DescriptionThis week, Russia wants your face, Google has canceled censorship, and Netflix is leaning into Originals.ParticipantsScott Ertz (https://plughitzlive.com/staff/1-scott-ertz.html)HostScott is a developer who has worked on projects of varying sizes, including all of the PLuGHiTz Corporation properties. He is also known in the gaming world for his time supporting the DDR community, through DDRLover and hosting tournaments throughout the Tampa Bar Area. Currently, when he is not working on software projects or hosting F5 Live: Refreshing Technology, Scott can often be found returning to his high school days working with the Foundation for Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST), mentoring teams and judging engineering notebooks at competitions. He has also helped found a student software learning group, the ASCII Warriors.Avram Piltch (https://plughitzlive.com/staff/15-avram-piltch.html)HostAvram's been in love with PCs since he played original Castle Wolfenstein on an Apple II+. Before joining Tom's Hardware, for 10 years, he served as Online Editorial Director for sister sites Tom's Guide and Laptop Mag, where he programmed the CMS and many of the benchmarks. When he's not editing, writing or stumbling around trade show halls, you'll find him building Arduino robots with his son and watching every single superhero show on the CW.OpeningPowered by TeknoAXE (http://teknoaxe.com)Nifty GiftiesPowered by Microsoft Store (http://f5live.tv/microsoft)Please stop helping Russia create deep fake photos and videos (https://plughitzlive.com/theupstream/3301-please-stop-helping-russia-create-deep-fake-photos-and-videos.html)Every week, there is a trend on the internet. Whether it be memes of moths or eating Tide pods, almost everyone is exposed to these short-lived trends. Normally they are harmless, including the Tide pod thing, as long as you didn't swallow the detergent. Sometimes the trends are beneficial, such as the fundraising campaign that was the Ice Bucket Challenge.read full article (https://plughitzlive.com/theupstream/3301-please-stop-helping-russia-create-deep-fake-photos-and-videos.html)Piltch Point with Avram PiltchPowered by Newegg.com (http://piltchpoint.live/newegg)Extra LifePowered by Razer (http://f5live.tv/razer)Nintendo Switch has longer battery model coming with Switch Lite (https://plughitzlive.com/theupstream/3302-nintendo-switch-has-longer-battery-model-coming-with-switch-lite.html)The past 2 weeks have been big for Nintendo announcements. It started last week with the announcement of the Nintendo Switch Lite, a smaller version of the existing Switch. The new model has been anticipated for months and hit all of the expected notes. The most important change is the price, dropping $100 off of the standard model, coming in at $199. A 33% price reduction is a big benefit for many who have held off on the current generation Nintendo console.read full article (https://plughitzlive.com/theupstream/3302-nintendo-switch-has-longer-battery-model-coming-with-switch-lite.html)News From the TubesPowered by RiffTrax (http://f5live.tv/rifftrax)Google has canceled controversial censored Chinese search engine (https://plughitzlive.com/theupstream/3303-google-has-canceled-controversial-censored-chinese-search-engine.html)Since word broke on Google's censored search engine Dragonfly (https://plughitzlive.com/theupstream/3160-google-might-be-working-on-a-censored-search-engine-for-china.html), intended for China, the response has been incredibly negative. The product, which has been in development for over a year, immediately began raising questions about user privacy, government censorship, and corporate culture. China has demanded that search engines remove results about human rights, democracy, peaceful protest, and more. Years ago, Google pulled out of China (http://www.plughitzlive.com/theupstream/561-google-finally-pulls-the-plug.html) over censorship concerns,

Todd Cochrane and Rob Greenlee have a little fun with the Peak Podcasting article that was published in the NYT instead of the Onion. We are no waiting for the corresponding podcasting is dying articles. From our perspective podcasting is still the word of the day in media space. Lot’s to cover here and an update on the new studio.

We are Audio only until Todd’s gets the new studio set up in Michigan.

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(http://vid.geekazine.com/dith/uploads/2013/07/John-Scopes1-254x300.jpg)July 21, 1925: John Scopes found guilty for teaching evolution

John Scopes (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_T._Scopes) was an activist and a teacher. In what was called the “Scopes Monkey Trial“, John was charged on May 5th, 1925 of teaching evolution in his Tennessee classroom. On July 21 he was found guilty and fined $100. The central argument in the case was the Butler Act, prohibiting that human evolution, or any Biblical account of origin could be taught.Scopes verdict was overturned, but only because of a technicality. The Judge fined Scopes and not a jury.

The Butler Act was repealed in 1967.

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* Xerox leaves the computer market* Blueberry iBook Computer announced* Apple announces a worker at Foxconn commits suicide for loosing an Apple 4G prototype

“Houston, Tranquillity Base here. The Eagle has landed.”

(http://vid.geekazine.com/dith/uploads/2013/07/y2k1.jpg)July 20, 1999: Y2k bill signed into law

2012 – At the premier of the Dark Knight Rises in Aurora, CO. James Eagan Holmes opened fire in one of the theaters. Holmes killed 20 people and injured many. He is currently being evaluated for insanity with a court date of Feb 13, 2014.

In a step to protect companies from any post Y2K problems, in 1999, President Bill Clinton signs a bill into law protecting companies from legal action.

Today I have signed into law H.R. 775, the “Y2K Act.” This is extraordinary, time-limited legislation designed to deal with an exceptional and unique circumstance of national significance—the Y2K computer problem.

In signing this legislation, I act in the belief and with the expectation that companies in the high technology sector and throughout the American economy are serious in their remediation efforts and that such efforts will continue. Many have worked hard to identify the potential for Y2K failures among their systems and products, taken reasonable measures to inform those who might be injured from Y2K failures of steps they could take to avoid the harm, and fixed those systems and products, where feasible. If nonetheless there are significant failures or disruptions as we enter the Year 2000, plaintiffs will turn to the courts seeking compensation. Responsible companies fear that they will spend millions or more defending Y2K suits, even if they bear little or no responsibility for the harm alleged. Frivolous litigation could burden our courts and delay relief for those with legitimate claims. Firms whose productivity is central to our economy could be distracted by the defense of unwarranted lawsuits.

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* Hasbro scraps Virtual Reality game* Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas gets a new rating* CTSS is first demonstrated

Suddenly, Buzz and Neil heard the high-pitched sound of the Master Alarm. On the computer display the “PROG” light glowed amber. “Program alarm,” Armstrong radioed. Quickly, Aldrin queried the computer for the alarm code, and “1202” flashed on the display.

(http://vid.geekazine.com/dith/uploads/2012/09/Apple-125x1251.jpg)July 19, 2000: Apple released PowerMac G4 Cube

Apple (http://www.apple.com)released a series of new items in 2000, including a new “button less” mouse, iMovie2 and the iMac DV series with the PowerPC G3 processor. But they also introduced the PowerMac G4 Cube – a 450 or 500 MHz computer with Velocity Engine – A Single Instruction Multiple Data (SIMD) which operates concurrently with existing integer and floating-point. Add with it 2 Firewire ports, 10/100BaseT Ethernet, Modem and 20 GB hard drive and you had a serious system at the time. The cube could not take cards because of it’s case sizes and the DVD drive was located on the top of the device. It was designed with a case that made it possible to eliminate the fan.

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* Palm introduces the IIIe* The iPhone app “cannabis” is released* TWA introduces in-flight movies

This week, Amazon Prime Day breaks records……again, Netflix loses subscribers, smartphone shipments decline, eBay beats Q2 estimates, Verizon launches 5G in St. Paul plus the DNC gets a warning not to use FaceApp

Show Notes:

* Netflix Q2 (https://variety.com/2019/digital/news/netflix-q2-2019-earnings-1203270393/)

* A decline in smartphone shipments (https://www.cnet.com/news/phone-shipments-face-their-worst-decline-ever-gartner-says/#ftag=CAD590a51e)

* eBay Q2 (https://www.zdnet.com/article/ebay-beats-q2-estimates-as-it-explores-value-of-stubhub/)

* DNC warned not to use FaceApp (https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/17/politics/dnc-warning-faceapp/index.html?no-st=1563408204)

* Verizon launches 5G in St. Paul (https://www.cnet.com/news/verizon-5g-launches-in-st-paul-along-with-650-mobile-hotspot/#ftag=CAD590a51e)

* Best AT&T phones (https://www.androidcentral.com/best-att-phones)

* BYOD Comcast Xfinity Mobile (https://www.theverge.com/2019/7/18/20698989/comcast-xfinity-mobile-android-byod-samsung-galaxy-s8-s9-note-8-9)

* Samsung Galaxy Note 10 (https://www.androidcentral.com/samsung-galaxy-note-10)

* Google will pay up to $3000.00 to report a bug (https://www.cnet.com/news/google-will-now-pay-up-to-30000-for-reporting-a-chrome-bug/#ftag=CAD590a51e)

* Google’s plan to improve local news (https://www.engadget.com/2019/07/18/google-mcclatchy-compass-experiment-youngstown-ohio/)

* YouTube crackdown on stream ripping (https://www.cnet.com/news/google-youtube-crack-down-on-stream-ripping-mp3-sites-pirating-music-songs/#ftag=CAD590a51e)

* Orlando won’t use Amazon’s facial recognition  (https://www.engadget.com/2019/07/19/orlando-amazon-rekognition-pilot/)

* Facial recognition banned in another state (https://www.cnet.com/news/facial-recognition-banned-in-another-city/#ftag=CAD590a51e)

* Best drones for kids (https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/best-drones-for-kids/)

* Best phone mounts and holders for cars (https://www.pcworld.com/article/3240904/best-phone-mounts-and-holders-for-cars.html#tk.rss_all)

* How to get the best wifi connection at the airport (https://lifehacker.com/how-to-get-the-best-wifi-connection-at-the-airport-1836419477)

* Smart News apps (https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/smart-news-apps-avoid-fake-news-trustworthy-reports/)

* Best podcasts for kids (https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/best-podcasts-for-kids/)

* Delete these banned apps from your Android phone (https://lifehacker.com/delete-these-banned-apps-from-your-android-1836494919)

* Google Trends at number 3: Area 51 Raid (https://www.cnet.com/news/1-7-million-want-to-raid-area-51-to-see-them-aliens/)

* Trending on Twitter at number 10: #heatwave (https://twitter.com/mmpadellan/status/1152304232537759749)

* Trending on YouTube at number 8 (https://youtu.be/dxqYDrELD_E)

* AI Rubiks Cube (https://www.engadget.com/2019/07/17/ai-rubiks-cube-machine-learning-neural-network/)

* AI bartender (https://www.engadget.com/2019/07/18/barsys-robotic-bartender-ai-cocktails/)

The machine-like performance of flight crew and ground controllers continued. Each participant was in perfect harmony with the other, moving to a cadence dictated by the laws of physics and the clock.

HPC Market Eyes $44BNew report from Hyperion Research has the HPC+AI market growing to $44B, with a B, in 5 years. The industry is hitting on all cylinders, benefiting from* The ExaScale race,* AI coming to the enterprise only to find that it needs, or really is, HPC, depending on your point of view, and* it's usual, sometimes slow but always steady, growthThe big news continues to be AI fundamentally bringing HPC closer to the mainstream of enterprise computing whether it is on-prem, in a co-location facility, or in a public cloud.All of this is starting big changes in the industry. We see this in mergers and acquisitions (basically new companies), new technologies, new architectures, and new business models. An example of the latter is the loosening of chip licensing, with open source models starting to get attention. Unlike open source software, however, silicon needs a fab, and the necessary electronic design automation software applications don't have equivalent open source alternatives.Catch of the WeekHenry:Following a supply chain security breach, Henry predicts that standards bodies like NIST and ISO will become even more active in this area with guidelines for hardware, software, and processes.Shahin:Shahin talks about Apple's design chief, Jony Ive, leaving the company and shares some jokes on social media that fall flat for Dan and Henry, who probably claim it has nothing to do with them being such PC aficionados.Jony Ive, Designer Who Made Apple Look Like Apple, Is Leaving to Start a Firm (https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/27/technology/jony-ive-apple.html)Jony Ive, Apple’s chief design officer and one of the most influential executives in the history of the Silicon Valley giant, is leaving the company. Mr. Ive will depart this year to start his own design company, Apple said on Thursday. Through his new firm, LoveFrom, Mr. Ive will continue to work on a wide range of Apple products, the company said.Dan:Dan concludes the show without a "catch" this week!Listen in to hear the full conversation.Download the MP3 (http://radiofreehpc.com/audio/RF-HPC_Episodes/Episode235/RFHPC235_44B-HPC-Market.mp3) * Subscribe on iTunes (http://bit.ly/WgEZzd) * RSS Feed (http://bit.ly/QXKy3V)Sign up for our insideHPC Newsletter (http://insidehpc.com/newsletter)(http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/RadioFreeHpcPodcast/~4/bd57CcIXzGg)