Show Notes

* Android News

* Google will be requiring the partitioning scheme needed for Seamless Updating

* Google kills Android distribution numbers on the web, but you can still find them in Android Studio. Android 10 at  8.2%, Pie at 31.3%, Oreo at 21.3%…

* Android TV still lacks multiple user profiles.

* Google and Apple want to make SMS 2FA easier and more consistent

* Google Play adds more transparent subscription offers, and limiting unneeded location access

* Home Automation

* Google offers Local Home SDK for local control

* Google Assistant opening up support for TVs, remotes, and set top boxes

* Curl has experimental support for MQTT

* The Future of YAML

* FCC filing reveals Wyze Cam Outdoor

* Deactivation: How will an IoT product die?

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* Apps News

* Google testing HDR photography for Camera Go on budget phones

* GitHub adds support for mentions, switching branches, and more.

* Message Forwarder can forward SMS, MMS, and call notifications via SMS and Email

* Tasker adds Contact Via App

* Plex releases Dash and Amp Player app

* In Other News

* Webcams are almost as hard to find as toilet paper and hand sanitizer

* Messages in Hangouts Chat, aka Google Chat gets feature to forward messages to Gmail

* The Supreme Court will stream oral arguments live for the first time.

* John Conway, inventor of the Game of Life, dead at 82.

* NBCUniversal pre-launches Peacock

* The Google Wallet card