2020 Daily Tech News Show


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3			Coming up on DTNS The Nvidia GeForce Now game streaming service has launcehed and Patrick has a hands on report, good news for YouTube and why some basic IT practices might have made the Iowa Caucaus less of a fiasco.	Twitch Chat
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16		sl	Facebook's Messenger Kids app now lets parents see more details about who their children are messaging with, if there are video calls being made, and a history of anyone they’ve blocked. Parents will also see log of recent images their child has sent and received (with the option to remove and report it if it’s inappropriate), and can log them out of devices remotely. Parents can also download all of their child’s information, like the data-download feature available in the main Facebook app.	https://about.fb.com/news/2020/02/messenger-kids-controls/
17		pb	The semiconductor industry suffered its worst annual slump since 2001 in 2019, the Semiconductor Industry Association said Monday in a statement. Revenue fell 12% to $412 billion in 2019. Sales grrew slightly in the fourth quarter from the preceding three-month period. Memory chip revenue dropped 33% from 2018 led by declines in computer memory. Sales in China fell 8.7%, according to the SIA, and sales in the Americas dropped the most of any region at 24%.	https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-02-03/chip-industry-had-worst-sales-year-since-dot-com-bubble-burst
18		tm	Alphabet-owned Jigsaw, released details of a tool call Assembler that uses seven detectors to try to find signs of image manipulation. It can spot the usage of photoshop as well as more advanced deep fake manipulation. In its early development Jigsaw will make the tool available to journalists and fact checkers.	https://www.engadget.com/2020/02/04/jigsaw-detects-doctored-images/
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20	:33	pb	Users in North America and Europe, can sign up for Nvidia's GeForce Now game streaming service, which supports games from Steam, the Epic Games Store, Battle.net, and Uplay, running on a PC in a data center. Games must have been optimized for the service before they appear as available, even if you own them. The Founders edition of the service is $5 a month for up to 6 hours at a time, but Nvidia says the fee will go up at some point. You can try the service for free for an hour at a time without a credit card though you may be put in a queue and you will get access to less powerful hardware. The GeForce Now app runs on macOS, Windows and Android and requires at least 15Mbps connection. 30 Mbps for 1080p and 50 Mbps for the best experience. There's no 4K option.	https://www.theverge.com/2020/2/4/21121996/nvidia-geforce-now-2-0-out-of-beta-rtx
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22	:38	sl	Google told affected users of its backup photo service, Google Takeout, that between November 21st and 25th, "some videos in Google Photos were incorrectly exported to unrelated users' archives." Google also says that backups made during that five-day period may be incomplete. Google says it has resolved the issue that caused the problem and suggests deleting any export made in November. Google told 9to5Google that 0.01 percent of Photos users were affected.	https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/02/google-photos-bug-let-strangers-download-your-private-videos/
23	:41	tm	Alphabet reported a revenue rise of 17%, its slowest rate of growth since 2017. Profit rose 19% while costs rose 19% mostly due to data center investment and content acquisition for YouTube TV, YouTube Music. Google ad revenue rose 17%. For the first time, the company reported numbers for YouTube and Cloud. YouTube reported $15.15 billion in revenue for the year, below expectations. YouTube ad sales rose 31% year over year to $4.7 billion and counts 22 million paid subscribers. YouTube TV counts 2 million subscribers. Alphabet reported cloud revenue grew 53% on the year to $2.61 billion. By comparison Amazon reported almost $10 billion and Microsoft $12.5 billion in their most recent quarters.	https://www.reuters.com/article/us-alphabet-results/alphabet-shares-fall-as-google-misses-on-sales-youtube-revenue-disappoints-idUSKBN1ZX2NJ
24			--	https://variety.com/2020/digital/news/youtube-tops-20-million-paying-subscribers-youtube-tv-has-over-2-million-customers-1203491228/
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26	:44	pb	Sony reported a smaller than expected decline of 20% in quarterly profit on the strength of a 62% rise in profit from smartphone image sensor sales. Sales have been so strong that Sony cannot meet its inventory goals even at full production. Sony's gaming business fell 27%. Sony shipped 6.1 million PS4s, its lowest holiday quarter since launch. Sony's PS Plus subscriber service rose to 38.8 million subscribers from 36.3 million	https://www.reuters.com/article/us-sony-results/sony-raises-outlook-on-strong-sensor-demand-warns-of-virus-risks-on-supply-chain-idUSKBN1ZY0JZ
27			--	https://www.engadget.com/2020/02/04/sony-playstation-business-earnings-outlook/
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34	:47		Iowa’s high-tech caucuses crashed, and paper ballots saved the day - MIT Technology Review	https://www.technologyreview.com/s/615132/iowas-high-tech-caucuses-crashed-and-paper-ballots-saved-the-day/
35			Iowa Democrats blame ‘coding issue’ for botched caucus results - The Verge	https://www.theverge.com/2020/2/4/21122252/iowa-democrats-caucus-results-coding-issue-app-data-transmission
36			A voting app by Shadow Inc. takes center stage at chaotic Iowa caucuses \| TechCrunch	https://techcrunch.com/2020/02/04/a-voting-app-by-shadow-inc-takes-center-stage-at-chaotic-iowa-caucuses/
37			Election tech was supposed to clean up the Iowa caucus — instead, it may have killed it - The Verge	https://www.theverge.com/2020/2/4/21122337/iowa-caucus-app-bug-results-reporting-crash-election-tech-democrats
38			2020 Presidential Election: Live Updates, News for Feb. 4, 2020 - Bloomberg	https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-02-04/iowa-democrats-say-results-to-be-released-today-campaign-update
39			Iowa Democrats say sloppy app code delayed caucus results \| Engadget	https://www.engadget.com/2020/02/04/iowa-democrats-caucus-app-delay/
40			Iowa caucus problems raise questions about Nevada caucus \| Las Vegas Review-Journal	https://www.reviewjournal.com/news/politics-and-government/nevada/problems-with-iowa-app-raise-concerns-about-nevada-caucus-1950516/
41			Prior to Caucus day - declined transparency on app or testing - declined security test from DHS: acting DHS Secretary Chad Wolf - Did not make clear who the developer was. - Claim used "independent security experts" - reporting made more complex ads national party required three sets of results (first ballot, runoff ballot, delegate equivalent)	WHAT HAPPENED Party line "Inconsistencies in reporting" “While the app was recording data accurately, it was reporting out only partial data. We have determined that this was due to a coding issue in the reporting system.”- Troy Price, chair of the IDP. Problem was identified and fixed. No security breach Verifying through paper PRECINCT WORKERS - Many precinct captains just didn't want to use it and called in anyway - crashes, not being able to log in, app identified as malware - Some reported inability to send
42			THE APP NYT/WSJ: Developed in two months by a company called Shadow Inc. paid ~$63K for iOS, Android apps and integrated data management system. Digital nonprofit ACRONYM previously described launching Shadow, now says only an investor. LATimes: Shadow was formerly called Groundbase, founded in 2016 by Gerard Niemira and Krista Davis who also worked on the Hillary Clinton campaign	NEVADA Nevada Caucus reportedly planning to use an app Feb. 22 Nevada Democratic Party made three payments of $16.714.29 to Shadow Nevada Democratic Party Chair William McCurdy II “NV Dems can confidently say that what happened in the Iowa caucus last night will not happen in Nevada on February 22nd. We will not be employing the same app or vendor used in the Iowa caucus. We had already developed a series of backups and redundant reporting systems, and are currently evaluating the best path forward.”
43				From TechCrunch: "Dan McFall, chief executive at app testing company Mobile Labs, told me in an email. “It’s a tale that we have seen with our enterprise customers for years: A new application was pushed hard to a specific high profile deadline. Mobility is much harder than people realize, so initial release was likely delayed, and to make the deadline, they cut the process of comprehensive testing and then chaos ensues.”
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