Daily Tech Headlines – February 1, 2018
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| Daily Tech Headlines – February 1, 2018 | |
| Number | 429 |
| Broadcast Date | FEBRUARY 1, 2018 |
| Episode Length | 3:46 |
| Hosts | Sarah Lane |
Mario Kart Tour in development, YouTube TV comes to Roku, Elon Musk sells out flamethrowers.
Headlines
- Apple has pulled the Telegram messaging app from it's store for breach of guidelines. Both the original Telegram app and a rebuild, called Telegram X, which the company announced for Android Wednesday — have been taken off the iOS App Store. Telegram founder Pavel Durov tweeted the move relates to “inappropriate content” and the app will be back in the App Store soon.
- You can now add a YouTube TV channel on "select" Roku devices, which include live broadcasts, a cloud DVR, program guide, and more. YouTube TV costs $35/month and is now available on Android TV, Xbox One and other platforms.. Google initially promised both Apple TV and Roku support in early 2018, and says Apple TV support is also coming very soon.
- EBay will stop using PayPal as its back-end payments service in 2020, and move a small percentage of its payments volume to a new partner later this year, in a long-term deal with Adyen, an Amsterdam-based payments company with current customers like Uber, Netflix and Spotify and expected to IPO this year. PayPal will remain a payment option for eBay shoppers, but won't process card payments for eBay. The PayPal eBay partnership has been in place since 2003, a few months after eBay had acquired PayPal. in a deal valued at $1.5 billion. The companies split into separate public companies in July of 2015 at which point signed a five-year operating agreement.
- Instagram’s newest Stories feature now includes “type mode,” which lets users add text blocks to their stories with customized colors and backgrounds, just like the Facebook feature. Users can also now create “archives” of photos and videos they've posted to their Instagram account, which hides those posts from their followers without actually deleting them.
- Sources tell the Wall Street Journal that Alphabet is in talks with Saudi state oil giant Saudi Aramco to build a technology hub together in Saudi Arabia. Apple and Amazon are also in licensing discussions with Riyadh on investing in Saudi Arabia. The Journal also said this joint venture between the oil giant and Alphabet could be big enough to become listed on Saudi Arabia’s stock exchange, which could make Aramco the world’s largest publicly traded company.
- Nintendo confirmed Mario Kart Tour Wednesday on Twitter, which is now in development and expected to be released sometime before March 2019. In addition, Nintendo Switch Online will launch this September. The service will cost either $3.99 a month, $7.99 for three months or $19.99 per year.
- In an overall positive quarterly earnings report, Facebook actually lost daily active users in the U.S. and Canada. The number fell for the first time ever in the fourth quarter, dropping to 184 million from 185 million in the previous quarter.
- Days after introducing flamethrowers for sale on Twitter, Elon Musk says they're sold out, all 20,000 of em, for $500 each, which comes out to about $10M for Musk's underground digging operation The Boring Company. Customers who purchased the flamethrower have been given a complimentary fire extinguisher.
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Daily Tech Headlines – February 1, 2018 |
Followed by: "Daily Tech Headlines – February 2, 2018" |