The Chris Voss Show - The Chris Voss Show Podcast – Master & Dynamic New Earbuds, Facebook, Google Quantum Record, & Other Tech News Oct 23, 2019

Episode Date: October 24, 2019

Master & Dynamic New Earbuds, Facebook, Google Quantum Record, & Other Tech News Oct 23, 2019

Hi folks, it's Foss here from thechrisfossshow.com. Thanks for coming to, tuning in today, tuning into the channel to see what we're talking about. Hey, we got on Product Hunt today. That was pretty cool. You can see the prior episode where we talked about that in depth. I got to tell you, we're still reviewing the AT&T Pixel 4 XL from AT&T, and loving it. I really fall in love with it.

It's not my main phone I'm using. I love my notes still, but hey, sorry. I'm trading out for what's new. This is why I'm not married. Anyway, the portrait mode of the photographic camera that's in it is really nice. It makes this really wonderful buttery bokeh and yeah I'm really loving the camera as well I didn't think I'd love these new phones that have these giant camera boxes on the back of them but I'm definitely loving the camera

the phone's super fast loving the gestures and stuff you can take and do I can just look at my phone now to open it I don't have to do fingerprint anymore, type in the code. I really like that. If you move it, it kind of starts to activate it, and then it goes to full on once it sees your face. It does a really good job of it. I'm really impressed so far, I've got to tell you. So if you get a chance, go to AT&T.com.

Check out the Pixel 4 and the Pixel 4 XL. Of course, you can get all the other phones they have at AT& att.com check out the pixel 4 and the pixel 4xl of course you can get all the other phones they have at att.com as well but i'm really loving it uh and uh let's talk about a few other things that are really cool out there in the marketplace um master and dynamic now if you've seen me on the show the chris voss show podcast or see me out in public wearing headphones and stuff i'm always wearing my master and dynamics uh uh mh40s and the uh bluetooth um noise canceling ones the i believe they're the mw65s name escapes me off the top of the head but uh they're the latest bluetooth authoring of noise cancellation from master dynamic they They have come out with their new, uh, earbuds, your phones,

if you will, the Bluetooth earphones that go in your ears. And, um, they, we profiled them, reviewed them a little while ago. The MWO sevens,

they've come up with some new ones called the MWO seven goes. So be sure to check those out as well. Uh, these are really, really, really beautiful designed units. Then they also have the MW07 Pluses. So pretty cool that way. They've got Bluetooth 5.0 on them. They got all sorts of different designs and stuff. The true wireless MW, uh, true wireless, uh, MWO seven goes, you can get for a much cheaper price. They're about one 99.

So, uh, cool that way you can save a little bit of money, but the really cool ones that look really nice, especially are the MWO seven pluses. Um, and they're two 99 and, uh, they basically, you know, have got Bluetooth 5.0 in them. Uh, quick pairing 30 meters meters up to 100 feet. These are just beautiful, beautiful earphones. We reviewed them, like I said, on the Chris Voss Show, the normal MW-07s. And, yeah, you're just going to get your mind blown checking them out. They come in a beautiful case as well.

I highly, highly recommend them. And I've got to tell you, that's what we use here on the Chris Foss Show. I can game for eight hours a day and wear my MH40s or, let's see, my MH40s. That's the thing I love the most. Of course, it has to be corded. And the MW65s, that's actually what I'm wearing right now because I'm kind of flipped between the two. The MW65s are active noise-canceling wireless headphones, and they are just beautiful. They are light as all get out, and I use them when I travel, get on airplanes and all that stuff with all the noisy kids screaming. I love them.

So to me, they're some of the best headphones on the market in the consumer uh categories uh and they're worth every money you can pay for them powerpoint m uh h40s uh the ones i have right now uh have i've had for like almost five years and they're still like new they're just impeccable and their beauty i think the only thing i've had to replace is the ear uh foams something about my sweat like burns down glue and melts stuff. I don't know what's going on. I have like the sweat of an alien creature from the alien movies where it's acid basically, I guess. I don't know. But what's cool about Master Dynamic is they make it so you can buy different colors

and you can kind of personalize your stuff. So about every six months or so or every year or so, I burn through the foam and the stuff. But I don't know. I do the same thing on like watches and stuff. My sweat will take in, make them all grimy, and I'll get this like green stuff growing in them. So I don't know what it is, man.

I'm a guy. I sweat a lot. What can you say? But the sound quality is exceptional over the top the build quality is exceptional at the top if steve jobs made um great headphones and earphones they would he would make master and dynamics i'm pretty sure i'm 100 sure uh but you know he's dead so it's a little hard to prove that if he was alive he'd probably quit apple and go to master dynamic and be like you guys make a

really good product anyway uh be sure to check that you're going to master and dynamic master dynamic.com let's put it that way so let's get into news now we've probably a few cool product features that are out there in the marketplace yeah watch for those reviews on all those products coming up well i think we requested them uh top of the news from the new york times this is kind of interesting google claims it's got quantum supremacy after its sycamore processor completed a calculation in three minutes 20 seconds that would take get this 10 000 years on today's supercomputers so uh how fast would that be on my crappy little computer? Wow. That thing's crazy, man. Look at the picture on the New York times. If you get a chance to go check it out, uh, they say it can change computing and they've got this crazy, the thing looks like

one of those doctor who, uh, evil robots turned upside robots turned upside down, kind of a little weird. That thing is crazy, man. And so they've got this supercomputer in Santa Barbara, and it achieved a long-sought breakthrough in quantum supremacy. It allows all sorts of new computers to do calculations as speeds that are inconceivable inconceivable what was that from princess bride uh that's inconceivable um but the poison in front of me is not the poison that you have that you would know that i would have in front of me i'm not even doing that. It's been so long since I've seen that. But you get the reference there.

Inconceivable. I should name the podcast that. Inconceivable Podcast. And then there'll just be nothing there because it is, of course, inconceivable. So, therefore, there would be no content on the podcast because you would not be able to conceive it because it would be far beyond your penile brain kind of like the chris voss show but not anyway uh so they've um been working on this quantum computer and uh they claim it could kick ass and did in three minutes and 20 seconds a mathematical calculation that some computers could not complete in under 10 000 years and uh i don't know what to say about that math a

math and science at the best word so they uh science likening liking google's announcement to the wright brothers first plane flight in 1903 all I want to know is can I game on that computer now that'd be cool I want to be able to play destiny video games on that thing I want I am expecting 1,000 FPS or 10,000 and fuck that 10,000 FPS it's a supercomputer that's super super on 10,000 FPS I'm probably gonna have a seizure looking at that screen i don't even know why uh so anyway this is cool and uh i don't know when can i buy one i guess that's my first question i'll take one of those today because god knows we can't get our porn fast enough i don't't know. Whatever, man.

Up in the news as well. Those of you who are married, you get that joke. Microsoft reports quarter one revenue of $33.1 billion. They're still a business? They're still a thing? Evidently so. They're up 14% year over year. And guess whatever that new program they have where they give windows away for free technically uh is gonna work and it looks like their cloud is driving a lot of it

the user cloud so um there you go wow microsoft's making money bill gates still gets richer good for him today was an interesting story you we've been following this on the chrisvossshow.com. Keep in mind, we try not to get into politics too much on this show, but we save that for another show, Chris Voss on Politics, a podcast on politics. You can subscribe to that at thecvpn.com. But this is kind of interesting because it is technology, and politics is a factor in technology and technology companies we cover.

And according to the Washington Post, at a hearing on Libra, which is the cryptocurrency Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook have been trying to launch, they were grilled by house lockmakers from both parties on the proposed cryptocurrency privacy diversity and misinformation. And evidently, they lashed the crap out of poor Mark Zuckerberg. He's just trying to help people and make money off your ass uh uh so they uh gave him a lashing which is always kind of funny because i'm not sure half the people in that room of congress and i'm not pointing fingers at any particular party they're all kind of inept at technology like i'm not even

sure half of you know what crypto uh encryption is or cryptocurrency is like you know i mean during a few years back well it was quite a few years back but there was the there's the congressman who claimed the internet was a series of pipes which is why i always do that thing when you hear me in an interview where i'm like so tell us where to find your podcast or find your uh website on the intertubes it's a series of intertubes yeah they're just it's pneumatic too it carries the pneumatic data from one thing to another and one of those little pneumatic things they have at home depot or used to have they don't have anymore i haven't seen it anyway um yeah they don't like libra they're worried that facebook is so freaking powerful they might create a new cryptocurrency that would take over the world

that everyone start using so i don't know man uh you know whatever you can't fight the future you can't fight progress that's vanity um as a favorite line from my movie uh the movie uh no country for old men you can't stop what's coming that's vanity uh it ain't all about you baby um so whatever man uh i don't know he's mark zuckerberg he can do what he wants and he doesn't have to get your permission he's a billionaire if you haven't checked so i don't know maybe he'll run for president someday what the hell seems like billionaires are running for president all the time now that's the new blood sport of billionaires because god knows they don't have enough money and

power now they kind of just do whatever. Anyway, moving on to the next item. Hopefully Mark survived. I'm going to be looking for videos like they had the last time he showed up on the hill where people asked stupid questions. And he just sat there going, do I really have to answer this? It is. I'm going to go look on Reddit and see if there's any of that going on. Up in tech news as well.

Sorry if this borders a little on politics, but it's true. We have to follow this as a mechanism of strategy. Memo, according to Axis, from the departing chief of White House security, lays out how an ongoing reorganization of the Trump administration has left its networks more vulnerable to attack So he is saying that the White House is posturing itself to be electronically compromised once again So that's you know, I don't know what it is man. We need to start electing more like techno nerds to Politics because you know, we're gonna lose the war if we're not careful.

The future of World Wars is going to be in hacking and in, you know, all these different things you can do to bring down servers and everything else and steal information. That's really where the new future World Wars are going to be held. And they're already happening now. There's already people attacking nuclear plants servers trying to hack into them so they can create a meltdown and catastrophe and all sorts of good crazy stuff and um yeah so really kind of scary our politicians just don't get this man and why it's important and maybe they don't want to because maybe maybe it's easier maybe it's easier to recruit people to help but take that for whatever you will.

According to Vice, there is a leaked presentation that shows Comcast is lobbying U.S. lawmakers against Google and Mozilla's plan to encrypt DNS data, making it harder for ISPs to track users. I, of course, am for this. I want more privacy in what I'm doing where I'm tracking You know we've got a the VPN on our networks now And I'm actually looking at a few different other VPN services to try and get a better idea See if we can't get the best one attached to especially one that doesn't slow down our networks like the one we have now does Sometimes you just you know it just takes longer to encrypt stuff I guess So this is kind of interesting. This is a battle over your data.

Over your data they're going to sell to other people once they contract you and know what you're doing and sell it to other people. So Google and Mozilla's plan to encrypt DNS data. There is another side of this coin as well. So you may want to take this into consideration. Google is pushing it because Google is trying to wall off their garden they're basically when you're doing all your search and all your stuff and your Google Chrome they keep it to themselves so they'll be able to unencrypted your data see what you're

up to but if anyone else wants to see it they gotta buy it because it'll be encrypted so a bit of a power play going back and forth here um i would like more privacy but i am kind of a little wary if google's going to be the uh eyes and ears of the thing who watches the watcher who polices the policeman get it yeah what can go wrong probably a lot uh cnbc we work man this company's just like a shit show, I mean, we always joked about how Twitter was the clown car that crashed in success, somebody wrote a book to that effect that coined that term, and it's such a classic term that never stops giving for all the fumbles that Twitter consistently makes, get a new CEO, that's the problem. It's the CEO, stupid.

Anyway, WeWork says SoftBank will provide $5 billion in new financing and buy up to $3 billion in share from existing shareholders, which should give SoftBank an 80%. and we work if you're familiar they just bought off their CEO founder of a 1.7 billion dollar buyout I want to build a a bankrupt company that makes no profit and couldn't even get listed because it's so fucking upside down bankrupt and get a payout of 1.7 billion Jesus I used to create so many profitable companies back in the day and nobody ever gave me any billions of dollars. And then all it is is a real estate office company. What the fuck? It's a real estate office company, leasing company that instead of leasing you your own private space, it leases you open space that everyone else is using, which is

kind of fucked up when you think about it bright and brilliant kind of fucked up hey you want to go work in a noisy office with 50,000 fucking other people from other different companies people you can't even fucking fire i mean at least when you own your own office space you can throw people out of your office or you can say hey stop being so noisy in my fucking office because it's my office but you know they're embracing the new uh thing of millennials that are you know they're working and they need an office i've thought about going and using these sometimes just to kind of get away and out of my space but i found it's just better to go to like a coffee shop or go have a lunch at

restaurants sit down with your laptop and do your work. At least you have control of your environment to a certain degree, unless you have crying babies or something, but then you just throw coffee on them. No, I'm just kidding. I never throw hot coffee on a baby. Maybe an ice latte, but I don't know. The reason I do that is because I found throwing an ice latte at me in the morning makes me cry less um over the fact that i'm awake alive and gotta deal with another day this bullshit so there's that uh according to digital trends hawaii uh how why hey we how we i can never say it right says that

their mate x foldable phone do they really this foldable phone, do they really? This foldable phone trend is killing me, will launch in China next month for $2,400. $2,400? Do you realize that's like a used car price? It's getting out of control, people. They've shipped 200 smartphones so far in 2019, 64 days faster than 2018. So even though they're banned in the U.S., they're doing all this cool stuff and whatever. $2,400, people, for a mobile phone and a foldable one at that. So God knows that that's going to work.

A friend of mine, I don't know if he coined the term, he took it from someplace else. I think he took it from someplace else, but he's famous for saying it. My friend Robert Scoble. The pioneers are the ones who get all the arrows. The people who are first to market with stuff usually get all the arrows. And so these foldable phones, you know, we've already seen Samsung go through issues with them.

Do we know how that's going to all work out? I don't know, but we're gonna find out twenty four hundred dollars for do you realize that's one quarter of ten thousand dollars and last time i checked ten thousand dollars is uh you know it's a good little boat money to have i mean i'm just saying man ten thousand so basic,000. So, I mean, you're basically $2,400. So, like, I think for the average American, isn't that like their monthly payment, their monthly income? For some people, that might be a household, actually. I don't know, man.

For average or below average, I think that's a household income. So, that's like a month worth of pay. We're starting to become like a third world fucking country where they're like the people in thailand can buy the phone and it's a year's worth of pay and you're like holy shit don't drop that thing honey wow man 2400 dollars are you freaking serious wow all right sure whatever you say anyway man um i don't know dude whatevs whatevs to you man checking out 2400 dollars i just can't get over that seriously that's gonna'm going to lay in bed tonight. Just going, who the fuck is that? That's kind of stupid. I mean, I've got money. I'm not spending

$2,400 on no goddamn cell phone. I don't care what it is. I'm going to drop that thing. It's going to break and I'm going to cry like a mother. $2,400. You can buy like some, you can put that in the 401k or stock account or some sort of an investment thing. Start investing on wall street. Why are you buying a fucking foldable phone for $2,400? Christ. I thought a thousand dollars was too much. Uh, even the $2,000 foldable Samsung. I'm like, no, no, no, stop it, just stop, don't, stop touching me, get away from me, $2,400, I don't even care that's, I mean, we're not even talking about the fact that it's Hawaii, where half the stuff is supposed to be hacked by the Chinese government,

and they'll be watching you after that, next time, $2,400, well, I'll tell you what, you send me $2,400, I'll send you whatever phone we got laying around here from AT&T, and you know what, I'll even take two of the phones, I'll go to Home Depot, get one of those hinges, and I'll screw it in the, I'll probably have to glue it, because you can't screw it, but I'll glue it in the the phone and you'll have a foldable fucking phone 2400 i'll buy some hinges five dollar hinges i'll even wd-40 in for you so they don't creak every time you open the phone and they'll pretty much work because i'm just going to glue the back of the hinge onto the phones so the phones are still going to be the phones. But good luck getting them to be one single screen. You know what you can do?

Here's how you can get that to work. You just close one eye and look at the phones and then close the other eye and you've got dual screens. Technology, people. Science, bitch. Anyway, let's move on from the Breaking Bad reference. Bloomberg says Google employees, man, those Google employees are getting riled up over there. They're taking that management to a whole new level.

They're trying to unionize and all sorts of crap. They are accusing the company of making an internal tool to monitor attempts to organize meetings. Google says it's to prevent calendar spam. Hmm. Which is it? Calendar spam or an internal tool to monitor attempts and organize meetings? I don't know, man. The allegation underscores tensions between his employees

and leadership, you know, why don't you guys just go start your own fucking company, for Christ's sake, you know, just, all you employees are unhappy, just go do that, I don't know, man, so anyway, that's going on, there's all sorts of politics and sexual harassment stuff, and I don't know, man, the Google employee base is just super fricking active and they're talking about unionizing now, which they probably should. I mean, might as well.

I think everyone should unites nowadays. It seems like employees don't have shit for, for rights anymore. It's my opinion. I'm sticking to it. Uh, this is also kind of interesting. This is from vice documents show how Facebook uses Menlo Park's police department,

which includes a Facebook-funded unit for campus patrol duties amid racial profiling concerns. I guess Motherboard got a hold of hundreds of documents obtained and show that they're using the police department to reshape the city. That's kind of probably not good. I mean, is if Facebook didn't have enough fucking power as it is they're running the police department Wow Mark Zuckerberg man you ever break in his house you're in some deep doo-doo

he's got the mental police on speed dial I don't even know if he lives in the Menlo Park but let's just assume for this story that he does I don't even know if he lives in Menlo Park, but let's just assume for this story that he does. I don't know where he lives because I don't stalk him, and he's friends with the Menlo Police, so I'm not going anywhere near the guy. I'll just watch him on Capitol Hill. How about that? Next up in our stories, this is according to the Wall Street Journal. Very different than the, I don't know, there's no, I can't make that joke work. Build a Wall Street Journal, very different than the, I don't know, there's no, I can't make that joke work,

build a Wall Street Journal, anyway, whatever, Investigation, the Amazon, you've heard of it, the Amazon, not the Amazon as in like the Amazon forest, but the Amazon like as in Amazon.com, sells cheap clothes made in dozens of Bangladesh factories, most of which are deemed too dangerous for workers by other big retailers. Wow. Okay, so

I don't know, man. It's apparel. Apparel's always in a weird space, man. Because apparel is always usually built in these sweatshops around the country i even went one into ones that were in the u.s you know 20 30 40 years ago where uh they had sewing shops and stuff and they were kind of sweaty too um so whatever if you're the consumer if you hate that you don't like that boycott it rock and roll ask where your clothes are made from

you know honestly people that are buying cheap clothes probably really don't care where they come from because if you you know i mean forever 21 is filing bankruptcy you got to get your cheap clothes somewhere i don't know man i don't like to see people taken advantage of it's sad that we're in this kind of cycle where these developing countries are having to do whatever they can uh in sweatshops and child labor and everything that we did 100 years ago basically but i don't know i don't know what to do with it that's the information and i'm sticking to it uh according to cbn c and bc wow man what's going on today with chris probably a brain hemorrhage. Amazon has acquired Health Navigator,

which provides online symptom checking and triage tools to companies that are looking to route patients to the right place. It's a startup founded by an emergency medicine doctor. And I guess if you're having symptoms of a certain degree, it tells you what the best hospital is to go to. This sounds like a good idea to me. Usually when I'm in full heart attack, full stroke mode, I usually don't want to be driving around to different hospitals going,

hey, do you work on this? Probably not a good thing. This is kind of interesting. Apple Pay, according to eMarketer, overtook Starbucks as the top mobile payment app in the u.s in 2008 with 27.7 million users will grow to 30.3 million users in 2019 represented a 47.3 percent market share holy crap it only took like what five ten years uh i had friends that were promising that apple

pay will take over the world everyone will be paying with it like in two days and that didn't happen um so it looks like it's heading that way i mean 47.3 percent market share that's getting in business that's a great place to be right there um so fun is fun next up on the news item pando according to uh sarah lacey and paul car sell pando seven years after launching it to an ad tech company buy sell ads which bought dig in 2018 i think they bought at a deep discount so cool um there you go uh there was a pando for sale i don't even know what pando is or what they do and i really just don't care i mean if these guys bought dig well good for them dig is that still a thing i used to get the newsletter it was kind of interesting then to find and subscribe i just didn't care anymore so whatever ebay reports a quarter three revenue according to

zd net of 2.65 billion dollars a flat year over year meeting analyst estimates saying it grew active buyers by four percent across this platform i'm really surprised they're still doing well they're so awful to sign up for they're so awful to do business with the base there is like all these nigerian things that do fake bids and then never pay you and then you have to relist your thing. I'm so sick of it. It used to be you could edit those people out and they kept changing the UI so you couldn't exclude them, which has made it even more annoying as well. Last up, according to CNET, Samsung unveils the Exynos 990. It's a new flagship SoC that's 20% faster overall, 20 times faster on AI-specific tasks,

and a new 5G modem made with a 7NM processor. So if you buy the next year's flagship galaxy phones it may come out with the performance boost for a new processor that they announced the xenos 990 samsung um processor so that might be cool hey funner's fun and uh yeah i'm looking for better modems if we can get that 5G going, assuming it will ever get gone. There you go. Anyway, guys, that's my news rundown of today, and be sure to tune in tomorrow. Be sure to see our prior segment that we did on all the Product Hunt products that kind of stuck out to me that I thought were fairly cool or funny, for that matter.

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