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"joanna stern" Discussed on WTOP
"Ending in the southeast suburbs breezy this evening that would draw in the low humidity is going to feel so refreshing tonight with temperatures upper sixties downtown low to mid sixties in the suburbs sunday monday and tuesday nothing but mostly sunny skies lower humidity temperatures instead of the nineties will be in the low to mid eighties and at night instead of the seventies will be in the fifties and the sixties this is Chad Merrill for WTOP news. It's 78 in Georgetown 73 in Bowie but still 90 Leesburg in 640. at Monday News at 10 and 40 brought to you by PenFed. rates Great for everyone. Here's Brendan Hazelton. Have you interacted yet with AI? You might the next next time you order that double cheeseburger hold the pickles at your favorite burger chain drive -thru across the country AI chatbots are taking fast food orders so the Wall Street Journal decided to put one to the test at the Hardee's on Kent Island Maryland. If you visit regularly you might hear some familiar things. Would you like to try a peach pie for 159? No. Peach pie for 159? No thank you. Peach pie? No peach pie. I have one peach pie. No peach pie. Never hurts to ask. In the end after 30 drive -thrus the journals Joanna Stern says the chatbot dealt fairly well with loud noises and got her orders right but it still needed some human babysitting at times. I am allergic to gluten. Is there gluten in that? No. There's definitely gluten in that bread. Can I speak to a human? One moment please. Let me get someone to help you. Hi I'm sorry about that. Brandon Haselton, DOP News. But I'll take that peach pie. It's 642 for most of the Chevy Chase neighborhood. The Carnegie Institute of Science is the best is best known for being the best sledding hill around but beneath that mound lies birthplace the of the atomic age. By the looks of it the giant orb on the top of the hill looks like a telescope but it's actually really an atom smasher. The atomic physics observatory is the only one left on the planet. Librarian at the institute Sean Hardy took me deep down into the bowels of the atom smasher. Right in front of us would have been Fermi and Niels Bohr and Leon Rosenfeld having just witnessed the results of uranium fission with their own eyes. Back in 1939 the world first heard of nuclear fission after physicists inside this tunnel split an atom replicating an experiment previously done in Germany. You can't place with more gravity. Luke Garrett WTOP news. For more on DC's historic atom smasher tune in Wednesday to the DMV download podcast. Coming up WTOP on a giant in the trucking industry is going out of business 643. When it's time to buy new appliances you want to pay less and you probably think that means heading to a big -box store. But for the best appliance deals remember Bray beats big. At Bray and Scarf we start with instant savings that make us competitive every day. Then we break out of the box with exclusive package rebates on top of manufacturer rebates
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"joanna stern" Discussed on WTOP
"In the district at 340 Monday news at 10 and 40 past the hour brought to you by PenFed great rates for everyone here's Brendan, Hazelton have you interacted yet with AI you might the next time you order that double cheeseburger hold the pickles at your favorite burger chain drive -thru across the country AI chatbots are taking fast food orders so the Wall Street Journal decided to put one to the test at Hardee's on Kent Island Maryland if you visit regularly you might hear some familiar things would like you to try a peach pie for 159 no peach pie for 159 no thank you peach pie no peach pie I have one peach pie no peach pie never hurts to ask in the end after 30 drive throughs the journals Joanna Stern says the chatbot dealt fairly well with loud noises and got her orders right but it still needed some human babysitting at times I am allergic to is there gluten in that no there's definitely gluten in that bread can I speak to a human one moment please let me get someone to help you hi I'm sorry about that Brennan Hazleton 342 it's now in the design phase and now the Central Avenue connector trail in Prince George's County is getting a big boost in funding from the feds the one lifelong County resident says he can't wait to see work get started he talked to WTOP I have my lifelong Prince Georgian but I've been in Capitol Heights for about 10 years Kyle Reader stood outside the Addison Road seat Pleasant metro station talking about how exciting it is to see more funding for the Central Avenue connector trail which would link a trail network from Marvin Gaye Park in DC to the Largo Town Center people talk about Capitol Heights as a food desert as a healthcare desert as a banking desert whether it's getting to the work get into the doctor going to grab some produce and it groceries does require a lot of people to leave the community at the announcement of the 25 million dollars in federal grant money Prince Georges County Executive Angela Alser Brooks talked about the plan this is an effort to make this a walkable bikeable space along here where we've seen these speeding cars we've had so little
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"joanna stern" Discussed on WTOP
"At 90 metro center nine frederick at 91 degrees at 12 40. money news at 10 and 40 past the hour it's brought to you by pen fed great rates for everyone have interacted you yet with ai? you might the next time you order that double cheeseburger hold the pickles at your favorite burger chain drive -through across the country ai chatbots taking fast food orders so the wall street journal decided to put one to the test at the hardy's on kent island maryland if you visit regularly you might hear some familiar things would you like to try a peach pie for 159 no peach pie for 159 no thank you peach pie no peach pie i have one peach pie no peach pie never hurts to ask in the end after 30 drive -throughs the journals joanna stern says the chatbot dealt fairly well with loud noises and got her orders right but it still needed some human babysitting at times i am allergic to gluten is there gluten in that? no there's definitely gluten in that bread can i speak to a human? one moment please let me get someone to help you hi i'm sorry about that brennan hazleton wtop news can i speak to a human? boy that's gonna be interesting it is 1241 showbiz express i'm ross christie the television academy and fox have made it official the 75th primetime emmy awards will not air september 18th according to variety vendors for the show were told about the postponement the expected news was due to the ongoing strike by writers and actors the last time the emmys were postponed was 2001 following the 911 terrorist attacks a single mom played by rosario dawson hires a tour guide a priest and an historian to help exorcise her newly bought mansion after discovering it's inhabited by ghosts jamie lee curtis stars as madam leota in haunted mansion and prior to the actor's pride she asked about the attraction the film is based upon on the old person older and I've been on this attraction at least 40 times over many many many kids and there's something magical about Disney and what Walt Disney created this magical place for people to forget their woes and walk into this magic kingdom haunted mansion now playing coming coming up on WTOP a driver accused in a deadly hit and run is bars stay close I'm so stressed our business what is that meditation I'm recommending the UMA cloud phone system auto with attendant and more than 50 features UMA yep switching to UMA is a cinch just $24 .95 per month per user plus taxes and fees UMA now you're feeling it find small business calm at uma .com slash radio that's oma .com slash radio there's always something happening changing weather backups on the beltway rising prices for everything because news never stops we never stop 24 -7 WTOP brings you breaking news from the Washington region. Torrential flooding has brought area roadways to a standstill. And stay we with the story as it develops. New information on the cause of that massive apartment fire. Washington's top news 24 hours a day only from WTOP
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"joanna stern" Discussed on WTOP
"And some heavy rain and lightning. I'm 7 News meteorologist Jordan Evans with First Alert weather. Already 86 degrees outside the WTOP brought to you by Long Fence save 20 % on Long Fence desks decks that is pavers and fences go to longfence .com today to schedule your free in -home estimate. Thanks News at 10 and 40 past the hour here's Brennan Hazleton have you interacted yet with AI you might the next time you order that double cheeseburger hold the pickles your favorite burger chain drive -thru across the country AI chat bots are taking fast food orders so the Wall Street Journal decided to put one to the test at the Hardee's on Kent Island Maryland if visit regularly you you might hear some familiar things. Would you like to try a peach pie for $1 .59? No. Peach pie for $1 .59? No thank you. Peach pie? No peach pie. I have one peach pie. No peach pie. Never hurts to ask in the end after 30 drive -thrus the journals Joanna Stern says the dealt chat bot fairly well with loud noises and got her orders right but it still needed some human babysitting at times I am allergic to gluten is there gluten in that no there's definitely gluten in that bread can I speak to a human one moment please let me get someone to help you hi I'm sorry about that Brandon Hazleton wtop news coming up on wtop the update the or latest that is on the ongoing Hollywood actors and writers strike it's 1112 introducing a completely redesigned Dick's experience a reimagined sports destination with expanded an assortment of the latest apparel and footwear styles from Nike Adidas Kalia and the North Face and the best gear to improve your game plus interactive experiences test your skills inside the hip tracks multi -sport cage or perfect your swing in our
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"joanna stern" Discussed on Marketplace Tech with Molly Wood
"As I noted, Google has announced a bunch of new AI products, we'll link to all the highlights from the conference at our website, marketplace tech dot org. The new large language model supercharged Google search engine hasn't been released to the public yet, but you can see a preview of what it looks like at wired. It sounds sort of similar to what you get with Microsoft's Bing, which incorporates the underlying language model of chat GPT, but connects it to Internet search results. We tried that out with The Wall Street Journal's Joanna stern back in March. And earlier this week, we touched on the problem of AI generated fakes and misinformation, which Google's new watermarking system seeks to address. We talked to a philosopher about what all this means for our collective sense of truth. And reality. Daniel Shen produced this episode, Jesus alvarado and Rosie Hughes also produce our show. Lydia morel is our intern. Brian Allison is our engineer. Daisy palacios is the interim senior producer. Kelly silvera is our executive producer. I'm Megan mccarty carino, and that's marketplace tech. This is APM. The global news podcast from the BBC World Service is what's been happening. Why it matters. What might happen next? I think what the global news podcast does really well. Is pick stories about places that surprise people. Try to overturn expectations. News stories that perhaps you won't have heard anywhere else and the things to look out for in the future. The global news podcast helps you catch up with our restless world in your own time. Search for it, wherever you get your BBC podcasts.
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"joanna stern" Discussed on Marketplace Tech with Molly Wood
"Artificial intelligence powered chatbots have certainly made a splash in recent months. They can take law exams. They can write English essays. They can engage in weird, existential, often disconcerting conversations with users. But can they actually tell you something useful when you use them to search the web? That's kind of a key question to ask while tech Titans roll this technology into the tools we use every day. So we asked Joanna stern. She's a technology columnist at The Wall Street Journal, who's been playing around with the new AI enabled tools for Microsoft. The revamped Bing, along with the web browser edge, are now available in preview form to a small group of users. And she gave me a little demonstration of how it all works. I've got it up on my computer. So I'm ready to be the intermediary between you and the AI. Wonderful. So I'm currently recording in my little pantry studio where I have a lot of cans of San marzano tomatoes, crushed tomatoes that I bought by the caseload. During lockdown. So my question is, what should I cook with this large amount of canned crushed San marzano tomatoes? With no red meat and that includes some green vegetables. All right, I've typed it in. I have, what should I cook with a case of San marzano crushed tomatoes? I have leftover from lockdown. No red meat and including green vegetables. You ready? Okay. So it takes a little bit of time, so it's doing that search, but then on the other side, it's taking all of that information it comes up with, and it's trying to digest that and put that into natural language, right? So it's not just going to be the list of links, but it's going to be a paragraph. And so here's what it has backed. Are you ready? Sure. This is three or four paragraph response. There are many recipes you can make with San marzano crushed tomatoes. They are sweet, vibrant, and have a rich tomato flavor. Accurate. The AI thinks these are delicious, okay? You can use them to make pasta sauces, soups, stews, and more. One popular recipe is marinara sauce. It can make it with onion, garlic, butter, basil, oregano, sugar, salt, and pepper. You can serve it with pasta or bread and add some cheese if you'd like. Another recipe is Mediterranean braised green beans with tomatoes. You can make them with fresh green beans, onion, garlic, olive oil, oregano, parsley, and lemon juice. You can serve it as a side dish or maybe a mean course with rice or bread. What kind of dish are you looking for? And on my screen, I want to talk through two other things that are interesting to me that happened. First, there are citations next to some of the sentences. Yeah, they basically look like footnotes. Yeah, exactly. That's where the information is coming from, or presumably where the information is coming from. I would say that most people should check at this point because there's a lot of factual inaccuracies along the way. So that's one thing that's interesting and very different from chat GPT, which is nice. It is going to try to send you to the original source of that information. Then what happens second, which is really no different than any search we've really come to know, is that I now have some shopping results for these crushed tomatoes, where it's suggesting different places. I can go buy these. So advertising is also really front and center here depending on what those queries are. Then below that, it is giving me some more prompts about what I might want to ask next. All right, well, I will take one of those suggestions and say, I'm looking for a stew recipe without garlic. It's come back with three different bullet points of different recipes, grilled New York steaks with San Marin Zara. Definitely has red meat that definitely has red meat. I forgot about the red meat. So it's not quite like talking to a person who remembers what you said two seconds ago. Now, now it did forget here. So this AI is being integrated both into the Bing search engine, which you can sort of access on any website as we're doing. And also Microsoft's web browser edge, it's successor to Internet Explorer. What is kind of the difference between the browser and the search engine versions? In the browser what often happens is you'll be on a web page and maybe you want to not read that entire web page. You want to summarize it. Well, that's something that this new edge browser can let you do. You could copy the web page and what it does is then brings up a panel on the right side that lets you interact with the AI, whether you ask it, hey, summarize this web page and paste copy and or can you write an email to my boss saying, I'm not going to be in the office on Thursday. I have to go pick up my kid from school, and it gives you options there to actually do that in different tones. And so I think that that utility where we are able to lean on this AI for some of the more arduous tasks in our life, where maybe it can save us some time, is really where this may head for many people. And Microsoft seems to really think of this as a productivity tool that can help us in our jobs. This is a first step for them. They've integrated into the edge browser, but they are going to integrate it into Microsoft Office and all those different words and the PowerPoints of the world to help us and to help users lean on AI for more of that writing and more of that creation. But I think in terms of everyday search, the things that the example we went through with the recipe, I think that is a better type of search than, hey, I'm looking for this specific piece of information. For instance, if I wanted to know information about the weather or the stock market, this is not the tool. Things where it can give you options as well. That saves you the time from going to maybe ten websites. Big, big picture, sort of, do you feel like the hype about this is warranted? Is it too much? Is it not enough? What's your kind of general takeaway about how big of a breakthrough this is? This really feels like a moment where you're kind of wowed by how a computer can do something. What's obviously very different is how it interacts with us, right? There is a sense of conversation here that is not been present in the other technologies we've had. And I think a lot of people are like, oh, well haven't we had this with Alexa and Siri and honestly, Siri Alexa and Google. They're really good for setting a timer. But they're not going to tell you some complex thing. Overall, yeah, I think this is a big moment, I think it's all going to come back to the guardrails. And that's what I find very worrisome is in our last decade of tech. We were already struggling with guardrails around social media and device usage and data usage. And now we have a whole other new form of interacting with computers and I'm just not sure the guardrails are ready or the people who enforce the guardrails already. Joanna stern is a technology columnist at The Wall
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"joanna stern" Discussed on Squawk Pod
"Your phone at any given time explain. Well, it depends, right? It's focused on this is called this, it's called a green charging or the specific setting, but it's in the battery section. And what it tries to do is it's basically going to fully charge when there's lower carbon emission electricity. So that means if the power grid is using that lower carbon emission electricity, you're not going to have any idea that this is happening in the background. But what seems to be happening is some people are waking up in the morning and seeing something along the lines of your phone will finish charging later. And so when this is happening in the background, the phone is sort of trying to decide when it should finish charging. Should it start to wait for more of that greener energy. And so what a lot of people are freaking out here about is that they had no idea this was on. I will say Andrew, have you seen this happen on your phone? I have not seen this happen on my phone. I actually went digging through system operations to try to find it. And I wake up and happily the phone has been charged. I would actually be very unhappy. I think as a customer, if I woke up and my phone was in charge, then I needed to be charged when I was going to travel today or whatever was going to be. Right, exactly. I haven't had this happen either. And so those that seem very frustrated about it rightfully. So are that they had no idea this was now turned on by default. And that really seems to be the issue here, is that Apple turned this on back in September, or October, and this was on. And many people don't really realize it because it turns out the power grid's working the right way or the way. Is this just a political sort of bogus anti ESG argument? Is that what this is? That's definitely what's bringing this to a head right now. But there is, as we're saying, that concern that, why is this turned on default? I didn't even know this was there. Apple should have done a better job of letting consumers know with this update. This is what's there. Do you want to turn it on? Can we talk about this other AI story? I don't know if you are focused on it. What do you think? I mean, right now, Gmail, by the way, I'm always amazed, actually, when I'm using Gmail, just how sometimes it actually knows the language I would use. It sort of prompts the next sentence, and I'm always like, oh, that's pretty cool. How far are we away from just the whole email being written at this point? I'm writing all my emails to you and everyone else now using AI. So I think we're there. I joke a little bit, but with what Bing rolled out a few weeks ago with integration both in the edge browser and into sorry what Microsoft rolled out, both into Bing and into the edge browser is getting us a lot closer to using these tools in our everyday lives. So to create emails to create PowerPoints and other sorts of presentations and places where, hey, we just want to generate a first draft, which is actually what Satya Nadella, the CEO of Microsoft, told me a few weeks ago, which is we're going to come to the table now and these tools are going to create that draft for us. We're not going to have to do it. Have you played with it? I mean, do you think it could really write a column? Of the Johanna stern variety. It definitely has read Joanna stern columns, and when I chat GPT and Bing, when I tell to write in my style, you know, it throws in some turns of phrases and things like that, but it's very inaccurate around some of the things I would say. So you have not received a licensing fee for Microsoft for training on those Joanna stern columns. I mean, that to me actually from an economic perspective is the next sort of a holy war in the world of AI, which is if it's going to be reading and training using all of this content and it's doing it for free that seems like a problem. Certainly the media companies feel that way. I feel I think I will be upset when it writes a good joke for me and I will say, you know what? Now I'm worried. This is going to take away my good writing jokes. But as you were talking about sort of about the email and sort of what's happening with Apple, I think, to just backtrack there a little bit what's happening with apple is they're saying this email app submitted and they wanted to just sort of go when they're usual age range, right? They submitted with a certain age younger age bracket and Apple held off on putting that app in. They said, hey, we need you to increase the app rate the age limit here because the AI can generate types of content that we don't believe is appropriate for those other age brackets. And so that's really all apple's doing here. They're not banning the app. They're just saying, we want you to adjust that age range, which if you look at what Microsoft Bing is, they are in that parameter too. Do you want a last question? We were talking about are we now at a major inflection point? I mean, it's all of a sudden this was Joe was talking about. Is this whole AI world about to just take off in some kind of way we don't understand or does it just get integrated into everything and become sort of a commodity in terms of both creating images and creating content? How do you see this? Look, I was just at mobile world Congress in Barcelona all week and every executive wanted to talk about generative AI and AI and how they're going to be working it into their chips and the components and the phones. Samsung, I interviewed an executive there, said they're planning to integrate this throughout the services and operating system. So everyone is into this. And I am not surprised when people and users use this and they are wowed, right? There is this wow factor that many people have not felt about this type of technology or any technology since the iPhone or since the early days of the smartphone. But going back to what you asked me about email, what are you using it for? We got to jump. We'll talk to you very soon. Love the picture behind you, by the way. We do, but before we go, I just really quickly. When Duke Ellington died or Miles Davis or John Coltrane, Wayne shorter is in that category. And I just want to say that before we go to break, 11 Grammys, one of the greatest composers and musicians of the last closed 89 years old. Newark's the newest favorite son. But weather report, Miles Davis, art flaky, one of the greatest musicians and a great man too. Save Tina Turner, believe it or not, she stayed with him in his family when she had all those issues. So he made a big influence and big influence in a lot of people. And that squawk pod for today have a great weekend and we'll meet you right back here on Monday.
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"joanna stern" Discussed on Squawk Pod
"Bring in show music, please. Hi, I'm CNBC producer Katie Kramer. Today, on squawk pod. The ESG debate brewing in Washington. One of the senators who led a push against The White House's rules for investing with the environment and communities in mind. Senator Mike Braun answers our questions about politics and power. If you've got a donor is trying to shove me one way, they're going to make any difference anyway. Apple and AI, the changes your smartphone is making that you may not know about, with Joanna stern of The Wall Street Journal. Those vaccine very fresh about it rightfully. So are that they had no idea this was now turned on by default. And that really seems to be the issue here. Plus, the markets wait and see, rising crypto regulation and remote workers get ready to hear about a change in plans. If I was hired for one thing and then told it was another thing. That would be a thing. It's Friday, March 3rd. Right now. Stan Becky bye in three, two, one, two, three. Good morning, everybody. Welcome to squawk box here on CNBC. We're live from the NASDAQ market site in Times Square. I'm Becky quick along with Joe kernan and Andrew Ross Sorkin and Andrew, welcome back. Thank you. Good to see you. Nice to see you. I'm gonna miss you for you. For 24 hours. Where were you? I was disclosed location secret location in a bunk in a bunker somewhere. Bunker. There was a hole in there. There's a whole heart. In your heart. Healing. Empty seat. So I can empty seat. It's like, you remember when Clint Eastwood had, there was like the empty seat. Yeah, how'd that go? Not too good. Lucky for the markets, we don't have the jobs report today, because I guess that's why this week is kind of been okay. Yeah, we had nothing, get ready for next week, though. We got the job report on Friday and the week after that, we got PPI, CPI, and all those great alphabet inflation. XYZ. The PCE treasury yields, we never put up the 6 months of the one year. I mean, you can get 5% if you just park it somewhere, but on the 5 year you're now over four, obviously two year, almost 5, in the ten year, as you can see over 4%, the market, I guess, that 4000 on the S&P with a 4% ten year, once again, doesn't seem to be exactly in sync. And we don't know how that finally that finally plays out. Maybe we get a better idea. Hope springs eternal that will start seeing some signs that the feds hikes are starting to bite a little bit. And maybe we either and that they'll stop. If they're not going to 7. I even think. You didn't say not 6, though. Four at 5 and a half each certainly can't say we're not going to 6. If you assume 5 and a half is a possibility, although it's been so hard to go from three and a half to four. I mean, it's been like agonizing. But it depends on the labor market still hanging in there. I don't think so. I don't think the ten year goes to 500. I just in my heart don't think it goes to 5 and a half. Although 5 and a half, my whole life, we would have killed for 5 and a half. Right. We never thought it would get that low in the old days. How do crypto regulation that is a word we've been using a lot of crypto regulation? A new report from NBC News saying that Republican lawmakers now sparring with the SEC over how to oversee digital assets representative Patrick mchenry and senator Cynthia Loomis also sent a letter to the SEC yesterday raising concerns about an accounting bulletin that effectively orders crypto platforms to include customers, crypto assets in their risk assessments. The lawmakers say the accounting rule effectively requires banks credit unions and other financial institutions to place digital assets on their balance sheets, which would trigger a massive capital charge. They say that would have the effect of preventing well regulated entities from engaging in digital asset custody, I don't understand. I would think that you would want to value the digital assets and want them to count if you were going to have risk against them. I mean, the idea that you were supposed to pretend that there's no risk, it's like, anyway, it doesn't make any sense to me. There was some risk overnight. Bitcoin down a lot, yeah. Here it is. 5%. I don't know, is that a lot? It seems like a lot. How high was it before it's 22 three now? 22 years. Remember it was 24, trying to get above 25. So it was 24 chains and then it kind of for a week, 23.5. And now 22.5. But if we looked at a weekly part, you got a week, let's look at a week because it's just flatlining. Wow. Like if you're in a plane and that happens here. You sit up and take a concern. Hit the ceiling of the plane and get back in your seat. That happened. It's scary. I don't know. No, no, no, no. It just happened to some people recently on a flight from I think off. I heard maybe even Matthew McConaughey was on and put his own a flight from Austin to Frankfurt that had to be diverted to a D.C. airport. I heard about a virgin airplane. You should look at this on fire that ten people had to be hospitalized because of a battery fire up in the battery up in the overhead compartment. This one was recently and there's pictures of the mess that that can cause with everything on the top. Yeah, and some people were injured, I think. But yeah, it was the turbulence was for about 20 or 30 minutes. From 37,000 feet. I don't know. You'd have to get me up with a sponge at that point. I think it would be so nervous. Financial services company USAA is telling some workers their remote job is no longer a multiple Wall Street journal reporting that employees who live within 60 miles of a company office will now be considered hybrid. That's even if they were hired into a remote role. That means they're going to be expected to come to the office. Some days each week, USAA providing banking services and sells auto home and life insurance to military personnel and their families is in clear how many of the companies 37,000 employees could be converted to hybrid work. But if I was hired, the only ones. I know it's doing this though. But if I was hired for one thing and then told it was another thing. Yeah, but that would be a thing. Except for that you're in an environment where the lots of people are getting laid off. Companies are changing their mind on these things. I understand totally how it feels like a bite and switch. But I've also heard more CEOs saying that they're planning to do just this. You have to think this is coming. I thought they were hired remotely for real jobs, but they were hired for a remote no, I didn't, but when the way we said it didn't really make it clear. So USAA, by the way. Yeah, great company. Great company. I had it until my stupid house got flooded one too many times because I lived next to a pond. And the only reason I had was because my dad, my dad was in and the Gronkowski commercials are him. You know, he sees something. He says, oh, I want one of those. And the lady has a baby. And she goes, oh, you know, you're going to go, no, one of those bumper stickers. That's pretty funny. I have one hybrid question. They're a great company. If you think the hybrid thing is over, or the remote thing is over. What happens to all these places, cities? Are they Park City? Aspen. How is Florida? The entire state of Florida. All the people who wanted to live in Florida and basically commute to New York, what happens to that or commute by zoom? Morning Joe? I mean, what happened? So
Northwest Newsradio
"joanna stern" Discussed on Northwest Newsradio
"The news radio 1000 FM 97 7 forecast from the northwest crawl space services weather center. More wintry weather is moving into the puget sound region overnight, flurries are expected around western Washington tonight as temperatures dip into the 30s. Depending on where you live, you could see a trace to two to three inches of the white stuff. Cold temperatures will hang around on Wednesday. We have another chance for a rain snow mix on Thursday. I'm Kelly blier and that's a northwest news radio weather. Rayhan Aya says thieves gained access to critical personal financial information draining thousands of dollars from her bank account, and they denied access to her iPhone, turning her life upside down, losing things you care about, like pictures of your family and going through that all on my own without being able to reach anyone I care about was probably one of the worst 48 hours of my life. What happened to rayhan is reportedly happening to more and more people. It starts with criminals in bars and other public places, spying on iPhone users. The passcode that you type into unlock your phones. That is what actually these thieves are after. Wall Street Journal technology columnist Joanna stern adds that they proceed to steal the devices and lock the owners out using the passcode to change the password, allowing them to turn off the Find My iPhone feature. Apple says the thefts are uncommon and using the face ID and touch ID helps reduce them. For what it's worth. Sherry Preston, ABC News. What is dedication? My daughter started making necklaces. She makes what we call affirmation fashion. I tell her every day
Bloomberg Radio New York
"joanna stern" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"Television, rob or not Now the latest news from New York City and around the world, here's Michael Barr. Tom, John, thank you, tornado outbreak in Oklahoma, at least 15 touchdown in the Oklahoma City area. Neighborhoods are littered with down trees and power lines. This woman who lives in Norman says she gathered up her four kids during the storm to get them to a safe place. I started with pushing her brother in the bathroom 'cause he stopped right there in front of it and then I grabbed my oldest since it was all hitting that side. And then went to the other side of the house as my two younger ones that are 5 and 6 decided to come running through the living room. At least a dozen people were reported injured during the storm. More criminals in bars and other public places are spying on iPhone users watching them enter their 5 digit passcode and then swiping the devices and locking the owners out of their accounts. Wall Street Journal technology columnist, Joanna stern. The passcode that you type into unlock your phone. That is what actually these thieves are after. Joanna stern with the journal says thieves can use that 5 digit passcode to change the password to your Apple ID, allowing them to turn off the fine my iPhone feature and gain access to critical personal information. This woman was a victim. Losing things you care about, like pictures of your family and going through that all on my own without being able to reach anyone I care about was probably one of the worst 48 hours of my life. When Viktor man thousands of dollars disappear from her bank account. The Dilbert comic strip distributor Andrews McNeil universal has announced it will no longer work with these strips, creator Scott Adams, the syndication company says it is severing its relationship with Adams because of recent comments on race. Live from the Bloomberg interactive broker studios, this is global news. 24 hours a day powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in over 120 countries, how Michael Barr, and this is Bloomberg. Your business landscape
Mac OS Ken
"joanna stern" Discussed on Mac OS Ken
"Is available on the latest internal prototypes I'm told, but it's been finicky and testing. The hope would then happen is to make rapid improvements. After the vices released, the plan is still for the device to be announced at WWDC with release coming later this year, gurman has also heard talk of a second round of devices coming in 2024 or 2025, similar to Ming Chi closes assertion. It'll be one high end model and one with lower specs, at a lower price. According to gurman, the Wall Street journals Joanna stern has done a piece on an iPhone problem that's kind of an iPhone problem, though it's maybe more of a public safety thing. 9 to 5 Mac writes up the report, which has stern warning a bad people watching for public use of passcodes on iPhones, then stealing those iPhones, then stealing from the phone's owner through the iPhone. Instead of just looking this notch devices, the piece says the miscreants are watching for passcodes so they can immediately get into iPhones, change Apple ID, passwords, access financial accounts, and more. One person with whom stern spoke had that happen. Three minutes after her iPhone was taken. The thieves had changed the password on her Apple ID that done. They stole thousands of dollars through Apple Pay and opened an apple card to make fraudulent charges. You see what I mean, right? I mean, it is kind of an iPhone problem. We all good guys and bad guys know how iPhones work. We know what to look for. The things that make the Apple ecosystem great for users can also lead to serious problems for users if bad guys can access. 9 to 5 max as there are three things stern would like to see Apple do to stymie the bad guys. Add further protection to iOS to change an Apple ID password, add stronger password protection for iCloud keychain and add more account recovery options. That said, there is plenty that people can do to protect themselves. Four steps suggested by 9 to 5 Mac include when in public use face ID or touch ID as much as you can. If you have to enter a passcode in public, cover your screen, so nobody else can see it. Drop the four digit or 6 digit passcode for a custom alphanumeric passcode and take sensitive account passwords out of iCloud keychain or use a third party password manager that is not opened by your iPhone's passcode. Not surprisingly, the Cupertino company treads sort of a fine line on this issue. Responding to stern and Apple spokesperson said, we sympathize with users who have had this experience and we take all attacks on our users very seriously, no matter how rare that that's described, our uncommon and require multiple physical steps, stealing a user's device is not enough, we will continue to advance the protections to help keep user accounts secure. And now, a story with many, many bad ideas. According to appease from 9 to 5 Mac, a kid on a plane that was meant to go from Texas to Pennsylvania, ended up causing that plane to be grounded. This he did by sharing threatening messages through AirDrop. Well, the messages weren't threatening, but the name on his iPhone was. According to the piece, the kid changed his iPhone name to I have a bomb, which I think is a bad idea. Then as the plane was taxiing to the runway, the piece says he initiated an AirDrop photo share with other passengers who got the message, I have a bomb, would like to share a photo. That was either bad idea number two or three. The thing is Apple changed the way AirDrop works in iOS 16.2. It used to be you can leave AirDrop open to everyone all the time. That changed with the release of iOS 16.2. Once that hit iPhone users could only leave AirDrop open to everyone for ten minutes at a time. They could and can leave it open to people and their contacts all the time and of course they can leave AirTag open to nobody. So the other bad idea in this story number two or three, you decide was or is not updating the device's software on the regular. I understand that updating on the first day updates can be slow on release days because lots of people update that. Additionally, an update might have unintended consequences. But the people who got the I have a bomb message haven't updated since who knows when. Sometime before the last October to be certain, that has left them open, not only did this idiot kid, but also various security vulnerabilities and exploits that Apple has since patched. The worst idea was really the kids though. According to the piece, after the message was sent, the plane was immediately pulled off the runway and back to a gate where a bomb squad searched passengers and cargo for explosives, the FBI determined that there was no known credible threat following the search. And what happened to that little rascal who started it all? Yeah, he's in the pokey. He ended up in juvenile detention and El Paso county awaiting charges for false alarm or report. Bad idea, kid. Bad idea. More news in a moment. But first a word from today's sponsor, better help, online therapy. There would be can be tough. Figuring out why we do what we do, sure it can be rewarding, but it's
Bloomberg Radio New York
"joanna stern" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"That's to cover the losses of this key COVID scheme. The newspaper highlights data which shows the government has paid lenders around 1.4 billion pounds and this is all under the bounce bank loan pandemic scheme, but according to the times, out of their sum 640 million pounds worth of facilities were marked as suspected fraud. Now under the scheme, businesses could actually borrow up to 25% of annual turnover of over 50,000 pounds with these loans underwritten by the government. Now, you know the normal checks that we all obviously have to go through, the credit checks, they were sacrificed in the main reason for this was really to get this money distributed as quickly as possible to make sure businesses didn't go under, and the times reports among large users of the bounce back loan scheme actually Caroline new pointed out to me, starling bankers flagged the highest proportion of loans as suspected fraud. Okay, Leanne, The Wall Street Journal, opinion article there with the headline about that technology story that we're all talking about. I tried Microsoft. New AI powered Bing, search will never be the same. Yes, indeed. So The Wall Street Journal columnist that's Joanna stern has been testing out Microsoft's new version of Bing, but this is a little bit different because it is now powered by artificial intelligence. Now stern makes the point that Bing has often been the punchline for a good tech joke, but it's glad to say one thing she says that this is about to change because she's tested out this AI version and she reckons it smart. It's really smart and she said you can ask it questions even about recent news events and it will respond with sentences that seem like they were written by a human and guess what? It even uses emojis so better than me really. No, nothing could ever replace Liang garands. Thank you very much for that review of the newspapers coming up next. We'll have more on the State of the Union. This is Bloomberg. Bloomberg radio on demand and in your podcast feed. On the latest edition of the Bloomberg businessweek podcast, a conversation with Andy Brown partner at Brunswick group on the Chinese balloon believed to contain spy equipment that was shot down by the U.S.. This is bizarre. This is really crazy. Nobody knows really what happened. More importantly, it's hard to know what's going to happen next. I think we can say with some confidence that the image of this balloon is crumpled Chinese airship. Shredded by a side wind of missiles collapsing into the Atlantic Ocean is a pretty apt metaphor for the state of U.S. China relations and a wake up call. I think it's a real warning that we are one serious accident away from a major geopolitical crisis and one that could spiral out of control. And I don't want to make light of this balloon episode. I mean, it shouldn't have been in U.S. air space. It was obviously an invasion of U.S. sovereignty. I mean, it was reckless. It was provocative. But nobody died. Mercifully, nobody was injured. It didn't get much intelligence. The Pentagon even says there's not much more than the Chinese got to go from their own, can already get from their own satellites. And in intelligence terms, there's going to be a net plus for America, they're probably going to scoop it all the bits and pieces off the bottom of the Atlantic and get a trove of information about Chinese spycraft. Not an accident by China? You know. And does that matter? I actually probably am more inclined to believe the cock up theory. You know, I mean, they want to repair damage to
Daily Tech News Show
"joanna stern" Discussed on Daily Tech News Show
"All your thunder years later exactly We just talked about. Ted talks next interesting Tiptop could confirmed a limited w tipping feature letting us your sin money outside of tick-tock live streams. Now tick-tock does not currently take a cut of tips to talk already supports gifting of virtual goods on live streams and similar news twitter. Now let's iowa's us around. The world paid a super follow select creators something previously only available in. Us and canada super followers get some tweets not available to other followers special. Show people have this feature i. I don't have the super follower feature either but the interesting that you're seeing this creator oriented Approach to funding Kind of a patriotic thing of just tip us you know. Just just drop a dollar in the jars sort of situation. You think that's going to work. I think so. They were just an arkansas. Could pull up. It was the article. A fast company bookmarked it. The other day and it was just it was basically. Move over influencers you know. The independent crater is is the is. The person you know is the new thing now where the audience will fun. You've versus companies sponsorships. Funny promising. i think people have withdrawal that they can have people. You're a great example of this was going to be coming up at the thank you say. Yeah there's somebody i know. That does a really good job. Never work labar. No one will ever be able to fund show entirely on patronage from creators. yeah exactly It work for individuals like me who who were kind of like a mini influence to migrate over. I don't know i personally. I don't like the idea for what i do. Having fans pay for things i rather i rather be more top down companies. Pay for you. Get everything free. that's it folks. I what i do did i was i would. It'd be a different model. But i'm not saying i wouldn't use tips but i'm very i have them and i really turn them on. I just still feel weird about him. I that's really really good. Point is that My audience has been built on on a model that we're independent and we rely on you if you get value out of the show give value back. But if that's not the way you bill your audience. If i were to suddenly take take money from top down my audience it'd be like hey. That's not how you built this. That's not okay. Same thing with your audience if you start asking them for money. They're like no. No you get your money from somewhere else. Don't start asking me for it. It's it's so different models work different ways. I don't think either one of them are right or wrong. Which is i guess. That brings me back to the idea that you know talk. Making this available is a great thing for tick-tock because they can they can take a cut of it eventually if it catches on but it won't necessarily supplant anything. It will supplement it supplements to go word. Yeah absolutely microsoft has acquired a content moderation company called to hat that counts microsoft as a client uses algorithms to classify and filter messages images username videos and more. It has helped moderate xbox minecraft and msn but now microsoft owns it so to do it for itself now but it will continue to work on microsoft moderation and also plug into microsoft plans to expand customer services to hat will continue to serve non microsoft customers and hopes to acquire more of them. This fits into something. Ceo such adela has been saying he wants microsoft to focus on creators and communities in this case to had brings a moderation thing to that. That's not the only thing he wants. But that's why you may have heard the company rumored to be interested in buying tick-tock at one point pinterest and another point discord. Another point is they know. That azure azures. Great cloud services are great That's huge for them. But they want to avoid the innovators dilemma too. So they're like The creator community. We see tic tac wanting to take tips. Twitter doing super followers. We want to provide services for both the creators and the platforms. Which is what we do at microsoft. We provide services like azure cloud services. We can provide community services to smart. You remember just a side note. When microsoft was some years ago they had a. They had a service similar to facebook. They were trying. It was like this is what it was called microsoft. Something i it it was a it was a weird tempted them. Trying to make social network and it didn't. It didn't pan out. And i. I think my point is i think it's smart. We see some like debussy. Okay that's not what we can do. Apple found out the hard way to which they're still should network. Let's back off and provide services for people to be able to enable them to be better what they do and i think there's moderation thing is going to be important for multitudes. Accompanies you know. Just like microsoft beginning had some patents for android benefited other people. This could be the cylinder. Thank you know. Hey we licenses out for you. Know hundreds of companies thousands of companies to us and they get low cut for him. They still win either way. And they use azure to serve lots of microsoft stuff but they also make a lot of money. It same thing. They'll they'll use to hat to moderate xbox minecraft et cetera but also turned it into a big it as a service. Namur was hammer. Is that the microsoft social. It wasn't the one i was thinking of. I'm gonna have to look at it while you're while you're talking now i'm upset i can't figure out. Hey folks if you have thought about something on the show. Maybe you're like this. This is what you're trying to think of. Maybe you're like. How do i tell you. Email us feedback. Daily news show dot com slot. Was just right. If you're on vacation a slot or describing quickbooks more like slow books. Now is the time to make the switch to net sweet by oracle the number one financial system because net sweet gives you visibility and control of your financials inventory. Hr ecommerce and more special financing is back. Net sweet is offering one of a kind financing program only for those ready to switch today head to net sweet dot com slash. Dt ns right now. That special financing at net sweet dot com slash dt ns net sweet dot com slash dt and ns as part of her review of the new macbook. Pros wall street journal. Joanna stern talked to some apple executives an unearthed the few explanations for burning questions. You might have whether you're an apple fan or not for instance you have a big old notch on the new mac book pro. And you don't add face. Id said joanna stern. I'm paraphrasing to apple executives apples. Vp of ipad in product. Marketing told stern that touch. Id is more convenient because your hands are already on the keyboard. If you're close enough to use the camera just reach over there and touch that touch ideas i washed for you. Lamar no i. I read that. I was like no no. It's it's nice to open it and it is very apple common. It's like come on now when you open your laptop just like windows. Hello come on guys. They know what you want. Lamar is your hands are already on the keyboard. What if my hands aren't on the keyboard right now. Opening have they'd never opened a laptop before brings up another question. Why don't apple laptops have touchscreens. Your hands or right there right apple senior vice president of hardware engineering. John tournus told stern we make the world's best touch computer on an ipad. it's totally optimized for that and the mac is totally optimized for indirect input. We haven't really felt a reason to change that. I still would like the option. I get what they're saying. You don't want to cannibalize that's that's all right. Yeah gave us a keyboard for the ipad. They did so that is the opposite of one direction but not the other direction..
MarketFoolery
"joanna stern" Discussed on MarketFoolery
"I think it still matters in part because they can never let up. Apple is so dominant and part of what that means is. They just can't let up so even though experienced smart observers of this industry like joanna stern and others even though they're not expecting you know a lot of brand new bells and whistles it doesn't mean they can sleep walk through this they got to come to the table with enough new features that make people say okay. We were expecting incremental upgrades. That's what we got it. Check the box and we can all move on. Yeah i think that's it. I think that most of us go into these events now with this. This idea that really. It's going to be some incremental improvements. I mean the cameras going to be a little bit better. The device is going to be a little bit faster. And that's that's all fun and dan. They mean to me yes. The event has lost. Its allure it's lost. Its wow factor but it is marketing pure and simple right. I do get it i. I'm not saying it's something they need to stop. I feel like maybe it's something they could get creative and perhaps approach from a different angle. I don't know. But i think that generally speaking there's nothing out there that i'm really looking to be wowed by. I think they're going to introduce some incremental improvements to the products that matter most the phone ipads air pods the watch the probably setting themselves up for a pretty good holiday season. Maybe get some. Maybe you get some good holiday season ideas. I think that for apple though it really is all it is. We're waiting for that next lightning in a bottle product. We're waiting for that next iphone moment where you think. Oh my word that just you know. They roll a car out there or they roll out some phenomenal. I mean honestly. This may not be sexy but just just a massive leap forward and battery technology. I think for me would be phenomenal. Because i think that's everybody's concern particularly when you look at something like the watch. The watch is done pretty well but when you start adding more functionality that watch i mean now you're talking about something that needs to be on all the time twenty four seven in that is virtual possibility as it stands so i feel like to me i. I'm always impressed with with battery technology. Just because i think we all want a little bit more power but generally speaking. I think we just we were looking for the same. Old sort of incremental improvements are going to say the cameras a little bit better and you can do this or that with an. It's not going to really impact most of us. But it's going to be another good opportunity for them to get out there showcase their technology the products and services that they continue to do so. Well with right. I mean i feel like it's.
News Radio 920 AM
"joanna stern" Discussed on News Radio 920 AM
"May I skipped ahead here? Chucker. Do you have something important to talk about with WalMart? Smart glasses by Facebook, Hato Rey Ban There is only who's the market One creeps. Yeah, There's one market that this exists for creepy people that want to spy up. Did you see the video of those? Yeah. Joanna Stern did a great job reviewing them. Hell Like, at least with the Google glass thing where they were doing like a digital overlay with maps and other things that you could be looking at. I still thought it was stupid. But it served some sort of purpose. There is no purpose for this other than recording people that don't know you're recording them hate it. So just so everybody understands. It's a new Facebook product. They are Ray ban glasses with a couple of cameras and 2 99 $300 for a pair of sunglasses that Are just there's really no argument for why you would Own these other than you want to take pictures of people and record people when they don't notice that you're doing it. I did anyone that if you can explain a better reason, please let me know. But if you didn't want people to notice this, you can take better pictures and better video quality with your iPhone. So just do that, instead, and just I guess the only you know, just to play Devil's advocate In terms of the creepiness factor. You can only take 32nd clips. Yeah, it's meant for like a stories on Instagram or Facebook or something like that. Um, so you can't just sit there and like film somebody for, like, half an hour or something, but still and keep taking clips. You could. Yeah, but there's only four gigs. Um, that back up on your phone, but still, it's It's just weird, Creepy, very weird. It's just I don't really know. Why is everything Facebook does What Why is everything they do? Creepy? Well, Facebook's defense Snapchat has a version of these. I thought those were creepy to Yeah, yeah, they're like honest to God. Microsoft could roll these out, and it wouldn't change anything like it's not Facebook. Google Glass is just a really creepy thing again. The Google last thing I agree with creepy, but it had a different purpose. The only purpose of these glasses is to take pictures and record them in 30. Yeah. 32nd videos. Yeah, it's weird. Yep. Not the way I don't like it. Let's take a quick break. When we come back. We're gonna be joined by Annick and Tappy from CNN business right after this business and financial.
WSJ Tech News Briefing
How the 'Right to Repair' Could Expand Choices and Lower Costs
"Have you ever broken one of your devices. Maybe dropped your cell phone in smashed screen or spilled a glass of water across your laptop and watched as the machine became no more than a paperweight. The options for repairing your devices in these kinds of situations can be pretty limited. Take it back to the company. Bought it from pay them to fix it or bring it to an authorized repair service. Sometimes the cost of those repairs can be so high. It's often worth just buying a whole new device but various proposed right to repair laws and even an executive order could address that by making it easier for small independent repair shops to fix our devices often at a lower cost or senior personal tech columnist. Joanna stern has been looking into this issue and comparing some of the costs and she joins us now to talk about it. A high joanna. Hey zoe so there's this fair repair act in congress but it isn't the only bit of momentum that the right to repair movement is having at the moment. No definitely not. There are a lot of pieces of this. Both at the national and state level but yes. The fair repair act was introduced in congress in june. There have been over. Twenty bills introduced at state levels including states like new york and massachusetts then in july president biden issued an executive order asking the ftc. To look into this and the thing is is that all these efforts are different but the ask for something similar. And that's really that anyone not just the big corporation that made your device be able to access the information. Manuals the parts and the tools to make a
WSJ Tech News Briefing
Satya Nadella: Windows 11 Is Centered on You
"I'm joanna. Stern and i recently had a chat with a pretty big name in the tech world. My name is satya nadella. Sio chairman of microsoft the that i spoke about windows eleven. That's the company's next big operating system. It was announced yesterday. And it's due out later this year. I'm calling right now from a windows. Ten computer what is going to be different upgrade to windows eleven i would say the experience right it's modern and more importantly it centered on you even just that little subtle shift of this start in the center there. It is from the king of microsoft himself in windows eleven. The start button moves to the bottom center of the screen but that cosmetic change actually has deeper meaning. That word center center center of center is core to noodles vision. That windows eleven should be at the center of your digital life as apple and google entice users to their increasingly closed off worlds. He wants windows eleven to be compelling choice for people who don't wanna live exclusively in either. I think windows has a role to play as that most open of ecosystems today that plays nicely with in fact the others. We you know we we want you to be able to connect your phones to your. We want you to be able to communicate to people on phones or other. Pc's that's evident in the new features windows eleven can run android apps something that hasn't been possible
WSJ Tech News Briefing
Employers aim for hybrid working after Covid-19 pandemic - How will it work?
"Exactly a year ago the pandemic forces all out of the office and our studios and sent us working from home. Well we were setting up our at home audio booths. A lot of other people around the world were setting up their at home offices and it soon became clear that we'd need some long term solutions for that not just laptop stacked on top of piles of books. So that's when we turn to our senior personal tech columnist to anna stern and some of you may remember. We had a regular segment with her on the task of working from home now a year later. Were hoping that our days of working remotely are numbered but even when we do reach the other side of the pandemic a slew of companies have announced that they aren't expecting employees to go back to work in the same way as in the pre pandemic days. The new buzzword is hybrid. But what does that mean exactly. Well who better to answer that question. Then of course joanna stern. She's back with us today. Joanna so great to have you here so good to be back all right so right now. It's me sellin my home studio you and your home office. But we're all excited to get some more real facetime in person you've been talking to a bunch of companies. What are they saying about this idea of hybrid work. What does that mean. They are all saying the word hybrid hybrid hybrid hybrid hybrid work. It means that you will work some time at home and time at the office and the analysts are saying that the brunt of people want this people want to work sundays at home. And there's a magic number. Two days i heard the number two to three days so many times in reporting this story everyone is saying we'll spend two to three days at the office or two to three days at home. You pick the number of days so that so bad fifty fifty give or take. Let's talk about what that's going to look like many of us work in open offices. How are those gonna change with this hybrid model so it definitely depends on your organization and how they plan to shake things up and move the spaces around but knowing that we might spend two to three days at home. It doesn't make sense for many of these companies to have permanent desk space for everybody. So that's why there are these new models of thinking about what the the office space will look like and go through. What i think are three ways. This could look at your company. One is same old right. Nothing changes you. Actually go back to your old desk. Maybe there's some more distance between you and your colleague that's nice you don't get the smell them smell bad anymore. It's great the other idea. This is number two which is becoming really popular because of that point that not. Everyone should have their own desk because not everyone's going every day. Is this idea. And i promise you. This is not my term in. It's horrible turam hot Hosking means that you don't have an assigned test you come in you get a new desk you leave you come in another day. You have a different desk and again it makes sense because not everyone is in on the same day. One of the people i spoke to for the story is the ceo of salesforce joanne. All saskia and she explained to me how they are moving to that model. Everyday you come in you find with your team if you want or you know wherever whoever you might be working with you grab a desk in there you go. And we have a crew that comes in at night and they reset the monitors and reset chairs reset standing desks. So the next day when you come in is completely clean completely sanitized. So we're already doing that will now. We're going to do that with most of our spaces and then the third one is really a big change and it's no desk. You have no desk. You're really just going to the office to collaborate with people to go to meetings and companies are doing. This dropbox is one of them. They are calling their their new spaces. Dropbox studios really call it in office anymore. And you just go in you have meetings you collaborate you bond with your colleagues and then you go home and you work from home most of the time. So let's talk about that working from home piece. We've all gotten pretty used to our at home. Setups how is this hybrid. Model going to change those. What are some of the new challenges. I think the big when we have to think about is that we're going to be bringing stuff back and forth and back and forth a lot laptops other. Techy wanted home. Or you want at. The office headphones microphones that kind of stuff. In some cases you won't bring it and you will have a situation at your office where you can keep some of it there but i think in some cases you really are going to want to drag that stuff back and forth because you might only have one of them or you like the thing that you use. Some companies are getting creative about how employees get the extra tech might need. Here's sales for ceo. Joanna subscale again. We provide any role that they need so they want an external keyboard they can have asked. They want mouse. They can have that they. Just get it out of the the vending machine. I need a keyboard and outcomes a keyboard. Did she say vending machines yes. She said vending machines and at salesforce. Unlike some other offices that we may work in. You don't get stale cookies or you. Don't get stale doritos. You've met computer peripherals and it's pretty simple. This is just a way for the it department not to be constantly responding to requests. That i need a new mouse or need a new headset. You're in the salesforce offices. They have vending machines. They're inside there. You go you swipe your card you get it and you don't pay for it. This is this is all free. Means like you're getting it from the department at another nice thing at salesforce to is that once you've gotten these peripherals they give you a cubby or locker to put your stuff in so you don't necessarily have to keep dragging back and forth your keyboard or your mouth your headset. You have it in your space at work. You got home. You have your home setup you come to work you grab your peripherals. You set them up. Got it okay. So that's the tech side of things but what about just communication. I mean we've been doing so much communication online. If some people are in the office some people are at home. How's that going to work. The biggest mistake you can make is thinking that you're going to go back to the office and you're not going to be video calling anymore. Don't think terry okay. And i spoke at length with the ceo of logitech about this name is bracket daryl and he knows a thing or two. About webcams impersonal. Webcams are going to continue to be important in enabling conference to superport. You've got Dynamic where it's hard to imagine going to the office for so many companies didn't have a lot of your neighbor rooms where you go by yourself. Do video call with few people do small group. It's hard to imagine video neighboring those rooms especially when it's so affordable. Obviously logitech is very excited about this because this is their business. Everyone has tried to buy a webcam from logitech in the last year. But other companies have said this to me to zoom. Told me this microsoft. Lots of companies webcams everywhere. Okay so we've talked about video calls but we're using technology for a lot of other communication that we would have done in person before right we've been using slack teams google products to collaborate. What's in store for us on that front. Yeah i mean you have to think about it as we're actually all remote workers now even when we're at the office because not everyone is going to be at the office with us. So that means we have to lean on things like slack and microsoft teams or whatever. Your company uses more to communicate because we're all going to be distributed and so slack in these companies are specifically trying to look at their products and change their products to help with this hybrid. Model slack is working on one feature. They told me about where you can send a video message to the entire team so instead of having to do constant video calls someone on your team can put out one short video clip to everyone in the in the channel and say something so everyone on the same page about it and again that cuts down on the friction of. Hey you said something in the office but the other person wasn't in the office and they missed what you said so. It's really important. The other thing that i'm excited about that they're coming out with is kind of like a audio drop in conference call thing that will let you create an audio call and have other other people jump in. I like to think of it as clubhouse but in slack google's doing a lot in this space to they've added some functionality to work space which includes all their collaboration tools like meat and doc slides etc. One feature. That i think is really important. Is this ability to set your status and let people know where you are ahead of. Google workspace aerosol. Tarot also gave me in scope on how they're planning to beef up. Google docs and this is something that we're going to be delivering this year and we started to introduce. How do you move from. The collaboration experienced made us famous. So the idea that we can all jump in and be the dueling curse into to say. Hey let's enrich that and go from like dueling pursers with names to faces and voices that live alongside the document. That's like a marriage of google meat and google docs right. Yeah i'm i'm pretty excited about it. I mean sometimes. I don't necessarily want my editor yelling at me. When he's editing a my script but at least you know everyone is right you. You know what. They're what they're working on and whether they are actually Looking at the documents. I think that's pretty cool. Said like a true boss. Qatari all right. So what about the home office side of things. How are our home. Office is going to be changing the going forward. I don't think they change much. I think if you've set up a really nice office you're going to keep working there and you're gonna wanna keep working there. Some of the companies and the large companies. I spoke to talked about continuing to make employees feel comfortable in their home offices which means nice stipend survived tech or furniture. Obviously the ceo of logitech is pretty excited that we're going to continue to improve our home
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"joanna stern" Discussed on Newsradio 970 WFLA
"And finally, for this week, we unfortunately have very little control over what we see in our social media feeds. It's mostly left to the algorithms that dictate how and what is featured. First. Gone are the days of post in chronological order. Now we see mostly content that the system thinks we want to see. And that can push us further into our own bubbles, which can lead to voices of misinformation being amplified for more on this and some ideas on how we can take charge of our own social media again. I'll speak to Joanna Stern, senior personal tech columnist at The Wall Street Journal in Round 2009. Facebook moved to an algorithmic seed. That means that they took away or they didn't make the default any longer. The ability to see all of our post in chronological order. So if a friend posted and then another friend post another friend posted, we used to see those on order, they moved to a system where they would show us the things that they thought we would be most interested in and then in 2016. We sort of lost any remaining control we had on These platforms because the other social media platforms Twitter and Instagram moved to this algorithmic seed. And so that really meant was that all of our social media feeds were now really being controlled by what I think of as little robots in the background, picking out the things that we would be both interested in seeing the things that we would most likely cap or share or heart emoji or cry emoji. Those of the things that were put right smack in front of our faces. And really, what it did. Is it kind of put us more in our bubbles? You know if it was cooking videos that you wanna see or even some of this more extreme stuff, these Cuban on videos going down those rabbit holes. It really just amplified all of that stuff. That's what the system thought you wanted to see..
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"joanna stern" Discussed on News Radio 920 AM
"We're joined now by Joanna Stern from the Wall Street Journal talking to us today about an article she wrote on social media platforms and the algorithms that really run them at this point, Joanna, Thanks for coming on, We appreciate it. Good to be here morning. So I think everyone's heard the story at this point and become familiar with the way that YouTube Facebook Twitter. All of these platforms are designed, You know, I guess on the surface as a cell to the users as hey, It's convenient, but in reality as a way to glue you to these platforms longer and longer for a bit of history, can you kind of walk us through how some of these things worked like Facebook likes Twitter like Instagram prior to these algorithms. Algorithms being in place. Yeah. I mean, they really works like you would read a block or any anything that you remember being in reverse chronological order, in the sense that anything new would be at the top of your feet, And then you'd have a timeline of things that people have posted, and it was all done by time. So if we're friends Posted something five minutes ago. You would see it. You've met somebody after that posted. Would you see it that on top of it, then I market around 2016. When most of these companies decided algorithms are the way of the future, and so Twitter had moved to an entirely algorithmic seed. At that point. That was the year that they did that Instagram did that as well. So basically, these companies said, and Facebook have been doing it for a while. They started in 2009 around that time. They also made it very hard to find the old chronological feed. And they just said Hey, Do you want you to see the things you like the most? The speeds have gotten unruly. Let us pick based on what your actions are on the service. Let us pick what you think. What we think you're gonna interact with the most. And let's be honest. It were if you're the company, right? I mean, forget about I don't I don't mean that. We should just forget about the consequences there because I want to come back to that. But if you're the company in terms of profits in terms of time spent on the platforms, it has been a huge win for these platforms, right? 100%, of course, and they buy buy their means. Their biggest North star is time spent right. They get more money. The more time you spend because you look at more ads and you spend more time there, right? You're using their products more If you think about our lives, we started spending more time there because we liked it, and I don't want to take that away. Right. We get that we make the choice of the end of the day. If we use social media or not, we are in control of our hands and our eyes and how we use our phones that are computers. So absolutely this this This did work in the sense that our feeds became far more compelling. So the obvious downside here is that they become echo chambers. If all I like to do is look at means of, you know animals. I don't know, falling and stupid things like that. Then all I'm gonna hear from my Facebook platform is that is that sort of thing more dangerously, If all I like to read about our 9 11 conspiracy theories, then all I'm going to read about our 9 11 conspiracy theories and other conspiracy theories. What? You know what are some of the ideas out there to take on? I've got a co host that, you know, frequently talks about these algorithms and says, You know, the solution is to get rid of them. I don't Don't realistically see how you can go about doing this of unwinding this algorithm process in YouTube and Facebook. It seems like it's ingrained in the way that these platforms work at this point, but maybe I'm missing the ball here. Yeah, I think there's two parts first. You're right, right? It's not a problem if you're seeing I don't know, he said. They're cats. Sleeping is your favorite thing. And that's what you see. Mostly means of. Yeah. No judgment. No judgment. I see dogs. Not a problem, right? Not a problem for those of us and you just see your friends and family because those are the things you interact with well becomes. The problem is when that is in its the incendiary comment, content, right? It's the attacks, the misinformation that conspiracy theories. Even if that said to you, maybe once or twice. We're seeing that people can get radicalized by this. They start to really fall into these rabbit holes, and that's all they end up being. So what is the solution? And that's really what the column was about because I usually write about sex solutions. I help people with what they can do. But this is a tougher road. We We don't know what the solution is. I don't think it's to get rid of the algorithms all together, at least not on the main platforms. I did cover in the column. One new company called me We, which is, you know a new start up new social media. Company, and they're saying no algorithm and that's fine. Because you don't have a million friends on there. You don't follow a million things. What happens when you do and you're you know you're on your twitter feed. And I, for instance, all over 1000 people, it becomes chaos. And so I can't really see what people are really talking about. I do think, though one and this is how I used Twitter. I switch between the algorithmic seed in the chronological feed. And that at least give me choice. I can see both of the things and I think that is one of the solutions is just giving us as users more control understanding of what I'm not being what I am seeing and why I am seeing it And that's a big thing. I think. Why are we even be thinking? You see how the sorry do you think going after these companies from an antitrust perspective does anything to disrupt the algorithms like Let's say you do go about breaking up Google and YouTube and Facebook and Instagram. Does that does adding more competition to the space Do anything to disrupt the process of these algorithms and the creation of these echo chambers, as I described Instance of maybe we end up spending more time on another platform. Right right now are our social media diets are really consumed? No. Honestly, mostly by Facebook. I mean, they will argue. That's not the case and Certainly other upstarts have come along. Tic Tac is a big one, right? We're seeing more people spend time on Tic tac more time on Twitter, but Facebook owns Instagram. They own Facebook. A lot of the social media diet of people are spent there, right. Where are the other ideas? What are the other things and so if they don't keep getting bigger and keep absorbing other big companies and other social media networks Maybe we spend time in other places. I also think that whether it's antitrust for more regulation, there's more that can be done..
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What You Need to Know About the iPhone 12
"Apple held its second big virtual event of fall yesterday word announced an updated home pod smart speaker, and of course, the headliner its first five G. capable iphone. We originally expected this phone in September but production was delayed due to supply chain issues from the pandemic. Now that it's here, we turn to senior personal tech columnist Joanna Stern to tell us what we ought to know join us. Thanks for joining me. Thanks for having me. Joanne on tell us about this new iphone twelve. I think you mean four new iphone twelve's because in making things much easier for us all to understand apple released four new iphones. But they also have these slight differences. There's the new iphone twelve mini with is actually not that many but does look a lot smaller than the last few iphones we've seen. Then there's the iphone twelve and then there's the iphone twelve pro and the iphone. Pro Max you got that all. Only. Just. So what new features did we see I think that's what makes this year's upgrade pretty great is that there are lots of new features across the entire lineup and the big ones include five G. Five G. is an all of these new phones. There are new designs of all of the new phones more square edges looks a lot like the iphone five or the iphone four was very nice beautiful design some. Really happy to see that you've got camera tricks and you've got all new screens, new Oleg screens across the entire lineup plus your favorite anew charging configuration. Right? I am very excited. The design has a new magnet in the back. This is not visible, but it's below the surface and there's a magnetic coil and apple is now rolling out a new accessory line called MAG safe. You might remember the name from those old macbook. And these magnetic accessories will clip to the back of the phone and one of them is a new wireless charger. That apple says will be a lot faster than usual wireless charging, and of course, the big update here is five G. capability. Five networks are supposed to be the next generation networks and bring faster download speeds better connectivity. And we know investor sentiment has really reached a fever pitch in anticipation of this new phone, what are they and apple hoping this new phone can do for the company I think they are all thinking back to other quote unquote super cycles, and these were big leaps in iphone technologies whether it was big leaps in screen size or big leaps from three G.. To Four G. and there was a lot of excitement around these almost a decade ago and that really got people to upgrade in by new phones because the technological leaps were significant here we're seeing a little bit of that, but it's certainly not the leap I. think that investors or even apple thinks it is especially in five G. I've tested a lot of. Five g phones and they can be very fast but they can be pretty fast when you're in specific areas and when you're on your phone, you don't really feel those speeds. Of course, what the investors and apple are hoping is that the speeds unlock newt sorts of innovations, new types of APPs new types of technologies that run on top of it we saw. This with four G. Four G. unlocked a whole new generation of APPs things from Uber to instagram our phones could load these things faster. Now, our phones are pretty much fast enough. What are we going to do with this faster speed? That's the big question yeah, and we heard over and over again during yesterday's presentation that quote five G. Just got real you've quite. A bit of reporting on five G. Networks I wonder what's your take is five really real now for smartphone users five G. Israel and you can get it but you have to be in a very specific set of circumstances to get it. You need to have the right carrier you need to be in the right location in verizon sense you actually need to. Be Outside standing near a opole. So it is real but is not going to be very real for most users right now. So it sounds like there's a bit of a disconnect between proponents of five G. and consumers. How are we expecting to see apple and their carrier partners trying to close that gap? A Lotta this is about future proofing you have A. Five G. Phone now, and these networks start to get better and they start to get better pretty rapidly. I have to say I have seen a substantial increase in the last year last summer I had to journey to different parts of the US to get five G.. Now, I can just go to a different section of the city or a different section of. My neighborhood to try to test out five G.. So it is getting better the speeds are getting better but there are a lot of technical hurdles and there are a lot of glitches frankly, I mean, there are times when I testify g and the same exact spot and I could get blazing fast speeds, one minute, and then another minute just sort of four speeds. Are Joining as our senior personal columnist. The big question is, should people upgrade to this phone or should they wait my advice is to wait for my review but if you're looking preorder, my first piece of advice is do not upgrade just for five G. that's not a reason to upgrade. But what's really nice about what apple was there was a whole other big feature set that you get here that isn't just tied to five. G. You get those nicer designs you get that nicer screen you get that more compact form factor. If you want to get that many device loads of new camera tricks many that I don't frankly understand and need to even dig into because the presentation was so packed with all that information. So don't just go by for five G. go by for the big package and what it all means together. All right anything else that jumped out. At you about yesterday's event. Yes. Interestingly, they started the event talking about the product that we never remember that apple makes, which is the home pod, a new home pod mini, and this is a really compelling little product. It is a smart speaker from Apple Ninety nine dollars. Obviously, they're to compete against the Amazon and the Google Minis of the world lots of features that others have had before it's lagging in music support. No. spotify and Pandora's not going to be there for a couple of months but seemed like a compelling holiday gift by
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Your Daily Work-From-Home Tip
"Senior personal tech columnist. Joanna Stern is back to share another work from home tackle tip of the day Joanna. Welcome back I am so excited about. Today's tips hang on. Can you hang on just one second? I actually after my family and tell them that we're doing this interview. Oh hang on on the MIC. Please be quiet. Okay sorry I I see what you did there. You completely upstaged me and took my tip and that's fine. I'm not needed anymore. This show but for those listening. My tip is well look. I won't even say this is my tip. This is from so many of our listeners so many of readers that I'm not gonNA take credit for this tip has to do with telling all your new colleagues and by colleagues. I mean your spouse and your children and your dogs and whoever else you live with that you are on a very important phone call or in a very important meeting or recording a very important podcast and so we got lots of people writing in sending messages about how they tell the people they live with not to bother them. Should we play the first one? Yeah let's play it. So this is from Terry Simpson. He lives in Trenton Georgia. And I love this. What I've done in my household is installed a little switch on the wall and on the other side of the wall out in the core part of the house. I have on air son. That's the notification that those that are in the house should be quiet I saw this when my kids were very little and they really didn't understand what I was doing. So it was a notification for my wife That the kids need not be that side of the house Making a lot of ways now that my kids are a little older. They know that understand. What The red light means as far as being on there yes this is what I need. I know he is a genius. And actually I called Terry. 'cause I was so interested in this turns out this was not the easiest thing to build. I mean it was easy for him because he seems like the fix it guy and I'm not like the home fix it guy. So what he did was he bought this sign on Amazon. It's a light up on air signed and I actually went and found some Amazon that you can buy. I mean they're gonNA ship for Awhile and he actually. He drilled a hole in his wall. He's snaked the cord through the wall. Then he installed it into an outlet that is by his desk so it's all pretty complicated. I'm now going to challenge myself. I don't know what I'm GonNa find the time for this and I don't know where I'm GonNa get the sign but I want to challenge myself to do the same thing with smart home equipment and I think it could be done really easily that you could turn your phone into the remote to turn on this on air sign so I know how new weekend project I love this so much. I want you to make one for me too. I WanNa make one for everyone and not quit my job but maybe make these what I love about. This though is that we heard from so many other readers who sent me their signs who all sort of just like randomly had suggested this tip and they obviously do it in a really low tech way they get piece of paper. They get a marker or a pen and they write on the sign. Something I don't I don't everyone should be inspirational and find their own inspiration. What THEY WANNA to write on their quiet the bleep down sign? But you know quiet. I'm on an important phone. Call quiet please. Don't bother me put it on your door and don't forget to take it off when you're done. Yeah that's important part right. I mean I think people have been talking about the. Don't Cry Wolf Syndrome either. Yes one of our readers. Britney boys from Yorktown Virginia sent in the same tip. She sent a photo of hers which is a very nicely written conference call in session. Please quiet down and she wanted to remind me that we should not cry wolf with this. We shouldn't just put this up all the time and we shouldn't forget to leave it up. We should only put it up when we really are on that important call or meeting if that signs up all day then people aren't going to be quiet all
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How to Protect Yourself From COVID-19 Scams
"Personal tech columnist Joanna. Stern is back. She joins us once again with her work from home tech tip as always Joanna. Welcome back Qatari. How are you today? I'm good how are you hanging in there? All right we have been asking our audience To Send US their tips and ask their questions and actually today's tip came from an audience member right. It did so I had actually had this on my list. But then we got this. Nice message from Dylan tween who is from San Mateo California and he reminded me that I really did need to talk about fishing and the security threats to all of us right now. So let's hear his tip and what he has to say so basically watch out for fake email and one thing that's particularly tricky is that email identity is really easy to fake. Even the address shown in the from field of the message could be fake. So talk to your. It people and find out what the best practices are from them for avoiding fake email. If something comes into your inbox and it's flagged as spam or Google or G. Suite says that hey this is likely a suspicious message. Pay ATTENTION TO THAT OKAY. That is a really good reminder. Do you have anything to add to that? Yeah he summarized it really well. One of my main things to say was actually too. If your email account or your e mail service says watch out for this email definitely make sure that there is nothing there that seems shady so that was one thing that I really I had to say. I really totally agreed with. Dylan's advice on that to other things that I wanted to mention number one is that we all just need to be doing the usual best practices for our online security. So those are all the things you've been hearing for many years and that's practice good passwords. Always be on a secure Wi fi network when you're home and you're using your wifi network at home right now. Make sure that secure make sure. You've got the best router security also using up-to-date software that means on your phone your laptop your tablet. Try to make sure you're running the latest operating system or make sure that you're still getting security updates on those old windows machines or what you might be using. The second thing I wanted to bring up is from a group called pro privacy. And they've launched a new website. You can go to pro privacy dot com slash tools slash scam dash website dash trucker. It's not very does not roll off the tongue but what. I what I think is really interesting about this. Is that lots of phishing. Emails have been giving have been sending links to cove in one thousand nine hundred or corona virus websites. That promised to do something for you per they promise. Free testing kits. They promise new information about the virus. They promise you Free masks those sorts of things. That's what a lot of these phishing emails are doing this website. Lets you put in the URL. You don't want to click. You are Alan your email address. You WanNa go to this website type in what you see that website or link as it runs this check on the website and it will say this is militias. This doesn't look safe. Don't click this and you won't even have to go that far when you go to this website you can even just look at the long list that they have a long list of latest militias domains and summer. You would actually like probably fall for I would offer. Kovin nineteen tracker dot something or other absolutely. It's very high. It's very hard. Sometimes they'd they'd do a very good job hiding the fact that they're fishing. Yeah and one of the things that our company in many companies have been warning people as also things that may appear like their internal email. Some of these scammers and hackers have gotten very clever. They know where you work. They know the people you interact with. Just can't assume that the person who sending you something you know so look at that email address like Dylan said. Make sure to just look for some other signs bad grammar looking. Why would this person be sending me this thing? Just just think it
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Work From Home Tech Tips
"The start of another work from home week for us for you to. I'm sure and the tech challenges are not going away. That's why all this week our senior personal columns Joanna Stern. We'll be back with us. Giving US her best work from Home Tech Tips and suggestions and answering some of the questions that you have been posing to her. Hey Joanna Harry Okay so first of all have been getting some good questions and responses from people from listeners and readers so many my inboxes is on fire. Basically my computer right now is on fire with tips In fact one of the tips later this week is GONNA be how to put out the fire that your computer starts when you get all these hot tips. Hot Test Tips on fire. I mean that's what I love about. This is not only are getting some good questions but we're getting way more tips than questions. People sharing tips. They've come across in the last week but many people who are really work from home pros who have been doing this. For Years. And Years. Sharing some of the things that worked for them in their workflows. That's great all right. So what's today is work from home tech tip so this one actually came from a from a reader and I got this one specifically this person talked about their their what they do to track their time. But I've also heard this as an issue that from other readers as well so I decided to dig into this because I don't know about. You could terry but a week working in from home. Do you feel like we're working from home. Is like a black hole of time. You're not sure where the time has gone. Yes where did where did work start and day by day. And when did my work day ever ended it ever end? Yeah it's and it's to do when you were working. That's a big thing and I have on my. I've taken on so many more projects but I don't really know how allocating my time so the tip is to track your time and I've been using two different APPS to try and see which one is the better one. I actually like them. Both one is called. Toggle T. O. G. G. L. OF COURSE NOT BECAUSE WHY would there be any and then classify and both of these work across all your devices. They've got APPs for your iphone android Mac. Pc Web and both of them allow you just put in your project name. What you're doing whether it's a call whether it's where you slacking for twenty minutes with a colleague about something to troubleshoot were you on a call. You want to write all that down and track the time that you're doing it and what I like about both of these APPs. After a week's time even after a day you can see how much of your time you're spending on certain things in graphs and charts that all said. I'm using a low tech way of doing this. I'm writing my and trying to schedule out my day from eleven to twelve. Do this if I don't do that. I kind of just jot down that that half an hour was taken up by podcasting or whatever. Sorry Joanna Yeah and I've actually I mean I hate to say this like a notepad and pen has actually been a lot more helpful than some of the tech tips that I've been giving this week and it sort of the thing you don't think to do at home because you're like at work. You have all these notepads and you have all those supplies but may be good to invest in a good pen and paper. I will not be reviewing those though this week but does are always you know? Sometimes the best high tech solution is a low tech solution. And I think good high-tech people know
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How do I work from home? Tips from the experienced
"Friday night. It's normally date night but not right now. Since the current virus outbreak social distancing has made dating nearly impossible keyword nearly our tech reporter. Georgia wells will join us to explain how people are using tack to try and find that special someone but first congratulations. You've made it to the end of another week of work from home to celebrate as per usual. We're inviting our senior personal tech columnist. Joanna Stern back to share another one of her work from home tech tips. Hey Joanna I'm here again. We're excited you don't ever sound excited. May I mentioned that? That's just I think that's my personality. Okay but I am genuinely deep down. I am excited to be here. Okay okay anyway. That's not the tip for the day. What is today's tip? Yeah so I saved this tip for the end of the week because it's a couple of tips in one and it requires a bit of work. But all of these tips have to do with your. I don't want to say crappy. Say a curse word but your home. Wifi INSERT ADJECTIVE THERE. About how you feel about your home. Wifi usually. It's not very good but there are some things you can do. And right now we are at a moment where our home networks have never been taxed so much and that is a lot from this streaming video and that is a lot from the video chatting but it's also all of the other activity of people in your house doing things on the network so I have a couple of tips about what you should do. The first one which is kind of a cop out. It's just don't use Wifi at all. So if you can plug in directly to your router get an Ethernet cord. Get a dangle that you can connect your laptop hard part here. Is there sold out everywhere? So best of luck to all of you. Survival of the fittest. You might have it in that box of cables that you have in your closet or in your basement or yes under your bed. Do you probably have the Ethernet Cord? Which is Great? Those have not changed in one million years. You probably don't have the dangle took it up into your laptop probably have a USB laptop. Maybe you had an older or laptop with the regular. Usb issue is that the laptops no longer have ethernet. Jacks so right. Good luck to you. I can't really help on that. But then comes the issue of most people don't want to be chained to their routers and they want to be around their house using. Wi Fi and best hip for people. And this is a good thing to do this weekend. Can you move your Wifi router to the center of the House to the area where you're using it the most for most people that's GonNa be the living room and a kitchen area? Chances are there's a reason your routers in the basement. It was installed there with a by your Internet service provider. And there's not much you can do but try this. It's always a decent solution. My biggest tip is figuring out if you need a new router and I have a couple of tips of this in my column but the biggest thing you can do is walk around your house running speed tests. Us speed test dot net. That's a website or you can download the APP and run the tests and see if there are pockets of the house where you're not getting as good signal and not not as good coverage. Chances are that is probably because your Wifi router is a little bit old and didn't have great range. I'm recommending that people if you have if you've had a Wifi router for around five years or more it's probably time for a new one. These get they. They don't get better every year but every three to five years they take some pretty big leaps and the gadgets. You have get better WIFI chips in them. And those WIFI chips need better routers to take advantage of the faster speeds all of that. You're probably wondering what route or do I recommend. I recommend the euro and you could buy the era by itself. Its Own box which is ninety nine dollars. And that's one router that you have in your house probably like the router you have right now or you can make the euro into a Mesh network system and this is something that has completely changed my life. This is one router and then you can buy these extra routers that you put around your house to create basically a blanket of Wifi for the entire house and it's pretty amazing you can get wi fi in places you thought were complete dead zones forever so yes. I'm suggesting you buy some things. But you don't have to buy them unless you follow the tips to see if you need them. Gotcha I mean and to be clear. We get zero kickbacks. We're not in any kind of business relationship with our. This is just based on your research and reporting your recommendation. Absolutely all right. That is a great tip. I know a lot of people are going to be Trying to work on their WIFI systems over the weekend. So thank you so much for that. We had also put a call out for our listeners to ask US questions or leave us their own work from home hassles challenges. What you've been listening to some of these. Tell me. Have you learned anything this week. I've learned so much this week and I want to encourage more people to call in because we are here for you. But you're kind of here for us too because they bring so much joy to us some of these comments and these these messages are not only funny. But they're insightful. So please call in. I'll give that number in a couple of seconds but I like this call. We got a lot from Jeremy. He's a student at the University of Minnesota where classes have been pushed completely online. Like everything else right now. I work from home. I have is not to do your work and your bed because you associate that place with sleeping and it makes you a lot more less productive and especially at University of Minnesota all online. It gets really difficult to God's side when it's cold and it's hard to find a space but even if it means getting your kitchen or your living room just take those online classes or do your work outside of your bedroom. That was a great tip from Jeremy. Doman are Joanna. If people want to reach out to you to share their own work from home tech tips or ask questions how should they reach out they should either email me at Joanna dot stern at wsj.com or they can leave us a message at our work from home? Tech hotline number is three one four six three five zero three eight eight excellent and we will be putting that number as we have all week in our show notes and the description. So you don't have to rewind and write it down you can just scroll into your APP and see it right there. Doing thank you so much. Have a great weekend all right after the break. Our TECH REPORTER. Georgia wells will be with us to tell us about some of the creative ways that people have used technology to keep dating in the age of social distancing. That's coming up next. We see breakthrough medicines getting to patients in record time at Emerson when issues become inspiration. Creating a better world isn't just a result. It's a responsibility. Emerson considerate solved. Sh- I've a little poem to share with you. All roses are red violets are blue. We're staying inside and social. Do that comes to you. Courtesy of our producer. Amanda llewellyn social. Distancing has changed almost every aspect of our lives these days going to the gym shopping at the grocery store and of course dating because now that those restaurants bars are closed which are the most popular date locations. People are having to find new ways to try to meet their special someone or just stay by themselves all the time. They don't WanNa do that. So they're using tack of course here to explain our tech reporter Georgia Wells. She is in San Francisco. Georgia thank you so much for joining us from very safe social distance of three thousand miles away. Thank you for having me are. A So Georgia dinner. Movie date not going to happen in the foreseeable future. What are people doing instead? Dating APP usage is through the roof. People are doing face timing. They're turning to dating APPS. The video function on dating APPs as also getting a lot of us and people are also trying to watch movies at the same time where they press play simultaneously and then do banter over text message as a way of kind of progressing their relationships while still maintaining the safe distance so I haven't been on dating APPS for awhile. Dating APPS now have video functionality. Some do and those that do are seeing a huge surge in usage prior to this pandemic the video futures weren't as popular a lot of people viewed them as almost as much work as meeting up in person and also. You didn't get to see the person but now there's this kind of obvious use case so there's an APP called say alot. They saw two hundred and fifty percent increase in video. Date sessions in the past two weeks swear they also saw spikes of usage and cities after there were corona virus local hotspots announced then the usage of the video date function would spike so people were basically canceling their real life dates. And saying okay. Let's just meet up on video. Exactly wow okay. So that's a huge jump. Are we seeing specific areas? Where this is happening more New York Montreal. Toronto Denver Los Angeles in particular. San Francisco wasn't on the list at the time. But I imagine it's probably now on the list so I can imagine that video chatting is at least better than just like texting right. At least you're seeing the person in real life or you're seeing them virtually whatever you're seeing them. What are people that you're talking to? How are they finding this? Is it harder to actually figure out if you like someone using video chat instead of meeting up? Yeah there's also a lot of etiquette associated with video chatting and so in the past people often with like give each other a heads up if they're going to video chat maybe someone would wanna put makeup or put on do their hair and put on the outfit and so chatting with the woman in San Francisco the other day. Who's this on the call with this guy who she hopes to meet up with? They couldn't meet out. They did a phone call and then out of the blue. He video chatted her and it was a really shocking moment. She said it was also maybe the new normal video chatting the also the singles. I've been chatting with say that there's a lot of pressure involved because they want to progress their relationships but they also don't want to like make expectations crazies for if they ever do get out of this shelter in state and if they ever can meet up that puts a lot of pressure on the person if they've already chatted with him for hours and hours and hours and also video chatted for hours and hours and hours and then what happens when they finally get to see each other but thanks to the pandemic all of these like norms are now at the window. People are lonely and so people wanna connect more than ever. What is this? What does that mean for the relationships? That are forming. And they're gonNA figure this out but people don't seem to have figured it out quite yet. Are you talking to anyone who is kind of making the quarantine a reason to get together? A lot of people are using it as a pickup line. I don't know if it's necessarily a reason to get together but like I've heard people saying things like didn't you know. Alcohol Kills Corona Virus. Come over to my place or you'd be worth sheltering in place together or funny lines like that. My sense is they're just using that as an excuse. There've been jokes like are they going to be quarantine babies and nine months i. Maybe I don't know but also people are looking for direction on this and it's hard so the dating apps have put up these kind of pop up. Psa's if you will but say like wash your hands off and maintain social distance but for people who aren't already in shelter in place it can be hard to know like what does that actually mean and so New York City's Mayor Bill de Blasio last week with telling people if you are feeling sick. Don't go on a date or if your data's feelings don't go on a date but now that a lot of places are in shelter in place that probably that advice is probably mood because people probably can't meet up at all aright tech reporter Georgia wells stay safe sheltering in place. Thank you you too. And that was your tech news briefing.
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What the WSJ Personal Tech Team Got Right About 2019
"Holidays are a time for traditions and one of our favorites at the beginning of every year. The Wall Street Journal's Personal Tech Team publishes their our predictions for the year ahead the tax that they think will shape the year to come. That Crystal Ball isn't always as clear as we think it will be so we thought we take a look back back at two thousand eighteen but they got right and what they missed to do that. We've got our personal team here with us in the studio editor Wilson Rothman and our columnist Joanna Stern so so having looked back at your predictions for twenty nineteen. What do you think I was right about? Everything but Wilson was wrong about everything throwing some hilarious ways. I was wrong about a couple of things. I think the biggest thing I feel not great that I said was that in this year would get a big software face. Lift for the IPHONE and we didn't get that. I really assumed that this would be the year. Apple would break from tradition and stop at the grid of icons or do something to shake things up a little bit in that regard because we knew we the next big hardware facelift. But we didn't get that. I like to say it will happen next year. But my feeling is just apple is going to keep us on this grid of icons for the rest of our. We did get that little ipad facelift which might have been the thing that kind of misled us. Wilson's right I was right as per usual and Done the IRA. Let's get. Let's get in the big picture twenty eighteen so two years ago it was really bad year for the tech industry It was really kind of the big evil we saw facebook. CEO Mark Sucker. Berg spent the year kind of apologizing for a whole bunch of stuff privacy blunders platform and self driving cars at a bunch of bumps in the road. You guys is thought. The two thousand eighteen was going to be a year of reckoning but he said it was gonna be the return of optimism that tax a force for good in some ways in the world. I I think we were wrong about that. It was good there were certainly Continued to be quite the backlash over the number of months. But I think what we did see was a little bit of a slowing slowing down and I think we were right about that innovation. Not only sort of slowing down and not seeing brand new things to be super excited about seeing a lot of these companies sort of just carefully carefully make announcements and really think about the backlash of some of those things. I would say the one place where we didn't see that was facebook announcement of libra. I think that's sort of A. That was a big black eye for them and we think that will be something. That's pretty big in two thousand twenty again as as they try to forge their way through the cryptocurrency water. They're not behaving a humbled company. The fact they put their brand name on instagram and WHATSAPP. I mean this is not a company. That's concerned learned about having a bad reputation. Even though two thousand eighteen was a year where they spent a lot of time apologizing so yeah that took me by surprise but I don't think the the the consequence. I don't think they're not facing consequences all right. Let's shift gears. We were talking about self driving cars and and the idea that robots we're going to be delivering all of our food and that we were GONNA have superhighways a self driving cars. And what did you predict for twenty nineteen gene. What's come to pass? You know I think we were not right necessarily on the adoption of the robots. But I think we were right to talk about food delivery. It was a big year for for food delivery from all of these major companies. Sort of figuring out. What they're landscape needs in terms of how many food delivery companies do we need post mates do do we need to do? We need door ash. We need all of these all of them sort of trying to out each other so to speak and then we also had some reckoning with some of those companies as we had a door dash with a big Sort of backlash to their tipping Policy Uber figuring out. How they're gonNA take Uber? Eats in new directions so we were wrong but it was is a big year for food delivery so one of the other areas we saw huge movement in this year was streaming. Apple had already announced. It was going to go industry Ming at the end of last year You looked at to that launch and Disney plus and and said net flicks would be making a lot of noise in the movie business. How's that all netted out at the end of the the air we got seventy streaming service three and a half hour? Martin Scorsese movie on Netflix. Let's just be clear how that's netted out. Why they couldn't talk him into making into six very easy digest episodes? I don't know but that's your answer. Right there. D- netflix decided. Because all this competition was coming they were GONNA make a big statement and the way they made their statement was finding like one of the most famous and lauded filmmakers and the cast de Niro Pacino Chino Harvey Keitel. I mean it's like all these people I were sure we're alive or dead but I remember great movies by them so everything Wilson just said every the streaming was one of the number one stories of the year it will continue into twenty twenty and a big big way Disney has launched apple has launched. What's coming next year you've got HBO? Max You're going to have peacock peacock from NBC. You'RE GONNA have qube from Katzenberg and Meg Whitman. These are this is just this nonstop and I think twenty twenty will be a year of sort the reckoning figuring out what consumers are willing to pay for. And we're actually going to have time to watch. It's too much stuff to watch but this this was the year era of just everything gets thrown against the wall. All of the cutting edge technology and the connectivity and automation a lot of that depends on improving our networks irks and one of the big things that we thought was going to happen. This year was five G. out for you. What Am I? Best weeks of the year was traveling. The country looking for five. Jesus weddings phone's breaking and phone sweating in phone's breaking it was it was. It was very hot again. WE'RE NOT RE wrong here. They laid the groundwork for what's going to happen in twenty twenty which is really stream five G. adoption with big phone maker saying our mainstream phones or five G. This year we saw it with Samsung. LG Some of the other phone manufacturers releasing one phone or two phones at support five G. all of the four big carriers at and T. Rising T. mobile sprint released. Their five G. Networks. You can now get it in multiple cities every morning. I wake up to other. PR emails pitches from Verizon. At telling any some other small city has five G. now. Is it ready yet for all of us snow. That was this year. This was the I did a piece. I went out into Five cities these are four cities and The companies did not want me to test but I went out there and did not work out so well. The phones were just not supporting the five G. networks when it was super hot Out really above eighty five degrees so this is the year they were working out the kinks. And that's the thing it's like just because five G. is in your hometown like we said you drive around for two hours to find it and then you have to at once you find it not move out of a very small area just like exactly the opposite instead of five G. is supposed to be right it's supposed to be able to propel those self driving cars. It's supposed to be able to do all the big operation systems in our in our cities and help us with our connectivity into all of these different things though it wouldn't make a lot of sense he'd have to drive around like that to live up to the promise you would have to have have far more reliable service than we have now with four G. because it's about lightning-fast no latency connection between two objects that are travelling at sixty five miles an hour free way. They're supposed to be aware of each other and if they can't be at all times and mind you. How long does it take to have an accident? split-second right right that's gone doesn't work right exactly all right so looking back on all of this. You guys thought you did a pretty good job. We're right we're wrong all right. What is your grade? What grade do you give yourselves for your predictions for twenty nineteen b minus was going to be plus? Okay Ebi we average out to be. I think that's about right. What's the one thing that you did not see coming this year? I think we captured a lot of it on this list. I I guess I would say I mean the we work story. We wouldn't have never seen coming. I mean Eliot side coming we Elliott. I thought the Harry Potter Ayar game would be amazing because the POKEMON game is amazing. And Harry Potter is amazing. It was horrible when we ran a story story. That was just like this thing doesn't work and it's sad because that's beloved Franchisee. No yeah well Rothman Janitor and thanks for joining
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AirPods Pro Fit Test: How Well Do They Stay In?
"Who've been wearing apples air pods have a decision to make whether or not to buy apples. Airports pro or maybe by ear buds from a competitor the Wall Street Journal's Joanna Stern turn put the air pods pro through a week of testing and she joins us now. I Joanna. Did you ride a mechanical bull. Test the pros to see if they'd stay in. We have to do uncomfortable things sometimes for journalism and so I did. I tracked down a mechanical bull here in New York City and I brought along. Four pairs of wireless ear buds and I tried them on each each each air pot or earbud. I tried on this mechanical bowl because I wanted to test if these would fall out. One of the biggest problems with the original L.. Air Pods are the standard air pods which are still available. Is they fall out a lot and so I wanted to do this test. They did they stay in. I cannot tell you how many many times I was thrown off of a bowl and they kept staying in. It was very very very frustrating. I just wanted them to fall out and I had the mechanical bull driver. There is such the thing test three speeds but on each of the your abides I tried to fall off two times on the ball and with the air pods pro which are the new air pods cost. Two eight hundred fifty dollars. They would not fall out by other criteria or the pods pro a big improvement over the airports. They really are there. Has Been You air. Deposits for as popular as they've been and apple says these are the most popular wireless headphones on the planet or in the market. And you see that walking around anywhere there have been two big issues one is they. Just don't sound that good and that that comes in sound quality that comes in Just being able to hear ambient noise around you. So this addresses that issue head on it has noise cancellation that blocks out. A lot of the ambient sound around you and the sound quality when you're listening to music even podcast phone calls sound a lot better. The the second thing has been the fit people have thought they're uncomfortable or they just don't fit that well and apple solve that problem here by using including three sizes of silicon rubber rubber tips unlike the original air pods that again. Still you can get those for one hundred and fifty nine dollars but with these you step up and you get these the usual rubber tips that you can size and apple came. came up with this really clever solution on the phone. It it It's a sizing test. You put on the different sizes you put them in your ears. It plays back a sound. And then it tells you if these actually fit and the noise cancelling really works is sorta like over the ear. Yeah yeah I I did say in the article that I still prefer the over. The ear buds for longer wearing them for longer periods of the time they're going to be more comfortable and they do block out some more noise but for in ear noise. Cancellation this is really really impressive. And I tested on subways. I tested in the really harsh conditions edition of my house where there's a toddler and there's a dog and there is always running washing machine and I was constantly people were tapping. Can you hear me. Can you hear me so it really did withstand the the noise cancellation tests. Did you say there is some sort of adjustment to help them fit. Yes so there's this special sizing tool that this is. This is sort of innovative in the sense that that a lot of times you kind of just put him in you. Maybe play some music and you see okay. Yeah that sounds good at. It's good you kind of hit your head a little bit. You shake your head to the right and left okay. They don't fall out. Apple Apple made this tool where you can select the the airport fit tool you put on the different sizes you put them in your ear and then it puts out some sound and over about twenty seconds ends plays some music and apple is using his algorithms in the back end to use to measure. How much sound is being pumped into your ear? And then it returns a rating right on your iphone that says as good seal. This is a good seal or this isn't a great seal. Maybe you should try different silicon rubber tap. How do the air pods pro? Compared to rival models apple really set the pace in this area everyone has really been trying to follow suit in the last year with wireless headphones but that also building a voice assistance. All the big tech companies Amazon Samsung Even even Microsoft is coming out with the pair. Soon have all built these wireless ear buds and I've been trying these The air pods in comparison to the Samsung Galaxy Buds. Everyone's got a different name here. Samsung Galaxy Buds and the Amazon Echo. Buds and the Amazon Echo Buds actually cost one hundred and fifty dollars and have pretty good sound quality but feel pretty cheap and they don't stay very well in my ears. The Samsung ones. They stay really well in my ears but don't sound as good as the airports so apple really seems to be hitting better than most on across all fronts but again Dan more expensive than the competition. Two hundred fifty bucks. So you know you're getting a good product. Obviously it's apple. What about the negatives Joanna I mean to me this to me the negatives Are Actually not so much in the technology here but in the the societal use of air pods I mean the fact that we can now put these in our ears and you WanNa wear them for longer periods zip time and you want to wear them in more places because it will cancel out the noise and it's more comfortable to wear and you're gotta ask ourselves like is this a great idea for society and mankind that were constantly blocking out other people's noises and sounds and the other thing is is that these are just not great environmentally. I mean they are small but apple has not made these repairable terrible so if something goes wrong with your airport the battery dies apple actually swaps them for a brand new airport. They don't open it up and put in a new battery and You Know Apple Apple says these are recyclable. The we'll take him trade end but it's not. It's not a great thing for the world. Joanna what about the battery life in the air pods pro. Sadly not improved. You're going to get the same battery here is you're going to get on the the lower end model of the one hundred and fifty nine dollar one-size-fits-all air
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Apple iPhone 2019 Event: A Recap
"Software defined networks or SDN are being positioned as a game changer for businesses and every industry what's the great promise of SDN and how can businesses best take advantage vantage of it find out when we return to the transformation minute from comcast business mm-hmm. This is tech news briefing. I'm Tanya Bustos reporting from the newsroom in New York and in Cupertino California apple unleashes a trio of upgraded I phone models and reveals big plans for the video streaming market breaking down all the big reveals at Apple's market product showcase after these tech headlines the Amazon has agreed to take space in a first of its kind three-story warehouse a new type of distribution center or that could reduce delivery times and congested cities while they are common in densely populated Asian and European cities modern warehouses with multiple floors have been absent isn't until recently in the US however more retailers are fighting to deliver more same day packages and developers are starting to build more multi-storey fulfillment centers Amazon on recently signed a lease for a three storey warehouse in Seattle the first of its kind to open in the US with multiple floors that large delivery trucks can access by ramps Amazon Amazon Target Walmart and other big retailers are looking to slash delivery times from two days to a shortest two hours in some instances developers are eager to help build these warehouses. This is they can charge a premium asking rents at the Seattle project range from fifteen percent to thirty percent above prices for older warehouses in the area electronic arts begins a public two week test of its cloud gaming service called project atlas with four games including being the latest installment of its biggest franchise FIFA. The company is one of several looking to bring to video games the same streaming capabilities that gave rise to net flix and spotify Microsoft as well has said it has plans to begin publicly testing. It's new initiative in the space with project x cloud while Google plans lance to launch its offering known as stadia in November. The Wall Street Journal Sarah Needle men covers it all at wsj.com. We learned that the US has urged urged Switzerland to ensure its regulations on crypto currencies are strong enough to prevent abuse. This is as the European banking hub prepares to host libra digital currency proposed by facebook the US Treasury along with other government officials have raised questions about the Lebron currencies which facebook is touting as part of a digital payment system. It plans to take mainstream to it's more than two billion users you us and Swiss officials met Tuesday in Bern Switzerland to discuss regulations is that would apply to libra as well as to cryptocurrencies more broadly and to also prevent the use of such digital cash for money laundering and other illicit purposes long famous for it's a bank secrecy laws. Switzerland has increasingly embraced global norms of financial transparency recently promoting itself as a hub for financial technology and innovation coming up a look at apple's next generation of phones watches and streaming services. Are you ready. Welcome back to the transformation permission. Minute from comcast business are software defined networks true game changer for the business world. We asked in east hasty. SV of comcast business software afterward defined networks hold the promise of lower cost greater flexibility and easier management. When you're managing your network through sdn you no longer have the need to deploy trucks and technicians to make changes to devices on your network that can be done through software in this year at Apple's showcase event held in the Steve Jobs Center in Cupertino California apple brushed aside that whole slowing slowing iphone sales thing by making a splash with its services products such as TV streaming video games and news? We'll get to that but I I know what you want to hear. Let's talk talk about iphone. Sat Down is iphone eleven the next generation of iphone phone it is jam packed with great new capabilities in an incredible new design apple CEO. Tim Cook took the stage to talk about the usual upgrades such as longer longer lasting batteries and shiny new colors the six hundred ninety nine iphone eleven which updates last year's Xsara model has a dual rear camera the the iphone eleven pro and eleven pro. Max Has Triple Rear Cameras Costing Ninety Nine and ten ninety nine respectively. Did we mention cameras proving to be a big deal deal this year. WSJ's personal tech columnist Joanna Stern has more from Cupertino. They spent a lot of time on stage talking about the camera systems how you'll be able to take better better video better photos with these three cameras and a combination of new software checkout. Joanna stearns latest video wsj.com for more back to those big services plans plans apple set monthly prices at four dollars and ninety nine cents for its TV plus video streaming service and Apple Arcade. It's video game streaming service. The one that comes with exclusive games including a remake of the classic hit frogger a five dollar price tag for both this undercuts most rivals prices. The Journal says Apple can afford to discount these services because of the prophets earns on hardware. TV plus will make its debut in November with shows like the morning show a drama. I'm about a morning talk. Show starring reese witherspoon and Jennifer Aniston eat more. Here's Tim Cook with more. When you buy an IPHONE IPAD macaroni Apple TV you you get one year of Apple. TV Plus Apple's Steve Tang announced that the new Apple Series Watch. I five is a big improvement. It has a new always on retina display. There are also fancy options. There are new or mez models these beautiful caller block bands with a classic or misprint. Aren't they cool. Yep Apple Watch series five also has an eighteen hour battery life and built encompass but but the journal says to sustain growth apple needs to leverage passed its hardware success to sell newer services case in point it has over nine hundred million iphone users worldwide wide but only a fraction owed apple watch or pay for the company's streaming music service however Wall Street has already begun to look ahead to next year's models that are expected to feature feature five G. as for this year's latest check out the expensive coverage in the form of videos live blogs and podcasts at wsj.com that does it for the tech news briefing from the newsroom in New York. I'm Tanya Bustos. Thanks for listening.
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Space Spinoffs: The Technology To Reach The Moon Was Put To Use Back On Earth
"This week on the show. We have a bit of a special episode. It's The fiftieth anniversary of the Apollo eleven moon landing from Nineteen sixty-nine the journal has been publishing stories videos and podcasts and all sorts of stuff about the history and legacy of Apollo eleven but on this year we're going to do something slightly different. We're GONNA look at some of the ways that the technology elegy invented and worked on and required to get a man on the moon in nineteen sixty nine still affects the tech that we all use now in twenty nineteen it turns out. There's more of that than anything here with me to do so since Joanna Stern is still gone Christopher uh-huh Christopher Hay there are you are you a moon guy like is is space and the moon landing like a thing that you love in general even when it's not the fiftieth anniversary I've had a personal renaissance. I think it's the Apollo eleven anniversary of been watching some stuff. Watch Paul Thirteen kids one of the Aerospace Museum. I don't know maybe I'm just getting old nostalgic but this stuff is cool. I agree I had the thing that really did for me. was there was a documentary came out the very beginning of this year. I think it's just called Apollo Eleven. That's like all this found wound footage that turns out to be amazingly high resolution of like the people who were there and in the control room and it was it was this sort of visceral experience kind of like you're actually watching it happen live and ever since then I've gone back into like my eighth phase in my lifetime of being totally obsessed with the space program and it's been very fun yeah. That's that's an astonishing documentary highly recommend Apollo eleven you can stream it. Oh Yeah I saw it an I max to which was one of the cooler things I've ever done but I- millimeter I'm sure it was amazing with the sound system but even on a little screen streamed. It was pretty pretty special totally okay so we have two stories this week and I I wanNA start by talking about the space suit so the Apollo eleven space was an incredible thing it's made of mylar lar and nylon and Teflon and even fiberglass it had to keep astronauts cool without being cold and warm without being hot and had to be super flexible and easy to work in but totally impenetrable even for elements that designers didn't know existed existed the suit that they came up with actually two hundred eighty pounds on earth but luckily that translated only thirty in the lesser gravity on the moon a lot of the things that were created to make those suits work turned out to have lots of other uses you know those huge huge white tent like roofs when you might see over a stadium or a concert venue. There's a good chance those are made of fabric called Beta cloth which is basically teflon coated fiberglass that was designed for the spacesuit. What are the companies that developed it by the way was corning which now makes it's the glass on top of your phone's screen but still the most spacesuit thing you might own now is a pair of sneakers and that's in large part? Thanks to our first guest Al Gross I could explain it'll be more fun to get him to and he's here now Hale Hi. How are you very good? <hes> yes I started working on the human engineering aspects of sports equipment relative to space suits. I started with ski boots of all types and we also did ski clubs. The installation ski outfits etc and from the ski boots. I went to the sneakers mainly because it's a larger market I had played college basketball and I'm a runner in much of the ski boot technology from space suits also fit into athletic shoes very well. I had done these projects for Nike the Adidas Converse a six Timberland Yukon of via many many companies in athletic shoe business over the years and I continue to do so wow okay so let's let's before we actually get some of that. Let's let's back up fifty or so years tells kind of about what you were doing at NASA in the in the sixties in particular in the run-up to Apollo Eleven. What was your what was your job? Everything I did was call. I was in school during Mercury and Gemini and I'm sort of the child of Apollo I started at Cape Canaveral worked on the Saturn. I five rocket launch engineer for two years. At the Cape. We man rated the vehicle with the first two unmanned Saturn five launches before we felt it was safe enough to put a crew on board. The first crew was Apollo. Wait which would the frank borman voyage around the moon where he quoted some the Bible and we I saw earth rise appear in from the dark side of the Moon I was then recruited to move to Houston Texas and become the lead systems design engineer of the Space Program Program of course at that time. I knew nothing whatsoever about space suits but neither did anybody else so it wasn't too much of a disadvantage. There was a history of pressure suits with the air force and a lot of air force personnel. Were there as well so so I was the head lead design engineer of spacesuit program in Houston and eventually I moved up to the factory where the space suits are made which is in Dover Delaware and became the design engineer on the production floor of the space suits. I needed the production experience to move into private industry which he cannot get up. The space center's themselves so I was lead design engineer over manufacturing space suits as well as being at the space center in Houston over systems and design and. What is it like to build a space? I mean you're you're designing a thing that no one's ever worn before for a place. They've never been before out of materials that no one has ever used before what how does that process work like what is the what is the trial and error like when you're trying to design a spacesuit surely fun on because it's human it goes on a human so we could get inside the space suits we could test the fingers of the gloves the elbows of the arms the knees that would go on the legs. All of these things are called mobility joints which are the most important part of the spacesuit so because it's human factors engineering your getting inside of your design you can feel touch it smell it. It's unlike driving a car like design a car. It's partly human engineering but it's not so close and intimate as a suit in is one of the things I've read is that things like knees and elbows were hugely challenging and involved a lot of sort of inventing brand new things to make it work but what when you're thinking about designing a spacesuit really for the first time was it obvious what the hardest parts were going to be. What were those things easy the mobility joints? I'm going to say the shoulders the hips the gloves in other words you WanNa get in something that when it's crusher is which normally would make stiff and not and not flexible at all you want it to be flexible only in certain places. This is a nose of the mobility joints and that's the toughest part of the job especially the ones that are three dimensional like your shoulders. They rotate they move in three different planes like your elbow only goes in one direction that would be the easiest one the shoulder older would be the hardest one because vulnerability ranges and rotates etc so all of that is the most important for once the pressure sued envelope is done then you're merely insulating it so all the thermal insulation elation than all that stuff is kind of a second thought to the basic pressure suit itself okay so building something that was totally insulated in would keep them safe but didn't have to move around or be friendly to human motion would be easier easier. It seems like but you had to build something people can actually like walk around in other words <hes> see if I can come up with something well. It's like it. Let's say it's a scuba suit underwater but it does everything you want. It makes you feel as if you're not even in a suit we're trying tend to achieve the nude body ceiling and one is crushed theorized. You're working against pressure. The suit is extremely rigid everywhere and getting all that to work to human engineering part is the hardest part and the installation and all that stuff goes on the outside inside the keep you safe and of course has to accommodate the same emotion that the pressure envelope does well guy and is it obvious in the middle of building something like that that the things that you're working on are going to have application outside of just building space suits or are you so laser focused on that one thing that you're not even necessarily worrying. We were so laser focused. We wouldn't even know if there ever be another use. Their focus was as good as it could get for the job if it could be used in any other Claes. We didn't know we didn't care and it wasn't until the program was coming to an end to we started realizing that there could be many space spinoffs of this technology which in my case I specialized in at what point does it occur to you that Oh all this stuff. I've been working on might be interesting to other people who aren't just trying to survive in space pretty much at the end of the program I was there to Apollo Seventeen. We landed on the Moon Sticks Times Apollo Thirteen of course did not make it we also had done all the space suits for the Skylab Skylab program the N._A._S._D.. The Apollo Soya's docking with the Russians and the early versions of the space shuttle suits and at that time I decided to to move to Aspen Colorado take up skiing and go into commercial products so it was at that point really nineteen seventy three one thousand nine hundred seventy four that I started focusing on the knowledge that I had particularly materials information and human factors designed putting it into sports equipment because I had a background at playing basketball and running and I love sports in general you're just done at that point. You're like I have put people on the moon. It's the seventies. Where else can I use my skills? Yes moving to Aspen going into the ski. Industry was my goal in everything I did was based on skiing and then because I ended up specializing in ski boots which is the hardest article for skiing and more like the space since because the ski Buddhism rigid Shell which is non human the space suit on its pressurized. It's rigid that's non-human of adapting things like that to the human body and making them work so ski boots were the real big focus and I worked for four different companies Nordica Dina Fit Solomon and rightly and probably the biggest inventions from NASA spinoff was in the rightly flex on Ski boot which is the most popular model ever made sold between three and four hundred thousand pairs a year from nearly twenty years in it was based on the convoluted mobility joints of the space suits which are sort of like a bellows designed the Ben but in this case bending and rigid plastic for Ski Boot Versus Bending in inflated pressurized and therefore rigid confidence in in a spacesuit designed the Ben so the joints were like bellows and I put that mosquito boot so that was the first real major spin off that had a very very large commercial success also many other things like a nike athletic shoes for example. The blow molding net we used to make the visors with stress-free molding the consulates were made with the dipping process. We never use moulding techniques like injection molding and compression molding what you're used throughout industry because you have built in stresses so for example the Nike Air so was blow-moulded many of the products I've done the via compression chamber was blow molded at stress-free stronger better materials because of the pounding it takes under the seat like playing basketball in a Nike Shoe Shoo Shoo where you're coming down rebounds in the pounding etc to have the durability required some of the processes we use the spacesuits. Can you explain a little bit more about that actually because I think the idea of the way that we manufacturer shoes now is so different from what it was before that I think can you sort of help understand what shoes were like when you started working on them and kind of how you rethought the way they should be men well. You couldn't be more correct when I went into the shoe industry industry in the winter of nineteen seventy three seventy four. I saw shoes just ancient devices readily. Even if you go into the patent search on foot words it'll say shoes boots and leggings so just those titles give you an idea of how L. ancient my mind technologists shoes boots and leggings in here. I come out of NASA so I along with other people had everything to do. I believe with making the shoes what they are today. Often I did a presentation people say our just making shoes. We're not building spaceships. I said Oh yeah I think we are and that was my serious about does this. You know we keep hearing about you. Next generation space suits you see he's sleek designs. People talk about what we're going to need for Mars. It's going to have to be a quantum leap over while we add for the moon. What have you seen happening in industry like what are the big potential innovations the unlocking technologies it could get us these these <hes> sleeker suits? We're not gonNA have sleeker suits. Everyone will them of course we do to the astronaut's wanted the new feeling in a suit which we all do and I wasn't spacesuits probably more than any other engineer in the program just by designing finding them. They wanted to spray on things like that which are pipe dreams. We wanted them just as well but the reasons the suits can't can't be sleek as they has to be pressurized because there's no there's a vacuum in space and you gotTA provide livable atmosphere this fear inside of the spacesuit when you pressurize it. Everything wants to go circular. It's like blowing up a balloon.
The Vergecast
Apple updates Macbooks
"There are new MAC books folks. You have are two new books. Which one do you have? <hes> I'm reviewing the macbook air. The new twenty nineteen macbook Air Dancy for is reviewing the new twenty nineteen Mac book pro and tree pro little pro. We don't have a name for here's what happened. <hes> apple updated the air they added a true tone display to it and they drop the price by one hundred bucks and then they took the Mac book escape which was the macbook pro that had the actual button function enro- and only two ports on the side and they put the Touch Barn the touch pad on it and they updated the processor and they left it with just two ports and that I don't remember the exact price there but it's like two hundred bucks more than the air now so those are the two computers that are new alongside those things the most important thing they did in my opinion is instead of updating the MAC book a little Itty bitty Mac book they just murdered it killed Italy just destroyed it so you. I think I saw you say this in slack okay. You were like the killing. The twelve inch Mac book is Apple Walking back. Its entire five year plan for these computers. I think so you can you defend that so okay it all stems from the very first computer of this new generation of macbooks was the MAC book. It was the first one with the keyboard word the new design the new tiered the battery and most of all they just called it Mac book. They didn't call it MAC book air. They didn't call it Mac Book Ultra whatever they're like this is Mac book and everything else is is like macbook pro and that was meant to be like the default and in the intervening years the keyboards went sideways apple forgot that people like processor updates and expect so just didn't bother making in those the very clearly didn't know what they wanted to do with this lineup and you could tell they didn't know what to do because their bestselling Mac was the one that was not part of this new generation it was the macbook air forever and so they finally really updated the macbook air and just made you know either a slimmed-down macbook pro or a beefed up macbook macbook take it. I think it's more of a slimmed-down Mac book pro called it the air throughout the world and it was like Oh yeah that's that's what we want. That's the the thing we've been asking you for five years and so of course they they're killing the MAC book because they're like Oh. Well people just want this thing and this vision of the future of what Max are going to be. We need to turn that dialed on a little bit. Go back to the other kind of keyboard and we'll do that stuff next year in the meantime <hes> at least we've got like normalized lineup so I think that the main problem is that the air brand name is too good like people love the macbook Luke Air. They love the name they know what it is the default computer it's it's the Joanna Stern for two hundred dollars more you can get a Mac book air right like it is that computer in so they what they should have done was called that my God did this entire.
WSJ Tech News Briefing
Apple WWDC 2019: A Recap
"The. This is tech news briefing. Im Tanya boost does reporting from the newsroom in New York. Coming up apple WW DC, twenty nineteen a look at the annual apple developer conference breaking down. I O S thirteen dark mode, ipad, IOS the MAC pro. And how will all keep a better I on your privacy. That's after these tech headlines. Let's stick with the topic developers have sued apple over the costs associated with selling apps on the company's apps store accusing the tech business of monopolizing app distribution, the lawsuit, which was filed in California on Tuesday says the company has charged bell peppers, a commission of thirty percent for nearly eleven years on selling apps and products within the apps. An apple spokesman said the company doesn't comment on lawsuits and directed. The Wall Street Journal to information about its apps store on its website. So misfires happen square can attest to this the digital agency forwarded receipts documenting transactions as mundane as a Cup of coffee as sensitive, as an obstetrician visit to people who are involved in the purchases hoarding to emails reviewed by the Wall Street Journal in some cases, near the purchaser, nor the recipient could say, why square sent receipts to the people at did at issue are the methods that tech companies employ to make money off of the financial data of their users as well as the degree to which those companies disclose or get consent from their users about those efforts read more about how data on individuals credit card transactions can be particularly delicate and what you can do to stay safe at wsJcom and after saying that it would start banning writers in the US and Canada with significantly below average ratings. Uber faces heat from angry users taking to Twitter to pan the new initiative. Many calling the move a good way to kill business. Many users reported receiving low ratings based on. Factors outside their control. No stranger of controversy. The Wall Street. Journal's Laura Forman has more on the blowback and what Uber is doing to solve a new problem on its hands head to wsJcom, or the WSJ app for more coming up Apple's worldwide developers conference is Irap the new changes you can expect on the horizon. Capital. One knows life doesn't alert you about your credit card. That's why they've created Iino the Capital One assistant that catches things that might look Frong with your credit card, you know catches over tipping, duplicate, charges, or potential fraud. And then sends an alert sheer phone and helps you fix it. It's another way capital. One is watching after your money when we're not Capital One. What's in your wallet? See Capital, One dot com for details. Apple held its annual worldwide developers conference in San Jose. This week were talked all kinds of new changes including an IS thirteen with a dark mode. Mac IOS Catalina and continued ongoing attempts to address user, your concern, about personal data here. CEO Tim cook. We'd be privacy's fundamental human, right? And engineer into everything we do this year were doing even more. We will soon have signing with apple Shay's personal tech columnist Joanna stern was on the scene to explain how it works to protect your privacy, instead of signing with data hungry, Google or Facebook apples, working without maker. So you can log in with a more, discreet service. It even has a way to block companies from getting access to your Email address. The obsta will be built right into the new watch software. So you can install apps without a phone near by you'll be able to search for apps via Siri or the keyboard is well, apple also says that IRS thirteen will open apps faster and features a new version of the face idea system. Which will unlock your phone thirty percent faster moving on. Let's talk. I pads there's now an operating system just for the ipad called ipad s the Wall Street Journal's David Pierce was also on scene at San Jose to explain I futures a new home screen with more apps on each page, and our new today view so that you can actually see wits right on the main screen. It also has a long awaited file manager, plus support for USB drives and desktop mode for safari. And then there is the MAC pro first, here's the obligatory setup and applause. New knock pro. Using a brand new Intel's EON processor. It has up to three hundred watts of power allowing users to participate in things like production, rendering playing back virtual instruments, and simulating IOS apps on multiple devices at once the cost Amir six thousand dollars. Those are the biggest highlights for many more recaps videos and beyond had a wsJcom also take a listen this week to the journals instant message podcast were personal tech columnist will dive into it all that does it for the tech news briefing reporting from the newsroom in New York. I'm Tanya boost does. Thanks for listening.
MarketFoolery
Samsung (Smartly) Postpones Release of Galaxy Fold
"We've got to start with the big tech news of the day. And for this requires a little bit of background on Wednesday. Samsung was planning an event in Shanghai to unveil its new galaxy fold smartphone and the. Old means what you think it means. This is the foldable display phone that was going to be on Wednesday. It was going to be on sale on Friday. And today Samsung announced it is postponing the event the company actually didn't say why they were postponing it, but I think for anyone who has seen the early reviews because of course, Samsung like any consumer tech company got the product out early reviewers, the influencers everyone envisioned my air quotes influencers. Well, I think these are like Jones we used to call tech reviewers. Yeah. Well, I think Joanna stern for one at the Wall Street Journal. Very entertaining and illuminating video and the the reviewers it didn't go. Well. And so they are postponing this event and the launch of this phone, and it seems like for really good reasons did and it didn't the verge had a great long video. And the reviewer said this an his phone broke, his the screen broke on has an so the the story. Yeah. Just scandal. Is that the screen is breaking which is something as a guy who builds things for a living. I was like you're going to try to make a screen fold like I you take a piece of leather or a piece of like nylon webbing, and you fold it enough times. It starts to get broken. It's gonna wear out. I don't know how you can build a screen that won't they must think they have. Unfortunately, there's four high high visibility reviewers who's broke two of them as far as I know like peeled off. This protective layer you're not supposed to peel off. It's an anti scratch layer because the screen itself is plastic not glass, I guess and in doing so. They probably like busted up the electronics underneath it went bad. But others didn't peel that off in. It's still went bad. And so there, you know, there are a few of these units a handful. But of course, on the tweeter that that equates to everything.
WSJ Tech News Briefing
Trump Hits Amazon, Online Retailers With Proposed USPS Changes
"Support for this podcast and the following message. Come from SAP. Concur employees can submit expenses and invoices from anywhere, and you get the visibility and control you need to drive your business forward. Learn more at concur dot com slash W, s j. Is this news briefing? Im Tanya Bustos reporting from the newsroom in New York. And a treasury led task force is proposing that the US postal service charge more for certain package deliveries. Latest details on how it's going after Amazon dot com and other online retailers that President Trump says benefit at the post offices expense. We'll talk about it after these tech headlines. The UK parliament released about two hundred fifty internal Facebook emails that lawmakers said show. How execs at the social media company, including CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, gave some developers special access to user data and contemplated charging developers for data access. The documents released this week were part of a parliamentary procedure in the UK deep. The Rahman has more at wsJcom or the WSJ app. Snagging a top secret satellite tech China. Here's the story. Boeing is preparing to provide a small Los Angeles company with a satellite kitted out in top secret, military tech, the problem the startup global IP is financed and controlled by a state owned Chinese financial firm. So now current and former US officials fear the satellite. Good ultimately be used by China's government or military once in space or its technology, reverse engineered. And if you're wondering if there are some sort of laws that prevent this from happening. Yes. A web of US laws effectively prohibits exporting satellite tech to China. However, the journal says you can blame either confusion bureaucracy or a failure to connect the dots. In a deal that involved subsidaries middlemen and accompanied quickly set up in the British Virgin Islands. Australia plans to make encryption cracking the law it set to adopt a tough new encryption law this week with the government arguing that intelligence agencies need stronger powers to contain the threat of militant attacks during the holiday season. This is starting to concern some tech firms case in point apple in a submission to lawmakers said the Australian Bill granted, quote, extraordinarily broad and vague powers, and quote that could compel it to develop custom software to bypass encryption. Meanwhile, in the US, congress has so far rejected any push by the Federal Bureau of investigation and US department of Justice for tech firms to create a back door circumventing devices encryption coming up looking into the report from a treasury led task force calling to raise the prices for many types of commercial package deliveries. A review of the US postal service proposes a sweeping change likely to hit a company you may have heard of called Amazon what a proposal from the treasury led task force says about charging more for certain package deliveries. Let's get more from our DC bureau. Joining us now is the Wall Street Journal's Jonty McKinnon, welcome back. Thanks. So President Trump has often said on Twitter that the postal service. We said a lot of things, but a lot of it implies that the postal service has a sweetheart arrangement with Amazon and here we are with the new proposal from the treasury. Let's let's talk about what we know what it says what it doesn't say. What can we glean from? This proposal thus far. You know, the the main points are that the report proposes several changes that would collectively have the effect of basically pushing up rates for delivery. Of packages from companies like Amazon, by the postal service. So Amazon would have to pay more probably other shippers would have to pay more as well. And it feels like, you know, Amazon is the big target here. Trump and CEO Jeff Bezos have clearly been at odds. How could a move like this hit Amazon more specifically? I know it relies on the postal service quite a bit. Yes. That's right. I mean estimates are up to forty five percent of their deliveries are done by the postal service. So it's hard to know. Here's where the report really kind of comes up a little short. It doesn't provide a lot of specifics on exactly how much rates would go up. It's just kind of suggesting that something that the governors of the postal service need to figure out and from there. It's just a question of working out the numbers, it's hard to tell from this, though, exactly how much rates might go up and Amazon and all sorts of. Of firms like the national retail federation. They're part of this group called the package coalition. They're pushing back in a statement that really says that this can harm consumers and beyond. What's what's the pushback? Been like, well, it's been pretty significant just since the report was released. But I think what lies ahead is going to be even more significant. They are really promising to take their case to Capitol Hill and lobby hard to get this problem that they see resolved. I think that they want the postal service to go in another direction altogether. When it comes to trying to balance the books, and there is also getting pushed back by postal workers as well. That's an important way in here. So what further conversations are to be heard before anything really get solidified here. What else needs to be sorted out? I well, I think what you're going to see probably is a big debate next year in congress about what direction this postal service reform ought to take. Okay. You know, it's interesting that the administration is weighing in so strongly on the side of basically, dealing with the postal services problems through the pricing of package delivery. I think that you'll see kind of a battle between that point of view, and the shippers point of view, which would basically try to take care of the postal services financial problems by addressing their mainly by addressing the big obligations. They have to their giant number of retirees in their healthcare benefits. Right. Yeah. This is something that's been set in motion. It'll be interesting to see where this goes from here. But I guess it's still early jump. Thanks so much for the time. Yeah. You bet. Head to wsJcom for more on the story where you can also find more podcasts like this one, including a brand new one featuring personal tech columnist David Pierce as well. As Joanna stern and Christopher mims. It is quite possibly one of the funniest tech podcasts out there. Make sure. Your check out. A new episode of instant message Friday that does it for the tech news briefing reporting from the newsroom in New York. I'm Tanya boost does thanks for listening.
CNBC's Fast Money
New iPhone Reviews
"Reviews are in for these new iphone. So let's run through some of the highlights the verges nearly Patel saying Apple's iphone ten s and ten s max smoothed out solid updates to a winning formula. He says, US today's Ed beige telling his readers, these two new iphones are the best apple has ever made as for if the cost justifies the expense Bauge rights. Well, maybe she wait until the iphone ten or appears next month. The journals Joanna, stern, echoing that theme sit tight for the iphone ten are she says that the new iphones are great, but that the ten are due out in October. Remember sounds more like a great deal in her opinion for his part, Brian Chen of the New York Times. Though, writing bigger is now definitely better acknowledging the price tags of these new smartphones, but emphasizing that their cameras and screens, make them worth the high prices.