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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You know, in case you didn't know, it's tech Tuesday.
It's also Taco Tuesday, isn't it? Every Tuesday?

Speaker 2 (00:10):
Is the any such thing as technical Tacos?

Speaker 1 (00:12):
Technical tech Taco Tuesday. It's tech Tuesday. I do know that.
And it's always Taco Tuesday. Seems like every even on
Wednesdays for me.

Speaker 2 (00:20):
Sometimes.

Speaker 1 (00:21):
Yeah, it's taco every day as far as that goes. Anyway,
Tech Tuesday and a smartphone extravaganza is going on right now.
Let's bring in ABC News reporter Mike Dubuski joining us.

Speaker 3 (00:33):
Hey, Mike, good afternoon.

Speaker 4 (00:35):
How are you, brother, Good afternoon, guys, Happy Taco Tuesday
and happy tech Tudes.

Speaker 1 (00:39):
I'm glad to see you participate in Taco Tuesday as well,
or at least yeah, oh yeah, it's it's downright wrong
to not participate in Taco Tuesday.

Speaker 2 (00:48):
When the economy gets strong, Grom will have t Bone
Tuesdays at my house.

Speaker 1 (00:51):
Oh boy, yeah, you know, t Bone Tuesday a little bit.
He's getting what Mike, We got to go to Chucks
for dinner.

Speaker 3 (00:57):
That's what we need.

Speaker 4 (00:57):
Yeah that sounds good. Yeah, let's set it up something
on counter.

Speaker 3 (01:00):
So smartphone extravaganza.

Speaker 1 (01:03):
It's going on a far far away from US, right
about now, right.

Speaker 4 (01:08):
Yeah, that's right in Barcelona, Spain. As a matter of fact,
we're talking about Mobile World Congress. This is an annual
tech event that takes place in Barcelona every year and
it's basically a combination of CEES, the Consumer Electronics Show,
and a new iPhone launch. So it's a big tech conference,
but it's specifically focused on mobile technology, meaning smartphones and

(01:31):
smart watches and laptops. In some cases, it's a place
for smartphone manufacturers to show off some new devices, and
usually we get some kind of wacky gadgets and other
flights of fancy as well. It's really a place for
these companies to throw a bunch of stuff at the
wall and see what sticks. And it's a global conference, guys,
so a lot of these phones aren't necessarily meant for

(01:51):
the US market. We see some different phones, some different
phone companies that we don't get here, but even still
it is worth paying attention into. It's only because global
trends do become local ones. What's popular in France or
Japan or Australia in the smartphone world may end up
coming to a smartphone US in the coming years.

Speaker 1 (02:12):
So why does and I was reading here, why does
Apple skip this? I mean, is there any particular reason.
It looks like it's something they skip basically every year.
But is it just not big enough or what's the.

Speaker 4 (02:24):
Apple never shows up to any of these trade shows.
They are a multi trillion dollar company and they behave
that way right. They don't want to share a headline,
They don't want to share floor space with Samsung or
Google or any of those people. They like to own
the whole widget, the tip tip tail event. So that's
why you see them do live streams and things like that,

(02:44):
and you know, really try and control the entire experience
from a media perspective and from a you know, everyday
person perspective, just so that they can keep that sort
of brand all very cohesive. We did see a little
bit of news out Apple this morning. They announced some
new I pads and iPad air among them, with some
refreshed internals. Nothing radically different, but a nice spec bump

(03:06):
if you're in the market for a new tablet computer.
Yesterday we saw the CEO of Apple, Tim Cook, tweet
a short video with the word there's something in the Air,
which seems to imply that this whole week is going
to be app about Apple's Air products either are the
iPad Air which we saw earlier today, and possibly a
MacBook Air is coming later this week. This is the

(03:26):
entry level Apple laptop. We're expecting a small specump for
that computer as well, which will be good for the
legions of college students who tend to like that computer
and many other people as well. Pretty popular.

Speaker 1 (03:37):
Yeah, the U I have. We have a couple of
MacBooks in the UH. I got a pro myself that
I use for because I do some side like mobile
DJ and stuff, and man, the integration's unbelievable with that
particular unit. And but interesting that they're doing the air,
which is, uh, you're right, that's a that's a fantastic
model for a lot of college students and you know

(03:57):
people maybe who you know don't need as much of
the bells and whistles and all that stuff. But so
with the smartphones and like what type of you know,
what type of features, like what types of things?

Speaker 3 (04:09):
Can you talk about any of that that they're doing.

Speaker 4 (04:12):
Yeah, a whole flewid different things, guys, and we can
talk about whatever you want. There's color changing phones and
transparent phones, and phones that double is bluetooth speakers, and
you know, solar powered things and all kinds of different things.
But the big theme I think is artificial intelligence. No
surprise there. A whole tech world has been about AI
for a long time at this point, and we're seeing

(04:34):
this interesting new phone from the parent company of T Mobile.
They're calling it the Phone without Apps. This is a
phone that is primarily designed to run off of voice controls,
so you can tell it, apparently to book a flight
for you or do some online shopping for you, and
it will supposedly be able to figure out what you

(04:54):
want using what they're calling Magenta AI, which is a
combination of a bunch of different existing AI models from
Google and perplexity in other companies. They have not said
anything about the hardware yet. This is purely a software
announcement from the parent company of T Mobile. They do
say they plan to put something into production in the
second half of this year. But as we talk about

(05:15):
whenever we talk about artificial intelligence, we have to say
that it's still an unreliable technology. It still hallucinates, it
still makes stuff up, and that's a risk if you're
going to rely on it to book a flight for
you for example.

Speaker 1 (05:28):
Okay, so this is going on. It's like just the
next couple of days is when this is happening.

Speaker 4 (05:35):
Yeah, I believe it's all week, you know. I kind
of is, you know, interspersed over a couple different events.
But it's been going on, you know, for the last
few days, and I believe it's going on, if not
through the end of the week, through the close to.

Speaker 2 (05:47):
The end of the week.

Speaker 1 (05:48):
All right, very good, Mike Dubuski, ABC News, and it's
Tech Tuesday, the smartphone extravaganza going on in Spain.

Speaker 4 (05:55):
Mike, thank you very much, of course, thank care.

Speaker 1 (05:57):
All right, we'll see you. Yeah, I don't I don't
know if I was. I was actually during this, I
was like going, oh, while you're there, could you go
to the Running of the Bulls, you know, you hear stuff?
But it's in Pamplona where that happens, not in Barcelona.
Then I'm going, all right, how close is Barcelona to Pamplona.
And it was like, it doesn't want to give me

(06:19):
any kind of it doesn't want to give me any
information on that.

Speaker 2 (06:22):
Just a couple of owners down the road it's not
far a couple owners. I was curious when he said
that some of this technology is not destined for the US.
I wanted to know why, you know, Is it because
it's too good for US? Is it below what we
already have? I'm just the US is just carnivorous when
it comes to technology, and it seems strange to me

(06:43):
that anything is being introduced or entertained in Spain that
would not be made available to a US consumer.

Speaker 1 (06:49):
I've i one percent agree with you, And why would
some of this the only thing? Are we already kind
of ahead of you know, this particular thing.

Speaker 3 (07:05):
I mean, are we a.

Speaker 1 (07:06):
Larger market consumer wise than for instance, Spain? Would would
you say the United States is a larger consume? I
would say we are. I would say we are. So
maybe it's stuff that they're saying it's not going to
be available because it's more geared.

Speaker 3 (07:23):
For a lower lower.

Speaker 1 (07:26):
A less amount of people that would want to buy it,
like it would be over here, and it would be like,
that's inferior to what I'm already liking here.

Speaker 3 (07:34):
It's too specialized. I don't know.

Speaker 1 (07:36):
Again, I'm just guessing it's the only thing I know
because why would a company avoid the US knowing that we,
like you said, we're carnivorous here in the US for
all kinds of technology. So, and they'd be passing up
a chance to sell more of fill in the blank.

Speaker 2 (07:56):
I hope it's just inferior stuff we already have. I
hope that's the So people in you know, Spain might
eat it up, but we already have that and it
wouldn't interest us.

Speaker 3 (08:06):
Yeah, maybe possibly. You know, I asked you about this
off the air yesterday, and.

Speaker 1 (08:13):
I think it was towards the end of the show,
but we weren't on air, and I said, you heard
of the measle parties?

Speaker 3 (08:19):
Yes, and you were like, yeah, those were in like.

Speaker 2 (08:22):
What the sixties, sixties. Yeah, it was a pretty common practice.

Speaker 1 (08:26):
And behind that, it was the thinking behind that was
let's just get our let's get revved up. Let's get
our our immune systems revved up. Yep, So let's have
these parties where our kids are basically catching it because
we're trying to get You know, when I hear something like.

Speaker 3 (08:44):
That, it makes me go, that's crazy.

Speaker 1 (08:48):
I wasn't a part of any of that, but does
that sound crazy to you?

Speaker 3 (08:52):
Well?

Speaker 2 (08:52):
No, not for the time, because I mean, you know,
measles were just you got you gotta ration. You itched
for a few days, and it was over this. You know,
measles can kill you. Thing that we're hearing about now,
I don't think that was in the mind of the
American mommy back then. So, you know, Larry Mondelo gets
the measles, you send Beaver and Wally over to catch
them so they can get it over with you.

Speaker 3 (09:11):
What's ramped up now where it can kill people? I
don't know that's Yeah.

Speaker 2 (09:15):
Everything's worse now than it how Look how when did
COVID's and stars has come along and marijuana is all
so much more powerful than it was, and everything evolves,
and there's no reason to think that you know, measles
and mumps and all that stuff wouldn't evolve as well.

Speaker 1 (09:31):
Yeah, we hear or at least I think you've heard
what's going on in Texas.

Speaker 2 (09:37):
Last I heard one hundred and forty six cases. I
don't know how many today.

Speaker 3 (09:39):
Yeah, and I did you see like one maybe had passed.

Speaker 1 (09:43):
I don't know if zach attack usually is on top
of all that stuff, but I thought I saw at
least one had passed from from this. Again, you wonder
if that's somebody who had an underlying type condition. Maybe
because you don't, you don't pass away from it, right,
I mean.

Speaker 3 (10:03):
It's I mean, even if it's stronger than it used
to be.

Speaker 2 (10:07):
Yeah, it's it's not a killer, automatically killed, but it
has been known to kill. Yes, Yeah, I don't know,
I need an underlying condition or not. Yeah, it's just
it was eliminated. We didn't have it in the US anymore.
Two thousand they considered measles to be eradicated. And here
we go again.

Speaker 1 (10:25):
Yeah. Gee, I wonder where those came from.

Speaker 2 (10:28):
Exactly where it came from.

Speaker 1 (10:32):
In the state of Texas too. You might be going,
you know, there's a border there. Yeah, and but then.

Speaker 3 (10:40):
You know, did you see where there?

Speaker 1 (10:43):
Now the AJHS director is going, he's all for the
immunization with regard to this.

Speaker 3 (10:50):
I just don't.

Speaker 1 (10:53):
I get so when I see these stories come up
and then they start, it's just like everybody.

Speaker 3 (10:59):
Has an angle. Now. It's so tough.

Speaker 1 (11:01):
You look at all the information and you try to
process it and you try to apply some common sense
and go, Okay, what gives here? What exactly happened. But
there's a Texas Tech Health Science Center. There's a director there,
chief health officer, and they go on to talk about, Look,
these parties are a horrible idea. They can't predict who's

(11:22):
going to do poorly with measles, be hospitalized, potentially get pneumonia.
So I guess it can kind of bloom into pneumonia
and then pass away from it. And as we know,
pneumonia can be really bad, especially if somebody is already
working with a weaker immune system or again something underlying.
But this is this is kind of kind of scary,

(11:44):
right because it's extremely contagious.

Speaker 3 (11:47):
But I think it's in the one forties. Is that
what you were saying?

Speaker 2 (11:49):
Rough six is the last number I heard of cases?

Speaker 3 (11:51):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (11:52):
Did you happen to when you saw the one death
Zach attack? Did they give was it that same kind
of number in that what you were looking at? Sorry
to keep putting you on blasts like this, but all right,
it is okay, Yeah, so we're in the Yeah, but
I guess it's not spreading like it because you've seen
that from a couple of days ago. And I kept thinking,
all right, I keep waiting on it's over two hundred, now,

(12:14):
you know what I mean.

Speaker 2 (12:15):
Yeah, so, yeah, hopefully there's to be a lot of precautions.
You know, when you start seeing the cases come up,
especially in a specific area like that, you know, hopefully
the parents started to say, Okay, see, that's that's where
the whole COVID thing makes sense. When you see that
kind of thing happening out of nowhere in a concentrated area. Yeah,
go ahead and put the mask on your kids, keep

(12:36):
them home from school, do whatever until you get their
inoculations if you don't already have them right right,
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