Episode 272 – 1.21 x 10^9

Welcome to Tuesday.

Show Notes

• Guru listens to competing Android show, hears them call it Nexi. Feels better.
• Android News
  • Security Risks of Unpatched Android Software
  • Mandatory Encryption is back in Android 6.0, provided the hardware can support it.
  • Google users promised more emojis.
  • Google teams up to offer Android Development 12 week immersive course.
• App News
  • Google Maps will make it soon much easier to stop for gas.
• In Other News
  • Jack Dorsey apologized for chasing away Twitter developers
  • Western Digital to acquire SanDisk for 19 billion.
  • Let’s Encrypt reaches important milestone as its certificates are now trusted by all major browsers. Plans to open to the public November 16
  • New York Times to distribute over a million Google Cardboard units. Right after Guru bought one.
  • Obama Administration calls for limits on testing in schools.
  • Mastercard testing facial recognition pay technology.
  • FCC will be issuing weekly reports on robocalls and telemarketers that could be used to block them.
  • Google’s time traveling plans surface on Back to the Future Day.
  • YouTube Red launches October 28th, Ad-free YouTube for $10 per month

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