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| Number | 2685 |
| Broadcast Date | FEBRUARY 10, 2016 |
| Episode Length | 43:27 |
| Hosts | Justin Robert Young |
| Guests | Scott Johnson |
Justin Robert Young is filling in for Tom who is under the weather. Scott Johnson is on the the program too! Changes to Twitter are on the menu.
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Headlines
- Exclusive: In boost to self-driving cars, U.S. tells Google computers can qualify as drivers
- Google says U.S. guidance crucial to development of self-driving cars
- Reuters reports that the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration sent a letter to Google on Feb. 4 about driverless cars. The letter says "NHTSA will interpret 'driver' in the context of Google's described motor vehicle design as referring to the (self-driving system), and not to any of the vehicle occupants.” The next step would be to formally rewrite regulations requiring things like steering wheels and foot pedals.
- Twitter announced a new feature today that puts around a dozen recommended posts at the top of the timeline in reverse chronological order. Refreshing the timeline will return it to just the normal reverse chronological listing. The change will show up first as an option in settings and be gradually turned on for all users. HOWEVER. AS users have it turned on, for them a notfication will prompt them to go and turn it off in settings if they wish.
- The Guardian reports that US director of national intelligence, James Clapper told the US Senate Tuesday that intelligence services might use the internet of things for identification, surveillance, monitoring, location tracking, and targeting for recruitment, or to gain access to networks or user credentials. A new cybersecurity initiative unveiled by the White House commits the Department of Homeland Security to “test and certify networked devices within the ‘Internet of Things’.
- Netscape creator Marc Andreesen is on Facebook’s board and was disappointed that India ruled that Free Basics by Facebook violated net neutrality in that country. As he does sometimes, Andreesen took to Twitter and called the ruling “morally wrong.” And in @ replies wrote “Anti-colonialism has been economically catastrophic for the Indian people for decades. Why stop now?”
That tweet has since been deleted. This morning he wrote “I apologize for any offense caused by my earlier tweet about Indian history and politics. I admire India and the Indian people enormously.” Facebook later released a statement, saying “We strongly reject the sentiments expressed by Marc Andreessen last night regarding India.”
- Netscape creator Marc Andreesen is on Facebook’s board and was disappointed that India ruled that Free Basics by Facebook violated net neutrality in that country. As he does sometimes, Andreesen took to Twitter and called the ruling “morally wrong.” And in @ replies wrote “Anti-colonialism has been economically catastrophic for the Indian people for decades. Why stop now?”
- Apple Music is now officially out of beta on Sonos devices worldwide including features like For You, Radio and My Music. Sonos has been beta testing the service with hundreds of thousands of users since Dec 15th. To add Apple Music, Sonos users can select “Add Music Services” from the controller app, select the Apple Music icon, and then login into the service.
- Opera announced Wednesday it has received a $1.2 billion buyout offer for a consortium of Chinese companies including Qihoo 360 and Kunlun, backed by the Golden Brick and Yonglian investment funds. Opera’s board recommends the deal according to ZDNet. Opera has been seeking a buyer since August 2015.
- US Representatives Ted Lieu and Blake Farenthold are introducing the ENCRYPT act Wednesday. Reuters saw the text of the bill and says it would prevent any state or locality from mandating that a “manufacturer, developer, seller, or provider” design or alter the security of a product so it can be decrypted or surveilled by authorities. New York and California have proposed rules requiring companies to be able to decrypt smartphones they sell.
- According to TorrentFreak, PayPal stopped accepting payments for Canadian VPN and SmartDNS service UnoTelly this week. Paypal said UnoTelly violated the acceptable use policy for circumventing technological measure without the authority of the copyright owner. UnoTelly markets itself as being able to bypass geoblocks for Netflix and Hulu. UnoTelly advised customers to pay with credit cards instead.
- Submitted by melkizedek74
- Jeff Huber, one of the people who helped put together the Google X Research Lab is leaving the company become CEO of Grail, a biotech company that develops blood tests to detect cancer. Huber’s wife Laura died of cancer last year. On Google +, Huber wrote “ If Grail had existed before, and caught her cancer earlier, it’s very possible she’d still be with us today.”
- Twitter met expectations with revenue of $710 million up 48% and beat expectations with earnings per share of 16 cents. Analysts had expected revenue of $710 million and earnings per share of 12 cents. Twitter’s Monthly Active users were 320 million exactly what they were last quarter. Twitter also announced that Periscope CEO Kayvon Beykpour has been promoted to the company’s executive team.
- Side note by beating earnings expectations Twitter's stock fell in after hours trading. Whereas Tesla, which just reported a loss of 87 cents a share on expectations of EARNINGS of 10 cents a share, saw it's stock RISE based on guidance.
- Tesla announced it will unveil its $35,000 Model 3 on March 31st.
Discussion
- Twitter Will Now Put Recommended (Not Newest) Tweets At the Top Of Your Timeline
- Everything You Need To Know About Twitter's New Timeline Tweaks
- Twitter To Introduce Algorithmic Timeline As Soon As Next Week
- Twitter is setting up a safety council to tackle abuse
- Twitter Is Now Worth Less Than Many of the Unicorns
- Yahoo announces first round of layoffs as it trims 15 percent of workforce
Pick of the Day
- I wanted to suggest a pick: ZCast.
ZCast is a new podcasting app that looks pretty exciting. They have an iOS and Web app currently (I can only imagine Android is soon on the way), allowing one person or a group of people to easily live-stream, record and later share podcasts.
Not sure if the feature set may meets everything professional-grade podcasters need, but for those of us in the greater podcasting audience (myself included) that have long wanted to dabble in the art, this looks like a great entry.
Keep up the good work and love the show! - Submitted by Mordechai Lightstone
- I wanted to suggest a pick: ZCast.
Messages
- Good day,
I think Gb consumer internet is going to sit at 1 Gbps for a few years as the rest of the world gets there.
My reason is that most enterprises still don't have Gbps to every desktop and they have had it for 18 years.
I remember a quote from a 3com presentation in 1999, it was something like "now that we are at a gigabit, the network is finally ahead of software and we have some breathing room."
Regards, - Sent by Vince
- Good day,
- A curious thing is that in the last few years I've now seen multiple systems where data transfer is actually constrained by a traditional HDD's write speeds. Not something you used to notice outside of a LAN environment... :)
- Sent by Mikko from Helsinki
- Hi Tom and crew!
I was listening to your discussion on bandwidth with Patrick and I'm reminded of my first >1 gb hard drive. When I upgraded from 500 mb to 6 gb in 1990-something, i thought i could never use all that space. Then Napster happened.
Now I have a 2 tb drive that is nearly full (sigh...steam sales) and am looking to upgrade.
Just some more anecdotal evidence to support that we always find a way to use whats there.
Carry on! - Sent by Chad in snowy and gray Columbus, OH
- Hi Tom and crew!
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