October 28, 2016 - The WAN Show Document

[LinusTech]

 

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Main News Topics

AT&T to buy HBO, CNN, and the rest of Time Warner for more than $80 billion

Source 1: http://about.att.com/story/att_to_acquire_time_warner.html

Source 2: http://www.theverge.com/2016/10/22/13366904/att-hbo-cnn-time-warner

• News of the merger first surfaced last Friday

  • If successful, AT&T will gain control of brands including HBO, Warner Bros, CNN

• One of Time Warner’s holdings is DC Comics, so AT&T will be acquiring Batman as well

US Government Summoned Wrong Time Warner to Testify About the AT&T Deal

Source 1: http://qz.com/821938/the-us-government-just-summoned-time-warner-cable-

• The senate’s release mistakenly named Robert Marcus, former CEO of Time Warner Cable, instead of Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes

• Time Warner is a media company that owns HBO, Warner Bros, and Turner

  • Time Warner Cable is a New York based cable and broadband provider recently acquired by Charter Communications

• Time Warner spun off its cable business, Time Warner Cable, in 2008

• AT&T filed a special statement with the US Securities and Exchange Commission on Oct 24th to clarify it was Time Warner they are interested in purchasing

Vine Being Shut Down

Source 1: https://medium.com/@vine/important-news-about-vine-909c5f4ae7a7#.348wey6qu

• The mobile app will be discontinued in the coming months

• You will be able to access and download your vines

  • Website will continue to be online

• Creators will be notified before the company makes any additional changes to the website or app

• Vine was founded in June 2012

• Twitter acquired it in October 2012, just before its major launch

Vessel Being Shut Down

Source 1: http://www.recode.net/2016/10/26/13428014/verizon-buying-vessel-jason-kilar

Source 2: https://www.vessel.com/blog

• Launched 18 Months ago

• Combining Vessel technology, product and team with Verizon’s Online video ambitions.

• The Vessel platform will live on at Verizon “in ways that will become apparent” on a dramatically larger scale in months and years ahead.

• Vessel will close on Oct 31st

• Vessel subs will be provided complimentary access for the month of October.

• Annual subs will be refunded from the beginning of October onwards.

  • Users who subscribed through iTunes will need to contact Apple customer support for a refund. Subscribers will receive an email with instructions.

Pornhub Offers to buy Vine: ‘Six seconds is more than enough’

Source 1: https://www.cnet.com/news/pornhub-offers-to-buy-vine-6-seconds-twitter-jack-dorsey/

• The following was sent in a letter from Pornhub VP Corey Price to Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, shared through CNET

  • "We figure since Twitter has dropped (Vine) and is having significant layoffs, that you and your stakeholders could benefit from a cash infusion from the sale of Vine. Not to mention we would be saving Vine gems like 'Damn Daniel,' 'Awkward Puppets' and many more."

• Pornhub promises to “restore Vine to its NSFW glory,” saying that clips “of porn in six seconds is more than enough time for most people to enjoy themselves.”

 

Macbook Pro

Source 1: http://www.apple.com/ca/shop/buy-mac/macbook-pro/15-inch

Source 2: https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/59d382/new_macbook_p

• Ditches traditional USB ports, leaves headphone jack, unveils touch panel

• Has no escape key, same with brightness and volume controls

  • Hopefully will appear on the touch bar by default

Specifications

LINK TO SPECS PAGE

Surface Studio - Higher Than 4K Resolution

Source 1: https://www.engadget.com/2016/10/28/microsoft-surface-studio-designer-reaction/

Source 2: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/surface/devices/surface-studio

• Picture

• “Turn your desk into a Studio”

• Starting at $2,999 USD

• Pre-order Surface Studio before December 1 and receive a Surface Dial, ships in 2017

  • Surface Dial is $100 and lets you select colors and do other chores

  • Can use it directly on a surface pro 4 and surface book as well

  • Lets you flip through documents, change screen brightness, and “rewind” your work back to an earlier version

Specifications

• 28” PixelSense Display, 13.5 million pixels

  • 3:2 aspect ratio

  • 10 point multi-touch

  • 192PPI (4500 x 3000 resolution)

• i5/i7 Intel Core processor

• Up to 4GB NVIDIA GeForce GPU

• Up to 32GB RAM

• Zero gravity hinge to move from an upright angle, down into Studio Mode with one hand

• 1024 levels of pressure sensitivity with the surface pen, battery lasts 12-months

• Password-free sign-in, uses Windows Hello face sign-in, can remember different faces for different accounts

• Work together on one screen with surface studio

• Can handle up to four paired Xbox Wireless Controllers, no USB or receivers required

• LINK TO SPECS PAGE

 

Rapid Fire

Samsung Sets up Airport Kiosks for Last-minute Galaxy Note 7 Exchanges

Source 1: http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016/10/samsung-sets-up-airport

• Exchange kiosks will keep you from breaking the law

• Flying with the phone in the US is now illegal

• Samsung is setting up booths ahead of security checkpoints in busy airports to swap out phones

• This way, travelers won’t have their phones confiscated by airports or airlines

• Samsung’s official site only lists Australian airports, but ABC News has spotted a kiosk in San Francisco International Airport as well

• Working on bringing kiosks to other busy airports in the U.S. as well

Soylent Halt Sales of its Powder as customers keep getting sick

Source 1: http://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-so

• They reported that a handful of customers reported stomach sickness after consuming it

• In an announcement, Soylent said there appears to be a common ingredient that’s causing trouble in the latest version of the product’s snack bar and powder

  • They also said the investigation isn’t complete

• Soylent said there shouldn’t be any problems with the premade drinks

• Soylent urged customers discomforted by version 1.6 of its powder to toss it

  • Newly formulated powder and bar should be available by early next year at the latest

Google Fiber Division Cuts Staff by 9%, “pauses” fiber plans in 11 cities

Source 1: http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/10/google-fib

Source 2: http://www.theverge.com/2016/10/25/13411912/alphabets-access-will-lay-

Source 3: http://googlefiberblog.blogspot.ca/2016/10/advancing-our-amazing-bet.html

• Access, the Alphabet division containing Google Fiber, will lay off employees and replace its CEO as it looks for cheaper ways to deliver internet service to new cities

• Access CEO Craig Barratt made the announcement in a blog post saying that he would only be staying on as an advisory role

  • Mentions that Access is “going to pause” operations in 11 cities

• Future of Access, seems to lie in wireless

• Access purchased the internet provider Webpass in June

  • Giving it the technology to begin deploying over-the-air gigabit internet to homes

• In theory, it provides the same service that fiber would, but without as many deployment hurdles

32GB Iphone 7 Isn’t ‘Slow’

Source 1: http://m.imore.com/no-32-gb-iphone-isnt-slow-or-how-storage-work

• Few stories going around right now, some about the 32GB iPhone 7 exhibiting slower storage speeds when compared to the 128GB or 256GB iPhone 7

• Apple doubled the density to go from iPhone 6s to the iPhone 7, using more chips

  • When you add more chips, they don’t work sequentially, they work in parallel. In other words, the more chips you add, the faster the performance becomes

Kodak’s New Phone - Ektra

Source 1: https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/678343-heres-kodaks-new-phon OP: TidaLWaveZ

Source 2: http://www.kodakphones.com/ektra/

• Kodak Ektra

• A “photography first” smartphone

• Unique hybrid of photography innovation and DSLR functionality that puts creative control in your hands

Specifications

• Helio X-20 Decacore processor

• 3000mAh battery

• 3GB RAM

• 32GB, expandable with MicroSD

• 5” Full HD display (441ppi) (1920 x 1080 resolution)

• 21MP main camera with Aperture f2.0

• Optical image stabilisation and auto focus

• 13MP front-facing camera

• Phase Detection Auto Focus & HDR Imaging

• 4K Video Capture

Apple Airpods Delayed Indefinitely Beyond Original “Late October” window

Source 1: https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/681351-apple-airpods-dela OP: GoodBytes

Source 2: http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016/10/apple-earpods-indefinitely-delay

• Apple has confirmed that the new $180 USD AirPods have swept the “late October” date off the table

• Apple told Ars Technica that the company “needs a little more time before AirPods are ready for customers”

• They declined to offer an estimate or release window information about when to expect the AirPods official launch

Uber Drivers Win Key Employment Case Against Uber

Source 1: https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/682160-uber-drivers-win-key-e OP: NinjaCode

Source 2: http://www.bbc.com/news/business-37802386

• Uber drives have won the right to be classed as works rather than self-employed

• Ruling by a London employment tribunal means drivers for Uber will be entitled to holiday pay, rest breaks and the national minimum wage

• GMB union described the decision as a “monumental victory” for some 40,000 drivers in England and Wales

  • Uber said it would appeal against the ruling, that it had acted unlawfully

• Ruling accused Uber of “resorting in its documentation to fictions, twisted language and even brand new terminology”

  • Adding: “The notion that Uber in London is a mosaic of 30,000 small businesses linked by a common ‘platform’ is to our mind faintly ridiculous

  • “What is happening at Uber is just the tip of the iceberg. Lots of people are now trapped in insecure jobs, with low pay and no voice at work. We need the government to get tough on sham self-employment

VR Headsets and Herpes

Source 1: https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/681181-vr-headsets-and-herpes/ OP: NumLock21

Source 2: http://www.theverge.com/2016/10/26/13420318/virtual-reality-headset-ocular-her

• Anonymous chat transcript suggested that vr headsets were spreading herpes

• Copy of Transcript and Tweet

• According to logs posted by YouTube game streamer Drift0r

• Ocular herpes refers to a range of eye conditions generally caused by same herpes simplex virus behind cold sores

  • Symptoms include: redness, discomfort, blurry vision, and light sensitivity

  • Mild forms clear up within a couple weeks and can be easily mistaken for pink eye

• It’s “highly unlikely, but not absolutely impossible,” that someone could get ocular herpes through a VR headset, says Todd Margolis, chair of the Washington University School of Medicine’s Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences

• “The odds would be like the odds of transmitting herpes on toilet seats”

• General consensus is that VR developers should keep antimicrobial wipes or covers around show booths

Googles AI Created its own form of Encryption

Source 1: https://www.engadget.com/2016/10/28/google-ai-created-its-own-form-of-encryption/

Source 2: https://arxiv.org/abs/1610.06918

• Researchers from Google Brain deep learning project have already taught AI systems to make works of art

  • Now moving onto something potentially darker: AI-generated, human-independent encryption

  • Googlers martin Abadi and David G. Anderson have allowed three subjects - neural networks named Alice, Bob and Eve - to pass each other notes using an encryption method they created themselves

• They assigned each AI a task: Alice had to send a secret message that only Bob could read, while Eve would try to figure out how to eavesdrop and decode using cipher key

  • At first, Alice and Bob were bad at hiding their secrets, but over the course of 15,000 attempts Alice worked out her own encryption strategy and Bob simultaneously figured out how to decrypt it

• Message was only 16 bits long, with each bit being a 1 or a 0

• Eve was only able to guess half of the bits in the message

  • Means she was basically just flipping a coin or guessing at random

• Researchers don’t know what kind of encryption method Alice devised, so it won’t be useful in any practical applications

[LeapFrogMasterRace]

No cables were hurt in the making of this wan show.

[Daniel644]

So fast I gotta wait for processing, LOL

[arty_knots]

Linus ripping the USB cable..

[Axeonelite]

1 minute ago, Daniel644 said:

So fast I gotta wait for processing, LOL

Same. First like tho

[Daniel644]

Just now, Axeonelite said:

Same. First like tho

As long as you don't steal my first comment.

[Axeonelite]

Just now, Daniel644 said:

As long as you don't steal my first comment.

All yours

[arty_knots]

3 minutes ago, LeapFrogMasterRace said:

No cables were hurt in the making of this wan show.

Somehow I doubt that hmm.. lol

[Daniel644]

nevermind, fixed now.

[Michael McAllister]

@LinusTech Respectfully, you're completely wrong about Patreon.

1. I, and possibly others, had no idea Channel Super Fun has a Patreon page because it is never mentioned. Ever.  Start mentioning it and people will support it.
2. You are overthinking it. A Patreon for all things LMG merely needs one tier.  Jim Sterling does this and people love it!  Try $10,475/month (current when this was written) love just for producing content. No promise of t-shirts or giveaways.
3. Patreon is an option, not a requirement. People like options.  Give them options.

[AxelRantila]

The big reason I just simply was not interested in Vessel as a platform was because it was unavailable on Android for a long time, and that was where I watched most of my LMG content at the time. Yes it did get an Android app eventually, but by that time my interested in Vessel was lost.

[LeapFrogMasterRace]

Wait both Luke and Linus think the Surface Studio is a good product? Any graphic designer would rather use a $50 Wacom tablet and a cheap pc with a decent monitor than trying to drawl with MS paint and a dial that probably won't even work with Adobe, not to mention the screen texture. This thing is a product for uneducated College IT staff members to buy for the students (I assure you that it won't be found within a 100 mile radius of an animation studio where people actually know what they are doing and using). Sure comparing it to the Macbook Pro it's better but it still can't properly do what it's marketed for. 

[Daniel644]

1 hour ago, Michael McAllister said:

@LinusTech Respectfully, you're completely wrong about Patreon.

1. I, and possibly others, had no idea Channel Super Fun has a Patreon page because it is never mentioned. Ever.  Start mentioning it and people will support it.
2. You are overthinking it. A Patreon for all things LMG merely needs one tier.  Jim Sterling does this and people love it!  Try $10,475/month (current when this was written) love just for producing content. No promise of t-shirts or giveaways.
3. Patreon is an option, not a requirement. People like options.  Give them options.

dude, "Nicky V" says thanks to the Patreons at the end of each and every CSF, heck they even list some of them sometimes.

[Guest]

@LinusTech 

Do you really think surface studio is a good product!!! come on....any graphic designer would that thing does not worth 3000 bucks...

1. do u really think surface pen is good for drawing it does not support drawing at some angles and you have to hold it upright to draw and it does not worth it

2. surface dial is shit it does basic function and anybody would know you can do with Express Key Remote would do much more 

3.do u really think that macbook/apple is overcharged look at the specs for $3000 of surface studio an i5/8 gb ram/gtx 965 2gb

4.macbook pro and surface book charge the same price for same specs 

surface book: https://www.microsoftstore.com/store/msusa/en_US/pdp/productID.5074012200

apple new macbook pro: http://www.apple.com/shop/buy-mac/macbook-pro/15-inch

it is the same price for and surface book is also advertised for professionals and it has a 13.5 inch screen compared to the macbook 15.5 inch 

*so linus please look at the other side of the pond before you criticize apple or microsoft 

[Drunken Savior]

Major props on sticking by Dennis' side, LMG.  Very standup of you guys for going that extra mile.  And as someone who considers himself a huge fan of documentation, organization, and logistics...a round of applause to Yvonne!

[hogfather]

You guys should really look at implementing and deploying a streaming video thing yourselves.  I'm sure there are open source solutions out there and you guys have the infrastructure and a decent number of eye balls.  Keeping it simple at first would give you a decent idea whether to invest into more functionality etc. 

 

[balderm]

Vessel death sucks, i'm sorry to hear that, hope you guys can find an alternative.

[Michael McAllister]

10 hours ago, Daniel644 said:

dude, "Nicky V" says thanks to the Patreons at the end of each and every CSF, heck they even list some of them sometimes.

 

Haven't been able to watch CSF in a while.  Too much content.  @LinusTech should consider turning the CSF Patreon into a LMG page that encompasses everything, so every viewer knows it exists.  It's unrealistic to expect every viewer to watch every video on every LMG YouTube channel.  Some viewers might only watch Techquickie or WAN Show for example.  Those viewers would never see the Patreon mention.

[GeekyPete]

I've been watching the Know lately on youtube, they use RoosterTeeth.com which could work as a vessel alternative.  I know it's a separate media group but from what I can tell they're hosting others too.

 

edit: maybe they aren't hosting beyond their huge group idk..

Edited October 29, 2016 by GeekyPete

[xnamkcor]

Water Cooled PS4 took 9 months. Babies take 9 months. Water Cooled PS4 was Linus's "baby"?

[othertomperson]

You know they are scraping the barrel in terms of unnecessary rants about Apple if they are blaming them for not putting non-existent mobile AMD GPUs in their laptops.

 

It's like when they complained that the 5K iMac didn't have a good enough GPU in it, when it had the R9 M295X. It's not Apple's fault that AMD didn't have anything better in their mobile range.

[xnamkcor]

39 minutes ago, othertomperson said:

You know they are scraping the barrel in terms of unnecessary rants about Apple if they are blaming them for not putting non-existent mobile AMD GPUs in their laptops.

 

It's like when they complained that the 5K iMac didn't have a good enough GPU in it, when it had the R9 M295X. It's not Apple's fault that AMD didn't have anything better in their mobile range.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_AMD_graphics_processing_units#Comparison_table:_Mobile_GPUs

 

By "non-existant", you mean "hundreds"?

[othertomperson]

1 hour ago, xnamkcor said:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_AMD_graphics_processing_units#Comparison_table:_Mobile_GPUs

 

By "non-existant", you mean "hundreds"?

Current gen, idiot. As in Polaris. It's pretty obvious that having just mentioned the M295X I am not saying that AMD have never released a mobile GPU, but that they don't have a current gen one. Christ.

[XRaYdeR]

17 hours ago, Pranavesh said:

@LinusTech 

Do you really think surface studio is a good product!!! come on....any graphic designer would that thing does not worth 3000 bucks...

1. do u really think surface pen is good for drawing it does not support drawing at some angles and you have to hold it upright to draw and it does not worth it

2. surface dial is shit it does basic function and anybody would know you can do with Express Key Remote would do much more 

3.do u really think that macbook/apple is overcharged look at the specs for $3000 of surface studio an i5/8 gb ram/gtx 965 2gb

4.macbook pro and surface book charge the same price for same specs 

surface book: https://www.microsoftstore.com/store/msusa/en_US/pdp/productID.5074012200

apple new macbook pro: http://www.apple.com/shop/buy-mac/macbook-pro/15-inch

it is the same price for and surface book is also advertised for professionals and it has a 13.5 inch screen compared to the macbook 15.5 inch 

*so linus please look at the other side of the pond before you criticize apple or microsoft 

You have a wrong link, you don't even know how to browse the internet and read pages :))

Surface Studio Link : https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/surface/devices/surface-studio/tech-specs

 

You can't put "Pro" on a MacBook that doesn't have dedicated graphics card ( i'm reffering to the 13.5 inch screen MacBook Pro take this link cuz' I saw you can't find stuff: http://www.apple.com/macbook-pro/specs/ )

 

P.S. Funny you got the i5 / 8GB RAM / GTX 965 2GB  but not the display size of Surface Studio
Surface Studio has 28-inch adjustable PixelSense Display, not 13.5 inch screen 

The price difference between MacBook Pro and Surface Studio is, mainly, in screen size and choosing nvidia over amd as a graphic card.

 

[xnamkcor]

3 hours ago, othertomperson said:

Current gen, idiot. As in Polaris. It's pretty obvious that having just mentioned the M295X I am not saying that AMD have never released a mobile GPU, but that they don't have a current gen one. Christ.

They always have a current gen one. The current gen one is the one that is currently being sold. Next gen is the one that isn't out yet.

 

PS: When did he say it had to be a mobile GPU?