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| Sky-Hi Hi-Fi Wi-Fi | |
| Number | 3617 |
| Broadcast Date | SEPTEMBER 16, 2019 |
| Episode Length | 29:53 |
| Hosts | Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang |
| Guests | Dr. Kiki Sanford |
Space X is changing its launch strategy to speed up deployment of its satellite internet broadband for the southern United States. Will this increase competition for broadband delivery in remote locations?
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Quick Hits
- Representatives from the Libra Association are meeting with the Bank of International Settlements’ (BIS) Committee on Payments and Market Infrastructure on September 16th. The meeting will include officials from 26 central banks and focus on the scope and design of Libra that will inform a report to G7 finance ministers. This will include officials from the U.S. Federal Reserve, the Bank of England, and the European Central Bank.
- Google will hold an announcement October 15 in New York. Its invite asks folks to "Come see a few new things made by Google." best bets are we'll hear about Pixel 4, Pixel 4 XL, and other devices, including a Pixelbook 2 and new Google Home speakers. Google has already confirmed the Pixel 4 will have a way to authenticate using facial recognition along with gesture controls.
- The OnePlus 7T phone will be revealed September 26 in India and North America. A third event for the OnePlus 7T series will be held in London on October 10. The invite says "90 Hz Display. Smooth like never before.
- Apple Arcade's planned launch is on September 19th, but MacRumors says its already received access, and some users running iOS 13 or iOS 13.1 beta are reporting the same. Apple Arcade offers a one-month free trial and costs $4.99 per month after that. About 54 games appear available and Apple has said new games will be added regularly.
Top Stories
- Last month Tavis Ormandy of Google's Project Zero discovered a LastPass vulnerability that exposed credentials entered on a previously visited site. The vulnerability let malicious JavaScript code run with no user interaction needed if the target visited an infected website. LastPass patched the exploit in version 4.33.0 on September 12, users with automatic extension updates should be fine.
- The Wall Street Journal reports that Amazon started changing its search results last year to prioritize profitability over relevance, and help boost Amazon’s own private label products in search listings. The Journal says Amazon isn't directly boosting products based on profitability but is factoring in other details that end up boosting more profitable products anyway. A spokesperson for Amazon said “We have not changed the criteria we use to rank search results to include profitability” BUT the company uses “a number of metrics” for testing including “long term profitability, to see how these new features impact the customer experience and our business as any rational store would, but we do not make decisions based on that one metric.”
- Rob Walker has a column in the New York Times titled "There is no tech backlash, worse, we think there is one." His take is to focus on actual behavior not what folks are saying about tech. For instance, Facebook daily and monthly active users increased 8 percent last quarter over quarter. It added 1 million users in the US. Revenue was up 28%. Twitter added five million new daily users, and the Snapchat app grew 7 percent, its best-ever performance as a public company. According to the Pew Research Center, 72 percent of Americans use some form of social media. A little more than 25% of US households have a smart speaker as of last year. Smart TVs and wearables are growing in popularity as are smart home devices like doorbells, smart bulbs etc.
- A service called Free Trial Surfing which automatically cancels subscriptions at the end of a free trial period has launched in the UK after it launched in the US six weeks ago. Developer Josh Browder, who also developed Do Not Pay to help fight parking fines, says Free Trial Surfing isn't linked to a customer's bank account or credit card but does have a partnership with a major bank. It's iOS only, with a web version in development. A customer receives a virtual credit card number and made up name, which they use to sign up for a service. The card is registered to the company Do Not Pay, and Browder says the card won't work for any purchases other than free trials. He also says his partner bank is big enough that in order to block Free Trial Surfing, companies would have to stop offering free trial programs altogether.
- he Wi-Fi Alliance launched the Wi-Fi Certified 6 program, allowing manufacturers to certify devices using 802.11ax Wi-Fi radios which is about 40% faster than WiFi 5. Certification means devices support WPA3 encryption, multi-user multiple input multiple output, 160 MHz channels, and orthogonal frequency division multiple access, which lets Wi-Fi 6 routers serve multiple clients simultaneously from a single channel. [https://www.dailytechnewsshow.com/wifi-6-dtns/ (You can find out more about WiFi 6 at https://www.dailytechnewsshow.com/wifi-6-dtns/)
Discussion
Mailbag
- Henry wonders how many contractors will not like this new law AB5. In the past, I had thought about on the side either working for Uber or Lyft. What I liked about it was the freedom to make extra money on my spare time. If you are an employee of Uber or Lyft I could see them changing this to where you have to work certain amount of hrs per day or certain times there goes the flexibility. I wonder will they be able to do both. Have contractors that work part time below a certain amount of hours but if you want to be an employee you need to work schedule shifts.
I work for UPS and our drivers are union but at FedEx Ground they are contractors. I see this bill working for them. They report to a FedEx building in the morning grab packages and go out. This is similar to what Amazon does. Both models rely on contractors to get delivered but they usually only work for either but work full time at same spot. - Sent by Henry
- Henry wonders how many contractors will not like this new law AB5. In the past, I had thought about on the side either working for Uber or Lyft. What I liked about it was the freedom to make extra money on my spare time. If you are an employee of Uber or Lyft I could see them changing this to where you have to work certain amount of hrs per day or certain times there goes the flexibility. I wonder will they be able to do both. Have contractors that work part time below a certain amount of hours but if you want to be an employee you need to work schedule shifts.
- Hey guys. Long long time listener here. Just wanted to weigh in on Sony and their "It's Cross, not X" thing. It's actually a cultural thing. In Japan, whenever you see an "X" in marketing, it's usually pronounced "Cross". This is very prevalent in video games. For example "Street Fighter X Tekken" is pronounced Street Fighter Cross Tekken. As such, in Japan its called the cross button. However since we were used to calling that symbol "X" because of the SNES, the name stuck.
It's also used as a cancel button in Japan, with Circle being used as an OK button. In the US, these functions are reversed. - Sent by Alex
- Hey guys. Long long time listener here. Just wanted to weigh in on Sony and their "It's Cross, not X" thing. It's actually a cultural thing. In Japan, whenever you see an "X" in marketing, it's usually pronounced "Cross". This is very prevalent in video games. For example "Street Fighter X Tekken" is pronounced Street Fighter Cross Tekken. As such, in Japan its called the cross button. However since we were used to calling that symbol "X" because of the SNES, the name stuck.
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