Techno Buffet Podcast

Episode 476 – Happy Birthday Maps


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Show Notes

* Android News

* Android to get Share to Print feature.
* Autofill code from Messages feature spotted


* App News

* Netflix begins streaming AV1 on Android to save user’s data
* Facebook Messenger is the only thing keeping me from delete my Facebook account
* Androidify Avatar Maker retired.
* Google Play Music finally migrating music locker feature to YouTube Music.
* AllCast now can stream from SMB and shared folders


* Home

* More protection for Nest accounts
* Amazon dominates smart speaker market in 2019, although dropped from 72.9 to 69.7. Google went from 30.4 to 31.1.
* Home Assistant deprecates old UI, continues to iterate, adds safe mode.


* Maps

* Google Maps turns 15, gets new icon and refreshed layout.
* The Last 15 Years
* The Next 15 Years


* In Other News

* Someone upscaled an 1896 video to 4K quality using neural networks
* Chrome removes three types of video ads: Non-skippable pre-roll of over 31 seconds, mid-roll interrupting the original content, image/text that covers more than 20% or in the middle 1/3 of the player window
* Dashlane password manager removed from Chrome Web Store
* Google Podcasts gets a web UI.
* Google to offer Titan Keys to US political campaigns



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Techno Buffet PodcastBy Guru and Jere