BitTorrent Launches uTorrent Web
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| BitTorrent Launches uTorrent Web | |
| Number | 623 |
| Broadcast Date | SEPTEMBER 5, 2018 |
| Episode Length | 5:00 |
| Hosts | Sarah Lane |
Theranos shuts down, Dorsey and Sandberg testify in DC, Vimeo pivots to SaaS.
Headlines
- Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey told the Senate Intelligence Committee Wednesday that they are better prepared to combat foreign interference on their platforms. This comes almost a year after both companies told the same panel that Russia used inauthentic accounts to spread confusing messaging around the 2016 election. Google had been invited to testify at the Senate Intelligence Committee as well, but declined to send Larry Page, the chief executive officer of Google's parent company, Alphabet.
- Snap introduced two new styles of its Spectacles 2 glasses, Veronica and Nico, with polarized lenses, and black “semi-soft” case instead of the bright yellow hard case you get with the original Spectacles 2. Both are available starting today for $199 in “limited quantities”. This fall, they'll also be sold at select Nordstrom and Neiman Marcus and Nordstrom stores in the US and a variety of retailers in Europe. Snap’s partner Lensabl will continue to let customers order prescription lenses for their glasses.
- According to a new Pew Research Center surveying U.S. adults conducted May 29-June 11, 42% of Facebook users have taken a break from the network in the past year. 54% of Facebook users ages 18 and older say they have adjusted their privacy settings in the past 12 months, And around 42% say they have taken a break from checking the platform for everal weeks or more at a time. 26% say they have deleted the Facebook app from their cellphone. And 74% of Facebook users say they have taken at least one of these three actions in the past year.
- BitTorrent pubicly launched a new BitTorrent client: uTorrent Web, which has been in beta for years. uTorrent Web handles all downloading and playback from withint the browser, and like uTorrent, uTorrent Web can play audio and video files before they’ve finished downloading, uTorrent Web is only available for Windows for now.
- Vimeo CEO Anjali Sud tells Axios the company is changing its business to focus on selling software tools to its community, instead of being a video viewing destination. Sud says this allows Vimeo to go after a less competitive social software as a service market focusing on stock images and video, Vimeo will now sell Vimeo Stock, a software tool for creators like Getty Images or Shutterstock.
- Theranos is shutting down its business, according to an email Theranos CEO David Taylor sent shareholders and obtained by the Wall Street Journal. Theranos claimed a cheaper, more efficient alternative to traditional medical tests, until a Wall Street Journal investigation in 2015 exposed inconsistencies in the company's tech and accuracy. Theranos founder and former CEO, Elizabeth Holmes, was indicted on federal wire fraud charges in June. Prosecutors say Holmes and the company's former COO and president Ramesh Balwani engaged in a multimillion dollar scheme to defraud investors, as well as a scheme to defraud doctors and patients.
- According to new research from a team at Northeastern University and the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and published by Bloomberg, Netflix and YouTube are the most throttled services by telecoms. All four big carriers in the US now offer unlimited data plans that restrict streaming video on mobile devices to 480p by default. The research was conducted by monitoring about 100,000 users who signed up for a mobile app called Wehe, which monitored network traffic to determine when an app experienced “differentiation.” AT&T and Verizon showed to be throttling the most, differentiating delivery speeds for streaming video 8,398 and 11,100 times, respectively. T-Mobile and Sprint differentiated traffic 3,900 times and 339 times, respectively.
- Amazon announced it's ordering 20,000 Mercedes-Benz vans from Daimler AG to build out its delivery fleet and have small businesses carry an excess supply of packages. Amazon said in June said it would soon let entrepreneurs create delivery companies employing up to 100 drivers and leasing between about 20 and 40 vans displaying Amazon’s logo.
- Google launched Dataset Search as a companion to Google Scholar, the company’s search engine for academic studies and reports. Universities, governments, and other institutions that publish their data online will need to include metadata tags in their webpages that describe their data, including who created it, when it was published, how it was collected, etc. This information will then be indexed by Google and combined with information from the Knowledge Graph. Google tells the Verge the goal is to unify the tens of thousands of different repositories for datasets online.
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