A Tale of Two 7s

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A Tale of Two 7s
Number 2858
Broadcast Date SEPTEMBER 16, 2016
Episode Length 43:03
Hosts Tom Merritt
Guests Allison Sheridan, Len Peralta

How many people can name which Samsung product was recalled for fires caused by the battery? And how bad it will it be for the Samsung brand? Allison Sheridan and Tom Merritt discuss. Plus the iPhone teardown reveals interesting secrets.

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Top Stories

In a surprising turn of events yesterday the Internet not only liked something but it was something Twitter did. Streaming an NFL game. Now here are some more top stories.
The Associated Press, Vice Media and Gannett (owner of USA Today) have joined in a lawsuit against the US FBI to force it to make public the details of the business transaction that led to the cracking of an iPhone 5C in San Bernardino. The FBI has so far declined to release details under Freedom of Information Act requests. The suit does not require the FBI to reveal the method.
iFixit has issued its teardown of the iPhone 7 Plus. The space once occupied by the headphone jack assembly is taken up by the Taptic engine and a plastic bumper likely part of the water resistance feature. The 7 Plus has a 2915mAh battery, larger than the 6 Plus's 2750mAh battery. Ifixit also found 3 GB of LPDDR4 RAM. 9to5 Mac notes ChipWorks teardown found an Intel modem, transceivers and power management ICs.
Ars Technica's Jon Brodkin reports the city council of Wilson, North Carolina has voted to stop providing its city-run Greenlight fiber internet service to the neighboring city of Pinetops. The state of North Carolina recently won a lawsuit against the FCC to preserve a state law which prevents Wilson from offering its service outside the county. About 200 Pinetops customers will lose service October 28th. Greenlight sells service from 40Mbps to 1 Gbps for $40 to $100 a month. Wilson provides electrical service to Pinetops and laid the fiber there to support its smartgrid initiative. Pinetops only remaining equivalent ISP is CenturyLink DSL which provides a maximum of 50Mbps.
18 organizations, including Google, Facebook, the World Federation of Advertisers and the Interactive Advertising Bureau announced the formation of The Coalition for Better Ads at Dmexco in Cologne, Germany Thursday. The group aims to create global online advertising standards, based on direct consumer research. The coalition is a response to the growth in ad blocking. Ads will be scored based on page load time, tracking pixels and the "type of creative" meaning banner, page takeover, etc.. Participating members will not run ads that fail to meet a certain threshold.
De-Cix the operator of the world's largest Internet exchange point, located in Frankfurt, Germany, filed a lawsuit Friday against the German Interior Ministry to stop mass surveillance. Exchange points are places that connect big networks to each other and essential to the operation of the Internet. De-Cix wants to show that surveillance orders from the German Federal Intelligence Service, aka BND, are illegal under Germany's G10 Act. De-Cix cited a paper from constitutional lawyer Hans-Jürgen Papier alleging the BND's surveillance is disproportionate and indiscriminate. De-Cix also says the BND violates the legal limit of intercepting 1/5th of available bandwidth at any given time.
Microsoft's Swiftkey announced a major overhaul to its predictive mobile keyboard, which will now offer suggestions based on artificial neural networking. The company claims this will allow better predictive suggestions, as it considers the meaning of words not just word order. Swiftkey claims this is the first time neural networks will deploy locally on a device, not relying on a server backend for processing. The update is available for Android users in the US and the UK.

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Pick of the Day

I have been trying to clean up my digital hoard. This included software from my days as an MIS major in the 1980's. With moving to windows 10 I have been missing my windows XP emulator from W7. In this particular case, I just needed a solid DOS option. I came across DOSBox and it works really well. All those old programs loaded right up, and I could be reminded why I had not run them in years. So if anyone needs a DOS emulator that works well in Windows 10, I can recommend DOSBox.
Submitted by Mark J
DTNS Producer Roger wanted to add to Mark's pick with Boxer.
Submitted by Roger

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Hey Tom and Roger,

On today's show Tom and JRY discussed the removal of the web browser from New York's LinkNYC kiosks. While viewing of inappropriate content dominated the headlines as the reason for the browser's removal, also reported (and from my experience with these kiosks, the larger issue) was homeless individuals setting up living rooms around the devices with street furniture (often newspaper racks) and monopolizing the terminals for hours at a time while watching innocuous YouTube videos. The kiosks currently have and will retain a Google Maps app as well as an app for accessing city services. While I think that removing the browser was with good intentions for the public good, I believe this also opens to door for LinkNYC to charge content providers to place their apps on the kiosks in the future and create additional revenue. Just another way to look at this story.
Sent by Jason from New York


I have a first-gen Moto 360. I use it to control music especially when my phone is connected to the car by Bluetooth. I think the slow adoption has to do with price, which is one of the reasons I haven't upgraded his watch.
Sent by Bryan


I have been a Pebble user for more than a year, I love the battery life, and I also use it for volume control but I find it the best notification tool around especially when my phone is across the room or I'm in a situation like a meeting where I can't take my phone out. I'll only upgrade when it's "at death's door."
Sent by Brett


I use a Pebble Time and especially love that notifications don't lead me into getting distracted by other apps as happens when I open my phone.
Sent by Brendan


I have a Pebble Time Color, I love the battery life, phone controls and notifications. The fitness tracking is a nice bonus and I find myself walking more places to get the extra steps.
Sent by Harrihu

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"Feeling Schwifty on Smartwatches" 		A Tale of Two 7s
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