The Chris Voss Show - The Chris Voss Show Podcast – Pixel 4, Twitter Public-Interest Rules, Dark Web & Other Tech News Oct 16, 2019

Episode Date: October 16, 2019

Pixel 4, Twitter Public-Interest Rules, Dark Web & Other Tech News Oct 16, 2019

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what's it's about what does it all mean chris what does it all mean i don't know but i'm gonna tell you what i think uh and i'm not sure that that's even gonna be right either so take it with whatever grain of salt you want we just like the entertainment chris when there is some anyway guys uh according to tech crunch the u.s.S., the U.K., and South Korea are dismantling one of the largest child exploitation dark web sites. Jesus Christ, with over 200,000 unique videos, there's that many of them? Oh, my God. Can we just all put these people with Jared from Subway in the prison

and castrate them as well? Over three dozen people have arrested. You know, I'm up for putting child pornography up alongside with murder, death row time, because these folks don't ever change. Once they get this sort of locked in fetish, they don't change. And I'm sorry. If you reach that point where you're being this heinous to a young group of people, you probably just shouldn't be here anymore. That's just my opinion, and take it as a grain of salt for what you want. The damage these people cause over people's lifetime is far worse than it is is up

there with murder because the damages is definitely real and they change people's lives and destroy the people's lives in many cases anyway this is really awesome this is according to TechCrunch it's really sad to think that there are places like this on the web I think I think a few weeks ago or a week or so guys reading a report that there is more child porn on the web than ever before and a disturbing amount of a portion of the web um so uh it's good that we're getting this stuff shut down and shutting these people down um it's it's just heinous beyond belief let's move on to the next story the verge is reporting that a source from the fcc has formally approved the merger between t-mobile and Sprint on a party line vote. Democrats are dissenting. Uh, I don't know, man. I mean,

T-Mobile and Sprint, uh, we've both done reviews for both companies. Uh, they both just kind of seem to be, um, kind of a second tier sort of, uh, uh after AT&T and Verizon um and of course Sprint owns a whole lot of the kind of bottom tier stuff they own like uh oh what is it they own uh you know all the free stuff like Virgin and Virgin Phone and and uh Metro I think they own as well. And their networks are never that great. T-Mobile is better than Sprint, but it might be good if they all, I don't know, work together to make something that competes better with Verizon and AT&T. I don't know how I feel about this merger.

I don't know. Maybe it'll work for them. Who knows? The Google Pixel 4 is out out we're hoping to get one from at&t to review uh this is um a few different features they have the uh there's the 5.7 inch pixel 4 it's running 7.99 uh wow that's cheaper than some of the other competitive phones out there in the market and probably better because you're going to get the direct from Google updates. I've been kind of jelly because the Pixels get the updates first.

And even my Samsung Galaxy, it takes a while to come because AT&T has got to do their build of it. Verizon has to do the same. All of them have their own different things, the way they have to stack it to work with their systems. And I get it. But wow, that's a pretty inexpensive darn price for what should be a fairly good phone. The Pixel 4 XL is $899 with gesture recognition. Ooh, I got to look into that. What is that about? Two rear cameras, including one with a telephoto lens coming October 24th. You know, I've got to look into that. What is that about? Two rear cameras, including one with a telephoto lens, coming October 24th.

You know, I really question, and I'm cracking on everybody here, so don't get after me. But I really question, you know, I've seen the iPhone with the three lenses on the back. You know, for years I've had these great companies send me all these different lenses and all these different add-ons. And you know how much time I used them past the review? Almost never. And, you know, having all that extra hardware, all that extra shit that can go wrong and break down on you. For me, when I looked at the iPhone, I mean, it seems like a great phone. Don't get me wrong.

But when I looked at the back of the iPhone, I'm like, man, that's a lot of work to keep half the phone from freaking getting scratched. Because the one thing I hate is camera scratches. That will drive me up a wall. Because once you get camera scratches, then the camera won't focus right. Your film is going to be all messed up when you take a picture and there's like a line going through it. So I don't know about all these phones that have all these camera lenses, any of them. I'm not picking on one. Just any of them, if they have, you know, these different camera lenses on them, it's just more to to go wrong and I don't know how much you're going to actually use them I mean are there is every iPhone user taking telephoto pictures and all the different variants I don't think so most people are just

open their camera and if anything they're just taking selfies most times especially if you're a gal you're just taking selfies you're not especially if you're a gal. You're just taking selfies. You're not spending a whole lot of time with that camera face the other way. You're taking 500 selfies in front of the bathroom mirror. And I'm not saying there's anything wrong with that. You go, girl. But I'm just saying, does anybody really use that? So, you know, I mean, and do you really need to pay for that?

It seems like we've reached a world where most of these cell phones are so commoditized where they all seem to have everything. In fact, I got a phone here. Where's that phone that we have? I got a phone here that costs $200 to $300. What is it? It's the new phone, NUU. NUU. Man, I need to finish this second cup of coffee, don't I?

NUU, new mobile. These guys sent me some phones that actually do really good at competing with the thing, and they're so cheap. If I had kids, I'd give them all these phones, and they do everything my Samsung Galaxies do for the most part. I mean, you know, you're paying a lot less, but it's got a great camera. It's got great speed.

It's got all the Android apps, the latest software. It does really well. So, you know, it seems like we reached this commoditization where the only improvements we can make are, what, adding more cameras? Is that where we're at with the phones we've already made them as fast as they can go chris we we can't we can't make them any better hey whatever man so there you go uh the pixel 4 has a technology called motion sense radar it's

called project solely soli and um and they they are running the gesture sensing portion of the phone. It's going to be kind of interesting. It has a tiny radar chip inside of it, which allows you to swipe or wave your hand to do a few things. I like one that every time I see news about a certain president, I can flip my finger off to it and the screen and that will be gesture related so anyway it comes out with two rear cameras a telephoto lens it's coming out on october 24th um so there you have it it will also have its first voice recorder mobile app which can just transcribe speech in real time without an internet connection i really like that i've been using a few different transcribers and working on my book

and uh yeah there's uh it's tough to find good ones you can really enjoy let me tell you that uh it's going to have a dual camera system that has better zoom capability according to them live view hdr plus to fine-tune shots revamped portrait mode and extends night sight to astrophotography i guess that's the other new thing we're doing we're becoming astrophotographyist is that a thing according to cena of course um so so what we're gonna we're now telescoping the sky is that what the levels of photography you can do with a mobile phone i don't know man sounds like some hype to me that's all i'm saying i'll believe it when i see it i'm that way even though i love google phones i you know what i'm a skeptic show me the money um it says it won't support this is interesting it won't support according to venture beat

the daydream mobile vr platform which is being phased out as it also stops selling the daydream viewer looks like the top vr is still going to be um oculus i guess they're just ruining the day uh crazy stuff according to tech crunch tiktok hires law firm knl gates to help it form a u.s continent or content the u.s is a continent so i was kind of close u.s content moderation committee as current rules allow for double standard on political speech uh we're starting to see this across a lot of different tech companies where they're trying to address how to be quote-unquote fair and balanced if you take away the people use that term as as the are the irony of it Amazon according to Z net says its consumer business has decommissioned its final Oracle database and migrated 75 petabytes Wow

in 7,500 Oracle databases to multiple AWS data services that's a lot of data that's a lot of backup of photos I mean I thought I've got almost like six gig of photos that I'm having to move around now between all my dogs my dogs I think are like five gigs of it and I think the rest is like i don't know pictures of me and food and like documents or something i don't know uh and uh but 75 petabytes whoo that's a lot of that's a lot of copying people that's a lot of copying it might take you you know maybe more than five minutes to copy that over oh going back want to fall back to that tick tock article tick tock I guess is just getting more and more popular I guess what's-his-face the actor gone on there

I forget his name he was in a lot of great he's been in a lot great movies a great actor but he's over there doing some really great work we're probably gonna see more actors going over there and it'll kind of have that Twitter effect so I guess I need to start going over there and making stupid idiot videos to entertain people because God knows that's what we need more of you know we don't have enough YouTube as it is according the independent after delays the UK government quietly drops its controversial plan to implement an age verification requirement for porn websites.

What? What? Let me read this again. After the release of the UK government to implement age verification. What? Why would you not do that? I mean, I can't. This is serious?

This is freaking serious they are going to drop its plan to implement age verification requirement for porn websites what the freaking hell oh my god wow i can't log into an alcohol website without giving my age hell if I log into a mature audience gamer site you know to buy a game or check out you know latest game like ghost recon or something like that um I don't know about ghost recon but I I've been playing a few betas but uh there are certain mature video games that if you play you have to enter your age just to be able to see the trailer um i don't know what to think that just boggles my mind what are you doing internet i mean let me get this straight uk government so you don't want an age verification requirement for porn

websites but we got to add all that stupid disclosure stuff about cookies to all of our websites in the tech world. Like, that's more important. And if we don't, we can get, like, fine $10,000 or something because we didn't put up a notification saying what we do with our cookies. Man, you want to talk about having priorities wrong. Holy shit. Let's move on to something less depressing. Oh, my God.

That's awful, man. I'm still glad I still gonna have kids i don't i i really feel for parents in this day and age because their kids can get into everything and anything on the internet and i i i do love that as a child i was raised with a very limited amount of access to uh different avenues of porn like at least I got to try like the basics first. You know what I mean? I didn't, I didn't just go right to, you know, some crazy weird fetish shit that I found on a website. Cause I accidentally typed in the wrong search thing when I was, I was trying to, you know, search Tonka trunks trucks. And I got, uh, I don't know, people having sex with machines or something.

I don't know what, you know, you give the, you get to just the one. Uh, I'm thinking about that whole reference I just made up and now I'm going, oh wow, that really is wrong. Um, instead of Tonka Trunks, it's Tonka. Okay. Yeah. All right. People have sex with the construction machinery. Make sure you get your tetanus shots, people. That just sounds like a whole tetanus nightmare. Anyway. Um, you know, and what's funny is, you know, that there's three people in my audience right now who are Googling that shit they're like oh yeah man i forgot about

that anyway uh so whatever man whatever uh tech crunch linkedin launches events it's a new free tool to plan announce and invite people to meetups in the physical world starting october 17th in english-speaking countries uh it's kind of interesting to me. I wonder if this is a competition for meetup.com. Well, one thing I've been noticing on my meetup.com friends, and I used to control a few groups on meetup.com, WeWork purchased it for a lot of money, probably more money than they should have purchased it.

And now people on meetup.com are panicking because they're worried that WeWork might go into BK or might fold as a whole, and they're thinking that Meetup might go down. Now, I'm not saying that's what's happening. That's the perception out there of people who are running things on meetup.com, and that site's been dead for so long. It's just sad. That's the perception out there of people who are running things on meetup.com.

And that site's been dead for so long. It's just sad. I used to be able to get really good groups, and it's just declined over time as a thing. And no one seems to care about it anymore, really, for showing up for those things. So it is kind of interesting. LinkedIn might be jumping in to steal some of that business or space. In fact, someone should really jump into that space and take it over because it's failing miserably. And certainly there needs to be better ways to meet up in the physical world, et cetera, et cetera. Of course, people in VR now are disrupting that and making it so you can meet up in the VR world.

I've done that with a few of my friends, and it's pretty cool. You kind of hang out with them even though they're across the the universe and you kind of feel like you're sitting around with them at the local bar so it's cool that way uh the hollywood reporter is uh talking about a story about false starts and off-screen drama that apple tv plus finally makes its debut with this slate of shows uh they talk about inside Apple's steep learning curve with TV Plus and Hollywood. The company already well outspent its projected $1 billion annual

content budget. I don't think you're going to lose for them when it comes to their content budget. They have a captured audience that will buy anything that they sell. I mean, if Tim Cook started selling his shits and signing them on a placard people would buy the fuck out of them I mean that audience

will buy just about anything from Apple and they they're into the the ecosystem which is fine I mean hey you know whatever but I gotta tell you man if we hear an Apple phone it's getting real damn expensive to buy all their stuff I think one of my friends from forbes uh outlined just all the payments every month for the services and it was like over 100 150 dollars or something just for if you buy like all of apple stuff their monthly subscriptions they have now um let alone you know god knows what you pay if you buy like their computers their phones their ipadsads and whatever all their headphones and whatever else they are selling I will say this though I did stop by an Apple Store a while ago and I was

impressed with the sound of the beats so they've done some updating to the sound of the beats headphones so I was impressed with them I didn't have any reference headphones I wish I would have had my Master & Dynamic headphones to take with me, which I feel are the best and I wear during the podcast. You'll see all the time. And I highly recommend Master & Dynamic. Go to masteranddynamic.com. They have great headphones and little earphones now.

They've got great earbuds now. But for me, the uh headphones i always use for consumer headphones are the master dynamics i guess stuff um i think there's a version of bowers and wilkins that i also like that uh uh does their bluetooth but they've got a great bluetooth uh headphones for master dynamic now with uh a and c uh noise canceling headphones that I take on flights with me I really love the product and and they just put so much into build it's just excellent I don't know if it's the best NC on the market we haven't tested all of them but it does a great job for me so they're wonderfully comfortable the sound is

excellent this is turning into a master and dynamic commercial, isn't it? I love them that much. Sue me. I've got, I don't think, 10 headphones running around here. We're up for review right now and everything else. I love when people argue, it's not the best headphone. Well, there's a lot of reference points we're using around the review office here at theris voss show so uh either my ears are crazy or we have a lot to compare anyway let's wind down to the verge has a story um talking about how works with nest is winding down let's see how i led that in google shares new initiatives to securely automate homes including limited home routines and device

access opt-in. If you're not paying attention, basically what Google's doing is they are walling off their garden. They unveiled a new Nest Wi-Fi router, which is mesh capable and lacks Wi-Fi 6 coming in November for $269 for two-pack and Google-enabled Nest Wi-Fi point. Why would you not want Wi-Fi 6 if you're going to buy a new router? I don't know why, man, but it's pretty cheap. I mean, if you're paying $269 for a two-pack, are they two units as one, or are they just two separate units as two that you're getting for two?

I don't know, man. That sounds like, i don't know i mean that sounds like something google's building it's a whole new sort of walled off garden kind of apple-ish if you will and they've been cutting off a lot of apis third party things i'm not happy about it and i am a google fan i i love my samsung galaxies from 18t but uh you know hey uh whatever they're making some changes system that I don't like and I'm speaking up about it cuz I don't I don't just go like son doesn't mean I swallow it all here we go New York Times Hawaii says their sales were

up 86 billion that's after America cut him off whoa whoa 25 year over year up with 185 million smartphone shipments of 26 year over year between january and september 2019 well i guess they're doing fine without us so there's that um so it's really interesting to compete with the Chinese government. They can pay their way through everything, can't they? Dominance is everything. Let's see here. Next up, according to BuzzFeed News, the U.S. ad agency Ads Incorporated ran a subscription-based Facebook scam whereby users rented their accounts to Ads Incorporated, which ran $ million dollars in ads since 2016 holy mother of god this is according to an investigation that's going on and uh wow man the subscription trap

so this is kind of interesting this is more ways facebook needs to address how much we are up for sale we're seeing just more and more of the darkness uh at first everyone was like into the light they're like facebook it makes the world come together now we're starting to see the dark side of the coin if you will uh the coin that uh facebook is making all their money off of our backs on um and they need to do a better job of it we just keep finding out too many times that like i don't know at this point zuckerberg can run for president because he might be as less trustable as the guy in the office or close i don't know he seems like a nice guy i don't see him as a pathological maniacal liar.

But I don't know, Zuck. Get it together, man. And what else do we have here? That's politics. We don't want to get in that. This is kind of interesting. This is from TechCrunch. I read this last night.

Twitter is going to restrict user interactions with world leader tweets that it deems violates its rules, letting users quote the tweet but not retweet like reply and share. So basically what they're doing, and this kind of addresses one key user of Twitter, that a lot of people argue that because of Twitter's rules, they should be kicked off the platform. But I do like the fact that Twitter has said, look, this person clearly is someone that everyone should be aware of their state of mind, which they broadcast on Twitter, and their stable genius, if you will. And so they're announcing, this is actually from their tweet. In June, we announced there are many times in tweets that world leaders that break our rules will remain on Twitter in the public interest. We're providing more transparency and details how these decisions are made. And basically what they're going to do is make it so they can't really be retweeted, shared. People are putting out toxic stuff.

I like this idea. I think this is really cool. And I think it is really cool. Um, and, uh, and I think it's important. Uh, but yeah, the ability for people to share disinformation, to share lies, to share BS, we're starting to see an awakening of that. I'm starting to see news channels being like, we're not going to air what the liar guy said. We're not going to air it because it just we're just contributing to the problem and you know so there and i i really think it's important kind of i mean if anything we need to

know how bad it is but there are people that are really impressionable and stupid who go that's fine with me light up the constitution who needs it all right man yeah you'll you'll be looking for those when we descend into a country like Venezuela who you know who was overrun with despots and authoritarian leaders who took over the economy and everything else and now the whole country's broke that's what happens when you let this shit run amok. You've got to have responsible leaders. Um,

no public company would ever put some of these people in a boardroom or office or in leadership positions. No one, uh, that should be your first sign right there. Um, anyway, so that's what's going on in the world.

My take on it. We're probably going to go to the next segment of our podcast, which is another episode. Um, anyway, so that's what's going on in the world. My take on it. We're probably going to go to the next segment of our podcast, which is another episode actually. Uh, and it's going to be talking about all the things on product hunt that stuck out to me today and all that good stuff. So be sure to tune in for that show. We certainly appreciate you guys being here, tuning in, be sure to share the show with your friends. Say, Hey man, you want to be smarter? You want to be a smarter person? I know that's great, but aside from that, why don't you listen to chrisvossshow.com because he's kind of funny sometimes and I like listening to his voice. He has a warm voice that comforts me. Thanks for tuning in, guys. We'll see you next time.