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Vivaldi makes your browsing sing
Number 2729
Broadcast Date APRIL 6, 2016
Episode Length 45:07
Hosts Tom Merritt
Guests Scott Johnson

Facebook’s adding lots of Periscope-like features to its live streaming function. Why is live casual video getting so much attention? Scott Johnson and Tom Merritt discuss.

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Headlines

Facebook is adding a live streaming button to the middle of its iOS and Android apps leading to a dedicated page and a map of live streams. You can choose to stream to groups or events now and viewers can use all Facebook reactions. Comments and reactions will replay when viewed later. Facebook is paying some publishers to stream on the platform. The new button and features should roll out to users over the next few weeks.
As we mentioned yesterday the Vivaldi browser released it’s 1.0 version today. Vivaldi offers customizable keyboard shortcuts, a command-line interface, mouse gestures, tab stacks, and lots of customization. It’s based on Google’s Blink engine so it can support Chrome extensions too. The team hopes to add a mail client and the ability to sync bookmarks, settings and extensions. Vivaldi was founded by Opera co-founder and former CEO Jon von Tetzchner.
Huawei launched two high-end phones in London today, the P9 and P9 Plus. The 5.2-inch P9 has 3GB of RAM, 32GB of internal storage, 3000mAh battery and an Octa-core processor. The version for Asia will come in dual-SIM and have a 128GB option. The 5.5-inch P9 Plus has 4GB of RAM, 3400mAh battery and comes in 64GB or 128 GB. Both have microSD card slots and USB-C connections. The camera has dual 12-megapixel sensors one RGB and one monochrome, co-engineered with Leica but built by Huawei. The P9 hits Europe by end of April and the P9 Plus before end of May. The P9 will cost €599 for 32GB of storage and 3GB of RAM and €649 for 64GB of storage and 4GB of RAM. The P9 Plus will be €749 for 64GB of storage and 4GB of RAM.
Reminders is coming to the Web version of Google Calendar according to a Google blog post. Reminders works across Google applications like Inbox, Keep and the Google app, and will sync across devices. Reminders will stay persistent at the top of the Calendar until the task has been marked completed. It's already available for iOS and Android.
Dan Goodin at Ars Technica reports on a paper presented at Black Hat Singapore last week describing how a malicious Firefox extension can leverage vulnerabilities in other extensions to execute malicious code and steal data. Nine of the 10 most popular Firefox add-ons contained vulnerabilities that could be exploited. The malicious add-on takes advantage of the fact that all javascript extensions on Firefox share the same JavaScript namespace. Firefox has issued new browser extension APIs not vulnerable to the attack and plans to sandbox Firefox extensions in future.
Submitted by Kylde
The Verge reports on VideoStitch’s VR camera called the Orah 4i. The 4K 360-degree camera has four f2.0 fisheye lenses attached to a Sony Exmor image sensor and two Ambarella video chips. One cord connects it to a box with an Intel CPU, Nvidia GPU, 120GB SSD and ethernet. The Orah 4i is selling for $1800 this month but will slowly get more expensive until it hits it’s final retail price of $3600 in August.
The BBC reports that China’s Fang Binxing, who is largely responsible for China’s Internet controls, was giving a speech at the Harbin Institute of Technology. He wanted to show a South Korean website as an example of that country’s Internet controls. But the site he wanted was blocked in China. So he logged into a VPN on stage in order to show it. The question and answer session was canceled.
We reported earlier that Nest is shutting of its service for the Revolv smart home system in May. Some people just discovered this and got angry. A Nest company spokesperson told the Verge "We’ve been working with the small number of Revolv customers on a case-by-case basis since we sent out the first customer notification in February to determine the best resolution, including compensation”. Revolv owners interested in possible compensation are asked to contact customer support at [email protected].
Angola Cables SA and NEC Corporation announced Wednesday plans to build the first subsea fiber optic cable system connecting Africa and South America. It will connect Luanda, Angola and Fortaleza, Brazil. In Brazil it connects to a system that runs to Miami, Florida, giving a direct connection to the US. The system is planned to become operational in 2018.
A working group commissioned by the US FAA released its recommendations on rules for UASs flying near people or over populated areas. UASs less than 250 grams are largely OK. Larger UASs must maintain a safe distance and pass crash tests with less than a 1% chance of injury from full-speed collision.
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National Journal reports the FBI has briefed Senator Diane Feinstein on how the agency broke into the iPhone at the center of Apple's recent legal fight. Senator Richard Burr is scheduled to be briefed in the days to come. Both Feinstein and Burr are working on a new bill to limit the use of encryption in consumer technology, expected to be made public in the weeks to come.

Discussion

Pick of the Day

I have a pick called Pyra, a pocket device for everyday computing, gaming, emulation or hacking, (approximately the size of the Nintendo DS), running plain Debian Linux as OS. This is from the amazing Michael Mrozek aka evildragon the guy who helped developed OpenPandora. This is essentially an new updated version of the OpenPandora project being developed by him and he has been working on this a few years now and is now in the prototype stage. So check it out and watch a really cool device being developed in the making.

He also has a Youtube channel with a few videos of the Pyra development. so that is definitely worth a look as well. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXcGSUSo0TNaSGylCVidD3w
Submitted by Ryan

Messages

Regarding contactless payments in Australia, the important thing to note is that Apple Pay is only available for users of American Express, which is a very low number, and Google's solution is bit available in Australia yet.

The majority of contactless payments are made with NFC credit and debit cards, which most banks offer as standard, not with Mobile phones.
Sent by Stuart


I know you don't normally mention events and such - but incase you thought it would interested the DTNS audience - or anyone else really - I'm partnering with some guys to create something that I think is pretty cool:

Hackover Passover - a pre-passover hackathon on Sunday April, 17. We'll focus on community storytelling through tech. Some of the gear for participants to use includes the Amazon Echo and the Oculus Rift.

It's obviously open to everyone, regardless of beliefs or backgrounds, and should be good fun.

Details: https://hackoverpassover.splashthat.com/

Warmest regards either way,
Sent by Rabbi Mordechai Lightstone


Could the Twitter/NFL deal be the first genius step towards twitter.tv? I can envision an in-app live stream of all sorts of events or even television with a global comment section.

When I (rarely) attend live events, I already see screens around the stadium with live twitter streams. Twitter has already been brought to live events, this seems like a logical step to bring live events into Twitter.
Sent by Arthur

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