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2:31Huyen Tue Dao: This is the Daily Tech News for Thursday, August 6th, 2026. We tell you what you need to know, give you important context, and help each other understand. Today is home theater day on the show. Yay! We have the new Adobe Vision 2 for Hisense, a new sunbar that doesn't need a subwoofer, and Bose's first new QuietComfort headphones in three years. Yeah, I like this. Good stuff to talk about today. I'm Tom Merritt. I'm going to do it now. Let's start with what you need to know with that big story. So yeah, Bose has launched an update to its ubiquitous QuietComfort headphones found in first class and business class cabins around the world, as well as a lot of people's houses.

3:15Huyen Tue Dao: this is the first update to quiet comfort in three years so let's go through a few of the improvements cinema mode making dialogue clearer on movies and tv very popular feature these days in audio on televisions immersive audio which used to be exclusive to the ultra series in fact a lot of the ultra features are coming to the regular quiet comforts this uses motion sensors in the headphones so you can mimic a 3D soundstage. And when you look to the left, you get closer to the sound, that kind of thing. Spatial audio, basically. USB-C audio is now supported. No longer get a 2.5, 3.5 millimeter headphone jack.

3:56Huyen Tue Dao: You get USB-C two-way audio. So you can use them wired if you want and get 24-bit, 48 kilohertz lossless audio. And because it's two-way, it helps you sound better too if you're using those headphones on a video conference. You can also use them while charging. So when you're plugged into USB-C for listening, it can charge off of your device. And they say battery life is 24 hours. So hopefully you won't even have to do that all that long. There are also unsurprising improvements like, oh, the noise cancellation got better. One of the ways it got better is Bose says it can compensate for gaps in the cup seal.

4:32Huyen Tue Dao: So if you wear glasses, you might have a little gap there. It's going to compensate better. And then Active Sense can handle sudden spikes in noise. You know, I don't know, car honking, something like that. Headband has a sliding design. Cushions are more cushiony and now more oval. They call them pill shaped. Supposedly that's going to make them more comfortable. And the new second gen Bose QuietComfort headphones are available for pre-order on August 8th, shipping August 13th for$359. dollars oh so exciting bo's quiet comfort the i don't know would you call it like the poster child or like the og or the yeah poster child's kind of kind of the way because i i know there are varying opinions uh it used to be that like the serious audio files were like bows aren't that great then there was a backlash of like new audio files saying those old audio files are being unfairly harsh on bows they're they're better than you think uh but i i think it's the truth is somewhere in between like both Bose headphones are pretty good maybe they are not the very best that you could possibly get but for 359 dollars you know that's a mid-range price uh you get probably better than mid-range audio quality it does sound good so this is so funny because recently i met a new friend who works at sony like pro like like sony in japan oh yeah and i had mentioned because he actually worked on the sony oh i'm gonna get the name of that wrong but basically the the pairing app on your phone i think it's sony sound connect so anyway we were talking about stuff And he was letting me know that they had just released their Sony collection at C-O-L-L-E-X-I-O-N.

6:07And they sounded great. They're very high end. They're much more expensive than any kind of like the usual suspects. I think either as expensive or a little more expensive than the AirPod Max. Anyway, I bought them because I'm also just a sucker for the Sonys. But also, I kind of just had credit card points to spend. But what came up was that these particular headphones, even though they are so expensive and they are rather new, don't have USB-C audio. And to be honest, even as someone who wears like headphones constantly between programming, work and traveling all the time, I actually – honestly, I didn't really know USB-C audio was a thing because I just didn't.

6:47Maybe that makes me a bad tech person now, but I didn't. and I was chatting with some friends and it feels like for a lot of people, USB-C audio is now a deal breaker when it comes to headphones. Do you feel that way? Like, do you use USB-C audio?

7:00Huyen Tue Dao: Like deal breaker? Like if it doesn't have USB-C, I'm not getting them. We don't want it. Yeah. Yeah. I think the, the disappearance of the headphone jack on so many devices, including my iPad right in front of me, I was a little disappointed to upgrade that I had to give up the, the mini jack. I think that has caused a lot of people to say, well, I want to not have to use an adapter to plug in my headphones. I want to just go USB-C and get all the advantages that I can get when I have a direct USB-C connection there. Because you can, you know, support some higher quality audio directly that way.

7:36Huyen Tue Dao: You know, and again, it's like the argument over Bose. Some people are like, yes, but the audio quality is more pure when you, you know, use the mini jack and all of that. But yeah, it's not a deal breaker for me. I'll do whatever as long as the headphones sound good. um i'm more about comfort and adaptability right and so so usbc to me is important because it means i don't have to think about an adapter yeah i did i did and so um now you have just recently informed me that it is two-way sound which does sound intriguing especially when you're traveling because honestly most bluetooth microphone or microsoft bluetooth headphones sound like garbo so that does sound very interesting but i don't know um i for me i didn't use them so it's something i didn't know i needed so i was just curious just because comfort for me was a big thing and honestly the reason i did actually keep the collection collection collection collection is that they were the most comfortable headphones i'd put on because i don't know what it is about my ears but even i had like the audio technica whatever i can't i can't remember model numbers but whatever the their flavor of bluetooth uh noise cancelling headphones um they just weren't comfortable.

8:44I could wear that for maybe an hour or two and then my ears get that weird pressure thing. So I think that's just, but yeah, for sure, whatever you want, especially for comfort, just as someone who travels a lot and just wants to keep those headphones on on the plane, maybe quiet comfort is for you.

8:58Huyen Tue Dao: Yeah, I guess if you're the kind of person who's like, I'm going to listen to one side of a Coltrane album and I want the perfect sound, then you don't care about comfort. You care about audio quality above all else. But yeah, I think comfort it's pretty ubiquitous as something people want to be able to listen for a long time if they're spending that much on headphones here. These aren't crazy expensive at$359. They're not cheap either, but they are right there a little bit cheaper than AirPods Max. And I believe people are expecting Apple to come out with new AirPods Max soon. And so Bose is going to get some competition from them.

9:34Huyen Tue Dao: While we're talking home theater stuff, reviews are out for the Samsung QS90H. Ah, tripping off the tongue. You'll never forget that model number if you don't already know it. QS90H, which Engadget says, delivers on bass without needing a separate subwoofer. So the way they have positioned the subwoofers that are in the actual soundbar, Engadget says, works impressively. Has a decent amount of other features as well, especially if you have a Samsung TV. It can use the Samsung TV to expand the sound through the TV's built-in speaker. It also works lying flat or facing out. It has some gimbals that can rotate the speakers, something Samsung calls convertible fit.

10:16Huyen Tue Dao: That one lists for a thousand bucks. But if you go to Samsung right now, they have a sale of$850. Not sure how long that will last. But when Samsung does it directly, I kind of consider that to be the current list price. then there's Dolby Vision 2 launching on 2026 Hisense TVs the UX, UR9, UR8 and U7 that includes dynamic color adjustments for every scene they call that content intelligence Light Sense 2 is a tweak based on the lighting conditions in your room so they take into account whether you're in a bright room or a dark room and then Authentic Motion attempts to smooth out the jerky scenes without going full soap opera to get to get you the benefits of emotion smoothing like you have with sports on regular stuff without making everyone go insane uh peacock canal plus and iqie have already announced support for dolby vision too so there will be some content out there no word on when we have it coming to more hardware makers though that samsung qs90h such a cool name qs90h h uh the qs90h does sound pretty cool i have a very simple question what does lying flat or okay i i'm guessing lying flat is just putting the bar on the shelf what does facing out mean do they not always face out like you can you can have it mounted on a wall or you could just have it laying down if you're in a small room and okay you know you want you you don't have the place i don't know it gives you gives you flexibility in the room design honestly i'm curious too if anyone is like no i need lying flat this is why feedback at dailytechnewshow.com I'd like to know.

11:55Okay. Um, other than that, yeah. Like, uh, really, really cool. Um, I, yeah. Are you, are you in the market for any of these things?

12:03Huyen Tue Dao: You know, I have a Vizio soundbar. It's getting a little long in the tooth. It has always had problems like losing its connection. I have to turn it off and turn it on like every several months. Doesn't happen all the time. Um, and otherwise it works fine. So I don't really need a new soundbar, but then I look at this and I'm like, oh man, if it wasn't a thousand bucks, which it's not, it's 850 bucks. But if it wasn't so expensive, I might jump on this because I like the idea of not needing the subwoofer, which I have the wireless subwoofer. It works fine. I don't have a problem with it, but it would be a little more space in the room that I wouldn't have to take up.

12:41Is there a similar set of folks that believe that having a subwoofer is a superior experience? Because thinking about it, my husband controls the audio setup in our basement where this would go if we had one is there an advantage to actually having a separate subwoofer or is it just more that usually yes usually it's like well

12:58Huyen Tue Dao: yeah your base is going to be a lot more rich but in gadgets saying and i'd like to see a few more uh reviewers uh verify this that uh this was this was almost there like yes a separate subwoofer is still always going to be better uh but if you're not extraordinarily picky you get an impressive amount of bass out of these. Okay. So I can, I can, I can have my wall shake from the possibly. That's what they're saying. I don't know. I haven't tried it. Please someone try this and let us know if you get the properly. How many do you get out of the QS 90 H? Oh my goodness. All right. Well, you know what?

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16:25Huyen Tue Dao: All right, there's more to talk about. Let's get to the briefs. All right, well, Vitor just announced its newest plug-in smart glasses, the Vitor Pro 2. The wearable monitors look like glasses, plug into your devices via USB, and weigh 63 grams, lighter than any of its other models. It's also 16 % thinner than the original Pro. There's also upgraded temple padding, a wider range of nose pad adjustments, and a lens shade. The Sony Micro OLED displays have a 50-degree field of view, equivalent to a 147-inch screen viewed from 13 feet away, can reach 16 ,000 nits of peak brightness and have a built-in diopter that can adjust for each eye from zero to minus 5.00D, meaning some near-sighted folks may not need prescription inserts.

17:13Virtu, sorry, the Vitru, oh my gosh, now I just lost it. The Vitru Pro starts at$299. They also launched the MobileDoc Mini, which at 250 grams is 34 % smaller and 30 % lighter than the previous dock its main feature is a stonking 10 000 milliamp battery it supports the switch 2

17:34Huyen Tue Dao: as well and it is 99 yeah i think it was uh 1600 nits of peak brightness i'm sorry there no no no that's my fault i'm the one who wrote it i was wondering yeah i should have noticed that someone out there was like 16 000 i'll go blind i'm sorry i should have caught that i was like I was just thinking, oh, that's very bright. But I do think that the key here is that the dials on the top. So if you take a look at these, there's a dial on the top of each of the frame above each lens so that you can dial in. Like nobody's eyes are exactly the same. That's why they cover one eye when you go to the eye doctor.

18:20Huyen Tue Dao: And so you can dial them in exactly for your eyes. Now, granted, this is not going to help me because I'm farsighted. but if you're nearsighted this is great and and stronger prescriptions obviously the negative five would still need the prescription inserts but this is going to cover a lot of people I think that's pretty cool I think it actually might cover me and that's something that I do have a problem with I'm nearsighted but not nearsighted enough to have to always wear glasses I generally wear them at night when I'm driving you know very specific well I really need maximum vision but And I do love face displays.

18:51I have one of the Real Maxes, and I really do enjoy it. And I think it actually would be advantageous for me, especially when I'm traveling and I'm programming and I need more extra virtual screen space. It actually is really fun. I got into it. But because of my nearsightedness, and as you said, everybody's eyes are different. I think it's my left eye that's super nearsighted. One of them is worse than the other. I can't tell you now. But that is something that kind of reduces, not necessarily the utility of my glasses, but the comfort. After a while, it just starts to feel uncomfortable because of that little bit of difference.

19:24I would actually love to try and see if I can actually max it out. Because other than that, I really do like them. It's just I cannot use them for a long period of time, which I wouldn't say negates using them, but kind of just tamps it down a little bit.

19:36Huyen Tue Dao: Yeah, yeah. And these are lighter, too. They look like regular glasses, which again, you're not going to be walking around wearing these because these need to be plugged into your device. But but they're cool. They're very they're the entry level, even though they're called the Pro, which is kind of weird. But they're the entry level, similar to the new X-Reels that just came out. I have accidentally tried to walk around with my X-Reels on because I kind of because because it had that has a feature where it can detect whether you look up. So it darkens the screen and I just start standing up and all of a sudden my laptop starts shifting off the couch.

20:06I was like, oh, no. So, yes, don't do that.

20:09Huyen Tue Dao: I was testing them out outside in the backyard to see how good the dimming would work. You know, I was playing with the dog while testing the X-Reel. Yeah. And then that mobile dock is mostly for Nintendo users because it allows you to support. You can't just plug the Nintendo directly into the Vichiers, but with the mobile dock, you can. And$99 is cheaper than the bigger dock, too. So that's helpful. Speaking of Nintendo, Nintendo announced Switch 2 sales dropped 34.4 % year over year to 3.82 million units. That's still a lot of units, though, and Nintendo has subsequently not changed its forecast.

20:44Huyen Tue Dao: It still believes it can sell 16.5 million units by the end of March next year. And we've got a price rise coming. So this drop comes before the price in the U.S. goes from$450 to$500 on September 1st. but nintendo software sales rose year over year that's where it really makes its money uh and nintendo also uh trumpeted the fact that the super mario galaxy movie generated more than a billion dollars in global box office revenue since it released on april 1st nintendo doesn't get to keep all that revenue but they get a cut of it uh and it is the second highest grossing film ever based on a video game so they get that kind of bragging right and since we're talking nintendo Mojang confirmed that a Switch 2 version of Minecraft will arrive on October 27th.

21:28Huyen Tue Dao: Switch 1 owners will be able to play it, but they'll probably have to pay to upgrade to it. Is it unrealistic or surprising that they have kept the forecast given the drop in sales? Or is it maybe logical given that, for example, something like the Switch 2 getting Minecraft feels like a really big deal? Do people, I mean, is Minecraft still like super huge? I assume so. Yeah, it's still pretty big. So is it on the back of things like, say something like this kind of collaboration where they expect that, oh my gosh, Switch 2 has Minecraft. People are going to actually go for it. And not that a price rise is not good, but it's$450 to$500, I think you said.

22:04So it's not, I mean, it's not the worst price rise.

22:08Huyen Tue Dao: Psychologically, it's not crazy damage. It's not crazy damage, yeah, exactly. Yeah, I think they probably expected a drop in the summer. They're like, yeah, we're going to launch in June. And then by next June, a lot of people will have bought it. So we'll have a drop. And then in the holidays, we'll pick back up again because people will buy them, we'll get new Minecraft, we'll get other new games, and people will want them in the holiday period. So I feel like they must have built in the expectation of a drop. 34 % seems a little steep to me, but they think they can make it up, I guess. So there you go.

22:43Well, good luck to them. Yeah. Google is expanding its Ask Maps feature in English to more than 150 countries, and Maps is getting access to personal intelligence, if you have it turned on, which can use info from your emails and calendar. And a live transit widget will keep you updated on delays on your train or bus. In the US, Google has added the ability to ask Gemini to order food, book a hotel, or find attractions. It does all the booking up to the payment screen when it asks you to review and confirm you want to book it.

23:13Huyen Tue Dao: Yeah, this is, I might try this. I haven't used a lot of the Ask Maps features to this point. Or when I've tried to use them, they haven't worked as advertised in like, hey, I need to find all the places that have pepperoni pizza near me. And it shows me a sushi shop. And I'm like, I don't think that's right. So I'm still a little skeptical of this. I would like to see, and it works with Toast and Uber Eats and Square for payments as well. So I might try to be like, hey, you know, I want something that's not going to take more than 30 minutes and has delicious nachos. What you got? And then I like that, of course, gets to the payment screen.

23:55Huyen Tue Dao: Like, is this what you want? You could add more at that point or you can say, nope, yep, let's pay. And it lets you do the paying. at that point. So it's agentic up to a point. Same with the hotel booking. It's just going to take you up to the booking and say, great, I'm going to send this to the website. And then you can finish your booking from there. Um, which I think makes a lot of people more comfortable and the attractions thing, obviously they're not booking the attractions. They're just like, you know, what, what, what's a, uh, what's a fun comedy club in this neighborhood? Are there restaurants near my hotel?

24:24Huyen Tue Dao: That kind of stuff. Yeah. As someone who I guess enjoys a little bit strong but i do a lot of trip planning and i suppose that there's some things that i enjoy about it or that i'm very picky about but at the same time it's very time consuming i would be kind of curious especially for attractions because especially like as someone who just like if i go somewhere new i don't really know what i'm missing out on so it hopefully that would have that kind of not randomness but that kind of like it could bring me some novel ideas which i think is is what you know these kind of searches are good for i do think it's so interesting um google really does seem to be pushing the intelligence or their intelligences, intelligentsia this year, because of course there's personal intelligence and Android and Faith, we were talking about how they've kind of rebranded Gemini AI as Gemini intelligence.

25:07So kind of emphasizing the I part of AI. But I do think that for personal intelligence and maps, as long as you're comfortable with that interconnectedness of your data, I can't complain about having maps be connected to my emails and calendar. How many times have you been in your car and wondering, okay what was that appointment or what was that like note from someone that i had to go to this place or whatever so it just seems to make sense and kind of like what the promise of a lot of this like intelligence and and kind of again giving google data and hoping to get something positive

25:36Huyen Tue Dao: back for it i'm kind of into it we'll see yeah i if it works as advertised i'm i'm there i'm into it too i just i i've had various experiences in like oh this is the kind of thing that personal intelligence ought to be able to help me with, or Ask Maps would be able to help me with. And sometimes it does, but it's not yet consistent. I know it'll get there. It's just, I'm waiting for it to get there. So I don't think about it. All right. Well, what are you thinking about? Is it how much oonce is coming out of your soundbar? Is it like glasses? Let us know. We would love to hear it. And you can always get in touch with us on the socials at DTS show on X, Instagram threads, Blue Sky and Mastodon for TikTok and YouTube, you can find us at Daily Tech News Show.

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27:36Huyen Tue Dao: All right, let's get to the quick headlines. These are the uns uns of headlines. Well, OpenAI revealed that during model testing in early May, agents created a message board in OpenAI's artifactory internal file systems to share info on solving hacking challenges with each other twice, recreating the system after it was found and removed. Yeah. My reaction to this is like there was a similar AISI situation where they created something on GitHub. And you just have to know, like, yes, these systems are capable of these things. They are amoral. They're going to try to solve their problem. And if like creating a message board, like to share information is going to help them solve the problem, they are.

28:20Huyen Tue Dao: Like, come on, folks. Speaking of which, Meta released its own coding agent called Muse Spark, which benchmarks about even with XAI's agents. So behind Anthropic and OpenAI, but pretty decent. Meta says its model also hacked into a third party service during a security test, again, due to a misconfiguration of the testing environment, again, by Irregular, the company that was also working with Anthropic when one of its models broke containment and accessed the internet. Irregular told Bloomberg that it is, quote, developing a white paper to share best practices for containment and securely running cyber evals.

29:00Huyen Tue Dao: I can't decide if I'm mad, like, come on, y 'all, you need to be better at containment. Or if this is what they're saying, what they're claiming is these models are just getting better than we expected, faster than we expected. And so we have to change the containment practices. I'll be fair and give it a 50-50 on that one personally. That's exactly where I'm at. Yeah. All right. Well, Rockstar Games will publish an extended look at GTA 6 gameplay on Netflix at 3 p.m. Eastern, followed by its YouTube channel at 9 p.m. Yeah. Google shuffled the executive team that runs its AI research. DeepMind CEO Demis Asabas will step down from that role.

29:40Huyen Tue Dao: He co-founded DeepMind. He will stay on as chairman of DeepMind and then add the title of chief scientist at Alphabet. That seems like a little kudo perk kind of thing and gives him some freedom to pursue more projects. Jeff Dean, one of the most transformative researchers at Google, is leaving, but it's a friendly leave. He and another Googler are starting a company and Google is going to invest in it. So that seems like a, oh, Jeff has an idea. Yes, Jeff, go do that. And, you know, if it works out, you know, we'll just buy it back. And the DeepMind technology chief, Cori Covaculo, has become head of Google AI research.

30:22Huyen Tue Dao: But it doesn't look like there's a new CEO of DeepMind at this point. Well, Samsung said its foldable pre-orders are on pace to break records with orders for the Fold 8 and Fold 8 Ultra up 30 % over last year's. If you're like me, you might have been hit by a shipping delay. But still, we are all very excited, apparently, to be getting our foldables. Yeah, a lot of people, foldables are the thing. And Apple's foldable will just confirm that foldables are for real. You can now watch Netflix in 4K on Google Chrome on Windows 11 and Chrome OS. Not yet available for Linux or Mac OS. Probably won't be available for Windows 10.

31:01Huyen Tue Dao: Netflix supports 4K on Safari on Mac OS, though, already. And Microsoft Edge on Windows as well. Well, DeepSeek plans to raise prices across its services. DeepSeek says the rises will be, quote, substantial. I think that's the the I can't think of the metaphor for it. It's the cat that rang the bell. I don't know what it's called, but it's it's like you knew you had to know this was coming. DeepSeek was way too cheap. And I think a lot of those other cheap models are going to have to follow. WhatsApp is testing a feature that will let users in India add their birth date. This is in preparation for actually a couple of laws that will require it.

31:38Huyen Tue Dao: For now, though, the box is optional. And engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory have switched some devices on and other. Wait, sorry. Some device. Well, no, it's both. Some devices on and some devices off on Voyager 2 to keep enough heat generated while reducing power consumption enough to keep the distant probe going for another year. The same procedure will be performed on Voyager 1 in the coming months. the spacecraft were launched on a five-year mission in 1977. Yeah, this is a five-year mission that has just about lasted 50 years. So amazing. 10 times. And I love reading about this stuff because they're like, well, we figured that the heat from this one component was actually enough to keep this other component running.

32:29Huyen Tue Dao: so we don't have to run the heater on that component uh and it's like they are it's ingenious how they're able to keep this stuff going i remember reading about this in books as a kid like and i'm not young i'm 43 so just the fact that they're still able to you know i wouldn't call this maintenance but you know manipulate these and try to keep them going is especially as far away as they are too like they're literally outside of our solar system that's yeah yeah anyway Cool. Well, as we know, eventually they come across an alien intelligence and become V 'ger, and then we see them in Star Trek, the motion picture.

33:05Huyen Tue Dao: Finally, OpenAI will no longer enforce rate limits on free or GoPlan users as long as your prompt and your answer is just text. So you can chat till the cows come home on ChatGPT for free. If you want to do image generation, if you want to use an image or a file in your upload to your prompt, if you want to do voice mode, those will still have limits. All right. Well, we end every episode of DTNS with some shared perspective. Today, Charles has a question. Yes, indeed. Charles wrote, while listening to DTNS today, I learned that Technical Tea has been launched as a full podcast. Charles says, I know that the Tech John also continued and became a full podcast in the past.

33:48Huyen Tue Dao: Is there a list of all the podcasts that started during experiment week and successfully transitioned into full podcasts? There have been many shows I enjoyed, but never heard any more about. So I'm wondering if I'm missing out on any of them. Well, yes, the list is now available in today's show notes because Charles asked for it. Behind the Data with Andrea Jones Roy is in hiatus right now. but it is a going concern and they intend to get back to it. As you mentioned, the Tech John, Rob Dunwood, Stephanie Humphrey, and Terrence Gaines going strong since I believe the first experiment week, possibly, I think so.

34:30Huyen Tue Dao: BBQ and Tech is no longer really an active podcast, although Chris Ashley says he does want to get some more episodes eventually, but it is a running food truck in the DC area. Uh, and he, he has taken that and turned it into like a full-time gig, uh, cooking that good barbecue with a Jamaican flair. Uh, so go to bbqandtech.com to find out where that truck is if you want to see it. And, uh, and I'm not saying Chris won't be putting out another episode of the show eventually as well. Fantastical field guide from Blair Bazderich, uh, is underway. Uh, it took a little while to get going, but they've got episodes out now.

35:06Huyen Tue Dao: Thanks to, uh, help from Roger Chang. And of course, the most recent one from this previous experiment week, Technical Tea, hosted by Nikki Ackerman Zen-Wen-Tweidao, which just launched its first official episode, first non-pilot episode this week. Yes, on Monday. So, yes, we are a successful experiment. Yeah. What's your elevator pitch for Technical Tea? Elevator pitch. Actually, you gave a great one on the morning stream the other day. But yeah, basically, we are two women in STEM who just want to share our perspectives as women in STEM on the things that we love in science and tech. It is for everyone.

35:44We welcome everybody. But it is specifically from our perspective because we just really want to share that with folks. And yeah, we also get super nilly and nilly and 30 silly and nerdy. All of those things. All of the every single one of those things. This has been my particular favorite because I said this silly thing. But if you're wondering why we talk about vibranium boobs, that is kind of like the perfect, in my mind, intersection of nerdiness, women's perspective. And even, I think, to be fair, a little bit of science and tech in there as well. Definitely.

36:19Huyen Tue Dao: Yeah. If you want to be entertained and informed, listen, because you'll be both. Oh, thank you. We're having a great time. It was really great. Also, just given that before Nerdtacular, Nick, I really never really met Dr. Nicky just through the segments on the show. And now we're like besties and doing it. We like immediately want to do a show together. So we are very excited. We're already like it's a monthly show, but we are already very excitedly planning the next one and have a whole bunch of ideas on how to make the show good and better. So there you go. Go check it out wherever you get your podcast.

36:50Huyen Tue Dao: It's called Technical Tea. If you're like, wait, what was it called again? Technical Tea. Much better name than Samsung Sound. well what are you thinking about do you have a better name for the samsung sunbar we would love to hear it share it with us feedback at dailytechnewsshow.com uh thank you charles for contributing to today's show thank you listening for being along for daily tech news show you keep us in business folks if you haven't already check out becoming a patron we got some cool perks over there patreon.com slash dtns no i'm serious do it right now stop saying later just do it

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