TechTime with Nathan Mumm

228: Exploring Blue Sky's Rise, Apple's Child Safety, and Tech Marvels: From AI Gardens to PS5 Pizza Warmers. New Segment "Say What" | Air Date: 11/10 - 11/16/24

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What if a new social media platform could reshape the digital landscape? Join us on Tech Time Radio with Nathan Mumm as we unpack the rise of Blue Sky, which has attracted over 700,000 new users in just one week. With high-profile personalities like Taylor Swift making the switch, we examine the implications for established platforms and what it means for the future of online interaction. Meanwhile, Ody takes us to the Chelsea Flower Show, where an AI-powered garden is revolutionizing the way plants communicate their needs, merging green thumbs with green tech in an unexpected harmony.

Discover how Apple is taking bold steps to protect young users with their new initiative aimed at shielding children from explicit content. We discuss the innovative features rolling out in Australia and explore the balance between enhanced safety and potential privacy concerns. Gwen Wei, our gadgets and gear aficionado, introduces a fascinating purchase-ready gadget, while we reminisce about the iconic Elwood Edwards and his unforgettable "You've Got Mail" announcement that defined a generation's internet experience.

Prepare for a whirlwind of tech shenanigans as we explore the quirky intersection of fast food and technology with Pizza Hut Canada's PS5-powered Pizza Warmer and the Zephyro USB-C mouthpiece for music lovers. Plus, get the scoop on Microsoft's upcoming universal share button for Windows 11, poised to revolutionize how we share content. As we toast National Happy Hour Day with a tasting of Woodford Reserve Straight Bourbon Whiskey, we ponder the mysterious movements of the UK's oldest satellite, Skynet-1A, proving once again that in tech, anything is possible.

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Speaker 1:

Broadcasting across the nation, from the East Coast to the West, keeping you up to date on technology while enjoying a little whiskey on the side, with leading edge topics, along with special guests to navigate technology in a segmented, stylized radio program. The information that will make you go mmmm. Pull up a seat, raise a glass with our hosts as we spend the next hour talking about technology for the common person. Welcome to Tech Time Radio with Nathan Mumm.

Nathan Mumm:

Welcome to Tech Time with Nathan Mumm. The show that makes you go mmm. Technology news of the week. The show for the everyday person talking about technology, broadcasting across the nation With insightful segments on subjects weeks ahead of the mainstream media. We welcome our radio audience of 35 million listeners to an hour of insightful technology news. I'm Nathan Mumm, your host and technologist, with over 30 years of technology expertise. Our co-host today is Mark Gregoire. He's in studio and he's the award winning technologist in the field of cybersecurity and technology transformation with business growth. He's also, of course, our whiskey connoisseur.

Nathan Mumm:

Now we're live streaming during our show on four of the most popular platforms, including YouTube, twitchtv, facebook and LinkedIn. It seems to be a question on whether X is streaming us or not, so we're still going to have to take a look into that. We encourage you to visit us online at always at techtimeradiocom and become a Patreon supporter at patreoncom. Forward slash techtimeradio. We're friends from a different backgrounds, but we bring the best technology show possible weekly for our family, friends and fans to enjoy. We're glad to have ODR producer at the control panel today. Welcome everyone. Let's start today's show.

Speaker 1:

Now on today's show.

Nathan Mumm:

Now on today's show. All right Today on Tech Time with Nathan Mumm. Buckle up as we dive into the latest technology news and stories. Here's what we have coming up on the show today. Well, first off, we're going to dive into the potential of Blue Sky, a platform that we reviewed about a year ago, with over 700,000 new users this week. Experts believe this may replace X. The next, we're diving into an intriguing story about a Skynet satellite that has reportedly moved on its own. Could this be the dawn of Judgment Day? And in a significant move for online safety, apple has introduced a few new features that allow kids to report unwanted nude photos directly to the company. How will this impact the digital safety of young users and others? We're going to take a look at that. And, of course, our gadgets and gear expert, gwen Wei, is on the show with a gadget you can actually purchase today. But that's not all. We're excited to introduce a brand new segment called Say what Say?

Marc Gregoire:

what.

Nathan Mumm:

Say what? Say what. That's it when Mark and I bring some of the most surprising, unexpected technology news. But before that, you have ever wondered if talking to plants works. Well, guess what? Odie is going to be talking about a new AI-powered garden. And then we have a nugget that will explore Microsoft's latest invention a universal share button in Windows 11. It's not documented yet. I found it through a secret way, so we're going to be talking about how you can find that and enable it and get your information shared in your Windows environment. In addition, we have our standard features, including our technology fail of the week, a possible nugget, as I was talking about and, of course, our pick of the day whiskey tasting. So see if our selected whiskey pick gets zero, one or two thumbs up by the end of the show. Sounds like a heck of a show today.

Marc Gregoire:

That's just the beginning. Well, thank you for inviting me. I appreciate it. Yeah, thanks for being in the co-host chair today.

Nathan Mumm:

I came for the whiskey, but I'm staying for the friendship. Oh, there you go. Oh, look at that, all right. Well, now it's time for the latest headlines in the world of technology.

Speaker 1:

Here are our top technology stories of the week.

Nathan Mumm:

All right. Blue Sky adds 700,000 new users in a week. Let's go to Corinne Westland for more on this story.

Speaker 5:

It seems we have a real contender in the hunt to replace the platform known as X. It seems we have a real contender in the hunt to replace the platform known as X. Blue Sky gained more than 700,000 new users in the last week and now has more than 14.5 million users total. Blue Sky COO, rose Wang confirmed that the majority of the new users on the decentralized social network are from the US. Wang says the app is currently the number two free social networking app in the US App Store, only trailing Meta's threads. Do you guys think this has a chance?

Marc Gregoire:

Back to you in the studio. Wow, so why did they get 700,000? That's interesting.

Nathan Mumm:

There's this thing called an election. I don't know if you heard about that, but a majority of new users are looking for a new platform that's an alternative to X.

Marc Gregoire:

Does that surprise you? It does not. I think a lot of people are looking for more open. Platform X is pretty closed and people are looking for a little moderation, Not the wild wild west.

Nathan Mumm:

Not the wild wild west. That's what it's looking for. An independent platform has seen a lot of growth recently, in the weeks from October 24th onwards. Blue Sky announced that it had 13 million users. After X recent announcement that said it would let blocked users still see posts from a person that is blocked, blue Sky said that it had over 500,000 new users that day.

Marc Gregoire:

The result of the US that's incredible Was that that's incredible?

Nathan Mumm:

So what's happening are people. So I think people have always wanted an alternative to X, but there hasn't been anything out there, right? So there's been. We talked about Mastodon. It didn't really work. It was too difficult to actually set up, for Reddit really isn't a platform where you you can read and post information, but it's not like news-breaking it's not trending. News breaking it's not trending. The thing for Blue Sky to work is they need to get the NBA, nfl, some of those type of big organizations, to use it to release their roster information, game day information. If you could start getting those major players over to a new platform people will move quickly.

Marc Gregoire:

That's an excellent point. So, besides Tech Time, which is on there, what other major players should be on?

Nathan Mumm:

there, so they have tons of news. So CNN's on there, they have MSNBC on there, they have Fox is on there, so they have all the news organizations. It's easy to find users. So Blue Sky is not a difficult platform. It has almost exactly the same controls as X, but the key is you have to have those people there Now.

Marc Gregoire:

Taylor Swift I don't know if you ever heard of that gal. She's Taylor Swift. I know Taylor Swift. She's dating some football.

Nathan Mumm:

Yeah, some tight end for the Kansas City. But I think she's also a singer so she's did a big push to move all of her accounts over to Blue Sky. So if you get enough people that are on Blue Sky that people want to follow, I think, then blue sky has a chance to take itself.

Marc Gregoire:

That's a pretty good, because we're both Swifties right.

Nathan Mumm:

Well, I you know what. I wasn't a Swifty until she started dating Travis Kelsey. So, to be honest, I was not a big Swifty fan. But now you know, I don't mind seeing her at the chiefs games who block a field goal and they're undefeated still. Well, this is a time right now. If you want to go to see tech time on blue sky, you can go and, like us, we encourage you to create an account. Um, there's lots of different alternatives out there. We would love to have an alternative to X that we can be able to use as a main platform. There's some stuff blue sky does not do.

Nathan Mumm:

Uh, some streaming and some video content that they're adding, just uh a lot younger, though they're still growing yeah, they've been around for about four years, so, but it's really the adoption rate which is the key for success. Right, all right. Well, I can't wait for story number two. This is od story. What do we got going on here, od?

Ody:

um, so have you ever thought about talking to your plants?

Marc Gregoire:

I have not. Well, I talk to my plants right now oh yeah, I, yeah, I do, okay.

Ody:

Okay, because it has been proven that it improves their health.

Speaker 2:

Okay, that is a thing, Okay, okay.

Ody:

So my sister. I always encourage her to talk good to the plants because they have feelings.

Marc Gregoire:

Okay.

Ody:

Hardcore gardeners sometimes, when no one else is listening, talk quietly to their prized blooms. Gardeners sometimes, when no one else is listening, talk quietly to their prized blooms. But at next year's chelsea flower show, visitors will be encouraged to have a chat with its first ever ai powered garden okay the garden designer, tom massey, has partnered with microsoft to to create the avonade intelligent garden.

Ody:

Sensors in the soil are partnered with an ai trained on royal horticultural society, plant data and gardening advice, meaning visitors can ask the garden how are you? Oh, um, massey said it could answer I need a bit more water. I can do with a haircut maybe. As well as making gardening easier and more fun, it could also have wider applications. The wireless sensors hidden in the soil measure moisture, nutrient levels, acidity and alkalinity. These will connect to a computer in a pavilion in the garden which people will be able to consult to see how the garden is doing so the biggest thing here is like a lot of us talk to our plants, but now you're saying the plant's going to talk back.

Marc Gregoire:

Yes, wow.

Ody:

Yeah, so I'm excited for it. Even if it is just like some, like it might you know have you ever seen little shop of whores?

Nathan Mumm:

No you have not seen little shop. Okay, so there's a plant on their pet name, toey, and the plants talk just like in the movie. So this is like little shop of horrors coming together with ai.

Ody:

So your garden could talk back to you, but then you're gonna have to you better do a good job, because otherwise they're gonna say some nasty things if they start dying yeah, what happens when, like the dog comes on out, kind of the will the ai say I can't stand your dog maybe because if they go up and they destroy all the, I don't know, know, but I'm super stoked, okay, because you know there's been a bunch of research over the years of how plants react to like other people, like killing plants in front of them, and you know their emotional sensors and all that. So I'm super stoked to see like them responding back.

Marc Gregoire:

That would be kind of cool. It is the question I have. I don't know if we can answer it now, but AI is doing it and it's reading all the different measurements, so is that what it's interpreting?

Ody:

what the plant would say.

Marc Gregoire:

Or are we actually going to get some kind of vibrations from the plant itself?

Ody:

Essentially, the simple sensor technology could be rolled out in larger estates and it'll have an automatic watering system which will switch depending on time, and it also measures the soil moisture to a certain level, so it just surveys what's going on with the plants.

Nathan Mumm:

Yeah, this could actually be an interesting deal. You could replace also gardeners.

Ody:

I don't think it's that you don't think so? No.

Nathan Mumm:

Well, I don't know, it doesn't do weeding right now. Yeah, oh, it doesn't do weeding right now. Yeah, oh, it doesn't do weeding, although there are little robots that are supposed to do that.

Ody:

Yeah, but it's not the same. Okay, like, yeah, my Roomba's great, but you know they're not seeing the actual dirt on the ground.

Nathan Mumm:

Okay, okay, I like it. It is exciting. Not that I have a room, though.

Marc Gregoire:

Let's say it gets mass marketed and it gets affordable. Is this something that you and your sister would go for?

Ody:

Oh, 100%. I'd be so interested in seeing what the plant needs and everything.

Nathan Mumm:

Just think of coming on home and say hey, how are you doing plant Odie, where have you been all day? I missed you. Where have you been?

Ody:

I'm hungry, I'm thirsty. Well, I'm just thinking. A lot of us struggle at growing.

Nathan Mumm:

Oh, I don't have a green thumb at all. No, I have river water stuff.

Marc Gregoire:

This would probably help, that it probably would.

Nathan Mumm:

Yeah, I'd probably be able to keep a cactus alive Then it needs to alert me in my Alexa app all the time, saying that you know, when you start running out of batteries on stuff, alexa will say, hey, you need to replace your batteries. Then they can hook it into Alexa and say, hey, go out there and take care of me, I need some water.

Ody:

Yeah, that would be nice.

Nathan Mumm:

It would be.

Ody:

Especially if you've got a lot going on. It's not like a pet. A pet gives you signs physically with their body language, like, oh, I want this and this to be done. A plant can't really do that, but with this it kind of pushes us closer to having communication. That would be good, I'm so excited, I'm stoked. That's really cool.

Nathan Mumm:

All right, are you ready for story number three?

Marc Gregoire:

A big transition here. Okay, yeah, that's right.

Nathan Mumm:

Well, these are their trending stories, so they're not always about the nicest A little word of warning out there for our listeners this may get a little bit PG-13.

Marc Gregoire:

So kids can now report unwanted nude photos to apple. Okay, now apple is trying this new approach to protecting children. They've been, um, people have been putting a lot of leverage for the last few years on apple to do this and with this stepped up feature it's starting on australia and eventually it's going to be available around the world. They're saying Okay, and this is where the kids, if they receive a nude photo or something explicit, they can now report it directly to Apple.

Speaker 5:

All right, and what does Apple do?

Marc Gregoire:

Then Apple will actually go into the text messages and verify it, and that's all we know at this point. We don't know what the ramifications are going to be after that. But I guess the big thing that people are talking about two points. Number one thank you, apple, for trying to protect children. This is an epidemic in our society. But number two it talks about the privacy concerns. A lot of people are up in arms about it because Apple's been saying there's no way we can read your text and now all of a sudden they're saying they can.

Nathan Mumm:

So that is interesting right, Because Apple's really about privacy. So that kind of scares me a little bit. Not that the app is good, but if they can start going in and reading chat messages, does that mean? So my mind wanders immediately to that third party vendor that's going to be monitoring this. How do you make sure you get the right people?

Marc Gregoire:

Yeah, we've talked about that, a lot of abuse on that, or them taking those photos and actually publicizing them or using them for other nefarious concerns. So in the end, it's a step forward. It's a step that I think personally needs to happen, and yet we need to go in with our eyes open and take these precautions Now. There's another thing for parents can do to actually help also, and this is available now. This is available now even in the US, correct, yep, yep? So let's see, here I'm going to tell you guys all how to do this. If you can't write it down now, that's fine. You can go to techtimeradiocom and you can listen to the rebroadcast and go through these steps exactly. But on the iPhone, go to the settings app that looks like the mechanical gear, then select screen time and tap on the name of the child in your family group, because generally, if it's a child that you're doing, they're part of your family group group because generally, if it's a child that you're doing.

Marc Gregoire:

They're part of your family group. Hopefully they don't have their own separate account. Select the communication safety option and tap the sliding feature. So it's green. So right now, with that feature turned on, if they do receive sexualized content, apple will automatically blur them. Okay, now there is a caveat to this. What's that? I believe it's only within the iPhone's text app and it's only iPhone to iPhone. That is correct Once again step one.

Nathan Mumm:

So it's just Apple-centric right now.

Marc Gregoire:

Yes, there's more that needs to be done in the technology to make this progress, but right now at least it's step one that is a good step, though it is a good step I am excited about that are you, because a lot of people were upset, so I'm we're all very positive on it I'm just worried about the third party person.

Ody:

Yes, that's going to go in the message I see that, but I also raised you as somebody that grew up with the technology. From today, it would be nice. Like how I think it was Tinder they started flagging people that were sending unsolicited images it's nice, it's just like an extra form of protection for kids, especially when you're so young. You don't know, like you don't understand, what's being done Correct In that day and age, you just think, oh, blah, blah, blah.

Marc Gregoire:

Yep. So to answer your question, yes, there is concerns, but is that the reason not to make a step forward?

Speaker 2:

No, Am I answering?

Nathan Mumm:

Yeah, I think we're all in agreement.

Marc Gregoire:

I think we're all in agreement there, there's going to be mistakes made.

Nathan Mumm:

Some people's everything is going to be always stored forever. So if you're sending something that you're said, well gee, I don't want everybody to have that, then don't put it on the internet. There's other ways you could do whatever you need to get done. I mean, go print out a picture and send it to somebody in snail mail if you want to do something to that extent. But seriously, as soon as you put into the digital world, it can be taken at any time, and it doesn't ever go by anyone anywhere anytime, any place.

Nathan Mumm:

Company goes bankrupt, boom. It's available for anybody to purchase, so don't be doing that and this doesn't let parents off the hook.

Marc Gregoire:

They still have to monitor, they still have to be aware. Because I remember, it's all it's only within the iphone app so the first thing yes, and the first thing a predator is going to do is like hey, let's switch to whatsapp.

Ody:

Yeah so there we go you have to be careful how is this not? This should be something that's just rolled out with all communication apps, you know yeah, the idea how do you report it?

Nathan Mumm:

I mean, that's a big thing that Apple's going to have to figure out. I mean, all of a sudden they have explicit photos. Are they going to engage the FBI if it's in the United States? Are they going to go to the CIA if it's overseas and somebody's doing it? Who do you engage with? Do you go to your local authorities? I think there's a lot of stuff in there that are still pretty gray, which is probably why most people have said that they weren't going to do anything about it, but you got to start.

Nathan Mumm:

Yeah, that's a good start.

Marc Gregoire:

Now everybody needs to remember that if you put something on the internet generally it's forever.

Nathan Mumm:

It is.

Marc Gregoire:

So be careful what you text, what you send, what you post, all right.

Nathan Mumm:

So our next story here is about Elwood Edwards. Do you know who Elwood Edwards is?

Marc Gregoire:

Well, you probably do words is well, you probably do, because you shared the story in the production. I shared the story and it was on a little segment on saturday night live.

Nathan Mumm:

Oh yeah okay, there you go. So the voice of aol's iconic greeting you got mail has passed away. At the age of 74, edwards was behind the scenes graphics and camera operator at a local cleveland television station, wkyc, whose voice was propelled to worldwide fame after he recorded AOL's email greeting you Got Mail.

Marc Gregoire:

You got to say it in like his way. You got mail.

Nathan Mumm:

I don't know exactly. I mean, if I heard it I would know. So this is the interesting thing how did he get involved to be the voice? Well, of course, his wife, karen, worked at Quantum Computer Services, which eventually became AOL, and in 1989, she overheard the former CEO of American Online, steve Case, discussing adding a voice to the upcoming AOL software. She volunteered, of course. Her husband and Edwards recorded the four phrases on a cassette deck in his living room. These four phrases were welcome, you've got mail files done and goodbye. These would eventually be heard by hundreds of millions of people and become a staple part of the AOL experience. Attention.

Marc Gregoire:

I don't remember files done. I don't remember files done either. The other three I remember.

Nathan Mumm:

And you know what? I don't think I ever remember goodbye. Do you remember goodbye? Yeah?

Marc Gregoire:

that's when you signed off.

Nathan Mumm:

Goodbye. Oh, did it say.

Marc Gregoire:

Okay, okay.

Nathan Mumm:

I don't, do you remember? Welcome, that's when you logged on.

Marc Gregoire:

Okay, I don't, I don't, I just remember you got mail. My wife had AOL for a long time so I always, you know, when she was working. So I used.

Nathan Mumm:

CompuServe, one of the competitors at the time. Oh, that's probably why. So they had a little bit of a different signed up for you, because he got like cds in the mail every week.

Marc Gregoire:

I mean, you got free time and you just collected and keeping free time and he never had to have your account taken care of.

Nathan Mumm:

Yeah, that's right. I said I remember sierra online, never mind, okay, we could go down for hours and hours, so he wasn't that.

Marc Gregoire:

How old was he again? 74 74, he wasn't that old.

Speaker 5:

No, no, but you know what?

Marc Gregoire:

that's a great backstory. I did not know the backstory to that there go.

Nathan Mumm:

Always be careful what your wife's volunteering you for.

Marc Gregoire:

Well, or you know what? She made him famous and iconic.

Ody:

Are you ready for this?

Marc Gregoire:

What's that?

Ody:

Is it going to play?

Nathan Mumm:

You got the voice you're going to play for me. I brought it right here. Alright, let's hear it.

Ody:

It's loading, dang it.

Nathan Mumm:

It's loading, oh, never mind.

Ody:

That's another voice. Do you have AOL on that?

Nathan Mumm:

too, no. All right, okay, all right, there you go. Odie's trying to get something that's loading in the background. I tried.

Ody:

Well, you've got mail, man.

Nathan Mumm:

You got mail All right? Well, that ends our top technology stories of the week. Moving on, we have our gadgets and gear segment up next, with a way to stay connected without the internet. Gwen will explain more. You're listening to Tech Time with Nathan Mumm. See you after the commercial break.

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Nathan Mumm:

Welcome back to Tech Time with Nathan Mumm. Our weekly show covers top technology subjects without a political agenda. We verify the facts and we do it with a sense of humor, in less than 60 minutes and, of course, a little whiskey on the side. Today, mark Gregoire, our whiskey connoisseur, is in Studio 400. Mark, what have you chosen for?

Marc Gregoire:

us today Woodford Reserve Straight Bourbon Whiskey. This is their flagship bourbon. Now from Woodford's website. The art of making fine bourbon first took place on the site of the Woodford Reserve Distillery, a national historic landmark, in 1812. Wow, the perfect, balanced taste of their Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whis. Whiskey is comprised of more than 200 detectable flavor notes, from bowl grain and wood to sweet, aromatic spice and fruit and floral notes. So what did you think? I like it. I like it.

Nathan Mumm:

Last week's was. I struggled last week, so I remember the previous week's really well. Two weeks ago was like, oh, that was the run, that was butter. Previous weeks really well. Two weeks ago it was like, oh, that was butter, this is really good, this is really good. I do taste the kind of flowery taste to it, so I can see what they're saying on that.

Marc Gregoire:

All right. Now. The company that owns this is Brown Foreman. The distillation is a little interesting and we'll be talking more about that later during the mumble, so stay tuned. But it's a blend from Woodford Reserve Distillery and Brown Foreman Distillery, two different places in Kentucky. It's straight bourbon. It's non-age stated, it's 90.4 proof. Mash bill is 72% corn, 18% rye, 10% malted barley, and for a standard bottle it goes for about $35.

Nathan Mumm:

$35? Yeah, for that bottle right there. Well, this one's a one liter, okay.

Marc Gregoire:

So, this is for the $7.50, $35. This is one liter, and this was a special pick too.

Nathan Mumm:

Okay. Oh, it's a special pick, it's a little different, it's a little better. We'll fudge it All right. Okay, this is pretty good tasting. I was going to say for $35, man, no but the regular one tastes very similar.

Marc Gregoire:

Okay, Now don't forget to like and subscribe for all of you on those platforms. In addition, please comment and let us know what whiskey you'd like us to review. That'd be great.

Nathan Mumm:

Hey, Mike.

Marc Gregoire:

Yeah what's up.

Nathan Mumm:

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. Is it Patreon? I think it's Patreon. If you really like us, you can like us on. Patreoncom. I butcher the English language. You know, you butcher the English language all the time it's. Patreoncom. Patreoncom.

Marc Gregoire:

If you really like our show, you can subscribe to.

Nathan Mumm:

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Marc Gregoire:

It seems to be that there's a trend, and that's.

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Speaker 1:

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

Nathan Mumm:

All right, let's go to this week in technology. We're going to go to November 12, 1981. The space shuttle Columbia had its second voyage, known as the STS-2. This mission was notable because it was the first time a space shuttle was reused for a second flight. Astronauts Joe H Engel and Richard H Truly piloted Columbia on this mission, which was originally planned for five days but was cut short to just two days due to a fuel cell failure. Now, this is not the final failure for Columbia, which makes thinking should you be using recycling space shuttles?

Marc Gregoire:

And is it a good idea? Well, that was the beginning of the space age. We've done a lot of multiple ones now. So unfortunately, when you start a new technology, there's failures. Unfortunately, it caused death. It did, and I still remember seeing that live. I did too, and you know, I still remember seeing that live. I do too, and that was. That's still burned in my memory. That was traumatic.

Nathan Mumm:

Yeah Well, that was this Week in Technology. If you ever wanted to watch some Tech Time history, with over 220 plus weekly broadcasts spanning four plus years of videos, podcasts and blog information, you can visit techtimeradiocom to watch our older shows. We're going to take a commercial break, but when we return we have oh, we're not going to go. Commercial break, okay, we're going to go. Do we have gwen ready to go again? All right, good, it looks like we have gwen ready to go. All right, gwen, how are you doing? I am doing well, but, uh, having an even harder time all right gwen is still on.

Nathan Mumm:

She looks like she's getting some adjustment there. Undo, echo canceling. Let's see. There you go. Let's see if any of that makes anything difference there. All right, Gwen. Well, Gwen, you know what? What we may have to do is we may have to have you come back next week to do your, your, your item. I think we have some other stuff that we can put in here If we keep on having a technical difficulty we're going to commercial anyway, so we'll give another minute.

Nathan Mumm:

Yeah. Do you want to go to a commercial break here, Odie, or do you want to go right into our? You want to go to commercial break? Let's do one last commercial break. Here we go. We'll see you guys after this.

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Speaker 1:

That's S-T-O-R-I coffeecom, the segment we've been waiting all week for Mark's Whiskey Mumble.

Nathan Mumm:

Now we get to have a little mumble quickly here, Mark.

Marc Gregoire:

What do we have for our mumble today?

Nathan Mumm:

I haven't even finished my glass yet I know Well, we get to learn more about our whiskey.

Marc Gregoire:

Well, let's talk about today, November 12th. Okay, we are celebrating. Do you know? I do not. What is today? National Happy.

Nathan Mumm:

Hour Day. Oh, national Happy Hour Day. Okay, that's a good deal to be celebrating.

Marc Gregoire:

I know it's one of my favorites. Okay, now, if you're sitting at your favorite watering hole with a group of buddies chowing down on free or reduced price appetizers, with a cocktail of beer between 3 to 7 today Guess what Then you're right on time for National Happy Hour Day. Okay, life would be dull without it, so enjoy Now. Drink responsibly.

Nathan Mumm:

Heaven come and wait. Is that your little tagline? It is, but I stole it.

Marc Gregoire:

It's not originally mine. It's actually from a bottle of whiskey that we had brought in one time they had it on their label. I like that Actually from a bottle of whiskey that we had brought in one time they had it on their label. I like that I do. All right, so we've been talking about happy hour cocktails.

Nathan Mumm:

I like happy hour.

Marc Gregoire:

Happy hour is a good thing I know you love happy hour, I love happy hour, you love half price appetizers I do Appetizers a little bit of alcohol.

Nathan Mumm:

Nothing's better to end your day with that.

Marc Gregoire:

Now one of iconic cocktails out there is the mint julep from the kentucky derby. Okay, I'm familiar with that. Now woodward woodford reserve is the official bourbon of the kentucky derby. Okay, ironically, brown foreman's old forester actually is served as a bourbon base in the mint julep at the kentucky derby. So it's a little strange there. Now a little unique also from woodford reserves, distillers select bourbon. It consists of a mixture of pot still, whiskey distilled at their woodford reserve distillery and column still spirits from the brown formant distillery. The exact ratio is undisclosed but it's pretty unique of mixing pot still and column still from two different distilleries owned by the same company.

Speaker 8:

Okay.

Marc Gregoire:

So I find that as a very interesting fact.

Marc Gregoire:

Now, this bourbon, as we talked about before, the 200 flavors in there, it's a bit interesting because it has everything when tasting it Light grain, sweetness, vanilla, fruit, spiciness, oak, nuts, floral and herbal. Because of this, this bourbon works really well for two things for me. First, I find it's one of the better cocktail mix herbal. Because of this, this bourbon works really well for two things for me. First, I find it's one of the better cocktail mixers because of its flavor spectrum. Second, it's a great introduction bourbon for beginners because it has a full spectrum. It's easier to tease out flavors a person likes and does not like, to steer them in a direction of other bourbons or their preferred preference.

Speaker 2:

Okay.

Marc Gregoire:

So it's a great one to start with. And what do you like? What do you don't like? So what in here did you not like?

Nathan Mumm:

No, I like everything.

Marc Gregoire:

You like everything. I like the cork top.

Nathan Mumm:

I like the bottle layout.

Marc Gregoire:

I'm talking about specifically the juice. The juice. Is there anything in there that stood out?

Nathan Mumm:

No, because you know, I don't have that big of a palate right, so I either. It's either the bite or not the bite, that's the issue, and so there's a little spiciness in there but not too much.

Marc Gregoire:

There's a little wood, yeah, a little flour, a little bit of a floral taste.

Nathan Mumm:

It does. It has a nice smooth taste with no bite. That's a big deal. Okay, so I can do that with no bite that we have.

Marc Gregoire:

You're an easy drinker, all right, there you go, okay.

Nathan Mumm:

Well, it looks like we do have some of the audio items taken care of, so we're going to go to Hang on, hang on. What's that? What is?

Marc Gregoire:

whiskey pear like.

Nathan Mumm:

What is it pear like? Be like turkey and pumpkin pie.

Marc Gregoire:

Okay, so a little preview of Thanksgiving.

Nathan Mumm:

Just like technology, it's such a great pairing whiskey and technology that today's item was to be turkey and a little bit of pumpkin pie.

Marc Gregoire:

I love that one, okay, but I also like turkey with cranberry sauce.

Nathan Mumm:

So I'll just tell you this Pumpkin pie. My mom used to make it. It was fantastic. But you know what? I cannot have a better pie than what Costco makes. I don't know what they put into that pumpkin pie, but that pumpkin pie from Costco is unbelievable. I just had that a couple days ago. We were out and a little bit of whipped cream on that. Oh, that sucker is so good. All right. All right, we are out of time. Congratulations, You're a failure.

Speaker 5:

Oh, I failed, did I yes? Did I? Yes, did I.

Nathan Mumm:

Yes, all right. So let's take a look at our technology fail. This comes to us from Skynet. Someone moved UK's oldest satellite and there appears to be no record of exactly who, when and why. Launched in 1969, just a few months after humans first set foot on the moon, skynet-1a was put high above Africa's east coast to relay communications for the British forces. When the spacecraft ceased working a few years later, gravity might have been expected to pull it even further to the east, out over the Indian Ocean. But today, curiously, skynet 1A is actually half a planet away. Not at least because it's hard to hear the name Skynet without thinking of the malicious self-aware AI system in the Terminator movie franchise. But that is not the case.

Marc Gregoire:

What is?

Nathan Mumm:

the case. This is just a satellite that has moved orbit. I don't know who moved it. Well, they do not know exactly how it moved. I know.

Marc Gregoire:

Nathan, mumm knows. No, all do not know exactly how it moved. I know Nathan.

Nathan Mumm:

Mumnow, no, all the research there says that it looks like some of the propulsion may have come back online inadvertently when somebody was doing some reboot of some items and it may have just shot it and no one was actually paying attention to the point, so that it moved over the Americas. Either that or the British are spying on the Americas.

Marc Gregoire:

I thought you were going to say it was the Vulcans doing a little something. Oh, it could have been. Come on man, that's always your go-to it could have been.

Nathan Mumm:

Well, do you know that the satellite was built out of wood? This one was built out of wood. Yeah, so this is built out of wood.

Marc Gregoire:

So that's another interesting aspect.

Nathan Mumm:

I thought we were just shooting a brand new, built with wood particles also to it. So there's like six or seven satellites? I didn't know that. Yeah, so now all the satellites are built with all metal and you have that, but they didn't have that back in the time. You wouldn't say that.

Marc Gregoire:

That's probably in some ways better. So when it does fall, eventually it just kind of burns up. It's not, it just does yeah.

Nathan Mumm:

Not all the pieces of metal falling off. It could just go into the ocean. I mean, yeah, but all that hard work and it burned up. That's what happens when it comes back into atmosphere. That's the whole idea about the atmosphere out there. How do you think about what's going to happen to all of Elon Musk's satellites that he has up there?

Ody:

for his star net. What do I think about it? Yeah, he's ridiculous.

Nathan Mumm:

They're going to have to all at one time. They're all going to have to come back down. That's going to be. That'll be a.

Marc Gregoire:

Maybe we can program GPS to hit certain locations.

Nathan Mumm:

Wow, okay, all right. Well, let's go on now to a special segment that we made just for today. That is a segment we call Say what, Say what.

Speaker 1:

What Say? What again, say what again. I dare you, I double dare you, say what one time.

Nathan Mumm:

Okay, all right, here we go. All right, mark. So here's what we have for Say what. So every single time I say something with, say what you need to respond with. Say what, so that's what it is All right. Say what. Every single time I say something with, say what you need to respond with. Say what, so that's what it is all right. So, mark, say what, say what, all right. Pizza hut wants to use the ps5 to keep your pizza warm. Everyday tech and fast food push us into stranger territories. Pizza has the latest creation. The pizza wr. Mr might just be the most absurd, so it. It's Pizza Warmer, so it's WRMR. Now, the Pizza Warmer is a 3D-printed add-on that harnesses the heat of the exhaust of Sony's PlayStation 5 to keep your pizza and cheese sticks warm. Yes, really, this is not a retail product that you won't find in stores.

Marc Gregoire:

Oh my gosh.

Nathan Mumm:

Instead, the blueprints for this novelty idea are available on Pizza Hut's Canada's website, where pizza and Canadians and gaming enthusiasts can download the specs and print their own. Now the pizza warmer works by covering the PS5 vent, which, on already notoriously heat-sensitive consoles, only amps up the risk of overheating.

Marc Gregoire:

I was just going to ask you if this was a good idea.

Nathan Mumm:

No, this is a horrible idea, but it's clear that the pizza warmer is riffing off of the ps5's reputation for running hot, but let's face it, this is design.

Marc Gregoire:

Seems like a serious oversight yeah, it's not just the overheating, it's. Do you want around your console? Melted cheese and sauce? Yeah oil from dripping off.

Nathan Mumm:

Mostly it's probably guys with pepperoni, yeah well, the kfc came out with this like this frying bucket a couple years ago too, that they did these spoof things. But, oh my god, mark, say what? Say what? All right, how about you turn your smartphone into a playable wind instrument with this usbc mouthpiece? So the zephyro looks like a vape, but it's a tiny MIDI wind controller capable with mobile devices and computers. So you plug this device into your USB-C drive on your phone. So you plug it underneath. So if you have your phone here, you plug it under the bottom of it. Now the Zero looks like a flash drive or a tiny vape, but you gently blow into one end and you can use it to play simulated instruments and even less skills, if you want to play those plastic recorders in grade school. So it's kind of the same type of recorder type deal that you put it on in, but instead of doing the recorder in your grade schools that you went to now, you put it into your phone through USB-C.

Marc Gregoire:

But you still need a little bit of talent to play Well, you do.

Nathan Mumm:

So the performer's breath power is translated into their mobile app, which simulates the sounds of various instruments, not just wind instruments like flutes and clarinets. You can also have horns and other items, and it even converts the top of your phone into an instrument that you can play notes for. So if you have a trumpet, you could have three different trumpet keys on a standard trumpet, and when you press down and you blow into this device, it will play the trumpet noise associated by both the breath that you're putting into this and the key that you press.

Marc Gregoire:

This is really, really cool and something I'll never do. I have no musical talent but, I can see this being cool. Now can anybody play it? Any kind of phone.

Nathan Mumm:

So it's any phone that takes a USB-C. Both iOS and Android devices are allowed to use this. Now, what do you think the price is for this device?

Marc Gregoire:

And it's just a little thing I plug in, just a little device you plug into the USB-C. For blowing, and do you have to pay for the app or you just play for the hardware?

Nathan Mumm:

You just pay for the hardware.

Marc Gregoire:

Oh my gosh. I would say that'd be like $10, $15. It's $45 to get your instrument hooked up to participate.

Nathan Mumm:

It's a little bit more Now. What's interesting, then, is if you have Bluetooth speakers or a Bluetooth amp, you can actually then set up a whole concert where they're actually trying to play different instruments, and you could have a whole orchestra going to an event that's playing it through Bluetooth speaker devices and hear that, or you could just dim the lights, have a nice candlelight dinner and play a little saxophone.

Marc Gregoire:

There you go, there you go.

Nathan Mumm:

If I could play, All right, oh Mark, say what, Say what. Oh Mark, say what. Say what. Oh, hackers demand France's Schneider Electric to pay $125K ransomware in baguettes. What you talking about, Willis? That's what I'm talking about. Hungry hackers have demanded that France's Schneider Electric pays a total ransomware of $125,000 in baguettes.

Marc Gregoire:

Yay to the French again.

Nathan Mumm:

Now a tweet taunted Schneider about the success of the recent cyber attack and followed up posts in the thread reversal a chunk of data. However, fuller details about the actual nature and scale of the data haul is well documented and are published on the dark web. If the ransom demands aren't fulfilled, the threat is the sensitive data, including information about company projects, staff and users, will be spilled out to the internet. However, the hackers indicated that should Snyder publicly admit to the latest data breach, the ransom would be cut in half.

Marc Gregoire:

Well, that in itself just admitting to a cyber breach. What company has done that?

Nathan Mumm:

Well, nobody does. They always say they're looking into it.

Marc Gregoire:

Nothing sensitive has been taken. You're all safe. There's really not a breach yeah, we're still investigating it.

Nathan Mumm:

You don't have anything to worry about. But if you look at that, then that's only going to decrease the amount of baguettes that they would want. So now you're really down to like 60 000 plus in baguettes. Now how much is a baguette? I was just thinking of this. Is that that like a buck or two bucks? Yeah so say, a buck or two bucks for a baguette, sixty thousand dollars in baguettes. You're gonna literally you're gonna know where these people are, because you're gonna be delivering truckloads and truckloads and truckloads of baguettes.

Marc Gregoire:

Well, this is purely a guess. Okay, that? Um, because they're cutting it in half if they admit the breach. It almost sounds like it's somebody that's trying to get people to admit things, and they're probably going to get the baguettes and not even collect them for themselves. They're probably sending them to a homeless center or a food bank or something in that respect. I think, they're just trying to get a little notoriety and make a point Okay, versus trying to actually collect money.

Nathan Mumm:

All right, so the most interesting ransomware attack is to have the company admit that they were hacked and then send baguettes. Well, what'd you think about our new segment there? What do you think? Say, what Did you like it? I mean, so, I think so this is the stories that don't. I mean, these are not world breaking stories that deserve to be in our top four stories, but I'm trying to think of. Every once in a while, we get a lot of crazy stories that you just want to get out in the press, and so that was my joy I mean the baguette one is is this hilarious Cause even when you cut it in half, it's still a lot of dough.

Nathan Mumm:

Ah, you know what. We'll be here all day, all right. Well, now you know what. Let's move on to our Nathan Nugget of the Week.

Speaker 1:

This is your Nugget of the Week.

Nathan Mumm:

All right, so let's get ready. So Microsoft tests a universal share button for Windows 11. So we're going to talk a little bit about how we found out this information. So this isn't available yet, but this is something that's going to be coming out, where we would like to say that we're weeks ahead of the mainstream media. So this is what Microsoft has.

Nathan Mumm:

Microsoft's looking to expand the use of its share button in a future update of Windows 11 to make transporting content between contacts more efficient. The company is testing a universal share button and a new preview build of Windows 11 now available to the Windows insiders in the dev and beta channels. While the share button availability can vary depending on the app on Windows, this function will enable a share button throughout the Windows 11 operating system, including in the taskbar and start menu. Users will be able to send files, links or text conveniently from their desktops. The feature appears to not be readily available within the preview, but it was rather a hidden function that was only uncovered using a third-party app called Vive Tool Secret. All right. The app digs through secret features within the code of Windows 11 software and then exploits them and tells you what they're looking to do Now, since the share button feature is tested as a preview, and, especially since it isn't a default feature, there's no word on whether this function will be available as a full version rollout or when it would become available to market.

Marc Gregoire:

Now I'm sure you've tested it. Yes, the share button isn't, but to turn on the share button you don't need a third party tool to do it.

Nathan Mumm:

So when you actually launch this Vive tool, it will actually tell you what needs to be changed and it will tell you what code lines you need to do so you can actually go on in there. So you had to run the third party. So I had to run this third-party app to find it first. But here's what the idea of this universal share button is Instead of having to drag something out to Dropbox.

Nathan Mumm:

Think of this You're in your Windows environment. You have this picture. You want to share it to a contact Maybe it's an email contact, maybe if it's an SMS text, you go and you click on this, you hit share and then what it does is it transports this file into your OneDrive, sends that person the link to that file so they have it without you having to drag and drop the file to a OneDrive without you doing anything, and then that person has it. Could be a time-based sequence or just any time that they can go and find that file, copy it down and use it or share it with somebody else after they get that file.

Marc Gregoire:

Now, how is this different than I have Windows 10. Yeah, and I have my OneDrive's fully integrated, so it's not like a separate box or anything. You have it for your whole desktop, for my whole desktop. So if I have a file, I just right-click and I say share and it creates a link and it says share who? And then I put in the email address and it can email me.

Nathan Mumm:

So instead of doing that, it will already have it in the contacts and once you send it out to that contact, they'll get an immediate alert that it's available.

Marc Gregoire:

Okay, so it's a little bit more streamlined and a lot of people don't have their desktop actually shared on OneDrive, so that's a pretty advanced feature.

Nathan Mumm:

A lot of people still have a local desktop and then just certain files on OneDrive. So it would be Well, that's silly. Well, it'd be Well, it'd be well.

Marc Gregoire:

Because if your computer crashes, you lose everything.

Nathan Mumm:

So I have it on OneDrive too. I'm not here to argue with you. Buddy, that is really good.

Speaker 2:

Do you know that they're also in the preview same version.

Nathan Mumm:

they're actually going to add some new AI features to Notepad, so I use Notepad for all my tech.

Marc Gregoire:

Okay, this is crazy. What kind of AI features can you put in Notepad?

Nathan Mumm:

So the whole idea of Notepad is to strip out all the content. That you have right. I use Notepad as a way where I copy stuff from a font in a certain area, strips it out so it goes back to the native font and then I can cut it back in. Well, there's a new AI feature called Rewrite for Notepad app, which will generate alternative text to fit your specific needs, including for notepad app, which will generate alternative texts to fit your specific needs, including modifying texts to be longer, shorter or written in a certain tone or format. So I will disable this function.

Marc Gregoire:

You will.

Nathan Mumm:

As a user, I use my notepad as a way to clean everything out, so I was going to say so basically, what you're saying is you can copy something, put it into notepad.

Marc Gregoire:

It will then clean it up, but then you can use the AI to apply new features to it. I think so.

Nathan Mumm:

So it's no different than taking it and put it into ChatGPT and then put it back.

Marc Gregoire:

And then you take from ChatGPT. You've got to paste it back in a notepad to clean it up before you paste it to somewhere else because ChatGPT pasting kind got lost in that.

Nathan Mumm:

All right, okay. Well, it was a little bit of a nugget, sorry, okay so basically, it's adding chat GPT functions to notepad.

Ody:

No, no, no, I understand, but you're. Sharing the desktop stuff no no, no, the map of what you were saying, going from chat GPT to notepad, back to chat GPT, back to something else.

Nathan Mumm:

yeah, I got lost in the in the in the past so if you ever use chat gpt, it has a certain format. Yes, and if you don't want to put that in any like public work or no, never mind so what's that?

Ody:

I understand I'm saying when mark was describing this yeah it's hard to follow okay sorry no, not on you. It's just like you're saying the same thing over and over yeah All right, there you go.

Nathan Mumm:

We geeked out a little bit there, all right. So hopefully we get Gwenway back next week. We'll see what's going on with information. But now let's move to our pick of the day whiskey tasting.

Speaker 1:

And now our pick of the day for our whiskey tastings. Let's see what bubbles to the top.

Nathan Mumm:

All whiskey tastings. Let's see what bubbles to the top. All right, what are we tasting?

Marc Gregoire:

Today we're tasting Woodford Reserve straight bourbon whiskey. It's from Brown Foreman. It's a straight bourbon. It's a blend from two distilleries one pot stilled, one column still, non-age stated, 90.4 proof, and it is $35 for a bottle.

Nathan Mumm:

We didn't have tons of time to keep on going. I'm going to taste it for my last final taste here. This is bad radio because it's going to be very quiet as I drink the whiskey.

Marc Gregoire:

I will silently whisper things to you. Do you taste crane? Do you taste sweetness? Vanilla A little.

Ody:

ASMR moment here. Why don't you put it up to the mic? And Oak Vanilla A little ASMR moment here. Why don't you put it up to the mic?

Marc Gregoire:

and Oak Nuts Floral Herbal.

Nathan Mumm:

I like it.

Marc Gregoire:

I'm going to give it a thumbs up.

Nathan Mumm:

I'm going to give it a thumbs up.

Marc Gregoire:

All right.

Nathan Mumm:

What do I give it? So this is not on your top shelf. This would be not even on your middle shelf. This is probably on your daily drinker at the bottom of a shelf that you're going to mix with something else.

Marc Gregoire:

This is the first bottle I brought in of Woodford Reserve of this level. When I first got into whiskey many years ago. This is one of the. I actually went back. I was in Kentucky and this was one of the first bourbons I tried. I wasn't crazy about it. I rode off Woodford until I tasted some of their high-proof stuff which I'm totally in love with.

Marc Gregoire:

Okay, now, as I've been, unfortunately, many, many years in the whiskey business, I come back to this and I can appreciate it. Is it my go-to? No, I would not sip this because it has some notes that I'm not crazy about. Okay, but that's what I said. It gives you the breath and when I first didn't like it, what I should have done which people now can do listening to the Mark's mumbles is analyze it. What particular notes in there don't you like? And then you can steer yourself in the direction of bourbon or whiskey that you do like, and so some of the notes in there turn me off, but there's a lot I do enjoy in it. Like I said, it's great for cocktails because it brings a breath to those cocktails. Makes sense, all right.

Nathan Mumm:

Well, we are almost out of time here. Let's remind everybody how they can be a part of our show. We want to thank you for listening to our program Listeners. We want to hear from you. Just visit techtimeradiocom and click on the be a caller and ask a question on technology and our talkback recording system. You can also stay connected by signing up for our newsletter and stay up to date with technology.

Nathan Mumm:

So here's something If you have a question you've always wanted to ask technology, go and click on that be a caller, because when you click on that be a caller, we will have more information that we can find for you. We can get that one, maybe technical request that you've always wanted to have done taken care of. All right, well, odie, how are we doing on time? We've got a couple minutes. How many minutes do we have? Oh, we have one plus minute, so we have a little bit of extra time here. So let's just go through. I'm going to read through the headlines that are trending right now in technology and tell me what you think, and we're just going to shoot Rapid fire, rapid fire, okay, I love it. Here is headline number one that we did not cover today Ex-rival Blue Sky sees more than 700,000 users.

Marc Gregoire:

We talked about that.

Speaker 2:

We did All right.

Nathan Mumm:

Microsoft Edge is trying to be forceful getting you to no longer use Chrome by replacing Holotep. Okay, Apple rumored smart home display might arrive early next year for Apple Intelligence Onboard.

Marc Gregoire:

Possibility there Okay.

Nathan Mumm:

How about?

Marc Gregoire:

I need to know more.

Nathan Mumm:

All right. Ps5 exclusive Stellar Blade is coming to the PC.

Marc Gregoire:

I'll pass that to you. I'm not a gamer, I don't think it makes a big difference there.

Nathan Mumm:

Trump will try to stop the Tic Tac ban, but how? Let's move on. Okay, 23andme to lay off 40% of its workforce. What?

Marc Gregoire:

do you think of that? That's a sad story.

Nathan Mumm:

Discontinues all therapy programs 23andMe looks up for sale. We talked about that a couple weeks ago.

Marc Gregoire:

As long as that data doesn't get out and they can find a way to respect it, I'm for that and resurrecting it and bring a little tighter controls Okay.

Nathan Mumm:

How about AI-enhanced PCs? Stand out for the new CES coming out. Oh, absolutely, there you go.

Marc Gregoire:

That's the way.

Nathan Mumm:

All right. Well, I think, there you go. That's the way. All right. Well, I think you know what. Here's the very last one. I love that segment. All right Ready, what do we got? She's saying make sure we play everything out. Okay, we will see you guys next week. Thank you so much for joining our show Later.

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