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we've heard a lot about government information in the u.s being taken offline by the executive branch today jen briney tells us what's happening to u.s congressional resources i'm tom merritt and i'm rob dunwood let's start with what you need to know with the big story

Bamboo Labs, B-A-M-B-U, not B-A-M-B-O-O, uses the Maker World brand to sell components for 3D printing for toys and some smart gadgets and things like that. But it's taking some inspiration from Lego, like Lego Mindstorm a little bit, to combine what it does well into something it's calling Cyber Brick.

The Cyberbrick system combines its printable models with wireless controllers and chip modules, and you can print everything else. It's a supercharged toy ecosystem with endless possibilities. All you need is hardware and a 3D printer to create. A solder-free, programmable core built for versatile reuse, paired with functional shields, motors, servos, joysticks, and more.

Brilliant ideas from creators and designers worldwide, ready to go and ready to play instantly at your fingertips. Starter kits include some pre-printed parts as well as the chip modules to assemble a truck, a forklift, a soccer bot, and remotes in various combinations. So if you don't have a 3D printer but you just want to play around with this, you can get those kits. There are lots of other options including some that don't include the pre-printed parts in case you want to print those yourself.

And in fact, the ones that are pre-printed are a little more expensive. They're around a hundred bucks. Whereas the ones with just the modules and the 3D designs will save you money. They're around 30 bucks. The pre-printed toys are just to get you started and they will not be available after the Kickstarter closes. So this is just a way to kind of get you to the Kickstarter, get you in the door. The system is really meant for folks with 3D printers who want to use the modules, the different chips and wires and connectors,

to build whatever they want and then share designs with each other. Community designs are already out there. They include a walking table and a lunar rover, for example. Apps are available for PC and mobile, and those will let you program the modules as well. So you can use pre-configured options or you can go in and do some switches and customize or even do full on Micro Python coding if that's what you want.

You are also not limited to Bamboo Labs printers. You can use any printer within the realm of printers that work with this kind of thing. You can get the Cyber Brick kits on Kickstarter until mid-April. After that, you're going to look for them in the Makers Supply section at

bamboo lab.com there are lots of other ways to do this from other makers uh i imagine some folks are thinking of duet 3d or smoothie board or something like that but the cyber brick system seems pretty user friendly and it's designed to get people into 3d printing not just for people who are already there uh even for those who are already there and do like doing a lot of coding it seems like it's pretty well designed if proprietary uh for a system rob does this get your creative juices flowing

I know it's only Monday, Tom, but this is the coolest thing I've heard all week. As someone who grew up playing with Lego and the record sets and all this kind of stuff and doing all this little tinkering stuff. I mean, I had a lot of Lego. Even into college, I played with Lego. This just sounds so cool to actually be able to print some of this stuff off to save yourself a little bit of money. But the fact that you can actually make the parts at your house and put them together like you can Lego is kind of cool.

Yeah, I thought they did a really good job of integrating all this together, making it truly easy. I don't know how many people are really gonna go to a Kickstarter if they don't know anything about this, but if you've been kind of curious and you're like, "Well, maybe I will buy a 3D printer, but let me see what I can do with it," it's not a bad idea.

And like I said, even if you're somebody who's like, well, I can do all this stuff myself, you don't have to, right? Like this is going to give you a nice integrated system out of the box. So yeah, you can do it all yourself. And sometimes that's more fun depending on who you are. But if you're a little bit lazy, this will get you farther down the road of being creative. Definitely so. Do-it-yourself is cool, but do-it-yourself with assistance is cooler. I mean, it's just like, I don't have to create all of this stuff.

And the thing you don't think about when you're 3D printing, they have air. Sometimes the part just didn't work and you got to print it over. You got to print it over. So there's that. This eliminates a bit of that while still giving you that ultimate tinker to where, yeah, I could build this on my printer. So I'm, like I said, this is one of the coolest things I've seen. I know it's just Monday, but this is pretty cool. Yeah.

Yeah, no, I like the idea of like, let's say you buy one of the pre-printed things. Even if you have a printer, it allows you to like get right to seeing what the modules can do, what the different chip sets can do and mess with the wireless controlling. And that's going to give you a better idea of like, oh, I bet I could print this. I bet I could make this. So yeah, very cool. DTNS is made possible by you, the listener. Thanks to Mike Akins, Norm Fazekas, Chris Allen, and Alejandro.

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The Financial Times reports that Alphabet is selling off Tayara, but will retain a minority stake. Tayara is developing long-distance internet delivery using tower-mounted lasers. Alphabet took a technology from Loon. It's a balloon-based internet experiment. Tayara is the ground-based portion that can distribute high-speed internet through a series of tower-mounted lasers spaced up to 12 miles apart. While it has not developed a consumer-facing process, it is being used as backhaul for some fiber networks.

Yeah, I always wonder why Alphabet decides to spin stuff out and why it decides to keep something, right? So Waymo is the most famous example of one of its other bets that isn't Google, that has continued to be in-house and seems to be proceeding well. This seems like, I know sometimes when they spin them off, it seems like a failure. To me, it seems like they said, oh, this is of limited use, maybe not a company on its own, but it could be useful for other companies to own.

We will see. Line of sight, that's why it's 12 miles. There's curvature of the earth and everything. But this is not inexpensive technology. So we'll just see if they spin it off and if it moves anywhere. I don't know that it will. I don't know that it won't. I think this is a we'll see when it comes out.

Yeah, it feels like the kind of thing that an infrastructure provider, right? Somebody who contracts its services to build networks for telcos would want to have this in their toolbox. Like, here's an option. We could do this rather than a whole business all on its own.

Gemini 2.0 Flash's image editing capabilities are really good. So good that it apparently could remove watermarks from existing photos really well. Watermarks are meant to identify the owner of the photo. Probably the most famous is Getty Images. If you see a photo and it has the Getty Images watermark to let you know like, hey, you didn't pay Getty for this, you can't use it.

Gemini is not the only model that can do this, but apparently it's the best at doing it, and it's free to use in Google's AI studio. One example someone posted showed them removing a Getty Images watermark and replacing it with its own. Gemini 2.0 Flash is experimental. It's not for production use, but...

Most models, even when they're not, try to detect activity like removing watermarks and prohibiting them. Removing a watermark is often considered illegal. So even though this tool can do it, it doesn't mean you should. - It can do it, which means people will. - Oh, definitely they will. I'm just saying, you know, if you're taking our advice, don't do it. But yeah, people are probably good. People are doing it. People are doing it and posting the results online.

Roblox is open sourcing a foundational 3D generative model called Cube3D. From a text prompt, it can create 3D models suitable for use in Roblox, though not limited to that. Eventually, it will be able to take images as prompts as well. The model was trained and licensed on public data as well as data from within Roblox.

Yeah, I mean, if no one plays Roblox, you have to realize that making 3D things to use in the game and to sell to other people in the game is a huge part of Roblox success. So making it faster and easier for people to make those 3D models is going to be a big advantage and accelerate that, one would think, right? Absolutely.

Representatives of around 100 organizations sent an open letter to both European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and the EU's digital chief, Henne Verkoenen, asking the European Commission to foster homegrown tech across things like apps, generative models, chips, computing, storage, and communications.

and connectivity. The letter described the need for a sovereign digital infrastructure, including the development of a Eurostack. This draws from a paper written in January by competition economist Christina Kaffara. Airbus, Nextcloud and Proton were among the organizations represented.

Meanwhile, Turkey is planning to introduce legislation of its own that imitates the EU and would prevent tech companies from favoring their own services. Allow third party app installations. It's a familiar refrain if you've been following EU regulations. It would also restrict what companies can do with user data. Rob, it kind of seems like we are seeing a trend towards everybody wanting to keep things within their borders.

It's definitely a trend. I would say that the writing was kind of on the wall, but the EU is like, hey, we need to protect ourselves to make sure that in case places where we're getting a lot of parts from, places where we're getting a lot of tech from, if we're not as friendly with them in the future, we need to make sure that we're still okay. So I don't think that anyone would be surprised that this is the way the world is kind of going now.

it's unfortunate though and i and i don't mean this but to point a finger at the us or the eu or china or anybody else but when you have easier cooperation across borders you have more innovation because you have freer flowing of ideas uh and you're able to say like oh that company's the best at that let's use them instead of saying well they're the best at that but they're in a country we don't get along with so we have to come up with our own way of doing it that just slows things down and

It's unfortunate that we're hitting that patch that's going to slow innovation. On the other hand, I think a lot of people are like, you know, innovation's been moving too fast anyway. So maybe some people are happy about that. I don't know. There might be. There probably are some folks that are happy, but you're right. It is kind of a, you know, hey, it's a different world that we're living in. I understand it. But, you know, if you are a sovereign country, you have to protect yourself. So this is the world that we are now living in. Yeah, for sure.

Google has started telling people on the legacy free G Suite accounts that they will soon lose individual free 15 gigabytes of storage. Instead, they'll have access to a pooled storage model within whatever organization they set up. The amount of storage across the entire account won't be reduced and individual accounts can't have limits. So it's really putting the allocation management on the account owner. And if you're the only user, it won't really affect you that much.

I think Google is fairly maligned for ending things and not always being attuned to the user, but they have been keeping these free G Suite accounts, which there is no such thing as G Suite anymore. It's Google Workplace. They have been keeping these around for a long time. And I think they would have been well within their rights to say, you know, we promised you these free accounts, but we can't keep them up anymore. They made the mistake of saying you could have this forever when they launched them, but...

So let's give them a little bit of credit for sticking with that. I don't know whether this is a bad change or not. I know some people set up G Suite accounts just for themselves, so it's really not going to make a difference to them, like you said. But there are some free G Suite accounts across smaller organizations out there.

And this just means more administration. So it's a little bit of a headache of management more than anything else. So I believe it or not, I used to whenever I would set up a domain name, would set up a G Suite domain to go along with it. It was free and you could do you could do, you know, very cool things with it.

And I probably had over a dozen at one point. Now I'm down to two and I make sure that I'm logging in. These are accounts that I actually use, but I'm the only one that's on either of those accounts. So I think for me, it's not gonna really matter as much as well. I don't even know that I need to do anything because if you don't do anything, you still have the 15 gigs that you had before. And it'll just, like I said, I'm only using them for email.

So I think most people are probably liking the boat that I'm in. They're really not going to have to pay much attention to this other than know that things are now managed a bit differently. Yeah.

At the Game Developers Conference, Qualcomm announced new chips for handheld gaming systems, you know, like Steam Deck, stuff like that. The Snapdragon G3 Gen 3 is for top-end handhelds, like your fully specced out ones, like the Steam Deck. The G2 Gen 2 is for standard handhelds, and the G1 Gen 2 is for game streaming devices. You're not doing a lot locally on those.

Qualcomm announced three devices coming to that top-end chip, the G3 Gen 3. Two from IONO will come in March and another one in May. And the one that's getting a lot of attention is the 1X Player One X Sugar One. That's a happening. I know. The 1X Sugar One is the name of the device. It's coming in May, and it's the first Android-based gaming device with dual screens.

So you can play it like a normal handheld with that wide main screen and the controllers on the sides, or you can slide out a second screen, flip the controls down, and then you've got something that looks more like a huge Nintendo DS.

Sounds kind of cool. And it sounds like something you might actually be able to get as compared to GPUs that go in computers, which are the hardest things on earth to find these days. Right. No kidding. You'll be able to get something with this chip in May or March in one case.

China's BYD has announced a new battery for its electric vehicles that it says can charge up to 470 kilometers of range. That's 292 miles in five minutes. The battery will require new charging infrastructure, which BYD says it will set up. The first models of the new battery will be in the HL and the Tang L sport utility vehicles. They sell for around $35,000 to $40,000.

Yeah, this won't be something that will be outside of China because that's where they're going to start building the infrastructure. But if other people can replicate this or if BYD licenses it out, and if it turns out to be as good as they say it is, five-minute charging, man. Granted, you're going to have to have a car with a special battery in it, but that's equivalent to pulling up and filling yourself up with gas. I was going to say the same thing. That is regular just pulling up and filling up your F-150. It takes you five minutes to do that, too.

If other companies aren't working on this, they need to be because this is where you need to be. When you can say that you just go to the filling station, the charging station, whatever station you wanna call it, and you're just there the same amount of time that you would use to fill up a combustion engine, now you're talking.

Yeah. Grandpa, you used to have to use AI to plan out a route for when you would stop and charge your EV. Oh, yeah. Back in the day. Yeah. This is a good advance. I hope it proves to be as good as they say it is. Amazon sent an email to customers who had chosen to process voice commands on device. That is an option you had to say, like, don't ever send my recordings to the cloud. Just process them on device. They can't do that anymore. That option will be disabled starting March 28th.

The option prevented your voice from being sent to Amazon servers at all. And Amazon, especially several years ago, was found to not always be safeguarding that data as well as people thought they should. So now you won't be able to say don't send those recordings on.

It reduced the functionality a little bit, but not a lot. So there were a number of people that did this, but Amazon's promising to bring in its brand new voice assistant technology this summer, and that needs the cloud. It needs those bigger GPUs, which is why they're probably doing this. Amazon says, however, it will no longer store recordings. So even though you're sending them to the cloud, it says it will delete them after processing. But this is enough that a lot of people are going to stop using their Echos, don't you think?

I would imagine that a fair amount are going to stop using them. But I bet that the utility of it, that there's going to be more people who are going to actually go out and buy new Eccles just because there's new stuff that, oh, this is like chat GPT, but it's Alexa. So I think that there's going to be more people like that than there will be that are saying, you know what, this is just too far. The pedal's been kicked too far for me. I am too security conscious and can't do it.

Yeah. And the other thing to keep in mind is if you have voice ID where it can tell who's talking to it, you will have to turn this off by March 28th or you will lose that voice print. Now, it's not the end of the world. You can retrain it if you really want to. But there are a couple of little things to read. If you did get this email and skipped over it, you might want to pull it out of the trash bin and read over it again just to make sure you're set up. Unless you're just like, you know what, I'm going to delete this thing and get out of there. I don't imagine the

majority of people using Echoes have this option on, but I know there's a number of them. Snap announced Monday that it's launching the ability to create lens and sport spectacles glasses that use GPS, GNSS, compass heading, and hand tracking. Spectacles are available to members in its $99 a month developers program.

I just keep an eye on Spectacles. It's a long game they're playing, but they're really, really adding a lot of interesting things. And this ability to create lenses can create some augmented reality stuff that would be pretty impressive if this were a widespread product. And we know meta is kind of leading the way in getting people to use these kinds of glasses, but Snap could sort of, quote unquote, come out of nowhere at any point with a consumer version of this because of all the development they've been doing around it.

They've been doing a ton of development. And still, even though you don't think of Snap when you think of the other social media platforms, it's ginormous. There are a lot of people who still use Snap. So if they do do something, they're going to have a base of folks who would try it out and say, oh, this actually kind of works. Yeah, definitely. Those are the essentials for today. Let's dive a little deeper into an ongoing story. We got a good follow up today.

We've covered the effect of changes in the U.S. policy on science with Dr. Nikki, but what about government information for all of us? Tom Cech was the only person in the world who actually reads U.S. bills and laws to find out how she has been affected. Jen Briney, host of Congressional Dish, thank you for talking to me today. Thanks for having me. It's good to have you back.

Everyone assumes that the entire government web online universe is in flux. But so I was surprised when I asked you how it's affecting you, that it seems like all the information you rely on is still there. Is that right? Yeah, I am thrilled to be the bearer of good news for a change. Everything is there. Congress has been completely unaffected.

And I think there's an explanation for that because the information I use is through the congressional record. So the government printing office and then the clerk of the house and the Senate, like it's, it's the Congress people that are in charge of that. So it's the same people that were in charge before the Trump administration are in charge of it now. But I have found if anything, like a few years ago, my documents would come out late and it would mess with my schedule a little bit. They have been on time. They have been complete. Um, everything in Congress has been,

Great. That is a sentence I imagine a lot of people wouldn't have expected to hear. And I guess, yeah, the explanation is that a lot of the cuts and changes and efficiency pursuing is happening in the executive branch, but we're talking about the legislative branch for what you cover.

Exactly. And they're completely disconnected. So the Trump administration is actively breaking things, but they have no authority over what goes on in the legislative branch. So where the Trump administration, it seems like they're everywhere because the executive branch has so many departments and agencies in it. But yeah, Congress is really in the control of Mike Johnson and...

It's not Mitch McConnell anymore over in the Senate. I can't remember who's the majority leader. John Thune, right? Thank you. Isn't it Senator Thune? Yes, it's Thune now. Yeah. I'm a fan of his take on net neutrality. That's the only reason I remember his name. Yeah. Yeah. I just like completely blanked there, but they're the ones that are in charge of what's happening over in Congress. And Thune for his...

For his side, he's been in Congress forever. Mike Johnson is relatively new, but he also ran it for the last two years where everything was fine. So that transition on the presidential side really doesn't affect them. So I bet a lot of people wonder, well, what is there? And as I said, you...

read the Congressional Record. You rely on this kind of information. And I think a lot of people would be curious to know what could they find if they went looking. So do you mind kind of sharing some of your regular sources? Sure. I'm absolutely obsessed with the Congressional Record because the Congressional Record has a couple different parts. The first few pages are what I read every day. It's called the Daily Digest.

So it will tell you everything that happened in the house and the Senate, every bill that was worked on every amendment that was passed or failed every bill that pastor failed. It'll tell you what emergencies were extended by the president. Cause he has to send a message to Congress. Every time that happens, it tells you every hearing that happens in the house and the Senate. So I love the daily digest.

And then if I want context on whatever happened, you can go into the actual congressional record part, which has a transcript of everything that happened on the House and Senate floor. And so it's very easy to look through the PDF to find the section where they were debating that bill that I'm curious about and find out why did people vote for it or against it or what happened.

So that's the congressional record that also has the links that go out to all of the different votes. And so if you're looking through the congressional record on congress.gov, it's really easy to use those hyperlinks to see how your representatives did things. It's a beautiful archive once you know how to use it.

And then also in Congress, I depend heavily on the congressional websites for all the different committees. And these are a little bit messier because those are controlled by the parties. And so when the party switches in one branch of Congress, a lot of times those will break. So right now, if you were to go to the committees in the house, you'll see a lot of them in the URL will say that it's like the Republicans version.

But I'm pleased to say that all of them have been really good about maintaining their calendars and their hearings. And so most of the job that I do for Congressional Dish is I'm looking at the legislation they're working on, which I can get from congress.gov, and I'm watching the hearings, which have been reliably at least linked to on their website. The House links to YouTube's and then the Senate has a very old and janky

Akamai is what they're using. I don't know anyone who uses that outside the Senate. - Okay, what's interesting about that, I could shed a little light. Akamai is like a backend provider. They're what's called a CDN. So usually they provide hosting for data for other websites. I wouldn't be shocked if some of YouTube, even though Google has its own cloud stuff,

served by Akamai. So the Senate is just going direct to the source, which in some ways, I guess, might be cost effective, but also it means you're not getting any of the front end development or any of that sort of thing that you would get from a consumer facing provider. That is interesting.

Yeah, that was, I need to download these videos so it's easy for me to do on YouTube. And it was only thanks to the audience of the Daily Tech News Show when I complained about this a couple of years ago, you guys figured out how to get me those downloads. So I'll be forever grateful. But yeah, everything has been nice and smooth and I'm getting all my information. It's been no different whatsoever.

If someone, and whether they're a citizen of the U.S. or somewhere else, and they're just interested, like I heard this bill was being discussed, or I just want to know what they actually did today in Congress. Do you just go to congress.gov and it's easy to find the record? What's the easiest way to find all that stuff?

Yeah. If you go to congress.gov, you can browse by date. And so that's a really good way to find if you're looking for something that happened on a specific date, they have it separated between the daily digest, the house and the Senate, and then the full version. So it's really easy to find that way.

Also, if you want to find a specific bill, if you know the bill number, that's really powerful. You just want to make sure that you are looking in the correct Congress because I don't think people realize there's a lot of zombie bills in Congress. So you'll look up a title, but it might have been introduced for the last...

10 years. So there would be five different versions of it or the same version five times, but you have to make sure you're looking. We're currently in the 119th Congress. So yeah, it's congress.gov. It's really easy to find stuff once you try. And I know, you know, for my own purposes, if I'm, if I'm,

interested in a bill, let's say the TikTok bill that went into effect last year, I can usually find a story referencing the title of it. And if I know the title but not the bill number, is that helpful at all?

Sometimes. Okay. So the, the Tik TOK bill is a really good example of this because there was a Tik TOK bill and then there was the version that became law. The bill actually failed. So if you were to look up that on congress.gov, it will tell you that it didn't become law because the version that did was almost an identical copy. There was a small change, nothing significant.

But the part that became law was a part of a bigger package. And so if you looked up the title of that, you would get the part, the one that actually isn't what you're looking for. It would be old information. It's different from what's actually law. So you do kind of have to know,

the route that these bills have taken because a lot of times there's more than one version. - Those are good tips. So try to find the actual number of the one that passed, if you can, which you might be able to find from other sources and also know which Congress you're dealing. What number Congress are we at again? I totally forgot and you just told me. - The 119th. - 19th, okay, 119th. Any other tips that you could think that the general audience might be interested to know before we let you go?

Not really. I feel like the most interesting stuff is the hearings. I will give a shout out to C-SPAN. So if you're just looking for interesting stuff in general, C-SPAN, they get to choose which hearings that they cover. So being the adorable nerds that they are, they do tend to have their finger on the pulse of what are going to be the most interesting hearings and they send their camera crews there.

to those. So if you don't want to deal with any of this congressional archives, cause there is a ton of information in there. If you're just looking for the highlights,

C-SPAN's a really good place to go. They've done a beautiful job with their archive. It's an amazing service they've done for our country. Yeah, and it goes back forever, like into the '70s and sometimes even farther before C-SPAN even existed. They've collected things. So I'll second that. I would also add listening to the Congressional Dish is a good way to keep up. Jen's doing Last Week in Congress now, which

I personally love like that is that is must listen for me as soon as it comes out. So thank you for doing that. Oh, thank you. I'm actually enjoying it. I thought I would hate it. It's extra work, but I'm actually really enjoying it. So thank you for saying that. That's good. If folks want to follow you on Congressional Dish or anywhere, where should they go?

Well, it's available everywhere that podcasts are found and we do have the audio up on YouTube. And then if you want last week in Congress, that is on my Patreon. That is for people who pay only. So if you support my work, then you can get all of that extra information. All right, Jen Bridie, thank you so much. Thanks for having me.

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