Apple and Google Deliver First Version of Contact Tracing App to Devs
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| Apple and Google Deliver First Version of Contact Tracing App to Devs | |
| Number | 1114 |
| Broadcast Date | APRIL 30, 2020 |
| Episode Length | 6:02 |
| Hosts | Rich Stroffolino |
Apple and Google deliver the first version of their contact tracing API to developers, LA county website lets any resident schedule a COVID-19 test, and Intel announces its 10th generation Comet Lake processors.
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- Apple and Google are delivering the first version of their exposure notification API to selected developers working on apps for public health organizations. After this test round, the API is expected to be released broadly in mid-May. The updates come in the beta of Apple's Xcode 11.5 and iOS 13.5 and Google's Play Services and Android Developer Studio. Apple and Google will release sample code on Friday.
- Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti announced that any residents in LA County can sign up at coronavirus.LAcity.org to schedule a free COVID-19 test, even if they do not currently exhibit symptoms. Users must prove they live in the county, and those that have symptoms will get priority on same and next day appointments. Currently, the city has 34 testing centers and a daily capacity of 18,000 tests.
- Intel announced its new 10th generation desktop processors, code named Comet Lake, the 5th iteration of the company's Skylake microarchitecture, and built on a 14nm process. Intel announced 32 processors, with the top line i9-10900K including 10-cores, 20 threads, a base clock of 3.7GHz with a Thermal Velocity Boost clock up to 5.3GHz when kept under 70-degrees C. All i3, i5, i7, and i9 models include hyperthreading, i7 and i9 models support DDR4-2933 memory, with all other processors supporting DDR4-2666. The lineup includes F SKUs that don't include integrated graphics, as well as T processors that operate at a 35W TDP. The CPUs all use the new LGA1200 socket, with Intel also releasing new Z490, B460, and H470 motherboard chipsets to support it.
- Reddit introduced a new chat tool called "Start Chatting," which will randomly match up to seven users in a given subreddit into a chat. The feature will roll out to 16,000 Safe for Work subreddits and expand in the coming weeks. Users can exchange messages, share posts or send GIFs in the chat. Users can report chats to Reddit within a conversation, or block other users so they won't be paired up with them in chats going forward.
- Google announced new policies for the Chrome Web Store, designed to cut down on duplicate entries and malicious extensions. Starting August 27th, duplicate extensions, extensions that only have a single purpose (like loading a single webpage), and that abuse browser notifications will be banned, as well as ones that use "keyword spam" in metadata. Developers have until that date to update extensions, with Google delisting those that don't comply after that time.
- Facebook began rolling out its image transfer tool in the US and Canada, letting users transfer images to Google Photos. The tool originally launched in Ireland in December last year as part of Facebook's work with the Data Transfer Project. Facebook says that once the tool rolls out globally, Facebook will work to enable transferring images to "Microsoft, Apple, Twitter, and other companies that join the Data Transfer Program.”
- The Raspberry Pi Foundation released the High Quality Camera, a module for the Raspberry Pi SoC with a 12.3-megapixel backside-illuminated Sony IMX477 sensor. The board supports interchangeable C- and CS-mount lenses and offers adjustable back focus, and initial resellers will bundle the High Quality Camera with either a $25 6mm CS-mount lens or a $50 16mm C-mount lens. The High Quality Camera module itself is available for $50.
- Zoom updated an April 24th blog post that originally claimed the company had 300 million daily users to now state that it has “300 million daily Zoom meeting participants,” a figure which includes the same person logging into multiple Zoom meetings in a day multiple times. In the updated post, Zoom said, "This was a genuine oversight on our part.”
- Microsoft reported revenue up 15% year over year and $1.40 earnings per share, beating analyst expectations. Azure grew 59% year over year, Office 365 commercial income grew 25%, LinkedIn grew 21%, and Xbox, Surface and search were flat. Microsoft noted that COVID-19 had minimal impact on its Q1 results.
- Twitter reported it lost $0.01 per share on revenue of $808 million, up 3% on the year. Analysts had expected revenue of $776 million on earnings of $0.10 per share. The company saw monetizable daily active users increase 24% to 166 million on the year, with 32 million users added on the year and 14 million added since last quarter.
- Analysts at Trendforce found that global smartphone production in Q1 fell 10% on the year to roughly 280 million units. The firm predicts a 16.5% drop on the year for Q2, which would be the largest decline in a quarter. Of the top six global smartphone manufacturers, only Vivo increased production volume in the quarter, up 5.5% on the year to 23 million units.
- The app analytics firm Sensor Tower reports that ByteDance's TikTok and the Chinese version Douyin surpassed 2 billion downloads combined. Since Sensor Tower started collecting analytics in 2014, only Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram and Messenger have surpassed that milestone, excluding pre-installed apps. In Q1, Sensor Tower estimates the app was downloaded 315 million times, the highest number of downloads for any app in a quarter.
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