December 16th, 2016 - The WAN Show Document

[LinusTech]

 

Main News Topics

iPhone 6S Reportedly Explodes Post Charging

Source 1: https://www.yahoo.com/tech/iphone-6s-reportedly-explodes-post-085214234.html

• Apple also announced that it will be releasing an iOS update next week that would allow them to better diagnose any battery issues

  • On Dec 6th, reports of exploding iPhones surfaced in China

    • Causing the state-run Shanghai Consumer Council to call on Apple to address the complaints

• “Apple should be responsible for consumers. A lot of consumer complaints are not solved effectively,” the council said in its official statement.

• It had allegedly received at least 8 separate reports of iPhones exploding

  • Adding that it had seen a big rise in the number of complaints against iPhones in the past two months

• On Friday, a customer’s iPhone 6s started spewing immediately after it was unplugged from charging

  • Then went up in flames

  • Similar events have been reported, such as a case of an iPhone exploding in a student’s pocket in New Jersey

    • Or another one exploding in Australia, burning down the person's car

• Apple blames the problem on ambient air during the manufacturing process

  • Said the problem is limited to a small number of iPhone 6S devices manufactured between Sep and Oct 2015

Facebook Now Partnering with Fact-Checkers to Stop Fake News

Source 1: https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/707573-facebook-ha OP: DatSpeed

Source 2: http://www.theverge.com/2016/12/15/13960062/facebook-fact-check-partnerships-

Source 3: https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2016/12/news-feed-fyi-addressing-hoaxes-

• Facebook has begun rolling out new tools designed to prevent the spread of misinformation

  • Introducing tools designed to make it easier to report links shared in the News Feed as fake news

  • Working with four independent fact-checking organizations to assess the accuracy of viral stories

    • Snopes, Politifact, ABC News, and FactCheck.org

• Facebook users who share a story that’s been marked as false will be warned that “independent fact-checkers have disputed its accuracy”

• Facebook will use a variety of signals to identify stories that are likely to be false

  • Include stories that people post but later delete

  • And include lots of comments in them about being fake

• They will use these and other signals to populate a dashboard of dubious stories

  • Fact-checking partners will get access to the dashboard

  • They will then investigate the articles claims, and mark it as disputed and link to their own article debunking it

• If at least two fact-checking organizations mark a story as disputed, users will begin seeing a banner under the article if it appears in their news feed

  • PICTURE

• Facebook’s Product Management Lead Adam Mosseri says they are focusing their “efforts on the worst of the worst”

  • “Clear hoaxes spread by spammers for their own gain”

• Facebook also said they’re testing several new ways to more easily report a hoax

• Also said they’re doing more to eliminate financial incentives behind fake news

  • Will also prevent publishers that use spoof domains (Ex. buzzfeedfeed.com or abcnewscom.co) from buying ads on the platform

 

Techquickie Chip Card Video - LUKE

Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGyh9GPKok0

GIF: https://gfycat.com/SandyUniqueAnt

 

Rapid Fire

NERDSPORTS RELEASING TO CHANNEL SUPER FUN, FIRST EPISODE COMES OUT TOMORROW, THEN ANOTHER EVERY WEEK AFTER THAT

Crytek Sinking, Wages Unpaid, Talent Leaving

Source 1: https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/705581-cryte OP: patrickjp93

Source 2: http://www.kitguru.net/gaming/matthew-wilson/source-crytek-

• Things had been financially stable at Crytek until June of this year

  • Around this time, employees at Crytek’s Frankfurt office discovered that they weren’t going to be paid on time

• Crytek’s upper management ensured employees that all financial problems would be worked out by August, 2016

  • And that there would be enough money to remain stable for at least 18 months

• Payroll was two weeks late for July and August

  • September came and payroll was five weeks late

  • Wages for October and November have yet to be paid

  • Decembers pay is due in about three weeks time

• Kitguru reports that their source says there had been no indication of financial issues until June of this year

• Those still at the Frankfurt office have submitted a legal letter to management

  • Informing them that if wages for October, November and December aren’t paid in full by the end of next week, they will stop working

• Those at the Budapest studio have apparently already stopped turning up to work

• Company has around 700 employees

Putin Directly Involved with US Hack?

Source 1: https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/707107-putin-directly OP: TidaLWaveZ

Source 2: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/russia-election-hack-vladimir-putin-pe

• American intelligence officials say they’re convinced that Russian hacking of the presidential election was approved by Russia's president Vladimir Putin

• An official investigation is still going on

• On Thursday, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov called these reports “ludicrous nonsense”

• Hacks were so widespread and sustained over such a long period of time that U.S. Intelligence sources say it could not have been carried out without knowledge of senior levels of the Kremlin

• CBS News learned that investigators believed the initial cyberattack involved thousands of malicious emails aimed at the U.S. gov’t, military and political organizations

• U.S. Intelligence believes that Putin initially wanted to damage Hillary Clinton and to inject chaos and doubt into the election process

  • This operation started in 2015

• President-elect Trump pushed back on the idea that the nation’s intelligence agencies have pinned any cyberattack on Russia

• Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said: “We will not offer any comment until the review (requested by President Obama) is complete”

AMD’s ‘RYZEN’ Detailed - Octacore, 2.4GHz & Dynamic Overclocking

Source 1: https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/706032-amds-ryzen-d OP: HKZeroFive

Source 2: http://videocardz.com/64741/ryzen

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Western Digital Announces high-capacity 12TB, 14TB Helium-Filled Hard Drives

Source 1: https://www.extremetech.com/computing/240878-western-digital-

• 12TB HGST Ultrastar He12 is an eight-platter drive that packs 864Gbits/sq. Inch and spins at 7200 RPM

  • Available in both SATA and SAS

  • Maximum transfer rate of 6GB/s or 12GB/s depending on the interface

• Both drives have a 256MB cache and an 8ms seek time for reads

  • 8.6ms for writes

• 12TB drive will use perpendicular magnetic recording, while the 14TB will use shingled magnetic recording

Super Mario Run for Iphone

Source 1: http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/nintendo-mario-iphone-1.3898414

Source 2: http://kotaku.com/super-mario-run-is-really-good-1790147132

• Super Mario Run beat Pokemon GO for day 1 downloads

  • 2,850,000 against Pokemon GOs 900,000

  • Speculation that the number of downloads was closer to 5,000,000, not confirmed yet

  • Speculation that the game generated somewhere between $4 - $8 million dollars in one day

• Half of the reviews are just one star

Amazon’s First Prime Air Delivery Has Happened

Source 1: https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/706817-amazo OP: PiGHamM3R

Source 2: http://www.kitguru.net/channel/generaltech/matthew-wilson/amazons-firs

• Amazon Prime Air’s First Customer Delivery Video (2:05 Long)

• The prime air delivery took place in Cambridge, England on Dec 7, 2016

  • Only two customers are taking part in the trial right now, due to the fact that they live close to the fulfillment center

• Item weight capped at just over 2kg

• Trial will be expanded to include more people

Google Acquires Smartwatch OS Startup Cronologics, Founded by Former Employees

Source 1: https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/706268-google-buys-sm OP: alizaidi2000

Source 2: http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016/12/google-acquires-smartwatch-os-s

• Next version of Android Wear won’t come out until early 2017

  • Google is doing what it can to improve the OS in the meantime

• They acquired Cronologics, a smartwatch OS startup

  • Created the Amazon Alexa-equipped CoWatch

• Those at the company will join the Android Wear team at Google to “help grow the portfolio of watches” running the system

• “We see a strong alignment with Android Wear’s mission and look forward to working with our new colleagues at Google to continue pushing the frontier of wearable technology”

• Cronologics was founded in 2014 by Lan Roche, Leor Stern, and John Lagerling, all three had previously worked at Google

Twitch Introducing AutoMod, a Self-Learning Moderation Tool

Source 1: https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/706118-twitch-intro OP: NovusBal

Source 2: http://www.kitguru.net/channel/generaltech/matthew-wilson/twitchs-auto

Twitch AutoMod Page

• AutoMod, a chat bot that uses machine learning and natural language processing to police chat rooms

  • Isn’t intended to entirely replace human moderators

  • Twitch’s tagline for the announcement is ‘Moderators are the sword, AutoMod is the shield’

    • Mods will still be needed, but AutoMod can flag up messages to be checked by a moderator before being seen by the entire Twitch chat

• AutoMod can be customized

  • Twitch notes that “Streamers can configure AutoMod by selecting one of four levels. These levels affect how aggressively AutoMod holds back messages under four categories: identity, sexual language, aggressive speech, and profanity”

  • “When AutoMod flags a message, it lets the original sender know that moderators will review the message’s content before it’s sent to chat

    • Meanwhile the message is shown to mods for approval

MLB and Disney Pick up ‘League of Legends’ Streaming Rights

Source 1: https://www.engadget.com/2016/12/16/bamtech-riot-games-league-o

Source 2: http://www.wsj.com/articles/league-of-legends-e-sports-contests-lure-newest

• BAMTech was spun into its own company from Major League Baseball, and Disney as well as the National Hockey League own a part of it

• According to The Wall Street Journal, the agreement calls for BAMTech to “pay a minimum $300 million through 2023” to Riot Games

  • In return they’ll get the exclusive rights to “stream and monetize” the company’s popular multiplayer online battle arena game (MOBA)

• BAMTech plans to launch a League of Legends streaming service with apps for smartphones, PCs and “other devices”

  • Will also handle distribution on existing streaming portals like Twitch and YouTube Gaming

Microsoft is Bringing Cortana to Fridges, Toasters, and Thermostats

Source 1: http://www.theverge.com/2016/12/13/13935136/microsoft-cortana-windows-10-io

• Microsoft planning to allow fridges, toasters, thermostats and other IoT devices to access Cortana

  • Will be bringing Cortana to devices with its Windows 10 Creators Update next year

• “This will enable you to build devices with displays, so you get that immersive Cortana experience,” explains Microsoft program manager Carla Forester

  • “Any kind of smart device with a screen can now take advantage of Cortana”

• Picture for potential Cortana devices

Norway Reaches Milestone of 100,000 all-electric vehicles on the roads, wants 400,000 by 2020

Source 1: https://electrek.co/2016/12/13/norway-all-electric-vehicles-100000/

• Norway has a population of around 5.2 million people

• This number is for all-electric zero-emission vehicles (BEVs), not just plug-in vehicles

• Despite this milestone, BEVs only represent 3% of the vehicles on the road in Norway

• They have one of the most aggressive timelines to convert their entire fleet to zero-emission

  • Hopes its policies will inspire other countries as well

• They organized a celebration with all of the BEV models sold in the country appearing in order starting with the most popular

  • VW e-Golf

  • Nissan LEAF

  • Tesla Model S

  • BMW i3

  • Etc.

• Norway set the goal for 100% of new car sales to be zero-emission vehicles starting in 2025

  • As of September, 2016 - 28.8% of new car sales were plug-in electric vehicles

• The government incentives serve as a bridge until more mass-produced electric vehicles, like Tesla’s Model 3, make it to market to reduce the entry price

Wind Energy hits a Turning Point: Solar That’s Cheaper Than Wind

Source 1: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-12-15/world-energ

• Solar Prices Fall Below Wind Graph

• Solar power, for the first time, is becoming the cheapest form of new electricity

• Information is according to fresh data from Bloomberg New Energy Finance

• Unsubsidized solar is beginning to outcompete coal and natural gas on a larger scale

Apple will charge $69 USD to replace one lost Airpod

Source 1: http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-38340748

Source 2: http://www.macrumors.com/2016/12/15/apple-airpod-replacement-fees/

• Apple updated their iPhone Service Pricing page to reflect this

• Doesn’t appear to be offering AppleCare + for AirPods

  • Instead providing a 1 year warranty that’s on all Apple products

• After this time, Apple will charge a $69 USD fee for out-of-warranty service repairs

• Battery service for AirPods that lose battery capacity is free during the one-year warranty, or $49 out of warranty

• AirPods went on sale Tuesday morning, for $159 USD

• Screenshot of Servicing Prices

 

Apple Owes $2 Million for not Giving Workers Meal Breaks

Source 1: http://money.cnn.com/2016/12/15/technology/apple-class-action-meal-breaks/i

• Apple has been ordered to cut a $2 million check for denying some of its retail workers meal breaks

• Lawsuit was first filed in 2011 by four Apple employees in San Diego

  • The alleged that the company failed to give them meal and rest breaks

• California law requires that hourly workers have to get a 30 minute meal break if they’re working more than five hours a day. Plus 10 minutes for every four hours worked

• In 2013, the case became a class action lawsuit that included Californian employees that worked at Apple between 2007 and 2012

  • Approximately 21,000 people

• Apple made changes to its scheduling policy in 2012

• Jeffrey Hogue, one of the attorneys who represented the class action, said the $2 million verdict came down last Friday

  • But Apple could owe even more

• It’s unclear how much of the $2 million will go to the workers

LG Taking a 4K HDR Monitor with USB-C to CES 2017

Source 1: https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/706623-lg-is-taking-a OP: DatSpeed

Source 2: http://www.theverge.com/2016/12/14/13946664/4k-hdr-pc-monitor-lg-ces

Source 3: http://www.lgnewsroom.com/2016/12/lgs-newest-most-exciting-4k-hdr-monitors

• 32UD99 is a 32-inch 4K  monitor that can support HDR10

 

“Android Things” Hopes to Solve IoT Security

Source 1: https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/706275-androi OP: alizaidi2000

Source 2: http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016/12/google-brillo-rebrands-as-andro

Source 3: https://developers.googleblog.com/2016/12/announcing-googles-new-inter

• Google is announcing a developer preview and rebrand of Project Brillo, Google’s Android-based Internet of Things initiative

  • New name highlights the project’s Android base - called “Android Things”

• “Android Things” joins the family alongside Android TV, Android Auto, and Android Wear

• Android Things allows developers to build a smart device using Android APIs and Google Services

  • Takes the Android development stack - Android Studio, the official SDK, and Google Play Services - and applies it to the IoT

  • Developers will be able to use the Google Weave protocol to communicate between devices along with Google Cloud services

• “In the coming months” newer developer previews will support some kind of “infrastructure” so developers can push out images and OTA updates on their own schedule

• Google is also releasing a public device SDK for the Weave communication protocol, along with a management console and access to the Google Assistant

  • The Weave Device SDK supports schemas for light bulbs, smart plugs, switches, and thermostats

 

Microsoft’s Surface Hub

Source 1: https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/706273-microsoft OP: alizaidi2000

Source 2: http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/12/microsofts-surface-h

• Went on sale earlier this year

• The conference room computer is now a billion-dollar business

• Microsoft’s Surface range of touchscreen computers is getting a whole lot bigger

  • The Surface Hub is an all-in-one system built for bringing OneNote, Skype for Business, Office, and Universal Windows App into the conference room

    • Making it a single integrated device for workplace communication and collaboration

• Surface Hub was first shown off in January

• They’re built around using OneNote for digital whiteboarding and include dual 1080p cameras for video conferencing using the built-in Skype for Business

• They run a special version of Windows 10

  • OS includes customizations to aid with whiteboarding and similar tasks

• PICTURE OF IT IN THE CONFERENCE ROOM

• There will be two versions of the Surface Hub

  • Big one supports an 84-inch 120Hz 3840x2160 screen and packs a 4th generation Intel Core i7, paired with NVIDIA Quadro K2200 graphics

  • Smaller one has a 55-inch 120Hz 1920x1080 screen and uses a core i5

  • Both screens support 100-point multitouch with active pen input

  • Both have a 128GB SSD, 8GB RAM, 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac, gigabit Ethernet, Bluetooth 4, and NFC

• Surface Hubs don’t just replace the whiteboard, but the projector as well

  • Both devices work as Miracast receivers, and have HDMI and VGA inputs

[Guest]

Is it possible to tag OP's @LinusTech?

[etek]

TIMESTAMPS:

 

 

5:47 - LTT getting WAN Show computer upgrade

12:12 - AMD Ryzen Video Card

24:50 - iPhone Explosion

26:48 - Facebook partners with fact checkers regarding fake news

35:05 - Shameless forum/floatplane plug

39:40 - Crytek sinking

42:00 - [Sponsor] Squarespace

45:03 - [Sponsor] iFixit

47:43 - WD announcing 12TB/14TB helium hard drives

49:47 - Amazon Prime Air's First Shipment Made

53:53 - Twitch introduces self-learning moderator "AutoMod"

55:44 - LoL e-sports made streaming deal with MLB

56:56 - Cortana coming to fridges and other appliances

1:00:17 - Apple charging $69 to replace one AirPod

1:02:44 - LG bringing 4K HDR USB-C monitor to CES

1:04:00 - LTT is getting RED cameras to improve Floatplane

1:06:06 - Microsoft Surface Hub has successful release

1:08:32 - GIF of ATM skimmer appliance

[Razor512]

For the whole facebook news craze on facebook, this seems like a system that will easily get abused/ trolled.

 

Beyond that, there will be endless disagreement with the fact checking, for example, some of the major media outlets have referred to content from wikileaks as being fake.

All it takes is one biased fact check for the entire system to come crumbling down.

Even with major events, where there is an itemized list of laws, with references to the actions which broke those laws, and references to prior case laws to further support the assertion of the laws being broken, yet the attorney general will claim that no laws were broken, while congress will claim that laws were broken because of the letter of the law and prior case law. Thus leading upwards of 100 congress meetings like this:

https://youtu.be/eGgd3LFumaE

and

 

Overall, either through corruption or ignorance, or stupidity, there are many cases where people cannot agree on the facts, and for media/ reviewing, it is impossible to be 100% unbiased.

 

Overall, it is all up to facebook in terms of what they want to do, as it is a private business, though the fact checking system will cause conflict, as so much of fact checking involves interpretations of available information.

 

[JohnnyCorporalTech]

whta ever happened to the sony fs 700, and what is going to happen to the blackmagic ursa mini 4.6k that brandon pushed so hard for?

[Taf the Ghost]

The stopping "fake news" move is, sadly, one of the most blatant coordinated propaganda pushes we've seen in Western countries.  It has the clear & explicit political purpose of preventing anything going "mainstream" that goes against specific political thoughts, but doing it under the cover of removing click-bait sites.  There are truly "fake" news sites, but Facebook could have easily started a "false click-bait" move and been safe.

 

Aside from already being in boomrang mode against the major media players, this really hasn't been well thought through.  Just because Social Media platforms are private companies, declaring something "fake news" is going to open up legal issues.  And those are going to be massive.  Expect the push to die somewhere in February when no one is looking, as the Legal Teams should be throwing up a stink before someone on their staffs does something super costly.  (Since the false "fake news" tag is clearly going to be applied to a set of stories Facebook et al Staff don't like but is true, the Optics alone is going to be worse than the future legal damage.)

[Herman Mcpootis]

Linus: Nobody, is going to pronounce that "Ry-zen".

i pronounce it as Ry-Zen 

 

[captain_to_fire]

9 hours ago, etek said:

1:08:32 - GIF of ATM skimmer appliance

I just withdrew money from the nearest ATM before watching the WAN show, I hope my bank doesn't have this. That form of ATM skimming is creepy. 

[Okjoek]

I pronounce it "Ry-zen" as in "rye bread" Don't care for the name much, but it is just a name and I'm certain it's not even close to the worst codename ever created for a product.

[xnamkcor]

I look forward to Facebook having an excuse to censor(more).

[alextulu]

On 12/17/2016 at 3:38 AM, LinusTech said:

In return they’ll get the exclusive rights to “stream and monetize” the company’s popular multiplayer online battle arena game (MOBA)

Does this mean, that individual users won't be able to stream their matches on Twitch ?
 

I would be OK with this, if the deal was only about tournaments, but it's not specified.

[TheAvokadoMan]

On 17 בדצמבר 2016 at 6:11 AM, etek said:

TIMESTAMPS:

 

 

5:47 - LTT getting WAN Show computer upgrade

12:12 - AMD Ryzen Video Card

24:50 - iPhone Explosion

26:48 - Facebook partners with fact checkers regarding fake news

35:05 - Shameless forum/floatplane plug

39:40 - Crytek sinking

42:00 - [Sponsor] Squarespace

45:03 - [Sponsor] iFixit

47:43 - WD announcing 12TB/14TB helium hard drives

49:47 - Amazon Prime Air's First Shipment Made

53:53 - Twitch introduces self-learning moderator "AutoMod"

55:44 - LoL e-sports made streaming deal with MLB

56:56 - Cortana coming to fridges and other appliances

1:00:17 - Apple charging $69 to replace one AirPod

1:02:44 - LG bringing 4K HDR USB-C monitor to CES

1:04:00 - LTT is getting RED cameras to improve Floatplane

1:06:06 - Microsoft Surface Hub has successful release

1:08:32 - GIF of ATM skimmer appliance

U should have highlighted the parts which Luke was part of. 

[Michael McAllister]

@LinusTech  You're correct to an extent.  In regards to Facebook, they do have the legal right to censor.  The issue becomes one of principle and influence.  Twitter and Facebook.  Because these social media sites reach large audiences, to what extent should they exert this capability to shape how information is interpreted?

 

While there are people who genuinely do not understand the difference between constitutionally protected speech and the freedom to say anything without consequence, this conversation gets dicey as it is a delicate balancing act.  Headlines alone are extremely influential on the presumptions people have.  According to the American Press Institute, 4 in 10 American adults do read past the headline during the week.  These numbers vary by the time of day and delivery method being used.  The popularity of memes isn't all that surprising.  They provide quick, small bits of information which tend to reinforce preconceived notions.  There has been, and always will be, forms of fake news.  It's hard to say how to approach this without potentially going down a path that's irreversible.