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good morning on Thursday what is it november seven november seventeenth i just said it out right before we started i'm already lost so all right we're done shut it down goodnight number 17 oh my god it is no the last Friday is next week yes oh wait no Thanksgiving too yeah really get excited most American thing I've ever heard sorry everybody America merica America's what do we what's great about America blood running above you America speaking of America what are we talking about today what Zach not America we are talking about sex that's oh my god better you can be able to get to this without giggling no but it's so why it's a big deal no we're gonna talk about a recent survey that found that the nearly four in 10 Americans would give up a year of sex uh for a lifetime of free of hacks guaranteed free of hacks the cyber cyber cyber okay getting a lifetime observer survey of a hypothetical right okay I mean look it's it's a legit survey harris poll did it I was completion it was commissioned by scientific it was commissioned by a password management company so okay it's not surprising but still weird over time on that we'll talk about Qualcomm's latest flagship chip Snapdragon 835 and why you should care about it there are reasons and not just like super kinky reasons I don't then I understand which we'll talk about on the show we will talk about I then lastly we're going talking about Firefox's new browser for the iphone the Firefox focus up which blocks ad tracking technology which is no nice if you want to look at procedure let's speed things up beat things and also speed things up and privacy right perhaps they market themselves and that privacy browser e all right let's uh let's get it going if you have any questions as always leave them in the comments section Brian Wolfe will pick them out and we'll do our best to answer them alrighty we'll get this podcast recorded be back to answer your questions in three minutes and 59 seconds starting from 32 welcome to the 359 when we talk about the top tech news of the day and all the crap of the crap number we're just gonna start that over again take it up pick it up welcome to the 359 where we talked about the top tech news of the day and all the other crappy the hell are you serious yeah it's you know I'll a you're going on going into vacation mode or I am sorry guys I'm like some of us are stuck here let's get this done hutch sorry yeah I've already checked out mentally apparently sorry all right um welcome to the 359 when we talk about the top tech news of the day only the crap we want to throw in I'm Roger Cheng I'm Ben Fox Rubin would you give up sex for one year in exchange for a guaranteed lifetime free from hacks nearly four in ten Americans say yes according to a harris poll commissioned by password management company dashlane the numbers illustrate just how important the cyber as our president elect would put it is important to our lives then is this something you would give up oh come on that's what you're gonna ask yeah yeah I'm a serious journalist I swear oh nothing magnetical your life that's a hypothetical when we see in that place is fun calls are often wrong yes but it's a fun question that's an interesting question and obviously as you said conveys the fact that you know hacks are becoming much more prevalent and people are very concerned about them to actually ask people if they'd give up sex over them I think which is on one extreme but but it's also kind of standard survey type question totally always hear the whole I would give up sex for whatever right so in this case it is for a lifetime free of hacks that's I don't know it's not bad it's an interesting trade-off of that could actually be guaranteed I think what's good about the survey is is that it is trying to highlight the fact that people aren't practicing safe cyber yes so they should be doing a better job with that what are some of the things that we can tell our viewers that they should do to improve their cyber absolutely welcome I mean this is partly why dash line put it put this pull together right they basically want folks using password management companies like dash okay right sure but you could also like change your password around race different password more complicated password more complicated passwords can all be one two three four five which is still the number one password used in though in America unbelievable also uh one of my favorite passwords password it's so literal I know I would like you whatever it's anyways we talked about that a lot moving on next next Qualcomm unveiled its flagship Snapdragon 835 chip yesterday most likely will make its way to flagship phones like the samsung galaxy s 8 uses a 10 nanometer manufacturing process I mean believable very exact ben and i are excited about the it's a fancy way of saying that they're packing it even more transistors more processing power into a smaller chip ultimately leading to a phone that is smaller thinner faster faster and can last longer bet ya last longer because he uses less energy right and there's the marquee benefit speaking of energy is quick charge four-point-oh which lets you get up to five hours of battery life on a five-minute charge right so I can understand why people might not get too excited about this because it's like a continuation of speeds and feeds or anybody expects this kind of thing just found a chip it's just another chip and but it's always helpful to remember that these are the types of win-win wins that you do get with the improvements in nodes and you know 10 nanometer technology is going to help you get a lot of benefits out of your smartphone unless by the way unless you're not iphone user because this Qualcomm processor is not going to be in the iPhone because Apple makes or designs its own processor maybe they'll do 10 nanometer how often do they talk about 10 nanometer on silent era bad at all because that's not fit for actual normal people right except for except for us and our beloved beloved 359 audience so lastly want to talk about Mozilla releasing a new browser for iphones and ipads called the firefox focus mm-hmm you know it's there pushing it as the privacy browser because it is designed to block ads from tracking your web activities right and not only is a privacy but it is supposed to actually speed up your web browsing which I think is really helpful one thing that you're definitely not going to get with chrome right because Google makes so much of its money off of ads it's obviously it seems very unlikely to me that they're going to create ad blocking technology for that now there are other ad blocking browsers brave and opera off for the same kind of features they're not as well known so Firefox Elise is kind of known quantities so give it a shot it's out now it's check it out of the app store just a note will be going on hiatus next week to really celebrate thanksgiving and black friday mmm but we'll be back the following week so for more about these stories check us out and Cena I'm Roger Cheng I'm Ben Fox ribbon thanks for listening all right Michael how'd we do Michaels in the chat timing us know Oh way long way long but then we had a disclaimer next ten seconds off on their ya make it fast that's pretty good that's lets you know that early bird in 30 seconds try to see the intros trying to say that helps trap yeah here's also a good question for Michael what if you can choose what's getting hacked so like some people might not care if my netflix get tacked right and then you only have to credit card or PayPal that would suck oh well and then you would only have to forego sex for what six months so we're getting into a degree and sex for actually yeah I'd love that I'd love to see from our readers like how like what is the length of sex what you get would you give up for that lifetime of cybersecurity maybe it's not a year maybe it's less maybe it's six months maybe it's a week I don't know what it's a week what is your what is your threshold I'll remind you that we were talking about 10 nanometer earlier today so I don't know how much any of us are having sex uh-huh Michael also says he's excited for the Qualcomm samsung chip hope they don't have any exploding issues with it that is definitely true they did have their own issues before note right um before what oh no yeah definitely Rosalie that dragonship before were had the reports that they overheated that is absolutely not a year ago those were uh that was that was back when I was covering chip so that was yeah year year and a half ago yeah so I think that was with the snap jag Dragon II 20 or 80 I know I think it was the 801 820 was last year's or this year's it was in the galaxy s7 yeah so that no one before that there were you can see a lot of overheating rumors and stories about it I don't know that we ever actually got down to finding out whether it was something negative that was floated right about Snapdragon or that it was in fact like serious over here all we know is last year's samsung mysteriously dropped samsung or qualcomm from its lineup in terms of chips powering his phone and then this year it came back and yeah and they're working together so speaking of that michael says it's nice as he major companies still willing to work with samsung despite their struggles yeah well huge platform yeah and in terms of this i mean they are they're working with qualcomm is working on samsung to manufacture the chip and it's they've had a pretty long-standing partnership from a chip manufacturing perspective as well right just not just using chips in the phone but Bradley sampling she built those things yeah in qualcomm really does need samsung they're a really important partner with them and samsung buys the whole chip the whole Snapdragon trip which is both the processor and the radio as opposed to Apple which only buys the radio which isn't as profitable for Qualcomm so Qualcomm is definitely going to do as much as it can to maintain that relationship as we've already seen so first up four minutes and 22 seconds today Wow it was pretty bad you can join that up yeah I stopped talking after you said fire fox fox focus partly because it's hard to say that firefox focus yeah say that three times fast scanning the chat we got a lot of knows when not give up sex for anything all right ah there you go but i'm happy to hear that there are some people in the chat who would in fact there are some who are in fact a sexual and i'm curious then what would you give up for cybersecurity hi okay what cream no we don't ice cream nope hahaha no way haha here come the lactose intolerant uh um so here is a good question what what do you think is the best browser now i'm gonna go ahead and curtail that towards mobile since we're talking about the firefox phone what what do you prefer I actually I still tend to use safari just because it links up with a lot of the other Apple services whether it's you know clipboard or whatever like it all kind of ties together a lot better i mean i switch between that and chrome yeah i use safari because of defaults but I don't like safari so I try to use chrome as often as possible I am trying to just Firefox focus yeah pretty interested in it yeah definitely I think it definitely it's it's I haven't used firefox and the early as often as I used to firefox used to be my default browser on pc for the year it was for a lot of for a lot of people and then chrome showed up and chrome stole that market from them it was way fast but a murders absolutely murders your resources yeah yeah so if firefox which i think they were very smart to do this if they rightly start focusing on speeding things up through ads that's an area that Google is just not gonna fight them on because yeah just it's there's no way chrome i think is going to google spring butter well they do provide the ad block or extension right so it's not like it's completely they avoid it entirely but at the same time if you can just download the browser and you could just use it right out of the box obviously people are probably going to like that a little bit more right we've got fans of opera and spanning up from that what do you think about browsers are for android since you guys are for referring to your iphone experiences you know what I for my like for my samsung fine I tend to use default browser Chrome maybe we're just lazy people just 10 feet or chrome is the default on Android yeah yeah yeah okay obviously yeah that makes sense I haven't used opera or brave we should really get stephen shankland in here because he is the the true browser expert probably in the tech torque hoarding world probably just like in the world in the world I get reporting right like he probably knows more about browsers than folks at Mozilla yeah yeah yeah so I and and I've seen some of the studies I think chrome is very much the default for most people these days and we'll see because its default on Android right yeah and we'll see if this really does help Firefox I think they've been trying to keep themselves relevant and this this to me sounds like it could actually it kind of struggled on the mobile side allow them have like opera I know I know some people use opera because it is a pretty fast browser on the phone it was known as sort of like a desktop browser and now it's like or sort of it was a mobile browser as well but just not for like the smartphone age and so these guys have been kind of slow to embrace mobile in a real way and so it's that's why you don't see a lot people using it yeah I mean a lot of this kind of spans from loyalty I mean I I live my life on Google so I like chrome obviously integration with my calendar same deal like Safari I feel like they'll everything integrates wells as far as one uses slower though I really have I don't really like Safari that much to use at all if I can help it my own why you switch the chrome I do I use I use chrome almost entirely but like when you do click through sometimes Safari will do it'll it'll pop up Safari I like Safari and opera only because they eat the least amount of RAM mmm yeah I wonder Firefox had ever break into their own hardware for the sake of INEC well they tried for a while Firefox phone they did that happened I completely missed that boat was a face mask on one not really like they were like maybe one or two one offs that were built the whole pitch for Firefox phone was it was super cheap mm-hmm and it was an operating system built along the same kind of web architecture that Firefox is built on and no one really bought it so it kind of got scrapped and it's done gotcha and there yeah just kind of poor business model home as well do you think because of battery gate we unalike we've been set free they're phrase i prefer Ghazis for my taste battery noisy you think because of better great we might see some companies start experimenting with other material for batteries like hemp or hydrogen nothing hydrogen's a step in the right direction if we're gonna try to avoid explosion oh I'm I'm how does that work I'm admittedly not a battery expert however I think almost all of the research going into battery technology this these days is focused on lithium ion yeah so yeah there are it's not perfect there are resources being put into sort of next gen bio tech but we're talking like at MIT like at research facilities were like most of the stuff is theoretical or will be practical for years yes so a lot of it is that's why right now in terms of innovation the only innovation in batteries is making it bigger that's that's it like bright you want more better life will give you a bigger battery that's basically it there's no real easy fix right now because it's also the entire industries come built around within my own batteries to move to a new battery technology would require like a kind of wholesale change from everyone and as you can see with other tech transitions that's really difficult and painful and so it's easier for a lot of people stick with lithium-ion yeah obviously lithium-ion got a bad rap not only from the samsung phone but I think lithium-ion batteries were the reason those hoverboards we're exploding so the it's not a perfect system at all but I think as you said the entire tech industry is built around it so I think they're going to try to continue to improve lithium-ion as opposed to going with some of those more experimental concepts that the reader mentioned and you know if you got things like quick charge that sort of helps offset the pain of you know the better life being as limited as it is right yeah so i wouldn't mind having that on iphone otherwise quite charge charge yeah yeah like that's one of those one of those features that are on android phones now that kind of wish Apple incorporated I could definitely use that especially after a two-year old iphone that hardly barely or the charge yeah the percent by the guy I would argue that like even on an android phone like a two-year android phone yeah but like be is a fun quick charge makes it like less painful like charger in a day even though it's you'll see you like little see like but I can't change for you to other topics before shut it down for the day do we know of any other browsers besides opera that come with integrated VPN uh I gained shankland yeah I don't wish Steve Jenks is good just go bug share it on Twitter much fun very good question but asked Steven st shank just ask him or Twitter yeah he'll probably ask us we'd love to answer yeah yeah and we talk about privacy and browsing what about incognito is that actually safe as they're actually real privacy there yeah I mean speaking of giving up sex so down I was wondering when we were gonna be actually yeah they said it's an abstract stream and I just brought it full circle there you go yeah um there are disclosures when you open incognito that there are still certain cookies and there you're there are different lor subs you are vulnerable to like malware and it's not a security not blank security right it's like it'll bite your history it's not going to track your history but there are other things that are being tracked so yeah it's it's not impervious to being tracked at all nope nope nope um one last shout out and thank you too so that he points out that hemp can provide a better ampere told and longer-lasting discharged and lithium ion and the cost of production is astronomically lower that we know that we obviously know that's so you know if you you know that I didn't know that I didn't know anything about it okay that I was in calera see theory but the industry itself is a lot of Miss potential so Brian knows let's just make that clear Brian you that we did not know that a lot of people know that I sir I i would bet you if you ask ten people in the street you get maybe seven people looking at you really what am used to hemp batteries that hemp yeah that hemp holds a better amperage and his would be cheaper to produce as a better it would be cheaper to produce ism now I've never really understood the technology or the the science behind hemp being used as a energy storage device but as far as its versatility that's pretty common knowledge I also told you why I am learning something today I didn't know any of this okay no not going to present to be some kind of expert in it but it's one of those things where you browse enough headlines you see enough stuff about him when you start to pick up a few things mm-hmm I mean I know him can be used for a lot of things I didn't realize a battery would be one I did not know that either I'm not a surprise heart was made from hemp that shirt know was how you got that shirt for my gap or something close enough alright we're at it let's wrap it up there again as uh just a reminder we're gonna be off next week yeah and then I'll be back just my 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