Hello everyone. Happy Friday. This is my live video and give you a bit of motivation for the weekend watch it now Watch it over the weekend. It'll be pinned to my profiles on Twitter Facebook and you can find it on YouTube if you want to and before I share some strategies I've got four books. I'd like to share first one by Brian Abraham and I met Brian a couple of weeks ago Granddad wheels a really interesting book about disability and Telling lots of great little stories. So if you're interested in something for primary and take a look at Granddad wheels Brian's website some really Lovely little cartoon books little stories and really funny and he's like the great kind of Man with loads of good resources for your primary school second book is an ideas book We're in a pandemic people working online. I've published one of these myself hundred ideas by Bloomsbury this one on Computing lessons and having taught computer science in my career There's always things that even as computer scientists teachers need to learn So there'd be lots of good ideas and that one if you're interested and I've got two Well-being mental health type books one for teachers one for our children I've not looked at this one yet, but it's published by Bloomsbury and it was posted to me Last week by Maria Neil looking at pastoral care And nurtured successful learners particularly with a new here in England the new RSE curriculum coming in Something might find interesting, but I've not looked at that one yet. So I can't say much more and this one I have looked at by Amy Sayer and so staff mental health 10 years ago You'd struggle to find much research on Teacher well-being and it's linked to academic outcomes and what Amy's produced here lots of nice little case studies a really nice little read Published I think it was a couple of years ago Actually, let me just double check the date But if you're interested in a bit of research on mental health some practical case studies, then this could be the book if I tell a lie it's published earlier this year and Induced by one of my friends Pookie Nightsmith and so those are some four or five books for you now Let me bring my slides up on the screen for you. This is what I'd like to talk to you about This week. So here we go. Let me just put this up or on the screen full size So revision strategy, so this is a resource for my membership which I launched which I'd planned in prior to the kind of start a lockdown and I'd launched and Last July so come up to here now. So these resources are shared with website members behind the scenes, but I'm gonna share it with you here. I'm actually while I'm fitting here on Streamyard I'm just gonna take off Some of these logos so you can kind of see the slides better. So I hope That will help that one. Let me just take this little Banner off as well. So that will be a bit better for you. Okay, so here the slides everyone and so let me just start off with This one inspired by Dunlowski at house of paper in 2013. I think this is timeless and lots of things that you Can refer to you regularly time and time again, and if you look at this slide in particular this is and be very cautious With the ranking showed here as ever with academic research go behind look at the methodology Look at the number of pupils the age the context in which the research is conducted and how the researchers come to say In terms of efficacy and impact why something has a high medium or low impact Particularly the ones in low and I haven't ranked these in any particular order in this area Still use these they do have an impact on outcomes And but in terms of this research context a low efficacy and there's a huge abundance of research on retrieval practice.  They're gonna have a high impact So as we come into the revision season Exams assessment or just generally day-to-day building up knowledge and schema in our students It's probably the go-to Kind of resource or strategy that I'd advocate teachers use as ever with the retrieval practice It makes sure that you are using a range of retrieval practice Activities to suit the context not just repeating the same old 50-50 phone or friend exit tickers that kind of stuff when it's spaced into leave mixed topics Then we also know that's gonna have a bigger impact over time rather than that kramming approach It's a good tips for us all when we're learning as well as parents watching who have got Kind of school-age children who are practicing for exams. So there is the research now This is the resource that I've actually created Now my thinking here was at the back end of the slides. There's a blank template It's almost like a calendar either to use for your curriculum plans a schema work delivery or a whole school overview For introducing study skills Okay, now I've just popped these in any any space with a little bit of thought But you can introduce them as and when it suits your own students age Subject etc. You'll notice at the bottom There is space and retrieval going throughout the academic year and at least here in an English context this academic year September to May and June where typically end of your exams are introduced hence the top green right-hand side So you can mix and match these at the back of the slides. There's a blank calendar There's a whole set of these colors you can cut them out stick them down plan your curriculum in essence What we need to do is not only know what these strategies are, but then how to teach them to our young people So on that note, let me just introduce them to you in a bit of a kind of greater depth And but if I just leave that there before I do and kind of say maybe why I Prepared this resource so in my teaching experience Going back a long time revision techniques for students were often left to the latter years of school life rather than skills that were Kind of taught explicitly earlier on Today, I firmly believe that equipping all teachers and students with a better understanding of how we learn not just for exams I think is a social responsibility Where we were more immersed with research cognitive science that social media at me sharing this here as well as all Learning from one another and sharing ideas quicker and on a larger scale Allows us all to be immersed in this research has been around for decades. It allows teachers of today I guess to be exposed this much sooner rather than later and fingers crossed It also keeps many of our teachers in the profession rather than disappearing soon after so before I go into this and what if Schools explicitly talk students how to you know Remember Retrieve practice rehearse regurgitate whatever the word you use. It's the same thing if we want to so I've been doing a lot I'm reading on memory and parts of the brain in order to enhance my knowledge So we've got a hundred billion neurons I believe at least 50 million of these 100 million neurons at least 50 million of these are in our cerebellum at the back of base of our brain and These neurons form synapses our connection and they form at 100 trillion Which is crazy. So these we can shape significant things in our memory and you know I'm speaking live video etc. Except we can do lots of multiple things through rehearsal and practice In essence, let's strip back to the basics If we want people to remember stuff whether it's riding the bike tying a shoelace or who was the first wife of Henry the 8th We have to repeat to a point of automation so that we can retrieve from long-term storage Now I've been reading a little bit about memory actually that some things can go straight through short term But I need to read a little bit more before I unpick that and what that means because at least vast majority teachers and myself believe or I've been told that Learning happens from long-term storage. So I think for me the jury's out and I'm going to do a little bit more digging So let me just move on nine research and form strategies from Don Lusky I've shaped this resource to suit the rhythm of the academic calendar each introduced separately throughout the months and in the resource itself each resource Recaps on the prior strategy in order to strengthen each each strategy as you go through the academic academic year So what I hope you're left with is a revision cycle of strategies To use on a monthly basis Throughout your school throughout your classrooms from an earlier age and long before the end of year exams or those high-stakes exams So and I'm I'm not necessarily going to get into the resources So in the back end of resources, you'll get all the templates and the editable templates but let me just introduce And each of them elaboration the process where as we develop Concepts rules and facts in further detail. We are developing our New knowledge building on prior knowledge, etc. shaping schema Having that knowledge-rich approach to teaching. You know, all these kind of things are broadly the same but essentially this elaboration at least for the classroom and a Teacher could simply say say it again or ask why and how in order to allow the student to elaborate on their response So the important point here for teachers or parents watching is to regularly check for understanding and accuracy and Useful ways teachers can encourage students to elaborate is to provide concrete examples Rather than abstract concepts. So I give an example if I said To be good at making a table you need to be careful with the saw that's very abstract a concrete example You know with the tools with the table in front of me I might say to be good at making tables Ross. Let's plan and develop some paper models first Let's make sure we measure accurately using a measuring tape stealer or pencil and let's use the correct saw Okay, and that's a lot more concrete So in the resources you'll get some examples of how I would do that in the classroom second strategy here Self-explanation put simply it's when a student can explain maybe to another person another student in class We know that when we learn something it has to be based on prior knowledge So a teacher asking questions offering prompts to help retrieve Can be beneficial to support this process now? there's a good base of research in this area and it has Caught and done lost the immediate impact on outcomes my interpretation I suppose is that You know recommending that we ask students questions offering prompts two or three times Research and retrieval two three times is useful for long-term retention. So Jeffrey Carpicki research I would sign post there and idea three and So summarization and pretty pretty again self-explanatory But we still need to teach these things to students who don't know and we've probably all been there at some point In our life writing new summaries for a lengthy piece of work You know writing an assignment Where we copy extensive notes then for the exam we might reshape them into bullet points and we translate everything We learn into a short summary to help us remember key points. So this schema Can be triggered. So I'll come back to mnemonics later the colors of the rainbow What are they do you have a mnemonic to help you remember the colors of the rainbow? I suspect some of you do some of you don't Okay, so that's summarization third strategy fourth one Highlighting and again pretty straightforward. I can go through the whole text here of a book Techniques easy to use often used by many students. The problem is how do we help them identify key texts? And this could be whether we're identifying nouns pronouns, whatever it is Subordinate causes whatever we're working on and the technique has a Relatively low impact according to Dunlowski's research But it can have an impact under certain conditions and shouldn't be disregarded I don't think so there's an opportunity here for all of us teaching touch subject terminology You know key language, etc. Etc. So another simple tip that I think needs to be taught at an earlier age Now mnemonics I've got the little kind of fist bumps there the kind of months of the the year the number of days per month according to the knuckle shape and The colors of the rainbow Richard of York gave battle in vain etc So using mnemonics is a great mental shortcut for a building memory the learner the student turns maybe The first letter of a word Into a sentence I remember using these all through through my revision years And the evidence suggests I suppose that it has a low impact But it's really interesting that actually we remember many of these mnemonics for our entire life And so again with research dig in what does it mean by low impact? Should we not use it? Should we when etc. Etc. So I'm no stories We know that when we tell stories it activates certain neurons in our brain. That's what neuroscientists tell us That's what brain map show us So I always say teachers to bring curriculum to life tell stories use mnemonics use it as a story structure to activate Familiar sorry, maybe an unfamiliar piece of information into familiar framework So I guess telling stories, you know, you might want to introduce a surprise or a conflict So I've been writing my new book today and I might pose to you How do you start off by writing a new book? There's an interesting question in itself I then show you a structure a kind of Excel spreadsheet a word document to construct the book template I might show you how simple it is to divide divide 50,000 words into per month or per day and then chunk it down and then specify Specific areas whether it's in a story or this specific problem I'm explaining to you and then offer the subtext within the medium and long-term goals So there's a kind of storytelling or mnemonic methodology follows that kind of four or five Guess framework that kind of surprise the kind of conflict or context Alongside a structure with some simplicity being very specific and Alongside some long-term goals. So I'll explain that another day in the resource or another time on the website And six on his dual code now for me as a design technologist So as I was immersed with this term You know as a pedagogical tool sketch note in which I've been doing for a number of years now and with some of my resources And it all makes sense. So, you know dual code and theory been around 40 years or something put simply use of verbal and visual information not learning styles Okay, and so while dual code and has a good scientific evidence back in And it has you know learning styles. I'm talking here and And although they exist. There's no clear evidence that it supports how we learn but dual coding I'm hopefully modeling it here. I'm introducing these ideas and one at a time. You can see by me and You know just hide and reveal in the graphics talking about them. I'm also trying to use stream yard And so I can make the slides smaller me bigger Etc. So this is just you know different ways that I can dual code information for you Okay, so idea seven is Re-reading now rereading and Again, very obvious but something that we have to explicitly teach the students We might reread and fool ourselves that we think something is stuck So that you know called the illusion of learning when a student thinks they know more Than they do because they put in a lot of kind of ineffective effort or suppose So the impact from Dunlowski's low. So again check the research base. It can your positive results I know when I read my room reread material Given that I've got lots of prior knowledge on other study techniques that I can also use while I reread Then it can have a good impact. So with context everything But I make sure of other techniques I think listed there on the slides alone can help strengthen that rereading process So it's important to try so in the resource. I offer you some examples Now the last two are put there quite easily a lot of teachers are familiar with these techniques, you know the earliest academic reference to memory was by I believe Hippocrates 5 BC and The first academic reference up. I also think was Herman ebb in house many of you know the forgetting curve And then Mary E Abbott and they may paper in 1909 So these things have been around for a long time. There are nothing new They might be new to us as we get more immersed into the teaching profession But there are a huge body of research to support that this is Your best bet. However, they're underpinned by a wide range of other things How I manage the behavior my subject knowledge the relationships the activity, etc So it's important to vary the strategies to suit the learning process We know retrieval practice low stakes assessment with no grade and sometimes with no feedback and Two or three times that quiz in there's lots of different things you can do here to really strengthen those synapses And then that's also fits in with the space and interleaving practice So the interleaving the best analogy I can give you is fruit salad You mix your pears pieces of bananas apples oranges, etc. But you don't throw in the baked beans So you got similar topics that are spaced over the curriculum and quick recap in on what things have been taught before Are a great strategy if I could add one more in here, which isn't necessarily a revision strategy But could be a great teaching strategy to increase the effect of effectiveness of all of these Would be feedback and that we know feedback must be timely manageable for me as a teacher Motivation to the student and mean something for them to act on that feedback whether with or without me in the classroom And when we talk about feedback, we're then also talking about Verbal feedback written feedback, which is your mark in boogeyman and then you've got your Nonverbal feedback as well as your feedback feed up feed forward. So lots of different types So that's the resource underneath this video. I'm going to pin the resource yourself So you can download all the slides all the information explained at least if you don't do that You've got a little video you can watch over the weekend and up skill If not go and look at the research paper also if you're interested in some further reading done loski et al 2013 so I'm going to finish there. Let me just stop the screen Here's those books again granddad wheels Brian Abraham about disability inclusion a great resource With some worksheets for your primary schools Computing lessons by Bloomsbury by Simon Johnson. I know that's something I would have needed when in my life Teaching computing particularly relevant during the pandemic right now and also mental health for for our students and for our teachers So two little books are on my desk that means sent to me and thank you for watching any comments Please send me a direct message. Have a nice weekend and I'll see you this time next week. Bye for now. Thanks for watching


That's drunk? Toy Story was a massively ambitious movie released in 1995 as the first entirely computer-animated feature film, so it would make sense that the video game tie-in would be ambitious as well, and not just with the graphics and sound, but also all the different gameplay modes that come into play, as you play through what's essentially the story of the movie. What's going to strike you first though is how the game looks, and it's pretty dang impressive that this game does in fact look a lot like the movie, making use of pre-rendered 3D graphics to represent all the different characters. Really, when it comes to representing its source material, there aren't many games that do that better than Toy Story. Okay, so it looks nice and it looks like how it's supposed to and all that, but how does it play? Eh, it's kinda complicated to explain. This isn't just your typical run-to-the-right hop-and-bop platform fest. Each level has you complete a task, for instance. In the very first level, you're told that it's Andy's birthday and you gotta set the miniature plastic army guys free from this bucket up here so they can head downstairs to see what other toys he got as presents. The existing toys have gotta scout their competition, just like in the movie. After that, you gotta knock down the baby monitor so the army guys can grab it and carry it downstairs to keep in contact with you. The next level has you knocking obstacles out of the way, set to a time limit so the toys can get back to their places before Andy gets back to his room. It's a pretty neat structure and it's a clever way of following the movie. The problem, however, is that the platforming controls aren't the greatest.  The number in the star in the upper left represents how many hits you can take, and when that number hits zero, you're dead. Your only attack is using your pullstring as a whip, but even then, you can only temporarily disable enemies so you can move past them. You can use it to swing on hooks and stuff, which is nice, but the enemy placement and design combined with the oversized Woody sprite makes these levels especially frustrating, because it's really easy to backtrack if you don't know where the stuff you need to find is right away. Or in the case of the third level here where you race Buzz Lightyear to show that you're just as good of a toy as he is, you've got stuff coming from underneath you, out of nowhere, to do damage. Ugh, come on. The hit detection in certain levels is also pretty bad, like where you have to fight Buzz Lightyear in a one-on-one boss battle? I mean, come on, I'm hitting the guy here. You get four lives with zero continues to start with, to get through 17 levels, and I say no continues to start with, but the game allows you to earn them by collecting stars throughout each level. But don't worry, you're not doomed to platforming and boss fights. Once you get to level 5, use a remote control car to run into Buzz.  That's right, when it comes to Super Nintendo games that feature a first person perspective, there's Doom, Wolfenstein 3D, Jurassic Park, Super Noah's Ark, and Toy Story? Sure, okay. Hey, it even uses sounds from Doom. While this game has quite a bit going for it, one thing I have a really hard time getting past is how freaking cheap it can be, like this section here.  How am I supposed to see or anticipate any of this? You can't even make out what the trajectory is, so you can know where to move. It's ridiculous. And the second Buzz Light your boss battle is absurd too. You have to somehow avoid both Buzz, who's lost his mind, and this tire bouncing around, and eventually get the tire around Buzz, so he stops being insane.  I should also mention the Genesis version of Toy Story. It's pretty much the exact same game, but with the usual caveats and hindrances, like yeah, it's got the wider resolution, which in turn makes the woody sprite a little smaller, which is certainly helpful. But the color palette here obviously isn't going to hold a candle to what the Super Nintendo version offers. Still, the Genesis edition does have an extra racing level, even if it's kinda boring. This version does feel a bit more forgiving, at least. So yeah, Toy Story is feast or famine. There's some great stuff here, but ultimately what this game is, much more than other Super Nintendo games or Sega Genesis games for that matter, is a product of its time in more ways than one. It does a really admirable job of staying true to its source material, especially the visuals and sound. Those parts of the game have aged really well. But the difficulty here is so frustrating that you can't help but think it was deliberately made this way, so you couldn't beat it in one rental. Yup, this is one of those games. Many titles that are structured that way are left behind, because the difficulty doesn't feel organic, instead it feels incredibly cheap. And yeah, Toy Story does feel really cheap at times, but I do think this game has enough going for it that it's worth your curiosity. Granted, the extra game modes aren't going to blow you away, especially the super low res FPS level, but I do like the mission-based structure many of the levels have, and the chase levels and racing levels go a long way toward keeping this game from getting bogged down. So while it's not a classic like some other Disney games, Toy Story still has enough to pique your interest. All right, I want to thank you for watching, and I hope you have a great rest of your day.


OK. We know it's December. It is. In December, that's Christmas. Yes. So I thought for Christmas, we could talk about what we want to do for 2018. And you can ask me questions about the things that I want to do. OK. So something that I'm excited about is Animation Worklet. Animation Worklet. OK. Now, what's a Worklet?  But it's more like weight, and something that we can easily and cheaply instantiate. Like a piglet is a smaller pig. Yes. A Worklet is a smaller worker. Right. OK. I understand. Now, an animation, what's that? Actually, I know. But how does that fit inside a Worklet? So you know how sometimes you end up doing JavaScript in a RAF just to make complex animations or have something stick to your finger, like drag and drop things with transforms? Like on native, where you scroll a thing, a header sort of goes up. Something changes in size. Exactly. These kind of things, those would go on a Worklet. Because the Worklet would be called on every frame. Worklets can't access DOM. No. But we have special thingies, like proxy elements. So you can still transform them with the fast GPU operations, like transform opacity, but only those things. Oh, because it's just the things that can be composited. Exactly. It basically runs on the composer. Technically, that's not true, but might as well think about it that way. So you can manipulate where things appear on screen. It's really fast, and you can do really fancy, fancy things. OK. So what can I do that in response to? You can do it in response to time, because that's how animations work. But that is true. In response to scroll. So it can have frame perfect scrolling effects. So you could do things like a Heidebar that disappears, or a header that grows when you scroll down, or an object that rotates when you scroll down. So you're getting the scroll position in, and you have access to a series of elements, or something. And you can just do what you want with them. Yeah. OK.  Yeah, it's very similar to the web animations API, where you define timelines and keyframes on these timelines. And then you can basically say, on this time, I want to be at this point, depending on where you are on the scroll timeline, or the actual time timeline line line. Timeline line line. Animations. Animations. Bang on. I want to talk about the web locks API. Go. Is that like warlocks? No. So it's like new tags, locks, and stuff. Yes, what? Correct. What is how?


Good morning, Hickets Tuesday. So if you want to say, I don't know, in French, which is the only sentence of French I really learned in three years of high school classes, you say je ne sais pas. And both the ne and the pa in that sentence are negative, because in French, multiple negatives affirm each other, a phenomenon called negative concord, which by the way would be a pretty good tagline for the social internet. Lots of languages from Hebrew to Portuguese use negative concord, but in English and some other languages, double negatives can actually mean positives, like two nos can equal a yes. Sometimes, of course, it can't be simple. Like let me give you an example. If you say in English, I'm not not tired. That means you likely are tired and potentially very tired, because sometimes double negatives are used to create a kind of understatement. On the other hand, you could feel something adjacent to tired that isn't quite tired, like the weird feeling of being not not tired late at night when your brain is churning. It can be very confusing, like I don't disagree generally means I do agree, but I'm not going nowhere, generally doesn't mean I'm going somewhere. So when I was a kid, I was taught that double negatives were merely wrong in English because they introduced confusion and needless complexity. But in fact, they serve lots of different purposes, and even the most like prescriptivist grammarian would acknowledge that a sentence like I am not disgruntled is grammatically correct because it sounds ludicrous to say I am gruntled. But even in their more common usages, English double negatives can offer a lot of richness and nuance, like consider the famous Pink Floyd lyric, we don't need no education, we don't need no thought control. This is sung by a chorus of school children in Pink Floyd's rock album, The Wall, and the kids are arguing that they don't need education, at least not this rigid system of education that force feeds them certain values and attempts to form all of them into identical bricks that can fit into a vast wall. And so in the lyric, the kids are rejecting the use of proper or educated English by using a double negative, but their meaning is still very clear and powerful, which is the point of language, and that undermines the idea that like proper English is somehow superior to any other English. Language is here to facilitate expression, not limit it, and these kids are rejecting a system of education that uses language as another tool to enforce uniformity and limit free expression. In the end, language does shape thought, and so attempts to control language really are forms of attempting thought control, and we don't need no thought control. Which brings us, at last, to the use of the double negative in another classic rock and roll song Smash Mouth's All Star, which includes the lyric, didn't make sense not to live for fun. I think the negatives here are meant to cancel each other out, so why didn't they just sing It Makes Sense to Live for Fun? Well, for starters, it doesn't fit the meter, of course, but I think there might be something else going on. It Makes Sense to Live for Fun is a present tense statement about the right way to live a human life. It didn't make sense not to live for fun is a past tense statement about a failed way at living a human life. Like, all we know is that the speaker tried one way of living for fun and found that it didn't work. That's not the same thing as saying that their new way of living does work. And in that way, it didn't make sense not to live for fun feels much more uncertain and conflicted, whereas It Makes Sense to Live for Fun feels kind of naive. Now Hank, I'm not gonna argue that All Star is like a work of rock opera genius or whatever it obviously isn't, but I do find that lyric interesting. All Star does celebrate the excitement of being thought of as an All Star, but it's also a little wary of that excitement. Like, I find it very telling that in the handwritten first draft of the song, the lyric Only Shooting Stars Break the Mold originally read Wave Bye Bye to Your Soul. In short, I think All Star might be a song about celebrity written by people who didn't not want fame, which isn't quite the same thing as wanting it. And if that's the case, didn't make sense not to live for fun is a pretty great double negative. Hank, I'll see you on Friday.


creating videos on Clipchamp. Clipchamp is a free desktop and browser-based video editing app. It was acquired by Microsoft and is now the built-in video editor for Windows 11, replacing the legacy video editor app directly in Microsoft Photos. Clipchamp can also be accessed from the Microsoft Store on Windows 10, or there is a browser-based version available on Google Chrome or Microsoft Edge. With Clipchamp's user-friendly interface, templates, and intelligent shortcuts, you can edit your videos and add special effects, texts, transitions, music, and more. You can also record your screen and webcam securely and enjoy advanced features like green screen editing, overlays, and AI voiceovers. There is also a paid Essentials version of the app available. This grants access to an additional library of audio, images, and video stock, the ability to export in 4K, advanced filters and effects, branded content, and cloud backup. In this video, we'll cover the basic features of the free version of Clipchamp to help you create compelling professional videos. To begin, sign into Clipchamp using your Microsoft account or create a new account for free. On the editor homepage, select Create a New Video. You'll notice a blank timeline with a toolbar on the left and right-hand side of the screen. The left-hand side toolbar will be for adding media content to your video, and the right-hand side toolbar will be for making all your visual and audio edits later on. When you begin a new project, the Your Media tab will be automatically open. Click on the big Import Media button to upload your videos, images, and audio files directly from your computer, phone, or cloud storage. You can also browse the Clipchamp stock libraries by navigating to the Music and Sound Effects, Stock Video, and Stock Images tabs, further down the same toolbar. Any paid content in the stock's library is indicated by a gold diamond icon. Clipchamp will not let you use any of this content in your video without upgrading your account. Another way to add media in Clipchamp is to record directly in the app. Click the Record and Create button, and you'll see a few different options. You can record just yourself using camera, or your screen using screen. You can record both screen and camera simultaneously. Microsoft has a built-in speaker coach that you can enable when recording yourself. You may already be familiar with this feature from PowerPoint. It will give real-time analysis of your recording speech, including pace, pitch, and filler words. Another interesting feature in this tab is called text-to-speech. Using this, you can type a script that will then be recorded by an AI voice. You can choose from a variety of narrators and even change their language, voice style, voice pitch, and speed. Welcome to my video. Once you have all your media chosen, begin to drag it from the toolbar onto your timeline. 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Once you've finished trimming all your clips and arranging them in the correct order, you can begin applying creative edits. As we mentioned earlier, all the effects, graphics, and audio visual editing tools are located in a toolbar on the right hand side of Clipchamp. The options in this toolbar will change depending on what kind of media you've selected. With the video clip selected, the first tab will be Fade, where you can drag sliders to fade your clip in or out. The next tab is Filters. Here you can play around with various video filters and change their intensity. Then there's Effects, where you can apply one or more visual effects to change the behavior of your clip and options to customize these behaviors. These include things like blur or smoke or even keying effects, such as green screen. You can easily preview both the filters and effects by hovering over them in the toolbar. Next is the Adjust Colors tab. In this tab, you can modify the color values, including the exposure, contrast, saturation, temperature, transparency, and blend mode. Finally, there is Speed, which you can use to speed up or slow down a piece of media by using the slider or entering a custom value. When you have an audio clip selected, the right hand toolbar has an audio tab that will appear that will allow you to change the volume of the clip. Now that you know the basics of how to make creative edits, we will begin to explore some visual effects, starting with titles. Navigate to the Text tab in your left hand toolbar. Here you can preview and explore various types of titles you can use. To add one to your video, drag it to your timeline. You can change the length of time that the text is displayed on your video by dragging the ends of the purple box that appear when you place it on your timeline. You can also edit the text itself by selecting it and clicking the Text tab in the right hand toolbar. You can change what the title says, edit the font, color, background color, size, and position of the text. You can also drag it around on the viewer window itself to alter where the text appears on screen. Next is the Graphics tab in the left hand toolbar. Here you can add stickers, backgrounds, frames and overlays, shapes, annotations, and even gifts and stickers from Giffy. You can make the same adjustments to these as with any other media using the tabs in the right hand toolbar. You can change the size of the graphics as well as any other media, including your original videos by clicking the media on the viewer window itself and dragging it from the corners or drag it around on the viewer window to alter where it appears on screen. There's also a small toolbar that appears to the left of any media that you have selected on the viewer with quick sizing and orientation options. Here you can quickly fill or fit the object to the screen. Crop the media, create picture in picture, which can be helpful if you've recorded yourself and your screen at the same time. Rotate your media and flip horizontal or flip vertical. Lastly, chances are, if you have multiple video clips in your timeline, you'll want to make them flow together nicely. This is where transitions come into play. Click on the transitions tab on the left hand toolbar. Here you can preview and explore various types of transitions you can use. Drag and drop your chosen transition into the gap between two clips. With the transition selected on your timeline, you can make edits to it in the transitions tab on the right hand toolbar. Here you can change the duration of your transition or choose a different transition entirely. Once you've explored all the editing features of ClipChamp and you're happy with your video, it's time to export. To do that, navigate to the top right corner of your screen and click the export icon. Your video will export as an MP4 file. You'll just need to choose the quality. We will select 1080p. You can then add a title and choose where to save or share your video. ClipChamp can also create a video link for you to share directly online. There is a progress bar to show you how long it will take to export your video. Once that is done, you can go watch your final product to make sure there are no mistakes that you miss in editing. From this point, you can share your finished videos with the world, upload to a video sharing site, or just submit to your professor, wherever is best for you to reach your intended audience. For additional information on creating videos, check out the videos module on the learning portal.


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What's up everybody Jason here for jazby's case breaks calm another Super Bowl Square of Break just sold out Super Bowl Square promo break. I should say sold out 2021 tops diamond icons baseball one box break 40s Pikachu number 46 and Again, this E these are from loose boxes. So not from a sealed case, but loose boxes now at the end of the break We're gonna take the customer names that bought in straight up Take out the random number block teams out of there and then number one gets a spot in the Super Bowl Squares promo So here are the customers that are part of the random number block for these teams right here Seattle San Diego Washington LED St. Louis Baltimore in Houston sublogue and Then of course everybody else did buy in straight up And I did post another loose box of that as well There's everybody there and like I said loose box of diamond icons What the hell is that? Wow, is that another one of those cleats or something?  We just pulled recently. All right. Let's go with the first one here Good luck to start us off. It's a three out of five Randy Johnson A piece of the jersey and autograph and that looks like that Seattle Mariners edition Randy Johnson so Seattle Mariners were part of the random number block and three out of five Brian with the Seattle Mariners Nice Next one we have it looks like it's a redemption. Let's hide the redemption and kind of slow roll it We have a Diamond icons autograph of Ken Griffey Jr. Seattle Mariners Wow Back-to-back Mariners and that's going to Brian again Brian had spot three and spot zero. Good Lord All right Mariners would have been a great buy straight up We have a Frank Thomas the Big Heart two out of 25 for the Chicago White Sox And that is Andy straight up I go Andy Rask. We've got a cut signature That's four out of four Monte Irving. There you go I'm afraid this signature is just gonna pop out and That is for the New York Giants So New York Giants will be going to the San Francisco Giants going to Jeremy Port We have a three-color patch an autograph three out of ten. That is Jose Altuve Astros that's part of the random number block another one for three and Brian Casey Mice 25 out of 25 Red ink Detroit when a Kevin straight up Seven out of ten Don Maddingly for the Yankees Straight up mark mark about the Yankees seven out of ten Baseball I think there's two more cards before the big big card. Yeah Dennis accuracy seven out of 25 725 Oakland going to Martin We have Aaron Ola 18 out of 25 That's Philly's Howard straight up. All right guys. Well, good luck. As you can see It's a very very thick card. It must be a cleat just like the last one we just pulled. Good luck everybody. Oh It's a one of one Vladimir Guerrero junior cleat Wow, it looks like 3d And that is pretty pretty amazing And obviously man the corners on this is great like this card looks like really good uno of uno Game used you see the dirt. All right, that is gonna go to The blue jays and Michael L Actually, you know what I think it's the right size. I gotta take some photos that anyways, but Well, there you go guys, that was the break Diamond icons in the books with that clear there. See you later, man. So now let's quickly Switch scenes now and we'll give away that super bowl square spot All right, so let's copy and paste the list of customers So remember it's only gonna be the customers that bought in straight up So your odds are actually even better because I think there was like seven or eight teams in the random number block So, you know what Nick? I thought that was I thought that was related to you I don't know if you know now. I know Hitting for you and your bro. All right, so we got that's one two three four Five six and yeah, we had seven All right, so there you go remember these are loose boxes to guys So these are more from a sealed case or anything like that So the next box break can even be just as fire. It's not more More fire All right, so there you go guys, that's the customer name now remember one super bowl square spot being given away Six and a three nine times. Good luck one Two three four five six seven Eight Yeah, that that could be it. Yeah Honestly Wapo, I Yesterday, I seen like seven or eight boxes. I'm not even kidding you But today I only seen two so I don't know if we sold some in the store or What maybe they were moved around but I do have one more for sure But I had a lot of them yesterday or at least I seen a lot of them yesterday nine times. Good luck Sad times from two on down to 22, but congrats to Jeremy port well nine times So let's put you here in the Super Bowl squares Jeremy And like I said one name this number 46 so there you go guys and there is another Pick your team up on the website It's another Super Bowl square and people already have got some spots already off the board appreciate it guys Jasper's case breaks calm


bean curd and stuff like that. Tempe. Tempe makes some pretty good chili. I mean, I appreciate what you're saying, Roger. The pinnacle of chili for me also is beef. It's like having a meatless steak. No. Steak is a side of cow. Well, at that point, it's just a tasty thing. Roger's bare knuckle today. He is. He is. I don't know. I'm just irritable. Heading into the holidays. It's that time of the year. I feel like Peter Venkman on the Ghostbusters on during Christmas Day. If you're not a fan of the real Ghostbusters cartoon, it's... By the way, this Uber story with the Arizona thing definitely was not leaked. It was in an emailed statement, which means that not even poor Marisa Kendall can get credit for, like, you know, having the sources. She just got the email like everybody else. She was the fastest to Twitter. And Uber spokesman wrote in an emailed statement. I mean, it could just be emailed to her. So it could just be, it could have just came. Oh, you got the link to her story now. Yeah. It came with a picture of the cars leaving on the truck. Nice. Oh, yeah. That's what she tweeted was the picture of the cars. Oh, right. I actually saw the pictures before I made the joke about them driving themselves. I knew, I knew better. I forgot. You ready? Yeah. Oh, and now I have also a little, a little, uh, what's it called? A little, uh... The demonica? Inspiracy theory on this. Oh, okay. Excellent. Love me a good conspiracy theory. Here we go. Daily Tech News Show is powered by you, the audience. To find out more, head to dailytechnewshow.com. This is the Daily Tech News for Thursday, December 22nd, 2016. I'm Tom Merritt, Justin, Robert Young, co-hosting with me today on a Thursday, last one of the year for us together.  Uh, you know, this is, uh, been, been a real, uh, obviously up and down year in so many different facets and technology is certainly one of them. Actually, I'll say, let me, let me ask you this, of everything else that, that surrounds our daily lives. I almost feel like tech was the most calm of everything. Fairly stable. Yeah. We had a net neutrality fight. We had some exploding note sevens. That's about as, as like crazy as it got. But even then, yeah, like when, when, when your hottest story, pun intended, is a product recall. Yeah. Right. You know, like we had to dress that up with like the, the planes and stuff like that. Like that, that wasn't like there was, there was a huge gigantic seed change. So I'll tell you what, in a fairly stable year, I'm glad that we were able to cover it in as much depth as we did. Well, uh, one company that has tried its darnedest to bring some controversy is Uber. And we're going to talk about them storming out of San Francisco on a truck filled with Volvo's, uh, in a little bit.  Uh, California told them that they'll lose their vehicle registrations if they don't stop. And so they're stopping and leaving. We got more on that in a bit. Uh, a couple other things. Tesla has claimed the top spot in the annual consumer reports owner satisfaction survey. So consumer reports, uh, for the first time in a little bit, send in Tesla some love, uh, even if it is based on owner survey, not I didn't say it. I didn't say Pokemon go for the Apple watch launched. It can integrate its step counts into Apple fitness apps. Guys? Anyone? No? Now here are some more top stories. The Raspberry Pi Foundation announced it has ported its Pixel desktop environment to run on x86 machines. That means it can run on your Mac and your PC. Foundation thinks that this can help students who work on Raspberry Pi's at school and then they go home and their parents have Macs or PCs. So they'll be able to keep working on this when they get home. System image will include all the software you would find on the ARM version for the Raspberry Pi with two exceptions. They couldn't port Minecraft or Wolfram Mathematica over because the licenses only allowed those two pieces to run on Raspberry Pi hardware. But everything else can, can be brought over and you can continue your work and then bring it back to the Raspberry Pi when you're ready. Raspberry Pi has over the last, I would say what, five years? When did they really kind of crack into the mainstream? Become one of the most unlikely kind of like retail brand names that I can remember. And it's great because the idea behind it is so rad. The BBC reports that the Raspberry Pi is the most popular computer in the British Isles. That's amazing. That's fantastic. And I applaud their ability to let people use their environment wherever they want to go. Because that really is so in keeping with what their philosophy is as a company in total. Yeah. So I just, I think this is a good move. It obviously, you know, it doesn't mean that you can do everything on a desktop that you could do on a Raspberry Pi. It's just the desktop environment, obviously. You're still running on a 38 on an x86 environment. But yeah, this, this will help students for sure. Canada CRTC has categorized broadband as a quote basic telecommunication service and quote, all citizens should have access to unlimited data at speeds of at least 50 down and 10 up as well as access to the latest mobile wireless technology. The government has committed $750 million to expand connectivity in areas that do not meet the new minimum standards. Wireless service providers must also address the needs of people with hearing and speech difficulties within six months. Canada has decreed, Tom, and they've got $650 million Canadian dollars behind their edict. Do you think this is good, bad? Not so good. A Mountie always gets his bandwidth. You know, they've said that for ages now. I, I think this is interesting because this is the Canada's FCC, right? Saying, hey, you know what? You should get this amount of service somehow. And if the marketplace isn't bringing it to you, we'll do it and make sure that everybody has access to this somehow. So the devil's all in the details. If, if this in places means figuring out how to foster some competition, figuring out how to get some private companies to roll out, or maybe in certain rural areas, the government does just plop down and say, you know what, we're going to string the lines because nobody else will. I think that's fine, but it's all about how you go about rolling it out. I can't argue with the ultimate goal of saying, hey, everybody deserves 50 down and 10 up. We constantly are revising our target of what is acceptable internet use. And that's because the internet and its uses keep changing at a breakneck pace. When I first read this article, I was thinking, you know, back in the day, the idea of electricity being something that all citizens much have as a basic service would have been laughable. Like, oh, come on, you can't bring your own water up from the well. You need to have some electric pump do it. You can't light a candle. Like, sure, electricity is nice, but you don't need it. And I think we all would think otherwise these days like, no, you know what? I really do need electricity. Our society is built on that now. So this is another piece in the slow motion development of the internet becoming an essential way we live. Well, and state and federal governments of the United States thought the way you thought about electricity and did do gigantic federal spending and statewide spending for electricity. I learned that in a documentary called Oh Brother Where Are Thou? What is interesting to me here is I don't know enough about, I mean, number one, Canada provides a lot of challenges. There are a lot of remote areas of Canada. Absolutely, yeah. We're saying that every citizen deserves this. And we are going to put $750 million to expand connectivity. I don't know if that's even a realistically large enough number to do what you said, which is actually string things up or provide technology, physical elements of technology to get that level of internet to people. However, who knows? Who knows where, I heard a feedback from people when I was talking about this story earlier today that Canada does have fairly crappy private internet that it's bad. And maybe this is just what it needs to get it kickstarted. Yeah, and the CRTC says this money is going to be spent over five years and they still expect 90% of Canadians to get the new speeds by 2021. So they're realistic about those difficulties. Like, yeah, there's some places where string and wires just ain't going to do it. We're going to have to figure something else out. And maybe somebody like Facebook or Google with their air-based internet can come in and fill those gaps. But the one thing I do like, and like I say, the devil's in the details, I do like them saying, hey, you know what, we think there's a standard floor and let's figure out how to make this happen for people. Indeed. Google product manager Jeff Chang told The Verge that Google is not giving up on wearables. They're going to launch two new flagship Android Wear watches in Q1 2017, along with, as we already knew, Android Wear 2.0, the update to the Android Watch operating system. The watches will be branded by the manufacturer, not by Google. So they compared it to Nexus devices. They say, like our Nexus tablets and our Nexus phones, these will be Nexus-like watches. Although they didn't go so far as to say these will be Nexus watches. I'm curious how they're going to handle that. Android Wear 2.0 will bring standalone apps, Android Pay, Google's voice assistant, and a few other features. The next developer preview of that operating system is expected in January. And Google said, besides the two flagships that we're involved with, other people are committed to rolling out watches all year long. So there should be more announcements at CES and at Bazelle World, the watch and jewelry trade show, March 23rd through the 30th in Switzerland. How on a scale, on the grand Google scale, I'm going to give you a 1 to 5, how Google is announcing new products three days before Christmas, or two days before Christmas. Well, there have been some numbers kicking around all month, and a new set of them came from a new analyst yesterday saying the wearables market is dead. And of course, you had the bad press of two of the major Android Wear watchmakers deciding to delay their watches till next year, and one of them saying, you know what, we don't know when we'll make another Android Wear watch. So I don't know about that. You always bring up the timing. They're always good questions. I don't know whether the timing is because it's going into the holidays, or sometime before the holidays, we need to make this announcement, and this was the fastest they could make it. Oh, no, no, no. I think it's totally ignorant of the holidays, which is kind of the underlying thing with all these Google stuff. Whenever the announcements are weird, it's like, man, they really are all about the tech, and so little about the retail of it all, like the big sizzle cell, which companies like Apple and Microsoft even are very focused on, no, we put on a show and we have people come out and Bruno Mars sings, and he's wearing a watch, and we put it in a Lady Gaga video, like that this is very, very Google. Now, let's get to, again, the elephant in the room. Our wearables dead, because here's what I have to say, and again, I still wear my first generation Apple watch. I didn't buy the second generation Apple watch because you have to explain to me what the killer feature, beyond just a really cool way that can echo notifications out to my wrist, that is there for a wearable. Because right now, if you're just saying, no, no, no, I swear to God, this one's nicer, maybe it runs a little bit faster. Well, for what it does well, it doesn't take a lot to do it. There's a reason that Pebble was able to run a fairly popular product on e-ink, that lasted a billion years. It doesn't need to look all that crazy pretty. I think there is a future for wearables, but, whoo, right now, you got a hard time explaining to me why I need to buy a new one. Well, and that is both the answer to the timing of this, because you know what Google probably won't do by making this announcement, undermine sales of Android watches, because so few of them are selling right now anyway. So that's part of it. And the other thing is Chang, in his interview with The Verge, said this is a marathon, not a sprint. He said, look, we don't expect this to be a hockey stick market here, but we know it's not going away. It is a market that people want. So he seems to be acknowledging what you're saying, like, sure, people aren't going to swap these things out as fast as they've swapped out phones and tablets and laptops, but that doesn't mean you can't do something beneficial by being in this market. Well, yeah. And again, for Google, it's about doing stuff. It's about keeping the ecosystem alive for all these manufacturers that they brought on board. And they can afford to wait, right? I mean, one might think. City regulators in Beijing and Shanghai have adopted new rules requiring drivers and ride-sharing services like ED Schuching to be registered to live in the city in which they drive. Apologies for that pronunciation. The New York Times estimates only 10,000 of DD's 410,000 active drivers in Shanghai have permanent residency papers. The new rules also lifted restrictions on prices and vehicle types. The rules do not go into effect immediately and may be subject to amendment.  I even locally source my ride-share drivers. How do you think the point of this regulation is? Yeah, from what I can tell. And I know there's some people in the audience who are more up on the political end of what's happening in China than I am. But from what I can tell, there is a general push in China to slow down the movement of people from the countryside into the cities. A lot of people in the cities are saying, ah, it's getting too crowded, too many people flooding in. And so the policy I don't think is targeted at ride-hailing particularly. The policy is do all the things that will stop people from moving into the city. And one of those things is, well, if they can be a ride-hail driver, then they'll stay in the city. So let's take that away. And then that'll be one less inducement to go into the city because they won't be able to make money that way. In fact, the matter is if you take away ride-hailing, when you've got a $10,000 to $410,000, $410,000 gap, I don't think you're going to fill that gap with city dwellers. And also I don't think that you're going to get them to leave the city. They'll just flood into other parts of the job market. So it feels like there's a lot of negotiations going on between DD and local municipalities about how to best implement this. In some cities, DD points out, they have adapted these regulations when they apply them to not involve all of those policies. And I think they're hoping they can convince Beijing and Shanghai to do the same.  They're saying, hey, it's really great that they have allowed smaller vehicles to be used. It's really good that we can now do different kinds of dynamic pricing. That's awesome. But we're just going to stay silent while we negotiate in the back room over this ride-hailing driver registration thing. It actually brought up a few feelings. As much as I was joking around about the locally sourced thing, I wonder whether or not that there is... Do we feel provincial about where our ride-hailing drivers come from? It's an interesting spin on the immigration thing. The joke has always been your taxi driver is a foreigner. And so this is interesting because it's not a foreigner from your country. It's a foreigner from your city. From your suburb. But I mean, that's the crazy thing. And I do not know. I mean, as we learned, only Nixon can go to China. So I dare not try to understand. Yeah, no one else can allow it in. However, if you think that passing a law will do anything, even if it's effective, to call a near half million person shortfall in the amount of people that already use this or uses as employment on some level. Man, that's... I mean, it's going to be interesting to see. Well, in India, they've also set out new rules for ride-hailing services. Ola and Uber are kind of the big ones there. The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways recommended that surge or dynamic pricing, as they call it, within a certain range to match supply and demand should be allowed. They're being very careful about this, but they were outright banning it before. Now, Uber and Ola can charge up to four times the minimum price between midnight and 5 a.m. So they're trying... India is trying to strike a balance to say, hey, you know what? We need to encourage drivers on the roads. We get that, but we also don't want you gauging people. So we're going very slowly and cautiously. The new rules also allow private bicycles to be used as taxis. This is something Ola and Uber both launched and then had to stop. India said, no, you can't do that. Now they've changed their mind and said, okay, we're going to let you do bicycle ride sharing. And Uber is already back on the road with that. Yeah, I mean, hell, we're going to get a lot more into the Uber of it all in our main discussion topic. But this has been both the root of all their success and the cause of all their frustration is that they're trying to push their business model wherever they can and they will just stay around and fight for as long as they need to. The idea of surge pricing, I know, is something that is troubling not only to many people, but also troubling to Uber itself. I mean, there's a reason why in the year 2016 they went away from it. You, in the new version of the app, you never see blank X. You never see two X. You see what you're going to pay. And if you can remember what you paid yesterday, five hours, you know, previous in the day, then you can say, oh, well, it's more expensive now than it was yesterday. But you're never going to see, oh, I'm just, it's just going to be like four times what it normally is. Yeah. And DJ Sakane has pointed out that the drivers have issues with this as well. I mean, as it sometimes will help them, it will also cause frustration. So, you know, check out your private driver at DailyTechDoShow.com if you want more of his perspective from the driver point of view as well. Yeah. Well, it's also what helps him get out on the roads, which is why I suspect that the government wound up backing down on it is that, you know, it is kind of supply and demand. If there's more people out there that need, you know, need a car, then it makes sense to be able for the platform to be able to say, you should get paid more to be out on the road right now.  I hadn't requested it yet. It gave me a quote of $5.30 for where I was going. And then I got distracted. I was doing something else. I went back to say, oh, that fare has expired. I'm like, oh, great. What's it going to be? $5.70. So the other thing is not having to put a 1, 2, and 3x, I think gives them a little more slice and dice to those fares. Sure.  Maybe it's $0.50. You know, it just gives them more options. And finally, Honda announced it is in talks with an autonomous car research partnership with Alphabet's Waymo. Partnership will see Waymo technology used in cars. Honda had previously committed to developing vehicles that could drive autonomously on the highway by 2020, but it maintained that those would need a driver. Waymo has had a similar partnership with Fiat Chrysler. I almost feel, sure this isn't true, almost feel like Alphabet has been trying to put out as many press releases regarding Waymo as possible, since they announced that Google X's car effort would be called Waymo to get people used to saying the word Waymo. Boom, boom, boom. Let me hear you say Waymo. Waymo. I mean, this is one of those things that it's very, you're right. Like who knows whether or not at some point deals like this between Google and Honda, you know, or what we have previously thought of is that Google does self-driving cars, right? That has more brand value in the mind of the listener than anything else. So deals like that where Honda just says, hey, can we share this kind of technology? Or can we have you guys consult for us for a little bit and we'll pay X amount of money? Those deals get done every day, right? I mean, like those are not necessarily weird kind of deals. And a lot of them might not make it out in a press release because both sides don't necessarily want it to be a thing that people are thinking of when they are directing their business. So who knows whether or not this is something in which we, it is one of those just, hey, you guys are doing self-driving cars. Can we see your data and see all your information and understand your technology and do a couple prototypes? Or if it's coming in 2017, Waymo powered Hondas at the next auto trade show, you know, like it could be either, but I agree with you. They need to build up some brand value because right now who knows what Alphabet is, other than people that listen to this show. And who knows what Waymo is, including people who listen to this show. I'm just saying there's Waymo announcements that I would expect. I'll stop it. And the other thing to remember is one of the things that they did when they created Waymo was make the considered decision that they're not a car company. They're a technology company that provides the technology to the cars. They're not going to go making Waymo cars. They're not going to make Google cars or Alphabet cars either. So this idea of, hey, we're partnering with Honda, hopefully to lead to Honda putting out cars with Waymo technology in them. We're partnering with Fiat Chrysler with the absolute idea that Fiat Chrysler Pacific and Minivans are going to be out there with Waymo technology on them this year. They're hoping to have an actual service available by the end of 2017. So you've got to strike these deals. And they've been talking to GM and Ford. They just haven't been able to strike a deal yet. And you want two people to know like, hey, we're successful. We're getting people on board to work with us. You might want to work with us too, because Alphabet would like nothing more for Waymo to become the Android of cars. Alphabet would love nothing more than for another company in Alphabet to get some positive. Also that, yeah. Like that's the other problem is that like, listen, man, we're all on board with, oh, you're Alphabet now. You're not Google. Now Google is another part of Alphabet. It's like, all right. Well, I mean, listen, all the other high-profile stuff you've had within it that theoretically you split up the company so you could make room for them, i.e., the Boston Dynamics, right? The robotics company. Nes have, let's just say, charitably operated suboptimally under the Google umbrella. Yeah, that's fair to say, suboptimally. Thanks to all those who participate in our subreddit. You can submit stories and vote on them at DailyTechNewsShow.Reddit.com. As we have alluded to several times, Uber announced Wednesday it stopped its autonomous car pilot program in California after the state's Department of Motor Vehicles revoked, or at least threatened to revoke, registration for 16 test vehicles. Uber said it will redeploy the modified Volvo XC90s elsewhere, but in a statement it said, we're now looking at where we can redeploy those cars but remain 100% committed to California and will redouble our efforts to develop workable statewide rules. Now, right before the show, San Jose Mercury News reporter Marisa Kendall wrote on Twitter and then put out an article on the Mercury News that Uber is in fact moving its self-driving cars to Arizona.  They're not driving themselves there. They will be testing there in the next few weeks. Justin, you said you saw a quote from the governor of Arizona welcoming them, right? Oh, no, no, no, no. This is Uber's statement on the matter. Our cars departed for Arizona this morning by truck. We'll be expanding our self-driving pilot there in the next few weeks and the parting shot. We're excited to have the support of Governor Ducey. There we go. So the Uber is excited to have the governor of Arizona's support. Now, when they wrote their blog post last week, Defending the Use, when the California DMV had first said, hey, you need to get a permit for this, they said, we don't need a permit. Your rules say, and I actually went and looked this up, SB 1298 says autonomous technology means technology that has the capability to drive a vehicle without the active physical control or monitoring by human operator. And Uber said, well, we have to have a human in the car. They can't drive themselves on their own. California says, yeah, but you're testing autonomous cars and you're letting them drive themselves a lot. So that meets the definition, fundamental difference there. Uber went on to say there's a more fundamental point, how and when companies should be able to engineer and operate self-driving technology. We've seen different approaches to this question. Most states, Arizona, see the potential benefits, Pennsylvania, especially when it comes to road safety. And several cities and states have recognized the complex rules and requirements could have the unintended consequence of slowing innovation. Then they named names, Pittsburgh, Arizona, Nevada, and Florida in particular have been leaders in this way. And by doing so have made clear that they are pro technology. Our hope is that California, our home state, and a leader in much of the world's dynamism will take a similar view. So this isn't just the normal Uber fighting in every city to push things to the limits. It's Uber trying to set itself up as leading the charge to change California's restrictive regulations, in their opinion, on autonomous cars. And this is the key point that as much as there are certainly other companies that like to continue to fight the same fight, like Lyft in terms of ride sharing, this is a specific issue that because of the amount of technology companies that want to get into self-driving cars have all chafed under California's restrictions on how and when they can test them. When these laws initially were put in, they were controversial because they were looked at as too restrictive and would stifle the innovation and would create unnecessary legal loopholes and would force this kind of testing to be done outside of California. Now, whether or not California cares, because obviously for them, they don't want somebody to get run over by an autonomous vehicle and then for it to say, oh, well, it was licensed as safe. And so therefore the state is on some level, at least by political, or sorry, by the depressive at all, held culpable for it. But yeah, Uber is obviously very aggressive on these kinds of things. And so it should be no surprise that they want to be the tip of the spear on this and to force California's hand to define exactly what they mean by this and exactly how willing they are to enforce it. But they're not alone. I mean, Google has similarly been upset with exactly how California is enforced, this kind of stuff. Yeah, and so has Ford. And so have plenty of other autonomous car companies. But 20 of them have gone ahead and paid the permit and paid the $150 annual fee, which does not seem like much. I think the bigger burden is the paperwork. So here's the timeline of what's going on, just to set this for you. Back in 2014, so more than a couple of years ago, September 16th, California's current regulations went into effect. Those require that $150 annual fee. And you have to file regular reports about any time you were in an accident and any time that you had to disengage the autonomous vehicle and take over as a human. That's part of the paperwork. And I think it's probably more the paperwork than anything that Uber is objecting to. But what everybody has been fighting about. It's paperwork and the ability for that paperwork to then become public record and discloseable. And for people to be able to take a really deep numbers look is a kind of controversial thing. We fear many fear self-driving cars. So if you see, oh my God, look, it turns out this month, the amount of times that they disengaged auto driving went up our self-driving cars, becoming less safe, more at 11. Yeah. Well, and you saw that every time Google's car was in an accident this year, it made headlines, right? So December 16th of last year, just about one year ago, California issued a draft deployment regulation. So these are the regulations we're going to put out that say if you want to actually deploy cars as part of a service, like Uber was doing, actually, you have to do this. It has to be tested by a third party. You have to train the customer in a state-approved training program. You have to put in a new data recorder. You have to have a human on board at all times. You have to pay a $33,000 to $50,000 processing fee.  So you know Uber is objecting to this, right? Because this says you can't run Uber with an autonomous car under these regulations. Yeah. So these were just the draft. Then on September 19th, the U.S. Department of Transportation put out its own voluntary guidelines with different safety assessments and collection of data requirements, et cetera. So on September 30th of this year, California issued revised deployment regulations and essentially said we're going to comply with those voluntary federal guidelines. We will allow cars without a human driver or a steering wheel, but we will require the 15-point safety assessment. And the big one that VW, Honda, Google, and Ford all objected to was a 12-month period required between testing a vehicle and deploying it on public roads. Which effectively is, I mean, it puts at its most aggressive. If you are ready to go now, we're waiting a year for whatever reason. Yeah. So those regulations were published on September 30th. On October 19th of this year, the State of California conducted a workshop in which Alphabet, the now Waymo operator and several automakers were able to raise objections. They're like, why do we need to do vehicle data recorder? Why aren't the ones we have worth it? Why do you need so much data out of our cars? Why is there so much paperwork? Why is there so much data being handed over? Why do police get access to our data within 24 hours without a warrant or subpoena? And then, of course, December 14th, Uber begins testing cars in San Francisco without a permit. And December 21st, California threatens to revoke those car registrations if they don't stop. So I look at all of this and I say, Uber's really pushing to get those regulations changed, saying we will not test our cars under that system. And if you won't let us test them without the permit, we just won't test them in your state. Can I give you my conspiracy theory? Yeah, what's your conspiracy theory? Uber is not a company without a flair for the theatrical, right? Fair enough. Absolutely.   Failed fairly spectacularly. However, I think that this was, they let this get to a head and then ended it. So this is the story, both them agreeing to take the cars off the road and the punchline of all those cars getting on a flatbed truck and heading off to Arizona. There is no part of me that thinks that they really, I think that they knew what was going to happen. Or they had a heavy suspicion that this was going to happen. They wanted to make this a big, large point and they wanted to be ready to go.  Let's load up all these cars and get them to Arizona to leave them in a parking lot until we figure out where we're going to put people to do it. I think that this is very much Uber sending a message. This is Uber saying, these are onerous guidelines. And furthermore, this is where the dramatic element comes in and it was part of the language that they said, it's embarrassing that California in general and San Francisco specifically does not have the ability to push this technology forward. And they were providing a service, right? I mean, it's one thing to argue. We weren't breaking the law. These cars aren't capable yet of driving themselves. Look at how often we have to intervene. All the reporters who took test drives have bared that out in their coverage of this, like, yeah, I was in there. The driver did have to intervene every so often. But the point was, we want them to not have the driver intervene. That's why we're testing these. Also, they were providing a commercial service. And I think that's directly pointed at that part of the regulations. Were they in San Francisco? Yeah. In Pittsburgh, the ride was free. Or is that any kind of designation? Oh, that's a good point. If you're not charging you for it. You are using a service. Yeah. And you have the option in Pittsburgh. You had the option to decline. And in San Francisco, you had the option to decline as well. So that's just how good they are. My skirt not lying. Well, I mean, this is there. This is what I mean. This is what they do. I know the story on the Twitch stream where I was going over these stories. But I heard an interview with Mark Cuban. Mark Cuban said one of the biggest regrets he has is not investing in Uber because he knew Travis Kalanick from his previous company. And his reason why, he was like, no, you're crazy. You're just going to keep running into government regulations.  You're just never going to be able to do it. And his regret was not seeing the vision of like, no, we fight it aggressively. And we push everything to a head as fast as possible. If even just to understand that we have to fight a lot of these fights to grow at scale, this is what they do. And they've done it globally. And by and large, they've done it effectively. Yeah, there's a few examples like Austin, you can point to where they haven't, but those are the minority of examples. And even then that was them overreaching. Nobody, they didn't even pass legislation in Austin. They tried to preemptively pass legislation that would preempt the legislation that was there. So that might have even just them being too, too aggressive. Testing their, yeah, testing their limits. Too clever by half. All right, let's get to our pick of the day. Glenn Bach has written a script that generates PDFs that help you find a star whose light has been traveling to earth since a certain date. So for instance, you can tell, you can find your birthday in these PDFs and find out which star's light hitting the earth now left the star around the time you were born. So you can kind of bathe in the photons like, ah, these are photons that left that star when I was born. He also tied it into my chronology of tech history. So you can find out which star's light hitting the earth right now left the day Queen Anne's first proclamation on copyright law was made. Or when Steve Jobs started back at Apple or when IBM first started counting things for the census. You can find all those details at go.gl slash Y capital H1 VE lowercase a or just go to the show notes daily tech news show.com and find the link. He's got it out there under a Creative Commons license and he's using the chronology of tech history under that license. And it's pretty cool. No, that's great. That's awesome. So thank you, Glenn, for doing that and send your picks to us, folks, feedback at daily tech news show.com. More picks at daily tech news show.com slash picks. Katie wrote in with three examples where a friend sharing location was super helpful. Remember yesterday, Uber launched the feature that says, just take me to my friend and ask your friend if they can share the location information. And then Uber sets that as the destination. Katie says, one, we met a friend downtown in a city where neither of us lived and neither of us were familiar with local businesses. We used location sharing to find each other. Two, I had overlapping soccer practices for two of my children. A fellow parent generously offered to give child A a ride to soccer practice, B, so I could be in two places at once. She knew the school to go to. I used location sharing, so she knew exactly where to find me, so she didn't have to drive around the school looking for us. And three, on an extended vacation with one car, my husband stayed at the vacation rental with the kids while I went out for a quiet lunch by myself using public transportation. He then decided to bring the kids out to do stuff after I was done with lunch and we used location sharing to find each other. So I have most definitely found it useful, generally in situations where there is a broad meeting location, like a downtown area or a mall or school, but not a specific point we agreed to meet at.  Uber was just the one little piece of spice in this year, right, where we could have these kinds of conversations. But I'm with Katie, you many times, not the least of which is, let's say later in the evening when you've maybe had a few recreational beverages with your friends and somebody else wants to meet you and you have no idea where you are. And you can just say, hey, meet me, just meet me. Wherever me is, get the car as close as it is to me. And then we'll figure it out from there. I think it's helpful. But again, it is that intersection of where it is helpful and creepy begin. Well, in this case, different than the can we track you when you're not using the app, which was I think the spiciest controversy. This says, hey, if they're in your contacts, we will contact them and ask them if it's okay. And only if they say it's okay to share the location will we share the location. So I think they're doing this one right. Oh yeah, I think they're doing it right. However, that is a concept that I think people do find, especially in certain domestic situations and stuff like that, that like, well, you're only putting somebody an accidental click away from a stalker or something like that. Regarding 3D printers for the consumer, Robert writes, it occurred to me that people with specific hobbies will always find a need to prefab parts for mods. I frequent a subreddit forum for Gunpla builders, Gundam models produced mainly by Bondi, and quite a few builders that are heavy into kit bashing, modding the kits with either parts from other kits, or in the case of 3D printing machines, creating custom parts from basically wide strips of plastic. Find that having a 3D printer invaluable to the process of bringing their ideas to reality. And then Kome adds, I don't even own a 3D printer myself, but I use online 3D printing services like Shapeways and 3D hubs, so 3D printing is pretty much in my life. Shapeways lets you upload your model and have the 3D prints sent to you, and 3D hubs lets the owners of 3D printers register themselves as a hub, and then other users can upload a 3D model, find a hub near you, order a print, and either pick it up in person or have it shipped. Dude, that's great. That's so smart. Yeah. And then finally, Dan wrote in on Patreon and said, one of the problems I've encountered personally and professionally is people not taking the time to understand the underlying how and why to a system, and as a result, be unable to troubleshoot or QA the results a system gives them. He talks about how he used to have to go into the Windows registry all the time, and he thankfully says he doesn't have to do that anymore in Windows 10. He says, I've also seen this with new sailors who come in and don't understand the old ways of doing things like contact tracking, bearing in range and two different times, and then do some calculations from there. Thus, they aren't able to recognize when the system gives them a bad calculation, which could result in a closer quarter situation with two ships than is ideal. This isn't to say that progress shouldn't be made. He says, I'm not a man who yells at clouds, but we need to take the time to understand what the building blocks of a system are, how they actually work, and have an understanding of what we expect to have happen based on a given input in order to ensure our devices and systems are running the way they should be and are making our lives easier and better. What was this in reference to? Our conversation yesterday with Aaron Carson about older people not being worse at technology, and the example of our grandpa Ray, who was playing with technology into his 90s. My the most technology forward person in my upbringing was my grandfather. My grandfather was a Mac homebrew guy and dutifully taught me, shared his hobby with me and his Apple 2GS when I was a kid. And I very much believe that especially those people who are in engineering professions like during that time in history, I think that computers very much can be a huge part of their lives. Yeah, and Aaron was saying, one of the things that she liked about her grandpa was he wasn't afraid to try things. And that's what she tries to impart to people like, you can't break it, just try it. And I think what we're seeing Dan try to add here is, people need to understand what these things are capable of and if they're going to use them properly, how to QA and troubleshoot them. And that is what I think one of the biggest issues with technology these days, especially regarding security, is people with Dan's mindset, people with my mindset, look at computers as something not to trust.  It doesn't always work that great. I might have to do a registry edit. I might have to get under the hood and play around with some settings. I shouldn't just put in a password because I don't know where that's going. But people who aren't of that mindset are being sold these items as if they are appliances. As if they are, hey, it's a coffee maker. You don't need to know how it works. Just put the coffee in and press go. And technology hasn't quite caught up with the promise of that yet. I mean, we're really getting deep here on the final Thursday, DTNS. Isn't that kind of the root germ of the Mac PC debate that there is this element that we are dumbing down our populace and that we're not there yet? And selling something on the it just works is a great way to sell boxes. And maybe your boxes work, but you are doing a disservice to the herd health of our technologically inclined populace. Yeah. And the internet, the internet particularly isn't done yet. We haven't finished the internet. So it's still in beta, kind of. But also, but then you always get back to the fact that, you know, as Dr. Manhattan told Adrian Fight, nothing ends. Nothing ever ends. Well, thank you, Justin, Robert Young for being with us as always on a Thursday. What you got going on to tell folks about? I'll tell you what. Everybody go ahead and just follow me on Twitter at JustinRYoung. 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Our email address is feedback at DailyTechNewsShow.com. We're live Monday through Friday, 4.30 p.m. Eastern at AlphaGeekRadio.com and DiamondClub.tv. And our website is DailyTechNewsShow.com. Back tomorrow, it's just me, Roger Chang, and Len Peralta. We'll talk to you then. The club hopes you have enjoyed this program. This show is part of the Frog Pants Network. Get more at FrogPants.com. I played those in reverse. In the order. That's fine. By the way, Arizona, the top five DUI state. Well, then they're like, please, hurry. Bring the autonomous cars now. Top five DUI states, North Dakota, South Dakota. Well, or would they? Or is that a, I mean, this is crass to say, but that DUIs are also a moneymaker for states. Are they not? I mean, any self-respecting state official would say we would rather have no DUIs and keep people safe on the road. I get that, but could hurt the bottom line if they all went away. Well, I was going to say, automated cars could potentially offer a new revenue stream through. There you go. You just replace it. You basically have targeted taxes. Like, oh. But that's the kind of thing Uber will leave your state over. Well, you know, that's the thing is like, it's kind of a balancing act. You want to, it's like enticing businesses by giving them preferential tax rates and then slowly inching it back up once they become established. And it becomes a little, becomes a little more. A little more painless. Yeah. It's one of those things that people have been pointing out if as we shift to renewable fuel sources or all electric automobiles is like, well, how do you tax? Where do you get the tax money to pay for roads? If traditionally you tax gasoline or diesel or whatever, people aren't using those fuels in the same level and the tax dollars drop. How do you pay for the same level of maintenance? Now, BioCal, although he's going by bios of Holly in the chat room says, you have to consider the mindset of a person who drives drunk.  I don't think that the issue is necessarily that they are more likely to call a self-driving car than they are an Uber. Although if the self-driving car is free, then the fact that they don't have to pay X amount of money might be an incentive. I think the issue more is just pushing the entire culture forward on not relying on your own car as much. If it becomes more convenient to take a self-driving car out, you're also going to take a self-driving car back. In terms of the DUI rates, California, number six. Behind you, Arizona. Right behind Arizona in Kentucky, California. I can see California and Arizona being connected. People drive between the two states a lot. Kentucky is a further drive, so I'm not sure what's happening. Well, I mean, they're both car culture cities. Phoenix and Scottsdale are effectively the same metropolitan area, and they're separated by about 20 miles. No, it's all cars in Phoenix. You're right. So it's even in your most populous areas, if you live in the Burbs, which a lot of people do, and you don't live downtown, which is more expensive, then you're, you know, it's, let's say, it's a lot more expensive than Florida and California. All right then, titles. Yes, titles. Number four, and at the top with four votes, is Waymo Cars, Wayless Drivers. Two is California Uber Allies, although I think we've done that one before. Yeah, it's also the name of Dead Kennedys. Dead Kennedys song, right? Yeah, Tesla May Cause Cancer leads California. High speed ahead. Tesla May Cause Cancer, what? Why did you even read that? Doesn't make any sense. Oh no, that was just number three. That's why. It's not. It's the only got one vote. It's tied. Oh, Canada, our homes all get broadband. That's good. Taking it self-driving cars and going home. See, Waymo technology used to be, will be used in Hondas. Oh, I thought this at Honduras. By the way, California Uber Alice needs to be listened for anybody who has not recorded in 1979. 100% agree. Precient on a level that new popular recording artists can be prescient down to the fact that they make fun of then governor Jerry Brown. For those of you keeping track at home, is the current governor of California. Yeah, he was out in the boonies for a while after being, and then he came back. He was mayor of Oakland when I first moved to Oakland. That was part of the beginning of his comeback. The Browns have a, I wouldn't say illustrious, but they have a long history in politics in California. Yeah, Edmund. Edmund, his dad was the other one as well. His sister. Waymo cars, way less drivers, I like, and it's still the top. I'm good with that. What do you think, Justin? Waymo cars, yeah. I mean, listen, get ready. Waymo, the more that Waymo is in the news, the more that Waymo puns are going to become the new show without it. Yeah, well, let's get in front of this and use them now while we still can. Yeah, so Waymo cars, way less drivers is the title. You know, I was thinking about what Dan wrote about like the sailors and understanding the old way of doing things. I kind of, I finally clicked them ahead in that you essentially want people to understand the the reason why things are done in a certain way. For example, like you could figure out a large complex equation using a calculator, but you still want to understand why, when you multiply, you do certain things and when you add, you do certain things and divide and all the rest. So you can kind of point out issues. The thing is, I guess the point I was trying to make is not everybody can know how everything works, right? Like we aren't all architecture experts, but we can still live in houses. And the electronics industry in the 90s was sort of a hobby. It was a hobbyist thing. And so the idea of like, hey, if you're going to have a computer, you should know how it works was just made perfect sense. These days it's becoming more widespread with smartphones and the idea of you should know how it works is less tenable. We'll see that, but see that's what I think he's not. I don't think that's what he's getting at. No, no, I don't either. But I'm just saying like, you know, when you're saying like, you have to know how math works for a calculator, I don't know that we need to have everyone know how computers work. I just think we need to understand that the computers are quite ready to just be handed out to everyone, right? And so I think I took what he wrote as, hey, we're still in that era where if you really want to use these things responsibly, you kind of have to know a little bit of how they work under the hood. Well, but see, that's what I'm saying. I don't think that's what he's saying. I think you have to understand the problem it's trying to solve. For example, with getting the contact bearing of a ship that you don't want to collide with, you understand the principle of how things are calculated in general to figure that out on paper. Before you move to a computerized system, so you could at least in the back of your head do back of the napkin calculations and look at it. It's like, oh, hey, this is correct. Or at least this is pretty close to correct versus like, oh, there's something wrong. Either a sensor's off or the GPS is not calibrated because I'm getting numbers that don't make sense kind of thing. Am I being clear? I'm probably not being clear. Well, yes, you are being clear, but I'm not sure how that differs from what I said, I guess. I mean, you're saying that for ships, you need to understand that. And I get that. And all I'm saying is, yeah, and that's still true of computers, although it won't always be true of computers. In other words, we're not going to move to a point where ships that he's talking about need to be user-friendly for the masses to use. So the metaphor kind of ends for me there. But we can get to a point where like, yeah, you know what? To drive a car, you don't need to be able to have a license to drive a car. You don't need to know how a combustion engine works. No. And I think computers will get to that point. They're just not quite there yet. Indeed. All right, guys, I'm out of here. All right. All right, man. Hey, happy holidays. Happy New Year. Yeah, man. Well, yeah, dude. Well, I'm sure we'll talk probably before the New Year, but hopefully. I will. Thank you. Thank you so much. It's a travel day tomorrow to Ohio. And then we're back on Monday, so. Oh, visiting the in-laws. The in-laws in Ohio. Yeah. Is it freezing cold this time of year? I'm trying not to think about it, but. Best. Best not to, I assume. All right. Peace out. All right. Thanks, y'all. Talk to you tomorrow, everybody.