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[ { "start": 0, "end": 4, "text": " Hey everybody, it's Neon from The Verge. I'm here with the iPhone X, which is absolutely beautiful." }, { "start": 4, "end": 8, "text": " I'm just going to say it straight out. This is the white version. It's got a glass back." }, { "start": 8, "end": 14, "text": " Here, it's got a 5.8 inch OLED display. You can see the notch at the top." }, { "start": 14, "end": 17, "text": " There's no home button, so you swipe up to close an app." }, { "start": 17, "end": 21, "text": " When you're in an app, you swipe up and hold to go to the app switcher." }, { "start": 21, "end": 23, "text": " You can just bang between apps there." }, { "start": 23, "end": 29, "text": " Because there's swiping up from the bottom to open Control Center, you now swipe down from the right side." }, { "start": 29, "end": 33, "text": " For Control Center, you swipe down from the left side for the notifications tray." }, { "start": 33, "end": 37, "text": " It is, I mean I just can't say it enough, it's a super beautiful phone." }, { "start": 37, "end": 42, "text": " It's got a stainless steel band. It's got 12 megapixel dual cameras on the back." }, { "start": 42, "end": 48, "text": " They're both stabilized now. This one is f1.8. The telephoto is f2.4." }, { "start": 48, "end": 54, "text": " And on the front, you've got a depth tracking system in the front that enables face ID," }, { "start": 54, "end": 56, "text": " because there's no more touch ID on the phone." }, { "start": 56, "end": 60, "text": " You look at the phone, it projects 30,000 infrared dots on your face." }, { "start": 60, "end": 65, "text": " It matches them against a map in the secure enclave on the phone and unlocks the phone." }, { "start": 65, "end": 69, "text": " So the iPhone X also has new camera modes. The iPhone 8 actually has these camera modes too." }, { "start": 69, "end": 71, "text": " The most important is called Portrait Lighting." }, { "start": 71, "end": 75, "text": " So this poor gentleman from Apple, you can see him slide over to stage light." }, { "start": 75, "end": 77, "text": " I'm going to shoot him." }, { "start": 77, "end": 81, "text": " It's going to process. And you see, I'll show you the photo." }, { "start": 81, "end": 83, "text": " It's blacked out the entire background." }, { "start": 83, "end": 88, "text": " That's available on both the X and the 8, but these are new Portrait Lighting effects on the iPhone X." }, { "start": 88, "end": 92, "text": " iPhone X has no home button. It's got face ID. It's not set up for my face." }, { "start": 92, "end": 94, "text": " The gentleman from Apple, it's set up for his face." }, { "start": 94, "end": 96, "text": " You can see he just looks at the phone and it automatically unlocks." }, { "start": 96, "end": 98, "text": " So he's going to look at the phone. Keep your eyes closed." }, { "start": 98, "end": 100, "text": " He's going to look at the phone. It's still locked." }, { "start": 100, "end": 103, "text": " Now if he opens his eyes, it's going to unlock." }, { "start": 103, "end": 105, "text": " That is pretty cool. That's face ID." }, { "start": 105, "end": 109, "text": " The other new thing is for Apple Pay. The side button is a lot bigger here." }, { "start": 109, "end": 113, "text": " So to use Apple Pay, you just double click it. It'll open it." }, { "start": 113, "end": 115, "text": " I'm going to point at this gentleman's face because that's his face." }, { "start": 115, "end": 118, "text": " And now you just wave it at the reader for Apple Pay." }, { "start": 118, "end": 121, "text": " I've got to say this unlock stuff is really cool." }, { "start": 121, "end": 127, "text": " But also, I've got this phone. If I just point at this gentleman's face, I can unlock it." }, { "start": 127, "end": 130, "text": " So obviously some security things to work through there for Apple." }, { "start": 130, "end": 135, "text": " Because if someone grabs your phone and they just point it at you, you might want to keep your eyes closed all the time." }, { "start": 135, "end": 140, "text": " The front camera also can do portrait mode now because of that depth tracking system." }, { "start": 140, "end": 145, "text": " And they showed off a really cool demo of Snapchat doing really cool new filters in Snapchat." }, { "start": 145, "end": 147, "text": " Let's try that out real quick." }, { "start": 147, "end": 151, "text": " So there's my face. That's one of the new filters." }, { "start": 151, "end": 154, "text": " You can see it looks way cooler than regular Snapchat filters." }, { "start": 154, "end": 158, "text": " The iPhone X starts at $1,000 for the 64GB version." }, { "start": 158, "end": 161, "text": " There's a 256GB version that's more expensive." }, { "start": 161, "end": 164, "text": " Apple actually didn't announce the price on stage. You've got to look on the web for that." }, { "start": 164, "end": 168, "text": " It is just an absolutely gorgeous phone. It's going to come out in November." }, { "start": 168, "end": 171, "text": " There's also the iPhone 8, which is a little bit cheaper. That's coming out a lot sooner." }, { "start": 171, "end": 194, "text": " So that is a very, very quick look at the iPhone X." } ]

[ { "start": 0, "end": 3.96, "text": " Hey, I'm Dan with The Verge and today we're checking out the new Xiaomi Mi Mix 2, which" }, { "start": 3.96, "end": 7.88, "text": " is the update to last year's Mi Mix full screen smartphone from Xiaomi." }, { "start": 7.88, "end": 12.92, "text": " Now, the Mi Mix 2 is actually a successor to the original Mi Mix that was launched last" }, { "start": 12.92, "end": 16.28, "text": " year, which was Xiaomi's first full screen smartphone." }, { "start": 16.28, "end": 20.88, "text": " Now, Mi Mix 2 has a couple of notable improvements over the Mi Mix last year." }, { "start": 20.88, "end": 25.1, "text": " First of all, it comes in both a standard and a special edition, and I'll get to the" }, { "start": 25.1, "end": 26.6, "text": " differences in a second." }, { "start": 26.6, "end": 29.080000000000002, "text": " The biggest difference that you're going to notice between last year's phone and this" }, { "start": 29.08, "end": 31.279999999999998, "text": " year's phone though is that it is smaller." }, { "start": 31.279999999999998, "end": 36.199999999999996, "text": " This is now a 5.99 inch screen, which is still huge, but because the screen is pushed all" }, { "start": 36.199999999999996, "end": 40.519999999999996, "text": " the way to the edge, it makes the phone feel smaller than it did before with a 6.5 inch" }, { "start": 40.519999999999996, "end": 41.519999999999996, "text": " screen." }, { "start": 41.519999999999996, "end": 43.879999999999995, "text": " Of course, the screen is the star of the show here." }, { "start": 43.879999999999995, "end": 45.28, "text": " It is an edge to edge panel." }, { "start": 45.28, "end": 48, "text": " It goes all the way to the top edge of the phone and the sides." }, { "start": 48, "end": 50.54, "text": " There's just a little bit of bezel here and below it." }, { "start": 50.54, "end": 54.58, "text": " It's an LCD screen with a wide color gamut and it's got 1080 pixels of resolution, so" }, { "start": 54.58, "end": 59.519999999999996, "text": " it's not quite as high res as a Samsung screen or something from LG." }, { "start": 59.519999999999996, "end": 63.8, "text": " It does look really nice outdoors and it's really vibrant and colorful." }, { "start": 63.8, "end": 68.84, "text": " The other things that are really notable here is Mi Mix's ceramic back." }, { "start": 68.84, "end": 74.16, "text": " This is a ceramic back on the standard model and it kind of melds into a metal frame here" }, { "start": 74.16, "end": 75.16, "text": " on the side." }, { "start": 75.16, "end": 80.4, "text": " Now, if you opt for the special edition, it's an actual full ceramic unibody, which Xiaomi" }, { "start": 80.4, "end": 83.6, "text": " says is the first phone on the market to have this kind of feature." }, { "start": 83.6, "end": 86.6, "text": " The back just kind of morphs into the frame of the phone." }, { "start": 86.6, "end": 88.52, "text": " It feels really great and premium." }, { "start": 88.52, "end": 89.86, "text": " It's really, really nice." }, { "start": 89.86, "end": 94.72, "text": " It's also really, really slippery and super fingerprinty as well." }, { "start": 94.72, "end": 100.32, "text": " It does come with a case in the box, but then you cover up how pretty it is." }, { "start": 100.32, "end": 104.34, "text": " That's the difference between the special edition and the standard model." }, { "start": 104.34, "end": 108.75999999999999, "text": " One thing about ceramic, while this happened, is it's more resistant to scratching than" }, { "start": 108.75999999999999, "end": 109.75999999999999, "text": " glass." }, { "start": 109.75999999999999, "end": 111.8, "text": " That's one of the positives of using it over Gorilla Glass." }, { "start": 111.8, "end": 115.6, "text": " However, it is more brittle, which means that it shatters easier, which means that if you" }, { "start": 115.6, "end": 118.47999999999999, "text": " drop it on a corner, it's probably going to break." }, { "start": 118.47999999999999, "end": 124.2, "text": " Like I just did, it fell about, I don't know, two feet to the ground and I heard it break." }, { "start": 124.2, "end": 126.56, "text": " I don't know if you heard it break, but there you go." }, { "start": 126.56, "end": 128.4, "text": " That's the problem with ceramic phones." }, { "start": 128.4, "end": 133.8, "text": " Now, inside the phone's got a Snapdragon 835 processor, which you can get with 64, 128," }, { "start": 133.8, "end": 136.06, "text": " or 256 gigabytes of storage." }, { "start": 136.06, "end": 138.32, "text": " It comes with six gigabytes of RAM in the standard model." }, { "start": 138.32, "end": 141.76, "text": " If you opt for the special edition, you bump that up to eight gigabytes of RAM." }, { "start": 141.76, "end": 144.32, "text": " That's a lot of power and a lot of performance." }, { "start": 144.32, "end": 148, "text": " Pretty much just like any other Snapdragon 835 phone I've used this year, it's really" }, { "start": 148, "end": 149, "text": " fast." }, { "start": 149, "end": 152.76, "text": " It's got a 3,400 milliamp hour battery that's going to be pretty long lasting for anybody," }, { "start": 152.76, "end": 154.04, "text": " even if you're a power user." }, { "start": 154.04, "end": 157.51999999999998, "text": " For me, it's easily lasted all day and multiple days that I've been using it." }, { "start": 157.51999999999998, "end": 160.64, "text": " One thing it doesn't have is wireless charging, even though it has a ceramic back, there's" }, { "start": 160.64, "end": 163.54, "text": " no wireless charging, so that's a little bit of a bummer." }, { "start": 163.54, "end": 167.2, "text": " Other interesting things, it's got dual SIM card support, so you can actually run two" }, { "start": 167.2, "end": 168.95999999999998, "text": " SIM cards at the same time." }, { "start": 168.96, "end": 172.68, "text": " It supports over 43 different network bands, which means it actually works here in the" }, { "start": 172.68, "end": 173.68, "text": " US." }, { "start": 173.68, "end": 178.20000000000002, "text": " I've been using it on T-Mobile, and I pretty much had signal everywhere I expected to wherever" }, { "start": 178.20000000000002, "end": 182.26000000000002, "text": " I've gone, which is kind of unique for Xiaomi phones if you're familiar with them at all." }, { "start": 182.26000000000002, "end": 184.48000000000002, "text": " It's got all these specs, it's loaded with premium design." }, { "start": 184.48000000000002, "end": 189.76000000000002, "text": " Obviously, the big screen is the big star of the show here." }, { "start": 189.76000000000002, "end": 190.76000000000002, "text": " What's missing?" }, { "start": 190.76000000000002, "end": 191.96, "text": " Well, it only has a single camera." }, { "start": 191.96, "end": 196.36, "text": " It's a 12 megapixel camera with optical stabilization, F2.0 lens, it's got large pixels." }, { "start": 196.36, "end": 197.56, "text": " It takes decent photos." }, { "start": 197.56, "end": 199.52, "text": " There's really nothing to complain about with the camera." }, { "start": 199.52, "end": 204.48, "text": " It's not going to give a Galaxy S8 or a Google Pixel any competition, but it's a fine camera." }, { "start": 204.48, "end": 207.6, "text": " The other thing that it's missing, there's no water resistance here, so if you get it" }, { "start": 207.6, "end": 209, "text": " wet, you're kind of screwed." }, { "start": 209, "end": 210.2, "text": " And there's no headphone jack." }, { "start": 210.2, "end": 212.16, "text": " It's just a USB-C port on the bottom." }, { "start": 212.16, "end": 217.64000000000001, "text": " It does come with an adapter in the box that will let you put standard headphones on it," }, { "start": 217.64000000000001, "end": 220.4, "text": " but you can't just plug headphones directly into it, and it doesn't come with a set of" }, { "start": 220.4, "end": 221.4, "text": " headphones either." }, { "start": 221.4, "end": 225.48000000000002, "text": " Those are kind of the things that you are missing out here." }, { "start": 225.48, "end": 229.64, "text": " For software, this is running MIUI 9, which is based on Android 7.1.1." }, { "start": 229.64, "end": 232.2, "text": " This is Xiaomi's custom version of Android." }, { "start": 232.2, "end": 236.16, "text": " It really looks quite different than the Android you might get from Google on a Pixel or on" }, { "start": 236.16, "end": 237.16, "text": " other phones." }, { "start": 237.16, "end": 241.88, "text": " It mostly looks like iOS, which, you know, personal preference, take it or leave it," }, { "start": 241.88, "end": 243.26, "text": " but it is very customizable." }, { "start": 243.26, "end": 247.04, "text": " You can theme it and make it look different ways pretty easily as well." }, { "start": 247.04, "end": 250.44, "text": " Now, the Mi Mix 2 is going to be out real soon in China." }, { "start": 250.44, "end": 255.04, "text": " It's going to start around $500, goes up to over $700 if you go for the full special edition." }, { "start": 255.04, "end": 259.2, "text": " Then it's going to come to Xiaomi's other markets across the world, but sadly, it's" }, { "start": 259.2, "end": 263.03999999999996, "text": " not coming to the US, which is kind of the story with every Xiaomi phone, no matter how" }, { "start": 263.03999999999996, "end": 264.03999999999996, "text": " cool they are." }, { "start": 264.03999999999996, "end": 268.24, "text": " So, you can't buy that here, but if you are able to buy it and import it into the US," }, { "start": 268.24, "end": 270.71999999999997, "text": " the cool thing is it will work here, which is kind of neat." }, { "start": 270.71999999999997, "end": 271.71999999999997, "text": " So there you go." }, { "start": 271.71999999999997, "end": 275.38, "text": " That's a real quick look at the Xiaomi Mi Mix 2." }, { "start": 275.38, "end": 277.8, "text": " For more on this stuff, be sure to check out theverge.com." }, { "start": 277.8, "end": 281.08, "text": " Be sure to subscribe to youtube.com theverge." }, { "start": 281.08, "end": 282.24, "text": " One thing that it doesn't have is..." }, { "start": 282.24, "end": 285.24, "text": " Oh." }, { "start": 285.24, "end": 288.24, "text": " No." }, { "start": 288.24, "end": 293.24, "text": " It broke." }, { "start": 293.24, "end": 294.92, "text": " Wow." }, { "start": 294.92, "end": 296.92, "text": " So there you go." }, { "start": 296.92, "end": 320.48, "text": " dynamic phones." } ]

[ { "start": 0, "end": 2, "text": " Housing's fucked." }, { "start": 15.32, "end": 19, "text": " Alexa, turn Netflix and chill on." }, { "start": 19, "end": 21, "text": " Okay." }, { "start": 22.6, "end": 24.6, "text": " Is it the verge?" }, { "start": 24.6, "end": 29.6, "text": " If you look at construction and housing now, technology is an afterthought." }, { "start": 29.6, "end": 36.6, "text": " We want to create a world where houses are made a lot more like cars or iPhones." }, { "start": 36.6, "end": 45.6, "text": " One of the things we're trying to do is not compete against the typical high-rise or the typical single-family home." }, { "start": 45.6, "end": 47.6, "text": " We're looking in the areas in between." }, { "start": 47.6, "end": 51.6, "text": " We can't compete against the typical single-family home." }, { "start": 51.6, "end": 54.6, "text": " We're looking in the areas in between." }, { "start": 54.6, "end": 58.6, "text": " We can extend the casita to make it a couple of bedrooms." }, { "start": 58.6, "end": 64.6, "text": " We can make disaster relief modules, workforce housing, a taqueria." }, { "start": 64.6, "end": 69.6, "text": " A casita is not for a particular demographic. It's more for psychographic." }, { "start": 69.6, "end": 77.6, "text": " And it's folks that want to live lightly and have home with them in a new kind of way." }, { "start": 77.6, "end": 82.6, "text": " Your home should feel like yours. So we wanted to create something that we call Moods." }, { "start": 86.6, "end": 97.6, "text": " So for example, when you say, hey Alexa, turn on cinema, the TV turns on, the lights dim down, the volume comes up." }, { "start": 99.6, "end": 102.6, "text": " We want it to be the primary interface between the user and the casita." }, { "start": 102.6, "end": 106.6, "text": " When we first started, we created this board. We called it our IoT board." }, { "start": 106.6, "end": 115.6, "text": " And the idea was we had a wide range of categories of devices that we knew we needed to integrate together to provide this overall experience inside the casita." }, { "start": 115.6, "end": 119.6, "text": " A lot of times those devices don't communicate using the same language." }, { "start": 119.6, "end": 125.6, "text": " We have reached into each one of these technology platforms and built software that bridges across them." }, { "start": 125.6, "end": 130.6, "text": " So this is the low voltage enclosure box. It houses the brains of the casita." }, { "start": 130.6, "end": 135.6, "text": " So when I talk about the brains, I'm talking about everything from the processor that controls all of the devices." }, { "start": 135.6, "end": 140.6, "text": " And one of the unique things about it is that we have complete programmable control over it." }, { "start": 140.6, "end": 145.6, "text": " So that if we need to remotely power devices on and off, we have the ability to do it from a software perspective." }, { "start": 148.6, "end": 154.6, "text": " We are aiming to be rolling a casita out the door every 57 seconds." }, { "start": 154.6, "end": 158.6, "text": " That's how fast my quality guy rolled a Cadillac out the door." }, { "start": 158.6, "end": 162.6, "text": " Our first three are going in backyards here in Austin." }, { "start": 162.6, "end": 167.6, "text": " Long term, we are aiming to go ultra dense." }, { "start": 167.6, "end": 172.6, "text": " And that means taking these micro units, putting them on small pieces of land in the urban core and going up." }, { "start": 172.6, "end": 177.6, "text": " The ultimate mission of casita is to solve housing for all." }, { "start": 177.6, "end": 182.6, "text": " You can't just solve it by just making a cheaper house or throwing some IoT in it." }, { "start": 182.6, "end": 185.6, "text": " It's a very complicated problem." }, { "start": 185.6, "end": 191.6, "text": " Casita is a solution not just for micro living, but for living in general." }, { "start": 191.6, "end": 196.6, "text": " And the way that we want to live in the modern day and the near future." }, { "start": 196.6, "end": 216.6, "text": " Alright, thanks for coming by. Now get the fuck out of my house." } ]

[ { "start": 0, "end": 5.9, "text": " It was just about a year ago that I sat here and told you that the Samsung Galaxy Note" }, { "start": 5.9, "end": 9.16, "text": " 7 was the best take on a big smartphone ever made." }, { "start": 9.16, "end": 12.92, "text": " Now we all know what happened to the Note 7 and it wasn't good, it basically caught" }, { "start": 12.92, "end": 15, "text": " on fire and had to be pulled from the market." }, { "start": 15, "end": 18, "text": " But because of that Samsung changed the way it makes batteries so we shouldn't have to" }, { "start": 18, "end": 20.28, "text": " worry about that problem anymore." }, { "start": 20.28, "end": 24.88, "text": " And now we're here to talk about the new Samsung Galaxy Note 8 which Samsung again" }, { "start": 24.88, "end": 28.22, "text": " hopes is the best big phone ever made." }, { "start": 28.22, "end": 32, "text": " You probably already know what a Note is and the Note 8 has got it all." }, { "start": 32, "end": 35.94, "text": " It's got a giant screen that stretches almost to the very edges of the phone's frame." }, { "start": 35.94, "end": 41.06, "text": " It's got Qualcomm's fastest processor, lots of RAM, a big battery with both fast wired" }, { "start": 41.06, "end": 43, "text": " and wireless charging." }, { "start": 43, "end": 47.04, "text": " And it's also Samsung's first phone with a dual camera system that lets you do interesting" }, { "start": 47.04, "end": 51.2, "text": " portrait effects that let you blur the background like an iPhone can do." }, { "start": 51.2, "end": 55.36, "text": " And of course because it's a Note it comes with a stylus which has also gained a few" }, { "start": 55.36, "end": 56.36, "text": " new tricks." }, { "start": 56.36, "end": 60.48, "text": " Now you're probably thinking to yourself, that sounds great, this sounds like a monster" }, { "start": 60.48, "end": 61.48, "text": " phone." }, { "start": 61.48, "end": 65.24, "text": " And you know what, you're right, there's actually very little to complain about with" }, { "start": 65.24, "end": 69.94, "text": " the Note 8 aside from perhaps it's starting price of $930." }, { "start": 69.94, "end": 74.24, "text": " But unlike the Note 7 last year which was head and shoulders above everything else before" }, { "start": 74.24, "end": 78.48, "text": " its fall from grace, the Note 8 isn't actually that much different than Samsung's other" }, { "start": 78.48, "end": 81.76, "text": " really good big phone, the Galaxy S8 Plus." }, { "start": 81.76, "end": 84.64, "text": " Still there's a couple of reasons why you might want to pony up a couple extra hundred" }, { "start": 84.64, "end": 93.28, "text": " dollars for a Note 8 instead of a Galaxy S8 Plus, so let's dive in." }, { "start": 93.28, "end": 98.86, "text": " This is Samsung's biggest premium phone and it comes with a massive 6.3 inch display." }, { "start": 98.86, "end": 103.04, "text": " Just like the S8 and the S8 Plus, it's what Samsung calls an infinity display, so the" }, { "start": 103.04, "end": 106.44, "text": " screen stretches almost to the very edges of the phone's frame with just a little" }, { "start": 106.44, "end": 108.32, "text": " bit of bezel above and below." }, { "start": 108.32, "end": 111.8, "text": " The screen is everything you expect from a Samsung, it's bright and punchy and great" }, { "start": 111.8, "end": 115.92, "text": " to look at and the sheer size of it just sucks you in when you're watching a video." }, { "start": 115.92, "end": 120.22, "text": " The Note 8's build quality is also just what you'd expect from a high-end Samsung phone." }, { "start": 120.22, "end": 124.12, "text": " It's metal and glass with a premium fit and finish just like the S8." }, { "start": 124.12, "end": 128.4, "text": " And also just like the S8, it's IP68 water resistant so you can get it wet without having" }, { "start": 128.4, "end": 129.4, "text": " to worry about it." }, { "start": 129.4, "end": 133.5, "text": " Now the Note 8 does have a slightly different shape, it's more square than the rounded off" }, { "start": 133.5, "end": 137.98, "text": " corners of the S8 or S8 Plus which makes it easier to use the S Pen with." }, { "start": 137.98, "end": 142.48, "text": " But it also makes the Note 8 feel a lot bigger than the S8 Plus even though the two are almost" }, { "start": 142.48, "end": 143.95999999999998, "text": " the same size." }, { "start": 143.95999999999998, "end": 148.07999999999998, "text": " Just like all the Note phones before it, the Note 8 makes no apologies for being a big" }, { "start": 148.07999999999998, "end": 149.07999999999998, "text": " phone." }, { "start": 149.07999999999998, "end": 152.82, "text": " And if you want to compare it to the iPhone 7 Plus, it's a little bit taller, a little" }, { "start": 152.82, "end": 155.94, "text": " bit narrower, but has a way bigger screen." }, { "start": 155.94, "end": 159.85999999999999, "text": " The Note 8's big size 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Say hi." }, { "start": 181.96, "end": 185.96, "text": " So now we're at 1-6 gravity, or lunar gravity." }, { "start": 185.96, "end": 189.96, "text": " And it really felt like the plane was slipping away from me." }, { "start": 189.96, "end": 193.96, "text": " There's no light coming out of that." }, { "start": 193.96, "end": 197.96, "text": " Woo!" }, { "start": 197.96, "end": 201.96, "text": " I can't believe we're gonna get more weight lifted than that." }, { "start": 201.96, "end": 205.96, "text": " That's pretty sick." }, { "start": 205.96, "end": 209.96, "text": " Okay, so before we go fully zero-g, you gotta understand how this all works." }, { "start": 209.96, "end": 213.96, "text": " The plane is flying in these parabolas, or basically," }, { "start": 213.96, "end": 217.96, "text": " it does a series of peaks and valleys. As the plane climbs," }, { "start": 217.96, "end": 221.96, "text": " it starts to slow down before reaching the top of the peak. 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Now I just gotta go sit down and get back on the telegram." }, { "start": 429.96, "end": 433.96, "text": " And I couldn't wait to tell my mom that I'm better at space than she is." }, { "start": 433.96, "end": 437.96, "text": " I'm so glad I finally got a taste of what being in zero gravity" }, { "start": 437.96, "end": 441.96, "text": " really feels like, even if it was for just 22 seconds at a time." }, { "start": 441.96, "end": 445.96, "text": " But maybe that's enough to send me into orbit now?" }, { "start": 449.96, "end": 453.96, "text": " No! Wait, wait, wait." }, { "start": 453.96, "end": 457.96, "text": " It's on the floor!" }, { "start": 457.96, "end": 473.96, "text": " Oh no! I got it!" } ]

[ { "start": 0, "end": 5.58, "text": " Hey guys, I'm Vlad with The Verge here at IFA 2017 in Berlin and I am sitting next to something pretty special" }, { "start": 6.44, "end": 9.86, "text": " This is a carry case containing Audio Technica's new" }, { "start": 10.48, "end": 16.240000000000002, "text": " flagship headphones open back they cost two thousand dollars. So of course they will come in this fancy carry case" }, { "start": 16.240000000000002, "end": 21.26, "text": " I haven't touched them yet. I haven't heard them yet. I just wanted to open them up for the first time" }, { "start": 21.26, "end": 23.26, "text": " We don't usually do unboxing videos on The Verge" }, { "start": 23.92, "end": 29.32, "text": " But this isn't an unboxing. This is opening the case. It's kind of like Pulp Fiction just with headphones" }, { "start": 29.32, "end": 33.64, "text": " First of all, the case itself is really nice and fancy. I point the case, okay" }, { "start": 34.6, "end": 36.6, "text": " Going inside of it" }, { "start": 36.6, "end": 43.86, "text": " As is kind of standard for Japanese companies you get this satin finish on the inside Sony does this kind of Sony do this" }, { "start": 44.36, "end": 50.92, "text": " I wish more companies would do this American companies as well like packaging matters if you're buying a luxury product something that costs" }, { "start": 51.400000000000006, "end": 56.8, "text": " $2,000 you want it to feel special and I think this part of it so far" }, { "start": 56.8, "end": 60.279999999999994, "text": " Achieves that and then the headphones themselves" }, { "start": 61.839999999999996, "end": 63.72, "text": " They're really light" }, { "start": 63.72, "end": 66.47999999999999, "text": " And actually wow, they're small" }, { "start": 66.96, "end": 74.96, "text": " Okay, I have heard a lot of headphones in the 1000 2000 4000 $6000 price range and these are surprisingly small for their size" }, { "start": 74.96, "end": 78.44, "text": " And surprisingly light most of these are super huge and enormous" }, { "start": 78.94, "end": 85.34, "text": " You know you put them on your head and you look like Princess Leia, you know, you have massive things on the side of your head" }, { "start": 85.34, "end": 89.26, "text": " But it the few super lights they seem compact compact" }, { "start": 89.82000000000001, "end": 95.28, "text": " Should mention their product name by this point. These are the audio technica ATH X 5000" }, { "start": 95.38000000000001, "end": 100.22, "text": " They're part of the air dynamic range, which previously the flagship there was the 2000 X" }, { "start": 100.22, "end": 104.42, "text": " I don't know why the flip DX from the back to the front, but that doesn't matter" }, { "start": 104.96000000000001, "end": 112.42, "text": " Okay, so what matters is it has made out of Alcantara like Microsoft's new keyboard sure has also done them with headphones in previous times" }, { "start": 112.42, "end": 114.54, "text": " I also have been made out of Alcantara" }, { "start": 114.54, "end": 121.54, "text": " The drivers on the inside the diaphragm is coated in tungsten. It measures 58 millimeters in" }, { "start": 122.54, "end": 124.54, "text": " Diameter and there's a single driver" }, { "start": 125.54, "end": 132.54000000000002, "text": " Assembly here. So the baffle the magnet the diaphragm the voice coil all of them put together in one single movement" }, { "start": 132.54000000000002, "end": 138.54000000000002, "text": " Which essentially reduces unwanted vibrations resonances and distortions" }, { "start": 138.54, "end": 144.9, "text": " Audio technica's promise as I say these open back headphones honeycomb mesh design on the outside and" }, { "start": 146.01999999999998, "end": 149.29999999999998, "text": " That actually means that this is kind of a noisy environment here at IFA" }, { "start": 149.45999999999998, "end": 153.95999999999998, "text": " I'm not going to get the best experience of them. They're kind of designed for listening to at home" }, { "start": 154.78, "end": 159.98, "text": " But I'm still going to give them a try. I have my trusty Astell and Kern cam with me. I'm going to hook them up" }, { "start": 160.57999999999998, "end": 164.94, "text": " They have a quarter-inch jack, but I have an adapter always travel with adapters" }, { "start": 164.94, "end": 169.78, "text": " Don't go live. So I'm going to hook them up and I'm going to give you my first impressions. Oh" }, { "start": 169.78, "end": 197.78, "text": " Yeah, oh" }, { "start": 199.86, "end": 201.86, "text": " Okay" }, { "start": 207.5, "end": 209.76, "text": " All right, so I've just given them my first listen" }, { "start": 210.46, "end": 215.3, "text": " As I say the environment here at IFA is quite noisy. Don't hold me to what I'm about to say to you" }, { "start": 216.06, "end": 223.62, "text": " But I do have a first impression to share so kind of classic for Japanese audio companies when they go high-end with the audiophile" }, { "start": 223.62, "end": 225.94, "text": " Gear they like to emphasize the high-end" }, { "start": 225.94, "end": 230.1, "text": " So that means a lot of treble a lot of detail a lot of airiness in the music" }, { "start": 230.94, "end": 237.54, "text": " The classic cliche of I've heard little details that I don't hear before it is absolutely apparent with these headphones" }, { "start": 238.74, "end": 245.3, "text": " Being open back. They don't have a whole ton of bass to them. So just in terms of like frequency response and balance" }, { "start": 245.94, "end": 247.94, "text": " They're more favoring the treble" }, { "start": 248.57999999999998, "end": 251.9, "text": " I'm more of a basshead myself. So you don't see me grinning" }, { "start": 251.9, "end": 257.98, "text": " You know it to it just yet, but in terms of detail, you know, there's tons of it" }, { "start": 258.98, "end": 264.42, "text": " Also, I should mention I'm so proud of the Estee Launcone can because these are high impedance headphones" }, { "start": 265.34000000000003, "end": 269.52, "text": " And this crazy little media player is actually able to power them" }, { "start": 269.52, "end": 274.78000000000003, "text": " It's close to max power but in a noisy environment is powering open back high impedance headphones. So" }, { "start": 275.3, "end": 277.3, "text": " 10 out of 10 for the Estee Launcone can" }, { "start": 277.3, "end": 283.38, "text": " Incomplete mark for the audio technica X 5000 because like I said, I've just been student for a couple of minutes" }, { "start": 283.7, "end": 286.82, "text": " what I will say the fit of these headphones is" }, { "start": 287.74, "end": 290.86, "text": " Just it just fed a light like if you're gonna do flagship headphones" }, { "start": 290.94, "end": 296.94, "text": " You have to nail the comfort and I think I think I can give audio technique a lot of praise on that front" }, { "start": 297.5, "end": 299.5, "text": " I think the design I" }, { "start": 300.22, "end": 306.06, "text": " Mean, it's Japanese design. Come on. It's it's precision made. It's all beautiful. Alcantara is a great material" }, { "start": 306.06, "end": 311.62, "text": " It breathes really nicely. It's not like leather which might get really sweaty and stuffy after a while" }, { "start": 312.5, "end": 317.18, "text": " So I love the design. I love how light and compact it is for audiophile headphones" }, { "start": 318.1, "end": 322.32, "text": " I'm just going to get a review in it from audio technique and you'll spend a couple of months with them and then" }, { "start": 322.7, "end": 328.82, "text": " Tell you what I feel about it. So yeah, these are the audio technica adh X 5000 flagship headphones because" }, { "start": 328.82, "end": 335.96, "text": " $1,999 they come in this gorgeous fancy case. I think every pair of headphones should come in a case like this and" }, { "start": 336.26, "end": 340.18, "text": " They'll be available in November worldwide. Actually, okay. I'm ripping off the pad" }, { "start": 340.18, "end": 357.18, "text": " People want to see ah" } ]

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They don't seem to be moving with the times." }, { "start": 38.2, "end": 41.04, "text": " You know this was the thing I was going to tell you about. There's this and there's" }, { "start": 41.04, "end": 46.32, "text": " also the Xperia XZ1 Compact which is a 4.6 inch device which again has these" }, { "start": 46.32, "end": 50.760000000000005, "text": " big bezels on there. When you have the bezels and Android controls you don't get that" }, { "start": 50.760000000000005, "end": 55.32, "text": " much screen anymore and again comparing this to something like the LG V30 which" }, { "start": 55.32, "end": 59.44, "text": " I've seen here at IFA, it's night and day. Such a massive difference and again I" }, { "start": 59.44, "end": 63, "text": " was going to complain about Sony's design. It's nice but we've seen it for" }, { "start": 63, "end": 66.96000000000001, "text": " five years running. That's what I was going to talk about. Instead there's this" }, { "start": 66.96000000000001, "end": 72.24000000000001, "text": " runaway sensation here which everybody who's going to try and you know invest a" }, { "start": 72.24000000000001, "end": 75.64, "text": " little bit of time to try is going to love with these new Sony phones is to" }, { "start": 75.64, "end": 80.52, "text": " think of 3D creator. It's a face slash head scanning application that Sony has" }, { "start": 80.52, "end": 85.3, "text": " preloaded on here and it has honestly blown my mind. I've scanned a couple of" }, { "start": 85.3, "end": 90.84, "text": " our video producers here and like the quality of these scans is just amazing." }, { "start": 90.84, "end": 95.56, "text": " I'm one of these people who actually hates AR. Most AR applications up until" }, { "start": 95.56, "end": 99.84, "text": " now have been terrible and I hate anything that is tried to work with it" }, { "start": 99.84, "end": 103.4, "text": " because it's just been so clunky and horrible and Sony has actually done it." }, { "start": 103.4, "end": 108.32, "text": " They've done such an amazing job with this scanner. It's shocking. I am lost for" }, { "start": 108.32, "end": 113.12, "text": " words with how cool this is and there are these dorky applications which" }, { "start": 113.12, "end": 116.96000000000001, "text": " usually put me off which usually I'm a cynic about but with the quality of" }, { "start": 116.96000000000001, "end": 121.44, "text": " these scans I want to use them. You know there are these things that make your" }, { "start": 121.44, "end": 126.32000000000001, "text": " friends face they superimpose it on like a bear costume and it starts dancing and" }, { "start": 126.32000000000001, "end": 131.08, "text": " doing sit-ups and whatever else in AR and usually I just roll my eyes at that" }, { "start": 131.08, "end": 135.64000000000001, "text": " but because of the quality of these scans I love it and we're all grinning and just" }, { "start": 135.64000000000001, "end": 142.32, "text": " can't get over the quality of it. It's just so sharp and good. So for once okay" }, { "start": 142.32, "end": 146.84, "text": " Sony's design has been iterative again yes but for once Sony has" }, { "start": 146.84, "end": 151.64, "text": " done something truly unique that makes its phones stand out. Aside from faces" }, { "start": 151.64, "end": 157.88, "text": " and heads you can scan food, you can scan all sorts of freeform items and I just I" }, { "start": 157.88, "end": 165.35999999999999, "text": " love it. It's amazing honestly the LG V30 as far as phones go is the best phone of" }, { "start": 165.35999999999999, "end": 169.44, "text": " this show and maybe even the best phone of this half of the year but as far as" }, { "start": 169.44, "end": 175.44, "text": " just brand new experiences surprises go Sony's 3D creator has just run away with" }, { "start": 175.44, "end": 180.4, "text": " it. So aside from me fawning about a 3D creator I might as well you know do my" }, { "start": 180.4, "end": 183.07999999999998, "text": " duty and tell you about what these phones actually include in terms of" }, { "start": 183.07999999999998, "end": 186.56, "text": " specs and everything else. Like I say the displays themselves aren't all that" }, { "start": 186.56, "end": 190.76, "text": " impressive or special you've got 1080p resolution on a larger phone 5.2 inches" }, { "start": 190.76, "end": 195.24, "text": " 720p resolution on a 4.6 inch smaller phone. Both of them are running on a" }, { "start": 195.24, "end": 200.84, "text": " Snapdragon 835 processor. Both of them have 2700 mAh batteries which isn't" }, { "start": 200.84, "end": 205.16, "text": " that much for the larger phone but it's actually a pretty nice size for the" }, { "start": 205.16, "end": 209.32000000000002, "text": " smaller phone. I think this will get you a lot of battery life. Also cool these" }, { "start": 209.32000000000002, "end": 214.36, "text": " are gonna be among the first Android Oreo devices. The Xperia XZ1 is shipping" }, { "start": 214.36, "end": 217.96, "text": " in the middle of September so Sony says it's gonna be the first Android Oreo" }, { "start": 217.96, "end": 222.28, "text": " device and the XZ1 Compact is shipping in October just a little bit later. A" }, { "start": 222.28, "end": 225.76, "text": " lot of other companies are launching phones here with Android Nougat Sony's" }, { "start": 225.76, "end": 230.04, "text": " in the lead with Android Oreo and it's 3D creator. Honestly I haven't been this" }, { "start": 230.04, "end": 234.64, "text": " impressed with Sony at IFA ever. Really the designs have always been attractive" }, { "start": 234.64, "end": 241.44, "text": " but this thing this 3D creator it just blow me away. So these are new Xperia XZ1" }, { "start": 241.44, "end": 246, "text": " and XZ1 Compact. Usually with smartphones we like to ask who is this phone for and" }, { "start": 246, "end": 250.44, "text": " with the big new feature here being that 3D creator you might have said people" }, { "start": 250.44, "end": 254.56, "text": " do snapchat and want to create stuff and just do videos and have fun or whatever" }, { "start": 254.56, "end": 259.2, "text": " else but that's not actually me I'm not that person. I'm somebody who hates AR" }, { "start": 259.2, "end": 264, "text": " and I've been blown away by the 3D creator purely because of its quality. So" }, { "start": 264, "end": 268.26, "text": " who is this phone for? Who are these applications for? I think everybody. You" }, { "start": 268.26, "end": 274.4, "text": " know you just got to give it a chance to give it a try. It's off to me because" }, { "start": 274.4, "end": 281.88, "text": " I'm not in the middle and I go and I want to be in the middle of the parade. Okay." } ]

[ { "start": 0, "end": 5, "text": " Hey guys, this is Tom with The Verge and I'm checking out Microsoft's Windows Mixed Reality experience." }, { "start": 5, "end": 9, "text": " Now I've heard a bunch about this over the past year and I don't know about you, but I've been pretty confused by it." }, { "start": 9, "end": 13, "text": " Simply because of the Mixed Reality name. So kind of, what is Mixed Reality?" }, { "start": 13, "end": 17, "text": " I guess Microsoft's trying to explain it as a platform that sits in between." }, { "start": 17, "end": 21, "text": " So you're going to have augmented reality on the left, virtual reality on the right," }, { "start": 21, "end": 25, "text": " and they're trying to aim for something that's going to blend and sit sort of in the middle." }, { "start": 25, "end": 31, "text": " So all of the devices are coming in October. They're going to come from Asus, Acer, HP, and of course Dell, and even Lenovo." }, { "start": 31, "end": 33, "text": " So all of the PC makers you'd expect." }, { "start": 33, "end": 38, "text": " So let's jump into Windows Mixed Reality and see what sort of apps and games you're really going to get here." }, { "start": 38, "end": 44, "text": " Okay, so just like the Oculus Rift, there's a tiny little bit of setup where you're going to have to mark out your physical play area." }, { "start": 44, "end": 47, "text": " Apart from that, you just plug in the HDMI and USB and you're good to go." }, { "start": 47, "end": 51, "text": " And because of the sensors on the actual headset tracking these motion controllers." }, { "start": 51, "end": 57, "text": " So the motion controllers, you've got these, basically represent your hands within the games and within this environment." }, { "start": 57, "end": 61, "text": " This is like a cliff house environment. It's like the home, essentially your virtual home." }, { "start": 61, "end": 63, "text": " And you can see there's apps like pinned to the wall." }, { "start": 63, "end": 70, "text": " I can grab those with the triggers and move them if I want to resize and bring them right into my view and all that sort of stuff." }, { "start": 70, "end": 75, "text": " And there's also a start menu, sort of thing you'd expect on anything Windows really." }, { "start": 75, "end": 79, "text": " And you can control apps from here. You can obviously pin them into your environment." }, { "start": 79, "end": 84, "text": " You can just start, like literally start up a copy of Edge and use it like you would in Windows 10." }, { "start": 84, "end": 90, "text": " So I can navigate to my favorite website, load up stuff, browse it." }, { "start": 90, "end": 96, "text": " And you can bring that also into your view a little bit more so you can really inspect it closely or pop it in the background." }, { "start": 96, "end": 99, "text": " Get myself up towards the super hot and we'll launch that." }, { "start": 99, "end": 102, "text": " And just to show you, this is obviously a VR experience." }, { "start": 102, "end": 107, "text": " Although this is mixed reality and Microsoft's calling it mixed reality, the actual experience is very much like VR." }, { "start": 107, "end": 112, "text": " Even down to the motion controllers and down to just the headset itself." }, { "start": 112, "end": 118, "text": " So I'm in super hot now. I'm going to dodge a few of these bullets and punch people in the face and stuff." }, { "start": 118, "end": 122, "text": " I don't know if I'm going to be able to grab this bottle." }, { "start": 122, "end": 127, "text": " Yeah, as you can see, I don't know if you can see this very well because it's really hard for us to show exactly how VR works." }, { "start": 127, "end": 130, "text": " But it's a pretty standard VR experience." }, { "start": 130, "end": 136, "text": " So the key kind of difference between the Oculus Rift and the Vive and stuff like that and these headsets" }, { "start": 136, "end": 138, "text": " is that the sensors and cameras are actually at the front." }, { "start": 138, "end": 143, "text": " So they're tracking the motion controllers from the front of the headset rather than having to place sensors throughout your room." }, { "start": 143, "end": 148, "text": " So it's a really quick setup process. You just put the headset on, plug it in and you're good to go." }, { "start": 148, "end": 151, "text": " In terms of the actual headset and adjustments, pretty standard." }, { "start": 151, "end": 153, "text": " You can actually flick this one up, the visor." }, { "start": 153, "end": 159, "text": " So if you're in a room and your partner or your family walk in, you want to talk to them, you flip the headset up and you start talking to them." }, { "start": 159, "end": 163, "text": " And at the back, you've got an adjustment here. So that's either going to tighten it or loosen it." }, { "start": 163, "end": 169, "text": " In terms of the fit and feel, it feels pretty good. It doesn't feel too weighty. It feels pretty reasonably balanced on this particular unit." }, { "start": 169, "end": 175, "text": " I haven't tried all of the different units, so I can't speak about exactly how the design and the fit is across all of them." }, { "start": 175, "end": 179, "text": " It doesn't have integrated headphones like you would get on the Rift." }, { "start": 179, "end": 185, "text": " But you've obviously got a cord here, you can just plug in your own headphones. So that's kind of useful in its own way as well." }, { "start": 185, "end": 189, "text": " So one of the key things about the Windows Mixed Reality platform is these new motion controllers." }, { "start": 189, "end": 193, "text": " Now every headset will support these and they're all going to be exactly the same." }, { "start": 193, "end": 199, "text": " It's just a reference design and each OEM, so like HP or Dell in this case, will put their own sort of markings on them." }, { "start": 199, "end": 201, "text": " But they're going to be the same physical actual devices." }, { "start": 201, "end": 205, "text": " What I found is that they're a little bit uncomfortable." }, { "start": 205, "end": 209, "text": " They're not very ergonomic compared to sorts like the Oculus Rift." }, { "start": 209, "end": 214, "text": " But it's a very like square and flat piece of plastic here, so it doesn't really rest all that comfortably in my hands." }, { "start": 214, "end": 218, "text": " But in terms of buttons and stuff, it's pretty well positioned." }, { "start": 218, "end": 223, "text": " What's really interesting about these also is that they've got these tiny little white LED lights that are constantly on." }, { "start": 223, "end": 229, "text": " So when the actual devices are powered up and connected via Bluetooth, these will actually track to the cameras at the front of these headsets." }, { "start": 229, "end": 237, "text": " So like I said earlier, this is different tracking to what you see on the Rift, which requires the sensors and the Vive, which also requires sensors." }, { "start": 237, "end": 240, "text": " This will need these controllers to sit in front of you when you've got the headset on." }, { "start": 240, "end": 244, "text": " Okay, so that was a real quick look at Microsoft's Windows Mixed Reality experience." }, { "start": 244, "end": 249, "text": " Obviously, we've been using the Dell Visor here today, and there's a bunch more from other OEMs." }, { "start": 249, "end": 252, "text": " But this one is going to retail in October for $359." }, { "start": 252, "end": 256, "text": " And for $459, you're actually going to get the motion controllers as well." }, { "start": 256, "end": 263, "text": " I would recommend that just for the extra $100 for the package, you're going to probably get more out of the VR games and apps experiences with these actual controllers." }, { "start": 263, "end": 267, "text": " And for more on AR or any of the virtual reality headsets, check out theverge.com." }, { "start": 267, "end": 270, "text": " Okay, so that was a real quick... Oh, are you ready?" }, { "start": 270, "end": 272, "text": " I was just going to say, I can see you, folks." }, { "start": 272, "end": 276, "text": " Okay, so that was a really quick look at the Microsoft Wix..." }, { "start": 276, "end": 278, "text": " How do I always do that?" }, { "start": 278, "end": 303, "text": " So that was a real quick look at the Microsoft Wix..." } ]

[ { "start": 0, "end": 6, "text": " Hey guys, I'm Vlad with The Verge here at IFA 2017 in Berlin and the phone I have in my hands is the new Moto X4," }, { "start": 6, "end": 12, "text": " a new mid-range handset from Motorola. I have it here in this silvery-bluish color and in black," }, { "start": 12, "end": 16, "text": " these are the two options that it will be available in and I also have the most essential accessory for them," }, { "start": 16, "end": 22, "text": " which is a cloth to keep them clean. These phones have grid glass on the front and back," }, { "start": 22, "end": 28, "text": " rather like the Samsung Galaxy Note 7 last year, which was a beautifully designed phone, quite aside from its explosive issues" }, { "start": 28, "end": 34, "text": " and I feel like a lot of companies have picked up that habit of going for glass on the front and the back." }, { "start": 34, "end": 41, "text": " It has the same sort of sloping curve size and kind of slope towards the front, 2.5D glass on the front, 3D glass on the back." }, { "start": 41, "end": 48, "text": " So in terms of aesthetics, it is really appealing. Personally, I really like the black one, not everybody agrees with me," }, { "start": 48, "end": 55, "text": " people more like the silver-ish, bluish color, but I like the black one. It's really highly reflective and pretty," }, { "start": 55, "end": 60, "text": " but it's only pretty if you can keep your fingers off it. I think it's a really nice, really reasonable screen," }, { "start": 60, "end": 67, "text": " but there isn't anything particularly outstanding about this new device. The bezels aren't much smaller than usual," }, { "start": 67, "end": 73, "text": " the size of them isn't thinner or especially different. You still have this camera bump on the top," }, { "start": 73, "end": 79, "text": " but this time it accommodates a new dual-camera system and it's different from the Z Force dual-camera system introduced earlier." }, { "start": 79, "end": 86, "text": " The Z Force uses one black and white sensor, one color sensor. This one uses one regular focal length 12 megapixel sensor," }, { "start": 86, "end": 95, "text": " and then it uses a 128 degree ultra-wide 8 megapixel sensor lens rather to give you a wider field of view for landscapes," }, { "start": 95, "end": 101, "text": " bigger group photos, etc. I've tried taking a few photos with these. You still have all the motor actions and motor gestures," }, { "start": 101, "end": 108, "text": " such as this double twist to launch the camera, and they're pretty cool, but the camera itself, you know, this mid-range device," }, { "start": 108, "end": 113, "text": " it's not going to give you anything particularly special. I wasn't impressed with the few shots I took with it," }, { "start": 113, "end": 118, "text": " but you know, that's just first impressions. In terms of specs, you have a Snapdragon 630 processor inside." }, { "start": 118, "end": 125, "text": " I think that's perfectly adequate, you know. There's a Snapdragon 835 that everybody is familiar with, but the difference between that" }, { "start": 125, "end": 131, "text": " and the 630, I'm not convinced there is much of a difference for most people's uses. This starts with 3 gigabytes of RAM," }, { "start": 131, "end": 140, "text": " 32 gigabytes of storage, and there's microSD expansion that will be priced at 399 euros here in Europe when it launches later in September." }, { "start": 140, "end": 147, "text": " It actually launches with Android Nougat, but that's just a matter of timing, and Motorola says it will get Android Oreo on there as soon as possible." }, { "start": 147, "end": 155, "text": " There will be a 4 gigabyte RAM, 64 gigabyte storage version available later on, and it will also be coming to the United States." }, { "start": 155, "end": 163, "text": " Now, in terms of software, this Moto X device is exactly the same as what you get with the other Moto Z devices that have launched this year." }, { "start": 163, "end": 171, "text": " It's pretty close to stock Android with Moto's actions and a few other enhancements on top. It moves really fast, it's fluid, and it's nice and lovely." }, { "start": 171, "end": 180, "text": " Motorola also has a new system where it can integrate all of your Android controls down into the home button, which uses swipes and taps and long presses" }, { "start": 180, "end": 190, "text": " instead of the three buttons, but you can have the on-screen buttons as usual when Android. The one standout thing with Moto X4 is that this is Motorola's first device with Amazon's Alexa integrated into it." }, { "start": 190, "end": 200, "text": " I didn't have any luck training it, but it's kind of a noisy environment around here, and also most of these voice assistants hate my voice and accent, so won't hold that against it." }, { "start": 200, "end": 206, "text": " But Motorola also says that this is the first of many, so we'll be seeing other devices with Alexa integration later on." }, { "start": 206, "end": 218, "text": " So that's the Moto X4 from Motorola. It will be available in black and silver and blue. That will be priced at €399 here in Europe when it launches later in September and coming to the United States later on in the fall." }, { "start": 218, "end": 222, "text": " Oh, and it has headphone jack." }, { "start": 231, "end": 232, "text": " It's too much blood." }, { "start": 234, "end": 235, "text": " You got it?" }, { "start": 235, "end": 237, "text": " Oh, gosh, no." }, { "start": 237, "end": 261, "text": " Now you have to include it." } ]

[ { "start": 0, "end": 4.96, "text": " Hey, it's Chris Welch with The Verge. We're checking out LG's new V30 premium flagship phone." }, { "start": 8.96, "end": 13.48, "text": " All it takes is one look to know this is the nicest Android phone that LG's ever made." }, { "start": 13.64, "end": 18.8, "text": " It's also one of the most powerful, but it loses one big thing that power users might really care about." }, { "start": 19.32, "end": 21.36, "text": " But let's start with the design." }, { "start": 22.36, "end": 27.2, "text": " The V30 is covered in glass on both sides, and it's got a shiny metal frame in between." }, { "start": 27.2, "end": 32.24, "text": " It's also got a big, tall, 6-inch Quad HD OLED screen that curves at the sides," }, { "start": 32.4, "end": 37.16, "text": " but it's not as curved as the Galaxy S8. They still look a lot alike, though." }, { "start": 37.519999999999996, "end": 42.12, "text": " Now, the V30's bezels are very minimal. It's got an 82% screen-to-body ratio." }, { "start": 42.44, "end": 44.92, "text": " It's also got every important spec checked off." }, { "start": 45.56, "end": 53.379999999999995, "text": " Snapdragon 835, 4 gigs of RAM, wireless charging, water resistance, and a headphone jack with a Quad DAC that audiophiles will love." }, { "start": 53.38, "end": 59.1, "text": " LG has also gotten rid of that awkward and gimmicky second screen that was on the V20, and I say good riddance to that." }, { "start": 59.900000000000006, "end": 63.540000000000006, "text": " But right away, fans of the V20 will notice something different about the back." }, { "start": 63.86, "end": 69.06, "text": " There's no removable battery. This one is a sealed-in 3,300 mAh battery," }, { "start": 69.22, "end": 72.82000000000001, "text": " and that's gotten me a bit concerned since the V30 has such a big screen." }, { "start": 73.18, "end": 76.5, "text": " Samsung uses the same size battery for its new Galaxy Note 8," }, { "start": 76.5, "end": 83.3, "text": " but Samsung's last Note burst into flames sometimes, so that's a bit more understandable." }, { "start": 83.78, "end": 87.3, "text": " Thankfully, the V30 still has the dual-camera setup that LG is known for." }, { "start": 87.7, "end": 95.3, "text": " The main 16 megapixel camera has an aperture of f1.6, so it's going to pull in more light than just about any other smartphone for those nighttime shots." }, { "start": 95.78, "end": 101.7, "text": " The super wide-angle 13 megapixel camera has less distortion than ever, and I really like the unique perspective that it gives you." }, { "start": 101.7, "end": 108.10000000000001, "text": " To me, this seems like a better use for a second camera than just a portrait lens, which is what Apple and Samsung are using." }, { "start": 108.58, "end": 113.06, "text": " LG is putting a big focus on the V30's 4K video recording features." }, { "start": 113.54, "end": 117.06, "text": " You can apply professional color grading to your footage right on the phone itself." }, { "start": 117.54, "end": 124.66, "text": " If you do prefer to edit on your computer, the V30 can record videos in log format to obtain the most dynamic range and detail." }, { "start": 125.38, "end": 129.46, "text": " The microphones inside can record audio in lossless quality, and they won't distort." }, { "start": 129.46, "end": 134.26000000000002, "text": " So if you're the kind of person who records every moment of a concert, here's your new phone." }, { "start": 135.86, "end": 144.26000000000002, "text": " The worst thing about the V30 in my early experience continues to be LG's software, which hasn't changed much over the last few years and remains an eyesore." }, { "start": 146.10000000000002, "end": 152.02, "text": " The phone is running Android 7 Nougat, and this time LG has added Face Unlock and Voice Unlock, so you can say," }, { "start": 152.02, "end": 160.82000000000002, "text": " OK Google, or come up with your own phrase to unlock your phone. Face Unlock is pretty quick, but don't count on it to be quite as secure as Samsung's iris scanning." }, { "start": 162.10000000000002, "end": 170.26000000000002, "text": " So here's the upshot. If you love using your phone to record and create content, which is what LG's V series is all about, then this might be the phone for you." }, { "start": 170.82000000000002, "end": 174.02, "text": " We'll just have to see how long that battery lasts when it ships later on this year." }, { "start": 174.82000000000002, "end": 180.02, "text": " As for price, it's going to be pretty expensive. This is a flagship phone and a step above the G6." }, { "start": 180.02, "end": 187.70000000000002, "text": " But if nothing else, that screen's got me excited for the Pixel 2 XL, which is rumored to be manufactured by none other than LG." } ]

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have AMOLED displays, really nice AMOLED displays." }, { "start": 32.48, "end": 36.04, "text": " I especially like them on the wristband here." }, { "start": 36.04, "end": 40.28, "text": " So the new Gear IconX 2018 edition earphones, they don't really look particularly different" }, { "start": 40.28, "end": 41.28, "text": " from their predecessors." }, { "start": 41.28, "end": 46.019999999999996, "text": " They will come in new colors, so black, pink and gray, but a big upgrade with them is they" }, { "start": 46.019999999999996, "end": 47.64, "text": " have actual battery life now." }, { "start": 47.64, "end": 50.72, "text": " They used to only be able to stream music for one and a half hours." }, { "start": 50.72, "end": 54.44, "text": " Now they can do up to five hours of streaming from your phone and they come with this case," }, { "start": 54.44, "end": 56.980000000000004, "text": " which gives them another full charge as well." }, { "start": 56.98, "end": 60.72, "text": " So the 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fitness slash exercise device thing." }, { "start": 159.88000000000002, "end": 163.72000000000003, "text": " So with Under Armour, you get access to all of their apps." }, { "start": 163.72000000000003, "end": 166.8, "text": " They have special apps made for Tizen, which is what this watch runs." }, { "start": 166.8, "end": 171.32000000000002, "text": " In terms of Spotify, you can load your music onto here, or you can use this as a remote" }, { "start": 171.32000000000002, "end": 174.96, "text": " control for music playing back from your phone." }, { "start": 174.96, "end": 180.72, "text": " And Speedo has a specific swimming tracking app, which is preloaded on this watch as well." }, { "start": 180.72, "end": 186.92000000000002, "text": " Personally, I'm not really interested in the wireless connectivity of the Gear S3, so losing" }, { "start": 186.92000000000002, "end": 191.34, "text": " that but gaining a nicer design, in my opinion, just makes this a better watch." }, { "start": 191.34, "end": 198.24, "text": " So as far as I'm concerned, this is going to be cheaper, lighter, more ergonomic, and" }, { "start": 198.24, "end": 200.52, "text": " just nicer than the Gear S3." }, { "start": 200.52, "end": 203.88, "text": " So that's an overview of Samsung's new devices here at IFA 2017." }, { "start": 203.88, "end": 205.8, "text": " I'm liking the new Gear Sport." }, { "start": 205.8, "end": 211.08, "text": " I'm still not convinced by smart watches as a general class, but I love Samsung's interface," }, { "start": 211.08, "end": 212.36, "text": " Samsung's Tizen operating system." }, { "start": 212.36, "end": 213.88, "text": " I think it's nicer than Android Wear." }, { "start": 213.88, "end": 216.1, "text": " I think it's one of the nicer interfaces." }, { "start": 216.1, "end": 218, "text": " I love Samsung's rotating bezels." }, { "start": 218, "end": 221.76, "text": " And I think this is one of the better watches out there in its category and class." } ]

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Well, yes." }, { "start": 32, "end": 38, "text": " In 2014, it revealed Tango, which maps the world with depth sensing and motion tracking cameras." }, { "start": 38, "end": 44, "text": " But Tango is only on a few devices, and ARCore's appeal is that it doesn't need special components." }, { "start": 44, "end": 48, "text": " It's launching on the existing Google Pixel and Samsung Galaxy S8," }, { "start": 48, "end": 53, "text": " and Google promises support for 100 million Android devices by this winter." }, { "start": 53, "end": 57, "text": " ARCore can't do everything that dedicated Tango hardware can," }, { "start": 57, "end": 62, "text": " but it's supposed to offer a lot of Tango-like experiences to a much broader audience." }, { "start": 62, "end": 65, "text": " ARCore is built around three basic capabilities." }, { "start": 65, "end": 70, "text": " There's environmental detection, which looks for flat surfaces or other recognizable features." }, { "start": 70, "end": 75, "text": " There's motion tracking, so you can pin an object to one place and walk around it." }, { "start": 75, "end": 81, "text": " And there's scale and lighting estimation, which makes objects more realistically match their environments." }, { "start": 81, "end": 87, "text": " ARCore isn't magic. Things pop out of place if, say, you lower your phone and walk around a big room." }, { "start": 87, "end": 91, "text": " But it nails the core experience of putting down a digital object" }, { "start": 91, "end": 97, "text": " and keeping it in place while you look at it from any angle or distance, without drifting or jittering." }, { "start": 97, "end": 102, "text": " You also get some basic environmental awareness, like shadows falling in the right direction" }, { "start": 102, "end": 105, "text": " or virtual characters reacting to the lights going out." }, { "start": 105, "end": 111, "text": " Google is trying to attract ARCore developers who may not think of themselves as dedicated 3D app creators." }, { "start": 111, "end": 116, "text": " People can import models made with its simple Blocks VR design tool." }, { "start": 116, "end": 119, "text": " And there's an experimental version of Chromium with ARCore," }, { "start": 119, "end": 123, "text": " so you can use augmented reality features in ordinary websites." }, { "start": 123, "end": 129, "text": " It's trying to make Google AR development easy in a way that, until now, it hasn't been." }, { "start": 129, "end": 133, "text": " The flip side is that you can't use every Tango app in ARCore, either." }, { "start": 133, "end": 139, "text": " That dedicated depth sensor, for instance, can capture more detail than an ordinary camera." }, { "start": 139, "end": 145, "text": " Right now, though, ARCore's real competition isn't Tango. It's Apple's ARKit." }, { "start": 145, "end": 152, "text": " We couldn't directly compare ARKit and ARCore in Google's offices, but they offer similar experiences." }, { "start": 152, "end": 158, "text": " While Google hasn't shown anything that would massively outshine ARKit, that's not really the point." }, { "start": 158, "end": 164, "text": " Apple has shown that people will try fun experiments for augmented reality if it's easy to access." }, { "start": 164, "end": 172, "text": " If Google can let Android users get in on that fun, it makes AR as a whole a lot more attractive for developers on both platforms." }, { "start": 172, "end": 177, "text": " Of course, that's the big question. Will ARCore be common enough that people take it for granted?" }, { "start": 177, "end": 185, "text": " Ubiquity was supposed to be a big selling point for Google's Daydream VR, but a year after launch, it's still pretty niche." }, { "start": 185, "end": 193, "text": " ARCore has some advantages here. It's launching on a popular existing phone, runs with both Android O and Android N," }, { "start": 193, "end": 201, "text": " and doesn't require extra hardware like a headset. Google says it's working with Huawei, LG, Asus, and other manufacturers" }, { "start": 201, "end": 210, "text": " to put ARCore on new and existing phones. Given how much Android has suffered from fragmentation, though, it's still a valid concern." }, { "start": 210, "end": 217, "text": " Google has a roadmap to a world of ubiquitous, high-quality augmented reality, but it also has a long way to go." }, { "start": 217, "end": 226, "text": " Over the next months, we'll be watching to see if Google can make ARCore feel like a real part of Android, not just a special feature on certain phones." }, { "start": 226, "end": 247, "text": " If it does, that's great news for Android users, augmented reality fans, and really, anybody with a phone." } ]

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There's only one other Google Tango phone out there on" }, { "start": 35.68, "end": 39.72, "text": " the market right now and it's the Lenovo Fab 2 Pro, which you might remember I" }, { "start": 39.72, "end": 43.84, "text": " reviewed late last year and you might also remember it because it is ginormous." }, { "start": 43.84, "end": 49.96, "text": " Asus meanwhile has managed to cram all the capabilities of Tango along with" }, { "start": 49.96, "end": 55.24, "text": " Google Daydream, which is VR, into this pretty normal looking phone. But" }, { "start": 55.24, "end": 59.800000000000004, "text": " considering this cost between $600 and $700 depending on the configuration that" }, { "start": 59.800000000000004, "end": 64.2, "text": " you get, it actually gets edged out by other Android phones in the same price" }, { "start": 64.2, "end": 69.36, "text": " range and I would say that the AR and the VR aren't totally realized yet. It has a" }, { "start": 69.36, "end": 74.44, "text": " 5.7 inch display. It's a nice bright AMOLED display. It doesn't have the" }, { "start": 74.44, "end": 78.76, "text": " curved edges that a lot of higher-end phones are starting to have but it's" }, { "start": 78.76, "end": 83.12, "text": " still for all intents and purposes a pretty nice display. The phone has" }, { "start": 83.12, "end": 87.80000000000001, "text": " aluminum sides. It has this faux leather back to it. 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There's a fingerprint sensor" }, { "start": 118.56, "end": 122.88000000000001, "text": " built into the physical home button and yay this phone has a headphone jack." }, { "start": 122.88000000000001, "end": 128.48000000000002, "text": " It ships with Android Nougat and runs on Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 processor and an" }, { "start": 128.48000000000002, "end": 133.86, "text": " Adreno 530 graphics chip. With regards to the processor it's a step up from the" }, { "start": 133.86, "end": 138.44, "text": " Lenovo Fab 2 Pro but it's still not the best mobile processor you can get but it" }, { "start": 138.44, "end": 143.35999999999999, "text": " does ship with either 6 gigabytes or a whopping 8 gigabytes of RAM and you're" }, { "start": 143.35999999999999, "end": 147.35999999999999, "text": " gonna need all that power because of Tango and Daydream. To back it up a" }, { "start": 147.35999999999999, "end": 152.66, "text": " little bit Tango is Google's AR platform and Daydream is its VR platform and very" }, { "start": 152.66, "end": 156.6, "text": " few devices out there run both and this one does so this is what's supposed to" }, { "start": 156.6, "end": 162.32, "text": " make this phone special. Let's talk about Tango AR apps first. We've seen some of" }, { "start": 162.32, "end": 166.28, "text": " these before and in a lot of ways they haven't changed much. I do think that the" }, { "start": 166.28, "end": 169.96, "text": " performance of some of these apps was better on this phone but I ended up" }, { "start": 169.96, "end": 175.2, "text": " running a lot of the same applications. 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You're going to" }, { "start": 206.2, "end": 209.07999999999998, "text": " have to have the Daydream headset and you're gonna have to strap this thing to" }, { "start": 209.07999999999998, "end": 215.38, "text": " your face in order to experience apps in 360 degrees and there were still some" }, { "start": 215.38, "end": 218.4, "text": " quirks using Daydream as well. I mean for example it comes with a little" }, { "start": 218.4, "end": 221.51999999999998, "text": " handheld controller but there were still times I found myself having to take the" }, { "start": 221.52, "end": 225.12, "text": " phone out of the headset to navigate something in the Daydream app to do the" }, { "start": 225.12, "end": 227.76000000000002, "text": " thing I wanted to do because for whatever reason the controller wasn't" }, { "start": 227.76000000000002, "end": 231.48000000000002, "text": " working or the interface wasn't super intuitive but you can see where this is" }, { "start": 231.48000000000002, "end": 235.4, "text": " all going. I mean right now if you want a really good VR experience for the most" }, { "start": 235.4, "end": 239.92000000000002, "text": " part you have to be tethered to a PC. This is a fully mobile experience and" }, { "start": 239.92000000000002, "end": 245.36, "text": " you're getting kind of cool applications for 360 degree video so I would almost" }, { "start": 245.36, "end": 249.68, "text": " say even though this phone is called the AR phone that Daydream VR ended up being" }, { "start": 249.68, "end": 253.36, "text": " more of a draw for me. But not surprisingly all of that AR and VR" }, { "start": 253.36, "end": 258.04, "text": " activity is going to do a number on your battery life. This phone has a 3300" }, { "start": 258.04, "end": 262.16, "text": " milliamp battery which in theory should get you through the day but definitely" }, { "start": 262.16, "end": 266.32, "text": " not if you're using Tango and Daydream. On the upside the camera is pretty great." }, { "start": 266.32, "end": 271.24, "text": " It's got a 23 megapixel rear-facing camera, it captures video in 4k, it" }, { "start": 271.24, "end": 275.32, "text": " focuses quickly, did pretty well for me in low-light and it has an 8 megapixel" }, { "start": 275.32, "end": 280.32, "text": " front-facing camera so that's one of the upsides. But another downside it's not" }, { "start": 280.32, "end": 287.15999999999997, "text": " water resistant. But back to the AR and the VR. Here's my advice to you. Don't buy" }, { "start": 287.15999999999997, "end": 291.52, "text": " it because of the AR. I mean yes it's cool that there's now another Tango" }, { "start": 291.52, "end": 295.96, "text": " phone out on the market finally and that it has both AR and VR capabilities built" }, { "start": 295.96, "end": 300.8, "text": " into it and that's great but AR is about to become a lot more mainstream and a" }, { "start": 300.8, "end": 304.36, "text": " lot more accessible to people and I know we've been hearing this for a while but" }, { "start": 304.36, "end": 307.48, "text": " it's really happening now and that's partly because Apple is rolling out" }, { "start": 307.48, "end": 312.48, "text": " something called AR Kit which is going to make advanced AR possible on regular" }, { "start": 312.48, "end": 317.32, "text": " iPhones without all of these sensors and I wouldn't be surprised if other" }, { "start": 317.32, "end": 323.24, "text": " companies started making AR that much more accessible as well. So it's a cool" }, { "start": 323.24, "end": 327.88, "text": " phone, buy it for the phone, don't buy it for the AR. But if you've been using AR" }, { "start": 327.88, "end": 331.04, "text": " and VR all day and you expect to be able to take a photo of the eclipse and blind" }, { "start": 331.04, "end": 335.48, "text": " yourself later you are gonna be out of luck because this drains your battery" }, { "start": 335.48, "end": 363.24, "text": " like no other. Forget about it. I'm just kidding. Moving on." } ]

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The large immersive screen." }, { "start": 41, "end": 51, "text": " And today we're combining the revolutionary technology of the Infinity Display with the power of the S Pen and bringing it to the Note for the very first time." }, { "start": 51, "end": 63, "text": " It has a cinematic screen that pulls you into the story when you're watching movies or videos without any obtrusive bezels or sensors or camera lenses getting in the way of your view." }, { "start": 63, "end": 69, "text": " The Note 8 makes it even easier to multitask and to customize the experience to fit your life." }, { "start": 69, "end": 77, "text": " Thanks to App Pair, you can create a shortcut to launch two of your most used apps with a single tap from the edge panel." }, { "start": 77, "end": 87, "text": " And you get to choose your favorite color as it comes at midnight black, my favorite orchid gray, maple gold and deep sea blue." }, { "start": 87, "end": 94, "text": " We're proud to introduce a dual camera that will set a new standard for smartphone cameras everywhere." }, { "start": 94, "end": 99, "text": " One camera has a wide angle lens for capturing big scenes." }, { "start": 99, "end": 108, "text": " And the other has a tele lens with two times optical zoom so you can get closer to your subjects without sacrificing image quality." }, { "start": 108, "end": 115, "text": " The Note 8 is the first smartphone ever to have optical image stabilization in both cameras." }, { "start": 115, "end": 121, "text": " That means you get crisp, clear shots even when you're on the move." }, { "start": 121, "end": 123, "text": " Just look at the difference." }, { "start": 123, "end": 128, "text": " It's not just photos that benefit from dual OIS, it's videos too." }, { "start": 128, "end": 133, "text": " We've created a brand new mode called Live Focus." }, { "start": 133, "end": 142, "text": " Live Focus gives you the freedom to decide how much your subject stands out by adjusting the blur and focus of the background in real time." }, { "start": 142, "end": 144, "text": " Let me show you." }, { "start": 144, "end": 146, "text": " I'm going to launch my camera." }, { "start": 146, "end": 152, "text": " Turn on Live Focus mode." }, { "start": 152, "end": 158, "text": " And now since this picture is all about Kelly, I'm going to turn up the effect to maximum." }, { "start": 158, "end": 160, "text": " All right." }, { "start": 160, "end": 163, "text": " Let's see what we've got." }, { "start": 163, "end": 169, "text": " In Live Focus mode, you can adjust the background blur even after you've taken the picture." }, { "start": 169, "end": 178, "text": " So if I want to dial it down, I can." }, { "start": 178, "end": 182, "text": " But since this is Kelly's profile pic, I'm going to dial it back up." }, { "start": 182, "end": 189, "text": " In Live Focus mode, the cameras simultaneously take two pictures." }, { "start": 189, "end": 198, "text": " So not only do you have Kelly's new 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to photos." }, { "start": 244, "end": 247, "text": " Perfect." }, { "start": 247, "end": 249, "text": " Looks good." }, { "start": 249, "end": 253, "text": " So now I'm going to take my S Pen out." }, { "start": 253, "end": 255, "text": " Let's get back to that picture." }, { "start": 255, "end": 258, "text": " I'm going to take my S Pen out." }, { "start": 258, "end": 260, "text": " Click on Live Message." }, { "start": 260, "end": 266, "text": " Select that picture that we just took from my gallery." }, { "start": 266, "end": 271, "text": " I'm not going to lie, the Sparkle Pen is my favorite." }, { "start": 271, "end": 278, "text": " Now this is saving to an animated standard animated message format so I can share this with everyone." }, { "start": 278, "end": 282, "text": " Isn't that cool?" }, { "start": 282, "end": 288, "text": " The three off memo is one of the most popular ways to capture and easily share your ideas and thoughts." }, { "start": 288, "end": 294, "text": " When you pin a to do list to your Always On Display, you can also edit it from there with a simple double tap." }, { "start": 294, "end": 296, "text": " And that's not all." }, { "start": 296, "end": 303, "text": " You can keep writing and writing and writing for as long as you want." }, { "start": 303, "end": 308, "text": " Well, up to 100 pages, all without turning on your screen." }, { "start": 308, "end": 312, "text": " You can now translate entire sentences with your S Pen." }, { "start": 312, "end": 318, "text": " With the S Pen, I can just hover over a menu item and it will translate the entire sentence for me." }, { "start": 318, "end": 324, "text": " It even automatically converts units of measurement and foreign currencies." }, { "start": 324, "end": 328, "text": " With the Galaxy S8 and S8 Plus, we launched Bixby." }, { "start": 328, "end": 335, "text": " Today, Bixby Voice is available for English speakers in more than 200 markets around the world." }, { "start": 335, "end": 337, "text": " Let's talk about DeX." }, { "start": 337, "end": 346, "text": " With Game Launcher on DeX, you can put the graphics in a full screen immersive mode and destroy your enemies with a mouse and keyboard." }, { "start": 346, "end": 351, "text": " We've partnered with Zoom to make video conferencing completely seamless." }, { "start": 351, "end": 358, "text": " So I can just open up the Zoom app and start the meeting with Suzanne." }, { "start": 358, "end": 363, "text": " What's great is because I started that meeting while I was walking down the High Line on my phone." }, { "start": 363, "end": 372, "text": " When I'm back on my DeX, all I have to do is open up the app and the video conference is still connected." }, { "start": 372, "end": 379, "text": " All right, let me just share you my screen so you can see what's going on." }, { "start": 379, "end": 381, "text": " Oh, wow, that's so cool." }, { "start": 381, "end": 384, "text": " I can see your screen and me on your screen." }, { "start": 384, "end": 392, "text": " Remember when I was talking earlier about how powerful the Note 8 is and how it can run multiple apps simultaneously?" }, { "start": 392, "end": 397, "text": " The Note 8 has a 10 nanometer processor and a full 6 gigs of RAM." }, { "start": 397, "end": 401, "text": " The Note 8 has a micro SD card slot." }, { "start": 401, "end": 406, "text": " And even without the card, it's got 64 gigs of storage on board." }, { "start": 406, "end": 408, "text": " You need to keep it safe." }, { "start": 408, "end": 415, "text": " That's why we embed Knox, our defense grade security, into the hardware and software." }, { "start": 415, "end": 422, "text": " We have a full menu of advanced biometric options including fingerprint, facial recognition, and the iris scanner." }, { "start": 422, "end": 428, "text": " With the Note 8, you don't have to worry about getting your device or the S Pen wet." }, { "start": 428, "end": 435, "text": " Samsung has had wireless charging since the S6 and fast wireless charging since the Note 5." }, { "start": 435, "end": 443, "text": " Now you can power through your day and charge the Note 8's 3300 milliamp hour battery quickly and conveniently." }, { "start": 443, "end": 446, "text": " And on September 15th, the Note 8 will hit stores." }, { "start": 446, "end": 451, "text": " And thanks to our partnership with Harman, the Note 8 will come with a pair of premium AKG earphones." }, { "start": 451, "end": 454, "text": " And guess what you can do with those earphones?" }, { "start": 454, "end": 455, "text": " That's right." }, { "start": 455, "end": 459, "text": " You can plug them into the standard earphone jack." }, { "start": 459, "end": 462, "text": " Yes." }, { "start": 462, "end": 469, "text": " Thank you so much for your vision, your loyalty, and your support." }, { "start": 469, "end": 472, "text": " Thank you." }, { "start": 472, "end": 477, "text": " Let's celebrate with 100 Samsung employees who have joined us today." } ]

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"end": 88.28, "text": " So in your launcher, you will have like two app icons" }, { "start": 88.28, "end": 89.12, "text": " next to each other." }, { "start": 89.12, "end": 92.08, "text": " So if you always launch, I don't know, messaging and memos," }, { "start": 92.08, "end": 94.53999999999999, "text": " you can always have those pop up at the same time," }, { "start": 94.53999999999999, "end": 95.72, "text": " which is pretty nice." }, { "start": 95.72, "end": 98.22, "text": " Not a lot of people do as much multitasking" }, { "start": 98.22, "end": 99.8, "text": " as they could on these big phones," }, { "start": 99.8, "end": 102.36, "text": " but having the S Pen to drag the window size," }, { "start": 102.36, "end": 103.52, "text": " it makes it more convenient." }, { "start": 103.52, "end": 105.12, "text": " And as long as we're talking about the S Pen," }, { "start": 105.12, "end": 107.75999999999999, "text": " let's show you some of the other new stuff that you can do." }, { 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Tumbling through space." }, { "start": 13, "end": 19, "text": " Throughout my career, I've met a few astronauts, but I never really got to see how they train for missions." }, { "start": 19, "end": 25, "text": " Today, I've convinced NASA to show me how astronauts learn to do their jobs before going to space." }, { "start": 25, "end": 33, "text": " And that means doing a lot of simulations to learn the basics and also to prepare for the worst case scenarios." }, { "start": 33, "end": 37, "text": " We're here at the Systems Engineering Simulator Facility." }, { "start": 37, "end": 44, "text": " It's basically fancy talk for, we're going to drive some spaceships." }, { "start": 44, "end": 47, "text": " NASA wants to go into deep space and potentially to Mars." }, { "start": 47, "end": 52, "text": " And astronauts are going to need a way to get around fast when they're on the surface of another planet." }, { "start": 52, "end": 55, "text": " Best way to do that? 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I've destroyed billions of dollars worth of armor." }, { "start": 128, "end": 131, "text": " So now we can't leave, we're stuck on Mars forever now." }, { "start": 131, "end": 137, "text": " Driving in a nice, comfy rover is fun and all, but it's not that immersive of an experience." }, { "start": 137, "end": 140, "text": " You're kind of just sitting still, moving a joystick." }, { "start": 140, "end": 145, "text": " Plus, it's not really practical right now since astronauts won't be going to Mars for many years." }, { "start": 145, "end": 150, "text": " But something that is a big part of astronaut training these days is spacewalks." }, { "start": 150, "end": 152, "text": " This is the Neutral Buoyancy Lab." }, { "start": 152, "end": 157, "text": " Being underwater is the closest thing we have on Earth to recreating the sensation of zero-g." }, { "start": 157, "end": 162, "text": " That giant structure you see inside is an actual replica of the International Space Station." }, { "start": 162, "end": 169, "text": " For testing, astronauts have to suit up outside the pool, with a lot of help, and then get slowly lowered in." }, { "start": 169, "end": 175, "text": " Unfortunately, I won't be going to the pool today, but we have some tech that might supplement for the time being." }, { "start": 175, "end": 179, "text": " I'm headed to Johnson Space Center's Virtual Reality Lab." }, { "start": 179, "end": 183, "text": " It's where NASA trains astronauts to learn how to do their spacewalks." }, { "start": 183, "end": 187, "text": " First up, learning how to maneuver outside the station." }, { "start": 187, "end": 189, "text": " I have to replace a battery." }, { "start": 189, "end": 192, "text": " One of the things you can do here with this model, since you're in VR," }, { "start": 192, "end": 199, "text": " you can actually figure out what it's going to take to get from the airlock or from your current worksite out to a new worksite." }, { "start": 199, "end": 202, "text": " What you're going to do is we're going to start you out here on the truss." }, { "start": 202, "end": 205, "text": " You're right around S0, which is one of the truss segments." }, { "start": 205, "end": 210, "text": " Turns out replacing a battery in space is way harder than changing out the batteries in your remote." }, { "start": 210, "end": 215, "text": " It's a two-person job, with one astronaut pulling out the old battery and the other handing over a new unit." }, { "start": 215, "end": 217, "text": " Sounds easy, right?" }, { "start": 217, "end": 218, "text": " Piece of cake." }, { "start": 218, "end": 225, "text": " VR is great at showing you exactly where everything is going to be out there, and whether you have a good enough wingspan." }, { "start": 225, "end": 226, "text": " Got it. 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Is that it?" }, { "start": 250, "end": 251, "text": " That's it for now." }, { "start": 251, "end": 252, "text": " That's it for now." }, { "start": 252, "end": 256, "text": " But what would happen if your spacewalk didn't go smoothly?" }, { "start": 256, "end": 264, "text": " Astronauts are always tethered to the ISS during spacewalks, but NASA always plans for the remote possibility of someone getting disconnected." }, { "start": 264, "end": 275, "text": " Well, I was going to experience that terrifying scenario by getting knocked off the station, and then I had to get back before, you know, I burned up in the atmosphere." }, { "start": 275, "end": 286, "text": " When they go outside, in case they ever become separated from the space station so they don't float off, which would be bad, they come out with a safety device that's basically a jet backpack. 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You can't just take your time out there. You need to get back." }, { "start": 319, "end": 324, "text": " If you're out there for more than, say, 15 minutes, it gets very unlikely you're going to rescue." }, { "start": 324, "end": 329, "text": " So there I am, that tiny astronaut hanging out at the Quest Joint airlock." }, { "start": 329, "end": 330, "text": " Oh no!" }, { "start": 330, "end": 334, "text": " And there I am, getting farther and farther away from safety." }, { "start": 334, "end": 335, "text": " Oh, this is stressful." }, { "start": 335, "end": 338, "text": " Okay, we're going to make you wait just a little bit now before we power up the unit." }, { "start": 338, "end": 343, "text": " They leave you spinning for a little bit because you wouldn't be able to get your bearings right away." }, { "start": 343, "end": 346, "text": " You've got to slow yourself down and get yourself under control." }, { "start": 346, "end": 348, "text": " I think I'd also be screaming." }, { "start": 348, "end": 352, "text": " And now you would have the hand control out and you would power it on." }, { "start": 352, "end": 353, "text": " Am I supposed to..." }, { "start": 353, "end": 356, "text": " Now it's going to cancel out your rotations." }, { "start": 356, "end": 357, "text": " Okay." }, { "start": 357, "end": 359, "text": " You'll see yourself coming to a stop." }, { "start": 359, "end": 362, "text": " All right. So now I need to..." }, { "start": 362, "end": 364, "text": " Look around and find station." }, { "start": 364, "end": 368, "text": " The station is definitely to my left." }, { "start": 368, "end": 371, "text": " Okay, so y'all to your left." }, { "start": 371, "end": 373, "text": " Okay, you want to pitch down just a little bit." }, { "start": 373, "end": 376, "text": " You see that round, like the horseshoe-shaped thing?" }, { "start": 376, "end": 377, "text": " Yeah." }, { "start": 377, "end": 379, "text": " So you want to point right back at that spot." }, { "start": 379, "end": 382, "text": " Now that I'm facing the station, it's time to switch modes." }, { "start": 382, "end": 384, "text": " Now you want to go over to translation mode." }, { "start": 384, "end": 388, "text": " That means I can move forward and back or left and right in a straight line." }, { "start": 388, "end": 390, "text": " And now I'll start moving towards it." }, { "start": 390, "end": 394, "text": " Okay. Here we go." }, { "start": 394, "end": 396, "text": " I think we might have changed the game." }, { "start": 396, "end": 400, "text": " Definitely getting... It's a slow process, it seems." }, { "start": 400, "end": 402, "text": " Again, you don't want to go fast." }, { "start": 402, "end": 403, "text": " Am I going too fast?" }, { "start": 403, "end": 404, "text": " No, you're not going too fast." }, { "start": 404, "end": 407, "text": " In space, a little bit of thrust goes a long way." }, { "start": 407, "end": 410, "text": " All you need is just a slight push to send you going in the right direction." }, { "start": 410, "end": 412, "text": " Again, the translations are very slow." }, { "start": 412, "end": 415, "text": " Okay, but George Clooney moved so much faster." }, { "start": 415, "end": 419, "text": " Just reach out and if you can grab structure, you're safe." }, { "start": 419, "end": 421, "text": " And..." }, { "start": 421, "end": 423, "text": " And now I'm a part of the space station." }, { "start": 423, "end": 425, "text": " And that was the easiest case scenario." }, { "start": 425, "end": 430, "text": " Other simulations have astronauts moving away from the station four times faster than that." }, { "start": 430, "end": 431, "text": " And at night." }, { "start": 431, "end": 433, "text": " And at night." }, { "start": 433, "end": 435, "text": " Well, how long did it take me to get back?" }, { "start": 435, "end": 437, "text": " Would I have actually made it?" }, { "start": 437, "end": 438, "text": " Four and a half minutes." }, { "start": 438, "end": 439, "text": " Four and a half minutes. Okay, so I'm a speedy." }, { "start": 439, "end": 440, "text": " There you go. So you were good." }, { "start": 440, "end": 441, "text": " Yeah." }, { "start": 441, "end": 447, "text": " Clearly, I'm a spacewalk master, but there's still a whole ton of things astronauts have to do that I haven't trained for," }, { "start": 447, "end": 451, "text": " like working the robotic arm or doing lab experiments in zero gravity." }, { "start": 451, "end": 456, "text": " In fact, it's a two-year training process before you can even be assigned to a mission." }, { "start": 456, "end": 460, "text": " These simulations are just the tip of the iceberg." }, { "start": 460, "end": 461, "text": " Yeah. Okay." }, { "start": 461, "end": 463, "text": " All right. Lift it up. I'll grab it." }, { "start": 463, "end": 465, "text": " Right out of the mystery." }, { "start": 465, "end": 470, "text": " We would have had you climb further, but we weren't expecting you to do very well at it." }, { "start": 470, "end": 471, "text": " All right." }, { "start": 471, "end": 473, "text": " We didn't want to give you too much of a challenge." }, { "start": 473, "end": 475, "text": " And what was it that you underestimated about me?" }, { "start": 475, "end": 492, "text": " People have a lot of problems with that." } ]

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It goes all the way to" }, { "start": 55.92, "end": 60.24, "text": " the top with a cutout that accommodates the selfie camera and a couple of little sensors." }, { "start": 60.24, "end": 66.04, "text": " It goes very nearly to the edges of the sides without any gimmicky curves. And on the bottom," }, { "start": 66.04, "end": 69.84, "text": " it does have a little chin, but it's not much bigger than what you'd get on, say, a Samsung" }, { "start": 69.84, "end": 75.84, "text": " Galaxy. You should know that it's LCD instead of AMOLED, which means it won't work for VR," }, { "start": 75.84, "end": 80.92, "text": " if you care about that sort of thing. But what's most impressive about the 5.7 inch screen is that" }, { "start": 80.92, "end": 86.96000000000001, "text": " it's bigger than the screen on the Pixel XL or the iPhone 7 Plus, but in a package that's way" }, { "start": 86.96000000000001, "end": 93.32000000000001, "text": " smaller than either one. Now, I know what you're thinking. Isn't this weird cyclops eye or selfie" }, { "start": 93.32000000000001, "end": 99.96000000000001, "text": " camera in the middle of the screen annoying? In a word, no. In more words, it basically becomes" }, { "start": 99.96000000000001, "end": 104.2, "text": " invisible once you start using it because Android never puts anything in that zone of the screen." }, { "start": 104.2, "end": 109.6, "text": " Look, I'm just gonna say it. The Essential phone has an aesthetic that I like better than any other" }, { "start": 109.6, "end": 114.91999999999999, "text": " phone I've tried in the past year. I really like that this isn't just some derivative knockoff of" }, { "start": 114.91999999999999, "end": 121.96, "text": " an iPhone or a Galaxy phone. It's its own thing. The Essential phone feels substantial. It feels" }, { "start": 121.96, "end": 128.72, "text": " dense. It's pretty much the same weight as an iPhone 7 Plus, but in this much smaller package." }, { "start": 128.72, "end": 133.64, "text": " I do wish it was waterproof, though. There's nothing here to distract from the clean lines" }, { "start": 133.64, "end": 138.84, "text": " of the device. There's no camera bump, and the earpiece speaker is this tiny thin rail you don't" }, { "start": 138.84, "end": 144.52, "text": " even see until the led charging light turns on. And, of course, there aren't any logos on it" }, { "start": 144.52, "end": 151.04, "text": " anywhere at all. The rail on the edge is titanium, and it rides the line of being just grippy enough" }, { "start": 151.04, "end": 157.04, "text": " to instill confidence. The back is ceramic, which cuts down on antenna lines, and it's also, I have" }, { "start": 157.04, "end": 162.6, "text": " to admit, glossy as all get out, and it shows every little smudge of fingerprint, but at least" }, { "start": 162.6, "end": 167.32, "text": " it wipes down easily. Essential says that all these materials will keep this thing from shattering if" }, { "start": 167.32, "end": 173.56, "text": " you drop it or scratching in your pocket, but we didn't actually test those things. Sorry. There" }, { "start": 173.56, "end": 179.04, "text": " isn't a headphone jack, and I know that's the way things are going, but I'm still gonna be a curmudgeon" }, { "start": 179.04, "end": 184.79999999999998, "text": " about it. Here's the USB-C dongle. It's a nice dongle, but once I left this dongle and my" }, { "start": 184.79999999999998, "end": 190.79999999999998, "text": " Bluetooth headphones at the office, and so I was out of luck. Oh, and the fingerprint sensor? It's" }, { "start": 190.8, "end": 199.08, "text": " on the back, in the middle, where you can actually reach it, where it belongs, Samsung. And here we" }, { "start": 199.08, "end": 206.84, "text": " come to it. The most important part, really, of any Android phone review. The camera. Hey everybody." }, { "start": 206.84, "end": 212.36, "text": " You may have noticed I'm not wearing a suit, and I'm in an office with Viren behind the camera," }, { "start": 212.36, "end": 217.88000000000002, "text": " and Tyler editing the video you're watching right now. Here's the story. A mere hours before we" }, { "start": 217.88, "end": 222.79999999999998, "text": " needed to publish this review, Essential pushed out a software update for the camera, which changed" }, { "start": 222.79999999999998, "end": 228.24, "text": " the quality of its photos from dumpster fire to pretty good. This is a section of the video where" }, { "start": 228.24, "end": 232.32, "text": " we're gonna tell you about the camera, so I will. There's actually two lenses on the back. One is" }, { "start": 232.32, "end": 237, "text": " black and white, the other one is color, and they combine the two images together to make a better" }, { "start": 237, "end": 241.24, "text": " photo than you'd get from either one on its own, and it means that there's no camera bump. So I" }, { "start": 241.24, "end": 246.2, "text": " compared it to a Pixel XL, and the Pixel XL is still way faster, and its pictures are slightly" }, { "start": 246.2, "end": 250.32, "text": " better. So we're gonna go back to the rest of the video, we're gonna talk about the modules and" }, { "start": 250.32, "end": 255.2, "text": " everything else that's going on with this phone, and then at the end I'm gonna come back to the" }, { "start": 255.2, "end": 260.59999999999997, "text": " camera a little bit. And what I say there at the end, it's still true, but if I had had the original" }, { "start": 260.59999999999997, "end": 266.91999999999996, "text": " software that I have now, I might not have been quite so, I don't know, emotional about it. So," }, { "start": 266.91999999999996, "end": 272.52, "text": " check it out. There's one more interesting thing to talk about with the Essential phone, and it's" }, { "start": 272.52, "end": 277.15999999999997, "text": " related to these two little metal pins on the back. Just like Motorola, Essential is trying to" }, { "start": 277.15999999999997, "end": 283.56, "text": " get you to buy a bunch of modules, but Essential's approach is potentially more exciting than what" }, { "start": 283.56, "end": 288.79999999999995, "text": " Motorola is doing. These two little metal contacts here are just for providing power, the data is" }, { "start": 288.79999999999995, "end": 294.56, "text": " transmitted over wireless USB, and the modules attached via magnets. The first module that" }, { "start": 294.56, "end": 300.08, "text": " Essential is shipping is a 360 degree camera, which costs $199 on its own, but you can get it" }, { "start": 300.08, "end": 305.08, "text": " bundled with the phone for 50 bucks for a limited time. It's an intriguing little widget. It doesn't" }, { "start": 305.08, "end": 310.88, "text": " need its own battery, or display, or Bluetooth radio, so it's super small. It attaches via those" }, { "start": 310.88, "end": 315.47999999999996, "text": " magnets with a really pleasing firm snap, and when you do, it automatically fires up the phone's" }, { "start": 315.47999999999996, "end": 322.24, "text": " camera. Also, hilarious plot twist, when you attach the 360 camera to the back of the Essential" }, { "start": 322.24, "end": 329.44, "text": " phone, a tiny little fan spins up in the camera to keep the electronics cool. Now, it doesn't" }, { "start": 329.44, "end": 334.71999999999997, "text": " actually do it while you're actively recording, so it's not really a problem, but it's kind of" }, { "start": 334.71999999999997, "end": 341.52, "text": " weird, right? Once the camera app is open, you can shoot 360 stills or video in 4K, and even stream" }, { "start": 341.52, "end": 347.56, "text": " live. It works, but sometimes it is a little bit buggy. For now, the best thing I can say about it" }, { "start": 347.56, "end": 353.2, "text": " is that it's a really fun toy, but we have to compare its actual quality to other 360 cameras." }, { "start": 353.2, "end": 357.24, "text": " We just haven't had enough time to do that yet. So, I haven't bothered to talk about the usual" }, { "start": 357.24, "end": 362.52, "text": " phone specs and software stuff, because Essential basically did all the obvious and right things." }, { "start": 362.52, "end": 367.8, "text": " It's running on the same modern hardware that you can get on other flagship Android phones. It has" }, { "start": 367.8, "end": 373.12, "text": " a Qualcomm 835 processor, and it has all the radio bands you need to work on any US carrier, plus" }, { "start": 373.12, "end": 378, "text": " plenty more for around the rest of the world. There's 4 gigs of RAM and 128 gigs of storage," }, { "start": 378, "end": 383.8, "text": " although you cannot expand it. I've been getting better battery life than usual for big Android" }, { "start": 383.8, "end": 388.84000000000003, "text": " phones. This thing is easily lasting through a whole day for me with up to 7 hours of screen" }, { "start": 388.84000000000003, "end": 394.92, "text": " on time. As for the software, Essential basically did nothing to Android 7.1 here. There's a custom" }, { "start": 394.92, "end": 399.32, "text": " camera app, and the bits to enable the modules, and of course there's a setting to send diagnostics" }, { "start": 399.32, "end": 405.08000000000004, "text": " back to the company, and that's literally it. Anyway, I popped a Sprint SIM into the bottom of" }, { "start": 405.08000000000004, "end": 410.32, "text": " this thing, and sure enough, there was zero crapware. And Sprint tells me it'll be exactly" }, { "start": 410.32, "end": 416.36, "text": " the same if you buy one of these phones directly from a Sprint store, so seriously, everybody, bravo." }, { "start": 416.36, "end": 425.28, "text": " I guess I should say that it doesn't necessarily have the fine-tuning of the Pixel, and you do miss" }, { "start": 425.28, "end": 429.76, "text": " out on some of the neat little tricks that the Galaxy can do, but whatever, I didn't miss it." }, { "start": 429.76, "end": 434.44, "text": " There are a lot of stories you could tell about the Essential phone. You could say it's a luxury" }, { "start": 434.44, "end": 439.92, "text": " phone for people who care about something with a unique design and high-end materials. You could" }, { "start": 439.92, "end": 444.76, "text": " say it's the tip of the spear for Andy Rubin's grand plan to create the next great platform that" }, { "start": 444.76, "end": 449.56, "text": " comes after mobile. You could say it's the new harbinger of the return of modular gadgets where" }, { "start": 449.56, "end": 454, "text": " you can plug little things into your phone, and your TV, and your thermostat, anything else you" }, { "start": 454, "end": 459.28000000000003, "text": " can think of. You could say it's a phone that snuck in right before the Pixel XL2 and beat Google at" }, { "start": 459.28000000000003, "end": 463.72, "text": " its own game. If it weren't for the disappointing camera, that might have been the story that I'm" }, { "start": 463.72, "end": 469.88, "text": " telling you right here, and maybe it could be someday with a software update, but we've heard" }, { "start": 469.88, "end": 476.56, "text": " that software update story before, and it usually doesn't turn out well. So I think the most likely" }, { "start": 476.56, "end": 482.2, "text": " story for the Essential phone is that it's a phone you really want to love, but it keeps breaking" }, { "start": 482.2, "end": 490.68, "text": " your damn heart. And yeah, it's a fine screen. It's got a kajillion pixels and really good response..." }, { "start": 490.68, "end": 500.96, "text": " Okay, yeah. Okay, ready?" } ]

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[ { "start": 0, "end": 5.8, "text": " For the first time in 99 years, on August 21st, a total solar eclipse will pass over" }, { "start": 5.8, "end": 8, "text": " the United States from coast to coast." }, { "start": 8, "end": 10.96, "text": " And it's going to be an amazing sight to see." }, { "start": 10.96, "end": 13.4, "text": " And also, an amazing sight to photograph." }, { "start": 13.4, "end": 18.26, "text": " Here's how I'm prepping for this celestial event, and a few things you need to know about" }, { "start": 18.26, "end": 21.12, "text": " photographing the sun." }, { "start": 21.12, "end": 24.560000000000002, "text": " For starters, what is an eclipse and why is it so rare?" }, { "start": 24.560000000000002, "end": 29.400000000000002, "text": " Well, it's a serendipitous alignment of the Earth, the Sun, and the Moon." }, { "start": 29.4, "end": 33.379999999999995, "text": " On every 18 months or so, the Moon passes directly between the Earth and the Sun on" }, { "start": 33.379999999999995, "end": 34.66, "text": " its orbit." }, { "start": 34.66, "end": 39.06, "text": " And those in the direct path of the Moon's shadow, called the path of totality, will" }, { "start": 39.06, "end": 41.519999999999996, "text": " see the Sun completely covered up by the Moon." }, { "start": 41.519999999999996, "end": 46.08, "text": " If you're in this path, the eclipse will last about 3 hours, from when it starts to" }, { "start": 46.08, "end": 49, "text": " become obscured to when it's fully visible again." }, { "start": 49, "end": 53.14, "text": " Don't worry, even if you're not in the path of totality, the length of the eclipse" }, { "start": 53.14, "end": 58.2, "text": " will vary, but basically anyone in the continental US is going to see the Sun mostly covered." }, { "start": 58.2, "end": 62.88, "text": " Now, if you're going to be watching this, remember that staring at the Sun is bad for" }, { "start": 62.88, "end": 68.84, "text": " your eyes, even during an 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324.88000000000005, "text": " My solar filter is on the way." }, { "start": 324.88000000000005, "end": 329.16, "text": " I'll be heading down to Nashville along with the rest of the world to see if I can get" }, { "start": 329.16, "end": 330.16, "text": " an awesome shot." }, { "start": 330.16, "end": 333.14000000000004, "text": " Let's hope I don't mess this up." }, { "start": 333.14000000000004, "end": 335.44000000000005, "text": " Got more questions about the total solar eclipse?" }, { "start": 335.44000000000005, "end": 338.48, "text": " Check out our explainer linked in the description below." }, { "start": 338.48, "end": 342.42, "text": " Also we'll be rolling out more coverage as we get closer to the eclipse on the 21st," }, { "start": 342.42, "end": 346.68, "text": " so be sure to visit TheVerge.com to learn more about this celestial event." } ]

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[ { "start": 0, "end": 2, "text": " Hey everyone!" }, { "start": 2, "end": 8, "text": " Alright, so let's talk about what goes into making the Model 3." }, { "start": 8, "end": 10, "text": " It starts off with design." }, { "start": 10, "end": 14, "text": " We aim for something that was a very simple, clean design," }, { "start": 14, "end": 17, "text": " because the cars will be increasingly autonomous." }, { "start": 17, "end": 21, "text": " So you won't really need to look at an instrument panel all that often." }, { "start": 21, "end": 23, "text": " You'll be able to do whatever you want." }, { "start": 23, "end": 27, "text": " Be able to watch a movie, talk to friends, go to sleep." }, { "start": 27, "end": 32, "text": " So one of the challenges with the car was, since it is smaller than a Model S," }, { "start": 32, "end": 36, "text": " how do we make a car that is smaller on the outside, bigger on the inside?" }, { "start": 36, "end": 39, "text": " So we took an idea from the Model X, and we turned that around," }, { "start": 39, "end": 45, "text": " put that on the rear of the Model 3, so that you could still have a great deal of rear headroom," }, { "start": 45, "end": 48, "text": " and have this amazing view, while being in a smaller car." }, { "start": 48, "end": 52, "text": " It's actually one of the toughest design challenges of making the Model 3." }, { "start": 52, "end": 54, "text": " And then, in terms of engineering the car," }, { "start": 54, "end": 57, "text": " we had to engineer it to be a lot easier to build." }, { "start": 57, "end": 60, "text": " The Model S is an amazing car, but it's very hard to build." }, { "start": 60, "end": 64, "text": " So we had to get the part count down, design it still to be light," }, { "start": 64, "end": 67, "text": " but also to make it affordable." }, { "start": 67, "end": 71, "text": " And then where this really shows up is in things like safety." }, { "start": 71, "end": 76, "text": " So on the one hand, you've got a car that is one of the safest cars in the world, a Volvo S60." }, { "start": 76, "end": 80, "text": " The Volvo is arguably the second safest car in the world." }, { "start": 80, "end": 85, "text": " But I think it is obvious which car you would prefer to be in, in an accident." }, { "start": 94, "end": 100, "text": " A question I get asked, I notice it's popping up on Twitter quite a lot." }, { "start": 100, "end": 102, "text": " Where is my Model 3?" }, { "start": 102, "end": 105, "text": " Sometimes not phrased quite as nicely." }, { "start": 105, "end": 111, "text": " In terms of production, the thing that's going to be a major challenge for us over the next 6 to 9 months," }, { "start": 111, "end": 114, "text": " is how do we build a huge number of cars." }, { "start": 114, "end": 116, "text": " Frankly, we're going to be in production hell." }, { "start": 116, "end": 119, "text": " Welcome, welcome." }, { "start": 119, "end": 122, "text": " Welcome to production hell." }, { "start": 122, "end": 125, "text": " We're building the cars as fast as we can." }, { "start": 125, "end": 131, "text": " When you have 10,000 unique items in a vehicle or any object," }, { "start": 131, "end": 134, "text": " any one of them can slow down the production process." }, { "start": 134, "end": 140, "text": " So the production rate will move as fast as the slowest and least luckiest components in the whole mix." }, { "start": 140, "end": 145, "text": " So we've got giant factory making battery packs and powertrains," }, { "start": 145, "end": 149, "text": " giant factory making cars and giant supply trains." }, { "start": 149, "end": 157, "text": " And so all of those have to work together in cadence in order to get to our initial target of 5,000 cars a week" }, { "start": 157, "end": 161, "text": " and then hopefully by the end of next year towards 10,000 cars a week." }, { "start": 161, "end": 164, "text": " You're probably wondering, okay, will I be able to charge my car?" }, { "start": 164, "end": 168, "text": " Well, this is probably the second most common question I get on Twitter." }, { "start": 168, "end": 171, "text": " The supercharger is full, what is wrong with you?" }, { "start": 171, "end": 176, "text": " By the end of next year, there will be three times as many superchargers as there are today." }, { "start": 176, "end": 178, "text": " So that should really help out a lot." }, { "start": 178, "end": 184, "text": " Okay, so now let's talk about the specs for the Model 3." }, { "start": 184, "end": 186, "text": " There are two main variants." }, { "start": 186, "end": 188, "text": " There's the standard and long range." }, { "start": 188, "end": 193, "text": " The standard is going to be $35,000 for a 220-mile range." }, { "start": 193, "end": 201, "text": " It's going to be a fast car, so the acceleration will still be well under 6 seconds, 130-mile-an-hour top speed." }, { "start": 201, "end": 205, "text": " And you can also get the long range one, which I've arranged at 310 miles" }, { "start": 205, "end": 210, "text": " and be about roughly 5 seconds 0-60, 140-mile-an-hour top speed." }, { "start": 210, "end": 213, "text": " So it's going to be a really great car." }, { "start": 213, "end": 220, "text": " You will not be able to find a better car, gasoline or electric, in that price range that is anywhere near as great." }, { "start": 220, "end": 222, "text": " So let's hand over some cars." }, { "start": 222, "end": 227, "text": " We have the first 30 production cars here being charged right now, right there." }, { "start": 227, "end": 231, "text": " Those are actual owners getting actual production cars." }, { "start": 231, "end": 237, "text": " To give you a sense, if you order a Model 3 now, you'll probably get it towards the end of next year." }, { "start": 237, "end": 240, "text": " But because the S and the X are in production," }, { "start": 240, "end": 243, "text": " if you order them now, you can get them in about one or two months." }, { "start": 243, "end": 251, "text": " I'd like to thank all the customers who own a Model S and X and those who buy a Model S and an X" }, { "start": 251, "end": 255, "text": " because in doing so, you make the 3 possible." }, { "start": 255, "end": 260, "text": " The money that we make with an S and X all goes into building a Model 3." }, { "start": 260, "end": 262, "text": " So thank you for doing that." }, { "start": 262, "end": 267, "text": " I want to just say to those that have lined up to buy a Model 3," }, { "start": 267, "end": 272, "text": " I just want you to know that that really matters to us." }, { "start": 272, "end": 274, "text": " We really care." }, { "start": 274, "end": 279, "text": " We're going to do everything we possibly can to get you the car as soon as possible." }, { "start": 279, "end": 285, "text": " So we're going to work day and night to do right by the loyalty that you've shown us." }, { "start": 285, "end": 286, "text": " Thank you." }, { "start": 286, "end": 288, "text": " Thank you for our long-time supporters." }, { "start": 288, "end": 289, "text": " And thank you guys for making it." }, { "start": 289, "end": 290, "text": " Thank you." }, { "start": 290, "end": 299, "text": " About two-thirds come from North America and about a third from the rest of the world." }, { "start": 299, "end": 305, "text": " But as you can see with this chart, which looks like we're being shot with ICBMs." }, { "start": 305, "end": 312, "text": " I think that is the ICBM chart actually." }, { "start": 312, "end": 315, "text": " Save us, save us." }, { "start": 315, "end": 317, "text": " Save us, exactly." }, { "start": 317, "end": 320, "text": " We need missile command." }, { "start": 320, "end": 347, "text": " We need missile command button." } ]

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40.120000000000005, "text": " better part of a day playing games that could someday be prescription video games." }, { "start": 40.120000000000005, "end": 44.94, "text": " Led by neuroscientist Adam Guzzali, the team at Neuroscape is entirely focused on developing" }, { "start": 44.94, "end": 49.6, "text": " and testing games that are designed, in some way, to impact brain function." }, { "start": 49.6, "end": 54.88, "text": " Neuroscape's main focus is on all things related to attention, either selective attention or" }, { "start": 54.88, "end": 59.32, "text": " our ability to sustain it or to switch our attention between multiple tasks." }, { "start": 59.32, "end": 61.68, "text": " And these abilities decline as we get older." }, { "start": 61.68, "end": 67.4, "text": " Many different clinical populations like ADHD and depression have challenges with them," }, { "start": 67.4, "end": 73.4, "text": " and we don't really have any strong drugs that actually work well without side effects." }, { "start": 73.4, "end": 78.12, "text": " And so the idea was if we can build a new type of treatment that doesn't rely on molecules" }, { "start": 78.12, "end": 83.72, "text": " but rather creates an experience, a very powerful, targeted, personal experience that challenges" }, { "start": 83.72, "end": 86.56, "text": " your brain and optimizes how it functions." }, { "start": 86.56, "end": 91.8, "text": " Guzzali has also co-founded a Boston-based company called Akili, and it's Akili that" }, { "start": 91.8, "end": 96.7, "text": " is trying to push these games through the FDA approval process, and in doing so, could" }, { "start": 96.7, "end": 99.94, "text": " create an entirely new category of digital medicine." }, { "start": 99.94, "end": 102.24000000000001, "text": " But let's talk about the games themselves." }, { "start": 106.24000000000001, "end": 108.24000000000001, "text": " What was that thing that just ran up on the screen?" }, { "start": 108.24000000000001, "end": 109.24000000000001, "text": " Good." }, { "start": 109.24000000000001, "end": 110.24000000000001, "text": " That was a..." }, { "start": 110.24000000000001, "end": 111.24000000000001, "text": " Some type of gourd thing." }, { "start": 111.24000000000001, "end": 112.24000000000001, "text": " Good." }, { "start": 112.24000000000001, "end": 113.24000000000001, "text": " There you go." }, { "start": 113.24, "end": 117.56, "text": " The first game I tried was called Body Brain Trainer, or BBT." }, { "start": 117.56, "end": 121.06, "text": " The idea is to use your body to physically select the digital objects that the game is" }, { "start": 121.06, "end": 122.41999999999999, "text": " pointing you towards." }, { "start": 122.41999999999999, "end": 126.32, "text": " So if the game shows you a pepper, you're supposed to move your hands to a corresponding" }, { "start": 126.32, "end": 128.16, "text": " pepper on the screen." }, { "start": 128.16, "end": 133.45999999999998, "text": " The hypothesis of BBT is that if we challenge you cognitively and physically at the same" }, { "start": 133.45999999999998, "end": 139.24, "text": " time, your cognitive benefits will be greater than if you played BBT on an iPad, let's say." }, { "start": 139.24, "end": 140.24, "text": " Veggie." }, { "start": 140.24, "end": 141.24, "text": " No, no." }, { "start": 141.24, "end": 144.24, "text": " So you got the interference there, you went for the collar." }, { "start": 144.24, "end": 145.24, "text": " Exactly." }, { "start": 145.24, "end": 146.24, "text": " What is it?" }, { "start": 146.24, "end": 147.24, "text": " So the interference means what?" }, { "start": 147.24, "end": 148.24, "text": " It's called a stupor fact." }, { "start": 148.24, "end": 154.08, "text": " It means that you're trying to use one piece of information, but you're using the other." }, { "start": 154.08, "end": 155.08, "text": " Just happened there again." }, { "start": 155.08, "end": 156.08, "text": " Exactly." }, { "start": 156.08, "end": 157.28, "text": " And how does that improve over time?" }, { "start": 157.28, "end": 161.84, "text": " The goal is that you learn how to process that interference more rapidly as you train." }, { "start": 161.84, "end": 166.8, "text": " The other game I tried at Neuroscape was this labyrinth game, which is still in development." }, { "start": 166.8, "end": 171.96, "text": " It's a virtual city game, and you see stuff in it like a Starbucks or a Chase Bank." }, { "start": 171.96, "end": 177.42000000000002, "text": " But at each level, the city changes slightly, testing your ability to navigate a new environment." }, { "start": 177.42000000000002, "end": 181.8, "text": " The goal with this game, according to Peter Ways, is to put demands on the part of your" }, { "start": 181.8, "end": 186.26000000000002, "text": " brain's memory system that is destroyed in Alzheimer-type dementias." }, { "start": 186.26000000000002, "end": 191.92000000000002, "text": " In your mind, you're laying down a grid of what the town is, and it's that process" }, { "start": 191.92, "end": 197.5, "text": " that is creating connections in the brain that we want to stimulate to keep those cells" }, { "start": 197.5, "end": 198.5, "text": " healthy." }, { "start": 198.5, "end": 202.79999999999998, "text": " I'll be honest, I tried to skip a level in this game and felt pretty disoriented and" }, { "start": 202.79999999999998, "end": 204.39999999999998, "text": " not a little bit nauseous." }, { "start": 204.39999999999998, "end": 205.72, "text": " But it is still in beta." }, { "start": 205.72, "end": 209.88, "text": " Neuroscape also has developed a rhythm game for iPad, one that's being used in the study" }, { "start": 209.88, "end": 215.56, "text": " of older adults to see if becoming rhythmically superior helps you in other areas of brain" }, { "start": 215.56, "end": 220.64, "text": " function, as well as a VR application that lets you watch neurons fire inside a person's" }, { "start": 220.64, "end": 221.64, "text": " brain." }, { "start": 221.64, "end": 231.39999999999998, "text": " In this case, Ghazali's own brain." }, { "start": 231.39999999999998, "end": 235.83999999999997, "text": " One of Neuroscape's most well-known games is called NeuroRacer, and it's this core" }, { "start": 235.83999999999997, "end": 240.04, "text": " technology that's been licensed to Akili, that company I mentioned earlier." }, { "start": 240.04, "end": 244.67999999999998, "text": " Akili has turned this into a game called Project EVO, which the company hopes will be part" }, { "start": 244.67999999999998, "end": 248.06, "text": " of a prescribed treatment for children with ADHD." }, { "start": 248.06, "end": 251.16, "text": " The game is currently in phase 3 clinical trials." }, { "start": 251.16, "end": 256.4, "text": " The work that Neuroscape is doing is obviously cutting edge and extremely creative in the" }, { "start": 256.4, "end": 258.4, "text": " scientific world and very innovative." }, { "start": 258.4, "end": 263.84, "text": " What Akili does is we find that fantastic research and we vet it, we partner with the" }, { "start": 263.84, "end": 270.15999999999997, "text": " neuroscientists in a very close way to license and build further what they've created and" }, { "start": 270.15999999999997, "end": 276.64, "text": " bring those products through great clinical validation to market as prescribed FDA-acquired" }, { "start": 276.64, "end": 282.71999999999997, "text": " products that from a parent to a patient to a doctor are undeniably medicine." }, { "start": 282.71999999999997, "end": 286.32, "text": " So you might be thinking at this point, I've heard of these brain games before, and you're" }, { "start": 286.32, "end": 291.76, "text": " probably thinking of games like Lumosity or Brain HQ or CogniFit, which have all claimed" }, { "start": 291.76, "end": 296.28, "text": " to do some variation of the same thing, boost your cognitive abilities." }, { "start": 296.28, "end": 300.36, "text": " These kinds of brain training games have actually been pretty controversial." }, { "start": 300.36, "end": 304.44, "text": " Some scientists have argued that there is no compelling scientific evidence to date" }, { "start": 304.44, "end": 308, "text": " that training your brain on one type of task can help it with other tasks." }, { "start": 308, "end": 313, "text": " In fact, a group of more than 70 scientists and cognitive psychologists argued this in" }, { "start": 313, "end": 315.98, "text": " an open letter signed back in 2014." }, { "start": 315.98, "end": 320.08, "text": " Other scientists say there's a substantial and growing body of evidence that shows certain" }, { "start": 320.08, "end": 324.64, "text": " cognitive training regimens can significantly improve cognitive function." }, { "start": 324.64, "end": 327.44, "text": " The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has even gotten involved." }, { "start": 327.44, "end": 332.8, "text": " In 2015, the FTC barred a company called Focus Education from making unsubstantiated claims" }, { "start": 332.8, "end": 334.68, "text": " around its games for kids." }, { "start": 334.68, "end": 340.08, "text": " And in 2016, the creators of Lumosity ended up having to pay a $2 million fine for deceptive" }, { "start": 340.08, "end": 341.68, "text": " advertising." }, { "start": 341.68, "end": 344.86, "text": " But those games differ from what Akili is trying to do." }, { "start": 344.86, "end": 346.52000000000004, "text": " They're not FDA approved for one." }, { "start": 346.52000000000004, "end": 350.32, "text": " Akili, on the other hand, is taking the research from Neuroscape and other scientists and attempting" }, { "start": 350.32, "end": 352.08000000000004, "text": " to validate their games." }, { "start": 352.08000000000004, "end": 357.28000000000003, "text": " Ghazali says Neuroscape games are also increasingly designed to include both cognitive challenges" }, { "start": 357.28000000000003, "end": 361.56, "text": " and physical movement, which is different from sitting and staring at a screen." }, { "start": 361.56, "end": 366.56, "text": " This idea of brain training has been somewhat controversial when it comes to the efficacy" }, { "start": 366.56, "end": 371.96, "text": " of teaching a person one cognitive task and expecting it to improve cognitive activities" }, { "start": 371.96, "end": 373.12, "text": " in another area." }, { "start": 373.12, "end": 376.42, "text": " Do you consider your work to be brain training?" }, { "start": 376.42, "end": 379.48, "text": " We don't really call it that so much anymore." }, { "start": 379.48, "end": 384.2, "text": " The term brain training has become complicated because it's been used by a lot of companies" }, { "start": 384.2, "end": 390.28, "text": " that have what I think of as like gamified exercises that are often not validated." }, { "start": 390.28, "end": 392.96, "text": " A lot of what we do we think of as digital medicine." }, { "start": 392.96, "end": 398.79999999999995, "text": " The challenges with the field really arise because of two problems, in my view." }, { "start": 398.79999999999995, "end": 404.55999999999995, "text": " One is that a lot of the games that are used are not games as we tend to think of them" }, { "start": 404.55999999999995, "end": 406.32, "text": " in the entertainment world." }, { "start": 406.32, "end": 413.03999999999996, "text": " I believe that deep engagement, immersion continuously in these activities and these" }, { "start": 413.03999999999996, "end": 416.32, "text": " experiences is what's required to really have that impact." }, { "start": 416.32, "end": 420.03999999999996, "text": " It would be like if you went to the gym and superficially worked out for 15 minutes a" }, { "start": 420.04, "end": 423.72, "text": " day, it wouldn't really lead to a change in your physical health." }, { "start": 423.72, "end": 426.64000000000004, "text": " The other challenge is the scientific validation." }, { "start": 426.64000000000004, "end": 430.52000000000004, "text": " It's either often not done or not done in a well-controlled way." }, { "start": 430.52000000000004, "end": 435.40000000000003, "text": " The goal is to have double-blinded randomized placebo-control trials just like we do with" }, { "start": 435.40000000000003, "end": 440.08000000000004, "text": " medical devices or drugs and really reach the highest level of empirical evidence so" }, { "start": 440.08000000000004, "end": 445.40000000000003, "text": " that regulatory agencies are satisfied and practitioners also believe that what they" }, { "start": 445.40000000000003, "end": 447.6, "text": " are using is going to have an impact." }, { "start": 447.6, "end": 451.44, "text": " Akili executives agree that it's at least partly a matter of needing to gather more" }, { "start": 451.44, "end": 455.28000000000003, "text": " evidence in order to show exactly how the brain is being impacted." }, { "start": 455.28000000000003, "end": 459.8, "text": " The evidence hasn't been clearly shown yet and that's a huge part of what we're trying" }, { "start": 459.8, "end": 460.8, "text": " to do here." }, { "start": 460.8, "end": 465.28000000000003, "text": " We all believe very strongly that that is fully true and it's just a matter of having" }, { "start": 465.28000000000003, "end": 468.04, "text": " the data out there to show it definitively." }, { "start": 468.04, "end": 472.48, "text": " Hence us going through very long, very expensive, rigorous clinical trials to do this right." }, { "start": 472.48, "end": 477.32000000000005, "text": " It's very hard to do to really prove things crystal clear, but that's our mission." }, { "start": 477.32, "end": 479.2, "text": " That's what we want to do." }, { "start": 479.2, "end": 485.15999999999997, "text": " Akili says that Project EVO could be submitted for FDA approval as soon as next year, but" }, { "start": 485.15999999999997, "end": 489.56, "text": " there could still be a long way to go before it becomes software is medicine." }, { "start": 489.56, "end": 493.48, "text": " Another question is how the game will be categorized once it's prescription." }, { "start": 493.48, "end": 498.08, "text": " It's not exactly a medical mobile app as the category exists right now, but it's not" }, { "start": 498.08, "end": 501.84, "text": " your standard drug or medical device either." }, { "start": 501.84, "end": 506.15999999999997, "text": " But regardless of whether that happens, games like this one and the ones developed in the" }, { "start": 506.16, "end": 511.12, "text": " Neuroscape lab could be used as biomarkers for future clinical trials." }, { "start": 511.12, "end": 515.88, "text": " All of which can help us better understand the human brain, if not unlock its mysteries" }, { "start": 515.88, "end": 516.88, "text": " entirely." }, { "start": 516.88, "end": 517.88, "text": " Do you see a brain?" }, { "start": 517.88, "end": 518.88, "text": " Yep." }, { "start": 518.88, "end": 520.6, "text": " Oh no, I don't see, I see a health and safety warning." }, { "start": 520.6, "end": 521.6, "text": " Okay, I think that's on just a couple seconds." }, { "start": 521.6, "end": 524.6, "text": " I don't know what that says about your brain, but I do see a health and safety warning." }, { "start": 524.6, "end": 526.1800000000001, "text": " I think that's just an oculist fault." }, { "start": 526.1800000000001, "end": 527.52, "text": " Now I'm in your brain." }, { "start": 527.52, "end": 529.1600000000001, "text": " Yeah, I'm flying you in now." }, { "start": 529.16, "end": 537, "text": " So it's pretty, pretty nice in there, right?" } ]

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So was my Instagram account and my Facebook account and" }, { "start": 24.92, "end": 29.72, "text": " So before you end up with your password exposed to the world thanks to yet another security breach" }, { "start": 29.72, "end": 32.24, "text": " I'm going to show you how to start securing your accounts" }, { "start": 33.24, "end": 36.519999999999996, "text": " The most important thing you can do is use different passwords for different services" }, { "start": 36.6, "end": 42.019999999999996, "text": " It sounds really complicated and hard to remember but it's not. What you need is an app called a password manager" }, { "start": 42.2, "end": 46.86, "text": " Something that can remember all of your usernames and passwords and automatically plug them straight into websites" }, { "start": 46.94, "end": 49.84, "text": " They're really really handy and pretty easy to use once they get set up" }, { "start": 50.36, "end": 53.879999999999995, "text": " There are a bunch of options out there like 1Password and Dashlane" }, { "start": 53.879999999999995, "end": 59.56, "text": " But for this video we're going to talk about LastPass because it's completely free and it works on basically every platform" }, { "start": 59.56, "end": 62.28, "text": " Windows, Mac, iOS, Android, even Chrome OS" }, { "start": 62.28, "end": 64.86, "text": " So you'll be able to use it no matter where you are. When you sign up" }, { "start": 64.86, "end": 67.24000000000001, "text": " The first thing you'll be asked to do is create a master password" }, { "start": 67.24000000000001, "end": 72.48, "text": " This is what you'll type to log into LastPass and basically it's the only password you'll ever have to remember" }, { "start": 72.48, "end": 78.44, "text": " So you'd better make it a good one. Now I know you're thinking probably a special character, a capital letter, a number" }, { "start": 78.44, "end": 85, "text": " Maybe make that O into a zero. No forget all of that. Well you want something that's long but easy to remember" }, { "start": 85, "end": 89.7, "text": " So instead of password think passphrase something like" }, { "start": 90.28, "end": 96, "text": " Excitable lizard tomato paste machine. You're not going to forget that but it's gonna be really hard for hackers" }, { "start": 96, "end": 101.08, "text": " Guessing password after password after password to figure out. Okay, so what are the hackers actually doing here?" }, { "start": 101.16, "end": 104.24000000000001, "text": " We asked Russell Brand of the Verge cybersecurity reporter to find out" }, { "start": 104.76, "end": 108.32, "text": " So imagine a big breach like the one that hit Yahoo in 2013" }, { "start": 108.72, "end": 112.76, "text": " Hackers got logins and hashed passwords for a billion accounts now" }, { "start": 112.76, "end": 116.84, "text": " That's a lot of people and it's a huge problem for everyone even outside of Yahoo" }, { "start": 117.64, "end": 124.12, "text": " Suppose you've got a scam going and you need to hack a bunch of Facebook accounts if you can buy unhashed Yahoo passwords on a" }, { "start": 124.12, "end": 131.64000000000001, "text": " Criminal marketplace you can use a tool like SentryMBA to run all 1 billion of those passwords against Facebook and see which of them work" }, { "start": 131.84, "end": 136.88, "text": " If you're lucky you get one in a thousand, but for a breach as big as Yahoo, that's a million passwords" }, { "start": 137.32, "end": 141.96, "text": " Of course Facebook will get suspicious if one computer is putting in millions of passwords a second" }, { "start": 141.96, "end": 149.36, "text": " So the programs get clever using botnets to spread the logins out over millions of IP addresses using different profiles and different browser" }, { "start": 149.56, "end": 151.72, "text": " Fingerprints so each one looks like a different user" }, { "start": 152.08, "end": 156.60000000000002, "text": " It's an arms race between hackers trying to use the passwords and services trying to stop them" }, { "start": 156.60000000000002, "end": 159.8, "text": " But at the end of the day the ones that work are legitimate passwords" }, { "start": 160.44, "end": 164.4, "text": " Services can only do so much to keep hackers out and that's why you want to use different" }, { "start": 164.60000000000002, "end": 170.92000000000002, "text": " Passwords with each account because even if you end up in a big breach like Yahoo your other accounts will still be safe" }, { "start": 170.92, "end": 171.88, "text": " All right" }, { "start": 171.88, "end": 173.83999999999997, "text": " So now you need to go about changing all of your passwords" }, { "start": 173.83999999999997, "end": 177.16, "text": " LastPass can actually help you out a bit by automatically importing any passwords" }, { "start": 177.16, "end": 181.76, "text": " You already have saved to your browser and even as a button to automatically change some of those passwords" }, { "start": 181.95999999999998, "end": 187.56, "text": " But it doesn't always work and you're probably gonna have to enter some of these manually which can take a little bit of time" }, { "start": 187.67999999999998, "end": 189.56, "text": " Say you're ready to secure your Facebook account" }, { "start": 189.56, "end": 194.27999999999997, "text": " You'll find the change password screen and then LastPass will have this little button appear with the corner of the box" }, { "start": 194.39999999999998, "end": 199.27999999999997, "text": " You just click on that and LastPass will be able to generate and fill in a big long complicated password for you" }, { "start": 199.28, "end": 203.08, "text": " That's okay, because you're never gonna have to remember it once saving LastPass" }, { "start": 203.4, "end": 205.44, "text": " It'll be there forever and that's it" }, { "start": 205.6, "end": 208.08, "text": " Fortunately, you don't have to do this all at once and honestly" }, { "start": 208.08, "end": 210.16, "text": " I'd recommend waiting a few days before you add, you know" }, { "start": 210.16, "end": 213.04, "text": " Your bank account or your email address just to make sure you have the hang of it" }, { "start": 213.04, "end": 213.82, "text": " Just you know" }, { "start": 213.82, "end": 218.6, "text": " It's gonna be a little bit more work on mobile because you're gonna have to copy your password out of the LastPass app and into" }, { "start": 218.6, "end": 220.92000000000002, "text": " Whatever you're signing into but it's worth the effort" }, { "start": 221.72, "end": 227.24, "text": " Okay, so that'll actually make you more secure than most but there's one more step you can do to make your accounts even safer" }, { "start": 227.24, "end": 230.04000000000002, "text": " It's called two-step authorization and you should set that up too" }, { "start": 230.16, "end": 232.36, "text": " Usually what this means is that when you go to log into a website" }, { "start": 232.72, "end": 238.8, "text": " The website will text a short code to your phone and you'll have to enter that code as well as your password to get logged in" }, { "start": 239.24, "end": 242.20000000000002, "text": " The idea is that even if a hacker has your password" }, { "start": 242.20000000000002, "end": 246.68, "text": " They'll also need to steal your phone in order to break into your account, which is gonna be a lot more work" }, { "start": 246.92000000000002, "end": 249.24, "text": " Yes, this will make logging in take a few seconds longer" }, { "start": 249.24, "end": 254.52, "text": " But it's much more secure and you'll feel a little bit like a secret agent every time you get a special code sent to you" }, { "start": 254.52, "end": 256.52, "text": " At least that's how I feel" }, { "start": 256.52, "end": 261.12, "text": " Some quick words of warning about all of this first of all never forget your master password" }, { "start": 261.4, "end": 265.82, "text": " Seriously, if you do you're gonna be locked out of everything some accounts will give you a backup code" }, { "start": 265.82, "end": 269.79999999999995, "text": " Make sure you hang on to those and even if you do take both of these steps" }, { "start": 270.02, "end": 273.79999999999995, "text": " You're never gonna be 100% impossible to hack. It's just not gonna happen" }, { "start": 274.08, "end": 278.38, "text": " Even two-factor systems can and are being breached, but if you take these steps" }, { "start": 278.44, "end": 283.56, "text": " You're still gonna make it much harder for somebody to get into your account when they're not supposed to and with more and more of our lives" }, { "start": 283.56, "end": 286.8, "text": " Moving online that's increasingly important and it's definitely worth the effort" }, { "start": 293.4, "end": 295.4, "text": " Keep going" }, { "start": 295.4, "end": 312.23999999999995, "text": " My Facebook account my Instagram account and" } ]

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This diffuse white screen." }, { "start": 88, "end": 89, "text": " What we wanted there was pain." }, { "start": 89, "end": 92, "text": " We wanted people to feel physiological pain," }, { "start": 92, "end": 94, "text": " because that's what happens when a baby's born." }, { "start": 94, "end": 98, "text": " And so it's this way of now thinking about the physiological response" }, { "start": 98, "end": 100, "text": " is part of what we can create in the color space." }, { "start": 100, "end": 103, "text": " We can create that in this multi-sensory space," }, { "start": 103, "end": 106, "text": " and that's really powerful to the creators." }, { "start": 106, "end": 108, "text": " That's Dolby chief scientist Poppy Crum." }, { "start": 108, "end": 111, "text": " She's a neurophysiologist who, on any given day," }, { "start": 111, "end": 115, "text": " is conducting 15 to 20 experiments with willing subjects." }, { "start": 115, "end": 119, "text": " I was curious to hear what these biosensors are telling Poppy and her team," }, { "start": 119, "end": 121, "text": " so I decided to try on the sensors myself." }, { "start": 126, "end": 128, "text": " One of the beauties of this particular device," }, { "start": 128, "end": 131, "text": " so again, it's an EEG, which stands for electroencephalogram," }, { "start": 131, "end": 135, "text": " and it lets us measure small changes in the electrical signals" }, { "start": 135, "end": 137, "text": " from your brain through your scalp." }, { "start": 137, "end": 139, "text": " Am I in the matrix yet?" }, { "start": 139, "end": 140, "text": " And what's this?" }, { "start": 140, "end": 143, "text": " These are a few other sensors that we're going to put on you." }, { "start": 143, "end": 145, "text": " One of these is going to measure your heart rate." }, { "start": 145, "end": 148, "text": " Another one of the sensors is a lie detector." }, { "start": 148, "end": 152, "text": " And off to your left, that's actually your thermal image." }, { "start": 152, "end": 155, "text": " Am I sweating? Ooh, armpit sweat." }, { "start": 155, "end": 157, "text": " The data that's popping up on the screen right now" }, { "start": 157, "end": 160, "text": " from the sensors I'm wearing, what is that telling you?" }, { "start": 160, "end": 163, "text": " So what we've done is we're just amplifying some of those channels," }, { "start": 163, "end": 167, "text": " and this is your raw EEG signal from each of those electrodes." }, { "start": 167, "end": 170, "text": " So you have your GSR response, and here's your heart rate." }, { "start": 170, "end": 174, "text": " So what are the kinds of things that would cause, aside from fire," }, { "start": 174, "end": 176, "text": " like a pretty serious spike?" }, { "start": 176, "end": 179, "text": " Sports matches, those are great examples where, you know," }, { "start": 179, "end": 182, "text": " if there's something like a penalty kick, where there's anticipation," }, { "start": 182, "end": 185, "text": " where things that surprise you, things that are arousing." }, { "start": 185, "end": 187, "text": " So you can actually tell when people are aroused." }, { "start": 187, "end": 188, "text": " Absolutely." }, { "start": 188, "end": 190, "text": " Do you test it on sex scenes?" }, { "start": 190, "end": 192, "text": " Oh, no." }, { "start": 192, "end": 194, "text": " So when we use the word arousal," }, { "start": 194, "end": 196, "text": " I like to use the word excitement typically." }, { "start": 196, "end": 199, "text": " Maybe I was jumping to a conclusion there." }, { "start": 199, "end": 201, "text": " Yeah, so be careful there." }, { "start": 204, "end": 207, "text": " These biophysical labs have existed at Doldey since 2012," }, { "start": 207, "end": 209, "text": " but over the past couple years," }, { "start": 209, "end": 212, "text": " Poppy and her team have really ramped up the program." }, { "start": 212, "end": 214, "text": " This is partly due to the fact that these kinds of sensors" }, { "start": 214, "end": 216, "text": " are readily available now," }, { "start": 216, "end": 218, "text": " but it's also due to the fact that there are now displays" }, { "start": 218, "end": 221, "text": " bright enough to trigger these kinds of reactions." }, { "start": 221, "end": 223, "text": " In some cases, the team is using devices" }, { "start": 223, "end": 225, "text": " that get up to 20,000 candelas per square meter" }, { "start": 225, "end": 227, "text": " in terms of brightness," }, { "start": 227, "end": 230, "text": " and that can have a surprising impact on the human body." }, { "start": 230, "end": 233, "text": " We have discovered that if you present flame," }, { "start": 233, "end": 235, "text": " a picture of flame realistically enough," }, { "start": 235, "end": 237, "text": " your body actually starts to flush." }, { "start": 237, "end": 241, "text": " Your body is just over the eons, has adjusted and adapted" }, { "start": 241, "end": 243, "text": " such that when it sees flame, it assumes hot." }, { "start": 243, "end": 247, "text": " That kind of insight is fundamental in helping us shape the technologies" }, { "start": 247, "end": 250, "text": " that drive the stories that you and I love to go to." }, { "start": 250, "end": 253, "text": " Doldey is hardly the first entertainment-focused company" }, { "start": 253, "end": 255, "text": " to study human emotions." }, { "start": 255, "end": 258, "text": " Broadly speaking, this kind of effective computing" }, { "start": 258, "end": 260, "text": " has been studied for decades." }, { "start": 260, "end": 264, "text": " But industry experts say it's becoming much more common in entertainment." }, { "start": 264, "end": 266, "text": " In recent years, companies like Netflix and Hulu" }, { "start": 266, "end": 268, "text": " have used eye trackers to better understand" }, { "start": 268, "end": 271, "text": " how people are reacting to their app interfaces." }, { "start": 272, "end": 274, "text": " These types of biophysical experiences" }, { "start": 274, "end": 276, "text": " are becoming more and more important." }, { "start": 276, "end": 279, "text": " We need to be able to understand the nature of the human body" }, { "start": 279, "end": 280, "text": " and how it's important." }, { "start": 280, "end": 283, "text": " We need to understand experiences about engagement," }, { "start": 283, "end": 287, "text": " how you're emotionally connected to the experience you're having," }, { "start": 287, "end": 290, "text": " and how our technologies can help us enhance that," }, { "start": 290, "end": 293, "text": " enrich it as much as possible." }, { "start": 293, "end": 296, "text": " Of course, all of this biosensory tracking could raise questions" }, { "start": 296, "end": 300, "text": " around the ethics of potentially using the data in a more manipulative way." }, { "start": 300, "end": 305, "text": " If filmmakers or sound producers know that they can trigger an emotional response," }, { "start": 305, "end": 308, "text": " then isn't it possible for those tools to be abused?" }, { "start": 308, "end": 311, "text": " Or, say an advertiser uses these tools to sell you something," }, { "start": 311, "end": 316, "text": " like this Lexus ad which offers nothing but the sound of an engine revving." }, { "start": 317, "end": 320, "text": " And which, by the way, was mixed by Dolby." }, { "start": 320, "end": 325, "text": " But ultimately, when it comes to entertainment, that's sort of what you want." }, { "start": 325, "end": 328, "text": " You're going for an intensified human experience." }, { "start": 328, "end": 332, "text": " The core of our technology and the existence of our company" }, { "start": 332, "end": 335, "text": " has always been an understanding of human experience." }, { "start": 335, "end": 337, "text": " And how can we take what we experience," }, { "start": 337, "end": 340, "text": " how our brain experiences the world, how our bodies experience it," }, { "start": 340, "end": 343, "text": " and really use that to build intelligent technologies." }, { "start": 343, "end": 347, "text": " Basically, we're more immersed in video than ever before," }, { "start": 347, "end": 350, "text": " whether it's on a giant movie or TV screen," }, { "start": 350, "end": 352, "text": " on our relatively small smartphones," }, { "start": 352, "end": 355, "text": " or even right on our faces, like with VR headsets." }, { "start": 355, "end": 359, "text": " And Dolby scientists, along with many others in the industry," }, { "start": 359, "end": 362, "text": " want to know how that's going to make us all feel," }, { "start": 362, "end": 366, "text": " especially if entertainment becomes indistinguishable from the realities around us." }, { "start": 366, "end": 369, "text": " So the next time you feel your face flush or your heart race" }, { "start": 369, "end": 372, "text": " or your armpit sweat during a movie or TV show," }, { "start": 372, "end": 374, "text": " you might not be the only one." }, { "start": 374, "end": 379, "text": " In fact, it might have been enhanced to trigger exactly that sort of reaction." }, { "start": 380, "end": 384, "text": " This is definitely a future of home entertainment." }, { "start": 384, "end": 392, "text": " I've been reading a lot about sharks lately." } ]

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380.15999999999997, "text": " When Pai and his team say things like, We have to make a decision based on the facts," }, { "start": 380.15999999999997, "end": 384.91999999999996, "text": " and then also say things like, Make no mistake about it, this is a fight that we intend to" }, { "start": 384.91999999999996, "end": 389.4, "text": " wage, and this is a fight that we are going to win, it's pretty clear dude has already" }, { "start": 389.4, "end": 393.52, "text": " decided what the facts are, and this process is a huge sham." }, { "start": 393.52, "end": 394.96, "text": " And that's just kind of bullshit." }, { "start": 394.96, "end": 398.91999999999996, "text": " Look, this fight is still on, and the truth is still the truth." }, { "start": 398.91999999999996, "end": 401.2, "text": " We live in an uncompetitive broadband market." }, { "start": 401.2, "end": 404.68, "text": " That market is dominated by a handful of giant corporations." }, { "start": 404.68, "end": 409.2, "text": " The big internet companies that might challenge them are doing it half-heartedly, and Ajit" }, { "start": 409.2, "end": 414.15999999999997, "text": " Pai seems determined to offer up a massive corporate handout without listening to everyday" }, { "start": 414.15999999999997, "end": 415.32, "text": " Americans." }, { "start": 415.32, "end": 418.09999999999997, "text": " But you can still participate, and you should." }, { "start": 418.09999999999997, "end": 421.64, "text": " You can go leave a comment at the FCC website, and you can call your representatives and" }, { "start": 421.64, "end": 427.08, "text": " ask exactly how Pai thinks his plan will work to make our prices lower and our speeds higher." }, { "start": 427.08, "end": 431.32, "text": " And you can demand that our government's policies reflect the concerns of actual Americans." }, { "start": 431.32, "end": 435.96, "text": " Because I gotta tell you, right now, it really sounds like the internet is fucked all over" }, { "start": 435.96, "end": 436.96, "text": " again." }, { "start": 436.96, "end": 442.28, "text": " Oh, and Sprint just found enough money to buy 33% of Tidal, give it an additional $75" }, { "start": 442.28, "end": 447.03999999999996, "text": " million in marketing money, and buy a million copies of Jay-Z's 444, which guaranteed" }, { "start": 447.03999999999996, "end": 448.03999999999996, "text": " it would go platinum." }, { "start": 448.04, "end": 451.52000000000004, "text": " That doesn't seem like the smartest use of money if your network sucks, does it?" } ]

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23.6, "end": 26.6, "text": " and there's no time for us to go through them all right now." }, { "start": 26.6, "end": 28.72, "text": " But we are gonna go through my favorite features" }, { "start": 28.72, "end": 32, "text": " in iOS 11 on both the iPhone and the iPad," }, { "start": 32, "end": 33.2, "text": " which is a much bigger deal." }, { "start": 33.2, "end": 34.32, "text": " Let's take a look." }, { "start": 34.32, "end": 35.28, "text": " So here's iOS 11." }, { "start": 35.28, "end": 37.239999999999995, "text": " It is a standard grid of apps like you expect," }, { "start": 37.239999999999995, "end": 38.6, "text": " but if you swipe up to Control Center," }, { "start": 38.6, "end": 40.44, "text": " you see it looks totally different." }, { "start": 40.44, "end": 42.48, "text": " You can directly adjust things." }, { "start": 42.48, "end": 44.58, "text": " You can force touch things to get more information" }, { "start": 44.58, "end": 45.76, "text": " and more control." }, { "start": 45.76, "end": 47.519999999999996, "text": " What you can't do, unfortunately," }, { "start": 47.519999999999996, "end": 49.480000000000004, "text": " is directly access Wi-Fi networks" }, { "start": 49.480000000000004, "end": 52.480000000000004, "text": " by long pressing on that, which is a real bummer." }, { "start": 52.480000000000004, "end": 55.519999999999996, "text": " But the Apple TV remote widget is great." }, { "start": 55.519999999999996, "end": 57.16, "text": " You can get right to it from the lock screen." }, { "start": 57.16, "end": 59.48, "text": " It's way more convenient than digging through for the app." }, { "start": 59.48, "end": 61.9, "text": " Now, if you swipe down, you get the new notification area," }, { "start": 61.9, "end": 63.919999999999995, "text": " which has basically been combined with the lock screen." }, { "start": 63.919999999999995, "end": 65.2, "text": " You've got your widgets over here." }, { "start": 65.2, "end": 66.82, "text": " You've 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"start": 87.04, "end": 88.80000000000001, "text": " is that it sounds way more natural" }, { "start": 88.80000000000001, "end": 90.12, "text": " when you ask it a question." }, { "start": 90.12, "end": 91.08000000000001, "text": " What's the weather?" }, { "start": 92.48, "end": 94.64, "text": " Okay, here's the weather for today." }, { "start": 94.64, "end": 97, "text": " That sounds like a human being, actually," }, { "start": 97, "end": 98.28, "text": " which is pretty impressive." }, { "start": 98.28, "end": 100.96000000000001, "text": " Siri can also translate to a few different languages." }, { "start": 100.96000000000001, "end": 104.24000000000001, "text": " So for example, translate help, my screen is cracked." }, { "start": 104.24000000000001, "end": 106.16000000000001, "text": " How do I get it fixed into Spanish?" }, { "start": 108.04, "end": 110.24000000000001, "text": " Help me fix my screen." }, { "start": 110.24000000000001, "end": 111.88000000000001, "text": " How can I fix it?" }, { "start": 111.88000000000001, "end": 113.66000000000001, "text": " Yeah, that's really useful." }, { "start": 113.66000000000001, "end": 114.80000000000001, "text": " So there's new camera options." }, { "start": 114.80000000000001, "end": 116.9, "text": " There's new filters that are a little bit more natural" }, { "start": 116.9, "end": 118.32000000000001, "text": " than what we had before." }, { "start": 118.32000000000001, "end": 120.48, "text": " But my favorite thing is when you have live photos." }, { "start": 120.48, "end": 121.74000000000001, "text": " There's new stuff you can do here." }, { "start": 121.74000000000001, "end": 123.60000000000001, "text": " So here on this photo of Tyler," }, { "start": 123.60000000000001, "end": 125.24000000000001, "text": " I can switch to a bounce mode," }, { "start": 125.24000000000001, "end": 128.12, "text": " which has him swinging back and forth, which is amazing." }, { "start": 128.12, "end": 130.20000000000002, "text": " You can also set a key photo to any moment" }, { "start": 130.20000000000002, "end": 132.52, "text": " in the live photo if you didn't like your exact shot." }, { "start": 132.52, "end": 135.04000000000002, "text": " Last but not least, and maybe most importantly," }, { "start": 135.04000000000002, "end": 137.88, "text": " the iPhone now stores photos and videos" }, { "start": 137.88, "end": 140.68, "text": " in a new file format that takes up less space." }, { "start": 140.68, "end": 142.76, "text": " So if you have an iPhone without a ton of storage," }, { "start": 142.76, "end": 144.62, "text": " this is gonna be a big win for you." }, { "start": 144.62, "end": 145.96, "text": " But don't worry, when you share them out," }, { "start": 145.96, "end": 148.6, "text": " they still get shared as standard JPEGs or movie files." }, { "start": 148.6, "end": 150.4, "text": " So that's most of the big stuff on the iPhone," }, { "start": 150.4, "end": 153.12, "text": " but the really big changes are coming for the iPad," }, { "start": 153.12, "end": 155.48000000000002, "text": " where the user interface is completely different." }, { "start": 155.48000000000002, "end": 157.12, "text": " So I really wanna take a look at that." }, { "start": 157.12, "end": 158.5, "text": " But you should know that some of the things" }, { "start": 158.5, "end": 161.08, "text": " I'm gonna show you on the iPad also apply on the iPhone." }, { "start": 161.08, "end": 163.76000000000002, "text": " Now the way that you interact with apps on iOS 11" }, { "start": 163.76000000000002, "end": 166.64000000000001, "text": " is very, very different than what you did in iOS 10." }, { "start": 166.64000000000001, "end": 168.68, "text": " There's all kinds of new modes for split view" }, { "start": 168.68, "end": 170.56, "text": " and multitasking and slide over." }, { "start": 170.56, "end": 172.84, "text": " It's kind of crazy, so let's get into it." }, { "start": 172.84, "end": 174.52, "text": " So the first thing you'll notice on the iPad home screen" }, { "start": 174.52, "end": 176.48000000000002, "text": " is I have this massive dock on the bottom" }, { "start": 176.48000000000002, "end": 178.60000000000002, "text": " with almost as many apps as you could possibly want." }, { "start": 178.60000000000002, "end": 180.36, "text": " And you can open up apps as normal." }, { "start": 180.36, "end": 182.48000000000002, "text": " But what's new is you can swipe up from the bottom" }, { "start": 182.48000000000002, "end": 185.76000000000002, "text": " a little bit and get the dock back and open up another app." }, { "start": 185.76000000000002, "end": 189.4, "text": " Or if you want, you can swipe up and then drag an app out" }, { "start": 189.4, "end": 192.44, "text": " into a slide over mode that hovers over the window." }, { "start": 192.44, "end": 194.4, "text": " Or you can do a traditional split screen mode." }, { "start": 194.4, "end": 196.4, "text": " And what's great is you can actually resize it" }, { "start": 196.4, "end": 197.92000000000002, "text": " on both sides." }, { "start": 197.92000000000002, "end": 200.28, "text": " And if you really want, you can even bring a third app," }, { "start": 200.28, "end": 202.12, "text": " just hover it over the middle here," }, { "start": 202.12, "end": 204.64000000000001, "text": " and you get a third app in a slide over mode." }, { "start": 204.64000000000001, "end": 207.56, "text": " And you can even dismiss it" }, { "start": 207.56, "end": 208.84, "text": " and bring it back whenever you want." }, { "start": 208.84, "end": 211.64000000000001, "text": " So you've got a bunch of options for getting multiple windows" }, { "start": 211.64000000000001, "end": 213.6, "text": " up on your iPad screen." }, { "start": 213.6, "end": 214.92000000000002, "text": " Now if instead of swiping a little," }, { "start": 214.92000000000002, "end": 217.64000000000001, "text": " you swipe all the way up, you get an app switcher," }, { "start": 217.64000000000001, "end": 218.72, "text": " which is really interesting." }, { "start": 218.72, "end": 220.44, "text": " You've got your grid of apps over here." }, { "start": 220.44, "end": 222.08, "text": " You've got your control center on the right." }, { "start": 222.08, "end": 223.36, "text": " But if you look closely, you'll notice" }, { "start": 223.36, "end": 224.76, "text": " that the apps are grouped together" }, { "start": 224.76, "end": 226.28, "text": " in the split views that we set up." }, { "start": 226.28, "end": 229.16, "text": " So here is music and TweetBot." }, { "start": 229.16, "end": 231.08, "text": " I can swipe over and go back to this other split view" }, { "start": 231.08, "end": 232.56, "text": " that I had saved before." }, { "start": 232.56, "end": 234.60000000000002, "text": " Basically, you've got a million different ways" }, { "start": 234.60000000000002, "end": 237.76000000000002, "text": " that you can organize all of your app windows on the iPad," }, { "start": 237.76000000000002, "end": 239.44, "text": " and it's super fun to play around with." }, { "start": 239.44, "end": 242.08, "text": " Now I have to admit, I don't think that this is quite" }, { "start": 242.08, "end": 244.04000000000002, "text": " as intuitive as a standard window system" }, { "start": 244.04000000000002, "end": 245.20000000000002, "text": " where you've got a mouse and a keyboard" }, { "start": 245.20000000000002, "end": 246.36, "text": " and you move stuff around." }, { "start": 246.36, "end": 248.14000000000001, "text": " But that wouldn't work on an iPad." }, { "start": 248.14000000000001, "end": 250.4, "text": " And I have to give Apple credit for putting a lot of thought" }, { "start": 250.4, "end": 251.8, "text": " into this multitasking system," }, { "start": 251.8, "end": 254.24, "text": " because once you get used to it, it really works." }, { "start": 254.24, "end": 256.36, "text": " Now I haven't even gotten to the part about iOS 11" }, { "start": 256.36, "end": 258.5, "text": " that has nerds like me the most excited." }, { "start": 258.5, "end": 261.94, "text": " It's drag and drop, and especially on the iPad," }, { "start": 261.94, "end": 263.5, "text": " it's bonkers." }, { "start": 263.5, "end": 265.1, "text": " So let's show you some drag and drop stuff." }, { "start": 265.1, "end": 266.58, "text": " Now you can do the stuff you'd expect." }, { "start": 266.58, "end": 268.6, "text": " So if you're in a split view, you can take a link," }, { "start": 268.6, "end": 270.36, "text": " drag it over into the Notes app," }, { "start": 270.36, "end": 272, "text": " and have the link populate there." }, { "start": 272, "end": 274.2, "text": " But where things get really interesting" }, { "start": 274.2, "end": 276.12, "text": " is when you wanna drag multiple things." }, { "start": 276.12, "end": 278.24, "text": " So for example, in the Photos app here," }, { "start": 278.24, "end": 279.6, "text": " I can start 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302.52000000000004, "text": " when they sync over." }, { "start": 302.52000000000004, "end": 304.64000000000004, "text": " Now this Files app is also awesome," }, { "start": 304.64000000000004, "end": 306.6, "text": " because in addition to the iCloud Drive stuff," }, { "start": 306.6, "end": 307.84000000000003, "text": " which is what you'd expect," }, { "start": 307.84000000000003, "end": 309.32000000000005, "text": " they're also gonna be adding support" }, { "start": 309.32000000000005, "end": 312, "text": " for Google Drive and Dropbox, that's all coming." }, { "start": 312, "end": 313.28000000000003, "text": " There's also recent files." }, { "start": 313.28000000000003, "end": 315, "text": " And the reason all of this matters" }, { "start": 315, "end": 317.12, "text": " is you're gonna be able to have apps" }, { "start": 317.12, "end": 319.4, "text": " and have them have access to photos and files" }, { "start": 319.4, "end": 320.44, "text": " and all sorts of other stuff" }, { 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344.04, "text": " and you can immediately start taking a note" }, { "start": 344.04, "end": 345.72, "text": " without unlocking your device." }, { "start": 345.72, "end": 346.72, "text": " This will get saved," }, { "start": 346.72, "end": 348.08000000000004, "text": " and if I wanna search for it later," }, { "start": 348.08000000000004, "end": 349.88000000000005, "text": " Apple does OCR on the screen" }, { "start": 349.88000000000005, "end": 352.24, "text": " and that word will get recognized." }, { "start": 352.24, "end": 354.56, "text": " But you know, honestly, one of my favorite features" }, { "start": 354.56, "end": 356.8, "text": " in iOS 11 is the new screenshot." }, { "start": 356.8, "end": 358.24, "text": " So on both the iPad and the iPhone," }, { "start": 358.24, "end": 359.08000000000004, "text": " you take a screenshot," }, { "start": 359.08000000000004, "end": 360.56, "text": " it puts this little dude down in the corner." }, { "start": 360.56, "end": 361.6, "text": " 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"start": 353.76, "end": 357.32, "text": " It's a lot simpler to use and it's a lot easier for groups of people to use it as opposed" }, { "start": 357.32, "end": 358.92, "text": " to just one person." }, { "start": 358.92, "end": 363.56, "text": " And I think people will really like it for what it is, even if it is a little simple." }, { "start": 363.56, "end": 371.24, "text": " But if I was, say, a room over, you could be checking out my..." }, { "start": 371.24, "end": 376.2, "text": " Dude, don't roll with the camera!" }, { "start": 376.2, "end": 377.2, "text": " Yeah, I mean, what do you think, Dex?" }, { "start": 377.2, "end": 378.2, "text": " That was a good take too." }, { "start": 378.2, "end": 393.76, "text": " I feel like we were on a good roll." } ]

[ { "start": 0, "end": 4.5600000000000005, "text": " If somebody put this design on Steve Jobs' desk, they'd be fired." }, { "start": 6.5600000000000005, "end": 13.24, "text": " I'm Walt Mossberg. I have been reviewing tech gadgets since the early 90s and collecting them since the 80s." }, { "start": 13.24, "end": 16.2, "text": " And I wanted to show you some of my collection." }, { "start": 16.64, "end": 21.04, "text": " So this is a real milestone product in consumer technology." }, { "start": 21.04, "end": 24.240000000000002, "text": " It's the first successful e-reader." }, { "start": 24.240000000000002, "end": 27.240000000000002, "text": " It's the Amazon Kindle, the very first one." }, { "start": 27.24, "end": 34.239999999999995, "text": " There were many tries at e-readers before Kindles and I was quite interested in it, so I reviewed them all." }, { "start": 34.239999999999995, "end": 44.239999999999995, "text": " And they all had huge problems, either in terms of acquiring the books, or reading the books, or battery life, or whatever." }, { "start": 44.239999999999995, "end": 52.239999999999995, "text": " The Kindle was the first thing that had, I think, a really terrific reading and buying experience." }, { "start": 52.24, "end": 59.24, "text": " Within a few pages, you completely forget that you're reading on a Kindle. And that was our top design requirement." }, { "start": 59.24, "end": 66.24000000000001, "text": " It's an incredible way to get books. You can, you know, one push of a button and you have whatever new book you wanted." }, { "start": 66.24000000000001, "end": 72.24000000000001, "text": " I will say that it is one of the worst and ugliest industrial designs." }, { "start": 72.24000000000001, "end": 76.24000000000001, "text": " It can't be a flashy device. It's really not that well designed." }, { "start": 76.24, "end": 84.24, "text": " It was clumsy. It was very easy to accidentally turn the page. You had this huge button here, which was also where you held it." }, { "start": 84.24, "end": 90.24, "text": " And if you hit this button, the page would turn. So you were constantly turning the page when you weren't ready to turn the page." }, { "start": 90.24, "end": 96.24, "text": " It had a physical keyboard that was really funky. The keys were kind of at strange angles." }, { "start": 96.24, "end": 105.24, "text": " To scroll, you use this little wheel and then what looked like an old mercury thermometer would have some kind of indicator that went in." }, { "start": 105.24, "end": 111.24, "text": " It went up and down in this little tiny window. I mean, it was just awful." }, { "start": 111.24, "end": 118.24, "text": " I think what's carried forward from this is the idea that, and it's still controversial among some people," }, { "start": 118.24, "end": 125.24, "text": " but the idea that you can carry around many, many books in one fairly small device." }, { "start": 125.24, "end": 133.24, "text": " They built Kindle apps that ran on other people's platforms and worked seamlessly with these devices." }, { "start": 133.24, "end": 140.24, "text": " Or even if you didn't own these devices. So they created a massive ecosystem around this." }, { "start": 140.24, "end": 148.24, "text": " And that has been an enduring legacy of this. What went away was all this crapola around it." }, { "start": 148.24, "end": 154.24, "text": " Look, it was a first shot at something that was really important and became important." }, { "start": 154.24, "end": 159.24, "text": " When you think of e-readers, you think of Kindle. It's like Kleenex." }, { "start": 159.24, "end": 163.24, "text": " And that's really a testament to what they did here." } ]

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"start": 27.36, "end": 29.72, "text": " you talk." }, { "start": 29.72, "end": 35.4, "text": " So hi, Bixby." }, { "start": 35.4, "end": 44.879999999999995, "text": " Show me the weather in San Francisco." }, { "start": 44.879999999999995, "end": 46.239999999999995, "text": " So it got that right." }, { "start": 46.239999999999995, "end": 47.239999999999995, "text": " Not bad." }, { "start": 47.239999999999995, "end": 48.239999999999995, "text": " Kind of basic stuff." }, { "start": 48.239999999999995, "end": 52.2, "text": " Let's try something else fairly easy." }, { "start": 52.2, "end": 59.44, "text": " Who's the president of the US?" }, { "start": 59.44, "end": 64.8, "text": " Well, couldn't have gotten that much wrong." }, { "start": 64.8, "end": 66.8, "text": " Hi, Bixby." }, { "start": 66.8, "end": 72.08, "text": " Turn down my brightness." }, { "start": 72.08, "end": 83.6, "text": " So you can ask it to perform system tasks, brightness, turn off Bluetooth, turn on Wi-Fi," }, { "start": 83.6, "end": 84.6, "text": " things like that." }, { "start": 84.6, "end": 86.64, "text": " So it's got that down pretty well." }, { "start": 86.64, "end": 90.8, "text": " So one thing Bixby Voice can do that Siri can't is actually interact with apps and do" }, { "start": 90.8, "end": 93.72, "text": " things that you would normally take several steps to do." }, { "start": 93.72, "end": 97.28, "text": " So I can say, hi, Bixby." }, { "start": 97.28, "end": 105.8, "text": " Open Uber and show me my account settings." }, { "start": 105.8, "end": 111.4, "text": " So it opens the app and actually goes several screens in to show you what you want." }, { "start": 111.4, "end": 114.4, "text": " Pretty cool." }, { "start": 114.4, "end": 119.24000000000001, "text": " So you can, of course, open apps so I can say, hi, Bixby." }, { "start": 119.24000000000001, "end": 122.24000000000001, "text": " Open Spotify." }, { "start": 122.24000000000001, "end": 130.72, "text": " So so far, it'll open Spotify but it won't actually play any music for you, unfortunately." }, { "start": 130.72, "end": 136.4, "text": " You can use Google Music if you want to play music directly but Spotify can't just yet." }, { "start": 136.4, "end": 140.6, "text": " Hi, Bixby." }, { "start": 140.6, "end": 146.96, "text": " Text mom and ask, how are you?" }, { "start": 146.96, "end": 148.95999999999998, "text": " Here is what I found on the web." }, { "start": 148.95999999999998, "end": 151.2, "text": " We need to improve on that one." }, { "start": 151.2, "end": 153.92, "text": " Let's try again from the home screen." }, { "start": 153.92, "end": 156.56, "text": " Hi, Bixby." }, { "start": 156.56, "end": 158.79999999999998, "text": " Hi, Bixby." }, { "start": 158.79999999999998, "end": 160, "text": " So voice is less than perfect." }, { "start": 160, "end": 162.68, "text": " Let's hold the side button." }, { "start": 162.68, "end": 170.51999999999998, "text": " Text Dan and ask, what's up?" }, { 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it pans out over the next few months." }, { "start": 214, "end": 217.04, "text": " You can see a lot of things aren't working at all or they're coming up wrong." }, { "start": 217.04, "end": 218.2, "text": " Now, this is in beta." }, { "start": 218.2, "end": 219.2, "text": " It's day one." }, { "start": 219.2, "end": 221.16, "text": " Samsung is still working through this stuff." }, { "start": 221.16, "end": 223.04, "text": " But Google has this stuff down already." }, { "start": 223.04, "end": 233.6, "text": " Like I can say, text mom and ask, how are you?" }, { "start": 233.6, "end": 238.04, "text": " Send." }, { "start": 238.04, "end": 255.79999999999998, "text": " Okay, message sent." } ]

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[ { "start": 0, "end": 2.64, "text": " Hello, and welcome to Control-Alt-Delete," }, { "start": 2.64, "end": 4.4, "text": " a podcast that is now over." }, { "start": 4.4, "end": 6.68, "text": " Awww." }, { "start": 6.68, "end": 8.6, "text": " But that's in front of a live audience!" }, { "start": 8.6, "end": 10.6, "text": " Yeah!" }, { "start": 10.6, "end": 12.6, "text": " Thank you." }, { "start": 12.6, "end": 14.6, "text": " Thank you." }, { "start": 14.6, "end": 16.6, "text": " I am Nilay Patel," }, { "start": 16.6, "end": 18.6, "text": " I'm the Editor-in-Chief of The Verge," }, { "start": 18.6, "end": 20.6, "text": " and I'm joined as always by my friend," }, { "start": 20.6, "end": 23.8, "text": " Verge Executive Editor, Recode Editor-at-Large," }, { "start": 23.8, "end": 27.400000000000002, "text": " the Waltercation himself, Walter S. Mossberg." }, { "start": 27.4, "end": 33.4, "text": " Hello, friend." }, { "start": 33.4, "end": 37.4, "text": " Hello, friend." }, { "start": 37.4, "end": 39.4, "text": " Alright, well, I don't think we have any other business to attend to." }, { "start": 39.4, "end": 41.4, "text": " Let's just get started." }, { "start": 41.4, "end": 45.4, "text": " So, this is the last Control-Alt-Delete." }, { "start": 45.4, "end": 48.4, "text": " It's our 76th one." }, { "start": 48.4, "end": 51.4, "text": " And, you know, I've been waiting," }, { "start": 51.4, "end": 53.4, "text": " haven't said much about this," }, { "start": 53.4, "end": 55.4, "text": " but I have to bring this up tonight." }, { "start": 55.4, "end": 58.4, "text": " I have a huge grievance." }, { "start": 58.4, "end": 60.4, "text": " And the grievance is..." }, { "start": 60.4, "end": 62.4, "text": " It's my whole life." }, { "start": 62.4, "end": 64.4, "text": " That we have to say the name of a certain Verge employee" }, { "start": 64.4, "end": 66.4, "text": " in every episode of the podcast." }, { "start": 66.4, "end": 68.4, "text": " I'm only going to say it," }, { "start": 68.4, "end": 70.4, "text": " I'm retiring, I don't care." }, { "start": 70.4, "end": 72.4, "text": " I'm only going to say it one more time." }, { "start": 72.4, "end": 74.4, "text": " Dieter Bohm." }, { "start": 74.4, "end": 76.4, "text": " Ladies and gentlemen." }, { "start": 76.4, "end": 86.4, "text": " Turn it up!" }, { "start": 86.4, "end": 89.4, "text": " Can I say this before we came on?" }, { "start": 89.4, "end": 90.4, "text": " That's my song." }, { "start": 90.4, "end": 92.4, "text": " When I think of Dieter," }, { "start": 92.4, "end": 96.4, "text": " I think of the song that plays over a drone shot of spring break" }, { "start": 96.4, "end": 99.4, "text": " with someone just yelling, turn it up!" }, { "start": 99.4, "end": 101.4, "text": " Because that's what Dieter's like every day." }, { "start": 101.4, "end": 102.4, "text": " Body shots." }, { "start": 102.4, "end": 103.4, "text": " Every morning before work." }, { "start": 103.4, "end": 105.4, "text": " Alright, let's do this podcast." }, { "start": 105.4, "end": 111.4, "text": " We've had enough famous billionaires telling Walt how great he is." }, { "start": 111.4, "end": 113.4, "text": " So on the last show," }, { "start": 113.4, "end": 115.4, "text": " we talked big." }, { "start": 115.4, "end": 117.4, "text": " Big ideas, future of computing," }, { "start": 117.4, "end": 119.4, "text": " soaring pronouncements to the industry." }, { "start": 119.4, "end": 122.4, "text": " That's because you finally gave me enough time to write a decent column." }, { "start": 122.4, "end": 127.4, "text": " I gave you three fucking weeks, man." }, { "start": 127.4, "end": 130.4, "text": " But since then, there's been the Code Conference." }, { "start": 130.4, "end": 131.4, "text": " It was your last Code Conference." }, { "start": 131.4, "end": 133.4, "text": " You founded the Code Conference in D." }, { "start": 133.4, "end": 135.4, "text": " You had a bunch of people on stage talking to you." }, { "start": 135.4, "end": 137.4, "text": " Andy Rubin talking about his new phone, Ambient OS." }, { "start": 137.4, "end": 141.4, "text": " Well-named after your column about the future of ambient computing." }, { "start": 141.4, "end": 143.4, "text": " And then we had WWDC." }, { "start": 143.4, "end": 145.4, "text": " And both of you were there, I think it's ago," }, { "start": 145.4, "end": 146.4, "text": " but both of you were there," }, { "start": 146.4, "end": 150.4, "text": " and we saw a bunch of Apple's vision for what's coming next." }, { "start": 150.4, "end": 154.4, "text": " So I want to not do too deep in the weeds on the actual news," }, { "start": 154.4, "end": 157.4, "text": " because I'm pretty sure everybody here saw it." }, { "start": 157.4, "end": 161.4, "text": " But I want to talk about those things in the context of bigger stuff." }, { "start": 161.4, "end": 164.4, "text": " So you were at WWDC. 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You want a dryer?" }, { "start": 252.4, "end": 255.4, "text": " We make nuclear power plants. We've got five phones." }, { "start": 255.4, "end": 257.4, "text": " It's like, yeah." }, { "start": 257.4, "end": 258.4, "text": " They're just very different styles." }, { "start": 258.4, "end": 261.4, "text": " This Apple keynote felt like a Samsung keynote a little tiny bit." }, { "start": 261.4, "end": 262.4, "text": " Yeah." }, { "start": 262.4, "end": 263.4, "text": " Because they had a lot of stuff." }, { "start": 263.4, "end": 264.4, "text": " It was so fast." }, { "start": 264.4, "end": 265.4, "text": " They had so much stuff." }, { "start": 265.4, "end": 266.4, "text": " So is this on?" }, { "start": 266.4, "end": 267.4, "text": " Yeah." }, { "start": 267.4, "end": 268.4, "text": " Okay, good." }, { "start": 268.4, "end": 269.4, "text": " So, I don't know." }, { "start": 269.4, "end": 273.4, "text": " Well, it's a Samsung mic. I can't tell." }, { "start": 273.4, "end": 275.4, "text": " Back off, man." }, { "start": 275.4, "end": 276.4, "text": " Any minute now." }, { "start": 276.4, "end": 277.4, "text": " Yeah." }, { "start": 277.4, "end": 278.4, "text": " It's going to..." }, { "start": 278.4, "end": 285.4, "text": " So, they were like racing through the first part of this keynote." }, { "start": 285.4, "end": 290.4, "text": " And then they really devoted a lot to the Mac," }, { "start": 290.4, "end": 292.4, "text": " because that was one of their missions," }, { "start": 292.4, "end": 295.4, "text": " was to say, we're still going to make Macs." }, { "start": 295.4, "end": 297.4, "text": " We've got the memo." }, { "start": 297.4, "end": 300.4, "text": " We're going to make them faster, better." }, { "start": 300.4, "end": 302.4, "text": " We're doing this iMac Pro." }, { "start": 302.4, "end": 305.4, "text": " I mean, the specs on it were just insane." }, { "start": 305.4, "end": 307.4, "text": " So, that was one thing." }, { "start": 307.4, "end": 310.4, "text": " The other thing was they continue to be on," }, { "start": 310.4, "end": 316.4, "text": " and Tim Cook is personally extremely invested in this." }, { "start": 316.4, "end": 321.4, "text": " They're still on this big crusade to make the iPad a true productivity device," }, { "start": 321.4, "end": 328.4, "text": " not unlike what Microsoft is doing, except in really a different way." }, { "start": 328.4, "end": 333.4, "text": " I mean, I would go so far as to say that if they were to succeed at this," }, { "start": 333.4, "end": 336.4, "text": " it's really the replacement of the graphical user interface ultimately." }, { "start": 336.4, "end": 339.4, "text": " Now, they may not ever succeed in it." }, { "start": 339.4, "end": 341.4, "text": " Don't give me the no yet." }, { "start": 341.4, "end": 343.4, "text": " No, they're not going to totally replace it." }, { "start": 343.4, "end": 350.4, "text": " But the more tasks during a day that people do on the multi-touch interface," }, { "start": 350.4, "end": 352.4, "text": " whether it's theirs or somebody else's," }, { "start": 352.4, "end": 356.4, "text": " only they kind of have a lead on that on tablets right now." }, { "start": 356.4, "end": 361.4, "text": " Sales are down, but they have a lead in the number of apps and developers." }, { "start": 361.4, "end": 367.4, "text": " I think if it succeeds, one day it will be looked upon as the transition to the next UX." }, { "start": 367.4, "end": 369.4, "text": " But so they spent time on that." }, { "start": 369.4, "end": 375.4, "text": " I think, however, probably historically looking back on that keynote," }, { "start": 375.4, "end": 379.4, "text": " the most interesting thing was the announcement of ARKit." }, { "start": 379.4, "end": 380.4, "text": " Not the HomePod?" }, { "start": 380.4, "end": 382.4, "text": " No, not the HomePod." }, { "start": 382.4, "end": 385.4, "text": " Although we should talk about that." }, { "start": 385.4, "end": 396.4, "text": " ARKit is a foundational thing they've done to allow hundreds of millions of iOS devices to run augmented reality." }, { "start": 396.4, "end": 401.4, "text": " It's got various APIs in the new iOS." }, { "start": 401.4, "end": 404.4, "text": " It's got an SDK, right?" }, { "start": 404.4, "end": 408.4, "text": " And so they didn't announce a first party AR app." }, { "start": 408.4, "end": 413.4, "text": " It's not like the Tango phone, which is the Android equivalent." }, { "start": 413.4, "end": 416.4, "text": " But it's not like there's a million Tango phones." }, { "start": 416.4, "end": 417.4, "text": " Am I right, Jeff?" }, { "start": 417.4, "end": 419.4, "text": " There's one Tango phone?" }, { "start": 419.4, "end": 420.4, "text": " Is that right?" }, { "start": 420.4, "end": 422.4, "text": " There's a Lenovo PR person." }, { "start": 422.4, "end": 424.4, "text": " Lenovo PR right there in the front row." }, { "start": 424.4, "end": 426.4, "text": " By the way, we see all the rest of you, too." }, { "start": 426.4, "end": 428.4, "text": " We'll be calling out your products one by one." }, { "start": 428.4, "end": 437.4, "text": " And so, no, I just think they said hundreds of millions of iOS devices will be able to use this." }, { "start": 437.4, "end": 439.4, "text": " So it has backward compatibility." }, { "start": 439.4, "end": 441.4, "text": " I talked to them later about it," }, { "start": 441.4, "end": 447.4, "text": " and they said they think it's about 90% of their actively used devices will be able to use this." }, { "start": 447.4, "end": 450.4, "text": " So, I mean, to me, maybe AR won't amount to anything." }, { "start": 450.4, "end": 451.4, "text": " I doubt it." }, { "start": 451.4, "end": 452.4, "text": " I think it's going to be a big deal." }, { "start": 452.4, "end": 454.4, "text": " I'm not saying Apple is going to be the leader in it," }, { "start": 454.4, "end": 460.4, "text": " but they sort of put their stake in the ground and said, hey, our approach is, you know," }, { "start": 460.4, "end": 464.4, "text": " you can just go to town and all of these people in the install base," }, { "start": 464.4, "end": 467.4, "text": " who, by the way, they made a point, as they do often," }, { "start": 467.4, "end": 472.4, "text": " of saying all of them upgrade to the newest version within a matter of months," }, { "start": 472.4, "end": 474.4, "text": " which is always a shot at Android." }, { "start": 474.4, "end": 478.4, "text": " But if they do upgrade to this newest version, they'll have this AR capability." }, { "start": 478.4, "end": 484.4, "text": " Did it feel like their shot at Android this year was like they were so rushed they didn't spend a lot of time on it?" }, { "start": 484.4, "end": 487.4, "text": " Like they do it every year, and this year Tim was like, yeah." }, { "start": 487.4, "end": 488.4, "text": " Yeah, they had one slide." }, { "start": 488.4, "end": 489.4, "text": " It's boring now." }, { "start": 489.4, "end": 490.4, "text": " We make fun of Android." }, { "start": 490.4, "end": 493.4, "text": " They had the upgrade." }, { "start": 493.4, "end": 498.4, "text": " I think they only had the 7% Android devices are running the latest version," }, { "start": 498.4, "end": 500.4, "text": " and 86% of iOS devices running." }, { "start": 500.4, "end": 503.4, "text": " I think that was the only shot at Android." }, { "start": 503.4, "end": 505.4, "text": " Well, they had a million other things to announce." }, { "start": 505.4, "end": 508.4, "text": " But on ARKit, what's interesting to me," }, { "start": 508.4, "end": 514.4, "text": " because we have been expecting this next iPhone to be such a radical change," }, { "start": 514.4, "end": 519.4, "text": " ARKit on the existing iPhone and the iPad that they demoed it on is very good." }, { "start": 519.4, "end": 520.4, "text": " Very good." }, { "start": 520.4, "end": 524.4, "text": " But just using the camera on the phone, they had other sensors." }, { "start": 524.4, "end": 528.4, "text": " Obviously, the plus size iPhone have two cameras, which lets you do other kinds of things." }, { "start": 528.4, "end": 530.4, "text": " You can see how it can get even better." }, { "start": 530.4, "end": 535.4, "text": " And that I think is the problem for the Android ecosystem, right?" }, { "start": 535.4, "end": 538.4, "text": " Because Google can't guarantee what kind of hardware you have." }, { "start": 538.4, "end": 541.4, "text": " Apple can certainly guarantee what kind of hardware the next iPhone will have." }, { "start": 541.4, "end": 545.4, "text": " Well, the other interesting thing is Google's play here is tango," }, { "start": 545.4, "end": 550.4, "text": " which requires a suite of crazy sensors, special depth cameras, the whole thing." }, { "start": 550.4, "end": 555.4, "text": " Apple has pulled that depth, not death, but maybe..." }, { "start": 555.4, "end": 559.4, "text": " Google is like, we're just fucking evil now." }, { "start": 559.4, "end": 563.4, "text": " Sorry." }, { "start": 563.4, "end": 565.4, "text": " I had a follow-up joke and I lost it." }, { "start": 565.4, "end": 567.4, "text": " You're used to him." }, { "start": 567.4, "end": 570.4, "text": " Apple stuff works on a bunch of current devices," }, { "start": 570.4, "end": 576.4, "text": " because they figured out what stuff they needed that they could do with a depth camera on the iPhone 7" }, { "start": 576.4, "end": 578.4, "text": " and what stuff actually works." }, { "start": 578.4, "end": 584.4, "text": " When you do the ARKit on an iPhone, it doesn't create a full, perfect 3D map of the room" }, { "start": 584.4, "end": 586.4, "text": " or the universe that you're in the way that a tango phone does." }, { "start": 586.4, "end": 588.4, "text": " Because they're like, yeah, we don't need that." }, { "start": 588.4, "end": 592.4, "text": " We just need to know what surfaces there are that are flat and then we'll track those." }, { "start": 592.4, "end": 597.4, "text": " And it turns out that getting 90% of the way there is pretty darn good." }, { "start": 597.4, "end": 600.4, "text": " And that's really interesting and it sets them up in this..." }, { "start": 600.4, "end": 605.4, "text": " There's this next AR platform battle and the players are really weird, right?" }, { "start": 605.4, "end": 610.4, "text": " The ones you expect, Apple, Facebook, Google, and then there's Snapchat hanging out." }, { "start": 610.4, "end": 612.4, "text": " Like, yeah, we're about to do this too." }, { "start": 612.4, "end": 615.4, "text": " But Snapchat can just build all their stuff on ARKit, right?" }, { "start": 615.4, "end": 617.4, "text": " Snapchat, they're not..." }, { "start": 617.4, "end": 618.4, "text": " Please don't make a phone." }, { "start": 618.4, "end": 619.4, "text": " Don't do that." }, { "start": 619.4, "end": 621.4, "text": " That's a bad idea." }, { "start": 621.4, "end": 624.4, "text": " So their app just runs on the iPhone so they can get..." }, { "start": 624.4, "end": 629.4, "text": " When we mention a company, will the representatives raise their hands?" }, { "start": 629.4, "end": 632.4, "text": " Right, but they're just going to keep putting an app on the phone." }, { "start": 632.4, "end": 633.4, "text": " So they get the value out of this." }, { "start": 633.4, "end": 637.4, "text": " That helps Snapchat in a very specific way." }, { "start": 637.4, "end": 638.4, "text": " I'm sorry, go ahead." }, { "start": 638.4, "end": 640.4, "text": " No, I was going to say, but Snapchat needs also..." }, { "start": 640.4, "end": 646.4, "text": " I don't know if the ARKit thing is true for them because Snapchat is a new company," }, { "start": 646.4, "end": 648.4, "text": " just IPO'd, right?" }, { "start": 648.4, "end": 649.4, "text": " Not well." }, { "start": 649.4, "end": 650.4, "text": " Not well." }, { "start": 650.4, "end": 651.4, "text": " They need growth." }, { "start": 651.4, "end": 652.4, "text": " That's what new companies do." }, { "start": 652.4, "end": 658.4, "text": " And the iPhone is dominant in the US in certain ways, but around the world, they need Android." }, { "start": 658.4, "end": 660.4, "text": " They need to actually start getting good at Android." }, { "start": 660.4, "end": 662.4, "text": " Well, but there's nothing that says they can't use both." }, { "start": 662.4, "end": 664.4, "text": " But see, if you're Apple, you're thinking..." }, { "start": 664.4, "end": 666.4, "text": " They can't put all their chips on ARKit in that case." }, { "start": 666.4, "end": 673.4, "text": " But if you're thinking, if you're Apple, and remember, you guys know this very well," }, { "start": 673.4, "end": 678.4, "text": " but Google makes its money over time when you use their services," }, { "start": 678.4, "end": 681.4, "text": " including when you use them on an Apple device." }, { "start": 681.4, "end": 686.4, "text": " Apple makes most, not all, but most of the money that they're going to make off you" }, { "start": 686.4, "end": 691.4, "text": " when you leave the store or make your monthly payments or however you buy the phone." }, { "start": 691.4, "end": 699.4, "text": " And so if your Snapchat and ARKit is good, it's good for Apple." }, { "start": 699.4, "end": 704.4, "text": " Apple can say, well, Snapchat stuff looks better on our phones because we have this thing," }, { "start": 704.4, "end": 707.4, "text": " and on Google's phones, they have to kind of do their own code." }, { "start": 707.4, "end": 710.4, "text": " It's going to be interesting." }, { "start": 710.4, "end": 712.4, "text": " HomePod, we should talk about that for a minute." }, { "start": 712.4, "end": 717.4, "text": " I think it's important, you know, as reporters and reviewers, we have to say," }, { "start": 717.4, "end": 720.4, "text": " there's a whole lot we don't know about HomePod," }, { "start": 720.4, "end": 727.4, "text": " especially the parts that will directly compete in artificial assistant kind of terms" }, { "start": 727.4, "end": 730.4, "text": " with the Echo and the Google Home." }, { "start": 730.4, "end": 734.4, "text": " You all know that, I mean, I've been tweeting and also writing," }, { "start": 734.4, "end": 739.4, "text": " but tweeting for a year about Siri fails, taking screenshots and putting them on Twitter." }, { "start": 739.4, "end": 741.4, "text": " It's Siri and United Airlines." }, { "start": 741.4, "end": 742.4, "text": " Yeah." }, { "start": 742.4, "end": 743.4, "text": " That's Walt's whole Twitter feed." }, { "start": 743.4, "end": 746.4, "text": " Will the United Airlines PR person raise their hand?" }, { "start": 746.4, "end": 750.4, "text": " Now we're turning the whole podcast around." }, { "start": 750.4, "end": 755.4, "text": " So, you know, they have apparently gotten more serious about Siri," }, { "start": 755.4, "end": 759.4, "text": " but to the extent that my understanding is they were building a music player." }, { "start": 759.4, "end": 761.4, "text": " They said they've been working on it for years." }, { "start": 761.4, "end": 767.4, "text": " It was pretty clear that the parts of it that did not have to do with music" }, { "start": 767.4, "end": 775.4, "text": " seem to have been added pretty much later because the slide was visible for about ten seconds." }, { "start": 775.4, "end": 780.4, "text": " That said, oh, and it can also do all these things, you know, it can do all the things you expect." }, { "start": 780.4, "end": 781.4, "text": " It's a musicologist." }, { "start": 781.4, "end": 782.4, "text": " Musicologist." }, { "start": 782.4, "end": 787.4, "text": " Every consumer walks into Best Buy saying, do you have any musicologists?" }, { "start": 787.4, "end": 792.4, "text": " And Best Buy says, yes, that person over there in the blue shirt in the magnolia section." }, { "start": 792.4, "end": 795.4, "text": " Any time you're seeking the help of an ologist, there's something wrong with you." }, { "start": 795.4, "end": 796.4, "text": " Right." }, { "start": 796.4, "end": 803.4, "text": " So some of you may have read about this, but if you haven't, I'm going to say it anyway." }, { "start": 803.4, "end": 805.4, "text": " You can just scan up to this and do it again." }, { "start": 805.4, "end": 807.4, "text": " It's senior week, Walt." }, { "start": 807.4, "end": 809.4, "text": " This is the last thing I'm doing." }, { "start": 809.4, "end": 816.4, "text": " So at the event, they took the, I guess not all the journalists," }, { "start": 816.4, "end": 820.4, "text": " but a selected group of journalists, broke us into groups of two or three," }, { "start": 820.4, "end": 828.4, "text": " and we entered this little room they had set up inside the convention center where they had," }, { "start": 828.4, "end": 833.4, "text": " they made it sort of a fake little living room, and they had a Sonos Play 3," }, { "start": 833.4, "end": 838.4, "text": " which is a very good speaker for those who own one know this." }, { "start": 838.4, "end": 839.4, "text": " I think it's very good." }, { "start": 839.4, "end": 843.4, "text": " It's not for an audiophile lunatic like you, but for a normal person." }, { "start": 843.4, "end": 846.4, "text": " For podcast listeners, I made the, eh, move." }, { "start": 846.4, "end": 850.4, "text": " And they have had an Echo, which is a garbage speaker," }, { "start": 850.4, "end": 855.4, "text": " but you don't expect, you don't buy an Echo thing, though I'm buying the best speaker in the world." }, { "start": 855.4, "end": 860.4, "text": " And then they had this HomePod set up, and of course the HomePod literally blew them away." }, { "start": 860.4, "end": 862.4, "text": " I mean, it just sounded fantastic." }, { "start": 862.4, "end": 865.4, "text": " They went through a series of four or five songs." }, { "start": 865.4, "end": 867.4, "text": " They pointed different things out." }, { "start": 867.4, "end": 872.4, "text": " At one point, they combined two HomePods, I think on Hotel California, the acoustic version," }, { "start": 872.4, "end": 874.4, "text": " and you could hear the..." }, { "start": 874.4, "end": 876.4, "text": " That's what the young people want." }, { "start": 876.4, "end": 881.4, "text": " Spend $700 to get Hotel California rendered as excellently as ever." }, { "start": 881.4, "end": 883.4, "text": " The acoustic version." }, { "start": 883.4, "end": 887.4, "text": " Pretty sure people that want to listen to a perfect rendition of the acoustic version of Hotel California Live" }, { "start": 887.4, "end": 890.4, "text": " is the exact target market that they were originally thinking of for the HomePod." }, { "start": 890.4, "end": 891.4, "text": " Could be." }, { "start": 891.4, "end": 892.4, "text": " Yeah, a decade ago." }, { "start": 892.4, "end": 893.4, "text": " Did you not think it sounded good?" }, { "start": 893.4, "end": 896.4, "text": " We got some claps, by the way." }, { "start": 896.4, "end": 897.4, "text": " Open Discover Weekly." }, { "start": 897.4, "end": 899.4, "text": " Like, expand your mind." }, { "start": 899.4, "end": 902.4, "text": " I thought the HomePod sounded incredible." }, { "start": 902.4, "end": 908.4, "text": " I think that whatever it is they're doing on a single speaker to craft the audio and bounce in different directions is very confusing." }, { "start": 908.4, "end": 910.4, "text": " Neelay and I have had many fights about this." }, { "start": 910.4, "end": 911.4, "text": " Many nerdy fights." }, { "start": 911.4, "end": 916.4, "text": " I think that the Alexa sounded like garbage, but the Alexa was playing over Bluetooth instead of directly over Wi-Fi." }, { "start": 916.4, "end": 917.4, "text": " Echo." }, { "start": 917.4, "end": 918.4, "text": " Yeah, the Echo." }, { "start": 918.4, "end": 919.4, "text": " Get it right." }, { "start": 919.4, "end": 920.4, "text": " I'm sorry." }, { "start": 920.4, "end": 921.4, "text": " No, I'm not." }, { "start": 921.4, "end": 922.4, "text": " Everybody else calls Alexa." }, { "start": 922.4, "end": 923.4, "text": " I can't do..." }, { "start": 923.4, "end": 925.4, "text": " Dead silence." }, { "start": 925.4, "end": 926.4, "text": " I'm telling you." }, { "start": 926.4, "end": 929.4, "text": " This room of nerds did not come with you on that one." }, { "start": 929.4, "end": 930.4, "text": " They're like, it's an Echo time." }, { "start": 930.4, "end": 935.4, "text": " I just kept quiet after I chastised you and waited for the audience." }, { "start": 935.4, "end": 941.4, "text": " Well, my first appearance on Control of the Leaf is going just great." }, { "start": 941.4, "end": 942.4, "text": " No, it is." }, { "start": 942.4, "end": 943.4, "text": " So..." }, { "start": 943.4, "end": 948.4, "text": " It sounded good." }, { "start": 948.4, "end": 949.4, "text": " It sounded good, Neelay." }, { "start": 949.4, "end": 951.4, "text": " But the Sonos sounded weird." }, { "start": 951.4, "end": 952.4, "text": " Yeah, I agree." }, { "start": 952.4, "end": 954.4, "text": " And I was in a different session than you." }, { "start": 954.4, "end": 962.4, "text": " And in our session, which had the great John Pachkowski there, used to be a colleague of mine, now is it BuzzFeed." }, { "start": 962.4, "end": 967.4, "text": " We were both looking at each other and we actually both several times asked the Apple people," }, { "start": 967.4, "end": 974.4, "text": " because they were saying, well, we took it out of the box, we tuned it, you know, how Sonos has a tuning system on your phone." }, { "start": 974.4, "end": 977.4, "text": " And they said, oh, we level set everything." }, { "start": 977.4, "end": 980.4, "text": " It's all, you know, and we're like, it doesn't sound like our Sonos." }, { "start": 980.4, "end": 982.4, "text": " So..." }, { "start": 982.4, "end": 987.4, "text": " So the big question with HomePod is not, I'm sure it sounds great, right?" }, { "start": 987.4, "end": 993.4, "text": " I mean, it is just, it has better speaker stuff in it than the other speakers of its class." }, { "start": 993.4, "end": 997.4, "text": " Whether or not you think it sounds better than various Sonos things, a matter of taste." }, { "start": 997.4, "end": 998.4, "text": " Yeah." }, { "start": 998.4, "end": 1000.4, "text": " But I'm sure it is good." }, { "start": 1000.4, "end": 1001.4, "text": " Yeah." }, { "start": 1001.4, "end": 1002.4, "text": " At the high end of good." }, { "start": 1002.4, "end": 1009.4, "text": " The real question is, how does it compete with the Amazon Echo and Alexa family of products?" }, { "start": 1009.4, "end": 1011.4, "text": " How does it compete with..." }, { "start": 1011.4, "end": 1014.4, "text": " I have zero information on that because they didn't show it." }, { "start": 1014.4, "end": 1016.4, "text": " It isn't ready." }, { "start": 1016.4, "end": 1018.4, "text": " Those parts of it, I suspect are not ready." }, { "start": 1018.4, "end": 1019.4, "text": " Right." }, { "start": 1019.4, "end": 1024.4, "text": " And so if they're expecting to fill in with, well, it also has Siri and you can just talk to Siri," }, { "start": 1024.4, "end": 1027.4, "text": " that means your expectations are immediately low." }, { "start": 1027.4, "end": 1028.4, "text": " Right." }, { "start": 1028.4, "end": 1035.4, "text": " Because right now people are buying Amazon products and talking to them in their homes instead of talking to Siri on their phone." }, { "start": 1035.4, "end": 1036.4, "text": " Right." }, { "start": 1036.4, "end": 1039.4, "text": " Or they're buying a Google Home and talking to that instead of Siri on their phone." }, { "start": 1039.4, "end": 1041.4, "text": " So why would you buy this other thing?" }, { "start": 1041.4, "end": 1044.4, "text": " And as far as I can tell, no information about that." }, { "start": 1044.4, "end": 1045.4, "text": " No information." }, { "start": 1045.4, "end": 1048.4, "text": " But I will say two things because I think you put it really well." }, { "start": 1048.4, "end": 1056.4, "text": " I think one reason they don't talk to Siri on their phone is that it has disappointed them lots over the years." }, { "start": 1056.4, "end": 1063.4, "text": " But the other reason is there is something to be said, and we've talked about this on this podcast and the Vergecast many times," }, { "start": 1063.4, "end": 1067.4, "text": " that the idea of it being ambient in the home," }, { "start": 1067.4, "end": 1072.4, "text": " it's not fully ambient because there's a device there, but still it's kind of ambient, you can talk to it," }, { "start": 1072.4, "end": 1080.4, "text": " is a different use case, it's a different experience, and it's very engaging once you start doing it," }, { "start": 1080.4, "end": 1086.4, "text": " as long as you believe it's not listening all the time and really it's not listening until the wake word is said." }, { "start": 1086.4, "end": 1088.4, "text": " But that's the same as everybody else." }, { "start": 1088.4, "end": 1089.4, "text": " Right." }, { "start": 1089.4, "end": 1090.4, "text": " No, no way." }, { "start": 1090.4, "end": 1099.4, "text": " I think that despite that experience which has made people want to talk to the Echo," }, { "start": 1099.4, "end": 1101.4, "text": " I don't know anything about the sales of Google Home." }, { "start": 1101.4, "end": 1107.4, "text": " I know I have a vague idea about the sales of the Echo just because of what analysts have been saying," }, { "start": 1107.4, "end": 1111.4, "text": " and I guess I haven't read anything about the Google Home sales." }, { "start": 1111.4, "end": 1117.4, "text": " It hasn't sold amazingly, but it's done pretty well, and I give Amazon a lot of credit for it." }, { "start": 1117.4, "end": 1124.4, "text": " And yet most of the people who own an Echo do not use the 6,000 skills it has," }, { "start": 1124.4, "end": 1127.4, "text": " which is their word for a voice-controlled app," }, { "start": 1127.4, "end": 1131.4, "text": " because you have to say another trigger word after the main trigger word," }, { "start": 1131.4, "end": 1134.4, "text": " and nobody can remember the other trigger words, and it's a whole thing." }, { "start": 1134.4, "end": 1138.4, "text": " So, I mean, we're very early on all these things, and Apple jumping in now," }, { "start": 1138.4, "end": 1145.4, "text": " presuming that they can make Siri fulfill its potential, it isn't too late to jump in." }, { "start": 1145.4, "end": 1151.4, "text": " I mean, everybody knows that every product they did, which people ten years later think they invented," }, { "start": 1151.4, "end": 1158.4, "text": " they really didn't invent, they just kind of perfected it or perfected it enough to commercialize it." }, { "start": 1158.4, "end": 1161.4, "text": " You're just trying to goad me to talking about the Trio, and I'm not going to do it." }, { "start": 1161.4, "end": 1162.4, "text": " I have no problem." }, { "start": 1162.4, "end": 1168.4, "text": " We can devote the rest of this podcast to you and I defending the Trio and Neal and I not." }, { "start": 1168.4, "end": 1169.4, "text": " The Trio is garbage." }, { "start": 1169.4, "end": 1173.4, "text": " The other thing I want to point out is, I loved it too, Dieter." }, { "start": 1173.4, "end": 1174.4, "text": " Go ahead, Dieter." }, { "start": 1174.4, "end": 1176.4, "text": " I need to leave the stage." }, { "start": 1176.4, "end": 1178.4, "text": " The thing about Siri on the HomePod is..." }, { "start": 1178.4, "end": 1180.4, "text": " Windows Mobile Trio, best Trio ever made." }, { "start": 1180.4, "end": 1181.4, "text": " Actually, yes." }, { "start": 1181.4, "end": 1182.4, "text": " Oh, God." }, { "start": 1182.4, "end": 1183.4, "text": " Oh, God." }, { "start": 1183.4, "end": 1184.4, "text": " You had to take it one step." }, { "start": 1184.4, "end": 1186.4, "text": " That's not where I intended that to go." }, { "start": 1186.4, "end": 1190.4, "text": " Did you know the Trio Pro was actually supposed to be the first Android prototype?" }, { "start": 1190.4, "end": 1191.4, "text": " Windows Mobile Trio." }, { "start": 1191.4, "end": 1192.4, "text": " Yeah." }, { "start": 1192.4, "end": 1193.4, "text": " Well, now they do." }, { "start": 1193.4, "end": 1194.4, "text": " Yeah." }, { "start": 1194.4, "end": 1195.4, "text": " Thank you, Dieter." }, { "start": 1195.4, "end": 1198.4, "text": " A meaningful, quiet room after..." }, { "start": 1198.4, "end": 1201.4, "text": " Look, one guy said, wow." }, { "start": 1201.4, "end": 1203.4, "text": " I'm taking that." }, { "start": 1203.4, "end": 1205.4, "text": " I'm just running with that." }, { "start": 1205.4, "end": 1208.4, "text": " The 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}, { "start": 1298.4, "end": 1299.4, "text": " Once..." }, { "start": 1299.4, "end": 1304.4, "text": " If it's a little startup company and they want to use your stuff, it's okay." }, { "start": 1304.4, "end": 1305.4, "text": " It's fine." }, { "start": 1305.4, "end": 1309.4, "text": " If it's a big company with deep pockets that wants to use your stuff, suddenly the calculus" }, { "start": 1309.4, "end": 1310.4, "text": " changes." }, { "start": 1310.4, "end": 1317.4, "text": " But yeah, I think their use of the word domain is not unlike skills for Alexa." }, { "start": 1317.4, "end": 1321.4, "text": " I want to talk about the Google version compared to the Apple version." }, { "start": 1321.4, "end": 1323.4, "text": " I think we are..." }, { "start": 1323.4, "end": 1325.4, "text": " I'm just speaking for you all." }, { "start": 1325.4, "end": 1327.4, "text": " We are probably familiar with how the Alexa works." }, { "start": 1327.4, "end": 1328.4, "text": " Don't let him speak for you." }, { "start": 1328.4, "end": 1330.4, "text": " You download the Alexa app, you go through the skills, you add the skills." }, { "start": 1330.4, "end": 1332.4, "text": " You do it on an Echo, not on an Alexa." }, { "start": 1332.4, "end": 1339.4, "text": " Alexa's just a..." }, { "start": 1339.4, "end": 1343.4, "text": " You go out with a pen, smart one down." }, { "start": 1343.4, "end": 1345.4, "text": " Then there's the Apple version and the Apple version is..." }, { "start": 1345.4, "end": 1347.4, "text": " It seems like it's going to be the same as..." }, { "start": 1347.4, "end": 1348.4, "text": " Which we know nothing about." }, { "start": 1348.4, "end": 1352.4, "text": " Which we know nothing about, but the way they talked about Siri and the way it will be extended" }, { "start": 1352.4, "end": 1355.4, "text": " is basically you download an app on your phone and that app will talk to Siri and then Siri" }, { "start": 1355.4, "end": 1357.4, "text": " can address that app." }, { "start": 1357.4, "end": 1358.4, "text": " That is..." }, { "start": 1358.4, "end": 1359.4, "text": " Siri hit..." }, { "start": 1359.4, "end": 1360.4, "text": " As they've talked about for a couple of years now." }, { "start": 1360.4, "end": 1362.4, "text": " You can do that with iOS 10 in so many ways." }, { "start": 1362.4, "end": 1366.4, "text": " But the Apple's answer to every problem is we made an app store." }, { "start": 1366.4, "end": 1368.4, "text": " What's a smart watch good for?" }, { "start": 1368.4, "end": 1369.4, "text": " An app store." }, { "start": 1369.4, "end": 1370.4, "text": " What's iMessage good for?" }, { "start": 1370.4, "end": 1374.4, "text": " The wildly successful iMessage app store." }, { "start": 1374.4, "end": 1377.4, "text": " But Google has this whole other idea." }, { "start": 1377.4, "end": 1379.4, "text": " And I think you probably know more about it than anybody." }, { "start": 1379.4, "end": 1381.4, "text": " Can you try to explain that?" }, { "start": 1381.4, "end": 1385.4, "text": " Google's idea is they want to make these assistants work like a website." }, { "start": 1385.4, "end": 1389.4, "text": " So instead of saying, hey Google, I made this app for the Google Assistant." }, { "start": 1389.4, "end": 1390.4, "text": " Put it on your thing." }, { "start": 1390.4, "end": 1392.4, "text": " And them saying, yes, we approve of your app." }, { "start": 1392.4, "end": 1394.4, "text": " Now it's available in our store for people to find." }, { "start": 1394.4, "end": 1397.4, "text": " They just want you to say, hey, we made our Assistant app." }, { "start": 1397.4, "end": 1399.4, "text": " It's over here at this web address." }, { "start": 1399.4, "end": 1400.4, "text": " And they're like, cool." }, { "start": 1400.4, "end": 1401.4, "text": " We'll look at it." }, { "start": 1401.4, "end": 1402.4, "text": " Yeah, it works." }, { "start": 1402.4, "end": 1403.4, "text": " Cool." }, { "start": 1403.4, "end": 1404.4, "text": " Now you can ask for it." }, { "start": 1404.4, "end": 1407.4, "text": " So they're trying to, the same way that you don't install a website on your phone," }, { "start": 1407.4, "end": 1410.4, "text": " unless you're cool and have put the verge.com on your home screen." }, { "start": 1410.4, "end": 1413.4, "text": " Let's take a five-minute break, everybody." }, { "start": 1413.4, "end": 1417.4, "text": " They don't think that you should have to install a website on the Google Assistant." }, { "start": 1417.4, "end": 1424.4, "text": " Now that's a very beautiful dream, which I don't believe they can actually pull off" }, { "start": 1424.4, "end": 1426.4, "text": " anywhere nearly as easily as they can." }, { "start": 1426.4, "end": 1429.4, "text": " Because the Assistant gives you one answer." }, { "start": 1429.4, "end": 1434.4, "text": " If you ask for a thing vocally and you get five results, you are super unhappy with that experience." }, { "start": 1434.4, "end": 1436.4, "text": " So they're always going to give you the top result." }, { "start": 1436.4, "end": 1439.4, "text": " And that top result could be garbage." }, { "start": 1439.4, "end": 1447.4, "text": " And there's no transparency to whether that top result arrived because it won the search algorithm" }, { "start": 1447.4, "end": 1449.4, "text": " or because they made a backdoor deal with Google." }, { "start": 1449.4, "end": 1452.4, "text": " So it's very hard to know where this is going to go." }, { "start": 1452.4, "end": 1459.4, "text": " There is, like, you know, look, as I said before, I'm the king of pointing out Siri fails, I think." }, { "start": 1459.4, "end": 1462.4, "text": " But it doesn't fail all the time." }, { "start": 1462.4, "end": 1466.4, "text": " And if you ask it about sports, for instance, you get a beautifully, on the phone," }, { "start": 1466.4, "end": 1472.4, "text": " where it's a visual experience, and again, don't know about HomePod, but it does have a screen on top." }, { "start": 1472.4, "end": 1473.4, "text": " Strange place to have a screen." }, { "start": 1473.4, "end": 1474.4, "text": " I don't know." }, { "start": 1474.4, "end": 1478.4, "text": " What you want is a screen facing directly up in the corner of your room." }, { "start": 1478.4, "end": 1484.4, "text": " Well, maybe it'll project onto the ceiling, like those alarm clocks that do that." }, { "start": 1484.4, "end": 1489.4, "text": " Yeah, Apple built a 1986 Radio Shack alarm clock." }, { "start": 1489.4, "end": 1493.4, "text": " Which, by the way, you can have for $350." }, { "start": 1493.4, "end": 1495.4, "text": " Only place, Hotel California." }, { "start": 1495.4, "end": 1502.4, "text": " But here's the thing." }, { "start": 1502.4, "end": 1509.4, "text": " The domains they've chosen to really work on are presented in a better way," }, { "start": 1509.4, "end": 1511.4, "text": " and I have found actually a more accurate way." }, { "start": 1511.4, "end": 1517.4, "text": " If I say, how are the Red Sox doing, it's actually smart, which I do, for the most part." }, { "start": 1517.4, "end": 1519.4, "text": " Or how are the Patriots doing?" }, { "start": 1519.4, "end": 1520.4, "text": " They're cheating." }, { "start": 1520.4, "end": 1523.4, "text": " Those are the right teams." }, { "start": 1523.4, "end": 1524.4, "text": " Really?" }, { "start": 1524.4, "end": 1526.4, "text": " Do you think that's, wait a minute, do you think that's the right answer?" }, { "start": 1526.4, "end": 1530.4, "text": " Because to me the right answer is they just won their fifth Super Bowl." }, { "start": 1530.4, "end": 1532.4, "text": " I didn't say they did it." }, { "start": 1532.4, "end": 1534.4, "text": " Just won their fifth Super Bowl." }, { "start": 1534.4, "end": 1535.4, "text": " You guys are going to get super dark." }, { "start": 1535.4, "end": 1537.4, "text": " You really want to throw down about this?" }, { "start": 1537.4, "end": 1538.4, "text": " How are the Vikings doing, Dieter?" }, { "start": 1538.4, "end": 1539.4, "text": " Are they doing well?" }, { "start": 1539.4, "end": 1543.4, "text": " You know, that's just not nice." }, { "start": 1543.4, "end": 1550.4, "text": " No, but I was actually making a tech point using a heroic example, the Red Sox." }, { "start": 1550.4, "end": 1554.4, "text": " So if I say, how are the Red Sox doing, and there's a game underway," }, { "start": 1554.4, "end": 1556.4, "text": " Ciro will give me the score of the game." }, { "start": 1556.4, "end": 1559.4, "text": " If I say, how are the Red Sox doing, and there's not a game underway at that moment," }, { "start": 1559.4, "end": 1561.4, "text": " they'll give me the standings." }, { "start": 1561.4, "end": 1564.4, "text": " And they'll actually say something, Ciro will actually say something intelligence," }, { "start": 1564.4, "end": 1572.4, "text": " like the Red Sox are, they'll use verbs, like the Red Sox are creaming the Blue Jays" }, { "start": 1572.4, "end": 1576.4, "text": " or the Yankees are edging the Red Sox, whatever it is, you know." }, { "start": 1576.4, "end": 1579.4, "text": " And it sounds almost like you're talking to a person with a funny voice," }, { "start": 1579.4, "end": 1582.4, "text": " but you know, it's one of the better things they do," }, { "start": 1582.4, "end": 1586.4, "text": " and that's I think one of the reasons they do this domain approach." }, { "start": 1586.4, "end": 1595.4, "text": " The thing that Apple's about to run face first into is the thing that Google has really not done a great job messaging," }, { "start": 1595.4, "end": 1602.4, "text": " which is Siri on the HomePod is going to be able to do a smaller set of things than what Siri on the phone can do." }, { "start": 1602.4, "end": 1607.4, "text": " So when I talk to the Google Assistant on a phone, on my watch, or on Google Home, or in my car," }, { "start": 1607.4, "end": 1613.4, "text": " it will randomly fail to achieve the thing I asked it to do because it doesn't work on that particular device." }, { "start": 1613.4, "end": 1616.4, "text": " And Apple's already admitted it's going to do a smaller domain of things." }, { "start": 1616.4, "end": 1620.4, "text": " Well, Siri already does different things on the different devices, even before HomePod comes out." }, { "start": 1620.4, "end": 1623.4, "text": " Well, with the iPad too, but like having a speaker tell you," }, { "start": 1623.4, "end": 1627.4, "text": " sorry, I can't do that when you know the phone can do it is incredibly frustrating." }, { "start": 1627.4, "end": 1632.4, "text": " Right. It is frustrating, although, and this is not a debate because I agree with you," }, { "start": 1632.4, "end": 1637.4, "text": " but I would just note that at least in my experience in our house," }, { "start": 1637.4, "end": 1644.4, "text": " the Echo and the Google Home say I don't know that or I didn't understand that." }, { "start": 1644.4, "end": 1651.4, "text": " And my favorite on the Echo has all the songs because you've connected it to some service." }, { "start": 1651.4, "end": 1656.4, "text": " I'm actually, I think, on Amazon Music Service, whatever, and you ask for a song," }, { "start": 1656.4, "end": 1663.4, "text": " and it gives you a version by somebody you've never heard of that's like a cover by, it's like, I don't know." }, { "start": 1663.4, "end": 1667.4, "text": " You have to be really specific and then you try to get more specific." }, { "start": 1667.4, "end": 1675.4, "text": " No, I want the, you know, I want Adele's version of Adele's number one hit." }, { "start": 1675.4, "end": 1681.4, "text": " From the album 25 or whatever, you know, and then it says, well, I don't, the light goes out." }, { "start": 1681.4, "end": 1683.4, "text": " It hasn't understood you." }, { "start": 1683.4, "end": 1688.4, "text": " So, and it's insisting on playing the cover by somebody you've never heard of, and that kind of thing goes on." }, { "start": 1688.4, "end": 1696.4, "text": " Well, I think the other thing that's interesting is Google is so far, I think, is the only company that's really figured out multiple users on the assistance." }, { "start": 1696.4, "end": 1704.4, "text": " Apple is like surprisingly bad at knowing that more than one person lives in a house." }, { "start": 1704.4, "end": 1706.4, "text": " Like the Apple TV is like, it's you." }, { "start": 1706.4, "end": 1707.4, "text": " No, you're not." }, { "start": 1707.4, "end": 1708.4, "text": " I'm your best friend." }, { "start": 1708.4, "end": 1711.4, "text": " This is the only person I've ever encountered in this living room." }, { "start": 1711.4, "end": 1712.4, "text": " You're misunderstanding." }, { "start": 1712.4, "end": 1715.4, "text": " They want multiple Apple TVs sold into the house." }, { "start": 1715.4, "end": 1721.4, "text": " There's yours, there's Becky's, there's your neighbors, what you have just in case they come over." }, { "start": 1721.4, "end": 1722.4, "text": " Steve, it's you." }, { "start": 1722.4, "end": 1723.4, "text": " I bought this for you." }, { "start": 1723.4, "end": 1725.4, "text": " Right." }, { "start": 1725.4, "end": 1728.4, "text": " But I think that's like another HomePod question, right?" }, { "start": 1728.4, "end": 1730.4, "text": " They haven't really solved multiple users' problems." }, { "start": 1730.4, "end": 1734.4, "text": " So we're spending all this time talking about something we really have admitted six times we don't know too much about." }, { "start": 1734.4, "end": 1741.4, "text": " But except what we know, what Dieter and I know, is that under certain controlled circumstances, it sounds amazingly good." }, { "start": 1741.4, "end": 1742.4, "text": " Yeah." }, { "start": 1742.4, "end": 1743.4, "text": " That's all I can tell you." }, { "start": 1743.4, "end": 1745.4, "text": " And it has, you know, you can touch the top of it to change the volume." }, { "start": 1745.4, "end": 1746.4, "text": " I know this." }, { "start": 1746.4, "end": 1747.4, "text": " So zoom out for me a little." }, { "start": 1747.4, "end": 1749.4, "text": " So you see the big future of ambient computing." }, { "start": 1749.4, "end": 1751.4, "text": " You see all these little Apple moves." }, { "start": 1751.4, "end": 1756.4, "text": " You see iOS 11 turning the iPad into something that looks more like a computer." }, { "start": 1756.4, "end": 1759.4, "text": " Just wrap up where you think Apple's positioned now at this moment." }, { "start": 1759.4, "end": 1770.4, "text": " Well, I think Apple, first of all, I 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{ "start": 1852.4, "end": 1855.4, "text": " And this by the way is not necessarily a ten year time frame." }, { "start": 1855.4, "end": 1865.4, "text": " One big tech company talked to me about, and I don't know if they'll pull it off, but they talked to me about their hopes to do it in three or four years, something like that." }, { "start": 1865.4, "end": 1868.4, "text": " And they actually had to have a timeline for it." }, { "start": 1868.4, "end": 1876.4, "text": " So I think Apple wants to be in the AR game in a big way." }, { "start": 1876.4, "end": 1889.4, "text": " And so even though we saw Big Mac demos and the HomePod which everybody wrote about and the iPad stuff, all of which they managed to make very impressive." }, { "start": 1889.4, "end": 1890.4, "text": " And I'm sure it is." }, { "start": 1890.4, "end": 1896.4, "text": " I mean you've got a chance, I've got a chance, our colleagues got a chance to hold those iPads." }, { "start": 1896.4, "end": 1900.4, "text": " They're very nice and they, I said iPod didn't I, but I meant iPad." }, { "start": 1900.4, "end": 1907.4, "text": " They, I mean the specs on the iPad are better than on a lot of laptops." }, { "start": 1907.4, "end": 1912.4, "text": " The specs on the new iPad Pros just feel like Apple's just showing off." }, { "start": 1912.4, "end": 1923.4, "text": " There's literally nobody on the planet that is within like, I don't know, three years of producing like a pure tablet experience except maybe the Surface which is sort of a different category." }, { "start": 1923.4, "end": 1928.4, "text": " And Apple's like, yeah, well we just, we made it better because we had nothing else to do." }, { "start": 1928.4, "end": 1929.4, "text": " Right." }, { "start": 1929.4, "end": 1942.4, "text": " But I think, again, just to repeat and maybe we'll be done with WDC, but I just think that AR is one of the focus, you know, they're working, doing something with cars, I can't tell you what it is." }, { "start": 1942.4, "end": 1945.4, "text": " But I think AR is a big focus for them." }, { "start": 1945.4, "end": 1946.4, "text": " Yeah." }, { "start": 1946.4, "end": 1948.4, "text": " So we were just a code, all of us together." }, { "start": 1948.4, "end": 1949.4, "text": " Yeah." }, { "start": 1949.4, "end": 1951.4, "text": " Great code, it was your last code." }, { "start": 1951.4, "end": 1953.4, "text": " You just assume they all know what it is." }, { "start": 1953.4, "end": 1954.4, "text": " Kafka knows what it is." }, { "start": 1954.4, "end": 1957.4, "text": " It's a room full of billionaires." }, { "start": 1957.4, "end": 1960.4, "text": " Just like this room." }, { "start": 1960.4, "end": 1963.4, "text": " Same ticket price." }, { "start": 1963.4, "end": 1965.4, "text": " There's no VIP reception though." }, { "start": 1965.4, "end": 1966.4, "text": " No." }, { "start": 1966.4, "end": 1967.4, "text": " You know, Kara and I killed that." }, { "start": 1967.4, "end": 1968.4, "text": " Really?" }, { "start": 1968.4, "end": 1969.4, "text": " Yeah, some years ago." }, { "start": 1969.4, "end": 1971.4, "text": " You should kill the open bar and make the billionaires pay for the booze." }, { "start": 1971.4, "end": 1972.4, "text": " Right." }, { "start": 1972.4, "end": 1973.4, "text": " Tell them it's the RF conference." }, { "start": 1973.4, "end": 1991.4, "text": " Yeah, so, well, I mean, so Kara Swisher, who's a fantastic journalist and has been my business partner for years, and I in 2003 started this conference, the idea of which was to put the leaders of tech and media industry on stage and interview them." }, { "start": 1991.4, "end": 1992.4, "text": " And we've done that." }, { "start": 1992.4, "end": 2001.4, "text": " I think there's pretty much nobody major running a tech company you can think of who hasn't at least once been on our stage and some have been on multiple times." }, { "start": 2001.4, "end": 2004.4, "text": " And we now call it the Code 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{ "start": 2042.4, "end": 2043.4, "text": " Yeah." }, { "start": 2043.4, "end": 2047.4, "text": " And really built the Android organization, the Android ecosystem." }, { "start": 2047.4, "end": 2053.4, "text": " And but before that, he had another smartphone called the Sidekick." }, { "start": 2053.4, "end": 2058.4, "text": " He really wanted to call it the Hip Top, which was the code name." }, { "start": 2058.4, "end": 2060.4, "text": " The cool kids called it the Hip Top." }, { "start": 2060.4, "end": 2062.4, "text": " No, T-Mobile vetoed it on them." }, { "start": 2062.4, "end": 2065.4, "text": " And when you would go into their headquarters, it would be." }, { "start": 2065.4, "end": 2067.4, "text": " This was before T-Mobile's renegade phase." }, { "start": 2067.4, "end": 2070.4, "text": " There would be these pro Hip Top signs all over the place." }, { "start": 2070.4, "end": 2074.4, "text": " But the company was called Danger and it was a cool thing." }, { "start": 2074.4, "end": 2078.4, "text": " So Andy knows a lot about engineering." }, { "start": 2078.4, "end": 2080.4, "text": " He knows a lot about, he loves hardware." }, { "start": 2080.4, "end": 2085.4, "text": " He has a company that's kind of an incubator for hardware, other hardware companies." }, { "start": 2085.4, "end": 2091.4, "text": " And then part of it, he explained on stage, is a studio where I guess they fiddle with their own things." }, { "start": 2091.4, "end": 2092.4, "text": " He loves robots." }, { "start": 2092.4, "end": 2095.4, "text": " He has some robotic stuff that we didn't talk too much about." }, { "start": 2095.4, "end": 2105.4, "text": " And we didn't talk too much about it because they announced the day of his interview that they were bringing out a phone and a home device, like the ones we've been talking, maybe not, maybe better, who knows." }, { "start": 2105.4, "end": 2106.4, "text": " They're talking about." }, { "start": 2106.4, "end": 2110.4, "text": " And it's this Ambien OS you mentioned." }, { "start": 2110.4, "end": 2114.4, "text": " And the phone is, well, Dieter, what did you think of the phone?" }, { "start": 2114.4, "end": 2119.4, "text": " Yeah, by the way, these are I think the only two people who don't work at that company who've played with them." }, { "start": 2119.4, "end": 2120.4, "text": " Right." }, { "start": 2120.4, "end": 2121.4, "text": " So what did you think?" }, { "start": 2121.4, "end": 2124.4, "text": " I thought that it felt a lot like an Android phone." }, { "start": 2124.4, "end": 2128.4, "text": " No, it's a phone that knows what it is." }, { "start": 2128.4, "end": 2129.4, "text": " And that's a weird thing to say." }, { "start": 2129.4, "end": 2131.4, "text": " But it's kind of square and blocky." }, { "start": 2131.4, "end": 2133.4, "text": " It doesn't try to have rounded edges." }, { "start": 2133.4, "end": 2136.4, "text": " It's got a ceramic back, but it just feels like glass." }, { "start": 2136.4, "end": 2138.4, "text": " But that's all like standard stuff, honestly." }, { "start": 2138.4, "end": 2139.4, "text": " Well, titanium." }, { "start": 2139.4, "end": 2140.4, "text": " Titanium." }, { "start": 2140.4, "end": 2141.4, "text": " Sure." }, { "start": 2141.4, "end": 2145.4, "text": " I want to be more impressed with the titanium, but it's like it's another metal." }, { "start": 2145.4, "end": 2146.4, "text": " Like, I don't know." }, { "start": 2146.4, "end": 2147.4, "text": " They make jet planes out of it." }, { "start": 2147.4, "end": 2149.4, "text": " Don't show up in front of Dieter Bohn with just another metal." }, { "start": 2149.4, "end": 2150.4, "text": " Yeah." }, { "start": 2150.4, "end": 2151.4, "text": " They make jet planes out of it." }, { "start": 2151.4, "end": 2152.4, "text": " It's not titanium." }, { "start": 2152.4, "end": 2154.4, "text": " Then get out of my face." }, { "start": 2154.4, "end": 2156.4, "text": " Ceramic, get out of here." }, { "start": 2156.4, "end": 2163.4, "text": " But the gimmick insofar as it has a thing that differentiates it is one, it's made by Andy Rubin." }, { "start": 2163.4, "end": 2169.4, "text": " Two, it has a couple of pogo pins on the back and a little magnet." }, { "start": 2169.4, "end": 2170.4, "text": " Dieter, what's a pogo pin?" }, { "start": 2170.4, "end": 2177.4, "text": " Pogo pin is a little spring-loaded metal contact that you can use to charge things without having to actually plug it into a jack." }, { "start": 2177.4, "end": 2179.4, "text": " Can I just use some inside baseball here?" }, { "start": 2179.4, "end": 2180.4, "text": " Yeah." }, { "start": 2180.4, "end": 2183.4, "text": " So Walt has Andy on stage." }, { "start": 2183.4, "end": 2186.4, "text": " So he's talking to Andy." }, { "start": 2186.4, "end": 2195.4, "text": " Andy agrees with Walt to let us publish a bunch of information about this device the night before, which is very normal journalism stuff." }, { "start": 2195.4, "end": 2202.4, "text": " Walt lets us know that this deal has been made, I would say, at 12.30 a.m. the night before." }, { "start": 2202.4, "end": 2204.4, "text": " Dieter and I are sitting in the bar at the resort." }, { "start": 2204.4, "end": 2205.4, "text": " And the embargo is 3 a.m." }, { "start": 2205.4, "end": 2206.4, "text": " And the embargo is 3 a.m." }, { "start": 2206.4, "end": 2211.4, "text": " We're sitting in the bar at the resort with the C-suite of our company, drinking whiskey." }, { "start": 2211.4, "end": 2214.4, "text": " And we get a call from Walt, and he's like, get to work." }, { "start": 2214.4, "end": 2216.4, "text": " So Dieter and I – this is a true story." }, { "start": 2216.4, "end": 2217.4, "text": " So we did." }, { "start": 2217.4, "end": 2219.4, "text": " So Dieter and I like trucked back to the resort." }, { "start": 2219.4, "end": 2221.4, "text": " Yeah, but you understand I called you five minutes after I hung up from Andy." }, { "start": 2221.4, "end": 2222.4, "text": " Yeah, I'm sure." }, { "start": 2222.4, "end": 2226.4, "text": " It's not like I was like, I'll watch a TV show and then I'll call him." }, { "start": 2226.4, "end": 2228.4, "text": " Five minutes after that." }, { "start": 2228.4, "end": 2234.4, "text": " So Dieter and I are furiously blogging and we're drinking." }, { "start": 2234.4, "end": 2235.4, "text": " And we just keep saying the words –" }, { "start": 2235.4, "end": 2236.4, "text": " He said drinking." }, { "start": 2236.4, "end": 2237.4, "text": " You're wondering." }, { "start": 2237.4, "end": 2238.4, "text": " I know." }, { "start": 2238.4, "end": 2240.4, "text": " My mom's listening to this." }, { "start": 2240.4, "end": 2243.4, "text": " We just ate a whole bunch of Skittles." }, { "start": 2243.4, "end": 2246.4, "text": " And we just kept saying the word pogo pins to each other." }, { "start": 2246.4, "end": 2249.4, "text": " And it just kept getting increasingly funny." }, { "start": 2249.4, "end": 2253.4, "text": " Pogo pins, by the way, are not funny, in case you're wondering." }, { "start": 2253.4, "end": 2254.4, "text": " They're just small, spring-loaded pins." }, { "start": 2254.4, "end": 2255.4, "text": " Yeah." }, { "start": 2255.4, "end": 2256.4, "text": " Yeah." }, { "start": 2256.4, "end": 2257.4, "text": " But –" }, { "start": 2257.4, "end": 2258.4, "text": " Anyway, the pogo pins are just there for power." }, { "start": 2258.4, "end": 2259.4, "text": " The story really ends on a low note." }, { "start": 2259.4, "end": 2261.4, "text": " Because the reality of pogo pins sets in." }, { "start": 2261.4, "end": 2269.4, "text": " What they're there to do is charge up a bunch of modules because he's trying to make a modular ecosystem of things that you can clip onto the phone or to the home screen." }, { "start": 2269.4, "end": 2273.4, "text": " Or to the phone or to the home speaker or to your wall or to your sister." }, { "start": 2273.4, "end": 2274.4, "text": " Like whatever." }, { "start": 2274.4, "end": 2275.4, "text": " He wants to like –" }, { "start": 2275.4, "end": 2276.4, "text": " What?" }, { "start": 2276.4, "end": 2277.4, "text": " I don't know." }, { "start": 2277.4, "end": 2278.4, "text": " It's very strange." }, { "start": 2278.4, "end": 2279.4, "text": " Dieter's sister has wireless USB." }, { "start": 2279.4, "end": 2280.4, "text": " He wants his modules everywhere." }, { "start": 2280.4, "end": 2281.4, "text": " Oh my God." }, { "start": 2281.4, "end": 2286.4, "text": " And I can get very nerdy about what I think of the wireless technology behind the modules." }, { "start": 2286.4, "end": 2287.4, "text": " I'm just going to keep power through the –" }, { "start": 2287.4, "end": 2288.4, "text": " Yeah, got it." }, { "start": 2288.4, "end": 2289.4, "text": " Yeah, keep going." }, { "start": 2289.4, "end": 2290.4, "text": " Pogo pins, bro." }, { "start": 2290.4, "end": 2291.4, "text": " Let's do this." }, { "start": 2291.4, "end": 2292.4, "text": " I think it was better when we just said his name." }, { "start": 2292.4, "end": 2293.4, "text": " I'm not sure." }, { "start": 2293.4, "end": 2297.4, "text": " No, he's super smart." }, { "start": 2297.4, "end": 2298.4, "text": " Okay, keep talking." }, { "start": 2298.4, "end": 2306.4, "text": " Other than the fact that his name is Andy Rubin, what makes him think that he can launch a brand new OS, a home speaker, an Android phone and have any of them actually be successful?" }, { "start": 2306.4, "end": 2310.4, "text": " Okay, so I think that is the key question." }, { "start": 2310.4, "end": 2314.4, "text": " Here's my take on it." }, { "start": 2314.4, "end": 2318.4, "text": " So the phone is a little bit of an outlier." }, { "start": 2318.4, "end": 2321.4, "text": " I think he just – well, I know this." }, { "start": 2321.4, "end": 2323.4, "text": " He wanted to do a phone." }, { "start": 2323.4, "end": 2326.4, "text": " He's wanted to do a phone for a few years now." }, { "start": 2326.4, "end": 2342.4, "text": " He said in his blog post, which also ran oddly as a print ad – I mean, look, I work for a print newspaper for a long time, so I'm not going to knock print, but for a guy like him to buy a print ad in the Wall Street Journal and New York Times is a little bit odd." }, { "start": 2342.4, "end": 2345.4, "text": " What are you looking for when you open the New York Times nowadays?" }, { "start": 2345.4, "end": 2346.4, "text": " Relief." }, { "start": 2346.4, "end": 2347.4, "text": " Cell phone advertising." }, { "start": 2347.4, "end": 2350.4, "text": " No, but you want relief from the news, so there it is." }, { "start": 2350.4, "end": 2351.4, "text": " Oh, thank God." }, { "start": 2351.4, "end": 2353.4, "text": " Anyway, he criticized Android and Android phones." }, { "start": 2353.4, "end": 2357.4, "text": " I think he said Android makes you fight with yourself with something." }, { "start": 2357.4, "end": 2359.4, "text": " And he said on stage with you, there are no good Android phones." }, { "start": 2359.4, "end": 2360.4, "text": " Yeah." }, { "start": 2360.4, "end": 2362.4, "text": " So he wanted to make a phone." }, { "start": 2362.4, "end": 2370.4, "text": " I think at roughly the same time or a little bit afterward, he got this idea for this broader vision, which is really amazing." }, { "start": 2370.4, "end": 2372.4, "text": " So the phone is Android." }, { "start": 2372.4, "end": 2374.4, "text": " It's a nice Android phone." }, { "start": 2374.4, "end": 2378.4, "text": " It could have been a Nexus or a Pixel coming out of Google." }, { "start": 2378.4, "end": 2384.4, "text": " If he still was there, he probably would have done the thing with the pins on one of those phones." }, { "start": 2384.4, "end": 2388.4, "text": " I think you have to put that to one side." }, { "start": 2388.4, "end": 2393.4, "text": " The real story of what Andy is trying to do at this company, which is called Essential," }, { 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"end": 2520.4, "text": " Sure, and then we'll just build the screens into our arms, and then Dieter's sister will wirelessly communicate with him." }, { "start": 2520.4, "end": 2523.4, "text": " She's a very nice person, you guys." }, { "start": 2523.4, "end": 2533.4, "text": " But no, but like if he wants to build this ecosystem of things, having the phone under his control means he's going to put Essential's assistant onto that phone." }, { "start": 2533.4, "end": 2537.4, "text": " We didn't even mention that he also wants to do an assistant also." }, { "start": 2537.4, "end": 2550.4, "text": " But his home device he claims it will interoperate with Siri, Google Assistant, Cortana, I don't know, Bixby, which is the Samsung one." }, { "start": 2550.4, "end": 2557.4, "text": " Actually, on stage Walt listed a bunch of them, and then he said, I didn't mention Bixby, and Andy Rubin said, thank you for not mentioning Bixby." }, { "start": 2557.4, "end": 2566.4, "text": " Can we get him to 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"start": 2592.4, "end": 2600.4, "text": " You can see the promoted advertising Google stuff, and here presumably is what the algorithm that everyone tries to game has delivered to you." }, { "start": 2600.4, "end": 2601.4, "text": " Here's some other stuff." }, { "start": 2601.4, "end": 2602.4, "text": " Here are some YouTube videos." }, { "start": 2602.4, "end": 2605.4, "text": " You know where that stuff is coming from because you see it all in context." }, { "start": 2605.4, "end": 2607.4, "text": " With an assistant, you get one true answer." }, { "start": 2607.4, "end": 2611.4, "text": " There's been a lot of criticism, particularly of Google and how they deliver one true answer." }, { "start": 2611.4, "end": 2616.4, "text": " But all of these assistants are fragmented in extremely serious ways." }, { "start": 2616.4, "end": 2623.4, "text": " Do you see that ever interoperating the way that the web has trained us all to see interoperable devices and services?" }, { "start": 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lot." }, { "start": 2659.4, "end": 2664.4, "text": " If you're listening in your car, a lot of not raised hands." }, { "start": 2664.4, "end": 2666.4, "text": " A lot of people furiously Googling." }, { "start": 2666.4, "end": 2673.4, "text": " The thing that makes all those browsers work is when you make a web page, you're like, I'm making this web page and it's going to work in this way." }, { "start": 2673.4, "end": 2674.4, "text": " It's going to adhere to this spec." }, { "start": 2674.4, "end": 2676.4, "text": " Here's where the header is." }, { "start": 2676.4, "end": 2677.4, "text": " Here's where this is." }, { "start": 2677.4, "end": 2678.4, "text": " They're all standardized." }, { "start": 2678.4, "end": 2680.4, "text": " Everybody agrees this is what it looks like." }, { "start": 2680.4, "end": 2689.4, "text": " When you ask an assistant to go get you information, the thing that the assistant goes and seeks out is not standardized at all." }, { "start": 2689.4, "end": 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"end": 2737.4, "text": " And so one of the things that made our current tech revolution happen was that there was, for a period, I don't know if it still is here," }, { "start": 2737.4, "end": 2741.4, "text": " but there was, for a period, a big open web where everybody competed on a level playing field." }, { "start": 2741.4, "end": 2750.4, "text": " And as long as they could pay for servers to keep their website running, if they just made a better product, customers could just go to them and nobody would stop them." }, { "start": 2750.4, "end": 2754.4, "text": " Like, for instance, the travel sites." }, { "start": 2754.4, "end": 2755.4, "text": " Yes." }, { "start": 2755.4, "end": 2756.4, "text": " What is the number one travel site?" }, { "start": 2756.4, "end": 2760.4, "text": " And I don't know the answer to this as of this moment, but I know it has changed every couple of years." }, { "start": 2760.4, "end": 2762.4, "text": " Yeah, it would be Expedia, it would be Hipmunk, and then it would be blah, blah, blah." }, { "start": 2762.4, "end": 2763.4, "text": " Kayak, whatever." }, { "start": 2763.4, "end": 2764.4, "text": " Yeah, all the great names." }, { "start": 2764.4, "end": 2765.4, "text": " Somebody comes up with a better one." }, { "start": 2765.4, "end": 2778.4, "text": " In a world of ambient computing where you don't know how that information gets to your computer and if anybody is working to make sure there's a standard for it," }, { "start": 2778.4, "end": 2781.4, "text": " I don't know that we have that open web thing." }, { "start": 2781.4, "end": 2786.4, "text": " And I actually, even Google, who says they want to follow that model, I don't know if I trust that they're actually doing it." }, { "start": 2786.4, "end": 2795.4, "text": " Well, and one of the limitations of Siri, and I think they've actually, it's one of the things they've actually fixed a little bit, still have a lot more work to do," }, { "start": 2795.4, "end": 2801.4, "text": " is they started, Siri, the company, before Apple bought it and Apple kept this relationship," }, { "start": 2801.4, "end": 2813.4, "text": " they had to deal with this outfit, Wolfram Alpha, which is a very, I think a very high quality, but it's limited in what kinds of things it knows," }, { "start": 2813.4, "end": 2818.4, "text": " repository of site that has a lot of information on it." }, { "start": 2818.4, "end": 2822.4, "text": " And that's where it initially drew a lot of answers." }, { "start": 2822.4, "end": 2827.4, "text": " Then they did a deal with Bing, and for a while, Bing was in a very serious race." }, { "start": 2827.4, "end": 2834.4, "text": " They never caught Google, but they were pouring a lot of money in, so they had a plausible base." }, { "start": 2834.4, "end": 2842.4, "text": " I think now, as far as I can tell, Microsoft has not, if you're listening to Microsoft, I'm not saying you've officially given up on Bing," }, { "start": 2842.4, "end": 2848.4, "text": " but I think as a priority, it's certainly a much lower priority than it once was at Microsoft." }, { "start": 2848.4, "end": 2854.4, "text": " But it's what Siri goes to for a lot of information, because Apple and Google are competitors." }, { "start": 2854.4, "end": 2858.4, "text": " So they're going to have to figure all that out." }, { "start": 2858.4, "end": 2861.4, "text": " So your points, I agree with all your points about the web." }, { "start": 2861.4, "end": 2865.4, "text": " I think we can't close off this part of the discussion." }, { "start": 2865.4, "end": 2867.4, "text": " Are we done yet, by the way?" }, { "start": 2867.4, "end": 2868.4, "text": " No." }, { "start": 2868.4, "end": 2869.4, "text": " You have an hour left." }, { "start": 2869.4, "end": 2870.4, "text": " Thanks." }, { "start": 2870.4, "end": 2874.4, "text": " We can't close up this part of the discussion without talking about privacy and security, because I think they're really important." }, { "start": 2874.4, "end": 2890.4, "text": " There really is no proof, independent proof, that I've ever seen that these things are not listening and are not recording what you say until you say the wake word." }, { "start": 2890.4, "end": 2896.4, "text": " They all say, don't worry, even though this is set up in your bedroom or your kitchen or wherever." }, { "start": 2896.4, "end": 2898.4, "text": " Amazon's putting cameras on them, yeah." }, { "start": 2898.4, "end": 2906.4, "text": " Amazon has one that is called the Echo Show that they actually want you to use in your bedroom because it can show whether you look good." }, { "start": 2906.4, "end": 2908.4, "text": " The show is the screen and the look is the camera." }, { "start": 2908.4, "end": 2910.4, "text": " I'm sorry, yeah, I'm sorry, the look." }, { "start": 2910.4, "end": 2916.4, "text": " And supposedly it has the intelligence to say whether you look good in whatever you're wearing." }, { "start": 2916.4, "end": 2919.4, "text": " When 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"text": " It's an aggressive move." }, { "start": 2961.4, "end": 2965.4, "text": " But the others will have the same issue." }, { "start": 2965.4, "end": 2968.4, "text": " So the other problem is hacking." }, { "start": 2968.4, "end": 2974.4, "text": " I mean, what's to stop someone, even if all these companies are doing exactly what they say and they're being really scrupulous about it," }, { "start": 2974.4, "end": 2983.4, "text": " what is to stop somebody from hacking into either the servers or somehow into the devices?" }, { "start": 2983.4, "end": 2984.4, "text": " There's also government." }, { "start": 2984.4, "end": 2986.4, "text": " Yeah, it's not just hacking." }, { "start": 2986.4, "end": 2989.4, "text": " There's also governments like..." }, { "start": 2989.4, "end": 2992.4, "text": " Yeah, I consider them hackers." }, { "start": 2992.4, "end": 2994.4, "text": " Hackers for the common good." }, { "start": 2994.4, "end": 2996.4, "text": " This is what Walt's doing with the rest of his career." }, { "start": 2996.4, "end": 3002.4, "text": " Look, look, look, we're not going to get into this subject, I swear, and I'll kill you guys if you try to get into it." }, { "start": 3002.4, "end": 3005.4, "text": " But this subject." }, { "start": 3005.4, "end": 3019.4, "text": " So James Comey is a big hero, but let us not forget that James Comey tried to make Apple make a version of iOS with a backdoor" }, { "start": 3019.4, "end": 3023.4, "text": " and said, don't worry, give it to the FBI, no one will ever get it." }, { "start": 3023.4, "end": 3030.4, "text": " Three weeks ago, am I right, about three weeks ago, there was a global ransomware attack that was based on an exploit," }, { "start": 3030.4, "end": 3037.4, "text": " supposedly locked up in some digital vault at the NSA, and somehow it was stolen." }, { "start": 3037.4, "end": 3046.4, "text": " So, you know, yes, the government is a factor, hackers are a factor, rogue employees could be a factor, there's all kinds of factors." }, { "start": 3046.4, "end": 3053.4, "text": " But with Alexa in particular, there has already been one criminal case where the government went to Amazon and said," }, { "start": 3053.4, "end": 3060.4, "text": " give us the voice commands that this Echo device received so we can construct the timeline of when this person was home or not." }, { "start": 3060.4, "end": 3065.4, "text": " It actually ended up going nowhere because I think the guy just confessed to Amazon and was like, well, we don't have to worry about this." }, { "start": 3065.4, "end": 3067.4, "text": " But it's going to happen again and again and again." }, { "start": 3067.4, "end": 3075.4, "text": " Right, but that was even asking, I mean, that was limited to asking what happened after you said the wake words and issued commands." }, { "start": 3075.4, "end": 3079.4, "text": " I'm talking about what happens before you say the wake word." }, { "start": 3079.4, "end": 3090.4, "text": " I mean, there are lots of people who don't want that thing in their kitchen or in their house because they are not 100% sure that somebody," }, { "start": 3090.4, "end": 3097.4, "text": " whether it's the company or some intruder or the government, somebody isn't recording what you're basically putting a big microphone" }, { "start": 3097.4, "end": 3105.4, "text": " or an array of seven microphones, the HomePod has six, and what is the Google Home has three, two, two." }, { "start": 3105.4, "end": 3109.4, "text": " You're basically putting a bunch of microphones, you're bugging your own house." }, { "start": 3109.4, "end": 3111.4, "text": " That is what you're doing." }, { "start": 3111.4, "end": 3113.4, "text": " You're really, you're bugging your own house." }, { "start": 3113.4, "end": 3114.4, "text": " I wish I had written that in a column." }, { "start": 3114.4, "end": 3115.4, "text": " That's a good phrase." }, { "start": 3115.4, "end": 3117.4, "text": " You've got another couple of hours." }, { "start": 3117.4, "end": 3118.4, "text": " I give it to you guys." }, { "start": 3118.4, "end": 3120.4, "text": " It gets the work." }, { "start": 3120.4, "end": 3122.4, "text": " You're bugging, that's a headline." }, { "start": 3122.4, "end": 3132.4, "text": " You're bugging your own house and you're trusting that A, the bug won't record anything until you say some magic word that they give you," }, { "start": 3132.4, "end": 3142.4, "text": " and B, once it does, it will only act on certain commands, and C, it will erase, it will only use the recording to improve its machine learning" }, { "start": 3142.4, "end": 3144.4, "text": " and then it will erase it." }, { "start": 3144.4, "end": 3150.4, "text": " This is Apple's kind of like huge advantage because their business is selling you things discreetly." }, { "start": 3150.4, "end": 3151.4, "text": " Right." }, { "start": 3151.4, "end": 3152.4, "text": " And also services." }, { "start": 3152.4, "end": 3153.4, "text": " I think you should all be aware that Apple's..." }, { "start": 3153.4, "end": 3155.4, "text": " Yeah, but they don't sell ads." }, { "start": 3155.4, "end": 3156.4, "text": " Right." }, { "start": 3156.4, "end": 3160.4, "text": " But Google's business is collecting the data and using it to do all this other stuff, particularly advertising." }, { "start": 3160.4, "end": 3161.4, "text": " Right." }, { "start": 3161.4, "end": 3162.4, "text": " Apple's business is..." }, { "start": 3162.4, "end": 3167.4, "text": " Yeah, I mean, Apple will tell you constantly that they're about privacy." }, { "start": 3167.4, "end": 3180.4, "text": " Amazon, relative to Google, I think Amazon, they collect a lot, but they collect it in a particular, I'm going to use the word, domain," }, { "start": 3180.4, "end": 3182.4, "text": " which has to do with what you buy." }, { "start": 3182.4, "end": 3189.4, "text": " Obviously, they try to build psychographic profiles of you and all demographic profiles, but it's really about commerce," }, { "start": 3189.4, "end": 3196.4, "text": " and so does Google, and certainly Apple knows what you bought from Apple, but Apple sells Apple stuff." }, { "start": 3196.4, "end": 3202.4, "text": " They don't sell, you can't buy Tide from Apple." }, { "start": 3202.4, "end": 3205.4, "text": " So there's a progression there." }, { "start": 3205.4, "end": 3208.4, "text": " So $2.99 an app purchase, a year-long subscription." }, { "start": 3208.4, "end": 3209.4, "text": " I have a question." }, { "start": 3209.4, "end": 3213.4, "text": " Didn't Lenovo announce a really high-end speaker with Alexa at CES?" }, { "start": 3213.4, "end": 3214.4, "text": " We did." }, { "start": 3214.4, "end": 3215.4, "text": " Is that coming out?" }, { "start": 3215.4, "end": 3216.4, "text": " Give me a due date." }, { "start": 3216.4, "end": 3217.4, "text": " When?" }, { "start": 3217.4, "end": 3218.4, "text": " Soon." }, { "start": 3218.4, "end": 3219.4, "text": " I'm trying to break some news here on the stage." }, { "start": 3219.4, "end": 3220.4, "text": " It's not working." }, { "start": 3220.4, "end": 3226.4, "text": " Those of you who are not journalists, first of all, congratulations." }, { "start": 3226.4, "end": 3234.4, "text": " But secondly, that exchange with one of the best and most honest PR people I know is what happens." }, { "start": 3234.4, "end": 3236.4, "text": " That's our life." }, { "start": 3236.4, "end": 3237.4, "text": " When is that coming out?" }, { "start": 3237.4, "end": 3239.4, "text": " Soon." }, { "start": 3239.4, "end": 3242.4, "text": " All right, so we've got a few minutes left before we take questions." }, { "start": 3242.4, "end": 3244.4, "text": " We always do stay the state." }, { "start": 3244.4, "end": 3246.4, "text": " I think we did stay the state in the last show." }, { "start": 3246.4, "end": 3247.4, "text": " We talked to big companies." }, { "start": 3247.4, "end": 3250.4, "text": " But give these people, the listeners, some advice." }, { "start": 3250.4, "end": 3253.4, "text": " How should they start thinking about these companies?" }, { "start": 3253.4, "end": 3255.4, "text": " What should they expect from these companies?" }, { "start": 3255.4, "end": 3263.4, "text": " These companies are asking for our money, our time, our attention, our data in different ways." }, { "start": 3263.4, "end": 3268.4, "text": " Explain, like, what's your view of what we should be asking for in return and what is too far?" }, { "start": 3268.4, "end": 3275.4, "text": " So first of all, you know, we've been mostly talking about the – and we really haven't talked much at all about Facebook," }, { "start": 3275.4, "end": 3279.4, "text": " which by the way now has a hardware lab." }, { "start": 3279.4, "end": 3284.4, "text": " Can you – raise your hand if you love Facebook." }, { "start": 3284.4, "end": 3286.4, "text": " Raise your hand if you – one person." }, { "start": 3286.4, "end": 3289.4, "text": " Raise your hand if you love Instagram." }, { "start": 3289.4, "end": 3290.4, "text": " It's like, yeah." }, { "start": 3290.4, "end": 3291.4, "text": " Okay." }, { "start": 3291.4, "end": 3292.4, "text": " I think this is Facebook's biggest problem." }, { "start": 3292.4, "end": 3293.4, "text": " I was talking about a lot." }, { "start": 3293.4, "end": 3295.4, "text": " Raise your hand if you love Apple." }, { "start": 3295.4, "end": 3296.4, "text": " Wow." }, { "start": 3296.4, "end": 3298.4, "text": " Raise your hand if you love Microsoft." }, { "start": 3298.4, "end": 3299.4, "text": " That was a lot of hands." }, { "start": 3299.4, "end": 3300.4, "text": " Not like, but love." }, { "start": 3300.4, "end": 3302.4, "text": " This is love." }, { "start": 3302.4, "end": 3305.4, "text": " More than five." }, { "start": 3305.4, "end": 3306.4, "text": " Okay." }, { "start": 3306.4, "end": 3307.4, "text": " All right." }, { "start": 3307.4, "end": 3308.4, "text": " That's fine." }, { "start": 3308.4, "end": 3310.4, "text": " It's fine." }, { "start": 3310.4, "end": 3311.4, "text": " No judgment." }, { "start": 3311.4, "end": 3313.4, "text": " Pretend you're in your therapist's office." }, { "start": 3313.4, "end": 3314.4, "text": " It's just – no judgment." }, { "start": 3314.4, "end": 3315.4, "text": " It's just us, guys." }, { "start": 3315.4, "end": 3317.4, "text": " Raise your hand if you love Google." }, { "start": 3317.4, "end": 3318.4, "text": " Wow." }, { "start": 3318.4, "end": 3319.4, "text": " All right." }, { "start": 3319.4, "end": 3322.4, "text": " Fewer hands than Apple but more vocal." }, { "start": 3322.4, "end": 3326.4, "text": " So – but I think your Facebook point is well taken." }, { "start": 3326.4, "end": 3331.4, "text": " And what I was about to say is in addition to everything they do, including owning Instagram, as you pointed out," }, { "start": 3331.4, "end": 3341.4, "text": " owning WhatsApp, owning Oculus, which is – you know, it's a hard work company and a software company with a fabulous app store," }, { "start": 3341.4, "end": 3343.4, "text": " as I understand it." }, { "start": 3343.4, "end": 3344.4, "text": " They –" }, { "start": 3344.4, "end": 3346.4, "text": " Do you have to do this closer now?" }, { "start": 3346.4, "end": 3352.4, "text": " I have to disclose that my wife, who's in the audience, works for Oculus' app store." }, { "start": 3352.4, "end": 3356.4, "text": " It's my favorite app store." }, { "start": 3356.4, "end": 3363.4, "text": " And I can now disclose that after I retire, I'm becoming their national spokesman for the Oculus app store" }, { "start": 3363.4, "end": 3368.4, "text": " because I am the demographic they want people to associate with." }, { "start": 3368.4, "end": 3372.4, "text": " No, but Facebook does have this thing called Building 8." }, { "start": 3372.4, "end": 3381.4, "text": " They hired this really smart woman who primarily is – who is a hardware engineer and used to run DARPA," }, { "start": 3381.4, "end": 3383.4, "text": " the secret research agency at the Pentagon." }, { "start": 3383.4, "end": 3387.4, "text": " She's really smart and really terrific to interview." }, { "start": 3387.4, "end": 3389.4, "text": " Her name is Regina Dugan." }, { "start": 3389.4, "end": 3391.4, "text": " And she's running a thing called Building 8." }, { "start": 3391.4, "end": 3394.4, "text": " And I don't know what they're doing except what she – what did she say?" }, { "start": 3394.4, "end": 3400.4, "text": " They're going to eventually figure out or they're working on trying to figure out how you can type with your brain and some other stuff." }, { "start": 3400.4, "end": 3402.4, "text": " You can hear with your skin, I think was the other one." }, { "start": 3402.4, "end": 3403.4, "text": " Hear with your skin, yeah." }, { "start": 3403.4, "end": 3405.4, "text": " Just pick a body part and then an idea and then –" }, { "start": 3405.4, "end": 3409.4, "text": " So to answer – yeah, thanks." }, { "start": 3409.4, "end": 3411.4, "text": " Thanks for putting that in my head." }, { "start": 3411.4, "end": 3420.4, "text": " So I don't want to – I'm not going to go through the list of companies and say this, this, about this one." }, { "start": 3420.4, "end": 3429.4, "text": " But here's what we – with these big companies, which have a lot of power over a lot of aspects of your life and are going to get more," }, { "start": 3429.4, "end": 3437.4, "text": " I think we need to expect a very high level of consumer care." }, { "start": 3437.4, "end": 3441.4, "text": " And by that I don't just mean, oh, if it's broken, they'll fix it." }, { "start": 3441.4, "end": 3445.4, "text": " If they have a bug in their software or there's some problem in their hardware, they'll take it back." }, { "start": 3445.4, "end": 3453.4, "text": " I think what we need is for the big companies as well as the smaller startups like, I don't know," }, { "start": 3453.4, "end": 3456.4, "text": " Tinder or something is one example, but there's many others." }, { "start": 3456.4, "end": 3462.4, "text": " Sonos, we talked about, is a very good company, but it's not giant like these guys." }, { "start": 3462.4, "end": 3468.4, "text": " And then a lot of companies whose names we don't know yet who are working on some of this stuff," }, { "start": 3468.4, "end": 3472.4, "text": " the closer we get to ambient – and there are these steps." }, { "start": 3472.4, "end": 3480.4, "text": " If you get AR glasses, if you get a home device that kind of literally is so good that it fades into the background in your mind" }, { "start": 3480.4, "end": 3485.4, "text": " and does a wide variety of things and knows a lot about you because that's the way it gets better," }, { "start": 3485.4, "end": 3493.4, "text": " I think we have to have not like micromanagement kind of regulations," }, { "start": 3493.4, "end": 3500.4, "text": " but we need at least a broad set of principles in a statute passed by the United States Congress." }, { "start": 3500.4, "end": 3503.4, "text": " I'm laughing already." }, { "start": 3503.4, "end": 3507.4, "text": " It's like Walt's retirement troll. He's like, Congress will do it." }, { "start": 3507.4, "end": 3512.4, "text": " Passed by a United States Congress that might be inclined to actually be intelligent" }, { "start": 3512.4, "end": 3517.4, "text": " and do something bipartisan and think it through that would talk about –" }, { "start": 3517.4, "end": 3521.4, "text": " we're the only developed country in the world that has no privacy law." }, { "start": 3521.4, "end": 3529.4, "text": " The Supreme Court has evinced a privacy doctrine, but there's no statute covering this kind of stuff." }, { "start": 3529.4, "end": 3534.4, "text": " And also security. They may be one law. They may be two laws. I don't know." }, { "start": 3534.4, "end": 3538.4, "text": " But it has to be written – you know this." }, { "start": 3538.4, "end": 3541.4, "text": " How many times have you and I talked about it on this very podcast?" }, { "start": 3541.4, "end": 3549.4, "text": " The FCC keeps – depending who's in power, they keep jumping between titles of a very old telecommunications law" }, { "start": 3549.4, "end": 3550.4, "text": " to try to deal with net neutrality." }, { "start": 3550.4, "end": 3551.4, "text": " We should pick the second one." }, { "start": 3551.4, "end": 3555.4, "text": " Yes. I agree with you. But the point is I think there's a better solution," }, { "start": 3555.4, "end": 3562.4, "text": " which is to have an actual – a law that directly addresses it because it's 2017 and it's going to be 2027," }, { "start": 3562.4, "end": 3566.4, "text": " and we need a law that will be worth something in 2027." }, { "start": 3566.4, "end": 3569.4, "text": " So, yeah, to answer your question, I think that's really important." }, { "start": 3569.4, "end": 3573.4, "text": " I will tell you something. I think the companies – and I've talked to some of them about it –" }, { "start": 3573.4, "end": 3578.4, "text": " they would – as they move more and more into this ambient stuff," }, { "start": 3578.4, "end": 3584.4, "text": " they kind of see the benefit of having some guardrails that they know they can live with." }, { "start": 3584.4, "end": 3585.4, "text": " And stability in the market, right?" }, { "start": 3585.4, "end": 3590.4, "text": " Yeah. And of course they have lobbyists in Washington. They'll make sure the bill isn't too bad for them." }, { "start": 3590.4, "end": 3599.4, "text": " As consumers in this room, in the regime that we currently live in, how do we ask those companies to get there?" }, { "start": 3599.4, "end": 3601.4, "text": " Is it just buy the right stuff?" }, { "start": 3601.4, "end": 3604.4, "text": " Yeah. I think you vote with your dollars. I mean, that's the most important thing." }, { "start": 3604.4, "end": 3610.4, "text": " So, I mean, I'll just be – this is not a surprise to anybody, and I've actually answered it directly before." }, { "start": 3610.4, "end": 3618.4, "text": " I carry an iPhone. It's not – I own a Google Pixel because I'm a tech reporter and I have to know about it." }, { "start": 3618.4, "end": 3621.4, "text": " And I actually think it's quite a good phone. I gave it a good review." }, { "start": 3621.4, "end": 3628.4, "text": " But I value – I, Walt Mossberg, personally value privacy more than necessarily – maybe –" }, { "start": 3628.4, "end": 3633.4, "text": " everybody has a different way of weighting these things. I weight privacy very highly." }, { "start": 3633.4, "end": 3637.4, "text": " And I think Apple, because of the business model you explained," }, { "start": 3637.4, "end": 3645.4, "text": " they're much less likely to be collecting stuff about me and certainly to be selling it or using it in a way that's bad." }, { "start": 3645.4, "end": 3652.4, "text": " So – and the encryption is better on the phone because they don't really – they make their money, you know," }, { "start": 3652.4, "end": 3656.4, "text": " as we said, when I walk out the door of the store or get it online." }, { "start": 3656.4, "end": 3661.4, "text": " And so that's a big – for me personally, that's a big reason." }, { "start": 3661.4, "end": 3668.4, "text": " I mean, I like iOS. I like the phones. I like the iPad a lot. There really isn't a competitor for the iPad." }, { "start": 3668.4, "end": 3671.4, "text": " But a big part of it in my mind is privacy." }, { "start": 3671.4, "end": 3676.4, "text": " You may have a different set of expectations. If there's something you want these companies to do," }, { "start": 3676.4, "end": 3682.4, "text": " you should vote with your dollars and maybe not upgrade to the same thing next year" }, { "start": 3682.4, "end": 3690.4, "text": " and maybe switch to the one that you think is standing for something or acting in a way that you want to encourage" }, { "start": 3690.4, "end": 3697.4, "text": " and don't buy the one from a company you think is doing something you want to discourage – basic economics." }, { "start": 3697.4, "end": 3700.4, "text": " That's great advice. But most stuff is free. It's hard, right?" }, { "start": 3700.4, "end": 3701.4, "text": " Vote with your attention." }, { "start": 3701.4, "end": 3702.4, "text": " Yeah." }, { "start": 3702.4, "end": 3703.4, "text": " Well, vote with – that's right." }, { "start": 3703.4, "end": 3705.4, "text": " Go on theverbs.com and give us your attention." }, { "start": 3705.4, "end": 3709.4, "text": " Where we respect all of your rights all the time." }, { "start": 3709.4, "end": 3714.4, "text": " We do. Unless you are a jerk in my comments, in which case I will ban you." }, { "start": 3714.4, "end": 3719.4, "text": " Okay, we're going to do some questions. We've got two mics right here. Get up. Line up." }, { "start": 3719.4, "end": 3721.4, "text": " Yeah, you can't just raise your hand in the back." }, { "start": 3721.4, "end": 3722.4, "text": " Sorry." }, { "start": 3722.4, "end": 3724.4, "text": " You've got to come down here." }, { "start": 3724.4, "end": 3726.4, "text": " All right, guys." }, { "start": 3726.4, "end": 3728.4, "text": " All right, we've got one over here." }, { "start": 3728.4, "end": 3732.4, "text": " Wow, there's just a lot happening. If you're listening –" }, { "start": 3732.4, "end": 3734.4, "text": " Yeah, there's a lot of people who want to ask questions." }, { "start": 3734.4, "end": 3739.4, "text": " There's some people falling over the stage. It is the thunderdome in here." }, { "start": 3739.4, "end": 3742.4, "text": " Folks, we're not here all night, but we'll take as many as we can." }, { "start": 3742.4, "end": 3744.4, "text": " All right, let's start over here." }, { "start": 3744.4, "end": 3747.4, "text": " Oh, you've got to turn this mic on. There we go." }, { "start": 3747.4, "end": 3748.4, "text": " It has a switch." }, { "start": 3748.4, "end": 3749.4, "text": " I know." }, { "start": 3749.4, "end": 3750.4, "text": " Good." }, { "start": 3750.4, "end": 3752.4, "text": " I just learned it from theverbs.com." }, { "start": 3752.4, "end": 3754.4, "text": " Yeah." }, { "start": 3754.4, "end": 3759.4, "text": " My question is that you guys talked about privacy and security a lot," }, { "start": 3759.4, "end": 3763.4, "text": " but what about smart TVs tracking us also?" }, { "start": 3763.4, "end": 3766.4, "text": " I'm here for you." }, { "start": 3766.4, "end": 3768.4, "text": " It's like really pervasive, right?" }, { "start": 3768.4, "end": 3771.4, "text": " I mean, they actually install the tracking at the display driver level," }, { "start": 3771.4, "end": 3775.4, "text": " so before it ever comes onto your screen, they're analyzing the picture on your screen," }, { "start": 3775.4, "end": 3777.4, "text": " and they know if you're playing a video game, they know what video game you're playing." }, { "start": 3777.4, "end": 3783.4, "text": " You can turn it off, and I think it's becoming more and more important for us" }, { "start": 3783.4, "end": 3787.4, "text": " to explain how to turn it off, and it's becoming more and more important for the people who review TVs" }, { "start": 3787.4, "end": 3791.4, "text": " to say don't buy this one because it aggressively tracks you." }, { "start": 3791.4, "end": 3797.4, "text": " I think it's really difficult because the TV manufacturers also want to sell the services," }, { "start": 3797.4, "end": 3799.4, "text": " but they don't make the boxes, right?" }, { "start": 3799.4, "end": 3803.4, "text": " So Roku makes some TVs, but most people buy Samsung TVs and plug a Roku into it." }, { "start": 3803.4, "end": 3807.4, "text": " That conversation hasn't happened at a real level yet," }, { "start": 3807.4, "end": 3811.4, "text": " and I think it will actually take another entrant into the TV market who says we're not doing this," }, { "start": 3811.4, "end": 3816.4, "text": " but our TV is just as good to actually make a change, but it's super pervasive." }, { "start": 3816.4, "end": 3822.4, "text": " Yeah, because I have a Samsung, and turning that thing off is going through, I don't know, a whole bunch of things." }, { "start": 3822.4, "end": 3830.4, "text": " Well, we did a whole control-alt-delete about how complicated the UI is on TVs after I bought an LG TV, which..." }, { "start": 3830.4, "end": 3831.4, "text": " I have the same TV." }, { "start": 3831.4, "end": 3833.4, "text": " We like the picture on it, right?" }, { "start": 3833.4, "end": 3835.4, "text": " I'm speaking to my wife, Edie Mossberg, sitting there." }, { "start": 3835.4, "end": 3839.4, "text": " I am the only person at this table who does not have a webOS TV." }, { "start": 3839.4, "end": 3841.4, "text": " Yeah." }, { "start": 3841.4, "end": 3846.4, "text": " And if you don't know the depth of the agony that causes him..." }, { "start": 3846.4, "end": 3848.4, "text": " We're going to use one? It's going to be bad for you." }, { "start": 3848.4, "end": 3849.4, "text": " All right, over here." }, { "start": 3849.4, "end": 3852.4, "text": " Hi. Sorry, I'm just recording this." }, { "start": 3852.4, "end": 3853.4, "text": " Go ahead." }, { "start": 3853.4, "end": 3857.4, "text": " Real quick. A couple episodes ago, you guys spoke about the fab five companies," }, { "start": 3857.4, "end": 3860.4, "text": " you know, Apple, Google, Amazon, Microsoft." }, { "start": 3860.4, "end": 3862.4, "text": " I don't think we call them fab, but I get your point." }, { "start": 3862.4, "end": 3864.4, "text": " I'm sorry. I made that up. Sorry." }, { "start": 3864.4, "end": 3871.4, "text": " So how long do you think before a company can be successful without going through those five companies," }, { "start": 3871.4, "end": 3873.4, "text": " and what do you think they would have to do?" }, { "start": 3873.4, "end": 3880.4, "text": " Well, you know, I mean, I can't tell you how long, but I think obviously in the first few decades of this whole thing," }, { "start": 3880.4, "end": 3887.4, "text": " remember this whole personal computing thing that made the web possible, that made mobile possible," }, { "start": 3887.4, "end": 3891.4, "text": " that is going to eventually make ambient computing possible, autonomous driving," }, { "start": 3891.4, "end": 3897.4, "text": " that only started in 1977, which sounds like a long time ago for some people, but it's only 40 years ago." }, { "start": 3897.4, "end": 3904.4, "text": " And when you compare that to, I don't know, the railroads, the automobile industry, you know, the textile industry," }, { "start": 3904.4, "end": 3906.4, "text": " all these things are much older." }, { "start": 3906.4, "end": 3913.4, "text": " So I think these weren't always the five big companies, and they may not always be the five big companies." }, { "start": 3913.4, "end": 3919.4, "text": " There could be something that pops up that we don't know that gets into one of the leadership positions." }, { "start": 3919.4, "end": 3924.4, "text": " And one of these or two of these guys may drop away." }, { "start": 3924.4, "end": 3927.4, "text": " So I don't know how long it will take for there to be change," }, { "start": 3927.4, "end": 3934.4, "text": " but I think change in business and particularly in the tech business is assured." }, { "start": 3934.4, "end": 3937.4, "text": " I just don't know what the change will be or when it will happen." }, { "start": 3937.4, "end": 3942.4, "text": " And I'm not hoping for any one particular one of these companies to go away," }, { "start": 3942.4, "end": 3946.4, "text": " but what makes these companies big are they're all platforms, and that's different." }, { "start": 3946.4, "end": 3957.4, "text": " You know, Samsung is a very powerful electronics company that also is a giant conglomerate that builds ships" }, { "start": 3957.4, "end": 3963.4, "text": " and buildings and makes chips and does other things, but it's not a platform." }, { "start": 3963.4, "end": 3967.4, "text": " It's tried, constantly keeps trying, but it's not a platform." }, { "start": 3967.4, "end": 3971.4, "text": " And these five companies are big because they're platforms for other companies." }, { "start": 3971.4, "end": 3972.4, "text": " Right. Yeah." }, { "start": 3972.4, "end": 3973.4, "text": " Over here." }, { "start": 3973.4, "end": 3978.4, "text": " Hi, my name is Jonathan Walt. Thanks for taking a picture with me earlier." }, { "start": 3978.4, "end": 3980.4, "text": " No problem." }, { "start": 3980.4, "end": 3984.4, "text": " So my question is I've been watching your interviews with a lot of people since fifth grade," }, { "start": 3984.4, "end": 3991.4, "text": " and I'm curious to know. I'm serious. I'm serious. I'm curious to know." }, { "start": 3991.4, "end": 3995.4, "text": " Can it, I mean, really." }, { "start": 3995.4, "end": 3999.4, "text": " My wife is going, you're old." }, { "start": 3999.4, "end": 4001.4, "text": " I'm curious to know." }, { "start": 4001.4, "end": 4004.4, "text": " I hope you did something else in school." }, { "start": 4004.4, "end": 4006.4, "text": " Not really. My mom would say not really." }, { "start": 4006.4, "end": 4007.4, "text": " Yeah." }, { "start": 4007.4, "end": 4013.4, "text": " I'm curious to know just because aside from the fact that you are a non-tech person reviewing tech products," }, { "start": 4013.4, "end": 4020.4, "text": " what do you think makes your taste in products and how people interface with their products so perceptive" }, { "start": 4020.4, "end": 4024.4, "text": " and has become the trait that even tech moguls really admire and respect?" }, { "start": 4024.4, "end": 4026.4, "text": " I mean, Tony Fidel was talking about the-" }, { "start": 4026.4, "end": 4030.4, "text": " Yeah, we paid everyone in that video." }, { "start": 4030.4, "end": 4039.4, "text": " Well, first of all, I spent ten years as a tech hobbyist at a time when, you know, to put memory in your computer," }, { "start": 4039.4, "end": 4043.4, "text": " you had to buy the chips one by one and plug them into a board." }, { "start": 4043.4, "end": 4050.4, "text": " At a time when you had to learn BASIC. This isn't well known about me, but I'm kind of a coder." }, { "start": 4050.4, "end": 4053.4, "text": " I wrote like little games in BASIC." }, { "start": 4053.4, "end": 4054.4, "text": " You got to distribute these." }, { "start": 4054.4, "end": 4056.4, "text": " At what point?" }, { "start": 4056.4, "end": 4061.4, "text": " $79.99 on the App Store. 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"start": 4528.4, "end": 4529.4, "text": " They can talk to us next week." }, { "start": 4529.4, "end": 4530.4, "text": " All right." }, { "start": 4530.4, "end": 4535.4, "text": " This is actually for all of you guys, because it's very much about the changing of the guard from you all to guys like these guys." }, { "start": 4535.4, "end": 4536.4, "text": " Yeah." }, { "start": 4536.4, "end": 4542.4, "text": " I like them okay." }, { "start": 4542.4, "end": 4549.4, "text": " But, anyway, so I really want to know what you guys think about what the future of technology journalism looks like, because you guys spend a lot of time talking about technology." }, { "start": 4549.4, "end": 4550.4, "text": " Okay." }, { "start": 4550.4, "end": 4558.4, "text": " We should all talk about it, and Neelai and Dieter actually think about it more than I do, because, hell, I'm leaving, but." }, { "start": 4558.4, "end": 4568.4, "text": " First of all, let me just say, and this is something I absolutely 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"start": 4612.4, "end": 4623.4, "text": " I mean, all this FUD that's been thrown up about fake news, and you can't trust, you know, mainstream media or whatever, there's just a lot of junk," }, { "start": 4623.4, "end": 4632.4, "text": " but people at these news organizations are working very hard, and they are ethical, for the most part, like any other profession," }, { "start": 4632.4, "end": 4637.4, "text": " there are going to be outliers and there are going to be problems." }, { "start": 4637.4, "end": 4643.4, "text": " So I think the first thing is tech journalism has to stick to principles of good journalism," }, { "start": 4643.4, "end": 4653.4, "text": " and then you have to go out and you have to do several things, one of which is you'd like to bring to your readers news before other people do," }, { "start": 4653.4, "end": 4657.4, "text": " but I don't mean two minutes before in a sloppy way." }, { "start": 4657.4, "end": 4665.4, "text": " I don't think that's very 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So thank you very much." }, { "start": 4772.4, "end": 4778.4, "text": " Thanks for coming." }, { "start": 4802.4, "end": 4811.4, "text": "." } ]

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Just make sure you wipe down the fabric every now and then." }, { "start": 462.56, "end": 468.8, "text": " You notice when people do guns, they like, a gun, they go like that, like pew, and that's" }, { "start": 468.8, "end": 492.88, "text": " wrong, the hammer goes down. So pew, yeah. Pew pew. Not pew pew. Like that's dumb." } ]

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The kind of stuff" }, { "start": 274.8, "end": 278.34000000000003, "text": " you're going to see is you're going to swipe up to get a dock just like a Mac where you can have a ton of" }, { "start": 278.34000000000003, "end": 282.46000000000004, "text": " apps on it. 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And if you're going to try and make this thing your primary device" }, { "start": 336.05999999999995, "end": 338.55999999999995, "text": " you probably want to step up to the" }, { "start": 339.17999999999995, "end": 345.34, "text": " $750 edition which has 256 gigs of storage which is enough storage for your main computer." }, { "start": 346.4, "end": 351.82, "text": " Now the question, the perennial question for iPads is can you make it your main computer?" }, { "start": 352.53999999999996, "end": 353.58, "text": " Well," }, { "start": 353.58, "end": 358.02, "text": " maybe. If you know a lot about iOS, you know exactly what you need out of a computer," }, { "start": 358.02, "end": 361.53999999999996, "text": " you know how to get everything out of it, you could probably pull it off. For me," }, { "start": 361.53999999999996, "end": 366.38, "text": " I can't quite do that. There are a few things that I just can't get out of an iPad right now." }, { "start": 366.82, "end": 369.68, "text": " But I think that might change with iOS 11." }, { "start": 369.71999999999997, "end": 375.02, "text": " So if you're not in a hurry, I would wait. Wait for iOS 11, see what it does to iPads," }, { "start": 375.02, "end": 377.59999999999997, "text": " see if you can turn this thing into your main computer." }, { "start": 377.6, "end": 383.28000000000003, "text": " Until then, basically if you need an iPad and you must have the best thing," }, { "start": 383.28, "end": 407.28, "text": " the iPad Pro 10.5 inch is definitely the best thing." } ]

[ { "start": 0, "end": 5, "text": " Good evening and welcome to the 2017 Bethesda E3 Showcase." }, { "start": 6, "end": 9, "text": " And welcome to Bethesda Land." }, { "start": 9, "end": 13, "text": " We will offer you an experience at E3 unlike anything else." }, { "start": 13, "end": 17, "text": " And a chance to celebrate some of the world's best video games." }, { "start": 17, "end": 21, "text": " So let's start our tour of Bethesda Land with two VR games coming out this year." }, { "start": 21, "end": 23, "text": " You ready?" }, { "start": 23, "end": 29, "text": " Let's take a look." }, { "start": 37, "end": 44, "text": " Finally, a full length open world game with near limitless content playable entirely in VR." }, { "start": 44, "end": 49, "text": " Sure will be exciting to play Fallout 4 in VR." }, { "start": 49, "end": 56, "text": " The Elder Scrolls Online first released in 2014 and has built a massive community." }, { "start": 56, "end": 61, "text": " Now you can return to a thrilling fan favorite location, Morrowind." }, { "start": 62, "end": 64, "text": " Introducing Creation Club." }, { "start": 64, "end": 68, "text": " A collection of new game content for Skyrim and Fallout 4." }, { "start": 68, "end": 73, "text": " Creation Club content is made by Bethesda Game Studios and outside developers." }, { "start": 73, "end": 75, "text": " Including the very best community creators." }, { "start": 75, "end": 81, "text": " Creation Club is coming this summer for the PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC." }, { "start": 81, "end": 87, "text": " Even those lost amongst the mountains can find their way within the stars." }, { "start": 87, "end": 90, "text": " They all await in Skyrim." }, { "start": 90, "end": 94, "text": " You must simply find the path." }, { "start": 94, "end": 104, "text": " Now for the first time, Skyrim, one of our most beloved games, is coming to a Nintendo platform." }, { "start": 104, "end": 107, "text": " Now that's a switch." }, { "start": 109, "end": 116, "text": " Bethesda has always believed in immersive worlds in which players can tell their own stories," }, { "start": 116, "end": 120, "text": " be who they want to be and do what they want to do." }, { "start": 120, "end": 125, "text": " This September, get ready for another adventure in the Dishonored Universe." }, { "start": 125, "end": 130, "text": " A story of revenge and the ultimate assassination." }, { "start": 132, "end": 139, "text": " In 1996, bands came together to play a fast-paced, revolutionary new shooter called Quake." }, { "start": 139, "end": 144, "text": " This year, Quake Champions takes eSports to the next level." }, { "start": 144, "end": 152, "text": " Wow, on Friday, October 13th, The Evil Within 2 will surely be giving us all nightmares." }, { "start": 152, "end": 156, "text": " We hope you've enjoyed your time in Bethesda Lab." }, { "start": 156, "end": 163, "text": " And as we near the end of our tour, we leave you with one more coming attraction." }, { "start": 163, "end": 166, "text": " One of our soldiers who ever lived." }, { "start": 166, "end": 168, "text": " Power of Thunder." }, { "start": 168, "end": 169, "text": " Welcome back to round three." }, { "start": 169, "end": 171, "text": " Now is where it gets real." }, { "start": 171, "end": 174, "text": " It's really exciting on America's number one game show." }, { "start": 174, "end": 176, "text": " General Niles!" }, { "start": 176, "end": 177, "text": " Here we go." }, { "start": 177, "end": 182, "text": " You think you're a hero, William Joseph Cusker?" }, { "start": 187, "end": 190, "text": " One strawberry milkshake, please." }, { "start": 192, "end": 196, "text": " Now you. Show me your identification papers." }, { "start": 196, "end": 201, "text": " Show me your identification papers. Please." }, { "start": 205, "end": 208, "text": " We gotta put the fighting spirit back in the American people." }, { "start": 209, "end": 214, "text": " Stay calm. Let me first make it absolutely clear that I am not a Nazi." }, { "start": 214, "end": 217, "text": " What did you say? You say you're a Nazi?" }, { "start": 218, "end": 220, "text": " Let me say this again." }, { "start": 220, "end": 223, "text": " I ain't no goddamn Nazi." }, { "start": 223, "end": 233, "text": " We can't wait to show you guys more of Wolfenstein 2 and how it combines a compelling shooter with great story, unforgettable characters, and killer graphics with over the top action." }, { "start": 233, "end": 237, "text": " If you're here at E3, we hope you'll come by the booth and say hi." }, { "start": 237, "end": 245, "text": " If you're not here in LA, please keep jigging Bethesda.net where we'll have lots more to say about the games you saw tonight and the coming days, weeks, and months." }, { "start": 245, "end": 253, "text": " And we thank all of you online for joining us. Please have a good night." }, { "start": 253, "end": 270, "text": " Hey, little fella. What are you doing here? It's dangerous here. You have to be so quiet." } ]

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Welcome to WWDC." }, { "start": 5, "end": 10, "text": " Now we have a lot to talk about today, and I do mean a lot." }, { "start": 10, "end": 18, "text": " We have six important announcements to share with you this morning, and I'll start with TVOS." }, { "start": 18, "end": 29, "text": " We're really thrilled to announce that Amazon is coming to the TV app and all Apple TVs later this year with Amazon Prime Video." }, { "start": 29, "end": 34, "text": " Number two, let's talk about Apple Watch." }, { "start": 34, "end": 40, "text": " So, WatchOS is moving forward really quickly, and I'm very excited to introduce WatchOS 4 today." }, { "start": 40, "end": 42, "text": " This is the new Siri watch face." }, { "start": 42, "end": 46, "text": " Now, it automatically displays the information that's most relevant to you," }, { "start": 46, "end": 50, "text": " and you can also access Siri just by tapping on the new complication on the top left." }, { "start": 50, "end": 55, "text": " And it automatically displays this information with the same type of intelligence we've applied on iOS." }, { "start": 55, "end": 61, "text": " We're using machine learning to adapt automatically based on your routines and apps that you use when you use them." }, { "start": 61, "end": 66, "text": " Now, sometimes you might like kind of less information and more graphics, and that's the soul of the new kaleidoscope face." }, { "start": 66, "end": 71, "text": " It displays a beautiful symmetrical pattern that slowly changes throughout the day." }, { "start": 71, "end": 74, "text": " And you can rotate the crown and you can get this kind of trippy effect whenever you want." }, { "start": 74, "end": 80, "text": " Now, Mickey and Minnie have been a big hit on Apple Watch, and more characters have been working to find their way in." }, { "start": 80, "end": 85, "text": " And I'm really excited to welcome Woody and Jessie and Buzz." }, { "start": 85, "end": 91, "text": " WatchOS 4 activity notifications are more personalized to you to help you close your rings more often." }, { "start": 91, "end": 94, "text": " We're also introducing monthly challenges." }, { "start": 94, "end": 100, "text": " These challenges are designed to help you either beat or repeat something that you accomplished or came close to doing," }, { "start": 100, "end": 103, "text": " and they're all achievable because they're based on your real history." }, { "start": 103, "end": 107, "text": " Now, we've also enhanced the workout app to be even easier to use and more powerful." }, { "start": 107, "end": 112, "text": " Starting with the new UI, where Quick Start's right up front, you can just tap and go. It's much easier." }, { "start": 112, "end": 117, "text": " We're enabling, for the first time, two-way data exchange in real time with gym equipment." }, { "start": 117, "end": 120, "text": " Now, this is being supported by the largest gym manufacturers in the world." }, { "start": 120, "end": 123, "text": " We provide about 80% of equipment in gyms today." }, { "start": 123, "end": 127, "text": " And Apple Watch-enabled equipment will be rolling out starting this fall." }, { "start": 127, "end": 132, "text": " With the new music app, we're going to automatically sync music for you based on what you love to listen to." }, { "start": 132, "end": 137, "text": " You can easily play your music now, and we support multiple playlists and music on the watch now." }, { "start": 137, "end": 143, "text": " There's a lot more coming in WatchOS 4, including, for example, a new flashlight in the control center," }, { "start": 143, "end": 146, "text": " which you can also use as a blinking safety light when you're doing an evening run." }, { "start": 146, "end": 149, "text": " And we're also now supporting native core Bluetooth on the watch." }, { "start": 149, "end": 154, "text": " So, for example, continuous glucose monitoring directly from Dexcom's sensor to your watch." }, { "start": 154, "end": 158, "text": " Developer preview is available today, so you can get going." }, { "start": 158, "end": 161, "text": " And there's a free upgrade for everyone across all watches this fall." }, { "start": 161, "end": 169, "text": " Now, let's talk about a product that in many ways is the heart and soul of Apple." }, { "start": 169, "end": 173, "text": " And, of course, I'm talking about the Mac." }, { "start": 173, "end": 181, "text": " It's my privilege to announce for you today Mac OS High Sierra." }, { "start": 181, "end": 189, "text": " Now, you know sometimes you go to read an article, and instead of finding something to read, you get this?" }, { "start": 189, "end": 196, "text": " Just some loud audio and video that auto plays and disrupts your whole reading vibe?" }, { "start": 196, "end": 202, "text": " Well, now, don't worry about it, because we have auto play blocking in Safari." }, { "start": 202, "end": 208, "text": " Now, have you ever had this experience where you go to buy something on the web, you know, you even complete the purchase," }, { "start": 208, "end": 213, "text": " and then it seems like everywhere you go on the web, it just follows you around." }, { "start": 213, "end": 216, "text": " It kind of feels like you're being tracked." }, { "start": 216, "end": 219, "text": " And that's because you are." }, { "start": 219, "end": 224, "text": " No longer, because Safari has intelligent tracking prevention." }, { "start": 224, "end": 228, "text": " Search in Mail is now using Spotlight to identify your top hits," }, { "start": 228, "end": 232, "text": " so the message you're looking for is almost always right there at the top." }, { "start": 232, "end": 237, "text": " And if you're into using Mail in full screen, well, now we support Split View for your compose window." }, { "start": 237, "end": 240, "text": " It's a great way to compose mail." }, { "start": 240, "end": 243, "text": " Photos has some great new organization and editing tools." }, { "start": 243, "end": 249, "text": " There's a persistent sidebar and a new view that has all your imports in chronological order." }, { "start": 249, "end": 251, "text": " And we've also improved faces." }, { "start": 251, "end": 256, "text": " It recognizes far more faces automatically using advanced convolutional neural networks." }, { "start": 256, "end": 260, "text": " And when you put effort into categorizing and naming people," }, { "start": 260, "end": 264, "text": " well, that's now synchronized automatically across all your devices." }, { "start": 264, "end": 268, "text": " Now, we also have some great enhancements to editing inside of Photos." }, { "start": 268, "end": 272, 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"start": 1084, "end": 1089, "text": " the team has also worked hard to make it a great and helpful home assistant as well." }, { "start": 1089, "end": 1095, "text": " And because there is a HomePod base, a HomeKit base built into HomePod," }, { "start": 1095, "end": 1098, "text": " that means anywhere in the world once you've set up your first HomePod," }, { "start": 1098, "end": 1105, "text": " you control your HomeKit devices remotely using the built in Home app on your iPhone or iPad." }, { "start": 1105, "end": 1112, "text": " So we're really excited to tell you that HomePod is going to be priced for $349." }, { "start": 1112, "end": 1115, "text": " It comes in white and space gray." }, { "start": 1115, "end": 1121, "text": " It will start shipping this December, first in the U.S., U.K. and Australia." }, { "start": 1121, "end": 1124, "text": " And then next year we'll start bringing it around the world." }, { "start": 1124, "end": 1126, "text": " It's been an incredible morning." }, { "start": 1126, "end": 1130, "text": " I hope everyone here has a fantastic week." }, { "start": 1130, "end": 1132, "text": " Thank you. Thank you." }, { "start": 1132, "end": 1139, "text": " All right." }, { "start": 1139, "end": 1143, "text": " So many great things happening with the Mac." }, { "start": 1143, "end": 1160, "text": " And John, I agree, that iMac Pro is really bad ass." } ]

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There's probably more there than there are gas stations." }, { "start": 78, "end": 82, "text": " They might not all work, but there's so many of them that it doesn't really matter." }, { "start": 82, "end": 84, "text": " And the thing is, that's probably not the case where you live." }, { "start": 84, "end": 87, "text": " It's certainly not the case where I live and drive the most." }, { "start": 91, "end": 94, "text": " So the Bolt has a lot of responsibilities on its pretty small shoulders." }, { "start": 94, "end": 98, "text": " It's supposed to be the day-to-day electric car that can work for anybody." }, { "start": 98, "end": 101, "text": " It's also pretty inexpensive at under $40,000." }, { "start": 101, "end": 105, "text": " And when you factor in the tax incentives on top of that, it's even more appealing." }, { "start": 105, "end": 110, "text": " But it's still early days for electric vehicles, and not everything is ready for a world of electric cars." }, { "start": 110, "end": 114, "text": " I've been driving the Bolt around the suburban areas of New York State for the past week." }, { "start": 114, "end": 120, "text": " And while I do really like it, there are definitely some things you need to consider if you're thinking about going fully electric for your next car." }, { "start": 120, "end": 125, "text": " So the app I was using earlier brought me here, and I'm plugged into this charger." }, { "start": 125, "end": 132, "text": " And unfortunately, it doesn't work because this Golden Corral shut down like three weeks ago, and nobody's updated the listing in the app." }, { "start": 132, "end": 137, "text": " And I guess that's just one of the things you have to deal with as an early adopter of electric vehicles." }, { "start": 140, "end": 143, "text": " Let's start with what it's like to drive the Bolt." }, { "start": 144, "end": 150, "text": " Surprisingly, or not, it's not hugely different from driving a standard car with an internal combustion 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eats all of it up, leaving me little room for groceries or other stuff." }, { "start": 215, "end": 217, "text": " The interior design of the Bolt is also mixed." }, { "start": 217, "end": 222, "text": " It has a slightly futuristic decor that will probably look super dated in just a couple of years," }, { "start": 222, "end": 224, "text": " but it is ergonomic and comfortable." }, { "start": 224, "end": 226, "text": " Now this isn't a luxury car by any stretch," }, { "start": 226, "end": 230, "text": " but it does have leather seating options, heated seats, and automatic climate control." }, { "start": 230, "end": 233, "text": " The main screen is where you can see things like how much range is left," }, { "start": 233, "end": 236, "text": " what's been using the car's battery, and program charging times." }, { "start": 236, "end": 245, "text": " It's resistive, which is a little bit of a bummer, but it's responsive enough if you hit it hard enough." }, { "start": 245, "end": 249, "text": " So Chevy says that the maximum range you're going to get between charges is about 240 miles." }, { "start": 249, "end": 253, "text": " But that varies a lot depending on how you drive, how much climate control you use," }, { "start": 253, "end": 256, "text": " the terrain you're driving on, and even the temperature outside." }, { "start": 256, "end": 260, "text": " Now in my time with it, it's been closer to about 200 miles per charge," }, { "start": 260, "end": 262, "text": " at least based on the meter inside the car." }, { "start": 262, "end": 265, "text": " And certain things you do can instantly change the power," }, { "start": 265, "end": 270, "text": " so if I turn off the climate control here, it instantly gives me another 10 miles of range." }, { "start": 270, "end": 273, "text": " But if I turn it back on because it's hot outside," }, { "start": 273, "end": 277, "text": " I've just knocked 10 miles off my range right there." }, { "start": 277, "end": 281, "text": " 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Now if you're going to buy a Bolt and you live in the suburbs like I do," }, { "start": 313, "end": 315, "text": " or anywhere outside of a major metro area," }, { "start": 315, "end": 319, "text": " you really need to invest in a level two charger for your garage." }, { "start": 319, "end": 321, "text": " It'll run you about $1,000 to get one installed," }, { "start": 321, "end": 326, "text": " but it lets you get a full charge overnight and eliminates many of the range anxiety concerns." }, { "start": 326, "end": 329, "text": " Now I've been stuck with the super slow level one charging in my garage," }, { "start": 329, "end": 332, "text": " so it's taken a lot of time to get even a little bit of charge," }, { "start": 332, "end": 336, "text": " which has made this week with the Bolt a little bit more stressful than normal." }, { "start": 338, "end": 341, "text": " Well, you don't want to become a slave to the gauge." }, { "start": 341, "end": 348, "text": " So you don't want the range to be constantly dictating how you're driving" }, { "start": 348, "end": 349, "text": " and what you're using." }, { "start": 349, "end": 351, "text": " This bus just cut me off." }, { "start": 353, "end": 356, "text": " So the thing is, if you're driving around and your windows are fogging up" }, { "start": 356, "end": 360, "text": " and you're afraid to turn the defroster on because it's going to shorten your range," }, { "start": 360, "end": 361, "text": " that's stupid." }, { "start": 361, "end": 364, "text": " Turn the defroster on and clear your windows up." }, { "start": 364, "end": 365, "text": " Come on." }, { "start": 366, "end": 367, "text": " That's ridiculous." }, { "start": 368, "end": 369, "text": " Would I buy this car?" }, { "start": 369, "end": 374, "text": " Probably not, because the infrastructure where I live and where I drive just isn't built out yet." }, { "start": 374, "end": 378, "text": " Now those are the same issues that any other electric car has, even a Tesla." }, { "start": 378, "end": 382, "text": " Electric vehicles are still beta experiences, but at the end of the day," }, { "start": 382, "end": 385, "text": " when you beta test a Tesla, you still own a Tesla." }, { "start": 385, "end": 388, "text": " And when you beta test a Bolt, you're driving a Chevy." }, { "start": 388, "end": 390, "text": " I think I know which one I'd rather have." }, { "start": 392, "end": 394, "text": " Yeah, I think they closed." }, { "start": 394, "end": 395, "text": " I think it closed." }, { "start": 399, "end": 401, "text": " No, no, I think it opened and then it closed." }, { "start": 402, "end": 403, "text": " Yeah." }, { "start": 404, "end": 405, "text": " I have no idea." }, { "start": 405, "end": 407, "text": " It was in the newspaper a couple of weeks ago." }, { "start": 407, "end": 408, "text": " It was kind of weird." } ]

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[ { "start": 0, "end": 8, "text": " Hey, it's Chaim from The Verge, and this is the Acer Predator 21X." }, { "start": 8, "end": 13, "text": " It's the biggest, most powerful, most expensive gaming laptop ever made." }, { "start": 13, "end": 19, "text": " It's a $9,000 behemoth with 21-inch screen that literally dwarfs any other computer." }, { "start": 19, "end": 23, "text": " And while it's certainly an impressive-looking and massive device," }, { "start": 23, "end": 30, "text": " is there any real reason to justify buying it, or even for it to exist at all?" }, { "start": 30, "end": 36, "text": " I've been using it for a couple weeks now, and the one thing I can't emphasize enough is just how big this thing is." }, { "start": 36, "end": 38, "text": " Like, really, really big." }, { "start": 38, "end": 43, "text": " It weighs almost 19 pounds, which is about as much as six MacBook Pros." }, { "start": 43, "end": 50, "text": " Incidentally, its $9,000 price tag is also the cost of six MacBook Pros." }, { "start": 50, "end": 53, "text": " Despite the size, it is technically still a laptop." }, { "start": 53, "end": 59, "text": " It has a screen, it has a battery, and at least on paper, it works unplugged and away from a wall." }, { "start": 59, "end": 63, "text": " The Predator 21X checks all the major boxes for a gaming computer." }, { "start": 63, "end": 70, "text": " Glowing LEDs, huge plastic vents, a giant roaring dragon, a cutaway to see inside the computer." }, { "start": 70, "end": 73, "text": " All here. Just, you know, bigger." }, { "start": 73, "end": 77, "text": " Subtlety is not exactly this thing's strong suit." }, { "start": 77, "end": 82, "text": " With that kind of firepower, it would be surprising if anything didn't run well on the Predator." }, { "start": 82, "end": 88, "text": " And fortunately, anything from Rocket League to the incredibly graphically intensive Battlefield 1 runs great." }, { "start": 88, "end": 92, "text": " Just simply go to the menu, hit maximum settings, and you're ready to go." }, { "start": 92, "end": 95, "text": " Performance does take a bit of a hit, though, when you're unplugged." }, { "start": 100, "end": 105, "text": " And using this as an actual computer? It works." }, { "start": 105, "end": 111, "text": " But using this thing for anything other than playing games is a lot like using a Lamborghini to drive to a grocery store." }, { "start": 111, "end": 115, "text": " It'll get you there, but it's not really what it's for." }, { "start": 115, "end": 119, "text": " Could you use it to get work done on the subway or take over a table at your local coffee shop?" }, { "start": 119, "end": 126, "text": " Sure. But you'll look ridiculous while you're doing it, and there's really much better ways to use this computer." }, { "start": 126, "end": 131, "text": " Acer only ships it in one model, with an overclocked Core i7 processor," }, { "start": 131, "end": 141, "text": " dual GTX 1080 graphics card, a 1TB hard drive, two 500GB SSDs, and a completely unnecessary 64GB of RAM." }, { "start": 141, "end": 145, "text": " The screen is a curved 21-inch panel, which is a first for a laptop," }, { "start": 145, "end": 151, "text": " and has a Tobii eye-tracking rig attached to the bottom that can track your eyes while playing games to aim and light up UI elements." }, { "start": 151, "end": 159, "text": " At just under two hours, battery life is a bit lower than you'd expect from the usual 7 to 10 that you'd want from a regular work computer." }, { "start": 159, "end": 165, "text": " The mechanical keyboard is really loud, and gets really uncomfortable to use if you're not using the optional palm rest." }, { "start": 165, "end": 171, "text": " The trackpad is actually surprisingly good for a Windows computer, but it's a bit small for navigating the giant screen." }, { "start": 171, "end": 179, "text": " Fortunately, it flips over to become a number pad, because if you're using the trackpad on this thing, you're already missing the point." }, { "start": 179, "end": 184, "text": " And yeah, it is a bit bulky to carry around when you're out and about." }, { "start": 184, "end": 188, "text": " I'd highly recommend using two hands to carry it pretty much at all times." }, { "start": 188, "end": 191, "text": " And that's not even factoring in the chargers." }, { "start": 191, "end": 193, "text": " That's right, there are two of them." }, { "start": 193, "end": 196, "text": " Each of which also weighs a couple pounds." }, { "start": 196, "end": 200, "text": " And while the Predator itself is bigger than my entire backpack," }, { "start": 200, "end": 206, "text": " fortunately Acer includes a custom-wheeled case so that you can take it to commute, or to a nearby coffee shop." }, { "start": 206, "end": 210, "text": " And it's that carrying case that really sums up the Predator 21X." }, { "start": 210, "end": 214, "text": " It's out of place and impractical to an extreme." }, { "start": 214, "end": 218, "text": " It's not really meant to fit in your bag or on your desk, because it's supposed to stand out." }, { "start": 218, "end": 221, "text": " The Predator 21X is a trophy of a laptop." }, { "start": 221, "end": 225, "text": " It's for people who need to have the biggest, best thing out there." }, { "start": 225, "end": 231, "text": " If you're a regular computer user or even a serious gamer, there's still no reason to consider buying one." }, { "start": 231, "end": 236, "text": " And yet, I'm glad that something as ridiculous as the Predator 21X exists." }, { "start": 236, "end": 244, "text": " Because as expensive and impractical as it is, it's nice to know that, at least at Acer, sheer overkill is still in style." }, { "start": 244, "end": 246, "text": " How many of these did you use for a couple weeks now?" }, { "start": 246, "end": 248, "text": " $9,000." }, { "start": 248, "end": 251, "text": " You're gonna put in a wheeled case and walk around?" }, { "start": 251, "end": 266, "text": " The case is giant. It's like a giant plastic suitcase." } ]

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[ { "start": 0, "end": 17.28, "text": " Good morning. Welcome to Google I O. As of this week, we crossed over two billion active devices of Android. We are clearly at an inflection point with vision. And so today we are announcing a new initiative called Google lens." }, { "start": 17.28, "end": 47.28, "text": " Google lens is a set of vision based computing capabilities that can understand what you're looking at and help you take action based on that information. So for example, if you run into something and you want to know what it is, say a flower, you can invoke Google lens from your assistant, point your phone at it, and we can tell you what flower it is. Or if you've ever been at a friend's place and you've crawled under a desk just to get the username and password from a Wi Fi router, you can use the" }, { "start": 47.28, "end": 76.76, "text": " router, you can point your phone at it. So we've been working hard and I'm really excited to announce our next generation of TPUs, cloud TPUs, which are optimized for both training and inference. Each board is capable of 180 trillion floating point operations per second. And, you know, we have designed it for our data centers so you can easily stack them. You can put 64 of these into one big" }, { "start": 76.76, "end": 88.24000000000001, "text": " supercomputer. We call these TPU parts and each part is capable of 11.5 petaflops. So cloud TPUs are coming to Google Compute Engine as of today." }, { "start": 88.24, "end": 117.52, "text": " We are excited about designing better machine learning models, but today it is really time consuming. We want it to be possible for hundreds of thousands of developers to use machine learning. So what better way to do this than getting neural nets to design better neural nets. We call this approach auto M O. It's learning to learn. But the most important product we are using this is for Google search and Google Assistant." }, { "start": 117.52, "end": 138.92, "text": " So today we're adding the ability to type to your assistant on the phone. Soon with the smarts of Google Lens, your assistant will be able to have a conversation about what you see. I just tap the Google Lens icon, point the camera and my assistant can instantly translate the meant to English. And now I continue the conversation." }, { "start": 139.96, "end": 140.96, "text": " What does it look like?" }, { "start": 142.64, "end": 143.92, "text": " These pictures should match." }, { "start": 143.92, "end": 155, "text": " All right. It looks pretty yummy. Second, the assistant is becoming a more connected experience. And today I'm excited to announce that the Google Assistant is now available on the iPhone." }, { "start": 156.64, "end": 170.79999999999998, "text": " We think the assistant should be available on all kinds of devices where people might want to ask for help. The new Google Assistant SDK allows any device manufacturer to easily build the Google Assistant into whatever they're building." }, { "start": 170.8, "end": 184.56, "text": " Starting this summer, the Google Assistant will begin rolling out in French, German, Brazilian, Portuguese and Japanese on both Android phones and iPhones. By the end of the year, we'll also support Italian, Spanish and Korean." }, { "start": 184.56, "end": 202.48000000000002, "text": " Starting today, Actions on Google will be supporting transactions. It's a complete end to end solution for developers, including payments, identity, notifications, receipts, even account creation. The platform handles all the complexity." }, { "start": 202.48000000000002, "end": 203.92000000000002, "text": " Hi, how can I help?" }, { "start": 203.92000000000002, "end": 206.04, "text": " I'd like delivery from Panera." }, { "start": 206.04, "end": 212.84, "text": " Hi, this is Panera. I'll need your delivery address. Which one can I get from Google?" }, { "start": 212.84, "end": 214.84, "text": " We'll go with 1600 Amphitheatre." }, { "start": 214.84, "end": 217.84, "text": " What can I get you started with?" }, { "start": 217.84, "end": 221.84, "text": " The strawberry poppy seed salad with steak instead of chicken." }, { "start": 221.84, "end": 223.84, "text": " Great. Are you ready to check out?" }, { "start": 223.84, "end": 224.84, "text": " Yep." }, { "start": 224.84, "end": 229.84, "text": " Okay. The total is $18.40. Are you ready to place the order?" }, { "start": 229.84, "end": 234.84, "text": " Yes. I'll just scan my fingerprint to pay with Google. And that's it." }, { "start": 234.84, "end": 245.84, "text": " So first, we're announcing support for proactive assistance coming to Google Home. So for example, let's say I'm relaxing and playing game with the kids. Well, I can see that the Google Home lights just turned on." }, { "start": 245.84, "end": 247.84, "text": " Hey, Google, what's up?" }, { "start": 247.84, "end": 254.84, "text": " Hi, Rishi. Traffic's heavy right now. So you'll need to leave in 14 minutes to get to Shoreline Athletic Fields by 3.30 p.m." }, { "start": 254.84, "end": 259.84000000000003, "text": " The Assistant saw the game coming up on my calendar and got my attention because I had to leave earlier than normal." }, { "start": 259.84, "end": 264.84, "text": " So today I'm excited to announce hands-free calling coming to Google Home." }, { "start": 264.84, "end": 269.84, "text": " You can call any landline or mobile number in the US or Canada completely free." }, { "start": 269.84, "end": 276.84, "text": " Now, by default, we're going to call it with a private number, but you also have the option to link your mobile number to the Google Assistant." }, { "start": 276.84, "end": 281.84, "text": " And we'll use that number whenever we recognize your voice. So wherever you call, let's know it's coming from you." }, { "start": 281.84, "end": 289.84, "text": " And finally, we'll be adding Bluetooth support to all existing Google Home devices so you can play any audio from your iOS or Android device." }, { "start": 289.84, "end": 293.84, "text": " So today we're announcing support for visual responses with Google Home." }, { "start": 293.84, "end": 296.84, "text": " Okay, Google, show my calendar for Saturday." }, { "start": 296.84, "end": 298.84, "text": " Showing it on your TV." }, { "start": 298.84, "end": 303.84, "text": " It'll show up right on the TV screen. I'll immediately get results from the Assistant." }, { "start": 303.84, "end": 314.84, "text": " And today I'm excited to show you three new features we're launching to make it even easier to send and receive the meaningful moments in your life." }, { "start": 314.84, "end": 320.84, "text": " Now, thanks to the machine learning in Google Photos, we'll not only remind you so you don't forget to share," }, { "start": 320.84, "end": 324.84, "text": " we'll even suggest the photos and people you should share with." }, { "start": 324.84, "end": 326.84, "text": " In one tap, you're done." }, { "start": 326.84, "end": 330.84, "text": " Sometimes there's a special person in your life who you share just about everything with." }, { "start": 330.84, "end": 336.84, "text": " I would love it if every photo I ever took of my kids was automatically shared with my wife." }, { "start": 336.84, "end": 341.84, "text": " And that's why today we're also announcing shared libraries." }, { "start": 341.84, "end": 344.84, "text": " We're bringing Google Lens right into Google Photos." }, { "start": 344.84, "end": 348.84, "text": " And during your boat tour down the Chicago River, you took lots of photos." }, { "start": 348.84, "end": 351.84, "text": " But it's hard to remember which building is which later on." }, { "start": 351.84, "end": 356.84, "text": " Now by activating Lens, you can identify some of the cool buildings in your photos," }, { "start": 356.84, "end": 359.84, "text": " like the second tallest skyscraper in the US, Willis Tower." }, { "start": 359.84, "end": 362.84, "text": " You can even pull up directions and get the hours for the view deck." }, { "start": 362.84, "end": 367.84, "text": " Finally, we know sharing doesn't always happen through apps and screens." }, { "start": 367.84, "end": 371.84, "text": " And today we're bringing it all together with the launch of Photobooks." }, { "start": 371.84, "end": 379.84, "text": " They're beautiful, high quality with a clean 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time, I want to be able to jot down the materials I need to build for this lemonade stand." }, { "start": 419.84, "end": 424.84, "text": " So to multitask, all I do is press the home button and boom, I get picture in picture." }, { "start": 424.84, "end": 426.84, "text": " You can think of it as a kind of automatic multi-window." }, { "start": 426.84, "end": 429.84, "text": " I can get it out of the way, I can launch keep, I can add some more materials," }, { "start": 429.84, "end": 432.84, "text": " so I know I need to get some wood glue, like so." }, { "start": 432.84, "end": 435.84, "text": " Then when I'm done, I just simply swipe it away like that." }, { "start": 435.84, "end": 442.84, "text": " In O, we're extending the reach of notifications with something we call notification dots." }, { "start": 442.84, "end": 447.84, "text": " It's a new way for app developers to indicate that there's activity in their app." }, { "start": 447.84, "end": 450.84, "text": " You'll notice that 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Let's do it together." }, { "start": 636.84, "end": 638.84, "text": " Thanks for your time today and enjoy Google I.O." }, { "start": 638.84, "end": 664.84, "text": " Today." } ]

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It's something you can't do with Siri right now." }, { "start": 95, "end": 100, "text": " Now for the iPhone, they made a custom widget so that you can get to it directly from your home screen," }, { "start": 100, "end": 105, "text": " so you just swipe over, tap on it, and you can jump directly into a search from the Google Assistant," }, { "start": 105, "end": 107, "text": " which is convenient because you can't do it from the home button." }, { "start": 107, "end": 115, "text": " And you'll notice, last but not least, if you search for an address, it uses proper Google Maps, not Apple Maps, which honestly is better." }, { "start": 117, "end": 122, "text": " So that's the iPhone, but there's a bunch of other stuff coming to the Google Assistant that we need to talk about." }, { "start": 122, "end": 126, "text": " And when you look at all these features individually, they might not seem that impressive," }, { "start": 126, "end": 130, "text": " but when you take them together, it actually shows something really good." }, { "start": 130, "end": 134, "text": " It's that Google knows what it's doing with AI on the phone." }, { "start": 134, "end": 139, "text": " Their previous attempts, like Now on Tap or Google Now, ended up feeling kind of haphazard," }, { "start": 139, "end": 145, "text": " but with the Google Assistant, it's really clear that where Google is heading is that beautiful dream of the Starship Enterprise," }, { "start": 145, "end": 151, "text": " a computer that just does what you want without making you worry about apps and settings and text boxes and all the rest." }, { "start": 151, "end": 155, "text": " So let's take a look at these very first baby steps that they're taking to get there." }, { "start": 156, "end": 160, "text": " One of the new things coming to the Google Assistant is that you can use third-party actions," }, { "start": 160, "end": 164, "text": " stuff you used to only be able to do in Google Home, but now it works on the phones." }, { "start": 164, "end": 168, "text": " So what we're looking at here is ordering food from Panera for delivery," }, { "start": 168, "end": 173, "text": " and what's really interesting is we didn't set up a Panera account, we didn't set up a Panera skill," }, { "start": 173, "end": 178, "text": " and Google already knows our home address and it knows our credit card number, it keeps all that stuff privately," }, { "start": 178, "end": 184, "text": " so I can just tap a button and send it off to Panera, and I can just speak what I want and get it." }, { "start": 184, "end": 189, "text": " Even though the Assistant doesn't really get credit for it because you can't count skills like you can on Alexa," }, { "start": 189, "end": 194, "text": " Google's actually done a pretty good job working with smart home device manufacturers to make more stuff compatible." }, { "start": 194, "end": 202, "text": " They're up to 70 different manufacturers now, and starting soon, any of those manufacturers can go and register their new devices with Google," }, { "start": 202, "end": 209, "text": " so you won't have to wait for it to work. So I could just say, turn the lights off, and off they go." }, { "start": 209, "end": 212, "text": " It's also going to start working with Nest." }, { "start": 212, "end": 216, "text": " Okay Google, play outdoor video in my living room." }, { "start": 216, "end": 224, "text": " So what's happened here is really obvious. Google is requesting the video stream from my Nest camera and displaying it over Chromecast on my TV," }, { "start": 224, "end": 229, "text": " but my favorite thing that's happening on the Google Assistant is this new thing called Shortcuts." }, { "start": 229, "end": 236, "text": " Basically, it lets you set up a thing that you ask Google for all the time and automate it with your own custom keyword." }, { "start": 236, "end": 244, "text": " So you just type in the custom keyword that you want, and then you type in the long action that you want, and it just works." }, { "start": 244, "end": 251, "text": " So for example, if you want to watch Verge YouTube videos all the time, instead of saying, okay Google, watch Verge on YouTube on my TV," }, { "start": 251, "end": 257, "text": " you could just set up a keyword, Verge me, and it works. Like this. Verge me." }, { "start": 257, "end": 263, "text": " Alright, playing the Verge from YouTube on living room." }, { "start": 266, "end": 271, "text": " Everybody, Sean and I are about to do something really stupid." }, { "start": 272, "end": 276, "text": " Okay, so when's all this stuff coming out? Well, honestly, it's going to be a while." }, { "start": 276, "end": 283, "text": " The Google Assistant or the iPhone is available right now, but the rest of it's coming out in the coming months, or maybe not even until the end of the year." }, { "start": 283, "end": 293, "text": " And honestly, that's just how Google rolls. They're not very good at the big splashy announcement where they lay out a whole product vision and you can just get it right away." }, { "start": 293, "end": 300, "text": " What they are very good at is slowly iterating over time when you're not even paying attention, and that's exactly what they're going to do with the Google Assistant." }, { "start": 300, "end": 309, "text": " For much, much more on what is happening here at Google I.O. 2017, you should definitely check us out on YouTube. We are the Verge." }, { "start": 309, "end": 314, "text": " Another bus. Two buses. Wait for it." }, { "start": 314, "end": 317, "text": " This doesn't look like it's in focus." }, { "start": 317, "end": 340, "text": " Three buses." } ]

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This is one of the colors that" }, { "start": 40.32, "end": 44.480000000000004, "text": " they're calling silver, there's also a blue, sapphire blue that's really vibrant, as well" }, { "start": 44.480000000000004, "end": 48.66, "text": " as a nice deep black, so the colors are really popping. The phone really does look great." }, { "start": 48.66, "end": 51.2, "text": " One thing that you may have noticed is that there's no headphone jack here, it just has" }, { "start": 51.2, "end": 56.2, "text": " a USB-C port. HTC has a few reasons for this. One of them is that it can provide a better" }, { "start": 56.2, "end": 61.760000000000005, "text": " in-box headphone experience, so in the box with the HTC U11 is a set of noise-canceling" }, { "start": 61.760000000000005, "end": 68.28, "text": " headphones that are powered by USB-C, so that's a new thing. 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The other thing that there's new for this HTC U11 is a partnership with Amazon." }, { "start": 117.12, "end": 122.08, "text": " HTC is adding Alexa services to the phone, so that you can say Alexa to the phone, and" }, { "start": 122.08, "end": 126.68, "text": " it will do various things that you'd expect an Echo to do, like you can check the weather," }, { "start": 126.68, "end": 131.16, "text": " and play music, turn lights on and off, and it will do that even when the screen is off." }, { "start": 131.16, "end": 136, "text": " You don't have to open an app or do anything special to launch the Alexa services. It also" }, { "start": 136, "end": 140.4, "text": " has Google Assistant, which you can wake up with OK Google, it has HTC Sense Companion," }, { "start": 140.4, "end": 144.68, "text": " which does things like remind you to charge your battery, or tells you about nearby restaurants" }, { "start": 144.68, "end": 147.92, "text": " and stuff. 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HTC is going to be releasing this real soon, they're announcing" }, { "start": 179.76, "end": 184.23999999999998, "text": " it here in an event in Taiwan right now, they say it's going to be on sale really soon," }, { "start": 184.23999999999998, "end": 188, "text": " it's going to be priced around the same as other flagship phones in this price range." }, { "start": 188, "end": 191.72, "text": " So that's the HTC U11, for more on this phone and plenty of other things, be sure to check" }, { "start": 191.72, "end": 205.2, "text": " out theverge.com and subscribe to youtube.com slash theverge." } ]

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So this is like eating your vegetables before" }, { "start": 45.6, "end": 48.8, "text": " having that sweet dessert, except this dessert is" }, { "start": 48.8, "end": 56.08, "text": " like a rare dessert with like gold leaf on top of it and it's served you by Butler on like a private island that" }, { "start": 56.08, "end": 58.08, "text": " he took a helicopter to get to." }, { "start": 58.92, "end": 60.92, "text": " Yeah." }, { "start": 64.08, "end": 69.92, "text": " So the Mustang helped me get comfortable with things like what the basic racing line is and where and when to brake on a track" }, { "start": 69.92, "end": 73.12, "text": " and how to get comfortable with pushing a car to its limits." }, { "start": 73.12, "end": 76.16000000000001, "text": " So do I think this has me ready for the Ford GT?" }, { "start": 77.52000000000001, "end": 82.88000000000001, "text": " I think so. I had no idea how to drive a manual car today." }, { "start": 84.32000000000001, "end": 86.88000000000001, "text": " And I'm doing all right right now." }, { "start": 86.88, "end": 103.28, "text": " The GT is automatic. I like my chances. That noise is cool." }, { "start": 109.28, "end": 111.28, "text": " So I'd say my goals for today are" }, { "start": 111.28, "end": 117.6, "text": " don't wreck, don't wreck, don't wreck, have some fun, go fast, and don't wreck." }, { "start": 117.92, "end": 122.4, "text": " You see the Ford GT is a very rare car. It's one of the only American supercars." }, { "start": 122.64, "end": 128.4, "text": " And what was a V8 in the old GT40 has been replaced with a turbocharged V6 that still makes" }, { "start": 129.2, "end": 131.2, "text": " 647 horsepower." }, { "start": 131.2, "end": 137.04, "text": " And if you want to buy one, Ford has to personally select you from a list of applicants. Oh, it's also" }, { "start": 138.16, "end": 144.72, "text": " $450,000. So this is definitely not a car for everyone. It's not even a car for the 1%. It's not even a car for the half percent." }, { "start": 144.72, "end": 147.83999999999997, "text": " It is might as well not exist in all practical purposes." }, { "start": 148.64, "end": 154.48, "text": " But that said it does exist. I'm here to drive it. I'm going to shut up because I want to get in the car." }, { "start": 154.48, "end": 164.48, "text": " And show you what it's like." }, { "start": 164.48, "end": 184.48, "text": " The guy next to me is James. He's a Ford Racing School instructor and the person tasked to keep me from crashing the GT." }, { "start": 184.48, "end": 192.48, "text": " It is just, this is a poster car. I mean, this is a car that you would dream of driving and never get a chance to drive." }, { "start": 192.48, "end": 194.48, "text": " Which is why it's so cool that we're here today driving it." }, { "start": 194.48, "end": 202.48, "text": " The Ford GT just looks like it belongs on the track and that's no coincidence. Ford developed this car alongside the Le Mans race car." }, { "start": 202.48, "end": 208.48, "text": " Which means the street legal Ford GT is nearly identical to the car that won Le Mans last year." }, { "start": 208.48, "end": 218.48, "text": " It's an aerodynamic masterpiece. The rear wing works as an air brake but it also adds downforce and the front splitter even adjusts in real time to balance that out and keep the car planted." }, { "start": 218.48, "end": 228.48, "text": " Like most sports cars you have a few different driving modes that alter the car's personality but the most dramatic is track mode which drops the car 50 millimeters and adds to that mind-bending downforce." }, { "start": 228.48, "end": 236.48, "text": " Let's talk about the V6 behind my head. Ford's argument is that you should be able to drive a car that's not a sports car." }, { "start": 236.48, "end": 242.48, "text": " Ford's argument is that using a smaller engine allowed them to do crazier stuff with the aerodynamics of the GT." }, { "start": 242.48, "end": 251.48, "text": " And I'm willing to buy that argument because while I was driving this car at my limit, I was only scratching the surface of what the GT is really capable of." }, { "start": 253.48, "end": 263.48, "text": " It is like any other supercar and especially performance car where it's so low, it's so wide, everything's built together so well that it just goes where you tell it to." }, { "start": 263.48, "end": 271.48, "text": " In a Mustang, something like that, you're rolling a bit here and there, it was a wonderful ride whereas this was about as accurate as you're going to get." }, { "start": 271.48, "end": 282.48, "text": " So that was my ride in the Ford GT. I can't really think about what else to say because that was pretty unimaginable and pretty rad." }, { "start": 282.48, "end": 292.48, "text": " Now the real test will be basically just what can Ford bring from this car to cars that more than a few hundred people can buy." }, { "start": 292.48, "end": 299.48, "text": " So I'm really excited if this is what the future of Ford looks like, really excited to see all of that play out." }, { "start": 299.48, "end": 312.48, "text": " The worst part was I've been first in line for everything so I've been stalling this car in front of everybody and hopefully not doing too much damage to the clutch." } ]

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"end": 76, "text": " In terms of the keyboard, it's about 1.5 mil travel, so it feels pretty good." }, { "start": 76, "end": 79, "text": " It doesn't feel like a MacBook keyboard like the regular 12-inch MacBook." }, { "start": 79, "end": 81, "text": " It feels pretty responsive." }, { "start": 81, "end": 85, "text": " And you've obviously got the touchscreen that you get on any Surface devices" }, { "start": 85, "end": 87, "text": " and it works with the Surface Pen as well." }, { "start": 87, "end": 90, "text": " So one of the really interesting things that Microsoft has done with this actual device" }, { "start": 90, "end": 93, "text": " is they've integrated the speakers underneath the keyboard." }, { "start": 93, "end": 95, "text": " And you'll see that there's no speakers up here." }, { "start": 95, "end": 97, "text": " You don't really see a hinge." }, { "start": 97, "end": 102, "text": " And there's no real grills or any sort of ugliness that you might expect from a Windows 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"start": 180.16, "end": 181.16, "text": " a few minutes of use." }, { "start": 181.16, "end": 184.76, "text": " And believe it or not, we got a scratch on one of our review units in just a couple of" }, { "start": 184.76, "end": 185.76, "text": " days." }, { "start": 185.76, "end": 188.84, "text": " That means that you're probably going to put a case on top of it, which is kind of" }, { "start": 188.84, "end": 191.12, "text": " a bummer because it hides all of this great design work." }, { "start": 191.12, "end": 194.48, "text": " Now you might have noticed because of this new big screen that there's no home button" }, { "start": 194.48, "end": 195.48, "text": " on the front of this phone." }, { "start": 195.48, "end": 197.68, "text": " Frankly, Samsung didn't even have room for it." }, { "start": 197.68, "end": 200.72, "text": " Instead, there's this new virtual home button that's pressure sensitive." }, { "start": 200.72, "end": 204.56, "text": " It's like they took the iPhone 7's 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"text": " over the camera lens all the time." }, { "start": 229.44, "end": 233.04, "text": " Now most people use the fingerprint scanner to unlock their phone, so to make up for this," }, { "start": 233.04, "end": 234.85999999999999, "text": " Samsung's added two other ways you can unlock it." }, { "start": 234.85999999999999, "end": 238.32, "text": " You can use your irises or this new face unlock feature." }, { "start": 238.32, "end": 239.6, "text": " But neither are really great." }, { "start": 239.6, "end": 242.88, "text": " The iris scanner means you have to hold the phone really close to your face, and the face" }, { "start": 242.88, "end": 246.4, "text": " unlock feature is less secure and pretty slow." }, { "start": 246.4, "end": 250.64, "text": " It's a pretty big blemish in what is otherwise a stellar design." }, { "start": 250.64, "end": 254.64, "text": " Now surprisingly, Samsung's software on the S8 is almost as polished and good as its hardware," }, { "start": 254.64, "end": 256.92, "text": " which is not something I'm used to saying." }, { "start": 256.92, "end": 260.08000000000004, "text": " It's cleaner and easier to use, and unlike prior Samsung software, it doesn't send" }, { "start": 260.08000000000004, "end": 263.08000000000004, "text": " me running to the Play Store to download a new launcher icon pack." }, { "start": 263.08000000000004, "end": 267, "text": " Now out of the box, the setup is really simple, with just a handful of clean app icons on" }, { "start": 267, "end": 269.64000000000004, "text": " the home screen and tasteful text throughout." }, { "start": 269.64000000000004, "end": 272.8, "text": " There are other tasteful touches all around, like the way notifications pop up on your" }, { "start": 272.8, "end": 275.92, "text": " screen or how you can just swipe up to get to your apps." }, { "start": 275.92, "end": 279.68, "text": " And if you do want to dig deep into the settings menu, there are lots of customization options," }, { "start": 279.68, "end": 283.26, "text": " from the order of the on-screen buttons to full themes that change almost everything" }, { "start": 283.26, "end": 285.16, "text": " about the software's appearance." }, { "start": 285.16, "end": 288.84000000000003, "text": " I like the fun stuff too, like the lenses that Samsung stole right from Snapchat and" }, { "start": 288.84000000000003, "end": 292.12, "text": " put in the camera app, or the way that I can customize the always-on display to show a" }, { "start": 292.12, "end": 294.84000000000003, "text": " donut so that I'm always on brand." }, { "start": 294.84000000000003, "end": 298.16, "text": " But the big new software thing this year is Samsung's taken a virtual assistant, which" }, { "start": 298.16, "end": 299.16, "text": " it calls Bixby." }, { "start": 299.16, "end": 303.68, "text": " It even put a whole button on the side of the phone, just dedicated to launching Bixby." }, { "start": 303.68, "end": 307.40000000000003, "text": 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pretty much every phone looks the same." }, { "start": 478.64, "end": 482.32, "text": " Now let's just hope that risk doesn't blow up in Samsung's face." }, { "start": 482.32, "end": 483.32, "text": " Again." }, { "start": 483.32, "end": 485.28000000000003, "text": " Thanks for watching." }, { "start": 485.28000000000003, "end": 488.28000000000003, "text": " Subscribe to our YouTube channel, youtube.com slash the verge." }, { "start": 488.28000000000003, "end": 489.28000000000003, "text": " More videos like this." }, { "start": 489.28000000000003, "end": 490.28000000000003, "text": " Hit the button." }, { "start": 490.28000000000003, "end": 491.28000000000003, "text": " Did you get it?" }, { "start": 491.28000000000003, "end": 492.28000000000003, "text": " I'm getting you." }, { "start": 492.28000000000003, "end": 493.28000000000003, "text": " Sure." }, { "start": 493.28000000000003, "end": 494.28000000000003, "text": " Do you want me to do a real one?" }, { "start": 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and it's all just kind" }, { "start": 188.82, "end": 193.88, "text": " of a repackaging of the same feature sets and the same technology with slight variations" }, { "start": 193.88, "end": 195.88, "text": " on features and price." }, { "start": 195.88, "end": 199.89999999999998, "text": " So it's cool that the Alta now has heart rate sensors, but it's not like this is the most" }, { "start": 199.9, "end": 202.64000000000001, "text": " innovative, new Fitbit we've seen." }, { "start": 202.64000000000001, "end": 205.76000000000002, "text": " So should you buy the Fitbit Alta HR?" }, { "start": 205.76000000000002, "end": 209.96, "text": " If you are one of those people who bought the Alta last year and you love that activity" }, { "start": 209.96, "end": 214.4, "text": " tracking wristband and you've said to yourself on a dozen occasions, this is great, but I" }, { "start": 214.4, "end": 217.16, "text": " really wish it had heart rate tracking, then this is for you." }, { "start": 217.16, "end": 220.36, "text": " You should be really happy because that decision's easy, right?" }, { "start": 220.36, "end": 224.28, "text": " But if you're looking for more intense exercise tracking, you want to stop and start, you" }, { "start": 224.28, "end": 228.82, "text": " want to track your runs and your cycling and your swims and all that other stuff, this" }, { "start": 228.82, "end": 229.82, "text": " is not for you." }, { "start": 229.82, "end": 232.35999999999999, "text": " Okay, this is just your everyday activity tracker." }, { "start": 232.35999999999999, "end": 236.82, "text": " There are other products out there, beyond Fitbits by the way, that do more intense exercise" }, { "start": 236.82, "end": 237.82, "text": " tracking." }, { "start": 237.82, "end": 239.32, "text": " In fact, we've reviewed a lot of them." }, { "start": 239.32, "end": 242.28, "text": " So go to theverge.com and check it out." }, { "start": 242.28, "end": 243.79999999999998, "text": " And thanks for watching." }, { "start": 243.79999999999998, "end": 250.48, "text": " I'm Lauren Good, host of this special episode on every Fitbit you need to know about because" }, { "start": 250.48, "end": 260.24, "text": " there are 2,700 of them now and we're going to break it down in this seven part miniseries." } ]

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41.72, "text": " That's Stuart Sumida, a paleontologist and animal anatomy specialist who worked on Kong's" }, { "start": 41.72, "end": 45.28, "text": " Kull Island and has advised filmmakers on dozens of movies." }, { "start": 45.28, "end": 48.8, "text": " So people can quibble all they want about the biology of the creatures." }, { "start": 48.8, "end": 53, "text": " Some cases like the lizardy, reptile-y things are completely fictitious creatures, but you" }, { "start": 53, "end": 56.96, "text": " want them to feel like they live in the universe that the movie is portraying." }, { "start": 56.96, "end": 61.28, "text": " And in the case of the title character, there is no ape that looks like that because he" }, { "start": 61.28, "end": 62.28, "text": " walks like a man." }, { "start": 62.28, "end": 64.28, "text": " But he's not a gorilla, he's King Kong." }, { "start": 64.28, "end": 68.24, "text": " So he's a different species as far as the movie is concerned." }, { "start": 68.24, "end": 73.6, "text": " The point he and others make is that these creatures don't actually exist, but they still" }, { "start": 73.6, "end": 76.2, "text": " need a sound that feels real." }, { "start": 76.2, "end": 81.4, "text": " Or even if they did once exist, like the dinosaurs in Jurassic Park, what they do is sometimes" }, { "start": 81.4, "end": 82.4, "text": " unrealistic." }, { "start": 82.4, "end": 87.28, "text": " You'll notice in the movies, Jurassic Park and others, when they're chasing down human" }, { "start": 87.28, "end": 90.56, "text": " prey, they roar at it, which is ridiculous." }, { "start": 90.56, "end": 94.64, "text": " He's right, that's Philip Senner, associate professor of biology at Fayetteville State" }, { "start": 94.64, "end": 95.72, "text": " University." }, { "start": 95.72, "end": 98.5, "text": " No predator vocalizes when hunting." }, { "start": 98.5, "end": 100.84, "text": " They hunt as silently as possible." }, { "start": 100.84, "end": 104.32000000000001, "text": " You are pounced on before you even know you're being hunted." }, { "start": 104.32000000000001, "end": 109.76, "text": " But it's a movie, and that scene wouldn't have been as scary if the T-Rex stayed silent." }, { "start": 109.76, "end": 115.24000000000001, "text": " In fact, even when sound designers could pull from similar real-life examples, they often" }, { "start": 115.24000000000001, "end": 119.4, "text": " reach for the unexpected, like a hatching dino egg from Jurassic Park." }, { "start": 119.4, "end": 124.08000000000001, "text": " These large ice cream cones will end up being the egg cracking sound." }, { "start": 124.08000000000001, "end": 129, "text": " Paleontologists have been trying to figure out what dinosaurs sounded like for decades." }, { "start": 129, "end": 133.4, "text": " It's hard to get an answer because the vocal organs used to make sounds, like the vocal" }, { "start": 133.4, "end": 137.94, "text": " cords in our throat, are mostly made of flesh, and flesh does not fossilize." }, { "start": 137.94, "end": 143.52, "text": " So for clues, scientists look at dinosaurs' closest relatives, birds and crocodilians," }, { "start": 143.52, "end": 145.68, "text": " which yes, includes crocodiles." }, { "start": 145.68, "end": 149.84, "text": " Birds make a variety of high-pitched chirps, but if you look at the larger birds, like" }, { "start": 149.84, "end": 157.72, "text": " ostriches, emus and cassowaries, they make rumbling sounds that are lower in frequency." }, { "start": 157.72, "end": 163.16, "text": " Some scientists believe that these low-frequency sounds are probably more similar to what dinosaurs" }, { "start": 163.16, "end": 164.16, "text": " must have made." }, { "start": 164.16, "end": 168.96, "text": " But the other dino relatives, like crocodiles and alligators, make booming low-frequency" }, { "start": 168.96, "end": 169.96, "text": " sounds as well." }, { "start": 169.96, "end": 174.6, "text": " That's kind of different from the high-pitched screech of velociraptors in Jurassic Park," }, { "start": 174.6, "end": 175.6, "text": " isn't it?" }, { "start": 175.6, "end": 181.16, "text": " Obviously, there were many different kinds of dinos, and they all sounded different." }, { "start": 181.16, "end": 184.8, "text": " But scientists have a better idea of what one type in particular could have sounded" }, { "start": 184.8, "end": 185.8, "text": " like." }, { "start": 185.8, "end": 186.8, "text": " Duck-billed dinosaurs." }, { "start": 186.8, "end": 192.46, "text": " That's because these animals had a large, hollowed crest on top of their heads." }, { "start": 192.46, "end": 197.92000000000002, "text": " When the dinosaur breathed, the air went through the tubings inside the crest and it resonated," }, { "start": 197.92000000000002, "end": 201.24, "text": " making this very low-frequency buzzing sort of sound." }, { "start": 201.24, "end": 204.24, "text": " Kind of like a DJ we do." }, { "start": 204.24, "end": 210.20000000000002, "text": " In 1978, David Wise-Hampel, a master's student at the University of Toronto, created a prototype" }, { "start": 210.20000000000002, "end": 214.36, "text": " to replicate the sound of one type of duck-billed dino, the Parasaurophilus." }, { "start": 214.36, "end": 218.58, "text": " It was made of PVC, the same material your home pipes are made of." }, { "start": 218.58, "end": 222.84, "text": " When you blow air into it, you can basically hear what a duck-billed dinosaur sounded like" }, { "start": 222.84, "end": 225.84, "text": " while breathing." }, { "start": 225.84, "end": 229.32000000000002, "text": " Other scientists then replicated the sound using computer models." }, { "start": 229.32000000000002, "end": 233.32000000000002, "text": " And this is what they came up with." }, { "start": 233.32000000000002, "end": 235.72000000000003, "text": " Nice." }, { "start": 235.72000000000003, "end": 242.36, "text": " Now, let's compare that to the same dino in Jurassic Park, The Lost World." }, { "start": 242.36, "end": 246.48000000000002, "text": " Now in this scene, though, the dino is in distress, so its calls could sound completely" }, { "start": 246.48, "end": 253.04, "text": " different than when it's just breathing." }, { "start": 253.04, "end": 255.48, "text": " The film sounds are more high-pitched." }, { "start": 255.48, "end": 259.88, "text": " The filmmakers actually recorded cows through long tubes." }, { "start": 259.88, "end": 265, "text": " And the sound actually doesn't seem too far off to me, but the more scientifically accurate" }, { "start": 265, "end": 266, "text": " one is deeper." }, { "start": 266, "end": 268, "text": " And that makes a lot of sense." }, { "start": 268, "end": 272.92, "text": " Most of these dinosaurs lived in really heavily forested environments, you know, jungles." }, { "start": 272.92, "end": 277.8, "text": " It's Thomas Williamson, curator of paleontology at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History" }, { "start": 277.8, "end": 278.8, "text": " and Science." }, { "start": 278.8, "end": 283.16, "text": " So these low-frequency sounds are actually the types of sounds that travel the best through" }, { "start": 283.16, "end": 291.56, "text": " this sort of habitat." }, { "start": 291.56, "end": 296.20000000000005, "text": " So movies aren't focused on depicting accurate sounds for a lot of reasons." }, { "start": 296.20000000000005, "end": 300.40000000000003, "text": " When it comes to giant creatures and monsters, it's just better to shut off the science" }, { "start": 300.4, "end": 317.35999999999996, "text": " part of your brain." } ]

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I'm gonna give it an award" }, { "start": 10.42, "end": 13.48, "text": " Congratulations LG you get a participation award now" }, { "start": 13.48, "end": 18.52, "text": " I know this seems really mean but I don't mean it to be mean and let me explain why" }, { "start": 19.06, "end": 22.04, "text": " Now the LG G6 is the first of the major" }, { "start": 22.04, "end": 30.28, "text": " 2017 flagship phones and to make it LG did the right thing by making a huge big tall screen on it" }, { "start": 30.28, "end": 33.08, "text": " It is 18 by 9 aspect ratio" }, { "start": 33.08, "end": 38.2, "text": " So it's twice as tall as it is wide and that offers a bunch of interesting software opportunities" }, { "start": 38.2, "end": 43.08, "text": " Which we can get into but the basics of this screen are just really good. It's right" }, { "start": 43.08, "end": 46.06, "text": " It has Dolby HDR if you care about that sort of thing" }, { "start": 46.06, "end": 53.28, "text": " But more importantly to me is the bezels are really really small and the screen is flat which means you're not gonna get rogue" }, { "start": 53.28, "end": 57.88, "text": " Touches from like you might get on a galaxy s7 or an s8 or perhaps around the side" }, { "start": 58.2, "end": 63.28, "text": " Bottom line LG just did a really good job making a really big beautiful screen the centerpiece of this phone" }, { "start": 63.28, "end": 68, "text": " So let's talk about the rest of the hardware of this phone. And what you need to know is it's all about glass" }, { "start": 68, "end": 70, "text": " It's a glass back. It's a glass front" }, { "start": 70, "end": 74.1, "text": " It's actually three different kinds of gorilla glass on it and it looks fine" }, { "start": 74.1, "end": 78.44, "text": " I did get a tiny hairline crack on the back, but I don't think that'll happen for most people" }, { "start": 78.44, "end": 83.96, "text": " I'm just really hard on phone hardware. I guess the power button is here on the back. It's a little bit small" }, { "start": 83.96, "end": 88.8, "text": " It's the same thing as a fingerprint sensor and I kind of don't like it. It's a little bit fiddly" }, { "start": 88.8, "end": 90.84, "text": " I never know if I'm turning the phone on or off" }, { "start": 90.84, "end": 96.08, "text": " It just takes a while to get used to because LG phones act a little bit differently than other phones" }, { "start": 96.44, "end": 103.52, "text": " But for me the bottom line is this is just really simple handsome hardware. Nothing crazy about it. I think it looks good" }, { "start": 103.52, "end": 108.56, "text": " I think it's really unassuming and nice and also honestly, it's a little bit unassuming on the inside too" }, { "start": 108.56, "end": 115, "text": " The processor is a Snapdragon 821, which yes isn't the latest and greatest processor, but it's plenty fast" }, { "start": 115, "end": 118.03999999999999, "text": " I've never had any real problems with it. I think you'll be happy with it" }, { "start": 118.03999999999999, "end": 122.3, "text": " It's got four gigs of RAM sure and it's only got 32 gigs of storage in the US" }, { "start": 122.3, "end": 124.78, "text": " But it is expandable via micro SD card" }, { "start": 125.12, "end": 130.92, "text": " The other thing to know is that the battery inside this is 3300 milliamps, which should be enough" }, { "start": 130.92, "end": 135.07999999999998, "text": " It's not crazy, but nobody wants crazy stuff now because that might make the phone explode" }, { "start": 135.11999999999998, "end": 140.27999999999997, "text": " But I have found that I'm having a hard time getting through a full day with this thing now" }, { "start": 140.27999999999997, "end": 145.07999999999998, "text": " I do use phones a lot. So it might be that you will be fine, but I'm finding that in the afternoon" }, { "start": 145.07999999999998, "end": 147.07999999999998, "text": " I do need to check and see how I'm doing" }, { "start": 147.32, "end": 153.14, "text": " The good news is that it supports Qualcomm quick charge over USB C and in the US it has wireless charging" }, { "start": 153.14, "end": 154.64, "text": " So you can top up when you need to" }, { "start": 154.64, "end": 158.89999999999998, "text": " So if there's one place where you would expect LG to bring the gimmicks it would be in the camera" }, { "start": 158.9, "end": 163.6, "text": " And yep, there are two cameras here, but LG actually held itself back a little bit" }, { "start": 163.64000000000001, "end": 166.66, "text": " Here's what you need to know. They're both 13 megapixel sensors" }, { "start": 166.66, "end": 172.72, "text": " So you don't get a huge quality difference when you switch between them one is normal and one is 125 degree wide-angle" }, { "start": 172.72, "end": 177.92000000000002, "text": " I don't love the wide-angle look. I don't like the distortion that you get sometimes but if it's your thing, it might be fine" }, { "start": 177.96, "end": 181.52, "text": " My favorite feature is actually not the cameras. It's this tall screen" }, { "start": 181.52, "end": 186.76, "text": " They've got an app that lets you take Instagram photos and preview them right away or build these neat little layouts" }, { "start": 186.76, "end": 192.39999999999998, "text": " But what you should really care about is the quality and the quality is pretty good, but not mind-blowing" }, { "start": 193.07999999999998, "end": 199.42, "text": " It works. Okay in low-light. It's got optical image stabilization, but I haven't had one of those pictures. That's like, oh my god" }, { "start": 199.42, "end": 201.48, "text": " I can't believe I took this picture with a phone" }, { "start": 202.07999999999998, "end": 208.88, "text": " moments and if this thing is going to compete with the Google pixel and the Galaxy S8 and the iPhone 7 it really needs a" }, { "start": 208.88, "end": 212.51999999999998, "text": " standout feature and the cameras are not that standout feature and" }, { "start": 212.52, "end": 216.8, "text": " Speaking of things that don't stand out. I really don't like LG software" }, { "start": 216.8, "end": 221.84, "text": " It's called LG UX 6.0 and it is more toned down than what we used to get from LG" }, { "start": 221.92000000000002, "end": 225.3, "text": " But it still just feels kind of junky LG does this thing" }, { "start": 225.44, "end": 228.28, "text": " Where they want to put everything on the home screen without an app drawer" }, { "start": 228.28, "end": 232.9, "text": " It does this ugly stretching thing when you you know scroll over to the edge of the home screen" }, { "start": 233.08, "end": 236.92000000000002, "text": " It actually hides a bunch of settings which normally I would like" }, { "start": 236.92000000000002, "end": 239.60000000000002, "text": " But there are a bunch of settings that you need like putting the little" }, { "start": 239.6, "end": 244.73999999999998, "text": " notification button down here by the main row since you can't swipe down on the power button or" }, { "start": 245.29999999999998, "end": 247.29999999999998, "text": " Turning on knock-on so that you can" }, { "start": 247.74, "end": 250.7, "text": " Activate the home screen just by tapping the screen" }, { "start": 250.7, "end": 255.66, "text": " That's stuff that you need in order to make an LG phone work and it's buried in general" }, { "start": 255.66, "end": 262.14, "text": " I'm just not impressed and it just feels like LG is still skinning phones for skinning sake and I wish they'd stop. Oh" }, { "start": 262.74, "end": 264.74, "text": " And one more thing" }, { "start": 264.74, "end": 268.98, "text": " This phone you're probably gonna buy it from carriers and depending on which carrier you buy it from" }, { "start": 268.98, "end": 271.78000000000003, "text": " You're gonna get the standard payload of crapware" }, { "start": 272.26, "end": 277.02000000000004, "text": " Okay, so after all that let's talk about that joke. I made at the top the participation award" }, { "start": 278.42, "end": 280.32, "text": " It's really mean but listen" }, { "start": 280.32, "end": 285.78000000000003, "text": " There are only a few top tier companies that deserve your attention right now when it comes to flagship phones" }, { "start": 286.3, "end": 288.94, "text": " Samsung Apple Google and now" }, { "start": 289.54, "end": 295.46000000000004, "text": " LG just getting on that short list is a really big accomplishment and LG should feel proud" }, { "start": 295.46, "end": 301.9, "text": " But the thing is with phones like the s8 about to come out and the Google pixel already there" }, { "start": 302.5, "end": 307.21999999999997, "text": " LG needs something that makes it really stand out from the pack and I just don't see that here" }, { "start": 307.58, "end": 313.5, "text": " This is a pretty good phone. But for 700 bucks or so you deserve something better than pretty good" }, { "start": 314.58, "end": 320.17999999999995, "text": " Like why do I have farmhero saga? Do you want Panda pop? I don't want Panda pop" }, { "start": 320.18, "end": 325.26, "text": " Why do pandas need to pop in the first place? Pandas shouldn't pop. That's like scary and gross" }, { "start": 325.26, "end": 330.02, "text": " They should just like be pandas and eat eucalyptus. They shouldn't explode on your phone" }, { "start": 331.5, "end": 332.82, "text": " also" }, { "start": 332.82, "end": 334.34000000000003, "text": " juice jam" }, { "start": 334.34000000000003, "end": 339.26, "text": " Really pick one. It's either juice and you drink it or it's jamming you put it on toast. You don't want both" }, { "start": 339.26, "end": 349.26, "text": " juice jam" } ]

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"text": " No one likes this." }, { "start": 29.56, "end": 32.839999999999996, "text": " Even the comment section on WriteBart thinks it's stupid." }, { "start": 32.839999999999996, "end": 35.36, "text": " So why and how did this happen?" }, { "start": 35.36, "end": 39.96, "text": " Well, ISPs hate that companies like Google and Facebook can use your data and make a" }, { "start": 39.96, "end": 41.82, "text": " ton of money by selling advertising." }, { "start": 41.82, "end": 46.04, "text": " This new bill makes it easier for ISPs to run those same kinds of ad networks." }, { "start": 46.04, "end": 50.04, "text": " ISPs spend a ton of money lobbying Congress, and the Republicans in Congress seemingly" }, { "start": 50.04, "end": 55.2, "text": " bought into the idea that ISPs and Google should be subject to the same kinds of regulations." }, { "start": 55.2, "end": 59.04, "text": " That argument is extremely misleading, if not straight up wrong." }, { "start": 59.04, "end": 61.879999999999995, "text": " Google and Facebook can't see your entire web browsing history." }, { "start": 61.879999999999995, "end": 66.48, "text": " They can only see what you click on while you're using their services or websites connected" }, { "start": 66.48, "end": 67.82, "text": " to their ad networks." }, { "start": 67.82, "end": 73.08, "text": " And Google and Facebook provide you with valuable free services in exchange for that advertising." }, { "start": 73.08, "end": 74.08, "text": " Well, valuable." }, { "start": 74.08, "end": 78.06, "text": " And if you don't think Google and Facebook are valuable, or you hate their data policies," }, { "start": 78.06, "end": 79.4, "text": " you don't have to use them." }, { "start": 79.4, "end": 81.28, "text": " But you pay for internet service." }, { "start": 81.28, "end": 82.28, "text": " You pay for it." }, { "start": 82.28, "end": 86.18, "text": " And internet providers get to see almost everything you do online because it's their 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"text": " AT&T bought DirecTV and is working on buying Time Warner." }, { "start": 136.96, "end": 138.86, "text": " Comcast bought NBCUniversal." }, { "start": 138.86, "end": 143.52, "text": " By the way, NBCUniversal is an investor in Vox Media which owns The Verge." }, { "start": 143.52, "end": 146.20000000000002, "text": " So hi guys, sorry about the video." }, { "start": 146.20000000000002, "end": 148.24, "text": " We're going to keep going." }, { "start": 148.24, "end": 153.28, "text": " AT&T literally trialed a plan where it charged its in-ear customers an additional $25 a month" }, { "start": 153.28, "end": 155.16000000000003, "text": " to opt out of ad tracking." }, { "start": 155.16000000000003, "end": 156.20000000000002, "text": " This is ridiculous." }, { "start": 156.20000000000002, "end": 157.60000000000002, "text": " But here's the big one." }, { "start": 157.60000000000002, "end": 163.56, "text": " Verizon bought AOL and Yahoo, and the company's explicit plan is to use 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It's got a fresh coat of paint." }, { "start": 7.72, "end": 10.26, "text": " You never know that it's already been to space." }, { "start": 17.5, "end": 22.6, "text": " So it's six in the morning and we are on our way to see a man about a rocket." }, { "start": 22.6, "end": 27.160000000000004, "text": " We're here at Kennedy Space Center to see another SpaceX Falcon 9 launch." }, { "start": 27.160000000000004, "end": 30.36, "text": " It's a pretty standard launch for them, but that's kind of the point." }, { "start": 30.36, "end": 34.72, "text": " They're sending up a satellite for the company SES, but what's extra special" }, { "start": 34.72, "end": 38.88, "text": " about this launch is that this Falcon 9 has already been to space." }, { "start": 40.88, "end": 45.88, "text": " This is basically the entire point of SpaceX landing all of its rockets for the last two years." }, { "start": 45.88, "end": 49.120000000000005, "text": " They're trying to perfect reusable rockets." }, { "start": 49.12, "end": 54.12, "text": " So what is reusability? 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Now it's all bundled in for $40." }, { "start": 68.94, "end": 75.34, "text": " In case you haven't used it before, Alexa is Amazon's voice-controlled virtual assistant. 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And it's great if you're looking for YouTube content, especially." }, { "start": 200.44, "end": 205.35999999999999, "text": " But overall, I still can't get super excited about Chromecast. Most of the time it works okay," }, { "start": 205.51999999999998, "end": 207.54, "text": " sometimes the video stutters. Also," }, { "start": 207.54, "end": 212.84, "text": " I like having a dedicated remote and not necessarily having to use my phone as the remote. And finally," }, { "start": 213, "end": 218.32, "text": " Chromecast doesn't officially support Amazon Prime Video, which means you have to go to Chrome browser on your laptop," }, { "start": 218.32, "end": 222.2, "text": " pull up Prime Video, and cast it that way, rather than doing it through the app." }, { "start": 222.44, "end": 224.23999999999998, "text": " So you can't go wrong with any of these," }, { "start": 224.23999999999998, "end": 230.2, "text": " but if you want a dedicated remote and you want a remote with good voice search, rather than having to punch in a bunch of" }, { "start": 230.2, "end": 232.2, "text": " characters with tiny arrow keys, and" }, { "start": 232.32, "end": 238.28, "text": " you're a Prime subscriber who watches a lot of Amazon Prime Video, then you can't go wrong with the Amazon Fire TV Stick." }, { "start": 238.84, "end": 243.45999999999998, "text": " But did I mention these are all pretty cheap? So you have no excuse. Get streaming." }, { "start": 243.46, "end": 246.86, "text": " And they make great stockings stuff." }, { "start": 249.74, "end": 253.5, "text": " They just go right in the stockings. It's just whoo!" }, { "start": 253.5, "end": 269.06, "text": " I'll start from the top." } ]

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For example, the front radars will not show up randomly on the front, but they'll be integrated into the grid of the car." }, { "start": 60, "end": 70, "text": " And everything we need in terms of sensors, all the antennas, the GPS, everything you've seen on the Fusion is now nicely, compactly integrated into that pod." }, { "start": 70, "end": 80, "text": " Uber doesn't want to unnecessarily accelerate the adoption, but rather take its time focusing on particular cities and neighborhoods while building a database of driving patterns." }, { "start": 80, "end": 85, "text": " And for a number of reasons, San Francisco seems like a great city to start the program." }, { "start": 85, "end": 92, "text": " We can now have those cars close to the Uber engineers, to the Uber team, to the Uber self-driving engineers here." }, { "start": 92, "end": 102, "text": " We can experience a much bigger city with a lot of different permutations, a lot of different neighborhoods, a lot of different street formations," }, { "start": 102, "end": 111, "text": " a lot of unique or more common San Francisco sites such as bikers and heavy traffic and heavy pedestrians." }, { "start": 111, "end": 112, "text": " Steep hills." }, { "start": 112, "end": 113, "text": " Steep hills." }, { "start": 113, "end": 114, "text": " Cable cars." }, { "start": 114, "end": 125, "text": " A lot of fun dealing with cable cars. It's just a much wider basically operational area that we can iterate on the technology." }, { "start": 125, "end": 128, "text": " Naturally, we took a test ride to see how it all works." }, { "start": 129, "end": 130, "text": " Self-driving Uber has arrived." }, { "start": 130, "end": 132, "text": " Ah, excellent. I didn't even have to hail it." }, { "start": 135, "end": 137, "text": " All right. Where would you like to go?" }, { "start": 137, "end": 138, "text": " We're going to go to a pizza." }, { "start": 138, "end": 139, "text": " Pizza?" }, { "start": 139, "end": 139, "text": " Yeah." }, { "start": 139, "end": 140, "text": " Sounds good to me." }, { "start": 140, "end": 142, "text": " How does it work when you're already in the car?" }, { "start": 146, "end": 147, "text": " Zero minutes away." }, { "start": 147, "end": 147, "text": " Yeah." }, { "start": 147, "end": 148, "text": " Makes sense." }, { "start": 148, "end": 149, "text": " We're in the car." }, { "start": 150, "end": 156, "text": " The drive will be self-driven as much as possible, but not all of it." }, { "start": 156, "end": 160, "text": " This is about operating and iterating on the technology." }, { "start": 160, "end": 169, "text": " So the drivers are there to either take control when needed or sort of manually drive in the portions of the route that is being driven." }, { "start": 169, "end": 178, "text": " The XC90 was way more streamlined than the self-driving Ford Fusions Uber is using in Pittsburgh." }, { "start": 178, "end": 184, "text": " There are only seven cameras down from 22 on the Ford Fusion and 3D video for a wider field of vision." }, { "start": 184, "end": 189, "text": " Radar sensors are mounted behind the plastic bumper rather than protruding off the side of the vehicle." }, { "start": 189, "end": 194, "text": " And the spinning LIDAR detector and camera suite on the roof is way more compact." }, { "start": 194, "end": 196, "text": " So what about the ride?" }, { "start": 196, "end": 198, "text": " In general, it was pretty uneventful." }, { "start": 198, "end": 206, "text": " Uber self-driving cars in San Francisco will always feature two safety engineers in the front seats to take over just in case things get complicated." }, { "start": 206, "end": 212, "text": " And during our ride, the driver did just that, occasionally taking control when conditions got tricky." }, { "start": 212, "end": 219, "text": " But for the most part, the car drove itself, seamlessly navigating through bad weather and distracted pedestrians with relative ease." }, { "start": 220, "end": 225, "text": " But as convenient as self-driving could be, there will be a lot of controversy that follows." }, { "start": 225, "end": 228, "text": " How safe will it all be once it becomes widely adopted?" }, { "start": 228, "end": 231, "text": " Can the cars be programmed to make ethical choices?" }, { "start": 231, "end": 234, "text": " And most importantly, what will happen to all those jobs?" }, { "start": 235, "end": 239, "text": " It's going to be a hybrid network regardless." }, { "start": 239, "end": 241, "text": " It's not going to be all either or, black or white." }, { "start": 241, "end": 248, "text": " There's always going to be room for drivers to cover maybe some difficult areas," }, { "start": 248, "end": 252, "text": " maybe some snowy or some challenging condition," }, { "start": 252, "end": 260, "text": " maybe peak demand or time where the self-driving cars cannot actually fulfill that request." }, { "start": 260, "end": 266, "text": " So regardless, the future is going to be hybrid, and it's going to take us a while to get there." }, { "start": 268, "end": 273, "text": " For now, only a limited number of people will get a taste of Uber's self-driving future." }, { "start": 273, "end": 282, "text": " But eventually, everyone may experience the shock of hailing a ride on their smartphone only to have a car with no one inside show up." }, { "start": 284, "end": 290, "text": " I feel if you guys can build a self-driving car that can also flick off people when they drive like assholes," }, { "start": 290, "end": 303, "text": " then you will have achieved the type of vehicle that people will want to have and ride in the most." } ]

[ { "start": 0, "end": 7, "text": " If we are in a place which is nearby a forest, we got a lot of folk art made out of wood." }, { "start": 7, "end": 14, "text": " If we are near a place producing a lot of stone, we got a folk art producing stone." }, { "start": 14, "end": 19, "text": " Shenzhen has no natural resource, but it has a gigantic electronic manufacture base." }, { "start": 19, "end": 26, "text": " So people here, they experiment with electronics, because this becoming the natural resource of Shenzhen." }, { "start": 26, "end": 30, "text": " Welcome to the Wachangbei market, a gadget lover's paradise." }, { "start": 30, "end": 35, "text": " Tucked into these tiny stalls, you can find the parts you need to make a new phone, tablet or computer." }, { "start": 35, "end": 38, "text": " You can design a hoverboard or come up with the next big thing." }, { "start": 38, "end": 44, "text": " Think of this as the front office for the massive electronic supply chain that stretches across China." }, { "start": 44, "end": 54, "text": " It's not just a place to produce, but it's also a place to find components, find inspiration and finding a new way of doing things." }, { "start": 54, "end": 61, "text": " So we walk around, there's components for everything. There's circuit boards for everything, there's casing for everything." }, { "start": 61, "end": 67, "text": " And if you want to create a new product, it's coming in and realize, I can put all these pieces together." }, { "start": 67, "end": 73, "text": " And with the back end of this supply chain, this will be ready to ship in a month." }, { "start": 75, "end": 80, "text": " This market is the beating heart of Shenzhen, a city built on the consumer electronics industry." }, { "start": 80, "end": 86, "text": " So Shenzhen was designated as the first special economic zone 30 years ago." }, { "start": 86, "end": 90, "text": " As China wants to experiment with capitalism." }, { "start": 90, "end": 99, "text": " Shenzhen is a city of 15 million people, but it's responsible for at least 80% of the electronics for 7 billion people." }, { "start": 99, "end": 104, "text": " 97% of the PC and notebooks are produced in Shenzhen." }, { "start": 104, "end": 111, "text": " Some 87% of the mobile phones are produced in Shenzhen, along with all sorts of other electronics." }, { "start": 111, "end": 117, "text": " The density of the manufacturing, the scale of manufacturing here is unprecedented." }, { "start": 117, "end": 121, "text": " This is the hub serving the whole world's need for electronics." }, { "start": 121, "end": 127, "text": " The Huachengbei market has long been known as a place where outsiders could come to secure components and contract for manufacturing." }, { "start": 127, "end": 134, "text": " But over the last decade, it has increasingly moved up the food chain to design and engineer its own creations." }, { "start": 134, "end": 138, "text": " Shenzhen has a very big industrial design industry." }, { "start": 138, "end": 143, "text": " 4,000 industrial design houses, 150,000 working industrial designers." }, { "start": 143, "end": 146, "text": " So design is here, engineering is here." }, { "start": 146, "end": 150, "text": " And this has been the advantage of the ecosystem." }, { "start": 150, "end": 155, "text": " That's how this ecosystem can pop up anything coming to their mind." }, { "start": 155, "end": 158, "text": " Some of this innovation is easy to see." }, { "start": 158, "end": 162, "text": " The Shenzhen based startup DJI has emerged as the global leader in the drone market," }, { "start": 162, "end": 167, "text": " thanks to the engineering talent and manufacturing base it has access to in its hometown." }, { "start": 167, "end": 171, "text": " But some of that innovation happens without a big brand name or media story." }, { "start": 171, "end": 178, "text": " It was the rapid experimentation and iteration around gadgets in places like Huachengbei that gave birth to the selfie stick and the hoverboard," }, { "start": 178, "end": 182, "text": " which popped up in this market years before they became hits around the world." }, { "start": 182, "end": 189, "text": " As Shenzhen evolves, so too has the outside perception of China and its place in the world's technology industry." }, { "start": 189, "end": 197, "text": " Four years ago, if any journalist came in and took a shot of this, the headline would always be China Copycat, Pirated iPhone." }, { "start": 197, "end": 201, "text": " That has totally shifted in the past four years." }, { "start": 201, "end": 212, "text": " Right now, the same footage, the subtitle is Shenzhen Innovations Future." } ]

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But it's very hard to understand why we" }, { "start": 284.84000000000003, "end": 288.48, "text": " are doing this motion when we are doing this motion. Right. I don't know why I'm" }, { "start": 288.48, "end": 292.48, "text": " sitting like this. I'm not trying to send you... I mean, I guess I'm sending you a signal, but I don't know what it means." }, { "start": 292.48, "end": 297.56, "text": " Exactly. Usually we are using our gestures, but it's very hard to define why we are" }, { "start": 297.56, "end": 302.16, "text": " using it. We are not doing this consciously, right? This is nonverbal gestures." }, { "start": 302.16, "end": 305.32, "text": " I mean, I'm just like trying to sit in a way that looks good on camera. I like your socks, by the way." }, { "start": 305.32, "end": 310.12, "text": " Thank you. I'm trying to show off my socks. That's why I'm sitting like this." }, { "start": 310.12, "end": 314.32, "text": " And that's the really weird thing about body language. It's something we all do" }, { "start": 314.32, "end": 318.08, "text": " unconsciously and understand innately, but if I were to stop and try to tell" }, { "start": 318.08, "end": 320.96, "text": " you why I'm holding my shoulders a certain way or moving my hands, I" }, { "start": 320.96, "end": 325.48, "text": " wouldn't understand it to be able to explain it. So if we can't explain it to" }, { "start": 325.48, "end": 329.92, "text": " each other, how can we possibly teach it to machines? Well, it turns out we can" }, { "start": 329.92, "end": 332.8, "text": " teach them the same way we've been teaching a lot of other artificial" }, { "start": 332.8, "end": 336.92, "text": " intelligence systems. Machine learning, specifically a technique called deep" }, { "start": 336.92, "end": 340.28000000000003, "text": " learning, has produced a number of huge breakthroughs in the last few years. A" }, { "start": 340.28000000000003, "end": 344.72, "text": " very simplistic view of it is you feed machines a lot of data about a certain" }, { "start": 344.72, "end": 349.44, "text": " subject, like say driving a car. Feed it enough data about how we drive and it" }, { "start": 349.44, "end": 352.64000000000004, "text": " will be able to start understanding the system at play and react in a similar" }, { "start": 352.64, "end": 357.03999999999996, "text": " fashion to the way we do. Most recently, Google's DeepMind watched a few years" }, { "start": 357.03999999999996, "end": 361.08, "text": " worth of TV shows to understand how to read human lips. Now it can do that" }, { "start": 361.08, "end": 365, "text": " better than most experts. The Panoptix Studio hopes that given enough visual" }, { "start": 365, "end": 368.52, "text": " data showing how humans interact, its deep learning system will be able to" }, { "start": 368.52, "end": 372.12, "text": " tease out the structure of that elaborate code, making it possible for" }, { "start": 372.12, "end": 376.24, "text": " computers to read and write our body language, possibly understanding a facet" }, { "start": 376.24, "end": 380.52, "text": " of our communication better than we do ourselves." }, { "start": 380.52, "end": 384.96, "text": " So if all this sounds familiar, you have probably been watching the new HBO" }, { "start": 384.96, "end": 388.76, "text": " series Westworld. It's about a park filled with robots that can so vividly" }, { "start": 388.76, "end": 392.59999999999997, "text": " replicate human behavior it becomes impossible to distinguish who's a real" }, { "start": 392.59999999999997, "end": 397.12, "text": " human and who's not. So Westworld is science fiction, sure, but do a quick" }, { "start": 397.12, "end": 400.64, "text": " YouTube search for lifelike robots and you'll find we've actually made some" }, { "start": 400.64, "end": 404.64, "text": " incredible progress in the last few decades. And some stuff to fuel your" }, { "start": 404.64, "end": 412.59999999999997, "text": " nightmares. By the time you're grown up, I'll be as smart as a real person and we will be like brothers. I do not know if you will" }, { "start": 412.59999999999997, "end": 419.76, "text": " remember me then, but I'll never forget you. Someday I'll come and find you and we'll be good friends." }, { "start": 419.76, "end": 424.59999999999997, "text": " But the benefits of these social robots could be immense. Look at Milo. He's a" }, { "start": 424.59999999999997, "end": 428.28, "text": " robot that's being used to help kids with autism. He can help these children" }, { "start": 428.28, "end": 431.56, "text": " identify social cues and emotional reactions that they can sometimes" }, { "start": 431.56, "end": 435.32, "text": " struggle to express and interpret themselves. And robots will also help us" }, { "start": 435.32, "end": 440.16, "text": " care for the elderly, so less Westworld and more Franken the Robot. Beyond helping" }, { "start": 440.16, "end": 444.04, "text": " accomplish physical tasks, future robots could become vital emotional supporters" }, { "start": 444.04, "end": 448.56, "text": " as well. Imagine instead of a roboceptionist, Tank could help someone" }, { "start": 448.56, "end": 452.08, "text": " suffering from Alzheimer's socialize on a more regular basis, identifying their" }, { "start": 452.08, "end": 456.2, "text": " mood and reacting appropriately. There's many components that need to happen" }, { "start": 456.2, "end": 461, "text": " before this works. I mean AI in particular needs to get better, right? But I think" }, { "start": 461, "end": 466.04, "text": " that there will be a big advantage in terms of how we will treat machines once" }, { "start": 466.04, "end": 469.56, "text": " they start respecting at least, for example, whether we are paying attention" }, { "start": 469.56, "end": 474.94, "text": " to them or whether we are open to an interaction and other sort of social" }, { "start": 474.94, "end": 480.12, "text": " signals that we use in our daily conversations." }, { "start": 480.96, "end": 485.48, "text": " But if all this talk of lifelike robots makes you nervous about the coming of" }, { "start": 485.48, "end": 490.04, "text": " some sky net that'll wipe out humanity, consider this. Teaching robots this" }, { "start": 490.04, "end": 494.04, "text": " social behavior might be the best way for us to foster a better understanding" }, { "start": 494.04, "end": 500.12, "text": " between humans and their creations. 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The telescope portion of James Webb has to go through vibrational and acoustic testing" }, { "start": 236, "end": 240, "text": " at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center to see if it can handle its launch into space." }, { "start": 240, "end": 245, "text": " It'll then head to Johnson Space Center in Houston to go through cryogenic testing" }, { "start": 245, "end": 248, "text": " to see if it can handle those super freezing cold temperatures." }, { "start": 248, "end": 253, "text": " And after that, it's off to California, where the telescope will meet up with its sun shield," }, { "start": 253, "end": 258, "text": " five layers of a material called Kapton that are roughly the size of a tennis court." }, { "start": 258, "end": 262, "text": " This shield will help protect James Webb from too much heating by the sun." }, { "start": 262, "end": 266, "text": " After some more testing there, the telescope will be ready to fly." }, { "start": 266, "end": 270, "text": " It'll be loaded on a ship bound for French Guiana in South America," }, { "start": 270, "end": 274, "text": " where the telescope is set to launch on top of an Ariane 5 rocket." }, { "start": 274, "end": 278, "text": " But once James Webb launches, the anxiety is far from over." }, { "start": 278, "end": 281, "text": " The telescope is so big that it has to be folded up during launch." }, { "start": 281, "end": 288, "text": " And when it gets to space, it has perhaps the most complicated deployment process a satellite has ever had to pull off." }, { "start": 288, "end": 290, "text": " Here's what that process looks like." }, { "start": 290, "end": 293, "text": " We've sped it up for you a little bit." }, { "start": 293, "end": 298, "text": " If one of these things goes wrong, it could spell bad news for the rest of the mission." }, { "start": 298, "end": 301, "text": " And once James Webb is out there, that's it." }, { "start": 301, "end": 303, "text": " We can't really visit the spacecraft." }, { "start": 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to use technology to build community differently." }, { "start": 34.64, "end": 36.88, "text": " I think that the movement is a testament to the power of Twitter." }, { "start": 36.88, "end": 40.24, "text": " In Missouri, most people don't realize that the reason that you didn't see aerial footage" }, { "start": 40.24, "end": 45.32, "text": " in those early days in August and September, October 2014 is because they declared a no-fly" }, { "start": 45.32, "end": 46.32, "text": " zone." }, { "start": 46.32, "end": 49.56, "text": " So if it were not for Twitter and Facebook and Instagram, Missouri would have convinced" }, { "start": 49.56, "end": 51.760000000000005, "text": " you that we didn't exist." }, { "start": 51.760000000000005, "end": 55.260000000000005, "text": " And we saw those tools be powerful." }, { "start": 55.260000000000005, "end": 58.38, "text": " Tools help us build a different type of community, and I think that we have to be open to new" }, { "start": 58.38, "end": 60.480000000000004, "text": " ways of organizing and new ways of building community." }, { "start": 60.480000000000004, "end": 62.82, "text": " You know, I'm mindful that we aren't born woke." }, { "start": 62.82, "end": 66.28, "text": " Something wakes us up, and for so many people, what woke them up was a tweet or a Facebook" }, { "start": 66.28, "end": 68.28, "text": " post or an Instagram post or a picture." }, { "start": 68.28, "end": 73.56, "text": " So I'll never criticize people who people deem to be Twitter activists or hashtag activists," }, { "start": 73.56, "end": 76.92, "text": " because I know that telling the truth is often a tough act, no matter where you tell that" }, { "start": 76.92, "end": 79.94, "text": " truth and that there is no one way to do this work." }, { "start": 79.94, "end": 83.92, "text": " There's no one way to be someone who cares about justice or equity." }, { "start": 83.92, "end": 85.84, "text": " There's no one way to use the tech platforms." }, { 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wider than usual." }, { "start": 42.14, "end": 44.72, "text": " It looks really cool though in effect." }, { "start": 44.72, "end": 49.900000000000006, "text": " The size of the phone still ends up being pretty big even though there's almost no bezel" }, { "start": 49.900000000000006, "end": 55.32, "text": " just because it's a 6.4 inch display, but if you're already okay with big phones then" }, { "start": 55.32, "end": 56.44, "text": " you might not mind it." }, { "start": 56.44, "end": 63.64, "text": " This is the iPhone 7 Plus which has a 5.5 inch display and you can see it is just a" }, { "start": 63.64, "end": 71.53999999999999, "text": " tiny bit smaller than the Mi Mix is even though it has about an inch less display on it, which" }, { "start": 71.53999999999999, "end": 73.28, "text": " is pretty crazy." }, { "start": 73.28, "end": 77.8, "text": " If you're somebody like me though who's used to tinier phones then you're still not going" }, { "start": 77.8, "end": 80.16, "text": " to be able to handle this very easily." }, { "start": 80.16, "end": 84.72, "text": " The Mi Mix has a ceramic body that feels and looks fantastic, at least until you notice" }, { "start": 84.72, "end": 87.53999999999999, "text": " just how bad it is at picking up fingerprints." }, { "start": 87.53999999999999, "end": 91.6, "text": " This thing gets disgusting pretty quickly and there's almost nothing you can do about" }, { "start": 91.6, "end": 93, "text": " it but put on a case." }, { "start": 93, "end": 96.8, "text": " Fortunately Xiaomi includes one with it which is kind of okay." }, { "start": 96.8, "end": 101.16, "text": " It removes the effect of the edge to edge display a little bit which is sort of a bummer," }, { "start": 101.16, "end": 104, "text": " but at least it covers up all the gross fingerprints." }, { "start": 104, "end": 106.96000000000001, "text": " The specs on this thing are basically as high end as you're going to get." }, { "start": 106.96000000000001, "end": 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$800 or so online and the bigger problem is that it's cell networks" }, { "start": 171.88, "end": 175.44, "text": " are designed to be used in China so you're not really going to be able to get full functionality" }, { "start": 175.44, "end": 177.35999999999999, "text": " out of it everywhere else." }, { "start": 177.35999999999999, "end": 180.84, "text": " Even though this isn't getting a kind of wide release like that though it is still wild" }, { "start": 180.84, "end": 184.79999999999998, "text": " to see Xiaomi toying with an idea like this." }, { "start": 184.79999999999998, "end": 189.24, "text": " Concept phones and mockups have been trying to get that edge to edge to edge display thing" }, { "start": 189.24, "end": 194.16, "text": " going for years now and it is wild to see a company finally make one that gets really" }, { "start": 194.16, "end": 195.16, "text": " close to that." }, { "start": 195.16, "end": 200.28, "text": " I'm 22 years, it's fluctuating between 21 and 22 years old." }, { "start": 200.28, "end": 209.28, "text": " It says that I'm a male which it did not always get correct earlier but it has my age way" }, { "start": 209.28, "end": 210.28, "text": " off." }, { "start": 210.28, "end": 211.28, "text": " Let's see." }, { "start": 211.28, "end": 214.2, "text": " Mark, it sees your face but it doesn't have a guess." }, { "start": 214.2, "end": 228.16, "text": " Does it have a guess for you yet?" } ]

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There's one thing I have with all" }, { "start": 44.120000000000005, "end": 51.120000000000005, "text": " of this stuff that you don't have. A life free of dongles. See, you may have acquired" }, { "start": 51.12, "end": 58.12, "text": " a much thinner, more powerful laptop and a fancy new iPhone, but you've lost basic stuff," }, { "start": 57.919999999999995, "end": 64.92, "text": " like a headphone jack on your iPhone or regular USB ports, which means everywhere you go," }, { "start": 65.12, "end": 70.72, "text": " dongles. You are stuck in the dongle life. I am not stuck in the dongle life, okay? And" }, { "start": 70.72, "end": 75.36, "text": " anyway, they're called adapters. Yeah, sure they are. No, really, they're called adapters." }, { "start": 75.36, "end": 81.36, "text": " Also, there are easy solutions for all of this, like lightning headphones that come" }, { "start": 81.36, "end": 88.36, "text": " right in the box with iPhone 7. Yeah, where's that box right now? I think it's home. Anyway," }, { "start": 90.6, "end": 95.6, "text": " everything is going the way of lightning and USPC. I mean, we don't even need regular" }, { "start": 95.6, "end": 102.6, "text": " ports anymore. Okay, sure. Tell you what, let's try something. Exhibit A. Your phone" }, { "start": 102.6, "end": 109.6, "text": " is dying, but you've got that laptop there, so charge your phone. Go ahead, charge it." }, { "start": 109.6, "end": 116.6, "text": " I'll do it with you. This is easy. I can either use this one or this one. Go with this one." }, { "start": 117.6, "end": 124.6, "text": " Yeah, so you still need a dongle. Yeah, this is not that big of a deal. Exhibit B. I like" }, { "start": 124.6, "end": 131.6, "text": " music. Do you like music? Let's listen to music on our phones while we charge our phones." }, { "start": 132.07999999999998, "end": 139.07999999999998, "text": " Okay, that's easy. I'll just use this doubled dongle, and I might have to use one other" }, { "start": 139.08, "end": 158.08, "text": " one. That looks convenient. Exhibit C. Hey, when was the last time you took a vacation?" }, { "start": 158.08, "end": 164.08, "text": " Last summer. Why? Did you bring a camera with you? I did, actually, even though the iPhone" }, { "start": 164.08, "end": 171.08, "text": " takes tremendous photos. I love the quality of photos this thing captures. Yeah. I would" }, { "start": 171.08, "end": 176.48000000000002, "text": " love to see them. Can you send me a couple? Sure, I'd be happy to. I mean, I have a bunch" }, { "start": 176.48000000000002, "end": 183.48000000000002, "text": " on my external hard drive, although I didn't bring a Thunderbolt adapter today. This is" }, { "start": 183.48000000000002, "end": 190.48000000000002, "text": " exactly what I'm talking about. It's not a big deal. I also have an SD card adapter," }, { "start": 190.48, "end": 197.48, "text": " so I'll just use this. Have you ever been to Hawaii? I totally recommend it. It's fantastic." }, { "start": 197.48, "end": 204.48, "text": " There's the ocean and the fish. There, just another adapter. Exhibit D. Hey, how are you?" }, { "start": 204.48, "end": 223.48, "text": " Good. Listen, can I call you later? I'm kind of dealing with a hot mess over here right" }, { "start": 223.48, "end": 232.48, "text": " now. Okay, thanks. Bye. Doing okay over there? Yeah, I'm just going to call them back. Question" }, { "start": 232.48, "end": 239.48, "text": " for you. How much did all of these cost? Oh, not much. Yeah, but like how much? I don't" }, { "start": 239.48, "end": 246.48, "text": " know, $30 or $40 a piece, and Apple just cut the prices on a bunch of them. Okay. I don't" }, { "start": 246.48, "end": 251.48, "text": " know what kind of rich person Apple juice you've been drinking, but that added cost," }, { "start": 251.48, "end": 258.48, "text": " it's kind of ridiculous. Look, time is money, okay? And the time it takes for you to boot" }, { "start": 258.48, "end": 263.48, "text": " up that 2011 laptop you've got there and get stuff running on it, I'm already done with" }, { "start": 263.48, "end": 268.48, "text": " all the stuff that I need to do on this machine. Here's the thing about new technology. I mean," }, { "start": 268.48, "end": 273.48, "text": " sure, it's uncomfortable at first, but I don't know. If no one pushes technology forward," }, { "start": 273.48, "end": 277.48, "text": " then no one pushes it forward. And yes, maybe there will be times when you don't have the" }, { "start": 277.48, "end": 283.48, "text": " exact adapter that you need right in your pocket, you know, with your iPhone 7, but" }, { "start": 283.48, "end": 287.48, "text": " if you work at the same office every day and you're carrying your new MacBook to the same" }, { "start": 287.48, "end": 293.48, "text": " place every day, you likely have all the adapters right there that you need. Okay, but on the" }, { "start": 293.48, "end": 299.48, "text": " flip side, you don't need to upgrade to all the latest and greatest technology, and I" }, { "start": 299.48, "end": 303.48, "text": " mean, this just proves it. Companies like Apple and other companies are just trying" }, { "start": 303.48, "end": 307.48, "text": " to convince you that you need all the latest stuff and that you need to spend your money" }, { "start": 307.48, "end": 312.48, "text": " on it while they're quietly dismissing popular standards and in the meantime creating a user" }, { "start": 312.48, "end": 318.48, "text": " hostile experience. But you're holding back progress. If nobody ever upgrades, then nobody" }, { "start": 318.48, "end": 324.48, "text": " ever upgrades. Yeah, okay, sure. I hear what you're saying, but for now, I'm just going" }, { "start": 324.48, "end": 333.48, "text": " to stick with this. Plus, can you do this? Okay, that's ridiculous. It's a bright new" }, { "start": 333.48, "end": 343.48, "text": " display. It has a force... It has a force... It's so shining. It's like, woohoo. It's" }, { "start": 343.48, "end": 364.48, "text": " moving, but it's not. Okay, we should just do that over." } ]