Millennials Are Killing CNN
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| Millennials Are Killing CNN | |
| Number | 3206 |
| Broadcast Date | JANUARY 25, 2018 |
| Episode Length | 31:46 |
| Hosts | Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane |
| Guests | Justin Robert Young |
Are gestures the best way to control devices? Plus, Nintendo ends its first iOS app, CNN ends Casey Neistat’s Beme and New York tries to end net neutrality violations.
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Quick Hits
- Samsung sent invitations for an announcement at 12 pm ET February 25th the day before Mobile World Congress begins. The invite reads, "The Camera. Reimagined." with the number 9, hinting at a camera-focused Samsung Galaxy S 9.
- Chrome 64 launched Wednesday. The pop-up blocker now prevents abusive experiences like transparent overlays or website's disguised as media controls like a play button. It also includes an option to mute audio on websites.
- Research firms Canalys and Counterpoint both estimate Xiaomi took over the top spot in smartphone sales in India, bumping Samsung to number two. Xiaomi and Samsung both make up around 25% of the market followed by Lenovo, Vivo and Oppo.
Top Stories
- Nintendo announced it will close its Miitomo social app May 9. The app was launched in March 2016 and lets friends learn about each other through questions and answers.
- Sources tell Bloomberg's Mark Gurman that Apple is working on a redesign of its iBooks application for iOS after hiring an executive from Amazon. The new app will supposedly have a simpler design and the book store section would resemble the iOS app store. The app name is also said to be changing to Books instead of iBooks.
- CNN has shut down YouTube star Casey Neistat’s video platform Beme, which it bought for $25 million in November 2016 in an effort to build an online news show presence for a younger demographic. Neistat told Buzzfeed he couldn't figure out a strategy that worked within CNN and will depart the network. CNN says it will re-employ the most of the 22-person Beme team.
- Bloomberg's sources report Twitter is working on a snapchat-style tool for posting videos. A working demo of a camera-centered app has been made but design and launch timing have not been settled. Also in a blog post Wednesday Twitter described its use of neural networks to show the most interesting parts of a photo in its image previews.
- New York Governor Andrew Cuomo signed an executive order Wednesday preventing the state from contracting with ISPs that do not follow net neutrality principles. ISPs would lose state contracts if they "block, throttle, or prioritize Internet content or applications or require that end users pay different or higher rates to access specific types of content or applications."
- Quartz has an article from David Rose futurist-in-residence at IDEO about how gesture interfaces, not voice, might be the future. Rose points out that depth-sensing cameras and neural nets can "be trained to recognize specific people, classify their activities, and respond to gestures from afar." In loud situations voice isn't practical. When your hands are dirty or wt, touch isn't great. He found gestures are better in four cases. Speed, Distance, limited lexicon, and expressiveness over precision.
Pick of the Day
- Submitted by Nate Lanxon
Mailbag
- In Episode 3205 you were pondering Meg Whitman's upcoming role at a startup. In looking just at her time at HP you missed why this might appeal to her.
She was the first real business executive at eBay and guided their growth from a tiny startup to a mega retailer. In my opinion, that was her biggest professional accomplishment.
And even if she spent hundreds of millions of her own money when she ran for Governor in California, she is wealthy enough from eBay that she doesn't have to work for money.
So having another startup opportunity sounds like the perfect passion project for her. - Sent by Chris in Sunny St George Utah
- In Episode 3205 you were pondering Meg Whitman's upcoming role at a startup. In looking just at her time at HP you missed why this might appeal to her.
- As a shift supervisor at a grocery store, I'd like to dispel this idea that pricing problems are some kind of game or lazyness. Nobody is mispricing items on purpose. Many times, probably 7 out of 10, are price changes are pushed by home office, and our overnight crew goes through the entire store trying to find tags that are outdated. If you ever pay attention to how many sale tags there are in a grocery store do they realize how easy it is to miss one or two, or sometimes even many. Other price changes are generally handled by a department manager for either overstock or approaching sell-by date. What really becomes annoying though, is what Scott mentioned; the clearance area. Often only a few of an item make it to the clearance area, and some customers treat the area as a drop-off for items they decided they didn't want. Organizing this area all the time is impossible, and is the number one cause of false price concerns in my day.
- Sent by William
- So glad my DTNS hoodie is finally here. Its already too warm to wear it #texasweather but maybe I will get a chance next week. You never can tell. #(ibid)
Happy to have another way to support you guys. You should maybe rotate the different ways to support the podcast instead of talking about the same ones every show. It can get a little repetitive for the regular listeners. - Sent by Kevin
- So glad my DTNS hoodie is finally here. Its already too warm to wear it #texasweather but maybe I will get a chance next week. You never can tell. #(ibid)
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