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guess what it's Wednesday September 21st and you guess it another episode of the 359 podcast with Roger Cheng and Alfred and good morning morning everyone he giw that's right happy Wednesday everyone we've got a we've got an extra pack show we're gonna try to cram in four stories in or podcast whoo yeah we'll be talking about eighteen t confirming the launch of directv now that they're over the top service for the fourth quarter their bits questions about it I don't know if it's gonna be delayed I mean they had been to land while they're teasing a hundred channels at a very aggressive price so we'll see what that is we're also talking about a story The Alfred wrote on also an eighteen t testing out a technology called air gig which I think will deliver super fast internet speeds across the power line so they try to do this before we'll see if this is this is the this is where it actually work out and then Google a low messaging service launched today we'll be talking a little bit about that and why the world needs another messaging service even from google which has way too many already they don't and then lastly we're gonna ended up with and uh something fun would be talking about the hyper adapt one point oh those are the nike shoes inspired by back to the future part two I'm excited it's all about the look I don't yeah it was a little the self-lacing shoes it is if they look like you know like grandpa shoes I'm not like I don't care if they lose themselves you see what they look like they look pretty good yeah alright maybe it's just an old man my style is way different than everyone else's but alright let's so let's get started as always if you have any questions about these topics leave them in the comments section or producer Brian will pick out the best and we will do our best to answer them all right let's get this podcast in the bank yep here we go in three two welcome to the 23 29 when we talk about the top tech news of the day and all the other crap we want to throw in I'm Roger Cheng I'm out for doing so are you cord cutter 18t may have service for you the telecom giant confirmed today that will launch an over-the-top or online streaming service called direct TV now in the fourth quarter the CEO T's more than 100 premium channels very very aggressive price point you know are you a cord cutter to you do you have a cable subscription absolutely i am a corpse so r is this something that would excite you eighteen t is not exactly synonymous with you know hip new services it is an eighteen t over the top surface though something you'd be interested I haven't had a cable subscription in about ten years now and I never plan on going back I mean there's so many live streaming services out there that I don't need television to watch that I can watch it on my computer and just chromecast it right so this is this is a service that is I mean you it's for mobile it's for roku it's not for its not delivered a traditional means right it is you download an app and you can play on your app whether it's on roku your phone or tablet so it is sort of a true alternative for court hard and it's a it's sort of the full slave channels but that's not that attractive to you I'm still very skeptical of mobile viewings it's such a small screen I mean I get I guess you can chromecast it yeah but at the same time you know what are you running or Roku yeah if I'm near a chromecast though I'm probably gonna have my laptop with me and then I should just chromecast it from there instead of you know doing it from my phone right I have seen people watching baseball games though their phone online that's been very successful for them but as far as what i'm using i can't say I'd subscribe to something like that and is it the fact that it's you'd be paying for a hundred plus channels many of them you know you're not probably not gonna watch anyway that to me has always been the downfall of cable companies where they don't let you you know select your channels ala carte right so i don't we'll see if it actually makes an impact another eighteen t is also making some other news you wrote about this yesterday yes it's called the air gig basically it's using these plastic antennas that you put on top of power lines they've tried this before google and IBM have both tried doing this about ten years ago but instead of their plan where the broadband goes through the power line this one it's the antennas using the power lines to guide signals along it so so it sort of travels along side the power line yeah so it's still using the power lines right just not there I mean the big deal here is by using paralyzed by using not their own infrastructure they can go beyond their geography you know the only there only really in certain parts of the country they can go after rural markets they can even go after overseas customers by using the same technology so that means technically or that could potentially mean high-speed access for a lot more people it's interesting for them to use an infrastructure like this you see companies like Facebook where they have their Aquila drone right where you know they're making an entirely new infrastructure google has their balloons project where you know it's interesting that they thought you know why don't we just use something about that already exists yeah the tribe makes a lot of sense Google's a low messaging app launched today between whatsapp Facebook line in a myriad of others does the world need another message camp I have a problem with a low in the sense that they did not just integrate it in with hangouts right hangouts is already an established app a lot of people use it you know I use it almost every day and for me to have to download another app it seems like Google every time it comes out with a new concept instead of let's add it to something that we have already let's just they just make a whole new app for it right well look the hook for a low is the integration with Google assistant it's chat bot with enough smarts to answer your questions like a normal person all right lastly before we wrap things up nike confirmed that it will be launching its hyper adapt one point 0 safe self-lacing shoes inspired by back to the future two on november 28th alfred are you excited I'm excited for the self tying feature I just don't think that looks like a cool sneaker why does it have the lights on the bottom because it's from Back to the Future that I don't for me that's why it's kind of awesome the last time I wore sneakers were of lights on the bottom was also the last time I had cable TV well there you go all right for more about these stories check us out at seen it I'm Roger Cheng I'm Alfred Aang thanks for listening and that's a cut on the audio podcast recording and I want these shoe right right I'm sorry they I and I where I'm I'm like what some people might call a sneakerhead but like that now does not look cool to me obviously I don't know much about legitimate sneaker wear but i don't care if they light up yeah and i wanted i think i just want the self-lacing feature yeah that's what i said i dint features i mean i'm okay with this I'm okay with a look of the shoe though it's pretty not offensive to me it's kind of if anything playing I just wish they went with the ones from the actual back to the future the Air Mags actually they did make those they just didn't self lace yeah yes they didn't like a charity auction yeah they should have that they should have released is bad design use that design for this if they're really doing a call back to back to the future it should have been those because those sneakers look incredible and these don't just wait at some point there'll be another movie anniversary and they'll do the whole shebang that way so we've got the actual Air Mags that don't self lace and now we have Nikes selfless just because they want to own that gimmick I guess yeah someday those two will meet will say I mean I still look I still think they're pretty attractive glowing shoe or not I actually I want to see how the glowing part works is it just does it like glow when itself laces is a constantly lit or how does that work also do you have to charge your shoes now yes you do apparently you've got a charger shoes every two weeks that's ridiculous well as power to half I mean if itself laces it's got to use power so it's got to be charged right we're gonna get to an age where we're gonna have to charge everything yes it charge work that's what wireless charging is for it's gonna save we're just gonna like put our shoes in our phones all the same wireless charging pad will be fine there's a really good meme joke thread something from reddit I saw where it's like my friend came over one night and asked if he could use my USB port to charge his cigarette but I was using it to charge my book the future is stupid haha I one time when I was a statement exaggeration actually yeah i-i've one saw a guy charging his uh ecig on his laptop oh and at first I thought he was like downloading something come on software update for you yeah it actually also runs iOS test is just yeah anyone out there charge something weird or anticipate what's the next thing we're going to have to add to our charging repertoire we want to know also anyone out there want to get the shoes let's all go in together because we're probably gonna have to chip in all of our money tight know that that's the real hook there like how much of these things gonna cost I think they'll be pretty cheap think so no no man it's like it's they're gonna position it as new technology new technologies ever see if anything it might be released on a limited sale and then a bunch of people are gonna like resell it for much higher I mean that's what they did with the limited releases hi mags well the Air Mags cost how much does those were fortune yeah as I'm collector item yeah it was eliminating release no but I don't think that this is gonna be a cheap shoe yes so remember when they did the Pepsi thing too that was so last year yeah yeah that was like twenty bucks a bottle or so crazy like that yeah I mean it's a collector item if you drank that you're stupid yes cuz it's just been see houses Pepsi who this coming from the guy who downs like for Kansas shelter in like the against healthy show Pepsi not much not much according to recent studies debatable robber is asking about kinetic kinetic charging wouldn't that be kind of an interesting feature to see if I shoes could charge like other charts himself watches back in the day bingo yeah that actually makes a ton of sense how is that not native that's why I thought they didn't need to be charged but i guess not that thing has a does it have a micro USB port or maybe yeah i don't think anybody's got a wave does it gotta like water kind of like edward actually does that mean that these shoes aren't waterproof if you have to charge them uh not necessarily i mean you know your iphones waterproof so now it is by holidays I don't that's a really good question I don't um you know I thinking back to the the hyper dunks that LeBron ahir to hit a pair of smart shoes a few years back but it was like a sensor that was in the soul that was waterproof fellas very water resistant so I don't I can't imagine this one isn't work with they can't it starts raining yeah shoes the shoes in it anymore yeah by Samsung Samsung suncor's oh they're just gonna take that fur never however let it go know how to go how about solar powered phones solar powered phones I feel like that would not be that practical aren't there there's solar batteries out there are solar chargers yeah yeah exactly problem is they don't collect energy fast enough for your phone yeah you need a sergeant surface area to do the trick right and for the the ones that are portable enough it takes hours upon hours for to actually work and so to to embed solar panels into a phone even if it was a large phone it would take days for that phone to fully charge we've actually the plug our road trip package I mean our reporters went out to the budgeteers refugee camp solar chargers are a main source of power for a lot of these refugees yeah and the issue is like they could get maybe a five percent charge from that thing after a little while and then someone else it's got to come in and use a charge but it's it's not very efficient Hassan is in school right now and he's not supposed to be wise YouTube rebel I love it a son you are a kindred spirit we salute you good luck and enjoy detention tonight there you go what what school do you go to yes on where are you we're not gonna report you but should be should be learning instead yes well hopefully we're judging you he's so learning valuable lessons about sneakers sneakers yeah fashion the right kind of fashion go well we're happy to have you yes um what else cord-cutting let's talk or coding we always talk cord coding yeah i mean look court kinase a favorite subject of mine i was a cord cutter for a while but actually once i moved back to the move to the burbs i ended up buying like a full package of verizon fios services i'm pretty sure once like my two-year promotional ray comes up i will be a court cutter again well now that they're putting sports on twitter there's no reason yeah not much yeah yeah yeah whoa email just realized I don't want to watch my TV all that often I mean I spend most of our time if i watch stuff it's on my phone or my tablet and it's usually the like HBO Go or Netflix that just I don't watch traditional TV although yeah I don't know if I exactly count as a cord cutter only because I have an antenna like one of those oh yeah yeah one so i did i had the same deal when i was in the city i didn't pay for any subscription TV surface but i did have an antenna that got me at least the basic channels yeah so I watching olympics in sports that's pretty much all I need yeah then 10 actually covers you for a decent mountain sports your movie you're pretty good and that's that's free if you can get reception yeah the city that can be a tricky thing yeah that's kind of what I go through yeah it was great in my old apartment with my new one there's like a tree that blocks on PBS for me so it's very unfortunate is it a trump tree uh got a misshapen topics just the leaves are always orange yeah public broadcast is a pain on the tax dollars uh and as anyone tried all o it like firsthand here haven't tried first hand yet I am interested in you know chatting with the chat BOTS and seeing if Google Google assistant is as as human as you know they're they're pushing it to be I think the chat pod feature is great because it's it's basically real-time fact checking on people where you know they say something and then I can just do at Google and then you're wrong and this is why I look I think there's so many snarky replies that people can use with a low I was thinking more if you're lonely he has to talk to you finally have someone a message if you have no friends you have google so you can always message us on the 359 by the way there you go uh vid effects is really dreaming big here what about a phone makes food for you but and then when it's lost you it knows your gps assuming you got a chip in you and it just walks back to you wow that is a that is a pretty fantastic division in big yeah well I wouldn't mind the phone that cooks for you that listen we paid we just got self-lacing shoes let's wait a little bit right I don't think a phone would be a good cook probably not I don't know probably better cook than me it's like chopped terrible battle tradition I'm terrible yeah let's uh let's put some money down let's take bets on how long a low will last before we wrap this up what's how long will all OH be out there before it goes the way of the wave I think it'll be I think a bit around for a while just because of google assistant google has I think they're betting a lot on this AI there's this battle of chat bots or battle bots going on between all these other companies so if they want to keep google assistant relevant they're going to want to keep pushing google this they're gonna push google home they're gonna push everything that use a Google assistant and so I think for that sake you know they'll try to keep it relevant they'll try to keep I think let start moving services into it or they start prioritizing a low they'll find ways to make it relevant the other ones have been kind of a experimenting hangouts is successful but yeah I mean I think it'll be around for a while I mean eventually that technology can be repurposed though the AI is its own thing whether y'all owe itself lasts in its encapsulated form right as you know maybe it's folded at a hangouts yeah that I think that's probably more likely they just keep the Google wall is just covered in crap that they've thrown to see what sticks and now that's how they operate yeah they've got the money to do it and we wish you the best of it affects he says thanks for the inspiration this is what I'm planning to do when I graduate we are rooting via the phone that cooks food for you yeah yes I want to see it do it man I'm serious that's uh that's inspired I'm that that's kickstarter fodder right there oh yeah I don't know anybody who wouldn't want that we would spill some serious take the phone that makes potato salad yes oh my god yes let's combine all of your circle yes full circle all right that's probably a good good place to rest of the day all right thanks for listening everyone if you like anything you saw or heard here chicks on cnet our podcast is also available on itunes google play soundcloud feedburner and TuneIn see you all tomorrow you