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| TenCent, You'll Be A Nickel Soon | |
| Number | 3347 |
| Broadcast Date | AUGUST 15, 2018 |
| Episode Length | 31:02 |
| Hosts | Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane |
| Guests | Scott Johnson |
Samsung announces its 5G compliant Exynos modem, Sprint and LG and working together to release a 5G smartphone in early 2019, and Verizon plans on launching 5G service in Indianapolis, Houston, Sacramento and Los Angeles. 5G is finally shaping up as a tangible product. Should we be excited or is this just a tease and will this spur more competition?
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Quick Hits
- Twitter put Alex Jones' Twitter account in "read-only mode" for 7 days after the company said he violated a Twitter policy. Read-only means a user can't tweet, or retweet, or like tweets, but can still read timelines and access user profiles. Twitter said Jones also must delete the offending tweet that led to the partial suspension. Twitter also later put the same restrictions on the Infowars account for the same violation.
- Android Police reports that PiunikaWeb, developers of two call recording apps for Android, say call recording is no longer possible in Android 9 Pie without root access. That means no third-party call recording apps on Android Pie. There have been rumors that Google was working on native call recording but it does not appear in the first release of Android 9 Pie.
- Microsoft is rolling out Folder Protection for OneDrive, which auto-syncs documents, pictures, and desktop folders to OneDrive even from multiple Windows 10 PCs. Folder Protection first rolled out to business users back in June.
- Uber's Q2 earnings show the company's net revenue was up 8% quarter-over-quarter, at $2.7 billion. Year-over-year, that’s a 51% increase. However, Uber's losses in the quarter are around $404 million, compared to $304 million in losses in Q1. As for Uber’s self-driving car efforts, the company has spent between $125 million and $200 million PER QUARTER over the last 18 months. According to The Information’s sources, some of Uber’s investors are urging the company to get rid of its self-driving car program.
Top Stories
- Microsoft and Amazon launched an early access public preview of integration between Cortana and Amazon Voice Services. Users will be able to ask their Echos for information from email and calendar that Microsoft handles well and Cortana users can have Amazon execute smart home things that it handles well. In practice this means asking one voice assistant to "open" the other and then using it like you normally would.
- HQ Trivia has launched a version of its app for Apple TV. The new version lets you use the iOS remote app for voting. The mobile apps downloads have been declining in recent months but the game still attracts hundreds of thousands of players.
- A new vulnerability being called Foreshadow or L1 Terminal Fault, was found thanks to research into the related Meltdown and Spectre chip flaws. Foreshadow bypasses speculative execution safeguards to create an unprotected copy of data in Intel's SGX enclave which is meant to secure sensitive application data liked credit card numbers. It affects all Intel Core Skylake and Kaby Lake processors. Intel found that Foreshadow could also break security boundaries between virtual machines and hypervisors, with implications for data centers. Intel and Microsoft have published patches. Amazon and Google have developed mitigation for cloud services. A team of researchers will present the findings at the Usenix security conference in Baltimore, Thursday.
- Tencent reported an unexpected 2 percent drop in Q2 profit, its first decline in almost 13 years. Tencent experienced slower than expected growth in gaming and investments. Tencent plans to address the slowdown by getting more from existing titles, launching more RPGs and publishing more games internationally. WeChat grew to 1.06 billion users and financial and cloud services raised its other business category revenue 81 percent.
- Bloomberg reports Chinese regulators have frozen approval of game licenses. The freeze comes as a result of personnel changes as well as concerns over violence and gambling in games. Companies like Tencent have mentioned approval freezes in earnings but the government has not made official comments about it.
Discussion
- Samsung's Exynos modem will make 5G phones real
- Sprint and LG will release a 5G smartphone in the first half of 2019
- Verizon’s 5G home internet launch will come with free YouTube TV or Apple TV 4K
- South Korean telcos agree to launch 5G at the same time
- 5G Coming to India by 2022 After Pit Stops in Korea, China
- 5G Availability Around the World
- Chinese telecom service provider launches its 5G plan in Beijing
- China Mobile Hong Kong works on 5G Wi-Fi
Mailbag
- Adonis AKA, SgtCisco says he doesn't mind Google tracking location history because the convenience outweighs the privacy issues:
I can see traffic patterns in the morning before heading to work, I can track my oldest child's phone when she looses it again or check if she made it to school, or check the weather on either google home or assistant. My wife and i share our locations with each other because we work opposite shifts often or when the other sneaks out to the ice cream store and not bring anything home. Whatever I may have to hide isn't on the cloud and whatever is private is secured with two factor and long passwords.
- Adonis AKA, SgtCisco says he doesn't mind Google tracking location history because the convenience outweighs the privacy issues:
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