The Chris Voss Show - The Chris Voss Show Podcast – Facebook Fails On Covid-19 Mis-Information, New iPhone, & More Tech News

Episode Date: April 17, 2020

Facebook Fails On Covid-19 Mis-Information, New iPhone, & More Tech News [powerpress_playlist]

Hey guys, Chris Voss here from thechrissvossshow.com, thechrissvossshow.com. Hey, we're coming to you with another great podcast. Thanks for tuning in. We certainly appreciate you guys being here. We certainly hope you're doing well. We hope your families are doing well and people around you are doing well. Please stay safe. Remember, it's not about you.

It's about other people, people with immune disease, people that are suffering from cancer treatment, people that have compromised systems that make them more susceptible to this virus. I will say this without getting into politics. You can do that over on the Resistance Radio show that I do at the Resistance Radio or resistanceradio.com but when we reach a point in this world where we take the value of the dollar that's more important the value of the human life that's that's a dark place that we enter as a humanity and well you can say there are aspects of that in some of the things that we have in our lives, insurance, et cetera, et cetera. When we devolve to a point that we start determining that a human life can carelessly be thrown aside all for economy or the money,

we've reached a really dark place as human beings. And I think if we cross that bridge, we enter a whole different phase of our lack of humanity. So anyway, that's what I'm going to say about that. But I hope everyone is doing well. I hope everyone is staying well. I hope everyone is, uh, uh, staying healthy, uh, washing your groceries. Uh, you know, I, I think we're ending, we're definitely ending a new phase of this, of a new reality. And I, and it's, I think it's hard for many people to get used to it. It's challenging. Uh, we all are having to experience this and share this moment, uh, around the world. This isn't exclusive to anyone specifically.

And so, you know, learn to adapt and adopt. I mean, that's all you can do. We will probably spend the next, I mean, just get used to it. We're probably going to spend the next two years wearing masks, staying six feet away from each other. The big events and stuff like that may be gone for a year or two. And we're going to be dealing with trying to

wait for testing. Hopefully we can get a government that knows what the hell they're doing or gives a shit and can get us testing and other things so that we can get this virus in control and be able to get our economy reopened. So be blessed and stay safe out there and I hope

you and your family are doing well. Uh, thanks for being at the show. Let's go over some of the tech news that's out there in the world and kind of some of what's going on, which kind of is topical for everything else. Uh, at the top of the news. Oh, one thing I should mention is we are still taking videos for the Gratitude Show project. So if you missed that a couple shows ago, there is the Gratitude Show that we're doing, hashtag Gratitude Show. Send in your one-minute video, up to one-minute video,

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This is kind of interesting. Facebook really got called out for a lot of misinformation and guides on WHO, the COVID-19 virus, also the crazy conspiracy and stupid stuff, of course, ran rampant in it. And I don't know why they didn't see that coming. Facebook, according to The Guardian, has announced that they will notify users who liked, commented, or reacted to COVID-19 misinformation and will guide them to WHO resources, the World Health Organization, as reports find the debunks claims on the platform. So they claim they're going to be going through that. I don't know how effective they're going to be at it. I still can't get myself unsuspended.

I think there's like 10, 12 more days and everyone don't care. It's been just the most irresponsible, vacuous, just stupid thing I've ever seen done by Facebook. And no one seems to give a shit. So there, there you go. Facebook has become way too powerful. It is really fucking time. We started pulling the plug on that baby. And of course I already have so there you go uh what else do we have bloomberg according to bloomberg sources it in all virtual hands uh meeting with apple's folks tim cook reiterated their strong

financials when asked about job cuts said he doesn't know when the staffs will return to offices. It's kind of interesting. And they're looking to make really significant R&D investments. And not sure when they're going to return to their office. It's kind of interesting how these companies, you know, we really don't know when we're all getting together, etc., etc. There's a humongous amount of liability. Certainly if companies or governments or local state governments say, oh, yeah, everyone can go play together and it comes back,

there's definitely going to be lawyers that are eventually going to come out of this and are going to be suing the hell out of everyone. So there's that. According to The Guardian, Apple and Google's privacy-focused contact tracing APIs could impose limitation on the UK NHS's planned app, allowing only a limited version of contract tracing. As you know, Apple and Google are trying to put together this app where it will let you know with your Bluetooth proximity if you walk by or in proximity to somebody who had COVID-19, and it would tell you, hey, man, you were in contact with somebody

who later came down with that, you may want to get yourself checked as well. That seems highly important given that we don't have enough testing. And, yeah, that should be kind of interesting. I guess I'll have to work it out with the EU, the NHS, the National Health Service of England. They'll have to work it all out with them, I'm sure. I'm not too worried about that because I live in the U.S., but there's the news for you. Next up, Facebook is no longer planning to host local events

in place of its F8 developer conference and cancels physical events with 50 or more people through June 2021. They literally are cancelling those events through a year from two months from now. So basically a year. Yeah, there you go. Well, actually it'd be more than a year. June to June.

Yeah. Yeah. So 14 months. Clearly I went to public school. So, you know, these guys hire a lot of high end people, a lot of brilliant, smart people. And, um, that's giving you an idea of how long this may take to dig out of this hole that we're in and being able to get together physical events with 15 more people. It's going to be an interesting transition. We're going to learn to be more online. We're going to be more, learn more to zoom. You know, I've often wondered

why we still do some of the archaic business things that we do driving to work every day and all that stuff. I've had a lot of friends that have said, uh, you know, for the first time I'm actually, I've, I've been bugging my employers to let me work from home. And for the first time now they have to let me work at home and people are just going and now it just works and makes more sense. And a lot of things are going to be impacted by that. There may be some companies that just never go back to not working from home. And we're probably not only going to have a lot of real estate left on the market once this happens, not only from people having to sell their homes, sadly, people foreclosing their homes. sadly uh people for closing their homes

i remember 2008 i remember how ugly this thing was and scarily we're gonna have a lot of people dying and those people i'm sure will be putting their homes up for sale their families will and their inheritance etc etc and uh it's just going to be that 2008 spiral that i remember all too well unfortunately um and so um and homes the the whole bucket will probably take a five ten percent drop in values if not more and so people won't be able to loan their home and like i say you may see more bankruptcies and everything else uh today we saw another 5.5 million, I think it was, 5 point something million people file for unemployment. So it's up around 20 million.

And there's still so many people saying that they've called, that they've tried to communicate with these offices. And there's probably still another backlog of 5 million, I would bet. So it's going to be interesting to see how that impacts everything in the world, but, uh, get used to it. This is our new normal and we're going to have to get, uh, I kind of feel like we, you know, we just came off the rollicking, uh, the rollicking 1900s and 2900s. And then all of a sudden we hit the great depression, if you remember that story. Um, so this will be kind of interesting how it works. According to Six Colors, Apple says Mac OS 10.15.5 will include a battery management tool for MacBooks with a Thunderbolt 3 that manages battery life by analyzing the battery's temperature. So that'll be kind of interesting.

Maybe batteries are going to get smarter. That's kind of certainly so important i mean you we've seen products over the years that have uh had exploding batteries or burning batteries and that isn't fun so um hopefully they're gonna come out with some interesting battery tools maybe something i know you know when you overclock a computer if you're into that sort of thing uh overclocking computer for gaming etc etc uh there's ways that you can manage and balance your chip heat you you know you monitor that watch it etc etc um so it'll be interesting to see how that goes uh amazon has introduced a long form speaking style for news and music within third-party Alexa skills, making speech sound natural by inserting conversational pauses. Conversational pauses.

This is according to VentureBeat. You can check out the story. So I guess that'll make it seem more, I don't know, normal when Siri's barking at you. Or, well, hold on, that's not Siri. I got it as long as I can view Google, and there's Alexa. When Alexa's barking at you, she's like, I don't know, I can't understand

anything you're saying. She's got that conversational pauses. You're a fucking idiot. Let's see here. The New York Times reports this. This is the analysis of Joe Biden's YouTube, which has just 32,000 subscribers. Holy shit, I have more subscribers.

Shows his weakness against Trump's online president, especially as the campaigning goes virtual. You know, I mean, this is the world. I mean, and let's not talk about this from a politics sense, but this is the world where a lot of businesses today, and clearly Joe Biden and other people, have got to start adopting to virtualness. And for the last 10 years that, you know, virtual social media and all that stuff has been in play you know a lot of people would go oh you know i can still make money doing brick and mortar and

yeah you'd be on youtube and yeah i don't need to do all that stuff i don't need you know we we saw a lot of people jump on the bandwagon in 2011 2012 you know social media get a facebook fan page you get a twitter account you monitor the twitter account blah blah blah and i've seen a fall off of so much of that stuff i've seen so many dead facebook fan pages that companies never answer or respond to same thing with twitter i've seen a lot of dead twitter accounts um and you know everyone's making so much money so i guess they were just like hey fuck it we don't have to do this guerrilla marketing bullshit anymore. But now we're back to that, folks, and you better get good at it

because if you weren't before, you may not have a choice. A lot of what's happening in our world today is really going to push us into a virtual environment and a virtual economy, and you have got to adopt, and get used to it uh and if you've been putting it off um yeah time to jump in and get her done uh if you're a person who's let those properties die well then you need to get your shit together and get it going on according to reuters google says gmail business and education your users can now directly take video calls on Meet with a new Zoom-like layout, noise filtering, and more coming later.

I guess they're going to allow them to take calls. What the hell is Meet? I'm going to learn something today. It's Meet like the, it's M-E-E-T. Meet will improve the video quality quality the internet should meet with email it's one of several features oh meat is of only available schools businesses and governments and is distinct from the consumer focused hangouts tool wait i thought they shut that down it's added daily users faster than any google service since january millions of institutions

are now relying on meat because of lockdowns associated with the coronavirus. There you go. I guess it's their own form of sophisticated Zoom. There you go. This is kind of interesting. This is, of course, definitely an effect of what's going on with our world. Uber is withdrawing its 2020 financial guidance. It will write down $1.9 billion to $2.2 billion on value of equity investments due to pandemic lockdowns, and the stock is still up to 8% after hours. I guess writing all that shit off is good. Write-offs help give you more profit, I guess, or whatever. So there you go.

So they're doing that, and I don't know, whatever. You probably heard that Apple has launched an inexpensive iPhone called the iPhone SEs. They're going to break from the annual upgrade cycle arriving 2.5 years after the lookalikes as final versions of popular form factors according to Daring Fireball. And they're going to be fairly expensive. I believe they're about $400. And I think they're angled more towards inexpensive markets. I think they're kind of targeted more towards, say, India and stuff,

where people are trying to break in that market. So that'll be kind of an interesting feature. Next up, the New York Times says Libra. I don't know if you remember Libra. Libra was the cryptocurrency or blockchain, however you want to say it, because I know Facebook was trying to put a spin on this. But they have scaled back ambitions to launching a global currency, and they're now focusing on creating a traditional payment network

with coins tied to local currency. That might be interesting. You can buy something for your friends on Facebook. Maybe buy them a way off it. How about that? Next up, CNBC. The NBA is going to use Microsoft's Azure cloud to add new features to its website and apps, like showing games in fans' native languages and letting them chat during games.

I've always wondered when someone would do that. I actually had that idea like 10, 12 years ago. But one of the interesting things is I suppose you could make a virtual audience, so you could feel like you're in a crowd from a conversational aspect, maybe. I don't know. What else do we have according to financial times pony.ai tests autonomous delivery service in irvine california for purchases on e-commerce site yammybuys lockdowns of suspended test service robo taxi service so i guess basically what they're doing is uh going to do an autonomous delivery

service that i think would make sense uh certainly uh there's the great delivery drivers that are out there for uber eats and uh what's the one that we always use as the grocery services for um slips my mind right now you know the one I'm talking about, Instacart. And, you know, the problem they're having right now is they're so overloaded, you have to almost order two weeks ahead of time to get an order shopped. So there's your thing. So the Pony AI, they're going to do that. I think that would be a really great thing because one of the problems they have is if someone comes to the house, I'm worried about, you know, they've been delivering those groceries.

They've spent all their hours at the store. I'm worried about how much perfection they're carrying around. I know those people are, I'm sure, working really hard to be clean, but you just never know. So being able to put in a car and have it delivered to me, I don't have to worry about the liability of that person having COVID. I just have to wash the groceries. So there you go. Welcome to the new world. According to TechCrunch, a Germany-based trade republic

has created a zero commission mobile trading app for shares, ETFs, and derivatives. And it raised $67 million in a Series B co-led by Accel and Founders Fund. Really interesting that way. According to the register, sources say ICANN, if you're familiar with them, they oversee the internet basically. They delay a review period for selling.org registry to Ethos Capital until May 4th after the California's Attorney General raised concerns it would hurt non-profits.

So that's kind of interesting. Non-profits usually use a.org. I'm not sure why Ethos Capital is looking to buy it, but you can delve in that story at the register. According to Tech Republic, Qualcomm unveils the 212 LTE modem chip for IoT devices with a focus on minimal power consumption. It's going to be available the second half of 2020, so that should be pretty good for IoT devices, Internet of Things. And, yeah, if that just gets better, that'll be better.

TikTok, you may have heard of it. All your kids are probably on it. If you have young kids, it's the most popular sort of app, I think, pretty much at this point. I don't know if it's the most popular app. Don't look at the numbers and go, Chris, you're wrong. it's real popular with the kids that's the metric i'm saying the kids like it according to verge tiktok is letting parents set restrictions on their kids accounts like limiting screen time disabling dms restricting content and disables dms for under 16 i like that

i like that very much. There's a lot of predators still on the internet. In fact, it's very prolific. Um, and they love, uh, and they love to take and, um, um, you know, target young kids and DM them, uh, when they're posting and try and, um, do all the evil stuff that they try and get into. So there you go. That's some of the news that stuck out at me today, some of the things I was interested in. And be sure to further show your friends, neighbors, and relatives. We have some great interviews and some interesting people coming up.

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