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| Content Aware Phil | |
| Number | 3502 |
| Broadcast Date | APRIL 3, 2019 |
| Episode Length | 32:36 |
| Hosts | Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang |
| Guests | Scott Johnson |
Adobe makes After Effects content-aware to help simplify and speed up compositing and FX editing, who can claim to be the first location with 5G service and can Machine Learning grow the perfect basil?
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Quick Hits
- New WhatsApp settings give users control over who can add them to group chats without approval. The settings are Nobody, requiring you to accept an invitation to be added, My Contacts, which lets people in your contacts list add you to groups without an invitation, and Anyone which lets anyone add you to any group without needing your approval first. The new settings start rolling out today and will be worldwide in a few weeks.
- The ability for Google Assistant to use Google Duplex to call restaurants to make reservations is rolling out to non-Pixel Android phones and iOS phones. Google Duplex uses text-to-speech and AI to call restaurants for you over the phone. It's been available for Pixel phone users in 43 US States. Android users need Android 5.0 or higher and iOS users need to have Google Assistant installed.
- Sources tell Reuters that Japan Display will supply OLED screens to Apple for its smartwatches, later this year. Japan Display has been late to the OLED market and losing money as LCD screen orders decline. Japan Display gets more than half of its revenue from Apple. Samsung, LG and several Chinese makers dominate the OLED display market. Samsung is the exclusive supplier of OLED screens for phones to Apple while LG supplies OLED screens for watches.
- Google released the second Android Q developer preview for Pixel phones and, among other things, it includes a foldable screen emulator for developers. The emulator uses screen dimensions that match the Huawei Mate X and Samsung Galaxy Fold.
Top Stories
- South Korea was set to become the first country to launch commercial 5G mobile service Friday, but Verizon flipped the switch early on its service in Chicago and Minnesota. The Motorola Z3 is the only phone currently available in the US that can take advantage of the service and customers will pay an extra $10 a month to access it. Multiple Carriers will launch in South Korea Friday. SK Telecom expects 1 million 5G customers by the end of the year and KT Corp is offering its 5G plans with unlimited data at a lower price than its LTE plans. The Samsung Galaxy S10 5G can be used on the services there and LG will release its 5G-capable phone in Korea later this month.
- Adobe announced it is bringing content-aware fill to After Effects. Content-aware fill in Photoshop fills in deleted objects in a photo with appropriate pixels based on what's around it. In After Effects it will do the same but with video, powered by Adobe Sensei, its AI platform. To fine tune the results you can create a reference frame in Photoshop.
- Researchers at UpGuard discovered several instances of Facebook user information stored on Amazon Web Servers without restriction which means anybody who knew to look could find it. The data did not come from Facebook but was collected by third parties. Mexico's Cultura Colectiva improperly stored 540 million records including identification numbers, comments, reactions and account names. Amazon has closed the database after being alerted by Facebook in response to a Bloomberg reporter. Another instance from a defunct app called At the Pool listed names, passwords and email addresses for 22,000 people. The finds are a result of Facebook's looser policies on sharing user information in the past combined with the common practice of storing data on AWS without proper security.
- A study published in the journal PLOS One showed how a machine learning algorithm was used to determine the optimal growing conditions to maximise the volatile compounds that give fresh basil its taste. Basil was grown in hydroponic shipping containers in Middleton, Massachusetts, which controlled temperature, light humidity and other factors. Taste was measured by using gas chromatography and mass spectrometry to determine compounds known to provide good flavor. That data was then fed back to the ML algorithm.
- The US Department of Justice has warned the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences that changing its rules to limit the eligibility of Netflix for Oscar awards could diminish sales for the excluded films and potentially violate Section 1 of the Sherman Act that “prohibits anticompetitive agreements among competitors.” Steven Spielberg has been advocating to eliminate movies that premiere on streaming too close to their theatrical premieres. Currently a movie just has to have a theatrical run to qualify.
- Patagonia says it'll stop creating branded products through its corporate sales program without certain standards in place. Patagonia says it has shifted its focus to “mission-driven companies that prioritize the planet. Patagonia is a B Corp - a business that meet certain environmental, social and transparency standards and are certified by a private organization. Existing corporate customers will remain in the program and still be able to order more branded items from Patagonia.
Mailbag
- The trust that Google will keep Stadia around is an important one. A critical difference between Stadia and other Google services is monetary. While things like Inbox, Google+ and so on were free and so their demise more tolerated by their users, with Stadia Google will be asking for actual serious monetary investment on an ongoing basis. Whether it gets sold as a service (which over time will result in a substantial yearly cost) or a marketplace where users can "buy" digital games, the blowback should Stadia get canned after a few years would be massive and I feel this point is very much on the mind of gamers. Google is seriously underestimating the damage that their kill-happy legacy has done to their brand, and this is going to seriously mute Stadia adoption by gamers who won't want to lay down that sort of money to invest in a gaming service they cannot trust.
- Sent by Scott
- I work in the POS industry and what really bugs me is that these stories rarely ever name the POS system. This is the issue, the fact that this affected Earls, Chicken Guy, Bucca, etc is only the management of the software...the software has the security flaw... and I can tell you we never get security information updates , just apply these patches or you are no longer PCI/PA-DSS compliant.
As someone who has been lucky enough to not been a part of a breached company, I'd really like to see some transparency from the major players, NCR, Heartland, Micros, etc in this field. The new guys in the hospitality POS (tablet based POS, Toast, Revel, etc.) field are very transparent as they use mostly transparent partners and open API's. I find them in particular more secure (antidote and empirically). ok I'm done ranting.
I would like to say however, I feel much more informed being a listener (long time listener, several time caller) than my peers in this industry. - Sent by anonymous
- I work in the POS industry and what really bugs me is that these stories rarely ever name the POS system. This is the issue, the fact that this affected Earls, Chicken Guy, Bucca, etc is only the management of the software...the software has the security flaw... and I can tell you we never get security information updates , just apply these patches or you are no longer PCI/PA-DSS compliant.
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