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Double Tap Canada
"idc" Discussed on Double Tap Canada
"Is really not a huge piece of the budget. It's really just not. So you're not saving that much. Whatever that percentage is, you're not saving that much. And the quality is kind of offset by it. So that percentage you're saving, you're lessening the quality by the same percentage. So there's really no reason to do it in my opinion. So kind of a long winded answer, so I don't I don't hate synthetic voicing. We don't use synthetic voicing and frankly if we were forced to use synthetic voicing, I would probably just go find something else to do with my time day to day to have a career. That's where I land on it. Eddie wickstrom and his government, thank you so much for giving us your time today here on double tap. It's been a real pleasure talking to you both today. Every time I do one of these and Liz and I do one of these podcasts or these shows and we love doing them all. So thank you for the invite today. I want to throw it back out there in the universe. Again, touching on the blind, the visually impaired talent that we have 15 or in growing on the roster. And I am available to be reached on social media. So companies, if anybody from any competing companies, my competitors are watching this and they are interested in working with blind and visually impaired talent, reach out, my DMs are open slide right into them and on Twitter and I'd be happy to take a phone call. I will happy to tell you our workflows from a to Z, this is not proprietary. This is not protected information. And then I will put you in touch with every one of these people through email or telephone how are you prefer if you want to hire them. So there's literally no excuse if you're a company providing audio description to not be involving blind and visually impaired folks in the process. I will help you do it. If you're serious about doing it, we will get it done. So that's something I always like to say when I did one of these. And I had some people, some of my biggest competitors in the field have reached out to me on this and I have made the time and they are working with folks that work with us now. And I encourage more people to do that to reach out. Let's have the conversation. So again, thank you for having us. It was really great. Thank you, Steven. It's been a pleasure. And that's it for today. Thank you so much for listening. Join us for our conversation with audio describer Thomas Reid from IDC that is on tomorrow's double
Double Tap Canada
"idc" Discussed on Double Tap Canada
"So we're just always doing our best. You know, under deadlines. And when we don't, you know, sometimes we'll do smaller independent projects. And maybe we have the ability to ask a filmmaker to ask an actor to say, how do you describe yourself? Is this language okay? 99.99% of the time, we do not have that luxury. So we just have to do our best. And then we have to do our best. If we, you know, if we hear back, like, hey, that's not the language that's used now. Great. Let's update it. Again, it's not about our ego. It's not about, you know, it's not about us. It's about accessibility. And it's about making media accessible. And we're here to provide a service at the end of the day. So that's been, it can be really challenging at times, but it's also really rewarding and it's just, it's the right thing to do. So that's what we do. Yeah, I mean, how am I supposed to know if someone's black on screen, right? I mean, it's not like the accent gives everything away. It doesn't. And I think that's the key point. And you want to know that information because if you're having a conversation with someone about a program or about a show and you're surprised to learn that person's blankets, it just feels a bit odd. It's like, I feel I should have known that. And have full access to the information, which is not good description. Exactly. That's it. It's all your description. It's what you see, isn't it? Come on, to ask you about one final question about synthetic speech, which has been creeping in a little bit on some shows. I'm going to take a guess that you're not a fan. I'd be a good guess. I would say, okay, so there is a need. There is a place and there's a need for synthetic speech. Like I am
Double Tap Canada
"idc" Discussed on Double Tap Canada
"To your point of, oh, yeah, it's always just kind of dry and kind of monotone and, you know, that was the rule for a very long time, and there are reasons behind that, which I understand. But now, I think, especially as we just have so much more content, I think, is part of it. And so much more diverse content. I think is another part of it. Adjusting cast both casting an actual reads to fit in and blend in more with each particular project, that's something that's come out of feedback from the blind and low vision community, where we listen to the community who are saying, hey, this is a steamy love scene. It's weird to hear it just kind of read in a flat monotone. That doesn't turn me on. That doesn't it just loses it. Yeah, it takes you right out of it. But it is a fine line. And Eric can speak to this too. He does a lot of the actual directing and is in sessions and stuff like that. But in the stuff that I've narrated, I also try and walk that line. It's really tricky. It is really tricky because you don't want to overdo it. You don't want to make yourself the voice should not be the focus. The voice is just telling you what's going on. But yeah, that is something that we've seen change and shift and evolve. And I'm sure it will continue to as well. So yes, so we have seen an evolution with casting and with tone and we definitely it's tough with AD because it is such the narrator is such a huge part of the product. And they need to simultaneously stand out enough to be interesting, but not stand enough to be distracting. So it's a very fine line that the narrator's walk and I don't envy them a lot of the times. It's a very difficult balancing act they have to pull off.
Double Tap Canada
"idc" Discussed on Double Tap Canada
"And see what goes into it and kind of see what we're dealing with. And think about that side, because again, there are millions and millions of blind and visually impaired consumers. And incited consumers, you know, I know a lot of sighted people now use audio description and treat it like a podcast or an audiobook. You know, they'll just stream it and listen to it around the house or on their commutes or in the car or whatever it is. So yeah, it would be wonderful. We're not there yet. But again, we're evolving so much so quickly in the last few years. So, you know, a year from now, you might ask me that question, and I might tell you, oh, I had, you know, people from this company and that company come in and we've had all these conversations and things are moving in that direction. So I think it's definitely a conversation to keep pushing for because I'd love to have it. When it comes to the writing, there's one area of audio description, which I think always makes us blind people blush a little bit. And Bridgerton is a perfect example of this. When you have to describe and I really feel for you on this where you have to describe these sex scenes. I have to tell you, I've never seen Bridgerton. My wife, she covers it for us in this house. She is the British and fan around here. But what is that process like for you? Because it's always the challenge, I guess, isn't it of how much is too much information? How do you, I guess, wondering, is do you try and temper it to the style of the show to make it fit without being gratuitous about some of it? Or do you have to be gratuitous to be on to make it clear what's going on? Yeah, I think you have it exactly right. Is we kind of tailor it to the to the show to the project, you know, show a movie, whatever. But what we do is we tailor it to each project. So the way you describe nudity in, for example, I don't know, a horror movie is going to be different than the way you describe nudity in a drama is going to be different than the way you describe nudity in Bridgerton, which is meant to be steamy. You want to make sure and use language that encourages that.
Double Tap Canada
"idc" Discussed on Double Tap Canada
"Writing and it's our voice of a person did an amazing job voicing it, but then equally importantly, Antonio Panera, who's by audio engineer on that project, went in there and made sure that every blood squib and every gunshot and everybody hitting the ground that every step in the dirt and every time that crazy doll turns and the eyes shift, you hear the eye shift. You hear, you hear all of that. And I think that, again, we did it, and it's really good. And I do think of a lot of companies in the field have done it. It would not be as good because they don't think about these things to your point. They just describe over it or worse, they have an automated program that does the mixing, a lot of studios use where they feed the track in, and then the audio of the program itself kind of just shifts levels up and down. So we're not doing that. We're not, you know, we're mixing in 5.1 and we're thinking about all 5 of those outputs equally. When we mix. So it's definitely a conscious decision. It's something that we have discussed. It's something that we continue to not only worry about in the writing and the voicing in the mix, but then on our QC process on the backside, our QC people are listening for those things also. I'm not just hey you're stepping on dialog, which has always been the big rules and AD for all these years don't step on dialog. We are also specifically looking not to step on sound. And sound effects because delicious point earlier, we are trying to replicate that experience for the blind and visually impaired consumer just as I would receive it as a sighted viewer. As much as we can within the constraints of what we're dealing with. But yeah, all those are three incredibly important aspects. And I thank you for bringing it up because the audio engineers do not get enough credit and do not get recognized enough. And I feel it's one of the areas of AD, the corners get cut the most. And it's really terrible because to your point, you know right away, you know, the sound of how it sounds. It just sounds a lot different when it's done right versus just being done quickly. So yeah, that's, again, there's a lot of thought that goes into that in every one of those steps have to come together to make that work in the end. Yeah, no, no offense to the camera operators, but I don't care what it looks like. I killed it sounds like, right? That's it for me. It can be glorious four K, but I'm listening for four K in audio. That's what I'm interested in. And Squid Game is a perfect example of that. And I can only imagine the challenges you must have faced with that because of course you're dealing with multiple languages as well. It's a dubbed show as well. So it's not in its native language. It's an incredible work. I want to ask you about the relationship you have with the companies themselves that make these shows. Do you ever have any involvement directly with them and the work that they are doing? Ever comment back to you on the inclusion of the AD that you've created? No, no. We don't, we don't hear from them. The way it works, the show gets done. It's in the can, so to speak, and then it goes to the distributors, the streaming service, or the broadcast network, whoever owns
Double Tap Canada
"idc" Discussed on Double Tap Canada
"It's not just good enough to say, okay, we have a blind narrator that narrator also has to be African American or Latina or something else that fits that content as well because that's something that we're very committed to at IDC. We have, we do have the most diverse roster in the business. It's not even close. We have, I have probably 40 or 50 different narrators in the rotation every year, doing projects, and that's always in mind, making sure that we're fitting a voice with the content or honoring the spirit of the material with the voice as well as the Tallinn. So that's kind of the longer winded story of how that all came about, but that's how it happened and that's how it's continuing to grow. It just is really fascinating to me because from a writer's point of view, Liz, you must be thinking to yourself, wow, it gets so much diversity and talent to be able to deliver this writing. And this isn't just a disembodied voice that's being attached on to a film or a TV show. No. Yeah, and as much as we can, you know, if we're able to in the production process and sometimes we are sometimes we are, we do take into account whether it's with the formatting of the script itself or the sort of words per minute that you are anticipating, being able to be read, you know, if I know someone or if one of our writers knows a particular person, let's say it's season two of something we've already done. We say, oh, I know that Jane is going to voice this or whatever. We kind of know what their cadence is, how quickly they can read, how many gears they have. We say, you know, like some VO talent have several gears, some only really have one or two. It's all totally fine. Some are better suited for certain projects for various reasons. If we do know ahead of time, we'll certainly take that into account. You know, if I know someone has a really fast third gear, that'll enable me to go, oh, I think I can get a really quick description of this joke in. Because I know that this person can squeeze it in and we'll be able to understand it. And some other people that's just not the case. You know, you say, okay, I need to edit this a little more because I know that this video talents cadence is a little slower. We don't always know ahead of time when we're writing something what who is going to end up voicing it. So we try and default to, okay, let's assume that this cadence is going to be slower because then we always have room to crank it up a little bit more if you need B but then we don't have to go back it doesn't need to be any kind of like on the fly editing in the booth or trying to rush somebody who's not accustomed to reading that quickly. So it does depend, but we don't always know ahead of time.
Double Tap Canada
"idc" Discussed on Double Tap Canada
"Will say that curiosity and a willingness to learn and take notes goes a long way. I guess the biggest challenge you face as a writer, I guess, is the challenge of the amount of time that you have to be able to put the description in. There's probably lots more you want to say, but there's only so much room in the diet or whether the dialog isn't happening. Yeah, that's one of the biggest challenges for sure. And something that we really take pains to do at IDC as well is particularly in, say, an action movie. You know, the sound design in a project like that is very deliberate and took a lot of resources and time and effort to get just the right sound for the big right hook or the right sound for the stab or the punch or the kick or all of that stuff. So we try and let that come through as much as possible. That's where action scenes are really tricky too because you kind of think, oh, these guys are just fighting for two and a half minutes. I have all the time in the world. But really, ideally you want to be able to place it so that you describe the punch right before you hear it happen. So you have that mental image set up. And then you get the same impact listening to it as you do watching it. We're always just trying to make the experience of the AD as close to the experience of watching it as possible. From your point of view, I guess that there's two sides to this, isn't it? There's the writing side and then there's the voice. There's the voice that delivers it. And one thing your company has done, which is very interesting. And really surprised me as a visual impaired person is that you're hiring visually impaired talent to voice the writing that's
Double Tap Canada
"idc" Discussed on Double Tap Canada
"Double tap. Follow double tap on social media at double tap on air and subscribe to the podcast, wherever you get your podcasts, and email us, feedback, and AMI dot CA will be right back. This is double tap. Now, back to the show. Okay, let's get right to our guests today on double tap. We have from the international digital center. And it Wix from. And there's gottman, thank you so much for being with us here on the show. Do you want to kick off with movie telling us a bit about IDC in the company itself? IDC is a full service post production facility based in New York City and Los Angeles. We do literally everything that you need done for plus production from captioning to color correction to everything else you could think of, including obviously audio description. We also have a full service dubbing department, foreign language to English dubbing that we do at this point. We have full service Spanish audio description as well. So again, everything else you could possibly need for your post production needs is what we do. So for us blind folk, we obviously watch these shows we some of us see, we listen to them, whatever way you look at it, we're watching TV, right? And we're engaging and enjoying the content. Tell us some of the shows you've worked on so that we can put some voices to the shows. Sure. We've worked on many, many things over the years. Some of the bigger ones would be recently, but Squid Game. We provided audio description for queen's gambit was a big one. Bridgerton. Everyone's been in the news. It's been in the news. Lately, what else? What am I forgetting, Liz? Afterlife, the procedure vase comedy series. We did that one. Russian dolo just relaunched last week. Season two. What else? What else? Plenty. I mean, there's so many. I mean, literally hundreds and hundreds of titles over the last few years that we've done. The Witcher? Oh yeah. The Witcher, yes, we do The Witcher as well. So what else? I mean, so many. So every genre. There's a time. I don't have my list in front of me.
Double Tap Canada
"idc" Discussed on Double Tap Canada
"You've got a home set up and this is the great thing as well again and we'll get into all this with that. It can explain this in more detail, but it just seems to me they've really given this some thought and they've really considered the fact that a lot blind people do work from home or prefer to work from home. And what a great opportunity. If you've got a home set up, I mean, look, we're at home. We do a daily show nationally across Canada, worldwide on podcasts, and all the rest. And we do it all from our home, and it's great.
Double Tap Canada
"idc" Discussed on Double Tap Canada
"Sean priests, how are you today? I'm good. Thank you Stephen. How are you? I'm good, I'm good, nice weekend yourself. Do you enjoy the weekend? That's none of your business. Let's move on. Okay, fine. You don't have to feel funny. I ask you that question and we talk so much over the weekend. I kind of know about your weekend. I know that you probably a steak pie. Yes. You are definitely consumed more than just a steak pie. Yes. Two steak pies with red cabbage and brown sauce. Delicious, it's my new thing. But didn't you do that at like 7 o'clock in the morning? Yes, it was my breakfast. And now I see, I fight against this, this conforming to, oh, it's breakfast, so you gotta have Cyril. No, you have what you want. If you want a lamb curry at 7 a.m., you have one. Fight the power. Yeah, I just think you wanted to get a state by 7 o'clock in the morning. You don't have to justify it. It's okay. All right, thank you. You all right, an absolute national disgrace. Yes. But other than that, talking to Sarah. What's she often says? Listen, today on the show, we're going to be talking about one of our favorite topics audio description and we're doing that with the Erik wickstrom and Gutman from the international digital center, which is a fantastic organization, big company based out of New York City. And I didn't know much about IDC until I started heating the name popping up at the end of Netflix shows when they would tell you who made the description who recorded the description. And I've said for many years on this show and another shows that I think Netflix, to me, it was always Netflix, had the best audio described content. And what I meant by that was the quality of the description was good, the voice was always good, the scripting was good, and the audio was produced properly. Properly, not just like some kind of tack to an audio or someone, it feels like someone's pulling back the audio every single time someone speaks. It's properly a mixed. It felt like it had some love. It wasn't just though, let's throw that on top. It was the first time that I thought this sounds like it's actually part of the production, and it was, it was so cool. And it is weird because IDC go, oh, I know that. I mean, when in the past would that have happened that, you know, the company that does the audio description actually is getting a reputation. It just proves the quality of the work. They do an amazing job. And that's the thing. I didn't know that. I didn't know that they were the people behind it. What I learned about it was that what I thought was going on was that it was Netflix who were just somehow doing this.
Mac OS Ken
"idc" Discussed on Mac OS Ken
"Early in the day on Monday, IDC hit with computer numbers that looked absolutely amazing for Apple. Late in the evening on Monday, Gardner hit with numbers that looked as bad for Apple as every other computer maker out there. Last quarter was a bad quarter for laptops, notebooks, and computers of all sorts, according to the market tracker IDC, the Mac, not included. Seeing that had the firm reporting sliding computer sales, according to IDC, the September quarter saw global computer shipments slip to 74.3 million machines that was a little bit better than the June quarter, but nowhere near as good as the same quarter a year ago. Shipments to the third quarter of 2022 were down 15% versus the third quarter of 2021, according to IDC. I know what you think. Economic uncertainty, right? Well, that might be part of the problem. The scene that piece lists a couple of factors for the fall, lower demand and problems in the supply chain. Another piece on the numbers from cult of max as the supply chain issues were tied to a wave of COVID lockdowns implemented in China in late spring and early summer of this year. As for the slower demand, while today's economic uncertainty may play a part, the PC space was also up against a really tough compare. Shipments reached their highest volume in almost a decade in 2021, according to the scene that peace. So let's get to the good news as far as Apple is concerned as far as IDC is concerned. IDC says sales of Apple computers were way up year on year. According to the firm, the Cupertino company saw max shipments rise, 40.2% in the September quarter versus the same quarter a year earlier. Just as the PC markets fall was focused on a few factors, so was the max rise. Called the max as the recently released MacBook Air played a part. Additionally, Apple was able to spend the September quarter catching up on demand that had built after the COVID lockdowns in the supply chain in China earlier in the year. Going through IDC's numbers, the cult says Apple shipped 10.1 million marks in the September quarter that was way up from the 4.7 million machines that shipped in the June quarter and weigh up from the 7.2 million shipped in the September quarter of 2021. Of the top 5 computer makers tracked IDC says only Apple was able to show growth last quarter running down those 5 Lenovo saw shipments dropped 16.1%, HP saw them dropped 27.8%, Dell saw them dropped 21.2%, Apple saw shipments rise 40.2% and ASUS saw shipments dropped 7.8%. The great group of others fared no better, the and the rest crew saw shipment decline 19.4%, according to IDC. The much, much later in the day on Monday, so late we call it night in most parts. IDC competitor Gartner hit with numbers that were largely in line with IDC's with one major exception, that firm says max shipments fell about as hard last quarter as the rest of the personal computer space. It's really pretty amazing while IDC saw max shipment of 10.1 million units up 40% year on year, Gartner saw shipments of 5.8 million units down 15.6% from the same quarter a year earlier. Otherwise it is kind of amazing how close they were. According to Gartner, Lenovo shipments were down 15.3%, HP was down 27.9%, Dell shipments were down 21.1%. Apple shipments were down 15.6% ASUS shipments were down 7.5% and acer shipments were down 25.6%. And the rest were down 17.3%. Seriously, the furthest off these two firms were besides the wild divergence on Apple. Was two percentage points on the other's category and the surprising inclusion of acer by Gartner. I first spotted the Gartner numbers on Philip Elmer de witt's Apple three. There he posed an interesting question up 40% year over year in one estimate and down 15.6% in the other. Why do these guys have so much trouble with Apple? And only with that bolt. Wouldn't it be nice to know Apple hit with a couple of small but important OS updates on Monday? First a piece from Mac rumors as the Cupertino cruel fly with iOS 16.03 issues addressed include a problem where iPhone 14 pro and iPhone 14 pro max were not getting incoming call and app notifications in a timely fashion. Or at all in some cases. A problem where the mic volume was too low on CarPlay calls using one of the iPhone 14 models, a problem where the camera on apple's latest pro phones was slow to launch or switch between modes and an issue where a malformed email could make the mail app go crushy crash at launch. The other OS update was for one of apple's wearables. A separate piece from Mac rumors had apple releasing watchOS 9 zero two on Monday. Issues addressed with this one include one where Spotify would not stream properly from the Spotify app for Apple watch, one where the snooze alarm kept piping back up for assistive touch users even after the alarm was deleted. One where fitness and wallet data wasn't sinking completely for a newly paired watch and one where audio on the mic was working intermittently for some Apple watch ultra and Apple watch series 8 users.
Software Engineering Daily
Sam Scott, CTO at OSO, on Authorization as a Service
"Sam. Welcome asia much having me commissioning authorization. There's a wide variety of tools. That are this space and the first one that comes to mind is off zero which was more recently. Acquired by octa tell me about a brief history of authorizations at service absolutely saw its start with you need to ease the disentangle authentication authorization to very similar. Sounding names often lumped together as just off and there's often a very blurry line between those which piece of the puzzle different people are doing and even goes as far as with the name authorization useful indication and things like that. So i think we think about companies like zero. You know quite a lot of the stuff they focused on is primarily the identity piece the authentication piece right so authentication. It's brown identifying who the user is a few are checking some kind of credentials piece of thing authorization often the piece it comes off to. It's like now. I know you are. What can you do and lower the existing services out the like an author. They do stuff and they maybe do a small piece of the authorization. They may be handled things like you know groups all maybe it's like pulling a few attributes out of the idc providers you kind of get some sense of who this person is. They often leave a lot of the authorization to the application code itself. It's like i know who you are. And maybe i know groups. You belong to roll. You have but i'm gonna. I'm gonna the app you decide what to do that information.
The Big Story
"idc" Discussed on The Big Story
"I'm fatma fitting in for jordan heath. rawlings this is the big story. Brick smith is the president of the canadian institute for climate choice. Herrick thanks for being here. It's pleasure so what was your first reaction when you read the report while i mean. Let's let's just acknowledge that this thing is massive minutes thousands of pages. Hundreds of scientists around the world have been working on this thing for the last many months of fourteen. Thousand studies were incorporated and summarized and synthesized in this reports enormous amount of information. This is the most significant update to what we know about climate in in many years over half a decade. There's a lot of stuff now does not surprising me for anybody. That's been keeping track of climate change science and the the notion that warming is getting is happening more quickly than expected. would not be news. I think one of the more significant aspects of the report is the unequivocal linkage. Based on the best available science that recent extreme weather events are being driven by climate change in the idc has never been that explicit before. And of course there's this whole new discipline called attribution science that's That's quite new. This new kind of science is makes it possible for us to say yeah. This particular heatwave is being driven by climate change that is a. That's a very new Development in the climate change debate. And i think very powerful because long story short what this report does is. It brings climate change home for people. Climate change is a health concern.
The Big Story
How the IPCC Report Is About More Than Just Climate Change
"I'm fatma fitting in for jordan heath. rawlings this is the big story. Brick smith is the president of the canadian institute for climate choice. Herrick thanks for being here. It's pleasure so what was your first reaction when you read the report while i mean. Let's let's just acknowledge that this thing is massive minutes thousands of pages. Hundreds of scientists around the world have been working on this thing for the last many months of fourteen. Thousand studies were incorporated and summarized and synthesized in this reports enormous amount of information. This is the most significant update to what we know about climate in in many years over half a decade. There's a lot of stuff now does not surprising me for anybody. That's been keeping track of climate change science and the the notion that warming is getting is happening more quickly than expected. would not be news. I think one of the more significant aspects of the report is the unequivocal linkage. Based on the best available science that recent extreme weather events are being driven by climate change in the idc has never been that explicit before. And of course there's this whole new discipline called attribution science that's That's quite new. This new kind of science is makes it possible for us to say yeah. This particular heatwave is being driven by climate change that is a. That's a very new Development in the climate change debate. And i think very powerful because long story short what this report does is. It brings climate change home for people. Climate change is a health concern.
Podcast Movement 2021
"idc" Discussed on Podcast Movement 2021
"I think this is one of the most important things that brands really need to understand. If they wanna get into podcasting and we talk to our cuss our clients a lot about this and that is the difference between an audience and a customer because they are not the same thing right an often. I find marketing departments in sort of confused. That and so i think it's worth taking a moment. So an audience is like the total group of individuals or organizations out there in the world who could in some way be exposed to your podcast offering or your brand They don't necessarily care a hoot about your brand. They just want to show up and be entertained or be educated. They want some kind of value from the exchange with the podcast. They have plenty of other choices. They can go anywhere. Do anything at any time with the click of a button and they're not really looking to buy anything that's not why they're coming to the podcast. Okay so a customer on the other hand is a sort of a subset of your audience But by definition. They're not the same thing what what tends to happen is hopefully the ladder might lead to the former. No wait a minute. Yeah the latter might lead to. The form of the audience might become customer. If you're lucky if you play your cards right So what you need to do though to to make that happen. It's you have to. I attract an audience with something worth doing so that they might become a customer. Someone who wants to actively engage with your brand might eventually want a product or service and think of your brand when it comes to that because hey you made that cool podcast Because a customer is someone who's may be ready to buy something whereas an audience not so
Rob Has a Podcast
"idc" Discussed on Rob Has a Podcast
"That makes it tied game. Rob sixty nine percents law. Not nice not nice at all you want. Percents sixty one or sixty nine sixty nine thirty one percent of the listeners. Yeah what's what's what. Yeah god keep his fingers on the pulse for thirty percent more likely to say he would fight against child. Kyle chandler makes sense. Yeah also thought. That ending the podcast. After the first part and coming back next week to do party was going to be like a like a well received idea. I don't think it. Would i like. I don't think it would've been a popular. Idc think like might have been necessary but we we made this work. Yeah okay All right so tie game with three to go. It's a home run in the bottom of the eighth. I just say rob Yeah okay what's what. What am i setting the number four. Here's shannon so what is the better name for a pinball tournament and pittsburgh ins berg or fall setting pins bert. Which side of this you were. You were on them. No idea he said greg about this the other day he said you. You're the person pushing pits ball. Okay it's ball doesn't sound sort of like pinball and the it's pittsburghers pinneberg insert. Okay okay. i'm gonna go. Fifty three percent pittsburgh. I think it's over. Fifty three percent if three percent pins bird. What do you got shannon. It is over sixty six percents berg. Okay okay. I need to win. Both i need to win out here on leicester penguins that could have been your team Yeah i don't have a strong. Like maybe i have no strong opinion on the on the hits bowl anymore rip probably wreck pinball.
Start Up Sisters
"idc" Discussed on Start Up Sisters
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Epicenter
"idc" Discussed on Epicenter
"In the cage in the software of the cost of sixty k. To be able to do this you can also if you wanted to write this light client system at a smart contract layer so you know. I think there's a team working on doing this. For salona where they're salona is reasonably scalable sponsors odd that they can Like you know you can actually build an idc. A tenement light client in salona contract inhabit. Be performing enough but the problem with that theory of his. It's too expensive to do that. Writing light client a candidate like client in theorem. People are working on it. I mean that people are but just how much harder lift dan going the and just too expensive especially you know six months ago Where it would just have not been feasible gas perspective. That's why for the theory to 'cause spreads. We needed to go down more traditional typical bridge route. Not using abc. And so in that. What happens israel. Essentially you have this change. That is the bridge bridge and you have the validate of the chain running theory of nodes and acting as the like. You know they all decide. What when they. This event happened theory amendment. They declared their witnessing of the event happened. On the cost of gravity bridge chain and then once declared that once does enough of quorum of them god that triggers it admits the acid that speak bridged over. So what does that mean for. an osmosis. Lithium amperage does it mean it's too expensive for doesn't mean it's theoretically possible but not feasible. No it means that you're very soon. We'll be able to bring a theory of assets over the bridge into cosmos land and then trade them on any you can bring onto osmosis and trade gun on us most and they'll be at hob thing but like you know it'll be are you actual like handle all of that where it'll be like you know we want to guest simplest possible whereas so deposit asked.
Epicenter
"idc" Discussed on Epicenter
"Don't want this leg threshold. Decrypted havis different security assumptions than consensus protocol. And so that's kind of why it's important for it to be honest chain now just as done its own. Chaim doesn't mean it not going to be part of the theorem ecosystem. I mean i don't know if people realize polygon is basically built using the kosti k it is. It's built on core using the causes assessing k. And i don't think anyone would argue that it's not a core piece of the ecosystem right now. And so are osmosis. Will you know currently focused on disconnecting to the chains. Right now by like very soon. We'll be connecting to the wider. Because it's come as well so in So basically the bridges are something that is kind of a mystery to me. How exact works so basically the bridges within the they're kind of building but there's also The gravity bridge right that that bridges the idc networks to to theorem. How does that wagon. can you prince of actually having. Am that wax across this bridge. The grabby bridge is essentially i. B c requires building a light client for the other chain in the native dodging. Typically what we do is build this into the core code base of the chain of south so in the cage in the software of the cost of sixty k. To be able to do this you can also if you wanted to write this light client system.
Mac OS Ken
Apple Dominated the Global Wearables Market Again
"Remember when we used to debate whether tablets should be counted among traditional. Pc's for the purposes of figuring market share. Yeah it kind of feels like we have a similar conversation around wearable technology. I saw a couple of stories on wearables numbers yesterday. That seemed to be at ought read the fine print though and they are not both. Idc and counterpoint. Research seemed to see apple. Watch commending more market and the first quarter of twenty twenty one versus the same quarter a year earlier though you have to read deep into the. Id stuff to see it. A piece from macrumors covered the idc numbers scanning the firms chart idc. Apple's first first-quarter wearables market share at just under twenty nine percent. That is down from the just over thirty two percent it enjoyed in the first quarter of twenty twenty. Wow we did enjoy things in the first quarter of twenty twenty. Didn't we anyway a piece from. I'm more covered the counterpoint numbers which seemed to show something different. They didn't but they seem to. According to the thing years. According to i'm more apple took a thirty three point. Five percent share of q one up from thirty point three percent on the same quarter last year. See where i stumbled is on what they were counting. Idc was wearables while counterpoint was counting smartwatches specifically limit. The discussion to apple watch and the firms seem to agree. Apple watch grew its market share in the march quarter versus the same quarter a year earlier. According to idc apple started twenty twenty one the same way ended twenty twenty as the clear leader in the worldwide wearables market
Marketplace with Kai Ryssdal
Chip Crisis in 'Danger Zone' as Wait Times Reach New Record
"Our lead story today is one of demand and supply in that order. The commodity in question is semiconductors. The demand as we'll explain is nearly universal the supply well it's lagging and more so every day bloomberg got its hands on some data from the susquehanna financial group that says if you order a chip today the aforementioned semiconductors you're going to have to wait seventeen weeks for it to be delivered. Four plus months that is to put it mildly no way to run a supply chain. And as marketplace's samantha field reports. It is doing damage to way more than cars or computers or smartphones. These days almost everything has a chip whether we think of it as high tech or not. If it has a plug or battery probably has chips in it glenn. O'donnell research director at forrester says that includes refrigerators video. Doorbells and light bulbs you can turn on with your phone and even lower tech things like kids toys because all the toys gotta talk now and they got to react and they have little motors right. Now there's a shortage of all kinds of chips. Even the most basic ones says china vasan an analyst at bloomberg intelligence for. It doesn't matter if it's one hundred dollars or fifty cent part. There's just not enough capacity at factories around the world to meet the demand from all of the industries. That need chips because there's such a shortage. The semiconductor industry is having to pick and choose what to prioritize says. Mario morales at market research company. Idc it's for prioritizes. The large scale lear is like computing. Mobile phones is the largest market so though supply chains are always going to get priority and other companies especially smaller are going to have to wait longer for chips so shrine of austin at bloomberg says if you need something like a new appliance anytime soon even if you don't care about it being smart all of those products will be in. Short supplies are investigating line and shrim- boston says the shortage is likely to get worse before it gets better
Techmeme Ride Home
No new Galaxy Note this year, confirms Samsung CEO
"Samsung says it is considering not launching a new slate of its galaxy. Note phones this year. Now they say that this is in aid of streamlining its product lineup. But isn't that the truth or is the truth really something else. We've been talking about lately. That growing global shortage in semiconductors quoting bloomberg samsung electronics warned it's grappling with the fallout from a serious imbalance in semiconductors globally becoming the largest tech giant to voice concerns about chip shortages spreading beyond the automaking industry. Samsung one of the world's largest makers of ships and consumer electronics expects the crunch to pose a problem to its business next quarter co chief executive officer code dong jin said during an annual shareholders meeting in seoul. The company is also considering skipping the introduction of a new galaxy note one of its bestselling models this year. Though said that was geared toward streamlining. Its lineup quote. There's a serious imbalance supply and demand of chips in the it sector globally said co who oversees the company's it and mobile divisions despite the difficult environment. Our business leaders are meeting partners overseas to solve these problems. It's hard to say. The shortage issue has been solved. One hundred percent and quote if samsung is publicly talking about future products. You know that the silicon is serious said. Avi green guard analysts and founder of consultantcy texts. Potential co said samsung may decide not to introduce its galaxy. Note during two thousand twenty one second half breaking eight years long streak of annual watches for the marquis line. The note series contributed roughly five percent of samsung smartphone. Shipments over the past two years. Idc estimates but accounts for a more significant chunk of revenue. Because it's one of the priciest in the lineup. Quote note series is positioned as a high end model in our business. He said it could be a burden to unveil to flagship models in a year so it might be difficult to release note models in the second half of the year. The timing of note model launch can be changed but we seek to release a note model next year
Mac OS Ken
Apple Was Third Largest Seller of Tablets in India in 2020
"More growth for apple in india this time on the tablet front macrumors has new numbers from idc show ipad growing. Its market share there by thirteen percent year over year. It's kind of a good news. Bad news story. The growth was enough to put apple and third in terms of tablets per india. The bad news the top two players lenovo and samsung saw their shipments grow more than one hundred fifty percent each compared to two thousand nineteen macrumors says. That's because they sell cheaper low end tablets compared to apple's ipad line. I said it was good news bad news but it can be spun back to good news. Third-place means there's room to grow which is the kind of thing. Investors like to hear.
Esports Network Podcast
How Lessons From Esports Past Drives Esports Future with Repeat.gg CEO Aaron Fletcher
"This audience. So Eric go through the companies you found it quite a few there are plenty of starts across this industry. What advice can you give to some one of the first steps of fouling their own Esports or gaming company that you wish you do when you were starting out darn raised before you have Mom don't do anything until you have markets it it's it's that's it. That's purely it. I guess there's two things and don't be a dick but the the biggest one is definitely until you have some formal Market 5th and you can find out if you go to market fit pretty quickly just talk to people ask questions find the right people finding users find those things find out how much they willing to pay find out if they're willing to basically walk or use your product find out all these sort of things and grow that first before you start thinking. Oh, this is amazing. This is going to work cuz I think there's there's and and then I guess the other one actually is learned from birth. Past experiences and a lot of people don't do that, especially with a t Sports because the history have a have a chat to someone like either myself or have a chat like don't talk to someone who's a consultant that's been in the year in in the game two years talked to someone who's being in the industry for twenty years because they will tell you a lot more valuable information than someone who's been in there for two years and only knows about the currency because the current scene it's all about raising this big money about raising this big capital and you don't get the history of like the companies like tournament.com the raised a hundred million dollars and went broke over six months. You don't have seats need a CDL or CTS. I think it is that raised a hundred million dollars as well and we're broke after a year-and-a-half. You don't have all of these kind of things and we're play verse was as an example before they became what they raised what they are now off and that that you kind of could find on the internet even though I know the history there and there's a lot of other companies like that that you'll that you you only get from the perspective of people that have actually been in the industry because people have a game Get it either scrubbing the internet or it's just hard to find anything that isn't relevant now absolutely agree. It's the same advice. I give to student journalists. I talked to quite a few classes about hey, what could you do any sports journalist? What if we want to get involved in this space? And the first thing I tell them is get to know the history of the space get to know everything that happened with Major League Gaming from 2002 to 2010. That's where the start get to the creedy sports Association how this developed in Asia and that will guide your accurate reporting on this space if you understand what happened long before you probably got involved in it that was the case for me cuz we got a school, you know, I was in the 2015 2016 range was like, oh massive Madison Square Garden League of Legends. This is crazy thing off you go back in time and you're like, okay, let's look at the Madden tour bus as like an example of where it's these things that happen is sports over the time that I think are really crucial job. Like understand how we got to the place where at today and then helped give you those guiding lessons to make sure that the same mistakes aren't made. Well MLG an ESL at two really good examples of understanding their Acquisitions why they happened what happened with the issues they ran into especially MLG with God Frank cuz they had a whole pile of litigation issues with God frag when they did their acquisition why they got acquired by Activision and wage. It's it's an interesting story. That's probably better for another time. But in terms of those sort of things and that history that was kind of built there is actually really important because getting a quiet is a skilled gaming platform different platform broadcasting platform any of those by a publisher is a huge problem from both illegal Nightmare and a whole pile of other things because the skilled gamer is 18 plus as well as the tournament system requires 18 plus or Parental Guidance cetera, et cetera. So it becomes a Minefield on those sort of things and then you've got ESL same thing going through their acquisition and the different times they are now with mods. This group and and the difference in the kind of the company structure cuz everyone says he s l and they see these companies and they're like, they must be making it a billion dollars and I'm like, yeah doesn't look like that. It may seem like that from the outside cuz they're doing these large events and they're doing these things. But in terms of the revenue is not driven as much as you kind of think from that. It's really driven through the Publishers. Yeah, if you're done if you're not the publisher gave and you work a t sport chances are the money is not flowing your exactly there's only a few Outlets the kind of work and I've been in basically every single facet of that because I used to run events with the young. I used to run a lot of those sort of things with them for a long time. Actually u c l e s w c w c g a lot of the events around those and running those Live Events is is great. But it's like a break even marketing cost. It's not a it's it's what you'll use to fuel income elsewhere. Not what you're used to make money lost leader marketing basically at this point. Yeah, exactly. That's it's a funny industry to be it especially as we look at where these Sports organizations are going. This is totally off topic. By the way. Just the I had em for this wasn't for a podcast but I talked to Jason Lake in Andy Miller Jason Lake complexity CEO Andy Miller NRG CEO for audience. I do you do that. They were basically talking about hey, we're going to make Revenue eventually with our religious the Publishers of Olives. That's that's what we're counting on to make money in the mean time. We're going to keep building our brand up in whatever way we can we're to keep trying to capture feds. But really we just need to log get to a point where Publishers need us to enter the game because that will bring fans that will bring the marketing there looking for and then the Publishers have to reward us for doing so and that's kind of just walk the biggest eastwards organizations in the world see this space right now and that's it tells a lot. I think it will you actually have a look at most of these Sports organizations or actually converting from competitive Play De comme Recreation almost all right, converting over to that for Revenue basis cuz I've talked to a lot of these guys you have come like you've got Team Liquid as an example of trying to push in the text side of things cuz we've talked to him a few times about what they're doing for Thursday. We also consulted with the guild who raised with David Beckham, or they paid David Beckham to re it was it was a debacle. It was a drastic they they they are doing a good job. I think they really heavily like ninety percent of the money that they raised is purely attack. It's not to do to build out the team and build out anything on that account on the arm competitive site is secured purely build out both the content side as well as a Tech play on them because of the end of the day all this content and everything that they're creating in these fans and these users they need to figure out a way to monetize them and monetizing them generally comes through like merchandise. It comes through tourneys to come home a brand deals. And unfortunately, if you're the best game in the world, it doesn't mean you have a massive following you may not be entertaining to watch. So therefore content creation becomes king for this and which dog And fuels Brands which in turn fuels everything else and like I just talking to so as as Consulting with IDC, I think like probably a couple of weeks ago. I was I was talking to them cuz they're doing metro sports at the moment and it was a pretty interesting conversation cuz they're one of the first companies that isn't Yuzu that isn't that they're doing it. They're doing Esports Revenue a very different way. So Esports Revenue right now is off late. It is how much so it's like one point two billion or something. It's basically nothing compared to the publisher revenues like a hundred and sixty billion. So and that's where most of the revenue from E Sports is actually going. So what they're doing is they're doing a bottom-up kind of approach and looking at all of these other things that are kind of skewing it. So right now Esports revenue is calculated with just brands that are paying for events and advertising and all the way around that around which basically whereas they're looking at it from the other side of things and they're like, look, there's all this gambling Revenue that's also generated on top of Like betting on these matches and all this this looking that's that's showing any sports revenue and you've got companies like skills that their revenue alone for skills is bigger than the revenue of every single e sports team exists in the world in his voice. That's
AI Today Podcast: Artificial Intelligence Insights, Experts, and Opinion
Interview With Ahmer Inam And Mark Persaud At Pactera Edge
"We do have some great guests with us today. So we're really excited to have amer in phnom who's the chief. Ai officer and mark persaud. Who's the head of emerging experiences at pact-era edge. So welcome guys and thank you so much for joining us today but thank you got clean and wrong. Thank you for having in forward to this exciting conversation. We are to. We'd like to start by having you introduce yourself to our listeners. Tell them a little bit about your background. And your current role at pact-era edge Kathleen i'll go ahead and start amazon up. I'm the chief a offers. Subtle factor edge. We are global solution and services firms that balance intelligent digital platforms using human center design as a cool concept in philosophy the hallway bill systems maya background. I've been in the space of a medal for essentially my entire career Having played with fairly early machine learning. And you'll eulex model for almost twenty years at this point To most recently. A factor edge. My journey has taken me to companies like fargo sonic automotive. Vw see nike can be solution and at the now. I pass it off to mark to introduce himself awesome. I've I'm the head of emerging experiences at a bacteria edge So i have the job of being able to look across different technologies whether that's a our and our in vr virtual reality immersive Or things like voice and conversational. I and understanding how a i can play a better role in the technologies or with the technology whether it's within or atop a different digital ecosystems for clients though. I personally have a lot of fun with that role in general just because it gives me the ability to see how we can create value for users of creative ways with technology is where we might not see very consumer or user friendly and i might add like one of the reason why this is such a differentiation. Headed what you're talking about. Even sent to city in is market. Ni- expedience must. Genie are working together. Cohesively issue the cool part of the conversation that will be having at the at the upcoming event with community and is about building and designing intelligent digital platforms that are built with humans entity the human in the mind and building them to drive adoption so that we can take a lot of these concepts that are explored in a typical machine learning ai. In women in an enterprise and then take them to an enterprise capability and the part of their journey. At least an odd philosophy is that it has to lead with human simplicity. Really great insight. We actually had a podcast not too long ago with chad moro. Who is the cto chief. Data officer at fulton bank and he actually made a great point about the human center city of systems especially of systems that depend on data because he was saying you know at the end of the day the data represents people represents what people are doing it represents their money represents their finances and those finances represent their retirement college savings. They're they're living right and you and you can never it's people's names treat data abstractly day. Sometimes it's really very critical and You know one of the great things. Of course you can. You mentioned that you'll be sharing a lot of these insights at our upcoming machine learning life cycle events so for our listeners. You may have heard this on previous episodes but of course if this is your first time We run these online free conferences. That are focused on some of the hottest topics. Ai machine learning and our objective is to help audience and help people take that next step and move their projects and forward We ran a huge data for ai. Conference back. In september twenty twenty twentieth thousands of attendees. It was amazing. Hundreds of of presenters actually well. Over one hundred plus presenters was was gigantic and we heard as people wanted to get that same sense of insight into what's happening with machine learning so we have the machine learning life cycle of that which talks about the full life cycle of machine learning from building the mall to managing an ops and govern insecurity and that is the live part of the event is january twenty sixth through twenty eight th twenty twenty one if you elect to register go to m. l. life cycle conference dot com. We'll have that in our show as well and Yeah we have some fantastic presenters in five topics and three tracks and our guest here. Terra their edge. They're they're actually doing. A session. called accelerating accelerate concept to value human centric design driven a lot of words there. There's a lot of terms of people may be familiar with some of them. They may not be. So maybe if you can. Can you give our listeners. A quick of what the session is about. And maybe some of the main questions and pain points that you're going to be addressing. Yeah thank you. Ron and actually just to right and it may come across as a laundry list of technical jargon and it's it's an i wanna make sure we can talk about it. In some of the audiences are going to be ingenious and audit back on both mock. You come from. Jean backgrounding ingenious with talking about the art of of humanity which the human centric design. What are we going to talk about. Is this first. Thing is gonna lay out the burning platform. We have seen the statistics enough data from gartner to idc that talks about the failures off a adoption. the data continues to show about eighty to ninety percent of machine learning data signs. Big data these initiatives famed to drive value. Because they're not getting adopted and if they're not getting a doctorate in driving value
Journey to $100 Million
How Can You Improve The Effectiveness Of Your Google Ads?
"Hey there eric j olson. I recently reached out to the folks over at rival digital our sister company and asked. Hey is there anything you think. I should address on the podcast and eric thomas. The president arrival digital said. Yeah i think it makes sense to talk about how your quality score in google's ads can improve if you have specific landing pages that are specific to the phrase being advertised in clicked on. This is a lesson learned that we've also taken over from array digital uber to rival digital with no of both companies. Now that you really actually you. Don't you do not want to drive traffic from google at or really any on add to a generic landing page. Ideally and this is what we do for a living here every different kind of message that you have in google or even a facebook ad when you click on it and you go to a web page a landing page you want that message to be carried over to that landing page and the more the better so if a particular specific word is used you know like when someone queries google when they search on google and then they get your ad if they see that word and then when they click on the go over to your website. Nfc that same word again if you can get tight and not only for one word but for loss of different highly variations of the ad. Herff it you want what. They searched for one they see in the ad and what they see in the landing page to all match and make says i mean. Think about it. If you're searching for abc one-two-three an ad comes up. That says something totally different. You're like that doesn't make any sense. But if the ad says abc one-two-three and you click on it and you go over to the landing page. The landing page says get abc. One two three like this is perfect for me. Make sense right what you search for is the idc and the ad dc takes you to a landing page says exactly the same thing. That's what google refers to as the quality score and you increase your quality score by making sure that messaging is consistent between what search for the ad and the landing page. A lot of people. Do make sure that the ad says what the actual query with the person entered. They make sure that it's pretty similar. But oftentimes they
Daily Tech News Show
One Struum to Rule Them All
"The us. Federal bureau of investigation is quote accepting tips and digital media depicting rioting or violence in and around the us capitol on january sixth. Submissions can be made at fbi dot gov slash us capital. That's capitol spelled with an o cnn sources. Say the us state department told us diplomats to pause posting on social media a measure normally taken after a terrorist attack or major natural disaster and facebook will block the president's use of facebook and instagram for a minimum of two weeks. Twitter suspended the president's personal account for twelve hours and warned further violations would bring a permanent suspension twitch disabled the president's account snapchat locked the president's account indefinitely and shop affi- took stores run by the trump organization and trump campaign off line for violating their policy on supporting organizations that promote violence. Japan's nec says it has developed facial recognition that works for people wearing facial coverings. The system uses the visible parts of the face like the eyes and claims and accuracy rate of ninety nine point. Nine percents with verification. Less than one second nec is testing the new system at a shop in its tokyo headquarters and he sees at neo face. Live facial recognition is used by the london metro. Police lufthansa the airline and swiss international airlines as well the wi fi alliance launched the wi fi six e certification program. That opens the door for devices to us six gigahertz band wi fi. Six is fully compatible with wifi six and can support up to seven hundred sixty megahertz channels at once only using the latest. Wpa three security protocol on the band. Idc estimates three hundred thirty eight million wi fi. Six e devices will enter the market this year with twenty percent of all wi fi six devices supporting sixty by twenty twenty two. If you want a little more on wi fi six and six each account no little more dot com acis as the suggested retail price for its components like motherboards in graphics cards in the us the increased cost comes as waivers on us tariffs against chinese made goods of seven point five to twenty five percent expired on december thirty first. An example is the are og strikes or s. t. r. i x. l. c. radio on our sixty eight hundred x t which launched at eight hundred ninety nine dollars. Ninety nine cents now listed at one thousand seventy nine so prices going up folks. Keep tiktok has a new augmented reality filter that uses the iphone. Twelve pro lite are sensor gives you a confetti effect that looks like real confetti in your room seems a little but tiktok promises to develop more innovative effects in two thousand twenty one so look out for more than just confetti snapchat added support for. Apple's light are censored back in october that lets creators build their own enhanced filters for snapchat. Well y'all ca es does not actually begin until monday but that is not going to stop lots of companies from making their announcements happens every year and this year is no different so we'll start with samsung. The company announced galaxy chromebook to a thirteen point three inch to in one chrome os device sporting q. Led display that starts at five hundred forty nine dollars. That's way down from nine hundred ninety nine dollars. The first gen device started at the base model offers a ten. Th gen intel seller on processor four gigs of ram and sixty four gigs of storage. And i three equipped version with aching ram and one hundred twenty eight. Gigs of storage starts at six hundred ninety nine. Lg introduced five new models in their thin and light lg graham laptop lineup ranging from fourteen to seventeen inch thinner vessels around there sixteen ten ratio screens as well as eleven th gen. Intel processors z. Graphics and up to sixteen gigabytes of lpddr four x memory. Lg the graham. Seventeen graham sixteen and graham. Sixteen to and one i'll offer nineteen and a half hours of battery life. The graham seventeen weighs in at one point three kilograms while the lightest graham. Fourteen comes in at nine hundred ninety nine grams. No word on price or availability. Well my new car set in stone. Everybody i'm only partially spends six inch hyper screen. Displays that display the e. s. electric sedan is set for production for mercedes and late twenty twenty one so later this year leno. If you got one ordered already. The hyper screen is at the heart of the company's second gen m b. u. x. infotainment system which doesn't have any buttons and is completely digital and worst controls one of the signs that has started. You get huge screens and cars last few years
Kinda Funny Games Daily
Multiple Publishers Apparently Considering Raising Game Prices on PS5 and Xbox Series X
"Other. Arkansas my favorite topic public publisher, other other publishers are considering raising their game prices for PS five in xbox series x this Chris Ring at Games. Biz other game. Publishers are considering raising their prices of games for the PS five expertise x says games. Research firm ID, G. Consulting. It follows the news that NBA case when he won which you talked about yesterday we priced at seventy dollars on the next gen consoles ten more ten dollars more expensive than it is on the current devices speaking with games. Industry Dot Biz I G president and CEO. Yoshiko Ozaki, says that game pricing has remained flat since two thousand five whereas TV and movie pricing has increased significantly. The last time, but next GEN launch software pricing went up was in two, thousand, five and two thousand six, when it went from forty, nine, ninety, nine, fifty, nine, ninety, nine, and these are US dollars at the start, the Xbox, three sixty and the three generation. He says during that time, the cost in prices and other affiliated verticals have gone up and quote. Asaki says that next Gen consoles. Next Gen. Console game production costs have increased by two hundred percent. Have increased by two hundred percent to three hundred percent, depending on the IP studio and Genre, but the prices have remained at fifty, nine, ninety nine, meanwhile cinema ticket prices have have risen thirty nine percent netflix subscription costs have gone up one hundred percent in cable TV. Packages have risen one hundred and five percent. Even with the increases to sixty, nine, ninety, nine for an action that price increase from two thousand and five to two, thousand, twenty, twenty Nexgen is only up seventeen percent far lower than than the other comparisons while the cost of developing in publishing have gone up and pricing and other entertainment verticals have also gone up substantially next. Gen Software pricing not reflected these increases fifty. Fifty nine, ninety, nine to sixty, nine, ninety nine does not even cover cover. These other costs increases completely, but does move it more in the proper direction. He continues quote. IDC works with all major game. Publishers in our channel checks in our channel checks indicate that other publishers are also exploring moving their next Gen pricing up on certain franchises for the same reasons outlined above. Every. Not every game should garner the sixty nine ninety nine dollars price point on Nexgen, but flagships flagship triple as as NBA Two K. Merit this pricing more than others and quote.
Fat Mascara
Nordstrom at Freehold Raceway Mall to Close Permanently
"Is not earth shattering news but something happened last week. Like for. Some reason is really sticking with me the Nordstrom. We didn't report on this news last week but Nordstrom announced they were shuttering. I believe sixteen stores in the US because obviously we know a lot of companies are going through hard times Marcus filed for bankruptcy. J. Crew filed for bankruptcy retail is taking a huge hit but the NORDSTROM. I grew up going to every weekend at least every weekend really closed. Yes the Jersey Nordstrom the freehold raceway Raceway Mall Nordstrom. Now for anyone listening. That is like wow okay. Upscale retail store were closing. You spent your childhood in a in a Nordstrom. This is not exactly. You know wholesome consumerist. Here's what I have to say these. Are we all have memories like different places? This is where my mother and I could forget our cares for an hour or two on a weekend. Go to the clinic counter. Get OUR FREE GIFT with purchase. This is where I really forge. She know my interest in beauty. You know what I mean. Yeah like I would go with my mom. And then when I had my driver's license I would like go by myself and like hanging out with the Matt counter. I even took like a Nordstrom. Had like a Mac masterclass one day and it was on the top floor and the private room and I would leave talked about that. I've heard you talk about that class. I never knew where it happened. I thought it was like a the IDC at the plaza like being served like tea-and-crumpets. Like no it's where you got your view of beauty and the glamour that comes with completely and like I really just thought it was another world. You know you laugh because it's like okay. It was like a Jersey Mall unlike route nine like combat but like to know that this place is closing. All of these people are losing their jobs. Yes is so sentimental sentimental for me and it's like the end of an era but it's like I was texting my friends salary who is from Marlboro and like which the neighboring town to the free old at I was like I don't know why this is hitting me so hard. And she just said it really sinclair. She's not like a beauty crazy person like I am she goes. I'm really upset to she goes. I think it's like I'm just not ready for all of this negative change and it's the negative change from Cova. It's also you've talked about how you've been watching commercials from your childhood just for that feeling of nostalgia yes. This is a piece of childhood in a way that is just never. You can't get that back and whatever I have that feeling. It's like this weird existential feeling of like okay. No turning back now like moving forward things are different. Your mom now like it's an I get it I get it. It's not about the store and like the shopping experience. It's it's about the memories. I think yeah I was thinking like. Is anyone going to sympathize with me? Who doesn't have food in the fridge? She's husband are themselves. Those lost their job like nordstroms. Close No it's not about like where am I going to go? It's like when a piece your childhood and innocence disappears. I think for a lot of people in the last couple of months like that. Innocence disappeared for a lot of
Mornings on the Mall with Brian Wilson
Washington D.C. AG Lawsuit Alleges Price Gouging by Convenience Store
"Finding cleaning products is hard enough as it is these days now IDC store is being sued for jacking up its prices Helen Mart a convenience store in DC's wards seven is accused of charging twelve dollars and ninety nine cents for a one hundred twenty one ounce bottle of Clorox bleach that's a mark up of two hundred percent this is DC Attorney General Karl Racine unfortunately they're not done what other convenience stores if Donald to cease and desist from Galvin people Racine says his office has received hundreds of complaints during the pandemic more than a third in regards to price gouging
WTOP 24 Hour News
A day in the life of a Washington, DC nurse treating COVID-19 patients
"Well nurses are certainly at the forefront of the many heroes on the front lines of the battle against the coronavirus and IDC nurses sharing with us what a day in her life is like a me the pandemic I've been a nurse for thirty nine years for Deborah Washington a nurse at United Medical Center in southeast DC I have never seen anything like this each day she sees Kobe nineteen patients each time suiting up with a gallon gloves N. ninety five mask a surgical mask over that followed by goggles and a face shield you're getting hot your goggles you know they tend to kind of fold up and it can be difficult to breed also adding her anxiety she sixty four years old that makes our high risk plus can I be a carrier and bring something home to my family she says more corona virus testing is needed for nurses why she continues into this fight each day you wanna be
All Things Considered
Coronavirus is starting to hit Big Brand's bottom line
"Of the world's most recognizable brands are feeling the fallout from the corona virus outbreak in China the virus has sickened nearly seventy five thousand people there it has also temporarily crippled the world's second largest economy and caused headaches for global companies such as adidas and Procter and gamble well there are some encouraging signs the outbreak is spreading more slowly no one can say for certain when it will be under control NPR Scott Horsley reports the corona virus outbreak has delivered a one two punch to apple temporarily shuddering both factories and retail stores in China apple warned investors it will miss its profit and sales targets for the quarter Lynn one was with a research firm IDC says a lot of other technology hardware companies will likely suffer a similar hit because they depend on suppliers located near the epicenter of the epidemic if we think about war Han in the group a province itself there's a lot of critical display in panels that are used in things from phones all the way up to notebook so V. device end of the technology sector is expected to be hit hard by the destruction along the supply chain there's still no telling how long the corona virus outbreak will last but Wong says even in the best case scenario many businesses will be looking at a months long recovery we've already lost a significant amount of production behind us in given the slow trickle of manufacturing of labor of logistics when being back up we expect more loss into Q. two Nike which does a lot of business in China it won't reported earnings for another month or so but adidas and puma said this week their operations in the country have been disrupted Steve Ammar who heads the American apparel and footwear association is not surprised China is both an important supplier as well as an important retail market adidas said its sales in China have fallen about eighty five percent since the lunar new year the marshes Chinese customers might still be ordering online during the outbreak but that's about it some stores are closed other stores are open but you know not many people are venturing out large has one saving grace is clothing and shoe manufacturers have already stockpiled merchandise for spring and early summer so they have a bit more of a question than they otherwise might ordinarily they be producing products for the late summer and back to school seasons now so the challenges his members are facing with production won't be visible right away some of them still reporting factories that are being closed or not allowed to open many them reporting the factories are open but they're not necessarily at full capacity American automakers have also begun restarting their plants in China over the last ten days so far they say assembly plants in the US have not suffered any shortage of parts from China but General Motors Ford and fiat Chrysler all say they're monitoring the situation closely with much of the country under quarantine in recent weeks getting products in and out of China remains challenging CEO Noel white of Tyson foods told analysts this week China wants to buy a lot more pork from the U. S. but shipments have been delayed by traffic tie ups a Chinese ports what I tell you today is probably gonna be different tomorrow which is different than yesterday because it it literally changes on on a daily basis that kind of uncertainty is never good for business economist sung won Sohn of loyal Ameren not university says the virus outbreak like the trade war is causing some US companies to re think their reliance on China suppliers this will celebrate the fracturing and shifting of the supply chain from China to the rest of the world but while there may be value in having multiple suppliers in more than one country sounds as that insurance policy is likely to come with extra cost one more lasting price tag of the corona virus epidemic so Horsley NPR news
John Batchelor
The Department Store of the Future Will Look a Lot Like the Past
"As we move forward it's not about eliminating waiver holistically it's about changing the way that the stores are designed and stores are created to serve the customers the experiences that customers have within real estate or retail and then again changing the way that the labor force actually interacts with customers so for instance you may not just have people manning the checkout lines or are lining up to to help people in that way you actually may have them walking around serving you a little bit better as you walk through the store rather than you walking in looking for somebody to help you you actually might have an opportunity for the serve you better that way what is machine learning can you translate for a for a for for my audience chaps absolutely so the three main topics then we start with data we have data machine learning and artificial intelligence so what it means politically when we collect data about you as a customer we begin to understand just a little bit about what you're doing so for instance if you walk in the store you move around the store you move between different departments we know something about you now we can apply machine learning is that we can actually run some data to under in the past few to have taken maybe the paths that others have taken in that store so the machine learning is running programs on top of data to begin to learn more about your customer behaviors and tie that to other data so after a while when we learn about you and we learn about other people who may a walk there certain passers store we might be able to find the most profitable path in that store and that's where the artificial intelligence comes in so we start with data the data becomes a mechanism to learn more about things that you do human behaviors whether if you're a customer or an employee and then after a certain period of time that machine learning can actually come up with recommendations how do we serve you and again that becomes more the artificial intelligence our thanks embracing S. because banks worry all the time about security yes so absolutely so the the financial industry and banking because you know you think about all of the real estate you have to pay for specially in a city like Manhattan there's a lot of space that you pay for but how is that utilized so when you're opening new locations where should you open a location that people need to come in and physically do banking with you so that industry just as you described it has changed substantially given the way people do banking today so in that industry was same thing with so you talked about was walk based it's important understand are we actually utilizing all that expensive real estate or are there other ways to serve our customers should we have a different type of design for our branches now that they're doing banking differently and we can help all of the you know in the financial industry learn those things artificial intelligence is such a big umbrella it's involving all the top that's correct and where's it going so a year from now what are we going to talk about in terms of where a I is what Sally who's paying for right so right now it's an opportunity in its strategic so if your and again as I I I mentioned IDC did a study and there's a number of other service looking and talking two executives everyone starting to invest and you have companies like Amazon and Google for really forcing this because they're using again as we talked about using artificial intelligence to help do targeted marketing to help design their stores there helping with all of the the curbside pickup in ways to understand how their customers interact with products as I mentioned in the automotive industry if you have Google home or or any of the Amazon products we have the speakers that sit in your home there's all of this technology that's starting to become something that we're all used to interacting with like if you have Seery on your iPhone you when you're starting to talk to that computer it's how you know back to the Star Trek so we're getting to the point now where it's actually happening so everybody is a conference here and in ten years ago wasn't there all interacting with artificial intelligence and what's going to happen going for it's going to become more a part of all of our lives and especially in retail because retail is one of the last areas where it really hasn't made an impact but it's starting so I would say in a few years is going to be part of everything we're doing Joe can is stratecast director of data science and analytics and what he's talking about is a growth model that is it's very difficult to imagine except for I see the buzz around me here at the national retail federation and I see now that what where we work in retail is equivalent to where where science was with analog phone not with it before we went to
Mac OS Ken
IDC reports Apple set to gain 13% of Windows 7 upgrades as Microsoft ends support
"Week could be a big week for the MAC or are the start of big things anyway. Nine to five Max has Microsoft officially stopped support for windows seven yesterday. That's over a ten year run for the operating system which the peace says helped Microsoft rebound from the disaster that was windows Vista. Nothing in the piece. He says how many businesses are still using windows seven but apparently a lot do they will need to upgrade which IDC seizes is an opportunity for apple according nine to five Mac while most organizations are upgrading to Windows ten IDC analysts report that it departments mentz expect to replace thirteen percent in other words tens of millions in sales of their current windows. Seven devices with Max. These MAC sales will likely be accompanied by future IPAD and iphone
BrainStuff
Why Do People Still Use Fax Machines?
"In eighteen. Seventy eight Alexander. Graham Bell filed patent for a history altering device called the electronic telephone. But what you may not know. Is that the patent for another amazing communication tool. The simile machine or fax machine was filed by Scottish. clockmaker named Alexander Bain three decades earlier. That's right fax machines predate even rudimentary telephones and with a cockroach-like likes survivability that makes very little sense from an evolutionary standpoint. The fax machine lives on beeping and wheezing up sheets of paper. The world over for example vaccine is big in Japan even today about half of Japanese families use a fax machine in their homes. The question is why to understand. Dan Helps to know a bit about the facsimile machines place in history. Although the technology had been around for decades it wasn't until the nineteen thirty nine New York world's fair that fax machines. I seized mainstream recognition in the United States there attendees stood slack jawed in amazement as they viewed images and text arriving from around the the world at eighteen sheets permit. The machines were simply too expensive for everyday use though even by nine hundred eighty two one standalone fax machines sold for a whopping twenty thousand dollars far too pricey even for most businesses much less individual consumers. It wasn't until later in the nineteen eighties that the cost of the machines dropped to a point that businesses and offices found them useful notably documents that required legal signatures copied signatures. As you can probably guess were a source of controversy for years as legal professionals argued about the validity of documents that arrived via phone lines however as court after court confirmed armed the validity of faxed signatures doctors lawyers financial gurus and other professionals began to rely on faxes to transmit paperwork all over the place thus thus entrenched in the workflow and minds of countless millions of people the late nineteen eighties saw dramatic rise. In the number of fax machines. America had only around three hundred thousand contraptions in the middle of the eighties by nine hundred. Eighty nine there were more than four million. The Fax Machines Heyday was at hand. They even featured prominently in pop up culture. The one thousand nine thousand nine Scifi comedy back to the future part two explorers a future where the mic fly family had a fax machine in every room so the facts in process is one that billions of people have ingrained into their consciousness place assigned document in the machine punching the destination phone number. Hit the green button and minutes later. Your paperwork is in the hands of a colleague on the other side of town or on the other side of the world assuming that the fax machine has paper the cartridge is not out of ink and nothing has gotten stuck in the transmission transmission process but in the mid nineteen ninety s another history changing technology exploded and use the internet which provided people with ways aged instantly. Send text pictures and documents without these of paper with the coming of widespread e mail. It seemed that fax machines were doomed. Only they weren't aren't in two thousand seventeen study from market intelligence firm. IDC showed that the four major industries that are still using faxes Those industries being manufacturing factoring healthcare finance and government all predicted increased use of faxing over the next two years averaging twenty five percent increase. So why is that hat. Faxing is familiar technology that people trust the complexities of the Internet and its many offshoots technologies along with endless headlines about hackers spyware aware viruses and data breaches create in many people's minds. A sense that the web just isn't secure. In addition government policies still encouraged faxes and legal processes like discovery of evidence. Lean heavily on paper documents. Doctors backs prescriptions and private documents and patient records fax machines. are a habit and it's a habit that is hard because it's a simple low tech interoperable system that anyone can use just a few minutes of training also fax x machines like the aforementioned roaches are evolving with the times the people surveyed by. IDC said that the biggest reason for the increase in faxing was axing was now integrated. I graded with email as digital faxing and so was easier to use A. We spoke by email. Todd Johnson DR at Access Family Medicine in Lincoln Nebraska. Aska he said `I office notes prescriptions lab data orders and consultation requests affects anything else. It's requested I would email just as easily but I don't have a general email account to send the requested information to typically usually. I'm only provided with fax number to return requested information. Johnson Johnson says that the newest generation of digital faxing mixes workflow fairly easy quote. I don't use a feed and fax paper machine. I can facts from any of my computers tablet habit smartphone. I use them because I'm requested to use them by other facilities they're easy to use and now electronically configured into my phone system. I just drag and drop a pdf into the fax x Portal and away. It