The Chris Voss Show - The Chris Voss Show Podcast – Daily Business & Tech News Aug 5, 2019

Episode Date: August 5, 2019

Daily Business & Tech News Aug 5, 2019

Hi folks, Chris Voss here from thechrissvossshow.com. Welcome to another episode of the podcast. Today we are doing business news and tech and of course my spin on it. What I think, that's why you want to know and tune in, right? How's it going guys? Welcome to Monday. Holy crap, it's Monday. Oh boy.

This is to give you some relief from the day. August 5th, 2019. Oh my God, we are crawling towards Christmas. Make it stop, make it stop, make it stop. Anyway, let's talk about what's going on in news. Let's start off with Product Hunt. Product Hunt's a fun place I like to go for all my cool stuff. And, um, pretty interesting. There's one thing that kind of stuck out to me. This is the number two product of the day today, actually on product hunt.com. We love product hunt. Um, and, uh, let's see, uh, product hunt has always been really nice to me too. Back when they launched the service, uh, way back when, like 50 years ago in social media time. They gave me one of the early abilities to put stuff on Product Hunt. It was exclusive. Everyone was begging me,

can you get me so I can do that? Anyway, this is kind of interesting. This is a company called Pingo or an app called Pingo, and it optimizes images for the web quickly, which, you know, nowadays you've got so much different image editing crap you have to do for so many different platforms. You know, like this platform has to have this size, this platform has to have for that size, this, you know, and this stuff takes up space. Like, you know, for me, when we do product reviews on the chrisfossshow.com, we upload a picture, usually that we've scraped off their website, for the product review, right? And, you know, this stuff stacks up. At first, you're just like, oh, it's just a few bytes, blah, blah, blah.

No big deal. And then, you know, suddenly, days later, you know, you've got your hosting service going you're hosting like 5 000 gigs on your website you're gonna have to pay like more and you're like fuck didn't see that yeah and a lot of people don't see that coming too i mean when i started the chris voss show uh actually just 10 years ago this month i think on the 9th or 10th we hit the 10 year mark of the creation of the chris voss show i was doing social before that but the launch of the website in of itself was sometime in August of I think 2010 no hold on maybe we get no 2009 I started on Twitter in 2008 started my most of my accounts in like March of 2009 and then August 2009 would have been the launch of the Chris Voss Show.

So, yes, so 10 years. I thought I was right, but I'm losing my mind. How can you not in today's world? Give me a break. Anyway, this Pingo thing is pretty interesting. You can check it out on Product Hunt, forward slash post, forward slash Pingo, P-I-N-G-O, P--i-n-g-o p-i-n-g-o that not only do we give you the news but we entertain you as well because we all need to go back to that childhood process uh remember that song e-i-n-g-o what was the was a farmer farmer dale had a whatever tells you where

i've been i'm surprised i can't even remember that far back. So anyway, the Pingo basically optimize your image for the web quickly. Uh, it's a fast and a free, free, uh, gotta love free, uh,

image optimizer for the web that can reduce file size by doing automatic lossless or lossy image transformations process. The files recursively through the multi-threading system. You had me at multi-threading, baby. Anyway, really cool. I'm very impressed with that. And yeah, what can you say, man? That's pretty cool.

So let's take a look at what else did I find on Product Hunt that kind of stuck out at me. This is interesting. I haven't really got delved into this, and I'm going to talk to them about maybe coming on the Spectral. What is it? What's our AR, VR, AI website? Who can name it? Spatialcomputingpodcast.com.

This is a company called Scavenger, and they have an augmented reality scavenger hunt for cash prizes. You can win hundreds of real dollars real dollars as in not real dollars it's real dollars the game is built on a network of clues that are placed around cities inside of the United States we use mixed reality to create the most engaging experience for players this is cool We're seeing now more and more the gamification of AR VR all that sort of good stuff which is probably good for Apple because Apple's good and looks like this also works with Google Play as well

So this is kind of interesting I know is it nomadic that has the noma-adic that has the or noma tech that has the gnome something that has the you know, they were the developers of the Pokemon app and there's one before it where they had a Gamification where you could like join teams and save the world and find cash boxes or some shit Anyway, this is kind of interesting. It'll be interesting to see what's going on. We'll reach out to the makers and see if we can get some more information, maybe offer them to come on the podcast. They can check it as well. But that's the number four product of the day.

Number four. Coming in at number four. Later, later, at number 10, we have Leonard Skinner. Tune in for that. All right, so Scavenger on pod, uh, product on and Pingo are stuff that I stuck out to me. I go down the list and I try and keep an open mind,

a list, uh, and, uh, you know, I don't know. These are the things that really stick out to me that, uh,

make me, um, the make me whatever Turner news feed burner this is interesting hang on I think I just found something else that I'm interested in on hold the phones don't don't leave yet this is interesting Twitter newsfeed burner it's a Chrome extension hides the newsfeed in the newly designed Twitter site Wow oopsie I like the news feed. Don't I want to see the news feed?

Why would you want to kill the news feed? Well, there is a lot of depressing shit. I don't know. I kind of like to have it. So let's talk about other world news for what's going on in technology. This is kind of interesting. I don't want to play this on the political aspect

because we don't do politics on the Chris Voss Show, or at least we try to step around as much as we can. The CEO of Cloudflare terminated the DDoS protection. That's the, I always forget what DDoS stands for. I know what it does. Dedicated denial of service. Attacks that can happen to your site which are pretty evil you know they don't wreck your site per se although it

can protect you from hacking but it basically just you know somebody BDO s is your site and no one can access it because 50 million points of access are being asked for and you know the site goes what the hell um so anyway hm this is a site that uh he called the ceo of cloud fair lawless and that lawlessness has uh caused multiple tragic deaths i spoke to this a little bit i think on yesterday's show um we didn't have this story out but yeah i mean certainly these aren't free speech issues. He makes that clear in his statement, Matthew Prince, the cloud firm blog. Um, and it's true. These are private properties and, uh, uh, well, you know, I think Twitter and a lot of different

sites like his originally were backing HN in trying to, you know, uphold free speech and trying to hold the information of ideas, there are some ideas that are just so toxic that they need to go. I mean, this is why we prosecute hate speech. This is why we prosecute people who attack other people, people who display racism or sexism, misogyny, sexual assault, sexual harassment in the workplaces this is why we have laws for this stuff because some of its so pervasively evil damaging and

ugly that there's no place for it in society in states like Germany countries I should probably say but country-st you know, it's illegal to even do the hell Hitler signal signal of where you raise your arm, uh, and, and have other Nazi paraphernalia. Um, it's just, people realize that some shit is so evil and bad, it needs to be banned or made illegal. And that's just the way it is. I mean, we're a tribal society, and the tribe determines at a certain point where you're not welcome in the tribe anymore, and you get exiled from the tribe because you as an overall person are deemed not worthy of the tribe anymore. So that's how it works. We put people in prisons that we alienate from the tribe because

they're just bad business for the tribe and they hurt the safety of it and i'm sure a chance gonna pop up somewhere somebody's gonna back them uh the cloud fair actually kicked off i think it was the daily stormer you're back in the day they found another place to go and they're currently operating but the harder they can make it for these guys to spread hate to become these cesspools of hate and stuff the more the important and really the protections for them are not free speech based and and you know we should be able to clash action sue the fuck out of them as far as I'm concerned because it's not it's not true news or media it's just cesspools of hate you know if you found that a group people were out doing a hate crime you know they go to jail that's just it man

so we need to shut these people down blah blah blah that's for good stuff so as of today the 8chan is down I checked it just for, uh, giggles. Um, and, uh, yep, they're down. So that's that. Uh, I'm sure we'll move on to another website and, uh, hopefully, you know, I, they need a whole mess of attorneys that will just fight this stuff. If my child was killed in one of these events, you damn right. I'd be suing fricking eight Chan and everybody who works for him. And,'d go evil man I go totally evil I'd sue each individual fucking employee I don't even care man you're gonna have to hire attorneys to fucking fight me if you kill my child have fun with that this is kind of

interesting from Reuters the Chinese state media Hawaii Hawaii I never am sure if I'm ever pronouncing it correctly and I really don't care is testing a 288 smartphone running its self-developed Hong men OS seriously you're gonna call it that like you're trying to break in the US market you're gonna call it the Hong men OS come on man seriously I mean yeah if you're going to call it the Hong Meng OS. Come on, man. Seriously. I mean, yeah, if you're just going to sell that shit in China, well, then that's fine. But Hong Meng OS, please stop. You know, I love my Samsung phones, but there's one thing. If I ever find somebody to punch in the nuts at Samsung, it's going to be the person who developed bixby and also made it so i can't put google now overlay on top of bixby i hate

bixby just makes me if the rest of the phone wasn't so awesome i i'd probably move to apple because the bixby is so stupid don't even get me started on Siri, though. Let's not start that route either. The Verge. Oh, my gosh. As reporting, Samsung announces a Galaxy Watch Active 2 with new bezel control, 40 millimeter and 44 millimeter sizes with optional LTE. Ooh, it's got a phone in it. Baby. Arriving September 27th for $279.

That's not bad. And ECG capability coming soon, which I believe means it will take your pulse and all that shit, I think. Isn't that what ECG stands for? Electronical Cardiogram? I don't know. So anyway, they're going to launch that soon. Stay tuned. They've announced it, so God knows, sometime next year,

basically six months to a year. Uh, that'll be pretty interesting. Does anybody using, uh, wearables anymore? I mean, I rarely see people wearing wear wearables, wearables really just crashed as a whole category. In my opinion, I could be wrong. Somebody sent me an email and tell me I'm wrong. Uh, but yeah, I, I think it, uh, I think it's really struggling. So there's that, uh, sources on Google's internal form and memo viewed by 10,000 plus people alleges retaliation by managers for being pregnant and things that got worse when HR was contacted. Yeah. When you run a company that big, man, stupid shit's's gonna start happening with stupid shit employees um there you go what are you gonna do uh profile of scales ai scale ais 22 year old ceo alexander wang whose startup

which uses 30 000 contractors in ai to analyze images is now valued at 1 billion dollars kids 22 he's got a company worth a billion dollars what are you doing with your what are you doing wrong to analyze images is now valued at $1 billion. Kid's 22. He's got a company worth a billion dollars. What are you doing with your, what are you doing wrong? I'm sitting in my beanbag naked eating some Cheetos. Listen to the Chris Voss Show podcast. Yep, see, that was your first. That's where you turned wrong off the interstate there, buddy.

I'm sorry, man. I led you down the wrong path. You should have been listening to, I don't know, the Gary Vee show. And then you just have lots of like struggle porn and nothing else. And you still mean a beanbag. So there's that. You at least get good information over here. I like Gary Vee.

He's a good guy. Sometimes this stuff is a little... What's the right word I'm looking for? I don't know. Sometimes... I don't know what to say. I'm really not in the mood to criticize Gary Vee. He has his moments.

Let's put it that way. He has his moments. He's a good guy. And I respect what he's doing. I mean, if I could put out that much fucking bullshit in vaporware I probably would too but there you go

this is kind of interesting this is from BuzzFeed News YouTube removes the account of Soph clearly I didn't follow her because I don't know who it is a girl who attracted 800,000 subs through racist and anti-Muslim videos after uploading an anti-LGBT video alluding to violence. 14-year-old girl.

Great. That's all we need. More 14-year-old kids infecting other 14-year-old kids who decided at 18 to buy a gun and go on the rampage as we saw this weekend. Jesus. What the fuck? How are you feeling as a 14 year old as a parent of a 14 year old what the is wrong with you i i'm a big believer that we should start prosecuting these parents that raise these head kids i realize life isn't hard but

people really need to think through their parenting a whole lot more and whether or not they want to have five kids and one of them is going to grow up to be a fucking murderer. I'm serious. I'm so sick of this shit. I was reading about one of the kids and a shithead parent who was like an alcoholic and a fuck up all his life. And now he's religious. And whatever he's done, he has fucked a kid in the fucking head and made him go get a gun. I believe that like nobody's

fucking business. So you can say what you want, but I guarantee you and anybody who's a parent out there, if we made laws that would make you responsible for your children's shit, they pull up to a certain age. You probably spend a little bit more time not looking at your phone and watching Netflix and fucking maybe raise that kid better that's all i'm saying not saying you're doing a bad job just saying you do better um i know i would so there's that uh fossil announces gen 5 its latest smartphone watch uh i'm sorry latest smart watch wearing uh let me just start this all over here. 9to5 Google article by Ben Schoen. Fossil announces it's Gen 5.

It's latest smartwatch running Wear OS. What a horrible name, Wear OS. Like you're listening to me going, why did he say running and wear together? But that's actually the name of the OS, Wear OS. It's got an updated Snapdragon chipset, 44 millimeter case, and a built-in speaker. Holy shit. Yeah, that speaker's probably going to rock it in a phone. Available for $295.

There you go. Got to love it. Oh, this is kind of interesting um walmart's flipkart plans to start a free video streaming service by september ahead of the diwali season for members of flipkart plus um loyalty program that's kind of interesting but this this actually struck me too this is cnbc um the profile of jeremy gorman i believe she's a woman according to the picture here snaps chief business officer credit with turning around snaps ad businesses which expect to make 1.36 billion dollars this year up 30 year over year good for her awesome sauce she came from amazon and uh yeah that's awesome considering you know the

whole service is the client no one use it anymore than I know no you just snap I think it's mostly for just gen wire Xers whatever Millennials so there's that excuse me so let's see what else is going on the world that we're interested today flying car in Japan hovered above the ground for about a minute, according to the Washington Post. That's kind of interesting. People are getting into this shit in Japan. Soon we'll have flying cars. There you go.

What can you say? Let's see. Ba-da-bing, ba-da-boom. Anything else on the New York Times that stuck out? Looks like we covered that, the 8chan story. This is kind of interesting. No, they're just hustling people for that. That's political.

We don't want to get into that. And I think I got everything covered for today, August 4th, 2019, that stuck out for me and yeah hacker group focusing on Venezuelan military a hacker espionage group is engaged a flurry of activity in South Africa America largely focused on Venezuelan targets, especially the military. Um, suppose that's kind of interesting. Um, shut down the military might be able to overthrow the whole thing with a coup. Uh, wow. Actually, here's another great story. See, sometimes you got to wait to the end for the best stuff. News aggregation app, smart news reaches a $1 billion valuation. That's really cool.

I like smart news. It seems to be really good at sucking in the stuff that I'm interested in. I think it's got a bit of an AI effect or monitor with an algorithm that goes, what does Chris want? This is interesting. And they're doing really well. I see their ads all the time on news where it's, you know, news where they show both parties. Like if you're on the right or the left, this can be an app that learns what you like. It's a news discovery app. They've got 20 million subscribers in the U.S. And it's rated 28 million in its latest funding round.

And its valuation is $1.1 billion. Wow. It's not bad. They're doing a really good job running those ads a really smart angle where they're playing both sides and going hey man you know whether you're on one side or the other here's a news app for you which is good because some of these people that read these poisonous websites these poisonous news things, hopefully they can get, um, hopefully they can get some, uh, some better news. You know what I mean? They can get some better news and, um, learn the, learn more about what's going on in the world as a, uh, as opposed to, uh, not knowing what's going on in the world. So there's that. So fun is fun.

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