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| Patent Pretending | |
| Number | 3586 |
| Broadcast Date | AUGUST 1, 2019 |
| Episode Length | 31:47 |
| Hosts | Tom Merritt, Roger Chang |
| Guests | Justin Robert Young |
A team of academics say an artificial intelligence system should be recognized as the inventor of two ideas patented on its behalf.
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Quick Hits
- Sources tell The Wall Street Journal that the US Federal Trade Commission is investigating Facebook's acquisitions. The FTC wants to determine if Facebook bought rivals mainly in order to prevent them from becoming a threat to Facebook's business, which could fall afoul of regulations.
- Tyler Blevins, aka Ninja, one of Twitch's most popular streamers announced he will move to stream exclusively on Microsoft's Mixer. He said his streams will be exactly the same, so more Fortnite. Ninja will appear at Lollapalooza in Chicago this weekend... which is being streamed live on YouTube.
- Google confirmed it is testing Play Pass in the Play Store, a $4.99 monthly service that offers a library of games and apps. Apps in Play Pass would have ads removed and include all in-app purchases as well. Screenshots of the test list fitness trackers, premium music apps, and puzzle games as included in Play Pass.
Top Stories
- Intel unveils its first 10th-gen laptop CPUs
- Intel’s first 10nm Ice Lake CPUs revealed: here’s your decoder ring
- Intel announced the first 11 processors in its 10th-generation Ice Lake processors for thin and lights. Ice Lake is built on Intel's 10-nanometer "Sunny Cove" architecture which Intel claims can handle 18 percent more instructions per clock, along with larger L1 and L2 cache. Sunny Cove also brings Intel AVX-512-Deep Learning Boost, which speeds up automatic image enhancements, photo indexing, media postprocessing, and other AI tasks. The model numbers will get even longer as Intel is offering three different graphic options with Ice Lake chips. G7 will indicate 64 execution units, G4 means 48 execution units, both of those are Iris Plus graphics. G1 means 32 EUs. As usual, Y-series chips will be meant for slim and efficient machines, come rated for 9W or 12W and for the first time there will be quad-core Y-series. U-series chips will be geared towards ultraportables rated for 15W or 25W. Ice Lake also includes support for WiFi 6 and up to 4 Thunderbolt 3 ports. 10th-gen Ice Lake chips will arrive in 35 laptops including Dell's XPS 13 2-in-1, and Acer's Swift 5, among others.
- Sammobile.com claims a leaked render of a USB-C to minijack adapter comes from Samsung and is meant to be bundled with the forthcoming Galaxy Note 10 and 10+. If valid, that means the New Note does not have a headphone jack. Samsung has an announcement scheduled for August 7.
- A report from Counterpoint research shows that overall smartphone shipments declined by 1% to 360 million units in Q2 2019, the seventh consecutive quarter of decline. The report found that the combined marketshare of Chinese manufacturers Huawei, OPPO, Vivo, Xiaomi, and Realme reached a new high of 42%, even as smartphone shipments in China fell 9%. Samsung remained the marketshare leader, growing shipments 7.1% on the year. Huawei remained at #2, growing shipments 4.6%, with the impact of US trade sanctions expected to be felt in Q3. Apple saw its third quarter of decline, with shipments falling 11% on the year but remained number three. Following massive growth in India, the Chinese OEM RealMe grew shipments over 800% on the year to enter the top 10. Strategy Analytics showed an identical top 5 but estimated a 3% decline overall.
- Microsoft announced it is testing a cloud download feature for Windows 10, that would allow users to reinstall Windows from a failed state by a download. Microsoft offers a similar feature to "recover from the cloud" on Surface devices. The feature isn't available for public testing, and Microsoft did not say if it was coming to Windows Insider builds. The Verge speculates this could be an important feature for Windows Lite and Windows Core OS.
- Germany's data protection commissioner announced it is investigating Google's practice of hiring contractors to review audio snippets from Google Assistant to improve speech recognition. Contractors have reported hearing conversations accidentally recorded when the assistant was triggered by mistake. Google will stop audio reviews and transcription in Europe for at least three months. Google says it reviews around 0.2% of clips and does not associate them with accounts.
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- Howdy DTNS,
I just wanted to pass along an interesting thought about that AC shirt from Sony. This sort of thing good be very useful in certain medical situations. My wife had MS and avoiding overheating was an important thing. Traditionally using cooling bands draped over the shoulders has been used. However, if this shirt type system works well enough to just avoid getting too hot even possibly while getting some exercise and is reasonably priced, it could be a big win for folks who have a medical need to avoid overheating (MS is just one such case). - Sent by Mark
- Howdy DTNS,
- Hello Tom, Sarah, And Roger,
I'm currently getting caught up on missed DTNS episodes while grading my students' Tech Lit portfolios.
Where I live right outside Tokyo, it is currently 36°, about 97F, with a heat index over 40°, about 104F. Summers are hot and humid here in Japan. I would be more than happy to try out the Reon Pocket for DTNS.
I hope all of you have a very pleasant week.
Best regards, - Sent by Jeff
- Hello Tom, Sarah, And Roger,
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