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Robert Wallace has supported independent tech news directly for five years, be like Robert, become a DTS member at patreon. com, slash, D, T and s. This is the daily tech news for Monday, June 24th 2019 in Los Angeles on Tom Merritt and from Studio Piney Lyon, I'm, Sarah, Lane, and I'm the show's producer Roger Chang. We have got new Raspberry Pi's. We have got new Samsung SmartThings. Furthermore, we have Google trying to help make the world better seriously for real all kinds of good stuff.

Let's start with a few tech things you should know the first public beta of macOS, 10.15 Catalina, is out now ahead of its expected July date. Catalina includes apps for music, podcasts and TV to replace iTunes, as well as the find my app and sidecar for using an iPad as a monitor. Also, the public betas of iOS 13 and iPadOS 13 have been released early as well Google. Shutting down hangouts on air, which allows broadcasting a group, video called live over. The Internet people who have been watching us live might be familiar with Google Hangouts on air sometime later this year.

This is supposed to happen now. Hangouts on air is different from Google Hangouts, the app, which is also going away for G suite users in October to be replaced by Hangouts chat and hangouts meets. This is not at all confusing Google's message about the impending shutdown of hangouts on air points, people to YouTube. com slash webcam, but that only works with a single video source and not group video chats. But it's real quick side note.

We used hangouts on air to stream the show up until June 1st and then shortly after we stopped, they decided to get rid of it. I'm just saying. Maybe it was us keeping it around. Maze announced at six point two inches: OLED maze 16s flagship phone with an in display optical fingerprint scanner, 20 megapixels, selfie camera in the top bezel; no, not CH, 48, megapixel Sony sensor in the photo and the camera on back seven point: six millimeters thick weighs 165 grams and runs Mizzou's fly me OS, built on top of Android on a snapdragon 855 processors. It has 3600 William hour battery and up to 8 gigabytes of RAM and sells for around $500.

Just no no nonsense, solid 500, other phone, all right. Let's talk a little more about that new Raspberry Pi, sir yeah specs galore, the Raspberry Pi foundation, announced the Raspberry Pi.4 is now available with the faster system ownership than previous models. The processor now uses the cortex a 72 architecture. It's quad-core, 64-bit ARM version eats at 1.5 gigahertz. The PI fours memory transfer speeds should improve after the foundation switched from LP ddr2 to lpddr4 Ram Gigabit Ethernet is replacing Ethernet over a USB 2.0. There are now two USB 3.0 ports, also two USB 2.0 ports and USB-C port for the power brick Bluetooth 5.0 now supported and two micro HDMI ports replaced the full-size single HDMI ports of versions past that gets you support of two 4k monitors with H point 265 decode for 4k 60p h.264 for 1080p 60, decode and 1080p 30 encode and OpenGL ES, 3.0, graphics, the 4-pole headphone jack is pretty much the only thing. That's remaining the same.

The base model with one gigabyte of RAM- it cost $35, that's what it was before, and then you have two gigabytes of RAM model for $45 and the four gigabyte model.455 yeah, four ports I think it's a net positive. Getting a couple of Bluetooth 3 Barb's couple of USB 3.0 ports is great, while preserving a couple of 2.0 s for backwards compatibility backwards, compatibility on all the pin ports that you use for as bury, PI stuff, the upgraded HDMI is good, although making them many I, think more micro HDMI may annoy a few people, so one minor negative there and then replacing the micro USB with USB-C all seems pretty good. Roger I know you're always attracted to these. You know the great thing about the Raspberry Pi has always been. It gives you a full, fully functioning computer at an inexpensive cost, allowing you to use it for a lot of embedded or kind of DIY projects.

Typically, before this people would use like old laptops and similar machines, they were, and you could say they weren't necessarily what you would want, if you say wanted to make like a controller or maybe something to you know, build the DIY door cam or something like that. I'm really excited I. Unfortunately, child is still at the age where she will probably just throw it at me, instead of actually I'm trying to figure out what it does, but definitely the kind of man in my sentiment I feel like these are like the Legos for the 21st century yeah. In a way they really are and very affordable I mean, as you mentioned, you have to be a person who wants to tinker whatever your ages or have somebody help you to tinker. You know buying a $35 one gigabyte, raspberry pie for you.

You know you just kind of got to look at it unless you know what to do with it right. This is not a replacement for any computer, that's an all-in-one solution, but tractor pricing yeah, definitely, and- and also you know you- you have to bring the storage, it doesn't come with any storage on board, so there's some additional cost there, but 35 bucks I think it was fire dog, 12 and twitch said cheaper that Legos, okay, very much so because for certain I know the reason why but Lego has Lego. The company has to increase their prices slowly over the past eight years. Yeah. Could you use a Red Delicious apple as a controller with your resin? Yes, you can because it conducts electricity, and so we were actually back at revision3 Michael hand, I'm sure, Sarah's familiar with Michael hand.

He was an intern trying to come up with a way to use a banana and an apple as controllers for a very simple program on screen display yeah, where you do touch the app just touch it and yeah you good for something good for something right yeah. This is great for learning great for experimentation. All that sort of thing Samsung launched a new smart things' cam for $89.99, not a bad price, for this sort of nest, cam competitor type of thing: it's not the cheapest one, but it's not that captures full HD video with HDR infrared for night-vision, two-way audio. All these will things can detect. People have a hundred forty-five degree field of view.24 hours of free cloud, storage, backup for up to 4 cameras and Samsung is offering 30-day back up. So you get it 24 hours of backup for free 30-day backup for up to 8 cameras for 8 dollars a month or $80 per year.

Samsung also announced an $18 smart things, Wi-Fi smart plug so cheaper than the Amazon one actually and a $10 smart things. Smart bulb. You do have to have a bridge for the bulb, but $10 for smart boat was pretty good. All three are available today for use with the smart things: ecosystem the cam and the smart plug can be used with or without the SmartThings hub. The smart bulb uses ZigBee 3.0, that's the one that needs the hub and the devices work with Amazon Google Assistant and Bixby voice assistance. So you can control them with your voice, good prices, especially for the bulb when the plug yeah.

This seems like the prices were specifically meant to be super competitive. There are no specs here where people are like whoa I can't get that anywhere else. Well, you've got you know $10 off here and there I also known for anybody who's like cloud storage. Don't want that! You don't have to opt into that. That's something that you can.

You can either choose to have for free or not, and of course, if you want more of the 30 day, storage you've got a subscription model, but yeah tractor prices, and this doesn't give me just it just gives me stills. It doesn't give me video storage, so it's its pretty common to have to pay for that stuff, but a lot of people don't want to they just want to. They want to connect directly. There are other cameras for that, but if you're the kind of person who's fine with that cloud storage, because you don't want to metal a trying to open ports and get into your camera yourself, then these kinds of cloud storage offers are, you know, are appealing and Samsung. As far as Trust goes at least isn't as motivated to make money off your personal data as Google or Facebook or others would be.

They just want to sell you the things. The objects, the hardware, the service, you don't necessarily want to sell ads based on you, although I wouldn't put it past them, if they could figure out how to monetize it doesn't get me wrong. Yeah, there's something very compelling about a lower price tag. Yeah, yeah and definitely well, and all these ecosystems know that if I were to get a smart things, cam- and you know maybe a couple bulbs and I get familiar with using the app and I'd yeah I have a good or better experience with Samsung's products in general, I'm, just kind of gonna stick with it, because otherwise you're juggling a bunch of smart ecosystems that sometimes don't work great in conjunction with each other, Google Assistant and Amazon have made it easier to just use all this stuff together. I have life and Philips and taxi and all kinds of stuff.

In my house, yeah and I. Just I just used the Amazon Echo to control that, but some folks may not realize that or just not want to risk it and have to deal with multiple systems and so yeah once they get you in its easier to keep you Google is expanding its be internet, awesome, children's digital safety program to include media literacy. What does that mean? Well, new elements, help children, evaluate sources, identify credible information or information that is not credible fact. Check avoid phishing attacks, learn what bots are and what they do: spot fake, URLs and others. It was developed by a Collier executive director from the net safety collaborative and faith Aragon, PhD and co-author of the teachers guide to media literacy and co-founder of the National Association for media literacy.

Education. Children are taught that an expert in one topic, not always an expert on everything and quote. If you can't find a variety of credible sources that agree with the source you are checking. You shouldn't believe that source the new curriculum is available online, for both teachers and families to use courses are offered in English, Spanish and eight other languages. They're clues a breath of fresh air.

When I read this because it's detailed, this is meant for children and the lesson plans are designed for children. There are other media literacy movements to help educate adults, but all the stuff is the kind of thing we should be educating all of us on an expert in you know, physics, isn't an expert in ecology, and you know, and, and you see things across poseable. This is a scientist, well yeah, okay, but is she a scientist in this discipline that you're trying to claim that's a big one? You have to watch out for and even to the subtlety of teaching children? Hey? If you see one source that you usually think is credible, and you can't find anybody else talking about this- maybe don't believe it yet because maybe they got it wrong, good stuff, the kind of yeah, exactly in fact we there are. There was a story. Last week when tom was like yeah now where's, the second source we found one eventually, but it's you know you.

You've learned to be wary of anything that that that is not backed up by other credible sources, that over time you realize what those are, and I downloaded the PDF of the curriculum and need a scan through it. It's quite long and quite involved. So it's not as if I've been able to teach a child this, but it also wasn't written like cutesy kindergarten, speak I, think this is something that's designed for people who might just kind of be new to this. Doesn't mean you have to be five years old, it just means you might be an adult who's who can get something out of this as well? I think that Altar AAT e of Ages could benefit yeah. The real silver blade in the twitch chat says this should be in classrooms that that's exactly what this is designed for.

This is designed to be in classrooms, which is what's so good about it and I like that. Google isn't just doing it themselves. There they're working with people who know this area and are experts in this. Actually experts in this area that they're trying to do so. That it is good and, like you said, these tips go beyond not tips, even just a skill.

The skill of media literacy goes beyond what a child needs. It's its. What a lot of us needs, because we just didn't need to be as media literate as we do now. Back in the day, there was a natural gate right. You had three TV channels: a couple of daily papers, an array, a few radio stations and the ones that didn't at least get it close to right, didn't last.

That was easy. Nowadays, you've got thousands of sources and another thing they try to teach children is donen't just believe something because it looks like it has a credible name. Anybody can come up with a name that sounds evil. I. Think I was gonna.

Add one of the fascinating bits with Zillow test where they give like it's like a multiple-choice test, but you marked which of these websites. Look credible, and they'll have things like the Washington Post, but Washington is spelled incorrectly in the end so I thought that was actually brilliant because oftentimes, it's not that people don't or trusts are very trusting of sources that they've never seen before. But you know to be sure that you're actually on the site that you believe that you're on yeah, the spotting faked URLs as part of this curriculum right, and it just feels I- was very happy when I saw this because a lot of times I'll see something like this I. Don't think now, this is a little oversimplified. Well now they're kind of missing a few things, but this one doesn't seem to be that this seems very well-thought-out and very well done and so much more.

The kind of thing we need to do to get to the root of the problem. Well, yeah, as I often do when we talk about fake news, knowing the effects of fake news are important in helping to combat the effects of fake news, and we don't know what the effects are. We haven't studied it very well but being able to help people just avoid it. That's the best solution, teaching children at a young age. This is what not to believe we'll just make that fake news wither, eventually an understanding that tactics will change in order to try to fool.

You mean we all like to think of ourselves. As you know, you never get one past me, but just over the weekend, Dropbox wanted me to change my password, and it was some phishing scheme that you know I was able to identify, but this is the sort of thing that you have to stay up on all the time. You don't just go like oh I, understand it, and it'll never be an issue. It will be an issue and as long as you're educated and understand what you know what the curveballs to avoid it's really helpful for all of us. I believe we'll live in a world one day when you won't have to be constantly vigilant about everything you read and every email you get, but we're not there yet.

So you kind of do IHS market analyst, Jeff Lin, says Apple will release a 16-inch MacBook Pro in September, 16 inches I didn't read that wrong. I will supposedly have a thirty 72 by 1920 LG display LCD panel, no no LED according to Jeff and a new CPU that makes sense. Ming Chi quo also said he hears. Apple is making a 16-inch laptop, so Sarah and Roger and I were racking our brains for a real reason that one might want a 16-inch laptop over, say a 15.6 or a 17 17 just use gigantic I. Remember you had one of those Sarah so bigger without getting too big I, don't know yeah.

You know it's funny. My 17-inch MacBook Pro, which I still use kind of as a backup laptop both it's very long in the tooth now originally I bought for video, editing and I ended up using it for kind of everyday stuff more than the editing, and it was big and unwieldy and I. Don't miss that form factor at all. It's too big, but I also use an external monitor for most things unless I'm traveling, so I couldn't see where someone says no 16 inches great, because it's still that larger screen for a lot of the know, maybe content creation and creative stuff that I might need, but a little more compact than the 17-inch. But I also think, and is the 15-inch just too small.

Then they probably got a pretty good deal, or they got a deal on the monitor, because when you make it especially for laptops and other screens like TVs and monitors, they make the size based on how many, how many pieces they can get out from a huge single piece of glass, the mother glass, and so that might be the only size that was available for the resolution that they wanted. So if they wanted, if they wanted something low res, they could have gone with a bigger screen, but you would have it wouldn't have gotten that that pixel density that they would have wanted- and that's just pure speculation on my part, yeah I mean it makes sense except Apple, doesn't do things that way. They don't like to get a good deal on laptop screens and then build a laptop around it. They pay extra for things because they think that's the right way to do it. So my guess is, it may be a little of both right.

It may be they wanted to do 16, inches and then and we're debating, maybe on the fence. I. Don't know and- and it worked out that they could- they could get them easily, but again, I, don't know, even when I'm saying that Apple doesn't care about whether it's cheap or easy. They never do. They just want to make it the way they want to make it.

So they have a reason if they are going to do a 16-inch, MacBook Pro, why they want to do it and my guess is it'll be close to what Sarah was saying where oh, you need a little more screen real estate, but you don't want it to be that huge, that's too big and maybe poke fun at themselves for the 17-inch laptop or something well, it's not as if Apple's going to make the first 16-inch laptop either. So if you know, might have done enough market research to be like that's a sweet spot for folks who are buying other manufacturer models. Oh yeah, be master points out. Small bezels means they might say it's its more screen real estate in the same size as this 15-inch MacBook we used to make etc. , etc.

That's a pretty compelling Apple type pitch I feel like well IHS markets, Jeff Lynn he's been busy. He also tells Forbes that Microsoft plans a foldable surface device for the first half of 2020, which may run Android, apps and Apple's iCloud service. The new surface could have two 9-inch screens and a 4.3 aspect ratio and run the windows. Lite OS, that's sort of third going rumor at this time. The device reportedly will also have Intel's 10 nanometer Lake field processor and have always-on connectivity by either LTE or 5g, of course, no process, pricing or processing yet, but this sounds intriguing yeah I.

First, if they add iCloud support directly to Windows I mean you can certainly use it iCloud in lots of ways with Windows, but if they added it as a service in Windows and Android apps I would imagine they would be doing it for more than just this device. That seems like a kind of thing you might want to tout across a lot of devices, but I get. What he's saying here is this is going to be that Windows Lite OS, and so it will be a Chromebook competitor. It will be foldable in that it will be able to do more. Things like like a hybrid like a yoga type laptop, but it will mostly be I.

Think targeted at Chrome OS, saying look the advantage of Chrome OS is you can use all your Android apps? Well, guess what you can't on this -? Don't you think I'm? Unless it was priced in some exponential way, it sounds like it would. It would be extremely valuable. Yeah, I think this is a think this is a believable rumor, and we heard reports about them doing a foldable and what that might look like and having the keyboard and in one of the nine-inch screens and to me pitching a laptop or tablet as a foldable I think, isn't easier pitch than pitching a phone as a foldable. In fact, I look at the fold and the mate both as fold as unfold about our foldable tablets rather than unfold. The ball phones.

Finally, Amazon unveiled an online beauty supply store for licensed professional stylists, barbers and other estheticians. It sells supplies typically used in salons and spas from brands like well, a color charm and rusk to OPI. Professional buyers do need their state issued cosmetology or barber or esthetician license in order to purchase products. So this isn't meant for you or me. This is meant for your barber for your stylist to be able to get the supplies.

They need cheaper now, ultra Beauty, if and their chain are not going to use this, because Ultra is a supplier, but it's already hurting Ultra stock, because Amazon, when they move into anybody's business, is usually seen as the kind of harbinger of doom of a sort yeah. You know it's, it's funny. I get this fancy shampoo. Whenever I go and get my hair cut, you know once every six weeks or so and it's its products that they're there they cost what they cost and that's the way it works. Okay.

Well, if that salon can buy these products at a lower cost, will those savings be passed on to me? I, don't know, but it is certainly advantageous to the people at the salon who are buying those products. Yeah, exactly I mean it will make it easier for your salon or your barber to pass the savings on to you. That's your individual shop will decide how much of that savings they can afford to pass on and what they want in the native market. Remember, prices aren't dictated by supply. Prices are dictated by how much consumers will pay and what their competitive choices are, not just supply.

So if they can still charge you they're still going to charge you, but they might be able to give you more discounts. They might tell you the products for cheaper to kind of keep you in the store and say hey. You know it's cheaper than you can get online. Imagine if they were buying from Amazon at such bulk rates with discounts that they could sell you in the shop for less than you would pay, and they'd show you on Amazon itself. Here's what you'd pay if you bought it from Amazon, but because I get it from Amazon I can charge you less I mean that's not impossible.

Right, I, actually, pinged, a friend of mine, who's, the founder and CEO of style state melody McCloskey, who, if you're not familiar with style seat, is an on-demand service where you could book a hair, stylist or a cosmetologist or a barber, or an esthetician who might have some time in their week without having to call the salon and see if that person is available, and she said, yeah brands haven't been able to deliver wholesale or retail commerce at any scale, despite the size of the industry, which is huge, so she thinks the disruption will help the consumer and the professional. She also says her company plans to either work directly with Amazon or with wholesalers directly. Now that this is more of an option for them, I guess the downside of this story would be Amazon getting into yet another segment of the industry and do are we getting to the point where Amazon is controlling too many pipelines if they do Drive other suppliers out right, yeah I'm talking about that for some time, but yeah beauty, industry. It is a big one. It's a big industry, its beauty and as Amazon the beast.

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Com slash groups, slash daily tech news show all right, let's check in with Chris Christensen at the amateur traveler who sharing a news item on United Airlines. If you fly United regularly using AI to help passengers connecting flights, this is Chris Kristen sen from amateur traveler with another tech in travel minute. One of the sharp-eyed members of the DTS community reads spotted a great article. How United is using AI in its connection saver project to increase the chance that you're going to make your connecting flight? It's a complicated problem. Airline gets penalty.

If you take off late flight crews are on a clock in terms of how long they can work. If you're holding a gate, then that can slow down people coming in. Of course, if you leave late that can make a problem for the people catching a flight at the other end, but the AI version of this program when they match it. Head-To-Head with human operators has made 30% fewer, missed connections, they're still rolling the program out to different airports. But if you make your next tight connection, you may have an AI to thank I'm Chris Kristen sen from amateur traveler well, having had missed connection problems with United that led to me not flying on them anymore.

I hope this works I think because this is the kind of problem that AI can be perfect at solving for sure. Yeah, I actually fly United. It's kind of my number one airline because I don't know I'm a sucker but disconnections not a huge problem but but having gate issues very much a regular problem. So it sounds like this. Could this iron out a lot of issues? Missed connections belong on Craigslist.

That's right, yeah keep weather, let's check out the mailbag. Let's do it. Shad wrote in and mention conversation we had. Last week we were looking for somebody who had experience with upgrading legacy systems and enterprise settings. Chad says I.

Don't currently do this. Thank the powers that be, but I spent seven years doing this for a medium-sized organization where my sole job was to take old, outdated legacy systems and get them up to date were possible and mitigate impacts where it was impossible. I could tell you tales of maintaining legacy vb6 code into 2017 to a five-year project that required us to rework the majority of our automation before we could even get the project completed in many cases. It's not that companies don't want to modernize their technology stack. Unfortunately, it's not as simple as running an upgrade installer or pulling the old one out and putting the new one.

In often, there are API changes, legacy code bases, outdated programming, standards and languages, all of which has to be balanced with the. What have you done for me lately, mentality of the business that doesn't understand why the IT department is spending all their time on old stuff yeah? That's you know, I definitely want to do an interview and, and maybe it'll be with Chad. We got a couple of other emails from people who are in the same predicament and have done these kinds of things, and it's important for us to try to understand why it is that a company is still running Windows XP. It may not be because they're dumb or don't get it or cheap. There's lots of other reasons, like the ones Chad we're talking about here.

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