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Content: use HTML Edit Content <h1 style="text-align: center;">tnt - 2014-01-27</h1> <h2>[subjects]</h2> <ol> <li><strong>[00:00] google buying deepmind for $500m</strong></li> <ol> <li>] reports - condition google must setup ethics board, huberis or ???</li> <li>] deepmind - based in london, lots of AI researchers on staff,&nbsp;</li> <li>] havent released any products yet</li> <li>] one of the only companies that was successful at hiring AI engineers away from google</li> <li>] ex product - product recommendation system</li> <li>] founder demis , child chess prodigy, grand master at&nbsp;</li> <li>] company - at least 50 people, big brains</li> <li>] deepmind owns the pattent for reverse images search&nbsp;</li> <li>] competition with fb to aqured company, Page personally intervened, fb was looking for more of an aquihire</li> <li>] deepmind + boston dynamics robots = skynet</li> </ol> <li><strong>[08:00] google + samsung - cross licencing smartphone patents</strong></li> <ol> <li>] exisiting patents and future patents (next 10 years)</li> <li>] samsung settles with erricsen</li> <li>] Samsung may not need Tizen, now&nbsp;</li> <li>] Samsung getting squeezed in market, by Apple(???)</li> <li>] chinese companies are succeeding in china, affecting Samsungs success there, played out elsewhere</li> <li>] samsung - wants to be apple, everyone want to be apple</li> <li>] samsung - working on its own version of glass, 'galaxy glass'</li> <li>] long list of 'glasses' of all type, coming out this year ... too many</li> <li>] controversial product, conceptually exciting,&nbsp;</li> </ol> <li><strong>[00:00] new social product - weChat</strong></li> <ol> <li>] chinas tencent holdings, company behind - weChat - is coming to us, 272M monthly active, not a HIT in the us</li> <li>] compelling offer, if you can get 5 google contacts</li> <li>] $25 restaurtant.com gift card&nbsp;</li> <li>] ryan interview - tech</li> <li>] popular in china, because it makes it easier to text in chinese</li> <li>] push to talk</li> <li>] creative use of qr codes,] lot and lots of features, ] payments components&nbsp;</li> <li>] line - also not popular&nbsp;</li> <li>] reportedly used by chinese govt to censor content</li> </ol> <li><strong>[00:00] snowdens claim that nsa.us.gov engages in industrial espionage</strong></li> <ol> <li>] taking trade secrets from foreign companies(german's seimans)</li> <li>] we need journalists on this, true OR false</li> <li>] this is different that the leaked documents, Snowden 'claim' not backed by document</li> <li>]&nbsp;</li> </ol> <li><strong>[30:00] chinas moon rover</strong></li> <ol> <li>] broke down - jade rabbit rover - technical difficulties</li> <li>] hard to do -&nbsp;</li> <li>] exploration - should be encouraged</li> </ol> <li><strong>[00:00] fitlime app</strong></li> <ol> <li>] wont let you watch TV or gaming console, UNLess the app has reported that you have met your fitness goals for the day</li> </ol></ol> <h2>[objects]</h2> <div style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: normal; text-align: start;"><ol> <li>]&nbsp;</li> </ol></div> <h2>[systems]</h2> <div style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: normal; text-align: start;"><ol> <li>]&nbsp;</li> </ol></div> <h2>[people]</h2> <div style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: normal; text-align: start;"><ol> <li>] show host -&nbsp;<a href="/view/person?id=202" target="_blank">Mike Elgan</a></li> <li>] show co-host -&nbsp;<a href="/view/person?id=231" target="_blank">Sara Lane</a>&nbsp;</li> <li>] show co-host - Jason Howell</li> <li>] guest - @LizGannes -&nbsp;</li> <li>] guest - @Ryan&nbsp;</li> </ol></div> <h2>[events]</h2> <div style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: normal; text-align: start;"><ol> <li>]&nbsp;</li> </ol></div> <h2>[places]</h2> <div style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: normal; text-align: start;"><ol> <li>]&nbsp;<a href="http://twit.tv/show/tech-news-today/921" target="_blank">show url</a>&nbsp;- shows home page with video of show and links</li> <li>]&nbsp;<a href="https://docs.google.com/a/twit.tv/spreadsheet/pub?key=0AnfwL2-_1Rv3dHR2NlljRHhrWXRHd1BjTEJQdFJ0LUE&amp;gid=38" target="_blank">show notes</a>&nbsp;- detailed show notes, transpcript, links to resources&nbsp;</li> <li>]&nbsp;<a href="http://twit.tv/content/top-news-january-27-2014" target="_blank">show notes summary</a>&nbsp;-&nbsp;</li> <li>] subreddit -&nbsp;</li> <li>] trove -&nbsp;</li> <li>] sponsor - gazzelle.com - buys your old device - &nbsp;$110 for 4s 64gb</li> <li>] sponsor - [19:00] squarespace.com - easy to use, create website from scratch, 20 new templates, tweak with controls, makes you look like a 'design' genius, scaleable, 24 hour support, mobile ready, metrics, from $8 month, free 2 week trial</li> </ol></div>