Hey, so we're here in Shenzhen. Hi. Hey, hi everyone. So who are you? So I'm Laurent Le Pen and I'm a co-founder at Oakland, my second company after O-Mate. All right, so you do an O at O-Mate. You put O. Yeah, yeah, you see O-Mate, Oakland, whatever. What's with the O? It's starting everything with an O door actually and after open and after Office, so here we are in our office. And this is our new product actually. Yeah, so This is the best toothbrush in the world. What is this? Yeah, I would say it's a Glimpset what the toothbrush of the future will be, you know, can we unbox it? Yeah, that would be that would be that would be yours then If you want even to try. Yeah, but you have one that's already unboxed Look like I make your unboxing for you. So So, yeah, there's very this has been and for some time now we use this kind of of box design Whoa, it's even like it seems to be Gold silver white. It's really like it seems to be a luxury Yeah, we make it like a premium, but it the first actually smart toothbrush with a with a display and That will give you like information about your brushing and everything. Is it ready to par on? Yeah, sure. No, so let's Let's take off the sometimes it always comes with some power some juice Yeah, yeah, yeah, because people are eager to brush their teeth When they get the what it is. So you need to pair with the with our Auckland application And is the same actually for all our model and that one is just for the people actually would do not want to use like Applications are some people they don't want to to customize their brushing plans through the application so they can directly do it Through the tiny displays that we have what can you do with the display? So right now, okay, right now is locked. So let me let me just a fingerprint. No, nobody uses your toothbrush without your permission No, no, but that would be your soul. Okay. No, it's unlocked. So let me let me just you know You can you can select some cleaning cleaning plan, you know, you can which let me let me just make it Okay Yeah, we put like so first it needs to be paired It's better if you pair it with an application so you can customize and after you can have some information about About you know, like oh you did well or bad good job. Yeah, good. You get a score and you get a score Yeah, you can see it as a I would have says a few bit of the but it's better to say the Rwami How's a maze fit of the of the toothbrush so so that means you have accelerometer sensors in there You can actually see how people use their toothbrush. Yeah Yeah, exactly. I actually so Yeah, some of our design team come come come You see we're back to yeah, actually we started with the Oakland one three years ago We got like some awards design awards pretty cool. I see it everywhere. You know, I'm going around different countries I see the Oakland you are getting doing good business. Yeah, we actually we There's not I can we we can say how big no, no, no, we can tell but we did actually Achieve like rich as it was a big milestone last month. So we we sold our millions Smart to his Russia all category together. So it's like a few we have four models today So and our best seller is still Oakland one. Whoa. Yeah, Oakland one. It has been big. Whoops. Look, so Somebody I show you around. No, this is our main meeting room the lunch break sleeping break. Yeah, true But here is our main meeting room That's where we spend time to speak about on your products. I What I can show you some of our design team over there Design team is more fun. What's happening here the way on the wall. Is this all the parties you have? Yeah Yeah, yeah, somebody's some I mean some team moments from Chinese new year to How long time you've been in China? So myself 12 years I will be I do my full cycle of zodiac sign this year Is it yeah, which zodiac sign? I mean the Chinese one so the 12 which one is the next one the next one Would be the mouse? I don't know. All right. So, yeah, here's a summer for design team Engineers yeah relaxing a little bit. That's why we'll go for we'll go for lunch now. So What kind of engineering they able to do? So what you like you you innovate in the toothbrush business Yeah, so you see I you remember last time we we met like long time ago now Maybe 12 years ago. We say we try to figure out when it was but our first video was for our mate six years ago and I was I was coming from the mobile phone design industry, so You can see it at that time back from Phillips mobile We had also like our Apple or Google or Samsung, you know And the big one in the toothbrush market, they are called Philips or will be you know, that's our Apple on Samsung there So all we know that is that we we created some patent on the sonic we use like sonic technology Not just like a Philip sonic you have stronger Sonic happening.  So it gives you like a very strong cleaning And then our main differentiator is that we created a way like to customize your brushing plan and this is totally unique It's not just a question of little, you know, like a mode that you put like a massage or cleaning or you know Us what we did we customize really deeply and we open like everything for you to customize The level the time and at the end you create your own brushing plan So this is totally unique because we all have different set of teeth We all have different needs. We all have different old care needs. So at the end, that's what we do And so you can even instead of having level one level two level three level four You can all kinds of Graduations in between or you can like go up and down or you can customize your plan So basically again, you can see that on all the Auckland toothbrush that we have sold to date you can really see it as a Potentially like we have as many as brushing plan as we have Toothbrush sold in the market now. So you can really build your own Experience what you want for example my wife. She will say oh me. I'm okay with two minutes and 30 second You press the button then he's down you you brush He will he will do like different sequences and me I will go okay I will do three minutes and it will be different sequences different level different style Because you kind of get a little not kind of like a beep or some kind of thing where it recommends you go to the next Stage so you go from left and then right Behind we really tell you first we'll tell you like scan of through the app We'll tell you like tell us a bit about a bit about more about you so about your your teeth condition your eating habits, etc and Based on your answers we will we'll promote one plan, which is already preset But after if you feel like this plan is not great for you You can still fully customize you have access to change all the parameters by yourself That's really that's what is unique about Auckland and after the quality level also We really raise a bar. So we use like crazy premium material on on both from Auckland one actually we started with a pedex on Dupont and You can find the heads Filaments like the bristles yeah, so it's high quality materials. Yeah, it's very premium one Yeah, it doesn't end up in your mouth Yeah, and it's called diamond cut so you see they are not not just like a Little filaments like putting one by one. They are like there is a real pattern which is Proven to be to be better for your for your teeth I really like using level four, but is it maybe too strong for some people like is it dangerous because it's so strong Yeah, the beginning. Maybe you you can be you can Experiment a bit and no one know better Your teeth than yourself. So you know what is what what will fit and the gum so yeah Some people may have so you can really Customize that according to to your teeth condition and on top of that we have like crazy long battery life I don't know if you I don't understand this. Yeah, I don't understand. I'll go traveling I use it from nearly like two months and still going possible My Philips was pretty much like a week or something. Yeah, we So we use big batteries. So that's and we use very premium batteries with high density ratio, you know like compact ratio You battery level so it's very condensed and Some all we we can achieve up to yeah on the Oakland one. It was like two months on the Oakland X well one month without any problem So if you if you use it two times two minutes a day, it will be two months without any problem That's so cool. My my Philips after two years or so. It's pretty much dead. Yeah How is the life time of that battery? I'm still using my Oakland one prototype of three years ago So, I don't know we will see I mean we are three years old companies So what about the day? Maybe we're let your mind kind of runs out. What do you do? Yes a cycle of the battery But the the good thing also about what Oakland is that they are very affordable products So because we are backed by you know by Rwami, which is also like have a Xiaomi DNA So we are used to do like very premium product at a very affordable price. So you can maybe upgrade to the new one You know, so right here you have your tips. It's still the same tips as the other models So yes, they are all same as the heads are all Compatible for all our models from Oakland one Oakland SE Oakland air Oakland X Oakland X pro they're all compatible And if they want or couples they can if they want swap these every day and just use one toothbrush Yeah, is it possible that the app will support multi-user? No, so yeah, you can do that. Definitely, but The app needs is really is really according to you. You can ask these guys. Yeah multi-user multi-user. Yeah, that is That's a good idea. Not good. Maybe for business, you know Let's try to have because it's still a toothbrush. We say like and no one you don't even share your truth, right? I mean no more to the right. I know you can change the head, but it's still a toothbrush But consider that Netflix for example, everybody shares the Netflix account and they are a hundred billion dollar company So maybe the sharing thing is not a negative, you know Yeah, you want people to be hungry for more toothbrush Yeah, and if you have to share the toothbrush you really want to have a second one. Yeah at the end of the day Business model is a recurring revenue with the heads like anyone in the in this business, but also on that we are the heads are very very affordable like compared to Yeah, we are very useful like six months or something no Well, we recommend every two months you change your own you change every two months the head But it depends how strong, you know, you push two months depends on people. What does it do? And after you can find them anywhere on, you know Gearbest is one of a good partner. We have like Amazon, etc. It's not too expensive but about a bunch is Average usually we sell them by two and it's like less than ten dollars and you you know That's the price of one, you know, I think you can consider the business model of partnering with the dentists And then boom you you get linked up to the dentist that specialized you should add cameras in there Yeah, next actually we are focusing on a very exciting new segment That we are working also as well on omate for several years like it would be the kids and this is excited I have two kids myself and I want you know, it's very hard, you know to tell them like you need to brush We all remember that you know parents would and when we were kids all self when you know to brush artists It's a habit. It's a routine that needs to be teached by the Toed by the by the parents. So our next product would be focus on kids So kids smart with brush coming soon people live longer and longer It's really important to care take care of your teeth because if you don't take care of them Yeah, the natural way would be they fall out when you're 50 years old You have to take care take care of your kids and Oakland is there for you. All right


Hello and welcome to the session. I am Asha and I am going to help you with the following question that says out of 100 students 2 sections of 40 and 60 are formed if you and your friend are among the 100 students what is the probability that A you both enter the same section B you both enter the different section. Let us now start with the solution. Select the two sections A and B and the number of students in section A before B and in section B B 60. Now the first part is we have to find the probability that you and your friend both enter the same section. Let us suppose let you both enter section A. Now section A has 40 students if you both enter in section A then 38 students selected out of 98 students which we get. I am subtracting 2 from 100 since 2 students are already in section A you and your friend so 38 students are selected out of 98 students in 98 say 38 ways. Let us denote the event X by the fact that you and your friend both enter section A. Now the total possible number of choices of 40 students out of 100 as 100 C 40 therefore probability of X that you both enter the same section is given by the number of favorable events that is 98 C 38 upon the total number of possible choices that is 100 C 40. Now simplifying it further 98 C 38 can be written as 98 factorial upon 38 factorial into 98 minus 38 factorial into 40 factorial into 100 minus 40 factorial upon 100 factorial. This is further equal to 98 factorial upon 38 factorial into 60 factorial into 40 factorial can be written as 40 into 99 into 38 factorial into 60 factorial upon 100 factorial can be written as 100 into 99 into 98 factorial. Now canceling 98 factorial with 98 factorial 38 factorial with 38 factorial and 60 factorial with 60 factorial 2 2 0 4 2 5 is a 10 3 13's are 39 and 3 into 33 yes 99 so we have 26 upon 165 therefore probability that you both enter section A is equal to 26 upon 165. Now let us find the probability that both enter section B. Now number of students in section B is equal to 16 suppose you and your friend both enter section B so now we have to choose 58 students from 98 students so we have to select 58 students from 98 students and the number of favorable choices that is the number of favorable events of choosing 58 students from 98 students is 98 C 58 and again as we have done earlier total number of possible choices is equal to 100 C 60 in this case since we have to select 60 students out of 100 and let us denote that both enter section B by the event y so we can say that probability of y is equal to number of favorable choices that is 98 C 58 upon the total number of possible choices 100 C 60 which can further be written as 98 factorial upon 58 factorial into 98 minus 58 factorial into 60 factorial into 100 minus 60 factorial upon 100 factorial so we have 98 factorial upon 58 factorial into on subtracting we have 40 factorial into 60 factorial can be written as 60 into 59 into 58 factorial and 100 minus 60 factorial is 40 factorial upon 100 factorial can be written as 100 into 99 into 98 factorial now cancelling 98 factorial cancels up with 98 factorial 40 factorial with 40 factorial 58 factorial with 58 factorial and we further have 2 3's are 6 2 5's are 10 and 3 1's are 3 3 into 33 is 99 so we have 59 upon 165 therefore probability both enter section B is equal to 59 upon 165 now probability of x or y that is you both enter either section A or section B is given by probability of x plus probability of y and probability of x is 26 upon 165 plus probability of y is 59 upon 165 which is equal to 85 upon 165 and now 5 into 17 is 85 5 into 33 is 165 so we have 17 upon 33 so answer to the first part that is probability that you and your friend both enter same section is equal to 17 upon 33 so this completes the first part now let's proceed on to the second part here we have to find probability that you both enter the different sections that is probability of x or y complement which is equal to 1 minus probability of x or y that is 1 minus 17 upon 33 which is equal to 16 upon 33 so answer to the second part is probability that you both enter different sections is equal to 16 upon 33 so this completes the session hope you have understood it bye and take care


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Howdy how's it going? My name's Davy Chappy, and I have a complicated relationship with God. I grew up Catholic, so being gay was always hard for me to hide since I would walk through the front door of the church and immediately burst into flames. I remember the priest would walk over and say, Now son, that only happens to vampires and queers, so which are ya? And I'd say, well I sure do like to suck, and the priest was very happy with that answer. So when it comes to where does religion fit into my life? It's always a bit of a tight squeeze, because I don't really think about it that much. But the one time it always does come up is during games of Dungeons and Dragons, where the gods simultaneously are real and make up the entirety of existence, and are also completely ineffectual and can't be bothered to handle any crisis big or small, so they have to send their missionaries out to get things done for them. Most games don't bother touching too far along the pant leg of the godly pantheon, but sometimes DMs just want to have the whole package in there, ready for players to go on a magical quest for and alongside the gods of their realm, such as the realm of the newly released Mythic Odyssey of Theros. Go check out that video. So today I'm going to be teaching you how to construct your own legendary pantheon, from gods to heroes and monsters and all the lore in between. As always keep in mind that a lot of this is just my opinion, so if you feel like I put the whole in glory, feel free to run your games however you want. But with that out of the way, let's begin.  You can have them omnipresent and constantly watching you from the outside of your bathroom window. They could be myths and fables that technically might not even exist, but clerics have magic, so who knows? The world could literally not even have any gods and everything is just based off of matter, constantly forming and reforming into new shapes that sometimes trick themselves into having consciousness, but then that would be stupid, so let's stick with gods existing, even if they go completely unseen. Once you know what purpose your gods fill within the setting, the next question is how numerous they are. You could have a single all-knowing god, you could have a pantheon of bickering old ones, you can have a quartet of four people with cosmic power that have no idea how to run the multiverse and certainly didn't ask for it. The point is that there's no sense in just making gods for the hell of it, unless that's specifically what you're into, so you'll want to know exactly how many deities you're working with.  But I digress. The point is, without these two structural questions, how many gods do you have and what is their presence in the world, you can't answer the overarching question, what is the ultimate goal of your pantheon? And I mean that from a meta perspective. If you want gods just to have gods, then congratulations, you can stop there.  But if you want them to have a presence in the story structure of your campaign, they need to understand how they operate both with each other and with the rest of the world. Otherwise, once the players reach the point where they start to learn about your pantheon for themselves, all the questions that they ask will either be quickly slapped together because he didn't have an answer beforehand, or you'll have to answer with, I don't know, I didn't think that hard. To bring this thought process in, think about what element you want your gods to serve in your story. Do you want them to be an antagonistic force, a boon to your players, a largely indifferent faction that your players will have to convince to help them? Are they just a MacGuffin that's trapped for some reason and the quest is getting them freed? Are they a twist villain in that when they are freed, they were secretly evil the whole time and their pacifism was all aroused just to get released? Does the primary conflict revolve around them? Are they essentially just a side character for your cleric who can help them out with magical problems the same way a rogue might have a criminal friend from mundane problems? This is the golden question where once answered, you can then go back and reverse engineer what it is that actually makes your gods act this way. Honestly, you can work out the point, the structural story point of your gods before you even answer the two questions that come before it, but I just say that you should know how many gods you want and what their purpose on the world is first just because, come on, let's be honest, people like making gods for things and a lot of you will skip right to those questions anyway. Okay, so, you've got your gods. You've got the number of them and their level of interaction with the world. You've got a goal set in mind for how to use those gods to affect the story. The next question is, who are they? While not necessarily an important story question, this question is probably the most important from a satisfaction point of view because let's be perfectly honest, you look at Norse, Greek, Egyptian mythology, they all impress upon the world in very similar ways but what sets them apart and makes them so mythic are their stories, the tales of who they are, how they're related to each other, and what feats they've accomplished that define their personality, the who, how, and why are really all you need to flesh out your godly characters. If you want my advice, which you're in my video so of course you do, the best thing that you can do if you have a huge assortment of gods and you feel completely intimidated about where to even start is to take each god, put them in a row in no particular order and go from left to right giving them each one at a time an identity of what their name is, what their domain is, the scope of their power, you know, the easy stuff and then you choose one other god on the list. It can be at random and you tell a story between the two. A small one and very anecdotal in the sense that it shows off their personalities as more than just basic beings of time or light.  If you're having trouble, don't worry about it, just make the shittiest stories that you can and then after you do it a little while, you do it a few times, the natural personalities of your characters will start to flesh out and you can go back and retell these stories with your new perspective in mind. The goal is just to get a feel for these characters down. So you can make the dumbest tales that you want about them as long as you make something. Trust me, once your players get greeted to the personalities of your godly pantheon, even the worst stories will grant a ping of, oh, I understand now, within the context. And the best part is that these stories can potentially spawn new ideas for monsters that your pantheon has struggled against, demigods that have come to save humanity and spread the word of their godly heritage, heroes who through nothing but the power of god and anime have managed to push the boundaries of self-sacrifice and save the world forevermore. Hell, by doing this, you're practically making up the entire D&D setting and that's great if you want your gods to feel important. Finally, after all of the legwork is done, you've just got one question left to answer and it's both a pretty significant and totally superfluous question at the same time. How do you want to roleplay them?  But honestly, that's lame.  Don't do that. You can do it if you want, but don't be surprised if it comes across as boring.  Egyptians, let's not talk about them.  They clearly have social quirks that I'm not equipped to talk about. The point is that most characters in these pantheons don't behave like the god from Christian mythology and that's why they're more interesting to watch. Maybe if Yahweh smoked some of that burning bush once in a while. But that's everything you need to know to get started on making your own pantheon of gods, heroes, and monsters. I know I didn't do a lot of the thinking for you today, but honestly, making squads of uber-powered cosmic entities is not my cup of tea. And if you really want a sheet, you can literally just take your D&D party, assign them a godly purview, and then there you go, that's your gods. But that'll about do it. I hope you enjoyed this video. Be sure to check out my social media in the description below. I stream on Twitch every Tuesday and Saturday so you can talk to me about the most recent video and maybe support me on Patreon so that I can afford the legal fees for restraining order against chatter the chipmunk. That's a reference only some of you will get. But yeah, Dabby out.


Hi, welcome to CS 2019. My name is Roberto Senino and I am a research manager of ST Macelectronics. This system is about high-quality voice recording exploiting bone conduction. That is a transmission of audio based on vibration of the skull. When we talk, our skull vibrates and we can record such vibration into an audio signal using an accelerometer designed to work on vibrations rather than inclinations. So here we see our system setup. We have a board using microphones and accelerometers in order to record audio being reproduced by this mock-up. So when I turn on the system, there will be a voice speaking through the panel and this voice is generating vibration in this panel. The vibrations are recorded by the accelerometer and the audio is recorded by the onboard microphone. In this PC GUI, you see the individual path of each of the sensors, which is the microphone on the top you see in time and frequency and then the accelerometer in time and frequency. What we are going to do in order to deploy this system is we are going to take the lower portion of the spectrum up to 2 kHz from the accelerometer and the higher portion of the spectrum from the microphone, as you can see in these two diagrams. We are going to combine them into a single audio signal where acoustic gains of the two sensors have been equalized and recombine them into the output that gets generated as output of the system. Let's try to record the audio coming from the demo. So we turn on this recording system where we see two channels actually. One represents the audio as recorded by the single microphone. Another one represents the audio recorded by a combination of microphone and accelerometer. So let's try to listen to each one of these recordings in order to understand the improvement in quality. I'm going to split the two signals into individual tracks so that we can listen back to them. Now, if I turn on this bottom track and I play it back from the loudspeaker, you can hear a very disturbed audio that represents what you would get using just a microphone with no further processing. If we listen to the other track, we can hear the output of the actual system, which is clear voice with no of the noise you were hearing previously. How can this work? Why did it happen? Because the accelerometer is sensitive to the vibration of the skull, which are generated only by my voice. The accelerometer portion of the signal is totally insensitive to audio coming from the environment. When we recombine accelerometer and microphone, we get this level of clarity by the physical nature of the signal itself. And this gives the result. It must be outlined that this accelerometer has a very linear behavior in frequency and a TDM interface that allows easy combination with the microphone. The computational power involved at CPU level is much lower in this system than in traditional noise reduction systems. So, thank you for listening to this demo. For further information, please refer to www.st.com.


phone. Really? Huh? Like the NFC. Really? Oh. Like the NFC. Keep talking. I'm just letting you know we're live. Oh yeah. So like I don't use it like the NFC. I don't use the finger scanner thing. I mean, there's a lot of things I wouldn't use. I just wanted it for the camera. And if I could have gotten a phone with the same quality of camera and the same speed, I would have bought that if it was cheaper. Why not just buy a camera? Because the best camera you have, the best camera you own is the one that you have on you at all times, typically. And it's invariably going to be a smartphone. No, no, because you made it seem like you don't want to use it for anything except for cameras. No, no, but that was my overriding thing like because I, because I have a kid, so I'm just going to negatively take a shot while we're strolling about and I'd rather have something that's decent than a blurry smudge because these are the precious moments that I will make a giant photo album with. Oh, your dad didn't go. Go ahead. No, no, I was going to say, I'm thankful that my that this technology was around when I was I would I would not want 100s of pictures of me. I'm glad I'm glad we can only find like five. Yeah, five pictures of me when I was little. And I'm OK with that. The photos of me as a kid are embarrassing enough without. These kids are going to grow up and they are going to resent you.  They will have a better, I think, a better grasp of their lives. They'll have a different approach. You're right. They will. Yeah, I'm just I'm playing. It's it's interesting because like like most people in our age group, I have a few photos of me as a child as a baby, a majority of them. I was an infant, but there's a period between grade school like basically junior high and high school. There's no photos of me. It's just like an empty period in Roger's life and it picks up again. No, I have that. I have that, too. I don't I have a freshman picture and then nothing until graduation day. And so I don't remember what I look like in between. You know, I like, yeah, I know I was hot, but I'm not sure. I have my graduation photo, like my picture. That's it. I literally have no other photos up until college. Like there's what an eight year gap. In photography of photographs of me. So what is they do? Was that my phone? This is not supposed to be making any noise. I turn. Was that your phone? Yeah, I'm trying to figure out how to meet this darn thing. OK, there it is. Basically, it's all it's too slight. It said it's learn something on the phone. There's two slider switches. I was been wondering for a while for one. It just puts it and vibrate and you have to stir mode. And then you go up and it's completely silent. Oh, I see. You got two different settings. That's kind of cool, actually, once you know. You're right. I actually like that. Having a do not disturb slide. What if there's a phone where you can download the contents onto a SDXC card and then wipe it? So when you cross the border and you give it to someone like to the border customs or whatever, they can go through your phone. When you're not worried and then when you're done with it, you just pull the card and you load everything back up. I've heard of something similar to that where they where you can hide the contents of the phone. But like you could just physically take it away from the phone. Sticking your sock or something. Oh, righty. You guys ready? Yeah, let me just get a drink from the coldest water bottle. Not sponsored. It says that water is cold even after 24 hours. It is still cold. Cold, not good enough for Lamar Wilson. He only drinks the coldest. The only thing that's where it's not sponsored is it's just funny to do. Yeah, let me know when to pop in. Just like. Yeah, I'll I'll I'll I'll I'll just introduce you when we start having the phone conversation. So OK, I actually did meet the water. I feel better now. OK, good. Let's roll. Here we go. Want someone to spend hundreds of hours reading tech news and tell you the most important stuff? Support Daily Tech News Show at DailyTechNewsShow.com slash support. This is the Daily Tech News for Friday, February 10th, 2017. I'm Tom Merritt. Jen Cutter had her power cut up there in Canada. So she's not with us today, but very happy to have Lamar Wilson, host of the YouTube channel Lamar Wilson with us today. How's it going, Lamar? It's going great. Thanks for having me. Thanks for rolling me out of bed. To do the show. I will never forget you for this. For. Wait, forget or forgive? Either one. Either one. Quite. Also, Len Peralta is not with us today, unfortunately. He's got he had a show to go to. It's a family thing, apparently. Dinner and a show. I don't know. He and his wife actually want to celebrate on Valentine's Day weekend or something, whatever. I don't get it. But he did do the show already. So we will have Len Peralta art to show you today. Really? Yeah, I'm looking forward to it. Meanwhile, we got some tech news to look at. So let's get into the top stories. WhatsApp is taking its two step verification feature out of beta. Everybody can get it now in the latest version of WhatsApp. You just go to settings, choose account. You'll see an option for two step verification. Choose that and tap enable. The way the system works is it generates a six digit pass code that you'll need to remember or write down and put in a secure location. And you'll need to enter that if you switch to using WhatsApp on a new phone.  When you set up WhatsApp, you'll have to enter that six digit code that time. WhatsApp will ask for the code periodically, even if you don't switch phones, just to help you remember it. You can disable it. You're in the app. So if someone were to get a hold of your phone, they could disable it. You can also have it email a backup email that you can choose to give when you set up, and that will disable it as well. It's different, though. It's kind of hard to wrap your head around. It is two step verification, because usually the two factors you need are something you know and something you have. The way WhatsApp has worked up till now is the phone that WhatsApp is on is the something you have. That's how it's verified itself. It said we're on this phone with this phone number. So now they're adding the something you know, which is the six digit code. OK, yeah, it always, I mean, I'm glad they have this feature. It's I don't use WhatsApp personally, but it's one of the biggest apps out there. It just I guess it's just still puzzling to me in 2017. We're this is news that we're still trying to get companies to get to two step. Really? No, I preach it. I mean, you're absolutely right. So many of these companies should have done it already. I totally agree with you. Yeah, yeah, so glad that glad they have it. And and I hope people I know that now here's the question. It's going to be enabled by default or people have to turn it on. No, you'll have to go in and turn it on. And like I said, there's a few quirks about it. You can choose to give an email or not. If you don't give an email, you won't have an easy time recovering that code if you forget it. So then there's the question of, well, are people going to use the same code they use for other things and that's less secure? And of course, as I mentioned, if somebody gets a hold of your phone, the second factor won't prevent them from getting in and turning off the second code. So it's it's not a perfect system. Nothing is, but it's certainly better than not having. Absolutely. Yeah. Facebook says it will provide information for an audit of its advertising by media regulator, the Media Rating Council. It's an independent regulator, not a government issue. Facebook will hand over data, including the exact time in milliseconds that an ad was displayed on Facebook and Instagram. And if you wonder why this is happening, you'll recall it back in September. Facebook had said that a metric for average user time on videos was artificially or accidentally inflated as it only counted videos viewed for more than three seconds. So Facebook really trying because they're making lots of money. They've got strong user growth. They've got strong advertising sales and they really want to dispense with this notion that their metrics are not reliable. So they are easily willing to let somebody come in and audit it. They must be confident that it's going to pass, right? Oh, yeah, absolutely. And, you know, look, I'm not saying they want to become the next YouTube, but they certainly are taking video seriously now. I mean, they're they even going to roll on an app on the Apple TV. It was not there already. So they're they're really taking this seriously. And it's good for the transparency because they get a lot of views on things and and I always wonder what counts as a view. Is it me float, you know, floating by really fast? As they catch that as a view, how many seconds, whatever. And so this independent regulator would definitely set the matter straight so we know for sure what's going on.  Make short form video. I've heard reports of, you know, 10 minutes or less kind of videos. Those are the kinds of things you do on your on your channel. Lamar, is is it tempting at all for you and folks who do that? It is. They actually we connected through email a couple of days ago. I had I had spoken with them actually a year ago this month about their live program and I never really got into that. So we're in talks again to just converse because look, look, as a creator, I never want to be tethered to one platform. You know, put all your eggs in one basket is never a good idea. And so, you know, the more possibilities, the better for the business. So yeah, absolutely. No, it makes perfect sense to want to put things in various places. The question that people are going to have is are folks going to watch this on Facebook? And if so, how is that watching going to differ? Because it is a different experience to use Facebook than to use YouTube. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. Do I don't want to put you in a weird position because I know you know, there's things that you haven't even thought about or decided. But have you thought about yet the different like would you do different kinds of content for Facebook? And would you try to target that? Or is it more of a of a replication of what you do? I'm just curious. No, there's a couple of things that I've thought about. I've thought about splitting my content on YouTube, where YouTube is just the showcasing of products. And maybe Facebook is the the lifestyle behind the scenes. Who Lamar is, he's using the products in a lifestyle manner. And because that doesn't be more long form and since they're mentioning they're they're looking at 10 minutes or more, that that might be a good thing to post on Facebook. I haven't seen that kind of content be successful yet, because I haven't really seen them in examples of it. It's usually quick, quick bites of news or funny things. But the text on screen, right? That's yeah, yeah, right. So that, again, my idea may not work, but that was at least what I was thinking first, you know, just in a set of trying to make two channels on YouTube, provide two different experiences of me and two different platforms that people can just watch with which one they want to watch. Yeah, that makes a lot of sense. The unboxing video goes to YouTube, because that's what people are used to. The Lamar in the car, sort of, you know, absolutely. Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly. Yeah, I like that. Yeah, which I, by the way, we're we're going to talk about your Lamar in the car video with one plus three T, but you yelling at the Mercedes and like getting legitimately excited about the parking spot. Like I love that kind of stuff. Oh, thank you. Xiaomi announced its Redmi 4A phones are being assembled in Indonesia. That allows them to sell them at Aerophone stores in Indonesia. Phones sold in Indonesia must be made up of 30 percent local content that's similar to a rule they have in India. In addition, the Wall Street Journal reports that Xiaomi is developing its own smartphone chip called the Pinecone, which could come in the Mi 6 later this year. Wall Street Journal reports Xiaomi acquired mobile processor technology from the Tang subsidiary Leadcore Technology through a shell company called Beijing Pinecone Electronics. So they were trying to hide the fact that they were acquiring it by using that shell company. But Wall Street Journal has sources that kind of busted through that. And this is something Samsung has been developing its own chips. Obviously, Samsung also is a chip maker that's easier for them. Apple, of course, bought a fabulous semiconductor design company and they famously have been designing their own chips. This is the kind of thing that could be in the Qualcomm's market. Yeah, I wish I knew more about Xiaomi.  They used to be bigger. They used to be the leading smartphone maker in China and they've fallen. We just had that story a few days ago as they are trying to increase their retail channels because they used to just do flash sales online. They've tried to expand into India where they're actually doing OK. They have been selling in markets in Indonesia, but they had to jump through some hoops to keep doing that and to be able to get their phones into retail stores in Indonesia. They definitely had to do this assembly. And you're seeing Apple do the same thing. Apple's talking about having their phones assembled by Wistron in India so that they can qualify for local retail sales. Essentially, what Xiaomi is doing is the same thing as Apple, except they're based in China, Apple's based in the United States, but they're saying we have these phones that people have brand loyalty to. We just need to figure out how to get them into people's hands. OK, do they have their own OS or are they relying on Google? Yeah, they have their own branded OS. And so, yeah, we're looking to that that chip side of things. It gives them even more control over what the phone does. I think that's exciting.  But we know what why have American companies necessarily taken over over there if they can develop their own great great things for their, you know, for their own region. Oh, yeah, Huawei is doing it. Oppo is doing it. CTE is doing it. A lot of the ascendant smartphone brands are coming from that region of the world. Yeah, I think that's excellent. Yeah, and and Xiaomi keeps making noises about wanting to come into the US. There's a lot of barriers to that, and we will see if they actually make it. But that would be one of the markets it needs to bust into to be able to keep growing as well. Probably political barriers, I'm thinking. Well, there's there's that there's several. There's there's there's logistical and political both. Wall Street Journal reports. Samsung will launch the Galaxy S8 at an event in New York in March. The Guardian and Venture Beat had previously reported that the phone might be announced on March 29th and go on sale April 21st. Those dates have not been confirmed by Samsung. Galaxy S8 is expected to have two models with curved displays, rear-mounted fingerprint sensors, thin bezels, headphone jack, a virtual assistant called Bixby, which will not actually be built on the VIV Labs. Technology would be an expansion of the S voice services. VIV Labs were the co-founders of Siri who were acquired by Samsung. So we may not see a product from them yet. That may be waiting for a future Samsung phone. Yeah, I heard this is going to be a pretty hot phone. So I'm sorry, I couldn't. I have to. Oh, let me know what you did. Yeah, please note, please note. No, I look. Big company to make mistakes. Yeah, I actually never even joked about it. You know, I'm really glad that Apple didn't took the high road on that one, too. You know, so I'm excited that the galaxies are always really cool phones. I really love the the the last age phone. It was like a really nice looking phone. So I'm hoping they bounce back. And I know this is not the Note series, but their name still got tarnished. No, I, you know, it's a fair point because I forget in my own personal bubble because I make a great effort to separate the note from the galaxy so that I don't accidentally impugn the Galaxy S series for something that has been a problem in the Note series because the Galaxy S series hasn't had any problems. But that's me because I do the show. Well, a lot of people out there just think, oh, it's Samsung. And it was the Samsung Galaxy Note. That was the official name of it. So a lot of people see Galaxy and they don't care if it says S8 at the end. So far, it does not seem to have impacted the S7 sales in nearly the numbers that people had expected. And yeah, this is going to be Samsung's big chance to say, hey, new feature. Battery doesn't explode in these bottles. Absolutely. So I knew what's in the best. I was just playing. Yeah. And by the way, Exeter M says that you cover the Samsung battery fire. We did cover that. The Samsung battery factory fire. And we pointed out when we covered it previously that it was the waste disposal section of the Samsung SDI plant that had a fire. A that section of the plant has had fires before. It's not unusual for waste disposal to have fires. It did not damage anything. There were no fatalities. And I did joke at the time that it could have been a bunch of disposed of Note 7 batteries that caused the fire, which may be may or may not be true, but it wasn't the factory. And I think a lot of headlines are saying it was the factory because, you know, it was the waste disposal section located at the factory. But that makes it sound a lot worse than it was. Well, it's a good headline. It's so yeah, that's why he did that. And finally, KGI Securities Analyst Ming-Chi Quo reports that Apple will launch three new iPhones this year with wireless charging and OLED displays. Quo reports that because of that wireless charging, the phone gets pretty hot and Apple is going to add an additional graphite sheet for better thermal control. Ming-Chi Quo has a pretty good record on these sorts of things. And while it's way early to start speculating on really what's going to be in the new iPhone, I think the idea of wireless charging being pioneered by Apple could be significant because a lot of times when Apple adds a feature that other people have had, it starts to finally catch on and people start paying attention to it. You can say that's unfair or fair, but that's that seems to happen a lot. And the idea of this having a thermal issue, I think raises some issues because of all of these thoughts of, hmm, what about batteries and thermal control and that sort of thing? Right. Yeah. So I was I was looking at some of the comments of Mac rumors about this. And it married one of my comments in my head before you said that. It was like, man, it's like, yeah, like how long has this been out? Like, like now that you know, it doesn't sound, I guess it's because we're in a tech world, but wireless charging does not sound as exciting anymore. And then knowing Apple, they won't go with the standard everyone else has. So people who have wireless charging in their new cars, a lot of new cars are coming out with that, you know, who's to say they won't go with the same standard? What Apple sometimes does, they don't they don't always do this. But what they sometimes do is come up with an implementation that is different that makes us go, oh, well, I didn't think wireless charging was that interesting, but now I do. And I'm not saying I know what that is, but I will say with the AirPods, the wireless charging of the AirPods, I didn't think was going to be that big of a deal. And I really like the way it's implemented, where I just pop them in the case and I don't have to think about them every so often. The case gives me a red light and I plug it in. That happens maybe once a week for me. So it really has reduced my thinking about having to charge my headphones, which is great. All right, this stuff we'll see. Hey, if you want to get all the tech headlines each day in less than 10 minutes, actually, we're shooting for five minutes, subscribe to dailytechheadlines.com. All right, so we talked a lot about phones here. Xiaomi is going to try to take control of more phones. We've got a hot new phone coming from Apple. Oh, nice. Oh, not not thermally issued phone coming from Samsung, but the high end phones, the big high end smartphones, that's what everybody always talks about. What about the bargain phones? We I actually have this conversation with a few different people in our analysts slack. Those are the folks supporting us on on patron at the $20 a month level, because they are saying, why should I spend all that money on a Google pixel on a Samsung Galaxy S8 on an iPhone when I can get really good specs in a mid-range phone? Now, I know you've got a full discussion on your YouTube channel, but what was your impression of using the OnePlus 3T, which, by the way, just became available again in the 128 gigabyte version. If you're if you're looking to buy one, it was out of stock for a while. So the OnePlus 3T back in the news, because you can get that 128 gigabyte version for four hundred seventy nine dollars. How did it work for you, Lamar? Yes. So this actually is the one hundred twenty eight. I didn't even know until I looked it up that they had a difference. So I want to say I am I was user and I did I mentioned in the in the video, I've you I don't know how many Android phones I have used and had over the years going back to the G1 and I was very impressed. First of all, just by how comfortable this this was in the hand. Everything was fast. Like, you know, when I tried Android maybe a year or so ago, it still was a little stuttering and hesitation. I saw none of that with this phone and one of the biggest features that I fortunately forgot to mention because I was driving in that car in a video was the dash charging. Now, that's a big deal. The 30 minutes charge in the USBC and you get a full day's power. It's crazy. Like and you see more and more companies implementing I think beats this implemented that with one of their headphones. Yeah, that's cool. Yeah. And so I have I have no complaints. I like that the the fingerprint sensor works almost as well as on an iPhone. I'm glad that it's not a gimmick on the back. I just cannot stand up. I like the ones on the back.  So I don't know. It's a very traditional phone. Not that many frills, but I found it very comfortable to use the camera was fine. I know it's not the best one out there, but everything ran fast. I think in part because six gigs around. I mean, this has one of the latest processors is pretty pretty fast on there. And I like it's just like the perfect phone. But here's the thing. When you mention high end and budget, I don't it maybe it's just I didn't know the difference. I didn't look at four hundred and seventy nine dollars as as budget. It's like it's only it's not low. Yeah. OK. Yeah. It seems like it's only a couple of hundred dollars away from a pixel. Well, why should one of my what are my commenters say? This is just a low a cheaper pixel, which I know is I think you wrote in here. What is this has USB to three. The Google Pixel is six hundred and fifty dollars for the sixty four or thirty two gigabyte version. Two dollars more or so compared to the four hundred and thirty nine dollars for the one plus three T sixty four gig.  The pixel is is works everywhere in the world, whereas the the three T doesn't support US CDMA, for instance. Oh, so you cannot get a sprint here. Yeah, you can't get on sprint with that. You can get on Verizon, but only partial connectivity. It's not the pixel has a superior camera. It's US. They're both USB C, but the pixel is USB three, the one plus only USB two. There's a few extra sensors in the pixel, like a barometer, advanced haptics, et cetera. And then there's the design. You may look at the pixel and think, oh, that's such a superior design. And maybe you think that at the Galaxy S eight, et cetera. But yeah, you're right. I mean, these phones are very comparable, but you're saving two hundred dollars on on one of them. And I just lost your sound. Give me a moment. Oh, yeah. No worries to the audience. I think for two hundred dollars, you may say the design or that worldwide compatibility is worth it. Like I need those things. So I'm willing to spend that two hundred dollars. But I, you know, if you don't need those, if you don't value those, these phones compare very favorably. Roger Chang, our producer, has actually been looking for a phone for his wife to replace her old phone as well. How have you been approaching this? So, you know, the thing about phones typically is that I have sound right now. I will rectify this to continue talking. So the thing about phones, especially in news headlines, is that they all focus on what's considered what they call a flagship or a high end phone or halo phones, phones that represent the affirmation of the company, you know, whether it's technology, design style, it's there to be emblematic of the bleeding, the leading edge of what the company can do, whether it's Samsung, whether it's Huawei, whether it's Apple. The the the actual situation for a user, though, is I don't most people don't use all those fancy features of the phone. For example, I have a Samsung Galaxy S6 and I bought it because I had a really good phone or not phone, a really good camera. And that's what I want. I was looking specifically at. But there's a bunch of features on it that I don't use. I don't use the fingerprint scanner. I don't use the NFC. I don't use a number of features. I do use it's a faster clock speed because I encrypt my phone and the faster the phone is the the more seamless the encryption is because it's on the fly encrypting your data back and forth. But for my wife, I just need a phone that will last long enough, but still allows her to take conference calls with work, be able to use Waze or Google Maps to get from point A to point B without getting lost, pretty reliable GPS. The display needs to be adequate, but it doesn't need to be stellar. It doesn't need to be high grade calibrated display where you look at it and you can do your photo proofs on it and she doesn't need a camera that needs to be at the top. It just needs to be better than average to take pictures of our kid when she's running around. And the thing is with the Google Pixel, with the iPhone, if you're buying those phones out of out of plan and unlock, they're super expensive. And so I've been targeting around the four hundred dollar range for a phone. And I think most people would actually be in the same boat, maybe not maybe a little less than four hundred bucks, maybe three two hundred dollars, because what they really need is something that's reliable day to day. Does everything want it's nice to have all the features. But if you don't really use them, it's kind of a waste because they're just sitting there and you're not using that. Plus, you know, more often than not, the Google Pixel, if you especially if you get the flagship one, it's huge, it's tremendously big.   I have a I have the iPhone 7S, the big one, and it fits in my pocket just fine. Well, you got big pockets. But I carry I part part. Well, so it's I mean, and the one we're talking about, the one plus three T is also five point five inches. So it's not small, you know, I totally I am actually looking at the one plus three T because I think it's actually that sweet spot in terms of functionality, but also price point. Because if you go all the way on either end, if you go all the way on the high end, all the awesome features, you go all the way on the low budget and then you skip a lot of stuff. And really, it's kind of like with most products, you want to have the best value. You get the most bang for your buck, right?  Yeah. I think we got you back. Right? Yeah. Yeah. So I want to thank you for your patience and I pressed the wrong button somewhere. Oh, yeah. So I saw your questions here. Like, do we really need to be spending several hundred dollars on phones? And when you think about the iPhone, when you get at the top line, you spend a thousand after the warranty and the tax. And I mean, it's not a cheap thing that I made the argument in my well, very briefly in my video yesterday about how I'm not against people, you know, because some people feel ashamed. They use boost mobile or they use your cricket.  Congratulations.  So I know Roger's saying foreign is a sweet spot. But there has to get a point. I don't know. Apple's probably never let us get there. But it has to get a point where you get a really darn good phone for one to two hundred bucks and and and you are completely satisfied. I think that's where we have we have to go because this idea of spending a thousand seven dollars to a thousand bucks every year because you want to keep up, you know, with the Joneses, whatever, it's a little tiring.  When I buy a phone, I buy it until I keep using until it no longer. Functions, sometimes the company has changed names as in your old Blackberry bull. Yes, I I love that phone. But there was a point where there just weren't the apps I needed to run on the phone in order to get through my life. The same thing I had a Nexus for it was great. But as soon as encryption on the phone became a thing and I really wanted it, boom, it just killed the processor, right? It just would not. It would it would it was unbearably slow and non responsive. I needed a phone that could have a real time encryption on it. And I wouldn't notice, right? I would be able to go through Facebook. I would do the Google Maps. I would be able to go through my Gmail and it would not seem like it was slowing down. And so for me, as long as this phone works the way it does over the next this year and next year, I'm going to keep it at a point. It's the same thing like what people have with PCs. People use their PCs until the stuff they need to get done can no longer be done on that part or that particular machine. Then it's time to upgrade. And those low end phones that Lamar's talked about, those track phones, boost mobiles, sure, those are getting good enough to last longer. Processor speed is no longer as big of a differentiator in phones. It certainly isn't in computers and it's not as much in phones. Ram is starting to be easier to find in these lower end phones. And I think that's why we're looking at the one plus three T because it has gotten to the point where these medium range phones, the difference between them and the top end is almost almost always design or marginal features. Exactly. And I think there is a, you know, we saw this in consumer electronics. I mean, you know, there is a push to get people to upgrade, right? Because that's how the companies make money. And so they keep adding feature after feature. But there comes there comes a law of diminishing returns where people say, well, you know what, what I have is good enough or I don't need your, you know, way to solid gold, you know, a phone from from from from the heavens kind of thing. I can get by with your mid-range model. Does everything they start making the metal in the phone, the top selling point that we know we've reached anything. Do you think do you think there's something that that top end can still offer that would be compelling to make you want to pony up? Wow, that's a that's an excellent question. And I'm not I'm not sure either. I can't think I can't think. I mean, Apple offers a name just as much as BMW does, right? Or or Mercedes does with G-Wagon. I believe Mercedes that that's there. Yeah, that's what it's off in your car video. Yeah, exactly. That that's the good memory, by the way. Yeah, that I can't think of anything except experience. I mean, the reason I use Apple is experience is not I can't quantify it on a hardware because on a hardware. No, it's it's just this is just as good, if not better. It's some some respect. So I think you're right. I think the responsible person will get the best budget phone. I think Apple is going to if they haven't realized it, I mean, they did before with the the Lorian phones. They tried to yeah, which was not the right idea. I think they need to get their top of line tears a little bit down. Well, I know the rumors are and we don't know if this is true. It's hard to tell if it's reliable that the next iPhone is going to be a thousand dollars unsubsidized, right? And that and that and that's because that's that expensive. Right. And that's because they don't want some parts that might be a little bit more expensive. So heaven forbid, Apple ever takes a loss of profit. They're not on their hardware. They're never going to take a loss. You're right. Yeah, exactly. And so they pass it on to us, which is ridiculous. But I mean, I it's great to see in many ways, the advancement of technology has allowed the commodification of features that we used to consider luxury, like really good cameras, GPS, all these things we take for granted. And I think I mean, it's it's in the kind of in the middle where the battle is going to be fought. That's where the real money will be made, right? You can have as many high end phones as you want. But if people can't pony up the cash where it's not going to go anywhere. But I'm sorry. Oh, no, just saying, like, but the mid tier is again, the sweet spot where you can get enough of the features to grab enough people who will pay more than what their basic models will sell for. But it was not that same level premium. So you still have your halo product, which is, you know, whatever at the high end, but you have your kind of every man or every day he product in the middle that people gravitate to go ahead, Lamar. Oh, the last thing that the last thing I'm looking for, just answered, and that still may be a software thing, or at least a more powerful phone is we get to a point where, you know, I walk it in, put my phone down in a dock or on a table and it becomes my computer. Then, you know, then and I know Windows tested that with some of theirs. Didn't work out because I tested it out. It didn't work as well. It was a little glitchy. But that kind of idea where the, you know, the laptop, the iMac or the PC, whatever you use, that is your main computer that you're carrying around. That's the only other iteration I see where that makes sense for this to be more expensive. Yeah. And it's not there, like you say, continuum on Windows is probably the closest to being able to do it because it can, it actually works. The Android one is very close and an Apple hasn't come with anything like that yet. So I think this is the year that the top end phones have their last chance to come up with something different. We will see Samsung's best effort with the S8 and apparently another note. And we definitely, with Apple and their 10 year anniversary, the rumors swirling certainly indicate that they are going to make a big effort to convince you that you need to get in on a new iPhone, that it is not a three year upgrade cycle this time around, even if you've just gotten the last iPhone. And it will be very, very curious. I will be very curious to see if they can convince people and we'll just have to wait and see to find out. I mean, I will, if I may, I want to add one last thing and I'm going through the chat room, one thing that hit upon me is that one way for companies to kind of bump people to buy newer models is to just literally drop support. We're not going to update it. We're not going to give you any security badges. If you want any of that, you can need to migrate to a new or newer. Yeah, I don't really like this argument that companies intentionally undermine their products to do support. I think that a lot of times they may decide that it's not worth the extra effort because they would like to boost sales. But I don't think from the people I've talked to in the industry that they actively design obsolescence. I don't think they do. More often it's been that obsolescence is is just a fact of of the improvement of the parts available. I will not disagree with you, but I just it is it's definitely one of the things that made me move up is when they stopped. And I think a lot of times it's it is something that's going to make you move up. I just I don't know if I buy into the conspiracy theory that it's all part of the evil plan of all of them. No, I'm not saying it is. It is it is it is a march of technology and that's how things work. But that's inevitably one thing that will happen where you're just like, I can't use this phone anymore except for the TV market. They're evil. They want you to get a new TV every year. OK, the TVs are the things that I use the longest. They're the they're the ones that I can go the longest with. I think that's why they feel that way because the TV people are like, damn, as long as their TV keeps working, they're never going to buy another one. We really need to try 3D. No, really? 4K? No. HDR. How about HDR? That good to me? I think 8K, 8K TVs will be the one where I don't do it. Yeah. Hey, thanks to everybody who participates in our subreddit. You can submit stories and vote on them at DailyTechNewShow.Reddit.com. Real quickly, pick of the day and a few messages. We got a pick of the day from Brian. How is it 70 degrees in February, Colorado? I did. Man, I'm almost jealous and I'm in LA. He says, I recently discovered the 20,000 Hertz podcast as a music and movie buff and aspiring podcaster radio talent. It scratches an itch about sound production. The latest episode is about audio descriptions for movies and TV shows for the visually impaired or those that simply want to listen to a show or movie as someone that helps champion the use of screen readers. I thought you and Allison Sheridan might enjoy the episode. So go check it out. 20k.org and we'll have a link directly to the episode he's talking about. I know Brian Brushwood is a big fan of these two. He listens to it while he goes jogging, where he can listen to a television show, essentially, and have it described to him. No, man. Then your picks to us, folks, feedback at DailyTechNewShow.com. You can find more picks at DailyTechNewShow.com. I got an email from an anonymous person who works for an entity that handles FOIA requests who says, I wish my agency had a web form like the FBI for requests that on for a typically request our forms handwritten, copied in black and white and scanned. The office that handles FOIA is ill equipped to actually provide the documentation. So pushes it to the relevant bureaus. And since FOIAs are not anyone's focus, it typically typically goes to a temp worker that doesn't know the office. Once the temp gets it to the right office, ideally, we shove it to an intern who has been with us for four months max. Most people in my office rotate out after two or three years, but most requests are for documents going back five or ten years. Most people in my office minimize printed documentation to prevent accidentally leaving classified material in an insecure area. So there are few files to physically find. And most requests are for digital products that are frequently poorly organized and difficult to search for, since there are no standard storage or file naming conventions until just a few months ago, emails were not centrally stored or indexed. In fact, email accounts were capped at a few megabytes and employees don't keep their accounts when they switch offices resulting in years of lost documents. As for Justin's frustration with the process, since we rely on temps to coordinate the process, we get flooded with requests backlogged for months. No one actually conducting the search has FOIA searches as their responsibility. And no one gets promoted for doing a thorough expedition job, processing these requests. All this said, and I know this is getting long, I am actually a supporter of Freedom of Information Act requests. And I wish Congress would appropriate resources to properly archive and index documents and conduct proper searches. This is a great example of, you know, we like to throw around the conspiracy theory of like, ah, the government's just dragging their heels because they don't want us to get the information when the reality on the ground is a little more subtle.  It's that the government doesn't prioritize it. They don't have the resources to get it done. Is dragging their heels by not prioritizing and funding it, not trying to deny that, but the individuals are not like ignoring your request and laughing and having pie in the break room instead of looking for your point. They're just not getting the prioritization to be able to do it. I would like pie. Yeah, man, me too. Same here. Yeah, I think we're all that's one thing this country can agree on. And finally, Brian Q. Web says, Hey, Tom and insert knowledgeable co-host with bright personality here. That's you, Lamar. Hey, I just finished listening to Thursday's podcast. It's Friday here in Taipei because I'm in the future. And I recently took my kids to an HTC Vive pop up in a local tech mall. It cost $50 a ticket, but there were some cool activities set up. Anyway, I wanted you to know they solved the sweat problem on the VR headsets the same way it has been solved in public restrooms for your seat for your face. Nice. They gave masks, which you can see if you if you click on the link in the show notes or watch the video that cover your face, right? Where the straps hit your face. So you're not you're not sharing sweat when different people. You know what? Those totally look like the ones the face masks they use when you get sick.  And I know now here's the really important question. How many of us really use the toilet? But take the time to put the paper in it. No, you don't have to answer it, but it's a question. I don't know what to answer. I will say that I'm a very hygienic person, very hygienic person. And thinking about how others may answer that may encourage you to use them more in the future. Oh, God. Oh, man. Thank you, Brian, for for being on the scene report. We thought it would come from Japan, but it came from Taiwan. Fantastic. Again, thanks to Lamar Wilson for co-hosting today. I really appreciate it. Lamar, let folks know where to find more of what you're doing. Yes, you can find me at youtube.com slash Lamar Wilson, where I am showcaser extraordinaire. I'm not actually extraordinary, but I show. Oh, thank you. I showcase cool products ranging from tech to food to weird stuff. So that's interesting stuff coming up next week. Just be sure to subscribe and see what we're doing on the channel. So it's always fun. You might get a new Xbox controller. You might get a one plus three T. You might get some new flavors of Oreos. 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If you haven't figured it out already, it's DailyTechNewsShow.com. Have a great weekend, everybody. Back on Monday with Veronica Belmont. Talk to you then. This show is part of the Frog Pants Network. Get more at frogpants.com. Diamond Club hopes you have enjoyed this program. It's all gold, man. So, so what happened in the show is I thought you all were able to hear my email pop-ups. Oh, OK. Which we could, by the way. Oh, OK. Because I didn't think I was hearing them here. I thought, because sometimes they split the, I make, we split the sound. Right. And so I went in to try to change that the moment I clicked sound. It made everything blank.  And the Bluetooth was rock solid. It was just, I press, I press something. So, and panic, oh, good. Oh, no. I was just going to say, thankfully, it was right at the time when Roger was ready to give his opinion. Oh, that's real. That was, and maybe I knew that. Maybe I knew. It's, it's, it's a weird, like it's a weird thing because so smartphones are now at that point where you're very dependent on. The actual, you know, speed and there's tech technological upgrades in it, like a PC, but at the same time, it's a consumer electronics product, like a DVD player. And you don't really need to upgrade those, which you buy the one or even a Blu-ray player. So it straddles that weird divide where it's consumer electronics, but, you know, it's very dependent on all these new advances in technology here in the early years of any product, right? They always advance much faster at the beginning until they get to the point where you're like, OK, we think we really have all the feature sets figured out. There's not much else to do. You've a VCR is a VCR, after a certain point. Yeah.  I have no idea what you all are talking about. Wait, you don't know the VCR? It was it was the pre-DVR. I'm being, I'm being. Yeah, back. You used to. No, I'm just kidding. Let me see titles. Top of the heap is keeping up with the phones is it's going to take something really good to unseat that one. I like it. And then trailing at second is Lamar in the car. Sounds like a Dr. Seuss book. You can't feel my video title for me. Oh, yes, you can. Yeah. That's that's actually Lamar's title of his videos. Yeah. Apple pursues wireless charging. Marches headlong into 2012. Solid, Goldy, Goldman. Samsung's hot new phone. Toilet seat covers for your face. I'm not sure if it's funny, but I'm not sure people would get that. There's gold in them cell phones. Yeah. OK. Now, that first one is perfect to me. Yeah, keep it up with the phones. This is good stuff. By OK. Not everyone can get it. You know, it's funny, the biggest sales on beamers aren't the seven series. Is there three or five? Yeah, I'm still I'm still car shopping. So I'm looking at at the X3 model right now. I used to be super into cars, like I was a total gearhead in high school and college. And now the point is I just want a car that I don't have to worry about. That to me is the ultimate luxury. I wanted people say, like, well, then you get a car that's an appliance. It's not fun to drive. It's like driving isn't fun anyway. Driving is not fun. Thank you. You're stuck in the freeway. You're stuck in traffic. It's not fun. You live in a living in LA area. It's nothing fun about driving. You just want a car that starts up every morning.  So I feel the same way. I'm just looking for I really like to cross over vehicles because right now I'm riding something that's really low to the ground. And I'm just I'm just tired of being on the ground driving. So I'm tired of being on the ground. I have a go cart. No, no, it's not that low. It's just, you know, just a regular sedan. But I just wanted to hire when everybody else has these huge cars, like these big SUVs, you can't see over them. And it's like you can't see around them. They did your lane. Sometimes if there's two of them in a three lane road, you can't fit between them because they're lagging over and out of self defense, it makes you would want to buy one of those just so you can compete on the road. So you understand me. That's exactly what I do when I deal with here. I totally like my car, though. I like my sedan. I'll tell you why. I used to drive a pickup truck and it was cool. But even with the V8 in it, it was a 305. It was just heavy and it's, you know, turning was crappy. Let's say I made a lot of modifications like I got aftermarket springs and struts and shocks, new rims and all. It's like, no, I'm just going to stick with a car. It's about a thousand pounds lighter. It gets great gas mileage. It's very nimble. And this is the thing I've learned. Nimble, this is key in California highways. If you're not going to go like compete with a bigger car, you want to go nimble so you can weave in and out of them. I've been at the I've been. It's like it's almost like a smoking the band and move. You get two tractor trailers and they're both on either side of you. And somehow they seem to converge at some point. He's like, I got to get I got to get out of here before I get smushed. Yeah, that's why I stick with my 15 year old Toyota. And every every car has to have turbo. Well, they all need to go now. It's because I don't know if they're going to change it, but the EPA regulations increase CAF, the corporate fuel economy for the for the entire range of cars. So to do that, they have to make the cars lighter and putting a V8 in it makes it super heavy. That's what I've been shopping. I've really seen it in V8 unless it's in a really high end once now. They do they do four cylinder with turbo, which was about as fast as because I think my car right now is a six cylinder. And they have their own issues. I mean, they tend to wear out quicker, right? And you really need to be build a strong block because you're putting more pressure into it. Typically, I find the sweet side being like the turbo six. Or if they do have a turbo for it's like a higher displacement for. I mean, in Europe, they try doing turbo three cylinder cars, but they actually put out more pollution in the exhaust because you're running them at such high temperature to burn off that it was actually making more particulates like on the diesel.  I was the key of sports was really enjoyable. Oh, really? Yeah. Yeah, it was. I drove. I drove it only because I was in in there. I want to see the Nero, you know, the ones on the Super Bowl. That Melissa McCarthy, I think was driving. So yeah, when she was doing the ecological. Yeah, with the hybrid. So I walked in because I was in the area and I just wanted to try that and I didn't like it at all. It was it was too low. And I said like, but I tried to support it. I was like, and this is a nice car. And then I went to the X3 and I was like, that's a nicer car. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So it's twenty thousand dollars cheaper than the the card is supposed to feel like it's twenty thousand more dollars more expensive. And you like the cheaper car. You thought I like I like the cheap. I like the cheaper. I know I know it's not a big name recognition here in LA. You know, drive around with a key is not necessarily cool. But this time I drove a key was a rental car. And admittedly, this was a long time ago. I might be close to 10 years ago, but I did not like it. It did not feel good on the road. It was very, very silly. I wouldn't need you have a soul. Yeah, I think so. Yeah, I don't like the souls. Yeah, I for me, a fun car is a car that I can climb out of after driving and I'm not tired, fatigued or angry. Like if the car drove itself by over. My other I'm going to make that a bumper sticker. My other car is a lift. That's actually another car is a grab taxi. But, you know, I mean, it's having a larger car or truck is always helpful if you go into like the hardware store for buying furniture. That's my problem. That's my problem. Trying to go to even I can't get some of the simplest things that just can't fit it in that little sedan. And then my friend who has a soul fits in here just fine. So, yeah, it's like I want some of this just a little bit higher and wider. My friend who has a soul in context. It makes perfect sense. Yeah, I should have taken some. But yeah, all my other friends are so unlike the rest of us. You know, this is the thing. I drive a Camry. It's a 2006 2006 Camry was the last year for that body. And it's actually the right proportions that I have managed to shove a lot of unwieldy things from Ikea from from different stores. So like as soon as they put the back seats down, it's super roomy. Well, see, my credit back seats will not go down. That's the that's the yeah. If your back seats don't go down in a sedan, that's killer. Right? Because we fit a lot of stuff in that 2002 Prius in that 2001 Saturn that we had. And well, the back seats went down. You see, when Prius came out was out back in 2002. Oh, yeah. Yeah, it was the same body model as what? The Yaris or the no idea that was a fully literate. Yeah. No, it was a hybrid hybrid. Oh, OK, that's right. Sorry, I didn't I didn't know it was it was at all. Oh, yeah. No, it's a classic car now. Right. I've got a classic car. That's awesome. Let me go to the classic car show with my 2002 Prius. Yeah, just having a flexible car is just awesome. For the longest time I I used to before the truck, I rolled around in a local station wagon and that I guess I heard that thing was super handy. I could cram everything into it. It was awesome. The last the last time Eileen Rivera blew me off before I finally got her to date me, I went to a bonfire with with Roger in that station wagon. Yes, we went to go to be with Patrick Norton at the beach. Man, that car was great. It was just underpowered. That's the only problem that Volvo was so underpowered. Wow, I've never. Oh, yeah, I've only owned. Well, no, my first car was a horrible, horrible Dodge car. But like, yeah, I always owned like Dodge Neons. Oh, no, those are the worst. They they rode pretty well. They did what so this is what they had to do. The problem is my experience with this is my experience with domestics and foreign cars. So for the longest time, my dad would only buy European for some reason. So we had a Volkswagen fastback, which basically looked like a stretch of Volkswagen Beetle for like the 71. Then we got then he got the Volvo, which I actually inherited. The problem with European cars is they charge you through the nose for everything like or I know because I deal with that now.  They just because it's a cashier, it's European. I can put you I can slap a 50 percent surcharge on it. Yeah. The most important are the opposite, right? They're super cheap parts. But the problem is they're super. A lot of them for the longest time were super, super cheaply screwed together because GM and Ford and Dodge or Chrysler were so hell bent on cutting costs that they would they would go through and try to cheap out on a lot of pieces, which invariably led to low reliability, because, for example, the tourists, the tourists, the early tourists were notorious for the transmissions giving up after around 60,000, giving up after around 60,000 miles because someone decided that to save money, they would shave some of the metal on some of the parts in it to reduce the amount of material that was going to the transmission. Problem is, it made the transmission. You said they used to be, though. They will be used to be in that thing. Well, and possibly not because of the three brands that Consumer Reports rated as the most reliable. Buick was number three. So it was Toyota, Lexus and Buick and Toyota, Lexus, same company. So so it's it's very telling. I think they think I'm not Jim, but the domestic automakers realize that you cannot cut your way to profit profitability, right? I mean, a lot of assembly domestic automakers have a lot of assembly done outside the country, too. Oh, yeah. And well, if you if you find any domestic cars from the 90s and the 80s, you'll notice that a lot of the same switch gears, steering wheels all look the same, even if it's between like a Pontiac and a Buick and a Chevrolet and a nose book, because they just shared parts. Yeah, because that was how they cut costs. I read something recently that the the car with the most American made pieces in it. You know, like the parts are made in America, not just the assembly was a Honda. I believe it. I think it was definitely this year. I mean, up until I think they're starting to build the power chains because it used to be that you could build the partially because of US laws. They would have to build the car in the US, but they would ship over the transmission and engine, the power trains. But I think they've built us some plants in the US partially because of it's just cheaper to do it, not cheaper, but it makes more cost effective sense to to have it in house, but also because for specific North American brands like the Toyota Tundra, which is a full size truck that they don't sell anywhere else outside of Canada and the US. You need to build the engines for them since they don't have them you know, for that you mean you don't drive the big Toyota Tundras in Japan. I can't imagine.  It's the largest. The largest car I remember seeing in Japan was a was an Australian built Ford. What is it? A Explorer. It was like left hand drive, but it was sitting there. They're probably going, you look cute. It looked like a suburban, looked like a Chevy suburban surrounded by all these little, you know, Japanese for what they call the key K cars, K E I. I'm sorry, the Honda Accord, not the Civic. It's huge, so huge. I think it's just the most bizarre thing because if you've ever been to Japan, it doesn't really dawn at you at first until you really think about it. But everything is set to scale. So the roads and the buildings look like they're supposed to. But when you're physically there, you actually measure it. It's actually a lot smaller. Oh, it's just like Disneyland. Yeah, exactly. It's totally just like that. Like their garbage truck. I remember there was like they were picking up garbage in the in the neighborhood where I was staying at.  But it was like if you built a garbage truck, that was half the size. Right. But it built to scale. So it looked exactly the same because it was half the size. And there were like six guys hanging off the side of it.  I guess every all the buildings at Disneyland are built to five eighth scale. Oh, interesting. So the first floors are normal. But then the rest of the building is five eight. I didn't know that. Yeah. That's how they make it seem like it's a small world after all. It really is about five eighths of the real world. It's exactly how small the world is after all. All right, still waiting on SoundCloud to finish some processing. But I think we're done for the stream. Thanks everybody for listening and watching. Thank you again, Lamar. You're welcome. Everyone have a lovely weekend. We'll talk to you tomorrow. Eat some pie. Bye tomorrow. I mean, bye.