Huawei’s On Their Wei Up
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| Huawei’s On Their Wei Up | |
| Number | 2542 |
| Broadcast Date | JULY 22, 2015 |
| Episode Length | 48:12 |
| Hosts | Tom Merritt |
| Guests | Scott Johnson, Justin Robert Young |
Scott Johnson, Justin Young and Tom Merritt kick around Google’s new timeline feature for maps that shows you exactly what it knows about where you live work and travel. Plus the ethics of road-testing car hacks.
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Headlines
- TechCrunch reports Google has launched a feature called “Your Timeline” that lets users see where they’ve been on any given day, month or year using Google Maps. Users of Google Photos will see photos from that place and time as well. “Your Timeline” is only visible to the account holder. Users can also edit details of their timeline, or delete specific elements or their entire history. “Your Timeline” is available on desktop and Android.
- Venturebeat reports that Microsoft has launched a new standalone email app called Send, available for iPhone users in the US and Canada. The app eliminates subject lines and is geared towards short email conversations like "running 10 minutes late" and "ok, got it". Full versions of Outlook will contain all messages, but only messages sent in Send will be seen in Send. THIRDBASE!
- Apple is preventing iOS 9 beta users from submitting app reviews with the latest build released on Tuesday according to AppleInsider. Beta users will see a message that reads, "This feature isn't available. You can't write reviews while using a prerelease version of iOS." The blocking is likely a result of a larger number of beta users thanks to Apple’s public beta program.
- A lot of fallout from Apple’s earnings numbers yesterday and by fall I mean the stock price. But hey sell on the news right? What else did we learn? Watch revenue is lumped in the ‘other’ category in the public report. The Verge reports that category rose from $1.7 billion last quarter to $2.64 billion this quarter, Apple CFO Lucas Maestri and CEO Tim Cook said Watch revenue is well over the difference between the two numbers. Cook said, “Apple Watch sell through was higher than the comparable launch periods of the original iPhone or the original iPad.” Apple saw 112% year over year growth in Greater China, which includes Hong Kong and Taiwan. However the $13.2 billion in revenue was less than expected.
- The Verge reports Sony’s mobile division is teaming up with Japanese robotics company ZMP to found a drone-based surveying and inspection company called Aerosense. ZMP brings the automated driving and robotics to the party while Sony pitches in telecommunications expertise and boatloads of image sensors. Image sensors is one of the most profitable lines for Sony.
- Huawei reported a 39% increase in global smartphone sales during the first half of 2015, and a 30% increase in overall revenue. The BBC reports that Huawei shipped 48.2 million devices globally in the first half of 2015, giving them a 87% increase in smartphone revenue, due the release of more premium models.
- The BBC reports on another wireless car hack. Manchester, UK based NCC Group says its exploit sends data through Digital Audio Broadcasting radio broadcasts. Essentially the attack uses entertainment systems data display and text functions to take over the entertainment system which is linked to the car’s internal network allowing access to brakes and steering. NCC has simulated the attack in the company’s buildings only but it will present its research at Black Hat.
- The BBC reports that Microsoft has created a special reporting page to help victims of "revenge porn" block or bury the images. The form asks users to confirm that they have never agreed to the distribution of the images and to identify web pages on which they appear. Links would be removed from the Bing search engine and any OneDrive or Xbox Live cloud servers.
- The Ministry of Communications in Ghana is building what it believes to be the largest data center in West Africa reports Biztech Africa. The 500 rack space data center will contain two Petabytes of storage. The primary data center will be located in Accra with the secondary center in Kumasi.
- The UK’s Civil Aviation Authority has created the DroneCode to educate drone pilots. The UK’s Civil Aviation Authority has recorded 6 incidents between May 2014 and March 2015 where drones have almost collided with aircraft according to the BBC. The most recent was a drone passing 20 feet above an Airbus A320’s wing at Heathrow airport. The Dronecode says recreational drone owners need to keep their craft within line of sight about 500m and not fly higher than 122 meters and stay away from airports and aircraft. Drone equipped with cameras must stay at least 50 meters away from people, vehicles, and structures and 150 meters from groups of people.
News From You
- Ars Technica reports 80—year-old Ray Flynn has received the first bionic eye implant to correct for age-related macular degeneration. The operation was done at Manchester Royal Eye Hospital in the UK. Flynn went from having no central vision to low-resolution central vision. The implant, called the Argus II from a company called Second Sight, is made up of an implant with an electrode array, battery and antenna, a pair of glasses with a front-facing camera and transmitted and belt-worn video processing unit. Basically the camera on the glasses captures video which is sent to the eye through the electrodes. The procedure has been used before to correct retinitis pigmentosa.
- Submitted by HobbitfromPA
Discussion
- Google Knows What You Did Last Summer, Now Shows It To You In Google Maps
- Your Timeline: Revisiting the world that you’ve explored
- Timeline
- Keeping your personal information private and safe—and putting you in control
Pick of the Day
- Hey Tom,
I wanted to point out the diamondclub.tv chrome extention. The extension helps let listeners/views know when a channel goes live on diamondclub.tv by showing a "growl" style notification that you can click to launch the show. You can also click on the icon and see a list of all the channels that are currently live. The extension does its best to get the description of the show by crawling the diamondclub calendar,youtube, twitch, and the streamers twitter. If the extension gains enough traction I plan on making native windows and OSX versions.
thanks for being my source for daily tech news for the last 7+ years, - Submitted by Dan "gooses" Gusak
- Hey Tom,
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| Preceded by: "It’s not unreasonable to be hacked by anyone…." |
Huawei’s On Their Wei Up |
Followed by: "Don’t judge an OS by its stick" |