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good morning on Thursday November 10th it's time for episode 139 of the 359 podcast with Roger Chang and Ben Fox Ruben good morning guys morning hello hello how is everybody today fantastic yeah how's everybody in the chat where's everybody coming in from yeah I'm sure they're great to where our peoples at good no we've got it we've got a nice action-packed shown one where we will I promise not talking about Trump yeah god this will be a draw the 11 election fish will be an election free chat had enough there we go we are gonna be talking about snapchat spectacles how you you can get your hands on the wearables actually rather difficult we'll also be talking about Yahoo the latest laser fire police that is the dumpster fire that is Yahoo and lastly we'll talk about fortunately offered is not here to talk about this story but will be talk about his piece looking at the kind of the new techniques that cops are using to slow down or stop cars and high speed chases yeah you should check it out check out the video will show you the video it's pretty awesome we just showed Brian he was pretty impressed yeah cool to watch it is something right out of a Batmobile or James Bond car I feel more Bondy out of it that's just yeah yeah we'll show you I would be surprised if Batman had it in the back like it in a movie he like fire that out all right yeah sure I'll go scour my hundreds of issues of Batman comics and I'll find something there you go as always if you have any questions leave them in the comment section Brian will pick out the most relevant ones and we will try our best answer them no promises no it's about Babu Beale Speed Racer James Bond you know some of that stuff yeah alright Moneypenny let's get this let's get started and starting the recording in three two welcome to the 359 where we talk about the top tech news of the day and only the crap we want to throw in I'm Roger Chang I'm Ben Fox ribbon snapchat spectacles are here can you feel the excitement yes okay snapchats wearable goes on sale today but it's gonna be tough to find them I can't go to a store like Best Buy to get one you actually have to hunt one down hotel nice nap on Friday we're vending machine kinda looks like a boxy version of the minion yeah and so there's apparently only one of these out there floating around the country and it's one location one day it keeps moving right now at the time I checked the map it's it's somewhere in Los Angeles in between Venice Beach and Santa Monica so if you're in the area and you want a spectacle that's where you want to get one but this is this is kind of weird right like what do you make of this this odd way of selling or is it just the fact that they don't have enough of these things or oh I don't I don't think that's it I think it is a weird way to try to sell to generate interest in a device but it makes a lot of sense from snapchats perspective snapchat has typically I mean like have you ever even seen a TV commercial about snapchat they've done I would make it uncool right well they're they're really been pushing that that effort of trying to be a little bit more guerrilla a little bit more renegade for sure us old people wouldn't get it that's true that's in our heads like what the best vibe was both over the age of 30 why can't we understand I go to a beach right now and get my snapchat optical that being said if they do want it to take off and they want it to be like a revenue source of any sort he will get to Best Buy at some point or maybe they're gonna sell it maybe they'll sell it directly I think they could probably get away with that but the way the way they're doing this is such a limited way do you think that they have serious plans of making spectacles into something that's a real business or is this just sort of like this weird one-off thing that like look at this weird experiment that we've got I think that's a very good question I don't know the answer to that I would like to see them eventually make it more of a mainstream product as opposed to this thing that you can only get in a snap bite in one location I don't know I looked at it I wasn't too thrilled with the looks Alfred liked it though he was yeah under the age of 30 yes basically was able to legally drink yeah yesterday that's not true he's not that young close alright so next up I'm talking about Yahoo it disclosed last night that some of those employees were aware of that massive hack in 2014 so it's just that didn't actually come out until this year didn't come out right so like just like a mother to ago and so mm-hmm yeah just the latest development like as you called it the dumpster fire that is this Yahoo hack saga yeah and is that does the does that reach a level where that needs to be investigated further that people were sitting on this information for the past two years what does that mean for investors and I continue to mention this anytime we talk about Yahoo is this is like what does this mean to Verizon purchasing it yeah I would probably think that like you you still think Verizon is gonna buy this company I mean I talked to the CEO just a few weeks ago and he was this was still a deal that made a lot of sense you know they were very cautious about sort of looking at this investigation we're keeping an open mind but he seemed fairly confident that this was still gonna go through my guess it'll still go through but you know a much smaller they'll probably pay a lot less right and I've said this before on the podcast but I don't see how they keep the Yahoo CEO like yeah all right lastly you need to check out alfred ings story on mobile spike which cops are not using to stop cars during high-speed chases it's cop car actually pulls alongside the suspects vehicle and a spike fires out from the side of the car in front of the tires rendering them flat and immobile so insane right you know what I really like about this it's been a very nasty election it's been a difficult time we're not talking about that we can all get behind mobile space we can it's like awesome right you know it's shields regimes go on Batmobile Speed Racer I mean I love you America there you go alright for more about these stories check us out on CNN I'm Roger Chang I'm Ben Fox Ruben thanks for listening so cool right I want one and I well no suspects to chase pretty sure those are just for cops no they should sell chicken mates you should be able to buy that in fact the snap buy that buy like you press one but another mobile psychic that's so gnarly though like it's always fun to see new technology but when it actually becomes legitimately bad yeah oh yeah this is utterly badass this is it's like I don't know cop tech is some some cop tech is the most badass some of its kind of lame like the fact that our NYPD are our boys in blue use windows but this is awesome and there should be more of this I can't imagine any like in your cop car I'd like to see this like like the bike patrol using similar things to stop other like like a city bike or something like there was that video clip of a battle be like a little like plank that's FAR's right right like it does have to be spikes but it could be like it could be something be something or whatever yeah just like hook people with it what's gonna be next in cop tech are we gonna get like the ejector seat and all that hope we've seen oil slash mostly have the ability like fire off like large fishing nets that suspects like he was running away just push a button that covers the suspect you can I like I like shooting it through like a net gun though I think that would be very superhero I like a t-shirt gun like poster like what Pokemon well you're not using that's for Pokemon you're using pokeball that's different yeah I would like to see cops use pokeballs together criminals be great whyever we figured that out yet this just reminds me you said this came out a little while ago but I only became aware of it recently this um it's called the the grappler yeah this I thought was kind of cool right like look at this thing so they really excited effective yeah that seems totally totally excessive I don't know I also made the point like if you see this guy get Steve the cop coming with his giant contraption the fries car you know the likes are weaving around right you never see mobile spike spike is mostly so it is hidden until the last minute kind of what makes it awesome yeah come on it's like the ninja version of cop cars stopping tech I think there's a thing cool I do I mean yeah they're both cool I just I feel like the other one is one is less practical than the other okay fine maybe a little more practical but still cool so cool yes and if if they help actually stop high-speed chases and do what they're supposed to do because Alfred told you right is that you're supposed to usually police cars they just hit you on the yeah normal technique if they want to stop a car they have to stop a high-speed car they get on alongside and then they kind of bump the the rear and like cause the fishtail yeah and but that I mean that could lead accidents it's unpredictable with this thing you fire off the spikes and the car keeps going straight but it eventually just slows down with it right so it's not only bad ass but life-saving yeah and what's more badass than that yeah right now like there's there's no real practical way to lay strips down like you had like cops will have to manually con do it you have to know ya know where the router actually lay them down and cops have died actually laying down the stress strips because I don't get it done in time right so yeah so this this actually saves both pedestrian and and police flies badass and helpful what if they could put like a a cannon fire strip mechanism sure like a trebuchet on the top of the car and it's the the strips are like counterweighted so that comes down it always comes down flat yeah I love all these yeah this is great yeah I hope the cops are listening we're gonna change the world do we have any comments are we just gonna keep saying the word badass yeah bad Freak wants to know where are the spectacles and you said there's a map available yes yeah so on dos the site you check out the the link is on our CNET story I'll put the link in the show description yeah perfect right now it is it's like somewhere along the beach a little bit north of Venice Beach actually in Los Angeles so and again it's there for just today and it moves to another location and bt-dubs it's one hundred and thirty dollars so it is not an impulse buy no although I mean if you're look if you're going to the Africa track town the snack you're gonna be plunking down 130 no I just want people to know how much it costs people paying more for regular sunglasses true interesting true like designer ones Alfre probably did I merely I actually I did mine are pricier than that fair enough all right we got to wrap it up early today we got a busy day ahead of us thanks everyone for joining yeah it's been a great week see y'all tomorrow or next not tomorrow but on Monday all right well if you liked anything you saw our hair to check us out on CNET our podcast also available on itunes tune in stitcher SoundCloud Feedburner and Google Play Music all right have a good weekend everyone see y'all Monday that's a later