WhatsApp Judge?

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WhatsApp Judge?
Number 2648
Broadcast Date DECEMBER 17, 2015
Episode Length 37:36
Hosts Tom Merritt
Guests Jenn Cutter

Brazil briefly bans WhatsApp and Turner will kick off their new esports coverage with a CS:GO tourney at CES. Jenn Cutter talks with Tom Merritt about whether Turner can avoid past esports TV mistakes and what’s in store for esports in general in 2016.

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Apple has promoted supply chain and Apple Watch guy Jeff Williams to COO, a position that has been vacant since Tim Cook became CEO. Other appointments announced today include Senior VP for Hardware Technologies Johnny Srouji's addition to the executive team, the hiring of Grey Group ad agency’s Tor Myhren, as president of Marketing Communications. And the expansion of Senior VP of Worldwide Marketing Phil Schiller’s role to include heading up the App Store. Schiller now leads nearly all developer-related functions at Apple.
Yesterday a lower court judge in Sao Paulo ordered a 48 hr ban on the messaging app WhatsApp starting midnight Wednesday after the company refused judicial rulings to share information related to a criminal case involving drug trafficking despite a fine. Today Judge Xavier de Souza lifted the ban saying, “…it does not look reasonable that millions of users be affected as a result of the company’s inertia to provide information," and recommended a higher fine. WhatsApp competitor Telegram tweeted that it recorded 1 million downloads during the WhatsApp outage.
The Verge reports that Microsoft's flagship retail store in New York will open a HoloLens Experience Showcase for developers. In its three rooms, the Verge's Adi Robertson tried a holographic version of MS Paint, Project X-Ray, where you shoot alien robots moving around your actual room, and “Holographic storytelling” sort of a Marketing Presentation that tracks viewers' gaze. The first wave of $3,000 dev kits ship in the first quarter of 2016.
Facebook announced new features for Messenger for the holidays. Previously only available in Australia, the face recognition tool Photo Magic, is now available to everyone except for Canada and the European Union. Photo Magic will scan through phone photos, automatically ID’ing people, and then recommend which friends to send them to. Messenger also has new customizability options allowing anyone in a conversation to change nicknames, colors, emojis and add holiday stickers. Other fun stuff include snow animation anytime anyone uses a Xmas tree or snow related sticker or emoji and Android users Chat Heads get a snow globe effect.
CNET reports that in a blog post to employees abut compensation changes League of Legends creator, Riot Games said its majority investor, Tencent has bought the remaining equity int he company. China’s Tencent owns WeChat as well as 40% of Epic Games, which makes Gears of War, and is a shareholder in Blizzard Activision.
Lifehacker reports that researchers Hector Marco and Ismael Ripoll from the Cybersecurity Group at the Polytechnic University of Valencia in Spain, discovered that a bug in the Linux Grub 2 bootloader allows anyone access to the Grub rescue shell by hitting the backspace key 28 times when asked for a username. Ubuntu, Red Hat, and Debian have all issued patches to fix it.
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Internet.org provides an app called “Free Basics by Facebook,” that provides access to certain web resources, including Facebook, without counting against data limits. Some people in India consider this a violation of net neutrality. Facebook began serving Indian users a message and filled-out form encouraging users to send an email to the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India or TRAI supporting Free Basics. The TRAI is taking comments on net neutrality until December 30 and will respond to those comments on January 7.
George Hotz AKA geohot, one-time iOS jailbreaker showed off his home-brewed self-driving car tech to Bloomberg yesterday. Today Tesla responded with a blog post saying ““it is extremely unlikely that a single person or even a small company that lacks extensive engineering validation capability will be able to produce an autonomous driving system that can be deployed to production vehicles.”
Microsoft announced a joint venture with the China Electronics Technology Group in order to make a special version of Windows 10 to market to the Chinese government. If approved by regulators, the venture, provisionally called C&M Technologies would be the version’s exclusive licensor and provide support for patches and updates. Licenses would be sold to government agencies and state-owned enterprises in key infrastructure fields such as energy, telecommunications, and transportation.
The blockchain is the part of the bitcoin system that validates transactions without requiring a third party. It’s a tamperproof distributed system that makes the whole thing work. A lot of companies would like to use it for other transactions that need trust. IBM is leading a group involving Intel, Cisco, the London Stock Exchange Group, Wells Fargo, JP Morgan and more to create the Open Ledger Project. The open source project will be run by the Linux Foundation and endeavour to create a new blockchain-like ledger to be used to track the exchange of assets like stocks, bonds, car titles and other financial securities.

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