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The Voicebot Podcast
A highlight from Generative AI News - ChatGPT's Usage Stats, Anthropic's Claude, Lots of Funding Rounds, Deepfakes and New Products - Voicebot Podcast 339
"This is episode 339 of the Voicebot Podcast. It is also the 23rd edition of the Generative AI News Rundown. Top stories this week include reports of Chet GPT's waning website traffic, Anthropic's Claude 2 launch, breaking news about OpenAI, new funding rounds, new AI products, and more. Welcome back to my friends in Voicebot Nation and Synthetialand. Another big week has created us in the world of generative AI. I'm Brett Kinsella, your host of the Voicebot Podcast. I've been here every week for six years with guests talking about conversational AI, generative AI, and synthetic media. We have an amazing back catalog of super guests. You should definitely check out some of those. Some of them are still amazing. Even things that we recorded several years ago are pretty amazing, but certainly we have a really thick catalog from the last year that I think you'll like. But we also cover the news, and we've supplemented those one -on -one interviews with the weekly generative AI news show since February. I would like to know what you think of this show in the format. Do you find it valuable? Do you like it that I post it here in the podcast as well as on YouTube? Have you ever watched it on YouTube? Have you ever joined us live? What would you like to see change, if anything? I definitely appreciate the feedback. The easiest way to give it to me is probably to message me on LinkedIn. Also, if we are not connected on LinkedIn already, when you make the connection requests, let me know you listen to the podcast. That makes it easier to separate the spam requests I get on LinkedIn from important messages from people like you. Also, subscribe to the YouTube channel, youtube .com forward slash at symbol voice by the AI. Then you'll always know when the game show is coming up. Plus, we have other videos we're posting all the time from people who are really movers and shakers in the industry. We just had Synthidia 3. We have some amazing guests who are presenting demos of generative AI solutions just a couple weeks ago, and those videos are rolling out right now. We had Model Mania, where we were talking about LLM and conversational AI applications for the enterprise. Those videos are up. I think you're going to like it. So definitely go to VoiceBot's YouTube channel and subscribe and like a video while you're there. Let me know what you think of those as well. But definitely tell me what you think of the game show and join us live. It's usually Thursdays 11 a .m. on LinkedIn and YouTube. We'd love to have you join. Make comments. We incorporate it into the show. It's really fun. You'll hear me do that today if you haven't not already familiar with it. OK. Back to our game show. My guest host today is Eric Schwartz, who you know is the head writer at VoiceBot .ai. Today's story lineup includes Anthropix, Claude 2 chat assistant that is taking on chat GPT. We break down the real story. We also actually demo it live during the show if you want to watch the video. Really interesting what's going on there. There's a story there behind the story, not just like a chat GPT clone going on here. Open AI also. There's a lot of news. Website traffic drops. Is that a real thing? Public availability of several of its foundation models. That's long overdue. And news that was breaking news while we were recording. We actually did a quick hit on it. That breaking news was the FTC, the Federal Trade Commission in the U .S. taking action against open AI. A generative AI funding fountain also continues to flow. We had news from Voice .ai, Resemble .ai, Vellum, Prolific, KPMG and Microsoft's new monstrous valuation prediction. Apparently generative AI is just blowing the doors off of the valuation predictions people have for Microsoft. Really interesting. We also have stories from Shutterstock, game development platform Unity, X .ai, Elon Musk's new open AI, latest new company on the generative AI front, Mail Clinic, Gizmodo's AI fail, and Virgin Cruises' Jennifer Lopez AI deep fake. It's all here. And of course, we conclude with the generative AI winners and losers of the week. Next up, is chat GPT in trouble? What is the story behind Claude? Who is getting money and who is adding features in generative AI land? Let's get started.
Thank God I'm Atheist
"gizmodo" Discussed on Thank God I'm Atheist
"He can only be whatever. He's, he talks a good talk, this Pope, but he's also still kind of just in the same vein. As all of them, his predecessors. Yep. It's just the most recent one before him was so king tankers. Yeah. He seemed like such a breath of fresh air. All right, well, moving on. Over there in the UK, they have had something of a modern miracle take place. A modern medical miracle. Which are the best kinds. Because they're based in science, and it's about innovation and the human mind coming up with solutions to health problems and the one that just happened is the UK had their first with the media is calling three parent baby. Now, I don't really like the fact that the media is calling them three parent babies because it's not exactly correct. This is to address the condition, the multitude of conditions that sort of fall under the umbrella of mitochondrial disease. There's a whole bunch of different conditions, right? Where the mitochondria, and just to be clear to anybody out there, the mitochondria are the power plants of your cells. Oh, throughout your body, right? And they're inherited from directly from your mom. And the DNA that is in the mitochondria, it's not sort of a normal human and or just in sexual reproduction period. You get a little bit from the dad a little bit from the mom, right? Genetic material, half and half, more or less. And you have a new life form. Mitochondria are just handed down, right? You get the mitochondria, the exact same DNA, mitochondrial DNA that your mom had. Oh, wow. Right. And so in the event that your mom had sort of faulty mitochondria, you can end up with one of these mitochondrial conditions. Like these are like genetic. It's a genetic condition. That you only get from your mom because she's the only source. And these are really bad conditions. Really bad conditions. These are like life threatening conditions. A lot of people, yeah, a lot of people with these conditions, the baby won't, it's not viable, or will live very shortly, or the person has a very short, has a shorter life. They range in severity, right? Anyway, so that's kind of the foundation what's going on. Essentially, this accounts for maybe 1% of the genetic information that's being passed along. Total, right? So it's hard to call this person one of the parents. It's literally just these little organelles in the cells that happen to be critical to life. So there's this treatment where they take an ovum from a donor, an egg from a donor. And they swap in the fertilized nucleus. The nucleus of a fertilized egg into that ovum. So that it then just takes over the whole thing. That's my understanding of how it works. It does require a third person, but very much on just a donor basis and not like. And this isn't affecting their eye color. Nothing like that. All of that, all of that genetic material. That is intact with the parents. That's just the two parents. Yeah. All the things that you would ever think about, you know, as far as like genetic inheritance and all that. That is all from the two parents, right? And then you have this third mitochondrial donor, right? And but so this seems like this is a great thing. It's been around for a while, but it has stirred controversy. It's not something that's done in the United States, apparently, right? Because we have people Christians. Ron DeSantis is who think that this is just fucking terrible. Yeah. And if God wants your baby to die, prematurely, then you need to go along with that and be okay with God's plan. Oh yeah. That's definitely how some of them think. Yeah. How horrible. Yeah. Where they start to have a little bit of objection is that there's that there are fertilized eggs that get discarded. Of course. Right in this process because they need a handful of them to work with in order to make sure that it's going to work, right? And so that's just, no, no, no. You're destroying babies. Those are babies. Those are humans. Yeah. Those fertilized eggs are humans. And God loves them. So much. So this there's a Christian charity in the UK. Called care that has spoken up against this. They're quote unquote, raising concerns. And they feel that an ethical line has been crossed. With this treatment, their first point is evidence suggests that transferring nuclear DNA into a host donor egg cell is unsafe and could impact future generations. Yeah, it's going to impact future things. In that they're not passing down these mitochondrial disease. They're saying that's evidence based. They're saying it's evidence based, which of course it's not. It's not. Yeah. Right. Because I trust science and medicine and practitioners of medicine to not just
The BOB & TOM Show Free Podcast
"gizmodo" Discussed on The BOB & TOM Show Free Podcast
"Right. Okay, and then you're going to go see him one last time. I thought you were going with him. I think I am. Looking forward to that. We've got to get to. We need that's a three camera shoot. That's all there is to it. We've got to get a road trip the whole thing. Long drive. Aerosmith is just announced their final tour. It's called the peace out the official title peace out the final tour. Also, on his final Goran is a Peter Frampton and we're going to talk with Peter Frampton coming up. Next hour I'm still looking forward to that. I already swooning over there, Christmas. I am swooning. I already have my tickets, so I'm ready. All right. Ready to go. So we also certainly look forward to talking with mister Frampton also coming up today. Sexy time. With ally brain. I've got a couple of interesting things going on in the world of news. Let's check in with Christie Lee before I get this request and what have you got, Christie? Well, a small suborbital rocket carrying the cremated remains of a NASA astronaut blew up after launch. Wow, it turns out they didn't need to cremate him first at all. According to cape VIA, we're via your TV. You be aerospace rocket was set to launch with the cremains of NASA astronaut Philip K Chapman along with NASA tech rise student challenge payloads. However, the 20 foot tall rocket exploded moments after liftoff, celestis, the company responsible for space memorials made the following statement quote sorry. Today's launch was unsuccessful. That was it. Celestis assured that all participants of this flight would be launching on the next available earthrise mission named perseverance. Well, that's my question here. Sweep them up. Yeah. I mean. Did they save some in case? I think that must be the case of the be because they're not going to be able to dig through and because the thing exploded right away, so this guy never got into space as an astronaut. This guy and it was just people laughing about. I mean, first of all, if he wasn't dead before, he is now. I guess he's lucky it wasn't, that's what the company should have said. This wasn't a failed liftoff. We simply wanted to make sure that we're all deceiving before we shot them into space. And the students, they're working all they're sending all their projects up there. They're going to have to redo all those. Yeah. Poor Margaret Simpson, her experiment with her puppy. Marge Simpson and Margaret. I know, but. Poor guy. That's the second rocket explosion
Northwest Newsradio
"gizmodo" Discussed on Northwest Newsradio
"Good ability just to focus in on the day what needs to happen. The job at hand and try to take advantage of that. And I don't see any difference in our demeanor today than, like I said, then I did a week or a month ago. They currently hold the top wild card spot on the Western Conference, the puck drops at 7 o'clock. The sounders defeated, the LA galaxy two one on Saturday with Jordan Morris scoring his 5th consecutive goal in the victory with a record of four one and one they are second in the MLS Western Conference with 13 points head coach Brian Smith also won his 100th career MLS match. The LSU tigers are the champions of women's college basketball. They beat the Iowa hawkeyes and Sunday's national title game one O two 85, also tonight, the men's title will be decided as the Yukon huskies take on the San Diego state Aztecs, tip time is 6 20. Sports a ten and 40 pass the hour, Erika, it's northwest news radio. Northwest news time, 12, ten coming up on 1211. I'm Jeff Poe Julia in the middle of 20 minutes of nonstop news. New research shows that moderate drinking is not good for your health. ABC News chief medical correspondent doctor Jennifer Ashton took a look at the results of that study with ABC's Deborah Roberts. Let me tell you about this new research because it's what we call a meta analysis, so it looked at a lot of other studies done over the years drinking alcohol. A 107 studies were evaluated. That totaled up to 4.8 million participants, so this was very powerful in terms of its methodology. And what these studies found was no significant benefit to moderate alcohol consumption. So that's important. And it found that in women and men who drank more than what was considered to be moderate, there was a significant downside. So again, when you talk about risk versus benefit, it's one thing to say, there's no benefit. It's another thing at certain levels to find a risk, and that's what this new research found. And we all know that really at
Mac OS Ken
"gizmodo" Discussed on Mac OS Ken
"Here's what happened. Earlier this week, Microsoft gaming exact Phil Spencer said that his company could open a new App Store for games sometime in 2024, if regulators approve mister softie $75 billion buy of Activision Blizzard and if the European Union's digital market or DMA forces Apple to open the iPhone and iPad to third party app stores. Those are two ifs worthy of note. And they bring us back to CNBC, which had Morgan Stanley saying in a note on Tuesday that if Microsoft makes it past those other two F's and if it is able to launch its own App Store for games on IE things, it would represent an immaterial risk to Apple. Though it would be a long-term threat to keep an eye on. It would be immaterial according to the firm. Because Activision Blizzard and Microsoft accounted for less than 1% of total Apple services revenue combined in 2022, as for why it would be worth keeping an eye on the analysts say, if we took a worst case view of the world and sent the potential Microsoft App Store could take all EU gaming revenue from the Apple App Store, given the focus of the DMA is just in Europe for now, that would equate to 8% of App Store revenue 2% of Apple services revenue and roughly 1% hit to Apple company level revenue and earnings per share. Well, that still doesn't sound threatening. And Morgan Stanley seems to agree, even as it uses the word threat. According the analysts again, we estimate the impact of a potential Microsoft App Store on the iPhone would be limited to less than 3% of App Store revenue and less than half a percent of earnings per share, but it still represents the biggest potential threat to the App Store today. That is one weird assertion. Morgan Stanley is a buy rating on Apple shares, according to tip ranks. The firm's price target on the shares is 180 bucks. New operating systems are just around the bend my huckleberry friend and maybe new hardware as well. First, a big round of release candidates was made available to developers on Tuesday. Pieces from Mac rumors note the arrival of release candidates for iOS and iPadOS 16.4. MacOS mentor at 13.3 watchOS 9.4 tvOS 16.4 and studio display firmware 16.4 to members of apple's developer program. Additional pieces noted a few new features are not sexy, but they're not nothing. For example, one Mac rumors piece says iOS 16.4 brings voice isolation for cellular calls, spelled like it sounds, the feature should separate voices from other noises, elevating the former and syncing the latter. According to the report, Apple says that voice isolation will prioritize your voice and block out the ambient noise around you, making for clearer phone calls where you can better hear the person you're chatting with and vice versa. Also coming soon. Duplicate image detection for the iCloud shared photo library. Another piece from mock rumors points out that Apple added duplicate image detection for the photos app with the arrival of iOS 16 if you have duplicate images, the piece says the photos app displays a duplicates
Security Now
"gizmodo" Discussed on Security Now
"Argument has been well, then bots would then start making up IPs within the network, so you didn't know. No, that's true. Where in the network it was, and the bots are also disposable, right? They're all compromised routers. That exist in back closets and corners. So in fact, it's not like there are people who need to avoid or evade law enforcement. They're just, you know, IoT devices that have long been forgotten that have not been patched that have been taken over remotely and now they are serving somebody else's ends. So we've got to sort of a mess. And it's not being resolved quickly. So, okay, last Thursday, the headline in gizmodo red we found 28,000 apps sending their data to TikTok. Banning the app won't help. I'm just going to share the beginning of gizmodo's very long article since it contains most of the useful information. Gizmodo writes, president Joe Biden gave federal agencies 30 days to remove TikTok from government devices earlier this week. And that means that that was last week. Until now, most politicians gizmodo is saying, intent on punishing TikTok have focused solely on banning the app itself. But according to a memo reviewed by Reuters, federal agencies must also quote prohibit prohibit Internet traffic from reaching the company. That gizmodo says, that's a lot more complicated than it sounds. And I'll interject here a lot less complicated than gizmodo thinks, but we'll get to that in a minute. Anyways, so they said gizmodo has learned that tens of thousands of apps, many which may already be installed on federal employees work phones, use code that sends data to TikTok. Some 28,000 251 apps, and it's unclear which platforms those are on. There's no mention of that here. They said, use tiktoks, software development kits, SDKs, which they explain our tools, which integrate apps with TikTok systems. And send TikTok user data for functions like ads within TikTok, logging in
The Vergecast
"gizmodo" Discussed on The Vergecast
"World Congress is great. There's a Senate. There's a 5G Senate, and then there's a house of mid range Android funds. Every once a year, they come together. I don't know why it's called mobile world Congress. Anyway, I'm your friend, Eli. Alex kranz is here. I'm your friend who also doesn't know why it's called mobile world Congress. Sorry. It is a very European name. Richard Lawler is here. I'm here. I did not vote for any of this representation. I saw a very rude tweet this week. It was like mobile Congress is hilarious. It's thousands of companies coming together to compete with Apple, which does not attend. And I want to say one that is inaccurate and I'll explain why. Two, I lulled. I definitely just left. Because there's an internal truth to it. If you live in an insular Apple world, that's the most true thing you've ever heard. And it's very funny. And then everyone else is like, no, but we're companies. We build the networks. You need us to exist for the icon to work. Your iPhone uses all of these things actually. I was entertained. It was very funny and it's like very small way. But my world Congress was this week. If you don't know, I have no idea why you're listening to the show. But welcome, all are welcome here. Now I will explain to you what mobile world Congress or MWC is. This is the podcast you've chosen to listen to. MWC, we've been going to for years and years. The CS is the show. I think everybody who is in around tech is familiar with. It's the big trade show in the United States where God only knows what happens there anymore. Samsung shows up. They're like, now the fridge has a 47 inch TV built into it. Then there's ifa, which is the European version of that thing. And then there's MWC. The world Congress, which for a minute, I would say Richard was like the most important trade show them all because it is the mobile phone trade show. And it's gigantic, it's in Barcelona. We all have gone over the years. Like literally thousands and thousands of companies from around the world, this is where three G was debuted. It was our four G was debuted. It's like, this is that show. And what's interesting is, well, the iPhone kind of won. That's why that joke is funny, right? Like the iPhone one and meaningful way. But the show is back, right? It's like post COVID back in full force. And kind of like a lot of things happen there. Yeah, back in the days of GPRS, it was a whole different story. Yeah, this is a show where it's like Intel is going to show up with ymax. Well. And it was like, are they? It's a show where these battles have been, it's
This Week In Google
"gizmodo" Discussed on This Week In Google
"More details, or you can email us, advertise at twit dot TV. If you're ready to launch your campaign now, I can't wait to see your product. So give us a ring. Have you tried? You've got a pixel there. Yeah. Have you tried that aliens video that's supposed to crash the pixel? No, I was worried. You do it. Come on. Flow was talking about it. Oh, Jason. All right. Last time I did something like this on this show, I ended up getting myself kicked out of a Google account. Almost never got it recovered. There is a particular video. It is a clip from alien that was on YouTube. I believe so. I think they've fixed it. I think they fixed it on the YouTube side and then Google is pushing out a fix. So it's alien. I find it. That's a really great question. It's probably part of this, you know, I should just do a Google search, shouldn't I and see, let's see here. If I can find a link, it is this clip. But nobody responsible would put a link alien four K HDR, get out of there on apex clips. Aliens. Four K, HDR get out of there. Apparently the minute you started, it crashes the whole phone, right? That one? With a skull? Apex clips. We've got to watch this crash. Maybe. You think they made it? Yeah, I believe that they have two years ago. It was posted the same video. So we're looking at the same video. This is the video that was linked to from all right, you ready? Ours technica. Okay. And the second is started playing. It was supposed to reboot your phone. So I think they fixed it. But what do they find out why? What would have caused that? Well, my understanding, my brief understanding from last night is that there is suspicion that had something to do with an HDR codec. And something happening with this particular video with HDR. Beyond that, I have no clue. At least one person reported that not only did it reboot their phone, but they lost connectivity until they rebooted again. Again, a second time. Right. And flow did not write about this for gizmodo, Florence ion, but she did experience this and she wrote about it. So you can kind of read her experience. It doesn't impact all. Too bad. But I could have been another great viral moment like knocking yourself off Google. How long were you off, Jason? My account. Got you back on. By Google account? I mean, all things considered, I think
The Crossover NBA Show with Chris Mannix
"gizmodo" Discussed on The Crossover NBA Show with Chris Mannix
"Can subscribe for the best weekly nba content. These two are capable of. What does that mean could be the best. Duo see how you can beat that here. They are chris. Mannix and howard back. Crossover nba. Podcast chris. mannix and howard beck. What's happening back nothing here. But apparently lots of exciting things down in the city of brotherly love. So we'll have to. We'll have to go check that out. Yeah we're going to get into the evolving. Ben simmons situation. We're gonna talk about the lakers. Who are dealing with yet. Another injury to a player in their rotation also kyrie irving some developments there over the last last couple of days or so. You have an episode coming on friday back. What are we got going on for. The friday pod definitely have something coming. Friday apologies to those. Who missed this past friday had dug down. You know you. I know something coming. Friday guest to be determined. We'll see makes you a check out. Beck's pod on friday. same feed same. Everything don't even have to resubscribe to another podcast. All right howard. I love it when there's breaking news when we start reporting this podcast or according to the news on monday per espn and the athletic is that ben simmons and the philadelphia seventy sixers are working towards a scenario. Where ben simmons returns. This is not to me. The least bit surprising. The sixers have made it abundantly clear that they aren't dealing ben simmons anytime soon. They have spoken to teams about ben simmons. I'm told none of the offers. For simmons said but even close to what they were looking for. And i think we kind of knew howard. At some point simmons was going to get a little unsettled on her the amount of money he was losing north of three hundred and fifty thousand dollars every single game. So he's already going to lose or has lost over a million dollars at this point and despite the fact that simmons has made fifty seven million dollars in his career at on-court earnings probably a lot more or close to it in off court earnings. Lose that kind of money just wasn't going to happen so give me a reaction to the news that the six and simmons at least for now are working towards a simmons return. This looks to me like two things. One ben simmons blinked. It's like a million dollar blink. A million and counting right like every preseason regular season game he's missing. It just keeps piling up. Nobody i don't care how much money you've earned or how much you're due to earn or think you earn..
Daily Tech News Show
"gizmodo" Discussed on Daily Tech News Show
"At work protocol sources. Google's plan to add free tv channels to google tv and is currently and talked with several free ad supported streaming television channels. This is similar to what samsung l. D. physio an amazon do on their devices. The industry calls these kinds of services. Free ad supported streaming television or fast channels. They usually show you a cable. Tv like rid of free streaming channels. You can see this kind of presentation. On zumo pluto or roku google tv the free channels would reportedly appear in a dedicated live. Tv menu and show up alongside over the air programming on smart. Tv's google may have deals in place by this autumn. What may wait to launch a feature two thousand twenty two content makers have been experimenting with multiple fash channels that show up on multiple services. Amc networks has a walking dead gentle and portland channel more outfits like rotten tomatoes also offer free channels so this is good and the reason why i like it is because i looked at my last who bill and almost fell out of my chair it was over seventy dollars and that was not what i started out with so if content creators gravitate to this because just another way to kind of get their content out and making good stuff. I'm so ready to drop. Who as well. It's expensive and this. I'm like right background. You're getting the live tv service. Like how do you spend seventy dollars. That's against the live tv services. The bulk of that. I'm guessing right to be fair. Yes it is the live tv but he didn't start out as a great replacement for direct. Tv and now. I'm just. I'm looking for other content. I don't really watch it that much cheaper z. Though i dollars right oh easy. Easy easy yes. Oh any avenue for folks to creators because there's a lot of talented people that may never make it through a network gatekeeper but can use a service like this and all of a sudden. You're watching some hilarious stuff. You know somewhere else. And i'm all for so you know at all alternative avenues as well as the ability to allow me to drop this price. I have a feeling that this might be where we're headed. The popularity of these free streaming channels is essentially the internet version of broadcast television versus peacock netflix. Who they're all the internet version of. Hbo showtime and in fact. Hbo showtime or part of that too. Right i wonder if we're headed to whatever device you have whether it's your smart. Tv your chrome cast you roku they will all have built in free streaming grid with it and that'll be the way people think about tv. Like i get it on my device. And then i can choose if i want to add channels for premium shows. I can choose. Hbo mac choose peacock. You know. I can choose one one of the other those instead of right now where everybody thinks. Well i have to pay to get everything. I we'll get over that i think people won't have to see everything because they'll have some free tv here. It's like yeah okay. maybe. I don't get the walking dead early but there's a whole channel of it so i can catch. I think patterns patterns of behavior might change because of that and the the other. You know potential. A side effect of this is starting to see A lot of content creators on you to who are having their counted taking down Because a network has hit them with this kind of cease-and-desist even though you know a lot of times they're you know false claim. They just want to drop their content. So y'all did network content can take a rise so y'all and you know obviously google And you make money from these guys. So they don't even ask questions though having alternative locations for a lotta these news folks to put their contents so they don't have to experience. Those type of take downs would be an awesome thing to happen. Yeah in lyon video chat asked a question. I didn't even think of he's like does. Google require subscription to its core channels to watch the free channels and the answer is no. That's not the none of these services do if you get the roku app or if you fire up pluto or zumo. You're just watching tv now. It's not the most recent thing it's not like the premium hbo net flicks Shows but it's streaming right there for free in fact fubo even has originals and stuff and is entirely free. it's ad-supported that's the rub right. Yeah right through ads and thank you. Thank you for mentioning rotten tomatoes. Where my wife works. Oh she's actually a charge of that. Which is which is why. I wrote that in and made chris say it but i i needed was that slide at an employee. No problem A paper published monday in the journal. Nature communications describes using an algorithm to discover why creative artists. Painters writers filmmakers often have what are called creative hot streaks A used van gogh as an example with its with his famous sunflower paintings. Starry night or the bedroom paintings. Those all came within a few years while most of his life's work is uncelebrated. He painted for decades to examine these hot streaks. The scientists used algorithms originally designed for autonomous cars to scan creative works for artists. It would look at things like brush stroke trends or linear orientation or the use of objects in the paintings for film. It would look at things like cast selection. What genres did they work. In the plot structure for scientists they would look at which publications they were in. What kind of citations did they use. The analyzed thousands of examples of these hot streaks and came up with pattern. The algorithms discovered that the hot streak manifest in the move from what they call an exploratory period to an exploitative period so some artists make this transition. Some don't but when an artist made this transition they were likely to have a hot streak. The exploratory period is characterized by experimenting with diverse styles and topics. You try a bunch of different things. You're not always doing it the same way. The exploitative period is more focused on a particular way of doing things artists that continuously evolving experiment all the time or artists. That are always focused on a single angle. Don't experience a hot streak. They may have celebrated works. Just not all in a short period. Like van gogh other examples hot streak include jackson pollock drip period between nineteen forty seven in one thousand nine hundred thirty or peter jackson's lord of the rings trilogy vanguard and pollock both had a lot of variants in brush movements before they're hot streaks they were trying all different kinds of things and peter jackson worked in a lot of different genres with a lot of different cash choices before lord of the rings when he focused while this work identifies. How a hot streak begins. The scientists are going to continue to do research and they hope to discover how to tell what sparks a hot streak before it begins what causes artists to make that change and possibly whether they can do things to maintain it for longer.
Lew Later
"gizmodo" Discussed on Lew Later
"It's more than just a message here there. It's you gotta move yourself around gotta move your physical body around a variety of events and things like this i've explained to tv for. Yeah i gathered. You've gathered a single laser fired through a keyhole can expose everything inside. A room Excuse me so obviously. There's some science behind. It obviously This video shows it pretty well. They shine a light through a keyhole. Okay why why do you wanna do this. So based on what they read. Or what i read is Maybe there's some sort of accident like a building collapsed or something and they want survey the room without going inside. What they can do is shine a light through certain holes in the room and they could just survey. The whole room is like a hostage situation. Yes or like a peeping tom situation but this is a pretty cool example of it you know if they were trying to rescue someone. The keyhole imaging technique developed by researchers. At stanford university computational imaging lab is so named because all that's needed to see what's inside a classroom is a tiny holes such as a keyhole or people large enough to shine a laser beam through creating a single dot of scroll late on a wall. Inside the laser light bounces off a wall. And an an object in the room and then off the wall again countless photons eventually being reflected back through the whole and to the camera which utilizes a single photon avalanche photo detector to measure the timing of their return. Good lord photon avalanche photo detector. So you could see take to happening right now. They're just trying to find the waves of The object would wear the light is bouncing back. Mannequin in this case and hostage situation Sure domestic violence or something you got to like look inside and he was going on and they showed the results of The silhouettes ghostbusters. Yes this is a crazy. How do you even end up on this story. Well like what all it's on gizmodo just key this. We're gonna what is it. What are the what are you need a special camera for this only. Yeah only police. Departments are gonna have this forensics rescuing rescue. Yeah to me. My mind goes to rescue okay. So it's interesting. As wild tech tests obtains a patent on it's wild idea to use lasers as yours. You gotta you gotta laser going on today. Two lasers in a row in this case test is gonna use lasers as windshield wipers now. Nat- so that's that seems hard. Evaporate the ram possibly dangerous. Tessa has actually managed to obtain a patent on its idea to use lasers to clean debris off vehicles laser beams as windshield wipers. Two years ago was the first word on this. Here's how it's describing the pla- an a- patent a cleaning system for a vehicle include beam optics assembly that emits a laser beam.
The Tech Guy
"gizmodo" Discussed on The Tech Guy
"Hey it's great to talk to you again. nice to hear from you. I talk to you about a year ago. And when it went to delay zander's i was given a samsung galaxy. five From a friend of mine for free brand new lijun very generous. When i was also given an apple iphone one and so i put the trip into it and you you kind of explain to me how to get it in there because it wasn't it wasn't. At and t. variety of wouldn't work. Yeah that's those are so old that they're still using those old. Gsm versus cdma protocols horizon used cdma and at and t. used gsm and never the twain shall me. That's long gone. They're all using lt nowadays. Similar apple watch every small. You know and i. It wasn't an iphone one was it. I mean the original iphone. It's a real tiny little iphone. I don't think the original iphone would would work on any network. These days it was to g. Nobody supports two g. three g. and even three g. as we talked about earlier in the show is being phased out by carriers. That's why i called you. And i'm really lucky to get thrill you said they recision amount and then also i used to have a motorola longtime ago. I loved it and so just just a while ago. The motorola g power or something. That's a really good jeanine power Good inexpensive phone. Yeah suicide get. Here's my question. If i get such gonna go defunct here pretty soon if i get a motive g unlocked or at and t. And i just take the sim card out of this apple apple phone and stick it in there. Will it fire up should. That's the sim card. You're using the verizon sam or the at inches at and t. sin. yeah the only drawback. And i didn't even know this but apparently the sim Has information on about which radios to us. I did not know this until i got messages from both horizon and t. Mobile saint come in.
Kottke Ride Home
Could We Delete Our Memories One Day?
"So a new movie debuted on. Hbo max earlier. This month from the creators of westworld and starring hugh jackman called reminiscence. It's about a world where scientists have created a way of relieving your memories and recovering lost. Ones it's been getting pretty bad reviews. And frankly i keep forgetting to check it out but it does have a very intriguing premise. In what if we could relive memories. What have we could change them or heck. What if we could delete memories altogether. I definitely have some that. I wish i could forget. In a recent installment of their gizeh asks series. Gizmodo spoke to a panel of researchers about whether such thing would ever actually be possible. Samuel shocker professor emeritus of neuroscience at columbia university says that the principal is kind of there but in practice it's more complicated quote the evidence from neuroscience right now suggests that a given memory is very sparsely encoded. What that means is that our cerebral cortex where most of these memories are stored has about fifteen billion nerve cells at a particular memory involve a change in activity of only a couple hundred of them. Finding those few hundred cells is very very complicated and quote. He points to a number of ongoing studies however that show what we're currently capable of in one. Scientists are able to identify a group of cells participating in one of a mouse as memories and then manipulate them enough to prove that the mouse forgot the memory. But shocker says doing that on a human scale to the sophisticated level. Most people think of when talking about deleting memories is probably not possible but in terms of similar therapies for trauma quote. A memory has four basic phases. It's initiated then consolidated then stored and then recalled in both animals like mice and monkeys and in humans. each of these phases have been shown to share a certain mechanism. Scientists are now focusing on those shared mechanisms to see if maladaptive memories can lose their anxiety provoking aura. You don't forget that you got mugged in front of a mailbox instead. The mailbox stops meaning what it used to mean. The memory is still there but it's emotional. Context has been
All About Android
Even Google Thinks Sideloading Apps on Android Is Horrible
"I stop actually. This came as kind of the second batch of revelations the first batch of revelation was that apparently google also doesn't think side loading is the best experience on android so that was the first major revelation to come out of this court case but then also like the most obvious thing that can come out of anything is like of course side loading the best experience. I'm sorry that was just super obvious. A yeah but i think the reason that came out is because they were using that as an argument for why epic should not put you know. It's it's fortnight game in its own little styling apps for situation it should go through the play store because that would be the best situation Well google has other ways to that It likes to compete. It pays device manufacturers to play nice so lg motorola and hmv global which is behind nokia. They're part of what was revealed to be called the premier device program. Now these premier devices there are basically mandated to make google services the defaults for all key functions of quote unquote that comes directly from the document which by the way the pdf is fully hosted on my article on gizmodo dot com. Anybody wants to go read through. I think it's like seventy pages something something long. It's long but basically this mandate me. If you're manufacturer it's part of this mandate you have to have ninety percent of your devices adhering to this premier device program so that means blocking apps with the ability to install. Pk's on the device except for the app stores that are designed for and it and managed by that respective manufacturer so for instance like the samsung galaxy. App stores would not You not go against this clause or lg had one. I kind of forgot that they had their own little app store that they put on their devices
Intercepted with Jeremy Scahill
"gizmodo" Discussed on Intercepted with Jeremy Scahill
"Making the right decisions. They want to figure out. Oh you didn't turn your you know your lights on or you didn't blinker. One hundred feet ahead of the of the stop sign you know. They're trying to figure out all these situations they want to catch you off guard in twenty nineteen and bridge purchased a plot of land right next to the may walk. Since then drones have regularly appeared over the protest camp reporters that gizmodo were able to confirm that some of the drones spotted along the line. Three route including of water protectors homes along to customs and border protection but others remain. Unidentified drones also appeared above the solar energy business eath fire solar which was co founded by. The activist duke. Sarah little red feather who used to live on. The property says surveillance has escalated. Since july of last year we counted six twenty and actually got one video where came under four hundred feet and went over the bay fire solar garage and level of my place and flew over. And i have my video doing that. And just you know hovering around our our land you know just hovering to standing still just doing that. And i'm like what are you doing. What do you want around that time as umbrage had done it. A may walk. The company quietly purchased the strip of land next door to the solar business line. Three is making a positive impact in minnesota. It's creating thousands of jobs boosting the economy and increasing safety minnesota and strongly support line three and with construction over halfway.
The Strategists
"gizmodo" Discussed on The Strategists
"Buying that. We're selling teased as it's it's fine. I respect the hustle. Carter do also respect the hustle and would you ever buy some invisible art no would by invisible art. If i had corey's money. I might buy visible art. But i don't have corey's money so i will probably not be buying invisible art to me though. Fake things are selling for more than they ever have in the past whether it's crypto currencies or podcast advertising. They're all fake. It's all fake. let's go to me. This is just part of the part of the fake element of it where we have a total about how we get paid here right. I don't have it. He doesn't know yet right back. Carter totally. let's move on to our next headline from gizmodo overworked amazon warehouse. Employees can now go reflect in the despair clause. I saw this. Amazon has come up with a solution for what warehouse employs struggled to keep their sanity amac amid workload so grueling. They often have to use bathroom. Time to meditate that's right. They've introduced these new boots or as their officially called the mindful practice room. It's part of amazon's recently. Launched working well program which is aimed at providing. It's notoriously overworked employees quote physical and mental activities wellness exercises and healthy eating support. I can't show you over the audio medium. Exactly what this looks like but it literally looks like a phone booth that is painted black. That folks could go in. And i don't know just i don't know what to do court boxes in the middle of the fucking warehouse. They might as well have a red light. Niclas on that goes off the minute you walk into it if you'll excuse me a minute. I'm having a mental breakdown. I've got to go for a few minutes into the box of shame. I don't know what the fuck their thinking and the fact that amazon themselves put this out as like this. Good news feel good story of positive psychology in the workplace. They've lost their god their minds things. That are so terrible there. Apparently this seems like a positive. This is really telling you everything you need to know about. The current state of the average amazon work place. So i maybe. I'm being too harsh. But what a pr fail car. Implement this to put this in place right after the union failed. You know like this is to me. It's just total misread amazon. Jeff bezos is making all the money. And it's just a terrible business model because it doesn't have any respect for the people who are actually doing the work and fine..
All About Android
"gizmodo" Discussed on All About Android
"You our email of the week. I didn't wanna. I didn't wanna rob you of that opportunity. Now that's okay all right. We've reached the end of this episode of all about android had a whole lot of fun. I really enjoy the shows where we get to answer more than just a couple of emails. So thank you news for. Not being so crazy. This week we really do appreciate it. Let's see here flow. What do you wanna point. People to news is not so crazy. But i'll tell you there's a lot going on in the back end folks. Hey something that's android related. And i apologize. I didn't like this and the chat but yesterday Article went up on gizmodo dot com about the pokey dialer. I had found somebody who figured out how to like. Make the dialer app. Look like a pokemon fight about to start. So i asked my editor. If i could write about it did which one is this is this the the incessant spam calls yes. Yeah okay what it does is It's not actually the pokemon game but it lets you collect coins and stuff so you can unlock your favorite shiny pokemon. So that they answer the phone you listen that that. Yeah the pixel automated Answering feature. it's not making the spam calls. Go away same is how might as well have some fun. So we're about how to do that with an app called pokey dialer which we can do android because android is open unlike irs. Which would require you to jailbreak your iphone to make this happen. So thank you pokey dialer. Yeah and the developer. I mean the developer like my article and stuff so the developer is clearly updating. The sap like i i bet it so i consider this my version of the app arena. Go people say we don't review apps in the show and we really don't anymore but sometimes we recommend them. And there you go yes. Gizmodo dot com where i employed there. You go important important. Thank you flow. What about iran's well speaking of employed normally talk by that much. But i do wanna share did work on a cool day job. A cool project that launch today. If you're looking for.
News, Traffic and Weather
LG Bows Out of Smartphone Business
"For its Electron IX, is bowing out of one sector L G is getting out of the smartphone business. Gizmodo, editor in chief John Biggs says. L G has a long history of memorable phones. Algae made one of the first nexus phones for Google. So it was a was one of the early android phones. The big says Well, phones like the $1000 Wing grabbed the attention of reviewers. Customers didn't always materia. Allies that combined with the growing popularity of Apple and Samsung phones met, LG was forced to cut its losses and the answer that competition is eventually you just have to cut and run. By Michelle
Daily Tech News Show
"gizmodo" Discussed on Daily Tech News Show
"Coming up on. Google brings a are directions into malls arm has a new architecture for the first time in ten years and lincoln is now for creators. Zeus this is the daily tech news for tuesday march thirtieth. Twenty twenty one in los angeles. I'm tom merritt and trimmed studio redwood. i'm sarah lane also lost. I can speak also of angeles memorial thin and the show's producer. Roger you'll have to excuse all of us We just spent A good time Talking about the nature of comedy on good day internet It's no laughing matter. Folks might even be banned in some parts of the world if you want to find out more about that. Become a member at patriotic dot com slash dpd s. Let's start with a few things. You should know apple announced it will hold its virtual worldwide developers conference from june seventh through the eleventh. The event is free to all developers with the tagline glow and behold okay xiaomi announced. Its first foldable. The me mix fold with a six point five two inch exterior screen and then it unfolds into an eight point zero one inch four by three lead panel. Yes it has that liquid lens camera that we talked about that can focus down to three centimeters and offers a three x optical zoom the me mix fold is available for preorder in china right now for nine thousand nine nine you one. That's around two thousand five hundred twenty one dollars. Us shipping april sixteenth. Xiaomi also confirmed it will spend ten billion dollars to set up a wholly-owned subsidiary market for an electric vehicle over the next ten years xiaomi. ceo. Lee jun will be the ceo of the car unit as well as all of jammie jami faces stiff competition just inside china not even bringing tesla into it. You got by do geely. Byod neo and expand motors. All making vis china's well spotify announced the acquisition of labs makers of the sports focused audio chat room app locker room in a blog post. The company says it plans to evolve and expand locker room into an enhanced live audio experience for a wider range of creators and fans re sizable.
Kottke Ride Home
European Scientists Create First Light-Up Tattoos For You and Your Avocado
"A team of scientists in europe have created what they say is the first light emitting tattoo using oh led based technology which is like the kind used in newer televisions and smartphones especially the folding kind. And well of course. This sounds totally awesome. If a bit frightening the team mostly propose practical uses like alerting an athlete when they're dehydrated or indicating when someone should get out of the sun to avoid getting a sunburn and tattoos for medical use are not unprecedented. I know a couple of people who have replaced their medical bracelets for conditions like diabetes with permanent tattoos on their wrists and radiation therapy often tattoos. Small black on cancer patients skin to use as reference marks for the machines and a handful of in the us tattooed kids with their blood types. During the cold war thinking it could facilitate blood transfusions in the case of a nuclear attack. And that's a real thing that happened. I'll put a link in the show notes if you want to read more about it and sort of grim as that sounds to our modern ears. There are still proposals around to people including children with their medical information. A team from rice university. A couple years ago developed fluorescent quantum dot tattoos that would only be visible through a custom smartphone app. At which time they would show a person's vaccination history something particularly crucial in hard hit rural areas. Where people sometimes don't have paper or digital vaccination records then no one's actually a pretty good idea even if it sounds a little big brother that the offset and unfortunately because of that. It's gotten pulled into a lot of covid nineteen vaccine conspiracy theories even though it's a tattoo not in any way an implant a microchip and not in any way related to the covid nineteen vaccines. It's being cited by conspiracy theorists as evidence that the covid nineteen vaccines are implanting tracking microchips into people. It doesn't help that. The original study was proposed by the bill and melinda gates foundation a lot of conspiracy theorists love to say that bill gates engineered the corona virus. Or something. I only bring all of that up in case you hear about it in relation to this vaccine history. Quantum dot tattoo study. So now you can. Debunk anyone spouting that false claim but anyways back to the light up. Oled tattoos in addition to some practical wellness related uses. The team also expects that they could be used for fashion purposes. Like having a light up tattoo or even fingernails and they could even go beyond humans to be used on produce. The tattoos could go on packaging or on the fruit or vegetable itself to identify when it's gone bad now. If you're imagining how impractical it would be to take a tattoo gun to a tomato. I should clarify that. These tattoos are applied more like a temporary tattoo is quoting university. College london the oled's are fabricated onto temporary tattoo paper and transferred to a new surface by being pressed onto it and dab with water and quotes now as gizmodo notes. Quote the idea of personally augmenting. One skin with glowing. Art isn't new either. But previously this has involved bio hackers implanting technologies like led's beneath the skin and the results don't have much practical use besides attention grabbing or inviting questions about why someone would do that to themselves. This new approach to light emitting. Tattoos is easier to apply more practical and temporary without requiring surgery to have it removed and quotes. So how does this one work well. The flexibility of the oled display is key so that it can move and bend along with the human or fruit skin beyond that quoting again from gizmodo. The electronics of the light emitting tattoos made from an extremely thin layer of electro luminescent polymer that glows when a charges applied measure in at just two point three micrometres thick which according to the researchers is about one third the diameter. A red blood cell. The polymer layer is then sandwiched between a pair of electrodes and sits atop insulating layer which is bonded to temporary tattoo paper printing process. That isn't prohibitively expensive. The tattoos can be easily washed off when no longer needed or wanted using soap and water with a current applied the led tattoos in their current form simply glue green but eventually could produce any color using the same rgb approach that oled screens. Us and quote won't professor franken says saline lead author on the study notes that they've demonstrated a proof of concept that d- tattoos can be made cheaply and at scale. There's still a number of kinks to work out. Like normal temporary tattoos these ones degrade pretty quickly especially when more on a moving human and they still need figure out how to integrate them with a battery or super capacitor in the lab. They're currently hooked up to an external power source so oily tattoos might not become into the public too quickly but the technology is there and it will probably happen before
Kottke Ride Home
Scientists establish freaky two-way communications with lucid dreamers
"Scientists have breached a whole new level of the dreamworld. They've managed to communicate with people while they're dreaming and not just the one way communication. You may have with someone who is sleep talking. But two way communication the awake scientists would ask these sleeping subjects questions and they were able to respond without waking up. These results were published last week in the journal. Current biology and already aired in a segment on pbs. And one thing giving this particular paper a lot of credence is that it's actually the work of four different teams from four different countries who initially conducted independent studies before finding out about each other and joining forces in total. They brought together thirty six volunteers across fifty seven experiments and trained people with varying amounts of success on lucid dreaming. That is dreaming where you're aware of dreaming. That's cool thing that some people train themselves to do either for fun or with various conditions. Some of the volunteers already had experience with lucid dreaming. But not all of them quoting vice. The researchers verified that participants had entered rim sleep by placing electrodes next to their eyes on their scalps and on their chins by measuring activities such as brainwaves eyeball movements. Sleep experts can determine if a person has entered this deep sleep states. Some of the participants were then asked to confirm that they were in a dream with a pre-arranged ocular response in which they moved. There is in a specific left. Right pattern these icicles. Along with facial contortions were used as a means of communication during the sleep sessions for instance the researchers asked a nineteen year old american participant to subtract six from eight while he was in a lucid dream and he correctly signaled the answer to with two movements from left to right and asked again. He repeated the correct answer. Roughly eighteen percent of the trials resulted in this level of clear and accurate communication from the dreamer. Seventeen percent produced indecipherable answers. Three percent ended with incorrect responses and sixty percent did not provoke a response at all and quotes and from gizmodo quote win. The volunteers were asked about their experiences. Some reported being able to remember the pre dream instructions. They had received an attempted to carry them out. Some also reported hearing the questions they got while in the dream although not always in the same ways and some reported hearing words that clearly felt like they were coming from outside their current reality while others said it felt like they were hearing them through radio or other form of communication within the dream but there are still times when people couldn't clearly recall what had happened. Were win the questions. They said they received in the dream. Didn't match the questions. They had actually gotten and quotes is also worth noting. It was a pretty small sample size. But one of the study's authors can polar points out that the fact that those results came from multiple different methods employed by multiple teams around the world indicates. It's not an isolated phenomenon calling this interactive dreaming polar says they're working on expanding in a few ways they want to be able to run the experiments in people's homes where subjects would be more comfortable and maybe using existing smartphone app that teaches people how to lucid dream. All the main aim of the research is simply understanding the mysteries of dreaming a bit more. They're also some potential practical applications. Blake helping people with breaking habits problem solving having therapeutic benefits if you want to dive deeper put a link to the pbs segment which touches on a few other dreams studies as well in the show notes.
Daily Tech News Show
"gizmodo" Discussed on Daily Tech News Show
"If you have a mac you install the beeper mac app and then it acts as a bridge in order to get everything together. Some people might not have a mac. If you don't have a mac beeper supposedly has fifty phone iphone. Four's gio broken already and ready to send customers to act as the bridge now. Okay fifty that. That's a little bit silly but it sounds like the company saying listen. We're we're we're we're trying to make sure that we are reaching people who want the service even if you don't have all the required hardware the rest is all done using the open source matrix messaging protocol to bridge all the gaps with mega kofsky. Hoping it will lead to people using matrix chat so we don't all exist on separate networks. Now i know this sounds like a utopia. Is it possible it may very well appeal to you But it's open by invitation. Only if you are interested you can go to beeper. Hq dot com to learn more and get on that waiting list. That's why you can get by with only fifty iphone four's because he just he just won't take too many invites but that is a hang up. Because that's not a sustainable. You know jail brooklyn iphone. Four is i. Don't i don't think but i don't want to dwell on that part. I want to distract myself and look at the promise of fixing this problem where we all could just have one messaging app and we could choose our platform. We could all be. I could be on signal you can be on. What's at but we could still somehow messaging each other through deeper. That sounds great. Oh yeah i mean. I was a big trillion user back in the day. When i kind of switched over from windows to mac os. I i hopped on adam for years. I most people really were using aol. Instant messenger still at that point but not everybody. It was really really helpful. I when i first heard the story. I was like ten dollars a month absolutely not i mean how hard is it to turn on notifications for various apps. I also really only have three different platforms where. I'm getting messages regularly. That are really important to me so sure. I can budge notifications here and there if i want to buy. I pulled some friends this morning. Like hey windows folks is interesting to you and a couple of people were like. Oh my gosh yes you have no idea. This is very interesting to me. Especially because i'm kind of sitting at my computer most of the day and it can be sort of a mess. Also another friend said the group tech stuff. Let's say what's app just as an example. He's on like fifteen different group chats. What's up..
Inside Transportation
"gizmodo" Discussed on Inside Transportation
"A comment on gadget. Then the overnight editor said you know inside antenna gate as the van and then it trended the next day and other people started using the term antenna gate and jobs knew that we were the first to use it or comment section was he was not a he was not happy he banned from the next event and then i told him i said listen. You guys pulled our credentials while we were in san francisco. My team is there. And we've covered every single steve note. We named it the steve note and they created the live blog for it so it was a pretty crazy back and forth and then at like two. Am steve jobs. Emailed me and said you're good and he pulled the thing. So i know i remember those days because in gadget and gizmodo were the two biggest blogs out there the number one in the number two in the world number one in the same person created a peter rojo's created modem and then i lord him away from gizmodo and offer them and weblogs inc the company that created a gadget joystick etc. And he left. Yeah yes so background for hyundai. Last week saying they were in early. Talks to produce cars for apple not this week which way to lose your. Yeah yeah i think. The last time that happened. Dr dre had said you know they were in talks to sell beats to apple and the deal did go through but it almost going to happen in this case And another thing we learned last week. Apple was interested in working with canoe so canoes. This start up. Developing this scalable electric vehicle platform a report from the verge. Said apple was reportedly interested in multiple options with canoe everything anything from investment to an acquisition. Because they wanted to use their technology but canoe was more interested in taking on investment from apple in talks broke down right now. Magna international messina's the leading candidate to manufacture the apple car so right now magnet actually has contracts produced vehicles.
Lew Later
Top Secret Apple Device Leaks
"You know will. The has a reputation for being a very secretive company. A company that when they're working on a project anybody who's involved with that project has to keep that thing under wraps and in a even create teams within teams that know a certain amount of information that the greater team doesn't even know about because well for good reason. I guess historically they've done a pretty good job of keeping things under wraps we new projects. That's kind of changed recently as the most of the leaks that we see emerging aren't from hq is from the supply chain somewhere further down the road once they actually start to make the thing but we talk recently. About how apple's considering making a car at least the rumors are out there about that and you start to realize man you gotta protect this massive project from new world eyeballs for for like five years and so that's a difficult task to keep it under wraps now once they start fabricating the thing you can expect probably leaks to emerge but anyway historically apple has had that reputation I remember the situation where an iphone was left in a bar and gizmodo found it. You remember that story and then federal agents showed up the guy who plays he's like. Oh this is scott very intense So there's all kinds of stories like that particularly. When steve jobs was around he was not messing around with the secretive with the secrecy stuff. Anyway today we have a prototype which is sort of showcasing apples. Ultra security program. This is actually an apple. watch prototype. That looks nothing like an apple. Watch and if you scroll down here you'll see it. Looks kind of like an ipod. Actually and there's a video made. Somebody actually got their hands on it. It does not have the digital crown interface. It's obviously an early prototype and there's all kinds of rules and restrictions on it about what to do with it. If you find it who hands it should be in confidential property etc. Now this would be part of the apple watch development early version and in the absence of the digital crown you did kind of interact with it like an ipod with buttons. There's a whole giant home button on the front of it now. It got me thinking you know. I was watching. I was watching that mandalorian show. And and this is not a spoiler. But there's a there's a drone in it and a drone is always is always like they thing he loves to say is if i get captured i got a self destruct became captured. And that's what this box says about this if you receive this. Don't you dare do anything. This is only intended for so it kind of rang. A bell for me there that If found destroy it doesn't say that specifically but like if this prototype must be returned when recalled or and uh when your or configuration which presumably means production validation testing in line with language seen another apple development hardware when. You're when you're not configuration or work. Your validation testing runs out in return. That's the idea. That's the disclaimer. That's the warning so super exclusive. I don't know what one these will be worth Obviously for a collector or something like that. It could be interesting. I know i've seen some prototypes of other apple products in the past. Go to auction Although i don't know that might be difficult. When is not really an official thing that you didn't get through an official means. Don't you think apple will want to hunt this down. I don't know maybe. Is it old enough. Now that they don't really care because you will see on ebay super old tester ipods. Show up here and there for example and they get sold. Yeah so. I don't know maybe there's a certain time limit to it's like look. Some of this stuff is going to get out eventually and it's no longer a project. Were trying to necessarily keep secretive so they let it go that little lisa icon by the way is a is a kind of omar to the to steve jobs daughter lisa and the name of the original says they still use it in their modern products for testing is kind of interesting as well
Morning News with Manda Factor and Gregg Hersholt
The creators of "Cyberpunk 2077," one of the most hotly anticipated games of 2020, are now offering refunds to disgruntled players
"Of the year's most hyped video games, now offering refunds toe unhappy customers. First, I could tell this is the first time that something like this has happened. Gizmodo, editor in chief John Biggs, says cyberpunk 2077. Was one of the most anticipated games of the year. Supposed to be this gigantic game that was going to turn turn cyberpunk games into into a big deal. But after it went on sale last week, reality fell short of expectations. For many, you had a lot of glitches. You had a lot of problems with the graphics. They were in a sharp and it looked like garbage and people were really disappointed. Big says The problems weren't is widespread on the newest PlayStation and Xbox systems, but next Gen consoles are hard to come by this holiday season. We can access these mixtures councils Right now It's almost impossible to buyem. Developers say customers are free to return their copies while they work on fixing the game with Tech trends. I'm Mark RE Malard ABC News. Come on These times.
Business Wars Daily
BWDs Origin Stories: Inventor Earl Tupper Kept Failing. Until He Dreamed up Tupperware
"Tupperware changed plastic formulation itself, making it translucent and getting rid of the smell in the Greece. But consumers didn't trust the confusing BURP. Products wouldn't make their food stink without a way to know for sure they weren't grabbing them off store shelves. But as Gizmodo sway be noted, tupper notice that some of his products were selling unbeknownst to him a direct sales company called Stanley home was holding parties where women would sell the Tupperware to other women at those parties. Dubious shoppers could smell the new inventions which were now free of the Petroleum Byproduct Odor plastics past the party strategy was working hint spades. Finally, Earl tupper made a deal with Stanley home to make the parties, his own and the business took off. topper an inventor who'd been scraping by one invention at a time sold the company in Nineteen, Fifty, eight for sixteen, million dollars.
Marketplace Tech with Molly Wood
Swipe right for safety features (and give up more data)
"Was probably a busy weekend on tinder. What with Valentine's Day and all hopefully it was also a safe weekend on tender. The company recently introduced a panic button feature for the APP to let users report if they feel unsafe on a date and a check in feature to let your friends know where you are when you're out with but as always there is a catch you have to share your location constantly to use the new features marketplace's media reporter. Jasmin Garcia told me. These changes are happening partly because maybe tinder itself isn't a very good date. I think it's a growing public awareness. I think initially there was like this period of being in love with the technology. And it's so much fun and I think the mood has completely shifted. I also think for women on these ads feels like misogyny to point all just within tech space and so I think yeah. There's definitely been more stories and exposes about how on the free services offered by the match group. You know you can have record of of being a sexual Predator sexual offender and still have an account and I think that these APPs and these companies are responding to that growing awareness and concern right. Is this enough though? I mean it's one thing to say we will allow you to call the police who will hopefully get there in time but does that remove the responsibility of these platforms to maybe do better screening. Look on the one hand what you have with all of these free APPs and quote unquote free Tack companies is that we're really coming to a realization as a society that there is no such thing as a free service. There are so many costs whether it's your privacy your data or also your safety on the other hand match group which owns tinder last quarter. They reported a total revenue of five hundred. Forty one million dollars. Tender is the top grossing non game APP OF LAST YEAR. And so there is an interesting question of. Can you invest some more? In safety if you're pocketing and that kind of money but it's interesting because this APP then introduces its own kind of potential security risk right. Which is that in order to use it. You have to share your location data in real time. Which feels like a little bit of a devil's bargain up to say the least. Yes no completely. There's no such thing as a free out. There's no such thing as a free tack service you pay in your data and your privacy. You know and the magazine Gizmodo did find earlier. That a handful of major names intact. Ads Grab the details that you give this APP it. It does lead to the question though. Why do the users have to shoulder? The cost of safety and not the extremely lucrative company Jasmine guards reports on social media and Internet culture for marketplace
Business Wars Daily
Tupperware, the Legend of Leftovers, Pops Up a Holiday Store
"Brown. And this is business worse daily. Happy Thanksgiving everyone. There are a few things that most of US associate with this special day. Turkey stuffing cranberry sauce football and as always leftovers and so on this holiday we turn our attention to one of the legends of leftovers. Yes tupperware last week. The seventy three year old company popped up what it's calling in an immersive store in New York City top Soho as it's called will only exist through December twenty seconds. So now's your time. The store blazing with bright red. Green yellow and blue walls is designed to catch the eye of photographers like most pop ups. It's intended as much for social media as it is for human even traffic it features Tupperware as art products. The company describes as museum honored and award winning the first of its kind. The store MARQUESA rotter rotter fundamental shift for tupperware sales have been flagging and shareholders have been pushing tupperware to Will join the twenty first century not long ago. The idea of disrupting its longstanding. Sales strategy the ICONIC TUPPERWARE party would have been unthinkable but with pressure to increase sales. The company is bowed to the inevitable and finally made some of its products accessible directly to the public with a brand new website the already inherent in the pop up store. Is that shortly after world. World War Two company founder. Earl tupper started out trying to sell his newfangled plastic conventions in stores only to discover that virtually no one was buying at the time in plastic was not the plastic. We know today according to Gizmodo writer Rachel Swain used it. I for wartime products like gas masks and military lamps. It was greasy and smelly hardly the kind of thing you'd use to store your. Leftover lasagne tupper changed the plastic formulation itself making it translucent. And getting rid the smell and the grease but consumers didn't trust that the confusing BURP products wouldn't make their food stink anyway without a way to know for sure or they weren't grabbing them off store shelves but as Gizmodo Sway be noted Tupper notice that some of his products were selling unbeknownst to him Direct sales sales company called Stanley home was holding parties where women would sell the Tupperware to other women at those parties dubious. Shoppers could smell the new inventions which were now free of the petroleum byproduct odor plastics past. The party strategy was working in spades. Finally Earl tupper made a deal with Stanley home to make the party's his own in the business. took off Tupper an inventor who'd been scraping by one invention at a time so the company in Nineteen in fifty eight four sixteen million dollars. Tupperware parties have continued to be sacrosanct until now under the guidance of Tupperware's first vice president of global brand engagement ship wrangled Tupperware is now building out ECOMMERCE access for customers in one hundred countries once. That's done and you can actually order that lunchbox online no matter where you are. TUPPERWARE will launch a global ad campaign. That's after years without advertising according to the online publication the drum that's important because in addition to suffering from it's more of a sales model tupperware also faces tough competition glad jointly owned by Clorox proctoring gamble cells similar plastic containers in grocery stores. They're not designed to last for years like Tupperware but the price points are low enough to inspire you to easily throw them into your grocery card and then there's another kind of competitor anyone who sells glass containers seen as far more areco friendly than plastic to combat the latter problem Tupperware as touting the benefits of Reuse in its now EPA free containers. Of course despite it's urgent overhaul Tupperware isn't abandoning the people who kept it going for the last seven decades independent Tupperware reps online. And at the Soho pop-up you'll find a pathway to host a party and in this way Tupperware is dancing a fine line between the past and the future. Not Unlike what Earl tupper yet more than seventy years ago
Kinda Funny Games Daily
Cancel Your Apple Arcade Trial Today If You’re Not Using It
"Song gizmodo says we've all been there sign up for a free trial and then who leaped onto the apple arcade train as soon as launch here's a friendly reminder that you might want to cancel before your credit card gets charged of course you get one free month and apple arcade launch on september nineteenth so it's right around the corner for it is it's actually a really nice reminder but it definitely comes off as like a mean thing to say about a new platform got damning yeah soiling what five bucks or something so it's not crazy but five bucks five bucks put it right doesn't that story come off kinda like mean-spirited but it's not it's not for many motorways right after all these other game exactly right now i play these waiting for the train switch back and play luigi
The Polygon Show
Apple Arcade Launches At $5 Per Month
"Apple Arcade finally launched a five dollars a month which was I talking about this on rocket and we're before the news of pricing in came out and we're debating it and I had assumed it was going to start at ten and Christina Warren now working at Microsoft formerly of Gizmodo guest five and and as soon as she said that I was like Holy Shit. I don't think they're going to do that but that would be. Literally the the best possible price point that they could choose for this service it makes so much sense and Lo and behold they did launch at five so five dollars a month and access to. I think it's something like two hundred games. I think so I I mean you can't even fathom that many games at this point. It's a lot of games it was. It was great so I was on vacation like all last week. I was in Texas on bad WIFI at my my mom's house because she lives in the country and has satellite. It's not great but I was like I'm going to download Iowa's thirteen on this on this terrible. Wifi and I did so great I installed it and also in Seoul the IOS thirteen Beta because it's not out on ipad and played eight a couple of games that I played most importantly cyanide. Oh wild hearts wait before you talk about that game which I'm very excited to hear about changes have a quick question about APP arcade yeah. Let's talk about the yes so okay so you said there's like two hundred ish games on there yes so these are games that have to opt in to being available elbaum. It's not like okay. If you subscribe you get access to any of our games. It's like these are the games that are exclusively respectively part of this yet. These games apple approached good game developers and publishers. A lot of people square next has games on there from like the octopus traveler team or there's a follow up from us to to Monument Valley Monument Valley thank you there's a a game by Zach Gage which I'll talk about a bit but like a lot of games that are incredible. CAPCOM has a game just just like a lot of big participants in this program so they're all new games rob market or there's also existing game so a couple or existing in that slake overland land which is coming to switch and Sinar wild hearts also on switch like some of those are switch games but these are also going. They're only available on mobile in Apple Arcade. Oh Wow so that includes on mobile Sinar Wild Heart yes okay so that means also when you stop subscribing to abl arcade which is also you can get a free trial this month which school once you stop subscribing you can no longer play those games. It's kind of like playstation plus yeah basically yeah
Latest In Tech News
Snap announces Spectacles 3 with an updated design and a second HD camera
"Came out with its third iteration of glasses and just seems is like snap just can't give up its obsession with techy camera glasses as because after losing a boatload of money trying and failing out first one later following up with the second mile to little fanfare today snap announced spectacles three which are somehow uglier than ever and come with a series price. Take at least according to the opinion of the writer at gizmodo now sporting a weird blend in hipster. She mixed with unprovoked nerd culture. Third spectacles are certainly unique looking. We'll say that and by adding a second built in camera to its glasses snap is doubling down on the spectacles recording features that let users capture new three d. snaps that can be customized with gimmicky a are stickers and effects snap says that the cameras on each side of its third urgen spectacles can record h._d. Video at sixty f- p._s. Which can then be transferred to your phone via bluetooth or wifi for further editing before being uploaded to snapchat chat the spectacles deal cameras make it possible to record three d. stereoscopic footage featuring a subtle depth affect so you kinda like that while quad bikes on a spectacles capture what snap claims significantly better audio now the new spectacle <unk> rule shoots come in at around sixteen forty two square while videos are recorded at twelve sixteen by twelve sixteen glasses come with four gigs of onboard storage and feature a battery that can capture seventy ten and second clips or up to two hundred photos on a single charge if you want the full three d experience snap is including a set of cardboard goggles at work with your phone screen so that you can an experienced your footage in full three d so in terms of colors it will be available in two carbon black in rose gold like hugh called mineral carol and just like previous models spectacles three come with included charging case that holds four charges worth of juice along with a full grain leather exterior for a slightly more more luxurious feel and here. They are like some weird futuristically. I swear i've seen these glasses before. I swear i in like some james bond movie or something i don't know let me know down in the comments on chat what you guys think however however unlike the spectacles through to the third gen glasses aren't water resistant and ask for price. It is three hundred eighty u._s. rest. It's a pushes the third glenn jen. I can't talk tell him tired. Glasses added a stupid fund category and transformed into something that series series and possibly stupid investment but at least according to gizmodo no kinda interested in if it can do its job while i don't see why not just looks the bit bulky but yeah if you're hardcore snapchat addict and are looking for more ways to spice up your feed you can preorder the spectacles three now before they officially go on sale sometime later this fall
WSJ Tech News Briefing
Facebook, Google Faces Heat in New U.K. Policy
"And Facebook, Google and your regular big tech suspects are in the crosshairs of new UK policy to control tech giant's how big a deal is this and how will your social media and search sensibilities be impacted finding out after these tech headlines. Amazon wants you to use Alexa to track healthcare, if you wouldn't mind the artificial intelligence assistant of the masses is ready to track consumers prescriptions and relay personal health information as the company bids to insert smart speakers into Everyday Health care at least five companies including insurer. Cigna have developed new Alexa features for consumers using the federal protocol. The futures let Alexa perform tasks such as scheduling, urgent care appointments tracking. When drugs are shipped checking health insurance, benefits or reading blood pressure results. Read more about the latest at wsJcom or the WFAN. Great hill partners agreed to acquire Gizmodo media group acquiring his Moto from Univision ends, these Spanish language broadcasters foray into English language. Digital media James span feller, the former chief executive of Forbes dot com will become the CEO of geo media Inc. A new company created from the assets. Gizmodo media group includes sites such as Gizmodo the onion, jazz, Abell, deadspin and life hacker. So the question you've been asking for months, maybe years what's been lacking? At Google cloud hint. It's a species you'll find in the mirror. It's humans humans, but the new head of Google's cloud business. Thomas Curien aims to end this Google shortcoming. He says to few people cater to enterprise customers. So he simplified contracts for different types of businesses that's opposed to a one size fits all pricing. And he's also moved to move more predictable pricing. And according to the journal, clawing bigger piece of the cloud is crucial for Google to diversify beyond online advertising coming up. London's proposal for a new social media regulator is one of the broadest yet in a larger movement by countries to assert control over tech giant's breaking it all down after this support for this podcast and the following message. Come from Deloitte, a global leader in digital transformation helping clients apply. Technologies like cloud an AI. To their unique business challenges Deloitte, Kat com slash look again. The UK government plans to create a new regulatory body to force the removal of harmful content from the internet one of the most far-reaching legislative proposals from a host of countries. Trying to put a tighter leash on global tech companies. The Wall Street Journal's Kim Gittleson gets more on the story from parmi Olson in our London bureau said talk to me a little bit about your story. What is it that the UK government is proposing and how different is it from other regulations we've seen it's definitely quite bold compared to other regulations that have come out that are similar to this right now. This is just a policy proposal that the government has announced essentially, they are saying that big technology companies hosts social media sites, I Facebook, an alphabet Google should take what they call reasonable and proportionate action on all sorts of potentially harmful content that ends up on their sites. Whether that's. Violent content cyber bullying or disinformation. What we still don't know is actually how they're going to enforce that. How are they going to basically measure success? Like, how do they know? For example, how many videos extremists videos Facebook is taken down in one day. They're kind of relying on Facebook to tell them that information because the only people in the world that no that is Facebook. I mean, how does this compare to other regulations say put on place by these companies? I know it's a new era, and there aren't that many in place? But does this go one step further? We'll there definitely moves afoot from what we've heard in other parts of the world, Germany, France. There seems to be a lot happening in Europe in terms of trying to regulate big tech more. So than in the US, which is kind of ironic, you kind of look to disallow Convalle e is the place where the innovation happens. And then Europe is where they keep it all in check you could say from what we've seen. It does seem like this is. Is the kind of most rigorous and robust attempt actually putting in paper ideas and rules for regulating Toco technology companies in this way, again, it's not to do with data privacy, but just on the content like harmful content. How do you regulate that? And this seems to be the most substantial set of rules that we've seen so far, and why is the British government doing this right now? Surely there other things that British politicians might be paying attention to Brexit comes to mind, why this time in April are they paying attention to this issue. Well, there's been a consultation going for quite some time from what I've heard from speaking to people in the tech industry here for months and months is actually surprisingly enough people who work in the tech industry here. Really like what's happening? They're very impressed with the way the government has the civil service has gone about actually asking questions to the tech industry. I'm sure the same will not be said in Silicon Valley. I'm sure Facebook and Google Twitter. The folks are scratching their heads at this like how on earth are they going to pull this off? What has been the response from Silicon Valley? What is in the fonts from Facebook alphabets Google? It's just been very polite. I don't think anyone really from either of those companies want to go on the record and say, this is like really you expect politicians to regulate something as complicated, as you know, content moderation, which is not only done by humans, and we know tens of thousands of people around the world are helping moderate harmful content, but super complex metrics are used for that artificial intelligence machine learning tools. I mean, it's extremely complicated. I'm would not surprise me. If these companies behind the scenes are actually extremely skeptical of what the government is trying to do. And and don't think particularly highly of it in their comments to us though. They're extremely polite about it. So what happens next the UK is introduced this idea. Where does it go from here? Well, we've been told that they're working on turning it into legislation. So that's going to be quite a few number of weeks out. I'm sure probably months, and then they'll table that. And in the meantime, the minister at least one of the ministers from the what we call the department for culture, media and sport here who was behind this proposal. Jeremy Wright has said that he will be visiting the United States later this year he wants to showcase his proposals. And I suppose hope that the US will use it as a template and other countries as well. How realistic do you think that is will other countries pay attention to this? Well, I think it'd be easy to just dismiss it and say why would anyone pay attention to this? But there's a lot of momentum around regulating or answering the problem of harmful content on social media p people feel that something should be done about it. And when you ask whether tech companies are policing themselves properly. I think a lot of people would say the answer to. That is no more needs to be done. So I would not rule out the possibility that other governments will actually look to the UK and how successful or unsuccessful this country is pulling this off parmi Elson. Thank you so much for speaking. With me.
Marketplace Tech with Molly Wood
Tech is helping house cleaners get benefits
"This. Marketplace podcast is brought to you by the university of Florida Warrington college of business transform your future with an MBA from one of America's top ten universities. Learn more at Warrington dot ufl dot EDU slash MBA in order to support the show. We need the help of some great advertisers in order to find great advertisers. We need to know a little bit more about you. So please go to pod survey dot com slash tech report. And take a quick anonymous survey that will help us get to know, you a little better that way, we can show advertisers. Just how great our listeners are. Plus once you've completed the survey you can choose to enter for a chance to win one hundred dollars Amazon gift card, terms and conditions apply. Again, that's pod survey dot com slash tech report. Thanks for your help. You're supposed to tip your house cleaner write about kicking into their disability insurance from American public media. This is marketplace tech demystifying the digital economy on jed Kim in for. Molly would. Some might consider domestic employees the original gig workers. There are a lot of similarities like intermittent income, and no real safety net is a problem that affects millions of workers like nannies caregivers and housecleaners the national domestic workers Lance is trying to change this. There's something it calls its innovation arm and DWA labs. It's bringing financial tech to domestic workers. It's new platform called Leah directs digital payments towards benefits for housecleaners. Marketplace's Lila Goldstein talked with one user about the platform, alleviate Mahia is a house cleaner in Brooklyn. Her son David is in the third grade and has a lot of school trips in always always he won. I can go with him. It used to be saying, yes, meant losing income. But last year, she went with her son's class to the prospect park zoo and still got paid thanks to a platform called Leah. It helps gig workers like her earned benefits. Like paid time off she pulls up the website on her phone Huma Boya plataforma. The leeann is the Mittel me contra Sania, she logs in chooses the worker option and sees a total dollar amount. It's money clients have contributed specifically for benefits clients select the client option find their house cleaners account and choose whether to give the platform recommends five dollars per cleaning this money can only be used for benefits offered by Leah then go toward or contracts. Didn't they eat thing goals will they be their Mahy is taken out life insurance and accident insurance. She also took to pay days off. Here's how bad stun when a worker reaches one hundred twenty dollars on a Lia. They can trade it in for a prepaid visa card like a lot of financial tech tools. Elliott automates something that can be complicated for workers to do on their own longtime workers advocate Pollock Shah helped develop the Elliott platform. What technology is really doing is in neighboring all. All of these multiple parties coordinating them taking all this transactions. Putting it all in one place, and allowing for the worker to be able to draw down those benefits, and it gives clients a more formal way to contribute to benefits Mahia is already comfortable communicating virtually she rarely sees her clients. She just text them notamment them excluding this. They huddle Yemi Leoneto soda. She gets a key. And they leave her money on the table at first Mahia was a bit embarrassed to leave fliers inviting her clients to use a Leah. But then she thought about all the other types of workers who get benefits oughta Mattingly. You don't think benefits you one the toll moon, though, that I don't know if you've seen us, they a whole ISM benefits us. She thought why not me, but you'll notice way at the net. The Goldstein brought us that story alita currently doesn't offer some really important benefits. No health insurance, no retirement plan. But as the gig economy grows. More workers will be looking for alternative ways to get the benefits. They need. And now for some related links. You may remember that Uber recently settled with drivers in California and Massachusetts for twenty million dollars. The lawsuit raises the question of whether drivers are fully employed as or just contractors the agreement won't end that debate. But it does that an average of about twenty two hundred dollars per driver. In those states NBC reports that the settlement amount is pretty favorable for Uber, which is trying to sign up. Its image ahead of an IPO. Uber has kept the number of lawsuits from drivers down by making it the default that legal disputes, go through arbitration, beware. The wrath of the rideshare driver though. More than twelve thousand have opted to go through arbitration now Hoover foots, the fifteen hundred dollars filing fee, for such cases and Gizmodo calculates that comes to about nineteen million dollars in fees for Uber. There've been several other settlements for the company, but none that would seem to break the Bank after all we're is expecting to be valued at one hundred twenty billion dollars. I'm jed Kim. And that's marketplace tech. This is a PM. Patrick in Santa Cruz. California wrote to us to say marketplace is an essential element in his life. And that we're helping make him smarter through high quality thought provoking and informative journalism to join Patrick and supporting what we do. Please donate online today at marketplace dot org. Thanks to Patrick and all the marketplace. Investors who make our work possible. This marketplace by cast is brought to you by brother investment tank printers. 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Marketplace Tech with Molly Wood
You can tidy up your digital life, too
"This marketplace podcast is brought to you by ultimate software dedicated to putting people first with innovative solutions for HR payroll and talent management. Learn more at ultimate software dot com. Ultimate software people first and bell Novo for business. You're an IT. But why do you do what you do to make a difference? Emlyn ova was here to be a difference maker for you by providing innovative technology solutions to learn more. Visit Lenovo dot com slash SNB. Powered by Intel. All those unread emails in your inbox causing you stress. It may be turned to tackle them head on from American public media. This is marketplace tech demystifying the digital economy. I'm jed Kim in for. Molly would. It's spring, which means it's time to clean your winter. Clothes and storage swept and mopped cleared up the gutters. But what about that laptop that's littered with ten thousand photos unsorted documents and a barely visible desktop since digital storage space is so cheap. It's easy to keep amassing files. But that can take toll on our work in our wellbeing. Deb Lee is digital productivity coach she helps people weed out the virtual messes they've gotten themselves into we after what makes people finally give in decide to declutter. Well, usually there is some sort of a pain point. You can't find what you want. Maybe you're wasting time looking for what you want or you just can't seem to focus. So there's usually some sort of pain that triggers the desire to start getting things organized and putting things in order. How is doing a digital declutter different from doing declutter of your house? Well, the good news is that it's not that dip. Different. It's pretty similar. You still have a goal that you're trying to achieve most of us have things that we're not using. Sometimes we have duplicates of things because we couldn't find the original thing. So we went out and got the next thing. Right. So it's a pretty similar process. You have duplicates of things you have things that are just sort of lingering on your on your device that you're not using taking up space that you could use for other things that you are using or want to use. You know, how many times have we tried to take that photo? And it says up you're running out of space. Are you can't take that photo? Right. So that usually becomes a pain point. And then we recognize I can't capture these really important moments in my life because I've got all the stuff that I don't use. Or I don't need any more. What you find is the hardest part to declutter what it goes to our digital lives. I think it's the process of trying to fix it that perhaps sometime stops us that fear of goodness. It's going to take all day or take too long for me to manage this. I think that's. Where some of that reluctance to tackle it comes about. And sometimes when it has to do with things like your photographs they come with memories and special memories. You know, we sort of we feel attached to them. We remember those moments when we look at them, and we think well, we can't get rid of this photo. But if it's the fifth iteration of the same photo, then yes, you can so to make it a little bit easier. Start with those things that are obvious those duplicates or the the blurry photos or the ones where you can't make out. Exactly what it is that you took the picture of anyway, or those burst photos where you hold your finger on the phone so long that it just takes five hundred at the same time. And I know that because that just happened to me recently, but it's easy to delete. So definitely make deleting in Pershing sort of a regular habit. So it doesn't feel so much like a chore deadly is a digital productivity. Coach I asked her about her personal habits. And she's got a simple tip. You know, the home screen that pops up when you unlock your smartphone. She keeps it completely clear of anything except a calming picture totally stealing that. Then now for some related lists not into the idea of digital decluttering suppose, you could go the other way digital hoarding. That's the compulsion to save all things digital Mike photos of every receipt. You get or every single Email you've ever received. It's been studied. And some researchers think it's a some type of hoarding disorder witness the case in the B M J, aka British medical journal of a Dutch man who took and saved hundreds of digital photos every day turns out he hoarded physical objects to find yourself saving a lot of files. Get don't necessarily have a problem. Maybe you just get a kick out of collecting Gizmodo has a deep dive into digital hoarding. It makes a distinction between hoarding and collecting a digital collector might be the person who digitises all his old family photos and videotapes it can actually be a source of pride and positive feelings. Fine. Finally, if you think if firm morality is the answer for digital clutter by which I mean that some things can be put online with the expectation. They will disappear like Snapchat. Thank again. An article in wired questions the privacy expectations. Many people have with FM morality. And of course, there could always be a digital hoarder saving screen shots of whatever you typed. I'm jed Kim. And that's marketplace tech. This is APN. That's marketplace podcast is brought to you by well frame does your healthcare organization. Give people the support they need outside the walls of care delivery. It's time for a new approach. Well, frame calls it digital health management by delivering resources and guidance to address chronic conditions transitions of care as well as lifestyle, wellness and social determinants. Well, frame helps people and care teams build trusted relationships that Dr early interventions. Learn more at well frame dot com.
Talking Tech
Review: DJI Osmo Pocket dronecam
"Talking tech is brought to you by wicks dot com with wicks you can use artificial design intelligence to create a stunning website right from your phone in five minutes or less. Just go to wicks dot com. That's W I X dot com and create your professional website today. It's the world's smallest view camera. It's drone Cam in a body. The size of tiny candy bar, and it can be all yours for three hundred fifty bucks dining is the Osmo pocket camera, and it comes from DJ. I the world's number one manufacturer of drones. I've been playing with it for the past few weeks. Let me tell you all about it on today's edition and talking tech. I'm Jefferson Graham with USA today. So you've probably seen a lot of people walking around with little cameras on a stick. These are called gambles, and they stabilize your video footage. The most popular gamble is made by and it's called the Osmo mobile. It sells for just over one hundred and twenty five dollars the problem with it though is that it has to be attached to a smartphone to use the built in smartphone camera and the stabilization is rather mild, especially compared to what you get on a drone. Additionally, the Osmo mobile is very bulky clearly could never fit in your pocket, and thus never really left. My house very often. In the new Osmo pocket is truly the size of a small candy bar. Well, maybe more. As was noted by the tech publication, Gizmodo Abbar that's been half eaten you could fit. It into your shirt pocket or purse, and you get the advantage of three axis Kimball. Debt will truly steadier shot. The camera has a slot for a micro USB card. So you can record up to two hours depending on the size of the card. The battery will only last two hours before it needs to be charged on this tiny Cam you use the small monitor for viewing. Or you can connect it to an apple or Android phone, which gives you more screen view. But also greatly enlarges the unit the camera sensor is the same size as what you get in the maverick drone. But the gim Bill is smaller house the footage. Great normal light. But with the smaller gamble, let's be Frank. It does not have the steadiness of what you see in your drone footage. But it does look way sharper and crisper than the shots. You're getting from connecting your iphone to the us, mama. Mobile. Have you tried the Asmal pocket yet? Let me know what you think about it on Twitter, Rimac, Jefferson Graham, you've been listening to talking tech. Please subscribe to the show on apple podcast. Please favored us on Stitcher, which helps probably on the show. And it's always, thanks. Everyone listening. Talking tech is brought to you by wicks dot com. When you're ready to get your website up and running you wanna be able to do it quickly and efficiently and wicks dot com has got you covered. They developed artificial design intelligence that creates a stunning website for you with wicks, you can create your own professional website right from your phone, which means you can open your own online store portfolio or blog wherever you are. How's that for officiant? Just go to wicks dot com. Decide what you need a website for pick your style at your own images link your social accounts and just like that your website is ready. You'll look amazing on every device desktop and mobile and it takes less than five minutes. Plus, you can do it with one hand. So it's time to get started. Go to wicks dot com. That's W I X dot com and create your very own beautiful professional website today.