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| SHAnanigans | |
| Number | 2644 |
| Broadcast Date | DECEMBER 11, 2015 |
| Episode Length | 38:36 |
| Hosts | Tom Merritt |
| Guests | Darren Kitchen, Len Peralta |
Tokyo’s metropolitan police have a drone squad out to net illegal drones. Literally. They use a net. Darren Kitchen and Tom Merritt explain.
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Headlines
- Microsoft announced changes to the OneDrive storage limits it put in place in November. Office 365 Home, Personal and University subscribers unhappy with the change from unlimited to 1 TB can get a full refund. Anyone with more than a TB who wants to stay gets a 12 month grace period. Free storage went from 15 to 5 GB. Free users with more than 5 GB ca get a free year of Office 365 with its 1 TB. OR you can sign up to keep your 15 GB of free storage at http://aka.ms/onedrivestorage.
- The NY Times reports that Alibaba has agreed to buy the assets of SCMP Group which owns the South China Morning Post newspaper. Alibaba says China’s government had no role in the deal. Shanghai venture capitalist Eric X. Li advised Alibaba on the acquisition and said it would “give the paper a unique and powerful vantage point to offer global readers a more pluralistic and realistic view of China.”
- PC World reports T-Mobile USA is offering Verizon subscribers a free one-year subscription to Hulu if they switch mobile phone service from Verizon to T-Mobile between Dec. 11 and Dec. 17. Switchers get a $100 gift code for Hulu by text that must be used by January 31.
- Submitted by tglass1976
- If you don’t have an iPhone 6S or 6S Plus you won’t care about this but Tumblr has updated its iOS app to support Live Photos a feature of the iPhone 6S and 6S Plus. So if you have that phone and take photos that can come alive then you can see photos like that from other people who have that same phone when you see a “concentric-circle supernova icon” in their photo on Tumblr. The rest of us will not judge you.
- You can now access Gmail and Google Apps with IMAP through Yahoo Mail and use Yahoo’s search, smart contacts, and “rich compose” features plus Yahoo Account Key. It’s available today for iOS, Android and desktop browser. Yahoo already supports multiple mailbox IMAP for Outlook.com, AOL mail, and Hotmail.
- Remember the report from Le Monde the other day that a series of French police proposals included one about banning WiFi during a state of emergency? tjburbank wanted us to note Ars Technica passing along a report from The Connexxion quoting French Prime Minister Manuel Valls saying "A ban on Wi-Fi is not a course of action envisaged.” He also said he was not in favor of banning Tor.
- “Hoverboards”, self-propelled self-balancing 2-wheeled scooters, are now banned on flights by Delta, United and American Airlines, according to BuzzFeed, joining seven other airlines who previously banned the devices. Delta’s review found some batteries exceed the 160 watt hour safety limit and posed a fire hazard for airplanes. The Consumer Product Safety Commission is currently investigating 10 fires allegedly started by hoverboards.
- Submitted by habichuelacondulce
- Starting January 1st security certificates using the SHA-1 algorithm will no longer be issued by most certificate authorities. The reason is that forged certificates are becoming more possible. Certificates are moving to SHA-256. Cloudflare co-founder Matthew Prince put up a blog post Wednesday proposing a fallback system that would serve a SHA-1 certificate for legacy devices still in use by 37 million people worldwide, concentrated in China, Africa and the middle east. Facebook’s chief security officer Alex Stamos posted support for Cloudflare’s idea suggesting the CA/Browser Forum create a Legacy Verified Certificate.
- CNET reports on PD Loggers, a group of three students at National University in Singapore developing a group of sensors that helps prevent people with Parkinson’s Disease from falling. Sensors are placed on each ankle and the back of the neck to acquire data on a person’s walking pattern. An algorithm running on Intel’s tiny Edison chip can sense when a fall is imminent and buzz to alert the walker and provide biofeedback to correct the gait.
Discussion
- Tokyo police to launch drone squad ‹ Japan Today: Japan News and Discussion
- Tokyo metro police to use nets to snare suspicious craft
- Drone squad to be launched by Tokyo police
- 警視庁、迎撃ドローン運用開始へ＝全国初、網使い空中で捕獲
- Study finds most drone incidents occur in prohibited airspace
Pick of the Day
- I was listening to the show where we talked about Chrome for Android’s new data saver mode and wrote in that it made him think of as ite he writes: "whatdoesmysitecost.com is a site designed to calculate how much loading a website costs to download over mobile networks in various countries around the world.
I ran dailytechnewsshow.com and it came up with these numbers: https://whatdoesmysitecost.com/test/151201_QD_1ad878b4be9d69bf49821967cd9880a0. These numbers obviously are estimates, but they are based on the cheapest available plans.
Anyway I thought it was a fun way of visualising web page “weight”, especially in light of all the talk of ad blockers recently." - Submitted by Ali Smith a.k.a. fortythieves
- I was listening to the show where we talked about Chrome for Android’s new data saver mode and wrote in that it made him think of as ite he writes: "whatdoesmysitecost.com is a site designed to calculate how much loading a website costs to download over mobile networks in various countries around the world.
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