May 27, 2016 - The WAN Show Document

[nicklmg]

 

 

Soundcloud link: https://soundcloud.com/thewanshow/the-wan-show-foxconn-automates-60000-jobs-may-27-2016

 

 

Main News Topics

 

YouTubers H3H3 sued by YouTube The Boldguy over a Critical Reaction Video

Source 1: https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/602049-youtubers-h3h3- OP: Master Disaster

Source 2: http://www.forbes.com/sites/fruzsinaeordogh/2016/05/26/popular-youtubers-h3h3-prod

Source 3: http://variety.com/2016/digital/news/h3h3-ethan-hila-matthoss-lawsuit-1201784349/

“We’re Being Sued” Video

• Ethan and Hila Klein of H3H3 Productions are being sued over alleged copyright infringement

  • Over a reaction video that they made together

  • In a 13 minute video, H3H3 used about 3 minutes of HossZone’s skit

  • Rest of the video features Ethan and Hila talking about the setting, script, character design, and even the costume design

• Matt HossZone filed a lawsuit against the Kleins

• “The heart and soul of this is, like, that he doesn’t like that we made fun of him, and so he’s suing us” Ethan Klein said in a video about the lawsuit

• Ryan Morrison, who is representing the Kleins wrote:

  • “Our clients will vehemently defend the claims brought against them. This case not only affects their ability to produce the videos but affects the ability of many other content creators. This case is not just against Ethan and Hila but a case against many of the most popular creators on YouTube.”

• The Kleins addressed in a video that them being sued that legal costs could be upwards of $100,000

  • Only if they win the case

  • Philip DeFranco started a defense fund for H3H3 on GoFundMe

  • Has received over $148,000 in donations over 2 days

  • Contributions come from YouTubers like DeFranco, PewDiePie, Markiplier, Jenna Marbles and the Fine Brothers, as well a “Notch”

• H3H3 made an update video on May 26th, thanking the community for their support

• Stated they will be using the excess money in conjunction with Ryan Morrison, Michael Lee for a “Fair Use Protection Account” (FUPA)

  • Putting updates on who they will be helping with this account

FUPA Twitter Account

 

Study Claims Fitbit Trackers are “Highly Inaccurate” (Biased?)

Source 1: https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/600681-study-claim OP: CtW

Source 2: http://www.cnbc.com/2016/05/23/study-shows-fitbit-trackers-highly-inaccurate.html

• Researchers at the California State Polytechnic University

  • Tested the heart rates of 43 healthy adults with Fitbit’s PurePulse heart rate monitors

  • Using the Fitbit Surge watches and Charge HR bands on each wrist

• Subjects were then hooked up to a BioHarness device that produced an electrocardiogram (ECG) to record against the data produced by the Fitbit devices

• Results showed that the Fitbit devices miscalculated heart rates by up to 20 beats per minute on average

  • During “more intensive” workouts

• Study is somewhat biased

  • Commissioned by Lieff Cabraser, law firm behind the lawsuit aimed at three Fitbit models

• Fitbit called the study “biased” and “baseless”

  • Issued a statement saying its devices “are designed to provide meaningful data to [their] users to help them reach their health and fitness goals, and are not intended to be scientific or medical devices

 

ARM, AMD, Huawei, IBM, Qualcomm, Mellanox and Xilinx team up on datacentre

Source 1: https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/601225-cpu-makers-join-togethe OP: NumLock21

Source 2: http://www.forbes.com/sites/moorinsights/2016/05/23/a-cache-coherent-interconnec

Source 3: http://www.electronicsweekly.com/news/business/information-technology/arm-

• Companies collaborating on specification for the new Cache Coherent Interconnect for Accelerators (CCIX)

• First time in the industry

  • Will ensure processors using different instruction set architectures (ISA) can coherently share data

  • Will enable efficient heterogeneous computing

  • Significantly improving compute efficiency for servers running data center workloads

• Accelerating applications in the data center has become a requirement due to power and space constraints

• CCIX will allow these components to access and process data irrespective of where it resides

  • Also without the need for complex programming environments

 

Continuous Liquid Interface Production (CLIP) 3D Printing

Source 1: https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/601542-continuous-liquid-interfa OP: benny_r_t_2

Source 2: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-04-01/this-company-does-3d-

Source 3: http://carbon3d.com/

• Carbon has collected $140 million in three years to develop its superfast $40,000-a-year 3D printer

• 5mm-thick, flexible polyurethane test part can withstand hammer strikes without deforming or breaking

• As of April 1st, Carbon is making the M1 available to other businesses as part of a yearly subscription program

• M1 uses a projector to precisely shape the UV light it focuses on polymer

  • Hardening it into solid materials the machine then extracts from the liquid goo

  • Company says its approach is 100 times faster than those used by rivals

• Ellen Lee, Ford’s technical lead of 3D-printing research, says Carbon’s advantage is the diversity of its plastics

  • Allows her team to make an especially wide range of models and prototypes from a single printer

• Chip Gear, founder of an industrial manufacturing firm called Technology House

  • Been using a beta version of the Carbon printer for six months

  • Cut printing time for a radio frequency connector from 12 hours to 40 minutes

• Carbon Demo Video (1:01 Long)

Diagram

 

Jury sides with Google in Battle Over Android Software with Oracle

Source 1: http://globalnews.ca/news/2724998/jury-sides-with-google-in-battle

Source 2: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/jury-sides-google-closely-watched-203132081.html

• Google Android just dodged a $9 billion bullet

• Federal jury found Thursday that Google didn’t need permission to use a rival’s programming tool as it built Android

• Software competitor Oracle claimed Google had stolen its intellectual property and reaped huge profits

  • Done by copying pieces of an Oracle programming language called Java

• Jury in the U.S District Court found that Google made “fair use,” under copyright law

  • Of these Java elements that help different software programs work together

• Google argued that because it used only a small part of Java to create Android, it qualified for a “fair use” exemption from copyright

• Jury’s verdict marks Google’s second victory in the case

  • US judge William Alsup sided with Google in 2012

  • An appellate court overturned Alsup’s ruling and sent the case back for a second trial

• Oracle said it will appeal the latest verdict on “numerous ground”

 

Japan ATM Heist Reportedly Involved 100 People Who Stole $12.7 Million

Source 1: http://arstechnica.com/business/2016/05/japan-atm-heist-reportedly-invol

Source 2: http://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20160522/p2g/00m/0dm/044000c

• 1,400 locations hit using fraudulent South African credit cards

• Japanese newspapers reported that an ATM heist involving around 1,400 machines in convenience stores resulted in a loss of 1.4 billion yen ($12.7 million USD)

• Theft took place on May 15th, 2016

  • Between hours of 5am and 8am

• ATMs were targeted across Tokyo and 16 other prefectures in the country

• Police believe up to 100 people were involved in the heist

• At each of the approximately 1,400 ATMs struck, culprits withdrew 100,000 yen (about $900)

  • This is the maximum withdrawal through these machines

• According to Reuters Africa, Standard Bank is estimating total losses at about $19 million

• Heist comes as credit card networks like Visa and MasterCard are trying to move world markets to uniform acceptance of chip based cards

  • Believed to be more secure than swipe based cards

• No one has yet been arrested for the crime

• Police intend to identify suspects by analyzing images recorded by security cameras

 

Foxconn Replaces “60,000” Factory Workers With Robots

Source 1: https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/601440-foxconn-replaces-6 OP: Master Disaster

Source 2: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-36376966

• Workers have complained in the past about conditions of Foxconn’s factories

• One factory has “reduced employee strength from 110,000 to 50,000 thanks to the introduction of robots”

  • A government official told the South China Morning Post

• Xu Yulian, head of publicity for the Kunshan region, added: “More companies are likely to follow suit”

• In a statement to BBC, Foxconn Technology Group confirmed it was automating “many of the manufacturing tasks associated with our operations”

  • Also added: “We will continue to harness automation and manpower in our manufacturing operations, and we expect to maintain our significant workforce in China”

• Economists have issued dire warnings about how automation will affect the job market

• One report from Deloitte and Oxford University  suggesting that 35% of jobs were at risk over the next 20 years

• Former McDonalds chief executive Ed Rensi recently said “It’s cheaper to buy a $35,000 robotic arm than it is to hire an employee who is inefficient, making $15 an hour bagging French fries.”

 

NERD SPORTS SHOUT OUT, LINK WILL BE IN THE VIDEO DESCRIPTION

Volleyball, Lacrosse, Dodgeball, Hockey & Curling are all available now - go check them out!

 

Rapid Fire

 

First Tesla Driver Caught Sleeping With Autopilot On

Source 1: https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/601363-first-tesla-driver-cau OP: PeloyGeek

Source 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXls4cdEv7c

Video (0:22 Seconds Long)

 

Google to Embed Lots of Ads to Google Maps

Source 1: https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/600743-google-to-embed-lots-of OP: GoodBytes

Source 2: http://www.theverge.com/2016/5/24/11761794/google-maps-promoted-pins-an

Source 3: http://adwords.blogspot.ca/2016/05/ads-and-analytics-innovations-for-a-mobil

• Google detailed plan in a recent blog post

  • Will start experimenting with showing physical logos for business locations on Google Maps

  • Will be called “promoted pins”

• Companies have to pay to appear on the map

Picture of Example

• Business page, which appears when you tap on a logo, could display coupons or a stores inventory

• Search results in maps could start including more prominent ads for nearby businesses

 

Twitter Relaxes 140-Character Limit, Just a Bit

Source 1: http://arstechnica.com/business/2016/05/go-ahead-tweet-funny-gifs-media

Source 2: https://blog.twitter.com/express-even-more-in-140-characters

• Covered in a blog post made by Twitter on May 24, 2016

• Below are a list of the changes

 

Replies:

• @names will no longer count toward the 140-character count

Media Attachments:

• When you add attachments like photos, GIFs, videos, polls, or Quote Tweets, media will no longer count as characters within your tweet

Retweet and Quote Tweet Yourself:

• Will be enabling the Retweet button for your own tweets

• Letting you share a new reflection or bringing an old tweet back into relevancy

Goodbye, .@:

• New Tweets that begin with a username will reach all of your followers

• If you want a reply to be seen by all followers, you will be able to Retweet it to signal that you intend for it to be viewed more broadly

• Changes to be available over the coming months

 

Marijuana Social Network is Denied Listing on Nasdaq

Source 1: http://arstechnica.com/business/2016/05/marijuana-social-network-is-denied-list

Source 2: https://massroots.com/

• Nasdaq officials have told “Massroots”, a “Facebook for pot” that it can’t join the exchange

• Denver-based social network has 775,000 users from the 24 states where marijuana is legal

  • Including states where it’s legal recreationally

• Platform used to find like-minded people in their area

  • Learn about nearby dispensaries

  • Follow pot legalization news

• Nasdaq wrote “We believe this dangerous precedent could prevent nearly every company in the regular cannabis industry from listing on a national exchange”

• MassRoots said it meets the criteria for listing on Nasdaq

  • $40 million market capitalization value

  • Well over 300 shareholders, through over-the-counter markets

• Nasdaq’s denial has sent MassRoots off-exchange shares down 18%

 

(Rumor) AIDA64 Leaks Entire NVIDIA Pascal Lineup

Source 1: http://www.eteknix.com/aida64-leaks-entire-nvidia-pascal-lineup/

Source 2: http://videocardz.com/60289/breaking-news-aida64-developers-confirm-pascal-gp10

• Only confirmed GeForce Pascal GPU is the GP104

  • Chip comes with 2560 CUDA cores fully enabled and powers the GTX 1080 and GTX 1070

• Various leaks over the past week have been suggesting the new Titan and GTX 1080Ti will use a GP102

  • Report firmly backs there is the GP102, GP106, and GP107

• According to AIDA64, there will be a large number of different Pascal SKUs

  • Most notable being the GP102

    • Modified version of GP100 with none of the double precision compute

    • Chip will power the Titan X replacement as well as the GTX 1080Ti

• GP106 will power the GTX 1060 and GTX 1050 possibly

  • Unconfirmed at this point

 

Google Partnership with New Orleans Museum of Art to Digitize the Permanent Collections

Source 1: https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/601749-google-partnerships-w OP: casbro11

Source 2: http://www.fox8live.com/story/32069411/nomas-launches-partnership-with-google

Source 3: http://www.nola.com/arts/index.ssf/2016/05/google_cultural_institute_and.html

• Google Cultural Institute announced a partnership with New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA) at a press conference Thursday, May 26th, 2016

• Highlighting 100 works from their permanent collection

• NOMA wants to make art accessible to people that cannot visit the museum

• Google will use technology similar to Google’s Street View to photograph the art

 

Sprint Now Zero-Rating Some Video, Joining AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile

Source 1: http://arstechnica.com/business/2016/05/sprint-now-zero-rating-some- OP: casbro11

• Sprint now allowing some online video to be streamed without computing against customers’ data caps

  • Making it the fourth wireless carrier in the US to implement data cap exemptions

• Zero-rating plans are being scrutinized by the Federal Communications Commission

  • Wireless carriers argue that zero-rating benefits customers

  • Net neutrality advocates says zero-rating gives an unfair advantage to services that don’t count against data caps

  • Allowing some carriers to favor some content over others

• AT&T was the first major carrier to make a big move into zero-rating

  • Started January, 2014

 

Cryorig Announces New “Mac Pro” Inspired Case

Source 1: https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/601765-cryorig-announce OP: DocSwag

Source 2: http://www.anandtech.com/show/10354/cryorig-unveils-mac-prolike-pc-ca

• Cryorig announced new cylindrical PC chassis

  • Enables system makers and enthusiasts to build Mac-Pro styled gaming computers

Picture of Exterior

Picture of Layout

Picture of Ventilation

Specifications

 

Dimensions (W×H×D)	226 mm × 378.5 mm × 205 mm
Weight	5 kilograms
Motherboard Form-Factor	Mini ITX
PSU Form-Factor	SFX
3.5" Drive Bays	1
2.5" Drive Bays	1 or 2
System Fan	120 mm
CPU Cooler Dimensions	Up to 72~82 mm in height
Graphics Card Length	280 mm
PSU Length	130 mm
External Connectors	Power, Audio, USB 3.0, Display

 

Hyperloop Pods Will be Coated in “Vibranium”

Source 1: https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/600594-hyperloop-p OP: PiGHamM3R

Source 2: http://www.engadget.com/2016/05/24/hyperloop-transportation-technologies-vi

Source 3: http://www.engadget.com/2016/01/29/what-you-need-to-know-about-hyperloop/

• Hyperloop has collaborated with Slovakian materials firm c2i

  • Create a carbon fiber composite that’ll cover the inside and outside of its capsules

• Issue is that someone decided to call this material vibranium

  • “Vibranium” is a fictional metal appearing in some of Marvel’s comic books

• Real vibranium is embedded with a series of sensors that monitor stability, temperature and integrity

  • Sensors intended to provide continuous feedback to HQ

  • If a pod gets damaged in transit, it’ll be pulled as soon as it hits the deck

• Company claims the material is ten times stronger than steel

  • Weighs five times less than aluminum

• One of the reasons Hyperloop is working with a Slovakian company is because it signed a deal in March to partner with the local government

• Researching potential to build two Hyperloop routes that would unite Bratislava with Vienna and Budapest

  • Three-city loop would be an ideal testbed for the technology

 

Facebook and Microsoft Team Up to Lay a Massive Internet Cable Across the Atlantic

Source 1: https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/601738-facebook-and-mi OP: RousedPotato

Source 2: http://www.theverge.com/2016/5/26/11787822/facebook-microsoft-marea-i

• 4100 mile fibre optic cable

• Capable of 160TB per second

• Going from Virginia Beach in Virginia, to Bilbao, SPain

• Project name: MAREA

  • Will be able to “meet the growing customer demand for high speed, reliable connections for cloud and online services for Microsoft, Facebook and their customers”

• Construction scheduled to start in August and the companies expect the process to be complete in October 2017

• Price for the project has not been announced

 

HP Launches VR-ready OMEN Laptop, Desktop and Monitor

Source 1: https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/601828-hp-launches-o OP: ChronoZX

Source 2: http://www.pcgamer.com/hp-introduces-vr-ready-omen-desktops-and-laptops/

Source 3: http://www8.hp.com/us/en/hp-news/press-release.html?id=

• HP introducing a unified gaming portfolio under the “Omen” branding

  • Range of solutions at different price points

  • Effort to “supercharge the OEM’s involvement in PC gaming”

  • “Part of the company’s strategy to reinvent personal systems”

• Features two laptops, a desktop, 32-inch Quad HD display

Laptops

• 15,6-inch and 17.3-inch form factors

• Both in Full HD 1080p or 4K IPS displays

• Black mesh laptop lid, and keyboard deck backlit with red LEDs

• Processor options up to Core i7 Skylake

• Up to GTX 965M graphics

• Up to 16GB RAM

• Up to 512GB PCIe SSD or 2TB HDD for a single storage setup

• Up to 4TB HDD and 128 SSHD for dual storage configurations

Laptop Picture

 

Desktop

• Rebranding its Phoenix system to join the Omen family

  • Select models will feature a core i7-6700K processor

  • Up to a GTX 1080 Founders Edition, or AMD Radeon R9 390X card

  • Up to 32GB RAM

  • Up to 512GB SSD

  • Up to 3TB of HDD storage

• HP pitching as a VR-ready desktop

PC Tower Picture

 

Monitor

• 32-inch Quad HD monitor

• 100% reproduction of the sRGB color space

• Supports AMD FreeSync

Monitor Picture

 

Microsoft Giving up on Consumer Market for Smartphones; Cuts 1850 Jobs

Source 1: https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/601048-microsoft-giving-up-on-co OP: zMeul

Source 2: http://www.recode.net/2016/5/25/11766210/microsoft-giving-up-consumer-sm

• Company is taking a $950 million charge to unwind the last vestiges of the Nokia deal

• Microsoft further scaling back its flagging phone business

  • Exiting the consumer market and cutting another 1,850 jobs

• Move was announced Wednesday

• Despite the cuts, and having seen its market share dip below 1% - Microsoft says it isn’t totally out of the phone-making business

• Company said Wednesday to expect new Microsoft-made phone models

  • Declined to offer any specifics on its future roadmap

 

Google’s “Project Abacus” May Count Out Passwords

Source 1: https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/600801-googles-abacus-m OP: PurpleDido

Source 2: http://www.technewsworld.com/story/Googles-Abacus-May-Count-Out

• Abacus is an ATAP project aimed at killing the password

  • Wants to implement a real time security system that constantly makes sure the person using the phone is you

• By end of the year, Android devs will be able to use a trust API from Google’s Project Abacus in their apps

  • Will run in the background constantly, aiming at doing away with passwords

• Will use smartphone’s sensors to check users’ current locations, typing patterns and voice patterns, as well as facial recognition

• Will create a cumulative trust score that will authenticate users so they can unlock their devices or sign into applications

• “The problem has always been that a really good biometric - retinal scan or fingerprint - typically is hard to collect,” observed Michael Jude, a research program manager at Frost & Sullivan

• An API-based security protocol will put personal information in the cloud to some extent, Jude noted, so “the question will be, do you trust your service provider with that kind of information?”

 

[ThinkWithPortals]

Oh thank god, I needed this this morning after the week I've had Cheers Nick!

[Apathetik]

You forgot to include the "Luke broke the stream and has been fired... again." topic.

[nicklmg]

2 minutes ago, ThinkWithPortals said:

Oh thank god, I needed this this morning after the week I've had Cheers Nick!

Cheers indeed!

[Master Disaster]

@nicklmg You were an awesome Co host, you should do WAN more often

[nicklmg]

20 minutes ago, Master Disaster said:

@nicklmg You were an awesome Co host, you should do WAN more often

Well thanks very much!

It's fun to take part sometimes. Not sure how many people would want to see me as a regular, but I enjoy it when I get the opportunity

[Apathetik]

4 minutes ago, nicklmg said:

Well thanks very much!

It's fun to take part sometimes. Not sure how many people would want to see me as a regular, but I enjoy it when I get the opportunity

I think you did pretty good as well. But I'd like to see more people as regulars in general. In fact, you could even make it a game. Every time something on the stream breaks you guys have to swap out 1 host for someone else.  

[Master Disaster]

8 minutes ago, Apathetik said:

I think you did pretty good as well. But I'd like to see more people as regulars in general. In fact, you could even make it a game. Every time something on the stream breaks you guys have to swap out 1 host for someone else.  

Lmao, I think there's not enough employees at LMG to make that work. 

[Apathetik]

1 minute ago, Master Disaster said:

Lmao, I think there's not enough employees at LMG to make that work. 

Nah, I already thought it through entirely too far. It could work. General rules: Every time something breaks during the stream, 1 host has to be swapped for another staff member. Staff members can't host again until their last co-host has been swapped out as well. Roster is reset upon completion of the WAN show.  

[xnamkcor]

About the robots. Working is not a charity. If you are of no use to an employer, you don't get work. Artificially keeping people in jobs is not inherently good.

 

PS: I keep reading Nick's username as "NickMLG".

[SansVarnic]

@LinusTech

@nicklmg

The US does use case law in many faucets of court battles.

 

You should add the Microsoft Band 2 to your fitness band list as it is advertised as a fitness band. I would be interested to see how accurate it is as well as the rest.

[nicklmg]

11 hours ago, xnamkcor said:

About the robots. Working is not a charity. If you are of no use to an employer, you don't get work. Artificially keeping people in jobs is not inherently good.

 

PS: I keep reading Nick's username as "NickMLG".

Yep - which is why I'm "cautiously pessimistic" about it. In the short term I think it's a danger, but in the long term I think society will adjust... It will just be an arduous process, and I expect we'll see significant strife throughout that process...

[xnamkcor]

On the topic of "bands". All I want is something to tell me when someone is calling. I can rarely feel or hear my phone when walking. It'd be nice if I had some kind of minimal bluetooth device that shocked me or something. Maybe also tell the time and show TXT messages/incomming call data?

[Omon_Ra]

Of all the tech shows in all the world, I never expected a ketamine x marijuana illegality discussion to be found on the WAN show. Is ketamine a 'problem' in Taiwan? Why was that the example Dennis used? Is Dennis in a K-hole as we speak?

[cheeseandcereal]

Add this show to the RSS feed please!

[Hawkuro]

On 28.5.2016 at 7:38 AM, nicklmg said:

Soundcloud link: TBD

@nicklmg It's tuesday already  I need my fix!