Huawei Cancels Laptop, More Companies Pull out of China
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| Huawei Cancels Laptop, More Companies Pull out of China | |
| Number | 862 |
| Broadcast Date | JUNE 12, 2019 |
| Episode Length | 7:02 |
| Hosts | Tom Merritt |
Huawei cancels the Matebook X, Google and Nintendo move some production out of China, Uber still optimistic about flying taxis.
Headlines
- Huawei consumer business CEO Richard Yu told CNBC that the launch of the Matebook X laptop has been put on hold because it relies on Intel chips and Microsoft software that are restricted for sale to Huawei by the US. It's the first product cancellation to come after Huawei was placed on a US entity list prohibiting US firms from supplying Huawei without a license. Yu said the laptop will not be launched as long as Huawei remains on the entity list.
- An art installation in Sheffield, England includes a 16-second video deepfake of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg crediting a secret organization with his success. The voice is from an actor but the body motions and lip sync are realistic. The installation is meant to raise awareness about social media manipulation. The video has been uploaded to Facebook's Instagram with the hashtag and Instagram says it will not remove it. A spokesperson told the BBC "If third-party fact-checkers mark it as false, we will filter it from Instagram's recommendation surfaces like Explore and hashtag pages."
- The Information has sources who say Apple is in talks to buy Intel's German operations that make modems. The group provided baseband modems for iPhones from 2007 to 2010 when it was part of Infineon before Intel acquired it in 2011. Intel has been pursuing strategic options for its 5G wireless phone business and says it has received significant interest. Intel exited the smartphone modem business in April after Apple and Qualcomm settled a legal dispute over patents and licensing. Several former Infineon executives now work at Apple.
- Google generally releases a new Pixel in October which if the pattern holds true would lead to a Pixel 4 announcement in a few months. Among the rumors are that Project Soli, the ability to detect hand and finger movements in 3D space with millimeter accuracy could be built into the Pixel 4. 9to5 Google has sources who say that while XDA Developers found reference to a Pixel-specific feature called "aware sensor" in a beta version of Android Q. It controls wether to show or hide settings and includes code for skip and silence.
- DJI introduce a toy robot tank called RoboMaster S1 available now in Japan, China and the US for $499. It uses 31 sensors to map its environment and can move in 360 degrees by using a mobile app or coding it to move on its own. Computer Vision lets the S1 can recognize and respond to gestures and sounds, or track objects. It can also shoot gel beads that enlarge in water. You know. for battles. An add-on package to be sold separately will include a controller, extra battery and more gel beads. It comes disassembled, so kids can learn how it works as they put it together; It can be customized and can be controlled in Scratch 3.0 or Python.
- The US Federal Aviation Administration awarded Uber the right to test drone delivery of food in San Diego, California. Uber completed a test at San Diego State University in partnership with McDonalds and will now expand the test to other Uber Eats partner restaurants. The restaurants load meals onto the drone which flies to a pre-determined dropoff point. There, an Uber Eats driver picks it up to deliver it to the customer. Uber would like eventually land the drone on the Uber Eats delivery car.
- Last week someone stole a minidisc archive of unreleased songs from Radiohead singer Thom Yorke. The thief asked for $150,000 to prevent the songs from being released. The songs dated back to 1997. In response Radiohead said “Instead of complaining—much—or ignoring it, we’re releasing all 18 hours on Bandcamp in aid of Extinction Rebellion. Never intended for public consumption (though some clips did reach the cassette in the OK Computer reissue) it’s only tangentially interesting.” The recordings will be on sale for 18 days, at the price of £18 ($23). Extinction rebellion is an environmental movement.
- Uber has added Melbourne Australia to Dallas and Los Angeles as locations to test flying taxis. Melbourne was selected after negotiations to test in Dubai fell through. Uber plans to start testing electric vertical take-off and landing vehicles in 2020 with a service launched planned for 2023. The Melbourne tests will take riders from one of Westfield's shopping centers to the airport cutting the 25 minute ride by car to 10 minutes. A partnership with Signature Flight Support which operates a network of private aviation terminals, in order to have a place to land in airports.
- Troy Hunt announced he is looking for buyers of his HaveIBeen Pwnded service which compiles a database of leaked usernames and passwords so people can see if their account credentials have been compromised. Hunt launched the database in December 2013. The service now has almost 8 billion records with 3 million people subscribed to notifications. Commercial subscribers use it to alert members to identity theft and protect online assets from things like credential stuffing and fraud. Hunt has been operating it alone but is now looking to sell it to a company. He emphasizes that he will remain part of it, it should remain freely available to consumers and there should be more disclosure possible with more people working on it. The sale process is referred to as Project Svalbard.
- AMD announced the 7-nanometer Radeon $379 RX 5700 and $449 Radeon RX 5700 XT GPUS, part of its Navi family. Both cards have RDNA architecture which AMD promises has 1.25 X performance per clock and performance per watt over the previous generation. The RX 5700 XT has 40 compute units with 2,560 stream processors total and both cards have 8GB of GDDR 6 memory. The cards should arrive in July.
- Bloomberg reports Google is moving some production of Nest thermostats out of China to avoid tariffs. Google-made US-bound server motherboard production has already been moved to Taiwan and now Nest will move to Taiwan and Malaysia. Google faced a tariff on motherboards because it buys the components and ships them to the US to build its data centers rather than buying whole server racks which are not yet subject to the tariff. Wistron, which makes servers for Facebook and Microsoft said it is considering moving some production out of China. The Wall Street Journal reports that Nintendo is shifting some production of its Switch console to Southeast Asia.
- More than 5 million people have signed up for 5G in South Korea. The government says it took 69 days to reach that mark . 4G service took 80 days to reach the same level in 2011. About 85 South Korean cities will have 5G connectivity by the end of the year.
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| Preceded by: "Foxconn Says iPhones Can Be Fully Produced Outside Of China" |
Huawei Cancels Laptop, More Companies Pull out of China |
Followed by: "Samsung's 292-Inch 8K TV" |