Google Might Launch a Smart Display
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| Google Might Launch a Smart Display | |
| Number | 610 |
| Broadcast Date | AUGUST 17, 2018 |
| Episode Length | 4:32 |
| Hosts | Tom Merritt |
Google may be launching a smart speaker with a display by the holidays, Go-Jek almost profitable and set to expand and Nvidia’s great earnings are not enough.
Headlines
- Nikkei has supply chain sources who tell it Google plans to launch a smart speaker with a display in competition with the Amazon Echo Show. The sources say Google wants to have them ready by the holidays. Google introduced its Smart Display platform in January with third parties like Lenovo making devices that use it.
- Canalys reports Global shipments of smart speakers rose 187 percent year-over-year last quarter with China accounting for 52-percent of worldwide growth. Alibaba and Xiaomi accounting for 17.7 and 12.2 percent, respectively. Overall Google leads the way with Amazon second.
- Indonesia's Go-Jek founder and CEO Nadiem Makarim told Reuters the company is close to profitability in all segments except transportation. The company started as a ride-hailing app but has added features like payments and food, grocery and massage-ordering among. other things and has its own venture capital investment arm. It plans to expand ride-hailing into Vietnam, Singapore, Thailand and the Philippines in order to compete with Grab which bought out Uber's southeast Asian business. Go-Jek is valued at a billion dollars.
- A teenager in Melbourne AUS who repeatedly broke into Apple’s secure computer systems is facing criminal charges after Apple turned him into the FBI. The Children’s Court heard on Thursday that he had downloaded 90gb of secure files and accessed customer accounts. A raid on his family home last year uncovered a barrage hacking files and instructions all saved in a folder titled “hacky hack hack”. Apple said Friday "that at no point during this incident was their personal data compromised.”
- Twitter sent a company email stating that technical and business constraints have led them to shut down legacy APIs. The email said the User Streams and Site Streams APIs were still in a beta state after 9 years. Twitterrific noted that the changes mean it will no longer be able to stream tweets, send push notifications or update the today view. New tweets and DMs will be delayed by a couple minutes.
- Google announced it is working with Danish hearing aid maker GN Hearing on the Audio Streaming for Hearing Aids spec for Android. The power-efficient protocol promises high quality low latency connectivity for Bluetooth hearing aids on Android without needing an intermediary device. ReSound LiNX Quattro and Beltone Amaze will be the first hearing aids to receive direct streaming support in a future update.
- Google has updated its help pages to clarify what location info is still stored after users turn off location tracking. Previously the page said "With Location History off, the places you go are no longer stored." Now, it says: "This setting does not affect other location services on your device, like Google Location Services and Find My Device. Some location data may be saved as part of your activity on other services, like Search and Maps."
- Several bloggers have complained that their sites have been taken off Wordpress.com. TechCrunch says that Wordpress has a new policy that prohibits “malicious publication of unauthorized, identifying images of minors.” The removed blogs mostly dealt with Sandy Hook. Wordpress made no official comment on the removals.
- Nvidia reported revenue from data center chips rose 83 percent last quarter and Net income rose 89 percent. Revenue rose 40 precent beating analysts expectations. However Nvidia fell short in its expected sales of cryptocurrency chips and called such sales immaterial for the second half of the year. As a result Nvidia projects Q3 revenue of $3.25 billion, below analysts expectations of $3.34 billion.
- Johnson Control's GLAS thermostat with Cortana built in is now available for preorder in the US for $319 shipping August 24. That makes it the most expensive smart thermostat on the market, beating out the Ecobee4 by $70. And for that money you not only get Cortana built in but supposed compatibility with Amazon and Google Assistant as well.
- The Chicago Tribune reports Google plans to open its first flagship retail store between 845 and 853 W. Randolph St in the Fulton Market area directly across from the new Nobu Hotel. The store will be two blocks away from Google's Chicago offices.
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