Another week in the circus.
Show Notes
- Letter from Dave H – “I wanted to email that I saw Jere, but I didn’t see Jere. I would have told you if I had though. but I wouldn’t have told you if I had only seen him in a hallucination or a dream though, though I’m not sure I would have known it was only a hallucination. Anyways, do you think Google will cancel the 128GB Pixel 5″ this year? I want to get it but my phone is adequate at the moment, just kind of annoying. By the way, I’m on Verizon, though I want to get the non-Verizon version due to Verizon’s control over the software, but I’m wondering if you’ve heard or read anything about the non-Verizon Pixel on Verizon.“
- Android News
- Google Play measures the number of devices that have stopped checking in with Google’s Verify apps. This number of Dead or Insecure devices are correlated with the number of DOI devices per app, and the DOI metric is used to determine suspicious apps.
- Android Wear 2.0 Reported to Launch February 9
- App News
- Roku launches redesigned Android app with new What’s On guide, improved remote, and more.
- In Other News
- Gene Cernan, the commander of Apollo 17 and the last person to walk on the moon dead at 82. He flew the Gemini 9A mission, served as Lunar Module pilot on Apollo 10, and commanded the last lunar mission.
- Dick Gautier, Hymie the Robot on Get Smart, dead at age 85.
- Famed Ringling Brothers Circus closing after more than 100 years.
- Google looking to create a new way to identify and authenticate public keys. Key Transparency is their project to do so, which would create a database of public encryption keys and the online personas that have already been authenticated.
- Proposed EU law could kill cookie banners that no one reads.
- In-flight wifi matures as two out of five available seat miles offer connections
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