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the 359 is sponsored by USB technology the USB implementers forum reminds consumers that USB if' logos are displayed on certified USB products so the next time you're shopping for a reliable USB charger cable or device look for the logos get the whole story at enabling USB org welcome to 359 I'm Rutter Chang I'm Afra dang concerts are no longer just about the music our resident Drake's superfan I was at the artists concert at Madison Square Garden earlier this week and he's here to break down the technology actually a lot of technology that was in the show right yeah there's a lot of tech going on at Drake's concert of whom I am NOT a super fan you know one of it like when he's performing you know in my feelings the whole stage turns to this giant iPhone 10 there's another part where there's like some basketball challenge where the stage looks like this Tron thing going on it's like Tron yeah yeah and then let's talk about the drones name oh that's the most technologically advanced thing going on right so they have about 88 drones fly out to two of his songs and like how to do this whole choreo thing at one point they're all flying around him like he's in like the middle of some sort of drone tornado right and they're all autonomous so there's no pilot they're like controlling these things and I've seen the drones show at the Bellagio from Intel at CES and I have to say like this one definitely looked a lot more advanced than that one did you know but it might be because they were much closer so Intel's drones are really good for like outdoor shows like right the Super Bowl or the Olympics these are all focused on being indoors which is a lot more challenging because you don't really have a GPS outside or anything like the space is smaller right yeah yeah yeah so what they do is they have this kind of like small satellite inside they call it the catch localization unit yeah just think of it like a small satellite indoors that like scans the entire place and then like it basically makes a small GPS map of the building that you're in right and then it sends coordinates to these drones and tells them like you should be here at this time and like where you going all that and the key thing here is a lot of this is automated right it's not like individual pilots or anything yeah so they basically just spend maybe like a day or two teaching like the tour grew like how you should do this and then they send them on their way if there's anything that goes and goes wrong with it they can like take it over from like remotely so they don't need to go on tour with Facebook if Drake or anybody like that and I looked at the remote control for it it only had like four buttons this thing looks intrusive understand it's literally like a plane stop or something yeah it's like play stop abort and then like like start or something like that yeah all right ZTE is taking a big step towards comeback with a debut of the axon 9 Pro this is the first phone since the company has come back really was virtually left for dead after those US sanctions forced it to stop its operations as you remember President Trump stepped in forced to compromise between the Commerce Department and ZTE allowing the company to get back in business this phone by the way isn't available in the US but what do you think like this is they've had this huge controversy scandal around them ZT kind of dead in the u.s. there is there like a hidden app on the phone that's just like Thank You America for sparing us er well since it's not over the u.s. I highly doubt it but maybe for the acts online bro it's part of the deal like if are the settlements every phone's gonna like pop up like we love America as the greatest greatest but what do you think like do you think Z T's reputation is damaged e-rep employee oh yeah yeah for sure that's it we're done I mean like even though like they continue to make productions like that's it's it's very hard to to you know win over like perception you have like you know you make like one mistake and like ZTE has but the thing is like a lot of the reasons why I was banned from like production was not like a security issue or no it wasn't it was more about like they were dealing with with Iran and North Korea yeah alright lastly Twitter was offering an interesting test it was a recommendation list for who to unfollow on your Twitter list yeah so it was like an automated set of accounts that they would pop up that like you don't really like engage with that much and the idea is like well you know hey if you're not really talking to this person like maybe unfollow that maybe you have a better experience on Twitter that way right so there's like a very limited test a Twitter said they only showed her like a small amount of people and the idea was that you know if you follow people that you interact with a lot maybe you have a better time on social media though this is very counterintuitive to how a social network usually works but it's all about building up connections having a big follower base having more people follow you and just this this is sort of the opposite of that I'm very into it I'm very into you know hey you know what I'm not friends with you anymore because Twitter told me not to be it's not about quantity it's about quality yep alright for more of these stories chicken sounds seen it I'm Roger Tsien I'm out for ding thanks for listening thanks everybody for joining us for the recording of the audio podcast it'll publish later you can find out how to subscribe by looking in the links below in the meantime as always go ahead and send in questions and comments I know for some of you on YouTube land the encoder was giving you a little bit of trouble so we apologize for that I hope it's fixed keep me posted thanks for telling me in the first place in the meantime the first question is coming up is for Alfred and it's what is the life and battery like for these drones yeah that's a good question so they're meant to basically last anywhere from like four to eight minutes but they go right back to their their charging stations right after and they can be fully charged within an hour obviously it doesn't take an hour in between the songs or anything like that but yeah they can be fully charged within an hour and they like are supposed to fly from like four to eight minutes which is the perfect amount of time for like a short performance like this song or something like oh yeah though you we didn't get into this but the the drones weren't even the most visually stunning part of the show you mentioned the a flying Ferrari yes I sent down for me how is there a flying Ferrari okay so this one was more like not it was like a balloon kind of like you've seen those like flying like like shark balloons or whatever yeah so is basically that at first I thought like oh like do they have it on like wires or something like I and then I noticed it looked like a legit yeah yeah but it was like yeah it was just basically a big balloon with the propeller in the back like controlling where I was going yeah that that got a lot more attention than these drones did I would argue that like you know it's hard to tell the difference right now with these drones between like are those are those like the lights that are just on stage are they actual like drones flying around like I asked people around me what they thought of them and they didn't rub their do they saw in Ferrari yeah there it is yeah and you also saw we didn't get a chance to Oaks watching the video saw this this wasn't just the only instance where drone was used in a show search the SOI had yes so we saw some footage of the the lamp ones yeah and it's from the same company actually so yeah they partnered with Cirque de Soleil for these drones that like they were quad copters oh so they were different model okay and they had like these lampshades around them obviously these drones also have the lights so like in their show it kind of looks like there so this is the drone this is it yeah that's the lamp oh yeah yeah yeah it looks like way cooler than what I saw yeah that looks a million times better yeah but to be fair though they also had a lot more time to like prep for that so with the Drake show they like they got the request and sent them to the production crew in like less than 30 days okay and how long did this search the sleigh won't take that I don't know but I'm longer yeah yeah okay okay so essentially they're just drone puppies following him around yeah is that what you're saying there drone white fog peace puppies I don't I don't know if they're puppies I want to walk they're like fireflies yeah fireflies is a better way to way to call it yeah that are more coordinated my dream my dream is to have all city do a concert with an only they only perform fireflies and and that's that's the ultimate combination of this technology there's no better use of it it was interesting though the sore the end of your story you kind of mentioned how beyond these big scale events they kind of see an opportunity for smaller so yeah if I get weddings yeah I don't know reunions like small little more intimate because of the way that these things are used like because it's so simple the idea is you know with with other like big spectacles you kind of have to have all these like pilots and like engineers even though they're autonomous they have to be there make sure nothing goes wrong or anything like that so what they want to do those like you know for a wedding or for like a birthday party or something like that like it's so simple that you can just order them in and then like they'll just do it on their own oh my god how soon before we see drones perform their weddings or is that already a thing I'm it might be actually I might like some I'm sure somebody out there has had has done that they you know they could have crazy rich Asians in that scene they could have just waited for these drones to be oh yeah I'm not gonna spoil it just in case you haven't seen it you should watch it either way work don't I'm not I'm not advertising you should watch it I'm saying that I liked it anyway go on Brian well the drone thing is kind of cool just because it's a new level of special effect for live entertainment yeah and we've been limited to things that you can either pick up or tie to a string or project on a stage it's kind of cool to see this implemented there I wonder how soon until we see that in like a 4k movie or a 4d movie theater though oh yeah that would be my biggest annoyance with it though is and this is this is not a knock on any company or any drone show or anything like that is that the inevitable factor that will come is now you'll have advertisements with drones like it which goes back to like Minority Report like every sci-fi movies like these floating add back yeah oh you say a sci-fi movie at least say Blade Runner dude like at least give it a good one way way minority reports a good movie no it's not come on we reference Minority Report all the time actually have a lot Minority Report what I've never watched Minority Report extremely precious until the new Blade Runner came out I actually never watching over like original Blade Runner either okay I shouldn't you weren't alive during the original what else I don't know if I was alive during Minority Report when either was oh my gosh when did Minority Report come out anyway the point is it like one ads in the sky are terrible right and it's it's inevitable that this will happen Terra yeah we're definitely gonna see them yeah we can't wait for uh like eighty to a hundred like small drones in the sky writing like drink Pepsi or something to be fair like the Goodyear blimp did that as well but I think it's much more feasible with drones yeah yeah yeah and the blimp just the one blimp yeah you could like send hundreds of thousands of these things out there just giving everyone terrible and it's capable at and yeah but the good news is they only last eight minutes so they're just gonna Dyke dive-bomb oh no an eight minute commercial though that's ridiculous the Goodyear blimp stayed up for like a day yeah but you already saw it flying in floated away like could you imagine the drone just keep following you oh my god they'd be awful they just chase you down yeah I was picturing in my head why I was talking about the 40 movies like when it'd be cool to see something like Alfred Hitchcock's the birds and how the drones fly around that's you in the air oh it's just like like you said Pepsi so an interesting part of so like verity studios drones is that like so they're not also trying to use it just for shows that they demo that I went to the next day they showed off like oh we can probably use this for we can use this for like business cases to like they showed an example of these drones like being taught to recognize like bar codes so they're in a warehouse and then what about scanning everything so the guy that made Verity studios he was also a co-founder of kivett or something like that that like they were sold to Amazon and that's now Amazon robotics but he developed all this AI for BOTS that like can go around and scan like okay barcodes and stuff and like that's like the Amazon uses like his technology now basically so he's saying like we can apply this to drones as well and he showed this like demo video of like these drones flying around a warehouse and like scanning the barcodes I'm like moving on and so that's very cool like from that perspective okay cool so let's switch topics and talk about ZTE this is coming in from Jacob Lombardo the Chinese manufacturers of phones aren't going to get any popularity in the u.s. unless they're sold in carriers no manufacturer has partnered with Verizon which is the largest in the u.s. and that's why they're not popular are they going to change that how are they going to change that and any idea of manufacturers potentially partnering with carriers so that's non-title accurate after ZTE probably has had the best track record they've sold phones who carries for a number of years there I would say they probably had the most success that of the the batch of Chinese handset makers that are out there you know they had their name in myosin Square Garden I believe their big sponsor at the Golden State Warriors or may not figure out the name of the arena is there or yeah the Houston one as well and David they had phones at 880 18t crooked t-mobile most of the carriers usually budget phones which is why you didn't hear a lot about them I think the the axon duo was a dual screen phone the the axon em yeah right the the two screen phone that folds that was sold as a as a pseudo flagship phone at 18 T you know it saw whatever that was actually sold it was actually some people thought I was like a concept phone thing no no no that was a legit phone that was sold at 18 t stores I don't know how well did problem that that well probably not that well but yeah I think that's the big question mark now is now that ZT is back from this controversy they still have this all this baggage will in the US carriers work with them it's interesting to note that you know we reported that t-mobile will be partnering with one plus another Chinese handset maker for the oneplus 60 that is one example of you know a company that's got a decent amount of buzz partnering with the US carrier so you could see a little bit more you could be a little bit more hopeful in that deal but with ZT it's at this point lots of question marks about how they'll they'll be able to thrive in the u.s. switching gears again let's talk about Twitter I love this question from Hunter Lee what do you do when Twitter recommends you unfollow your partner because you don't interact with them enough do it do it that's a statement move for a second well I mean why would you tweet as somebody you live with potentially that's that's the thing they're like I don't interact with my partner on social media at all just because I'm like I talk to you everyday I don't understand actually I will interact with her if I'm making fun of her publicly so you're you're a great great boyfriend yeah but yeah I mean but there there's been a lot of articles on on like you know how relationships change once like now that like social media is such a big part of your lives there's a an article I believe it was either in the Atlantic or The Daily Beast at the time where the idea was like oh if you don't view your partner's like Instagram stories like they think that you're like something like that you were probably there that's a lot of pressure why would you look at the story when you were already there what if you weren't there though maybe you're not but potentially you are what the hell is that argument I don't know but it's you know kids these days yes the darn kid is a young in the old folks yeah yeah we just don't understand it it's connection to it I yeah but I I like so I follow my partner out of like a courtesy kind of thing I don't I don't really I don't like she knows this she knows that like I don't like or comment on any post right um so it's just like yeah on Facebook my wife and I we comment and like each other's posts all the time yeah we don't we don't do that I mean she's no she's on histogram like in stealth mode she's not on Twitter at all so I think the Twitter one is the one that's most this is not it's not necessary friends right Twitter's online I would I would say this for Twitter if it's getting in the way of your relationship or your friendship with somebody you should probably unfollow them there's so many if it's getting away of your relationship you should probably stop using Twitter yeah there's so many people that I know that like are cool in person but anytime I see them on Twitter it's like these tweets are so bad dude like it's just like these make me not want to be friends with you so I unfollowed them and I tell them that's why he doesn't follow me I mean like I don't think it's rude to not follow your friends on social media uh yeah I've made this argument of a lot of people who like I hate these tweets but like I have to follow them because like we're friends I'm like you don't know I was for me it's more important like on Facebook because that is how I connect with friends on Twitter hey that's their slogan jeez damn yes is our paycheck yeah in advertisement yeah no I mean that's like Facebook is more personal as opposed Twitter which you know I kind of use it as a newsfeed all right disseminate my own stories but that's why it's yeah like I don't feel the need to follow people on Twitter who are my friend I think I think you know more outlets should do that more social network should tell you like hey like this guy is clearly annoying you maybe you should just not be friends with them on social media you can be from outside I like it yeah cuz it's like if you want to stay in touch with them like you like what I do is I so on Facebook right now I only have like 30 friends and I actively go on like maybe like once a month I'll look and just see like I don't know why I'm friends with this person I know I just like remove them and if I want to get in contact with them I just send them a note on messenger which is also available on Facebook so it's just like there's no reason for us to be friends here it's just like if I need to talk to you though like I'll just send you a message I like it it's very slimmed down the stripped-down social network right there alfrid do you take this woman to be your lawfully wedded wife to have and hold in sickness and health is that a question from a viewer to follow and retweet those were my vows to how did you how did you get a copy my vows Scott I wonder if that's like a thing like a stipulation my god I imagine it is for some couples but not not here not with me that's so gross though I signed a prenup so that you wouldn't get half of my followers if oh my god that's that's probably happened hasn't it I hope not I'll be a hard thing to to enforce yeah sure also like you don't really share followers like when you you do have to become friends with their friends though in real life we're on Twitter in real life and by deep well yeah as a leak over yeah yeah I mean I tried I don't but you don't split friends though like in in the yeah yeah you can split friends oh no definitely can oops I'm sorry oh yeah it's happened Alex Mitchell equates liking and commenting on each other's posts as to making out in public displays of affection whoa yeah okay well yeah I I'm not a fan I think it depends on the context of the posts I'm not a fan of gushy yeah it's like I love you posted like my wife and I don't do that that I find that I did do that on purpose one time just to troll another couple that was like very open on Facebook where I was you would do that I only show romance to annoy other PS this guy I had a friend I went to college with and he's a grown-ass man he was like 27 at the time and he got a new girlfriend and it was easily as the most steady girlfriend that lasted more than like four days that's entire life and like by the fifth day on Instagram it was like hashtag wifey material and I'm like oh we're done here Wow yeah you got to show the world who you're in love with man like it's you know like show some appreciation every day now if Twitter can recommend that I unfollowed those people that would be good I would like it if Twitter just goes to complete sentence like this guy's clearly a dude yeah yeah yeah Twitter now just start starts like proactively tell like even if you try to follow somebody's like don't bother you don't want any part of this stuff do we really need the the algorithm to tell us that can't you just unfollow on your own you could yeah I think there's especially if you have if you fall like 10,000 people I think it is hard to maintain it actively a lot of people follow away yeah there's people that have bots that like wolf mass follow accounts and then by the next week if they notice that these accounts don't follow them back they'll unfollow those accounts so like oh there's a lot of people where like if you notice you could just get random follows from people that have like millions of followers basically that's what the account holder like the follow action was done by a bot okay as the unfollow action will be as well but it's like a real person behind it it's like it's it's a form of like growth hacking that is like very annoying if you've ever noticed somebody who's like got a large following that keeps following you but like it has followed you more than once that you've never followed back that's why got it well there you go so it is the bots going to suggest the bots to unfollow BOTS pretty much yeah well if you're just having conversations with each other right now that's actually the new 3:59 yeah we're all gonna be fired and replaced by BOTS this whole episode is actually just computer generated from an AI that's watched the other 451 episodes and like generally mimicked our awkwardness yeah yeah I actually really do want to do that I really want to take like all are like scripts from our like previous shows and like just feed them into a bot and like see what it comes up with that could be like and then we just read that script for an episode that could be an entire episode for sure if you do that that'll be like a specialist that'll be like 500 or something for us yeah and I'll make it I'll edit that video for you we'll make that alright we are just about out of time any closing thoughts who's another stage show that would be cool with drones that's farming up to you guys and to the chat who do you think would have a cool drone show probably Tyler the Creator yes because his whole album is like based off of like not like whole album but like the artwork for a lot of it for flower boy is like bees and stuff that might be cool wu-tang clan with the killer bees coming out on stage trying who else that's that's why I got nothing Rodgers old he doesn't go yeah when I go to a concert now like I I'm so tired what is this thing end oh you know it'd be great if Katy Perry's the dwarf drones for teenage dreams and then it's a plaque the line like do you ever feel like a plastic bag and it's just a drone like as a plastic bag flying around yeah but actually it's just a drone the accidentally flew into a classic could they just get like a plastic plastic bag with like you know fans that blow it around yeah look man do you like a plastic bag I kind of feel like one right now I don't know and on that note it's a perfect place to end the show and end the week hey we want to say a special thanks to our friends over at USB who have sponsored this entire month and it's completely self validating and that's kind of cool for us because we've never had a sponsor before yeah go check out and get information and look for the logos when buying official USB items find out more in enabling USB org and Roger you wanna take us on out of here yeah 3:59 is available in iTunes TuneIn stitcher feedburner google play music google podcast the amazon echo of course cnet.com see you all next week take care have a great weekend