2018 Daily Tech News Show


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6			This is the Daily Tech News for Tuesday Dec 18th, 2018. In LA, I'm Tom Merritt
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11	:31	TM	Let's start with a few tech things you should know...
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14		sl	Charter Communications agreed to a $174.2 million settlement over a 2017 lawsuit in New York that that speeds were up to 80 percent slower than what Charter advertised. 700,000 active customers will each be refunded between $75 and $150, and an additional $110 million will go toward free streaming services and premium cable channels distributed to 2.2 million subscribers in New York.	https://www.theverge.com/2018/12/18/18146210/charter-spectrum-174-million-settlement-new-york-state-attorney-general-internet-speeds
15		pb	Google Home can now read events from a G Suite account. Multiple calendars on Google Home have been available for more than a year, but previously didn't support birthday and holiday calendars, or shared calendars created by a G Suite account, or imported calendars.	https://www.androidpolice.com/2018/12/18/google-home-can-now-read-events-from-shared-g-suite-calendars/
16		tm	Arm is adding the Cortex A76AE CPU with focus on automotive applications to its portfolio, Arm’s first to feature the “split-lock” technology that allows two CPU cores to operate in a configurable lock-step operation mode, and lets the units process tasks together– achieving a required level of functional safety of the software that is run on the system.	https://www.anandtech.com/show/13727/arm-announces-cortex65ae-for-automotive-first-smt-cpu-core
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18	:33	pb	Twitter introduced a new toggle feature in its iOS app to switch from the ranked timeline to a reverse-chronological feed, which was the original. The company says it understands Twitter users find real time tweets important during live events such like sports games or the Oscars. Twitter says the feature will roll out to other platforms in the coming weeks.	https://www.theverge.com/2018/12/18/18145089/twitter-latest-tweets-toggle-ranked-feed-timeline-algorithm
19	:36	sl	AT&T announcd it's launching 5G mobile service in Atlanta; Charlotte, N.C.; Dallas; Houston; Indianapolis, Jacksonville, Fla.; Louisville, Ky.; Oklahoma City; New Orleans; Raleigh, N.C.; San Antonio; and Waco, Texas on Friday. AT&T promised to launch 5G service in 2018, although this service is only available via a mobile hotspot until 5G-capable phones start becoming available next year, the hotspot will cost $499 and 15GB of data will cost $70 per month, AT&T says it plans to add service in parts of Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Nashville, Orlando, San Diego, San Francisco and San Jose, Calif. in 2020.	https://www.axios.com/att-to-launch-5g-mobile-service-on-friday-3a6288d7-fa64-4b3d-b936-df236b43d66d.html
20	:39	tm	Nuro, an autonomous car startup founded by two Google veterans has started making fully autonomous grocery deliveries within a few miles of a Fry's grocery store in Scottsdale, Arizona. The Nuro R1 has no space for people on board and tops out 25 miles per hour on public roads. Nuro has made 1,000 deliveries with self-driving Priuses that used safety drivers and will continue to operate these as well as the fully autonomous R1s.	https://arstechnica.com/cars/2018/12/kroger-owned-grocery-store-begins-fully-driverless-deliveries/
21	:42	pb	Mark Rober caught thieves stealing packages from his doorstep on a security camera but the police said they were unable to investigate the case. So the former NASA engineer put four smartphones, a circuit board and a pound of glitter in an Apple Homepod box. The device was built to release the glitter and spray fart smell when the thief opened the box and the smartphones would record the moment and upload it. An accelerometer checked GPS when there was any motion and activated the phones if it was off the porch. It was stolen several times and abandoned after each time a thief opened it. Police in New Jersey are working with Amazon to plant dummy boxes with GPS and cameras to catch thieves. They do not include glitter.	https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-46604625
22	:45	sl	Ford has taken noise-canceling from its Edge SUV and used it to build a noise-canceling doghouse to shield pets from fireworks sounds. The walls are made from noise-dampening high-density cork. Sadly the doghouse is just a concept from Ford's Interventions project.	https://www.pcmag.com/news/365535/ford-created-a-noise-cancelling-doghouse
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28	:47		Rising Instagram Stars Are Posting Fake Sponsored Content	https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/12/influencers-are-faking-brand-deals/578401/
29			The Atlantic's Taylor Lorenz has a story about people pretending to make sponsored posts on places like Instagram and YouTube. - The idea seems to be to look like you're the kind of influencer who can promote things so that people will actually pay you to promote things. - It's also about street cred. - There are rules about disclosing paid advertisements but no rules about pretending to be paid when you're not. - Brands like the free promotion but it can be bad if the fake messages are mediocre or not good. - It also seems to be driving down the amount of money paid to influencers.
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