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<li><strong>[00:00] smalltalk</strong></li>
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<li>]&nbsp; xiamia selfie app on mi4 phone detects gender and age</li>
<li>] elise Hu on her experience in Ferguson</li>
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<li><strong>[03:30] </strong><a href="http://www.wired.com/2014/08/iphone-6-to-use-nfc/" target="_blank"><strong>iphone 6 to include NFC</strong></a><strong>&nbsp;with </strong><a href="https://twitter.com/redgirlsays" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Christina Bonnington</a>&nbsp;@ wired.com</li>
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<li>] Near Field Communications(NFC) is technology for short range wireless data tranfer.</li>
<li>] one of it's main uses is for mobile payments, thought of as a mobile wallet technology,</li>
<li>] some android phones have&nbsp;supported NFC for years.&nbsp;</li>
<li>] next iphone will have mobile payments built in and it will be built upon NFC</li>
<li>] seperate chip to store your personal financial data, completely secure, can only be accessed in a certain way</li>
<li>] apple has many resources that will help it succeed as a mobile payments compnay, huge # of iOS + iTune users with credit card numbers on file</li>
<li>] apple has also made a lot of hiring in this mobile wallet space, engineers and product and business heads</li>
<li>] would work similar to google wallet payment system</li>
<li>] just tap your phone to make a payment</li>
<li>] since about 2000, apple was an unusual company, now IS apple becoming more like an ordinary&nbsp;company, "we have 1 phone", now more phones, "no mini ipads" now mini ipad, NO NFC now NFC,</li>
<li>] mobile space is different than when s. jobs was around, more uses.</li>
<li>] may use a combination of iBeacons and NFC (more secure)</li>
<li>] maybe changes driven by Retailers, who may not be thrilled with having an apple only solution(ibeacon) VS one&nbsp;that&nbsp;more widely available (NFC already&nbsp;on android,&nbsp;blackberry and windows)&nbsp;</li>
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<li><strong>[11:00] </strong><a href="http://online.wsj.com/articles/fbi-probes-possible-computer-hacking-incident-at-j-p-morgan-1409168480" target="_blank"><strong>FBI and secret service probes possible hacking incident at US Bank JP Morgan</strong></a><strong>&nbsp;with </strong><a href="https://twitter.com/dannyyadron" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Danny Yadron</a>&nbsp;@wsj</li>
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<li>] also 4 other&nbsp;US banks, supected to be done by Russian hackers</li>
<li>] details are very murky at this point</li>
<li>] attack is too sophisticated to be done by everyday hackers</li>
<li>] no indication that any of this data is being used</li>
<li>] banks spend more on cyber security than anyone other than the NSA</li>
<li>] russia is following the chinese playbook for hacking</li>
<li>] maybe retalliations for US sanctions?</li>
<li>] possible, but no disruptions to the banks, as of yet</li>
<li>] no other banks confirming or denying attack</li>
<li>] banks are very commonly targeted by hackers, not typically reported, banks want it too be kept quiet,</li>
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<li><strong>[17:00] </strong><a href="https://gigaom.com/2014/08/28/it-just-got-super-easy-to-integrate-leap-motion-with-oculus-rift/" target="_blank"><strong>Leap Motion integrates with Occulus Rift, super easy</strong></a><strong>&nbsp;with </strong><a href="https://twitter.com/signejb" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Signe Brewster</a> @gigaom</li>
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<li>] a&nbsp;cheap plastic clip enables the motion detector to attach itself to&nbsp;front of occulus rift headset</li>
<li>] hands, fingers, knuckles get detected and the applied to augmented virtual reality where user can use&nbsp;</li>
<li>] gesture control to interact with elements in the virtual enviroment</li>
<li>] normal leap motion device sits on your computer, detects gestures</li>
<li>] problem with gesture control is&nbsp;- everyone is entrenched in how we (currently) use computers, aka mouse</li>
<li>] occulus is supposed to be intuitive</li>
<li>] using in air motion (gestures)&nbsp;to control computer is un natural,&nbsp;direct interaction (touch)&nbsp;is more natural</li>
<li>] BUT when combined with rift and augmented vr apps, it is a killer application</li>
<li>] clip is currently for developers only, as is the occulus rift</li>
<li>] dragonfly is a successor to the current leap motion device, current version uses infrared, dragonfly uses RGB, so you can see color, its li</li>
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<li><strong>[23:40] </strong><a href="http://www.nationaljournal.com/tech/uber-s-war-on-lyft-could-prompt-federal-investigation-20140827?ref=tech_edge" target="_blank"><strong>UBER vs LYFT turf war - may prompt federal investigation</strong></a><strong>&nbsp;with </strong><a href="https://twitter.com/dnvolz" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Dustin Volz</a>&nbsp;@forbes</li>
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<li>] recent headlines about UBER's cutthroat ways have caught the attention of the feds</li>
<li>] <span style="text-decoration: underline;">report on the verge</span> revealed their poaching tactics</li>
<li>] operation slug was very direct attack on Lyft in NYC</li>
<li>] up to uber customers to decide&nbsp;as to wether or not they want to keep supporting uber, based upon their business practices</li>
<li>] uber currently in 160+ cities worldwide, very quickly responds to ride orders</li>
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<li><strong>[30:00] <a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-28966866" target="_blank">Samsung and LG announce new watches as Apple waits</a></strong></li>
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<li>] more smartwatch options appearing</li>
<li>] samsung gear S - a wrist phone - &nbsp;running Tizen OS, samsung still apple envious, wanting to have control of entire eco system(Tizen), gear S is a phone built into the watch,</li>
<li>] Samsung not just sticking to Tizen, throwing everything up against the wall to see what sticks, as are other companies</li>
<li>] phone is smartwatch is something people want but .. problem is capacity and physics of putting phone hardware in watch space, ships in OCT.</li>
<li>] LG g watch R - android, like the square LG G watch but this one is round</li>
<li>] apple iWatch - announcement coming, sept 9. , no&nbsp;confirmed rumours as to which form factor apple will be using (square, round, curved, ), suspecting it will be smaller the current smartphones</li>
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<li><strong>[00:00] facebook testing new search functionality</strong></li>
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<li>] fb testing new search features on mobile</li>
<li>] keyword search for finding old posts, photos</li>
<li>] current facebook search does not work that well</li>
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<li><strong>[00:00] dysan teaser video for robotic vacuum?</strong></li>
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<li>] dysan previously invested in robotics research lab</li>
<li>] could be a really cool robot vacuum</li>
<li>] company known for innovation and quality products</li>
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<li><strong>] <a href="/view/people?id=88" target="_blank">twit.tv - tnt show</a></strong></li>
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<li>] host -&nbsp;<a href="/view/person?id=202" target="_blank">Mike Elgan</a></li>
<li>] producer -&nbsp;<a href="/view/person?id=234" target="_blank">Jason Howell</a></li>
<li>] guest host&nbsp;- <a href="http://twitter.com/elisewho" target="_blank">Elise Hu</a></li>
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<li><strong>] twit.tv - tnt show</strong></li>
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<li>]&nbsp;<a href="http://twit.tv/show/tech-news-today/1081" target="_blank">show url</a>&nbsp;- shows home page with video of show and links</li>
<li>]&nbsp;show notes&nbsp;- detailed show notes, transpcript, links to resources&nbsp;</li>
<li>]&nbsp;<a href="http://twit.tv/content/top-news-august-28-2014" target="_blank">show notes summary</a>&nbsp;-</li>
<li>]&nbsp;<a href="http://irc.twit.tv/" target="_blank">twit chat room</a>&nbsp;-&nbsp;</li>
<li>] <a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/technewstoday/" target="_blank">subreddit</a> -&nbsp;News item submissions for TWIT's Tech News Today</li>
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