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Trump Accuses Google of Rigging Search Results To Favor ‘Bad’ News About Him.  Russia fake news President Donald Trump says Google search results for “Trump News” show only negative coverage about him. Tweet this morning on Tuesday 8/28/2018 Trump tweet, “96% of results on “Trump News” are from National Left-Wing Media” He said it’s a […]

Gig economy pressure: drivers more likely to crash

From a report: Research from University College London (UCL) indicated 42% of “gig-economy” couriers and taxi drivers reported vehicle damage because of a collision.

Close to half admitted time pressure could make them break the speed limit. Distraction by smartphones and tiredness from overwork were also flagged as risks for those delivering food and parcels.

Have you ever had a close call in an uber? (Black mirror: Everyone has a number.  What’s my uber number?) Do you feel pressure to tip?

Chinese Internet Users Cross 800 Million Mark

There are now as many internet users in China as there are people in the United States, Indonesia and Brazil combined

open huge market opportunities for hi-tech companies

provide the government with better access to keep watch over its citizens (When I went to china everything was blocked.  I’m sure they were watching me)

Wechat (Like Messenger).  Weibo (A lot like twitter.  Saw some girls using it last night at Disneyland)

 

NVida’s new graphics cards: RTX 2070 and 2080

These new 20-series cards will succeed Nvidia’s current top-of-the-line GPUs, the GeForce GTX 1070, GTX 1080 and GTX 1080 Ti

(Expensive) The Nvidia-manufactured Founders Edition versions will cost $599 for the RTX 2070, $799 for the RTX 2080 and $1,199 for the RTX 2080 Ti

will be the first consumer-level graphics cards based on Nvidia’s next-generation Turing architecture

built-in support for real-time ray tracing, a rendering and lighting technique for photorealistic graphics

Out in September

(I remember in 1994 saving up money from my paper rout to get an ATI Mach 64 video card.

 

Gmail can now send self-destructing email from phone:

protect sensitive information by allowing users to set an expiration date for individual messages or revoke access to messages already sent.

The feature also prevents recipients from forwarding, copying, printing or downloading its content and allows users to require recipients to enter a one-time code sent via SMS to view the email. The authentication feature is intended to protect information in the event of the recipient’s email account being hijacked.

How many times have we accidentally sent an email right?

Some say it doesn’t go far enough.  It’s not end to end encrypted and google will ask you for your latest cell phone number in some cases to decrypt a message.  Should we be giving this information to goole?

 

Netflix Will Now Interrupt Series Binges With Video Ads For Its Other Series

users claimed that ads for entirely different series would play between episodes of a given show’s binging.

Awkward placements for advertisements are happening:  An add for “I am killer” during the cartoon bob’s burgers (Tina is my favorite character on that show).

 

Twitch Prime Ends Ad Free Viewing.

New Chromecast with Bluetooth and better 5grz WiFi.

Motorola Receives Backlash For Revealing a ‘Shameless’ Copy of the iPhone X as Its New Model

The new  Motorola P30 was a “brazen” and “egregious” rip-off of Apple’s flagship device

Same notch

Motorola “even went so far as to adorn the screen with a wallpaper that’s a dead ringer for Apple’s default wallpaper.”

Is it a good design?

Do you like the notch?

Apple planning new low cost MacBook and MacMini

Tesla Tweets

Stock bumps and drops

Rapper Aziela Banks claims Musk was tweeting on Acid.

Was in LA to work with his girlfriend Grimes.

25k car in 3 years.

YouTuber Marques Brownlee asked Musk in an inte...

Gig economy pressure: drivers more likely to crash From a report: Research from University College London (UCL) indicated 42% of “gig-economy” couriers and taxi drivers reported vehicle damage because of a collision. Close to half admitted time pressure could make them break the speed limit. Distraction by smartphones and tiredness from overwork were also flagged […]

Notes for Tech Time Episode 1

1:05

Google continues to track you through services like Google Maps, weather updates, and browser searches — any app activity can be used to track you.

By turning off Location History, you’re only stopping Google from adding your movements to its Timeline feature, which visually logs where you’ve been.

But there is a way to get Google to actually stop tracking you: by digging through settings to turn off “Web and App Activity.”

Tech companies make money by tracking us.

Are all of these features worth your privacy? (Zuckerberg tapes his camera)

Companies know more about you than you think.

5:40

Red (Hydrogen one) Phone Specs and Release date

5.7” Holographic display (No need for glasses)

8K 3D camera attachment

1600 titanium version (priciest), cheaper alluminum version 1200.

To be released in the fall of 2018

10:05

Magic Leap Specs and Reviews

Augmented reality goggles.

2.3 billion and 8 years… still haven’t released goggles.

Pre-order $2300 ( you could buy 2 Iphone X’s with change to spare)

Reviews pretty mixed.  Seems to be geared towards developers.

How does it compare with microsoft’s holo lens?

Talk about pokemon go (Santa Monica water pokemon)

 

17:05

Pixel 3 Leaks

Apparently it has a very small battery for the screen size

Android P has ‘machine learning’ based battery optimization and chipsets become ever more efficient, but apps and games also become ever more demanding

Galaxy Note 9 has a 4000mAh battery tmah (Large Pixel 3 @ 6.7 Inches is only  3,430mAh)

Battery life is my most important factor

 

19:55 Note 9 Release (Crazy Price)

128GB of storage in the standard model, a little bit of artificial intelligence, and a Bluetooth-enabled S Pen you can use as a remote control.

Tesla Stock YoYo

1000 bucks. (Same as iphone X).  More expensive than the Pixel 2 XL ($849)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 octa-core processor (or Exynos 9 if you’re outside the US),

a whopping 4,000mAh battery

6 GB of Ram (That’s almost as much as my 1800 dollar new mac book pro)

I like the curved glass. I don’t think I’d use the stylus

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[Music] all right Matt so here we are it’s the podcast this is our first one yeah this is exciting finally after all this discussion let’s let’s get it going so I’m coming at you from sunny Los Angeles and that were us I am in the apocalypse of Edmonton we are covered in smoke British Columbia is on fire and this morning I stepped out on my porch and the the smoke was so thick everything had this amber hue it was the most surreal feeling and then when I stood there nothing moved no animals no neighbors and I was kind of looking around going hello it’s a great day to talk about technology though right yes the technology apocalypse is upon us as well well let’s talk a little bit about Google tracking us through the web so I heard this week that even if you turn off your location history they still track you yeah that’s the big news that came out of Google this week and you know I always thought that if you turned off the setting that prevents the following your location I always assumed that Google was not tracking me but it turns out that’s wrong yeah apparently even if you turn it off on Google Maps they can still tell where you’re at with your weather updates and your browser searches so you really can’t get them off your back right yeah actually so I watc...

Notes for Tech Time Episode 1 1:05 Google continues to track you through services like Google Maps, weather updates, and browser searches — any app activity can be used to track you. By turning off Location History, you’re only stopping Google from adding your movements to its Timeline feature, which visually logs where you’ve been. […]