Nobody’s touching contactless payments

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Nobody’s touching contactless payments
Number 2727
Broadcast Date APRIL 4, 2016
Episode Length 39:19
Hosts Tom Merritt
Guests Veronica Belmont

Depending on the source contactless payments like Apple Pay are skyrocketing or unused. Veronica Belmont and Tom Merritt talk about what they’ve seen, including veronica’s attempt to replace her wallet with her phone for a day.

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Both Oculus and HTC are shipping their new VR headsets slower than expected. Oculus told Rift pre-order customers that the delay is due to a component shortage. Oculus will update preorders on April 12th and give free shipping. Some HTC Vive orders were declined by credit card companies causing some folks to lose their order or be bumped to the end of the waiting list. HTC says it is working to put everyone back in the right order.
Brad Sams at Thurrott.com reports Microsoft is testing a premium version of its Outlook.com email service for $3.99 a month. The premium service removes ads, adds calendar sharing features and offers five personalized email addresses. Outlook.com Premium is invite only and if you’re invited you can use it for one year for free.
The US FCC released new non-mandatory label guidelines for ISPs to detail prices, data caps, overage charges, speed, latency packet loss and more. ISPs that follow the guidelines will fulfill upcoming transparency requirement under Open Internet rules. The labels were approved the FCC’s Consumer Advisory Committee which includes major IPS, the NCTA and consumer groups.
Submitted by JMBeen
Tesla CEO Elon Musk says the company took an unexpectedly high 276,000 preorders for its new Tesla Model 3 in the first three days. Musk also took to Twitter answering questions and teasing part 2 of the announcement. Musk says the real steering controls for the 3 will feel like a spaceship and that the backseats will fold down. The first Model 3s are not expected until the end of 2017.
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George Hotz would like to make every car self-driving and his company, Comma, received $3.1 million from Andreesen Horowitz to keep working on it. Hotz has a prototype system that he’s showed off online but needs to hire engineers to help make a finished product.
ZDNet’s Mary Jo Foley reports Microsoft has formed a strategic partnership with the R3 banking consortium to test and deploy blockchain services. R3 is a consortium of 42 financial companies researching blockchain use. While mostly associated with is use in BitCoin, a blockchain is a distributed shared ledger that can securely record the complete histories of all kinds of transactions. Microsoft began offering Azure Blockchain as a service on the Ethereum platform last year.
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Toyota announced Monday it is expanding its partnership with Microsoft to develop Internet-connected car services. Microsoft has a 5% stake in Toyota Connected which consolidates Toyota’s connectivity services under one company, located in Plano, Texas. Services being developed include insurance rates based on actual driving, connected vehicle networks, info service customized to driving habits and more. Microsoft will provide cloud services through Azure. Ford, BMW and Nissan also have partnerships with Microsoft Azure.
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Nest announced last month it will turn off support for the Revolv Smart Home products as of May 15. A Medium post about it by Arlo Gilbert has drawn attention to the decision. Revolv was acquired by Nest and stopped selling its products in October 2014.
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Ars Technica’s David Kravets points to a Washington Post article about Alexandra Elbakyan. The 27-year-old grad student from Kazakhstan has a searachable database at sci-hub.io of 50 million journal articles copied from behind paywalls. Aaron Swartz was accused of illegally accessing a journal service called JSTOR. Elbakyan told the Post, “education and research, copyright laws are especially damaging.”
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Tom,

Just to put into perspective how big the Tesla Model 3 pre-order numbers are, if they were able to fulfill all of them within a model year (which considering they've only built around 100,000 cars in the company's history seems impossible), the number would be comparable to the Honda Civic, the 5th best selling car in the US. Or to put it another way, the pre-orders are just about the same number of Nissan Leafs and Chevy Volts sold combined since 2010. Obviously not everyone who put down $1000 dollars over the weekend is going to end up buying a car, but when given context, it does make Tesla's apparent surprise at the numbers seem justified.
Sent by Rich from Lovely Cleveland (sadly resigned to driving the Beige Beauty (aka 05 Malibu) for the foreseeable future)


I work as a multi channel sales associate for Best Buy, that means I spend a lot of my day talking to customers on the store telephone. The number of calls that I am getting for ransomware and call center social "hacking" of individuals have sharply increased in the last couple months.

Please tell you listeners not to be careful themselves, I assume they are far too savvy to fall victim to stuff like this. Rather, I would ask them to take time to talk to there "tech-muggle" loved ones, put it on Facebook: no one proactively calls people about viral infections, no antiviral software prompts the user to call a call center, and making a mistake can cost their data.

Thanks for doing the lord's work in technology.

Regards,
Sent by Tyni


Regarding digital assistants, even if the AI and algorithms of predictive assistants get super good, they'll always require more information than I want to share with any one company. When they make mistakes, and they'll always make mistakes, it will typically be more aggravating and dissatisfying than if it came from a person who actually knew me well enough to make those suggestions.
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