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| Firefox Adds Breach History to Search | |
| Number | 674 |
| Broadcast Date | NOVEMBER 15, 2018 |
| Episode Length | 4:29 |
| Hosts | Sarah Lane |
Microsoft Surface headphones are mostly positive, new Raspberry Pi model announced, Zuckerberg reportedly had Android-only policy after Tim Cook remarks.
Headlines
- Uber's Q3 financial results are in, with net losses up 32 percent quarter over quarter to $939 million as the company continues to invest in future growth areas. Revenue in Q3 rose five percent quarter over quarter at $2.95 billion, which is up 38 percent for the year. For the first time, Uber broke out Uber Eats numbers, which made up $2.1 billion of overall gross bookings and the company says is up 150 percent year over year. Last month, Uber said it planned to expand Eats to cover 70 percent of the U.S. population by the end of this year. Uber is expected to go public in 2019.
- Twitter updated its Explore tab in its iOS app to categorize sections such as News, Sports, Fun and Entertainment. Twitter launched Explore last year to consolidate trending topics and top news on the platform along with search. The company began running ads inside the tab back in July.
- Alphabet will stop development of bipedal robots as it dissolves a project that began in 2013 when the company bought Schaft, a startup founded by University of Tokyo researchers. In June of last year, Softbank announced that it had agreed to purchase Schaft from Alphabet, but some employees declined to be part of SoftBank and the deal fell through, sources tell Nikkei.
- Google has released "Night Sight" camera mode for all three of its Pixel phones to almost universal praise. It lets you take pictures in the dark without any additional hardware. Without a tripod and long exposure, Night Sight uses its algorithm to assemble a burst of consecutive frames into a picture with enough light in it. It takes into account motion of the phone, motion of objects in the scene, and the amount of light. It takes fewer exposures for longer if the camera is still versus when it's handheld. It's trained to adjust color correction and white balance as well. One negative is that photos may not look like they were taken at night. It also doesn't deal well with fast moving objects like cars or brightly-lit objects.
- Firefox will begin notifying desktop users when they visit websites that were recently breached as an extension of Firefox Monitor, which lets users check if an email address is found in leaked password databases. Firefox Monitor will soon be available in 26 different languages including German, French, Spanish, Turkish, Chinese, Canadian English, Russian, Japanese and Portuguese. The new notification informs the user about the breach and offers options to dismiss the notification or check Firefox Monitor.
- Sources tell the New York Times that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg ordered the company's management team to only use Android phones after Apple CEO Tim Cook criticized Facebook an interview with MSNBC, claiming Facebook traffics “in your personal life.” The Verge notes that several Facebook executives, including blockchain lead David Marcus and VP of AR and VR Andrew “Boz” Bosworth are still using iPhones based on devices tied to their recent tweets.
- The Raspberry Pi Foundation released the Raspberry Pi 3 Model A+, which has most of the improvements made to the B+ announced earlier this year, but cheaper at $25 and smaller, with the board at 65x56mm. The A+ also features a 1.4GHz 64-bit quad-core ARM Cortex-A53 CPU, 512MB LPDDR2 SDRAM, dual-band 802.11ac, and Bluetooth 4.2/BLE. USB mass storage boosting and thermal management have both been improved as well.
- Initial Surface Headphone reviews are in, and for $350, the Verge says the wireless performance is "exceptional" even with support only for Bluetooth 4.2 rather than the latest version 5, volume controls and noise canceling features are impressive, and the headphones have good bass levels. Where the headphones get docked is with Cortana, which is reportedly sluggish and inconsistent, and drains the battery life overall by constantly listening for the wake word.
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| Preceded by: "Google Accused of Trust Demolition" |
Firefox Adds Breach History to Search |
Followed by: "Text Message Database Leak" |