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| Windows Velociraptor | |
| Number | 2860 |
| Broadcast Date | SEPTEMBER 20, 2016 |
| Episode Length | 47:14 |
| Hosts | Tom Merritt |
| Guests | Patrick Beja, Brett Rounsaville |
Has the excitement gone out of apps? Patrick Beja thinks it may have he and Tom Merritt talk with developer Brett Rounsaville about whether excitement of the app hunt is over. Plus macOS Sierra and guesses on Google’s forthcoming phones.
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Top Stories
- SanDisk showed off a prototype for a 1 Terabyte SD card. Now here are some more top stories.
- Apple made macOS Sierra available for general download Tuesday. The big addition is Siri for the desktop available as an app for your dock and menu bar. It also lets you sync your Desktop and Documents folders with iCloud, optimize storage using iCloud, use Apple Pay on the web, get tabs in more apps, and picture-in-picture in Safari, PLUS real-time collaboration in iWork apps. You can also unlock your Mac with an Apple Watch. And those of you frustrated by the lack of stickers in iMessage on the desktop will be frustrated no more! Though you can only view them not send them.
- Google sent out invitations to a an event at 9 AM Pacific October 4th at Ghirardelli Square in San Francisco. A teaser video for the event shows the Google search box stretched into a smartphone shaped rectangle. The event will be live streamed on YouTube. Rumors have expected two new phones, the DayDream VR device, a 4K Chromecast and an Amazon Echo competitor to possibly be announced. Android Police has some leaked pictures of what they say are the new 5-inch and 5.5-inch Pixel phones.
- The US Department of Transportation released its Federal Automated Vehicles Policy outlining 15 safety assessment objectives manufacturers must meet. The guidelines cover details on how cars function, how they record data, what happens when they crash, how they protect themselves against malicious hacking, and "how vehicles are programmed to address conflict dilemmas on the road." The Department plan on publishing the responses they receive in an annual report. The department will also seek pre-market approval of autonomous cars and post-market regulation of software updates. The policy also suggests a model for state regulations on how to inspect and license self-driving cars, as well as law enforcement and insurance considerations. The public can comment for the next 60 days and the department will update the guidelines annually.
- The RIAA reports music sales in the first half of 2016 rose 8.1% to $3.4 billion. Streaming drove most of the growth rising 57% to $1.6 billion accounting for half the industry's sales. Paid subscriptions accounted for $1.01 billion of that number. Physical music sales tumbled 14 percent while downloads also shrank. The music industry is on pace to experience two consecutive years of growth for the first time since since 1998-1999.
- Twilio provides software that lets developers build voice, video or text messaging features into apps. WhatsApp, Uber and Airbnb are among its clients. Twilio has acquired the Kurento Open Source Project team of developers in Madrid and some proprietary tech they built for a group video conferencing product that does file transfer, desktop sharing and chat without the need of a plugin. Twilio CEO Jeff Lawson said tit will be, "the basis of all of our next-generation, cloud-based media services." Twilio plans to develop augmented reality and facial recognition video applications.
- The European Commission said Tuesday it would give Google more time to respond to charges that it abused its dominant position in mobile operating systems regarding bundling of Google services on Android. Google now has until October 7th. This is the third deadline extension. Google has separate deadlines for other charges. October 13th is the deadline to respond to accusations of favoring its own shipping services in search and October 5th for blocking competitors in search advertising.
Discussion
Pick of the Day
- Submitted by Patrick
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- Regarding the endless newbie conversation, I just finished my dissertation earlier this year that focused on Digital Literacy of student entering college. So, on the two fronts that I deal with daily, I see faculty resistant to change because they just "learned the last version and now there is a new one." Student on the other hand.. are greatly disadvantaged when it comes to the skills and knowledge to be productive through technology. For example, taking advantage of the feature of a word processor to minimize the effort to complete a quality document to submit. They can be just as technophobic as some of the faculty.
- Sent by L. Mike Verdusco
- I liken the endless newbie phenomenon to the peak TV phenomenon. ...People will have to pick and choose what technology to learn and adapt, just like they have to decide which TV series they want to watch.
- Sent by Alan
- I could see a company offering a AI layer as a service that interacts with whatever software you have on a given device to achieve a given goal set by the user. Whether this would be a chat interface, voice, or something else, I could already see an app with the complexity of Photoshop needing something along those lines.
- Sent by Rich from lovely Cleveland
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