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2 | These are the Daily Tech Headlines for Wednesday, May 24, 2017. I'm Tom Merritt | |||||
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6 | Google announced Google Attribution which uses machine learning to estimate how real world, video ads, banner ads, emails and other materials contribute to a customer transaction. Google Attribution is free in beta but will eventually charge for enterprise pro deployment. Google also has begun including analysis of credit card transactions to help determine when digital advertising led to real world purchases. | |||||
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8 | Google introduced “Family Group” to make it easier to share calendars, photos, notes and content. Family Group supports up to six people with one person designated as the manager who can create accounts for children under 13, set payment methods, and choose services. Parent accounts can approve Play purchases and change content restrictions. | |||||
9 | Ikea’s TRÅDFRI smart lights are getting support for Google Home, Apple HomeKit and Amazon Voice Services this summer or autumn. The lights first debuted in Europe. | |||||
10 | The Chaos Computer Club were able to unlock a Samsung Galaxy S8, using a picture of the users’ Iris. An image of a user’s iris can be obtained from a high resolution picture or taken from up to five meters away using a 200mm lens in night-shot mode or with the infrared filter disabled. The club printed a picture of the iris on a high-quality Samsung laser printer and placed a contact lens on top of it to mimic the curvature of the eye. | |||||
11 | Microsoft’s Xbox One game subscription service called Game Pass will launch June 1st. Subscribers get access to more than 100 Xbox One and 360 games for $10 a month. Game Pass subscribers can download the games and purchase them for a discount. Xbox Live Gold subscribers can get access to Game Pass starting now. | |||||
12 | Samsung’s Gear 360 video camera goes on sale May 25 for $229. It’s been available for pre-order in the UK for £219. The camera does 360-degree video in 4K and still with 15-megapixels. | |||||
13 | Google launched its digital whiteboard called the Jamboard for $5,000. It has a 55-inch 4K screen and can mirror writings across several dozen connected Jamboards, as well as computers and tablets. It can do video conferencing with the built-in webcam but it can't show video and whiteboard drawings at the same time.It has tools to aid in drawing and includes handwriting recognition as well. It can pull in photos and screenshots and what whiteboard diagram couldn’t benefit from emojis? | |||||
14 | The Nokia 3310 revival phone is on sale in the UK today for £49.99. If you recall, the new 3310 includes Snake, runs Nokia Series 30+ OS, has a 2.4-inch QVGA screen, a 2-megapixel camera and a microSD card slot. Opera Mini provides basic web surfing. Nokia claims it will last 31 days on standby with 22 hours of talk time. | |||||
15 | Uber announced it will give drivers in New York City money back after incorrectly calculating the Uber share of each fare after taxes rather than before tax. Meanwhile a court in Brazil overturned a lower court ruling and now says a driver working for Uber in Brazil is not an employee and therefore not entitled to benefits. The court cited the ability to log off at will, offer accounts to other drivers and split fares as evidence that Uber drivers are partners not employees. | http://fortune.com/2017/05/24/uber-underpaid-new-york-city-drivers/ | ||||
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17 | 1Password introduced a Travel Mode that will remove all stored password and payment data on a users device during border crossings and restore it once travel is finished. All password vaults are wiped when in travel mode, unless specifically tagged as "safe for travel". The removed accounts are then synced up again once Travel mode is deactivated. Travel mode is only available to subscribers of 1Password's service, not those that purchased the app outright. | |||||
18 | Target agreed to pay $18.5 million to 47 states and the District of Columbia in a settlement over the 2013 attack that lost personal information of about 40 million customers. Target also agreed to seperate its cardholder data from the rest of its network, and to pay for regular independent security audits. | |||||
19 | The FCC posted the Restoring Internet Freedom notice of proposed rule making to change ISP's from being classified as common carriers under Title II of the Communications Act of 1934 to being classified as Information Services. Initial comments on the proposed rule are due by July 17, with reply comments due August 16. | |||||
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