Episode 476 – Happy Birthday Maps

By | February 12, 2020
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Show Notes

  • Android News
    • Android to get Share to Print feature.
    • Autofill code from Messages feature spotted
  • App News
    • Netflix begins streaming AV1 on Android to save user’s data
    • Facebook Messenger is the only thing keeping me from delete my Facebook account
    • Androidify Avatar Maker retired.
    • Google Play Music finally migrating music locker feature to YouTube Music.
    • AllCast now can stream from SMB and shared folders
  • Home
    • More protection for Nest accounts
    • Amazon dominates smart speaker market in 2019, although dropped from 72.9 to 69.7. Google went from 30.4 to 31.1.
    • Home Assistant deprecates old UI, continues to iterate, adds safe mode.
  • Maps
    • Google Maps turns 15, gets new icon and refreshed layout.
    • The Last 15 Years
    • The Next 15 Years
  • In Other News
    • Someone upscaled an 1896 video to 4K quality using neural networks
    • Chrome removes three types of video ads: Non-skippable pre-roll of over 31 seconds, mid-roll interrupting the original content, image/text that covers more than 20% or in the middle 1/3 of the player window
    • Dashlane password manager removed from Chrome Web Store
    • Google Podcasts gets a web UI.
    • Google to offer Titan Keys to US political campaigns

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