2020 Daily Tech News Show


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3			Coming up on DTNS Australian intelligence accidentally scoops up data from a covid tracing app, The New York Times and Washington Post show different paths forward for newspapers online and Twitter wants you to judge its checkmark verification process.	Twitch Chat
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6			This is the Daily Tech News for... Tuesday Nov 24th, 2020. In LA, I'm Tom Merritt
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12			Peter Wells - Freelance Tech Journalist
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16	:31	TM	Let's start with a few tech things you should know...
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19		sl	A California grand jury has indicted Apple’s head of global security, Thomas Moyer, on charges that he tried to bribe Santa Clara County officials with 200 iPads in exchange for 4 concealed firearms licenses (known as CCW) for Apple employees. The charges followed a two-year investigation. The iPads were reportedly never delivered because Moyer and Santa Clara's Undersheriff Rick Sung learned in 2019 that the district attorney was executing a search warrant for the sheriff department’s CCW records.	https://www.paloaltoonline.com/news/2020/11/20/sheriffs-second-in-command-indicted-in-gun-permit-scandal
20		tm	Sony Interactive Entertainment CEO Jim Ryan confirmed that the PlayStation 5 is completely sold out, during an interview with Russian News Agency Tass. He said the supply shortage likely would have happened without COVID-19 but that launching in the middle of a pandemic was a challenge he “wouldn’t recommend”. Ryan says due to travel and other restrictions, “we had to do all the manufacturing preparation by camera remotely... I mean, just imagine that for a precision device like the PlayStation 5.”	https://www.engadget.com/sony-gaming-chief-says-the-ps-5-would-be-sold-out-even-without-covid-19-124538616.html
21		sl	Twitter will now warn users who try to like a post that has been labeled as potentially misleading. Twitter said warnings on quote tweets of labeled posts decreased sharing by 29%. Twitter has said the warnings on quote tweets would be in place until "at least" the end of election week in the US, but they remain in place.	https://www.theverge.com/2020/11/23/21611927/twitter-show-warning-like-labeled-tweet?scrolla=5eb6d68b7fedc32c19ef33b4
22		tm	Korean publication Aju News is reporting that the Galaxy Z Fold 3 will be Samsung's "it" phone in 2021 and Samsung will discontinue its Galaxy Note product line. Samsung hasn’t commented, but according to analytics firm Counterpoint Research, the Galaxy Note 20 and Galaxy Note 20 Ultra were only fourth and eighth in the top 10 smartphone sales in the first week of September alone behind the iPhone 11 line last year.	https://www.tomsguide.com/news/rip-galaxy-note-samsung-galaxy-z-fold-3-will-reportedly-take-over
23		sl	Retailer Joom's JoomPay spinoff has received a Luxembourg Electronic Money Institution license to operate in Europe. JoomPay will et Europeans send and receive money instantly for free. JoomPay will let you send money to any email address or phone number whether they use JoomPay or not and connect to any existing debit, credit card or bank account. JoomPay has opened a waitlist for its beta app on Android and iOS. JoomPay will compete with TransferWise, Paysend and PayPal among others.	https://techcrunch.com/2020/11/24/looking-to-emulate-venmo-joompay-preps-a-euro-launch-for-easy-bill-splitting-and-cash-payments/
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25	:34	sl	Israel's Percepto makes unmanned aerial vehicles for remote work site inspection and monitoring. It basically flies over empty work sites to collect data and look for issues. It's one of the few drone companies that makes the whole stack of software and hardware including computer vision, navigation and analytics. It develops most of its hardware, though it does acquire chips from Nvidia. But Percepto is partnering up with a robot. Percepto's Sparrow drones will integrate with Boston Dynamics' Spot robots. Spot is one of the famous four-legged robots that frightens people on YouTube. In the real world it can handle rugged terrain and recover from falls and stumbles. The partnership will see Spot robots handle high resolution imaging and thermal vision on the ground, to see things that the Sparrow drones can't. Spot is expected to find things like "hot spots on machines or electrical conductors, water and steam leaks around plants and equipment with degraded performance."	https://techcrunch.com/2020/11/24/industrial-drone-maker-percepto-raises-45m-and-integrates-with-boston-dynamics-spot/
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27	:38	tm	There's been a lot of concern over the future of newspapers including efforts in Australia and Europe to force Google and Facebook to participate in plans that would pay news outlets for the privilege of linking to their stories. But Axios's sources show two outlets in the US-- The New York Times and the Washington Post-- have been fairing well of late. Both outlets have tripled their digital subscribers since 2016 to 3 million for the Post and 6 million for the Times. Axios says the Post's growth is credited to its back-end technology. The Post has developed its own advertising and publishing software that brings in revenue and makes for more user-friendly online experiences. It's developing a single-sign feature for the more than 100 sites that use its ad software. And a Post engineering team is focused on paywall and metering applications that boost sign-ups, which it also licenses. The Times on the other hand, focuses on brand awareness, hiring recognizable names with big followings, like Kara Swisher. This has seen a growth in its opinion-based content. It's also focusing on daily habits like cooking and crossword apps. Axios notes that research shows flashy things like hot talent or discounts get people in the door and functionality and breadth of content keep people. The Times is going for buzzy talent and an emphasis on editorial while the Post seems focused on platform engineering and optimization. It's almost as if one is owned by an engineer and the other is owned by a newspaper family.	https://www.axios.com/washington-post-new-york-times-subscriptions-8e888fd7-5484-44c7-ad43-39564e06c84f.html
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29	:43	sl	Microsoft's Phil Spencer told the Verge that an Xbox app is likely to appear on Smart TVs sometime "in the next 12 months." Spencer previously told Stratechery that he thought you might see Project Cloud streaming sticks and added at the time, “You could imagine us even having something that we just included in the Game Pass subscription that gave you an ability to stream xCloud games to your television and buying the controller." That could easily be a Smart TV app that connected to a Bluetooth controller. Microsoft announced a partnership with Samsung in February that would certainly include phones but might also include TVs. He also told the Verge he has no plans to abandon consoles or hardware, advocating "a hybrid environment of the cloud and the local compute capability.” The Verge speculates that could mean being able to try a game in the cloud on an Xbox console before deciding to buy and download it.	https://www.theverge.com/2020/11/24/21612714/microsoft-xbox-app-tv-xcloud-streaming-app
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35	:47	tm	A report published Monday by the Australian government’s inspector general for the intelligence community, which oversees the government’s spy and eavesdropping agencies, says it discovered that some intelligence agencies were “incidentally” collecting data from Australia’s COVIDSafe contact tracing app during the first six months after its launch. The collection happened “in the course of lawful collection of other data” allowed under the Privacy Act. The collection is considered incidental because it was not possible to collect the data covered by a warrant without inadvertently collecting the COVIDSafe data. The watchdog group said that there was “no evidence” that any agency “decrypted, accessed or used any COVID app data.” The report said that the agencies were “taking active steps to ensure compliance” with the law, prevent future collection and that collected data would be “deleted as soon as practicable.” COVIDSafe uses bluetooth to log proximity, not location data but the app requires a user to upload some personal info like name, age, postal code, and phone number.	https://www.itnews.com.au/news/covidsafe-data-incidentally-collected-by-intelligence-agencies-in-first-six-months-558129
36			--	https://techcrunch.com/2020/11/24/australia-spy-agencies-covid-19-app-data/
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38	:51	sl	Twitter announced it is relaunching its verification process with new guidelines. The new system will roll out in early 2021 but Twitter is asking its users for feedback on a draft of the guidelines. The proposal would make government accounts, companies, brands, nonprofits, news media accounts, entertainment, sports, activists, organizers, and other influential individuals, eligible for verification. Most of these kinds of accounts are verified by being confirmed on the site of a verified organization like a company or sports team website. Different kinds of media coverage can also make an account eligible. The criteria for anyone else, which would put you in the category of "activists, organizers and other influential individuals"-- is as follows - Consistent and rule-abiding use of Twitter for 6 months prior to applying for verification and meeting one requirement for activity and one for notability. Activity requirements involve creating a popular hashtag or being in the very top percentile of active accounts. Notability can be from Google Trends, a wikipedia Page, news coverage, or reference from an advocacy organization. Verification can be removed if a user changes their display name or bio to mislead people about their identity or for repeat violation of terms of service. You can take a survey on the policy by December 8 or tweet your thoughts with the hashtag #verificationfeedback. After receiving and considering feedback Twitter will finalize the policy December 17. Twitter also said it plans to offer more ways to identify yourself such as new account types and labels.	https://www.theverge.com/2020/11/24/21626494/twitter-verification-returns-early-2021-policy-feedback
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46			Sure vinyl has superior audio fidelity and archival longevity compared to CDs, tape, and MP3s, but what's the classic knock on the medium? It can't boot an operating system. That was true until engineer Jozef Bogin used a turntable to spin a vinyl recording of a 64kb bootable read-only RAM drive containing a modified FreeDOS kernel. The bootloader reads the disk image from the record through a cassette modem, which is then loaded into memory and boots the system. Sure the sound from the record conjurs up memories of the worst AOL dial-up sounds, but if you need to run DOS like a hipster, there's finally a solution out there.	https://boingboing.net/2020/11/23/booting-dos-from-vinyl.html
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