IPhone Xs Max?
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| iPhone Xs Max? | |
| Number | 624 |
| Broadcast Date | SEPTEMBER 6, 2018 |
| Episode Length | 4:22 |
| Hosts | Sarah Lane |
Microsoft adds Cortana and Alexa skills to Xbox One, Apple may call new iPhone model “Xs Max”, AMD rolls out new processors.
Headlines
- Microsoft announced a new Xbox Skill for Cortana and Amazon Alexa, letting users that have either a Cortana or Alexa-enabled device control their Xbox One with their voice, such as turning the console on/off with their voice launching games and apps and controlling media playback. Microsoft is also partnering with Amazon to integrate Alexa into Cortana, and vice-versa.
- Apple's upcoming event on September 12 is now just one week away, and sources tell 9to5Mac that Apple has considered the name “iPhone Xs Max” for the larger 6.5-inch version. Reports from last week include naming a new OLED iPhone model “iPhone Xs” with two size options and a new gold finish. Apple is rumored to unveil the iPhone Xs, iPhone Xs Max, a mid-sized LCD version that will cost less than the iPhone Xs models, the Apple Watch Series 4, and more.
- AMD is rolling out its latest processors based on the Zen architecture, including an Athlon-branded chip which is an accelerated processing unit (APU) which combinrs graphics and processing on one chip. The AMD Athlon 200GE with Radeon Vega 3 graphics has two CPU cores and will sell for $55. The AMD Athlon Pro 200GE chip with two CPU cores and three graphics compute units is targeted at the commercial market. And AMD announced new Ryzen chips as well, the six-core AMD Ryzen 5 Pro 2600, and two chips with eight cores, the AMD Ryzen 7 Pro 2700 and the AMD Ryzen Pro 2700X.
- The US Justice Department is bringing computer hacking charges against an alleged spy for the North Korean government in connection with the 2014 cyberattack on Sony Pictures Entertainment. Park Jin Hyok is accused of hacking on behalf of North Korea’s Reconnaissance General Bureau (RGB), the military intelligence agency that controls most of the country’s cyber capabilities, and is also said to be tied to the Lazarus Group. The Treasury Department imposed sanctions against Park and the Chosun Expo Joint Venture, a state-owned firm that employed him.
- Facebook announced it will invest more than $1 billion to build its first data center in Asia in Singapore, set to open in 2022. Google is also expanding its Singapore data centers in an $850 million investment. Facebook said in a statement the 170,000 square meter facility represented an investment of more than S$1.4 billion ($1 billion) and would support hundreds of jobs. The company currently has data centers in the United States as well as Ireland and Sweden, and it is building a facility in Denmark.
- Nielsen has acquired SuperData Research, which creates data estimations for digital games by looking at the behavior of 160 million people. Nielsen now joins the tracking firm The NPD Group, which in 2016 started including digital sales in its monthly reports and gets its data directly from video game publishers. Nielsen says it will use SuperData to provide its clients with more information about the digital side of games.by analyzing consumer behavior instead.
- Dell's second quarter earnings reported revenue up 18 percent to $22.9 billion, and adjusted earnings up 13 percent to $2.46 billion. For fiscal 2019, Dell reported it expects adjusted revenue of as much as $92 billion and adjusted net income of as much as $5.3 billion. Dell is looking to return to public markets, five years after the company took itself private.
- China's Mobike bike sharing company, is leaving Manchester, England making it the only city among 200 worldwide to lose service. Mobike says it was losing roughly 10% of its bikes each month to theft and vandalism including bikes that have been set on fire or left in canals and garbage dumpsters. Mobike has processed refunds and removed the bikes from the city. The company will continue to operate in London, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Oxford and Cambridge.
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