Better Safe Harbor Than Sorry

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Better Safe Harbor Than Sorry
Number 2791
Broadcast Date JUNE 21, 2016
Episode Length 42:21
Hosts Tom Merritt
Guests Patrick Beja

Do we need copyright law to be even stronger? The music industry says so as they get tough in negotiations with YouTube. Patrick Beja and Tom Merritt discuss how these two heavyweights crush the rest of our rights.

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Twitter is adding a video section to its app. When you tap a video Twitter will launch watch mode where you can see other suggested videos as well. The maximum length of videos on twitter is increased from 30 seconds to 140 seconds as well. Twitter is also letting Vine users add a 140-second video alongside the normal 6-second video. Vine users can also run ads on their videos and get 70% of the revenue. AND video creators can use a new app called Engage to track analytics and filter Twitter mentions. Twitter will roll out the longer video to users starting Tuesday. Longer Vine videos will start with a small group of influencers.
Instagram announced it now has 500 million "instagrammers", with 300 millions daily active users. This represents a growth of 100 million registered users over the past 9 months. The company also noted that 80% of their userbase is outside the US.
Tuesday Tumblr announced users of YouNow, YouTube, Kanvas, and Upclose can link their accounts to Tumblr to publish live videos. When a live stream starts on one of the services, users can tap a share to Tumblr button which will send a push notification to their Tumblr followers. While live the video will show at the top of the Tumblr dashboard and will show as a regular post once the stream is over. Tumblr is partnering with Mashable, MTV and more to use and promote the service.
Slack now has a feature called Message Buttons that lets users interact with third-party services without leaving Slack. The buttons show up at the bottom of attachments. For instance an Abacus expense report can have an approve or deny button which can be selected from Slack. Services can develop five buttons per attachment. Among the other 12 launch partners are travel site Kayak, project management service Trello, and more.
Tencent, owners of WeChat and QQ, agreed to buy a majority stake in video game developer Supercell from Softbank for $8.6 billion. The Wall Street Journal reports that the deal would value Supercell, maker of the highly popular Clash of Clans, at $10.2 billion. Supercell will join Riot Games, maker of League of Legends, in Tencent's portfolio. Softbank made the move in an attempt to reduce its $80 billion in net debt, roughly 1/3 or which is tied up with Sprint. The company also stated it would sell at least $7.9 billion in Alibaba shares for similar reasons. Softbank also announced that President and COO Nikesh Arora is stepping down, after nearly two years with the company.
Users of Google’s Android or iOS apps can now take advantage of a simpler second factor to log in to Google accounts. Users need to go to myaccount.google.com to enable the Google prompt option. Once enabled you can tap a pop-up in the Google app when you need to verify a log in. However you can’t enable Google prompt and a physical security key like Yubikey at the same time.
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The US Federal Aviation Administration unveiled “Part 107” Tuesday morning, setting out rules for the use of UAVs by commercial operators. Commercial operators no longer need a pilot’s license but instead must pass a knowledge test and receive a remote pilot certificate. The new rules do not address autonomous flight and operators must maintain visual line of sight at all times, operating only one UAV at a time. Although unlicensed operators may fly a UAV as long as they are supervised by a licensed operator. The new rules ban night flights, and a require that all flights remain below 400 feet or within 400 feet of a structure.
Submitted by hometownrival
Hyperloop One (the one doing tests in Las Vegas), Russian construction conglomerate Summa Group, and the city of Moscow are exploring integration possibilities with Russia’s existing transportation system. Hyperloop One sees this as the first step in a high-speed freight connection between Europe and China.
Submitted by tglass1976

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Pick of the Day

About 2 weeks ago, the GPS in my smartphone stopped working. … Luckily, I found at least a temporary solution to my problem: Bluetooth GPS in the Andriod app store!

The free Bluetooth GPS app uses the Developer options built into the Android operating system create ""mock locations"" that developers use to test their GPS-enabled apps and send real GPS data from a Bluetooth-enabled GPS device. I tried it out this morning, and it works great! Back in the day, ""smartphones"" like my old Moto Q didn't have built-in GPS, so I had bought a Bluetooth GPS device to go with it. I dusted it off, charged the battery and fired it up, and I am no longer lost in the urban jungle!
Submitted by Dave in Too-Damn-Sunny-and-Not-Enough-Rainy Los Angeles

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Several people wrote in to say they don't think Waze should be prevented from routing people along public streets.
I actually hope that Waze and other GPS crowdsourcing apps can find a way to work with local planning and Emergency Service. The local planning can use the information to better plan road building, create alternative routes during construction. Emergency Services can use the crowd sourced information during situations like the recent Tax Day and Memorial Day floods in Texas. Several people drowned because they turned down an open ramp - that was filling with water around a curve. The Ramp was open only because Emergency Services had not gotten there with the barriers yet. The ramps are narrow, with no other exit and these people were trapped. They couldn't turn around and go back - and if they did they risked head on collisions. Most probably never even saw the water until they hit it due to darkness. Hopefully a way to send emergency alerts to GPS systems to warn people and crowd sourced data to emergency services can be developed. Waze was quick to mark 3 roads around me as closed/flooding before Emergency Services actually got the barriers up. That may well have saved someone's life.
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