Snoop Dogg's Blunt with Microsoft
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| Snoop Dogg's Blunt with Microsoft | |
| Number | 2666 |
| Broadcast Date | JANUARY 14, 2016 |
| Episode Length | 38:22 |
| Hosts | Tom Merritt |
| Guests | Allison Sheridan |
The W3C is considering restrictions on who can set standards regarding DRM in HTML. Will this free your Web or chain it up? Allison Sheridan and Tom Merritt discuss. Also, one, two, three and to the four, Snoop wants to throw his XBox One onto the floor.
Guest
Headlines
- Samsung announced today it has begun manufacturing the Snapdragon 820 chips for Qualcomm. Samsung is using the same 14nm LLP process it is using to make its own Exynos 8 Octa processor. ReCode has previously reported that Galaxy S7 would use the Snapdragon 820. Samsung’s chip-making business is separate from its device-making business and often fabs chips for other platforms. Likewise Samsung devices don’t always use Samsung-made chips.
- Submitted by motang
- Netflix VP of content delivery David Fullagar announced today in a blog post that it would take new steps to stop customers from streaming content found in Netflix regions outside their country. Fullagar noted customers sometimes use DNS proxies and “unblockers” to get around geo-blocking of Netflix content. Fullagar stated that Netflix would employ measures to defeat those techniques in the coming weeks but also stated that they are working towards offering customers everywhere the same content.
- Submitted by flyingspatula
- US Secretary of Transportation Anthony Foxx announced policy goals for self-driving cars. Foxx said that within six months his agency will work with states, manufacturers and others to develop a model autonomous car policy to encourage a consistent national policy. The goal is to ensure fully autonomous vehicles can be deployed in large numbers “when demonstrated to provide an equivalent or higher level of safety than is now available.” The policies are part of a proposed $4 billion decade long program to test connected and autonomous vehicles.
- A December update for Nest caused the smart thermostat to stop working for some users. A software update in December included a bug that drained the battery life of some thermostats deactivating them in January. Nest says its aware of the issue and that it's been fixed for “99.5%” of users. For the other .5% Nest has said a manual reset will help and offered a nine-step fix on the Nest Support page.
- Microsoft will start delivering popups to small business computers not on Windows 10. That’s domain-joined systems that use regular Windows Update for patches. And suddenly Microsoft has decided those persistent popups can be annoying. So they published the way for business users to shut it off, that home users can also take advantage of. It involves a setting in Computer configuration and a registry edit.
- Submitted by stryk187
- Sony’s flagship 5.2-inch Xperia Z5 and 4.6-inch Z5 Compact will be sold in the US unlocked starting Feb. 7th. The Z5 will cost $599.99 and the Z5 Compact $499.99. These are the first Sony phones to be sold in the US since the Z3.
- Whether you refer to him by his birth name Calvin Broadus Jr. or his Rastafarian name Snoop Lion or his more common name Snoop Dogg today you can call him pissed at Microsoft. Snoop took to Instagram today with a short video expressing his displeasure at Xbox servers not connecting. His caption summed up his own and may Xbox owner’s sentiments “fix your sh** or playstation here we come 👿👿✨🌟🏈.”
- Ride-hailing company GrabTaxi said Wednesday it’s opening it’s first US office in Seattle. The company says it has no plans to offer its service in the US but rather wants to add to its engineering team. GrabTaxi’s engineering vice president Arul Kumaravel, spent time in Amazon’s mobile division in Seattle as well.
- Joining the trend of big tech companies open sourcing deep learning tools, Baidu’s Silicon Valley AI Lab is releasing open source code called Warp-CTC for CPUS and Nvidia GPUs. The tool can speed up machine learning frameworks up to 400 times according to Re-Work. Warp-CTC will be available on GitHub.
- Submitted by superfx
- Intel reported revenue of $14.9 billion and earnings per share of $0.74. Year over year the numbers are fairly even. Last year was 74 cents a share and revenue down at 14.72 billion. The performance beat analysts expectations of 63 cents a share and just surpassed expectations of revenue of $14.8 billion.
Discussion
- You Can't Destroy the Village to Save It: W3C vs DRM, Round Two
- DRM in HTML5 is a victory for the open Web, not a defeat
- Encrypted Media Extensions
Pick of the Day
- I know this was mentioned on one of your episodes, when Allison Sheridan was a guest, but IMO it deserves more attention.
‘Taming the Terminal’ podcast is a joint production with Bart Busschots (pronounced Boo shots - accent on the ‘shots’) who is a sys admin at an Irish university, who does a superb job of explaining all kinds of things. The podcast - which may or may not see any more episodes - is a great stand alone course on Terminal for Mac OS X, as well as being applicable to many versions of Linux, and Windows.
The goal is to help people get comfortable with Terminal, and learn efficient ways to control their computer.
What makes this particular way of learning so cool is that Allison is quite willing to ask questions that some might consider ‘dumb’ - which is a HUGE help to those of us who are listening, and asking those same questions, or just sitting there feeling dumb because we don’t know it all already.
Here’s a link to Bart’s site - where one can ‘listen along’, and see screen shots episode by episode (so that’s the best link). Truly, this is a tremendous resource for those of us that want to learn. - Submitted by Lynda
- I know this was mentioned on one of your episodes, when Allison Sheridan was a guest, but IMO it deserves more attention.
Messages
- Hello Tom and Team,
I am a buyer for a major retailer for computers and I wanted to send you my two cents on the decline of the PC. While it is true that PCs are on the decline as more people use their cellphone as their primary internet device I am seeing more people switching from tablets to convertible PCs. tablet sales are down significantly (exc. Surface) while the tablet/laptop hybrids are doing very well.
I feel people are getting tired of carrying around a tablet and a laptop are as their tablets start to age and Windows 10 tablets get cheaper and more powerful I feel the majority of users will have these hybrids as work still needs to get done on a real computer.
The other point wanted to make was the lack of new features in the recent computers. Windows 8 forced PC users to get a touch screen which at times is useful and is a great feature and reason to get a new computer. New Windows 10 PCs didn't add anything new that buyers are looking for. While Windows 10 does have the feature of "Windows Hello" which allows you to log in with your face or finger print. Most new computers do not have these functions built in yet.PCs with Intel's Realsense technology which will capture 3D scans of your face and other objects hopefully will start coming out later this year but that still leaves another 6 months before a compelling reason to buy a computer is available. I could go one more but I'll stop here for today.
Keep up the great work and here is to another great year of DTNS! - Sent by Dragon6
- Hello Tom and Team,
- Hi Tom and Guest/s,
I own a computer store in Canada. From my first hand experiences I have seen the PC market slow down. Except for one area, gaming PC's. Up until the Canadian dollar took a dive I was selling 2 "gaming" computers for every 1 "mom and pop" computer. - Sent by Devin
- Hi Tom and Guest/s,
- Love the show and I was listening to your show talking about gaming on pcs and people not upgrading.
One thing that might help going forward is external GPUs. It's an enclosure that has a graphics card and plugs into your computer via thunderbolt/usb-c. You can simply upgrade the graphics card without replacing the entire computer. This means you can have an older laptop (or a macbook like me) and give it a new life.
There hasn’t been a company that really supports this until CES this year. Razer launched a laptop that has an external GPU - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQ6ACN00uDw
Personally, I'm an apple fanboy, but also a gamer. I have a Macbook Pro which doesn't run games great, but feel that something like an external GPU is the wave of the future of products. - Sent by Scott
- Love the show and I was listening to your show talking about gaming on pcs and people not upgrading.
- Like summoning a genie you say "bitrate" or "compression" three times and i appear!
I was literally already jotting down notes as I listened. here's my thoughts re the HEVC article on bitrate compression:
The numbers were good and what we would have expected.
Its great to see big companies like BBC already going down the H.265 path and it Indiates it may see quicker adoption than its predescessor.
Hardware decode support will continue to limit wider deployment and use, but expect to see more and more announcements for it in the next 18 months.
Just because H.265 is the new hotness, don't expect H.264 to dissapear overnight - it'll be around for a good long time.
Keep your eye on Google/VP9 and AOMedia/whatever they come up with as potential competitors to H.265. - Sent by Andy Beach
- Like summoning a genie you say "bitrate" or "compression" three times and i appear!
- Hi Tom and the DTNS crew. during your discussion of the mom and pop tech shop in France that Patrick was describing I was reminded of the ACP Computer and Electronics Meet in Santa Ana. Not sure if you have heard of this from the lair in LA but I thought you might be interested. It is only on the last Sunday of every odd month, 1/31/16, but is filled with knowledgeable people that are fun to meet.
- Sent by RedNekTek
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