a good candidate for anything that is a femoral workload, so developer clusters. A lot of most, like a lot of customers that we work with, we onboard their developer clusters on the spot instances because that's how they're going to save. And then we save the state in a short file system in a desk or whatever that is, so assuming that we evicted the cluster, we can just get the state back. You can think of any batch workload, any HPC-type workload, any transit-type workloads, jobs, and so on. That's a very good candidate for spot instances, and it's a way for you to cost-optimize these type of workloads. We maintain good compliance. So we have PCI DSS, SOC123, ISO 27001, and a lot other things. It's all in the public Azure docs that you can follow and we keep updating these compliance. We do encryption that's FIPS compliant as well. And we, Azure Red Hat OpenShift or OpenShift in general in Azure is a first-party service. We don't treat it as a ISV service. We work with Azure Red Hat OpenShift as a first-party service. As such, we're integrating Azure Red Hat OpenShift in the whole Azure ecosystem, right? So that integration is done using a service called Azure Arc, and Azure Arc is bringing the Azure control plane to any data center, right? So our control plane in Azure is called Azure Resource Manager. That's the API. That's the control plane that you can control everything in Azure with it. And Azure Arc is the one that brings this one outside Azure to anything else, right? So to your own data centers on premises or God forbid to some other cloud providers, right? So with Azure Arc, we brought Azure Monitor. We brought Azure Log Analytics. We brought Azure Policy, so you can deploy Azure Policy on OpenShift running on Azure and on your premises. And you can deploy one policy to both clusters that says my containers can only pull images from this registry, right? So you're going to have a single pane of grass and Azure Policy that says deploy that policy to those clusters, right? So these are the type of things that you can achieve with Azure Arc and the Azure Policy integration. And we're adding all of these like type of things, GitOps and Azure API and so on, all of these on Azure Arc that you can deploy on OpenShift either on the cloud or on premises. You also have a choice to work either with the OpenShift tooling that you like and love, like OpenShift, like the pipelines or the registry or whatever. Or you can have a choice to use Azure services like Azure Container Registry or GitHub Actions or Azure DevOps and whatever that you choose to work on with Azure Red Hat OpenShift. There is no restriction on the tooling. That's, I think, the message. It's unified support, right? So whether you're going to open, you have a problem with your cluster and you're going to open a ticket on the Azure portal or on the Red Hat portal, there is a back-to-back support system that the support engineers will exchange tickets on, assuming that you open an OpenShift ticket with Red Hat and then it turned out to be like an Azure underlying VM issue. They're going to exchange the ticket at the back end. They're going to talk together and they're going to solve the issue for you, right? So that's unified support. There are other ways as well, sitting there and monitoring the cluster 24-7 to, in order to ensure that there is, if there is any failure, any note failure, underlying failures, that they're going to fix it. And they have a lot of other fixes that are in place. So if there is something that transit error, they're going to fix it automatically. Also, as a plate, we brought, bring your own DNS. So that's bring your own DNS of Korean. That's bring your own recursive or resolving DNS. So you can, like, I'm using my specific DNS resolvers in my own premises or in the cloud. And I'm going to use them instead of the Azure ones. You can bring your own with Azure Red Hat OpenShift. And you can do the same for your certificate authority. So you can bring your own certificate authority and then sign all your applications using that certificate authority. So just a small couple of examples on the things that you can do. We spoke about this one. So this is like networking, of course. Everybody's favorite topic. You can just have an out table from the subnets where the masters and the infrastructure nodes are running or the application nodes are running that goes to a firewall. That's Azure firewall in this instance or any firewall of your choice. And technically get all the egress traffic there. And from there, you can decide what's whitelisted and what's blacklisted in terms of traffic. You can take this a bit further and say, okay, my egress traffic, so traffic originating from my nodes will go through Azure firewall. But my egress traffic shouldn't go through a firewall because the firewall isn't supposed to take or handle web traffic, right? So what you can do is have an application gateway that's Azure web application firewall, but you can bring your own as well. And then ingress all the traffic through the web application firewall, and then that's a stateful traffic, right? So it's going to maintain the same path back. But any traffic originating from the node will go through the firewalls. That's something that you can do as well. We have all sorts of like complex scenarios that customers are doing with Azure that have to open shift. On the regional availability, we have customers doing this, for instance, where you can deploy your clusters across a couple of regions. If you need, you really want to go for an active, active type scenario, you cannot do this with an election databases, right? So you need something no-sequel. So that's Cosmos DB, that's our no-sequel offering. So if your state can be stored there, you can have an active, active across region type setup for Azure that open shift. And yeah, we do have public references. Alpega is in the logistics industry. They're focused on the logistics for the transportation. They had this, you know, sudden increase of traffic every now and then. They couldn't accommodate for this on premises because they needed to build the infrastructure for this. So as such, we imported them to Azure Red Hat OpenShift, and now they just scale on demand whenever it's needed. And that's technically how they saved cost and achieve the cost, achieve the scale that they require. Andriani is the same in South America. They are in the logistics, but in the shipping. During COVID, as you know, everybody went online. So the traffic or the number of shipments during the days increased dramatically for them to accommodate for this increase. They also, we accelerated on boarding to Azure Red Hat OpenShift as well. And now they achieve the cost and, sorry, they achieve the scale, the on demand scale that they require with the cost that is desired from them, right? We do have some other examples which I'm not going to go through, but all of these are public references that are documented in the Microsoft site. And lastly, if you want to learn more, you can either visit the ARO or Azure Red Hat OpenShift docs in Microsoft or the ones in the Red Hat site.


one. Oh, maybe it was him. Well, so we've got, you know, Kelly Clarkson, right? She got a set of pipes. You got Kerry, Kerry Underwood done very well. Yeah. And I think, you know, I can think of probably a couple others that had a hit or two, but it. It's really that first, her first season and then Underwood only she didn't win. She just was like a runner up, right, or something. Oh, I don't know. Did she not win? Yeah. I think she wasn't even a winner. Like, I think there's, there's some lists somewhere of the most successful post American Idol artists are ones that didn't actually win. That went on to do more stuff or better stuff or Sanjaya. Oh, yeah. Yeah. A different guy than I'm thinking then. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know where he was from. I just know that my mom was like, oh, gosh, I don't know why they keep voting him through. She doesn't know like that. I've seen your mom before because you had her on some show once and I can totally picture her saying that. That's funny. Yeah. Here it is. His name was hold on. Oh, what's his name? Why can't I find this? Bristle. Here we are. Quantum Computing Chip. Oh, I guess there's a few from here, Madeleine. Oh, member Clay Akin. I do. Jordan Sparks. Adam Lambert. That's the guy. Oh, yeah. I guess there have been more. Yeah. I mean, he's enjoyed a pretty illustrious. Yeah. There hasn't he? Yeah, there's a few. That's crazy. There's always going to be some winners. Yeah, I wasn't I was never really into those shows. Oh, Roger. I can't tell which talent. Roger, it seems so up your alley. Yeah, I'm shocked by this revelation. No, I mean reality shows in general. The only ones I really like is either it has to have. I need to get a sense that something really is going on and it's not just Hocom because most of the time it's just Oh, no, all most reality shows are scripted. I know almost all of them. That's why I hate them so much. So you you'll catch me on things like amazing race is at least about a competition.  Right.  And that's those first few seasons of survivor, even though it's like, I mean, it's a television show, right? So there's always going to be smoke and mirrors, but you could sort of watch these people lose all this weight.  You know, now it's like there's like 40 survival shows that are way worse. Yeah, totally. Make it an afraid.  It's just like how can you just be like, this is the name of a show. You know, it's just like, gosh, it's so intense. My favorite, my favorite of all time turned out to be totally fake. At the end of it, they admitted it was fake, but it was the one with Gary Busey. I think. Oh, yeah, like something with Gary Busey. Yeah, Busey. I don't even remember that. And it was so good because it just seemed like they're capturing weird Gary Busey being weird. And then toward the end, it got like kind of magical. If it's good, it's produced. Let me just, it's a short, it's the roll of thumb, but it's really good. It's produced. Yeah, that really turned me. I went, okay, I'm done. I don't want to waste it. So we are 30. So, okay. Oh, um, did we, uh, Scott, are you recording a version? I am. I'm recording the main one that we'll use for the feed. Um, otherwise everything. Um, and then Raj, are you using a pre-record for the top? Uh, yes, Scott is. Scott's going to play the music. Oh yeah, I'll play a pre-record for the top and then, uh, musical kick in.  And I'm going to start it now so that it's good. Okay. Bep, bep, bep. Oh, you know what? I need to turn. Make sure that's not too loud on this end. Hold on a second. It's perfect. Okay. It's so scary when I hear these, you know, out of order, I'm like, nah, now it's time to thank the totally. All right. It's like a Pavlov's dog thing. Okay. We're ready. So here we go. Roger, are you good on your end? Yes. All right. Um, here we go. Start it in three, two, one. The Daily Tech News show is supported entirely by patrons like me. To learn more, visit DailyTechnewshow.com slash support. This is the Daily Tech News Show for Wednesday, March 7th, 2018. Tom Merritt is taking the day off. He's in the middle of traveling to Austin, Texas. He'll be back tomorrow. I am Sarah Lane coming at you from Studio Feline. Um, Scott Johnson from wherever this is today. You know what it is? I went to a cooking class last night and I learned how to make some things. So we're going to call this, I don't know, kitchen central with a guy who can no longer just make eggs. I can make other things now. Like what, Scott? I learned how to make beef skewers that you put a bunch of weird sauces on and some kind of weird peanut dipping thing for egg rolls that I made. And then I also made some pot stickers. This all may sound really rudimentary to everybody else, but for me that stuff's always been frozen before and I made them fresh like in front of people. So I'm, I'm proud today. I'm proud of your kitchen evolution. Good on you, Scott. Roger Chang, what can you make? I can make stew. I can make fried rice. I can make scrambled eggs and rice. Oh, beautiful. All right. Well, I think between the three of us, we've got like four dishes. So good stuff. All right. Well, we are going to get into the show. Let's start off with a few tech things you should know. Microsoft is changing Cortana slightly. It's not a big change. You can now activate the digital assistant with the command Cortana along with hey Cortana as you previously had to do. The change is currently live and the Invoke speaker only has yet to update on iOS, Android or Windows 10, though all three are expected to come soon. Seems a little weird. The Windows 10 is not in the world. That's fine. Whatever. The committee on foreign investment in the United States, a government panel that reviews mergers that could result in a foreign company controlling American businesses, that sort of stuff has called for an investigation of Broadcom's proposal to acquire Qualcomm two comms for the price of one saying the hostile takeover big could threaten US national security and weaken Qualcomm's technological leadership. Broadcom announced an unsolicited bid of 130 billion. That's billion with a B everybody for Qualcomm back in November. Yeah, the story keeps on giving anonymous sources tell Cheddar that snap will announce its biggest round of layoffs to date within a week, focusing almost entirely on snaps engineering department and affecting around 100 jobs. Now this would be the again, the engineering department and a hundred people is a pretty small number because snap reported having 3069 employees at the end of 2017. But it's not growing a trinket. All right, let's get this our way this place with snap real quick where we think things are supposed to start going south. Like I feel like there's a shelf life to social services where everybody loves it or at first it's like this is cool new thing nobody knows about aren't we cool because we're early adopters and then it kind of ekes toward mainstream then it becomes very mainstream and then we get to this place where we like to hear that things aren't going great and I feel like snap is like flag carrying in for that right now. Yeah, I mean if you think less than 10% of snaps engineering department is potentially again anonymous sources being let go. It's a small number but I admit I thought the same thing as you Scott I I live quite near snap headquarters and I was like will my town be a ghost town all of a sudden now I probably won't notice anybody off the road in the neighborhood anyway or my rent going down. All right, let's talk a little more about a few more stories starting with Amazon announcing it will offer a lower cost version of its prime membership program to qualifying recipients of Medicaid. So that would be instead of 999 per year or per month rather 599 Amazon first started offering discounted prime service for customers on government assistance in June of 2017. So this is kind of an expansion of that. It also includes U.S. Customers with a valid EBT card. Interesting. I think this is a cool it feels like a cool thing for a company to do and I already kind of talked to a friend of mine who let's put it this way. I tend to be pretty middle of the road politically. I've got a friend who is very much further right from me on in regards to things like this and he thinks this is a terrible idea. He thinks it's already bad enough that people are quote unquote on the land or not on the lamb, but on the what's a better way of saying that there actually is a way of saying it, but I'm not going to say it on this show. Anyway, living at ordinary poverty line. There you go. They're using government resources means they're using his tax money and in his mind, this is just a company he thinks leans very liberal. Anyway, who is now saying, well, here's some more freebie stuff. Even though it's not really free, it's just sort of half of something else. And hey, if they have enough for prime, they should be spending that on food instead of getting food stamps. Like there's a lot of there's a lot more political heat potentially with this announcement than I would have expected personally. I think it's a really cool thing they're doing. So I say thumbs up to Amazon. I like when, you know, there's socially conscious stuff happening over there. Yeah, I guess if I sort of tried to think of it as not politically as possible and just think, well, if you know, the idea of getting delivery and you know, everything's delivered right to your door seems sort of like a luxury for people who had internet access and, you know, not so long ago, this is not necessarily something that would be available to folks with lower incomes and shipping costs and that sort of thing to be able to, you know, especially if you're not near a city center and you get a car and there's gas and there's all sorts of reasons that you might feel a little bit shut out of this otherwise. So yeah, I'm cautiously optimistic. Yeah, I think it's all right. Let's move it on to dig once. No one's ever heard that before unless you're at the Fonds, I suppose, but the name is a for a policy that could speed up fiber internet deployment throughout the US and it's shaping up to become US law after passing the House of Representatives and it's expected to rip right through the Senate as well and succeed. Dig once requires fiber conduit installation during many federally funded road projects and mandates. This is a quote mandates the inclusion of broadband conduit. That's plastic pipes, which house fiber octa communications cables during the construction of any road receiving federal funding, unquote. So the result is reduced costs and increased access for communities and broadband providers enter these new markets and decide to roll new services out because of some of the groundwork will sort of already have been laid quite literally. So yeah, you can't go just dig up a road and say, here's a new road or here's work we're doing on a road without piping that thing through. Yeah, I gotta say it's it makes sense if you're if you're going to be making repairs that the federal government is funding, at least partially funding. I love the fact that they're like, okay, broadband fiber providers, especially folks that might want to come dig up the same place in another few years or having a good excuse not to because the the you know, that the the housing piping infrastructure just wasn't laid down before. Now you have less than excuse to not be able to give underserved communities better internet access. Literally two birds one stone. I like it. I like it too. All right. Maybe you'll like this as well. Microsoft VP Joe Belfiore tweeted that the company will move Windows 10 s from a dedicated operating system, which it has been known as up until now to a special S mode for versions of Windows 10 starting in 2019 next year. S mode will lock down any copy of Windows 10s we can only run apps from the Microsoft Store. The company plans to roll out S mode for Windows 10 home enterprise and pro versions of the OS Windows 10 pro customers with S mode that want to enable their device to the full mode will have to pay $49 to get access to a full version of Windows 10 pro. Yeah, it's kind of almost literally the it's like it's like a paywall for Windows. Yeah, it's almost like where RT went to die. You know what I mean? Like RT had limited functionality. You could only run certain things and while that may have been more technical limitation. This one is also kind of financial limitation or service limitation and you can get the very basics that Windows offers.  It's like all the basic stuff is going to be covered. But the minute you want to expand out of that forked up 50 bucks and go for it. Actually, I think it's a pretty good idea. It seems like you'd be able to get I don't know, maybe a cheaper PC from an OEM or something. Start small. Aim, you know, get bigger as you go. That's what Well, and I don't exactly know how the S team is structured, but it would make sense that they've, you know, if you combine the two a little bit more internally for on the engineering side, it's it's easier for Microsoft to keep track of everything. Well, another big name every day we seem to do this show is Google and they have released an early preview of Android P. They said what the P stands for because it's almost always like candy. With the I think the going rumor is pineapple pineapple. All right. So fruit. I'm cool with that. Yeah. Pineapple always cuts up my mouth. But anyway, go on. You know, you're not wrong. Lemonade gets me. Anyway, Android P is the next version of the mobile OS highlights include an all new notification panel, new status bar with notch support. And I don't mean the guy who sold Minecraft Microsoft for 2.9 billion. Multicamera API indoor Wi-Fi positioning enhanced privacy by blocking apps idling in background from access in the microphone camera and sensors and improved backup encryption Android P is available right this second for Google Pixel one. Google Pixel or sorry and the one Excel Google Pixel two and the two Excel. So both the Google Pixel models are all set for this thing. Google recommends users avoid installing this build on their own personal devices. I suppose that means they can put them on company ones. I don't know why they say they make that differentiation, but I guess go out there and get it. If you're a Pixel user, it's time to test. Well, Roger, as you know, as as the one third of the three of us today on the show who uses the Android phone regularly, what stands out at you the most that you're excited about? I think what's really fascinating is that typically when you see Android and iOS converge on certain features. You know that it's probably a trend, for example, the notch support. You know, it's something that a lot of people kind of cycle wiser a notch in my phone and a lot of people hate it, but it does point point the way that it might be a more common feature among Android phones moving forward. The ability to kind of essentially block access to a lot of the OSes or Android P's functions on background applications that are idling is also huge because we've had issues with before of apps listening in to people while they were not necessarily being run, but we're in the background and that's caused a lot of people some anguish over potential privacy. Multicamera API. That'd be great because now you know there's certainly going to be especially with higher end phones multiple camera like stereoscopic where you have two lenses or in some cases two sensors. I don't mean the front and the back so that could that be that be pretty neat and well it's what's interesting is kind of the limited to only Google pixel and up phones right pixel one so everything else you have old Nexus 5 for you're out of you're out you have to upgrade so it's definitely a push for people haven't upgraded their phone hardware. Well you know I'd say iOS but you know we're on the same boat after several reports from users of Amazon's voice assistant you know who I'm talking about. I'm not going to say her name on the voice assistant naval devices said that she was randomly laughing at them without being prompted to wake mind you randomly laughing out of nowhere. The company Amazon has responded in a statement to the verge saying we're aware of this and working to fix it multiple posts on Twitter and Reddit reported that they thought it was an actual person laughing near them in the same room and why wouldn't they since smart speakers are not supposed to randomly laugh at you. Yeah I got actually an example of this I'm going to play it real quick this is the sound that people were hearing apparently randomly from their echo. Now that's just a short version of it but imagine this was happening every few minutes. It's an it's a it's an ominous laugh. Yeah it's very it's very eerie. It's an eerie laugh. It's also you know even the laughing is one like that's just weird right but but just because so many people are already like hey we love our you know echo device or or equivalent but it's kind of weird that it's always you know it's like I mean anybody who's already on the paranoia fence at all is going to be like all right no this is no good. Yeah also why why laughter is a random sound why wasn't it just saying hello or anything else why a laugh like that's the part that's ominous to me. Yeah it's like being at it you know like a like a scary clown and show also I was sort of going through some of the tweets because I was laughing but I was like if this had happened to me it wouldn't have been funny because one of them was you know the our speakers right next to the bed you know lights off sleeping you hear that in the middle of the night and you think it's over for you. Yeah there is a clown next to the bed. What are you going to say. I was just saying what if you know our whole fears about an artificial intelligence coalescing from all these distributed networks and start online services and it's just laughing at us. Yeah you know I'm getting the hang of this I'm laughing at you because in the decade or so I'm going to be on the control this is hopefully we'll figure out you know what happened sooner than later and you know my guess is like I mean it's like did some engineer who had a lot of access just you know have a laugh. It doesn't sound like her voice right it's not that sort of AI robot laugh. So you know it is a clip from a movie you know that you know got lost in the shuffle somewhere I don't know for that for the record that was the most Roger theory I've ever heard of my life. I loved it. Even for Roger to get all the tech headlines of the day each day in about five minutes you can subscribe to daily tech headlines.com it's our shorter sister show to DTNS good stuff all right let's discuss the idea of just getting off the Internet oh but I'm not going to stop there how about not watching the news on television anymore how about if you only got all of your news about the world no matter if it's tech politics environment whatever from print yes the old way of doing things Farhad Manjoo who is a New York Times reporter who by the way I had noticed was not tweeting lately because he's kind of a funny tweeter you know he's one of my favorite people just to sort of be online with during the day and now I know why because he took two months only digesting news from print I mean he's a New York Times reporter so it's like the guy has to get a lot of news right so this is a big experiment it's not it's a little bit more than you know your average sort of like I'm going to stop using Facebook class but he had he had quite a few revelations if you will some of them are more obvious than others right that the news comes to you much more slowly obviously if you're just reading print because you don't have that 24-hour instant notification we all know that once the last time we ever practice anything like this you know you're really on sort of a when it goes to print cycle again you have less news amplification without social media of course you don't see fake news issues that are caused by Twitter bots or reposts from people on Facebook that you know aren't looking at sources clearly enough print news is read by a very small number of people versus online so if you're going to discuss a particular article you've less of a chance of having seen that exact same version as you know the next person and he said overall the experience was very life-changing he said turning off the buzzing breaking news machine as he calls it smartphone I carry in my pocket was like unshackling myself from a monster speaking of monsters who had me on speed dial always ready to break into my day with half baked bulletins so you know I love these experiments because that he's certainly not the first person to be like what it what you know what would it be like if I just unplugged and you know what lived in the woods or some version of that I have never done this I have never done this since I've had access to the internet I remember in junior high school we had a project that required us to have no power in the house I think it was for a day may have been longer but at least a day and your family had to go along with it and all I remember from it mainly was that my we had to use candles for light and my brother burned his eyebrows off by accident with a candle that's the main thing I remember from but I remember liking the experiment it was like a way of saying well these things we'd completely take for granted and just expect to be there are just suddenly gone what do you do and part of that was well you know what do you do to survive or to maintain or to continue living and do all the things you have to do if these things went away but also to remind you of what life may have been like a little bit before these conveniences were there I think the same can be said for this the the part of this that really jumps out of me is important is that the way that we are now consuming this information and that we're sort of always on there's a notification just a thumb print away or I'm checking it on my watch or wherever I'm getting it is I think mentally possibly not all the studies are done but possibly it's not great for us it's not healthy for us from a sort of a mental health perspective to be always on all the time and I think it's it's not necessarily saying everybody subscribed to this and just get your newspapers and let's call it a day on technology and that's it's been fun but forget about it from now on I guess all I'm saying is maybe we can mimic some of the practices of the older way and those practices being check Twitter twice a day sure only check your your news feeds once a day do it in the morning do your email in the afternoon once don't always be checking it like I feel like a lot of that stuff could happen and it would help us the problem is it's all self-imposed and it all takes you know whatever collective willpower or individual willpower we have and that's a lot harder than it was for those who only can get newspapers and that was just their only way to do it so they didn't you know they didn't have stuff they had to have willpower over they just had to wait for the paper so if the war ended they wouldn't know for a couple of days in some cases that's the thing I I'm sorry Roger go ahead I just you know personally and I've had long discussions with Tom about this is like I notice my anxiety level drops considerably when I'm not always checking the news and which is why I like what Scott you're just saying actually check it like in the morning when I do the show and then I'll maybe do it in the evening but between then I don't look at anything because the the half-baked bulletins point that he makes the point is that people will suddenly react to just a partial bit of news without having the entire story you know revealed and so they go off in a way that's half-cocked about something that may not have happened the way they thought it happened and unfortunately it propagates itself because then you start alerting people they alert other people and it just turns into this giant tempest that might not necessarily have a basis. I like the fact that this was centered around news as well I mean there've been a lot of discussions about the social media you know hurt people's you know actual social lives as it does it you know make people feel worse about themselves because there's so much posturing and kind of you know smoking mirrors of what folks are sharing you know depression and bullying and so there's all those sort of like is this socially bad for us and then you know focusing on news specifically is is sort of like okay well sure once upon a time if I had to read the newspaper I mean I was younger too but it's like I mean that you have to like try to do that and it's really easy not to read the newspaper and you're just not going to see stuff in the air about what you know all the stuff that you could have been reading when it's you know the internet it's like we're all not a bunch of news gatherers it's just in our face all the time you know if I'm if I'm searching through Twitter and I'm like you guys I try to avoid everything but kind of the tech stuff until about midday when we're done with this show and then I have the capacity to to absorb but you know some of the other things that I that I've been sort of actively avoiding but I'm seeing snippets of it all day so it's kind of all jumbled up in there anyway and I'm not trying to get that but that's just the way that I have my communication set up so to take all of that away you know and and Farhad Manchu had said you know the three sort of big lessons that he had learned and again this sounds it sounds obvious but who's tried this recently is get your news don't get it too quickly you know because again it'll be half-baked it'll be wrong you know there'll be a spin on it that you know will affect your idea of it in a way that you wouldn't necessarily wouldn't necessarily have happened otherwise and avoid social so I don't know if he's going to be back on Twitter I'll miss him if he isn't but I think you know more and more the social kind of big internet pipe you know that we've all gotten so used to which is super convenient is you know messing people up and it's interesting to hear that from somebody who's you know you know he's he's he's absorbing news like we are for a living so I mean I look at it just to sort of finish up this thought as maybe a way to experiment and I'm speaking mainly for me I'm not really you know prescribing this for anybody else listening but I found that when I kind of fiddle around with the way I schedule this stuff sometimes it makes a difference to me it's like taking a shower every day you just feel better you just shower every day you feel better maybe do other things with your social intake your news intake that you find makes you feel better if not reading Twitter until at night or not reading it at all and only using it to broadcast things you want to say or whatever you want to do to shake it up if you do that and you feel better all right maybe maybe continue to do stuff like that so I think I just think there's stuff to learn here and I'd recommend people go read this article I found it fascinating me too it's something that I would love to do I feel as though because of my work I'm not in a position to try this but you never know you never know I'll do I'll do the show reading the newspaper at we'll figure that out but yeah no fascinating stuff fascinating stuff definitely check out that New York's time article from from Farhad Monju and thanks to all of those who participate in our subreddits we love to know what stories resonate with you and we try to include them in every show here and headlines you can vote on them even if you don't submit a story just get to you know get people talking about what you like and don't like at dailytechnewshow.reddit.com and we're also on Facebook if you hang out on Facebook a lot facebook.com slash groups slash dailytechnewshow is where to find us there so Scott yesterday we were talking about the Google's new quantum 72 qubit quantum chip that was called the bristle cone and I said to Tom what's a bristle cone have you ever heard of that and he was sort of like don't put me on the spot sir I don't know and so Charles wrote it and said you guys need a staff Forrester and then linked us to to where to learn more about the bristle cone and it's a really cool cone which is why I love the fact that Google called it the bristle cone for this you know extremely powerful chip because all three species of bristle cones are long-lived and highly resilient to harsh weather and bad soils one of the three species Pinus long gave va is among the longest-lived life forms on earth the oldest Pinus I'm not really good with with biology long gave is more than 5,000 years old making it the oldest known individual of any species Yeah that was great I just love it when you know thought goes into naming a quantum chip I agree it's pretty cool congratulations looks like Colorado Arizona you both have these trees natively dang it I don't have any here and they're not in California either Oh too bad I don't know where Google's Google's idea came from but it's it's pretty neat and the idea of resiliency yeah that's what you're describing your chip then probably I'll have your chip in a device one day sure exactly Hey if you can live 5,000 years in the soil seems like pretty good 72 qubit quantum chip as well and thanks Charles it's always good to be reminded that that we have you to help fill in the things that we don't know and also thanks to Scott Johnson who I believe held on the fort with me the last time that Tom Merritt was off the show I was and enjoyed the heck out of it and I always enjoy hanging out with you Sarah thank you so much for being here with me and having me on if you are interested in any other stuff dear listeners that I have to say or think or show or draw or talk about or film you can find all of that over at frogpants.com and if that's not enough for you and you're 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it needs to go right yeah I'll put it I'll put it in the rotation so as well part of the I mean to play it again yeah I'll send that to you here in a sec so I don't forget cool awesome show cool jazz I will never read news again today it'd be so ill-informed I think I think what's what's I mean it's it's weird there's like a push and pull effect like as more people moved to getting such a quick and and you know like you just spur of the moment manner I think people who generate news or to work in PR kind of understood understand that and so they do things that we we would call click baby right whether it's an outlandish comment or something they did at a bar you know one night like you know tip in a waitress like a thousand bucks huge news right even though in the bigger scope in the larger scheme of things wouldn't really be that all that newsworthy and it's and it's weird and I think it's just like you know you you clutter something other people come over and clutter that as well and then you just end up with a big mess I yeah better point all right yeah what do we want to call the shoe I I I enjoy Amazon's assistant getting the last laugh that's a good one it might not be the last one it's also not necessarily sort of like the black male that the title sort of hints at I don't think there's any last laugh really being gotten it's funny though random laughing isn't funny isn't that the not bad there's a dig once cord cut twice dig once cord cut twice there's also oh snap you're fired call a little cold a little cold colds a little cold what do you got all nothing with the topic topic topic wait there was one I just unplugged experiments still like the random laughs no random laughing isn't funny it isn't okay I'll vote for that one Zoe brings bacon you are nothing if not consistent with the show by title ideas you a lot of a lot of the others too I just I for some reason I gravitate towards all of so we're like-minded folks all right good stuff and I'm laughing isn't funny because it isn't no you know no it can be it can be quite frightening turns out it's like being you know in a you know the sort of a I'd mention there's a reason people don't like laugh tracks and their TV shows anymore because turns out random laughing or fake laughing canned laughing isn't as funny as if it if they're not laughing at all yeah exactly like how bad would a rest of development be if at a laugh track it wouldn't be good well but like Seinfeld had a laugh track it did and I feel like it's the last great comedy that had one and got away with it and they also so yeah that's not exactly a nice so I married so I how I met your mother use a laugh track aided that show I love that show couldn't stand it how did they meet nah I'm just getting don't always tell though when it's three camera audience laughter and when it's they're out on camera baking it uh-huh yeah on the set stuff was always pretty genuine that always sounded right right and remember how like back in the day I'm really going way back now like the days of the cause be shown stuff and they'd say cause be shows from the front of a live studio on this like just so you know like they were there were really people laughing still had giant signs that said applause yeah right no no Roger the tonight show just gets all that applause at exactly the right time I know organically and those guys off to the side just gesticulating to the audience that's yeah and that's sort of familiar face we're like I feel like that person said the audience a lot doesn't work on the show right not an intern or a friend of an intern just you know staff members with nothing better to do reality shows are real yes I actually speaking of reality shows and this is really embarrassing but I watched an episode of the Kardashians the other night cause like everybody's having a baby and I'm just like what's going on with the show and they took it was just that it was like the weirdest package where it was almost like the city of San Francisco wanted them to like come to the city stay at the certain hotel go to Alcatraz and like get like a very thorough like tour you know would like a lot of information almost like you know it took up a lot of the episode and I was like this is the weirdest reality show cause it's like obviously the Fairmont Hotel paid for something site but you know it was like some sort of like Chamber of Commerce I don't know but more and more you get these you know all the reality shows now or at least you know the stupid ones where people yelled each other that I watch it's like they're always like okay we're going to the Bahamas and then it's like this weird touristy thing you know that's been paid for and then they just sort of pretend that they all wanted to go there for some other reason I have never seen a single Kardashians episode it's Scott it's it's barely it's it's barely watchable and I'll watch anything Oh Scott are you it's so strange it's so strange are you levelating the MP3 or should I I am right now in fact okay thank you for doing that and that was a lovely show and Raj thanks thanks for being so Android you know so so such a user of the Android mm-hmm yeah we needed so we needed a voice on here that could speak to your weird tribe I love Android I the thing that I it's like I've just never been an Android user but I also you know there's lots cool things about it I just feel like you know I can really kind of only talk about features like that in comparison like oh yeah with the you know on iOS and people hate that yeah I don't they don't love unless it's like a comparison story it's like hey iPhone lady hush it up I think it was just because it was there's so many people who've had so much more experience like jailbreaking or circumventing Android for the longest time to do weird stuff to it right but I also what really attracted me was the kind of model range and the price range for phones like you could get like a one-year brand new like galaxy s7 and it would be like 400 bucks you know like you were locked into the downside of that I agree with you but the downside of that is for me always was well this version won't get like there's a brand new version of the operating system I can't run it like actually this thing today only pixels can run the freaking thing and I know right now this this is it will broaden out to a larger audience but for people want the preview you need to be on those phones but I think I mean yeah there there's a cutoff point and you have that with any technologies at some point where the hardware just won't support any of the new features but like especially with that side as well so but like with phones especially like I live with a phone for at least four years before I dump it and get a new one right like I don't need to have all these features as long as they get email and I can send it in my navigation works usually I'm pretty set like I'm not too worried about not having like ooh stereoscopic camera vision that takes the best you know photos at night I would love to have that and I will consider it when I get a new phone in four years but you know as it works well enough like I'm the kind of person that keeps a car for at least 10 years like I don't see the cars and cars forever I can't stand buying a new car I can't stand the experience that costs too much and oftentimes you know the operating costs for my older car is actually cheaper because insurance is cheaper most of the parts I know where to get for it and it's generic enough that you know you just go to any pick and pull you can find something find what you need you know I don't disagree with that I mean the way it is with phones for me is I don't know I just like the consistency also like the ecosystem I don't hate it it's someone calling into that you or me no that was me someone was trying to someone was trying to call into our email into the into the daily technician email that happens yeah that's a new one right in the middle of the show I can't in I use Google's inbox well that's the other funny thing is I'm all about the Apple hardware and OS but I love Google apps in iOS they're great me too like they're in some cases having I have an Android tablet in some cases they're better than the Android counterpart of the same app they make great iOS apps so I do like that about Google a lot that they as much as they're interested in success of of Android generally I love that I can you know have that stuff I can still have those services and still enjoy them across platform it's great yeah I mean between Gmail putting this show together every day maps it's like I mean Google's a big part of my iPhone experience right all day every day Google services I mean I use them all my favorite iOS mail app is by far Google's inbox app I love it like it's it's a weird relationship you know you know you mentioned older cars a few minutes ago and my car is not older but I also don't drive very much because I do a lot of working from home these days and you know it's those insurance and you know just a whole thing it's it's costly to have a car you don't really use that much and so I thought oh you know what I'll do is all you know check out some of those services where people can like rent your car because days go by sometimes and I don't need it or even if you know like if you want it for a few hours on Saturday it's like I'm just walking around anyway and so get around is this company that I had profiled but I guess tech cruncher something really long time ago and you know I looked at their side and I filled everything out and you know it's not like a huge hassle we have you have to have your VIN number and like all this information about your car and then you have to like arrange for somebody to come and just inspect the car almost like an insurance agent you know so like you can't claim that like somebody like hit your bumper later on when it was already anyway went through the whole thing talk to them and they're like yeah cool and so and your zip code is nine four one or three right which is an old zip code from San Francisco and I was like no I live in LA and they were like oh yeah we don't service area by that was yet like I was like but like had my zip code from when I filled out the form before I had to call you I know it was a bummer but I have heard since then that there are a couple of really similar services that operate in the Los Angeles area so yeah yeah I don't know I just feel like I hate to have something that sits idly when you know it could make your money yeah just like your money work for you and yeah that's in this period right make your money work for yeah invest wisely all that good stuff hold on a second guys I had a plug in my computer my chargers yeah it's a I don't know if I would ever want someone I hate valets like I wouldn't want someone else driving my car no same it's like why are you in my card of like this is the one thing that really bugs me about LA every place is almost completely like a lot of restaurants and stuff for valet only and I just I don't why do I need to pay someone to park my car I'll just park it on the street and walk two blocks and I just don't touch my car it's like you know you don't use the break handbrake you shove it in park like you grind my gears like no you don't need to yeah I feel that way too I hate that I hate valets oh my gosh like I'm enjoying the fact that I'm now talking to somebody who knows what I'm talking about oh the valet life yeah Scott you seem like such a valet guy oh my wife loves valets like she'll always choose to do it but something in me kicks in and it just makes me I get cheap because I know I'm gonna have to tip tip a bunch of other people anyway you know that living in LA there's and just you know says half the time I'm just running late because there's traffic and I'm like valet great now I don't have to you know look for parking for the next hour but yeah you end up sort of getting forced into at times the ones that it's like when someone lives in like a cool building where it's like you know they'll park your car for you because there's like no for you to park a lot a lot of downtown some of the new high rises are like this you know and it's like nice and everything but then it's like I was just going to visit my friend and now I got a tip the okay pretty soon it's just like you know you need a second job to cover it all sure yeah but I'm this is why I just like walking around my neighborhood right really just dense a city person at heart you know cars anyway I love if I could I miss my daughter's whole life plan but just living down in the city and walk or public transport your way anywhere you need to go and everything's with them walking distance and walk over to the university walk I mean there's there is something about that you know I wish kind of wish I could do too but I guess I kind of do I just walk upstairs I would totally be into just like subscribing to a car service where you pay like say like 300 bucks a month or whatever and you get like it would be like city share or car share but with self-driving cars you just come into your door and pick you up instead of having to go to one special parking lot in your neighborhood that has it yeah that was there was a wasn't city car was it I guess it was a car that was like there was a watch that was really close to the last place I lived in San Francisco and you know it was it was hoppin you know people are in and out of there all the time but I was like this is like you know sort of an alley and like I happen to live right next door to it I had my own car so I didn't take advantage but you still have to go there you know figure out sort of like open a gate and the whole thing I honestly I would get rid of my car I would just use Uber or Lyft or something along those lines when I needed to which is not every day except that there are those and I did this back in San Francisco for a while where I was like who even needs it but there were the certain you know when I went to get cat litter and it's really heavy and then you're kind of like waiting outside and you know you got to call people and they don't want to wait for you while you're in the store it's like there are other situations where you're like yes a car is a wonderful luxury to have you know big grocery runs or you know yeah I agree with that yeah especially if you do like oh I need a simple table or a chair from Ikea because I don't want to spend too much yeah just flat pack that thing into the trunk yeah right and just that whole kind of like it certainly has made the idea of carpooling you know like so much more if you're sitting in the back of an Uber it's like where you're carpooling but it's you didn't have to like be like hey okay are we going to the same you know place of work and are we going to leave at the same time and do you live near me and just all that hassle that makes people not want to carpool yeah it's carpooling I mean like in San Francisco in the Bay Area they do though like if you want to get through the bridge you can carpool but I don't know if that would be something I'd be into I feel like there's so much traffic that it's just like screw it just open them all and hope for the best I can't think of any highway not the 10 not the 405 that I use regularly where I have to stay out of the left lane because it's just me maybe I'm just not thinking about that I don't think I don't think so I'll have to be attention next time I'm driving definitely younger generation though none of my I shouldn't see none of my kids my oldest loves to drive but my two youngest don't really care the pressure is not there the social pressure is not there they just don't care that much about it so yeah yeah but then they're just like meh I'll take the train I'll take the bus I don't care do you have light rail is there a light rail we have a light rail system called tracks that goes all the way from downtown and and north all the way south to pretty much the whole valley so you can get anywhere you need to really that's cool clean too it's nice and you know quick and clean and cheap and all that and only it only someone only gets hit every once in a while but there's always some idiot wanders out in front of it and get sliced in half and then and then on that upbeat note any final words for our audience before I stop the broadcast if anyone from the IRS calls you and tells you that the Sheriff's Department is going to arrest you within 45 minutes if you don't pay $3,500 don't do it don't do it let's go and do it all right I got one watch out where the Huskies going don't eat the yellow snow there aha but do watch DTS tomorrow yes and if you can't watch listen


Okay, very good morning to you. Hope you're well. It's Wednesday the 18th of November Just before I begin don't forget to subscribe if you're watching this on the YouTube channel got a brand new video We've recorded this week which we're going to release on Saturday Which is the third installment of the trading psychology series what's being led by one of our traders Tim Duggan He speaks this time to a professional high-performance Psychologist and some really great practical tips about just managing your emotional state and your mindset So I think you'll really enjoy that we're going to release that on Saturday at midday So don't forget to subscribe otherwise, let's just get straight into it and start talking about just generally what's going on this morning and Yeah, it's a relatively quiet There hasn't been one individual single piece of news that I think I can really update you on but there definitely is a few different themes That are playing out at this present point in time So right now in terms of the asset class mix and general sentiment the dollar index is a little bit softer We're down just shy of two tenths of 1% and that has helped both major currency pairs euro dollar and cable on the top left Just move up a little higher as European players have come into the market cable just surmounting It's high that was seen from yesterday's session running up to around the R1 at 30 to 84 in the futures Euro quite an initial obstacle and resistance on the upside with that R1 sitting around that 119 handle which did mark around yesterday's high as well as the worst keeping an eye on I'll come back in a second and look at the dollar index because that's it some quite interesting long term levels as well otherwise in terms of the gold market and we You know this colored line that I've had which has been a level of Relevance really going back over the period the last five or six trading sessions as an area of resistance turn support once again In the late US session when that got breached So quite a strong push on the downside where we responded down What was on today's daily pivots the S1 which was around those lows We had on the 13th on that double bottom on that session and a bit of recovery So when in the upside move now that kind of banned area there of resistance support is also Coinciding with the pivot so once again that around 82 and a half's remains quite key As a kind of main area of price point to break through on either side for the gold market in the equity market You probably would have seen yesterday then we had a negative close on Wall Street So losses were ranging in the tune of about point five percent in the case of the S&P and the Dow and a little bit more Flat across the three major indices. So the NASDAQ was also down about point three percent Remember, we had been seeing quite big divergencies where we're getting this kind of moderate rotational play where either The NASDAQ would be out or underperforming on the back of that kind of context the one story of course Which was pretty interesting. I thought on a single stock basis yesterday was Amazon Because the pharmacy chains were amongst the worst hit in terms of performance Individually in single stock news yesterday that came after Amazon which did actually buck the trend and finishing positive territory or bit Just marginally yesterday. They unveiled a new push into prescription drugs Which will offer discounts of up to 80% on generic drugs for prime subscribers paying without insurance either On its website or at more than fifty thousand brick-and-mortar pharmacy nationwide is a deal that they've done So wargreens CVS health were down close to 10 and 9 percent each respectively So, yeah pretty monumental news I think for for Pfizer as Excuse me for Amazon as they continue the kind of juggernaut that they are I heard one analyst refer to them as the death star In terms of their just overall slow takeover of everything that we sector and this just being the latest It isn't really a new idea The execution of it though and and just the aggressiveness of the discounts was really quite interesting So elsewhere Pfizer shares were down about another three and a half percent so again a little bit more realization about the kind of pitfalls after that initial positivity but also the Moderna news coming out and the kind of improvements that that latter one has made over the the competitive Pfizer product Continues to see an unwind of that again that they saw at the beginning of last week in their shares On a stimulus from where are we with that? Well speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer yesterday asked the Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell to resume negotiations While McConnell stuck to his insistence on a targeted package Basically, there isn't going to be any stimulus anytime soon. I don't think that's really changed from the discussion points We're having yesterday, but the point is that they've now started some degree of dialogue Again as we go into what was a lot of the focus in the rundown from yesterday, which was this idea about the kind of renewed Implementation of restrictions as that economically starts to bite I'm sure that will sharpen the the dialogue on Capitol Hill going forward So not really looking out for much headway to be made anytime soon But perhaps some more progressive conversations might start to materialize looking at the equity markets Just very briefly here on the SMP I was going to stick in on it daily Because then we can see the kind of the narrative of where we've been and and where we're heading and interestingly now that previous All-time high that we printed back on the early part of September now acting on the daily candles It's quite a significant area on the pullback. You can see after the break that we had on the Moderna news and we hit the all-time high Yesterday, we bounced off that level and overnight. We've bounced off that level So really that 86 and a half is a pretty decent daily level to look out for where we close today above or below Whether or not we can continue to push on up here in the on the upside the Nasdaq It's that trend line that's been the one that's been on focus on the daily charts so If I start on the higher time frame This is that descending kind of trend line. We've been looking at ever since we hit the peak Back at the same time beginning of September. We have the Pfizer and brief breakout That's that extension on that wick on the upside as you can see but Back on Monday on the Moderna news We we failed on that daily to get above there and we failed as well on rejection yesterday So quite interesting to see here how the Nasdaq is going to perform on the shorter dated chart then That area where again, I just broaden this out a little bit From the fib retracement from the the fires of spike higher to the following day is low That area is still a pretty stubborn area of resistance on any push on the upside if that were to materialize That being then the kind of weekly range high You've also got the R1 on the daily pivots and the 618 fib retracement of that move I just spoke of so that would be quite quite key on the downside any break of the intraday low seen already as Europe has come in we've had a bit of a bounce but a breakthrough of that s1 which provided support Late into the Asia Pacific session Then probably be looking back down towards the 382 fib, which was also the low that we printed on Monday session Which would be the weekly low of course Okay Let's get into well final actually before I get into the headlines final charts I did want to look at was the 10 year because I thought the T note was quite telling really of where people's heads are at At the moment and I say that because here's the Pfizer news when it when it broke. We obviously saw kind of a deflation trade what I mean by that is this that this initial perception was so positive about a Vaccine coming out and therefore kind of reassuring that the economic recovery will take hold perhaps quicker than anticipated Obviously, this is Totally ignoring all of the other facts that we've discussed about why that's probably a little bit over Optimistic but it meant that yields rallied aggressively and the dollar rallied aggressively and that's two really important points because since that That day on the 9th the markets pretty much been continuing to reverse that initial kind of assumption And so if you actually look at the 10 year what I thought was quite interesting is now we've pretty much reversed the entire move We've got about another nine ticks or so to go this morning in terms of the 10 year We've ran into a bit of an obstacle which is quite a nice technical level here Which is if I just draw a rectangle you got those previous highs on the 2nd November The markets held up then on the 4th. It's also adds an area of support Prior to the Pfizer news coming out and then you've got the R1 on the daily pivots here, which is around 138 15 So that being said then With that unwinding obviously there's a lot of people looking at the covert developments at the moment Although equity still hold up there. Well, see looking a little bit fragile We started to see some of those restrictions getting rolled in but it does bring about then quite interesting Concept with the dollar because the dollar if anything has been re weakening and again just like Yields in the US they shot up On the back of well dollar strength high yields when the initial Kind of vaccine use came out if you look at Moderna when that came out same reaction But smaller and again this behavioral kind of play of the diminishing return of now people becoming more a little bit More educated about this vaccine use. What does it mean? What's the likelihood of it being rolled out more effectively the kind of reality check? I guess so the knee-jerk reaction has been dollar strength yield strength But it's got progressively smaller and probably I'd anticipate that to be the case going forward as we get the other updates to come But the point I'm trying to make here is there are quite key levels in the currency pairs as I mentioned both major Dollar pairs your dollar cable are moving higher this morning Aussie dollar the same It's testing up around its pivot at the moment and in the Dixie this kind of 92 92 area where we're trading at the moment 92 30 40 quite key. That was the low that we had in yesterday's session That starts to bring into play then the lows that we were trading Back just before that news broke on Pfizer Which was around 92 12 and the reason why this is quite important is Because if you start looking at the dollar index on a this is on a monthly chart So here we're basically looking at the last 20 years of price action on the dollar index If you'd actually look at that chart then at 92 25 area, which is this dotted horizontal line I mean just look at how important it's been. I mean, yes We have got lower of course back in 2018 and that in itself quite a crucial level around 88 30 You can see there back in the financial crisis and also recovering the sovereign crisis That was a peak of price activity, which doesn't line up quite nicely You can see here at around kind of 88 50 type level But here's key because that's that blue line would indicate not only was it a supportive factor back in 2016 2015 there's also key resistance in 05 04 Going back all the way to 1998 So the dollar does warrant watching one thing is is that there were some interesting comments Of course out of Jerome Powell yesterday and he was paying heed to the fact that you obviously the COVID situation Is worsening in America? His exact comments were they said the US economic recovery is likely to continue at a solid pace Yet risks losing momentum as the virus surges Power called rising virus infection rates a significant downside risk, especially in the near term He added the Fed will stay here will be strongly committed to using all of our tools to support the economy no one thing we definitely are seeing and This was kind of slightly evident in the retail sales report. We had out of the US yesterday But even more so COVID-19 concerns squeezed incomes and restricted mobility Because of all these state level restrictions that are being applied at the moment Indicates then weak consumer activity going forward Over the coming months so really November and December. We are anticipating a deterioration a lot of these macroeconomic indicators That would suggest then this kind of w-shaped recovery. I Renewed downturn after what is now this situation, of course, which is a continued move higher In the the case count and subsequent deaths in North America Interestingly, I did catch some commentary last night on Twitter It was citing the CDS the White House Coronavirus Task Force and they said that there is now an aggressive unrelenting Expanding broad community spread across the nation reaching most counties without evidence of improvement But rather further deterioration So here then Covid cases as of yesterday were just over 150,000 deaths now 762 if you actually start looking at the the seven-day average We're obviously coming up on the death side of things to where we were on the Sun Belt Outbreak on the worst period at the beginning of August So yeah, as we mentioned many times before this this number undoubtedly is going to get much worse over the next couple of weeks And so that then if you put these things together As power was indicating the emergence of continued virus Being a downside risk We already know then that that's going to impede economic activity do the Fed need to do more and if so Looking back at this long-term dollar chart does the dollar then ultimately start to break down further And if it does technically then you know, there's some scope for a decent move downward in the dollar Continuation of really what has been the trend of 2020 of course remember. This is a 20-year chart we're looking at if you just isolate this part on the right-hand side here This is the pandemic and ultimately despite some of the ebb and flow the dollar has had it's substantially weaker predominantly on the back of Very expansionary loose monetary policy coming way of the Fed and remember what that standard charted FX macro Strategists were saying that I covered on Monday Now if things get materially worse could the Fed even look to do something prior to their December meeting I think it's a little bit early to be making that those kind of assumptions But the point being is that it's going to heat the pressure on perhaps the Fed to be committing to more if that does Well, perhaps that explains in some of the re-weakening of the dollar and this key level to look out for and also the reversal In the US 10 year, which we were just looking at irrespective of the fact that equities are holding up Don't forget with equities that there's sector sectorial plays, right? So even though cyclical stocks might suffer if the pandemic rages on Ultimately those big mega cap tech names will just push on and given that they're so big from a market Capitalization point of view that will hold and support the market up. So I wouldn't be looking so much then for a kind of perfect in sync harmony move because ultimately now the sector plays in Inequities can help support it in a different way whereas you're getting that quite clear Narrative I think in the dollar and US yields at the moment. So hopefully that makes a bit more sense from a top level All right, a few other headlines for me to get you up to speed on Wanted to talk about UK COVID situation because you've had the British Medical Association of BMA They've come out yesterday or actually overnight and they've warned that lifting the lockdown on December 2nd Remember, that's where this current phase of national lockdown ends at least at this point in time They said lifting the lockdown on December 2nd without beefed up regional restrictions risked a fresh surge in infections Ministers this was in the telegraph last night when I saw a set to announce a package of post-lockdown measures next week It's again according to the telegraph. They were basically saying which could see households across England banned from mixing Until Christmas when the government aims to loosen restrictions for a few days. So the two Kind of news stories fitting in in connection with one another Basically the advice at the moment is that look just the lockdown if anything should either be extended or Come with a very subtle loosening which does mean that people should still not be able to mix Then meaning that if we can really get on top of it at the moment on the outbreak It will allow people then to have some degree of looser restrictions around Christmas of which the government already knows is going to be Problematic to probably manage as we've heard from various different surveys of Americans about what's their intentions a dividering to social distancing rules and max numbers of household gatherings and 40% said they weren't going to play by the rules, which is a obviously significant amount and Definitely Christmas will be a testing time in the UK as well Given the normal connotations of family gatherings with friends and so on Covid cases then in the UK currently just over 20,000 deaths at 598 at the moment. It's a bit of context Okay going to Talk a little bit about Brexit actually just before I move on While I'm talking about the UK and there's a couple of really interesting comments about From Tom Newton Dunn used to be the head political correspondent of the Sun. He's now at the Times Times radio actually So he's a pretty well informed chap He's kind of one of the more heavy hitters on the UK political side So he's got a pretty good ear to the ground in terms of the negotiation status of Brexit And he said that Downing Street is said to push back on the idea of an imminent Brexit deal Remember we had the Sun yesterday and then you had Bloomberg recycling that news The pound was a little bit big yesterday on the back of the idea that they might get a deal as soon as next week however interesting thing that was being brought up here by Newton Dunn was that the departure of Dominic Cummings is said to have made it harder For PM to compromise with those close to PM Johnson Who's nervous about being painted as selling out? So once more time to pass with the first or second week in December now seen as most Likely so yeah, I get that. I mean if he just cuts a deal right now. I mean Dominic Cummings is kind of one in that sense and those around him will feel that that's the case so As much as there's a bigger thing going on rather than Dominic Cummings Obviously the management of your political influence is ultimately what Boris Johnson Is right up there one of the top things on the agenda and so Again, it doesn't really track too much from the timeline that our expectations are Which is basically it's going to be between mid and the end of December when a deal gets done And so some of that latter commentary would certainly supplement that that view which I think makes a lot of sense that that Boris will want to Portray that look this isn't to do with Cummings This is all me and I'm going to push for the best deal possible and that deal gets broken at the 11th hour France in the telegraph are said to understand you have now accepted that there will be reduced fishing access to UK waters post-Brexit So again being fitting at the fact that it seems like both sides are getting a little bit closer to compromising However, there's a little bit of political management that needs to happen on the side of particularly the UK government given some of the chief advisor changes But we've had close to the prime minister a few other things this Has been out for a little while and I'm not bringing it to your attention as a piece of breaking news rather than something to just be A little bit vigilant about if you're training oil And that's in the FT. They're talking about Iran threatened a quote crushing Response to any US military strike on the country's nuclear facilities So the New York Times reported yesterday that Trump asked his senior advisors last Thursday for Military strike options that he could take in the coming weeks on some of the nuclear facilities in Iran Again, this type of rhetoric sounds Pretty sensational and you if you if you weren't I guess used to this the way of geopolitics and how it works in that region You would think wow, this is quite scary stuff It's not really that new in terms of a Kind of a use of or choice of language if you remember prior to the pandemic Iran and Iraq These types of areas were absolutely one of the main key stories of 2020 It's just been superseded by this other thing that's happening right now So my point here is the tensions are quite high It seems like Trump doesn't want to go without Making a bit of a splash because he's you know talking about the withdrawal of troops and some of these key areas in the Middle East Let's talk about a couple of departing pop shots at China in various different forms strong rhetoric against Iran He certainly doesn't want to make it easy for Biden Stepping in but the point being is the oil obviously is Hypersensitive to any type of potential supply disruption that can happen Particularly with the geography of things like the Straits of Hamoos where before we've seen captured cargo Tankers from Western companies drones shot down things of that nature. So if that did Happen not that I think you'd get a sustainable move Over the medium term because ultimately that would be derived from the demand Situation with COVID and how that's dealt with but also the supply situation with the OPEC plus deal But that doesn't mean in the interlay environment You might not get a very violent and spiking prices if that were to materialize So just something to be aware of it's kind of festering in the background And it would only take one headline to really rock the boat if you're day trading and then API crude oil infantry's these came out last night. We did see a bit of a drift low in oil But it's already been taken back WTI cruise trading pretty flat this morning. So it's not really that big a deal But we had a fairly bearish headline a build of just over 4.1 million Expectations were for pretty flat pushing a build of just like 200,000 gasoline around a quarter million to still it's draw five million Just going to have a quick chat as well I thought quite an interesting article on Bloomberg regarding the ECB and This isn't important really for the right here right now for trading strategies Intraday, but I thought it was quite an interesting concept that Bloomberg were talking about And maybe a good lesson for any of those not used to central bank communication But the article is kind of just putting together a lot of the comments That have come out recently from a variety of different central bank speakers and as I've mentioned before Really every day we've had a calendar littered with with central bank speakers and the ECB for one The headline wants next stimulus to be judged on quality Not quantity and the analysis that they're trying to put together here is the fact that if you actually look at the The pep the pandemic emergency purchase program, you know the current envelope that they're talking about Is to end with a size of one point three five Trillions and these are this is mega money that we're talking about here and at this point in time We've already only got to About half of that really less than half Because we've still got some time to run This is going to not end until way into the summer of next year and the pace of which they're going out at the Moment with buying 20 billion euros a week, but if we then start Taking this out because the market is very much expectable that this will be expanded to roughly one point eight five trillion in December So additional five hundred billion top up what the ECB Will be very mindful of is not having what happened to Draghi before Draghi had this kind of reputation of overdelivering with stimulus, but the problem that that then has is Markets start to Over-expect You know such as life and human response if I was just to give you a million pounds the first time that happened You'd be absolutely a static But if I gave you a million pounds every day, you'd soon be just a million pounds So that kind of very crude analogy really plays out in the behavioral way markets react And the ECB will be very conscious of this because it's something which did impact Draghi before in his tenancy So what they've already tried it to To kind of push people toward is that it's about the quality not just a quantity the quantity is coming But check out the quality and that being predominantly about the the length and maturity of serves the types of bombs of which They're purchasing looking to target south and flatten the the kind of long end of the curve and be more supportive in different ways Beyond that just number the worst thing that can happen is you do have highly complex very supportive overall package And people just look at one number in markets and they go no it's not good enough And then it's almost self-defeating in a way because ultimately as much as this is a physical thing buying bombs Ultimately, it's about managing confidence and if you can manage the market confidence Then that's the most powerful thing a central bank can do And so yeah, this is what this article is talking about. It's what it's quite interesting All right, let's wrap it up then what's coming out for the day. You've already had UK CPI Although the pound is trading higher this morning. I don't think it's on the back of the CPI I mean it did beat point seven against point six on a year-in-year basis But that's beside the point remember the dollar conversation. We've been having Neuro dollars also higher and that's coming up to quite a key level of resistance at the moment if then cable does continue to remain On the front foot then on a daily chart You're just coming up to around where the 11th and November high was about a week ago This is when the pound saw quite a abrupt turn around after EU-UK negotiators are said to likely miss their November deadline So we're back up to around that peak of price movement now Which was that high that we printed back on the fourth set so quite a key technical level We're only around about 30 pips away from that in the sterling future at the moment So that's out the way though But looking further forward Eurozone final CPI not important because final and it's quite old dated Figures now so looking forward to the US session housing starts building permits can inflation CPI and then you get the DOE all inventory levels Chief economist from the Bank of England speaking this morning and you got feds speakers littered in through the afternoon and evening That's pretty much it So gonna leave it at that let you guys get on with things and I wish you a good day ahead. I catch you same time tomorrow. Thanks very much


TfNN, headline, News Update. Good afternoon everyone, this is the 3 p.m. Tiger Financial News Network Market Update, Basel Chapman here. I do the 10 o'clock Tiger Technicians Hour and we've got the Dow down 182 at $33,846. Not bad action when you consider there was quite a bit of selling off to making new recovery high. For next week, what's the $33,500 support? Under that, it's got a bit of a timeout coming in. And on the upside, if it breaks into $34,300, that's going to be really good action because it goes back to the February 14th high. S&P is the same sort of thing. S&P is trading down $13,4132. Long-legged Doji Cannon here, leg E. Anytime next week, if there's a close above $4,178, I'd say $4,182, that's a close. That's going to be really good because you can retest the high it was made back in February of $4,195. And the $4,060 level is really key support to hold. And looking at the QQQ sideways action today, it is minus 1 at $318.09. It has key support in the 312 area. Under that would be a problem. Lovely if it can go to $323. That'll be good action. IWM is very weak today. It's down 2 at $176. Now, Gold is the one that we're looking at because Gold had a spectacular move yesterday going to a new recovery high today. It's given back quite a chunk. It did go into the $14,000 moving average in the daily chart. That weekly chart is still pretty good. What we are looking at is if Gold is able at any point to get to the 2019-2010 area, that's going to be really good action. My suspicion is going to try to go down, test the 1980s, and that's going to be important. The thing I want to look at here was that U.S. bonds had a very sharp pullback today. That means yields are going up, but you can see from this weekly chart of the U.S. bonds, we stuck in a range here. We're not going anywhere. I think we just stuck in a range. Crudel has the 200-period exponential moving average of $80.40 as a magnet line. It has to break away from that. It's up $0.28 today at $82.44. So with that said, I'm going to hand you over to Jacob. Jacob is going to take us through to the close today. Tom and Brian's out and handing over to Jacob. Have a wonderful rest of the weekend. I have a wonderful weekend, everyone. I'll see you on Monday for the Tiger technicians out. Check out both people dating newsletter. See you on Monday.