Episode 475 – Lunch Buffet

By | February 6, 2020
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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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