FOXTEL users have reported their Samsung Smart TVs are making the dumb move of randomly inserting ads during movies.
The problem, which has been acknowledged on Foxtel’s website as a
Samsung problem, comes the day after the news media jumped on spying
concerns after the wording of Samsung’s privacy terms made headlines.
BIG BROTHER: Your TV could be spying on you
The
glitch, which has been reported by several people using Foxtel apps
through their Samsung smart TV, is that the TV randomly inserts a Pepsi
ad that displays silently on the screen.
A Foxtel spokesman today
said: “This was an unintentional action by Samsung that we’re working
closely with them to resolve ASAP.”
The problem came to light when Foxtel users began reporting the problem on the Foxtel support website.
Samsung released a statement this morning apologising for the glitch which it blamed on a unintended software update.
“Samsung
Electronics Australia is aware of an issue that has caused some Samsung
Smart TV users to experience program interruption in the form of a
Pepsi advertisement,” the statement said.
“This was a result of an
error that occurred as part of a recent software update that was not
intended for the Australian market.
“We can confirm that the issue
has now been rectified and that there are currently no plans to
introduce this type of advertising in Australia in the near future.
Samsung Electronics Australia would like to apologise for any
inconvenience that this has caused to our customers.”
Big Auto is watching you behind the wheel of that hackable car
A new study of the mobile data and wireless electronic systems proliferating in cars says they present serious security problems as well as potential threats to individual privacy. The report coming Monday from Senator Ed Markey’s office is based on information from 16 car makers, the New York Times says, and looks at not only how wireless systems leave vehicle electronics vulnerable to hacking, but also at the wholesale collection of data on driving history.
ARM puts IoT security center stage with Offspark acquisition
The microprocessor design company that plays a dominant role in the mobile space has bought what it calls the leading security company in the Internet of Things arena. ARM Holdings said Monday it’s buying Dutch company Offspark, developer of the PolarSSL embedded Transport Layer Security technology.
Alibaba funds Chinese phonemaker to support its own mobile OS
Alibaba is investing US$590 million in a small phone maker in China that’s put its hardware behind Alibaba’s YunOS operating system. Meizu is a little-known handset vendor but it has a phone that runs Alibaba’s mobile OS—an Android competitor which the e-commerce giant sees as a platform for popularizing its own Internet services.
Pols want Verizon’s supercookies probed
Three U.S. senators want an investigation into whether Verizon Wireless’ use of so-called supercookies to track the online activities of its subscribers amount to privacy violations. They’re also considering new legislation targeting such tactics. Verizon has said it will let consumers opt out, but privacy advocates favor requiring an opt-in.
Corning has a followup to Gorilla Glass
The developer of the super-tough Gorilla Glass that’s made it less traumatic to accidentally drop your mobile device has an even hardier substance waiting in the wings. Corning Glass told an investor conference that it has a product that’s as drop-resistant as Gorilla Glass, with a scratch-resistance that “approaches” synthetic sapphire, Cnet reported.
Medical fraud worries on the rise with Anthem hack
The breach of U.S. health insurer Anthem that was revealed last week may reflect a trend for hackers to go where the richest information is—and with the move to electronic health records, the spotlight may be on medical targets. Not only do the records frequently have a broad and deep set of personal and credit information, but they also provide the data to enable medical identity theft. Meanwhile, healthcare as an industry is under-invested in cybersecurity relative to other businesses like banks.
Mobile wallets have a trust problem
If mobile wallets and payment apps have been slow to take off, it may be because consumers’ trust in them is eroding, not growing, according to a recent survey of 15,000 mobile users in 15 countries. Not only do many mobile users believe the systems aren’t secure, they are also concerned about having to share too much personal information when enabling an app.
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DARPA is planning fast, cheap satellite launches: it wants to send orbiters weighing 100 pounds or less into low earth orbit within 24 hours for less than $1 million per launch.
I know nothing about wine other than reds give me an unfairly severe
hangover if I drink more than two glasses of it. Thus, I tend to shy
away from wine except for holiday dinners and special occasions. For
Valentine's Day, particularly one that allows me to recuperate on a
Sunday, I will look for a good bottle of red for my wife and I to drink
with dinner.
Since I don't buy wine with regularity, I am quickly
overwhelmed by the selection of wines at my local wine store or by any
wine list at a restaurant. Armed with a wine app however, I have become a
more confident wine buyer.
Vivino Wine Scanner
I will
never walk into a wine store without this app. There are a number of
apps that let you scan a wine label to get information about the wine,
but I found the Vivino Wine Scanner app provides the most useful
information.
After you take a photo of a label, it gives you an
average rating and price so you know if you are holding a good wine and a
good price. You can also scan the text of a wine list should you find
yourself clueless in a restaurant. In addition to rating and price,
Vivino provides notes about the type of grape used in the wine, info
about the winery which made the wine and a variety of additional
rankings that rank the wine within its winery, region, country and
world. You can read reviews from other Vivino users and add your own,
but what I find fun and interesting are the winemaker's notes (as in,
"notes of toffee, cherry, fig, chocolate"), vintage comparison (how it
stacks up to other years), and food pairing suggestions (beef, lamb,
spicy food).
The wines you scan are saved to a My Wines list
and will eventually build a taste profile for you. You can also build a
feed, where you can follow friends who use the app as well as wine
enthusiasts and pros. The app also lists nearby places that sell wine,
showing you how many different wines are offered at each store and
restaurant. Lastly, there is a Top Lists section that features lists
such as "Best wines under $20 right now" and "Five wines from the
world's smallest wine country."
Vivino Wine Scanner is available for iOS, Android and Windows Phone.
Wine Spectator WineRatings+
If
I ever begin to amass a wine cellar's worth of wine, the WineRatings+
app from Wine Spectator magazine will prove useful. As it stands right
now, it offers useful how-to articles and videos along with interesting
vintage charts. These two items are free, along with a news feed of
wine-related news articles. If you sign up for the monthly subscription
($2.99, £2.29, AU$3.79), you'll also get Wine Spectator's ratings and
reviews.
Of the free content, I like perusing the vintage charts
to see if the bottle I'm considering buying is from a good year for that
particular region and grape. Since I'm a wine novice, I found a number
of the how-to articles and videos to be illuminating, particularly those
on how to pair wine and food.
Wine Spectator WineRatings+ is available for iOS and Android.
Delectable
Delectable
provides the same ability to scan wine labels as Vivino, and while it
provides far less information than Vivino about the wines you scan, it
does something Vivino can't. With Delectable you can buy wines for
delivery through the app, whereas Vivino only shows you places nearby
that sell wine. Wine delivery is certainly convenient, and it appears as
though orders of four or more bottles ship for free.
Delectable
saves your scans and lets you add a comment and rating along with useful
info like where you enjoyed a certain wine and with whom. You can share
your wine thoughts via Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, and you can
also recommend wines to a friend via text. Also like Vivino, Delectable
lets you build a feed of friends, winemakers, sommeliers and critics.
Peter Pham was furious.
An alleged hate
crime had taken place in Manhattan Beach, California, a Los Angeles
suburb six blocks from his home, and he wanted to do something to help,
quick.
Pham, the co-founder of Santa Monica based incubator Science, Inc.
(Dollar Shave Club, Dog Vacay) was in San Francisco at the time,
raising money for one of his startups, and the only tool at his disposal
was his Samsung Galaxy Note 3 smartphone.
So he started working it, sending out tweets on Twitter and using the Nextdoor neighborhood website to broadcast to locals.
Pham
helped organize a weekend candlelight vigil attended by 500 people and
has raised over $27,000 as a reward to catch the person who committed
the crime, from 268 individual donors.
"These are amazing times we live in," notes Pham. "Being able to do all of this via a cell phone."
It
started early Thursday when a 2:15 a.m. fire erupted at Pham's
neighbors home, an African-American family. Police suspect it was a hate
crime.
Pham is a heavy user of Nextdoor as a
digital neighborhood watch service. In Manhattan Beach, a city of
35,000, some 8,000 locals are on Nextdoor.
NextDoor calls itself "the private social network for neighborhoods," and acts as a replacement for local posters on signposts.
The
site suggests being used to get the word out about break-ins, ask for
help finding a lost dog or simply ask for recommendations on reliable
housepainters or babysitters. It's Yelp for hyper-local services and
events.
Pham likes Nextdoor as a way "to get to know
my neighbors a little better," find good local services, and better
yet--go beyond police alerts to get neighbors mobilized.
He subscribes to police alerts via the Nixle
service, which simply reported the fire and noted dryly that there was
something suspicious about it. Pham did some research, and found out
what happened. A tire doused with gasoline was thrown on the doorstep in
the middle of the night as the family and their three children were
sleeping.
"You couldn't get that in a police alert," he says. "This is where Nextdoor really helps."
Through Nextdoor, Pham let people know the details of the story, and folks got into action, using the site to contact local media and get the word out--which they hoped would help the police find the perpetrator. The area TV stations responded quickly.
On Twitter, Pham said he wanted to raise money for a reward to catch the man or woman who did it--and he was turned onto Fundly,
a San Francisco crowdfunder which charges 4.9% flat fee for using its
services. He could have chosen other, more well-established brands like
Kickstarter or fundanything, but a friend recommended Fundly, and he
found he could set it up on his phone within minutes, so he was sold.
In two days, he brought in $27,000, with links generated on Nextdoor and Twitter.
If
you prefer your vacations with a minimum of human interaction, you might
try a hotel that's opening in Japan this summer. The Henn-na Hotel's
human staff will number just 10, but that doesn't mean you won't get
speedy service: Robots will be ready to help you with everything from
reception to cleaning to carrying your bags, the Telegraph
reports. Developed at Osaka University, the eerily human-like robots
are known as actroids. Most look like young Japanese women. They can
speak several languages and move their eyes to correspond with yours—a
feature that could be pretty disturbing, LiveScience notes, and indeed, the hotel's name means "strange hotel."
The
hotel will be located in the Huis Ten Bosch theme park near Nagasaki.
Rooms will start at $60 a night; robots don't generally ask to be paid,
and that will help reduce the hotel's costs, SlashGear
reports. The goal, says a Huis Ten Bosch rep, is a "smart hotel,"
complete with facial-recognition door locks. "We will make the most
efficient hotel in the world,” company president Hideo Sawada says, per
the Japan Times.
“In the future, we’d like to have more than 90% of hotel services
operated by robots.” (Maybe you'll even be able to get a ride there from a robot.)
You know Mark Zuckerberg, and if you've seen The Social Network, you're familiar with Eduardo Saverin. Then there's Dustin Moskovitz, as well as Chris Hughes, owner of the New Republic. But the fifth figure in the birth of Facebook isn't listed on its founders page, even if Wikipedia calls him a co-founder."I try to fly sort of below the radar intentionally," Andrew McCollum tells Mashable.
At Harvard, Zuckerberg enlisted McCollum to help with the site's
appearance, he says. (As a computer science major not a graphic
designer, he initially protested. "There's no one else to do it. You
just have to figure it out," is what he says Zuckerberg told him.) He
was responsible for what was once the face of Facebook, a picture of a
young man peppered with binary code. He went on to be responsible for a
lot more, working in the team's first California headquarters. But in
2005, McCollum decided it was time to go back to college.
Philo, as CEO. It's a streaming TV service which, like Facebook, was founded by Harvard students. According to its site,
it's "now the only way to watch TV at Harvard," and it exists at other
colleges across the country; indeed, its target audience of students is
something else it shares with the early Facebook. "One of the major
things I bring to the company is the understanding of how to build
products that appeal to this market," McCollum told Boston Business Journal in December.
"I
did Facebook as a once-in-a-lifetime experience and it was amazing," the
31-year-old says. But "I also viewed finishing school as an important
experience that I wanted to have. I knew if I didn't leave when I did,
it was not going to happen." Since then, he's stayed largely away from
the media, Mashable reports. But he recently joined a four-year-old
Boston-area company,
Well,
I always knew my selfie habit on Snapchat was a bit outside the norm,
but if a new study is to be believed, I must be a bit of a psychopath.
According to a new study
led by Ohio State University Professor Jesse Fox, men who post a lot of
selfies to the web tend to exhibit higher levels of narcissism and
psychopathy.
So to all the gym rats posting mirror selfies and the guys behind the
wheel in shades giving a "what up" look, you may have a problem.
And
it gets worse if men edit their own selfies. The study found that men
who edited their photos have higher levels of narcissism and
self-objectification. The only good thing is that these men are not
necessarily psychopaths, as Fox explains that psychopathy is related to
impulsivity. Impulsive people, it's suggested, wouldn't bother waiting
to edit their photos.
My only question now is, do Instagram filters count as editing? Because I'm obsessed with X-Pro II.
The study compiled data on 800 male participants between the ages of
18 and 40, all of whom completed an online survey about their
selfie-taking habits. They also filled out questionnaires on anti-social
behavior and self-objectification.
To be fair, the University explains that while all subjects exhibited
higher levels of these traits, they were still all within the range of
normal. If you would like to read the study yourself, you can find it in
the journal Personality and Individual Differences.
While the study is over, Fox isn't done yet. She is looking into
whether our online friends encourage us to post more selfies. I just
hope at some point she looks into those ridiculous new selfie sticks.
I've been obsessed with airplanes for most of my
adult life, and if you ask me, there's nothing as awe-inspiring as
formation flying.
Airbus recently took this remarkable skill to a whole new level in a
promo video designed to show off its new A350 XWB passenger jet. The
beautifully choreographed stunt involved five of the brand-new A350-900
jets, as well as two chase planes and a helicopter.
The costs of the shoot are unknown, but each jet has a list price of
$300 million, so it's safe to assume that well over $1.5 billion of
machinery was on the line.
For the shoot, Airbus pilots flew the jets in three different
formations—arrow, diamond, and echelon—and completed a low pass in a
diamond formation. Many of the pilots involved were ex-military members,
so they were already familiar with formation flying. However, they came
from a variety of different national Air Forces and Navies, so
extensive pre-planning was necessary to ensure everyone understood the
perfectly timed commands and signals.
Airbus's finished video showcases both the planning and execution of
the incredible aerial maneuvers. It also provides a brief glimpse into
how these aerial videos are shot—a process that Mike Kelley of Fstoppers
has broken down in revealing detail.
On a screen in front of 80-plus onlookers Thursday, an undeveloped
green field in south St. Cloud morphed into a new Technical High School
campus.
The onlookers were the St. Cloud school district's high school task force.
The
group held it latest workshop on the high school issue — this one
focused on the site named by the St. Cloud school board as its preferred
location for a new Technical High School. Upgrades to Apollo High
School also were discussed.
The task force coalesced behind a
concept that puts the new Tech High School on the north edge of the
site, located near 33rd Street South and Stearns County Road 74.
Athletic fields and parking would be to the south.
Students,
faculty and visitors would enter the building through an administrative
checkpoint and into a central commons area. Gyms, locker rooms and a
pool would be to the right and an auditorium to the left. Classrooms and
other learning spaces would be beyond the commons, facing a tract of
oak woodlands.
The concept is tentative and includes only bare-bones details about the high school building.
But it's the first public glimpse of how a new high school might take shape in south St. Cloud.
"To actually see it on the physical site ... that's what's exciting," task force member Joy Ottem said.
The
sprawling, 102-acre high school site provides plenty of layout options,
architects told the task force. Matt Glaesman, community development
director for the city of the St. Cloud, said the site could accommodate
500 homes.
"You have a lot of land to play with," Glaesman told the task force.
Most of the site is an open field. But it also includes a trout stream, Neenah Creek, and wetlands and woods.
Access
to the site is expected to come from County Road 74. Glaesman said it
would be difficult to create an access point from 33rd Street South
because much of the wooded land between the site and the street is
environmentally sensitive.
The district doesn't yet own the
proposed high school site. But district officials say they have a plan
to acquire it. They have an option to buy a portion of the land that is
privately owned and have discussed a land swap with the city of St.
Cloud to acquire the remaining acreage.
The currently undeveloped
Neenah Creek Park borders the high school site to the east. The city has
a master plan to build softball, baseball and soccer fields and other
amenities there. The park was one factor cited by the task force in
recommending the site for a new high school.
Also Thursday, the
task force discussed concepts for expanding Apollo High School and
renovating much of its existing space. Consensus emerged behind adding
more natural light to the building and a new main entry, commons area
and lab space.
District officials have said they hope to make
sufficient upgrades to Apollo to put the facility on even footing with a
new Tech High School.
The architects and task force
representatives will make a presentation to the school board at its
March 11 meeting. That presentation is expected to include a more
detailed rendering of a new Tech and renovated Apollo.
The school
district hopes to hold a referendum vote this fall to authorize
property-tax increases to fund the high school projects.
Scientists from the University of California,Irvine
said they found a way to unboil an egg. This process is considered
important as it can help reduce the cost of any biotechnology process
which requires the folding of proteins.
The scientists said they were able to unboil an egg by untangling its proteins.
Gregory Weiss, a
biochemistry professor at UCI and one of the scientists involved in the
study said, “Yes, we have invented a way to unboil a hen egg […] in our
paper, we describe a device for pulling apart tangled proteins and
allowing them to refold. We start with egg whites boiled for 20 minutes
at 90 degrees Celsius and return a key protein in the egg to working
order.”
“It’s not so much that we’re interested
in processing the eggs; that’s just demonstrating how powerful this
process is […] The real problem is there are lots of cases of gummy
proteins that you spend way too much time scraping off your test tubes,
and you want some means of recovering that material,” he added.
Weiss also explained that the traditional
method of untangling proteins (this is the equivalent process of
dialysis) takes four days at the most but with the new technique, they
said it can be done in minutes.
This new technique is expected to reduce
cost of food protection, cancer treatments and other segments of what is
a $160 billion global biotechnology industry.
How did Mr. Weiss and his team managed to unboil an egg and untangle its proteins?
Mr. Weiss and his colleagues worked on recreating a clear protein known as lysozyme
once an egg has been boiled by adding a urea substance which chews away
at the whites. In return, the solid material was liquefied. Since the
proteins were still balled up (it happens after it is boiled), the
scientists used a vortex fluid device developed by Professor Colin
Raston’s laboratory in South Australia’s Flinders University to force
the tiny pieces back into their proper, untangled form.
The University of California Irvine patented the new technology and are now partnering with other groups to make the technology a commercial one.
That's the grim outlook from board members of The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. Frustrated with a lack of international action to address climate change and shrink nuclear arsenals, they decided today (Jan. 22) to push the minute hand of their iconic "Doomsday Clock" to 11:57 p.m.
It's the first time the clock hands have moved in three years; since 2012, the clock had been fixed at 5 minutes to symbolic doom, midnight.
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists doesn't use the clock to make any real doomsday predictions. Rather, the clock is a visual metaphor to warn the public about how close the world is to a potentially civilization-ending catastrophe. Each year, the magazine's board analyzes threats to humanity's survival to decide where the Doomsday Clock's hands should be set.
Experts on the board said they felt a sense of urgency this year because of the world's ongoing addiction to fossil fuels, procrastination with enacting laws to cut greenhouse gas emissions and slow efforts to get rid of nuclear weapons.
"We are not saying it is too late to take action but the window for action is closing rapidly," Kennette Benedict, executive director of The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, said in a news conference this morning in Washington, D.C. "We move the clock hand today to inspire action."
For instance, if nothing is done to reduce the amount of heat-trapping gasses, such as carbon dioxide, in the atmosphere, Earth could be 5 to 15 degrees Fahrenheit (3 to 8 degrees Celsius) warmer by the end of century, said Sivan Kartha, a senior scientist at the Stockholm Environment Institute.
Some people might not feel alarmed when they see those numbers; they might normally experience that kind of temperature swing in the course of a single day, Kartha said. But, he said a temperature increase of that magnitude was enough to bring the world out of the last ice age, and it will be enough to "radically transform" the Earth's surface in the future.
Sharon Squassoni, another board member and director of the Proliferation Prevention Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, said nuclear disarmament efforts have "ground to a halt" and many nations are expanding, not scaling back, their nuclear capabilities. Russia is upgrading its nuclear program, India plans to expand its nuclear submarine fleet, and Pakistan has reportedly started operating a third plutonium reactor, Squassoni said.
She said the United States has good rhetoric on nuclear nonproliferation, but at the same time is in the midst of a $335 billion overhaul of its nuclear program. (That figure seems to come from a Congressional Budget Office report from December 2013.)
"The risk from nuclear weapons is not that someone is going to press the button, but the existence of these weapons costs a lot of time, effort and money to keep them secure," Squassoni said, adding that there have been troubling safety discrepancies reported in recent years at power plants.
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists was founded in 1945 by scientists who created the atomic bomb as part of the Manhattan Project and wanted to raise awareness about the dangers of nuclear technology. The Doomsday Clock first appeared on a cover of the magazine in 1947, with its hands set at 11:53 p.m.
The clock's hands shifted quite a bit over the following seven decades. They were closest to midnight in 1953, set at 11:58 p.m., after both the United States and the Soviet Union conducted their first tests of the hydrogen bomb. The clock's hands were pushed all the way back to 11:43 p.m., 17 minutes to midnight, in December 1991, after the world's superpowers signed the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, which at the time, seemed like a promising move toward nuclear disarmament.
Suffer From Snoring? This New Doctor Trusted Solution Stops Snoring and Lets You Sleep
If you constantly feel exhausted, experience headaches for no
obvious reason or have high blood pressure, it could be the result of
snoring.
More than a simple annoyance, snoring is also the most common symptom
of a potentially serious health problem—obstructive sleep apnea (OSA).
Over 18 million Americans snore, and it’s related to OSA. People who
suffer from OSA repeatedly and unknowingly stop breathing during the
night due to a complete or partial obstruction of their airway. It
occurs when the jaw, throat, and tongue muscles relax, blocking the
airway used to breathe. The resulting lack of oxygen can last for a
minute or longer, and occur hundreds of times each night.
OSA has been linked to:
Acid reflux
Frequent nighttime urination
Memory loss
Stroke
Depression
Diabetes
Heart attack
People over 35 are at higher risk.
OSA can be expensive to diagnosis and treat — up to $5,000 — and
those treatments can sometimes be quite painful. Plus, they're not
always covered by insurance.
However, a recent study published by Eastern Virginia Medical
School's Division of Sleep Medicine concluded that wearing a simple
chinstrap while sleeping can be an effective treatment for OSA.
The chin strap, which is now available from a company called MySnoringSolution,
works by supporting the lower jaw and tongue, preventing obstruction of
the airway. It’s made from a high-tech, lightweight, and
super-comfortable material. Thousands of people have used the
MySnoringSolution chinstrap and reported better sleeping, and better
health overall because of it.
An effective "DoctorTrusted" snoring solution for just $119
The chinstrap was recently evaluated by Dr. Daniel L. W. Hanley, an
independent medical doctor, on the DoctorTrusted website. He reviewed
the chinstrap, the product's medical information and more, and found
that it met the site's strict requirements and ethical code of conduct.
Indeed, DoctorTrusted deemed MySnoringSolution's website "to be
trustworthy and safe for purchases as of the time of the review."
The “My Snoring Solution” chinstrap is available exclusively from the
company’s website, which is currently offering a limited time “2 for 1”
offer. The product also comes with an unconditional 90-day, money-back
guarantee!
If you want to stop snoring once and for all, without expensive CPAPs
or other intrusive devices, this may be the solution you’ve been
waiting for.
Matthew Youlden speaks nine languages fluently and understands more
than a dozen more. He’s what is known as a polyglot, a member of the
multilingual elite who speaks six or more languages fluently. He’s also a
sociolinguist who studies the revitalization of minority languages. But
to see him in action on a daily basis – deftly and comfortably talking
to native-speakers in their own languages – suggests that he’s more than
a polyglot. Matthew, who is originally from Manchester, England, is a
language chameleon: Germans think he’s German, Spaniards think he’s
Spanish, Brazilians think he’s Portuguese (he proudly speaks the
good-old European variety).
By his own account, Matthew has mastered a staggering number of
languages by utilizing abilities that we all possess: persistence,
enthusiasm and open-mindedness. If your classic polyglot is an über-nerd
who studies languages full-time, then Matthew is something different.
His version of multilingualism doesn’t isolate him in an ivory tower; it
connects him to people all over the world. According to Matthew, the
more languages you speak, the more points of view you have:
“I think each language has a certain way of seeing the world. If you
speak one language then you have a different way of analyzing and
interpreting the world than the speaker of another language does. Even
if they’re really closely-related languages such as Spanish
and Portuguese, which are to a certain extent mutually intelligible,
they are at the same time two different worlds – two different mindsets.
“Therefore, having learned other languages and been surrounded by
other languages, I couldn’t possibly choose only one language because it
would mean really renouncing the possibility to be able to see the
world in a different way. Not in one way, but in many different ways. So
the monolingual lifestyle, for me, is the saddest, the loneliest, the
most boring way of seeing the world. There are so many advantages of
learning a language; I really can’t think of any reason not to.”
Watch the video above to see him flex his skills in Irish, French, Spanish, Catalan, Portuguese, Italian, Hebrew and German.
