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It's for all the kinds of people, for officer workers, or for soldiers, or for sailors, and for plenty of people. And if a crook thinks he's not going to make enough money, he takes out a burger for an insurance. Also, they got automobile insurance, accident insurance. And if you don't have an accident, then there's a health insurance. Also, it's a jewelry insurance, a foreign insurance, and the most common thing, life's an insurance. This is a something that makes a man rich after he's a dead. The reason I'm all right with you all about this is an insurance to mania.  Vasco Ali is the maker of me taking this out to when I'm a first open up of my hands to take a story a year and a half ago. He's explained to me how, without the fine insurance, if a man is going to fire, he must run to the fire box.  Anyway, I'm a mania. I'm selling a lot of the insurance to the company, and I guess they're going to send me a check for me and think I'm lost in a fire. What is the time I should have gone out to my night school to class, so I'm going to finish this a little later. America, I love you. Do you like a papa to me, from ocean to ocean? That's all I chose so far about everything. Everything is done around the world. All right, class. Quiet, please, please. I'll call the roll. Mr. Vasco. Here. Mr. Howard. Here. Mr. Olsen. Here. Mr. Schultz. Don't go any further. With me, you hit the check mark. Oh, thank you, fellow boobers. You should know me is to adore me. All right, Mr. Schultz. You can take your finger out of the ink well now. Now, class, our lesson for today is on geography. Who will name the continent for us? Mr. Vasco? Hamadonah. Mr. Howard? I don't know. Mr. Schultz? You know, Ms. Bolting, you get smarter answers when you call the roll. I can see, class, that none of us studied his lesson today. Well, if you didn't study, what do you expect from us? Ms. Bolting, I am setting her quite confidently with the correct answer on the tip of my tongue. The correct answer on the tip of my tongue?  Mr. Olsen, I know that you know the answer, but I'd like to get it from the rest of the class. Well, Ms. Bolting, let me attempt a try. The continents are, well, there's Europe, Australia. That's right. Go on. What about America? Yes, that's right. There's North and South. You mean I got a choice? No, no, they're both continents, North America and South America. Mr. Schultz, you may continue. Well, there's Australia. Mr. Horowitz mentioned Australia. Well, I'm using the return trip ticket. Mr. Schultz, now, what is the name of that very cold region? I'll give you a hint. The ant? The ant? The antifreeze? Oh, Schultz, that was the ant part, ticker. That's very good, Mr. Olsen. Oh, that's so good. Why don't he get the answers the hard way like the rest of us? Why get it? Mr. Schultz, I wish that you studied your lessons as hard as Mr. Olsen. Yeah, I am always studying, even when I don't have to. Last night on the way home in the subway I read Shakespeare. Walking to the house, I enjoyed dickens. Going up the steps, I read a little Edgar Allen poem. Then you opened up the door and kissed Mark Twain. Schultz, you are just jealous of my general knowledge. All right, gentlemen, no fighting, please. Now, continuing with our lesson, we mentioned most of the continents, but one. We left out one very hot region. Mr. Baskow, what is that hot region? My aunt took a shopper. What? I had a fire there and it was a plenty hot.  Yeah, but I'm not sure, so I'm going to get back my money. Oh, don't be so sure, Luigi.  He asked the insurance company for money. They sent over an investigator. But the end was, the company got suspicious and they wouldn't pay out one penny. Schultz, what a matter, Mr. Spicious. Oh, little thing. In the burning building, they found 30 empty matchboxes, 10 pounds of TNT, and the phonograph was playing. There'll be a hot time in the old town for that. Smile, Luigi. I'm only making a joke to cheer you up. Mr. Schultz, you're not helping Mr. Baskow with any sensible advice. You're just confusing him. Luigi, you got nothing to worry about. All that the fire starts, Luigi. Yeah, what did you do? Nothing. I'm one of the warm-up of some Super Margarita and you saw my little match. Spark is a jumper to the curtain. I'm going to try to put out the fire with a nozzle paper and the papers are going to fire. So I'm going to throw the paper on the antique chairs and they was just started to burn. Then I'm going to spill a bottle of water on the fire. But it turned out there wasn't a water in the side. Was a kerosene. Himmel. How many did you wrong, Schultz? Oh, no, no, no, no. You did what any other normal firebuck would do. Mamma mia, you know how many would do nothing wrong. Class, I'm going to write a letter telling all about this to the insurance company. You think I'm going to get in the trouble? Well, since you're only going to get in good with them. Mr. Schultz, will you stop it? Now, Mr. Baskow, you have nothing to worry about. You wrote a letter to the insurance company. Now I would tell them what was burned and how much it cost. That's right.  That's all there is to it, Luigi. Thank you, friends. Then I'm going to have another trouble, huh? Who knows, Luigi? If you ask for the money, what's the worst that can happen? Will the insurance company get suspicious? Will they send over detectives to question you? Will they hound you with a million questions and call you a pyromaniac? Are you sure, sir? Will they? Certainly, the company's got to have some fun for their money. Luigi, my friend. Hello, Luigi. Hello. Hello. Hello, Pusqually. Hello, Luigi. How's the matter?  Pusqually, I'm having a little fire in my store. Can I ask my night-schooler class what I should do? Ms. Pauling, as you say, I'm going to put down what's the cost of the insurance company. Sure, sir. I'm going to get into trouble. Harder, which is to say, not to worry. And now I don't know. Sure. Sure. Go to everybody for advice, but your friend, Pusqually, and what's to happen and nothing.  Well, all the time, I'm sitting here with my bigger trap. He was so right, Pusqually. Nobody got a bigger trap than you. That's a funny thing. When I'm saying it, it's a come-out of difference. Ah, Luigi, there's no problem. All you've got to do is fill out a claim, adjust as they come. He's investigating you. Then they send you proof of loss of which you're signed. Then comes a check. Pusqually, how's it coming? You know so much. Simple, Luigi. I'm going to have a little fire in my store every six months. Every six a month? Sure. Otherwise, how could I pay for my fire insurance policy? For a Pusqually, is that the nice thing? Oh, stop talking like a green horn of boob. Look, Luigi, fires can be helped sometimes. If you don't have a fire and I don't have a fire, what's going to happen to all the firemen? They've got to pack up in their rubber boots and their pickaxes, their checkered games that go on the release. And all those little red fireboxes on the corner, they're going to be used for slot machines. Now sit down, Luigi. I get a piece of paper and we start to make out of your flame. Oh, thank you, Pusqually. You really helped me. Oh, don't bother to thank me now, Luigi. Thank me later after the damages are done. I mean, after you reported the damages. Now tell me, what was the first thing was a burn? Well, it was the colonial check cost me $12. Uh-huh. What else? Spending a wheel, $18. Curtains, $3. That's all, Pusqually. $33 altogether. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Okay, Luigi, I'm going to finish your list. Here it is. Alexander Hamilton, the chair, $50. What? Betsy Ross is spending a wheel of $600. Friendship Tapestry, $200. Ms. Galanius, $200. Makes it a $1,050. What are you doing? And that's not the one other things that cost to me. Luigi, first the thing that you've got to learn and when you make a claim to the insurance company, you always multiply by 72. Actually, American away. The American away? To multiply by a 72? But why? Because when the company pays off, they divide it by 56. In this way, you outsmart them. You ahead it by 18%. I don't worry. Put down all this the company is going to offer you nothing. You compromise in between and in the end, you're still ahead of $400. Ms. Galanius, you sure it's a right to ask us so much money? Luigi, would I lead you wrong? Don't answer that. Now go, go Luigi, go. As long as you sign the paper, I'm going to mail it to you. I'm going to take care of everything. All right, Mr. Galanius. I'm going to thank you. I don't know what Thomas would do without you. That's all right, Luigi. What a good attorney that deserves another. Go, go. Goodbye.  Oh, wait till the insurance the company sees these are high prices. And wait till the cops arrest him for perjury. Then he's going to come and run him to me. Pasquale, get him me out of jail. Get him me out of jail and I'm Mario Rosa. What a good attorney that deserves another. By the time I'm with through with him, he's going to have so many good turns his hands are going to come off. Before we return to life with Luigi, I'd just like to mention the enjoyment you can get by chewing delicious Wrigley's Spearmint Gum. Whether you're indoors or outdoors, working or simply taking things easy, you can slip a stick of Wrigley's Spearmint into your mouth and you're all set for some good chewing. You see, Wrigley's Spearmint Gum has lots of lively, refreshing, real mint flavor. It not only tastes good, but it also cools your mouth and helps sweeten and the smooth, easy chewing adds enjoyment to whatever else you're doing. So treat yourself to Wrigley's Spearmint Chewing Gum often. It's good and good for you. Now let's turn to page two of Luigi Vasco's letter to his mother in Italy. I had a soul mom and me for squallies and sent her to my clamor for a thousand and a fifty dollars for the thirty three dollars of worth of antiques so that there was a burden. But a funny thing is happening. It claims a man who was a telephone board and instead of settling, he's the sound of very angry. I'm a got a word so I'm a call up a squallie and he's the comrade on it. Hey, Luigi, what's the matter? Call up a squallie, claims a man who's a columnist this morning and he's the said he's the comrade on it and he's the sound of very angry. You think maybe we was asking too much? Oh, Luigi, stop. I've played you a dozen of times. You gotta give them a high price because before you can collect, the company likes to bargain a little. That's called a collective bargain. Squallie, are you sure I'm not going to get into trouble? That's impossible. Luigi, even if a voice was to come to voice, are you protected by the AF of L? AF of L? Yes, the aliens are fire losses.  Hello. I'm Mr. Johnson, just for the empire fire insurance company. Which one of you is Mr. Basko? That's a me. Mr. Basko, will you show me the items that were burned? Right there. A likely looking mess. Good. I'm glad you like it. Now, Mr. Basko, you have this chair down for $50. Don't you think it's too high? No, it's not a high chair.  You see, Mr. Johnson, I don't know what he's saying. It goes to school in the nighttime. He only speaks a good English in the dark. Let me handle this, please. Just look at these items. $450, $200, $200. All I notice around here is a lot of junk and a collection of oily rag all over the place. Mr. Basko, do you think it's possible the fire was started by spontaneous combustion? Who? Spontaneous combustion. I don't know, I don't even know that as a fellow. You've got a excuse to have him, Mr. Johnson. He's only a short time in this country. Don't understand English. It's so good. Maybe you tell him me and English the questions and I interrupt him and the tally. You know? Well, would you tell him the meaning of spontaneous combustion? I think we ought to be wasting our time because they don't eat that stuff in Italy. I'll see you here, Mr. Basko. Let's be honest about this. Here's the damage right before our eyes. Wouldn't you say the actual damage is about to... Well, let's be fair. Five dollars. Five dollars? Look ahead, Mr. Claims, the man. A bargaining is a bargaining. Would you begin the bargaining from the basement or you might as well go home? Is that so? Yes, that is so. Well, there's no point in my staying here. Mr. Basko, I'm going to recommend to my company that they pay you not one red cent. And what's more, I'm going to have them investigate you. Luigi, my fellow Hoover. Hello, sir. Luigi, what's the matter? You sound like a worm that looks at its face and says, this is the end. Now, what happened to you? Basko, what is it telling me to ask for more money because AF of L is helping me multiply by 72, so inflammation of blazes and all come out right because I'm got a spontaneous combustion. Oh, that screaming Pashkwali, has he got you for shimmels? What's the part of all the shows suggest the fellow has come and he says he's not going to pay me nothing for the fire? But how much did you ask for this stuff? One thousand and a fifty dollar. One thousand and fifty dollar? Himmel, for that money they could settle for the Chicago fire of 1871.  Don't you know whenever Pashkwali gives you any advice behind it he's got a 250-pound ulterior motive? Rosa? Schuster, then you think I'm a little longer with this acclaim? Oh, I know so. Luigi, the next time you want to have a fire call me first. What am I going to do with you? Schuster, what does the acclaim a fellow's going to do to me? Plenty. Just because it's a fire insurance company don't mean they got money to burn. Schuster, what am I wanting to do? Smile. Schuster, do you think if I'm a go straight to the insurance company I'm a better off? Ah, sure. Just go down to the insurance company, tell the big chief there everything that happened, and maybe he'll settle with you right on the spot. You think so, Schuster? Sure. Now smile, Luigi. Be like me always happy, always loving, huh? Oh, Schuster. Well, I hear it is empire, fire and insurance company. Come on, I'm going to hope everything is going to come out all right. I'm better talk to what a girl about it does get. Pardon me, miss. Yes.  Oh, did you bring it with you? How am I going to bring a fire? You see, I have a purpose of my name, a Luigi basket, 21 and not the whole of the city, Chicago, Fort Illinois. Mm hmm. Did you fire your claim? If I'm a what? Did you fire your claim? You mean that the edges has got to be even? Mr. Vasco, just who did you wish to see? I'm a like to talk what a chief of claims have fell on telling me he should have tied up on my claim at this time.  He's the second door to the left. Thank you. Mama, I'm a hope I'm doing right. There's so many offices in that continent, this disabustiment, president. Hey, president, maybe I'm sure that why not? Go ahead, Luigi, take a chance. In America, the best is as big as anybody else. Yes, come here. Hello. I'm a Luigi Vasco fellow who's ahead of the fire. What? Well, have a seat, Mr. Vasco. All right, Mr. President, I think I think I'm a man a lot of trouble for your company. I don't want to sound like I'm complaining, but you see, I'm ahead of the fire. Mr. Vasco, where I understand your anxiety about getting compensation, but you should have no fears on that score. Empire Fire Insurance is a bona fide, reputable A1 company and we make good on all legitimate clings. But, Mr. Vasco, what would you say if I told you we had as many as 10,000 fires a year? I would have said you should have been more careful. You missed the point. Please, Mr. President, I'm going to send the bigger claimant to your office. Then a fellow has to come and he...  And there was another draft so I'm going to put him out there with the water. What? Mr. President, believe me, I'm going to like it to make a trouble over your company. Trouble? No, Mr. Vasco, Empire Fire Insurance has unlimited assets. How much money are you asking us for? Twenty million dollars. All right, I'm a taker. What? I'm a taker. I mean I'm a taker whatever you want to give of me. Mr. Vasco, there are certain preliminary formalities which was first to be taken care of before your claim is settled. You've had your fire, you've sent in your claim, now go home and stop worrying.  I'm going to be the only thing to save you now is to get the best illegal of brains that money can abide. Mr. Vasco, you know I'm got no money. How am I going to do this? Well, I might have been willing to help out and Luigi, if I get you a lawyer, it won't be just a regular lawyer. I'm going to get you a lawyer with a license. Mr. Vasco, Luigi, after all, I'm a part of responsible for getting you in this trouble, so I've got to get a lawyer for you. Mr. Vasco, you want to do this for me? Sure, little banana nose. Mr. Vasco, you must a wonderful man in the world. Sure.   My daughter, Rosa. Well? Well, what am I going to say? All right, Mr. Vasco. Go!   Rosa! Rosa! Rosa! Yes, my little baby doll. Rosa, say hello to Luigi. Hello, Rosa. Hello, Rosa. He's a saint and a beautiful and luscious and somebody Luigi would like to take away the hair with the Niagara Falls. Could you guess who? Eddie Lamar.  Now, about the wedding, children. Hello. Mama mia, that's the claims of fellow Hissaback. Luigi, just be quiet. The president? Look, please, I'm explaining. Don't mind him, Mr. Jester. He's a nusbicker English. Well, the president has ordered me to settle his claim with satisfaction to all parties concerned. Now, Mr. Bersko, let's forget what happened before. How much would you take for your fire damage? Mr. Bersko, it's not our intention to frighten you into any unjust settlement. How about 233 dollars? No, 30 things. How about 200? No. 150? No. How do you like that? They change your places, the shoes on the other foot. Place, Mr. Claim, just talk to me, this fellow is only a year and a half with your wage, 33 dollars. That's dishonest. The 33 dollars is what the stuff costs to Louise. Just a minute. For you. I'm a pasquale, that's who I am. I'm a landlord here. Well, well, Mr. Bersko, in my investigation here, I found seven different fire violations. I'll be very happy to report these to the fire commissioner and see that you pay the fire. So, there's only one way to deal with his fire insurance company. Never have a fire. Yeah, I guess you like the pasquale. Well, let's come in the back at the happiest patient to Louise. Are you wedding with a rose? Yes, you're wedding. Louise, just to matter with you. Matter? Yes. Don't you understand me? No. I'm only a year and a half with the company and I'm a woman. I realize how good is an insurance for protection. Right now, I'm what took out all kinds of insurance. I'm got accident insurance, health insurance, and a life insurance. But now I would be the happiest man in the world before the I'm going to take out the one other kind of an insurance. Marriage insurance is to protect me from roses.  All right. Right. Thank you. This is my first experience . Thank you. See how diverse people have been out there and just The delicious Wrigley Stearman Dumb doesn't help you feel better and work better. To make this a Wrigley Stearman Dumb, I invite you to listen next week at the same time when Luigi Vasco writes another letter to his mama Vasco in Italy. Life with Luigi was transcribed and was produced and directed by Cy Howard and is written by Mack Benoff and Lou Dermott. J. Carol Mack is starred as Luigi Vasco with Alan Reed as the quality, Hans Connery as the show, Jody Gilbert as Rosa, Mary Shipp as Miss Baldwin, Joe Forte as Horowitz and Kempsey as his host. Music is under the direction of Vlad Glaston. Be sure to join Luigi Vasco, the little immigrant, next Tuesday at the same time when once again CBS invites you to live life. Life with Luigi. This is CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting System.


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This 10th year of Daily Tech News show is made possible by you, the listener, your Steve Aderola, Jeffrey Zilx, Michael Bollack, and maybe one of our brand new bosses like Max, Nathan, Eric, Kwotli, Janine, or Harm. All of you, thanks for backing us on Patreon. On this episode of DTNS, Shannon Morse tells us why Apple's new Vision Pro headset might be great news for Android users, how Netflix's password crackdown boosted its subscriber numbers, and Mercedes is leading the way with level three autonomous cars you can buy and not have to drive because of level three. This is the Daily Tech News show for Friday, June 9th, 2023 in Los Angeles. I'm Tom Merritt. From Studio Secret Bunker, I'm Sarah Lane. From Studio Colorado is Not Real, I'm Shannon Morse. Drawing the top tech stories from Cleveland, I'm Len Peralta. And I'm the show's producer, Roger J. I don't know which is which is more intriguing. The fact that Shannon made up all of Colorado just to hide her real location or or Len's great new voice. Oh, yes. A little bit of folk. Yeah, very. Yeah. I like this, I think. Yeah, no, I like it. Can you say let's start with the quick hits? Yes, let's start with the quick hits. All right, let's do it. Google added new capabilities to its barred chat bot. So if barred answers a question with a table, you can export that table to Google Sheets. Kind of handy. Barred also now uses a technique called implicit code execution, which can detect if a prompt involves computation. If so, the chat bot creates code in the background to generate a more accurate response. Google found this technique improved its accuracy with math problems by 30%. In case you missed it, Thursday morning, OpenAI updated its chat GPTIOS app to add support for Siri, shortcuts, and dragging messages from chat GPT into other apps. It also added a full iPad OS version of the app if you use that. Some meta news today. The company showed employees a preview of a standalone app based on Instagram that would support the Activity Pub protocol. The company framed it as its response to Twitter. Internal documents seen by the Verge show its public name could be called Threads. Meta's project chief, Chris Cox, said several celebrities are committed to using the app, as well as are in discussions with Oprah and the Dalai Lama. And Meta began internally testing viewing Reels content on its Quest headsets. A video from Mark Zuckerberg shows Reels appearing in a window with a virtual background. No word on when or how this would be rolled out to users, however. It's all over now, baby blue. Logitech plans to consolidate its microphone brands, Blue and Astro, under the Logitech G brand. The company will continue to use its premium Astro brand in the G lineup, but the Blue brand will just be branded to technology inside the product. So it'll be like the Blue audio processing, stuff like that. Logitech will continue selling the Blue products like the Yeti and other mics after this rebrand. Imagine if it was just Logitech rebrands its mics to Microsoft. That one, yes. We'll go over well, but just imagine. That's the secret story that I let slip out by accident. Sorry about that. Spotify CEO Daniel X showed off a screenshot of a new feature called Your Offline Mix, which automatically saves a mix of recently played songs on a device. X showed a three and a half hour playlist while announcing the feature. So we don't have word on when it might roll out, but some people seem kind of excited about it. You have to be a Spotify user, of course. Spotify already offers offline listening for premium subscribers, but users must proactively select songs to download. So this would make that just a little bit easier. On May 23rd, you probably remember, you probably had it marked on your calendar because people were so upset about it. Netflix announced the details of its new account sharing policy enforcement, AKA the big Netflix password crackdown. Started rolling it out in more than 100 countries, including the United States. So Independent Streaming Analytics company Antenna was understandably excited to publish the results of its measurements. So how did it affect those subscribers? All you people who are saying I'm gonna cancel, Antenna estimates Netflix acquired more new subscribers between May 25th and May 28th than in any other four day period since it began tracking streaming subscriptions back in 2019. With so many people so angry, or at least saying they were angry, and saying they were gonna cancel, Shannon, does this surprise you? Kind of, yeah. I was a little bit surprised that so many people decided to subscribe, but at the same time, I feel like there's going to be this huge part of the population who doesn't pay as much attention to tech news as we do, and they probably didn't even know that this was coming. So they probably just assumed like, oh, well, I guess I have to subscribe now. They didn't know to be upset. Yeah, they didn't know to be upset, and they heard about this back in May, and they were like, oh, okay. Well, I guess it's time. You know, that's a really good point. We've talked about this imminent change and how many people will be turned off by it that are current subscribers, how many people who are freeloading would not become subscribers, and who would be somewhere in between saying, oh, okay, I wonder how many Netflix subscribers just sort of said, we'll just say, I don't know what happened, friend of mine that has been using my Netflix account for a long time, and that person goes, well, wait a second, I really like this content. Okay, all right, it's time. I think that probably accounts for quite a lot of this. I always suspected there were more people complaining than would actually act than a lot of people who said, ah, I'll cancel if this happens when it came down to it. We're like, well, I don't really want to lose the thing because I'm in the middle of a show, and I also think there was an echo chamber. There were a lot of people who were telling each other that everyone was upset.  Yeah, and at the same time, I can understand where Netflix is coming from in a sense, like they do want people to use these in households, et cetera, et cetera, so in a business perspective, okay, like this is fine. This does affect me too though, like my sister-in-law, maybe I shouldn't mention it. Actually, I don't have an account, just kidding. So my sister-in-law, she was definitely using a pre-account, so hypothetically, she probably signed up for a new one, so that her children could continue to watch Netflix, and she's fine with that, but I can understand why a few people might be mad, but apparently it's not as big a number as we were expecting it to be.  I think most people, especially if that has been something that you have enjoyed for a short period of time, you don't think you deserve it. It's not something that's supposed to last forever. If it goes away, you say, well, you know, that was fun while it lasted, and I think a lot of, not everybody, you know, people will find ways around this, but I think a majority of Netflix, you know, potential subscribers who just didn't have to deal with it before say, all right, eight bucks, I can do that. Yeah, no, I think you're absolutely right. I'm gonna look at it very optimistically and say that I hope this boost in subscribers from making this policy change increases the production and content quality that we get out of Netflix in the future. And hopefully we get some more high quality shows on Netflix in the near future. That would be really nice. I would be very much looking forward to that. And hopefully, you know, hopefully it's a good change for the business in itself because I grew up in the time of like pirating with Napster, not saying that I ever did that, but it was definitely, oh no. I mean, none of us was there. There were people around you too. That was part of my generation. I heard about it, yeah. But if a company makes a product available to purchase, it makes it easily accessible, then I am more likely to purchase that thing as opposed to going down a piracy way of getting the product. So make it accessible and I'm more likely to buy it. Now, I like this positive spin, Shannon. Let's see if you can put a positive spin on all of the Apple Vision Pro coverage because I know there's been a lot this week. I was lucky enough to be asked to officiate your wedding. And one of the things you asked me to do was wear Google Glass, which was new at the time. Yes. As someone who's like been involved and they were Shannon's pair of Google Glass here, you've been involved in this sort of headset revolution for a while now and you're an Android user. What do you think of the Apple Vision Pro news? I'm glad you asked. And yeah, I've been so interested in using AR and VR headsets for almost a decade now. Ever since Google Glass came out, that was my first introduction to the idea of augmented reality and using heads-up displays and things like that. So for me, looking at what Apple is creating now, I am quite optimistic about this as well. I'm feeling very happy today. It's a good Friday. And I'm hoping that with Apple's Vision Pro, it brings the idea of normalizing these kind of displays to a much wider audience. And hopefully it makes it more popular. I feel like if that happens, we will see more competition in the space, obviously, that's usually what happens, but Apple has this history of creating these really beautiful products. They may not be the first to the market, but they always spur some kind of creativity in the genre. So I'm hoping that we're going to see the same thing here. Yeah, Apple multi-touch was a revelation on the iPhone. We forget that because it's in everything now, but it popularized multi-touch and now all smartphones are multi-touch. So I see where you're going with that. Yeah, now it's like a totally normalized thing to use multi-touch. If you use a device that does not have it, that's weird. That's weird. And now we're so naturally... Where is it? Yeah, now we don't understand how to use a device if it doesn't have multi-touch. And hopefully I would like to see the same thing happen here with the Vision Pro and with Augmented Reality where you have these heads-up displays and you have these wearable devices, but they come to a much more mass market. Obviously, this first generation is going to be way too expensive for most people, but I think that's where they usually start. Like, I couldn't afford the first iPhone when it first came out. There was no way. But we've seen that we've kind of caught up and gotten like a lot better competition in that field and maybe we'll see the same thing here too. Now we mentioned very briefly on the show yesterday that meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, perhaps you've heard of him, was less than impressed with Apple's vision of the future of VR or AR or XR or at least wanted people to think that way. Here's some more information to unpack this a little bit. In a company-wide meeting where he made these statements, Zuckerberg told employees that Apple's Vision Pro headset, quote, showcases the difference in the values and the vision with Meta's Quest products. Zuckerberg also said that Meta designs products to be accessible and affordable to everyone as possible. He's obviously, you know, making a dig at the price on the Vision Pro. Also made an emphasis on people interacting in new ways and feeling closer in new ways. He also said, and this one kind of stuck with me, of Apple's keynote itself, every demo that they showed was a person sitting on a couch by themselves. I mean, that could be the vision of the future of computing, but like it's not the one that I want. Now, first of all, people want to dunk on Mark Zuckerberg for a lot of reasons. People also want to dunk on the idea of, you know, Meta's vision for VR now being dead in the water because of what Apple's vision for a AR headset is going to be. They are two different things. And I don't think Zuck is wrong here. I also, and I mentioned this when Nika and Terrence from the Snobocast were on the show with us on Monday when we were just, you know, just kind of unpacking the keynote, which was quite long and finished right before we started the show. I was like, this does feel a little dystopian. You know, it's very Apple-esque, right? But there was something about it that felt sort of strange and stale to me. And I don't really know what that is. So I'm not saying that, you know, me and Zuckerberg are in cahoots with each other, but I think there is something to this. How long have you been in cahoots with Zuckerberg? I know. When did I stop, you know, having a weekly meeting with Mark Zuckerberg? No, I think that, I think there is something to what the MetaQuest, you know, you know, Metaverse, right, is supposed to be. I don't think it's catching on the way that Meta would like it to. But I think that there is something, he has a point. He has a point about, you know, this is a fun connectivity thing rather than a, all right, let me sit in my like fancy apartment and put this thing on and like do work. The weird thing about that point though, is demos aside, and he's not wrong about how Apple presented it, the Vision Pro is the one that would allow you to walk around because you can see through it, apparently, and see the real world in high resolution. Whereas the Quest is the one where like, I mean, yeah, I can show you the world around you, but it's kind of like through a screen door, and really weird, plus people can't see your eyes. It's supposed to be immersive. Yeah, exactly. So I don't think of the Quest as the thing that lets me interact with other people in real life. I assume what he means is horizon worlds and social and all that stuff. Mm-hmm, mm-hmm. That's kind of why you, Oh, sorry, go ahead, Sarah. Okay, that's kind of why I use the term HUD or like Head Up Display, Head's Up Display, whenever I'm talking about the Apple Vision Pro is because you still see the world around you. So like, we might not have these clean apartments, we might have like a dog trying to get your attention, or your kids trying to tell you to pay attention to their school homework or whatever, and you can still see the world around you. And that's why I think that Apple's introduction of this, their version of this technology might be the thing that starts to convert people into wanting it as a part of their life, as opposed to being something that's very, very niche. And the expense, by the way, I mean, you're the product with the Quest, you're not the product with the Apple. Yeah, true. There's also that. It's worth noting. There is that. Well, if you're in the market for a new vehicle and maybe you're thinking you might wanna go EV, the F-150 Lightning has a lot of interest from truck owners, but one of the most common questions from enthusiasts is about towing. Well, one of the main points that Chris Ashley and I talk about in our latest episode of Live With It is Chris's experience and advice regarding towing specifically with an EV truck. Here's a little bit of our combo. When it comes to towing things, I haven't had to tow anything yet, but I tell people, because I have this conversation a lot with folks around me. And isn't that one of the things that gets thrown around is like, well, if you're towing a boat, I mean, say goodbye to the range. Now you gotta range anxiety. So, and I tell people, I was like, well, do you own a boat? Like, no, but I was like, then why are you asking me about towing a boat if you don't own a boat? Now that was with half the people. The other people was like, yeah, I got this boat, you know, my fishing boat I towed with. And I was like, okay, do you tow it with the vehicle you're right there, you're driving with? No, I have this, you know, F-250. I'm like, what's the difference then? You have a second vehicle for towing that big thing. Now for the third, the smaller few who was like, no, this is my daily vehicle and the vehicle I towed my stuff with. I tell them straight up, it was like, you have to determine what you're willing to deal with because yes, you will definitely lose range when you start towing.  You know, it's not one-to-one because you definitely lose a lot more range than gas mileage, but it's just part of an EV. They're not there yet where it can just tow these massive amounts of things and it's not that hard on the battery, it is. So I tell people, A, if you tow stuff periodically, keep your towing vehicle and, you know, get this for your daily and your other stuff and when it's time to tow, use your towing vehicle.  And you're like, well, I need this when I tow once a year. Doesn't make a lot of sense. And so the point I'm trying to make is people can get through this part rationally, you know what I mean? What fits your lifestyle? Don't worry about losing miles is not losing miles because who cares if like my total range with the extended battery fully charges, 340 miles. Now let's say I lose 100 miles when I'm towing something which is not that far fetched. So I have 240 miles on the first leg and then after that maybe 200. If I'm willing to stop to recharge, then it doesn't matter, right? Yeah. Because that's just part of the trip and that's the thing that I think I learned the fastest was when you get an electric vehicle or when you're considering an electric vehicle, you must change your mindset. The days of I'm jumping in my car, I'm putting on my diaper and I'm driving for the next six hours until I get to my destination. That's not how you treat an EV, right? Treating an EV. There's a little bit more pre-planning that goes on. There's a little bit more pre-planning and a little bit more light stretching and which honestly benefits you. Now, if this interests you and you wanna hear the full episode or live with it on the Ford F-150 Lightning, check out patreon.com slash DTNS. It's a really good one. Chris actually knows his ish. That episode is now available to the free Patreon tier as of today. Enjoy. And in fact, speaking of patrons, Molly Wood is the single most frequently mentioned guest in our surveys. So we're doing a little Patreon push to convince her to be on the show more often. We finally listened to you. We got Molly to agree to come on Daily Tech News show for Molly Fridays once a month. I'm sure she'll bring her rant. She'll bring her amazing tech perspective and participate in our Friday quizzes. But to make this happen, we need a few more patrons. So we need to get to 4,000 paid patrons by June 29th. And if we do, we'll start the next day, June 30th. And that will be the first Molly Friday. So if you've been thinking about becoming a patron, you're not a patron yet. If you're already a patron, you're doing your part. But if you're not, sign up now and make Molly Fridays happen. Go to patreon.com slash DTNS. The California Department of Motor Vehicles issued a permit for Mercedes-Benz's drive pilot, driver assistance system. It is the first automaker with permission to sell a vehicle with level three autonomous systems in the state. Now, Mercedes got similar certification for Nevada in January and has deployed this already in Germany back in May, 2022. But level three is significant, especially in California because it is one up from what Tesla offers in its full self-driving. Yeah, so at level three, the driver can take their eyes off the road. They can take their hands off the wheel, but they have to be ready to resume control when necessary so you can't go into the backseat and take a nap, that type of thing. The Mercedes system is limited to high traffic situations. It's also limited to daylight while moving slower than 40 miles per hour. And you'd have to take over in a few other situations. If there was an emergency vehicle nearby, for example, you know, you got to pull over because the ambulance is coming type thing. Or if it's stormy weather, where the car might have more visibility issues. So Shannon, we're getting to the point where it's autonomous, but still somewhat, you know, as a human, you can't totally check out. Does this delight you? Does this surprise you? How do you feel about it? Yeah, Sarah, it delights me. I'm very excited about this. So I've only had a little bit of experience being in like a friend's Tesla and or in a self-driving autonomous vehicle like a Waymo. However, with the Waymo vehicles, those obviously are not available to consumers. They're just being used to kind of like an Uber type of thing in places like, oh gosh, where is it? Arizona? Phoenix, yeah. Yeah, Phoenix, Arizona. And they're so cool. Like it's so nice being in those vehicles and being able to just kind of relax and let the vehicle do its own thing. And I never felt scared or anything of the vehicle, understanding what it was supposed to do. And oftentimes it saw motion or things on the road that it should be cautious around. And it was more cautious than I would be as a human driver. And sometimes it saw these things before I ever would have seen them with my reaction and response time, which is pretty decent, because I play video games, okay? Okay, so I'm excited. I want this to happen in my lifetime, where we start seeing these self-driving vehicles on the road. I do have a bit of a concern. And this is just because I don't live in California anymore. What if you move? Like can you take your car with you and you're not allowed to use the self-driving anymore? I think I can answer that. Mercedes is applying for permission in every state in the United States, whether they even need it or not. Some states don't require it, but they're like, I'm just making sure. So the system won't kick on if it's not in a state where it has approval, but hopefully they'll get approval in Colorado. Well, that's cool. Yeah, I like that, because then you aren't necessarily limited to one place and you could take this with you on road trips and things of that nature. So that would be cool. But the limitations, like under 40 miles per hour, only being able to use it in daylight, that does make sense. I'm sure that they're being extremely cautious with what they are allowed to do with the level three vehicles. But hopefully they get to the point where you can use them on the highway or you can use them at nighttime, like if you're coming home from work super late at night or in the wintertime, like it gets dark in the wintertime. So I would like to see more functionality, but I guess we're just, we gotta take some time with that safety and all. I mean, this whole thing is, so in my current Volvo, which is in the shop, actually, but whatever. So I am certainly not at level three. What I can do is the car can drive itself in most situations. However, every 30 seconds, if I don't have my hands on the wheel, it either like the steering wheel shakes or it beeps at me or both or it just turns off entirely. So it actually is more annoying to use it than to not for me in most cases, just because I'm so concerned that, oh, if I'm not gonna read a book over in the corner, I can't do that. This, I guess, would be the point where you can start being able to feel comfortable doing those things with more vehicles on the road. And that could be cool. I worry a little bit about all the situations that are going to come up, especially weather conditions, because they are. But otherwise, I'm with you, Shannon. I'm into it, bring it on. And Mercedes is responsible for accidents that happened if drive pilot is in control and you're following the rules, right? You weren't taking a nap in the back seat or anything, but I thought that was interesting as part of this rollout. Mercedes is like, we take on the liability when drive pilot is cruising. So I absolutely could use this on the 405 in Los Angeles when you're bumping it along at 10 miles or less of an hour and you just would rather watch TikTok than pay attention because it's dead simple to just be like the doop, doop, doop, doop, doop, right? Oh, but Tom, you're still supposed to pay attention. But with level three, I wouldn't have to. You would only have to if you have to. Yeah, only have to if you have to.  I guess that's the thing is like, don't get so involved in your book that you miss the alert when it's time to take control again. Yeah, exactly. Well, speaking of doing some travel, how many world heritage sites have you visited in your life? Some of you say, I don't know, none, or what are they even? Maybe even more importantly, you know what they are, but you don't realize that a lot more exist that you've never even knew about. Chris Christensen, AKA the amateur traveler has some intel for you, if so. This is Chris Christensen from amateur traveler with another tech in travel minute. One type of site that I'm very interested in seeing when I'm traveling are world heritage sites. These are sites that the UN through UNESCO has named as significant sites worth preserving. There are currently at time of this recording 1,157 different sites in the world that have this designation and many of which you've heard of and many of which you haven't. I've been to a little over an eighth of those sites, but I like to keep track of them. If my website off my about page, I have a list of the places I've been to, but there is also an app that a friend introduced me to recently just called World Heritage and it lets you know what World Heritage sites are near you and helps you keep track of which ones you've seen. The app again is World Heritage and this is Chris Christensen from amateur traveler. I've been to more than I thought. I started looking through this. Me too. I've been, although there were a few where I was like, huh, did not realize that. Same here. That's a bucket list item, yeah. The first World Heritage site I ever visited was Cahokia Mounds. World, I had no idea that was a World Heritage site. Wow. Well, busily illustrating today's show, probably not drawing the Cahokia Mounds, but I'd be like incredibly impressed with his prescience if he had. Len Peralta, what have you drawn for us today? Well, you know the top story of the week, I'm always on here talking about the top story of the week. Of course, it was Vision Pro. I don't see myself becoming a user of it until probably I become rich or whatever. But one of the things I thought was interesting was the eye camera that lets you see the person's eyes kind of. And that's what this one is all about. Vision Pro is they're definitely sleeping, right? They gotta be sleeping. Just like Homer Simpson in that one episode of the, you know, they're wearing the glasses. Yeah. That, you know, I think that's basically a 3,500 Homer Simpson joke that's waiting to happen. So yeah, you know, I find myself having a hard time trying to stay up and this will just, you know, this will make conversations so much easier because people will not be able to see, will be able to see my eyes. Anyway. Your drag of that person's eyes is kind of exactly how I think of it too. It's kind of weird. That's so funny. It's a little bit strange. But yeah, that's the first thing I thought of was that Simpson gag. In any event, if you are a fan, or even if you're not a fan of the Vision Pro, you can pick this up right now at my Patreon, patreon.com forward slash Len, at the DTNS Lover level, or you can just go the old-fashioned route, go to my store, pick up this print, and maybe even commission me for something. I'm open for that, so let's talk. So there you go. Shannon Morse. Thank you, Len. It is fantastic, Len, thank you. Shannon Morse, always fantastic to have you as well. It's been a, you know, big week in tech. We know you're always busy, so where do people keep up with your latest? YouTube.com slash Shannon Morse. I just posted like half an hour ago, my unboxing of my Silver Play button finally got it in the mail, so you can check that out over on my YouTube. And if you want something that's more tech savvy, you can check out my Google Authenticator 2FA video that I just posted about a week ago. All right, patrons, you are already doing your part to get Molly Wood Fridays to happen. Stick around for the extended show. Good day, internet. We're gonna test your knowledge of video game music. Some of the biggest names in music have contributed to your favorite video games over the years, so come play along with us, patrons. Join us. Just a reminder, we are live on DTNS Monday through Friday at 4 p.m. Eastern, 200 UTC, and you can find out more at dailytechnewshow.com slash live. We hope y'all have a great weekend. We're back on Monday with Aya's actor joining us. Talk to you then. 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