2019 Daily Tech News Show


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3			Coming up on DTNS Could littering the arctic with glass, cool things down? Why a macaque is less resistant to new things than you are, and pig tech!	Twitch Chat
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6			This is the Daily Tech News for Friday Oct 18th, 2019 In LA, I'm Tom Merritt
7			From studio Feline, I'm Sarah Lane
8			Drawing the top tech news of the day from Cleveland, OH I'm Len Peralta
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11			Blair Bazdarich - Co-host of TWIS
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17		sl	Motorola sent out an event invite for November 13th in downtown LA which will feature the "highly anticipated unveiling of a reinvented icon." The invite appears to show the profile of a Motorola Razr V3, and previous sources told CNET that the company plans to release a vertically folding smartphone with the Razr name by the end of 2019.	https://www.cnet.com/news/motorola-event-invite-hints-at-rumored-foldable-razr-phone/
18		tm	French blog MacGeneration noticed icons in the first two betas of macOS Catalina version 10.15.1 that may depict the rumored 16-inch MacBook Pro. The icons have slightly thinner bezels than those of the 15" Pro, and have "16" in both filenames.	https://www.macrumors.com/2019/10/18/16-inch-macbook-pro-macos-10-15-1/
19		sl	Nintendo announced it has sold 15 million Switch units in North America since its launch in 2017. The Wiii U, sold 13.56 million units in North America total. NPD Group says the Switch has been the most popular console in the US for the last ten months.	https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/17/nintendo-switch-hits-another-sales-milestone/
20		tm	Yubico launched Yubico Login for Windows, which lets you use its Yubikey hardware security keys as a login factor on local Windows OS accounts. The app works on Windows 7, 8.1 and 10, and has previously been available for macOS and Linux.	https://www.zdnet.com/article/yubico-security-keys-can-now-be-used-to-log-into-windows-computers/
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22	:33	sl	Image-sharing site Imgur wrote in a blog post that it will no longer display content from Reddit’s NSFW communities on its site, saying"over the years, these pages have put Imgur’s user growth, mission, and business at risk.”NSFW images previously uploaded to Reddit and hosted on Imgur are keeping their original URLs. NSFW images can still be uploaded to Imgur if they're marked “hidden.” Imgur said it wants, “to be a fun and entertaining place that brings happiness to the Internet for many, many years to come.” Reddit introduced its own native image hosting three years ago.	https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/18/20920977/imgur-reddit-nsfw-images-support-business-at-risk
23	:36	tm	Arctic sea ice has receded to historically low levels. A California nonprofit organization called Ice911 Research proposes spreading a thin layer of 35-micrometer silicate beads cross the ice to boost reflectivity and therefore slow down melting. Ice911 Research's CEO Leslie Field says that the thicker arctic ice layer could lead to cooler temperatures worldwide. The company ran tests on ice-covered lakes in California, Minnesota and Alaska. The results published in the journal Earth's Future showed increase in reflectivity and ice thickness. It would cost about $300 million, to cover the 9600 miles of the arctic. before that happens Field wants to get funding for a test in a part of the arctic ocean where ice is lost during the summer.	https://www.wired.com/story/geoengineering-tiny-glass-beads-prevent-arctic-ice-from-melting/	- safe for land mamals need marine mamal test - doesn't cool ocean
24	:40	sl	T-Mobile announced a partnership with the streaming startup Quibi, providing its upcoming streaming service as part of an offering with the carrier. Whether the service will be discounted or free for T-Mobile users, or preinstalled on devices or something else has yet to be determined. Quibi's streaming service will offer mobile focused premium content that's 10-minutes or less, aimed at Millennials, and will charge $5 a month for the service with ads, or $8 without when it launches.	https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2019-10-18/quibi-has-partnered-with-t-mobile
25	:43	tm	Air Force Lt. Col. Jason Rossi announced that the Strategic Automated Command and Control System or SACCS has moved to a “highly-secure solid state digital storage solution” in June. Previously the system ran off 8-inch floppies on a IBM Series/1 computer from the 1970s. SACCS is one of many duplicative systems used by U.S. Strategic Command to send emergency action messages from nuclear command centers to forces in the field.	https://www.c4isrnet.com/air/2019/10/17/the-us-nuclear-forces-dr-strangelove-era-messaging-system-finally-got-rid-of-its-floppy-disks/
26	:45	sl	Time for some pig tech. A paper published in Mammalian Biology found evidence of pigs using tools. A group of scientists from several French institutions observed 11 instances of Visayan warty pigs using sticks and bark to help build their nests at a zoo in Paris. Video shows the pigs holding a stick in their mouth and using it to dig. The scientists gave the pigs spatulas and the pigs used them twice. Add pigs to the list of animals who use tools alongside crows catching prey with sticks, otters cracking open shellfish with stones, and elephants covering watering holes with rocks	https://phys.org/news/2019-10-pigs-tools.html
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33	:48		Have you recently scoffed at a new pieces of software or device? Have you proudly stuck to your old laptop or phone? Have you looked at new software innovations with disdain and stuck to how you've always done things? You are probably not a capuchin or macaque then.	https://phys.org/news/2019-10-monkeys-outperform-humans-cognitive-flexibility.html
34			So easy a monkey could do it? Think again my friends. a study by scientists at Georgia State University found monkeys have more cognitive flexibility. In a paper published in Scientific Reports found capuchin and rhesus macaque monkeys were less susceptible to "cognitive set" bias. The bias causes resistance to a more efficient option that is new. On a computer monkeys and humans were given the following task: Follow a pattern by pushing a striped square, then dotted square then a triangle. Monkeys got a banana pellet. Humans got a reward sound or points. After several repeated trials the program began showing the triangle right away Monkeys grabbed the triangle pushed it forward and got their banana pellet. 70% of them did it the first time it was shown. 61% of humans never used the triangle first, just kept following the old sequence. Even after being shown a video demonstrating that you could successfully push the triangle first, 30% don't. even when subjects were specifically told to try something new, not all of them did. Study co-author Sarah Pope tested this with members of a semi-nomadic tribe in Namibia to eliminate the effect fo western education. Still more than half resisted the new shortcut. HOWEVER in a test at Zoo Atlanta children 7-10 years old were four times as likely to use the shortcut, though still more than half resisted.
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71			This week on dailytechnewshow.com we covered all the Google hardware announcements, discussed why Twitter gives world leaders preferential treatment, i think uncovered the real dangers for Netflix, and it isn't Disney+ and Blair Baz from This Week in Science explains why we are sometimes resistant to new technologies but animals and kids are not.