Twitter Quitter

Twitter Quitter
Number	2690
Broadcast Date	FEBRUARY 16, 2016
Episode Length	44:17
Hosts	Tom Merritt
Guests	Patrick Beja, Iyaz Akhtar

People seem to quit social media with regularity. Are we doomed to a cycle of abuse in online communities? Iyaz Akhtar Patrick Beja and Tom Merritt discuss.

Guest

• Patrick Beja
  • Patrick's Patreon
• Iyaz Akhtar
  • CNET
  • GFQ Network
  • Killing Time.tv

Headlines

• Apple Pay to go live in China on Feb 18

Apple Pay will go live in China this Thursday, February 18th according to social media posts from Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Ltd. and China Construction Bank. Chinese state radio reported China Guangfa Bank will also launch Apple pay. China would be the fifth country to get Apple Pay. Apple's site lists 19 Chinese lenders as official partners.

• Galaxy S7 water resistance confirmed from Samsung video, website

Leaks galore have sprung regarding the forthcoming Samsung Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge which are expected to have QHD AMOLED Displays, 12-megapixel rear cameras and micro-SD slots. Now Phone Probe discovered an official Samsung page that showed the S7 Edge being used in the rain seeming to bolster rumors of IP68 water resistance. Samsung’s Unpacked event is scheduled for February 21 in Barcelona.

• Sense: Personalized Intelligence for your Connected Home

Silk Labs co-founded by former Mozilla CTO Andreas Gal launched a Kickstarter for a connected home camera called Sense today that works with major brands like Philips, LIFX, Nest and Sonos with more to come. Sense learns over time through questions, settings and observations. For example, it can recognize who is home and set lights and temp accordingly. Machine learning takes place on the device and results are encrypted before being sent to the cloud. Decryption keys are only on the device. You can back the Kickstarter for $225 to pre-order for shipping later this year.

• LG Outs Its Next Phablet, The Slender LG Stylus 2

LG announced the successor to the G4 Stylus phablet today, the 5.7” Stylus 2. The 7.4mm thick, 146g phablet will come in three colors: white, brown and titan. The Stylus 2 includes a nano-coated tip pen, a new Calligraphy Pen font and a warning message when the stylus is not in its bay and the device is in motion. Expect more detail on price and availability at MWC next week.

• Ransomware takes Hollywood hospital offline, $3.6M demanded by attackers

CSO reports that Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center’s computers have been down for more than a week after falling victim to ransomware. Attackers demand $3.6 million to decrypt the system. Some patients have been transferred to other hospitals and emergency room services have been sporadically affected. The hospital is working with LAPD and the US FBI to identify the attackers.

Submitted by spsheridan

• Vaio Near Deal With Toshiba, Fujitsu to Form Japan PC Giant

Bloomberg reports Japan Industrial Partners CEO Hidemi Moue expects to strike an agreement to merge its Vaio business with the PC divisions of Toshiba and Fujitsu by the end of March. The merged company would focus on the Japanese market. Japanese display and semiconductor makers have pursued similar strategies.

• Optical Data Storage Squeezes 360TB on to a Quartz Disc—Forever

If you love your data, why not store it in Quartz? Researchers at Sothhampton University have developed a technique to use femtosecond laser pulses to write data in the structure of quartz at nanoscale. Data is read by using another pulse of light anrd recording its polarisation. They estimate they can keep 360 terabytes of data on one piece of quartz that should last around 13.8 billion years at up to 190 degrees celsius.

Submitted by starfuryzeta

• Google's Internet Balloons Are Arriving In Sri Lanka

The government of Sri Lanka said Tuesday that three Google Project Loon balloons will start a testing phase this week. The balloons fly twice the height of airplanes at 20 kilometers. Sri Lanka has taken a 25% stake in the venture that will eventually see 15 balloons provide coverage to the country.

• Doctors reveal they can 3D print body parts and tissue

Doctors at the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine announced Monday they’ve managed to print living tissue and organs that function properly in animals, specifically a human ear that formed blood vessels and cartilage when implanted under the skin of mice. Their article in Nature titled “A 3D bioprinting system to produce human-scale tissue constructs with structural integrity” says they’ve printed muscle, bone and ear tissue so far. The Integrated Organ and Printing System uses “biodegradable, plastic-like material” for the structure and water-based ink to hold cells and microchannels.

• GameStop CEO suggests PlayStation VR has been delayed to fall 2016

GameStop CEO Paul Raines told Fox Business Channel Monday that Gamestop would begin selling PlayStation VR “this fall.” Sony previously said PlayStation VR would come out in the first half of 2016. Sony told Ars Technica the the remark should be treated as “speculative comments” and has no date to announce.

Discussion

• Stephen Fry quits Twitter, saying 'fun is over' after Bafta spat
• Too many people have peed in the pool
• How to win an online argument: lessons from Reddit

Pick of the Day

• Podcast Chapters

I saw a tweet today that there is a new program out in the Mac App Store called Chapters which allows podcasters to add chapters into a podcast easily. Don't know if you'd want to use it for DTNS but I'm sure some people who make podcasts will be very excited about this app. Haven't used it myself but it looks like a very good app from the reviews.

Keep up the good work on the show! I'm really excited for Day 6!

Submitted by Willie Scott (WScottis1) in blustery cold Ohio

Messages

Hi Tom,

I'm writing in with a little anecdote from university.

At university there was a large file sharing network. Networks between residences were limited to 100mbit (12.5MBytes/s) however when the other client was within the same residence it was as fast as 1 gigabit(125MBytes/s) as long as both people had network cards capable.

I would actually notice when other gigabit residents were taking files from me because the limit at that point was my local hard drive which I was also using for my operating system.

Operating systems really aren't writter with the foresight that apps may be using all the hard drive bandwidth and choking out the normal user interaction. Even opening the start menu becomes a slog.

I don't know if newer OSes have fixed these issues. This was from about 10 years ago.

Sent by Mike from the frozen wasteland known as Canada

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