Your Horse Needs a Fitness Tracker - DTNS 5101

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2:17Dr Niki: This is the Daily Tech News for Wednesday, September 10th, 2025. We tell you what you need to know. We follow up on context and we do our darndest to help each other understand.

2:27Sarah Lane: Today, Dr. Nikki is going to tell us how to properly track your horse. And we discuss what Apple left out of its big iPhone announcement on Tuesday.

2:35Dr Niki: I mean, you have a horse, right? We all have a horse.

2:38Sarah Lane: I have a horse. Who doesn't?

2:40Dr Niki: Or aspire to have a horse. I am horse-aspiring Tom Merritt.

2:44Sarah Lane: I do not have a horse. I wish I did, but I am Sarah Lane.

2:47Dr Niki: Let's start with what you need to know with the big story. Tuesday was the day for Apple to make its big old product announcement. And of course, Jason and I talked about it yesterday. Today is the day when we tell everybody the stuff that they didn't say in the big announcement and what existing Apple device owners are going to get. Because you don't have to buy a new thing to get some new stuff. First of all, you get a new operating system. Yeah, iOS 26, iPad OS 26, watch OS 26, Mac OS 26, and Vision OS 26 will all arrive Monday, September 15th, as is tradition, earlier in the week before the new phones ship.

3:30Dr Niki: So you get the operating system before the new phones arrive. New phones will, of course, arrive with iOS 26 pre-installed. Interestingly, you may have noticed I didn't say tvOS 26, which makes a lot of folks think there will definitely be a second fall announcement, as Apple often does, that will include a new Apple TV. And so they're holding the operating system update for that. I haven't had a new Apple TV in like, what, four years or something, I think?

3:56Sarah Lane: Yeah, the 4K is the last model.

3:58Dr Niki: Yeah, we're due. You'll want to go to Engadget or somewhere like that if you really want to be sure whether your device is compatible with these new operating systems. Short version is Apple Watch Series 6 and later, as well as the second gen Apple Watch SE, all the Apple Watch Ultra models, most Macs from 2020 or later, as well as the 2019 Mac Pro and the 16-inch MacBook Pro from 2019. And then iPad models are kind of hard to summarize. They're all over the place, like first gen, third gen thing. So if it's a recent iPad, you're probably good. Otherwise, go look it up.

4:30Sarah Lane: The only thing that I would really say, and we had a really fun live stream when we were watching the event yesterday, but my real disappointment wasn't so much like, oh, they didn't give me the iPhone that I wanted. In fact, the iPhone Air is... I'm excited about that, even though I don't need a new iPhone. But yeah, the tvOS and Apple TVs in general, because I have a couple in my house and I have for some time. I was hoping to hear something about that. What I would love is for there to be another announcement later on. But tvOS by itself feels like a thin announcement, unless it's just something that Apple's been doing the last couple of years where they just say, like, here's the deal.

5:14Dr Niki: Now, if we get a second announcement, I think you're right. We'll get more than just the Apple TV. I don't know if that'll be a new laptop, new iPad. There's lots of rumors out there. Maybe we finally get the HomePod update that people were talking about. That was rumored. Yeah.

5:31Sarah Lane: No HomePod announcement at all. Nothing even mentioned about anything, you know, AppleKit really.

5:37Dr Niki: They could do an Apple smart home focused announcement with a HomePod, an Apple TV, maybe some AirTags. Yeah.

5:45Sarah Lane: And announce maybe a new series on Apple TV+.

5:48Dr Niki: The one that follows you, maybe that finally gets announced or something.

5:53Sarah Lane: What, the Amazon Astro?

5:55Dr Niki: No, not the Rolly robot. Remember, there's the one from Apple that sits in one place, but it follows you around.

6:00Sarah Lane: Yeah, you mount it, and it's the iPad that is also your home system.

6:09Dr Niki: The iPad that's always watching you. That's what we all want. A few other bits and pieces that weren't in the main announcement. the A19 Pro chip in the iPhone Air only is listed as a 5-core GPU, unlike the one in the iPhone Pro, which has a 6-core GPU. So that likely means they disabled a core, a.k.a. binned it in the air, probably to save battery life. If you liked the live translation feature of the AirPods Pro 3, good news. It will also work on the AirPods 4, the regular old AirPods 4, and the AirPods Pro 2. Yay!

6:44Sarah Lane: I just need to make sure you update the firmware. That excites me because I was like, that's cool. I don't really need it because I'm not going to buy a new pair of AirPods. But I've got the Pro 2. And this is a situation where I don't need it every day. But I can think of scenarios where you meet somebody on vacation and your friends. And this just would make everything so much easier.

7:09Dr Niki: And I think Terrence was the one who noticed the way they said AirPods Pro 3. He's like, is that going to work on the old ones? And the answer is yes. That hypertension alert will also work on the Series 9 and Apple Watch Ultra 2 or later watches. So as a firmware update, basically you need the S9 chip or later. The sleep score appears to be just an OS update because the sleep score will work on Series 6 watches and later, although it's going to ruin your battery life for a Series 6. It'll also work on the second gen SE. Apple extended the free satellite service for one more year. iPhone 16 users were going to keep getting it free for another year, but now iPhone 14 and 15 users will get another year of free satellite service.

7:52Dr Niki: That means the iPhone 14 people are getting years and years of this stuff. And Apple's Beats launched a new case, or actually several new cases for the new iPhones, one of which has a removable lanyard that you can use as a kickstand, which was kind of nifty. That one's 59 bucks.

8:08Sarah Lane: That's an expensive lanyard, but...

8:10Dr Niki: Well, you get the case too, right?

8:12Sarah Lane: And the kickstand, it's Apple after all.

8:16Dr Niki: Three in one, yeah. All the models in the new line of iPhone 17 have memory integrity enforcement. This is built on the enhanced memory tagging extension. If that makes sense to you, that's good news. If it doesn't, all you need to know is it makes it harder for spyware makers like Pegasus to take advantage of memory leaks and hack your phone. This is similar to what Windows 11 does to prevent speculative execution attacks and also takes advantage of ARM's MTE, which Android also takes advantage of for memory security. Apple says that it is on by default. And even though older chips don't have it built into the chip the way the iPhone 17 does, it will still be available and offer some protections on older phones.

9:00Dr Niki: And in Apple's words, has virtually zero CPU cost. So you shouldn't see a performance hit.

9:06Sarah Lane: Well, that's got to be good news for some folks. on by default. I don't really see a great need to turn it off, but it's nice that you have an option.

9:16Dr Niki: Yeah, you don't have to go at it, which these things are really meant for very sophisticated users like journalists or whistleblowers and stuff. And so sometimes they're like, yeah, this advanced protection could be a performance hit. You have to ask to turn on certain things. This one you don't, because they're basically like, it's not going to hurt the performance. Let's turn it on for everybody.

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13:33Dr Niki: There's more we need to know today. Let's get to the briefs.

13:36Sarah Lane: Reddit will no longer show you how many people are subscribed to a subreddit community. The number has been replaced by how many visitors in the subreddit had in the last week, based on a rolling 28-day average, as well as the number of posts or comments made in the past seven days. Reddit says this is supposed to emphasize active participation over passive membership. The new metric will be used to limit how many communities a moderator can oversee to a maximum of five communities that have more than 100 ,000 regular visitors. The actual subscriber count will still be available in the moderator's insights tab.

14:13Sarah Lane: So it's not going away. It's just not really visible to the community itself. Thanks to Motang, who posted this on our DTNAS subreddit.

14:22Dr Niki: Yeah, and thereby adding to the active participation comment count.

14:26Sarah Lane: I can see where this would annoy some folks because people don't like change. But I liken it to somebody who has 2 million followers on X or something like that. It's like, how engaged is the community? That number doesn't tell you much. And a subreddit is no different. It's like, maybe a lot of people used to be active and aren't anymore. And what's important for a lot of folks, especially if you're getting people who are discovering a subreddit for the first time, it's like, how active are we here? You know, who's talking? Who am I going to engage with? And so I think this is smart on Reddit's part.

15:06Dr Niki: Yeah, it makes practical sense in being able to make sure moderators don't get overloaded by having an actual account that is reflective of activity, like you say. And it's also interesting to me to know like, oh, I know we have 20 ,000 subscribers or whatever it is. I don't even remember what it is off the top of the hand. But how many of those are actually here? Well, now I can see. I can see kind of how many are posting just based on the post, right? But now I can see like, oh, but there's a lot of people still reading it. So that's important.

15:37Sarah Lane: Yeah. I think also advertisers are going to be very interested by this kind of data. You know, instead of, you know, well, this community has a million people in it. Well, but 15 people post regularly. That's all good data for Reddit and folks who want to advertise.

15:55Dr Niki: Definitely. Speaking of Reddit, they are part of a group of publishers that also include Yahoo, Medium, Quora, and People, Inc., the magazine makers, that announced support for a standard called RSL, or Really Simple Licensing. It's sort of inspired by RSS, really simple syndication. RSL lets content creators enforce licensing terms on data crawlers. RSL, in fact, works on top of the robots.txt file, which also does that. But robots.txt can basically say yes or no. Like you are allowed to crawl this site. You are not allowed to crawl this site. And the crawlers don't have to honor it. It's there as a thing for them to look at and decide if they want to play along.

16:41Dr Niki: RSL can not only block, but also require licensing and royalty terms to be honored if you want to crawl the site. It can work not just on websites, but on online books, videos, and training data sets. It was developed by the RSL Collective, which is headed by Eckert Walther, who worked at Netscape when they developed RDF, which eventually evolved with Walther's help into RSS, along with former Ask.com CEO, Doug Leeds. Those are the folks behind the RSL collective. RSL supports multiple licenses. So you can have a free license that says, hey, you can crawl this at no charge. You can require a subscription, like anybody who's subscribing to crawling your site can crawl it.

17:24Dr Niki: You can have them pay per crawl. Every time you want to crawl my site, you got to pay me or pay per inference. That last one requires a company to pay every time a crawled piece of data is used in an answer by a chatbot. So if they link to your website, for example. A CDN called Fastly is required to be plugged into your site to administer the license scheme and do the bouncing of the bots, admitting them or not. You can still use RSL without it, but there's no way to force the bots off unless you're using Fastly. That's similar to how Cloudflare's system works, and some people are suspecting Cloudflare might sign up for this.

17:59Dr Niki: Sites would have to implement RSL and sign up for Fastly. In the meantime, if you want to make the entire scheme effective, RSL is free to implement, and you can sign up to learn more, although I couldn't, in the short amount of time I spent there, find the instructions. But you can sign up to learn more at rslcollective.org.

18:18Sarah Lane: This sounds like a great idea in theory. Instead of you can either crawl or you can't crawl, which is the robots.txt, this would be... And here are the ways that if you do decide to crawl, we think this would be okay. This is what we need from you. and yes, maybe it's per crawl, maybe it's some blanket license type thing. Of course, my pessimistic version is, well, if you can just get around this, then what's the point? Yeah.

18:49Dr Niki: And that's why you need the Fastly part of this. And that's why I was a little disappointed that it wasn't more obvious how to get this rolling on my site, especially because it's got big publishers behind it. I should have been taken when I registered right to a page that says, Here's what you need to do. Here's the documentation. I'm sure that exists, but it was not immediately obvious. So I have a lot of questions of like, do I have to pay fastly in order to do the bouncing? Because yeah, that could pay for itself if I've got enough people wanting to crawl my site. But it's not guaranteed. And that's an impediment.

19:21Dr Niki: uh there's i have a lot of questions about how this works that that seem there seem to be a lot of things in the press release and on the website that are like we promise to fix everything for you but not as much about how they are going to do that and i'm i'm a little looking at what cloud flare did where they gave us lots of details about how they're going to do their system although their system isn't as foolproof as this one sounds at least i know how that one works so So I'm intrigued and excited to learn more, but I have a lot of questions because my first impression was this sounds a little like Do Not Track, where Firefox ended up being the only browser that really stuck to it, and then it ended up just not doing anything.

20:04Sarah Lane: Yeah. Well, as promised, just yesterday in 2021, Spotify is launching lossless music streaming support. Only took a few years, but hey, it's here. If you pay for a premium account, you can stream almost all music up to 24-bit, 44.1, kilohertz, FLIC quality. Access has begun in 12 countries, with 50 countries in total getting the feature by the end of October. You'll get a notification when it comes to you, if obviously you're a premium subscriber, and you can then enable it in settings on each device that you want it. It'll work over Wi-Fi with Spotify Connect, not over Bluetooth because of bandwidth constraints.

20:45Sarah Lane: So Wi-Fi only for now. Amazon launched lossless audio back in 2019, Apple Music in 2021. So Spotify is doing a little catch up here, but it's going to make a lot of folks happy.

20:56Dr Niki: Yeah, I know a lot of people who have been dying for this. Not literally, but really, really excited. Really wanting it. Yeah, yeah, exactly. The US Treasury Department issued guidance on the enforcement of the recently passed no tax on tips law, along with the expected jobs you would think would qualify, bartender, waiter, driver. It includes, Sarah, digital content creators. That includes podcasters, social media influencers, and streamers. I'm one of those three. Actually, I have two of those three. Recurring subscription revenue like Patreon and Substack do not count, but any tips or gifts you get, something like on Twitch, where you can do bits or YouTube, you can do super chats, TikTok, et cetera, Those might count.

21:43Dr Niki: The deduction maximum is$25 ,000 a year. So if you make more than$25 ,000 in tips, then above$25 ,000 is taxable. And it phases out if you make more than$150 ,000 a year, or if you're in a married couple, the couple filing together makes more than$300 ,000 a year. But I suspect we're going to see a lot of creators start to really push their PayPal donation, their Venmo donation, their tip jar, their gift giving versus the subscriptions if they're making less than$25 ,000 a year because they don't want it to be taxed.

22:16Sarah Lane: Yeah, I wouldn't blame them either. And by the way, Tom, you are an influencer. So don't sell yourself short.

22:24Dr Niki: Am I though? And is that a compliment?

22:26Sarah Lane: I don't know. It's actually a term I don't like very much because I'm like, stop influencing me.

22:32Dr Niki: Yeah, you can influence me.

22:33Sarah Lane: But yeah, I think it's here to stay, or at least for now.

22:37Dr Niki: I'm very intrigued. Put it that way.

22:39Sarah Lane: A couple of Amazon news notes for you here. The information reports that Amazon is working on smart glasses with an embedded display. Amazon's Echo Frames currently only provide audio. They don't have camera sensors. And Amazon's autonomous car service called Zoox, that's Z-O-O-X, will begin offering free rides to passengers on the Las Vegas Strip. Zoox has purpose-built vehicles with two rows of seats that face each other and no driver's seat. How very London cab of you, Zoox. Minus the driver.

23:12Dr Niki: Minus the driver, right? This is like a shuttle service, basically. The people who've written it in the CNET article I read were saying that it feels like taking the airport shuttle between terminals because you're just sitting in a thing that moves. And it's got a fixed route, basically. it goes from the resorts world to the Luxor with a couple of stops in between. So you can't just take it anywhere. You got to be going to one of the hotels that's on its route. And I think it can go nonstop between those, but it's not just free to roam.

23:44Sarah Lane: Such a good place for this though, right? It's like you get off, you're playing at McCarron. You're going to one of, you know, five hotels on the strip. This is going to work out nicely like a shuttle service.

23:55Dr Niki: Sadly, it doesn't stop at McCarron.

24:00Sarah Lane: Oh, well, never mind.

24:02Dr Niki: Yeah.

24:04Sarah Lane: That would be nice. I think I mentioned -

24:06Dr Niki: This is basically if you're at a conference and you need to get from the Luxor to Resort World, you could jump in one of these.

24:12Sarah Lane: Well, we've all been there. So it's going to come in handy. That's for sure. Everyone going to CES, you're going to love it if it works well.

24:19Dr Niki: Oh, it also stops at Topgolf, Area 15, and New York, New York. Okay.

24:25Sarah Lane: All right. Yeah. I think I mentioned on a DTNest Live a couple months ago that I see Zoox's, Zoox's, if that's the plural, in my neighborhood. It's in testing, obviously. I haven't seen anybody, like a passenger or anything. They're like little vans. They're very cute. But Amazon's definitely, they're trying out other locations. That's for sure.

24:48Dr Niki: Counterpoint Research issued its estimate for the market share of premium smartphones, aka the iPhone, Samsung Galaxy S, Pixel, stuff like that. So not your cheap phones, not your mid-range phones, your top-of-the-line phones. And Apple, as you might guess, still dominates premium smartphone sales worldwide with 62 % of the market. Sales of iPhones rose 3%, according to Counterpoint, but its share of the market declined from last year's 65%. Samsung didn't take that share because Samsung's market share stayed at 20 % despite raising its sales 7%. Huawei came in third. Sales of Huawei rose 24%, but that only increased its market share 1%, right?

25:31Dr Niki: So basically market share was growing at the lower end to keep these big rises in sales from increasing market share very much. Xiaomi, for example, raised its sales 55%. The big winner is Google. Pixel sales rose 105 % year over year, putting it back in the top five. It had dropped out of there.

25:51Sarah Lane: Gosh, I did not realize the Pixel wasn't in the top five last year.

25:54Dr Niki: Yeah. Yeah. That's why a lot of people are like, eh, Pixel's a hobby for Google. But this indicates that maybe the tide is turning on that.

26:02Sarah Lane: The information also reports that Microsoft plans to use models from Anthropic for new features in its office apps. Reportedly, Claude was better at certain tasks, like creating a PowerPoint presentation. Microsoft is a major investor in OpenAI and has exclusive rights to some usages of its frontier models, but has been in negotiations about changes to that agreement as OpenAI tries to become a fully for-profit company.

26:29Dr Niki: Yeah, this broke when I was doing my office hours stream yesterday. And my initial reaction is still my reaction, which is Microsoft would have done this anyway. They want to diversify. And if Claude really is better at PowerPoint presentations, then they're going to want to use that, right? They're going to want to use whatever is best, whether it's their own internal model or one of the frontier models they have exclusive access to or Claude. That doesn't mean they aren't using this as leverage in their negotiations with OpenAI, though.

26:57Sarah Lane: Yeah. Well, Microsoft and OpenAI have their relationship as AI changes by the day has changed a bit. So I'm with you on this, that Microsoft is looking for other solutions.

27:12Dr Niki: I think they'll work it out. I think Microsoft and OpenAI will end up figuring this all out. Don't you think? They'll end up friends. I believe in them.

27:19Sarah Lane: They'll get married. It's fine.

27:21Dr Niki: Those two. IEEE Spectrum reports that a company called Modos has developed an e-ink display with a refresh rate up to 75 hertz. Now, if you're like, hold on, is that good or bad? I'm not up on refresh rates. LCD displays start at 60 hertz and like your really good displays are 120 hertz. So 75 is better than a lot of mid-range phone refresh rates. Most e-paper displays refresh at 10 hertz. The ones where you like, you know, press a button and it takes a minute to change. That's what we're talking about. Some have gotten close to 60 hertz, but 75 hertz is a new record. The way they did it was to combine standard e-paper panels with an open source FPGA based display controller.

28:04Dr Niki: and they were able to make it reach 75 hertz refresh rate on a 13 inch panel with a 1600 by 1200 resolution. They also did it on a smaller panel, which would be easier, a six inch panel. The controller has local control of pixels. That's one of the ways they're able to do this. So they can flip the pixels as needed rather than the typical way ePaper does it, which is two states. One is static and the other is updating the entire screen at once. The Modos paper monitor and DevKit is now available. If you want to crowdfund it on CrowdSupply and give a little money to the cause, orders are expected to ship in January, or you can DIY it.

28:40Dr Niki: The code and the schematics for CasterGlider and the API are open source and available on GitHub.

28:46Sarah Lane: I have to be honest, I was not familiar with CrowdSupply until the story.

28:52Dr Niki: Oh yeah, as a crowdfunding organization? That one doesn't get a lot of attention. Yeah, I was unfamiliar with it either. So that's a good one to be aware of. And if you look at the video, you'll see like this isn't quite like e-paper that's indistinguishable from a grayscale LCD screen. You still see a little bit of, you know, a trailing refresh even at 75 hertz. But it's good. It's good enough to actually play a video on.

29:19Sarah Lane: Europe's Bending Spoons, owner of Evernote and many older tech brands, is going to be the new owner of Vimeo soon. The all-cash deal is expected to close this year in Q4.

29:32Dr Niki: Yeah, I know a lot of people think Bending Spoons means death, but Rob Dunwood still uses Evernote, and he's like, yeah, it could be better, but it's fine. We have StreamYard that we're streaming on and recording on that is now owned by Bending Spoons, and they keep adding features, they keep developing it. But it is sort of kind of telling that, you know, ah, Vimeo, they're going the way of Meetup.

29:54Sarah Lane: well Vimeo back in the day was it was like a YouTube alternative but much more for like artsy people and there's just no way that you can't you can't be like hey but if you're an artsy person come on over to Vimeo instead of YouTube they lost that fight so so yeah maybe maybe they uh they've they've they've got yet new life under bending spoons well those are the essentials

30:20Dr Niki: for today. Let's dive a little deeper.

30:24Sarah Lane: You may have heard of pet trackers before, usually for dogs and cats. Not today, people. I caught up with Dr. Nikki to discuss a new horse fitness band. So Dr. Nikki, we're talking about horses today. You wouldn't expect this on DTNS Briefing, but today's the day. What's the deal? I always bring you guys something crazy. So if you are a smartwatch fan, you may have noticed that Garmin kind of out of nowhere came out with a horse tracking device called the Blaze. And of course, I wanted to cover this because it's weird, but actually, I think it's really cool. All right. So what what is what is this tracker?

31:06Sarah Lane: What does it do for someone who has a horse and wants to keep tabs? Yeah, you know, it's honestly very close to a smartwatch for horses in terms of your activity tracker. It's actually the same look as a Garmin smartwatch, but it goes into a little strap that goes around the horse's tail. I think people are starting to want to corner the market for pet trackers. And you would think cats and dogs would be the first ones to get a device, but it's really hard to measure an animal's heart rate through their fur. And on the underside of the horsetail, there isn't any fur, so they can directly place this monitor right in that area, as you would with a watch around the wrist.

31:48So it's not a kind of 24-7 device. it's a device you put on while you're exercising on the horse the coolest thing about it is it links to your compatible garmin watch and you track your workout at the same time as your horse's workout um because you do get a workout when you're riding on a horse and then you can

32:06Sarah Lane: look at their stats and their health and and all that okay so this is not like i went to the gym what did my horse do today it's something that's designed to be compatible with somebody who is riding a horse and the horse that's being ridden. You could sort of do that. You have to be Bluetooth connected to it. So you got to be around when it's on. It does have a 25-hour battery life, but I assume if the horse goes out of range, it'll stop tracking. And the part about it being under the tail is interesting to me because you would think, wouldn't the bridle just be the place that you would put it?

32:42Sarah Lane: There's fur. So you can't get, and it'll be rubbing. You need somewhere where it doesn't move and where you can get like it nicely pressed against the direct skin without any hair in the way and that's one of the only spots to do it but actually some of the some equestrians report that they're glad it's not a piece of tack that you have to like put on or take off because people have different kinds of tack that they put on their horse so um this might tickle some horses though and it might get messy considering the location but it's washable uh so yeah i think it's actually a really smart placement now do you have a horse is this something that you can test i do not i'm like i would love to but i don't want to live with it with this but um no i don't but tom mentioned he has a sister who has a horse so maybe we can get someone to test this out i have a friend with a horse i feel like she would like this yeah i feel like if you have a horse you can afford by the way we didn't mention the price tag it's a 600 horse tracker but i feel like if You can buy a horse tracker.

33:39It measures. So the reason it needs to be on your skin, it measures the heart rate. It also measures skin temperature, stride and gait. So you can say I was galloping for 20 minutes today or whatever you want to measure that for. I have a faint idea of what you would want to look at, but you want to check your horse's general condition. It'll also track like the Garmin watches do your recovery after the workout. And yeah, it can also do GPS activities. So if you're doing a trail run instead of something like in a barn, then you can look at that.

34:12Sarah Lane: This feels like, and again, I do not have a horse. I never have, although, boy, would I love one if I could afford it and I lived in the country. Yeah, not in LA. But for folks who have horses, I mean, yes, if you have a farm, your horse might live there, but many horses are boarded. and they're looked after by people besides you. And so this would be really, really good data just to be like, you know, what's going on, you know, before I can get there on a Saturday and, you know, hang out with my horse all day. And you'd have to have the person boarding them, if they're riding them, measure it for you because it has to have like Bluetooth connectivity.

34:52So I don't think you can do it distant, but you're right. That could be a really good point. It also says you can use it on multiple horses. You can have different profiles and it has its own app. It also has something that I think would be really useful. It has something called a heat score for riding safety, so it'll combine the air temperature with the humidity. But I feel like you could just get that from the weather app. But I have been in the situation before where I'm like, is it too hot to ride? I don't know. So that's kind of cool. If I had a horse and if I had the money, I would jump on this because I love this kind of data stuff.

35:28I love constantly checking my not I'm trying not to make this an ad for Garmin, but I think it's really cool. Like not constantly checking my watch and trying to see like, well, what are my stats today? It'd be cool to see like, I don't know, I worked out more than my horse on our on our trail run or something similar.

35:45Sarah Lane: Well, listen, I mean, no, it's not an ad for Garmin, but you like it. You know, you like you like you like I would buy the money. It just sounds fun. It's six hundred bucks. So again, yes, if you can afford a horse, you could probably afford this. That's probably what Garmin was thinking too. Yeah. Well, Nikki, before we go, I know that you've been interested in animal trackers in general as of late. Yes. So we worked together on Live With It on talking about my cat tracker that I got called the Moggy. And it's not a horse tracker, but it has a lot of interesting features. So if you guys want to hear about tracking your cat's activities and health, then you might want to head over there and take a listen.

36:29Definitely.

36:30Sarah Lane: Definitely. Upcoming Live With It segment with Dr. Nicole Ackermans. But thanks for chatting today. Yeah, I'm happy to be here. And if you guys want to hear more about what I do, head over to NicoleAckermans.com and the same handle on Blue Sky. Excellent. So that episode of Live With It we mentioned is up today. That's Dr. Nikki's cat tracker. Find it in the Live With It feed in your podcatcher of choice or on our YouTube channel, youtube.com slash Daily Tech News Show.

37:01Dr Niki: Yeah. Maybe more people have cats than horses. So that's probably.

37:05Sarah Lane: I actually, the one friend that I mentioned to Nikki who does have a horse, I asked her, do you want this? She could afford it. And she was like, same, same for my sister.

37:18Dr Niki: And she was like, I don't know, maybe my friend who has horses would want it because she, she trains them. And that friend was like, same, same sort of thing. So I don't know, no horse people are takers for this. But if you want to catch that live with it live when it premieres at 4pm Eastern, you can catch it. We also have a bunch of other live streams. I mentioned my office hours, we do DTNS live on Thursdays at 4pm. We do a hangout on Fridays. You can catch all those by becoming a subscriber at youtube.com slash daily tech news show. This episode is sponsored by Morning Brew Daily. If you're anything like me, you want to stay informed about what's happening in business and finance, but you also don't have an hour every morning to sift through headlines.

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39:13Sarah Lane: we end every episode of dtns with some shared wisdom and we count on you to share it with us today jay was among several people who wrote in with the use case for the airpods in-ear translation

39:25Dr Niki: yes thank you everybody who was like actually i think this might work for me or it might work for a friend uh jay wrote i'm actually a potential use case for the live translation feature my wife is from Vietnam. And although we speak each other's languages well enough for basic conversation, sometimes we have to pull out the translation app and the conversation nearly grinds to a halt. This is even more pronounced when I have conversations with her parents or other family members that are less fluent. That said, it took me a very long time to find a pair of AirPods that stay in my ear as well as my Gen 4s.

39:56Dr Niki: And I'm not sure that the translation help is worth the risk of never being able to wear them when I jog or mow the lawn again. Again, those silicone tips just don't help in my weird ear canals. Well, the good news is if he's talking about the AirPods 4, then the translation is coming to that. So good news for Jay. He'll be able to put them in. And Jay, if you and your wife both wear the AirPods and then talk to each other, I'd be curious how well that works, like what the lag is and all of that.

40:27Sarah Lane: and and anybody who has studied a language uh besides their own native tongue long enough knows that you know you think like jay and his wife just you know they can only talk about certain things there are just nuances to all languages that you can be taught but uh you can you can also miss a lot of that stuff yeah i would be curious while sometimes we're like oh

40:52Dr Niki: I know how to say this in English, but how do you make that German, you know, or vice versa or whatever? Totally. Totally.

40:58Sarah Lane: Yeah. So anybody who ends up taking this to the test, we would love to hear more about it. We'd love to hear what you're thinking about in general. If you have insight to a story or anything that we've talked about today or any other day here on DTN's Briefing, share it with us at feedback at dailytechnewsshow.com.

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