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Speaker 1: All right, all right, let's get to some tech news
Speaker 1: and stuff here. Obviously the news about tariffs are impacting
Speaker 1: lots of things technology related. Uh, but not just yet.
Speaker 1: Keep that in mind. Stuff that is here in the
Speaker 1: country already that was made someplace else has not been tariffed.
Speaker 1: So if you're you're on the fence about buying, you know, whatever,
Speaker 1: time maybe to do it now rather than wait, you know,
Speaker 1: a month or two when new supplies come in that
Speaker 1: are subject to tariffs. And again it will also depend
Speaker 1: on what country they're coming in from.
Speaker 2: That said, is that what you're talking about with TVs
Speaker 2: and phones.
Speaker 1: Le' get to that here. Apple has proactively airlifted planeloads.
Speaker 1: It's being described as planeloads full of iPhones and max
Speaker 1: ahead of the tariffs that went into effect against China.
Speaker 1: Mainly at this point where things are right now, China
Speaker 1: is who's getting hit the hardest by the US and
Speaker 1: post tariffs now at one hundred and twenty five percent.
Speaker 1: Right As for the other countries involved, the reciprocal tariff
Speaker 1: was paused for ninety days, all right, The ten percent
Speaker 1: across the board tariff is in effect for all those
Speaker 1: other countries, and there's about eighty five country is right
Speaker 1: now that if come to the US saying let's renegotiate
Speaker 1: our trade deals in tariffs. So this is an evolving situation.
Speaker 1: The real target here with all of this is China, obviously,
Speaker 1: because so much stuff we consume comes from there.
Speaker 2: You can't you can't look at a product without the
Speaker 2: majority of them that's see in China.
Speaker 1: Now, as it pertains to other products like televisions, obviously
Speaker 1: a lot of the Apple stuff made in China. So
Speaker 1: that's why Apple proactively got stuff in here to keep
Speaker 1: the supply chain full for the time being TVs. A
Speaker 1: lot of TVs made in China too, especially if you're
Speaker 1: looking for a High Sense or a TCL. Those are
Speaker 1: Chinese brands and considered budget brands here in the US.
Speaker 1: The ones the product that's here now you can get
Speaker 1: at the existing prices, But anything that's going to come
Speaker 1: in after the fact, you probably expect to go up.
Speaker 1: What about some of the other TV manufacturers, big names
Speaker 1: like Sony and LG and Samsung, Imson. Some of their
Speaker 1: stuff is made in China, but not nearly all of it.
Speaker 1: A lot of those manufacturers assemble stuff bound for the
Speaker 1: US in Mexico, which will be the ten percenter deal here.
Speaker 1: And again there's a lot of inventory currently in the US.
Speaker 1: If you're on the fence about purchasing a TV, probably
Speaker 1: would be better to do it sooner than waiting a
Speaker 1: month or two where it may go higher.
Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, So the way I look at it
Speaker 2: and Layman's terms, I'm gonna still walk into a store
Speaker 2: and see what the price is. If it's affordable, then
Speaker 2: I'll get it. If not, but that's if I need it.
Speaker 1: A lot of gamers looking forward to the Nintendo Switch too,
Speaker 1: Is that price going to be affected. Well, we already
Speaker 1: know it's launching June fifth, and it's going to cost
Speaker 1: four hundred and fifty dollars, which is up substantially from
Speaker 1: the three hundred dollars price point for the predecessor. That
Speaker 1: price point is not going to change. Japanese run Nintendo
Speaker 1: says that it will still be a price said four
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty dollars. So there's that. And then what
Speaker 1: about the TikTok situation? How's that going to be affected
Speaker 1: with things being ratcheted up between the US and China.
Speaker 1: Deal is still on the table, according to administration. They
Speaker 1: extended the deadline another seventy five days ahead of all
Speaker 1: this air of stuff. And uh, this may be one
Speaker 1: of these deals that comes down to push comes to
Speaker 1: shove at some point. I don't I don't think Bite
Speaker 1: Dances just want to goin to give up the US market.
Speaker 1: But yet you still need China to sign off on
Speaker 1: the deal, So they're kind of at a you know,
Speaker 1: a head's there, so keep an eye on that one
Speaker 1: as well.
Speaker 2: And this is blood he texted in goodbye Timu.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that the the Chinese Amazon of sorts. They're
Speaker 1: they're probably not real happy right now. This is interesting.
Speaker 1: Jeff Bezos is apparently funding a secretive ev startup based
Speaker 1: out of Michigan called Slate Auto that could start production
Speaker 1: as soon as next year timing on this. Apparently this
Speaker 1: has been in the works in evolving since twenty twenty
Speaker 1: two and now they're geting ready to fire up production.
Speaker 1: This may be an example of striking while the iron's hot.
Speaker 1: With all the Tesla controversy that's going on right now,
Speaker 1: you see an opportunity in business, you got to jump
Speaker 1: in and take it when you can. Right So, we'll
Speaker 1: see if you start hearing more about Slate Auto in
Speaker 1: their EV line that they're going to be offering. And
Speaker 1: finally we have this for Virginia. High school students have
Speaker 1: created an app to identify oral cancer. It uses a
Speaker 1: smartphone to take a picture of a person's mouth and
Speaker 1: then scans the image and produces information on whether or
Speaker 1: not there's a cancerous tumor inside. The app uses AI
Speaker 1: and Company. The app uses AI and compares the person's
Speaker 1: picture to images of hundreds of others that are healthy
Speaker 1: or have benign and malignant tumors.
Speaker 2: That's pretty cool.
Speaker 1: The students say they're working on getting FDA approval to
Speaker 1: get the app into the App Store and play Store.
Speaker 1: They also plan to make the app free. Good for them, Yeah,
Speaker 1: good for them, Well done. All right, So that's what
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