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Revision as of 19:28, 23 July 2016
| Can Yahoo Me Now? | |
| Number | 2816 |
| Broadcast Date | JULY 22, 2016 |
| Episode Length | 37:58 |
| Hosts | Tom Merritt |
| Guests | Iyaz Akhtar, Len Peralta |
It looks Yahoo’s sale is almost over. Iyaz Akhtar and Tom Merritt trace the history, what is being sold and how it might fit into Verizon.
Guest
Top Stories
- Pokemon Go finally launches in Japan
- Pokémon Go breaks App Store record for most first-week downloads in history
- Pokémon Go finally launched in Japan Friday with McDonald's as a sponsor hosting gym locations. Apple tells the Verge that Pokémon Go has become the most downloaded mobile app in its first week of release in app store history. There's all your Pokémon news bundled together in one little package. Now for the rest of the top stories.
- Submitted by habichuelacondulce
- At a Stanford University AI meeting Nvidia announced its GTX Titan X video card will arrive August 2nd for $1200 in the US and Europe. The Pascal-architecture card can do 11 teraflops of FP32 performance, a 24% jump over the GTX 1080, and 60% over the previous Titan X. It's new GP102 chip has 3,584 CUDA cores running at a at a 1.417GHz base clock and 1.531GHz boost clock. It also has 12 GB of GDDR5X memory (no HBM2 here) running at an effective 10GHz and attached to a wide 382-bit bus, resulting in a 480GB/s of memory bandwidth. It draws the same max TDP of 250 Watts. It can connect by DisplayPort 1.4, HDMI 2.0b, and dual-link DVI. This is Nvidia's 4th new card release in 2 months.
- A Redbox spokesperson told Variety Thursday that it has started testing its own streaming service called Redbox Digital. Redbox published an iPad app for the service which will sell and rent video on demand. A cast button shown in the app store listing suggests it will work with Chromecast. Variety says Redbox is also looking at Roku. Redbox launched a Netflix-like streaming service with Verizon in 2013 and shut it down 18 months later. Redbox's parent company Outerwall reports earnings this Thursday.
- TechCrunch's Kate Conger has an in-depth look at Reddit and its internal struggles. More than a dozen senior employees have left over the last six months. Most recently vice president of marketing, Celestine Maddy, editorial director, Vickie Chang and HR generalist Nicole-Jasmin Clark left the company. A spokesperson told TechCrunch the company is reorganizing it communications, editorial, video and marketing teams. Conger cites sources describing a toxic corporate culture including sexual harassment complaints from and against both genders related to drinking. Alexis Ohanian returned to the company in November 2014 and has been pushing for expansion into podcasts, video and journalism, including the digital magazine Upvoted which is already slated to be folded back into Reddit. The Upvoted podcast and Formative video series are also no longer regularly publishing. Reddit had 244 mm unique visitors in April dropped to 221 mm in May and has not shared numbers since.
- Submitted by AUtigerfan
- The NPD Group says the PS4 is the top-selling game console in the US for June. Sony confirmed this info to GameSpot. Microsoft did not release its sales numbers. Nintendo announced only a 39% increase in 3DS sales over May. Overall console sales dropped 42% year over year in the US from $313.1 million to $181.5 million. Game software dropped 20% year over year. Overwatch was the best selling game in the US in June.
- Fusion reports police in Michigan asked Michigan State professor Anil Jain to reproduce a murder victim's fingerprint from a prerecorded scan in order to unlock a phone. Researchers have achieved success with this method before but its believed it will be the first time for it to be used in an active investigation. The Verge reports that Rose Eveleth who wrote the Fusion story says 3D printing was necessary because the victim's body was too decayed to be used.
- Submitted by russellmanthy and StrikitRich1
- Android Police passes along a Consumer Reports note that Samsung has identified and corrected a manufacturing problem that caused some Samsung Galaxy S7 Active models to have faulty water resistance. All S7 devices should now meet the IP68 standard of 30 minutes of submersion in up to 5 feet of water. Some S7 Actives failed water resistance tests of that standard by Consumer Reports and CNET. Previously manufactured S7 Actives will remain on shelves under a one-year warranty.
Discussion
- Verizon Nears Deal to Acquire Yahoo
- Verizon is close to buying Yahoo for $5 billion as a ‘safe bet’
- Yahoo is for sale; bidders line up; Marissa Mayer is toast
- Verizon lead bidder for Yahoo; deal could be announced early next week: Sources
- Yahoo bidders can’t even agree on what they’re buying
- Yahoo for Sale, Says Yahoo, Finally Admitting the Obvious (Also Q4 Results!)
- Yahoo Puts Patents Up for Sale, Hires Investment Bank
- By the Numbers: 62 Amazing Yahoo Statistics
Anti Pick of the Day
- The browser extension made it easy to organize tabs in multiple windows. I've recommended it in the past.
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- Submitted by Iyaz
Messages
- I've been a Pebble wearer since their first Kickstarter campaign, and have become known as an evangelist in the office. Yesterday, a coworker saw my Pebble Time Round and asked, "Oh, did you finally give up on Pebble?" I showed him that it was not just a time piece, but actually a Pebble as I scrolled him through my calendar. If you want a smart watch that is slim and "looks like a watch", this is it.
- Sent by Matt
- In addition to being in IT for a living. My family owns a farm, and many John Deere tractors, so I wanted to bring up a point that you didn't mention on the show.
Tractors are getting more and more automated. There is a HUGE amount of money being invested by all the big Ag/Equipment companies into the software that drives this, and it's being seen internally as more and more of a product in itself. When you ask them to open source the software, you are asking them to lay bare millions of dollars and years of effort to their competitors in an easy to read format. - Sent by Dustin
- In addition to being in IT for a living. My family owns a farm, and many John Deere tractors, so I wanted to bring up a point that you didn't mention on the show.
- Let's say your John Deere is "too old" and now Deere decides to stop supporting it with software updates. Maybe you as the farmer could keep it working if it wasn't a punishable offense to modify your own software instead of having a $250K lawn ornament!
- Sent by Allison Sheridan
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