2023 Daily Tech News Show


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5			On this episode of DTNS, It's Fold-a-palooza. Shannon Morse and Android Fairthful's Huyen Tue Dao are here and we'll all compare our experiences with the Pixel Fold. Plus Microsoft just gave its cloud gaming rights to Ubisoft? Yeah. We'll explain.	Twitch Chat Pop-out Window
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8			This is the Daily Tech News for... Tuesday August 22nd, 2023. In LA, I'm Tom Merritt
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10			From Studio Sarah Lane, I'm Sarah Lane
11			From Studio Colorado I'm Shannon Morse
12			And I'm the show's Producer Roger Chang
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14			Huyen Tue Dao - Android Developer and a host on the Android Faithful podcast
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17	:01	TM	Let's start with the Quick Hits.
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20		sl	At laaaast. Arm filed for its expected IPO Monday. The chip designer, owned by SoftBank, seeks a US Nasdaq listing, looking to trade under the ticker symbol “ARM.” After SoftBank's deal to sell Arm to Nvidia fell through, SoftBank took Arm private in 2016.	https://www.cnbc.com/2023/08/21/arm-files-for-nasdaq-listing-as-softbank-sells-shares-in-chipmaker.html
21		tm	Nvidia announced that DLSS 3.5 will arrive in the next few months and work for all RTX generation Nvidia GPUs. It will replace the denoisers in the graphics pipeline with machine-generated Ray Reconstructions. But the part you'll care about is that Nvidia says it will improve performance and image fidelity. The Verge notes one of the first appearances of DLSS 3.5 will be in Cyberpunk 2077 which gets support for DLSS 3.5 with the release of the Phantom Liberty DLC on September 26th. It will also be available in editing apps like Chaos Vantage, D5 Render, and Nvidia Omniverse, to improve render previews. Next on the docket, AMD's FidelityFX Super Resolution 3, aka FSR 3, which we might hear something about at Gamescom this week.	https://www.pcgamer.com/nvidia-dlss-3-5-ray-reconstruction/
22		sl	Attention Excel users: Microsoft is bringing the popular programming language Python to your spreadsheets. A public preview of the feature is available today, letting Excel users manipulate and analyze data with Python. Stefan Kinnestrand, general manager of modern work at Microsoft, says “You can manipulate and explore data in Excel using Python plots and libraries, and then use Excel’s formulas, charts, and PivotTables to further refine your insights.”	https://techcrunch.com/2023/08/22/microsoft-is-bringing-python-to-excel/
23		tm	Meta announced a large language model called SeamlessM4T that it says can translate and transcribe almost 100 languages in text and speech. Meta released SeamlessM4T under a Creative Commons Attribution, non-commercial international license. It also released the metadata of its SeamlessAlign translation dataset.	https://techcrunch.com/2023/08/22/meta-releases-an-ai-model-that-can-transcribe-and-translate-close-to-100-languages/
24		sl	Meta also announced it will indeed launch a full web app for Threads, rolling it out over the next few days. Threads spokesperson Christine Pai tells The Verge "You’ll be able to post, interact with other posts, and look at your feed, however, you won’t get all the features available in the mobile app." Limitations include not being able to edit your profile or send a post to Instagram DMs from the web. But web app functionality might boost engagement from those of us sitting at a computer to use Threads more often. Also from Meta, Facebook and Instagram users in Europe will get the option to switch off personalized feeds before the Digital Services Act’s August 25th deadline for compliance.	https://www.theverge.com/2023/8/22/23840441/meta-threads-web-app
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30		sl	Back on July 19, the UK paused its investigation to have talks with Microsoft about restructuring its deal to acquire ActivisionBlizzard. Now we know what came out of the talks. Tom, walk us through it.
31		tm	To address the UK Competition and Markets Authority's concerns about cloud gaming, Microsoft will agree to transfer cloud gaming rights to Ubisoft in perpetuity for all current ActivisionBlizzard games and any games released by ActivisionBlizzard over the next 15 years. - Ubisoft will pay Microsoft for the rights "through a one-off payment and through a market-based wholesale pricing mechanism" - Microsoft would then have to license them back from Ubisoft to include them in Xbox Cloud Gaming. Ubisoft has already announced it will bring them to its own Ubiosoft+ service. - Microsoft must also adapt games to run on non-Windows platforms for cloud streaming purposes. - Different rules will apply in the EU where Microsoft got approval for the deal in exchange for an agreement to let users there stream all current and future ActivisionBlizzard games through “any cloud game streaming services of their choice.” The UK has given itself a new deadline of October 18th to evaluate the deal. AND one side note: Microsoft announced PC Game Pass games will come to Nvidia's GeForce NOW services starting August 24th.	https://www.theverge.com/2023/8/22/23828302/microsoft-activision-blizzard-acquisition-ubisoft-cloud-gaming-rights-uk-cma
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35			NOTES -Xbox chief Phil Spencer praised Sarah Bond, head of Xbox creator experience, for her “exceptional leadership” during the regulatory processes UK CMA investigation deadline extended from 8/29 to 10/18 Back on July 19 set new schedule terms - Breakup fee IF the deal falls through $3 billion After 8/29 - $3.5 billion After 9/15 - $4.5 billion MUST CLOSE by 10/18 - 7/21 Microsoft filed to withdraw FTC lawsuit, FTC did not object
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39		sl	IBM announced it will sell its weather business The Weather Company to private equity firm Francisco Partners, which will operate it as a standalone company. In a joint statement both companies in the sale said The Weather Company wants to move beyond just forecasting and offer new tools for health and well-being. A little history - IBM acquired the apps and websites of the Weather Channel and Weather Underground back in 2016. The Weather Company is a weather forecasting and IT company that owns and operates weather.com (the website for The Weather Channel, but not the TV channel itself), and Weather Underground. The Weather Company has been a subsidiary of the Watson & Cloud Platform business unit of IBM since 2016. Prior to IBM, The Weather Company was owned by a consortium including Blackstone Group, Bain Capital, and NBCUniversal. That consortium still owned The Weather Channel cable network until March 2018 when it was sold to Byron Allen's Entertainment Studios.	https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-08-22/ibm-to-sell-the-weather-company-assets-to-francisco-partners
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41			NOTES: The Weather Company was initially just The Weather Channel starting in 1980. 30 years later, the firm replaced the word "Channel" with "Company". Expected to close by April. IBM is trying to narrow its focus to key drivers (software, cloud, AI) IBM will retain access to the company’s weather data, which it uses to power some of the AI models it sells to enterprise clients. Francisco Partners is a private equity firm that has a lot of health care investments Among its companies are - LastPass - Myfitnesspal - Webtrends - LegalZoom - Grass Valley - GoodRX - Eventbrite - Corsair - Waystar (Revenue cycle management and payments solutions)	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Weather_Company
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50		tm	The Pixel Fold has been out for just about 51 days, so we have convened three differnt types of users to assess what we think of Google's attempt to challenge Samsung as the foldable leader. Each of us will talk about what we use the Fold for and talk about a couple fo things we noticed	https://store.google.com/us/product/pixel_fold?hl=en-US
51		HD	Huyen let's start with you: 1. The front screen is incredibly usable and I've been finding myself spending a lot of time on it (in stark contrast to the Z Fold 4/3) 2. The inner screen is landscape, which really takes advantage of what proper tablet experiences there are and makes multi-window also much more functional. (From a dev perspective, it makes us confront either making some effort or living with letterboxing for our experiences; the latter of which is becoming less tenable as Google Play Store is starting to take large screen adaptation into account for rankings) 3. The specialized software really helps sell the experience: the rear selfie (which I believe is an API that will be open to devs eventually)
52		SM	Shannon how are you using the Fold? 1. Multitasking on the folding display helps me with workload 2. I don't mind the bezels because the inner folding display camera is actually usable (other cameras are also incredibly good) 3. I threw this in dirt and gravel and it's fine. Durability is very good.
53		TM	All right, I'll go 1. Folding has become normal 2. Fingerprint is awkward in some orientations 3. I still don't have a case and so far.....
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58			Lamborghini's new Lanzador is an all-electric departure from the two-seated sporty profile the luxury brand is known for. The Lanzador has floor-mounted battery packs to power the car’s two electric motors, which offer a peak output of over one megawatt (1,341 horsepower). If you ask how fast it can go, the company's mum on details like range, battery, charging capacity, even acceleration speeds. Lamborghini already has a more utilitarian SUV called the Urus, so the Lanzador seems to be sort of a hybrid of supercar and soccer family funboat. The company also says the design was inspired by a spaceship.	https://thenextweb.com/news/lamborghinis-new-electric-car-concept-was-inspired-by-spaceships
59			NOTES: sarah's friend's car is 545hp, they say you feel like your eyeballs are in the back of your brain Most normal cars are like 150-200 A "fast" car is usually 275+ Over 1000 is just ***** insanity
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66			In response to yesterday's request for election workers experience with voting errors with voting machines we got this email: I work elections in Georgia. We ask every voter if they have reviewed thier ballot before scanning. As for what Justin said, it's correct. One vote won’t catch attention but if we notice many people with the wrong person on the ballot it would raise alarms. Surprisingly we have very few people who accidentally choose the wrong candidate. This is part of training and our county is aware of voters awareness of hacking.
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72			Huyen Tue Dao	Huyen Tue Dao https://www.randomlytyping.com https://androidfaithful.com https://www.instagram.com/queencodemonkey @queencodemonkey @queencodemonkey@mastodon.social	androidfaithful.com
73			Shannon Morse	Shannon Morse http://www.youtube.com/shannonmorse @snubs	youtube.com/shannonmorse
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