Cool Kids are Second Movers

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Cool Kids are Second Movers
Number 2764
Broadcast Date MAY 19, 2016
Episode Length 40:01
Hosts Tom Merritt
Guests Justin Robert Young

Google will make their own VR headset after all but why? Has Google run out of ideas? Tom Merritt and Justin Young discuss.

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Headlines

Google announced that Android apps and the Google Play store are coming to the Chrome OS. Google Play will start rolling out in the developer channel with M53 on the ASUS Chromebook Flip, the Acer Chromebook R 11 and the latest Chromebook Pixel. Over time, this will roll out to other Chromebooks in the market too. Interestingly Ars Technica reports Google is not using the App Runtime for Chrome or ARC that it was developing. Instead the entire Android Framework is running in a container.
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A Pittsburgh Tribune reporter took a ride in Uber’s self-driving Ford Fusion, confirming Uber’s street testing of autonomous cars. Uber says test began a few weeks ago. Uber’s automated vehicles use 22 camera lenses, laser sensors and other sensors to see as far as 100 meters in any direction. Uber says it has so far had no crashes. Uber opened its Advanced Technology Center in Pittsburgh last year.
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The TeslaCrypt ransomware has shut down. Slovak security firm ESET asked a question on TeslaCrypt’s site about the apparent winddown. A response said “project closed, listed the master key and “Wait for other people make universal decrypt software. We are sorry!” ESET has a decryptor tool at welivesecurity.com and BleepingComputer.com has a TeslCrypt decoder as well. Although BleepingComputer notes the distributors of TeslaCrypt may have moved on to CryptXXX.
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Google’s VR Head Clay Bavor confirmed Google will sell its own version of DayDream VR gear, saying on stage at I/O, “And, by the way, it’s not just going to be partners building from the reference design, we, Google, are also going to build a controller and a headset and make it available.” Google is partnering with Epic Games and the Unity on the motion-sensing controller.
Adobe launched a new suite of apps called Adobe Spark for creating and sharing visual content, like graphics and animated videos. Mobile apps Adobe Post, Adobe Slate and Adobe Voice become Spark Post, Spark Page and Spark Video respectively. Web versions let you create content in the browser as well. The idea is to let everyday people create professional graphics layouts and videos in minutes. The service and apps are free from spark.adobe.com.
Thursday, Google appealed a French data protection order to remove right-to-be-forgtten search results from all search engines globally. In February Google started honoring delisting requests on all its sites when accessed from the country the request originated from. France’s CNIL fined €100,000 in March for not delisting more widely.
Google revealed it has designed its own Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) called the Tensor Processing Unit for running TensorFlow, Google’s open source machine learning system. The TPU has been used in data centers for more than a year and powers RankBrain, StreetView and assisted AlphaGo in its Go tournament. The TPU requires fewer transistors per operation because it is tailored to machine learning applications.
Chromebooks outshipped Macs in the US in the first quarter of 2016. IDC estimates 1.6 million Macs shipped in Q1 but it does not breakout sales by operating system. IDC Analyst Lin Huang confirmed to the Verge that “Chrome OS overtook Mac OS in the US.”
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Researchers from the University of New South Wales claim to have created photovoltaic cells that can harvest 34.5% of solar energy without concentrators, topping the previous maximum of 24%. The 28 square centimeter cell splits incoming sunlight into four bands to increase efficiency of the energy extraction. Too expensive and hard to maintain for rooftop, they are ideal for solar towers.The efficiency record has been confirmed by the US National Renewable Energy Laboratory but the research has yet to be peer reviewed.
CNET reports an Australia and US military research team tested hypersonic air transport Wednesday in Woomera, South Australia. The test rocket reached Mach 7.5 or 9200 kph. To put that in perspective, that would turn the 20 hour Sydney to London trip into a two hour jaunt. This is one of ten tests that started in 2009. The final test is scheduled for 2018.

Discussion

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Hi guys, I'm a couple episodes behind on the show, but I used Itemcycle to sell my old iPhone. They are similar to Gazelle, but their site collects offers from other buy-back companies and calculates a higher payout price. They also only buy Apple products. Thought the audience would like to know.
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Messages

Just a quick note on the Allo name discussion, in Iran when we answered the phone instead of saying "hello" we would say "allo". I wonder if this is the case in other countries as well and this is Google's way of saying an international hello.

Love the show.
Sent by Maz from Rainy NoVA


In response to the discussion yesterday about Google's Knock Knock feature in Duo.
I can think of at least one argument against such a feature.
Since a phone number is all that is required to contact someone using Duo, it becomes easy to put inappropriate or offensive images in front of someone's face.
You won't have a chance to say "hmmm... I don't recognize that number" before seeing what they have on camera.

It will be interesting to watch how this gets used (and abused).

Thanks!
Sent by Justin in GoogleFibery KC


Hi Tom,

I bought a GTX-970 last month. And graphic cards per median income over here in Malaysia is far more expensive (exchange rates and all that) than it is to a regular person in the US. So it's a bigger purchase here than it is to a regular US gamer.

:/

And I want a 1080 too.
Sent by Yaru from Malaysia


Hey Tom and Crew
I wanted to write in to comment on yesterdays discussion of new features in Android N. Scott said that he wished iOS would add a clear all apps button like Google did.

Good news, there is!

Except its not really a button, more of a CTRL-ALT-DELETE. If you hold down the Power button until the power slider comes up, then release the power button and hold down the Home button for 5 seconds, all apps will be force quit and you will return to the home screen. The apps will remain in the app switcher carousel, but they will not be running.

(Video Example https://youtu.be/rk-ko8Ow8M4)

While this is a good way to clean house, I think it speaks to a misunderstanding that some people have about the way iOS handles multi-tasking. I constantly see people finish with an app then double tap the home button and swipe it away. Many don’t know that just because you double tap the home button and see every app you’ve ever launched, does not mean those apps are necessarily running. iOS is very good about freezing apps and shutting them down when not in use, that way when you re-open the app it is exactly where you left off and you don’t have to waste time and battery letting the app re-load.

I know most DTNS listeners may already know this, but I am on a personal crusade to save the "Average Joe" iOS user some time and battery life. :)

Love the show, keep up the great work!
Your Boss,
Sent by Chip from Finally sunny and warm Boston

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"Allo? Knock Knock, Is There Anyone Home?" 		Cool Kids are Second Movers
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