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<li><strong>[00:00] reaction to amazon's new personal assistant hardware for your home<br /></strong></li>
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<li>] announced yesterday, hardware device, cylindrical shape, use "on word" to activate listening,&nbsp;</li>
<li>] cloud connected, answers queries, plays music</li>
<li>+] launch video</li>
<li>CW] kinda awesome that they are doing it</li>
<li>] surprised that they beat google to it</li>
<li>] could be as common as refridgerators and toasters</li>
<li>] essentially its a speaker with a microphone, connnected to the internet, ON indicator light,</li>
<li>] sonos could do this, anybody who does wireless speakers</li>
<li>ME] samsung should back up on the smartphone market, and pursue this</li>
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<li><strong>[00:00] women action in the media(WAM) announced partnership with Twitter w/Caitlin White @mtv.com<br /></strong></li>
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<li>] will track twitters responses to different kinds of threats</li>
<li>] organization will verify complaints submitted to them ( by )</li>
<li>] trolling and harassment can silence people</li>
<li>] just on twitter or other sites as well</li>
<li>] this is pilot project, not sure of rollout, have worked with facebook in the past</li>
<li>ME] google+ has solved this problem - trivially easy to silence trolls, poster can delete comments, block comments,</li>
<li>] isnt twitter the problem?</li>
<li>] concerns have been raised for a long time and they(twitter) hasnt been doing anything</li>
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<li><strong>[00:00] Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook, founder,CEO) Q &amp; A w/Garett Sloane<br /></strong></li>
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<li>] why messenger is seperate - less friction</li>
<li>] tons of media today, positive reception</li>
<li>] is it good information for the public</li>
<li>] company spin, corporate Q&amp;A,</li>
<li>] spoke candidly about a few topics</li>
<li>] messenger app - we bungled communication, unbundle all features and put them into silod categories, 1 thing to do 1 thing,</li>
<li>] poll issue - are teens leaving facebook,</li>
<li>] social network movie - he blocked it out of his mind, harmful that he only made facebook to get girls as he was , never drank appletinis</li>
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<li><strong>[00:00] walmart developing a "chromecast competitor", the VUDU spark, w/Brad</strong></li>
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<li>] device was discovered in a FCC filing</li>
<li>] has filed for a trademark last month</li>
<li>] same size, shape, looks like a USB stick</li>
<li>] connect to the internet and</li>
<li>] VUDU walmarts online video service</li>
<li>] chromecast lets you stream any content from phone to the stick(aka your tv)</li>
<li>] OTHER COMPETITORS - amazon fire stick, roku stick, + msft</li>
<li>CW] VUDU is a great streaming service</li>
<li>] MFG is , chinese/taiwanese mfg,</li>
<li>] maybe super cheap as being sold at walmart</li>
<li>] ...</li>
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<li><strong>[00:00] BMW has created streetlights that charge electric cars<br /></strong></li>
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<li>] have built 2 prototypes which are in use in Germany</li>
<li>] charging uses BMW standard - chargenow for charging</li>
<li>] have had meetings with Tesla to put chargers everywhere</li>
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<li><strong>[00:00] germany and brazil want UN to crackdown on harvesting of metadata</strong></li>
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<li>] can be intrusive&nbsp;</li>
<li>] most is being captured by private companies</li>
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<li><strong>[00:00] assorted other news </strong></li>
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<li>] home depot hacked, 53M email addresses and 56M credit card credentials</li>
<li>] google barges - were a fire hazard, - which is why they were dismantled and scrapped</li>
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<li><strong>[00:00] FOLLOWUP - <br /></strong></li>
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<li>] none</li>
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<li><strong>] twit.tv - tnt show</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;- Christina Warren - article out this weekend - iOS 8 VERSUS android lollip - not a feature comparison but a user experience comparison</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/1131" 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-21-2014" 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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