The Chris Voss Show - The Chris Voss Show Podcast – Blizzard Gaming Bans, Twitter Oops, Facebook Workplace New Linkedin? & Other Tech News Oct 8, 2019

Episode Date: October 9, 2019

Blizzard Gaming Bans, Twitter Oops, Facebook Workplace New Linkedin? & Other Tech News Oct 8, 2019

Hi folks, Chris Voss here from thechrisvossshow.com. Welcome to another edition of the Chris Voss Show Podcast. We certainly appreciate you guys being here. Why don't you pull up a cup of coffee, maybe your favorite tea, maybe just whatever beverage you might be drinking. Maybe you're doing a scotch and an eight ball. Just pull one up and let's share a moment here on the chris voss show podcast i don't know i'm of course referring to a pool game uh anyway uh let's the, oh, it's October 8th, wow, okay, 7th was yesterday, wow, okay, all right, I took a nap sometime today, clearly I lost what day it was when I took my nap,

it's getting old stuff, taking naps is pretty interesting, you young people just wait, I used to always make fun of my dad taking naps, and I'd be like, dad, you're always taking a nap. Little did I know he was doing it probably mostly to get away from us. But the other thing is he was old and he was tired. He was tired of our shit. So he took a lot of naps. So anyway, I just woke up from a nap, figured I'd pound out a podcast,

and I don't know what day it is clearly. So either I'm suffering from a massive hemorrhaging head wound or, well, it's probably just Tuesday. Anyway, guys, let's talk about news, what's going on in the tech world today. Be sure to go to thecvpn.com or chrisfosspodcastnetwork.com and follow all the wonderful stuff that we're doing over there, the six different podcasts. We're talking about launching a seventh podcast. I won't tell you what it is, so you'll have to go see what's up over there and if it's produced yet uh but it definitely is in the cooker as it were so let's talk about tech news the tech there i should have like uh actually a cnn uh actor i forget his name he's really uh

great actor um where he has the this is cnn i'll probably get sued for that now um i should probably have him do that announcement. Let's get into news! Or, you know, the, let's get ready to rumble. That's probably a good one. Let's get ready to do the news! All right, now that I'm done annoying you and your speakers. Top of the news.

This is kind of interesting because it plays in the world of gaming, plays in the world of technology. We cover gaming on the Chris Foss Show. But also this comes into politics. We're seeing a crossover, a lot of this stuff lately, because some of the dynamics and stuff in our world is changing. So according to Bloomberg, and of course this has been reported by numerous outlets by now,

Blizzard, if you're not familiar with Blizzard, they're a huge gaming uh company i believe they're owned by activision um no hold on i think it's something else i don't know i'm confused anyway blizzard has a huge different website they take and use and uh promote stuff they have their games world of warcraft all that sort of stuff uh anyway they have huge competitions around the world and prize money and all that stuff. Well, they have banned a, uh, player from the hearthstone competition for a year,

rescinded 10,000, uh, of his prize money after he publicly supported Hong Kong's pro-democracy protest protesters. Um, you know, it's, we don't like to get into politics too deep in the weeds here.

There's another show for that on the Chris Voss show, uh, network. Um, but, uh, we're seeing a lot of this in the news lately uh we recently saw the nba kind of get upended with china over a coach publishing a tweet about supporting the hong kong protesters and democracy there uh it's turning a whole kerfuffle in fact china's retaliating now and the nba is probably gonna lose lose billions of dollars just over a guy tweeting. Now, I'm not saying that's right or wrong. Keep that in mind.

But it's interesting to me that one tweet can cause these billion-dollar sort of failures in business. So definitely interesting how some of this stuff can impact the world. We've seen presidents and politicians around the world that can crash their markets by saying the wrong thing on social media. But this is just a coach of an NBA team that may have cost the NBA billions and billions of dollars. In fact, I'm not sure he's a coach.

I think he's a general manager. He's somewhere in the management. Let's put it that way. So this is happening around the world. And I guess China has become powerful enough that they can put their foot down and say, you know, you're going to have to fold to us. If you listen to the Chris Washoe podcast news reports, a couple days ago we reported that the new Apple emojis in their new iOS do not have the, I can't remember what it is. There's like Hong Kong apps.

There's some apps where the Taiwanese flag is now missing. Or it was in the emojis and now it's gone. If you live in the prospective areas of China and Hong Kong, which basically is a statement from Apple that they're bending the will of China. So this is going to be kind of interesting as we see China rising, rising as an economy, rising as a power and everything else, and the demands they're going to want to put on technology companies to bend to their will. I mean, already you've seen

technology companies try and dance around them, work with them, bend to their rules, do their own sort of censoring as well. It's kind of an interesting dynamic of what we do when we see American-born capitalist countries doing this. So I think it's kind of good that we stand up, but I think China does feel like it has much more license to do stuff with our politics the way they are. They feel they can get away with stuff. I don't think they'd pull this kind of crap with the prior presidents being around. So that's just my opinion, and I'm sticking to it.

Let's – so that's just my opinion and i'm sticking to it let's uh let's take and look at the next item up twitter says it is unintentionally use some email addresses and phone numbers provided for account security purposes for ad targeting this is according to axios wow man unintentionally use those email addresses hey sorry we started spamming you with shit from our ad people. We scraped our own website for emails and phone numbers and then sold them to advertisers. Nice. Way to go, Twitter. Clown car that keeps crashing into success never ends.

It's the one clown car that you're just like how do you keep crashing and still be a success like what the hell man i don't know maybe it's like the png and e public utility in california that's uh now starting to shut down people's power because it's worried that it will have downfall in lines and cause another burnout that tons of people will unfortunately die at, sadly, and then they'll get sued and have to file bankruptcy again. So now what they're doing is instead of just fixing whatever their damn problems are, they're just shutting off people's power randomly when there's different issues with spells, which is pissing a lot of people off in California.

I'm just reading about this. I'm just like, are you kidding me? Seriously? What is this? Baghdad? Was this the Middle East? What is this like a mill and nowhere like Africa where we can't keep the power on 24 seven? Uh, North Korea has a problem keeping their power on 24 seven. Well, little they use and have um if you ever looked at one of those night maps of korea north korea so anyway um yeah that's what's going on in technology land california i'm sure big companies have power backups but still like seriously this is like a big deal man like why is this company in control of all this shit and having so many problems it seems like i don't know something needs to happen there.

Sony. Sony PlayStation. You may have heard of these guys. They make interesting gaming consoles. According to Wire, Peter Rubin, they announced the PlayStation 5 will launch in time for holiday 2020. Actually, launch just in time to take your money for holiday 2020. I like how they make it sound like, we're launching launching for the holiday it's going to be special for everyone no it's going to be hell for you because

every one of your fucking kids is going to want one uh mommy mommy mommy 500 bucks i gotta have the new playstation 5 mommy mommy mommy uh hey geez how much was bar control, anyway, I'm just kidding, uh, no, no, uh, so anyway, they're going to feature a new haptic technology, which, uh, instead of their, uh, normal shocking handsets, I don't know, anybody's usually really good at PS, uh, um, 4, or PS playing, or usually Xbox, or anything, they're playing, if they're playing hardcore PVP, they turn off the rumbler in their controller anyway, because they don't want that messing with their shooting and their accuracy and their speed running of killing everything on the planet. But I think it's interesting.

They're going to put haptech technology in there instead of the thing, and it will trigger varying resistance. So if you're shooting a gun, you might not get as much resistance as varying resistance so let's if you're shooting a gun you might not get as much resistance as say for example you're shooting a bow in a game and they're going to have varying resistance to the trigger so that if you're shooting a bow you're going to kind of feel the resistance of a pullback if you will of the bow so yeah i think that's kind of interesting um whatever uh it seems like the biggest change they're making is putting an SSD into their units and they're also going to force blu-ray people who put game

who buy games on a disc they're going to force them to copy that disc to the hard drive so that that disc isn't going to spin and run the game i really like that idea that causes way too much overheating in ps4s ps4 pros and the noise of it is just annoying as crap i hate it it's always going up and down based upon what you can do did i break anyone's speakers my apologies call my attorney um and uh i gotta tell you we got the, I think it was the HyperX SSD, one of their really cool SSDs with the colors, the multi-colors on it. We got one of those, and Division 2 was just killing me. Like, the amount of time that it would take to move across the map from one point to another would take, like, five minutes.

Like, you just, I don't know if it was officially five minutes, but it seemed like five minutes. Like, you'd literally just say, okay, I'm going to go over there on the map from one point to another it would take like five minutes like you you just i don't know if it's officially five minutes but seem like five minutes like you literally just say okay i'm gonna go over there on the map over to dark zone and then you just get up and go make yourself a coffee and come back and you're like is it done yet uh joining friends all that sort of stuff um most of my other games i didn't see too much lag time or too much delay uh because i have good internet but uh, but the thing would always make noise. It would always be running its fan. It's like, and I have one, I guess one of the year, my understanding is I have one of the early units, uh, that, uh, takes in, um, has a chip in it that runs pretty hot. Uh, some of the later units, they, they upgraded

that. Uh, but evidently I have one of the old original ones and so just having a run hot have the fan run hot which was really annoying as crap so we got one of the hyper X so you can see their view on the Chris Voss show product we were really impressed their SSDs and we put one in our PlayStation 4 Pro and I got to tell you it makes a day and night difference in the quality of your gaming the speed of your booting the speed of uh your launching games the speed of your uh just if you had any lag it really helps with that uh with division it literally took and um and uh made the time to transfer between the map opening the game everything else switching between characters it literally cut that time at least in half um and made the game just really a whole lot

more enjoyable and all my other games just run really fluid and smooth plus i don't have all that overheating noise of the unit having to try and cool the uh spinning discs and stuff you don't have you do have heat with ssds you just don't have a lot of heat because there's no friction in the units and spinning objects that are generating heat. You just have the heat of the board and the use of it and stuff. So really cool that way. That seems to be the biggest thing they're putting in the PlayStation 5 is SSD and making it very SSD centric. The funny thing is you can kind of do that now. And I got to tell you, it's really easy. It's like amazingly easy, uh, to change and put an SSD in your PlayStation.

So if you haven't got a chance to do that, I highly recommend it. You'll definitely love it. And you'll be probably getting close to, uh, you know, PlayStation five quality until next year. Uh, I'm sure there's going to be faster you know stuff in it gpus cpus all that sort of good stuff there's going to be better things um but the solid state drive seems to be the largest part of what they're taking and doing um and uh yeah it should be uh should be uh good for the uh gaming community if you will uh google debuts a steam transfer feature that lets movers users move ongoing music and video streams between devices coming first to chromecast google home and nest

this is kind of interesting for variety uh at long last google is finally interesting way for users of its smart speakers and streaming adapters to move media between those devices that would be nice because sometimes you know you're in your house watching tv and you want I don't know, maybe go move to the kitchen while you're cooking something and watch the same thing. I'm not really sure how that exactly works, but it'll be interesting as well. Also, according to the Washington Post, a bipartisan Senate report makes recommendations to prevent Russian election interference in 2020, saying Russia sowed social media discord to help Trump in 2016.

Well, this is probably old news to many of you, and you've probably already come to acceptance of this. What we're seeing now is we're seeing Facebook and other places, I think we had this conversation in the prior thing, said they're not there to stop politicians from lying in their political ads they're buying on Facebook. So there's kind of some articles going around. If you search for them, they're talking about, do these social media companies and technology need to be the truth serums?

Now, they kind of have been, if you've been following this course's thing, where Facebook and other sources have been using like Snopes, basically, like backups to have some of the fax checks, articles checks, things of that nature. But they have decided they're not going to submit political ads to that same sort of context or that same sort of scrutiny or committee teams, whatever they have built for this, they're not going to submit those. So they're not going to judge whether the ads completely lie or not. I know that TV channels do kind of look at some of the ads and how, you know, if there's anything that's really blatant, they just won't run it. Sometimes it's based upon their own

prejudice or their CEO's prejudice. I know ABC sometimes won't run it uh sometimes it's based upon their own prejudice or their ceo's prejudice i know abc sometimes won't run things i think it is um and uh you know and so basically the discussion is this the question is this do we should we expect our technology companies to censor lies do we need to start calling out lies more and more. Uh, I mean, certainly, uh, to me, caveat, I'm terror, let the buyer beware should be the standard bear. We should all be smart enough not to fall into the traps of believing bullshit and lies. I mean, I can see, uh, people from a, um, Dunning Kruger sort of standpoint that want to, uh, crunning do her crew Dunning crew. I forget what it is. Um, but people don't want to believe what they want to believe. And they Dunning career I forget what it is um but people don't want to believe what they want to believe and they collect stories that help them stay in tune with that sort of thing you know people's if you believe

in aliens of space and the aliens live among us you know your brain begins to start creating things around you that's like oh yep see there's another proof there's an alien at the candy shop counter. Yep, clearly an alien. You know, shit like that. So, yeah, I mean, it's a big dilemma. What do we demand of our tech companies? What do we need in our future?

And how does that impact our culture in the future as well? This is kind of interesting. The FISA court rules that an FBI foreign surveillance program violated American civil liberties, deeming tens of thousands of searches from 2017 to 2018 illegal. That's kind of an interesting thing. This is from the National Review if you want to take a look it up. And, yeah, I mean, kind kind of interesting people are targeting us uh people are watching us i'm sure there's much more deeper stuff going on as well but uh uh you know all the

more reason to maybe invest in different things that you can do vpn more secure networks um you know some of this stuff i think the the deep state uh i don't want to use deep state because that sounds like a real conspiracy thing that you know the nsa the people who are really deep in watching stuff in secrecy cia stuff sort of thing um you know i'm sure that they're they're they're doing whatever they want to do uh let's come up with the next story zd net is reporting facebook uh says its workplace platform is three million paid users up one million in the past eight months introduces new features like portal support and new analytics tools i don't know maybe you can facebook's workplace platform be the next linkedin who knows we'll have to kind of watch it and see.

Robin Hood, if you're familiar with this, this is an app that manages cryptocurrency, and you can buy and sell cryptocurrency through it, and of course it tracks it and stuff. They have unveiled a feature called Cash Management, which earns a 2.05 APY interest in uninvested money in users' accounts after 2018's botched rollout of its checking product. The only thing I've heard that's been negative about Robinhood is, man, it sure costs a lot of money to get your transactions done and get your money removed from it. So, I don't know. I haven't really played with it much. I do have an account there, but I have not put any money on it because of different complaints i've heard from some of my fellow people i don't know you tell me if i'm wrong

you can twitch me or twitter me on chris foss or facebook or linkedin uh next up on the box uh sources postmates which plan to go public this year recently told advisors it's delaying its ipo market due to market conditions it's kind of interesting the old adage of uh going into debt in hawk up to your ass and uh leveraging your company uh not into uh not being able to make a profit for 10 years twitter um and then dumping it as an ipo as a last ditch to pay off all the investors who bet on it and leave your money losing company Twitter with with public investors hoping that sometime in the next 20 years they might make a profit Twitter I guess that might be coming to an end well this is gonna have a chilling effect on investors doing seed money.

It's probably going to affect Silicon Valley in some way because potential investors that launch apps and do early investments are probably going to go, well, maybe there's going to be a harder time for IPO launch bailouts or cashouts, if you will. So that'll be interesting to see what happens with that and how it works and how much more chilling some of the things that are happening in that marketplace. And certainly those just fall out. Of course, if you've been familiar, we talked about it multiple times on the podcast of the WeWork IPO failure and how we just kind of found out that a lot of stuff was really crazy.

According to The Verge, the Samsung Galaxy Watch Active 2 review, they like the touch-sensitive bezel and decent battery life but requires too many Samsung apps to work, and Bixby is annoying. You know, I love AT&T's service. We review their phones on the Chris Foss Show. I love AT&T service. They, uh, we review their phones in the Chris Foss show. Uh, I love my Samsung galaxy notes. I love the Samsung galaxy products, uh, across the board. Um, the one thing I hate, the one, the only one thing I hate about all my Samsung galaxy products is Bixby. Several years ago, um, with all my samsung galaxy products i would put the google now launcher app

onto my phones because i like the integration you know i'm largely a google person gmail drive you know everything i do is google so uh and to me they're really good at delivering an algorithm of news that i want to see my you know stuff that stuff that's interest to me. So I'm, I'm very fine with that. Very happy with that. But, uh, the big challenges is they put this, their own, uh, service on there and they won't let you download any other launcher app to replace this thing. And it's a nightmare turd. And it has been for years now. i know that has a samsung galaxy hates it and no matter how much bixby tries uh people hate it and one of the things that makes me really hate it is the fact that fucking samsung forces it on us um look if you're going to make a great product make your

let your consumers choose but don't force them it's just a fuck you of dynamic proportions so i just don't even use it i ignore it i disable the button i try everything i can not to turn it on i hate bixby i don't see that product getting any better anytime soon and the fact that there's such assholes about giving me my choice and my freedom as a consumer just makes me hate it more in fact i just won't even look at the new updates because i just don't care man you're gonna play me that way i'll play you back baby so there you go um and gadget opera 64 desktop browser launches with an in build tracking protection using the easy privacy tracking protection list and powerful screenshot tool so there's that as well uh and uh basically it makes it so uh you won't miss the browser privacy bandwagon

and it takes uh unusual angle to sell it it's promising a speed boost on your opera 64 desktop browser so how about that i don't know um you gotta love it this is kind of interesting and probably make things more annoying on youtube as if it wasn't annoying already enough with ads uh the according to the wall street journal youtube recently started testing a tool called instant reserve to let political ad buyers book slots months ahead of time similar to traditional tv ad buying the new tool lets political ad buyers book slots through February when voting starts in Iowa, New Hampshire, and elsewhere.

Because God knows we're all fucking for sale and we're going to have to watch those fucking ads. Is there anything less fun than watching a political ad? I'd rather go to the dentist most times. And I don't like to go to the dentist. So let's put it that way. Anyway, guys, that's the news we're going to do a separate show of course today on some of the different product hunt highlights

things that we saw in product hunt that are amazing they could change your life or not even then they'll give you plenty of time to waste and goofing off with whatever it is i don't know i appreciate you guys tuning in uh and we'll see you on the flip side of our next show