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and good morning on Tuesday September 27th Roger and Ben are both not with us anymore far as they decided to stay home today not with us so welcome to another edition of the 359 podcast with Alfred Inge and Michael Sorrentino good morning fellas good morning I now kind of want to cry as if they're gone but there by I'm hoping that they're listening and now they're ticked good morning it is definitely a good morning glad to be here uh you know the relay team yeah so we've got a great show for you guys today if you watch the presidential debate from last night you're in for a real treat and a big happy birthday to Google but I guess apparently doesn't know when its birthday is so we're gonna find out today do a little scoop little snoop looking around it's the big mystery alrighty you can't also you know you can also google when google's birthday is but i don't think anyone there has done that yet hey i mean it is google so maybe they just whenever the hell they feel like maybe tuesday's just a better day for them for some reason not friday like most people yeah probably all right shall we get this underway yep let's record a podcast and we'll be back to join you all in the chaps we want to know what you think of the means what you think of the new OS and we'll be back in exactly three minutes and 59 seconds from 32 welcome to the 359 where we talk about the top tech news of the day and all the other crap you want to throw in I'm Alfred ring and i'm mike sorrentino did you watch the presidential debate on Monday night an estimated a 112 million people did the political showdown between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump set social media ablaze with memes mentions in fact checked articles both Clinton and Trump's names alone were getting a combined three million total mentions and that's just on Twitter so were you following along on social media yeah i was watching on TV on a plane ride home last night and was just as great as watching a wrestling match because there was just lots and lots of argue argue argue argue argue and that's all like to me so did you have any favorite moments from it or any favorite kind of memes that were popping up there was there was a 400-pound hacker that Donna said was from Russia the cyber which is I guess his term for what the internet is now you know at his tweet denying climate change and of course his sniffles throughout the night if this is the only thing I remembered be honest this is like every couple of minutes if that even came out of the microphones know so much sniffling what if we did the entire podcast just that oh gosh I think we'd lose everybody cuz they be like breathing all these all the hairs breathing well or change the name the fresh air well let's listen that's another thing entirely I'm sorry so let's shift in from that Andromeda Google is rumored to combine its Android mobile OS with its Chrome OS under the new name Andromeda which could potentially be on a new pixel laptop and a nexus tablet uh what do you think of that do you think they should have stayed a party and thank you know they're better together that's kind of how many google google OS as they have there's android android wear Chrome OS Android Chrome OS and Android seem to be merging more everyday Chrome Android apps are coming to Chromebooks eventually it sort of makes sense i think that they're going to combine eventually it has been more a matter of when not so much will they I mean do you think that you know people would would be annoyed from the different features oh do you think it's better that you know we just combine them now if they could find a way to sort of bridge it over people might not even notice they might just think Oh cheap laptop and it runs my web browser and my apps I'm good how similar already are Android and Chrome OS there it's Chrome OS is just like having the Chrome browser on your computer and that's it you could look up your websites you could check out apps and then Android is more the phone experience so ideally if they were to merge it over it would be kind of more like having those android apps natively on the computer Chromebook as if it were computer programs um I'm personally looking forward to it i think you know it's about time they have a unified you know system or network and you know with across all its devices it'd be nice to like buy a nap it's somewhat but bridge from that be nice by a nap and it would just run on everything that i happen to be using not like buy this game on steam in this game again on chrome on google play and then one more on iOS if i have an ipad like it's one thing would be easier and speaking of Google when is its actual birthday google doodle if you noticed it today its celebrating its 18th birthday but it's never been on September 15th when the google com register was domained and it's also never been on September fourth when you know Google was incorporated as a company so I guess the question is when is Google's real birthday because it's it's been on September 27th which is today it's been on September 26 in the past and in previous years it's been on September seventh in September eighth but they're really they're 18 right yes okay so that part is accurate yeah so Google can vote maybe and in three more years maybe they'll drink in their doodle in America in the in the rest of the world your google will be legal I presume yeah well that's our show thanks for listening you can check us out on itunes what else are we got there stitcher stitcher do you want his go ahead itunes stitcher feedly tune in and oh man now even I forgot it's not slack radio we talked about this yesterday and youtube for a longer version yeah right either way let's wrap it up alright thanks for listening I'm Alfred a I Mike Sorrentino and we will delve into the chat shortly but I just kind of want to go back onto the google doodle thing they really can do whatever they want i don't know like can we really even criticize them cuz they'll just be like okay fine no internet just decide when your birthday is it's just you know i mean you can do it on a on facebook you can change your birthday whatever and then just repin all the happy birthday posts but you know that's your facebook that's your personal choice but you can't just tell people hey it's my birthday today when it's not that's as weird it's it's marketing though like maybe the for some reason they feel like tuesday will be the day yet they're choosing to bury their birthday underneath the morning after the debates which is an odd decision I mean let's be honest if Google made some big splash following the debate they probably still lead the news well yeah everyone's going to go on their website regardless I just I just want to know when it's real birthday what is where's the Google birth certificate the Google affected long Google by mean if you think about it though with the way the internet was in early 90s all those this probably is no real birthday either because it probably took weeks to sort of even get their server lunged and they mounted maybe they don't even consider a server launch day as the day which Google was born yeah but if they're picking a day though if they're gonna pick September 27th they could at least stick to that yeah you know I mean the September what like 26 last year when was the date on it my birthday my birthday is October 24th just saying does anybody actually celebrate the birthday on the actual day though I mean usually you're like oh no there's better specials at the bar well yeah for humans it's mostly like rounded out to the better day of the week so maybe that maybe that's it you know they're picking the better day to celebrate a Tuesday yeah yeah that's helpful uh where did everybody watch the debate last night I did the YouTube stream and it was iffy I had a lot of connection problems and hiccup problems granite I was trying to chromecast it to my TV but there was a lot of bouncing around a lot of lag and what the heck was going on with the audio did anyone else experienced that what what stream were you watching it on though like what yeah the NBC Oh the NBC NBC News all I know is like every couple of minutes like the audio would spike and dip like like a full 6 decibels and it was just very very distracting to me coming from like a production background so when it's jumping around like that I'm just criticizing the sound guy I'm not even paying attention to issues i was watching on a plane last night so i thought that that was just my static from using a i was flying southwest and i was just using whatever way they allow TV through with a free Wi-Fi it right work and so I thought that would just be a static thing but like if that experience and other platforms that's like interesting I was watching it on two platforms so I had it up on my laptop on mute because it it's about 15 to 45 seconds behind what's on TV and then I had the audio on on that because I was waiting for any time there was a good moment or a good quote that came from it mm-hmm I could pop it up on my laptop and I unmute it so I could get either the video clip or be able to get a screenshot from it and then tweet it out yeah so I wasn't really listening on my laptop screen but as far as audio from my TV stream it was perfectly fine hmm like it never completely fell out but it was just very distracting how much it would change and range and it was never it's like oh no there's something wrong with Trump's mic or something like that it was just all over the place it is frustrating though that the streams online are a bit behind because you can tell you know what screams people are watching just based off of like when they're tweeting out a moment yeah oh yeah yeah Leonard our chat said he watched on Twitter and he found it perfect I tried Twitter for a little bit um only I started running out of data on my personal data plans and stopped immediately but it did work apply pretty quickly I said a hard time figuring out where I types in search for debate and then it came up under Bloomberg I didn't really know where exactly to find the street well usually when they do streams like that you find it in the moments tab oh yeah that's what they did with the football game last week to two weeks ago I forget already but that's what you find stuff like that don't promote the hell out of it right in the front instead of like invading your personal space which i think is kind of nice on Twitter's behalf and from an organizational standpoint facebook I had a hard time tracking it down because they don't have anything dedicated like that I was kind of waiting for it to be advertised to me and it didn't happen so that's why I defaulted to YouTube you just go to the live page on there and of course there's like you know a zillion options at the top from all the legit ones do the less legit ones yeah interestingly enough if you actually went on Donald Trump's website he had a live stream of the debate on it it did not go to a legitimate a stream no really did it did not best send him more sarcastic than I intended it where did he pick it up from um it was it wasn't any of the major channels um I can find it again in a bit but it was like right wing does something media or something like that I got to find it now so it can stitch you it yes yeah pretty much fair enough I don't know it up and down for a little while but eventually I got NBC needs to work out for me but I know PBS querida as well ABC all in all I thought it was well produced outside of the audio issues I did kind of sympathize for poor Lester though I wonder if I did not envy him last night it's a tough job and then they tell me to you can't fact check live right either which you know okay cool i'm just gonna sit here and accept this then but NPR was fact-checking life everyone thought was a really cool feature on the site though did anyone else see that but they had a fact check live somebody was live transcribing every gum every speech and then they'd go and then annotate it in real and are the article yeah yeah bloomberg Bloomberg was live did they do have a fact-checking too and they were they announced that they were doing it on the Twitter stream yeah I don't I didn't watch it on the Twitter stream so i don't know if they did or not but they said they were going to see in the realm of like cool stuff that technology can actually better I'm all in favor of stuff like that no matter what your side what your perspective is that is a great thing to see in happening in real time like that because you can never get that in a traditional television broadcast setting maybe barely in a radio setting but definitely with this the incorporation of multimedia tech and and text more importantly that was really cool to see cuz i saw screenshots of another live stream where it basically be approval ratings of the candidates like in real time as there's talking really and what were they measuring that against though were people like in an online poll scenario I'd only seen a screenshot of it like on Twitter there was so much content going through Twitter yesterday that it was just it was almost impossible to keep up i had to put a filter on it that like unless they got more than 20 favorites like I wouldn't see it favorites i what am I saying likes likes yeah was that I am surprised there wasn't any I feel like true candidates are becoming gift trained or jiff trained but there wasn't really any moment I felt like was really motion-based that could create a gift jiff meme plenty of words and sounds obviously but not like I would have maybe someone like dancing around even like Bernie Sanders would pull off like quick like here's some quick thing on the podium that he did it became a motion noble thing and I'm I don't I guess I'm kind of looking for that now because that's sort of way now is that where we've gone like we used to be you shoot to be quotable now you're me mobile or giftable yeah whatever i did it i mean the Donald Trump campaign bought that fill a filter yesterday yeah advertising hit hit the debate last night and this pride is more and more like people just buying wherever the eyes are at the moment yeah one of the interesting things that I had seen on snapchat last night was everyone was doing the face filters on their TV screens of the debates yeah I Mc Donald Trump and Hillary with the dog knows haha filters why oh god why and surprised we didn't see the entire Hofstra auditorium turn around for a selfie yeah um I had seen several tweets yesterday from like reporters that were there at the scene just you know a lot of people yelling about Harambee there so this is a very meme heavy election we're in a very meme Heavyworld it yes it's fun but sometimes it got to take it a little more seriously imagine baby just a little and those reporters are potentially pay I remember it was a store yesterday or some of the Wi-Fi Heather same dollars to be on the Wi-Fi at all pill reporter yeah I still have to confirm that with some people that I knew that were there okay but I had seen screenshots also of it that's what it's so absurd and apparently they were also cutting down on reporters that had their own personal hot spots you know kind of no pay us to use our Wi-Fi it was just that seems unnecessary yeah two hundred dollars for a night of Wi-Fi is a little bit ridiculous to I would I honestly would rather just file from my phone how was the case let's let's go to the elephant in the room the 400-pound hacker shot that he took at every single potential member of geek culture that was that was hurtful Donald he was also hurtful he was also in his bed that lacquer is supposed you know because they also can't get out of can't get out of their beds either in front in their mom's basement right because we're all just yeah and it's illicit images from that the world of warcraft player from oh okay so that means flying everywhere like within seconds I i went with graham the guy who's this who's designed to survive car crashes from Australia yeah yeah yeah the block head dude with like eight different like nipples like that's what I were with that's my vision of the hacker yeah that sounds about right well maybe we'll get away from that we're not trying to show of politics down anyone show but it was a big monumental event to experience and seeing how it gets incorporated into multimedia social media and two to go yeah yeah well I'll up I don't think the vice-presidential one will be that big though I mean Mike Pence and Tim Kaine to not that me mobile well yet this could be a whole new era and then one more there's the least be one more Donald Trump Hillary what yeah that one uh ya know the VP's I don't it might be a little Celine Dion before we let everyone go let's uh let's delve a little deeper into the OS hybrid Alfred could you enlighten us a little bit more some people are interested about it in the chat well it's still all rumors right now but I mean they'd been talking about the Andromeda OS for some time now rumors had been swirling for a while this is just kind of the most concrete that we've gone as far as the Android Chrome OS hybrid I did see a question earlier wondering if it would be replacing it I think for their future devices they most likely will be I think you know your device that you have on you right now is going to be fine but I also believe that more so headed toward you know its tablets and you know Chromebooks I don't I think phones might not be affected as much from Andromeda I think it's kind of like that situation when they had a few years ago when there was Android Honeycomb meant for tablets only yeah and then Android Ice Cream Sandwich was then from that point on phones and tablets I think they're going to slowly just sort of transition it in and I think like beginning with those the Chromebooks that will allow android apps under the existing Chrome OS and then they'll take a step further and it'll just be one thing yeah I'm hoping that they're going to be talking about it at their October fourth media event but I think that one is more specifically for their new phones Google home and chromecast yeah so you can expect more news about this closer to its release around the end of 2017 though I'm definitely interested like this could be a new opportunity for Google to get into this market a little more strongly being that it could be argued one way or another the Apple may have slipped up with their latest release not bad just disclaiming but I mean I'm personally interested especially in this new alleged google phone and if this really kind of becomes an all-encompassing thing they might buy me out I I've always wanted you know just a unified ecosystem I mean Apple does it pretty well with its OS and iOS you know compatibility but androids been missing that for some time but I mean you can make the argument that you know you didn't really need it on your laptop by other way because it's connected to all your google accounts mm-hmm so you know I do something on my calendar here i would use calendar on google either way right and you know gmail all just everything within the google ecosystems already can connect it but now they're adding an OS element to it which I'm I'm looking forward to seeing and I mean I personally like the way chrome performs better than an apple TV and that's a very personal experience so put this all under the same hood I've actually never used apple TV but I am very satisfied with my chromecast and I can compare it I guess with my Roku's right yeah I have Scott in the chat says I think it will be similar to how windows 10 mobile and pc he hopes i think i think that's a good hope i don't know how similar it would be but I it's a fair assumption yeah if it could flip like have maybe more of a desktop style thing well if it's if they know there's a keyboard attached to flip into tablet mode and there's a no keyboard or anymore because there is definitely like different screen it's definitely different screen displays at work when you're using a typing machine versus a touch only machine versus tiny phone touch only machine it definitely is a bit weird that now that Windows 10 is kind of leading you know the market on this this kind of thing and you know Android is one that will release Google is the one that needs to follow on it I mean Google's own their own semblance of everybody's soul for a time being and yes this is a part where they have been weaker they've more or less floundered so this would be interesting to see them kind of take advantage of some weak points in the other markets and then the next thing I just wonder is not even tech related at all just what suite with a code name maybe this minor update with maybe they just call it birthday cake these are not celebrating it otherwise they don't even know when their birthdays are not gonna get in a cake that's probably a good place to leave it off we'll wrap it up for today yep all righty Alfred let's say goodbye all right thanks for watching bye