PayPal Leaves the Libra Association

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PayPal Leaves the Libra Association
Number 962
Broadcast Date OCTOBER 7, 2019
Episode Length 5:59
Hosts Rich Stroffolino

PayPal announces it is leaving the Libra Association, two new laws impacting deepfakes in California, and Sonos Flex lets you rent Sonos equipment.

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PayPal announced it is withdrawing from the Libra Association. The company said it supported Libra's aspirations and continue to partner with Facebook in the future, but will focus on its mission to "democratize access to financial services for underserved populations,”. PayPal was one of the originally announced 28 members of the Libra Association.
California governor Gavin Newsom signed two bills into law last week regulating the distribution of deepfake face swapping videos. AB 730 makes it illegal to distribute manipulated videos aimed at deceiving voters or discrediting candidates within 60 days of an election. AB 602 gives people in the state the right to sue someone for creating pornographic deepfakes using their likeness without consent.
Sonos launched a trial of Sonos Flex, a subscription service to rent Sonos equipment. Flex comes in three tiers, 15 euros a month gets two Sonos One speakers, 25 euros a month for a Sonos Beam and two Sonos Ones, and 50 euros for a Playbar, Subwoofer, and 2 Sonos One as well as free installation for Amsterdam residents. Speaker come in either white or black, and subscribers will receive updates hardware replacements as it is released. The trial is currently rolled out to 500 homes in the Netherlands, and will expand if it proves successful.
Amazon announced the Kindle Kids Edition, which offers a entry-level Kindle, a kid-friendly case, and a two-year free replacement guarantee on any broken units. It also comes with a free year of Amazon's FreeTime Unlimited subscription, which offers kid-friendly books, movies, TV shows, educational apps, Audible books, and games. Amazon also updated the Fire HD10 tablet. The device now comes with a 10.1-inch 1080p touchscreen, an updated 8-core processor, 2GB of RAM, 32 or 64GB of internal storage with microSD card expansion, and a USB-C port. Battery life is rated at 12 hours, up two hours from the outgoing HD10, and charges to full in four hours. The HD10 runs Android P, and includes a picture-in-picture feature for some video apps, including Netflix and Amazon Prime Video, that let's you watch content while using other apps. There is also a Kids Edition HD10, with a similar 2 year replacement warranty, a silicon tablet case, and a free year of FreeTime Unlimited. All devices are available for preorder today and ship October 30th. The Kindle Kids Edition costs $109, the HD10 starts at $149, and the HD10 Kids Edition starts at $199.
Amazon's Prime Video app is no longer available in Apple's app store and neither Amazon nor Apple have commented. The app was removed from iOS and tvOS app stores in all regions except Australia, Guatemala, Hong Kong, Hungary, Israel, India, Kenya, Kuwait, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Madagascar and Saudi Arabia.
Apple told the Financial Times it's acquired UK motion capture company IKinema. The company makes animation technology for games, VR and more. IKinema specializes in real-time procedural animation from real-life people and animals.
We mentioned last week that the app HKmap, which shows events happening to Hong Kong such as police activity, was rejected from the iOS app store. As part of its reject, Apple claimed the app “facilitates, enables, and encourages an activity that is not legal,” specifically evading law enforcement. Apple reverse the decision late last week, and the app is on the app store. The developer argued that the app operated similarly to Waze, which alerts users to police and red light cameras, and that Apple had assumed anyone wishing to avoid law enforcement was necessarily a law breaker.
Palmer Luckey's Anduril company showed off footage of its Anvil battering-ram drone taking down both fixed wing drones and quadcopters. Anvil is designed for short fast flights to take out drones from below. flight-critical components are positioned low to help Anvil land in one piece. Rogue drones and quadcopter are becoming a more common threat. Anvil is being designed for military uses in battle situations, not for domestic law enforcement.
AMD announced the Radeon Rx5500 and RX5500M, the second series of GPUs based on its 7nm RDNA architecture, meant to target 1080p gaming. Both cards will offer 1408 stream processors and 22 compute units, with the RX5500 available with up to 8GB of GDDR6 RAM and capable of 5.2 TFLOPS, while the mobile-focused RX5500M will come with 4GB of GDDR6 and hit up to 4.6TFLOPS. Both cards will connect over PCIe 4.0 and offer Radeon Image Sharpening and Radeon anti-lag features found in the RX5700 line. AMD expects that cards to arrive next quarter, but did not announce pricing or availability since it won't be making a reference design card. The first laptop with the RX5500M will be the MSI Alpha 15, offerings a Ryzen 7 3750H CPU and a 1080p 144Hz FreeSync display, expected at the end of October.
Sony announced with version 7.00 of the PS4 system software, Remote Play game streaming will be coming to all Android devices running Android 5.0 or later through the Google Play Store. Remote Play on Sony Xperia handsets has been available since 2014, and Sony brought the feature to iOS in March. The update will roll out later this week.

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Preceded by:
"Week in Review for the Week of 9/30/2019"
PayPal Leaves the Libra Association
Followed by:
"Sony Announces PlayStation 5 To Launch By End of 2020"