Episode 506 – What Day Is Today?

By | September 17, 2020
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Show Notes

  • Android News
    • Android Auto is broken for many on Android 11
    • Android 11 takes away a row of quick setting tiles and limits usability of feature.
    • Wear OS now lets you add more than 5 tiles.
    • Hidden Changes in Android 11: New volume stream for Assistants, Clock Plugins, Deep Press on Notifications to expand them, Multi-Audio Focus, Faster Share Sheet, volume key customization, etc.
    • Android 11’s sound picker will work with cast devices once apps are updated.
  • App News
    • Home Assistant 2.4.0, tries to improve sensor performance by splitting up the sensors, foreground service worker, a sensor for whether the device is being interacted with, public IP sensor, etc.
    • Kiwi Browser updates for the first time in a year.
    • Google Home has a new presence sensing feature.
  • Home
    • Wink continues downward spiral with day long outage.
    • Wyze asks for donations for its person detection
    • New Nest Thermostat passes the FCC.
    • Home Assistant Tags.
  • In Other News
    • Zoom adds 2FA.
    • Nvidia is acquiring ARM
    • Google will announce its new Chromecast, Nest Speaker, and Pixel on September 30th.
    • US Customs isn’t backing down, says seized OnePlus Buds violate Apple’s AirPods trademark
    • CBS All Access is becoming Paramount+
    • Amazon getting into the original podcast game.
    • AmazonBasics products are going up in flames.

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