I'm Jeremy Dean, Director of Education at Hypothesis, and you are at the Annotation and Education Summit at OLC Innovate, hashtag annotated, which you are free to use, we encourage you to use if you're tweeting during the sessions here or during the session. There's a bitly link at the bottom of this slide deck that you can access the slide deck yourself if you want to have it in front of you. There are some resources within that might be useful later. We can also tweet it out and share it later as well. This is an overview of our agenda. I sent it out beforehand, but we're going to spend about the first hour or so just with a general introduction and introductory activity so we get to know each other. And then mental lesbians is going to give a mini keynote to set the tone, set an inspirational tone for our afternoon together. And then the second hour will be annotation stories from many of you in the room that have used Hypothesis and other tools in the classroom. And then the third part will be a design thinking activity led by Rémy Collier. We are broadcasting this session as a webinar for some virtual folks. So just be aware of that. I think we have a mic that will wander around if folks out at those tables, you know, have something to say, it'd be nice to have the mics so the virtual folks can hear you. And for those that are joining us virtually, we are going to sort of cut off our feed at around three o'clock when we're done with annotation stories because the activity will be sort of not really translated into the webinar. All right, let's get started. I'm going to talk to you just a little bit about the Hypothesis project since we brought you guys together and annotation generally. And then we'll play with the Legos that are on your table. So don't touch them yet. Don't look at them there for later. So we're here to talk about annotation, which is really nothing new. It's an age old technology that's been employed by scholars and students since at least the invention of the book. I'm a former English professor by training and I would always hand out Billy Collins's marginalia first day of every term to try to inspire my students to write physically in their physical books to aid their comprehension and to start developing the kind of critical thinking that I was hoping they would, you know, was really one of the major outcomes for my course. In 2017, in February 2017, the governing body of the Internet, the W3C, recommended web standard, recommended annotation as a web standard, which basically made annotation a part of the infrastructure of the web. So this skill that I've been trying to teach students in my English courses of close reading and critical thinking through marginal note-taking and commentary was something that is now built into, baked into the physical structure of the Internet as an open and interoperable standard. There are real radical consequences to this that we'll talk about. One of them is that it allows these layers of annotation. See if I can get it. All right. It allows layers of annotation to exist on top of anything that's on the web. So any website, article, ebook, document, or piece of multimedia can have these multiple layers of note-taking and conversation on top of them. I can have a private note layer on top of a document online. I can see public notes and comments online on the same document. I can make a reading group for colleagues that are interested in this topic and gather them all on this space, whether they're, you know, at the same school or in the same city or remote or working asynchronously. And I can, of course, develop private course groups for annotation as well. All on top of a single document. So I can see multiple layers of notes and comments on top of a single document online. My colleague, John Udell, likes, has a great way of describing this. He says that, you know, if the web is an information fabric, then annotation increases the thread count of that fabric. Because the way the standard is designed is that every annotation has its own URL, its own way to point to it on the Internet. So before we've trafficked in web pages on the level of a document, now we can exchange and engage with information online on the level of comments and threads of conversation. Hypothesis is a nonprofit. So our goal is to bring annotation to the Internet. We were a big part of the ratification of those standards by the W3C. And the radical idea behind hypothesis as a nonprofit and open source software company is that this layer of commentary on top of the web that takes place in the margins in annotation can't be proprietary, can't be owned by a single company. It needs to be owned by the people who create the content and allow people to choose which tools they use as long as interoperable annotations could be read by different tools. And so it gives more power to the user in this model than a for-profit venture capital proprietary model would. I always like to give a little shout out to our team. My colleague, Nate Angel, is in the room and will be engaging directly with you all later. But we have a really great small team. It's a wonderful group of people that are really dedicated to this to this mission, many of whom, especially in the developers, could be making more money elsewhere but join nonprofit outfit because they really believe in the mission as something that's healthy for tech and for the internet. So of course, as I mentioned before, annotation is not something new to education. And in talking to users, end users, students and teachers, I've isolated three ways that I think that annotation is powerful in the classroom. And these are really just the beginning of the conversation. Folks in the room are going to tell their own stories about using annotation and bring up other points and takeaways from their experiences. But for me, there's three things I want you to sort of think about as a starting point. And then Manuel is going to kind of throw it all out the window because I think he's doing more radical things than what I'm describing here. But first is that annotation makes reading visible. When I would assign, when I would read margin alien and tell my students to write in the margins of their books, that was really just an aspirational thing. I never taught them how to write in the books. I never taught them how to highlight. I never taught them what to write. I might give them some suggestions about technique there, but really it was just a hope they would go and do it and that it would make them better comprehend what they were reading and become critical thinkers. And then I would assess a paper or some other summative assessment that was supposed to sort of display those skills, the outcomes or the benefits of those skills. But hypothesis and collaborative annotation, social annotation makes reading visible in powerful ways. For one, you can know that your students have read rather than assigning a PDF and hoping that it happens and kind of staring into their eyes and seeing, you know, trying to magically understand if they had done the reading or not. You can actually see evidence of this, but you can also see how they're reading and start to engage with them and talk to them about how they're reading, intervene if they're confused about something, inspire if they get off on some train of thought that's incredibly valuable that you want to push them on, you can reply to an annotation and be there with them while they're reading. This is also not something you're reading makes, you know, hypothesis makes reading active. I think this is the essential component of annotation generally in its analog form as well, but it's important to remember that as we start to deliver more and more of our readings online, we lose the analog, you know, tools of annotation. We brought an analog tool for you, the little post-it notes or sticky notes that are on the table to take away some swag, but you can't use a highlighter online. You can't use a pen. There's no sticky notes. So tools like hypothesis bring that active reading process to digital content. And then finally, and I think most radically, annotation makes reading social. I think education professors in Rami and Manuel can correct me if I'm wrong, but, you know, knowledge production is understood as a social process, right? It takes place in community, but a lot of times the way we teach reading is something that's a sort of isolated activity, and I think it's important for people to curl up with a book on a couch and, you know, fall in love with with a text so that we're not trying to get rid of that, but ultimately reading is a social activity, bringing those ideas to a conversation, engaging, building up other people's ideas, and hypothesis makes that possible. I'll just lastly emphasize that, you know, unlike I think a lot of the tools that you would see in the vendor hall here, hypothesis is not a typical ed tech company. We have a browser extension that can be downloaded by anybody in this room, or anybody in the public, and be used for free to close read as a citizen of the internet, and to engage with others as a citizen of the internet, and there's lots of professions and everyday folks that are using hypothesis that have no association with universities. And I think it's a powerful thing to introduce a tool to students that will they can take with them beyond the classroom and beyond a campus. I've used in my 10 minutes, I'm going to skip my roadmap stuff and we're going to play with Legos to try to keep us on time. All right, so we're going to play with Legos. There's Legos on the table. There's fewer people than were expected, so there's lots of Legos for everybody. And here's the basic idea.  And as that person is talking and telling you a little bit about themselves, your job is to assemble a Lego figurine for your person that you've just been introduced to. At each table has, I think, 12 or 13 Lego figures on it. So that's 12 or 15 legs, 12 or 13 torsos, 12 or 13 heads. Apparently male Legos do not have hair. It's not a thing for male Legos. So Manuel and Remy have proven that to be true in real life as well. But and then there's 12 or 13 accessories. So each figure can have torso, legs, head, maybe hair or helmet. I don't know if that's the sort of hair of a man or something like that, but and accessories. Legos are built, but you can take them apart. So you may want to mix and match, gender bend. There's enough if you want to put two pants on. You can't put two hats on a Lego, but you could put two pants. So when you say, well, because people say I wear many hats, but in this case you might wear many pants. Just trying to help, you know, get the creative juices flowing here. For those of us that are working, that are virtual, there is a link in this document and Nate I think is probably tweeting it out or putting it in the chat where there's a virtual way to create a figure. So I'm gonna let you guys go ahead and start talking to a partner and interview them and create their Lego figurine.


Welcome back to Steps to Freedom, Miraculous number seven, part two. Gonna be taking a look at anxiety disorders tonight. You're gonna do exactly what you did for the overcoming rejection and listening to the video, taking notes, writing down some things and then going all the way to the end towards the prayer time and follow along with Brother Mike as he prays for you. So last week, I talked about get wisdom, get knowledge and understanding and read your Bible. This week is anxiety disorders. And this is week eight. All right, so you're watching the videos. Like I said, two weeks ago, you were asked to watch overcoming rejection and I hope that was beneficial for you. This week, we're looking at anxiety disorders. Mike does a great teaching. It's called Anxiety Reduction and there's so much great information in there. There's videos. It's gonna help you understand if you do with any kind of anxiety or fear phobia issues, this video is gonna help you so much. So you're gonna watch the video.  You wanna take some notes down.  That's the House of Healing AZ and type in Anxiety Reduction. Okay, Anxiety Reduction. My PowerPoint doesn't move as quickly as I'd like it to. So we have to pause. So you're gonna finish watching tonight. We're gonna start watching the video and then you're gonna finish watching the video. You're gonna listen, take notes and then right at two hours and eight minutes is where the prayer time begins. So like I said, two weeks ago, you wanna be in a quiet place. You want it to be private. You wanna have some tissues nearby.  Maybe it doesn't apply to you exactly but use it anyway. Use this time to get some spirits out. Yawning, spirits come out through tears, yawning, coughing.  You might have to run to the bathroom, you might sneeze. Okay, these are all different ways that spirits come out. Just let them come out, okay? And pray along and learn how to do some self-deliverance. All right, I wanna mention as a reminder to you that every Wednesday at 7 p.m. Mountain Standard Time, we have a Zoom Deliverance call. Oh no, we have a Zoom Deliverance call with Rick Cott. If you go onto Facebook, oh no, if you go onto Facebook and, excuse me, go to Steps of Deliverance, there you will find the Zoom link and the access code. Okay, there it is, Wednesday nights, okay? Zoom Deliverance, go on there, turn your camera on.  There are ministers on there, they start at about 7 p.m. and it goes all the way to midnight, Arizona time, Mountain Standard Time. So if you're on the East Coast, they're doing it till three o'clock in the morning. You can find time. If you're in California, I think we're on the same time zone right now. So go on Steps of Deliverance on Facebook and look for the Zoom link. All right, and also we have service here. If you're in Phoenix, whoops, if you're in Phoenix, please get down here. If you're in state of Arizona, maybe you can make a trip. We have people that come from Presca, Arizona, Flagstaff, people come up from Tucson all the time, make the service, it is well worth it. Thursday nights, Rick Hot, he preaches, it's a great service. We start at 7 p.m. Friday nights, Mike Smith will preach, David Baldwin will preach sometimes, Peter V will preach, and Brother Francis. So come and check out on Friday nights and we always have deliverance service afterwards. Okay, we looked at overcoming rejection and this week we're talking about anxiety and it's called anxiety reduction. So go on to the Arizona House of Healing AZ on YouTube and type in anxiety reduction and you should be able to find it. I hope you enjoy it and we'll see you next week. Thanks.


So, when you are asked to name covalent or molecular compounds, it's a little different than naming ionic compounds like we just talked about. Remember with ionic compounds, you just say the names of the two ions, and then drop the ending of the anion and put ID. But with covalent compounds, you've got to tell the number of the actual atoms in there. So let's try some of these covalent compounds or molecular compounds. So this first one, silicon and oxygen, right, but there's two oxygens for every silicon. So you don't, so you say silicon, if there's only one of the first element that's listed, you just write the element itself. So silicon, but there's two oxygens, so you say di-oxide, okay, so let's try this one. So this one has two nitrogens, so we don't just put nitrogen in it, we put di-nitrogen. What's the prefix for five, pent, drop the A. More than one, that's just carbon.


Hi everybody, so I'm Danielle Downs, and today we're going to be going over highlighting curly hair. And I'm going to be using a vertical technique that is pretty much a circular pattern that's going to go around the head, kind of like a clock. So depending on the head that you're working with, you can modify this where it's just a straight vertical, or it can be a slightly diagonal vertical. Today, I'll be using the slightly diagonal vertical, so that way it disperses around the head a little bit more. This is meant to be a little bit more high contrast. So in between the foils, I'm also going to be just doing a little bit of hand painting on a couple of sections, because what I want to do is create a high, a medium, and a low. And you can see the difference between our two mannequins here, because this one has not been colored at all. This one has been highlighted, and then it's also been toned with palmitul crema. And that was 8nb that I used for the whole head just to give it that lovely dimension. And so let's get into it. This was pretty much inspired by a longtime client of mine. Her name is Brittany. I've been doing her hair since she was about, I would say about seven, eight years old. And she has very, very curly hair. We've played around with color once she got to about 14 years old. For a little while, she laid off of the color while she was in college. But recently, we started highlighting her again, and she has extremely curly hair. Do we have that picture? Yeah, I'm trying to find it. So she's got extremely curly hair, what you would consider coily as well as extremely curly combination hair. And it's all the way down to her waist.  So that was after a little bit of a trim dusting just to refresh her ends. It's a little shorter in the front because she's got angles. But the back, as you can see, when it straightened out, she's got a lot of hair. Now with this technique on Brittany, I had actually used palmitul color XG. And that was because we wanted to start off with just a very subtle color shift. So that later on when the summer comes, we can actually go in with a lightener and pop in a few lighter pieces. But like I said, this is to combine your natural color, a medium base tone, and then some highlights. And you can pretty much go wherever you want from there. So right now what I'm doing is I'm just lightly missing the hair so that way I can detangle because you never really want to go in straight away when the hair is in its naturally curly state because there might be a couple of tangles, a little bit of snarling. And you don't want to be ripping out somebody's hair. So this is just to help you work a lot smoother. So I like to go in with a wide two comb. And a lot of people think that, no, you shouldn't do any type of wet style or wet product on the hair right before you're going in with a lightener. But in this case, we know that curly hair is moisture deprived. So when you go in with something, say like our invisible wear boomerang, which is to help detangle and defraise the hair, or if you go through with palmitul hydromists, then that's a great thing to use to help balance out the moisture in the hair so that when you color it, it doesn't have spots that either came up too light or came up too dark. So that's just my personal preference. And I'm always welcoming a lot of other stylists to give me their expertise because that's the whole point of a community like this is to share information. So this is just my take on it. So as you can see, I pretty much go in just from the high point of the head. And I start detangling from there and keeping everything straight out. So if they're longer, yes, it might flop over the head so you can part it. But seeing as how this mannequin is a little shorter, I'm going to go in and just splay everything out in a perfect little kind of flattened out afro, I guess you could say. Now if you like to section out, keep everything neat, have a road map kind of like I do, and I'm just going to section this into four quadrants, very basic. So going from the high point of the head right behind the ear for our first section, just clip that away. And then again from the high point of the head right down the middle. And now we've got our first little quadrant here. Now I always find it a little easier to just when you're working with these duck bill clips, just have the legs or the arms of it, however you refer to it, going up so that way it doesn't pop out or that you lose control. Gator clips are another great thing, chop sticks also, so whatever your preference is. But basically you want to get the hair as secure as possible and just out of the way. And as I said, this is a very easy salon reality kind of highlighting technique. And personally I love it because I can modify it so all different lengths. And I can do as much or as little as I want depending on the head. So always make sure that you're going in and assessing the hair. If you have finer textures and you're using a weave, maybe not use a large weave, you can use a fine weave so that way it's a little bit more diffused around the head shape itself. Okay, so I'm going in with sink or lift today. It's great because it's a potato based lightning system that lifts up to nine levels. But what's wonderful for curly hair is the fact that with that potato starch it's pretty much like a conditioning kind of effect. And it's also not going to irritate if you're using this on the scalp. But mainly I chose it because it doesn't swell. So especially when I'm doing any of that hand painting, I don't have to worry about it bleeding on to other areas that I don't want it to. Now also when you're doing a highlighting with this, you want to make sure that when you're doing the hand painted portion, you're weaving out a couple of sections. So that way it blurs the line a little bit. Say if somebody wants to blow out their hair and not wear it curly. All right, so depending on your preference, you can start in the back or in the front. Personally, I like to start in the front because that's what everybody sees. That's what they're most interested in seeing the lightest result. So Danielle, a couple of questions. Jess is asking, says, hey, Danielle, thanks for being here. This method worked for someone who has Moana type of curls. Absolutely. As I said, depending on the wave pattern that you're using, you're going to modify your weave pattern. So it can be a larger fatter weave and maybe like three or four actual ribbons, or it could be a medium weave and there can be about like maybe four or five or six little ribbons in there. Okay, great. The second question was, when you do highlights, don't you straighten the hair or you don't straighten the hair? Question mark. Why wouldn't you straighten the hair? I think that's a good way to put it there. Well, most of the time when I'm going in to do, especially Brittany's hair, it takes me on average about a good 20, 30 minutes just to straighten her hair with, say, a paddle brush. And there's really no need for it, because if you think about it, you're opening up the hair shaft when you apply heat to it. So if I do that, I'm ruffling that cuticle edge right off the bat. And that might actually just lift up a little bit more. And then when you're dealing with, like, especially color, it can lift a little bit unevenly and it can irritate the scalp. So I really wouldn't want to do that. Above all, I'm a hair care nut. Nice. Okay. Let me just get a little comfortable here. All right. So I usually like to work on the side of the head. And again, you can start wherever you want with this. If you want to start near the ear and work that way, you can. I usually like to start right in the part, because that's what this person, you know, your guest is going to see. I also like to take out just a tiny little section right in the front. So that way, when I'm weaving, it only shows a shadow of that highlight right in the hairline when she goes to pull it back, because most, most natural leases are going to be pulling their hair into like a tighter, slicked back ponytail. So I really don't want to make that difficult for someone to look at for like the first two, three weeks if I'm doing like a really heavy week. Because then it's just going to look really, really stripy. So by having that little veil there, it helps to diffuse it a little bit more. Okay. So we're going to pop in that first highlight. Now the other thing that I don't worry about is most of the time you want to make sure that your section is only as wide as the foil itself. But because we're working on a curly girl that really isn't worried about getting this right to the scalp. It's okay to over-direct those corners and have those a little further away. Danielle, let's turn her when you get a sec, and then I'll go to the over top. Cool. All right. So just like in the salon, we are always changing things around. We're adapting in the moment. That's one of the things that I love about being a hairdresser. We work on the fly. I mean, yes, we want to present everything well, but at the same time, we want this to be as comfortable for our guests as possible. And what's the name of the lightener you're using again? I am using Plum Mitchell Sinker Lift. So I'm just going in with the corner of my brush just to tap a little bit closer. But as I said, with this one, you can go very close to the edge because it doesn't swell. So you don't have to worry about those bleed marks pushing over the foil line. And of course, you never want to be messy. Which I have watched hairdressers that they can work in basically all white. I used to watch a guy named Floyd Kenyatta. He was like the granddaddy of textured hair for Paul Mitchell back in the day. And this guy would wear an all white suit and work with like red, black hair color. Never get a single thing on him. Me, I just fling it everywhere. I'm kind of messy. Not going to lie. OK, so if you need to go ahead and clip that out of the way and just make sure that you're not grabbing onto your foil because you don't want to pinch that. So when you're clipping a piece away, just go right over the foil and connect that to the rest of the hair that you have clipped away on the other side. So again, I'm taking in a rather small section. Going in with just a larger weave. And as I said, I'm pretty much following the round of the head here. Left out that little section in the front so that we have a little veil. We don't have to worry about any lines or streaks going on in the hairline when she pulls her hair back or especially if she blows her hair out straight. Now, when it comes to my guest, Brittany, she pretty much only wears her hair blown out whenever I do it because she's just too busy and she's got too much hair to be doing all that by herself.  So I have basically nurtured that hair. For most of my career, she was one of my first clients. And I got to work with a lot of difference. Color techniques and color lines as a result of working with her and working with her mom who had relaxed hair. So with her mother, she wanted highlights as well. So what I would do is use Paul Mitchell, the color because it had a low ammonia base. And it was wonderful for keeping her the integrity of her hair intact, but giving her that pop that she was really looking for with color without damaging. And with that, I also used an NB. Relaxed hair is wonderful as well. A lot of people think that nobody is straightening their hair that way anymore. I beg to differ. It really just all depends because you have some of your, I guess you could say like old school clients that they see straight hair as being more professional, but, you know, it's changing a lot now. So we're getting a lot more people in our chairs that maybe they're getting what's called a silk press. So they're natural, but at the same time, they like to wear their hair both ways. So it's more of a convertible lifestyle, I guess you could say. So this is a great technique because it's pretty simple and straightforward. It's just the same thing going around the entire head. And personally, I like anything that is monotonous and repetitive, because if it's repetitive, I don't have to do thinking on which color did I do here? Which weave did I do over there? I can just work and keep conversation going with somebody without thinking, oh, crap, I forgot, did I weave that section? Did I go in with a TZ light? Did I balayage that? And then I'm also just folding my foil itself into like this little triangle, something that I learned in one of my palmitchel trainings when they had this collection called Origami.  And I can get to the rest of the hair a little bit easier by just folding that in half that way. And it's a nice little conversation piece in the salon itself. Are you leaving out the hairline in the front, Danielle? Well, somebody's asking, I know you went over it a little bit, but. Yes, but it's only a very, very thin section so that it's just a light veil. So not a whole lot. And you can see that a little bit better back here while I'm working. So again, just clipping that out of the way. So try to have a lot of clips. Because you want to control that hair. Now, I'm not going right up to the top of that pivot point, going just under it.  Hey, and then I'm just going to take my clip from up here. Flip away that hair to keep that nice and controlled and out of my way. And again, making sure that you're not clipping that to your foil because you don't want to smush that together. Dropping that very thin little piece right at the hairline. Now in the back, seeing as how that's actually a lot thicker and denser than the front section back here, I actually like to just take out a tiny bit of hair. So I'm not doing an even weave the same way that I did up front. This one, I'm only dropping out maybe about three little sections. So effectively, it almost looks more like a weave. I'm sorry, not a weave, a slice. So again, going in with the corner of my brush so that I can just tap that close to the hairline, but not right up to it. Now, some people, they have like a really long kind of nape area in the back. So you might have to take that in two sections, and that's fine. So for me, I always say that any technique that you're using, learn it, master it, but also play with it and have fun because the whole reason that we got into this is because we like playing with hair and we like seeing what it's going to do. And that's where we get our best kind of discovery or aha moments. Like, oh, all right, that works. So honestly speaking, that's kind of how I stumbled onto this little technique because the pinwheel technique has been around for a very, very long time. But I had never really seen it a lot on curly hair. I mostly saw it on just very dense hair or anybody that was interested in very chunky highlights, which, like I said, is the perfect thing when you're dealing with curly hair, because it's such a large shape and it diffuses and swallows up that color because the light has a hard time finding where to reflect. So when you're using those chunkier sections, it'll pop out a lot better. So, Daniel, I think this is a good thing for the future. Maybe in the next couple of weeks, we'll do it.  Oh, definitely. I think that would be a good technique. We probably won't go over that today, but we will put that into the future class. Stop. So make sure you are following Friessland Education, following Danielle. You'll see the flyers come out. But Danielle will be on here, like I said, every single Thursday. So so make sure you tune in. Well, I like to do a lot of different things. So I am more than open for requests. And even if it's something that I never tried, I will give it a try here for you and see whether it was or not. So you're saying what is the money piece? Well, that would be just like a very bright pop right in the fringe. So right around the face. So now we're already working into our third quadrant. So as I said, this is a pretty fast moving kind of technique because we're covering a lot of hair at one time and clipping away that extra hair so we can work very neatly and cleanly, taking that vertical section in the back. We are confirming this is a pinwheel technique. Correct? Yes. Just on curly hair. So that's we're changing up a little bit. People are asking. So like I said, it's basically like a pinwheel. It's just not as many sections as you would with a pinwheel because we're going to be painting in between. So I'm one of those people that I love to do mashups. I like to learn something and then I want to see what is it going to do with that technique a little way from here. What is it going to do with that technique and another one? So combining balayage. And I mean, we've all done that when it comes to like a balayambra. Or even like shadow rooting and doing a little bit of balayage with that. So that's what we do all the time. That's why I'm saying it's a great thing to master a technique, but then play with it, have fun with it and make it your own because no two heads are alike. And especially for me and a lot of my clientele, which is multiracial, I am always trying to think of things on the fly for them because in the beginning, when I was just learning one technique and then I'm applying it to everybody's head, they're like, why does that person have my hairstyle or why does that person have my hair color? And it's not theirs, but technically it is. So by being able to assess the hair, whether they're fine, medium course, whether they have high density, low density, all of that stuff, that's how you modify it and make it just for them. OK, so again, working on to our next section and everything is just going about like clockwise around the head. So we got questions like how long have you been a hairdresser? So if you want to interact with that, Jess is on here. Um. Thank you. Well, I have been God, I've been doing here. I believe it's 18 years this this June. Yeah. All right. I actually graduated from a Votek school. So as much as I love Paul Mitchell schools and I love Paul Mitchell itself, don't knock the vocational schools. No, because you guess what? You don't have 20 grand. Exactly. I'm still paying off my school. I wish it was a vocational school. I didn't go to Paul Mitchell either. Well, lucky for me, expensive. All of them are expensive and vocational are not. So good for you, Danielle. Well, I went when I was a little older. I was in my 20s and I it was like right after 9 11. And I'm like, OK, I don't want to go into psychology and criminal justice because I don't want to work with crazies and criminals. What am I going to do? And my mother was interested in having her very own hairdresser. Oh, there you go into it. Exactly. So as they say, mommy knows best. Yeah, that's true. And it just went from there. But it was funny because like I was literally coloring my mom's hair as a kid because I got tired of her getting her hair color all over the phone, all over the bathroom. So I was applying her hair color. I was that kid that had a vanity, that little like chrome one in their room, and I would look through magazines and I would pick out hairstyles and I'd recreate them on my own head. And then I started playing around with my friends here, too. So I didn't realize that I liked hair that much. It was just in my area. I lived in a very small town in New Jersey, and I would walk into hair salons and they would literally say, we don't do your kind of hair. So, yeah, you either drove into Brooklyn or to Newark and you went to, you know, any of your experience salons with ethnic hair or you did your own. So funny because, like, I don't know, it's I think I think like back now, like, so we've both been doing hair almost the same amount of time. I think you're a couple years more than me. It's like feels like yesterday. You know, yeah, it's just interesting, like to know that it flies by that fast, right? I mean, during the whole quarantine, I went through all of my hair stuff. And I mean, like, I've got an entire section of my basement just dedicated to hair mannequins, everything for my educator days, all that. And I love going back to school. So I was an educator for Paul Mitchell for close to 10 years. I'm a certified cosmetology teacher of what is that, 14 years. And yeah, I've been doing hair for 18. So I eat, sleep and breathe hair. You have your teacher license in New Jersey, right? Yes. Funny enough, though, I can easily transfer my teaching license to PA. I just couldn't easily transfer my cosmetology license to PA. That's interesting. Right. I realize you could transfer that. Good to know. Yeah. So what's your favorite thing to do with hair, Daniel? Color, cut, style? I change all the time, but I would say style is my jam. That's what I started out doing, because I couldn't cut a straight line to save my life. Yeah. I in cosmetology school, I probably didn't make the best first impression with my classmates, because, yeah, I got a tooth removed. So I was evil on my first day of school. And then that week we were like lately getting into hair cutting because our teacher just thought it would be fun to mix it up that year. And yeah, I could not cut a straight line. I got frustrated and I just like jabbed my scissors in the mannequin head and went outside. Wait, did you literally jab the scissors? Yes, I did. Oh, that's why I'm saying I did not make a good impression. I'm a better person now. I am more calm. I was only 23. You didn't put that on your resume. That was for sure. You did not put that on your resume. But like I said, I I love hair and I love learning. So I will never say that I'm a curly hair master. Right. I will always say that I'm a curly hair enthusiast. Yes. But I'm just a hair enthusiast. I love hair in general. I love to make people feel like, hey, what I've got growing out of my head is a wonderful thing. And I can do whatever I want with it, whether it's thick, whether it's curly, whether it's gray, no matter what it is. Let's talk about that for a second, because I know you brought up going to salons and they said they don't do your hair, right? So for people that are nervous about curly hair, what is your number one kind of piece of advice? Because I I think people there's unfortunately probably a couple sides to this, but let's just say people that are just nervous about curly hair and don't know how to how to even start. Because where I went to school, they didn't even I don't really think I got taught one thing about curly hair, to be honest, where I in Iowa. So so let's talk about that. What do you think is the the best thing for somebody to do other than like ordering this amber mannequin and get going to town and trying to learn stuff, you know, watching you? What else? Well, there are a lot of little biracial babies out there and lots of moms that need help with it. Well, people need to realize because those salons that you went to back in the day probably are not open anymore because everybody has some sort of curly hair, you know, so it's it's and people it's so popular. Like like that's the one thing. Like I put out a video about curly hair. It's probably one of the number one watch thing.  If you think curly hair isn't going to be 95 percent of your clientele right now, like it should be 95 percent of your clientele. Totally agree, because these days a lot more people are embracing their curl pattern. Yep. And I'm also part hair nerd. I like useless facts. Yeah.  He was collecting hair from different indigenous people around the world. Now, of course, most indigenous people there. They've got curly hair. Yeah. There's some of the older tribe traditions, all of that stuff, whatever who cares point being that when the technology actually became available, they found that one of the oldest living peoples are actually aboriginals from Australia. Those are like the original people and that they also found that the blonde hair that a lot of these people had, it was just almost like a gene mutation, kind of like how redheads are a gene mutation. Yeah. So that's why I'm saying to me, hair is amazing. Yeah.  I did not think to bring a towel with me. There's always one thing that I forget, no matter how much I go down a checklist. That's just how I am. But while we're waiting for that. Oh, thank you. So I weaved out a section. I clipped it up top because I'm just going to let this hang. Now, you can use foil. You can use OK. So I just weaved out a chunky section and then I just painted that on.  And that way we don't get like a heavy demarcation line where it's just straight, blanche. It's also another great thing to kind of point out is if you put hair, obviously, in a foil, it gets brighter. And if you don't put in a foil, it's not going to get as bright. So you have different dimensions. Exactly. See, that's why he's my boss. So he thinks of these things that I don't think of. You know what? I just slam into the hair. Let's get it done. But that is exactly it. So even if you wanted to use Bali wrap because that you can see through, it can separate the section and it's not going to incubate the hair. That's also an option. And that's OK. So really, it's just up to you because you're the creative genius behind this. That's right. OK, and then also be aware that you have this entire hairline out. So if you're going to weave out this section, then you're going to be touching the hairline itself. So again, if you're nervous about that, just lightly weave that out. Leave it off to the side. That way, you don't have to worry about any streakiness and you have just that nice little light veil. If you're OK with seeing a couple of little sections, then go ahead.  So that way it's a nice little thin section. But again, this is all about customizing it to the guests that you're working with at the time. And again, separating that, clipping that up top, right at that little pivot point. Everything else that we have hanging out here, that's what we're going to color. Now, I'm pretty much only doing about halfway through the hair because I don't want to create. I don't want to create an overly saturated and just something that she would have to come in all the time. Most of my natural girls, they like to get like one big color project done. And then it's just like a couple of maintenance foils or balayage or whatever, you know, throughout the weeks. So again, painting that on and then just going through and lightly massaging that up. Now, I'm not like really clamping into the hair because I just want to massage that over the top layer of the hair because once I squeeze that through and I'm saturating top, middle and the bottom of it, that's where I get that line of demarcation. Whereas just giving it that light little petting over the top and then massaging that mid shaft, that's where I'm getting the saturation from about just about the midpoint to the ends. And then everything that's up here, that's over the middle point. That's just going to get a light little balayage. OK, and again, just making sure that we keep that nice and. And just try to keep a towel on hand when you're doing this free hand like this so that as you're sectioning, you're not getting lightener on the rest of the hair. And if you do, whatever, it's OK. So I think this is a great subject to bring up. I think it's Joris, you know, I'm the worst with names, but it's a sweet name. Is this a fast acting lightener and what developer using? I think this was a great conversation. So we did a shoot with Paul Mitchell a couple of days ago. And this conversation came up. We talked about it a lot about not really not going in with extreme like to try to lift quick because the quicker you lift, you create damage. I know you're nerdy about this stuff, Daniel. So why don't you go into it? Let's talk about levels of developer, all that stuff. Hey, exactly. I levels of developer are again, where you're going to customize this to exactly where you're trying to go with it. Personally, I went with the 10 volume because seeing is how I went with the regular sinker lift and not the sinker lift soft, it's got nine levels of lift. So I know it's already got a certain amount of energy to it. So I don't need a whole lot. I could have even gone with five if I wanted to just get like a little subtle highlighting, but seeing is how I want this to pop. So you can see it on camera.  It's not so much that you're ruining the curl pattern. You're just destroying the hair. You've melted it. So whether the hair is straight, curly, coily, if you over process it, it's just damaged. So it's not the developers. It's crunchy. Exactly. So it's not so much the developers. It's just what can the hair handle? So that's why you really got to go in there and it's and assess the hair and seeing is how I went on with a product in the beginning. Because remember, we did go in with the invisible wear and that does help to almost provide a little bit of a buffer because it is helping to just fill in any of those drier points of the hair that might suck up color or overly lighten. And now personally, I'm a hairstylist that takes their time. I run my mouth. So I work a little bit slower. Now, that doesn't mean that there's anything wrong with that. So if you are a slower hairstylist, then all right, you just curate the kind of clientele that doesn't mind spending that kind of time with you. So don't always feel like you have to match what the next person is doing. Do what you're capable of that gets you the absolute best result. Let's talk about our thoughts on bleaching hair when it's clean or oily. I'm sorry. Clean or oily hair.  You got thoughts on that? Yes, I do. Because especially when it comes to like somebody that likes to work out a lot when I was doing more relaxers than natural hair, I would always tell people do not work out before you're getting any type of on scalp treatment done because then that's actually getting all of the blood flow going and increased blood flow can lead to irritation at the scalp. Again, you can spray things like the alfui hydromes spray, which does help because it's got like spirulina, plankton, a lot of C extracts that help to just balance out the pH of the hair as well as the skin. But I would just rather people didn't do that. Also, I tell people not to drink coffee or sodas or anything like that before I'm doing any on scalp treatments. And that's anybody, not just curly girls. OK, so again, we're just still just repetitive motion going through there and painting, saturating those ends. So this is what I was referring to as our medium section. So everything that is in the foil are our highlights. These are kind of like our medium lights. And then we have the low light of the natural color. Very cool. People are loving it. Hey.  I was nervous about doing this, but I do love hair. So I was excited to actually come on and share something like this. And especially to talk about my little brit brat, because I don't have any kids, but that kid is about the closest I'll ever get, because I have seen her grow up like when she when she got her license. I was one of the first rides in her car around the salon parking lot. So again, like this is a great career in where you become a part of people's lives in such a big way. So watching this amazing girl grow into a woman and just being part of her journey and a privilege and she's helped me grow a lot because of all that hair.  But once you have that kind of trust with your guests, that you have the best of intentions and that you're just honest, like, I'm human, I make mistakes. But am I willing to fix it and learn from it? Yeah, this image is you brushed it out, right? Right. Pretty highlighting it kind of like you did just like you did at the beginning of this one. Yes. Like I said, I just find it easier to work through the hair and that you're not going to cause somebody a whole lot of discomfort because going through and ripping at somebody's hair, one, you're messing with the integrity of it. And then it's just not a nice experience for them. Yeah. And I know that some people might get a little bit self-conscious by having that big fluff of hair. But personally, I'm going to be revealing my age here. I grew up watching things like Diana Ross Mahogany and, you know, Diana Ross again, Wizard of Oz. So big, huge, flowing mains of hair have been like hair goals for me. And then like through the 90s, there was a show on BT called Girlfriends with Tracy Ellis Ross. And that was just every episode, hair goals of perfect black girl magic. And I absolutely loved it. And like one of my favorite episodes of theirs was peace, love and hair grease.   Even before I realized that I wanted to get into doing hair. So if I'm helping even one person, that's great. That's about. So everyone's losing their mind about caffeine. So let's talk about this for a second. I didn't hear this. I didn't hear this part, but I just all my roots in in the Midwest are telling me right now that everyone's just losing their mind. They can't have a soda or a pop. Pre highlights. So let's just talk about this. Well, like I said, if it's off the scalp, you're fine. If it's on the scalp, do yourself a favor. Don't have caffeine. Don't work out. It's just not going to be good. Everybody needs to realize like, this is things that work, you know, kind of taught is that everything leaves through your scalp. So, you know, and that's why Daniel's talking about working out all this stuff. Like every sweat, like everything's going to leave through, especially your, you know, your sugars and it just raises blood pressure. And so all of it is going to mess with your scalp. So you just want to be careful, especially if you get easily irritated, you know, like on your scalp, just be careful with the things that you're putting in your body. You know, a lot of people actually have like flakiness on their scalp and different things. And they start buying dandruff, shampoos and all this stuff, but they're still eating rice crispy treats and, you know, lucky charms and putting terrible sugars in their bodies.  So which is true.  I love sweets. That's how I know this knowledge. But I'm just saying, you know, don't blame, you know, not that anybody's blaming it. I just started ranting a little bit. I'm going to stop myself. No, but it's cool because like I've been getting into that myself a couple of years back. I became severely B12 deficient, which by the way, vitamins do also play a big role in what affects hair growth. So I never knew B12 vitamin D huge, huge things that affect hair health. Yeah. So when I was B12 deficient, I started having a lot of breakage right in my hairline, and that's what led me to cutting off all of my hair a couple of years back. Now I just know that I like it. So I did it again, but yeah, it was my B12 and vitamin D deficiency that led to a lot of hair breakage, a lot of problems with skin and nails and all that stuff. So it's important to know what's going in and on your body. So that's why I do let clients know people are going to lie or lie by omission. So, yeah, there's going to be some mistakes because not everybody's going to give you their hair history, but by letting people know, hey, if you have henna on your hair and I'm putting lightener, this might make nair, right, you know, if you have faria on your hair, this might make nair with a lightener, no matter how gentle. No matter how much olaplex you put in there. So, yeah, being aware of all of those little things and, you know, discussing them with your clientele, because I, throughout the years, my clientele has changed age, health, all of that. So I've had to help women through cancer and how chemo affects the hair health as well. Yeah. So that's one of the reasons that I just, I love learning about hair. And one of the reasons that I ended up coming to work for Matt was I always want to be challenged. I don't want to be complacent. And 18 years of doing hair, there was a point where I was getting pretty lazy. Yeah. So, yeah, I came here and it's great when you have a boss that you can literally talk with and be like, hey, I'm not doing hair the way that I like. What can I do?  Exactly. And then like Brian. Right. And then people like Brian. Because like, literally, I have known Brian just as long as Matt.  And then he's known Brittany forever, too, because we've worked at a lot of salons together. So, like, again, it's like nice community.  And guys, we're starting this, like I said. So Danielle, you know, will be on here live Thursdays at 12 Eastern Standard Time. And then Brian's also part of this now, too. So every Wednesday at 10 a.m. He'll be doing color classes for you guys. So he's got balayage coming up next week. And I'm on here, you know, you guys know Tuesdays if you have been watching. If you're new, you don't know.  So, Danielle, do you want to just kind of do a little recap over it? Let me zoom in on you. And then we can show the pre-done again. All right. Where we go. So now we are all done with our application. So we have our hand-painted sections that are out here on the perimeter. I have them just laying over those little triangle sections. So they're not touching any other hair. And like I said, this is a lightener that does not expand. So you don't really have to worry about it bleeding on to another section. Everything that is inside of the foils that I did first, it's being incubated. So that's going to come up a little lighter. Everything you see in this nice little lovely pinhead ponytail here is just going to be untouched. And that was simply just to get it out of the way. And that I won't be using extra product. Because if anything, I would rather not use as much foil or as much bolly wrap. So if I can leave something on its own, then I do. But again, totally up to you and whatever your preference is. And so that hair technique and coloring technique leads to this lovely, very high contrast, and very popped and just lovely metallic kind of highlight. Now what I used to tone with was Palmetiocrema 8nb with 10 volume. And again, I just prefer the cream. It has a lot of really nice amoleans and different things like that that just help to condition the hair. So you always want to make sure that it's leaving the hair in the best state that it can be. So that was another reason that I chose crema, because it's just ultra conditioning and it's a demi-permanent. So that's our lesson for today. And I hope I helped out. And if there's any questions, hit me up. My Instagram is at the hands-downs. And I try to answer. I'll put that up on the thing real quick. Keep going. And I try to answer any questions that are on there. So let's become friends. Let's talk hair. Share whatever you're doing with hair or whatever discoveries that you have. I love to learn from other hairstylists. Yeah, for sure. So you can see all Danielle's work on Instagram at the hands-downs. Definitely send her some DMs. Ask her some questions. And definitely inspire me to get better about posting, because I take the pictures. I just forget to post them. Yeah, we're all, you'll do it now. I feel like we'll get back into it. Can you do a close-up? Yeah, for sure. Where's that pre-done one? So close-up of both of them? I think the pre-done one. Let's just kind of show the highlights there. OK, so again, because we're using that nice little kind of pinwheel, you can see that right in the top here. It's just an even distribution of color going all the way around. And the great thing being is that you can see like little lighter bits, but then you can see some of those darker pieces push some more of the light pieces. Did you show this one? But I can do that again. So that was with Crema XG 8MV. I mean, this is what I do. I'm a klutz. I mean, it's hard. It's all backwards. She's looking into a screen, but it's backwards. And I've never done this before. Exactly. All right, cool. So everybody's saying that they loved watching it. I'm looking forward to more beautiful work. Love it. Needed this. I think it's cool. Let us know if you have any requests for future videos. Danielle, we're going to come up with the full schedule, but already next week are we doing the rainbow color melt thing? So next week we're actually doing rainbow color melt, not on curly hair, which will be really fun. And I'm looking forward to that. And then we're going to get into relaxers, and we're going to do all kinds of stuff, right? Absolutely. So super exciting. All right, let me see. Anything else you want to say, Danielle, besides to go follow you?  That's right, for sure. I keep it in the wrong button. There we go. All right, guys. And that's not in focus. There we go. Thank you guys so much for joining us today. Can't wait to see you guys. Make sure you download the FSE Now app. So there's a few things if you guys want to follow along with what we do. You can go to Shop FSE. Let me put this here. Some of the tools, the clips, and stuff that Danielle used. We sell those. And then also FSE Now. So if you're looking to grow your education and you want to know when these classes are happening, all of that, we have new updates coming that's going to showcase live classes and different things. But if you want to watch any of the past classes we've done, you can watch them on the app. And that's pretty much it. So go download FSE Now on the App Store. And thank you guys very much. We'll see you guys on the next show. Thanks.


Coming up on DTNS, where we think the epic Apple-Google fight is headed, China leaps ahead in digital currency, and when we'll get our flying cars. This is the Daily Tech News for Friday, August 14, 2020 in Los Angeles, I'm Tom Merritt. And from Studio Redwood, I'm Sarah Lane. I'm drawing on the top tech stories from Cleveland, Ohio, I'm Len Peralta. Heating up in Southern California on the show's producer, Roger Chang. And we have with us host of AVXL, Patrick Norton, back on the show. How's it going, Mr. My temperature is lower than everyone else's, except maybe Len's in terms of the outside temperature. And I'm just delighted. I have my humidity. St. Louis temperature right now is what? 88 degrees, I think. All right, Glenn, Cleveland temperature is 82. Ah, Cleveland wins. All right. Yeah, there we go. Once again, Cleveland wins. Not only how hot it is in California, but also all kinds of other interesting stuff like how Lude Roger is. That was one of the things. So on good day internet, if you want to find out why we were mentioning that become a member of patreon.com slash DTNS, let's start with a few tech things you should know. Citing internal TikTok data and documents, the New York Times reports that in July of TikTok's 49 million daily users in the U.S., 18 million were 14 years old or younger, 20 million were older than 14. I know, shocker. And the ages of the rest just couldn't be classified because they couldn't be classified. Although some users do self-report their ages, two ex-employees and one current employee at TikTok tell the Times that the company also estimates user ages using facial recognition algorithms on videos and profile pictures and through social connections to users whose ages are already known. The minimum age for using the app is 13, but a TikTok spokesperson tells CNET it doesn't disclose user demographics. Google announced Friday it had not provided data based on requests from Hong Kong authorities since June when a new national security law was imposed by mainland China. The company also says it will not directly respond to future requests and the Washington Post reports Google will direct officials to pursue requests for data through the Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty with the United States, which goes through the U.S. Justice Department. Mozilla has renewed a deal with Google estimated to be between 400 to 450 million dollars per year through 2023 to make Google search engine the default in Firefox in the U.S. and other parts of the world. A Mozilla spokesperson confirmed the partnership had been renewed but declined to talk specifics or length or financials. On Tuesday, Mozilla laid off 250 employees and closed down its servo team, which was working on a new browser engine for Firefox using Rust. Though the company says it will continue writing new browser components in Rust just directly in Firefox, not as a separate project. In October 2019, security researcher Sagar Pakaral reported a bug to Instagram that when downloading a data archive from Instagram, the download included images and direct messages previously deleted by the user. Instagram had previously advised that it could take about 90 days to permanently delete data from its servers, but the researcher found information more than a year old when he downloaded the archive. Instagram reports the bug was fixed in August and that Pakaral was awarded a $6000 bug bounty payout. Computer scientist Russell Kirsch, inventor of the Pixel, passed away August 11th at his home in Portland, Oregon at 91 years old. Storyed career. In 1957, Kirsch and a team of researchers developed a small 5 centimeter by 5 centimeter digital image scanner for the standards Eastern automatic computer or SEAC that went on to capture the first digital images ever. Kirsch and his team then developed algorithms for image processing and image pattern recognition used by NASA and helping to create things like cat scanning technology. Thank you, Mr. Kirsch. Here's your weekly vaccine check-in. There are six vaccines in phase three trials now, the last phase before approval. A Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine announced that its late-stage data is now targeted to arrive for October. That means they would get the data in October. It doesn't mean it would be ready for approval then. The US and the UK, however, have reached agreements to secure supplies of these shots because of that. The Moderna-Oxford University vaccine is still the first one to be expected to reach approval sometime in mid Q3. All right, let's talk a little bit about digital licenses, Sarah. Digital licenses indeed. Cointelegraph reports that 1 million South Koreans have opted for a digital driver's license. That's about 3% of the driving population.  It's a lot of people. The digital ID card launched in May in partnership with SKKT and LGU Plus telecoms. The license appears in the pass app. Users show the app's barcode or QR code for ID or proof of age. The back end of the license uses a blockchain for authentication. Australia's New South Wales is also testing a digital license that uses Ethereum's blockchain for verification. So, it's all the rage. Yeah, there's a lot of digital licenses out there, but they use various ways of authentication. And blockchain is actually one of the more solid ones. I know blockchain gets thrown around as a buzzword a lot, but in this case, it's a good way to be able to verify and say, no, this app user is authenticated as this digital license holder. And it seems like, I don't know, to me, Patrick, I don't know what you think. 3% adoption seems pretty good. That seems an excellent start. I was actually very proud of Daily Tech News Show for not immediately leading blockchain and fades driver's license. Because I was just laughing. I didn't see a headline or two like that. You're right. Yeah, it was like all of the headlines were like that. I'm kind of fascinated by it. I'm kind of curious to see where it goes. South Korea is very different from the United States, but in terms of personal freedoms and accepting stuff like this, but I was kind of really fascinated by this and also kind of really half-fascinated, half-terrifying, terrified by the idea of where this could be in 30 years. Like, lose your phone. You can't be identified. Yeah, I mean, that's actually one of the nice things about the blockchain aspect of this is that it's, as long as you have a wallet attached to it, you would be able to reauthenticate and get that ID back. But you're right. The way blockchain also works sometimes is if you don't have multiple wallets, you lose that wallet, that app, then you're screwed. So I think that's why the pass app being part of this is very important here. Yes. Google Search will now show more travel details related to COVID-19. Travel related searches will show the percentage of hotels in an area with rooms available, for instance. The percentage of flights currently available and the Google Trips section will now display statistics about the number of COVID cases at a destination. Users will be able to sort hotels by properties with flexible cancellation policies as well. The updates are going to roll out over the next week. I'm not going anywhere, but there are people who have to travel right now for various reasons and so this is an excellent tool. You'll be traveling, Patrick? I have to do another. I've already flown once in the past few weeks to fly to Reno and then bring most of our household back to St. Louis. I have to do it a second time and I, for one, am actually delighted by this because it'll make it a lot easier to figure out some of the logistics involved. So, you know, where I can stop safely without feeling really uptight should I find the stats for that place the day after I leave? Absolutely.  I mean, I'm lucky enough to not have to do that, but if I did, there'd be a host of questions that I didn't usually ask myself before. I mean, there were always flights. It was just sort of like, what's the most convenient one? Now it's sort of like, can I get there? Is there going to be a place for me to stay? There's things have changed a lot in the hospitality industry. Yeah, and the need to be able to flexibly cancel more important than ever because, yeah, not to be grim, but if you suddenly, you know, test positive and have to go into quarantine somewhere, you don't want to be on the, the last thing you want is to be worried about your cancellation via at a hotel down the road. Absolutely. Well, another Google news, Google search results for sports TV broadcast sports will now, just the one sports will now will show what channels carry a team's games as well as where to watch a live game on TV or streaming. The TV info will start showing up first for NBA and MLB games with other leagues and streaming options to be added over time. Also when searching for what to watch, Google will now show carousels of recommendations for what's on TV now and what's on later. The display is recommended TV shows and movies that are on live TV. Yeah, that carousel thing's kind of nifty. If you're like, just like, I don't know what to watch.  You may be able to tune in right away or coming up soon. The sports stuff is disappointing to me. I think it's a good first step and I know I hate to condemn first steps, but right now it's telling you the channels that if you really follow a team, you probably already know. I already know that Sportsnet LA is where the Dodgers are. I already know Fox Sports Midwest is where the Cardinals are. I don't need Google to tell me that. What I do need it to tell me is, hey, what streaming services out there carry these channels? If I'm shopping around for services, is it AT&T TV now? Is it YouTube TV? Is it Fubo? Is it Sling? They don't have that info in here and I think that's what makes this useful. So they say they want to get there and I'm cool waiting, but I don't know that this is terribly useful yet. I don't know. I can't tell you how many times I watch people freaking out about a game that I'm not watching on Twitter or something and I'm like, I want to watch it. And I Google like, what channel are the Yankees playing on right now? So anything that gives me a little bit more context, it can be helpful. It's not going to be helpful every day, but you're right. I know where to watch the San Francisco Giants if they happen to be playing, but it's more context for search results. Yeah, and I feel like this is the foundation they have to lay in order to build the more useful functionality later. So that's fine. China has been moving forward with an official state-run digital currency and announced its tests will now expand across Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and the Shenzhen, Hong Kong area. Shenzhen is in mainland China, but it's like right up next to Hong Kong. This increases the potential user base of the test from 41 million in a few restricted districts to 400 million potential people. Not all 400 million are going to use it, but it increases it quite a bit. Development of the digital Yuan was accelerated after the announcement of Facebook's Libra project in June 2019. It's seen by China as a safeguard over the reliance on private solutions. I don't think people think about this as much, but the Chinese government is just as worried about the domination of its tech companies over certain arenas as the US is over its. Alipay and WeChat pay currently hold 96% of China's mobile payment market between them. The government of China would like to have a little bit of that back. So they are creating the digital Yuan. They're testing it and accelerating its movement out there far ahead of other countries in having a government-backed digital currency. Ride-hailing service DD Xuxing is among those partnering to accept the digital Yuan during the tests. And while the currency is only for domestic use, some speculate that a long-term goal of China might be to make it useful for cross-border transactions to bypass the Swift global interbank network. That could be useful for China in two ways. One is they could avoid some of those interchange fees that Swift charges, but also if there was pressure to get them to be kicked off the Swift network, which that's kind of a way out there possibility, but having an alternative to that might be important as well. I think this is fascinating. I think it's something that people should be aware of is that digital currencies are going to come and China is ahead of the rest of the world in it for lots of reasons. I guess, yeah, that makes perfect sense. If you think of Alipay and WeChat having such a power over the Chinese population in terms of transactions, how does an official state-run currency, we're expanding the test to 400 million, a lot of ways to go, again, but huge, huge potential user base. What does it look like in five years? Let's say this is really successful. I mean, is there some sort of, does WeChat somehow lose anything this way? I mean, potentially WeChat just incorporates the digital yuan and has a wallet inside and it's fine, right? And everybody's like, hmm. Or, I don't know, I can't look at, you know, the government of China starting a currency and not think that this is just a really simple way for them to exert more influence over the populace over the long run and not necessarily. Yeah, I mean, honestly, I'm not sure how much of an increase it would be considering how much surveillance they have on transactions now, but it makes it easier, doesn't it? Yeah, or it allows it, it gives them the opportunities to sort of, you know, make it more and more difficult to use alternative currencies or to force this into every single thing that wants to use digital currency moving forward, you know. Or just know everything that everyone buys at any time. Well, that they already do. Right, it's just another way to do it. Japan's SkyDrive has developed a two-seat electric vertical takeoff and landing or EVTOL vehicle that is now in manned flight testing. The last manned flight was in March with another expected this summer. SkyDrive hopes to offer commercial service to the public by 2028 in Tokyo or Osaka. And the company also plans to sell at least 100 privately owned vehicles by 2028. It can fit in the space of two average parking spots and the commercial version could reach speeds of 60 kilometers per hour with a range of 20 to 30 kilometers at a time. Uber, Boeing, Airbus, AeroMobile, and others are also exploring VTOL vehicles. So Patrick, are we getting our flying cars yet? You know, I'm looking at this and it's, if you go to the SkyDrive 2020 website, you know, it's essentially a big drone and I saw something or at least in the sort of video that's showing on the website. And you know, this could be the path. All I can think of is I saw like a Red Bull-ish kind of video where they had a remotely controlled human-carrying drone like doing a forward flip. And part of me is utterly delighted by this and part of me is like, I just want to know the range and if there's a parachute. Well, yeah, and that's the interesting thing. This is not autonomous. We hear a lot about autonomous VTOL. This is the plan here from SkyDrive is to have a pilot and one passenger. And that's why it can fit in two spaces because it's not meant to carry. Usually these things are meant to carry four people. So there might be a pilot and three passengers or if it's autonomous, four passengers. So that's the kind of thing we've heard from Uber in the US or Saudi Arabia, for instance. So this feels like, honestly, it feels like a more cautious approach to the flying car taxi kind of service. They say it'll be cheaper than a helicopter, which is usually what these things are compared to. But if they're only looking at selling 100, this is not the thing that's gonna make everybody have one, at least not yet. I feel like every, I don't know, every six months or so, there's a story that comes up about this where we all kind of go, well, that's cool. Look at that, look at how it looks. All right, let's get in the air. You gotta be careful and you gotta figure out some flight patterns and it's the highways of the sky. But I want it to happen, darn it. So Japan, do me proud. So Japan, hey folks, if you want to get all the tech headlines each day in about five minutes, be sure to subscribe to DailyTechHeadlines.com. All right, in case you missed it. Here's what's happened so far between Epic Games, Google, and Apple regarding Fortnite previously on the Google Apple Epic Fortnite battle. We touched on this yesterday because it was happening as we were doing the show. Epic offered an alternative to pay for in-app currency directly to Epic for $7.99 while leaving the Apple and Google options in the app at $9.99. So who would choose the Apple and Google options? Obviously, you're gonna pay Epic for the cheaper in-game currency. This of course violated two policies in both stores because both stores require developers to use their own payment systems and both stores prohibit server-side updates of this type that circumvent app store review. That's the way they got it in there as they did a server-side update so that it never went through the review process of either of the app stores. As you might expect, Apple removed Fortnite from the app store and issued a statement saying Epic knew this was a violation. The tone was, we're so disappointed in Epic. Why don't they just come to the table with us? Epic then posted a parody video of Apple's famous 1984 commercial in Fortnite and on YouTube. Epic then filed a civil antitrust suit claiming Apple is acting in an anti-competitive fashion in its app distribution and in-app payment markets. Epic says in its filing that it does not want money or special treatment but is seeking injunctive relief to allow fair competition for all developers. That all happened before or during DTNS yesterday. Since we last met, Google, as we expected, removed Fortnite from the Google Play Store noting that, hey, at least on our platform, you could still install Fortnite on Android using other methods like side loading or even other app stores like the Samsung app store. In fact, Microsoft is pointing people to the Samsung app store if they wanna get the Android version of it. Epic also filed a civil antitrust suit against Google. It was largely similar to the one filed against Apple. It did include a note that Google made one plus the phone maker break a deal to include a Fortnite launcher on one plus phones except in India. LG also told Epic that its contract with Google prevented it from doing the same deal. So there's a little different of an anti-competitive spin in this lawsuit because they can point to Google keeping their software off of phones. Two other side notes here. Ars Technica's Kyle Orland points out that Microsoft Sony and Nintendo all take 30% of microtransactions on their game console stores as well. Epic lowered its in-app currency prices on these platforms to 799 within the payment system of those platforms. It has not said if it received a new deal to do this, it did not add an alternative way to purchase either. It just lowered the price. So they're picking a fight with Google and Apple over the 30%.  Now, the other thing I've heard a lot of people ask is is this because Tencent? Tencent is a Chinese company. They own about 40% of Epic or at least have an investment worth about 40% in Epic. But Tim Sweeney himself holds more than 50% and has full control. Just having an investment sometimes gives you influence, sometimes doesn't. In this case, it appears that it doesn't. Tim Sweeney is in full control of Epic. If you're still not convinced, ask yourself if Tim Sweeney might act like this if Tencent owned nothing of Epic and you'll probably come to the answer I do, which is, yeah, this is very much in the vein of how Tim Sweeney acts. If you want to find a connection to Tencent, you can invent one, but the situation does not necessitate it. All right, what's going to happen next? That's where we are now. Ben Lovejoy at 9 to 5 Mac laid out a very good article describing all the different scenarios and how they could play out. A couple of the scenarios he mentioned have already played out, but there are four still yet to come. One, a settlement before or during the trial. This could be an agreement on reduced commissions, something else, some combination. We don't know, but maybe they settle. Number two, Epic wins the lawsuit and there was injunctive relief. Now, we don't know what form that injunctive relief would take. The court would decide that they had found anti-competitive behavior and what the remedy would be. It's not lined out in the lawsuit itself. Epic might lose the lawsuit, but then antitrust regulators who are already investigating Apple and Google kind of pick up the baton with an improved case based on what they learn out of the Epic lawsuit or maybe this spurs new legislation. The fourth of the scenarios is that Epic loses this fight and nothing changes and Epic, you know, maybe loses a little money, but otherwise comes out largely unscathed. So mostly Epic has nothing to lose, right? Well, Epic pulled Fortnite from Google Play in the past. As you mentioned on the show, I think it was on the show or at least in the post-show Tom yesterday. You know, that lasted like a year and finally the company was like, all right, okay. Give it back to the folks. Has come back to the table with guns blazing. Obviously, yesterday was an interesting day for Epic. An Epic news day, you might say. And it rolled out, you know, through the night.  Epic knew that Apple would say, whoa, can't do this. Pull the app. Then there are these videos ready to go. There's tweets, there's press. It's a whole thing. The Google stuff unfolded a little bit later in the day, but Epic was ready for that as well saying, hey, guess what you did? Remember what you did to us with OnePlus? Or what you did to OnePlus with us? There's that too, and everyone's going to know about it now. So I don't know. I mean, I think that this, I don't think it gets settled before court. I think Apple is ready for it. Google as well. They've got lots of time and money to lose. Epic could lose and nothing could change, but I think that the company is trying to be, you know, the bastion of change. And, you know, they're getting a lot of attention by doing so. Patrick, what do you think? I mean, I'll be honest with you, I'm still kind of completely fascinated by this because, you know, this was completely and totally done to pick a fight, obviously. You know, the filings were ready to go. The filings ready to go against Apple and Google. Sarah, like you pointed out, you know, they didn't go after the console makers, which is kind of peculiar to me, except that maybe they feel that there's enough competition there that it's, you know, not worth the fight right now, or if they can take out Apple and Google on this, they don't, you know, the rest of the manufacturers will kind of follow along. It's a weird fight to pick because I also think that Apple could decide to make a very expensive example of Epic. You know, that was one of the things, the 9 to 5 Mac article, the Ben Lovejoy write up, like he was like, well, you know, they could also, you know, basically cut off, you know, they could settle, they could lose the battle, they could settle this, and Apple could refuse to let them back into the app store.  I mean, it's kind of crazy because a lot of people don't realize the kind of money you're talking about here. And if the numbers are correct and a lot of these numbers, you know, based on the internet's finest financial minds, they're talking about Fortnite being worth like two and three quarter million dollars a day in app sales on iOS, which is a billion dollars a year, which is an astronomical amount of money. And that means Apple's cuts 30, 300 something million dollars a year, which is, you know, as dad used to say, real money, you know. But also, to be fair, Epic also makes a lot more money off the other platforms. So it's a good gamble for them to say, all right, we'll take that hit for a while because we're still going to be making most of it. Oh, I don't, I don't, I think, I think Epic is, I think this is Friday night. Epic's had a long week down in the coal mines and they've just walked into the bar, had two shots and they're going to pick a fight with everyone. This is like, you know, cause- Yeah, but they also came in prepared, you know, with a blackjack and some brass knuckles, right? This was the last minute decision. No, no, no, no, no, this was well planned. I'm not trying to suggest that this is like, you know, they woke up yesterday and went, you know, I think I'm going to take on one of the largest concentrations of capital and legal expertise on the planet. In fact, let's take the two largest concentrations of capital and legal expertise on the planet right now. No, no, I agree. This was, this is, this is obviously, they're like, you know what, what's the worst case scenario?  The best case scenario is that they have a significant reduction in their cost of participating on that platform. I'm just fascinated because in a straight reading, there's no way they can win this case, which means they're either just trying to stir it up and look for a sympathetic jury or a sympathetic judge or they have something in there that I can't quite figure out. And obviously I am not a lawyer and will never be mistaken for one.  That's why I think scenario three is probably the most likely outcome, which is Epic loses the lawsuit, but antitrust regulators who are slobbering to come for Apple and Google will pick up the baton and that is probably what Epic is thinking is like, yeah, we'll probably lose the case. If we win, great. But if we don't, we have now helped the momentum along. We've pushed this forward even faster than it was already going and they're blazing a trail for the attorney's general and such to come after and give them more ammo to come after Apple and Google with. You know, if you lose a lawsuit, you can now look at that lawsuit and figure out why it was lost and adjust your strategy accordingly. Yeah, I mean, it's funny because Robert and I have talked a bunch on AV Excel about the incredibly there's there's no HBO Max app on on Roku yet and there's we've been watching different apps taking forever to show up on different platforms and all of that it mostly comes down to negotiating what cut somebody gets of the revenue and this could have some very interesting positive and very interesting negative effects on that and the bottom line of the companies that that make these that have created these markets. I would say the outside possibility too is that Apple Google and Epic come to a settlement during the trial because maybe the trial starts going a little longer and they come to an agreement the way that Amazon and Apple not because of a court case but Amazon and Apple eventually came to an agreement over premium video to let Amazon taking out payments so that Apple could have its stuff back on the Amazon store because it just dragged on long enough but this is going to drag on this is going to drag on for a long time. Yes, it is. Well, something that doesn't drag on is our discord conversation. In fact, it's very snappy and you can join by linking to a Patreon account at patreon.com slash DTNS. What do we have in the mailbag? Oh, Tom, I'm glad you asked. Gregory wrote in and said, I think if the browser vendors wanted to encourage better domain protections, they could have just have a dedicated safe harbor collection of domain names that they could use to indicate in the URL that the domain is validated and safe. We talked yesterday about the idea of shortening those long URL strings to a domain to help people be able to better identify when a website was not what it said it was going to be. Gregory says, for example, Chrome shows a lock when a site has a valid HTTPS certificate which any Joe Schmo can get. So why not do the same thing as an approved list like formerly known as a whitelist with credibility criteria that the site would have to meet maybe using some additional icon or color coding or both. They could even do something specific to the industry so they could differentiate bank domains, healthcare providers, governments, places where identity protection very critical. If a domain is not on the approved list, then the URL could be yellow or red like a known scam site or some other indicator. If people were colorblind, etc. And then the safe icon would be missing. Yeah. I mean, it's a cool idea. The devil's in the details about which sites get put on the list and which don't.  But I like your like if it's a known scam site, if you can point to an exterior list and say, no, it's not us picking. It's on there. But you know, maybe you can do that part of it. It's good idea that Gregory. Thanks for sending that. Absolutely. Also, shout out to patrons at our master and grandmaster levels, including Kevin Erwinster and Dan Colbeck. Let's check in with Len Peralta, who has been drawing today's episode Art Prove style. Len, what have you drawn for us? You know, I gotta be I gotta tell you, I don't know very much about Fortnite. However, I find this whole thing fascinating.  And this is my take on it. You know, I didn't really know what to draw exactly, but I did some research and I saw that there's a character in Fortnite named Peely, who came out a skin, which was a banana. And I thought that was very funny banana taking on an apple. So so that's what this is. This is called a app store battle Royale. And it's it depicts Peely taken on Apple. It's not quite apples and oranges, but it's close. If you want to check it out, you can go to my Patreon site, patreon.com forward slash Len or at my online store at Len Peralta store dot com. I like that the Google Play triangles are like shards coming off of the. It's a huge mess. It's a battle Royale. Totally. Totally. Love it, Len. Also, thanks to Patrick Norton for being with us, Patrick. You're a busy man. Let folks know where they can keep up with your work. Oh, best place to keep up with it is avxl.com. The podcast on home theater and audio host with Mr. Robert Herron. And I have a new podcast launching next week that I don't want to talk about now because if I do things will go wrong and the internet will fail me. That's that's exciting. Thank you. If you say it, it'll come true or not yet. No, I totally get that. So yeah, keep an eye out for that. Both self to Chicago and the and the coach checked out for the rest of the season. So I ain't saying anything. Don't give me that. Build it. They will come business. Yeah, for now avxl.com and watch watch all the social media signals for the thing that Patrick is alluding to. Hey folks, we've been talking about it all week. So I hope you're you're dressed head to toe in DTS gear. But if you're not, we've got mugs. We've got mouse pads. We got stickers. We got hats. We got masks. They all say DTS on them and they're all pretty cool and you should go check them out. Maybe if you buy one, you'll enjoy it and it'll help the show. Go check it out. Daily tech news show dot com slash store. 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I'm never one to talk about the need for decorum and disability, but I've got to say the Republican party have been killing it when it comes to making a circus out of the confirmation hearings for Judge Kintanji Brown Jackson. I mean, it's so strange that we have Ted Cruz reading from a children's book, we have Lindsey Graham angrily storming out for no apparent reason, and they think they're crushing it. They think that people are watching them and thinking, man, they're really killing it. Kintanji Brown Jackson literally was searching his own name after he got into a back and forth with Dick Durbin. It's bizarre that they don't think that they're making fools of themselves, but here we are. So one question that has come up is abortion, because it's kind of important currently, but Republicans, they are, I guess, asking if, you know, Kintanji Brown Jackson would go against Roe v. Wade, not that she would be on the court in time to have a say in the current case before the Supreme Court. But regardless, you know, the issue of abortion has come up. And Marshall Blackburn decided to add to the noise that Republicans are making, and she tried to own the libs on Twitter about the issue of abortion. And it did not go according to plan. So she tweeted out, the Constitution grants us rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, not abortions. Senator, where specifically in the Constitution does it grant us the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness? Is that clause two, chapter five, section seven, where have you read the Constitution? Senator, that is the Declaration of Independence. And furthermore, when we're talking about liberty, if controlling your own body isn't considered liberty, if that doesn't fall under the category of liberty, then nothing does. But she's citing the Declaration of Independence as if it's the Constitution. This is a United States Senator, and that tweet is still up at the time that I record this video. And if you are watching this and you didn't know that, you get it passed. That's perfectly fine. But odds are, you did know that. But if you didn't, that's okay, because guess what? You're not a United States Senator, Marshall Blackburn is. She has to know that. You should basically know that there is a difference between the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. And especially if you don't know that for you to take to Twitter and post that as if it's some sort of an own. And you leave it up after getting ratioed into oblivion. I don't even know what to say. I don't know. I don't know what to say. I mean, obviously, the education system has failed us in the United States. We're certainly not vetting people who run for the Senate enough in this country. At least Tennessee isn't because they're the ones who elected her. Thanks, people from Tennessee. I just so confident, but yet oh, so wrong. Now I've got to get to the responses because people obviously dumped on her. And it was great to see. So Marianne Williamson tweeted out, Senator, that was the Declaration of Independence. You just feel the exasperation and that tweet. Julian Clark writes, someone who doesn't know the difference between the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence shouldn't be involved in making laws, right? Jameson Foster says, I am once again begging you to read a book, just any book. It doesn't even matter if it's a children's book. It seems like, you know, Ted Cruz and other senators, they have an affinity for children's books. Just read any book, honestly. Victoria Brownworth says, wrong document, ma'am, salty cannon fodder, writes. That's a phrase from the Chex notes, Declaration of Independence, not the Constitution. I learned this freshman year of high school, frankly, you have no business adjudicating the judge's qualifications for SCOTUS. And just to pause there, yeah, you know, when I was a TA, when I was in the PhD program and I was grading political science one-on-one quizzes, I only saw this mistake once or twice when a student very clearly didn't do the work and they were trying to bullshit and they talked about how the Constitution says that we are guaranteed life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. I didn't see it that frequently, you know, you think it's a common mistake for newcomers who are taking a policy 101, but no, I feel like most people probably know this. I mean, so again, I feel like it's inexcusable for a U.S. senator to get this wrong and it's especially comical for her to get it wrong in the context of trying to own the lips. But there's some more here. Lance Storm says, I'm not even American and I know that's the Declaration of Independence. So sad. So sad. Marie says, a condom would have prevented this post. Marie has no chill. Marie has no chill.   To embarrass yourself and then have everyone on Twitter, basically 100% of people on Twitter laugh at you. I'm being hyperbolic, but everyone was laughing at her, essentially, and to leave that tweet up, not even realizing it, not even tweeting that and thinking, wait, maybe this doesn't sound right because she has no clue. She has no idea. I don't think she's actually read the Constitution. I don't think she has. Not even once. But yet this is someone tasked with determining the qualifications of a Supreme Court justice. That is horrifying, is it not? This is someone who has so much power. She is one of just 100 senators, doesn't even know the difference between the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.  No, this is a United States senator.  And again, I mean, if you don't think that abortion is a form of liberty, literally having control over your body, I feel like you don't understand the concept of liberty at all. So yeah, I agree with the sentiment that you probably shouldn't be writing laws, but here we are.  I mean, have you heard some of these folks talk? She's probably not the dumbest.  Yeah, yeah.