Episode 275 – Windows 3.1, Betamax, and Fortran Experience Wanted

By | November 16, 2015
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Next week on Tuesday

Show Notes

  • Android News
    • Interview with the founder of OnePlus.
    • Audio Feedback will let your Android Wear Watch talk back to you as an accessibility feature.
    • Android Audio Latency in Depth – Latency continues to be reduced, but still isn’t at iOS levels. 10ms is the standard for professional audio equipment.
    • Chrome Exploit found that uses Javascript to gain full administrator privileges.
    • Cellular support comes to Android Wear
  • App News
    • HomeUX is a new take on Android Launchers. (Play Store)
    • Google Sheets gets a commenting feature, improvements to chart management, and 400 new fonts.
    • Password stealing app exposes weakness in Android verification process
    • Offline navigation comes to Google Maps for Android
  • In Other News
    • GOP Sets Press Wi-Fi password as StopHillary for last week’s debate. Democrats respond by naming theirs 13MillionJobs with no password.
    • The Pope tells people to put away their smartphones at the family table.
    • Google waives all fees on calls to France in the aftermath of the attacks in Paris
    • Paris Orly Airport closed last Saturday as their Windows 3.1 system failed. One out of the three specialists in the DECOR system, which runs on Windows 3.1 is retiring and no replacement has been found.
    • Inaudible tones emitted by various devices can allow linking of different device data streams to the same user.
    • Huawei’s new quick charge batteries claim to charge to 50% in 5 minutes. No word on when this may be available?
    • What matters in a smartphone camera?
    • FCC advises they aren’t banning DD-WRT on Wi-Fi routers. An original notice suggested that DD-WRT might be banned as a way of preventing non-standard frequencies from being used.
    • Safe Browsing protection from even more deceptive attacks
    • Happy Birthday claimed by charity
    • Google Maps now lets third-party developers add predictive travel times to their own apps
    • Sony finally kills Betamax 13 years after the last player was made.

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