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In a conversation that sets the tone for this year's RSA Conference, Steve Wilson, shares a candid look at how AI is intersecting with cybersecurity in real and measurable ways. Wilson, who also leads the OWASP Top 10 for Large Language Models project and recently authored a book published by O'Reilly on the topic, brings a multi-layered perspective to a discussion that blends strategy, technology, and organizational behavior.Wilson's session title at RSA Conference—“Are the Machines Learning, or Are We?”—asks a timely question. Security teams are inundated with data, but without meaningful visibility—defined not just as seeing, but understanding and acting on what you see—confidence in defense capabilities may be misplaced. Wilson references a study conducted with IDC that highlights this very disconnect: organizations feel secure, yet admit they can't see enough of their environment to justify that confidence.This episode tackles one of the core paradoxes of AI in cybersecurity: it offers the promise of enhanced detection, speed, and insight, but only if applied thoughtfully. Generative AI and large language models (LLMs) aren't magical fixes, and they struggle with large datasets. But when layered atop refined systems like user and entity behavior analytics (UEBA), they can help junior analysts punch above their weight—or even automate early-stage investigations.Wilson doesn't stop at the tools. He zooms out to the business implications, where visibility, talent shortages, and tech complexity converge. He challenges security leaders to rethink what visibility truly means and to recognize the mounting noise problem. The industry is chasing 40% more CVEs year over year—an unsustainable growth curve that demands better signal-to-noise filtering.At its heart, the episode raises important strategic questions: Are businesses merely offloading thinking to machines? Or are they learning how to apply these technologies to think more clearly, act more decisively, and structure teams differently?Whether you're building a SOC strategy, rethinking tooling, or just navigating the AI hype cycle, this conversation with Steve Wilson offers grounded insights with real implications for today—and tomorrow.

If you're keen to share your story, please reach out to us!Guest:https://www.linkedin.com/in/maxim-logvinenko/https://t.me/maximizing_itCoin Metrics Links:https://coinmetrics.io/careers/https://www.linkedin.com/company/coinmetrics/https://x.com/coinmetrics/https://coinmetrics.substack.com/https://coinmetrics.io/state-of-the-market/https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/7249095682777591808/?displayConfirmation=true/Coin Metrics is the leading provider of crypto financial intelligence, offering network data, market data, indexes and network risk solutions to the most prestigious institutions touching cryptoassets. Established in 2017, Coin Metrics is committed to building the crypto economy on a foundation of truth, providing authentic and accurate data with the highest standards of clarity and precision. Coin Metrics puts unparalleled insight and accuracy into crypto data and analytics so that companies can accelerate value creation and minimize risk. For more information, visit www.coinmetrics.io.Powered by Artifeks!https://www.linkedin.com/company/artifeksrecruitmenthttps://www.artifeks.co.ukhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/agilerecruiterLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/enginearsioTwitter: https://x.com/EnginearsioAll Podcast Platforms: https://smartlink.ausha.co/enginears00:00 - Enginears Intro.01:03 - Maxim Intro.02:57 - WhatsApp experience.05:19 - Coin Metrics Intro.08:25 - What products are Coin Metrics building on-chain?12:45 - What are the engineering challenges that are found on a day to day basis?16:14 - What is Maxim's best tip for ensuring reliability and high data quality in blockchains?18:35 - Why is high quality data important for Coin Metrics?20:50 - Is that why data is kept across multiple data centres and different environments?22:24 - What is the tech stack at Coin Metrics and why it is important?27:08 - Would you change anything about your tech stack?28:22 - How do you approach the change to your tech stack?31:14 - The future of Coin Metrics?33:50 - Where are some of today's challenges and where are the anticipated challenges in the next 12 months?36:33 - Growth expected at Coin Metrics and what Coin Metrics are looking to hire in engineering (culture)?41:00 - Maxim & Coin Metrics Outro.42:45 - Enginears Outro.Edited by: hunterdigital.co.ukHosted by Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

Join us for an illuminating conversation with Pieter Lokker, CIP, Product Manager for IM Practices and Behaviors at Shell. Discover how his journey from art history to information management has shaped a unique perspective on the industry. Pieter shares insights on Shell's innovative approach to information maturity, their "Powering Information" approach, and the creative ways they're engaging employees through their annual Information Governance Week. Whether you're an IM veteran or just starting your career, this episode offers valuable lessons on connecting dots, demonstrating value, and preparing for the future of information management in a rapidly evolving digital landscape.

Dr. Robert Seidl hat einen spannenden Vortrag gehalten beim DTB Business Forum. Wie Profis die Daten nutzen von Dr. Robert Seidls Kollegen und wieviele Fragen Tom beantworten konnte im Rahmen der "Stats Perform Tennisprofessur" ... hört rein. "Stats Perform is the world leader in sports AI. With 6.5 Petabytes of proprietary sports data and 8 foundation sports AI models used in 200+ software modules, we empower the world's top sports broadcasters, media, apps, leagues, federations, bookmakers and teams to win audiences, customers and trophies."

"I always feel like somebody's watching me..." go the lyrics of the 1980's Rockwell song - "And I have no privacy." And it's true in this era where technology advances have made video surveillance something we live with on a daily basis. But capturing and using video footage is complicated, frequently compounded by the use of legacy data storage technology. For this episode, we welcome, Tom Sells, Field Business Development Principal and Video Surveillance solutions expert, to talk thru the history of video surveillance (hint: it's not like what we see in the movies). We take a walk thru the new and emerging use cases across many industries - law enforcement, education, retail, transportation, and even gaming & casinos. Finally, we hone in on how Pure's latest //E family of arrays and Evergreen//One provide cost-effective and modern solutions that make capture and retention far easier for users. For more info on Pure and video surveillance: https://www.purestorage.com/docs.html?item=/type/pdf/subtype/doc/path/content/dam/pdf/en/solution-briefs/sb-public-safety-pure.pdf

Welcome to What You Thought #179 |The Petabytes Episode - The Funniest Podcast On The Planet Terrance Howard on Joe Rogan: Terrance Howard's recent appearance on the Joe Rogan Experience sparks conversations about his unique worldview and fascinating life insights. Tune in as we dissect the highlights and discuss Howard's captivating perspectives. (4 min) Diddy Apology Video: Dive into Diddy's recent apology video, exploring its content, context, and reception among fans and critics alike. We'll analyze the sincerity, impact, and implications of Diddy's public statement. (28 mins) 50 Cent sells Diddy Documentary to Netflix after Bidding War: Get the scoop on the bidding war over 50 Cent's documentary about Diddy, culminating in Netflix securing the rights. We'll unpack the reasons behind the interest and what viewers can anticipate from this highly-anticipated documentary. (1.02 hr) Joe Budden Gets Backlash For Speaking About Diddy: Joe Budden finds himself in hot water after discussing Diddy on his platform. Join us as we examine the fallout, controversies, and reactions surrounding Budden's comments, shedding light on the intricacies of celebrity discourse. (1.16 hr) Apple names "The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill" Best Album Of All Time: Explore Apple's bold declaration of "The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill" as the best album of all time. We'll delve into the significance of this accolade, its impact on music culture, and reactions from fans and industry insiders. (1.26 hr) Tune in for insightful discussions, hilarious commentary, and the juiciest updates from the entertainment world. We've got your laughter and information needs covered!

Este episódio do podcast "Fronteiras da Engenharia de Software" com Rui Maranhão Abreu aborda a localização de falhas de software e suas aplicaçõe. Rui, professor catedrático em Engenharia de Software na Universidade do Porto e Research Software Engineer na Meta, compartilha ideias sobre esse campo da Engenharia de Software. No episódio, são discutidos conceitos fundamentais, como a diferença entre falhas e bugs, bem como os desafios enfrentados na detecção de falhas em sistemas complexos e distribuídos, especialmente em ambientes de integração contínua, como na Meta. Rui também explora o papel da inteligência artificial, machine learning e deep learning na localização de falhas e destaca avanços recentes na pesquisa de reparo automatizado de programas. Além disso, são abordados artigos recentes de Rui e seus co-autores, incluindo o "Remoção de Código Morto na Meta", que apresenta o Framework de Remoção Sistemática de Código e Ativos (SCARF), e "Depuração de Erros de Tipo Alimentada por GPT-3", que descreve uma técnica para corrigir automaticamente erros de tipo em programas OCaml, utilizando o GPT-3. A conversa também explora a carreira de Rui na Meta, sua experiência como General Chair do ICSE 2024 em Portugal e suas visões sobre a próxima fronteira da engenharia de software.  Site de Rui: https://ruimaranhao.com/ Outros links: https://sigarra.up.pt/feup/pt/func_geral.formview?p_codigo=466651 https://dei.fe.up.pt/pt/blog/2023/04/10/rui-maranhao-toma-posse-como-diretor-do-prodei/ Artigos: "Remoção de Código Morto na Meta: Exclusão Automática de Milhões de Linhas de Código e Petabytes de Dados Obsoletos" "Dead Code Removal at Meta: Automatically Deleting Millions of Lines of Code and Petabytes of Deprecated Data" https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3611643.3613871 Localização de características baseada em espectro: um estudo de caso usando o ArgoUML. Spectrum-based feature localization: a case study using ArgoUML https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3461001.3473065 Depuração de Erros de Tipo Alimentada por GPT-3: Investigando o Uso de Modelos de Linguagem Avançados para Reparo de Código GPT-3-Powered Type Error Debugging: Investigating the Use of Large Language Models for Code Repair https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3623476.3623522  Mentat (ferramenta) https://figshare.com/articles/software/GPT-3-Powered_Type_Error_Debugging_Investigating_the_Use_of_Large_Language_Models_for_Code_Repair_SLE_2023_/23646903  The bumpy road of taking automated debugging to industry https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.01237  Outros links:  ICSE 2024 https://conf.researchr.org/home/icse-2024  FSE 2024 https://conf.researchr.org/home/fse-2024 ICSE 2026 https://twitter.com/rafaelpri/status/1543318975043383296 Mais informações em ⁠⁠⁠https://fronteirases.github.io/episodios/paginas/46⁠ Entrevistadores: Adolfo Neto (PPGCA UTFPR) ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://adolfont.github.io ⁠  e Maria Claudia Emer Nosso site é: ⁠⁠https://fronteirases.github.io⁠   Extreme Energy (Music Today 80). Composed & Produced by: Anwar Amr. Link:⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZZbAkKNx7s⁠⁠  Data de publicação: 15 de maio de 2024. Como citar este episódio FRONTEIRAS DA ENGENHARIA DE SOFTWARE EP. 46: Localização de Falhas de Software, com Rui Maranhão Abreu (Universidade do Porto e Meta). [Locução de]: Adolfo Neto e Maria Claudia Emer. Entrevistado: Rui Maranhão Abreu. S. l.: Fronteiras da Engenharia de Software, 15 mai. 2024. Podcast. Disponível em: ⁠https://fronteirases.github.io/episodios/paginas/46. ⁠Acesso em: 15 mai. 2024. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/fronteirases/message

EP319 - Amazon Q1 2024 Recap http://jasonandscot.com Join your hosts Jason "Retailgeek" Goldberg, Chief Commerce Strategy Officer at Publicis, and Scot Wingo, CEO of GetSpiffy and Co-Founder of ChannelAdvisor as they discuss the latest news and trends in the world of e-commerce and digital shopper marketing. Episode Summary: In this episode, Jason "Retailgeek" Goldberg and Scot Wingo dive deep into Amazon's first quarter results for 2024, analyzing the company's performance in various segments such as retail, offline and online sales, marketplace, AWS, and advertising. They also explore the impact of AI on Amazon's business and provide insights into the company's future guidance for Q2 2024. Amazon Q1 2024 Earnings Release Amazon Q1 2024 Earnings Call Transcript In our latest episode, Jason and Scott cover a range of topics, starting with their reflections on recent events such as May the 4th and Cinco de Mayo. Jason shares intriguing stories from his extensive travels and interactions with listeners worldwide. Scott delves into the intersection of e-commerce and the auto industry, honing in on Carvana. The duo also delves into the U.S. Department of Commerce retail indicators data, shedding light on trends in retail sales and e-commerce growth. The conversation pivots towards Amazon's recent earnings report, contextualizing it within the realm of AI investments by tech giants like Meta and Alphabet, offering valuable industry insights and analysis. The discussion continues with a focus on Amazon's earnings report, zooming in on concerns around AWS amid heightened competition from Alphabet and Azure. The rising trend of AI investments, particularly in data training applications, is explored, alongside the growing popularity of open source AI models due to cost and privacy considerations. Despite a conservative Q2 guidance, Amazon impresses with robust revenue that surpasses Wall Street expectations, particularly in operating income. The retail segment shows exceptional growth, exceeding operating income estimates for both domestic and international divisions. Notably, Amazon's performance in brick-and-mortar stores, spearheaded by Whole Foods, demonstrates resilience with a 6.3% growth rate. AWS stands out with a 17% growth, dispelling market share concerns and showcasing accelerated revenue growth, illustrating Amazon's continuous growth potential and innovation prowess. Scott delves deeper into Amazon's positive quarterly earnings report, emphasizing the remarkable revenue performance, especially in operating income. Insights are shared on Amazon's successful agnostic approach to LLM models and the potential advancements in generative AI. The conversation shifts towards the burgeoning ads business at Amazon, underlining its profitability and future growth prospects. Scot also outlines Amazon's Q2 guidance and the potential impacts of consumer spending patterns on the retail sector, including concerns about changing consumer behaviors and economic pressures shaping market dynamics. Jason complements the discussion with additional perspectives on consumer behavior and economic influences reshaping the market landscape. Furthermore, we embark on a detailed exploration of supply chain logistics, with a spotlight on Amazon's expansion into third-party logistics services, revolutionizing traditional retail strategies by sharing proprietary capabilities for wider adoption. Insights from Andy Jassy shed light on Amazon's logistics business approach. The conversation expands to include how companies like Spiffy are embracing a similar model of sharing proprietary products to drive innovation and revenue growth, showcasing an evolving landscape of retail innovation. The podcast unpacks the complex world of grocery retail, highlighting Amazon's experimental forays like Just Walk Out technology and the Amazon Dash cart, while examining the challenges in delineating Amazon's grocery sector strategy. A comparison is drawn between Amazon's strategies and those of rivals like Walmart and Target, who are adapting their product offerings to match evolving consumer preferences, offering a comprehensive view of the dynamic retail and supply chain management sphere. Dive into our engaging discussion, explore retail dynamics, and keep a lookout for more insightful content. Don't forget to like our facebook page, and if you enjoyed this episode please write us a review on itunes. Episode 319 of the Jason & Scot show was recorded on Sunday, May 5th, 2024. Chapters 0:23 The Jason and Scott Show Begins 2:56 World Travel Adventures 5:53 Commerce Tools Elevate Show 6:53 Jason's World Tour Plans 7:22 Where in the World is Retail Geek? 20:43 Amazon's First Quarter Earnings 23:23 Sandbagging Strategy 26:45 Amazon's Dominance in E-commerce 27:44 Online Segment Growth Analysis 28:53 Offline Store Segment Analysis 31:35 Spotlight on AWS Performance 34:32 Data at AWS 42:02 Gen AI Revenue Growth 46:24 Consumer Pressure 49:56 Supply Chain Evolution 53:46 Leveraging Technology 58:08 Disruption in E-commerce 1:01:54 Amazon's Grocery Strategy 1:05:01 Retail Industry News Transcript Jason: [0:23] Welcome to the Jason and Scott Show. This is episode 319 being recorded on Sunday, May 5th, 2024. I'm your host, Jason Retail Guy Goldberg, and as usual, I'm here with your co-host, Scott Wingo. Scot: [0:37] Hey, Jason, and welcome back, Jason and Scott Show listeners. It's been a while, but first, happy Cinco de Mayo, and also a belated May the 4th, Jason. Did you have a good Star Wars day? Jason: [0:49] I did. I did. I feel like Star Wars Day always makes me think of the podcast because I feel like we have spent many of them in my latter life together. Scot: [1:01] Yeah, absolutely. Any exciting new Star Wars experiences or merch? Jason: [1:08] No, I understand you got some vintage merch. merch. Scot: [1:13] It's not, but they, back when I was a kid, you would go and if you went every week to, I think it was Burger King, you would for the, I think it was Empire. I have the Empire right here. So definitely Empire, but you would get a glass. Now it turns out these were full of lead paint, which would kill you, but that was the downside. Jason: [1:32] Not recommended for drinking. Scot: [1:33] You got a very, yes, I never, being a collector, I never drank out of them. So that's good. Jason: [1:37] Saved your life right there. Scot: [1:38] Yes, but I did drink out of the Tweety Bird. So that me, me. I'm sure I got some yellow lead paint from a twitty bird glass. Anyway, so they came out with a Mandalorian kind of homage to those glasses and they were at the Hallmark store of all places, not where I usually hang out, but I got to go to a Hallmark store and the little ladies that worked there were, I wish them all an awesome May the 4th. And they looked at me like I was from another planet and it was hilarious. My wife's like, stop, they don't know what you're doing. Jason: [2:07] Wait, they didn't have a big May 4th section in the Hallmark store? Scot: [2:11] They did. The little ladies didn't know. Jason: [2:13] The overlap of people that still buy Papyrus cards and celebrate May 4th is probably not great. Scot: [2:21] It was very humbling. It was a humble May the 4th, but I got my glasses and I was happy. I'm happy for you. And then tonight we had tacos for dinner, so I'm hitting all the holidays. Jason: [2:30] I feel like we should have tacos for dinner every night, whether it's Cinco de Mayo or not, but I'm i am happy for that. Scot: [2:35] We do have a lot of tacos but this was a special single denial edition. Jason: [2:42] Well, very well done, my friend. Scot: [2:44] Thanks. Well, listeners of the pod have been all over me. They're like, why aren't you recording? And I said, it's not me. It's Jason. It's Jason. Because you have been traveling Scot: [2:55] the earth, spreading retail geek goodness. Tell us, we are way far behind on trip updates and all the different countries. It's like you're playing, do you have like a little travel bingo where you're just like punching, what is it, 93 countries? Jason: [3:09] I do. They call it a passport. Oh, nice. Yes. Scot: [3:13] That, uh, little book that you get to carry. Yeah. Jason: [3:15] Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I have been on a lot of trips and it sounds like you and I may be telling complimentary lies because I also, I've had an opportunity to meet a lot of listeners in the last, we'll call it seven weeks and which they're always super nice. And it's always super fun to talk to people. And obviously they're, you know, strangers recognize my voice in line at Starbucks at all these e-commerce shows. And then we strike up a conversation. And then the next question is always, where the heck is Scott? Because they're always disappointed to meet me and not you. And now the new thing is, and why aren't you producing more frequent shows? And my answer is always that you're dominating the world at Get Spiffy and that you're too busy. Scot: [4:00] Uh-huh. I see. Okay. Jason: [4:02] Well, we're both very busy. Scot: [4:05] You're traveling more than I am. I'm busy washing cars. Jason: [4:08] Yes. I think both are fairly true, but I did finish a grueling seven-week stint where I got to come home a couple of times on the weekends, but I basically had seven weeks of travel back to back. In my old life, that would not have been that atypical, but post-pandemic, The travel has been a little more moderate. And I have noticed that I have my travel muscles have atrophied and I don't really want to redevelop. Jason: [4:35] So the seven weeks was a lot. Please don't ask me for trip reports for all the commerce events because I kind of can't remember some of them. They're all a little bit of a blur. But I was at Shop Talks, I think, since the last time we talked, which is, of course, probably the biggest show in our industry. And that was a very good show. I did get to see a lot of our mutual friends and a lot of fans of the show there. So that was certainly fun. And maybe in another podcast, we can do a little recap of some of the interesting things that came out of Shop Talk. I did produce a couple of recaps in other formats for work clients, so we could certainly pull something together. I also went to a vendor show. One of the e-commerce platforms out there is called Commerce Tools, and they had their annual customer show, which is called Elevate in Miami. So I got a chance to go visit there. They're one of the commerce platforms that I would say is winning at the moment in the kind of pivot away from the old school monoliths to these new sort of SaaS-based solutions. And commerce tools in particular are kind of pioneers in pushing this actual certification around a more modern earned stack that they they coined mock. And I think I think we've had Kelly from from commerce tools on the on the podcast Jason: [5:51] in the past to talk about that. But that was a good show. I got to meet a lot of listeners there. And a funny one, several listeners were like. Jason: [5:59] I would apologize for the, the, our publishing schedule lately. And they're like, I'm cool with it. I like that. Like you don't do a show if there's not something worthwhile. And then, you know, when I do get a show, it's like a treat. So I don't know if they're being honest or not, but that made me feel a little better about some of our, our, our Tardis shows lately. So those, those were good events. I also spent a week in India with some clients and that super interesting, a lot of commerce activity going on there, a lot of different market dynamics than here. So that's kind of intellectually pretty fun to learn about and see what's working there that might be working here or what, you know, why things tend to play out differently there. So that's interesting. And then I have a lot more international trips booked right now. Jason: [6:48] So coming up, I'm going to Barcelona, London, Paris, and Sao Paulo. So if anyone either has any favorite retail experiences in any of of those cities, please send them my way. I'll be doing store visits in all those cities. And if you're based in any of those cities, also drop me a line. Hopefully we can do some meetups while I'm out there. Scot: [7:07] Cool. It's Jason's world tour. You can do a little pod while you're there. Jason: [7:12] We have done a bunch of international pods in the distant past. I remember hotel rooms in South Korea and all over the place, Jason: [7:19] Japan that we've, we've cut shows from. So, so totally could. Scot: [7:23] Yeah. We'll have to do it. Where in the world is retail geek? That could be the theme song. I just sampled that. Jason: [7:30] Yeah. So besides cleaning the world's cars, what have you been up to, Scott? Scot: [7:35] Well, it's kind of funny. My worlds are colliding. So a lot of the analysts that you and I know from the e-commerce world are creeping into the auto world and their gateway drug is Carvana. So in the world of retail, we have Amazon, obviously. Well, Carvana is kind of Amazonifying used cars. They had a bit of a drama kind of situation. They were the golden child of online cars. And then they totally pooped the bed. They did this acquisition. They loaded up with debt. And then after, I think it was 21. So they had a good COVID. They surged. And then the debt got in front of them. Used car prices bop around and they kind of like got in an open door situation where they had bought a lot of cars for more than they were worth suddenly. And then they plummeted and everyone thought they were going out of business, but they have had a resurgence. So it's causing a lot of the internet analysts to now pick up auto tech or mobility or whatever you want to call it. So it was fun. I got to do a live chat with Nick Jones. He's been a friend of the show. I don't think we've had him on due to some compliance stuff that his company has rules around, but he's at this firm JMP and it was kind of wild to talk about, with someone about both Amazon and what we're doing at Spiffy, which is basically a lot of Amazon principles applied to car care. So it was interesting to have someone reach out and say, hey, I think this is a thing. And everyone tells me I should talk to you about it. And I was like, oh, yeah, I would love to. So it's kind of fun. Jason: [9:01] That's very cool. And isn't it also a thing, I think half the vehicles on the road are now owned by Amazon. So I assume that's an overlap too. too? Scot: [9:09] Yeah, not half, but a lot are. The number of last mile delivery vehicles are very, very large. And we work with a lot of them, so it's kind of fun. I started spiffy somewhat to get away from Amazon and still all I can talk about. Nope. So embrace it. I love Amazon. Love me some Amazon, Jason. Jason: [9:29] I'm glad you do. I love them too, but I feel like I spend most of my career You're unsuccessfully helping people compete with them. Scot: [9:38] Hey, got to play one side of the coin. It's a gig. You're going to be more like them or how to fight them. Jason: [9:43] It's a gig. It is indeed. Yeah. Scot: [9:46] Cool. I thought we are going to talk about some Amazon news. But before we jump in, you have done your magic with your data analysis interns. And I'm sure there's an LLM and an AI thrown in there. Let's start with some of the things you're seeing in commerce trends from the data that's out there. Jason: [10:07] Yeah. So as everyone knows, I have a little bit too much of an infatuation with the U.S. Department of Commerce retail indicators data. And these guys, you know, publish monthly estimates of retail sales in a bunch of categories. And, you know, we've talked about this many times on the show, but broadly over the last several years have been really interesting in retail. 2020, 2021, and 2022 were the greatest three years in the history of retail. Like we mailed like $6 trillion in economic stimulus. People didn't travel or go to restaurants as much. And so we sold way more goods than ever before. And so those three years, retail grew respectively at like 8%, 14%, and 9%. The 20 years prior, retail averaged about 4% a year in growth. So normally pre-pandemic, you'd expect 4% growth. We had these three, you know, wildly pandemic influence years where we grew really fast. And then last year we finished a little below 4%. So, so we were around, I want to say it was like 3.6%. So it was growth. It would, it would have been in line with pre-pandemic growth, but it certainly felt like a significant deceleration from those heady pandemic years. And so, you know, people are super interested to see how does 2024 play out? Does it? Jason: [11:32] Kind of return to pre-pandemic levels, like what is the new normal? Jason: [11:37] And we now have the first quarter's data from the U.S. Department of Commerce, and I would call it kind of a mixed bag. If you just look at the raw retail data that the U.S. Department of Commerce publishes, they're going to tell you that retail grew in the first quarter 2.8%. So that's a little anemic, right? Compared to historical averages, that's not a great growth rate. Most of the practitioners that follow this podcast care about a particular subset of retail that the National Retail Federation has dubbed core retail. And so the National Retail Federation pulls gas and automobiles sales out of that number. And gas is a decent size number and it's very volatile based on the commodity prices of gas. And auto is a huge number that has, as you're well familiar, its own idiosyncrasies. And so that's how they justify taking those two out. And if you take those two out and you get this core retail number, retail in the first quarter grew 3.9%. So kind of to align with how the NRF talks about retail, we'll say Q1 overall was 3.9%, which is very in line with the pre-pandemic historic average. So disappointing by pandemic standards, but kind of traditionally what we would expect. Jason: [13:05] What is unique in that number is. Jason: [13:09] That it's very bifurcated. There are clear winners and losers, both by categories and specific practitioners. So if you break down the categories, e-commerce is the fastest growing chunk of retail. I'm sure we'll talk more about that. Restaurants were the next fastest growing categories. And categories like mass merchants and healthcare providers outperform that industry average, every other segment of retail underperformed the industry average. So things like furniture stores did the worst, building materials did really poorly, gas stations did very poorly, electronics did poorly, and side note, electronics have been the worst performer since the pandemic, which is kind of interesting and challenging. So you've had this weird couple categories doing really well, a bunch of categories doing really poorly. And then within the categories even, if you look at the public company's individual earnings calls, what you tend to see is a couple of big players performing really well in overall retail, that's Amazon and Walmart. And then a lot of other retailers really struggling. So that even that's like in general merchandise, it's Amazon and Walmart that are lifting the boats. And it's folks like Target traditionally that have performed really well are actually struggling at the moment. So the average is kind of hard to follow at the moment. Jason: [14:37] But that is kind of how things play out. And then we have some preliminary e-commerce data, but the actual Q1 e-commerce number that the U.S. Department of Commerce publishes will publish on May 17th. So that's 12 days from now. Jason: [14:53] And crunching the numbers that we have available at the moment, that growth is likely to come in at somewhere between 8% and 10%. I'm guessing more like 8% or 9% growth. And so that also is twice as good as overall retail, and it's more than twice as good as brick-and-mortar retail. But that is noticeably slower than the historic e-commerce growth rates pre-pandemic. So kind of file those two numbers away. The overall retail industry is growing at 3.9%. The overall e-commerce industry is growing at about 9%. And then we have our friends at Amazon that dropped their earnings announcement just before May 4th so that they could celebrate May 4th, I think. Scot: [15:39] Yeah, yes, that's a good setup. And without further ado, let's talk about Amazon's fourth quarter. It wouldn't be a Jason Scott show without a little bit of... Scot: [16:01] That's right. On April 30th, Amazon announced their first quarter results. And the setup coming into these, so you had the data you talked about, but like to drill in a little bit. We had Meta, the artist formerly known as Facebook, and Alphabet, the artist previously known as Google. They announced and they both basically told Wall Street, AI is the cat's pajamas and we're going to spend anywhere between $10 and $40 billion of capital expenditures on it, meaning NVIDIA chips. So it turns out the way to play all this is basically buying NVIDIA. So hopefully you bought some NVIDIA stock. Maybe this is not a stock recommendation or when it's too late, so... And also don't take stock recommendations from podcasters. Anyway, so there was all this angst and people were a little freaked out coming into the Amazon results because Meta was down like pretty substantially, 20 to 30 percent. And Alphabet was also up substantially. You also had Microsoft come in there and they really crushed it. Their Azure is really lighting it up with AI. And they announced that they were going to invest a lot. And there's this rumor that a $100 billion project, it's got a name like Starship or something, but it's not Starship. Spaceship? Stardust? I don't know what it is. But it's going to be this mega data center, and they literally can't find a place to put it because it's going to consume so much power. So they're going to have to maybe build a nuclear plant next to it or some wacky thing. Scot: [17:31] Anyway, that was the setup. up. So coming in, Wall Street was very, very concerned about Amazon's AWS division, which is their cloud computing. Because if Alphabet is building out their infrastructure, and so is Azure, that's the two biggest competitors for AWS. And is AWS getting its fair share? And is it going to announce that it's going to have to go build some $40 billion kind of a thing? Also, another Another thing, and I'm kind of curious on if you're seeing this with your clients, but in the, I follow this, you know, the AI, you can't do much without seeing AI everywhere. But the part I'm most interested in is what are big enterprises spending money on? This is like your Fortune 500s. They're all experimenting and really getting into it. And where they're finding a lot of good use cases is training on their data. So they'll say, you know, hey, I'm Publisys. How many documents do you think are inside of Publisys? I don't know, 8 trillion documents. Documents and you know wouldn't it be helpful just the ones I created and who is this retail geek and he's he's created uh you know 90 of those and you know so you know imagine you're starting new at publicists you're gonna be like where do I start going through some of these documents for us and if you had a chat bot that was like hey I've read all that you know I can navigate you through everything that's been published or you know whatever I'm certainly you. Scot: [18:50] Providing a very big metaphor, certainly be more divisional and all this kind of stuff. But that's where big companies are spending the bulk is they're taking their data in whatever format it's in, be it a relational database, a PDF, whatever it is, they're trying to train it. They don't want it to go up into the, they don't want to train the LLM so that other people get the benefit of that and can see any confidential data. So that's really important. So it needs to be gated in these types of things. Because of that use case, open AI is not great because people are very worried. A, it's very expensive and it's only an API. So OpenAI hosts itself and you call it through an API. Scot: [19:25] Those API calls are very expensive. They're getting, as OpenAI has gotten more popular, there's more latency. It's taking forever to get answers out of this thing. And a lot of people are very concerned that even though there's ways to call the API such that it's in a window and not being trained, that maybe it leaks in there. So because of all these elements, the open source models are becoming very popular. And right around the time Meta announced, they announced their Llama, which has become quite popular. And what's nice is you can host it wherever you want. And it's kind of like WordPress, where if you are a serious WordPresser, you can host it somewhere yourself, and you can kind of understand that. Otherwise, there's other people that will host it for you. But it has the nice feature of you're just getting the weights and whatnot, and it's it's pretty clear, it's pretty obvious, it's not training itself on your data. So a lot of people like it because it's quote unquote free. It's not an API usage based. It's a pay once to set it up, pay for some resources type thing and you're done. And it's also not going to train on the data. That's one of many. There's probably 10 or 20 pretty commercial grade open AIs out there. Scot: [20:38] Okay. So that's kind of the setup to get to the earnings. things. So from a big picture, this was a really good quarter. Asterix, the guide made Wall Street a little bit nervous. So- Scot: [20:53] And one of our research analysts just said it's Stargate, which is also a sci-fi series. They must have that on Prime Video or something. There's probably some callback there. Scot: [21:01] So they beat for the quarter Q1, but then they also kind of tell you what's going on the next quarter. Amazon doesn't provide fully your guidance. They just kind of give you a snippet. So when they report one quarter, a quarter, they then tell you what they think the next quarter is going to do. So Wall Street got a little bit ahead of its skis, and the guide for Q2 was below what Wall Street wants. So it wasn't what we'd call a beat and a raise, which is the current quarter was a beat and the next one they increased. It was a beat and a guide down. So that probably tampered Wall Street. But ever since Jassy came in, Andy Jassy, this has been his MO is to be pretty conservative because Wall Street's very much an expectation engine. And the more, if you can beat and tamp down expectations, it makes it, it's a little bit rougher in the short term from a stock price, but it makes next quarter better and then so on and so forth. So it's a smart way to manage the long-term vibe of the stock, the mindset, the expectations around your stock. Okay. So revenue came in at $143 billion versus Wall Street at $142. So pretty much in line. But most importantly, where Amazon really threw people off was on operating income. Yes, Amazon is profitable. This is the proxy for operating income. True Amazonians would tell you, no, it's cashflow. We can go into that, but this is kind of the way they report to Wall Street. So this is kind of the standard operating system, if you will. So this is what we're going to use, but it's a proxy for cashflow. Scot: [22:28] That was 15 billion for the quarter and Wall Street expected 11. Well, you know, 4 billion on a world of 143 doesn't sound like much, but between 11 and 15, that's a very material beat. What is that? Like 38%, something like that. Scot: [22:44] So that was a really nice surprise. And, you know, Amazon goes through these invest and harvest periods and everyone's been feeling like they're going to be back in investing which would mean they're going to start lowering operating income as they invest but it's actually kind of beating expectations, also this is the fifth quarter amazon has come in at the high end of its guidance or above its guidance since basically you know on operating income and that corresponds with when jassy came in so this is his mo right now is to kind of like beat and lower beat and lower you know exceed expectations tamp them down not get not get ahead of his skis and it's working really well. Jason: [23:24] Sandbagging for the win. I like it. Scot: [23:26] Yes, it is. Having run a public company, this is a lesson I learned painfully. So that's something we can talk about over beer sometime. Jason: [23:33] I will book that date. Yeah. And the retail business sort of followed in line with that. They had like some nice growth, but like the real standout number was the improvement in margins and the significant positive operating income from the retail segment. So I think the actual operating income from U.S. Retail was like $5 billion and the Wall Street expectations were 4.3. So again, that was another strong beat. Total revenue, which revenue is not the same thing as retail sales, as we've talked about on the show many times, that we would use GMV as a proxy for that. But revenue was $86.3 billion for the quarter, which I think was in line with the analyst expectations. Jason: [24:27] And I think this was the largest operating income that Amazon has ever reported for the retail business. So that was super interesting on the domestic side. Traditionally, domestic has done pretty well and international has been a money loser because, you know, they've been less mature. they've been investing a lot in growing international and they haven't had the same kind of margins. This was the first quarter that they reported positive operating income for the international division. So that's another super encouraging sign for investors that maybe they've kind of passed that inflection point on a lot of their international investments that they've made in the EU and Japan and the UK, which reminds me is not part of the EU anymore. Jason: [25:13] So so they kind of beat beat international expectations across the board on income. Revenues were lower. So revenues were like thirty one billion dollars, which was below expectation. Jason: [25:25] But they they earned like nine hundred million in operating income. And I want to say the the the Wall Street expectation was like six hundred million. So so again, like a 30 percent beat, which is pretty, pretty darn good. Good. They also, a bunch of analysts have, you know, taken these revenue numbers and they try to back into a GMV number. And I would say the bummer at the moment is there's a fair amount of variance in the estimates, like different analysts have different models. So I have kind of been putting to a model of the models together and trying to kind of find a midpoint. And like Like based on that, the Amazon's GMV globally probably went up 11.5% for the quarter. So if you're comparing this to other retailers or the U.S. Department of Commerce number, overall GMV went up 11.5%. The U.S. was stronger. So the U.S. probably went up at 12.2%. So again, we talked about core retail was up 3.9%. Well, Amazon U.S. GMV was up 12.2%. So, you know, three times faster growth than the retail industry overall. Jason: [26:39] And again, Amazon is mostly e-commerce, very little brick and mortar, Jason: [26:44] which we'll talk about in just a minute. But even if you're comparing Amazon to that e-commerce number, if e-commerce comes in at 8% or 9% and Amazon's at 12%, they're by far the largest e-commerce player out there and they're still substantially outgrowing the average, which, you know, is very impressive and should be very scary to every other competitor out there. Jason: [27:08] One analyst kind of put together an estimate of what they thought the earned income contribution from Amazon was for retail and ads together, pulling AWS out. And they had it at $27 billion in earned income if Amazon was just a retail with no AWS. And that puts them right in the ballpark of Walmart that spent off about $29 billion in earned income or operating income. I keep saying earned, but I mean operating income. So, so that is all pretty impressive and simultaneously super scary. Jason: [27:45] Scott, did you drill down into the online segment at all? Scot: [27:49] Yeah. And, you know, what I would tell listeners is picture a block diagram where you have this big, big rectangle, that's the whole Amazon entity. And, you know, so what we're going to do is talk about the segments. And the first segment is the biggest one, which is the retail business. And that, that's what you just. Jason: [28:04] Biggest and best. Wouldn't you say? Scot: [28:06] Coolest. Jason: [28:07] Coolest. All right. Scot: [28:08] Cool. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. I'll, you know, I don't know. Jason: [28:11] It is for you. Scot: [28:14] Um, I think the whole enchilada, I like the, the way they do this and I'm trying to replicate it. It's 50. We'll talk about that in a second. The, so then the, you know, so then another segment is AWS, another segment, I think marketplace should be in some segment, but they don't break it out. So it's just kind of in kind of hidden inside of the blob that is retail. So we tease some of that out here on the show. They purposely hide it in there. So no one knows how awesome it is, I think. And then they've got AWS ads and a couple other things, but we'll talk about this. So as you dig into the retail business, there's a couple of ways to look at it. You can look at it by domestic and international, which Jason just did, Scot: [28:50] or you can look at it by online and physical store. So the online biz grew 7% year over year, which if I remember your stats, well, you don't have it until may 17th so on may 17th we'll be able to know how that compared but probably the one you can compare is the offline biz which is the the store comp that they have, And Jason, you saw on that one, what'd you see? Jason: [29:16] Yeah, so physical stores grew 6.3%. So again, like, you know, when we say all of retail grew 3.9%, a big chunk of that's e-commerce. Brick and mortar probably grew at like two to 3%. So Amazon's brick and mortar growing at 6.3% is actually super impressive. And it's kind of interesting, you know, for several years, Amazon has had experiments in a bunch of retail formats. So they've had these Amazon Go stores, stores. They had Amazon five-star stores. They had bookstores. They had a fashion store. They're trying all these things. And of course, the biggest chunk of their stores is they own Whole Foods. And so offline stores for Amazon was kind of a mix of all these different concepts. In the last couple of years, they've kind of cleaned house and gotten rid of all those concepts. And so, you know, nominally there's a few of their own grocery stores called Amazon Amazon fresh open, but the vast majority of online offline retail for Amazon is, is Whole Foods. And for it to be growing at 6.3% in the current climate is, is a really good sign for Amazon. And, and I would say somewhat impressive, you know, on the earnings call, they, they announced that they're working up a new format for Whole Foods, which is a smaller format store that's It's going to open in Manhattan. So I have that on my ticker file to go visit when that's open. Jason: [30:38] You know, the whole grocery space for Amazon is super interesting, but maybe we'll talk about that a little bit more later. But I will call out, they did launch a service that there's been some controversy over. They launched a $9.99 a month grocery delivery service, which essentially lets you have all you can eat free grocery delivery to your home for an incremental fee of $9.99. And they're spinning that as, you know, a cool new grocery service and enable more people to shop for groceries online. And there are a lot of articles about it, like. Jason: [31:13] They used to have free grocery delivery included in your Prime membership, right? And so they've kind of like, I look at the big arc of all this and say, there used to be a lot more free services in Prime that they've kind of peeled out. Then they started charging for, and now they'll let you get it free again for another $120 a year. Jason: [31:32] So interesting things happening with grocery that we could probably talk more about later. But I'm kind of eager to dive into some of these other businesses like AWS. Scot: [31:42] Yeah. So that's the one that everyone was really waiting on the call to hear how it went. And good news, AWS exceeded expectations. Everyone thought it was going to grow 14% and it came in at 17%. And if Wall Street likes, they like a lot of things, they like beating expectations, that's important to them. But their favorite thing is ARG. And that is not a pirate day thing, ARG. It is Accelerating Revenue Growth. Wall Street loves that more than anything. And that's what they delivered for both the ads and the AWS part of the business. And what that means is that as the law of numbers kicks in, so back on the retail business, the only time we see that accelerate is in the fourth quarter and that seasonal acceleration, right? We've gotten used to that for decades now. It always happens in the fourth quarter and whatnot. So it's what you would expect. But this is quite unusual for a relatively mature business. This thing's $25 billion a quarter. So this is a $100 billion business that accelerated. And so that tells us that there is a lot more wood to chop here. It has not gotten near its addressable market. And it really allayed fears that they were losing massive market share because they're, quote unquote, behind on AI to Azure, which is Microsoft offering, and then the Google hosting solution as well. Scot: [33:05] That does not seem to be the case. So they did very well. So they came in at $25 billion and Wall Street was expecting $24.6. So that was really, that accelerating is what really made everyone very happy. And then the operating income came in at $9.5, way ahead of Wall Street at $7.5. So another pretty material 20% beat on this component at the bottom line. And this is really interesting. There was some really good language around this. And this has been Jassy's statement all along, and it's coming true. His early Amazon's early play was we're going to be agnostic on models and it's kind of like bring your own model we'll work with anything now with open AI they're not going to ever host open AI but they'll they're not going to stop you from working with it and then they for these open source ones they've made it very easy for you to spin up an AWS instance throw a little llama in there and I would make a llama noise if I I knew what they said I guess they make like a sheep sound. So you throw a little alarm in there and it does its thing. And, you know, the benefit of them being agnostic on these LLMs is most likely they have some or all of your data, right? Because they've been at this so long that if you're doing cloud computing versus on-prem, most likely a lot of, if not all of your data is in AWS. Extracting that data, you know, imagine you had terabytes or or what's the biggest, Scot: [34:31] bigger than terabytes? I always forget this one. Jason: [34:33] Petabytes. Scot: [34:34] Petabytes of data at AWS. They literally have a product that they can send a truckload of hard drives around and get your data. That's how much data there is that you could never push it across the internet, that there's so much data. So if they have that data and that's what you want to train on, you don't want to have the latency of the internet between your data and the training. So you'd really need the LLM to operate near your data. And this is what they predicted two or three years ago, kind of around the, the, the launch of chat gpt when all this stuff really started to accelerate and it's coming true so everyone feels a lot better about that then their body language this time a lot of times they were kind of like this is what we're doing and we're pretty sure it's going to work now they're like it's working and people really felt relief around this because everyone there was a set of people that believed it but then you know open ai's pitches nope our lm is going to be we're spending, billions of dollars we're going to be so far ahead none of these open source things are going to keep up. If you don't have us, you're going to be so far behind, you'll be like playing with crayons and everyone's going to be playing with quill pens. Scot: [35:42] So it was really good to see that this is not what's happening, that people are embracing, enterprises are embracing these open source models. They are in the same zip code performance-wise from results and much cheaper than OpenAI's offerings. And what Amazon said specifically was very positive around what is It's kind of abbreviated Gen AI for generative AI. And it's kind of a way to encapsulate this. And they said that it already is a multi-billion dollar run rate business. And you always have to parse what they say. So multi-billion can be anywhere between 1 and 9.9, right? And you'll see why I drew 9.9 there. Scot: [36:25] And inside, as part of that big AWS number, and they believe it can be rapidly tens of billions. Billions so they're basically saying it's not double digit billions so it's a single digit million which is where i get one to nine point nine but they basically hinted that that it is growing so rapidly inside of there that it's gonna be tens of billions and this is why they saw accelerating revenue growth which made everyone happy it wasn't just people you know moving some more you know loads on or something boring loads around relational databases or something it was the juicy ai stuff so this got everyone so lathered up that three analysts did price increases and they cited that this was one of the reasons the biggest price increase was from sig susquehanna and they put the price up to 220. At the time all this happened the stock was at 175 and today it's around 185 so it's been up nicely but 220 is a pretty big big you know even. Scot: [37:20] From where they expect that's where they're thinking i think most these guys look at a year to two years as a time horizon on these prices so and that's the the high i have you know again there's a wide range some people think it's going to go down some people think it's over price so go do your research this is not a stock recommendation but i just thought it was interesting that people get really really excited by by this whole gen ai largely the body language that, and it's, Amazon doesn't pound their chest much. So the fact they were, was kind of a new, new way of managing Amazon and Jassy's pretty conservative. So he must've felt pretty good about it, but also that they needed to ally, allay, allay, allay, whatever the right word is, get rid of these competitive concerns everyone's been talking about. Jason: [38:05] Yeah. It feels like a pretty big prize out there. Jassy and the whole team always talk, Just AWS, even before you get to Gen AI, they always remind everyone, hey, 85% of the workloads are still on-prem. So like this, as big as AWS looks, if the long-term future is 85% of the workloads are on the cloud and only 15% are on-prem, there's a lot of headroom still in AWS. And then, you know, you add this new huge demand for AI on top of all that. And like this, it's almost a limitless opportunity. And I want to tie the AI back to retail, though, for just a second, because there's another bit of news that I haven't seen covered very much, but is super interesting to me. Jason: [38:51] There's a particular flavor of AI out there, a subset of generative AI that's now being called agentic AI. And that's sort of a clever amalgamation of agent-based AI. And there's a very famous AI researcher, this guy, Andrew Ng. He's the founder of Coursera. He's done a bunch of things. He was the head of Google Big Think, which was one of the first significant AI efforts. And I want to say he was like on People Magazine's 100 most interesting people list in like 2013 as an AI researcher. So the dude's been around for a long time. He is one of the biggest advocates for this agentic AI. And the premise is that if you just ask an LLM, you take the best LLM in the world, and you ask it to do something for you, that's called zero shot. You give it an assignment, and you take the first result you get. It's a zero shot. You get pretty good results. But if you... Jason: [39:53] Turn that, that LLM into multiple agents and break the task up amongst those agents and potentially agents even running on different LLMs, you get wildly better results. Jason: [40:05] And so his, his research kind of showed that, Hey, if, if Jason goes write a PowerPoint presentation for his client, explaining what's going on in commerce. And I just give that to the turbo version of ChatGBT 4, I'll get a pretty good deck. But if I say, hey, I want to create four agents. I want to create a consultant to write the deck and a copywriter to edit the deck and an editor to improve the deck and three people to pretend to be mock customers to poke holes in the deck and have all those agents work on this assignment. I could give that assignment to chat gbt 3.5 and it would actually output a better work product than the the newer more advanced model was by by breaking the job into these chunks and so in retail you think about like this is the idea of assigning higher level jobs to shopping right so instead of saying like going to amazon and saying oh now it's a ai-based search engine and i'm going to type a long form query into search and get a better result. Jason: [41:09] The agentic AI approach is I'm just going to say to Amazon, never let me run out of ingredients for my kids' school lunches. And the agent's going to figure out what is in my school lunches and what my use rate is for those things and what weeks I have off from school and don't need a school lunch. And it's just going to do all those things and magically have the food show up. And this is a long diatribe, but the reason it's relevant is is this dude, Andrew Ng, was named the newest board member at Amazon three weeks ago. Scot: [41:40] Very cool. Jason: [41:40] I did not see that myself. Yeah. And so if you're wondering where Amazon thinks this is going, like this, in my mind, ties all this tremendous opportunity in generative AI and the financial opportunity in AWS directly to the huge and growing retail business that Amazon runs. Scot: [42:02] Very cool. Oh yeah. I had not seen that. So maybe Wall Street picked up on that. I'm sure. And maybe that was another part of the excitement. Jason: [42:09] Yeah. But all of that is just peanuts compared to the real good business in Amazon, which is the ads business. So again, you know, Amazon used to, to obfuscate their ads business. They've for a number of quarters now had to report it as earnings because it's in their earnings separately, because it's so material. And it was another good quarter for the ads business. It's hard to say whether it's actually accelerating growth or not, because the ads business is very seasonal. So the ad business grew 24.3% for the quarter versus Q1 of 2023. Q4 grew faster. So Q4 grew at 27%, but the 24% growth is much faster growth than other... Q1 year-over-year growth rate. So however you slice it, it's a good, robust growth rate. If you add the last four quarters together, you get $29 billion worth of ad sales. There's lots of estimates for how profitable ad sales are, but there's no cost of goods for an ad, right? Jason: [43:13] And so it's very high margin. So if you just assume, I think 60% gross margins is a very conservative estimate. But if you assume 60% gross margins, that means the ad business spun off $29.5 billion of operating income over the last 12 months. And to put that in comparison, AWS is big and profitable as it is, twice as much revenue at over $100 billion now, but it spun off like $23 billion in operating income. So the ad business is a much more meaningful contributor to Amazon's profits than even AWS. Jason: [43:51] And another way I've been starting to think about this is what percentage of the total GMV on the Amazon platform are the ads? And they are now 6.5%. So that's a very significant new tax. You know, as Amazon has hundreds of millions of SKUs available for sale, no one's ever going to find your SKU or buy it if you don't do some marketing on the platform for that SKU. And that's this 6.5% tax that Amazon's charging. And in the same way we said, hey, AWS is a really robust business. And then there's this thing called generative AI that can make it even huger. All of this ad revenue we're talking about is really coming from their sponsored product listings, which is like basic search advertising on the retail platform. Last quarter, Amazon said, by the way, we have this huge viewership streaming video service called Amazon Prime. And we're going to start putting ads in the lowest tier version of Amazon Prime. So unless you want to pay more, you're going to start seeing ads on Amazon Prime. And that's another huge advertising opportunity that hasn't been very heavily tapped yet. So the analysts are pretty excited about the upside of Amazon potentially tacking on another $6.5 billion in Prime video ads onto the $50 billion of search ads that they already have. Jason: [45:11] And so ads are a pretty good business to be in, which is why every other retailer is trying to follow suit with their own sort of version of a retail media network. Scot: [45:22] Cool. I imagine you get a lot of calls to talk about that. Jason: [45:25] Oh, yeah. I actually, I'm sick of talking about it. So one nice thing about working at an ad agency is there are now thousands of other experts. You know, I was one of the early guys in retail media networks. Now there are thousands of other experts that are way more credible than me. So I don't have to talk about it quite as much, but it still, still comes up in every conversation. Scot: [45:43] Very cool. All right. So then that was the basic gist of the corridor from a high level. And then it came to the what's going on in Q2. So that did come in lighter than folks expected, as I said, and they guided the top line to 144 versus 149. Let's call it 146 and change at the midpoint. They always do this range kind of thing when they're doing their guide. And Wall Street was at 150 consensus. So, you know, a tidge below two or three percent below where they wanted. But the operating income guide was above Wall Street. So they're kind of, we'll take it. Como si, como sa. Scot: [46:21] So that was, you know, I think Amazon tapping things down. Yeah. Now they did talk a lot about consumers being under pressure. So they said in the, it wasn't in a Q and a, it was in the prepared remarks and Jassy said it, which is kind of like the more important stuff. And I will say it's really nice to have the CEO of Amazon back on these calls because Bezos basically ditched them after, I don't know if, I think he came the first two quarters back in 97 but i honestly can't remember but he has not gone to the calls and jassy's been to them all so it's really nice to hear from the ceo and he answers very candidly i feel you know he doesn't feel as kind of like robotic as many ceos when they get on here because it is a stressful thing that you're going to say something wrong, but there was this exchange well first of all he he in his prepared remarks he talked about. Scot: [47:12] I forgot to put the exact language, but he said, we're seeing a lot of consumers trade down. So they're seeing, you know, we're seeing this in the auto industry. Tires is this huge thing where it's under a lot of pressure right now because people are just waiting. So there's a lot of this, you know, it's not showing up in the data that I've seen, but there's, you know, maybe the inflation data, but not the GDP and some of the other unemployment data. But it feels like the consumer is under a bit of pressure here, and they talk about that a lot in the prepared remarks. So I thought our listeners would find that interesting. Jason, before I go into this longish little thing that I wanted to just cover, what do you, did you pick up on any of that consumer stuff? Are you hearing that? Jason: [47:55] Oh, yeah, that's very common. And remember, in the beginning, I mentioned that there's this weird bifurcation that some retailers, even in categories, are doing well and others aren't. And some categories are doing well and others aren't. That's super complicated to get to the why. But the most obvious why is that consumers feel like they're under a lot of economic pressure and are trading down and are deferring certain types of purchases. The easiest way to see this is own brands and private label sales going up and, you know, national brand sales stagnating, see things like chicken protein going up and beef protein going down. You know, there's lots of examples out there, but the retailers that are best able to follow the consumer as she trades down are tending to do well. And the retailers that only cater to the luxury consumer, the super luxury is still doing fine. They're somewhat insulated. But the folks that haven't been as able to cater to the value consumer as much have struggled more. And the non-mandatory categories have struggled more. So Andy's comments exactly mirror what we're seeing going on in market dynamics and what other retailers are saying in their earnings. It is slightly weird because if you just look at the macros. Jason: [49:18] It's objectively, the consumer is doing pretty well. There's actually a lot of favorable things, but there's a ton of evidence that the consumer sentiment is that they're really worried about their household budget and are making, you know, hard, hard financial decisions. Scot: [49:36] Yeah. Yeah. It's tough out there. Well, hopefully it'll get better. So one of the questions I want to just kind of pull out some tidbits, because this has been a theme on our pod for a long time and I thought it was really, really interesting. And this is going to get into the weeds of supply chain and this kind of thing. So sorry if that's not your jam. We like to talk about logistics. Scot: [49:56] Side note to you, Jason, I saw that deep dive we did on Amazon logistics is still like our number one show and all the stats and stuff, which is kind of fun. So someone cares about it. Anyway, one of the friends of the podcast, Yusuf Squally asked a question. He's one of the analysts and he said, as it relates to logistics, so he's talking to andy on the call back in september you launched amazon supply chain can you help us understand the opportunity you see there where are you in the journey to build logistics as a service on a global basis and does that require a huge increase in capex a function increase in capex which means huge so jesse said this was a very long answer so i'm going to pull out two snippets you can go read the transcripts can you put a link to that in the show notes absolutely yep yeah so so i'm just gonna give you the the snippet the whole thing is worth reading but it would be like another 20 minutes to do that. But so Jassy starts out and says, I think that it's interesting what's happening with the business we're building in third party logistics. And it's really kind of in some ways mirror some of the other businesses we've gotten involved in AWS being an example. And even though they're very different businesses, and that we realized that we had our own internal need to build and launch these capabilities. Scot: [51:01] We figured that there were probably others out there who had the same needs we did and decided to build the services out of them so this is this model that really blows the minds of traditional retailers where you know so walmart has this huge data you know capability there's this this urban legend that they know when people are pregnant before they do they can see changes in their habits or they know who all is on weight loss drugs they they see your buying habits so intricately that they can do that that's a neat capability but they view it as proprietary and And that's old school thinking. Scot: [51:32] What Amazon does is says, well, that's a cool capability. Let's certainly someone else needs it. Let's open it up. This is one of my favorite things at Amazon. And it's so counterintuitive that in my current car world, I talk about this and everyone's like, why are you, we're doing it a lot at Spiffy. And they're like, well, why are you doing that? That's like your proprietary thing. And we're like, well, that's just how it should be. And like, this is a better way to do it. And it's really interesting that still today, Amazon's built what I say, $100 billion business out of AWS, which has used this and people are, are befuzzled by the whole thing. So I, I thought that was an interesting use case. And then he, he goes into some details there that are pretty obvious for our listeners, like how this is gonna work. But then he basically kind of brings it back around and then he says he wraps up and says, I would say that supply chain with Amazon is really an abstraction on top of each individual block services. And in those services, he talked about all the things that, that, you know, FBA and last mile delivery and buy with a prime. He talks about each of those kind of and how awesome they are. So he's basically saying Amazon supply chain wraps a bow around all that. And it gives this collective set of business services is growing significantly. Scot: [52:43] It's already what I would consider a reasonable size business. I think it's early days. It's not something we anticipate being a giant capital expense driver. So it's because they've already invested in all this that doesn't require additional capex. And then he finishes and says, we have to build a lot of the capabilities anyway to handle our own business. And we think it will be a modest increase on top of that to accommodate third-party sellers. Scot: [53:05] But our, there's a typo in the thing. Our third-party sellers find very high value in us being able to manage these components for them versus having to do it themselves. And they save money in the process. So I thought that was a really interesting, interesting. So they're really leaning into this supply chain. I think that ultimately they'll open this up to more consumers where you can send Aunt Gertrude in Detroit something from Chicago for three bucks a package and just throw it in an Amazon box, maybe a return box, and it kind of makes it way cheaper than you can FedEx it. I think that's coming, but it's really interesting to see. The way they think about things and his articulation of it was very crisp, Scot: [53:45] and I really enjoyed that. I was geeking out on that when I was listening to the call. Jason: [53:50] Yeah, for sure. That actually came up in some of the conferences I was at that he, you know, Jeff Bezos famously wrote this memo a long time ago about kind of being an object oriented, company and having all these building blocks that people could easily access and use internally and externally. And, and that this was kind of Andy Jassy doubling down on that. Yeah. It's Biffy is an example of that. Like you inventing some cool products that make it your jobs easier. And then you're selling those products to, to your potential competitors. Scot: [54:20] Yeah. So two examples, we have some devices we've developed for ourselves. One is a tire tread scanner. So it does 2D and 3D tires, tire tread scans. It's called Easy Tread. And we developed it for ourselves because we touch 3,000 cars a day right now and we wanted to measure the tire treads. And the state of the art is a Bluetooth needle. And it's, you know, you have to lay on your back. The cars are on the ground for us most of the time. So you have to like get underneath there, measure three things, and then it Bluetooths to a phone. Then you have to take it, the data entry, it doesn't have an API. Then you have to like take what it measured and then now cut and paste it into something else. It's kind of, kind of redonkulous in our world. So we developed a solution for that and we're selling it externally. And then the big, the big one is from day one, this has been the plan is we've built a ton of software for Spiffy. So we're, you know, we've got 400 technicians, 250 vans doing all kinds of services across the US and there's no operating system for that. So we, there's no like Salesforce for that or Shopify. So we had to go build our own. And so we've built, you know, route optimization specific to this parts integration, fitment integration, VIN lookup, all these things that are required integration with tire suppliers, oil filter suppliers, oil suppliers, parts suppliers, all these things. So we have like 150 things we've integrated with and pulled in from all over the place. Scot: [55:44] And then labor management, all the reporting that comes along with it, all that stuff. And we're starting to license that out as its own platform to anyone that wants to do auto services. And so these dealerships and large auto service companies are coming to us and finally saying, this seems kind of obvious now that we need to provide the ability to go to our customers. They call it at their curb. They use a different language than we do. But basically what you and I would call mobile, you know, last mile delivery of the service. And we're starting to license that out. And it's a lot like AWS, right? So we had to build this for our retail business, which is doing the services and now we're licensing it out a lot AWS and we have this device business. So it's been, I would not have, it comes intuitively to me now. Cause I've been, you know, basically living this lifestyle for 20 years and watching Amazon do it, But it's been fun to kind of build a company with this mindset of we're going to take these things we build and give them to other, not give them, but sell them to other people. And then that makes them better. And they help us pay for all the R&D that we've done on it. Jason: [56:48] Yeah, that's very cool. And that gives listeners a very tangible example of why we haven't been able to podcast quite as frequently as we'd like. Scot: [56:56] Yes. Jason: [56:56] I do, at the risk of making this the world's longest episode of our show, I do have a geeky add-on to the supply chain conversation. Yeah. So a lot of these services that they're adding to specifically what they call supply chain with Amazon are around importing services, because an increasingly high percentage of all the stuff Amazon sells is. Jason: [57:20] Amazon is taking care of importing it, right? And most often from China, but from all over the world and taking care of all that logistics and getting it ready to sell and deliver via the world's most impressive last mile to consumers in America. And there's tons of complicated, high friction touch points and processes to flow all those goods. Well, the big competitors out there to Amazon at the moment that we've talked about ad nauseum on the show, like Shein and Timu, had this kind of direct from China model where they're putting all the goods on 747s, flying them over, and they're taking advantage of this loophole in the postal treaty called the de minimis provision to not pay taxes or duties or have all these goods inspected that they ship into the U.S. and U.S. Jason: [58:07] Businesses have been complaining it's unfair. There's like all kinds of talk about it. We've done shows on this and I'm sure we'll do others. So here's the new thing in supply chain. Jason: [58:15] All the people that have been complaining about this are now doing it because guess what's happened? A bunch of these companies have been born that now help every other brand in the world take advantage of the de minimis provisions to near shore their goods. So you're a footwear manufacturer, you make your shoes in Vietnam, Instead of shipping them to the U.S. On a pallet and paying taxes and duties, you ship them on a pallet to Mexico, and then you send them individual parcels across the border from Mexico into the U.S. and never have to pay taxes or duties on the stuff. So I don't know if that will last in the long run, but that's a very disruptive, significant change happening in the whole world of e-commerce supply chains as we speak. That's pretty interesting. Interesting. Had you gotten wind of that yet? Scot: [59:07] No, no. That's all new to me. Thanks for sharing. Jason: [59:09] Yeah. That's probably how you're going to have to start getting your spiffy stuff into the country now too. I won't, I won't, we won't go there. But the one other piece that did not come up in the earnings call, but a controversy around Amazon since our last show is news articles came out that Amazon was de-installing its Just Walk Out technology from its grocery stores. So Amazon had built Just Walk Out into several of these Amazon Fresh stores and they built it into Whole Foods. And if you know the history of Just Walk Out, this was the original intention of Just Walk Out was was to do it for grocery stor

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This week the guys contemplate their comfort level when driving in the snow.  There's some chat about AWD vs 4WD snow driving.  Gym has a sketchy drive in the snow in a PT Cruiser.  Foo has a heater/coolant issue with their Explorer and that prompts a look to possibly replace it.  That turns into a discussion about how expensive new cars are now.  We firmly believe in not paying delaer markups for any new car. Subscription services for car features are lame. Gym hates the Telsa center screen stack for the driver. Gym is hoping his daughter drives part of the Portland to Sac drive at least. Hard disk storage is insanely huge, insanely fast and insanely cheap now. How much storage does a streaming service use? Foo wonders what you'll grab from his house if the Russians invade.  Plus more!

In der Nachmittagsfolge sprechen wir heute mit Michael Putz, CEO und Co-Founder von Blackshark.ai, über die erfolgreich abgeschlossene Erweiterung der Series-A-Finanzierungsrunde in Höhe von 15 Millionen US-Dollar.Blackshark.ai ist ein KI-Unternehmen für Geoinformationsdienste, das Petabytes an Satellitenbildern in wenigen Stunden verarbeitet und Objekte, Straßen, Vegetation und andere Infrastrukturen auf der Oberfläche des Planeten erkennt sowie segmentiert. Diese semantischen Informationen werden verwendet, um eine umfassende digitale 3D-Darstellung der Welt zu erstellen. So hat das Startup beispielsweise einen digitalen 3D-Zwilling der Erde für Microsofts Flugsimulator erstellt. Blackshark.ai bedient neben den kommerziellen Unternehmen auch staatliche Kunden mit dynamischen 3D-Kartierungen, die mit hoher Frequenz und geospatialer Intelligenz erstellt werden und die Kunden somit in die Lage versetzt, mit wertvollen Einblicken fundierte sowie strategische Entscheidungen zu treffen. Insgesamt kann ein breites Spektrum globaler Herausforderungen mit den Lösungen des Startups bewältigt werden. Darunter zählen Sicherheit, Umweltschutz, Stadtplanung, Überwachung kritischer Infrastrukturen, Katastrophenschutz und humanitäre Hilfe. Herkömmliche 3D-Kartierungen basieren auf Photogrammetrie, die langsamer und kostspieliger ist, da sie u.a. eine große Menge an Bildmaterial erfordert. Das Startup hat zudem eine Plattform entwickelt, die riesige Mengen an Rohdaten aus Satelliten- und Luftbildern nahtlos in semantisch beschriftete, raumbezogene digitale Zwillinge umwandelt. Diese Software ermöglicht nicht nur eine schnelle und genaue Objekterkennung und -klassifizierung im großen Maßstab, ohne dass umfangreiche, kostspielige und zeitaufwändige Trainingsdaten benötigt werden, sondern auch eine umfassende Analyse von Landnutzung und Landbedeckung. Blackshark.ai wurde im Jahr 2020 von Brad Young, Michael Putz und Thomas Richter in Graz gegründet.Nun hat das österreichische Startup in einer Erweiterung der Series A weitere 15 Millionen US-Dollar eingesammelt, wodurch die Gesamtinvestition in der Series-A-Runde auf 35 Millionen US-Dollar steigt. Zu den bestehenden Investoren Point72 Ventures, M12 Microsoft's Venture Fund und Maxar gesellen sich In-Q-Tel, Safran, der von ISAI verwaltete VC-Fonds von Capgemini namens ISAI Cap Venture, Einstein Industries Ventures, Interwoven Ventures, Ourcrowd, Gaingels und OpAmp Capital. Mit dem frischen Kapital möchte Blackshark.ai seine 3D-Hochfrequenzkartierung und Geospatial Intelligence-Fähigkeiten erweitern und es zudem für strategische Technologieentwicklungen und zur Verstärkung der Vertriebs- und Marketingaktivitäten einsetzen.

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Elon Musk's new biography from Walter Isaacson came out recently with some interesting information about Musk & Tesla. Is upgrading to the 2nd generation AirPods Pro from the 1st generation worth it? And why is my IP address showing me in a different location than where I am? Takeaways from a new Elon Musk biography: Ukraine, Trump and more. North Korea-backed hackers target security researchers with 0-day. 5th Circuit rules Biden administration violated First Amendment. Why is my internet connection so bad, and can I do anything to improve it? Should I return my mechanical keyboard? How easy is it to replace the switches in it? Is upgrading my 1st gen AirPods Pro to the 2nd generation worth it Sam Abuelsamid and Elon Musk's biography. Why are my Echo devices randomly switching to my guest network on my eero network? How do I unlock my SIM card? Why is my IP address showing me in a different location? Why are my podcasts not staying synced with my iPhone and Apple Watch? Hosts: Leo Laporte and Mikah Sargent Guest: Sam Abuelsamid Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Show notes and links for this episode are available at: https://twit.tv/shows/ask-the-tech-guys/episodes/1991 Download or subscribe to this show at: https://twit.tv/shows/ask-the-tech-guys Sponsors: Brooklinen.com Use Code TECHGUY Miro.com/podcast

Elon Musk's new biography from Walter Isaacson came out recently with some interesting information about Musk & Tesla. Is upgrading to the 2nd generation AirPods Pro from the 1st generation worth it? And why is my IP address showing me in a different location than where I am? Takeaways from a new Elon Musk biography: Ukraine, Trump and more. North Korea-backed hackers target security researchers with 0-day. 5th Circuit rules Biden administration violated First Amendment. Why is my internet connection so bad, and can I do anything to improve it? Should I return my mechanical keyboard? How easy is it to replace the switches in it? Is upgrading my 1st gen AirPods Pro to the 2nd generation worth it Sam Abuelsamid and Elon Musk's biography. Why are my Echo devices randomly switching to my guest network on my eero network? How do I unlock my SIM card? Why is my IP address showing me in a different location? Why are my podcasts not staying synced with my iPhone and Apple Watch? Hosts: Leo Laporte and Mikah Sargent Guest: Sam Abuelsamid Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Show notes and links for this episode are available at: https://twit.tv/shows/ask-the-tech-guys/episodes/1991 Download or subscribe to this show at: https://twit.tv/shows/all-twittv-shows Sponsors: Brooklinen.com Use Code TECHGUY Miro.com/podcast

Elon Musk's new biography from Walter Isaacson came out recently with some interesting information about Musk & Tesla. Is upgrading to the 2nd generation AirPods Pro from the 1st generation worth it? And why is my IP address showing me in a different location than where I am? Takeaways from a new Elon Musk biography: Ukraine, Trump and more. North Korea-backed hackers target security researchers with 0-day. 5th Circuit rules Biden administration violated First Amendment. Why is my internet connection so bad, and can I do anything to improve it? Should I return my mechanical keyboard? How easy is it to replace the switches in it? Is upgrading my 1st gen AirPods Pro to the 2nd generation worth it Sam Abuelsamid and Elon Musk's biography. Why are my Echo devices randomly switching to my guest network on my eero network? How do I unlock my SIM card? Why is my IP address showing me in a different location? Why are my podcasts not staying synced with my iPhone and Apple Watch? Hosts: Leo Laporte and Mikah Sargent Guest: Sam Abuelsamid Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Show notes and links for this episode are available at: https://twit.tv/shows/ask-the-tech-guys/episodes/1991 Download or subscribe to this show at: https://twit.tv/shows/total-leo Sponsors: Brooklinen.com Use Code TECHGUY Miro.com/podcast

Elon Musk's new biography from Walter Isaacson came out recently with some interesting information about Musk & Tesla. Is upgrading to the 2nd generation AirPods Pro from the 1st generation worth it? And why is my IP address showing me in a different location than where I am? Takeaways from a new Elon Musk biography: Ukraine, Trump and more. North Korea-backed hackers target security researchers with 0-day. 5th Circuit rules Biden administration violated First Amendment. Why is my internet connection so bad, and can I do anything to improve it? Should I return my mechanical keyboard? How easy is it to replace the switches in it? Is upgrading my 1st gen AirPods Pro to the 2nd generation worth it Sam Abuelsamid and Elon Musk's biography. Why are my Echo devices randomly switching to my guest network on my eero network? How do I unlock my SIM card? Why is my IP address showing me in a different location? Why are my podcasts not staying synced with my iPhone and Apple Watch? Hosts: Leo Laporte and Mikah Sargent Guest: Sam Abuelsamid Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Show notes and links for this episode are available at: https://twit.tv/shows/ask-the-tech-guys/episodes/1991 Download or subscribe to this show at: https://twit.tv/shows/ask-the-tech-guys Sponsors: Brooklinen.com Use Code TECHGUY Miro.com/podcast

Elon Musk's new biography from Walter Isaacson came out recently with some interesting information about Musk & Tesla. Is upgrading to the 2nd generation AirPods Pro from the 1st generation worth it? And why is my IP address showing me in a different location than where I am? Takeaways from a new Elon Musk biography: Ukraine, Trump and more. North Korea-backed hackers target security researchers with 0-day. 5th Circuit rules Biden administration violated First Amendment. Why is my internet connection so bad, and can I do anything to improve it? Should I return my mechanical keyboard? How easy is it to replace the switches in it? Is upgrading my 1st gen AirPods Pro to the 2nd generation worth it Sam Abuelsamid and Elon Musk's biography. Why are my Echo devices randomly switching to my guest network on my eero network? How do I unlock my SIM card? Why is my IP address showing me in a different location? Why are my podcasts not staying synced with my iPhone and Apple Watch? Hosts: Leo Laporte and Mikah Sargent Guest: Sam Abuelsamid Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Show notes and links for this episode are available at: https://twit.tv/shows/ask-the-tech-guys/episodes/1991 Download or subscribe to this show at: https://twit.tv/shows/all-twittv-shows Sponsors: Brooklinen.com Use Code TECHGUY Miro.com/podcast

Nicht nur astronomisch große Datenmengen und hohe Betriebskosten lassen Unternehmen zögern, Ki einzusetzen. Auch die Unsicherheit, ob die betriebliche IT überhaupt dafür gerüstet ist, bereitet Sorgen. Ein Anlauf in kleinen Schritten könnte helfen.

A wise man once said two things can be true at once.  On the one hand, federal law enforcement agencies are being bombarded with data.  Petabytes seem to be leaking in from the roofs and seeping in from the basement. On the other hand, they are being pushed to give analysis quickly while being understaffed. Not a problem to solve for the sight of heart. Into the fray steps Siren. During today's interview, Brian Gilkey explains that Siren was founded with the idea of using concepts from the semantic web to be able to absorb mountains of data, digest it, and then present the findings in an easy-to-use graphical manner. Siren's technology enables agencies to gather the most common data sources and most desired data sets.  They could reach into the mysterious dark web as well as social media. Brian expands on the dilemma facing federal agencies.  Even if they have the funding to add analysts, it may take up to eighteen months to get them productive.  The graphical capabilities of Siren allow the Matrix-like stream of ones and zeros to make sense.  If you are interested in learning more about Siren they have a free PDF titled “Investigating Data Driven Law Enforcement.”    Follow John Gilroy on Twitter @RayGilray Follow John Gilroy on LinkedIn  https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-gilroy/ Listen to past episodes of Federal Tech Podcast  www.federaltechpodcast.com  

Vodafone have launched a Blockchain-enabled Digital Asset platform for monetising Petabytes of B2C and B2B data, and David Palmer is the man behind it. You NEED to hear his story... Telecoms companies are somewhat familiar with the idea of distributed networks and interoperability, and furthermore the telco industry has seen some of the world's largest Blockchain platforms deployed to address issues like roaming, privacy and cross-carrier settlement. Vodafone are taking it up a level with their Digital Asset Broker platform, allowing a global network of devices to securely and privately trade with one another. They are already looking at use cases with IoT, Energy, Automotive, and much more. And have locked down a number of major partnerships. In this session we discuss: - The Telecoms industry's relationship with decentralisation and Blockchain - How Vodafone is looking at emerging technology today - Digital Asset Broker: what does it do, and how Blockchain helps - The Digital Asset Broker ecosystem and partnerships - The importance of Enterprise and Government use cases in Web3 - What more is needed to see wider adoption of Web3 technology in Telco in future

Dennis Gatens from LeoCloud talks the importance of of bringing data centers to Space, and how game-changing technologies are on the horizon. The post Petabytes and petaflops…in space! first appeared on Above: Space News.

Dennis Gatens from LeoCloud talks the importance of of bringing data centers to Space, and how game-changing technologies are on the horizon. The post Petabytes and petaflops…in space! first appeared on Orbital Assembly News.

Data Lakes as an asset to collect and build threat actors or hiring for Data Scientists/Analyst are not typical things in Cloud Security well unless the organisation is dealing with PetaBytes of data. At a large scale company these are data problem not a security problem at that point even if the problem is in security team. In this episode with Jonathan Rau, CISO of Lightspin we spoke about his previous experience of creating and growing a SecDataOps team with Cloud Security and Ops in IHSMarkit. We spoke about what is this SecDataOps, What is Security Data Lake and if Cloud Native tools are enough for these problems. This episode is better on video - YouTube Link Cloud Security Meetup Amsterdam - Tech Fashion Theme - Sep,2022 Cloud Security Meetup NewYork - Tech Fashion Theme - Sep,2022 Host Twitter: Ashish Rajan (@hashishrajan) Guest Linkedin: Jonathan Rau Podcast Twitter - @CloudSecPod @CloudSecureNews If you want to watch videos of this LIVE STREAMED episode and past episodes - Check out our other Cloud Security Social Channels: - Cloud Security News - Cloud Security Academy

Wie sieht eine Infrastruktur aus, mit der sich Petabytes an Daten problemlos verarbeiten lassen? Auf den ContainerDays 2022 hatten Enrico, Jasper und Michael die Möglichkeit, mit Ricardo Rocha, einem Computer Engineer von CERN, zu sprechen und ihm diese Frage zu stellen. Er ist Teil des Teams, das die Systeme für die Verarbeitung der Daten des Large Hadron Colliders zur Verfügung stellt und sprach mit uns über die technischen Herausforderungen von Burst Workloads in der Cloud, über die Anforderungen an Hardware und Security sowie über mögliche Vorteile von Kubernetes im Machine-Learning Umgebungen.  +++ Diese Folge ist auf Englisch +++

Wie sieht eine Infrastruktur aus, mit der sich Petabytes an Daten problemlos verarbeiten lassen? Auf den ContainerDays 2022 hatten Enrico, Jasper und Michael die Möglichkeit, mit Ricardo Rocha, einem Computer Engineer von CERN, zu sprechen und ihm diese Frage zu stellen. Er ist Teil des Teams, das die Systeme für die Verarbeitung der Daten des Large Hadron Colliders zur Verfügung stellt und sprach mit uns über die technischen Herausforderungen von Burst Workloads in der Cloud, über die Anforderungen an Hardware und Security sowie über mögliche Vorteile von Kubernetes im Machine-Learning Umgebungen. +++ Diese Folge ist auf Englisch +++

O volume de dados das empresas de telecomunicação é gigante. São 150 petabytes de dados tratados, e toda uma infraestrutura para que os dados gerem insights tanto no B2B quanto no B2C. O que é o petabyte: https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petabyte. Com: João Del Nero https://www.linkedin.com/in/joaodelnero, gerente de vendas de data analytics da Claro https://www.claro.com.br/, e Fabiana Amaral https://www.linkedin.com/in/fabianakortedoamaral/, Executive Growth Director da MATH Marketing https://math.marketing/; e Marcel Ghiraldini https://www.linkedin.com/in/marcelghiraldini, Chief Growth Officer da MATH Group https://math.marketing/. Apresentação: Cassio Politi https://www.linkedin.com/in/cassiopoliti/.

August 3, 2022: It's hard to imagine a more complex and dense information ecosystem than that in healthcare. Petabytes of data flying around hybrid networks, a growing reliance on the cloud, a strict but often vague regulatory situation, a very active M&A environment and a severe shortage of skilled and experienced workers. https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryanzwitt/ (Ryan Witt) of https://www.proofpoint.com/us (Proofpoint) and http://www.linkedin.com/in/chasefranzen/ (Chase Franzen) of https://www.sharp.com/ (Sharp HealthCare) are here to help you protect your system. What are the key threats to patient data today? What are the main vulnerabilities? How can you prevent email attacks? What are the main “portals” for exfiltration? How do you safeguard these portals? What are the best solutions in the market to help mitigate these threats? Key Points: Healthcare is a virtual treasure trove. It attracts the full gamut of attackers. What are the key threats? Are cyber attacks getting more sophisticated? You've got to have a defense and death strategy https://www.proofpoint.com/us (Proofpoint) https://www.sharp.com/ (Sharp HealthCare) Webinar: How's Your Front Line? Recruit, Retain and Optimize Your Cybersecurity Team - Thu Aug 11 @ 1pm ET / 10am PT “Cybersecurity-what's your emergency?” “We need help. It's an attack.” “Hello? Hello!” What can we do about the staffing shortage in cybersecurity? With research suggesting that nearly a third of the cybersecurity workforce is planning to leave the industry in the near future, organizations are left in a worrisome position, especially as attack surfaces are growing. So, where do we move forward from here knowing that we are facing low numbers in the field already and it's likely to get even worse? https://thisweekhealth.com/webinar-sempris-cyberstaffing_recruit-retain-optimize-cybersecurity-team/ (Register here) Webinar: Don't Pay The Ransom - Thu Aug 18 @ 1pm ET / 10am PT Is your health system paying out for attacks on your data? How can we stop the cycle? Rubrik is offering incredible insight into the arising issues in cyber resilience in ransomware attacks, cloud data management with securing Epic in Azure, and unstructured data. In this webinar, we analyze the best practices to initiate in our hospital systems. https://thisweekhealth.com/dont-pay-the-ransom-insight-into-cyber-resilience-in-ransomware-attacks-cloud-data-management-unstructure-data/ (Register here)

[Ed. Note: This week marks The Geek in Review's 4th Anniversary. We thank you all for listening, subscribing, and telling your colleagues about what you hear. We'd love to hear more from you on what your favorite episodes are or what topics you'd like us to cover. Tweet us at @gebauerm and @glambert with your thoughts. Thank You Listeners!! - GL/MG] We all know the saying "High Risk, High Reward." But when it comes to data security, Peter Baumann, CEO and co founder of ActiveNav, we derive the value of the data because we just can't get through the risk. There are three things always facing businesses whenever there is data involved, and that is the protection of the business's reputation, the costs involved in non-compliance, and then the exponential growth of data within the organization. We are so focused on reacting to these three variables, that we simply cannot do anything on the value of the data itself. Peter talks with us about the number of existing patchwork of regulations around the world, and how it makes it too difficult for business and organizations to comply. And while most experts suggested that regulations like GDPR would only govern those with businesses or people in Europe, it's become the de facto compliance bar for privacy and data security for many businesses. He suggests that the US Government needs to step in an set a clear regulatory path around data privacy and security so that businesses know what the rules are, and the legal industry can better advise their clients on what steps they need to take to be compliant. We dive deep in this episode and talk about what is structured and data. And how the existence of "dark data" within a business is what brings the highest risk of all. While doing data assessments on Terabytes and even Petabytes of data is extremely expensive, data breaches are even more expensive. The goal in Peter's mind is to get to "zero dark data" so that you can stop worrying completely on the risks, and start understanding the value within your data. Contact Us Twitter: @gebauerm or @glambert Voicemail: 713-487-7270 Email: geekinreviewpodcast@gmail.com Music: Jerry David DeCicca Transcript available on 3 Geeks and a Law Blog

With Gareth Myles and Ted SalmonJoin us on Mewe RSS Link: https://techaddicts.libsyn.com/rss iTunes | Google Podcasts | Stitcher | Tunein | Spotify  Amazon | Pocket Casts | Castbox | PodHubUK   Feedback and Contributions: Feedback on Ticwatch - Android wear and Youtube Music Hardline on the hardware: Xiaomi Mi Band 7 design teased w/ China launch coming 24th May Motorola Teases the RAZR 3 Motorola is Launching a 200MP Cameraphone in July - the Frontier? Realme Pad X Raspberry Petabyte Pi Project features 60 HDD or 1.2 Petabytes of storage Logitech launches new MX Master mouse and mechanical keyboards Corsair's first gaming laptop puts Elgato Stream Deck tech in its touch bar Poco F4 GT, Poco Watch launch in the UK with early bird pricing until May 30 - Specs Leaked Specs Shed More Light on Upcoming Galaxy XCover Phone Zotac's minuscule Windows 11 Pro desktop PC is only slightly bigger than your phone Flap your trap about an App: Plex Finally Has a Linux Desktop Player - I know nothing about Linux, so ditch or lead! Sony pledges to double its games for mobile by 2025 Google Introduces Standard Copy/Paste Keyboard Shortcuts for GDrive Google Assistant 'Personalized speech recognition' in the works Google TV is finally rolling out profiles for a more ‘personalized space' ChromeOS News Chrome OS to Get an Audio Settings Page Google Docs update makes formatting multiple groups of text a lot easier  The Chromebook virtual keyboard is getting a Material You makeover Hark Back:  Sony MVC-CD1000 Review Sony Mavica MVC-CD1000 Sony MVC-CD1000 Digital Camera Review Bargain Basement: Best UK deals and tech on sale we have spotted AUKEY Basix Wireless Charging Stand / Power Bank (PB-WL02) - 10000mAh / Qi 3.0 / PD Output - £15.98 Delivered Using Code from MyMemory - HUKDAPB JBL Reflect Flow Pro £99 down from £129 - Superb battery life (10hrs just the buds) 2021 Apple Watch SE (GPS, 44mm) - Silver Aluminium Case with Abyss Blue Sport Band - Regular - £219.00 (Was: £299.00)  5 monthly payments with Amazon  of £43.80 Sony PlayStation DualSense Midnight Black Wireless Controller £47 from £60 Crucial P2 CT2000P2SSD8 2 TB Internal SSD, Up to 2400 MB/s (3D NAND, NVMe, PCIe, M.2) £129.99 (WAS: £196.79 ) -  5 monthly payments with Amazon  of £26.00 Pixel 6 £499 save £100 Pixel 6 Pro 128GB £699 save £150 Pixel 6 Pro 256GB £799 save £150 SanDisk Ultra Fit 128 GB USB 3.1 Flash Drive Up to 130 MB/s Read, Black £14.89 (Was: £28.99)   Main Show URL: http://www.techaddicts.uk | PodHubUK Contact:: gareth@techaddicts.uk | @techaddictsuk Gareth - @garethmyles | garethmyles.com | Gareth's Ko-Fi Ted - tedsalmon.com | Ted's PayPal | Ted's Amazon | tedsalmon@post.com YouTube: Tech Addicts

Data has moved from the building filling mainframes of the 60's technology to satellite gathering machine learning and AI processing at the speed of light. Megabytes have turned into Petabytes, leaving businesses to absorb the paradigm shift of data collection. In this episode of Not Your Father's Data Center, host Raymond Hawkins and Doug Mohney, Editor-in-Chief of Space IT Bridge, look at the explosive growth of using satellites for data monitoring and collection. The intersection of space and IT technology offers an inexpensive and exponential increase in satellite data gathering capabilities. Ray and Doug explore the growth and use of satellites and assist everything from remote broadband communications to countries' infrastructure security. Businesses are collecting more data than ever before. And instead of mainframes, they're using the cloud and, in a growing number of cases, constellations of satellites for communication and tracking of transportation. As a result, there has been a shift from mainframes towards the rapidly expanding availability of satellite technology. The development of reusable rockets has assisted this shift to satellites. As a result, satellites traveling 400 miles above the earth provide capabilities and technology to deliver broadband to the entire world. "Satellite is going to help connectivity. With current satellite technology, there can be near fiber broadband technology anywhere in the world," Mohney explained. "This is promising because it allows [cloud services, technology, and communication] to developing countries."

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  Free Yourself...My Journey is now proudly part of American history! *** Free Yourself...My Journey is proudly housed as an official government, special internet archive collection.  The Internet Archive serves millions of people each day and is one of the top 300 web sites in the world. A single copy of the Internet Archive library collection occupies 70+ Petabytes of server space (storing at least 2 copies of everything). If you're planning on traveling this year. Don't forget to add, The Internet Archive Headquarters located in San Francisco, California. Thank you everyone for all the continued love & support. ❤❤❤ -Kimberly  In memory of my beloved, Aunt Rose 1/3/2005 Free Yourself...My Journey  

Simon runs SnapShooter, a service that performs scheduled server backups. We discuss:why backups is NOT a dull businesshow the pandemic pushed him to make the jump to full-timecharging his first customer just $2/month - and quickly learning to charge much morea "I did a rm -rf on the wrong server" storyLinks: SnapShooterSimon on Twitter

 In this episode Dr. Jessica Kissinger joins us to talk about how insights gained from analyzing parasite genomes can help us more effectively develop interventions against these dangerous pathogens in the future. Dr. Jessica Kissinger is an evolutionary geneticist, and Distinguished Research Professor in the Department of Genetics and the Institute of Bioinformatics. She is also a faculty member of the Center for Tropical and Emerging Global Diseases. Her research is focused on parasite genomics, the biology of genome evolution, and the development of computational tools for data mining. 

Today on a bonus episode of That Tech Pod, Laura and Gabi talk to Peter T. Mastroianni, a top trial partner at Reichman Jorgensen Lehman and Feldberg. He is a seasoned attorney with nearly 25 years' experience focusing on ESI, E-Discovery, electronic evidence, information governance and knowledge management-related matters.  Follow That Tech Pod: Twitter-@thattechpod LinkedIn: LinkedIn.com/thattechpod website: thattechpod.com.

State and Local Governments have Petabytes of unstructured legacy data, which only keeps growing, and no comprehensive system in place to search or manage that data. Today there are solutions that can automate the lifecycle of unstructured data and simplify the process of data governance, but there's no time to waste! The likelihood and implications of a data breach continue to grow exponentially, and states adopt new data privacy laws and hold organizations to higher standards of cybersecurity enforcement. This podcast explains how Aparavi helps government entities: Visualize the entire unstructured data landscape to eliminate data silos Reduce the risk of data breach Protect personal and sensitive data with intelligence and automation

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Have you ever thought it would be cool to see a website from 5 years ago, 10 years ago, even 20 years ago?That is exactly the vision that Brewster Kahle, founder of the Internet Archive and The Wayback Machine first started to develop in the late 1990's!In fact, Brewster was developing the Wayback Machine simultaneously to running Alexa Internet, one of the first internet browser plug-ins to track user web activity, which was ultimately sold to Amazon in 1999 for $250M in Amazon stock!Over the last 20 years, the Internet Archive has built the worlds largest archive of internet content - think the LIBRARY of the Internet. The magnitude is incredible:- 516 Billion Web Pages- 70 Petabytes of Storage- 6 Million Movies and Videos- 600,000 Software Programs- 1.5 Million Audio Files- 1.5M Daily UsersBrewster was voted into the Internet Hall of Fame (yes, their is an Internet Hall of Fame), and is one of the most visionary, insightful and visionaries in the Internet ecosystem.Listen to this 30 minute session with Brewster and you will come away with a sense of excitement and possibilities that we have not yet realized in the internet economy!

Dr. Tomer Altman describes the atypical origin of the Serratus project and explains why Serratus is such a big leap forward from doing a sequence search with something like BLAST. Dr. Altman dives into the nuts and bolts of how Serratus works and how it was used to find entirely new branches of the tree of life, filled in with previously uncharacterized coronaviruses. Dr. Altman also outlines potential future uses of systems like Serratus for things like biosurveillance and human health in relation to the human microbiome. Learn more about Serratus at https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.08.07.241729v1

Avez-vous lu 1984? Finalement on n'en est peut-être pas si loin. Internet est partout ou presque. honnêtement, pour moi, la technologie est un peu obscure. Pourtant ici c'est bien de la technologie que l'on va parler, avec un super-internet. La série Avec J'Améliore mon Anglais, prenez quelques minutes pour écouter un article de WikiNews accompagné de quelques mots de vocabulaire. Je termine le podcast en vous posant une question en anglais qui fait suite à l'histoire. Pour accéder à tous les épisodes, c'est par ici. Écouter le podcast Prêtez attention au vocabulaire et essayez d'anticiper l'histoire grâce au titre et au vocabulaire, ça vous aidera à comprendre le texte. Pour écouter le podcast, plusieurs options selon vos préférences. Vous aurez reconnu tout au début de cet article le lecteur du podcast en mp3 (audio). Vous êtes libre de l'écouter directement sur cette page-ci. Cliquez sur le bouton Play à gauche de la barre noire. Le télécharger pour l'écouter plus tard, ou l'écouter plusieurs fois. Cliquez sur Download sous la barre noire. Le vocabulaire de cet article Pour progresser en anglais si votre niveau le permet, écoutez le podcast, écrivez les mots et expressions que j'explique, puis vérifiez leur orthographe. Voici la liste des mots et expressions dont je vous parle dans le podcast. Si vous avez une mémoire visuelle, vous voudrez peut-être les lire avant d'écouter le podcast (ou pendant). To entail: entraîner, engendrer To host: héberger Currently: actuellement A white paper: un rapport, un guide d'information, une présentation marketing A rack: un support A core: un coeur Petabytes: mille tera, ou un million de giga bits L'article WikiNews Bien sûr, rien de tel que de lire l'article en complément de l'écoute. Ainsi vous aurez la possibilité de vous pencher un peu plus sur la structure des phrases. Mais je vous recommande de pratiquer l'écoute un maximum, voire de rejouer le podcast plusieurs fois avant de lire l'article. Vous trouverez l'article ici. De quoi ça parle? (Spoiler alert!!) Selon votre niveau en anglais, vous aurez saisi plus ou moins de détails. Le plus important est de comprendre le sens de l'histoire. Et très souvent, après avoir compris le sens global, une deuxième écoute vous permettra de noter plus de détails. Résumé: IBM travaille sur la création d'un super-ordinateur capable d'héberger et donc centraliser l'internet du monde entier. Pour certains, ça rappelle un peu trop la science fiction. Ma question: What do you think of the growing presence of internet in our lives?   Avez-vous compris l'histoire sans vous aider du résumé? Avez-vous su répondre à ma question?     L'article J'Améliore Mon Anglais – Episode 51 est apparu en premier sur Langonaute.

Mit dem ersten Flugsimulator von Microsoft konnte man 1982 gemütlich seine Runden drehen. Das Cockpit bestand aus ein paar klobigen Pixeln. 38 Jahre später erscheint der nächste Teil der Kultserie - mit zwei Petabytes an Daten ein Spiel der Superlative. Ist es nur Größenwahn oder wirklich grandios? Von Christian Schiffer www.deutschlandfunk.de, Corso Hören bis: 19.01.2038 04:14 Direkter Link zur Audiodatei

Connect with Buurst on the Azure Marketplace: https://ter.li/9pk8qh Garry Olah is the CEO of Buurst, a company that provides trusted cloud native tools for data control, performance, and availability on many cloud platforms. Their virtual storage appliances help customers migrate on-premises data to the cloud, better manage that data, and allow applications to run at the same high performance that customers expect from their on-premises storage infrastructure. As part of this discussion, we shared how their partnership with Microsoft, their use of Azure, and the Azure Marketplace has empowered them to scale and grow their business. Contact Garry: Web: https://buurst.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/softnas/ Twitter:@buurstdata Personal Twitter:@GarryOlah Partner with Buurst: https://www.buurst.com/partners/ Contact Avrohom: Web: https://asktheceo.biz Facebook: AvrohomGottheil Twitter: @avrohomg Instagram: @avrohomg INTERVIEW HIGHLIGHTS: [01:16] Cloud is now a mature technology, and many businesses are moving their mission-critical applications to the cloud. One of the byproducts of Digital Transformation and moving to the cloud is the large amount of data that’s generated by all of our connected devices. Because cloud is so commonplace, we tend to take for granted – as we should – things like low latency access to our virtually unlimited ubiquitous cloud storage of our data. However, as a technologist, I can appreciate that a lot goes on under the hood to make these things work properly. What are the challenges that businesses struggle with when migrating mission-critical applications to the cloud? Garry: Beyond the usual challenges of migrating large data sets to the cloud (latency, performance, how to actually move Petabytes of data), 90% of the world’s data has been created in the last two years, and that amount is projected by analysts to double every two years. At the current cloud storage prices, corporate IT budgets won't be able to keep up. Furthermore, even companies who are not price-conscious still struggle with achieving the performance they demand from mission-critical applications as they move those applications from on-prem data centers to a cloud storage environment. [04:02] How can businesses leverage cloud in the right way? Garry: There are obvious ways cloud storage products can help mitigate these issues. Features meant to enhance cost-efficiency include deduplication, compression, thin-provisioning, etc. For customers worried about performance, running application workloads with higher instance and VM sizes will help increase performance. [04:12] 90% of the world’s data has been created in the past 2 years. [04:17] Within the last decade, data has doubled every 2 years. [06:26] Buurst recently launched a new offering on the Microsoft Azure marketplace, called SoftNAS. Tell us about it and how it addresses some of the challenges we just discussed. Garry: Buurst SoftNAS frontends native Azure storage (managed disk and Blob) to overcome Azure storage limitations. The SoftNAS virtual appliance also allows for greater flexibility to better customize an application's performance versus price and can go beyond the capacity caps of Azure. [09:43] How would a company use your solution with Azure? Garry: The SoftNAS virtual appliance is available through the self-service Azure Marketplace or through a BYOL Azure Marketplace listing. The deployment through Azure Marketplace does not change how the underlying software functions. [11:44] How can customers find out more about SoftNAS, and procure it through the Azure Marketplace? Garry: You can access it via this link https://ter.li/9pk8qh. [12:50] How has partnering with Microsoft helped Buurst scale and grow your business? [14:00] How do people connect with you? [14:35] Do you have any parting words of wisdom that you’d like to share with the audience? #AskTheCEO With Garry Olah

Everyone's sick. We've all got a bit of the coronavirus in us already, and now we're just waiting for the alien eggs to hatch from our stomachs. That's right folks, in my 4 AM congestion-fever haze I discovered that COVID-19 is actually alien babies that want our warm bodies as incubators for their furtive young. Also, Jim Henson was assassinated by the CIA, Hilary Clinton's lizard baby grew up to be Katy Perry, and Tupac and Elvis were the SAME GUY. Row row row your boat gently down the stream oops I activated a Russian asset in Minnesota and now we moved in together and have a pet komodo dragon.* ASMR* Closing Pandora's Box* Not Expecting Failure* Burying OCI don't get ASMR. If you want someone to whisper in your ear, the Ying Yang Twins already did it 15 years ago. And they were so polite about it. I guess some guys just have a need to spend money on a virtual girlfriend that they share with 15,000 other dudes. It's like The Bachelorette, but she's married and isn't going to touch any of the dudes, but they keep giving her flowers and presents. But keep in mind, none of this is sexual. Except for the sexy girl pretending to be your girlfriend. And the guys yanking it to her. Not sexual.Once something is on the internet, it's there forever. There are literally weirdos that catalogue and archive all content they find on mountains of hard drives. Petabytes upon petabytes of content that will one day be like gold bars after the apocalypse. You'll be eating your canned franks and beans when you suddenly get a hankering for some old hilarious viral video. With the internet having been destroyed 10 years ago, you're out of luck, unless you can scrounge up enough bottle caps to pay for an hour with one of King Tyler's precious HDDs.Everyone is constantly disappointed. Why? Because they expect too much. Lower them expectations, people. If you expect most people to be complete j-holes, screw ups, and generally failures at life, well when someone comes around and they're a decent person they've completely surpassed your expectations! This goes for people, media, and pretty much everything in life. It's like in Iron Man, when Tony Stark returns from weeks of captivity eating nothing but bland gruel, that flame-broiled Burger King Whopper tastes like heaven. Be Tony Stark.Speaking of the internet. Once you put something out there, you no longer own it. It's the classic meme: "You made this?" "I made this." Throw out some great art, dozens of people steal it and put it on a shirt. Some rapper from Azerbaijan makes it his album art. Your twitter post of it has 120 retweets, and CYBER ART 20XX posts it, doesn't credit you, and gets 544K retweets, with dozens of comments asking where they can buy a print of it. But you're an asshole for asking them to just mention you.All this and more on this week’s episode! Don't forget to join us on DISCORD, and support us on PATREON, NEWPROJECT2 or by BUYING A SHIRT!

Quilt Data‘s founders, Kevin Moore and Aneesh Karve, have been hard at work for the last four years building a platform to search for data quickly across vast repositories on AWS S3 storage. The idea is to give data scientists a way to find data in S3 buckets, and then package that data in forms that a business can use. Today, the company launched out of stealth with a free data search portal that not only proves what they can do, but also provides valuable access to 3.

This is a podcast episode about OwnBackup. OwnBackup is a Cloud-to-Cloud backup and recovery company providing the leading data protection and compliance platform for Enterprises using Salesforce. This time it's time to hear all about the technical aspets of running a systm that backs up many many Petabytes of important data, and restores them in a very short time, as needed. Hear all about it from Roy Emek, VP Engineering & GM Israel and Shai Rubin Director Of Software Development. בפרק הזה נכנסנו בעובי הקורה הטכנית עם אנשי OwnBackup רועי עמק ושי רובין. על פטה בייטים של מידע שצריך לאחסן בצורה חכמה ולאחזר בצורה עוד יותר חכמה.

Twitter: @twpwk Our main topic this week: beer. Our guest is Kenny McNutt. He is the co-founder and CEO of Madtree Brewing, one of the largest craft breweries in Cincinnati Ohio. He also has a magnificent beard. News Toys R Us Is Coming Back But With A Different Approach Equifax gets record fine Be sure to claim your money from Equifax ... they rightfully owe it to you How Amazon uses 18-wheelers to transfer heavy data loads to the cloud A labor shortage with 8% unemployment in France DoorDash Says It's Very Sorry You Noticed Its Tip-Skimming Scheme Main Topic Guest episode with Kenny McNutt, the CEO and co-founder of Madtree Brewing. We talk Cincinnati, Craft Beer, and what's hot in the booze industry. https://www.wcpo.com/news/insider/madtree-brewings-founder-on-five-years-in-business-its-been-insane Recommendations Kenny: Book: Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It by Chris Voss App: Glide Jeff: Movie: Long Shot Mike: Beer: Madtree's Identity Crisis (if you can find it) Sean: Food: Cincinnati's Skyline Chili Shameless Plugs For beer drinkers: Kenny's beer: Madtree Brewing For coffee drinkers: Mike's coffee company: Bookcase Coffee For equity investors: Jeff's software: Folio Follow Us: Twitter: @twpwk iTunes Spotify Stitcher Google Podcasts Pocket Casts Overcast

To my Beloved Listeners, Here is a Systems Administrator's assessment of the problems with Evolution in light of Genetics and Programming. Note: There are some errors in my talk as I did this right off the top of my head. Here are some corrections: - There 720,000 Petabytes of Data in Human DNA per person not 72,500,000 Petabytes. If you see any other errors please mention them in the comments at AddDan.com so I can make a correction. If you would like to support our channel, here is a link to the Study bible I recommend on Amazon. If you purchase this bible or anything else on amazon through this link our channel will get a small percentage: Hard Cover: https://amzn.to/2H0EEPg Leather (my actual bible a little more expensive) https://amzn.to/2YWHURO My hope is that you would be encouraged in your faith in through this video or convicted about your sin and turn to Jesus Christ. May the Lord Richly Bless you and draw you closer to Himself. In Christ, Daniel Bisagni AddDan.com

Neste episódio, André Gomes, André Bonatti e Francisco Fukumoto fazem um exercício teórico sobre o que aconteceria se todas as mídias de armazenamento digitais fossem apagadas. Aconteceria então um "apocalipse digital"? Ouça e confira!

Nuestros barbudos y pintorescos habladores, desenterraron juegos con la ayuda de picos y palas. Moño no ayudó mucho porque estas herramientas lo tienen traumado con sus caries, por suerte tienen a Toy Story, Fernet y Tecnología para aflojar los traumas. Lucho cada vez más curioso nos trae la ciencia que estudia a los juegos y, para equilibrar, bastantes gigabytes de porno. Por el otro lado, Moño intenta unir palabras y contarnos una fábula. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/fernet/message

Notícias comentadas: - Jony Ive, designer dos iPhones, deixa a Apple - Vimos de perto o 5G da Tim em ação - Lightyear One é o primeiro carro de grande autonomia movido por energia solar - Design dos Galaxy Note 10 e Note 10 Pro pode ter sido confirmado por capas de proteção - Usuário coloca 1,8 Petabytes de pornografia em sua conta do Amazon Drive Agora o Resumo Conectado também está disponível em áudio, estilo podcast! Você pode ouvir o nosso tradicional resumo no Spotify, no Anchor e em diversas outras plataformas, além de poder usar o nosso feed RSS para vincular o programa ao agregador de sua preferência.

Clint and Skip welcome friend & streamer Knubonic to the show! We talk about surviving the Polar Vortex, Respawn does a Battle Royale (Apex Legends), the Anthem demo, streaming, putting yourself out there, evolution of gaming, Kingdom Hearts 3, building PC's, terabytes & petabytes, closings & plugs, and more! Follow Knuboic on: Twitter: @Knubonic Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/knubonic

Carl and I talk about developer gear at CES 2019. We also talk about travel gear, including the best noise cancelling headphones. Twitter moves 300 petabytes to the cloud. And Jason analyzes the Backblaze data so that you know which drive to buy.   News Windows Command-Line: Unicode and UTF-8 Output Text Buffer Backblaze Hard Drive Stats for 2018 Twitter moves 300 Petabytes of data to the cloud The ‘Computer’ Mouse is a mouse that is also a fully functional computer Panos Panay reacts quickly to coach throwing a Surface during a game. WinForms on the web -- brought to you by web assembly Microsoft Office is finally available on Apple's Mac App Store Travel Tech Update Noise cancelling headphones Sony XM2 XM3 Surface Bose Power brick success Powerhouse2  -- WHAAAAAAT????!!?!?!?!?!!?!!!!???! CES CES Laptops 17" screens NVIDIA 2060/2080 Graphics Jason's Pick Jason's Runner-Up Beastly Laptop! Nreal Light Glasses iTunes and AirPlay everywhere Why do we never see this backported? The Talk about 5G -- no devices though Foldable Phones Xiaomi

Corteva Agriscience, the agricultural division of DowDuPont, produces as much DNA sequence data every six hours as existed in the entire public sphere in 2008. On-premises processing and storage could not scale to meet the business demand. Partnering with Sogeti (part of Capgemini), Corteva replatformed their existing Hadoop-based genome processing systems into AWS using a serverless, cloud-native architecture. In this session, learn how Corteva Agriscience met current and future data processing demands without maintaining any long-running servers by using AWS Lambda, Amazon S3, Amazon API Gateway, Amazon EMR, AWS Glue, AWS Batch, and more. This session is brought to you by AWS partner, Capgemini America. Complete Title: AWS re:Invent 2018: Petabytes of Data & No Servers: Corteva Scales DNA Analysis to Meet Increasing Business Demand (ENT218-S)

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With the release of the Windows April 2018 Update, we chat with Microsoft engineers about three exciting features that Insiders voted as part of their top 10 favorites. Tom Alphin joins Jason Howard in the studio to talk about Timeline, a new, chronological way to keep track of all your stuff, including across multiple devices. Jake Cohen chats about Eye Control, an accessibility feature that Microsoft developed with the help of Steve Gleason, an NFL football player for the New Orleans Saints who is living with ALS. And Samuele Dassatti, an 18-year-old Windows Insider from Italy, shares his experience developing his app, Fluenty,  using Fluent Design. Then, Dona Sarkar and Jason have a candid discussion about what it's really like to be a Microsoft engineer and evolve an operating system used by more than a billion users worldwide.    Episode Transcription JASON HOWARD:  Welcome to the Windows Insider Podcast.  I'm your host, Jason Howard, and this is Episode 15: Updates and Features and Engineers—Oh, My! This episode, we'll chat with Microsoft engineers about Timeline and Eye Control, as well as a Windows Insider about Fluent design.  All three of these features were voted by insiders as part of the top ten features within this update.  Later, Dona Sarkar and I will chat about what it's really like to evolve an operating system used by more than a billion users worldwide.  JASON HOWARD:  To talk about the new Timeline feature today, we have Tom Alphin.  Welcome to the show. TOM ALPHIN:  Thank you.  JASON HOWARD:  So could you please introduce yourself to the audience and tell them what you do here at Microsoft? TOM ALPHIN:  Sure.  So I'm Tom Alphin.  I've been working at Microsoft for about 15, 16 years.  Been on the Windows team for most of that, and most recently, as you introduced me, I've been working on the Timeline feature.  JASON HOWARD:  Awesome. TOM ALPHIN:  Yeah.  JASON HOWARD:  And for those who may not be familiar, or may not have watched some of the webcasts we do, back in December of 2017, we did a little demo -- what was it?  About a week early before the Timeline feature showed up Insider builds? TOM ALPHIN:  Yeah.  JASON HOWARD:  Actually had you on the air, got to do some demos -- they worked.  TOM ALPHIN:  Yeah.  Yeah. JASON HOWARD:  Which was awesome.  (Laughter.)  Doing live demos is always a risky proposition.  So for those that are listening to the show and may not be familiar with the functionality, since it's just now like properly releasing to the public, can you give us a bit of a rundown on what Timeline is? TOM ALPHIN:  Yeah.  Before talking about Timeline itself, it's worth speaking for a moment about what problem we think Timeline solves.  We identified some years ago that people were struggling to find their stuff.  It used to be that I knew where all my stuff was.  It was on my one laptop on the hard drive.  And now with a world of cloud services, OneDrive and Dropbox or whatever your favorite storage solution is, it's kind of hard to find stuff sometimes.  Or it might even be on the C drive of a different laptop.  And it's like, "Where's my stuff?"  And so rather than just trying to make sure even puts all their stuff in one place, which of course we're investing in making OneDrive a great place for your stuff, we also recognized, you know, people are going to use a mix of things.  So why don't we give them one view of all their stuff?  And it's organized, actually, chronologically, not by physical storage location.  And that was sort of the conceptual journey that we went through to get to the idea, "Hey, maybe we just give people a timeline of their stuff."  And that's the gist of it.  When we ended up, ultimately, shipping today is the ability for users to click on the task view button that's been part of Windows for a while now.  Instead of just seeing what's running, you can actually go back in time.  And you're seeing your chronological view of stuff you've done in the past.  And from that chronological view, you can click on something because you want to get back to that document or that website, and it will just launch. And we've made it really easy.  We're hoping people habituate to that as an alternate way to go back and find things they care about.  JASON HOWARD:  And it seems like the name was pretty easy to stumble upon, it kind of named itself.  (Laughter.) TOM ALPHIN:  Yeah.  I mean, the name of the feature kind of just is the essence of the feature.  Although, we use that name as a bit of a guiding principle.  We were, like, when we started thinking about search results in the timeline experience, we could have organized the search results in any manner of ways.  We could have organized them by application, we could have organized them by some sort of relevance algorithm.  We chose, ultimately, to organize them chronologically because we're, like, "This is Timeline, we've got to keep things organized in a predictable, consistent way."  And that bounding concept is chronology.  So reverse chronology, center of Timeline. JASON HOWARD:  Yeah.  And, I mean, if you've got files in five different locations and you're struggling to remember where it was to begin with, right?  Because if you knew where it was, you could possibly just go and open the file and be done with it.  Having remembered when the last time you worked on it, for some people, myself included here, it's probably a little bit easier to do it that way as opposed to, okay, which PC was this on or which, you know, cloud-based service did I upload this to at what point in time?  And all of a sudden, it's like, oh, yeah, I worked on this on this other machine, it was two days ago, cool.  Zip back in time, and there you go. TOM ALPHIN:  Yeah.  So, basically, we're giving people one more way to find their stuff.  You can already find it if you know where it is, go find it in File Explorer, the appropriate app.  You can already find it in search if you know exactly what it's called.  And now we've got a way you can find it if you know when it happened. JASON HOWARD:  That's awesome.  TOM ALPHIN:  Yeah.  JASON HOWARD:  So it sounds like that was a bit of the core of why the team was excited to create the feature.  TOM ALPHIN:  Yeah.  JASON HOWARD:  So as an end user, right, it sounds like they have this third kind of pillar of a way to go and find files.  But besides just finding something that they had been working on, right?  Like, how does this change the game for users?  Like, how does this improve their workflow and make lives easier for them?  TOM ALPHIN:  Well, we know that people use computers in a lot of different ways.  Some people will do simple tasks, just get something done, move on.  Other people use it for more entertainment or shopping or any of these other scenarios.  And every one of those scenarios is going to have a different use case or use pattern.  And for each one of them, they might use something like timeline differently.  If you're using it for shopping, it's great to be able to go find that thing you were looking at a couple days ago because maybe you saw something you really liked, but you weren't quite ready to pull the trigger and buy it.  You closed the Web browser, it's pretty hard to find it again.  And now, you know, you just scroll back in Timeline, you can find it, get back to it, make a purchase decision.  If you're doing a more complicated task, maybe you're working on writing a book or trying to research a trip or any of these tasks that take many days and many, many documents and objects it's going to take you a while to build out that state.  And then you've got all the information at your fingertips, and then you have to switch to something else, getting back to that stuff is challenging and Timeline is one way we think people can do it more easily because it's all there. And since you're going back in time to two days ago when you were looking at the trip planning, you'll see in that two days ago area, other things that you're doing at the same time, it's very likely those are the same things you want to bring back as well.  JASON HOWARD:  Yeah.  So instead of finding just the one thing, you may have forgotten about something else that's important and relevant that hadn't kind of clicked back into your memory.  And, you know, when you go back and find this, it'll be sitting there waiting for you as well.  And you're, like, "Oh, my goodness, I completely forgot about that." TOM ALPHIN:  Yeah.  Exactly.  JASON HOWARD:  So it sounds like everybody's going to get this kind of "one history to rule them all" type, you know, experience, right?  In a recent survey, Windows Insiders chose Timeline as one of their top ten features that is now going to be available in the April 2018 Update.  Obviously, it's now out in public.  From your perspective, are there any users, individually or in particular, that you can think about that are going to be super excited about this feature? TOM ALPHIN:  I think the feature is valuable if you have exactly one Windows PC, but it's going to be significantly more popular amongst people that have either multiple PCs or multiple PCs and a phone where they're choosing to use Office or Edge because then you can actually pick up the activities across the device boundary.  And that's really powerful because once you find that cool website on your phone, trying to get it off of your phone is a pain.  And if I could just change nothing about how I use my phone, but when I sit down at my PC, I know with confidence if I go into my timeline it's going to show me the stuff that I was viewing on my phone earlier today or yesterday. That is a bit of a game-changer because I don't have to change how I use my phone.  All I have to do is have confidence I can get back to that stuff easy in the future.  JASON HOWARD:  Well, even when you look at individual applications, right, you look at Edge, and it can port your favorites across different devices, right, correlated to your Microsoft account.  And there are other Web browsers out there that will port your history and things like that so that, you know, you're on PC A, you search something, gets correlated.  But, again, that's a separate profile that you have to have connected in the background, things like that.  Rather than having two or three different profiles, or five different profiles across all these different applications, at least in this type of scenario where you have your one Microsoft Account that's connected to these multiple machines, you don't have to worry about remembering five accounts and five logins and tying all of that together.  You get to kind of have this one simplified, seamless experience where, hey, this is the same login I have across multiple machines.  And guess what?  All of this just happens seamlessly in the background and the user experience seems like it's pretty smooth.  TOM ALPHIN:  That's right, yeah.  Because your activities are roaming between your devices based on your Microsoft Account, so long as you use the same Microsoft Account on both of the devices, you'll have the same Timeline.  Actually, that's a good segue to another capability that's tied up in Timeline is if I go from my first PC, where I do have a particular application installed, to a second PC where I don't have that application installed, we will actually help you when you click on that activity from that app, get that app installed on that second computer and we're really bridging the gap for the user so they can really get right back exactly into the app and content that they want on a device that maybe they don't use as often or maybe that device is new to their ecosystem.  And we're just helping bridge the gap there. We really think this will help the multi-device user a ton, and again, that phone scenario is super cool.  I can get back to that Word document I was reading on the go super easily on my PC, get back to that website.  It's all really nicely integrated, and we think that it will continue to grow as people habituate to this and as developers embrace the platform that Timeline's built on, you'll see more and more high-quality activity cards in Timeline coming from the various apps you love. JASON HOWARD:  So, obviously, this is available on Windows 10 across, you know, all the PCs that, obviously, have taken this newest update, right?  So the Windows 10 April 2018 Update, you need to have that installed kind of as the baseline, and that's when the feature will show you.  So you mentioned mobile OS's.  What mobile platforms is this available on currently? TOM ALPHIN:  Yeah.  So if you have Edge on your iPhone or your Android device or your Office suite on those platforms, those will be sources that activities can get created back to appear on your PC.  And it requires a new version of Edge which either is out or is about to be out for that to work properly, but Office is already working today.  JASON HOWARD:  Awesome.  Future plans, right?  I don't want you to give away the secret sauce, right?  I love asking this question because anybody I ever talk to and ask them, "Hey, what are you doing next?"  You know, there's that mixture of, "I can talk about some of it, I can't talk about some of it."  Any cats you want to let out of the bag? TOM ALPHIN:  Well, I actually can talk about something, because we've already been talking about it for a while.  At Build last year, almost exactly a year ago, because we're getting ready for the next Build Conference, we made it very clear to app developers that if you write these activities into the roam APIs, they will make it into your timeline on all your PCs.  And that's a big deal.  What we're excited about is that we really think these activities can showcase elsewhere in Windows.  One example that is already part of the product as well is if you switch between devices and there's a strong signal that that activity you were working on PC A is something you'd want to resume on a second PC, we could offer a little notification for you, "Hey, would you like to keep working on this?"  And we think that's the beginning of a whole host of ways to infuse the Windows operating system with exactly what you need next.  And I can't speak to exactly what we're going to do with that, because we're still kind of inventing the future, right?  But we know that these activities that the Microsoft first-party applications and our third-party partners are creating, that those activities are sort of at the center of a new type of productivity in Windows. JASON HOWARD:  I know we've covered a lot here, but anything else?  Any other tips or tricks that you want to share about Timeline?  Obviously, people need to get the newest build and get it installed so they can use it.  TOM ALPHIN:  Yeah.  I mean, the main point that people encounter when they play with it for the first time is that we do want to make sure people's privacy are respected in this experience.  So you will see when you use it for the first time, we do ask you if you'd like the activities from this PC to go back up to the cloud so they can get to your other devices.  We give you a couple days of Timeline, and then below that, there's an experience built into Timeline to actually opt in and move those activities back up to the cloud.  So that's something people will discover when they play with it for the first time a little bit.  Another thing is I really encourage people to play with the search capability as well because I kind of find the combination of even an imperfect search term, I happen to love LEGO projects, so I might search for LEGO.  It gives me a filtered Timeline, which is all of my stuff that has that keyword in it.  So if I know about when it was, but I'm not sure exactly which day, I can use the combination of search, which filters the view, plus that sort of temporal timeline view to find exactly what I'm looking for.  So people should play with that as well.  They don't feel like they need to type enough search terms to find exactly that one thing.  Just get it down to a small enough set that you can quickly scan and find what you're looking for.  I think that's probably a good tease for people.  Really, we want to hear from people, too.  Because, you know, this is the beginning of a story.  JASON HOWARD:  And, obviously there's, you know, the Feedback Hub to drive feedback for Insiders.  If you're on a retail build, you know you can provide feedback and Feedback Hub as well.  TOM ALPHIN:  Yes.  And we've gotten great feedback from the Insiders watching the initial response to it when we went out end of last year and seeing what people had to share and trying with the little time we had to respond in some small ways has been really awesome.  And not having that opportunity would have made for a less polished product. JASON HOWARD:  Well, Tom, thank you so much for stopping by the studio today.  TOM ALPHIN:  Absolutely.  JASON HOWARD:  It's been great talking to you.  TOM ALPHIN:  Thank you very much, cheers.  JASON HOWARD:  Cheers, man.    JASON HOWARD:  We chat with our next Microsoft engineer about Eye Control, one of several accessibility features that the Windows team has really been investing in over the last few years.  Jake, could you introduce yourself to our listeners?  JAKE COHEN:  Absolutely.  My name is Jake Cohen, a program manager on the Windows Interaction Platform team.  And I was fortunate enough to work on Eye Control the past few years and I'm really excited to talk about it.  JASON HOWARD:  Awesome.  Real quick, for those who may not know, can you tell us a little bit about what the Windows Interaction Platform team does?  JAKE COHEN:  Yeah.  So we work on providing support for all input device types on Windows, both in the operating system as well as public APIs for developers.  We provide support for mouse and keyboard, touch, pen, precision touchpad, now eye tracking, the dial, and more. JASON HOWARD:  That's quite the list.  And it seems like there's a few important things that users interact with Windows through.  (Laughter.) JAKE COHEN:  That's right.  JASON HOWARD:  So before we get into the details of Eye Control, could you tell us a bit about accessibility in general and how Windows is prioritizing accessibility features as it evolves? JAKE COHEN:  Absolutely.  I think it really comes down to Microsoft's mission statement that Satya has defined for us, and that we've been really working towards.  And it's all about empowering every person and organization on the planet to achieve more.  So accessibility has been super important for us for the past 20-plus years.  We've been working hard in the past few years to really aspire towards our mission statement, and when we think about accessibility, it's about empowering every person of every level of ability.  And we've been taking a really focused approach to continue improving our products to fill the gaps and help people use their PCs and use Windows to improve their lives and do the things they are passionate about.  JASON HOWARD:  So, speaking about Eye Control, can you tell us, you know, a little bit more about it?  Like, walk us through how it works and what it's like using the feature.  JAKE COHEN:  Yeah.  So Eye Control is a product, it's built into Windows, and it allows customers to control their PC using only their eyes and a compatible eye-tracking device.  So it's built leveraging eye-tracking technology, and it provides access to control a mouse, a keyboard, and a text-to-speech experience to communicate with friends and family, all with just your eyes. JASON HOWARD:  Wow.  So is there some sort of a camera that the user looks into?  Or is it just like kind of reading where a person's eyes are gazing across like a pre-defined screen area?  JAKE COHEN:  We work with eye-tracking hardware that you can connect to your PC, and some devices have them integrated.  Two of our hardware partners that support Windows is Tobii and now EyeTech, which is new for the April 2018 release.  What you do is you connect that device, and this uses infrared lighting and cameras to basically detect where your eyes are looking relative to the screen to allow you to interact with your PC.  And Windows takes that information and allows you to, say, control a mouse or keyboard with where you're looking on the screen. JASON HOWARD:  So are there, say, like icons on the screen?  Like, if you were trying to switch between -- what would be, like, keyboard input versus using a mouse to drag and drop and things like that?  Are there, like, icons that you would look at and almost virtually eye-click them somehow? JAKE COHEN:  Exactly.  Yes.  So Eye Control starts with a launch pad, which is UI that's always present on the screen.  And when you dwell your eyes on an icon, which is the act of fixating your eyes somewhere on the screen and waiting, it'll activate a click.  So it's basically a press and hold with your eyes.  And you have access on the launch pad to the mouse, to the keyboard, to text-to-speech, and now in the April 2018 release, many more options to quick access to start, task view, device calibration, settings, and more.  And this is really your launching point to get to the action you want.  So if you want to, say, use the mouse to scroll a Web page, you first look at the scroll button basically saying, "Hey, I want to scroll."  And once you're in that mode, you can fixate your eyes somewhere on the screen and then use the arrows that are provided to scroll up and down using your eyes.  So lets you browse the Web or scroll an app. JASON HOWARD:  Something interesting for me, the difference between a left mouse click versus a right mouse click?  JAKE COHEN:  Yes.  For that, we do have individual UI for a left-click action and a right-click action on the launch pad.  We also have one option for precise mouse interactions that let you position your eyes on the screen, fine tune the position of the mouse, and then select what action you want with that mouse, which could be right click, left click, or double left click.  JASON HOWARD:  That was going to be my next question -- what happens between a single click versus the double click? JAKE COHEN:  Yeah.  And you raise a really good point, too.  There are a wide range of interactions that are supported on Windows that people do every single day.  And it's quite a complex problem to provide support for that with just your eyes.  You know, we're just getting started with providing support for left click, right click, double left click for scrolling, for the keyboard, but there's more interactions that we need to work towards as well like zooming and drag and drop.  And these are really fun, complex problems to work towards to let someone do all of these things with just their eyes. JASON HOWARD:  So what's the story behind how Microsoft went about developing this eye-tracking feature? JAKE COHEN:  It's a very exciting story.  It started several years in the 2014 Microsoft company-wide hackathon, and started with Steve Gleason, NFL football player, New Orleans Saints, that is living with ALS.  Sent an e-mail and challenged Microsoft to help improve his life with technology.  A famous quote he has is, "Before we have a cure for ALS, technology is that cure."  And it brings up a really good point.  You know, as technology evolves and as technology can do more and more for people, it helps fill the gap and empower people to do things they couldn't do before.  And with that e-mail, there was a team got together, built a hackathon project on eye tracking to let Steve drive his wheelchair. JASON HOWARD:  Oh, wow.  JAKE COHEN:  He can drive his wheelchair with his son around his house, which is incredible.  And from there a team at Microsoft Research has dedicated their time the last three years plus to building technology to help improve people's lives that are living with mobility impairments, both with eye tracking, as well as those who are blind.  And they've evolved and grown their technical expertise and have learned a ton and are working with people living with ALS in the community to learn more and work with them and help them individually.  And in this past year, we found a point which there was a great opportunity to bring all of this learning and opportunity right into Windows, so more customers around the world can leverage this technology in an easier way to help let them control their PC and do what they want to do.  JASON HOWARD:  Just thinking, you know, you buy a new computer and you're booting up.  Previously, that out-of-box experience was very -- there were no audio cues or anything. JAKE COHEN:  Right.  JASON HOWARD:  You had to be able to see what was on the screen.  JAKE COHEN:  Yeah.  JASON HOWARD:  It required somebody of full abilities to walk through the process, really.  And now, Cortana's integrated where she actually speaks to people. JAKE COHEN:  That's great.  JASON HOWARD:  Right?  There's high-contrast mode included as part of the out-of-box experience.  It's like, piece by piece, we keep bringing Windows closer and closer to those who may need some additional assistance and going through what are just some of the common tasks in using the operating system.  JAKE COHEN:  It's a great evolution, I'd say, of Windows and what we are doing to fulfill our mission statement and to fill the gap and to help people with variations of ability better use their PC, use their devices, have an impact on their lives.  And it's a really good trajectory we're on to really be customer focused and focused on the end to end solution, not tools that you can plug in and use in certain scenarios, but what is the from beginning to end, I get my PC, I'm started, I'm booted up.  I can now use it on my day-to-day, I can use it at work and transition to future devices and updates as well. JASON HOWARD:  So knowing that we kind of have a habit around here of starting a good thing and then opening up a bit more broadly so that additional third parties and users externally can kind of plug in and take it to the next level, what is the future past what we've done so far?  Do you have any plans for, like, APIs or anything that you're going to do to try to enable developers to kind of build on top of what you all have already put together?  JAKE COHEN:  Absolutely.  This is one of the things I'm most excited about for this next release of Windows.  In the Fall Creators Update, we released Eye Control in box for the first time.  In the April 2018 Update, we have really great improvements to Eye Control, but the next step we're taking as well is releasing public developer APIs and open-source libraries that was used exactly the same in Windows to build Eye Control to allow third-party developers to build apps and experiences that can leverage eye tracking.  And imagine all of the gaps that third-party developers can fill for customers who are living with mobility impairments to use in their day-to-day life.  You know, I think it comes down to Microsoft's core roots.  We can't fulfill this mission statement alone to empower everyone, we have to empower everyone to empower other people and to build a platform.  We're a platform company, and this what I'm most excited for next is to see what developers can think of and come up with and build and make an impact.  JASON HOWARD:  Seems to be one of the things that we as a company are good at is we put together a solid foundation that has the right hooks and integrations into the OS, and then open the door and see what other people can come up with. JAKE COHEN:  Yeah.  So these APIs just came out and we're showing them off at Build and we're excited to see what comes next.  JASON HOWARD:  What are some of the next things that you think are super important that you and the rest of your team will be working on?   JAKE COHEN:  We take a very customer-centric approach, especially for Eye Control, since it is designed for a targeted set of audience and people who really need it. We've been working closely with Microsoft Research and people living with ALS in the community, as well as Team Gleason, a nonprofit foundation that helps people who are living with ALS, to collect feedback, to let them use Eye Control and tell us what works great, what's missing, and what's needed next.  And it's really inspiring to get this feedback because we hear people say, "This is amazing technology, this is really helping me."  And also, "This is the next thing I need."  It's about empowering them to do everything they can think of, not just a subset of interactions or abilities.   And that's what's driving the next steps is collecting feedback and addressing the next top things that people want to do in Windows.  JASON HOWARD:  So for you individually, what drove you to become part of the Windows Interaction Platform team?  Like, what landed you here?  JAKE COHEN:  Well, it started with a really strong interest in thinking about how we're evolving the way we interact with devices and technology -- the evolution of the smart phone and touch interactions being such a huge player in how we use these devices, and how that's changing the way we work and live with voice as a key interaction being more predominant today with voice-activated assistants, as well as smart home speakers.  And it's just really exciting to think about how we can push the boundary and make things and PCs more natural and intuitive to use and just make it more smooth throughout your day-to-day life.  And eye tracking is a really exciting space where there's a very natural aspect to where your eyes are looking on the screen and what that intent is and what you're thinking and doing, and can help you if you are only using your eyes, as well as if you're fully able and can use other modalities to do multi-modal interactions. So the interaction space is very, very cool.  JASON HOWARD:  Well, Jake, thank you so much for thinking the time to be here with us today to talk about eye tracking.  No doubt, it's something that has a very long and bright future ahead of it.  Can't wait to see what's coming next.  JAKE COHEN:  Yeah, that's so much.  It's been really fun.    JASON HOWARD:  For our third feature today, we'll be chatting about Fluent design.  Fluent design is a new design language for Windows 10 with guidelines for designs and interactions covering components such as light, depth, motion, material, as well as scale. Fluent design makes applications look great across all types of Windows-powered devices. Speaking on this topic today is Samuele Dassatti, a Windows Insider who developed his own productivity and scheduling app called Fluently, which is now available in the Microsoft store.  Samuele is only 18 years old, and has been coding since he was 13.  He's using the proceeds from this application to pay for university.  Welcome, Samuele, where are you calling from today?  SAMUELE DASSATTI:  I'm from Italy, in the northern region of Italy.  JASON HOWARD:  All right.  So, tell us a little bit about your app.  Can you give the audience a walk-through of what your application does and what prompted you to create it?  SAMUELE DASSATTI:  Well, my app is a digital diary with the support for the Surface Pen.  I decided to create it because in my school, we use a tablet instead of books.  And I needed a way to write on my Surface Pro, my notes as if I were writing on paper.  So I started developing this UWP app, Fluently, and I really liked the Fluent design system, which was presented at Build 2017 so I decided to implement it in my app.  And the fact that the app looked so beautiful made me proud of it and I, ultimately, decided to publish it on the Windows Store in October or so.  And after I published it, I was nominated for the Windows Developer Awards 2018, so it's a great result for me. JASON HOWARD:  Awesome.  So your application basically lets you keep a calendar and notes by handwriting on a Surface with the Surface Pen.  So it seems like it's good for people who like the feeling of paper, but want the flexibility of a digital calendar, it seems like those would be the kind of people that would love your application Fluently.  SAMUELE DASSATTI:  Yeah.  From what I've seen, many of the people that write me usually come from pen and paper, maybe they add a Surface or a similar device with pen support, but they use it not that often, and maybe just for some basic sketching.  But after seeing Fluently and acknowledging how intuitive it was, many of them thank me because I gave them a reason to use their Surface or XPS two-in-one, for example. JASON HOWARD:  Just in talking, right, we heard a little bit about you, that you were self-taught when it comes to coding, and you started when you were 13.  Obviously, you're a bit older now and you're about to start university, so can you tell us a little bit about your plans and, you know, what you're dreaming about for the future?  SAMUELE DASSATTI:  I just got admitted at the University of Trento, near where I live, which I heard is a really good university for computer science.  And I want to study programming there because I believe coding opens many doors in the future because it is required almost everywhere, and I hope that the fact that I have some experience may help me in the university.  JASON HOWARD:  Awesome.  Thank you so much for stopping by the studio today. SAMUELE DASSATTI:  Thank you for the opportunity.    JASON HOWARD:  Ever wonder what it's like to be an engineer on the Windows Insider team and to be part of the massive rush that is evolving the most popular operating system in the world?  Dona Sarkar joins me in the studio to talk about the joys and headaches of engineering. DONA SARKAR:  Hi, Jason.  JASON HOWARD:  Hi, Dona.  DONA SARKAR:  What are you doing?  You're on my side of the booth.  (Laughter.)  JASON HOWARD:  I won that argument, everybody. DONA SARKAR:  He did.  Jason won an argument, everyone.  He's now on my side of the booth.  Therefore, I think we should have our connect on the air, Jason.  JASON HOWARD:  I don't think anybody wants to listen to that.  DONA SARKAR:  Jason, what are three things you could have done better this year?  (Laughter.)  JASON HOWARD:  Well, one thing I did right was standing on this side of the booth.  DONA SARKAR:  That's about it.  Now, this is going to cost you three articles on the website described your day-to-day.  (Laughter.) JASON HOWARD:  I'm making my own job harder here. DONA SARKAR:  Yes, he is.  JASON HOWARD:  I don't like how this is turning out.  DONA SARKAR:  Yes, he is.  All right, so I have some questions for you.  JASON HOWARD:  All right. DONA SARKAR:  You have been "Insidering" for, what?  Four years?  A long time.  JASON HOWARD:  A while. DONA SARKAR:  Right?  Yeah, a long time.  You've been "Insidering" longer than I have, you've been "Insidering" longer than most of the team.  So before I showed up here, you talked about three of the Insider community's favorite features in the new update, and they were all super exciting -- Timeline, Eye Control, Fluent design.  Those are some of my favorites, too, along with all of the stuff around focus assistant, etcetera.  Can you share with everybody, what role did Insiders play in the evolution of these new features?  And how did their feedback make it to the table where decisions are made?  JASON HOWARD:  Well, it's -- I don't want to expand the discussion super far, especially not coming right out of the gate, but it's the same as any other feature that we've introduced along the development of Windows 10.  You know, the development teams come up with this awesome idea of something they want to put in, it shows up in a preview build and everybody freaks out and gets excited and they're like, "Oh, my goodness, what is this new piece of awesomeness that's here?"  And then they're, like, "Okay, well, I want it to work this way or this part's broke, you know, what can we do to change this?  Have you guys thought about this?  Because it currently doesn't do it this way or it doesn't do this at all."  So Insiders will use the feature, they'll send us all the good feedback.  You know, they yell at us on Twitter and all that kind of fun stuff.  You know, that's one of the fun parts of my job.  But, you know, for each of these individual features, along with everything else that's in Windows 10, it's the same usual process.  And I don't mean to make it sound mundane, because it's absolutely awesome, you know, it kind of goes like that.  We introduce a feature, we take in that feedback, and then we see what changes.  It's easy to talk about the Fluent side of things because it's one of the most obvious because it's something that everybody sees.  Like when Fluent showed up in the settings panel, it was one of the things that people were, like, "Oh, my goodness, this changed dramatically."  Because all of a sudden there's this smooth transition of light from, you know, item to item in the panel, and there's this glow around whatever you're highlighted over.  It was a super obvious type thing.  For Eye Control, not everybody uses that feature.  Even though it's super important for those who do. DONA SARKAR:  That's right.  JASON HOWARD:  And then, of course, Timeline.  You know, it having replaced the old Task View, it's a paradigm shift.  You know, when this was announced it was, what, Build last year when they announced it?  DONA SARKAR:  Yeah, that's right.  JASON HOWARD:  The fact that that's available now and, you know, can literally transport you back in time to something you were doing on a different machine on a different day, that's huge.  DONA SARKAR:  Yeah.  JASON HOWARD:  And users talking about some of the bugs that showed up with it, and even now as, you know, we're having this discussion, there's an interesting bug that has shown up late that it's one of the interesting things about how interconnected everything is within Windows.  Because as I'm standing here talking right now, there's a bug being actively worked on by the development teams that, when it triggers, your screen blinks.  DONA SARKAR:  That's right.  I've seen it.  JASON HOWARD:  And it's, like, wait, how is this the fault of Timeline?  And without getting too far into the details of the bug itself, it's related to an empty value being returned to the Timeline feature when it's looking for some of your history.  DONA SARKAR:  Right.  JASON HOWARD:  So something that you were using on one machine that isn't even installed on the machine that you're experiencing the bug on, it's making a call to bring some of that Timeline activity over, and it's receiving this unexpected empty value, and then that ends up translating into the service crashing, which gives you the blink on the screen.  But instead of it crashing once and recovering, because every time it keeps recalling back, it keeps looping in that same experience. DONA SARKAR:  That's right.  JASON HOWARD:  So you just end up with this just blinking screen. DONA SARKAR:  Yes.  JASON HOWARD:  And once every three to five seconds, your screen just blinks and blinks and blinks.  DONA SARKAR:  Yeah.  I've hit that on one of my machines, and that was a fun adventure.  But it reminds me of this bug that I ran into like in Windows 7 where we were not getting the return back from Open Search.  So we were in infinite Open Search loop, and the search box would just open, close, open, close, open, close.  It was amazing.  People were like, "Oh, my God, my machine is haunted."  Yeah, this is pretty awesome.  So we called that the "haunted search box."  It was pretty good.  Okay, so we know Insiders really want us to do better at letting them know when their bugs and feedback is addressed.  Can you share with the audience a little bit about how feedback on preview builds get processed and prioritized?  JASON HOWARD:  Yeah, of course.  I mean, we did a webcast last year on this. DONA SARKAR:  That's right.  JASON HOWARD:  I think it was October where we had some of the devs and some of the PMs from the, you know, from the Feedback Hub team come and talk to this.  But the gist of it is, you know, there's a giant deluge of feedback that continually comes in.  DONA SARKAR:  Petabytes.  JASON HOWARD:  Yeah.  The amount of data is -- DONA SARKAR:  A day, yeah.  JASON HOWARD:  It's pretty insane.  And then when you look at the number of pieces of feedback -- because, you know, all those petabytes are attached as logs and machine info, so we know, you know, hey, is this happening on Surface Books or is it happening on a different brand of laptop?  You know, whatever the scenario may be that's triggering whatever bug or feature that somebody's reporting information on.  So when a team sees all of this, because the feedback comes in based upon how it gets filed.  And so there's a primary category and then a secondary subcategory.  And, you know, each one of these categories is assigned to a team.  And the team will go through and look at the feedback that has come in and they look at, hey, so for this development cycle, we have, you know, three or four or whatever number of core priorities, things we're trying to land, right?  And so whether it's revamping an old feature, creating a new feature, or in some circumstances, you know, if they feel that their product needs some extra special attention they'll be, like, "Hey, we're going to focus on making the quality of our feature really good in this particular release, and then we'll add stuff later."  So all the feedback that comes in, they take a look at how many pieces of feedback have come in, what's been up-voted the most, what's going to have the greatest impact, and they compare all of that with what are the big milestones that we have on our internal roadmap?  DONA SARKAR:  Right.  JASON HOWARD:  And so then it kind of gets shuffled and prioritized and stacked and even with some bugs that come in where it may not have been something that was expected to be on our radar, if there's a big bug that slipped up and it's affecting a lot of people, it's going to get prioritized.  So to go back to Fluent for a moment, there's been a big cry to have Fluent introduced into the Feedback Hub itself for a while.  DONA SARKAR:  Right.  JASON HOWARD:  But one of the big things that Feedback Hub has been as a team that, you know, for that particular application, the team has been working on is in being more robust when it comes to log collection.  DONA SARKAR:  Right.  JASON HOWARD:  So that there's less additional tools that users will have to run and all that kind of thing.  Because if you can streamline the pipeline of the intake process, then all the engineering teams within Microsoft, you can get consolidated in one process, everybody knows where to go for the data.  You're not having to have users install extra apps or run troubleshooters and all this kind of stuff.  DONA SARKAR:  Or go back and forth with the dev six times, like we've had to in the past. JASON HOWARD:  Yeah.  And that's another interesting thing is, you know, a dev can take a piece of feedback and say, "Oh, I need more information," and enable extra log collection so people can resubmit that.  DONA SARKAR:  Which is super cool.  JASON HOWARD:  Yeah.  So, you know, using all those processes together, you know, the teams will determine, "Hey, what is the thing that we should focus on now?"  DONA SARKAR:  I totally agree with that.  One of the things that we've been hearing from Insiders is whether the bug is addressed or not, they just want to know, right?  And I like that.  I love that idea.  And I think so far, we've been really one-to-one with letting Insiders know when their bug is fixed.  Like, you know, we did the project where we popped up the notifications like, "Hey, Insider, your bug is fixed, thank you, it's in this build."  And then we also sent e-mail in case they're not looking at SIFS or have them disabled.  But then we realized that Insiders are not able to see all of the things they may have experienced, but didn't necessarily file or up-vote.  So I am going to do an experiment starting this month on tweeting out the bug fixes that have been impactful that a lot of people up-voted.  So I'm looking at bugs that have, like, 30-plus up-votes and just doing a tweet when it's fixed and in which build, because I think that a lot of Insiders will be, like, "Oh, yeah, I ran into that, I couldn't isolate it or trap it, but I did run into it."  So that should be kind of interesting. I asked the Insiders last week on Twitter if that would be interesting and everyone was like, "Yes, we want to see that."  I said, "Okay, it might be noisy and annoying, but we'll see."  Okay, how do new features get chosen to be developed?  Please tell the Insiders, because they all want to know. JASON HOWARD:  That's fun.  I kind of alluded to a little bit of it in my last response, right?  Where, you know, teams figure out what they want to work on, and they go and work on it.  But it's a little more complicated than that.  As a company, Microsoft has a direction that it's headed in.  And it's the responsibility of all the teams that are working on -- at least in this case within Windows, right, to make sure that their work ladders up to meeting those overall objectives.  Each team, of course, gets some leeway to work on special side projects or things they think are important, but the overall message of, "Hey, these are the things that are important for Microsoft as a company, and these are the features that we want to bring to Windows, these are the goals for the product itself."  Each of the teams, they have a responsibility to ensure that what they're working on drives to the mission that we as a company are pushing forward to. DONA SARKAR:  Right.  JASON HOWARD:  So part of it comes from top-down, which is, hey, somebody makes a decision at the top, you know, an idea that Satya has or somebody in the SLT at that level -- SLT being the senior leadership team.  Somebody comes up with an idea, they get buy-off on it, and then it filters down in the teams that are going to be impacted, right?  Because there's tons of sub teams that make up the whole Windows Engineering organization.  So each of those teams will figure out which pieces of the project do they own, what is it going to take for them to, you know, put their piece of the pie together?  You know, put their piece of the puzzle in there, and then that becomes part of their roadmap, whether it's in the current development cycle, the next one, two out, three out.  And for some of them, especially like if you look in the deployment space, some of the things that they've been working on started back in RS1. DONA SARKAR:  Oh, yeah.  JASON HOWARD:  And even now that we're just kicking off RS5, you know, it's still going and it will be there in 6 and whatever names come beyond and into the future.  There's stuff that they're doing now that is just a -- we'll just call it a multi-year process, because it's not just -- you know, it's not just flipping a switch and all of a sudden, it's there and everything's great.  If it was, hey, you know, development would be a lot easier than it is.  DONA SARKAR:  Absolutely.  Most of our features don't get done in six months and they don't get done in a week or two weeks.  I've seen, for myself, like just working on the HoloLens project, that started in 2008 and didn't release until like 2014.  So it's not small, this Windows development thing.  And even just like, you know, making changes to an app, that is not small because you change one thing, and it may have, you know, like you were saying, these repercussions in all parts of the operating system -- years lasting.  JASON HOWARD:  It brings up an interesting point for me because one of the curiosities that I see sometimes is when somebody says, "Well, I reported this last week, why isn't it fixed?" DONA SARKAR:  Oh, yeah.  JASON HOWARD:  It's tough when you're working in an organization this big sometimes to get attention to the right thing -- at least when you feel it's the right thing.  And it goes to the point we made earlier about a competing priority.  There is shuffling that happens within teams and sometimes it just requires a sizable chunk of the day to be, like, "Look, we're going to impact this many people if we don't fix this." DONA SARKAR:  Exactly.  JASON HOWARD:  Or, "We are impacting this many people by not having this implemented."  DONA SARKAR:  That's right.  JASON HOWARD:  And, again, that's where some of the ideas of what should we do next, that's where some of that stuff comes from.  And that's the suggestions from Insiders, that's suggestions from, you know, enterprises and companies that we work with and that run our products and services.  It really is global input both on the individual scale as well as being on larger scales from those that we partner with.  DONA SARKAR:  A very real example was Creators, where when Surface launched, one of the coolest things it had was inking capability.  And initially, it was like, okay, this works great in OneNote.  And we got so much feedback from Insiders, starting 2014, like, "Hey, we're artists, we're writers, we're illustrators, we work in education, and we feel like there can be more inking in the operating system.  Since you have a device with a pen, let's put more stuff in the operating system for pens."  So the entire year of Creators Update and Fall Creators Update was all based on providing opportunities for those audiences, which I really liked because that was one of the first times we've really looked at consumers, broad consumers, who, you know, people aren't really catering to.  Right?   Not many people are creating technology for people who write, even though that's something everyone in the world does, right, at some point or another.  And I really like that we spent a year working on, you know, these really awesome inking features.  And many enterprises are now saying, "This is awesome, we like this a lot," especially for notetaking and such and such.  And as we translate like my horrible handwriting into auto typing and such.  Okay.  So we love all of our Insiders, but my goodness, you guys can be a little creative sometimes.  Sometimes.  So, Jason, what is the craziest request you've ever received from an Insider?  JASON HOWARD:  Oh, goodness.  (Laughter.)  I've got years' worth of thinking back to do on this one. DONA SARKAR:  Yeah, exactly, because you're engaged in some very exciting conversations sometimes.  JASON HOWARD:  That is true.  One of the things that I can't do that I get asked, and it surprises me how often I get asked this, is:  You're Microsoft, why can't you just remote into my machine and fix it?  DONA SARKAR:  Oh, my.  Okay.  JASON HOWARD:  I'm, like, "Um --" DONA SARKAR:  I'm sure that would go super well. JASON HOWARD:  I do not want to be on your computer. DONA SARKAR:  No.  JASON HOWARD:  Not to mention the legal side of it that I don't want to have to wade through. DONA SARKAR:  No.  JASON HOWARD:  I just don't want to be in people's personal machines, right? DONA SARKAR:  No.  JASON HOWARD:  It sounds funny.  The thing is, oftentimes, the things that people are requesting that I fix aren't really things that I could log in and fix anyway.  Yeah, it's easy to change settings, it's easy to go through and delete some files and clear up disk space and things like that, but those are things that I can guide users through.  And we've got documentation and things like that I can refer them to, right?  I don't need to log in and do that stuff.  But it's, like, "Hey, I'm getting specific error code this that's preventing me from updating this Store app."  I will tell you, there is no magic wand for me to go into your machine and wave and just magically fix that for you, unfortunately.  Do I wish there was?  Oh, absolutely.  Right?  It would make my job a lot easier.  But in the grand scheme of things, that's not really something I can do.  Something else that's super fun is when I get asked to specifically push down an update faster. DONA SARKAR:  Oh, yeah.  JASON HOWARD:  I'm, like, um, I don't know what kind of bandwidth you have. DONA SARKAR:  No.  JASON HOWARD:  I don't know where you're located, but those are like physical hardware property things that I really can't control.  DONA SARKAR:  Uh-uh.  (Negative.) JASON HOWARD:  And it goes to show the difference in -- it's one of the things that I absolutely love about this program, but it can prove interesting at times.  It's the difference in like -- what's the right way to say this?  DONA SARKAR:  Words.  JASON HOWARD:  Yeah, I know, words are difficult sometimes.  How connected a user is into the intricacies of technology.  That's not exactly how I want to say it, but it takes work and it takes time to make things change and make them work the way you want to. DONA SARKAR:  And it's human made.  JASON HOWARD:  Yeah.  And you know there are still physical limitations.  You know, I would love a new update to download to my machine -- like here on campus, I want it to download in two minutes.  It doesn't. DONA SARKAR:  No.  Which has the best connectivity in the world.  JASON HOWARD:  Yeah.  I mean, you know, this is Microsoft's headquarters, of course.  DONA SARKAR:  Yeah.  JASON HOWARD:  But at some point in time, sometimes it's just about setting realistic expectations. DONA SARKAR:  Agree on that.  I once got a request from someone to come to their school in Singapore and yell at the principal to let them install Insider builds on all the machines.  JASON HOWARD:  That actually seems like a laudable goal. DONA SARKAR:  Yeah.  It seemed pretty legit.  I was thinking about it.  Like, this wouldn't be the worst, we could go to Singapore and yell.  We go lots of places and yell, so we can yell in Singapore, that's fine.  We yell, that's fine.  (Laughter.) Okay, so Windows is an OS that serves more than a billion people in lots of languages -- let's say "lots."  It's crazy complicated, takes a lot of work to get updates ready for the public -- like today.  So why do we torture ourselves with this?  Why do we ship twice a year to the general public?  Why do we ship to Insiders sometimes three or four times a week?  Why do we do this, Jason?  Why?  JASON HOWARD:  Because it's awesome?  I mean, it really is.  When you think about Microsoft five years ago, ten years ago, there was the perception of it being a slow-moving iceberg, really, where it would take two, three, four or more years to get this gigantic update that would come out.  And it would be almost a wholesale overhaul of the entire OS. DONA SARKAR:  Right.  JASON HOWARD:  The look would be different, the feel would be almost completely different.  I mean, especially like when you look at the jump from Windows 7 to Windows 8, like we threw the world for a loop with that one.  DONA SARKAR:  XP to Win 7, too.  JASON HOWARD:  Yeah.  DONA SARKAR:  It was, like, "What is the search box you've introduced?"  JASON HOWARD:  And then that little hop in the middle called "Vista" that everybody -- DONA SARKAR:  Yep.  I was there.  I was there.  JASON HOWARD:  All those question marks that came up.  So not only was it about getting features out to customers faster, there was a lot to be said for getting bug fixes and just general changes out.  And I mean all of this culminated in the reason the Insider Program was created was the old -- let's call it what it is, the old beta program was, "Hey, we're a year out from a release approximately, we're going to give you a build of what we've built so far, so you can start." DONA SARKAR:  And it's pretty locked.  Yeah. JASON HOWARD:  Yeah.  There's not much that's going to change. DONA SARKAR:  Other than like UI things or maybe a driver or some app compat. JASON HOWARD:  Yeah.  And users would, you know, test it out, check it out, throw some feedback over the wall on User Voice or whatever other channel they decided to use, and who knows if it would get fixed or not? So as the world of technology itself continues to evolve with speed to market becoming vastly important, there's and point in sitting on a new feature for two years because, number one, somebody else is going to beat you to market with it.  DONA SARKAR:  Absolutely.  JASON HOWARD:  Somebody else already knows about it and is probably already working on it.  But who wants to be sitting on a broken build for two years?  Right?  DONA SARKAR:  No one.  JASON HOWARD:  I mean, we've got Patch Tuesday or whatnot, but some things require a bit more lifting than can just be dropped out in a monthly servicing-type release.  So now with our new -- I'll just call it a sped-up model, right, of Windows as a service of us dropping a few times a year, new features don't require a two- or three-year holding period -- DONA SARKAR:  No.  JASON HOWARD:  -- before people get to come and check out the latest and greatest.  Like I mentioned, the Insider Program, it's not, "Hey, we're going to give you this a year ahead of time, and you'll get what you get when we release it later." DONA SARKAR:  Right.  JASON HOWARD:  You know, users have that return voice channel between the Feedback Hub and reaching out to -- DONA SARKAR:  Us.  JASON HOWARD:  -- Microsoft engineers directly.  DONA SARKAR:  Yeah. JASON HOWARD:  You know, that's one of the fun things, like I mentioned earlier about being on Twitter all the time -- it's really fun to connect with people that are super passionate about Windows and changing the future of it that love to share their voice.  Now, granted, you know, it's the same as with anything, you know?  We don't always take every single piece of feedback.  It's not always going to show up in the product. DONA SARKAR:  No.  JASON HOWARD:  Especially when you have two people that have diametrically opposed ideas. DONA SARKAR:  Oh, yeah, absolutely. JASON HOWARD:  I like this in light mode, I don't like it in dark mode.  DONA SARKAR:  I like this in hate mode, yeah.  JASON HOWARD:  It's not always possible to make both at the same time.  You just can't do it.  But, really, a lot of it has to do with making sure that the technology we're creating gets out to users in a fast, and hopefully friendly manner.  You know, even our updates have gotten way better than they used to be. DONA SARKAR:  Oh, way better.  JASON HOWARD:  So between that, making sure that we're staying more reliable with, you know, the productivity side of the OS, you know, those features showing up, and then making sure the OS is actually functioning correctly. DONA SARKAR:  That's right.  JASON HOWARD:  Like the number of unexpected crashes and things like that.  We continue to get better on those metrics year over year and release over release.  And then, of course, there's the entire side of getting the features out, like I mentioned before, but if we don't do it, somebody else will. DONA SARKAR:  Right.  JASON HOWARD:  And I would rather us be doing it and helping drive the technology, the sphere of what's coming next, as opposed to being reactive and being, like, "Oh, they did it, okay, let's hurry up and catch up to what they're doing," just to try to achieve parity. Because you can't be a leader in the marketplace if you're chasing parity. DONA SARKAR:  No.  I just like the fact that people are heard in real time.  Right?  Like we rolled out this thing, you know, last Monday and then we get feedback on Monday.  And what's so curious to me is it's still hard for some of the more traditional engineers to wrap their heads around.  At least once a week, I get an e-mail from an engineer in the company who says, "Hey, I checked this code into the build, it's going to hit WinMain soon, how do I get it to Insiders."  I said, "No, you're done.  Your part's now done.  If you checked in code, it's going to Insiders in two days."  They said, "How does that happen?"  I said, "It just happens.  They get the exact same build we have two days later."  Everyone is still kind of wrapping their heads around this, that we can just ship externally, we've been doing it for four years now, it's not new.  But to traditional engineers, it's still mind boggling that things can go out to all the customers who've opted into this, not just like, you know, specific partners and not just like super NDA people, but to anyone who wants it, they can get our fresh coat of paint work two days later.  So that's fun.  JASON HOWARD:  I mean, the fact that that curtain got lifted and that we're showing people so much -- DONA SARKAR:  In real time.  JASON HOWARD:  Yeah.  Of what used to just be, you know, hidden and behind the scenes. DONA SARKAR:  Yeah.  JASON HOWARD:  You know, you don't talk about kind of, you know, for pop culture reference, you don't talk about Fight Club, right?  DONA SARKAR:  Right.  JASON HOWARD:  The fact that we're showing a lot of what's actually being done that quickly.  And whether it makes it into the product or not.  I mean, there's been stuff we've checked in that, oops, we have to -- DONA SARKAR:  Backsies!  Backsies!  Yeah.  JASON HOWARD:  Yeah, we're thinking that back out.  We're showing the human side of code development along the way. DONA SARKAR:  Which is it's messy and awesome in real time.  All right, what's your favorite part of the job, other than being on our team?  JASON HOWARD:  Besides having you as my boss -- DONA SARKAR:  Obviously.  JASON HOWARD:  That's definitely the best part of the job.  (Laughter.) DONA SARKAR:  I'm not yelling at him behind the scenes, Insiders, nor am I beating him with the cake spoon.  JASON HOWARD:  I'm saying that so she doesn't get mad at me from earlier of stealing this particular microphone. DONA SARKAR:  Yeah.  Jason's not going to have an office this afternoon.  Stay in the booth.  JASON HOWARD:  I know, I'm going to just be sitting cross-legged in the hall with my laptop in my lap. DONA SARKAR:  Yeah.  JASON HOWARD:  That's going to give it the real name of a "laptop."  DONA SARKAR:  Yeah, in the hallway.  JASON HOWARD:  It'll be sitting in my lap.  Favorite part of my job?  It has to be the interaction with people from around the globe.  The fact that we have these huge fans that take time out of their personal lives and out of their day, whether they're at work or at home or, you know, spending time with their family or whatever, to engage with us, to come and talk shop with us about our products, the things that impact their life to the extent that they are willing to dedicate their time, their emotions, their energy into helping make it better than it is, and hopefully the best that it can become.  And the fact that I get to play a role in spending time with them and somehow I manage to get paid to do that, that still boggles my mind.  But I couldn't think of a better thing to be doing at work.  DONA SARKAR:  What's keeping you up at night?  Good and bad?  Other than your back pain.  JASON HOWARD:  Yeah, that's not fun.  DONA SARKAR:  Yeah.  JASON HOWARD:  Making sure people are heard.  Going through the long list of feedback that we get and finding what I will call the "diamonds in the rough" of feedback that may be underrepresented, but that is going to have a huge impact.  DONA SARKAR:  The millions represent the billions.  JASON HOWARD:  Yeah.  And when you only hear the voice of two or three people complaining about something, and it's really impactful to them, figuring out that this is really going to affect a lot of people, and it takes data, it takes time to compile that and figure out, you know, hey, how does this scale in the broader scheme of things?  Are these people representing just themselves or a ton of other people, like you just mentioned?  DONA SARKAR:  Right.  JASON HOWARD:  I'm constantly thinking about how do I do a better job of this, what is it that I missed that's going to affect a lot of people?  What can I stop that's going to have a broad effect on people?  And how can I keep them from having that bad experience?  DONA SARKAR:  I really love that, too.  I like when you and, like, two or three Insiders are troubleshooting some super-random-sounding thing.  But then it winds up being like a big deal that affects, like, 100,000 people.  JASON HOWARD:  Yeah, we've caught a few of those along the way. DONA SARKAR:  Oh, yeah.  Absolutely.  JASON HOWARD:  You know, two or three people, and the next thing you know it's like -- DONA SARKAR:  Oh, a lot. JASO

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OpenBSD 6.3 and DragonflyBSD 5.2 are released, bug fix for disappearing files in OpenZFS on Linux (and only Linux), understanding the FreeBSD CPU scheduler, NetBSD on RPI3, thoughts on being a committer for 20 years, and 5 reasons to use FreeBSD in 2018. Headlines OpenBSD 6.3 released Punctual as ever, OpenBSD 6.3 has been releases with the following features/changes: Improved HW support, including: SMP support on OpenBSD/arm64 platforms vmm/vmd improvements: IEEE 802.11 wireless stack improvements Generic network stack improvements Installer improvements Routing daemons and other userland network improvements Security improvements dhclient(8) improvements Assorted improvements OpenSMTPD 6.0.4 OpenSSH 7.7 LibreSSL 2.7.2 DragonFlyBSD 5.2 released Big-ticket items Meltdown and Spectre mitigation support Meltdown isolation and spectre mitigation support added. Meltdown mitigation is automatically enabled for all Intel cpus. Spectre mitigation must be enabled manually via sysctl if desired, using sysctls machdep.spectremitigation and machdep.meltdownmitigation. HAMMER2 H2 has received a very large number of bug fixes and performance improvements. We can now recommend H2 as the default root filesystem in non-clustered mode. Clustered support is not yet available. ipfw Updates Implement state based "redirect", i.e. without using libalias. ipfw now supports all possible ICMP types. Fix ICMPMAXTYPE assumptions (now 40 as of this release). Improved graphics support The drm/i915 kernel driver has been updated to support Intel Coffeelake GPUs Add 24-bit pixel format support to the EFI frame buffer code. Significantly improve fbio support for the "scfb" XOrg driver. This allows EFI frame buffers to be used by X in situations where we do not otherwise support the GPU. Partly implement the FBIOBLANK ioctl for display powersaving. Syscons waits for drm modesetting at appropriate places, avoiding races. + For more details, check out the “All changes since DragonFly 5.0” section. ZFS on Linux bug causes files to disappear A bug in ZoL 0.7.7 caused 0.7.8 to be released just 3 days after the release The bug only impacts Linux, the change that caused the problem was not upstreamed yet, so does not impact ZFS on illumos, FreeBSD, OS X, or Windows The bug can cause files being copied into a directory to not be properly linked to the directory, so they will no longer be listed in the contents of the directory ZoL developers are working on a tool to allow you to recover the data, since no data was actually lost, the files were just not properly registered as part of the directory The bug was introduced in a commit made in February, that attempted to improve performance of datasets created with the case insensitivity option. In an effort to improve performance, they introduced a limit to cap to give up (return ENOSPC) if growing the directory ZAP failed twice. The ZAP is the key-value pair data structure that contains metadata for a directory, including a hash table of the files that are in a directory. When a directory has a large number of files, the ZAP is converted to a FatZAP, and additional space may need to be allocated as additional files are added. Commit cc63068 caused ENOSPC error when copy a large amount of files between two directories. The reason is that the patch limits zap leaf expansion to 2 retries, and return ENOSPC when failed. Finding the root cause of this issue was somewhat hampered by the fact that many people were not able to reproduce the issue. It turns out this was caused by an entirely unrelated change to GNU coreutils. On later versions of GNU Coreutils, the files were returned in a sorted order, resulting in them hitting different buckets in the hash table, and not tripping the retry limit Tools like rsync were unaffected, because they always sort the files before copying If you did not see any ENOSPC errors, you were likely not impacted The intent for limiting retries is to prevent pointlessly growing table to max size when adding a block full of entries with same name in different case in mixed mode. However, it turns out we cannot use any limit on the retry. When we copy files from one directory in readdir order, we are copying in hash order, one leaf block at a time. Which means that if the leaf block in source directory has expanded 6 times, and you copy those entries in that block, by the time you need to expand the leaf in destination directory, you need to expand it 6 times in one go. So any limit on the retry will result in error where it shouldn't. Recommendations for Users from Ryan Yao: The regression makes it so that creating a new file could fail with ENOSPC after which files created in that directory could become orphaned. Existing files seem okay, but I have yet to confirm that myself and I cannot speak for what others know. It is incredibly difficult to reproduce on systems running coreutils 8.23 or later. So far, reports have only come from people using coreutils 8.22 or older. The directory size actually gets incremented for each orphaned file, which makes it wrong after orphan files happen. We will likely have some way to recover the orphaned files (like ext4’s lost+found) and fix the directory sizes in the very near future. Snapshots of the damaged datasets are problematic though. Until we have a subcommand to fix it (not including the snapshots, which we would have to list), the damage can be removed from a system that has it either by rolling back to a snapshot before it happened or creating a new dataset with 0.7.6 (or another release other than 0.7.7), moving everything to the new dataset and destroying the old. That will restore things to pristine condition. It should also be possible to check for pools that are affected, but I have yet to finish my analysis to be certain that no false negatives occur when checking, so I will avoid saying how for now. Writes to existing files cannot trigger this bug, only adding new files to a directory in bulk News Roundup des@’s thoughts on being a FreeBSD committer for 20 years Yesterday was the twentieth anniversary of my FreeBSD commit bit, and tomorrow will be the twentieth anniversary of my first commit. I figured I’d split the difference and write a few words about it today. My level of engagement with the FreeBSD project has varied greatly over the twenty years I’ve been a committer. There have been times when I worked on it full-time, and times when I did not touch it for months. The last few years, health issues and life events have consumed my time and sapped my energy, and my contributions have come in bursts. Commit statistics do not tell the whole story, though: even when not working on FreeBSD directly, I have worked on side projects which, like OpenPAM, may one day find their way into FreeBSD. My contributions have not been limited to code. I was the project’s first Bugmeister; I’ve served on the Security Team for a long time, and have been both Security Officer and Deputy Security Officer; I managed the last four Core Team elections and am doing so again this year. In return, the project has taught me much about programming and software engineering. It taught me code hygiene and the importance of clarity over cleverness; it taught me the ins and outs of revision control; it taught me the importance of good documentation, and how to write it; and it taught me good release engineering practices. Last but not least, it has provided me with the opportunity to work with some of the best people in the field. I have the privilege today to count several of them among my friends. For better or worse, the FreeBSD project has shaped my career and my life. It set me on the path to information security in general and IAA in particular, and opened many a door for me. I would not be where I am now without it. I won’t pretend to be able to tell the future. I don’t know how long I will remain active in the FreeBSD project and community. It could be another twenty years; or it could be ten, or five, or less. All I know is that FreeBSD and I still have things to teach each other, and I don’t intend to call it quits any time soon. iXsystems unveils new TrueNAS M-Series Unified Storage Line San Jose, Calif., April 10, 2018 — iXsystems, the leader in Enterprise Open Source servers and software-defined storage, announced the TrueNAS M40 and M50 as the newest high-performance models in its hybrid, unified storage product line. The TrueNAS M-Series harnesses NVMe and NVDIMM to bring all-flash array performance to the award-winning TrueNAS hybrid arrays. It also includes the Intel® Xeon® Scalable Family of Processors and supports up to 100GbE and 32Gb Fibre Channel networking. Sitting between the all-flash TrueNAS Z50 and the hybrid TrueNAS X-Series in the product line, the TrueNAS M-Series delivers up to 10 Petabytes of highly-available and flash-powered network attached storage and rounds out a comprehensive product set that has a capacity and performance option for every storage budget. Designed for On-Premises & Enterprise Cloud Environments As a unified file, block, and object sharing solution, TrueNAS can meet the needs of file serving, backup, virtualization, media production, and private cloud users thanks to its support for the SMB, NFS, AFP, iSCSI, Fibre Channel, and S3 protocols. At the heart of the TrueNAS M-Series is a custom 4U, dual-controller head unit that supports up to 24 3.5” drives and comes in two models, the M40 and M50, for maximum flexibility and scalability. The TrueNAS M40 uses NVDIMMs for write cache, SSDs for read cache, and up to two external 60-bay expansion shelves that unlock up to 2PB in capacity. The TrueNAS M50 uses NVDIMMs for write caching, NVMe drives for read caching, and up to twelve external 60-bay expansion shelves to scale upwards of 10PB. The dual-controller design provides high-availability failover and non-disruptive upgrades for mission-critical enterprise environments. By design, the TrueNAS M-Series unleashes cutting-edge persistent memory technology for demanding performance and capacity workloads, enabling businesses to accelerate enterprise applications and deploy enterprise private clouds that are twice the capacity of previous TrueNAS models. It also supports replication to the Amazon S3, BackBlaze B2, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure cloud platforms and can deliver an object store using the ubiquitous S3 object storage protocol at a fraction of the cost of the public cloud. Fast As a true enterprise storage platform, the TrueNAS M50 supports very demanding performance workloads with up to four active 100GbE ports, 3TB of RAM, 32GB of NVDIMM write cache and up to 15TB of NVMe flash read cache. The TrueNAS M40 and M50 include up to 24/7 and global next-business-day support, putting IT at ease. The modular and tool-less design of the M-Series allows for easy, non-disruptive servicing and upgrading by end-users and support technicians for guaranteed uptime. TrueNAS has US-Based support provided by the engineering team that developed it, offering the rapid response that every enterprise needs. Award-Winning TrueNAS Features Enterprise: Perfectly suited for private clouds and enterprise workloads such as file sharing, backups, M&E, surveillance, and hosting virtual machines. Unified: Utilizes SMB, AFP, NFS for file storage, iSCSI, Fibre Channel and OpenStack Cinder for block storage, and S3-compatible APIs for object storage. Supports every common operating system, hypervisor, and application. Economical: Deploy an enterprise private cloud and reduce storage TCO by 70% over AWS with built-in enterprise-class features such as in-line compression, deduplication, clones, and thin-provisioning. Safe: The OpenZFS file system ensures data integrity with best-in-class replication and snapshotting. Customers can replicate data to the rest of the iXsystems storage lineup and to the public cloud. Reliable: High Availability option with dual hot-swappable controllers for continuous data availability and 99.999% uptime. Familiar: Provision and manage storage with the same simple and powerful WebUI and REST APIs used in all iXsystems storage products, as well as iXsystems’ FreeNAS Software. Certified: TrueNAS has passed the Citrix Ready, VMware Ready, and Veeam Ready certifications, reducing the risk of deploying a virtualized infrastructure. Open: By using industry-standard sharing protocols, the OpenZFS Open Source enterprise file system and FreeNAS, the world’s #1 Open Source storage operating system (and also engineered by iXsystems), TrueNAS is the most open enterprise storage solution on the market. Availability The TrueNAS M40 and M50 will be generally available in April 2018 through the iXsystems global channel partner network. The TrueNAS M-Series starts at under $20,000 USD and can be easily expanded using a linear “per terabyte” pricing model. With typical compression, a Petabtye can be stored for under $100,000 USD. TrueNAS comes with an all-inclusive software suite that provides NFS, Windows SMB, iSCSI, snapshots, clones and replication. For more information, visit www.ixsystems.com/TrueNAS TrueNAS M-Series What's New Video Understanding and tuning the FreeBSD Scheduler ``` Occasionally I noticed that the system would not quickly process the tasks i need done, but instead prefer other, longrunning tasks. I figured it must be related to the scheduler, and decided it hates me. A closer look shows the behaviour as follows (single CPU): Lets run an I/O-active task, e.g, postgres VACUUM that would continuously read from big files (while doing compute as well [1]): pool alloc free read write read write cache - - - - - - ada1s4 7.08G 10.9G 1.58K 0 12.9M 0 Now start an endless loop: while true; do :; done And the effect is: pool alloc free read write read write cache - - - - - - ada1s4 7.08G 10.9G 9 0 76.8K 0 The VACUUM gets almost stuck! This figures with WCPU in "top": PID USERNAME PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME WCPU COMMAND 85583 root 99 0 7044K 1944K RUN 1:06 92.21% bash 53005 pgsql 52 0 620M 91856K RUN 5:47 0.50% postgres Hacking on kern.sched.quantum makes it quite a bit better: sysctl kern.sched.quantum=1 kern.sched.quantum: 94488 -> 7874 pool alloc free read write read write cache - - - - - - ada1s4 7.08G 10.9G 395 0 3.12M 0 PID USERNAME PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME WCPU COMMAND 85583 root 94 0 7044K 1944K RUN 4:13 70.80% bash 53005 pgsql 52 0 276M 91856K RUN 5:52 11.83% postgres Now, as usual, the "root-cause" questions arise: What exactly does this "quantum"? Is this solution a workaround, i.e. actually something else is wrong, and has it tradeoff in other situations? Or otherwise, why is such a default value chosen, which appears to be ill-deceived? The docs for the quantum parameter are a bit unsatisfying - they say its the max num of ticks a process gets - and what happens when they're exhausted? If by default the endless loop is actually allowed to continue running for 94k ticks (or 94ms, more likely) uninterrupted, then that explains the perceived behaviour - buts thats certainly not what a scheduler should do when other procs are ready to run. 11.1-RELEASE-p7, kern.hz=200. Switching tickless mode on or off does not influence the matter. Starting the endless loop with "nice" does not influence the matter. [1] A pure-I/O job without compute load, like "dd", does not show this behaviour. Also, when other tasks are running, the unjust behaviour is not so stongly pronounced. ``` aarch64 support added I have committed about adding initial support for aarch64. booting log on RaspberryPI3: ``` boot NetBSD/evbarm (aarch64) Drop to EL1...OK Creating VA=PA tables Creating KSEG tables Creating KVA=PA tables Creating devmap tables MMU Enable...OK VSTART = ffffffc000001ff4 FDT devmap cpufunc bootstrap consinit ok uboot: args 0x3ab46000, 0, 0, 0 NetBSD/evbarm (fdt) booting ... FDT /memory [0] @ 0x0 size 0x3b000000 MEM: add 0-3b000000 MEM: res 0-1000 MEM: res 3ab46000-3ab4a000 Usable memory: 1000 - 3ab45fff 3ab4a000 - 3affffff initarm: kernel phys start 1000000 end 17bd000 MEM: res 1000000-17bd000 bootargs: root=axe0 1000 - ffffff 17bd000 - 3ab45fff 3ab4a000 - 3affffff ------------------------------------------ kern_vtopdiff = 0xffffffbfff000000 physical_start = 0x0000000000001000 kernel_start_phys = 0x0000000001000000 kernel_end_phys = 0x00000000017bd000 physical_end = 0x000000003ab45000 VM_MIN_KERNEL_ADDRESS = 0xffffffc000000000 kernel_start_l2 = 0xffffffc000000000 kernel_start = 0xffffffc000000000 kernel_end = 0xffffffc0007bd000 kernel_end_l2 = 0xffffffc000800000 (kernel va area) (devmap va area) VM_MAX_KERNEL_ADDRESS = 0xffffffffffe00000 ------------------------------------------ Copyright (c) 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc. All rights reserved. Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. NetBSD 8.99.14 (RPI64) #11: Fri Mar 30 12:34:19 JST 2018 ryo@moveq:/usr/home/ryo/tmp/netbsd-src-ryo-wip/sys/arch/evbarm/compile/RPI64 total memory = 936 MB avail memory = 877 MB … Starting local daemons:. Updating motd. Starting sshd. Starting inetd. Starting cron. The following components reported failures: /etc/rc.d/swap2 See /var/run/rc.log for more information. Fri Mar 30 12:35:31 JST 2018 NetBSD/evbarm (rpi3) (console) login: root Last login: Fri Mar 30 12:30:24 2018 on console rpi3# uname -ap NetBSD rpi3 8.99.14 NetBSD 8.99.14 (RPI64) #11: Fri Mar 30 12:34:19 JST 2018 ryo@moveq:/usr/home/ryo/tmp/netbsd-src-ryo-wip/sys/arch/evbarm/compile/RPI64 evbarm aarch64 rpi3# ``` Now, multiuser mode works stably on fdt based boards (RPI3,SUNXI,TEGRA). But there are still some problems, more time is required for release. also SMP is not yet. See sys/arch/aarch64/aarch64/TODO for more detail. Especially the problems around TLS of rtld, and C++ stack unwindings are too difficult for me to solve, I give up and need someone's help (^o^)/ Since C++ doesn't work, ATF also doesn't work. If the ATF works, it will clarify more issues. sys/arch/evbarm64 is gone and integrated into sys/arch/evbarm. One evbarm/conf/GENERIC64 kernel binary supports all fdt (bcm2837,sunxi,tegra) based boards. While on 32bit, sys/arch/evbarm/conf/GENERIC will support all fdt based boards...but doesn't work yet. (WIP) My deepest appreciation goes to Tohru Nishimura (nisimura@) whose writes vector handlers, context switchings, and so on. and his comments and suggestions were innumerably valuable. I would also like to thank Nick Hudson (skrll@) and Jared McNeill (jmcneill@) whose added support FDT and integrated into evbarm. Finally, I would like to thank Matt Thomas (matt@) whose commited aarch64 toolchains and preliminary support for aarch64. Beastie Bits 5 Reasons to Use FreeBSD in 2018 Rewriting Intel gigabit network driver in Rust Recruiting to make Elastic Search on FreeBSD better Windows Server 2019 Preview, in bhyve on FreeBSD “SSH Mastery, 2nd ed” in hardcover Feedback/Questions Jason - ZFS Transfer option Luis - ZFS Pools ClonOS Michael - Tech Conferences anonymous - BSD trash on removable drives Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to feedback@bsdnow.tv

First Segment: Project FANchise. Sohrob Farudi, CEO/Founder A combination of a video game, fantasy football, and a crazy idea, tune in to hear our interview with what might be the future of football. Second Segment: Computer and Technology News Computer America goes out in search of the latest and greatest computer and technology news on the market. Tune in for stories such as: And more! Check out ComputerAmerica.com for full show notes!

When David Knight founded the data company terbine.com, he had big plans. “We're not a broker, we're not an analytics firm, we're not an IOT platform,” says Knight. Instead, terbine.com was designed to be a global marketplace. Specifically, a marketplace for the data from the internet of things—the first of its kind. “Not a modest charter,” Knight says. There are literally petabytes of data from the internet of things. And no one's indexed it or made it machine- or human-searchable. Until now. Fast approaching public beta, terbine.com has had to start small in order to get big. As a friend of Knight's put it, “Well, we wanna hear that you have the ambition to boil the oceans, but you need to start with boiling a teapot.” A successful prototype in a smaller market (the teapot) would determine the success of the later, finished platform (the oceans). Because of this, picking the right “teapot” was crucially important. Hit play to hear the rest of terbine.com's story, and learn more about the future of data in the internet of things.

Until recently, the concept of Agile data warehousing was ludicrous. Even today there has been a lot of resistance and minimal exposure to Agile in that industry, despite the need for data warehousing processes to innovate, if only to improve their cycle time. But Kent Graziano of Snowflake Computing has seen a shift in the last two years thanks to the work his company has done to bring the Agile principles to traditional data warehousing. Most exciting are the new techniques in Agile data engineering and modeling, Snowflake's "cloud data warehousing as a service" and its dynamic sizing and cost to address real-world problems in real time. Agile data warehousing is possible today because of enabling technology like Snowflake's, which sees queries of petabytes of data daily. The question isn't so much about the technology anymore, but more about whether large organizations are ready for the cloud. This is Kent's second visit with Agile Amped. See his first appearance here: http://www.solutionsiq.com/resources/... SolutionsIQ's Leslie Morse hosts at Southern Fried Agile 2016 in Charlotte, North Carolina. About Agile Amped The Agile Amped podcast series connects the community through compelling stories, passionate people, shared knowledge, and innovative ideas. Fueled by inspiring conversations with industry thought leaders, Agile Amped offers valuable content – anytime, anywhere. To receive real-time updates, subscribe! Subscribe: http://bit.ly/SIQYouTube, http://bit.ly/SIQiTunes, http://www.solutionsiq.com/agile-amped/ Follow: http://bit.ly/SIQTwitter  Like: http://bit.ly/SIQFacebook

Highlights from NAB 2016 Faithful listener and long time contributor to the show Ed Stouffer graciously agreed to be our “man on the street” - or “man on the convention show floor” if you prefer, at this year's NAB Show in Las Vegas. The show just wrapped up, running from April 16-21. For those who aren't familiar, NAB is the National Association of Broadcasters and the NAB Show is their annual gathering to see, learn about and talk about all the latest innovations in audio and video production, broadcasting and distribution. TV Trends – some of my views from NAB 2016 show Edward Stouffer 4K going wide and deep in the broadcast market with a big push to consumers building. This has several components, so I will try to describe them, and what they mean. Original Content. Several presentations talked about 35mm motion picture film stock having a native resolution right about 4K. Decent prints can be scanned with minimal cleanup. Older prints will take some work, just like what happened when HD versions of older material were released. As for new material, there was a general consensus that most mainstream content is moving to 4K capture or is already there. In many cases, the editing is either downconverted to HD or that is the export In the Canon “mega-booth” – which spanned 2 levels and had amateur, pro-am and professional cameras on display - they showed excerpts from several 4K movies shot partially or entirely in 4K, along with some TV episodes, such as “Homeland.” Distribution. The net is that while broadcasts are not 4K today, 4K streaming via Amazon and Netflix will have more options as less work in the future is required when the original material is in better shape. As for fixed media, the UltraHD BluRay players have cracked the $500 price point, with the Samsung generating a lot of interest at $399. Christmas 2015, they were $5,000, so the start toward commodity is rapidly coming. Manufacturers I talked with showing the under-$500 players said they generally expect a $250 UHD BluRay player for Christmas 2016. Also, the manufacturers expected that most of the UHD BluRay players will support 4K clients for Netflix & other services, so consumers will also use them as streaming devices for 4K. Broadcast. The chicken's egg has hatched! ATSC 3.0 is the new specification and it includes support for 4K broadcasts, including HDR, 24-channel audio, etc. I talked briefly with a technical director for a major US network and they are actively looking for a pilot at one affiliate this year. As I understand the spec – not close to being a SME by any measure – it takes the equivalent of 2 HD digital channels for one broadcast, depending upon compression used. (The folks in the ATSC booth said twice that it only needed a single digital channel…using the prototype CODECs and laboratory environments.) The network I was talking with said their pilot will likely be an affiliate who has unused spectrum or who multicasts some additional channels who would be willing to interrupt that for the test period. To that end, I saw an LG TV set at the show with the first ATSC 3.0 chipset included. I read through the press briefings a bit and it looks like all major manufacturers announced either future models or lines with ATSC 3.0 shipping by Christmas. Versions of 4K. HDR displays were everywhere. “Ultra HD Premium” was being promoted - as well as HDR branding - which includes HDR, WCG and other requirements for improved black levels and luminance. I asked Sony, Samsung and others about when we could see HDR for HD TVs, and as I expected, they seemed reluctant to talk about it, with one telling me it might hurt 4K sales. One manufacturer said it could cost between 25%-50% for “true HDR” on an UltraHD set. I asked what that meant, and he said that it really required the correct display, software and enough on-board CPU. To that end, he said some “lower tier” brands would say they offer HDR, but to look at their displays beside a top-tier manufacturer and there would be a big difference. I guess one test is to look at the new Vizio 50” 4K TV with HDR and see how that stacks up.  As much will be lost as made There are a lot of big – and costly – bets being made on the future path and as some are against one another, they cannot possibly all succeed. I saw multiple DRM systems being advertised. While some use the same encryption standard, they are incompatible with each other, as things like key distribution infrastructures are sold as a whole system. One prediction I heard from an architect at a major encoding vendor was that “Netflix was the next MySpace.” Think about that for a moment: when is the last time you used MySpace? I asked for more and he said to compare what happened to HD-DVD. He said it was the better format, was cheaper to produce media, but when Sony flexed its muscle on content, it lost. So, he said, if one or more studios either raise prices on content to Netflix or deny it altogether in favor of any company, Netflix can get starved out. Private Copy cDVR cannot stand Private copy – having your own copy of a recorded show stored in the cloud - gets very expensive very fast. In Europe, shared copy is widely used. It allows a single copy to be recorded, with pointers to each customer who indicated the desire to “record” that content. You can cache shared copy. The technology to splice ads into playback of a DVR recording is already here, so a provider could either restore the original ads, insert new ones or do a hybrid per market, per customer. Now it's a matter of the carriers/MSOs to stand up as a group and say they cannot afford to install exabytes of storage in support of private copy, as the US content owners are against shared copy generally. Ericsson estimates that each 100,000 customers using Cloud DVR require about 33 Petabytes of storage. Line between TVs and Projectors continues to blue I watched Leyard's 31' wide 8K TV and wanted to take it home. It was made of 64 panels, meticulously assembled. Not to be outdone, a new generation of short throw projectors is out, which allows them to be 2' from the front of the screen and still do a 100” image. Also rear-projection versions of them exist. Epson has said they hope to get this down to 1', which is getting close to putting a projector inside a closet or small recess behind the screen, rather than 5-8' today.   3D still a novelty, sort of One manufacturer was showing a 50” 3D no glasses TV. If you sat just right, 2 rows of 3 folks in the demo, it did look pretty good. If you did not, it looked distorted and made me dizzy. There has been at least one of these at every CES for the last few years, and while there's a lot of consumer interest, going beyond the prototype has been the challenge. Sharp also showed a model, but didn't give many details on price or availability. Since their business has essentially been sold, it's unclear what the future of R&D is on items like this. I also looked at the Nokia Ozo demo, which is a 360 degree camera (16 cameras on a sphere) designed to pair with VR goggles. I looked through a pair of Oculus Rift and was able to watch the live concert being held outside and noticed the soundstage moved around as I turned my head. The camera has a pretty high bitrate, so likely a high bandwidth satellite application, or it will light up the fiber to your home. I also watched a higher-resolution movie where I went 40km up in a weather balloon with full 360 degree view and it was outstanding. For gaming and special events I could see wearing the goggles is compelling. For continual TV viewing, I think the “no glasses” TV is the only option, but they have to fix the viewing angle and price point.   Bit Rates Seesaw When you try to take into account where bitrates are going, it is very much like a seesaw. Sony had this gorgeous display of compressed 4K sources being played. They said this was 4K with HDR at under 10 Mb/s using HEVC encoding. When I asked, they admitted this was multi-pass processed, and yes, this was not suitable for live TV. I further asked about what HDR was doing, and their answer was “well, if the source material gets bigger, then the output will too.”  To which I asked if the improvements in HEVC were offset by the HDR movement and they simply smiled at me. If 4K VOD goes there, it would be a big improvement for that, at least.   So what of 8K? Commercial tests start in Japan on August 1 with the Olympics, with NHK expecting full deployment by 2018. NHK was showing a prototype camera, TV and projector. Besides the Leyard uber-tron, I spent some time looking at the 85” NHK OLED protype with a live feed and it looked pretty darn good. I pressed for a price target, but got nothing in return, except that it could be “millions of yen.” If it follows some of the early OLED and 4K, I predict a $100K entry price. I also sat through an 8K recording of a symphony with the NHK 8K projector, using 22.2 channel sound. While it was not the most dynamic content, the audio was good and 15' from the screen, we could see the conductor's individual hair and scratches in the wood stands. Ikegami, not to be outdone, was showing both an 8K handheld and an 8K studio camera they said was in production. Canon showed 2 8K prototype studio cameras. This was my one disappointment with Canon: their 8K demo content was disappointing, not looking much better than 4K demos they showed. For the US market, it looks like 8K will appear in large venues and in digital theaters. Sony said they were working on 8K cinema systems with theaters now, and they believed this would become the new standard within 18 months for new installs and upgrades. With commercial large-venue 4K projectors starting around $125K today, this will not come cheap. NHK also had a demo 8K streaming and believes they can get it down to 33 Mb/s by commercial launch.  Drones Drones were also in the house. In fact, they were a good part of an entire pavilion. Also, there were some spread throughout the main venues. These went from the smaller, entry-level products to big ones that looked like they belonged to SkyNet. I asked about the price on one of the bigger ones – 6' across, 8 rotors and a full-on commercial 4K camera cradled by it. The response I got was that it was “price upon request.” I said, “OK, I'm requesting the price.” The guy rolled his eyes at me and said $26,000 plus shipping. I asked further why 26K, and he pointed and said, “See that camera and lens? That's $150K and 11 pounds sitting there, and we don't want our drone to drop it or crash. We hand assemble and test each component, including making sure that this will autobalance if one of the rotors fails.” OK, a $26,000 for a $150,000 camera – I guess I get it. There was also this crazy off-road vehicle with caterpillar treads and a 360 degree arm with a camera mount. I asked what this beast cost, and the answer was, “up to $325,000, if you want the armored version.” OK, an armored version. I had to ask. He said, “If you're out in a place such as Afghanistan and are filming and this thing comes over the ridge, it can look like an assault vehicle to the locals. They often shoot first and ask questions later. We can only protect the camera so much since it needs a lens opening, but if you lose the vehicle, you certainly lose the camera.” A few more manufacturer notes Black Magic couldn't be missed, even if you wanted to. They had large display ads and a good-sized booth by the doors. Much closer to what I could afford, their 4K cameras started at $1,300 and they had a number of companion products, including an SD card replicator they said would “change 4K distribution.” I had to ask: how, exactly. They said this 1RU unit would create 24 duplicates for 4K, so if you shot a wedding at 4K, you could give the guests an SD card when they left. …Now I'm not sure about the listeners, but most of my video needs editing, so I don't think I'd shoot video and pass it out right away…. I admired one of their displays of their slightly more expensive camera as it looked fabulous – but then the guy next to me, who was professional cinematographer, said, “Look closer at the display – that's the Dolby at $40K each. My bad takes look pretty good on that…!” Epilogue I ended up going last-minute, and I do wish I had more than 48 hours to prepare. But after sore feet from walking the massive displays, I also wish I had a bunch of discretionary money to buy some of the items on display. CES may be more appropriate for the average end-customer, but the NAB show sures gives some insight into what is coming and exposes the production side of film and video. I did get to meet and listen to some directors, editors and broadcast engineers talk about their side of the business. 21 years ago, I attended the Western Cable Show and remember going to the launch party for The History Channel. The show was all about coax versus satellite, large systems versus small systems, and who owned which sports content. Last week, looked very different: it was all about new advances in digital TV, mobile video, the continued decline of filmed productions…. I don't think it will take anything close to 21 more years to see dramatic changes, and a redefinition of what a “broadcaster” is.  

Hey, do me a favor? Next time you go on down to the Piggly Wiggly, see if they've got them there tablet six packs? I won't have 'em all, I promise; I just want a couple for the road. Yep, things got a little craaaaaazy in mobile technology this week. In the midst of our comprehensive Moto X Pure Edition review and a boatload of hands-ons from CTIA in Las Vegas, we've seen Nextbit announce a cloud-based smartphone, Apple allow an ad blocker into the App Store, and Amazon release, yes, tablet six-packs. And on top of all that, we've got some really cool Gadgets in Hand to share with you, ranging from the wearable to the virtual (network, that is). All of the above –plus your listener mail– awaits below on episode 166 of the Pocketnow Weekly! So Steel up your Pebble and Milanese your Loop, because this show moves fast, and you don't want to lose your accessories during the ride. Watch the video broadcast from 1:30pm Eastern on September 18 (click here for your local time), or check out the high-quality audio version the Monday after we broadcast. And don't forget to shoot your listener mail to podcast [AT] pocketnow [DOT] com for a shot at getting your questions read aloud on the air!Pocketnow Weekly 166Recording Date September 18, 2015 Hosts Michael Fisher Stephen Schenck Hayato Huseman Producer Jules Wang Podcast Rundown Sponsors Today's episode of the Pocketnow Weekly podcast is made possible by: Whether you have a Mac or a PC, Backblaze runs natively on your system and gives you unlimited online backup for your recipes, documents, music, photos, and videos. If you've never heard of it, that's okay – we hadn't either until recently, but now we feel sheepish about that. Why? Because Backblaze has restored over 10 Billion files –that's billion with a "B"– and has backed up over 150 Petabytes of data for its customers. You can access your online files from anywhere you have an internet connection, using the easy web interface or the Backblaze app for iOS and Android – and if you need a USB hard drive for a larger restore, Backblaze has that too. It's simplicity itself, right down to the pricing: just $5/month per computer for unlimited, unthrottled backup ... and if you're a Pocketnow Weekly listener (Protip: you are), then you get a free two-week trial. How awesome is that? (Protip: pretty awesome.) Go to backblaze.com/pocketnow to claim yours. Backblaze. Backing up is easy. Restoring data is complicated. 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Some pockets are even made of transparent touch fabric, allowing you to use your devices without ever taking them out. This is NASA-level stuff, right here. If you're tired of doing "the gadget dance," fumbling from pocket to pocket hunting for your devices, do yourself a favor: pay SCOTTeVEST a visit. You can check out their full line of clothing for men and women at SCOTTeVEST.com/pocketnow, and you can get 20% off by using coupon code "Pocketnow." SCOTTeVEST. Our Pockets. Your Freedom. News (00:07:33) BlackBerry Venice shows its stuff in detailed hands-on video Moto X Pure Edition Review / Moto X Pure Edition sells like hotcakes at Best Buy / Verizon finally supports it Nextbit Robin hands-on / Picks up CDMA support for Verizon Qualcomm announces a metric ton of new silicon (and stupid-fast charging) Amazon refreshes tablet lineup / starts selling $50 tablets in six-packs Goddammit: Android Marshmallow ditches dark theme Google Glass is now Project Aura as Amazon employees join the program Microsoft event, LG event slated for NYC in early October iOS now has an ad blocker | ... and its developer just pulled it Gadgets in Hand / Q&A (01:08:52) Another week, another shipment of hot new hardware hitting our hands! This week in the studio: the Huawei Watch classes up the joint with some gorgeous industrial design and the best screen we've ever seen on a smartwatch, while the Pebble Time Steel brings some much needed refinement to its family line. Plus, Hayato Huseman answers your questions on his time with Google's super-cheap MVNO, Project Fi! Use the Q&A feature built into Google Hangouts to send us your questions once we go live, and we'll do our best to answer them on the air! Context: Huawei Watch hands-on / Huawei Watch appears to have unused speaker / Pebble Time Review / Hayato's Hot Take: Project Fi Listener Mail (01:37:59) E-mailed submissions from Taylor, Ed, and Alex  • Thanks for watching — see you next week! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The muddy morass of tech news is seldom tranquil, even in the wake of a trade show as big as IFA 2015. No sooner had our moon boots touched down on US soil than Apple held a two-hour marathon event to unveil its new iPhones and a giant iPad ... and our keyboards barely had a chance to cool down from that before a Moto X Pure Edition came a'knockin' at our door, just begging to be unboxed. Toss in a hefty helping of backlogged review content (yes, we're still working on that Axon and OnePlus 2 coverage) and we've barely got the bandwidth for our regular tech podcast. But a weekly show is what we've promised ... and a weekly show is what you'll get. All of the above –plus your listener mail– awaits below on episode 165 of the Pocketnow Weekly! So charge up your Pencil and clear off an acre of desk space, because we're about to get all Pro on you. Again. Watch the video broadcast from 5:00pm Eastern on September 10 (click here for your local time), or check out the high-quality audio version the Monday after we broadcast. And don't forget to shoot your listener mail to podcast [AT] pocketnow [DOT] com for a shot at getting your question read aloud on the air!Pocketnow Weekly 165Recording Date September 10, 2015 Hosts Michael Fisher Stephen Schenck Hayato Huseman Producer Jules Wang Podcast Rundown Sponsor (00:02:14) Today's episode of the Pocketnow Weekly is made possible by Backblaze. Whether you have a Mac or a PC, Backblaze runs natively on your system and gives you unlimited online backup for your recipes, documents, music, photos, and videos. If you've never heard of it, that's okay – we hadn't either until recently, but now we feel sheepish about that. Why? Because Backblaze has restored over 10 Billion files –that's billion with a "B"– and has backed up over 150 Petabytes of data for its customers. You can access your online files from anywhere you have an internet connection, using the easy web interface or the Backblaze app for iOS and Android – and if you need a USB hard drive for a larger restore, Backblaze has that too. It's simplicity itself, right down to the pricing: just $5/month per computer for unlimited, unthrottled backup ... and if you're a Pocketnow Weekly listener (Protip: you are), then you get a free two-week trial. How awesome is that? (Protip: pretty awesome.) Go to backblaze.com/pocketnow to claim yours. Backblaze. Backing up is easy. Restoring data is complicated. News (00:06:17) It's raining Apples: new iPhones, new iPads, new Apple TV and more debut at this week's "Hey Siri" event The best of IFA 2015 LG Nexus 5 (2015) leaks again, with new details Google flips the switch on Android Pay OnePlus planning one-hour, no-invite-needed sale HTC "Halfbeak" smartwatch rumored for Android Wear Droid Turbo 2 render leaks for Verizon, could arrive next month Gadgets in Hand (00:56:53) The wait is over: the new Moto X is in our hands and it's fresh from the unboxing studio, so it's time to lay it bare to all your questions. We answer to your questions posed on our Google Hangouts Q&A! Listener Mail (01:25:56) E-mailed submissions from Patrick, Kevin, and Matthias • Thanks for watching — see you next week! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Last month HP released their Linear Tape Open 6 (LTO-6) tape backup standard. With tapes that can hold up to 6.25 Terrabytes and rack systems that hold up to 44.4 Petabytes, tape shows not only its relevance in Enterprise networks but also how it can stack up to a storage method. Calvin Zito joins me […] The post HP Tech Cast #7: LTO-6 – Tape Storage is NOT Dead appeared first on Geekazine.com.

Big Data. The world of Three V's. Gartner describes “big data” as a three-dimensional data growth model: Volume of data; Velocity or speed of data in/out; and Variety of data types and sources. When we do the math, “big” typically ranges from a few dozen terabytes to multi-petabytes or more in a single data set. The bottom line: Big data is waaayyy too much for common software tools to efficiently capture, manage and process within a tolerable length of time. This is a job for game-changing solutions and exceptional technologies. What does big data mean to you and your business? What kinds of data do you need to care about – social data, sentiment analysis, RFID and more? What does your data look like today and what will it look like tomorrow? And how do you turn your data into usable information? Pour a fresh cup of Joe, Earl or OJ and join us for food for thought: Big Data - The Big Picture.

Big Data. The world of Three V's. Gartner describes “big data” as a three-dimensional data growth model: Volume of data; Velocity or speed of data in/out; and Variety of data types and sources. When we do the math, “big” typically ranges from a few dozen terabytes to multi-petabytes or more in a single data set. The bottom line: Big data is waaayyy too much for common software tools to efficiently capture, manage and process within a tolerable length of time. This is a job for game-changing solutions and exceptional technologies. What does big data mean to you and your business? What kinds of data do you need to care about – social data, sentiment analysis, RFID and more? What does your data look like today and what will it look like tomorrow? And how do you turn your data into usable information? Pour a fresh cup of Joe, Earl or OJ and join us for food for thought: Big Data - The Big Picture.

The LHC, main particles accelerator of the world, was launched in March 2010, at the CERN, in Geneva. It has generated, since, billions of microscopic “big bang”, recorded by 4 giant detectors.

The LHC, main particles accelerator of the world, was launched in March 2010, at the CERN, in Geneva. It has generated, since, billions of microscopic “big bang”, recorded by 4 giant detectors.

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Petabytes of data about human movements, transactions, and communication patterns are continuously being generated by everyday technologies such as mobile phones and credit cards. In collaboration with the mobile phone, internet, and credit card industries, Eagle and colleagues are aggregating and analyzing behavioral data from over 250 million people from North and South America, Europe, Asia and Africa. Eagle discusses projects arising from these collaborations that involve inferring behavioral dynamics on a broad spectrum of scales from risky behavior in a group of MIT freshman to population-level behavioral signatures, including cholera outbreaks in Rwanda and wealth in the UK. The research group is developing a range of large-scale network analysis and machine learning algorithms that will provide deeper insight into human behavior.

In this episode of the http://www.VizWorld.com podcast, we talk about Augmented Reality business cards, the Sony Motion Controller, PetaBytes, EnFuzion, and more.