Expensive Cat Videos

From DCTVpedia
Jump to navigation Jump to search
Expensive Cat Videos
Number 2757
Broadcast Date MAY 10, 2016
Episode Length 43:43
Hosts Tom Merritt
Guests Allison Sheridan, Andy Ihnatko

Amazon’s allowing anyone to upload video for streaming, sale or rental. Is it taking on YouTube, Vimeo or everyone? Andy Ihnatko. Allison Sheridan and Tom Merritt discuss.

Guest

Headlines

Amazon launched Amazon Video Direct today. Creators must fill out tax information and link a bank account, plus create pages for their series and provide artwork for display. They can choose to include shows in Amazon Prime, streamed free with adds, rented, sold or any combination. Amazon video is available in Japan, the UK, Austria, Germany and the US. Variety reports Amazon will pay creators 50% of retail, 55% of ad-supported free streamin and 15 cents per hour streamed in on Prime in the US, 6 cents per hours streamed elsewhere, capped at $75,000. The top 100 titles get paid a monthly bonus.
Submitted by trillianluvr
Dropbox announced the launch of Dropbox Education Tuesday. It comes with pooled storage of 15GB per user, unlimited version history going back one year, sharing permissions for admins. The service costs $49 per user per year with volume discounts available. Dropbox already had 4,000 educational organizations on board with its other offerings prior to the launch.
The US FCC and FTC issued statement Monday requesting more information on how mobile phones receive security patches. The FCC is concerned about delays or patches never arriving for older models. The FCC sent letters to ATT, Verizon, T-Mobile, Sprint, US Cellular and TracFone. The FTC sent its letters to Apple, Google, BlackBerry, HTC, LG, Microsoft, Motorola and Samsung. The companies must detail the security history of models offered for sale since August 2013.
Submitted by kevwil and anotherjmartin
Microsoft announced it will shut down MSN China on June 7th. MSN China was launched 11 years ago in partnership with Shanghai Alliance Investment. The service had been falling behind other companyies like Tencent, Sina Weibo and Baidu. MSN Messenger closed two years ago.
Tom Stocky, VP of search at Facebook posted a response to Gizmodo’s story about suppression of political stories by curators of Facebook’s trending stories module. He reiterated that Facebook guidelines require the acceptance of any real world topic, only disregarding duplicates, hoaxes or subjects with insufficient sources. Violations of the guidelines is a fireable offense. He also denied that Facebook injects stories into the trending topics box that aren’t yet trending. Meanwhile the US Senate Commerce Committee sent a letter to Mark Zuckerberg asking several questions, including some about organizational structure, whether content had been manipulated, details of Facebook's investigation, and when guidelines were put in place.
Xiaomi launched the 6.44-inch Mi Max today in China. The size of a 4-day-old baby hedgehog. It weighs 203 grams and the 1080p display has a curved glass front. The 4,850mAh battery can do 14 hours of streaming video on WiFi. It goes on sale in China May 17 starting at RMB 1699 ($230) and going up to RMB 1999 ($306).
Uber has launched UberWAV its wheelchair-accessible service in London. UberWAV cars are equipped with a rear-entry ramp, winch, and appropriate restraints. The cost is the same as UberX and can be booked anywhere in Greater London. Uber says that UberWAV drivers will have "received Disability Equality Training from Transport for All, and Inclusion London." UberWAV is currently available in Toronto, Sydney and more than 10 US cities including Los Angeles, Chicago and Washington.
London design firm Layer has a new prototype wheelchair design called Go, that Fast Company says will be unveiled during Clerkenwell Design Week in London. Manufacturers would scan a person and 3D-print seats and footrests to match that person’s seat and feet, accounting for size and weight. Layer estimates it would take about two weeks to complete a custom wheelchair.
Submitted by lokirobert
The Globe and Mail reports Canada’s major banks have finally reached a deal on Apple Pay. Royal Bank of Canada and Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce will let customers use Apple Pay with credit and debit cards starting Tuesday for purchases less than $100. ATB Financial and Canadian Tire Financial Services will offer the service for credit cards only. Bank of Montreal, Toronto-Dominion Bank and Bank of Nova Scotia will roll out support over the coming months.
VentureBeat reports that its sources say the images for Moto X leaked yesterday by Evleaks and HelloMotoHK were of two versions of the Moto X called the Vertex and Vector Thin. Both models will have different internal specs but both allegedly support swappable magnetic backplate modules called Amps. Among the six expected modules are stereo speakers, battery pack, camera flash and optical zoom, a pico projector and a rugged cover with wide angle lens.
Moderators of Reddit’s technology subreddit have asked for feedback to the idea of banning links to sites that block ad blockers. Wired and Forbes are among the most common. The mods note that Forbes has served malware from its site in the past and therefore blocking ad blockers might be considered a security risk. Ad block detection often blocks stories from browsers with security extensions like noscript and privacy badger.
Submitted by habichuelacondulce

ALSO: Uber has agreed to work with the International Association of Machinists to launch an independent guild for Uber drivers. And Tumblr launched labs at https://www.tumblr.com/settings/labs for users to test out experimental features.

Discussion

Pick of the Day

When talking about cord cutting and OTA DVR I never hear TabloTV (TabloTV.com) mentioned. I used Windows Media Center for years but some time ago switched to Tablo with a lifetime (as in user life) subscription. I can connect from mobile devices, browser, Roku, and soon AppleTV.

Perhaps also a good tip.
Submitted by Holger in Houston

Messages

When we were in India last year, we were taken on a tour of a jute factory. I sent a note to you about it last year but it might be relevant to the discussion today.

It felt like stepping back into the 1920s before unions helped to protect workers. Our guide explained that the process could easily be automated and be done far far less money, but it would put so many people out of work that instead the government subsidizes the factory.

With this as a model it made me think about India perhaps holding back on products that could benefit their people (like cool phones) for the greater goal of employing their people.
Sent by Allison Sheridan


I have a question for the whole DTNS crowd: I use a BlackBerry-Smartphone. Does anybody know how many of us BB-users are still around?

Some years ago, when I was still at University, I would frequently see other people using BlackBerrys. Today I find myself being (probably) alone, with the last other BB-device seen last year. And noticing that Facebook dropped it's BB10 support in March, and that WhatsApp will do so too in 2017 I'm wondering: How many of us BlackBerrys are still left?

Best wishes,
Sent by Severin from sunny Berlin, Germany

YouTube

Links



Preceded by:
"The Elephant in the Facebook Room" 		Expensive Cat Videos
 Followed by:
"The Chron Father"
Retrieved from "https://dctvpedia.com/index.php?title=Expensive_Cat_Videos&oldid=18364"