Sorry, I can’t do that Zuck

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Sorry, I can’t do that Zuck
Number 2658
Broadcast Date JANUARY 4, 2016
Episode Length 40:32
Hosts Tom Merritt
Guests Justin Robert Young, Jennie Josephson

CES is in full swing and Tom Merritt and Justin Young talk about what’s really worth covering. Plus Mark Zuckerberg’s new year’s challenge is to design an AI to control his life.

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ZDNet's Mary Jo Foley notes that Microsoft VP of Windows and Devices, Yusuf Mehdi posted that Windows 10 is now active on more than 200 million devices, including Xbox. 40% of those devices were activated after Black Friday, with 400% faster growth than Windows 8 140% faster than Windows 7. Though that's comparing activations to licenses sold. 76% of enterprise customers are trying Windows 10 with more than 22 million Windows 10 devices in use in enterprise and education customers.
Want to order an Oculus Rift? Starting Wednesday January 6th at 11 AM Eastern you can order one. How much? They won’t say. When will you get it? They’re not telling. Yet. Pricing and ship dates will come when preorders open and Palmer Luckey will answer more questions in a Reddit AMA Wednesday night at 9PM Eastern.
Lenovo unleashed a wave of new X1 models for CES 2016. According to Ars Technica the $1299 ThinkPad X1 Carbon laptop weighs just 2.6lbs and features up to 16GB of RAM, 1TB of NVMe solid state storage, Skylake processor, 52Wh battery and with optional WiGig wireless docking station. The $1449 X1 Yoga comes with the same RAM, Storage processor, and docking options as the X1 plus an OLED touchscreen and active stylus and weighs 2.8lbs. The $899 ThinkPad X1 Tablet is an X1 carbon in a 12-inch form factor. There’s also a $1029 ThinkCenter X1 all-in-one desktop PC and a $799 27” IPS ThinkVision X1 3840x2160 monitor with USB C ports. X1 Yoga ships this month, X1 Carbon and Tablet ship Feb, and ThinkCentre and ThinkVision X1 ship in March.
Mark Zuckerberg announced on Facebook his personal challenge for 2016 is to “build a simple AI to run my home and help me with work.” He compared it to Jarvis from Iron Man. He wants to teach it to let friends in the house by facial recognition and let him know if he needs to check in on his daughter. Previously Zuckerberg challenged himself to read two books a month, learn Mandarin, and meet a new person every day.
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The WiFi Alliance has approved IEEE 802.11ah with the catchy name of WiFi HaLow. It will supposedly double the distance and cut the power consumption compared to current WiFi and operate in the 900 MHz band which penetrates walls better. It’s a little slower though between 150 kbps and 18 Mbps The alliance hopes it could replace cellular for smart cities and bluetooth for wearables. Devices should appear later this year with the standard becoming official in 2018.
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Acer announced two new chrome devices at CES. A rugged $180 Chromebook laptop with a 11.6” screen, Celeron processor, SD card reader and 4GB of RAM and 32GB of storage, and the Chromebase a 24” all-in-one PC with webcam, and up to 4GB of RAM. No ship dates or price yet.
Toyota, QNX Software Systems and UIEvolution will all adopt Ford’s open source SmartDeviceLink system for connecting mobile apps with car interfaces. PSA Peugeot Citroën, Honda, Subaru and Mazda are all considering adopting it too. The platform allows drivers to interact with apps with dashboard buttons, displays and voice. Apps like Spotify, iHeartRadio, Concur and others already make use of AppLink.---- At the same time, Ford announced it will support Apple CarPlay and Android Auto in its Sync3 Platform. 2016 model cars will get it as an upgrade and it will come installed on 2017 models. And meanwhile GM invested $500 million in Lyft towards developing a system of self-driving cars.
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Intel announced it has purchased German-based UAV-maker Ascending Technologies. All 75 employees will be asked to join Intel. Ascending Technologies has integrated Intel’s RealSense image and depth-recognition technology into its own sense-and-avoid features.
Engadget reports AMD is showing off early looks at its energy-efficient graphics architecture called Polaris. A future chipset claims to be 61-percent more energy efficient than a GeForce GTX 950 with similar performance. Polaris uses 14-nanometer FinFET design as well as improved memory use. It supports HDMI 2.0a and HEVC video. The first Polaris-based graphic chips are due in Q3 around the same time as Nvidia’s energy-efficient Pascal graphics architecture.
CNET reports Activision Blizzard has paid $46 million to acquire Major League Gaming, essentially paying off its debts. Activision Blizzard formed a new esports unit back in October.
TechCrunch reports BlackBerry says it has reached an agreement with Pakistan to continue offering BlackBerry Enterprise Service in that country. BlackBerry said it would shut down operations in response to a government demand for access to BES data.

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Pick of the Day

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Hey Tom and crew, it was a great 2015 and I can't wait for 2016. Once again your predictions show was a little sparse on Android predictions, but I get it no one on the Android beat. So here are my tech predictions for Android in 2016.
Security updates will be the big differentiator for Android handsets in 2016, we have reached the point of good enough in the Android smartphone world and the monthly security updates that have been going out to the Nexus phones has been regular enough that I think the OEM's have to commit to it. Connected to this is that Blackberry will benefit the most (they released the January update to the Priv today) . I predict they will see a resurgence (minor) this year and release another Android phone that will be even more successful than the Priv (and have a better name).
We will finally see the uniting of Chrome OS and Android, most likely at Google I/O and the first device to get it will be the pixel C (via a software update). Some manufacturers will also release hardware variants (most likely Asus, Huawei)
The HTC vive will give HTC some breathing room to continue living for one more year as investors will be excited by the prospects and reception of the device. They will also release a well reviewed phone (security updates will be a feature, see #1) that will do better than last years model (which really isn't that hard to be honest)
DTNS will have a semi regular correspondent (maybe that guy who is going to do the 6th day) who will focus a bit more on the Android Beat, he will be on this years prediction show.
Love the Show.
Sent by Marlon "theGuyFromTrinidad"


Hi guys,

I listened the results prediction show today and I just want to point out that I perfectly remember when Justin did his Spider Man Prediction last year, although is not a tech prediction, :)

Keep the great work!
Sent by Ruben in Monterrey, Mexico

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