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Speaker 1:
[00:04] This is the Daily Tech News for Thursday, April 23rd, 2026. We tell you what you need to know, give you some context, and help each other understand.
Speaker 2:
[00:13] Today, Bodie Grimm tells us about the fastest EV charging battery yet, and Apple patches a leak in signal messages.
Speaker 1:
[00:20] Oh my gosh, a leak? It wasn't really a leak in signal. It wasn't a leak in encryption. We'll explain if you haven't heard already. I'm Tom Merritt.
Speaker 2:
[00:27] I'm Huyen Tue Dao.
Speaker 1:
[00:28] Let's start with what you need to know with that big story. So yeah, Apple pushed a software update on Wednesday for iOS and iPad OS that fixed a bug where in Apple's patch notes words, notifications marked for deletion could be unexpectedly retained on the device. Now think back all the way to April 9th, two weeks ago, when we told you about 404 Media reporting on the FBI successfully pulling notifications for signal messages out of the internal notification storage cache, and according to 404, notifications in there could persist for up to 30 days after you deleted them, after you dismissed them. They should go away immediately, but they weren't. They were sticking around in cache. So the recommendation at the time that we gave, and everybody was giving, was if this is a problem for you, you want to set your signal notification to name only or no name or content. That might be something to just keep in mind as a safety precaution anyway, especially if you haven't pushed this software update yet. But basically, what was going on was if you got a preview text of your signal message and notification, in other words, you got the notification and the text of what was sent to you was in the notification, even after you got rid of it, it stayed in the cache. Even if you deleted the message and signal, in fact, even if you deleted the signal app, so this was not something Apple intended, it was just getting stuck in cache and the cache wasn't getting cleared out. Signal President, Meredith Whitaker, asked Apple to address the issue. Apple has not commented beyond the patch notes, but did backport the fix to iOS 18, so everybody's pretty sure that this fix is because of that problem. In fact, Meredith Whitaker has thanked Apple for patching it. So this is a, hey, good to know, and if you're concerned, you probably want to update your iOS really soon.
Speaker 2:
[02:23] Yeah, good to know. This is always so interesting because I feel like especially on mobile devices, and I'm speaking as an Android person, both user and developer, so my bad. But it's reinforcing why whenever you have notifications and you can see them on less secure screens like on your lock screen, why OSs tend to be like, hey, by the way, maybe you don't want to put anything sensitive in the notification, which is a little bit different than this. And I think it's interesting because notifications are, of course, part of the OS, so not really much that developers can do about it. But I think over the last 15 years now of mobile spaces and devices becoming our daily devices that even things as what might have seemed just like a nice feature or ergonomic thing at the beginning of mobile life, like the big mobile life that we all share, that notifications didn't have these kind of implications. But now over the 15 years, both us as users and developers and even the platform writers themselves have to learn, hey, these things are a thing and so unfortunately, a bug could result in things like that. It's really fascinating to see the growth of certain spaces and certain surfaces becoming so important.
Speaker 1:
[03:29] Yeah. And I don't want to exaggerate the importance of this for the everyday person. You had to have physical access to the device. The case was the FBI had a person's phone. They had deleted signal in an attempt to cover their tracks. But the FBI was able to look at that notification database and go, oh, we found the evidence. We found the messages. I don't consider that the FBI was doing anything wrong there. They had a warrant for the device. The person was under investigation and all of that. But you don't want malicious people to be able to get that if they get a hold of your device, especially if you're in a sensitive situation. Maybe you're trying to be a whistleblower or you're dealing with an authoritarian government. Who knows, right? It's just this is one of those things that, yeah, it doesn't impact all of us, but it's good to know. And like you said, it kind of makes you think about, oh, do I need to have the text of messages in my notifications? Maybe I do, but I should know that there are subtle risks to that. And the end of this story is, of course, that Apple patched it and it shouldn't be a problem. This should not be a problem going forward.
Speaker 2:
[04:33] Yeah, absolutely. We just learn as we go. All right. Well, DGNest is made possible by you, the listeners. So we want to take time to thank Matt Oram, Matt Zaglin, Jeff Wilkes and Tim Deputy. Thank you.
Speaker 1:
[04:45] Yay. All right. There's more we need to know today. Let's get to the briefs.
Speaker 2:
[04:51] All right. Well, the UK's National Cyber Security Center, NCSC, released a technical report at its annual Cyber UK conference, concluding that Paschis, quote, are at least as secure as and generally more secure than a password and two-step verification combo. It now officially recommends Paschis as the default authentication standard, and that company should not also use passwords if, sorry, that company should not also use passwords if Paschis are available.
Speaker 1:
[05:19] Yeah, this is significant because it's a government agency for the first time saying, actually, we're recommending Paschis. You probably shouldn't be using passwords. Passwords are less secure. Passwords with two-step verification or multi-factor authentication are at least as secure, but possibly also less secure. And I think that's a big step in getting companies to pay attention to this. I know that the implementation of Paschis up until now is a mess. You and I have a good friend. Let's just call him Ron, who is not a fan. Wildly hostile, yeah, sorry, not a fan, wildly hostile, yeah. We'll protect his identity otherwise, but yeah. I think this is good, and I think it's the kind of thing that's needed to be able to say to companies who really are making a mess of the rollout. Not any particular company, but they're all being implemented differently, often in ways that make no sense and are very frustrating to the end user, to the point where you get people like Ron who are like, yeah, I hate Paskies. And eventually, I think we'll land in a place where everybody understands and they're implemented properly, but it's going to be rough getting there. So it's good to see a recommendation like this in my opinion.
Speaker 2:
[06:32] Yeah. And I think that that was one of the things I definitely was stumping for Paskies at first is because, and I think as an engineer, I tend to rely on the fact of explaining how the spec works and how, like how much easy, like in theory, in theory, how much easier and secure this could be. But of course, then normal people like our good friend, like let's say not like, I guess the average user or even a slightly tech user, don't really give a dime necessarily about how cool the underlying encryption protocol is. And to be very fair, the actual implementation is very different. And actually, that was one thing that hit me, is that I 100% agree with you that we need recommendations like this to just drive the point forward that look, we are telling you that this is more secure, you should be using these. But that yes, the problem is, is that as secure in theory and as an abstract protocol can be, and as important as it is to have a government like agency or other like expert agency tell you how good it is, the actual human rollout can vary quite wildly. And that in a sense like that could make or break it obviously. And I will say that one thing that did come up a lot when we were, when I'm trying to stop for it and our good friend Ron is expressing his opinion, is that yeah, a lot of cases, companies, and I guess with empathy, companies do have a challenge, right? Because most people are using passwords. And I don't think there was a good generalized strategy for, okay, how do you take a company that's using two-factor pass keys? What is an optimal, optimally ergonomic and optimally secure way to migrate a website, a service that has passwords and two-factor? What is a great strategy to migrate people slowly to pass keys because what a lot of companies have done is have both passwords and pass keys, which is honestly like it detracts from the pass keys because you can always back up the passwords. But for human beings like, say, not even necessarily us, but like my dad or other folks that are not techie, there's not a good on-ramp right now for pass keys. So understandably, part of the mess has been that there's no just generalized and maybe vetted strategy for that. So I, yes, agree.
Speaker 1:
[08:54] That would be the one thing I might criticize, Fido, the folks who put together pass keys is there needed to be a standard for transitioning people. That's way easy for me to say sitting here in my little ivory soap tower. But that seems to be the one thing that's messing this up because when you get to a company that has finished implementing it, I deleted my password with Microsoft. I did it live on DTNS one day. I have never run into a problem. Once you get to the point where it's like, oh, you're just using passkey, it's so much easier than dealing with passwords. It's so much easier than dealing with password managers. But most companies have not pushed themselves there and most users would resist it, which is why they haven't pushed themselves there. And so until we get to that world where everybody goes, oh yeah, this is a lot easier, you are going to have this mess of like, well, it's still actually vulnerable because you're still backing it up with passwords. And there's one company that requires me to log in with my password, then ask me for my passkey. And I'm just like, that's not, no, that doesn't, there's no reason for that. Like, what are you doing? But yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 2:
[10:08] Okay. I guess it's one thing for people who are writing protocols, very smart people. I could never do that. The migration part is the important part. So maybe like just as a request, maybe for the future. Thank you. Yeah.
Speaker 1:
[10:20] Or as we've learned this now, right? And this is why I think it's good that the UK has done this and said, you should not be using passwords if you're implementing passkeys and you should implement passkeys. Let's have some best practices circulating out there. I'm sure they're there. Let's make sure that more companies are aware of them and the companies can then go, oh, okay, that's what we've been mistaking. That's where the resistance and the messing up is coming from. We got a really cool display technology coming out of researchers or scientists from Pohang University of Science and Technology or PulseTech and Samsung, publishing a paper in the journal Nature describing a method of creating a display that you could switch between 2D and glasses-free 3D with just tapping a button. The color display is powered by a meta-surface lenticular lens. You might have heard of lenticular lenses. Nintendo famously used it in the 3DS. It's the thing that gives you the, you can see two different pictures on the little crackerjack things. But a meta-surface and a lenticular lens are what's important here. And I'll read from the journal. It can switch focal behavior on the basis of the polarization of incident light. That's the light that's hitting it, right? Not the light it's generating. The display also has a viewing angle of 100 degrees. You have glasses-free 3D displays right now, but you have to sit right directly in front of them because they only can do a 15-degree field of view. So this is good in a lot of ways. It's thin, this MLL, this lenticular lens is 1.2 millimeters thick. They demonstrated it on a very small 5 centimeter by 5 centimeter OLED panel. And then we're able to apply voltage to switch between 2D and 3D. The short version of all of this is you'll be able to press a button and the metal lens goes from concave when it's powered to convex when it's not. And concave lets you see 2D, convex lets you see 3D. It's just that little very thin lens. That's where the meta material is important here. Doesn't thicken the display much, but just change convex, concave and you see 2D or 3D. And you get that wide angle viewing as well. There's also another team from PulseTech that published research in that same issue of nature, describing a new metal lens production method so that you can produce these kinds of displays at 300 units per second. At a cost that's less than about $5 per unit. Now, improvements are needed to reach industrial scale and to refine that viewing angle quality, even though it's there, it may not be as good as they would like it. So we're probably a few years from seeing these in mobile phones because they're very small screens, but pretty cool the idea that you could just have it switch between 2D and 3D without having to do much and certainly without having to put on glasses.
Speaker 2:
[13:05] I love that you compared it to like Cracker Jack box, like those old little things. Yeah, I just like how something kind of is a kind of technology, a technology and then for many, many, many, many years, we use it in these very specific, in this particular case, like a child's toy, but it comes back or it has other applications that may be, I'm sure it's been used in other fields for a long time now, but that an average person could say, oh, neat, that's like, I don't know. I just like how technology kind of comes back around in a different way and ends up being kind of something, maybe truly.
Speaker 1:
[13:39] And combines with something else like meta materials and all that. Yeah, I totally get what you're saying. It's really, we don't hear enough of these stories these days either, I think of like, oh no, this is where the fun in technology is right here.
Speaker 2:
[13:53] Yeah, yeah, for sure. All right. Well, if you have any feedback about anything that gets brought up in the show, guess what? You can get in touch with us on the socials. We've got at DTNestShow on X, Instagram, threads, Blue Sky, and Macedon. For TikTok and YouTube, you can find us at Daily Tech News Show.
Speaker 1:
[14:11] We always like to give you some quick headlines, little tidbits that will make you feel or actually be smarter, because you know them.
Speaker 2:
[14:19] Well, Google Meet for Android now supports its Gemini powered take notes feature for meetings in person, not just over the Internet. The feature is an alpha for businesses for subscribers.
Speaker 1:
[14:28] Yeah, so you launch Google Meet and just like set it on the table, like it seems like the way it works.
Speaker 2:
[14:33] That's pretty cool. That makes too much sense.
Speaker 1:
[14:36] DJI has launched two new budget drones, the Lito, not like in Dune, but L-I-T-O, Lito 1 and Lito X1 that weigh less than 249 grams. These are lightweight, replacing the mini series with video quality equivalent to the Neo 2 and the flip drones. They're mostly for outdoor use, though. They're available right now in the UK and EU for less than 380 euros and pounds. No US state on these yet.
Speaker 2:
[15:02] All right. Abbreviation overload support. I'll do my best. TSMC says it will put off buying ASML's new high NA EUV lithography machines until 2029 in order to keep manufacturing costs down.
Speaker 1:
[15:16] Yeah, this is really fascinating. The TSMC, which is making bank selling people chips, right? Yeah, it's like, yeah, but we do. We don't want the price of our chips to go too high because our customers aren't running out of money. So we're going to put off this high end lithography machine, which is not good news for ASML actually. Tesla announced it intends to use Intel's 14A manufacturing process at its proposed chip making plant in Austin, Texas. This would be the first external customer for that process. Intel is finalizing this. They expect it to be ready by the end of the year. But everybody has wondered if Intel could find a customer for it, or they might just not do it. So this would be important for Intel.
Speaker 2:
[15:58] All right. Well, along the same vein of the last two stories, the demand for DRAM and high bandwidth memory continues to take up manufacturer capacity and impact other sectors. TrendForce has downgraded its server growth forecast for 2026 from 20 percent to 13 percent. As lead time for server CPUs and hard drives grows due to demand, lead time for power management chips, PMICs and baseboard management controllers have also lengthened.
Speaker 1:
[16:24] Yeah. I hear a lot of throwing around of moral judgments on those greedy companies, but also other greedy companies are suffering. There's just too much demand going on right now. To that point, TechCrunch notes that astronomers anticipating increased data coming from the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, which is launching in September, along with a survey that's beginning at the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile, and the existing 57 gigabytes of data coming every day from the James Webb Space Telescope are making data crunching super important for astronomers and so they are working with NVIDIA to secure their own supply of GPUs, adding to the pile of people that need the GPUs to do the data processing. It's not always the companies you might suspect. There's also scientists that need this stuff too.
Speaker 2:
[17:13] All right, well again, if you're one of those folks that might classify them as greedy companies, you might like this one. Around 30,000 people gathered outside of Samsung's mainship hub to demand that employees receive 15% of operating profit versus the company's proposed 10%. An 18 day strike is threatened for May 21st.
Speaker 1:
[17:30] Let me tell you, the last thing that the entire industry needs is for Samsung to have to shut down a plant because of a strike. So figure this stuff out, y'all. Not even taking sides when I say that. Whatever you need to do to figure it out, try to figure that out. Google released Android 17 QPR 1 Beta 1 for Pixel phones. This is ahead of the expected stable release of Android 17 in June, so you can already start playing with the first patch.
Speaker 2:
[17:58] And WhatsApp is partnering with Payu to offer prepaid phone recharges in India.
Speaker 1:
[18:03] Ah, that'll be convenient for folks. Turkey's Grand National Assembly passed a bill on Wednesday that restricts social media access for children younger than 15. We're talking about age verification and parental controls, not a ban. President Erdogan must accept the bill within 15 days for it to become law. He is expected to do that.
Speaker 2:
[18:20] Well, OpenAI launched ChatGPT for Clinicians, a free tool designed for verified medical practices in the US, which can do real-time searches across specialist literature, templates, and recurring workflows.
Speaker 1:
[18:32] I love these kinds of stories, like a tool designed and specifically for a particular thing rather than being general purpose. CES, known for announcements that never ship. We've been on the beat of micro RGB TVs. They were a huge deal at CES and they have been shipping. LG has joined Samsung and TCL in announcing its micro RGB TVs. You can order the LG micro RGB Evo today. The cheapest model is the 75-inch. That's also the smallest model and it is $5,000.
Speaker 2:
[19:06] All right. Well, thanks to Echo of Oppenheimer for noting on our subreddit that Sony's AI. Ace ping pong robot won three out of five matches played against elite table tennis players, though it lost two matches played against professionals.
Speaker 1:
[19:20] I think this is the wrong lesson to take, but I'm like, oh, if you pay people, they do better against robots. But it's also one of those watershed moments for physical intelligence as well. All right, those are the essentials for today. Let's dive a little deeper.
Speaker 2:
[19:37] Well, the race to kill range anxiety has officially shifted gears from how far to how fast. If you thought 10-minute charging was the holy grail, the industry just moved the goalposts. Bodie Grimm from the Kill a Bot podcast tells us about a new fast charging tech.
Speaker 1:
[19:52] Bodie Grimm, welcome back.
Speaker 3:
[19:55] Thanks, Tom, I'm happy to be back.
Speaker 1:
[19:57] Well, I am happy that you have brought us another example of fast charging. We've talked in the past about BYD's super fast charging that can get you almost to 100% as fast as filling up your tank with gasoline would do. Who else is doing this and what are they doing?
Speaker 3:
[20:14] Well yesterday, CATL had their tech day and they announced a bunch of stuff, more energy dense batteries, batteries for aircraft and all that was kind of interesting. But the thing that I glommed on to was their new fast charging battery.
Speaker 1:
[20:29] So how fast is it compared to the BYD one?
Speaker 3:
[20:33] So the BYD Blade 2 battery is capable of some of the Blade 2 batteries are capable of charging from like 10% to 97% in about nine minutes, which is fast.
Speaker 1:
[20:45] Yeah, and super fast.
Speaker 3:
[20:46] The CATL, and I'll probably pronounce the name of the battery wrong, it's like Xinjing, Z-I-N-G. It is, it can charge from 10% to 98%. Notice that 1% extra from in about six and a half minutes.
Speaker 1:
[21:03] Wow. Okay. I mean, honestly, once you get below 10 minutes, it's not that much of a change in my life, I guess, but that's still two and a half minutes faster. And so CATL must feel really good about that.
Speaker 3:
[21:16] Yes. And I feel really confident that they were very excited to see all of the hubbub around BYD's battery and then come in just a few months later.
Speaker 1:
[21:27] And be able to undercut them. Yeah.
Speaker 3:
[21:28] Yeah.
Speaker 1:
[21:31] So how does this work? Give us the breakdown.
Speaker 3:
[21:35] Well, I mean, how exactly it works, I don't know how to present it now. There's a lot of stuff that goes on with battery chemistry. They're using LFP batteries, which we've talked about before, more robust. They also-
Speaker 1:
[21:45] That's lithium phosphate, right?
Speaker 3:
[21:47] Oh, yes. Lithium iron phosphate, yes.
Speaker 1:
[21:49] Okay.
Speaker 3:
[21:51] I make the mistake all the time. Thank you. The other thing that they're doing is they have a... They slashed, now listen, this is the internal resistance. I am not a battery engineer, so I'm just going to repeat this as it's written. They slashed their milliohms to just 0.25, which for the normal person, that's not important. What's important is it doesn't heat up the battery, and heat and batteries are a bad combination. So they're able, through a bunch of battery management systems, battery chemistries, and then just general overall, the way that they structure their battery packs, they're able to reduce the heat down so it can cram a lot of energy in without overheating the battery.
Speaker 1:
[22:34] And I assume that that is a huge thing for safety, right? Is that you want to stay away from overheating that battery. The other side of things is cold. All the cold weather listeners are always writing in about EVs because either they're talking about driving on ice or in something like this, they're talking about the fact that charging is slower in cold weather. How does it do there?
Speaker 3:
[22:58] Remarkably well. A cold battery pack, right, is going to charge super slow no matter what. So what they have to do is they have to warm it up. And modern EVs have technology that will keep your battery either... It keeps it in that right range, like the optimal range for charging. You know, companies like Tesla, when you route yourself to a charging station, it will start warming up your battery and getting it ready for a charge. Not all EV makers do that, but most modern ones do. C.A.Tale says that a minus 30 degrees Celsius charge, so if you're in that kind of weather, which is minus 20 degrees or 22 degrees Fahrenheit, it will actually charge from 20 to 98 percent. Now here's the key word, in just nine minutes, which tells me that there's an upper end to that nine minutes. Not, you know, it could happen in nine minutes, but nine minutes is the fastest you'll see it.
Speaker 1:
[23:52] OK, yeah, that's good to note.
Speaker 3:
[23:54] Yeah, it's an interesting way to phrase that.
Speaker 1:
[23:58] In as little as nine minutes.
Speaker 3:
[24:00] Yes.
Speaker 1:
[24:01] OK, but that's still pretty great.
Speaker 3:
[24:03] Oh, yeah.
Speaker 1:
[24:04] And that is some technology they're using to make sure that you heat it during the charging. So if that were to fail, then this would fail. But but overall, that that stuff is going to be kind of de rigoure, I think, when you're talking about cold weather charging. It is really exciting to see two major battery providers, BYD and CATL, offering fast charging. BYD obviously has the jump in putting these on the streets already, having chargers rolling out in China, having a European marketing plan. What do you know about CATL's plans to get these actually in drivers hands?
Speaker 3:
[24:47] Right now, they do have partners. It does seem like those partners are in China, so I don't think we'll see these in Europe or South America anytime in the next couple of months. It might happen within the year or next year. All of this battery technology, especially a company like CATL, because they don't build a car specifically. So it all relies on the auto manufacturers building their vehicles or updating their vehicles with this technology in mind. And I'm sure CATL is working with plenty of companies behind the scenes to make sure they know what they're building. But as far as like, can I give you a car that this will be in next week? I don't think we have that just yet.
Speaker 1:
[25:32] Yeah, I know there's, I saw in the article that you sent along that they are working in partnership with a Chinese manufacturer that includes GM as a partner of the manufacturer, which is quite a far way away from GM actually putting these things in the car. But do you think that it's possible that because they're a battery maker, that we might see these in more cars around the world versus BYD, which has to do all the marketing and everything itself?
Speaker 3:
[26:01] Yeah, and I believe BYD will sell some other batteries to other auto manufacturers.
Speaker 1:
[26:06] Yeah, yeah, okay.
Speaker 3:
[26:06] Pretty sure that's true. But yeah, in China, unless you're Tesla for some reason, you have to have a joint venture with a Chinese company in order for that to work. So in the article, I was not 100% clear if that was GM putting it in Chinese made GM vehicles, or because the company that they're working with is just a manufacturer, or if that manufacturer actually has their own brand of cars too. But yeah, I feel like I've said this a lot, but I think that this technology is really cool. I don't think it's going to be overly used because we've talked about, you have to have the charger, right? Not very many chargers can charge it at 1,500 kilowatts or one and a half megawatts. That's a pretty lofty charging speed. So you have to have the technology, and then you have to have the infrastructure in your area. It makes zero sense for you to buy a car specifically for this reason, if you don't have a charger that you can take advantage of somewhere around your route.
Speaker 1:
[27:12] Yeah. When BYD was the only one doing this, I was much more pessimistic because of all those things that you're mentioning. This doesn't solve those things, but I somehow feel like the more companies that have this kind of technology, the more swings can be taken, the more chargers that will want to be built, and maybe that gives it a little momentum. I'm 10 percent more hopeful than I was before.
Speaker 3:
[27:38] For sure. Can I tell you a few of my favorite things about this though?
Speaker 1:
[27:43] Yeah, sure.
Speaker 3:
[27:44] First, the battery warming. The Pulse technology, they did something really cool here. In order for them to warm up the battery, they create, it's not a short circuit, but a weak connection between the electric motor and the battery management system. And that heats up the battery because of this weak connection.
Speaker 1:
[28:07] Interesting.
Speaker 3:
[28:08] Yeah. And it pulses, so it's not a consistent weak connection, it's a pulse. So it actually heats the battery up two-thirds faster than the conventional approach, which is just basically like heating, not your car up, but like heating a surface up, right?
Speaker 1:
[28:23] Yeah.
Speaker 3:
[28:24] And then the other thing here that I think is being missed a little bit when I hear people talking about this is, yes, you can charge from 10 to 97% or 98% in six and a half minutes, and that's great. But if you just need a little bump and not that kind of bump, but like a little bump of energy, also not that kind of bump of energy. But if you just needed something to get you, you just have a little bit longer to go. You can go from 10% to 35% in a minute.
Speaker 1:
[28:51] Oh, wow.
Speaker 3:
[28:52] You can go from 10% to 80%, which is where most people live in their charging realm, in 3 minutes and 44 seconds.
Speaker 1:
[29:00] So if you're in a rush and you have like, I really can't spend more than 5 minutes and this exists, you can do that. You can pop in. That's great.
Speaker 3:
[29:08] 100%. Yeah.
Speaker 1:
[29:10] Well, Bodie, thanks for explaining all this to us. As always, if people want more of your content, more of your thoughts on the automotive market, where should they go?
Speaker 3:
[29:20] Well, you should go to 918digital.com. You'll see all of the shows that I'm doing up there. Also, in the next three or so episodes, I have an interview with Kim Lundgren, who we talk about different things that cities can do to reduce their carbon footprint, if that's interesting to you. I talked to Max and I'm blanking on his last name, from EVs for All, which is basically their goal is to take the political side out of how your car is propelled.
Speaker 1:
[29:50] Oh, nice.
Speaker 3:
[29:51] Yeah, no, I mean, that's a stupid concept and I don't know why people do it, but that's where we are. Sure. And then I just got off today with Jill Ciminello and Jill is an auto journalist and we just geeked out on cars for like 30 minutes. It was awesome.
Speaker 1:
[30:11] So that's all at 918 Digital then.
Speaker 3:
[30:13] 918digital.com. Yes, sir.
Speaker 1:
[30:15] Fantastic. Thank you, Bodie.
Speaker 3:
[30:16] Thank you, Tom.
Speaker 1:
[30:18] I want fast charging cars.
Speaker 2:
[30:20] Right now.
Speaker 1:
[30:21] That car would have charged within the time of our talk.
Speaker 2:
[30:24] I love that so much. Just especially like my husband and I were like early EV adapters and it was fascinating because I remember having that range anxiety when we bought our first EV car and he used to like do road trips out to visit my mother-in-law out in the Midwest. We live in Colorado and she lives out in Minnesota. And I remember the conversations that we would have about trying to be strategic. This is like, what, 2018 or something. So I love it. I can't wait. I know. I know we literally just I know literally Bodie just said, OK, not not right right now, but just I'm just excited.
Speaker 1:
[30:58] But but it's on the horizon.
Speaker 2:
[30:59] It's on the horizon.
Speaker 1:
[31:00] Yeah. Makes it exciting.
Speaker 2:
[31:01] So cool. All right. Well, we end every episode of DTS with some shared perspectives today. Brandon tells us about a product that he's excited about.
Speaker 1:
[31:09] Yeah. Brandon writes, Good morning from Goa, India. I used to use Gboard and route my phones with custom ROMs. But after loads of hunting, I've come across an app called Whisperion out of Croatia. I run a yoga retreat center here and communicate with so many people on email and WhatsApp day to day. I have about 40 custom prompts on this app, dialing in every detail. I want the output to be like text replacements, profile-specific prompts, and I have it now where I can speak, and it outputs exactly how I want automatically. It really is like magic happening. I'm able to communicate with my voice to ChatGPT or Google Gemini or anyone via speech to text, basically my mind outputting on to the text field, and I can do it so easy. Recently Google launched, I think it's called Edge Elegant for the iPhone. I tested it the other day. It's just a standalone app, and it doesn't actually inject text yet, but it is pretty cool. You can see they're possibly trying to ramp up where this is going in the future. Anyway, I'm super excited about it. Love your show. It's nerdy and wonderful, and I thought I would share this with you. Have a great day. Take care, Brandon.
Speaker 2:
[32:12] Oh, I love that. I really, that's the kind of thing. So I, again, I'm obviously, I'm very unhappy about certain aspects of like this current generation of AI. And I do wonder about like something, actually this, I was reading an interview with the CEO of JetBrains, Carol, and he was like talking about AI washing, where companies tend to just throw AI at features regardless of need or like kind of functionality. But at the same time, like Brandon, I really feel like your use case is making me like, it shows like that, I don't know, this current generation of AI could also be like kind of democratizing certain like aspects of technology, things like that, that like people other than people who are really invested or like tinkerers could only be able to access. So I love this.
Speaker 1:
[32:59] It's cool. In fact, who was it that I was hearing yesterday on a podcast? Taylor Lorenz, actually, who was saying like, yeah, she's like, I try not to be mad at technologies. The technologies are very good. What companies do with them is an entirely different situation.
Speaker 2:
[33:19] Yeah, and that's what I think I struggle with. Even right now, I'm like, I guess put my engineering card on the table. I'm running through a little bit of an existential crisis slightly with what's going on. But I 100 percent agree with you that what my issues are, or what my worries are about the human interpretation and utilization of the technologies and not the technologies itself. It is really hard because obviously, it's that old argument about the technology versus the person, and it's easy to do that. But thank you, Brandon, for writing in and just showing a really great side to it. Yeah. Well, it's okay. Well, if you have something that you are excited about, or the opposite about, we want to hear about it. Share with us feedback at dailytechnewsshow.com.
Speaker 1:
[34:00] Yeah. Big thanks to Bodie Grimm and Brandon for contributing to today's show. Thank you for being along for Daily Tech News Show. You're the folks who keep us in business. You're the boss. patreon.com/dtns.
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