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| Windows up in ARM | |
| Number | 2919 |
| Broadcast Date | DECEMBER 8, 2016 |
| Episode Length | 46:34 |
| Hosts | Tom Merritt |
| Guests | Darren Kitchen |
Microsoft announces Windows will work on ARM and be able to use x86 apps. Plus Darren Kitchen and Tom Merritt discuss Uber’s new policy of no firearms or sex with your driver.
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Top Stories
- Microsoft finalized its acquisition of LinkedIn Thursday for $26 billion. LinkedIn will be integrated into Microsoft Office applications and the Windows action center. Microsoft also plans to develop a business news desk across its content including MSN.com. And of course LinkedIn will combine with Sales Navigator and Dynamics 365 for social selling. In a related note, Russia’s communications regulator, Ros-kom-nad-zor, said it had a productive meeting with LinkedIn representatives Thursday over its noncompliance with a data storage law.
- Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aimé appeared on the Tonight Show Wednesday to show off Super Mario Run for iOS. He also showed off the Nintendo Switch playing the forthcoming Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild.
- Uber for the first time published a policy clarifying how riders can lose access to the ride hailing service. Among other things, the detailed rules require respect for your driver including her personal space, respect for the car not damaging it or spilling things, not messing with the drivers phone, being on time for your ride and a ban on firearms and having sex with your driver. These all may seem obvious but they apparently stem from real-world events.
- Seven new titles arrived for Google’s Daydream VR headset Thursday. For people who like to watch NexTVR provides events like concerts and sports and HBO Now and Go subscribers get a virtual big screen. If you want to play you can try Lego BrickHeadz Builder VR, a free game with no in-app purchases that lets you play with pre-built characters or construct your own. The rest of the apps cost money, including Gunjack 2: End of Shift a sequel to the Gear VR game set in the EVE universe. Wands is a magic dueling game also coming over from Gear VR, Underworld Overlord, a tower defense game and Layers of Fear: Solitude a horror exploration game set in a surreal mansion. Also the crimson and snow colored Daydream headsets arrive today.
- HTC launched its first game from Vive Studios which develops and publishes VR games. The first title is from an internal studio called 2 Bears, and is named Arcade Saga a combination of minigames with 84 levels and a complex backstory. It’s available on Steam and Viveport or $30. Vive Studios is similar to Oculus Studios which develops games for the Rift headset.
- A joint research effort between Harvard University, the Empa research group and Adolphe Merkle Institute has developed a way to remove bacteria from your blood with magnets. Since around half odf people who get sepsis die from it and antibiotics are declining in effectiveness, this is a handy time for this. The researchers coat antibodies with iron particles, then those antibodies bind to the target bacteria. Magnets in a dialysis machine pulled the antibodies and the attached bacteria out of the blood. A Harvard team has figured out how to create an antibody that binds with almost all types of bacteria found in blood poisoning avoiding the need for identification and multiple treatments. It’s not approved for human use and there’s no timetable for clinical use.
Discussion
- Microsoft is officially bringing real desktop apps to Windows 10 smartphones
- Microsoft is bringing Windows desktop apps to mobile ARM processors
- Microsoft Partners with Intel on Project Evo to Improve the PC in 2017
- You’ll soon be able to tell Cortana to shut down and restart your Windows 10 PC
- Microsoft unveils surprisingly low specs needed for Windows 10 VR
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- I have a gig data cap for $80 a month in Canada and says “ Off line viewing is almost a must here with such small amounts of data at such high prices. I can't wait for the day Canadian cell providers offer unlimited data.
- Sent by Ian from cold but beautiful British Columbia
- Our mobile devices have more memory than they used to so storing video and audio files is less of an issue.
- Sent by Russel
- Everquest offers Premium Servers for a subscription and that some of these are referred to as "Time Locked Progression". The basic concept is that they would start with only the base game and no expansions, then over time expansions would be added. Some of them are added based on a player vote, others it is just a timed release.
While this isn't a pure classic experience, some changes are too central to the current codebase, it is very close in many cases and has full support from DBG. Interestingly enough these servers are the most popular servers running right now. - Sent by Todd S.
- Everquest offers Premium Servers for a subscription and that some of these are referred to as "Time Locked Progression". The basic concept is that they would start with only the base game and no expansions, then over time expansions would be added. Some of them are added based on a player vote, others it is just a timed release.
- I think Pebble’s reliance on Japan Display for color screens could have caused supply constraints. Would unrestricted supply have been enough to keep Pebble solvent? Probably not, but it might have made the difference between releasing the Time 2 and issuing refunds.
- Sent by Brian Easton
- I am a lead designer for the Etherum Foundation. Part of my job is explaining blockchains and smart contracts to people, and I have to say, you did a very good job trying to explain it and Scott did a *very* good job of asking the right questions. Another reason 8 people would find it difficult to undermine a blockchain, relating mostly to cryptocurrency. Writing a block to the ledger requires a lot of computational resources and can use a lot of electricity. He says “(I know someone who spends a quarter million dollars monthly just in electric bills running a mining operation), and keep updating that equipment when it fails or becomes obsolete. These computations don't actually do anything, their whole point is the cost itself, to make sure people it's not as easy as calling 8 friends and asking them for a favor. If you fudge the rules a little bit to get an extra dollar out of it, anyone can very quickly check that you did it, without having to incur in any of the costs you had in order to create that invalid block: and if everyone rejects your block with the new rules, then all the real world cost, electricity, equipment and time you spent creating it will be lost.
- Sent by Alex Van de Sande
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