People Don't Talk About Nuro Enough

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People Don't Talk About Nuro Enough
Number 3713
Broadcast Date FEBRUARY 6, 2020
Episode Length 30:37
Hosts Tom Merritt, Roger Chang
Guests Justin Robert Young

Clearview AI, offers image recognition to law enforcement agencies based on a database of 3 billion images scraped from social media and online platforms. Clearview CEO Hoan Ton-That argued it had a “First Amendment” right to access data in the public domain. Is he right and just what are the legalities around harvesting images online?

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Quick Hits

Nintendo has postponed Japanese reservations for the Animal Crossing version of the Switch from Feb. 8 to an undetermined date. Nintendo said production and shipment delays were inevitable due to the shutdowns in China related to the Coronavirus. That will also affect other Switch models, Joy-Con controllers and Ring Fit Adventure in Japan. Nintendo does not anticipate any affects on global supplies including Europe and North America.
Huawei announced it is suing Verizon in the Eastern and Western district courts in Texas over violation of 12 Huawei patents related to network operations.
Netflix has added an option to turn off the autoplay trailers that play when you stay on a movie or TV selection. Go to Manage Profiles, choose your profile, and uncheck Autoplay previews while browsing on all devices.
Strategy Analytics estimates Apple shipped 30.7 million Apple Watches last year. It notes that all Swiss watch brands combined shipped 21.1 million watches last year.
Twitter reported it earned 15 cents a share on revenue of $1.01 billion in Q4, a new quarterly high. Analysts expected revenue of $997 million on earnings of 29 cents a share. The company reported monetizable daily active users increased 21% on the year to 152 million, citing improvements to the algorithmic timeline surfacing relevant content and better notifications. Advertising revenue increased 12% on the year to $885 million, with total ad engagement up 29%.
The beta release of iOS 13.4 references a "CarKey" API. According to the system’s internal files, CarKey will let iPhone and Apple Watch users unlock, lock, and start a vehicle. The feature will work automatically and not require Face ID authentication, meaning a dead device could still work with CarKey.

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Developer Steve Troughton-Smith noticed that Apple's Xcode 11.4 beta has an option for universal purchases. That means if a developer so chooses, they could offer you the macOS version of an app when you buy an iOS version and vice versa. Previously, apps could be automatically added across iOS, iPads, watchOS and tvOS but not macOS. Developers who create a new Mac Catalyst app will have the option on by default, though they can choose to unbundle. Catalyst makes it easy to port an iOS app to macOS. Existing Mac apps can be added to an existing iOS app as well.
Google updated its Maps app to mark the 15th anniversary of the service. The app now features two additional tabs at the bottom: "Contribute" lets users add information to maps, and "Updates" which shows recommendations from locals or other Google Maps users you follow. The "For You" tab has been renamed to "Saved." Coming in March, the app promises improved crowd sourced information for public transit, like temperature, wheelchair accessibility, women-only cars and if there is onboard security. The AR Live View mode will add a red dot to show you where and how far away you are from a destination.
Microsoft President of Gaming, Phil Spencer told Protocol, "When you talk about Nintendo and Sony, we have a ton of respect for them, but we see Amazon and Google as the main competitors going forward. That's not to disrespect Nintendo and Sony, but the traditional gaming companies are somewhat out of position. I guess they could try to re-create Azure, but we've invested tens of billions of dollars in cloud over the years." Sony of course runs its PlayStation Now service on Microsoft Azure. But Amazon? Amazon has Twitch, AWS powering much of the industry and owns some game studios with its first games coming out in the next few months. So, back to Spencer. "I don't want to be in a fight over format wars with those guys while Amazon and Google are focusing on how to get gaming to 7 billion people around the world." OK, but in August, Spencer told GameSpot, "I think this is years away from being a mainstream way people play. And I mean years, like years and years." He was referring to Microsoft's Project xCloud game streaming service.
Reuters reports that, according to sources, Xiaomi, Huawei, and BBK which makes Vivo and Oppo are working together on a Global Developer Service Alliance, designed to let makers of games, apps, movies and music to upload to all their app stores simultaneously. The brands operate their own app stores for China and offer them outside China too alongside the Google Play store. A prototype website seen by Reuters claimed the GDSA would cover nine "regions" including India, Indonesia and Russia. The alliance was reportedly set to launch in March. Xiaomi, Huawei, Vivo, and Oppo represent a combined 40% of all smartphone shipments in 2019.
For the first time ever, the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration approved Nuro's plan to deploy 5,000 fully autonomous electric delivery vehicles with no human on board and no controls, seats or mirrors. It is restricted to no more than 25 miles per hour for short trips on pre-mapped neighborhood streets and will be monitored remotely by humans who can take control if necessary. The Nuro R2 will roll out in Houston to deliver things like Domino's Pizza and groceries from Wal-Mart. Public road tests will begin there in the coming weeks and Nuro has agreed to greater government oversight and committed to community outreach in order to get approval. It took three years for Nuro to get the approval.

Discussion

Last month, The New York Times reported on the company Clearview AI, which offered image recognition to a claimed 600 law enforcement agencies based on a database of 3 billion images scraped from Facebook, YouTube, Venmo, Twitter, and other online platforms. Facebook, Twitter, Google, and YouTube confirmed they sent cease and desist letters to Clearview, stating the scraping of images violated policies, and demand it stop accessing and using the images. In an interview with CBS, Clearview CEO Hoan Ton-That argued it had a "First Amendment" right to access data in the public domain. Facebook argues that its terms forbid any scraping, and YouTube stated its terms explicitly forbid collecting data that can be used to identify a person.

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Just wanted to chime in on Spotify acquiring podcast companies like Gimlet, Ringer etc. I agree with Tom in that right now its more of an additional revenue stream and they're unlikely to restrict shows from other podcast platforms, but it got me thinking of what they might potentially do with it in the future.

One model that comes to mind is offering ad-free and bonus content on Spotify in their paid subscription. I'm an ardent PocketCast user right now and I do also have a paid Spotify account. But if Spotify ends up offering ad-free or bonus content for my favorite podcasts on the Spotify premium tier, I can see myself potentially moving to that. It would be smart on Spotify's part to play it similar to Amazon's Prime model where essentially you start getting value adds on a subscription you already have or as a way to attract more users to the paid Spotify account.
Sent by Harysh from rainy Seattle

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