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2 | These are the Daily Tech Headlines for Wednesday, August 23, 2017, I'm Tom Merritt | |||||
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6 | Samsung announced the Galaxy Note 8 . It has a 6.3-inch AMOLED screen with 2960 x 1440 resolution and curved edges. Specs are the expected Snapdragon 835 or Exynos 8895, IP68 water resistance but it adds 6GB of RAM and 3,300mAh battery. It has dual rear wide-angle and telephoto cameras and ships with Android 7.1.1 Nougat and voice assistant Bixby. App Pair will let you create a shortcut that launches two apps at once side by side. US pre-orders in midnight black and orchid gray begin August 24th and the Note 8 arrives September 15. Maple Gold and Deep Sea Blue colors will also be available. Pricing varies by carrier around the $900 range. | |||||
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8 | CrashPlan has begun notifying users it will shut down its consumer backup service and focus solely on small business and enterprise customers. All current CrashPlan subscriptions will be honored until their end date and then given an extra 60 days to migrate. If your subscription ends after October 22, 2018, CrashPlan will convert you to a small business account for the remainder of your subscription. CrashPlan is offering a 50% discount on Carbonite as a referral. | |||||
9 | Google Express is dropping its membership fees and promising delivery in one to three days if customers reach a partner store’s minimum order. Google Express is also integrating with Wal-Mart. That means Google Express shoppers can use Wal-Mart’s easy reorder feature to buy things by voice using Google Assistant on devices including Google Home. Wal-Mart plans to add more feature like grocery shopping to work with Google Assistant. | |||||
10 | The New York Times has sources who say Apple will begin testing autonomous vehicle technology with a shuttle on its corporate campus, to be called Palo Alto Infinite Loop or PAIL. The Times piece also claims Bob Mansfield scrapped plans for a full car when he took over Project Titan. | http://fortune.com/2017/08/23/apple-test-autonomous-shuttle/ | ||||
11 | Security researcher Will Strafach discovered that iOS app AccuWeather sent data like WIFI router name and MAC Address to a data monetization firm called Reveal Mobile every few hours. The data can be used to locate a user even if the user has turned off location sharing. An AccuWeather Spokesperson said Reveal is updating its software so that no location will be transmitted if a user opts out of location sharing. | |||||
12 | Microsoft Research posted details of Project Brainwave, which uses field programmable gate array or FPGA chips to make real-time AI processing possible. FPGAs are more flexible than CPUs. Microsoft is working with Intel’s Altera unit putting Deep Neural Network capabilities into Brainwave FPGAs. It can support multiple AI frameworks including Google’s TensorFlow. | http://fortune.com/2017/08/23/microsoft-project-brainwave-ai/ | ||||
13 | The US Department of Justice says it did not realize the extent of visitor data maintained by Dreamhost when it obtained a warrant for 1.3 million IP addresses and all communications related to a protest website. The Department of Justice is narrowing its request. | |||||
14 | Hulu released a new app for the Xbox 360 that supports Hulu’s live TV service. Hulu also announced it will merge its two iOS apps. Right now there is one iOS app for the old Hulu service and a new one that includes a new design and access to live TV. Hulu has not given a timeframe for adding Live TV support to Roku, Samsung smart TVs and Mac and PC apps. | |||||
15 | The International Federation of Robotics reports robot shipments jumped 27% in China to 90,000 last year and estimates that number will jump in the country to 160,000 by 2019. China makes up about a third of the global total of robot shipments making it the leading country in new robot installations. | |||||
16 | Owners of DJI Spark UAVs have until September 1st to update firmware or the quadcopters will no longer fly. The firmware update fixes an issue that caused some Spark’s to experience midflight malfunctions. | |||||
17 | Israel’s Flytrex has partnered with Iceland’s AHA on-demand goods service for delivery by hexacopter in Reykjavik. Flytrex worked with local regulators and developed the network that the delivery system runs on. An AHA employee loads the delivery on a DJI Matrice 600 which then flies across the bay of the North Atlantic Ocean where another delivery person unloads it and takes it the rest of the way. This saves the half hour or more drive around the bay. The hexacopter can carry up to three kilograms for up to 10 kilometers. AHA plans to start with about 20 deliveries a day and hopes to expand to multiple routes, including home deliveries. | |||||
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