Episode 272 – 1.21 x 10^9

By | October 27, 2015
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Welcome to Tuesday.

Show Notes

  • Guru listens to competing Android show, hears them call it Nexi. Feels better.
  • Android News
    • Security Risks of Unpatched Android Software
    • Mandatory Encryption is back in Android 6.0, provided the hardware can support it.
    • Google users promised more emojis.
    • Google teams up to offer Android Development 12 week immersive course.
  • App News
    • Google Maps will make it soon much easier to stop for gas.
  • In Other News
    • Jack Dorsey apologized for chasing away Twitter developers
    • Western Digital to acquire SanDisk for 19 billion.
    • Let’s Encrypt reaches important milestone as its certificates are now trusted by all major browsers. Plans to open to the public November 16
    • New York Times to distribute over a million Google Cardboard units. Right after Guru bought one.
    • Obama Administration calls for limits on testing in schools.
    • Mastercard testing facial recognition pay technology.
    • FCC will be issuing weekly reports on robocalls and telemarketers that could be used to block them.
    • Google’s time traveling plans surface on Back to the Future Day.
    • YouTube Red launches October 28th, Ad-free YouTube for $10 per month

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