Hello and welcome to SED News. As I'm sure many of you know, this is the different format of SE Daily where we cover tech headlines. We go into a bigger topic in the middle

and then we look at some hacker news highlights towards the end. So as usual, it's myself,

Gregor Vand, and we've got Sean Falconer as well. Hey, everyone. Hey, Gregor. Hey. Yeah. So we are recording

this a little bit closer to our last one than

maybe usual but there's been no shortage of news but as usual yeah i think we've also been doing

a lot even in the last two to three weeks so yeah what have you been up to since we last chat with

i personally i guess the big news on my end is I bought a new house.

Oh, nice. So I'm... Sweet. Yeah. Trying to do all the things that you need to do to buy a house here,

move while also simultaneously trying to keep my work life going and also my kids fed and showing up for

school and stuff like that. So it's been a lot to balance, but it's exciting.

And then I have upcoming travel off to Seattle and then Washington, D.C. in a few weeks as well.

Yeah, busy. Well, again, great that you can also be on SED News.

Absolutely. I mean, this is, of course, prioritry, number one. Who cares about those kids eating or not?

Yeah. So I just

delay signing of the house for a day so we can get SED news done. Exactly. Yeah, on my side,

I was actually in Tokyo all of last week. So my work set up basically allows me to work from

anywhere, which is very nice. But I mean, I do base myself in Singapore most of the year.

But yeah, Tokyo, favorite city of mine. But yeah, I hadn't been in a couple years. I was hoping to see maybe a little bit more tech advancements there. I guess what I mean by that is it still

doesn't feel that when you're kind of using public services, technology has been thought about. It's always like

an afterthought. For example, there's a high-speed train from the Narita Airport, which is the one

that's further away actually from the city. So that's why they have a high-speed train. And yet to get the

ticket for the train, even if you like pre-purchase it and you have a QR code,

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