Aloha and welcome to the Savvy Chick Show on Think Tech Hawaii. I'm your host, Chantel Seville. Today is a very exciting episode. It's all about living the dream with international fashion designer Jason Gretch. I'm incredibly excited to have him. He's one of the most inspirational people I know. He's all the way in Melbourne, Australia. Now, have you ever wanted what it would be like to live your dream and use your natural talents to do what you love every single day? Well, our guest Jason Gretch does exactly this. So we will be taking a walk down memory lane with Jason Gretch with his experience in becoming a fashion designer and icon brand. He'll share with us what he does, how he does what he does, what inspires him, where he's been, celebrities worked with and where he's going and where you can expect to see him next. Now, stay tuned for this whole episode because you're not going to want to miss anything from it.   And it's never too young to start living your dream. So without further ado, let's welcome the man himself, Jason Gretch. Thank you so much for being here, Jason. Aloha. Hello. You've had a pretty busy time, haven't you? Last week has been absolutely crazy for you with the brown low and the deli-ams. What's it like being all over the papers? It's been, naturally, it's been so overwhelming, but really exciting. It's an exciting time, you know? I love it. So was that something that you ever imagined that you'd be able to do? That you would be dressing, you know, the most known girls on the red carpet? Not really. Oh, you might as well, you might as well introduce your dog there. Introduce your dog, Jason. Really successful and really championed two things I love. The week was actually a really good stand that says, yes, you're doing a right part. So yes, it's really exciting. Yeah, it's pretty amazing. I mean, in Australia, because obviously in Melbourne, it's all about the sport. So to actually have you dressing on both red carpets and both coming in the best dress, I mean, with having Britt Davis there with Joel Selwood, the captain of Geelong, looking like an absolute fairytale princess, I mean, that's every little girl's dream. And she just looks amazing and own that gown. So I think it's a huge combination of what you've created and how you've done it so well for her and then how she walked it and wore it and really owned that red carpet. So that must have been pretty special to see that. Yes, it was. We've been working with Britt for maybe six weeks. So we sat down and we designed something and then we made it and then we changed it. We did it. We changed again. We did. We changed again. We did. I think we did that like about five or six times and then the day before it was all done. And you know, Britt's been amazing. She's a special needs teacher. So that just, you know, says a lot about her. So when I was asked to dress her, yeah, straight away. And as you would, wow, it's one of the most beautiful dresses I've ever seen in my life and you've done a lot of beautiful creations in yourself. So that was pretty special to see you on those papers and just made me so proud. I mean, we've known each other for a while now to see that. I was like, wow, it was only a matter of time and that's, that's neat. And then also, so you also dressed, what was it, Tegan Martin, who is Miss Universe Australia at the Deli Ames? Yes. Oh, we're just showing one. We're just showing one more of Britt Davis here on the screen and then we'll get one of Tegan up there on the red carpet. So, yeah, what was it? How did that come about? It came about a good friend of mine that's a stylist just called me a couple of days before I did the brown loads and we just, you know, chat about what he was after and what look he was after for Tegan. We then, yes, sent a couple of dresses up and bang, you know, really amazing. Yeah. So it's a really, it can be a really different process depending on, it's, I guess it's like art, as you said, with, with Brits, you kind of kept working on it, working on it and it evolved over time.  So the truth of it is this, with Brits, she's an album based, so she came and saw us and we, you know, spent a long time doing that. With Tegan's, hers was something out of our collection. So, her stylist, Rainn Gagas, loved some things we sent, goes over and then, yeah, he chose one.  And those sleeves are incredible. We've got the sleeves up on the screen at the moment. They're amazing. What inspired you to do those type of sleeves? I just wanted something with movement. My thing about fashion, it's a form of art which sort of has to move. So because that dress is quite structured, I just wanted the arms to move. Beautiful. And so this wasn't your first experience dealing with celebrities as such. I mean, you're no stranger to dealing with a lot of the other well-known celebrity names in Australia and America. I mean, you've worked with Delta Goodrum and Kelly Osborne. I mean, we're here in, obviously, the Hawaii that a lot of Americans would probably know Kelly Osborne a little bit more than Delta Goodrum, but Danny Manogue and, you know, even you've done some work with Susan Sarandon. I mean, just the list goes on and on. But what I do notice is it's often really powerful, confident women that you dress and that really inspires me to see, especially, you know, for savvy chicks, these people to aspire to. It's quite, I mean, stars in themselves, the voice, the X factor. I mean, is there any sort of show that you haven't been on where it's all about people's talent? You know, Australia's got talent. I know, it's been overwhelming. Yes, I never thought of that, but yes. Yeah, it's... And so how did you come across, or how did they come across you, or how did that all happen?  So, you know, that's a big part of it. We deal with lots of stylists from abroad, you know, and Australia, and they seem to either see us online or see something we've done in the past, and then, yeah, they just call us and we have a chat. So is it a lot of times the stylist that actually you deal with before the celebrities, at how it works? Yes. So the stylists get a feel for the celebrity and then they can choose the designers, I suppose, that would match that style? Yes, that's right. So the stylists will call us and we'll have a chat with them and then we make the talent and we have a chat with her, you know, yeah. So are there certain, like, have you ever had a people approach and it just wasn't the right fit for you? Has that ever happened? Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's happened. And I think that's important for, you know, for yourself as a designer and that's why you've been able to be so successful is to choose people that align with your own brand as well, because it's not just about them. It's also about you at the end of the day and protecting your brand and from a marketing background, you've just done an amazing, amazing job with that.  That's quite exciting. Sophie, she's only 17. I mean, look at her go and just own that dress. Wow. And again, it was that stylist that came and found you and you just worked with them and... Yes, that's right. Yes. Very, very cool. Now the gladiator range, that was, I mean, I've always, every time I've worn your dress, I felt so confident and so amazing. It flipped like a glove, but this gladiator range that you came out with a couple years at the Fashion Week, where did that even come from? That was insane in my mind. It was so powerful. What was the inspiration behind that? Thank you. So that's, I first did the collection before that was Birds of Prey.  I was dealing with lots of personal issues. So I turned into a bird that killed basically. So Trump months after I became a gladiator because I was strong, I was fearless, I was powerful. So I designed things for that character, which I've loved, which was amazing. And, you know, and that all started by being at home and watching the gladiator movie. Oh. And to me, I wasn't being that person. Well, I mean, any of those dresses, I think that if any woman put them on, even if they didn't feel confident, they couldn't not. It just, it was such a powerful range. And that's when, I guess, when we looked at the pictures of celebrities in the prior images there, a lot of them did choose your gladiator range to wear. Yeah. Yeah, that's, we even had Kelly Osborne on, you know, wearing your gladiator with a snake around her. Now that's taken things to the next level. Yes, we did. So why I really wanted to get you on the show is you inspire me so much.   And that's a true artist to me. And for those watching today, I really want you to be able to share and today and every day after this, when they can watch the replay. Like, you know, I want to know a bit more about Jason Gretch, the actual person. And getting real with Jason Gretch is really what I'd like to take people, you know, like, who are you and where did you come from and this type of thing. So when you were little, what did you want to do when you grew up? So when I was little, I used to want to be a chef. So I was in a, just I did that for about six months. And then it was just dirty. I really hated the dirty cans, you know. So then I went back to school again and then studied accounting. I did that for two years. Then I thought that that was a bit boring for me, you know, doing gel. And then when I was overseas and I was like, yeah, fashion's it. So I, yeah, came home and studied. So did you ever have a fashion inkling when you were younger, like as a child or? Not really at all. Well, we've got some pictures we're showing you Jason. It looks like you might have. I used to play with money. So I'd dress those all the time. So, you know, it possibly started at that time. So when you were overseas, what was it that inspired fashion then to you? You know, from a chef to accounting, then what was it overseas that you saw or? So, again, the truth of the story is I was dating somebody and that person loved fashion. At that time, I did not or not, I didn't. I just didn't want to be a designer, you know. I had never really thought about it. And then I am thought, what will be my sweetest revenge? This person's really broken my heart. What would it be? And I'm fraudulent, you know. Again, I turned my pain into power. Pain to power. That is awesome. I'm going to quote that for you from now on forever. Pain to power. Wow. That's all. I had no idea that was part of that story. Pain to power. We're going to hold it for two seconds. Take a short break and come back to you with more pain to power in the next segment. Aloha everyone. I hope you've been watching Think The Kauai. But I'm here to invite you to watch me on Viva Hawaii every Monday at 3 p.m. I'm waiting for you. Mahalo. Aloha. My name is Danelia, D-A-N-E-L-I-A. And I'm the other half of the duo, John Newman. We are the co-host of Keys to Success, which is live on Think Tech live streaming network series weekly on Thursdays at 11 a.m. Aloha. Aloha. Hello. My name is Crystal. Let me tell you my talk show. I'm all about health. It's healthy to talk about sex. It's healthy to talk about things that people don't talk about. It's healthy to discuss things that you think are unhealthy because you need to talk about it. So I welcome you to watch Quok Talk and engage in some provocative discussions on things that do relate to healthy issues and have a well-balanced attitude in life. Join me. Aloha. Welcome back to the second segment of the Savvy Chick Show on Think Tech, Hawaii. We are here with one of my favorite, most incredible people I know, Jason Gretz, the international fashion designer from Melbourne, Australia. Now it's all about pain to power, according to our last segment. And we're excited to hear more from Jason. So welcome back, Jason. That was good. I liked how we ended that segment there. So along your journey, and when you were going from being basically wanting to be a chef and then in accounting, and then you said you were going to be a designer, what did the people around you say? They all thought I was crazy. They thought I was nothing. They just thought I had no goals. I remember my sister saying, Jason, you're going to end up not having a job because she thought I changed and she actually thought I was lazy, surprisingly. What does she think now? She thinks I work too much. Isn't it incredible when you find something that inspires you so much that you just don't even want to stop doing it, but someone you can be seen as lazy? I mean, I interviewed a young girl who does sailing the other week and she's only 17 years old and she said when she was younger, everyone thought she was lazy and now she wakes up at four in the morning every day to go sailing because she found what lights her up and she doesn't stop. Yeah, that happens.  Feel free to welcome Jackson, your dog there. Jackson is a celebrity in himself. Is this Jackson? Hello, Jackson. What's his Instagram? The Adventures of Jackson with an X. The Adventures of J-A-X-O-N? Yes, that's right. Oh, awesome. For any of you watching, he has some awesome pictures on there. And of course, you can follow Jason Gretch at Jason Gretch on Instagram there.  Again, just turning into power. You know, I think that people always knock us down. I think that people always try and put us in a box, but it's up to us to change that and to, you know, make people or not even make people, just make yourself, just give yourself some time, set some goals and do it. I think, yeah. So give yourself some time, set some goals and just go for it. Yeah, that's right. And then turn that pain into power. Pain into power. And I just want to share like a little bit of behind the scenes. So then you basically started doing, would you start sketching? So you did study design. You went to university and you did a design course. And then was there a particular type of fashion you gravitated towards at that time? Yes, I was doing women's wear. So then I got a job during work experience. And then I was there for about six years. I started off, sorry, this is Jackson. And he wants his toy and he's driving us all nuts. So that's all that. And so then I worked there for six years. And then I was, you know, I got a big board and then I started Jason Gretch. And what was the first type of style that you started? Did you start, I know you're very famous for your wedding. Did you start with bridal couture or what did you start with? With evening wear. With evening wear? Evening wear, okay. Which makes sense now with all the red carpet you're doing. And then I had a store and I used to target girls between 18 and about 30. And it was all really short and party dresses. And then from there you sort of got inspired to do, when did the bridal inspiration come from? The bridal inspiration comes from doing my niece's gown. So I've got six brothers and four sisters. And I've got many, many nieces and nephews. One of them got married, yeah. And then you just did a wedding dress and then you were inspired from that time. That's right. So what have been sort of the biggest challenges you faced along the way? Just to give people an idea of what it's like to follow your kind of career and what kind of challenges you can come across. Well there's, I think there's many of them. I think the biggest one is staying true. I think there's lots of outside forces that try and, or try and pull and grab it take years. So I think that's probably the biggest one. So another one would be long hours. I've worked on Monday, Tuesday I did and probably that's 16 hour days. And I did the same on Wednesday. And I've, you know, and it's Thursday and I've probably worked about 40 hours. And you know, and also just coming up with new designs. That's a big one. So how do you come up with new designs? And where do they come from? Do they come from within and you just sketch?  It's just incredible. Your talent doesn't stop.  Yeah. Well normally, yeah. Thank you. And I generally design things I love. So I brought an example with the gladiator.  This year I did this juxtaposition collection and I partnered with IBM. So this was a world first collage. So they asked me, you know, I am to chat with them and they asked me to partner with them and to design a collection using IBM and Watson's insights. And that was really amazing. And they just told me, you know, it just gave me data on predicted colours, styles, trends and things like that, which is very different to how I've designed in the past. But, you know, this collection has been really successful. The dresses, I mean, at Spring Fashion Week this year with IBM, that collaboration, IBM, Watson, that is absolutely incredible. So you actually use a computer program to assist you. So that's the first time that you had done that? That's right. So it's actually, Mark Keiser did the first dress. You would be called Mark Keiser did a dress that had lights on for the Met Gala. So they did the first gown. Well, why? And I did the first ever collection. So, yeah, with the computer system. And the colours. I mean, is that something that you found from that as well? Because the colours are beautiful. I love the pastels. The pink. I'm in love with the pink. All the pink. I mean, I'm wearing bright pink. I like to wear bright colours. But those pastels in the purple is gorgeous. Thank you. So will there be more coming of that? Is there more to that that we can expect to? That's hope so. That's hope so. Well, I mean, be rude, not to really. We're just, we are showing some of the images just at the moment now of Spring Fashion Week. I just, I mean, every collection you do, I'm more and more inspired by. I just wonder what you're going to come up with next. So the next thing that is coming up, I guess, is Spring Fashion Week? No. We've just passed that. Oh, yeah, that's right. So what's next? Next is our bridal collection. Bridal, right. Bridal. Bridal Brides. Jackson, I'm sorry. We love having Jackson. He just wants a spotlight. It's okay, Jackson. We'll get you your own show. I think he's just, he's just, he's just jealous. So what will you be doing with the bridal? Like what's, what's happening with bridal? Are there some new designs to look out for or? Yeah. So what I do is I do one evening collection and one bridal collection per annum. So we've done the, you know, just done evening and now it's our bridal. So, but, but, you know, this is all to our really busy, bridal client times. So we work with those and we make, you know, some really awesome new things for them. We also do things for the races because that's coming up and that's really exciting time. And then we'll start to design again. Oh yeah. Racing time. Cause that's huge. Racing is huge in Melbourne. So that's, that's something that you've done a bit with in the past and you've been, you've, um, what is it? What's the racing, um, fashion? Is it fashion on the field? Fashion's on the field. Yes. So you'll be doing that again this year? Not this time. Not this time. You've kind of been there and mastered that. We got to, we're doing IBM. We're mixing fashion technology now. Like, come on. That's awesome. Um, so just a few things, cause we only have a few minutes left. I'm definitely going to ask you for some advice for, for all those dreamers out there. But firstly, for anyone who has been inspired by your collections, how can they, can they, you know, order from you or how does that process work? If they want a wedding dress or a normal dress or how, how do they get about that? Um, just, um, just, um, a website. Yeah. Which is JasonFreds.com. And then so can, can they just order a dress online or do they have to work with you and make a couture or how does that, or is there either either and both these days? Yeah, both these days. We can do both of those. And the greatest thing is, I mean, anytime I've come and tried on a dress, you haven't even had to make it for me. I've actually just put it on and it's fit like a glove. So that, I mean, that is one of the things right from the beginning that inspired me is I put on the dress and I just felt so powerful and confident, but we always had fun. And that was the main thing. I mean, we did a few, a few fun events with, um, at Bowles in, in Melbourne, Australia. And I've got a few photos coming up here with Robert Dipper Domingo as everyone knows he's an AFL ambassador and just a hood of a person to hang out with. We did have some fun, fun days back in the day in Melbourne, Jason. So I'll, memories I'll always cherish. Thank you. Design. Before, before we wrap up though, what's, what advice do you have for, um, either those who want to follow just any dream and, and then in particular, those who want to follow a dream in fashion? I just think to it, I think you just have to leave all your opinions at the door, leave everyone else's opinions at the door and just really focus on what you want to do and do it.   Definitely not me. So I think the, my best advice would be just believe, believe, believe, because it's out there. And if anyone can do it, you can.  There's interviews killing me. And, but, you know, you just do it. That's, thank you so much, Jason. I mean, you may say this, you know, interview it's not your thing, but the words that you say come straight from the heart. And I know that they will, I mean, I was getting goosebumps as you were talking then and almost get tears in my eyes just because I know how much, no, it really will inspire people watching it to, it doesn't matter where you come from, where you've been, it's just, as you say, you just get something and you go for it and don't let anyone get in your way. So it means so much to my heart to have you on the show today and thank you so, so much because I know you're working a million hours a week and yeah, it means a lot. So thank you. Thank you for all that you do. Keep shining because you're bright star that's just going to make everyone shine brighter and I can't wait to see you hopefully soon in Australia. Thank you, Chantel. Aloha, lots of love from all of us in Hawaii. Bye-bye. See you, Savvy Chicks. We'll see you next time.


Hi, everyone, and welcome back to the Google Search News series. I hope life is treating you reasonably well wherever you are. I'm your host today, John Mueller, here from Switzerland. With this show, we want to give you a regular summary of what's been happening around Google Search, specifically for website owners, publishers, and SEOs. If you find these useful, which I hope you do, and if you'd like to stay up to date, then make sure to subscribe to the channel. I hope your year both ended well and is starting off well. What a unique year it was, right? If you're watching this in the far future, then first off, congratulations for making it that far. And secondly, as you can see, in early 2021, we're still recording from home in Switzerland. In this episode, we'll be covering some neat new things around the foundation of Search, namely crawling and indexing, as well as another relevant part of Search, namely links. If you're curious to find out more, then stay tuned. As a bit of background, crawling is when Googlebot looks at pages on the web, following the links that it sees there to find other web pages. Indexing, the other part, is when Google Systems try to process and understand the content on those pages. Both of these processes have to work together and the barrier between them can sometimes be a bit fuzzy. Let's start with news about crawling. While we've been crawling the web for decades, there's always something that we're working on to make it easier, faster, or better understandable for site owners. In Search Console, we recently launched an updated crawl stats report. Google Search Console is a free tool that you can use to access information on how Google Search sees and interacts with your website. This report gives site owners information on how Googlebot crawls the site. The report covers the number of requests by response code and the crawl purposes, host-level information on accessibility, examples, and more. Some of this is also in a server's access logs, but getting and understanding them is often hard. We hope this report makes it easier for sites of all sizes to get actionable insights into the habits of Googlebot. Together with this tool, we also launched a new guide specifically for large websites and crawling. As the site grows, crawling can become harder, so we compiled the best practices to keep in mind. You don't have to run a large website to find this guide useful, though. We'll add a link in the description if you're keen. And finally, still on the topic of crawling, we've started crawling with HTTP2. HTTP2 is an updated version of the protocol used to access web pages. It has some improvements that are particularly relevant for browsers, and we've been using it to improve our normal crawling, too. We've sent out messages to websites that were crawling with HTTP2 and plan to add more over time if things go well. As you can see, there's still room for news in something as foundational as crawling. And now let's move on to indexing. As mentioned before, indexing is a process of understanding and storing the content of web pages so that we can show them in the search results appropriately. For indexing, I have two items of news to share with you today. First, requesting indexing in the URL inspection tool is back in Search Console. You can once again manually submit individual pages to request indexing if you run into a situation where that's useful. For the most part, sites should not need to use these systems and instead focus on providing good internal linking and good sitemap files. If a site does those well, then Google Systems will be able to crawl and index content from the website quickly and automatically. Secondly, in Search Console, we've updated the index coverage report significantly. With this change, we've worked to help site owners to be better informed on issues that affect the indexing of their site's content. For example, we've removed the somewhat generic crawl anomaly issue type and replaced it with more specific error types. There's a bit more about this update in our blog post, which I've linked in the description below. Finally, I mentioned links in the beginning. Google uses links to find new pages and to better understand their context in the web. Next to links, we use a lot of different factors in Search. But links are an integral part of the web, so it's reasonable that sites think about them. Google's guidelines mention various things to avoid with regards to links, such as buying them. And we often get questions about what sites can do to attract links. Recently, I ran across a fascinating article from Giselle Navarro on content and link building campaigns that she saw last year. While I obviously can't endorse any particular company that worked on these campaigns, I thought they were great examples of what sites can do. It's worth taking a look at these and thinking about some creative things that you might be able to do in your site's niche. I added a link in the description below. Creating awesome content isn't always easy, but it can help you to reach a broader audience. And who knows, maybe get a link or two. And just a short note on news about structured data. As we mentioned in one of the previous episodes, we've decided to deprecate the old structured data testing tool and to focus on the rich results test in Search Console. The good news is that the structured data testing tool isn't going away, but rather finding a new home in the schema.org community. And that's all for now, folks. In closing, I'd love to hear more news from you all, especially around this video series. Which parts did you find particularly useful? Which parts less so? What should we focus on more for this year? Please let me know in the comments below or drop me a note on Twitter. I really appreciate all feedback, yours too. Finally, if you'd like to see more of these episodes or catch up on the new series for sustainable monetized websites, make sure to subscribe to the channel. I look forward to seeing you all again in one of the future episodes of Google Search News. Bye.


Welcome to World's Best Videos, we've come out with a list of facts about popular youtuber Scarce. Let's get into it. John Scarce or better known as Scarce was born on July 21, 1997 in the United States. He is currently 19 years old and resides in New York. He has 8 siblings, a few of them are step-siblings and some of them are fully blood related. Throughout his teen years he found himself playing the popular first person shooter Call of Duty. Before YouTube, he was fascinated by web design and wanted to pursue that before joining YouTube. Due to popular clients like FaZe and Obey, Scarce was inspired to create YouTube content. The GoScarce channel was created on January 25, 2012. To this date, the channel has over 2.8 million subscribers and over 545 million total upload views. He originally started uploading Call of Duty content, but throughout his career he slowly transitioned into uploading the latest news and gossip from the social media community. Scarce said in a question and answer video that originally his channel was a community channel where he would upload everyone else's videos. He would then climb the ladder of clients joining teams such as Spacebound, AE7, Obey and then eventually joining Red. John originally joined Spacebound as an editor but was a leader for the rest of the clients he joined. His first news type upload wasn't uploaded until September 22, 2013 and it was about him discussing Pommage's leaving FaZe, recruiting an SV leader and him quitting Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2. He mentioned in a video that he didn't really want to turn his channel into a news channel. One of his biggest inspirations is FaZe Bakes. With this popularity on YouTube he slowly grew his other social media outlets as well. By only having two posts on his profile he has over 36,000 followers on his Instagram and is following no one. On his Twitter he has over 983,000 followers while following 908 people. On the popular live streaming platform Twitch.tv he has amassed over 30,000 followers. Well that concludes the video guys, hopefully you guys did enjoy the video and if you did remember to smack that like button, let us know in the comments section below if you'd like to see next and if you haven't already subscribed please do subscribe to keep up with the world's best videos.


In 1910, Japan took over Korea as its colony and began a long period of misrule and oppression. Then on September 9, 1945, at the capital city of Seoul, a group gathered for the signing of the Japanese surrender in Korea. The Japanese governor and his military representatives were brought in. After a short address by the commander of the American Occupation Forces, Lieutenant General John R. Hodge, the surrender instruments were formally signed. Bringing an end to 35 years of Japanese domination of the country. The Korean people were wildly enthusiastic. For years, they had fought against their Japanese oppressors. A symbol of freedom flying on their soil was inspiring. However, the development toward a free, united Korea has been hindered by an artificial boundary at the 38th parallel. The establishment of this parallel was a purely military decision reached in consultation between American and Soviet military leaders at the time when it was necessary to decide who was to accept the surrender of the Japanese in different parts of Korea. The boundary separated Russian and American troops and was supposedly only temporary. Disarmament in South Korea took place systematically under supervision of the American 6th, 7th and 40th divisions. The surrendering forces were thoroughly searched before being sent to Japan. By early 1946, the United States had sent almost three quarters of a million Japanese soldiers, government workers and civilians to their homeland. While the Japanese military was being disarmed and deported, Koreans were being returned to their native land from overseas. During the war, two million Koreans had been taken to Japan and forced to aid the military program. As rapidly as possible, ships brought them home to begin their lives once more. Korean men had been drafted into the Japanese Army while their families had been used as slave labor. American military intelligence made thorough investigations of leaders of the Japanese Army in Korea. Japanese forces were not merely stationed in this country, they completely dominated the lives of Koreans. The police power in Korea was Japanese. The rulers of government were Japanese. Our major objective today in Korea is the establishment of a sound government. Since the United States and Russia in joint commission have thus far been unable to reach agreement on the uniting of the northern and southern zones, the United States has made clear an intention to carry out its pledges to Korea in the southern zone. Until a stable government can be set up, the United States is seeing through a program of training in self-government, similar to that formally administered in the Philippine Islands. Although there is a strong desire for independence, there is a lack of trained personnel for government jobs. In the past, most administrative positions had been held by the Japanese. Patriotic Koreans were never permitted to occupy any important post. The average Korean is a rugged individualist. He likes to think and speak for himself. Today in the southern zone, all people have the right to assemble peaceably and express their viewpoints. The people of South Korea trade and move about freely within their zone. But unfortunately, the 38th parallel, originally a military expedient, has become a barrier preventing normal activities within the entire country. For a while, there was little communication between the two zones. After several months, mail was exchanged for the first time. Although mail does cross the boundary, there are fewer exchanges of services between North and South Korea than between many nations. The country is split economically as well as politically. In this first exchange, 1,601 bags of mail were sent to North Korea from the southern zone. 4 bags were received from the northern zone. At the 38th parallel, American border troops are receiving large numbers of refugees that have fled from the northern zone, where a government has been set up along Soviet lines. Refugees arriving in American territory are hungry and weak after long journeys on foot. The area to which they have fled is mainly agricultural. The northern zone is industrial and lacking in rice and other food products grown on South Korean soil. Nevertheless, the southern zone is far from being self-sufficient. It has depended in the past upon the north for hydroelectric power, coal, and fertilizer. At present, the United States is supplying most of its fertilizer. In spite of increases in farm products, there are extreme shortages of food in both northern and southern zones. Because Korean rice is planted by hand, the land produces more rice per acre than American rice fields. Despite primitive methods, Korea is one of the leading rice-growing countries. This is the first time in 40 years that Koreans have had complete control over their own crops. Formerly, Japan took large amounts of Korean rice for its own use, while rationing very small quantities to the Koreans. Now, this staple of the Oriental diet is kept within the country for home consumption. To aid the food program, the United States is shipping seeds, grain, and other foods to Korea. Besides food, vast amounts of medical supplies and other urgent necessities for life and health have been provided by the United States government. Although it is of major importance to plan a long-range program to allow this country to stand on its own feet, Korea needs immediate aid in the form of direct relief. Food is a necessary step in encouraging the people to plan for democracy.


Coming up on DTNS weep for the headphone jack my friends why voice assistants need to spy on you and Should an AI be able to get a patent for its own inventions This is the Daily Tech news for Thursday August 1st 2019 in Los Angeles. I'm Tom Merritt from the shores of Lake Merritt I'm Justin Robert Young and From the LA County area and the show's producer Roger Jane Sarah Lane on the second of three days off working on some other projects right now. She'll be back on Monday But we were just having a wonderful conversation of what we suspect might show up at a new theme park that Universal Studios is apparently developing out in Orlando That's on good day internet And the only way to get that is to become a member at patreon.com DTNS let's start with a few tech things you should know Sources tell the Wall Street Journal that the US Federal Trade Commission is investigating Facebook's acquisitions The FTC wants to determine if Facebook bought rivals mainly in order to prevent them from becoming a threat to Facebook's business Which could fall afoul of regulations Tyler Blevins aka Ninja one of Twitch's most popular streamers announced he's moving his stream Exclusively to Microsoft Mixer Microsoft Mixer is a product that Microsoft has to have people stream their video games too If you didn't know he said his streams will be exactly the same so more fortnight Ninja will appear at Lollapalooza in Chicago this weekend too, which is being streamed live on YouTube So he's he's all over the map Google confirmed it's testing play pass in the Play Store a $4 and 99 cent monthly service that offers a library of games and apps Apps and play pass would have ads removed and include all in-app purchases as well screenshots of the test list Features a fitness tracker premium music apps and puzzle games That would be included. Yes. All right. Let's talk a little bit about Intel big announcement Intel announced the first 11 processors in its 10th generation ice lake line This is for thin and light laptops ice lake is built on Intel's 10 nanometer sunny Cove architecture Which Intel claims can handle 18% more instructions per clock along with larger L1 and L2 cash sunny Cove also brings Intel's AVX 512 deep learning Boost which speeds up automatic image enhancements photo indexing media post-processing a few other AI tasks So bringing in better battery efficiency more power and a lot more AI capability to these thin and lights The model numbers will get even longer too In fact the verge and I believe in Nantec both had really good how to figure out what the model number means decoding rings but basically You're going to end up with three different graphic options with ice lake chips If you see g7 in the model number that means you're getting 64 execution units g4 means 48 Execution units both of those models have the iris plus graphics if you see g1 That means not iris plus and just 32 execution units As usual the Y series chips won't have a Y in the model number name But the Y series chips will be meant for slim and efficient machines They're coming rated for 9 watts or 12 watts, which is bigger than the last round and for the first time There'll be a quad core Y series model U series chips will be geared towards ultra portables rated for 15 watts or 25 watts ice lake also includes support for Wi-Fi 6 and up to 4 Thunderbolt 3 ports so that doesn't have to be bolted on afterwards That's a little more efficient as well 10th gen ice lake chips will arrive in 35 laptops including Dell's XPS 13 2-in-1 Acer Swift 5 and a bunch of others You know the upshot here is if you're looking for a portable if you're looking for a 2-in-1 or a thin and light Ultra portable you're gonna have some bunch more capabilities once these Intel chips show up Yeah Does it mean that I need to get a new laptop though Tom? No It doesn't they're not that much better It means if you're in the market for a new laptop Maybe hold off until these these hit the the market before you upgrade But I don't think you have to go ditch your your existing laptop if it's doing well for you Roger, I know you're you follow this chip stuff really closely This feel like just a normal announcement. Does it have you excited with what's your feeling in terms of excitement? You know, it's something expect I think the most Exciting part is that they're getting their 10 nanometer process down to the part where they can start, you know regularly producing out these chips And these are for and these chips are intended for the mobile market So they're they're not performance screamers, right? You're not gonna be gaming You're not gonna do any heavy workload But if you're looking for something that does everything you want wanted to but uses a lot less juice while it does it These definitely are the products that Intel wants to put forward I guess really what's what's what will be fun to look at is to see what they come out in terms of desktop chips Later on when they get to that point, but right now it's it feels like they just want to make sure they got this process down They get these chips out You know non-tech the early results is at most 18% Roughly like kind of what what Intel spec'd out in terms of performance and advantage But you know, it's still early and those were just test samples that they were letting journalists play around with We'll have to wait until the actual production units come out that People and spend more time on stuff a couple hours to get a real feel of of where these are at in the performance scale So yeah, if you're a chip head, there's some interesting stuff to look at here If you're just wanting to know Whether to buy a laptop again, don't ditch the laptop you have if it's working great But if you're in the market to buy a new one and you're looking for two-in-ones on ultra lights and thin and lights Maybe wait until these this new generation shows up and evaluate them Sanmobile.com claims leaks that Sorry claims a leaked render of a USB C to mini jack adapter comes from Samsung and is meant to be bundled with the fourth Common Galaxy note 10 and 10 plus if valid this means that the new note does not have a headphone jack Samsung has an announcement schedule for August 7 somebody check on nil I but tell Anybody talk to him. Is he okay? Is he all right? Yeah, there there is some wailing and gnashing of teeth going out on out there because If you don't know a lot of folks who are fans of the note 10 often point to the fact that while my note 10 Still has a headphone jack as a point of pride And yes, we are not yet in the world where nobody needs a headphone jack but these flagship phones very often can again give you a dongle for your USB C port or most most likely they did it with with With Samsung models that had headphone jacks they gave you wireless earbuds free with purchase as a promote as a short-time promotion I will guarantee you they will do that with the galaxy note 10 and 10 plus if this turns out to be a true render Which seems like it should We're gonna find out next week, of course, but man, I I Love the headphone jack. I'm using one right now on a tablet To to play these these sorts of sound effects and and and music cues and stuff. It is necessary sometimes But I also know the wave of the future is good reliable wireless and if you can bring the price down Make it a little lighter provide me some extra features and not have to put that headphone jack apparatus in there I think it's sometimes a reasonable trade-off. I I don't want to Step on to this holy war battlefield for which some folks really like to rage I know that it is a very very particular interest for some people that there is a Feeling of betrayal by some of these companies that they have abandoned a piece of technology that always works and never needs to be charged However, it's becoming more of a niche element of phones You are going to have to seek out a phone to do it because I do believe like you said Tom that this is just The way the technology is going and I have to say I despite the fact that I've recently gone a run of losing them I really like my airpods.  I like the fact that I never get them caught on my handle of my suitcase And they rip violently out of my ear There are just things that I Appreciate about wireless you can do things with certain wireless that if you get the battery at a certain point Which I think it's close to now Then it is for me a preverable experience and that just looks like we're we're going with all of it Yeah, and the headphone jack hasn't been the headphone jack on phones for a while There are things that I plug into it that it's like I don't understand that because it's a smart jack It's not an actual fully implemented analog jack and once that happened. I became less attached to it It's kind of the same thing that happened when I'm like damn it They're getting rid of the the component video for HDMI, but that's that's digital You know what? We all got used to it and it has its downsides. Don't get me wrong But I imagine we'll get used to this a Report from counterpoint research shows that overall smartphone shipments declined 1% to 360 million units in Q2 2019 That's the 7th consecutive quarter of decline. So if it hasn't sunk in yet The smartphone market has reached its peak the report found that the combined market share of Chinese manufacturers Huawei, Oppo vivo Xiaomi and real me reached a new high of 42% even as smartphone shipments in China fell 9% so the only Manufacturers doing well in the smartphone market right now are the Chinese manufacturers Samsung still remains the market share leader kind of feels like Nokia, you know mid 2000s It even grew shipments 7.1% on the year though. So that's good. Huawei remained at number two growing its shipments 4.6% The impact of US trade sanctions probably not going to be felt until Q3 So we will see what happens in the next quarter if Huawei can hold on to that number two spot Apple saw its third quarter of decline with shipments falling 11% on the year But did remain number three and following massive growth in India You may have heard me mention the Chinese OEM real me just now real me grew shipments more than 800% on the air I think like 848% to enter the top 10 Because they're targeting India there real me is has moved into India in a big way strategy analytics had their numbers out They showed an identical top five numbers varied in percentage points They estimate a 3% decline overall in the smartphone market, but essentially The same conclusions can be drawn for both sets of numbers, which is no surprise Justin the smartphone market is is not a vibrant market anymore. It's a commodity. That's what it is Yeah, it's just look you're gonna get a lot of phones that are the good news is that it's never been a better time to have Multiple phones or buy cheaper phones that have really really really good close to the high-end Functionality and features because that's what happens in a commodity market is the difference between the top the middle and the bottom Gets shorter and shorter and shorter and the price tags get lower lower and lower I don't know where we're going with this, but you know, we had an interesting conversation before The show about like hey look we are we are kind of fresh out of the horses that galloped with us for a decade and a half of Growth hardware industries and this is another example of one of them the smartphone slowing down. Yeah It shouldn't really be a shock and like we saw Nokia and BlackBerry recede in the advance of Samsung LG and Apple We're seeing Samsung and Apple recede in the advance of these new commodity makers and that's just the evolution of the marketplace It's not because they're in China It's because these are companies that figured out how to make commodities at a cheaper price point And I don't think Apple cares Samsung probably does because Samsung tries to do the commodity market and the flagship market But Apple's only ever been in the flagship market. So as long as they they can keep selling their average price per unit That's that's all they're gonna care about is bringing in that money as they transition into a services company anyway They just need to have enough of those models out there That they can sell those services. So this is This is not shocking no Microsoft announced that it's testing a cloud download feature for Windows 10 that would allow users to Reinstall Windows from a failed state by a download Microsoft offers a similar feature to quote recover from the cloud on quote on surface devices Feature isn't available for public testing and Microsoft did not say if it was coming to Windows Insider builds the verge speculates that it could be an important feature for Windows Lite and Windows Core OS Yeah, that's their Chromebook type Competitor that they want to get out there, you know for real simple laptops and That's meant for people who don't want to put remember to put in a USB drive and things like that You don't have a lot of room to keep Restore image on a partition like like you might usually It's not new to be able to do this third parties have done this OEMs have done this But having it come from Microsoft provides a certain amount of stability and uniformity It's also much more difficult for Microsoft to do this than Apple Apple does this already because Apple knows exactly what drivers It needs because it makes the hardware And and with Microsoft Windows Lite and Windows core OS they may have a better idea of the drivers They need so I wouldn't be shocked to see this go only for light or core OS at the beginning anyway It's a little bit difficult to try to cover all the driver needs across multiple OEMs So that might be why we're not seeing this in the Windows Insider builds too I agree and I think that for the lighter ones. It makes a lot of sense. There's less modifications that are done to to those kinds of Devices and the consumers are far different than your traditional PC user And dare I say Tom that it might be a little bit of it just works from the Microsoft side That you're just able to do something a little bit simpler by way of the man by way of the OS manufacturer. Yeah, I mean Yes On the other hand that we're talking about a feature that is generally only needed when your computer is fully crashed So you're coming from it didn't work at all to That's what exactly you're right. You're right. Absolutely And Germany's data protection commissioner announced it is investigating Google's practice of hiring contractors to review audio snippets from Google Assistant In order to improve speech recognition. This is something we've talked about in regard to the Amazon Echo It is something that there have been reports on regarding Apple's Siri Contractors have reported in Google's case hearing conversations accidentally recorded when the assistant was triggered by mistake And that's happened with Amazon and Apple as well Google says it will stop audio reviews and transcription in Europe for at least three months during this investigation And Google says it only has been reviewing around zero point two percent zero point two not two percent Of clips and does not associate them with accounts. This is a bugaboo though, right? Nobody cares whether their voice was in here Nobody cares what the percentage was all they care about is hearing wait Google was listening to conversations They could have heard me say a thing accidentally. They could have heard me do a thing accidentally I don't like that and the other side of this though Justin is This is the way you improve these assistants That's why all three companies that are major manufacturers of these voice assistants are doing it you take a very small sample you don't associate it with any user information and You review it to see like oh, how well did it do? That's how you train these supervised learning a eyes now some day We'll have unsupervised learning and you won't have to do this But that's not how they work right now And if you want them to work better and better you have to do this One of the big problems is of course that well They didn't tell me they were doing it or they told me in a weird way and I didn't understand or they kind of hid that They were doing it etc. etc. Well, let's Say, okay, they all improve their privacy policies to make it clear that they're doing this. Are you still uncomfortable with it? I'm not but the divide here is between people that listen to this show who are very smart and Normies who are scared and frightened by technology or rather they are scared and frightened when they realize that technology is indeed Building upon systems and not magic that you're not just getting a magic cylinder that knows all these things But but rather this is something that needs to get better and better and indeed It's the reason why some of these assistants are better at recognizing voices than other assistants because they are constantly improving The problem that we that we face here is of education and it reminds me a lot of bad targeting or cookies That tech people know about But the average person is like wait a minute I was I was literally just thinking about this thing and next thing, you know, it shows up on my on this website that I didn't even Type it into and it's like yeah, because you're being followed around and the stuff You search for is being served to you on ads for websites that have nothing to do with where you search for it before It is about education and I do understand that now that we live in a world where these devices are fairly indispensable for a lot of households They're tied into Internet of things devices people like them people use them I know now that I have a bunch of friends of mine with kids They are absolutely just a part of the household for the children That now you can say very open and honestly Would you like to opt in to have your voice at this thing totally anonymized be a part of making this product better? I think a lot of people would sign up for it in a way that they might not have When these were first getting off the ground three right and come on the tech companies can't be shocked about this, right? For for years for years when you launch software or install a new OS you get the prompt Hey, would you like some of your information to be sent to Microsoft slash Apple slash Google to help us improve the product? Check yes or no, right? They they learned back then they're like yeah We need this to make the product better But we should always ask first just to make sure and I think that's the brilliant solution to this just have When you set up these things say like hey, you know It's probably not going to happen, but sometimes we may anonymously review your recordings to make sure they're working That's going to make sure that accidental recordings don't happen more often. Are you cool with that? Yes or no Yeah Companies don't want to do that because they don't want to have to deal with tracking which snippets they can use or not right now They can just pull zero point two percent out without thinking about it makes life easier. I get it But you know what people are upset about this so you're gonna have to deal with it Hey folks if you want to get all the tech headlines each day in about five minutes Be sure to subscribe to daily tech headlines dot com Professors from the University of Surrey and a Missouri based inventor of a product called Davis AI you may have heard Davis AI creating art Have filed patents in the United Kingdom Europe and the United States in the name of Davis AI Not the inventor not the professors saying this patent should be attributed to the artificial intelligence that created it Davis AI has two patents one for designing interlocking food containers using fractal designs That make it easier for a robot to grasp and move around that could be useful in tons of production lines It also is designing a warning light that flashes in a rhythm that mimics neural activity making it harder to ignore So sometimes you just get used to the like constant flashing of an alert and you're like and you forget that it's there, right? This would flash in a way that would be harder for you to get used to that's a really useful invention But patent authorities generally require a person as the author of an invention So there is no patent authority right now that is saying. Oh sure. No, we'll grant it to an artificial intelligence agents Right and the beneficiary of will of course be the owner of that agent whoever that is BBC has a full article about this with some some fairly, you know Non-committal stuff from the UK and the US but a spokeswoman for the European patent office told the BBC that for the foreseeable future AI is a tool used by a human inventor Which that that's an interesting way to look at it because it's like okay But then if your tool invents something your tool makes something happen Do you get credit for that or does the tool? Because I can think about this in a way. That's like oh well these this guy invented the AI He's running the AI have made the thing he should get credit for the patent right but an AI can be copied and distributed And so if that AI is now used by me or you does he get the credit or do I get the credit? Well, alright, so there's a couple things here and and and let's take them from the most practical first What is a patent for like what what disputes do a patent mediate? Primarily, it's who owns the thing and if two people are doing it we now have a record to say, okay You stop doing it Right furthermore and the point being you want to encourage people to invent things So you want someone to think like well if I spend time working on this invention I will be able to reap the benefits for a particular period of time around, you know 10 to 14 years depending on the country, right? And and furthermore to be able to have a database to check Oh, has anybody done blank and you look around you're like, okay It doesn't look like anybody's done blank or called it blank or had to be blank so Does it benefit an AI to have a patent or does it benefit the person who generates or directs the AI? To have the patent because the AI is not going to be discouraged from inventing things. Yeah, right But would you as the operator of the AI be discouraged from using the AI to invent things if you couldn't patent it? Or The greatest patent holder in the world is AutoCAD and photoshop, right? Yeah What are we in a situation where hey, guess what AI can create new things? We'll never have a situation where there is a disincentive to create Because everyone can have an AI So we don't need to encourage inventions because they're so easy to come about and furthermore The AI can know to stay away from certain things because you could probably just Check it against the list of available patents and say, okay Yeah, just do everything except what I can't do because We're gonna we're gonna block off these possible solutions So if you're getting close to these solutions understand you have to go further in a different direction Yeah, I'm actually fascinated by this idea that uh, you could have So many you could have AI because it's infinitely copyable right distributed across the globe making inventions And if you and and and the reason for patents is to be like, yeah But if we don't protect patents then people won't create things But you could point to this and say like yeah, but that's not a problem anymore Because the ai's are just inventing things all day long whether you want them to or not you just run it And and and so why wouldn't someone want to invent something and then just share it out You you don't need that many people running ai's for that to happen Maybe you don't need the patent system anymore Well, I mean, all right. Oh, hold on. Hold on. I know it's crazy. It's crazy talk. I get it Let's let's let's let's let's let's let's stay in a world where we do keep the patent office All right, let's bring it let's bring it back to modern day where the patent person is like, yeah Okay, maybe someday right but right now I have to figure out this interlocking food container. Does it go to the Missouri based inventor of davis ai? Does it go to the professors? Or does it go to nobody? Do do I say like well, that's the interesting idea the interesting idea is that if it's not to the ai Which theoretically cannot reap the benefits of of such a distinction But rather the people who initially created the ai now that would Encourage creation of ai's with very specific skill sets right and these have used because then the patents would on some level Be going to the people that created the initial ai Well, and then but then nobody's going to want to use it to create inventions because they're like well If I create an invention those other guys that created this ai so then you go back to saying, okay What about the owner the person who's running that instance of the ai? Well, I mean would people I mean if it took you five minutes to do it instead of five years and But then I suddenly I can I'm restricted from using the thing that my ai just invented because The creators of that ai are like hey look you do what you want. Just make well if they do But but you know companies companies but the companies aren't going to do they're gonna be like yeah fred go ahead We might own it. No, they're gonna be like if we're not sure we own it No, no we own a specific I think there's there's a tremendous business to say that you just own 10 percent of everything that gets created or Well, that's different than what you were just describing The deal is like that's what I was trying to get we'll make an agreement where you can have this ai But we own 10 percent of every patent that you get out of it sure then that could work. Yeah. Yeah Uh, but but that's that should that be the law should you be allowed to do that? Or should it be like no if if you're running the ai then you are the person using the tool And therefore you should get the credit for any patent that comes out of that look for right now Uh as as anybody who deals with uh algorithms or artificial intelligence will tell you Uh, these are systems that although they are remarkable Also take a lot of direction to point them where you want them to go. These are not magic. They are not free thinking Uh, you know consciousness is that you know come up with brilliant things at the speed of computing Uh, you see they still very much at this point are tools But 10 years in the future Yeah, we might be in a different position because obviously it is going in in a different direction and they are being honed More and more by people that are creating these systems and to bring it back to today If you're like, oh, well then for now no problem. It's just the person using the ai that gets the patent. No That's the issue Uh, and we we kind of danced around this issue But the issue is if the ai creates it you didn't and patent law the way it's written right now Won't give you the patent for that because you didn't make it And and and so there's basically just no patent law to deal with the situation because it wasn't a possible situation Tools couldn't make things in the future if you made something with a tool you had to design it But if you're like, well my tool designed it now the patent office is like, oh, so you didn't design it I can't give you the patent, but I can't give it to anybody So the upshot is governments are going to have to come up with new laws To to or patent offices might have to come up with new regulations to say in the case that an ai designed it We are going to give the credit this way But there is no way to deal with it right now in the way patent law is written either way from beyond the grave Thomas Edison in shambles Yeah, yeah, and uh, nicola tesla still mad at him It's still in love with the pigeon. Yes Hey, uh, thanks to everybody who participates in our subreddit submit stories and vote on them at daily tech news show To reddit.com and facebook.com slash groups slash daily tech news show. Let's check out the mailbag We've got a couple things about that ac shirt, man. Y'all love the air conditioned shirt because it's so hot I get it Mark wrote in and said I wanted to pass along an interesting thought about that air conditioned shirt from sony This sort of thing would be very useful in certain medical situations My wife had ms and avoiding overheating was an important thing Traditionally using cooling bands draped over the shoulders had been used However, if this shirt type system works well enough to just avoid getting too hot Even possibly while getting some exercise and is reasonably priced It could be a big win for folks who have a medical need to avoid overheating ms being just one kind of case That's an excellent thought mark and then Jeff wrote in and said i'm currently getting caught up on miss dts Episodes while grading my students tech lit portfolios and where I live right outside Tokyo. It's currently 36 degrees celsius That's about 97 fahrenheit with a heat index above 40, which is 104 fahrenheit Summers are hot and humid here in japan and I would be more than happy to try out the rion pocket for dts Thank you. Jeff I let us know how it goes if you're able to get get one And and how it goes we we'd love to hear more from jeff trying out the rion pocket and back to back to mark Really good insight on what it might be good for beyond just keeping yourself cool Thanks to everybody who is emailing us feedback at daily tech news show calm and thanks to you.  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