coming up next on Tech news today Comcast an AT&T vow to not sell your browser history also Twitter eggs go the way of the dodo bird how 911 was susceptible to Cyber attack by iPhone before Apple’s most recent security update Sam movich has some Choice words about the new Ghost in the Shell film and we learn how to say motan motan all that more coming up next on Tech news today this is T bandwidth for Tech news today is provided by cashfy at CAC fly.com [Music] this is Tech news today episode 1737 recorded Friday March 31st 2017 hello and welcome to Tech news today this is the show we tell you every last thing you need to know about technology and then some mhm I’m Megan I’m Jason Howell I’m curious what the and then some is going to be today I am also curious cuz I mean we pretty much wrote a show around technology but every once in a while we dance outside those lines well I that constitutes the end then some well what I what I meant was let’s let’s parse this what I let’s back it up let’s take a step back what I meant was everything you need to know and then some other stuff you don’t need to know oh well we’re very good at that also about technology we’re profession and telling you what you don’t need to know all right let’s do that Reuters reports that Comcast and AT&T claim that despite the House and Senate votes against the Broadband privacy rules overturning those rules they will not sell customers individual internet browsing information the they meaning Comcast and AT&T Comcast and AT&T say the descriptions of how they would use your personal information have been greatly exaggerated in a blog post on its website Comcast says they’ve always cared about its customers privacy and they always will also they said they would be there to set up your service between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and noon and they will show up at 12:15 yeah that sounds pretty familiar so this is I mean this was several blog posts yes I’m sure some people uh went overboard in their description of what they have the capacity to do but the truth is that that Comcast has their own advertising Network so they don’t have to sell our stuff to advertising networks to other advertising networks because they have their own um so yeah what do you think well I mean yeah that’s exactly right I’m a Comcast subscriber and I mean on one hand that’s comforting because you you’re right they have their own ad Network why would they sell off their Market Advantage which is what they would be doing there on the other hand they and other isps big name isps like AT&T and others have lobbied for years for stuff like this and they do that for a reason I mean there’s there’s Freedom there maybe they just want to work with less you know interruption or less enforcement over the top of what they’re doing and have the ultimate Freedom so I believe them when they say they’re not doing it and that they don’t plan to do it but I would just also say that you know keep an eye on terms of service because terms of service can always change and they might change at a time where the issue is not so micros like there isn’t a bunch of spotlights being shined on it right now this is this is where they’re at that that doesn’t say that they couldn’t change their practices down the line and it’s still I think it’s still a very valid fear you know something to be concerned with yeah but I’m happy to hear them say that about now because I’m a subscriber now and yay for right now I guess right they also say you can always opt out um and you showed how uh difficult that was like it’s just a lot of steps and you have to opt out each individ visual advertising Network and you got caught in a bunch of infinite Loops it’s you know it’s just like being on hold forever like you just sometimes feel like that that they do that on purpose just to make you hang up it really does seem that way yeah I mean you’re going to have to take a day off of work or two just to like dedicate the time that you need in order to tackle it and and be and complete it so often like I I start something like that I’m like I’m totally going to do this then I get 20 minutes in and I’m so overwhelmed by the com the comp lexity of it and it just seems so self-defeating that you end up giving up it’s like you need time to focus on it so yeah opt out when possible um also ensuring that https is being used when you’re going to sites when possible you know if you’re not using a VPN because then at least all they get for their marketing is your DNS record the fact that you hit the site but not what you actually did while you were there um and then if none of that good VPN uh hopefully a VPN you can trust that’s a that’s a challenge right there and and of itself for the same reason that we’re talking about here the Twitter egg has long been the default Avatar when a user chooses no picture to put in its place and as such it’s become synonymous uh for trollish accounts over time burner accounts as it were uh where would be trolls quickly set up a new Twitter account to go on a tie rate against those they love to hate for everyone to see now Twitter is doing away with the egg and replacing it with a rather dull silhouetted head uh but that dullness apparently has a purpose to actually motivate Twitter users to realize that they should replace it with something else because even though these eggs were appearing and they’d been I think they’d been with the egg in one form or another for like the past six years or so uh they were still you know vibrant colorful different backgrounds I mean it was the kind of Avatar that you could look at and and it would be an avatar that some people would actually choose you know what I mean so it was easy to just go with it maybe the new one is so so dull you can’t help but replace it well that was a lot of people didn’t realize that it was the default Avatar I mean you always saw tweets that were just like what’s an egg like oh I why do so many people have profile pictures of eggs what are they protesting what does the egg protest mean yeah so I mean what what I find interesting about this is that I mean that’s that that gray uh box like sort of you know Pur uh genderless person gray on Gray is both dull and also what I think we’re all now accepting as a universal symbol for no profile yeah I’ve seen it on a lot of other services like that too yeah so I think it’s good of Twitter to catch up to where other people are and have been um Harry McCracken’s piece about this in in Fast Company was was really interesting um like the the evolution of where uh they came from it was at one point a silhouette of a man with an umbrella and a briefcase in the clouds yeah I remember that there he is I thought I asked Harry on Twitter if that wasn’t Mary Poppins like how did he know it wasn’t Mary Poppins and Harry the wise man that he is responded because Mary Poppins doesn’t fly without her umbrella open obviously oh yeah that’s that’s a good point it can’t be Mary Poppins um yeah I do remember that um yeah they’ve definitely upgraded the images over time so um I don’t know like on one hand I feel like it it kind of strips away a little bit of Twitter’s personality like Twitter for the longest time had kind of a you know when you’d Reach the the 404 page on Twitter for the for the longest time it was the bird you know the the dolphin was it the fail whale the fail whale that’s right flown flown away with you know a bunch of little birds kind of carrying it along had kind of like a Whimsical quality to it and we’re losing that over time but it’s kind of fitting right like Twitter has had a lot of issues in the past couple of years uh kind of forced to rethink that stuff in light of you know a lot of abuse happening on the network kind of forced to to grow into an adult you know grow from a child into an adult and and take itself a little bit more seriously so maybe that’s what this is all about yeah definitely read Harry’s article because he also goes into a long description about how to represent nothingness oh so if you want to spend some time contemplating your own existence through the Twitter avatars go read it that’s how I like to spend my time the Wall Street Journal says that part of this week’s iOS 10.3 update includes a fix for a flaw that would have allowed for a Cyber attack against 911 centers back in October an 18-year-old exploited the JavaScript flaw to remotely control iPhones and make them call 911 creating a DDOS attack of sorts that would pre prevent real emergency calls from coming through the flaw has been patched so go update your iPhone so you’re no longer vulnerable I don’t remember this being reported back in October I feel like we cover a lot of this but it’s a really interesting story about you know just he uh he says the guy the guy who found this flaw he says he was trying to get the money for the bug Bounty but apple has a very first of all they just started paying people for bug b bounties and they only pay certain people so but I guess he he put it somewhere someone El put it on Twitter a bunch of people spread it around so anytime you clicked on this link your iPhone would just call 911 again and again and again until you turned it off yes and people had no idea and it’s a good look into like how not to click links that you don’t know what they’re going to do because all these teenage it was a lot of teenagers that were doing it and they thought it was funny right it’s kind of a prank yeah but couldn’t think past the idea like oh if all these phones are constantly calling 911 like something bad could happen if some needed 911 yeah it’s kind of amazing that in the delug of calls that were tied to this they they don’t know exactly how many calls came from this but you know in a call center where it would be super quiet suddenly they had 40 50 100 200 calls queed up at the same time I mean what does that do in a 91 911 Center that takes attention away from actual emergencies and it’s amazing that in all of this they couldn’t link to any deaths or serious injuries that resulted from from the delays so that’s just kind of remarkable considering this was such a a viral thing but um you know a big challenge were people that were using the link and kind of a Rick Roll style uh to say like you know hey check out my new hip-hop playlist or whatever and it would take you know and and also the fact that if you loaded this on a desktop or an Android device all that happened is you were redirected to a page that just said lolololol if you did it on an iPhone uh you you got the repeated calls to 911 so and it really just shows how susceptible our 911 system is to something that quite frankly seems like a pretty easy way to overwhelm something that is is just so important to uh to our infrastructure you know and protecting people yeah but I don’t 911 also isn’t I don’t know that people depend on it as much as they well I guess so many people don’t have landlines and I don’t know if this is everywhere but I know in Petaluma like it depends on where you are like if you’re outside of it’s slightly outside of the city and you dial 911 on your cell phone you’re not going to you know you’re not going to get 911 so you know I think that there is now that so few people have landlines it does seem like there needs to be some new emergency system or or they need to pay more attention to 911 and bring it up to a certain standard what I find fascinating is that in in a world where so many people are on cell phones Now versus landlines like when you’re calling 911 from a landline they instantly get location they instantly get your name they get all this information right away but most of the time they don’t get that if you’re calling from a cell phone right they get a general area and they don’t get your name and I’m just kind of amazed that like this is so critical uh and this is information I think anyone would get behind the idea that hey let’s do what we need to do to make sure that subscriber name or what is passed through to 911 if they call from their phone and you get an exact location something along those lines I have to imagine it’s technically possible make it happen because it’s so important so the record uh industry Association of America says that 2016 was its best year in almost two decades thanks to a widespread adoption of music streaming services last year in the last couple years actually but in 2016 that surpassed 50% of total annual revenue for the first time total retail sales rose 11.4% in its biggest gain since 1998 when compact discs reigned Supreme and then of course Napster was just starting to Bubble up onto the scene to change the course of history for good and start us down this road to streaming services which it’s been a long long time coming but we’re finally getting to the point to where music streaming digital distribution and everything uh I mean people are are much more willing now to spend money on these services and that’s also because you know we have the bandwidth to do it uh the music catalogs are impressive enough to to keep people happy with what they have there I guess digital downloads sales were down 22% from 2015 so even more people interested in you know Cloud access less interested in ownership and that’s kind of what we’re seeing the general uh pattern yeah streaming was up 69% just from the last year 69% just from last year and yet the r a AA still wants to complain about YouTube or you know they’re they’re still they’re they’re doing great and um you know the the record industry is doing great it’s the best year like you said two decades um but they still they still want to keep playing that tiny violin about how they’re not getting enough money because they’re always comparing it to a time when everybody you know a time where you had all of these years where everybody had to own all their Music On Vinyl and then they got to Reby all that music on cassette and then they got to Reby all that music on compact disc and with compact disc things went nutso and they were making money hand over fist compact discs were like 20 bucks a pop and ownership was still a high priority that’s just not the world we live in now uh with streaming and digital distribution I mean with streaming in general and streaming access to these Services ownership is kind of a novelty it’s not a necessity anymore it’s like if I have access to the music that I actually want then I don’t really need to own it if if I’m okay with that model and letting go they still want to kind of hold on to the idea that no we made so much money when you were buying albums piece by piece and you don’t do that anymore so we want more money from the streaming services because comparatively we’re not making the same amount of money and it’s just I think it’s a different world although YouTube has a lot of uh unlicensed you know copyright music on there they say that that YouTube’s paying like a dollar for every thousand streams versus like $7 on other services for every thousand streams uh and that YouTube could do better so and that’s their general complaint there is that it’s the Digital Millennium uh Copyright Act is is unfair and unfair and and YouTube profits off of that benefits off of that so well speaking of YouTube some YouTubers have discovered what may or may not surprise you about the Galaxy s8’s facial scanner the facial recognition software is designed to let you unlock your phone with your face but it appears to also work with a picture of your face Google’s face lock feature from 2011 was also full by a picture so does this really surprise you no not at all I mean if if yeah I mean if they’re not doing some sort of and I know that there have been phones that do that that have done this before where they’re actually doing more than just taking a straight image from your camera where there’s actually some sort of like depth detection and I think if you integrate that you might have a better system than to straight up taking from the camera and I’m not really to be honest I’m not really quite sure exactly how Samsung is doing it here but it seems like it’s just straight up image matching you know and facial detection of facial features and stuff like that but you’re going to get the same out of a picture that you would in real life unless you have that kind of depth information in there yeah I mean I think no one is saying that Samsung’s phones are you know the most secure out there I think they’re just saying this is faster it’s like just faster than even during your thumb print you just hold it up to your face right um I think maybe they’re just saying you know rather than using nothing like this uh this would be good and and I think um I don’t know and they might be able to change the software before April 21st before like the first round comes out or not well I I mean maybe maybe they could change it to improve it but I think if they were going to do that they probably already would would have I think you nailed it it’s it’s convenience over true security it’s like um you can either be completely unprotected and it’s really easy to get into your phone or you can be super duper protected and it’s going to take you a while and this is somewhere kind of in the lower to mid-range you know what I mean um what I’m wondering is if at some point it would be really cool to get combined biometric security like fingerprint by itself is nice but it has its flaws you know a pin is nice but you know fingerprints more convenient what if what if we had like a two-factor solution where it’s like you know front feed from the from the camera for for facial recognition paired with my fingerprint and if both of those match then I’m in then if somebody has my picture they still don’t get in M I always it’s super easy to unblock my phone with my fingerprint but you combine those two and you get that extra layer of security and I wonder if it’s some point we’re going to start seeing that it makes sense that we would so the S8 all does the S8 also have the iris scanning that the S7 had and but do you know if you can combine them I don’t think that you can combine them yet um but I’m kind of surprised about that the more I think about it the more I think it makes sense for them to work in that direction maybe that requires you know a a better processor inside to do that quick enough for people to actually want to use it cuz that’s the other the other challenge right is you add in these features but if they’re super slow and it takes you a while to get into your phone then people just are going to not use them right um doesn’t make any sense right well that’s why you know the update I think it was iOS 10 required well by default it’s a f it’s five numbers or six numbers instead of the four-digit pin and but you can figure out how to change it back to the four-digit pin and you know I think it’s good to sort of start to ease those like default making it a little bit harder thing iOS did was it now when you as soon as you install the latest version it reminds you that you know it’s a good idea to do two Factor so yeah I think it’s I mean if you’re working on these uh if you’re a developer working on these things it must be just a constant like how far can we go giving people their broccoli or their spinach before how much salt should we put on that or how much butter should we SLA over the broccoli great now I’m hungry thanks Megan we were just talking about security and now I’m hungry uh we’re we’re going to talk about a film that I’m very curious about a beloved anime film gets the long awaited liveaction Hollywood treatment and Sam movich from RS Technica is here to tell us what he thinks welcome Sam hi I’m so used to you guys every week you guys are mixing me up with with a protocol I think what I need is like a person waving a flag yeah what we need to do we need to get a a trademarked Samus scovic like segment bumper where like you walk across the screen and then go and then it it’ be nice if it went action right a loud explosion and that way if you’re like if you’re like eating or whatever you can be like you know and wipe your face off and be ready I’m I’m actually not wearing pants that is how unprepared I was for this call I I didn’t know that you did that but okay no pants all right good what I like Sam is that you’re honest well I mean it’s about brutal honesty today and I think that begins with my thoughts on a certain film that I think you were talking about Ghost in the Shell uh a property that has been around for some time uh a manga that started I can’t remember the exact year in the 80s um the film version first one came out in 1995 uh there was uh a sequel there was Standalone complex which was a follow-up series that all follows the story of a bunch bunch of robotically augmented police from I want to say section N9 is the name of the district in a kind of sort of Hong Kong future uh with a lot of interesting sci-fi Concepts so word uh hit the street that Scarlet Johansson was going to star in a liveaction reboot of the series and people were kind of concerned and wondering exactly how that would turn out it it’s it’s a and here’s the thing though if you’ve never heard of the series and you just walk on in and you hear oh Scarlet Johansson’s wearing skintight clothing to look like she’s a kind of naked robot lady and punches and kicks and shoots guns and does invisible camouflage jumping and things you might go yeah that’s fine and as a just a boring unintelligent kind of sci-fi movie sure uh problem being Ghost in the Shell was a really interesting movie of its time because science fiction up until this point of the mid 90s was tended to be pretty slow you had Star Wars which was more of like a Space Opera uh swashbuckling thing but in terms of hard sci-fi as we uh a fans of of party down might say hard sci-fi that’s a whole another thing um but if you like your hard sci-fi you it would tended to be slow you wasn’t these action Blockbuster sort of things Blade Runner alien I mean aliens had shooting of things but even that was it this was ghost in the show was the first to really nail like exciting and action and also thoughtful and really looking at science and fiction and fact coming together that has all been thrown in the trash this is not just it does it could have just been a retread of the original Ghost in the Shell instead I I feel like I could ramble a while I feel free to ask some questions here because Ghost in the Shell is one of these things that I think people have different experiences with well and and I mean you could go in a million different directions because the the original um the the cartoon movie you know from the early 90s very I don’t know very stylized and like representing that in a liveaction format you can either get it really right or really wrong I have to imagine I mean they made some I mean there were some trade-offs made for the film version um that were kind of glaring was there anything redeeming about kind of some of the some of the some of the different directions that they took it into I I think the best thing you can say is that the CGI and staging and how it looked looked is pretty good uh the invisibility cloak sort of stuff that Scarlet Johansson occasionally turns on while kicking but uh looks quite good the action sequences are fine uh in that you know it’s big budget it’s not like they be movied this you know there’s certainly effort in it but these are all sort of action scenes you’ve seen before because so many filmmakers Saw Ghost in the Shell and sort of ran with it uh Scarlett Johansson uh she’s perfectly fine in terms of acting pilo Asic I don’t know how to say that guy’s name but he um is Bau he is the the secondary cop and he’s got weird Robo eyes installed in his head and that looks cool I mean if you just hit the mute button and watch it you’ll be like yeah it’s pretty cool there’s some cool effects there’s some cool scenery uh but one of the biggest things they get wrong and I didn’t dig so much into this in my review because we’re going to have a follow-up piece at ARS Technica from one of our even bigger Ghost in the Shell fans about the series is that this fictional future world originally was a statement and commentary on the rapidly changing world of Hong Kong that was a huge part of the film a huge part of the original anime or Manga pardon me and totally thrown in the trash uh I feel like all the Chinese investors in this film who put it together of all the things they might have censored or said we don’t really want in the movie uh specific Illusions to the grandor and Rise of Hong Kong might not have been high on their list so I thought that was a really weird thing that even if you were just trying to check it out and it’s just like yeah they just put a couple of hologram signs in the distance and say it’s future world as opposed to oh right this was actually a really interesting sociopolitical commentary on East Asian culture all over the place for that era so I know there were some censorship issues with the original uh manga of ghosts in the shell and and you know sometimes manga can can you know we think of cartoons in the United States in the west as as being Tamer than some manga was what do you think that this movie really um captured the spirit of manga in general in terms of um its matureness oh I it’s PG-13 there’s violence and punching but I think maturity is the thing that sci-fi can do where what we the the way it’s hard for me to uh state it without sounding gber because there’s just so much I thought it got wrong but ultimately the original series had a lot of nuance had a lot of looking at how our rapidly changing world is affecting us and the Blurred Line Between what is person and what is a robot a lot of these sort of uh subtle not it was on the surface but it wasn’t this like smack you over the head sort of thing about the concept of a soul about the concept of autonomy uh that’s all gone here it is all you are told very explicitly about uh the ghost the word ghost meaning a soul and that’s like one of the first things you hear is about this main character major who Scarlett Johansson plays having the soul and also about how her memories mean nothing it’s about her actions not her memories and that ends up being really weird because eventually we come to find out no she was actually a young Japanese girl before she was thrown into a robot body and that is handled in a really awkward way that I think even if you want to sort of not care about accusations of cast whitewashing if you want to accept that perhaps a white actor or actress can play the role just fine they really slam into your face how little they care about Original East Asian culture when this woman uh Scarlet comes through eventually to replace the Japanese girl go to her dead mom and be like you don’t have to be Sav now like that it’s really weird so I I just think that calling it Ghost in the Shell and then throwing all the Sci-Fi Concepts in the garbage is just a really strange move and in my review I said it was really equivalent to a uh Gone With the Wind reboot in which uh scarlet and mamy went on like a buddy cop Rampage it’s just like it just it’s such a strange why use the license if you’re going to do something that different it doesn’t make sense it’s not like a bunch of people were like oh yeah Ghost in the Shell I’ve been meaning meaning to see that you know it’s they could have put a different title on it gone a different way but all of the stuff about uh Scarlett Johansson’s character having all this sort of teenage angst was never in the original all this Revenge plot stuff wasn’t in there at all it’s just a very strange mixup of the Manga and Anime Concepts all squished together different episodes different series to essentially create an entirely new plot that had nothing to do with the original so thumbs in the middle if have never heard of this and you just want to see something stupid thumbs all the way down if you have any concept of what go Ghost in the Shell is oh and they needed to appeal to the people I think their goal was to appeal to the Rabbid fan base of the original and if if they failed on that then that’s a big fail no if that was their goal they could have copied any of the plot from The Originals and had it make any sense they I don’t know who the heck they were aiming for but wasn’t me that’s for sure all right well maybe we can segue into eye candy that gets it right the BBC’s planet Earth was a Marvel to watch back in uh 2007 when HDTVs were still relatively unfueled with top-notch content now we have planet Earth 2 and you call it quote need a new TV propaganda that had that got my attention right there explain so planet Earth 2 started broadcasting last year much like the original Planet Earth started broadcasting on TV about a year before it came out on dis U and because this is a BBC production uh there’s not a ton of ways that you can watch it in the crispest detail possible they don’t they’re not on Netflix or Amazon any of these streaming platforms that support essentially higher uh quality than you get from your average cable or satellite provider uh so you’re already if you want to see a pure 1080p version of planet Earth 2 you have to wait out for the normal Blu-ray however this is really the beginning of the 4K and HDR Blu-ray wave and same same formats for streaming uh 4K has been a big buzzword for a lot of people and I’m one of the first to tell you me more resolution is often really hard to see when you’re sitting on your couch you’re not slamming the TV right up to your face there’s a difference between shot blurry and shot nicely but once you go from nicely to Super nicely it’s a little harder to see however when you take all those extra pixels and you get all of the color information more accurate more lifelike and that’s what HDR offers or high dynamic range I’ve talked about that a lot at RS Technica lately I started writing about it a lot last year um and essentially it’s jacking up the maximum brightness and maximum color gamut of every single Pixel now when you’re quadrupling the number of pixels when you go 4K and you combine that with more color information that’s when you get an image to pop problem is not a lot of stuff is shot in that format format not mastered in that format so you could get a 4K HDR Blu-ray right now and for the most part it doesn’t look quite that good it was mastered for normal projectors or normal TVs all that being said planet Earth 2 is the first true 4K HDR Blu-ray set as in you can go to a store get that set then go back to your house where you have all your other expensive things meaning your compatible TV and your compatible UHD Blu-ray player a lot of stuff kind of annoying but nail all that stuff combine it together and you are not going to see sexier Lemur in in your home it’s just not going to happen unless you have an incredible bait thing going on and you live in the right part of the world that ain’t happening uh planet Earth too absolutely gets the color information that is necessary to project these incredible sunsets these uh Sun stricken grounds the water the these these ridiculous blues and greens and oranges uh this this like bright orange brown of dirt that you can’t really you don’t see on a television set there’s colors that just cannot be reproduced on a SDR TV which is to say every 1080p television on the market so if you’ve ponied up for one of these newer 4K TVs that is that has high dynamic range which is to say hdr10 that’s the name of the spec if it’s if it’s rated for UHD Blu-ray then you’ll be fine get that all together slap it together is it do you really need to spend you know2 to $3,000 to see really good-look um pandas and iguanas and lizards that’s your call that’s how crazy you are I will say I happen to have the whole setup I love it I love it I love it I love it people have come over their jaws drop every time they come over to my house because of the TV not because of anything else um but yeah it’s it’s just there’s nothing because planet Earth the series takes its sweet time really really as slow when it pans over stuff so you really get to appreciate all that beautiful detail that they shoot on these incredible scenes wow so what what TV do you have I’m very curious why do you want to come break yeah can I come over for movie night what’s your address let me get my Social out as well no I have an lgb6 which is one of their 2016 oleds um they have more oleds coming out this year but I really feel like you could get last year’s model on sale I really think the OLED line that LG put out last year pretty expensive mine was $1,800 and that was on sale but I’m I’ve been saving up for something like that um I will say if you don’t have all this handy dandy stuff if you have your plain old boring 1080 PTV and your ancient Blu-ray player you’ll be fine uh you can get the normal Blu-ray and you’re going to get a lot of really good detail because in terms of 4K the the shots are very slow and they pan nicely so it’s not like you need the 4K to see everything beautiful but I did watch the special edition disc which is just a normal SDR after watching the full series and the color wash out was super noticeable on the non HDR content you will definitely get the bang for your buck with this there’s just not a lot of other 4K HDR stuff like this so it’s going to be the one thing you watch over and over and over but you know try and find a friend like me okay we’ll we’ll come over as soon as you tell us your address um so do you can you only watch can you watch it it’s it was on the BBC so BBC America um what if you don’t where can you stream it you can’t nowhere that’s the thing BBC has yet to license it for streaming if you are in the okay you could be part of their I player system uh but the United States does not have access to that uh beautiful I I can’t remember if it’s subscription or not but if you have a VPN that gets you into the UK and you can kind of go from there then that’s a way to do it but in terms of compared to Netflix or Amazon or any of these others that Jack into smart televisions and game systems and the like there is no streaming option yet for planet Earth 2 and I’m sure there will be a bidding war before long for some platform holder to say we’re the only place you can see it uh that’s streams so we’ll we’ll keep an eye out for when that happens okay we’ll have to come over to your house then we’ll make this work we’ll just hop a plane no big deal bring pizza we’ll bring the pizza on the plane yeah because because let me tell you Petaluma Pizza is like the best pizza finally all I hear about these days is switch this Zelda that but you took some time to explore some of the other titles available right now for the Nintendo switch uh what are a few of your favorites so it’s interesting because when you see Switch reviews they tend to focus on the fact that there’s this amazing Zelda game which makes sense because the Zelda game is like 80 to 100 to 120 hours there’s just a lot of Zelda to play and that means a lot of people have been glossing over all this other stuff that’s come out well that’s the thing about a new Nintendo system is what else you got uh and the Wii U was really bad with this its opening couple of months had some third party games that nobody bought nobody wanted um in fact Ubisoft was famous about saying all they put out in the original Wii U era made no money and they bailed well right now people are buying games for the switch because they’re doing a totally different strategy this is not a system where you go to the store and see a bazillion uh pieces of software this is one where you go into their online shop and find a bunch of really good 10 to 15 to $20 some $40 games uh I really am enjoying this because I feel like the switch is very distinct it’s not a shooter system it’s not a Uncharted or Tomb Raider style AAA Adventure system for the for the most part although Zelda certainly hits that bill uh it’s a system that’s really good portably uh has a really nice screen is really great with uh elaborate 2D old school stuff and perfectly fine with some 3D weird stuff so the games that have fit that bill and they Str they scratch my particular itch uh retro we things so example uh bomber man was a s a series that really came into its own in the ’90s as a 48 even 10 player sit on the couch everybody blow each other up kind of party game and it finally came back uh this uh March a super bomber man R um which looks a lot like the old one plays a lot like the old one and I’m so happy about that that’s all I want I want to be able to take the switch to a bar prop the switch up the portable part onto my little case hand everybody a joyc con their little small controllers easy to throw in my bag I’ve got four of them boom four player bomber man at the bar I did it last night really fun uh similarly there’s snipper Clips uh which is a Nintendo product uh it’s the uh only it’s a like their small downloadable thing that they put out on launch day uh and that’s a two to four player game where everybody has a little joyc con and they are solving puzzles by cutting each other’s bodies up you’re these little pieces of paper and when you overlap over the other piece of paper and hit a button you snip them and you might cut a little dagger Edge or a rounded Edge uh the rounded Edge for example you can make like a little cup and then oh you got to get a ball from one side of the screen to the other and you don’t have any hands so you’re like cutting each other into a shape so you can hold this ball and walk it with your body um so that’s sort of 2D bright colorful slow you can just set it down on a table and play it with friends Shovel Knight another one that’s like that it’s very old school looks like an old NES game like that Capcom used to make um it’s a special three campaign thing there’s three different little quests inside of it and that is super fun I go into great detail about exactly why it’s very Capcom Blaster Master zero also looks like an old NES game based on the Blaster Master Series I go into great detail about the nerd awesomeness that is Blaster master um and then there’s the more 3D stuff that’s really interesting uh snake pass just came out this week and it is like a GameCube game that was lost in time in terms of it’s very weird cute bright colorful 3D uh and novel you wind around as this snake and when I say wind around I mean you have to control every single motion of the snake and as you watch this game if you look it up on YouTube if you can uh if you have time it is the kind where you actually have to actively move your head and your body you have only one muscle inside of a snake and so you’re instructed to like weave your head left and right and gas yourself forward very trippy it’s a kind of game that is a little slow is a little bright perfect for a slower portable system like the 3DS this is not PlayStation 4 it runs on the PlayStation 4 and Xbox one but it’s not as crazy looking as like an Uncharted or Gears of four it just works um and oh goodness what was I I keep going it’s it’s just there’s a lot of these little games that I’m really enjoying and I have the full list in terms of what I enjoyed and how good it was on the switch specifically and you can check that out at ARS Technica that’s still the feature article today I go on and on and on but if you’re just hanging out in Seattle and I’m not at my house looking at this OLED I’m at a bar playing the switch and hoping someone goes oh can I play that with you I will always say yes Sam take a break from the Nintendo switch already you’re playing too much f sounds I got a 3DS right here that’s what’s next you’re not happy unless you’re staring at a screen of some sort I understand I’m staring at you guys you’re my favorite screen to stare at screen for now for now you hang up you’re gonna go to a different screen he just totally went full on dad on us him I don’t know if you noticed that but and I was like just pleading for his love he’s like do your chores no just send me a Nintendo switch and we’re all good uh thanks so much for joining us always great to get you on Sam is from RS Technica has a lot of awesome stuff for you to read including that Roundup of non Zelda Nintendo switch games so check it out at RS tech.com thanks again Sam I’ll see you guys soon bye talk to you soon it’s feedback time and I I’ve been watching the wires as feedbacks coming in so I’m gonna add one more piece of feedback relat Stan cook wrote in to to explain to give me a little 91 to give all of us a 911 lesson uh there are two 911s he says one is 911 and and the other is 911e the E stands for enhanced enhanced works much better uh worked much better a few years ago before everyone had cell phones and landlines what it was each landline was tied to an address if you called 911 and never said a thing to the dispatch you would see your address right up front and start a patrol car heading that direction today many cell phones including mine are linked to 911 with my address if I use the phone to call 911 they get my home address even if I am not dead ah okay so thus if I can I have to tell them where I am that just come in yeah he just emailed at me at 441 that’s like breaking news feedback breaking news breaking feedback yes and Stan is a former police officer so he understands these things that’s awesome great feedback uh so here is some more feedback last week we talked about how phones uh made by Google get security updates faster than other Android phones and we received this voicemail so let’s take a listen to that hi guys 1731 first off I can’t believe you didn’t know what a sonic screwdriver was but anyway I called about the security thing and it seems like you were talking like how wonderful Android is and Google for making all these wonderful security updates but hey wait a minute I have a Nexus 5 that I bought not too long ago and the crazy thing is they’ve abandoned me okay no nougat for me all right I can live with that and but no security patches my patch level is still October 5 2016 October so it seems like they’re not doing that great if they just dumped all of us Nexus 5 users anyway sad sad sad don’t let them get away with it well um I you know I guess the question is how long do you provide security updates the Nexus 5 was released uh or shown unveiled October 31st 2013 so you know we’re a good well almost four years I guess we would be coming up in four years so we’re at the three-year Mark three and a half years is right around there and I think Google had had said that it would provide up to 3 years of support I think or security updates I believe I could be wrong on that it might be a little bit less than that so you’re right at that limit I would love for them I would love for these companies to to offer security updates forever but you know that’s just not practical um so I guess I kind of understand that they have to draw a line somewhere especially companies like Samsung that have just hundreds of devices like the the teams required to keep all of those devices and to test you know all of these security updates on a monthly basis like it’s just not practical how far back do do uh iOS devices get support do you happen to know that uh it’s not a certain number of years it’s just at some point they say they say this you can’t you know and then it’s like well you don’t want to put this on you know this is too big for your iPhone 4 or you know so effect performance whatever yeah I mean there has to be a line drawn in the sand somewhere Nexus 5 I hate to see it Nexus 5 is is an old device at this point and you know at some point Google has to think about the present and the future and not continue supporting uh their older devices right I mean I think that his point is that I mean we were making the point of like if you spend the more money you get a Google device you’re going to get the updates regularly but you know as as opposed to you know with when iOS it’s like everybody gets the update until it’s like everybody except you because your phone is six years old right yeah and I mean that’s the that’s the same case here the next 5 did great with updates until it kind of reached that outside of that window whatever that window was so right um yeah unfortunately we also got another piece of feedback from Matt yesterday we were wondering how to pronounce uh minnesot and uh I think Minnesota rubian motan mot motan motan I talked I successfully talked over both of the times that he said that motan motan thank you for repeating it motan motan motan motan okay we get it we get it I’ll never ever say it other than motan motan motan motan I think what he’s telling us is that how you pronounce as it is you say it twice yes yes so all right from now on you want to help us pronounce things please send videos to TNT at twit.tv please do uh TNT’s fan of the day is James K on Twitter I believe he’s been here before who says he’s quote watching TNT on Carnival Vista cruise ship going to Grand Turk La Romana in the Dominican Republic uh Kura and Aruba jerk I shall die of jealousy I I so oh that that sounds like a lot of fun but hey the best part watching TNT poolside oh yeah show us how you watch I’m glad he has his priorities straight and the coffee uh show us how you watch or listen to TNT poolside just record a video or take a picture of yourself or your setup post it on Instagram Google+ Twitter or Facebook use the hashtag how IAT TNT that’s how we’re going to find it finally here comes that homemade Iron Man suit you’ve always wanted Jason a British entrepreneur named Richard Browning has created a metal exoskeleton suit for human flight propelled by miniature jet engines and named after Deus who you might remember is icarus’s Dad and in case you need a little brush up on your Greek mythology Deus was the one who did not fly too close to the Sun although I would never ever ever wear this suit oh I would I would I don’t know if I I don’t know if I have the muscles that would be required uh to wear this suit because I have to imagine if you go about two-thirds of the way through the video he starts it it it shows the evolution over time and then eventually you see him just like flying around with it and stuff it took 10 mons and uh you know it it actually part of it was a very you know an intense uh exercise regimen because I mean these are jets they’re jets that you have mounted to your your wrists and your feet and in order to make sure that you don’t blast yourself into the wall of the the barn that’s right next to you you have to be strong enough to be able to hold those suckers down when they’re pushing up with so much force to lift you off the ground like you see right here that’s just incredible you could totally do that you do Pilates um yeah that’s true maybe that’s all that’s required is little Pilates maybe a couple of bench presses and you’re and you’re golden it can fly several hundred miles uh per hour at thousands of feet you wanted to try I I bet he’s never gone several hundred M miles per hour and if so I want to see that video but I saw this Padre was in the in the office before you got here when I saw he’s like I’ve done that and I could well I was like noow come on let’s make this happen uh but I mean I was I was going off I was bouncing off the walls because for some reason this is just like the epitomy of what I’ve always wanted I’ve always wanted to be able to just like hover like that that would be so cool it’s dangerous of course it is and I’ll probably never be able to do it but I want to be able to and to to know that it’s even possible that’s just that’s just awesome I love it people are so smart uh TNT records live every Monday through Friday at 4 P p.m. Pacific 700 P p.m. Eastern 2300 UTC twit.tv live you can be part of the show by emailing us at TNT twit.tv you can also leave us a short voicemail at 26o TNT show and find us on Twitter we’re techne todaytv did you know that this month is tripod have you heard that TR r y p o d it’s like all on the internet people are telling other people to try different podcasts so if you think someone should subscribe to our podcast tweet about it and then with the hashtag tripod TR y p o d uh and if you haven’t subscribed why not go to twit.tv TNT and if you want to tweet at me I’m at Megan morone and I’m at Jason how thanks to Cara behind the controls thanks to Mario for helping out in the studio thanks to Kevin I think K Kevin’s editing the show today yeah he prob I don’t think it needs to be edited it was perfect yep beginning to end 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