Side Lazers!!!!!

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Side Lazers!!!!!
Number 2882
Broadcast Date OCTOBER 19, 2016
Episode Length 39:46
Hosts Tom Merritt
Guests Scott Johnson

China’s LeEco announces everything it can think of in push to sell products in the US and the idea of e-ink keyboards has Scott Johnson dreaming. Tom Merritt tries to wake him.

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Top Stories

We have the official announcement from Apple that they're doing something. Yahoo says it sent a letter to the US director of National Intelligence James Clapper seeking more transparency around national security orders. And the Wall Street Journal reports Google has signed up CBS for its rumored YouTube TV service supposedly called Unplugged. Now here are some more top stories.
Facebook is testing new features for US users starting Wednesday. Facebook Pages will now let you order food from Delivery.com or Slice.com, set an appointment using MyTime, get a professional services quote, and buy tickets through Ticketmaster and EventBrite, all without leaving Facebook. Another new feature called Recommendations will post a card to your friends timeline asking for recommendations on things to do in a city you're visiting. And the Events button in the Facebook app will now show a page with Event recommendations and friends RSVPs. If the features do well in the US they may roll out worldwide.
Google Apps for Work is now called G Suite and it got a couple of updates today folks seem to like. Docs will now guess when you're typing an action item and pop up a suggestion to assign it. Files will now show badges when they have action items attached to them. Google Forms will now suggest multiple choice responses based on the question you type. And finally G Suite productivity apps now integrate with Slack conversations. Clicking the + button in Slack will let you create or import a Google Drive file.
The US FCC announced today it has reached a settlement with T-Mobile USA over slowing the connections of the top 3% of its customers by data usage, around 17GB a month. The FCC cited T-Mobile for marketing plans as unlimited. FCC Enforcement Bureau Chief Travis LeBlanc said "Consumers should not have to guess whether so-called ‘unlimited’ data plans contain key restrictions, like speed constraints, data caps, and other material limitations." T-Mobile will pay $35.5 million for a consumer benefit program that offer affected customers 4GB of additional mobile data and 20% discounts on phone accessories. $7.5 million will go to the US Treasury and $5 million will be paid in the form of services and equipment for US schools. That totals $48 million.
Apple has sent out media invites to an event at its Cupertino campus on Thursday October 27 at 10 AM Pacific. The invite says “hello again” and features the top half of the Apple logo filled with reddish smoke.
China's LeEco held a press conference in San Francisco Wednesday to announce everything they could possibly think of. $399 5.5-inch Le Pro3 Android phone (Snapdragon 821 processor, 4GB of RAM and 64GB of storage. 16 MP camera) grey or gold metal. $249 5.5-inch Le S3 phone with a Snapdragon 652 and 32GB of storage. It'll be available in grey, rose gold, gold and black. Four 4K TVs, 85-inch uMax 85 with Dolby Vision and HDR 10 and 64 GB of storage for $5K. Also X43 Pro, a X55, X65 have 4K. All have Harmon Kardon audio. Explore VR headset, works with Le Eco phone, USB C connector, gyrometer, accelerometer and magnetometer and a proximity sensor. Android-powered concept "super bike" hydraulic brakes, side laser system, alarm, fingerprint scanner, battery charged by bike's hub, 30 mph. Le See Pro concept autonomous car to be unveiled at CES in January. (The LeSee was in an accident on its way from LA and the LeSee Pro was delayed on its way back from London where it was being used by Michael Bay (Yeah, that Michael Bay) as part of the new Transformers movie.) EUI ecosystem for video including Sling, Lionsgate, MGM, Showtime, A&E and more. All of it launches on lemall.com November 2nd.
NFL coach Bill Belichick told reporters he is "done with tablets" and will go back to paper pictures after suffering one too many technical problems with his Microsoft Surface. Belichick says it's a personal decision, saying, "there just isn’t enough consistency in the performance of the tablets. I just can’t take it anymore." He added "Sometimes something happens and it has to be fixed. And first of all, you have to find out what the problem is. It could be one of 15 different things." Does this sound familiar to users of any piece of technology? Microsoft told Business Insider the Surface still has a positive reception from members of the NFL.

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In yesterday's show you said, "Cash in circulation grew 42% from 2007 to 2012." I found that unbelievable. I inferred from what you said that it was the amount of currency, when in fact it's the value of that currency. From the Federal Reserve Board you can see that the value went up from 42% between 2007 and 2012:

FRB: Currency in Circulation: Value
https://www.federalreserve.gov/paymentsystems/coin_currcircvalue.htm

That got me to thinking, should we remove inflation? From the inflation calculator at http://www.usinflationcalculator.com/ I see that inflation went up 10.7% cumulatively.

I think we can subtract those two numbers, giving us an adjust value increase of around 31%.

Which is CRAZY. I would have ben a million dollars it had gone down.

I thought, maybe it's only in the last 3 years it's gone down? Nope. Value of US currency in circulation went up 22% from 2012-2015, with inflation of 4.9$, so still a 17% growth.

Shocking!
Sent by Allison Sheridan, NosillaCast Mac Podcast


I did get latest Android with the 6P but I found Bluetooth Android handling and small annoying bugs with auto brightness and other things laying around without ever being fixes. In contrast, the galaxy phone provides me with waterproof, good camera, battery, good always on display and I consider the software to be very polished ...

Sorry if I sound like a new Samsung fan boy but just I do think people tend to undermine manufacturer software and overblow the pure Google experience.
Sent by An Nguyen


@acedtect @NotPatrick Just in case you didn't see this 'magsafe' USB C cable yet - (it's not the only offering)
Sent by Robbie Pence aka @Truefire_


I discovered Domino's in the UK, started using a facebook messenger bot. Message the word pizza to the bot and your favourite pizza will be delivered to you (after you set up your preferences on payment on the website). I tried it out and I am happy to report that the process went surprisingly smoothly to order. The Bot gave me an opportunity to check my details, order, address etc through a nice conversational interface (i only did this as it was my first time using the service, there was an option to go straight to order)

The only worry i had was when the online tracking tool seemed to think that i had received my pizza before it actually arrived and I was wondering which of my neighbours was enjoying a free pizza but it turned out the delivery driver had gone to my neighbour due to not being able to see the house numbers easily from the road.

All in all I was impressed at how easy and friendly the whole process was!
Sent by Ian in sunny Scotland

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