Episode 485 – Oyez Oyez Oyez

By | April 22, 2020
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Show Notes

  • Android News
    • Google will be requiring the partitioning scheme needed for Seamless Updating
    • Google kills Android distribution numbers on the web, but you can still find them in Android Studio. Android 10 at  8.2%, Pie at 31.3%, Oreo at 21.3%…
    • Android TV still lacks multiple user profiles.
    • Google and Apple want to make SMS 2FA easier and more consistent
    • Google Play adds more transparent subscription offers, and limiting unneeded location access
  • Home Automation
    • Google offers Local Home SDK for local control
    • Google Assistant opening up support for TVs, remotes, and set top boxes
    • Curl has experimental support for MQTT
    • The Future of YAML
    • FCC filing reveals Wyze Cam Outdoor
    • Deactivation: How will an IoT product die?
  • Apps News
    • Google testing HDR photography for Camera Go on budget phones
    • GitHub adds support for mentions, switching branches, and more.
    • Message Forwarder can forward SMS, MMS, and call notifications via SMS and Email
    • Tasker adds Contact Via App
    • Plex releases Dash and Amp Player app
  • In Other News
    • Webcams are almost as hard to find as toilet paper and hand sanitizer
    • Messages in Hangouts Chat, aka Google Chat gets feature to forward messages to Gmail
    • The Supreme Court will stream oral arguments live for the first time.
    • John Conway, inventor of the Game of Life, dead at 82.
    • NBCUniversal pre-launches Peacock
    • The Google Wallet card might be back.
    • .org domain sale delayed again

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