Welcome to DTNS: Science News Monthly for December 2021. This month we cover asexual reproduction in condors, the Milky Way’s new feather, Roblox investing in education and what the new infrastructure bill means for science. We also bring you a COVID update and more monthly science + tech news.
Family safety service Life360 is reportedly selling location data on families and kids, Apple wins appeal to delay allowing third-party payments in the App Store, and Roku and Google reach a multi-year deal to distribute YouTube.
Emails disclosed as part of the Epic vs Apple trial show that in March 2020, Microsoft proposed creating individual apps for Apple’s App Store to stream games, including offering exclusive triple-A Xbox games. The Next Web’s Cate Lawrence has an interesting writeup on an EV-charging system that works without internet connectivity making it useful in parking garages and remote locations. And security researchers at Alibaba discovered a huge vulnerability, called Log4Shell or LogJam in a common Java element. Shannon is here to help us understand it.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Shannon Morse, Len Peralta, Roger Chang, Joe, Amos
Spotify remueve sketches de comedia de su servicio, Life360 vende datos de ubicación de familias e infantes, y AT&T se convierte en el primer operador en ofrecer red 5G en México
Google will release a Play Games app for Windows in 2022, Microsoft proposed creating individual game streaming apps for the App Store including Xbox exclusives, and Meta opens its VR platform Horizon Worlds to all Quest users in the US and Canada.
The European Commission proposed a directive which could lead to gig workers across the European Union gaining legal protections of workers. Kickstarter announced the development of “an open-source protocol that will essentially create a decentralized version of Kickstarter’s core functionality. And Amazon is leading the development of a wireless video streaming protocol for the Matter IoT connectivity standard.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang, Joe, Amos
Apple wins appeal to delay allowing third-party payments in the App Store, Instagram announced a return of the chronological feed in 2022, and Kickstarter aims to create and move to an open-source blockchain version of its service.
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Episode Transcript:
I went to buy a new TV and they tried to sell me HDR
Is that ANOTHER HD. Aren’t there enough?
And how does this fit with 4K is it just another name for the same thing?
Are you confused?
Don’t be.
Let’s help you Know a Little more about HDR TV.Continue reading “About HDR TV”
Amazon launches the Alexa Together subscription, available for $19.99 a month or $199 a year, that helps elderly or special needs family members who are living on their own. We explain what caused the AWS outage yesterday and what the effects were. And Apple prognosticator analyst Ming-chi Kuo makes predictions on the company’s future products.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Amos, Joe.
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