The Cow Jones Industrial Average

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The Cow Jones Industrial Average
Number 3588
Broadcast Date AUGUST 5, 2019
Episode Length 30:28
Hosts Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang

Cloudflare terminated DDoS protection services to the forum website 8chan as of August 5th after the mass shootings in El Paso and Dayton. Other companies including Volitility have also done the same.

Quick Hits

Amazon updated its assistant's smartphone app to now give users the option to remove their recordings from being eligable for analysis from Amazon employees and contractors. Human review of recordings was not previous stated in Amazon's privacy policy. The app now includes the language: “With this setting on, your voice recordings may be used to develop new features and manually reviewed to help improve our services. Only an extremely small fraction of voice recordings are manually reviewed.”
Chinese ride hailing giant Didi Chuxing announced that it spun off its autonomous driving unit into an independent company. The unit was created in 2016, has over 200 employees in California and China, and has approval to test self-driving vehicles in California. The CEO of the new company is Zhang Bo, the CTO of Didi.
Fossil announced its Gen 5 smartwatches the Carlyle HR and Juliana HR, both 44mm watches with round 1.28-inch OLED displays. They run WearOS on Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Wear 3100 with 1GB of RAM and 8GB of storage. There's also a speaker for Google Assistant responses and phone calls. Both models start at $295 available now.

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Samsung launched the Watch Active 2, yes it's been six months since Samsung launched the original Watch Active. The Watch Active 2 adds a touch strip to simulate software controls that require an actual rotating bezel. The Active 2 also adds ECG capability though it won't be active at launch. It runs Samsung's Tizen OS and works with Android and iOS. It supports offline play of Spotify playlists and YouTube video playback. The Active 2 will come in 40 and 44mm sizes with LTE versions available. The Active 2 goes on sale September 27 starting at $279.
iAfrikan notes that an app called MyFarmbook from Livestock Wealth, which lets users buy shares in cows from a mobile device, has grown from 26 cows in 2015 to more than 2,000. Livestock Wealth reports generating $3 million in profit. 90% of its investors come from within South Africa. Shares cost as little as 576 rand, about US$41. Groups of investors can buy a whole cow. Individuals can buy shares in a pregnant cow or young calf. Livestock Wealth plans to expand into produce as well.
China's Global Times reports Huawei is testing a smartphone running its in house Hongmeng OS. Sources tell the Global Times the device will sell for 2,000 yuan (US$288). Huawei previously described the Hongmeng OS as meant for internet-of-things and the first major device to run it would be Huawei's Honor TVs. During its earnings announcement last week, Huawei chairman Liang Hua said the company prefers to use Android on its mobile devices.
Facebook confirmed it will rebrand Instagram and WhatsApp, to “Instagram from Facebook” and “WhatsApp from Facebook.” The move follows similar rebrands for Workplace and Oculus. The new names will appear on Google Play and the App Store, as well as at the bottom of settings pages, but will keep using the previous shorter names on installed app icons. According to a Facebook spokesperson: “We want to be clearer about the products and services that are part of Facebook.”
Computer scientists from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) led by Alexandre Kaspar released two new papers describing software to create knitting patterns and designs to be used by a knitting machine. InverseKnit uses a deep neural network to create patterns from photos. It is 94% accurate but can only use acrylic yarn. CADknit promises to let people with no previous experience, customize templates to create knitting patterns. Kaspar imagines "knitting as a service" where consumers order customized garments. It could also make the prototyping and manufacturing process for knitted items more efficient. And of course existing knitters may want to hack the system to do new things.

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On Friday's show the talk of Netflix blinking out of existence was discussed ... again. I don't think that will happen any time soon. For quite a few reasons (original content, international deals, etc.), one thing that is not talked about at all is Comedy Specials. When you see interviews done with stand-up comics, they always talk about the early years, and what they had to do to get to mega stardom. Back in the 80's and 90's it was getting a comedy special on HBO, Cinemax, or Showtime. In the 00's thru about 2013 or 2014 it was getting a comedy special on Comedy Central. From 2013 or 2014 to today its getting a comedy special on Netflix. ... The only place to find new and classic stand-up comedy specials is Netflix. So if there is one saving grace for Netflix (for now) it would be comedy. And let's face it, anymore we all just need to laugh. You'll be surprised how much better you feel afterwards. Keep up the excellent work!!

Thank you from one of your many Co-Executive Producers,
Sent by Jason from seasonable hot and humid Williamsport, PA (home of the Little League Baseball World Series)

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