A Wolfram Ate My Homework

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A Wolfram Ate My Homework
Number 2747
Broadcast Date APRIL 28, 2016
Episode Length 46:07
Hosts Tom Merritt
Guests Justin Robert Young

What funding fade? Justin Young reports back from the Collision Conference in New Orleans with tales to tell Tom Merritt of bots and natural language processing.

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Facebook announced dedicated Facebook and Facebook Messenger apps are now available for Windows 10 and Instagram for Windows Mobile. All three feature support for Windows Live Tiles. Facebook plans to bring Messenger and Facebook apps to Windows 10 Mobile later this year.
The HP Chromebook 13 was announced at Google’s NYC office this morning. HP and Google co-developed the laptop which will be the first Chromebook equipped with an Intel m Skylake processor. It features up to 16GB of RAM, 13.3” display with an optional 3200x1800 resolution upgrade, 2 USB-C ports, 1 USB 3.0 port, headphone jack, microSD card reader and all aluminum chassis. The Chromebook 13 starts at $499 and is available for purchase today and scheduled to ship next month.
Valve has partnered with Bitpay to allow Steam users to pay for purchases with Bitcoin. According to BitPay, Valve was "looking for a fast, international payment method for Steam users in emerging gaming markets in countries like India, China, and Brazil… without the high fees or the risk of chargeback fraud that come with card payments.”
Submitted by tglass1976
Apple’s CareKit is now available on GitHub. CareKit includes CareCard for tracking treatment, a Symptom and Measurement Tracker, the Insight Dashboard which compares the first two, and Connect which shares info with your doctor and family. CareKit is designed to work well with hospital records systems like Epic.
Submitted by tm204
Samsung’s operating profit rose 12% year over year to 6.68 trillion won. Quarterly revenue was up 5.7% year over year at 49.78 trillion won. Mobile sales led by the Galaxy S7 were a bright spot. Samsung’s semiconductor business bucked seasonal weakness driven by memory sales. The display panel business was a downer because of a sharp decline in LCD panel earnings, although demand for OLED is rising.
Samsung announced Artik Cloud Wednesday to help users store and analyze data from Internet of Things sensors like Amazon Echo, FitBit, Nest and Samsung’s own devices. Samsung is also selling Artik developer boards for making things like UAVs, robots, wearables and automation products. Artik Cloud is free for hobbyists with pricing tiers ranging to $6 per device for 100,000 messages.
Movidius announced the Fathom Neural Compute Stick, a USB device running on the Myriad 2 visual processor to create a neural network. A device with a Fathom plugged in can take visual input or other data and react with intelligent decisions. The Fathom Deep Learning Software Framework will let you run learning algorithms at low power. That means 16 images a second using a single watt. 1000 Neural Compute Sticks will be given for free to qualified customers with more selling in Q4 for less than $100.
Amazon posted earnings of $1.07 per share and revenue of $29.13 billion. Analysts had expected 58 cents a share and 27.98 billion. Amazon Web Services beat expectations too with 2.57 billion vs. 2.53 billion.
Ars Technica reports that a former Philadelphia Police Sergeant has been jailed for seven months after refusing to decrypt two external hard drives after a District court ordered him to under the All Writs Act. A Mac pro found in the home was decrypted but no offending material was found and the suspect has never been charged with a crime. In 2000 the Supreme Court ruled a suspect cannot be forced to divulge the combination for a lock but has not ruled on decryption passwords.
Submitted by GreggN
You know how Comcast puts in data caps sometimes and claims they’re more than enough and you complain that maybe they’re more than enough for now but not for long and we’ll see if Comcast ever raises them. Well, Comcast raised them. To 1 Terrabyte beginning June 1. They raised the price of unlimited from $30-$35 to $50 extra a month too. Data caps are not in place in all Comcast markets.
Submitted by ColdSpring and HuskyCaucasian
A few other tidbits: on the iOS App Store, Twitter is now categorizing itself as a "News" app instead of a "Social Networking" app.
ReCode reports Motorola President Rick Osterloh, who left Lenovo last month, is headed to Google to run a new hardware division overseeing Nexus, Chromecast, Glass, OnHube and other consumer hardware.
And investor Carl Icahn told CNBC he has sold all his Apple stock based on China’s attitude towards Apple.
And Strategy Analytics showed worldwide smartphone shipments dropping for the first time while IDC shows them flat. Both firms rank Samsung first followed by Apple, Huawei, Oppo and Vivo.
And YouTube announced a new plan to essentially hold money generated from disputed ContentID claims until the claim is resolved.
And finally UK transit investigators have found no evidence one way or another that a UAV struck a British Airways flight that was landing at Heathrow.
Submitted by motang

Discussion

Pick of the Day

I found an online simulator for the fantastical Library of Babel as described by Jorge Luis Borges in the story of the same name (of note: a real world simulator at virtually any physical scale would exceed the size of the universe several times over). Its kind of amazing, there are approximately 20,500,000 books of random words that include reference to "the daily tech news show", I have attached one for reference. Its amazingly pointless, as Borges himself points out in the story. Its something I always wanted to see, I'm glad someone actually had the dedication to make it (and the design of the site is pretty cool too). Hope this isn't too niche.
Submitted by Rich from Lovely Cleveland

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G'day DTNS crew.

I have been giving some thought to the possible effects of a broad law such as the Burr-Feinstein proposal.

"Make unintelligible" seems to be aimed at encryption but may also spill over onto securely wiping a hard drive by overwriting it with pseudo random data. From what I understand it doesn't state that the process needs the intent of being reversible.
So if you made your files unintelligible by randomizing their bits, suddenly wiping your hard drive becomes illegal.
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