Amazon Testing Automated Packing System
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| Amazon Testing Automated Packing System | |
| Number | 836 |
| Broadcast Date | MAY 13, 2019 |
| Episode Length | 4:42 |
| Hosts | Rich Stroffolino |
Amazon is reportedly rolling out an automated packing system, Disney owned Hotstar sets a concurrent streaming record, and the next iPhone chips start production.
Headlines
- Reuters reports that Amazon is rolling out an automated packing system, which would scan items coming down a conveyer belt before putting them in customized boxes for each item, according to sources. Amazon is reportedly considering rolling the technology out to dozens of warehouses, which would cut at least 24 human roles per deployment, at least 1300 jobs if done at all 55 US Amazon fulfillment centers. Amazon expects to recoup the cost of installing the machines within two years.
- The Disney owned Indian streaming service Hotstar set a global streaming record, providing 18.6 million simultaneous streams of the deciding match in the Indian Premier League cricket tournament. This broke Hotstars own record of 10.3 million concurrent streams set last year, and in mid-April Hotstar reported the IPL season had already garnered a record 267 million overall viewership. The most concurrently viewed video on YouTube by comparison was the 2012 skydive by Felix Baumgartner, which had 8 million concurrently.
- Bloomberg's Mark Gurman and Debby Wu report that TSMC has begun production on the chip for Apple's nexct iPhone, reportedly called the A13. The chip will go into the successors for the iPhone XS, XS Max and XR. Rear cameras on the XS and XS Max successors will jump to 3 with an ultra-wide angle lens, while the XR replacement will get two. The higher end phones will be slightly thicker than last years models, and the phones will support wireless charging of other devices.
- GitHub launched a beta of GitHub Package Registry, a package management service to publish software packages next to source code. This will support JavaScript (npm), Java (Maven), Ruby (RubyGems), .NET (NuGet), and Docker images at launch.GitHub Package Registry will get the stability of the company's global CDN, offer a single source for permissions and user credentials, as well as granular download statistics.
- Google announced that all Chormebooks launched this year - intel or ARM -- will be Linux-ready out of the box. Yes ChromeOS is built around the Linux kernel, but what they mean is you'll be able to run Debian from Terminal and with a few shell commands, Ubuntu and Fedora as well. The Linux OS runs alongside the ChromeOS in these situations and you can move files between them.
- Following on antitrust investigations in Europe and Russia, Sources tell Reuters that the Competition Commission of India has ordered an investigation of whether Google abused its dominant position for Android in the Indian market. The investigation began after a complaint that Google blocked Android competitors but it is unknown who filed the complaint.
- Zack Whittaker at ZDNet reports that two years after the WannaCry ransomware spread worldwide, a large number of vulnerable endpoint are still unpatched. The ransomware spread using a flaw in the Windows SMB protocol, and security researcher Nate Warfield notes that up to 1.7 million are still exposed on the internet. The search engine Shodan estimates this at closer to a million, with over 400,000 in the US. Whitaker notes this only accounts for machines directly connected to the internet, and that while WannaCry currently remains unable to unpack and encrypt data, the leaked NSA hacking tools it was based on could still infect vulnerable machines.
- Engadget reports that Lyft is experimenting with longer-term car rentals to a test of customers in San Francisco. Lyft confirmed the program, and said "we're currently testing a small-scale rental option for long-distance trips, like a weekend away." Testers will pay about $60/day for a standard sedan and around $100/day for an SUV. Renters will able to claim up to $20 in Lyft credit for rides to a Lyft rental car lot in San Francisco's Mission district from wherever they are.
- Leigh Cuen at Coindesk reports on Ion, Microsoft's open source project to create a decentralized identity solution directly into the Bitcoin blockchain. Rather than using a third-party login like Facebook, Ion would handle your decentralized identifiers to prove that you own the keys to a given set of data. Microsoft's Yorke Rhodes stated the company has been working for a year on key signing and validation that can use public blockchains but handle a greater throughput for speedier transactions. According to sources, Microsoft will move Ion from bitcoins testnet to the mainnet by the end of 2019, opening it up to users running nodes and contributions.
- Walmart announced it has shutdown its online store in Brazil, as it reformulates its digital strategy in the country. The company is working on an as yet unarticulated omnichannel strategy, and Walmart Brazil will shift focus to physical stores and wholesale.
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| Preceded by: "Week in Review for the Week of 5/6/19" |
Amazon Testing Automated Packing System |
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