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| Route! Damned Dead Spot! Route, I say! | |
| Number | 2838 |
| Broadcast Date | AUGUST 22, 2016 |
| Episode Length | 29:16 |
| Hosts | Tom Merritt |
| Guests | Veronica Belmont |
MIT researchers are working on self-assembling electronics. Your phone could someday build itself. Great for Ikea furniture! Veronica Belmont and Tom Merritt talk about what we would want this for.
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Top Stories
- Sony raises the price of a PlayStation Plus membership from $50 to $60 a year. Now here are some more top stories.
- Android Nougat is out of beta and available for Google's Nexus devices, the Pixel C tablet and the General Mobile 4G Android One phone. It should roll out over the next couple of weeks. The LG V20 will be the first phone sold with Nougat preinstalled when it arrives in early September. Nougat lets you take action right from a notification, bundles notifications from the same app and added a new look and customization options to the Quick Settings dropdown widget. Of course the big attention getter is the ability to see two apps side by side just like in Windows 1.0. There's also a Data Saver mode that lets notifications through but not large downloads. Starting with Nougat, updates will download in the background and alert you when they're ready to install.
- Submitted by anotherjmartin
- Fast Company reports Apple has acquired health data company Gliimpse which puts medical records and health details into a secure bundle customers can choose to share with doctors, caregivers and researchers, if they wish. Gliimpse was founded in 2013 by Anil Sethi, a former Apple systems engineer.
- Submitted by tglass1976
- The Wall Street Journal has sources who appear to confirm the legitimacy of a leaked picture of a new smaller version of the PlayStation 4. Sony has a press announcement scheduled for September 7th in New York where it is expected to announce a 4K-capable PlayStation previously referred to as Neo. The Journal says the new slimmer PS4 is likely to replace the original PS4.
- Submitted by KAPT_Kipper
- Microsoft announced it has acquired scheduling tool Genee and will integrate it into Office 365. Genee launched a year ago and uses natural language processing to interpret email and automatically create calendar invites. The existing Genee service will shut down September 1.
- Submitted by flyingspatula
- Netgear is the latest to market a multiple router solution to WiFi coverage. The Netgear Orbi system combines one router and one range extender to provide coverage of up to 4,000 square feet. In addition to 2.4 and 5 GHZ radios for WiFi Orbi uses a third 5GHz radio to let the two units communicate with each other directly. The base two-pack costs $399.99 and single add-on units will be sold for $249.99.
- Reuters reports its sources say Samsung plans to start selling refurbished smartphones as early as next year. The phones will come from returns by customers who signed up for one-year upgrade programs. No other details of the plan were reported.
Discussion
- The MIT Lab That's Teaching Phones To Build Themselves
- Self-Assembly Lab
- About — MARCELO COELHO STUDIO
- MIT's Self-Assembling Table Could Change The Way You Build Ikea Furniture
- MIT Invents Tech That Could 3-D Print Self-Lacing McFlys
- How To Make A Working Cell Phone Out Of Cardboard
Pick of the Day
- The Weekly Tech Views--When you want your tech news without all the annoying accuracy.
- And after you read that keep an eye out for Sekani Wright's column, "Your Private Driver" about the ride-sharing industry told from a person behind the wheel. This week he talks about the class-action settlements among other things.
- Submitted by Tom
Messages
- I want to make the case for component HD video. HDMI is actually a terrible video standard that only works over short distances, and has no error correction built into it. While this won't apply to most people's home TV setups, if you're going to be wiring ceiling-mounted projectors, etc., you can very easily run component video hundreds of feet without issues, but HDMI is limited to about 50 feet with the best quality cabling possible. Anything longer than that will require additional equipment (repeaters, etc.) to achieve a longer run that works reliably.
There are some great write-ups about HDMI at Blue Jeans Cable's website that go into great detail about what's wrong with the HDMI standard (the "What's the Matter with HDMI?" article is a great place to start). - Sent by Mike
- I want to make the case for component HD video. HDMI is actually a terrible video standard that only works over short distances, and has no error correction built into it. While this won't apply to most people's home TV setups, if you're going to be wiring ceiling-mounted projectors, etc., you can very easily run component video hundreds of feet without issues, but HDMI is limited to about 50 feet with the best quality cabling possible. Anything longer than that will require additional equipment (repeaters, etc.) to achieve a longer run that works reliably.
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