2019 Daily Tech News Show


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6			This is the Daily Tech News for Wednesday Nov 20th, 2019. In LA, I'm Tom Merritt
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15		sl	Facebook's experimental app employees, called NPE Team, have released Whale, an app that lets you decoarte photos with text and stickers. A meme creator if you will. It's free to use with no in-app purchases or subscriptions. The app is only available in Canada. The NPE Team is charged by Facebook with rapidly developing apps to experiment with new ideas.	https://techcrunch.com/2019/11/19/facebooks-latest-experiment-is-a-meme-creation-app-whale/
16		scott	Facebook also announced its F8 developer conference will take place May 5th and 6th 2020 at McEnery Convention Center in San Jose, California.You can sign up to get notified when registration will open at f8.com.	https://techcrunch.com/2019/11/19/facebook-announces-dates-for-its-2020-f8-developers-conference/
17		tm	Alibaba has set a likely price of 176 Hong Kong dollars for its secondary stock listing on the Hong Kong stock exchange. That is the price for institutional investors. A retail price has not been set, but is likely to be around the same level according to a source speaking to CNBC.	https://www.cnbc.com/2019/11/20/alibaba-prices-shares-for-hong-kong-listing.html
18		sl	Apple launched a lineup of battery cases for the iPhone 11, 11 Pro, and 11 Pro Max, in the same black, white, and pink colors as their predecessors, and also with wireless charging support. What's new is a physical button that auto-opens the iPhone’s camera app even if the phone is locked.	https://www.macrumors.com/2019/11/20/apple-new-iphone-11-battery-cases/
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20	:33	scott	The Verge reports that the head of Disney’s direct to consumer division Kevin Mayer says difficulties with the Disney+ app at launch had to do with the way the company "architected the app." Mayer said that BAMTech, AKA Disney Streaming Services, had never seen the high volume of streams, even when hosting things like HBO and MLB, and it exposed "limits to the architecture." Mayer says Disney will recode the app within the next couple of weeks to fix issues affecting things like the continue watching feature.	https://www.theverge.com/2019/11/19/20973340/disney-plus-first-day-outages-app-amazon-bamtech-netflix
21	:37	sl	Google Assistant has a new feature called Your News Update that can be played by telling the Asistant to listen to the news. Google assembles the update from various Google partners based on what it knows about you, including your location. Among several dozen participating partners are Fox News, the NBA, Aljazeera, Wired and more. Stories in your update can come from multiple sources with the source read out before the news item plays. Updates generally start with big national and international stories followed by local news then more personalized bits, like sports. You can go into Assistant's settings to prioritize or mute various sources.	https://www.theverge.com/2019/11/19/20972336/google-assistant-audio-news-feed-algorithm
22	:41	tm	The robot lawyer behind the DoNotPay parking ticket dispute service has a new service called Do Not Sign, included in DoNotPay's $3 subscription. Do Not Sign lets you upload, scan or link to a license agreement. The service uses machine learning to highlight clauses it thinks a user will want to know about, and methods for opting out of data collection. It can even send letters on your behalf to take advantage of opt outs. Do Not Sign is available in the US on the Web and in the DoNotPay iOS app.	https://www.theverge.com/2019/11/20/20973830/robot-lawyer-donotpay-ai-startup-license-agreements-sign-arbitration-clauses
23	:45	sl	Google added new tools to Google Earth that lets you set landmarks, draw lines from place to place, add text, images, and videos to every point along any particular journey, and then share it. Google is also experimenting with premade tours that it calls "stories". If this sounds familiar, Google Earth already had guided tours in its “Voyager” tab, but the new tools allow anyone to make and share a tour and invite others to collaborate. It's web only for now, but Google says you can view tours on the latest versions of iOS and Android..	https://www.theverge.com/2019/11/20/20972692/google-earth-make-tours-favorite-travel-spots
24	:48	scott	Big thanks to spsheridan for submitting this on our subreddit. Bill Gates-backed energy company Heliogen have used computer vision software and automatic edge detection to direct a field of mirrors to use sunlight to create temperatures above 1000 degrees celsius, about a quarter of the temperature of the surface of the sun. That solar heat could be used to make cement, steel, glass and other materials with no carbon emissions. The next step is to demonstrate the process at scale. Later on, Heliogen believes it may be able to create hydrogen at scale.	https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/19/business/heliogen-solar-energy-bill-gates/index.html
25	:52	tm	At a hearing Tuesday, the US National Transportation Safety Board determined cause and responsibility for the death of a pedestrian who was hit by an Uber autonomous car. Safety driver Rafaela Vasquez was found partially at fault for being distracted by her phone.Uber's Advanced Technologies group received partial blame for inadequate safety procedures and ineffective monitoring of vehicle operators. Uber did not have a system to keep safety drivers from becoming complacent. The victim, Elaine Herzburg was found partially at fault for having methamphetamines in her system which may have impaired judgement when crossing outside the crosswalk. And the state of Arizona took partial blame for insufficient policies to regulate autonomous vehicles.	https://www.theverge.com/2019/11/19/20972584/uber-fault-self-driving-crash-ntsb-probable-cause
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39			From Allison Sheridan "2 thoughts on self-driving cars learning about the selfishness level of drivers (cool!): Steve and I are constantly noting that the Tesla sees someone turn in front of us and can’t tell that the car is moving at a rate and with enough momentum to make it across well before we get there and so it freaks out and slams on the brakes or sets off an alarm."
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41			Dear DTNSers... Thanks to all of you who wrote in expressing concern for my health and well-being with regards to my sleep patterns, and sleeping disorders in general. Please rest assured that I take my health very seriously - especially as I unwillingly age. (I'm kicking and screaming into the future) - and I know that "home remedies" are not an adequate replacement for calling in the professionals. The tools that I described on DTNS are meant to be used as guidance and confirmation of the impact of small changes in one's daily habits, but are never intended as replacement for help from physicians. I am already working with doctors and sleep disorder experts on potential causes for my issues, so I am getting professional assistance. However, being a technologist, I cannot help but do my own data collection and analysis of my sleep issues - as well as data collection of the rest of my health and habits - and I don't anticipate that stopping anytime soon. By monitoring my sleep patterns with low-cost, low-invasive technologies, I've been able to make changes to my daily and nightly routines that have impacted my sleep positively - so that will continue, and I'm happy to continue to report on new technologies and techniques going forward. Thank you again for all of your concerns - feel free to reach out to me on twitter (I am there as @uberrob) if you'd like to start a discussion or see what sleep tech I'm tinkering with now... ...peace.
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