Guys it's over, I've been exposed, I'mma sell out. Because last week I made a video talking about my favorite email providers, and I gave ProtonMail a favorable review. And almost immediately I started getting comments like ProtonMail is terrible, ProtonMail is a honeypot, you sold out. How much money did ProtonMail give you? And to be honest I knew I would get these kinds of comments because ProtonMail is one of the most polarizing services out there. Any time you mention ProtonMail online people either absolutely love it or hate it. Pretty much no in between. And there's a good chance that you might even have heard some of these reasons why a lot of people don't like ProtonMail. You've probably heard of this huge drama that happened a few years ago where ProtonMail logged the IP address of an activist after the government told them to and basically got somebody arrested. And I thought ProtonMail was supposed to care about your privacy but they're just going to give all of your info away to the government. Of course ProtonMail brands themselves as these champions of your privacy, they're not going to read through your emails, but if they just give away all your info then what's the point? And even before all of this drama a lot of people were thinking that maybe ProtonMail was a honeypot or basically a trap set by the government. Like they look like they're going to be all privacy respecting but oops surprise it's actually run by the government and now they have all your emails. You've probably seen some of the mental outlaw videos talking about this subject and of course I think mental outlaw is a great channel but at least on YouTube he is probably one of the biggest names that is responsible for why people don't trust ProtonMail these days. But in this video I'm not just going to defend ProtonMail but really in this video I want to go deeper into the topic and talk about why you really can't 100% trust any email provider out there, not just ProtonMail. And finally at the end of this video I basically want to answer the question if you can trust ProtonMail or not and should you trust ProtonMail? Because the answer is not actually the same for everybody. Now of course before we actually get into this video I have to say that I am not sponsored by Proton at all. I don't even have an affiliate link so I really have nothing to gain by trying to make ProtonMail look better than it actually is. So yes I'm literally out here doing it for free. And Proton if you're watching this at least hook your boy up with an affiliate link. I can't just be out here simping for your company without getting any kind of benefit that just looks kind of pathetic. So Proton, hit me up sometime we can go on a date. I promise I'm a nice and well adjusted person. But let's just get into the video so before I can actually answer if you should trust ProtonMail or not. I have to give you a short history of email. I promise you this is going to be more interesting than it sounds. Just sit down relax a little bit and let me tell you a story. So of course email today is this giant communications platform that billions of people across the world use every single day. But the thing is email was never meant to be this giant communications platform. And the people who created these early versions of email they never knew what it would become. I mean email in its very early form was really just created because the creator thought it would be cool to be able to send messages to different computers. Because the first emails were just sent within a local network with trusted users.  You wouldn't be thinking about any sort of security or privacy or encryption or any of that.  The people who created email obviously weren't thinking about that. They just did this because it sounded cool. And only later on did email start to actually become so widely used that these kinds of things became an issue. And so the early form of email with no security it worked inside a small network. But what happens when it starts to be used by millions of people, millions of interconnected computers around the world? Well now it's starting to be a security issue. And by default all of these email standards that were originally created like SMTP, they had basically no security and messages were just sent in plain text across the internet. So that means that anybody in the middle could just intercept these emails. And back in the day there was no way to actually verify if the emails are actually coming from who they say they are. Like if you wanted to scam somebody and pretend to be Elon Musk and send somebody an email from elonmusk at tesla.com or something like that. I mean you could just do that back then. So only later on were these security layers actually added. But they were basically all patches to an already insecure protocol. So only later on did they add something like DKIM as an example, which basically verifies that it's actually coming from who it says is coming from. And only later on did we get things like TLS, basically HTTPS for email. So while your email is being transferred to another server, it can't be intercepted in plain text along the way. But even with all these layers of security that have been added to email over the years, there is still one big problem with email. And that is whenever it reaches its destination, it is still in plain text. So when you send an email to a Gmail account, while it's being sent over the wire, it is encrypted. But as soon as it arrives, it is unencrypted and just sits there in plain text. That means that Google can read through your emails whenever they want to. And you might not think that's a big deal, but what if you want to send something really sensitive or something really confidential over email? Maybe you want to send something really secretive over email. Maybe you're even a government whistleblower that is exposing some wrongdoing of your government. Well, if your government asked Gmail to hand over all of the emails, they will just do that and they're just sitting there in plain text so there's nothing you can really do about it. But this all changed in 1991 when Philip Zimmerman invented something called PGP, which stands for Pretty Good Privacy. Now, the details are a little bit technical, but basically what PGP allows you to do is encrypt the content of the email. So if you send an email to somebody else and you only want you and that other person to be able to read it, then you can use PGP to encrypt your email and then only you and your friend are able to read these emails. Now, these days, this doesn't sound too crazy.  But at the time, this sort of technology was basically unheard of to the public. The public before had never had access to this kind of encryption and cryptography. And of course, the government absolutely hated it. Of course, the government wants to read every single message you ever write. How else are they supposed to protect you from the bad guys? You can always trust the government to keep you safe, right? And the US government was so threatened by this that they actually started a criminal investigation against him. And they were about to hit him with the same kind of punishment that they give to international arms dealers. That's how dangerous they thought this guy was. Oh, and by the way, in an absolutely gigachat move, this guy Zimmerman, he actually published all of the source code as a book. He basically open sourced his software before it was cool to and put it all in a book as a sort of loophole to get around the government trying to ban his software. And that's a whole other story. I'm not going to get too off topic, but I just have to mention that as that is pretty based. And so you might think that with the invention of PGP, all emails going forward were going to be encrypted. And people could now talk about whatever they want over email without having to worry about government surveillance. Well, that was the dream. But eventually the government dropped the charges against Zimmerman. And that's just because PGP never caught on. So PGP works great, but it's pretty confusing to set up the first time you do it. It's pretty technical. Like PGP gives you two keys, a public and a private key. And you have to send your public key to your friend in order to encrypt your messages. And then you have to keep the private key safe on your computer and also keep it backed up on a USB because you don't want anybody else to have access to it. And it's just kind of a confusing process. And most people really didn't care to do it. The only people who really ever cared about it were privacy activists, you know, weird people like the type of people that watch my channel. And I'll be honest, even today, even for tech savvy people, PGP is just pretty confusing. So you can't really expect normies to use this or even care. Now maybe in some alternate universe, a big company like Google or Microsoft could have perfected this technology. Maybe they could have created some easy user-friendly way for every normie to be able to use this and then email would be private for everybody. But really, what incentive do they have to do that?  So really, what reason do they have to make your email encrypted? It just wasn't worth it for them. But wouldn't it be nice if there was a company out there that just made something like PGP encryption easy and available to everyone? Well, that kind of brings us to Protonmail because essentially, that is what Protonmail is trying to do with their service. So Protonmail will encrypt all of your emails with PGP by default. So they encrypt every single email that goes into your inbox with PGP so not even they can read through it. And if you send an email to somebody else who uses PGP, then it will automatically end-to-end encrypt that so only you and the recipient can actually read through the message. Nobody else can. And the best part is they make this all really easy so you don't have to do all this complicated setup and worry about public and private keys. All you really need to do is just sign up for a Protonmail account. But unfortunately, in order for them to make it easy to use PGP, they also require some level of trust because most email that you receive in a Protonmail account is going to be coming from something like Gmail or Outlook. It's not going to be end-to-end encrypted. And so whenever it arrives to Protonmail, it is completely in plain text. They can read through the entire message. And only after they receive it and check it to make sure that it's not spam, do they actually PGP encrypt it inside your inbox. But the thing is, do they actually encrypt it? So of course they say they do and their code is open source so you can actually verify that. But is the code that's running in your browser really the same as the open source code that's available? I mean, if they really wanted to, it is technically possible for them to no longer encrypt emails that go into your inbox. And they say they also encrypt your private PGP key, which is what you use to unlock the emails. So really only you can unlock the emails. But what if they don't encrypt your private key?  Oh no, what if they're lying? But this isn't just a problem with Protonmail. This is a problem with every single email provider out there. Every single email out there, you have to have some level of trust because no matter how much they claim to care about your privacy, there's always the chance that they could be lying. I'm talking about every private email out there, something like Tudonota or maybe Skiffmail. You can't really 100% trust any of them just because of the nature of email. Like I said, email was never meant to be private or even secure. And if we can't trust any of these companies, then why would you use any of them? And I would say the biggest reason is because of convenience. So like I said, if you wanna do encryption yourself, it is very technical. You have to download this weird command line program, create your PGP key pair and do all of the work yourself. It's very confusing and most people don't wanna do it. Most people just want an email that just works. And I'm really just a normal person. I want an email that works. I have business to do over email and I don't really care to be managing my email so much. But there must be some way to verify if these companies are actually being honest, right? If they really could decrypt your email, then they could just hand it over to the government every time they ask. Because of course the government wants to read their emails. If you did something illegal or if you're even suspected of doing something illegal, then the government very often knocks on the doors of these email providers and asked to read all of the emails inside somebody's account. And like it or not, Protonmail has to comply with these requests. I mean, they try to fight them as much as they can, but sometimes they just have to give some information up because if you don't, then the government will literally shut you down. That is what famously happened with Lava Bit, which is famously Edward Snowden's email. The government came knocking one day and asked for all the keys to decrypt the email. And since the founder didn't want to hand it over to the government, he just closed down the entire service. So like it or not, any business has to comply with the government. Even if they live in a country that has very good privacy laws like Protonmail does, if the government comes knocking, they still have to give them what they have. But there is one way to actually tell if Protonmail is telling the truth or not. And that is, what information do they give up to the government? So remember that time when Proton logged the IP address of an activist? That is literally all the government got. So the government didn't get any decrypted emails because with how Protonmail's encryption is, they can't get access to them, even if they really want to. And the IP address was literally the only info they handed out. And that's a good thing. And the thing is, this is not exclusive to Protonmail. Every private email company also has to give out information to the government if they want to survive. So famously, Tudonota also had to follow government orders and remove incoming message encryption for a user that the police were after. So Tudonota's encryption made it impossible to decrypt any of their old messages in the inbox, but any new emails that came into their inbox were not encrypted. Again, they had to follow the law and they did their best to fight it, but there's only so much they can do. And when you have somebody else manage your email, you are going to have to give them some level of trust. Unfortunately, a lot of things in privacy are about trust. And that's why I say if you're doing something illegal, not that I condone that, but if you're maybe an activist and you have to hide something from the government, do not use email. Even if you host your own email server and do all of your own PGP encryption, it is still not 100% foolproof. If something absolutely must stay secret, don't use email because inherently, it is insecure and not private. It is literally the wrong tool for the job because it was never meant to be either of those. Instead, use something like Signal, which was literally built from the ground up to be encrypted. But if you're somebody that just wants to keep your emails private from corporations, maybe you don't want Google reading your emails, like I don't want Google reading my emails so they can give me targeted advertisements or train their AI or something like that. Of course, I think Proton is a much more trustworthy company than something like Google. And so I also don't agree with these people who just throw their hands up in the air and say, oh, who cares about this whole privacy stuff because anybody can just read my emails. So I'll just give them all to Google. I don't believe in making perfect the enemy of the good. And I would say using a service like Proton Mail or Tutinota is going to be much, much better for your privacy than something like Google. You can read through Proton Mail's privacy policy and see all the information they collect. They really don't collect that much. But if your threat model or your privacy level is somewhere where you need to worry about the government, do not use email. Not just Proton Mail, but don't use any email service out there. They're not going to save you. And so the only real complaints that I can see somebody making about Proton Mail is that they hype themselves up a little bit too much in their marketing. So in their marketing, they say, of course, they're very secure and private. Of course, Proton Mail is not going to say something like, oh, email is just inherently insecure and not private. So you can't really trust anyone with your emails. Of course, if they said that, nobody would use Proton Mail. So of course, they're going to hype themselves up a little bit and say that they're going to be very private and keep all your emails safe and secure. And I can't really fault them for that because I do think that they're a very good service and they absolutely care about what they're talking about. And I think Proton Mail has made some mistakes before, like previously their onion side used to redirect to the clear net, which is a bad thing if you're really trying to stay absolutely anonymous. But since that whole drama, they have completely redid their onion side so you can now sign up for an account completely anonymously. I mean, I did it just the other day. They didn't ask for an additional verification with a phone number or an email or anything like that. And if you even want to pay anonymously, you can even send them cash by mail. And so that's why I still think that Proton Mail is one of the best email services out there because most people who use email, they don't want to set up their own email server and do all of their PGP encryption themselves or they don't want to completely abandon email and only use signal to communicate. I think most people who use Proton Mail want an email that just works and respects their privacy, which Proton Mail absolutely does. And if you are very paranoid and still don't trust Proton Mail, I mean, that's totally fine. I can understand why you might not trust Proton Mail. But if that's you, then don't just go around trashing Proton Mail and saying that is terrible for everyone.  I have my full government name in my email address. So for the level of privacy that I care about, I think that Proton Mail is a very good product. So hopefully we can put this whole debate to rest about if Proton Mail is good or bad and just use the option that works best for you in your particular situation. But of course, if you don't agree with me, you're still welcome to call me a Proton shill in the comments. And Proton, I'm still waiting for my money. Hit me up.


Line from Orlando, Florida, extracting a signal from the noise. It's theCUBE covering Pentaho World 2015. Now your host, Dave Vellante and George Gilbert. Welcome to day two everybody. This is Dave Vellante with George Gilbert and we're here at Pentaho World 2015. George, day two. Yesterday we heard a lot about data blending. We heard about the end-to-end data pipeline. We heard a lot of customers. We had NASDAQ on, we had FINRA on, we had MoMix on. A lot of them using Amazon, working Pentaho into the Amazon, into the data stream using S3 and EMR. What's your take on what you heard yesterday and where you see Pentaho fitting into the ecosystem? So, you know, when you look back on all those amazing customer stories that we heard yesterday, I think it's a reflection of Pentaho's maturity having been around now a year longer than Hadoop. They've had time to get customers in production on real applications. And having had that longevity, the critical value that they can deliver is something that, a pipeline that takes data from the source, ingests it, blends it, delivers it, keeps track of what's happened to it and presents it for analytics.  So, Pentaho and Amazon work very closely together today. Pentaho's available on Amazon, a number of the customers we talked to yesterday are using Amazon. Eventually, does Amazon start to do some of the things that Pentaho's doing? What do you see there as far as co-opetition? It's a classic sort of platform tool application play where you're in a rising tide, the platform vendor, when they see wide deployment of a certain technology, they say, okay, that's got to be part of the platform because too many people depend on it. And then it's incumbent on the tool vendor, the middleware vendor, to move up a layer. And so I guess we're going to have to grill the Pentaho folks a little bit because a lot of the individual services that Pentaho has, Amazon, I'm sorry, a lot of the integrated services Pentaho has, Amazon has in pieces and it's their probably their next step to start putting them together. Let's talk about the ecosystem. I see HP Vertica over there, I see Cloudera, WebRoot, a security company is here, obviously Hitachi is here with their IoT play. I don't see a lot of visualization companies and Pentaho does their own biz. What do you see as the state of the ecosystem and where does Pentaho's ecosystem have to go? Yeah, that's, I mean, that's their $64,000 question as we sort of did on our recap yesterday. Are they a tool or are they a solution? And the dessert topping or floor wax, kind of both. When you have to deal with that, you have to make some hard decisions because if you choose to be a platform player, you do not want to antagonize your solution, your application solutions coming from partners. And yet if you need to advance the platform to stay above the platform beneath you, you're going to have to do that. You're going to have to take on some of the capabilities of your partners. Right now I think the choice that Pentaho has made is so far we're going to let the traditional business intelligence users, business intelligence tools and the predictive analytics tools vendors plug in at the end point of our sort of value add chain and they're also going to take, for instance, specialized tools, perhaps like Tamer, where you've got to ingest and make sense out of potentially hundreds of data sources. Can't do that manually. But it looks like they want to have this end-to-end integration in between those two points. Yeah, and that seems to be their competitive differentiator, but you're laying out a scenario with the infrastructure as a service vendor that moves up the stack into Pentaho's pace. Pentaho potentially over time to expand its Tam, moves into the domain, the traditional analytics PI domain. Although Hitachi is an interesting angle there. Hitachi in and of itself gives Pentaho a distribution channel substantially beyond where it could go itself. Right, and that is, I mean it's an extremely relevant point which is Amazon does not yet have sort of the domain expertise and the sales reach to go after these industrial use cases. Of course Amazon just announced AWS IoT, so putting that toe in that one. Just the technology piece. Yeah, the underlying infrastructure and substrate, they don't have a presence in those markets. What about, we heard yesterday Quentin Gallivan, I think, talked about GE as a partner. I thought that was interesting. Maybe people don't realize that GE and Hitachi, Hitachi kind of supplying a lot of the raw materials. GE building maybe solutions, medical solutions and the like, but are they, Hitachi and GE, you may not have full visibility on this. What's your gut feel say in terms of, are they partners, are they competitors in this whole IoT thing? I think having listened to that, listened in sort of on that same conversation, I think they're actually more complimentary with each other than competition in the sense that the part that GE is most committed to is built on the Cloud Foundry Foundation to say, here we're going to compose applications from a bunch of microservices and yet the data products, the analytic data products, help me ingest the data, help me clean it and model it and analyze it. They're not as set in stone on their direction there and that would make for a rather easy integration. What do you make of GE's $100 million investment in Pivotal? What do you know about how that's progressed? Does the Dell EMC merger change anything there? Let's talk about that a little bit. Let's start with, what do you know about what GE's doing with Pivotal? Well, from what we do know, there's this platform called Predicts and I actually don't know how many layers up the stack it goes, but the objective is to take an industrial product that you sell now, like an airline engine or a turbine that generates electricity from a dam and rather than sell it as a product, you put sensors all over it and that allows you to do things like figure out when it needs maintenance and so there's less unplanned or even planned downtime and then you sell, not the product, you sell the service, you sell uptime, you sell flight hours and presumably because you know your products and you analyze the data better, you can sell this more profitably than just the product. What does GE use from Pivotal? Is it using the big data platform? Is it using Cloud Foundry? Originally it was Cloud Foundry as the sort of application sort of platform as a service and the services were like the original idea I think was like Green Plumber Hawk and Redis and JemPyre, the in-memory database and it was meant to be, you know, here's a suite of data management products that goes from super high capacity on one end to super, you know, high speed on the other end and that on top of that they would sort of leverage Pivotal's machine learning expertise and that's where you get the predictive maintenance and things like that. We've heard that any enterprise software takes many, many years to harden the teething process and Pivotal is making progress there but it's not as far along perhaps as some of the alternatives at that database layer. Do you think GE buys Pivotal? Do you think Dell will spin that off or is that based on what you said it maybe doesn't make sense? I think it's at the bottom of the priority list right now because they have a lot of bigger fish to fry and there's basically some things that just need to get fixed there. Last week at Big Data NYC two weeks ago Peter Goldmarker, we had an interesting segment with him and he said what happens when the funding dries up for these open source companies? What he described is it appears that the nose of the plane is up right now and a lot of that's illusory because of the huge amount of VC funding. I've called it overfunded, the big data market. So many companies are losing altitude even though the nose of the plane is pointing up because they're spending two or three dollars to make a dollar. What happens he asked when the funding dries up his premise was that the nose of the plane is going to tip down, there's going to be a shakeout. What are your thoughts on that? Pentaho obviously cut in under the wire in a fairly big way, great exit for the company. Where does that leave others? Well, how many chairs are there when the music stops? And Peter also made a good point about something that's sort of well known in enterprise software which is data infrastructure software and applications for that matter that need to get sold. They're not just bought and if they get sold you need an enterprise sales force. You can get the developer now in a way that you could never reach before the design win. He downloads it, he learns it, he evangelizes it but he doesn't have budget and he doesn't pay for keeping it up and running. So Peter's point which is very insightful and I hadn't really considered before is that Oracle has given this immense price umbrella to so many other vendors and you know I call this the rest of it the slow motion price collapse in infrastructure software. So given that you're going to need that sales and marketing expense somewhere it's going to probably have to be shared across many products and that means someone or few vendors are going to pick up a lot of these niche products who can't afford to continue sort of burning cash at the rate they're doing it. Yeah, of course the other point there is that the traditional software companies fund their sales force, they fund their distribution with upfront perpetual licenses and that's increasingly go away. In the case of for instance Hortonworks there is no upfront license. Many times you're seeing a cloud like model paid by the drink. So the other point he made, I wonder if you could comment is that a lot of the large companies are going to be sitting back waiting. Yes, that was his point. Like customers may not like dealing with Oracle for Oracle pricing but Oracle's in a really good position to be able to pick up a lot of these vendors at a fire sale price. I suspect that it may not be Oracle necessarily but there are other vendors, especially cloud vendors who might be able to pick some of these database vendors up because it might fit their pricing models better. Oracle might be conflicted selling MongoDB at 1% of the price of an Oracle license. A lot of customers coming in. We have Pentaho Day, Quentin Gallivan's coming on. We're going to geek out with some of the developers. We're going to go through the product roadmap so keep it right there everybody. George and I will be back. We're live, day two, Pentaho World. This is theCUBE.


Hello everyone and welcome to the 8.30am to 9am session of the 2017 Open Simulator Community Conference. As a reminder to our in-world and web audience, you can view our full conference schedule at conference.opensimulator.org and tweet your questions or comments to at Opensim CC or use the hashtag hashtag OSCC17. Our next session is entitled The Economy of Appreciation in Open Simulator, HG Safari. And our speaker today is Thurza Ember. Thurza organizes the Open Simulator Travel Group, HG Safari, which has been promoting the community spirit by arranging weekly group visits to grids all over the Open Simulator hypergrid for the past three and a half years. And I want to just toss it over to her to let her talk about what things she's seen along the way. Thanks very much. I'd like to begin today by unpacking the title of this talk. So it's The Economy of Appreciation in Open Sim. To begin with talking about Open Sim, it's really referring to the hypergrid friendly worlds. And you should be able to see a poster behind us that shows the Safari Embassy in Second Life. And this is one of the posters that we have up. It's just pointing out how although Second Life is a very large and diverse place, Open Sim is even larger and even more diverse. It can be broken up into many different divisions or realms. We can talk about the adult worlds in Open Sim versus the child friendly ones. We can talk about the commercial worlds versus the money free worlds. But a notable distinction and important for this talk is the distinction between the professional and the hobbyist use of Open Sim. These two realms are very much associated with one another, but there is a big distinction in that when a professional uses Open Sim, they tend to use it as a tool in the context of another community. For example, a school or a research facility might be in the world of art or machinima. There are people who use Open Sim as an inexpensive place to experiment when they're making things to sell on a marketplace. On the other hand, you have the realm of the so-called hobbyists. The term is sometimes used rather with a certain amount of contempt, it seems sometimes. However, this group of people, they see Open Sim very differently. It's not a means to an end, it is the end itself. And that's whether they're testing code, whether they're making content or creating environments, if they're preserving art installations, or if they're simply socializing. And of course, many people do breach the gap between these two realms, the professional and the hobbyist world. But it's an important distinction when we're talking about the context of an economy of appreciation. I chose the word economy on purpose. It's a word that immediately makes us all think of money or financial give and take. But of course, an economy that can be so much more. For you professionals who use Open Sim, there's a concrete process of putting in grants and proposals, making lesson plans, finding customers, getting feedback from your students, and of course, payments too. And I know that's very, very challenging in real world circumstances, but it's a fairly concrete existence. Whereas for hobbyists, it's a little bit different. There's a nebulous connection between others in Open Sim. On a money-oriented grid, it's fairly easy. You put your content on Marketplace and you just sell it. But where you have open source and share alike individuals who think of this philosophy as the way they want to live their Open Sim life, it can create a lot of challenges. There's a creative paradox too, because to make things, you tend to need isolation and quiet time to create. But then of course, once you've made your things, you want people to come and see them. And one strategy that people use is by putting freebies on their region. You come and see the region, enjoy it, and you're rewarded with a freebie at the end. So the problem there is that it's a bit of a challenge. Sometimes you're giving things away and you don't feel acknowledged. And that can create a certain sort of generosity fatigue and paranoia too, but that's another story. This fragmentation of Open Sim and the technical challenges that there are too, mean that we really need an interchange of encouragement. But there's also another thing that's very important for Open Sim's economy of appreciation, and that is the reality check. A couple of years ago, I made the poster that's showing now, it's the hypergrid tonic. In the hypergrid tonic, it talks about the various ways that regular hypergridding can strengthen you as a person using Open Sim. And this applies, of course, to professionals and hobbyists alike. By going to see what others are doing and making, you can put your own work into perspective. It can help you see solutions to problems. It can bring about new collaborative partnerships and new friendships.  So that's what I mean when I talk about the economy of appreciation in Open Sim. As you know, I'm not a technical person and I'm not a sociologist either. So I can only speak about the technology and the sociology of Open Sim in terms of hypergrid safari. And I'd like to show you a few stats of what we've been able to do so far. We've been on the road for three and a half years now. We've been doing trips for that whole period, but actually only 167 weeks have we actually gone on safari. There have been 500 hours of grid jumping. There have been more than 300 people who've joined us over that years. We've been to 87 grids and we've been to hundreds of regions, more regions than we can say. So because of that, we've had a lot of opportunities to see how people live their life in Open Sim. And we've visited places that are both to do with hobbyists and to do with professionals. The origins of HG safari come from about seven years ago, when John Lester, otherwise known as Pathfinder, established the Hypergrid Adventurers Club. This had regular weekly meet-ups on a Sunday. And it was a place where you could go and get help if you were in Open Sim, Newby. It was a chance to talk and compare notes and listen to people who knew, for me at least, far more about Open Sim than I ever will, talk about their experiences. And Pathfinder, he took us to see many places on Reaction Grid, on Jocadia, New World Grid, a lot of places that no longer exist, but also places that are still there, like Lanny Mall on Ausgrid and Craft Grid and so forth. By the time the Hypergrid Adventurers Club wrapped up, I was still very interested in blogging about grids and meeting people all over the Open Sim. But I noticed that my friends back in Second Life who wanted to explore Open Sim, they seemed to always mention the same three problems. Number one, they would crash a lot. Number two, they didn't know where they should go. And number three, they didn't know how to find people when they got there. Of course, I was certainly not the only person interested in hypergrid travel. If you think of the other bloggers that there have been, like GridJumper and Virtual Christine, and there's certainly been many websites. So we think of Hyperica and Hypergrid Business by Maria. There's been the hubs for hypergrid travel made by Sean Emerald and Spike Soul. And of course, around the same time that the safari began, Sata Gator was setting up Open Sim World website. And Makalia Beck had had for a long time her travel office, which still you can find on Right Plaza on Ausgrid. Sunbeam Magic, too, was beginning to issue the Visions magazine each month. And of course, many other grids have their own hypergrid gates available at their welcome area. But my idea was that I wanted to approach a subject, not as any kind of expert, but just as a friend, so we could all learn and crash together. And that's how the safari came about. So I called it safari because I wanted lower expectations. I wanted to promise that people would see exotic sites, but there would definitely be a bumpy ride and that probably not everybody would make it to the end. And I chose a time when I knew I could be available pretty much every week. Open Sim is so unpredictable that at least we needed to have a fixed time and a fixed day every week when the event could happen. Of course, that's obvious that you cannot have a time that fits every part of the world. So having it at 12 noon on a Wednesday excludes many people. At 12 noon on a Wednesday Pacific time, most people in America work. But of course, other people have organized other trips and so that works out fine. There's hypergrid tour groups happening on weekends and even in the evening. The main aims of the safari are quite simple. They are to teach other people how to grid jump. That's our main reason. We also wanted to focus on finding people. So that's another reason why we went on Wednesdays. It's because many different grids have their community meeting on a Wednesday, or at least did at the time. So that meant that we could go and see people. And that brings a similar life when you have a crowd. It makes a build have a certain relevance that it wouldn't have otherwise. If you think about it, most people when they do build, they make places where a crowd would naturally gather. It might be a market square or a dance hall or an auditorium or even a castle. And when you see them full of people, it's quite astonishing how wonderful they look. Of course, there have been many challenges. One thing people just really a lot of people just don't like to move. I remember back in 2011, there was a report on New World Notes blog where a Linden Lab insider revealed that 70% of second life residents never leave their home region. And so some people also we have to take into consideration. Some people just came to open sim because they wanted to get away from the crowds. They don't really want to be associated with other people. So we've always tried to take into consideration that. We began with two people. The first week of the safari, there were just two of us. There was Wizard Genoid and myself. The second week, we were four. There was Wizard. There was myself. There was Fuchsia Nightfire and Wizard Ours Chrome. And week three, we were seven. And we've never been less than seven since then. Usually between 20 and 30 of us come. Again, the fixed time and the fixed day has helped because people get information blindness. They are told something, but it just doesn't sink in. And it has taken a long time for people to become aware of our trips. And now it's a little bit easier after three years. However, you can imagine moving 20 and 30 people from grid to grid can present a couple of problems. The number itself just presents problems even if we were on the same grid, no doubt. But of course, OpenSim isn't built like that. So much of it's on private servers, not really decided for more than just the local person to use. So we've always known that we're pushing the envelope. And that's been part of the fun of it. Crashing is the fun of it. You crash, you just come back. We have our clubhouses. And in the picture, you should be able to see the Franco grid clubhouse, which as you can see, everybody's wearing different clothes. People have strange attachments that cause trouble. Some people don't load properly. And so it can be a nightmare for another grid. But by insisting on this subject, we've managed to perhaps strengthen people's setup so that they're ready to receive more people over time. Of course, we've warned people before we go to the grid so that they can take precautions. And some of the main ones are encouraging people to shut down any regions they're not going to be using to restart the region or even the whole grid just before we arrive. And to give us somewhere to sit down, that really seems to work very well just as it does here in the OSCC. The advantage of a planned visit, of course, is that we don't just rudely march in there and break somebody's grid. And the grid owner is on hand usually to tell the story. And that gives immense added value to the experience of visiting a place. When the person can tell you why they made it, how they made it, you get a whole other fourth dimension to the three-dimensional world. And of course, it's lovely for the grid owners themselves to see their grid full of people and enjoying the things they've made. A pre-organized visit, though, that involves some organization, as you can imagine. And that means getting hold of people. Sometimes the only way you can get hold of them is in-world because you don't know what their real name is and you don't know where they are in the world. So that involves a lot of instant messages. And instant messages are still, especially offline, inter-grid instant messages, a big problem for us still. Once upon a time, you could pretty much guarantee that you could talk to somebody or leave somebody a message from your grid on their grid. But now, sadly, we have to travel to the other grid. We have to leave the message. We have to warn the person, don't reply to me here. You have to come back to my grid and leave a reply if you want me to get it. Or else, obviously, use some external method like an email or something like that. And, of course, time zones make it hard for people to be available. Although, I have to say, we've been very lucky. For example, Greybeard Thinker, Uriah Heap, and Pearl Erickson all come to mind. These are Australians who got up before dawn to be able to host us on the safari. And we've appreciated both the wonderful bills they have and the time they took to show it to us. And that's true of many Americans too who've been able to meet us during the day. Some of them even taken a day off work for it. But that doesn't mean it always all works out. There have been many occasions when somebody ten minutes before the safari has said, can you come back tomorrow? Which, of course, creates its own exciting drama. So it's never boring. Usually, in fact, talking about planning, I tried to have about six weeks of safari destinations planned in advance. The advantage of that is it gives people time to think about what build they want to show. Maybe it gives them also the impetus to finish a project. And we always have a plan B. So we're ready if some grid should go offline. Suddenly, that's not a real huge problem. It also means that there's something for everybody. We try and mix up the destinations. And we have multiple clubhouses. We have principally on Franco grid and OS grid.  People have been very generous with that. The main thing we do is to keep it simple. There have been many, many suggestions about how we could do the safari with HUDs and so forth. But at the end of the day, it's just so much easier to just use the URI, the so-called hypergrid address, or just a landmark, although landmarks don't always work out perfectly. Another thing we have is groups. We have groups all over OpenSim on OS grid, Metropolis, Franco grid, Kytley, Kraft, Mobius, Great Canadian grid, and so forth. And I'm very lucky to have a lot of helpers like Sunshine Savannah and George Equus and Lucy Afarensis and Juliette Sorial Dreaming and of course, Wizardos Chrome, who's been with the safari from the very start. They help out putting the notices that are required. Of course, it would be so much easier for us if we had hypergrid groups that we could just put the notices in one group and everybody could get them. That would save a huge amount of time. And obviously, that's not something we have right now. So we've retreated, if you like, into social media. Is retreat the right word? Perhaps I should say diversify, because we have large groups on Facebook and Google+, and that means that people get to post their photos, which is another nice feature. They post their little videos of what's been happening on the trip so that other people can see it. It would, of course, be lovely to have a pan-group group also because so many people who are in OpenSim don't like Google and don't like Facebook. So to try and combat that, we have also a blog that you can go and look at if you look for HG Safari or find it.  So if you ask what is the state of the economy of appreciation in OpenSim, I would have to say it's booming. New friendships are at the heart of it. There's collaboration. We're inundated by kindness and generosity, both in terms of content and land. And we've just been amazed by how many people have gone out of their way to welcome us and to show us their regions. And there's so many different regions to be seen, both fantasy, factual, historical, scientific. We've seen a little bit of everything. One good thing for the people who are hosting us is that they get some feedback about how their grid is performing and maybe they can make some improvements or maybe they can just pat themselves on the back for a good job. We've certainly learned that the OpenSim universe is vast and unmathepable and it's always changing. Grids disappear and new ones appear all the time. It's been fun going around with the friendly people of the safari too. I've loved it. And we've also learned another thing. You can't be a community if you don't communicate. You have to communicate, whether that's the technical side of it or whether that's just people reaching out to one another and telling their story and listening to the stories of others. There's plenty more out to explore. And as you know, we have a safari organized for later today and I hope some of you will be able to join us. All right. Thank you so much for that presentation. I know I'm going to try and make that safari because I love them so. One question I just had. If someone has a grid that they'd like to get on the tour. Yeah, you could just I am me or look for me on Google plus is a good way to get hold of me. And just let me know we usually try. As I say, we usually got about six weeks already sorted. So somebody who asks today we're talking about February. No, no sooner than February. But that gives people time to figure things out. Yeah. All right. We have time for a question or two. Does anyone have a question for those? Okay. Well, thank you very much. And I think they're all waiting for the tour. What are some of the places we're going to today? Okay, we're going to five very different places. We're going to see an oil rig. We're going to see a Christmas fair. We're going to see an expo zone. We're going to see the welcome area on open sim life, which has just got a little sample of all their different regions. So there's something for everybody there. And we're also going to see the great hyper grid hub on sanctuary. And all the owners of those places will be on hand to tell you about their regions and their grid. Awesome. There was a question. Can you talk a little bit about chat VR's voice in Safari? Well, the Safari group is, first of all, V-vox doesn't always work. And it doesn't like a huge group of people from different grids to be gathered in one place. It often will fail. It will fail even on grids as illustrious as quietly. Usually people are too polite to say that voices stop working for them. But if it stops working for part of the group, that excludes that part of the group from the conversation. And there's also the issue that we're a multi-language group. There's usually at least four or five languages represented amongst the actual tourists. And many of them can read English without too much of a difficulty. But once we begin speaking, whatever the dominant language is, that means the others can't understand. If it's spoken at the normal rate of conversation. And so we tend to use local chat because that way everybody can participate and be part of the experience. All right, great. Well, Thurston, once again, I want to thank you very much for being here and giving us this great presentation about what you do. Okay, thank you. All right. We're about to take about a half-hour break here. Our next session begins at 9.30 a.m. and it will be in the keynote region. It's entitled Bridging Worlds. We also want to encourage you during the break to stop by OSCC 17 Poster Expo in the OSCC Expo 3 region to find accompanying information on presentations and explore the hypergrid tour resources in OSCC Expo 2 region along with sponsor and crowdfunding booths located throughout the OSCC Expo regions. All really interesting things to visit and lots of freebies to find. So enjoy your break and we will see you back here at 9.30 a.m.


Hello everyone, my name is Enrico Mazzoni and welcome to ST Microelectronics, both at this fantastic Mobile World Congress 2023. So ST Microelectronics is all over the mobile world? Yeah, we are a semiconductor company, but we propose you many applications and use cases. You can have a look at our demos and pods, they are brilliant and fantastic, introducing many novelties this year, active in various segments and parts. For an example, you have also the novelties about USB, USB communication, 360 degrees contactless USB. Please welcome. Hi, hello, so what are you showing here? So we are showing 360 degree rotation, contactless USB. So if you can come close to the microphone, what are these little devices here? Yeah, just one second. Switch to the main. So what we are having here is the ST60H3. This is a rest receiver operating at 60GHz. It creates a point-to-point link for USB 2 connection. Point-to-point? Yeah, it's point-to-point. So it's using kind of like host and slave at the same time? Yeah, kind of, yeah, yeah, that's right. And so up to 480Mbps, point-to-point connection, low power, like in the range of 100mW. Here is a cool application. So here we have a USB 2 camera, which is connected to a one ST60H3. And the next ST60H3 is located on the other side. So this is a standard PC with no USB driver update whatsoever. And this one is connected here. It recognizes immediately the camera. And now I can rotate. We can rotate and we can see that the video is transmitted. And the latency is very low. It's a cable-like behavior basically. Cable-like behavior? Yeah. So this is useful for many different things? Yeah, this is useful for many applications, for some testing, where you don't need to plug it and plug a USB connector for example. So it's very useful for wearables. But now there are more and more wearables having a wireless charging, as my colleagues are demonstrating here. Also people want to add data wireless connectivity to it. And this is a great product for this. Quite affordable USB connectivity, 400Mbps low power. And what's happening there? So here we are demonstrating a secure link. So typically the PC will be uploading a secure firmware. So we can flash application B. And data will be prepared. And the encrypted application is uploaded from the PC to the target through this link here. And you can see there is wireless connectivity here happening. Then the encrypted application is downloaded on the target. It is transferred, it is decrypted. And then a secure link is established. You can configure in a secure manner your target. Are you planning to do 5Gbps or even higher USB specs? Yeah, we do. USB 2 is ST60A3. Gigabit per second is ST60A2, which we are typically using for some contactless Ethernet applications. Cool, thanks a lot. Thank you. Let's have a look and continue with the IoT connectivity. I will bring you with me. Here you can find the latest technologies about cellular IoT and GNSS. We had just launched the news byte last Thursday about the ST87M01. Coming with the reliable and robust NB IoT connectivity to release 15 of the 3GPP combined with the GNSS and localization opportunity of the GNSS integrated inside the module with the option of the ST secure element and also the SME embedded, offering very robust, compact and low-power features. It addresses several IoT applications, widespread IoT, ranging from the smart cities with the smart lighting application to the smart metering domain, especially water meter and gas meter, battery power operated devices, but also heat meter and electric meter, ranging to the smart industry domain with predicting maintenance and other use cases and scenarios, and lending benefitting from the GNSS localization to the asset tracking solution and option. This solution can address various application options. It can come in the very simple flavor with the module itself combined with sensor and actuators for very simple IoT application and adding an external MCU it can also address medium to high complexity IoT scenario. Very, very new branded devices. What is the GNSS? Yeah, the GNSS is a Global Navigation Satellite System so it can offer you through the satellite data retriever the precise location with high accuracy and low-power features because it is integrated inside the SOC. Is it alternative to GPS? No, it is part of the GPS. It is a more combined and optimized solution because it adopts both Galileo and GPS constellation to have a very accurate and precise localization. Galileo is the European one? Galileo is the European one and GPS is the US one so it is a Western-based solution. Nice. And the NBIOT is a new trend. It just works. Is it using cellular? Yeah, the NBIOT is a very robust and secure connection because it is based on the mobile network operator infrastructure so it is part of the 5G family, the very new LTE family very optimized in power consumption feature. Cool. And we see here those little parts, is it in here? Yeah, this is the evaluation board as you can see very simple and very effective evaluation board with Arduino pin connectors for developers. It is fully programmable and the engineers can like it very much and can use it a lot. And here on the screen you show all the different connectors. Yeah, you can see the constituting part of the evaluation board. The module itself is in the center. Then you have the SMA connectors for antenna connectivity. Then you have the plastic holder for the SIM. Then you have the USB. You can connect both powering and sending data to the UART connection to the module itself and then you have the Arduino connection for the developers and software and firmware guys having the ends on this device. What kind of ARM core is it? Yeah, this is an interesting platform because it comes with three separate cores. So you have the Cortex M4, the DSP part and then you have the security part with the RISC 5. So it is very, it is an IoT platform itself. So you're combining tri-cluster, you have two ARM and one RISC 5? Exactly, indeed. It is very interesting because you have a possibility to embed also simple customer application and so you can customize the device and well address different use cases. Very nice. Is it ready for mass production? Yeah, it will land in mass production in Q3 this year. So just be patient a little bit more and you will have the solution in your end. This could be one of the most popular RISC 5 chips in the world. Yeah, this is maybe the primary solution inside this domain to adopt this kind of idea and novelty. So we are very proud of this insertion in the production. What did you need to use the RISC 5 for the secure part? Yeah, it is an ancient feature for the security parts that nowadays also for geopolitical reasons and interest in the security. Also for the Cyber Security Act of the European Union to be landed. It will be an IoT platform with security, additional security features landing in the European, US and worldwide application scenarios. So this could potentially be the new standard for country-wide IoT? Exactly, indeed. We are part of several groups also for the standardization in security so we are driving the working group about this feature and this will be the enabler, one of the first products to disclose this feature. Nice, that's cool. Can we check some of your colleagues? Yeah, sure. Yeah, let's move around. We will have another very hot topic, like connected artificial intelligence. I will introduce you to my colleague about the connected AJI. Please. Hi. Hi. So what are you showing here? So actually here we are showing an example of the application that can reach by embedding AI machining on the edge. So actually we are running... Can you come close to the microphone? Yeah, sure. So actually we are running AI on the edge in order to reach best performances in a lot of applications to create new features. For example, here we are showing how to create predictive maintenance solution by monitoring the vibration of the pump and allowing the user to take his solution, to put it on another system and to learn, again, the behavior of the equivalent in order to venture the model. That's what we call on-device learning. So to do so, we have a tool called Nano-AJI Studio that you can see on your right. This tool allows the user to create from scratch in a matter of minutes the AI algorithm for automated detection, classification or regression and to cover every kind of use cases. We are sensor agnostic and only takes few steps to create an optimized machine learning model. So you can see that the studio is doing most of the job to ease developer life and we are reaching pretty huge performance, almost 100% accuracy, with a really low footprint. So these solutions are really optimized for SM32 microcontrollers and allows to create an immediate kind of use cases. We are monitoring here vibration, but we can work with temperature, current, pressure, audio images. So the number of use cases is limited for that. This Nano-AJI Studio, what is that about? This is the tool that will speed up the development process for AI solution. So it's optimized for microcontrollers, for SM32 microcontrollers and allows every developer to create machine learning solutions. I've got a comment here. Please ask how to embed the application along with the OS. Is there any manual to set up? Actually, the embedding process is quite easy because the studio is generating .h and .a. So these files can be implemented to the project and it's just like calling a function. So the AI is here allowing it's a technique to reach best performances, to reach new features, to develop new features. So you can just create many new projects and call the function as you used to do. What are the skills required to program for this? Actually, if you want to use Nano-AJI Studio, you don't have to get advanced skills for AI or data science because the tool does a job for you. If you come and watch, actually the tool will benchmark thousands of combination of machine learning models and parameters and preprocessing algorithms. So it will define the best combination for your application. Here we can see for this demo that we are using three scenario preprocessing bricks and one classical machine learning model. So the studio will tell you which model and which preprocessing you should use but you have the right to change if you want. So this is giving you all the tools that you need to develop your application so you don't have to have any skills just to embed the library in your portfolio. This is exciting, this is providing many new potential implementations. Exactly. Thanks a lot. ST is very active also in the imaging part so let's have a look at these three other options. We have the current cabin imaging demo pod. Nice to introduce my colleague. Hello. Hello. Lutastaman, I'm a technical marketing for our imaging automotive products. Are you interested in automotive? Yeah. What do we see here? What is this device? This is our EVK together with Illuminator here. So this application is for in-cabin monitoring and user experience features. This is a new innovative 5 megapixel sensor which is unique in the world because it is capable of doing rolling shutter and global shutter mode at the same time or let's say like frame-to-frame you can switch between HDR RGB pictures and NIR here with the illumination. You see the NIR, the NIR infrared 940 nanometers illumination. So that's 15 frames per second of each 15 frames. It is just a demo. The sensor can do up to 60 FPS in full resolution. 30 each for example in full resolution, yes. How does it switch? It switched. There is a firmware inside. There is a little controller in the sensor which is switching then frame-to-frame so you can pre-configure the sensor in four different configurations and then you can set a sequence and then switch between the context and the sequence and you switch frame-to-frame. So you make one picture in this mode and one picture in that mode and then you stream the data out to an ECU and then they can do some kind of orientation like this when you go here on this side you can see that it recognizes my face where I'm looking. If my eyes are open and this is a safety application like the European Commission there is this NCAP regulation that every car in 2025 has to have... No, it's only working here on my side because it is configured. This is the driver side. So from 2025 every new car in Europe has to have a driver monitoring system. That soon? That soon. Yes, yes. So we are very busy with OEMs and with the TO1s to implement that in cars. We are on a good way to get the market lead also here with our products. We have two products. One is only focusing on this application with NIA infrared and then this product is a wide field of view for the whole cabin and then you can have all applications in the human and in the machine vision side. I like watching these YouTube videos with the Uber drivers. They film themselves and they show what's happened, but this is like filming inside the car. Yes. In full color here. Yes, HDR. Security. Exactly. So this is machine vision. Normally you don't see that. The machine is seeing that and then gives you information or sends you information. It makes beep, beep, beep, beep. Or maybe it peeps this. So for the DMS it's only like the drowsiness and the inattention on the driver. So when you have like... Exactly. When you... There's another mode of this demo but it's not enabled right now. So when you have the mobile in your hand it recognizes and then it would also like beep and say please don't call during driving. Don't play video games on the dashboard. During driving in your Tesla. Yes, exactly. So here this is also the new trend in the automotive, like the software defined vehicle. You bring more features what you know from the smartphones into the car and this is why you need human vision and nice HDR video content also to the people in the car or to stream that making zoom calls or teams during the driving. I need this function where if I make a joke that's not very good with my guests you should just park the car to the side of the road and stop... Yeah, that's the beauty of the software defined car you can implement everything what you want. Because the big problem is distraction. It's really a lot of accidents. Yes, exactly. So this is why here for example this is the end of the question again. So it knows where I'm looking. It makes the eye tracking and then you can say now I'm looking on the side window now I'm looking on the... on the video which is in the center display and now I'm focusing on the street. So with this sensor we are really cutting edge and we can also do some processing on the sensor itself to make out of this this is actually like an RGB NIR 4x4 color filter array which is not normal for normal cameras normally you have only RGB and the standard ISPs are not able to deal with this so you need to process this or pre-process this and that the standard ISPs are capable to use it. What we can do here with this sensor we can do this pre-processing on the sensor and we're the only ones in the world which are capable of doing this. Nice. Yes. Alright, thanks a lot. You're welcome. Cool. Let's have a look also to the other solution like smart cameras and photonic sensor. Hi. Hi. So, yes. Here it's a global photos camera so we have three of my colleagues with in-carry solution it's a consumer and digital solution so we have a lot of type of application possible like the first one it's a face recognition so for that we work with Trinamix The mic. Okay. We work with Trinamix in the partnership with Trinamix for the face recognition so we provide the camera they provide the algorithm and the software solution so we show today we are able to have a great level of securities for mobile payment because we are a field of security certification for that and we show we are able to go under the screen with this camera we can go under the screen that's a main point for us to do that because we are a great sensitivity with our sensor camera in higher wavelengths So this is kind of like face unlock face authentication for payments for payments for screen for all you want for smartphone unlock and so on Some of these phones are using kind of like LiDAR or something like that that recognizes the shape of your face and everything Is that required sometimes to have extra level of for LiDAR? You mean? So you cannot unlock it with a photo with a person No, no, no With our camera and the algorithm from Dynamics we are able to the difference between a mask a real person a mask and a real person because they see the skin texture skin texture and movement and skin movement So we can know that he's a real person or not this real person So that's the main point Does it take a second or how long does it take to check that the person is moving and everything? One or two seconds Not more, not more Yes Is this to be implemented inside the phones or inside what? It's for it to be implemented inside the phone and that now available because we can go under the screen so we don't any more of the notch or a smaller point for the camera we can go under the screen for this camera What's the difference in quality for a selfie camera that's behind the screen compared to a little dot? Oh, yeah The main difference is we need great sensitivities because to go through the LED or the screen we don't have a lot of transmittance so we need to have a great sensitivity in higher visibility and we have that Cool Is this available now? Yeah But not yet in the phone Not yet in the phone but we're in the three limit booth if you have time to go and we have a demonstration with the same camera under the screen under the screen there we can see that we can use it that functional things that are available in the demonstration and it says a number of pixels megapixels and stuff like that It's a 1.5 megapixel solution in global shooters All right So that will go behind the display and then you can have a different selfie lens also You can have one for selfie photos another one just for autotikation Yeah, for autotikation we need to have an higher, higher source because we need to have real abilities so we need to we need to go when there are dark scenes we need to have a face identification too so we need infrared sources That's the main point So yes, today the main solution, use it Today we have that on the phone we have higher sources on the phone It's pretty nice that you can use your phone to pay contact less and you don't need to put a pin code or anything It knows it's you Yeah, it knows it's you too Exactly It's exactly the main point It's the main point Nice All right And there's an encryption and maybe octi or something you use encryption on the chip that goes behind that Yeah, we can go to this type of application All right, cool Thanks a lot Thank you Can we continue the tour? Yeah, sure We can go back to the USB because we do have other technologies and interest on the USB topics Yeah Hi Hello How are you? Please introduce yourself Yes My name is Christian Bella I'm a product marketing manager for power supply and USB PD products So nice This one So what do we see here? We see here a 140 watt charger which is a very compact one The first one in the world to get the USB PD 3.1 EPR certification for 28 volt 5 amp outputs This is really compact and lightweight So it is used Gallium nitride Correct It uses gallium nitride transistor of latest generation and digital control So the combination of digital control and gallium nitride transistor allows the dimension to be very small and the magnetic components to be very tiny and lightweight because the system operates at high frequency 300 kilohertz As you can see the efficiency of the system is above 94 percent and this is 2 percent higher than average chargers Also the dimensions are three times smaller than a solution of the same kind but using standard transistor What do we see here at the table? The next limb and the magnetic Those are the transformer done by, yes And those are done by our partner LG Inotec who helped out to create this prototype here which is in for factor solution for USB PD charger What's here? The EB loan It shows what's inside a charger That's correct Inside the charger this is the circuitry showing the ST1 HP digital controller and the master gun gallium nitride half bridge power stage Those are the two main ingredients for this solution which is an active clamp flyback converter and PFC controller in front So the total solution is made using ST components and LG Inotec magnetics together with Vort electronic magnetics So it's a total solution and this is what's inside this charger here Nice, it's a lot of power 140 watts It's kind of amazing that chargers can be so compact and reliable, safe That's correct In fact we got all the certification about compliers with USB standard and it's also safe as we said This 140 watt is enough to charge a laptop a smartphone with very fast charge You can charge a smartphone in less than 20 minutes and a laptop in less than 30 minutes And you can also use it to charge an e-bike for example or a power tool, like a drill or even a vacuum cleaner a portable vacuum cleaner So it's a really universal charger And it said the world's first 600 volt Is that what it said on the screen up there? Actually it's the world's first to get the USB PD 3.1 certification and we were also the world's first to introduce the master gun solution which is a 600 volt 600 volt half bridge power stage using Gallium Nitrise Transistor of second generation And this technology can be made available to every charger manufacturer in the world That's correct Our technology is available for any manufacturer to use our technology to take advantage of our technology and create products And if you replace 1 billion chargers you'll save 20 minutes you'll do a lot of savings Yes, yes So if we could replace our charger in charge with our solution we can save a million tons of raw materials and energy saving for 3.5 billion tons of CO2 So it's an amazing amount of savings So actually it would be a good idea even though it sounds like a lot of waste to change all the chargers in the world but in terms of how much power you would save in efficiency it's worth it for the environment That's correct And in fact the USB-C is the connector which is chosen by the EU the one which replaces all the USB connectors So nowadays USB-C is the universal connector for all the devices And now the new USB standards are trying to make it clear how much bandwidth and how much what throughput power does so it will be more clear what cable is supported what charger is supported And that's also very good, no? That's correct On the cable you have the ability to know how much power you can deliver and so with 140W you can really charge a large variety of products I like my power bank it's very interesting because you connect and it tells you how long it's left how many hours, how many minutes or maybe it would tell you how long it will finish charge All this kind of information could also be in displays and stuff But that's something else, right? Yeah, that's really useful and convenient for the end user Thank you very much We can end up our tour with the very last one pod in front of the desk Please, let me introduce you the self-learning IE sensor pod that we are presenting with the ISPU product Hi Hello What do you show here? So here we are showing our new IMU which is an accelerometer and a gyroscope and inside the same package we also integrated a risk core where in this demo we are running unsupervised learning for fitness tracking So we are able to learn some movements and then detect them What am I seeing here on the table? So on the table you can see the sensor which is the small part right here Then you can see the app where we can see what kind of exercise you are performing and how many repetition counts you have And also for the sensor there we have an evaluation tool with a wristband And you say risk? What's the views in there? It's completely one made by ST So is it an ARM CPU? No, it's a completely... the architecture is made by ST It's not an ARM Alright So this is useful for... What does it do? Self-learning Yes, so as I said for fitness tracking for example but also you can run any other algorithms you like We provide a tool chain for it so you can program it in C language you can run your custom C processing algorithms any of you like Cool, alright Thanks a lot Thank you Alright Alright, thank you so much for passing by at ST and we always welcome you for new developments and new excitement and things to make life augmented as our motto is saying Thanks a lot Thanks for the tour And it's been a good show right? A lot of people passing by We are very enthousiast of the people passing by A lot of people A lot of interaction, customer new possibilities, new technologies It has been a great 2023 MWC show Yeah


Okay, good afternoon folks Larry Pesavento with the mid-morning update or mid-afternoon update. I forget that it's morning here and afternoon there. Got the stock market up strongly folks. S&P up 34, NASDAQ up 190, the Dow Jones up 225 and the Russell up 22 points. Very very strong. Bond market is basically bonds and notes are basically unchanged. The U.S. dollar is getting massacred folks. I have a high of 110 in the Euro, believe it or not. This thing was 105 just about three weeks ago and you can see the kind of move that we've had here. This is sent gold into the stratosphere folks. We've got gold up $30. It's hit as high as 2063 and silver is up 50 cents approaching $27 an ounce and the premium on buying silver folks if you want to buy silver is 16%. I never in my wildest dreams had ever think that would happen. It was usually three or four percent for all these years. There's just nothing for sale from what people tell me and I have to agree with what they're saying. The prices are telling us that, that things look like they want to go a whole lot higher. So that's what we're paying attention to today. We've had some very strong strong action of course in all of the foreign currencies. The Japanese yen, the British pound, the Canadian dollar and the Australian dollar all very, very strong. With that move to the upside, it puts the dollar index to the downside. Another very, very relief thing that we've heard about with our inflation now going minus, believe it or not, 0.5 was the minus half a percent as opposed to being unchanged to up a little bit. So the inflation is no longer a problem.  And if you believe that, I still have two shares of the Brooklyn bridge. Also crude oil is actually down for the first time in six days. We got as high as at 83, 44 level and it's backed off a little bit. It's only down about a dollar a barrel right now. So that's what we're watching. So stay tuned for trade. What you see Fibonacci 24 seven, we're going to go down memory lane and talk about some of the things that have happened to me in the past and share some charts that we're looking at. So I hope you'll be able to join us. And if you'll stay tuned, we're going to be able to help you in just about three minutes. So we'll be right back folks.


Gang, let's read page 82 of The Essential Psychedelic Guide by D.M. Turner. Okay, as Nicholas requested, page 82. Oh, look at this. It's his own title. Self-development on numerous fronts. Let's see what section this is in. Oh, look at the titles on this. Hold on. Let me find the chapter. Oh, nice. So page 72, self-development on numerous fronts. Page 79 is further exploration. Where do we go from here? Okay, and then it has numerous headings. The legalization of drugs and healing society's view of substance use. Gang, while we're doing this, do not forget, do not forget. Free Assange, Free Assange, Free Assange. Julian Assange's publisher and journalist that has been crucified for trying to bring transparency and accountability of capitalist power to humanity. Something that we desperately need in our societies. For more information, see Wikileaks.org, Defend.Wikileaks.org, or countless resources available online. The next subheading for this is Affinity for One Self and Others. Next one is Applications of Natural Recognition of Humanity Smallness and of our being an internal integral part of the universe. Serious headings, right? And then we get to page 82, and we're going to read the whole page because page 82 is Self-Development on Numerous Fronts. And then the next chapter, next subheading is Tapping normally dormant abilities of our, of our what? Of our minds and developing ultra-consciousness. Very cool. Serious stuff. Serious stuff. And the last subheading for this is the role of psychedelics in future societies. And then it goes into a new section, DMT, water spirit, a magical link. Nice. Phony, I finally took my first, he rolled dose of mushrooms a couple of weeks ago. It was like I was disassociated from my thoughts and managed to observe them as if I was a third party. Very cool. Very cool. Still going. We're going to smoke a cigar, Cuban. I'm going to have a sip of Glen Levitt, 14-year-old cognac cask finish. And we're going to read a little DM Turner. Page 82 of the Essential Psychedelic Guide by DM Turner. Self-Development on Numerous Fronts. Psychedelics can help the user develop in many ways. The primary development that tends to occur is a general broadening of perspectives and life experience. Each time one embarks on a psychedelic voyage, the familiar mode of viewing the world is temporarily set aside and the voyager has a chance to view life with the filters of conditioning removed. Although a new filter is created as the psychedelic state fades, the trippers post-session reality should be permanently changed, at least to a small degree. After a psychedelic trip, one has the vantage point of having experienced life as though he or she had been a different entity. One's filter of conditioning should become less biased as one experiences life through a multitude of viewpoints. It is also likely for trippers' filter to become less rigid as he or she welcomes familiar with its undying fluidity. It is not uncommon for psychedelic users to come to the realization that what they have called reality is but an arbitrary view of life. The next step in this sequence is acknowledgement that one's experience of life can be consciously changed to their will. For me, this has resulted in an expansion of my ability and what I consider possible to do. Psychedelics should also expand one's ambitions and desire to obtain the most out of life. Once you've experienced heaven, it is difficult to remain satisfied with a mediocre state of existence. For one's life to be strongly affected by psychedelics, it is usually necessary to make the insights gained during the psychedelic experience part of their regular frame of mind. This requires some type of follow-through after one's journey, possibly a spiritual or psychological practice that will help avoid slipping back into routine patterns. This can take much more effort than the psychedelic experience itself, but the rewards can be well worth the effort. The ability of psychedelics to stimulate artistic creativity is well known. The cultural revolution that began in the 60s has many outstanding examples. In The Psychedelics in Psychopedia, Peter Stafford describes several surveys of artists who tried psychedelics and how it affected their work. That's page 82. We're going to read this book at some point. From front to back. Awesome. Great buy. Very happy with it. $17 all in including shipping and taxes. Amazing deal. Amazing deal.


ssure in the future just because the cost of doing things and the scarce resources in the system to actually actually do things so some of our reform has been about standing still in terms of doing the same amount for the same resources so the work that we've done with KSAG contracts around uniform approaches to roads related work across KSAG has moved us on to a certain extent but it will only deliver so many efficiencies and then it's a question of how much money have you got and how much road repairs for example can you do with the resources that are available to you so there are still challenges and local government i think has been successful in addressing some of those challenges over those years and you know colleagues like myself will continue to be saying how can we get the best value for for the public sector as we go forward into the next year thanks very much for that and thanks for bringing in the piece about capital i said that was the last question but does anyone else want to come in with anything we might not have covered that you feel like we really need to hear i think robert's point about capitals is well made that's an area that we're seeing significant challenges in the cost of providing capital projects and the capital grant figure is not going up so you know on the back of on the back of covid and trying to put some more money into our communities to boost to boost the economy there it's really challenging and some councils i know we're having to cut back some other capital projects to meet the inflation demand i think some in some areas it's you're seeing a 30 percent or more increase in construction costs for capital projects and that's that's a real challenge for councils thank you martin anything else to add no no thanks super well thank you all for coming and bringing your evidence for us today and i'll now briefly suspend the meeting while our witnesses leave the room thank you the final public item on our agenda today is to consider a negative instrument the valuation proposals procedure scotland regulations 2022 do members have any comments on the instrument no comments is the committee agreed that we do not wish to make any recommendations in relation to this instrument we are all agreed thank you we agreed at the start of the meeting to take the next two items in private so as that was the last public item on our agenda today i now close the public part of the meeting