Apple Motors?

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Apple Motors?
Number 2759
Broadcast Date MAY 12, 2016
Episode Length 43:25
Hosts Tom Merritt
Guests Justin Robert Young

Is Apple about to become a car company? Justin Young and Tom Merritt talk about Apple Analyst Neil Cybart’s compelling speculation.

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Google launched a keyboard for iOS Thursday called Gboard. It includes swipe typing and easy access to GIFs, emoji search and Google search without exiting the keyboard. Search results show up as cards that can be tapped to paste a link into whatever you’re typing. You can also use the paste button from iOS to add the card itself.
Bloomberg reports Apple has reduced approval time for new submissions to its App Store from a mean of 8.8 days a year ago to a mean of 1.95 days.
Opera’s latest developer version of its browser for Windows OS X now feature a power-saving mode. Opera claims the mode can increase battery life as much as 50 percent compared to Chrome or older Opera versions by reducing background activity and page-redraw frequency and changing video playback. The mode automatically turns on when you unplug your laptop.
HumanEyes has a $799 virtual reality camera called the VUZE up for preorder. The camera has eight lenses, two on each side of the square device. They can capture 360-degree video in 4K. The camera comes with a software suite that stitches together the video and lets you add filters and edit. Shipping starts in October.
If you have $15,000 to spend and have been approved by GoPro you may be seeing the 16-camera GoPro Odyssey arriving soon. GoPro told The Verge that the first few have shipped in its limited access program involving mostly VR production companies. GoPro says it is still accepting applications and shipping out rigs in waves as they are made.
ReCode has sources that back up an earlier report from The Information that Google is working on a voice activated assistant device similar to the Amazon Echo. Internally it is apparently called “Chirp.” Plans are to launch it later this year though it may be showed off at Google I/O.
Quartz reports that on Sunday May 8, a sunny and windy day caused solar, wind, hydro and biomass plants in Germany to account for 55 Watts of the 63 Watts of power being consumed. That’s about 87%. The average last year in Germany was 33%. While gas plants went offline during the glut, nuclear and coal plants did not-- causing them to have to pay to put power into the grid while industrial customers earned money for using electricity.
Submitted by KAPT_Kipper
Google today open sourced SyntaxNet and a component for it called Parsey McParseface. SyntaxNet is a syntactic parser framework for understanding sentences. Parsey McParseface is its English language plugin. Google claims it can understand the grammatical structure of sentences as well as trained linguists and can achieve 94% accuracy on news articles.
Submitted by stevei0
Barclays announced its own mobile payment system will roll out in June. “Contactless Mobile” will be enabled if the Barclays app detects a compatible smartphone and eligible Barclays account. Customers are limited to £30 with tap and pay with larger amounts up to £100 requiring a PIN or fingerprint. The platform. The rollout will be “phased over a number of days” and customers will be notified when its available.
Cory Doctorow has a plea on EFF.org to save future tech companies from the W3C’s approval of encrypted media extensions or EMEs. The EMEs need a content decryption module that must be obtained from rights holders. Doctorow points out that any browser that tried to render such video without an approved decryption module would fall afoul of the US DMCA and laws like it around the world. A motion to require W3C members not use the DMCA to attack new entrants to the browser market was overruled.
Submitted by motang
Western Digital finished the process of acquiring SanDisk The original deal was announced in October and included Chinese company Unisplendour buying a 15% stake in WD who backed out in February dropping the value of the deal to $16 billion.
The California Public Utilities Commission was the last agency in line to approve the Charter acquisition of Time Warner Cable so the deal is now cleared to move ahead. Charter CEO Tom Rutledge said the deal is expected to close next week.

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I have a pick, it's called MyAppSharer. Most power users know about APK's. This app will extract the installed apk from the system for re install. My primary use is to backup apps before they get updated from the play store.

Have you ever been in the situation where you regret updating an app? Maybe they killed a feature or changed a UI element. With the apk you can load it back.

I also use it to backup the apps I know I need before wiping the phone. This way I'm not searching the for them in the play store or waiting for them to all download.
Submitted by Brian Savacool in Schenectady, NY

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As a Network Engineer that works closely with cabling installers I think Nathaniel should learn some of the low voltage cabling standards. BICSI RCDD (registered communications distribution designer) certification would be a good add.

It's been my experience that many electricians simply don't understand low voltage cabling is different than high voltage, and the resulting kinked CAT6 cables are evidence of that.

Despite the move toward wireless everything there's still a low voltage cable going to those access points. If the cabling is bad, so is the wireless connection.
Sent by Bryce in Maine


My 17 month old girl is a blackberry die hard. She has a Bold Touch 9900 from my previous company after they sunset the servers, and she loves it. She loves the keyboard (she loves any keyboard actually), absolutely adores the tactile feedback she gets from mashing those buttons. She also likes the fact that, unlike the 5 and 6 inch phones of today, she's able to mash buttons with one hand while clutching her security blanket with the other, or 2 handed for some serious button mashing while watching the Wiggles.

Me though, I'm still quite interested in an android phone with an actual keyboard. The priv was interesting but a little too big with it fully extended and expensive. Couldn't get it here in Australia anyway without some serious effort. I'm looking forward to the phones they are rumoured to release this year, particularly the one with a keyboard. I'm just worried they won't last long enough for those to be released.
Sent by Kevin in sometimes warm sometimes cold Melbourne

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