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"andy taylor" Discussed on TechtalkRadio
"But I bought this one through Google fi and I added the $4 a month insurance on it. So next time this happens, I just have to pay $50 and they'll send me a brand new watch. If this does happen again. I don't have to go through the whole process with American Express and all that. Kind of like Apple care, how they do that. But there's a lot of people out there that are saying, hey, we're really upset that you did not disclose this information to begin with. And a lot of people are, you know, $800 after buying two watches, you know? Now, after all, said and done before, you know, he had this mess up. How are you on that? Because I know you've tried, was it the tech watch is the one you bought on KickStarter? Oh, that was a while. Tick watch tick. Yeah. And I know you tried that. And there's many people listening that maybe, you know, Gloria has the iWatch. You got that one, but I mean, what are your thoughts about it? Well, I mean, compared to the TicWatch, it's much faster, much more responsive. I mean, both tick watch and in the pixel watch run native Android wear. Tick watch was running Android wear two, which was definitely an improvement over Android wear one, whereas the pixel watch now runs Android wear three, but even then, I mean, the tick watch was good for the price point. It did its job, but it was very laggy, it really took some time to move through the menus and it wasn't the greatest. But again, for the price point, it was not a bad watch by any means. But the pixel watch is much more snappier, much more responsive. And it's got better sensors on it. It tracks your sleep, it can do EKGs. Primarily use this for sleep tracking. And I really like the Fitbit integration with it, the sleep tracking seems to be pretty accurate. I haven't tried doing an EKG or anything like that. Yeah, it's a pretty decent watch. Can you use it without your phone or yes, I have the LTE model. Oh, that's cool. So it's got an E sim built in. I haven't really tried to use it without the phone. My phone is usually within range of it. Bluetooth. But yeah, no, it does have an E sim, so I technically can take and take and make calls, send text messages, do anything I can on my phone, I can do it on the watch without having my phone near me. And now you can get this in retail now, can't you? Yes, you can. Yep. All right, so I got a comment from Rick on our tech talk radio, Facebook page, which is tech talkers. It says when it's something you talked about, Justin. So when the pandemic started, my wife was forced to work from home, which he did not mind at all. And it soon became permanent. So I bought a secret lab's chair when Justin mentioned it. So secret labs are you listening? All right? There you go. Mention it back then from my wife's birthday to replace the Walmart special we had. She still uses it and loves it Justin is right, all the adjustability and contouring makes all the difference. Price was higher than I ever spent on an office chair and I never thought of a gaming chair for general office work until Justin mentioned it. But it reasonably priced over the others out there, not too much different in pricing compared to regular office chairs. Does the job well, thanks, Justin for the recommendation. Awesome, I'm glad you're enjoying it. I love the chair. I really do. Secret lab makes some great chairs. Funny, you think you think a secret lab is expensive. You try looking up Herman Miller. Or human scale. Human scale. You're talking about $10,000 per chair. For a chair. It better be massaging me. Real hair. Yeah, exactly, right? All right, we need to take a break, come back. We'll have more with tech talk radio, Justin. We're going to find a website of the week we could share. But a couple of great guests lined up for you here in the next segment for tech talk radio. I'm Andy Taylor. I'm Justin let me find us on the web at tech talk radio dot com. We'll be right back. Now, back to TikTok radio. Oh, he's great to have friends at the show and I definitely call him a friend of the show. Over the years, we've had him on quite a few times talking about the different ways to preserve your digital memories. Now, I know a lot of you listening, you do that. You'll have that box of photos under the bed or in the cabinet or worse in an attic or in a garage. And those could be lost. You look at the recent the events in California with a flooding or tornadoes, you know, we've had these elements that have affected homes are fires and you know, we always say the thing we're going to grab first other than our family members and our pets is that that book full of photos, but they're usually scattered. But the best way to preserve that is to get them digitized. And Mitch goldstone is the man behind scan my photos, always great to have him on the show. Mitch, thanks for coming on. Andy, great to be with you congratulations so many years and man, you covered everything from way back pre iPhone everything. Well, yeah, I mean, we've been doing this since 1996. And you know, it's just so much fun. That's why we do it. It's for fun, but we like to provide the information that all the listeners can certainly benefit and we know that digitizing those memories is something that people have thought about. They always say they're going to get to, maybe they've had a scanner and they thought they could do it. They scan a couple of photos and then they get tired. You have a process that captures the best way to not only do the memories we have from those photos, but film old video. So that it's always preserved. Absolutely. And we now do slide carousel scanning too. That was it's all about listening to customers. We've been doing this
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"andy taylor" Discussed on TechtalkRadio
"What is it? I dived back into Cyberpunk 2077. Oh, I've been hearing good things about it. It has gotten a lot better. Now, this was back in 2020, we talked about it was a huge amount of hype about it. This was the game that came out on all platforms. It had Keanu Reeves as one of the main characters in the game, but when it came out it had a ton of bugs, a ton of problems, people were revolting against the companies. They wanted refunds. They wanted refunds. I actually got a refund. I got a refund. I was like, no, this is stupid. I'm not going to pay for this. But about a year ago, after they started fixing it and fixed all the bugs, I got the game on the Xbox. But I haven't really played it all that much. And until recently, like the last week or so, I finally started diving back into it and I got to say, wow, really? The story is, first off, just alone. The story is so good. The voice acting, the character mod, I'm not the character models, but just the characters, the story driving behind the game is so engrossing. It sucks you in, like, honestly, I can't wait to play it after we get off this show. I got to get back in and see what happens next. Because it is so good. Now, yes, there are still some bugs. None of them are game breaking as they used to be. There's still some simple bugs, but it is actually a decent game now. Who puts a game out? Project CD Projekt Red. They're behind the massive success of The Witcher. I think it was Witcher three, I think they did. One of the most the most legendary games of all time. They have a very good studio. It's a very big company. Very good studio, very good programmers and artists, but they got rushed by the publisher. And that's what happens all the time. The publisher says the deadline says you got to have it out by this date and they're like, we're not ready. And they're like, we don't care. Release it. And they're like, okay, all right, well this is what's going to happen. And in the publisher gets a lot of backlash. How's the graphics? The graphics are amazing. I mean, it's a lot like, wow. I mean, I don't even know what to compare it to, but this style of the gameplay is a lot like Grand Theft Auto, okay? It's kind of a third person first person shooter slash adventure, but it's really good. Cyberpunk 2077, but the thing that really sucks me in about it is, I'm looking at the current world, the state of the world that we actual live in right now. I can totally see that this is the world that we are going to live in. If we're still alive in 2077, this is the world we're going to live in. I mean, this is pretty old. Yeah. You might have a problem with that one. I might have a problem with that one too. But anyway, it's a really good game. It's a really great game. So check it out. Cyberpunk 2077. CD Projekt in this JE K TRD dot com. Project. Or just look up Cyberpunk 2077. I'm going to have to, you know what? I'm going to get that. I'm going to play it this weekend. It's actually not that bad at all anymore, man. It's really good. It's really, really good. All right, well, listen, everybody, I hope you had a great Thanksgiving. Thank you for tuning in this week. Be sure to tune in next week. Tell your Friends about the show. You can find us at tech talk radio dot com. I'm Andy Taylor. I'm Sean de weird. And I'm Justin, let me gobble gobble. Have a great week.
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"The square looks like a cowbell. It's not cheese grater. That's what I said. I said a cheese grater, but the Dollar Tree? You know, this one, this was like, this was like titanium, so it's like 6 to 15 bucks, whatever. You know, this things like that, like a new cutting board, like a real solid brick, you know, cutting board. You know? Yes. Yeah, there you go. Thank you. Yeah. But she's like, I don't know what to get you. And I'm like, well, I could tell you all these cool things that I want, but you're not going to buy any of them, so I might as well buy stuff that I'll get a use out of in the house. Yeah. That works. All right. All right, tell you what, we get to take a quick break. We come back. I had a dilemma a few weeks ago. And we talked about it, and it was like, okay, we get a new computer reinstall windows for a failed Windows 10 update. I was able to do the 35 day hold. Then we had a problem. So I went in. I was able to actually write some do the coding and all that stuff. And get another 35 days out of it. Because Windows update will, after 35 days, that's it. You can't extend it anymore. But I did learn a trick that if you are extended, you can extend it again and keep doing that, which requires a little of know how, which I still didn't know. But we got to a point where you couldn't do it anymore. No matter what I tried, and it was the decision was, it's either a Windows update over the current Windows install on a clone drive or a new computer. And I'll tell you which way they went and a software program I found that can make it easy if you're migrating to a new computer. I'll tell you about that. In my experience, I bought it. I didn't have the company didn't send it and tell you what I thought about that coming up. This is tech talk radio. I'm Andy Taylor. I'm Sean de weird. And I'm Justin, let me find us on the interwebs. TikTok radio dot com. We'll be right back. Now, back to TikTok radio. You've heard the terminology, you
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Duran Duran guitarist Andy Taylor absent from Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony with stage 4 cancer diagnosis
"That Rock and Roll Hall of Fame welcomed a new class of inductees in Los Angeles on Saturday And Margie's are a letter with the latest Olivia Rodrigo performed on behalf of inductee Carly Simon who did not attend after the deaths of two sisters Lionel Richie eurythmics pep benatar and Neil Geraldo also were inducted Andy Taylor was unable to attend because of stage four prostate cancer Eminem says his induction was about more than just him I'm a high school dropout man with a hip hop education And these are my teachers And
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"So you can actually run your apps right there on Windows 11. Some people don't even know it can do that. I did not know we could do that. Yes, you've got an Android interface that you can actually run your apps under Windows 11. Can't do it with Apple products, which is looking up kind of a shame, but you can with Android if you're running Windows 11. You can have done it with ten. You can't say that you can't do that with Apple products. You can. I can't. Boot camp. But if you have a new MacBook or an M1 or an M two chip, it'll run iOS and iPad apps natively. Right, 'cause we're talking about Windows machines. Yeah, these are two different manufacturers. Interface my iPhone with windows and be able to run some of those apps under Windows. But with Android, you can. Yep. So I mean, that kind of makes you, that makes you, that was one of the sales points for me, the thought, eh, maybe it's time to go Android. Although I, I've fallen in love with my iPhone 14. Don't say. But I still frustrated because so I've got come to the light side. Apple sent me this and they said, yeah, you could use it till April. I'm like, okay, well I don't want to use it to April. I want to send it back to them, but I want to buy my own. So I have my own iPhone 14 pro max. No. Why? Why tell me? Does apple not have these phones in the marketplace? Because you were holding on to one of them. Yeah, I don't get that part. They 71. Let me use it, and I'm using it, but I want to buy one. I can't buy one. You can't go to Verizon. They won't have them until the 11th. I can't go to Costco. They don't have them, but they have an abundance of the folio. You know why they're doing it? Tell me. Why they're doing that for you too, to create love? Yeah, well, first off, they're going to get you addicted to it. They're going to get you to the point where you can't live without it because you're so used to it. And you've got a radio show that we'll talk about their product. And how much I love it? Exactly. And how I'm really bummed I can't own my own. Exactly. And then you ipso facto create demand. Well, so they're doing it just because you're like, well, heck, if Andy Taylor's got one, I better get one myself. Mabel let's get the card, go to the Apple store. I did find it to be rather interesting that. Verizon sent me an email the other day, because yeah, you can't get them from right. They're on back order. They send me an email saying, it's time to upgrade, because it knows I had the iPhone 8, and it sings. It's time to upgrade. You can now upgrade to the newest iPhone 12 for free. $0. That's a 12. And the thing is, okay, so I go ahead and upgrade to the iPhone 12 with their new unlimited plan. They haven't got me to go for unlimited yet. Because most of the time I use my iPhone, I'm around Wi-Fi. So I don't rely on that connection and getting unlimited. I still have a limited 5 gigabyte plan. I never go over. It's fine because I'm using it under that. They want me to spend the extra money to go that way. Now I could get the iPhone 12 for free. But no, I'm going to wait and wait and go. Hold up. You're going to go from an iPhone 14 that you've got for free right now down to an iPhone 12. Absolutely. And you're going to hate it. No, absolutely not. Because the reason I like the iPhone 14 pro max is the weight, the feel, the camera system, and the battery. You're not going to get that with the iPhone 12. The battery life, I'm 48%. I've been using it all day. One other thing, one other thing I got to mention about Apple, are they going to add on any extra portion to the name? I mean, seriously, it was iPhone. Right? And it was iPhone one, two, three, four, 5, or whatever. Then it's iPhone, I don't ten. Then it's iPhone 11. Then it's iPhone 11 max. Then it's iPhone 11 max pro. What's next? iPhone 14 max pro plus. It's a little confusing because you have. Come on. You do have the iPhone 14 plus and then you have the iPhone 14 pro, which are both great devices. And then you have the pro max. And then you have the pro max, which is top of the line. What's next? Pro max extended, pro max plus? No, it'll be the iPhone 50. It'll be the iPhone 15 and they're already talking about it. Yeah, iPhone 15 pro max plus extended. Crew cab. True cap. Yeah. Four by four. All right, we come back. Alex, do you tell you about a problem in my head with this iPhone? Turns out a lot of other people have gone through it and have no idea why, but I will tell you what I found out. I had to go onto YouTube with the Android device that I still had that worked, so I could look it up. So we'll do that coming up with more of tech talk radio. I'm Andy Taylor. I'm Sean de weird. And I'm Justin, let me find us on the web. TikTok radio dot com. We'll be right back. And now, back to tech talk radio.
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"Actually came across apparently this website has been around for a while. But I actually we've never mentioned it. We never mentioned it. No, but I came across it and I like it. It's super cool. So the website is I got to say it's a weird name, right? But you've got to spell it out. It's slash dot dot org. So it's the word slash DOT slash dot dot org. And it's, I think they call themselves like, it's like news for nerds. But they have all these other categories. So you've got, you know, entertainment, technology, open-source science, there's other, there's other categories, but I just like the one, I just follow their main page. And it's a super simple website. It's text based. Everything is text based. You don't have to worry about ads or videos. Well, I'm using my pie hole. So all right. But I mean, yeah, there's ads on it. But honestly, it's really easy to find what you're looking for because every article is only maybe just a couple paragraphs long at the most. And if you want to, you click on it and go to the actual article. But it's kind of like that they're made pages called the fire hose. You're just getting hit with the fire hose of news. All the biggest stories. Yep, for example, for today, doing the show. U.S. gamers spending a lot less on video games. You got big. Yeah, because nobody's at home during the pandemic. Everybody's not buying video games to take up all their time. Yep. Yep. Logitech will launch a handheld cloud gaming device. This year, that's what they're saying, at least. Micro strategy reports $1 billion in lost CEO steps down to focus on Bitcoin. And attacks on Taiwan Taiwan websites likely the work of Chinese activists, which we've been hearing a lot about. So again, I mean, pretty much everything in crypto in there, you got gaming, you got hardware, you got all kinds of stuff on there. Entertainment, you can even clear on the entertainment section and just learn about entertainment. There's all kinds of different things. So yeah, I kind of like it. So again, the website is slash dot dot org. So the word slash, the word dot, and then dot org. Good website of the week. All right, that's it for this week's show. Hopefully everybody be regrouped and with us next week, find us on the web at tech talk radio dot com. I'm Andy Taylor. I'm Sean de weird. And I'm Justin, let me have yourselves a great week. I'll see you next time.
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"andy taylor" Discussed on AvTalk - Aviation Podcast
"Joining us now is Andy Taylor, the chief solutions officer for digital towers at gnats, which is the UK's air navigation service provider as well as a pretty forward looking organization from all that I've been reading about you Andy and all that you've been doing. So thank you so much for coming on the podcast and talking about it today. Welcome. Thank you very much. It's great to be here and hope that I can give you some interesting insights to what we're doing now and for the future. So we always like to talk about people having interesting job titles. And yours is both interesting and I feel like it sets you up for having to really deliver. I mean, you are the chief solutions officer. Yes. To be honest, I think it's less what's in a title and more what you do that you're judged by anyway, but yeah, I mean, my role, I am an ex air traffic controller. So I've worked at many tower and approach radar units for and I've also worked all the way around the world in consultancy roles and supporting your control. I work for them for three years on a detachment from Nats as well. So I've got a very operational background and my role actually is in terms of working with end users airports, a and SPs, and getting the perfect solution for them to meet their operational needs. So having that operational background is kind of where my solutions come from and I'm supported by a very strong technical team both within Nats technical services and also within the ridge technologies who are owned by Nats, but basically continue to be an independent and the leading supplier of digital towers around the world. So digital towers, let's talk about what we mean when we say digital tower because the initial concept of the digital tower and what you're working on now has kind of evolved over time, hasn't it. Yeah, that's true. I think a lot of people as soon as you talk about digital towers immediately think about remote towers and small airfields in really remote locations and being able to provide services from sort of centralized locations. And that absolutely is part of digital towers, but it isn't the be all and end all. For me, a digital tower basically is where we install camera arrays at an airport. That provides camera data, panoramic views, which basically takes the views out of the window, which effectively are the analog data that air traffic controllers use every day. Digitizes that such that we can display that either at the airport, we can share it with other stakeholders at the airport, including the airport operations team, airport operation centers. But we can also augment it so we can add other system data, integrate and display that. And what we've been doing most recently with se which has also been adding artificial intelligence. So digital towers are basically a way of providing a much more powerful air traffic management solution for airports, which can be accessed by the airport operators and other airport stakeholders. So it's quite something beyond just remote towers. So when you say you're adding a layer of digitization and then adding, I guess, different layers of technology on that. The cameras think that's seems to make perfect sense is a good place to start. But then you mentioned artificial intelligence. I was wondering if you could expand on what those layers are. Yeah, well, like I said, the camera bit really just takes the analog data. And actually, I would suggest that a rat about 70% of the data that air traffic controllers use is analog at the moment, looking out the window. So that's a significant amount of digitization just by that camera data. But artificial intelligence where we train models to use that image video image data and also to use other data sources be that radar and recently we've been doing quite a lot of work in the last two years during the pandemic of voice recognition, which again may not seem like an unusually new subject, but it certainly is an aviation and particularly where that voice data is broadcast over the radio from pilots rather than just the air traffic control users speaking to the voice recognition like Siri or other kind of voice recognition on your phone for example. So that AI is basically taking lots of different data sources. Processing it in real time and then providing key outputs. Now, what we tend to do is we're focused on specific problem areas. Now that basically means that the AI model can be trained quite efficiently in recognizing situations and being able to provide prompts for operators to take on board for us. Definitely, this is about enabling the humans in the operation to be able to operate more efficiently, more safely because of the support that we can give them through a trained artificial intelligence model. I think a lot of people are worried about AI. It suddenly this is some kind of robot controller. But it's not that at all. It's basically, for us, you can program an algorithm and that can take considerable length of time. In our experience and particularly the searage team that I work with who have been working on AI for 7 years or so, probably longer. They realized early on that using artificial intelligence machine learning techniques, they could program algorithms more effectively and more quickly than traditional programming methods. And when we deploy these AI models as we have done in our Heathrow lab and we're looking at deployments elsewhere now, those AI models are effectively trained with real data that's we train the model and then deploy it as a close model. So it's not the kind of AI that continues to learn while it's in situ, but it does mean like I say that we can get that programming effectively and rapidly deployed. So that's our approach to AI and digital towers right now. So some of the problems that I'm thinking about as an AI solution being helpful. I'm thinking about taxing and being able to make sure that aircraft are well spaced on areas of the airfield that might not be as visible to the tower itself or things like runway exits and turn offs where you're dealing with aircraft that are already taxing and turning off or something like that making that a little bit the increasing the situational awareness there. Are those the kinds of things or is this something else entirely? No, that's exactly some of the use cases that we've been focused on. So I think you've actually touched on quite a few there. So digital towers in general, even before you apply AI, can have some benefits in terms of areas that are either difficult to see or completely invisible from a traditional control tower. So you can apply camera arrays to areas which enables you to effectively look through buildings that are within the line of sight from the tower. But having done that, you've digitized that data, you can now apply AI models to. So we've looked at and tested AI in terms of looking at the
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"It's all magical stuff to me. So we talked about this before, but we have a really, really cool website for you to check out. We talked about CPU Z, which is a software that can read your computer, tells you what process you have, motherboard, socket size, all that stuff. So if you ever want to know what you're running on your machine, go to CPU ID dot com that's CPU, ID dot com. And download CPU Z it's a great, really fast. It's very minimally invasive. It just you load it, it tells you, hey, this is the process you have. This is what wat is. There's so much power it's using. This is your graphics card. This is how much memory you have, and you can read all these specs about all of your stuff. Well, it kind of, your motherboard as well. Tell me what my motherboard is. But then they also have what's called hardware monitor. That will give you your fan speeds, your temperatures, your voltages. It'll give you everything you need. And they also have a benchmark benchmark software, which we'll do a burn in, which is like stress out your processor and your GPU to kind of give you a good benchmark. So CPU ID dot com, it's free. You can pay for the pro version hardware monitor if you want, but the basic version is free. I run it because I always forget what I'm running in my machines, right? So if I load it and I'm running an AMD Ryzen 7 3700 X, code name Matisse, socket a.m. four, it's 7 nanometer technology, core voltage, 1.4 volts. I mean, it runs through everything that you need to know. It tells me what it's doing right now. How many sockets? How many cores? How many threads? And I can look at my main board is an X 5 70 aurora's elite Wi-Fi, PCX express four. I mean, it's just all right there. Right now. This could be handy if somebody is thinking, I want to upgrade, but I don't have the infrastructure to upgrade my motherboard, so they know what board they have. They know how far they can do the research online and know where they can go in the next step of a process. So what's great is you could take this information and I did this before when I had my old motherboard, which was an Intel and I knew taking the information from CPU at Z, CPU ID, I was able to go and to PC part picker and filter out what processors fit in that socket. Perfect. So then I got the highest end processor for that, which was an I 7 30, 300, and there we went. All right, and one more, I want to definitely recommend you mentioned EVGA, that website, if somebody is really looking to upgrade their graphics card, also CPU ID could tell you if you learn the motherboard, what you can take, because you can't, you can't always just upgrade your graphics card if you're not upgrading that infrastructure as far as the motherboard. You may not be able to, it may not be able to fit. It may not work with that, or your power supply may have limitations. So it's good to know everything about your computer. This would be a good way. But what is the website address for the EVGA? EVGA dot com. You made it easy. That's it for this week's TikTok radio. We'll be back next week. Hopefully all three of us will be able to be here with you in the meantime, I'm Andy Taylor. I'm Sean de weird. Have yourselves a great week..
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"Always, I don't like reading Australian transport safety bureau reports. But I find that they're writing is always extremely thorough in why things happen. It kind of even stepping back. And reports and UK IB reports are all very, very good. But the Australian transport safety grid reports are always, I think even more thorough because they explain all of the non aviation stuff really well. That kind of leads up to what happened and then they go into why or the procedures or things like that. So if you're interested in the full report, we'll put a link in the show notes. I found it to be very fascinating in how this all came together. And very happy to report that the aircraft landed safely and it has long since been in service. So a rather interesting one. And I think it's another interesting thing to note. This happened in 2018. Yeah. So the report just the final report just came out. Well, they did say, and I quote this led the ATS-V undertaking one of its most substantive and substantive and complex investigations in recent years, so they do even admit that such a simple thing of somebody left the covers on the tubes led to one of their most complicated investigations that they had gone through in years. And Australia is no stranger to having major incident investigations. So that says something. Yeah. Absolutely. Well, Jason, I'm going to let you get back to your business in nice and I hope you have a good rest of the trip. Thanks for making the time. I know it's late in the evening there. So I'm going to wish you a wonderful evening. Everyone listening, thank you so much. We've gotten some really good feedback both constructive and positive over the last couple of weeks. So we're thankful that so many people have been listening to the shows and have learned along with us about what's happening in the world and how that's affecting commercial aviation. If you do have any other questions or anything about the Ukraine and Russia situation or anything generally, always just email us a podcast FR two four dot com. We'll read those. And if we can put something together that answers your questions, we'll do that. And if we can't, we'll let you know that you've indeed stumped us. But until then, thank you all so much for listening. This has been episode 155 of our talk. I me and pechenik here as always with Jason urbanowicz, thanks for listening..
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"It down, dial it straight back up again, still operate then at just as effectively as you did a few months before having had impacts. I'm hoping that we don't see these impacts again, but these are use cases that we'd never seen before, but actually I think it is something quite relevant. Beyond that, I think the sky is the limit in terms of what you can do with this. The key for me is the digital tower. So that 70% of that analog data being digitised. Being able to be integrated with other data systems on the airport rather than all being stand-alone, where a human operator air traffic controller or airport ops person, apron controller, where they have to look at different systems and effectively process this themselves. That integration just really helps in terms of reducing their workload and improving efficiency. But also, like I say, there are opportunities then to improve that because a human can only focus on one area at a time. We'll like to think we can multitask, but actually what we do is our brain flips from one thing to the next. And we train controllers for an extensive period of time before they work on their own in order to get their scan from one place to the next to the next. With artificial intelligence and 360° of coverage visually visual camera data and integrated other data sources, that AI model or AI models can basically be looking in all different directions, simultaneously. So the controller can then be drawn to the point that the decision needs to be made. It can certainly humans and I go back to those high performing teams that we have in air traffic control. Heathrow and other airports and a and SPs around the world. Having the controller there to be able to make the right decision, but supported by the tool that's pointing them as to whether the next kind of area is that they need to put their attention to and provide the decision. That I think is a real game changer. Goes from reliant upon a scan, waiting for the controller to scan that to that. Now, they'll do this quickly, but it's still still not as quick as being done 25, 30 frames per second, every minute of the day, regardless of whether that person has been in the seat for 5 minutes or 55 minutes. It's still is working to the same level and drawing their attention to what they need to do. So I think it's a real game changer. For me, digital towers are like the smartphone when it came on the market. Suddenly opened up possibilities. Those applications that we started off with, we've got hundreds of applications now that run on that smartphone. And I think digital towers are effectively that smartphone integrating all of these data sources and basically providing applications that are specific to the airport. I don't have the same apps as you've got on your phone, I'm sure. We might share some, but basically they'll be specific to our type of whatever we're interested in. And so I see international hubs having probably very similar applications, smaller regional airports, perhaps maybe having some of those or maybe having specific ones to them. So I think we're on the cusp of something really quite new and innovative for aviation, particularly for air traffic controller airports. Andy Taylor, the chief solutions officer, digital towers at gnats. Thank you so much for joining us. It's been a very pleasure to talk to.
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"We increase the spacing between the arrivals just to provide us with an additional safety buffer so that by the time the aircraft can be confirmed as clearing the runway and its safety strip so that we can allow the next aircraft to land, it takes a little bit longer than it does by looking out the window. So if we can employ a visual observation of those exits in conditions where the tower controllers can't see, then that was our approach. So we have deployed in addition to the panoramic cameras. We've deployed additional cameras that are overlooked the runway exits, rapid exit tax ease off the north runway. And that then had an AI model trained to understand what the aircraft and particularly what it was looking for in terms of the tail of the aircraft, the tail fin, clearing the safety strip. So what the AI model was trained to do quite rapidly was to give us two triggers, visual triggers that can be provided to the controller on out of the window video display or alternatively on their radar displays, but basically it provides them with a trigger to say this event has occurred. The aircraft tail has cleared the runway safety strip. So because it's doing that based on visual data and the cameras are high resolution ultra high four K cameras. So they have massive amounts of pixels. And the aircraft is looked at in terms of being hundreds of thousands of pixels. And it's looking for the last very last pixel of that tail fin, clearing a line which is effectively a pixel fix. So this is even more accurate than a human controller can do looking out of the window normally. And it triggers an event to say that aircraft has now crossed this line assuring safety that the next aircraft could land, roll down the runway, and there is no chance of a wing tip to tail collision between those two, which is one of the key tasks that we're supplying. So that basically means that if we could prove that the system was capable of doing that, routinely and to a high level of accuracy, which is what we analyzed more than 40,000 arriving flights that he throw doing, and it all sorts of different conditions and day and night, daylight darkness, different weather conditions. Then we would be able to apply a normal final approach spacing. So not increased spacing, therefore, reduced landing rate, but normal landing rates. So that would basically mean even in towering cloud situations. We could continue to operate the normal traffic levels, reducing delays that are impacted during that time. And to basically increase safety as well, because as I say, the level of accuracy of it, when you're looking at the last pixel on the tail of an aircraft crossing a line that's only a pixel thick likewise, that is incredibly highly accurate data that it's using. So that's our concept to operation. That's what we've tested and validated so far. The results of it were so positive that we actually decided that the next stage would be to look at low visibility operations, low visibility procedures, in fact, where we protect slightly further away from the runway center line because what you're looking to do is to avoid the tail fin interfering with the ground landing a the instrument landing system that the next arriving aircraft is following. So even though you apply slightly larger spacings for that, what we'd be looking at would be to try and just tease those down just a little bit in order to on the back of that high level of accuracy of the aircraft clearing that line and being able to do it when you're using camera data that's running at 25 to 30 frames per second. So up to 30 times faster than radar updates, but to pixel level of accuracy, not radar blip, accuracy. So all of these things, I've described previously as any high performing team. And I see the Heathrow air traffic control team as a high performing team. Those controllers, just like the high performing teams in whatever your sport may be, those teams never just take their day to day performance as being that's as good as it gets. They're always looking to try and get that little bit better, that little bit improvement, to be able to do that perfect serve that perfect goal, whatever it might be more often and obviously in an air traffic control environment more safely. So what's the future of the digital tower? Is there a move to expand where the AI is helping controllers? Is this something where you need fewer controllers per shift? Or is this something where you continue to find ways to incrementally increase the efficiency of the towers? And that's really where you're headed. That's a number of potential goals you could aim for. I think my focus is to say, it's not so much from the aim to remove players from the field, but basically to get that performance more regularly assured and to as high.
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"Strong technical team both within Nats technical services and also within the ridge technologies who are owned by Nats, but basically continue to be an independent and the leading supplier of digital towers around the world. So digital towers, let's talk about what we mean when we say digital tower. Because the initial concept of the digital tower and what you're working on now has kind of evolved over time, hasn't it. Yeah, that's true. I think a lot of people as soon as you talk about digital towers immediately think about remote towers and small airfields in really remote locations and being able to provide services from sort of centralized locations. And that absolutely is part of digital towers, but it isn't the be all and end all. For me, a digital tower basically is where we install camera arrays at an airport. That provides camera data, panoramic views, which basically takes the views out of the window, which effectively are the analog data that air traffic controllers use every day. Digitizes that such that we can display that either at the airport, we can share it with other stakeholders at the airport, including the airport operations team, put operation centers. But we can also augment it so we can add other system data, integrate and display that. And what we've been doing most recently with sewage has also been adding artificial intelligence. So digital towers are basically a way of providing a much more powerful air traffic management solution for airports, which can be accessed by the airport operators and other airport stakeholders. So it's quite something beyond just remote towers. So when you say you're adding a layer of digitization and then adding, I guess, different layers of technology on that. The cameras think that's seems to make perfect sense is a good place to start. But then you mentioned artificial intelligence. I was wondering if you could expand on what those layers are. Yeah, well, like I said, the camera bit really just takes the analog data. And actually, I would suggest that around about 70% of the data that air traffic controllers use is analog at the moment, looking out the window. So that's a significant amount of digitization just by that camera data. But artificial intelligence where we train models to use that image video image data and also to use other data sources be that radar and recently we've been doing quite a lot of work in the last two years during the pandemic of voice recognition, which again may not seem like an unusually new subject, but it certainly is an aviation and particularly where that voice data is broadcast over the radio from pilots rather than just the air traffic control users speaking to the voice recognition like Siri or other kind of voice recognition on your phone for example. So that AI is basically taking lots of different data sources. Processing it in real time and then providing key outputs. Now, what we tend to do is we're focused on specific problem areas. Now that basically means that the AI model can be trained quite efficiently in recognizing situations and being able to provide prompts for operators to take on board for us. Definitely, this is about enabling the humans in the operation to be able to operate more efficiently, more safely because of the support that we can give them through a trained artificial intelligence model. I think a lot of people are worried about AI. It suddenly this is some kind of robot controller. But it's not that at all. It's basically, for us, you can program an algorithm and that can take considerable length of time. In our experience and particularly the searage team that I work with who have been working on AI for 7 years or so, probably longer. They realized early on that using artificial intelligence machine learning techniques, they could program algorithms more effectively and more quickly than traditional programming methods. And when we deploy these AI models as we have done in our Heathrow lab and we're looking at deployments elsewhere now, those AI models are effectively trained with real data that's we train the model and then deploy it as a close model. So it's not the kind of AI that continues to learn while it's in situ, but it does mean like I say that we can get that programming effectively and rapidly deployed. So that's our approach to AI and digital towers right now. So some of the problems that I'm thinking about as an AI solution being helpful. I'm thinking about taxing and being able to make sure that aircraft are well spaced on areas of the airfield that might not be as visible to the tower itself or things like runway exits and turn offs where you're dealing with aircraft that are already taxing and turning off or something like that making that a little bit the increasing the situational awareness there. Are those the kinds of things or is this something else entirely? No, that's exactly some of the use cases that we've been focused on. So I think you've actually touched on quite a few there. So digital towers in general, even before you apply AI, can have some benefits in terms of areas that are either difficult to see or completely invisible from a traditional control tower. So you can apply camera arrays to areas which enables you to effectively look through buildings that are within the line of sight from the tower. But having done that, you've digitized that data, you can now apply AI models to. So we've looked at and tested AI in terms of looking at the turn process. So when the aircraft is on stand and being serviced, there are key milestones within that from the baggage being unloaded, reloaded, catering, fueling, all those kind of items which all have to progress before the aircraft ready to go again. Those kind of events can be monitored by the artificial intelligence and that's through the visual camera data and also through other system data that it's receiving. Making calls on the basis of looking all of that data, but actually being able to sort through which is the most appropriate to use right now. So that may well be that the visual overtakes other maybe manually input data from other sources. But one of the other cases that you spoke about with the runway, we've been testing that Heathrow. We actually ran a test prior to the pandemic where we were looking at how we could enhance the Heathrow operation. The Heathrow control tower, its physical control tower is 87 meters tall. That means that the tower is one of the tallest in the United Kingdom. It's one of the tallest towers in Europe and it goes into cloud low cloud before the operation requires us to go to the next stage low visibility procedures where you have to protect the ground landing aids, for example..
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"With us and we'll be right back with Andy. Joining us now is Andy Taylor, the chief solutions officer for digital towers at Nats, which is the UK's air navigation service provider as well as a pretty forward looking organization from all that I've been reading about you Andy and all that you've been doing. So thank you so much for coming on the podcast and talking about it today. Welcome. Thank you very much. It's great to be here and hope that I can give you some interesting insights to what we're doing now and for the future. So we always like to talk about people having interesting job titles. And yours is both interesting and I feel like it sets you up for having to really deliver. I mean, you are the chief solutions officer. Yes. To be honest, I think it's less what's in a title and more what you do that you're judged by anyway, but yeah, I mean, my role, I am an air traffic controller. So I've worked at many tower and approach radar units for and I've also worked all the way around the world in consultancy roles and supporting your control. I work for them for three years on a detachment from Nats as well. So I've got a very operational background and my role actually is in terms of working with end users as airports, a and SPs, and getting the perfect solution for them to meet their operational needs. So having that operational background is kind of where my solutions come from and I'm supported by a very strong technical team both within Nats technical services and also within the ridge technologies who are.
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"Maybe there is some logic to it that they want to use some aircraft and others, but aeroflot doesn't really have all that many flights to operate right now. On today's date, march 16th, they only have 335 flights loaded in the global schedule, many of which I'm sure will end up not actually operating. And internationally, they're down to 13. Most of which is Belarus is a couple flights to Istanbul, and that's it. So I really don't need a large chunk of that fleet operating right now. Yeah. And that's the other thing, is that where they can operate and what they need to operate are very, very much limited compared to a month ago. That's certainly something to keep in mind. Yeah, and you mentioned that three 50 not flying. It's not even in the schedule actually right now. I think it's been removed entirely. So there's definitely some behind the scenes thinking about what aircraft they want to keep flying and what they can put on the ground for an extended period. Yeah. One of the questions that we feel that a few times and that I've seen other people get asked, is there a way to OnStar or lo Jack where you just turn them off remotely? No, the answer is no. That was a question that we got a few times over the past year. For me, I asked that question. Did you? Yeah, a couple days ago. These airplanes are so complex. They require updates. They have satcom links. They are connected aircraft. I hope this isn't something that's possible because I certainly wouldn't want this to be done improperly or by accident, but it's not out of the realm of technological possibilities that these aircraft could be bricked while on the ground. There's no built in way to do it. There's no, it's not a feature. Or if a car stolen, they can remotely safely pull it over right. Right. No, that's not how it goes. But yeah, I just wanted to put that out there. And then the other thing I wanted to talk about, which has been kind of of interest this week. At least questions that we've gotten either on social media or people have emailed us, is there the increased number of Russian aircraft that are still flying, squawking 7700. So 7700 is the internationally recognized squawk for general emergency. And we've talked about this in past episodes, but to recap, there's a four digit octal code that air traffic controllers assign an aircraft that creates a unique identification on the air traffic controller screen. Before departure, air traffic controllers will provide departure clearance and they will say squawk one two three four or whatever. And there are a few generally around the world there are a few generally standard squawks and in some countries those very for general aviation, 1200 or 2000, and then there are three that are Ikea standards, 7500, which is the aircraft is being hijacked. 7600, the aircraft's communication systems don't work. They can't talk on the radio to air traffic control. And 7700, which is general emergency. If you squawk either of those three, 75, 76, 77, air traffic control is going to start immediately. Red lights start going off. Bells, whistles, you know, all of those things. So air traffic controllers know that that particular aircraft needs special attention. In the past, ten days or so, a larger number of Russian aircraft have started squawking 7700. I say all this to say, I don't know why. Looking into it, don't have any good leads yet. No one I've talked to so far has any concrete information about why this would be happening. It's not entirely unusual for certain Russian aircraft to squawk 7700. On a regular basis. I'm looking at the super jet fleet, for instance. It has a larger proportion of squawk 7700s per flight than I think nearly any other aircraft. Besides cessna one 82. Yeah, that checks out. And so it's not entirely unusual, but it has happened outside of the super jet fleet. And to more aircraft operated by retina lights, I don't know exactly what's happening. I don't know why, but it is something certainly that I'm interested to find out if there is a reason and what that reason might be. So stay tuned on that particular front. Let's take a break here. And we'll switch over to our conversation with Andy Taylor of gnats. And when we come back after chatting with Andy, we'll run through a bunch of news that we've been letting sit for a couple of weeks while we really focused on Ukraine and Russia. So stay with us and we'll be right back with Andy. Joining.
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"Hello and welcome to episode 155 of the here as always with. How are you Ian? I'm doing well, Jason. How are you? How are your travels, sir? Good. First real business travel in two years and one week, but who's counting? Not you, obviously. Tell the folks at home where you are. I am in nice France, I'm told. Is it nice? Yeah, it's pretty nice. It'd be nicer in season where there's a lot of people and things are open, but right now in mid March, it's colder than New York, actually. I would not have expected that. Yeah. Flights were good and all that fun stuff. Oh God. Yeah, sure. I flew, I chose to fight delta from JFK through de Gaulle, down to nice, the Delta flight was on a two year old a three 3900 neo, which I was excited about because it's a new aircraft. Obviously. And this was Sunday Night and as I'm walking to the gate, I get a notification on my phone saying, snow expected to start in 15 minutes, expected to end in 25 minutes, and sure enough, as I'm settling into my seat, it snows intensely for about 15 minutes, no big deal. No accumulation, but it was just long enough to require every single aircraft going out for the rest of the night to require de icing, which was not a quick process. Especially when it's kind of surprise de icing and things aren't really set up at the moment. Yeah, it was surprise. Surprise no, it wasn't in the forecast. It came and no big deal. If you weren't flying an aircraft, you probably wouldn't have even really cared or noticed, but I guess it takes some time for the airports really the terminals or contractors in this situation to spin up the DI sing operation at JFK. And it took a good while. I'm pretty sure they were sharing one truck for the entire delta outbound operation, but thankfully it was only about hour and a half of delay, which made the connection that de Gaulle, which is always a great experience to begin with, much more stressful. But I made it. And then my connecting flight was delayed 30 minutes boarding because of I don't know. The reasons that were not communicated to anyone for any reason, but I made it here, didn't miss any connections, everything was fine, and I'm here. Well, good. I'm glad you made it, and I hope you're having a nice time. This week's show kind of picks up where the previous two episodes left off. We won't spend the entire show this week talking about the situation in Ukraine and Russia as well. As things haven't really changed a great deal in the civil aviation portion of the conversation. And we'll catch up on some news that we've kind of been putting off, I guess, for the past couple of weeks. We're also talking this week with Andy Taylor of gnats, which is the UK's air navigation service provider. Andy is the great job title. Director of solutions. For digital towers. And gets things done. He does indeed. So we're going to talk to him about what he's getting done as far as digital towers are concerned. And how they might not be exactly what you think they are anymore. So we'll have that conversation a little bit later in the episode. We'll start this week with where we kind of left off last week, which was a question about what was going to happen to all of the aircraft operated by Russian airlines that are registered or released and registered leased from lesser outside of Russia and registered outside of Russia, which is a good chunk of the Russian civil aviation fleet, especially the newer aircraft that are operating for airlines like aeroflot and some of the new ish aircraft that are operating for some other airlines. So it's the 16th of March Wednesday now over the weekend on the 12th of March, the Bermuda civil aviation authority, provisionally suspended all certificates of airworthiness of those aircraft operating under the article 8 three BIS agreement between Bermuda and the Russian Federation. So let's pause here and talk a little bit about what the a three BIS agreement is and then we'll talk about why any of this matters. We mentioned it. I think two weeks ago in the context of Steve Giordano, who we had on the program multiple times who operates nomadic aviation, which is basically a taxi service for lessers. He goes and Clark's aircraft and brings them to where they need to be. And his explanation on Twitter that we linked to goes into kind of the ins and outs. But the overarching context is that these agreements are between this bilateral agreement in this particular context is between Bermuda and the Russian Federation, which delegates certain tasks to the state of operation being Russia from the state of registration, which is Bermuda and allows the aircraft to remain on the Bermuda registry. Bermuda issues the certificates of airworthiness, which basically say this plane is fit to fly. On the 12th of March at 23 59 UTC, they revoked those certificates. Those planes were not fit to fly, and should not have continued in the air. That is not what's happened, the aircraft have not all been grounded. They've continued to fly. The jets based on a law that was passed by the Russian parliament and signed by Vladimir Putin on Monday the 14th of March provides a way for Russian operators to take their not airworthy aircraft on a canceled certificate of airworthiness on the canceled registrations and move them over to the Russian registry. And they've begun doing that in earnest. Yeah. And when we mean not airworthy, of course, we mean paperwork wise. These aircraft I'm sure most likely all physically and mechanically sound, but the paperwork, which as we discussed in the last couple episodes, is in extremely important part of the puzzle. Exactly. Yeah, it's not to say that these aircraft have become unsafe overnight and are miraculously going to fall out of the sky because they have canceled the registration. That's not what it is. What it is is that there's no longer that paper chain that says we have done everything we are supposed to do to keep these aircraft in the condition that we are supposed to keep them in so that they can continue to safely fly. That chain of evidence has not been broken. And so a lot of these aircraft and we're talking nearly 700 aircraft that are operating for Russian airlines on or formerly on the Bermuda registry, which is the VP or VQ prefix. Those are being moved over to the Russian registry. And who knows what happens to them? Long term. Which is the question that we talked about last week a bit more in depth. So the things that we kind of previewed last week, those have come to pass this week. And what we do know is that hopefully when all of this ends soon, these aircraft it's going to be very difficult to reintegrate them into the international aviation system. It's just they're rogue aircraft at this point. And the international community can't vouch for their safety at this point. We don't know what's happening with them. They're operating without insurance without proper registration. It's crazy to think that these aircraft are just bio intensive purposes gone. But not gone. Gone, but not yet gone from the pool of available global aircraft. And especially as far as lessons are concerned, that becomes a big problem for them. Without even getting into how they recuperate their losses or any of that, it's just the physical assets are unavailable. What's interesting to me looking at which aircraft are flying in which aircraft are not and which aircraft have been brought over to the new Russian registry as quickly as they can and which are kind of still sitting in stasis. All of the newer aircraft that aeroflot has taken delivery that are on lease and on the Bermuda registry. Nearly all of those have remained on the ground, which I find very interesting. I don't have any idea about why that is. It could be the fact that they're just not necessary at the moment because those are the larger aircraft that 777 300 ERs, a three 50s, maybe they're not necessary at the moment, given the aeroflot has become a domestic fleet. So maybe that's the case. But that's just one of the things that I've been kind of seeing as I go through and try and keep on top of this. Yeah. There must be some sort of rhyme or reason or logic to what aircraft they're using since it's a wide range of leasing companies that these aircraft are acquired from. So maybe there is some logic to it that they want to use some aircraft and others, but aeroflot doesn't really have all that many flights to operate right now..
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"Might need to go back and re record that entire podcast interview because we'd be selling him short four nominees in the supporting actor in a comedy. Category there from ted lhasa. So that would be. I mean you know obviously people talking about splitting the vote. But i think his chances are going to be greatly boosted by the great season at the writers are delivering for. Roy can season two and along the same. Yeah i i think that probably he is the most likely winner of that group. And so i think that does benefit him but yeah. There's there's always the chance that there could be a four way split and that something wacky would happen. And you know i don't i don't know and i guess that is enough for me that that there's a tiny bit of mystery there along the same lines is going to be hannah. Wadden cam. do we assume it will. I mean probably. She seems like the most likely winner to me for the second season. She's clearly the lead actress on the show which might give genetic juno temple a chance to win next year. Maybe but i think it's this one is really and truly gonna come down to the to hannah's to hannah water. Hammon nine binder from hacks. I think i would probably vote for hannah. I'm binder but i'm not sure it's it's kind of. It's kind of tight because to me. Both the hand hands really probably should be in the lead actress. Category and juno temple probably should win for supporting so yeah. I don't know but it's going to be a lot of ted lasso. Yeah all right. So let's talk about the drama next so drama series bridgeton lovecraft country posed the boys the crown handmaid's tale demand laurien. And this is us. Who's your winner. Personal preference may be for lovecraft country just for its its audacity and it's wild highs and also for the opportunity for additional confusion regarding whether it was really and truly a one season show and should have been a limited series or whatever i think that probably lovecraft country's best chance of recognition as we discussed last week is gonna be michael kenneth williams and and i really hope he he wins. I mean it will not be. It will not be the moment that it should have been. It should have been a moment for the industry to embrace this person who everyone loves and instead it's going to be this very very sad moment of of regret and and tragedy But also of putting out in the world karmic comically the love that the industry. How for him. And so yeah. I think that's where it's best chance is going to be but in terms of actual winning one. Could i guess pretend to make the argument that because the in one all of those creative arts emmys it. It might have a chance to pull an upset. I think if you go back to last year you would discover that it also had roughly that many going into the final night and then succession one. So it's going to be the crown. And i think that that's fine. I i wouldn't be my pick but you know my pick would be a sentimental pick for pose but that i don't think pose is gonna win but i think i think you're right. I think the crown there. I think poses best chance is going to you know billy porter and i'm jay rodriguez and i think that i think billy porter has a strong chance and i think that. Mta rodriguez. i think she could slip in and dot could be a a bit of an upset regardless it would be a great moment and so that would be notable. It would also wouldn't surprise me if if podcast guest stephen canals one for writing. That wouldn't that wouldn't shock me. I can imagine that happening and so those would be sort of opportunities to recognize a well liked show with a tremendous amount of cultural impact. And so i i wouldn't. None of those awards would make me unhappy. However mixed i was on the final season of oppose. So but i suspect it's going to be the crown winning a lot of things. I feel as if we've been on this sort of roller coaster with ted lonzo in the crown winning all sorts of stuff throughout and they did just both win awards. So yeah that would. That would not surprising. Let's wrap up here. Dan limited series or anthology is this. I mean it to me. It's a tough categories. I may destroy you. Maravilla town the queen's gambit the underground railroad and wanda division. It's incredibly tough category. Because these are the most part the best shows on tv as opposed to anything in the other categories this this unlike all of the winds for the mantle. Orien- is one where i feel like. Probably all of the craft wins. Four queen's gambit indicate. The people didn't forget that that show existed and it had been a long time since that one aired to me. A lot of the technical wins that it got last weekend. Really and truly underground railroad should have have gotten. And i say that as someone who loved queen's gambit but you know queen's gambit is a beautiful looking show underground railroad is a breathtaking show it is a. It is a piece of art and so queen's gambit. Winning percent of autocracy to me was a little silly. A lot of the the sound awards. For example the queen's gambit one definitely underground railroad should have gotten so. I expect the queen's gambit is going to win. i think that there's at least a chance that kate winslet. I'm strong chance. Because she's kate winslet could win for merb'ys town. Instead of andy taylor joy and that would be a minor disappointment for me but i think kate winslet is great so yeah i think i think it's going to be queen's gambit i think if i had an actual vote it would be may destroy you and maybe michaela coal wins for writing and that would be. That would be something. I i would guess it's got frank is going to win for writing also. I think it's gonna be a lot of queen's gambit. I think it could be a lotta the crown and i think it's gonna be a lot ted laso flex at we'll we'll have more next week. After we see the.
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"andy taylor" Discussed on TechtalkRadio
"Then be blocked the only way to get it. Unblocked is providing a valid proof of purchase. Otherwise once you connect to the internet that tv is not gonna work and basically. That's you know once you turn it on. It's going to try and find a hot spot for that television so you know. Some people are really surprised at this. Technology exists there. But i think we're finding more and more electronics now. That are you utilizing this and having these features in that the manufacturer could at will turn it off. You're saying there's a lo- jack on my samsung realistically. We've talked about this though we've talked about this in previous segments of this. Is that hardware information that soft that sits on that hardware level. It's basically it's a management in the in the industry they call a mids. It's a management information base. It's our blocks. It's a little piece of information that sits at the core that gives all the the the identifier associated with what we have in the mac addresses. Or what you would have in when you do a search on mac addresses for network connected devices. It tells us manufacturer based on two or three of those numbers. So that's this is more of that and Yeah i find it quite interesting. And i wouldn't be surprised if there's in more stuff than we know exactly all right we come back. We'll have more of tech talk radio. I'm andy taylor weird. Broadly finest on the web and subscribe spreaker dot com. Now that talk radio walking back up. Radio i'm sean. I'm andy taylor and on broadway. Thank you for tuning in to us again. You can find us on the web at tech talk radio dot com so this week. There was an announcement that microsoft was going to be possibly raising the prices on his office suite of products. Now i come from the old school where i bought microsoft office and i had it and i used it for years and then just recently i went ahead and made the switch to office three sixty five where i pay an annual subscription of like ninety nine bucks a year and i get this available for myself. You know glorious. Gotta copy a and i've got a copy on another system that i use it work and we still have two licenses available but they also announced that the price is going to be going up and for some of those licenses and see it going up almost forty percent. So i've had a couple of people ask me so if i don't want to stick with with office three sixty five. What is an alternative for anybody that wants to do it. John if you come across an alternative for the office suite Open office is one. That's one of the ones. I've used I believe sean have a website. That would help others. Fine stuff like this. So we've talked about this before when we've talked about alternative started to software or games or other things that people use databases. It's called alternative to though the word alternative te'o dot net and then you just type in what you want to search for so whether it's photoshop whether it's light room or microsoft office and microsoft office and you get a list of alternatives forty five alternatives pop up when i typed in microsoft office. You have lebron office. You've got open office with john menton. There are several others. See you have a slew of alternatives to the microsoft office experienced. That most of them are free and open source so it'd be freeware versus shareware even brett. Yeah so this website is great. Not just for searching for things like microsoft office but autoshop shop there are. That's how i ended found camp looking for a fa-. I didn't wanna pay four hundred dollars for a photoshop license right so now they're into that subscription base that we have to deal with exactly all right. Well guys has a great singing again. We'll have video posted up on the website if you want to take a look at the cameras. That of course microphones that we talked about earlier in the show and the anytime have yourselves a great week. I'm andy taylor sean. Weird then on broadway. Catch some time on talk. Radio dot com..
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Deepfake technology: Can you spot what's real?
"I'm andy taylor. And i'm justin. Lemme and it is the three of us today. There is a lot of tech to talk about. I think the big thing that a lot of people have been talking about this week number one for themselves and number one by just pure astonishment is the technology of deepfake technology. We talked about this a couple months ago. Well you know we. We talked about some deepfakes and all that stuff. But this is how it's it's rear its ugly head again and it's back with a vengeance ugly it looks. It looks so good. it's ugly for society because it does look so good and it's so confusing. I think you're talking about the tom. Cruise ones right yeah. You're the one who told me about it. Because i hadn't seen it yet and it appeared on tiktok amazing because tiktok it. They have a policy no deepfakes. They don't want deepfakes on on tiktok and this was posted on tiktok and eleven million views by people. Saying wait a minute. Tom cruise is doing a magic trick. Tom cruise's played golf. And he's put it he's on tiktok and people were watching and the thing is. You really can't tell that. It's not tom cruise. And that's that's what makes it rough those of you don't know what a deepfake is a deepfake. Is you get an act. I have an actor but a person anybody it could be anybody to be the The video portion of it. And then you'll be walking around a room or doing something. But then you're going to upload know of everybody can do this because it does require some sophisticated technology but you upload like a celebrities face in different poses which gets a bunch of different pictures of that celebrity and then you for lack of better term you superimposed that celebrities face on the quote unquote actors body and it becomes that person. This technology can basically turn anybody into somebody else now. We we've seen some deepfakes in the past that have featured celebrities but always like kind of a little switch. And i've liked those. I've been entertained by those where you have stallone as the terminator or bill hater which is one of the best ones out there. I think bill hader while. He's he's on. One of the talk shows transforms into tom cruise and transforms into seth rogan. While he's i love that one. That one's a lot of fun and they're fun but this deepfake was different because it wasn't like this is another celebrity trying to be another celebrity. This is like oh this. Is tom cruise. Which makes everybody think. Oh that's tom cruise. It brings up the idea then. Okay could a politician then be created to see something outrageous or yeah. That's what i was about to say is like people say how could be a threat to society. just imagine. Just imagine that somebody does somehow does a deepfake of president biden announcing war on china. china's somehow sees this and says well no no no no no where declaring war in america and launches their nukes. Not possible but oh it is possible now that technology fake the technology yet totally and it can also in the case of crime. We've got footage of this crime going down this person did. That's not me. That's a deepfake. There's in could be used as the defense could be used as maybe putting somebody up. That is innocent of a crime. I mean it's you say that there is a technology that you found out that is now being developed to combat the deepfakes like basically be able to tell if it was altered a company. And i'm the name kind of escaped me. I signed up to kind of follow them and see what they're doing but they're apparently able to use technology to determine similar like what people have done now with photoshop. Be has been able to set now that you can tell that's photoshop. You can see that but now this company is going to work with the some of these deepfake videos and see they can determine but again. The technology is getting so good but people have said. Well we don't have the expertise to do it ourselves. But we're beginning to see that changing as
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"andy taylor" Discussed on KNBR The Sports Leader
"With the innocents in the love in your eyes. What do you got? Thank you so much for talking about my innocents so beautifully articulated by Paul just face. I can feel it in your soul dude, and it's beautiful Anyway. It's time Tonto Circle back for the musical assignment that has to do with super wild card weekend. They call it super wild card weekend because it's not just four games. It's three games per day. That's a total of six games. A lot of food for those of us lot of questions a lot. A lot of mass games two days, one super wild card weekend that Z well, said tone and it's Zanon opportunity for us to celebrate things that are super, such as super groups. So we're going to pick our favorite super group or one that we really like. And a song from from their catalog from their catalog? Yeah, okay. Well, are there one album which a lot of super groups did? Yeah. You get the one. That's it? Yeah, Yeah. Who wants to go? First day I went to hell. You know what? New year at new attitude? I'll go first. Uh, You listen, super groups. There's really only one in my opinion. Forget about Clapton and win would would blind faith. Forget about all of that nonsense. It's all about what happened. Shannon, as you know, in 1985, when The Taylor Brothers got together with Robert Palmer and Tony Thompson on draw. Tony Thompson, Now the drummer of Sheikh, Don't Sleep on Sheikh punk band from the seventies. They say You know what we need? We need Robert Palmer and we need John and Andy Taylor on guitar and bass, respectively. Let's introduce the power station title track. Tony of their Ah, brilliant one off LP Some like it hot..