TSMC Suffers Delays Due to Virus
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| TSMC Suffers Delays Due to Virus | |
| Number | 601 |
| Broadcast Date | AUGUST 6, 2018 |
| Episode Length | 4:04 |
| Hosts | Tom Merritt |
iPhone part maker TSMC suffers a virus outbreak, Here maps try to woo developers away from Google Maps, Apple may open stores in India.
Headlines
- MoviePass announced it will not raise its prices after all. Its plan will stay at $10 a month but starting August 15 it will have a limit of three movies a month with a $5 discount for movies beyond the first three. Peak pricing, and ticket stub verification are also going away. MoviePass says 85% of its users see three or fewer movies a month.
- Apple said Monday it had removed five of six podcasts from Infowars host Alex Jones for violation of hate speech policies. All episodes were removed for all five shows. Facebook also removed four of Jones' pages for consistently uploading content in breach of its guidelines. Spotify completely removed the Alex Jones Show from its service Monday as well for hateful content. No company attributed the removal to concerns over fake news.
- Chip-maker TSMC, which makes parts for the iPhone, said 80 percent of its fabrication tools were affected by a virus Friday. The company has since restored the tools and expects a full recovery. A mistake during software installation for a new tool led to the virus spreading through TSMC's network. TSMC advised the breach will delay some shipments and reduce revenue by about 3 percent for the quarter.
- Microsoft briefly hosted a page announcing it had joined Movies Anywhere. That would mean movies from participating studios could be bought on the Microsoft store and viewed on other platforms and vice versa. iTunes, Amazon Prime Video, Google Play, Vudu, and FandagoNOW are the current partners and movies from Disney, Sony, Twentieth Century Fox, Universal, and Warner Bros are included. No word on why Microsoft pulled down the announcement.
- In June, Google Maps changed its API terms to raise prices and require a credit card and Google Cloud account. Former Nokia map company Here, which is now jointly-owned by several automakers, has launched a freemium plan for web developers that does not require a credit card. Here offers 250,000 page loads for free per month compared to Google's 28,000 for free. Developers can use the Here API in public, private, paid or free apps.
- New Zealand's Rocket Lab has delayed its third Electron rocket flight, called "It's Business Time" until November. The flight was originally supposed to happen in April, carrying commercial payloads. Rocket Lab feels confident enough about the new date to add a fourth flight within weeks of the third. That fourth flight will carry NASA’s 19th Educational Launch of Nanosatellites.
- OpenAI Five took on Dota 2 semi-pros again and the humans finally won a match. The AI played Dota 2 against players ranked in the 99.95th percentile in the world. Against former Dota 2 professionals and casters Merlini, Fogged, Cap and Blitz OpenAI Five won the first two games but lost the last one after the humans let the audience pick the team's five heroes. The OpenAI hopes to beat a team of top Dota 2 pros at the International which starts August 20.
- Bloomberg reports sources who say Apple plans to establish Apple stores in India in order to improve sales in the world's 2nd largest smartphone market. Apple also plans improve relationships with independent shops along with offering improved apps and services for India. Apple apparently plans to set up stores in New Delhi, Bengaluru, and Mumbai next year.
- Xiaomi said Monday it component supplier Holitech Technology will invest about $200 million over the next three years in India. Holitech will manufacture components including camera modules, thin film transistor and fingerprint sensor at Tirupati in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh, starting in Q1 2019.
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| Preceded by: "Overwatch League Gets Two New Teams" |
TSMC Suffers Delays Due to Virus |
Followed by: "FCC DDoS Attack Never Happened, Says Inspector General" |