This 10th year of Daily Tech News show is made possible by its listeners. Thanks to all of you including Larry Bailey, Michelle Serju, and Miss Music Teacher. Coming up on DTNS, Sony named its car, Affila. That's the name of the car. The scoop on AMD's Ryzen announcements and wireless power to metaverse to hydroponics Rich Strafilino rounds up some of his favorites from CES. This is the Daily Tech News for Thursday January 5th 2023 in Los Angeles. I'm Tom Merritt from the fabulous Las Vegas Convention Center I'm Rich Strafilino and from my bedroom on the show's producer, you know, we've been remiss in not thanking our on-site producer at Las Vegas Amos aka Anthony Lemos So big round of applause for Amos doing yeoman's work out there in Las Vegas. Thank you, buddy. Thank you. Thank you All right, we got lots to get to so let's start with the this time non CES quick hits Amazon CEO Andy Jassy emailed employees that the company will eliminate approximately 18,000 jobs in both the Amazon stores and people experience and technology organizations starting January 18th Apple launched a digital narration option for audio versions of ebooks Starting with literary historical and women's fiction with more fiction categories and nonfiction in the works Don't worry nonfiction fans authors can choose from four voices so far two Sopranos Madison and Jackson are trained to read Romance and fiction while baritones Helena and Mitchell are trained to read self-development and nonfiction Nola dot com reported Monday that at the end of November a 28-year-old black man in Dekalb County, Georgia Was mistakenly arrested and jailed for six days on suspicion of theft in Louisiana Because of a mistaken facial recognition. I'm a big stickler for like okay, but have the mistakes been made here It is a mistake definitely made in June last year a man was caught on camera in relation to a theft of around $10,000 worth of luxury goods the Jefferson parish sheriff's office in Louisiana issued an arrest warrant based on a facial Recognition match or so they thought Jefferson parish sheriffs have not commented on the case But in previous cases have used analysis through the Louisiana State Analytic Infusion Exchange in Baton Rouge Which uses Clearview AI you may have heard of them and Morpho track systems Roku announced it now has more than 70 million active accounts worldwide up 10 million on the air It also reported a 19% rise in streaming hours on the air Bruce Schneier reports that Chinese researchers have published a paper Detailing a method for using a quantum computer to break 2040 48-bit RSA, you know like the most secure RSA The bad news is the researchers found a workaround that lets them factor a large key size on a smaller quantum Computer than people thought would be needed one with at least 372 qubits the good news though is that the paper relies on Peter Schnorr's Factoring method that appears to fall apart at large sizes So the method may not work in practice Schneier points out that IBM has the means to test this in real life Because it has a 433 qubit IBM Osprey quantum computer Nikkei sources say Dell has told its suppliers to Meaningfully lower the amount of components made in China in an effort to diversify its supply chain Dell's goal is to have all chips used in its products made outside of China by 2024 Nikkei sources say HP has looked at the possibility of a similar move. All right That's the non CES stuff now for the CES news. Let's start with Sony's big press event on Wednesday night Yeah, Sony has been showing off concept electric cars at CES for a few years now not an unfamiliar site last year It announced that Honda would actually make its cars this year It's giving us a name for those cars a Fila and the first pre-orders for a Fila are planned to begin in the first half of 2025 with sales to begin that same year and shipments to North America to come by spring 2026 I feel you I mean a Fila is Sony also says it is working on an accessibility controller kit for the PlayStation code named project Leonardo Sony has been working with able gamers and special effect on the design Leonardo has a PlayStation face and trigger button set up so you can move the you know The zero in the square and the SF those can all be repositioned around a circular gamepad The joystick can also be repositioned relative to that gamepad It has four three point five millimeter auxiliary jacks. You can add some third-party accessories It can be used alone or paired with an existing dual-sense controller and users can map functions to the various buttons And save up to three configurations on the device. No word on a release date yet And Sony also showed us a sneak peek at the Gran Turismo movie being directed by Neil Blomkamp It's which is gonna hit theaters on August 11th. Oh, and Sony says it sold 30 million ps5s and the ps5 shortage is over Oh, it's a short ages over our long national nightmare. How many people immediately said they couldn't get a ps5? That that was the the two. Yeah, yeah, exactly Yeah, the Sony announcements were fine It seems like they just make a new car look like a little bit of progress every year on the car, right? It's like now we get the name. So yeah Spoonfiend, you know, we I mean, I got to see it. I got to go up and it's an impressive looking vehicle very Tesla looking I would say in a lot of ways, but definitely it doesn't look like a Honda I guess that's what I was expecting Kind of going up there. It definitely falls into more of I guess what we've seen in EV design So far. Yeah, so he's designing it Honda's just building it to Sony specs So, yeah, it would that that makes sense that it would would look different And and yeah, they can make it look any way they want when they don't have to actually ship it So that's true. Very guess what I'll look like in the end. All right now for some CES news that matters as in the matter smart home Protocol by the way, if you're wanting a little update on matter if you're like, I just need a little more depth I know Norm Physikus was asking some questions in the discord earlier. Go to know a little more calm I have a great interview with Stacey Higginbotham about what matter is And we did an episode on thread the thread protocol that kind of explains border gateways and all that sort of thing Samsung announced the smart things station that acts as a matter and thread compliant smart home hub Aka if you've listened to that episode. I just mentioned a border router while also being a 15 watt wireless charger So you have another reason to have it in your room. It's a flat square device has one button You can program that button to trigger smart things scenes So for instance single-click double-click or long press for a different automation You can also program things to happen when you put something on the pad to charge for instance You could put a phone on the charger say after 11 p.m. And it would automatically turn off the lights lock the doors and adjust the thermostat because that's the signal You're going to bed also works with smart things find so that if you double press the button At least by default it'll ring your galaxy phone I can also scan for galaxy devices galaxy smart tags and smart tag plus sports Bluetooth Wi-Fi and Z-Wave So even if you're not worried about matter if you're in the Z-Wave universe, it would work for you launching in Korea first Then following in the US in February for $60 or if you want a USB see adapter for it 80 bucks Then I think it's brilliant rich because it's a charger So you you'll want to put these things in more places in your home than if it was just the the router Yeah, and we're gonna talk about another piece of tech that kind of is like kind of the the expansion of Where we can put like you know these these border routers in homes is like You know shoving it in other things because the technology is cheap enough that we can do that and you know 6880 bucks that's on the high end for like a nice Wireless charger, but it's not completely out of the realm of that So I don't even feel like there's that much of a price premium given that you're getting some pretty interesting features here. Yeah All right Well, so another news Apple Google and Samsung have all pushed out their matter compliance that left Amazon and Wednesday Amazon announced matter Over thread support will come to echo and arrow devices this spring and expand to Amazon's smart home devices as well Basically everything but first-gen echoes will get it. Sorry first-gen echo owners and Amazon's Alexa app for iOS will be updated for it As well once Amazon updates matter will finally become fully cross platform. Are you excited Tom? I am actually this this is a long time coming Matter is going we've talked about before it's going through the same thing that Bluetooth that even USB did where while it's being rolled out Everybody's confused and it doesn't work everywhere and I don't have to get a driver for it all that stuff And then eventually it just becomes a standard and it just works all the time This is one of those milestones on the way to matter just being the thing that works all the time And I I'd guess Because we now have it all there in two years Smart home stuff is just something you don't have to think about Compliance wise you just buy the smart home stuff and it works with whatever you got Yeah, I was kind of worried about that that those early stages But yeah, then I had to remind myself that we're coming from from no cross compatibility to some cross compatibility So people that are interested in this are going like it's a benefit that was not there Even if it's incomplete and we're still kind of in these early stages right now So I feel like that's worth it for people that value it already to put up with kind of these, you know Early growing pains for this the bigger thing that I think with matter going forward now that we have this cross compatibility is like We're already starting to see some non feature parody like everything will work with your hubs But there's some like feature stuff between Android and iOS that we're seeing from some manufacturers I think that's the more interesting story with matter in terms of growing pains going for yeah The the sort of the fenced off areas like oh, it'll work with matter But if you want the special automation you gotta use homekit or yeah, yeah, we're gonna have a lot of conversations about that This this final bit is not exactly matter related. It's matter adjacent Amazon's sidewalk mesh network Uses its devices like your echo or your ring camera to create a very low bandwidth mesh network We've talked about it. It's very fenced off I know Amazon has lacking a lot of trust in people that this this is fairly well done And you can turn it off if you're really worried about it But it uses virtually no bandwidth But what it does is it uses just enough to connect small Internet of Things devices to each other to create an ad hoc network For low bandwidth communication tile trackers use it level smart locks use it Careband senior systems use it and Amazon announced Wednesday That they've got a bunch of new partners that aren't relying on home users So enterprise Wi-Fi product maker Broan gas leak detector maker new cosmos enterprise IOT company Meshify and solar inverter maker device Roy's aria are all joining sidewalk more partners coming later this year And Amazon says it will open sidewalk to developers in an API kind of situation later this year Yeah, they can make that pitch and that use case obviously They are to the enterprise and you can get where we have all these ambient sensors around that We don't know because they're weird B2B Businesses that we've never heard of before that's the big thing my question is when will we see Cisco and like one of those where it's like Okay, that's everywhere like literally everywhere. Yeah, that'll be the next stage. I'm sure they're eyeing that at some point Yeah, sidewalk is gonna be useful for for just making some ambient low low stuff possible where you can throw sensors in your yard Or on your car and and you don't have to worry about internet connectivity, right? That you just want small bits of data passing around It's always been a thing where like well if we're just relying on echoes What if not enough people in a neighborhood have an echo and you know, how is that gonna work? So these kinds of partners make oh, they're gonna fill in big blocks of the map by bringing these people on and yeah They bring on a Cisco conversation over All right. Well, there's always a state of interesting CES announcements. There's just a ton of them out there Here's a couple though that kind of stood out caught our eye Yeah, Lenovo. These are all from Lenovo. Lenovo, which owns Motorola has introduced a Lenovo think pad branded phone called the Lenovo think phone by Motorola They got all the words in it looks like a Motorola phone in the front has a think pad style logo and Kevlar on the back There's a mullet joke in there somewhere. I'm sure the customizable side button is red So it's not a think pad track point, but it's a nod to it It's a solid 6.6 inch OLED phone IP68 water resistance in-screen fingerprint sensor all the standard Motorola enterprise management stuff There's nothing particularly think patty about it, but it's pretty pretty standard phone That's that's my problem with it. I want more think paddiness to it I want the round actual track point. Don't just make it the color. Give me all the think pad things Another interesting thing Lenovo product is the think book 16p It has a magnetic connector on the top called the magic bay for popping modules on and off Lenovo has three magic bay modules It will sell you when you buy at the laptop a 4k webcam on a rotating hinge that could combined with the built-in webcam That's 1080 to optimize the image for $150 an LTE pack for $99 and a selfie light for $20 Yeah, I think book 16p comes in May starting at one thousand three hundred fifty dollars Modules have never failed Lenovo Motorola baby, but never Lenovo. Yeah There's also the yoga book 9i which attaches to 13.3 inch 2.8 k OLED screens with a 360-degree hinge, so you know like a like a triptych You can you can make it really tall You could make it a really wide screen you could fold it up like a laptop and just use one screen and then snap the included Bluetooth keyboard over part of the other screen if you put it up at the top the bottom becomes a trackpad put it at The bottom the top becomes another part of a smaller screen Comes with an active pen for note taking as well and the included carrying case doubles as a stand starts at $2,100 shipping in June There's also the thinkbook plus twist a new version of the laptop with an e-ing screen on the lid that now Swivels so you can switch between the OLED and e-ing screens without closing the laptop It's coming in June for one thousand six hundred fifty dollars I almost wanted to just buy this to use windows on an e-ing screen because you can do that as you enjoy pain. Yeah Lenovo has a 10.3 inch e-ink tablet as well called the smart paper So this is another entry in that Kindle scribe Remarkable space of e-ink notepads has a neat feature though that the others don't otherwise It's pretty similar it can record what audio is being said as your notes are made that the others can I think the remarkable can definitely do audio, but I don't think it automatically records a snippet as you're making the note So it's it's easy to get some extra clarity on your scribbles if you're like Well, why was I writing that you can like play back what it you were hearing at the time Comes with the pen case and 50 gigabytes of storage as well for three hundred ninety nine ninety nine Shipping later this year. Yeah interesting pricing kind of in between the cheapest and more expensive scribe And I love that they're emulating Microsoft smart pen technology from like 2005 Yeah, it's got some advantages with that that hefty storage and including the pen. Oh, yeah, but yeah It's it's price is not super cheap It's interesting it seems like everybody's rich racing into this space though as an e-ink stand first of all give me my color e-ink 10.3 inch screen. I know it's gonna be like nine hundred dollars Yeah, they'll want it But I'm just happy to see like we haven't given up on e-ink because it's just a cool power saving technology It's good for these kind of things once we get the refresh rates kind of figured out Yeah, and if CES is behaving the way it usually does you'll go to showstoppers tonight and Lenovo will have all this stuff out I'm generally how this works. All right folks. Don't miss out We have a special audio interview rich recorded with CES spokesperson Tina Anthony coming to patrons this Saturday They discussed the tech trends from this year's show and how attendance has beat organizers expectations It's free for everyone to listen to on our patreon site So even if you're not a patron head over there to listen to it patreon.com slash DTNS this Saturday All right, let's dig into the big AMD announcements. Yeah AMD announced the 7,600 7,700 and 7,900 CPUs that cost 229 329 and 429 dollars respectively you guessed it compared to CPUs with an X after the model number These have a lower 65 watt TDP and slightly lower clock speeds and bundled CPU coolers because you're not gonna probably be doing crazy Overclocking with these all three will be available January 10th on the other end of the price scale for those of you who are like That's just not enough money for me to spend AMD announced three Ryzen nine 3d vCash processors the 7,800 x3d 7900 x3d and the 7,950 x3d So you want to compare these to the same model numbers that don't have 3d other they're pretty much the same Except the ones with 3d have an extra 64 megabytes of L3 cash stacked on top hence the 3d That helps improve game performance. So these are mostly meant for gaming no prices yet either But they are coming in February and everybody is getting ready to try to benchmark these against the Intel Core i9 9300k We'll be looking out for those AMD also announced new laptop Ryzen 7,000 CPUs as well the 7045 hx series is the dragon range for high-end gaming and workstation laptops it packs in 16 full-speed course essentially a rework desktop CPU in a laptop the 7040 hs Phoenix series is a Zen 4 CPU Combined with our DNA 3 integrated GPU on a 4 nanometer process These come with a dedicated AI engine on board something Intel won't get until Meteor Lake comes later this year The other three series are the other three series are rebranded of previously released chips and AMD is also promising RTX 3060 level performance on laptops using its new Radeon RX 7600m xt GPUs They have 32 teraflops of performance paired with 8 gigabytes of GDDR6 memory There's also a slightly less powerful 7600m Just 7600m that's coming to new Alienware m18 and m16 laptops will both be available with the new GPUs Our producer Roger Chang looked over all this stuff. I know Roger you you keep a close watch on on the chip sector What do you think of AMD's announcements from CES? It's it's it's very telling that this announcement follows All the announcements from Intel as well as AMD's itself from last year And this is just to kind of like say hey one more time We do have competitive processors out there and for for the for the CES Set they basically introduced a bunch of chips that are going to be the bread and butter of their operations Which is chips that go into laptops and you know ready-built PCs that you get from your best buys from your online Dell stores You know until they get bedspread we don't know how well they perform But this is essentially saying like we now have all this Good technology that we've just created and it will be reaching you in the various outlets and a in a tamer more affordable form It's it's it's generally a positive for the consumer. I think if you're if you're looking to buy a PC laptop or a new PC later this year What about those the desktop CPUs the $229 or $429 so what how did those hit you those? are really the That is kind of the mid-range of where a lot of PC builders Especially even gamers if you go go through steam and you do this system analysis they every year they pump pump out a report that tells you who has what and This will be part of that like 75% of people who upgrade they can probably upgrade to one of these If not an Intel equivalent because people do want performance But they can't necessarily afford the top dollar that you get when you buy a top of the line All right. Well, thank you Roger. It is time now for rich struffalino's rich roundup of interesting things that got his eye at CES I I don't have an appropriate You know jingle for you yet, but if this goes well maybe next year we'll have that we'll need a cash register I feel like that'll be appropriate. All right So first up here using radio frequency deliver over-the-air wireless power isn't new we've seen that before but in the past We've seen companies like powercast use dedicated transmitters for sending out RF based power So you'd have thing that's just that transmitter sitting on a shelf somewhere near the thing you want to power the company though That is a power cast announced a new five dollar ubiquity transmitter chip and it's designed for OEMs It's small about the size of two pouches stamps and the idea is that it could be integrated into You know any kind of electronics that you already have around your house things like TVs consoles smart speakers other devices and to kind of create a wider RF power network using devices You're already gonna buy for your house in some ways. It reminds me of what we saw Samsung We were talking about earlier doing with kind of their smart thing and and matter integration into a wireless charger wireless charger Probably a good thing for this chip as well. It's a very Exciting I know it's you know reference designs are not like yeah It's the plan person else the problem with wireless power is that it's always a reference design It's always a thing that like we just need people to implement it and and and we're still waiting There there was that lock that was going to use infrared power to take to keep the battery charged They're selling it. They announced it at CES, but not with the wireless power so you can buy the lock and Then wait for the wireless charger to come out maybe later this year. We hope So so yeah, it's like I'm still waiting for the one to be like and it's in a product that you can go and use today Well, so the good thing is I can definitely see Companies that are already gonna be selling you the remote right so if you're a TV maker if you're a game console maker The idea is you're gonna be the remote comes in the box, right? So the problem is you don't have a chicken and egg problem, right? Before you had to buy the thing that could receive the power and the transmitter separately now instead if they get partnerships with any kind of TV OEMs you buy your high-sense TV you put it on the wall and it's automatically charging your trickle charging your remote Within a 15 foot range of your TV where you're always going to have it usually anyway that to me And then it works with a wider ecosystem of things I could definitely see that, you know slowly It's just a one-off thing and then you realize oh I can keep buying more things Oh my my you know my echo has this integrated in it as well and build that out and kind of just casually All of a sudden you have this network that to me is the appeal to this and kind of made it exciting Yeah, get it get it in a product. Come on. I'm going to announce the partnerships I know the reference design is fun. That's that's the news they're announcing so that's why they're at CES I'm sure is to do all the B2B. It's such a CES thing like because they're looking for the partners They they want to get that out there. I totally get that we haven't heard enough people talking about the metaverse lately Oh, no. Yeah, there's barely been scant news about the the metaverse here at CES Well, I was actually talking with a company called meatkai and they announced tools for building your metaverse apps and making it a little easier One product is called the meat is called meatkai reality Which uses quick video footage clips to render a space in a 3d environment already for VR The more interesting product though is definitely meatkai metaverse editor, which despite the name maybe raising some eyebrows Let's someone build 3d structures and space without code kind of think of it Reminded me very much of like a square space website editor, but for like something in second life Yeah, the company says it's using its AI background Actually was founded in 2018 to kind of do AI voice synthesis to make building these spaces with much higher pixel density and less resource Intensive than other platforms so you don't have to you know kind of crunch all those pixels at once the AI can kind of infer that kind of stuff It's also working on tools interacting in in the metaverse So there's a meatkai cloud AI that lets devs plug in voice assistants into virtual reality environments letting avatars Converse more easily with your voice assistant and just having a you know a better kind of chat interface while you're in there Definitely some interesting They're working with the chargers to kind of build an e-commerce that in the NFL to build out like an e-commerce metaverse store for them The other thing that really interested me about them is they're they're very much platform agnostic And they're very focused on making this all available like through web browsers instead of locking it into app stores In fact, I was talking to the CEO. It is pretty seemed I don't want to say hostile But he seemed very ambivalent toward app stores from meta and potentially apple getting involved in the metaverse space And very much was yay browsers which made me happy So is this cross-platform? Could I could I build for Decentraland or you know? I guess fortnight would need to let me in but like you you could build it And if everybody's using what like you'd universal scene description or something at work right now They're saying it's supposed to be compatible with any metaverse of any browser in the metaverse is the idea for this as opposed to making it app Based going forward now, you know if they make the right deals that may change I don't know but that he's the the CEO at least I was talking to seem very dedicated to that idea which was encouraging What about hydroponics? Yeah, so we had rise garden They announced a new smart hydroponic garden the new rise garden. It's very creative name. It adds Amazon voice services integration They've had a gen one out already But this one like I said adds AVS offers a larger removable reservoir the other one was fixed in place and a lot smaller And just easier to assemble out of the box You can stack three of these on top of each other and you can get a total of 108 plants overall So, you know pretty significant capacity using other updates include Things like seed pods that kind of plug-in curing cell to the system So it knows what kind of watering and lighting conditions are needed But rise one of their differentiators over something like Aero garden or some of the other Hydropots kind of smart hydroponics is they also have like a pH balance system in there So that'll allow it to support a wider variety of fruits and vegetables other plants We saw them growing like root vegetables like they had a radish that was growing out there Which I have not seen in other systems like that. So it's available now for 750 dollars That's for the one rack kind of they call it the single family system and you can go up to three racks tall on that Yeah, there's a there's a lot of these hitting the market now And I'm kind of hoping that they catch up catch on enough that that you'll start to see some feature Compatibility, you know in comparisons between them because they all sort of work differently And it's hard to tell whether it's worth the money or not and how much trouble you're gonna have to do So I'm glad we're seeing more of these I know there was one other that caught your eye out there in the sous vide area Yeah, it was typhor TYPH you are announced the sous vide station It's designed as a all-in-one sous vide system So instead of just getting like a circulator and you you know kind of get your own bucket and you have to have your own vacuum Sealer it's kind of all in one it comes with a 700 1750 watt circulator a handheld vacuum pump which was super cool and a 12.3 inch screen on top of its water tank That screen gives you access to obviously setting temperature and timers and stuff like that But also comes with guides and recipes and allows you to kind of cater your recipes to what you're actually cooking so you can set The weight of your meat and they'll tell you okay How long you actually need to cook it as opposed to a lot of like a lot of sous vide stuff feels very Especially on the lower end of the cost spectrum feels a little on the hacky side where you're kind of guessing you're kind of going off You know forum threads and stuff like that to kind of figure out how to cook stuff This is on the more expensive side is a more developed product pre-orders open soon at $700 but definitely but it seemed like a very well polished system if you were into the sous vide universe And the fact that it gets you everything in one one one shot I think is is attractive to people who are sous vide curious. Yes, and the vacuum pump I cannot emphasize enough I love that the handheld vacuum pump because I do not like like at the vacuum sealer appliance It's the worst well folks. There's so much at CES We try to bring you things that are most notable so here we go with a lightning round of other interesting Announcements HTC open pre-orders for the standalone Vive XR elite VR headset at 625 grams It's heavier than the quest to but lighter than the quest pro has 2k pixels per eye 110 degree field of view adds a lens Diopter adjustment so you don't need to wear your glasses. It won't just do the depth It'll do some other stuff too. There's a small 10 minute battery So you can swap out the larger 2 hour battery in the back without having to power down There's also a glasses mode that you can replace the strap and the battery with some plastic arms Brings the weight down to 240 grams And then you have to wire it up for the power because you only got 10 minute battery life But if you're going to sit at a laptop for a long time and you want to use that as a display That's an option. It's $1,099 shipping in late february Mercedes-Benz announced that it's partnering with charge point and solar energy company Mn8 to install 400 fast ev charging hubs in the u.s. With a total of 2,500 dc chargers that will be open to all ev owners through mercedes owner Although mercedes owners will get a chance at some limited reservations Google is rolling out its split screen for android auto This is the one that it previewed at google i o maps can stay on the screen now And you can have either one or two panes or you can go back to a single pane And those other panes can show other info like a podcast you're playing or reminders calendar stuff things like that And still on the auto auto maker sign google announced an hd version of maps for level 2 plus and level 3 assisted driving systems It lets those systems get info on precise lane markers road signs and traffic barriers and other items to combine them Combine them with information from sensors the info will help systems in the volvo ex 90 and pull star 3 with more to follow Google is working on cross device Playback notifications that use bluetooth low energy wi-fi and ultra wideband So that if you're like moving between android auto google tv and your android phone You can just seamlessly transfer what you're listening to from one to the other So for instance android might notice that you left your house And offer to move audio from the tv to your phone And then when you get in the car move it to the car Uh google is working on support for this for youtube music as you might guess but also spotify No word on when that will roll out Razer's switch like android handheld the rated r superstar edge is coming to verizon january 26 for $359.99 With a plan retail price without a subsidy would be $599.99 Or you can buy a wi-fi only version for $399.99 as a 6.8 inch OLED screen with a 144 hertz refresh rate It supports xbox cloud gaming and video g-force now and stream link Uh steam link not stream steam link sorry My mind uh razor also announced the leviathan v2 pro for pc gamers It uses an ir camera to track your head So not a not a visual camera, but it can tell where your head is And then it can provide beam formed thx spatial audio either speaker or headphone style It includes a sub woofer too and connects by usbc or bluetooth The razor leviathan v2 pro starts at $399.99 available in february And razor promises its $300 keo pro ultra webcam can deliver uncompressed 4k video at 24 frames per second Or 1440p at 30 frames per second Legato can do 4k at 60 frames per second, but it's compressed so you can see the advantage for razor here. It's available now Now a lot of you are saying sure laptops cameras. What about farm equipment? Well john deere announced exact shot I love I love covering farm equipment on dts It's a new sensor and robotics based system for applying fertilizer. So it uses computer vision To figure out how to spray the fertilizer only where the seeds have been planted And that reduces the cost because you're not using as much fertilizer That then reduces runoff pollution and weed growth because you're not fertilizing the part where the weeds grow Also announced a new electric excavator john deere is using a chrysal battery And that will reduce the cost of operation of the excavator as well as the noise and the emissions All right. Well schneider electric makes the circuit breakers for 40 percent of us households Which is a lot the company is announcing an electrical panel a solar inverter a wall mountable stackable 10 kilowatt hour Batteries an ev charger and an array of smart outlets and light switches and dimmers when you buy them together They can do things like measure consumption at every outlet and every breaker and estimate Which devices is a which device is using energy based on its electric signature? The first installations are expected this summer. Yeah, this is beautiful because it you it can work with third party stuff Or not they're like it's soft lock in it's like hey, you can use this with anything But if you really want to tell everything that's going on in your home, we can deliver on that from the control panel I thought that was that was lucky when with convenience. Here's something that probably doesn't seem as genius Uh philips hue is launching the philips hue sync app for samsung tv's It can sync your philips hue smart lights to what is displayed on the tv and it costs $130 for the app Now that is still less than the $250 it would cost for the hdmi sync box that did the same thing And the app on samsung tv's will work with netflix and disney plus The box did not in fact it works with all image formats and tv content Though the verge points out that there is a competing product called the govi immersion kit that will work with any tv And any content includes a light strip and a camera and the whole thing costs 80 bucks And gages, uh, sherilyn low told us about displace tv on the show wednesday and here are a few more details It's a 55 inch 4k tv with wireless video transmission A tower separate from the tv uses wi-fi 6 e to send video to the screen though Know their details quite on that a little murky there the screen However is powered by hot swappable batteries, which should go a month on a charge Screen weighs less than 20 pounds and attaches to any surface with suction cups and uh, presumably a lot of faith A pop-up camera in the tv lets you control it with gestures using the same kind of technology that was used in the microsoft connect You can use multiple screens together in sync as well That is place tv will ship later this year for $3,000 We look for this on the show for a found their booth They're having some trouble setting it up So we'll see if we can get a demo and make this a video We're not sticking to the wall No, we're sticking to the wall. It just wasn't syncing wasn't syncing so the suction strips were working It was the the other stuff. Yeah, it definitely sucked. Yeah ASUS announced a new xbox pc controller with a built-in 1.3 inch OLED screen above the xbox button That can be used for swapping profiles during gameplay seeing your battery status your mic status Also can connect by bluetooth rf and usb-c You can switch controller profiles during the game with buttons at the top no word on price, but it's promised in q1 And bmw revealed a prototype for the i vision d concept car wednesday It has an e-ink panels hey more e-ink that lets you change the color of the car along 32 choices A voice assistant called d for digital emotional experience let drivers interact with the car by voice One way to interact is through a heads-up display You can control how much info is in it with a mixed reality slider Many of the features will make it into bmw's next car platform coming in 2025 Yeah, that is one thing about prototypes. I go back and forth one is like well This isn't real tell me when it's real, but the other is a lot of times you see the features They may not all make it in but you'll see features that will show up And someday this will be volumetric displays and they can call it 3d Vancouver's glux kind is showing off its ella baby stroller at ces when there is no child in the stroller Let's be clear no child in the stroller it drives itself So the idea is it stays close to you it knows where you are and follows you So that you're holding the baby and you're not worrying about pushing the stroller around Sensors avoid obstacles it even senses hills and can apply brakes to slow it down when it's going downhill Or give a motor assist when it's going uphill though those work even when the baby's in It's available for pre-order for 3500 dollars rich good We've seen a lot of interesting like baby and and kid tech here This is definitely one of the more innovative ones, but each that price This is the one you're seeing on cnn and your local news and and all of that you won't believe this Yeah, if the price wasn't so eye-wateringly high, which I actually know baby strollers are pretty expensive, right? I mean hundreds, but not thousands not thousands I I think I think this does solve a real problem. Don't you think no like and this is Yes, it is a meets a need it is seems like Checks a lot of boxes for a lot of parents definitely would be helpful But that's a big buried entry and it's a race as it seems like this should be applied to luggage as well It has there there are some luggage that does this the problem is then you have to take the batteries out when you go on the plane It's kind of inconvenient stuff like that Well, that's going to do it for this episode of ces. Thanks to our brand new boss Jeremy who just started backing us on patreon Thank you so much Jeremy for being the person that made ces possible today All of it the entire show. Well, okay Our coverage of it. 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I'm Amber Lockhart, this is Ross Lockhart's. We own Heart and Cell Farm in Grandin, North Dakota. And we have a small scale vegetable production here. And we're doing a little research this year on controlling cabbage loopers in an organic system. So we found in our farm over the years, we've been in operation since 2013. And that we've been really interested in growing brassica crops such as cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, anything. Brussels sprouts. And those are major crops for us in our rotation and in our marketing system. So we've wanted to explore ways to look at controlling some of the pests that we've been experiencing, in particular imported cabbage worm and cabbage loopers in our system without the use of any chemical interventions. What we're trying to find out is can we find a way to control that damage from the pests, the cabbage looper using the row cover and the flowers to track beneficial insects in a really low cost, low labor way for small scale growers. And what our hope is is that we can find a way to be able to harvest these items such as the cabbage or the cauliflower that has minimal to no pests inside or damage. So we can bring that to bigger markets such as a grocery store, which wouldn't have any tolerance for pest damage. Whereas at a farmer's market, you would have people that would be still willing to purchase that product. We've looked at using a control group of no intervention at all, just basically growing in the field under normal conditions. We're doing one treatment with a floating row cover over the bed. We're doing a third treatment with no row cover, but with beneficial planting of flowers, different flower species to try to bring in other insects to sort of counterbalance the damage from the pests. And then we're doing a fourth treatment with both the row cover and the beneficial planting. We're particularly averse to using any sort of chemicals on our farm. And so when we are using those types of interventions, there's a cost associated with that, the cost of the products themselves, but also a cost to the native habitat within the system. We're trying to strike a balance in our farm with the different insects and other creatures that live in the soil and on the soil. So we're trying to stay away from any sort of pesticide use altogether.


Back in the mid-nineties, during my college years, I was part of the fourth company of the Santiago Fire Department in Chile. While serving there, I lived at the fire station as part of the night guard. Toward the end of the year, I was told that I have to be at the fire station on New Year's Eve because on that day, there was almost always some emergency. Surprised, I replied, really? Well, I remember waiting with my associates when, at midnight, fireworks began shooting off in downtown Santiago. We started hugging each other with well-wishes for the New Year. Suddenly, the bells at the fire station began ringing, indicating that there was an emergency. We got our equipment and jumped on the fire engine. On our way to the emergency, as we passed crowds of people celebrating the New Year, I noticed that they were largely unconcerned and carefree. They were relaxed and enjoying the warm summer night. Yet, somewhere nearby, the people we were hurrying to help were in serious trouble. This experience helped me realize that although our lives may at times be relatively smooth, the time will come for each of us when we will face unexpected challenges and storms that will push the limits of our ability to endure. Physical, mental, family, and employment challenges, natural disasters, and other matters of life or death are but some of the examples of the storms that we will face in this life. When faced with these storms, we often experience feelings of despair or fear. President Russell M. Nelson said, faith is the antidote for fear, end of quote. Faith in our Lord Jesus Christ. As I have seen the storms that affect people's lives, I have concluded that no matter what kind of storm is battering us, regardless of whether there is a solution to it or whether there is an end in sight, there is only one refuge. And it is the same for all type of storms. This single refuge, provided by our Heavenly Father, is our Lord Jesus Christ and His Atonement. None of us are exempt from facing these storms. Hilleman, a Book of Mormon prophet, taught us as follows.  Elder Robert D. Health, who had his own experiences with enduring storms, said, suffering is universal. How we react to suffering is individual. Suffering can take us one of two ways. It can be a strengthening and purifying experience, combined with faith. Or it can be a destructive force in our lives. If we do not have the faith and the Lord's atoning sacrifice, end of quote. In order to enjoy the refuge that Jesus Christ and his Atonement offer, we must have faith in him, a faith that will allow us to rise above all the pains of a limited earthly perspective. He has promised that he will make our burdens light if we come unto him in all that we do. Come unto me, he said, all ye that labor and are in heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn of me, for I am meek and lonely in heart, and ye shall find rest unto your souls, for my yoke is easy and my burden is light. It is said that to one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible. However, we have limited understanding of the things that happen here on earth, and often we do not have answers to the question of why. Why is this happening? Why is this happening to me? What am I supposed to learn when answers evade us? That is when the words expressed by our Savior to the prophet Joseph Smith in Liberty Jail are completely applicable. My son, peace be unto thy soul. Thy adversity and thy afflictions shall be but a small moment. And then, if thou endure it well, God shall exalt thee on high. Although many people indeed believe in Jesus Christ, the key question is whether we believe him, and whether we believe the things that he teaches us and ask us to do. Perhaps someone might think, what does Jesus Christ know about what is happening to me? How does he know what I need to be happy? Truly it was our redeemer and intercessor to whom the prophet Isaiah was referring when he said, he is despised and rejected of men, a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows, but he was wounded for our transgressions. He was bruised for our iniquities. The chastisement of our peace was upon him and with his stripes we are healed. The apostle Peter also taught us about the Savior saying, who his own self bear our sins in his own body on the tree, that we being dead to sins should live unto righteousness by whose stripes you were healed. Although the time of Peter's own martyrdom was approaching, his words are not filled with fear or pessimism. Rather, he taught the saints to rejoice, even though they were in heaven as through many false temptations. Peter counseled us to remember that the trial of our faith, though he be tried with fire, would lead to praise and honor and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ and to the salvation of our souls. Peter continued, beloved, think not as trains concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you, but rejoice inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ's sufferings, that when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy. President Russell M. Nelson taught that saints can be happy under every circumstance. When the focus of our lives is on God's plan of salvation and Jesus Christ and his gospel, we can feel joy regardless of what is happening or not happening in our lives. Joy comes from and because of him. He is the source of all joy," end of quote. Of course, it is easier to say these things when we are not in the midst of a storm than to live and apply them during the storm. But as your brother, I hope you can feel that I sincerely want to share with you how valuable it is to know that Jesus Christ and his Atonement are the refuge that we all need regardless of the storms that are abiding in our lives. I know that we are all children of God, that he loves us, and that we are not alone. I invite you to come and see that he can lighten your burdens and be the refuge you are seeking. Come and help others find the refuge that they so yearn for. Come and stay with us in this refuge, which will help you resist the storms of life. There is no doubt in my heart that if you come, you will see, you will help, and you will stay. The prophet Alma testified the following to his son, Helaman. I do know that whosoever shall put their trust in God, shall be supported in their trials and their travels and their afflictions, and shall be lifted up at the last day. The Savior himself said, "'Let your hearts be comforted, for all flesh is in my hands. Be still and know that I am God, wherefore fear not, even unto death, for in this world your joy is not full, but in me your joy is full.'" The hymn, Be Still My Soul, which has touched my heart on many occasions, has a message of comfort for our souls. The lyrics read as follows, "'Be still my soul, the hour is hating on, when we shall be forever with the Lord, when disappointment, grief, and fear are gone. Sorrow for God loves purest joys restored. Be still my soul, when change and tears are passed, all safe and blessed, we shall meet at last.'" As we face the storms of life, I know that if we make our best effort and rely upon Jesus Christ and His Atonement as our refuge, we will be blessed with the relief, comfort, strength, temperance, and peace that we are seeking, with certainty in our hearts that at the end of our time here on earth, we will hear the words of the Master, "'Well done, thou good and faithful servant, enter thou into the joy of thy Lord, in the name of Jesus Christ, amen.'"