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| Always Bet on Bot | |
| Number | 2722 |
| Broadcast Date | MARCH 28, 2016 |
| Episode Length | 34:37 |
| Hosts | Tom Merritt |
| Guests | Veronica Belmont, Matt Hartman |
Chat bots are getting a lot of buzz. Are they for real? Are the better for consumers or developers? Matt Hartman shares his insights with Veronica Belmont and Tom Merritt.
Guest
Headlines
- PSA: Instagram is not turning on their new algorithm, despite what you may have seen from panicked Instagram users.
- Oculus co-founder Palmer Luckey flew to Alaska to deliver the first Oculus Rift headset to Ross Martin. The headset was signed by all the founders and Luckey streamed the moment on Facebook Live. Martin was the first person to pre-order the Rift in January.
- Submitted by KAPT_Kipper
- Periscope has been available for a year and celebrated by releasing some usage numbers. More than 200 million broadcasts have been made since it launched, 100 million since January. Users watch around 110 years worth of live streams in its apps every day.
- Engadget passes along a translation of a Nikkei interview with Sony’s Masayasu Ito in which he says Sony is “considering plans” to let the PlayStation VR be used with PCs. And the Wall Street Journal now says it’s sources too say an upgraded PlayStation 4 with better hardware for 4K and VR could come in the third quarter.
- Pandora has replaced CEO Brian McAndrews with co-founder Tim Westergren. Westergren served as CEO of Pandora from 2002-2004. Independent board member Jim Feuille was named the board’s new chairman. Pandora reported a slight decline in listeners in Q4 to 81.1 million.
- NTT Data Corp announced Monday it has agreed to buy Dell’s IT consulting business for $3.05 billion. Dell is acquiring EMC pending shareholder approval. Dell’s IT services division was formally Perot Systems and will give NTT Data a larger presence in North America.
- Google search became accessible in China for more than an hour before blocks on the service were re-established. Google introduced new Web servers to the region and it took awhile for them to be recognized. China blocks access to inappropriate websites. Google does not self-censor its search results in China.
- As has become standard practice Facebook turned on Safety Check negotiations after a bombing in Lahore, Pakistan Sunday. The notification sometimes arrives by text message and said “Have you been affected by the explosion?” with instructions on how to reply. This time, some people outside the area received the notifications, causing some confusion.
- Submitted by stevei0
- Uber has added a feature to its app called “Code on the Road.” It has 60-second coding and debugging tests to help you wile away the time during your ride. The feature is showing up in cities with large numbers of tech workers like Boston, Seattle and Portland. If you do well on the games, you might get an email address to apply for an engineering position with Uber.
- BQ has started taking pre-orders for the 10-inch Aquarius M10 Ubuntu tablet. It comes in two models €259 for a 1280 x 800 screen and €299 for the 1920 x 1200 screen. Both have 2 GB of RAM and 16 GB of expandable storage. Shipping is expected to begin the second week of April.
- SamMobile spotted an interesting device name in the changelog for the Samsung Level app, the Galaxy S7 Active. It’s not a huge shock as each Galaxy S phone since the S4 has had a rugged waterproof version called the Active. However the S7 is already waterproof so an S7 Active would likely have stringer waterproofing and emphasize it’s durability more.
- Taiwan’s TSMC signed an agreement Monday with the Nanjing City Government in China to invest $3 billion in an advanced wafer manufacturing facility. TSMC referred to it as a 12-inch fab and design service center. Production is scheduled to begin in the second half of 2018. TSMC owns an 8-inch chipmaking plant near Shanghai.
Discussion
Pick of the Day
- I highly recommend Emergency by the American Red Cross. Not only can you monitor hazards like severe thunderstorms, flooding, earthquakes, tsunami, tornados, and hurricanes, but you can also monitor them in multiples locations and assign family members and friends to said locations that you can easily contact via the app once notified of a hazard.
Recently, I was notified on my Apple Watch of a tornado warning in my hometown. From my watch I was able to quickly send a text to my mom so she could tell me if she was safe or not safe (she was).
The app also provides important safety tips on what you should do before, during, and after a hazard, along with tips on how to plan for a hazard.
The app is free on iOS and Android, and is part of a great suite of American Red Cross apps. - Submitted by Jesse (hometownrival)
- I highly recommend Emergency by the American Red Cross. Not only can you monitor hazards like severe thunderstorms, flooding, earthquakes, tsunami, tornados, and hurricanes, but you can also monitor them in multiples locations and assign family members and friends to said locations that you can easily contact via the app once notified of a hazard.
Messages
- Tom,
As someone who is a photography and free-things enthusiast, I really wanted to try the newly free Nik Collection, but I can't justify shelling out for Photoshop. So I Googled around and found a way to get the collection to work with GIMP. It requires you to install the ShellOut plugin and adding four lines to the config file, but for someone who just wants to try them out, its worth a little futzing. Here is a link to a Windows only guide:
http://dejoe.tumblr.com/post/141782126039/using-google-nix-collection-with-gimp - Sent by Rich from Lovely Cleveland
- Tom,
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