2017 Daily Tech News Show


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5		This is the Daily Tech News for Thursday Jan 12th, 2017 I'm Tom Merritt
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9	t	Amazon said Thursday it plans to create 100,000 full-0time jobs in the US over the next 18 months including in previously announced new warehouses.	https://www.cnet.com/news/amazon-100000-new-us-jobs-donald-trump-jeff-bezos/
10	j	Google has updated Google Maps to show where Uber drivers are and let you book an Uber ride without leaving the Google Maps app.	https://techcrunch.com/2017/01/12/google-maps-redesigned-ridesharing-feature-lets-you-hail-an-uber-without-ever-leaving-the-app/?ncid=rss
11	t	We’ll cover Nintendo’s 11 PM Eastern Thursday night Switch announcement on the next episode of DTNS.	http://www.theverge.com/2017/1/11/14244630/nintendo-switch-preorder-date-new-york-city-store
12	j	The crowd-funded autonomous quad-copter camera Lily has closed after failing to secure financing for full-scale production refunds will be delivered within the next 60 days.	http://www.theverge.com/2017/1/12/14248988/lily-drone-tracking-dead-refunds
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15	t	The Wall Street Journal reports Apple is talking with veteran TV and movie producers about commissioning high quality scripted series and feature films. The Journals sources say the project would start with a handful of carefully selected shows and movies. No deals have been made and questions remain about how the shows would be distributed. Apple has some original content already with Carpool Karaoke, documentaries and an upcoming series based on the life of Dr. Dre.	https://techcrunch.com/2017/01/12/apple-tv-2/?ncid=rss
16	j	The US FCC issued a report Wednesday saying AT&T’s DirectTV Now video service and Verizon’s FreeBee Data 360 service violate open Internet rules because of their implementation of zero rating. The report claims the telcos charge competitors too much for the same zero-rating the companies give their own products. T-Mobile’s Binge On service, which does not charge participants, was not found to be in violation. FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler will step down next Friday.	https://www.cnet.com/news/fcc-at-t-verizon-mobile-programs-violate-open-web-rules/#ftag=CAD590a51e
17	t	HTC announced the 5.7-inch U Ultra and 5.2-inch U Play phones. Both phones have an all-glass exterior and come with the Sense Companion AI assistant. Both use USB-C for the headphones. The U Ultra has a 2-inch second screen at the top to the right of the front-facing camera for notifications and shortcuts. It also comes with a microSd card slot for up to 2 TB of extra storage and a 3,000mAh battery. The U Play has a 2,500mAh battery. The U Ultra with 64 GB of storage is up for pre-order at $749 in blue, black, white or pink, shipping to Taiwan by end of January and the rest of the world in March.The U Play will be available later this spring. A limited edition sapphire screen U Ultra with 128GB of storage was announced without pricing or release date.	http://www.theverge.com/2017/1/12/14236978/htc-u-ultra-play-announced-price-release-date-specs-features
18		The Korea Herald has sources who say Samsung is working on a foldable phone for release this autumn. The phone would open up into a 7-inch tablet and the Herald’s sources say Samsung expects to ship 100,000 units in Q3.	https://www.cnet.com/news/samsung-seen-unveiling-foldable-phone-in-third-quarter/#ftag=CAD590a51e
19	j	Opera has released an experimental browser called the Opera Neon for Windows and Mac built on the Blink engine. Tabs appear as round bubbles on the right. A sidebar on the left has audio and video controls, a screenshot button and access to downloads. If the screen is wide enough you can put two browser tabs side by side in the same window. The new tab page serves as the bookmark page and shows the desktop background image as its background.	https://techcrunch.com/2017/01/12/opera-launches-neon-a-new-experimental-desktop-browser/?ncid=rss
20	t	Facebook Page businesses and brands can now go Live with video streams from desktop and laptop computers. Previously Facebook Page users could only go live from a mobile device or by using the Facebook Live API. Page operators can also now designate Live Contributors who can stream to the page without having to have access to other administrative functions. Profiles with more than 5,000 subscribers will now get access to metrics regarding views, time spent viewing and engagement.	https://techcrunch.com/2017/01/12/facebook-pages-can-now-go-live-from-the-desktop-add-live-contributors-and-more/?ncid=rss
21	j	Youtube replaced its fan-funding option with something called SuperChat that lets viewers pay to have their chat message pinned to the top of a chat stream for up to 5 hours. It’s rolling out to select creators today and then creators in 20 countries and viewers in 40 countries starting January 31.	https://youtube.googleblog.com/2017/01/can-we-chat-hello-super-chat.html
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27	t	Hello, I was very close to buying an Amazon Echo as a gift for someone (probably because I really wanted one myself), but I realized that until the key feature of customized and personalized "Wake Words" is addressed, I will not be buying or using any Voice Activated Assistant products from anybody for anyone. I consider it absolutely ridiculous that someone else on the TV, radio, phone, or in person can "accidentally" activate my assistant -- only I should be able to do that! It should respond only to me, and with whatever wake word I desire. To me this seems a bit like making a car, but not worrying about the braking system. This is not just an Amazon Echo issue, AFAIK, none of the other Voice Assistant products and similar features on smart phones have customized and personalized wake words either, so I get that it must be hard problem. Whoever gets this feature to work properly first will begin the next generation of Voice Activated Assistant products. Until then, I will wait, and laugh at all of the silly things that happen to people with the current generation of these products. ~ Jeff Byers
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29	j	Karl from wet and miserable Memphis wrote in to say he thinks the reason carriers aren't paying as much for freed TV spectrum is that it's in the lower-frequency 600 MHz range. He writes "From everything I’ve seen—and I freely admit, I haven’t seen everything—5G is going to require higher frequency bandwidth to achieve its potential. The longer wavelengths of lower frequency spectrum will hinder its performance. As a result, higher frequency spectrum will be in demand and 5G rollouts will rely more on microcells than macrocells. A case in point, the recent AWS-3 spectrum auction brought in ~$45B wen the FCC was expecting between $10B and $20B. This is the auction that Sprint sat out of. Some people speculated that they “couldn’t afford it” while others noted that they already own a nation-wide swath of 2.5GHz spectrum and didn’t need the 1700MHz being offered. The carriers were willing to pay a lot more two years ago for higher-frequency spectrum than they are willing to pay for lower frequency spectrum today."
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31	t	Tom, In April of 2011, tornadoes took down the power grid in north Alabama. We were without power for two weeks at my home, but I do own a generator. Although I was able to power my own home, Comcast service was down. OTA communication was the only source of what was going on. Most broadcast stations (radio and TV) seemed to have emergency power. I have VOIP phone service and it was down. The cell phone towers were over loaded. Our neighbors had POTS with DSL. They had land line and internet service. The power outage from hurricane Katrina in Louisiana and Mississippi was more wide spread and lasted longer. Long live OTA!!! Bill Burlingame Huntsville, AL --- In regards to your discussion of emergency alerts over FM radio and speculation about having emergency alerts on phones in the same way as Amber alerts - I got this exact kind of alert yesterday due to heavy flooding and flash flood warnings in the SF bay area (where I live). A very loud alarm sound went off on my phone and a message popped up. Seems like what you were imagining already exists! I've been a fan since I was a 10 year old watching you on buzz out loud and I've followed you ever since. Love your show! -Daniel K.	I'm in Houston, Texas. We do get weather alerts over our phones and tablets. My sister actually packed all the devices into a box and locked them in the car one night because 8 devices (2 kids each with 1 ipad and 1 old phone and both parents had a work and personal phone) going off one after another meant no-one was sleeping. Back as far as 2008, I was using my phone to get news during and after Ike while power and cable were still out. This was actually one reason I cut the cord, I had been keeping cable because what happens if there is a hurricane. Well after the storm, my TV was useless without power or cable. I could charge my phone at many of the stores/restaurants that had power and opened as charging and cooling facilities even though they couldn't conduct regular business. The businesses were often either near critical infrastructure like hospitals or at critical junctures in the power grid. The mobile network near me worked fine through the storm and after. Last spring when we had back to back major floods and damage to the dam near my home, I again used my phone and tablet to get news. For a while I was getting the most relevant news from two stations using Facebook Live after they went off the air broadcast wise due to damage, having to evacuate, or power outages. I have added several battery packs to my emergency kit. If we are expecting severe weather they are charged and ready to go to get me through a storm for exactly this reason. (An advantage to having hurricanes as your most frequent natural disasters is we can see them coming weeks off and get ready). Kimberly Texas Teacher
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33	j	Someone who wishes to remain anonymous wrote in to say that user research about the upgrade to Windows 10 indicated the two big concerns were the ability to roll back to an earlier OS and reassurance that files would be exactly as they were before the upgrade. Due to a bug or a misunderstanding in requirements, the "your stuff is exactly where you left it" text remained even for future updates the customer doesn't interact with - such as going from the initial Windows 10 release to the first major Fall Update. So text which was intended to be used to reassure people about something they explicitly chose to do - and which worked well for that purpose - was inadvertently reused in a different context, which clearly led to massive confusion and unnecessary concern. Luckily, the text was changed so that by the time the Anniversary Update came out, it was no longer there!
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35	t	amsb in Slack: RE: yesterday's discussion on gaming revenue and the indie gaming renaissance we seem to be seeing, I kind of feel like video game creators are now experiencing what music creators experienced in the early 2000s. Back in the day, musicians needed a lot of resources to produce and distribute their work. As advances in home recording equipment progressed and the internet began to blossom, suddenly anyone that could play an instrument or sing could record, produce, release, and distribute an incredibly polished finished product to an audience of millions. The same is now true of video game development. Where once it required a mega studio and scores of developers and engineers to create a successful game we now see indies popping up all over the place, some (like Stardew Valley) even garnering critical acclaim. This is presumably due to the wide array of open source and distributed development tools and the modern ubiquity of relatively powerful systems on which to develop. Am I onto something here or am I way off base?	mrredsun : I think the larger reason why there's been an influx of indie game development is the lowered barrier to distribution. Steam's Early Access solves two problems: it provides an influx of cash during development _and_ it provides free game testers. It's also now way easier to publish a game on the three major consoles. Microsoft's experimental Xbox Live Community Games a few years back _I believe_ was the first time indie dev teams could self-publish on a major console.
36		You could say that my life at the moment is extremely on the nose in regards to the story. I was a veteran of the games industry until summer 2016, when the bottom really fell out in the industry and layoffs hit hard. A typical stint at a games company could last one, or two years, depending on the company and your role, so when I got my lay off after 3 years at the last company, it was considered a long run. What really changed however was the lack of new positions waiting for those like me that needed a new gaming home. After 3 months of getting no job prospects in the gaming industry, I had to look outside the industry to get work. Amusingly enough, I started using Indeed.com to search for something new, and even more amusing is that I ended up finding a great job at Indeed.com itself. As you mentioned in the story, there are a lot of non-gaming industry positions that need those talented people, and I think people like me are getting the memo and moving in that direction. It may not be as glamourous as a gaming job, but there is definitely more stability outside of that area. -Mewkow from A.I.E.
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