Your Reputation Precedes You
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| Your Reputation Precedes You | |
| Number | 3482 |
| Broadcast Date | MARCH 6, 2018 |
| Episode Length | 31:11 |
| Hosts | Sarah Lane, Roger Chang |
| Guests | Scott Johnson |
The latest Axios Harris poll shows that Facebook has dropped from 51st place to 94th in 2018. Is this something Facebook should be worried about and how do other tech companies stack up in the same rankings?
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Quick Hits
- Reuters reports that Banxico, the central bank of Mexico, is working with Amazon on a new government backed payment system. The system will be called CoDi and allow users to make in-person and online payments via a QR code. More than half of the population doesn't have a bank account, and only 3.9% of retail sales were made online in 2018.
- Uber will not face criminal charges for a fatal crash involving one of its self-driving cars. Prosecutors have ruled that the company is not criminally liable for the death of Elaine Herzberg, 49, who was struck as she crossed a road in Tempe, Arizona.
- According to an internal Apple document obtained by MacRumors, the company will now allow devices with batteries installed by third-parties to be elligable for Genius Bar and other authorized repairs. Previous Apple guidelines called for denying service to devices with third-party batteries regardless of circumstances.
Top Stories
- Bloomberg's Sam Kim reports that Samsung is working on two new foldable phones, according to sources. The company plans to roll out a vertical clamshell foldable in late 2019 or early 2020, possibly with a second screen on the outside of the device when folded. An outward folding device, similar to Huawei's Mate X design, would follow. The company will reportedly include an in-screen fingerprint reader, and is still working on improving the durability of foldable panels.
- At the 2019 TensorFlow Dev Summit today, Google announced a new opensource TensorFlow privacy module for its machine learning framework. Developers can now add a few lines of code and improve the privacy of their AI models. TensorFlow is a popular developer tool for building machine learning applications to create programs like text, audio, and image recognition algorithms. Google's TensorFlow Privacy will add "differential privacy" to help safeguard users' data, which is a mathematical approach that means AI models trained on user data can’t encode personally identifiable information. Google already uses it for a number of its own AI features like Gmail’s Smart Reply. Google also debuted TensorFlow Federated (TFF), which is supposed to make it easier to experiment with machine learning and other computations on decentralized data. The company also announced the TensorFlow 2.0 alpha which offers a glimpse of upcoming changes aimed at making ML easier for beginners.
- Google is testing shoppable ads on Google Image searches. The search giant will place related sponsor ads within image search results. The ads will feature a price tag icon on the lower right of the image. A user can then hover over that image and see what item is for sale in the image along with price. Currently the test is “a small percentage of traffic with select retailers, surfacing on broad queries like “home office ideas,” “shower tile designs,” and “abstract art.”
- Waymo announced in a Medium post that it will begin selling its LiDAR sensor to companies outside of the self-driving automobile market with an initial focus on security, robotics and agriculture. The money earned from sales will help the company lower the unit price of the sensor through economies of scale. Although the company has developed several different models of LiDAR, it will only be selling the Laser Bear Honeycomb version. It's a short-range sensor with 95 degree vertical field-of-view and a 360 degree horizontal field-of-view, a minimum range of zero meaning it can see things right in front of it, and features multiple returns per pulse. Interested parties should visit the Waymo website.
Discussion
- Facebook's reputation is sinking fast
- The 100 Most Visible Companies
- Whole Foods cuts workers' hours after Amazon introduces minimum wage
- Google Has A Better Reputation Than Apple, Microsoft, Or Any Other Company
Mailbag
- I just placed my first Amazon order and chose an “Amazon Day” for delivery. It felt good, for a couple of reasons: One, I would have likely been in the mountains skiing Thursday on the expected two-day delivery date. Two, I feel like in the future, I can help reduce a lot of waste when there are products with different delivery dates.
I don’t think I would have even noticed that was a new option had you guys not mentioned it because I’m usually pretty automatic with my orders: “search, add to cart, hit order, close browser.”
Something occurred to me, however… this will definitely be saving Amazon a TON over the long haul. They really should give customers some sort of price reduction for using this. - Sent by Kevin
- I just placed my first Amazon order and chose an “Amazon Day” for delivery. It felt good, for a couple of reasons: One, I would have likely been in the mountains skiing Thursday on the expected two-day delivery date. Two, I feel like in the future, I can help reduce a lot of waste when there are products with different delivery dates.
- I was listening to your conversation yesterday about the Ordine stove and how its space saving design would be great for small kitchens, and it hit me, I’ve seen this before. A few years ago I toured Kentuck Knob, a Frank Lloyd Wright house built in the early 50’s. As part of the tour we went through the house's small kitchen which had many space saving innovations, including a fold down stove! (pics below) The electric stove was a Frigidaire product from the same time period. It allowed you to fold down the 4 burners one at a time so you only took up as much space as you needed on the counter. The benefit this 60+ year old product had over the Ordine was, the burners were detachable. So you could take one or more with you to the dining room, our outside to keep the food warm.
Obviously the Ordine is using much more modern tech, but the space saving concept is the same. I always wondered why this design never caught on. Hopefully now with advent of induction cooktops it may!
Love the show, keep up the great work!
Your boss, - Sent by Chip from snowy Boston
- I was listening to your conversation yesterday about the Ordine stove and how its space saving design would be great for small kitchens, and it hit me, I’ve seen this before. A few years ago I toured Kentuck Knob, a Frank Lloyd Wright house built in the early 50’s. As part of the tour we went through the house's small kitchen which had many space saving innovations, including a fold down stove! (pics below) The electric stove was a Frigidaire product from the same time period. It allowed you to fold down the 4 burners one at a time so you only took up as much space as you needed on the counter. The benefit this 60+ year old product had over the Ordine was, the burners were detachable. So you could take one or more with you to the dining room, our outside to keep the food warm.
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