185: Merger of Warner Bros. Discovery and Paramount Global? Opps one just got hacked. Then, Chat about Chat with Phil. Finally, one app to keep all your streaming services together. (Season 5 TechTime Radio Finale) | Air Date: 12/24 - 12/30/23

Get ready to navigate the tumultuous seas of the streaming industry with us as we break down the Warner Brothers Discovery and Paramount Global merger talks. Amid the business buzz, we've unearthed a mysterious hack that's sending shockwaves through the negotiation rooms. And that's just for starters! We're also serving up practical tech tips with a roundup of apps guaranteed to simplify your streaming adventures, making sure your movie nights are smooth sailing.

Tech Time Radio wouldn't be complete without a deep dive into the AI realm, and who better to guide us than Phil Hennessy, an AI maestro who's unwrapping the secrets of Google's Gemini system for us? Imagine the power of natural conversations extending into content creation, spanning text, audio, and even video - that's the magic Phil's discussing. And let's not forget the lighter side of our show, where we humorously savor Alberta Distillery's rye whiskey and poke fun at Canadian hijinks.

As we bid farewell to 2023, our final show takes a playful yet thoughtful glimpse into the future of AI and its growing role in our lives. Tying it all together, we end the year laughing over Burger King Brazil's hangover promotion antics and discussing the elusive quest for streamlining our digital entertainment. Toast with us to a year of tech talk that's as engaging as it is informative, and get set for another lap around the sun with your go-to crew at Tech Time Radio.

Thank you for tuning in to Techtime Radio with Nathan Mumm, the show that makes you go "Hmm" Technology news of the week for December 24th – 30th, 2023

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• CBS, Paramount owner National Amusements, says it was hacked. - http://tinyurl.com/5d4u8r2z
• AI is being used to deter deer from railway tracks - http://tinyurl.com/5eswwuc7
• Artificial Intelligence can now ID individual geese - http://tinyurl.com/etxkf32

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Today, we will talk to Phil in our “Chat about Chat” segment about Google's Gemini AI

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This Week in Technology: December 26, 1982 - Time Magazine names a Non-Human "Man of the Year"

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Marc Gregoire's review of this week's whiskey

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This week’s “Technology Fail” comes to us from Burger King. Burger King Giving Discounts If Facial Recognition Thinks You're Hungover

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Question: What do you think about New Year's resolution?

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Combine all your streaming services into one application

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Nathan Mumm: 2:36

I'm Nathan Mum, your host, a technologist with over 30 years of technology expertise working for Fortune 500 companies across the country. Today in the studio we have our co-host, mike Warday, and Mark Gregoire, our whiskey techtime taster. Mike's an award-winning author originally from Arizona. Mike's a human behavior expert living in the Seattle area with a master's degree in forensic psychology. Mike's here to keep me from geeking out while providing insight into human behavior and how it interacts with technology. Mark Gregoire, our whiskey connoisseur and senior technical executive with a 30-year record of establishing technology solutions, is in the studio again today as a skilled whiskey drinker and our go-to pic of the day expert. We are friends from different backgrounds, but bring the best technology show possible every week for our family, friends and fans to enjoy. Buckle up as our producer, odie, is at the control panel. Let's start today's show.

Speaker 2: 3:28

Now on today's show.

Nathan Mumm: 3:32

Alright. Today on Techtime with Nathan Mum, we examine the potential merger of two media giants Warner Brothers Discovery and Paramount Global. Have you heard about this in the news there, mike? Nope, we're talking about having a merger between each studios. It's a $38 billion market value. If they do that, the streaming portfolio could rival Netflix and Disney Plus. But there's a twist as the talks were heading up national amusements, the owner of Paramount said it was hacked. Was it an inside job? Who stands to gain or lose from this deal? We'll explore this as our top story of the day.

Nathan Mumm: 4:07

In our monthly chat about chat segment, we talk with our latest AI expert, phil Hennessy, on Google's program called Gemini. The new system can generate natural and engaging conversations on any topic. How does it work, what can it do and is it better than chat GPT? We're going to take a look at all of that. Phil is joining us, of course, to give us the lowdown on all things AI. And then, finally, we have a Nathan Nugget. Now we have moved our Nathan Nugget that I've been trying to get to three weeks, four weeks, five weeks to our top third story for our news cycle, so that we can get through it today. And I have another Nugget because I have been so upset. This is what I try to do. I try to watch Beverly Hills Cop. Have you seen Beverly Hills Cop? Yes, an 80s, 90s icon movie show right.

Mike Gorday: 4:58

Yes.

Nathan Mumm: 4:59

Okay. So guess what? Beverly Hills Cop 1 is only available on Comcast. Beverly Hills Cop 2 is only available on Paramount Plus.

Mike Gorday: 5:10

Okay, why would you want to watch two?

Nathan Mumm: 5:12

Well, two is pretty good. One and two are pretty good. The three was a. The three is where they go to the amusement park with kind of like the Disneyland takeoff Not really good, but I was so confused because I couldn't find out where the stuff was located I had to go online. I had to search for it. I have a solution. I have five apps we're going to be talking about on my Nathan Nugget that combines all the streaming services together so you can just put in what you want to watch and it comes up and actually shows you. We've been. We talked about this two years ago and now there are five companies out there that have apps that you can use Disney Plus, your Comcast. You have to subscribe to all these places.

Mike Gorday: 5:48

Some are free.

Nathan Mumm: 5:49

Some of them you have to pay.

Mike Gorday: 5:51

So we're going to talk about the benefits of each of these. It's a big trading scam.

Nathan Mumm: 5:54

It's a big trading scam, yeah.

Mike Gorday: 5:55

Yeah, you know they're sitting around going all right, we're going to do, we're going to do Beverly Hills Cop on this program.

Nathan Mumm: 6:03

Because the rights changed. The problem is the studios that did them changed. I know it's a pain in the neck, though.

Mike Gorday: 6:09

When you're going on like things like Amazon Prime and you like, get your. Hey, you haven't watched this, let's watch Indiana Jones. And you can get the first and the third, but you can't get the second, you can't get the one in the middle, yeah, and they got to go to a different station to get them.

Nathan Mumm: 6:25

Or then they say they come up in the searches and then when you go to actually watch them it's like oh, that's $199 a reddit, yeah. It's like well, that's not really free then. So we're going to talk about that Evil.

Mike Gorday: 6:34

It was yeah, so that's our.

Nathan Mumm: 6:35

Nathan. Nugget there, all right. In addition, of course, we have our standard features, including Mike's mesmerizing moment. Our technology failed the week and a possible absolutely Nathan Nugget. So sit back, raise a glass and welcome to TechTime Radio. As always, we have our Pick of the Day whiskey tasting during the commercials to see if our selected whiskey pick of the day gets zero, one or two thumbs up at the end of the show. Now, this is a Canadian. We were talking about this a Canadian.

Mike Gorday: 7:00

Yeah, I'm not real sure about that. I don't know.

Nathan Mumm: 7:03

Is Mark coming on back and giving us good stuff? Or is Mark giving us some Trader Joe's type whiskey sitting on the shelf that he's trying to get? We'll take a look at that.

Mike Gorday: 7:11

All right Now though he's making vases about it, I know.

Nathan Mumm: 7:15

He's kind of laughing over there. You know he hasn't had any of his whiskey.

Mike Gorday: 7:18

He said it reminds him of Christmas. It's his whiskey sitting right there. I don't know what kind of Christmas that would be.

Nathan Mumm: 7:22

That's all right. Okay, let's stop. Let's start our top technology stories of the week.

Speaker 2: 7:29

Here are our top technology stories of the week.

Nathan Mumm: 7:33

All right Story number one Warner Brothers, discovery and Paramount Global have held talks about a possible merger of the two media giants. The deal would create a global media giant, again at $38 billion, and a strong streaming portfolio that could compete with Netflix and Disney Plus. But as talks heated up, cbs Paramount owners national amusement was hacked. We have our LA reporter, tom Geichen, with more on the story.

Speaker 5: 8:01

National Amusements, the cinema chain and corporate parent giant of media giants Paramount and CBS, has confirmed it experienced a data breach in which hackers stole the personal information of tens of thousands of people. The private media conglomerate said that hackers stole the personal information of more than 82,000 people during a December 2022 data breach. Details of the breach only came to light a year later after the company began notifying those affected last week as a Christmas surprise. National Amusements owns more than 1,500 theater cinemas nationwide, but the company is best known for its controlling stake in Paramount and CBS following the Viacom CBS merger in 2019. Back to you in the studio, all right. So it took a year, huh.

Mike Gorday: 8:50

It took a year, that's where you go.

Nathan Mumm: 8:51

Perfect, you're on top of it. It took a year for the breach for them to notify everybody that they had a breach.

Mike Gorday: 8:58

Yeah, a little like Merry Christmas Last year at this time, your date of the animals. Now listen to what happened?

Nathan Mumm: 9:03

okay, now, essentially, the breach happened over a year ago. Now they actually discovered that the breach happened in August of 2023. So essentially, they had been breached from 2022. You know, august 2023.

Mike Gorday: 9:19

It really doesn't raise the confidence levels when you find out that the people who are running these things do not even know that something has been breached. Guess who their security company is? Oh no.

Nathan Mumm: 9:31

This is a Christmas miracle right here.

Mike Gorday: 9:32

Oh no, guess who their cybersecurity experts FireEye is their security components that was unable to detect the breach that happened. It took them over six months, nine months.

Nathan Mumm: 9:43

Nine months to detect the breach that was in their system. These guys are so horrible. All right, well, you know what? Don't worry about it, because a data breach essentially only stole information regarding financials bank account numbers, credit card numbers and a combination associated with security codes, passwords and other secret words. So you know, like your mother's main name and all those secret words, all of that was breached on it. So nothing to worry about, nothing to worry about.

Mike Gorday: 10:10

It's a good thing that I regularly change my credit card.

Nathan Mumm: 10:13

Well, I would have said two. Was it last night or the night before? Essentially, one of my credit cards that I never use it's my Alaska Airlines card that I fly with If I do a travel all of a sudden it started getting these charges randomly too. My wife says did you just subscribe to Hulu? I'm like no, I did not just subscribe to Hulu, so she canceled it. But just think of if you were one of the employees. Every employee within the media can glom or breached, plus many other high ranking executives. Now it's not clear what kind of cyber attack the company experienced, or whether they received a ransomware demand or has paid the hackers, because Rachel Lula, the spokesperson for national amusements, did not respond to any request from any media outlets regarding what happened. Current spokespeople for CBS and Paramount also did not comment, but said please contact the national amusement for more information.

Mike Gorday: 11:05

That's like, yeah, don't look at us, look over there.

Nathan Mumm: 11:08

Yeah, paramount is really good about having your data available for free on the internet, because they actually had another separate incident in August, according to the filing with Massachusetts Attorney General, in which the hackers took personal information on an unspecified number of customers. The hackers stole Paramount customers' names and data bursts, as well as social security numbers and other government issued identifications, according to the notice. So there you go.

Mike Gorday: 11:32

They're talking about being a merger, yeah you know, there's just no Getting away from this, it's just everywhere now.

Nathan Mumm: 11:40

Yeah, okay.

Mike Gorday: 11:40

I don't even know. I don't even know. I would think that there's so much information Flooding the market that they can't even make money on it anymore. No, that would be so the money's pretty, we should just we should just all you know, have a page with all of our information just right up there on a splash, and Like this is my so security number. These are my current they have that.

Nathan Mumm: 12:00

I really have that available.

Nathan Mumm: 12:01

So I can find a lot about my here's a secret my information dog if you're gonna get breached, you might as well just put everything out there. So don't limit what you should put out there If it is. The other way is if you just put everything that you ever have your son my trash I think everything out there so that the only get breached at least they have to go through and siphon all of that Alright. Well, let's now move on the story number two. Hopefully it's a little bit better on our holiday.

Mike Gorday: 12:25

I don't know. We're gonna, we're gonna, go over to jolly old England for okay. All right, they have been testing an AI and I I have this weird thing that you keep giving me these AI things. Yeah stories so that you can sell me on this stuff.

Nathan Mumm: 12:41

You know what, after you just get beaten down so much, it's not.

Mike Gorday: 12:46

You know when they're using it for things like this.

Nathan Mumm: 12:49

This is fine but okay you know we're talking about what we're gonna be the next stories are feel good stories, so we got some good ideas here. Anyway, over in.

Mike Gorday: 12:57

England for the I don't know past Month or so Yep. They have been testing a Dear deterrent using AI, which has been Utilized successfully on a mile of track between Peterborough and Grantham. Now I had to look on the map. I have no idea where this is, but there's a mile long portion of this track that has this.

Nathan Mumm: 13:22

System on. I think it's a big of deer crossing area where they would have tons of fatalities and and all of that before. So I think they chose a big area.

Mike Gorday: 13:30

Well, yeah, the automated deer deterrent system uses sound and vision sensors to identify when a deer approaches the track and then, when it does Detect that or deer approaches, it uses a variety of audible and visual alarms that basically scared away. The alarm aims to deter the animal away from the tracks and has K AI camera monitors that Watch its movement until it's been diverted to a safe distance. Traditional methods of deterring deer from railway tracks include train mountain whistles, which are unreliable, and high fencing, which can be costly. The system has deterred an average of 50 deer per week since the start of testing. Oh, they've been testing it since May.

Mike Gorday: 14:16

Okay that was something I was not aware of. Around eight inches. Eight incidents of deer being hit by trains in the trial area would have been expected in the period, but only one has been reported, so it's working better than they thought. The system will be rolled out to other sections of the east coast mainline which stretches between London's King Cross and Edinburgh and experience high rates of deer incursions. The Innovation and officer, danny Gonzalez, said our first deployment of this innovative system to deter deers quickly proven that the solution can save time, stress and, most importantly, deer. The train operators worked in partnership with Network Rail to develop the scheme, and route engineer Joe Priestly said that protecting the deer and resource or and reduce disruption and delays for passengers has been accessed. So Hopefully we'll start seeing stuff like that more regularly, especially in the US.

Nathan Mumm: 15:16

So that's kind of I mean. So I mean deer in a headlight type of deal. I drive back roads and when they see lights and stuff, they literally just freeze right. I mean, it's just something in their instincts where they just freeze so they can. That's a fly.

Mike Gorday: 15:27

That's a. That's a fighter flight response yes, and most of the time they just kind of because when they freeze Is something that uses visual acuity can't see them, they just it, they disappear from view. So with cars and trains it it doesn't work so well okay, so this would be a good this is.

Nathan Mumm: 15:45

This is a good AI story.

Mike Gorday: 15:48

Yeah, yeah, you keep throwing these. There you go. Story number three another Talk about the freaking geese.

Nathan Mumm: 15:53

Now Okay, this has been sitting as the Nathan Nugger for way too long, so we moved this story up into our top news story so we can sure that this story gets covered. Research has had developed a new facial recognition tool with AI that can ID Geese based on their beaks.

Mike Gorday: 16:11

I know, because Telling geese apart is really important.

Nathan Mumm: 16:14

Well, let's go to Corinne Westson for more on the story a.

Speaker 7: 16:19

Few years ago, sonya Kleinorfer was interviewing to become the director of the Conrad Lawrence Research Center for behavior and cognition in Vienna, austria. Conrad Lawrence was a famous Austrian biologist who spent much of his career studying the behavior of local Greylock geese. Famously, his students presented him with a plaque that had 30 goose faces on it and he could name them all. Kleinorfer felt a certain amount of pressure as the new director to learn how to tell the geese apart, but Sonya Kleinorfer just couldn't memorize that many. So she contacted a more technically-minded colleague and Asked him if he could write a program to distinguish these faces. It took a couple of years, but the team reports that their goose recognition software is now about 97% accurate. This AI program was a relief for the Conrad Lorenz Research Center director, sonya Kleinorfer.

Mike Gorday: 17:12

Well that certainly will, is helpful to you know. Keep away awkward circumstances.

Speaker 7: 17:17

Oh, there's George no that's not George.

Nathan Mumm: 17:19

Well, okay, hang on, so let's, so let's talk about this, all right. So so marks to be ecstatic about this. He's been waiting for this article to be on there.

Mike Gorday: 17:26

He we've been putting this one off for a while, so we moved in.

Nathan Mumm: 17:29

So so what happened is this gal took over as this main director in charge of this yeah district center that essentially she wanted to be Just as adequate as her predecessor. Her predecessor was much better at memorizing and could tell geese apart, so she got ended up quizzed, probably.

Mike Gorday: 17:49

I don't know. I'm sure that he His memorization was because he worked. That was, that was his thing.

Nathan Mumm: 17:56

His thing were geese Okay, her thing not geese, no, her, her thing is thinking outside of the box. So instead of just trying to memorize the geese, she could only get like five or six at a time.

Nathan Mumm: 18:07

She said that and she was struggling and then she couldn't tell the difference of it. So she went to a friend and said hey, buddy, can you help me develop a system that looks at geese? Now it wasn't easy, though. They had to go on out and they had to film tons of geese. All these pictures 2d and 3d pictures are put together so they could get the beak sizes, the feather sizes and everything together to put this together and create a master database. And this database is for free, available For people to then actually use it for other AI.

Mike Gorday: 18:38

Are you so? This isn't the first thing a picture of the geese that's around my yard and be like hey, who's?

Nathan Mumm: 18:42

this well. So my wife has this app where she takes a picture of plants and it actually tells you what type of plants we're at like. Google ends yeah, so so essentially what this is is it's now creating an app.

Mike Gorday: 18:54

We soon.

Nathan Mumm: 18:55

You could just take a picture of a geese and you can say tell me what this is. Now. This isn't the first app to do this. You know that bees and bears also have apps where they can track all different types of bears and all different types of bees.

Mike Gorday: 19:07

Bees and bears have their own apps. Well, do you know? What's interesting, is it? They are the most while we're doing our stuff.

Nathan Mumm: 19:12

Well, bees are considered to be the toughest Insect to identify because people don't know the difference between yellow jackets and bumblebees and and hornets.

Mike Gorday: 19:24

So people, that's because we simplify everything. Be like oh, those are bugs, that's okay, so there you go.

Nathan Mumm: 19:30

All right, I thought that was a great, great story. Well, that ends our top.

Mike Gorday: 19:35

Well, you know, it's just good to know that if a geese comes calling, I won't be.

Nathan Mumm: 19:39

I won't. You know, geese have great memories too, though, so you gotta be careful, because they will remember you. So if you just you run away from them, they'll know, I guess.

Mike Gorday: 19:46

I guess you need that I guess you need that when you're talking to them, like so that I remember your face but you can't remember mine. Oh, that's right.

Nathan Mumm: 19:54

That ends our top technology stories of the week. Moving on, we have our chat about chat segment with Phil Hennessy after the commercial break. You'll not want to miss what's that we're gonna talk more about geese. You know what it's gonna be an open popery of questions. Are you ready for this? A? A plethora of popery questions.

Mike Gorday: 20:10

There, you go.

Nathan Mumm: 20:10

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Nathan Mumm: 21:24

Welcome back to Tech Time with Nathan Mum. Tech Time is a weekly hour technology show. It talks about current technology in a simple format Without having to geek out, brought to you by myself and Mike Gorday. We just had our first whiskey tasting during the break and now we have Mark in studio to tell us what we are sipping in our pick of the day.

Marc Gregoire: 21:43

That's right, we are sipping the Alberta Premium Cast Strength Rye. Wow.

Nathan Mumm: 21:51

It was a bite man. That was heavy duty.

Mike Gorday: 21:54

Yeah, I like what Mark said you gotta be a man to drink this one. This is where you sign up to the bar and order with your man.

Nathan Mumm: 22:02

He just takes a shot like it's no big deal.

Marc Gregoire: 22:04

So let me tell you what Alberta Distillery says about it. You weaklings. Okay, they said exceptionally smooth. All right With notes of caramel, vanilla and hint of chocolate, balanced with the spiciness of rye and black currant. Smooth and lingering with the complexity of spice, warm vanilla and dark fruit that keeps you coming back for more.

Mike Gorday: 22:24

That tastes like chocolate a little bit, it actually tastes pretty good. It does After you get past the bite.

Marc Gregoire: 22:30

Yeah, this is from the company that releases this is Beamsome Torrey. The distillation is from Alberta Distillers in Calgary, alberta. It is a rye. It's non-age stated but they claim it's over five years old. It is 127 proof, 100% Canadian rye, and it goes for roughly $80. And there's no secondary on this one because it's fairly readily available when it comes.

Nathan Mumm: 22:55

Hey this is pretty good. Seriously, You've watched Strange Brew right.

Mike Gorday: 23:01

Is that what you did this week? No, you just watched all these really old movies.

Nathan Mumm: 23:04

No, I was just saying like when I think of Canada, the first thing I think of is the movie Strange Brew. Yeah, that's Rick Moranis. Come on, that's a classic right.

Mike Gorday: 23:12

Yeah, luke, I'm your father. Yeah, all right, okay.

Nathan Mumm: 23:17

Well, how?

Nathan Mumm: 23:17

about the dark side, you knob. That's right. This is pretty good. Thank you, mark. I can't wait to hear the mumble about how this is produced or what today is, so we're going to continue on with that Great. Now let's move to our feature segment. Today we have Phil Hennessey back with our chat about chat monthly segment. Get ready to dive deep into the exciting world of Google's latest innovation Gemini. This powerful AI model comes to us in three distinct versions, I guess. I guess they couldn't release one, so they have the Ultra, the Pro and the Nano, each tailor made for your specific needs. Let's dive in with Phil to unravel the mysteries of this AI powerhouse and start the segment.

Mike Gorday: 23:58

Welcome to the AI segment Cat About Cat with our tech time guest, my favorite humanoid, mr Phil Hennessey.

Nathan Mumm: 24:07

All right, Phil, welcome to the show. Happy holidays. How was your holiday event? Happy holidays.

Phil Hennessy: 24:12

It was great I had a lot of neighbors and ate too much and drank too much, so life is good.

Nathan Mumm: 24:17

That's all right. That's a great holiday.

Phil Hennessy: 24:21

Isn't that what the?

Nathan Mumm: 24:21

holidays are all about right. Alcohol, yeah, alcohol, alcohol alcohol.

Mike Gorday: 24:26

That's right, okay, well, christmas is all about basketball nowadays.

Nathan Mumm: 24:31

I think Basketball, the NFL had games too, aren't? They, I see the NBA is really pushing the Christmas Day basketball. Yeah, they have the Laker game and another game, and another game. All right, well, where are you coming from today, phil? You're coming from beautiful Florida.

Phil Hennessy: 24:49

South of South of Florida. It's in the 70s. Right now, life is good. Shut up, phil.

Nathan Mumm: 24:54

All right, that sounds perfect. All right. Now Google has a new product, and it's called Gemini. Can you explain what this AI tool or effort is all about?

Phil Hennessy: 25:06

Yeah, it's a new AI engine. Notice they don't call it a large language model or a chat bot.

Nathan Mumm: 25:13

Okay, explain that. Hang on now. Hang on for the everyday person. What's a large language model and a chat bot? Explain the difference of those.

Phil Hennessy: 25:20

Chat GPT, when you type something in, you give it a prompt or a question, and it'll give you an answer. Right, so it is. Bing does the same thing as Chat GPT and the old Bard that from Google did the same thing. It was a chat bot, only mostly text interface. Right, a multi-model AI engine is it can take text, it can take code, it can take audio, it can take video, it can take pictures. Okay, so we can take different things and review it and do stuff with it that you ask it to do.

Nathan Mumm: 25:55

Okay, all right, that's a good. Okay, all right. So Google failed in the Bard type of release, it sounds like. So they're trying to come out with something a little bit better and a little bit newer. Is that kind of what Gemini is about?

Phil Hennessy: 26:08

Yeah, jeff, that's exactly what it's about. I wanted to kind of talk about some of the examples to give people idea of the multi-model, if that's okay.

Nathan Mumm: 26:14

Okay.

Phil Hennessy: 26:14

Sure, it's really really quite, I think, important to understand this. So think of it. Can generate input out a different material. From what different input? So if you gave it a video of a bunch of birds flocking, okay, maybe geese, yeah.

Nathan Mumm: 26:31

Maybe geese Great idea.

Phil Hennessy: 26:32

Right, there we go. All right With geese and they can. You know, anyway, I'm going to go there. And then what it has done with this is they've shown examples of this is that it can then give a visual simulation and the code to create that visual simulation of the birds flocking together. So all you need to do is give it a video segment and it gives you. Then the video produces an artificial simulation and the code to create it.

Nathan Mumm: 26:58

Oh. So if you wanted to create like a battle of Middle Earth and you had a bunch of people coming on out there, you could ask the AI to make it a full battlefield and put a whole bunch of AI generated orcs and items on there.

Phil Hennessy: 27:13

Don't know where the capability will end right now, but that is their ultimate goal. I would imagine it's something like that. We'll talk about the three different versions was released.

Nathan Mumm: 27:21

Oh, I'd have better watch out, yeah.

Mike Gorday: 27:24

You're, you're, you're thinking about, I'm thinking about, and you know, when they do stuff in video games and things like, yeah, they need, they need to show something in the background.

Nathan Mumm: 27:34

Yeah, we're talking way more than just green screen here, but okay, okay, keep on going.

Phil Hennessy: 27:39

Sorry, Phil, we can go off on this all day Okay.

Phil Hennessy: 27:42

Crazy, different stuff. So another one is an example. They showed they took a picture of a ball of two different balls of yarn, a pink and a blue ball of yarn. It identified that it was yarn and blue and pink and it said what can? And asked that what kind of hot, what kind of make out of the blue and pink yarn? And it gave a picture of a, of a knitted octopus. Oh, okay, I say you can make a blue and pink octopus out of it. So I mean, this thing has context across multi modes, video images, these types of things. Another crazy one it did so think how long this would take if you had to do this by by hand or manually, right? It took 200,000 papers that they wanted to review for a certain set of DNA thing that they were researching, right? They set it through over lunch. It read 200,000 papers over an hour, hour and a half. It identified the 200 papers that they wanted to read, with the section to read and the citation.

Nathan Mumm: 28:39

Wow. So this is like the ultimate homework essay, college student app, just waiting to be written there, right?

Phil Hennessy: 28:48

I mean it's insane. I mean it doesn't just read the text, it reads the charts.

Nathan Mumm: 28:54

Oh, okay, so it takes the graphics and it will go through and does it understand X and Y axises and everything.

Phil Hennessy: 29:01

Yes, and they can create the data off of that. And what it did actually for this one they gave it the original graph and said, okay, interpolate and make the algorithms for those graphs and then add in the new data that is pulled and extend the graph.

Nathan Mumm: 29:16

So is this something Google's been having in their back burner for a while, waiting to come on out, or is this something that is pretty new on the market?

Phil Hennessy: 29:24

Well, this particular portion we're going to have a different Google Nano and Ultra Ultra is not released yet and that's the one that can do all this that they're showing examples of and that's going to release sometime in they say, early 2024.

Nathan Mumm: 29:38

All right, so there's like three different versions, right? Oh boy, this is like buying an Apple phone you get the SE version or you get the iPhone, you get the Pro Max iPhone. Nano or you get the Plus. So the Nano is Nano, the cheap end, and then the middle level. How are these three levels broken up and what do you get?

Phil Hennessy: 29:55

It's actually more about processing power and size of data size of information it can handle or data. So Nano is going to go onto a Pixel 8 Pro so it runs locally on the device, runs locally on the processor and it can help with smart assistance, personalized recommendations. It learns you and they all want to learn you. We're going to talk later too. Google wants to learn you right, they sure do.

Phil Hennessy: 30:20

Because the next one to talk is Google Pro. Right, and Pro is the next one up and that's available right now. If you log in to Bard and I get access to the Google's chatbot, bard, you have access to the AI engine for Gemini Pro and then you can upload the video, you can upload images, you can ask it all sorts of different things. It's and you know, it integrates with the Google suite of products. So if I wanted to, I can say like I did today. I was playing around with it. If I wanted to transcribe a YouTube video, I can take the link of the YouTube video and dump it in the chat and say please transcribe this video, and then all of a sudden, it gives me the full transcript within I don't know, within a minute. And then I could say, instead of different link, I can put it in there and say summarize this video, a 10, 15 minute video, and it gives me a one pager summarization of the video.

Nathan Mumm: 31:12

Well, now you're wetting my appetite Because you know how much time it takes to do the AI aspects just for a tech time episode. I mean, it takes hours and hours to do that. So you're telling me I can put the video file in there and it will come up with all the text and everything available.

Phil Hennessy: 31:27

All the tech. Give you the transcription or the summary, whatever you want, or both, right.

Phil Hennessy: 31:31

I mean it's crazy. I mean it integrates into your Google mail. Now this is where it learns everything about you, because it's now it's reading all your mail. But it can, if you wanted to, you can integrate it into your Google workspace and then you can have it say give me what are the top 10 most important? I mean, give me what are my top, what are the emails, the subject lines I have today Can list all the subject lines. It can summarize an email for you. It can pull out the tasks for that from that email and label the tasks for you.

Nathan Mumm: 32:02

Wow, okay, this is getting exciting. All right, so tell me what the prover or not? No, what's the max version? What's the ultra, ultra? Okay, what is that going to do?

Phil Hennessy: 32:12

Well, this is again additional processing power.

Mike Gorday: 32:15

Think server farm level processing and this is going to farm out all your stuff to other people. It's going to do all my work.

Nathan Mumm: 32:22

It's going to respond to all my emails. That's going to get us to other people. You're going to start getting that's going to introduce you to the emails, mike. Mike, all of a sudden it's going to say can you please do these 18 tasks? It'll be like fantastic.

Marc Gregoire: 32:33

Yeah, like.

Mike Gorday: 32:33

FU, no Okay.

Nathan Mumm: 32:35

All right.

Phil Hennessy: 32:37

This is that level that we're talking about, with the research papers going through 200,000 papers, right, gotcha, this is that type. Eric could go through huge spreadsheets of information and find data trends. It's a data analyst at this point in time, I mean it's going to help with all sorts of different large scale simulation work and it's quite interesting to me what they're going to do with this.

Nathan Mumm: 33:02

I'm sure it is Okay. So the big question though is this better than ChatGPT? You got Google Gemini here and ChatGPT right now. Who is the leader?

Phil Hennessy: 33:12

All right. Well, there's a hierarchy between the three.

Nathan Mumm: 33:15

Okay, okay.

Phil Hennessy: 33:17

So you got ChatGPT4. Yep, right now.

Nathan Mumm: 33:20

Sam Albin, Is that number one?

Phil Hennessy: 33:22

No actually, so Google Ultra is number one, okay.

Nathan Mumm: 33:26

But it hasn't released yet, though, right.

Phil Hennessy: 33:27

But it's not released yet.

Nathan Mumm: 33:28

That's the key.

Phil Hennessy: 33:31

It's supposedly number one, okay, right. You don't know what open AI is going to release, or ChatGPT is to counter that. Right Right now, google's claiming Ultra, gemini, ultra is the best. And then, right now, what's out there working? Chatgpt4 is still the king or the queen right now right. And then Gemini Pro is next, and then Chat3.5.

Nathan Mumm: 33:58

Which is the freebie?

Phil Hennessy: 33:59

that anybody can sign up for it's the freebie that anybody can sign up for.

Mike Gorday: 34:02

Is this something I can do while I'm sitting in my recliner and just chat with Alexa, or something?

Phil Hennessy: 34:07

Well, it takes audio input so you can talk to it. You have a microphone button on the interface so you can talk to it. Yes, mike, you can.

Nathan Mumm: 34:15

So you can, but you need to create a barred account. So you need to go and create a Google barred account, I believe, to get access to this and you could have your best friend. You wouldn't need to ever have a significant other. I feel like Alexa would choose. You could have Alexa be your significant other.

Mike Gorday: 34:28

I feel like Alexa would be jealous.

Nathan Mumm: 34:31

Maybe all right, okay, so it's like even though she's not very.

Mike Gorday: 34:34

She's not very conversational conversation oriented.

Nathan Mumm: 34:37

All right. So tell me again, she just wants me to buy stuff. She always suggests that.

Mike Gorday: 34:41

No, she's just suggesting that I buy stuff.

Nathan Mumm: 34:43

She's just like my wife. Can I buy this? Can I buy this? Can I buy any?

Mike Gorday: 34:46

batteries no, no, no. She's like hey, you should buy this, you should buy that.

Nathan Mumm: 34:50

All right. So how can I access Gemini Pro again? How do you do that, phil?

Phil Hennessy: 34:54

If you don't have a Google account, you need to create a Google account first, and then you go to barredgooglecom and click sign up, and then you use your Google account and you're in.

Nathan Mumm: 35:06

And then they start tracking everything about you.

Phil Hennessy: 35:08

Well, that's it. They tell you right off of that that everything you put in, don't put anything proprietary, because everything they do will be possibly reviewed by a human. Okay.

Mike Gorday: 35:17

You should probably not put in things either Social security, never legal, or Because if you gave it to Paramount, it essentially is available to anybody. You don't want to be asking this thing about how to pull off the perfect murder or anything. I'm not sure.

Nathan Mumm: 35:30

How do I bury somebody underneath?

Mike Gorday: 35:32

ground and knock a cop. Yeah, put the person's name in there. I don't know.

Nathan Mumm: 35:37

All right. What does the future hold for Gemini, as we have this closing out of your film?

Phil Hennessy: 35:43

One of the things to work on right now is co-programming. So you have an AI assistant to help you program. You give it the basics of what you wanted to do, maybe with some core code, and then it'll expand upon that. So you're going to see the world of programming change over the next two years I think significantly on how people program and the use of this. You're going to see self-learning robotics, especially with Ultra. You're going to see how they learn and teach themselves tasks, especially with the co-programming piece they go. I'll possibly read and reprogramming some of them themselves. This is going to get very, very interesting and a little scary, and they're even working on which I think is going to be very interesting. Mike is, and I don't know how they're going to pull it off, but they're even looking for emotional intelligence in the future and physical interaction with robotics.

Mike Gorday: 36:29

So they're yeah, I know an industry is already doing it, wow.

Phil Hennessy: 36:39

So, I think one of the other things that they're going to do is, which Google's already trying to do, is learn about you more and more, and so, as they integrate all their Google products, they're going to create pictures, I'm sure, in the future, and everything they want to learn about your entire life, and they want to create, sure, a digital AI. I mean a digital Avatar. Yeah, and an avatar, but also an assistant that can just take over A cartata Just available there to help you.

Nathan Mumm: 37:06

I want to know, but it's going to be a lot more.

Mike Gorday: 37:09

What I want to know is what happens when it learns everything about you. Yeah, you know, then it just gets bored of you.

Nathan Mumm: 37:16

What happens? Well, the robots it's killing you Become self-aware. Yeah, Isn't there just like, yeah, we don't need this person anymore.

Mike Gorday: 37:24

That's how Metta's going to take over the world. Take over it. All these little AI bots of our personalities are going to become self-aware and go and live in Metta land, all right.

Phil Hennessy: 37:36

Like really scary when Elon Musk's chips, brain chips, are embedded in everybody and then there's a general AI at the same time?

Mike Gorday: 37:41

Yeah, I don't think that's going to be happening in the movie.

Nathan Mumm: 37:44

That's only if you can continue to have money to fund those programs.

Mike Gorday: 37:47

All right Well.

Nathan Mumm: 37:48

Phil, it was a pleasure to have you on the show. This is our last show for 2023. We'll definitely continue our chat with you.

Mike Gorday: 37:55

Chad, we're in 2023, buddy, what did I say? 2022.

Nathan Mumm: 37:58

Oh, 2023. So we will continue this conversation in 2024.

Phil Hennessy: 38:04

Sounds great. Had a blast. All right Phil. All right Phil.

Nathan Mumm: 38:07

We want to thank Phil for joining our show. It's always a pleasure. Next week, you will want to join us as our feature segment is all about our prediction show. We'll have our guest Nick Espinosa, back. We're going to go through with everybody in the studio on predictions and look back at what we predicted last year. That ends our segment. Chat about chat with Phil. We're going to head to commercial break. When we return, we will have this week in technology, of course, our Mike's mesmerizing moment and many other aspects. See you in a bit. Hey, mike, yo, what's up? Hey, so you know what. We need people to start liking our social media page, if you like our show, if you really like us we could use your support on patreoncom.

Mike Gorday: 38:47

Is it Patreon? I think it's Patreon. Okay, Patreon, If you really like us you can like us in patreoncom, I put your the.

Nathan Mumm: 38:55

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Mike Gorday: 39:01

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Nathan Mumm: 39:08

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Mike Gorday: 39:21

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Nathan Mumm: 39:28

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Mike Gorday: 39:33

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Nathan Mumm: 39:36

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Speaker 2: 39:41

That's that simple. And now let's look back at this week in technology.

Nathan Mumm: 39:49

All right, going in the way back machine, we're going to December 26, 1982. Exactly today, 1982. 1982. Time Magazine names a non-human man of the year. Time Magazine editor selected the personal computer for the machine of the year In lieu of the well-known man of the Year Award. The computer beat out US President Ronald Reagan and UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. The planet Earth, though, became the second non-human recipient of the award in 1988. And nothing like planet Earth.

Mike Gorday: 40:20

Earth after computers. I remember those.

Nathan Mumm: 40:21

I remember those. All right, the word has been given since 1927. The magazine's essays reported that in 1982, 80% of Americans expected that in a fairly new future, home computers will be a commonplace as television sets or dishwashers. In 1980s, 724,000 personal computers were sold in the United States. Trash 80s.

Mike Gorday: 40:45

I know.

Nathan Mumm: 40:46

But the next time, the following year, that number doubled to 1.4 million. Now do you realize that I'm in the studio right now? I have on me three computers. I got two cell phones in my pocket and a computer in front of me, so not only do I have and if I go home, I got so many more devices that are available there, so not only do I have one in my household, I probably have one for every 30 feet I walk.

Mike Gorday: 41:09

I got three laptops at home Okay, Plus the one I have with me right now. I've got two phones. I got a gigantic smart television.

Nathan Mumm: 41:19

Okay, I didn't even include the smart TVs I mean.

Mike Gorday: 41:23

So you realize that everybody has, at least have it. And I have a console, yeah, so gaming console.

Nathan Mumm: 41:29

That's a computer too, with all the ability to upload. So it's just amazing that almost everybody plus has, essentially, a computer in their possession or within them, within a minute away of them. Yeah, yeah, all right. Well, that was this week in technology. We've got some tech time history, with over 180 weekly broadcast spanning three plus years of videos, podcasts and blog information. You can visit techtimeradiocom to watch our older shows or join the tech timers Facebook group to talk with us live all the time. We're going to take a commercial break here, but when we return we have Mark's mumble whiskey review and our technology fail of the week. See you after the break.

Speaker 4: 42:05

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Speaker 2: 42:43

The segment we've been waiting all week for Mark's Whiskey Mumble.

Marc Gregoire: 42:53

I see some empty glasses all the way around.

Nathan Mumm: 42:56

This stuff is good, boy. There's a lot of alcohol content. To this Merry Christmas, tell us what we're sipping here today, mark.

Marc Gregoire: 43:05

What is today first?

Nathan Mumm: 43:08

It's the December 26th.

Mike Gorday: 43:09

It's the recovery day after Christmas Day.

Speaker 5: 43:14

Is it Kwanzaa?

Mike Gorday: 43:17

No.

Nathan Mumm: 43:18

Is it National Whiskey Celebration?

Mike Gorday: 43:22

It's National. I Regretted Christmas Day. It's National Credit.

Marc Gregoire: 43:26

Card. You guys are bad. One day I have to give a little side shout out it's Boxing Day, that's the Boxing Day. It's perfect. Since one of the Canadians celebrates it, we have a box that this whiskey came in. That's not what we're doing today. I found something more appropriate for you two. Today is National Winers Day.

Mike Gorday: 43:48

Wow, wow, wow wow OK.

Marc Gregoire: 43:51

Let me tell you a little about it. We all know someone with incessant whining that even puts Moni Myrtle to shame. Your wife's going to like that shout out. That's the Harry Potter shout out. I got it, but on this day, everyone is encouraged to complain about anything that is bothering them, while you are allowed to grumble about your Christmas gifts and not receiving what you wanted or something an annoying relative said. It is, though, more important to focus on being grateful for all that you have and to appreciate the good things in life.

Mike Gorday: 44:20

I wasn't far off the mark when I was a wonderful life story when I was dartboarding the estate, not too much.

Marc Gregoire: 44:29

When you guys were whining, you were right on the mark.

Mike Gorday: 44:31

Oh nice, thanks man.

Marc Gregoire: 44:33

Now being National Winers Day, I remember-. I'm grateful that you're calling me a whiner. Well, I remembered when you used to whine about rice, when you didn't used to like rice, and that's what reminded me of this truly 100% rye from Alberta premium cast.

Mike Gorday: 44:48

What is this? Like Mark's Revenge.

Marc Gregoire: 44:52

That's in the old days, when you used to whine about rice.

Mike Gorday: 44:55

I don't think I ever whined about rice. I didn't like rice. You whined about everything.

Nathan Mumm: 44:58

You're right.

Phil Hennessy: 44:59

Yeah, exactly I can't even whine about rice, not just rice.

Mike Gorday: 45:02

Shut up.

Marc Gregoire: 45:03

Okay, kids. And then this being kind of high proof, nathan always whines about those, so this was a perfect one to bring today.

Mike Gorday: 45:09

Who was it expensive?

Marc Gregoire: 45:11

Well, if you remember, it was only 80 bucks. Only 80 bucks. No secondary market. So you wouldn't whine about that. No, it doesn't have a cork top. Yeah, he would.

Nathan Mumm: 45:17

It's got a screw top, let's have a screw top. He would totally find it. He kind of wanted to figure you'd have a cork top on there.

Marc Gregoire: 45:23

Yeah, so before we talk about the whiskey, let's talk about an interesting tidbit about Canadian rye whiskey. Okay, so in general you can call something Canadian rye whiskey, but it's not required to be actual rye whiskey in Canada.

Nathan Mumm: 45:38

Oh, wow, okay.

Marc Gregoire: 45:39

Yeah. So a long time ago wheat whiskey was king when the green was abundant. Dutch and German immigrants arrived in Canada and started adding rye grain to that wheat mash. It became so popular people started asking for that rye whiskey. Now, corn was later replaced, the wheat, but the nickname stuck. Some producers have gradually shifted to labeling their whiskey Canadian whiskey instead of Canadian rye, but some still say Canadian rye when it's not a true rye whiskey, as the definition of 51% rye or more. Now this one is 100% Canadian rye, so it is a true rye whiskey, perfect. Now today I am excited to say I finally made my dad happy. You made your dad happy, as I'm finally able to give a thumbs up, a big thumbs up, to a Canadian whiskey. Oh, there you go. So I found one that actually deserves it and I'm happy to raise this whiskey to toast my heritage.

Mike Gorday: 46:35

There you go. Are you Canadian or a whiner?

Marc Gregoire: 46:40

Heritage Mike, so both my parents are Canadian, French Canadian.

Nathan Mumm: 46:45

All right, well, that's perfect. You know what? Nothing like whisking technology. Such a great pairing, just like the pairing of diets and gym memberships for New Year's resolutions. All right, let's get ready now for our technology fail of the week, brought to you by Elite Executive Services. We are out of time. Congratulations, you're a failure. Oh.

Speaker 8: 47:06

I failed. Did I yes, did I yes, did I.

Nathan Mumm: 47:12

Yes, all right, here we go. Speaking about, this week's technology fail comes to us from Burger King in Brazil. This is hilarious. In Brazil, burger King says that it's essentially doing benefits for hangovers and other headache issues that happened during the holidays. It's essentially they're doling out the hangover whoppers, using a face recognition to determine whether you drank too much the night before, the Brazilian wing of Burger King announced a surveillance technology marketing stunt this week, calling it the hangover whopper celebration. The boo filled days between Christmas and New Year's with face recognition. All you have to do is hold up your blurry-eyed visions to the camera and the company says that its face scanning software will judge how hungover you look and hand out a coupon based upon that.

Mike Gorday: 48:06

You can get a coupon to buy a whopper for being hungover.

Nathan Mumm: 48:10

Hang on it also says your image can be used for marketing and other promotions, along with forfeiting any privacy while using the app. That's right in there in big bold letters. They don't even hide it, they essentially just put it out there.

Mike Gorday: 48:22

so even if you're drunk, you realize that once you do that, that's the perfect thing to market to drunk people.

Nathan Mumm: 48:29

Welcome to the future of nice. Promotional items outside of the area. Yes, we have. Bk essentially presents the hangover whopper, a technology that scans your level and offers a discount on the ideal combo to help you combat that hangover. Now the stunt runs until January 2nd. Now I actually got on my VPN and actually signed up to do this.

Nathan Mumm: 48:54

So I took a picture of myself and I tried to look as drunk as I could and essentially I gave permissions to access my iPhone camera, all my photo libraries. I had to give everything I can track my calendar, my contact list, I mean essentially, burger King just said we're going to do this app.

Mike Gorday: 49:11

I'm pretty sure you can't determine the amount of hangover based on facial recognition.

Nathan Mumm: 49:16

Well, you know what? Guess what?

Mike Gorday: 49:18

I have personally not heard of this before, but I'm going to dispute that this is an actual scientific thing.

Nathan Mumm: 49:26

Well, no, no, no, it says, because it only offered me a double whopper junior as my hangover type of deal, and it only rated me as one out of five on the hangover scale. So I did not look like I you fooled it. Well, no, I didn't look like I had a hangover because it only gave me a 62 cent discount for me to go and buy that double whopper junior. Okay, so I think if I was more, drunk.

Mike Gorday: 49:49

So if you just look, bloodshot if your eyes are bloodshot and you've got Like droopy mouths and you got the symptoms of somebody who either has been going on a bender or has slept for two days.

Nathan Mumm: 50:02

Then you can earn all the way up to a free Burger King ultimate whopper that would be available to you. So the more drunk you look, there is nothing better than that.

Marc Gregoire: 50:13

Take your picture now. So there you go.

Mike Gorday: 50:15

Perfect, all right. There is no cure for hangover.

Nathan Mumm: 50:19

There is no cure.

Mike Gorday: 50:19

No, everybody has a cure, but there is no cure but isn't it just eating lots of meat?

Nathan Mumm: 50:23

It's just time.

Mike Gorday: 50:26

You're liver is basically having to heal up from the damage you did to it.

Nathan Mumm: 50:33

All right, you know what? Let's now go to the Mike's Mesmerizing Moment. Oh sh, this is Mike's Mesmerizing Moment, presented by Story Coffee. You're not going to ask me, this is storycoffeecom. How do you feel about the New Year's?

Mike Gorday: 50:49

resolutions. Mike, why are you asking me about how I feel about it? Well, that's because it says how do you feel about the New Year's resolutions? How do I feel about?

Nathan Mumm: 50:55

it.

Mike Gorday: 50:55

Yeah, I think it's kind of nonsensical. Okay, they last. How long? The average resolution lasts maybe 12 weeks. Maybe, 12 weeks, people, 12 days 12 days 12 days.

Speaker 4: 51:12

Sorry, 12 days, not 12 weeks, that's too many weeks. What is that?

Nathan Mumm: 51:15

Three months yeah, that's too many months. 12 days, 12 days, yes, so kind of as long as the 12 days of Christmas.

Mike Gorday: 51:22

This is one of those social. This is one of those social situations that drives part of our economy. So we've got all this holiday stuff where we're binging on everything alcohol, food, money, spending things like that and so we have this idea where a new year is the start of a brand new you, and we've patted it with this idea that resolutions come in there and blah, blah, blah and people buy into this and they start gym memberships and then, behaviorally, it takes about 12 days before they stop going. You hate them, don't you Use resolutions?

Nathan Mumm: 52:04

I don't think they're useful. Okay, all right, there you go. All right, let's now move to the Nathan Nugget. This is my rant. This is your Nugget, upcoming All right, so I talked about this at pre-show right. I was trying to find Verily Hills Cop right On all these different platforms.

Mike Gorday: 52:16

Yeah, you were whining.

Nathan Mumm: 52:17

You know there's five apps that merge all your streams.

Speaker 4: 52:19

National.

Mike Gorday: 52:20

Writers Day.

Nathan Mumm: 52:20

It was perfect Subscription services into one. Lately, essentially, I've had nothing but trouble trying to watch it. If you go to an app called JustWatch, it is a streaming guide for movies, tv shows and sports. This is the one that has sports online where you can watch trending items, or it can even come up with suggestion. The platform includes Netflix, amazon, prime, disney Plus, apple TV Plus, hulu, hbo Max and more, so if you need to be searching at one spot, all you have to do is give your personal recommendations based on what you watched on the platform. They'll track your information and they'll come up with suggestions. Now, if you want to get JustWatch, it's available on your Android and iOS device. It is not available for your PC.

Mike Gorday: 53:03

Is this like a shared Netflix thing? Well, no no. Meaning this? Justwatch has subscriptions to all these services.

Nathan Mumm: 53:13

So you don't add none, so you just add the app and then it takes all of your existing services that you have. You have to type in all your account information.

Mike Gorday: 53:20

Oh, so if I don't have HBO, Then you don't have to add it, then that's not going to show up. Oh, that's correct.

Nathan Mumm: 53:25

All right, so there's another one that's called Play On. Now, this service is a primary aggregate of the popular platforms Netflix, disney, hulu, abc, fox and the other TV stations and on this Play On, you don't have to worry about ads or anything else, you can just enjoy the show. It works on a mobile device, so if you have a Roku, chromecast or Fire TV, you can load this app and, instead of going to your Netflix or your Paramount Plus, all you do is go to JustWatch and you can watch it available there.

Mike Gorday: 53:54

No, that's not just one.

Nathan Mumm: 53:56

All right, here we go Now. The last but not least, we have Q'd. The platform's quite a bit different. Q'd automatically brings everything into one platform. You have to pay $39 a month for this app, but it works on both the web, Android and iOS apps itself. So I gave you three of the five top areas out there. They got Q'd. You got all these different, so you can now have one app to run all of your shows.

Mike Gorday: 54:20

Yeah, all right, let's go to our pick of the day. Thanks for the other description.

Speaker 2: 54:24

No, that's only for the last, and now our pick of the day for our whiskey tastings. Let's see what bubbles to the top.

Nathan Mumm: 54:31

All right. What do we have for our pick of the day here?

Marc Gregoire: 54:33

Today we have Alberta Pre-M cast Strength Okay, right.

Nathan Mumm: 54:38

All right, what do you think? I give it a thumbs up. I'm gonna give it a thumbs up.

Mike Gorday: 54:42

The initial bite from the first sip was really really big, but after that I like the alcohol.

Marc Gregoire: 54:50

It was yummy. I want our viewers that are watching to put any comments if you've had this or any other whiskey that you're looking to have on the show.

Nathan Mumm: 54:58

Well, that's a great idea. Put it in your comments or your videos.

Mike Gorday: 55:00

It's science of tomorrow.

Nathan Mumm: 55:02

The science of tomorrow starts with the technology of today. Later Bye bye.

Speaker 2: 55:06

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