Episode 475 – Lunch Buffet

Show Notes

• Android News
  • Android 11 will harden API restrictions and remove meta-reflection bypass
  • Google offers web app to assist in flashing updates
  • Google now offering Android support via hashtag on twitter.
  • Developers have earned over $80 billion in total from the Play Store
• App News
  • Wine 5.0 now available for Android, Linux, etc.
  • Find My Device prepares to add support for finding Bluetooth Fast Pair accessories
  • Support for copying/pasting images coming to GBoard.
  • New licensed version of Tetris released.
  • Ring App for Android packed with third party trackers
  • Home Assistant Companion for Android released.
  • Google is working on yet another unified messaging app.
  • Google Translate to add real time language transcription.
• Home Automation
  • With Sonos killing older product compatibility, should Google release a new Chromecast Audio?
• In Other News
  • Saudi crown prince allegedly infects Jeff Bezos’ phone via Whatsapp?
  • Terry Jones dead at age 77.
  • FCC shuts New York out of Broadband fund.
  • Ting isn’t dropping GSM as planned…Verizon as a provider coming in 2020.
  • Google released new multi-room media controls from smart displays
  • Doomsday Clock is 100 seconds to midnight
  • Prime has more than 150 million members, and they watched a lot of TV
  • UFS3.1 promises speedier smartphone storage.
  • EU votes to enforce USB-C standard for devices
  • FOr $8 a month, Google Photos will mail you your best photos.
  • Some Photos users got other user’s photos in their takeout archives
  • Ting celebrates 8 years of Ting Mobile

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