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| All the Pixels | |
| Number | 2871 |
| Broadcast Date | OCTOBER 4, 2016 |
| Episode Length | 44:39 |
| Hosts | Tom Merritt |
| Guests | Patrick Beja |
Yahoo spied on email for the US Government, Google announces new phones and home products. Patrick Beja and Tom Merritt discuss that and more.
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Top Stories
- Reuters reports two former Yahoo employees and a third source, say Yahoo built custom software to search incoming email in compliance with a classified directive from either the US NSA or FBI in 2015. Email was scanned for a "set of characters" as it arrived and messages containing the string were stored for remote retrieval. Reuters could not determine what information was handed over if any. Yahoo's Chief Information Security Officer Alex Stamos discovered the program in May 2015 initially believing the company had been hacked. Stamos left Yahoo in June and now works at Facebook. Yahoo unsuccessfully challenged searches on specific email accounts in 2007 but chose not to challenge this directive apparently because they thought they would lose. Upstream data collection based on content has been found legal when applies to phone carriers.
- Reuters reports that documents unsealed last week show Open Whisper Systems received a subpoena earlier this year, requesting email addresses, history logs, browser cookie data and other information associated with two phone numbers of Signal messaging app users. The request was part of a grand jury probe in Virginia. The documents show Signal was only able to supply the duration of a user's membership. Open Whisper Systems security expert Moxie Marlinspike said it is the first subpoena the company has received.
- Japan's NHK has created a 1mm thick 130-inch 8K display that is made up of four 65-inch 4K OLED panels from LG Display. The panels are mounted to a 1mm thick board making the total thickness 2mm. It plays video at 7680 x 4320 at 60 frames per second. The prototype was developed for research purposes and is being shown off at CEATAC. NHK demonstrated 8K broadcasts during the Rio Olympics this summer. It hopes to have regular 8K broadcasts by 2018.
- Lenovo COO Gianfranco Lanci said the company does not intend to release any new Windows 10 phones. Speaking at the Canalys Channel Forum Lanci said, "I am not convinced Microsoft is supporting the phone for the future." He did say Windows 10 is doing well in the business world on the desktop.
Discussion
- Google Pixel phones and Home speaker take on Siri and Echo
- Google Home is official: Google undercuts the Amazon Echo at $129
- Google Wifi: Google’s second attempt at a home router
- Chromecast Ultra gives you 4K content for just $69
- Google welcomes the future of mobile VR with its $79 Daydream View VR headset
- Daydream View Is Google’s Plushy VR Headset for the Masses
- Here’s the Google Pixel
- Pixel - The First Phone by Google - Google Store
- Actions on Google opens Assistant to third-party developers
- Behind the Pixel: Google’s First Real Threat to Apple’s iPhone
- Google hires Amazon exec to develop its new phones
Thought of the Day
- Amazon Game Studios first titles will feature deep integration with Twitch. Games give real time stat overlays, let broadcasters invite followers to play, setup viewer polls, and allow match wagering of Twitch's new Stream+ game currency.
The main aspect is the deep Twitch integration. Explains everything Amazon has been doing in the gaming space (Twitch / Curse purchase). - Thought by Patrick
- Amazon Game Studios first titles will feature deep integration with Twitch. Games give real time stat overlays, let broadcasters invite followers to play, setup viewer polls, and allow match wagering of Twitch's new Stream+ game currency.
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