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2:25Huyen Tue Dao: this is the daily tech news for friday august 7th 2026 we tell you what you need to know give you important context and try to help each other understand today bloomberg has the first major details for open ai's first hardware device a donut that talks to you but sadly it's not a cat That's a Dungeon Crawler Carl reference. I'm Tom Merritt. I'm Hoon Twitdown. Let's start with what you need to know with the big story.

2:53Huyen Tue Dao: Bloomberg's Mark Gurman has a non-Apple bit of inside information this time, although I guess it's Apple-ajation in a way. He has details on what OpenAI's first hardware device, in collaboration with former Apple employee Johnny Ives Love From, might end up being. According to people familiar with the matter, it's a hockey puck sized device with a donut shape. Although, as Wyn and I were discussing before the show, we don't know if he means it has a hole in it or not. And whether they'll sell a donut hole separately. You can carry it around in one hand. It will provide voice access to an AI first computer to help you get stuff done.

3:33Huyen Tue Dao: Sounds like chat GPT voice mode with your most advanced chat GPT agents on the back end in a dedicated device. It will use the most advanced models that OpenAI has available and will learn about you over time so it can respond more accurately and more realistically. Gurman's sources say it might also have moving parts so that it doesn't just lay there like a dead piece of plastic. It will also have more traditional features like speakers, microphones, lights to indicate when it's listening. and we'll have a camera. So if you want to show it something like, what is this? Or can you take a picture of this?

4:08Huyen Tue Dao: It'll be able to process visual information. Apparently they're thinking it'll cost around$300 to$400 and they're aiming for a 2027 release. When do you want the donut? If it, I mean, kind, I'm curious because this isn't even before all of this, we have had several kind of mini generations of attempts at an AI companion, AI device, like the rabbit and the, is it the humane pin? Yeah, humane AI, right, yeah, yeah. And of course, for reasons that really, to be fair, were not really the AI portion and whether AI assistance that you wear with you or carry along with you, whether the actual utility or value of that, that question was not why those things failed, I don't think.

4:56There was a lot of kerfuffle around those. So I do think it's interesting that now we've come around, now that we do have much more impressive models, much more adoption, widespread, daily life, normal people using, normal people adoption of, especially things, especially well known models like JETPT. This is very, very interesting. It does seem that pretty much every, you know, pretty much like most sectors have some company trying to do something with hardware and AI. It just feels like the thing to do. So I would be really curious. Obviously, right now, we still widely use cell phones or mobile phones, smartphones, as our everyday carry of technology.

5:38So I do think it's really interesting. I don't know if I would use one out of curiosity. I don't know if I would use one out of utility just because I already didn't carry my phone. And women have famously small pockets. But I do think it's really interesting to have someone like OpenAI get into this market. And maybe this is the right time to get into it. I don't know. Although when it says it has moving parts, I couldn't help but think, and this is a me problem, not anyone else's problem. I was imagining something from like Sid from Toy Story where it started to sprout legs. and crawl around.

6:11I just start crawling around. I just start crawling around. I don't think it would be that. But I do think that's actually very interesting that maybe something that makes it feel a little more analog. I think a lot of like CMF, nothing smaller brand, where they have like little ear pod cases that have like dials and wheels and things, like things that kind of make it feel a little more tactile. If they do something like that, I do think that's interesting trying to blend this kind of, this current like vision that we have of like AI assistants and chat GPT kind of being almost like, they do have a voice, but they tend to be very abstract, right?

6:42Because they're coming from our phones or from our screens, giving it kind of a form. Maybe that's just one way they're trying to get us to, I don't know, invest in them more personally. I don't know. It's interesting.

6:52Huyen Tue Dao: Or get rid of the uncanny valley where you feel a little weird that you're talking about it. It's interesting that you went to the phone aspect. I didn't, and again, we're going on Mark Gurman's people familiar with the matter. So we have no idea what it's really going to be. But My assumption that I jumped to, the conclusion that I jumped to, was that this would be more like a smart speaker. So not something meant to throw in my purse and carry with me, but something that would be on my desk. But if I want to go into the kitchen, I can just pick it up and take it with me, unlike my smart speaker, which is tethered or it's a big canister or something.

7:28Huyen Tue Dao: And so I was looking at it more as a replacement for that. And then the moving parts don't bother me so much. Because as soon as you started talking about putting it in a pocket, I was like, oh, but I wouldn't want those moving parts necessarily. So, yeah, obviously it's got Johnny Ives design sense around it. So whatever it is, it's going to be a beautiful piece of metal. You know, it's not going to be dorky and weird looking. Maybe that's an interesting, maybe the fact that both of us had different but not incompatible ideas. Maybe that's the point. maybe ideally this is something that could and i think that's just the thing with say like the rabbit and humane pin it had a certain form right that it's kind of expected you to use maybe the fact that i mean and again this is this is kind of me just like navel gazing because because we have the ambiguity of this just being a rumor so we can just like yeah we can fill in the gaps however we want i do think it's interesting wouldn't it be cool if it was something that given our two different perspectives that both of us were in a sense right and that that would be kind of interesting that would be something that that i don't know could bridge that gap between maybe how people use maybe would get people to use this device as opposed to kind of falling back to computers or smartphones to use yeah i feel like rabbit's mistake may have been that it was too close to a phone and people are like well why couldn't i just use my phone yeah right and humane's was that it was too far from anything we're familiar with yeah it was like well hold on how do i how do i make that work in my life whereas this sounds like it's kind of right in between like kind of a smart speaker but kind of a phone and so if it just becomes a thing where you're able to just say to it like oh throw this up on my screen and through your chat gpt app on your laptop it can do that then it's like oh it's just the little thing that listens to me all the time and because it's dedicated to that i don't have to worry about it having a screen i don't have to worry about maintaining it or turning it on or finding the app or making sure it's it has crashed.

9:27Huyen Tue Dao: I could see that being pretty useful. I feel like we're all, all these, the current state of gadgets, I feel like there is a kind of conversion point where there's like a lot of different people in the industry coming at this in different ways. I can't help but think of nothing in Carl Paye. And for a couple of years now, he's been kind of citing that this, like, just for, and I'm a smartphone person, this is just like where my brain goes, that the smartphone, especially the smartphone operating system, as we understand it and the way we interact with smartphones has to change. It's going to change.

9:59So rather than having a bunch of different apps where you open one specifically that's focused on a task, you just have an interface that you interact with through your voice and it does every single thing. I mean, that's obviously what we're seeing now with things like Gemini Intelligence and Google trying to basically take all of your well-used Google apps and kind of centralize them so that you're not flipping between different things. and then so carl pay is kind of just taking this vision to even abstracting it even more and i think if you even abstract it even further of course i don't like even as someone who makes a living off of smartphones i know that this form factor is not going to stick around forever right and so maybe this is just again maybe leapfrogging to okay what what what is it what is the distillation of what we do with smartphones now which is which is very very simply communicate and execute tasks and then I could see a future where, okay, maybe we don't need a screen for that.

10:50Once kind of like we get, you know, all of these interactions and egenic work to a good place, this maybe, yeah, I just feel like we're all converging. And maybe that convergence shape is a donut. I don't know. There's probably a mathy thing. I know there's like a very mathy term, like a calculus three term for that shape, that volume that is a ring with a hole. There's a fancy term for it.

11:13Huyen Tue Dao: Troidal or something. Oh man. Yeah. What is it? But, okay. Donut shape. Yeah. What's it? What is that? Taurus. It's a Taurus. There we go. Yeah. Ford Taurus. Yeah. So maybe we're just all, I don't think that's a calculus thing, but maybe that's, eating donuts, eating donuts. Yeah. No, I, I, here's what I'll throw out there. My, My last little bit of insight on this. I think the test is, do I stop taking my phone around the house? Because when I think about, oh, I pick it up and move it around the house. That's what I do with my phone. I pick up my phone. I take it with me because I might need it.

11:55Huyen Tue Dao: I think that probably says something about over-dependence on the phone, but that used to be what I would do with my laptop. I used to take my laptop to the couch so that I could sit on the laptop and do stuff in the evening. And the phone replaced that. I didn't need to take the laptop anymore because I could do almost everything on the phone. If this device causes me to somehow be like, oh, I'm not taking my phone anymore because it can do the things that I need to do most of the time, then I think it has found that slot, found that niche. Yeah. All right. Well, regardless of whether you're listening to us or watching us on your smartphone or possibly someday your chat GPT donut, we will come along with you for the rife to whatever room you take us to.

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16:25Huyen Tue Dao: There is more we need to know today. Let's get to the briefs. Google is releasing the model weights and code for its Weather Next hurricane prediction model on GitHub under the Apache License version 2.0 and Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 international licenses. Google DeepMind and Google Research developed the model with the National Hurricane Center, the Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere, the UK Met Office, and other weather agencies. WeatherNext was trained on almost 20 terabytes of data provided by the International Best Track Archive for climate stewardship. It can generate a 15-day forecast in less than a minute on a single TPU.

17:03An article published Thursday in the journal Nature, or in the journal Nature rather, describes how the model can give a day more lead time than leading operational models in predicting the activity of hurricanes, cyclones, and typhoons.

17:15Huyen Tue Dao: Which we found out before the show, you can just call tropical cyclones. That's the accepted collective term for all three. So there you go. Today I learned. TIL. Yes. This is great though. And we've been covering the performance of this model for a while on the show. We've kind of checked in whenever they've released indications of it. And it has been used, particularly in a hurricane coming towards Jamaica to give people advanced notice. So it's been used in the field to help improve accuracy and probably saved a few lives because they got a little more heads up. So the fact that Google responsibly went and said, great, here, go use it.

18:00Huyen Tue Dao: Here are open weights, here are open models. That's fantastic. And this is one of those examples of like, yes, but the models can also be used for something that is really helpful and really important. And this is that. Can I say this is probably for me, this is my ideal story that makes me very happy as a software person, a technology person, that this is the kind of thing that I would love to see more of in AI. a focused model that is worked on cooperatively and but at the same time is released open source so it brings that kind of visibility and the ability to kind of continue kind of crowdsourcing or allowing people to kind of utilize very helpful information in in in different and broad ways this is like my this is like my platonic ideal of like how technology works you know i'm saying so i think this is amazing uh and obviously for something like this especially that can truly save lives.

18:54This, I don't know, it's unabashedly, this is awesome.

18:56Huyen Tue Dao: I want to know how many people listening heard about this first right now versus never seeing it on their social media, never seeing it in their news aggregator, because it's not a, those billionaires are screwing us again. It's not a, AI went rampant and is causing, it doesn't have any of the clicky stuff. And so you just don't hear about this stuff. Can I confess I heard about this an hour ago when I read it for the show? Yeah. And that's like the problem. This is such an interesting, this is gonna be a side tangent, but I think that's a problem that we have in the technology space is that it is that unfortunately, the way things work now between, you know, the financial aspect of it with a lot of, you know, big companies, like having to focus on both financials as well as, you know, getting into the stock market and like being holding shareholders, but also just the way that our news works now.

19:47I literally have been on teams where their goal was to let's make a viral feature.

19:52Huyen Tue Dao: Yeah, right. And that that that is those are the unfortunately for, in my opinion, unfortunately, the incentives that a lot of technology companies have to work with. And that's not necessarily all their fault. That's how they survive. But that is like the current environment in which a lot of companies do business and make technology. And so it's always the flashy thing that gets the most attention. And so it's always these kind of things, which I don't know that I think this is pretty awesome. but at the same time it doesn't have as you said that sizzle that yeah you know you know that yeah a lot of ai features especially because they can seem so human it feels like you know something on a sci-fi whereas this is just very practical yeah it's not a tiger in the grass no yeah it's like oh that's gonna keep me safe great i don't have to think about that anymore yeah well i i would like to know y 'all like you know how the pit and other can i my bad if we have to change this uh other competency porn is just like something that people love watching uh-huh imagine this is that you know i'm saying like we need and we kind of like we need to reframe these things as that um i remember there's this great video on youtube uh i think i saw it on vine or something or or or on tick tock a long time ago and i swear i'll shut up after this but uh it was kind of a good distillation my friend was i was i was kind of like lamenting you know like i was doing a lot of like grunt work at work and other people getting to do cool features and there was this video that popped up in her feet and she's so just to me.

21:16So there's a guy who has stacked up a bunch of dumbbells into two towers, like about eight feet high, and he's bouncing on top of them on a handstand and doing pushups. And while that was impressive, what you don't see is that he's actually in a basketball court and there's an old man about maybe 70 in a plaid shirt and like, you know, the grandpa khakis. And he is just sinking shots. He's just dribbling around. He's doing free throws. He's like, he's like swishing the net. Like, you know, he's swishing the ball in like you know no uh just all net and she was like be the grandpa in the back be proud that you're the grandpa in the back who's reliable who's doing good work and you don't have to be the person in the front doing the dumbbell tower handstands and i think that's one thing that we're missing in tech is that it's very easy to notice the person doing the handstand dumbbell the handstand dumbbell push-ups in the front but it is a lot less a lot harder to notice the people doing the good work in the back who's keeping everything running so anyway that's my little spiel on that I'm sorry.

22:12Huyen Tue Dao: I loved the double meaning of dumbbell in that story. Oh, I didn't even think about that. But yes, there you go. Well, let's get back to clickbait headlines. Previously, a jury found that Meta willfully violated the U.S. state of New Mexico's consumer protection laws by failing to prevent teens from seeing sexually explicit content, among several other charges regarding not protecting them from sexual predators, et cetera. The jury ordered Meta to pay$375 million in civil penalties. We talked about that before. Thursday, a judge in the case ordered Meta to create an additional$567 million abatement fund that will be used to support awareness, prevention, screening, assessment, referral, and coordination, treatment, and evaluation over a five-year period.

23:01Huyen Tue Dao: So there's the fine, and then there's creating this fund. That brings the total meta is being ordered to pay in this case to$942 million. Notice I didn't say the total meta will pay. I said the total being ordered to pay. The judge also ordered meta to enact safety features for users younger than 18 in New Mexico, like limiting the time users can spend on Facebook and Instagram to 90 hours a month, pausing notifications between 10 p.m. and 7 a.m., hiding the number of likes on photos by default and only showing them if a parent or guardian approves and disclosing the risks of using these kinds of things.

23:36Huyen Tue Dao: All of this stuff is in order right now because Meta will appeal the ruling. Meta is facing thousands of other similar cases. They're building a lot of experience in defending themselves. There was a high profile loss in Los Angeles recently, which they are appealing. A case is about to begin in Oakland, California, and the company has said that legal proceedings cost it$2.4 billion in Q2. So even if they're going to continue to appeal and drag these through the courts and maybe win on appeal. It is costing them quite a bit of money. Do we know, I guess, the main reason why? Oh, no, sorry. They lost.

24:11OK, they lost in Los Angeles. They lost in L.A. and then they lost in New Mexico.

24:14Huyen Tue Dao: Yeah. I just I can't imagine that this is obviously this is going to go on for a little bit and I can't help but feel like it's probably regardless of whether they come whether they come out, it does feel like an overall positive thing for us to bring this to attention and litigate how, how companies should be handling this. Uh, because yeah. And, and hopefully get to the bottom of like, what, what are the effects? Like that has been my bugaboo this whole time is people jump to a conclusion of like, well, it's obviously harmful. I'm like, but how is it harmful? And it's like, I know it when I see it probably isn't good enough to fix it.

24:48Huyen Tue Dao: You need to, you need to understand like, well, what are the harms? Because if you don't you'll think you fixed them and you haven't which to me is just as bad as not fixing them no that's that's really fair otherwise it becomes a game of whack-a-mole where you try to guess at what something is and then either it it at the best doesn't do anything or at the worst has some other weird uh yes a side effect ancillary effect or you just walk away and like there we fixed it and it's like well you have it but the harms are still going on and yes yeah yeah so it should be measurable and it should be specific so for us to be as most effective as possible indeed indeed Well, if you weren't like already full up with with our talk about home speaker or home theater yesterday, we got a few more things for you.

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26:22Huyen Tue Dao: Yeah, it ain't cheap. No. And if you're going to try to use it to replace a soundbar, Engadget recommends looking at a couple of settings that may not be obvious. But this fits a niche. And the fact that it does HDMI eARC, I think is a big deal because a lot of these bookshelf speakers don't have that. So that's one of the differentiating factors for it. All right. What is HDMI eARC? eARC is the one that automatically detects when you turn the TV on, turn the TV off. Oh, nice. You know, it can switch to that automatically, all of that sort of stuff. So, yeah, it's handy. I like it. I did look up the ratings for the BlueOS controller app, at least on Android.

27:04And it has a 4.1, which let me tell you, is actually very, very hard for a lot of these kind of hardware companion apps to achieve. I know that doesn't feel like a lot. And you can definitely see plenty of people that have had problems. But for what it's worth, they're really working hard on this app. So it probably is good. I have rarely met a hardware companion app that I like. I definitely have the Sonos ones. And I was not happy. So definitely take that into account if you're someone who really likes to use apps to control your home theater experiences.

27:32Huyen Tue Dao: And then a little bit of good news, I think. Japanese investment bank Nomura Holdings published an analysis of how LLMs and agents are affecting India's market. Actually, all of Asia. Particularly interesting is how it's affecting India's market, which it says is seeing the largest impact from these tools. In the period from 2022 until August 2026, India recorded 83 ,100 hires attributed to AI and 31 ,921 layoffs and attrition attributed to AI. So just a little more than 50 ,000 more hires than layoffs. China saw a similar, though smaller, effect with almost 29 ,000 hires and almost 10 ,000 layoffs.

28:15Huyen Tue Dao: Other countries, Singapore, South Korea, Thailand, Malaysia, did see more layoffs than hirings, but all of those were less than 5 ,000. Across all of Asia, there were 130 ,758 hirings and 60 ,654 jobs lost. The report noted that most firing cases are support teams replaced by chatbots, which is what everybody thinks, while most hiring cases are of IT service graduates that firm explicitly credit to AI demand. Firms explicitly say, we have demand created by AI that's increasing our business, and we need IT service graduates to hire to do that. Now, the analysis did find that new jobs were generally looking for more experienced workers and the losses affected entry level roles.

29:06Huyen Tue Dao: So that is the real concern here is how do we adapt for entry level roles being reduced in this situation? But it doesn't look like overall we're looking at job losses. It looks like what usually happens with technology advances, which is it actually creates more jobs than it eliminates. Yeah, it's going to be that that bridge, though, between how do we get from before AI happened and we allow people to take entry roles and train up into experienced positions. And that's what I've always been worried about, because like, I'm not worried about me, like either like it's probably going to boomerang around.

29:41And there's still somebody that needs to kind of basically be able to utilize the tool in an experienced way to really make it sing and to meet this demand, which that's great to hear. We still need to figure out what is the on-ramp now for graduates and folks in entry-level positions to be able to get there. That's the problem. Everything is moving so fast. We do not have that on-ramp for people. And we need to figure that out quickly. Yeah, you need to develop that. Because we're not going to be around forever. We're not going to be around forever. So we need to figure that out. I feel incredibly bad for new graduates and entry-level folks right now.

30:12I don't doubt that we're going to figure this out. But again, if you're out there right now, I I'm sorry for what the industry for the for the for the current state of limbo that you are. We are we are putting you in as industry. But as you can see there, at least in some cases, we still need experienced humans, at least at this point.

30:29Huyen Tue Dao: Well, and what always happens, this is actually a regular occurrence throughout history is like, how do I get a job if I don't have experience and how do I get experience if I can't get the job? right uh and and what happens is we figure this out because if you're creating all these jobs for experienced people you'll run out of experienced people to hire and then you're like okay well i guess we need to train people or have a training program uh and yeah we can we can make that transition easy or rough depending on how we prepare for it so right now is the time to be like let's try to make it easy let's make it an easy transition 100 all right well if you ahead of me on the video stream, you might be noticing that Tom is wearing a very, very snazzy hat.

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32:55Huyen Tue Dao: All right, it is time for those quick headlines that just immediately make you better looking and smarter. All right, well, so to be future complete these days, I guess the foundational model has to have broken containment. You can add Moonshot's Kimmy K3 to the list of open AI, Anthropic and Metal bottles that have accessed the Internet unexpectedly during security testing. uh gimme broke out of testing by the uk's aisi by exploiting a misconfiguration in the sandbox that's not something there where it went to github and found the solution to a problem rather than compromising or hacking any websites yeah it's uh it sounds like there was an easier answer so it was like oh i don't have to hack in anywhere it's just right here on github done yep handing in my work now apple has released updates for mac os tahoe 26.6.1 sequoia 15.7.9 and sonoma 14.8.9 that patch a screen sharing vulnerabilities uh so if you haven't yet done it patchy patch patch well luxury customizer caviar has unveiled an edition of meta's ray-ban glasses with 24 karat gold accents and an alligator leather case for$6 ,840.

34:07Huyen Tue Dao: I mean, I guess if you're going to be hated for wearing Meta's Ray-Bans, you might as well get hated all the way.

34:16Huyen Tue Dao: An Amazon Web Services cryptographer has released a preprint of a paper that describes a polynomial time quantum algorithm for the dihedral coset problem. Everybody knows the dihedral coset problem. this solution could strengthen a theoretical case theoretical case that quantum computers could efficiently solve lattice problems that would be an issue if it went from theory to practice because lattice problems currently underlie a lot of our post-quantum cryptography post-quantum cryptography is cryptographically sealing something so that not only can current computers not break it, but someday when quantum computers get better, they wouldn't be able to break it.

35:01Huyen Tue Dao: This theory says, but they could possibly break it. It does not demonstrate a practical attack on such cryptography. So it's not as bad as it sounds. And in fact, it's good news to be like, oh, well, okay, then we got to get to work on tightening up the post-quantum cryptography and we're ahead of the game. It's not even practically yet. Well, AMD acquired chip company Talos, which etches model weights into the silicon to boost inference performance. So you don't need that expensive high bandwidth memory. They can be called model specific integrated circuits or M6. New buzzword alert. M6. A scientist led by his team from Stanford University published in the journal Science, how they use the Arc Institute.

35:46Huyen Tue Dao: That's a nonprofit biological research company or organization, not even a company. ARK Institute's Evo models to create new viruses that could infect bacteria. Now, these viruses are too small to pose a threat to humans, but the designers do hope they could be used to develop treatment for drug-resistant bacteria. Neat. Well, Reuters sources say Alibaba may follow DeepSeek in announcing price increases coming next week for its own QAN models. Alibaba plans to charge large commercial users of its products a percentage of revenue generated from their use. Moonshot's Kimi K3 recently announced a similar plan.

36:24Huyen Tue Dao: Yeah, those cheap models are getting more expensive. The Financial Times reports that ByteDance is working on a model as big as Anthropics Mythos, three times the size of Kimi 3, and it'll only take them six months to train it, which I think by then Anthropics might have a bigger model. Well, Airbnb says LLMs have reduced the time from concept to launch of features by 60 % and increased the number of features and improvements shipped by 90 % over the last six months. Okay. And then Motang noted this one on our subreddit. Nintendo says 61.5 % of its game sales were digital last quarter, and the rest are mostly physical, but also include things like Switch Online subscriptions, downloadable content, and upgrade packs.

37:07Huyen Tue Dao: But still, even at less than 30 % physical, Nintendo is ahead of Sony and Xbox in the number of physical media that they sell. Interesting. All right. Well, we end every episode of DTNS with some shared perspectives. Today, David shared in our Discord what he's learned about his tech when returning to work travel. Yeah, thanks for letting us read this out, David. David wrote, as I come to the end of the week, which has been spent in out Bangalore, India office, I thought I'd like to share some observations. As I sit on the Bangalore office on day four of five, some valuable lessons I think I knew, but had forgotten because of my lack of travel.

37:46Huyen Tue Dao: One, my work Windows laptop, the HP Elite book, people who use Outlook Edition, has three quarters of an hour of battery life. I had to charge it twice with a battery power bank because some idiot forgot he had a Windows laptop and his brain thought he had an M4 from the last job. USB 2.0 is king outside of my tech bubble. While all of my and probably most of your devices are new USB 3.0, the outside world relies on USB 2.0 connectors in planes and power strips and offices. And the two USB-C to USB-2 converters I have will not carry a charge for some reason. So I found a small tech stall in the local shopping mall and bought two USB-C to USB-A cables.

38:32Huyen Tue Dao: three i've moved my work life for this trip to my samsung tablet one note outlook teams and edge because it's easier to take handwritten notes in meetings turns out a pen on a device with a good touchscreen is very useful number four no one likes the smart arse with the little rectangle thing recording the meetings and transcribing it with ai the dynamic changes number five having plex and youtube media downloads to the same tablet is a lifesaver and number six salie nomad choose what you will a local e-sim is a requirement especially with tethering some other things i've noted about india in no particular order paying with a qr code is a thing had an issue paying for uber from the airport to the hotel because only revolute provides such a service doing anything from buying a mcdonald's to getting a visitor's visa requires a local phone number potholes take priority over actual usable roads in bangalore suburbs i think that's a thought heard around the world in a lot of places uh and he finished with i've eaten so much local food and it's all so good oh my gosh that is amazing thank you so much david i learned a lot uh actually that's man i love these like chronicles from the road david david's been posted a lot more in the discord uh and and it's great he's got nice nice little missives here appreciate it very much yeah dude uh please keep him coming uh also it just i mean if you want to uh and with travel and stuff like that uh but yeah If you also have your own travel missives or just anything else that you're thinking about, gosh, would we like to hear it?

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40:45Huyen Tue Dao: Science correspondent, Dr. Nikki Ackermans. Social media producer and moderator, Zoe Detterding. Our mods, Beatmaster, Wscottus1, BioCow, Captain Kipper, Steve Guadarama, Paul Reese, Matthew J. Stevens and J.D. Galloway. Modern video hosting by Dan Christensen. Music provided by Martin Bell and Dan Luters. Art by Len Peralta. Acast Ed support from Ali Gallo. Patreon support from Bobby Wagner. And thanks to all our patrons who make the show possible.

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