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| iSue Apple | |
| Number | 3530 |
| Broadcast Date | MAY 13, 2019 |
| Episode Length | 30:32 |
| Hosts | Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang |
Apple loses case to stop an antitrust against the company from moving ahead. What exactly the Supreme Court rule on and what does it mean for the antitrust case against the company?
Quick Hits
- Disney-owned Indian streaming service Hotstar set a global streaming record of 18.6 million simultaneous streams for the deciding match in the Indian Premier League cricket tournament. The most concurrently viewed video on YouTube by comparison was the 2012 skydive by Felix Baumgartner, which had 8 million concurrently.
- Bloomberg's Mark Gurman and Debby Wu report that TSMC has begun production on the chip for Apple's next iPhone, reportedly called the A13. Rear cameras on the XS and XS Max successors will allegedly jump to 3 with an ultra-wide angle lens, while the XR replacement will get two. The higher end phones will be slightly thicker than last years models, and supposedly support wireless charging of other devices.
- Lenovo announced a business-targeted Augmented Reality system called ThinkReality. The ThinkReality A6 is a 1080p headset with a 3 degrees of freedom controller and 4 hours of battery life. A small compute box has a Snapdragon 845 chip running Android which you can clip to a belt or use with an armband. The software platform lets enterprises create their own apps and work with AWS or Azure. The software also works on non-Lenovo devices like the Oculus Rift.
- Sources tell Reuters that Foxconn will propose Chip Unit head Liu Young to succeed Terry Gou as chairman. Gou said he will resign as Chairman in order to pursue a run for President of Taiwan. Foxconn's annual shareholders meeting happens in June.
Top Stories
- Sources tell Reuters that Amazon is rolling out an automated packing system called CartonWrap from Italian firm CMC, which scans items coming down a conveyer belt before putting them in customized boxes. It can pack 600-700 boxes per hour, 4-5 times as many as humans. JD.com, Shutterfly and Wal-Mart are also using the machines. An Amazon spokeswoman told Reuters that the goal of the tech was to increase safety, speed and efficiency and said, "savings will be re-invested in new services for customers, where new jobs will continue to be created.” A source said Amazon would likely trim jobs through attrition rather than layoffs. Coincidentally, Amazon is expanding its Delivery Service Partner Program which gives some Amazon employees up to $10,000 and three months salary to start their own package delivery business.
- An update to the Apple TV app for iPhone, iPad, Apple TV and Samsung's 2019 Smart TVs is out. This adds the new channels feature where you can subscribe and watch certain TV providers content without going to their app. This includes HBO, Starz, Showtime, Smithsonian Channel, EPIX and Tastemade, with CBS All-Access and MTV Hits on the way. Shows for channels can be downloaded for offline viewing. It also adds a kids section with family friendly content and will make general recommendations using a combination of algorithms and human curation.
- Leigh Cuen at Coindesk reports Microsoft is launching Ion, an open source project to create a decentralized identity solution on the Bitcoin blockchain. Rather than using a third-party login like Facebook, Ion would handle your decentralized identifiers to prove that you own the keys to a given set of data. Microsoft's Yorke Rhodes said the company has been working for a year on key signing and validation that can use public blockchains but handle a greater throughput for speedier transactions. Sources told Coindesk, Microsoft will move Ion from bitcoin's testnet to the mainnet by the end of 2019, opening it up to users running nodes and contributions. Microsoft was a founding member of the Decentralized Identity Foundation.
- A payment network called Flexa will let you spend bitcoin, ether, bitcoin cash, and the gemini dollar at participating retailers like GameStop, Nordstrom, Whole Foods, Caribou Coffee, Jamba Juice, and Crate and Barrel. You put your cryptocurrency in Flexa's app called Spedn. The app generates a QR code you can use to scan at checkout. The retailer gets paid in dollars and the equivalent amount of cryptocurrency is deducted from your Spedn wallet. Behind the scenes Flexa uses its own FlexaCoin behind the scenes. essentially it gives the retailer its money right away and uses the FlexaCoin as collateral while engaging in the comparatively slower process of taking the payment from your wallet. Remember when we talked about DeFi on the April 5 show with Laura Shin?
- A new web app at TalkToTransformer.com, created by Canadian engineer Adam King using OpenAI's GPT-2 technology, lets anyone enter a text prompt that AI software will automatically respond to. TalktoTransformer is able to recognize a variety of inputs like news articles or song lyrics, poems, recipes, code, HTML, and popular characters from franchises such as Harry Potter. GPT-2 is limited to surface-level coherence with character development and conversations that lack long-term structure. It's a single algorithm that can generate text by studying a huge dataset scraped from the web and other sources.
Discussion
- Supreme Court rules against Apple in App Store price fixing case
- Illinois Brick Co. v. Illinois - Wikipedia
Thing of the Day
- Chris Christensen AKA the Amateur Traveler is back with a tech tip on Resort Fees.
Mailbag
- I really feel like there are TONS of comparisons between phone types, but a surprising few people actually have smart lightbulbs. One of the great things about the Jabra LWI review was how Sarah was comparing them to NOT having BT Headphones - not to some other product. I think the DTNS audience probably has more people with no smart bulbs as compared to people looking to see if they should switch from iOS to Android. Just my $0.02.
- Sent by Kevin
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