In the Weeds with Dexter Johnson

Circle back to 2008 when BitTorrent was beginning to take the world by storm and ISPs infrastructure was laughably bad, Comcast created measures so that users would be affected by others....throttling speeds -- arguably heavy and light users would balance out. It's been announced that they are disabling this but keeping data caps -- why? Data caps have never made sense and are falsely putting a limit on how much internet we can use. The infrastructure can handle it. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/06/comcast-says-it-doesnt-throttle-heaviest-internet-users-anymore/ ||

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Screen notches have become synonymous with 2018 every since iPhone X made this poor design decision ok. Everyone is fighting for the highest screen-to-body ratio. We'll friends, Vivo has done it...coming in at 91.24%, an in glass fingerprint reader, pop-up selfie camera and all of the highest-end specs, this phone stands out. Check out an article from The Verge: https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2018/6/12/17452744/vivo-nex-apex-phone-announced-no-bezels-pop-up-camera and a video from Mrwhosetheboss on YouTube: https://youtu.be/mTcvWCSIfSY . ||

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In a world that is increasingly online, it only makes sense that one day our currencies should live in an online, secure, decentralized repository -- instead of giving banks, who are in bed with the government, all of our assets. The trouble comes when data breaches occur. This is more than hacking when crypto currency is stolen, it's outright thievery and instead of looking at this currency as a play thing, we need to respect it and think about it's future. Read more here: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/06/bitcoin-prices-continue-to-fall-as-yet-another-exchange-reports-a-breach/ ||

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Google Assistant fired a gun, is what an artist reported to Engadget. Not really. There are no smart guns that are powered by Assistant. What this gentleman did is hooked up a switch to a TP-Link WiFi Enabled Plug then plugged the switch holding the gun into it. Upon saying "activate gun" -- it fired. Any digital assistant could've done this and it is no fault of the company. Remember, they don't build in nefarious uses, but the human mind is both a great and dangerous thing when we choose to Daisy chain these things together. https://www.engadget.com/2018/05/30/google-assistant-fired-a-gun-we-need-to-talk/ ||

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Music streaming was largely pioneered when Appld began to flex it's muscles with iTunes and developed a model where companies with with labels to get music and artists on their respective platforms. Well this is changing now. Spotify wants to work directly with artists. This seems to be a win, win as Spotify won't have to deal with labels thus cutting the middle man out on both sides, it's very likely that artists will see greater benefits as well. https://www.recode.net/2018/6/8/17441544/spotify-daniel-ek-direct-deal-music-labels ||

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Dolby Atmos and zero sign-in headline the features to be released this September in the tvOS 12 update. https://www.macworld.co.uk/news/apple/tvos-12-features-3668703/ ||

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New workouts, smarter Siri and Walkie Talkie will be coming to your Apple Watch this fall. Let's get excited! ||

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Apple's iOS 12, the new update for later this year that will be more performant has a lot of exciting features packed in! https://www.theverge.com/2018/6/4/17417730/apple-ios-12-iphone-update-best-features-wwdc-2018 ||

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After a huge amount of backlash, Google's Project Maven will not Renew at the end of the year. This comes after employees signed petitions and walked away from their jobs and all of the madness that is come out over the recent week. https://www.engadget.com/2018/06/01/google-will-not-renew-military-ai-contract-project-maven/ ||

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The General Data Protection Regulation is legislation put in place in the EU that puts the privacy of consumers first in this technological world. In a nutshell, if a company wants to use your data in any way -- they must explicitly state how and why. Additionally, if anything about that changes it must also be noted. Although, this is pushed by EU, it'll have global affects because companies will work to protect privacy of some and push those features out to all in most cases. Here's hope for a better more streamlined internet without so much tracking. || Let's continue our discussion! Follow me on Twitter and Instagram at @dexter_johnson and visit http://DexJohnsPC.com to stay on top of my latest posts. Share this podcast with a friend!