Rapport-Based Security Solutions
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| Rapport-Based Security Solutions | |
| Number | 3204 |
| Broadcast Date | JANUARY 23, 2018 |
| Episode Length | 34:19 |
| Hosts | Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane |
| Guests | Patrick Beja, Myke Cole |
Can law enforcement meet the demands of cyber-security without roughshod over the privacy concerns of citizens and weakening encryption? Plus Apple announced the arrival of HomePod, DuckDuckGo extension protects users against ad bots and tracking, and Google releases its Files Go app.
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Quick Hits
- Twitter's Chief Operating Officer Anthony Noto has resigned to be the CEO at financial technology company Social Finance, AKA SoFi, which he'll join in March. Twitter says Noto's duties will be "assumed by other members of Twitter's leadership team."
- Thanks to Instagram Stories integrating GIPHY you can now add GIFs to your stories on Android and iOS. A GIF option will show up when you choose to add a sticker.
- Acer's 11.6-inch Spin 11 convertible Chromebook is out. It includes USB-C and a Wacom EMR stylus starting at $349. It arrives in North America in March.
- DJI announced it's Mavic Air quadcopter will start at $799 shipping January 28. It's a mid-range model between the Mavic Spark and Mavic Pro. The Air has a 4K camera and can fly 21 minutes on a charge.
- Google introduced an Audio Books section into the Google Play store Tuesday. You can access the audiobooks after purchase on the Web in the Google Books app for Android and iOS and through Google Assistant on Android devices.
Top Stories
- Apple announced its HomePod wireless speaker will arrive in stores February 9, will be available pre-order starting Friday, January 26 in the US, UK, and Australia. The Homepod retails for $349, £319 in UK, A$499 in Australia, and was originally slated for launch in late 2017.
- DuckDuckGo is updating its mobile app and browser extension to offer ratings of sites based on their use of encryption and ad tracking as well as summaries of terms of service. It also includes the ability to block ad tracking that has not received a user's permission. The app and extension are available for Firefox, Safari, Chrome, iOS, and Android.
- Christopher Horvath formerly of the Oculus Story Studio has introduced a new open source unit for measuring time called Flicks meant for use when working on video. A Flick is 1/705 million 600 thousandth of a second.Just a little bit longer than a nanosecond. Flicks divide evenly into the common Frames Per Second measures. For instance: if a video is 24 frames per second each frame is 0.4166666666 seconds long. But it's 29 million 400 thousand flicks. An easier number to work with. And if your familiar with the vagaries of NTSC frame rates, the 23.976 frames per second is 29,429,400 Flicks. Basically it gets rid of fractions and repeating decimals.
- Snap is launching the ability to share some public Stories with links that will display them on snapchat.com to all visitors whether they are Snapchat users or not. At launch users can share Official Stories and Our Stories found in the Discover tab with plans to expand beyond that. Users of the redesigned app in Australia and Canada have the feature and it will roll out to Android and iOS over the next few weeks.
- Google has released its Files Go app which is a storage manager that can share files and helps users delete unneeded or unwanted data from their phone. Using machine learning Files Go can now delete "Good Morning" messages from WhatsApp. In India in particular the habit of sending a good morning message on WhatsApp with an image attached has led to phone storage being filled up.
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Mailbag
- I am a Radiologist and at this moment am reading a Lower Extremity Doppler exam which made me think of yesterday's show. While a person getting information on Pulse Wave Velocity readings would usually be pretty innocuous and possibly helpful, it could also be pretty detrimental. A big problem in medical imaging is unnecessary further testing . This can simply mean wasted money, but could also mean a patient getting invasive exams and procedures for something for which the patient never had symptoms. I can easily see a patient's primary care physician getting presented with this data, then feeling obliged to order a truly diagnostic ultrasound which shows findings. Then the patient is sent to a vascular specialist for more tests and possible intervention. All because the bathroom scale said something even though the patient never truly had any complaints and possibly never would.
- Sent by Dennis B
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