May 2, 2019
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Did you think Amazon was going to be the first to use drones to deliver stuff? Well, hey, guess what it ain’t Amazon. Another giant already got already FAA approval.
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Below is a rush transcript of this segment; it might contain errors.
Airing date: 05/04/2019
Slack Bridging Email - Spaceplane Nearing - Was Zuckerberg Involved In Blackmail - FAA Approves First Drone Delivery - US Airports To Scan All Travelers - Phone Scams And Dementia
Craig Peterson 0:00
Hello, hello. Good morning, everybody, Craig Peterson here.
We're going to answer some questions for you maybe even questions
you weren't aware that you had.
Craig 0:15
But man, there is some big stuff going on this week we're going to
be talking about.
Craig 0:20
I want to start with this Spaceplane thing. I think that's really,
really cool. The whole new story about the Zuck came out in
the news this week.
Craig 0:30
And did you think Amazon was going to be the first to use drones to
deliver stuff? Well, hey, guess what it ain't Amazon. At we've
got already FAA approval. And new scanner software hardware is
going to be installed in our airports, we'll talk about how that's
going to affect you. And a new sign here for early dementia
detection. And it has to do with the bad guys. Some new creepy
billboards you remember from Tom Cruise's movie, and where he's
walked by a billboard and it greeted him based on an eye scan,
retinal scan from a distance while there's some creepy billboards
in London tracking shoppers and kind of cool what they're doing,
kind of scary at the same time. And we will start with this one.
And it's a tool that I use. And so we'll call this our tool segment
today. And our team uses Slack. And if you're a business person,
frankly, this works well, for different organizations, it could be
your soccer team, etc. You can use it for free on the lower end.
But I use it in business and we pay a decent amount of money every
month. It's not like crazy. But it allows you to communicate,
basically, it replaces email within our team. And it does a very
good job of replacing email. They've been out there for about five
years, you can find find them online at Slack.com, just like its
name says. And they've been trying to kill email, which I don't
think will ever go away because we're still sending emails. And now
Slack is realized that and they've made email integration and
important part of what they're working. So here's what they've
done. They have integrated Slack with Office 365. They've also
integrated it with email and calendaring, all directly into Slack.
Now, that's really something cool. So in a few months from now,
with Slack, you'll be able to mention people in a channel who are
not necessarily in the channel. And it'll send them an email, or
you can even send them a direct message and will route the messages
to their email inboxes. I think that's going to be great replies
that they make will come straight back into Slack. And the whole
back and forth exchange will also transform a full Slack history if
the person decides to join Slack. So very cool. I like this. And
I'm thinking right now this might be a great way for us to do tech
support. And when one of our customers emails tech support goes
right into a Slack channel. Now it's not as good as what we're
using right now we have some professional tools that track it all
and age them and rate and grade and keep notes and stuff. But for
the occasional person like somebody pops onto your website, and
asks a question, that might actually be really good. So it's great,
go check it out. If you're not using it already Slack.com
Craig 3:43
Spaceplanes, we thought about these for a very long time. NASA has
worked on them. Many companies have worked on. Do remember, the
Concorde would travel twice the speed of sound. So what's that?
Like 1200 miles an hour, remember the speed of sound, I think it's
600 and something miles an hour. So it traveled very fast, and
remember it's faster, twice as fast as the speed of sound. And you
could take that from New York to London and return all in the same
day. It was just a phenomenal thing. And then they grounded them.
That technology was old, it was 30 40 years old. They grounded them
when one of the engines sucked some debris off of the runway into
an engine and of course, caused the engine to fail. And you know
what happened after that. It's pretty bad. Well, the idea of a
space plane is taking that whole Concorde approach even further. So
whereas the Concorde flew pretty high up, and it did break the
sound barrier, if you get into near space, you can travel extremely
fast, like some of the satellites are traveling, they orbit the
Earth in the matter of minutes, what 90 minutes, I think it is for
the space station up there. So you think about that. And wow, why
can't we do that? Well, the main reason has to do with heat, can
you believe that? Heat. Because you think about our space? What do
you think of you think of cold, you think it well, it's going to
leach the fluids right out of your body, the heat right out of your
body because it's almost absolute zero in outer space. And, you
know, that's just going to be terrible. So the biggest problem you
have in space people think is, wow, how do I stop from losing all
of my heat?
Craig 5:32
Well, think about here on Earth, if you are, let's say it's
just a regular day outside, let's say it's a nice day, it's 75
degrees outside. For those of you in Celsius, that you know, it's
about 20 to 25 maybe degrees outside. And it's a nice day. Are you
going to be out there with their sweater on and heavy coat? No, of
course not 75 degrees, it's a nice out, the sun can be out, it can
be warming you up, you might even be a little bit hot, right, if
the humidity is up there. Well, if you're a little hot at 75
degrees, how about Have you jumped into a 75 degree pool?
Craig 6:16
That water is going to cool you down very very quickly and you are
going to get hypothermic. Then that's going to happen pretty
quickly, right? You You're going to have to move you have to keep
those muscles go and try and create body heat in order to not die
right from from the cold. So what's the difference, then? Why is 75
degree air really nice, but 75 degree water is terribly cold
and you can die from it? Well, it's the same type of trick
when we're talking about space. The water, of course, is able to
suck the heat out of your body and transfer the cold and right it
conducts heat fairly well. Air does not conduct heat anywhere near
as well as water does. So the air, you're actually kind of
insulated, because it's not pulling, pushing the cold in and
pulling the warm out. So you see the difference between air and
water when it comes to how warm you feel and how cold you might
be?
Craig 7:26
Well, let's go to outer space.
Craig 7:30
Is outer space less dense than water? Yeah. Less dense than air?
Oh, yeah. Both right. So there is like basically nothing in outer
space. So when you're in outer space, one of the biggest problems
you have in space is how do I get rid of the heat I'm generating?
Now I'm not saying that if your body was in space, you wouldn't,
you wouldn't freeze and crack up and everything else. Okay, don't
get me wrong. I'm being very simplistic about this. But in outer
space, the real problem they have is getting rid of the heat.
Machines inside the space station, generate heat, how do we get rid
of that? Because we can't just dump it into the air. We can't use a
water chiller right to dump it into the air. We can't just
put a radiator down into a lake or a body of water and have that
dissipate the heat, can we because we're in outer space. There's
nothing to conduct the heat away. It's a very interesting problem.
And when I first heard about this years ago, I really had to think
about it. Well, why did the Concorde fly at mach 2 and not faster?
And you know, there's a number of reasons for that the type of
jets, you know, you get into the ram jets, the scram jets and
everything else. And I love this tech, it's so cool. Well, part of
the reason it could not go faster is the same reason that we have
trouble in space, they can't get rid of the heat, they couldn't get
rid of the heat fast enough. And that caused serious problems. And
when it comes to a Spaceplane,
you've got serious problems there, too. How do you get rid of the
heat from the engines. So if you launch in New York heading to
London, you're going to go like almost straight up for number of
miles, you're going to get into the very high atmosphere. And so
that you have something to help you burn and combust and everything
else. And then you're going to just run like crazy, until you get
into the approach and in the new go back into the main atmosphere
and go down. So how do you get rid of the heat while you're up
there, and they haven't been able to solve it.
Craig 9:47
But this week, this week, it was announced that they have solved
that problem. A Spaceplane that can fly 25 times faster
than the speed of sound, has passed this testing milestone.
Craig 10:03
It can go from London to New York in less than one hour, and could
go all the way from London to Australia in four hours. This is a
project that the European Space Agency and the UK space agency BA
Systems here in the US which of course is owned by Britain.
Craig 10:25
It has been working on for quite a while and they came up with
reaction engines pre-cooler for the plane. And this is technology
lots of travel faster than before. And I hope you're sitting down
because this absolutely blows my mind. The pre-cooler is critical
because it's required to stop the engine from melting down. Because
you can't get rid of the heat when you have that little air up
there. And it's able to lower the temperature of compressed air in
the engine for more than a thousand degrees Celsius to room
temperature in 1/20th of a second. They can take it from 1000
degrees, down to room temperature to 70 degrees to 20ish degrees,
22 Celsius. That's absolutely amazing. This thing apparently has
thousands of tubes inside it that's thinner than human hairs.
They've got liquid helium that can cool the air as it rushes past.
This is not so. So I looked up their timeline.
Craig 11:35
They're calling this Sabre, S-A-B-R-E, the next leap forward in
powered flight. And they are running behind a little little bit
here, which is just too bad. But they they did hit this, this main
problem. They did solve it. And they're about four years behind the
ears. I can tell looking at this chart from BA systems but
absolutely amazing what's happening with that.
Craig 12:06
Okay, this, Zuck, let's get on to Facebook, who trusts Facebook
anymore, right? But well, we're all still using it. Some people
aren't using Facebook anymore. And they're not using it because why
bother? Right? It's, I've got something else I like better.
Heck, we're using Slack for internal communications or we're, we're
doing however, right? People just aren't using it. The younger
generations definitely don't use it. They've got all of their
Snapchat type things. So the regular Facebook they're not using. So
considering all of that, you know, this decline in Facebook users
is not terribly surprising. But here's a problem that just came
out.
Craig 12:52
About 4000 pages have leaked Facebook company documents were
obtained by NBC News. Now these things included emails, web chats,
presentation, spreadsheets, meeting summaries, and they show how a
Zuckerberg along with his board and management team found ways to
tap Facebook's trove of user data including information about
friends, relationships and photos as leverage over companies
it partnered with Yes, indeed, Mark Zuckerberg is alleged to have
leverage the information people working at companies that Facebook
wanted to partner with. He used information to essentially
blackmail them.
Craig 13:40
So he was blackmailing. That's my word. That's not what NBC used.
They called it leverage. I call it blackmail. He allegedly
blackmailed people into making sweet deals for Facebook. He also
used it to help his friends. It's just crazy. And in some cases,
these documentation seems to show that Facebook would reward
favored companies by giving them access to the data of its users
and other cases, it would deny user data access to rival companies
or apps. And I kind of wonder, thinking back to the Obama, the
first Obama run where Facebook is alleged to have given Obama's
campaign every piece of data it had, you know, which makes the
whole thing with the Trump campaign look like a bunch of
amateurs.
Craig 14:31
I wonder if that was part of it. I wonder if that's going to come
out of NBC would even report on it if it were true, right. Facebook
gave extended Amazon access to user data because it was spending
money on Facebook advertising. Okay, partnering with social network
on the launch of its Fire smartphone. Yeah, wow. Just amazing.
Another case Facebook discuss cutting off access to user data for
messaging app that have grown to popular that was viewed as a
company editor according to the documents. So all of this is rather
interesting. By the way, on top of it all, Facebook is facing a
record fine, could be as much as $2 billion by the Federal Trade
Commission. So Facebook could be seen some hard times in the very
near future.
Craig 15:30
Now, let's move on to this story about Amazon and delivery
services.
Craig 15:32
Amazon, you might know is putting almost a billion dollars into
upgrading all of its systems to be able to do same day delivery
throughout most of the United States. That my friends is a very,
very big deal. And having same day delivery means they're going to
take even more business away from other big box retailers. You
know, Target and Walmart have both been struggling. We're trying to
figure out how do we compete. And so Amazon doing same day delivery
is part of its Prime service is really going to hurt them. So
they're going to have to step it up. I like what Walmart's done. I
don't pay much attention to Target. I'm not a Target fan at all.
After their massive data breach, I just I said forget about it. I
just don't need to go to a Target anymore. Plus that whole bathroom
policy thing. But Walmart has done a lot with having the delivery
of your goods being just you can pick it up, you can have it
delivered to your house, pre-order it. You can sit in the store
while they collect it. They've even got a nice little lounge area
for you while you're waiting. You know, they're trying to compete
on the ways they can compete and bravo to them.
Craig 16:58
Well, the next step beyond same day delivery is what? Next hour
delivery, right. And we saw a couple years ago, it was
711, who tried it. Do remember that this little project that they
launched, where they were delivering. The whole idea was they can
deliver you your soda and chips for the big game at the very last
minute. And I thought that was kind of cool. And it's not a bad
idea for 711, frankly, but I guess it didn't work out too well for
them because they certainly didn't roll it out further. Well, who's
going to win the delivery game? Well, I can tell you here who won
the first battle and this is from this week.
Google's offshoot job just got the FAA is first go ahead
for drone deliveries Google, not Amazon. So the FAA a week ago on
Tuesday, authorized something called Wing Aviation. That's a part
of Alphabet, which of course is Google Now. They authorized Wing
Aviation to start delivering goods via drones later this year.
They're going to start delivering commercial packages and unmanned
aircraft in Blacksburg, Virginia. I don't know why they're the
first ones but they're the first ones. They partnered with Mid
Atlantic Aviation Partnership and Virginia Tech, as a participant
in the transportation departments unmanned aircraft systems
integration pilot program.
Craig 18:24
Let's see, TDUA, I know it doesn't really spell anything. So maybe
that's why maybe Blacksburg is where Virginia Tech is. This is
really cool. This is all part of an initiative to accelerate drone
integration to help the Department of FAA devise rules surrounding
drones. It's a really important thing, everybody.
Craig 18:46
This is the first time the FAA has granted a so called air carrier
certification for drone delivery of items like food medicine, small
consumer products, Wing plans to reach out to the community before
getting started in order to get a sense of its needs. So this is
going to be interesting, Amazon we know has been working on drone
package delivery. But Amazon Prime Air for quite a while it's got
development centers in the US, UK, Australia, France and Israel.
George Mason University said a lot of students have some food and
drinks be delivered via drone on the ground. We've seen ground
drones as well, up in California at UC Berkeley, where Amazon has
these little drones that drive around campus to deliver pizza and
beer. I don't know about beer, but whatever it is the students can
get there on campus. It's Wall Street Journal insane, it probably
won't be until 2020 2021, before the FAA implements broader
rules that lay out the land, the land really for delivering
packages. There's a lot of issues here. But if you look at the
picture, I've got it up on my website at http://CraigPeterson.com
this drone. And it doesn't look like any drone you like you're
likely to have seen before. This thing is called a Wing, it kind of
looks like a wing. Actually, what it kind of looks like is a long
stick with a bunch of blades on the side that it uses to drive
around. So these things can be faster, cleaner, less expensive to
transport stuff around our our cities. And did you hear that? Our
Roomba just started up here. I got an automated drone, a little
little device that crawls around the the studio here and cleans it
up. So she's, she's off, I just hit the switch. It's all
controlled by WiFi.
Craig 20:42
Okay, I reported earlier about Facebook, and this largest civil
fine, it actually might be as much as $5 billion. I miss my note I
had put down on that. Okay, if you're departing from a US airport,
your face will be scanned, it's already being scanned in many of
our airports. And this happens as you're going through security,
you might not have known it. But here's what's happening right now
the US Customs and Border Protection is going to expand the program
and the use of facial recognition technology. And their goal is to
identify just about every person leaving the United States on a
commercial flight. Now remember US citizens in order to go out and
go back in reasonably easily, you need a passport, right? And so
they have your face, they have your picture. It's in a massive
database, and they're going to start using it. They're already
using this particular technology at 15 US airports already grabs a
photo of you as you're approaching the airport departure gate. It's
then compared to a visa passport applications to look for matches,
and then create an exit records they'll know when you leave. Now I
imagine they're going to keep track of when you come back as
well.
Craig 22:07
But if you don't have a match, you're going to get pulled aside for
closer inspection by Customs and Border Patrol. Now that's kind of
interesting too. Now in the fiscal year 2018 overstayed on these
visas was a problem, right. But they didn't have much technology in
place to try and find them. And they're saying this is in a report
that came out from Customs and Border Patrol. But they're saying
that they're going to be scanning 97% of departing commercial air
travelers. And they're saying it's highly reliable. They've already
scanned 15,000 flights. 7,000 passengers on those 15,000 flights
were detected as over stays. Isn't that amazing? And they only
started using the system 2017. So you can see why they look at this
as an important tool to control access here and watch for visa over
stays. Very interesting. Okay. Do you know somebody who's a little
older? We only have a couple of minutes left here.
Craig 23:16
One of the interesting signs according to see and n report here,
interesting signs of dementia, an earlier sign is falling for phone
scams.
Craig 23:31
So what happens is a scammer call up and they have a cheery voice
asking if you can use the first name. She doesn't remember entering
the sweepstakes, but he assures her that she's won. What matters is
that you've won all you need to do is we've got a unique investment
opportunity for you, if you send 200 bucks, you'll get 2000 return.
10 times return on investment. So she transferred 200 bucks to
them. And it kept escalating. And this according to Dr. Angela
Sanford, this particular case, who practices geriatric medicine is
St. Louis University Hospital, she was probably 10 or $12,000, into
this before the niece became aware of what was happening. So this
patient who was later diagnosed with mild cognitive impairment, had
not scored super low on memory test. she said. The problem in her
brain affected not the patient's ability to remember, but her
ability to judge. So keep an eye out for the seniors, you know,
this is a $3 billion dollar industry theft or defraud from millions
of seniors. That's according to the DOJ. And these creepy
billboards that are tracking shoppers over in the UK, we already
know that London is or at least was the most surveilled city in the
world. They have the most surveillance cameras up and they use it
to identify people. Well, it's not illegal in the UK. And I don't
think it's illegal in the US either to scan shoppers and not
informed them that you're scanning. So here's what's happening.
They have facial recognition software that doesn't recognize you
like the, you know, Customs and Border Patrol is doing. But what it
does is it recognizes your sex and your mood. So it knows well, we
just had a bunch of men and their young men walk into the store,
and they are happy, they're excited. They're sad, they're angry, it
figures out all of the sound. So the Sunday Times over there in the
UK, discovered 50 of these screens that show ads based on who's
walking by, their sex and their mood. Isn't that something.
And the companies are claiming they comply with the law, and the
legal requirement. An outdoor in the first tech companies use this
kind of tech. It's kind of interesting. They call it the lookout
system. And it's being used on billboards. So you can see a
picture. Again, it's up on my site at http://CraigPeterson.com. But
there's showing this Swarovski I guess it is ad, oh, I see they're
jewelry, I thought it was a clothing ad. And a big, big billboard,
one of these bright LED billboard, and a little tiny camera on top
kind of reminds me of an iPad or something right? And they measure
your level of happiness or sadness, and they end dwell time. And
they're changing the billboard based on the audience. So expect
more of that in the future. I'm sure that's coming here. If it's
not here already.
Craig 26:48
Well, thanks for listening today. I appreciate you guys being with
us. I ran a test the last couple of weeks over on YouTube. I put my
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a good great week everybody. Take care. Bye bye.
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