Destiny's Child
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| Destiny's Child | |
| Number | 3548 |
| Broadcast Date | JUNE 7, 2019 |
| Episode Length | 30:11 |
| Hosts | Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang |
| Guests | Chris Ashley, Len Peralta |
Details of Destiny 2 going to free-to-play have been corroborated by an Engadget story. Along with cross-save and release for Google Stadia, and rumors that Destiny 2 is ditching its platform exclusivity with Sony, what does this mean for the franchise and possible cross platform gaming as a whole?
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Quick Hits
- Facebook announced it will no longer allow Huawei to pre-install its apps on the company's smartphones, including WhatsApp, Instagram, and the core Facebook app. Apps already pre-installed on existing devices will continue to work and receive updates.
- Sources tell Kotaku that Blizzard cancelled work on a StarCraft First-person shooter code-named Ares. The prototype had been built on the Overwatch engine. The source said Blizzard moved the developers to the Diablo IV and Overwatch 2 teams.
- Google is rolling out a Search update that won't surface more than two top results from the same website. Google might still surface more than two listings from the same website if they're deemed highly relevant, but will now treat subdomains and their root domains as part of a single website.
Top Stories
- Sources tell the Financial Times that Google executives asked US officials for a permanent exemption to the export ban on Huawei. Google has a temporary license to deliver Android security updates to Huawei rather than making them wait for the updates to come to the Android Open Source project. That license is not permanent though. When it goes away, Google says a ban on delivering the security updates would force Huawei to create a modified fork that would be less secure and therefore make the internet less secure by providing a greater surface area for malicious attacks.
- Wal-Mart will ask some shoppers to let their delivery people in the house. Starting in autumn, customers in Kansas City, Missouri; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; and Vero Beach, Florida, who shop with Wal-Mart's InHome service can have their groceries delivered right to the fridge when they're not at home. An unspecified "smart entry technology" will let the delivery personnel in and let customers view the delivery in real time. Photos accompanying the announcement showed Wal-Mart delivery people wearing cameras.
- NASA announced it will open more of its part of the International Space Station to commercial opportunities. The new interim directive will let private companies buy time and space on the ISS for producing, marketing, or testing their products, using resources on the ISS for commercial purposes, and even rent astronauts’ time and expertise (though not their likeness). Companies can send their own astronauts starting as early as 2020. NASA also called for private space companies to propose ideas for new habitats or modules that can be attached to the ISS. NASA will allocate 5% of its resources to commercial activities. Up to 175 kg of commercial cargo can be sent per year and NASA crew will be allowed to dedicate up to 90 hours to commercial activities. Bigelow Aerospace says it has already booked four private flights on a SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft.
- iOS 13 includes an API for multi-cam support so 3rd party apps can capture photos, video, audio, metadata, and depth simultaneously from a single iOS device. Apple has supported multi-cam capture on macOS since OS X Lion. On an iPhone or iPad, developers can now offer video streams, photos, and audio from the front-facing camera and rear cameras at the same time, but only for newer hardware including the iPhone XS, XS Max, XR, and iPad Pro.
- PC Gamer's Jarred Walton did the math on Google Stadia and estimates that the service uses around 15.75GB per hour for 4K streaming, 9GB per hour at 1080p, or 4.5GB per hour at 720p. If you don't have a data cap, no worries. Many of you do. Some people are on extremely small caps and this service won't work for them at all. But let's say you're on a common US plan of a 1TB cap, which Comcast does. The idea of such a cap is that it's big enough that most of your activity, even streaming Netflix, won't run up against the cap, but it will work to stop egregious heavy use of the system. That 1TB cap will give you UP TO 65 hours of Google Stadia Streaming at 4K. Of course if you stream any Netflix shows, that number goes down. At 1080p60, it comes to 113 hours of streaming per month.
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- Scott mentioned how a smart speaker "conversation mode" could be good because you currently have to do every individual interaction with separate commands. His example was wanting to turn on multiple lights with a single command. Actually, you can. I have several smart plugs (used with lamps) and discovered that if I use two complete sentences connected with "and" it works. One my lamps (smart plugs) is named "hall" and one is named "entry". If I say "Alexa, turn on the hall and entry lamps," it will tell me that it doesn't know a device named "hall and entry." However, if I say "Alexa, turn on the hall lamp and turn on the entry lamp" it works.
- Sent by Charles
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| Preceded by: "Should I Stadia or should I Go" |
Destiny's Child |
Followed by: "The Scarlet X-Box" |