Adobe Rushes to Edit

Adobe Rushes to Edit
Number	3388
Broadcast Date	OCTOBER 15, 2018
Episode Length	30:45
Hosts	Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane
Guests	Lamarr Wilson

Adobe takes the wrap off a slew of tablet focused creative applications plus Photoshop for the iPad. Is this a sign that the tablet as a productivity machine has finally arrived?

Guest

• Lamarr Wilson
  • YouTube Unboxer

Quick Hits

• Graduate Student Solves Quantum Verification Problem

Quanta Magazine reports that UC-Berekeley's Urmila Mahadev has solved a problem in quantum computing on how to determine if a quantum computer has followed instructions and solved problems correctly. Unlike classical computers, you can't check the steps of a quantum computer. After eight years of grad school work, Mahadev developed an interactive protocol employing a trapdoor function and learning with errors, or LWE, to make sure quantum computers are doing what you want. LWE is the most likely candidate for a cryptographic function that cannot be broken by quantum computers.

• PS4s are being bricked by a chat exploit – here’s how you can stay safe

Several PS4 users are reporting their consoles being bricked by a malicious chat message. Sony is aware of the problem and developing a system update to resolve it. Users can set messages to private to avoid accidentally receiving the corrupted chat message.

• Apple Acquires Music Analytics Startup Asaii to Boost Relationships With Artists

Axios has sources that say Apple acquired a startup called Asaii which uses AI to identify ad-recommend musical artists to labels and managers. The source told Axios Apple wants to use it to sign talent to Apple Music. Spotify already has a similar offering for independent artists.

Top Stories

• Dell’s newest monitor is a 49-inch, dual QHD, curved behemoth

Dell announced the U4919DW UltraSharp 49-inch curved monitor with 5120x1440 resolution and the ability to show two computer screens at once side by side and handle mouse and keyboard input for both. The 49-inch curved monitor will be available starting at $1,699 on October 26.

• The new Palm is a tiny phone to keep you away from your phone

TCL has licensed the Palm name to a California startup run by two former Samsung VPs. Their first product simply called the Palm, is a small phone meant to be used when you don't want or need to carry your big phone. It's a credit-card sized device that has a 3.3-inch LCD display with 445 PPI running Android 8.1 with a custom interface and Google Assistant. It shares a phone number with your existing phone so you can't buy it on its own. It costs $350 available in November from Verizon.

• MIT is investing $1 billion in an AI college

MIT announced a $1 billion initiative to establish a new college of computing to train people in how to apply machine learning to their discipline like biology, chemistry, physics, politics, history, and linguistics. Of the 50 faculty in the new college, half will be computer scientists with the other half appointed jointly with other MIT departments. In a press statement, MIT President L. Rafael Reif said the college will equip students to also "think critically about the human impact of their work.” Stephen A. Schwarzman, CEO of the private equity firm Blackstone, has contributed $350 million and the college will be named after him.

• Amazon’s new patent will allow Alexa to detect a cough or a cold

Amazon filed a patent that would enable its voice assistant to detect changes in a user's voice and identify if someone has a cold. It could then suggest remedies like chicken soup. The patent says the technology could also detect emotional states, sleeping, crying, where the user is located, age, gender and accent. The data would be used to target ads as well.

• The Not-So-Killer Whales of Bitcoin

Whales are slang for a large holder of bitcoin. The worry with whales is that they can influence the market, either by selling off coins in large numbers or potentially teaming up with other whales to control more than 50% of the coins in existence, thus undermining the stability of the system that relies on no one entity having a majority of the coins. Chainalysis has published a study of the 32 largest wallets showing that they tend to stabilize the market. Only 1/3 of whales are active traders and they tend to trade against the herd which slows down price changes. The rest of the whales don't trade and don't affect the market because they are miners, early adopters, or have lost their wallet key.

Discussion

• Adobe announces full Photoshop CC for iPad shipping 2019, syncs with desktop
• Adobe launches new AR and drawing tools
• Adobe launches Premiere Rush CC, a video-editing app made for YouTubers

Pick of the Day

• Amateur Traveler

Amateur traveler Chris Christensen shares his thoughts on Expedia's expansion into voice assistant integration.

Submitted by Chris Christensen

Mailbag

Tom questioned what the (YouTube) partner changes will do to aggregator channels. I don’t know how popular or common those are. They could make the argument that the aggregation IS the content they’re adding to the duplicated videos. That’s especially easy if the aggregator is chopping up videos and splicing together. However, it’s a question if youtube will bite on that argument. I think by the letter of the rule, aggregators are out, especially if youtube thinks their algorithm is the only aggregator you need.

Sent by Scott

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Preceded by: "YouTube Demonetizes the Duplicators"

Adobe Rushes to Edit

Followed by: "ARM taking Intel to Lunch"