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| Sorry Dave, I Can’t Comprehend That | |
| Number | 3200 |
| Broadcast Date | JANUARY 17, 2018 |
| Episode Length | 32:22 |
| Hosts | Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane |
| Guests | Scott Johnson |
Blizzard’s Overwatch League attracts 10 million viewers in its first week. What should come next? TWiT sues Twitter over breach of contract and YouTube will begin manually reviewing videos in the Google Preferred premium ad program to assuage client fears over their ads appearing over inappropriate videos.
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Quick Hits
- Android Police notes that Google posted to its Google Home Device Support section acknowledging WiFi problems caused by an Android device and Cast device on the same network. A fix should arrive Thursday January 18 in a Google Play Services update.
- Google announced AutoML Vision, a new service in alpha that helps developers build custom image recognition models, even without machine learning expertise. For now the service only supports computer vision models, but Google plans to expand the AutoML brand to other areas, such as think speech, translation, video, and natural language recognition.
- Indian messaging App Hike has struck a deal with OEMs Intex and Karbonn and carriers Airtel, Aircel and BSNL to make Hike the default text and voice messaging app on Android phones, using Total by Hike. The new service has adapted Unstructured Supplementary Service Data or USSD, to deliver messaging, news and Hike Wallet access without needing to pay for a data connection. Devices launch March 1st.
Top Stories
- The Overwatch League attracted 10 million viewers in its first week, and averaged 280,000 viewers per minute. Day one alone drew an average audience of 408,000 viewers per minute, numbers that seem in line with expectations after the 12th hour 90 million dollar contract Blizzard signed with Twitch. Blizzard notes that these figures don't account for multiple Overwatchers tuning in via the same browser and/or device, and that tickets for those watching from the L.A. Blizzard Arena in person sold out throughout the full seven days.
- YouTube will start manually reviewing all videos in its Google Preferred premium advertising program so advertisers have more faith that their messages won’t show up in disturbing or inappropriate videos. New creators applying to the YouTube Partner Program will need to have amassed 4,000 hours of video watch-time within the past 12 months and have 1,000 subscribers to be eligible to earn advertising revenue from their channels.
- Facebook began testing Watch Party with a handful of groups. Watch Party is a feature that lets members of Groups watch any public Facebook video together and comment and interact. Group moderators select one or more videos to post inside the group and make a watch party. Viewers see a Watch Party widget on the group page. Comments appear overlaid on the video on mobile and in a rail on the right side on the desktop.
- The Taipei Times reports that Inventec shipped around one million HomePods to Apple earlier this month, spurring talk that the smart speaker may finally arrive for customers in 4 to 6 weeks. This COULD give a little more context to why Apple's expanding a new Siri feature to play podcast when you ask Siri to "give me the news". Users in Australia and the UK have joined the US in a beta feature that lets Siri play content from NPR in the US and BBC in the UK. If you want a different source, you can change the default. For example in the US to Fox News, CNN, or the Washington Post.
- Podcast network This Week in Tech aka TWiT, is suing Twitter. TWiT alleges Twitter breached a written contract, oral agreement, intentional interference with prospective economic advantage and trademark infringement. In May of last year, Twitter announced original, premium video content would come to its platform, and TWiT’s attorneys demanded that Twitter stop expanding the use of the Twitter trademark. TWiT is seeking a relief including a preliminary and permanent injunction that orders Twitter to stop using the mark in connection with the distribution of audio and video content, and “any and all profits derived from the unlawful acts.”
- Reports have been going around that a pair of teams from Microsoft and Alibaba created an AI that outperformed humans on a reading comprehension test. This is true. It is not however true that the AI can read better than humans. Here's why. The AI was using the Stanford Question Answering Dataset (or SQuAD for short) which consists of more than 100,000 pairs of questions and answers based on 536 paragraph-length Wikipedia excerpts. Humans score about 82.3% on the test, Alibaba's AI scored 82.4% and Microsoft's scored 82.6%. But the test involves a lot of pattern matching. For example the question “Whose authority did Luther’s theology oppose?” seems tough. But the text reads "His theology challenged the authority and office of the Pope." But if you were to ask "Why did Luther do this?" A human could come up with a respectable answer and the AI might not.
Mailbag
- But how the heck do I listen to daily tech headlines on Google Home?
It has never worked for me, so maybe there's a special way I'm supposed to ask?
If I say 'listen to daily tech headlines" the response I get is "I'm sorry, I can't play news from daily tech headlines yet". I've tried phrasing the question differently, but same result.
I can listen to other news sources, just not yours :(
I'm in Australia if that makes any difference ... maybe a regional setting?
Thanks! - Sent by andy
- But how the heck do I listen to daily tech headlines on Google Home?
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