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Lead story for Thursday, February 27.
Yes. February 27.
Chat GPT 4.5.
Today, OpenAI
unveils
GPT 4.5,
its new AI
language model, promising enhanced writing skills, better knowledge,
and a more refined
human like interaction.
Despite impressive upgrades, OpenAI emits 4.5
(00:23):
isn't groundbreaking,
but it's optimized for more natural conversations,
practical problem solving, and reduced hallucinations.
Available first to ChatGPT
Pro users, it's soon rolling out broadly including
on Microsoft
Azure
platform.
As we get into this article tonight and
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the launch
of ChatGPD 4.5,
this has been long anticipated. We knew it
was gonna be coming here in the next
few days.
And,
of course, it popped today. And,
should not be surprised that this is out,
but I think people are gonna be a
little bit surprised
(01:04):
that it's not as rich
of a model
as they were expecting. And although they have
removed from their website that it it's,
they were saying it's not a Frontier model,
but that's been removed. So I don't know
if they've reversed course. Now
what's interesting
is I've been playing with ChatGPT 4.5
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excuse me, ChatGPT
Pro
since Tuesday. I believe I picked it up
on Tuesday.
I was thinking about it, and I decided
to do a one month free trial.
And I could talk quite a little bit
about Pro already,
but it's kinda funny. They dropped the o
one model,
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yesterday.
And,
the o there's an o one and a
o one pro.
And I will say that based upon working
in these models, especially the reasoning models,
recently, the o one pro. It's just super,
super fantastic from
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a, from a a a reasoning model.
We were building scripts, and,
it basically it was taught teaching me
as I was basically, I said, I wanna
do this type of a script, blah blah
blah, gave it a whole bunch of parameters.
And it said, what did I miss? And
it asked me eight questions.
And I gave it the eight questions, and
it
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produced the script. And I took the script
and spent about an hour editing it,
adding a few things,
and really nitpicking it to death. And then
I went back, and I had another script
to write. And I said, okay. I'm gonna
we're gonna write a new script, keep all
the parameters
of what we talked about in the previous
script,
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based on what you what we've talked about
so far. Do you need any more information?
And it basically asked me three more things,
and the script got better.
So now I'm up to my third script
in that chat session,
and it's gotten, I mean, absolutely fantastic. And
it literally probably saved me
either model. The pro model or
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the plus model
would have probably saved me
twenty hours of work at a minimum,
to write scripts in the way that and,
again, I put a lot of information in.
I spent about thirty minutes
explaining what I wanted,
And, it did did very well.
So folks over at Engadget are saying that
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this new 4.5 model is better and and
more natural conversationalist.
But, again, I've I've used it once tonight.
And because I am on pro, so I've
I've got access to it.
And what I end up finding out,
the GPTs
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are tied to
GPT
four point o turbo.
That's what the GPTs
are aligned to.
So I asked it to switch to the
4.5 model, and it told me
it couldn't.
So what I asked it to do is
provide a podcast opening summary from the article,
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provide a Yoast keyword,
you provide a 28
character summary and suggest a title for the
podcast episode.
And,
I cut and paste in a couple of
the external,
g chat g b t 4.5 announcements from
sites that we're gonna have in the show
notes tonight.
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And
I will say that the
opening summary,
not extraordinarily
better than what I normally
get, but I got this without the GPT,
and I got it all right the first
time. Got me summary, give me a suggested
title, suggested keywords, suggested Yoast summary.
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I asked it to create a couple pieces
of of art,
and it did okay. It's a little bit
different than what the of course, they're not
talking about the
model being better, but
in creating art, but this was it still
got
weird stuff in text that hasn't changed.
But,
overall,
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just using it one time,
here in in show prep,
again,
jury is still out
on how this 4.5
model is gonna be. So they say they
need to put on another hundred thousand
NVIDIA GPUs in order to release it to
the plus customers.
So that's why it's a delay.
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I'm only four or five days into using
Pro, maybe four days.
And I'm trying to in my mind, because
it's $200
for a month. So I'm trying to justify,
and I'm gonna work real hard at it
to see if and I'm gonna be doing
AB testing
for the next month on everything that I
do that where I use it.
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One thing, I've got a big project I'm
working on, and I'm using it for research.
And I've started out
with this research project,
and it came back and gave me 20
questions. It said, hey. You need to give
me these 20 questions.
Answer these 20 before we go to the
next step. And I thought, wow.
Would have never done that before. So and
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that was using the o one pro reasoning
model.
So,
I will see how this progresses,
and we'll see how this 4.5. I'm sure
we're gonna hear more stuff. But it those
of you on plus,
you're gonna have to wait for this for,
for just a few weeks. Okay?
And even Jen got the article out on
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g and c already, so,
the g p d 4.5
is,
announced on, on Geek News Central, of course.
So,
definitely consider that. I will get into the
rest of the stack here in a few
minutes, but I wanna welcome you to episode
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So, again, thank you all for your support
and and, of course, we got a lot
to talk about,
in the stack today.
You know, one thing I have been doing,
and I don't know about the rest of
you. Every once in a while, I get
in the in the mode
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of shopping on eBay, and it's usually for
retro gear.
And,
you never know
if the shipping's gonna be free,
how long it's gonna take. I had one
item here recently that just took
a a long time to get here, and
it annoyed me, quite a bit because I
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had some stuff. And if I got it,
I'd been able to get a a week's
worth of work done,
but instead, it just arrived. And so it's
gonna have to wait until I get back.
But they're saying shopping is gonna get easier
on on eBay.
And
to be honest with you, I find a
lot of pretty good deals over there.
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I found something I've been looking for for
many, many years.
I found a I guess, we call it
a relic. I found an a navy chief,
Insignia,
that was from the very, very early days
of,
I paid a premium. I paid about $70
for this thing.
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Just one little itsy bitsy
chief anchor, but it's,
you know, from very, very late,
very I mean, like, maybe 1900
or something like that. So,
I was jazzed to get it. I knew
exactly what it was when I saw it.
But,
you know, that that was actually an easy
(12:29):
one. But they're adding a handful of new
features that come as a sigh of relief
for those of you that are hunting for
local deals. Now, well, there's not a lot
of local deals
that I find in my area because I
just I, you know, live in rural America.
And if you live in a big city,
you know, the online marketplace says it has
used AI to streamline its fast seller network
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based on factors
like business history locations and shipping options and
try to find you items that you're looking
for that are closer to you to save
you money.
But, again, you may not find the item
that you're looking for, but this is what
says what they have implemented
over there and,
again, anything that's gonna help is gonna be,
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is gonna be good. I think,
the one item I ordered was no shipping,
and then some other stuff I've had has
come from a long ways away. And it
was quite a bit of shipping, but I
I wanted it pretty bad so it it
worked out.
A lot of people are being forced to
come back to work. Of course, a lot
of government workers are being told they could
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come back to work. And, of course, being
in the office again in a federal,
as a federal employee,
you know, you're back on your your government
computer and all the things that go along
with it with the network.
And I'm sure some of that's been going
on from home as well if you've had
a government computer at home.
But,
companies who sell
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workplace monitoring tech
and,
if you look at what they offer,
you would think that the average American worker
was a renegade poised to take their employer
down at the next opportunity.
But at the same time, nearly half of
US employees admit that admit to time theft,
biometric readers for enhanced accuracy, quote, unquote.
(14:19):
But a new wave of return office mandate
has arrived.
We know JPMorgan,
Amazon, not to mention, again, what we talked
about on the federal side.
But
there's going to be a lot of
analysis
on people's productivity.
The economy is is is been pretty bad
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in my opinion.
So companies are hiring less, so there's a
trend towards productivity.
And I'll be honest with you, AI has
really changed the productivity of me considerably.
And to the point where
the person I hired to be my EA,
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I have her doing a whole bunch of
stuff now that we would never have gotten
into unless we had AI and some of
the stuff that is available.
So the expectation amongst CEOs is that's going
to eliminate a lot of jobs.
I feel it's gonna make companies
more productive. Now if you were productive before
AI,
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it's just gonna put that on hyperdrive. Matter
of fact, this afternoon about
about 04:00, it kinda hit me. I was
like,
we work on a sprint method,
and,
normally, I take on five to 10 task.
And we have stuff in reserve that we
can pull up.
But I'm I'm ahead. I'm ahead on all
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my tasks to get done by next Thursday
by
35%.
Some of that was AI driven for sure.
I I would have I would have not
assigned myself to do
four of the things that or three of
the four things that I gave myself as
a task
if I knew I didn't have AI to
help me.
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So
I'm asking my team members how much
efficiency are you getting out of this. And
from time you know, and I'm like, I've
noticed we had planned on doing,
certain number of projects in this quarter,
and
I have it all planned out in the
backlog.
But I was given each,
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of the team members assigned to that one
of those tasks per two week sprint.
And now I'm seeing
all of the team members dragging a second
one up, and it's a considerable amount of
work. So it just shows me the productivity
is is just increasing
in a good way.
But, again,
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I don't wanna be in the business of
tracking.
If if we're getting the assigned work done
in thirty hours, great.
Now I don't wanna get to the point
where I said, oh, we look what we
got done in thirty hours. Now I can
throw on 10 more tasks.
And, you know, I did that myself
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this time. I've added a couple of tasks
because I know I'm not gonna be done.
But
I feel a lot of companies are gonna
be really looking at productivity of of workers
when they're in the office. They have more
control.
They know that there's none of those little
things running to move the mouse, to keep
you logged in, and a variety of other
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trickery tools that can be used. So
what do you feel?
Do you feel that having gone back to
the office that there's more spying happening on
you? I'd love to hear your comments at
geeknews@gmail.com.
Geek news at g mail dot com.
Amazon, of course, has a new AI powered
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Alexa promising to be your best friend in
digital world for a monthly fee of $19.99.
I think they're dollar late
a a day late and a dollar short.
I don't know how many of these I'm
going to need.
Auphonic,
they've come out with a new model.
Grok, come out with a new model.
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So
I don't want anything ordering anything for me.
And
it's interesting. What are they gonna do with
this?
It's where it's doing speech you're doing speech
is is speaking back.
So I what what can it do for
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me for $20 that's gonna increase my productivity
and save me $20?
That they they didn't
they did not
say that. They just said it's gonna be
good for you. Well, give me some demos.
Give me some give me some reason
to make the move here.
I know some of you are gonna go
wrinkle your nose here, but, Elon Musk says
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Verizon network not working as FAA switches over
to Starlink.
So a lot of this stuff was going
on before
the,
studies were going on before the election results.
But it's not for the whole FAA. It's
for a few
remote areas.
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Two years after Verizon secured a $2,000,000,000
contract to upgrade FAA's IT infrastructure,
the agency is switching to Starlink.
In a late night post,
Elon said Verizon network was faulty, asserting it
was a safety risk.
Well, of course, has
Verizon replied to that?
The post follows confirmation from the FAA on
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money that STARLINK cameras had used to assist
air traffic controllers at at two stations in
Alaska.
The FAA FAA said it had long considered
using STARLINK tech to increase safety in remote
areas.
So,
last week, he approved the shipment of 400,000
STARLINK terminals for use by the FAA.
Administration confirmed that one terminal is already being
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used for testing at the FAA's air traffic
control lab in Atlantic City.
The apparent shift
comes two years after rising again was awarded
this contract.
So it's unclear that the FAA's use of
Starlink terminals will complicate the administration's contract with
Verizon.
But here's the thing. If we need keep
the Verizon stuff.
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The Starlink stuff is cheap. Just do a
a backup to a backup.
That's what I got going on here
because nothing is perfect. Not even Starlink is
perfect.
It rains hard. It drops.
You know? That's the fact.
It's and when you need communications in the
FAA, you need it when it's raining and
the weather's bad.
If the satellite can't see through the weather
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and can't connect,
it's no good. So there's it's not a
one size fits all.
And that's where my point to point system
comes online and does, you know, serves as
a backup.
So, you know, the best thing is let's
get fiber.
Let's get fiber into these
areas,
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get them on wired, hardwired, high speed
one or two gig Internet. Why is it
so hard?
The rest of the world is getting wired
and we are what?
You know? We talked about this many, many
times on this show.
So seems that with all the money we
spend with the FAA that they would have,
like, they would have some bandwidth. Wouldn't you
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think?
But it's the government. It's the government. Who
knows?
Of course, they don't talk about the setup
or anything like that. That's for sure.
Kia's EV four will be the first electric
sedan that'll be available in The United States
later this year. Kia will also release a
hatchback version in Europe. So I didn't know
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that they were this late to the electric
car game.
So, again, Kia's launched the EV four,
The twenty twenty five k EV day in
Tarragon, Spain, the company first unveiled the EV
fours at CompT at CES last year. Buyers
can choose between a 58.3
kilowatt and 81.4
kilowatt long range options.
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The long range sedan being able to run
to 391
miles on a single charge.
Meanwhile,
the,
the standard
battery can only go 267
miles.
Have we got a price on this thing?
Let me look.
Yeah. They don't they did not announce a
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price. So $50.60,
how much, you know, 70,000?
How much how much is this thing?
So,
knowing key, it'll be cheaper, but, you know,
at what price? Again, this is the big
problem with these electric vehicles.
New York City's
Metropolitan
Transitory.
Listen. This is a cool one. Google successfully
tested
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tech that uses smartphone sensor sensors to detect
subway tract effects.
The four month experiment
where they mounted six Google Pixel phones
on a on four
a train subway cars
that were traversing Manhattan, Queens.
The phone accelerometers,
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magnetometers,
and gyroscopes, and external microphones collected 335,000,000
sensor readings
and twelve hundred hours of audio data, which
were then processed
through 200 prediction models. The system identified
this is amazing.
Ninety two percent of defects were confirmed
by human inspectors,
(23:27):
including broken rails, loose bolts.
The goal of the project is to find
issues before they become a major issue. Yeah.
I think a broke rail would be a
big issue.
Following the trial, the MTA plans expand to
a full pilot where Google will build a
per a production version
for track inspectors.
So just listening for vibrations, seeing what's going
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on with gyro.
It's amazing.
They run over something. They know what it
sounds like.
I've got a friend who was, an engineer
for years, and he could tell me if
there was a he said I could hear
the the track change. I knew there was
a problem.
Could hear it. And he's in the locomotive.
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I'm like, wow. Okay.
It's kinda like flying.
Flying is a a large,
a large a lot of it suit you
know, you feel something in your ass before
you feel it in your head.
This is a real interesting,
security breach. And the reason why is there
was,
(24:31):
3,300,000
have been infected in an employee screening firm.
The hackers stole
DISA data. Now I don't know what DISA,
American employee screening company, Odisha,
has confirmed suffering a cyberattack. But listen to
this.
It happened back in April of twenty four,
and they're just announcing it.
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Why so long?
Why so long? That's that's that's
that's a lifetime.
It really is.
Hey. It's being rumored that the iPhone 17
Pro could come with a 20 excuse me,
with 12 gigs
of RAM to help it power through
AI tasks. 12 gigs?
Only 12 gigs?
(25:15):
That's it?
12 is that kinda it's gotta be a
typo.
The current models run eight gig. They're gonna
have to up them to 12 gigs. Okay.
I didn't know that.
So the phones now only comes with eight
gigs of RAM?
That's pretty incredible.
So, yeah, may have to go to 12.
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So they'll have to spend a whole 3
more dollars to put a little more RAM
in
to run the AI stuff on the iPhone
17.
What say you?
Alright. How many of you are audiophiles?
Well, you know, I'm a big ACDC fan.
So when I saw this Hell's Bells project
(25:57):
ACDC turntable, it just left me thunderstruck. I
was like, well, what it is, it's it's
really has nothing to do with ACDC.
But this is how the guy got me
click baited here, you know. And I'm looking
at this turntable. I'm like, oh my god.
Look at this thing. You know. And then,
of course, as soon as you,
as they start talking about, those of you
that are quote unquote,
(26:19):
hardcores,
I knew the price was gonna be crazy.
See here. What would be The US amount?
$1,450
for this bad boy.
I'm sorry. I will,
I will not be upgrading. I love vinyl,
but, not that much.
(26:41):
Project started making turntables in 1991,
and,
so this is not their first walk in
the park for the high end stuff. For
something's going on here, I must got the
heat up because
it's warm. It's warm here in the studio
tonight.
I don't know what the deal is, but,
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the temperature is up for sure.
Android phones to drive mobile sales in 2025.
IDC is saying that smartphones to increase by
2.3%
this year compared to 2024.
So but it's gonna mostly be driven by,
purchases in China.
IOS is gonna decline 1.9%.
(27:24):
Now here's the thing too is, you know,
we're gonna have some tariff situations going on
here and price of stuff is gonna go
up.
So,
you know, I've got a phone that's less
than a year old. So I, you know,
I have no need
to do an upgrade.
But,
once this tariff goes in, new stock coming
in is gonna get whacked.
(27:45):
So,
so we'll see.
Amazon
is going to unveil new a l e
x a devices in the fall. Now why
in
the fall? They made this AI announcement.
So
what does this really have to do with
anything?
It's again,
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appears to be tied to this chatbot stuff.
But I guess the current versions will work.
Okay. So if you pay for Prime, you're
gonna get the this this AI stuff for
free. That was not said in the other
article.
(28:26):
Amazon will start charging a l e x
a customers first time when the new Alexa
Plus starts rolling out next month. Users who
want the latest capabilities can pay $19.90 a
month. Members of Amazon hundred and thirty nine
year year prime program get the update for
free. Is that what Prime cost these days?
It just bills on my credit card. I
don't even pay attention.
I it's you know, it I paid for
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itself in, you know, a month.
So, well,
celebrities are going to the stars, literally.
Katy Perry will fly to space during Blue
Origin's next crewed mission
that Jeff Bezos owns space companies and now
it's a pop star. But we'll join CBS
host Gail King
and Bezos' fiance Lauren
(29:08):
Sanchez aboard the New Shepard rocket this spring,
marking its eleventh human flight. So what this
tells me per se,
sending his girlfriend and
who else is who else is gone? The
crew will include research scientist and activist,
Amanda and Amanda Nugent. Sounds like a lot
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of ladies are going. Film producer, Carrie Anne
Flynn,
and former NASA rocket scientist Ayesha Bow.
So, yeah, this sounds like an all lady
crew.
So,
well,
that's,
a bit of a I wonder if Bezos
is paying for this flight himself.
(29:50):
I I just wonder if those other folks
have paid the, paid the fare,
or are they doing this as a publicity
stunt? Apple has overhauled the child account setup
and adds new age assurance. They said it's
implementing the new feature that is designed to
make children safer,
including an updated age rating system, a simple
way for parents to set up child accounts,
(30:11):
change to what kids see on the App
Store, and the new API that will let
developers confirm age range to deliver age appropriate
experiences to kids.
So the changes outlined in the new
helping protect kids online white paper that is
available on Apple's developer site. So,
anything that we can help protect kids is
good.
(30:32):
Oura ring, I know a lot of people
are I I I met someone recently. They
had an Oura ring, and
he swore by it that he took let
him know when he was getting sick.
And I thought that was pretty incredible. But,
ladies, the Oura ring is now gonna be
able to read menstrual cycle changes to help
women tailor their health habits.
(30:53):
So,
what specifically
have they done
is the the latest feature helps your ring
recognize your cycle.
Your writing score now factors in psychorrelated shifts
like heart rate, temperature,
and HRV changes. What's HRV?
Aura is launching studies to dig deeper into
women's health and improve cycle tracking.
(31:17):
So
the company knows that thirty percent thirty five
percent of users with cycles won't see the
readiness score dip during the luteal phase anymore
representing eighty one percent in drop in cycle
related score change.
Oh, there's some words there that I don't
know. But they're also expanding women helping with
a fertility window
in cycle insights using your body's data pinpoint
(31:41):
likely
fertile days.
So,
for those of you that you are tracking
this closely, the Oura Ring might be for
you.
Samsung slimmest galaxy s 25 edge tip to
be launched soon.
So what you need to know, the slimmest
Galaxy phone
(32:03):
is expected to be coming on April 16
and a wider availability of the handset expected
in May. The device should be significantly slimmer
than the s 25 Trio
and likely be placed in the standard Galaxy
s 25 and Ultra in terms of pricing.
So
is this something special? I I guess it's
edge tip. That means it's super, super thin.
(32:25):
You know, when when phones get too thin,
I just worry that they're gonna get I'm
gonna break them. You know? I want I
I don't mind a phone being a little
thicker.
I I really don't.
So,
here's another article that talks about FAA
Waste canceling Verizon contract.
(32:45):
Interesting.
DoorDash is gonna pay 16,800,000.0
to New York delivery workers after misusing their
tips.
DoorDash used customer tips to pay workers wages,
but it must give that money back. They,
you know, that's so dirty.
It's really, really dirty
that they're doing that.
Because
specifically on DoorDash,
(33:08):
I will always if, okay, if my order's
small, I will tip a little bit more
because I know they're not gonna make very
much.
And I tip more because they'll oftentimes, you
won't get stuff if you don't tip.
Alright. That's just kinda how DoorDash works.
And the and these
(33:28):
these
a holes
at DoorDash were keeping the delivery workers tips.
So I'm glad
that they are have to pay restitution here.
And they're gonna pay up to additional 1,000,000
administrator costs to help make the payments happen.
Some workers expected to get several thousand dollars,
others as much as $14,000.
(33:51):
In today's world, $14,000
will buy a lot of eggs,
especially in New York.
You know how expensive it is to live
in that city?
So dirty.
So dirty.
What we know about Waymo's twenty twenty five
expansion plans,
Waymo's Alphabet autonomous driving center has been rapidly
(34:12):
expanding its self driving robotox
taxis
across The States.
A Pew Research Center found from, from 2022
found that 45% Americans would not feel comfortable.
I don't think I would yet.
So where are they going? I thought we
had something on this recently that said where
they're expanding to.
Los Angeles, Austin, San Diego, Las Vegas, Atlanta,
(34:35):
Miami,
Tokyo.
Meanwhile, Cruise has hit the brakes.
So that's where they're headed. So big, big
major cities, of course.
DIRECTV, they're still in business? DIRECTV launches Genre
Pack, a more affordable way to get channels
you actually want. Pricing starts
at $35
(34:55):
a month.
So you can get your an entertainment package,
a sports package,
espionage package, a news package.
Very, very curious. You know, we've I've always
said I don't need sports.
Sports is $69.
Entertainment's 34. So what's on entertainment?
FX, HGTV,
A and E, Discovery, Bravo, Food, Disney plus,
(35:18):
Max,
Newses,
NBC, Fox,
CNN, Newsmax.
I get Newsmax and stuff other places.
So
the entertainment pack looks okay.
Thank God. Just break it out. They have
to do something.
Right?
(35:39):
They have to do something.
Digital TV is just completely
reshaping everything.
Do you really care what the shape of
the universe is as big as it is?
I don't know if I do,
but mathematicians are using topology to study its
shape and everything in it.
It's big.
(35:59):
I can't touch the side of it. I
don't I look up. I can't see the
end.
I'm this is not something I'm worried about.
But I'm thank God there's scientists out there
that do this kind of stuff, to be
honest with you.
We'll see what they figure out. Now here
we go.
A house hearing is debating ways to improve
Artemis.
I've got a solution for it.
(36:20):
I really, really do. Of course, this would
really piss people off because,
you know, there is a definite,
conflict of interest here, but send Doge over
there and have them cut this thing.
Two government officials had offered conflicting advice to
a house committee on how to change NASA's
Artemis lunar exploration campaign,
(36:42):
but agreed that a return to the moon
was a prerequisite.
Scott Pace, former executive secretary of National Space
Council, called for an early off ramp for
reliance on space launch systems while
Dan Dombacher, former deputy assistant administrator for exploration
at NASA, said it was doubtful SpaceX Starship
(37:03):
could land humans on the moon by the
end of the decade. Where has this guy
been?
I
Nancy, where where are we at right now?
Twenty five?
I don't know.
(37:23):
They call it SLS a primary concern for
NASA's current Artemis architecture because of its expense
and lack of reusability.
It's time to reconsider alternatives. You know, Musk
is about ready to land that, well, if
they don't blow it up tomorrow,
the, first second stage, they're gonna try to
land, after this test,
maybe.
(37:44):
But
they criticize the reliance on Starship for landing
humans on the moon.
NASA's current plan to return people requires approximately
35 to 40 Starship launches to first demonstrate
the capability on an uncrewed mission. Well, they're
already at
seven. They're gonna do eight tomorrow.
(38:06):
So,
you know, and they're ramping up the speed
here.
Do we really need 30 launches to have
a proven system? You gotta go to the
moon a couple of times, I think, unmanned.
I don't know.
We'll see.
But
we definitely want don't wanna take a Boeing
(38:27):
spacecraft
to the moon.
You know? How how do you go get
those folks there? Of course, it could happen
to SpaceX too.
Now
as I said, I'm getting ready to go
to The Philippines, but there's a little bit
of news out in The Philippines. Ancient seafarers
in Philippines and ice ISEA
built sophisticated and mastered deep sea fishing forty
(38:48):
thousand years ago challenged the view that Palaeolithic
technology was limited to Europe and Africa.
Will you consider how The Philippines is?
The Philippines is just a bunch of islands.
I mean,
if anyone was going to,
master
the water, they would have.
(39:09):
So, anyway, they've, this is in Scitech Daily.
So link is in the show notes. You
guys can can check it out, but it's
been making the rounds in some of the
groups I'm in where people are chatting about
it.
Australia has banned all Casper ski products on
government system citing unacceptable security risks because pry,
surprise, surprise.
Following United States, Australian Government has banned Caspi
(39:30):
Lab products and web services.
After considering a threat and risk analysis, they've
determined that Caspi Labs products and web services
by Australian government entities pose an unacceptable security
risk Australian government.
They say, I've also considered important its need
for strong policy signal to current infrastructure and
and other Australian governments
(39:51):
regarding unacceptable security risks associated with the use
of Kaspersky
Labs.
Don't worry. The war is gonna be over
here shortly, and when it is, it's all
gonna be good.
You guys can all start using those products
again because we're all gonna be friends
as soon as the war is over.
Instagram apologizes for flooding users with disturbing yeah.
(40:14):
A little snarky. Instagram apologizes
for flooding users with disturbing reels. Well, what
I wanna know what kind of reels did
you get.
Disturbing reels must mean you got some porn.
Is that what you got? Or corn? I
guess I
yeah. I can't say that word. I have
to use the word corn now.
(40:35):
I just ruined my my, YouTube livestream.
So,
what were they? Oh, they were seeing
yeah.
Hex, violence, and other disturbing content.
So
okay.
I I didn't know that stuff was even
available on that
(40:55):
platform. I thought all that was banned.
Verizon's offer discounted Internet with extra perks to
its mobile customers. It carries offering home Internet
a free perk when adding to an existing
mobile plan,
if you can get it.
Verizon has been slowly growing its five g
home Internet base
alongside its LTE and FiOS wired fiber Internet,
(41:18):
and it's offered a discount when signing up
for both Internet and select mobile plans.
So So you get a discount of $15.
So woo hoo.
There's a there's three dozen eggs.
Stripe's valuation has climbed to 91,500,000,000.0
in secondary stock market. The company's nearing its
peak valuation of 95,000,000,000
from 2021.
(41:39):
So,
I use Stripe,
for
my personal business in doing the podcast awards.
So
I don't always like the percentage of money
they take, but just like any other place
running a credit card.
So a CNET survey says 43% of Americans
use a VPN.
(42:00):
I I man, when I am not here,
when I am where I'm going,
man, if I'm doing any
business,
I'm on a VPN
for sure.
And,
I'm not using it for streaming content.
I pick a VPN location in The United
States,
(42:20):
accessing bank bills,
you know, stuff from my company.
I'm on a VPN.
Now if I'm just watching YouTube, I don't
care.
But,
I I'm heavy, heavy VPN user.
So,
some sites now can detect if you're using
a VPN, which which kinda blows. It defeats
(42:42):
the purpose of, you know, using a VPN
to get to your banking account. And believe
it or not, my mobile phone
has less problems connecting to stuff than my
computer does.
My mobile phone seems to be able to
have no issue logging into my bank using
a VPN, whereas my computer on a VPN,
sometimes I can't get into my bank.
(43:03):
Venus Williams, the tennis star, is, backing a
French startup that rewards you for walking.
So, it's called what's the what's the name
of the app? WeWard,
w e w a r d.
So WeWard is a free app that offers
real world
rewards for walking. It tracks your steps and
lets you earn points,
(43:24):
which can be a change for gift cards
and so forth. So interesting. I know when
I'm not here and it's warmer, I try
to do at least 10,000 steps a day.
I don't always get them in,
but, that's my goal.
Google Pixel Watch three potentially lifesaving pulse detection
feature finally gets cleared for launch in United
States. The feature's been available in The UK
(43:44):
and other countries since 2024.
So, again, Google has confirmed this groundbreaking loss
of pulse detection feature unveiled.
It's finally come to use in The US.
So,
this loss of pulse detection is industry first
that can detect when your heart stops beating,
alerting emergency services and people around you. Events
(44:05):
like a cardiac arrest, respiratory circulation failure, overdose,
and even poisoning
can trigger loss of spot a loss of
pulse.
So,
hey. This you know, if it if it
the thing is you lose your if your
heart stops beating,
you're truly on the clock. The reaction time
has to be pretty doggone fast
(44:26):
for someone to get CPR going for you
to save you.
So, I'll be interested in seeing case studies
come out about this.
Probably works great for couples that are living
together. Once heart stops beating, the spouse would
get that notification.
I could see where that would work good.
But if you're a single guy living in
an apartment or living in a loft like
I am, I might be a goner.
(44:50):
UK blindsided
US intelligence by asking for Apple's backdoor, a
violation, of course, of Americans' privates and civil
liberties. The director of national intelligence
is investigating. We talked a little bit about
this, but people are not happy and it's
getting more attention.
So,
we'll see if they do anything.
The FBI says North Korea hacked BY BIT,
(45:11):
b y b I t, and details $1,500,000,000
stone. Yes. 1,500,000,000.0.
The Bybit hack,
went after a,
a crypto holder of Erytheum.
So
wow.
He's don't know who to trust.
(45:32):
1,500,000,000.0
in crypto.
Bybit, b y b I t.
So I don't know. Is that a
is that an app?
Bybit, which claims to be the world's largest
the world's second largest cryptocurrency
(45:54):
exchange, has launched a bug bounty program in
an effort to recover the stolen funds. Well,
good luck.
Offering 5% of the recovered amount to the
entity that manages to freeze the funds and
5% to those that help trace the funds.
Good luck.
Good luck.
Store your crypto on your own device.
(46:15):
Get yourself an external storage unit.
Google updates personal search excuse me. Google updates
people's search finder tool,
making it used to remove personal information on
search.
Results about you can help take down personal
data.
I do a lot of clearing of data
every, like, six months or so.
(46:37):
And,
there's a lot of services out there that
are now scraping and getting rid of stuff
too. Have any of you guys used any
of those services that remove your private information?
Blue Sky. How many of you have a
an account on Blue Sky?
Geek news at g mail dot com. Do
you have one on Blue Sky?
Is it
(46:57):
is it any good?
A comprehensive analysis of the platform
provides insights to a structure. You know, I
don't take this the wrong way, but I
think that's where
most of the people that got pissed off
at Elon went. Right?
And
is it all
(47:18):
Liberals on Blue Sky, or is it a
mixed crowd?
What is it? I don't know.
I see just about every
persuasion of people on
on x still, although some of the stuff
on x can get a little crazy.
You know, let me know. Let me know
what,
what you're seeing on Blue Sky, but the
(47:40):
study says it's got about a kinda normal
audience over there. I just don't want another
social media
channel. I really don't.
I just don't want
okay. Ladies and gentlemen, I'm gonna bring at
the end of the show here. What I
want you to do,
when 4.5 comes out,
let me know what you think about it.
(48:00):
You know, give it a run yourself. Play
with it.
Again, few weeks for the plus users to
get it. Try the o one now here's
the thing on ChatGPT.
If you're paying for plus,
there's a new reasoning model called o one.
You only get 10 uses a month.
So please study up
on how to use the o one reasoning
(48:22):
model
because you could use up
10 uses
just to figure out kinda how to to
work it. So watch some YouTube videos or
whatever to how you use the o one
reasoning model before you start using it on
your $20 plan.
Don't waste your your prompts. It's very, very,
very, very powerful.
(48:44):
So use it wisely for something that you
need to do heavy research on. Again, you
get 10 queries, and I can usually
get all my stuff done in two to
three queries, sometimes
four.
So
just watch a few videos on how to
use the reasoning model. So, again, I'll be
back with you next Thursday.
(49:04):
And, we'll be from the studio
in The Philippines.
And, I'll be over there a couple of
months again
and, back and forth.
So we will be doing video then. I
got that all kind of figured out. I'll
be using OBS.
And,
so
I feel like I've
like, this is a second try to get
(49:25):
this right.
So we'll hopefully get it locked in and,
we'll be here having full video and audio
for the show.
Most of you don't care, but you'll get
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Lead story for Thursday, February 27.
Yes. February 27.
Chat GPT 4.5.
Today, OpenAI
unveils
GPT 4.5,
its new AI
language model, promising enhanced writing skills, better knowledge,
and a more refined
human like interaction.
Despite impressive upgrades, OpenAI emits 4.5
(00:23):
isn't groundbreaking,
but it's optimized for more natural conversations,
practical problem solving, and reduced hallucinations.
Available first to ChatGPT
Pro users, it's soon rolling out broadly including
on Microsoft
Azure
platform.
As we get into this article tonight and
(00:44):
the launch
of ChatGPD 4.5,
this has been long anticipated. We knew it
was gonna be coming here in the next
few days.
And,
of course, it popped today. And,
should not be surprised that this is out,
but I think people are gonna be a
little bit surprised
(01:04):
that it's not as rich
of a model
as they were expecting. And although they have
removed from their website that it it's,
they were saying it's not a Frontier model,
but that's been removed. So I don't know
if they've reversed course. Now
what's interesting
is I've been playing with ChatGPT 4.5
(01:27):
excuse me, ChatGPT
Pro
since Tuesday. I believe I picked it up
on Tuesday.
I was thinking about it, and I decided
to do a one month free trial.
And I could talk quite a little bit
about Pro already,
but it's kinda funny. They dropped the o
one model,
(01:48):
yesterday.
And,
the o there's an o one and a
o one pro.
And I will say that based upon working
in these models, especially the reasoning models,
recently, the o one pro. It's just super,
super fantastic from
(02:08):
a, from a a a reasoning model.
We were building scripts, and,
it basically it was taught teaching me
as I was basically, I said, I wanna
do this type of a script, blah blah
blah, gave it a whole bunch of parameters.
And it said, what did I miss? And
it asked me eight questions.
And I gave it the eight questions, and
it
(02:29):
produced the script. And I took the script
and spent about an hour editing it,
adding a few things,
and really nitpicking it to death. And then
I went back, and I had another script
to write. And I said, okay. I'm gonna
we're gonna write a new script, keep all
the parameters
of what we talked about in the previous
script,
(02:51):
based on what you what we've talked about
so far. Do you need any more information?
And it basically asked me three more things,
and the script got better.
So now I'm up to my third script
in that chat session,
and it's gotten, I mean, absolutely fantastic. And
it literally probably saved me
either model. The pro model or
(03:13):
the plus model
would have probably saved me
twenty hours of work at a minimum,
to write scripts in the way that and,
again, I put a lot of information in.
I spent about thirty minutes
explaining what I wanted,
And, it did did very well.
So folks over at Engadget are saying that
(03:35):
this new 4.5 model is better and and
more natural conversationalist.
But, again, I've I've used it once tonight.
And because I am on pro, so I've
I've got access to it.
And what I end up finding out,
the GPTs
(03:56):
are tied to
GPT
four point o turbo.
That's what the GPTs
are aligned to.
So I asked it to switch to the
4.5 model, and it told me
it couldn't.
So what I asked it to do is
provide a podcast opening summary from the article,
(04:18):
provide a Yoast keyword,
you provide a 28
character summary and suggest a title for the
podcast episode.
And,
I cut and paste in a couple of
the external,
g chat g b t 4.5 announcements from
sites that we're gonna have in the show
notes tonight.
(04:39):
And
I will say that the
opening summary,
not extraordinarily
better than what I normally
get, but I got this without the GPT,
and I got it all right the first
time. Got me summary, give me a suggested
title, suggested keywords, suggested Yoast summary.
(05:01):
I asked it to create a couple pieces
of of art,
and it did okay. It's a little bit
different than what the of course, they're not
talking about the
model being better, but
in creating art, but this was it still
got
weird stuff in text that hasn't changed.
But,
overall,
(05:21):
just using it one time,
here in in show prep,
again,
jury is still out
on how this 4.5
model is gonna be. So they say they
need to put on another hundred thousand
NVIDIA GPUs in order to release it to
the plus customers.
So that's why it's a delay.
(05:47):
I'm only four or five days into using
Pro, maybe four days.
And I'm trying to in my mind, because
it's $200
for a month. So I'm trying to justify,
and I'm gonna work real hard at it
to see if and I'm gonna be doing
AB testing
for the next month on everything that I
do that where I use it.
(06:09):
One thing, I've got a big project I'm
working on, and I'm using it for research.
And I've started out
with this research project,
and it came back and gave me 20
questions. It said, hey. You need to give
me these 20 questions.
Answer these 20 before we go to the
next step. And I thought, wow.
Would have never done that before. So and
(06:30):
that was using the o one pro reasoning
model.
So,
I will see how this progresses,
and we'll see how this 4.5. I'm sure
we're gonna hear more stuff. But it those
of you on plus,
you're gonna have to wait for this for,
for just a few weeks. Okay?
And even Jen got the article out on
(06:50):
g and c already, so,
the g p d 4.5
is,
announced on, on Geek News Central, of course.
So,
definitely consider that. I will get into the
rest of the stack here in a few
minutes, but I wanna welcome you to episode
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I got the numbers in for
the February
January 23 to February
23,
and,
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the numbers were great. We not as good
as the previous month, but very, very close.
I'm still
absolutely ecstatic, and I wanna thank all of
you that are supporting the sponsor. It's it's
greatly appreciated. This is,
comes in a a absolute fantastic time. So
definitely,
thank you for, for you continuing supporting the
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sponsor
in in a big, big way. Hope you're
all doing well. I've had it's been one
of those weeks. Actually, last couple of weeks,
just been my head down
on the grind or my nose down in
the grindstone,
cranking through, just an incredible amount of
of work. And,
(10:21):
so everything's everything's good. And then, next week,
I'll be back with you. No show on
Monday.
But I'll be back with you, next week,
Thursday, from The Philippines. I'll be,
transitioning,
and I'm gonna take a couple of days
off.
I've been running hard here really since I
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got back. And,
so, just one show off, but I'll be
back, a week from
from Thursday.
So, again, thank you all for your support
and and, of course, we got a lot
to talk about,
in the stack today.
You know, one thing I have been doing,
and I don't know about the rest of
you. Every once in a while, I get
in the in the mode
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of shopping on eBay, and it's usually for
retro gear.
And,
you never know
if the shipping's gonna be free,
how long it's gonna take. I had one
item here recently that just took
a a long time to get here, and
it annoyed me, quite a bit because I
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had some stuff. And if I got it,
I'd been able to get a a week's
worth of work done,
but instead, it just arrived. And so it's
gonna have to wait until I get back.
But they're saying shopping is gonna get easier
on on eBay.
And
to be honest with you, I find a
lot of pretty good deals over there.
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I found something I've been looking for for
many, many years.
I found a I guess, we call it
a relic. I found an a navy chief,
Insignia,
that was from the very, very early days
of,
I paid a premium. I paid about $70
for this thing.
(12:08):
Just one little itsy bitsy
chief anchor, but it's,
you know, from very, very late,
very I mean, like, maybe 1900
or something like that. So,
I was jazzed to get it. I knew
exactly what it was when I saw it.
But,
you know, that that was actually an easy
(12:29):
one. But they're adding a handful of new
features that come as a sigh of relief
for those of you that are hunting for
local deals. Now, well, there's not a lot
of local deals
that I find in my area because I
just I, you know, live in rural America.
And if you live in a big city,
you know, the online marketplace says it has
used AI to streamline its fast seller network
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based on factors
like business history locations and shipping options and
try to find you items that you're looking
for that are closer to you to save
you money.
But, again, you may not find the item
that you're looking for, but this is what
says what they have implemented
over there and,
again, anything that's gonna help is gonna be,
(13:13):
is gonna be good. I think,
the one item I ordered was no shipping,
and then some other stuff I've had has
come from a long ways away. And it
was quite a bit of shipping, but I
I wanted it pretty bad so it it
worked out.
A lot of people are being forced to
come back to work. Of course, a lot
of government workers are being told they could
(13:34):
come back to work. And, of course, being
in the office again in a federal,
as a federal employee,
you know, you're back on your your government
computer and all the things that go along
with it with the network.
And I'm sure some of that's been going
on from home as well if you've had
a government computer at home.
But,
companies who sell
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workplace monitoring tech
and,
if you look at what they offer,
you would think that the average American worker
was a renegade poised to take their employer
down at the next opportunity.
But at the same time, nearly half of
US employees admit that admit to time theft,
biometric readers for enhanced accuracy, quote, unquote.
(14:19):
But a new wave of return office mandate
has arrived.
We know JPMorgan,
Amazon, not to mention, again, what we talked
about on the federal side.
But
there's going to be a lot of
analysis
on people's productivity.
The economy is is is been pretty bad
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in my opinion.
So companies are hiring less, so there's a
trend towards productivity.
And I'll be honest with you, AI has
really changed the productivity of me considerably.
And to the point where
the person I hired to be my EA,
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I have her doing a whole bunch of
stuff now that we would never have gotten
into unless we had AI and some of
the stuff that is available.
So the expectation amongst CEOs is that's going
to eliminate a lot of jobs.
I feel it's gonna make companies
more productive. Now if you were productive before
AI,
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it's just gonna put that on hyperdrive. Matter
of fact, this afternoon about
about 04:00, it kinda hit me. I was
like,
we work on a sprint method,
and,
normally, I take on five to 10 task.
And we have stuff in reserve that we
can pull up.
But I'm I'm ahead. I'm ahead on all
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my tasks to get done by next Thursday
by
35%.
Some of that was AI driven for sure.
I I would have I would have not
assigned myself to do
four of the things that or three of
the four things that I gave myself as
a task
if I knew I didn't have AI to
help me.
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So
I'm asking my team members how much
efficiency are you getting out of this. And
from time you know, and I'm like, I've
noticed we had planned on doing,
certain number of projects in this quarter,
and
I have it all planned out in the
backlog.
But I was given each,
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of the team members assigned to that one
of those tasks per two week sprint.
And now I'm seeing
all of the team members dragging a second
one up, and it's a considerable amount of
work. So it just shows me the productivity
is is just increasing
in a good way.
But, again,
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I don't wanna be in the business of
tracking.
If if we're getting the assigned work done
in thirty hours, great.
Now I don't wanna get to the point
where I said, oh, we look what we
got done in thirty hours. Now I can
throw on 10 more tasks.
And, you know, I did that myself
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this time. I've added a couple of tasks
because I know I'm not gonna be done.
But
I feel a lot of companies are gonna
be really looking at productivity of of workers
when they're in the office. They have more
control.
They know that there's none of those little
things running to move the mouse, to keep
you logged in, and a variety of other
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trickery tools that can be used. So
what do you feel?
Do you feel that having gone back to
the office that there's more spying happening on
you? I'd love to hear your comments at
geeknews@gmail.com.
Geek news at g mail dot com.
Amazon, of course, has a new AI powered
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Alexa promising to be your best friend in
digital world for a monthly fee of $19.99.
I think they're dollar late
a a day late and a dollar short.
I don't know how many of these I'm
going to need.
Auphonic,
they've come out with a new model.
Grok, come out with a new model.
(18:12):
So
I don't want anything ordering anything for me.
And
it's interesting. What are they gonna do with
this?
It's where it's doing speech you're doing speech
is is speaking back.
So I what what can it do for
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me for $20 that's gonna increase my productivity
and save me $20?
That they they didn't
they did not
say that. They just said it's gonna be
good for you. Well, give me some demos.
Give me some give me some reason
to make the move here.
I know some of you are gonna go
wrinkle your nose here, but, Elon Musk says
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Verizon network not working as FAA switches over
to Starlink.
So a lot of this stuff was going
on before
the,
studies were going on before the election results.
But it's not for the whole FAA. It's
for a few
remote areas.
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Two years after Verizon secured a $2,000,000,000
contract to upgrade FAA's IT infrastructure,
the agency is switching to Starlink.
In a late night post,
Elon said Verizon network was faulty, asserting it
was a safety risk.
Well, of course, has
Verizon replied to that?
The post follows confirmation from the FAA on
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money that STARLINK cameras had used to assist
air traffic controllers at at two stations in
Alaska.
The FAA FAA said it had long considered
using STARLINK tech to increase safety in remote
areas.
So,
last week, he approved the shipment of 400,000
STARLINK terminals for use by the FAA.
Administration confirmed that one terminal is already being
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used for testing at the FAA's air traffic
control lab in Atlantic City.
The apparent shift
comes two years after rising again was awarded
this contract.
So it's unclear that the FAA's use of
Starlink terminals will complicate the administration's contract with
Verizon.
But here's the thing. If we need keep
the Verizon stuff.
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The Starlink stuff is cheap. Just do a
a backup to a backup.
That's what I got going on here
because nothing is perfect. Not even Starlink is
perfect.
It rains hard. It drops.
You know? That's the fact.
It's and when you need communications in the
FAA, you need it when it's raining and
the weather's bad.
If the satellite can't see through the weather
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and can't connect,
it's no good. So there's it's not a
one size fits all.
And that's where my point to point system
comes online and does, you know, serves as
a backup.
So, you know, the best thing is let's
get fiber.
Let's get fiber into these
areas,
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get them on wired, hardwired, high speed
one or two gig Internet. Why is it
so hard?
The rest of the world is getting wired
and we are what?
You know? We talked about this many, many
times on this show.
So seems that with all the money we
spend with the FAA that they would have,
like, they would have some bandwidth. Wouldn't you
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think?
But it's the government. It's the government. Who
knows?
Of course, they don't talk about the setup
or anything like that. That's for sure.
Kia's EV four will be the first electric
sedan that'll be available in The United States
later this year. Kia will also release a
hatchback version in Europe. So I didn't know
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that they were this late to the electric
car game.
So, again, Kia's launched the EV four,
The twenty twenty five k EV day in
Tarragon, Spain, the company first unveiled the EV
fours at CompT at CES last year. Buyers
can choose between a 58.3
kilowatt and 81.4
kilowatt long range options.
(22:05):
The long range sedan being able to run
to 391
miles on a single charge.
Meanwhile,
the,
the standard
battery can only go 267
miles.
Have we got a price on this thing?
Let me look.
Yeah. They don't they did not announce a
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price. So $50.60,
how much, you know, 70,000?
How much how much is this thing?
So,
knowing key, it'll be cheaper, but, you know,
at what price? Again, this is the big
problem with these electric vehicles.
New York City's
Metropolitan
Transitory.
Listen. This is a cool one. Google successfully
tested
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tech that uses smartphone sensor sensors to detect
subway tract effects.
The four month experiment
where they mounted six Google Pixel phones
on a on four
a train subway cars
that were traversing Manhattan, Queens.
The phone accelerometers,
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magnetometers,
and gyroscopes, and external microphones collected 335,000,000
sensor readings
and twelve hundred hours of audio data, which
were then processed
through 200 prediction models. The system identified
this is amazing.
Ninety two percent of defects were confirmed
by human inspectors,
(23:27):
including broken rails, loose bolts.
The goal of the project is to find
issues before they become a major issue. Yeah.
I think a broke rail would be a
big issue.
Following the trial, the MTA plans expand to
a full pilot where Google will build a
per a production version
for track inspectors.
So just listening for vibrations, seeing what's going
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on with gyro.
It's amazing.
They run over something. They know what it
sounds like.
I've got a friend who was, an engineer
for years, and he could tell me if
there was a he said I could hear
the the track change. I knew there was
a problem.
Could hear it. And he's in the locomotive.
(24:09):
I'm like, wow. Okay.
It's kinda like flying.
Flying is a a large,
a large a lot of it suit you
know, you feel something in your ass before
you feel it in your head.
This is a real interesting,
security breach. And the reason why is there
was,
(24:31):
3,300,000
have been infected in an employee screening firm.
The hackers stole
DISA data. Now I don't know what DISA,
American employee screening company, Odisha,
has confirmed suffering a cyberattack. But listen to
this.
It happened back in April of twenty four,
and they're just announcing it.
(24:54):
Why so long?
Why so long? That's that's that's
that's a lifetime.
It really is.
Hey. It's being rumored that the iPhone 17
Pro could come with a 20 excuse me,
with 12 gigs
of RAM to help it power through
AI tasks. 12 gigs?
Only 12 gigs?
(25:15):
That's it?
12 is that kinda it's gotta be a
typo.
The current models run eight gig. They're gonna
have to up them to 12 gigs. Okay.
I didn't know that.
So the phones now only comes with eight
gigs of RAM?
That's pretty incredible.
So, yeah, may have to go to 12.
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So they'll have to spend a whole 3
more dollars to put a little more RAM
in
to run the AI stuff on the iPhone
17.
What say you?
Alright. How many of you are audiophiles?
Well, you know, I'm a big ACDC fan.
So when I saw this Hell's Bells project
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ACDC turntable, it just left me thunderstruck. I
was like, well, what it is, it's it's
really has nothing to do with ACDC.
But this is how the guy got me
click baited here, you know. And I'm looking
at this turntable. I'm like, oh my god.
Look at this thing. You know. And then,
of course, as soon as you,
as they start talking about, those of you
that are quote unquote,
(26:19):
hardcores,
I knew the price was gonna be crazy.
See here. What would be The US amount?
$1,450
for this bad boy.
I'm sorry. I will,
I will not be upgrading. I love vinyl,
but, not that much.
(26:41):
Project started making turntables in 1991,
and,
so this is not their first walk in
the park for the high end stuff. For
something's going on here, I must got the
heat up because
it's warm. It's warm here in the studio
tonight.
I don't know what the deal is, but,
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the temperature is up for sure.
Android phones to drive mobile sales in 2025.
IDC is saying that smartphones to increase by
2.3%
this year compared to 2024.
So but it's gonna mostly be driven by,
purchases in China.
IOS is gonna decline 1.9%.
(27:24):
Now here's the thing too is, you know,
we're gonna have some tariff situations going on
here and price of stuff is gonna go
up.
So,
you know, I've got a phone that's less
than a year old. So I, you know,
I have no need
to do an upgrade.
But,
once this tariff goes in, new stock coming
in is gonna get whacked.
(27:45):
So,
so we'll see.
Amazon
is going to unveil new a l e
x a devices in the fall. Now why
in
the fall? They made this AI announcement.
So
what does this really have to do with
anything?
It's again,
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appears to be tied to this chatbot stuff.
But I guess the current versions will work.
Okay. So if you pay for Prime, you're
gonna get the this this AI stuff for
free. That was not said in the other
article.
(28:26):
Amazon will start charging a l e x
a customers first time when the new Alexa
Plus starts rolling out next month. Users who
want the latest capabilities can pay $19.90 a
month. Members of Amazon hundred and thirty nine
year year prime program get the update for
free. Is that what Prime cost these days?
It just bills on my credit card. I
don't even pay attention.
I it's you know, it I paid for
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itself in, you know, a month.
So, well,
celebrities are going to the stars, literally.
Katy Perry will fly to space during Blue
Origin's next crewed mission
that Jeff Bezos owns space companies and now
it's a pop star. But we'll join CBS
host Gail King
and Bezos' fiance Lauren
(29:08):
Sanchez aboard the New Shepard rocket this spring,
marking its eleventh human flight. So what this
tells me per se,
sending his girlfriend and
who else is who else is gone? The
crew will include research scientist and activist,
Amanda and Amanda Nugent. Sounds like a lot
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of ladies are going. Film producer, Carrie Anne
Flynn,
and former NASA rocket scientist Ayesha Bow.
So, yeah, this sounds like an all lady
crew.
So,
well,
that's,
a bit of a I wonder if Bezos
is paying for this flight himself.
(29:50):
I I just wonder if those other folks
have paid the, paid the fare,
or are they doing this as a publicity
stunt? Apple has overhauled the child account setup
and adds new age assurance. They said it's
implementing the new feature that is designed to
make children safer,
including an updated age rating system, a simple
way for parents to set up child accounts,
(30:11):
change to what kids see on the App
Store, and the new API that will let
developers confirm age range to deliver age appropriate
experiences to kids.
So the changes outlined in the new
helping protect kids online white paper that is
available on Apple's developer site. So,
anything that we can help protect kids is
good.
(30:32):
Oura ring, I know a lot of people
are I I I met someone recently. They
had an Oura ring, and
he swore by it that he took let
him know when he was getting sick.
And I thought that was pretty incredible. But,
ladies, the Oura ring is now gonna be
able to read menstrual cycle changes to help
women tailor their health habits.
(30:53):
So,
what specifically
have they done
is the the latest feature helps your ring
recognize your cycle.
Your writing score now factors in psychorrelated shifts
like heart rate, temperature,
and HRV changes. What's HRV?
Aura is launching studies to dig deeper into
women's health and improve cycle tracking.
(31:17):
So
the company knows that thirty percent thirty five
percent of users with cycles won't see the
readiness score dip during the luteal phase anymore
representing eighty one percent in drop in cycle
related score change.
Oh, there's some words there that I don't
know. But they're also expanding women helping with
a fertility window
in cycle insights using your body's data pinpoint
(31:41):
likely
fertile days.
So,
for those of you that you are tracking
this closely, the Oura Ring might be for
you.
Samsung slimmest galaxy s 25 edge tip to
be launched soon.
So what you need to know, the slimmest
Galaxy phone
(32:03):
is expected to be coming on April 16
and a wider availability of the handset expected
in May. The device should be significantly slimmer
than the s 25 Trio
and likely be placed in the standard Galaxy
s 25 and Ultra in terms of pricing.
So
is this something special? I I guess it's
edge tip. That means it's super, super thin.
(32:25):
You know, when when phones get too thin,
I just worry that they're gonna get I'm
gonna break them. You know? I want I
I don't mind a phone being a little
thicker.
I I really don't.
So,
here's another article that talks about FAA
Waste canceling Verizon contract.
(32:45):
Interesting.
DoorDash is gonna pay 16,800,000.0
to New York delivery workers after misusing their
tips.
DoorDash used customer tips to pay workers wages,
but it must give that money back. They,
you know, that's so dirty.
It's really, really dirty
that they're doing that.
Because
specifically on DoorDash,
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I will always if, okay, if my order's
small, I will tip a little bit more
because I know they're not gonna make very
much.
And I tip more because they'll oftentimes, you
won't get stuff if you don't tip.
Alright. That's just kinda how DoorDash works.
And the and these
(33:28):
these
a holes
at DoorDash were keeping the delivery workers tips.
So I'm glad
that they are have to pay restitution here.
And they're gonna pay up to additional 1,000,000
administrator costs to help make the payments happen.
Some workers expected to get several thousand dollars,
others as much as $14,000.
(33:51):
In today's world, $14,000
will buy a lot of eggs,
especially in New York.
You know how expensive it is to live
in that city?
So dirty.
So dirty.
What we know about Waymo's twenty twenty five
expansion plans,
Waymo's Alphabet autonomous driving center has been rapidly
(34:12):
expanding its self driving robotox
taxis
across The States.
A Pew Research Center found from, from 2022
found that 45% Americans would not feel comfortable.
I don't think I would yet.
So where are they going? I thought we
had something on this recently that said where
they're expanding to.
Los Angeles, Austin, San Diego, Las Vegas, Atlanta,
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Miami,
Tokyo.
Meanwhile, Cruise has hit the brakes.
So that's where they're headed. So big, big
major cities, of course.
DIRECTV, they're still in business? DIRECTV launches Genre
Pack, a more affordable way to get channels
you actually want. Pricing starts
at $35
(34:55):
a month.
So you can get your an entertainment package,
a sports package,
espionage package, a news package.
Very, very curious. You know, we've I've always
said I don't need sports.
Sports is $69.
Entertainment's 34. So what's on entertainment?
FX, HGTV,
A and E, Discovery, Bravo, Food, Disney plus,
(35:18):
Max,
Newses,
NBC, Fox,
CNN, Newsmax.
I get Newsmax and stuff other places.
So
the entertainment pack looks okay.
Thank God. Just break it out. They have
to do something.
Right?
(35:39):
They have to do something.
Digital TV is just completely
reshaping everything.
Do you really care what the shape of
the universe is as big as it is?
I don't know if I do,
but mathematicians are using topology to study its
shape and everything in it.
It's big.
(35:59):
I can't touch the side of it. I
don't I look up. I can't see the
end.
I'm this is not something I'm worried about.
But I'm thank God there's scientists out there
that do this kind of stuff, to be
honest with you.
We'll see what they figure out. Now here
we go.
A house hearing is debating ways to improve
Artemis.
I've got a solution for it.
(36:20):
I really, really do. Of course, this would
really piss people off because,
you know, there is a definite,
conflict of interest here, but send Doge over
there and have them cut this thing.
Two government officials had offered conflicting advice to
a house committee on how to change NASA's
Artemis lunar exploration campaign,
(36:42):
but agreed that a return to the moon
was a prerequisite.
Scott Pace, former executive secretary of National Space
Council, called for an early off ramp for
reliance on space launch systems while
Dan Dombacher, former deputy assistant administrator for exploration
at NASA, said it was doubtful SpaceX Starship
(37:03):
could land humans on the moon by the
end of the decade. Where has this guy
been?
I
Nancy, where where are we at right now?
Twenty five?
I don't know.
(37:23):
They call it SLS a primary concern for
NASA's current Artemis architecture because of its expense
and lack of reusability.
It's time to reconsider alternatives. You know, Musk
is about ready to land that, well, if
they don't blow it up tomorrow,
the, first second stage, they're gonna try to
land, after this test,
maybe.
(37:44):
But
they criticize the reliance on Starship for landing
humans on the moon.
NASA's current plan to return people requires approximately
35 to 40 Starship launches to first demonstrate
the capability on an uncrewed mission. Well, they're
already at
seven. They're gonna do eight tomorrow.
(38:06):
So,
you know, and they're ramping up the speed
here.
Do we really need 30 launches to have
a proven system? You gotta go to the
moon a couple of times, I think, unmanned.
I don't know.
We'll see.
But
we definitely want don't wanna take a Boeing
(38:27):
spacecraft
to the moon.
You know? How how do you go get
those folks there? Of course, it could happen
to SpaceX too.
Now
as I said, I'm getting ready to go
to The Philippines, but there's a little bit
of news out in The Philippines. Ancient seafarers
in Philippines and ice ISEA
built sophisticated and mastered deep sea fishing forty
(38:48):
thousand years ago challenged the view that Palaeolithic
technology was limited to Europe and Africa.
Will you consider how The Philippines is?
The Philippines is just a bunch of islands.
I mean,
if anyone was going to,
master
the water, they would have.
(39:09):
So, anyway, they've, this is in Scitech Daily.
So link is in the show notes. You
guys can can check it out, but it's
been making the rounds in some of the
groups I'm in where people are chatting about
it.
Australia has banned all Casper ski products on
government system citing unacceptable security risks because pry,
surprise, surprise.
Following United States, Australian Government has banned Caspi
(39:30):
Lab products and web services.
After considering a threat and risk analysis, they've
determined that Caspi Labs products and web services
by Australian government entities pose an unacceptable security
risk Australian government.
They say, I've also considered important its need
for strong policy signal to current infrastructure and
and other Australian governments
(39:51):
regarding unacceptable security risks associated with the use
of Kaspersky
Labs.
Don't worry. The war is gonna be over
here shortly, and when it is, it's all
gonna be good.
You guys can all start using those products
again because we're all gonna be friends
as soon as the war is over.
Instagram apologizes for flooding users with disturbing yeah.
(40:14):
A little snarky. Instagram apologizes
for flooding users with disturbing reels. Well, what
I wanna know what kind of reels did
you get.
Disturbing reels must mean you got some porn.
Is that what you got? Or corn? I
guess I
yeah. I can't say that word. I have
to use the word corn now.
(40:35):
I just ruined my my, YouTube livestream.
So,
what were they? Oh, they were seeing
yeah.
Hex, violence, and other disturbing content.
So
okay.
I I didn't know that stuff was even
available on that
(40:55):
platform. I thought all that was banned.
Verizon's offer discounted Internet with extra perks to
its mobile customers. It carries offering home Internet
a free perk when adding to an existing
mobile plan,
if you can get it.
Verizon has been slowly growing its five g
home Internet base
alongside its LTE and FiOS wired fiber Internet,
(41:18):
and it's offered a discount when signing up
for both Internet and select mobile plans.
So So you get a discount of $15.
So woo hoo.
There's a there's three dozen eggs.
Stripe's valuation has climbed to 91,500,000,000.0
in secondary stock market. The company's nearing its
peak valuation of 95,000,000,000
from 2021.
(41:39):
So,
I use Stripe,
for
my personal business in doing the podcast awards.
So
I don't always like the percentage of money
they take, but just like any other place
running a credit card.
So a CNET survey says 43% of Americans
use a VPN.
(42:00):
I I man, when I am not here,
when I am where I'm going,
man, if I'm doing any
business,
I'm on a VPN
for sure.
And,
I'm not using it for streaming content.
I pick a VPN location in The United
States,
(42:20):
accessing bank bills,
you know, stuff from my company.
I'm on a VPN.
Now if I'm just watching YouTube, I don't
care.
But,
I I'm heavy, heavy VPN user.
So,
some sites now can detect if you're using
a VPN, which which kinda blows. It defeats
(42:42):
the purpose of, you know, using a VPN
to get to your banking account. And believe
it or not, my mobile phone
has less problems connecting to stuff than my
computer does.
My mobile phone seems to be able to
have no issue logging into my bank using
a VPN, whereas my computer on a VPN,
sometimes I can't get into my bank.
(43:03):
Venus Williams, the tennis star, is, backing a
French startup that rewards you for walking.
So, it's called what's the what's the name
of the app? WeWard,
w e w a r d.
So WeWard is a free app that offers
real world
rewards for walking. It tracks your steps and
lets you earn points,
(43:24):
which can be a change for gift cards
and so forth. So interesting. I know when
I'm not here and it's warmer, I try
to do at least 10,000 steps a day.
I don't always get them in,
but, that's my goal.
Google Pixel Watch three potentially lifesaving pulse detection
feature finally gets cleared for launch in United
States. The feature's been available in The UK
(43:44):
and other countries since 2024.
So, again, Google has confirmed this groundbreaking loss
of pulse detection feature unveiled.
It's finally come to use in The US.
So,
this loss of pulse detection is industry first
that can detect when your heart stops beating,
alerting emergency services and people around you. Events
(44:05):
like a cardiac arrest, respiratory circulation failure, overdose,
and even poisoning
can trigger loss of spot a loss of
pulse.
So,
hey. This you know, if it if it
the thing is you lose your if your
heart stops beating,
you're truly on the clock. The reaction time
has to be pretty doggone fast
(44:26):
for someone to get CPR going for you
to save you.
So, I'll be interested in seeing case studies
come out about this.
Probably works great for couples that are living
together. Once heart stops beating, the spouse would
get that notification.
I could see where that would work good.
But if you're a single guy living in
an apartment or living in a loft like
I am, I might be a goner.
(44:50):
UK blindsided
US intelligence by asking for Apple's backdoor, a
violation, of course, of Americans' privates and civil
liberties. The director of national intelligence
is investigating. We talked a little bit about
this, but people are not happy and it's
getting more attention.
So,
we'll see if they do anything.
The FBI says North Korea hacked BY BIT,
(45:11):
b y b I t, and details $1,500,000,000
stone. Yes. 1,500,000,000.0.
The Bybit hack,
went after a,
a crypto holder of Erytheum.
So
wow.
He's don't know who to trust.
(45:32):
1,500,000,000.0
in crypto.
Bybit, b y b I t.
So I don't know. Is that a
is that an app?
Bybit, which claims to be the world's largest
the world's second largest cryptocurrency
(45:54):
exchange, has launched a bug bounty program in
an effort to recover the stolen funds. Well,
good luck.
Offering 5% of the recovered amount to the
entity that manages to freeze the funds and
5% to those that help trace the funds.
Good luck.
Good luck.
Store your crypto on your own device.
(46:15):
Get yourself an external storage unit.
Google updates personal search excuse me. Google updates
people's search finder tool,
making it used to remove personal information on
search.
Results about you can help take down personal
data.
I do a lot of clearing of data
every, like, six months or so.
(46:37):
And,
there's a lot of services out there that
are now scraping and getting rid of stuff
too. Have any of you guys used any
of those services that remove your private information?
Blue Sky. How many of you have a
an account on Blue Sky?
Geek news at g mail dot com. Do
you have one on Blue Sky?
Is it
(46:57):
is it any good?
A comprehensive analysis of the platform
provides insights to a structure. You know, I
don't take this the wrong way, but I
think that's where
most of the people that got pissed off
at Elon went. Right?
And
is it all
(47:18):
Liberals on Blue Sky, or is it a
mixed crowd?
What is it? I don't know.
I see just about every
persuasion of people on
on x still, although some of the stuff
on x can get a little crazy.
You know, let me know. Let me know
what,
what you're seeing on Blue Sky, but the
(47:40):
study says it's got about a kinda normal
audience over there. I just don't want another
social media
channel. I really don't.
I just don't want
okay. Ladies and gentlemen, I'm gonna bring at
the end of the show here. What I
want you to do,
when 4.5 comes out,
let me know what you think about it.
(48:00):
You know, give it a run yourself. Play
with it.
Again, few weeks for the plus users to
get it. Try the o one now here's
the thing on ChatGPT.
If you're paying for plus,
there's a new reasoning model called o one.
You only get 10 uses a month.
So please study up
on how to use the o one reasoning
(48:22):
model
because you could use up
10 uses
just to figure out kinda how to to
work it. So watch some YouTube videos or
whatever to how you use the o one
reasoning model before you start using it on
your $20 plan.
Don't waste your your prompts. It's very, very,
very, very powerful.
(48:44):
So use it wisely for something that you
need to do heavy research on. Again, you
get 10 queries, and I can usually
get all my stuff done in two to
three queries, sometimes
four.
So
just watch a few videos on how to
use the reasoning model. So, again, I'll be
back with you next Thursday.
(49:04):
And, we'll be from the studio
in The Philippines.
And, I'll be over there a couple of
months again
and, back and forth.
So we will be doing video then. I
got that all kind of figured out. I'll
be using OBS.
And,
so
I feel like I've
like, this is a second try to get
(49:25):
this right.
So we'll hopefully get it locked in and,
we'll be here having full video and audio
for the show.
Most of you don't care, but you'll get
it by audio and that's fine too, which
is okay.
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Geek news at g mail dot com. Of
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Let me go back here. Back here. Back
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We'll get to the streaming stats on the
next show because I know we had some
boost come in. I saw that.
Some of it was for new media shows,
some were for this show.
But,
look at the Blueberry channel. Also, I'm doing
a bunch of interesting interviews,
starting to go loose. So I'll link the
Blueberry YouTube channel in my show notes tonight.
Go over there and follow and subscribe.
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Learn about what I'm doing behind the scenes
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today.
Be safe out there. Take care. Bye bye.
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