The World's Biggest Online Shopping Day
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| The World's Biggest Online Shopping Day | |
| Number | 670 |
| Broadcast Date | NOVEMBER 9, 2018 |
| Episode Length | 5:04 |
| Hosts | Tom Merritt |
Disney names its streaming service, Microsoft fixes Windows activation problem, the world’s biggest online shopping day is Sunday.
Headlines
- Disney announced its upcoming streaming video service will be called Disney+ and launch in late 2019. Among a selection of Disney movies and TV shows the service will launch with two live-action Star Wars series, the Manadalorian run by Jon Favereau and a series following Cass Andor, set before the movie Rogue One. Disney also confirmed the new service will have a live-action Marvel series focused on Loki played by Tom Hiddleston.
- Microsoft said a fix has been deployed for an activation issue that caused some valid Windows 10 Pro users to see a message prompting them to install Windows 10 Home or get a genuine copy of Windows. Microsoft said that customers will not need to take any action and can continue to use Windows 10 Pro as usual. The issue should be resolved by the end of Friday.
- The world's biggest shopping day takes place Sunday, November 11. "Singles day" started in the nineties as a day to celebrate bachelors and began being used as a promotion by Alibaba's Tmall 10 years ago. Last year Alibaba sold more than $25 billion in goods and expects to top $35 billion this year. It has grown beyond Alibaba to include other ecommerce companies like JD.com and Pinduoduo China, and has expanded outside China across Southeast Asia.
- Research from a team at the University of Pennsylvania showed the first evidence of a "causal link between time spent on Facebook, Instagram and Snapchat, and decreased well-being." The study divided 143 undergraduate students into a control group that behaved as normal and a second group that limited their time to 10 minutes per platform per day. The group with social media restrictions showed "significant reductions in loneliness." The group hopes to conduct further studies involving other social media platforms and other age groups.
- A study shows Sprint slows traffic to Microsoft's Skype video call service in the US. The study by teams at Northeastern University and the University of Massachusetts used information from 100,000 users of the Wehe app.Between January 18 and October 15 the throttling of Skype by Sprint was found in 34% of 1,968 full tests which involve running two tests in a row to avoid false positives. The effect was spread out geographically but affected Android users more than iOS. A spokeswoman told Reuters, Sprint does not "single out Skype or any individual content provider in this way."
- Xiaomi launched its 6.21-inch Mi 8 smartphone for £499 in the UK Thursday, along with the Redmi 6A smartphone, Xiaomi Band 3 fitness tracker and the Mi electric scooter. Xiaomi adds the UK to Spain, France and Italy as its European markets. A Mi Store will open in Westfield London November 18. Xiaomi has an event scheduled in New York in December where it is expected to announced smartphone sales in the US. Xiaomi is ranked 4th globally in smartphone sales and sells in 74 markets.
- GE-owned Avitas Systems received the first FAA approval to fly a 55-plus pound UAV beyond visual line of site without a spotter for commercial purposes. Avitas will use the drone to inspect infrastructure for Shell Oil at facilities in the Permian basin in Loving County Texas.
- KrebsOnSecurity reports the US Secret Service is warning that criminals are signing up for the US Postal Service's "Informed Delivery" service which emails scans of physical mail to customers before its delivered. The criminals sign up as if they are the residents then use the emails to find out when fraudulently ordered credit cards are arriving and steal them from the mailbox. To mitigate against the attack Krebs says you would need to sign up for informed delivery themselves for each recipient of mail at the household.
- France's IDFM public transit company is launching an ebike program called Véligo with 10,000 bikes in Paris and plans to expand to 20,000. Unlike a docked short term bike rental, Véligo costs €40 per month and the bikes can be kept at home. Employers can cover half the cost as they would for any transit program. The ebikes can go 9 kilometers on a charge.
- Google's latest Android Ecosystem Security Transparency Report shows that 0.08% of Android phones installing apps solely from the Google Play store have potentially harmful apps. That's down from a full 1% in 2014. And 0.76% of phones with apps from outside Google Play have potentially harmful apps. The rate of harmful apps is lowest on phone with more recent versions of Android as well.
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