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| John Deere Hackt0rz | |
| Number | 2814 |
| Broadcast Date | JULY 20, 2016 |
| Episode Length | 39:56 |
| Hosts | Tom Merritt |
| Guests | Scott Johnson |
Farmers in Nebraska fight for the right to repair their own tractors. Dealers use copyright law to stop them from using the software on their vehicles. Scott Johnson and Tom Merritt discuss.
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Top Stories
- Facebook's Messenger hits 1 billion users, after two years as standalone app
- Apple releases second public betas for iOS 10 and macOS Sierra
- Facebook Messenger has become the third of the company's apps to pass the 1 billion-user mark. Apple released new betas of MacOS and iOS 10. Now here are some more top stories.
- Twitter said Tuesday "People should be able to express diverse opinions and beliefs on Twitter. But no one deserves to be subjected to targeted abuse online, and our rules prohibit inciting or engaging in the targeted abuse or harassment of others. Over the past 48 hours in particular, we’ve seen an uptick in the number of accounts violating these policies and have taken enforcement actions against these accounts." Breitbart tech editor Milo Yiannopoulos says his account @nero is one of the suspended accounts. Milo told Breitbart "This is the end for Twitter. Anyone who cares about free speech has been sent a clear message: you're not welcome on Twitter."
- Niantic delayed the launch date for Pokemon Go in Japan yesterday. The cancellation came after emails from McDonalds Japan leaked on internet in places like the forum 2ch and the photo hosting service Imgur, detailing the launch time and date. Niantic feared launching the game as planned would overload servers and crash the game. Jon Russell at TechCrunch reports that sources say the revised launch, is "imminent". Meanwhile Reuters reports AT&T, GameStop and RadioShack all report a rise in sales of mobile chargers since Pokémon Go went live on July 6th. GameStop has also seen a 115 percent increase in sales of Pokemon related collectables.
- Facebook's Connectivity Lab has published a research paper describing a detector that could use lasers to deliver wireless Internet. The problem with laser internet is the the beam spreads as it travels and a focusing lens requires precise location of sender and receiver. So instead of a lens to refocus the beam this new system uses a bundle of plastic optical fibers that funnel down to a photo-diode. The fibers absorb blue light and emit green within 2 nanosecond turnaround time. The lightbulb shaped sensors means it work with moving mobile transmitters like the so-called laser drones. Connectivity Lab is developing solar-powered UAVs to deliver Internet access. The team was able to transmit data at 2.1 Gbps and hopes optimized materials could raise that to 10 Gbps.
- Submitted by habichuelacondulce
- Tuesday a judge in Brazil's Rio de Janeiro state ordered WhatsApp blocked for failing to turn over data in a criminal case. WhatsApp insists it does not have the data because of how its encryption works. Hours later the chief justice of Brazil's supreme court Ricardo Lewandowski overturned the decision saying the ban “apparently violates the fundamental right of freedom of expression and communication." This is the third time WhatsApp has been banned and had the ban overturned on appeal. Justice Minister Alexandre de Moraes said the government is drafting a bill regulating judicial access to digital data in criminal investigations.
- Microsoft reported revenue of $20.6 billion and earnings of 39 cents per share, well above expectations. That's compared to revenue of $22.2 billion and a loss of 40 cents a share a year ago, dragged down by losses connected to its acquisition of Nokia. Revenue in its "intelligent cloud" business rose 7% including Azure which rose 102% year over year. Productivity and business grew 5% year over year reporting 23.1 million Office 365 subscribers. And Microsoft Dynamics accounting and sales product lines will combine into one Dynamics 365 brand. Dynamics has 10 million customers. Personal computing revenue fell 4% with phone revenue down 71% but Surface revenue up 9 percent over Q3. Xbox Live reports 49 million monthly active users.
- Google has used a machine-learning algorithms from its DeepMind division to cut energy consumption in its data centers by 15%. It's real-time adaptive system also cut the cost of cooling by 40%. A white Paper on the system will come from DeepMind in six weeks. Google believe it could also work well in large manufacturing facilities or even energy grids. Google intends to roll the system out to all its own data centers by the end of the year.
Discussion
- We Can’t Let John Deere Destroy the Very Idea of Ownership
- Long Comment Regarding a Proposed Exemption
- Farmers lobbying for the right to fix own tractors
- Nebraska: It's time to speak out for your right to repair
Messages
- I disagree with yesterdays people saying Pokemon Go isn't augmented reality.
It isn't AR at it's fullest, but it IS augmenting reality. Ingress is too. It's putting digital things into the real world (pokemon, gyms, portals, etc), just not visually. Even with the AR switch turned off in Pokemon Go, it is still an augmented reality game. It's just not your visual reality, it's your physical reality.
Enlightened for life. - Sent by Agent TheBMan
- I disagree with yesterdays people saying Pokemon Go isn't augmented reality.
- I have four 4TB+ drives. One of those drives is nearing capacity with recordings of old movies and I don't have a spare drive to back them up. The other drives are also used for video recordings and for backups.
- Sent by Bill Burlingame from Huntsville, AL
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