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| Nintendo Blows the Dust Off Game Cartridges | |
| Number | 2818 |
| Broadcast Date | JULY 26, 2016 |
| Episode Length | 39:01 |
| Hosts | Tom Merritt |
| Guests | Patrick Beja |
A French company wants to replace your PC with the cloud and Nintendo wants to make its next game console both mobile and not mobile. Patrick Beja and Tom Merritt explain.
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Top Stories
- James Corden’s ‘Carpool Karaoke’ series is coming exclusively to Apple Music
- China's LeEco buys Vizio in a $2 billion deal
- AMD just announced a graphics card with an SSD
- In the wake of a fatal crash, Tesla will quit using Mobileye's chips for Autopilot vision
- Apple's going to be the exclusive host of 16 episodes of Carpool Karaoke, Vizio will sell to China's LeEco for $2 billion for Vizio. Its viewer data business Inscape will spin off into a separate privately owned company. AMD's new Radeon Pro SSG will have two PCIe 3.0 M.2 slots to add up to 1TB of NAND flash memory so the graphics card can work on large datasets locally. And AND Tesla will stop using Mobileye in its Autopilot system going forward. And we haven't even got into the top stories yet!
- Submitted by stevei0
- Microsoft announced several updates to Office incorporating the cloud and AI. Word users can access Bing's knowledge graph to find info to cite and take advantage of Editor which uses Machine Learning to suggest edits beyond just spelling and grammar. Outlook's focused inbox is coming to desktop and Web apps. Power Point presentations no longer need to be linear, working more like a website, with a home slide for instance. The updates are coming this month.
- Amazon announced Monday that it is partnering with the UK Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) to expand their drone testing. Amazon will test beyond-line-of-sight operations outside of urban environments, having one operator monitoring multiple autonomous drones, and avoidance systems. All of these tests will be conducted below 400 feet, with full CAA involvement. Amazon's current drones are less than 55 pounds, travel over 50mph, and can operate beyond line-of-sight.
- Google rolled out an update to Nexus and AndroidOne devices to help block spam calls. For devices with caller ID enabled (otherwise know as everyone), suspicious calls will come up marked in red with the label "suspected spam caller." From there, users can confirm that the number should be blocked, or report it to a white list if Google tagged it improperly. Users can also go back into their call log to designate spam numbers. Steve Dent at Engadget notes that the Samsung's Galaxy S7 has had a similar feature since launch, in partnership with Whitepages. Google has also begun updating Android with Emergency Location Service. It uses WiFI, cellular, and GPS to share location when on a 999 emergency call. EE, BT, Three, Vodafone and O2 are all on board at launch. It's available in the UK and Estonia at launch with Google working with more countries and operators for future expansion.
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- Two Xbox One S bundles are up for preorder shipping August 23. The Madden NFL 17 option has 1TB of storage, seven Madden Ultimate Team Pro Packs and one month of EA Access for $349 in the US and Canada. The Halo Collection bundle comes in 500GB or 1TB of models with five games in the US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand for $299 and $349. AND In an upcoming update to their Service Agreement, Microsoft will begin regular purges of inactive Xbox Gamertags. Under the new agreement, any Xbox account that has not been logged into for more than 5 years, will be assumed to be inactive, and Microsoft will close the account. Microsoft previously freed up over 1 million gamertags in May, from accounts that never migrated over from the original Xbox, most unused for over a decade. The change in the Service Agreement goes into effect September 15th.
- French startup Blade promises you won't have to buy a PC ever again. How, you ask? As for most things these days, the answer lies in the amazing properties of... THE CLOUD! The service is still in alpha, but if you have fast enough Internet-- a fiber connection is required-- you can subscribe to a reliable, customizable and upgradable "PC rental" which you can access over the Internet. The rental is hosted on servers in the company's data centers, behaves like a regular PC, and its video is streamed with 16ms lag to the client. Journalists who have tried the service went from "skeptical" to "optimistic"... Has the time of the thin client finally come?
- Twitter reported Q2 earnings. Profits of 13 cents per share on revenue of $602 million for the quarter, which is lower than expected. Twitter added three million new monthly active users last quarter bringing the total to 313 million. Also say it is targeting $590 million to $610 million in revenue next quarter. Lower than analyst estimates of $678 million.
- Apple reported revenue of $42.4 billion and earnings of $1.42 per share. Analysts were expecting earnings of $1.38 per share on revenue of $42.09 billion. Apple stock rose 5% in extended trading. However, TechCrunch notes that the amount is down the same quarter from last year ($49.6 billion on earnings of $1.85 per share).
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- Hi Tom and esteemed guest
Just a quick note from Sunny Hove Actually UK.
In a recent podcast Tom expressed a wish fro a sub $100 dollar smart watch and I saw this whilst browsing engadget.
OK so its only sub $100 as its on kickstarter but the review is positive and it looks quite useable .... right back to my conf call. - Submitted by Matt from Sunny Hove Actually UK
- Hi Tom and esteemed guest
Messages
- Veronica asked why have a voice input if you already have a touch screen. Accessibility would be my answer. The most obvious would be having both to accommodate both visually impaired and hearing impaired customer. But some others would be
- Touch input for those with speech difficulties ...
-For visual displays I would love for there to be some control by the user. My family has both dyslexic and color blind people. Sometimes one or other can't read a display on a public screen because of "cute" color/font choices. Recently my cousins were at a tourist spot. Their 6 yo had to tell them that words were flashing on a screen giving directions about where to go to get tickets. The husband is color blind, the wife dyslexic. The words looked like abstract art or a screwed up screen to them. The 6 yo couldn't read fast enough to get all the information.
- voice input for those with mobility or fine motor skill difficulties. I have problems with some touch screens. I have a skin disorder that makes my skin dry, and brittle. This means sometimes the screen doesn't pick up on my touch or I can't feel how hard to press. I also have contact allergies to peanuts. This means I have to be careful touching surfaces in public, ... - Sent by Kimberly the Texas Teacher
- Veronica asked why have a voice input if you already have a touch screen. Accessibility would be my answer. The most obvious would be having both to accommodate both visually impaired and hearing impaired customer. But some others would be
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