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tnt - 11-07

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  1. [00:00] reaction to amazon's new personal assistant hardware for your home
    1. ] announced yesterday, hardware device, cylindrical shape, use "on word" to activate listening, 
    2. ] cloud connected, answers queries, plays music
    3. +] launch video
    4. CW] kinda awesome that they are doing it
    5. ] surprised that they beat google to it
    6. ] could be as common as refridgerators and toasters
    7. ] essentially its a speaker with a microphone, connnected to the internet, ON indicator light,
    8. ] sonos could do this, anybody who does wireless speakers
    9. ME] samsung should back up on the smartphone market, and pursue this
  2. [00:00] women action in the media(WAM) announced partnership with Twitter w/Caitlin White @mtv.com
    1. ] will track twitters responses to different kinds of threats
    2. ] organization will verify complaints submitted to them ( by )
    3. ] trolling and harassment can silence people
    4. ] just on twitter or other sites as well
    5. ] this is pilot project, not sure of rollout, have worked with facebook in the past
    6. ME] google+ has solved this problem - trivially easy to silence trolls, poster can delete comments, block comments,
    7. ] isnt twitter the problem?
    8. ] concerns have been raised for a long time and they(twitter) hasnt been doing anything
  3. [00:00] Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook, founder,CEO) Q & A w/Garett Sloane
    1. ] why messenger is seperate - less friction
    2. ] tons of media today, positive reception
    3. ] is it good information for the public
    4. ] company spin, corporate Q&A,
    5. ] spoke candidly about a few topics
    6. ] messenger app - we bungled communication, unbundle all features and put them into silod categories, 1 thing to do 1 thing,
    7. ] poll issue - are teens leaving facebook,
    8. ] 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
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  4. [00:00] walmart developing a "chromecast competitor", the VUDU spark, w/Brad
    1. ] device was discovered in a FCC filing
    2. ] has filed for a trademark last month
    3. ] same size, shape, looks like a USB stick
    4. ] connect to the internet and
    5. ] VUDU walmarts online video service
    6. ] chromecast lets you stream any content from phone to the stick(aka your tv)
    7. ] OTHER COMPETITORS - amazon fire stick, roku stick, + msft
    8. CW] VUDU is a great streaming service
    9. ] MFG is , chinese/taiwanese mfg,
    10. ] maybe super cheap as being sold at walmart
    11. ] ...
  5. [00:00] BMW has created streetlights that charge electric cars
    1. ] have built 2 prototypes which are in use in Germany
    2. ] charging uses BMW standard - chargenow for charging
    3. ] have had meetings with Tesla to put chargers everywhere
  6. [00:00] germany and brazil want UN to crackdown on harvesting of metadata
    1. ] can be intrusive 
    2. ] most is being captured by private companies
  7. [00:00] assorted other news
    1. ] home depot hacked, 53M email addresses and 56M credit card credentials
    2. ] google barges - were a fire hazard, - which is why they were dismantled and scrapped
  8. [00:00] FOLLOWUP -
    1. ] none

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  1. ] twit.tv - tnt show
    1. ] host - Mike Elgan
    2. ] producer - Jason Howell
    3. ] guest host - Christina Warren - article out this weekend - iOS 8 VERSUS android lollip - not a feature comparison but a user experience comparison

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    5. ] subreddit - News item submissions for TWIT's Tech News Today

 

 

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DESCRIPTION: [30:00] VIDEO-SUMMARY-show-1131 - ] Amazons voice assistant hardware ]WAM initiative against inet trolls ] Mark Zuckerberg Q+A ] Walmarts upcoming chromecast competitor - VUDU spark ] BMW electric car charging streetlamps ] germany brazil request UN act

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