Google Accused of Trust Demolition
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| Google Accused of Trust Demolition | |
| Number | 673 |
| Broadcast Date | NOVEMBER 14, 2018 |
| Episode Length | 4:42 |
| Hosts | Tom Merritt |
Samsung announces fast new Exynos chip, DeepMind transfers Health division to Google and L’oreal’s new wearable.
Headlines
- Samsung says its forthcoming Exynos 9 Series 9820 chip has a neural processing unit that's 7 times faster than the one on the 9810 which is used in some models of the Galaxy S9. Samsung also claims the 9820 delivers 20-percent better conventional single-core performance and 15-percent multi-core and a 40-percent rise in power efficiency. The 9820 GPU uses ARM's Mali G76 cores. The Exynos 9820 will be ready for mass production by the end of the year.
- Alphabet-owned DeepMind's Health division, including the Stream app for assisting doctors and nurses, will be transferred to Alphabet-owned Google's Google Health division. The DeepMind Health division has partnerships with 10 NHS hospitals to process medical data. The Stream app ran into controversy over its use of 1.6 million patient's data in Royal Free Hospital in London. Lawyer and privacy expert Julia Powles pointed out that DeepMind promised to 'never connect people's intimate, identifiable health data to Google Accounts products or services' and deemed the transfer "trust demolition.' Deepmind told the BBC that "Patient data remains under our NHS partners' strict control."
- Microsoft released its Windows 10 October 2018 update for the second time after fixing IT bugs that deleted data accidentally. Microsoft released the fixes over a month ago but took time to test them before releasing to the public.
- Mozilla has published a guide called "Privacy Not Included" that evaluates the security of popular holiday gift items. 33 of the 70 products in the guide carry a Mozilla badge for meeting minimum security standards like encryption, automatic security updates and requiring a change of the default password. Product descriptions also include things like whether a device can use its camera, mic, or location services to track you.
- Spotify launched in 13 new markets in the Middle East and North Africa bringing its total number of markets to 78. The launch also brings a fully Arabic experience including language support and playlists like top Arabic hits.
- Ford, Wal-Mart and Postmates are partnering to test delivery of goods using autonomous vehicles in Miami-Dade county. Ford also has tests underway with Domino's and other local businesses in the area. Argo AI is developing and testing the AI for the cars and has tests underway in Detroit and Pittsburgh as well with plans to begin testing its autonomous vehicles in Washington DC early next year.
- Intel announced the Neural Compute Stick 2, a thumb drive with a self-contained neural network running on a Movidius Myriad X vision processing unit, or VPU. It lets users train machine learning systems locally, on any Linux system with a USB 3 port, without needing to use the cloud. The NSC2 sells for $100 from Intel.
- Tencent beat analyst expectation in the third quarter raising profits 30 percent. Revenue rose 24% though that was its slowest growth in more than three years. Advertising revenue, accounting for a fifth of Tencent's total revenue, and rose by 47 percent. Mobile gaming growth was better than expected given a halt in approvals of new titles by China's gaming regulator. Payment and cloud services helped Tencent's “other” revenue category rise 69 percent.
- TechCrunch passes along a report from The Star that Netflix is testing a mobile-only plan in Malaysia. The new tier costs 17 Ringgit or about US$4. That's half the price of the previous cheapest Basic tier which sells for 33 Ringgits a month. Netflix confirmed that the trial is running in a few countries.
- Verizon announced its capital expenditures would decline and deployment of infrastructure would remain the same. Sprint, Verizon and AT&T have all reduced their overall capex numbers for 2018. The carriers attribute the declining investment to timing and more efficient technologies like virtualization.
- L'oreal launched a battery-free wearable called My Skin Track/UV that measures your exposure to Ultraviolet radiation, pollution, pollen and humidity. It uses NFC and a nearby smartphone to send status updates and store up to three months of data. You can buy the My Skin Track/UV device from Apple stores for $60.
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