Daily Tech Headlines – May 17, 2018
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| Daily Tech Headlines – May 17, 2018 | |
| Number | 504 |
| Broadcast Date | MAY 17, 2018 |
| Episode Length | 4:35 |
| Hosts | Sarah Lane |
YouTube Red splits into YouTube Music and YouTube Premium, US Senate votes in favor of net neutrality, questions arise about Google Duplex status.
Headlines
- YouTube is splitting up YouTube Red into two services and renaming everything. Recode reports YouTube will launch a revamped music service next Tuesday called... YouTube Music. It'll cost $10 a month after a trial period, same price as before to strip out ads, download music for offline listening, and play music in the background... but YouTube will now charge $2 more to watch original content previously on YouTube Red, and that will be called YouTube Premium. Existing YouTube Red subscribers will stay at the $10/month tier. YouTube Music will also replace Google Play Music, eventually.
- A new report in Norway's Dagens Næringsliv claims that streaming service Tidal is months behind on payments to music labels, speciifically the big 3. Last December, a separate report from the same newspaper said that Tidal was running out of money, and had as little as a 6-month runway left. In a statement to The Verge, a Tidal spokesperson said, “We have experienced negative stories about Tidal since its inception and we have done nothing but grow the business each year.”
- Microsoft revealed the Xbox Adaptive Controller Thursday, desgined for gamers with disabilities. Microsoft says it took input from AbleGamers, Warfighter Engaged, SpecialEffect, Craig Hospital and the Cerebral Palsy Foundation to create the the Adaptive Controller .It connects to the Xbox One or Windows 10 PC via Bluetooth and powers on just like the Xbox Elite controller. The controller it an 11x6 inch rectangle two two buttons that are light-touch enabled, 2 USB-c ports ,and Nineteen 3.5mm ports along the backside which allows players to plug in their existing accessibility tools. The Xbox Adaptive Controller will cost $100 when it goes on sale later this year.
- The US Senate voted Wednesday to reverse the Federal Communications Commission's repeal of net neutrality rules. All members of the Democratic caucus and 3 Republicans voted in favor of net neutrality. The Senate approved a Congressional Review Act (CRA) resolution that would reverse the FCC's vote to deregulate the broadband industry back in December. If the CRA is approved by the House and signed by President Trump, ISPs would have to comply, although almost no one expects it to pass through Congress. FCC Chairman Ajit Pai has scheduled his repeal to take effect on June 11. If Congress doesn't act, the net neutrality rules and the FCC's classification of ISPs as common carriers would be eliminated on that date.
- Uber's former chief security officer, who was said to be fired after Uber sufferend a data breach last year that affected 57 million riders and hackers, has a new job, CSO of Cloudflare. Cloudflare's technology speeds up and protects websites from outside attacks. The company's CEO Matthew Prince told Bloomberg last year that the company was aiming for a mid-2018 IPO.
- Google's AI-powered voice assistant Duplex that the company showed off at I/O, is raising a few quesitons. Namely, was the live demo which demonstrated Duplex calling a business to schedule an appointment really a live demo, or something pre-recorded or otherwise staged? Axios asked Google for the business name used in the demo which was not disclosed at the time, and Google spokesperson declined.
- Mobileye, Intel's autonomous driving unit based in Israel, has signed a contract to supply eight million cars tot a European automaker, a company official told Reuters, although the automaker itself was not disclosed, nor was the price of the deal. What we do know is Mobileye's advanced driver assisted systems is set to begin in 2021, when Intel’s EyeQ5 chip, which is designed for fully autonomous driving, is launched as an upgrade to the EyeQ4 that will be rolled out in the coming weeks, Intel bought Mobileye, bought Intel last year for $15.3 billion. The company claims of the 27 million cars on the road from 25 automakers that use some sort of driver assistance system, Mobileye has a market share of more than 70 percent.
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