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| Rhapster | |
| Number | 2785 |
| Broadcast Date | JUNE 15, 2016 |
| Episode Length | 41:21 |
| Hosts | Tom Merritt |
| Guests | Scott Johnson, Raj Deut |
Do we need conferences anymore? When companies can stream straight to customers what’s the point to the expense of an E3 or CES? Raj Deut, Scott Johnson and Tom Merritt discuss.
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Top Stories
- Mark Zuckerberg confirms he is not a lizard. Here are the rest of the top stories.
- Safari 10 will disable Flash, Java, Silverlight, and Quicktime plugins by default. In macOS Sierra, the browser will default to HTML5 when available, otherwise, users will have to authorize the plugin to run. Users can whitelist plugins to run on specific sites in the browser's settings.
- Retweeting yourself is now available on Twitter. It’s a way to put a tweet in front of people who may have missed it the first time around without having to do ICYMI.
- Here's some news on the iOS app store. Craig Federighi told John Gruber that default apps are still baked into the OS and deleting them only removes them from the home screen and deletes associated user data. You can ‘redownload’ them from the app store but it’s unclear what that really means if the binaries were never removed from the OS in the first place. Also Apple will require all apps in the app store to enable App Transport Security by January 1, 2017. This forces http connections made by the app to use an encrypted TLS v 1.2 connection.
- Submitted by lokirobert and Jsnphil
- Netflix viewers with compatible iPads running iOS 9.3.2 will now be able to use picture-in-picture to keep watching Netflix video while doing other things on the tablet. Other video apps like Hulu have had this feature previously.
- Quartz reports Facebook’s head of Europe, Middle East and Africa, Nicola Mendelsohn, told a conference in London yesterday that in five years Facebook will probably be all video. Mendelssohn said video conveys more information quickly and the company is seeing year-on-year declines in text. She also predicted Virtual reality will grow and 360 video will be “commonplace.”
- New operating systems always mean new lists of old devices that can’t be upgraded. Apple’s iOS 10 will not work on devices with A5 chips. That means no new OS for iPads 1-3 and Mini, iPod Touch 5th gen and older and iPhone 4S and older. Mac OS Sierra will not work on Macs from 2009 or before.
- Music service Rhapsody is rebranding itself as Napster. Rhapsody acquired the name when it acquired what was left of Napster in 2011. The Verge notes Rhapsody began using the Napster name and logo in Canada in November. While CEO Mike Davis confirmed layoffs are coming to the company, he also said the service saw 35% growth in paid subscribers last year finishing with 3.5 million customers.
Discussion
Pick of the Day
- Hey Tom,
I wanted to recommend a game I heard on an old episode of TMS. It's probably a few years old now, but it is an incredible game. It's called Oceanhorn, and it is essentially a Zelda : Link To The Past clone with updated graphics. Visually this game is stunning, and the gameplay mimics that of Zelda almost to a tee. Ie, crawling dungeons, collecting heart pieces, and upgrading your gear. The game isn't cheap ($13 here in Canada for iOS) but it is all encompassing and doesn't serve any ads or in-app purchases and all updates are free. A really fun game for those who love the Zelda series.
Love the show! - Submitted by Jamie in "Are You Sure It's Not August" BC
- Hey Tom,
Messages
- In response to Jeremy's idea about driverless car racing from DTNS 2784, you might be interested to note that Formula E, a championship for electrically powered single-seater racing cars, announced late last year that they intended to run a support category for autonomous cars under the name "Roborace". The first race is planned for sometime during the 2016-2017 Formula E season. The original press release announcing this series is here:
http://fiaformulae.com/en/news/2015/november/formula-e-kinetik-announce-roborace-a-global-driverless-championship.aspx
Some concept photos were released in late March, you can see those at:
http://www.motorsport.com/roborace/news/roborace-reveals-driver-less-concept-car-for-new-racing-series-683108
The idea is for all ten teams, each running two cars, to use the same vehicle hardware and compete on software. The cars will supposedly be capable of up to 300kmh (~180mph) and races will be about an hour long.
Personally, I have my doubts that the first race will happen during the 2016-17 season, but I wouldn't be surprised to see a few demo runs at Formula E events, with races scheduled for the following 2017-18 FE season. - Sent by Mike from it's-a-long-way-from-everywhere Perth, Western Australia
- In response to Jeremy's idea about driverless car racing from DTNS 2784, you might be interested to note that Formula E, a championship for electrically powered single-seater racing cars, announced late last year that they intended to run a support category for autonomous cars under the name "Roborace". The first race is planned for sometime during the 2016-2017 Formula E season. The original press release announcing this series is here:
- Amazon needs to get better at DG (dangerous goods) transportation... The good news is, due to FAA rules and regs, half of whatever is finally fined to amazon can be used to develop the program that prevents this from happening again. ...So lets say theres a 150k of improvements needed at Amazon.com to bring them up to current certification regulations. The FAA is forced to take that number, double it, because half the fine can be used to create the program to fix the problem that originated the fine, and the other half is written off....
The FAA has said, here's a 350k fine you can whittle down in the courts to maybe 150k, and use 75k of that to fund you Hazmat/DG certification program that'll you'll need now that your delivery service is airborne. - Sent by Joe the Pilot
- Amazon needs to get better at DG (dangerous goods) transportation... The good news is, due to FAA rules and regs, half of whatever is finally fined to amazon can be used to develop the program that prevents this from happening again. ...So lets say theres a 150k of improvements needed at Amazon.com to bring them up to current certification regulations. The FAA is forced to take that number, double it, because half the fine can be used to create the program to fix the problem that originated the fine, and the other half is written off....
- I wanted to comment in regards to yesterdays show and your coverage about the violation Amazon made in shipping the HAZMAT material “liquid fire”. I am a registered HAZMAT shipper with UPS, and to become one they require a very complex two day training that we must take every 3 years (every employee who is in any way involved in the shipping/handling process must take it), and UPS has a two strike rule, wherein if we ship two packages that are discovered to not comply with the regulations (the package doesn’t have to create a problem, it can be as simple as a paperwork error), our HAZMAT shipping privileges will be suspended for a certain period of time (we have never had it happen, I think it’s 6 months).
I suppose Amazon has enough pull to maybe get these rules relaxed, but it’s not supposed to take in any regard the amount of packages you ship, one size fits all etc. - Sent by Marlin
- I wanted to comment in regards to yesterdays show and your coverage about the violation Amazon made in shipping the HAZMAT material “liquid fire”. I am a registered HAZMAT shipper with UPS, and to become one they require a very complex two day training that we must take every 3 years (every employee who is in any way involved in the shipping/handling process must take it), and UPS has a two strike rule, wherein if we ship two packages that are discovered to not comply with the regulations (the package doesn’t have to create a problem, it can be as simple as a paperwork error), our HAZMAT shipping privileges will be suspended for a certain period of time (we have never had it happen, I think it’s 6 months).
- Voicemail by BigJim who also has a theory
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