2020 Daily Tech News Show


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6			This is the Daily Tech News for... Wednesday Sept 23rd, 2020. In LA, I'm Tom Merritt
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17		sl	The GSMA announced that the next Mobile World Congress will be held in Barcelona from June 28th to July 1st, 2021. MWC 2020 was one of the earliest tech events cancelled due to COVID-19 back in February, and the GSMA had originally planned to hold an MWC event in March 2021.	https://www.engadget.com/mwc-postponed-again-until-june-2021-barcelona-115520119.html
18		sj	The 2020 Game Awards will stream live from Los Angeles, London and Tokyo on Dec. 10, airing in 4K UHD from in-studio locations with virtual fan participation, across 45 global video platforms. There will be a new innovation in accessibility award and the Game Festival that launched last year is also returning.	https://variety.com/2020/digital/news/the-game-awards-2020-date-location-geoff-keighley-1234780051/
19		tm	European antitrust regulators who have concerns about Google’s planned acquisition of Fitbit now have until December 23rd to make a decision on their antitrust probe. Google announced its intention to buy Fitbit in November 2019 for $2.1 billion. The European Commission is concerned data gathered by Fitbit could thwart competition if Google acquires that data and “further entrench” Google's dominance in online ad markets.	https://techcrunch.com/2020/09/23/eus-antitrust-probe-of-google-fitbit-gets-more-time/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Techcrunch+%28TechCrunch%29
20		sl	Samsung announced a more affordable version of the Samsung Galaxy S20 called the Fan edition or S20 F-E. It's plastic instead of glass on the back, its rear cameras have fewer megapixels, and while it has 120 Hz refresh rate it's not variable. Otherwise its specs pretty much match its more expensive siblings. The Samsung Galaxy S20 FE will be available in five colors October 2nd, for $699 or $749 for the millimeter wave version on Verizon.	https://www.theverge.com/2020/9/23/21451701/samsung-galaxy-s20-fe-price-release-date-specs-features
21		sj	Microsoft will offer a standalone version of Microsoft Office in 2021, no subscription required. It will be available for Windows and Mac but no price or specific date was released.	https://www.cnet.com/news/new-microsoft-office-wont-require-you-to-pay-for-a-subscription/#ftag=CAD590a51e
22		tm	Lenovo announced it will offer a large selection of ThinkPads and ThinkStations with Ubuntu Linux on them to the public. These models were previously available to enterprise customers. The Ubuntu models will come with a full range of support.	https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/09/lenovo-launches-new-oem-linux-thinkpad-and-thinkstation-pcs/
23		sl	Adobe launched a feature for Acrobat Reader called Liquid Mode which analyzes PDFs and rebuilds them for viewing on mobile devices. Once completed users will be able to adjust line spacing and font size locally or jump back to the original PDF if they want. Liquid mode is rolling out on Android and iOS now, with plans to eventually come to the desktop.	https://venturebeat.com/2020/09/23/adobes-liquid-mode-leverages-ai-to-reformat-pdfs-for-mobile-devices/
24		sj	YouTube will use machine learning to identify videos that should be age restricted and require viewers to log in to verify age. In some regions that will mean looking at profile info but under some legal jurisdictions like the European Union it may require scanning an ID or entering credit card info.	https://www.theverge.com/2020/9/22/21449717/youtube-age-restriction-machine-learning-rollout-kids-content-monetization-creators?scrolla=5eb6d68b7fedc32c19ef33b4
25		tm	During Tesla's battery day, Tesla announced the Plaid Model S with 520 miles of range and 0 to 60 in two seconds for $140,000 available for preorder now. The 4680 battery five times the energy, six times the power, and 16% more range as well as a reduction in cost per kilowatt of 14 percent per cell. ... Separately, Tesla has sued the US government over tariffs on parts Tesla imports from China. Tesla claims tariff lists 3 and 4 were arbitrary and capricious and wants them declared void and the amount Tesla paid refunded with interest. Hat tip to BigJim for alerting us to the Tariff story.	https://thenextweb.com/shift/2020/09/23/tesla-is-finally-waking-up-to-the-realities-of-being-a-legitimate-car-maker/
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28	:35	tm	TechCrunch reports research from Index Ventures that fewer than one in fifty European tech firms are choosing to relocate their engineering base to the US as they expand in the US. It used to be standard practice to move engineering to Silicon Valley in order to expand in the US Between 2008 and 2014 59% of European startups either expanded into or moved entirely into the US ahead of Series A funding. That number fell to 33% between 2015 and 2019. StackOverflow reports 6 million professional developers live in Europe now compared to 4.3 million in the US. Along with tightened immigration rules this make development costs in the US more expensive.	https://techcrunch.com/2020/09/23/new-research-shows-european-startups-are-spending-drastically-less-on-a-us-launch-for-the-same-gains/
29	:37	sl	If you were wondering what came of that July and August boycott of advertising on Facebook, the Financial Times reports Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and the World Federation of Advertisers have agreed on steps to curb harmful content online. The agreement includes common definitions for things like hate speech and bullying along with standardized reporting. The platforms agreed to have some practice reviewed by external auditors and give advertisers more control over what content their ads can show up next to.	https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/advertisers-reach-deal-social-media-steps-curb-harmful-content-rcna135
30	:40	sj	Pinterest seems to be a beneficiary of iPhone users new found enthusiasm for widgets and customized home screens. Apptopia reports Pinterest saw a record high number of daily downloads September 21 with 616,000. Sensor Tower reported 800,000 installs across iOS and Android combined on September 20 a 32% jump week over week. Pinterest climbed from number 47 on the iOS free app chart to number 6 on September 21 and number 5 September 23. iPhone design trends is showcased on the Pinterest home page. Pinterest told TechCrunch it has seen an increase in searches for iOS 14 wallpaper and home screen design among Gen Z users. Pinterest also launched a new content type called Story Pins in beta, allowing users to combine multiple pages of images, videos, voiceover and overlaid text.	https://techcrunch.com/2020/09/22/pinterest-breaks-daily-download-record-thanks-to-user-interest-in-ios-14-design-ideas/
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32	:43	tm	The US Department of Justice proposed legislation that would amend Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act often referred to as "safe harbor." The DoJ's bill says that platforms can't be held liable for filtering content that violates their terms of service. But the reverse of that is they probably could be held liable for filtering content that didn't violate terms of service. It also says when internet companies “willfully distribute illegal material or moderate content in bad faith, Section 230 should not shield them from the consequences of their actions,” which includes a procvision to allow victims of these criminal acts to sue the platform. And it proposes mechanism for transparency over moderation practices. It refines definitions to provide more guidance to courts and provides incentives to address illicit content, replaceing "otherwise objectionable content" with new categories, including content that promotes terrorism, violent extremism or self-harm. The bill addresses two problems, censoring speech and allowing criminal activity. The criminal activity issue became a problem in the first challenge to section 230 in 1997, Zeran vs. AOL. Up until that point a 1959 case about a bookstore owner had set the legal principle that a distributor fo content only was liable for illegal content once the distributor knew of it. Zeran v. AOL ruled that Section 230 "creates a federal immunity to any cause of action that would make service providers liable for information originating with a third-party user of the service." This ended up as a stricter protection for a distributor than the 1959 case. Instead of having to take it down once you know about it. Internet services were given a broader shield. This DoJ law seems to directly address that by putting in the language about willful distribution. But the Zeran decision also said "Faced with potential liability for each message republished by their services, interactive computer service providers might choose to severely restrict the number and type of messages posted." By pairing the willfully clause with anti-censorship rules, the bill could move sites into a form of prior restrain to protect themselves against making the wrong decision. You don't want to allow illegal posts up in case someone can argue you willfully distributed it but you can't pull posts down in case someone argues you censored them, so one solution would be to restrict who and what goes up to make it easier to defend.	https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/09/23/trump-doj-censorship-section-230/
33	:49	sl	The world's oldest surviving digital computer is the 32-bit Z4, completed in 1945. It runs on tape, takes up a room in the Deutsches Museum in Munich and needs several people to operate it. It hasn't been used in some time but that may be about to change since an archivist at ETH Zurich, Evelyn Boesch discovered the Z4's manual in March among some of her father's documents. René Boesch worked with the Swiss Aeronautical Engineering Association and used the Z4 in the development of the P-16 jet fighter. The Z4 was built in Germany by a team led by German civil engineer Konrad Zuse between 1942 and 1945 who likely wrote the manual. It was evacuated from Berlin in February 1945 to Göttingen where it was completed then transferred again to southern Bavaria to avoid the advancing front. Work resumed on it in 1949 and it was sold to ETH Zurich’s Institute for Applied Mathematics in 1950. It was transferred to the museum in 1960.	https://www.engadget.com/oldest-computer-manual-zuse-z4-161214346.html
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40	:52		Blizzard CEO and co-founder Mike Morhaime left the company in 2018. He has now unveiled his new company DreamHaven, a game developer and publisher. Dreamhaven has two internal studios called Moonshot Games and Secret Door. Moonshot is headed by former Hearthstone lead Jason Chayes, StarCraft II director Dustin Browder, and Hearthstone creative director Ben Thompson. Secret Door is led by Chris Sigaty (executive producer on Hearthstone), Alan Dabiri (technical director on Warcraft III and StarCraft II), and Eric Dodds (designer on World of Warcraft and Starcraft).	https://www.theverge.com/2020/9/23/21452256/former-blizzard-ceo-new-game-company-dreamhaven-morhaime
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51			techiegoob on Twitter @dailytechnewssh Widgetsmith only has a subscription for the weather and tide information that come from a 3rd party. Rest of the app is free.	Widgetsmith Premium includes Hosted Data Sources (currently including weather and tides), exclusive widget styles, $1.99 a month or $19.99 a year.
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54			As you can see in the screenshot I will not be using widgets to organize my iPhone home screen. I have it just the way I have wanted it for years. I created folders based on the source or purpose of my many apps and placed them inside accordingly. Easy to find whatever I need. Yes, I know some people have totally disorganized phones. That may not change even with widgets in iOS 14. Rob Toronto	https://www.dropbox.com/s/w7bw7t4gwh8a22a/img_3071.png?dl=0
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