Don’t Put Mouth On My Words

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Don’t Put Mouth On My Words
Number 3212
Broadcast Date FEBRUARY 2, 2018
Episode Length 31:42
Hosts Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane
Guests Nicole Lee, Len Peralta

We explore the link between AI generated fake porn videos and the future of news and facts. Plus Kaz Hirai steps down as CEO of Sony and CEO Susan Wojcicki explains what YouTube wants.

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Quick Hits

YouTube TV announced its app is now available for Apple TV with subscriptions available as an in-app purchase. YouTube TV arrived for Roku Thursday morning.
Microsoft introduced a new Surface Laptop for $799 Friday. The new model has a Core m3 processor, 4 GB of RAM and 128 GB of storage. Microsoft also introduced a new variant of its 13.5-inch Surface Book 2 at $1199 with an Intel Core i5 processor, 8GB of RAM, and 128GB of storage. This is down from the $1499 model which had 256 GB of storage.
Sources tell Recode that HQ Trivia, the trivia gameshow app, is raising a round of funding led by Peter Thiel's Founders Fund, valuing the company north of $100 million and gaining a seat on the company's board. The plot thickens on Sarah's 2018 prediction that Facebook would clone HQ rather than buy it... considering Thiel is on Facebook's board.
Chrome OS 64 is rolling out. One new feature lets you take a screenshot by pressing the power and volume down buttons together. There are also updates to how it handles Android apps including the ability enable VPN for Play apps.

Top Stories

Apple reported it sold 77.3 million iPhones in its last quarter down 1% year over year, though revenue rose as average selling price rose to $796. iPad sales rose 1% to 13.2 million. Wearables revenue rose 70% and watch sales rose 50%. Macs were down 5% and services revenue rose 18% to $8.5 billion. China revenue rose 11%. Overall revenue set a record at $88.3 billion up 14% on the year.
Overall smartphone sales were slow in the holiday quarter according to IDC and Strategy Analytics. IDC showed 403.5 million units shipped down from 430.7 million the year before. And for the year overall smartphone volume dropped 0.1 percent according to IDC although Strategy Analytics showed a 1% rise Apple took the top spot away from Samsung for the quarter, although Samsung was still the top vendor for the year. Xiaomi climbed back into the top 5 smartphone vendors for the year, bumping out Vivo.
YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki posted some goals for YouTube Thursday evening. Among the goals are improving enforcement of existing policies with a combination of machine learning and people. A more accurate solution for demonetizing content that includes more human review. And harsher penalties for channels caught doing “something egregious that causes significant harm to our community as a whole.” In a separate announcement YouTube said it will start identifying videos that come from state-funded outlets like PBS or RT.
Sony announced that Kaz Hirai will step down as CEO of Sony but remain as chairman. CFO Kenichiro Yoshida will become CEO April 1. The image sensor company reported a quadrupling of operating profit in the third quarter, its highest Q3 profit yet. For the first time since its launch, shipments for the PS4 in the all-important holiday quarter were down year over year, from 9.7 million in 2016 to 9 million in 2017. Sony raised its profit forecast for the year ending March to 720 billion yen from 630 billion yen, its best in its 72-year history.
Bloomberg reports Intel will sell a majority stake in its augmented reality business. It aims to offer smart glasses that connect with phones by Bluetooth later this year. Taiwan’s Quanta Computer is making the product under contract. Intel wants investors with strong sales channels, or design expertise.

Discussion

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There's one missing piece from your conversation yesterday that might explain why Spotify is testing a Pandora like service in Australia. Last year Pandora exited the Australian market to focus on its core US business. While Pandora wasn't huge in Australia, it has still left an opening for a similar service.

Thanks for all the great content you're producing,
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