Dancing With Copyrights

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Dancing With Copyrights
Number 3470
Broadcast Date FEBRUARY 15, 2019
Episode Length 29:53
Hosts Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang
Guests Patrick Norton, Len Peralta

We examine the current state of Nvidia’s GPUs.

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Quick Hits

Samsung announced plans to open its first retail locations in the US, February 20th in Los Angeles, New York, and Houston, selling phones, tablets, wearables, TVs and smart home devices. The stores will also offer customer support, including walk-in repairs for smartphones.
Sources tell the South China Morning Post that EA is in talks with Tencent to bring Apex Legends to China. Tencent already distributes Fortnite AND PlayerUnknown Battlegrounds in China. The country just ended a nine month freeze on approving new game licenses. Tencent is still waiting on approval for in game purchases to be sold in Fortnite and PUBG.
Executives from HSBC told Reuters that it has reduced the cost of settling foreign exchange trades thanks to its FX Everywhere blockchain. The system handles between 3,500 and 5,000 trades a day, processing $250 billion in trades since February 2018. FX Everywhere coordinates payments across HSBC's Americas, Europe and Asia Pacific trading hubs. The company hopes to offer the service to corporate customers with complex cross-border trades.

Top Stories

Sources tell the Washington Post that Facebook and the Federal Trade Commission are in negotiations over a multi-billion dollar fine to settle an investigation into the company's privacy practices. The FTC has been investigating whether Facebook violated its 2011 agreement. Facebook agreed to notify users clearly before sharing personal data with third parties and was barred from deceiving users about its privacy practices. Facebook could agree to a fine and change of practices and the FTC could implement tougher checkups to insure compliance. Facebook could also go to court.
How about some new Samsung stuff everyone? Samsung announced the Galaxy Tab S5e, a 10.5 inch AMOLED Android tablet that is 5.5mm thick and weighs in at 400 grams and an 81.8 percent screen-to-body ratio. The Tab S5e ships with Android Pie and Bixby 2.0, although lacks S-pen support. It'll be available in Q2 2019 for $399. In a less intentional type of product announcement, an update to Samsung's Galaxy Wearable app leaked several upcoming products. The front page of the app listed a 40mm Galaxy Watch Active smartwatch, the Galaxy Fit and Galaxy Fit e fitness trackers, and the wireless earbuds creatively named the Galaxy Buds. Presumably these will be announced at Samsung's Galaxy S10 event on February 20th.
The US Copyright Office declined to register Alfonso Ribeiro's Carlton dance, weakening his case against NBA 2K's similar in-game character dance. In a letter from the office, Saskia Florence, a supervisory registration specialist in the Office's Performing Arts Division wrote, "The combination of these three dance steps is a simple routine that is not registrable as a choreographic work." Take Two filed for dismissal of Ribeiro's suit based on the copyright office's letter saying it "argues that Banks’ dance is too basic to be protected by copyright, which only covers more complex 'choreography.'”
At a Goldman Sachs event this week, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey said that instead of building an edit tweet function, the company could possibly let users “clarify” tweets in the future. Dorsey used the example of someone having tweeted things in the past that they'd like to revisit and give context to as a reason for the tool. Users then would only be able to retweet the clarification, but not edit the tweet in question.
Software developer Philip Wang has used an open source implementation of a Generative Adversarial network, or GAN, to create a website called Thispersondoesnotexist.com. The GAN runs on Nvidia software and creates a human face every two seconds. As you refresh the website you'll get the latest creation. It's important to note that GANs don't assemble new faces from real faces but learn how to create an image from scratch based on training from image data of real faces.

Discussion

Mailbag

Kafka obviously knows way more than me when he explains why the media companies would consider giving Apple 50% of the revenue in their news offering. There’s one more consideration I didn’t hear mentioned.

Apple customers are also very high-value customers, willing to pay “a grip” for phones (as Robb Dunewood would say), and pay for photo storage (when Google gives it away for free) and double or triple for computers vs. their Windows counterparts.
Sent by Allison Sheridan

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"Amazon & NY Breaks-up on V-Day" 		Dancing With Copyrights
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"It's Punny (in French)"
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