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The Vergecast
Microsoft unveils four Surface computers and a new folding phone
"Big surface event panos pumped mega pumped screens folding cameras. Improved walk straight yet. So there was eight devices into an update to the so basically the context of this is mike. Smith has a bunch of new surface devices for windows eleven so they will drop in on october fifth and they also have an android successor for the surfaced u as a substitute so got surfaced. Pyrite which. I think. I wrote before they still announced but this is the kind of one. We've been waiting for years. Kind of minas ov- redesign but some Screen changes and internal changes. Fundable this stuff. So that was kind of expected and then really minor change. The surface pro acts as a wifi modal. That was kind of like okay. Cool that's happening. Then the surface go free again. Might changes Prices up upgrades this stuff. So yeah k- cool. We kind of expected that. As well. And i guess the surprise Surprise we were expecting a new surface book. But it's the surface laptop studio so replace but team that sort of name and like the way they did it but basically it's a complete redesign at the surface book. So gone is the detachable display. Which i guess i didn't like pessina and a faint everyone Questioned is it full. I don't think the surfaced laptops g necessarily has a good answer to who is it for either but the the actual design is essentially if you remember the odor acer laptops with the the screen folds for almost pulls food or hatred. Folio they post on. It is kind of that design. So it's not really like the unique design that you would expect from the surface of us. That's kind of like myself really focused. Previous who has been very unique hinges and stuff is like a kind of unique hinge in that sense for the overall designers. Yeah it's like one of those crazy eight laptops that we saw many years ago just looks a lot better and more refined
The Vergecast
Everyone Will Be Able to Clone Their Voice in the Future
"World today often feels like it's full of digital voices with a assistant siri amazon alexa and google reading your messages announcing the weather in answering trivia. Here's what i found on the web but if you think things are chatting now just you wait. The voices of these a assistant used to be based unreal recordings. Voice actor spent hours talking in a studio and these clips would-be cut up and rearranged to create synthetic speech but increasingly. These voices are being created using artificial intelligence. This means we can not only create more realistic computer. Voices clone the voices of real people much more quickly creating endless artificial speech at the touch of a button for example it was surprisingly easy to make a synthetic version of my own voice. In case you missed that. That was not me talking. That was all made digitally by typing into a computer. So why would some want to do this. Besides the obvious novelty of it. You might have guessed a reason to make some money. I listen to this was going on. Kevin hart here. I wanna talk to you about why. We have to have mac and cheese every night. Think about it. That's why. I recommend thousands of new shows and this is a promo from baritone one accompany. That's working on an ai product to create synthetic voices and make them something. The media industry wants to us. So we've created a platform. Ai which at the end of the day turns unstructured data into structured data. That's shaun king executive vice president. Ed veritas one. So if you're thinking about audio thinking about video things that are typically unstructured and we make that searchable discoverable author a host of different a cognitive engines that are there from transcription beaker detection speaker separation. And then we provide those tools to you know many different industries that are eating
WSJ Tech News Briefing
Are Amazon's Algorithm Bosses Coming to Your Workplace Next?
"You think your boss is watching you at work. Monitoring your every move well if your manager is a series of cameras sensors and algorithms. Then you're not wrong. And that may also mean you work at an amazon fulfillment center. The company known for the detailed tracking of packages and user. Information is also tracking the movements of workers at its warehouses looking to precisely measure efficiency and increase productivity wall street. Journal's tech columnist christopher mims calls this bazo schism named after amazon founder jeff bezos. He's got an upcoming book about it called arriving today from factory to front door why everything is changed about how and what we buy any joins me now. Hi christopher hay zoey. Thanks for having me so christopher you coined the term bazo schism. What exactly does that mean so. Basis ism is the combination of sensors and software to measure. How well somebody is doing their job. And then use software which has of course logic or an algorithm in it which was defined by an engineer. Somewhere to then tell that worker okay. You're doing a good job or you're not doing a good job or you need to be doing this differently. And so bazo. Schism or management by algorithm or management by software. At the end of the day it is just about creating a set of rules and then handing it to a machine to enforce those roles so the person's boss is
Geek News Central
Apple Watch Executive Takes Over Secretive Car Project
"Apples always pushing the edge. And i thought apple kind of watched walked away from from cars but the apple watch executive is taking over secretive car project now. Just two days before hideaway. Doug field ahead of apple secretive car project that tech china's tap apple watch exact former adobe. Co kevin lynch to take his place so in the latest changing of the guard for the project known as project titan which is rotated leaders about as much as reporting shifted focused They replace individual so he's been working on this since july when he was brought in to help develop the vehicle software. He's been with apple since two thousand thirteen. Curiously bloomberg rights at lynch still reports to apple's cheap chief operating officer jeff williams and not to john daria the company's head of ai. So we'll keep a watch on what's apple doing anything apple build some apple bands will
Techmeme Ride Home
Facebook Announces Launch of Ray-Ban Stories Smart Glasses
"This morning. Launched two hundred and ninety nine dollar ray ban stories smart glasses to let users capture photo and video. Listen to music or take phone calls available to buy in six countries including the us quoting alex heath in the verge they're called rayban stories and you'll be able to find them pretty much anywhere ray. Bans are sold including lenscrafters and sunglasses hut stores the frames feature to front facing cameras for capturing video and photos. They sync with a companion camera. Roll app called facebook. View where clips can be edited and share to other apps on your phone not just facebook's own there's a physical button on the glasses for recording or you can say hey. Facebook take a video to control them hands free and perhaps most importantly they look and feel like regular glasses with their core ability of taking photos and videos. Ray bans stories are essentially a sleeker version of snapchat spectacles which i debuted in two thousand sixteen to a lot of hype. That quickly fizzled. these ray. Bans don't have displays in the lenses like the latest spectacles. That were unveiled earlier. This year however speakers on both sides of the frame can play sound from your phone over bluetooth allowing you to take a call or listen to a podcast without pulling your phone out a touch pad built into the side of the frame. Lets you change the volume or play and pause. What you're hearing. Rayban stories are the first product in a multi year partnership between facebook and european. Eyewear conglomerate issa laura lozada ray bans parent company while they're limited in what they can do. Rayban stories are the most normal looking accessible para smart classes to hit the market so far both companies also see them as they step toward more advanced augmented reality glasses that overlay graphics onto the real
This Week In Google
Amazon Bringing Cashier-Less ‘Just Walk Out’ Tech to Whole Foods
"Foods is going to be getting the amazon. Just walk out technology. I two stores will be in california in washington. Dc and the the glover park neighborhood of washington dc and in sherman oaks california. This is the the store where you go. You're grab and you go you. Did you try stacey in i. Yeah i there but this is actually bigger so it's the same technology but it's it's a whole it's applied over. Yeah how many cameras. How do you count. How many bananas you got. Let's imagine the computational workload that's happening behind the scenes 'cause. I mean how many people in a grocery store at any given time like two hundred. So when you get to the whole foods you'll you'll scan the The app or insert a credit card linked to your amazon account or and this is very controversial. Place your palm. over palm. scanning system called amazon one yemen came back so but but you could also just scan the app. You need to identify yourself. Somehow i think probably safer to use you. Know phones Authentic happen and it's totally fine. It is annoying catholic eighteen different amazon apps on my phone. True if you opt out of the cashier lists technology There aren't any cashiers. You'll have to use self-checkout or go over to a customer service
The Security Ledger Podcast
Unpacking the Azure CHAOS DB Flaw With Nir Ohrfeld of Wiz
"And manu often. I'm a senior secur security researcher here at the weasel near for our listeners. Who might not know whiz. Tell us a little bit about what was a classical with the company. Which helps you to uncover. The cloudy sokaia vulnerabilities exposure that. You're having your environments with toddlers. Some pretty eye-popping research on a big security finding in microsoft's cosmos db database feature which is a feature of its azure cloud ecosystem environment. Tell us if you could a little bit about the vulnerability you discovered and how you got to start looking at this cosmos database a festival every network caulking population goal. Is they database. Eventually every acting event you hear about in the news involves some kind of data league ransoming intelligence with all of that is is is inside the database. We've seen that debate is very popular. Among a gusto in our original goal was actually to find some common recent miss configuration. So we'll be able to show that in the product but You know one thing led to another and it will today maybe explain a little bit about what cosmos is. I mean obviously people are familiar with enterprise. Databases sequel server oracle and so on. Is cosmos a totally new database platform. Or is it just a kind of cloud and standardization of existing database technology. So a yet just a regular the cloud. This nation the college of databases like the go-to database solution for your customers. So we got the customers use cosmos debate for holding everything that you will the useful. Your standout databases. That's why such a high value because eventually it's a database. the customers don't have the actually possess. It's someone else's computer. Michael in this in this exempted
AP News Radio
No Cashiers, Please: Futuristic Supermarket Opens in Mideast
"The Middle East has got its first completely automated cashier less store at the retail giant rolls out his vision for the future of the industry in a cavernous Dubai mall like Amazon's break through on man grocery stores that opened in twenty eighteen the colorful mini market looks like any ordinary convenience store but hidden among the familiar fat loss is sophisticated system that tracks shoppers movements eliminating the checkout line and allowing people to grab the products they'll walk out with only those with the store's smartphone app may enter nearly a hundred small surveillance cameras blanket the ceiling countless senses lined shelves five minutes off the shoppers leave their phones ping with receipts for whatever they put in their bags I'm Charles de Ledesma
Anything But Idle
Why Remote Work Could Last for Two More Years
"The next one. He an article from the wall street journal. Remote work may now last for two years. Actually i've been having a lot of conversations in the last seven days about this From both sides some executive flying some some none excecutive client looking how their companies has been continued pushing. They're now pushing to january or february and that basic makes two years. You're not close to the case. Being two years out of office gave we survive. We grow the business why they want to buy and there is a lot of people. You know asking sinus interesting. Because when the beginning of the pandemic we discussed that around thirty three percent in each group you know the people like me who many years ago walkaway from dell food to people who were going to discover okay. I really like this working at home. People like what we mentioned into prior on a condo us group of people who are counting the seconds to get back to that world to live to their an old this. What is interesting is there was more movement doors that middle category that. I don't want to come back. I want to find a hybrid solution. Go once in a blue moon but not every day but still have the opportunity to buy than any of the other two extremes at least for the people who i have informally Question about it. Then he's really interesting for me because he's like okay so you discover now we have cake and now you want to make sure you make the cake i needed to so you don't want to go to the office but you want to. Have they office or when you went into go It's not how it works. It's still this is getting worry for a lot of people because there is. There is a lot of really valuable people who has been buried vocal about. I am not coming back or you figured it out or i will say that
Future Cities Africa
Reflections on Urban Data, Analytics, and Collaborative Urban Development in Africa
"She's a postdoctoral research at the university of bit vodkas round. She's a town planner and researcher on african cities with a particular focus on the role of policy in shaping urban few just in africa meriem. Welcome give us a brief introduction to your background and your academic interests of originally from nairobi kenya and now bit state joins us bikes african. So i'm trained as a town planner from the university of nairobi in kenya. And then i came here to join his bug so up in here for a few years on through expanding my knowledge and research on cities. That's my background. In academic interests really have been on not just town planning this of projects of city building and especially how public sector planning and policymaking trying to achieve beto aben species for for all who live in it. So it's it's a research policy. Research on urban growth in the different dynamics that shape to development especially in africa in my focused in has been the two cities are of lived. In which is narrow be enjoyment on the topic of preparing for future cities. What is getting growth. This proactive town planning in city management. In which countries have you seen success in africa internationally from the data on african abundance which is sort of projected to drive most of the evidence in the next few decades it it. It looks like we are going to have a lot of cities and mega-cities in africa. Presently we have maybe. Three mega-cities bug is projected to grow in the next few decades but they abandoned in africa is also being driven from the smaller towns in secondary cities that have a population of say quarter million and most of ny liberal most of the discussions are about how this growth to be managed and traditionally. We have this sort of formal proactive systems. Town planning that attempt to prepare setup the rules of about how it is to grow before the city's urbanites but what you've been observing boy especially in african towns and cities more organic formal growth and development that is known necessarily planned which then creates this economy. Were to sit out for more planned a good city or ideal city and informal and planned by the to need to correct and i think what we can begin to look at his
Innovation Now
NASA's Mixed-Reality Engineering Tool Is Allowing Scientists to Collaborate
"A team at nasa goddard space flight center is investigating augmented and virtual reality applications. That could help. Researchers work collaboratively on any aspect of mission design implementation or training. Here's tom grub a computer engineer. Who serves as the principal investigator for the research. Augmented reality where you see. What's around you but the computer overlays graphics on top of what you're seeing kind of like your car heads up display or if you've seen the fighter pilots how they have you know all that information so we are doing that type of work with. We're working with satellite servicing projects division. Where they are going to service a satellite in orbit but controlled here on the ground. Augmented reality isn't the answer to all testing and training. It's simply another tool in nasr's toolbox to help scientists and engineers prepare for the
WSJ Tech News Briefing
What Is the Metaverse? With Dan Gallagher
"A new buzzword in silicon valley the metaverse on books latest earnings call ceo mark zuckerberg mentioned the word no less than sixteen times. What is the metaverse. The metaverse the metaverse metaphors in many ways. The metaverse is the ultimate expression of social technology in defining quality of the metaverse presence within the metaverse. You're gonna build a hang out. Play games with friends. Work and more and zuckerberg isn't the only one talking about the metaverse exacts a companies ranging from microsoft to match group have been spending time and money either building out or getting involved in the metaverse. But what is it. And what could it mean for you and me here to talk more about. It is our heard on the street columnist. Dan gallagher hey dan thanks for being here pleasure to be here okay. Dan help us out here at the simplest level. What is the metaverse. Almost it almost depends on who you ask. But i think the most common definitions run that the metaverse is like this virtual world that you know as things that are similar to a we have a real world like a functioning economy. You know places where you can have a sense of physical presence. Even if it's not like what we think of as physical early versions of this we see and things like you know big video games like fortnight. That are kind of like their own worlds or could be defined as that. But what. I think when you hear from these tech companies. They're really talking about something. That's a lot more immersive. Unusually has to be kind of accessed with technology like virtual reality and augmented reality and that kind of equipment
Slate's If Then
Elizabeth Holmes, From Blood Test to Facing Prison
"In twenty thirteen. Abc news correspondent. Rebecca jarvis was working on a story about high medical costs and we featured a woman who was spending a lot of money on blood tests and after that story ran. Rebecca got a pitch about a new start-up. Hey there's this blood testing company theranos and they can save your viewers a lot of money. She checked it out but couldn't get anyone to independently verify that these theranos blood tests which only used a finger prick and not a traditional vein. Stick we're actually going to be better and cheaper. It was one of those things where This just it. It doesn't fully lineup. it doesn't live up to what it would take for me to even consider covering it as a solution. So rebecca did news story but other reporters did and then shortly after that pitch elizabeth started showing up in all of these places and was very much a celebrity. Elizabeth was elizabeth homes stanford dropout their nose founder and ceo millionaire superstar and media. Darling elizabeth homes left stanford university at the age of nineteen to build a company. A healthcare pioneer is being compared to visionaries like bill gates and steve jobs this morning elizabeth homes is part of the news. Time one hundred list just out. Homes promised to revolutionize blood testing. She was young rich charismatic and seemingly everywhere whenever there's a quote unquote glass ceiling. There's an iron woman rape behind it but the theranos blood testing devices didn't work like they were supposed to. The company was secretly running patient tests on standard commercial machines even as they doctors patients and the media otherwise there nose founder. Elizabeth homes has now officially been indicted on federal wire. Fraud charges the us turning twenty eighteen. The united states filed criminal charges against her and her former. Ceo and boyfriend sunny belt wani next week three years. After she was first indicted homes goes on trial for conspiracy and fraud. She faces up to twenty years in prison and has pleaded not guilty.
Marketplace Tech with Molly Wood
Shannon Mattern on the Privacy Concerns Surrounding Smart Cities
"In the pandemic sidewalk labs and offshoot of google announced. It was shutting down a big project in toronto called key side but was meant to be a testing ground for smart city concepts. A hyper connected neighborhood. Built from the ground up with things like an underground network of package delivery robots but even before the pandemic it ran into the same problems that have dogged other smart city projects around the world shannon. Madison wrote about them in her new book. A city is not a computer. other urban intelligences. She's a professor of anthropology and design at the new school. She says optimizing cities for connectivity often means giving up privacy so in order for something to be a smart environment. You have to have these really macro scale Levels of connectivity between technologies. Have to have smart buildings kind of biometric recognition systems automated building management systems and at the level of the private kind of domicile. The private home or apartment you have all kinds of sensors and probably cameras to provide for security for environmental control. And then at the micro scale we have sensors all over. Our bodies are smart watches. Our smartphones of these things are talking to each other and yes that does present a lot of conveniences. That are very exciting to some people but also a lot of concerns about privacy about what happens to the data about the commodification of human beings kind of their transformation into walking data sets automated technology. Like this is often sort of proposed as a way around human biopsies and inefficiencies. To what extent is that the case will yes. That is another one of the ways that smart cities in the case of automated. Governance are sold. Is that we want to somehow find a way to circumvent the messy nece the slowness of bureaucratic systems that are powered by people with biopsies and who are prone to error
Talking Tech
Elon Musk Unveils Tesla Bot, a Humanoid Robot That Uses AI
"On thursday unveiled tesla during an event. Touting advances in artificial intelligence according to a description on tesla's website the tesla bought was designed to perform physical tasks considered quote unsafe. Repetitive or boring. End quote He talked a little bit about this During the presentation in a suggested how you know. The foundation of every economy is labor and he kinda posed the question. What happens when there is no shortage of labor which is where these tesla bots come in. The body itself is five foot eight and weighs one hundred and twenty five pounds. It can carry up to forty five pounds and dead lift up to one hundred and fifty pounds. According to the presentation it can also move up to five miles an hour which is important because at one point elon. Musk jokes about how you can outrun the robot if you need to and you can overpower it if you need to which. Yeah that's fun to think about The billionaire said though he is aiming to release a prototype of tesla next year.
Daily Tech News Show
Elon Musk Unveils Tesla Bot, a Humanoid Robot That Uses Vehicle AI
"Let's talk about. Robots tesla showed off an idea for a five foot eight hundred twenty five pound humanoid robot called the tesla bought which will use the same and autopilot. It's cameras tesla's full. Self-driving computer to move around but not very fast. it'll move no more than five miles per hour presentation. Slide said tesla is designed to handle dangerous. Repetitive and boring tasks ceo elon. Musk said he would like a prototype to be ready sometime next year. Important point it was a drawing and a mannequin. Not a prototype prototype isn't even here yet. The announcement was the capper on a day. Were tesla goes deep explaining how it systems work. Both in cars and factories hoping to attract top talent in the area and yes elon. Musk likes to announce things that don't always turn out to be real products but for every robotic snake charger. There is an actual tesla car in exist. Who knows. maybe this'll be real
America's First News
Elon Musk Claims Tesla Will Debut a Humanoid Robot Next Year
"Tesla CEO Elon Musk has announced that the company expects to have a prototype of a humanoid robot dubbed the Tesla body ready by next year. Musk, saying it should be able to, you know, please go to the store and get me the following groceries. That kind of thing. He shared the news during Tesla's AI Day, saying the robot will use artificial intelligence that Based on the self driving tech in Tesla's saying It's intended to be friendly, of course and navigate through a world of humans and eliminate dangerous, repetitive, boring tasks, Musk said. While he does see the Tesla body is being able to drive down labour costs, he said, Tesla won't be using it to assist. With the company's manufacturing. As part of his presentation. He shared a slide with details on the Tesla but revealing that it's expected to weigh £125 and stand five FT eight inches tall. The robot will have human level hands and the ability to carry £45 left £150 and run five MPH. Can I make a suggestion? As we're building these humanoid robots? Make them smaller than us, Uh and Allow us the ability to shut these things down when they turn on
The 3:59
Facebook Has VR Plans for Your Virtual Office
"Zoom but would you consider working in a virtual office alongside avatars of your colleagues. That's with facebook. Ceo mark zuckerberg. I'm roger chan. This is your daily charge. Here take us through this. Virtual endeavor is seen at editor scott stein. Welcome scott hey thanks roger. So can you briefly. Describe what facebook's horizon workrooms today because i'm still having some trouble wrapping my mind around this. Yes so first of all. This is facebook trying to figure out what a lot of companies are trying for which is how do we work from home. How do we do this better. Even when we're possibly also gonna be going back to an office sometimes. Facebook has been testing the software out internally for about six months what basically is is your virtual conference room using vr headset. so we've all used zoom. We've all done work on our computers. What the are does is. It's you around the conference table with a bunch of cartoon avatars which you can see my story and what it's supposed to do is create more of a sense that you're actually there. What facebook does is they. Add also the ability to use your computer in that. Vr space so literally hair with your keyboard and show your computer screen for you so that you're not vr. Going what am i doing. You can bring up documents and talk about them. In the meeting
Anything But Idle
Is This the End of Going to the Office?
"Let's hop into our first part of our stories of the week worked our productivity articles and gustavo. What's our first article this week. So the first article. It's called and of office and come from seth cuttings blog and is interesting because he's he's claiming this story of their back office. Okay worried the bike off his comes. And how this concept of the office as we understand. And he's fifteen years old or maybe a little bit more on. How is oldest changing all this pandemic all these work in remotely an older discussions that are back and forward. He goes out ical saying well. We're social created creatures. Many people need a place to go. What community to be a part of. But that doesn't mean that the nineteen fifty seven of his building may be the best way to solve the problems and it is interesting because we have seen a lot of people wanted these remote or hybrid mode to stay and it is interesting also when you look at the our societies in the past we used to have the clubs and the other places to do that social life not necessarily office that social life in the office summited much much recently in in history. So where this is going to go. I don't know but we thought any doubt it is interesting. You know as a person who has been working for more than a decade. I'd home. I don't want to go to an office building if possible ever again. Let's do a fund soon meeting There are many ways to connect that do not imply office even with people at work even with people in you know that goes to the office there so many ways to interact in a much better way than going to
The Security Ledger Podcast
US Rep. Himes on Congresss About-Face on Cybersecurity
"I'm congressman jim. Himes i represent the fourth district of connecticut. Southwestern connecticut My seventh term and spend most of my time in washington On intelligence issues as a member of the intelligence committee on financial services issues as member of that committee and most recently actually interestingly Speaker of the house has asked me to chair. The committee on economic disparity congressman. Welcome to Cast thank you. You have really focused in your time in congress on cybersecurity on the house intelligence committee and the nsa and cybersecurity subcommittees. Can you talk about just in your time. in congress. kind of how this topic and congress's thinking around cybersecurity has changed. Yeah yeah and and change it has. I'm glad to report again. I've been doing this for for for coming on thirteen years. And i would say that there's been a dramatic change in people's level of education sense of urgency Around cyber security. I sometimes joke that you know. Even a decade ago you'd have people with three stars on their shoulders come in front of the homeland security committee or other committees. And you'd ask them about cybersecurity in you'd get blank stares and obviously there's been an awful lot of water under the bridge so to speak since then the federal government as it is wont to do argue. We hasn't moved quite as rapidly as it should but it has moved quite rapidly to stand up organizations that are about defending our cyber infrastructure. developing Offensive capabilities that theoretically could be used sometimes are used for for for retribution for other operations and most importantly there's been a really a high level of education given to members of congress. You know it might. It might have taken a while. It might have been. The gas lines forming in virginia because of the colonial pipeline Fiasco but Legislators have come to realize how very important this this issue is
Reset
Bitcoin and Bidens Infrastructure Bill
"So. When i hear infrastructure i think of roads and schools but biden has made the argument that tees investing in human infrastructure so that might include childcare paid leave. Maybe free community college but cryptocurrency. How does bitcoin tie into all this and definitely a strange thing to include in an infrastructure bill for sure But when you're trying to pass a big bipartisan trillion dollar bill paying for so much stuff in the country. There's a lot of people who are asking. Well how are you going to pay for it right. And that was one of the reasons why cryptocurrency was included. These new tax reporting requirements would raise an estimated twenty billion dollars according to some of the senators to offset some of these infrastructure costs. Twenty eight billion dollars is not a small amount of money and it is a very pricey bill but what was it about the original language in the bill that raised alarms right so it wasn't the fact that there'd be heightened tax reporting requirements. It wasn't really. You know the total essence at the bill that it was a definition of the word roker and the way that it was worded was a little too vague for some senators. Especially senator ron wyden. Who feared that. This of broker would end up extending these cumbersome packs reporting requirements to while developers and also cryptocurrency miners. And why does the crypto community argue that developers and minors should be exempt from reporting requirements. Well they're not really making any transactions right there mining cryptocurrency themselves. They're you know creating the wallet. Infrastructure for these transactions that. Take place but it's not necessarily a transaction and of itself right. We heard lawmakers making that argument on the senate floor this week. The underlying text of this bill would impose this kind of transaction reporting requirement on crypto transaction validates. These are the people that are building out the blockchain by validating a transaction they would be obligated to report things like a name and attacks. Id number associated with the dollar amount. They don't have that information
Anything But Idle
Google Meet Is Now a Progressive Web App
"We're recording this on august. Ninth twenty twenty one. And of course each week we cover and discuss the productivity news headlines of the week but of course to start off usually have a little theme that we discussed before we get into it and today's theme is all about left-handed productivity and. I was curious a custodian. Oh no any left-handers in your life and what do a and how do they think about productivity differently. Let me tell you. God made a few perfect people. The rest are right handle. I figured you would have an opinion about this. Considering your your left handedness and so so so talk to us about how you perceive the world differently as a left-hander versus those of us who are the majority. So let's start off with the fact that most people right handed Ninety percent of the population on the planet is right handed and lefthanders. Were once considered like the devil's work Thankfully we've gotten over that places there is place in this world that he's still bringing that back in but yes yes at least in my circles i don't have to deal with that and And so left handedness though. It is a Wiring a neural wiring. This just a little bit different than the rest of us and so i'm just curious. How do you think being left. Handed affects your personal productivity. You know i i am. I'm a glass half full kind of person. And i have always been hopefully always will be. I said younger person. There was more challenges because the desk at school. But after you get out of school and now you get two square desk court regular off his desk then. The plane was even into that. It was quite challenging okay. Drew ran right. Was your hand falling to the side.
Slate's If Then
Can America Fix Its Trains?
"Take a trip into the near future with me. A future where amtrak service looks less like the slow old system that we all know and more like the bullet trains that whisked people across countries like japan and france. This is what i think of as normal high speed rail's new york to washington an hour forty five. Maybe forty new york. Boston about the same new york philly should be forty forty five minutes apart. That's alon levy who has spent a lot of time thinking about how to improve train. Service blonde is a mathematician by training. But they're working now on. Something called the transit costs project at new york university. The project keeps track of how much similar train projects cost in. Different countries in the lawn is also an advocate for how american train travel should be what i would call train. Utopia ideally enter. The train station may be five minutes before the train departs. You can find an advance and reserve a seat. If you're with a friend you can reserve seats together. Emperor doesn't let now. There's lots and lots of capacity so you don't need to charge really high prices to avoid the train getting fall. Let's say new york and boston might be forty nine dollars. Tranche are going to be very frequent and the reason is that the northeast. Carter is enormous. How many people live there. It's what fifty million people between four enormous metropolitan areas so instead of having to two hours or half an hour you'd be waiting fifteen minutes.
Daily Tech News Show
Facebook Is Reportedly Trying to Analyze Encrypted Data Without Decrypting It
"Information sources say that. What's up owner. Facebook is hiring. A researchers specializing in hama morphing encryption. In the hopes of building the ability to analyze the content of encrypted data without having to decrypt it such an approach could open the door to eventually targeting ads based on encrypted messages in a response to the report. Facebook told the information. It's too early for us. to consider. Home amorphous encryption. For what's up at this