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| Blade Cuts Through PC Game Streaming | |
| Number | 3219 |
| Broadcast Date | FEBRUARY 13, 2018 |
| Episode Length | 33:05 |
| Hosts | Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane |
| Guests | Patrick Beja |
French company Blade hopes to up end the Gaming PC market with their cloud based remote gaming PC service. Does it live up to the hype? Plus, ARM unveils its new processor designs for object detection and machine learning and Harvard and MIT are offering classes in AI ethics.
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Quick Hits
- IDC estimates Google doubled their number of Pixel phones shipped to 3.9 million in 2017, about the same as a typical week for Samsung or Apple. To make Google feel better, IDC estimates Essential sold just 88,000 units in its first six months on the market. Meanwhile, a report from Counterpoint estimates HMD Global, which makes phones for Nokia, sold 4.4 million handsets in Q4 2017 making it the #11 phone seller in the world.
- Facebook added Lists as an option to its status box field. As you might guess, it lets users create lists with colored backgrounds and emojis. Examples of lists include places you'd like to visit or things you need to get done that for some reason you need to share with all your friends and family.
- Microsoft announced it will support public blockchains for use in decentralized identity systems, starting with blockchain-based decentralized IDs (DIDs) through the Microsoft Authenticator app. Microsoft plans to work with DID-specific standards outlined by a W3C working group.
Top Stories
- Google is now offering publishers a developer preview of AMP Stories, a new spin on its mobile-friendly format that features swipeable slides of text, photos, graphics and videos, for stories that show up in the news section at the top of Google's search results. Publishers already developing for AMP Stories include Vox Media, Condé Nast, and Time Warner. Google is also creating a Gmail Developer Preview of "AMP for Email" which brings AMP functions to emails so you can enter and access info without leaving Gmail.
- SIDENOTE-- Snapchat’s VP of content Nick Bell told TechCrunch, “Our ambition at Snapchat is to empower great storytelling, and we think we have pioneered the best format for doing that on mobile. We’re delighted to see that an industry is starting to form around that, and hope that it will encourage more newsrooms to invest in teams that focus on made for mobile content.”
- Facebook is showing some iOS users an option called protect that leads them to the App Store listing for Facebook's VPN app. Onavo Protect, as it is called, is meant to keep your data private on the Web. At least private from everyone but Facebook. The app tracks which websites and other apps you use and sends that information to Facebook. That data is used to improve Onavo as well as Facebook products and services. Facebook acquired Onavo in 2013.
- ARM publicly unveiled “Project Trillium” for object detection and machine learning. The first designs are for the ARM Machine Learning (ML) Processor, which will speed up general AI applications from machine translation to facial recognition; and the ARM Object Detection (OD) Processor, a second-generation design optimized for processing visual data and detecting people and objects. The OD processor is expected at the end of this month and would likely show up in cameras and quadcopters, and the ML processor design will be available sometime in the middle of the year and is likely to be useful in phones and tablets. ARM will license the processor designs to third-party manufacturers.
- This semester, Harvard and MIT are jointly offering a new course on the ethics of artificial intelligence. The course has 30 students, focuses on the ethical, policy and legal implications of artificial intelligence. Meanwhile, The University of Texas at Austin has a new course called “Ethical Foundations of Computer Science” — and may eventually require it for all computer science majors. And at Stanford University, three professors and a research fellow are developing a computer science ethics course for next year. Computer science programs are required to make sure students have an understanding of ethical issues related to computing in order to be accredited by ABET.
- Apple announced it’s partnering with Warriors star small forward Kevin Durant’s Thirty Five Media and Imagine Media to create Swagger, a new scripted series based on Durant's early life. About a month ago, YouTube announced that it was partnering with Durant's video business to offer up original sports programming, though not in a scripted format. Apple is investing heavily in original scripted content including projects with Reese Witherspoon as producer, a series from La La Land’s Damien Chazelle and a reboot of Steven Spielberg’s 80s classic, Amazing Stories.
Discussion
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- Blade's Shadow cloud PC service reinvents cloud gaming one more time
Mailbag
- yestserday's show - You compare über drivers and Lyft drivers to regular workers, but better to compare them to truck drivers, which have very specific Hours of Service requirements set forth by the DOT. so they can work 15 hours straight, but they must then not do any driving at all for 8 hours.
- Sent by BigJim
- The hourly limit is obviously to prevent accidents caused by sleepy drivers. This limit does also apply to commercial drivers who are independent contractors, as many professional truckers are.
What's unclear from a legal perspective is whether or not TNC* drivers are considered to be commercial drivers, and are thus subject to this limit. Even if they were, the responsibility would be on the individual drivers to make sure they were in compliance, not with Uber or Lyft. Speaking of Lyft, they've been forcing drivers to log off after 12 hours for over a year. It's difficult to tell if Uber's move is just a PR stunt or in advance of some upcoming legislation, perhaps at the state level.
There are a lot more drowsy Uber drivers out there than anyone wants to admit. People are pulling 15 and 16-hour shifts to make ends meet, and while these marathoners are far from the majority of registered drivers, they're a significant portion of the drivers out there on the road at any given time. This is not safe for anyone, but in the gig economy, safety is often seen as an unaffordable luxury. - Sent by Sekani Wright, reporting from the capital of the Inland Empire
- Jason Meidenbauer wrote in noting the same thing
- The hourly limit is obviously to prevent accidents caused by sleepy drivers. This limit does also apply to commercial drivers who are independent contractors, as many professional truckers are.
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